Brian Parker
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1,041 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 16 Apr
Brian Parker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's a much more of a big, chunky purchase, whereas this is just everyday living.
Yeah.
Now, I think when you're thinking about if it's – let's say the petrol price is $2 as opposed to $2.50, that's meaningful.
But let's say – and I'm not saying this is going to happen.
I'm just using it for the purpose of example.
If you say, well, look, it's $10 a litre and I've reduced it to $9.50, people will say I still can't afford it.
Yeah, but I don't think we're at that level yet.
I still think that if you can make – if you can actually ease some of the pressure on people, I think that would –
Put it this way, that relief will be gratefully received.
Yeah.
But yeah, that rationing though I think is –
And again, we don't know how long this is going to last.
We don't know whether you're going to get another big spike up in oil and petrol prices because the future is inherently unknowable.
What we do know, though, is that the shock to the economy is very, very real and it's not going to disappear quickly.
Well, I think with COVID, a completely different beast in the sense that COVID, it wasn't as if it was a recession caused by some sort of fundamental problem in the economy or some sort of – literally, the COVID recession was deliberately engineered, right?
to actually address a health crisis.
So it's not as if people didn't have money to spend, you just weren't allowed to spend it.
The demand went away.
No, and this is a massive supply side shock to the economy.
It's a, what the textbooks would call a stagflationary shock.
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