Chris Johns

And if you aren't growing, you can't keep spending and taxing your way out of that growth problem.

You've got to take really tough structural decisions about your economy, which this shower of clowns show no signs of even recognizing these questions, let alone having a diagnosis for the problems that they throw up.

So as you say, Jim, it is very depressing.

Chaos, absolute chaos, because he has no plans other than to be even tougher on immigration than everybody else seems to be.

Other than that, they too have an economic manifesto that doesn't add up fiscally.

And I think the prospect of Farage as prime minister would scare the bond markets to death.

I think that we would have another Liz Truss moment because there's nobody in the party underneath Farage that seems to know anything about anything.

I mean, at least Farage has the charisma to be an elected politician.

The rest of them are just a shower of second-rate nobodies.

We don't know anything about their policies.

We don't know anything about how they think.

There's no coherent philosophy behind reform other than to hate Europe and to hate immigrants.

Other than that, what do reform believe in?

We talked before about how perhaps the third thing they believe in is taking Britain back half a century.

And we talked about that before in terms of, you know, be careful what you wish for, because Britain half a century ago looked an awful lot worse than it is today.

which led us to the conclusion is that it was very clear from the election results last week that an awful lot of people said voting for Nigel Farage couldn't make anything worse and make things worse than they are now.

And that was something expressed in vox pops and interviews across the airwaves and across media last week, people saying exactly that.

Well, he couldn't be any worse.

And it's understandable why they say that, because the current law are very bad.

But the brutal truth is, is that Farage would be worse.