Dan Hodges
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Sep
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prosperity.
throughout uh th th the the bulk of the the 1990s.
But for the quarter of a century that's followed, things have got progressively harder and harder in a variety of ways for a variety of reasons.
For a lot of people, in particular a a a s group of uh a group of the electorate that I would simplistically call working people
who have been at best ignored by uh uh best ignored and patronized by uh politicians of all persuasions or treated with outright contempt.
And at every stage th throughout that we had we had a a a a a
an an i a global uh economic downturn, I think
One of the Gulf Wars we had a we had a had a global crash.
Then we had a banking crisis.
w we obviously then had covid and we're trying to recover from that.
The various crisis crises that have occurred are myriad.
But w there is one consistent thing, which is at the end of these crises, the people who have been asked to pay the most
And bear the the worst, the highest burden in my view, have then have been the people who have been least able to afford it.
I would take issue with you about the issue of, you know, oh my God, it's it's it's outrageous that Labour are talking about raising taxes.
If we are going to have a situation which I think we we both agree on.
that w th the that the country is gonna
to use a simplistic analogy, tighten its belts.
I think it's absolutely imperative that some of the richest people in society are asked to pay a little bit more in the same way that
throughout the quarter of the century I was talking about, working people in this country have been asked to pay a little bit more.
You know, we saw this during the period of austerity.
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