Francis Foster
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And to me, it comes down to something.
I went to a dinner where there was a very famous politician being interviewed by journalists, and it ties back into what you were talking about.
All the questions that the journalists gave the politicians, they were just nice questions.
Nice.
And I thought to myself,
Everybody, practically everyone in this room has had a better education than me.
No doubt they're smarter than me.
But there's no courage or balls.
They don't want to shake things up.
Why is it that we just don't want to be uncomfortable?
We don't want to have an uncomfortable conversation.
We don't want to have conversations where we go, look, we need to limit immigration.
And it just seems that this has just been pervasive throughout our society to the point that we...
avoid discomfort for so much that we find ourselves now in the most uncomfortable of places.
I mean, one of the interesting things actually touching on Polanski is just his economic illiteracy.
Yeah.
And when he was asked about what should Britain do about the debt, he said that we needed to be more like Japan, which is to effectively double our national debt.
Yeah.
And he was saying that's how we get better public services.
Yeah.