Ian Dunt
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And we should also do more taxes, I think, on assets and capital gains and all, because that's where the real inequality is more than there is on income.
These are all good ideas.
But we do have to, if we're not honest with people about the fact that, no, this is going to affect you too, you know, that you are going to pay more tax, just constantly encouraging people to think that someone else can always pay, which is basically how the British tax system has worked now for a couple of decades.
That is not going to get us to where we need to be.
And I don't see him levelling with people, Zach Polanski levelling with people at all, really.
I just see the sort of
fantasy land stuff where we can have all the nice things and we won't have any of the bad things and everything will be all right in the end.
So although, look, I quite liked having my tummy tickled.
And so it's nice for me to hear a politician come out and be like, immigration's good, actually.
And, you know, we don't think that Israel should just be able to do whatever it wants militarily in Gaza.
Like, I want to hear all that stuff.
And I'm fed up with a system where I don't get to hear that from anyone.
That's nice for me too, emotionally, but you need that to be backed up by someone who can actually talk in real empirical terms about the struggles that this country faces and what's going to need to be done about it.
And I do not see any indication from him that he's the man to do it.
I think that there's, yeah, 100%.
I'm sorry about that, but it's just true.
And that we are, do you remember, okay, like, do you remember in those early days of COVID, Boris Johnson was terrified of making an argument for national self-sacrifice?
He just couldn't, because he's not that guy, right?
He's the party guy.
I mean, he really was the party guy.