Jennifer Bray
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546 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 10 Jul
Jennifer Bray’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So unfortunately, I think, despite the weather, the pessimist wins the day.
100%.
I mean, you can't read a headline like that and a story like that and not think, is it worth it?
Like people spend months saving for their family holiday and then they read of someone having to abandon it in awful conditions.
So I think even if you look at the heat maps, the maps now, you look at the weather across, you look at it and go, no, thanks.
It is.
I think that this and the cost of living, they're kind of the biggest issues at the moment that are on people's minds, really.
And I think because it's so pressing and there's so many people who are genuinely really struggling to get by week to week, never mind month to month.
And even though it was mentioned there of the Energy Affordability Task Force, that was supposed to report much sooner than the end of this year, which it's now being pushed back to.
And even the measures that they're considering, short term, medium term, long term,
are still a bit vague and unknown.
And what the main issue there is, it's not going to be enough to tackle what is right now an energy issue within each individual household.
So I think realistically, what you're going to see is a lead up to a budget where we're already hearing kind of a change of language around energy credits.
And I would say, realistically, you're probably going to see a budget where it is more than likely that some of those will figure again.
I wouldn't be surprised if the government did genuinely look at the SOCDEM's proposal
around more targeted measures because they, in recent weeks, have been criticising other parties beyond the SOCDEMs who called for energy credits that were universal.
You know, one of the things Simon Harris was saying was TDs don't need energy credits.
So I wouldn't be surprised if you see measures around that.
But again, it leads you to a situation where it's kind of short termism in politics.
Again, we never seem to be able to tackle the long term issues with genuine optimism.
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