Lewis Goodall
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And I think, frankly, you know, the establishment, I don't like that phrase, but for want of express, is making the same sets of mistakes all over again by sort of pointing to people and going, no, look, these people are too radical.
These people will destroy everything.
People don't have anything to lose.
They just don't have anything to lose.
I think this country is looking for political and economic shock therapy.
We've been saying that literally for a decade.
Maybe Labour needs to deliver some of it.
Farage doesn't know... It's already broken for them.
I don't think that's right.
I don't think that they want people who break things.
For a lot of these people who are voting for these parties, as we're seeing in other European countries as well, it's already broken.
The political economic system for them is already broken.
They've got nothing to lose.
Honestly, I think... I really believe... Look, people talk about this government needs to be more progressive.
You make a strong argument that this is one of the most progressive governments, most left-wing governments we've had for decades.
If you look at the actual legislative agenda that the government has in all sorts of directions, whether we've seen it in Employment Rights or the Renters' Rights Act, which has just gone through.
There's lots of other stuff as well.
housing pouring loads of money into public services increasing the pension you can make a strong argument this is the most social democratic government that we've had for decades and yet we have this situation where the Labour Party is bleeding votes to the Greens I think that partly does go back to Keir Starmer's political strategy the Morgan McSweeney strategy where they decided to try and sort of basically tell the Greens or left wing voters you know what
If you don't like it, you can leave.
And guess what?