Merryn Somerset Webb

That's how bad things have got.

I can't even see the sun shining.

All right.

Brilliant.

So just let me say to everybody that if you want to know more about the miseries of the UK economy and some of the things that are great about it and reasons to be optimistic, don't listen to me and John, but don't.

Do listen to our podcast out on Monday with Andy Haldane because he comes up with a lot of things that will make you think, well, actually, this is going to be okay.

John, you and I believe that.

Major policy changes and the UK is in a great place.

Without those major policy changes, things are going to be tough.

But there's so much going on underneath all the misery that the future could be bright if only we had a competent government.

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