Mike Graham

And it's things like that that people say to me, and they used to say it to me a lot when I was on talk, you know, the sort of weekly shop has gone from 100 quid to 200 quid.

And they're not buying anything extra.

In fact, they're buying less.

And so you're right.

And, you know, one of the things that one of the great labor lies is, you know,

You know, we've got wages going, wages have gone up since we got in.

Well, no, they haven't.

They've gone down unless you happen to work in a public sector.

You know, if you're a train driver, if you're a nurse, if you're a doctor, if you're a copper, all of you have been given a pay rise.

But, you know, in the private sector, people are worse off than they've ever been, you know, and everything costs more and more and more and more people are contributing nothing to the economy.

And fewer and fewer of us are paying tax to pay for all of them.

And it's not a sustainable economy.

That is not sustainable, right?

And look at Rachel Reeves, you know, the world's most useless chancellor.

Today, and I don't know when this is going out, but this week anyway, is the beginning of a new alcohol tax.

The alcohol tax has gone up.

We talk to pub owners quite a lot.

And on something like a £7.50 pint, your landlord's making about 47 pence because everything else is going out either in tax or in overheads or in supplies or in staffing.

You know, all of the things that contribute to you running a business.

And yet what she's doing is squeezing it even more and then making out that she's doing them all a favor by not imposing extra business rates on them.