Mike Graham

And some of the business rates now are outlandishly ridiculous.

And people running businesses are saying to me, I think I'll just chuck it in and just not have a business anymore because it's too complicated.

It's too expensive.

And the tax is ridiculous.

No.

And the highest unemployment figure in five years is going to be announced this week.

Right.

Because more and more people are getting laid off.

fewer and fewer young people are able to get jobs.

I was listening to something on the way down here.

The student loan business is now also in crisis.

There was a woman saying that she'd gone and done a degree, taken a loan out for £39,000, done another postgraduate degree for another £11,000, so £49,000.

She finished in something like 2022, but she now owes them, despite having paid them back money since she had a job, £67,000.

And you go, well, how does that work?

So you now owe them more money than you did when you finished your university sort of, you know, education.

And yet you've been paying them.

So they're literally ripping everybody off every single stage.

And I'm, you know, I'm old enough to have been fortunate enough to go to university when it was free.

And I didn't even take advantage of it because I only did two years.

I got kicked out of there as well.