Patrick Boyle

Because it's unlikely that people in, you know, the Western developed world are going to actually be experiencing famine.

You know, we'll pay up for the food.

And then in other parts of the world where they can't, they have real problems.

Yeah, but that's how people deal with higher costs, right?

Because you need a certain amount of calories.

You don't necessarily need it to come from caviar.

So as prices go up, you find substitute goods.

And so eventually, maybe we'll be like Ireland a couple hundred years ago and try and get by on potato.

I think people are already angry because it angers people even having to downgrade.

People aren't angry because they're hungry, but they are angry if their life is slowly getting worse.

If they're like, well, I'm working harder, I'm doing all the right things, I'm doing everything I was told was supposed to lead to a successful life, and here I am growing potatoes in my backyard to feed the family.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think for the British economy, energy is probably the biggest problem.

But

You know, often I'll talk about deregulation.

People get angry, as I've said earlier.

You know, I'm not saying that we need to put poison in people's food.

Deregulation, though, sometimes... A great example is Hinkley Point C, the nuclear reactor that they're building here in the UK, which is now on schedule to be the most expensive nuclear plant in the world.

Right.