Patrick Boyle

That is upsetting.

In fact, in many parts of the world, this feeling of the squeezed middle, it's slightly an interesting thing, is that often the poorest people, like when we look at inequality, the lowest paid, we'll say in the United States, are doing a lot better now than they were in the past decades.

the extremely wealthy are doing a lot better as well.

And it's sort of that middle class is sort of seeing, you know, the guy who works at McDonald's sort of catching up on his wages.

And then he's seeing his, you know, the person who owns his business buying his fifth yacht.

And it's kind of like, well, what's going on with me?

Like, this isn't the American dream anymore.

There's no English dream, is there?

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Gosh, what are we not talking about that we should be?

That's definitely true.

Like all of the talk is about

How can we deal with the tax system?

How can we boost this and that?

But the truth is, yes, no one running for government.

And that's back to that idea that the problem, we have these sort of middle of the road politicians who are sort of the status quo when people point at them and say, you got us in this trouble.

And there's very strong argument for that.

But then you kind of have the sort of populists shouting outside the gate, both on the left and the right.

And they are angry, but they're not providing solutions or the solutions they are suggesting are, you know, entirely useless and ill thought out.

I think that the biggest issue for the UK is energy.