Phil Aldrich

we're going to pick on everyone because this is a national requirement.

Yeah, exactly.

They're almost hidden taxes, aren't they?

And then, of course, you've got these levies for businesses on energy levies, climate change levies and stuff.

And even on household bills, you've got them.

So some of them, anyway, are effectively additional hidden taxes.

Yeah, that's an easy one.

The Tories just won in Aberdeen, didn't they?

On this very thing.

On this campaign to get drilling in the North Sea again.

I just don't understand it because obviously you can raise a bit of tax revenue and also instead of having to ship container loads of oil to the UK or whatever, you'll be getting it more domestically.

I don't see why bringing it in by ship is any better than just getting it out of our own reserves.

And you get more tax revenue for it.

So that seems to me like an obvious, easy one.

Again, it's not going to be game-changing, but it'll be helpful.

There's not a lot of optimism going around.

I know I've had one thought I've had, maybe, which is, could Burnham just be a lucky general?

We know Starmer is so dismally unlucky with the international backdrop, as well as making such a terrible series of errors that Burnham has got a template for what not to do, as in the policy options that Starmer chose, just beware of like walking into...

landmines.

And then also if the Iran war is going to be resolved and if Ukraine-Russia just sort of fades back again.