Rupert Lowe
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1,164 appearances
9 recordings
8 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 9 Jul
Rupert Lowe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I sit on the Public Accounts Committee.
I see
public servants now.
There are far too many of them.
They're paid too much.
Their pensions are too big.
They're not held accountable by a front bench that doesn't understand what it's doing.
And it is just depressing to watch the taxpayers' money leak out of the door, whether it's incompetence or whether it's fraud is a matter for debate.
But the bottom line is that taxes keep going up, private businesses keep declining and diminishing, and central planning is flourishing.
And that is not a recipe for a healthy or sound or prosperous economy, Patrick.
So I think, in answer to your question, whether it's me or whether it's somebody else, we have to find a solution within the relatively short foreseeable future, and we have to
basically implement radical change now that with it will mean arguably a step backwards in order to move forwards because you can't you can't basically expect after the period of money printing of quantitative easing of
self-delusion that we've been through really in this extraordinary post-war period.
You can't expect that things are going to carry on necessarily, you know, with an increasing standard of living, but a bit like the British people voted for Brexit, not because they wanted to be richer, but they wanted to be freer.
They wanted their own accountable nation state.
So people don't always vote for money.
Sometimes they vote for principle.
And I think the time now is coming where the British people have got to decide, do we continue to delude ourselves and live in this welfarist society, which basically pays out 334 billion in welfare and collects 331 billion in tax, while our national debt breaches 100% of GDP?
Or do we actually say, we're going to put on the hair shirt, we are going to
collapse the size of the state, empower the individual, and actually go back to doing what we do best, which is investing long-term in businesses that make sense, not businesses that are centrally planned
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