Sean Rameswaram
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7,113 appearances
119 recordings
4 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 9 Sep
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You know, when I visited, one of the few remaining kilns had trees growing in the crevices because of how, you know, just dilapidated things had become.
And it wasn't just the things that declined over time.
But it was also an immediate kind of recession.
So a small number of ceramics workers had continued up until this point.
And a lot of them are now going out of business because electricity costs have tripled in the last few years in the UK.
They have some of the most expensive electricity in the world.
And that obviously is not good for older industries like ceramics, but it's also not great if you want to be attractive for new industries like AI.
How did we get to this point where the...
economy in England and across Britain is so depressed.
So the turning point is really the financial crisis.
Another nail biting day for dealers on the London stock market.
Shares in the country's biggest banks were sold down and down again.
Up until that point, the UK had been growing pretty strongly through the Blair years.
They were very, very comparable to American living standards.
And after the financial crisis, things just fall apart really for the country.
wages just don't increase after inflation from 2008 to 2024 there's no movement i mean maybe one percent cumulatively productivity which is really the ultimate engine of growth in any economy um also comes very close to stopping over that time in the uk there's a national health service and um you know everyone is insured by right
The quality of the National Health Service has also taken a beating over the last 10 years.
And so, you know, these are kind of headline numbers, but like what happened?
I think after the financial crisis, a decision was taken by the conservative government at the time to reduce spending.
This was a policy known as austerity.
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