Sean Rameswaram
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7,113 appearances
119 recordings
4 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 9 Sep
Sean Rameswaram’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The biggest losers following the Chancellor's emergency budget in June, according to a think tank, are the country's poorest.
And it cut things like benefits, it cut local government services, it hurt the NHS in terms of its capital budget.
And all of those things caused kind of scarring in terms of the population, in terms of their ability to eventually go on and do economically productive things.
It is also one reason that Britain voted for Brexit.
And the places that were harmed the most, that saw the greatest, you know, cuts in austerity, were the places that voted for Brexit by the largest margin.
Stoke-on-Trent kind of pops up again there.
It experienced very, very large cuts in government services.
And it was, you know, voted overwhelmingly for Brexit to the point that one politician called it the Brexit capital of the UK.
And does Brexit make their fortunes better or worse?
I don't think there's anyone who could say that Brexit has made things better for the UK, even supporters of Brexit.
Britain has had big ideas for how to change its economic fortunes, and I think one of the most telling examples is HS2, which is the high-speed rail line that was supposed to connect London with Birmingham with Manchester to Leeds.
In 2009, Britain decided to take a step into the future.
With the promise of economic growth, low-carbon travel, more capacity,
and some of the fastest trains on Earth.
It has tripled in cost to more than $100 billion.
It's going to take 30 years to complete.
It is not even going to go to Manchester.
It's not even going to go to Leeds.
It's just going to be a line from Birmingham to London, which already exists.
It's going to cost £100 billion, and it's going to have, you know, it's been beset with all of these permitting problems.
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