everybody is suffering from hyperinflation, facing economic decline and lack of growth, everybody s encountering problems that follow on a pandemic in which everybody s economy was put into an induced coma for two years. in the united states, inflation is wildly out of control, and they have a much more serious unemployment problem than we have, so it would be a mistake to think people will look at the eu and think, maybe we should ve stayed in. no. that wasn t my point. whether they will feel they were delivered brexit on a false premise. i think the people who believe that have believed it all along. right. there were people who were very angry about the slogans on the side of the bus. you don t think any of the brexiteers, people who voted for brexit, will feel, hang on, we voted for this because we trusted you, boris, and now you ve misled us ? they have decided they don t trust him, and i do not actually think that is going to impact much on their feelings about brexit. got you
For what turns out to be the 300th Power Line podcast as well as the last episode of 2021, we decided to revert to full three-whisky mode with a live audience on Zoom, and an extended conversation with historian Richard Samuelson about the left’s distorted and impoverished understanding of democracy. I quaffed my usual Islay peat bombs (while offering some new reviews of luxury whiskys) and Lucretia polished off a
reckon in the farm to fork supply chain in the uk, there are normally 4 millionjobs and chain in the uk, there are normally 4 million jobs and we think that we are 500,000 people adrift. one in eight of the people we need across farming, manufacturing, hospitality, food to go, logistics and packaging, one in eight arejust not food to go, logistics and packaging, one in eight are just not there. some of that is because as george eustice said, they have gone home and part of that is due to the fact that half a million people in the uk have become economically inactive. both of those are social reactions, personal reactions, to the threat of covid and the way people are reassessing their lives, but they have a big effect on the labour market itself. in have a big effect on the labour market itself. market itself. in terms of what mi . ht fix market itself. in terms of what might fix that, market itself. in terms of what might fix that, do market itself. in terms of what might fix tha
seen labour loyalties overtaken by new found tory support. when leigh was very much a mining town, you had labour and you had the unions, and that was big. people have moved away, new people have moved in. i think it s just watered down and down and down. you re always told that your mum and dad were labour, so you re labour, and you just get it rammed down you, but politics has changed over the years. can you see people going back to labour here? ican. yes, ican. yeah, because i do think brexit had a lot to do with it. this former mining town is one of the places that voted leave. brexit s clearly played a part in political change across the country. though trevor, an active labour member who s nowjoined the tories, thinks it s deeper. he says some voters feel labour s values shifted away from these communities, leaving them open to other parties. i think they re less tribal than what you think. they re solid in their values but not tribal in their allegiances. i m me and i ve been
a change of direction. this is one of the places that s seen labour loyalties overtaken by new found tory support. when leigh was very much a mining town, you had labour and you had the unions, and that was big. people have moved away, new people have moved in. i think it s just watered down and down and down. you re always told that your mum and dad were labour, so you re labour, and you just get it rammed down but politics has changed over the years. can you see people going back to labour here? ican. yes, ican. yeah, because i do think brexit had a lot to do with it. this former mining town is one of the places that voted leave. brexit s clearly played a part in political change across the country. though trevor, an active labour member who s nowjoined the tories, thinks it s deeper. he says some voters feel labour s values shifted away from these communities, leaving them open to other parties. i think they re less tribal than what you think. they are solid in the values but not