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Alan Simpson

Alan Simpson

English scriptwriter

Jun 22, 2026

62:57
Why do they still not care? Yeah.
62:59
Well, I'll give you my version of that.
63:03
And Steve's had me talk about this so many times, so forgive me, Steve, but I really do think this is true.
63:09
Certainly this government, let's just take this government, you go back to before they were elected and the work that they were all doing before they became MPs.
63:18
Torsten Bell, who wrote The Last Budget, his work was predicated on the idea that there's a limited number of sectors that we want to grow in the economy because they provide higher wage jobs fundamentally and therefore more taxes, the ability to pay down the cost of the pandemic, the ability to pay for the increasing numbers of retired people.
63:39
And frankly, if you're outside of that group, whilst no malice is... is meant for you we we are reasonably comfortable if you if you shrink and basically that heuristic is pretty predictive so you know of course an MP will go and will be photographed in the Wolverhampton Inquirer pulling a pint of course they will because it's it's great local politics but our job is to get them to understand that you know as Steve says if you if you get to the point where you're you're growing your you know your fintech sector in London and it's just And an increasing number of businesses fighting over a limited pool of LSE grads, great.
64:21
But if at the same time as that's actually happened, you've lost 100,000 jobs across the country in hospitality, those people are not magically going to get a job at Revolut.
67:13
And that's the frustration that we're banging this drum, but everyone has to step up.

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