Barrow-in-Furness

The problem with defence is only about 50 pence in every pound that gets spent filters through into the broader economy.

And you end up with situations like Barrow-in-Furness would probably be the biggest example of this.

We have a really genuinely K-shaped economy because the average wage looks pretty good, but really it's absolutely distorted by those who work for BAE Systems.

And the property market around there is completely distorted by BAE Systems.

And so, yeah, the number stayed with me all day until I started working on a project that I'm working on.

And I read this article and essentially the article was talking about how In last July, police found 21 collies living in a van and a caravan in a car park in Barrow and Furness in Cumbria.

Essentially, they found the 21 collies in metal crates stacked three high with no bedding and 10 of them were literally skin and bone.

And a vet said that all the dogs were extremely anemic, which means it would have taken months for them to get that way.

Oh my God, my husband's got such a good, a good send-off, official send-off by bikers.

And we decided the route would be from Northern London up on the motorways to Barrow-in-Furness, 300 miles.

Oh my God.

46,137 motorbikes turned up.

We've never seen anything like that.

Every bridge across the motorway, there were people with banners, with Dave's pictures.

children with flags waving at the bikes from London up to Barrow-in-Furness.

It was unbelievable.

with a guitar

when we do vocal warm-ups when we were touring, and when I say touring, I'm talking about places like Wick and Olapool and Kokodi and Barrow-in-Furness and playing town halls and community centres and art centres.

And depending on the size of the cast, because it was small-scale touring, we would do these five-, six-, seven-part harmonies to certain songs and we'd always end the vocal warm-up.

with Run for Home and Davey Whittaker would be on the piano playing it.

Well, it's great.

Again, Barrow-in-Furness, everybody, and this is a shame thing about the furnace locality.

Everybody's very quick to point the finger and maybe run it down a little bit.

But we have so many people that are achieving so much great things.

12.48 is the time, and here are some words to soothe even the most furrowed brow.

Mark is in Barrow-in-Furness, which means there must be a word-based question on the board.

Mark, question or answer?

It's an answer to the question about English and Serbo-Croat with the types of words that are common.

I think particularly exactly where we are.

So our head office is in Barrow, Barrow-in-Furness.

One of the biggest employers there is BAE.

Yes.

You've raised a very high bar for our next contestant.

So Georgie Scanlon is up next in Barrow-in-Furness.

You've got 36 to beat.

It can be done.

We've got the big boys.

Broken freeways from Liverpool, St. Helens, Barrow, Infernus.

That's a long

way,

We have been drawn in there and led astray a few times.

Yeah.

We've had a couple of ropey nights in Barrow, that's for sure.

We may have done a