“The best political speech of the 21st century”? – Burnham inspires Liverpool – BONUS

By the way, your point there about how we've made no good music since the 90s, I actually think there's a bit of emotional and indeed political hardwood under that.

Because let's be honest, the 90s was the last time when everything wasn't shit.

You know, it's like there's emotional memory there.

There was, you know, it wasn't perfect, but there was the degrees of prosperity and opportunity.

Housing was not completely beyond people's ability to get on the ladder of purchase.

You know, it is the last time before the door started to close on everyone.

I mean, yes and no. You're

talking to somebody who graduated in 2008 and the world was pretty optimistic until late 2007.

Like the university, we were all very angry over Iraq.

You know, the shine had gone off labor.

I was 16.

It was the first big protest I ever went on in 2003 was against that.

You know, I regarded Tony Blair to be a war criminal, pure and simple.

You know, I still think Iraq was a catastrophic era, but you start to see, some shades of it, even if it was an awful mistake.

But, you know, you see things pretty clearly at 16.

But, you know, there was this sense of, hey, Britain's booming, the economy's growing, we sort of, you know, everyone was feeling wealthy because house prices sort of shot up.

And then there was the global financial crisis, exactly as people my age entered the job market and everything went down from there.

So millennials have got that sense of, you know, we grew up being promised something and then everything was rubbish.

Gen Z don't have that.

And I think this was a speech that was actually squarely targeted at Labour's new coalition, which, you know, I was delighted to see.

That was phenomenal.

But it's a little bit odd then to ground it in a sort of 1990s nostalgia, which maybe appeals more to the old one.

But maybe that's one-nationism.

Maybe that's fine.

I know, sorry, that was brutal.