The green blob is choking the life out of the UK

But just before we get into all that, I wanted to give you some career advice, co-pilot.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has just unveiled a new national centre to tackle disinformation and deepfakes, dubbed by some the Ministry of Truth.

Apparently, Brits voted for Brexit and are worried about high levels of immigration because they're being fed misinformation on an industrial scale by hostile actors.

Maybe you could dust off your George Orwell novels, Alison, and apply for a job.

It does beg a belief, doesn't it? It does make you laugh.

I mean, it's the new National Centre for Information Defence to improve community cohesion, Liam, and prevent a distorted and untrue narrative about Britain.

So, yes, I mean, I'm glad to learn retrospectively that I voted for Brexit, not because I discovered that the EU was massively corrupt and undemocratic, but because I was told to do it by Vlad in Vladivostok.

Yeah.

It's interesting, isn't it? I mean, sometimes we get these little snapshots into the cluelessness of the progressives, don't we? So what we see is all of the problems their policies have caused and which people are upset about, like the things we talk about every week, energy prices, inflation, uncontrolled illegal migrants pouring onto the South Coast, all of those things which British citizens are upset about.

That's to do with misinformation, not the evidence of our eyes or our bank balances or our purses or not having the money for the gas bill.

Nothing to do with that, Liam.

It's all to do with the evil misinformation, which the government is now going to counter, not by coming up with solutions to the problems they've created like maybe reducing taxes, cutting employers' national insurance, taking the green taxes off people's energy bills, any of the things that might make people feel less hopeless.

No, people are going to be persecuted for objecting to the idiot and awful consequences of government policy.

Tell me I'm wrong, Halligan.

No, I think you're right.

I think we're now in a situation where A lot of our weathermakers, if you like, the movers and shakers, and I'm not just talking about headline industrialists like Jim Ratcliffe or indeed Mark Rockus, another leading British taxpayer who has just left the country.

I'm talking about small business owners up and down the country.

I see this all the time in my own life.

People are just sick and tired of working all hours in order to pay ever higher taxes to fund things that they... really don't believe in.

And this is what happens.

This is the Laffer curve, Alison, which you once explained to me.

And now I understand.

To be fair, you picked it up quite well.

You know, it took me a while.

It took me a while.

But just before we get into all that, I wanted to give you some career advice, co-pilot.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has just unveiled a new national centre to tackle disinformation and deepfakes, dubbed by some the Ministry of Truth.

Apparently, Brits voted for Brexit and are worried about high levels of immigration because they're being fed misinformation on an industrial scale by hostile actors.

Maybe you could dust off your George Orwell novels, Alison, and apply for a job.

It does beg a belief, doesn't it? It does make you laugh.

I mean, it's the new National Centre for Information Defence to improve community cohesion, Liam, and prevent a distorted and untrue narrative about Britain.

So, yes, I mean, I'm glad to learn retrospectively that I voted for Brexit, not because I discovered that the EU was massively corrupt and undemocratic, but because I was told to do it by Vlad in Vladivostok.

Yeah.

It's interesting, isn't it? I mean, sometimes we get these little snapshots into the cluelessness of the progressives, don't we? So what we see is all of the problems their policies have caused and which people are upset about, like the things we talk about every week, energy prices, inflation, uncontrolled illegal migrants pouring onto the South Coast, all of those things which British citizens are upset about.

That's to do with misinformation, not the evidence of our eyes or our bank balances or our purses or not having the money for the gas bill.

Nothing to do with that, Liam.

It's all to do with the evil misinformation, which the government is now going to counter, not by coming up with solutions to the problems they've created like maybe reducing taxes, cutting employers' national insurance, taking the green taxes off people's energy bills, any of the things that might make people feel less hopeless.

No, people are going to be persecuted for objecting to the idiot and awful consequences of government policy.

Tell me I'm wrong, Halligan.

No, I think you're right.

I think we're now in a situation where A lot of our weathermakers, if you like, the movers and shakers, and I'm not just talking about headline industrialists like Jim Ratcliffe or indeed Mark Rockus, another leading British taxpayer who has just left the country.

I'm talking about small business owners up and down the country.

I see this all the time in my own life.

People are just sick and tired of working all hours in order to pay ever higher taxes to fund things that they... really don't believe in.

And this is what happens.

This is the Laffer curve, Alison, which you once explained to me.

And now I understand.

To be fair, you picked it up quite well.

You know, it took me a while.

It took me a while.