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Speaker 1: Keir Starmer is fast becoming a new political hero of mine.

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Speaker 1: For a bloke who stumbled into offers not on as

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Speaker 1: brilliant or a nationwide passion for the Labour Party, but

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Speaker 1: more because the Tories had spent fourteen years slowly missing

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Speaker 1: the place up it turns out to be quite the operator.

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Speaker 1: He's reforming the public health because it's fat and useless.

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Speaker 1: He's trimming welfare because there are too many layabouts. He's

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Speaker 1: handled Trump as well as anyone and better than most,

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Speaker 1: both on tariffs and the war. And now he's rejected

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Speaker 1: that hackneyed old sop of a patriotic by British campaign.

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Speaker 1: This is in response to the American moves. Of course

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Speaker 1: Canada hasn't. They're flat out at the moment hating on America,

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Speaker 1: and in some senses it's working. Tourism is down as

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Speaker 1: Canadians go elsewhere, but all the rest of its anecdotal

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Speaker 1: as they pull American boos off shells and a massive huff.

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Speaker 1: So the idea was like it was here a number

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Speaker 1: of times over the years. If you think back to

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Speaker 1: buy Aki, we are like it currently. I suppose it's

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Speaker 1: kind of like the Wall discussion this morning like it

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Speaker 1: currently as an Australia as part of their election campaign,

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Speaker 1: they've got a big by Australia campaign thing going. You

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Speaker 1: run the flag up the pole, you get everyone fizzed

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Speaker 1: up about their country, their heritage, their ability to make

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Speaker 1: stuff in whittle and degan toil and sweat, and the

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Speaker 1: punt is so enamored with your skills and graft buys

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Speaker 1: the locally made brilliance and we all lived happily ever after.

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Speaker 1: There is value, of course in patriotism and pride in

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Speaker 1: some local stories, but even in Britain, where a lot

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Speaker 1: of stuff was born or invented, the world has moved on,

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Speaker 1: and Starman knows it. People buy on either quality or price,

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Speaker 1: sometimes a little bit of both. They don't buy blindly.

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Speaker 1: They don't want crap, and they won't support their own

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Speaker 1: for the sake of it. I mean if they did,

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Speaker 1: TEAMU would never have been invented. This whole terriff thing

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Speaker 1: will pass free trade and this is what Starmer gets

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Speaker 1: will survive, if not thrive. Starmer gets it. President g

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Speaker 1: certainly gets it. Good ideas, you see, don't die with

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Speaker 1: the arrival of an economic Neanderthal. Good ideas don't die

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Speaker 1: they may be paused, although may be dented, but they

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Speaker 1: don't die. Landrover thrives because yes, it's British, but it's

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Speaker 1: also because it's good, as do Futenham and Masons and

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Speaker 1: barber wax jackets. Buying local is isolationism. Most of us

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Speaker 1: worked out out a long time ago. This is no

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