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Speaker 1: In the Brady UK correspondence with me, Hello, Indo, Hey Heather,

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Speaker 1: how are you all right? So tell me what you

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Speaker 1: think of the budget.

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Speaker 2: Well, if you believe the papers and their calculations and

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Speaker 2: all the experts were all a lot less well off

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Speaker 2: than we were twenty four hours ago. And I think

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Speaker 2: looking long term, some people's pension pots could be down

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Speaker 2: as much as one hundred thousand dollars higher earners towards

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Speaker 2: the end of their careers. This is a very kind

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Speaker 2: of clever, stealthy way of taking money from people without

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Speaker 2: them really realizing it. So Rachel reeves at the Chancellor.

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Speaker 2: She has gone after pensions, she's gone after workers, she's

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Speaker 2: gone after savers. They've even put a tax on milkshakes.

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Speaker 2: Would you believe there's nothing they have in tax this time?

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Speaker 1: So how do you justify a text on milkshakes? What

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Speaker 1: is it a milkshake tax?

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Speaker 2: There's sugar in milkshakes. And they've also put a tax

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Speaker 2: on those, you know, those canned lattes that you see

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Speaker 2: in petrol station service stations. They've put a tax on

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Speaker 2: those as well, So they've got it under the sugar tax.

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Speaker 2: So what will happen is the manufacturers will go away.

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Speaker 2: They'll come up with a different recipe, probably even less

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Speaker 2: healthy for consumers. But they've I don't know, they inherited

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Speaker 2: a complete mess. And one line that Reeves came out

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Speaker 2: with yesterday when she was speaking was that she said,

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Speaker 2: this is not about the last fourteen months of us,

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Speaker 2: It's about fixing the last fourteen years of them, and

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Speaker 2: she pointed at the Conservatives. But the public aren't interested.

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Speaker 2: I think Christmas coming, We're in winter now, energy builds rocketing.

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Speaker 2: People care about how much cash or how little cash

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Speaker 2: they have left at the end of the month, and

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Speaker 2: I just can't see Starmer turning this round now.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So she says that energy bills are going to

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Speaker 1: fall into something like one hundred and fifty pounds on

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Speaker 1: average over a year, So there is some sweetener in

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Speaker 1: there for the public. On balance, does the public like

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Speaker 1: what it sees or hate what it sees?

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Speaker 2: I think the public absolutely hates what it's seeing from

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Speaker 2: labor right now. And yes, she's saying that come April

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Speaker 2: next year, they're going to put in place mechanisms where

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Speaker 2: energy bills will fall. Well, come April, the weather gets

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Speaker 2: better and people won't be using as much energy, So

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Speaker 2: why can't they do it now? I just the thing

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Speaker 2: that really kind of sticks with me is an awful

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Speaker 2: lot of money seems to be earmarked for welfare payments

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Speaker 2: and benefits. I think it's a great budget if you're

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Speaker 2: on benefits and you don't do any work. But they're

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Speaker 2: clobbering working families, and traditionally working families vote Labor, so

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Speaker 2: you can join the dots up the way this is

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Speaker 2: going to.

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Speaker 1: Go okay, So how does it go for Kistama.

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Speaker 2: I think he's got until these elections in May. There

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Speaker 2: are national elections in Scotland and Wales in May, and

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Speaker 2: then local elections across England as well. And if you

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Speaker 2: look at the polling, I mean Reformer hitting twenty six percent,

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Speaker 2: thirty percent in some places, Labor are limping along at

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Speaker 2: sixteen the Green Party now snapping at Labour's heels on

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Speaker 2: fifteen percent, and nobody votes Green here save for a

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Speaker 2: few constituencies. So his polling is absolutely shocking. And I

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Speaker 2: think all of the chatter of the last two weeks

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Speaker 2: about Wes Streeting the Health Secretary, lining up his ducks

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Speaker 2: and wanting to be the next leader and Prime Minister

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Speaker 2: there's something in that clearly, but I think Starmer's into

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Speaker 2: the last six months.

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Speaker 1: Wow, okay, and what is this tourist tax in Cornwall?

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Speaker 1: And Devin like, so this is.

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Speaker 2: Away from the budget. This is something that they're going

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Speaker 2: to give regional mayors the power to do in their areas,

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Speaker 2: and Devon and Cornwall seem quite keen on us. So

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Speaker 2: anyone who's traveled in Europe in the last couple of years,

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Speaker 2: you pay your bills up front and when you check

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Speaker 2: out the hotel, suddenly the guy or lady on reception

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Speaker 2: will say to you, oh, there's the tourist tax. We

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Speaker 2: need to settle up, and yeah, it's only about four

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Speaker 2: dollars a night in some cities. And I've had this

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Speaker 2: happen to me in Italy, France and the Netherlands in

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Speaker 2: the last few years. And you're like, oh, okay, and

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Speaker 2: then when you realize, hang on, I've been here a week,

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Speaker 2: We've got the kids with us, whoa, okay, So there's

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Speaker 2: not much change out of you know, a lot of dollars. Basically,

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Speaker 2: they're stealing the idea from some European cities whereby they

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Speaker 2: will bang in this extra maybe four or five dollars

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Speaker 2: a night TOURUS tax per person and then the local

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Speaker 2: regional authority will be able to spend that on services

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Speaker 2: in places like Devon and Cornwall. So it's yet another

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Speaker 2: stealth tax and because it's so small, most people don't

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Speaker 2: question it. Anytime I have questioned it in Europe they

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Speaker 2: blame the local mayor and that's exactly what's going to

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Speaker 2: happen here.

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Speaker 1: Ah yeah, Okay, Linda, thank you very much, really appreciate

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Speaker 1: your time. Mate. That's into Brady, UK Correspondent.

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