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Speaker 1: The question is, what can the government do to help

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Speaker 1: you offset the war and its costs. The answers will

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Speaker 1: not only be all different, of course, chances are no

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Speaker 1: one is going to end up satisfied or even grateful.

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Speaker 1: And yet that is the dilemma the government currently faces,

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Speaker 1: as indeed to all governments. The moment something untoward happens,

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Speaker 1: our first port of call is always the government. Of course,

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Speaker 1: epic fury is not the government's fault. It is not

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Speaker 1: of their making. It is just life in an increasingly

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Speaker 1: unsettled and unpredictable world. Now, depending also on your political leaning,

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Speaker 1: depends on just what sort of role the government should

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Speaker 1: have in your life. It is made worse for our

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Speaker 1: government because its election year. Their great fear will be one,

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Speaker 1: this thing isn't over soon, and two therefore the fallout

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Speaker 1: will be simply keep getting worse and worse. Outside of petrol,

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Speaker 1: we actually haven't seen any impact yet because most have

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Speaker 1: already forgotten. This thing is only three weeks old, and

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Speaker 1: even though they said it could be six, we're over

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Speaker 1: it already. But in some way, shape or form, we

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Speaker 1: will be short of something sooner or later. The trick

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Speaker 1: for the government is when to pull the trigger. The

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Speaker 1: trigger is being pulled today? What sort of trigger is it?

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Speaker 1: Once you start, your first trap is the out? Getting

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Speaker 1: in is always easier than getting out. Turning the tap

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Speaker 1: on is always easier than turning it off. What's the end?

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Speaker 1: What's it look like? What has to happen? You really

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Speaker 1: win on that you see? Given we don't know what

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Speaker 1: happens next in a conflict, we have no control over.

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Speaker 1: What are the parameters of the help? How targeted can

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Speaker 1: it be? How much should a government help? And who

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Speaker 1: should they help? If it's petrol, why not food? Why

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Speaker 1: not your mortgage? I mean they're all directly related and

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Speaker 1: will all potentially move because of the war. Best scenario is,

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Speaker 1: of course, this thing gets wrapped and it's a blip

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Speaker 1: and we can all get on life. And the overnight action,

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Speaker 1: of course, would indicate that this thing's going to be

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Speaker 1: over sooner rather than later. But from the starting point

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Speaker 1: of having less than no money in a world where

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Speaker 1: debt is getting more expensive and nothing you do will

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Speaker 1: be enough, you wouldn't wish that headache on your worst enemy?

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Speaker 1: Would you? For more? From the mic asking breakfast listen

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