00:00Quite a brief speech there from Keir Starmer, focusing on a number of things, Labour being
00:06the party of the working class, but also quite a stinging attack on Nigel Farage.
00:09It was, and again we're seeing the Prime Minister talk about Nigel Farage and giving him airtime
00:15and more coverage than I think some Labour people would want to see.
00:20So again, a question about Keir Starmer's political acumen there.
00:24He started off by saying that Wales had been painted red at the last general election,
00:29and I think he's absolutely right, red with anger, I should imagine, by a lot of people
00:33who've had their winter fuel payment cut, that have seen their benefit, disability benefit
00:38maybe, go up in smoke, that's seen their energy bills potentially go up.
00:44He talked about the 10-month wage increase, something that I think most people would acknowledge
00:48he inherited, I should imagine, rather than has any impact on, and talking about their
00:53industrial strategy that they launched earlier this week, which I must have missed, as if
00:57it was some big fanfare.
00:58So not much in it, in terms of substance, but as you say, an attack on Farage, and what
01:04could be a coalition, as he sees it, in the Welsh elections next year?
01:08Now, I am the last person to attack politicians for the sake of it, and Starmer has a very
01:13difficult job.
01:14He's inherited a very different economic situation.
01:17But I think his story tells us.
01:18And of course, the last government made an enormous amount of failures.
01:21You and I both know that.
01:22But nevertheless, this speech seems to almost completely ignore or pretend what is actually
01:28happening in the real world.
01:29It's been a very difficult week for the government, very difficult situation economically, internationally
01:35as well.
01:36And the speech, the tone of the speech was, everything's fine and it's going to get better.
01:41I think that's absolutely right.
01:42And what Labour I don't think have just been able to grasp is why they've been elected.
01:46So he, you know, the Prime Minister talked very openly about a plan for change.
01:50I think the only plan for change is probably to vote them out by the German public at the
01:54next time round.
01:55But, you know, talking as if, you know, that they've won this huge majority, as if there
01:59was this huge groundswell and love for Labour, when it wasn't.
02:03You're absolutely right.
02:03There were so many mistakes in the past.
02:05The public wanted to give the Tories a kicking and they got an absolute thrashing at
02:08the election.
02:09So understanding that you come into government on the back of just, you know, someone else wasn't
02:13particularly very popular, you've got to then win over the trust of the public.
02:16And they haven't done that because they were announcing things that weren't in their
02:19manifesto, like cutting the winter fuel and missing sort of key, you know, national stories
02:25like, you know, the grooming gang scandal, you know, not having a national inquiry when
02:28it was blindingly obvious to most of us, regardless of your politics, that that needed to happen.
02:33And now you're hearing things about, obviously, the economy, you know, increase in taxes,
02:37national insurance contributions when they said they weren't going to do it.
02:39So there's lots of things that they've done that they said they weren't going to do.
02:42And I think they're, you know, not as popular as they think that they might be.
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