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http://www.lbc.co.uk 16-02-2009 09:36:59
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'The country is in massive debt, I can’t see whoever gets in can do anything good for anyone...'
'Oh, Shelagh… you’re depressing me.'
Caller Shelagh tells Iain Dale ⚒️🇺🇦.🇮🇱.🇬🇪 how she believes the UK will face the reality of its 'unsolvable' problems after the General Election.
'He's the wrong leader at the wrong time.'
'There's no passion' in the voice of Keir Starmer, caller Scott tells Iain Dale ⚒️🇺🇦.🇮🇱.🇬🇪.
'The Chancellor has worked very hard to ensure that we can fully fund things...'
'Secretary of State, come on!'
Speaking to Tom Swarbrick, Tory MP Claire Coutinho defends the government's plan to increase defence spending by cutting 70,000 civil servants.
'They have just been delivering chaos... who wants to vote for that?'
'Most people have difficult busy lives, they don't want to be thinking about politics all the time, ' Conservative peer Lord Barwell tells Tom Swarbrick.
'I just took it for granted..it's got the Crown on it, it's probably one of the most official documents I own.'
Adam Diver, who was turned away from voting after attempting to use his Veterans card as ID, admits to Tom Swarbrick he shouldn't have 'assumed' it would be accepted.
'This is a Tory con.'
Caller Sean is ‘absolutely fuming’, explaining to Tom Swarbrick that in 40 years, this is the first time he has been unable to vote due to voter ID rules.
'They are showing real disrespect to their own voters, who've turned against them in enormous numbers.'
The Conservatives are 'trying to console themselves' as local election results come in, Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting MP tells Shelagh Fogarty.
‘Covid didn’t fail to commit… Conservative leadership did.’
Shelagh Fogarty disputes Northern Ireland Minister Steve Baker’s claim that ‘the disruption of Covid’ is where it went wrong for his party.
‘The Labour Party have got to be very careful about feeling smug about this.’
Caller Pat warns that Labour ‘haven’t actually won anything, it’s the Conservatives that've lost’, across local elections results, admitting to Shelagh Fogarty that she ‘chickened out’ of voting.
'I expected them to be bad, they're just marginally worse than that.'
Conservative polling expert Lord Hayward admits to Shelagh Fogarty that their results in the local elections are 'worse than he expected', but that Labour have hardly had a 'stellar' night.