A GB News viewer has expressed scepticism over the government's explanation for the UK's economic challenges, claiming he doesn't "buy" Rachel Reeves' attempts to blame Donald Trump's tariffs for growth problems.Rob Bright spoke to GB News today and asked "where had my money gone" after it was announced that the UK government will be borrowing more.READ THE FULL STORY HERE
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00:00Look, we're the People's Channel now, and let's go to a GB News viewer, Rob Bright.
00:05Rob, welcome to the show.
00:07Rob, I wanted to talk to you because there's been much made about the fact that difficult choices had to be made by this government.
00:14And, of course, one of the most difficult ones was the axing of the winter fuel allowance.
00:19That saved £1.5 billion per year, Rob.
00:23But today we've learned that's been obliterated by an extra £15 billion of borrowing.
00:29Do you feel that the winter fuel allowance, Kurt, when you look at those figures, was a price worth paying?
00:37Well, where has all the money gone?
00:39I mean, they're borrowing so much money, and they're just cutting the bits that, the low-hanging fruit,
00:46that just doesn't really matter to pay for the stuff that they think does matter, but really it doesn't either.
00:54I mean, the defence budget, yes, we need to spend more money there.
00:58But there's so much money where we really don't need to spend it.
01:02Foreign aid, why are we spending so much money on foreign aid when we have so much money that we need to spend here?
01:10And do you think that's the point, Rob?
01:11When you say to people, quite simply, do you feel better off now than before the government came into power?
01:20May I ask you that, Rob?
01:22Do you feel better off after all of the tax-saving measures, all the strong words we heard coming out of Downstreet?
01:29Do you feel better off?
01:30No, I absolutely don't feel better off.
01:33I think Keir Starmer is a dangerous idealist.
01:36He's got his own agenda.
01:39And what do you think that...
01:40Sorry?
01:44And what do you think that agenda is, and how do you mean?
01:47Well, he's got his own agenda.
01:48He's got his own agenda to go back into Europe.
01:50He has his own agenda about his friends in the Law Society and the CPS.
01:59So much stuff that he believes in that we're paying for.
02:04And it's not what ordinary people believe in.
02:08And do you think that's the point, Rob, here?
02:10You know, blaming Donald Trump for this round of borrowing before that.
02:14It was Putin.
02:15It was Ukraine.
02:16It was COVID.
02:18It could be a meteorite.
02:19There'll always be an excuse to borrow more.
02:22There'll always be an excuse to squeeze more money out of the humble taxpayer.
02:28Rob, do you agree with that?
02:30Well, he and Rachel Reeves laid into Boris Johnson during a pandemic to say how bad our economy was performing during a pandemic.
02:40And here we've got now with a little bit of tariff put onto British goods going into America.
02:47And all of a sudden, that is a major stumbling block to our growth.
02:53I don't buy it.
02:55OK, well, thank you.
02:55There we go.
02:56Let's do it.
02:56Let's do it.
02:56Let's do it.
02:57Let's do it.
03:01So, let's try again.