#068 - Catherine McBride - Is Labour Wrecking the Economy?
Mr Obnoxious
Peter McCormack
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2025
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Catherine McBride is an economist, trade expert, and former member of the UK’s Trade and Agriculture Commission. With a background in finance and deep knowledge of international markets, she is one of the most vocal critics of Britain’s overregulated economy, misguided energy policies, and counterproductive approach to growth and trade.
In this interview, Catherine explains why Britain is stuck in economic decline, how Net Zero is strangling industry, and why Labour’s growth promises are disconnected from reality. We discuss the damage caused by stamp duty, VAT, and employment law, the failure of political leadership across parties, and why the UK is driving away the very businesses it needs to survive. Catherine argues that only radical reform—cutting bad regulation, slashing energy costs, and restoring economic sanity—can save Britain from permanent decline.
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| 0:00.0 | This culture of everyone should try and game the system and get as much out of it as they can. |
| 0:05.5 | We have moved so far away from when I was a child. |
| 0:09.7 | Well, I didn't actually hear the speech, I was too young, but Kennedy said, |
| 0:13.8 | think not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. |
| 0:18.0 | Well, now we've got a whole generation that is only interested in what |
| 0:22.7 | they can get out of the government. They are not interested in putting anything back. They're not |
| 0:26.9 | interested in setting up a business. The few that were setting up tech businesses are moving |
| 0:31.0 | straight to the US. You know, do not pass go. Go and do US and collect your $200 there. |
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| 1:31.2 | So I'm hoping I will learn quite a lot from you today. |
| 1:35.3 | I'm not the smartest guy in the world, but I'm mildly terrified by the state of our economy |
| 1:43.5 | and the decisions that are coming from central government |
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