disputes about particular elements of it, but that's the crux of it. iand inevitably, people starting| to ask, "well, what's working?" "are things working? "can you post a letter? "can you get a driving test? "is the teacher going to be l there to teach your children "or the nurse at the hospital?" and we're going to see, heading into next year, | so many more of these strikes. that always presents, i think, challenges for government. . now, their argument, as you know, is one where they say, look, - we have to deal with the central i issue here, which is inflation, i i a significant contributing factori to that are international factors, and we can't be involved in paying i out amounts in the public sectorl that are just unaffordable. i was just in paris talking to french friends. they don't have any doubt, and it's the same in the newspapers right throughout europe, why all this has happened to us — it's because of brexit. is it because of brexit? so i think brexit plays—