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The Thought Police

11: Done up like a kipper or was it just a red herring?

The Thought Police

The Thought Police

Soccer, Sports, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.5861 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Mike and Matt are back once again to dissect the political climate including a disagreement over BoJo's authenticity, the perils of kneejerk politics and how public 'do-gooding' fads don't help. It's Jean Baudrillard's favourite podcast - but what's that got to do with the price of fish? Find out here. It's the Thought Police...

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0:00.0

The The Oh, So, Welcome to another episode of the Thought Police with me Mike Graham and you,

0:50.0

Matt Kelly. Matt Kelly, the answer to the new European as we edge ever closer to leaving the

0:55.2

European Union or possibly not with a new Prime Minister and a new cabinet and a new

1:00.8

set of rules and a new set box of kippers maybe possibly we've cracked it I think so yeah yeah

1:06.4

feeling very optimistic it's absolutely fine you know this is gonna be I said this

1:11.4

week is going to be the biggest week in politics since the

1:14.2

referendum since you're lot lost and the levers won yeah so because we now we now

1:19.6

know who's in charge of the clattering train? Well, I think you...

1:23.4

I think if you think it's been entertaining so far.

1:26.4

I think just wait until the next three months brings us.

1:29.1

It's going to be absolute pandemones.

1:30.6

Somebody did over the weekend ask me who's not a journalist he said

1:34.6

can you describe Boris Johnson in one sentence that's just need one word

1:38.6

well first I just said Boris right which was not the word you were thinking. And the other senses I came up with was

1:45.2

it'll be great fun. Yeah. Which of course it will for people like you and I. But it won't be great fun for the

1:51.7

200,000 people who are going to lose their jobs.

1:53.8

Well I tell you who...

1:54.8

No...

1:55.8

Yeah, the Office of Budget Irresponsibilities, you renamed that.

1:58.4

I mean these are people who've got everything wrong, basing it all on projections from an organization that got it wrong before, basing everything

2:06.7

that they say on a sort of crystal, you might as well look into a crystal ball and go, this is all going horrible.

2:11.6

Well I do agree, nobody but equally you can't just

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