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🗓️ 12 June 2024
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0:00.0 | Page 94, the Private Eye Podcast. |
0:03.3 | Hello and welcome to another episode of Page 94. |
0:05.9 | My name is Andrew Hunter Murray and I'm here in the Private Eye Offices with Adam McQueen and Helen |
0:09.7 | Lewis. This is a non-emergency podcast let's be honest |
0:14.0 | It's a banal podcast completely in the normal schedule |
0:17.0 | There's nothing to see here move along |
0:20.0 | But it is about politics and so we have to use the word emergency at some point, apparently. |
0:25.0 | So as it's election season, we're going to have some audience questions in a moment, but firstly, |
0:30.0 | Helen and Adam, as Private Eye Hacks, which are the bits of the election that you've been |
0:34.8 | following that you think have not received enough attention there's been loads and |
0:38.5 | loads on D-Day and and and tax claims back and forth what are the bits of the campaign so far |
0:44.3 | that you think haven't received enough attention |
0:46.7 | or any sort of fun moments that kind of got lost in the stampede? |
0:49.7 | I am going to nominate the Conservative Chairman Richard Holden getting parachuted from his seat in Durham to Billericki in Essex. |
0:58.0 | You know there's a phenomenon of the chicken run. |
1:00.0 | There was a lot of talk during the Boris Johnson era of a chihuah he was going to do a chicken run to a more safe seat. |
1:05.0 | The chicken run is where you have a seat that you're going to lose and then you just... |
1:08.0 | And you find a much more safe one and your and the association basically is whatever |
1:12.5 | blandishment is offered. |
1:14.1 | There was a lot of it went on before the 97 election. |
1:16.2 | That was the last big chicken run. |
1:17.5 | People like Brian Mulinni, who was the Conservative Party chairman, |
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