meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

114: Special Non-Emergency Election Episode

Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

News

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Helen, Adam and Andy try to answer your questions about the election - not 'who's going to win?' (everyone knows that) but the more interesting bits. Plus a special double quiz of Eyes past and campaigns present.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

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,

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.