149: Not going to take this lying down
The Thought Police
The Thought Police
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🗓️ 6 October 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Today's topics include: Insulate Britain, why you wouldn't want the NHS booking your holiday, the Tory Party conference, pointless protestors, good news for MG about briefcase-gate, Kevin's lost wallet and subsequent disappointing lunch, the new Bond movie, buck teeth, whether 'birds' is an acceptable term in the workplace, Christmas stockpiling, festive meals of the past, the Facebook outage and what may have been behind it, Priti Patel's war on middle class drug users, and why van drivers are the real heroes of this country. It's the podcast that won't be stopped in the middle of the road; it's the Thought Police.
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| 0:00.0 | The Welcome. Welcome to another exciting edition of The Thought Police with me Mike Graham and him |
| 0:28.8 | Kevin O'Sullivan. Well another interesting week Kevin, another day, another few dollars if you happen to be part of Insulate Britain. |
| 0:38.0 | Insulate Britain, they've apologized for all the chaos. |
| 0:42.0 | They've profoundly apologized. Yes. all the chaos they profoundly apologize yes and this is apparently because there was a |
| 0:46.2 | fucking court case right there was a hearing in which it was put off until next |
| 0:51.1 | week I mean what sort of maniacs in the legal system are going to |
| 0:54.0 | say to them oh I tell you what we'll adjourn the case for a week because then we can |
| 0:57.2 | tell you next week what we're going to do it's just fucking ridiculous the |
| 1:01.2 | police go oh we've got to have a |
| 1:02.6 | fucking injunction, otherwise we can't do anything about it. |
| 1:05.3 | Blocking the Queen's Highway isn't a serious enough offense. |
| 1:08.0 | Well, think of another fucking offense. |
| 1:09.3 | Well, I think, you know what I think's happened though, I think that the good people of Wandsworth Bridge |
| 1:14.4 | and the good people of Millwall down by the Blackwall tunnel have proven that actually |
| 1:18.7 | you can stop these people from doing whatever they fucking want to do by dragging them off the road. |
| 1:22.4 | You saw that yesterday, that these guys got a hold of them, dragged them off the road and that was it. |
| 1:28.4 | So there you go, textbook lesson to the police, that's how you do it. So this Manker Liam Norton goes |
| 1:34.4 | insulate Britain wishes to profoundly apologize for the disruption caused |
| 1:37.6 | over the past three weeks we cannot imagine undertaking such acts in normal |
| 1:41.3 | circumstances but we believe that the reality of |
| 1:43.8 | our situation has to be faced the reality of what fucking situation there's nothing |
| 1:47.8 | wrong with the climate we're not all gonna die and who's this fucking bloke they |
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