177. Question Time: A new centrist party, mafia politics in New Jersey, and was Jesus a socialist?

The Rest Is Politics

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🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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How corrupt is US politics? Will we see a new centrist party in the UK? How did Tony Blair overcome nerves at the dispatch box? Join Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell as they answer all these questions and more on today's episode of TRIP Question Time. TRIP Plus: Become a member of The Rest Is Politics Plus to support the podcast, receive our exclusive newsletter, enjoy ad-free listening to both TRIP and Leading, benefit from discount book prices on titles mentioned on the pod, join our Discord chatroom, and receive early access to live show tickets and Question Time episodes. Just head to therestispolitics.com to sign up, or start a free trial today on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/therestispolitics. Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @RestIsPolitics Email: restispolitics@gmail.com Producers: Dom Johnson + Nicole Maslen Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:20.0	Welcome to The Restless Politics question time with me, Rory Stewart. And me,
0:23.9	Alistair Campbell. And Alistair, one to start you off with, because you often talk about Sweden,
0:27.9	Nicholas Lemmon. Please, can you discuss the situation in Sweden right now? The militaries
0:33.0	being deployed to help the police with a stark increase in gang violence?
0:37.8	This incredible, isn't it? We think of Sweden as a really stable and attractive country where
0:44.1	everything kind of works. And that image probably will survive this, but it's very, very difficult.
0:49.4	I mean, the Prime Minister, Ulf Christensen, he did a TV address to the nation where he said that
0:55.3	no country in Europe has ever seen anything like this. And the situation is they've had 11 gangland
1:01.2	murders in the month of September. They've already had a record number of shootings. They've got
1:06.0	small bomb attacks going on. And so he's basically said they've had a crisis meeting with
1:10.8	with all the police chiefs and the military and they're saying they may need to bring in the
1:13.6	military for this. It's pretty terrifying, I think, because I mean, this was something that Slavis
1:18.3	is at who we were talking to. It's an interview for Leading, which will come out in a few weeks
1:21.8	time, but he was saying that when he was in Sweden as a young man, he remembers that famous
1:26.8	you never locked your door in any of these towns, because it was so peaceful. And he very much says
1:32.8	that this is being read, certainly in Sweden. And he reads it as part of the struggle with immigration
1:37.9	that many of these gangs are Albanian gangs, the Syrian Turkish gangs. There are some African
1:44.9	gangs. And it's experienced, obviously, by the right wing in Sweden as being about immigration
1:51.7	policy. And that's going to really fuel populism in Sweden and elsewhere. And of course,
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