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Where Politics Meets History

185. Bubbling with Support

Where Politics Meets History

Global

Politics, History, News

4.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2020

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

Iain and Jacqui discuss how Jacqui is deploying her own support bubble, the terrible GDP figures announced this week, the Black Lives Matter protests, whether Little Britain and other shows should be censored, the return of Denise from Enfield and whether Britain and the EU will, in the end, come to a free trade deal. Smut Quota: Ish

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0:00.0

I'm forever blowing bubbles.

0:12.0

No, I have not told me to.

0:15.0

Social bubbles in the air.

0:19.0

Have you created a social bubble Jackie

0:22.0

I have created it's called a support bubble oh is it oh right sorry

0:26.0

the mix the mixed messaging fails again

0:28.7

as it happens I have created a support bubble yes have you

0:35.4

with your mum no doubt actually, my sister has created

0:40.9

one with my mum and of course you can't have more than one bubble. So I had to, basically, I had

0:45.4

to sort of flail around and find somebody else to create my support bubble with. Did you? How did

0:51.2

your flailing succeed? Or have your flailing succeed?

0:56.5

Or have you flailed yet?

1:03.7

It has succeeded and that's the end of anything you're going to hear about it.

1:10.1

Okay. I'm very disappointed. I sent you a picture last night but you haven't responded to it.

1:28.8

Oh no, but I did. I didn't respond to it but I did send it on to the rest of my family. She was looking great, wasn't she? She was looking great. We're talking about your sister Sarah, who is on BBC Southeast, and I was having my dinner last night, very late dinner at 10.30, and that she appeared on screen. So I thought I'd take a picture,

1:35.0

which of course now all your family knows how untidy our kitchen worktop is. Oh, don't worry.

1:41.1

They know they've been in my house. They know what untidy is. But we were all, you know, in very shallow manner. None of us said, oh, Sarahah what important issue we were reporting on we all said

1:45.3

oh yeah lockdown hair looks nice actually to be fair i can't even remember what she was talking about

1:51.2

and you were actually listening to it well i was because my phone was in the other room so i said to john

1:57.4

where's your phone where's your phone i want to take a picture. And then I said, watch your code.

2:01.5

He said, well, you know what the code is. I thought, do I? I thought, well, if I'd known what the code was, I'd be flicking through your phone a lot more often than I do. Anyway, shall we tell the lovely listeners what we're going to be talking about today? Yes. we are going to be talking about, well, some fairly predictable things.

2:01.3

The... Shall we tell the lovely listeners what we're going to be talking about today? Yes. We are going to be talking about, well, some fairly predictable things.

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