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Michael and Us

#234 - Cleggmania Revisited

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In the wake of the Labour Party's disastrous performance in the 2021 U.K. local elections, we're taking a look back at a key moment in recent British history. The made-for-TV movie COALITION (2015) documents the wheelings and dealings that led to Nick Clegg's Liberal-Democrats joining forces with David Cameron's Conservatives after. the 2010 election left no party with a parliamentary majority. We share some larfs over a perfectly mediocre movie, and. discuss the true meaning of "Cleggmania" and its aftermath. PLUS: Why can't Keir Starmer sell centrism like Tony Blair could? And reflections on Toronto's alt-media landscape, from NOW Magazine to Eye Weekly to The Grid. "The Grid R.I.P." - http://radiofreecanuckistan.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-grid-rip.html "Keir Starmer’s Televised Meltdown Was Decades in the Making" by Luke Savage - https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/05/keir-starmer-bbc-meltdown-labour-election-hartlepool

Transcript

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0:00.0

Just about 20 minutes ago, I got a notification saying that there was an appointment available for me to book.

0:18.0

This was through the shopper's Drug Mart.

0:21.2

They have some kind of portal where you can, like,

0:23.8

enter your information and the ideas they notify you as soon as something becomes

0:27.2

available.

0:27.9

Hang on.

0:28.3

If the listeners hear a clicking sound, it's because I'm typing Shoppers Drug Mart vaccine portal

0:34.4

to look at that because it really is.

0:37.3

It's like the gold rush up here trying to get this

0:39.9

vaccine i'll send you the link uh to what i used i mean wait till the end of the story because it's got a

0:44.9

disappointing ending obviously which is why i'm bringing it up um so yeah i mean i signed up this

0:50.5

morning and then like i don't know in less than seven hours i got this notification saying there is a vaccine appointment available for you to book so like right

0:58.2

away I clicked on it like we're talking 10 second delay not even like just whatever time

1:03.9

it took my eyes to like scan the like you know 30 words of text or whatever and you know it gives

1:09.0

me some address it's like out in Mississauga which you know for know, for people who don't know, Toronto, like if you're downtown, I mean,

1:14.6

it's like, I mean, you know, it would be like two hours on public transit if you could take

1:20.3

public transit, which, you know, I mean, in theory you can, but you shouldn't if you can avoid

1:25.0

it. You know, maybe 40 minutes in a car 45 minutes without traffic

1:29.9

which like there would be traffic and to walk forget about it yeah i mean not not happening like you know

1:35.0

five hours something like that um like out near the airport basically is where this was um but i figured

1:40.7

whatever i'm just gonna i'm just gonna sign up i. I'll get a ride or something. And gone. I mean, just, you know, and it's gone. I mean, like, I would say generously, 25, 30 seconds between when I clicked on it when I tried to sign up. But I think it's a good sign anyway. These things are starting to be available. We're actually catching up to the United States now in Canada. There's been like a, as you say, a gold rush. And some people are actually

2:05.2

striking and rich. So hopefully soon that's one of us. I mean, both of us are in early 30s.

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