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#361 - Darren Grimes - What The Right Is Getting Wrong

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.74.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Darren Grimes is a political commentator and a YouTuber.

Conservatism might be the least sexy political viewpoint there is. The righthand side of the aisle is hardly setting anyone's pants ablaze and almost of feels like a movement that should come wrapped in a flat cap and a smoking jacket. Is this just the way things are?

Expect to learn whether olympic athletes should be figureheads for politics, why Darren still receives so much Brexit hate 4 years later, whether UK Political Commentator Celebrity Boxing could be a successful business, the reason that young people aren't seduced by Conservative politics and much more...

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0:00.0

My guest today is Darren Grimes. He's a political commentator and a YouTuber. We're talking about the problem with conservatism.

0:07.8

Conservatism might be the least sexy political viewpoint there is. The right-hand side of the aisle is

0:14.0

hardly setting anyone's pants or blaze and

0:17.0

almost feels like a movement that should come wrapped in a flat cap and a smoking jacket. Is this just the way things are?

0:23.8

And is it healthy for a functioning democracy to have a political discussion online, which is dominated by one side that is far more glitzy and

0:31.5

glamorous than the other? So today, expect to learn whether Olympic athletes should be figureheads for politics.

0:37.2

Why Darren still receives so much Brexit hate four years later, whether UK political commentator celebrity boxing could be a successful business,

0:45.4

the reason that young people aren't seduced by conservative politics and

0:50.1

much more.

0:51.2

No matter what your political inclination is, the goal should be to have a country and a world that is well-run and

0:58.4

everyone can agree or they should be able to

1:01.6

that that means that both sides need to be competing and working as well and effectively as they can. Like the left

1:07.6

probably could do with stopping from focusing on identity quite so much. That would probably mean that a lot more people would take their

1:15.2

proposals seriously and the right probably does need to get with the times a little bit more and try and update its talking points to be more interesting.

1:23.4

Maybe today there's some ideas that might help or maybe it's just two Northern lads talking about stuff they don't know.

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