43: A fact-finding mission

The Thought Police

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🗓️ 26 November 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

There are three weeks to go until the election and it's reaching... who knows what conclusion? Mike Graham and Matt Kelly try to make sense of it all in their usual blockbusting manner while also discussing what makes successful journalism and why the Daily Mail's controversial political position was brilliant if not always favourable thanks to their highly skilled yet polarising former editor...

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0:00.0	The The Oh, Welcome to yet another sparkling edition of the Thought Police, it's me Mike Graham and it's
0:51.7	him Matt Kelly hello
0:52.8	uh... very warm welcome to you Matt once again
0:55.4	uh... we find ourselves having to talk about the election yes because it's
0:58.7	only three weeks away now it's incredible oh actually uh... i suppose you might, I suppose it still is two and a half weeks.
1:04.6	It's not even three weeks, but still I'm sick of it, aren't you?
1:08.2	Well, I think the whole nation is thoroughly border politics in general, you know,
1:12.2	and that is, you know, this is the. thoroughly border politics in general. Yeah.
1:13.0	You know, this is the most important election in, you know, so many decades.
1:19.0	And yeah, the feeling I'm getting is that no one's got the energy to really engage with it.
1:23.6	No and also I think everything is beginning to for me sort of conspire against a big turnout
1:30.8	you know you're gonna have the bad bad weather yeah you're going to have
1:33.6	the disinterest yeah you're going to have an awful lot of places where people
1:37.8	wanted to vote particular way but can't yeah because either there's no Brexit
1:41.1	party candidate or there's no Brexit party candidate or there's no
1:45.2	live damn you know what I mean I think it's the most confusing
1:47.4	yeah election for the electorate yeah and I mean I think professor John Curtis
1:52.0	got it right when he said basically the only way to break this down is to say a vote for the the Tories and Boris Johnson is a vote to leave the European Union.
2:01.0	Everything else isn't.
2:03.0	Yeah.
2:04.0	Well, I mean, I wish it was that simple because I'd love to know what a vote for Boris Johnson
2:08.1	meant in terms of how we leave the European Union.
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