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The Thought Police

46: The Massive Election Preview

The Thought Police

The Thought Police

Soccer, Sports, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.5861 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Mike and Matt return with a look at what might happen next week as the people prepare to head to the polls to decide the next Prime Minister. They discuss the shoddy state of politics in the UK and why there are so few decent candidates to vote for, while Matt  shares the details of working on an ultimately doomed project which the pair speculate could offer a hint to the future for the latest entrant into the world of sports journalism. It's the Thought Police!

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0:00.0

The The Oh, So here we are again. This is the Thought Police, Matt Kelly, Mike Graham. A week to go,

0:52.2

one week. We'll have a new government.

0:54.0

I know, it's amazing, it's crept up, isn't it?

0:56.0

It sort of has.

0:57.0

I'm quite relieved actually because now that there's only, you know, seven days left,

1:00.0

if you like, you can sort of see this end inside. I told you I did that thing the other

1:04.8

week is this the angriest election of all time yeah with UK and changing Europe

1:09.4

and the end result was not really because people have had this kind of idea that it's all going to end.

1:14.6

But the trouble is, the closer we get to it now, people are starting to say things like, well,

1:18.8

it's bound to be another hung parliament.

1:20.3

I don't know what I'll do.

1:21.9

I seriously, I mean, if it's's another hung pole I'll sell a few more

1:24.4

copies of the new European you'll have to launch it as a daily

1:27.7

weren't you? I mean you know instead of doing it once a week they do that they do that in Scotland with the National which was a paper that similarly kind of launched for people who wanted to get out.

1:38.0

You do it every day. I mean, they'll be quicker off just handing that out to people and then circulation is so low.

1:43.2

Actually I heard they were doing all right so... Well I think it's produced on a shoestring.

1:48.3

Yeah, everything is. And so is asked. I think yeah but I don't think the circulation is much above about 20 odd

1:54.2

thousand isn't it no I don't think so we've had extraordinary success on our

1:57.9

you've done pretty well have you oh what you mean recently two million people yeah a month yeah which is good and it's going up and up right and we've got a tiny little

2:07.2

team but they're doing a brilliant job so there's clearly an appetite for it still.

2:10.8

Oh I think there is sense that it feels like it's

2:12.8

well I had some fun last weekend with some guys from something like

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