48: Starved of election fever

The Thought Police

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🗓️ 12 December 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

It's polling day - at last - and Mike and Matt are sick of the whole affair. On today's episode they try and predict the future without knowing what's going to happen, they bash politicians who won't give you a straight answer and they debate whether Brexit will happen. They also tangent into areas including celebrity endorsements of political campaigns, the costs of going through a divorce, trustworthiness among politicians, must-watch TV shows and facilities on trains. It's a big day. It's a Thought Police day.

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0:00.0	The The Oh, Welcome back to another exciting edition of the Thought Police. It's me Mike Graham and it's
0:52.0	him Matt Kelly, the publisher of the thought police it's me Mike Graham and it's him Matt Kelly
0:53.0	publisher of the new European it is election day we haven't done a
0:57.6	podcast on election day surprisingly enough because we've only been doing it for
1:00.4	this year but of course what's is the third election in what four years I know that
1:05.9	we've had then we've had a referendum board don't they would you be surprised if not a
1:09.5	lot of people bother voting I wouldn't I wouldn't be surprised and I think that would who would that benefit that would
1:16.1	benefit the Tories wouldn't it well I don't know really I mean I keep hearing
1:19.4	different things with different people if the weather's bad it doesn't benefit the Tories because
1:23.6	older people tend not to go out in bad weather but then older people tend to do
1:26.6	postal votes. I mean I've spoke to people this week who have already done their
1:30.1	postal votes a couple of weeks ago. I spoke to one guy whose mother wanted to
1:34.2	make sure that she booked her holiday to fly back in time to make a postal vote
1:37.4	before she actually, you know, did anything else. And then we've got these people
1:42.1	who tell you, well, loads of young people have registered, so therefore that's going to be good for labor.
1:46.5	But in fact, I spoke to you guy the other day, you said, you know, it doesn't make any difference.
1:49.5	Young people don't bother voting most of the time.
1:51.5	Yeah, I think that's true. I think they can't bother getting out of bed.
1:53.4	And it's, you know, the people that we see who are this kind of, you know, dedicated
1:57.6	collection of activists are very, very small. You know, the people that you and I sort of interact
2:02.4	with on a daily basis are a very tiny
2:06.2	tiny minority of what goes on.
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