91. Ed Miliband on thinking big, regrets, the climate emergency, and what Labour stands for
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🗓️ 31 May 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Ed Miliband regrets not being bolder when he was Labour leader, and his new book - 'GO BIG: How To Fix Our World' - is bursting with ideas, like universal basic income, citizens assemblies, a housing revolution, a Green New Deal, and why struggle from below pays off. We talk about how a world wracked with crisis needs courageous and bold ideas - and I ask why Labour is failing to dismally to offer an inspiring alternative.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the podcast. Today, Edmila Band, of course, the previous Labour leader, |
| 0:13.6 | he is now in the Shadow Cabinet but Edmila Band 2.0 is quite fascinating because he regrets |
| 0:18.6 | not being bold when he is leader. Now he is bursting with ideas, his new book Go Big |
| 0:26.0 | is full of the sorts of ambitious ideas that he thinks a government should be doing right |
| 0:32.8 | now. But interesting, does that really fit with what the current Labour leadership is |
| 0:39.5 | doing? So I talk about his ideas, about his political regrets and yeah, his Labour offering |
| 0:45.2 | or radical alternative. It's a very interesting conversation. Ed is a great guy and I think |
| 0:51.8 | one of the nicest guys ever met in politics and that shines through this interview. Do support |
| 0:56.6 | the podcast. You keep the show on the road with patreon.com. For us on Joe's 84, you help |
| 1:01.0 | to side what we talk about, our documentaries and so on. Do subscribe to the podcast even, |
| 1:07.8 | give us five stars if you feel so enamoured with it. And with that, please listen to me and Ed. |
| 1:15.3 | I am very honoured to have Edmila Band with me. I mean, I'm not really honoured. You're not really. |
| 1:19.9 | I am hugely honoured. Ed, don't get your snarky little digs in the outset. I won't allow it. |
| 1:27.3 | It's great to have you. I'm not going to bother introducing you because if people don't know who |
| 1:30.2 | you are, it's just a bit odd. We are going to talk about your actually very, very good book. |
| 1:37.1 | Everyone should read this book. It is actually. It is. It's a great book. It's called Go Big, |
| 1:44.1 | how to fix the world. For regular viewers who are confused about this setup, what actually |
| 1:48.2 | currently in Somerset in a hotel room, 26 minutes before we're supposed to be kicked out. So |
| 1:55.0 | that's that ticking time. Did they might give you a bit of extra time? I think we've explained |
| 2:00.3 | to them that we're interviewing you. So that might get you to earlier though. We'll see how that |
| 2:07.8 | one fans out. I don't know. I haven't asked their opinions. I haven't asked the receptionist |
| 2:14.2 | desks opinions on you. Why not? Well, I will on the way out. No, no, no. Okay. Don't. |
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