A.B.B: Anyone But Boris
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
The by-election results are in, and the predictions of Planet Normal's very own clairvoyant co-pilot 'Mystic Pearson' proved to be eerily accurate.
Allison warns the results show many Conservative supporters are so dissatisfied that they will vote 'A.B.B: Anyone But Boris'.
Our co-pilots blame the Prime Minister's broken promises, likening his Government to a Deliveroo driver turning up empty-handed but still telling you they've delivered.
Liam believes Boris Johnson's party are now just keeping him around as a 'human sponge' to absorb the pain of the impending recession.
Also hopping aboard the capsule of common sense this week is financial expert Justin Urquhart Stewart who delivers some dire economic predictions. He tells our co-pilots that rising inflation won't go away any time soon, and that it could have serious consequences for investment in the UK.
And George makes a triumphant return to the rocket…
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| 0:00.0 | The telegraph. |
| 0:03.0 | Podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Five. |
| 0:10.0 | Boris is running a mock with the nation's credit card, |
| 0:14.0 | like a drunk and uncle at a wedding. |
| 0:16.0 | Four. |
| 0:17.0 | Isn't it luckily in that the UK so flush at the moment |
| 0:20.0 | that no people here who need a helping hand with their fuel bills? |
| 0:24.0 | There's no public debt at all. There's no call on our resources. |
| 0:27.0 | The government has no task to achieve in Britain. |
| 0:31.0 | It's a different sort of inflation from what we saw in the 70s, |
| 0:35.0 | but it'll have just as much damage. |
| 0:37.0 | This delivery government every day, we hear Boris or some luckless minister saying |
| 0:43.0 | that we will deliver on our priorities. |
| 0:45.0 | Let's get on with the job delivering what delivery. |
| 0:49.0 | We have the job. |
| 0:53.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, |
| 0:57.0 | the telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 0:59.0 | Hello. |
| 1:00.0 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
| 1:01.0 | So the Tories lost and lost big co-pilot |
| 1:04.0 | with the Red Wall seat of Wakefield reverting to Labour. |
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