Abortion rights & ending hunger with Aisling Bea

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News, News Commentary, Government

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🗓️ 9 May 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

“A hung Parliament” - it’s not quite admitting defeat, but the new media lines from Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party suggest that even the Government knows its days are numbered. Nish and Coco unpack Sunak’s shock admission and some of the highlights from the local elections.

Comedian, actor and activist (and old colleague of Nish) Aisling Bea drops in to talk about campaigning against food insecurity. The “Essentials Guarantee” campaign championed by the Trussell Trust asks that political parties prioritise all citizens having basic essentials as part of their election manifestos.

Aisling also talks about the fight for abortion rights in her homeland of Ireland, while Coco reminds us that the abortion laws in England, Scotland and Wales are incredibly archaic. Abortion buffer zones, 150m no-protest areas around clinics have just hit their one-year anniversary of receiving royal ascent for England & Wales, however, the Home Office has yet to roll out the change to the law - leaving protestors free to approach women outside.

Finally, the gang mix together a metaphorical soufflé of villains, stirring in a healthy dose of uncapped banker bonuses, adding a dash of Susan Hall, and a pinch of the Labour Party’s surprise new MP.

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Guest:

Aisling Bea

Audio credits:

BBC

The Guardian

GB News

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Essentials Guarantee Campaign - Trussell Trust

Could there really be a hung parliament at the next UK general election? - The Guardian

Anti-abortion activists ramping up protests outside clinics after failure to introduce buffer zones - The Independent

Goldman Sachs’s UK gender pay gap widest in six years - Financial Times

On abortion culture wars, Britain takes a different path - Politico

What a sad little life Jane - Come Dine With Me

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Transcript

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0:16.4	Hi, this is Pod Safety UK UK I'm Nishkavan and I'm Coco Khan This week the good news keeps rolling in from the local elections and we're joined by
0:20.5	comedian Ashling B to talk about how activism can make breakthroughs.
0:24.8	Hi Niss, how was your long weekend?
0:28.8	I worked through the whole thing.
0:30.8	Yeah. No long weekends for the self-employed. No. How was your long weekend?
0:34.7	Mine was actually good. I took some time off. I watched all, well I had a bit of a cold, my third
0:40.9	cold of the year. I like to get to about 10 annually 10 cold
0:45.2	10 cold can't that's what they call me they call her 10 cold can yeah and then I just
0:49.4	sort of melt away because I'm constantly sickly and ill. You just need to blow
0:54.7	London underground air at me. That's my kryptonite. That's how I get sick.
0:59.2	Anyway, so I stayed at home and had quite a chill one and watched every single equalizer film.
1:04.8	Can I shock you? I've never seen a single equalizer film.
1:07.7	Which is surprising only if you know that I'm very pro-Dendile Washington.
1:11.3	Okay. And I'm also very pro, deeply stupid action cinema.
1:14.1	Oh well deeply stupid it is and then I would tell you about the equalizer is it gets
1:18.4	worse every time. It's very much a diminishing returns series.
1:23.0	Yeah.
1:24.0	In the latest one though, Denzel Washington is a pensioner who goes on a
1:28.0	killing rampage in Italy and takes on the mafia.
1:31.0	She just don't see that really. It's kind of great for representation
1:35.6	I suppose. So last week's election results across England and Wales gave us a whole
1:39.9	bunch of good news stories. We've already done a bonus episode covering the
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