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TRASHFUTURE

Against Calculator Santa feat. James Meadway

TRASHFUTURE

TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.7935 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

It’s a bit of a smart episode (a dangerous idea). Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), and Nate (@inthesedeserts) speak with economist and returning guest James Meadway (@meadwaj) about the logic of socialist government in Britain versus the logic of Blairite neoliberalism. Did you know there’s a Cornish fishing village trying to crowdfund getting a GP? Did you know that Phillip Hammond denies that people in Britain live in poverty? We discuss all of this and more. If you like this show, sign up to the Patreon and get a second free episode each week! You’ll also get access to our Discord server, where good opinions abound. https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture *LIVE SHOW ALERT* On June 15, we’ll perform at Wolfson College Bar (Wolfson College, Cambridge CB3 9BB) in Cambridge. The show starts at 8:30 pm, so be there and be ready to hear about Gundams. Tickets are £8 for students and £10 for general admission: https://www.tickettext.co.uk/trashfuture-podcast/trashfuture-live-in-cambridge-15062019/ *COMEDY KLAXON*: Come to Milo’s regular comedy night on June 13 at The Sekforde (34 Sekforde Street London EC1R 0HA), This show also starts at 8 pm and features Milo himself and Ben Pope, with previews of their Edinburgh shows. Tickets are £5—sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/edinburgh-previews-ben-pope-and-milo-edwards-tickets-63000380835 If you want to buy one of our recent special-edition phone-cops shirt, shoot us an email at trashfuturepodcast[at]gmail[dot]com and we can post it to you. (£20 for non-patrons, £15 for patrons) Do you want a mug to hold your soup? Perhaps you want one with the Trashfuture logo, which is available here: https://teespring.com/what-if-phone-cops#pid=659&cid=102968&sid=front

Transcript

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0:00.0

Before we get into the main content of this week's program, the Trash Future Rationality Correspondent

0:07.1

has actually come back into the studio again for the second week running and wants to share

0:13.7

some of his thoughts.

0:15.1

The chattering classes of this once great nation are once again up in arms, posting all over

0:20.0

the well-known website,

0:21.1

Twitter.com, about the new big thing. No, not the latest pop starlet to be seen out in public,

0:26.2

not the peculiar shape of my head, not even the latest goings on on ITV's Island of Love. No,

0:31.7

I speak of course, of the visit of Donald Trump. Now, I'm no fan of Donald Trump. I disagree with many of his views, but I also,

0:38.6

as a Democrat and a liberal, believe we ought to give him a fair hearing, unlike mad animal

0:42.4

farm socialist Jeremy Corbyn. But members of the loony hard left, such as many liberal Democrat voters,

0:48.0

have been decrying his visit to the UK, saying that we shouldn't be rolling out the red

0:51.3

carpet for the US president, simply for the trifling reason that he has abhorrent views and policies which we oppose.

0:57.0

They are also incensed that he called the mayor of London's Sadiq Khan a loser, but have

1:00.8

they asked themselves, what if he is a loser? Wouldn't the president of the US probably be able

1:05.1

to tell? Wouldn't the father of Eric Trump know one when he saw one. In many ways, as for usual, the real loser here is freedom of speech.

1:12.9

If we do not allow Donald Trump, the US president, a platform in the UK to express his views,

1:17.2

is that not in itself the kind of fascism the left supposedly oppose?

1:20.8

Should we not seek to give a voice to the voiceless?

1:23.3

People claim...

1:24.6

It always happens at least once. People claim... It always happens at least once.

1:31.2

People claim that Trump can't be allowed a state visit because his regime locked

1:34.5

children in cages.

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