4.6 • 851 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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0:00.0 | The current putative frontrunner at this point, or at least the people that like the press have knighted as their sort of sensible |
0:20.8 | moderate who's going to save them from either electoral irrelevance or scary policies, is now |
0:27.4 | West Streeting, a man. Wesley Streeting, a man whose literal only experience other than just |
0:33.9 | climbing the greasy pole of the fucking Labor Party is being in charge |
0:38.2 | of the National Union of Students. |
0:40.6 | Yeah, he's purely a creature |
0:42.2 | of student politics, |
0:43.3 | which is fantastic. |
0:44.2 | It's exactly what we need. |
0:45.2 | I think what I think no one ever understood |
0:47.7 | who's sort of trotted out |
0:49.0 | that student politics thing |
0:50.3 | is that student politics |
0:51.6 | is only ever about, |
0:57.0 | or at least a great, all the people who are like get big in student politics. What I think is all the people who get big in student politics, |
1:02.9 | these are the people who are just imitating what the adults are doing, which I think is why West |
1:07.9 | reading seems like such a haunted doll and so uncanny. |
1:15.6 | Do you kids want to be like the real Labour Party or do you just want to squabble and waste time? I mean, it's also like student politics during a period of time. |
1:20.2 | I mean, I'm trying to like, I was sort of tangentially involved in student politics in my final year in a very, very minor role. |
1:27.8 | And look where you ended up. |
1:29.3 | Hey, you're talking to the former student vice president of Langside College until that college |
1:35.2 | went bankrupt and merged with another three. |
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