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TALKING POLITICS

Another Shock!

TALKING POLITICS

Catherine Carr

News, News & Politics

4.72.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

We reconvene on little sleep to pick over the bones of another extraordinary election. Where did it go wrong for Mrs May? How did Labour win back UKIP supporters? How will anyone meet the expectations of all the young people who came out to vote? We recorded shortly before the Conservatives announced their intention to govern with 'friends in the DUP'. We ask how long any arrangement can last. With Helen Thompson, Finbarr Livesey and Glen Rangwala.

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0:00.0

Hello, my name is David Ronsman and this is Talking Politics.

0:07.0

Here we are again, again, sitting around this table after Helen No Sleep, Vimba No Sleep,

0:20.0

Glenn Huffler, me No Sleep.

0:25.6

The catch phrase for this podcast when we started was Corbin Exclamation Mark, Brexit Exclamation

0:31.6

Mark, Trump Exclamation Mark.

0:33.6

I was thinking recently we should update that and it turns out we don't need to update

0:37.1

that.

0:38.1

Corbin Brexit Trump, that's our world.

0:39.6

So we're going to try and make sense of this.

0:41.5

I partly tried to sleep and couldn't sleep because I was thinking of all the things that

0:44.6

I've said in the last two years or written that now look a bit foolish about the Labour

0:49.1

Party, including the one I think I'm most ashamed of in which I wrote that the Labour Party

0:53.3

was suffering death by enthusiasm, which doesn't look right now.

0:57.1

Glenn, that's nodding at me.

0:58.6

Well, Glenn, I think the Five Year Fixed Unpornment Act is still important.

1:02.6

I agree.

1:03.6

Something, I think, we were collectively wrong about, but this is not, doesn't need a massive

1:07.1

sort of self-fledged relation because it looks like everyone missed this or almost everyone

1:11.6

missed this.

1:12.6

So we did a podcast maybe a month ago about UKIP, we call the meaning of UKIP.

1:16.9

And I said on that, and I think it was a general view, that it looks like one of UKIP's

1:21.0

roles was to turn Labour voters into Tory voters.

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