Ballots, the BBC and Buying British
Political Currency
Persephonica
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Parliament may be heading into recess, but there’s little time for holidaying as the political parties are heading straight into local election campaigning after Easter. Ed Balls and George Osborne take stock of how those campaigns are shaping up, who and what to watch out for, and how the results might change the Westminster mood.
Is the BBC in danger again? And this time it’s from inside. After Tim Davie’s remarks this week, Ed and George take a deep dive on their own history with Auntie.
And as we approach the end of the financial year, what about the newest kid on the block, Jeremy Hunt’s great British ISA? George and Ed look back on the “Buy British” campaigns of old and why they simply don’t work.
Producer: Rosie Stopher
Technical Producer: Will Gibson Smith
Production support: Miriam Hall
Executive Producers: Dino Sofos and Ellie Clifford
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| 0:00.0 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like designing two hydrogen plants, |
| 0:06.2 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. |
| 0:13.0 | While today we're mostly in oil and gas we increased the proportion of our |
| 0:16.8 | global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other |
| 0:19.8 | transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023. |
| 0:26.4 | BP.com slash and not all. |
| 0:29.1 | This episode is brought to you by G.S.K. |
| 0:35.0 | We're lucky to live in a time when many of us can access medicine when we become ill, |
| 0:38.5 | but even better than recovering from being unwell is not getting ill in the first place. |
| 0:43.2 | Yes, G.S.K believes that prevention is the best medicine and that's why they've built one of the |
| 0:48.2 | broadest vaccine portfolios in the world. |
| 0:50.6 | G.S.K. say that prevention to them means pioneering new medicines to reduce HIV transmission |
| 0:56.2 | or stopping chronic conditions from progressing to more serious complications. |
| 1:00.4 | That's because preventing disease is the best possible outcome for all of us and that's why G.S.K. |
| 1:05.6 | Unites science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. |
| 1:09.6 | Visit gsk.com to learn more. So welcome back. We're here for our normal podcast, but we've just |
| 1:16.7 | been recording a very special edition inside the room, the Brexit Plots, which will be coming out next Thursday on our podcast feed after |
| 1:26.2 | Easter and we've been discussing at George and I with Michael Gove. We've had a very triggering couple of hours going through all the weeks up to the June 2016 vote. |
| 1:37.6 | Michael, it looks like you're sort of a bit quaking. |
| 1:40.0 | It's been tough. |
| 1:41.0 | Well, it was undoubtedly the most intense period of my time, our time in politics. |
| 1:48.9 | Do you mean the last two hours? |
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