Banging Your Head Against a Red Wall

Oh God, What Now?

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News, Society & Culture, Politics

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🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Why are we so obsessed with ‘The Red Wall’? What does it mean and are the Tories about to lose all of those seats in the North? Plus, new research shows the government’s levelling-up project has not worked… at all. Only 10% of the approved fund has been spent by councils. Why? And were the government’s missions ever achievable? • “The red wall are actually voters who should’ve been Tory for quite a long time.” – Marie Le Conte • “It was more of an F YOU to the whole system.” – Hannah Fearn • “It’s quite fun to have a lot of nutters.” – Marie Le Conte • “Rather than levelling-up, everybody is in a worse situation.” – Hannah Fearn We’re on YouTube!: https://www.youtube.com/@ohgodwhatnow And Andrew’s Introduction to Microdisney: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5xAQv7A4imZLX5pkBtuYk9?si=jFp0aVJGRAyahhjyAvDMIAπ=e-pUunf_m0QuaQ Andrew’s Escape Route: Microdisney — The Clock Comes Down The Stairs on iPlayer https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001x9fs/the-story-of-microdisney-the-clock-comes-down-the-stairs www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow Presented by Andrew Harrison with Yasmeen Serhan, Marie Le Conte and Hannah Fearn. Producer: Chris Jones. Audio production by: Robin Leeburn. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:57.0	Terms and eligibility criteria apply. Smart Me to customers only. Welcome to Oh God What Now, the politics podcast that's bouncing back like some crazy prime ministerial
1:13.7	Alan Partridge needless to say we're having the last laugh this time the
1:18.2	conservatives are rumored to be dusting off Boris Johnson to campaign in the
1:22.0	fabled Red Wall.
1:23.4	What could the simple common folk of Basset Law, Wakefield and Workington want to see more
1:27.6	than the guy who lied to the last time round and then ran away before he could be punished?
1:32.0	And why the tour is so fixated on the Redwall anyway?
1:34.6	Many of the most hotly contested seats are deep within solid Tory territory, so why are they
1:39.4	bothering to defend constituencies that actively hate them.
1:43.0	Plus in related matters, whatever happened to levelling up.
1:46.3	A new Public Accounts Committee report can't find any compelling examples of what the flagship
1:50.9	scheme has delivered and only 10% of the 10.5 billion
1:54.3	pound fund has actually been spent. So what was it all for? In the words of
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