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Where Politics Meets History

Blairites for Tom Watson!

Where Politics Meets History

Global

Politics, History, News

4.5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2019

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Iain and Jacqui look into their crystal balls and try (and fail) to work out how Theresa May will get her Brexit deal through Parliament. They ponder on solutions to the knife crime epidemic and look at the continuing rows over antisemitism and Islamophobia in the two main political parties. They discuss the Michael Jackson documentary and whether Sajid Javid is any way to blame for the death of Shamima Begun’s baby. The Will Self/Mark Francis stare-out gets a mention and Iain puts Jacqui on the spot about her new job in political lobbying. Smut Quotient: It takes a while, but they get there in the end…

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another for the many podcast.

0:12.4

I've got Sky News on and I see a beautifully quaffired Sequehira talking to Sophie Ridge.

0:18.8

I wonder how many hours he spends on his hair every morning.

0:22.5

More than you. That is a possibly not, but almost certainly more than you. And that is just a

0:28.8

bold man bitterness coming out of you, Ian Dale, this morning. Yeah. Yeah. I don't mind

0:37.4

to looking at all.

0:38.8

He probably spends about as long on his hair as he spends on trying to work out what Labour's

0:43.1

position on Brexit is that day.

0:45.7

Cutting political satire there.

0:48.3

You should have come out with that on CNN on Thursday, where you made your debut, a glorious

0:52.6

debut, if I may say.

0:54.4

Thank you. I enjoyed it. It's broadcasting to the world. I know. It's a good program, isn't

1:00.7

that? Actually, I really enjoyed it. We had a good old discussion. Because it was half an hour,

1:06.7

it's long enough to get into a bit more detail, not just me and you, butnie greer and hannah a brilliant presenter as well and um no i i enjoyed it and as i've previously only ever watched it whilst i was in the gym in the hyatt of mown jordan i hope that across the world people are enjoying it well i suppose we ought to explain it's called cnn CNN Talk, and it's a program that's on at noon every day. Though for the next three weeks, it's on at 11 a.m. every day, because the Americans change their time today, bizarrely. So I've got to get up earlier. So I do it Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, normally with Aisha Hazareka and Liamalligan, but on Thursday it's with other people and you were one of the other people. So I hope they book you again soon. Have they been in touch? They haven't, no, but thank you for being kind. Oh dear. They did say nice things at the time, but that might just have been a load of blag. No, they are going to be in touch because they've told me.

2:01.2

Oh, right.

1:58.0

Right, let's just quickly run through. We have a lot to talk about today, so it's not going to be a short podcast, but let's face it, when is it? We're going to talk about knife crime, and we're going to talk about Brexit, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Tom Watson Shamima Begum

1:59.0

the two are not linked

2:00.0

Amber Rudd

2:01.0

Karen Bradley

2:02.0

Andrea Ledson Semitism, Islamophobia, Tom Watson, Sharmima Begum, the two are not linked.

2:18.6

Amber Rudd, Karen Bradley, Andrea Ledson, wonder what they've got in common.

2:23.5

You've got a new job, we might mention that.

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