Blue Dawn
The New Statesman | UK politics and culture
The New Statesman
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush and Anoosh Chakelian arrive with a combined six hours of sleep to deliver you immediate analysis of the 2019 General Election result. How well did the Tories actually do? What went wrong for Labour? And are the Lib Dems doomed forever?
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| 0:00.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
| 0:11.0 | So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
| 0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. |
| 0:20.0 | Hi everyone it's Anouche here. Westminster reimagined is back with season 4. |
| 0:24.1 | In this series co-hosted by the filmmaker and director Armando Iannucci, |
| 0:28.4 | we look at how politics has gone wrong and how it could work better. |
| 0:31.7 | If only there was some nearby trading block that we could somehow be part of. |
| 0:38.0 | We'll be taking you out of the studio to find out what young voters want. |
| 0:42.0 | Currently in Parliament it feels that we're going backwards. |
| 0:44.0 | They need to flip the status quo so that politics starts progressing. |
| 0:47.6 | Whether democracy is under threat. |
| 0:49.6 | Society needs to say we've had enough and we've got to start making demands. And we ask why don't |
| 0:54.4 | politicians care about happiness? All of politics has now been reduced to |
| 0:58.4 | you know a balance sheet. They don't understand that arts and culture really |
| 1:02.0 | are what defines people's happiness ultimately. |
| 1:04.1 | Join us each Monday to hear the latest episode of Westminster Reimagined on the new statesman |
| 1:08.7 | podcast or if you want to hear previous episodes you can find them all on their own feed. Just search Westminster |
| 1:14.5 | reimagined on your podcast app. If you're patriot you want your country to be |
| 1:18.5 | the best it can be, which means being honest about where things aren't working. Hello I'm Stephen and I'm Anush. On this week's cheerful new states from |
| 1:40.5 | podcast we discuss whether the Conservatives will actually be able to |
| 1:44.1 | enact their manifesto, what happened to the Liberal Democrats, and why was |
| 1:48.4 | Labour defeated so catastrophically. So here we are. How much sleep if we have between us do you think? |
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