Bored of Boris? – The Tory Party starts to lose patience

The Bunker

Podmasters

News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

4.6 • 984 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

As pandemic politics start to ebb away, Johnson’s ratings are down among the Tory faithful and his MPs are growing restive. Is this a time to pick a fight with Rishi Sunak? Plus, will Apple’s photo-scanning tech trap more than child abusers? Spain makes glorifying Franco a crime. And why do we let polls lead politics? Adam Payne, Westminster and Brexit reporter for PoliticsHome, is our guest. “We have a Government which is absolutely obsessed with public opinion, and a PM obsessed with being popular ” – Adam Payne “The problem with polls is that the people who don’t answer them in the first place.” – Yasmeen Serhan “Liz Truss has this incredible ability to block out grim reality and tell everyone it’s all fine.” – Justin Quirk https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast Presented by Andrew Harrison with Yasmeen Serhan and Justin Quirk. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Robin Leeburn. Produced by Andrew Harrison. The Bunker is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved
0:05.5	photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.
0:11.8	Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?
0:13.0	I loved going to college.
0:14.0	It's good you can retrain and do something.
0:16.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:17.0	Let's talk about working, learning, saving and making the most of living longer.
0:22.0	Phoenix Group is the UK's largest long-term savings and retirement business.
0:28.0	Search Phoenix Group living longer.
0:30.0	Pets brings so much joy.
0:32.0	From those happy greetings at the door to the warm cuddles on the sofa
0:36.7	so give a little love back with dental life from Purina a range of delicious chues made for dogs and tasty snacks for cats that help clean and support your pets, teeth and gums, essential for their overall well-being and a happy, healthy life. They give you plenty of smiles so
0:55.3	look after theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Hello and welcome to this week's panel edition of The Bunker with me Andrew Harrison.
1:11.2	On today's edition, this podcast couldn't stand Boris Johnson before it was cool.
1:15.6	Now are the Johnny Con Lately's of the Tory Party and its voters finally losing patience with their supposedly election-winning
1:22.0	cabbage patch kit.
1:23.0	Johnson's approval ratings are down, MPs are restive.
1:26.0	Is it the right time for Johnson to pick a fight with Rishi Sunak?
1:29.0	Plus, Apple's new plans to scan iPhone photo libraries for possible child pornography.
1:35.0	It sounds reasonable, but does it open the door to surveillance on other content,
1:38.5	maybe from repressive regimes?
1:40.5	And polls and surveys. Do we listen to them, A, too much, B not enough or C, don't know.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Podmasters, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Podmasters and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.