Bothers in Arms – the national service fiasco

Oh God, What Now?

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Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Rishi Sunak says he’ll bring back national service for all you IDLE YOUTH in his latest raft of randomly selected policies. Will putting teenagers in the military turn it around for the Tories come July? Doubtful. Plus, international trade! As yet more Brexit turkeys come home to roost we welcome back global commerce megabrain Dmitry Grozoubinski – author of Why Politicians Lie About Trade... and What You Need to Know About It – to update us on matters of import. And export. Buy Why Politicians Lie About Trade: ... and What You Need to Know About It through our affiliate bookshop and you’ll help fund Oh God, What Now? by earning us a small commission for every sale. Bookshop.org’s fees help support independent bookshops too. Watch Matt Green’s debut comedy special That Guy on YouTube now. We’re on YouTube!: https://www.youtube.com/@ohgodwhatnow www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow Presented by Alex Andreou with Marie Le Conte and Matt Green plus guest Dmitry Grozoubinski . Producer: Chris Jones. Audio production by special guest Alex Rees. Video production by Keiron Leslie. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production podmasters.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Oh God what now the politics podcast that is itself
0:09.8	sadly too old to be conscripted but thinks a spell of national service would do the bunker a lot of good.
0:16.5	I'm Alex Andreo on today's show Rishi Sunak's big policy for the Jenny Leck
0:21.8	a spell of natiy Serbs. We dig through the rubble of what
0:26.0	was once an actual political party. And why do politicians lie about trade? We talk to Dimitri Grosubinsky about his new book and what the next government should be doing
0:37.6	about our relationship with the EU.
0:39.7	Plus we nominate our heroes and villains of the week.
0:43.0	Right, first up today, it's comedian and self-interview
0:47.0	Matt Green, whose first full comedy special is now on YouTube
0:51.0	and we have dropped a link to it in the show notes for you.
0:53.7	Hello Matt, hello.
0:55.7	Nigel Farage launched his campaign in Dover on Monday.
0:59.9	He has also challenged soon actually a TV debate and but he's published a letter saying
1:05.0	he's not running because he wants to focus on the US election so what is his
1:09.2	actual locus here I mean is he talking as a sort of wholly, full share owner of the limited company that owns the party?
1:21.0	I mean, what is his actual political status he's almost like an
1:24.5	emeritus leader now it's like he's kind of he used to be the leader
1:28.8	a meritus yeah it's kind of it's like the honorary president or something.
1:33.4	Like they wheel him out.
1:34.8	I think it's basically about getting him lots of coverage
1:36.6	and it is getting him a lot of coverage.
1:37.8	He's always on the front pages of the moment,
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