BREAKING NEWS #39 - What Colour Is Reform's New Wall?

What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

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4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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I check in with you guys to discuss a huge result in the Runcorn by-election. Turns out punching the public can only be done by John Prescott. I also discuss the Tories drifting into obscurity and why people don't care about Labour enough to truly hate them. CATCH ME ON MY TOUR ‘Basic Bloke 2: There’s No Bloke Without Fire’. Book tickets here: https://www.livenation.co.uk/geoff-norcott-tickets-adp1252793 Watch my STAND-UP SPECIAL 'Basic Bloke' on ITVX: https://www.itv.com/watch/geoff-norcott:-basic-bloke/10a6363a0001B/10a6363a0001 Order the PAPERBACK EDITION of my book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/British-Bloke-Decoded-Everything-explained/dp/1800961308/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= JOIN the Podcast Patreon and receive each episode early, AD-FREE & with bonus content https://www.patreon.com/geoffnorcott?fan_landing=true Join my MAILING LIST for priority Tour booking & special offers https://signup.ymlp.com/xgyueuwbgmgb Watch my COMEDY SPECIAL on YouTube https://youtu.be/YaxhuZGtDLs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What must impulse?
0:04.1	Hello and welcome. It's just to to be done local election fever is in
0:22.6	the air i went to the shops and it was there was a low murmur of discussion about the world of
0:28.3	by-election in rung corn uh some surprising outcomes in cumbria look i'm going to presume that if you
0:34.4	listen to this podcast and if you listen to breaking News ones, you do care about these things.
0:38.6	But it was a genuinely interesting night.
0:41.0	I think the big news, I mean, obviously, Tories had a shocker, Labor.
0:44.7	I mean, I'm recording, I should probably timestamp this.
0:46.6	I'm recording this at half 10 on the Friday.
0:48.5	So that's actually quite early in the day.
0:50.6	But I do think we kind of know which way the wind's blowing. And the win is blowing the Tories out of orbit.
0:56.8	It's blowing sort of farts into Labour's face.
1:00.0	And it's blowing a nice breeze over the Reform Party who seem to be making gains.
1:04.8	And the Lib Dems.
1:06.2	And the Lib Dems.
1:07.3	But, you know, we don't discuss the Lib Dems.
1:09.5	That's the rule.
1:10.4	That's the rule. The one thing that came up with reform know, we don't discuss the Lib Dems. That's the rule. That's the rule.
1:11.0	The one thing that came up with reform is people still don't seem to know what color
1:15.9	their emblem is, because you know you want to say a blue wall, a red wall. What is the reform
1:21.6	thing, a turquoise wall? I thought it was purple, or was that UKIP? Turquoise just sounds
1:25.9	way too delicate, given, you know, reform reforms kind of macho brand of populism.
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