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What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

BREAKING NEWS - Rats & Sinking Ships

What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

Audioboom

Politics, Comedy, News, News Commentary

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Plenty to mop up from the week. From devastating articles to even Pat Mcfadden not rowing in behind him, it's fair to say Starmer is close to being read his last rites. If that wasn't bad enough, Diane Abbott has been appearing on more TV shows than Bradley Walsh as she prepares to dance on his grave. In other news Reform have said we're not positive enough about Britain, but also that every school needs a portrait of the king. Hmmm. 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 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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And of course we had to get together to have a chat at the end of this week

1:15.6

where we have to further fallout from Kea Starma blundering in to a situation

1:22.5

and firing a civil servant who it turns out everybody loved.

1:26.4

I mean, listen, some of us remember

1:27.8

Olly Robbins from the Brexit years and he's got baggage there. But it certainly seems that

1:31.9

within the game, within the civil service game, he was loved. He was a made gay. Sir

1:37.7

Ollie Robbins, no less. And so that doesn't seem to have been that well fought through. And there's

1:43.5

been blowback throughout

1:44.5

the week there's been several articles one of them in the new statesman which we'll refer to later

1:49.7

in the show pretty damning headline and front page I mean the new statesman is basically like

1:54.6

the left wing spectator right so that can't be good for him we also had an interesting

1:59.4

p and queues and and I was on, you know, the Jeremy Vine

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