BREAKING NEWS - Starmer Thinks He's Unbroken Britain

What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

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4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In this week's breaking news I'm trying to work out how Keir 'Britain is Broken' Starmer can pivot to an 'everything's fine' narrative.. I also look at the phenomenon of English flags appearing and ask what the progressive can really say in response. Then it's a good old rant about Lewis Goodall's idea that we should have 100% inheritance tax.

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0:43.2	Hello and welcome to this breaking news edition of what most people think and I am.
0:44.7	Yes, still at the fringe.
0:46.7	I'm still at the fringe, still in the same travelodge.
0:50.2	And I think, I just think out of respect, I've been trying to get something out of travelodge.
0:52.4	How about you retire this room?
0:53.5	You retire it.
1:11.3	You know, like with football, when a certain player retires, room 226 should be the Jeff Norcock Memorial Suite. I am sort of like, you know that series of Alan Partridge where they sort of know him by name. Good morning, Mr. Norcoe. Morning, morning. Use your seat by the window. Absolutely. Have you got your big plate? Yes, I have. Now, if you are new,
1:44.6	because I know there have been some adverts running for this show, this is what most people think. This is a show that tries to come at the big political and topical issues. You know, listen, I'm coming from a centre-right position, but we have guests on from all across the political spectrum. So if you're one of those people, a genuine liberal that likes to get broad-minded content from both sides, this is a good show for you. But what happens is we do the main show early in the week and then most weeks, at the back end of the week, I do a breaking news show just to sort of mop up some of the stuff that's occurred during the week. And this week, Keir Stahmer, he went back on the fire. So Farad just been doing is Britain is broken.
1:51.3	Britain is broken. Lawless Britain. Scandal Britain. Rip off, all of, almost like all of them are like Channel 5 shows, right? So he's been doing that all summer. And there's been quite a lot of
1:56.9	success in that messaging getting through. So Starmes sort of realised this and he's gone on the fight back against Farage saying
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