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What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

BREAKING NEWS - Starmer U-turns & Jenrick Jumps Ship

What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

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Politics, Comedy, News, News Commentary

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In a busy news cycle I look at Labour's u-turn on digital ID and what possessed Starmer to make a sex-joke at PMQs. I also look at more January political transfer window activity as Bobby J joins with Nigel F. Then I talk about London murder rates and the right's increasing inability to recognise good news. 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-adp1252793JOIN 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

What must impulse?

0:04.1

Hello and welcome. The news is in a cycle the news is cycling

0:21.6

its little legs off how can you possibly keep up we've already this week had another U-turn

0:26.5

from labor on digital ID which led to a very fiery PMQs where keir-starmer told a sex joke

0:33.7

yeah he did that he used the word uh screwed knackett it we're going to, we're going to pick the bones out of all of that. I'm recording this on Thursday at midday. And I've just heard the news that Kemi Badernock has sacked Robert Jenrick because he was plotting, uh, to defect to reform. So I'm going to be reacting to that, uh, and real time. And, you know, look, we're going to be going to be going to be going to be stabs at the Labour government. We're going to talk about the Tories. We're also going to talk about the murder stats in London, which came out this week, which seemed to be positive. But there are some, there's some on the right that just they cannot how they feel about

1:12.0

London has got to the point where they can't accept potentially that something has got better

1:15.9

so we're going to try and get into the psychology of why that is um I am as well as the new

1:21.3

cycle being busy I'm busy as well I did um no one ever cares Jeff no one ever cares that you're

1:26.6

busy no one ever you're you think No one ever cares that you're busy.

1:31.2

No one ever, well, you think you're busy, especially the older bloke's lit.

1:32.0

You're busy.

1:34.5

It's what I had to walk both my dogs and get the daily mail.

1:39.9

But yeah, I did news quiz last week, then times, then I had to go to Cardiff. And I recorded a couple of episodes of Celebrity celebrity puzzling, hosted by Jeremy Vine.

1:45.5

I was on a team with Sally Lindsay, Carol Vorderman was the other captain.

1:49.6

And I've got to say, I had such a laugh on that show.

1:52.0

It was so relaxed and fun.

1:53.7

I've got no idea when it's going to go out.

1:56.3

The way that these quiz shows are recorded, but genuinely by the time this goes out, I mean,

2:01.7

I've got a house of ga, I recorded House of Games a while back, that all of these things

2:06.0

could go out, you know, we could have a new prime minister.

2:09.0

Nigel Farage could even be the prime minister by the time that all this stuff goes out.

2:14.4

But I had a really nice time on set.

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