Britain Votes For Basic Competence
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🗓️ 5 July 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
The UK has danced with democracy - here's Andy and Mark Steel with their take on a momentous day.
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Written and presented by:
- Andy Zaltzman
- Mark Steel
And produced by Chris Skinner and Laura Turner.
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| 0:00.0 | The Bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello, bugle! The Bugel, audio newspaper for a visual world. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello Buglers and welcome to issue 4,310 of the Bugel audio newspaper for a visual world. |
| 0:21.0 | I am Andy's ultimate and this is a post-U.K election, |
| 0:24.7 | snap bugle. It is Friday the 5th of June. Our election was yesterday. The |
| 0:30.7 | results came in from the 10 PM exit poll through to the final |
| 0:36.0 | concession at 1 minute to 5 AM and we already have a new prime minister such as the quick way that we do shit around here, |
| 0:44.8 | when, on the very rare occasions we put our mind to doing things efficiently. |
| 0:49.2 | Joining me to discuss it is, well, a veteran of many elections the man who really should have been |
| 0:57.0 | by rights should have been prime minister for most of the last 25 to 30 years |
| 1:00.8 | and Mark Steele. Welcome, Mark. |
| 1:05.0 | Hello. |
| 1:06.0 | So let's start with the bald facts. |
| 1:08.4 | The Labour Party having lost the last four elections. |
| 1:13.2 | I've slightly lost count, |
| 1:14.4 | because they've been cut on the... |
| 1:16.4 | Stormed to victory with 412 out of 650 seats, |
| 1:21.2 | and failed miserably with 33.7% of the overall votes. |
| 1:27.0 | Explain that to our listeners. |
| 1:30.0 | Well, I think the first thing, and I think we have to be very measured about this and we have |
| 1:33.4 | be very considered about it and I think that's one of the things that we get older we're able to do that |
| 1:38.0 | is to just accept that probably the main issue before anything else is that on balance |
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