By-elections EmergencyCast: Don’t Believe the Tripe

Oh God, What Now?

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🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The Tories clutch at a straw marked “ULEZ” but can’t hide the fact that they got an absolute hiding in three by-elections. What’s the truth behind the spin? Will Uxbridge tank Labour’s green policies? And who made a bigger fool of himself: Grant Shapps or Johnny Mercer? Jacob Jarvis is joined by Alex Andreou and the New Statesman’s Zoë Grunewald to read the runes of a big night in Somerton and Frome, Selby and Ainsty, and former Boris Johnson stronghold Uxbridge and South Ruislip. • “It was a spanking… The Tories’ narrow path to victory got a whole lot narrower and anyone who thinks others” – Alex Andreou • “The Conservatives are going to use this to paint Labour into a corner on ULEZ… Labour need to stand their ground and keep their cool.” – Zoë Grunewald • “Ever since their poll slide started the Conservatives have been looking for their new Brexit… .” – Alex Andreou Presented by Jacob Jarvis with Zoë Grunewald and Alex Andreou. Audio producer: Alex Rees. Producer: Chris Jones. Art: James Parrett. Theme music by Cornershop. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to a special Oh God what now emergency cast in the wake of the by by by elections.
0:13.2	I'm Jacob Jarvis and joining me for this special edition is a man who makes every edition special
0:18.4	it is Alex Andre. Hi Alex. Oh, what do you think to say and we also have I've had two hours
0:27.2	sleep but that energised me. Yeah well look you could you can't tell you've always got that
0:32.8	that aura coming all the way and we also have new statesman political reporter and famous fluffy cat
0:40.3	owner Zoe Grunovald. Hi Zoe, how are you? Hello, I'm very well thank you and so is Peaches.
0:45.4	Good. Good to know. Right let's set the scene first shall we. So in Selby and H.D.
0:51.9	Labour's Kiermaver won a historic victory with a majority of 4161. In Summerton and
0:58.3	Froome Liberal Democrats Sarah Dyke won with an 11,08 majority and in Uxbridge and South
1:04.8	Rice Slip Steve took well one as the Conservatives held their seat with a majority of 495
1:12.0	votes which is very convincing if you ask me. Now you two are here to deliver all of the political
1:19.2	nuance that we need and I'm sure you will bring it in abundance and I want you to when I let you
1:26.8	but to my mind can we set the record straight early on here. This is not a mixed set of results
1:34.9	for the Conservatives. Any way you look at it is a bad set of results for them. It's a
1:40.4	trouncing in one seat that's that a Lib Dem gain which we know is a party that appeals to
1:45.6	moderate Conservatives who want to ditch the bin fire and then clinging on to a seat because
1:50.5	they banged on about Ules which simply will not work in a general election in every seat there.
1:57.4	So I just think saying it's mixed simply because it's been mixed between three parties
2:02.4	is a very simplistic way. It's only mixed if you look at it as a as a snapshot there. So that's
2:08.6	I put my cod on the table there. That's my take on the whole thing. Alex, am I being gaslit by the
2:16.0	headlines here or am I correct that this was just bad bad bad bad bad bad for the Tories?
2:24.4	No I think I think it was a spanking actually. The only frame of comparison is that the Tories
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