Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me, Steve Richards.

Thank you for tuning in at the end of, well, what a week.

This is what we have got to make sense of the last few days. And there will be in this,

plenty of context from me, some brilliant emails from some members of the Rock and Roll Politics

Cooperative. And before all of that, if it's okay with all of you,

just a few notices.

First of all, thank you all those who came to

Rock and Roll Politics live at King's Place last Monday night.

As those of you who were there

or who watched it on the stream,

it was quite a night because it was one of those evenings,

and I love them, where politics is moving fast or appears to be, and things were happening

during the evening. And the audience helped out by keeping us informed of the number of letters

from MPs, calling for Kirstearma to resign,

went up and we tried to make sense of it and what might follow. And we also did a lot of other

things as well, because if you step back from the immediate drama, there is this huge battle over the idea of change. Reform

claim to represent change, but do they? Does Farage? The most consequential figure, we are told,

of British politics in this century? Well, if he's had such consequential agency,

he is a reason for the mess that we are in, not change, but who in the government can own

change. So we looked at Farage and lots of other things. And if you subscribe to Patreon,

you will get a recording of that live show with an introduction from me to contextualize it,

because obviously it was live on Monday night. But you will get it at some point. It kind of goes

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