Can Starmer connect with “the left behind”?
Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards
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4.7 • 909 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Increasing numbers of voters feel disconnected from what happens in Westminster, Washington D.C, and most places where democratic politics is played out, leaving space for populists to feed off the angry indifference. Can the likes of Keir Starmer address the ‘people’s revolt’? Plus brilliant questions from the Rock & Roll Politics co-operative and important assembly notices.
Rock & Roll Politics is live at Kings Place on November 27th for the last show of 2024, the year of Trump, Starmer and Badenoch. So there’s a lot to make sense of. Tickets here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics with me Steve Richards. Thank you for tuning in wherever you are. |
| 0:23.4 | And thank you all those who came to a packed live show |
| 0:27.3 | at the legendary rope tackle art center in Shoreham, |
| 0:31.5 | the day after we got the presidential result Wednesday. |
| 0:36.1 | And the great owner of the rope tackle, Anne, she came into |
| 0:40.2 | my dressing room or green room or whatever you call it. And she always provides copious wine and |
| 0:46.7 | says, Steve, the moodist funereal out there. But anyway, it was a great evening. We didn't just |
| 0:53.8 | do the United States, although inevitably |
| 0:55.9 | we did a lot of that. And then we explored the extraordinary kind of weird state of play domestically. |
| 1:03.5 | So thank you all those for attending. There is only one live show left in this epic year of |
| 1:09.9 | 24. And it's at King's Place on November the 27th. |
| 1:13.4 | Tickets on the King's Place website. Please do come along because we'll be making sense of this year |
| 1:19.5 | of elections, a new Labour government elected first time in 14 years with that landslide. |
| 1:27.1 | And yet things feel wobbly in some respects, not all, |
| 1:32.1 | but in some respects. |
| 1:33.7 | The Trump election, the German government falling. |
| 1:37.5 | And of course, we're going to have to look ahead with our unreliable predictions for what is to come. |
| 1:43.4 | So we'll have some fun as well, it being the, I call it the festive special the last one of the year. |
| 1:50.0 | It's still in November, but it will be fun, November 27th. |
| 1:54.0 | And yeah, like with Anne at the rope tackle, a few glasses of wine to keep us going. |
| 1:59.0 | So the mood won't be funereal, but we need to delve deep. |
| 2:02.2 | As we do in this podcast, so this is what we're going to do if it's okay with all of you. |
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