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

Thank you very much for tuning in and as ever we have got a lot to cram in in our time together thank you again those of you who

came to the live show or tuned in on the live stream and uh some of, because we recorded it, a rare event.

I put on Twitter, it's like discovering an unseen Elvis Presley concert, which apparently is the

subject of a new film coming out very shortly.

So, anyway, one way or another, hopefully you got to hear of it and see as many of you as

possible at the next one on May the 11th, days after those elections, which are going to decide

quite a lot in British politics. Yeah, if it's okay with all of you, I want to reflect a bit on,

in some respects, the reaction to the various tumultuous events of recent days, Anasawa coming out,

Kyrsama being vulnerable enough to need the cabinet, each of them, to

publicly declare their support. Because wholly predictably, there have been a mountain of columns

and tweets and things saying, this means labor are moving to the soft left.

And then in brackets, this will be a disaster for the country, a disaster for the Labour Party.

You have people like, you know, the most beautiful, elegant writers like Jananne Ganesh, there is no support for this in the country.

Support for what, Jananne, and how do you know?

And Danny Finkelstein in this very polite way saying, look, you know, I kind of admire Ed Miliband for sticking with it, but of course it would be a disaster this move left.

And there have been many other examples of it.

And these are the kind of columnists that have a very big influence on the BBC.

And I just want to explore this a little bit in lots of different ways.

And before coming onto a brilliant email from

Tim Bale and others about their view of where we are now.

And the first is this. The columns and leaders, the Times predictably, you know,

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