Can we ever trust a poll again? Was Jon Stewart correct? How hard is it to move out of parliament?

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2015

⏱️ 33 minutes

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David Aaronovitch sits in for Tim Montgomerie as the panel debate a wide range of topics. Fay SchlesingerJon Stewart, the American comedian, played it straight on his chat show last week. If Islamist terrorists had massacred nine people in a church, he said, the repercussions would be huge. Because Dylann Roof killed under the banner of home-grown racism, the country will do “jackshit”. The Charleston attack cannot be reduced to failed gun laws, or America as an outlier. Britain and Europe need to take heed.Daniel Finkelstein The idea that the mistakes of the pollsters require state sponsored regulation, as suggested in a new private members bill before Parliament is totally barmy. So is the thought that we should give up polling and just try and guessMelanie Phillips As the Palace of Westminster crumbles, on one side are MPs singing we shall not be moved, on the other, people wanting to hang constitutional change on the scaffolding. All they've got to do is move out for a few years and then move...

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1:07.0	Tim Montgomery is off doing something valuable for
1:10.0	voters and other people in Manchester at the moment and he's given his seat to me David Aronovich.
1:16.0	My guests in the podcast this week are Faye Schlesinger,
1:20.0	who's the home news editor here at the Times,
1:22.0	and my fellow
1:23.3	columnist Daniel Finkelstein and Melanie Phillips. John Stewart the
1:28.7	American comedian played it straight on his chat show last week. If Islamist terrorists had massacred nine people in a church
1:35.2	he said the repercussions would be huge. Because Dylan Ruth killed under the banner of
1:41.0	homegrown racism the country will do and I quote,
1:44.4	jackshit.
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