Cap In Hand

The Lesley Riddoch Podcast

Lesley Riddoch and Pat Joyce

Political Chat, News, Political Commentary, Scottish Politics, Politics, Scottish Independence, Uk Politics, Society & Culture

4.8 • 259 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Lesley reflects on Alex Salmond's memorial service in this week's episode. How was the service itself? Can it prove to be a significant moment in unifying the struggle for Scottish independence?
Wednesday saw the first Scottish Budget since the return of a UK Labour government. We give our first impressions on what it, and just as importantly ,what it didn't contain. We also examine Scottish Labour's response to the challenges the Budget laid down for them.
As Reform makes headway in recent Scottish and Welsh opinion polls and Nigel Farage is set to make his 38th appearance on Question Time Lesley says it's time to take off the gloves and oppose not appease the Right.
Amnesty International has issued a 296 page report claiming that Israel intended to commit genocide against the Palestinian people. Thus joining the UN and many other international bodies in this conclusion. It also stated that the international community had not only failed miserably to condemn this but through its delay in calling for a ceasefire and continuing to supply arms to Israel it was complicit in this atrocity. Meanwhile there was a record attendance at the Labour Friends of Israel lunch including Starmer, Reeves, Lammy and many other Cabinet members amongst the 100 Labour MPs. Starmer was a keynote speaker along with the far right Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely.
We also cast our eyes over the crises in Germany, France, and South Korea.

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0:00.0	The SMP certainly succeeded in surprising people by announcing the intention to scrap the two-child benefit cap, albeit not until 2026.
0:08.0	But is that enough to get them through the budget process and win support from the Greens and or the Lib Dems?
0:14.6	And actually, perhaps more importantly, to stave off the cynicism about small change politics that plays into the hands of reform, always on the rise,
0:25.2	and now of course with the likely backing to the tune of hundreds of millions of quid from Elon Musk in America.
0:31.5	It's a scary prospect we consider. We look also at Kerr Starrour and his newly announced six milestones. Will that be
0:38.9	enough to change the party's fortunes? And we look too at Alex Amund's memorial service that was
0:45.5	held last weekend, a restart point for the independence campaign. Those are the headlines. Now for the
0:51.6	podcast. Hi, John's and welcome to this week's Leslie's Reddick
0:57.9	podcast. And the thing you didn't hear before we started recording was I said that Leslie,
1:02.9	oh yeah, let's just see where we go with this, because we're surrounded with a plethora of data
1:09.5	and statements and counter statements because, yes,
1:13.1	we delayed Tuesday's podcasts to cover the Scottish budget, which Shona Robinson gave yesterday.
1:22.4	And my initial response, see where you go with it, I thought it was a very, very smart political
1:29.2	budget. So there you go. That's my first statement on it, a smart politically astute budget.
1:35.8	Well, I think that's probably fair enough, actually, because it's true that in all the
1:41.5	welter of detail, which really matters, but you have to sort of, you know, drill down and think about for a while, one thing shines out of that, which was abolishing the two child cap.
1:51.8	And, you know, again, it's hard to know, but, you know, for quite a lot of people, I mean, the phone in this morning, we're all dominated by that because it it's different it's visible it's one thing and
2:02.7	you can focus your attention on that you know and we've got the usual discussion about whether
2:07.0	it's liggers that end up you know being on benefit and happily an awful lot of people coming in
2:11.8	and saying nah it's children just just you know that that's to spend your your kind of criticism of anybody on benefits is children.
2:21.3	And so with the two child cap thing, I mean, also, Kier Starrmer's been on his feet this morning,
2:27.4	will doubtless get into this next, or at some point, with his reset, his new sort of plan for whatever it is.
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