Caught in the doom loop
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Another week, another dose of economic woe to digest on the rocket. Honorary Planet Normal citizen Nick Timothy is back to give his take on what the Labour Party have dubbed ‘the crisis made in Downing Street’.
Nick thinks the Government rushed into their budget, and that the Truss camp have been slow to switch gears from campaigning to governing. Liam thinks the Chancellor and PM might be stuck in a 'doom loop,' in part thanks to the political tactlessness of their mini-Budget.
Also strapping into the rocket of right thinking is former Chancellor Lord Norman Lamont, who warns economic growth cannot be achieved without stability and urges the Government to 'reset' to show it is serious about fiscal discipline. Lord Lamont also calls for changes to the Tory leadership rules, and says ousting Truss now would be ‘farcical’.
And one listener shares their review of co-pilot Halligan's grooming tips…
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:02.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:03.0 | ...podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Five. |
| 0:10.0 | It strikes me that the government is caught in a bit of a doom loop at the moment. |
| 0:14.0 | Four. |
| 0:15.0 | It's not really a plan, and they rushed right into it, and then they created this school hole. |
| 0:21.0 | Three. |
| 0:22.0 | There was a certain amount of political tacklessness about that mini budget. |
| 0:28.0 | We need to calm down, get our house in order, and shoot at the world that we are a stable country and a rational country. |
| 0:37.0 | One. |
| 0:41.0 | We have let it go. |
| 0:43.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telugu-ov podcast with Mealium Halligan, an ordinarily Alison Pearson, |
| 0:49.0 | but Alison still and I well earned Fortnite's break. |
| 0:52.0 | She's getting set for the Planet Normal live event on Wednesday October 19th, |
| 0:57.0 | to which you're invited more on that later. |
| 1:00.0 | But for this week I'm delighted to welcome back someone who's fast becoming an honorary citizen of Planet Normal, |
| 1:06.0 | Telegraph Columnist, Nick Timothy. |
| 1:08.0 | Nick, it's great to have you with us once again. |
| 1:10.0 | Gosh, I am honored. Thank you. It's lovely to be back. |
| 1:13.0 | Now, as I said last week, Nick doesn't only write in the Telegraph each Monday. |
| 1:16.0 | He was also once joint Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Theresa May. |
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