Chaos in the Commons
Political Currency
Persephonica
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Chaos reigns supreme in Parliament this week after a tabled Labour amendment led to calls for Speaker of the House Lindsay Hoyle to resign. Is it really as big a deal as has been made out? Or is it a huge mess for the Speaker to overcome?
Why isn’t the economy front and centre in this election year? It is on Political Currency! This week Ed Balls and George Osborne focus on housing policy. Will election battles be won on the greenbelt?
And on Cameron-watch George’s mate David has been at the G20 summit, via the Falklands - the first UK politician to visit the islands since 2016. Does the foreign secretary have political motivation, or - as George suspects - is it just a bit of good old-fashioned political tourism to a place that holds curiosity for centrist dads everywhere?
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| 0:00.0 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind, |
| 0:06.1 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. Well today we're mostly in oil and gas. |
| 0:16.0 | We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in |
| 0:26.0 | 2023. |
| 0:28.0 | B.com slash and not all. This episode is brought to you by G.S.K. |
| 0:35.0 | We're lucky to live in a time when many of us can access medicine when we become ill, |
| 0:38.5 | but even better than recovering from being unwell is not getting ill in the first place. |
| 0:43.2 | Yes, G.S.K believes that prevention is the best medicine and that's why they've built one of the |
| 0:48.2 | broadest vaccine portfolios in the world. |
| 0:50.6 | G.S.K. say that prevention to them means pioneering new medicines to reduce HIV transmission |
| 0:56.2 | or stopping chronic conditions from progressing to more serious complications. |
| 1:00.4 | That's because preventing disease is the best possible outcome for all of us and that's why G.S.K. |
| 1:05.8 | Unites science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. |
| 1:09.6 | Visit gsk.com to learn more. This is political currency with Edballs and George Osborne. Osbourne. |
| 1:40.0 | So we're here. Did you have a busy week? |
| 1:42.0 | Is it just all sleepless nights and banking meetings? |
| 1:46.4 | Well, there's of course looking after the various babies takes up a lot of time, but I did get out with my mother to go to the theater on Tuesday night. |
| 1:53.6 | So a very, very good play called Enn and Litt Theatre at home with all the kids. |
| 1:57.4 | She was very accommodating allowing me to do that. |
| 1:59.6 | And when my mom see this play, it was called Enemy of the People with Matt Smith, you know the Doctor Who, |
| 2:04.6 | Prince Philip in the crown. It's an old play, an absent play from the 19th century, but it's very contemporary. It's all about a man who |
| 2:10.7 | warns that a water supply of a town is poisoned and then the town turns against him. |
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