Complacency coma
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
NB: This episode was recorded on Wednesday May 4th 2022
It's Local Election Day, with some 4,350 seats being contested around the country as the rocket of right-thinking heads into orbit.
So which party will come out on top? And how might the result play out for our political leaders?
Liam believes that the Prime Minister has got the big calls right, and argues Boris Johnson will survive no matter the outcome of the local elections.
Co-pilot Pearson isn't as convinced, warning the PM could eventually pay the price for a lack of ‘human touch’ in decisions surrounding the ongoing cost of living crisis and for his zealous pursuit of the Net Zero agenda while energy bills skyrocket.
Allison also shares her take on the latest scandals engulfing Westminster. She doesn't buy into the idea that a widespread culture of sleaze exists, arguing that the majority of MPs are decent, hard working people.
Also entering the sanctuary of sweet reason this week is Tim Knox. Fresh from authoring the 2022 International Care Outcomes Index, Tim climbs aboard the rocket to reveal some harsh truths about exactly where our NHS sits in the international league tables. He tells our co-pilots that the Westminster village need to 'wake up' from their complacency coma and recognise that the NHS is failing, before more lives are lost.
And one listener’s unfortunate mishap with an internet search engine has our co-pilots entertained….
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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 | I do think there's a sense for better or worse, fair or unfair, |
| 0:14.0 | that Boris has got most of the bigger decisions right. |
| 0:18.0 | Or... |
| 0:19.0 | I don't buy this Westminster Sleeze Pit. |
| 0:23.0 | I think the majority of them are decent, hardworking men and women. |
| 0:27.0 | I agree. |
| 0:28.0 | The NHS is not working well enough, and it is not an academic exercise. |
| 0:33.0 | It's about tens of thousands of people dying unnecessarily every single year. |
| 0:39.0 | Sadly, I think it may take those people's deaths to shake us out of our complacent coma |
| 0:46.0 | about this health service, which is killing people. |
| 0:49.0 | We have been taught. |
| 0:56.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telugu-ov podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 1:00.0 | Hello. |
| 1:01.0 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
| 1:03.0 | It's the local elections, and today, Thursday is this 99th episode of Planet Normal's |
| 1:09.0 | released to orbit around our national consciousness. |
| 1:12.0 | Some 4,350 seats are being contested across 140 or so English councils. |
| 1:18.0 | With all of Scotland's 32 councils and all 22 councils in Wales also holding elections. |
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