Constituency Hopping
The New Statesman | UK politics and culture
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4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Anoosh Chakelian is joined by Ailbhe Rea and Patrick Maguire (and then, midway through, by late arrival Stephen Bush) to discuss the floods in the North, how the campaign is shaping up so far, and, in You Ask Us, whether coverage of Northern Ireland will improve with this election.
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| 0:20.0 | Hi everyone it's Anouche here. Westminster reimagined is back with season 4. |
| 0:24.1 | In this series co-hosted by the filmmaker and director Armando Iannucci, |
| 0:28.4 | we look at how politics has gone wrong and how it could work better. |
| 0:31.7 | If only there was some nearby trading block that we could somehow be part of. |
| 0:38.0 | We'll be taking you out of the studio to find out what young voters want. |
| 0:42.0 | Currently in Parliament it feels that we're going backwards. |
| 0:44.0 | They need to flip the status quo so that politics starts progressing. |
| 0:47.6 | Whether democracy is under threat. |
| 0:49.6 | Society needs to say we've had enough and we've got to start making demands. And we ask why don't |
| 0:54.4 | politicians care about happiness? All of politics has now been reduced to |
| 0:58.4 | you know a balance sheet. They don't understand that arts and culture really |
| 1:02.0 | are what defines people's happiness ultimately. |
| 1:04.1 | Join us each Monday to hear the latest episode of Westminster Reimagined on the new statesman |
| 1:08.7 | podcast or if you want to hear previous episodes you can find them all on their own feed. Just search Westminster |
| 1:14.5 | reimagined on your podcast app. If you're patriot you want your country to be |
| 1:18.5 | the best it can be, which means being honest about where things aren't working. Hi I'm Anouche and welcome to the New Statesman podcast. This week I'm |
| 1:40.5 | joined by Alva Ray and Patrick McGuire to discuss the floods to give our impressions of the campaign trail and you ask us, |
| 1:48.0 | what will Northern Ireland change in this election? election. |
| 2:04.1 | this week. We're going to discuss floods first of all because more rainfall as at the time that we're recording more rainfall as expected in the places that have |
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