Could Starmer's ordinariness be his greatest asset?
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
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🗓️ 5 January 2024
⏱️ 143 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Two minutes after ten years of time, Boris Johnson there, congratulating Nick Ferrari on holding the powerful to account. |
| 0:06.9 | I mean, who wouldn't shed a tear, honestly, in those circumstances? |
| 0:11.9 | We stay with politics this morning and we turn our attention first to the man, I think, likely to be the next Prime Minister. |
| 0:18.5 | We can probably all agree about that. |
| 0:20.0 | And I think a rather, |
| 0:21.9 | a sort of grim sense that this looming general election is going to be pretty hideous. And |
| 0:30.1 | the weirdest thing about it is that I think Rishi Sunak would quite like to fight an election |
| 0:36.3 | on Kyr Starmer's terms. I think two technocrats setting out |
| 0:42.1 | relatively detailed and of course as election day approaches or as manifestos are published, |
| 0:49.6 | the detail becomes clearer and more important. But two relative technocrats, I think Rishi Sunaq, despite |
| 0:57.4 | having turned out to be rather bad at politics, can still be fairly described as a technocrat, |
| 1:03.5 | setting out the, almost the equations, the algebra of politics with which they intend to change the country. That's a good word, |
| 1:12.3 | isn't it? The algebra of politics. You know, it's like a sort of battle of formulae. I will do this |
| 1:19.4 | and he will do the opposite, if you like, of populism, which of course Kirstama criticized yesterday. |
| 1:25.7 | The precise opposite of populism, which is just either a |
| 1:31.7 | promise to be terrible to some people you've been persuaded to be frightened of or persuaded not |
| 1:36.2 | to like, or it is sort of apple pie tomorrow and mythical bonuses around the corner. Vote for |
| 1:43.4 | me, well, like Brexit. |
| 1:44.6 | Brexit would be the essence of populism, wouldn't it, |
| 1:46.7 | in 21st century British politics. |
| 1:49.0 | Millions and millions of people persuaded to vote for more money, |
| 1:52.5 | to vote for a lower cost of living, |
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