Covid Response in the UK and the Consequences of Devolution
Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards
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4.7 • 909 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2020
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the weekly podcast with me, Steve Richards. |
| 0:15.6 | This is just a short podcast this week to trail the show happening live streamed via the King's Place website on Monday at |
| 0:26.3 | 7 o'clock. So much is going on. I've got to kind of save my thoughts for that and hopefully |
| 0:32.2 | your questions too during that show. It was going to be live at King's Place as well. |
| 0:38.7 | I think I completely misjudged the nature of the lockdown in London |
| 0:42.3 | and decided to do it as I used to do during the full lockdown from my boudoir streaming there. |
| 0:50.3 | So those of you who bought tickets for the hall, I'm really sorry. |
| 0:53.0 | I thought at first it was going to be kind of almost that scale of lockdown. So those of you who bought tickets for the hall, I'm really sorry. I thought at first it was |
| 0:54.6 | going to be kind of almost that scale of lockdown. So it shows my judgments all over the place. |
| 1:00.2 | But it does mean it's going to be live and streamed at 7 o'clock from my boudoir on Monday. |
| 1:06.9 | And if you buy a ticket and busy on the Monday evening, it's available for several days to come, |
| 1:12.9 | and there will be as much scope for questions as in a live hall, indeed more scope for |
| 1:19.2 | questions, that you can put them on, make the points and so on. And there will be so much to discuss. |
| 1:25.6 | I mean, it's an extraordinary period in British politics. COVID is highlighting |
| 1:32.7 | in a way that nothing else has done the degree to which the structures of power in the UK have |
| 1:40.5 | changed so speedily. It's so easy to forget that before 1997 and the election of that |
| 1:47.6 | new Labour government, there were no mayors. There was no London elected authority of any sort. Thatcher |
| 1:55.6 | abolished all of those in the 1980s. There was no Welsh Assembly, no Northern Ireland Assembly, no Scottish Parliament. |
| 2:03.5 | And now in COVID, it shows that power or influence and voices are spread around the UK and that |
| 2:15.2 | you can have a number 10 of control freaks in this case bewildered incompetent |
| 2:22.7 | control freaks the shallow revolutionaries around Boris Johnson and yet there are voices around |
| 2:30.4 | the country resisting and that wasn't the case in the 1980s. Margaret Thatcher had more formidable |
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