Daily: COME TOGETHER RIGHT NOW – Why we’re not as divided as we think

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Society & Culture, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 29 April 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Is Britain really the hopelessly split society that we fear? The good news is that as the Brexit rubble settles, our common ground is growing, and Britain is more up for serious political change than almost any other Western democracy. Tim Dixon, co-founder of pro-consensus pressure group More In Common and former advisor to Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard in Australia, talks to Ros Taylor about the weird online and offline dynamics that over-represent vocal extremes, and why Brexity nationalists agree with progressives more than you think. “We’ve lived off the capital of past generations in terms of the glue that holds society together. Now we need to reinvest in it.” “People’s identities as Remainer or Leaver is still a lot stronger than their identification with a political party.” “We tend to forget that most people don’t see the world through a political lens.” “If politics can come back into people’s lives, and be useful again, then it can be really transformative.” Presented by Ros Taylor. Produced Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:15.0	I'm delighted to see friends and I've talked them for hours if it didn't mean freezing my extremities off.
1:20.0	I'm longing for the chance to talk to people I don't know in real life about politics,
1:25.0	but I sense not everyone is in the same place and I despair a bit about our ability to get civic life going again.
1:32.0	How are we going to do politics after this pandemic?
1:35.0	With me to talk about that is Tim Dixon, co-founder of Maureen Common.
1:40.0	Hello Tim, welcome to the bunker.
1:42.0	Hi Ross, thanks very much.
1:43.0	Great to join.
1:44.0	Tell us a bit about what More in Common does.
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