Do things have to get worse?
Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards
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4.7 • 909 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In Keir Starmer’s first major speech as Prime Minister he argues things will get worse before they will get better… Is this the right message and approach? Why are incoming Labour governments so much more cautious than their Conservative equivalents?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me, Steve Richards, and of course, all of you in the rock and roll politics the podcast with me steve richards and of course all of you in the |
| 0:23.7 | rock and roll politics cooperative and i must start as i did last week by saying how great it's |
| 0:29.4 | been at the edinburgh festival meeting so many people who are involved with the rock and roll politics |
| 0:37.2 | podcast one way or another who have |
| 0:39.7 | emailed and they come up and say yeah yeah do you remember i'm the psychiatrist from leeds or |
| 0:48.4 | the north barrack cycling correspondent mark i thought of course yeah yeah well you yeah, yeah, well, you know, it's just, |
| 0:55.8 | it's just been one of the great thrills of the Edinburgh Festival, seeing so many of you. |
| 1:02.1 | And now the Edinburgh Festival is over 14 shows, each of them different. |
| 1:07.8 | And there is, I used to run along saying, you know, if you come to all 14, you will |
| 1:13.5 | understand politics, you'll be all knowing about the state of the political landscape, not only here, |
| 1:18.9 | but in the United States and stuff. It was kind of joke, a rather weak joke. But actually, |
| 1:25.6 | between you and me, I was at all 14. And I kind of do feel, I kind of know a bit more |
| 1:32.9 | about the state of politics, not from my reflections, because I kind of knew them already, |
| 1:39.3 | but the dialogue, you know, with the audience, it was different each day and the mix of who was there |
| 1:45.0 | from Scotland, who was there from the rest of the UK, who was there from outside the UK. It was |
| 1:50.1 | brilliant on the day we did the US election. We had people from the US, some of whom were close to the |
| 1:56.1 | Biden-Harris administration. And yeah, there were many, many twists and turns. |
| 2:01.9 | Anyway, for those of you who came, thank you so much. |
| 2:05.2 | And the next one of those, I'm just on my way back, stopping in near Barnard Castle, |
| 2:10.7 | looking out for Dominic Cummings. |
| 2:12.4 | So that joke is so crude and easy to make and old. |
| 2:23.6 | On route back down. So it's over for another year. And the next one will be live at King's Place in London on October the 7th. And tickets for that will be in the |
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