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Oh God, What Now?

Election 2024: Things Can Only Get Wetter

Oh God, What Now?

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Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Rishi Sunak has only gone and done it – a General Election will finally happen on July 4. Why now? In a super speed podcast put together in the aftermath of the rainiest Number 10 announcement on record, we discuss the new hottest date on the British political calendar. Plus we talk about the colossal scandals where justice has either been delayed or denied. And in the extra bit – it’s the end of Newsnight as we know it, what does the panel think to the BBC’s cost cutting? We’re on YouTube!: https://www.youtube.com/@ohgodwhatnow  Support us on Patreon to get early access to all our live tickets plus mugs, t-shirts and more.    Presented by Andrew Harrison with Hannah Fearn, Jonn Elledge and Yasmeen Serhan. Producer: Chris Jones. Audio production by: Robin Leeburn. Video production by Chris Jones. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. www.podmasters.co.uk   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Until 18-plus, T's and C's apply, exchange fees and fair usage limits supply. I'm just a prime minister standing in the rain asking a country that hates him to vote for him.

0:44.0

So here we are then.

0:46.0

1,217 days since Boris Johnson won an 80 seat Conservative majority,

0:51.0

or 18 days, if you're listening on a Friday, Ritchie Sunecks bowed to the inevitable

0:55.2

and called a general election for the 4th of July. Independence Day or irrelevant day if you prefer.

1:00.4

When we recorded Romaniacs the day after that election we said it will be a long hard road and it has been hard, the most

1:06.0

enraging, incompetent, self-serving and hateful period of government that I can remember and now we finally

1:11.9

get to tell them what we think of them. I'm Andrew Harrison

1:14.8

welcome to Oh God what now it is at last game on. An our IP is half a script

1:20.1

that I just had to junk right now but big thanks to the government for finally scheduling an announcement

1:25.2

in time for the podcast.

1:26.6

By the way, Hello to have audio came to our live show in Islington on Monday.

1:29.6

We said it was the last one before a general election and we were as good as our word and the

1:33.3

Zoom didn't fall over either so great success all round. Later on on the podcast we're

1:37.5

going to talk about the utter horror of the infected blood scandal and in the

1:40.7

extra bit for supporters what a great time to cancel news night this is.

1:44.0

But first, the election.

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