Election Wipeout
Talk Breakfast
Ricky Freelove
4.3 • 763 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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On Talk Breakfast with Mark Dolan, he covered the biggest stories of the day, including local elections where Labour suffered a significant defeat and the rise of Reform UK, exploring what this means for Britain's future.
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| 0:00.0 | Can Nigel Farage save Britain? That is today's question to help me answer that. |
| 0:11.8 | He's one of my favourite comedians and broadcasters. He's a double threat. Looks charm and intelligence. It's Paul Cox. Good morning. |
| 0:18.2 | Good morning, Mark. How you doing? Great to see you. You know I'm sort of like very, very sort of flowery in my praise of you. Yes, I love it. Yeah, it's because I've had to, it's great for my ego. I meant, I don't mind. No, none of this is real. Okay, but if you, look, I don't mind either way. What you're witnessing this morning is like Michael Jackson towards the end. Because they put me down. So many jokes come to mind there. They have special stuff to get me to sleep. Special stuff to get me up. None of this is real. Listen, folks, we've got so much to get through. Paul, I want to ask you, I'm not saying reform will save Britain. I don't know. It's a question, not a statement. |
| 0:55.5 | Can Nigel Farage save the country? Well, we've got this situation at the moment where it's like |
| 1:00.1 | we're in the deep end, Great Britain metaphorically in the deep end of a swimming pool drowning. |
| 1:05.4 | And anybody who gets in to try and save Great Britain will eventually save them. And we don't have anyone at the moment. Kirstama's abandoned us. I mean, the Greens, what do they stand for? We'll get on to that in a bit. But of course Nigel Farage can save Britain. Absolutely. And I think the country has placed a bet on him yesterday. I know it's the local elections, but it's a clear indicator in the confidence of people got in Nigel Farage. So I think yes, why not? Well, I think the issue you've got is that we've tried Labour. We've tried the Tories. I was watching one of those rolling news channels yesterday and they spoke to some locals in the Red Wall and there was an old lady and she said you know i've given |
| 1:44.5 | labour my vote i've given the tour i've tried them all nothing's worked so give him a chance that seems |
| 1:49.4 | to be a resounding message and the other issue is that at every election poll every politician says |
| 1:55.3 | we are the change candidate i think what's proven to be the case is that they've not meant it we've |
| 2:00.3 | not had change |
| 2:00.9 | from Labour or the Tories. It has been the Unipati. You cannot say that Farage is not the change |
| 2:06.2 | candidate. No, he would be brand new, so that is a change. I guess the fear is, and we should |
| 2:11.4 | balance this out slightly, that if he doesn't follow through on his manifesto promises, I think |
| 2:15.5 | the only fear people have, particularly from the |
| 2:18.7 | writer politics, is Nigel Farage was steer too close to the centre, he'd align too much with |
| 2:24.5 | the blob, and I'm not saying he would. It's the fear, because in order to enact change, |
| 2:29.4 | he's going to have to make serious moves as soon as he gets in, Going to have to follow through on his promises. |
| 2:35.2 | Because if he doesn't, a version of the status quo that is slightly better is no good for anybody. |
| 2:40.9 | We are far too far gone. We need to make sure that we are essentially deleting the convention |
| 2:47.7 | and going no more. And people need to ride roughshod over the blob. |
| 2:52.4 | They need to ride roughshod over process. It doesn't, for me, I think the, I'll keep using the |
| 2:57.9 | word convention, because it's been in place, stood still for a hundred years. And we've |
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