Electoral Dysfunction: How do you get politics and people to connect?
Electoral Dysfunction
Sky News
4.6 • 659 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2024
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
With polls suggesting trust in politicians is low, three political powerhouses unite to unravel the spin and explain what’s really going on in Westminster and beyond.
Every week, they will examine our political leaders and their policies – how they’re written, and how they’re sold to voters – as we prepare for a general election.
With so much at stake, they will work out which politicians are coming out on top and who is having an Electoral Dysfunction – and what it all actually means for you.
Starting on Friday March 1st 2024.
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| 0:00.0 | Trust in politics feels broken. |
| 0:06.0 | There's not a lot of love for politicians. |
| 0:08.0 | Our relationship with democracy is heading for divorce. |
| 0:13.0 | So can we work it out and get UK politics working again? |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Beth Rigby Sky's political editor and this is |
| 0:23.5 | electoral dysfunction. Every week I'll be joined by Labour's |
| 0:27.9 | Jess Phillips. We should just trust the public to |
| 0:30.8 | but I have to say I mean I'm not meant to slag off your people |
| 0:34.3 | Beth but I think that the media make it hard. |
| 0:38.2 | And conservative peer, Ruth Davidson. |
| 0:41.2 | This idea of nuance is completely left politics. |
| 0:43.3 | That it has to be black or white. |
| 0:45.3 | You have to either be a true believer or you're a traitor. |
| 0:47.5 | We'll cut through the guff, demolish the spin, |
| 0:50.8 | tell you how the sausage really gets made, |
| 0:53.2 | and focus on the policies that could deliver |
| 0:56.1 | political satisfaction. And I said, I want to half the incidences of violence against women and |
| 1:01.7 | girls. And he did that. And he didn't ask me for evidence. He just went, all right. Yeah, |
| 1:05.7 | and I was like, because he's terrified of you, Jay. Have you seen you when you're off on one? |
| 1:10.2 | This is electoral dysfunction. |
| 1:13.0 | She was on mastermind the other day. |
| 1:14.8 | She won, I believe. |
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