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Oh God, What Now?

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Politics, News, Government, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 17 December 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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SHORT SHARP SHROP: Christmas comes early as Johnson’s Tories are utterly humiliated in the North Shropshire by-election, with the ignominious loss of a 23,000-vote majority in a Tory heartland – and the biggest swing to the Lib Dems since 1993. What brought about this debacle: sleaze, scandal, Christmas parties, Johnson selling out farmers, Owen Paterson’s arrogance, or Johnson’s own repellent personality? And did Labour play it right by not campaigning too hard? Ros, Naomi and Dorian gather for a nice hot glass of mulled schadenfreude. “This shows there isn’t yet huge appetite for a Starmer government. What there is, is disgust at the Conservative government.” – Ros Taylor “Unlike Chesham and Amersham this wasn’t Remainers’ Revenge. This was very much a verdict on Johnson.” – Naomi Smith “The Paterson affair shows Johnson’s fatal flaw: hubris. This will be his downfall.” – Ros Taylor Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Naomi Smith and Ros Taylor. Assistant producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Audio production by Robin Leeburn. Theme music by Cornershop. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:09.6	Hello and welcome to an emergency festive shard and Freud edition of O God What Now.
1:14.3	I'm Tori Olitsky, I'm here with Nami Smith. Hello.
1:17.4	And Ros Taylor. Hi.
1:20.4	Let's start with the words of the new MP for North Shropshire Liberal Democrat Helen Morgan.
1:24.7	Since the people in North Shropshire spoken on behalf of the British people, they have said
1:27.8	loudly and clearly Boris Johnson the party is over.
1:32.4	Morgan turned a 23,000 to Tori majority into a 6,000 Lib Dem majority with a swing of
1:37.2	34%. It was the biggest Lib Dem by election win since Christchurch in 1993. Nami, you
1:44.7	called this, but even you thought it would be tighter than this. As did the betting market
1:48.9	apparently around 1am, the Tories were the favourites.
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