Emergency Localscast! – What Labour’s walloping REALLY means – with Steve Richards

Oh God, What Now?

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News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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• Podmasters is 10 years old! Get an extra 10% off a year’s Patreon support – that’s 20% in total. Fast analysis with don of political commentators Steve Richards of Rock & Roll Politics talking to Andrew Harrison. Labour’s performance in the English Locals was terrible… but was it really as bad as Starmer feared? Does Farage’s bluster about “truly historic” results for Reform stand up to the data? Are the Greens becoming the party of “student England”? And the big one: Can Starmer hang on? • See Steve’s Rock & Roll Politics show live in London at King’s Place, Monday 11 May – last few tickets available! • Questions for But Your Emails? Thoughts? Comments? Email us at ogwn@podmasters.co.uk. www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow Presented by Andrew Harrison. Audio Production by Robin Leeburn. Art direction: James Parrett. Theme tune by Tom Taylor and Simon Williams. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. 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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0:00.0	Right, home from work, walk the dog, kids are back.
0:04.4	Mom!
0:05.0	Up the stairs for something.
0:07.8	Ugh, back down, no idea what I went up for.
0:12.0	Mom, what's for dinner?
0:13.6	Chop, sizzle, done.
0:17.1	Hello, fresh, can't slow life down, but it makes bringing everyone together around the table a whole lot easier.
0:23.4	So its phones down, forks up.
0:25.5	Hello Fresh. Bring back dinner time.
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1:19.1	Thank you. Hello and welcome to another one of our time-honoured emergency cast. It's been a while since we did them.
1:20.6	I'm not sure if I'm missing them.
1:21.6	I'm Andrew Harrison.
1:23.0	It is 10 a.m. on Friday the 8th of May, the day after the local elections in England, and the
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