EMQs: Tactical voting, Tradition, and Taylor Swift
Political Currency
Persephonica
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🗓️ 25 March 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The latest polling predicts Conservative armageddon in the next election. But do these polls matter? George reveals why the Tories are still banking on winning over those ‘don’t know’ voters.
They’ll have a mountain to climb, with growing fears of coordinated tactical voting. Will it work as a strategy, and have Ed and George ever dared to vote for another party?
And when Taylor Swift comes roaring into town, does she bring a massive economic boost with her? Our not-so-secret Swifties aren’t convinced…
Plus, they tackle the consequences of spending commitments for subsequent governments, and ask if tradition has any real importance in politics.
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| 0:00.0 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind, |
| 0:06.1 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. Well today we're mostly in oil and gas. |
| 0:16.0 | We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in |
| 0:26.0 | 2023. |
| 0:28.0 | B.com slash and not all. This episode is brought to you by G.S.K. |
| 0:35.0 | We're lucky to live in a time when many of us can access medicine when we become ill, |
| 0:38.5 | but even better than recovering from being unwell is not getting ill in the first place. |
| 0:43.2 | Yes, G.S.K believes that prevention is the best medicine and that's why they've built one of the |
| 0:48.2 | broadest vaccine portfolios in the world. |
| 0:50.6 | G.S.K. say that prevention to them means pioneering new medicines to reduce HIV transmission |
| 0:56.2 | or stopping chronic conditions from progressing to more serious complications. |
| 1:00.4 | That's because preventing disease is the best possible outcome for all of us and that's why G.S.K. |
| 1:05.6 | Unites science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. |
| 1:09.6 | Visit gsk.com to learn more. |
| 1:12.1 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer. |
| 1:14.3 | Getting a lesson from the Shadow Chancellor how to balance the books is like getting a |
| 1:18.1 | lesson from Dracula and how to look after a blood bank. |
| 1:20.5 | Ed balls. As steady as she goes budget. |
| 1:25.0 | What kind of ship does he think he's on the titanic? |
| 1:28.0 | They're married Celeste. |
| 1:30.0 | Welcome to EMQs from political currency. |
| 1:32.0 | With Ed balls and George Osby. |
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