Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me, Steve Richards.

Thank you very much for

tuning in. Busy time for all of us in the cooperative, whether on holiday at the Edinburgh

Festival or whatever you're doing. It's always busy for us at the cooperative. And yeah,

this is coming to you from Edinburgh. First couple of shows have been done. And they've been great.

So thank you, those of you from the cooperativeative, who've come along, and everyone else.

The everyone else won't hear me thanking them on this podcast because they are not part of the cooperative,

but many from the cooperative have already come along to the shows.

Really interesting predictions.

I'll fill you in with some of the predictions the audience make, as you know, in the live shows. Really interesting predictions. I'll fill you in with some of the predictions

the audience make, as you know, in the live shows. I always ask the audience to make a prediction.

They're nearly always wrong, whether in London, Cambridge, where they're all geniuses, of

course, you know, the great rope tackle in Shoreham or in Edinburgh. They're nearly always

wrong. Very interesting set of predictions, which I'll come to in a moment. But before I do,

I should say, for those of you who subscribe to the Patreon rock and roll politics, A, thank you,

keeps the show on the road with the legendary podmasters.

And B, if you subscribe, you get the podcast a day early, ad free, and loads of bonus podcasts.

And the bonus podcast for this month of August will be a recording of the opening show.

No expense spared. We got in, you know, the sound guise from Oasis,

who are here in Edinburgh at the moment, to make sure you got a good recording. So if you subscribe,

you'll get to hear the whole of the opening show, which is a kind of how do we get from where

we were at the Edinburgh Festival a year ago, weeks after Labour's

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