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Oh God, What Now?

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Politics, Government, News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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It turns out that all you need to fix your tax problems is the PM’s mobile number! We look at Britain’s sprawling corruption problem and whether the Government even wants to control it. Plus, after the Super League fiasco, can politicians really tell private companies what to do – even if they’re football teams? And the Allegra Stratton Press Conference Room lasts about as long as, er, the Super League. Our special guest Pippa Crerar, political editor of the Mirror, explains what it all means. “Johnson hates apologising. He sees it as a sign of weakness that his opponents will hold against him forevermore.” – Pippa Crerar “The COVID sceptic pub landlord thing sent me into an all-caps Brian Blessed rage for a moment.” – Alex Andreou “If this Government feels like they can get away with something then they’re going to go ahead with it regardless.” – Pippa Crerar Presented by Ros Taylor with Alex Andreou and Ian Dunt. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Audio production by Alex Rees. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to O God What Now, Official Sparsers of the April 2021 Super League.
0:18.4	Hello and welcome to O God What Now, I'm Ros Taylor. This week we'll be asking whether
0:23.8	anyone can get tax law fixed for them in a pandemic or whether you need to be a
0:27.4	extra-exeter with a line of super powerful vacuum cleaners and a direct line to Boris Johnson's
0:32.0	mobile. And while I don't know a lot about football, luckily I know some people who do, so
0:37.7	we'll be talking to them about the European not so super league and its tragic half-life.
0:42.9	But first let's welcome Ian Dunn's Editorate large of politics.co.uk. Hi Ian. Hello.
0:49.2	At Boris Johnson Council, a visit to India this week and put the country on their red list.
0:53.5	Have they acted in time to stop the new variant? No, no they have not. I mean sort of concern
0:58.6	recently. I've been looking at the story and just feeling like I've noticed that I have
1:02.3	started just thinking about it exclusively in terms of the UK and in fact that isn't
1:06.2	morally like the right place to start. The morally the right place to start is what's
1:11.1	happening in India is kind of almost incomprehensible at the moment. Like the last few days they've
1:16.2	had a quarter of a million new cases a day. We know or at least it seems extremely likely that
1:24.0	the death rates that they're talking about are not correct. They're not really giving us decent
1:29.3	numbers on the death rate. They're likely to be much much much higher than the government has
1:34.1	suggested. The spike is vertical and the healthcare system in many areas seems to be on the verge
1:42.0	of collapse. In some places the crematoriums are basically just working day and night. It is
1:47.8	unbelievably fucking horrific. It is also like this kind of perfect place for the really scary kind
1:56.7	of variant because you've got a lot of infections so there's a lot of opportunity for mutation
2:01.7	and you've got the beginning of the vaccine rollout. So there's now immunity and I'm probably
2:06.1	sort of natural immunity as well from the first wave. So there's that sort of you've got the
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