He was everyone's equal
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Mark Francois and Andrew Rosindell pay tribute to their fellow Conservative MP and much-loved friend, Sir David Amess, following his tragic death. But should MPs' security be ramped up? Mr Francois tells our podcast co-hosts, Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan why overly zealous measures risk "letting the bad guys win", while Mr Rosindell asks why his friend never held ministerial office.
Also on the podcast: with COP26 on the horizon, cold showers are in and they get an even colder response from Ms Pearson. The irony of holding a climate change summit held amid a global energy crisis isn’t lost on our co-pilot as Allison declares the Prime Minister’s latest energy plans an act of virtue signalling, while Liam encourages a smarter approach to renewable energy.
And there’s a revelatory update from our NHS insider, George in the light of the recent spike in Covid infections.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:02.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:03.0 | ...podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Five. |
| 0:10.0 | Is this just some monumental act of virtue signalling by our Prime Minister who wants to go down in history as the jolly green giant, bringing a kind of cleaner world? |
| 0:21.0 | The idea that the NHS is on its knees because of this virus and we need to lock down again because of the NHS... |
| 0:31.0 | ...it just doesn't pass muster. |
| 0:33.0 | I did like the Treasury's language where they said that there might be material fiscal consequences. |
| 0:40.0 | Are we really as MPs going to have some heavy spaghetti coming out of the area accompanying us as we go down the bread island, Sainsbury? |
| 0:59.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telugu off podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 1:03.0 | Hello. |
| 1:04.0 | And me Liam Halligan. This time next week the global greats and good will be mustering in Glasgow for the COP26 climate change summit. |
| 1:14.0 | How ironic that during the build up to this overhyped GAB Fest much of the Western world has been locked in an energy crisis. |
| 1:22.0 | That's why amid spiraling oil and especially gas prices were about to witness the rather awkward spectacle of the Davos set... |
| 1:31.0 | ...signing the rest of us up to punishing decarbonisation targets while literally begging the OPEC exporters cartel and the Russians to send us ever more fossil fuels... |
| 1:41.0 | ...less star winter energy bills spiral out of control. |
| 1:45.0 | Back in June 2019 Theresa May made a unilateral and legally binding commitment. |
| 1:51.0 | The UK could reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050 without any real idea of how that would be achieved or paid for. |
| 2:00.0 | A Treasury view of the costs of this immense undertaking has been delayed for months but the commitment clearly involves an absolutely huge social and economic shift... |
| 2:10.0 | ...with a version of change most heavily, shoulder by ordinary people. |
| 2:14.0 | Green is good said Boris Johnson this week but mainstream politicians are now waking up to the fact that the Prime Minister's COP26 agenda involving lots of expensive electric cars will cost a pretty penny. |
| 2:28.0 | An Alison is quote, shopped and stunned, unquote, that the much-wanted heat pumps that will all be having to fit ripping out and scrapping millions of perfectly good gas boilers in the process may produce bath water that's merely tepid. |
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