I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush, Anoosh Chakelian and Ailbhe Rea discuss the government's introduction of 'bubbles' into the coronavirus messaging, and then, in You Ask Us, look at the different perspectives being offered in Britain's debate over its statues
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| 0:00.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
| 0:11.0 | So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
| 0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Welcome to the New Statesman podcast. I'm Anusha Kelly and I'm joined by my colleagues Stephen Bush and Alvaray to discuss the new support bubbles and you ask us. Can there be an overreaction of removing statues. |
| 0:45.6 | So there's been some further easing of England's lockdown restrictions announced, |
| 0:56.0 | which are aimed at reducing loneliness for people who have been living on their own throughout this lockdown. |
| 1:02.0 | So that basically comes in the form of something known as a |
| 1:05.2 | support bubble which is from Saturday in England people who are living alone can |
| 1:10.0 | form an exclusive support bubble with one other household. |
| 1:13.6 | And that second household can have as many people in it as you like. |
| 1:18.0 | So basically, you can't mash two households |
| 1:21.0 | of more than one people together, but you can have an individual added to one household of any number of people. |
| 1:28.0 | And that means that they can visit each other's houses and go inside and they don't have to stay two meters apart and they can stay overnight. |
| 1:34.0 | So the people who this most benefits are those who have been stuck on their own throughout this time, |
| 1:40.0 | but in terms of sort of partners who have been separate for this time unless one of them lives on their own then you'd still technically be breaking the rules if you went from your shared house to go and stay at your partner's shared house. |
| 1:52.0 | I think my favorite take on this was a tweet from Vicky Young, the BBC's chief political |
| 1:58.0 | correspondent who said yesterday, this quite a divide on Twitter between those who think the new guidelines are all about |
| 2:04.2 | grandparents and those who think it's all about sex. |
| 2:07.0 | Yeah, sorry, I completely looked at that through the latter thing. |
| 2:10.5 | I do have friends who have been deprived of sex throughout this lockdown who have been |
| 2:15.4 | analyzing this new rule very closely. Two of my friends who are single who live together have |
| 2:22.0 | come to the conclusion that they can choose one man to have around to the house that they can both have sex with. |
| 2:28.0 | But they have very different types, so they've been debating. |
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