Introducing... Political Currency
Political Currency
Persephonica
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Political Currency! Before we bring you our first episode this Thursday, 14th September, we thought we'd tell you what our podcast is all about.
Ed Balls and George Osborne will take you behind closed doors into the rooms where decisions are made. Having battled it out across the despatch box, the former Chancellor and shadow chancellor are now meeting in the studio to discuss the decisions that affect the nation’s pockets. Our frenemies have the knowledge and experience to explain how good politics follows the economics - and expose how the powerful become powerless when faced with market forces and political currents they can’t control.
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| 0:00.0 | And the So we're off. This is Plutucoency with me Ed Balls and me George Osborne. |
| 0:20.0 | What do you think of the theme tune? First time you've heard it? |
| 0:22.0 | It's the first time I heard it. It's great Ed. Who's the drummer? |
| 0:24.5 | I think you know I am the drummer on that track. I'm also the keyboard player. |
| 0:30.0 | Look, Senna, our composer, plays mostly instruments. |
| 0:32.9 | He's the real genius, but you know, |
| 0:35.4 | quite proud of my contribution. |
| 0:37.0 | You are the Ringo star of this partnership, |
| 0:39.1 | and long may that continue. |
| 0:40.2 | I'm sure what that actually means, |
| 0:41.9 | but I'd like to see you play the piano. |
| 0:44.8 | You're never going to see me playing musical instrument. I've tried and failed at that several times in my life |
| 0:49.2 | but we are here to talk about something we both know quite a bit about which is economics and politics and how they interact. |
| 0:57.0 | You were Chancellor Dixcheker for six years until things went wrong after the defeat in the referendum in 2016, but before that you were very involved in Conservative Central Office and then with William Hague a very long period of time huge amount of experience in Treasury economics and particularly politics in Britain. |
| 1:16.3 | Yes and of course while I was Chancellor, you were the Shadow Chancellor and you were the toughest political opponent I had and before that you were in the |
| 1:24.1 | Labour cabinet and a big force in Gordon Brown's Treasury. So we bring those |
| 1:28.9 | experiences to bear and of course we were fierce political enemies. |
| 1:34.6 | Who'd have thought Ed 10 years ago |
| 1:36.7 | would be sitting like this opposite each other |
| 1:39.4 | and not taking chunks out of each other? |
| 1:41.4 | We used to have to take real lumps, |
| 1:43.5 | and the House of Commons sort of does that. |
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