Welcome to Oh God Right Now, I'm Dorian Linsky. Today on the podcast commentators across

the political spectrum appear united for once. Britain is a poor country that should stop

pretending its rich. Are they correct and are we ready to accept their reduced circumstances?

Plus with Parliament out until September, we've noticed there are admirable people in

the political world after all. We'll discuss our personal heroes. And in the extra bit

for Patreon backers, we'll pick our personal best summers of all time. Remember, the

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or follow the link in the show notes. If you're already here, I'm waving at you. Let's

meet the panel. First up, Associate Editor of the New Statesman, Rachel Cunliffe back

from Switzerland. Hello, Rachel. How was it?

No, it was wonderful. I turned the news off for a week and I came back and nothing had

happened. Pretty much. No, nothing has happened. That's what we've really got very

left to talk about, except it's that Britain's declined to poverty. After weeks have stopped

the boat's posturing, Rishi Sunak has admitted that it is, in fact, a complex problem that

can't be solved overnight. You've written a column about that. Yeah. Was it perhaps unwise

to reduce a complex problem that can't be solved overnight to a three-word slogan?

I think they didn't realise quite how catchy the slogan would prove to be. So what

Rishi Sunak actually promised to do when he announced his five priorities in January was

to pass new legislation to help stop the boats. That got truncated to stop the boats. Actually,

he hasn't introduced the legislation. He has done what he said he was going to do, but

because it's a really catchy slogan, people are now like, but you haven't stopped the boats

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