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Not Another One

Richards Green Montgomerie Martin

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4.7 • 566 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Reform is expected to make sweeping gains in the local elections and to win the Runcorn by-election in a previously safe Labour seat. Will this signal a seismic and permanent change in the political landscape or are these elections a fleeting protest against the government and the Conservatives? Why is this happening and what will be the consequences? Plus, what Canada’s election results and the victory of Mark Carney mean.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Not Another One, the podcast with me, Steve Richards, Tim Montgomery, Miranda Green and Ian Martin.
0:17.3	Thank you very much for tuning in.
0:19.6	We've got potentially tons we could be reflecting on.
0:24.3	We could, we've been talking about this, reflect on the consequences of the dramatic outage in Spain and how many, where else?
0:33.2	Portugal and a bit of France. Bit of France. But the implications for us lot are that it would take a podcast
0:42.5	plus to explore whether net zero policies are responsible for that or not and there might be
0:48.6	fisticuffs as well and they will get violent and heated and but what we're going to do we haven't
0:53.7	actually ever devoted
0:55.8	there is profound disagreement on this issue around our panel we're going to devote a whole
1:02.2	podcast which we've never done actually it's come up and it could be the final podcast we ever do
1:08.2	yeah it's the issue on which we all get most riled by each other, isn't it? That's in Europe. I have to say, I'm quite zen about it at the moment. That's not the impression you've always given it. Can I just complain about it? Just on the subject of Europe, I was listening to your podcast the other night. Oh yes, rock and roll politics. Available on all outlets.
1:29.3	I listened to podcasts normally to help me get to sleep.
1:32.5	I was sat in my water to lay in my Waterloo Travel Lodge.
1:36.4	And as I listened, I got more and more irritated by some of the stuff you were saying.
1:40.6	So actually, it didn't help me get to sleep at all.
1:42.6	So you are completely right.
1:47.9	Environment and Europe are the two issues. Yeah think I remember as God as hugely encouraging but it is I mean at some point we do have to address this don't
1:54.0	I mean what's just happened in in Spain and Portugal and it's a whole other podcast
1:58.0	but it does surely challenge a lot of people's prior
2:02.4	assumptions. Does it not? He's drawing you in. I mean we well it depends what you mean by
2:07.5	that I mean let's let's also be clear we are living in a country which has run out of
2:14.5	conventional energy several times power cuts cuts, three day weeks.
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