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Where Politics Meets History

Jacqui Goes a Wassailing

Where Politics Meets History

Global

History, News, Politics

4.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Iain & Jacqui discuss ‘s***hole’ countries and Trump cancelling his London visit, Iain explains why he blindfolds himself on cross channel ferries, Jacqui explains her love of wassailing and they wonder what lay behind Nigel Farage’s rather surprising call for a second EU referendum. And Iain reveals the date of his own death. Really.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So, Ian, have you had a better week than Theresa May, do you think, this week?

0:08.7

She hasn't had the best weeks, and I suppose it finished better than it started, but that

0:13.4

was, I suppose, inevitable, because it was a terrible, terrible Monday for her, wasn't it?

0:20.2

We were talking, weren't we, last week, about the reshuffle and saying, oh, well, probably

0:25.1

people wouldn't really notice it.

0:26.5

And I made the foolish statement that, I suppose the only thing you could say about it was,

0:31.3

at least she was now in a strong enough position to carry out a reshuffle.

0:36.6

Well, foolish me, because actually, of course,

0:38.7

what the reshuffle proved was that she wasn't actually strong enough to carry out a proper

0:43.1

reshuffle, because not only had she already left the three most senior ministers in place,

0:49.6

but then when she tried to move people, they obviously stuck their heels in and refused to go.

0:53.9

So she had Jeremy Hunt waiting in a corridor for hours, which seems appropriate, given the

0:58.3

current stage of the latest.

1:01.3

That's quite good for you.

1:02.9

Thanks, love.

1:03.9

Yeah, I've been working on it.

1:08.7

Greg Clark, who we were all sort of bemoaning, oh, what a nice guy, oh, it's such a shame he's going to get the sack.

1:13.4

Clearly, she couldn't even manage to move or sack him either, so he's still in place.

1:17.5

In fact, the only person she got rid of was somebody, you know, was a sort of northern working class gay woman who brought a bit of diversity to the cabinet.

1:28.3

Well, to say she got rid of her, I think is a slight exaggeration.

1:32.1

I think Justine Greening, well, she resigned, didn't she?

1:34.6

Because she didn't get her own way?

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