Johnson and Lockdown; Starmer and Corbyn

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

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News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.7 • 909 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

We're living through epic times...B Johnson calls a second national lockdown inevitably. Yet he acts weeks after he was advised to do so..the same dark sequence as in the spring. When leaders are out of their depth they repeat past misjudgements almost knowingly. Meanwhile K Starmer suspends J Corbyn to the predictable cheers of the fickle Greek Chorus of commentators-but was he right to do so? And the minor matter of the US presidential election..plus your brilliant questions

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the weekly with me steve richards thank you very much for
0:22.9	tuning in if you're about to go for a run start if you're about to do some ironing eat some crisps
0:29.2	do some great picking in italy all the kinds of things that you tell me you do whilst listening
0:35.6	to this podcast, get going.
0:37.6	Because we've got a lot to get through in this particular session.
0:40.8	I know it's a cliche to say, and I bet you've all said it, and we've all been saying it,
0:45.1	that we're living through history.
0:46.6	Well, what a week.
0:48.4	What a few days coming up.
0:50.6	Talk about history.
0:52.2	Historians in 200, 300 years' time will be reflecting on the events of
0:57.6	the recent past and the coming days, the presidential election, another national lockdown,
1:05.0	and on and on, this drama goes. So if it's okay with all of you, I'll reflect a bit on a couple of the themes
1:14.2	we could pluck so many. In fact, somebody emailed me and said, you know, we're all going to have
1:18.6	to run a marathon for this podcast because there is so much to get through. But I'm going to choose
1:24.0	two themes and then your questions are so brilliant. We're going to go through some of those. And if we don't get to choose two themes, and then your questions are so brilliant.
1:28.3	We're going to go through some of those, and if we don't get to all of them, there will be another time very soon.
1:35.2	The two themes I'm going to choose, by the way.
1:37.4	One of them is not going to be the presidential election.
1:40.3	A lot of you will listen to this before we know who's won.
1:44.1	Some of you will listen to this before we know who's won. Some of you will listen to it
1:45.5	after assuming anything decisive happens over the next few days. Remember some, you know,
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