Keir Starmer: Things can only get worse
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Keir Starmer has made his first major speech as Prime Minister and he had an uplifting message for the public: things can only get worse.
Jon and Lewis, firmly ensconced back in News Agents HQ analyse what the PM is up to and ask whether British politics can really sustain another project built on pessimism.
They also discuss rumoured changes of the Labour Party’s leadership rules (if that doesn’t make you click, what will?) and Oasis’ imminemt return to the stage.
Jon, predictably, swears from the start.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:06.9 | A warning, there is bad language from the outset of this episode. |
| 0:12.4 | And yeah, you won't need an explanation of who is to blame. Sorry. |
| 0:18.8 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:22.3 | There is a budget coming in October, and it's going to be painful. |
| 0:27.4 | We have no other choice given the situation that we're in. |
| 0:32.5 | Those with the broadest shoulders should bear the heavier burden. |
| 0:36.3 | Although Oasis might be back together. |
| 0:38.3 | Oh, you bastard, that's the line I was going to use. |
| 0:40.3 | We're not on a bit of a come down from the DNC, are we? |
| 0:43.3 | Are we? By any chance? |
| 0:44.3 | As I was saying, although Oasis might be back together, |
| 0:47.3 | if there were any clearer sign that it ain't 1997 anymore, Dorothy, |
| 0:52.3 | it was Kirstama giving his first major speech in the Downing Street |
| 0:56.8 | Rose Garden this morning, where his message to the electorate was, despite the fact that we have a |
| 1:01.9 | majority of 170 seats. The Labour government is going to oversee, at least for a time, a period |
| 1:08.8 | where things aren't going to get better, they will get worse. |
| 1:12.7 | Yes, and you go back to the Oasis period, and of course Labour's song in 97 was things can only get better. |
| 1:19.5 | It was downbeat, it was depressing, actually, it was gloomongering. |
| 1:33.8 | Are things really as bad as Kier Starrma says they are? Not so much cool Britannia as gruel Britannia. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is a pro. He always gets there in the end. |
| 1:40.6 | Welcome to the news agents, even though I have to suffer, Lewis Goodall. |
| 1:47.5 | The Newsagents. It's John. It's a very offended, Lewis. It took 30 seconds before you |
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