Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me, Steve Richards.

Thank you for tuning in and for your brilliant emails,

which we will come to shortly in our never-ending debate in the Rock and Roll Politics Cooperative.

Before then, if it's okay with all of you, I want to reflect on the reaction to Blair's essay,

which if you didn't hear last week's podcast, I kind of tried to

analyse and dissect paragraph by paragraph. And since then, there have been responses from

the prime minister and the two so far seen as potential successes.

So Kirstama has responded, Andy Burnham has responded, West Streeting has done so as well.

And it's very interesting, I think, and quite significant.

And so I will reflect on that, and then we go to the

never-ending debate with all of you. Before all of that, just a quick reminder. I know I mentioned

this, but some of you say to me, oh, I listen and then I forget to book. Well, pause, if you don't mind,

and book, and then carry on listening, is my kind of

constructive advice on this front. An extra emergency rock and roll politics special at King's Place

on July the 13th to take in what will follow from the by-election, which is being fought out in Makerfield. So yeah, do tune in

and come along to that at King's Place. And for those of you who subscribe to Patreon,

Monday, June the 8th for our live Patreon event where we can explore together on video and all the other things.

Yeah, it'll be great.

And if you don't subscribe, I got an email from somebody who said,

oh, yeah, I've just subscribed to Patreon.

Wasn't as much as I thought it was going to be.

It's not.

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