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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Labour’s Small Votes Crisis – Start Your Week with Alex von Tunzelmann

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Podmasters

News, Society & Culture, Politics, Government

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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• It’s Podmasters’ 10th birthday! Get an extra 10% off a year’s Patreon backing.  Setting out the stories of the week ahead… As Labour braces itself for a battering in the local, Scottish and Welsh elections, Reform have an idea to liven things up: punishing anyone who votes Green by putting migrant detention centres in their constituency. Plus: What Russia’s scaled-down, tank-and-missile-free ‘Victory Day’ tells us about the state of Putin’s power. Protesting against the antisemitism crisis. And David Attenborough turns 100. Alex von Tunzelmann and Andrew Harrison set out the next seven… sorry, six days of news.  • Get tomorrow’s Scotland and Wales election explainers TODAY when you back us at www.patreon.com/bunkercast  Written and presented by Andrew Harrison. Audio production by Simon Williams. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Artwork by James Parrett. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. www.podmasters.co.uk  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Subscribe now at Bloomberg.com. Hello and welcome to a slightly later start your week than usual. I'm Andrew Harrison.

1:02.5

We're here to set out what's coming up in the next six days for a change. We hope you enjoyed

1:07.4

the bank holiday where the world of news and politics did as a massive favour.

1:11.2

There were no new missile attacks, political resignations, threats by any president to annex bits of Europe.

1:16.9

Nobody famous died.

1:18.5

It was almost like living in 1999.

1:20.7

But we are sure this week can redress the balance, aren't we?

1:23.8

Alex von Tundselman, both the historian and bunker regular.

1:26.9

Oh, God. Let's hope it just stays chilled for a little bit. It doesn't look like it will, though, does it? It's not going to see because it's Elections Week, which obviously has been bearing down on the Labour Party like an express train. Some 5,000 council seats are up in England and the National Assembly's in Scotland and Wales, too.

1:44.8

Votes for on Thursday, reform on the Greenswreck's projected to make huge gains.

1:49.0

Plyde Cunery is expected to win in a Welsh Parliament that Labour has controlled since it was created in 1999.

1:55.4

And it's predicted that the SMP will fall just short of a pro-independence majority with reform possibly coming second.

2:03.0

And you don't need to tell us what all that would mean.

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