Lineker - Football vs Politics
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
This week we're bringing you the very best of the podcast you might have missed this year.
Matt spoke to Gary Lineker about exclusive polling for Times Radio showing which job the public thinks is harder - being prime minister, or being a professional footballer. He also explains why he thinks politicians should be paid more, before Emmerdale actor turned farmer Kelvin Fletcher and TV chef Clodagh McKenna make the case for their professions.
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| 0:21.0 | Hello, I'm Matt Chorley, and this is Politics Without the Boring Bits, bringing you some of the best stuff that you might have missed from earlier in the year. |
| 0:30.0 | Today we're going all the way back to January as we examined which jobs the public |
| 0:34.9 | things are harder and easier than being a politician. I caught up with Gary |
| 0:40.1 | Linneker to ask him what was harder, being Prime Minister or a professional footballer. |
| 0:46.5 | How hard is it really to be Prime Minister? |
| 0:48.5 | How does it compare to the job that you do? If you are the Prime Minister, you get a hundred and sixty four thousand and eighty pounds a year five times |
| 0:57.4 | the average salary for a full-time worker in the UK so being Prime Minister pays more than most jobs, but how difficult |
| 1:06.9 | is it? We asked Yu-Guff to carry out a poll for us to ask people which jobs are |
| 1:12.3 | easier or harder than running the country. |
| 1:16.0 | Beth Mann from you Gov has been crunched in the numbers. |
| 1:18.0 | Yeah so we asked about a range of jobs, |
| 1:21.0 | 24 and we found that only 4 had 50% or more saying they were harder. |
| 1:26.0 | So in general we can see that people do recognize the Prime Minister is a pretty hard job. |
| 1:31.0 | And so the top one was a surgeon around six and ten thought that was |
| 1:34.2 | harder and then it went nurse firefighter and soldier which all had around 50% |
| 1:38.8 | saying so I think what immediately strikes you is that these are the life or death |
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