LIVE: France In Revolt, Corbyn's Expulsion and SNP's New Leader
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🗓️ 2 April 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Macron has pushed the French people to the brink - and now an uprising has shaken the very foundations of the country. What's the situation on the ground - and what happens next? We're joined live from France by journalist Cole Stangler.
Plus: with Jeremy Corbyn being kicked out of Labour by Keir Starmer, what happens to both him and the Labour left? We're joined by Jess Barnard, member of Labour's National Executive Committee.
Plus: we'll be joined by historian Rory Scothorne and journalist Steph Paton discuss the election of Scotland's new First Minister.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, hello, welcome to the show, starting on time, more or less. Hey, these as I don't |
| 0:15.7 | treat you. We have an action packed show today in Ponzi show because I couldn't do a show |
| 0:20.4 | at the weekend. Obviously, we normally do this on a Saturday or Sunday, but life and treated, |
| 0:24.8 | sorry about that, turns out I do have some sort of life, it's just quite chaotic. |
| 0:28.0 | We've got a lot to talk about today. We are going to talk about later an uprising in France, |
| 0:34.0 | the attempt by Emmanuel Macron, who is the neo-liberal, centrist dad pin up, |
| 0:41.0 | president of France, who has tried to force three pension age hikes. The famous people did not |
| 0:47.2 | like this, but actually there's a lot more going on as well. We don't need to call Stangler, |
| 0:52.6 | the brilliant journalist who is in France, who will be reporting on what's actually happening |
| 0:57.1 | on the ground, what's actually driving this beyond the issue of pensions, which a lot of people |
| 1:01.8 | have been focusing on understandably, but it does go much forward with them that. And we'll talk about |
| 1:07.6 | you know, where this is likely to lead, will the left benefit from it? Obviously, France has a very |
| 1:12.5 | strong far right in the form of, of course, Marine Le Pen's movement, but we've got a lot to talk |
| 1:19.7 | about there. We'll also be talking about the suspension, not the suspension, Jeremy Corbyn |
| 1:24.0 | kicked out the Labour Party essentially. He's been forbidden, or sorry, his local party is |
| 1:28.6 | limited north, has been forbidden from re-selecting him as the local candidate. They've selected him |
| 1:34.4 | as their candidate in every single election since 1983 before I was born, in which he's won |
| 1:41.7 | 10 elections in a row. They've been banned, they're democratic right, to re-select him as an MP, |
| 1:47.6 | and a very factional move by the people around Keir Starmer, who won the Labour leadership on |
| 1:52.3 | a entirely duplicitous and dishonest programme. We're talking about that with Jess Barnard, |
| 1:58.1 | who is a member of Labour's NEC. She voted, that's an absolute entity, she voted to keep, |
| 2:05.1 | obviously, Jeremy Corbyn, or to maintain the democratic right of his local party to re-select him, |
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