Living With A Crooked Johnson

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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What if the Prime Minister was corrupt, and nobody cared? As Labour steels itself for a tough election day, we look at where sleaze is and isn’t cutting through. Plus, as the COVID horror in India worsens, Ahir Shah tells us what his friends and family in India are experiencing – and the extend of Modi’s culpability. And a Wild Idea for the future: Universal Basic Capital. Rather than tinkering with inequality through a complex benefits system, why don’t we just give everyone £10,000 on their 18th birthday? “The country is so fucking broken that Johnson will put himself on sale for a pair of curtains.” – Alex Andreou “If you’re asking ‘If Labour can’t win now, when can it?’, you’re asking the wrong question.” – Ros Taylor “If someone gives you a shit-ton of money, surely you’re beholden to them?” – Ahir Shah “We’ve somehow decided that old people deserve state handouts during this pandemic, and young people don’t. That’s a really poisonous point of view.” – Ros Taylor Presented and produced by Andrew Harrison with Ahir Shah, Ros Taylor and Alex Andreou. Assistant producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic . Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. The Bunker is a Podmasters Production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:14.3	on this week's show it's crunch week with the hotly pulled fire election Scottish and
1:18.3	Welsh national elections and local elections in England the polls are, at least between Labor and the Conservatives,
1:24.2	but will it be enough? And is the sleaze message finally cutting through? Plus, the COVID nightmare
1:29.2	in India worsens, a country that manufactures vaccines has lost control of its own pandemic.
1:34.4	Should countries like Britain be re-exporting medicines to India or foregoing our own orders for vaccines
1:39.8	from India? And also, this week's wild idea, rather than trying to fix inequality with lifelong
1:44.6	tinkering and interventions via the benefit system, can we just give everybody a strong
1:48.7	start in life by handing them £10,000 on their 18th birthday.
1:53.0	All that and more on today's bunker.
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