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What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

LOCAL ELECTON 'FEVER' - Feat. Iain Dale

What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

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Politics, Comedy, News, News Commentary

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Given it's a big political week I got the big dog himself, Iain Dale, in to help summarise the stakes for the main parties (of which there are a lot). Will this be the tipping point for Keir? The graduation moment for Reform or the day the nutty Greens arrive as a national force? (even though it's supposed to be local). We also discuss my brush with the Karens and in the Patron only whether we lost friends during the Brexit years. CATCH ME ON MY TOUR ‘Basic Bloke 2: There’s No Bloke Without Fire’. Book tickets here: https://www.livenation.co.uk/geoff-norcott-tickets-adp1252793 JOIN the Podcast Patreon and receive each episode early, AD-FREE & with bonus content https://www.patreon.com/geoffnorcott?fan_landing=true  Join my MAILING LIST for priority Tour booking & special offers https://signup.ymlp.com/xgyueuwbgmgb Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello and welcome to this week's episode of what most people think and we are going

0:37.0

full politics this week because the local elections are happening.

0:40.9

There's a lot of big questions, you know, could it push Stama slightly out of the door?

0:45.2

Could it push reform over the line?

0:47.5

Could it consolidate the Greens as an actual electoral force?

0:52.1

And I've got a political heavyweight in to discuss this this week. I've

0:56.1

got Ian Dale back on the show. How you doing, Ian? I'm doing very well, thank you,

0:59.9

apart from just about getting a cold, but I'll struggle through the brave little soldier that I am,

1:05.5

Jeff. That is local election fever is what that is. It's kicking in. I mean, obviously we'll get on to the specifics of the politics later, but what is your,

1:14.2

what's your work pattern on LBC as a fellow broadcaster?

1:18.5

Well, I'm up against you on Friday night because I don't normally do Fridays.

1:22.5

Rachel Johnson normally does Fridays, but she's off.

1:24.8

So they said, do you want to do a sort of election special?

1:45.7

So, yeah, LBC, Friday, 7 to 10pm. No, Times Radio, me and Aisha, the dream team. Do you know what they've done, Ian, is basically they've kind of looked in for, there might be some quite big news there, and we can't have Norcott doing that on his own. He's really not got the chops. We'll have to bring in us. We'll have to bolster the offer. But who knows? That time and night could be

1:51.0

interesting on Friday, right? Because the results will filter through, won't they? Well, we should

1:55.8

have had the results by then, but I did a live debate from Wales last, from Cardiff last week, with the six-party

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