Mr and Mrs Despairing Tory
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
The local elections results are in and your co-pilots are on hand to deliver their verdict. But who won the all important sweepstake, Allison or Liam?
Liam thinks the Conservatives should be quietly confident with the results, but suggest they should reframe the threat of an anti-Tory coalition as a ‘coalition of chaos’. Allison however, is doubtful that the governing party can hold the country together, comparing recent policy announcements to ‘moving deck chairs around the titanic’.
Joining our co-pilots this week is Planet Normal listener and professional rowing coach Jane, who shares her despair at the lack of regulations with trans athletes competing with women in competitive rowing events.
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| 0:38.0 | If Kirstama was a material, he'd be drip dry, brine, nylon from 1974. |
| 0:44.0 | It was only you from the coverage I saw that made the wonderful connection between sword, bear and penny-mordant |
| 0:52.0 | and the fact that she was once a knife-throwers assistant. |
| 0:56.0 | The world body for rowing have in a way encouraged this because their policy is to allow males into the female category. |
| 1:07.0 | However good they get, they will never be as good as the trans women who can steal their place in a boat. |
| 1:23.0 | Welcome to Planet Normal, the Telugu- |
| 1:25.1 | Podcasts with Alison Pearson. Hello. And me Liam Halligan. |
| 1:29.0 | So the Tories lost 1060 seats Alison, with Labour overtaking the Conservatives to become the largest party of local government. |
| 1:38.0 | Rishi Sunak's team attracted just 26% of the popular vote across English councils that voted last Thursday, down from 28%, when Theresa May crashed and burned in 2019. |
| 1:50.0 | Kirstama's Labour chalked up 35% up from 28% under Jeremy Corbyn. |
| 1:56.0 | Yet on these vote shares, Labour wouldn't win a majority in a general election, expected towards the end of 2024. |
| 2:03.0 | And while the Tories did badly, Sunak seems to have done enough to offend it off for now, back bench-bickering about another change at the top. |
| 2:13.0 | What's clear Alison is that while you predicted 1300 Tory losses on successive Planet Normal Podcasts, I predicted a thousand. |
| 2:22.0 | And the 1,060 seat drop off was I'm afraid a lot nearer my total than yours. |
| 2:27.0 | So it's you that's buying the drinks for once. I'll see you in the King's Arms. |
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