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Oh God, What Now?

No Money for Old Blokes

Oh God, What Now?

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News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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This week's sponsor is the Disorder Podcast - listen here: https://linktr.ee/disorderpod As Liz Truss defends tanking the economy, the Government is wrangling whether to keep giving more money to OAPs. Is a pension crisis looming? Plus, Starmer’s been trotting around the world in an attempt to fix some of the damage of the last 13 years – will the likes of the EU listen? Or have we pushed it too far? “Starmer wants to see a cultural change in our attitudes to the EU - to take the toxicity out of that relationship.” – Ros Taylor “I think borders are going to become much more important for the EU in the future.” – Ros Taylor “To be clear I don’t think I’m going to retire, Alex. Let alone my children.” – Hannah Fearn “This is a very live issue for people in their 20s, 30s and 40s…” – Hannah Fearn “There aren’t any dinner parties, Liz. We’re all too skint to hold them.” – Hannah Fearn We’re on YouTube!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVOIkIWUDtu7VrVcFs0OI0A  This week's sponsor is the Disorder Podcast - listen here: https://linktr.ee/disorderpod www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow Presented by Alex Andreou with Hannah Fearn and Ros Taylor. Producers: Chris Jones and Alex Rees. Assistant Producer: Adam Wright. Social Media Producer: Jess Harpin. Audio production by: Alex Rees. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Jason Pack, senior analyst at the NATO Defense College Foundation and author of Libya

0:07.0

and the Global Enduring Disorder.

0:09.0

And I'm Alex Hall Hall, a former British diplomat and ambassador to Georgia.

0:13.5

And we're the hosts of Disorder, a new podcast from Goldhanger.

0:17.2

We seek to explore those really easy questions like, how did the world get so disordered?

0:22.8

And what are the fundamental principles of our current era of geopolitics?

0:27.2

And during the podcast, we're going to be drawing on our own direct personal experiences

0:32.3

of this Disorder, as well as talking to people at the forefront of global affairs.

0:37.7

All seeking to work out, why are the world powers no longer coordinating as they once did?

0:44.8

How did we get here?

0:46.4

What can we do to fix it?

0:48.7

The Disorder podcast is out now.

0:51.5

Make sure you follow us so you can get every episode in your feeds.

0:58.2

Welcome to Oh God, what now?

1:06.0

The inflatable dinghy of truth fighting against the Tory wave machine of nonsense.

1:11.4

I'm Alex Androh.

1:12.8

On today's show, the new statesman, Keir Starmer embarks on a global schmooze fest as he sets

1:18.5

out his vision of an improved relationship with Europe and a plan to fix the asylum system.

1:23.6

But will the EU play ball?

1:26.1

Plus, is the pensions triple lock a minimum protection for people who have contributed

1:30.7

to the system and deserve dignity in old age or an unsustainably expensive vote buying

1:35.9

exercise that no one dares go back on?

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