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What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

NUMBER TEN IMPLODING - Feat. Tom Walker (aka Jonathan Pie)

What Most People Think with Geoff Norcott

Audioboom

Politics, Comedy, News, News Commentary

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

What a week for Tom to rejoin me as we analyse everything that's got Keir Starmer to the brink of an early exit. We chat about whether Starmer has a normal voice he's hiding and whether he'll shortly have to do the world's worst gardening leave. We also discuss the frankly ridiculous notion of theme park queue-jump for people with ADHD. In the Patron only we get into why Bad Bunny was singing only in Spanish at the Super Bowl. 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-adp1252793JOIN 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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0:00.0

What most people think. Hello and welcome to this week's episode of what most people think.

0:17.6

McSweeney, so we're recording this and you know that politicians or regimes are in trouble

0:26.6

when political or political comedy podcasts timestamp everything.

0:31.6

So it's Monday and it's 1101 and Keir Stommer is, as of this moment, still the Prime

0:36.1

Minister, Morgan McSweeney

0:38.2

isn't the chief of staff because he went yesterday and boy am I glad that I have got Tom

0:43.6

Walker aka Tom Walker okay oh Jeff thank you thank you you're the first person ever definitely

0:52.1

not Jonathan Pye um it's so good to have you on the show.

0:55.9

I mean, yesterday, I mean, look, if you're a political nerd, this may be relevant, but maybe not to normal people.

1:01.8

But will you always remember where you were when you heard that Morgan McSweeney had stepped down?

1:06.2

To be honest, I've been like really following it, obviously, all week.

1:09.7

And yesterday I was like,

1:11.7

just not in a news mode and was watching movies. And I just saw it on Instagram and went, okay, and read about it for five minutes. I was like, do you know what? It's a Sunday. I'll deal with this on Monday. And then I got a text from you going, do you want to do my show tomorrow? I was like, Yeah, I'll deal with this tomorrow then.

1:28.1

Yeah, a bit of therapy.

1:29.4

I mean, one thing I've noticed of late with your critiques of Starma is on threads, you know, you're big on the threads. You're one of about four people who is. And you like, you critique Starma, but there's a lot of lefties on there that really aren't willing to accept. There's

1:44.5

quite a lot of Starma fans on there, and they really get angry with you for pointing out that

1:49.6

the government aren't having the best of times. Yeah, I mean, it's anyone can look at, even if you

1:56.2

think Starma's good or whatever, you can't look at what's been going on for the last 18 months and

2:01.5

go, they are brilliant and this is what I voted for. The problem is, is the minute I don't have a go at Starmer, everyone's having to go at me, you're going to have a go at Starma. And the minute I do have a go at Starma, everyone's like, well, you voted for it. It's like, I didn't vote for Mandelson. No, no. Do you know what?

2:17.6

That's a very good point.

2:18.7

It's like what this government currently is and probably what they're likely to be if he stays is actually something that no one voted for.

2:24.2

What they offered was a very benign, vanilla kind of no tax rise type government.

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