One Game In Town

The Lesley Riddoch Podcast

Lesley Riddoch and Pat Joyce

Political Chat, News, Political Commentary, Scottish Politics, Politics, Scottish Independence, Uk Politics, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

There's no escaping Donald Trump, unfortunately, in this week's episode as we begin by picking apart the tariffs he introduced last week.
Has he condemned the US to recession? How did he come up with tariffs he placed on each country? Has he lost the support of the billionaires whose businesses are dependent on freedom of trade?
Amidst this Trumpian economic doom and gloom Lesley highlights the work of We Don't Have Time. To listen to the views of its CEO Ingmar Rentzhog click this link
https://app.wedonthavetime.org/posts/6a458e55-a614-4886-b348-242282e514c7

Trump also welcomed Netanyahu to the White House where the two leaders openly discussed, once again, the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. We look at this plus the massacre of Palestinian paramedics and the cover up by Israel that unravelled in the light of video footage recorded by one of the workers murdered by the IDF. We also examine the links between the UK Labour Party at the highest level and Labour Friends of Israel and question the influence of the LFI over UK government policy.
On the domestic front there's the announcement by Patrick Harvie that he won't be standing for co-leadership of the Scottish Greens. Lesley speculates on who might run in the upcoming election and what the contest could say about the relationship between the party and its MSPs and the party's direction of travel.
Lesley also pays tribute to Christina McKelvie and Willie Wilson both sad recent losses.
Christina and Willie were stalwart proponents of Scottish independence and this week saw two polls which showed increasing support for Welsh independence. We discuss.
Finally while in Donegal Lesley saw at first hand the effects of radical, progressive land reform and asks when will Scotland take note.

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0:00.0	Well, there's only one game in town, only one president in the world, only one subject
0:06.0	everyone's talking about, and it is Donald Trump and his blasted tariffs. We look at the
0:11.2	latest of what's happening and actually look back at what happened first time around when
0:16.0	Trump imposed tariffs and actually caused huge recorded and analysed damage to the American economy in the
0:23.6	process. We look at all the other stories that are going on, Jamie Green moving from the Tories
0:28.7	to the Lib Dems, the sad tragic death of Christina McKelvey and the late Willie Wilson from the
0:34.7	Scottish Independence Foundation. We look as well at what's going on at UK level
0:40.4	and with Anasarwara's suggestion that we should be cozying up to Donald Trump
0:45.2	and the latest situation in Gaza.
0:47.7	Those are the headlines. Now for the podcast.
1:01.4	Hi, John's and welcome to this week to Leslie Rerick podcast. And I'm glad the sun's come out.
1:07.9	And I know I'll keep referring to the weather, but I thought I'd put the kibosh on it this morning when I woke up, because I watered the grass yesterday.
1:12.4	And I thought, that's it. It's going to be a lousy, rainy, horrible day because I watered the grass. And that's the sort of thing that I embark on. Like when I go to the
1:17.3	toilet, a goal will be scored against any team I want. Oh, I see. Right. Okay. Oh, no. Oh, no.
1:25.2	No, you were, you were, you was going all the wrong way with that one.
1:28.4	All the wrong way with that one. Yeah, but that's my taking personal responsibility for
1:32.6	everything that bad that happens in the world. What's the benefits of a Catholic upbringing,
1:36.5	you know? Honestly, I just think that's a Scottish upbringing, but I don't want to take
1:40.3	your Catholic guilt away from you because it seems important. Yeah, well, both of them,
1:44.3	a Scottish Catholic guilt is double dunted. Right. Gosh almighty. It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a
1:51.1	well, so Donald Trump hasn't got any form of guilt, has he? No, I well, Catholic, Scottish, American,
1:57.7	no, no, the man who once said, I love the Bible. The Bible's my favorite book. Can you get me and me a famous pastime? A favorite passage. I love all of it. You know, oh, well, there you go. So yes, we've got to begin with the Bull Donald. And again, when we spoke last week, he was about to announce these tariffs.
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