Parties, Plan B and betrayal
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
The government's Covid 'Plan B' is here and our co-pilots have a lot of adjectives to describe it. Spoiler alert: they’re far from complimentary.
Fresh from watching THAT latest press briefing, Liam thinks that the government has broken the social contract with the public and will struggle to get them to comply with the latest restrictions in light of the Christmas party scandal at No10. And, as if to prove him right, Allison declares that she has no intention of familiarising herself with the new rules.
Plus boarding the flying refuge of reasoned views this week is Professor Gordon Wishart, Chief Medical Officer at Check4Cancer and Visiting Professor of Cancer Surgery at Anglia Ruskin University, who tells Allison and Liam that there's no point returning to pre-pandemic "normal" when it comes to cancer services, as they were failing before the pandemic - we must aim for "super normal”.
And with a bursting mail bag on the rocket, Liam is particularly moved by one listener email.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:02.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:03.0 | ...podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Five. |
| 0:10.0 | And your co-pilot will not be familiarising herself with the new rules, |
| 0:14.0 | because she has no intention of obeying them. |
| 0:19.0 | The subject heading of the email was planned B, |
| 0:22.0 | and the words in the email were simply, |
| 0:24.0 | bogus, bluff, beastly, bad, betrayal. |
| 0:28.0 | There's no point in just returning to normalist the government has said with cancer services, |
| 0:34.0 | we need to return to super normal. |
| 0:37.0 | Someone said it takes a village to raise a child, |
| 0:40.0 | and the village was shut during lockdown. |
| 0:42.0 | The village was shut, and he was on his own with his tormentors. |
| 0:52.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, |
| 0:54.0 | the Telugu-Podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 0:56.0 | Hello. |
| 0:57.0 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
| 0:59.0 | There are signs that, having stoically endured three separate lockdowns, |
| 1:03.0 | the public support for harsh anti-covid restrictions is diminishing. |
| 1:07.0 | In response to the new Omicron variant, |
| 1:10.0 | ministers reintroduced compulsory masks on public transport and in shops, |
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