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Plank of the Week - Dawn Neesom and Kevin O'Sullivan

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Ricky Freelove

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4.3763 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Dawn Neesom and Kevin O'Sullivan join Mike Graham for this week's edition of Plank of the Week.

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0:00.0

Welcome to another sparkling edition of Plank of the Week.

0:11.0

We are here in the very, very exciting studio at News UK, and I've got with me the two cohorts of Plank that have been here all year so far.

0:19.0

Kevin O'Sullivan, of course, Dawn Neesham. It's amazing how this is gone. We're now in April.

0:22.6

I know. We've been doing this for four months. Gone so far. Now this used to be a show where I changed the panel every week, but apparently people quite like the fact that you're doing it all the time now. Not least because you're always arguing with each other. You know what's funny about it, you do get a couple. couple. You do get people coming and say, well, can't you vary the guests up?

0:21.6

You go, I don't know it. You do get people come and say, well, can't you

0:38.3

bury the guest up? And you go, I don't know, have you heard about this COVID crisis, you know, the restrictions, you know. And so we can't actually get that many people as a building. But the thing is, we might end up sticking with this particular. Because it was, because it's really good, isn't it? Please tell you.

0:34.3

I like nothing more than rowing with Dahl.

0:36.3

Also, if you're now watching this show on YouTube, you can also listen to a show that I do

0:58.0

and actually explain why you'd done it because I thought it was outrageous like you.

1:02.0

I thought it was absolutely way over the top and not actually very helpful to what is quite a

1:06.0

feebral atmosphere at the moment.

1:08.0

This is what I don't know.

1:09.0

He's basically sort of gourding people into doing something. Well, this is what I don't understand with the left, with the whole racism around. They try to fight division and hatred by creating more division than hatred. Why did you do that? So, like I said, there were so many people disappointed by the fact that this report didn't say what they wanted it to say. I mean, it didn't exonerate Britain.

1:28.4

All countries have got a problem with racism.

1:30.0

Of course, say it.

1:30.4

I say it's a part of the human condition. Yeah, right. Unfortunately, you'll never get rid of it. But it did say that no one sets out to be racist in this country. There is no institutional racism. and in fact the way we've tackled racism should shine as a beacon for every other

1:45.9

country in the world who wants to get rid of racism in their country so we've been actually

1:50.2

rather good in that respect not good enough for labour no furious absolutely no no this is a racist

1:57.6

hellhole yes absolutely no it is not it's not the first time Clive Lewis has had a little problem. Do you remember

2:03.3

it's not a word I'm going to use but he was at a...

2:06.3

Yeah.

2:06.5

Yeah. Sorry to interrupt what we do. Is the NSUWT the merger of the NASU and then WT?

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