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Plank of the Year 2020

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Ricky Freelove

Current Affairs, Politics, News, Uk News, Phone In, Debate, British News, Conservatives, Immigration, Daily News, News Commentary, Talk, Labour, Reform Uk, Government, Speech Radio

4.3763 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Kevin O'Sullivan, Olivia Utley, Mark Dolan, Dawn Neesom, Emily Carver, Emma Webb and Russell Quirk join Mike Graham for a very special podcast edition of Plank of the Year.

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0:00.0

Welcome to a very special edition of Plank of the Week, because it's not Plank of the Week,

0:04.6

it's actually Plank of the Year. You're going to be seeing all sorts of people joining in,

0:09.0

and I'm delighted to say that kicking us off Mr Mark Dolan, talk really his very own anti-masker,

0:14.7

although, of course, it's not really an anti-masker, are you? You don't want to go too far. I'm delighted to debate all of the COVID measures.

0:21.6

Of course you are. And Emily Carver is also here, a woman who, if it wasn't for Dawn Neeson would have

0:25.5

appeared most on Plank of the week for the whole year. We'll be seeing Dawn Neeson a little bit later on.

0:30.3

And so what we're going to do is we're going to discuss the top 20, starting with number 20.

0:35.4

And it is, of course, the Welsh First Minister, Mr Mark

0:39.0

Drakeford. What has been inflicted upon the Welsh people in the name of a scientific punt,

0:45.2

as in a national lockdown?

0:46.7

Scientific what?

0:48.0

Family show, and we notice it's going out on Christmas Day?

0:52.3

It is, absolutely right.

0:53.5

The punt of the week.

0:54.4

That could be a format for next year.

0:55.9

Yes.

0:56.6

What's happened to the Welsh people, the good people of Wales, is cruel, actually.

1:01.3

Don't forget that earlier in the year, this was a population that was subjected to the ruling in which certain non-essential items were banned from sale.

1:10.4

So apparently an oven tray or a winter throw was the purchase of which was an arrestable offence.

1:16.5

Weren't books as well outlawed, Emily?

1:18.7

Books, any sort of entertainment, everything, really.

1:22.7

You had scenes of people trying to sort of rip down these stickers from the walls or barriers. It was like a crime scene,

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