Pledges and Pounding Pavements

Podlitical

BBC

Government, News

4.6 • 157 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Manifestos for the Holyrood election begin to be released, and parties hit the streets. The team discuss what we know so far about the promises pledged to the electorate, as well as what impact the resumption of door-to-door campaigning and canvassing will have for parties ahead of further restriction easing in Scotland on Friday. Will we see three frantic final weeks on the campaign trail, or has the so-called "Ground War" ground to a halt?

You’ll be able to see a full list of candidates and parties standing for both the regional list and constituency seats on the BBC website. Visit bbc.co.uk/scottishelection to stay up to date.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds
0:02.0	You're listening to BBC Scotland
0:10.0	Hi, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast
0:16.0	that brings you an inside look at the biggest stories coming out of Holyroods and Westminster. It is 14 minutes past two on Thursday the 15th of April.
0:25.2	I'm Lucy White in Glasgow and today I'm joined by...
0:28.5	Hi, I'm Lindsay Bues in Edinburgh.
0:30.3	I'm Phil Sim in North Berwick.
0:32.6	Nick Hurdley in London.
0:34.4	For now, I'm coming up at the weekend, so I'll be with you all soon. Why would you possibly be coming up? Is there something happening in Scotland for now. I'm coming up at the weekend so I'll be with you all soon. Why would you possibly
0:38.7	be coming up? Is there something happening in Scotland? For this very important election campaign.
0:44.4	Very important and very exciting might I add. Now yeah so we're halfway through the election campaign
0:49.9	and I think we're all agreed it's been a bit of a strange one so far.
0:54.5	Obviously we've got COVID, which is meaning virtual events and things are being done slightly differently.
0:59.7	And then on top of all that, of course, we had campaigning suspended because of the death of the Duke of Edinburgh last week.
1:06.1	So that's caused a little bit of a pause in campaigning too.
1:10.0	How is everybody feeling about things?
1:11.8	It has been a bit of a weird one, hasn't it, Lindsay?
1:14.8	Yeah, it really has.
1:16.1	I think the thing that I have found quite difficult is just to kind of get a sense of, you know,
1:22.8	where voters are at with all of this, you know, how much the public are really sort of
1:27.0	paying attention to the fact that there's an election on.
1:29.3	Because when you go along to the events that the parties are having, I mean, really they're just, you know, putting the leaders up for an interview and doing some socially distanced, you know, pictures for the newspapers and that sort of thing.
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