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*PREVIEW* Britainology 87: The Thick of It

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Comedy

4.6851 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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We've heard that any political issue in the United Kingdom is 'just like The Thick of It' and as such we've sought to verify. By watching the 2000s BBC sitcom, or at least one episode of the show, and addressing what it says about British politics? To be honest, it definitely says a lot about Armando Iannucci and the liberal conception of the world. But also: swearing. Get the whole episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/108791736 KJB LIVE ALERT Kill James Bond are doing three nights at Conway Hall in Central London on 9th, 10th, and 11th August, and there’s also livestream tickets available if you can’t make it! Details are available here: https://www.killjamesbond.com/live MILO ALERT  Milo’s special ‘Voicemail’ is premiering on YouTube on July 10th - check it out here:https://youtu.be/x4oTP3M6ppo Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and November (@postoctobrist)

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0:00.0

Well, I think stuff like, yeah, like, like Brexit and the asylum stuff and all of this is like good examples of like the Tories basically butting up against the limits of possibility.

0:10.8

And so like, but they're so ideologically committed to doing things that won't work.

0:15.3

Not even that won't work in terms of like making this country a better place to live, but also in terms of just like literally possible like the way in which it's like oh yeah well we'll just stop a sidest

0:25.0

coming to this country it's like well fucking good luck with that because they're gonna come also like

0:28.6

I think a great example of what you've just described of like there is a point at which reality

0:34.0

intervenes yeah and that is quasi quartang and and Liz Trust and their budget and the stupid shit they

0:41.1

pulled.

0:41.5

And then that like basically downrating Britain's credit worthiness and international markets.

0:46.8

And it's like, what do you think is going to happen, guys?

0:48.6

That had to be the most, the most thick of it.

0:51.2

I mean, I was thinking, I hate saying it.

0:53.8

But yeah, I can only imagine like

0:55.3

you know those kind of conversations taking place and in someone as dumb as liz truss's office

0:59.9

about like you know basically like they're we're we're going to be like our sovereign debt is

1:06.2

going to be downgraded in terms of its credit worth creditworthiness like yeah that that's that that could be

1:14.6

that that's an issue that's a bit of a thing we're going to have to deal with and the think of it is such a product product of like the new labor administration and like you can very much see a kind of

1:19.1

like um it's very much like satirizing a kind of new labor ideology more than it is a Tory one although

1:25.3

you do get the I think the Tories get in the final season, so you get this kind of way, like, labor and opposition, you get the Tories.

1:30.8

And I think you see a bit of the Tories as the series goes on, like the shadow ministers

1:34.5

and stuff.

1:36.1

But despite that, it still does capture this kind of like fundamental thing about British politics,

1:42.3

which is, I think, the sort of like the humiliation aspect of the British politics, which is, I think, the, the sort of like the humiliation

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