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*Preview* He Should Chris Less-lie feat. Jack Frayne-Reid

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TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.6 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2018

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

On this week's bonus episode preview, we're joined by Jack Frayne-Reid (@frayne_jack)from the Reel Politik Podcastto discuss Our Meltiest MP's recent sad letter to the Guardian. We cover Labour's lack of broad-churchiness and there variety of ways in which the Blairite faction has become politically irrelevant (save for the pages of every stupid newspaper in Britain). If you want to hear the full epsiode, sign up on the Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/21916656 Don’t forget that you can commodify your dissent with a t-shirt from http://www.lilcomrade.com/ — support our comrade's business and get some extremely soft gear.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Chris Leslie says, I have never hidden my politics, including at the last election, and that's why

0:06.2

you're being deselected. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I mean, we can't go into another election.

0:12.2

You know, we, I say that as a Labour member and support, with a parliamentary party who can't

0:18.1

bring themselves to say a nice thing about the party's platform and its leadership.

0:21.9

It's just, it's not a fucking logical position to go into an election with. Yeah, yeah,

0:26.6

our main representatives. Yeah, they all hate us. No, this is normal. Yeah, it's like, it's like,

0:30.5

it's like, it's like it's it's like yeah, fuck you buddy. Fuck you. Nah. Yeah, yeah. Fuck me. They hate our policies. They hate our leader.

0:37.7

They hate our shadow cabinet.

0:38.7

They hate our members.

0:39.9

But no, you know.

0:40.5

But we owe them a job because they were mad at Thatcher in the 1980s.

0:44.0

Yeah, I mean, Tom Watson and former Scottish Labour leader, Tom Watson deputy labour leader

0:49.0

and former Scottish Labour leader, Keziah Dugdale, they called in to, during the election, to an NEC

0:57.0

meeting where there was a vote going on, NEC is Labour's ruling body, and they were voting on

1:01.1

whether to deselect a right-wing MP called John Woodcock, who had said that he...

1:05.4

Since deselected himself. Yes, he's now, he resigned from a Labour Party after being suspended for

1:10.7

sexual harassment allegations.

1:12.1

Was he suspended or just was he under investigation?

1:14.6

He was suspended while the investigation was going on.

1:17.8

Now he's left and he says he's going to look for some kind of independent investigation into sexual harassment.

1:23.3

Yeah, I'm not sure how that's going.

1:24.7

But it's just him and a mustache.

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