PREVIEW: UK: LABOUR: Conversation with colleague Joseph Sternberg of WSJ regarding the overwhelming success of Labour to win a crushing majority without promising too much is followed by a series of odd stumbles. More tonight.
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🗓️ 1 October 2024
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| 0:30.0 | This is John Bachelors. |
| 0:31.0 | Conversation with my colleague Joseph Sternberg, member of the It's not threatened in any fashion except for embarrassment a series of mistakes free |
| 0:46.8 | clothing remarks about old people in winter not needing a subsidy, that sort of thing. |
| 0:53.5 | Joe here very much identifies the private school error, |
| 0:58.5 | which may or may not be corrected. |
| 1:01.2 | The gang that can't govern straight, think is the headline that resonates. |
| 1:06.0 | Here's Joe Sternberg on Labor Party's early days. |
| 1:11.0 | Now I think the big theme, John, for this new Labor Party government in the UK has been |
| 1:17.3 | chaos and indecision, and it's the gang that can't govern straight because they'd been |
| 1:21.8 | out of power for 14 years since the summer of 2010 and clearly |
| 1:26.5 | they had lost a lot of the muscle memory for how to govern and it's taking them a while to get their act together. |
| 1:35.0 | And some of this is run-of-the-mill scandal stuff where you think how could they be so |
| 1:39.6 | stupid and yet politicians always are that stupid. |
| 1:42.7 | I mean, that's kind of the takeaway of this kerfuffle over various gifts that Kieer-Stormer |
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