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Pod Save the UK

Protest, Eurovision and Showgirls

Pod Save the UK

Crooked Media

News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

While we were busy being dazzled by glittery crowns and golden coaches…did the authorities sneak in and steal away our rights? New laws have given the police wide ranging powers to arrest protestors - scuppering the plans of anti-monarchy protestors to demonstrate against the Coronation. Instead they were arrested, detained and then released without charge - after the event was safely over. Nish and Coco ask barrister and activist Paul Powlesland and ask what happened to the British love of freedom? Plus find out why a PSUK listener spent 15 hours outside his local polling station; why the Coronation gave Coco ‘Showgirls’ vibes; why Coco can't wait for Eurovision; and why Labour and the Lib Dems are in danger of being ‘vagina adjacent’.

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0:00.0

Hello, and welcome to episode two of PodSafe the UK. I'm Nishkoman. And I'm KKK Khan.

0:15.8

And we're talking politics and protests. Did our rights just get stolen from under our

0:20.4

noses while the world watched the coronation? Did PC plots screw it up? Or were we the ones

0:24.9

that got screwed? I'm a journalist, he's a comedian, and we laugh and sometimes hate politics.

0:29.9

And we really believe Britain can do better than this. Politics is not a spectator sport.

0:34.8

We've got a vote, we've got free speech, and we want to use it. But we don't want to end up

0:39.6

in a police cell. So, with the help of a special guest, one of the smartest activist lawyers around,

0:44.7

we're going to fix this. Let's do it. Welcome back to PodSafe the UK. If you listened last week,

0:51.6

and you really should have done, you'll know that we were talking about

0:55.2

ridding Britain of the monarchy, potentially, but sadly, Coco.

0:58.9

Well, I mean, spoilers, we did not actually manage to do it. We tried. Our arguments were brilliant,

1:05.5

but just didn't inspire a revolution this week. But I mean, there will be others. Although

1:11.1

fair play to him, Graham Smith from the anti-monarchy group Republic, I mean, he had a good go.

1:16.3

He and some of his mates ended up in a police cell when he should have, of course, not have been.

1:21.2

He was just exercising his right to free speech. Yeah, we're going to come back to that later on in

1:26.4

the show. But just sort of in brief, you gove polls showed 54% of the UK watched some of the

1:32.7

coronation. 31% watched none. 11% watched highlights. I actually didn't realise they'd put

1:38.0

highlights package together. Match of the day. Yeah, like match of the day. Like it's a sporting

1:41.6

event. We can just cut. We just show the goals. Just like grumpy man, grumpy man, grumpy man with

1:46.8

crown, grumpy man, mistress with crown. Well, good highlight reel to be there.

1:55.2

Truly, the royal side chick got the bag. She did well, an inspiration to us all.

2:02.2

Did you do the shit? To contextualise. Last week, I suggested that I was going to try and

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