Q&A general election special
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
With now less than a week to go, we answer your General Election questions.
Editor: Tom Hughes
Senior Producer: Gabriel Radus
Video Production: : Rory Symon, Shane Fennelly & Arvind Badewal
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.4 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.8 | It's Friday Q&A. |
| 0:14.8 | And we want to salute all of you who've managed to find us to sending questions |
| 0:18.6 | because it has occurred to us. |
| 0:20.1 | We've managed to make this |
| 0:21.0 | incredibly difficult, arguably much more difficult than it needed to be by not giving you our |
| 0:25.7 | email address at all. We like to set a challenge for people. Anybody who actually gets their |
| 0:30.1 | question read out actually has to overcome significant obstacles. And that's it should be. We're having |
| 0:35.1 | a party but we're not going to tell you where or when and on what date. |
| 0:38.9 | You know what we should have? |
| 0:39.9 | A P.O. Box. |
| 0:41.0 | Yes. |
| 0:41.4 | I'd love to have a P.O.B. It's C-FACC number of 4-290. Send your questions to P-O. Box. 99. Yeah. Okay. So what is our email? It's newsagents at global.com. |
| 0:35.8 | Newsagents at global.com. |
| 0:37.5 | You can tell the global. |
| 0:38.8 | You don't do it. |
| 0:39.7 | You don't even know what the email is. It's newsagents at global.com. Newsagents at global.com. That's that. |
| 0:54.3 | You can tell the global. |
| 0:55.2 | You don't do it. You don't even know what the email is. It's just double checking. It's like a Socratic dialogue. Yes. Anyway, Calvin has managed to send. Wait, we haven't said welcome to the news agents. Yes, but we haven't had the first question. We do the first question first. So it's all going well. |
| 0:51.3 | Calvin has managed to overcome these significant obstacles we put in place and said, |
| 0:54.8 | is there a reason why elections are not digitised? Would it not be easier quicker and more efficient to count votes this way rather than ticking a box with a pencil? Yes, it'll be much quicker and it'll be so bloody boring. What's the point of having a totally digitised election, which is efficient, |
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