Rage Against the Nadhim

Oh God, What Now?

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News, Politics, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 27 January 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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The Tories are on the Zahawi to hell as briefing wars break out over sleaze scandals as Johnson lurks on the sidelines. Plus, voter ID is rolling out this year – but it turns out plenty of people don’t have a clue. What might mass disenfranchisement mean? Heidi Alexander, former MP, current Deputy Mayor of London and parliamentary candidate for South Swindon, is this week’s guest. “This exposes just how rigged the game is if you’re really rich.” – Naomi Smith “The more people see of Sunak, they’re not impressed with him… he is not popular on the doorstep.” – Heidi Alexander “Johnson is absolutely out to come back, and we should be aware of this and that his ambitions have not died.” – Ros Taylor “Britain needs a hard reset, switch us off and back on again.” – Naomi Smith www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow Presented by Alex Andreou with Ros Taylor and Naomi Smith. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Producers: Jet Gerbertson and Alex Rees. Assistant Producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz. Audio production by Robin Leeburn. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:58.8	Hello and welcome to O-God What Now, the leopard-to-tank of politics podcasts smashing through the
1:11.9	special military operation of right-wing nonsense. I'm Alex Andre. On today's show, whatever
1:18.4	you do, don't call it a comeback. Boris Johnson in effectually cosplays being Prime Minister,
1:24.8	a scandal after scandal about him surfaces. So pretty much what he did when he actually
1:29.5	was Prime Minister. Plus, identity wars, the Tories have brought in new rules on voter
1:35.1	ID. But two thirds of people don't even know it's happening. Are we on the way to
1:40.8	Georgia's style generational gerrymandering? And in the extra bit, exclusive for Patreon
1:46.9	backers, following the deems of how is carelessly forgetting about an estimated 27 million pounds
1:53.3	down the back of his sofa, what was the panel's most expensive mistake? Let's meet our esteemed
1:59.4	panel. Naomi Smith is an escaped accountant and chief executive best friend. Hello, Naomi.
2:07.0	Recovering accountant. They didn't hold me prisoner.
2:11.6	David Lamy has been setting out foreign policy at Chatham House. The shadow for Insecret
2:16.9	Secretary argued for a normalization of our relationship with EU and got flak both from
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