Rats in a Sack: The Tory civil war is a go

Oh God, What Now?

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🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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The Tories are at each other’s throats…again. Both Suella Braverman and Priti Patel took a pop at the party’s leadership at recent conservative conferences. Could Sunak survive a looming Tory revolt? And the state pension age may rise to 68, would you return to work if it meant a shot at rebuilding the country? Plus, the panel discusses their favourite accents and why we judge them so much. “The point here about the Conservatives is that they’re finished.” – Tom Peck. “I think it’s a deepening and a radicalisation of the rump that is left of Conservative support in the UK.” – Naomi Smith “I am totally expecting to have to find work when I’m 70, unfortunately.” – Hannah Fearn “I don’t think people are going to go back to their job to rebuild the country, because people just aren’t like that.” – Tom Peck www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow Presented by Group Editor Andrew Harrison with Naomi Smith, Tom Peck and Hannah Fearn. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Producer: Chris Jones. Audio production by Alex Rees. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm John O'Farrill and I'm Angela Barrill.
0:02.9	And our brilliant Less Than Serious podcast We Are History is back with a brand new series.
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0:13.2	Or the history of the Great British, saucy seaside postcard.
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0:28.0	I do have a bit of the Berlin Wall.
0:38.1	Hello and welcome to O God what now. I'm Andrew Harrison.
0:41.3	This week on the show The Fight for the Right,
0:43.6	the hardline Tory National Conservative Conference tries to push the conservatives
0:48.0	even further towards the fringes.
0:49.9	But is it all really just about Operation Dump Rishi?
0:53.0	Plus, could be coming to the end of the Age of Gerontocracy.
0:57.2	Mel Strides, the work and pension secretary,
0:59.6	wants to put the state pension age up to 68 in the first couple of years of the next Parliament,
1:04.3	which the Conservatives will definitely be in charge of.
1:06.4	Could the choirs be about to lose their grip on their client vote?
1:09.9	And in the wake of Liverpool's Eurovision triumph,
1:13.0	Scouse shares with Brummy the distinction of being supposedly the least trustworthy
1:17.6	accents in the country. We rail against this criminal injustice.
1:21.3	Okay, let's meet the panel. Hannah Fern is a columnist for the I News paper.
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