Relocation,Relocation, Relocation.
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast
Lesley Riddoch and Pat Joyce
4.8 • 259 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn MP will introduce a 10 Minute Rule Bill on WASPI women compensation on which the SNP say they will force a vote. Even if it makes it past this stage it has limited, if no chance, of being implemented as Private Members Bills normally require government support to pass. What then does Stephen Flynn hope to achieve?
Just as there seems to be dissent in Labour ranks both at Holyrood and Westminster over this issue Labour MP Brian Leishman has been extremely vocal over the future of Grangemouth. Is there more to his opposition than standing up for his constituents? Where do the Unions stand ? Why has a Labour government decided to continue with the Tory £600 billion loan to Ineos to set up a plant in Antwerp? What's the controversy surrounding that plant?
Just like its U-Turn on WASPI women Labour now seems intent on reversing its position on a third runway at Heathrow. What does this, when allied to Rachel Reeves making concessions after listening to the "non dom community" tell us about the direction of travel of this government?
Meanwhile the Trump "revolution" is in full swing in the USA. Deportations, threats of trade wars against nations who stand up to him, plans to take over Greenland, and a raft of distinctly dodgy health decisions. He has also shown his true colours on Gaza with his " we just clean out that whole thing" , and relocate one and half million Palestinians to neighbouring Arab nations. We discuss.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, there's quite a lot to do with standing up to people in today's podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | We've got that fabulous Episcopalian bishop, the female bishop, who seems to be the only person who has spoken truth to Donald Trump so far. |
| 0:13.3 | We look at Europe where actually people are having to make decisions about increasing their defence budget to stand up to Russia, Estonia and Lithuania, paying 5% each. |
| 0:21.6 | Will the rest join? |
| 0:22.6 | We look as well at the lack of standing up to Labour in Westminster from Labour in Scotland and how far you can get with that. |
| 0:29.6 | And also the forthcoming event tonight where Humsey Yusuf will hopefully stand up for the people of Gaza |
| 0:36.6 | against Michael Gove who thinks the IDF should have a Nobel Peace Prize. |
| 0:40.5 | Those are the headlines. Now for the podcast. |
| 0:48.5 | Hi, Johns and welcome to this week's Leslie Riddick podcast. |
| 0:52.9 | And I'm looking outside and a blue bin is sitting there waiting to be collected. |
| 0:59.1 | And we were very smart, or smart, scaredy cats on Friday when the bins went in the shed and were tied down and I bungeeed things together so the garden furniture wouldn't blow all over the |
| 1:13.7 | garden unsuccessfully as I may add and it was funny when we're actually talking about the |
| 1:18.6 | introduction to the to this week's podcast we're talking about all these things that had happened |
| 1:23.2 | and then suddenly we both went the weather the wind Friday and it just wish I know there's what |
| 1:32.0 | I was just saying there's one one day you know there's nothing but weather on on the news and everything |
| 1:36.5 | and everyone's wondering what's happening and two days later you're kind of thinking happened last week |
| 1:40.9 | but you know just when you're talking about tying down things, I mean, |
| 1:44.2 | that's for people in Orkney, for example, in Doubtless Shetland, that's kind of their normal. |
| 1:49.0 | I always remember going to a part of Orkney, one of the, it was Westry, I think, one of the Orkney |
| 1:53.6 | islands and seeing this caravan with a inside a kind of a house. I mean, they built, basically built almost a house around a caravan to stop it blowing away. |
| 2:06.5 | Ah, right. |
| 2:07.7 | You know, because there's nothing but stone around it. |
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