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Oh God, What Now?

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Oh God, What Now?

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News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Sunak and Starmer's battle of the speeches marked this year’s first blue on red ding dong. What are their respective pitches? The panel plays a game of spot the difference between the pair’s positions and policies. Plus, as the PM tries to hibernate through the new Winter of Discontent – is he sleepwalking towards a General Strike? And, finally, we unpack the pros and cons of tea-spilling biographies. Anybody heard about one of those recently? “None of these policies mean anything. There’s no time given for debt falling.” – Ian Dunt  “It’s not about what the people want, it’s about wavering target voters.” – Ian Dunt  “I can’t see a world where Sunak doesn’t lead the Conservatives into the next election, so now Labour knows who the opponent is.” – Marie Le Conte  “The Government assumed the usual dynamics around strikes would prevail, and they have not prevailed.” – Ian Dunt  “We have a bunch of not very talented people shunted into ministerial positions saying what they think they’re meant to say.” – Gavin Esler  www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow Presented by Alex Andreou with Gavin Esler, Ian Dunt and Marie Le Conte . 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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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to O'God What Now, the Stattler and Waldorf of Politics Podcasts

0:11.1

shouting down muppets in other forms. I'm Alex Andro. On today's show, Rissi Sunak and

0:17.6

Kierstarmer observed dry jangery in Viggeny with two of the most desiccated meat-free

0:23.4

speeches I can remember. We chew through them, but how much can we swallow? Plus, turns

0:29.5

out, people quite like nurses. Is the government beginning to show a little ankle to striking

0:34.6

workers? Ministers have been meeting with unions two months too late, willing to discuss

0:39.8

money. And are you in the market for a new dog bowl after your family drama this Christmas?

0:46.0

Prince Harry's tell all memoirs has angered our famously sanguine tabloids, but is

0:51.5

they more than gossiped to this story? First up, it's pen for hire and author of Honourable

0:57.6

Miss Fitz haven't you heard and escape? Marie Leconde, hello Marie. Hello. Rissi Sunak pledged

1:04.1

to keep school children in maths classes until they're 18, prompting Simon Peg to respond

1:11.1

and I quote, what a prick, fuck the Tories, fuck them, what a tossler. But you reveal that

1:18.8

you do a level algebra exam questions for fun. What made you like this?

1:23.7

I really, really enjoy solving equations. I think it's so the why would describe it is

1:30.9

when you're cutting wrapping paper with scissors and then eventually it starts gliding and

1:35.8

that feels as good as heroin. I think there is a bit when you solve an equation and you're

1:40.6

just like and you crack it and you crack the way you're going to do it, which is exactly

1:44.1

a satisfying. But also I think the more serious thing I'd say is that it's just logic.

1:48.9

Like when you're not, obviously I'm not talking about really hard math or anything, but that

1:52.3

more basic stuff is just logic. So I always solve equations in a way that I think would

1:56.5

make math teachers cry like genuinely like, you know, when I was at school I always got

2:01.1

point stock for because teachers were like, I don't even understand how you got the right

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