Seizing The Moment
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast
Lesley Riddoch and Pat Joyce
4.8 • 259 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Rachel Reeves' big speech on growth. We ask where was Scotland in the raft of major projects?
Hard on the heels of this came the shock, not to anyone who'd been paying attention, news that the CEO of GB Energy, Juergen Maier, could not only give no date for the £300 reduction in consumer bills promised by Labour at the General Election but also that the one thousand Scottish jobs would take around 20 years to materialise.
Sticking with Labour is there another U-turn on policy in the pipeline despite the Court of Session ruling by Lord Ericht putting a stop on oil and gas production in the Rosebank and Jackdaw fields? Will Starmer side with Rachel Reeves, the GMB and Scottish Labour, and give the go ahead to drill? Or will Ed Milliband stand up to those voices and refuse to issue new licences?
We, in the light of listener Simon Brooke's excellent contribution, re-examine the validity of the claims made by the industry on so called sustainable aviation fuel?
Donald Trump has called time out on his plans to impose tariffs on Canada and Mexico. What's the reality behind the bluster? What's in store for the UK and the EU?
Lesley looks at the historical precedence for US expansionism and just why Trump might be so keen on taking over Greenland.
Suella Braverman trotted off to the USA to display her MAGA credentials at Trump's inauguration. She hung around to go "full Trump" in her speech to the Heritage Foundation . Is she signalling a potential jump to Reform, or is this an ongoing part of a campaign to oust Kemi Badenoch as Tory leader by shifting even further to the right? All of this within the context of Reform's rise in the polls.
Plus
Last in Iceland series that explains why Icelanders pay £60 pcm for heat, hot water & electricity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXBEDk_o_hI&t=610s
Why does Trump want Greenland explainer video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYfSlQaIEXk
Brave New Music book about Martyn Bennett
https://luath.co.uk/products/brave-new-music?variant=54829697007992
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you're a Scottish Labour MP, there's quite a lot of bending yourself out of shape going on and it's going to get worse. |
| 0:06.8 | You already have had to vote against or just be doing something else when the Waspy debate happened last week. |
| 0:13.2 | You'll already have to have accepted the two child cap, the scrapping of winter fuel payments. |
| 0:19.9 | And you're going to have to now accept that airport expansion in London, Heathrow, Luton Gatwick, |
| 0:25.6 | is actually part of a green strategy. |
| 0:28.5 | And you're going to have to accept that drilling in Rosebank, which was found to be a process |
| 0:33.2 | that was unlawful in the Supreme Court, that that is an existing application |
| 0:37.6 | which can probably go through |
| 0:39.2 | and will make no impact on the environment at all. |
| 0:43.0 | And you'll have to accept that Rachel Reeves put through |
| 0:45.8 | a big speech last week that mentioned Bedford more than Scotland. |
| 0:50.5 | You'll have to accept all of that. |
| 0:52.2 | That comes probably with the territory. But what about Scottish voters? |
| 0:56.6 | We look as well in the podcast at the fact that Labour are doing pretty badly in the opinion polls, |
| 1:03.0 | but it's that rather than an SNP surge that's predicted for the next elections here in Scotland. |
| 1:09.8 | So a bit of a plague on all their houses, but what is going on and can nobody seize the moment |
| 1:15.5 | when there is such seismic change afoot because of Donald Trump? |
| 1:19.7 | Those are the headlines. Now for the podcast. |
| 1:27.3 | Hi, Johns and welcome to this week's Leslie with Riddick podcast. |
| 1:31.9 | You know, it's a funny kind of thing, you know, that I often get commented upon how often I mention football. |
| 1:38.5 | And I'm going to start off with football here. |
| 1:41.2 | Yeah, I'm going to start off with Manchester United. |
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