SHOW 123 - Emily Thornberry (Election Special #11)

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🗓️ 25 November 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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The Shadow Foreign Secretary joins Matt to discuss Labour's manifesto, whether it's possible to be neutral on Brexit, whether Emily would press the nuclear button and most important of all: foot fetishes. Follow Emily on Twitter: @EmilyThornberry Download Labour's manifesto here: https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Real-Change-Labour-Manifesto-2019.pdf Follow Matt on Twitter here: @mattforde To receive sporadic and partially useful updates about The Political Party and other such stuff that Matt's up to, sign up to his mailing list here: http://mattforde.com/mailing-list

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the political party, Daliess. We enter week three of this special
0:13.5	election series and today I was joined by Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thumbri. It
0:18.1	was absolutely brilliant interview. She's got some fantastic stories about campaigning.
0:24.4	Keep your stories coming in about the political party podcast at gmail.com. I began by asking
0:29.9	Emily why she just couldn't and why the Labour Party can't just tell us that they will
0:33.8	prepare to press the nuclear button and turn us all into ash.
0:41.8	So the way that it's always been done until recently is that politicians have not been prepared
0:48.4	to say one way or the other whether they would press the button in what circumstances or anything
0:54.2	else. And so all of this yes I'd press the button is meaningless nonsense in my view.
0:59.6	And also you just don't know if you were given the choice let's say whereby half the country has
1:05.9	been blown up and we are about to and Britain is completely uninhabitable for who knows how many
1:13.9	thousands and thousands of years would we be prepared to press a would it lead to be prepared to
1:18.9	press a button whereby another five million people would die and the planet would be annihilated.
1:24.3	Who knows who would do it in those circumstances but I just think giving a glib answer that I
1:29.0	would press the button really is meaningless. Would you be tempted you know do you ever watch the
1:33.2	news and think oh god I'd love to I'd love to set a nuclear bomb off on that guy. No because
1:39.5	because it's never just one person it is millions of sorry to be kind of like serious about this but
1:45.2	it's not a it's not a it's not a you know this is not a computer game you know there will be
1:53.6	millions of innocent civilians and children killed their land will be annihilated for thousands of
2:01.2	years so you know the it's a very serious question it is but if they're prepared to annihilate us
2:10.1	come on I mean I just don't think we can kind of engage in that basis I'm really sorry I'm sorry
2:16.4	to be so boring about it but I do think it's a very serious matter and I need to have thoughtful
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