Show 255 - Ayesha Hazarika
Matt Forde's Political Party
The Political Party
4.7 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2021
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
If you like surprises you're going to love this. Ayesha has so many brilliant stories from her time in politics and her account of the night of the 2015 election is absolutely electric. It's one of many great tales that will have you completely absorbed, including her visit to Iraq shortly after the removal of Saddam Hussein. Ayesha is also a successful comedian, writer and broadcaster. She reflects on her varied career and how she became political while working in the civil service.
Follow Ayesha on Twitter: @AyeshaHazarika
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the political party. Today's guest is Ayesha Hazarika. Someone who really |
| 0:14.8 | should have been on the show probably a few times before now but the benefit of waiting |
| 0:19.6 | is that longer view and the extra stories that are now contained within. And oh my god, |
| 0:26.5 | Ayesha got some amazing stories particularly about visiting a rack but especially about if |
| 0:33.0 | that's a contradiction the night of the 2015 election. That stuff will knock your socks off. |
| 0:39.4 | That is full on, fly on the wall. HD detail. Oh my god. I mean obviously if you're a |
| 0:47.6 | labor person it's probably very distressing to listen to or cathartic now. It's been a few years |
| 0:51.8 | but my word. There's some amazing stuff in there and some really great stuff about Harriet |
| 0:57.8 | Harmon and working for Harriet. And just there's a load of stuff I didn't know about Ayesha and how |
| 1:02.6 | she became politicized and what her way into politics was and then where she effectively decided |
| 1:08.8 | her labor values were and where she places herself on the spectrum of politics. So there's a whole |
| 1:14.6 | load of stuff but the election stuff. My god is amazing. Before we come on to more about that |
| 1:21.5 | this wonderful interview with Ayesha don't forget you can email the show politicalpartypodcast |
| 1:26.2 | at gmail.com and a regular thread now is unusual places you've seen politicians or strange encounters |
| 1:34.2 | with them. Now Neil Kinnex has been cropping up a lot in these emails but Richard has been in touch. |
| 1:39.4 | He said I was in South London showing the local election campaign of 2002 when Jack Straw was |
| 1:45.3 | doing some campaigning. I was there reporting on it for the local paper and he was saying hello |
| 1:49.7 | to people who were out shopping. I was hanging around on the edge of the group who were talking to him |
| 1:53.7 | and noticed a man come up to him holding a large snake. Sure that's what it was. He said he was very |
| 2:00.3 | friendly and shook Mr. Straw's hand and chatted with him about local issues and because it was |
| 2:03.9 | crowded and he had the snake on the other side of his body Jack Straw did not see the snake. I |
| 2:09.9 | remember being worried about what might happen but it all passed off without incident. As Mr. |
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