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Oh God, What Now?

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Oh God, What Now?

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Politics, News, Government, Society & Culture

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Vultures circle as the Owen Paterson scandal disintegrates into a circular Tory firing squad featuring Geoffrey Cox (hon. member for the Virgin Islands), vengeful whips, an absentee unmasked PM… and a collapsed Conservative poll lead. Plus COP26 winds down, we talk to PETER STOTT, author of Hot Air to find out how climate denial has morphed into a campaign to smear climate mitigation as “too costly”. And ARTHUR SNELL drops in to introduce our new sibling podcast Doomsday Watch, a deep dive into mammoth global threats that media and leaders are ignoring. “Being in power is not enough. They need to be in power with nobody looking over their shoulders. And now, everyone is looking over their shoulders.” – ALEX ANDREOU “The Paterson story is so simple. Man took money. Government changed rules to get him off. Even the Mail could see it.” – NAOMI SMITH “There’s an internal implosion going on in the Conservative Party – and it’s delightful to witness.” – ALEX ANDREOU “We need to stop talking about climate ‘sceptics’. They’re not sceptics. Scepticism is a tool of science. They’re deniers.” – PETER STOTT “The Tories are terrified at this story that they’ve all got their noses in the trough because… they’ve all got their noses in the trough.” – ALEX ANDREOU Paterson no, Patreon yes! Back us at www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow Buy Peter Stott’s Hot Air: https://amzn.to/31JkIxD Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Naomi Smith and Alex Andreou. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Audio production by Alex Rees. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Ogod What Now. I'm Dorian Lensky. Let's meet this week's panel,

0:11.1

taking time out from their lucrative other jobs. Naomi Smith is chief executive of Best for

0:16.6

Britain. You should be paid three times more. Hello Naomi. Hello. It's lovely to be back

0:21.8

in the actual studio. The Tory MP for Windsor Adam Afriya is facing bankruptcy proceedings

0:28.8

over unpaid taxes. Potentially he would have to step down triggering yet another by-election.

0:34.4

This story was first rumored back in 2019. The tax issue goes back a few years. What's

0:40.3

going on here? Why is it in issue now? I mean, with everything with the Conservative Party,

0:46.4

this is pretty murky and unclear. The current petition for bankruptcy is the result of

0:53.6

HMRC chasing him for a typically evasive statement on his behalf described as complex reasons

1:00.6

to his past business interests. But look, if it's only parliamentary rules that mean

1:10.8

to faces a by-election, you can probably take comfort in the fact that the Prime Minister

1:14.0

will probably just change the rules so that it doesn't have to. So this is still a

1:17.8

story in progress, but there are looming by-elections in three safe Tory seats,

1:22.2

O'empatheson's Northropshire, the late James Broganshire's Old Bexley and SIGGUP, and

1:27.0

David Amos's South End West. Opposition parties won't contest the latter out of respect

1:31.5

for Amos. But what should we be looking out for in the other two if a kind of Tory defeat

1:37.5

is too much to hope for? Yeah. Well, they are very safe Conservative seats,

1:43.8

both one with over 60% of the vote at the last election and Besser Britain's current polling,

1:51.6

which was done before the Sleece scandals broke, but is only a couple of months old,

1:55.1

are both showing very clear signs that they would be Conservative holds. We did look at

2:01.4

unity candidates and whether they would have an impact in those seats, yes, they closed

2:05.9

the gap, but the gap is so big in those sorts of seats that it's unlikely. That said,

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