Soaking up the political gravy
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
The bell has rung for Parliamentary recess but the political drama shows no signs of slowing down, and neither do our co-pilots.
Fresh from announcing he'll be standing down at the next election, MP Sir Charles Walker joins our co-pilots on the rocket to explain why he thinks it would be ‘heroic’ and ‘courageous’ for the PM to resign. He also says that the public has to shoulder some responsibility for lockdown measures, and highlights the importance of political 'Yorkshire pudding' for Boris Johnson's future (listen to find out what that means!).
Also on the podcast, as Sajid Javid unveils his latest plans to shift the NHS backlog, our co-pilots share their own concerns. Allison thinks the Health Secretary is lacking urgency in this ‘matter of life and death’, while Liam thinks a proper debate, prompted by the media, is needed to restructure our healthcare system.
And there is another entertaining delve into the mailbag as listeners share some entertaining anecdotes from their childhood that young people today might find incomprehensible...
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:02.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:03.0 | ...podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Five. |
| 0:10.0 | I think there's too much blood in the water for the sharks to go away now. |
| 0:14.0 | Four. |
| 0:15.0 | I always liken parliamentary recesses to Yorkshire puddings. |
| 0:20.0 | They do soak up a lot of political gravy. |
| 0:23.0 | Three. |
| 0:24.0 | I think on your Twitter had an awesome person permanently outraged. |
| 0:29.0 | Two. |
| 0:30.0 | I booked you in for a Bunyan operation in October, 2029. |
| 0:36.0 | What do you think? |
| 0:37.0 | Morning or afternoon? |
| 0:38.0 | One. |
| 0:39.0 | We have the start. |
| 0:45.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telugu-arth podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 0:49.0 | Hello. |
| 0:50.0 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
| 0:52.0 | Now, today, the day Planet Normal's released, marks the start of House of Commons recess. |
| 0:58.0 | Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be hoping the absence of MPs from Westminster will lower the political temperature, |
| 1:04.0 | perhaps slowing the steady flow of letters to the chairman of the 1922 committee. |
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