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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Start Your Week: LOCKDOWN SHOWDOWN with Naomi Smith

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

As Britain approaches the horrific landmark of 100,000 COVID deaths, will lockdown hawks force the Government to reopen the economy too soon – again? Plus the worsening mess in customs, import and export. Best for Britain launches a campaign to get COVID support to the 3m workers that Sunak forgot. And it’s bad news for hedgehogs as Chris Grayling takes up their case. Naomi Smith sets out the week ahead with Andrew Harrison.  “The Covid Recovery Group is no more interested in our recovery from Covid than the European Research Group was in researching Europe.”  “The best things in life are free, but for everything else there’s ‘sovereignty’.” “People won’t wake up until they have to pay customs via chip-and-pin at the doorstep.”  “Rollback of workers’ rights is a Brexiteers’ wet dream.”  Presented and produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved

0:05.5

photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.

0:11.8

Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?

0:13.0

I loved going to college.

0:14.0

It's good you can retrain and do something.

0:16.0

Yeah, yeah.

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0:36.7

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0:55.3

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1:14.0

for in the next seven days it's best for Britain CEO Naomi Smith hello Naomi how you

1:18.3

doing morning Andrew thanks for getting up early it's snow day so nobody has to go to school or work. What a massive change.

1:24.6

That's so exciting. Yes, COVID is clearly going to dominate the week again. Groundhog week.

1:32.1

It's highly likely that we will pass 100,000 deaths this week, which is just astonishing.

1:38.0

But it looks like the issue of COVID restrictions are going to come to our head.

1:41.0

The right-wing COVID recovery group is pushing for a timetable to end

1:44.5

lockdowns once the main at-risk groups are vaccinated. The chairman of the education

1:48.6

select committee Robert Half and has asked for a plan to reopen schools with priority vaccination of teachers and so on and the government is saying

1:54.9

it's all too soon. What do you think is going to happen? Well first off the COVID recovery group with all the usual suspects of Steve Baker and Mark Harper,

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