Stick to the plan
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Give children brick phones, not smartphones, says this week's guest on the rocket of right thinking, Sophie Winkleman. The Peep Show star gives an insight into her plea to promote screen free learning for children and finds time to share a sprinkling of showbiz gossip on the rocket…
Plus your co-pilots experience some déja-vu, as the Tories demonstrate another set of 'barely managed meltdowns.'
But is the Prime Minister really ‘sticking to the plan?’
Liam gives his take on the latest stagnant inflation figures, but warns that if the PM doesn’t change his plan we could be headed for economic woe and a recession.
And weighing into the latest drama from the Labour Party, Allison thinks the party might be being eaten by its own ‘diversity dragon', and has also found time to invent a new game: introducing ‘Rishi Bingo’.
Read more from Liam: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/liam-halligan/ |
Read more from Allison: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/a/ak-ao/allison-pearson/ |
Read Liam: "The issue that could decide the election - and it's not the economy"https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/02/11/immigration-not-economy-key-election-success/ |
Read Allison: ‘Greedy universities don’t seem to care about white middle-class British kids’https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/02/14/britain-white-middle-class-teenagers-greedy-universities/\
Sophie Winkleman: "Screens in schools are harming our children"
https://www.politicshome.com/thehouse/article/screens-schools-harming-children |
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| 0:00.0 | 5 in this country particularly for the less well off and younger generation starting |
| 0:08.1 | out is bloody hard. |
| 0:10.3 | This could mean that the first big economic headline of 2024, Allison, is Britain went into recession. |
| 0:18.0 | The schools I've gone where tech is used with extreme caution are simply more effective. |
| 0:25.8 | The lessons are more exciting, the children do better. |
| 0:29.8 | We have people in the home office paid for by our taxes extolling a religious dress code? |
| 0:37.0 | One. |
| 0:38.0 | We have left off. Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telegraph Budcars with Allison Pearson. |
| 0:47.0 | Hello? |
| 0:48.0 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
| 0:50.0 | It's the same old, same old Allison, with the Tories in their now familiar pattern of barely managed meltdown. |
| 0:57.0 | So sick are you of the failings of the party of government, so stale to your ears is their message that you've taken to inventing a new game to help |
| 1:05.2 | us get through and endure the tedium of the Prime Minister's TV appearances. |
| 1:09.2 | Rishi bingo, copyright planet, and all that's the game Allison invented by you where players knock back a shot of |
| 1:15.7 | tequila a schnitha of sherry or a wee dram of whiskey every time the prime minister uses one of his |
| 1:21.4 | stock phrases. |
| 1:23.0 | Stick to the plan. |
| 1:24.1 | If we stick to the plan, we can start to deliver change. |
| 1:26.7 | If you don't have a plan, you can't deliver any change. |
| 1:29.1 | Labor simply don't have a plan. |
| 1:30.9 | And as of yesterday, when inflation failed to fall haven't risen |
| 1:34.4 | last month inflation doesn't fall in a straight line but we're sticking to the plan |
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