Sting like a..wasp
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast
Lesley Riddoch and Fraser Thompson
4.8 • 259 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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By the time you listen this, you'll know what we don't, which is the result of the disability cuts vote in the House of Commons, the revised package, which will now only put 150,000 people into poverty. And that's this year. Because next year, of course, is a whole new ball game for those wishing to sign up to PIP.
We speculate on what these reforms and the opposition to them means for Labour Party support, for Keir Starmer's personal authority and popularity. We look also at, last week's Question Time where Lesley was on the panel, having just been stung in the throat by a wasp! Drawn no parallels or importance from that other than it was a strange way to prepare.
We also discuss the big events of the week, Iran, Israel, Palestine, Kneecap and Bob Vylan's and the BBC's decisions to broadcast and not broadcast, which are inadvertently helping to promote artists who are the only people able to bring this issue to the forefront. We also look at NATO spending via a quote from the late great Hamish Henderson, Fraser relfects on his time working in the Westminster Parliament and much more besides.
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| 0:00.0 | By the time you see this, you'll know what we don't, which is the result of the disability cuts vote in the Commons, the revised package, which will now only put 150,000 people into poverty. |
| 0:12.0 | And that's this year, because next year, of course, is a whole new ballgame for those wishing to sign up to PIP. |
| 0:18.8 | We speculate on what that is meaning for Labour Party support for Keir Starmers' |
| 0:25.1 | personal authority and popularity. We look also at last week's question time. I was a |
| 0:31.0 | panellist on that, having just been stung in the throat by a wasp, draw no parallels or importance |
| 0:37.3 | from that other than it was a strange way to prepare. |
| 0:40.7 | And obviously the big events of the week, Iran, Israel, Palestine, kneecap, Bob Villain and the BBC's |
| 0:49.8 | decisions to broadcast and not broadcast, which are inadvertently helping to promote artists who are the only people able to bring this issue to the forefront. |
| 1:01.1 | We must have national demonstrations now because nothing else is moving the politicians. |
| 1:07.2 | Those are the headlines. Now for the podcast. |
| 1:28.5 | Well, hi folks and welcome to this week's Leslie Riddick podcast. It's a week where the English middle classes at Glastow went from O.O. Jeremy Corbin to Buck Buck, Hugh, Tears Starmer. The BBC went from being big, bold and doing as they were told by no platforming the Irish group, knee, only for Bob Willem to up the ante and what is shaping up to be a career-ending moment for the director general |
| 1:33.6 | of the BBC, Tim Davie. Leslie, you were in Alipal and now you're in Stornoway. Has any of this? |
| 1:39.6 | Froth reached you? And what else have you been up to this week? |
| 1:43.1 | No, the froth? Well, the froth, well the froth |
| 1:45.1 | kind of hasn't, although I'm obviously, you know, just about managing to see what's happening |
| 1:49.6 | online. But, you know, it's not, it's not the talk of the steamy yet for everybody, but then |
| 1:55.3 | perhaps I have been doing other things. I was showing the film about Applecross in Ullipal, |
| 2:00.5 | which might seem a bit confusing. |
| 2:02.3 | And it ended up then that we had a big, big debate about the other big issue in the Highlands, |
| 2:07.0 | which is sort of, you know, when farms planned everywhere, which it would have to be said lots of yesers just don't understand |
| 2:14.3 | why the Scottish government is using its planning powers to knob most of these |
| 2:18.2 | things through. So it's been that kind of focus up to now. And I'm here in Stornoway for a |
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