Summary
Is Scotland and the wider UK facing a 'summer of discontent'? BBC Scotland consumer affairs correspondent Connor Gillies joins the Podlitical team to discuss the rail strikes and the ongoing cost of living crisis. As inflation hits a 40 year high, what does this mean for budgets on both the personal and Government level, and are there any economic levers that can be pulled to tamp down the sky high costs of food, fuel, and more?
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.6 | Hi, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:15.9 | That brings you an inside look at the big stories coming out of Holyrood and Westminster. |
| 0:20.5 | It's 33 minutes past |
| 0:22.8 | two on Wednesday the 22nd of June. I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow and today I'm |
| 0:28.5 | joined by. I'm Lindsay Buse, a journalist based at the Scottish Parliament. I'm Phil Sim, |
| 0:33.4 | a journalist also based at the Scottish Parliament. I'm Roder Sopundu, a journalist based in Westminster at the Parliament. |
| 0:39.7 | And I'm Connor Gillis based at Pacific Key in Glasgow. |
| 0:43.6 | Hello everybody. |
| 0:44.5 | Shall we just pretend that the past half an hour hasn't happened, |
| 0:48.4 | the past half an hour of technical difficulties? |
| 0:51.1 | I don't know what you're talking about. |
| 0:52.4 | Everything's fine. |
| 0:54.0 | That we've had trying to get this together. |
| 0:57.2 | So, canny listeners might notice that we're recording this on a Wednesday. |
| 1:02.3 | You know, notice what day it is. |
| 1:04.6 | Various reasons why. |
| 1:06.1 | There are by-elections tomorrow. |
| 1:07.5 | So we have a kind of political impartiality reason for doing it. But also |
| 1:12.7 | various events had conspired against us this week. So Wednesday was an easier day for us to record |
| 1:18.6 | or so we thought. But as I say, we've just had half an hour of technical difficulties. We're all |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.