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Tactical voting, Tory traps and Labour purges

Pod Save the UK

Crooked Media

News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Is a combination of a progressive alliance, tactical voting and proportional representation the way to save the UK from Tory rule? Neal Lawson, founder of the pressure group Compass, argues that there would have been no Boris Johnson or Liz Truss if left-leaning parties had been able to work together. Neal, who’s been a Labour member for 44 years, also explains why he’s facing possible expulsion from the Labour Party for tweeting in favour of tactical voting.

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Bodsev of UK. I'm Coco Khan. And I'm Nishkumar. And this week we're asking

0:15.1

Labour, UK hun. Shouldn't have pied this far ahead in the polls

0:18.4

be a little bit more bold? And where are all the policies we can get behind?

0:22.8

And is it enough to just not be the Tories? Hi Coco. Hi Nish, I wanted who was going

0:29.3

to go first there. And you got in there, you got in there faster, which means that you

0:35.2

have to now ask me about my week. But actually, I would like to ask about your week, plot twist,

0:39.4

thingy. But I always ask you about your week, because invariably you've done more exciting

0:44.1

things than me. I don't think that's true on this particular occasion.

0:47.2

Why? All I've done this week, what have I done this week? Did a lot of cleaning?

0:51.3

Bob and Hymer. Oh, Barbie. Yes, I saw Barbie. I took my mum. That was very nice. She loved

0:56.0

it. And then yeah, it just been doing some admin and listening to documentaries about

1:03.6

sharks. See, even just saying that, I'm feeling like embarrassed. What about you? What

1:07.2

have you been doing? Well, I watched off on Hymer. I'd already seen Barbie. And I had

1:13.4

a great time, enjoyed both of them. There was a part of me when I sat in a full cinema

1:16.8

of, well, well, well, where have you people all been? When I've been sat in cinemas

1:22.4

on my own for the whole these years. Oh, is it? Yes. Because I'm always there. And

1:26.6

now everyone's like, oh, let's go to the cinema. But I am genuinely thrilled that people

1:30.2

went to do it to the cinema to watch these movies. My local cinema has closed down. Really?

1:35.2

Yeah, it's really sad. And now I must travel very far to go to the cinema. So I'm glad

1:41.1

that people are out and forced. I, yeah, I maxed both of them. I had a, I, I maxed

1:46.5

off on Hymer. And I had already seen Barbie. And I very much enjoyed myself. So the problem

1:51.0

with having this conversation is that some of our listeners might not have seen those

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