Tea with Biden, scandal at the BBC and drugs with the Greens

Pod Save the UK

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News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

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🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

While the UK was losing its senses over a sex scandal, the BBC and a tabloid newspaper, Nish brings some sanity. His advice to journalists and politicians: if you know nothing, why not shut up? What we learn from the story is that the UK needs more facts and less speculation. In Nish’s crosshairs is Tory MP Lee Anderson. He called the BBC a “safe haven for perverts” while his party and Westminster faces an epidemic of sexual harassment allegations. Carla Denyer - co leader of the Green Party in England and Wales - is Coco and Nish’s special guest. The Greens could offer the most radical policies at the next General Election: taxing on multi millionaires, decriminalising drugs and welcoming migrants. But can the party persuade trans people the Greens are their ally?

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0:00.0	Hi, this is PotSafe the UK. I'm Nishkumar. And I'm Coco Khan. And it ain't easy being
0:16.0	green. Just ask the green party. Their only MP is stepping down. Groups like Just Stop Oil
0:24.0	and Extinction Rebellion are stealing their thunder. But are the green party actually
0:28.1	the most radical party in British politics today? We speak to their co-leader, Karla
0:32.9	Denja. Hi, Nish, how's your week been? It's been pretty good. I've been doing some
0:39.5	stand-up and I went to Brighton and Hackney. So I'm really branching out of my left wing
0:46.0	bubble. I'm hoping to take in Manchester and Bristol next. How was your week? My week
0:52.6	was, since we last met, I did some work which was fine. The weekend I went to a house
0:58.6	party and that was really fun. You're to a house party? I know. I thought that was beyond
1:02.6	us. 2006 called. They want to meet you in the kitchen. I thought it on mid to late 30s.
1:09.2	The year of the house party was over. I'm so grateful for the handful of friends I
1:13.6	haven't still do this. I thought we'd graduated to dinner parties. Oh, no, no, no. I'm still
1:19.7	in my house party mode. I just don't get the invite. But it was really good and it went
1:25.0	on quite late and then the next day I had to go into kind of comfort, womb mode. Would
1:31.3	you describe yourself as being in a state of chemical distress? I would describe myself
1:35.4	as being very fragile, extremely fragile. To put it in context, I watched Damien Lewis
1:41.6	perform his weird mumbling version of God Save the King at the F1. Have you seen that
1:46.5	no? Oh, Nish. You have got to see it. Damien Lewis from Homeland. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:53.1	And he's doing a kind of cruna version of God Save the King while a guy plays saxophone
1:58.6	and it is not parody. What at the F1? I don't think I realised. I didn't realise they did
2:06.2	national anthems at the F1. Silverstone, yeah, yeah, yeah, they do. Yeah, you've got to
2:10.1	see it. It's very Vick Reeves. Right. Vick Reeves club singing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I had
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