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The Lesley Riddoch Podcast
Lesley Riddoch and Fraser Thompson
4.6 • 274 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode we discuss the SNP conference which has been something of a triumph for John Swinney. His position on independence was accepted and he made a pretty bouncy closing speech. But what if next May the elections have a result that the combination of independence parties exceeds the 65-seat majority when the SNP alone does not?
In this conference episode we also look at the energy policy that was discussed. Is it time to have a really bold policy as Tommy Sheppard and the SNP Trade UInion Group proposed. That is to set up local heat companies, which is something that can be done now under the powers of devolution. Since nobody's arguing against this will it actually happen?
We look at the walk-in GP centers idea. Fraser has had some actual experience this weekend of the provision down south in England, and we talk about much else besides.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The ESNP conference has been something of a triumph for John Swinney. His position on independence |
| 0:04.6 | was accepted. He made a pretty bouncy closing speech. But what if next May the elections |
| 0:11.2 | have a result that the combination of independence parties exceeds the 65-seat majority |
| 0:17.5 | when the SNP alone does not. |
| 0:21.8 | We look also at energy policy that was discussed. |
| 0:25.1 | Is it time to have a really bold policy, as Tommy Shepherd and the trade union group want, to |
| 0:31.4 | set up local heat companies, which is something we are allowed to do under the Scotland |
| 0:36.6 | Act. And since nobody's |
| 0:38.5 | arguing with that, when will it just happen? We look at the walk-in centre's idea. Fraser has had |
| 0:43.9 | some actual experience this weekend of the provision down south in England. And we talk about |
| 0:51.2 | much else besides. Those are the headlines now for the podcast. |
| 0:54.3 | Well, hi folks and welcome to this week's Leslie Riddock podcast. |
| 0:58.2 | We started off, or we ended up last week, suggesting that Kemi was toast before the Tory leader speech. |
| 1:06.6 | And looking forward or projecting forward, perhaps more appropriately, to the SMP conference that's just been at the weekend. |
| 1:15.5 | Kemi is apparently now not toast and there were bizarre scenes of Tory delegates coming out weeping from the hall as to how good her speech was, which was bizarre to say the least. |
| 1:30.1 | And the right wing press was giving it all is forgiven. |
| 1:35.6 | Leslie, you've had the joys of being in Aberdeen for the weekend. |
| 1:40.2 | I am sadly, I've been in London and had a wee stint of NHS England to compare and contrast later. |
| 1:47.7 | How were things with you? |
| 1:50.1 | I don't think anything will top your experience there, actually. |
| 1:54.5 | I've got to be honest, I only went up for, was it Saturday? |
| 1:58.5 | Yeah, for the independence debate. |
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