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The Bunker

The Barge that Flopped — Start Your Week with Alex Andreou and Ros Taylor

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

4.6984 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The Bibby Stockholm plan has been beset by legionella. Who could have seen this coming? The Tories want us to leave the European Convention on Human Rights, why are they obsessed with chaos? Plus, this week is ‘health week’. Given that doctors are on strike, what could possibly go wrong? We also have an update on wildfires in Maui, the latest from Niger’s military coup, and the stories you may have missed. Ros Taylor is joined by Alex Andreou to give you the news to look out for in the week ahead. “The Government couldn’t organise a fire in a match factory.” – Alex Andreou “Sunak has all of his plans pinned on the weather.” – Alex Andreou “Labour’s plan is an unsexy but important one: to make the state work again.” Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Ros Taylor and Alex Andreou. Producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production: Jade Bailey. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved

0:05.5

photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.

0:11.8

Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?

0:13.0

I loved going to college.

0:14.0

It's good you can retrain and do something.

0:16.0

Yeah, yeah.

0:17.0

Let's talk about working, learning, saving and making the most of living longer.

0:22.0

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0:28.0

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0:30.0

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0:32.0

From those happy greetings at the door to the warm cuddles on the sofa

0:36.7

so give a little love back with dental life from Purina a range of delicious chues made for dogs and tasty snacks for cats that help clean and support your pets, teeth and gums, essential for their overall well-being and a happy, healthy life. They give you plenty of smiles so

0:55.3

look after theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Hello and welcome to Bunker Start Your Week I'm Ros Taylor and joining me is Alex Andreu. Hello Alex.

1:14.3

Good morning, Ros welcome back. Thank you. I actually got back from holiday on

1:20.1

Saturday and as we were flying over the channel I looked down at the Port of Dover and I thought how peaceful it looked. How wrong I was. Six migrants died that day when their overloaded boat capsized. The tourists themselves dubbed last week small boats week

1:36.0

they made a series of announcements supposed to tackle the problem but instead the drownings

1:40.5

and the fiasco over the bibibi Stockholm Barge dominated the news.

1:45.2

Meanwhile, the number of migrants arriving in the UK and small boats has risen substantially

1:49.9

in the past few days, more than 1600 since Thursday.

1:54.6

Alex, is this now becoming the defining issue for Rishi Sunag?

1:58.6

Yes, it is.

1:59.6

And bizarrely, it is actually the Tories who have pushed this into the spotlight to have made

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