The Crime Minister

Oh God, What Now?

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🗓️ 14 April 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Johnson becomes the first PM to be convicted of a crime when in office. We look at the times Britain HAS changed its PM during a war, the fines that are coming – and how Johnson is now hiding behind the Ukrainian people so he doesn’t get No Confidenced. Aussi, la merde frappe le ventilateur in the French elections. And Penny Mordaunt, Tank Girl. Labour MP for Leeds NW Alex Sobel is our special guest. “You don’t have to be a Non-Dom to be a Chancellor – but it helps, right?” – Naomi Smith “The question is, where is the bottom of the Tories’ moral compass? How low can Johnson go?” – Alex Sobel “My own father died during COVID and I wasn’t able to touch him – because I, like everyone else except our leaders, followed the rules.” – Naomi Smith “I would be willing to put my hand on my heart and say that Rishi Sunak will never be Conservative Party leader.” – Alex Sobel “Populism is the promise that the harshest possible laws will apply to everyone else. That is the Le Pen offer.” – Alex Andreou “Everyone forgets that the main reason Sunak became Chancellor was simply because he was compliant.” – Alex Sobel Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Naomi Smith and Alex Andreou. Producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Assistant producer: Elina Ganatra. Audio production Alex Rees. Theme music by Cornershop. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:59.5	Hello and welcome to O-God What Now. I'm Dorian Lensky. Let's meet this week's panel.
1:12.9	First up, commentator Alex Andreu. Hi Alex. Hello Dorian. What are the latest glad tidings
1:18.2	from the British economy? They're not so glad. GDP figures, growth figures for February
1:26.7	were at the beginning of the week. The economy grew by a pretty anemic 0.1% that might be
1:33.4	down great, it actually. Down from 0.8% growth in January and well below what every expert
1:40.2	was forecasting, including the OBR. Then inflation figures for March were at midweek, 7% up
1:48.7	from 6.2. Basically adding to fears that we are now seeing what this podcast has been
1:54.6	predicting for a while, which is stagflation. The problem with that is that basically classic
2:01.9	Kenji and economics or modern monetary theory solutions are also limited because inflation
2:08.4	was high. If you cast your mind back to the discussions where we're having around austerity,
2:14.2	the question was always why are they boring more because interest rates are so low and inflation
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