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Political Thinking with Nick Robinson

The David Lammy One

Political Thinking with Nick Robinson

BBC

News, Politics

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The campaigning Labour MP on politicians standing up to "their bloody electorates", taking on the establishment over Grenfell and Windrush and how singing changed his life.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the BBC.

0:03.6

It's become a bit of a cliche,

0:05.8

uttered from the mouths of comfortable,

0:09.0

middle-aged, middle-class,

0:11.3

establishment people.

0:13.3

People like me, you might say,

0:15.3

that there is too much anger in modern politics,

0:19.0

and yet real rage, real anger,

0:22.8

real passion,

0:24.6

sometimes sets politics a light.

0:27.7

This is a day of national shame,

0:30.5

and it has come about because of a hostile environment,

0:33.8

policy that was begun under her Prime Minister.

0:37.4

Let us call it as it is.

0:39.4

If you lay down with dogs, you get fleas,

0:42.8

and that is what has happened

0:44.2

with this far-right rhetoric in this country.

0:47.5

You may just have heard me say on this podcast before,

0:50.7

that if you really want to understand

0:53.2

what makes a politician tick,

0:55.4

you need to ask them

0:56.9

what makes them angry.

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