The End is Nige – What happens if Reform win?

Oh God, What Now?

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News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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• Join our OGWN vs Origin Story Tenth Birthday Podclash on Zoom on Thur 30 April. What happens if Reform actually wins? We dive into a darkly plausible near-future where Nigel Farage becomes PM and everything goes… about as well as you’d expect. It’s all gamed out in a new fact-based “non-fiction thriller”, What If Reform Wins? by our special guest, Times reporter Peter Chappell – from how Reform would tackle an ICE-style crackdown to the end of Net Zero and the return of Dominic Cummings. This could be the future, so how do we stop it? Plus: Is the UK ready for a politics that does God? The IMF warns Britain could take the biggest hit from the Iran War’s economic shock. Should we get behind Samantha Niblett MP’s Summer of Sex? And in the Extra Bit… after the smooth dancefloor moves of victorious Hungarian MP Zsolt Hegedűs “broke the internet” we ask – should politicians be less embarrassed about dancing? • Pre-order What If Reform Wins: A Scenario by Peter Chappell – it’s out 30 April. • Questions for But Your Emails? Thoughts? Comments? Email us at ogwn@podmasters.co.uk ESCAPE ROUTES • Marie read and loved The Door by Magda Szabó. • Jonn recommends No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood. • Peter went ceilidh dancing at Cecil Sharp House in Camden, north London. • Matt is watching Steve Carrel’s new series Rooster on HBO Max, Now and Sky. www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow • When you buy books through our affiliate bookshop and you’ll help fund the podcast by earning us a small commission for every sale. Bookshop.org’s fees help support independent bookshops too. Presented by Matt Green with Marie Le Conte and Jonn Elledge. Audio Production by Tom Taylor. Art direction: James Parrett. Theme tune by Tom Taylor and Simon Williams. Managing Editor: 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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0:00.0	Like the podcasts, but not the adverts, no problem. Just support us on Patreon. You'll get every episode without interruptions and you'll be helping independent podcasts like Oh God What Now to thrive. Follow the link in the show notes to find out more.
0:15.5	Hello and welcome to Oh God What Now, the politics podcast that won't tell the Pope how to be a Catholic. I'm Matt Green.
0:26.2	On today's show, we take a peek into a dark potential future where reform wins the general
0:31.1	election and Farage becomes Prime Minister. What would that look like and what would happen next?
0:37.3	Plus, we're used to seeing American politics drenched in religion, but is religion coming back into British public life as well?
0:43.3	The likes of Tommy Robinson are trying to claim Jesus for their own, but is the UK ready for a politics that does God?
0:48.3	And in the extra bit for Patreon supporters, after the smooth dance floor moves of victorious Hungarian MP Zolt Hegerush broke the internet,
0:55.7	we ask, should politicians be less embarrassed about dancing?
1:00.5	Now, the straight-of-horn moves may be double-blockaded, which sounds pretty uncomfortable,
1:03.9	but luckily for us, one thing you can't blockade is top-quality political chat, so on with the show.
1:08.3	Before we start, an exciting announcement. Podmasters, the fiercely
1:11.4	independent podcasting studio that brings you, Oh God, What Now, and great shows like The Bunker and Talk 90s
1:16.2	to me is 10 years old this month. We have lots of exciting Podmaster's 10 events coming up,
1:21.7	and the first is a special live Zoom on Thursday the 30th of April, a pod clash between two of our
1:27.2	top shows, oh god, what
1:28.5	now, naturally, and Origin Story. Andrew Harrison and Marie Lecont of this parish will go to toe to-to-to with the Romaniacs veterans Ian Dunt and Dorian Linsky of Origin Story in an hour of no-holds-barred political squabbling. It's free to Patriens and it's limited to the first 300 signups. So follow the link in the show notes, join us on Patreon and register quick with its once-in-a-lifetime video experience.
1:52.2	Right, let's welcome today's panel.
1:54.1	John Elegge is a new statesman columnist who is currently sweating on the legales and edits for his new book,
1:58.6	35 inventions that change the world, how we built modern life.
2:01.7	Hello, John.
2:02.4	Hello, Matt.
2:02.9	Please kill me.
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