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🗓️ 26 January 2018
⏱️ 33 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
0:03.4 | It was the great ground show marks who once said that you wouldn't want to be a member of a club that would have him in it, |
0:09.4 | which is pretty much my view of going to Davos. |
0:13.0 | I confess, although I began the week thinking I quite liked how much snow boots, |
0:17.8 | chance for a ski, maybe a bit of cheese fondue until I remembered the last time I went to the meeting of the global elite. |
0:25.8 | The time you realised that you're not really in the club at all if you're a journalist attending. |
0:30.8 | This is a place with multiple different coloured badges for the important people. |
0:35.8 | It's only the trumps. |
0:37.8 | It's only the biggest chief executives in the world who get the top badges and go to the top parties. |
0:44.8 | Even chancellors, even prime ministers can find themselves excluded from that. |
0:49.8 | We journalists are miles away. |
0:51.8 | As I discovered when I was chatting to Tony Blair at the end of a news conference he'd done at Davos with Bono |
0:57.8 | and as we moved to the coffee area, a burly Swiss security guard stood in my way, |
1:02.8 | stared at the colour on my badge and made it clear that I wouldn't be taking a single step beyond the room that I was in. |
1:11.8 | Sneer at the global elite as much as you want though, it's funny to note that our political leaders are desperate to be part of it. |
1:19.8 | So Theresa May who talked to the citizens of nowhere dashed to Davos. |
1:24.8 | Their two Jeremy Corbyn's right-hand man and shadowed Chancellor, John McDonald Rubin Shoulders, |
1:30.8 | with the man he spent his life condemning. |
1:33.8 | But what message will he have for the bankers of the world? |
1:37.8 | And now he's not brilliant, I love the idea of job, but Donald is saying, |
1:42.8 | you're a tosser, you're a tosser, I just love it, why is it going to be brilliant? |
1:47.8 | That's my guest on this podcast this week, Jess Phillips, the outspoken Labour-backed Bencher, |
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