The King’s Speech: Milli Vanilli in a gold hat

Pod Save the UK

Crooked Media

News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

King Charles’ first State Opening of Parliament as monarch, provides plenty of pomp, pageantry and politics for Nish and Coco to get stuck into. It’s a spectacle that throws up lots of questions, including who is Black Rod, and why does an MP get taken hostage by the Palace? As the Government presents its legislative agenda for the year ahead, we ask why is it so slim? Could it signal an early election? Nish and Coco are also incredulous as to why, with so much that needs fixing in this country, valuable space in the speech is given over to cracking down on pedicabs!! The New Statesman’s politics correspondent Zoe Grunewald is on hand to explain the splits in Labour over Gaza, as we see the first resignation from Keir Starmer’s front bench. We also discuss why so much political hot air is being expelled over this weekend’s pro-Palestinian protest - is it really disrespectful to have an anti-war march on Remembrence weekend? One of the loudest critics has of course been Home Secretary Suella Braverman - following a string of controversial pronouncements, we wonder if she’s actually trying to get herself sacked by Rishi Sunak?

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Coco Khan. And I'm Nishkumar. Welcome to the state opening of Podsave the UK.
0:17.0	Yes, I've travelled to the studio in a golden horse-drawn carriage. My baseball cap had a separate vehicle.
0:23.0	And I've accessed the studio by banging on the door three times with a big black rod.
0:28.0	No, I'm not talking about a new slum and crowbar.
0:30.0	Yes, you've guessed it. We'll be discussing pomp, pageantry and the politics of the King's Beach.
0:35.0	Also, is Labour tearing itself apart over its response to the crisis in Gaza?
0:40.0	And does the Met Police have the power to ban protests over remembrance weekend?
0:45.0	Here to help us answer some of that will be our special guest, Zoe Grunwald, at the New Statesman.
0:50.0	Hi, Coco. Hi, Nish. How are you? I'm good.
0:54.0	We've already started in a bit of a giddy mood.
0:58.0	Yeah, I know.
0:59.0	Unfortunately, I produce a musty in as part of the briefing before we started used as far as news belt,
1:05.0	which is a sort of technical term of a wrap up of a string of news stories.
1:09.0	And for some reason, Coco just sort of said news hat with no context out of nowhere.
1:16.0	I don't know what can you explain to me what you were possibly thinking?
1:21.0	Because all that came out of your mouth with the worst news hat.
1:25.0	It looked like the worst improv game I've ever seen in my life.
1:30.0	In hindsight, I can see how it all sounded a bit garif from the office.
1:34.0	Talk me through your thought process.
1:36.0	He said news belt.
1:37.0	Yeah, I thought that was a funny phrase.
1:40.0	Yeah.
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