My folks, welcome to another of these political chats that I do with Dan.

Today we're going to be talking about what looks like the last days in the Starma bunker, because it's been a mad couple of days. I did think when we started this series, the whole premise of doing a series about how it gets worse for Labour was a very finite idea because sooner or later you're going to have a week where it didn't get worse, but somehow... Well, on the plus side, sooner or later, there's got to be an end to the Labour government, right?

Well, yes.

And it feels like we're rapidly approaching that point now.

Before we go on, we'll leave the link to the description to this Lanzah, where Dan designed a game

to accurately model what it's actually like being in the government, what is like being in the Starma Bunker, and we played this game and came out of it realizing why they make the decisions that they're making.

Because the premise is that the decisions are basically split between three different factions.

The backbenchers, and whether they revolt, the general public and whether they

hate you more than anything, and of course the response from the markets. And the point is that you

can never really satisfy any of these groups fully. And when you satisfy one, you harm the other two.

And it really changed our thinking on the way that government worked because actually all of a sudden

all of the ideology goes out of the window all of the high-minded ideals and goodwill goes

out of the window and you were just sat there playing a strategic tactical game of just which

one is the lowest and which one can I actually appease with what has

been dumped in my lap. Because in the first week, and I designed it like this, in the first

week you try to come up with base policies. And in the second weeks, the market tanks,

and you were just all about the markets. And in the last week, the Labour backbenchers were

about to expel you. So every policy was just about appeasing them. Yes. And so you can see that suddenly you're not really thinking politically.

You're just fighting for survival constantly.

Yes. And this was unbelievably well-timed. We did this on Friday. And over the weekend,

I mean, things have gone on. So...

You do need a Lotus Eater subscription for this, but they are very cheap. They're only £5 a month. But it is worth it just for this alone. Totally worth your time. Dan makes amazing games, to be honest. But anyway, right. So let's talk about the Mandelson stuff very quickly. So you'll notice that when they're talking about this, they'll say Peter

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