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Oh God, What Now?

The Morning After The Fight Before

Oh God, What Now?

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Politics, Government, News, Society & Culture

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

As the Government celebrates its electoral victories with a bout of naked voter suppression and intimidation of protest, we look at Labour’s farcical response and where the party goes from here. Plus we talk to Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnot, co-authors of Failures Of State: The Inside Story Of Britain’s Battle With Coronavirus. Exactly what went wrong in the pandemic response and how can a colossal crime of Government negligence happen in plain sight – and go unreported? • “It’s almost as if this government is afraid of the task ahead of it, because it know the vaccine bounce can’t last.” – Ros Taylor • “The Government’s problem is that young people don’t vote Conservative, so they want to stop them voting.” – Ian Dunt • “Those last nine days, when Boris Johnson was implacably against lockdown and the majority of deaths occurred, are squarely on Boris Johnson.” – George Arbuthnot • “Scientists were clear to us that the first wave might have been understandable but the second and third were absolutely unforgivable. Johnson knew what he had to do and didn’t do it.” – Jonathan Calvert www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Ros Taylor and Ian Dunt. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Audio production by Alex Rees. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to O'God White Now, I'm Dorian Lenskut. If you join us for last Friday's

0:11.0

live stream you'll know our initial reactions to the elections results but they've

0:14.5

done their best to keep things interesting since then.

0:17.1

Feeling a exciting new material because they care so much about what's happening.

0:24.4

Rose Taylor is editor of the LSE's COVID-19 blog Hi Rose.

0:27.8

Hello.

0:28.8

So in Scotland the S&P had just one seat shorter majority and have a pro-independence

0:33.0

majority in Hollywood thanks to the Greens.

0:35.6

Do you think the British government will be able to resist pressure for another referendum

0:39.6

during the lifetime of this parliament?

0:41.6

Because the mandate appears to be there.

0:44.2

It depends on the lifetime of this parliament partly because this parliament as we've

0:47.9

learnt with the changes to the fixed-to-em parliament or about abolishing the fixed-to-em

0:52.2

parliament act could be only another two years.

0:55.8

What we saw in a sky poll last week is that around half of Scott's want independence but importantly

1:02.4

not all of those want it now.

1:04.9

42% want a referendum within five years and all of those people 14% want it in two to

1:11.1

five years time and 28% within two years.

1:15.1

So there's not an overwhelming sense of urgency and I think that's to do with COVID and

1:19.9

Brexit leaving people feeling it's time for a break from big political change.

1:24.9

It's all a bit exhausted.

1:26.6

Also the Scottish Greens who of course are now contributing to the majority for a referendum.

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