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🗓️ 26 February 2015
⏱️ 25 minutes
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0:00.0 | Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. |
0:11.0 | So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas. |
0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app. |
0:21.3 | I need toys I need decorations I need stockings I need toys Decorations. I need stockings. I need sprouts. I need something for him. I need something for him to give to his mother. I've got a dragon eight foot tree into my lounge then build a trampoline and gift wrap it. |
0:34.0 | Elf duties are a full-time job, and this elf deserves a Christmassy coffee. |
0:40.0 | Our Black Forest Hot Chocolate is now at Costa. |
0:43.2 | That's Christmas, made a little better. |
0:45.7 | At Costa Coffee. Hello and UKIP and Stephen Stedman brings us exciting new developments from space |
1:16.0 | and Stephanie Boland tells us about the Feminist Library. We're going to start off with UKIP. Remember them? They used to be in the news all the time, whatever happened to them. |
1:33.0 | Our political editor George Eaton is here to tell us more about that, as is a newcomer to the New Statesman staff, |
1:38.8 | Stephen Bush now editor of the Staggots. Welcome Stephen. |
1:41.6 | Hello? So George George you've written about |
1:43.4 | you keep in your column this week saying that while we haven't heard perhaps quite so |
1:48.0 | much for in the last few weeks we shouldn't write them off yet yes I mean I think |
1:51.9 | they're two points to make. The first is that they've |
1:54.7 | peaked at a level that few people initially thought possible. They're still in double |
1:59.2 | digits in most polls. They of course have two MPs. Previously people didn't expect them to have any MPs before the general election. |
2:06.5 | Most Lib Dems privately expect to finish behind them on votes in the general election. |
2:12.3 | So UKIP are going to do significantly better than they did in 2010 |
2:16.8 | when they only won 3%. But I also think that those who see UKIP as an electoral shooting star, |
2:23.6 | something that just burns out, |
2:27.6 | underestimate the potential for long-term growth. |
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