The rise of Reform and 'Pop Con'
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
As inflation drops, anger on the rocket rises, at the issue of illegal immigration and asylum seekers in light of the shocking chemical attack in London.
Plus, where do your co-pilots stand on Liz Truss' ‘Pop Con’? Liam thinks that immigration could well overtake the economy as the number one issue for voters in the upcoming election and closely impending by-elections. Allison feels the rise in smaller groups such as Reform and the new ‘Pop Con’ is merely a reflection of mass frustration at the failing of the Conservative Party.
Strapping into the cockpit this week is former Secretary of State for Scotland Lord Michael Forsyth, who presents his defence for the recent criticism of the House of Lords, as well as his grave take on the state of the current Conservative Party.
And Allison is outraged that the home nation of her beloved cat, Didi, Turkey, has been deemed 'unsafe' by Home Office officials.
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Read more from Allison: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/a/ak-ao/allison-pearson/ |
Read Allison: ‘When will we stop men from barbaric cultures acting out their evil ideologies on British soil?’: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/02/06/chemical-attacks-barbaric-cultures-evil-acts-british-soil/
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| 0:00.0 | 5. |
| 0:03.0 | There are parts of the United Kingdom which are a damn safe than Turkey. |
| 0:08.0 | The bit of Parliament is broken is the House of Commons. |
| 0:12.0 | It's simply no longer doing its job of revising legislation. |
| 0:16.0 | Those 2019 Tory voters, including the Red Wall Tories, they will determine the outcome of the next general election. |
| 0:25.0 | I don't agree with the analysis that if reform didn't exist, the Conservatives wouldn't have a landslide defeat. One. |
| 0:33.4 | We have lift off. |
| 0:39.4 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telegraph Podcast with Alice in Pearson. |
| 0:43.4 | Hello? |
| 0:44.4 | And me Liam Halligan. |
| 0:46.4 | Planet Normal's proud to be British co-pilot. |
| 0:49.3 | And you and I live of course in England, our green and pleasant land, according to that much-love classic Jerusalem. |
| 0:55.8 | But while Perry's tune was uplifting and Elgar's orchestration magnificence, Blake's original poem was |
| 1:02.2 | whispered very much satirical. |
| 1:04.6 | There being little sense of Jerusalem in those dark satanic mills. |
| 1:08.9 | Your column in yesterday's telegraph Allison, responding to the ghastly alkaline attacks in Clapham, |
| 1:14.3 | South London, was also full of fire and brimstone, and rightly so. |
| 1:19.3 | Because there's righteous anger, the alleged attacker, the reason a woman's now in hospital horribly |
| 1:24.0 | disfigured with life-changing injuries, was an Afghan man who hidden a |
| 1:28.6 | lorry to gain a legal entry to the UK. His asylum claim was rejected twice, accepted only on a third appeal. |
| 1:36.6 | That appeal coming after he'd been convicted of a sexual offense in 2018. |
| 1:41.7 | A new U-G Yugoslav poll shows that illegal immigration is now by far |
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