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Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

The Virus becomes political and the Budget changes politics

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

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News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.7909 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

n the latest episode of Rock N Roll Politics I conclude I was wrong a week ago in suggesting that the virus would not become political...and a Tory Chancellor contradicts his predecessors and media orthodoxy by arguing that higher spending boosts economic growth-quite a moment 

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0:00.0

And now a special festive announcement.

0:03.6

How about this for a Christmas present suggestion?

0:06.3

A present to you from someone who might be mistakenly planning to buy you, say,

0:11.5

Nadine Doris is the plot, which you don't want.

0:14.6

This year, instead of them making a panic visit to Waterstones,

0:18.4

why not subtly suggest they get you the gift of 12 months

0:23.6

Patreon support for rock and roll politics instead? Ordinarily, a year's support gets you 10%

0:30.6

off the monthly rate, but in our special Black Friday sale, you can now get 20% off.

0:41.1

And it will be one of those life-enhancing presence for you. You get the podcast early, without ads, plus lots of Patreon exclusive content.

0:49.3

And then they don't have to stagger home with Churchill's complete history of the English-speaking peoples,

0:55.6

which you don't want either.

0:57.3

That's 20% off a year of Patreon support for rock and roll politics in our Black Friday sale.

1:04.0

Why not share the link in the show notes in the family WhatsApp,

1:08.1

or drop a heavy hint that they should search Patriot Rock and Roll Politics

1:12.6

podcast.

1:13.9

Hurrah!

1:14.8

Christmas is sorted. Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me, Steve Richards, the second one of series three.

1:40.1

I'm calling it because there was a gap of some months before I did one last week.

1:44.6

And now here I am again this week, as I will be every week in this series,

1:49.3

as we try and explore the new political landscape.

1:52.9

I have to confess that along with many others, I thought after the December election,

2:00.1

that the landscape would have at least a sense of surface stability.

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