Three To Get Ready and Go Ange Go
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast
Lesley Riddoch and Fraser Thompson
4.6 • 274 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
The Labour Party dominates this week's podcast, which might be a bit of a shock for followers of Independents, but not in a very good way for Keir Starmer. We discuss the fall out of Angela Rayner's resignation and the further collapse in confidence since the departure of the golden girl of the working class side of Labour stepped out. We look at the fall out over her stamp duty debacle on her what actually was a third residence.
We also take a look at the race for the deputy leadership and what that might mean for UK Labour and for Scottish Labour's chances in next year's Holyrood election. The election campaign which will be masterminded by Douglass Alexander after poor old Ian Murray, who sacrificed life principles actually over nuclear weapons to be loyal to Keir Starmer was brutally sacked on the phone. Have a wee look at Douglas Alexander and how liked he is north of the border by his own folk.
And flags and more flags from the use of the Saltire in Scotland and English politicians obsession with mentioning the Union Jack in every press conference.
Links
Birthplace of Scotland's Saltire - https://saltire.scot/
Public opionon Frage and Reform
https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/52896-how-do-britons-see-reform-uk-ahead-of-their-2025-conference
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Well, the Labour Party dominates this podcast, which might be a bit of a shock for followers of independence, but not in a very good way for Keir Stomber. |
| 0:09.4 | Obviously, there's been a bit of a collapsing confidence since Angela Rainer, the golden girl of the working class side of Labour, stepped out because of messing up completely her stamp duty on the purchase of what actually is a third |
| 0:24.2 | residence. So we take a look at the race for the deputy leadership. We talk also about poor old |
| 0:31.3 | Ian Murray, who sacrificed life principles actually over nuclear weapons to be loyal to Keir Starmour only to be sacked on the phone, |
| 0:40.3 | have a wee look at Douglas Alexander and how liked he is north of the border by his Ayn Fouk. |
| 0:46.8 | And flags, who could miss this? I mean, the use of the salt are here, but more especially, |
| 0:54.0 | they need to keep mentioning the Union Jack in |
| 0:57.3 | every press conference by every member of the British cabinet. How will that really pan out for the |
| 1:03.1 | left? Those are the headlines now for the podcast. Well, hi, chums and welcome to this week's |
| 1:09.0 | Leslie Riddock's podcast. It's been another cracking week for the UK government. |
| 1:14.2 | How are things with you, Leslie? Are you awake yet to quote Andrea Jenkins in her bizarre Reform UK conference sing-along? |
| 1:23.4 | Gosh, you see, there I missed that. Oh, you're a lucky thing. |
| 1:27.5 | Well, there was a death in the family, which kind of took a lot of time and was pretty |
| 1:33.4 | horrible and made me check actually on the progress of Liam MacArthur's assisted dying |
| 1:38.5 | Bill. |
| 1:39.0 | I think anyone who's been through anything like this recently is just, well, you know, it's a horrible thing to watch. |
| 1:46.5 | So it is apparently sitting waiting to come back in September for, I think, is at stage two. |
| 1:54.7 | But, you know, this is kind of still on the go. |
| 1:57.2 | So, yeah, I think I'll be trying to find out more about it, actually. But anyway, so that, |
| 2:03.0 | not to take too much time of it, but it was utterly horrible. Then in the midst of all, I went to |
| 2:09.2 | Kirkubri to do a thing at the Kirkubri fringe, which Jerry Hassan organizes. It was a debate with |
| 2:15.1 | Henry McLeish, which was quite fursky and entertaining. |
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