Time to nationalise Ticketmaster? “Cigarettes & Alcohol”, the Grenfell Inquiry concludes
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Pod Save the UK
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🗓️ 5 September 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Parliament is back in session and so is Pod Save the UK! Coco is joined by Zoë Grünewald, filling in for Nish, to discuss Keir Starmer’s gloomy new lines trailing what’s shaping up to be a miserable Autumn budget.
Free political point scoring around the Oasis/Ticketmaster fiasco probably isn’t going to be enough to offset the grim energy emanating from the Government’s plan to means test the Winter Fuel Allowance for pensioners, despite some glints of hope in other policy areas. Coco and Zoë also discuss Jeremy Corbyn’s new political alliance, restrictions on arms sales licences to Israel and Labour’s mooted outdoor smoking ban.
Later, they’re joined by James Riding, Chief Reporter at Inside Housing, to discuss the final report from the Grenfell Inquiry, exploring the “Decades of failure” and “systematic dishonesty” behind the disaster.
Finally, they check in on the Tory leadership race, where the five remaining candidates are struggling for recognition within the public eye.
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Guests:
Zoë Grünewald, Political Journalist
James Riding, chief reporter at Inside Housing
Audio credits:
Sky News
Number 10 Downing Street
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Pod Pod Save the UK we're back and so is Parliament. |
| 0:13.0 | The Grenfell Inquiry reaches its conclusion and the Tory leadership hopefuls struggle for recognition. Plus, we're joined by Zoe Grunewald. |
| 0:16.0 | Was that good? |
| 0:17.0 | A little bit of European embellishment. |
| 0:19.8 | She's filling in for Nish this week. |
| 0:21.5 | Hi Zoe. |
| 0:22.2 | Hi, Coco. Thank you so much for having me and you know I've got big shoes to fill. |
| 0:26.5 | But I'm looking forward to filling them. But first a tweet that really captures the nation's mood this week. Are you ready for it Zoe? |
| 0:34.4 | It's just two words, Nationalized Ticketmaster. Wow that is two powerful words right there. |
| 0:41.4 | The chills. That is the tongue-and-cheek tweet obviously |
| 0:44.6 | from Zara sultana, MP for Coventry South, currently suspended from the |
| 0:49.0 | Labour Party for voting against the government over the two-child benefit cap, standing up for the thousands of people who took to their computers |
| 0:58.0 | across the country and missed out on tickets to Oasis over the weekend. |
| 1:01.6 | Yes, did you get tickets? No, I'm not really an |
| 1:04.5 | Oasis person. Is that because you're a blur person? I'm not really a blur person. I'm not really a |
| 1:10.0 | person. I'm not really a person. I am a sort of Taylor Swift fan to be quite honest. Okay that's fine that's fine. I also didn't get tickets not because I also didn't get tickets not because I wouldn enjoy it, who doesn't love singing their heart out, |
| 1:25.2 | and you know, I'm of the age where I do appreciate the Britpop, but I just had this moment where I was like, |
| 1:31.2 | I'm going to leave this for the real fans and there are plenty of them. |
| 1:34.6 | I didn't realize there were quite so many fans. Actually, like I know a lot of people who applied for |
| 1:40.8 | uh... applied for Oasis tickets tried to get Oasis tickets, and I sort of thought you've never |
| 1:46.2 | mentioned them before. Like, where's this come from? But no, I mean, it was extraordinary so you know for anyone that didn't get swept up in it |
| 1:56.5 | It was a bit of a nightmare |
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