Tory conference sh*tshow + Stormont stalemate
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Pod Save the UK
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Coco and her special guest Femi Oluwole pore over the bin fire that was the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester. Was Sunak strengthened or weakened by the whole HS2 fiasco - and what was the thinking behind wheeling out his wife for a surprise appearance? With the likes of Braverman, Truss - and even Farage - being feted by the party faithful, Coco and Femi discuss the party’s lurch to the right. Plus Femi on playing real-life Pokemon Go in Manchester…only with Tory Ministers.
What’s it like for the people of Northern Ireland to be without a functioning government for the last 18 months? The SDLP’s Matthew O’Toole explains the real world effects of the collapse of power sharing - including on the country’s drinking water. He also tells us why being in Stormont right now is like being on the set of The Shining.
Plus Femi has some tips for budding activists, and reflects on the personal toll of putting himself in the firing line by calling out Brexit lies. You can find Coco and Femi’s Hero and Villain of the week on our social media channels.
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Guests:
Femi Oluwole, journalist, political commentator and content creator
Matthew O’Toole, SDLP member of the Legislative Assembly for South Belfast, and Leader of the Opposition in the Northern Ireland Assembly
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to PodSafe the UK. I'm Coco Khan and Nish is still away. He's filming, |
| 0:18.0 | he'll be back next week, but it gives me an opportunity to make a new friend. |
| 0:22.5 | So here to help me out this week is political commentator, journalist and internet big |
| 0:27.4 | name on campus. It's Fermi Oluwale. Hello, you may be more familiar with him listeners |
| 0:34.2 | as Fermi at Fermi underscore sorry, but hi, welcome to the show. Hi Coco, yeah, my |
| 0:40.6 | number is Fermi underscore sorry, on the BBC they actually called me, Fermi sorry, because |
| 0:44.9 | they thought that was my actual last name. But I do have to ask you why are you Fermi |
| 0:49.8 | sorry? Because I tend to just say logical things and that can wrap people the wrong way. |
| 0:55.3 | So I figured the safest thing to do is to have an inbuilt apology to everything that |
| 0:58.7 | I say. It saves an apology videos. I'll be honest, I think the fact that it's already |
| 1:03.8 | in the hashtag kind of undermines the feeling of apology. You know, I mean, I'm not actually |
| 1:10.8 | sorry. I honestly, I was saying to the producers, I thought it was because it was more like |
| 1:17.5 | a sort of sassy, it's Britney bitch, it's Fermi, sorry, sorry, if you can't handle a |
| 1:25.6 | heat, sorry, if you can't take it. You know what I mean? I'm not that cool. Oh, look, |
| 1:32.4 | welcome to the show. We're in the middle of party conference season. I actually mentioned |
| 1:36.0 | in last week's episode that I'd never been to one before and I'm with a veteran of party |
| 1:40.8 | conferences right now. How's York? How's your conservative party conference been? |
| 1:45.1 | Yeah, veteran. I've done in like six of these things. I hate them. It's just like being |
| 1:50.7 | around the actual worst people in the country and knowing that they've all just gathered |
| 1:55.1 | together in one concentration. It's painful. This year was interesting because they know |
| 2:01.1 | they're going to lose. And so it's just, there's that sombre element, but also this like |
| 2:05.6 | cat and rats in a bag sort of element of it's coming climb over each other to become |
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