Tsunami of woes
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
It's been a bruising week for the Government, with all eyes on the Chancellor's family finances before a damaging stream of Partygate penalty notices.
And with inflation on the rise and the cost of living crisis intensifying, it seems the tsunami of woes has only just begun for Boris Johnson. So can the PM navigate the storm?
Co-pilot Pearson is well and truly undecided, as she confesses she is experiencing ‘Starmer-esque’ levels of fence-sitting over Boris Johnson's future as Prime Minister.
Liam thinks there will be plenty of voters out to give the Tory party ‘bloody noses’ at the upcoming local elections, but it's still unlikely Boris will be replaced as leader. He believes there's much more pain to come in the cost of living crisis, and savvy leadership hopefuls will keep the PM around as a 'sponge' to absorb the worst of it.
Also joining our co-pilots on another mission to the refuge of sweet reason is historian Professor Robert Tombs who beams in to give our co-pilots his thoughts on the French election.
As a self-proclaimed Brexiteer, Professor Tombs is concerned that neither a Macron or Le Pen presidency will be good news for the UK. He also warns that the far-right candidate could be disastrous for the Eurozone.
And finally, co-pilot Pearson has been doing her economic homework. One house point for knowing what the definition of PPI is!
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:02.0 | ...podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Five. |
| 0:10.0 | You want Boris to be the human sponge over the next six to twelve months, don't you? |
| 0:14.0 | To absorb this tsunami of woe that's coming in the tourist direction. |
| 0:20.0 | So, part of Gate may not get Boris Johnson, but cost of living and NHS waiting list will. |
| 0:27.0 | I don't think that either macro all-up end are greatly in the interest of Britain. |
| 0:34.0 | I think I achieved positively star-maresque levels of fence sitting this week. |
| 0:39.0 | Get off the fence, love! |
| 0:48.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telugu- off-podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 0:52.0 | Hello. |
| 0:53.0 | And me, Liam Halligan. |
| 0:55.0 | Well, Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have been fined by the Metropods and police for breaking Covid lockdown rules. |
| 1:01.0 | Are you furious? Do you think they should resign? |
| 1:04.0 | Or do you feel that this partygate scandal is all a fuss about relatively little, |
| 1:09.0 | a plot by lefty media types to oust the Conservative government, |
| 1:13.0 | seeing as labour seems incapable of doing so by democratic means. |
| 1:18.0 | To say this week's revelations are dividing opinion among telegraph readers, |
| 1:22.0 | no doubt planet normal listeners, and the population as a whole is something of an understatement. |
| 1:28.0 | And being no doubt there are more partygate revelations to come. |
| 1:32.0 | We're in the midst of the most serious cost of living crisis since the 70s, |
| 1:36.0 | and there's a war on, with the UK not militarily engaging with Russia, |
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