Walks Like An Election, Talks Like An Election
Podlitical
BBC
4.6 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
This week sees political giveaways, promises, pledges, and appearances on Loose Women. If we're not in an election campaign, why does it feel like we are, and why are the parties acting like they are too? The team discusses the Scottish Parliament declaring a housing emergency, a fund to erase school dinner debt, and the summit with Ferguson shipyards. In Westminster, Labour lays out its five pledges, the Westminster lobby awaits further potential defections from the Tories to Labour, and the Prime Minister appears on Loose Women.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.7 | Hi, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:16.0 | That brings you an inside look at the big stories |
| 0:18.4 | coming out of Holyrood and Westminster. |
| 0:20.4 | It is 10 minutes past two on Thursday the 16th of May. |
| 0:25.3 | I'm Lucy White, a journalist based in Glasgow, and today I'm joined by... |
| 0:29.0 | I'm Lindsay Buse, a political correspondent based at Holyrood. |
| 0:32.3 | And I'm David Porter, BBC Scotland's Westminster correspondent. |
| 0:35.6 | Hello, Lindsay. Hello, David. |
| 0:37.2 | Hi, Lucy. |
| 0:38.4 | When I was reading out the 16th of May there, I was thinking in my head, time is flying. |
| 0:43.0 | I can't believe we're already at that stage of the year. |
| 0:46.9 | We're going to get into things, Lindsay, where you are, speaking to us from at the moment. |
| 0:50.6 | First week of a minority government here in Scotland. |
| 0:53.3 | There's been a lot of challenges. |
| 0:55.1 | Some might frame them as opportunities. We'll get into all of that. But first of all, it strikes |
| 1:00.7 | me that since last Thursday, people that have been watching politics or just picking up on the |
| 1:07.1 | news will have seen a speech from Kirstarrmer last Friday, I believe I'm right |
| 1:11.4 | and saying, on the small boats. We had that speech from the Prime Minister on Monday, where |
| 1:17.2 | everybody was on Tenderhooks wondering if he was going to call an election and then he didn't, |
| 1:20.8 | but he very much sounded like a pre-election speech. Then today, just this lunchtime, we've had |
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