Welfare, Warehouses and Playlist Diplomacy

Pod Save the UK

News, News Commentary, Government

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

We’ll start with the good news - Reform UK appears to be imploding. Nigel Farage has had a wildly public fallout with (now former) Reform MP Rupert Lowe, who was stripped of his whip and investigated by the police over alleged workplace bullying and “verbal threats” against the party chairman.

As Reform flounders, the Government is busy making itself even more unpopular - if that’s possible - by trailing a series of public sector cuts ahead of the Spring Budget. There are plans to cut half of the staff in NHS England and thousands of jobs in the civil service, not to mention impending benefit cuts.

Keir Starmer is expected to announce £5 billion of cuts to personal independence payments - commonly known as PIPs - the main disability benefit. Mikey Erhardt from Disability Rights UK speaks to Nish and Coco about the devastating impact this could have on 3.6 million claimants across the UK.

Next up, over the past few years we’ve seen waves of strikes by warehouse workers for the likes of Amazon, Tesco, Argos and others - but what exactly is it like to work in this algorithm-driven gig economy? Coco speaks to Laura Carreira, the director of a new film about the hidden lives of warehouse workers in the UK.

Finally, here’s something nobody wants to hear. King Charles has launched a personal playlist to mark this year’s Commonwealth Day. Nish and Coco strike back with their own playlist.

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Mikey Erhardt

Laura Carreira

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Pod Save the UK. I'm Nish Kumar. And I'm Coco Khan. Nish, I have to ask you,
0:07.2	have you seen the King's playlist? Unbelievably, I have not. What's on there? Coldplay?
0:12.8	I mean, you know, some of it's pretty good, actually. Bob Marley's on there. Beyonce's got a track on there.
0:19.4	Some of it is a bit less cool, Michael Boubley and possibly everyone's least favourite Kylie Minogue track.
0:25.9	Well, Coco, you're wrong there because there's no such thing as a bad Kylie Minogue song.
0:29.7	This is all low-hanging fruit so far.
0:31.5	Where are the sex pistols?
0:32.7	Where's God Save the Queen?
0:33.9	Where's Anarchy in the UK? There's a level of self-awareness there, Nish, that I don't mean to disappoint you,
0:40.3	but it's not something that we often get from our beloved royals.
0:43.9	But speaking of Anarchy and God, certainly the Messiah at least,
0:48.5	today we're going to be discussing the all-out civil war in Reform UK.
0:52.3	And Kirstarmer says that our benefit system is the worst of all worlds.
0:55.6	So they're going to make it harder for people with disabilities to claim?
0:58.6	We'll be speaking with Mikey Earhart for Disability Rights UK.
1:04.8	So let's kick off with the first piece of good news I've heard so far this year.
1:08.4	Reform is falling apart again.
1:11.0	I will not be singing it to the tune of Lovell Terris Apart.
1:13.0	Oh, you know exactly what I was going to do.
1:14.6	Regardless of how much people want me to do that.
1:17.3	I don't wish to associate that song with Nigel Farage in any way, shape or form.
1:21.8	You have to admit it is fitting then.
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