Where’s the passionate anger over the crisis in UK?
Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards
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4.7 • 909 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
The nightmare in Gaza triggers chaos in the Commons, a victory for George Galloway and apocalyptic warnings from Rishi Sunak… and yet there’s broad agreement in the UK about the need for a ceasefire. Meanwhile on most domestic issues where there should be an intense political battle, there seems to be a passive consensus.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics with me, Steve Richards, the podcast where we delve deep into British politics. |
| 0:16.5 | And we've got a lot of delving to do in our time together during this podcast. So thanks for tuning in. |
| 0:22.7 | Thanks for your brilliant questions. So this is what we're going to do in our time together if it's |
| 0:27.4 | okay with all of you. In a minute, a few assembly notices, bit of detail about things. |
| 0:33.3 | I'm on the road in different places in March for the first time in this election year. |
| 0:39.8 | I'm going to be on the road quite a lot in this election year. |
| 0:42.8 | And then I'm going to be reflecting on why it is that there are these blazing, angry, rouse over issues which, when you step back, there is quite a degree of |
| 0:59.3 | consensus. I'm talking about the Israel-Gaza nightmare. And why this is where kind of most people |
| 1:08.9 | agree. And yet Britain apparently is falling apart over it |
| 1:13.0 | and Sunak has had to do a statement outside number 10 last Friday and so on and yet where there is |
| 1:23.5 | huge disagreement or should be there is a kind of near silence. It's weird at the moment, |
| 1:32.5 | British politics, rather like American politics, actually. The parallels with American politics |
| 1:38.4 | are deep, I think, and disturbing. The Tory party, there are many parallels with the Republican |
| 1:43.7 | Party in the existential crisis. |
| 1:46.6 | It's going through and sometimes you can see it coming together with, you know, Liz Truss going out to speak at that wacky Republican conference the week before last, |
| 1:58.4 | talking of which, when we come to your brilliant emails, I got many, |
| 2:03.8 | as I knew I would, to be honest, about the podcast last week where my reflection was on the question |
| 2:11.7 | of whether Liz Truss had a point, submerged in all the kind of mockery and lofty disdain, virtually wholly justified, |
| 2:23.5 | about the trust arguments over her period in power. |
| 2:28.6 | I argued, for those of you who weren't there, that there was one question she raises, which is interesting and important. Now, she might be |
| 2:39.6 | utterly disingenuous in applying the question to her month in number 10, but that does not |
| 2:46.2 | invalidate the question, which is where power lies in the United Kingdom, whether non-elected bodies, |
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