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Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

Where’s the passionate anger over the crisis in UK?

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

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Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.6825 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 43 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. Rock & Roll Politics is live at the Ropetackle Arts Centre in Shoreham on Weds March 13. Steve is speaking at the York Literature Festival on Sat Mar 16. Tickets £10. Venue: Memorial Hall, St Peter's School, Clifton, York, YO30 6AB Rock & Roll Politics is live at Kings Place London on Tue March 26. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics with me, Steve Richards, the podcast where we delve deep into British politics.

0:46.8

And we've got a lot of delving to do in our time together during this podcast.

0:51.7

So thanks for tuning in.

0:53.0

Thanks for your brilliant questions. So this is what we're

0:56.0

going to do in our time together if it's okay with all of you. In a minute, a few assembly notices,

1:02.3

bit of detail about things. I'm on the road in different places in March for the first time

1:08.1

in this election year. I'm going to be on the road quite a lot in this

1:12.1

election year. And then I'm going to be reflecting on why it is that there are these

1:19.9

blazing, angry, rouse over issues which when you step back, there is quite a degree of consensus.

1:31.3

I'm talking about the Israel-Gaza nightmare, and why this is where kind of most people agree,

1:40.3

and yet Britain apparently is falling apart over it, and Sunak has had to do a statement outside number 10 last Friday, and so on.

1:51.0

And yet, where there is huge disagreement or should be,

1:57.8

there is a kind of near silence.

2:03.9

It's weird at the moment, British politics,

2:09.4

rather like American politics, actually. The parallels with American politics are deep,

2:14.8

I think, and disturbing. The Tory party, there are many parallels with the Republican Party and the existential crisis it's going through.

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