Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me, Steve Richards.

Thank you for tuning in.

And we've got a lot to get through in our time together.

If it's okay with all of you, I'm going to reflect on what I think are the huge constraints facing Farage and Reform. At the moment, it is a wonderful time to be Nigel Farage at Reform. It's going to do incredibly well next year and is doing well in the polls this year.

The media are excited about this more than anything else,

and that gives them a huge amount of flattering attention

without detailed scrutiny.

But I think it is underestimated how difficult it is

to manage a political party in a party-based system.

So if it's okay, I'll be reflecting on some of that.

We then turn to your brilliant questions.

We're now in a very deep, never-ending discussion and debate here about assisted dying, about Syria, arising

from previous podcasts, the Rock and Roll Politics Cooperative, deeply engaged on an level that you

won't get on other podcasts. And much else besides. Before all of that, just a reminder for Patreon

subscribers. First of all, thank you so much for subscribing and say it makes it all possible

with the brilliant legendary podmasters who produce the podcast. There is our live gathering. Most of you will be listening

to this probably once the live gathering has taken place, but it's on the Tuesday evening.

Our live gathering for Patreon subscribers, where we can reflect together on this extraordinary year,

an election year, which has raised so many compelling questions. So that's live at 7 o'clock tomorrow if you subscribe to Patreon. And

the recording stays on the Patreon site. So if you are a subscriber, you can catch up with our reflections on 2024.

And so that's there.

And there's a live show, the first of 2025, at King's Place on February the 7th.

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