Will the Tories be wiped out?
Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards
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4.7 • 909 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The Conservative Party has a reputation for adapting ruthlessly to changing times, but is it deserved? After the two historic by-election defeats last week, the United Kingdom's governing party of choice faces the possibility of a calamitous defeat at the next general election.
Steve Richards asks; did the Tories ever learn the full lessons from the election slaughter in 1997 and what have they done for voters since 2010 that can give them hope of a fifth term next year?
Plus brilliant questions from the listeners on Israel and Gaza and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me, Steve Richards. |
| 0:13.2 | Thank you for tuning in. And as you can guess, we have got so much to cram in in our time together. |
| 0:28.6 | If it's okay with all of you, I'm going to save some of the thoughts on Israel, Gaza, to your brilliant questions. It was the theme of the podcast last week and, yeah, loads of really important and interesting observations and points and questions coming up. |
| 0:41.3 | I think it will be the theme that dominates for weeks, perhaps months, to come, because there are so many dark interconnections. |
| 0:54.8 | And yeah, anyway, that's to come. |
| 0:58.7 | A couple of notices. |
| 1:00.5 | As ever, I want to thank those of you who subscribe to Patreon. |
| 1:04.0 | Do subscribe. |
| 1:05.1 | Even in a cost of living crisis, it's a bargain. |
| 1:08.3 | And it helps me continue to work with the great podmasters, Simon and many others who help with the podcast. So yeah, do please subscribe if you can. And thanks for those of you who came to King's Place on Monday night. Some Patreon subscribers might be hearing |
| 1:29.5 | this before Monday night, but most of you will hear it afterwards. I'll tell you what happened |
| 1:33.8 | in the next podcast. And thanks to all of those who came to the Ilkley Book Festival for a great |
| 1:40.9 | evening there where I was talking about my new book, Turning Points. |
| 1:45.9 | And it was brilliant afterwards. |
| 1:47.1 | The conversation carried on as people very kindly queued to sign books. |
| 1:52.2 | Ilkley is a lovely, lovely place. |
| 1:54.5 | It's got the lot, really, if you like, walking and so on. |
| 1:58.8 | And arty things. |
| 2:01.8 | Yeah, and the next live show is at the Rope Tackle, |
| 2:05.1 | the legendary Rope Tackle Arts Centre on November the 1st. |
| 2:10.6 | So see as many of you as possible then. |
| 2:13.9 | God knows where we'll be by then. |
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