You Can Just Do Things
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters
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🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm folks, welcome back to another one of our political chats. Things are moving. There's a lot in progress at the moment. You can feel the tectonic plate shifting and new possibilities are being born. I love to see it because... |
| 0:14.8 | When you say tectonic plate shifting, you basically mean the ice is breaking under Nigel Farage. Yes, actually. That's definitely what's happening. |
| 0:21.9 | In fact, that's a good place to start is here. |
| 0:24.2 | As you can see, more uncommon have this week's polling intentions and reformed down by five. |
| 0:32.8 | Wow. |
| 0:33.1 | And a difference between the Conservatives of just three points. |
| 0:37.0 | And Labour of just four points. |
| 0:39.5 | That is incredible. |
| 0:41.1 | The Ming Vars is going. |
| 0:43.3 | An easy prediction to make at this point, but the next election is going to end up with a coalition of the Conservatives and Reform. |
| 0:50.6 | And the election after that is going to be a two-way battle between the Greens and restore. |
| 0:54.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:54.6 | And it's not even clear who the senior partner will be. |
| 0:56.7 | No, it's not. That's the thing. Yeah. Right. And how funny would it be if it's Kemmy Badenock and Nigel Farage has to sit under her? I mean, genuinely hilarious. Yeah. I mean, it probably quit, but... Sure. Yeah. I don't think you'd be too humiliating. |
| 1:10.4 | But as you can see, from the previous week, a reformer on 30%. |
| 1:13.4 | So... |
| 1:14.1 | Well, this one isn't bad. but... Sure, yeah, I don't think it'd be too humiliating. But as you can see, from the previous week, a reformer on 30%. |
| 1:13.4 | So... Oh, this one isn't bad. This poll isn't too bad. Well, that's from the 7th of April. Oh, that's a week ago. So that's a week ago. Right. So in a week, according to more in common, this is just the same pollster. Right. As far as they're concerned, reformed lost five points. |
| 1:27.2 | In a week. |
| 1:27.9 | In a week. |
| 1:28.4 | But the Conservatives only gained three. |
| 1:29.7 | I mean, that's something, but that's not that much. impolster. As far as they're concerned, Reform have lost five points in a week. |
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