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Oh God, What Now?

154: HIGH STAKES, LOW TACTICS: Election endgame

Oh God, What Now?

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Politics, Government, News, Society & Culture

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

With less than two weeks to go, how is this simultaneously the most terrifying and consequential – yet somehow boring – General Election in history? Even with the Conservatives looking to stack every aspect of the constitution permanently in government’s favour? Plus: what the party leaders’ stock reactions to the London Bridge terror attack reveal about how they see the electorate. Did Labour’s leaks about NHS privatisation come from Russian hackers? WTF is an Australian points-based immigration system anyway and where does performative nastiness figure in the mass psychology of politics? Not long to go now, Britain. It’ll all be over soon. And then it’ll start up again. Presented and produced by Andrew Harrison with Ian Dunt, Ingrid Oliver and Dorian Lynskey. Audio production and script by Alex Rees. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production. Get every new episode of Remainiacs a whole day early when you back us on the Patreon crowdfunding platform. You’ll also get our monthly Ask Remainiacs special episode plus smart merchandise, an exclusive weekly column by our panel, and discounts on #RemainiacsLive tickets too. #OwnTheRemoan remainiacs.com Get your free download of our theme tune ‘Demon Is A Monster’ by Cornershop. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, welcome back to Remainy Axe. We have a slightly tired out podcast this week as

0:11.8

we're all still recovering from our most ambitious live show yet. A two-part Christmas

0:16.1

special at Leicester Square Theatre featuring eight of our regulars, some of whom you can

0:19.4

hear muttering in the background there. It was the first time we'd all been on stage

0:23.0

together and we tried to keep spirits up during a dispiriting week. Hopefully we can do

0:26.7

a bit of that today as well. Thanks to everybody who came out. Hopefully we'll see some of

0:30.2

you at our next show in Leicester Square. A pod kill-ips now, still hard to pronounce on

0:35.1

the 17th of December. I'm Andrew Harrison, currently on course to break the record for

0:38.7

longest part of Jettelagging Human History, having hid in America for the past week.

0:43.0

This week I'm joined by in sitting in a different seat for a change, Dorian Linsky, who's

0:46.6

being a panelist instead of presenter for one week only. Hello Dorian, how you doing?

0:49.6

Hello, it's weird here. Did you enjoy the live show?

0:54.6

I did. I particularly enjoyed quizzes and I think we should do all quizzes. In fact, nothing

0:59.8

but quizzes. Your quiz show. We should just become a quiz show.

1:02.8

Your quiz questions were too hard or rather we were too stupid to get the answers.

1:07.1

But they were educational and entertaining. They were entertaining. They were entertaining.

1:11.7

Also with us in Red Oliver, his actor, his actor, director and a few weeks ago said she

1:17.1

was this close to drawing a big cock and balls on her ballot papers instead of voting.

1:21.7

Hello, how are you doing? I got my post-sort vote through this morning because I'm going

1:26.1

to be in South Africa for the actual election. I've got it. I did. You've actually got

1:31.6

to see it. I have my pen. I wave it over the top of it. I'm not going to do a cock and

1:35.0

balls now. Did you have wobble? I realised what I'm voting. I'm

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