287: A Tory wipeout?

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🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Timandra Harkness – author of Technology is Not the Problem – joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers to discuss the Conservatives’ disastrous polling, the great smartphone panic and Just Stop Oil’s assault on Stonehenge.

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0:00.0	Hello and we're delighted to be
0:04.0	we have Spike's editor Tom Slater and we're delighted to be joined by the author of
0:08.3	Technology is not the problem to Mandra Harkness.
0:10.5	Hello.
0:11.5	So plenty to discuss today we will be talking about the potential Tory
0:14.5	wipeout, the great smartphone panic and Justopo's attack on Stonehenge. Just before we start,
0:20.5	want to quickly remind everyone at home that if you're a spike supporter,
0:23.7	you can claim your free ticket to our next live event, which is on Wednesday the 26th of June,
0:28.6	with Brendan O'Neill and Melanie Phillips. Just go to Spikes-Online.
0:32.2	Online.com, forward slash events. Melanie Phillips.
0:35.0	Just go to Spikes-Hythn. Got about two weeks ago to the general election
0:41.0	and over the past 24 hours there's been a series of
0:43.2	absolutely devastating polls for the Conservatives. Tom do you want to walk us through these?
0:49.3	I mean it's fascinating because it's been a bit of a dull election so far but if these polls are correct we could be
0:55.1	about to see potentially a once in a generation change in British politics.
0:58.8	Absolutely it's a kind of a dull election that could result in the destruction of the Conservative Party as a going electoral
1:04.9	concern, which is quite exciting, potentially.
1:07.5	Depending on your perspective, but yes, there's been this trio of MRP mega-poles, as they're sometimes nicknamed in the course of the past 24 hours.
1:16.4	There's one by the more in common think tank slash pollsters, which was probably the more
1:21.1	optimistic of the three that put the Conservatives on 155 seats,
1:27.0	which would put it as one lower than its 1906 Nadeer.
1:31.2	So this would be historic in any stretch of the imagination. But it goes down from there. So you go up
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