Four Conferences (& A Fun-recap)
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🗓️ 17 October 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush and Ailbhe Rea have finally completely their conference marathon, returning from Aberdeen with tales of the Granite City, the SNP, and Richard Curtis. In You Ask Us, they tackle your questions about Boris Johnson's deal and, finally, Ailbhe brings tidings from the candidates to fill John Bercow shoes as Speaker.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
| 0:11.0 | So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
| 0:15.0 | Trains, now'm Stephen. |
| 0:24.0 | And I'm Stephen. |
| 0:34.0 | And I'm Alva. |
| 0:35.0 | We're back from conference and we talk about |
| 0:37.0 | SMP conference, the race to be the next speaker. |
| 0:40.0 | And will Boris Johnson get and pass a Brexit deal? |
| 0:44.0 | So we are back from our final conference of 2019. I'm joined by Alveray who was there from |
| 0:56.4 | the start of lived-dem conference. I was out to say to the bitter end of |
| 0:59.4 | SMB conference and I imagine Patrick angrily listening to this. |
| 1:03.2 | He's still on the train. |
| 1:05.1 | It's not quite over for one of us. |
| 1:08.1 | Because I keep I keep kind of apologizing for this I'm not sorry one because I thought the train journey the |
| 1:13.7 | delays on the way there weren't fun but the actual train journey itself was very |
| 1:16.8 | nice but also I do just think it's a moral to fly when there is an alternative |
| 1:21.9 | to flying. |
| 1:23.0 | And the train back, Aberdeen to London was lovely. |
| 1:26.0 | If there had been a direct train on the Saturday, |
| 1:29.0 | and it wasn't at 730, and if the indirect train hadn't been delayed at Glasgow and delayed at |
| 1:33.9 | Houston it would have been beautiful on both ends but the vagaries of the last |
| 1:37.9 | train on the Tuesday meant that one of us had to stay back to cover the |
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