Further strikes, fewer houses, and Farage
Chopper's Politics
The Telegraph
4.2 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
James Sunderland, former Colonel in the Royal Logistics Corps, joins Christopher Hope in the Red Lion to talk about why the MP for Bracknell thinks the government needs to stop relying on the armed forces to step in over strike action and suggests that "Mr Lynch and his cronies" should perhaps try earning what soldiers earn. Strong words.
Also on the podcast, UK Director of think-tank More in Common, Luke Tryl, says that if political marmite figure Nigel Farage returned it could turbocharge Reform's support, with the party posing a threat to both major parties but only with a charismatic figure-head.
Plus MP for Chipping Barnet and Tory housing rebel Theresa Villiers assures Chris she isn't a NIMBY.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Chopper's politics, the armed forces, they face more danger, more |
| 0:08.4 | hard shape, more separation in a single day that Mr Lynch and his cronies face in an entire year. |
| 0:15.0 | Hello I'm Christopher Hope, the Associate Editor for Politics at the Telegraph and this is Choppers Politics Podcast. Now trains are grinding to a |
| 0:27.0 | halt across the country, nurses, ambulance drivers, postal workers, border guards |
| 0:32.3 | they're all striking this month. |
| 0:34.6 | It feels like Britain is entering some sort of deep freeze, with nothing working. |
| 0:40.4 | The winter of discontent, or should that be the winter of disconnectconnect is truly upon us. |
| 0:45.0 | But what is the government doing about it? |
| 0:48.0 | Answer, so far, is not much, yet this industrial action should allow ministers to put themselves |
| 0:55.5 | on the side of people who just want to get to work pick up the children from school |
| 0:59.7 | or see their families at Christmas the strivers against the strikers, but instead, ministers |
| 1:06.0 | appeared to be relying on the old favourite, calling on the army to sort it out. |
| 1:11.6 | One person less than happy is James Sundland MP. Tory |
| 1:16.6 | MP for Bracknell and a former colonel in the Royal Logistics |
| 1:20.1 | Corps. James Sundlund MP for Bracknell welcome to shoppers Pollackness great to is a here. Great to have you on. You've got in on your train from Bracknell. It's been difficult |
| 1:34.8 | and be even harder next week with these strikes, weren't it? |
| 1:37.1 | Yep. Impossible. You cannot imagine how cynical this is, the fact that these unions are going on strike at a time when families |
| 1:44.9 | want to be together at Christmas. These families, these loved ones have earned the |
| 1:48.6 | right to some downtime. We've had the pandemic and I think it's a deliberate attempt to upset families over Christmas. |
| 1:55.4 | Well of course that that be denied by the RMT that they're saying they need to get better |
| 1:59.1 | pay the deals for their |
| 2:04.0 | of course, Chris, we want more pay don't we? The front page of Thursday Telegraph talks about |
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