Get The Message (General Election 2024)
Podlitical
BBC
4.6 • 157 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
How are politicians promoting their message, and what happens when narratives go rogue? This week saw tensions over Labour MP Diane Abbott's place in the party following her return from suspension, manoeuvring in Holyrood over the vote to sanction former SNP health secretary Michael Matheson, and Tories talking taxation. As the general election campaigning continues, the team discuss how politicians and their parties try and broadcast a clear message to voters, and how they can control - or lose control of - the narrative as unexpected events happen.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.9 | Hello, you're listening to Podlitical, BBC Scotland's podcast |
| 0:15.8 | that brings you an inside look at the big stories coming out of Hollywood and Westminster, |
| 0:20.1 | which as of this morning has been dissolved, so maybe it's the big stories coming out of Hollywood and Westminster, which as of this morning has |
| 0:21.4 | been dissolved. So maybe it's the big stories coming out of the campaign trail. It is quarter past |
| 0:27.3 | two on Thursday the 30th of May. I'm Phil Sim, a journalist based at the Scottish Parliament. And |
| 0:33.3 | today I'm joined by. I'm Lindsay Hughes, a journalist based at Hollywood as well. And I'm Rajneep Sandu, |
| 0:39.3 | a journalist based in Westminster. So, election time. How's that going for everyone? Having a good |
| 0:45.9 | time so far? Hmm. Well, it's not my favourite election ever yet, but there's still quite a few weeks to go. |
| 0:54.1 | Plenty of time. Let's see how it goes. yet, but there's still quite a few weeks to go. |
| 0:54.7 | Plenty of time. |
| 0:56.1 | Let's see how it goes. |
| 0:59.5 | I feel like it's still just getting warmed up a bit, isn't it? |
| 1:04.8 | I feel like we're waiting, in Scotland anyway, we're waiting for the parties to really crank into gear. |
| 1:17.9 | And maybe it's because Hollywood's still sitting, so there's still parliamentary business going on. So the SMMP still have the government to run up here and the opposition parties are still holding the Scottish government to account here in Parliament. |
| 1:25.3 | So that's all happening at the same time that they're trying to run around and do lots of electioneering as well and lots of campaigning. |
| 1:27.6 | And they're slightly restricted, especially on a Thursday. We were saying they have to come in for First Minister's questions. So any election |
| 1:31.2 | events have to be planned for really, really close to this building. You can actually physically |
| 1:34.6 | see the Parliament in quite a lot of the background shots. Yeah. Yeah. It feels quite |
| 1:39.7 | frenetic down here just because the pace of things obviously like Phil said parliament has now shut up |
| 1:44.6 | shot there are no more MPs no one can go around calling themselves an MP anymore and they've just |
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