Has Labour lost the room?

Oh God, What Now?

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Politics, Government, News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Rachel Reeves’s spring not-a-budget has gone down like a cup of cold sick and many Labour supporters are asking what they’re backing the party for. Is Labour on the verge of losing popular confidence – and could it win it back? Plus, as Trump gets weirder and weirder we look at two movies that explain the trashy allure of American fascism: Paul Verhoeven’s hyperviolent sci-fi satires Robocop and Starship Troopers. Would you like to know more…? • Listen to The Bunker: Northern uproar – How Canada is standing up to Trump. • Tickets are on sale now for Matt’s Legitimate Concerns tour. • Andrew interviews John Higgs, author of Exterminate! Regenerate! – The Story of Doctor Who at the Rock’n’Roll Book Club, Walthamstow on Tue 22 April. Escape Routes: • Hannah’s choice Crib Notes on Substack. • Matt’s choice Paradise on Disney+. • Raf chooses The Remix with Chris Hawkins. • Andrew’s choice The Residence on Netflix. • Back us on Patreon for ad-free listening, bonus materials and more. Written and presented by Andrew Harrison with Rafael Behr, Hannah Fearn and Matt Green. Audio production by Robin Leeburn. Theme music by Cornershop. Produced by Chris Jones. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. www.podmasters.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:15.7	Welcome to Oh God What Now? warming our hands around the burning Tesla of politics for about nine years now. I'm Andrew Harrison. On today's show, has Labor lost the room? The spring, not a budget, did not land especially well. Polls are indicating that most people think Labour are doing badly on the cost of living, the economy and immigration. And when the Daily Star casts Rachel Reeves as a lettuce, you know that things are not looking good. What happens when your political
1:20.2	problems break out of the Westminster bubble into the everyday world? And if you lose the room,
1:25.6	can you ever get it back? Plus, as Maga Kraseners
1:29.4	continues to pile up, what if the key to understanding Trumpism isn't Hillbilly Elegy or the
1:34.4	world of the left behinds, but Robocop and Starship Troopers? Would you like to know more? We'll be
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