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How f***ed are we if Trump wins? + Is Jeremy Corbyn MP forming a new party?

Pod Save the UK

Crooked Media

News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The Government’s rallying cry to the nation to help fix the NHS via a public consultation has not disappointed. In what is fast becoming the National Health Service’s very own Boaty McBoatface moment, Nish and Coco dissect the wild and weird policy suggestions flooding the website.

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Pod Save the UK. I'm Coco Khan.

0:05.0

And I'm Nishkumar and today we're speaking to the independent MP

0:08.0

for Islington North, Jeremy Corbyn, to understand what's next for the left.

0:11.5

And later, with US elections looming we're

0:14.0

joined by co-host of our sister podcast Pod Save the World's Tommy V-Tore to

0:18.4

discuss what it means for US and UK relations. So the NHS is the government's topic of the week and it's nice to see us focusing

0:27.9

on reform and policy as opposed to just talking about how everything's getting worse. Prime Minister Kiestarma has declared a once in a generation opportunity

0:36.2

for the NHS to be reformed and that's great, but the way that they've gone about it

0:40.0

has struck us as being a little strange.

0:42.1

Yeah, so on Monday the Health Secretary Wes Streating

0:45.7

announced an open public consultation on the future of the NHS

0:49.7

and in the grand tradition it makes you so patriotic things got very weird yes I mean in

0:55.8

something that any of us could have seen happening the proposals that were coming

0:59.4

in thick and fast were different flavours of nonsense.

1:03.0

One of them included putting beer on tap in hospitals.

1:06.0

Free cinema tickets from the NHS.

1:08.0

Waffles for every meal,

1:10.0

just some of the highlights from day one of the consultation.

1:14.0

Development of an alchemical panacea

1:17.3

is an incredible piece of policy.

1:19.5

I'm not sure anybody would get behind the proposal

1:21.8

for mandatory euthanasia to fill up hospital beds,

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