This is Podsave the UK and I'm Nishkumar.

And I'm Coco Khan.

As the government commits to cracking down on welfare fraud, we're looking into our broken

benefit system.

And later to celebrate the Tory Party conference, we're bringing back

the section lovingly known as W.T. Fuck. Boy, there has been a lot of wild stories from the Tories

this week. And if you were in Birmingham this weekend yourself did you

pop along to conference I was doing one of my tour shows to which tickets are

still available Nishkmaal. UK in Birmingham on Saturday night.

It was like the day before the Tory Party conference started.

And I guess it was what people in the theatrical or show business world generally know as counter programming

which is where there's a big event happening or something's being released so you put

something else on that's aimed at the exact opposite of the target demographic.

Really? I'm not coming across that before.

Yeah, it's like, it's a thing like there was a long history of like when a big action movie was released,

distributors would really to Romcom as well because they were traditionally seen as being split

audiences. This was visceral counter-programming. This was pretty woman coming out on the same weekend as

Conair. Like... He is a bit of the barbonheimer about it isn't it this

was not a barbonheimer I cannot stress this enough this was not kumavative this was

definitely not kumav cumulative as a weekend.

That would be a sartorial nightmare, isn't it?

Like Conservative Party conference in the afternoon

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