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Michael and Us: Cleggmania Revisited

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🗓️ 13 May 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In the wake of the Labour Party's disastrous performance in the 2021 U.K. local elections, we're taking a look back at a key moment in recent British history. The made-for-TV movie COALITION (2015) documents the wheelings and dealings that led to Nick Clegg's Liberal-Democrats joining forces with David Cameron's Conservatives after. the 2010 election left no party with a parliamentary majority. We share some larfs over a perfectly mediocre movie, and. discuss the true meaning of "Cleggmania" and its aftermath. PLUS: Why can't Keir Starmer sell centrism like Tony Blair could? And reflections on Toronto's alt-media landscape, from NOW Magazine to Eye Weekly to The Grid.

"The Grid R.I.P." - http://radiofreecanuckistan.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-grid-rip.html

"Keir Starmer’s Televised Meltdown Was Decades in the Making" by Luke Savage - https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/05/keir-starmer-bbc-meltdown-labour-election-hartlepool



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Just about 20 minutes ago, I got a notification saying that there was an appointment available

0:17.3

for me to book.

0:19.3

This was through the shoppers' drug mart.

0:21.4

They have some kind of portal where you can like, enter your information and the ideas they

0:25.4

notify you as soon as something becomes available.

0:28.4

If the listeners hear a clicking sound, it's because I'm typing shoppers' drug mart

0:33.0

vaccine portal to look at that because it really is, it's like the gold rush up here trying

0:39.4

to get this vaccine.

0:40.4

I'll send you the link to what I used.

0:42.8

I mean, wait till the end of the story because it's got a disappointing ending, obviously,

0:46.7

which is why I'm bringing it up.

0:49.3

So yeah, I mean, I signed up this morning and then like, I don't know, in less than seven

0:53.1

hours, I got this notification saying there is a vaccine appointment available for you

0:56.8

to book.

0:57.8

Like right away, I clicked on it.

0:59.8

Like, we're talking 10 second delay, not even.

1:03.0

Like just whatever time it took my eyes to like scan the like, you know, 30 words of text

1:07.6

or whatever.

1:08.6

And you know, it gives me some address.

1:09.9

It's like out in Mississauga, which you know, for people who don't know Toronto, like

1:13.3

if you're downtown, I mean, it's like, I mean, you know, it would be like two hours on public

1:19.0

transit, if you could take public transit, which, you know, I mean, in theory, you can,

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