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🗓️ 10 March 2016

⏱️ 37 minutes

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This week, Helen and Stephen talk women and the EU (and expensive hovercraft). George Eaton joins down-the-line-from-the-lobby, with Corbyn's latest attempts to rally his party. And tech writer, Barbara Speed, helps explore the death of social networks. You also ask us: Is the focus on 2020 damaging Labour's duty of opposition today? (Helen Lewis, Stephen Bush, George Eaton, Barbara Speed)

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0:00.0	May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get
0:08.0	10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the brain again.
0:16.5	Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app.
0:21.1	Picture this. Static cars, idling engines, angry horns.
0:27.0	Now, picture you, zooming past it all, light and breezy.
0:35.0	Ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic.
0:40.0	Book your train journey via Avanti westcoast.co. UK.
0:45.0	avante west coast feel good travel. Hi I'm Helen and I'm Stephen and this is the new states from podcast. We promised people last week that we give them a break from Europe but
1:07.0	We lied I'm getting into Europe. No, I am I did slightly get into Europe into Europe.'s like the thing, isn't it?
1:13.2	Like one by one, the EU referendum is going to kill all of us
1:16.8	and take over our bodies?
1:18.0	It was truly mad yesterday.
1:19.2	People were talking about Bodicea.
1:20.6	But it was quite a long sustained argument
1:22.4	about whether the suffragettes would have been in or out of the EU
1:25.0	You spent you spent international women's day with international women
1:30.8	You started with...
1:32.6	It was Women for Britain, it was called, so that was the Out Campaign's launch and that was in
1:36.4	one great George Street which is just around the corner from Westminster and the House of Commons
1:40.5	in a big wood-paneled room and so that was hosted by Suzanne Evans of UKIP and I like to just take a small detour here to say that whatever crazy power struggle is going on in UKIP is a really bad thing for anybody who wants UKIP to be better than it is because the people
1:55.9	who are being sidelined Patrick Flynn and Suzanne Evans are both really good media performers
2:01.2	now I don't you know it's not in my interest to see UKIP succeed,
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