NS#238: The Tory Conference Special
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🗓️ 5 October 2017
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Helen and Stephen discuss the fallout from the Conservative Party conference, and in particular Theresa May's disastrous speech. Then they answer a listener question: is the Labour Party ready to govern?
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Further reading/listening:
Stephen on the Conservatives' misunderstanding of Jeremy Corbyn.
Mark Wallace at ConHome on the Tories and the 1970s.
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| 0:20.8 | Aruhovich listen to my new series from Tortoise, Eight Years Hard Labour. |
| 0:25.9 | It tells the extraordinary story of the double revolution that engulfed the Labour Party after 2015, |
| 0:31.6 | from centre left to hard left and back again, the battles and |
| 0:35.7 | disasters that accompanied them and the two men who led those revolutions, |
| 0:39.7 | Jeremy Corbyn and Kiea. |
| 1:04.4 | Listen to eight years hard labour wherever you get your podcasts. Hello I'm Helen and I'm Stephen and welcome to the New States when Tory Party Conference Special Edition I am back from the final nail in her |
| 1:08.7 | coughing and I watched it on television where I really got to see it in full 360 degree cough o vision |
| 1:14.4 | plus we answer you ask us our labors policies fit for government |
| 1:28.9 | Stephen you Stephen, you are literally just back from Manchester. This is very exciting. And to apologize to our listeners, I have got a Theresa May tribute cold. Never let it be said that I do not have my finger on the pulse. So apologies if I sound a bit |
| 1:36.8 | mucacy this week. How was it? On the whole, the mood started as you would expect quite flat |
| 1:44.0 | then obviously feeling discombobulated because it's not just that they didn't |
| 1:50.3 | think that Jeremy Corbyn that it's not just they thought he was unelectable the idea of him was |
| 1:55.4 | laughable was unthinkable it so it literally it's like um discovering and the |
| 2:00.2 | world is not the shape you think it is right so so there was that sort of |
| 2:03.9 | element I think the difficulty that most people are grappling with I'm gonna write |
| 2:09.0 | about this tomorrow actually but is that their big problem is that they now know that he's not an electoral insurance policy. |
| 2:16.0 | They know that labour are inches away thanks to their very good result where they basically undid the damage of 2015, they're inches away from being able to form a government next time, |
| 2:26.0 | and they know that you cannot have a Brexit without some form of... |
| 2:30.0 | Breaking some Brexit, economic dislocation. So you basically have a lot of people in the... breaking some |
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