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🗓️ 26 October 2017
⏱️ 26 minutes
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How badly does an MP have to behave before they get suspended? Helen and Stephen discuss the case of Sheffield Hallam MP Jared O'Mara and analyse the media kremlinology behind it. Then they look at the continuing problems with Universal Credit and explore its failures as a benefits system. Finally, they answer a question sent in by many listeners: could Nick Clegg return to Parliament?
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Further reading:
Mary Beard's 2013 interview with the New York Times about online abuse.
Stephen's article about Jared O'Mara.
Helen's column on Universal Credit.
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1:03.0 | Listen to eight years hard labour wherever you get your podcasts. Hello I'm Stephen and And I'm Helen. |
1:04.0 | And on this week's New States and Podcast, |
1:05.0 | We talk about MPs behaving badly. |
1:07.0 | Should Jared Omar have been suspended and when? |
1:09.0 | We ask if Universal Credit could ever have worked? |
1:12.0 | And we ask whether or not Nick Clegg will make a triumphant |
1:14.2 | return in Sheffield Hallam. |
1:17.0 | It is to everyone's massive relief I'm sure sure Stephen, that I think we should talk about something |
1:24.9 | other than Brexit this week, namely, how badly do MPs have to behave before they get suspended. |
1:30.5 | Obviously this is coming off the back of Jared Omar's suspension from the Labour Party and I think |
1:36.0 | one of the things that's really fascinating about this story is you have to take your hat off and |
1:39.4 | I slightly objected to this to the Gido Fawkes website for the old-fashioned sting |
1:43.7 | way they pursued this story in the sense that they put out some things that were |
1:46.5 | kind of borderline comments from a really long time ago obviously hoping to |
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