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🗓️ 8 February 2018
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Stephen and Anoosh discuss Theresa May's inept speech about the suffragettes. Then they answer a popular listener question: can the Conservatives can win a majority by maximising the white vote?
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1:06.0 | Listen to eight years hard labour wherever you get your podcasts. Hello I'm Stephen and I'm Anush and in this week's Helenless New States and podcast we discuss Theresa May's suffragettes slip whether or not the |
1:10.2 | Conservatives can win a majority by maximizing the white vote. |
1:13.6 | And how the Labour Party can tackle that. |
1:20.0 | Yes, Helen is away for the next two months, so Anush is stepping into the breach. |
1:26.7 | On the subject of stepping into the breach, Theresa May gave a big speech about bad segues. No, Theresa May gave a big speech about bad segues. |
1:33.6 | No, Theresa May gave a big speech to mark the 100th anniversary |
1:38.0 | of some women being given the vote, |
1:40.1 | the 90th anniversary of all women being given the vote and I want to say the 60th |
1:46.0 | anniversary of women being able to enter the House of Lords as life peers under the |
1:51.6 | Life Period Act in 1958 and the something anniversary of the |
1:57.2 | abolition of the university constituencies which had a restricted franchise for women. |
2:03.6 | So all of those anniversaries falling in the, |
2:06.7 | which is, you know when you suddenly something suddenly occurs to you, |
2:10.4 | and I've just realized that that must have meant that at some point in 1927 someone went you know probably be good if we let all women |
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