NS#262: Spending and Smears
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🗓️ 29 March 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Stephen and Anoosh discuss the ongoing story of Cambridge Analytica and the allegations of Vote Leave's overspending during the EU referendum. Then they answer a listener question about whether there is any truth in the accusation that Labour's anti-Semitism row is a smear. Finally, they look at an example of a dodgy election leaflet from Havering.
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| 0:25.9 | It tells the extraordinary story of the double revolution that engulfed the Labour Party after 2015, |
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| 1:04.8 | Listen to eight years hard labour wherever you get your podcasts. Hello I'm Stephen and I'm Anush and on this week's news states from podcast we talk about vote leave spending we grapple with sound |
| 1:08.9 | difficulties and we ask whether there's any truth in the accusation that the anti-Semitism |
| 1:15.4 | row is a smear. |
| 1:16.9 | And we discuss dodgy leaflets in haven't. So this week and also last week's big political story I guess are the ongoing |
| 1:30.8 | revelations about the activity or the alleged activities of Cambridge Analytica |
| 1:34.4 | in the referendum campaign. Chris Wiley, one of the people who helped build the software, |
| 1:38.9 | said in his common select committee appearance that he believed and given the decisive margin, the narrow margin, |
| 1:46.1 | that cheating in his words on the part of the leave campaigns had been vital to the result. |
| 1:53.0 | Yeah, so I think that's obviously the kind of biggest ongoing political story and it has a lot of facets. |
| 1:58.0 | Yeah, it does and I love, you know, lots of people like to talk about the machinations of these shady data companies but what people really care about this story is they want to believe that the EU referendum result is illegitimate, isn't that? |
| 2:10.8 | That's why people are interested in it. There is a privacy argument and we |
| 2:14.4 | don't know whether or not aggregate IQ which is the company that's implicated in |
| 2:18.7 | this vote leave scandal that has links to Cambridge Analytica has done what the whistleblowers accuse it of doing. |
| 2:25.0 | But the big question is for people, particularly those on the remain side of things, |
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