Parties Polls Apart
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🗓️ 2 May 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the New Statesman Podcast, Helen Lewis and Stephen Bush are discussing this week's local elections and what their importance might be. Then, Helen is joined by satirist Matt Forde to consider whether there's anything to admire in modern politics, and finally, in You Ask Us, Helen and Stephen return to Brexit in order to answer your questions on whether anything is changing.
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| 0:50.6 | audible. Subscription required, see audible.co. UK for terms. Hello I'm Helen and I'm Stephen and welcome to the New Statesman podcast. |
| 1:13.6 | We look ahead to the local elections. I interview comedian and satirist Matt Ford |
| 1:17.3 | and we explain why Brexit could be solved with a time machine and an eraser. Stephen are you excited about the local elections? |
| 1:27.0 | I am. |
| 1:32.0 | Can I ask you very quickly first of all they're |
| 1:34.2 | happening on Thursday, 2nd of May. What time can we expect the first results in? |
| 1:38.4 | We can expect the first results at around midnight at the that time. So they'll be able to get loads of extra sleep on Wednesday. Yeah. |
| 1:52.7 | Because so when's the first interesting result? Is it is it Sunderland like in the general? Is that a good? |
| 1:57.2 | No. So actually this is this is quite good fun right because so the thing that will |
| 2:01.9 | obviously happen and there will be some kind of special by the politics team on Friday afternoon, |
| 2:08.0 | the thing that we expect to happen is that there will be someone who will get the kind of the difficult job of having to |
| 2:13.6 | stand up and go you know look actually this was really about local issues it's not |
| 2:18.3 | when people hate the conservative party it just turns out all of our local councils |
| 2:21.9 | are bad right so despite the fact whenever a party does badly, |
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