Red Rebellion, Just Stop Locking Up Activists And How To Fix Our Broken NHS With Clare Farrell And Victor Adebowale

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🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Three weeks haven’t yet passed since the election, but Keir Starmer’s Government has faced its first rebellion. The response to seven Labour MPs breaking rank over the Government’s stance on the two child benefit cap was swift and fierce, leading to the whip being removed and anger inside and outside the party. Nish and Coco ask if Starmer has only stoked further division within the party. Clare Farrell drops in to discuss the landmark sentencing of five Just Stop Oil protesters and how the previous government’s draconian anti-protest legislation led to this moment. Later, chair of the NHS Federation Victor Adebowale joins Nish and Coco to discuss the National Audit Office’s recent findings into the state of NHS finances and what can be done to fix the service, while taking the pressure off of near-breaking point staff.

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0:00.0	Record penalties for protesters, dire straits for the NHS and dashed hopes for the
0:06.2	so-called Red Rebel Alliance.
0:08.8	I'm Coco Khan.
0:10.0	And I'm Nishkamar and this is Potsau, the UK.
0:12.4	Today we're hearing Extinction Rebellion co-founder And I'm Nish Kameh and this is Potsau the UK.
0:12.5	Today we're hearing Extinction Rebellion co-founder Claire Farrell's thoughts on the record
0:16.7	sentences dished out to five Just Stop Oil campaigners.
0:20.7	And later we're speaking to the chair of the NHS Confederation Victor Adabowale
0:25.0	to find out how we can fix our broken NHS.
0:28.0	But first, you are probably not going to like this one.
0:32.0	In six months time, I hope that the cap has been
0:35.6	abolished and in that time I will obviously go through the process with the
0:39.8	party and continue to stick to my principles and speak up for my constituents who reelected
0:45.2	me to champion causes such as scrapping the two child benefit cap.
0:49.7	So in that clip from Radio Force Today programme, that's Zara Sultana, the recently re-elected MP that last night was suspended
0:55.9	from the Labour Party after voting against the government.
0:58.6	Here's what happened.
0:59.6	On Tuesday evening, seven left-wing Labour MPs, known as the Red Rebels, formed a rebellion
1:04.3	voting on an SMP amendment to the King's speech to drop the two-child benefit cap, a policy put
1:10.9	in place by the Tory government way back in 2017.
1:14.1	Nevertheless, the government easily passed the bill thanks to its monster majority,
1:17.9	but that's not the big story.
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