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The Autumn of Our Discontent

The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

The New Statesman

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🗓️ 10 October 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush and Anoosh Chakelian are joined by Ailbhe Rea and Patrick Maguire at a live event in London to discuss conference season and bring you a mega You Ask Us, as they answer questions on subjects ranging from Jeremy Corbyn's successor to whether anyone will bother turning out for a winter election.


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0:00.0

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0:11.0

So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas.

0:16.5

Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app. I'm Stephen Bush.

0:23.0

I'm Stephen Bush I'm Alvaray I'm Anusha Kellian and I'm Patrick McGuire

0:42.2

We just want to say thanks so much for our Westminster team for joining Stephen and

0:46.2

me to do this podcast although they haven't worn the requisite Doc Martin uniform

0:50.0

so we will be... I've worn Stephen's old uniform of New Balance trainers before his chirophilus told him

0:56.6

to start wearing normal shoes.

0:57.8

Or was that a...

0:58.8

No, I usually have some story about how I'm trying to be adult now,

1:02.8

but no, the real story is that I was having

1:06.4

de-habilitating foot pain.

1:08.3

And you know when you kind of just go, oh, maybe it's not this problem.

1:12.3

I guess it's a bit like smokers, well, maybe it's not this problem. I guess it's a bit like smokers where I call maybe it's not the smoking.

1:15.5

It's like maybe it's not than I've worn flat-footed children's shoes for the last 30 years that means I've struggled to walk further than the supermarket

1:24.4

without wanting to cry. But you were told off for wearing trainers at one of these

1:27.6

events for you. She was right yes. Right okay well Patrick watch out.

1:30.8

Yeah. But we have in our various footwear.

1:34.2

So we're three-fourths, three-fourths of the way through the conference season because we're

1:39.7

actually, we're missing two of those because Plied Kumri's Conference and the Green

1:44.8

Parties are this weekend but and they're both in Wales they're both in Wales which I mean

1:49.1

it's clever right it would would mean that if if you wanted to go to both you could yeah if you want to go

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