304: Britain, a Large, Unravelling Jumper

Rob and Tom discuss The Queen’s Speech, how the parties responded and the chances of Brexit being delivered on 31st October. With your usual Quick Polls Update.

Topics

• [0:00] Intro

• [01:07] Main Story: Queen's Speech

  • [12:59] Part 1: Brexit

  • [21:26] Part 2: The Economy

  • [25:12] Part 3: Health

  • [28:53] Part 4: Law And Orderrrr

  • [34:36] Part 5: Devolution

  • [43:02] Part 6: Voter ID

• [49:30] Labour's Response

• [53:30] Where Next For Brexit?

• [1:12:38] Quick Polls Update

• [1:18:33] Outro

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Shownotes

• Sky News: The Queen’s Speech In Full

• Freakonomics: The Prime Minister Who Cried Brexit

• Twitter: Robert Peston on the budget

• The Guardian: Tories Distract from Brexit with Crime Focussed Queen’s Speech

• The Guardian: UK to Face Questions Over Northern Ireland Citizenship Laws

• The Guardian: Jeremy Corbyn Hits Out at ‘Farcical’ Queen’s Speech

• Briefing Paper: Acts and Statutory Instruments: the volume of UK legislation 1850 to 2019

• Daily Mail: WAG War

• The Independent: Leave.eu Apologises For Calling Merkel a ‘kraut’

• FT: Jacob Rees-Mogg Urges Compromise

• Twitter: Video with JRM

• Britain Elects: Westminster Voting Intention

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• Twitter

• Facebook

Attribution

• Recording engineer: Craig

• Theme song: Handel's Water Music (Public Domain under CC0 1.0) with Big Ben Chimes (By hyderpotter under CC0 1.0).

• Main Image: State Opening of Parliament 2008 IV by Robert Sharp under CC by A 2.0

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219: Alastair Campbell Soup

Rob and Tom take a slow look at the Headlines in lieu of a larger story this week as we enjoy a bit of political calm.

Topics

• Lib Dems Top the Polls

• Trump Visit

• Tory Leadership Contest

• Peterborough By Election

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Shownotes

• Sky News: Lib Dems would win general election if it was held tomorrow - poll

• Britain Elects: Westminster Voting Intention

• The ‘Lib Dem Bar Chart’

• Average polls

• BBC: May officially steps down as Tory leader

• BBC: In pictures: Trump's state visit to the UK

• Trump on the toilet seat by listener Thomas Askew

• TIME: Trump Calls London's Mayor a 'Stone Cold Loser' Before Landing in U.K.

• Subway antibiotics in chicken

• Twitter: “I took drugs” confessions

• Twitter: Tory Leadership 10

• The Bugle 4110: Democramnesia

• BBC: Labour sees off Brexit Party in by-election

• Twitter: Owen Jones on Labour Party Rules

• indy100: Journalist Rafael Behr sums up the Brexit in less than 2 minutes

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• Facebook

Attribution

• Recording engineer: Craig

• Theme song: Handel's Water Music (Public Domain under CC0 1.0) with Big Ben Chimes (By hyderpotter under CC0 1.0).

• Main Image: An Audience with Alastair Campbell by University of Salford Press Office under CC by SA 2.0

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218: In Fifth Place, The Conservative Party

Rob and Tom discuss the results of the European Elections 2019. Who were the winners and losers? How does Brexit Britain compare to the continent? Does the Brexit Party have any staying power?

Topics

• European Election Results

• The UK Parties

• Brexit Party

• Change UK

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Shownotes

• EU Election Results

• YouTube: Guy Verhofstadt Compares Farage to a Blackadder Character

• BBC: European elections 2019: Brexit Party dominates as Tories and Labour suffer

• BBC: UK Results at a Glance

• Twitter: UK Final Results Map

• Twitter: Led By Donkeys

• YouTube: Islington Results Announced

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Discuss

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Attribution

• Recording engineer: Craig

• Theme song: Handel's Water Music (Public Domain under CC0 1.0) with Big Ben Chimes (By hyderpotter under CC0 1.0).

• Main Image: European Parliament Strasbourg Hemicycle by David Illiff under CC by SA 3.0

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