International Conflict and Political Survival

This podcast includes strong language. The first ballot box has just arrived. Ballot boxes are in. All ballot boxes are now in. What's in the box? The first ballot box verdict on Kir Stahmer's government. Where do we start? What's in a b box? I mean, it looks like a red wall wipe out. Labour has suffered huge losses. No! The government has stumbled from one disastrous policy decision to another. No And they are paying the price Tw partarty politics is not just dying, it is dead and it is buried. That's not true. That's not true. I think it'd be gone by midsummer again. You ling! You're fucking liar. A Labour MP Pt West has told the BBC she will launch a leadership challenge against Sakir Starmer if no other rivals come forward. He didn't know West Streeting arrived in Browning Street and then left within seventeen minutes. Yeah that you better walk away. Don't walk away because I'm b for the fucking out. West Streeting's allies are telling us he's planning on challenging the Prime Minister you disloyal full laayers bitch made pk. and that challenge They come as soon as tomorrow. You don't fuck you think you fucking win. In a speech in London, Skir vowed to fight anyone running to replace him. I'm the man up in this spe and said that he would prove the dbters wrong. I You just ripp it. He told a room full of labor loyalists. K comeong ain't get on me ere, Horny, st in the Labour party. surrise. And then we've got the serious threat that there'll be another KS arma that perhaps could And the Lour party ororeverver eighty seven labour andPs are to be released across Exmore National Park from this summer, but the sheep farmer in Exmoore is concerned that they could prey on lands. We don't want to reach a situation where the genie is out the bottle and we are experiencing loss. it' going to be pretty distressive. Zach Bolansky may have failed to pay council tax on a houseboat in London the boats, for boats. Something doesn't happenatter. Mrter Polansky says he only used the boat occasionally and lived elsewhere in London. I. West Camp had a ninety fif minute equalizer ruled out by VAR. The decision took four minutes and eleven seconds to come. Could it be that you have been looking too long? And it could have season defining consequences your mveless t. Gorden Brown now brought back in to government by his arour. nine! For the Kan's speech featured a guest performance by Boy George Prime Minister Zakir Stahmmer The King's speech where the government sets out its priorities happening on the same day that the Labour Party is pulling itself apart. wasn to introduce the Prime Minister and the leader of our party, Ka Starmer The election results last week were t. Let us not be down on it. We have a responsibility. P responsibility. I will set a new direction for G. Right This call for a neededia discussion. Our response this time must be different. New motion Completely new motion. We cannot win as a weaker version of reform or the Greens. agre Pounds not words and we need action now. We can only win as a stronger version of labour. right, We can sit around here all day talking passing resolutions, making clever speeches. Truth be told, I'm not sure that they believe that we care. We've got to get up off our asses and stop just talking about it For the British people tired of a status quo that has failed them. Oh let just stop gabbing on about. Change cannot come quickly enough. Once the vote has been taken, obviously once the vote has been taken back is done lay back no. B. get back And now for something completely different I'm Je Mconald. Did someone mention cruise? passassengers have been evacuated from the cruise ship hit by the Htavirus outbreak. I caught the cruis in bug more than twenty years ago. Symptoms can take one to eight weeks to show and can feel like mild flu. I think I'm going to have a heart. But phase two can lead to lung damage. This is completely taking my breath away Dust blows up into the air and people inhale it. its's mice and wat droppings and urinine. So what if I'm haveving a cocktail as well? The cruise ship at the center of the outbreg was allowed to dark in Spain. Where Muel comes from, O faulty towers, passengers will start being transferred home to self isolated for forty two days. After that, I really do need to go another ee down. I down I labour are wiped out by reform in many of their most traditional areas extraordinary. The best is yet to come. But this story is not your. One thing that consistently I get in the streets from people, especially for women actually, is please save us Please save us. reshaping of British politics. . stop Be nothing says anti establishment like hoovering up disgraced touries, taking money from foreign based billionaires and refusing to answer questions about the most basic requirements of transparency and integrity We are the fun parting party. standandards Commissioner has decided to launch an inquiry into the leader of reform UK, Nigel Farge Once there was a girl who was invisible. Please welcome lead of the Conservative partarty, Eemmy Payton. No one can see her. Interpreivive so you like little more than an extra. And no one could hear her. The Conservatives are coming back herer invisibility. The Tories, we haven't really talked about them yet was simply a fact she had to live with. Does that imply that most people think the Tories are a bit irrelevant these days? What's happening Why are you all pretending I're not here? I'm very proud of how we have done. The tories are de and ghost. We are the only serious alternative to labour. I'm still inisible. We are coming back to deliver a stronger economy. I didn't want to accept it. We're coming back to deliver a stronger country and we are coming back to get Britain Walking again, but I had disappeared. Ol Kemy Vaden on. Fr sight Standing at the dispatch boook. And from memory. It'll look like a bit of an anomaly for the next three years. I shadow girl. I just don't think about our toorys anymore because they're just not relevant to our lives anymore, are they? They know, they know We turn now to that big new release of UFO documents President Trump telling the public to have fun deciding for itself what's going on. Give the old razzleazzle. I recently directed the Secretary of war to begin releasing government files relating to UFO's Rzzle dzzle unexplained Aerial andamina. Give the old Pope is hope. That's right. Is there anything there or is this a distraction to what is going on overseas? What if it hinges all around us? I don't know if I am. I been. You're just disgusted. You figurered it up. Let me know. Dazzle Dazzle and Amera A Sergey Wy Wcky Oh There are reports coming out of Russia of a plot to oust Vladimir Putin. D ms up. Sergei Soyigu is the man named behind the conspiracy. Sergei is having little jeoc withy. The two used to be very close friends. He was a loyal ally. The two would actually go on fishing trips together. This is a Sergei. would often post quite macho topless photos of them J you But there is dark clouds. Everyone who could be suspected as a person who can challenge Putin would be eliminated. Okay. You are working hard and you are feeling the stress. You should be taking easy. There's been a systematic purging of Soi Gu's allies. High on Rof of Presidential Palace in center of Moscow Oh man, it falls over. It's a good story. Eon is a sharp man, particularly when it comes to kind of the cloak and dagger stuff. So now his fix proble. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke to reporters. I want to reiterate the point The message to Iran, they should check themselves before theyreck themselvesck themsel theyself before youck yourself. They should check themselves before they wreck themselves. You better check yourselves before you wreck yourself ' becausecause I'm bad for your health. At least a hundred healthcare facilities have come under attack I come st dropping on. More than three thousand people have been killed in Iran since the conflict began. They should check themselves before they rack themselves. check yourself before youck yourself. T to check themselves before they rreack themselves. Iress you want to step to me. Now you ask them before the deputy. Their leaders are all gone. You're gone. The next set of leaders are all gone They should check themselves before they rreack themselves. President Trump' advisers are increasingly worried that Republicans will pay a political price for these rising fuel costs. They should check themselves before they rreack themselves Big dixing ass is bad for you The ongoing Israeli American war on Iran is boiling down to one key place Who can take the pain the longer ichard Tice, one of your counillorss suggested melting Nigerians to fill potholes. Yeah, the reality is we've had more potholes than anybody else. We're sick of it. We've got an extra fourteen potholes in London. That's what people are really concerned about. Do you condemn those remarks? You keep trying to smear us and sear us? It's not a smear. I condemn anything that is wrong But many votksers who have concerns about that person who's just been elected, who is revealed to be offensive Obviously, the voters are furess with the potholes in gates meelting Nigerians to fill potoles. There No point repeating it, justust remember voters want more reform, more success and no potholes. Imagine you could travel back in time. On Downing Street, Labours passed, Gordon Brown back for the first time in sixteen years. to a time long before M the Prime Minister's decision to bring Gordon Brown and Harriet Harmon back into government. This is a world ruled by dinosaurs T major. Big beasts of the Labour Party brought back into government, but these ancient have had their day. There is a bafflement when the public are crying out for change and acceleration in the face of change. They're seeing two figures who were in government three decades ago p back. Once there were many different varieties of these powerful creatures. D you going to bring in Tonylair to feed Larry the And it will take them some time to realize their work is in vain. A desperate bid to save his skin. And now the real test for survival begins Let me be clear, these are really tough results. One single moment, your whole life conc turn round. O voters have sent a message. Wellell feels like it' caved in proper Srey frown. I think it's absolutely clear that the electorate are fed up with labour. Bes m I know it's hard to think but her mind has been made. I know I have my doubts. Please let me show you where we could only just be for us. And I know I need to prove them wrong and I will. I can change and I can grow or we can adjust. We are they eyes Dangerous a. I know you want to make us see how must This hurts not just because Labour has gone bad and I'm just standing there. But because if we don't get this right, our country will go down. ' Everything is just gone. very dark. I've got nothing Absolutely nothing up Alexa Who twisted the skewer? The skewer was Twisted by John Holmes, Hatie Sayer, Alice Bri Tellenbrook, Dave Roll, Down Philip, David Rifkin, But More He'sware and Tery Churnside. Aditional material Ellie Hayward, Vivian Hopley, Jones, Jade Gabby, Rrace Millie, Ollie Court, Nathan Cowey Allen Benwid, Henrick Person Arian Fis, and John Upton. The producer was John Holmes. The skewer was an unusual production for BBC Radio four and BBC sounds There's a five year term I'm elected to do. I intend to see that through. I'm not gonna fucking just fucking leave it all now said it be forever and that was your vow. I'm not going to sugar not it. Please, please be please. We need to convince people that things can and will get better.es mate. to make her see how much this pain hurts And I'm not going to walk away. but you've got to walk away now This is John Holmes. Thank you for listening to Comedy of the Week. If you'd like to hear more episodes of the skewer, you can search for it whereere else on BBC Sounds Could you talk about being invisible or double dim? Who knows what's next on the new series of just a minute? 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