ah, welcome to the alexandria. sure. we take a look at the state of the yuki parliament. you parties as a political conference season begin this weekend. labor gather in brighton? well, a few days at the see site and the great the prospect. so the main opposition party, as a country emerges from the pandemic next weekend majorities. mr. munches that were prime minister borders. johnson continued his campaign to spread the 20 message to the north of england. on the show this week we asked pulling due to professor john curtis to assess the lay of the awesome political landscape. then we question 2 conference veterans, my former tory minister, cutty, i'm calling the labor and t william pension. the performance of prime minister board is johnson. i just labor came to part sick here stockman, but 1st 2 or 3 messages and emails in response to i show last week on the women of afghanistan. felix says, great discussion again tonight,

heating guess being able to speak openly. and honestly, it's such a change from the mainstream. well, probably says to i wonder which country is next to feel to be history and not leave the place alone. part of says, i think is great, the alex brings forth not only the plight of the scottish people, but also takes time to listen to speak to people who are affected by the corruptness that permits other people and coaches to bring people together. so we can all be educated and not gullible. and finally, william nicole said, you need to help everyone in the course of freedom inequality, not just at home. there is poverty in scotland, but nobody shooting bullets. see it costs nothing to ask someone feels to the negatives when you're angry at the people who make money out of ordinary people suffering. thanks again for your sure. thanks william for writing it. now last week was johnson reshuffled his cabinet, dick, but he did so for the pretty comfortable pulling position with toys ahead of the

opposition as pilot moved towards the term. and a surprise moved, he brought and list just as a tory party, ever women for the secretary. but hi, this a ministerial musical, your fits into the overall political landscape. last month, i'll exhaust a john practice to review the prospects as evidenced in the opinion polls. so john comes tumbling to the state of westminster part is look at the political parties and tell me if you had bought us johnson this knows it pretty comfortable with an opinion pull lead well into the tam of parliament. county is out and say things are going. all right. i think there is no job the bars. johnson's position pretty was 75 and my previous guiding me only previous prime minister who was enjoying us. anything like a story position as one of the boys. johnson county, georgia, because evers,

on average, you're around 6 or 6 will so points and labor in the balls, but you had to be why we all watch nitty to manage a little tiny, black eyed prime minister for the most part usually by the time begins remitted upon against a, which is behind the opposition post dot extensively as far as johnson is in a rescue. strong position during the spot. and of course, the pandemic, at least until the vaccine was not handled particularly well by the government. and the u. k. has suffered a relatively high level morbidity and mortality. father, i think there are few people would argue no bars. johnson is not really a politician for a difficult time. he's a sunshine politician, are 3500 the tom demick particularly easy.

but of course, the crucial stable position he's got is the conservative party these days is essentially the party press it. the boss bog of it's about comes from lead vices and there isn't really any competition fall back leave. but since module for raj, the game reps, the party now reform you know, picking up very much doubtful at least 2 sides of the boat is still saying they're going to berkeley. the concern is that the father breasted still structures how people can do both so much just a concern as a very considerable advantage. in contrast, remain, vote is still divided between labor up to some degree than it would have cost. i didn't know the board r b s and p. so now the labor part to use that for only picking up usually the stay

somewhat less than half the remain that for, and it's not being particularly successful despite its best endeavors. but for the most part, i'm not talking about pracs, it is not succeeding in regaining abroad. it's last monthly vogis. so the legacy of breast, which while bed is not in that law, and you still very have a restructuring party choice. i because on the remain side, if i was fight magic on the side, it's relatively concentrated. that's giving the conservative ballast. that means it's proven very, very difficult for labor to get the conserves blair for the center. right? so let's look at the 2 main westminster opposition parties. you, cale position party, call them that. been labor care, stomach, serious politicians new to thought. and you see this time see what the process. so

seems to be the case. one of the little democrats look like dad is doors or perhaps products, but both labor and the little one violates the success is over the summer as the sudden light at the end of the tunnel for for labor and the little democrats. well, mister shaw was to cast trucks is clearly a very clever lawyer. unlike all clever lawyers, he's very good asking questions about detail. he often betters the prime minister. prime minister's questions. however, of course, what clever lawyers do is to take a brief that somebody else has written and then prosecuted by the leader of a political party. his job is to write the own brief and to present and to advocate for it and persuading all this match. i think we're still

waiting to see why the success story has the ability to develop his own brief and basically to persuade people to get him some idea what that stands for. and they might want to believe that because the truth is, people are very unsure what never bought a stone for certainly not care what other adults may right. we can service the labor party, could do any better job in government. and until he comes nice to meet this, it's going to be very difficult for him to profit from the various different police . the government is going to fight other appeal, the internal deputies attentions inside this particular between the primary to the chance are we punish spending review while pressures on so she can manage us plenty of opportunities for that. not going to see an export unless you care to begin to start himself and his own party. and how about the liberal

democrats as a whole? does a violence can fanta a bit of hope? may be life and neil doug yet, but just, you know, mission frankly occurring just the kind of place where the trucks and what i wanted a bar action to happen. this was a conservative help constituency, however, voted, remain in the referendum, and this was precisely the kind of constituency which in the tried to know g direction. the conservative vote fell back out. the democrats bounced on in the circumstances by action. we are ready to do also assisted by all right. no issues with h. s 2 were planning was to engage screen labor vibes. i basically took profit from the fact there's a lot of conservative traditional conservative bars that constituency. i'm not the stock in dollars off. always johnson and perhaps it but i'm

never going to go. so it was crucial because most of the prospects, most of the constituencies where they are not, not fall behind in the wake of the 29 election are indeed conservative, held to main constituencies. but there are many of them, it's a way of don't have to find a new market about being able to expand upon when she polity. but it is frankly no more than the beginning where they're at no cost unlike labor. i think there is no reason why they should not be trying to appeal to remain dodge is. this is always being that traditional constituency varnish. why? of a traditional leave out to define except in the start to vendor. but frankly, i think it's already been lost when i got to our party, the diversity to graduates and talk to you if you're a metropolitan london to very different parties from 3040 years ago. not probably

the new market i have to do is i had to sign in the principals more recently recovered i little but again surrendered. davy not should buy cars. magical pictures usually correspond to take off so much like 16 and these 2 years post politics to start himself and his party is wrong. finally, so john, if i'm going to something going to come from off site in westminster politics, i mean, one of green politics, a huge summit coming up and glasgow. is it possible that the green party might finally make a breakthrough in the 1st past the post system and surprise us all. also something coming from elsewhere that we should be looking for by overseer. you, scotland, as always reminds me as soon as possible me under the dash for a party to make a serious breakthrough through the 1st for the 1st possible system. i like to

remind people we no longer really have a british party system. we already know english well, why? because the conservative would, you know, so the border was eventually tracked in 2015. the greens do show some signs of progress. i all want to get a rod pharmacy to send you the bringing boys they've done had fractures in the past . had a breakthrough in the 1989. your plan of action. they did pretty well. between 201-520-7270. started to progress, 70 signs of that potentially able to pick up votes, one otherwise go to label. democrats for them to do well enough to really help constituencies law. they've got one or 2 prospects, but they are quite limited and it needs to have some car. lucas's been able to make a rotten constituents around feature. if you need

a local person to be able to read it, begins to buy bread brakes are very high to be a local popularity in order to that, to the grains clear, but so far more progress. i think about the greens are probably capable of doing damage. the opposition parties more than spike breakers themselves, but certainly climate changes on the agenda and the greens are saying, okay, to go away professor. so john cut us pulling. good. extraordinary, thank you so much for joining me in nelly simon show. you're welcome. coming a pass to the break. alex invites to former and peace to run the rule over their ex colleagues. join us in the oh right now there are 2000000000 people who are overweight or

obese. it's profitable to sell food that is fatty and sugary and healthy and addicted. not at the individual level. it's not individual willpower. and if we go on believing that will never change that, that industry has been influencing very deeply. the medical and scientific establishment, ah, what's driving the reason for them? it's corporate. mm. welcome back and we'll plesco conferences are back. what kind of you politics back or are they still frozen? an aspect under the shadow of the panoramic alex asked the legend, victoria minister cutty, and for the labor m. p. chris williamson. what to look for in best conference season. america. if i can talk to you 1st for la, told a perspective, looks

a bit like playing, failing at the present moment. i have the opinion polls i see approach but. but in real terms, i mean little shortages on the shops, the health services kneeling collapse. i must even run out of carbon. don't say gas oven is quite other to do so well when all these things are going wrong. wherein similar situation, i think, to margaret that she was back in the 8th, which is that we don't have a majority supporting us. the opposition is split in bo says your recall our position split between the connex labor and re actually paid. and now the position is between the cash thomas labor and the grange. so a taking a significant boat. and you often find we find this in the local election up here. that if you have a constituency award where they opposition has labor and the green

spiking each other, then we run her head. if one of those drops out, for example, if the green, but she dropped out as happens in the constituency where i ford, then labor will be ahead and the less will be ahead. now, the problems that happen, i think her often seen as well. they would face any government and certainly the c o $21.00 as a result of a chapter of accidents. and we're in a better position than many other countries because we have aggressive diversity of energy resources, including some of our own oil and gas. that said, when you get close to a general election, which isn't going to happen, i think, until 2024. then everything it's gotta come right. because williamson, why is your old pastor so unable to patently lambda blow on bought us johnson even when he perceives god? but i think there's been a failure of leadership from caste alma he,

one of the leadership on the basis of building on the legacy of jeremy colbin. and unfortunately far from being unity candidate is he promised to be a spent, his time naval contemplating really in terms of trying to eradicate. and he's kind of socialist elements within the labor party. and of course, is joined in this sort of bipartisan approach in relation to the cobra situation and has been reluctant. it seems to criticize the, the problem minister. you know, the big mistake that the labor party made. and it was something that i was railing about when i was still a member of the parliamentary life party. is this commitment to a 2nd referendum and they were perceived as the pro establishment party, which is rather ironic, given the record of the conservative policy in the form of bullying. a club member and the former for barrister johnson is being portrayed as

a sort of anti establishment figure which he was. but my argument was that we should take the conserves his on their own game. and we should have been arguing about last election for getting back said, don't my argument was, let's say we will get back to me. and the difference is that we will deliver a people's for exit, not a bankers for exit. and i think the, the fall out from is still with us today, and the policies have really recovered from the i think was it was a fatal error. but briefly for chris williams in defense of co, sophia stammered, isn't that a difficult for an opposition leader, a time of pod demick crisis, a to a man and an opposition rule when the country expects the politicians to be unified and dealing with a panoramic is not difficult situation for an opposition with well, i think it was a difficult situation. them in the way in which the conservative government handled upon them, it was catastrophic. and there was no real criticism or bite of the opposition

bicycle storm or, or even from bench. i think that was a real mistake and the they should have been i think very, very clearly and belligerently really poor pointing out the failings of, of the government and actually dealing with a situation where life remember that the death rate in britain is, is one of the highest in the world, yet with the, with the biggest economy, was absolutely no justification. it seems to me, in the way in which i think the whole pandemic scenario we've dealt with by the government was really unforgettable. and that is something i think a lot of people would have looks to and we're looking to the labor party to, to actually point out and offer offer an alternative. but that was something lacking really because for us and mentioned breaks it. that what the tab meaning the, the totally didn't the opinion polls. i mean you as a member of parliament. i remember, well as other notable unified, you're campaigning for the european union even when it was unpopular and you're,

you're part of it. you, on many of those seem reconciled to breaks that mean? is that the, the secret of bodies? johnson's opinion, bullied? i think it's very much an important part if we continue to suffer manpower shortages as we are then one of the effects of that is to push up wages. another effect, of course, is to see a scramble by employers and industrialists to invest in better equipment. and that means higher productivity that actually feeds alex through us as you know, to much more prosperous country. i mean, we have what that me and vacancies for jobs. the, the push that's going on is to open the floodgates and that people come in from europe again, i don't think they would come back in such great numbers anyway. i think this is what's going to happen. i had a conversation this morning with

a friend who's husband is a, an h t v driver, but he only works locally. he's seen this way, just got 20 percent. he's seen some of his friends wages, double. you know what? that is going to be a very interesting prospect as we get towards the end of this parliament, to have much better pay people, particularly the north of england through their own hard work and efforts and not having the cheap competition but come from large numbers of new arrivals, i think people are going to carry on voting conservative on that basis as well. so i watched the statement last week from the prime minister on the i'll get this right. the are us patient defense part. the u. k is not entered into a failure in america. what extraordinary thing was the most passionate challenge in question to the prime minister came from his previous us of the reason, a man who asked them, does this mean that you case no, committed to the defense of taiwan against the chinese invasion?

not a totally improbable prospect. why guess? the labor benches no longer having people who would stand up and ask about nuclear proliferation or the extent of treaty obligations or any of the key questions? an opposition should be asking, under the circumstances where these people gotten, williamson while many of them have been excelled or suspended. of course, and a lot of people are frightened, seems to me to speak them minding chemist alma's labor party. and, you know, we seeing the propaganda building up the, until china, a propaganda building up and we should be seeing the opposition speaking out about and opposing. and what we should be doing for is a huge investment in our public services. we have our own sovereign currency, money is no object in this country. we have lots of spare capacity. the only kind of inflation re, oppressions that are generated is when you, when the government spends beyond or any entity in the,

in the economy for that much beyond the capacity to absorb, to see this latest nonsense. it's all costs, so called is deal between australia, k, the u. s. is just another example. it seems to me of how out of touch our political leaders all and not dealing with the real issues, the real problems that are confronting everyday people. i'm afraid to say that both new labor and the certainly the conservatives say all public service. this is a cash cow for the private sector. and so that's what we've seen joy, this kind of crisis. and these are the sorts of issues i think the bretton culture issues, the politicians is certainly labor politicians ought to be focusing on. and yet we seem to have this, this cozy consensus going to go into there's yet another example that nuclear proliferation is the key is to almost fall again for himself to agree with the prime minister. it's a disgrace, that's going to cost you how the different, what all view, but if the question is only 5 years since david cabin was falling over himself,

the condo up to the, the chinese and the technically part, a massive investment and chinese nuclear technology whitelist a little tediously exporting nuclear technology to, to a scale ya, china as the, as the target, what's going on. and when the french were very, very upset about it, not because they had the queue, they really didn't let me think about. it must feel a bit sorry for the because they've lost this huge project, this enormous order for many billions of years worth of diesel powered engines. the french, the traditional enemy and were orchestra is going to do is enable them to have lots of other countries including prompt shop, which is nuclear power submarines. what the prime minister said last week basically was capital not true. then we got, he said, the united kingdom remains determined to defend international law, and that is

a strong advice we give to our friends across the world and the strong device we give to the government in beijing. and other words, regard is on you so long as you behave, it's all going to be fine. i tell them to the conference is coming up. labor going to bite unless we can amend the consensus to manchester the following weekend. because we do have a conference mentally that you could share with us on a perfectionist what might go right for, for kill stop notion, which is going to go right for him. although i think he might be able to drive through the, the changes which he wants to bring to the party. i think the so many memories of party conferences stretching by 40 years in my case. but i suppose the one that really, and he said disappointing more from my perspective, was much actually change the, the, or could have changed the course of history. and that was when tony ben stood for

the leadership of the labor party and lost it by the tiniest of march is any date have the same proportions in the electoral college being been in place that were in place when tony black was elected leader then tony ben would have been the deputy leader by a substantial majority and how do you been elected in the same basis to jeremy kobe was elected the leader that he would have stolen him with a probably an even bigger majority than, than jeremy achieved. but i just remember that the conference is from the vegetable mine memory, really. and there was a level of disappointment because tony been had overwhelming grocery support. he was an incredible communicator. someone who was a, was a towering figure in the political world. and i think he would have been a brilliant leader. indeed, in my opinion, the best prime minister, the britain never had a conference memory for from you, for all the, the conservative party conferences and the french events that you went to over the

years as standing memory of what my me one that might cause bought us johnston pause for thought to see has he prepares to accept the agitation in manchester, 975, was the 1st party conference that margaret thatcher address. as the new leader of the opposition. i went to long and i was newly elected as above the city counsellor . and i heard her speech talking about how the state should be, are served to not master that we should fight socialist and everything that chris stands for. and i find it very thrilling, very exciting. and i push in so fast to speak, and debates and eventually wasn't being caught. eventually i went up to the speakers desk and i said, why am i not being called an extremely nice woman call? rachel dutch looked at me and she said, because you are not important enough,

diana, go away and come back when you will. and so i next went to the conference in 1981. by which time i had checked him social services. i was about to check buggy and housing becoming a national name. i pushed in my strip. i got to speak. i got chit to the rafters. and the next year i got a doctor for a seat and the rest, as they say is history. it really caught a chris williamson. thank you so much for malik simon. show. and giving us your very different but equally well informed point of view. thank you very much. after the pain di board, i'm a liberal, an s n p online conferences. it's on any political journey unless you're welcome conference, is moving from the virtual world to be a world. however, merely holding real conferences does not guarantee a return to the politics. and the government is still benefiting from incumbency in dealing with the national crisis of the pandemic. when i shide to has lifted the

view challenges or inflation, the patient, the limiting economic recovery record die health service waiting with an empty supermarket. shells may well blow the torn ship of state rapidly and substantially . of course. however, it is little saying that yet of a convincing opposition narrative from the labor party or the new up search and the liberal democrats. so the dream. given all the reason for making political turbulence, captain boris and his new crew, other stories, new position of stadium to go. but for now from alex, myself and others who is good by, stacy, i'm hope to see you all again next week. ah, [000:00:00;00]

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