Special Non-Emergency Election Episode

非紧急选举特别集

Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

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2024-06-12

31 分钟
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Helen, Adam and Andy try to answer your questions about the election - not 'who's going to win?' (everyone knows that) but the more interesting bits. Plus a special double quiz of Eyes past and campaigns present. 

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  • Page 94, the Private Eye podcast.

  • Hello and welcome to another episode of page 94.

  • My name is Andrew Hunter Murray and I'm here in the private eye offices with Adam McQueen and Helen Lewis.

  • This is a.

  • It's a non emergency podcast.

  • Let's be honest.

  • It's a banal podcast.

  • It's completely in the normal schedule.

  • Totally standard.

  • Yeah, there's nothing to see here.

  • Move along.

  • But it is about politics and so we have to use the word emergency at some point, apparently.

  • So as it's election season, we're going to have some audience questions in a moment.

  • But firstly, Helen and Adam, as private eye hacks, which are the bits of the election that you've been following that you think have not received enough attention.

  • There's been loads and loads on D day and tax claims back and forth.

  • What are the bits of the campaign so far that you think haven't received enough attention or any sort of fun moments that kind of got lost in the stampede?

  • I am going to nominate the conservative chairman, Richard Holden, getting parachuted from his seat in Durham to Billericki in Essex.

  • You know, this phenomenon of the chicken run.

  • There was a lot of talk during the Boris Johnson era of how he was going to do a chicken run to a more safe seat.

  • The chicken run is where you have a seat that you're going to lose and then you just.