Chit Chat Celts

Today, we are going to discuss the up-and-comingelection to be held in Spain on Sunday 29th November 2026.

This follows a defeat of the Prime Minister PEDRO SANCHEZ housing legislation in the Parliament.

 Spanish politics as you could imagine is much morefragmented than the UK or Ireland, so the Boys will give you s a rundown of the runners and riders, what caused it, what the issues are and what the outcome may be.

The Question of the Day is on the Green Party in the UK and around Europe, Zach Polanski and what has been happening in Camden and at their Party Conference.

Over the past couple of weeks the leaders of threenationalist parties holding he titles of First Minister in Northern Ireland , Scotland and Wales met in Cardiff and signed a Memorandum of Understanding outlining their aims for self determination for their countries. Plaid Cymru,the SNP and Sinn Fein main platform is independence from the UK.

We discuss what this means to each country and the union or independence in the whole and talk Question of the Day on Canada looking to join the EU - what implications will this have and could have for the UK

This episode is a first for a very sad reason…. Itis our first normal podcast without our great friend Colin. We hope we will do his memory justice.

Today we are going to look at Global GovernmentDebt and explain how that affects all of us in our daily lives. Before you tune out if you are an investor, mortgage repayer, retiree on private or state pension this subject matters to you.

QOD is on Conference Season kicking off with Reform and some lighter moments including Nadine Dorris and Lizz Truss

In this shortened episode, Declan and Walker talk about their friend and fellow podcaster Colin who passed away recently.

They re-live and re-tell some of the stories and experiences they had with Colin and hopefully capture some of the personality of a highly respected and loved man.

Today we are going to catchup with some topics which we missed from last weeks episode.

Firstly the EU – what are your thoughts on its current existence, where it sits today in the global world and what should it do to ensure itself in the new global future?

Then - lets talk for a few minutes on the National Health Service and Health Service Executive ? What are you experiences of it and what one thing would you suggest to fixing it going forward? QOD - This week we are going to give some recommendations -

So, what book recommendations would you give to our listeners or if you are not a bookworm, what travel places would you recommend them to visit

Book Recommendations -

COLIN

https://www.amazon.com/Angelas-Ashes-Memoir-Frank-McCourt-ebook/dp/B000FBJFSC

https://www.amazon.com/London-Falling-Mysterious-Gilded-Familys-ebook/dp/B0FGZYTRP1

https://www.amazon.com/Foundation-Isaac-Asimov-ebook/dp/B000FC1PWA

DECLAN

https://www.amazon.es/Kane-Abel-Jeffrey-Archer-ebook/dp/B003JMF4FC

https://www.amazon.es/Nord-Stream-Conspiracy-Inside-Explosions/dp/1529155460

https://www.amazon.es/Polar-War-Submarines-Struggle-Melting-ebook/dp/B0FCG7HVYX

WALKER

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Sebag_Montefiore

https://www.amazon.es/Jerusalem-Biography-Simon-Sebag-Montefiore-ebook/dp/B004KA9VC

https://www.amazon.es/1984-george-orwell-Libros-eBook-Kindle/s?k=1984+george+orwell&rh=n%3A599364031%2Cp_n_binding_browse-bin%3A1462224031

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Moons-Balloon-David-Niven-ebook/dp/B002RI9AIQ

https://www.amazon.es/Bring-Empty-Horses-Golden-Silver/dp/1444716107

After last weeks episode on the heavier subject of Immigration, we are going a little lighter this week and giving our listeners an insight into your hosts personal political and sporting heroes.

Some may be well known, some may not (GAA) and some may be controversial - but we will let you decide on that.

Question of the Day then looks at what is happening in Ukraine, with the sacking of Zelensky's Defence Minister and Army Chief - what's going on?

Please follow the following on the Ukraine War -

Facebook/Youtube - Caolan Robertson

Kiev Independent Newspaper -

On Thatcher and UK's Modern History -

Andrew Marr History of Modern Britain on iPlayer or Youtube

Todays episode we are going to talk about Immigrationand in particular the approach Spain has taken on this contentious issue compared to the rest of Europe.

As you know In our Podcast we will always wrap upthe session with a question of the day section. What is going on in the Iran War and the implications of lasting resolution.

Todays episode we are going to talk about the WorldCup including its interplay with Politics and As our question of the day we are going to discuss Andy Burnhams first policy speech and answer the question canhe change the UK in two years.

In today’s episode the guys discuss CHINA and where they see it with regards the UK and IRELAND and where it is positioning itself in the WORLD. We also ask the question who would you trust more in the world CHINA or the USA and tackle this in the Question of the Day

Todays episode Is looking at SPAIN.

We are all now all living in Spain either permanently or for the majority of the year and have many past experiences ofvisiting SPAIN either for work or on holiday. It therefore would be good to explain these experiences and what has led us to settle down in Andalusia, Spain.

We are all going to take around 5-10 minutes each tolist all our previous connections and at the end give a synopsis of why we now make this our HOME.

After the break, we will tackle this weeks "Question of the Day" -

What can we make of the news that, Peter Murrel (Chief Executive of the SNP) pleading guilty to embezzling £400k of political funds over 10 years and how does this sit with his former wife NICOLA STURGEON?  Does this remind of you anything similar or familiar?