Oh God, What Now?

Poor James Cleverley. Can’t a guy just announce his psychotically cruel migration policy without Braverman heckling that it isn’t fashy enough in her resignation* speech? We look at the Tories’ performatively mean new immigration plans and why they’ll never be enough for Beerhall Sue. Plus your questions answered in a But Your Emails Special, why on Earth would Starmer say he admires Thatcher, and Lord Moylan rizzes up Alex.

* FACT CHECK: She was sacked.

• “These immigration rules are going to make international love something for the well-paid.” – Alex Andreou

• “The DUP never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.” – Gavin Esler

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Written and presented by Dorian Lynskey with Alex Andreou, Marie le Conte and Gavin Esler. Producers: Chris Jones and Alex Rees (audio). Theme music by Cornershop. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production.

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You might have noticed how terrible Rishi Sunak’s government is on basically everything, yet, if you listen to his cabinet you might think it’s all going swimmingly. How do we survive the next few months of a government eating itself alive without losing our sanity? Plus, why does British politics find it so hard to deal with religious issues? That’s Oh God, What Now? with guest Times Radio’s Hugo Rifkind.

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Presented by Group Editor Andrew Harrison with Ros Taylor, Yasmeen Serhan and guest Hugo Rifkind. Producer: Chris Jones. Audio production by: Alex Rees. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production.

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Matt Hancock has been giving evidence to the Covid-19 Inquiry and frankly he’s not done himself any good. Alex Andreou has been locked in to the sessions on Thursday and Friday. He joins Andrew Harrison to unpack what the former Health Secretary said – and just how badly he came across. 

• “His appearance was always going to be very defensive.” – Alex Andreou

• “He was doing the same bullshitting that he was being accused of.” – Alex Andreou

• “Someone of his limited ability should never have been in that position.” – Alex Andreou

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The first ceasefire deal in the Israel/Hamas conflict has been signed and hostages have been released. How will the war continue after this pause ends? Yair Wallach is a cultural historian of modern Palestine/Israel at SOAS University of London and joins the panel to discuss. Plus, With the Tories suffering so much in the polls how scared of the Reform UK party should they be? And in the extra bit for subscribers we ask: has Rishi Sunak lost his marbles? We unpack his row with Greece over ancient treasures.

• “Netanyahu has almost been in shock – he’s not been able to form any kind of empathetic response to the Israeli public.” – Yair Wallach

• “Reform is going forward with very clear messaging in a way that the Tory party is having an internal fight over.” – Rachel Cunliffe

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Net migration is at a record high in the UK, and as you might expect the Tories are tearing their hair out over it. After the failure of the Rwanda plan, Home Secretary James Cleverly sayid that plan is not the “be all and end all”, angering those on the very right of his party. Can Sunak provide a credible answer to the backlash the Tory party has received over its migration policies? Or has it lost all public trust? And the general election is somewhere on the horizon, but does it really matter when the election takes place with the polls so in favour of Labour?

“Everyone is pissed off but in different ways.” – Geri Scott.

“I’m not sure Cleverly needs to be dragged to the right to sure-up his position.” – Geri Scott.

“When people are afraid and during a crisis they tend to vote for what they know.” – Ros Taylor

“I think the Tories could benefit from something truly disastrous happening.” – Ros Taylor.

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Written and Presented by Managing Editor Jacob Jarvis with Ros Taylor and Geri Scott. Producers: Chris Jones and Alex Rees. Social Media Producer: Jess Harpin. Audio production by: Alex Rees. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production.

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Hold tight for the white-hot excitement of the Autumn Statement! Why is Jeremy Hunt cutting taxes when public services are in the toilet? And what’s gone under the radar? Special guest Miatta Fahnbulleh of the New Economics Foundation has the receipts and the cheats. Plus, the great inheritance tax panic. Why is a tax that only 4% of estates pay such a hot potato? 

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• “Hunt said very little about how he’s going to resuscitate our public services… To bake in cuts at this stage stores up real problems for the next government.” – Miatta Fahnbulleh 

• “The Tory attack line now is, If you don’t watch out, Labour might do something that WE actually DID…” – Matt Green

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The Rwanda plan is in tatters but when did that ever stop the Government from ploughing on mindlessly? Plus, is it hard to wage war on the House of Lords when that’s where your new Foreign Secretary sits? And why Suella Braverman’s fulminating letter to Sunak was exactly the same as ‘Stan’ by Eminem. 

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• “The Tories are not trying to distract US with Rwanda. They’re trying to distract THEMSELVES.” – Marie le Conte

• “The idea that the Lords will approve legislation that applies the law in these specific circumstances is just fanciful.” – Hannah Fearn

• “If you can’t sell this stuff on the Kent Coast you can’t sell it anywhere. And they can’t.” – Gavin Esler

Written and presented by Dorian Lynskey with Hannah Fearn, Marie le Conte and Gavin Esler. Audio producer: Alex Rees. Theme music by Cornershop. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production.

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The Supreme Court throws out the Government’s Rwanda plan quicker than a Cruella tantrum. Is the infamous scheme dead or will the Government have the brass neck to appeal to the ECHR? Plus the Thug Life madness of the Braverman Letter, why David Cameron is the Harold Bishop of Conservatism, Greg Hands finds there is no job left, and Esther McVey, Minister for GB News. 

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• “What a week… I’m just waiting for Iain Duncan Smith to turn up on Strictly.” – Matt Green

• “This was a crushing verdict from the court… Justice Reid’s message was ‘If you think leaving the ECHR will fix this, it won’t.” – Alex Andreou

• “We had the Government saying the judges have ‘misjudged the public mood’, as if that’s their job instead of interpreting the law.” – Henry Morris

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Written and presented by Ros Taylor with Matt Green and Alex Andreou. Audio producer: Alex Rees. Theme music by Cornershop. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production.

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Suella Braverman’s out (finally) and former PM David Cameron’s in – what on Earth is going on?! The panel reflects on Braverman’s sacking and the latest reshuffle. Plus, free firework displays and other events of the sort are becoming more rare up and down the country. Are cash-strapped councils pricing young people out of culture? Is it even their fault?

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Imagine waiting 73 years to become King and then you get dog-end policies from the bottom of a dying government’s drawer for your first speech to Parliament. We look at what’s in Rishi’s Big Plans – cigs! pedicabs! – and what’s conspicuous by its absence. Plus, does it matter whether Starmer is “statesmanlike” on Gaza or not? And Dorian sets up the Institution for Neutral Thinking. 

Dr Robert Saunders AKA @redhistorian, author of Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum and Seventies Britain, is this week’s special guest. 

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• “This government giving you its longterm plans is like a mayfly telling you its plans for next week.” – Matt Green

• “What the COVID inquiry has shown is that Sunak absolutely wasn’t led by the science. He was led by the economics.” – Hannah Fearn

• “A lot of Trump quotes from the trial make a lot more sense if you imagine they’re coming from a five year-old.” – Matt Green

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Written and presented by Dorian Lynskey with Matt Green and Hannah Fearn. Audio producer: Alex Rees. Theme music by Cornershop. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production.

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