In this episode Me and Scott decided to discuss Australian Politics and we decided to go backwards and discussing the government’s of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard. We break it down and discus the Kevin 07 campaign, His first year achievements in apologising to the Indigneous communities, ending work-choices, joining the Kyoto Protocol in tackling climate change. Kevin Rudd's superb handling of the Global financial crisis when Australia was growing as an economy during the 2008-9 Great Recession when most developed economies were shrinking. Though how Rudd came down with the failures in Emissions Trading Scheme that was meant to tackle climate change and the attempted tax on the mining industry. How Gillard ousted Rudd and the labor shocking management of the 2010 election campaign where they squandered the Rudd landslide majority. Then the handling of the introduction of the Carbon Tax, the misogny speech, The NDIS, The ousting of Gillard by Rudd and the 2013 General Election with the election of Tony Abbot.

In this pretty long episode. Me and Scott are returning to what this podcast is about, the issues within society. So we're talking in this, though for those who remember mine and James President's episodes, it's similar to that as Me and Scott talk for an hour and 10 a piece with Scott going first with him talking about the need to reform the prisons and the entire justice system and me second and explaining various ways to strengthen employment rights, the unions and strengthening small businesses for 70 minutes a piece . Enjoy this issues episode which was a true enjoyment to record.

With Joe Biden having now officially dropped out the race, the first incumbent to do so since 1968, with President Johnson. In this Episode, Me and Scott are discussing what happens next with Vice President Harris and with her new fundraising operation and with a new base of support and by a simple question, can she defeat trump and how can she defeat trump and who should be the Vice President and how can they secure the rust belt. Has the republican party reached a crisis with their campaign strategy in taters.

With the king's speech having occurred, the first labour kings speech since 2009 as the tories had theirs in 2010. What to make of the deregulation of planning laws , workers rights expansion, defending law and order, GB Energy, ensuring greater security for renters, and having greater fiscal responsibility. Furthermore, with the USA and can President Biden stay on as the democratic nominee and what to make of the Republican national convention. Also, the crisis in France and what's next with the left in france having won the most seats in the election are they going to form a coalition with Macron's Reneissence party and what's the broader effects within the European Union with the German elections less than a year away.

In this the 80th Episode, we are talking about the fact the Labour government has arrived for 14 years and Me and Scott are talking about the incoming Labour government in regards to the new cabinet, incoming reforms with tackling climate change, deregulation of planning laws, fixing the crisis in social care and prison reform. And what's going to happen with this reforming Labour government. We then go and focus on the states and with the crisis in the democratic party, can President Biden remain the nominee? Is the democratic party going to win this election? Why Project 2025 means the democrats have to win?.

In this episode and british election now concluding it's fourth week of the campaign we (and we have a surprise) and it's a discussion about the state of the election with the polls, communication, ideas and history and so on. Scott is back on Wednesday as a permeant co-host and me and James William Francis Roxbrugh doing every Saturday or sunday episode and until the election on 4th July and then a post election on the 7th July and then after we're back to UK/USAAussie and Irish politics again.

In this episode, the first 7 day consecutive episode in a very long time and me and Scott are analysing the state of the election and the current state of the polls and the potential next labour government and what's gonna happen in that regard?. What's the future of the conservative party? and the future of Scottish Politics? and some more and this from now until poling day is going to be analysing the state of the various political parties and the various issues in British politics.

Now we’re 3 weeks into the general election and the podcast is back now this is going to be an interesting episode as we're not just discussing the Sunak v Starmer battle for No.10 on sky news on Wedensday Evening and the broader elections in discussing policies and this is intriguing as it's a mixture of policy and analysis and gossip. And fingers crossed with my third year of uni over the podcast carries on and now with mid week episodes with my tory friend Scott Wilson and I discussing the state of the election on wedensday and James Bell and I discussing it every Saturday. The Episode begins at 0.27 (27 seconds)

We're back I know I keep saying it that but things are now 100% fixed and we're back up and running. In this episode me and my good friend James Bell are doing an episode talking about the rebuilding of the inner cities to ensure we can ensure law and order have a modern education system, understand how do we ensure a communitarian society and a better NHS. I know I've been dreadful in my output of the podcast recently since the autumn of last year but we have a new ways of doing the podcast. Me and James are gonna do this together every Sunday (fingers crossed) and make up for lots of lost ground.

In this episode, back after 8 weeks we are back and we've decided to do a book review as I recently read through Stolen- How to Save the world from financialisation by Grace Blakeley and it's a fascinating book about economics and from Bretton Woods, deregulation of the city of London, the rise in vulture capitalism, the indebtedness of the poor, the failures of Thatcherism and the failure of banking deregulation and the solutions from the green new deal, debt refinancing , national investment back and so on. It's a brilliant book and we will be back on Sunday. The podcast starts at 0.31 and the actual content review begins at 7.03