114: Special Non-Emergency Election Episode

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2024
  • 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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  • @capt.bart.roberts4975
    @capt.bart.roberts4975 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Watching Sunackered in the rain, with "Things can only get better" serenading him. Put about a kilo on the pile of evidence for my theory. That, we've taken a wrong turn down the trouser leg of time and into a satire universe!

  • @rorymackie2221
    @rorymackie2221 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    enjoying these podcasts - looking forward to the next hourly episodes :)

  • @andrewmartin4575
    @andrewmartin4575 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Good to receive intelligent and objective insights .

  • @thebagelsproductions
    @thebagelsproductions 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Trust the tories to whip somebody's seat from underneath them when they develop spinal problems.

    • @AlexWorrell
      @AlexWorrell 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Tories usually like to be whipped 🤫

  • @MsBeadee
    @MsBeadee 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Enjoying your podcasts

  • @Timlagor
    @Timlagor 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    19:20 We wouldn't be hearing more from Farage. take a look at how much free airtime BBC have given him over the last 20 years sometime. We might get coverage of the Greens occasionally though.

  • @deetoher
    @deetoher 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    If the UK implemented proportional representation using multi-seat constituencies and single transferable vote (as implemented in Ireland) then candidates have to be "transfer friendly" so it discourages extreme candidates.
    If you had a 3 seat constituency, then winning candidates would need to reach 25% (+1 vote) of the preferences which means that a party with more than 50% of the vote could have 2 seats, but it is unlikely to have all 3.
    More seats mean a more proportional makeup of the parliament; Ireland has found 5 to be a sweet spot for max number of seats in a constituency.

    • @TheOwlsarewatching606
      @TheOwlsarewatching606 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Bot

    • @deetoher
      @deetoher 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @TheOwlsarewatching606 just a glitchy internet connection resulting in double posting...

    • @ausbrum
      @ausbrum 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      There are 650 Commons MPs. So you'd have 3 seat constituencies ,bringing the total to 1050. Hello?Anyone there?

    • @deetoher
      @deetoher 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@ausbrum if going for between 3 and 5 seater constituencies, you would have between 130 and 217 constituencies to give you 650 MPs.
      The constituencies would cover larger geographic areas.

    • @etahenry3377
      @etahenry3377 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Have to say,as a great admirer of STV,that it didn't keep out the extremists in the last local elections

  • @somthingbrutal
    @somthingbrutal 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    in the case of farrage, when was the last time he won any election, isn't he basically the less fun version of screaming lord such at this point

  • @nigelbaldwin1038
    @nigelbaldwin1038 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Excellent 👍🏼

  • @jacquelynwilliams9627
    @jacquelynwilliams9627 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    My favorite fish sun cream is mayonnaise

    • @AndrewMcColl
      @AndrewMcColl 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Mine is tartare

    • @michaelburggraf2822
      @michaelburggraf2822 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Does it work for obstructed fishermen too? Like Michael Gove or Nigel Farage?

    • @DingLiren-nw2vj
      @DingLiren-nw2vj 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I like a whipped egg white myself

  • @petern3363
    @petern3363 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Loving the team and the content.

  • @henryjohnfacey8213
    @henryjohnfacey8213 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Excellent thank you.

  • @mentality-monster
    @mentality-monster 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Nigel Farage has a net negative popularity rating of minus 4%.

  • @jsquire5pa
    @jsquire5pa 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think Helen doesn’t like losing 😂

  • @AlanLogan-x5c
    @AlanLogan-x5c 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    PR sort of works in Holyrood. Tho SNP gave a couple of tricky practical issues to their Green colleagues like the Deposit Return Scheme and then watched them making a complete mess of them.

  • @Timlagor
    @Timlagor 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If we introduce Sortition instead of PR we never have to worry about a GE again

  • @Nanonude
    @Nanonude 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Clearly I am weird!

  • @ohyeah2816
    @ohyeah2816 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I'm waiting for all the voting fraud accusations. We had that nonsense when the local Faragist (can't remember what it was called at the time) party lost in Peterborough. Vote Labour 👍🏼✌🏼️💖😊

  • @saferbysound1602
    @saferbysound1602 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    counterpoint. If its a genius idea the voters might not care who implements it. caring for the constituents my arse

  • @nickrails
    @nickrails 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Pretty straight ahead analysis for a Private Eye joint.....wheres the satire?

    • @taffyman6089
      @taffyman6089 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No satire just reality, facts and the truth. The Tories have become clowns to the nation and it is all self inflicted. Enjoy!

  • @PaulZazzi
    @PaulZazzi 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Love your work, do you think that PARTY POLITICS is a failing system

  • @jackosbornerichardseon9095
    @jackosbornerichardseon9095 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    i never knew the fish dude was doing the private eye pod or i would have stated listning sooner
    liked subscribed

  • @TheLastSongbird124
    @TheLastSongbird124 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Those booths are not wide enough for 60% of Americans!

  • @jsquire5pa
    @jsquire5pa 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I’m not sure the guardian is exactly trying to push Labour leftward! .. in reality it’s an wxtremely centrist paper (ever more so with ciber in charge) and in fact very right wing on foreign policy …

  • @davidatkinson7356
    @davidatkinson7356 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    (Durham in the North-West? Ed.)

  • @Timlagor
    @Timlagor 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What if Starmer loses his seat but Labour win a majority?

    • @BrianPaterson-f3i
      @BrianPaterson-f3i 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What if labour and starmer both lose that’s a win win for the uk!

    • @CommodoreVic20
      @CommodoreVic20 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@BrianPaterson-f3iLOL
      Dream on

    • @Timlagor
      @Timlagor 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@BrianPaterson-f3i Sure but I don't have any hope of Labour losing.

    • @DingLiren-nw2vj
      @DingLiren-nw2vj 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Party strategists pick the seat their leader sits in to ensure a win and pour a lot of resources in. If he hadn't won but labour did, I imagine they'd go with the deputy PM or a leadership vote

  • @simac3880
    @simac3880 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    The argument that representative voting is problematic becuase it would increase the Right vote is silly. It's disappointing to hear this ignorant point of view on this podcast. Representative voting represents the population. Yes, 16% of seats would be Reform. But 10% in the Parliament would be Green, etc. A representive system is reflective of the population as opposed to the backwards system than exists, where about a third of the population are unrepresented. Use your brains!

    • @gavincassells7585
      @gavincassells7585 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I think Israel is the cautionary tale for the effect of smaller right wing parties on mainstream policy. The effect of big tent parties is that the extremes (both of them) get muted to some extent because there is a ceiling on their ability to attract enough of an electorate to exist on their own. Now, pressures can build and nothing helps an extreme party than being persistently out of power and having an issue to bang on about that voters care about. If you are a centrist, and Private Eye ostensibly is, this means that first past the post has some appeal. I disagree with it, but I don't think that Private Eye folk aren't using their brains, they are just displaying their own bias.

    • @daphnepk
      @daphnepk 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Also odd to hear France as a cautionary tale about proportional systems. Their system is not proportional, but a kind of first past the post with the possibility of a second round

  • @richardbyrnes8398
    @richardbyrnes8398 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is even more dull than the Newsagents. Lord Gnome out!

  • @TheOwlsarewatching606
    @TheOwlsarewatching606 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Podcasting seems to be a terminal dose of boring stuff available anywhere

  • @gerardferry3958
    @gerardferry3958 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    you used to be funny

    • @Paul--Nobody_Is_Out_To_Get_You
      @Paul--Nobody_Is_Out_To_Get_You 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      First time for me listening/reading P.E. since my parents got the mag decades ago. I like their angle, wish they'd do more on youtube as nobody has to pay for this thing any more so I'm not buying the mag.

    • @gerardferry3958
      @gerardferry3958 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Paul--Nobody_Is_Out_To_Get_You bit like sex

    • @SuezWSuezW
      @SuezWSuezW 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@Paul--Nobody_Is_Out_To_Get_You If you're not paying, you're the product.

    • @Paul--Nobody_Is_Out_To_Get_You
      @Paul--Nobody_Is_Out_To_Get_You 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@SuezWSuezW Not logical.
      But maybe I was wrong too as PE is unique.

    • @DC-wt2vi
      @DC-wt2vi 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      ​@PaulHearder At under 40 quid for a whole year of print plus podcasts and archive pdfs, I think it's a no brainer to support just about the only free press left in my country. I restarted my subscription at the 2019 election, and it's kept me informed since.