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Alastair Campbell

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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The Rest Is Politics
527. Are American Tech Billionaires Threatening British Democracy?

I didn't watch the news.

The Rest Is Politics
527. Are American Tech Billionaires Threatening British Democracy?

I just read and watched football.

The Rest Is Politics
527. Are American Tech Billionaires Threatening British Democracy?

Exactly, exactly.

The Rest Is Politics
527. Are American Tech Billionaires Threatening British Democracy?

Okay.

The Rest Is Politics
527. Are American Tech Billionaires Threatening British Democracy?

Sorry, don't give away our trade secrets.

The Rest Is Politics
527. Are American Tech Billionaires Threatening British Democracy?

Anyway, one of the books I read we've already talked about, How I Survived.

The Rest Is Politics
527. Are American Tech Billionaires Threatening British Democracy?

The next one, which was this...

The Rest Is Politics
527. Are American Tech Billionaires Threatening British Democracy?

And I wonder, do you remember my book of the year last year, Carlo Masala, What If Prussia Wins?

The Rest Is Politics
527. Are American Tech Billionaires Threatening British Democracy?

Peter Chappell, What If Reform Wins?

The Rest Is Politics
527. Are American Tech Billionaires Threatening British Democracy?

Ah.

The Rest Is Politics
527. Are American Tech Billionaires Threatening British Democracy?

A scenario.

The Rest Is Politics
527. Are American Tech Billionaires Threatening British Democracy?

And it is, I mean, Ferdinand Mount on the cover says, hilarious, terrifying.

The Rest Is Politics
527. Are American Tech Billionaires Threatening British Democracy?

Anthony Seldon says, we all need to take this scenario very seriously.

The Rest Is Politics
527. Are American Tech Billionaires Threatening British Democracy?

So it's a scenario.

The Rest Is Politics
527. Are American Tech Billionaires Threatening British Democracy?

So it basically starts and Farage is winning the election.

The Rest Is Politics
527. Are American Tech Billionaires Threatening British Democracy?

And then it goes through, it's written as a diary, and it goes through...

The Rest Is Politics
527. Are American Tech Billionaires Threatening British Democracy?

the utter total chaos that ensues.

The Rest Is Politics
527. Are American Tech Billionaires Threatening British Democracy?

And what he's done is he's taken policy positions that Farage, Theis, Youssef, the rest of them have set out, and he then goes through the process of them being put into practice.

The Rest Is Politics
527. Are American Tech Billionaires Threatening British Democracy?

So he goes, coming out of the ECHR, he goes defunding the BBC, he doesn't do much on health, I don't think he does anything on health, and of course net zero.

The Rest Is Politics
527. Are American Tech Billionaires Threatening British Democracy?

And I won't give away the ending, but shall we just say,