Ash Sarkar

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Pod Save the UK · Are we stuck in never-ending political scandal? w/Ash Sarkar · 26 Feb 2026 podcast

If anyone's got a passing familiarity of what it's like to be in a constituency Labour Party, if you just want to have a treasurer role or a local social media role, you have to win a knife fight.

That episode of The Simpsons with the two monkeys in international waters, that's what it's like at a constituency level.

And I'm not just talking about Corbynites versus the Labour right.

That's what it was like in the Blair and Brown years as well.

This is what it's like between people.

in the Labour right.

So going back to Labour Together, it was an organisation set up basically to navigate the factional waters to get Keir Starmer into the top job as Labour leader.

That's what it was designed to do.

And so much of this crisis that we're in, whether it's policy decision-making or whether it's about who's being appointed and what the vetting process is,

it's coming out of this Labour together clique.

And so it's just so fascinating to me to see this, to use a really pretentious word, this modality, this way of being, this way of existing, this modality of Labour Party factionalism playing itself out in the form of a government.

And I think that you can trace so much of this particular government's dysfunction back to that.

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