Ash Sarkar

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192 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 26 Feb

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

um illegitimate actors in the political space and so that's how you end up with this thing which a ton of just like regular degular people could see coming um completely blindsiding the political media class returning back and i'm sorry that i keep banging on about this drama it's just been in my head not least because i've been hanging out with some relatives recently and some of them have been saying some things

I think that's completely true.

And the answer is, well, what's the nature of the compromise and why are they making it?

And what determines that is to whom do they feel most accountable, right?

Our current government feels primarily accountable to the bond markets.

And I think that that explains a lot of the decisions that they're making, whereas different parties do it in different ways.

So I write about this in The New Afterword because one of the critiques, which I thought was really legit, that I got from the hardback edition was like, well, you don't really talk about what anyone can do about this.

And I was like, that's because I'm a journalist.

I just want to say what the problem is and I don't want to say what the solution is.

So instead, I have a look at...

The Belgian Workers' Party, which is a bit of an album track of European political parties, but they are polling second in Belgium.

And I also look at Zoran Mamdani.

And the Belgian Workers' Party is really interesting because they started really, really small.

So a small group of highly aligned people, and they only really opened up their membership in 2008.

And even then, there's a sort of like tiered membership depending on how long you've been in it.

Because the idea is like, okay, we've got a really clear strategy.

It's important we protect that strategy.

before we just let anyone in who can say, like, maybe you should change it.

And the thing that they say is that people quite rightly have no trust in politicians, right?

Why would you, right?

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