Benedict Spence
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319 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 4 Jul
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The idea that he is going to waltz in and somehow, because of vibes, it's just all magically going to be better.
I mean, look, maybe that would have worked.
30-odd years ago, but that's part of the thing.
He does seem to be a politician of a different era.
irresistible rise to the top of politics.
It's actually just very bizarre.
And I think it's a sign of quite how mentally frayed we all are with politics that it hasn't made more of an impact.
The fact that this man who was not an MP was given, I was about to say he was given an easy ride.
He had to work to find one eventually, but was effectively just given a free pass by the party that had given up on its own leader to go, all right, come and have a crack at it.
Nobody else is standing against him.
The idea that this is possible, that you can just waltz in, I understand that that's completely within the rules of the game.
But in any other set of circumstances, I think we would all be sat here going, this is really odd that this has just happened.
There has been even less scrutiny of him than there was of Keir Starmer before the last general election.
At the very least, at the last election, nobody scrutinized Labour because they were going, yeah, but we could just kick the Tories and that's a lot more fun, frankly, and you'll sell more newspapers doing it.
So that you've got Andy Burnham waltzing in, he's not said anything really in the build up.
Now that he's sort of the anointed one, he's not, as you say, really saying anything else.
And I kind of just find myself sitting here going, well, on the one hand, this is nice because it's giving me a bit of a break from having to think about anything because he's not making me think.
The whole thing is just completely brainless.
The idea that he is going to waltz in and somehow because of vibes, it's just all magically going to be better.
I mean, look, maybe that would have worked.
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