Chris Mason

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4,931 appearances 49 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 4d ago

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Newscast · How Did Andy Burnham Do In His First PMQs? · 2 Sep 2026 podcast

Um, and you know, he makes this argument about this wider uh this wider ecosystem. matched

You know, I mean some people will sympathise uh with that argument, others I think will raise an eyebrow. matched

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If that ecosystem, as he sees it, is as profound and intertwined as he claims it is, how credible is it that as an incoming reform government they could achieve lots of things very quickly, which is what they're promising to do? matched

Um if they're managing to be stymied now as they see it, would that not happen were they to be in government? matched

You know, is it not the nature of an advanced democracy that you have all sorts of checks and balances? matched

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argument about whether they have gone uh too far. matched

Now, his counter argument is that if you win a big majority with a big mandate and clear uh promises, then those obstacles would would you know would dissolve, would disappear. matched

But uh yeah, so I think it was an interesting an interesting diagnosis worth um sort of serious reflection. matched

Yeah, and and and this is where I think you get into that wider argument that that Nigel Farage was brushing by, uh, which is the wider sort of societal argument. matched

You know, you hear this in the context, don't you, for instance, over um judicial reviews or over the the arguments that have raised for, you know, approximately a million years about building another runway at Heathrow Airport, which is you know, at what point in an advanced democracy? matched

Do checks and balances go too far and effectively, accumulatively add up to just stopping anything from happening, even if each individual additional, you know, regulation or quango or whatever it might be was set up in good faith, often in response to a particular sort of thing that needed tightening up in the view of those who who set it up. matched

I was listening to Faislon Newscast. matched

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Performative. matched

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You know, uh uh versus legitimate. matched

Um uh but yeah, I mean it that does get to you know, it was a critique that we heard from Keir Starmer about pulling levers and nothing happening. matched

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