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Coco Kahn

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2387 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

Have you considered the Conservative Party?

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

It's just an idea, isn't it?

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

I'm going to try and summarise.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

Morgan McSweeney, he's a young man.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

Like many of us when we were young, he had a data entry job.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

I did mine for a recruitment consultant.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

He did his for the Prince of Darkness.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

From there, he kind of... I still don't fully understand why he's interested in the Labour Party.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

I don't know if it's just like...

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

a sort of desire to be part of power.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

And he's just looking at like, well, inevitably the Conservatives will lose it.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

So if I'm at the right place, right time, I don't really know.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

Well, let's come back to that.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

He ingratiates himself with the Labour Party.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

He finds his blue Labour faction.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

They're all united by this hatred of the left and the grip of socialism or social democracy in the Labour Party.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

And they work out that the thing that's going to be terrible for them is if a

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

Jeremy Corbyn or adjacent soft left government actually gets to power and it's popular with the people.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

Ah, they'll never, it will never work.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

So they seek to ensure that by the time Labour is going to election, that it's a blue Labour mindset at the top.