Coco Kahn

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1,632 appearances 19 recordings 2 series first heard Sep 2024 last heard 12 Jun

Coco Kahn’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Pod Save the UK · Just Stop Politics - 2024 Wrapped! w/ Desiree Burch and Liz Bates · 19 Dec 2024 podcast

Joining us now to recap this wild year is Sky News' Liz Bates and comedian Desiree Burge.

Hi. Welcome, welcome. Thank you for having us.

How's it? This is like a form of therapy, isn't it? You know, you blacked out parts of it and we're here in a friendly way to remind you. It's like exposure therapy.

And you are forced to wear them. So please choose one, whichever you would like. I'll take this modest one.

Do you want to explain this turn of conversation this or shall I?

I'm proud of myself. I feel like I'm hanging out with people that are a couple of years above me in school because you're all like, Christmas decorations, lame. Let's make porn jokes. And I'm like,

Back to politics. Desiree, you had two elections this year. Yeah, sadly.

So let's cast our eyes back to the start of the year. On the 4th of January, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, then Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, should I say? Enjoyed it. I'm having a great time. He declared that it was his working assumption that the election would happen in the second half of the year. It turned out he did keep his word, but only just.

So, Liz, if there was one policy that defined the end of 14 years of Conservative rule, it's got to be this one, right? Rwanda, the Rwanda plan. Callous, incompetent, cost the UK an estimated £700 million. What do you think? Does it summarise the end of the Tories?

We should probably just tell the listeners the clip that we just played. Liz Truss comes across as being, I'm just going to say it's slightly inebriated. I'm not saying she is. Maybe that's just her giddy personality.

But she's on camera and she says, oh, look, this is my new book. She holds it up. It's back to front. Then she flips it around, but it's upside down. There's just a little bit of sort of slapstick there.

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Labour, of course, seemed very excited about the announcement, but they also seemed like they were, I believe the official term is shitting themselves. We often talk on this podcast about whether they were truly ready. Their strategy seemed to involve just going to spectacles Spectacular lengths to say nothing at all. You say it best when you say nothing at all.

Oh, I'm feeling the pop music references coming. It will not be the last in this episode. So yeah, they said nothing apart from the word change. Should you change? Oh no, stop me. Anyway, the Lib Dems took a different approach to campaigning. Leader Ed Davey took himself to every available campaign podium and the Tories focused on churning out red meat.

And who can forget the return of mandatory national service, which would have required every 18-year-old to spend a year in military service or one weekend a month volunteering.

But at the same time that Sunak was trying to inspire the younger generation, he was pissing off the older generation by leaving the 80th anniversary of D-Day early to record an ITV interview where he spoke about the things he had to go without as a child.

Famously, Sky TV. Famously.

Well, look, I think it's fair to say that many of us on the left have complicated feelings towards Labour under Keir Starmer. But watching their landslide 412 seats come through one by one on election night, I mean, it was quite enjoyable. Let's just take a little moment to just remember that feeling.

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