Dan Hodges
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Sep
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What can I get elected?
So what do you want me to do?
And therein therein lies therein lies the dilemma.
What do you do?
I mean, so many problems that we that are laid at the door of modern politicians, they haven't had the courage to deal with it or whatever.
It's not that they haven't got the courage that they haven't don't don't identify the problem in terms of or they don't want to do them, it's they don't think they'll get a political a political mandate to do it.
And if you're not going to get a political mandate to do it, if you're not going to get the approval of the electorate, by adopting a policy.
You may be brave, but you know your political opponents are immediately going to jump up and say, Ah, ha ha ha.
Well, we're not doing that.
And the people we we don't worry, we'll protect you know, pensioners will protect your triple lock and we know how pro pensioners pensioners vote as a proportion of the overall electorate.
What do you do?
I mean look at the look at the
I mean, as I said, Andy Burnham has has identified and put the whole s issue of social care back back on the political agenda 'cause it is something he he he he cares about.
I remember where are we now?
When when was the so it's the twenty seventeen election, so almost a decade ago.
There was a common there was again, there was a settled political consensus
that social care and the social care crisis finally had to be dealt with.
And if it wasn't dealt with, we were we were facing catastrophe.
Theresa May went into that election, an election where it was it was widely perceived she would win she would wipe Jeremy Corbyn out.
She took the decision right.
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