Elliot Lawry
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4,557 appearances
48 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 21 Sep
Elliot Lawry’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This is the same rhetoric that's being used by Nigel Farage in the UK now, which is interesting because he has been a politician for so long and he obviously does have a lot of personal wealth, but he does position himself to the public as
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kind of an outside figure to mainstream politics.
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He's saying, I'm one of the people and I'm going to help hold the people in power to account.
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So Farage kind of positions himself as the opposite of the establishment.
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And he brought this up in his resignation speech.
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Here's a little bit of what he said.
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So I mean, critics say that he's just trying to stall on the investigation front.
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So what happens when he resigns from his seat is it effectively pauses the investigation until the time he gets back into parliament.
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It's also from his point of view, providing him a bit of publicity and basically saying, I don't agree with this investigation that's coming against me.
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And I don't think that my electorate does either.
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So what I'm going to do is I'm going to resign and then turn it over to them and let them decide if they think that I'm a crook, basically.
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Yeah.
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So basically all the other major parties in the UK said that they're not going to engage with
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this because they also think that it's a publicity stunt and an expensive one at that.
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So elections do cost taxpayers a fair bit of money.
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It would also cost the parties a bit of money to run candidates in that seat when they think that it's not worth getting caught up in it.
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I mean, it's already a messy time in UK politics as we talked about at the start.
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Yeah.
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And Lucy did a really good podcast on this.
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If you want to go back and listen to...
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