Joe Pike
speaker
1,291 appearances
16 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 6 Sep
Joe Pike’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And obviously, if this had happened in another political party, one of the SNP's rivals, she would be prosecuting their leader in the political arena in just the same way as she is now going to face questions for a very long time to come.
And we don't know.
I thought...
I thought Pat McFadden's declaration that there should be an inquiry sort of guarantees that this story drags on for sure in ways that will be very uncomfortable for Nicola Sturgeon, way beyond the sentencing.
But I also was just really struck by the kind of almost emotion of his language.
He talked about how the SNP has been dominant in Scotland for years now, not just in politics.
but also in society and culture and i think he said that had been sustained by their sense of virtue i mean pat mcfadden is very is very restrained man uh he's quite laconic uh he's quite softly spoken but i think that was essentially you know a scott as well as a cabinet minister in the westminster government saying
that he believes this party pretended to be holier than thou and that you know that this needs to be interrogated so that that sense can be interrogated i just thought that was in a very brief sentence i thought that actually said something which you two know much more about than me because you've lived there which is about the ways in which scottish society has divided
over the past two decades as the SNP's strength has grown.
And a much more mundane detail, which I can't believe you missed from your links binding various protagonists in this joke.
is that Pat McFadden, who was on Laura's programme today, and John Swinney, 40 years ago, worked together washing dishes in the same Mexican restaurant in Edinburgh.
So it's true.
So the Scottish political set, who are turning on each other in various configurations over this, have all known each other for a very, very long time.
And
It does just add to the sort of sense of human drama to what is fundamentally a story about crime now.
And it's not often we say that about political scandals.
Well, firstly, Bonita's on the route of the Arsenal parade today.
But also, so we can ask Mikel Arteta to check it out for us.
But I think it's been demolished or redeveloped, but it did become a Mexican restaurant.
You're right, Jo.
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