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Liam Thorp

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192 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

Because, you know, Robert Jenrick sat there alongside Nadia Farage saying that the Tories broke Britain.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

And I'm like, it's that Spider-Man meme of putting it at the end of Spider-Man.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

You were literally the guy who was there throughout all of this.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

And voters aren't stupid.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

I mean, they're going to start to realise, hold on, are we just re-electing the Tories?

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

A couple of big hitters, a couple of defections probably worked for them.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

Now it seems like it's the Tories and reform.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

And I think that will be a problem for Farage because you can no longer be the big bolshie outsider when you are just bringing in guys who were

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

who were in the cabinet, who were ministers, who were serving in the party that was in power for 14 years, that there is no establishment party like the Conservative Party.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

And if you're filling your ranks with them, then that's a big part of your message.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

I think that is weakened by that.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

I don't know how much further it will go.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

The thing about reform is they probably always got to factor in that they're going to lose a few people to suspensions at some point.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

So they're probably bolstering their numbers.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

bolstering their numbers on the basis that they're going to lose a few to some sort of scandal along the way as well.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

But I think this could become a little bit of an issue for them.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

Yes, I think.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

And I don't think it's as much a threat for him as it is a threat for them, really.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

I think anyone amongst us will predict that Jenrick and Farage will at some point have a massive fallout and it'll all go horribly wrong.

Pod Save the UK
Starmer’s new Trump headache and making comedy under occupation

And it'll be obviously delightful to see.