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Nish Kumar

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
3865 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

Yes, yeah, absolutely.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

We all exist inside that contradiction of going, well, even if I never have another disposable plastic water bottle as long as I live, it's not really going to make that much difference.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

Because what we need is pandemic era urgency, ground all the planes yesterday action.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

We need huge legislative change.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

And we're not going to get that anytime soon.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

And...

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

I can't do anything about it with my individual choices.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

The mentality I try and have is it's like voting.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

Voting is simultaneously the most important weapon that you've got.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

And also it feels completely, you know, pointless.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

Like some people are in boroughs, areas where their vote won't make a difference, but you still have to turn up and vote.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

If we have conversations about it all the time, it stops climate being invisible.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

Because if it's invisible, how can we vote?

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

How can we decide?

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

You know, how can we try and steer the direction we're going in?

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

The context that you're talking about it most often is to a comedy audience.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

So how do you stop the audience from just immediately switching off?

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

One of the big challenges is climate has this awful branding problem.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

Like it sounds like it's tedious homework.

Pod Save the UK
141: McSweeney: the man who made Starmer and his ties to Mandelson

Do you know what I mean?