Pierre Novellie
speaker
1,378 appearances
6 recordings
5 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 9 Jul
Pierre Novellie’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Strong Message Here · Doing Politics Differently (with Phil Wang and Pierre Novellie) · 1 Jul 2026
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But is that very different from Boris Johnson talking about levelling up?
Isn't it just the same idea, really?
Yeah.
Just with maybe more down-to-earth, tradesman-like language.
It's all this kind of...
If we just get the gang together, if everyone can just form a lovely gang together and we wire up some new nerve endings and plug in some new operating systems into the PLC, and then quickly, before you know it, Hull or Grimsby will be like Shanghai, right?
once we just figure out this whole pipe problem.
Yeah, right.
It just doesn't seem ever like it's going to work.
I like hearing it because it's nice to hear optimistic things for once.
I guess what I'm trying to imply is that the problems facing the UK are sort of...
practical blocks.
And all we have to do is just pull up our sleeves and do the physical work of putting everything in its right place.
When a lot of the problem is to do with the resistance against people who disagree with you, who don't want something built somewhere, or don't want welfare reformed.
These things are much harder to solve.
It's not just about getting someone in who'll fix it with their hands.
Yeah, that's right.
The implication is often that if only we got a prime minister who could figure out that
Oh, you silly billies.
The boiler was set to off.
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