Just Stop Politics - 2024 Wrapped! w/ Desiree Burch and Liz Bates
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Ooh, what a year. What a year.
I guess you could say time flies when you're having fun, no?
Or time moves at a glacial pace as you watch the collapse of your country.
It's a bit like if fun was an Aldi knock-off, like time flies when you're having enjoyment. Time flies when you're having food. That's the UK. Anyway, did you think we'd be sitting here with a new government?
I honestly thought Richard Sunak would be hanging on for dear life until the last possible second.
Which is better or worse?
Hard to say at this point. Anyway, this is Pod Save the UK. I'm Nish Kumar.
And I'm Coco Karn. And today we're looking back on the year that was. Pod Save the UK wrapped, if you will.
And we've got some very special guests along for the ride. Let's go.
Joining us now to recap this wild year is Sky News' Liz Bates and comedian Desiree Burge.
Hello.
Hi. Welcome, welcome. Thank you for having us.
Thanks for coming in. Thanks for coming back, Liz.
Yeah, no props.
The return of Liz Bates to the podcast.
She has risen.
Very festive. It's the wrong Christmas festival.
She has risen. I'm trying my best, yeah.
And Desiree, first appearance, birthed in the barn.
Yeah, well, thank you so... Yes. Yes. I was just one of the animals that was like, what the hell is this? We don't have enough weird things happening in here. You see, there's a camel. What? No, this is, thank you so much for making me remember this terrible, terrible year. I was just trying to race to the end, but yeah, let's look back because we got to do that.
How's it? This is like a form of therapy, isn't it? You know, you blacked out parts of it and we're here in a friendly way to remind you. It's like exposure therapy.
After enough spiders crawling up my nose, I won't be afraid of spiders anymore. I'll just be complacent with my imminent demise.
Now, for our podcast listeners, the... The studio is, I enjoy using this word, so I will, festooned with holiday tat. And I'm assured by our producers that they actually got all of this from a charity shop. No way. I believe so.
It looks so nice. Is it tensile? I guess it would have come in a bag, but like, I didn't know you could just be like, hey, I didn't use my Christmas decorations here, charity shop. Like, that seems like a... I don't know.
I don't know if the tinsel is charity shop or not, but certainly, certainly the Christmas hats are charity shop.
I know what you mean though. At what point in your life do your Christmas decorations go to the charity shop? Is it when you die?
Yeah. Or was it when you stopped believing in Santa because everything is destroyed? When you're like, that's it, I've given up on life. Yep.
So anyway. So we're sat in a studio with, let's face it, a dead guy's Christmas decorations and an equally dead person's Christmas hat. So we've got a range of them.
And you are forced to wear them. So please choose one, whichever you would like. I'll take this modest one.
Is this an elf one?
For listeners, Coco has what I think we would call a fairly traditional Father Christmas hat. A little glam. It's a little glam. It's a little Mark Bolan. Desiree has a sort of spring on top of her head with little things in it. Liz has an actual effigy. Is that the right word of Father Christmas? Visual representation.
You haven't lit it on fire yet.
And I have got the Grinch hat.
Yes, it works.
It feels relatively appropriate.
Liz, we've not actually seen you since the UK election happened. How has it been covering it on Sky News? It's been an interesting first few months for the Labour Party.
Yeah, it has. So I was here, I was on maternity leave when we were talking about the actual general election. So I was watching that as a viewer. There were just so many beautiful images, like, you know, Rishi Sunak in the rain. I think that was a defining image of this kind of conservative era. And it was just quite funny, just him getting soggy. And then going back to work, covering the Labour government. I don't know. I mean, it's quite, it's in some ways interesting. It's quite, in some ways, quite a boring government, I think. Definitely more boring. A lot more policy-based stuff. And I think there's a sense of kind of mild disappointment.
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