Wildfires, World Cup Football and Women’s Aid w/ Farah Nazeer
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Kyllä, se on lempeä kesä nyt, kun elämänmaku on kaikista makein. Mieli kuin nuorena tyttönä kaurapellolla, kun saa liihottaa. Nauti vaan ja ota väli pala välissä. Ai, ai, ai, ai, niin se on.
Eloveena. Täyttä eloa. Yes, it was absolutely incredible. A great hotel, special coffee in the morning, wonderful restaurants, wonderful hotels. All on a walk. Oh, and what boutiques! So you're in Greece, in Canary Islands, right? No, in Jumbo. So Jumbo is like the shopping center? Yes, but how do you put it in your mouth? The greatest! The greatest life!
Hi, this is Pod Save the UK, and I'm Coco Kahn. And I'm Zoe Grunewald. So this week, the world is on fire. Literally, this time, it is on fire. We're going to be talking about the climate catastrophe and the wildfires breaking out across the UK.
Also, we're joined by Women's Aid CEO Farah Nazir to talk about their campaign, The Other Kickoff, highlighting the rising incidence of domestic violence around football tournaments. Are we treating violence against women and girls as a crisis that requires urgent action? And with Andy Burnham being crowned imminently, how would they want to see him tackle violence as the next prime minister?
So Andy Burnham is going to be prime minister in a matter of days. It feels weird not to talk so much about it today, but it's been a foregone conclusion for a while already. And we've already lurched into another by-election. For those who haven't been keeping up, it's Nigel Farage versus Abin.
Meanwhile, Keir Starmer's last week has been slowly passing us by. He's nipped over to France to celebrate Bastille Day, complete with a minutes applause organised by Macron to thank Starmer for what he's done for Ukraine. And at the time of recording on Wednesday, it's about to be his last Prime Minister's questions before he heads off into the sunset.
So rather than a hotly contested leadership race for the next Prime Minister, we've known for about a month what's going to happen, and it feels like the media and everyone else... has accepted it. Not me, just to be clear. I've not accepted it. I'm low-key quite angry about it, really. Anyway, the first impressions really do count. So it will be interesting to see how Burnham steps into dealing with devolution. He's obviously laid out very ambitious devolution plans, but how will he deal with migration? How will he deal with Iran, the US, and of course, everything else? I think Donald Trump's only said one thing about him so far, that he's just a very liberal guy, which I don't know if that's a compliment or not.
I don't really, remake it's a tale of it so Zoe do you think people are just just simply enjoying the world cup too much to make a fanfare about this
I think it's more the fact that Keir Starmer's descent was so long in the making and so slow, right? I mean, a year ago, people were talking about he's not going to be in office much longer. It was widely whispered. Everybody knew that that was the discussion that was happening on the backbenches. And since then, it's just been death by a thousand cuts. You know, he's had multiple backbench rebellions that he's really struggled to come back from. How many resignations and firings has he had from his inner team? His response to Israel and Gaza really lost him a lot of support in his party. And then, of course, his handling of Mandelson and his handling of defence spending, all of these things. Every time something happened, everyone was like, is he going to go now?
Is he going to go now? So when he did announce he was going to go, everyone was like, OK, you know, finally. So I think that the past couple of weeks have just been a kind of everyone already felt he was going. So it hasn't felt like particularly monumentous.
I still can't shake this feeling, this frustration, annoyance, maybe even upset that there hasn't been a leadership contest. I feel like for us who are a sizable part of the traditional leadership, Labour votership. We deserve to have some answers and we deserve to have a vision. That's what we've been asking for and we've been showing at the ballot box that we require it.
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