Chapter 1: What parallels does Munya Chawawa draw between Trump and wrestling?
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Hello and welcome to Strong Message here from BBC Radio 4, a guide to the use and abuse of political language. I'm Amanda Unish. I'm joined this week by comedian Munja Chihuahua. Hello. Amanda, this is crazy for me, by the way. Why? Because inadvertently you kind of were like a catalyst to my satirical journey.
Because you retweeted one of my videos in lockdown. Yes. And I messaged you and I thought, there's no way he's going to reply. And you said, keep going, kid. That's the accent I read it in. Really? Did you genuinely think I talked like that? Yeah, yeah. Like a kind of Tom Hanks figure. Yeah, Robert De Niro-esque figure in the back of my brain. So thank you for that, by the way. That's good. I thought I'd save the thank you for in person, as opposed to just sort of reacting to the message on Twitter. Okay, yeah, because that was about six years ago. That would have been the ultimate disrespect. And I have been waiting.
No, no. And this week the phrase we're looking at is, that's not for me to say. So we'll be looking at the trend in political language to talk around issues. First, Munia, you've recently been to America for your documentary Wrestling with Trump, which is on Channel 4. I heartily recommend it. Well, first of all, New Statesman described you as likable and impish. How do you feel about that? Impish? Impish, yes. Oh my lord, I don't know how I feel about that. Isn't an imp mini-Satan? No.
Oh! I always thought impish was kind of cheeky. Actually satanic. Yeah, actually I prefer impish to actually satanic. Okay, that's good. Maybe I'll update the LinkedIn bio with impish satirist approved by Armando Iannucci. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I've been called, I'm doing Taskmaster at the moment. Obviously it was recorded last year, but it's going out now. And I saw a comment from someone saying, it's so nice to have an old man contestant who's clearly enjoying himself. Ha ha ha!
Se kuulostaa siltä, että olet jättänyt kotiin, jotta voit tehdä muutaman jälkeen. Tiedän, minä tavallaan tein jotain aiemmin. En usko, että se on jäänyt vielä ulos. Täällä on jakso, jossa näet aamupäivää ja myöhemmin yöpäivää.
There was one task that I did when I should have been having my afternoon nap and I didn't get it. And it's a disaster. And there's another task I did straight after my afternoon nap and it's a triumph. I'm a great, great advocate of the afternoon nap. And I don't care what age you are, whether you're an old man contestant or a young imp like yourself. Impish whippersnapper. That was my wrestling name in school. But I will say this. I think in my whole life I've taken about three naps.
What? I can't stand them. The prospect of sleep to me is so infuriating. For me, I've got to lie there. You're telling me I've got to lie there and pretend to be dead for eight hours every day. I know what you mean. At night I'm reading a book and I'm thinking, I don't want to stop. I don't want the fun to end.
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Chapter 2: How does the language of WWE influence political communication?
Hän tuli popularissa, hän oli valtuutettavissa. Markku Rubio, Little Markku, Crooked Hillary, Sleepy Joe ja kaikki niitä, jotka ovat suoraan... Jotka kutsutaan Smack Talkiin. Smack Talkin. Joka kutsutaan Smack Talkiin. Joka kutsutaan Smack Talkiin.
Ja mielenkiintoista on se, että tiedämme, että he eivät tarkoita sitä. Heidän täytyy ymmärtää itseään, että heidät antagonisoivat heidän ystävänsä. Ja se on heidän tavoitteensa tekemisensä. Mutta se on myös nähty niin, että se on sellainen panto. Meidän täytyy pysyä takaisin todellisuuteen, jota he yrittävät projektoida. Meidän täytyy pysyä takaisin uskomisesta ja nauttia sitä. Se on ainoa tapa arvioida, mitä tapahtuu.
Tämä on yhteinen yhdistelmä, jota meillä on yleisölle. Me menemme järjestelmään, jotka ovat aina myöntäneet. Ymmärtäen, että nämä kaverit eivät oikeastaan halua tappaa yhtään toisiamme, mutta tällä hetkellä on hauska uskoa, että he tekevät. Ja siksi järjestelmä on aina sanonut, että alussa ja lopussa, älä yritä tätä kotona. Mutta kuten näemme esim. sopimusoperaaliin, josta voisi arvioida, että he käyttävät myös K-fabea. Esim. EastEnders.
When characters have talked about coming off the show and having people shout at them across the street, can't believe you did that, what we then know is actually sometimes it does seep out. And so for a politician to go, well, I'm going to use the rules of wrestling, even though I know if I say...
I'm going to wipe out an entire civilization. If you see someone throw a tomato, punch them in the face. There's no way, if Trump has adopted kayfabe, he's not aware of what kayfabe can be when an audience are not able to shake themselves out of the suspended belief. Right, and you met some of these, the MAGA, the kind of true MAGA supporters. So it was called, and I don't blame you for not remembering the name, Trumpsters Triumph Tuesday. And you meet every Tuesday to just... To get smashed for Trump, pretty much. Yeah, yeah.
Ja luulen, että he olivat varmasti saaneet nimiä WowSmashed, koska se ei tietenkään onnistu grammaattisesti. Trumpstra's Triumph Tuesdays. Jos joku vain sanoi, että se on illiteratiivinen, eikö? Ja myös, että Tuesdays ovat melko hauskoja. Joten aloitetaan Tuesdayin ja toimitaan siitä jälkeen. Puhuttiin jollekin, miten Trump kertoi noin 30 000 peliä ensimmäisenä. Ja hän sanoi, että kyllä, kun katsoin kaikki niitä, ne olivat peliä. Niin kuin ihmiset, jotka sanoivat, että ne olivat peliä, olivat peliä.
And you said, you looked at all 30,000. And she said, yeah, more or less. And then she followed up by saying, have you heard of Trump derangement syndrome? Yeah, yeah, yeah, which is a get out for it. And it was just this poetic moment in which
If anyone seemed deranged in that moment, surely it's the person who says that they have analysed 30,000 lies and found all of them to be baseless claims. Is there a sport that Farage would be associated if Trump was wrestling? I think dog racing. I mean, I know he's not into it. He's probably horse racing. What's some of the most obscure... I see him just using the language of dog racing. I don't know why.
As long as it's not water polo, that's an image I'd never want to see. Having seen his sort of pasty bottom on I'm a Celeb, that is already my sleep paralysis demon. We ought to get on to the phrase of the week that I was looking at, which is, that's not for me to say. And there are variations of that. It's not for me to say this, that's for him to say. That's for her to respond to. Where politicians are asked about something terrible about someone else in their party.
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Chapter 3: What challenges does Andy Burnham face in his political messaging?
You're a party leader. Last night on live television, drunk shouted, I am a demon. And you're telling me that that hasn't once come up on the doorstep. What the British people really want to see right now is for me to take a 10-minute nap, no interruptions, and until we do that, I can't come up with anything else. Isn't that kind of almost like that's political kayfabe, as in we know...
He or she knows, as they're saying that, that that's bollocks. And they don't actually mean that. But they've got to say it, because that's what they say in those circumstances. And if they said anything else, if they actually answered the question, I know, he did say he was a demon, what's that like? I mean, my God, we should get rid of him. It would just spell worse for the party. So they have to say that. But we're much more, I think, as an electorate, we're much more savvy to games like that.
We are savvy, but there's almost like a lag between the way politicians talk to us and what we actually understand them. So they'll circumlocute, I think, what's it called, circumlocute, which is like spinning around the plug hole of what they want to say. Almost in a way that makes you think, do they think we're dumb? Because if we go on Twitter, we can see the tweets, we can see the posts you made. Mm-hmm.
But it's almost as if they don't think we exist outside of their words. I find that as a member of the electorate quite frustrating, because it feels like you're not being spoken to as an adult. Yeah, well, the by-election taking place at the moment, Andy Burnham trying to get in. There are so many things not being said about it, that it's almost deafening. Because Burnham is, he can't say...
If I win this, I will take on Keir Starmer for leadership of the Labour Party and become Prime Minister. He can't say that, because he's basically saying, you know, if you vote for me, I'll get rid of Starmer. If he says that out loud, there's a danger people will go, well, if I vote for Farage, I'll get rid of Starmer.
If you agree with me to get rid of stuff, so he can't say that, so he's got to say, he's coming in as a man of the people who talks normal, doesn't talk like a politician, but then when those questions are put to him, he then has to start talking like a politician, because there's no alternative. So he has to say, he's been saying things like...
Do you want to run for leader? It's for others to decide whether I'm the person to lead that fight. This is a change by election. People will be saying, yeah, but you've just said you agree with the immigration policies more or less. You agree with the fiscal rules more or less. So what is the change?
I don't know what the answer to that is other than I just have more of a personality. You remember there was that film called The Purge where all crime was legal for a day? I'm not suggesting that, but it would be good if there was a lie purge where one day every year in Britain all politicians had to tell the absolute truth. Wouldn't that be so interesting to see whether, for example, ratings went up like...
All ratings went up for all politicians because people went, oh my god, finally you're telling the truth. And I think that's one of the ways in which populism works, because even though a lot of it is, you know, confabulation, it just sounds like straight talking. You know, whenever you watch these vox pops, especially with reformed voters, it will be, you know, I love Farage because he says it how he is, you know, he falls a spade a spade. Yeah.
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Chapter 4: Can politicians effectively engage on social media without being cringe?
It's going about it the wrong way. I mean, I know we're going to talk about some of the alternate tactics of politicians who are very active online, but so much of how they succeed, and again a parallel with wrestling is a smack talk, stuff like stop the boats, take back control, Brexit means Brexit. Smash the gangs.
I can't even recall one of the things you said just now from Andy Burnham. I don't know, I can make it up now. Take the fight to as high as it can go, notwithstanding the pressures we're under. Of course we've got to find a more meaningful challenge to the established leadership mechanism. I'm not having a go at the leader. I'm just saying there's a position within the party that is somehow not quite being heard. And we're zoning out of the sound of effectiveness that we...
used to project, but which now has become underpinned by a kind of muted element of a perceived lack of impetus to shut up. If this was a voice note, you'd be on Times 2 right now. Yes.
Another party who's using the word politician in a slightly different way is Reform at the moment. Their candidate in the by-election, Rob Kenyon, has deleted two Twitter accounts, is under fire for various posts he made, including misogynistic comments about Carol Vorderman. The explanation given by Reform, well actually Danny Kruger said it on the Today program, which is, it's clearly wrong for politicians to talk in that way,
but he was not a politician at the time. So somehow, before you become a politician, it's okay to say anything. And when you become a politician, what? Do you go through some sort of cleansing? Is there some sort of cleansing process? It's the new sort of baptism, isn't it? Yeah. So that implies being a politician is a kind of higher state. Of course you then have higher, you're accustomed to higher standards when you're a politician.
Which is the reverse of the kind of Burnham and indeed the Farage. Oh, the politicians, they are other people. We're not like them. So are you like them or not like them? Do you want to be like them when they're virtuous? Or do you want to project them as inferior and enemies of the country that we want to distance ourselves from? Where are we on politicians? Politics is almost put on a pedestal in Britain because of...
Just the bureaucracy of it, but also the pomp and the ceremony of it. When I used to try and watch prime minister's question times on a Wednesday as part of my politics course at Sixth Form, I was instantly alienated as a viewer by hearing people shout across each other, the honourable gentleman, Mr. Speaker.
All of these things. The other week I saw someone knocking on the door with the handle of a sword or whatever. And so, yes, that gives the impression that they are deities almost, you know, what's best for the country. And so you go, okay, well, we'll play along with that then. But then it's the case that, well, if someone has, you know, tweets that actually in any other employment contract would lead to the termination, you go, well, you know, actually, well, sometimes it's, we all make mistakes, but then other times it's, well, he wasn't a politician then, so it's like...
What are you? Are you people for the people, of the people, or are you those holier-than-thou figures? I don't know what regard to hold them in. Because if, for example, we had a political system that went, look, we're all human beings, we all make mistakes, we'll be honest with you at all times, it's not always going to be pretty. Yeah.
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Chapter 5: How do politicians use evasive language to avoid tough questions?
Jotenkaan me emme koskaan ole täysin onnistuneita. Olen varma, että jos Farage saa suurta suurta suurta valtiota valtiossa, niin vuoden aikana ihmiset ovat olleet, että tämä on vaarallista. Se on se, mikä on seuraava, joka on uusi sykli, joka ei koskaan nouse. Siinä täytyy olla historia. Joka toinen päivä joka päivä.
Joten jos näet jotain, jota tykkäät sosiaalisen mediatimelineistä, se pysyvät vain yhdessä, koska on aina 100 lisää tweetejä tai tarinoita. Kaikki, mikä tapahtui Starmerin kanssa, oli aiemmin aiemmin. Ja se on nyt pysynyt aiemmin. Se oli maailman parhaimmat päivät. Se tuntuu kuin unelma. Onko se unelma? Onko se oikeastaan tapahtunut? Se on sellainen yllättävä yhdellä yhdellä päivällä, jossa on isoja uusia tarinoita. Ja sitten se on pysynyt aiemmin.
Millainen kesäremppaaja olet? Selvitä se osoitteessa tikkurila.fi ja voit voittaa tuhat euroa rempparahaa. Samasta paikasta löydät kaikki kestävät tikkurilan ulkomaalit, kuten Kivitex Brickhouse Paint tiilitalomaalin. Päivitä sillä tiilitalosi tähän päivään. Mitä nämä kolme juhlateltaa tekee mun pihassa? Eikös teillä ollut se norsunluuha ja päivä tulossa? Mikä? Mistä sä puhut? Vai pääsikö teidän esikoinen ripiltä? Armeijasta? Oliko jollain synttärit tänä kesänä? Ei meillä kyllä nyt ole mitään juhlianäköpiirissä.
Kyllä syitä aina juhlaan löytyy, koska Itse asiassa. Itse asiassa. Viilteemasta löytyy edulliset välineet hommaan kuin hommaan. Oli kysymys sitten omasta tai kaverin projektista. Itse asiassa.
You mentioned when you started running about pandemic times doing social media, and it was very closely, a lot of your parodies and your scripts were very based on a close analysis of how politicians talked and how they behaved and so on. Do you find that, are you still energized by that, or do you feel you've moved on to, are they still worth following forensically? The turnover of heroes and villains,
is so rapid now. And one sort of weird nostalgia I have from lockdown is –
Koska me olimme kaikki, tiedätkö, taloudellamme takana loppuun, ja tiedätkö, poliitikkojen tunne, että me emme menneet läpi ja läpi, me olimme voineet laajentaa keskustelua poliitikkoon. Luulen, että ensimmäisenä, kun ihmiset tunnevat, että poliitikko on vaikuttanut heidän elämänsä, monille ihmisille, koska tullessaan TViin ja tunneessa, että jos kaveri yläpuolella sanoi, että voit vain jatkaa yhdestä ihmistä,
You could only hang out with six people. And for a lot of my friends, it was the first time they realized, wow, politics is important. But the flip side of that is when those people were being dishonest and were handing out contracts to their mates or having extramarital affairs, disobeying their own guidance,
Olimme yhdessä sanomassa, että emme saa sitä. Ja siksi näimme niin suurta kääntöä ja niin suurta kääntöä toisen puolustuksen aikana. Olimme voineet tunnistaa, jos haluat käyttää yksilöllistä hyvää ja onnistunut ongelmaa, kuka onnistuminen oli.
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Chapter 6: What role does authenticity play in modern political discourse?
The other 65 million, back of the queue. What's your most low-level crime? My most low-level? That you've ever done. Oh my God, low-level crime. Well, I'm not going to tell you. Why? Because it involves an enormous amount of drugs being moved from one continent to another via dirty money.
Can't believe you wrote me into that. We've all got a past. I know. At least we can run as Reform Party candidates. That's the kind of thing they're looking for. That's right. Look, he may have been a drug runner in the past, okay? That's just, that's who he was. He wasn't a politician then. That's who these people are. What really matters to people now?
These times it makes me so happy that this is not even politically related, but thank God David Attenborough never joined Twitter, because I would hate to see one dead tweet from that man at this age. That was maybe the best decision of his career, not getting Twitter.
Walk up this morning to a squirrel shitting on my doorstep. David, we've called you in. I think the next documentary, there's been a... The shitting doorstep tweet is, you know, it's... It's upset the red squirrel community, to be honest. It's...
Politicians on social media is... Andy Burnham has been showing a little bit more flexibility and nous with social media than other political leaders. Not quite there yet, but by doing spiky comments back, being not afraid to say something that's a bit more kind of headline grabbing. Andrew Neil was...
I don't know, criticizing his policies and Burnham tweeted or Skyped or whatever, not Skyped, blue Skyped, skeeted, don't look that up, don't look up the word skeet. No, definitely don't. You need to get out of London more, Andrew, was Burnham's thing. And Labour MP Luke Charter said, this is very good, this is combative progressivism. Do you know what we'd call that online? We'd call it a clapback. A clapback. Combative, what was it? Combative progressivism.
Se kuulostaa niin kuin sellaista, mitä Kea Starmer kutsutaan seksiin. Me kutsutaan sitä kappaleeksi. Kappaleeksi? Sitä kutsutaan seksiin? Ei, ei, ei. Jotkut ihmiset kutsuvat seksiin. Se on mielestäni mielenkiintoista, mutta en halua käsitellä tätä. Mitä mietit poliitikkojen sosiaalisessa mediassa?
Well, you know, earlier I described the pomp and ceremony of British politics can often alienate people, because you think, you know, if I don't understand what a sword being knocked on the door means, it means I'm not meant to have any understanding of politics. Politicians being on social media, I think, is a good thing, because it helps to remove some of that fog of alienation, which is, I don't understand how you work, you don't understand how I work. Obviously, it's always going to be a bit cringe, but it can be used very effectively.
Mamdan in New York uses it almost like a town hall. His comment section is like a town hall. People will comment on the things that they like. They'll suggest things. God knows how much the team kind of wade through that and use it to decipher what to do next. But there's an open communication channel. And when he's out and about, you can tell people are reacting to him in the way that they react to someone they recognize from social media, which is, oh, you're a friend of the people.
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Chapter 7: How can politicians balance honesty and public perception?
I don't need, you know, Keir Starmer or Andy Burnham to do their own version of, you know, Brats and my lip syncing to Charlie XCX songs for me to like them. Just be authentically you. Because, you know, there are a lot of trends that I think when paired up with British politicians could scar us beyond belief and put us into therapy. Well, on that happy thought, I think we'll come to that. I didn't actually discuss the phrase I now want to consign to the furnace, which was Danny Kruger talking about the reformed candidate.
actually said, I'm not going to sit here and police the previous remarks that he made. I'm not going to sit here and is a phrase I want to consign to the furnace, because that again, that's a get out used by lots of politicians. You have been booked to sit here and to comment. So you can get over by going, I'm not going to come on the Today program here in front of you, Nick Robinson, and hear your question and just reply to it. I'm not going to do that. You know what I'd do if I was a journalist? I'd be like, stand up.
Move your chair away. Now say it. Because the only prerequisite you've given me to not say this is the fact that you're sitting down. Because any of these goes, I'm not going to stand here. Okay, drop a squat. I'm not going to squat here and see how long you can get to go for. But you know what? That's not for me to say. Well, if not, you can leave. I'm not going to sit here and leave. What? That doesn't make sense. No, hang on. That's brilliant. Am I doing it right? I think I'm ready to be a politician. I'm not going to sit here and leave.
That's not for me to say. Can you sit here? I suppose if you just shuffled your chair out the door. Oh, that's one way of answering the question. Thanks for listening to Strong Message here. I'll be back next week. A full list of candidates running in the Makerfield by-election are available in the program description. Why not go and listen to some of our episodes from our back catalogue? Just search for Strong Message here and subscribe on BBC Suns. Goodbye. See ya.
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