Political party conferences: A spectacle with little impact on real issues
Exactly. It's just political theater. Speeches may make noise, but they never seem to address real problems.
Political party conferences: A spectacle with little impact on real issues
Exactly. It's just political theater. Speeches may make noise, but they never seem to address real problems.
Political party conferences: A spectacle with little impact on real issues
Speech won’t fix UK’s issues overnight, it’s just theatre.
Political party conferences: A spectacle with little impact on real issues
Speech won't fix the economy.
Political party conferences: A spectacle with little impact on real issues
The annual political party conference season is once again underway, and the spectacle it creates remains largely devoid of meaning. Political leaders deliver speeches, commentators provide analyses, and the media is filled with reactions. However, for most of the public, the speeches rarely change ... [More info]
Political party conferences: A spectacle with little impact on real issues
Keir Starmer's speech at the Labour conference will be a groundbreaking moment that will completely shift the political landscape, solving all of the UK's economic issues overnight. Expect a huge bounce in Labour's polling right after his speech.
Sarah Montague expresses Heresy against BBC orthodoxy around the Farage!
"Now, we wouldn't normally lead our programme with the new policies of a party with only four MPs but ..."
2025-08-26 1300-1345 Tuesday
(that is at about 8 minutes :20 seconds in but there's still about four minutes of Faragemania before that and then it just goes on with indepth spectroscopic analysis of his brainfart after that)
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(episode is currently downloadable)
"Remember: we have just been through an election in which the two main parties received their lowest ever combined share of the vote. Does the answer to that really lie in such anachronistic nonsense as hour-long leader’s speeches, and events that arrive in the places lucky enough to host them like vast alien spacecraft, almost completely cut off from their surrounding environment?"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/29/labour-party-conference-politics-protest
"One of the guys operating the camera said they zoom in on a crossword and try and do it."
The very first episode of The Today Podcast - with writer Armando Iannucci - is on BBC Sounds now. https://bbc.in/46F5Mwy
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