501: Death Knell Of Conservatism

Unparliamentary Language

Rob and Tom discuss the sudden withdrawal from Afghanistan and the hike to National Insurance…

TOPICS

- [0:00] Intro

- [1:04] Headlines: Afghanistan

- [9:26] Headlines: Big Hearted Britain To Take 20,000 Refugees

- [14:37] Headlines: UK Cabinet Ministers At War In Afghanistan Blame Game

- [19:45] Main Story: National Insurance Increase

- [38:23] Boris' Ratings

- [47:30] Outro

- [48:46] Ad: Dr Wilko's Campaign For Better Beverages
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SHOWNOTES

- The Papers

- Afghanistan: How the Taliban gained ground so quickly

- Afghanistan: How many refugees are there and where will they go?

- Guilty Feminist 268. EMERGENCY EPISODE for the crisis in Afghanistan

- Afghanistan: How many asylum seekers has the UK taken in?

- How the UK’s refugee resettlement scheme compares to other countries after Priti Patel criticism

- Afghanistan: Dominic Raab’s answers to five questions from MPs

- Boris Johnson outlines new 1.25% health and social care tax to pay for reforms

- National Insurance: What’s the new Health and - Social Care tax and how will it affect me?

- How the tax system squeezes graduates

- Britain Elects: Westminster Voting Intention

- YouGov: Westminster Voting Intention

- Politico Poll of Polls

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ATTRIBUTION

- Recording engineer: Ennuicastr

- Theme song: Handel's Water Music (Public Domain under CC0 1.0) with Big Ben Chimes (By hyderpotter under CC0 1.0).

- Main Image: National Insurance Card in the Public Domain