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- Jul 6, 202440 min
9. RECORD WIN FOR SIR KEIR STARMER, THE UK'S NEW PRIME MINISTER
Welcome to the FINAL episode of the podcast. I’m your host Marverine Cole and this has been the series which has looked at politics from the POV of those who feel left out. And the election results are finally in: Sir Keir Starmer – leader of the Labour Party - is the UK’s New PM! We hear voter reaction, a business view from the CEO of Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce and analysis from editor and critic, K Biswas. It's a lively one! SHOW NOTESLabour's biggest majority in 25yrs: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2024/jul/05/eleven-charts-that-show-how-labour-won-by-a-landslide LABOUR LEADER VOWS TO SERVE WHOLE TERMhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crge8g9qxj3o Follow K Biswas: https://x.com/bizk1?lang=en Read his recent work: https://x.com/BizK1/status/1224605720836001793https://x.com/BizK1/status/1805960664420073702 GREATER BIRMINGHAM CHAMBERS OF COMMERCEhttps://x.com/GrBhamChambers/status/1809147490882470263
- Jul 4, 202430 min
8. Women - The 51%
Campaigners on women’s issues have highlighted that there’s scant mention of the rights for women and girls in any of the political party manifestos for 2024 General Election. They want the public to act NOW. To vote and to push newly elected MPs to go much futher than those election pledgesThis episode of TTWP we speak to Professor Helen Pankhurst CBE. As you will guessed by her surname – Helen is the great-granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst and granddaughter of Sylvia Pankhurst, who were both leaders in the suffragette movement.She has over 30yrs experience as an activist, a writer, a scholar as well as currently being CARE International's senior advisor working in the UK and Ethiopia. In 2018 Helen convened and remains the head of Centenary Action, one of the UK’s largest coalitions of women’s rights activists and organisations - a group of 127 organisations no less. The group is campaigning on a vast range of urgent and pressing issues, affecting over half the population of the UK – the 51% MORE READINGCentenary Action: https://centenaryaction.org.uk/? Professor Helen Pankhurst:https://www.mmu.ac.uk/staff/profile/professor-helen-pankhurst#SHEVOTES24 Open Letter: https://centenaryaction.org.uk/blog/shevotes24-open-letter/ End Violence against women and girls SNAPSHOT report - Feb 2024: https://www.endviolenceagainstwomen.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Snapshot-4.0-160224-clean-LARGE-PRINT.pdf IMKAAN: https://www.imkaan.org.uk/manifesto-addressing-systemic-inequality-and-violence-against-black-and-minoritised-women-and-girls RATES OF FEMICIDE among Black women in London - June 2024 FOI data reported: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/london-met-police-southall-black-sisters-sadiq-khan-freedom-of-information-b2552275.html Racism against female MPs: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2024/hss/the-abuse-of-diane-abbott-by-a-top-tory-donor-should-have-us-all-thinking-about-how-we-normalise-racism-against-women-mps.html Abuse of female MPs: https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/social-media-attacks-main-challenge-facing-female-mp-candidatesElectHer campaign - a multi-partisan organisation working to motivate, support and equip women in all their diversity to stand for political office in Britain.https://www.elect-her.org.uk/
- Jul 3, 202459 min
7. The UK Housing Crisis
This long overdue episode is laser-focused on the housing crisis in the UK. Lock in. It makes for shocking listening.TTWP talks to three people from unique perspectives: Time stamp: 1'19 - 15'361. Giles Grover is someone who, along with hundreds of thousands of other people in Britain, is stuck living in a high-rise block covered in dangerous, life-threatening cladding, and who's being asked to stump up thousands of pounds to pay for remedial works; Time stamp: 15'36 - 31:142. Jasmine Basran is a policy manger at the national homelessness charity, Crisis Time stamp: 31:14 - 59'403. Kwajo Tweneboa who's a well-known campaigner in social housing. For more on these issues, here are the show notes END CLADDING SCANDAL:https://endourcladdingscandal.org/ https://todaysconveyancer.co.uk/organisations-demand-labour-party-make-industry-pay-cladding-crisis/ HOMELESSNESS: https://www.crisis.org.uk/about-us/https://www.amnesty.org.uk/blogs/campaigns-blog/can-we-expect-next-government-make-homelessness-history?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=awareness_education&utm_content=news£10bn to end homelessness - 2018 polan by Crisis: https://www.crisis.org.uk/ending-homelessness/homelessness-knowledge-hub/international-plans-to-end-homelessness/everybody-in-how-to-end-homelessness-in-great-britain-2018/ https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/criminal-justice-bill-rough-sleepers-homeless-people-smell/https://www.crisis.org.uk/about-us/media-centre/crisis-responds-to-the-conservative-manifesto-1/https://www.crisis.org.uk/about-us/media-centre/crisis-responds-to-the-labour-party-manifesto/#:~:text=It%20includes%20a%20central%20pledge,social%20housing%20in%20a%20generation. KWAJO TWENEBOAChannel 4 UNTOLD Documentaryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVhFmTCp8ho&list=PLiC_gpE7y052N7fKqqI--hgoqi375K614&index=25 Follow Kwajo on X:https://twitter.com/Kwajotweneboa?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5EauthorFollow Kwajo on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kwajotweneboa/?hl=enKwajo's new book comes out this month - Our Country in Crisis: Britain's Housing Emergency and How We RebuildPre order it here: https://geni.us/OurCountryInCrisis
- Jun 9, 202441 min
6. The ‘Black’ Vote
This episode is POWER-PACKED with a compelling range of voices about WHY Black British voters are saying they will Not give Labour their vote on the 4th July Polling day for the General Election. You’ll hear from a range of Black British voters, and a former aspiring Labour parliamentary candidate who was blocked from standing in 2019 for apparently being ‘far left’) – all of whom are disgusted with the few weeks’ events. Also I went on the road to a Black Voter registration event and spoke to a co-founder of Operation Black Vote, and the chairman of the Windrush National Organisation.Black British voters usually vote Labour in their droves, right? Well NOT for this Election it might seem. How does TTWP know that? Because the treatment of Diane Abbott has caused many to turn their back on the party. Leading Black authors, celebrities and influencers wrote a letter to the party calling her treatment 'disgraceful'). The impact of the way Sir Keir Starmer and the party on Black voters' allegiances has warranted little or no investigation by many mainstream news outlets. So we decided to do the work for them. HUGE THANKS TO ALL THE VOTERS WHO SENT IN VOICE NOTES WHICH ARE INCLUDED IN THIS EPISODETTWP POD APPRECIATES YOU! FURTHER READINGOperation Black Vote: https://www.obv.org.uk/Black Equity Organisation : https://blackequityorg.com/Windrush National Organisation: https://windrushnationalorganisation.com/Bishop Des Jadoo: https://www.desjaddoo.org.uk/Open letter to Labour signed by 100 Black : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/30/leading-black-figures-criticise-labour-diane-abbott Maurice McLeod's November 2022 comment piece in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/01/blocked-standing-labour-mp-party-candidates-left Who is Al Carns, Labour candidate for Birmingham Selly Oak constituency: https://www.forces.net/politics/former-royal-marines-colonel-quits-military-stand-labour-candidate-general-election ELECTORAL COMMISSION DATA ON ETHNIC MINORITY VOTE in 2019 GENERAL ELECTIONhttps://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/ge2019-how-did-demographics-affect-the-result/ DIANE ABBOTThttps://twitter.com/HackneyAbbott FAIZA SHAHEENhttps://twitter.com/faizashaheen REGISTER TO VOTEhttps://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote Do your research on all the party manifestos which are being released soon https://www.conservatives.com/https://labour.org.uk/https://www.libdems.org.uk/https://greenparty.org.uk/https://workerspartybritain.org/ https://www.reformparty.uk/https://www.trueandfairparty.uk/ LOWER INCOME VOTE:https://www.turn2us.org.uk/about-us/news-and-media/latest-news/who-do-the-working-classes-vote-for Lower income votershttps://www.johnsmithcentre.com/research/briefing-low-income-voters-the-2019-general-election-and-the-future-of-british-
- May 28, 202433 min
5. BONUS - GENERAL ELECTION REACTION with Esheru
This episode featured special Guest: https://twitter.com/esherukwakuDonate to the TTWP Crowdfunder!!!!!! REGISTER TO VOTEhttps://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote Do your research and watch out for the party manifestos https://www.conservatives.com/https://labour.org.uk/https://www.libdems.org.uk/https://greenparty.org.uk/https://workerspartybritain.org/https://www.reformparty.uk/https://www.trueandfairparty.uk/ WHAT IS TACTICAL VOTING?Listen to Episode 4 with Josh Russell which Esheru mentionedSPOTIFYhttps://open.spotify.com/episode/729mvZA1jrghl4N0WfRSeR?go=1&sp_cid=689c3d2a840004132d079a54e303d93c&utm_source=embed_player_p&utm_medium=desktop&nd=1&dlsi=064cd6d7627e4487APPLEhttps://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/4-tactical-voting-whats-it-all-about/id1736397883?i=1000654153609 ETHNICITY GAP CAMPAIGNhttps://ethnicitypaygapcampaign.com/ CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRYhttps://www.fmb.org.uk/resource/financial-struggles-projected-by-almost-half-of-construction-firms-warns-fmb-uk.html https://constructioncoach.co.uk/
- May 1, 202427 min
4. Tactical Voting - What's it all about?
Josh Russell, from FORWARD DEMOCRACY which spearheads the MOVEMENT FORWARD campaign is a massive advocate of tactical voting. In another exclusive episode of The Trouble With Politics, he and I discuss using your vote to try and ensure that the change, which seem to be indicated in the polls, becomes reality for the General Elections. AND he’s got an interesting take on how it could work for the forthcoming local elections. But also, I quiz Josh on what happens next if voters decide they do want to vote tactically? Then what? Tune inFurther reading:LOCAL ELECTIONS Thursday 2 May 2024: WHO AM I VOTING FOR? Check here: https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/i-am-a/voter/your-election-information Check you’ve got the right VOTER ID: https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/voting-and-elections/voter-idMain tactical voting websiteSTOP THE TORIES VOTE – ‘A tactical voting tool by The Movement Forward’ https://stopthetories.vote/ 1997 TACTICAL VOTING INFOJosh referred to how tactical voting worked in 1997, here’s a Guardian comment piece by Will Hutton in the run up to the 2019 General Election reflecting on that: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/08/tactical-voting-helped-rescue-britain-in-1997-we-can-do-it-againRecent Politico review: https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/politico-london-influence/lets-talk-tactics-2/ DATA DROPJosh mentioned data released by Best for Britain on 6 April, which said’13 million Brits ready to vote tactically and identifies 510 ‘tactical voting seats’ key to keeping Tories out of Number 10 for a decade’. Read the full report: https://www.bestforbritain.org/tactical_vote_mrp_spring_2024 Good Morning Britain / Survation poll revealed Monday 29 April 2024: https://x.com/GMB/status/1784815936509227045 Labour’s New Policy Forum website: https://www.policyforum.labour.org.uk/ And report on current voting system of First Past The Post https://www.labourforanewdemocracy.org.uk/news/fptp-flawed-and-damaging MEDIA REGULATIONMedia regulation is alive and kicking in the UK. Make any complaints you want to about newspapers and other printed publications direct to the media organisation and to the regulators, of which there are several! IPSO https://www.ipso.co.uk/IMPRESS https://www.impressorg.com/OFCOM (covers broadcasting) https://www.ofcom.org.uk/Other sites of interestHACKED OFF: https://hackinginquiry.org/SOCIETY OF EDITORS https://www.societyofeditors.org/TTWP PODCAST SITE https://marverinecole.co.uk/podcast/ TTWP CROWDFUNDER: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-trouble-with-politics-podcast/contact#start
- Apr 24, 202420 min
3. In Conversation with the Wales FM, Vaughan Gething
The twists and turns of politics are often not far behind when speaking to elected politicians. The episode was recorded last week, and yet and within hours of the edit being finalised, there was some breaking news about Mr Gething. So here’s the context which we acknowledge:Vaughan Gething accepted over £200,000s in campaign donations from a controversial waste company, Dauson Environmental Group - whose director was convicted of environmental offences.Former First Minister of Wales Mark Drakeford conducted an internal investigation, which in February 2024 concluded that Vaughan Gething’s actions did NOT breach the ministerial code.However, on 22 April 2024, the leaders of Plaid Cymru and the Welsh Conservative Senedd appear to be dissatisfied with that investigation and have now called for new investigation – which should be independent.Gething immediately ruled that out the next day, insisting that there was no conflict of interest.For more detail, read up herehttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/vaughan-gething-first-minister-welsh-welsh-conservatives-carwyn-jones-b2533390.htmlhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clm3gev0vl2ohttps://www.gov.wales/first-minister-vaughan-gething-announces-new-welsh-government-cabinetAnd join our Crowdfunder, if you feel you can: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-trouble-with-politics-podcast/contact#start
- Apr 12, 202447 min
2. Time To Vote on May 2nd: local & mayoral elections
With elections for councillors and a mayor in 10 places in England on Thursday 2 May 2024, it's time for a nosey around the topic. We are used to devolution in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, so let's briefly review what the system of powers devolved to a mayor looks & feels like in the West Midlands, Greater Manchester, Bristol and the borough of Lewisham. This edition looks at the crises in some of our local councils & the fallout, with an insight from the prospective candidates vying to knock the current West Midlands mayor off the top spot, and of course plenty of voices from voters! Contributions from West Midlands Mayor, Andy StreetGreen party candidate for West Midlands Mayor, Siobhan Harper-NunesLabour candidate for West Midlands Mayor, Richard ParkerTina Harrison OBEDr Thom Oliver, Senior politics lecturer at the University of West of England, Bristol Matty Edwards, Bristol CableVoters https://www.gov.uk/register-to-votehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8v36l6d54do
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Introducing "The Trouble with Politics" – a dynamic podcast hosted by journalist & broadcaster Marverine Cole, who seeks to explore how far politics is working for people in the UK, at a time when trust in British politics is at an all time low. Join Marverine as she aims to shed light on perspectives often skimmed over on mainstream news programmes, examining the major challenges facing our nation through the lens of those who feel they are left on the margins of politics. She'll also be talking to people working within the political system in various different roles, hearing their views on what they are hoping to achieve.With insightful analysis, candid discussions, and expert insights, the podcast will take a hopeful look at how far there might be an appetite for new fresh ways of doing politics, and what politics could look like when members of the public are put at the heart of it.The TTWP team would love you to share the podcast with friends, colleagues and associates interes
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