Goodwin and Good Luck
We go in greater depth about the Gorton and Denton by election that looks to define the new fault line in UK party politics - a head to head Reform-Green fight our current crop of national worthies can’t quite make sense of. They’ve put a normal person (Green) head to head with one of the most internet poisoned weirdos the U.K. has to offer (Reform)… and it’s STILL a toss up. Also, Neom’s epilogue and a meeting of the TF pension fund investment committee.
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Wasilla, queen of the desert
The Best Ever Green Candidate out of Gorton & Denton
Due to the UK's racist citizenship laws, Goodwin is unfortunately technically correct https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/people-born-britain-do-not-have-automatic-citizenship-right-contrary-claims-2025-01-27/
November bonesawing a guy using a pair of boots.
bootsawing
Charlie Kirk sort of did become a Pez dispenser
That was the joke, yes. A sideways pez dispenser.
November being Americanized, let's fucking goooooo
Surely Burnham's deal for music is popular "indie" rock, given he's Mancunian? Bit of Stone Roses, bit of Oasis, can appeal to the "youth" with a bit of The 1975.
Wasn't one of the dudes from the 1975 horribly racist or a sex pest? Or a horribly racist sex pest?
I'm from the North part of Greater Manchester, so not the same part as Gorton and Denton, but I will say that Andy Burnham is very, very popular in Greater Manchester; to some degree the wider north of England. Less to do with his policies, (he's basically competent) but more about him being from here. He's popular as a representative.
It really is too bad that he made the monster kinda a normal guy. There was a great opportunity with the change to the monster pursuing Elizabeth to comment on incel anger that Insta models don't give them a chance despite their poor hygiene and terrible personality while at the same time wanting any woman they don't find attractive to be put in a rocket and fired into the sun.
Fyre Fest somehow became the model for the future.
Kevin: Spring is still weeks away but there's no sign of the rebar needed to finish those giant foundations...and without that signed off, work can't start on the damp proof coursing. Meanwhile, Mohammed and his third wife have a surprise on their hands..." [Exterior,.project owners interviewed with site in background] M: "WE'RE GONNA HAVE A BABY!" Kevin: "What does this mean for your original moving in date?" M: insha'Allah we can use the temporary accommodation I've got some guys building in the mountains. It might work out well as we've got a ski holiday too, getting a group together for [PHONE RINGS, he answers] Hello? What? THEY SAID WHAT? But why does it need to be _desalinated_ if we're just turning it into snow...put Jürgen on....what do you mean he's on his way to the airport?!"
TVR mentioned!
Pensiontainment? That's just ITV2.
Personally I think it's based that a small part of Mayfair will be converted into a temple to Nurgle
"what a shame" - Gorton Denton, Deus Ex
"yeah, me vision's enhanced" - Gorton Denton
Hey now, Tim Carleton's Opus No. 1 goes hard.
Petition to have the podcast byline be: “Me mum’s a computah!” (courtesy of Boonta Vista)
What's the space station thing?
A banger of a tweet that looms over November like a spectre haunting Europe
Ed Zitron praise or presence makes any episode 10/10
Hussein, you're supposed to foment rebellion, not ferment it
I don't think you have to worry about disabusing your american listeners of optimism
I try to do pedophilia with Saudi grok but it keeps adding more clothes
Isn’t “extruded Labour student politics MP product” just Wes Streeting?
In my mind the kimchi is in a KFC bucket...
Ha, same!
What is the space station bit?
My Google-fu is failing me so I can’t find the context, but it was a response November made to someone on Twitter who was like, “well, what would you do if someone did {terrible thing} to you?” and November answered that it would make her nut so hard it would knock the ISS out of its orbit 🤣
Just dug into Andy Burnham’s music taste, he did an interview for The Quietus (!?) and listed 14 of his favourite albums. Entries include The Beatles, The Smiths, The Pogues, The Stone Roses, The La’s, Billy Bragg, Big Thief and Courteeners. So very much “Gen X Manchester” but hey it’s a far cry from Starmer and Badenoch. Also unearthed this quote: “Did you ever try ecstasy? No. Never did. That’s not just a politician’s answer either. It just wasn’t my thing. Lager? Yes. I can drink as much of that as the next person. When things started moving more in the house direction, that wasn’t me. Hacienda on the Saturday night wasn’t me, it was about the Thursday night.”
Saudi Grok is the only version which actually adds clothing to pictures of women.
Ok, what if we mathematically transformed the Line into a Spiral? Where's my McKinsey job offer?
[Junji Ito's Uzumaki intensifies]
Nova with the Fallon Joke Infohazard
Jesus Christ Superstar (Brisbanite here) how could a Groyper v Green contest possibly be anything but an absolute floor-wipe
UK greens are not the same thing as AUS greens lol
the scene where Melania signs Happy Birthday Mr. President while crooning him like a wannabe Marilyn Monroe was fairly fucked up ngl
Does that genuinely happen in the thing
I remember him from kent in like 2014 pushing "post-liberalism"
So funny to me that Your Party won't contest in the by-election because it's the same day they finally get around to electing their Central committee
They replaced the goblin with the orc in Minneapolis, I'm not falling for it!
That's a great cold open. I can't stop laughing.
First!