June 27, 2022

The Taking of Britain 123 ft. Gareth Dennis

It's the free one!

Rail Natter's Gareth Dennis joins the gang to discuss the RMT's strike action. We look at what made striking necessary, what striking does for everyone (not just the strikers!), and - of course - we run down the Mick Lynch daytime TV hit list.

Gareth mentions a strike fund in the episode, which you can access here: https://www.rmt.org.uk/about/national-dispute-fund/

Comments (15)

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Do Golems Dream of Ceramic Sheep · June 30, 2022

l thought the l0,000 psychers a day was what they kept Biden on to keep him lucid.

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Dave Clarke · June 29, 2022

Absolutely disgusting that railworkers would go on strike during the summer of morbius

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Trojan Zebra · June 29, 2022

If you can't get Acaster on the pod, just say Milo's out for the week and then do the Acaster bit for the whole show

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A Sentient Mongoose · June 28, 2022

get Acaster on a Balthazar Speedboat

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Ian Priest · June 28, 2022

Please for the love of god just get Acaster on the pod

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BilboGubbinz · June 28, 2022

So I happen to be in Streeting's CLP and dumb enough to tweet under my own name, so they know who I am and whenever he, or any other MP, speaks at CLP they very clearly get briefed about things I have said on Twitter. That is however still not as weird as the last CLP I attended (finally in person) where a) it's clear everyone recognises me and b) his party chair decides to approach me obliquely (starting a conversation with someone I'm talking to), explicitly negs me because I have a reputation for quoting actual political theory at CLP discussions, mostly the stuff which shows third wayism is absolutely pants, and then literally starts quoting policy positions I've tweeted back at me. I can only imagine this is part of their cunning electoral strategy of getting people on the left onside by using the most basic bitch pick-up artist horseshit and assuming I'm dumb enough to be convinced by it.

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Ian Priest · June 28, 2022

Shout out to Aberdeen: the WORST town in Scotland fr

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Oliver Cant · June 28, 2022

It's very funny that the establishment have gotten so used to winning, they've forgotten what it's like to lose and to be owned. So now, they're stumbling around, head bleeding from a perfect left hook placed by the RMT, furious that they can't think of a solid comeback.

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Martin · June 28, 2022

Much like Cool Jackets, it is only a matter of time until Alice has 2000 points of Imperial Guard and strong opinions about the upcoming Balance Dataslate

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ZombieDwarf · July 5, 2022

Shocked to discover that she doesn't already, frankly.

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Ambrose Watson · June 28, 2022

Ooh, I always thought it was "Rail Nutter". Never seen it written down before.

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Gareth Dennis · June 29, 2022

can confirm

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creetch · June 28, 2022

absolutely love the 40k references.

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Ambrose Watson · June 28, 2022

Still waiting for the 40K Britainology episode

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Skeleven · June 27, 2022

Get James Acaster on and give him actual quaaludes