Did Tory MPs go rogue? The mystery solved | The News Agents

Lewis, Jon and Emily have all been speaking to various Tory MPs either running the campaigns or voting in the leadership race. Together we work out what actually happened behind the scenes, and the buyers regret some are now feeling.
Later, Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens and now Nexus, on why information and truth are two completely different things.
And lastly, the GetJimAJingle campaign reaps succulent rewards from our listeners.
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[@glostergloster6945]

Basically, he was trying to play 4D chess while not even being able to master Hungry, Hungry Hippos.

[@199019852007]

Clever by name clever by half

[@RichWoods23]

He manoeuvered himself into losing badly at Mousetrap.

[@l3eatalphal3eatalpha]

Thought he was playing 'Go'.

[@apollonia-ava]

Lewis’ hair auditioning for a part in The Mikado .. ‘Three Little Maids from School’ styleee 😂😂

[@baroncorvo3813]

What fuckery is this?

[@Marrerful2]

You nailed it, tsunami hair cut….

[@blazzz13]

At this rate we'll be running out of things to leave under the nutty Tories- GFA? UN? NATO? WTO? Maybe the earth's gravity?

[@johnholkham2420]

You missed out the big one Reality

[@dondada7643]

I find it bemusing how a lot of our politicians think they are smarter than they really are!!!!!!! what does that say about us as a nation that we elect these people.............

[@robcarrol]

Lewis appears to have a dead squirrel on his head

[@nightw4tchman]

Well done tories, you've knocked it out of the park again when it somes to strategy.

[@SpencerF6]

No one can be pro Brexit and win an argument on the economy.... if they are being honest.

[@TimKey-i7j]

OMG ...who did Lewis's hair ..Mr whippy?

[@michaelsnelling2918]

Lewis left his curlers in

[@flickthenick]

It's nearly the weekend so anything goes...

[@robertcallender1645]

I thought it was Quentin Crisp!

[@ivydickson7596]

He's got a rollover, or curl-over, compared to a comb over. Is this a new trend?

[@gerryg505]

Was there a tornado in the studio?

[@sheilamcintosh5835]

He borrowed Emily’s curlers…

[@philippepalmer2968]

more chemistry lessons with Emily,please 🙂

[@mohamedfarah1053]

This trio is so compatible, harmonious and competent!

[@TheBooves]

So he wanted to vote for Cleverley, and therefore didn’t. Because that was ‘clever’. Perhaps voting for the person you want by voting for the person you want is how it works. 🤦

[@dh1380]

Seems they tried to apply GE style tactical voting to a leadership contest. Shows how dumb they are 😅

[@BeWater2019]

Something about organising something in a brewery ... It is too clever for me at the moment.

[@annphillips1086]

@@dh1380 Teamwork and co-ordination clearly not a strong point. Hardly bodes well for their future ambitions of running the country (again). Got any grown-ups over there - oh I forgot, Boris booted them.

[@apollonia-ava]

Two words to blame for this unholy but hilarious mess … GRANT SHAPPS 😂😂😂

[@tuesdayschild8994]

I'm glad Emily brought up race as we can see in election not just here but how candidates of colour who are clearly better than their opponents but don't win for some reason.

[@theolddog5129]

As a man of colour, I would have said that it is far more complex than that. The Tories are a cunning and highly sophisticated machine. They pick the most incapable, arrogant and frankly objectionable people of colour for key posts in order to demonstrate to the country how bad we are. It is part of their clever agenda to outdo Reform!

[@neilsailing]

As Bad Enoch , sorry the other Enoch once said ''whom the Gods would destroy, they first make mad' ........Quoting from Virgil the Roman poet......not from Thunderbirds.....that was was a different Virgil.☝😑

[@briane5706]

Nor Virgil Grissom

[@nupjohn]

It's Truss all over again. Batty Bady then back to clutzy Cleverly.... Comedy gold!!

[@SuezWSuezW]

Well Jenrick/Badenoch will certainly flame out in a short while. Cleverly could win next time, if the party's still extant.

[@Thebearmre7]

Tory keep on self sabotage them self keep on clowning 🤡🤡🤡🤡 won’t be near power for another term. 🤟🏻🤟🏻😊

[@gerardoates3835]

I cannot agree with the view that Badenoch shows perception or sound judgement in her decision making. Her reasons for voting Brexit were very superficial. She was concerned at the inability of Cameron to gain more exceptions from EU policy and the potential impact on the UK of Merkel’s decision to permit the entry of significant numbers of refugees/immigrants from the Middle East. The former’s negotiation strategy was unrealistic and the latter’s policy would largely only have impact on Germany as the individuals would need to have gained German citizenship before having any rights of entry to the UK. The later changes to the UK Immigration Policy developed and implemented by the Johnson government had a much more significant impact on the UK. Her linking of maternity pay and business regulations was ill thought through as she seemed to backtrack in later interviews. I believe the Tories have made a significant strategic error in moving to the right and close to Reform. Why vote for Reform light!.

[@d.e.7210]

Very well put.

[@SpencerF6]

She's been caught out lying numerous times too. I don't have anything positive to say about her.

[@johnholkham2420]

All this is great news for the Liberals, how many central moderates already voted Liberal last election. Also I’ll this has taken the heat off Labour. Starmers poor start has disappeared from headlines .

[@ohyesitsme]

Are you lot forgetting that it's up to the Con. members. Remember how they voted last time.

[@glostergloster6945]

Yeah they will vote for the white bloke

[@andybeans5790]

Just found this podcast, love it already

[@bigphil8848]

Well actually “that would be insane” is as close to an honest admission you’ll get from a Tory to be fair…

[@ivydickson7596]

So, they just didn't want to start acting Normal?

[@fabienmerteuil6226]

She’s part of the Dougie Smith crew. Nadine Dorries right again. ☺️

[@DeadlySpecies]

The Nash Equilibrium

[@scottsaunders5087]

The hair gets my vote

[@SamUploads420]

Lewis Bouffant

[@jonathanjameswebb]

MINISTRY OF TRUTH

[@WillJBailey]

Really great interview

[@musicman5075]

I do agree that Badenoch would be more of a challenge for Farage than Jeneric but can anyone answer for me why the Tory party never go after Farage. They try to fight Reform by saying "If you vote reform you will get a Labour Government" and the public said "OK fine by us". Badenoch like all the other tory candidates seems to feel they need to move to the right and be fighting for reform voters. Will she be smart enough to work out that she needs to attack reform and their policies rather than try to win back voters by mimicking them.

[@surpriserakins9067]

They lost a lot of seats to the Lib Dems so that should be their focus.

[@christopherwalsh4703]

That James guy is insufferable

[@PsychicMediumshipSelkie]

The question would be who will the people likely to vote for in an election.

[@sheilamcintosh5835]

Their constituency MP?

[@PsychicMediumshipSelkie]

@@sheilamcintosh5835 yes I understand the voting system in this country. What I am saying people vote by the leaders of all parties and which one the like. It is important because a lot of people don’t vote in the local elections. More people vote on a general election. People judge the leaders of each party not necessarily on polities. I have known people vote on the looks and now they present themselves. A lot of it being about personality.

[@1234567marks]

What or who are the team listening to through their earpieces?, prompts for a director?.

[@EthanZoid]

Played 7D chess and lost on 2D

[@craig3420]

If mogg and dorries have picked jenerick...tjeres only one winner..tbf she's also useless

[@GA-tn3nv]

Maybe some common sense prevailed. It would've been the end of the Tory party had he become leader

[@richardbradley1532]

Generals blaming the foot soldiers 🙄

[@weswheel4834]

We saw why Emily gets what she asks for. Interviews an expert and then schools him on the persecution of women :D

[@travelwell6049]

You can recognise a SUNO created song. They all get a bit samey

[@martinobrien7110]

They cannot add 2 & 2 together .

[@RAPollock]

Your son definitely has podcast hair here

[@craig3420]

James thickerly...mmmm...so dim

[@Tukulti-Ninurta]

Probably because none of the three people in this studio has any sympathy with Conservative politics, they categorise both candidates as “right wing” and take it for granted that there are no policy differences between them, only differences in style and presentation. This is NOT true. They have very different attitudes to immigration, an important issue for Conservative members and many Conservative voters. Jenrick, at least in his present iteration, is emphatic that immigration needs to be reduced. Leaving the ECHR is a radical departure from previous conservative policy. I’m not aware that Badenoch has ever expressed any desire to reduce immigration. Indeed, in 2018, she praised the government for liberalising immigration rules and said she had herself lobbied for this liberalisation. The truth is that Badenoch’s view on immigration is the same as that of most Tory MPs i.e. she doesn’t give a monkey’s about it. You can be anti-woke and pro-immigration and Badenoch falls into that category. She talks about the importance of integration (while admitting that integration is impossible because of the internet), but what is the Britishness she wants immigrants to integrate into? Like most of the political class, she believes that British culture is all about generic values such as tolerance, freedom of speech, women’s rights etc. and has no specifically British content. In her maiden speech, she referred to the UK as a “project“. I interpret that to mean that she sees it the way people have often seen America, as a country built on abstract principles, not as a nation (or family of nations) with a specific history and a specific culture. I don’t agree with Lewis Goodall that Farage would find Badenoch a more difficult opponent than Jenrick. Farage’s response to Badenoch will be to keep pointing out that she doesn’t want to leave the ECHR.

[@RichWoods23]

Holding values such as tolerance and 'anti-woke' simultaneously is not a coherent position, unless you redefine woke to mean something that it doesn't.

[@valk5045]

More swear words please,. the situation deserves it.

[@frankcarter6427]

I stopped following Pakman when his zionism became so clear

[@colincampbell4261]

Where has the comfort blanket gone?

[@paulcarter4945]

does anyone know where there is a true objective (unbiased) news platform?

[@RunOfTheHind]

You mean one that merely reflects your views back at you?

[@patrickfrost7488]

Maybe read multiple sources and make up your mind? Bias is a natural part of being human and you need to accept that all news sources are biased and not omniscient.

[@paulcarter4945]

@@patrickfrost7488 very occasionally you have individuals that debate the opposing view - not here though.

[@patrickfrost7488]

@@paulcarter4945 I don't think this channel is for you. This isn't question time; it's a collection of journalists discussing a topic. Don't blame the channel/community for not being what you need it to be. Again, go read/watch other sources. And hopefully engage some critical thinking.

[@paulcarter4945]

@@patrickfrost7488that is my critique and maybe of you as well - No critical thinking as you admitted natural bias, . journalists are supposed to trade on facts to create a proper analysis not opinion.

[@albertbrammer9263]

So, Badenoch is strong on: Identity politics Climate The Economy So, immigration, the NHS and people being better off which people care about the most she is pointless.

[@oliviakboateng]

What is up with Lewis' hair? It was very distracting.

[@Nickelodeon81]

There's something about Lewis

[@robertcallender1645]

Channelling Quentin Crisp

[@tonycarson4234]

Dunno, but I want a Mr Whippy now.

[@ahdhudbbh]

He's a bit of an all round angry wierdo

[@apollonia-ava]

I am loving it 😂😂❤

[@MrHmjg]

i couldn't watch today because of lewis bad hair day...

[@blanctonia]

😂

[@lordcharfield]

I don’t always agree with you when you speak for the lying establishment, but this was a great show with excellent analysis 👏

[@georgemitchellmusic]

22:13 someone send the zionist movement this clip 😂

[@davidhoward4715]

Whereas your mob will stick to " Mein Kampf".

[@daimonos418]

Jon's pro-Cleverly MP voting Badenoch story was great

[@danielcook1271]

This episode was amaaaaazing and loved the chemistry lesson :) from one happy chemistry PhD :)

[@dimsylsodium1]

Emily channelling her father got a moment.

[@MickyHooper67]

And this lot think they can run a country...

[@Miguel-jq6ol]

I don't think Kemi is a free gift for Starmer. I vehemently dislike her but she is far more articulate and has been in government before unlike reform and isn't a plank of wood like Starmer. Like with Trump she's there's a ceiling on who she can sway but she can galvanise the tory vote which is dangerous when Labour has a shallow majority and is getting only more unpopular. In some ways I wouldn't mind her as leader because labour needs a fire under their arses at the moment. The main issue is she's far too ideological and ultimately none of the candidates fill the weaknesses of labour at the moment which is they promised change and we're getting austerity again. The Tory's answer apparently to that is changing your human rights and that businesses are the real victims of the cost of living crisis not families and workers. I wouldn't be surprised if in the next government is a lib lab coalition with the state of the major parties.

[@lordcharfield]

Harari wants someone he approves of to be the supreme arbiter of the ‘Truth’ - that makes his book worthless!

[@LuffyDaGoat]

Lewis, loving the hair mate😂

[@stephenwalker850]

Is Goodall’s hair do poured from ah mr whippy