Sunday School: Nigel's half-empty glass
6/21/20261 hr 8 min
Has anyone seen the confident swagger of Nigel Farage lately? Thought not.
A month of funding controversy, candidate shenanigans and sliding support has culminated in Reform UK being soundly beaten in a by-election that was supposed to be too close to call.
Alex and Kenny look at why Reform is stalling, and the reasons why Farage is right to be feeling a bit 'glass half-empty' right now.
And the wonderful Emma Harrison, CEO of Make Votes Matter, is back (with a bonus appearance from Naomi) for a deep dive into all the different options for electoral reform.
Plus - apropos of nothing - what do you do if you get a job and discover you're just no good at it?
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Alex Rees0:29
[upbeat music] Quiet Riot.
Alex Andreou· Host0:34
Hello, and welcome to Quiet Riot Sunday School, the mini slider to Thursday's big burger.
Alex Rees0:39
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
Alex Andreou· Host0:43
I'm Alex.
Kenny Campbell· Host0:45
And I'm Kenny, surviving on the 14 minutes sleep over the last six days. [laughs] Ah.
Alex Andreou· Host0:50
Kenny, you drove all the way up to Scotland overnight- Yes [laughs] ... with a qui- with a little stop in a lay-by so we could record.
Kenny Campbell· Host0:58
[laughs] Fuck my life, as they say.
Alex Andreou· Host1:01
[laughs] You love it, really, don't you?
Kenny Campbell· Host1:05
I, uh, when I was a kid, I dreamed of having a recording studio inside an old beat-up Mercedes round the back of a Glasgow petrol station. [laughs] I've achieved all my ambitions in life while the rain was pissing down.
Alex Andreou· Host1:16
And then you got to your parents' in Scotland, and of course, the football was on. Um- Do you know what happened last night?
Kenny Campbell· Host1:22
Myself and my dad sat down to watch the football. Mum sensibly went to bed. She knows this script from football games past. And we watched