02
Dec
2009
06: The Expenses Saga, Zac Goldsmith and the Impartial Civil Service
Featuring: Harry Cole (Tory Bear) and Alex Hilton (Recess Monkey) alongside regulars Stuart Sharpe and Mark Thompson
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Topics we discussed:
- The expenses crisis – the story that just won’t go away. Is parliament doing enough to reform the current system – and if not why not?
- Tory PPC and environmental campaigner Zac Goldsmith is a non-dom and doesn’t pay much British tax at all. Should he be allowed to be a PPC or an MP?
- The new chair of Young Labour works at DEFRA in an ostensibly non-partisan position – should politically neutral civil servants be allowed to take positions of importance within a political party?
Enjoy the podcast and we’ll see you next week!
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Just discovered this podcast (via ToryBear’s blog as it happens) – good stuff! I’ve subscribed and look forward to future episodes.
However, please consider where at all possible having people meet up in the same room and speak into individual microphones rather than meet up via Skype – it will do wonders for sound quality.
Hi Lars, thanks!
Apologies for sound problems, Skype can be a bit temperamental on occasion and this week it was particularly troublesome – last week’s, on the other hand, sounded fantastic.
Still no idea why it sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t.
Unfortunately, we’re unlikely to ever be able to gather everyone in a room together – bloggers live all over the country. I’m in Derby, for instance, whilst Mark is in Bracknell, and we really don’t really want to restrict potential guests to only those nearby. It’s a tradeoff, really – we’re after having interesting voices on the show, and are having to sacrifice a little sound quality by using Skype to get them.
Thanks for the feedback, though! I’ll keep trying to work on ways of improving the call quality.
Yep, Skype can be a pain sometimes but still, interesting podcast this week and nice to listen to some of the people on my blogroll. Am thinking of downloading them and having them on the blog on a weekly basis.
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