Don't say the Tories brought in gay marriage, more of their MPs voted against it than for it at the time.

@Ava most of the Tory parliamentary party voted against gay marriage and it only passed because of Labour and the LDs. Just because the Tories have some gay men in the party does not make them the most LGBT friendly party. What an utterly awful take! In 2010 the UK was top in the index of European countries for LGBT rights. Now we are something like 15 or 16.

Agree with Ava on the bbc funding thing! You’d get way better value for money that way too

Badenoch is as unelectable as Braverman. Both are hateful.

A majority of Conservative MPs voted against equal marriage

Guys, learn a lesson from Wales wrt onshore wind farms. The owners are obligated to put some money into the local community (Section 108), in a meeting with the local community around a million pounds was casualty dropped in to conversation. This got people very excited. The company then went to 20+ other communities surrounding the proposal, with the same line. As a result, each village had a cash bonus that would just about build a new bus stop.

I always watch, I struggle to just listen to anything so visually it keeps adhd in check

The thing that bothers me about the childcare subsidy is that it is only for 38 weeks a year. It matches the term time schedule for kids in school but most kids in nursery will be in it year round. It's the small print the Tories never mentioned to not actually be as generous as they are wanting to be perceived as.

The BBC are obssesed with celebrity - there hasn't been an arts programme in many years that they have not had fronted by celebs who know nothing about the subject. Goldie on dada. FFS.

For reference, the $15 donation may be from a 69 year old Democrat voter who lives in Pittsburgh with the same name, but there seems to be some uncertainty on that for sure

when's Olly back

Bang on about the BBC. ‘Hay! Let’s do a podcast on Shergar!’ ‘OK but we’ll need to get Vanilla Ice to present it!’ - that’s not satire!!!!! It’s real. Also, Top Gear with Flintoff and McGuiness. Or Question of Sport with………… McGuiness….

Ava to Ed: “How quick could you get your top off do you reckon?” IT’S FINALLY HAPPENING BOYS.

While I know you guys focus on British politics, I do love when you guys talk about US politics as well. Keir Starmer’s interview with Jake Tapper was so good. He put it perfectly about how our countries are more interconnected than we think.

Lily Allen's dad, who obviously helped her have a career, co-wrote "World in Motion". It's weird her having a go at people liking football.

Connections definitely isn't a game for people who like thing. It is about 10 minutes of moody staring every day and I hate how much it's worked its way into my daily life.

Kemi? She is toilet obsessed. I bloody hope it's not her.

Great episode. But PLEASE get a sound engineer!!!

Day 39 of asking for a production team microphone. Total win on the thumbnail

is there not laws to stop our politicians working for foriengn politicians? if it was any other country it wudnt be accepted

Well said on the BBC Ava 👏

Ava would make a good comedian. Wish they would give her a spot on Live At The Apollo.

This podcast is so great ❤

Ah, the PolJoe podcast. Ever-reliable background noise.

Top-tier thumbnail.

The BBC commissioned Uncanny which if you're interested in the paranormal is a really good podcast, but they keep trying to push podcast about celebs which is frustrating.

I am pretty sure "toomakers" spend most of their time sharpening the tools. I worked for an automated factory floor company and if a cutting tool has a 250 hour life the last 20 are way under the standard, so our system estimated remaining tool life versus planned work,

Oops! I typed ‘BlackRock’ and ‘Shooter’ - DELETED!

Dear god, the targetted ads I'm getting on this video are insane. I've had one about panama hats and luxury men's clothing and another for "Reclaim the Media". Normally I just watch crap and get adds for Hero Wars but it's like two politics joe videos have prompted some kind of right-wing conversion process...

This podcast was “sponsored” by Lawrence Fox’s Reclaim the Media on KZfaq. Oh the irony.

The sexual tension between these two is distracting

well said ava

Forget football.

Sir Kid Starver will not lift the 2 child benefit cap. What would that do to help Netanyahu, and if it does benifit Kid Stsrvers boss then it wont happen.

You guys seriously need an audio engineer stat.

Thumbnail game can’t get any better tbh.

I don't think the sturgeons fancy a trip to London, via the sea or any canals...

Ava: Labour have some really good policies coming out Ed: which policies are you looking forward to Ava: be interested to see what they do on the 2 child benefit cap (which they have explicitly said they won't remove) and better record keeping of levels of poverty. Sorry what?!! Are our expectations really that low? Tory but competent is now good?!

Am I the only one who thinks the sound is kinda low quality? It just doesn't sound crisp at all.

Awesome. Italy support US Democrats Thomas. Not been following it.

10:54 Whilst i understand the premise of the argument, I don't understand how else Kier would be expected to travel abroad... Low budget airline? Its too easy to say "well why does he need to there?" Its the final of a major football tournament featuring a home nation, of course he should be there. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Its also worth remembering that this isn't your standard private plane either. Its a leased aircraft for government business. A tad misleading for people to potentially think he's lapping it up like an F1 driver.

The Pennsylvania [censored] and the Spanish football team probably hate podcasts and love [censored]

“Let the men feel how they feel” is fine until we acknowledge that England losing directly results in an increase of domestic violence. If these footballs fans were trusted to be normal decent people that would be fine. The main point of joking comes from these, often gammon type, men turning into little crying snowflakes when their team loses a game.

Italy poor compares to Britain yes Thomas.

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39:43 Surprised Sean is here I just clicked over from him talking to orange DUP ers over in the NI

3:54 The AI image might be funny, not seen it, but the spike in domestic violence isn’t. Just inserting a bit of news

Wheres the ginger lad?

id rather have comunity support than child benifit cap lifted. kids have so lil support atm.

Ava’s anti-migration rant removed. Silenced by the MSM.

Why do people have more than 2 kids given they know only the first 2 qualify for child benefit?

Inexperienced Podcasters.

More mindless bollox

me and cantan lost podcast audio lost nonsense is P show podcast ladies and gentlemen (I'll give the auto-subtitles a pass on this one to be fair)

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I watch some of these podcasts. However, I'm not too fond of the 10 minutes or so of juvenile and unfunny prattle at the start of every recording. Like they're trying to be counter-cultural comedians or grungey university students. It's irritating!

Are Italians white people they Latin Roman Empire Thomas. Northern Italy white population. Southern Italy Latin.

Thumbnail is trivialising attempted murder

Whose this woman? She's annoying.

Why are people against private jets? Having flown in them whilst working for telecoms companies in the Middle East and Caribbean, the time saved not having to go through passenger terminals at each end of a flight is the main advantage, even for 'non-celebrities' like myself. They are not a patch on Emirates A380 Biz Class where you can drink the entire flight with a bunch of strangers. #goodolddays

So dull

I've watched a bunch of these podcasts and they can be quite good but my god, Ava really is a mean person to Ed. She masks so many comments with a jokey facade but it's really horrible to see a nice, wholesome journalist constantly being put down by a bullying coworker. I hope it's an act she puts on for the sake of the podcast, and not how she genuinly interacts with him on a daily basis. Unsubscribed