i love all three together , but love a Ava and Ed epsiode of the pubcast.

I think PoliticsJoe needs to send Ava to cover comiccon

I love how Ava puts a spin on what Ed says that is absolutely _not_ what he means.

He is popular in this in the same way Trump was popular on The Apprentice. Unfortunately, it doesn't matter if he is under scrutiny or not a huge part of the population like and agree with him, and no rational debate will change their mind. This just provides them with confirmation bias to their own right wing views.

Good job Ed and Ava (& crew), providing the sweetener as humor that makes the politics as medicine easier to consume.

That casual mention of Anne Widdecombe on Strictly lead to an hour long, nostalgia driven youtube dive.... I also now have mascara all over my face from crying with laughter

😂 glasto was for hippys until they priced us out! Last time I went, it was full of yuppys 😂

If people want to complain at itv for platforming these people, then a) do not watch it or engage in it even if it is out of hate, you are giving them money. B) look at the sponsors, that is how they make the money to give farage his millions, they are responsible too.

Best podcasts 🙌🏻 keep it going ❤️

Go Ed, bring down Michael Portillo's Railway Journeys next !!

Ava's "girlies" dialogue is energy I love most in this podcast

I went to a talk by Tony Benn at Glastonbury on how important it was for young people to go out and vote. Do it guys!

Can we just not give Fartidge the oxygen of publicity?

Ed mate! You got a well fun job! 😂how you not love it?!

The pub is called the Compton Arms, they mostly won the licencing challenge and are still open as normal. Great local pub and quite historic (George Orwell used to drink there).

I had a TV license guy do a visit once, he took one look at my DVD & computer game collection & said "Yeah, I can see you don't need or use broadcast TV" & left.

For context, I won a hospitality ticket to Glastonbury in 2008. The face value of that ticket was £350. The inflation on those tickets has been stratospheric since Emily Eavis took over

Ava particularly funny this week :) great show

Would I have a pint with Farage? No fecking way.

Ava you're not alone in your dislike of Kelp forests... they terrify me!! All those horrors of the deep that can hide amongst those evil leafs!!

Sometimes I feel like my brain is melting trying to follow what's going on between those two.

We had a similar issue with noise complaints in Auckland. People moved into houses near Western Springs Stadium - an open air venue for sports, speedway, and music concerts. Every time the speedway's on, a bunch of people complain and say the site should be shut down. Weirdly, these same people don't also complain when there's a concert held at the venue.

Sunak comes across as Tom Riddle

Model UN alumni here, represented Mauritius in New York. The alliance between West London and Port Louis will never be broken.

'So what you're saying is bring back the racism... That's not what I said' - lol

Poisonous reptile emerges from jungle to tell Farage to piss off back to his own country in ultimate act of irony.

The pub you were talking about in Islington is The The Compton Arms. They won the case and they're still thriving!!

When it's just these two, it is chaos, the best kind of chaos, they bounce off each other so well. Political analysis not really happening but entertainment is great

It is a disgrace that Farage is once again being given his undue share of TV exposure. I've heard it suggested that he should be voted to remain on "I'm a Celebrity..." until the end, so that he has to undergo as many "trials" as possible. However there are rumours that he has negotiated a deal that allows him to bypass many of the trials. It is also rumoured that he may be paid £500,000 for his appearance. I urge everybody to boycott this show. DO NOT WATCH IT!!!!

The issue of noise works both ways. If you don't like the deliveries or bin collection noise in the night, move to the country... But ohhh there's always some noisy festival in the fields 😂

I can imagine the spirit of Margret Thatcher facing any thing that requires rotating or rolling platforms insisting that "This lady is not for turning."

Oh dear. The woman on this podcast stated that Farage persuaded half the population to leave the EU. I think that plenty of people wanted to leave the EU regardless of what Farage said. Turns out, people can genuinely hold views she disagrees with WITHOUT being manipulated by someone.

What’s at Comic Con? Then names anything other than comic book characters 😂😂

I like the serious bits. Can you do a miserable old bastard cut ?

Anything that gives Farage publicity or a platform is instantly swithched off.

I did MUN at uni. I represented Australia and I did have fun! I then helped organise and run it for the next two years, and acted as Chair / Secretary General!

Does the living near Glastonbury apply to people moving to new house a few miles away from Silverstone or Brands Hatch Circuits and complaining when there’s races at these circuits that are over 76 and 74 years old?! 🤔

26:48 had to pause and take moment of self reflection after Ava said this 😳😳😳

Loved the podcast guys great stuff. Thought it was weird when Ed said that we needed more racist and mentally ill personalities on TV. It was also a little odd when he said the history of slavery was equal to Rory Stewart's podcast. It was also strange when he said he likes to use his twitter alts to harass come dine with me contestants. Even Ava "2 gap yahhs" Santina tried to get him to rollback his comments. Who will stop Edward Campbell?

Ed, the point of The Rest Is Politics is not to restore the reputation of Stewart and Campbell. Farage is just short of cash. Plus to most he is odious.

George Osborne can hold political opinions and say what he likes in the media, it doesn't mean we have to listen to him. It's people like Ed Balls legitimising and making him appear agreeable and clubbable that really boils my piss. It's no wonder people frequently say 'all politicians are the same' when you have a supposed Labour party member in Balls cosying up to the chief architect of austerity and the thousands of lives that at best they made incredibly difficult and at worst totally destroyed. I'd love to have a conversation with Balls about it, because it makes me wonder if people like him have any idea about just what effect austerity had on communities across the UK. If Balls is typical of the type of politics and politicians we're going to get under a possible/probable Starmer government, then that scares the shit out of me. Red Tories as some people in Scotland have labelled Labour in the past seems about right.

I thought model UN was just some wild US thing xD

Farage will be perfectly at home amongst the snakes and other reptiles

Farage not a person but a state of mind.

Surely glasto is literally a festival *for* middle class media types? Why would anyone be annoyed?

This man brought us brexit and what has that done for us?

Ed is correct about Glastonbury. Most of the small stages, clubs and unofficial events are never seen on TV. It is counter cultural and it has something for nearly everyone.

We did model hmp at our school

Had someone move to a village and stop the church bells chiming!!!

I did model UN the year before Ed. We were Chile so we formed a partnership with Gabon, our natural allies

Brilliant

Leftie joe

I see Movember is going well!

love podcast ances it's PA

Ava how can you get excited for the tory and labour party conferences but not Glasto?! You're in your twenties!!

I can imagine these people have *very* different weekends

I did Model UN... I can't even remember what country I was... maybe Japan?

Please do a model UN pubcast one day

i lost it at clive lewis rehabbing his image on about a podcast of slavery

I still don't know who Gemma Collins is

What are you going to do when the general election gets called at glasto??

The Lady's not for eating.

My issue with these guys is they just constantly have little cliquey "in" jokes all the time that makes no sense to the viewer. It's like watching high school kids all giggling and acting stupid. Novara media do a far better job of politics from this angle

Douglas Sauce. Fanny Mesto. Alex Hole-Hammeredin.

Well, that was good fun, entertaining, informative? Mmm, Okay, I’ll give you informative!

Farage should not have gone into the jungle. All he’s done is awaken the remoaners all over again.

Good to see you guys learned from the hew Edwards experience and changed the intro to the podcast. Seriously immature and bit you on the ass during that.

Yes Model UN. And North Korea

Farage of Farage Hall, with his toad-like face should feel quite at home in the jungle AND there would probably be a dearth of milkshakes so he could be onto ‘a winner’

When out of the limelight Farage prefers wine to beer. On beer he has very poor taste, preferring Keg Cream Flow fizzy bitter to real or craft ale.

Farage is two faced

I wish Farage had taken Starmer with him and they could be left there

Ava-slay!

Whilst I never did model UN. I did think whilst you were talking about it that I probably would have made an effort to had there been the option to do one, but during a given time period. I would have personally been more willing to try and embody the motivations and traits of a country within a specific period of history. Be it a decade for example, and not necessarily limited to the existence of the actual UN. For example having none set during the cold war, you might even be able to be quite specific with the dates. Having a mock meeting set either before/during/after the cuban missile crisis, Fauklands war or a fictional escalation of some kind set in a certain year. Having the different delegations research that country during the time period, try and have them understand that countries social and cultural influences and pressures etc, then using that to interact with the other countries of that time would actually be really good for making a particular period feel more relevant and 'alive' than just purely talking about those events as dates and stats etc. Especially given the common trap of knowing how a certain event actually played out, that would be learned and known by those involved, but running and thinking of it as a "what else could have happened in that situation" would really give a feel for political tensions at that time period. (Plus as it would rely more on an interpretation of the past with hindsight, theres less threat of accidentally falling into or perpetuating harmful stereotypes or other sorts of offence that could be caused by misrepresenting a current countries positions.)

People dont like the noise because city folk act entitled to make all that noise because the city is oh so hard. like i get it its glastonbury, dont like it move, but also being like "you cant complain because you dont live in a city" is very silly. but silly is what we get up to around here anyway

Like buying a house on the Isle of Man T T course. And then complaining about the motorbikes.

I get the joys of model UN, Ed! I once brutally shot down a deforestation bill as Brazil....

Ava and Ed not thinking up the "living near Glastonbury is a lifestyle choice" line, what a fall from grace 😔

I'm still watching after questionable reporting on israel/Palestine, but lord of the rings and comicon slander is a bridge to far for me. Beyond the pale.

The one thing I am heartened by: no politician hoping to revive their career came out of the jungle having done so. Anyway not watching (never watched). It is all staged. The only similar show which was interesting to watch was the BBC one, which saw people sent to an island, especially the first one.

This is the most millennial shanter I’ve ever heard

🤠💜

I think PR is good

What the fuck is the opening salutation on each podcast, I can never understand it.

Fanny Mesto

Why are you promoting this program?

I like Farage, I hope he wins

What are you guys on about? This is not a podcast. They are just talking between themselves about each others. I think this is rude. They hav nothing to say to the audience. 10 minutes in and nothing of public interest has been discussed. Part of it edited to repeat. I thought I was having déjà vu until I predicted what they were going to say and realiaed thst this bir was already shown. Jesus Christ, they are mocking their audience.

I love this buts so middle class British hating the right