In episode 101 - CUK'd and Bomb'd - Geraint @wariotifo endures a rite of passage for RP associates, recording his first episode with only Jack for company. Some major Yair news is announced, in addition to some news about the new album by RP house band 'Crazy Moose', but the best part of the episode is dedicated to The Independent Group For Change, The Independent Group, Change UK, For Change Underscore Now, The Independents, Water UK and the various other permutations of the new centrist party formed this February by former Labour MPs Mike Gapes, Chris Leslie & some other nerds, who were shortly joined by more Tories and managed to keep it together - just about - for a couple of months or so. This is the autopsy and the great grave-pissing, where we look at the failure of the CUK Party and (spoiler) conclude - unlike the Guardian's podcast on the same subject - that there is not, in fact, a big space for a new centrist movement in the political landscape.
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