Thus far, Republican’s in Congress have been unwilling to remove the Senate filibuster in order to help advance their legislative agenda. Despite swiftly removing the filibuster for nominations in order to push through Trump’s Supreme Court nomination, Neil Gorsuch, and calls from Trump to use the ‘nuclear option’. As Matt Yglesias pointed out…
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Chatter Episode 17 – Sam Ancliff On The Conservative Party Conference 2017
Sam Ancliff of Activate was the guest on today’s podcast. We wanted to get Sam back on to discuss the Conservative Party Conference, the fringe events going on as well as the headline speeches, the tuitions fees freeze, the moral argument for free markets, Amber Rudd, Boris Johnson, and Theresa May’s closing speech….
Chatter Episode 12 – Regional Secretary of UNISON Patricia McKeown On The Stealth Privatisation Of The Health Service and The Importance Of Trade Unions
Patricia McKeown, Regional Secretary of UNISON, was our guest on the show today. Ever since we became politically aware and involved we have been horrified and terrified by the gradual privatisation of the health service in the UK that has gone largely under the radar to the general public. She took the time to…
Chatter Episode 6 – Kellie Armstrong on Transport, Healthcare, and The Assembly Crisis
On today’s show, we are talking to Alliance MLA for Strangford, Kellie Armstrong. We wanted to get an inside look at the issues that are facing our transport infrastructure and public transport and how we could go about addressing these issues. We also spent some time discussing the integrated transport proposals, the NI…