The Trumpton Podcast

"The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information." These words, written in 1944 by Henry A. Wallace, Vice President under Franklin D. Roosevelt, resonate as deeply today as they did during the height of World War II. Wallace’s essay, The Danger of American Fascism, originally published in The New York Times, is a stark warning about the insidious threats to democracy from within. Henry Wallace’s essay, written nearly 80 years ago, serves as a guidepost in uncertain times. As Wallace himself said:"If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic, and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail."So, I’ll leave you with this question: What are we doing today to ensure democracy remains a practical reality? And how can we resist the insidious influence of those who would sacrifice truth and justice for money and power?

You were expecting an episode of the Trumpton Podcast - but we're still on holiday, because we're lazy - so instead here is an episode of our Sister pod - Mike Reads Something - formerly Mike Reads Wikipedia

Thousands of Prisoners are to be released to make room for the PPE fraudsters and insider traders from the Tory partyKier Starmer is chairing a meeting of European leaders and desperately trying to avoid saying Brexit, free movement, immigration or Europe for two daysNigel Fáragë, Liz Truss and Boris Johnson have all rushed to Millwalki to find ways to make money from Donald Trump and his ear apparent JD Vance Meanwhile President Biden has caught COVID in an attempt to prove he's not a frail old man In other plague news, Baroness Hallet releases her first COVID Enquiry report criticising the governments' preparedness for a pandemic, the Daily Mail will almost certainly blame Angela Rayner for thisAnd now, for the Pothole count from Aidan 42And that was the news, from Trumpton.

Britain is in the middle of a General Election, one that promises big change after a long period of austerity, war and privation the nation is ready for a change. It's June 2024 but Mike takes a look back at the Labour Manifesto from 1945 - the election that created the NHS, Free Secondary Education, Nationalised transport, power and industry, the Welfare State and the United Nations. It's not quite a Wikipedia page this episode, it's the original document and it's contents resonate today as much as they did back then.Read the original document here:http://www.labour-party.org.uk/manifestos/1945/1945-labour-manifesto.shtmlFind Mike Reads Wikipedia here:pod.link/1561158559

On this week's show Mike asks - "what's the point?" as the election gets more and more tedious. Suella has a plan for the surplus uniforms she finds herself with, Clive Denby has switched sides, yet again, and the new Labour candidate is revealed. But then Brian, formerly the PotHole guy, comes up with a brilliant policy - so perhaps all is not lost.

Week two of our coverage of the election in South Trumptonshire finds more candidates playing musical chairs, the Labour party stealing Brian's big idea and Tim Hammer in a body condom on the motorway. A normal week on the chaotic campaign trail.

•Good Morning, Good Lunchtime, Good Tiffin and Good Night Sweetheart. •Today I’ll be asking the Prime Minister why he wants Nigel Farage to be his friend•Sir Kier Starmer will be here to tell us how he managed to lose the Uxbridge by-election and explain Ulez to us•Our Agony Aunt Suella Braverman will be here to take your questions about money•And local Tory MP, Sir Clive Denby, will be here to explain whatever it is his paymasters want him to explain•But first, let's go over to Aidan in the TBC chopper to find out how many bank accounts Nigel Farage could have opened if he wasn’t such a snob … 42 …

•Well this week’s show appears to be about TBC itself, management have intervened and asked me to do a deep dive into the latest scandal to befall the station, arguably the biggest scandal since Windy Miller had to leave TBC after he invited two sheep into hi Late Night Windy show in 1974.•We will talk to our Entertainment Editor, Frank to get his indepth take on the situation•Then I’ll check in with Rishi Sunak, who’s just been to the Nato summit – thank god, we’ll not be discussing the incident with him•Regular Agony Aunt, Suella Braverman, will be here to take your questions about work •And I’ll be catching up with money expert Lewis Martin – to find out how The Incident, might affect my income situation•Local MP Sir Clive Denby will pop in to explain why he had the cartoon mural removed from the refugee centre in Pippin Fort and I imagine Keir Starmer will join us for balance, because eit’s the run up to the byelection in Chigley•But first lets go over to Aiden to find out how many TBC presenters are in the frame for being involved in ‘The Incident’ – Aiden …My apologies for the sound quality - we did this one over Zoom and I had some technical issues -