About Us
#ImInThePub
This is The Pub Politics Podcast a completely uneducated, un-researched and completely biased review of news, politics and current affairs. We try to prove that opinion is not news.
What is pub politics? Pub Politics is what happens when you get a group of people in a pub after two pints, they suddenly become the lovechild of Jeremy Paxman and Laura Kuenssberg. We all know the guy who after his third is suddenly Karl Marx, rewriting the Magna Carta standing on the table yelling “Are you with me brother?” Okay, we are not quite that bad, yet. The only difference is we have decided to record our drunken political rants and dissection of world events. We all do it whether you’re a Brexiteer a Remainer or the one who gathers splinters sitting on the fence. Put simply we are all part of the Pub Politics movement.
In this age of Post-Truth “Trumped” up Tweet lead Social Media-Click Bait news we’re going to try and cut through the spin and rhetoric to uncover the real story. If we get it wrong, it doesn’t really matter in this age where there is no such thing as facts. We won’t dictate what party you should vote for, we don’t even know ourselves who we’d vote for if there was a snap election, this is an insight for the Whitehall bubble into what is going on in the mind of the “man on the street.”
We are a conversational topic drive podcast that has managed to snag some cool people to join us on the show. So far we’ve had barroom chats with Steve McCabe MP, charity warriors Alley Clift and his lovely family, Roz Transfield (the Merseyside woman of the year, fundraiser and charity ambassador) Peter Jukes (television screenwriter, author, researcher and presenter of the amazing Untold: The Daniel Morgan Murder).
Who Do You Think You Are?:
Kristof: Co-presenter, Creator and Producer
Twitter Handle: Kristof007
Political Leanings: Liberal (fence sitter).
Experience:
Two years as a radio producer, twenty years as a DJ who couldn’t mix, professional sh*t talker (Sales Rep).
Bio: Waking up after a five-hour operation the fog of aesthetic cleared and Kristof, the creator and producer of the Pub Politics Podcast found himself in a medicated version of the House of Commons. Everyone in the hospital ward thought they knew what was best for the country and knew why we were in the state we were, who was to blame, and what should be done to sort it out. After an hour of listening to the argument in this political arena, Kristof did the only thing he could and went straight back to sleep. When he’d recovered from his operation the first thing he did was get himself ordained, the second was to create the Pub Politics Podcast. So, what’s the moral of the story? If you want to get creative get medicated? No, actually the moral of the story is that the time to get political is now!
Belief: In the past, there use to be two sides to the story, now there are two sides of the story, and the bit in the middle is probably the truth.
Achievements: Spent four years trying to grow a full beard, now it’s here it’s never going. Genuine patient advocate for the Clatterbridge Cancer Charity. Winner of the Merseyside Innovation Award for his invention Britwrap.
N. Lloyd: Co-Host, ideas man, team motivator, drinks buyer.
Twitter Handle: HNLloyd1
Political Leanings: Centre Left
Experience:
Crime Historian, Writer, Researcher, Half-Hearted Activist for the Liberal Democrats during the 2014 election.
Bio:
Lloydy has been steeped in crime for nearly twenty years. He is the author of the award-winning/best-selling series of books Murder Tales (although he refuses to give us an exact breakdown of how many sales he’s had and whether this was during the spring or summer sales, or indeed show us his awards cabinet). He recently moved into fiction releasing his Victorian detective thriller Freekly Oldacre to great acclaim (from his mum). He has been a member of the Pub Politics team since the beginning. Dogged in his commitment to truth and justice, he loves championing a cause and the underdog, much the annoyance of the rest of the team.
Belief: What you mustn’t do in politics is listen to people.
Achievements: Once persuaded a lady to go on a date with him (after she’d actually already been in his company for a few minutes), has never returned a library book late or past his driving test (examiners hate it when you make jokes about not knowing which one the steering wheel is). Holds the world record for the number of death threats from disgruntled topics of his true crime books.
Where To Find Us:
On Facebook or on Twitter, just search @pubpoliticspod
You can subscribe and download the podcast from:
I-Tunes, Double Pod, etc
Sound Cloud
Soundcloud.com/user-596613046.
Recordings
We regularly record in Gallagher’s Pub and Barbers (20 Chester Street, Birkenhead, CH41 5DQ) feel free to come and join us when we record (check our Twitter feed and Facebook for recording dates) you may even make it onto the show.
If you can’t make it, don’t worry you can now watch us live and unedited on Periscope and Facebook Live.
Contact:
thepubpoliticspodcast@yahoo.com
The Boring Legal Disclaimer Bit: This is a satirical podcast/website and blog. All views are those of our own. Anyone appearing or being interviewed or recorded have done so with their prior knowledge and is thus given the producers recognition of consent for wider distribution of that material. Their views of our guests or any who has ever featured on this podcast do not necessarily represent either those of the hosts, the show or third party employers. It’s all just a bit of fun.