The (final) Full English with Alexander Brown: Episode 100 End of Year Awards

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00:00 [MUSIC]

00:28 Hello and welcome to The Full English, a show that combined politics with 100 episodes of

00:33 silliness.

00:35 Given the season, given it's our last ever show, this is not a normal roundup of the

00:39 week.

00:40 Oh no, this is the End of Year Awards.

00:42 Now, for the last time, let's get into it.

00:47 Our first category is Best Ousting, a crowded field in a year that saw Dominic Raab resign

00:53 over bullying, Boris Johnson quitting a strop and Nadeem Zahawi sacked over his taxes, but

00:59 even they did not make the top two.

01:01 In second place, we have Nadeem Dorries for quitting over not getting a peerage, that's

01:07 principled, but a clear winner, given the death spiral it's inflicted on the SNP,

01:13 is Nicola Sturgeon, who by coincidence stood down just before the police began digging

01:18 up her garden.

01:20 Congratulations to her.

01:22 Our next category is Best Supreme Court Case, and what a bumpy year it's been, with strong

01:27 showing from the Scottish Government losing the battle on independence, and the Scottish

01:31 Government losing its appeal on gender recognition reform.

01:35 But given the cost to the taxpayer, the fact everyone told them this would happen, and

01:40 the fact it's possibly the death knell for the Conservative Party, our clear winner is

01:45 the Rwanda scheme.

01:47 Congratulations to everyone involved.

01:49 It's illegal and dehumanising.

01:51 They should be ashamed.

01:55 Now it's the big one, the moment you've all been waiting for, the maddest political

01:59 moment of the year.

02:00 Nominees included Liz Truss signing copies of her mini-budget at Tory conference, David

02:06 Cameron making a return to government just in time for Austerity 2.0, and Ash Reagan

02:12 pitching an independence readiness thermometer/clock.

02:15 Insane.

02:17 However, our winner by a clear margin is Sowella Bravman standing on a guide dog.

02:24 It's always the people you most expect.

02:27 So what have you learned?

02:28 Firstly, that I can drag out a format, and secondly, in politics, there is always something

02:33 deeply mad to talk about.

02:36 This has been the Full English, but I promise to be back soon with something else.

02:41 I've been Alexander Brown, and you, you have been wonderful, and I'm so glad we had this

02:47 time together.

02:48 I don't want to go.

02:53 [Hums the theme song to the tune of the theme song from the movie The Lion King]

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