For a longer version of this episode - containing a run-through Gapes' milk-related Early Day Motions and a reading of an Evening Standard piece about him doing karaoke, with Yair appearing on the latter part - go to patreon.com/reelpolitik tonight!
In this truncated cut for the masses, Tom and Jack - recording just after new year at Jack's house - read from then-Labour International Officer Mike Gapes' 1990 Fabian Society pamphlet, After The Cold War: Building on the Alliances, which Jack bought several months ago off Independent columnist, top Amazon seller, Tony Blair superfan, and phantom der nacht, John Rentoul. As heavyweight statesman Mr Gapes sets out his plan for achieving a lasting peace in Europe (the rest of the world? fugeddaboudit!), we do what we do best: sneer and deride.
