115: THE EVE OF THE WAR with special guest Stephen Bush of the New Statesman

Oh God, What Now?

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Politics, Government, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 17 May 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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As the EU Election clock ticks remorselessly down to zero we’re joined by the New Statesman’s political editor STEPHEN BUSH to survey the campaign so far and predict the upshot. What will Labour’s “all things to everyone” stance to do its vote? How do we fight the Brexit Party’s “all rage, no content’’ politics? Just how screwed are the Conservatives? Why a Farage victory might be a good thing for Remain. And we (try to) answer the only question that matters: who should Remainers vote for? PLUS Why the media’s middle class cringe gets Leave politicians off the hook. A first-ever Brexit football analogy for Remainiacs (plus some shocking anti-Spurs bias) from grieving Arsenal fanatic Stephen Bush. How CHUK failed to a make even a first impression. And why are we ignoring Clarabell who runs a recycling centre in Brighton? “First you create the humiliation. Then you just seed that humiliation and benefit from it. That’s what Farage has always done.” Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Nina Schick and Ian Dunt. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Audio production is by Sophie Black. Recorded by Tom Bullen at Air Edel Studios, London. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production. Get every new episode of Remainiacs a whole day early when you back us on the Patreon crowdfunding platform. You’ll also get our monthly Ask Remainiacs special episode plus smart merchandise, an exclusive weekly column by our panel, and discounts on #RemainiacsLive tickets too. #OwnTheRemoan REMAINIACS.com Get your free download of our theme tune ‘Demon Is A Monster’ by Cornershop. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:13.1	And with her withdrawal bill back for a fourth reading, it's true that what is dead may never die.
1:18.1	I'm Dorian Lidsky and this week we'll be looking at the final days of the European
1:21.0	election campaign. Are the Tories really facing oblivion? Is the time for labor to change its
1:24.7	stance and could the Brexit party execute a reverse takeover of the Tories? And we'll finally be
1:29.3	trying to answer the only question that matters, who should remain as vote for next Thursday?
1:33.6	Two of our regulars are here, Nina Schick has a political commentator and broadcaster on
1:37.1	Bloomberg, Sky and the BBC and she's back on the show after a bit of a break. I need to know
1:41.3	good, good to be back. Nice to see that nothing has changed.
1:45.5	No, never does. You want Sky talking about the EU gathering in Romania and afterwards you said
1:50.0	we've become reverse Turkey. Are you soon to leave instead of soon to join but neither ever happens?
1:57.2	How's the EU27 feeling on the day? Yeah, I mean the UK seems to be in this weird limbo right now
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