#1264 Protesting neoliberalism the only way they could think to (Brexit)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 13 April 2019
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Air Date: 4/12/2019
Today we take a look at everything there is to know about Brexit, Lexit, Remain and Reform, the Irish question, The Troubles, the neoliberalism of the EU and the senses of local and national identity in an age of globalism
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: What's Happening With Brexit? - NowThis - Air Date 3-29-19
Brexit Day was supposed to be today. So WTF happened?!
Amber interviews economist and author Costas Lapavitsas about the European Union, how it works, its problems, how it relates to Brexit, and how we might think of it from a leftist perspective.
We speak with professor Priya Gopal, a university lecturer in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge. She calls Britain's decision to leave the EU a “deeply neoliberal … free market, disaster-capitalist project.”
Brexit threatens Britain's economic and social order. Everywhere, populism is winning big. The question is why?
Ch. 5: Ireland, North and South - The Inquiry - Air Date 12-5-18
Explaining the potential impacts of Brexit on the hard-won peace between Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK, and the country of Ireland
Ch. 6: Irish Questions - Analysis - Air Date 2-25-19
Voters and politicians in Britain claim to be perplexed that economic and political relations between the UK and the Republic of Ireland seem to be decisive in determining the course of Brexit. They shouldn’t be, argues Edward Stourton.
Ch. 7: Richard Seymour: A Brexit tour of British politics - This is hell - Air Date 2-12-19
Writer Richard Seymour surveys what remains of Labour under Brexit's combustible, nationalist unity project. Richard is the author of the essay "Brexit and the "white working class" posted at his Patreon page.
Ch. 8: Lexit vs Remain and Reform - Weekly Economics Podcast - Air Date 1-14-19
Grace Blakeley and Laurie Macfarlane debate whether there still a progressive case for leaving the EU? Was there ever one? Or is our best chance to stay in the EU and reform it? Can it even be reformed?
Ch. 9: Brexit: What the f**k is going on? - Jonathan Pie - Air Date 3-22-19
By taking back control the UK has shown that it's out of control.
Ch. 10: Fear, identity and a sense of home in the face of immigration - Ideas from CBC - Air Date 2-21-19
Brexit threatens Britain's economic and social order. Everywhere, populism is winning big. The question is why?
British journalist Mehdi Hasan talks about the role of racial grievances from the US to the UK
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 12: Final comments on how Scotland fits in to all of this
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| 0:23.4 | Now welcome to this episode of the award-winning best of left podcast in which we shall learn |
| 0:28.6 | all about Brexit and related matters. |
| 0:32.6 | This show is usually only about an hour long, and I wondered how in the world was I going |
| 0:37.9 | to ever be able to fit in all of the incredibly complicated history of not just the past few |
| 0:43.6 | years of Brexit, the conservative arguments in favor of taking back control of their borders, |
| 0:48.8 | the progressive arguments for reforming the EU from within the far left arguments for |
| 0:55.4 | leaving the EU due to its entrenched neoliberal structures, but also the context of Britain's |
| 1:03.5 | relationship with Ireland over the past 20 to 300 years, the history of the troubles |
| 1:10.3 | and worries over border controls that have thrown major wrenches into this whole process, |
| 1:16.8 | and to do all of those topics justice. |
| 1:20.2 | So then I thought, you know, an extra 20 minutes or so ought to do it. |
| 1:23.6 | So enjoy this special extended, totally exhaustive and complete edition of the show that includes |
| 1:29.6 | everything there is to possibly know about Brexit with clips today from now this news, |
| 1:35.7 | Chapo Trap House, Democracy Now, Ideas from the CBC, The Inquiry, Analysis, This Is Hell, |
| 1:43.5 | The Weekly Economics Podcast, Jonathan Pye, and why is this happening? |
| 1:54.4 | Brexit Day isn't happening, at least not the way it was originally scheduled to. |
| 1:59.5 | March 29, 2019 was the original deadline for the day that Britain was actually supposed |
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