#19 Sir Alan Meale on the Brexit, the Labor Party, and the Recent Political History of the United Kingdom
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 629 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2016
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In The Road to Now's first episode abroad, Bob and Ben are joined by Sir Alan Meale for a conversation about the politics and recent history of the United Kingdom. Meale, a Labour Party politician who has served for nearly three decades as a Member of Parliament from Mansfield (Nottingham County), offers his perspective on the political system of the UK, the European Union's impact on the history of the UK and Europe, and the challenges that the UK faces as it severs its ties with the EU. He also shares his own personal history, and the reasons he decided to join the Labour Party and devote his life to public service through politics.
Recorded September 1st from the Parliament of the United Kingdom, London, England (w/ Ben via Skype from Nashville, TN).
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the road to now. |
| 0:05.0 | The Middle East is less about boundaries. It's more about minerals. It's more about oil. |
| 0:12.0 | It's more about gas. It's more about the world's energy requirement. And, you know, that's the reality. That's where the money is. That's what they do. |
| 0:20.0 | And incidentally, it's the same way with ISIS and all the rest of it. |
| 0:23.6 | The first thing they do is get to the oil with and sell oil abroad. |
| 0:27.6 | Not for weapons of money. |
| 0:29.6 | They're putting money into bank accounts. |
| 0:31.6 | That's the reality. |
| 0:32.6 | It's a financial arrangements which they adhere to via war. |
| 0:38.3 | Everybody who works in a coal man is black. |
| 0:41.3 | There's no white, no yellow, everybody's black. |
| 0:45.3 | And they all dig coal and they all bring the service and make productivity. |
| 0:49.3 | That's the real. |
| 0:50.3 | It's the same we have to grow. |
| 0:51.3 | Immigration is an important thing. |
| 0:53.3 | You've got to bring people when we need them, |
| 0:55.0 | or if we recognize there's a role for them here with their families or whatever. |
| 1:00.0 | And if they aren't, you know, they don't come. |
| 1:04.0 | What about ourselves when we want to go abroad? |
| 1:07.0 | What about those millions of Brits which are broad working? |
| 1:10.0 | As they say, that doesn't matter. |
| 1:12.2 | Yes, it does. |
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