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Oh God, What Now?

23: The One With Mitch Benn

Oh God, What Now?

Podmasters

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This week MITCH BENN – comedian, musician and treacherous mind-controlled slave of Brussels – joins us in the Brexit Bus as it screams towards the brick wall of No Deal. And he’s quite optimistic. “What there is to be won here,” he tells us, “we on the Remain side are winning.” Plus: Why Theresa May is telling the EU one thing about Brexit and the UK another. Alan Partridge vs Malcolm Tucker in The Big Issue. And it turns out Britain really did vote itself poorer. As Mitch so picturesquely puts it… “I no more want a successful Brexit than I want to successfully slam my balls in the car door.” Want to help us #OwnTheRemoan? Visit our PATREON page at http://www.patreon.com/remainiacscast This episode of REMAINIACS is presented by Peter Collins with Ros Taylor and Ian Dunt. Producers are Matt Hall and Andrew Harrison. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production. http://www.REMAINIACS.com Theme music ‘Demon Is A Monster’ used by kind permission of Cornershop. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello and welcome to another edition of Remainy Ax, the podcast for all Brussels 5th columnists, quizzlings, and steadfast Brexit deniers.

1:33.0

Hello and welcome back to Remainy Ax.

2:04.0

I'm feeling a lot more optimistic. I was at my son's harvest assembly this morning, and he was singing a great song about a big red convoy in Harvester.

2:13.0

Place was full of food, all this stuff that Chris Grayland keeps telling us about how we're going to grow all our own food.

2:18.0

Post Brexit, I was feeling very positive about it.

2:22.0

I think I'm feeling more positive because I think the hard-lined levers now have pushed what people call the Overton window, the window of possibility of what's thinkable in politics.

2:36.0

They've been trying to push it wider and wider, it's got bigger and bigger, we've now got to the stage where they're saying it's okay to have a no deal.

2:44.0

And I think the Overton window is now so far open, it's on its hinges, it's about to fall off. We just can't go any further, that's why I'm optimistic.

2:52.0

Also with us is a man with his finger on the fading pulse of Brexit, he and Dunn's editor of politics.co.uk.

2:59.0

Hello Ian, now you're pretty much here every week. Are you getting more optimistic or pessimistic or is it just that taking part in Remainy Ax is doing your editing?

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