24: Paul Embery: the abandonment of the working class
The Brendan O'Neill Show
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4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Paul Embery, trade unionist and outspoken Brexiteer, talks to Brendan O’Neill about bout Brexit, democracy and the scourge of wokeness.
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| 0:44.0 | single market it was because they believed in democracy and they felt they |
| 0:47.8 | wanted to return some agency to their lives and they were unhappy at the |
| 0:51.6 | interference of the European Union and they also wanted to hit back at the UK elite who had ignored them for so long. |
| 0:58.0 | They wanted to restore a sense of place and a sense of belonging and community to the nation. |
| 1:03.2 | And no one really in any position of power |
| 1:05.3 | is talking about that. |
| 1:07.3 | Hello and welcome to the Brendan O'Neill show with me Brendan O'Neill. |
| 1:15.0 | This is a podcast in which an esteemed guest joins me to talk about the big ideas, the bad ideas, the problems and the controversies of life in the early 21st century. |
| 1:25.2 | In this episode I'm delighted to be joined by Paul Embry. |
| 1:28.3 | Paul has been a firefighter for more than 20 years. |
| 1:31.8 | He served on the Executive Council of the Fire Brigades Union, |
| 1:35.2 | but he was rather unceremoniously relieved of his position after he spoke at the Leave Means |
| 1:40.8 | Leave rally in Westminster earlier this year, alongside me and others. |
| 1:46.0 | The FBI said that any labour activist who attends rallies with people like Nigel Farage were |
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