48: Philomena Cunk’s writers help us fix Brexit

Oh God, What Now?

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Politics, News, Government, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 13 April 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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This week the co-creators of BBC2’s investigative dimwit Philomena Cunk – top comedy writers JASON HAZELEY and JOEL MORRIS – descend into the Remainiacs bunker to get all that Brexit misery off their chests. What should go inside the Museum of Brexit? How will Britain manage to negotiate a wide-ranging trade deal with the 1950s? What’s at the core of Cunkism? And what was in the original final scenes of ‘Cunk On Britain’ – the ones they daren’t film? Plus this week’s new Centrist party, what Hungarian fascists can teach us about our own far right, and why the ‘Commonwealth Family’ has rather different perspectives on Britain than the Brexiters think. “The Tory Party managed to save it self simply by destroying the whole country. It’s easy really.” This week’s REMAINIACS is presented by Peter Collins with Ian Dunt and Naomi Smith. Audio production: Jack Claramunt. Producer: Andrew Harrison. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production. Help us to #OwnTheRemoan! Back our treacherous project and get smart Remainiacs merchandise at our Patreon page – http://www.patreon.com/remainiacscast http://www.REMAINIACS.com Theme music ‘Demon Is A Monster’ used by kind permission of Cornershop. Buy it here: http://po.st/RMcrnsp See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Are the papers driving you up the wall? Same here.
0:03.4	I'm Miranda Sawyer and I'm here to let you know about our new podcast PaperCuts.
0:07.9	It's the modern newspaper review where we look at the biggest stories from party gates to psychosegles,
0:13.7	from Boris to Trump to Megan and Harry and find out what's really going on behind the headlines.
0:19.7	That's PaperCuts, out lunchtime every Monday, Wednesday and Friday with me Miranda Sawyer.
0:25.1	Subscribe on your favourite podcast app.
0:27.6	PaperCuts, we read the papers so you don't have to.
0:31.6	The air is thick with the smoke of a thousand burning fishing boats and the Thames is full of heroic,
0:58.6	dead British fish who gave their lives for our freedom or something.
1:03.0	Welcome back to Remaniacs where we treat Brexit with all the grave respect it totally deserves.
1:07.7	I'm Peter Collins and I have two of our regulars with me today.
1:10.5	Naomi Smith is now Chief Operating Officer at Best for Britain,
1:14.6	although she's here in her private capacity and as well as being a citizen of nowhere,
1:18.6	she's a citizen of Pimlico. She tweets as Pimlicat.
1:22.6	Hello Naomi, I have a question for you. Will the colour of passports to Pimlico change?
1:27.8	They will forever remain a beautiful EU burgundy.
1:32.3	And of course, for those of you who've had the fortune of going,
1:35.5	the passport office of course is in Pimlico so I'm thinking when we have independence,
1:40.2	we're going to draw the border along Buckingham Palace Road and keep that passport office.
1:44.7	I just thought, good, nice if they were stucko white.
1:47.2	Well actually, if you type Pimlico into the duelux website,
1:51.0	it does come up with quite a reddish pink colour.
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