52: Lords Almighty! Unpicking that rebellion with our special guest, Greens co-leader CAROLINE LUCAS MP

Oh God, What Now?

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🗓️ 11 May 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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After those pesky, meddlin’ peers in the House of Lords took a wrecking ball to Theresa May’s Brexit policy, we sort through the rubble with our special guest, Greens co-leader and Brighton Pavilion MP CAROLINE LUCAS. Are the Greens picking up votes because unlike everyone but the Lib Dems, they’re proudly and unabashedly anti-Brexit? How do they square some of their Lexity supporters with their internationalist instincts? And why is the freebooting neoliberal Single Market ironically quite good for green politics after all? Plus: Are we really going to join the EEA? Does the Lords rebellion mean that Jeremy Corbyn has run out of procrastinating time too? Why is Gavin Williamson a “ham-faced cretin”? What does the resignation of friend of the show Heidi Alexander from Parliament mean for Remain? And all the white-hot tariff talk you can handle… “Brexit is like being sold a lovely mansion in the countryside and then finding you’ve bought a hovel with no plumbing.” This week’s REMAINIACS is presented by Dorian Lynskey with Naomi Smith and Ian Dunt. Audio production: Sophie Black. 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. REMAINIACS.com Theme music ‘Demon Is A Monster’ used by kind permission of Cornershop. Buy it here. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Are the papers driving you up the wall? Same here.
0:03.6	I'm Miranda Sawyer and I'm here to let you know about our new podcast Papercuts.
0:07.7	It's the modern newspaper review where we look at the biggest stories from party gates
0:12.2	to psychosegels, from Boris to Trump to Megan and Harry and find out what's really going
0:18.1	on behind the headlines.
0:20.0	That's Papercuts, out lunchtime every Monday, Wednesday and Friday with me Miranda Sawyer.
0:25.2	Subscribe on your favourite podcast app.
0:27.9	Papercuts, we read the papers so you don't have to.
0:34.9	Hello, welcome back to Remaniacs, where all born again fans of the wisdom of her editary
0:46.7	rule after the House of Lords stepped up to act as the real official opposition to Brexit.
0:50.8	Yes, it's time to end the disastrous democratic experiment.
0:53.7	Thanks to the Lords, MPs will now get a vote on Britain remaining within the European
0:57.4	economic area after 83 Labour Lords defied the whip.
1:01.0	This was the latest of 14 defeats for the government in the Lords and it left both Theresa May
1:05.2	and Jeremy Corbyn's Brexit strategies and tatters.
1:07.4	It was all path to cause and a week in which the foreign secretary described his own PM's
1:11.3	flagship solution to the intractable customs union and Irish border problem as crazy.
1:15.1	And among other things, we learned from Robert Peston that Ireland has been undermining
1:19.7	the British government for 100 years, which is probably news to the Irish.
1:23.7	So it's just another week in the upside down.
1:25.9	I'm Dorian Lidsky and I've got two of our regulars with me.
1:28.9	Ian Dunn is the editor of Politics.co.uk and that man you often see face-parming on sky
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