55: Angry Remainers, HUGO RIFKIND feels your pain

Oh God, What Now?

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Politics, Government, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 1 June 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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On this week’s Remainiacs, Times columnist and social media fighter-of-good-fights HUGO RIFKIND joins Dorian Lynskey and Ian Dunt for this week’s battle with the horrible Hydra that is Brexit. This week: Why Leavers shouldn’t dare conscript the Irish abortion referendum into their arguments. Why Remain couldn’t win another referendum the same way Leave won the last one. Do Labour MPs really have anything to fear from their Leave voters? How would YOU mark what they’re insisting on calling “Brexit Day”? And Italy – clowns to the left of me, fascists to the right… “Populism isn’t good at answers. It’s good at anger. But there comes a point where you can say to them, OK, you’re in charge now. What are YOU going to do?” This week’s REMAINIACS is presented by Dorian Lynskey and Ian Dunt. Audio production: Jack Claramunt. Producer: Andrew Harrison. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production. Help us to #OwnTheRemoan! Back the show in its battle to get some sense back into the Brexit debate and get smart Remainiacs merchandise too, at https://www.patreon.com/remainiacscast 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 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	Hello, welcome back to Remaniacs, the very nearly award-winning Brexit podcast.
0:57.7	I'm Dorian Lidskin, it's a special low-fatal sterate de-addition at the show this week.
1:01.0	Hello, everyone.
1:02.0	You're very sad that Big Ben will not be ringing out to Mark Brexit.
1:06.0	I am.
1:07.0	And you can imagine completely crestfallen, I was about to say.
1:11.0	But I am, you know, at least a little bit more inspired by the news on today that there's going to be Brexit coins.
1:17.0	Well, there might be Brexit coins.
1:19.0	The Treasury is open to the idea of a Brexit coin to make up for the loss of big, bend bangs when we leave.
1:25.0	And how much will the Brexit pound coin be worth?
1:29.0	Do you mean now or two weeks now?
1:32.0	There's even really less than a pound.
1:34.0	Joining me in today is our special guest Hugo Rifkin, columnist, leader, writer and TV reviewer for the Times,
1:39.0	which is a secretive newspaper that hides behind a paywall.
1:42.0	He also writes the My Week diary parodies in the Times, regularly appears on Radio 4's The News Quiz
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