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65: 'Labour has forgotten working-class Leavers'

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🗓️ 15 December 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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On this week’s spiked podcast: Paul Embery on the new threats to Brexit, Nathalie Rothschild on anti-Semitism in Sweden, and Emily Yoffe on why the #MeToo movement has gone too far. spiked-online.com

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0:00.0

Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Hello and this week you'll hear from Paul Embry on the Battle for Brexit,

0:26.4

Natalie Rothschild on the frightening increase in anti-Semitism in Sweden,

0:30.9

and Emily Ofi on Me Too and why this sex panic has gone too far. This week Parliament voted in favour of amendment 7 of the EU withdrawal bill which gives MPs a meaningful vote on the final UK-EU Brexit deal.

0:55.2

This is democracy, we've been told. But is it? Didn't we already decide as a nation

1:01.1

the final Brexit deal, get us out of the EU. Why should our MPs, 75% of whom

1:07.2

voted remain when only 48% of the electorate did? Why should they get the final say?

1:11.8

Isn't this actually a threat to democracy

1:14.8

when you consider the fact that most, if not all of the political class is trying to

1:19.0

dilute Brexit in one way or another? The EU often gets hailed as a benevolent even socialist institution and you rarely hear

1:26.4

from left-de-brexiteers. So to get a different perspective on what's going on with Brexit,

1:31.7

I spoke to Paul Embry from the Fire Brigades Union. I went to see

1:34.9

Paul in his office in North London to discuss why the battle for Brexit is still very much on.

1:40.5

Okay, so Paul, last night the UK Parliament voted by 39305 in favour of

1:46.0

Amendment 7 to the EU withdrawal bill which will guarantee MPs a meaningful

1:51.0

vote on the final UK-EU Brexit deal. MPs are cheering, I know lots

1:55.3

people on Twitter are cheering, are you? I'm not particularly cheering about it, but I

2:00.1

think it was probably more symbolic than anything I'm not sure it changes an awful lot in terms of the

2:06.9

the government strategy I mean the government had offered a meaningful vote to MPs anyway.

2:14.6

So in that respect, I'm not sure there's a substantial change.

2:17.8

I think the reason I say it's more symbolic is

2:20.4

I think it's being seen as a victory by the people who want to stop Brexit.

2:26.6

So if you look at the reaction of people both inside Parliament and beyond who have been shouting the loudest over recent months about the need to stop Brexit or at the most or at the least I should say the need to have a Brexit which effectively keeps us in the in the EU in

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