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Oh God, What Now?

68: What’s the story, Remainer Tories? Pro-EU Conservative Garvan Walshe guests

Oh God, What Now?

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Politics, Government, News, Society & Culture

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This week on the Brexit podcast that DOES answer questions when it brings you a cup of tea… we’ve got Garvan Walshe, former Conservative Party National and International Security Policy Adviser and now columnist at ConservativeHome.com, joining us to explain how it feels to be a Tory Remainer, how electoral arithmetic means we’re in for political paralysis forever, and what future the party has after the dust of Brexit settles in about thirty years’ time. Plus: Best For Britain’s poll analysis shows a majority of constituencies now favour Remaining. What does that mean for a People’s Vote and for Labour’s endless prevarication on Brexit? And it’s a dream come true for young Ian Dunt as he gets to present his Five Things You Didn’t Know About The WTO. Notebooks out – he’s got argument-enders galore. This week’s REMAINIACS is produced and presented by Andrew Harrison with Naomi Smith and Ian Dunt. Audio production: Jack Claramunt. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production. Help us to #OwnTheRemoan and get smart Remainiacs merchandise plus discounts on #RemainiacsLive tickets too. Support us via the crowdfunding platform Patreon. 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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, we were present at the recording of a podcast but we don't think we were actually involved in it.

0:24.0

However, a podcast was made.

0:27.0

Welcome back to Remainy Acts, the Brexit podcasted to the equivalence of that bit in inception where the buses falling off the bridge in slow motion and the horns are blaring except the bus has got 350 million could be NHS written on the side of it and we're all inside it.

0:40.0

My name is Andrew Harrison and I've got two of our regulars here with us Naomi Smith is a chief operating officer of Best for Britain here in a personal capacity of course because their personal views are 100% opposed to Best for Britain.

0:51.0

So, hi, how are you?

0:53.0

You've had a massive week with Best for Britain's bombshell research about leave constituencies flipping to remain and we're going to talk about that later in the show.

1:02.0

How was that for you personally? Has it been a mental week?

1:05.0

Well, yep, there have been some very, very long hours but I think my colleagues at Best for Britain, I hope not hate and the incredible team at focal data did the vast majority of the heavy lifting so I wouldn't want to claim to have beaten the hours they were doing.

1:21.0

In semi-related news, did you enjoy the lady this week? You said her holiday in Spain was ruined because of too many Spanish people in Danny Dorm. Did you enjoy this story?

1:29.0

Okay, so valid complaints about tall operators being crappy aside, she does sound kind of like the guest that would probably complain about being served by Manuel at a talky hotel.

1:40.0

I felt a bit sorry for her because she had problems with mobility and I think it's one of those things where you know someone who has had no experience with media at all sort of off the cuff says I was confusing it's for Spanish people and that becomes the headline so she becomes lady goes to Spain doesn't realize that Spanish people I felt a little bit sorry for her.

1:58.0

But of course, where she went wrong was that she didn't book with every magic Greece. She should have been from the podcast and that's everymatic.com, our friends.

2:09.0

Also, back on the show, is Ian Dunn, the editor of politics.co.uk, you can even laughing there. Hello Ian. Hello, hello. Where busy week yourself?

2:16.0

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's just surprising. Yeah. Even though there's nobody in Parliament.

2:19.0

There's no, yeah, there's no one in Parliament. There's no real sort of news. We were at Boris Johnson for a week and now we're talking about you know, Jeremy Corbyn's thing for a week because there's no other news to take it up.

2:28.0

But there's a bunch of other sort of bits and bobs I've been sort of gaining along with. So not as relaxing as I might seem from the outside.

2:33.0

Is it quite liberating not having to do the kind of point that's back and forth thing that kind of common sponge in Judy's show can actually get into the real stuff?

2:39.0

Yeah, that I mean, that's fucking great. The thing is I don't really do all that much because I'm not very Newsy, you know.

2:44.0

I'm not my colleagues who are all in the lobby who are just picking up the news, picking up the news. The stuff that we do on the website is usually a bit more long form and a bit more sort of taking a couple of steps back.

2:52.0

So the rhythm of that doesn't affect my day to day stuff too much, but it's still just really nice just not to have to look at their faces.

2:58.0

There was at least one bit of Brexit news which came out of the sausage machine this week that firms are already facing a skill shortage in IT, transport, construction, health and hospitality.

3:07.0

Brexit has ceased on this as good news because it means wages are going to go up in this sector.

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