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76: Sell out Brexit? No deal

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🗓️ 31 August 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Is No Deal Brexit’s last hope? Is #MeToo eating itself? Has campus politics gone mainstream? Ella Whelan, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss. Support the podcast here: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/about/326/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and I'm

0:05.0

Spike Podcast. You might have noticed a short absence but rest assured we're back with a weekly podcast now.

0:07.0

I'm Fraser Myers and I'm joined by Spike's deputy editor Tom Slater

0:11.0

Hello Hello and Spike columnist Ella Whelan.

0:14.0

Hi.

0:15.0

This week we'll be asking if we should say yes to a no-deal Brexit.

0:18.0

Is Me Too eating itself,

0:20.0

and if campus politics has come to Westminster.

0:24.0

The possibility of a no deal is uncomfortably high at this point, yes.

0:30.0

Shortages in the supermarkets, anti-supermarket shelves.

0:34.0

You will still be able to enjoy a BLT after Brexit.

0:37.0

The Army will be on standby to distribute food and medicine.

0:41.0

They didn't put that on the side of a big red boss, did they?

0:44.0

It is literally about the entire nation stockpiling spam and unbongogo.

0:47.2

It is not what we want and it's not what we expect, but we must be ready.

0:58.0

The last few weeks have been full of warnings that Britain is perilously close to the cliff edge. Crashing out of the EU without a deal, we're told, could bring chaos, threatening supplies of everything from sandwiches to

1:04.2

sperm. One EU official even claimed that there would be no economic activity in the UK after Brexit,

1:10.5

but is no deal really something to fear?

1:14.0

I don't think that it is if what you recognize Brexit is about, is not about economics,

1:19.0

it's not about stability, it's about delivering on what the people voted for, which is bringing democracy back home,

1:25.3

if you like, retaking control of the nation back from the European Union and trying to kind

1:29.7

of rejuvenate democratic politics in this country.

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