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Oh God, What Now?

87: BAD TIMES IN THE HOUSE OF PAIN plus: Can we rebrand Remain?

Oh God, What Now?

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Politics, Government, News, Society & Culture

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

A tiny bit earlier than usual because hey who the hell knows what’s going to happen next… This week, CONTEMPT PROVIDERS: Will this week’s seismic events in the Commons bring us closer to a #PeoplesVote? ULTIMATE WEAPON: Does the Grieve Amendment mean that No Deal is officially on Death Row? REMAYNIACS: Which one of the panel will throw their support behind Theresa May’s embattled Deal? The answer will shock you. MAKING PLANS FOR NIGEL: Where next for off-brand Kermit the Frog dog-toy Nigel Farage now that he’s realised that Ukip is, you know, a bit dodge? PLUS We look a few steps ahead to see how we should brand that potential People’s Vote campaign if/when we get it. Special guests Adam Drummond of pollsters Opinium and political branding expert Dr Paul Baines of the University of Leicester are here with the facts. This week’s REMAINIACS is presented by Dorian Lynskey with Alex Andreou and Naomi Smith. Audio production: Alex Rees. Producer: Andrew Harrison. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production. Get every new episode of Remainiacs a whole day early when you back us on the Patreon crowdfunding platform – plus smart Remainiacs merchandise, an exclusive weekly column by our panel, and discounts on #RemainiacsLive tickets too. #OwnTheRemoan REMAINIACS.com Theme music ‘Demon Is A Monster’ used by kind permission of Cornershop. Get it as a free download 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

Will interest rates change again?

0:02.0

What's new where I live?

0:04.0

Whatever the question, Google helps people in the UK access reliable news on a wide range of stories.

0:11.0

Learn more at g.co-supportingnews-uk

0:15.0

Hello and welcome to another screaming mayhem episode of Remaniacs. I'm Dorian Linsky and it's all kicking off.

0:31.0

Not only has the government been found in contempt of Parliament over its legal advice, not only is the meaningful vote happening on Tuesday, 7th, 11th.

0:38.0

Not only will Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn debate their massive differences on Brexit live on ITV on Sunday, 7th, 9th.

0:45.0

But we're doing the last Remaniacs live show of the year on Monday, 10th, right in the middle of it all.

0:50.0

So we might quite a stage to find the government has fallen, or there's a people's vote, or pretty much anything.

0:54.0

There are literally about five tickets left to go to lestersquaretheatre.com if you want to see four people trying to achieve what the whole of Parliament cannot by making sense of Brexit.

1:04.0

Sadly Ian Duncan't be with us this week because he live tweeted proceedings in Parliament for a gazillion hours yesterday and he's dead now.

1:10.0

So let's say hello to another two of our regulars.

1:12.0

Dressed as a vicar from the Reform Church of Saint Romania, Navy Smith is the chief operating officer of Vest of Britain and the Twitter leds in known as Pymlacat.

1:21.0

Hi Naomi, how are you? I'm good, nerves of steel at the moment required for everyday throwing something new at us.

1:26.0

The night before we recorded the show, Parliament voted through the Grieve Amendment which makes it a draw bill amendable. How big is this?

1:32.0

Pretty big, pretty enormous, but it's also worth mentioning that the other big news of yesterday was the EU's advocate general giving advice on countries being able to unilaterally revoke article 50.

1:46.0

And that's a pretty big issue for us as well because what that does is effectively kill off no deal.

1:51.0

And if this takes no deal off the table, does it as was observed on the BBC's Brexit cast turn a lot of the rebels, the hard Brexit rebels into Maze Camp because they think, okay, well, it's either this deal or you know Brexit.

2:05.0

Yeah, I mean, that's my concern at the moment. So we're obviously monitoring our whip count very, very closely both on no deal and on the deal and also on a people's vote.

2:15.0

And my big fear is that by basically taking away any incentive for the ERG to vote down Maze Deal, they'll end up voting with it. And I said it a million times in the podcast before.

2:27.0

I think the situation that I would find myself in were any a dear God forbid it would be to back the government to get a soft ish Brexit today and in the hope of the harder one tomorrow.

2:38.0

So yes, what we've done by basically ruling out no deal is removed any incentive for them to not back her. Some of the hard line is still will of course, but that's my worry.

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