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99: How Brexit broke party politics

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🗓️ 15 February 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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New parties, European revolts and campus censorship -- Tom, Ella and Fraser discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and Spike Podcasts I'm Fraser Myers and back with me today a Spikes deputy editor and host of the Last Orders podcast Tom Slater.

0:08.0

Hello? And Spike columnist Ella Wheelen.

0:10.0

Hi. Coming up on the show today we'll be talking new parties, the row between France and Italy and campus censorship.

0:16.5

Party insiders are talking about an anti Brexit campaign to occupy the political

0:21.4

middle ground. New anti-Brexit parties has officially launched...

0:25.0

What many would say is the shambles of Brexit would voters in the UK

0:30.0

be open to a centrist party.

0:32.0

Nigel Farage has announced his official return to the Brexit Frey this morning.

0:37.0

The former leader of UKIP says it would be negligent to stand by and watch MPs wreck Britain's bid to leave the European Union.

0:47.2

According to a recent Comres poll, 79% of voters think that most politicians do not take into account the views and concerns of ordinary people.

0:55.0

64% of voters say, today's parties do not offer me an appealing choice of who to vote for.

1:01.0

So if the established parties aren't representing the public, do we need new

1:05.0

parties to do the job? Tom, you wrote about this this week. Can you tell us your thoughts?

1:09.6

Yes, I wrote about it this week under the kind of headline of The Rise of the Not Shores,

1:13.5

and that's one thing which I've noticed many other people have noticed as well, to be fair,

1:17.1

which is that over the course of the past six months, kind of as the Brexit crunch has really been taking place as Brexit has been passing

1:24.8

through Parliament and hitting all of these roadblocks, this big kind of

1:27.6

constitutional question of you know how does the public's desire to leave the

1:31.5

European Union pan out given that so much of the political

1:34.5

classes either dead set against it or pursuing their own kind of, you know, particular

1:39.3

agendas and particular battles within their own parties.

1:42.0

One thing that was so striking is as all of this is going on,

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