Brexit and Why People Voted For It

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Well Brexit hasn't had much airtime in 2018 so we thought we'd redress the balance in this last episode of the year. We've picked out some of our favourite bits of conversation from Season 1 on the subject. Brand new episodes coming in just a couple of weeks! The following fantastic guests feature in this episode: - Matt Goodwin - Ella Whelan - Eric Kaufmann - Geoff Norcott Support TRIGGERnometry: https://www.subscribestar.com/trigger... https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr... Find us on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@failinghuman) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians.

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0:00.0	Hello and this is a show for you if you're bored of people arguing on the internet.
0:05.0	Hello and welcome to trigonometry.
0:09.0	I'm Francis Foster.
0:10.0	I'm Constantine Kissen.
0:11.0	And this is a show for you if you're bored of people arguing on the internet
0:15.1	over subjects they know nothing about.
0:17.3	At trigonometry, we don't pretend to be the experts.
0:20.3	We ask the experts.
0:21.8	Our fantastic guest this week is a wonderful comedian Jeff Nocco.
0:26.0	Professor of Politics at Birkbeck University in London.
0:30.0	Eric Kaufman.
0:31.0	The spike columnist and the author of what women want, fun, freedom and
0:35.0	an end to feminism, Ella Willem, Matt Goodwin, who is a professor of political science
0:39.8	at the University of Kent and a senior fellow Chatham House.
0:43.0	Matt, welcome to Trigonon.
0:45.0	National populism is obviously we've seen a rise.
0:52.0	How much of that has got to do with the economic crash in 2008?
0:56.0	Well this is a million dollar question, right? So if you're on the left you basically argue,
1:00.0	and I'm not making judgments, I don't know where your politics are. Got an idea. But if you lean
1:06.1	leftwards you tend to say all of this is about economic scarcity, right? It's the old Marxist line that
1:11.5	effectively anybody who votes for nationalist movements or
1:14.8	movements that express unease about mass immigration, that they are driven by their worries
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