Brexit: are we all radicals now?

Beyond Today

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🗓️ 2 September 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

The Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his advisers have a plan for staying in power and getting us out of the EU. They are picking their way through it and today they held a special cabinet meeting to discuss calling an election. Tomorrow, MPs are back in parliament with a chance to stop them taking us out of the EU without any deal. While the politicians figure out their next moves the anger is growing on both sides and, whatever happens over the next two months, there seems no prospect of this abating. We speak to Sky’s political correspondent Lewis Goodall, who has watched the talk of coups and treason building at political rallies. We also hear from Jan Hofmeyr from the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in South Africa about how a country can reconcile its differences. Producers: Philly Beaumont, Lucy Hancock and Seren Jones Mixed by Nicolas Raufast Editor: John Shields

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:06.6	Hello, I'm Matthew Price. This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4.
0:10.9	Every day we ask one big question about one big story.
0:14.0	Today are we all radicals.
0:22.0	Today are we all radicals now?
0:25.0	Boris Johnson and his advisors have a plan for staying in power and for getting us out of the EU
0:36.7	and they're picking their way through it day by day. Today we got the latest part of the story,
0:42.4	a special cabinet meeting talk of an election
0:45.3	being called soon MPs are back in Parliament tomorrow trying to stop them taking us
0:50.9	out of the EU without any deal.
0:52.6	But while they're at it, the anger's growing.
0:57.0	March riots, they'll be hysteria.
0:59.0	They could even be a civil war to be fair by you.
1:01.0	And the divisions.
1:02.0	It's not for an unelected Prime Minister
1:05.3	to shut down the elected parliament to run through a no deal for which he has no
1:10.4	democratic mandate even the conversations on your family your family WhatsApp group are getting more heated.
1:15.4	And the leader of the Brexit Party, Nigel Farage, who let's face it, was kind of the
1:20.3	ultimate radical, who helped propel us to this point.
1:23.4	There is a new radicalised group of people out there who believe that their opinion is morally
1:29.8	superior to the 17.4 million and they're prepared to say and do almost anything to get their way.
1:36.8	Now he's pegging remainers as the radicals who are trying to subvert the will of the people
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