Brexit: Far From Done
Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards
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4.7 • 908 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Boris Johnson chose to place a border between Northern Ireland and Great Britain. Now, he faces the dark consequences…
Plus, the hidden risk of Keir Starmer’s pledge to resign if he’s issued with a penalty charge notice for Beergate, and brilliant questions from the UK and around the world.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics with me Steve Richards, the weekly podcast. |
| 0:34.1 | Thanks so much for tuning in, wherever you are, around the world, and indeed, the entire |
| 0:40.1 | UK. And as ever, in our time together, we have got a hell of a lot to cram in. If it's okay |
| 0:48.3 | with all of you, I'm going to reflect on two themes and squeeze a third one in. I'm going to look at the inevitable row over the |
| 0:59.5 | Irish protocol, which is, I think, huge, as big a mountainous object that Brexit has produced. |
| 1:08.8 | And anyway, I won't preempt it. That's one of the things we'll be talking about. |
| 1:12.6 | And squeeze into that a little reflection on the alliances Johnson announced last week, |
| 1:20.3 | a kind of military alliance with Finland and so on. |
| 1:23.6 | And then briefly look at Kirstarmer and his declaration that he will resign if charged with a |
| 1:32.5 | penalty notice by the Durham police because last week I'd recorded the podcast before we got that |
| 1:39.5 | and there's one element of it which has been unexplored. Only one, because there's been much talk about it. |
| 1:46.0 | And I'm going to explore, if it's all right with all of you, that hidden element, which I think is quite important and tells us a lot about leadership and the artistry of leadership. |
| 1:57.9 | After my reflections, we've got some fantastic questions from many of you. I've had |
| 2:04.8 | hundreds of emails and I'm going to get through as many as I can. They are all related to |
| 2:11.1 | current themes or debates we're having on the podcast and as ever. They're from all parts of the |
| 2:17.1 | UK and from the United States, |
| 2:19.3 | from Europe and so on. And it gives us a real insight into many themes and how Britain is |
| 2:27.2 | perceived abroad and so on. So they're coming up. Before all of that, a few notices. First of all, |
| 2:41.5 | thank you for subscribing those of you who do the rock and roll politics Patreon version. A bit of an announcement about bonus podcasts. |
| 2:52.4 | For new listeners, we've been doing general elections, cinematic kind of elections with mysteries that need exploring and so on. |
| 2:55.5 | And I'm going to take a break from that. I'm going to come back to them because I'm still getting many emails with brilliant suggestions for general elections. |
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