Brexit: is it just embarrassing now?

Beyond Today

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4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

As MPs prepare to vote on the Prime Minister’s Brexit plan, we get the view from outside parliament. We speak to protesters on both sides who think that the current situation is getting embarrassing and shows the country in a bad light. We also hear from bemused tourists and speak to the BBC World Service’s Rob Watson on how he is reporting the country’s “biggest political crisis since World War Two”. Producers: Philly Beaumont and Duncan Barber. Editor: John Shields. Mixed by Nico Raufast.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:06.3	Hello, I'm Matthew Price.
0:07.7	This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4,
0:10.4	a space to ask one big question of one big story every weekday.
0:15.0	Today Brexit,
0:17.0	is it just embarrassing now? So I've just got back from Westminster and I went down there because moments like this are really confusing and we wanted to try and take a really big picture look about what is going on inside
0:46.2	parliament, outside parliament what on earth is happening with Brexit. Now if you go to the Houses of Parliament right now there are
0:55.6	several thousand people standing out in the cold. Some of them are tourists
1:00.3	they're taking selfies in front of Big Ben which is under scaffolding at the moment.
1:05.9	Some of them are remainers and they're waving the blue with yellow star EU flags.
1:12.1	Some of them are Brexiteers and they're mostly holding British flags.
1:16.4	And what you're going to hear during this episode is chats with all of those people, tourists, remainers and Brexit
1:24.8	tears and also a conversation with a guy called Rob who's from the BBC who I
1:31.1	think gives us the really big picture on what on earth is going to happen.
1:37.0	Coming out of the tube, we're in Theatre Land.
1:44.0	Lester Square Box Office, half-price discount theatre tickets,
1:48.0	Catherine Tate Show.
1:50.0	There's a big tour group over here, with a woman talking to them through a loud speaker.
1:55.0	Hello.
2:00.0	Hello.
2:02.0	She's carrying on. The tour continues. Past the fountains. I'm walking towards, let's call it,
2:10.9	Planet Brexit.
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