Brexit: New ways for it to ruin everything!

Oh God, What Now?

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Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Brexit Fourth Birthday Special! As new import regulations come in to make meat, cheese and flowers more expensive, why can’t we face up to the Dumbest Thing Britain Ever Did? Tory fratricide latest: the beleaguered Rishi Sunak’s masterplan is… banning disposable vapes? Is Viktor Orbán’s Hungary about to get kicked out of the EU? And will we see Mar-a-Lago on Zoopla soon? (Due to illness it’s an all-male “manel” today. Normal service resumed ASAP.) • “The Government has effectively beta-tested every one of its ideas on people’s lives and livelihoods.” – Alex Andreou • “On hormone beef we are actually sticking to EU regulations… which makes you wonder what the point of leaving was.” – Seth Thévoz • “Who chooses a pilot on the basis that you’d like to go to the pub with them and they seem like a bit of a laugh?” – Alex Andreou • “I was once accused of monopolising Monopoly, which is pretty harsh.” – Jacob Jarvis • “The shortages on medicines are a ticking bomb. It’s incredible how little coverage this is getting.” – Alex Andreou Support us on Patreon to get early access to all our live tickets plus mugs, t-shirts and more. We’re on YouTube!: https://www.youtube.com/@ohgodwhatnow Visit our new affiliate bookshop to buy books by the panel and our pals. You’ll be helping to fund the podcast by earning us a small commission for every sale plus Bookshop.org helps to support independent bookshops too. Written and presented by Jacob Jarvis with Alex Andreou and Seth Thévoz. Produced by Chris Jones. Audio production by Robin Leeburn. Theme music by Cornershop. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to God What Now, the politics podcast that is too woke to fight a war but young enough to get conscripted.
0:14.0	I'm Jacob Jarvis and on today's show it's been four years since the UK left the European Union.
0:19.1	It's been terrible, frankly, but could things be about to get worse?
0:23.0	And the Tories are rebelling yet again.
0:25.5	How seriously should we be taking Conservative cause
0:27.8	to get rid of Rishi Sunak?
0:29.8	Now let's meet the panel.
0:31.0	First up, Seth Devo, a journalist, historian and author of behind closed doors. Hello,
0:35.2	Hello. Seth, though, the Iceland boss, Richard Walker, he's throwing his weight behind Kiestarma.
0:40.5	Excuse the pun, but it is intended. Is this the tip of the iceberg for conservative leaning business people shifting over that way and should it be worrying the Tories quite a bit?
0:49.7	There's been a shift underway for some time which is that big donors have been
0:53.3	coming back to labor all throughout Kiestama's leadership and you get people like Sir
0:56.9	David Garard for example heavily donated millions during Jeremy Corbyn's leadership. I mean he returned to
1:04.5	Labour four years ago. So there's been a bit of that but it's not a zero-sum
1:08.8	game. It's not that there are people who have gone from labor to the Tories and back again in any large
1:13.7	numbers. There are two very different donor pools. Labour have a donor pool that
1:18.8	sort of supplements their union income and during the new labor years they were
1:21.6	actually able to out raise the Tories really
1:23.7	consistently and get more money because they had both sources coming in.
1:27.4	But the Tories have a very different pool of donors and it's not just that they're not shifting towards labor they're bigger than they used to be.
1:35.2	I mean the entire Tory big donor network used to be about 200 individuals.
1:39.7	It's now close to about 650 individuals and some of them are very, very rich.
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