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🗓️ 6 February 2019
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Hosted by Lara Prendergast.
With Fraser Nelson and Katy Balls.
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots. |
0:11.0 | I'm Naroprendegas and I'm today joined by Katie Balls and Fraser Nelson. |
0:15.0 | Donald Tusk was giving a speech earlier and he had quite an interesting line in it. |
0:19.0 | Let's have a listen. |
0:20.0 | By the way, I've been wondering what that special place in hell looks like for those |
0:28.2 | who promoted Brexit without even a sketch of a plan how to carry it safely. |
0:35.3 | Fraser, what did you make of that? |
0:36.9 | It was a pretty extraordinary thing to say, especially at this stage in negotiations. |
0:41.6 | You've got Theresa May about to arrive in Brussels tomorrow. |
0:44.9 | And what does she get, as a welcome, Donald Tusk, talking about Brexiteers going to hell? |
0:50.6 | Now, sure, you can say he was referring to the Brexiteer leaders. |
0:55.6 | That will be people, of course, |
1:02.4 | in the cabinet, senior politicians, but not, he might say, all Brexiteers. It wasn't Theresa May herself, |
1:07.5 | who, of course, didn't campaign for Brexit in the referendum. But still, this sets incredibly bad blood and doesn't really prepare to reason why to think she's going to get |
1:13.5 | much of a good reception when she turns up. The question is why he decided to do it. He kind of |
1:19.0 | billed it as a sort of thoughtless aside, but then he tweeted it separately to make sure that the |
1:23.6 | Brexit and hell message was well understood. |
1:29.7 | If Donald Trump had said something like this, |
1:33.3 | everybody would be condemning him for using incendiary undiplomatic language. |
1:37.6 | So, you know, you can't use these analogies in diplomatic situations and not expect that a big response. |
1:41.7 | So I'm not quite sure I'll have much of an effect on British public opinion. |
1:45.4 | If anything, it will probably be like an Obama moment, where Barack Obama said the Britain could get |
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