Economics, politics and Marmite – 2016 – an unusual year in focus
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This is Money
4.1 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2016
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The phenomenal successes of British athletes at the Rio Olympics were quickly forgotten in 2016 as a confusing, unpredictable mix of politics and economics took over.
The peculiarities began before Brazil, however, when Leicester City won the Premiership title at odds of 5,000 to 1.
Then the British public were granted a vote on the country’s role in the European Union, which few appeared to understand. Markets crashed and recovered, the pound tanked and people got rather angry – but mostly about attempts to increase the price of the popular yeast spread, Marmite.
Finally, a reality TV star with the language of a child and behaviour of a child became leader of the free world.
Join Simon Lambert and Lee Boyce of This is Money and Share Radio luminary Georgie Frost for a look behind the sound bites and the hubris as they try to work out happened and why.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Money, brought to you in partnership with NS&I, giving you 100% security for your savings. |
| 0:10.6 | A very warm welcome to this year's final edition of This Is Money in Share Radio podcast in partnership with NS&I. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Georgie Frost. |
| 0:18.9 | And joining me in the studio is editor Simon Lambert |
| 0:21.3 | and Consumer Affairs Editor Lee Boyce for the final episode of 2016. |
| 0:26.0 | And what a year it's been. |
| 0:32.1 | The sun has risen on an independent United Kingdom. |
| 0:41.3 | I love this country and I feel honoured to have served it. I will be president for all Americans. |
| 0:44.3 | 2016, the year we learned to expect the unexpected. |
| 0:49.3 | The Barclays Premier League Champions of 2016, your Leic City. |
| 0:55.0 | The first half of the year was dominated by just one question. |
| 0:58.0 | Leave or remain. |
| 1:00.0 | Let's vote leave, take back control. |
| 1:02.0 | We will be stronger, we'll be safer, we'll be better off inside Europe. |
| 1:07.0 | They should not be allowed to come into this country, anybody, I don't care who it is, until |
| 1:12.1 | they've got a job. |
| 1:13.1 | There is a strong socialist caste for saying in the European Union. |
| 1:17.4 | If they don't like foreigners, they don't like me. |
| 1:20.4 | Is anybody surprised that the IMF, led by Christine Lagarde, has come out on the pro-EU |
| 1:26.8 | anti-Brexit side? I mean, Christine Lagarde is come out on the pro-EU anti-Brexit side. |
| 1:27.8 | I mean, Christine Lagarde is a poster woman for the whole idea of bureaucracy |
| 1:32.8 | and that whole Eurocrats EU thing. |
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