Episode 42: The Answer to the Great Question

CakeWatch

Chris Kendall/Steve Bullock

Referendum, News, Uk Politics, European Union, Eu Politics, Politics, Brexit, Eu

4.8 • 165 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2019

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

A podcast of two halves this week. The first half is a look at the day's news from Westminster, where Corbyn now says he backs a referendum with Remain on the ballot, and where May now says she will call for a vote on whether to leave with no deal, or extend Article 50. Plus, more importantly, how the EU might feel about this. Then, in the second half, an extended discussion on Steve's personal Twexit - why he has taken the decision to step back from Twitter activism.

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0:00.0	Coming to a new roadblock, it's fake democracy.
0:05.5	We're going up the wrong way.
0:08.4	We're going to have to stop.
0:11.2	Grievics of a secret voice.
0:13.9	They can't expose them all.
0:16.6	We're going up the wrong way.
0:19.5	We're going to have to stop.
0:22.4	Searlings of a natural loss that can protect us all.
0:28.1	Hello and welcome to episode 42 of the Cake Watch podcast, the podcast about Brexit that never knowingly plays a long game.
0:37.1	My name's Steve Fullock. I'm an ex-negotiator
0:40.1	for the UK in the EU and I'm here with my colleague. Chris Kendall, absolutely we do not play
0:47.6	a long game. It's like week to week. No, we never play a long game. So yeah, Chris Kendall,
0:53.3	I'm an EU worker, public servant, civil servant for the European Commission.
1:01.3	I'm trying to vary it a bit because it got a bit stale, didn't it?
1:04.3	So I'm trying to think of something different to say about what I do and who I am.
1:07.8	While remaining factually accurate.
1:09.7	Exactly.
1:11.8	Like Chris Kendall, I'm an astronaut.
1:14.1	Yeah.
1:14.5	No, I'm not an astronaut.
1:17.0	I'm a very dull civil servant who works for the European Union in a fairly junior capacity,
1:25.9	slaving way, day-to-day, at my desk.
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