4.8 • 165 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2019
⏱️ 75 minutes
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In the second episode of the week, we visit Alyn Smith MEP in his offices, surrounded by boxes, for what might be a farewell chat, and reflect on another absolutely hatstand day in Brexit's endgame. Theresa May has written a letter to the European Council asking for a short extension and managing to annoy everybody on all sides; and (at time of recording) we're hiding behind the sofa waiting for her latest excruciatingly awful podium address to the nation.
Special Guest: Alyn Smith.
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0:00.0 | Well, coming to a new roadblock, it's fake democracy. |
0:05.0 | We're going up the wrong way, we're going to have to stop. |
0:11.0 | Creivics off, a secret voice, they can expose them all. |
0:16.0 | We're going up the wrong way, We're going to have to stop. |
0:21.8 | Well, hello, good evening and welcome in time-honoured fashion to a special Cakewatch podcast, live almost, from the European Parliament, where I'm joined. |
0:32.1 | I'm Malin Smith, member of the European Parliament presently for Scotland, joined with the Derek and Clive of the |
0:38.7 | Remain community, Mr Stephen Bullock. Good evening, sir. Hi there, evening, Alan. And Othograt on |
0:45.5 | Twitter, well known to everyone here. We have Chris as well. Thanks very much. Good to see you, |
0:50.4 | so having introduced the session, as we do in these parts, delighted to hand over to your usual host for our chat about stuff that's happening. |
1:00.4 | Literally nothing's happening. Literally nothing. Nothing at all. Something happened? |
1:04.3 | Nothing's happened. So we should just say that Chris is here in a strictly personal capacity. |
1:12.1 | That's my, it's my cashphrase. |
1:13.7 | I know, but I thought you'd forgotten. |
1:16.4 | I see Malins here, both personal and professional. |
1:19.3 | Well, it depends when this goes out. |
1:20.6 | And I'm hardly, I'm hardly here. |
1:21.9 | Yeah, well, quite. |
1:23.2 | You better get your skates and with the editing, otherwise. |
1:26.1 | People listening in black and white. |
1:28.9 | Gallo's humour is the mode of jour at the moment. |
1:32.7 | For future historians, there used to be a thing called the European Union. |
1:36.4 | The UK used to be a member of it, |
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