Episode 70: Our Friends In The North

CakeWatch

Chris Kendall/Steve Bullock

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

4.8 • 165 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Alviina Alametsä is a Green Party MEP from Finland. She took up her seat only in February 2020, after it was vacated by a departing UK MEP. Cakewatch likes to think that she took one previously occupied by a Faragist. Alviina's particular policy interests are public mental health and conflict resolution, so who better to talk about tackling the Brexit aftermath? Alviina draws on her own experience as a survivor of a school shooting to inform her campaigning work to improve access to mental healthcare for young people in particular. In a world facing climate emergency and coronavirus, not to mention Brexit and populism, we look at how policy generally fails to factor in the mental health impact, and what can be done at EU level to address this.

Mind, the mental health charity, offering help and advice to you if you are suffering from depression or if you are looking for advice on how to help someone who you think might be depressed.

Special Guest: Alviina Alametsä.

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0:00.0	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,
0:12.0	crevics off, a secret voice, they can't expose them all.
0:18.0	We're going up the wrong way, we're going to have to stop
0:22.5	Ceilings off, a natural loss
0:26.0	They can protect us all
0:30.6	Welcome to episode 17 of a Cakewatch podcast, 70 episodes we've done already
0:37.1	My name is Chris Candleim, an official working of a Cakewatch podcast. 70 episodes were done already.
0:39.6	My name is Chris Candle.
0:43.0	I'm an official working in the EU institutions,
0:46.6	but that's not really why I'm doing the podcast.
0:49.6	I'm doing the podcast in a strictly personal capacity.
0:51.7	And with me as a guest,
0:57.8	a member of the European Parliament, Alvina. Let me make sure I'm pronouncing it correctly. Alvina Almeza. Yes, that's quite right. Good. Thank you. And you're from Finland,
1:05.7	originally. And you are one of the new intake of MEPs this year. And in fact, you were on the reserve list of people who would take up a seat after Brexit.
1:17.5	In other words, one of the seats vacated by British MEPs.
1:21.1	So there's a certain sort of bitter sweetness to your being here.
1:25.6	Yes, definitely, because I have been strongly opposed to Brexit for all these years.
1:32.0	And when there was the original vote on a few years ago,
1:36.7	then I actually just wrote a blog post about what is going to happen now after Brexit
1:41.9	and try to analyze it.
1:43.7	But something that I could not forecast to the future was, of course, how this would
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