Halfpints: Brexit Chaos

The Irish Passport

Society & Culture

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Brexit chaos has turned British politics upside down for the last few weeks. What’s actually going on and should you care? Naomi and Tim lay out what are the UK’s realistic options, what the various factions actually want, and how it all relates to the biggest Brexit roadblock of all: the Irish border. As the clock ticks down to Brexit day on the 29th of March, this is the summary you need to understand Brexit and its consequences for the island of Ireland. This is a free edition of Halfpints, the extra series we make to thank our Patreon supporters. You can support the making of The Irish Passport podcast on www.patreon.com/theirishpassport, and get full access to our full archive of extra Halfpints episodes there.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to Irish Passport.
0:02.3	Let's do it.
0:03.1	Welcome to the Irish Passport.
0:04.8	I'm Tim McInerney.
0:06.0	I'm Naomi O'Leary.
0:07.0	We're friends.
0:07.7	Can you both to Naomi?
0:08.5	Anwar Fat, Tim.
0:09.9	This is your passport to Irish culture, history and politics.
0:13.2	Uh-huh.
0:13.4	I'm recording.
0:14.2	One, two, two, three.
0:16.6	Okay. Welcome to Halfpints, the series of mini episodes we make to thank the Patreon supporters of the Irish Passport podcast.
0:44.4	Yes, thank you so much. Each of our patrons contribute towards the cost of producing and hosting this podcast, which can be quite expensive.
0:50.7	So quite simply, we wouldn't be able to keep doing this without you. So do know that your support is hugely appreciated. So today on Half Points, we're going to do our seasonal roundup of the latest Brexit shenanigans and what it means for Ireland. So I'm going to grill Naomi once again to see if I can't mine her for some insider information on what the hell is going on. And for good reason, because we've had lots of questions from our listeners about what is
1:14.0	happening with Brexit.
1:15.4	But we kind of, you know, we kind of hummed and hauled about producing an episode on this.
1:19.3	There's a few reasons, because first of all, there's a fair bit of Brexit fatigue setting in,
1:23.4	you know, like just in general.
1:25.1	It's been two years now of this nonstop talk, you know, all this stuff is just on the airwaves all the time.
1:30.2	And secondly, because while on the one hand, absolutely load seems to happen in regard to Brexit, you know, every day,
1:36.9	actually not that much has substantially changed since our last big roundup.
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