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The David McWilliams Podcast

Ireland, Brexit and the Great British Breakoff, from Britsplaing to Explaining and lots more in between!! Enjoy

The David McWilliams Podcast

David McWilliams

News & Politics

4.6643 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

As Brexit moves towards the endgame and the UK government’s new policy appears to centre on inflicting as much economic damage as possible on Ireland to change the “backstop”, we explore why the Brexiteers are so ignorant about Ireland, how come Ireland is now considerably richer than the UK, more globalized and more resilient. In short, when so-called “Global Britain” exports 1.5 times more to “little” Ireland than it does to China, you know the Brexiteers are living in an economic la la land!

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0:28.9

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0:33.8

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0:36.1

Economic indicators.

0:37.7

Who knows where this is going to end up?

0:39.7

To understand the economy, you have to understand human nature.

0:52.2

Welcome to the David McWilliams podcast. I hope all is well and you're doing fine the tail end of the summer.

0:58.2

It's David here. Obviously, the podcast, as you know, every week tries to make economics a little bit more intelligible, a little bit less complicated and hopefully more relevant.

1:08.1

This week we're going to talk about Brexit, but from the Irish perspective,

1:12.6

and what I mean by that is the relationship between Ireland and Britain, because it's very,

1:16.7

very clear now that the new British tactic is to identify Ireland as the weakest link in the

1:21.6

European chain and to put enormous pressure on Ireland, in actual fact, to put huge economic

1:26.8

pressure in Ireland, so much so that to put huge economic pressure in Ireland,

1:28.0

so much so that we will break ranks on the backstop, and ultimately we will facilitate the Tory

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