“Is your culture war still working, Mr Cummings?”

Oh God, What Now?

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Politics, Government, News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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How hard will a No Deal/COVID double whammy hit the British economy? New research from Best For Britain shows it will devastate the places you don’t expect as well as Brexitland. Could Black Lives Matter and America’s revolt against institutional racism cross over to the UK? And special guest Daniel Trilling of The Guardian explains how the new immigration regulations aren’t designed to “take back control” but to rip off workers. “We’ve proven you can’t bury No Deal under Corona… Some 7 million jobs are doubly impacted by both.” – Naomi Smith “In typical style, Mogg took an innovation that was working pretty well and decided they’d replace it with something old… just because they could.” – Ian Dunt “This government tries to sweep away criticism with cheery British optimism and it’s toxic.” – Daniel Trilling “What is it that Boris Johnson wants? Without Cummings, there’s nothing there.” – Ian Dunt Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Naomi Smith and Ian Dunt. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer: Jacob Archbold. Audio production by Alex Rees. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production. Support our theme tune artists Cornershop! Buy their music on Bandcamp on Friday June 5 and they’ll get 100% of the proceeds. Remainiacs isn’t going away just because Brexit is happening. We’ll be here throughout to keep the pro-European movement informed, entertained and fired up. Get every new episode a whole day early when you back us on the Patreon crowdfunding platform. remainiacs.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Who's in the lioness squad?
0:02.0	Will inflation go down?
0:04.0	Who's singing at the coronation concert?
0:07.0	From sport to business to culture, Google helps millions of people in the UK access a variety
0:14.0	of quality news. Whether you're looking for analysis of the big match at Wembley or today's
0:19.0	top story from Westminster, Google connects you to a range of publishers so you can read all about it.
0:25.0	Learn more at g.co.stashsupportingnews.uk
0:29.0	Hello and welcome to Romania. We'll start this week with a quote from Lenin.
0:41.0	There are decades where nothing happens and there are weeks when decades happen.
0:45.0	Joining me this week are two of our regulars, namely Smith is CEO of Best Recruitment.
0:49.0	Hi, Nami. Hello.
0:51.0	So the government has just cancelled virtual voting. Jacob Rees-Mogg is claiming democracy will flourish once MPs turn to Parliament.
0:57.0	Although many of them are unable to return due to health issues and caring responsibilities and it appears to preach employment law,
1:03.0	why are the Tories really so desperate for MPs to come back in the flesh?
1:07.0	It's much more difficult to tighten thumb screws when the physical thumb isn't there beneath your screw.
1:19.0	There is no more to it than that as I can see.
1:25.0	They had sort of, you know, slightly too many people rebelling on things during lockdown when they weren't able to come into the comments or people missing votes and things like that.
1:35.0	They don't want that. They don't like that. And this is all part of a command and control style government.
1:41.0	They want them back there where the whips can beat them into voting whichever way they want them to go.
1:47.0	And Best Recruitment has a new report on the combined economic impact of no deal in COVID-19, which we'll discuss in detail later.
1:53.0	The CPI seems to have your back on this one. You're not the only person worried about this.
1:59.0	The CPI made a statement yesterday. And of course, 24 hours later, we've then had the Big Nissan Story Break, which is Nissan saying that it is not viable for them to keep their plant in Sondland in the event of no deal.
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