Live From the Brexit Basement
The New Statesman | UK politics and culture
The New Statesman
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush and Anoosh Chakelian are defying technical limitations to bring you the latest updates from a(nother) tumultuous week in Brexit. They also discuss whether a Christmas General Election is becoming more or less likely by the day.
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| 0:00.0 | Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. |
| 0:11.0 | So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas. |
| 0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. Tees and sees apply check the Uber app. |
| 0:20.0 | Hi everyone it's Anush here Westminster reimagined is back with season 4. |
| 0:24.1 | In this series co-hosted by the filmmaker and director Armando Iannucci, |
| 0:28.4 | we look at how politics has gone wrong and how it could work better. |
| 0:31.7 | If only there was some nearby trading block that we could somehow be part of. |
| 0:38.0 | We'll be taking you out of the studio to find out what young voters want. |
| 0:42.0 | Currently in Parliament it feels that we're going backwards. |
| 0:44.0 | They need to flip the status quo so that politics starts progressing. |
| 0:47.6 | Whether democracy is under threat. |
| 0:49.6 | Society needs to say we've had enough and we've got to start making demands. And we ask why don't |
| 0:54.4 | politicians care about happiness? All of politics has now been reduced to |
| 0:58.4 | you know a balance sheet. They don't understand that arts and culture really |
| 1:02.0 | are what defines people's happiness ultimately. |
| 1:04.1 | Join us each Monday to hear the latest episode of Westminster Reimagined on the new statesman |
| 1:08.7 | podcast or if you want to hear previous episodes you can find them all on their own feed. Just search Westminster |
| 1:14.5 | reimagined on your podcast app. If you're patriot you want your country to be |
| 1:18.5 | the best it can be, which means being honest about where things aren't working. So on this week's new states from the podcast, we have a slight sound issue. We are recording this on our phones in the podcast bunker, but so |
| 1:44.8 | new she's been a, well has it been an eventful week in the Brexit process? |
| 1:48.4 | That's a good question actually because it's become sort of fashionable to, it used to be fashionable to say this this week will change Britain's future and then it was fashionable to say as ever nothing's changed |
| 1:59.6 | whereas I think this week is a little bit of both so it's the first time that Parliament |
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