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Oh God, What Now?

“Outwitted by goo.”

Oh God, What Now?

Podmasters

Politics, Government, News, Society & Culture

4.62.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week in Euro-Plague news: How is Sweden’s risky approach to the COVID crisis really working? James Savage of news network The Local joins us from Stockholm to give us the view on the ground. Plus: That weird feeling when the person demanding a proper merciless lockdown is… evil Dominic Cummings? Alan Sugar’s totalitarian boomer tweets. And why we shouldn’t trust people who say we don’t trust journalists. Also… towns! “The Brexiters are realising that the economic hit of COVID will be so enormous that Brexit will seem small beer. And they are hoping to take advantage of that.” – Ros Taylor “They’ve created the idea that they’re fighting a sentient enemy… because the alternative is to admit that our government was outwitted by goo.” – Alex Andreou Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Ros Taylor and Alex Andreou. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer: Jacob Archbold. Audio production by Alex Rees. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production. Get your free download of our theme tune ‘Demon Is A Monster’ by Cornershop. Our new companion podcast THE BUNKER is now DAILY too. Get it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast and more platforms every day. Oh and RSS too. 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. You’ll also get our monthly Ask Remainiacs special episode plus smart merchandise, an exclusive weekly column by our panel, and discounts on #RemainiacsLive tickets too. #OwnTheRemoan 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

Will interest rates change again?

0:02.0

What's new where I live?

0:04.0

Whatever the question, Google helps people in the UK access reliable news on a wide range of stories.

0:11.0

Learn more at g.co-supportingnews-uk

0:22.0

Hello and welcome to RomaniaX, the podcast that will give its right arm for a good old fashioned knife-edge amendment vote or crappy Theresa May speech.

0:29.0

I'm Dorian Linsky and joining me this week with their positive and supportive questions for our glorious government are a few loyal functionaries of the Fourth Estate.

0:37.0

Ross Taylor is added to over at the LSE Brexit blog and she held out bunker podcast yesterday. Hello, Ross.

0:42.0

Hello.

0:43.0

Well there's some speculation about whether Johnson would duck out of his first PMQs with Kea Stama.

0:50.0

And of course he has done by convincing his girlfriend Carrie Simon's to give birth to a baby.

0:57.0

Is there any limit to his skilled agree?

1:01.0

No, no, it's very well timed isn't it?

1:04.0

I mean I couldn't as knows how long he'll take from eternity leave.

1:07.0

I don't know how long he's taken on previous occasions however many of those were.

1:11.0

But if he takes two weeks, I'm sure he can't possibly be enough to enjoy the joys of new fatherhood again.

1:18.0

He's always got something up his sleeve.

1:20.0

Last Friday the Guardian revealed that Dominic Cummings have been sitting on the government's scientific advisory group despite notably not being a scientist.

1:28.0

Is it normal for government advisers to sit in on these meetings?

1:31.0

Does it all depend on what they say and how they do or do not participate?

1:36.0

Well I think it's debatable whether they can sit in on the meetings.

1:40.0

The question is whether they're actually saying stuff and trying to sway things and it is clear now that he's been doing this.

1:46.0

Now that he was because despite previous briefings which hinted that he just sat in and didn't say anything.

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