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The Owen Jones Podcast

Rishi Sunak Admits Tory Brexit Sucks

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Rishi Sunak's 'Windsor Framework' agreement with the EU has been promoted with great fanfare. Finally - or some senior Tory figureheads boast - Brexit has been done. But here's the thing: Sunak has unintentionally publicly declared that his Tory Brexit has been a disaster. And he's absolutely right.

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0:00.0

Well, wow, wow.

0:02.4

So David's a politician says something in this country

0:05.8

and you're like, how do I even comment on this?

0:08.4

So ridiculous.

0:11.0

Like, it's just a case of what do you even say?

0:13.6

It's when satire is cruelly and brutally

0:17.9

bludgeoned to death.

0:19.2

Now, let's have a little, I think a little bit of context

0:23.1

before we listen to Rishi Senax unbelievably wild intervention.

0:28.7

So, a little backdrop.

0:29.8

In the late 1990s, we had, of course,

0:32.3

the end of a three decade long conflict

0:34.8

in Northern Ireland troubles,

0:36.6

in which around three and a half thousand people died.

0:38.5

That was ended by the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.

0:43.9

Now, a key plank of this agreement was like,

0:45.4

even though there was an Irish reunification,

0:48.5

there could be, though, if there was a referendum

0:51.8

on the future status of the six counties,

0:54.8

but nonetheless, the border between the north and south

0:57.8

of Ireland would be open.

1:00.0

This was critical, those of regard themselves as Irish

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