Rock N Roll Politics

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

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News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.7 • 909 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

I explain why T May still holds most of the Brexit cards even if MPs get an extension to Article 50..most likely outcome of this very early Brexit phase is that a version of her deal passes and UK is out by June..then the nightmarish trade talks begin.. BUT I'm more excited by citizens' juries leading to an informed referendum. An informed referendum in the UK is a contradiction in terms but these juries can work as a way of engaging voters before the mendacious political battle gets formally underway.

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0:00.0	And now a special festive announcement.
0:03.6	How about this for a Christmas present suggestion?
0:06.3	A present to you from someone who might be mistakenly planning to buy you, say,
0:11.5	Nadine Doris is the plot, which you don't want.
0:14.6	This year, instead of them making a panic visit to Waterstones,
0:18.4	why not subtly suggest they get you the gift of 12 months
0:23.6	Patreon support for rock and roll politics instead? Ordinarily, a year's support gets you 10%
0:30.6	off the monthly rate, but in our special Black Friday sale, you can now get 20% off.
0:41.1	And it will be one of those life-enhancing presence for you. You get the podcast early, without ads, plus lots of Patreon exclusive content.
0:49.3	And then they don't have to stagger home with Churchill's complete history of the English-speaking peoples,
0:55.6	which you don't want either.
0:57.3	That's 20% off a year of Patreon support for rock and roll politics in our Black Friday sale.
1:04.0	Why not share the link in the show notes in the family WhatsApp,
1:08.1	or drop a heavy hint that they should search Patriot Rock and Roll Politics
1:12.6	podcast.
1:13.9	Hurrah!
1:14.8	Christmas is sorted. Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me, Steve Richards.
1:37.3	Thank you for tuning in to assess the later situation in the Brexit saga. The cliff edge draws ever nearer.
1:48.3	And on one level, of course, it is completely circuitous, the debate. Nothing has changed.
1:55.8	We have these moments of epic drama, apparently epic dramas. The vote where a prime minister
2:06.5	loses by over 200 on the most important proposition to be put before the House of Commons
2:13.1	since 1945 and the one on which she has told the House of Commons that she believes with her head
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