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Matt Forde's Political Party

SHOW 85 - PATRICK O'FLYNN

Matt Forde's Political Party

The Political Party

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4.72.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2018

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Patrick O'Flynn is an MEP for the East of England and recently defected from UKIP to the SDP. Yes, the SDP are still going and they're Eurosceptic. Paddy takes us inside UKIP, his experience of being a 'centrist' member of it and shines a light on some of the disputes within the party in the last few years, including the final one with Gerrard Batten and why he could no longer stay in the party. He and Matt also discuss what a No Deal Brexit would mean. This one really could have lasted ten hours. Buy tickets for the Christmas specials here: https://leicestersquaretheatre.ticketsolve.com/shows/873589775 Buy tickets for Matt's tour here: www.mattforde.com/live Follow Paddy on Twitter here: @oflynnmep Follow Matt on Twitter here: @mattforde

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the political party in the middle of another incredible week in

0:22.7

British politics.

0:23.7

Who knows what will have happened by the time these words leave my mouth and reach your

0:27.6

ears.

0:28.6

This is a wonderful discussion with Patrocope Flynn, currently the MEP for the East, one of

0:34.6

the MEPs, I should say, for the East of England.

0:37.6

And so recently a UKIP MEP.

0:41.4

So you can imagine that we talk about Brexit.

0:43.7

We also do talk about, actually it's not all about, but a little I would say, major

0:49.4

on Brexit.

0:50.4

It's more about being a UKIP, leaving UKIP, his own politics, how best to, I suppose,

0:59.1

achieve his aims, his relationship with the Tory party joining the SDP, all sorts of things.

1:07.5

It's a meander around your escaptic UKIP politics.

1:11.8

And there are times when he really crystallises really well at the differences in the UKIP

1:17.9

wings.

1:18.9

And I won't tread on anything he says, but the analogy gets stretched.

1:24.4

But it's a great conversation about your escapticism.

1:27.1

It's a great conversation about the internal work into UKIP, about the European Parliament,

1:33.8

about leaving the European Union.

1:35.1

There's just so much in it.

1:36.6

It was, it was, it's a really packed conversation.

1:40.7

And of course, the discussion that leaving UKIP over the influence and appointments of

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