Taking on the Brexit bashers
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
As we mark the third anniversary of Brexit, our co-pilots take on the doomsters and get to the bottom of why the country feels short-changed by the decision to leave the EU.
Allison argues the current government is obstructing the Brexit we voted for, whilst Liam feels the benefits of leaving the EU have been hampered by the pandemic and war in Ukraine.
Also boarding the rocket of right thinking this week is journalist and author, Ross Clark, who straps in to tell our co-pilots why climate change might not be the catastrophe we have all been sold as well as the potentially dangerous impacts of the poorly thought through net zero agenda.
And Bob the bard strikes again…
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:02.0 | ...podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Five... |
| 0:10.0 | ...successive conservative governments have not taken advantages of the freedoms that Brexit gives us. |
| 0:16.0 | Four... |
| 0:17.0 | I would still vote leave Liam. I would vote leave to my dying day, really. |
| 0:22.0 | The government never did tell us how it was going to get to net zero, but the whole thing was nodded through Parliament anyway. |
| 0:29.0 | The normal people of this country should not be subject to this arant bollocks. They should not. |
| 0:36.0 | One... |
| 0:37.0 | We have been taught. |
| 0:43.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telugu of Podcast with Alison Pearson. |
| 0:47.0 | Hello. |
| 0:48.0 | And me Liam Halligan. |
| 0:50.0 | She can't take any more captain! |
| 0:52.0 | One Scotty, as a starship enterprise was pushed to the limit. She's called a blue! |
| 0:58.0 | I love a bit of Star Trek co-pilot. |
| 1:00.0 | William Shatner is Captain Kirk, Leonard Nimoyer's Spock, he of the Vulcan Death Grip. |
| 1:05.0 | And Nishel Nichols as the fabulous little tenon, a horror. |
| 1:09.0 | She and Captain Kirk staged a very first interracial kiss on American TV, true story. |
| 1:14.0 | And of course there was James Montgomery doing the Canadian who put on a highland accent better than mine to play chief engineer Scotty. |
| 1:21.0 | He who specialised in warning Captain Kirk, she can't let it get any more! |
| 1:26.0 | That the starship enterprise was about to crash and burn. |
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