The Wrong Good Friday

Oh God, What Now?

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🗓️ 25 September 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This edition recorded before Kent was made an independent statelet… As the Internal Market Bill takes a wrecking ball to the Good Friday Agreement, Alliance Party Deputy Leader and North Down MP Stephen Farry explains why this will shift every aspect of politics in Northern Ireland. Plus, Can Britain face going back to square one on COVID for a further six months? Keir Starmer’s new progressive patriotism, the travesty of COVID outsourcing, and untold tales of Stephen’s constituent, foghorn mask denier Van Morrison… Listeners can get 10% off Ian Dunt’s new book How To Be A Liberal using this link. Just add 'HTBAL10' on checkout. “It’s not just that the Internal Market Bill won’t make the EU back down. It actually makes reaching a deal at all even harder.” – Ian Dunt “The Protocol isn’t an imposition from the EU. It’s the natural consequence of the UK’s own decisions.” – Stephen Farry Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Ros Taylor and Ian Dunt. 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	Hello, and welcome to the Christmas's cancelled edition of RomaniaX.
0:11.3	I'm Dorian Litsky, and joining me this week are two people looking forward to a nice
0:14.9	night in for the next six months.
0:17.3	Ros Taylor is editor of the LSE's COVID-19 blog. Hi Ros.
0:21.8	Hello Torian.
0:24.0	Van Morris' new anti-lockdown song, Accuses Imperial College Scientist, of making up crooked
0:28.3	facts. No Gallagher is a board again anti-masker. Ian Brown is warning of the pandemic, planned
0:34.6	designed and executed to make us digital slaves. Is this what happens when gig revenue
0:39.8	dries up? They just don't have enough to do.
0:46.1	Yeah, well, I mean, as far as I'm concerned, you know, pop music, I mean, you can correct
0:50.4	me here, Dorian, because you're more an expert on pop music. I think we can all agree
0:53.5	than I am. But it is generally about emotion, isn't it? It's not generally about logically
0:59.6	thought or political positions. And I think that's what we're seeing in this case. I think,
1:06.0	I mean, I was thinking, you know, is it possible to do a sort of pro-lockdown song, you know,
1:10.6	sub-sort-o to the joys of the rule of six? And, you know, it's not what we're looking
1:14.0	for, really, is it, from our pop stars? We're looking for rage, we're looking for anger,
1:18.1	we're looking for frustration, and that is what Mr Morrison here is ultimately giving
1:22.0	us. It's a shame about the pandemic rubbish, and he's, you know, they're buying into
1:26.3	that sort of crowd. But, you know, if pop stars start spouting an official government line,
1:31.9	then I begin to worry. I can't wait until your children get into
1:36.2	rage against the machine rise, and you're just like, what I mean, look, it's fine to say
1:40.0	fuck you, I won't do it, you tell me, but it's not a very logically thought out proposition
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