316: Ross Clark: The myth of EUtopia

The Brendan O'Neill Show

News, Society & Culture, Government, Politics

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🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Journalist Ross Clark returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to talk about his new book, Far from EUtopia: Why Europe is Failing – and How Britain Could Do Better. Ross and Brendan discuss why Europe is falling behind the rest of the world, why Brexit is not to blame for Britain’s woes, and how we can make the most of our newfound freedoms.

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1:00.5	Sunday the 23rd of February to apply. Good luck. And the whole narrative that, you know, we're in
1:08.6	sort of economic decline, whereas the EU is sort of sailing off confidently without us.
1:14.2	Of course, that relies on us not looking too closely at what's going on across the channel.
1:19.6	We've got Germany now sort of reintroducing border controls.
1:23.8	Hungary is built a Donald Trump-style razor wire fence on its southern border to keep out the migrants.
1:31.3	Europe seems stuck in this pretty suicidal energy policy where it's putting net zero above all economic considerations
1:40.4	and is sort of happy to lose its manufacturing industries and sort of impoverish its people as a result.
1:50.4	Hello, welcome back to the Brendan O'Neill show with me, Brendan O'Neill, and my special guest this week, Ross Club.
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