NS#240: It's Brexit Again, Kids
The New Statesman | UK politics and culture
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🗓️ 19 October 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Why is the government delaying the EU Withdrawal Bill? Helen and Stephen discuss where it all went wrong. Then they look at the trend for setting up new "centrist" parties and wonder if the Lib Dems are screwed for good. Finally, they answer a listener question: how do you tell if a politician is a rising star, or just a load of hot air?
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Further reading:
Stephen's column about a Brexit that could work for almost everybody.
Isabel Hardman on Jeremy Browne.
Norman Baker's inexplicable single.
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| 1:04.7 | Listen to eight years hard labour wherever you get your podcasts. Hello I'm Helen and I'm Stephen and you're listening to the New Statesman podcast this week yes it's Brexit again kids we talk about the EU withdrawal bill |
| 1:09.4 | you ask us what makes a good minister and, should the Lib Dems just pack up and go home? |
| 1:21.9 | So Stephen, let's talk about Brexit. Yeah, tell me what's happening with the old |
| 1:27.8 | EU would draw bill this week? I mean this will be official by the time this arrives in |
| 1:32.3 | listeners ears. Ers, brains. be official by the time this arrives in listeners. |
| 1:33.0 | E. Is. Brains. |
| 1:35.0 | The government is delaying the beginning of the committee stage of the E withdrawal bill. |
| 1:40.0 | Wow. |
| 1:41.0 | Effectively because it has so many amendments on it. |
| 1:43.0 | So it's a bit like an old Christmas tree and basically it's just had a lot of baubbles hung on it and |
| 1:46.8 | at any point it might kind of just critical mass has been achieved and it's now just |
| 1:50.5 | unwieldy and impossible. |
| 1:52.4 | Yeah essentially and the other hilarious |
| 1:54.5 | difficulty is that the government is going to have to at some point get this |
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