Brexit anniversary blues
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English - June 23, 2017 04:00 - 18.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsNews newsnet scotland scottish politics current affairs interviews election coverage derek Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Woke up this morning… a year on from the day Nigel declared to be “Britain’s independence day!” (Cue cheers of lard faced gents in ill fitting suits)… and what a year it’s been. Chaos, rising prices, a falling pound and a Prime Minister described openly by her own party members as “a dead woman walking”.
The anarchists among us are delighted. The satire writers bordering on delirious. Their only worry is that they could actually make this all up, because it’s real, or as “real” as Theresa May might allow it to be.
Podcast host Derek Bateman invited our regular contributor Prof Iain Docherty, of Glasgow University, to chew the Brexit fat with journalist and documentary maker Maurice Smith. Subjects varied from the Scottish economy to Brexit, the start to EU negotiations and, oh, ll sorts of stuff.