543. The Disaster Britain Still Can't Escape and Trump’s Iran ‘Deal’
6/16/202653 min
What is the true cost of Brexit? How have British and European far-right politics evolved since the historic Brexit referendum, and can liberal democracy survive it? Is it possible to see Trump’s Iran ‘deal’ as anything other than a defeat for the US?
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First 90 secondsAlastair Campbell· Host0:01
Happy anniversary. 10 years since we voted to leave the European Union. How has Brexit been for you? Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage may be a lot wealthier than they were, but they are the exception. A decade has been long enough to establish Britain is poorer and weaker, and Brexit is one of the reasons. An economy 6 to 8% smaller than it would've been, investment lower, productivity lower, and businesses who were promised an end to red tape drowning in the stuff. And yet, the divisive populous politics that helped fuel it is far from dead. We've seen the worst of it on the streets of Belfast last week, a horrible stabbing by an asylum seeker whipped up into riots and a house-to-house hunt for immigrants. We've seen its exploitation by Russia in the evidence that arson attacks on Keir Starmer's home and car were organized by Moscow, then backed by the far right here. And even in quiet, wealthy Switzerland, their weekend referendum on whether to have a population cap was the brainchild of their right-wing populous party. And in Germany, I'm hearing of fresh legal moves to establish that their far-right party, the AfD, is in breach of the country's constitution because of its commitment to what they proudly call remigration. So a decade on from the toxicity of the referendum campaign, how worried should we all be about the far right's continuing influence on our lives, and what hope is there of liberal democracy fighting back? All this and more to come in today's episode. This episode is brought to you by Fuse Energy.
Rory Stewart· Host1:26
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