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91: A BREXMAS CAROL with guests Femi from OFOC and Seb Dance MEP Dec 21, 2018

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It’s the most blunderful time of the year! As MPs head off for a ‘well-earned’ – hem-hem – Christmas break, the final Remainiacs of 2018 welcomes returning favourites SEB DANCE MEP and FEMI OLUWOLE of Our Future Our Choice to see what lumps of coal are in our Brexmas stockings.

How will Health Secretary Matt Hancock cope with being the world’s biggest purchaser of fridges, and can he change all those fuses? Is “managed No Deal” just scaremongering or would the Government really press the Red Button marked Brexageddon? May’s immigration proposals: White Paper or red meat to the nutters? Plus Femi and Seb’s highs and lows of 2018, their hopes for next year… and the seasonal return of #AskRemainiacs. It’s what everyone wants for Christmas.

“Vote’s collapsing

All around us.

MPs wailing.

Options? None.

’Tis the season

Of panic and confusion.

MERRY CHRISTMAS, BREXITERS.”

This week’s REMAINIACS is presented by Dorian Lynskey with Ros Taylor and Ingrid Oliver. Audio production: Sophie Black. Producer: Andrew Harrison. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.

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90: INFINITE CRISIS! Special guest crossover with JAMES O’BRIEN and DAVID SCHNEIDER Dec 12, 2018

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You thought Brexit couldn’t get any worse? Guess again. As we hurtle towards the brick wall of No Deal, the Tories think there’s no better moment for a time-wasting leadership contest. Luckily we’ve persuaded two of our most popular guests of the year — LBC legend JAMES O’BRIEN and comedy giant DAVID SCHNEIDER — to discuss the events of the most disgraceful week in British politics since…. well, next week.

On this episode: the ERG decide that the country has to be destroyed in order to save it. Theresa May’s stockpile of horcruxes. Why The Death of Stalin is mellow and comprehensible compared to this. How the Prime Minister will become “A lame duck encased in steel.” And WTF is “managed No Deal” anyway?

Plus David and James choose their high points and low points of 2018 — and conjure up some bright points of hope for 2019. It’s an epic guestclash.

REMAINIACS: Tough on Brexit, tough on the causes of Brexit.

This week’s REMAINIACS is presented by Dorian Lynskey with Naomi Smith and Ian Dunt. Audio production: Elsie Bath. Producer: Andrew Harrison. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.

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89: LIVE ON INDECISION DAY Part Two: Crystal Balls and Brexmas Presents Dec 11, 2018

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And here’s Part Two of our live show from Monday 10 Dec, right in the middle of Theresa May’s total retreat from reality. Dorian Lynskey, Ingrid Oliver, Ian Dunt and Ros Taylor run through some post-Brexit scenarios, exchange Brexmas gifts, take audience questions… and then run weeping to the bar. Listen and enjoy.

This special podcast is live and unedited, straight from the mixing desk. Special thanks to Simon Kitts and all at the Leicester Square Theatre for giving us a great evening at the end of a nerve-racking day.

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88: INDECISION DAY: Live and unedited at Leicester Square Theatre – Part One! Dec 11, 2018

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We wouldn’t normally do this kind of thing… but the events of Monday 10 Dec were so insane that we just had to release the audio of our latest live show to everyone, not just our beloved Patreon backers.

Here’s Part One of last night’s show at the Leicester Square Theatre. Listen in as regulars Dorian Lynskey, Ingrid Oliver, Ros Taylor and Ian Dunt try to make sense of Theresa May’s worsening crisis… and wonder what might happen next. Part Two to follow later today. And do you like our yellow and blue Brexmas tree?

This special podcast is live and unedited, straight from the mixing desk. Special thanks to Simon Kitts and all at the Leicester Square Theatre for making it a fantastic evening.

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87: BAD TIMES IN THE HOUSE OF PAIN plus: Can we rebrand Remain? Dec 06, 2018

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A tiny bit earlier than usual because hey who the hell knows what’s going to happen next… This week, CONTEMPT PROVIDERS: Will this week’s seismic events in the Commons bring us closer to a #PeoplesVote? ULTIMATE WEAPON: Does the Grieve Amendment mean that No Deal is officially on Death Row? REMAYNIACS: Which one of the panel will throw their support behind Theresa May’s embattled Deal? The answer will shock you. MAKING PLANS FOR NIGEL: Where next for off-brand Kermit the Frog dog-toy Nigel Farage now that he’s realised that Ukip is, you know, a bit dodge?

PLUS We look a few steps ahead to see how we should brand that potential People’s Vote campaign if/when we get it. Special guests Adam Drummond of pollsters Opinium and political branding expert Dr Paul Baines of the University of Leicester are here with the facts.

This week’s REMAINIACS is presented by Dorian Lynskey with Alex Andreou and Naomi Smith. Audio production: Alex Rees. Producer: Andrew Harrison. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.

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86: THE AAARGH! OPTION with special guest Marcus Brigstocke Nov 30, 2018

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As things get WORSE and WORSE and BLOODY WORSE we welcome much-loved Brexit-baiting comedian and actor MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE to stare into the vortex one more time.

Should we say NO WAY, NORWAY? Will a televised May vs Corbyn ding-dong be the new Frost/Nixon or a pointless yammer between a Remainer who pretends she’s a Leaver and a Leaver who pretend he’s a Remainer?

How would Marcus’s nice-but-dim Tory boy creation Giles Wemmbley-Hogg deal with the jolly sticky mess his old chums have inadvertently created? Oh and the economy is doomed. But you knew that.

This week’s REMAINIACS is presented by Ros Taylor with Nina Schick and Ian Dunt.

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85: COUP OR NO COUP with special guest Ayesha Hazarika Nov 23, 2018

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On this week’s queue-jumping REMAINIACS, comedian and political commentator Ayesha Hazarika joins us to discuss the coup that wasn’t, the Deal that might or might not be, and comedy’s ongoing struggle with the least funny thing ever: Brexit. PLUS Damon Albarn of Blur releases a Brexit concept album with his band The Good, The Bad And The Queen. Are we at least going to get a Brexit dividend of good art to see us through the tinned beans years to come?

This week’s REMAINIACS is presented by Dorian Lynskey with Ros Taylor and Ian Dunt. Audio production: Sophie Black. Producer: Andrew Harrison. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.

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84: EMERGENCY CHAOS-CAST! Everyone quits! Nov 15, 2018

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On Planet Brexit's worst Day of Chaos yet, we drag Dorian Lynskey, Alex Andreou, Naomi Smith and Ian Dunt into the subterranean Remainiacs bunker to ask what it all means… and whether Theresa May can survive. Beware – this is an Emergency Podcast so it's a bit rough and ready.

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83: THE DEAL is here. Now what? Plus guest CHRIS ADDISON on the Brexit tragi-comedy Nov 14, 2018

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Early release special – recorded at 2-3pm on Wednesday and it was up to date when we pressed ‘send’! THE DEAL is finally here, but what does it mean? What’s in it, who’s going to hate it and can May get it past Parliament, the DUP, the ERG and an increasingly restive populace? Comedian, actor and fellow Brexit sufferer CHRIS ADDISON joins us at the hinge of history to ask where we go from here, the true meaning of vassalage, how we can change the agenda… and how Ollie from ‘The Thick Of It’ would have fitted into our new political reality.

PLUS: We go to Tuesday’s #PeoplesVote rally and grab Justine Greening for a quote! What the so-called Taxpayer’s Alliance’s capitulation to whistleblower Shahmir Sanni’s wrongful dismissal suit really means. What would Oliver Postgate’s animated series ‘55 Tufton Street’ be like? And is it a good idea for Remainers to buy up all the toilet paper in Britain?

“There are really good technocrats working on this who have to report to a person above them who is, frankly, a numpty.”

This week’s REMAINIACS is presented by Dorian Lynskey with Alex Andreou and Naomi Smith. Audio production: Elsie Bath. Producer: Andrew Harrison. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.

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82: EMERGENCY DUNTCAST! Jo Johnson resigns to demand a People's Vote Nov 09, 2018

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You can't hide bad news on a Friday any more. Ian Dunt and Andrew Harrison rush to Soho Radio to discuss Jo Johnson's seismic resignation…

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