When the history books are written about Britain in the early 21st century this will be the period where the raw soul of the country will be remarked upon. We have always been able to hide behind a Whiggish view of history that progress was and is inevitable and that we are an ordered and people. Brexit has but a lie to that fallacy.

The idea of this show was to look at the Irish perspective of Brexit with podcaster William Campbell along with the issue if the Irish border but we veered off into the weeds looking at how Britain trying to cleve itself from Europe makes little and no sense economically looking at the practicalities for industry.

At the EU summit in Salzburg last Thursday British PM was ambushed by the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and the EU council president, Donald Tusk, who embarrassed the prime minister by declaring that the Chequers plan would not work, its just another reason why Brexit is unworkable.

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