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Ian Dunt

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
789 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

Or do you feel a bit wary?

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

Exactly.

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

Who knows where this is going?

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

Who is this guy?

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

Because if it's the latter, you're more likely to vote Brexit.

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

If it's the former, you're more likely to vote remain.

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

This kind of like split liberal versus authoritarian, university educated versus not, living in diverse, plural, multicultural, typically urban, cosmopolitan areas on the one hand, living in, you know, much more dilapidated,

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

towns, seaside towns, often former industrial sites, you know, that just hadn't been helped or given proper assistance since the Thatcher period where we'd taken those industries away.

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

Yeah, and that starts with Brexit as well.

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

I mean, what are you doing?

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

You're basically saying, look, we don't really care about existing trade flows.

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

We don't really care about existing regulatory structures or institutions.

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

We are in the business of burning things down.

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

And pretty much the entirety of the rhetoric and the conceptual content of the modern Conservative Party is about burn it down.

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

Very few new ideas of things you want to replace things with.

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

And it's not just Europe, right?

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

They want to leave the European Convention of Human Rights with all the implications that has.

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

By the way, the European Convention of Human Rights is not just some international document.

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

That's baked into the Good Friday Agreement that is the peace in Northern Ireland.

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The decline of modern Britain โ€” where did it all go so wrong?

You know, you unravel it.