Levelling up goes down the drain as its champion Gove vanishes. Whatever happened to the Tory pledge to the re-grout the Red Wall? Plus, as sewage on the beaches turns us into the dirty man of Europe, is the case for nationalising utilities now unanswerable? This week’s guest is Anand Menon, director of The UK in a Changing Europe think tank.

• “If the Tories have a plan, they are not sharing it with us yet… and that is causing a lot of anger.” – Ros Taylor
• “There's not much space for levelling up when you're in full crisis mode." – Ros Taylor
• "Did Tory MPs vote for shit to be pumped into rivers? No. Did they stop it? No." – Alex Andreou

Presented by Dorian Lynskey with Alex Andreou and Ros Taylor. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Producers: Alex Rees, Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Assistant Producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz. Audio production by Robin Leeburn. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production.

Brexit roasting on an open fire! Rees-Mogg nipping at your toes! Yes, it’s a miserable old Christmas for Remainers, but whatever. We need to gird our loins for a big year in 2020, so for Christmas Eve we present inspirational messages from a few of our regulars: Ros Taylor, Ian Dunt, Dorian Lynskey, Ingrid Oliver, Alex Andreou and Andrew Harrison. (Naomi Smith wasn’t feeling up to it, so she sent a very special guest). Listen on the way to wherever you’re spending Christmas, at 3pm on Christmas Day, or maybe on Christmas morning like Jeremy Corbyn does.

Also our panelists choose few tunes to cheer you up over the Christmas period. You can hear them in full on our Spotify playlist.

Thanks again to everyone for listening and supporting us throughout the year. We’ll be back in the second week of January to continue the rearguard action. Team Remainiacs wishes you all a Happy Christmas and a peaceful New Year.

Produced by Andrew Harrison. Audio production by Alex Rees. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.

The moment of truth is finally here. Johnson-Cummings have decided it’s necessary to destroy parliamentary sovereignty in order to “save” it. But the Remain Alliance finally has its act together — and the numbers to stop No Deal.

Alex Andreou is optimistic. Remain Wonder Woman Naomi Smith is ready for battle to be joined. Host Andrew Harrison is panicking. And special guest HUGO RIFKIND of The Times wonders why he picked this week to do Remainiacs…

Listen up. The Endgame is on and we can’t give up now.

Presented and produced by Andrew Harrison with Naomi Smith and Alex Andreou. Audio production by Sophie Black. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.

SPECIAL EMERGENCYCAST: Just as we wrapped last week’s podcast, everything went crazy on the Government of National Unity front. We scrambled guru of the constitution David Allen Green plus Naomi Smith and Alex Andreou to unravel the strands in an Emergency ConstitutionCast.

If Remainer Conservatives and Lib Dems can’t swallow their notion of Jeremy Corbyn, Interim Prime Minister, then who CAN they agree on? Exactly how would we get to our Government of National Unity anyway? How long would it last? Why there is no Season Finale Reset Button for Article 50. What would the Remain Dominic Cummings do? And the dawn of the Meat Loaf Remainers: “They’ll do anything to avoid No Deal… but they won’t do that.”

Produced and presented by Andrew Harrison with Alex Andreou and Naomi Smith. Audio production by Will Fitzpatrick at Soho Radio, London. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.

Surprise special edition incoming… It’s Euro elections week and lots of us STILL don’t know who to vote for. On Friday 17 May we brought together people from the key national parties who are hunting the Remainer vote to make their pitch in semi-hustings format. London MEP candidates Dinesh Dhamija (Lib Dems), Laura Parker (Labour) and Jan Rostowski (Change UK) plus Amelia Womack (Deputy Leader of the Greens for England and Wales) joined Dorian Lynskey for an hour of free-range podcanvassing in our London studio.

On the agenda: Who should you vote for and why? What’s behind Labour’s strategic indeterminacy? What would the candidates prioritise if and when they got to Brussels? If we remain, what are they going to reform? And which candidates can out-European the others?

A note on the guests: It’s a small London-based studio so we had to make the decision to invite only parties that are standing nationally, and that means we couldn’t cover the SNP or Plaid Cymru. We’ll be addressing Scotland, Ireland and Wales in our final pre-vote show on Wednesday. But let’s face it, none of you want to hear from the Conservatives or the Brexit Party, do you?

Presented by Dorian Lynskey. Audio production by Alex Rees and Tom Bullen at Air Edel Studios, London. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.

New podcast: With Brexit literally hours away, we convene Leaver-turned-Article-50-Revoker ROLAND SMITH and law and policy expert DAVID ALLEN GREEN to stare into the abyss. How did we get here? What could happen next? Has May engineered a Hobson’s Choice between her Bad Deal and No Deal? And what happens if nothing happens?

PLUS May blames Parliament for her own failings. Why John Bercow’s Eskine Mayhem isn’t a constitutional crisis at all. David discusses the Meaningful Vote in terms of Thanos’s Infinity Stones. The fooling of Arron Banks. Chained to a radiator with Seumas Milne. And whatever happened to old-fashioned, sane “euroscepticism”? This week’s episode was recorded before Donald Tusk’s bombshell intervention the afternoon.

“Was our group naive? I have to say yes. Euroscepticism has been taken over.”

This week’s REMAINIACS is presented by Ros Taylor with Ian Dunt. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Audio production is by Alex Rees. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.

Second time lucky… Apologies for the late upload to Patreon. We had a few “technicals”. Hope this works better. And we are sorry for AutoCorrect changing the name of our guest to “Tim McInternet” on the first post (good pop band name though). Anyway, where were we?

The flaming wreckage of The Deal is all around us (yet again) but what happens next? Can Theresa May salvage anything from her plans and career? Is there enough turd polish around to give the Deal another go-round? What even is Malthouse 2.0? And is it democratically necessary to give the people the option to vote for catastrophe?

Our special guests are LAYLA MORAN MP – Lib Dem Education spokesman and indefatigable People’s Vote warrior – and our brother-in-podcasting TIM MC INERNEY of the brilliant Irish Passport podcast (theirishpassport.com). Listen in as Layla gives us fascinating insights into what it’s like to vote as an MP on such a momentous day as Tuesday. And Tim tells us what English people just do not get about the Anglo-Irish relationship – and what could happen if we No Deal.

Oh, and there may well be an Emergency Podcast later in the week. Who knows? We don’t. Theresa May doesn’t. NOBODY KNOWS.

“This is 100% full-spectrum wrong. You cannot get more wrong than this.”

This week’s REMAINIACS is presented by Dorian Lynskey, Nina Schick and Ian Dunt. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Audio production is by Sophie Black. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.

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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