The British Dream

Welcome back to the British Dream. A lot has changed since the election. Jeremy Corbyn is the Prime Minster, except he's not. Theresa May can't be leader, but somehow, technically, she is. Tory austerity is coming to an end, in the form of a £1 billion sop to Northern Ireland to keep the Tories in power. So who's really in charge here? Join us outside the VICE office for a big bag of cans as we try and sort through the mess, and talk to Simon Elmer from Architects for Social Housing about the Grenfell Tower fire, as well as a Emily Stewart, a Brussels insider, to give us the Brexit 411.

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Well, that was weird. After an election result that Theresa May couldn’t have anticipated and Labour could hardly have hoped for, The British Dream is back to dissect a momentous night and look to a bumpy future.

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Could anyone really win at this election? While the election seems less of a foregone conclusion than it was, somehow it still feels like ultimately, we all lose. In the week of the election, the British Dream sets itself up as a hostage to fortune, and predicts who'll be in the least worst position on polling day. We promise eat shards of broken glass outside Parliament if we're wrong.

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As the big day gets closer, it feels like a very different election to the one we started talking about a few weeks ago. Theresa May, sweating like she’s taken a bad pill, Jeremy Corbyn looking like he’s mainlining Xanax – what’s changed? We try and suss it out, and interview Caroline Lucas, leader of the Green Party and consider why the biggest existential threat facing humanity isn’t a blip on the electoral map.

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After the atrocity at the Manchester Arena, we headed to the city to hear how people are coping and how people are banding together in grief. We spoke to people in shock, communities refusing to be cowed, and young Muslims determined to show that the atrocity doesn’t represent them.

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With rigorous academic analysis showing Theresa May giving a straight answer just nine percent of the time, how can we expect to hold anything to account, ever? Maybe all we can do is click the “angry” button on Facebook live. Certainly, it’s difficult to know what to make of the Conservative manifesto, launched this week resembling the order of service at a posh funeral. Conversely, the Lib Dems headed to a nightclub to talk about drugs. Have a listen to the latest edition of the British Dream to catch up on another exciting campaign week.

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Welcome to Broken Britain: a housing crisis with no end in sight, hospitals that look like war zones, a welfare state in tatters. This week Theresa May finally spoke about what’s really at stake in this election, saying she’s always been in favour of fox hunting. Less significantly, Labour’s manifesto was leaked on Wednesday night giving the clearest indication yet of what’s on offer to the electorate. We discuss all this and more on this weeks' podcast, and meet France's ungovernable generation – anarchists who were so angry at their political system that they didn't vote in the presidential election.

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So far this bizarro election campaign has seen Theresa May embarrassing herself, and Jeremy Corbyn surprisingly looking vaguely like he actually wants to be there. Not that anybody seems to care. With the public having the opposite perception, does any of this even matter? Meanwhile in Brighton, angry workers were taking to the streets to make their voices heard about crappy wages and unstable jobs. Theresa May made a scary speech about the EU, and UKIP have taken a shellacking at the local elections. Join us for another episode of the British Dream as we try and find some meaning in all of this.

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After saying she wouldn't seven times, Theresa May has called a snap election. She's decided that yes, actually, she would like a mandate - so if the people would kindly give it to her she can get on with Brexit and you can't grumble. It's nice of her to ask. Fortunately The British Dream Podcast is here to articulate your hysterical delight, soothe your concerns and pretend to understand what's going on. Recorded on Wednesday 19th April 2017.

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