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Why Cameron's Scared Of Scottish Divorce: Russell Brand The Trews (E147)

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    Hullohhhhhhh! Welcome to the trews...
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    Because Trews, in a way, is a bit
    of a scottish word, isnt it?
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    i think it means trousers
    to scottish people doesnt it?
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    The Trews is the news
    if the news were true,
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    subscribe here to get the trews every day
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    beamed directly into the middle
    of your consciousness
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    where itll sprout like a glorious flower of scotland.
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    today we're talking about scottish independence,
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    power, and democracy.
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    lets have a look though before i start piping up,
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    at what david cameron's got to say,
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    a man whose face immediately inspires love,
    deep within me.
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    [cameron] Independence would not be
    a trial separation.
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    It would be a painful divorce.
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    [laughing] what emotive piece
    of language there to use.
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    What i dont like when politicians are doing
    emotive rhetoric,
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    is how they try and do some acting?
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    like, hes now trying to do the face
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    of a person
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    "i better do a face that id do if
    i was going through a painful divorce"
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    [cameron] And as prime minister, i have to tell you
    what that would mean.
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    It would mean we no longer share
    the same currency.
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    It would mean the armed forces we've
    built up together over centuries
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    being split up forever.
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    Money, violence.
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    Thats his first things he's gone in with.
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    "Right, well, you cant have
    the queen on your money,
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    we wont let you back us up
    in our needless conflicts
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    when we're fellating the americans
    and the corporations within them!"
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    Oh... good!
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    [cameraon] It would mean the automatic
    support that you currently get
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    from british embassies when youre
    traveling around the world,
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    that would come to an end.
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    "OH NO!!! i love it when i go down the embassy,
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    when youve lost your passport or somethin like that,
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    that terrible quagmire!
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    thats what youre offering up??
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    Right. Military, money, embassies??
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    They got to embassies a bit too quick.
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    "If you think that im going to let you borrow
    my lawnmower, you can forget it!
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    Swingball(?) Fuck off,
    thats MY swingball(?) now!"
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    [cameron] It would mean over half of scottish
    mortgages suddenly from one day to the next,
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    being provided by banks in a foreign country.
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    Can you imagine that??
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    A foreigner??
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    It could be a black person!
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    we dont know what colour this person is,
    or what their accent is!
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    Theyve got their hands in your mortgage!
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    Not like those trustworthy, city of london
    plutocrat snides
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    that we have to bail out to the tune of billions
    every time they mug us off.
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    [cameron] This is what would happen.
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    An end to the things that we share together.
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    And the people of scotland must know these facts
    before they make this once and for all decision.
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    And to warn of the consequences
    is not to scare-monger.
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    When someone says "this isnt a scare monger",
    after theyve said things like
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    "you wont have any money!
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    your mortgage is going to
    be controlled by a man called Abdul!",
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    that IS scare mongering, that's why he's had to say
    "this isnt scare mongering".
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    [cameron] I say all this because i dont want the people of scotland to be sold a dream
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    that disappears.
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    If i was scottish, i think
    where have you been, you c__t?
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    It's like, he's just suddenly shown up,
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    going on about how much
    hes into everything in scotland...
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    "your mortgage, your mortgage
    is going to turn into seaweed!"
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    "there are going to be pigs
    loose in your garden!"
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    like, where have you been?
    where have you been?
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    we've been here, always.
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    [cameron] Because i would be heartbroken
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    if this family of nations that we've put together
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    and that we've done such amazing things together,
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    if this family of nations was torn apart.
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    Now hes using emotional language.
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    Its interesting isnt it?
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    "heartbreak", and "family", and "divorce".
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    Because what they know is that the Yes campaign
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    galvanizes people on a nationalistic
    tribal level.
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    scottish people have got their culture, and their folk heroes, and their myths, and their identities.
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    How can we get past that?
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    Fear, a very base...
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    "youre gonna lose your money!"
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    "your children! your children!
    theyll all fall over!"
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    "theres all broken glass on the pavement!!!"
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    And then, like, ideas that are deep in our psyche
    about family, about evoking them,
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    and heartbreak, love, and emotion.
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    But these people, like david cameron,
    like george osborne,
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    they dont understand emotion in the way we do
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    because they are institutionalized deeply in privilege
    for their entire lives,
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    theyre not people such as we understand them.
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    these are tools of corporate apparatus,
    tools of state apparatus,
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    the reason scottish people are so galvanized
    and excited by this election
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    is because as ive long said, democracy
    is typically meaningless.
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    here, for once, is a referendum where
    the outcome will affect peoples lives,
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    and people are interested.
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    theyre not apathetic.
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    That lie ends with the excitement
    around this referendum.
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    [cameron] Sometimes because its an election,
    because its a ballot,
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    i think people can feel as if
    its a bit like a general election.
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    That you make a decision and 5 years later
    you can make another decision.
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    If you're fed up with the effing tories,
    give them a kick,
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    and then maybe we'll think again...
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    Dont try and be normal, mate.
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    Dont try to...
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    "fed up the effing tories,
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    and that pie-faced, moon-faced,
    toffee-nosed, privileged,
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    tool of the cruel and corporate David Ca...
    hang onna minute!
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    I'M david cameron!!!"
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    [cameron] If scotland voted No to separation,
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    the rest of the united kingdom would say yes
    to further devolution.
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    It's been good in the campaign that we've
    been able to say more about that,
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    and i think thats a positive.
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    "No" doesnt mean no change.
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    [reporter] But it all looks terribly last minute
    in terms of the timetable and the detail.
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    You were the prime minister
    who agreed the referendum,
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    but also kept DevoMax off the ballot paper.
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    Im glad they kept DevoMax off the ballot paper.
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    Sounds like a drink full of aspartame.
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    [in kind of west coast american accent] DevoMax,
    why not try DevoMax?
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    It's a meaningless compromise!"
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    Theyre trying to pull you into the bureaucracy
    all the time.
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    Can scotland be independent and keep sterling?
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    hows scotland gonna defend itself?
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    how much north sea oil revenue
    can independent scotland extract?
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    Devolution of the NHS.
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    Currency union.
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    EU!
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    Really though, this is about,
    well you know what this is about,
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    this is about peoples emotions, and peoples
    sense of connection to land;
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    and their sense of having some authority
    and ownership of their lives.
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    Feelings that we dont get anymore
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    because we know that politics is abstracted from us,
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    and interacts in some
    aloof ethereal world of high finance.
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    with us, theyre just like "oh yes, a billion,
    its going to cost a billion to save the NHS,
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    we aint got it im afraid.
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    Theres been a financial collapse!
    We need 700 billion to save the city!
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    Here you go!!!"
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    I... wh... do... whaaat?
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    So like now when people get an opportunity
    to interact and engage
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    with something they feel affects them,
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    theyre interested and theyre impassioned,
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    and i would say that
    we dont only want devolution for scotland,
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    we want further devolution,
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    devolution right down to the city level.
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    an independent manchester.
    an independent newcastle.
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    an independent london.
    independence everywhere.
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    so we're all engaged, we're all controlling our
    own authorities, our municipal authorities,
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    our own utilities and facilities,
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    because what theyve got...
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    when theyre talking about power,
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    "we're more powerful together!"
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    Who's power?
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    who gets to use that power?
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    does the NHS get to use that power?
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    do unemployed people get to
    use that power?
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    do homeless people
    get to use that power?
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    who's power is it?
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    people like david cameron's,
    RICH peoples power.
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    [cameron] I feel passionately about
    our united kingdom.
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    i desperately want our country[sic] to stay together.
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    i very much hope that scotland will vote "No",
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    and that will trigger further devolution.
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    but im a democrat.
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    "im a democrat! i like democracy! where
    rich people vote about rich people stuff,
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    and then we do rich people things!
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    THIS kind of democracy, where ordinary
    people vote? I dont like this very much!!"
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    Democracy, in a democracy, you wouldnt have
    the leaders of all 3 parties all going up,
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    & even Farage [UK Independence Party leader], all 4 of them going up there together to say exactly the same thing.
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    Theres your democracy.
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    theres your choice.
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    they all believe the same thing.
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    the y all work for the same people.
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    for scotland, i hope its better.
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    i hope alex salmond and the government
    that you get in an independent scotland
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    is better,
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    and that the power goes to the people,
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    not to the corporations that the
    politicians work for.
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    [cameron] I want our united kingdom
    to stay together.
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    i believe we're stronger, safer, better off.
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    i think YOURE stronger, safer, better off.
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    [cameron] In this dangerous world of
    instability and problems and threats,
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    the most recent of which
    we can see from Syria and Iraq.
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    WHAT???
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    What? ISIS?
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    "Like... we've spoken to ISIS,
    they said if scotland go independent,
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    theyre gonna go over there and lop heads off
    left and bloody right!"
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    [reporter] do you wish that you personally perhaps
    and the union campaign,
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    had made more effort earlier on?
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    [cameron] Well i believe i fought this campaign
    very hard,
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    this is something like my
    11th major intervention into this campaign.
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    "IM INTERVENING! IN THE CAMPAIGN!"
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    [singing] "This is the campaign!
    It's going quite badly!"
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    What this is, is people sense
    a little bit of autonomy,
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    people sense a little bit of democracy,
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    and people are impassioned
    and people are interested.
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    i think, give people more democracy,
    give people something worth voting for,
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    and everyone will vote for it,
    including me.
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    [cameron] It is a campaign of all of
    those parties and people and trade unions
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    and voluntary bodies and charities,
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    and people who have nothing to do with politics
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    who want scotland to stay part
    of our family of nations
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    and those who want us to leave.
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    Well just decide for yourselves, eh?
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    if i had any opportunity to vote
    and fuck them lot off?
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    id vote for it.
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    i hope one day all of us get an opportunity
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    to vote for a new kind of politics...
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    im not saying thats what scotland are getting,
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    but im saying that the feeling, the euphoria,
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    the excitement, the unity,
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    among scottish people,
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    is precisely because it does feel like theres a point.
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    and that exposes the flaw in our democracy,
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    that it IS meaningless,
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    and they DO serve absent corporate bodies,
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    not the population theyre elected to serve.
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    That is some trews!
Title:
Why Cameron's Scared Of Scottish Divorce: Russell Brand The Trews (E147)
Description:

Russell Brand The Trews (E147).
Reaction to David Cameron's stark message to the people of Scotland that they would face a "painful divorce" from the rest of UK if they voted for independence in the referendum.
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Captions by the Radical Access Mapping Project, 2014
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Video Language:
English
Duration:
10:02

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