{"id":1798,"date":"2016-03-24T18:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T18:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canterburypolitics.wordpress.com\/?p=1798"},"modified":"2018-09-18T15:25:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T14:25:40","slug":"cefeus-director-talks-brexit-fracking-and-trump-with-lembit-opik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/2016\/03\/24\/cefeus-director-talks-brexit-fracking-and-trump-with-lembit-opik\/","title":{"rendered":"CEFEUS Director talks Brexit, fracking, and Trump with Lembit Opik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Listeners to Lembit Opik\u2019s programme on Radio Kent heard a discussion on the consequences of \u2018Brexit\u2019 earlier this month as CEFEUS Director Dr Amelia Hadfield appeared on the show alongside Sir Roger Gale, Conservative MP for North Thanet and Henry Bolton, UKIP\u2019s candidate for Kent Police and Crime Commissioner. <!--more-->Dr Hadfield discussed issues in the news \u2013 including fracking and global warming \u2013 before discussion turned to the thorny question of Britain\u2019s relationship with Europe and the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Discussion cohered around three topics; the consequences of a Brexit on the current refugee crisis, the legalisation and regulation of drug use in Britain, and\u00a0the significance of Donald Trump\u2019s rise in the Republican primaries in the US.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The programme is available to listen to at the link below. Dr Hadfield\u2019s contribution begins at 0:22:00. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p03jy5tr#play\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p03jy5tr#play<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listeners to Lembit Opik\u2019s programme on Radio Kent heard a discussion on the consequences of \u2018Brexit\u2019 earlier this month as CEFEUS Director Dr Amelia Hadfield appeared on the show alongside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161081,"featured_media":3801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[113,281,1909,2257],"class_list":["post-1798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-amelia-hadfield","tag-brexit","tag-refugees","tag-us-politics"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"authorName":"Anna Vanaga","featuredImage":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/645\/2016\/04\/picture2.jpg","postExcerpt":"Listeners to Lembit Opik\u2019s programme on Radio Kent heard a discussion on the consequences of \u2018Brexit\u2019 earlier this month as CEFEUS Director Dr Amelia Hadfield appeared on the show alongside [&hellip;]","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4962,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions\/4962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}