

Femi Oluwole is a spokesperson for Our Future Our Choice, a group of young people campaigning to stop Brexit. He’s gone head to head with key pro-Brexit figures including Nigel Farage and Katie Hopkins and it’s only a matter of time before he’s invited onto Question Time. The son of Nigerian doctors he grew up in the North East of England and had moved 14 times by the age of 14, later studying EU law in Brussels and Vienna.
On this episode we cover:
His busy life trying to block Brexit
Spending his life on Mega Bus and not sleeping
Visiting the Northern Irish border
The sheep farmer who will quit if Brexit goes ahead
Lisa’s Brexit confessions
Sane leavers v the not very sane
Stalking Nigel Farage
Arguing with Nigel Farage
Being vilified by The Daily Mail and Daily Express
Studying EU law
Being born in 1990
Lisa makes a drugs confession
Summing up the single market for David Cameron
Why people voted Brexit
The political class and ‘elites’
Japan, Nissan, 27,000 factory jobs and Sunderland
London and the Metropolitan elite
British Immigrants in London
The jobs and investment being in London
Social integration
Outside of London being neglected
Voting out when you thought we would stay in
What Femi did on the night of the election
Lisa’s election result night confession from Soho (yes another confession)
And sorry to the mixed race couple we totally embarrassed on referendum result night
How leavers might think we’re pathetic
Being born in Darlington but moving to Middlesbrough, Dundee, Swansea, Birmingham, Worcestershire, Nottingham and more.
Blaming Will Smith, The Fresh Prince and Kenan and Kal for his American accent
Moving to Brussels – and who has the best chips (mayonnaise or Samurai sauce)
The true spirit of Europe
British weapons being used by Saudi Arabia in Yemen
Why people are against the Human Rights Act
His Dad being born next to Highbury Stadium
Casual racism he experienced as a child (his magic hand!)
Feeling special
His Nigerian doctor parents
Posh, wealthy Nigerian
NHS doctors from the EU and abroad – EU making up 10% of our doctors
Immigrants are keeping us alive
Would we want to pick fruit?
Working in bars
How Vienna is the prettiest city he’s been to
Working for the EU’s Fundamental Right’s Agency
Ditching law due to his ‘hero complex’ and wanting to make a difference
Leaving before he lost his soul
His twitter following
Heading into Birmingham’s Bullring with a EU placard
‘Some random kid from Darlington leading the EU debate’
Experts and not trusting experts
Trump’s #fakenews
Within 5 year of the referendum how the population will be remainers
Inderef1 and the people’s vote
Being no way to solve the Northern Irish border situation, the 1998 Good Friday Agreement and EU lorries
The danger of leaving the EU without having a say in the rules
How we were top of the pile in the UE
What Femi will do if we leave the EU
How people will feel if it Brexit doesn’t go ahead
The will of the people cannot be undermined by another referendum – if the will of the people is to change our minds then that is the will of the people
Not seeing a decent Brexit plan –Chequers
Being in economic interest to do business with our closest neighbours
Femi for Prime Minister!
Moving number 10 to Birmingham
Not liking London – cycling, talking to people, being isolating and too warm.
The inequalities and heat of Nigeria and outside Lagos, gated communities, corruption and crime
Studying an Erasmus year abroad in France
The romantic complexities of falling in love with a French lesbian, getting cheated on by a German
Daring to say anything in French
People’s personalities changing when they speaking another language
Working a ski season in a hotel in France
How he’s too crazy to drink alcohol
Skiing in a cape and swimming shorts
Living in 14 houses by the time he was 14
The Back Street Boys in Bromsgrove