22. LIVE SHOW: Why Isn't Starmer's Labour Doing Better In The Polls?
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Owen Jones
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🗓️ 12 February 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Britain has one of the worst death tolls and economic crises caused by the pandemic on earth - but the Tories have a lead, and the recent polling suggests it's growing. Joining me to discuss why - and what the left's strategy should be - are author Grace Blakeley, cultural theorist Jeremy Gilbert, and pollster Carl Shoben.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, hello, whether you are watching this live on YouTube or Facebook or somewhere |
| 0:12.9 | else or you are listening to this on our brand spanking new exciting podcast, which is so |
| 0:18.3 | exciting and I'm very excited about and it's doing very well because of you. It is really |
| 0:22.4 | cold. It's just terribly cold. We haven't worn you up tonight. The cockles of your heart |
| 0:27.4 | with incisive political analysis. It's going to be really good actually. I'm actually very |
| 0:32.2 | excited about the show because it's going to be lively. It's going to be thoughtful. We're |
| 0:38.0 | going to bombard you with loads of interesting facts. I'm going to learn stuff. You're going |
| 0:41.4 | to learn stuff. It's going to be great. My cat, I've just realised he's going to steal the |
| 0:45.8 | show. I was wanting to take the cat out. I was wanting to take the show. If you're listening, |
| 0:50.4 | my cat has invaded the studio, which is of course by living room. Anyway, we march. Today, we are |
| 0:59.0 | talking about the Labour Party. Why not? I don't know what I've done in a previous life to be |
| 1:04.6 | cursed to have to talk about the Labour Party as a essentially one of the pillars of my job. |
| 1:09.3 | That is also the case with two of the three of the guests that I have today as well. That is |
| 1:16.1 | we must have done something pretty heinous in the past life. What we're talking about is we're |
| 1:20.2 | talking about the fact we are living, I'm sure you've noticed, through a terrible national |
| 1:24.8 | emergency, which is horrifically killed, around 115,000 to 120,000 of our fellow citizens. One |
| 1:32.9 | of the worst death tolls on earth, the worst death rate, other than Slovenia and Belgium. |
| 1:38.5 | And yet, Labour is not ahead in the polls. In fact, Labour is doing worse on average than |
| 1:43.5 | it won in 2017, the election, which has been erased from history. It never happened. And also, |
| 1:49.4 | it's worse on average than the polling Labour had between June 2017 and the beginning of 2019. However, |
| 1:56.1 | Keir Starmer does have the best leadership ratings of any Labour leader for a decade. I say that |
| 2:01.1 | because we do stick to the facts. And that is an important fact. And we're going to talk about where |
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