38. LIVE SHOW: What does Keir Starmer's Labour believe in?
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🗓️ 1 March 2021
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As Labour positions itself to passionately oppose Tory plans to hike corporation tax and introduce a windfall tax on businesses which profiteered from the pandemic, it's time to ask - what does Keir Starmer's leadership actually believe in? Joining me are James Schneider - Jeremy Corbyn's former Director of Strategic Communications and spokesperson - and Zoe Williams - Guardian columnist.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hi there. Hey you. I'm Owen Jones obviously. Well not obviously it just seems a bit |
| 0:16.0 | weird that you'd have stumbled onto this show if you didn't have the basic sense of who I am. |
| 0:20.8 | And this is this is live unless you're listening on the podcast which |
| 0:25.5 | please do if you've not got stuck in do get stuck in to our podcast give us five stars just to |
| 0:31.5 | just get the word out. So today I'm torn between being in a good mood because the weather's really |
| 0:39.5 | nice it's kind of with how much of an impact that has on your mental health during a national |
| 0:44.4 | calamity but also in a bit of a gromp if I'm going to be honest largely because of the labor |
| 0:52.8 | leadership. Now in terms of doing a show about this is quite masochistic just part of me just wishes |
| 1:01.2 | we just didn't have to talk about this ever again actually but alas we are trapped in the |
| 1:08.9 | never-ending labor party show and what we're talking about today is |
| 1:15.3 | Keir's thumb is leadership what's the big deal what's the big idea what's it doing what's it's |
| 1:20.9 | what's his game plan and the reason we're talking about it is we've ended up in a situation where |
| 1:27.6 | labor is finally opposing the Tories I mean we weren't encouraging them to do that so that's |
| 1:32.1 | you you think an improvement or we weren't quite betting on is that they would oppose the Tories |
| 1:37.2 | on hiking corporation tax and a windfall tax on companies which have profited from the pandemic |
| 1:45.0 | be careful what you wish for I suppose is the lesson there now as we've spoken about a lot on the |
| 1:52.8 | show this is the midst obviously of the worst national emergency since world war two we have one |
| 1:58.6 | of the worst death tolls on earth one of the worst death rates on earth one of the worst economic |
| 2:03.0 | consequences on earth and the conservatives are getting away with it their poll lead is increasing |
| 2:08.6 | and I'm afraid a lot of the reason for that is yes the fact we have an extremely aggressive |
| 2:15.1 | partisan right ring press which essentially functions as the proper gander arm of our government |
| 2:20.0 | but the labor party has failed pretty comprehensively to pin this catastrophe on the government |
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