75. Boris Johnson should be arrested
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Owen Jones
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🗓️ 29 April 2021
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What does it say about a country which locks up young black men for drug offences, while the Prime Minister not only presides over mass death, but talks of letting the bodies pile up and COVID-19 let rip? The bodies did pile up - all because of the conscious decisions taken by our rulers. That they are set to get away with it speaks of a country devoid of justice.
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| 0:00.0 | What does justice even mean? Around 80,000 people in the United Kingdom are in prison. |
| 0:14.4 | Behind bars for offenses that are very, some are behind lock-in-key for property crimes, |
| 0:21.2 | others for drug offenses, others for violence, up to and including murder. But no one, no |
| 0:29.2 | one is behind bars in this country for intentionally, willfully, allowing the deaths of tens of |
| 0:37.7 | thousands of their own people before their own time often suffering grim, lonely deaths |
| 0:46.0 | with not even their loved ones to hold their hands as they take their last gasps. |
| 0:52.5 | How is this justice system, which arrests young black men for possession of cannabis and |
| 0:59.5 | cocaine, which cracks down on impoverished benefit claimants for allegedly playing the system, |
| 1:08.0 | whilst allowing rich multinationals to avoid paying billions of pounds worth of tax every single |
| 1:15.2 | year with entirely legal loopholes? It is not a system which holds to account an old |
| 1:23.6 | Etonian Prime Minister who boasts of allowing the bodies of his own citizens to pile up a national |
| 1:33.6 | catastrophe of mass death that was entirely avoidable were it not for the decisions that he personally |
| 1:42.6 | took? Boris Johnson allegedly declared that he would rather see the bodies pile up in their |
| 1:49.1 | thousands. He repeatedly allegedly declared he would rather let coronavirus let rip rather than |
| 1:57.5 | have a national lockdown because of the damage it would inflict on private businesses. These are not |
| 2:04.0 | allegations being spread by the left. They are being splashed on right wing conservative newspapers. |
| 2:11.1 | They have been corroborated by multiple sources and they have been weakly denied by a government |
| 2:18.4 | which is led by the serial liar Boris Johnson who has been sacked twice in his career for lying. |
| 2:25.9 | Boris Johnson clearly said all of those things but these grotesque nauseating utterances should |
| 2:34.0 | be treated for what they are. Confessions for what all of us must know deep down, all of us must |
| 2:42.3 | know happened which is that despite all the advance warning from Wuhan, from northern Italy, |
| 2:49.8 | the government failed to act and allowed their own citizens to die breaking the most |
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