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The Owen Jones Podcast

Boris Johnson: How Low Can He Go

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

You think Boris Johnson's capacity to disgust and repulse you will finally meet his limit... and then he writes another column.


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0:00.0

What was it like to live in Britain before a modern sewage system was created?

0:05.3

The stench must have been so overpowering that people must have felt pretty nauseous

0:09.9

a lot of the time.

0:10.9

I suppose the counter argument to that is that it was so relentless, so constant that it

0:16.1

became kind of normalised that people almost shrugged their shoulders saying well what

0:21.2

would you expect?

0:23.1

That brings me to the existence of Boris Johnson, our very own modern day open sewer.

0:28.0

Now he's stopped being Prime Minister nearly a year ago and I'd say woohoo got rid of him.

0:34.2

Except we're still stuck with his deranged political party which in lots of fundamental

0:39.7

ways has become even more unhinged since he was forced out of office so it was wise to

0:44.8

keep the champagne on ice but nonetheless he still finds ways, I would say creative,

0:51.0

ingenious ways to repulse and discuss which brings me on to the male column he wrote.

0:57.4

He is of course employed by the male, one of the many ways he's caching it in but he

1:02.1

wrote about the lionesses in advance of the World Cup.

1:04.7

Now how is it possible for a problem of politicians to write a column about the lionesses that

1:09.0

disgusts?

1:10.0

Because it's pretty easy to just write on it full of platitudes, woohoo, go lionesses,

1:15.1

inspiring, encouraging women's sports, something for us all to cheer on, maybe I'd say some

1:20.2

good political conclusions about how we could better resource and support women's sports,

1:25.2

take on stigma, that kind of thing.

1:27.1

Now here's what Boris Johnson wrote, the headline is, I'd start the Taliban into their

1:31.8

chairs on Sunday, make them watch our lionesses until they understand the skill strength and

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