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The Owen Jones Podcast

Boris Johnson Returning As Prime Minister

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

How was the first time for you? Well bad luck, because Boris Johnson is set to return as Prime Minister. Rishi Sunak is toast, and Tory MPs know it, and when the Conservatives get a kicking in the May election, they'll come to conclude they have nothing to lose. Johnson is in full campaign mode, and will claim he's the only one with a mandate to replace Sunak. Brace yourself: the Johnson era mark 2 beckons.


Note: apologies - I meant the OLDEST millennials are 42!!

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0:00.0

History repeats itself, first is tragedy, and twice as fast. That's a famous paraphrase

0:06.0

of Karl Marx, the old bearded genius, in the 18th Brumeir of Louis Bonaparte, which he

0:11.7

actually wrote 170 years ago, but I think that more than applies to what must now be judged

0:17.9

I am increasingly convinced, as the inevitable return of Boris Johnson as our Prime Minister.

0:23.9

Enjoy the first time, did you? Well, not massively enjoyable, if we're going to be honest,

0:28.9

what with the mass death amongst all the other things, but I would straightly sell in because

0:35.6

I think we are in for second helpings of the Johnson era. Let's just be clean, let me just explain

0:42.1

my working out here. Now, really so much toast, I think we need to just establish that.

0:48.8

To quote Monty Python, he's not pining, he's passed on. The Prime Minister is no more,

0:54.5

he ceased to be, he's a spire, expired, and gone to meet his maker. He's stiff, bereft of life,

1:02.0

he rests in peace, I could go on, you get the gist, he's a goner. In the latest poll,

1:06.8

Labour's on 50%, and the Tories on 24%, so they're on less than half what Labour are currently on.

1:13.8

They are marching straight off a cliff into an electoral catastrophe, which may take at least

1:20.4

a generation to recover from, and there's actually a very big question mark over that,

1:24.7

and I'll explain why. As recent Financial Times research underlined, millennials, that's

1:30.4

the generation which used to be considered young, their youngest members are now 42, so not so much.

1:37.3

That generation of defining a historic trend of shifting to the right as they get older,

1:42.5

they didn't quite the opposite, and the younger generation than them, generation Z,

1:47.0

roughly born between 1996 and 2010, are also set to do the opposite. Thanks to the lived experience,

1:53.5

a broken, neoliberal economy, which promised freedom, but has in practice given them insecurity,

2:00.2

housing crisis, declining living standards, crap public infrastructure and services,

2:05.9

attack on the welfare state we could go on, as well as attacking their social values,

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