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The Owen Jones Podcast

Boris Johnson's Scandalous Latest Move

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Just when you think Boris Johnson can't shock you anymore with his general moral depravity, here's there to surprise you! The disgraced former prime minister has nominated his own father for a knighthood: yes, the Stanley Johnson who stands accused of sexual assault and domestic violence. This sums up not just the moral corruption of Johnson - but how rotten our entire honours and peerage system is - and indeed our entire Establishment.

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0:00.0

Now whatever you want to say about Boris Johnson and in my case the list is pretty endless

0:05.1

given the credit that he's due because this guy he never fails to surprise.

0:09.6

Now you I think to yourself wow this guy is so deep down in the gutter he's as morally

0:16.0

corrupt as it's possible to get and then he comes along and finds new ways to repel you

0:21.6

with his horrendous behaviour. Now it's been reported that he has nominated his father

0:27.2

Stanley Johnson for a knighthood. Now this is an absurd country in many ways absurd not because

0:34.2

of the vast majority of people who live here not because of that customs like the queuing system

0:38.5

or passively aggressively totting on the train when so many crisps a bit too loudly but because

0:45.2

of the way that our establishment works. Now it's already been the case for many years that

0:50.8

Boris Johnson's sister Rachel Johnson and his father Stanley Johnson have been prominent media

0:56.4

figures often commenting on this or that later scandal that their brother her all son of course

1:01.9

in the case of Stanley Johnson has been involved in. Now our media elite is a profoundly

1:06.8

incestuous place often full of people from the same family operates a bit like some bizarre

1:12.3

hereditary aristocracy but our disgrace and he is a disgraced former prime minister of course

1:19.2

trying to nominate his own father for a knighthood. Well at this point the Johnson's are just

1:25.2

sticking their things up at us and yelling ha ha how'd you like that up to you so to speak.

1:32.2

Now basically the former prime minister gets to appoint knighthoods in a resignation on his list

1:39.6

and so he's put a hundred people forward compared to 60 in the case of Theresa May.

1:46.2

He already nominated successfully his brother Joe Johnson a former Tory minister for a

1:52.5

peerage back in 2020 so that guy is now Lord Johnson of Marlobone but let's just consider

1:58.0

who Stanley Johnson is. See what merit this guy has on his own terms for getting the fact he is of

2:05.2

course the father of the former prime minister who's nominated him for this honour. Caroline

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