Defeated MPs Act Like Gaza Genocide's Real Victims
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🗓️ 16 July 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Just who are the real victims of Israel's genocide against the Palestinian people? |
| 0:04.8 | Now many of you might think that's an easy one to answer. |
| 0:07.6 | It's the Palestinian people. After all, tens of thousands have been slaughtered, many of them children, |
| 0:12.4 | the survivors forcibly displaced, many of the main starved, deprived of the essentials of life, their homes destroyed, living in an apocalyptic wasteland, grieving for their loved ones, wondering every moment if it will be their turn to be killed. |
| 0:26.0 | Of course, on every day, it is that moment |
| 0:30.0 | for many of them to be killed. |
| 0:32.0 | Well, it turns out not. |
| 0:34.0 | Those aren't the real victims, it turns out, are in fact |
| 0:37.0 | labour politicians who lost their seat in the general election last week |
| 0:42.0 | partly because of voters angry about Israel's |
| 0:47.0 | genocide in Gaza. Yeah that's right they're the ones who are really |
| 0:49.5 | suffering right now they're the ones we should have in our thoughts. |
| 0:52.1 | Let's start with our first victim please do get right now. They're the ones we should have in our thoughts. |
| 0:53.0 | Let's start with our first victim. |
| 0:54.4 | Please do get your violins out for Thangam Debeneer. |
| 0:57.4 | She was a Shadow Cabinet Minister, Labor. |
| 0:59.6 | She lost her seat in Bristol, central to the Green Party's co-leader, Carla Denia. |
| 1:05.7 | When I say she lost her seat, it was a safe labour seat and the Green candidate, Carla Denia, |
| 1:09.4 | won 56.6% of the vote or over 24,000 votes compared to 32.6% of the debonair and her just over 14,000 votes, |
| 1:17.7 | meaning a majority of over 10,000 of the greens, a decisive, massive swing by the green. |
| 1:22.9 | So let's just have a little listen to |
| 1:24.3 | Thangam debonair. |
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