Farage On Course TO BECOME PM - Warns Labour MP
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Owen Jones
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🗓️ 10 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | So, Labour got absolutely massacred. Might as well just speak plainly right now. I'm really |
| 0:05.5 | delighted to be joined by one of the few good Labour MPs remaining by which I mean a Labour MP |
| 0:11.9 | stands for redistributed wealth and power from the many to the few, public ownership, |
| 0:16.7 | not arming genocides, that kind of thing. Do what the Labour Party should be doing. |
| 0:21.8 | He's Richard Bergen, who is the MP for Leeds East, |
| 0:24.6 | which he's represented now for over a decade. |
| 0:27.0 | He used to be shadow secretary for justice, |
| 0:30.7 | shadow Lord Chancellor, |
| 0:31.7 | Rick Domy Corbyn was the leader. |
| 0:34.1 | Hello, Richard. How you doing? |
| 0:35.7 | I'm not too bad, I know. |
| 0:36.8 | I've just been speaking at the RMT |
| 0:39.8 | grades conference in Wakefield. So I've just popped outside. Eddie Dempsey's speaking in there at |
| 0:45.2 | the moment, I spoke earlier. So we just popped outside to do this interview. So hopefully you can |
| 0:50.9 | hear me just about okay. Yeah, it's all good. Just so everyone knows, that's, of course, the Rail and Maritime and Transport Workers Union, which is obviously represented at the top by Eddie Dempsey. Yeah, Richard, let's just go in, shall we? Just give me a summary, first of all, because I want to find out what the hell Labor MPs are going to do. |
| 1:12.6 | I'm going to talk about what you think about all that. |
| 1:15.7 | Just how Cassius profit are we talking? |
| 1:23.6 | Well, it's an existential threat for the Labour Party, but the real threat, the real threat is the threat of a far-right government. |
| 1:26.4 | You know, we saw that in these local elections. |
| 1:28.0 | I think if a general election were held tomorrow, we'd end up with Farage as Prime Minister and a kind of Trump-style government over |
| 1:33.0 | here, and that's completely frightening. You know, we've seen reform take so many seats. I'm actually |
| 1:39.4 | doing this interview from Wakefield, where now reform have taken over there's only one Labour |
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