General Election NOW!
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
As Liz Truss is forced out of office, Britain will have its third prime minister this year. Whether it's Rishi Sunak, Penny Mordaunt or indeed Boris Johnson - who is plotting a return - this farce leaves Britain in an economic and soil death spiral. Only a general election gives this country hope of being prised away from the grip of these lunatics - but will the Tories ever allow an election which could wipe them out? And how much is the Tory crisis about something far more profound - a broken economic model that itself has to go?
We're joined by the brilliant economist Faiza Shaheen.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, forgot to add myself to the stream. What a beginning. Sorry, I'm just too excited. |
| 0:14.0 | There's quite a lot going on right now. Um, and breathe and breathe, fully enough. Something |
| 0:20.0 | quite similar is probably being said to Liz Truss at this very moment, where to begin. |
| 0:24.0 | We're doing a very important to live stream because I think it would have been kind of rude |
| 0:28.0 | to not to be given the circumstances. Um, if you just joined us, if you just tuned in, |
| 0:34.0 | uh, maybe you've had a busy day, the Prime Minister's gone. Um, so just a bear in mind, |
| 0:38.8 | just put that perspective. By the time a new Prime Minister takes over, which is probably |
| 0:44.4 | going to happen in a few, but in a week, that's the time scale. Britain will have had nearly |
| 0:49.5 | 30% of its Prime Ministers since World War II in the last six years. So since 2016, |
| 0:56.8 | about 30% of British Prime Ministers, but in mind, World War II ended 77 years ago, |
| 1:03.8 | up 30% of them in the last six years. But what makes this even more credible is there |
| 1:09.1 | hasn't been a change of government in that time. It's not as though, you know, it's been a period |
| 1:13.6 | of political instability in the sense that one, you know, there's lots of parties taking over and |
| 1:19.4 | you know, laboratory, laboratory because they're too unstable in government. The same people |
| 1:23.4 | have been in power. This is a political death cult. It should, they chewed up David Cameron, |
| 1:29.7 | they chewed up Theresa May, they chewed up Boris Johnson, they chewed up Lizard Trust, the shortest |
| 1:35.7 | serving Prime Minister in the history of course of British democracy. And now, or just a British |
| 1:40.5 | history, actually, sorry, democracy aside. Um, and now the next victim is about to take over, |
| 1:45.4 | of course, we will be talking about that. Now, obviously, you might think a bit of shadowing |
| 1:49.7 | for it. I think it needs to be careful there, because obviously the consequences of what |
| 1:52.8 | Lizard Trust have done a pretty catastrophic for millions of people who've already, and I do always |
| 1:57.8 | mention the statistic, because you can't understand the plight of this country, which has been |
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