George Osborne Is No Victim: Why 'Confettigate' Is Nonsense
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Owen Jones
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🗓️ 12 July 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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This whole episode is so revealing about what our political and media elite condemn - and what they ignore.
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| 0:00.0 | Why do our political and media ecosystems treat some things as deserving of scandal, |
| 0:05.2 | of outrage, and others not? Now, this has crossed my mind, and I know the minds of some of you |
| 0:10.5 | as well. Ever since a storm broke over a woman throwing orange confetti at George Osborne, |
| 0:16.7 | our former chancellor, who helped ruin the country, and his wife, who is also his former chief |
| 0:22.2 | of staff, the erogers. Now, just up oil were originally blamed for this stunts because the confetti |
| 0:29.0 | was orange, which is the colour they associated with, but they denied it was them, though they defended |
| 0:34.8 | the right of the protester, who we actually know absolutely nothing about. We don't know anything |
| 0:39.5 | about her or her identity. Now, I went on good morning Britain this morning, which I always love doing. |
| 0:44.5 | So, always a privilege, but as you can hear, I did have to struggle a bit to make my point, |
| 0:48.7 | which is fine. I'm a big boy. I can take it, but do hit the like button and subscribe if you |
| 0:55.1 | appreciate my efforts. The reason I get frustrated about it is what we get out |
| 0:58.6 | raised about in politics and what we don't. There was an academic study by the University of Glasgow, |
| 1:04.7 | which found that because of austerity policies pursued by George Osborne, |
| 1:08.3 | there were excess deaths. You're losing the room, Owen. Do you know what I'll do? My job here, |
| 1:14.6 | losing the room. What are you losing the room? No, I'm going to say there's no no no. |
| 1:20.9 | I'm talking about thea, wadjars, wadjars, they work for the BBC, you work for Tony Blair, |
| 1:25.0 | I have to go forward. Just getting married. Ed, I know your best buddies with this guy now. |
| 1:29.3 | I know your best buddies this guy. I know your best buddies. |
| 1:32.4 | I know. Allow him to stay. |
| 1:35.6 | Okay. I'm saying, well, I'm best buddies, and I'm here's a shovel. |
| 1:39.1 | Because there's a shovel because there is policies debating points aside. |
| 1:42.4 | I'm not allowed to say it. Yes, you are. No, we can just you can carry on. |
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