George Osborne: The Man Who Wrecked Britain
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
George Osborne now graces our TV screens as an oh-so-wise pundit, dispensing his informed and learned tidbits about British politics like a detached observer. But no single person is more responsible for the mess this country is in than Osborne: his cruel ideologically-driven austerity agenda whipped up a whirlwind of discontent which helps explain our current plight. This rehabilitation of monsters - and the failure to hold the powerful to account - is why we will keep suffering over and over again.
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| 0:20.2 | There are many politicians who you could hold responsible and hold to account |
| 0:24.0 | for the mayhem that Britain has gone through over the last few years. |
| 0:27.6 | What you could describe is the great chaos since 2016, |
| 0:31.6 | which is, as you've lived through it and probably aware, |
| 0:34.5 | just constant chaos, tumult, turmoil. |
| 0:39.3 | Now, you could argue Boris Johnson. |
| 0:41.8 | He's like the obvious one that comes to people's heads as the big villain |
| 0:45.5 | of our time. |
| 0:46.3 | He's a obvious charlatan, a liar, someone who, in terms of Brexit, |
| 0:52.5 | cynically bats the leave campaign for his own political ends, |
| 0:56.4 | given he penned a column supporting Remain. |
| 0:59.5 | Someone whose political record is drenched in cynical deceit. |
| 1:04.5 | You could make a case for someone like Theresa May who, again, |
| 1:08.6 | like a lot of these villains gets rehabilitated when, |
| 1:12.0 | once more, her whole career was based on baiting and scapegoating migrants, |
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