Government Lying Through Its Teeth - And The Media Conspiring With Them
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 30 July 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Labour spent the general election lying through their teeth and they were directly facilitated by most of the British media and yeah the Tories were also lying through their teeth |
| 0:09.6 | But they were always rightly going to get their asses kicked, as happened, and lose. |
| 0:14.4 | So their lies were an abstraction rather than about what was actually going to happen. |
| 0:18.2 | Now, notice how you're suddenly hearing a lot about Labour saying, |
| 0:22.0 | bad news everyone, things are much worse than you |
| 0:24.7 | think there's a 28 billion pound black hole or shortfall in the nation's finances |
| 0:29.7 | so this week the front page for example of the Guardian was Chancellor to reveal 20 billion |
| 0:35.7 | Pounds shortfall in public finances the front page of the Sunday Times today 20 |
| 0:41.8 | billion pounds black hole covered up by the Tories. |
| 0:46.2 | So is this what's actually happened? |
| 0:49.2 | Have poor old labour marched into the corridors of power, rifle through the filing cabinets and the top secret under padlock |
| 0:56.7 | spreadsheets and gone, oh my word. Things are so much worse than we thought, Guys, if you see this, hey Billy, |
| 1:03.7 | paz a year, where the hell did this come from? |
| 1:05.7 | In the words of Phoebe from friends. |
| 1:07.7 | That is brand new information. |
| 1:10.0 | For those who listen to me during the election, don't worry, I won't be offended if you had better things to do, I said two things consistently. |
| 1:17.0 | One, that there would be a labor landslide so you could vote Green or independent without risk, and two two baked into the nation's finances |
| 1:24.3 | based admittedly on arbitrary fiscal rules we'll talk about that there was a 20 billion |
| 1:28.0 | pound a year shortfall now I said this because it was clear labour did not want to talk about this 20 billion pounds. |
| 1:34.6 | Why you might ask? |
| 1:35.6 | Good he's used to battle the Tories, points on how they'd left the country in a mess. |
| 1:40.0 | Well because Labour ruled out borrowing, so they then either had to set out which taxes were going |
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