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The Owen Jones Podcast

I Quit Labour After 24 Years. This Is The Alternative.

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Government, News, News & Politics, Politics

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Think there's no hope? Think again. This is how: https://wedeservebetter.uk/


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0:29.0

co-dot-K.

0:30.0

I've always been a labor guy. My great-grandad who had his wages docked in the General Stryker

0:36.8

Century Go was a labor councillor. So is my grandma, her proudest achievement, stopping a family

0:42.2

being evicted by their private landlords over Christmas.

0:45.2

My parents even met at a Labour Party meeting, romantic.

0:48.8

On my 15th birthday, my mom bought me a Labour Party membership as a present. I know. What a loser. My cat's even

0:55.2

named after Kiya Hardy, he's the first leader of Labour Party, whose picture proudly hangs

0:59.6

on my wall. Well, at least that little guy's done the name proud now I voted labor under every

1:04.5

single leader in the 21 years I'm out of life spent years working for labor MPs I've

1:08.8

campaigned for the party hundreds of times I've done a fundraiser after fundraiser for MPs on every

1:14.6

wing of the party organized countless mass canvases across the country.

1:18.6

Labour Party has been a big part of me but today I've quit. It felt pretty emotional. But you see, I can't

1:26.9

support a Labour leadership defined by dishonesty whose word you can't trust on anything, which lacks any vision, belief or principle, which is driven only for power for its own sake,

1:38.0

and which will over and over again defend the interests of the rich over those whose lives are just getting

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