Is Boris Johnson Finally Toast?
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Boris Johnson's whole career has been about defying the laws of political gravity, often aided and abetted by a supine media. But as both him and his government are convulsed by scandal - and the country is gripped by a cost of living crisis - has his luck finally run out?
We are joined by two brilliant commentators: LBC's Iain Dale and the New Statesman's George Eaton!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to the show. Okay, we've been asking this question, |
| 0:11.1 | adding for night and now, since probably at least December, but is Boris Johnson finally dead? |
| 0:17.7 | Finito extinct, politically speaking, because I thought, I suppose in terms of Boris Johnson, |
| 0:22.8 | his whole political career has been a bit like the T-1000 at the end of Terminator 2, |
| 0:28.4 | in which, politically speaking, of course, we're talking politically speaking here in case I'm |
| 0:32.6 | competing, suggesting that I'm going to machine gun Boris Johnson Arnold Schwarzenegger, |
| 0:39.2 | but the T-1000 just wouldn't die, and his political career has been a bit like that. |
| 0:45.3 | He survived the sorts of things that normal politicians, of course, would be destroyed by, |
| 0:49.6 | before he even became Prime Minister, of course, he'd been sacked twice for lying, |
| 0:53.4 | Peter O'Bone, who's a former employee of Boris Johnson, of course, been on the show, |
| 0:58.5 | has written an extensive book about the lies in dishonesty of Boris Johnson, which he couldn't fit |
| 1:04.7 | all the lies in dishonesty at the end, so you have to set up a website to keep updating it. |
| 1:08.0 | What do we know about Boris Johnson? We know that he denied over and over again that |
| 1:10.7 | the party is a number ten, of course. We don't need to go through this really, but we know that |
| 1:13.6 | at time, in ordinary people, couldn't hold the hands of dying loved ones, and they watched their |
| 1:17.3 | relatives buried on Zoom while nurses and doctors carry the nation through its most severe |
| 1:21.9 | national emergency since World War II. He said, over and over again, the rules were followed. |
| 1:26.7 | Now, we know as a fact that that wasn't true. There were multiple parties in number ten. |
| 1:31.2 | It was like the Hasse Ender on 10s, while millions of people observed rules they understood. |
| 1:36.4 | So, when they say now that we, as a fact that Boris Johnson lied over and over again, |
| 1:41.3 | some might say that he's so addicted to dishonesty, the distinction in his head between |
| 1:45.6 | truth and lies has been completely blurred, so he doesn't know when he's lying. |
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