Is This The End Of Boris Johnson?
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
As Boris Johnson is plunged into crisis over the multiple secret parties that happened in 10 Downing Street that he and his government are lying about, is it over for the Prime Minister? Joining us are Novara's Ash Sarkar and Jo Goodman from COVID Bereaved Families, who lost her dad to a virus the government allowed to let rip with catastrophic consequences.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to a special show. Now, on the day that government staff has |
| 0:12.4 | partied, let's drop a allegedly partied. They partied, all right. In fact, they repartied |
| 0:17.5 | repeatedly. But on the 18th of December, one of the many parties that we're discussing, |
| 0:22.2 | they British hospitals in this country were overwhelmed by the dead and the dying. There were |
| 0:27.9 | 514 deaths reported that day and 2,000 people stricken with COVID were hospitalised all across |
| 0:36.4 | the country. None of them with the comfort, of course, of their relatives. Now, many of them would |
| 0:41.1 | die without their loved ones holding their hands, having only the love and support of our shell |
| 0:46.6 | shocked and overwhelmed army of NHS staff and ventilators. Sacrifices made by tens of millions |
| 0:54.8 | of people and indeed billions of people across the world, tens of millions of people in this country, |
| 0:59.2 | the greatest sacrifices anyone has made collectively in this country since Nazi bonds |
| 1:04.3 | rained on our shores. Now, we've suffered the separation from our loved ones, |
| 1:08.6 | educations and livelihoods injured, 8 million Britons who live alone have suffered huge |
| 1:13.5 | amounts of solitude, huge social and economic dislocation. But it's clear, it's very clear that |
| 1:21.6 | multiple parties, I keep saying this because that is important, took place in number 10, |
| 1:25.8 | well, overwhelmingly people did comply. Now, before lockdown was imposed back in March 2020, |
| 1:34.4 | there was a view that the British public would not comply with the most intrusive and authoritarian |
| 1:40.4 | measures that have ever been imposed in the history of British civilisation, but they did |
| 1:46.5 | overwhelmingly. And those who were accused, often, and we'll talk about this wrongly accused, |
| 1:52.5 | by the way, of violating lockdown, felt the full weight of the British state come crashing down |
| 1:59.1 | on their backs, and who would have thought they were disproportionately poor and disproportionately |
| 2:04.6 | black. Now, it's easy to dismiss all of this as something that just happened that was bad |
| 2:09.1 | a year ago. But after all, the British government has done far worse things, not least |
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