Jacob Rees Mogg's Bombshell Confession
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Owen Jones
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🗓️ 16 May 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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There we have it: a smoking gun, a confession of guilt. Jacob Rees Mogg has admitted the Tories are de facto trying to rig election. Here's what it means - and how we respond.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, so there we have it. An admission of guilt, a confession, a smoking gun, whatever you want to call it, |
| 0:06.4 | straight from the horse's mouth and other assorted clichés. What we warned about |
| 0:11.9 | has been proven comprehensively to be correct, not a conspiracy theory. |
| 0:17.1 | So today, a hard-right conference took place called the National Conservatism Conference, |
| 0:21.6 | which I'll talk more about. And Jacobi's Mog, who is the slightly absurd torch bearer of |
| 0:28.3 | hard-right Tory politics, declared, parties that try and Jeremy Mander end up finding their |
| 0:33.5 | clever schemes come back to bite them, as I dare say we found out by insisting on voter ID for |
| 0:38.7 | elections. We found the people who didn't have ID were elderly and they by and large voted |
| 0:43.3 | conservative, so we made it hard for our own voters and we upset a system that worked perfectly |
| 0:47.8 | well. So what Jacobi's Mog is admitting is that the point of voter ID was to Jeremy Mander, |
| 0:57.0 | the voting system in favour of the Conservatives. People like me and many others have been |
| 1:02.0 | seeing this ever since the Conservatives first floated a plan that this was searching for a problem |
| 1:07.7 | that barely exists. The cases of voter fraud, the evidence for voter fraud in this country, |
| 1:13.2 | is almost nonexistent. I mean, it's literally almost nonexistent. Year after year, every study has |
| 1:18.8 | shown that this problem is barely there. And yet instead, we end up with significant |
| 1:27.8 | norms of voters, either preventive from voting or deterred from voting. We know that as the evidence |
| 1:36.2 | shows that labour voters are the least likely to have a valid voter ID, what the Conservatives did, |
| 1:42.5 | given them as a generational divide, and younger voters are less likely to have valid ID, |
| 1:46.4 | pensioners, and I know I need to always say this because I have pensioners who watch this show, |
| 1:50.9 | this channel, or listen to the podcast, who go, hold on a minute, I'm alive from our socials, |
| 1:55.0 | how dare you. I've been a socialist, I'm going to be alive. I get that, but just statistically |
| 1:59.5 | speaking, older voters are overwhelmingly likely to support Conservatives, certainly in the last |
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