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The Owen Jones Podcast

Jacob Rees Mogg Talking Total Rubbish

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

It's easy to just ignore this nonsense - but it's dangerous, and it needs to be taken apart.

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0:00.0

J.K. Reece Morgh, what do you even say?

0:03.2

Well, not Sir J.K. Reece Morgh, despite being knighted in Boris Johnson's

0:07.7

honour's list, the disgraced PM's form honour's list.

0:10.8

I'm not indulging that nonsense, it's Reece Morgh.

0:14.0

Now, for years, hands up here, I was one of those who did not take this man seriously.

0:18.6

I regard him as a slightly laughable caricature.

0:21.2

Essentially, a kind of like recruitment tool for anyone who opposed the conservatives.

0:26.2

Just put a picture of J.K. Reece Morgh up, get them to sign up.

0:29.6

I didn't realise he'd end up helping to run the country, as he did for a very long time.

0:34.6

The last few years really have been actually a nightmare, if we're going to be honest.

0:39.2

Now, he's typical of the hardcore right in his country.

0:41.6

Supports things like slashing tax on the rich, privatisation, deregulation, smashing unions.

0:46.6

All of the things which have left this country in a big burning skip of a mess.

0:51.6

He's also, to put it bluntly, not on the right side of the climate argument.

0:57.6

What he does is try to argue that our attempt to take on what I must emphasise as an existential threat to our existence.

1:05.6

I prefer our species to continue, which is why we need net zero, which is we have net zero carbon emissions.

1:13.6

Otherwise, what's going to happen is we're all going to suffer catastrophic consequences,

1:18.6

which we can already see with increasing extreme weather events.

1:21.6

In any case, he argues that our attempt to have net zero is what is making people's bills so expensive.

1:27.6

Let's just hear what he says and take his nonsense to pieces.

1:30.6

A UGAR poll commissioned by the Sun has revealed that the British people's number one priority is tackling inflation or reducing bills.

1:37.6

Cheap energy is the key for lower inflation and economic growth.

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