Keir Starmer Backs Privatisation And Austerity
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 9 January 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
As you've noticed, the vast majority of my videos aim fire at the Tory government - but it's my job to challenge all politicians, including Labour. This week, Keir Starmer did a speech - and made clear he backs more privatisation of your NHS, and won't commit to the spending our imploding public services need. You deserve better than this - we all do.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, now firstly a bit unconventional but a little content warning for this video. |
| 0:05.6 | This is for some of the most tedious people on the internet. I'm sorry to say that but they are. |
| 0:10.6 | What you're about to see is me doing my job as an independent commentator. That involves me |
| 0:15.1 | scrutinising all frontline politicians, irrespective of which political party they happen to be a |
| 0:20.3 | member of. Now the vast majority of my output on this channel, as you can see just by scrolling through |
| 0:25.2 | the latest videos, focuses on the conservatives. Now there's obvious reasons for that. Firstly, |
| 0:30.9 | they're in government doing terrible things, mostly involving trashing the country and |
| 0:34.9 | sadistically imposing cruelty and people whose eyes are already pretty difficult. And secondly, |
| 0:39.9 | because they're the greater evil, tourism is a diseased presence on the history of this country. |
| 0:44.3 | I make new apology for using that language but it's also my job to scrutinise the opposition, |
| 0:50.1 | not least because they are the government waiting. And you see the last time Labour and power, |
| 0:54.5 | they did do some good things. For example, the minimum wage, investment in public services, |
| 0:59.0 | like the National Health Service, gay rights. They also did some bad things, like expanding privatisation, |
| 1:04.5 | attacks on civil liberties, and the small matter of the mass murder of hundreds of thousands |
| 1:09.6 | of Iraqis. Now sometimes I bring up Iraq and acolytes of Tony Blair go, oh, why is this going on |
| 1:15.6 | about Iraq boring move on? It's so last decade or whatever. I'm going to just say, just quickly, |
| 1:21.8 | describe what that behaviour is. With the word that I'm using very carefully, it is racism. Because |
| 1:26.9 | if beginning 20 years ago and continuing to this day, hundreds of thousands of white people |
| 1:31.6 | were slaughtered in an energy of violence, I don't think they'd be saying the same thing. |
| 1:35.6 | Now, given that checkered history of Labour in government, it is important to scrutinise what |
| 1:41.5 | is almost certainly going to be the next government within the next two years. So yesterday, |
| 1:45.6 | the leader of the opposition, Keir Starmer, did a speech. Now you may remember this guy. So |
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