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The Owen Jones Podcast

Keir Starmer Promises Misery: Don't Be Conned By It

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

The Labour Government is promising the same crap which trashed this country in the first place.


They want you to believe there's no alternative. There is!

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0:00.0

It gives me no pleasure to quote the hives and say,

0:03.3

hate to say, I told you so.

0:05.6

For a very long time it has been clear that Kia Starmer,

0:08.8

a prime minister, offers no meaningful alternative to the conservatives and that he was going to double down on the

0:14.8

same failed economic policies which have trashed this country, breeding insecurity, hardship,

0:21.0

turmoil, you name it.

0:22.8

That's why some of us argued that given the Tories were Finito,

0:25.6

you could vote, say Green or Independent without risk

0:28.3

and help put pressure on labour.

0:30.0

That was about laying the foundations

0:31.8

for what comes next, of which more towards the

0:34.5

end of this video. Now today Kistama has done a little speech in Downing Street

0:37.7

in which to be blood he promises misery. That's on top of the misery of the

0:41.6

last 16 years since the 2008 crash

0:45.0

when social progress in this country essentially ground to a whole

0:49.0

after which British workers suffered the longest squeeze in wages since the Battle of Waterloo.

0:54.5

We've had stagnant growth, weak productivity, undefunded and indeed vandalized public services

0:59.6

which are falling apart and all the resulting turmoil and division which emerges from that misery.

1:05.2

Now let's listen to the Prime Minister, Sir Kist Tharma, as he stands behind a lectern and

1:09.2

blazoned with fixing the foundations, which is a funny way of describing making life harder for people

1:14.8

whose lies are all ready too hard.

1:18.2

But I will be honest with you.

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