Labour MP Suspended - For Backing Peace
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 31 October 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
This is beyond outrageous. A Labour MP calls for a peaceful settlement for Israelis and Palestinians alike - and the Labour leadership suspends him for it. The attempt to demonise those opposing the current horror will only escalate - so we must speak louder.
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| 0:00.0 | This is absolutely obscene, beyond obscene. |
| 0:03.3 | Let me just try and contain my righteous rage, |
| 0:06.3 | at what's just happened. |
| 0:07.7 | Now, Animate Donald is a brilliant Labour MP, |
| 0:09.9 | one of a diminishing number of Labour MPs, |
| 0:12.2 | who believes in old fashioned ideas, |
| 0:14.2 | like social justice, redistributed wealth and power, |
| 0:16.9 | and indeed peace. |
| 0:18.1 | Now, he served in Keir Starmer's Shadow Cabinet until 2021, |
| 0:21.6 | when he resigned in protest at the leadership's |
| 0:23.8 | refusal to back a genuine living wage, |
| 0:26.1 | as well as Starmer's general master's guarding |
| 0:28.3 | of his leadership pledges. |
| 0:30.1 | You know, things like nationalisation of utilities, |
| 0:32.4 | increasing taxes on the rich, scrapping tuition fees. |
| 0:35.0 | And I would say particularly relevant today, |
| 0:36.8 | putting Cuban rights at the heart of foreign policy, his words. |
| 0:41.0 | Now, he has been suspended, |
| 0:43.2 | Animate Donald, from the Labour Party, |
| 0:45.5 | for the most innocuous call for peace imaginable. |
| 0:48.3 | He spoke at the mass rally this Saturday, |
| 0:51.4 | which I attended in London, |
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