Labour Promise Return Of Thatcherism π±
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Owen Jones
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ποΈ 26 March 2024
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| 0:00.0 | People like myself, and I'm sure this includes many of you, are often portrayed as extreme, unrealistic, never able to compromise. |
| 0:07.4 | We just want the moon on a stick. |
| 0:09.5 | Indeed, just how listen to how wild we are, believing that a wealthy country like at own has the resources and talent to overcome its many problems and crises, |
| 0:18.7 | that it's absurd that with so many riches that even one single child grows up in poverty that we should be able to |
| 0:24.4 | house our population in comfortable and affordable surroundings that we can afford a help service |
| 0:29.7 | that's world class with frontline staff who are paid well and treated properly, which doesn't condemn the ill and |
| 0:35.0 | infirm to a lack of timely treatment and decent care, where all our services can meet our actual |
| 0:40.6 | needs, where our infrastructure is modern, not falling apart, where |
| 0:44.0 | workers of strong rights at work, decent pay and security, where we take seriously and |
| 0:49.5 | take on a climate emergency which threatens the very future of our civilization but in the |
| 0:54.2 | process create good jobs and improve our living standards and live healthier lives. |
| 0:57.3 | I just throw in the unhinged extremism that I've already outlined where maybe |
| 1:01.7 | those things which are there to work for the |
| 1:05.0 | interest of the public are run as such rather than cash cows for |
| 1:08.8 | profiteers where we don't become complicit too in the mass slaughter of innocent people |
| 1:15.5 | including thousands of children. What can I say? Lock us up. We're menaced with our |
| 1:20.6 | wacky dangerous ideas like the wealth created by the collective effort of millions of people |
| 1:25.1 | should be fairly distributed not sucked into the tax havens of the mega-rich and we shouldn't oversee mass |
| 1:30.6 | murder now being a socialist outfit feel is being a moderate in a world defined by extremism. |
| 1:36.0 | Now anyway the Labour Party's the silence of wage war and those of us who believed in these |
| 1:39.1 | outrageous but they've made clear in briefings to the Tory Telegraph newspaper who they do welcome. |
| 1:45.2 | Now the Labour Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves is doing a speech in the city of London that is for the very people |
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