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🗓️ 9 July 2024
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0:21.2 | Labor's landslide shows Britain is moving right. |
0:24.0 | Yes, really. |
0:25.0 | Last Friday, British voters turned sharply against the Tories. |
0:29.0 | Left-wing parties now control the overwhelming majority of Parliament, collectively holding nearly 500 of the 650 seats in Westminster. |
0:37.0 | Labour secured a stunning 421 seats and Sakir Starma is now a new Prime Minister. |
0:43.4 | Meanwhile, the Conservatives secured just 121 seats, the worst results since 1761. |
0:49.8 | But what if I told you all of this represents Britain moving further to the right. |
0:54.3 | Given the statistics I've just quoted, you might rightly ask what exactly I'm smoking and where you can get some. |
1:00.1 | But given that the UK is here to legalize the substances you need to smoke to endure what the next five years have in store, |
1:06.0 | I assure you that my conclusion is the product of a very sober reality. |
1:10.0 | To understand why what I'm saying is not just copium for the masses, bear with me as I explain. |
1:15.0 | First, the chronology of the last 14 years of Tory government is best summed up in the words of a now former cabinet minister I spoke to a few months ago. |
1:23.4 | Here's how he lamented the never-ending stream of challenges that led to this result. |
1:27.9 | We were elected in 2010, he said, and we couldn't do what we wanted because we had to form a coalition with the Lib Dems. |
1:34.1 | We won an outright majority in 2015, but by the following year Brexit happened. |
1:38.8 | We had another election in 2017 and then another in 2019 to sort that mess out. We finally put Brexit to bed with |
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