LIVE SHOW: Desperate Tories Climb Into Sewer
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Owen Jones
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🗓️ 11 August 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The Tories are on course for a catastrophic election defeat - and in their desperation, they're whipping up bigotry against migrants and refugees, and going in hard on the so-called culture war. Could it work - and even if it doesn't, what damage could be caused?
We're joined by Leila Zadeh, CEO of Rainbow Migration, and Jun Pang, Policy and Campaigns Officer at Liberty.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to the live show everybody. Which we are doing, we've restarted |
| 0:16.9 | it every Wednesday at 5 o'clock, not the last two weeks because summer things are getting |
| 0:22.4 | in the way, various problems. It's a tricky time. Obviously the glue is weather as well. |
| 0:28.3 | Absolutely blessed with that. Although we are actually having a very nice day today, which is a shame |
| 0:32.5 | because obviously we had a show today. So I'm going to try and get some. I hope you also, it's |
| 0:37.6 | sunny where you are because that is essentially the end of the summer. What we're going to talk about |
| 0:42.5 | today is the latest descent into the sewer by Aruning Park, the Conservancy Park. Now they are in a |
| 0:50.4 | desperate desperate state. Their polling is calamitous. We'll talk about that later after I spoke |
| 0:55.3 | into my two guests. Now what they're doing, the tour is quite clearly in terms of their zealous |
| 1:02.0 | and bigoted and increasingly deranged focus on migrants and refugees. And the onslaught against |
| 1:09.2 | our human rights collectively, I should say, is it's a silent desperation. An age old, I suppose, |
| 1:18.3 | tactic by administrations, governments, regimes, desperate circumstances is to deploy fear, |
| 1:27.6 | to deflect growing popular anger away from powerful targets to vulnerable minorities who |
| 1:35.4 | escape-goated for the hills in society. Now let's always have deliberately stoked up a particular |
| 1:43.1 | panic about the arrival of migrants and refugees on small boats. Now this is interesting because |
| 1:50.4 | we have few asylum claims in the beginning of the century, but more people arriving on small boats |
| 1:55.4 | because of the closure of safe and legal rates. There's always a really put themselves in a |
| 1:59.6 | terrible situation, I would say. I'm not sure, you know, as master strategists, which in the past |
| 2:05.0 | they have been, that power's clearly waned because what they've done is deliberately inflamed |
| 2:10.6 | the idea of the small boats. They've started this kind of, their campaign has stopped the boat, |
| 2:15.6 | stopped the boats. That's not going to happen. In no way under this government, |
| 2:20.1 | doesn't matter what they're going to do, these small boats are always going to arrive. So |
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