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The Owen Jones Podcast

Live: Tories And Labour - At War With The Poor

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

As the Tories and Labour unite around welfare policies which drive children into poverty, we expose the truth - not just the harm it causes families and society, but how it damages our economy, too.


We're joined by the economist James Meadway.

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, lovely to see you, so the last 13 years or so has been marked by a relentless

0:19.7

war on large sections of the British working class and indeed the poorest elements of

0:25.4

society. Much of that has come through and onslaught of course through the welfare stage.

0:30.1

George Osborne, now rehabilitated by our political and media class as some sort of sage statesman,

0:36.2

was the main principle villain architect of this class war, notably journalists, labour

0:45.3

MPs, including Ed Balls and Evacupa recently attended his wedding, but he was the man who introduced

0:51.9

everything from the bedroom tax to the two child benefits limit, as well as after the 2015

0:57.0

election a 12 billion pound onslaught against social security. Now there's lots of other factors

1:03.9

which have clobbed to the poorest elements of society, the longest squeezing living standards of

1:08.8

people's wages, that is people's workers' wages since the early 19th century, the housing crisis,

1:14.9

recently of course inflation, but the law of the British poor under the conservatives,

1:21.2

a time of boom time for the richest elements of society, a record number of billionaires

1:26.0

created during the pandemic for example, which was a period of huge trauma from much to the rest

1:30.3

of the population, that's what class war looks like, so it looks like in practical terms,

1:35.0

where you get boom time for those at the top, including of course the rich donor base of the

1:40.3

conservatives whilst the poorest elements of society have had their living conditions

1:46.5

relentlessly attacked, and there are elements for that as well, cuts have disproportionately fallen

1:52.3

on the backs of women in this country, and disproportionately on the backs of those from minority

1:58.3

backgrounds, and we've seen this onslaught develop over many many years. Now you might think in

2:04.2

that particular context, the Labour Party, a party of course founded to represent the working class

2:09.6

and its poor dissents, those who work by handle by brain, that the Labour Party, if it was

2:17.3

founded to do anything, was to lift the conditions of the working class, not least its poorest sections,

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