Matt Hancock's Car Crash Says It All About Our Political Elite
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 20 May 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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I mean, this guy was Health Secretary, part of a government which oversaw a totally catastrophic response to the pandemic, broke his own rules, then tries to spin himself as the victim. Pathetic - and it sums our political elite up.
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| 0:00.0 | Mahankoke, what do we even say? I don't know what sort of you're thinking. Oh, just another |
| 0:04.7 | video going on about how embarrassing Mahankoke is to every living creature on the face of |
| 0:10.4 | the earth and generally ridiculing it. Yes, partly, that is this video. But also, I obviously |
| 0:14.6 | want to make wider points about the political elite in this country. So I think Mahankoke |
| 0:18.9 | in so many ways epitomizes everything that's wrong with them. Now, if you know what I'm |
| 0:23.7 | talking about, let's just roll a clip from this extraordinary fast, which is entirely |
| 0:28.5 | created by Mahankoke on the news agents podcast, if you haven't already had the interesting |
| 0:34.7 | experience of having to watch this. But what has happened to you? Yeah. Over the past two |
| 0:39.4 | years, you know, in office, then you're forced to resign over. Falling in love with somebody. |
| 0:45.6 | Falling in love. Well, you know, you know, you're in love with rushing the own rules. |
| 0:49.0 | Yes, you're actually just to stop. Stop, stop, stop, stop. Stop, stop, stop, stop. I am a |
| 0:53.8 | human being, right? Yeah. Okay. No state. Don't interrupt me now, because I'm going to |
| 1:02.6 | say something that I'd like you to listen to. I'm a human being. John's question is leading |
| 1:09.4 | up to essentially, how do you cope with this amount of stuff as a human being? And part |
| 1:14.4 | of the answer is that, of course, politicians, you know, have to take the rough with the |
| 1:19.4 | smooth. And I have learned a huge amount about resilience. But I also, now, I'm just not |
| 1:29.6 | interested in having people just go over old calls again and again and again. It's not |
| 1:40.5 | fair. And it's not right because we are human too. Of course, I have, you know, I've |
| 1:45.2 | put myself through the most extraordinary amount of scrutiny over everything that happened. |
| 1:51.6 | And the inquiry will rightly do that again in a proper format for learning the lessons |
| 1:56.8 | for the country. And I'm enthusiastic about playing my part in that. But I'm also now |
| 2:02.6 | perfectly willing and totally within my rights to say that you chose to be in public |
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