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The Owen Jones Podcast

Purged By Starmer: Faiza Shaheen Speaks Out

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Government, News, News & Politics, Politics

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

What a deranged way to run a general election campaign.


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0:00.0

So you'd think during the general election campaign the Labour Party might focus on fighting the Tories offering a kind of compelling vision for the country about what it's going to do how it's going to fix so many of our

0:10.0

problems and challenges and injustices.

0:13.0

Well, tell you this, they had some other ideas, this lot.

0:16.6

In the midst of an election campaign,

0:17.8

Kearsama decided to initiate a purge to drive out

0:22.1

those he has decided, well let's be honest actually have some

0:25.4

principles and beliefs but he turned out to be disproportionately women of color.

0:30.4

He went of course for Diane Abbott that's been going on for ages. He's just been

0:35.2

repeatedly dishonest about the independent investigation so-called which ended

0:39.1

ages ago, about read-mittinger. He had no say over it he said and now he's let her

0:44.3

apparently back in after humiliating her for months the first black female

0:49.3

politician MP elected in Britain and then there is also Pfizer

0:53.0

Sheehan. I've known disclaimer Pfizer for years. She's the kind of best

0:56.8

candidate really, Labour could possibly ask for. Daughter of a mechanic, a

1:00.6

Muslim woman of color who defied the odds to become a really successful

1:03.7

academic a broadcaster and she's representing her local see I've been there I've

1:09.3

seen her campaigning I've seen the love the adoration that she gets. Such an enthusiastic group of

1:15.9

campaigners activists. People who just normally would never touch politics, but they're in it because

1:20.8

someone like Pfizer's there. She doesn't be like a robot too like some of the automatons who now

1:26.5

wouldn't kiss Thomas Labour Party now let's just she found out whilst campaigning for her seat which she's been doing for years and

1:36.1

I should say in 2019 when it was a bad night for labour what are the only swings to labour was

1:40.1

in her seat because of that campaigning let's just listen to a quick clip from the news like interview she did

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