Rishi Sunak Insults Your Intelligence
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Look, I'm not a fan of Rishi Sunak, fine, but this is absolutely ridiculous even by his standards. Just watch him repeatedly refuse to answer a basic question about whether he uses private healthcare - which he clearly does. He's responsible for the NHS, he knows it's imploding, but wants to protect him and his family for a crisis he's to blame for. And he's not the only politician being dishonest, as we can see...
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| 0:00.0 | This guy, this guy, Rishi Senak is a slippery, so-and-so. |
| 0:07.0 | Now, to an absolutely ridiculous level though, I mean, I know a lot of people just kind of shrug their shoulders about politicians |
| 0:14.0 | well, they're all dishonest or the rest of it. I hate that attitude because it just normalises it. |
| 0:19.0 | And that just destroys democracy because when politicians are able to get away with just being brazenly dishonest on an industrial scale, |
| 0:28.0 | then no one believes anything politicians say and therefore trust and democracy collapses. |
| 0:33.0 | Anyway, let's just talk about this a bit more. |
| 0:35.0 | It is embarrassing that Rishi Senak was the most popular politician in the country for a while, ill deserved |
| 0:42.0 | because he was just associated with throwing money at people because of furlough which other countries had to do as well. |
| 0:47.0 | I just want to give an example of just this just shockingly taking the piss level of slipperiness |
| 0:56.0 | because it really has got on my wick. Yeah, let's have a listen. |
| 1:02.0 | Were you registered with a private GP, and are you still? |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, but my dad was a doctor. I grew up in an NHS family. |
| 1:09.0 | Wasn't my question really straightforward. Were you registered with a private GP? |
| 1:12.0 | I mean, as a general politician, I wouldn't ever talk about me or my family's health care situation. |
| 1:18.0 | But again, it's not really relevant to this. What's relevant is the difference I can make to the country. |
| 1:22.0 | Well, hang on Prime Minister, I think there is huge public interest in the decisions that you make. |
| 1:26.0 | And actually, one of your predecessors who I know you admire very much, Margaret Thatcher, she said very openly that she decided to use her right as a free citizen |
| 1:34.0 | to spend my money in my own way so that I can go on in the day at the time with the doctor I choose and get out fast. |
| 1:39.0 | She was perfectly happy and proud to talk about the decision she made. |
| 1:43.0 | Why wouldn't you tell people if you used to have it? |
| 1:45.0 | Well, I mean, it's just a personal choice. It's about health care. |
| 1:48.0 | But I think what people care about is, you know, am I going to make a difference on the thing that they care about? |
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