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The Owen Jones Podcast

Rishi Sunak Is Lying To You

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In his war on striking public sector heroes, Rishi Sunak has told us that giving them a pay rise that matches the cost of living would cost £1,000 per household. This is a total lie. Here's this nonsense comprehensively debunked.

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0:00.0

Rishi Senak, the Prime Minister, is lying to you.

0:02.8

There's no other accurate way of describing what he's doing

0:06.0

and whatever you stand on the political spectrum,

0:08.5

someone using the biggest bully pulpit in the country

0:11.9

to spread deceits for political gain

0:14.5

is clearly not fit to be Prime Minister.

0:17.1

Now, let's just have a listen to what Rishi Senak had to say

0:21.1

about striking workers.

0:23.0

So the government is always going to try and act fairly and reasonably

0:26.6

and that's why we accepted, in full, the recommendations of the independent bodies

0:32.0

that advise a government on the appropriate levels of pay in the public sector.

0:36.3

But what I'm not going to do is ask ordinary families up and down the country

0:40.1

to pay an extra thousand pounds a year to meet the pay demands of the union bosses.

0:44.7

That wouldn't be right and it wouldn't be fair.

0:47.2

But what I am going to do is ensure that I minimise the disruption to people's lives

0:51.4

and make sure that we protect lives.

0:53.6

And that's what we're working on right now

0:55.8

with resilience and contingency plans,

0:58.3

but also looking at tough new laws, which will help us do that.

1:01.5

But you're right, we're here at NRAF base today.

1:04.1

I had the opportunity to say thank you to some of our armed forces personnel

1:08.3

because many of them are going to miss Christmas to help us deal with the disruption from strikes,

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