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The Owen Jones Podcast

Rishi Sunak Plan To Sack Your Nurses

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

You probably think this title is an exaggeration, that my contempt for the Tories is sending me over the top. But no. In response to nurses - and rail workers, and teachers, and other key workers - being driven to such despair that they strike, the Tories have finally come up with a response: to sack them. But it won't just be our nurses and other pillars of society who will pay the price - we all will.

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0:00.0

So I know that there's always a lot of criticism on this channel, I get that, maybe you think

0:03.8

I've got this grudges against them and so they just because they've reduced the country

0:08.1

to their status of burning skip, as well as of course plunging the lives of millions

0:13.7

of people into poverty and insecurity.

0:15.8

What can I say?

0:16.8

I'm just a little bit petty.

0:18.2

Anyway, you might be thinking, come on mate, you must have something positive to say

0:24.0

about the government, stop being ultra-partisan.

0:26.6

You know, come outside your comfort zone.

0:28.6

There's got to be something they've done which you can appreciate.

0:32.2

So here it is, finally the Tories have identified the real enemy, the real culprits, the real

0:38.2

people we should be furious about, wait for it, little drum roll.

0:42.7

Nurses, that's right, those greedy fat cat nurses, that's someone's finally standing

0:48.9

up to them.

0:49.9

They of course hit the root of our misery.

0:51.7

Remember when they crashed the economy and avoided taxes on an industrial scale?

0:56.0

Yeah, I'm still there, maddie about that.

0:58.5

So finally, some's got the guts, the courage, the rasmitas, I don't think I've used that

1:04.4

word properly, to stand up to them.

1:06.2

Who do they think they are taking our blood samples, examining us for signs of illness,

1:11.0

monitoring our progress, tending to us when we're sick, and of course being there for

1:14.9

us in our final hours on earth.

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