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The Owen Jones Podcast

Rishi Sunak's *7* Humiliating U-Turns

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Weak doesn't cover it: Rishi Sunak's government is flailing around without any direction. Here we list some of Sunak's u-turns, underlining a weak, unprincipled politician blowing around with the breeze.

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0:00.0

as a bitter icy cold descends across the land.

0:03.2

Obviously, it's too cold to go out to the pub, whatever.

0:06.0

Families will be huddled across the country playing games, I'm sure, at home,

0:10.3

well they probably won't be watching TV or something,

0:12.1

but if they were, I'm going to contribute my own ideas for a game,

0:15.6

which is, let's see how ready Uters,

0:18.3

or as he said that can do in a defined period of time.

0:22.4

The number of Uters he's got through,

0:24.5

given he's not been playing Ministers for very long,

0:26.4

he does suck at the job.

0:27.4

Let's just be honest, come on, even if you're a Tory,

0:29.6

he's not going well, is it? He's rubbish.

0:32.3

Let's just have a little look at some of the Uters.

0:36.0

Number one, there was a solemn promise in the last

0:39.3

conservative manifesto to build 300,000 new homes a year.

0:43.1

Now, this is quite important, I'll tell you why,

0:45.6

because there are over a million households officially languishing

0:48.9

on social housing waiting lists,

0:50.8

but actually it's actually worse than that,

0:52.1

according to one estimate two years ago,

0:53.9

and doubt is significantly improved since,

0:56.2

it's actually 1.16 million households.

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