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The Owen Jones Podcast

Rishi Sunak's Most Desperate Act Yet

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

We all knew Rishi Sunak's government was a state - from scandals to Britain's disintegrating social fabric - but things are even worse than they look. By appointing Lee Anderson - a glorified troll, as I show - as Conservative vice-chair, Sunak tells us everything we need to know.

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0:00.0

Well, we knew Rishi Senat was desperate, didn't we?

0:03.4

Well, with the Tori's popularity being somewhere between

0:06.4

cholera and tuberculosis, there are about 26 points behind at the moment,

0:11.3

depends on the poll, admittedly, but

0:13.2

there's a consistent theme across the polls. They are in a

0:16.2

bit of a mess, to say the least. Rishi Senat's own personal ratings have

0:21.2

completely imploded. They've basically followed the list trust trajectory,

0:24.6

not quite as bad, but they've all followed the trajectory

0:27.0

British economy under this trust. So, a little

0:31.4

pricey of the Toris. They've had one PM

0:35.1

turfed out in disgrace, less than a year ago, way less than a year ago.

0:38.8

It has been long period we've lived through, I appreciate that.

0:41.6

To have that in disgrace, then we had another one,

0:44.5

turfed out in disgrace after setting fire to the economy.

0:48.4

The government obviously now being rocked by multiple

0:50.8

scandals ranging from tax affairs to alleged

0:54.9

serial bullying. Living standards suffering the worst

0:58.0

squeeze in history, literally since records began.

1:02.8

That's right, worse than 1910s, 1880s.

1:07.6

It's not ideal, is it? Worst growth of the major industrialised nations,

1:12.9

they're responding with more austerity, which people are not that keen on

1:16.2

after having endured about 13 years of it,

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