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The Owen Jones Podcast

Starmer: Let's CUT SERVICES To Fund WAR

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

News, Politics, News & Politics, Government

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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0:00.0

Introducing the new must-have toy, the monkey.

0:04.0

Not a toy, don't ever call it that.

0:06.0

From the makers of long legs.

0:07.0

Here comes trouble.

0:09.0

Turn the key in the monkeys back.

0:11.0

Whatever you do, don't turn the key in the monkeys back.

0:14.0

And see what happens.

0:16.0

It kills who it wants

0:19.0

when it feels like it.

0:22.0

The Monkey, not available in stores.

0:25.5

In Cinemas now, certificate 15.

0:28.2

Don't see it alone.

0:32.1

Does Kirstarmer have a political suicide wish?

0:35.6

Maybe the British Prime Minister actually wants to hand the country

0:38.6

over to Nigel Farage on a silver platter, nicely garnished with his catastrophic failures.

0:45.2

Now, according to Bloomberg, the British government is preparing to cut already devastated

0:49.5

government departments by up to 11% in real terms in order to increase defence spending.

0:55.7

Now, the Treasury has asked for public services outside of the ring fence departments,

1:01.2

health, education and defence, to model two possible scenarios.

1:05.9

One is where the amount they get remains the same in terms of actual cash terms, but taking into account

1:11.2

inflation would work out in real terms as a 5% cut. The other scenario is an 11% cut in real

1:18.9

terms. That was supposed to be the worst case scenario, but now Stama's determination to hike

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