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The Owen Jones Podcast

Starmer's Latest Pisstake

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Look, my comfort zone is sticking it to the Tories who have wrecked the country. But Starmer's job is to offer a compelling alternative - and instead keeps reneging on his promises. The latest one shows how unprincipled he is - and why his ratings are plummeting.

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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, look. I don't want to talk about Keir Starmer. My comfort zone is,

0:44.0

ranting and raving about the Tories, who have pretty comprehensively wrecked the country, if you haven't noticed.

0:49.0

And under our current electoral system, which I'm about to talk about,

0:52.0

well, I don't even get a Labour government or a Tory government, I get all that.

0:56.0

But I also don't think my criticisms of Keir Starmer are going to swing the next election lads.

1:01.0

I even get criticisms from his deeply boring online army.

1:05.0

Ooh, Tory, chill, fifth columnist. You love the Tories so much, you want to marry them and have their babies?

1:09.0

This is known as Shrodinger's Left, which is where the left is so toxic and irrelevant,

1:14.0

that we can be marginalised and crushed by Starmer, but so powerful that we can swing elections just by the power of our tweets in videos.

1:22.0

Now, Starmer made a decision to wage war on the left and tell us to generally go FR cells,

1:26.0

message heard, loud and clear. But I'm not a press officer for this guy.

1:30.0

My job is to tell the truth. I'm a political commentator. That's my job.

1:34.0

My view is he's an objectively dishonest politician who appears to believe in essentially nothing,

1:40.0

other than winning power for the sake of it.

1:42.0

Now, what's the need not see today? For a bit of context, if you're not aware,

1:45.0

Starmer promised, when he was campaigning to become a Labour leader, that he would under a Starmer government

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