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The Owen Jones Podcast

Starmer’s Speech Was a Total DISASTER

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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0:00.0

Ooh boy, Kirstama really is sunk.

0:02.8

Now, he did this supposedly big speech today,

0:05.3

supposed to save his crisis-stricken leadership

0:08.9

after Labour was absolutely battered last week in local elections

0:13.1

and Scottish and Welsh parliamentary elections,

0:15.6

where the party particularly bled support to the left-wing Greens

0:18.9

and the left-wing Plied Country in Wales.

0:21.6

Now there's Labour MP, Catherine West, tried to force the leadership contest.

0:25.6

There's the Blair-Eight Ultra, the Health Secretary, West Streeting on manoeuvres.

0:29.6

And there's Andy Burnham, the Greater Manchester Mayor, trying to find a way back into Parliament

0:33.6

so he can take Stama down.

0:35.6

This speech was supposed to turn it all around.

0:39.2

And dear God, it was so awful.

0:41.6

What were they thinking?

0:42.9

When they finish his speech, when they, you know, typed it all up, his speech, right, he's not him.

0:46.8

When they put it together, were they like, do you know what, guys?

0:50.7

I know we've got our backs against the wall.

0:52.6

I know it's looking pretty catastrophic for us.

0:55.1

Catastrophic, I can't say it. Catastrophic force. But I reckon this little piece of magic,

1:01.6

this literary classic, will turn it around. For one of a more sophisticated word, it was crap.

1:08.6

You see, this guy's got no answers whatsoever to the existential crisis

1:12.2

gripping the Labour Party. More importantly, he doesn't have answers to the crisis gripping the country.

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