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The Owen Jones Podcast

The Hounding Of Jeremy Corbyn

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy Corbyn hasn't been Labour leader for 3 years, and journalists are still screaming at him outside his house. Where do you see the powerful subjected to this relentless treatment? But on the day he is purged from the party he's been a member of his entire life, there is a wider lesson - this is about making an example, and purging anyone who believes in redistributing wealth from those at the top.

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0:00.0

Jamie Corbin is a back bench MP. He hasn't been leading the Labour Party now for three years.

0:05.2

He wields no power. We can do all that influence, that's a separate issue, but in terms of

0:09.2

actual political power, he has zero. And yet, even now, journalists are camped outside

0:15.1

of his house screaming at him.

0:17.1

Do you see any of these decisions on democratic, Mr Corbin? Is the any of these decisions on

0:23.4

democratic? Are you going to stand as an independent candidate?

0:27.1

Do you see a farmer stitched you up, Mr Corbin? Will you stand at the next general election?

0:34.4

What's the point in this? What's being achieved there? Just theatre, isn't it? Out

0:38.9

best theatre? Or some sort of bizarre attempt at pantomime? It's not an attempt to generally

0:45.2

get some sort of insight, is it? That kind of behaviour. I mean, have you ever seen

0:49.9

any insight from a journalist removed by a certain distance from a politician yelling

0:56.1

at them? Whether they're Tory Labour or whatever? Of course you don't. I mean, normally

1:01.7

with politicians, this whole charade, it involves them standing outside of number 10, whether

1:07.8

it be the Prime Minister or Cabinet Ministers visiting the PM, and they yell stuff like,

1:11.8

are you going to resign? Did you accept the donations? You get that, and they don't

1:15.7

serve. It's a waste of time, isn't it? Now, even though it's a waste of time, it is

1:20.8

a way of getting some video for our rolling news or the evening news. But when you're just

1:26.1

doing outside someone's house, you're just herring them in their own private area, or

1:32.5

outside their private area, in a very intuitive way, for literally nothing. You're not getting

1:36.8

anything out of it. You're not going to get any answers to your questions. Who in any

1:43.4

way is going to go, oh, do you know what? I was actually just going back to hang out

1:47.7

on my family, but now you can't outside my house screaming at me in front of my entire

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