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The Owen Jones Podcast

The Left Is Back, Baby - And Tories Smashed Into Tiny Pieces

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Government, News, News & Politics, Politics

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Hope is reborn!

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0:00.0

Tik-Tock official sponsors of Team G. B and here's Olympic heptathlete Katerina Johnson Thompson for Great Britain.

0:06.1

I started athletics when my PE teacher said,

0:08.4

Why don't you give eye jump a go? And I've been obsessed with athletics ever since.

0:13.0

Now when I want to start something new, I start on Tik-Tok.

0:16.0

Like recently I search for Book-Tok.

0:19.0

It started with a gripping who-done-it.

0:21.0

Now I have a reading list that 800 meters long. Search

0:24.2

team gb on Tik-Tok and follow the journey to Paris. It starts on Tik-Tok.

0:28.8

Optimism. Hope. That's my initial response to the 2024 general election here in the UK.

0:38.0

I've not felt this optimistic for a very long time indeed. Now for those who've been following this channel

0:46.3

you'll know that the position that I pushed went like this the Tories are toast

0:50.4

let's send Labour a message. The argument was a Labour landside is inevitable so you can vote Green or toast. Let's send Labour a message. The argument was a Labour landslide is inevitable so you

0:54.2

can vote Green or independent with no risk and I back the We Deserve Better Campaign to that end.

0:59.2

The strategy was about reassurance because a lot of people who are angry with labor maintaining

1:04.3

Tory policies and for example being complicit in Israel's genocide

1:06.9

feared that if they voted for what they actually believed in then the Tories

1:10.6

would win and that's the last thing they wanted to go through all over again.

1:14.0

Let's sum up what's happened.

1:15.0

Firstly, the Conservatives have been shattered.

1:17.0

Never has an electoral defeat been so deserved.

1:19.0

From the worst greasing living standards ever recorded

1:22.0

to the destruction of our public services,

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