The Real Scandal Being Ignored
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 15 July 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
While the media have been focusing on Huw Edwards' private life - an actual scandal involving Boris Johnson is being ignored. Here's where we have to focus.
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| 0:00.0 | What are the real scandals we've been missing out on the last few days because it is |
| 0:03.7 | interesting isn't it what the media decides is a priority, is a scandal if you like and what isn't. |
| 0:09.2 | Now we've had days of relentless focus on Hugh Edward's private life, including entirely false |
| 0:15.4 | claims that he engaged in underage sexual activity with a minor and as the son's story fell apart |
| 0:21.6 | they tried to look for any old ship to throw a wall in the Hobbit stick and all they achieved |
| 0:26.2 | was driving Hugh Edwards into a hospital. So actual scandals that were missing. |
| 0:33.2 | Do you want to hear a funny story, brace yourself, make yourself comfy. So there was this |
| 0:39.0 | raging charlatan right with a career defined entirely by dishonesty and self-aggrandizement |
| 0:43.9 | who was made by ministers by people who absolutely knew he was monstrously |
| 0:49.0 | farcically unsuitable for high office. Anyway to everyone's complete surprise, |
| 0:54.3 | someone with a completely disreputable background was a total catastrophe as prime minister |
| 1:01.0 | who'd have thought it. Illegality, scandal, you name it, this premiership had it in spades. |
| 1:07.6 | Anyway slightly unfortunately for a country, this premiership coincided with the biggest |
| 1:13.0 | national emergency since the moment Adolf Hitler offered himself in a bunker, a big old pandemic. |
| 1:18.7 | Now a government led by this aforementioned deceitful con artist with no obvious skills as a leader |
| 1:25.6 | messed it up very badly with pretty unfortunate consequences because a lot of people |
| 1:31.6 | suffered completely avoidable deaths. We are of course talking about Bosch Johnson. |
| 1:36.4 | Anyway we got this big public inquiry to investigate how the government handled this pandemic |
| 1:41.6 | but Bosch Johnson was ordered to hand over what type of messages and then tried to make |
| 1:45.5 | himself look like a hero because the government thought to stop that from happening, |
| 1:49.3 | probably because Rishi Senak of e-touch the help help fame, the help spread the virus, |
| 1:54.4 | who'd have thought that would happen. I would suspect it wasn't entirely comfortable, |
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