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The Owen Jones Podcast

Theresa May's Crocodile Tears

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

Oh spare me: every time Theresa May criticises the government, a bunch of liberals applaud her like seals. Yaas queen Theresa! I don't think so. As she criticises the Tories' repulsive Illegal Migration Bill, a reminder that no politician has done more to whip up the anti-migrant and anti-refugee hate campaign which has caused so much misery and suffering as May. Stop rehabilitating monsters!

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Yeah, I know what I'm supposed to do in this video. I'm supposed to go, yeah, squeeze to reason me!

0:44.0

You really shocked it, so the government fairs fair, you know, may have my disagreements with you, but we need our allies on important matters.

0:53.0

And whatever your past record happens to be, what matters is whether you're right or wrong, can Theresa May's right?

0:59.0

So, let's just give her an applause. Bloody well done, Theresa May. I'm not going to do that at all, actually.

1:06.0

If I find this whole spectacle completely rehabilitating, I'm going to use this as a case study, actually, about the rehabilitation of monsters, generally by those who describe themselves as liberals.

1:17.0

And it's about how, if you like, those who commit profound evils, can evade responsibility.

1:25.0

It allows those, you know, well, it stops us from understanding how we ended up in the mess that we're currently in, which is a pretty big mess, all said and done.

1:36.0

And it allows history to repeat itself, and for Oster to descend even further into the disaster, the bis that this country has sunk.

1:46.0

And Theresa May is one of the chief architects of disaster and of just inhumanity and misery and pain and suffering.

1:54.0

We're going to talk about that. So, look, today, the Tories passed the illegal migration bill.

1:58.0

What this does is bar all refugees who arrive in small boats from claiming asylum, regardless of their circumstances.

2:04.0

Their family could have been shot dead in front of them by the Taliban and Afghanistan, where Britain waged war for two decades, and now just washed their hands of it.

2:11.0

It could be from Iraq. They could be from Iraq, refugees, where a country, our government, actually helped to destroy.

2:17.0

If we're going to just be completely honest about it, they could have been raped. They could have been tortured. It doesn't matter. They're getting deported.

2:25.0

Now, this is all in the context of the Tories having clamped down on safe and legal routes.

2:32.0

There are far fewer asylum seekers arriving in the UK than the beginning of the century. There's just far more arriving on small boats, because they're safe from legal routes have been shut down.

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