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The Owen Jones Podcast

This Should Terrify The Tories

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The Tories are in so much trouble. 'Yeah I know', you might say, everyone knows that - they partied in lockdown and lied about it, they failed to deal with the cost of living crisis, had a massive civil war - then crashed the economy with unhinged policies. But it is so so so so much worse than that - as I'll explain!

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0:00.0

I'm feeling actually quite emotionally fragile right now actually quite distraught and I know I know you will as well when I am part of this

0:08.5

Really really terrible terrible news. Please

0:12.4

If you've had a bad day

0:14.4

Just take a moment. Maybe you don't want to watch this video now. I understand this is

0:19.0

This is sad basically the British conservatives and the American Republicans. They're in

0:25.8

There in a lot of trouble actually quite a lot of trouble

0:28.4

Um, I don't mean the obvious if you look at the British conservatives

0:31.9

You know the whole partying through lockdown while people couldn't even hold the hands of their dying relatives

0:37.3

Then lying about it presiding over an epic cost of living crisis and failing to offer

0:41.9

Actual solutions which could help people having a relentless civil war and oh, sorry

0:46.9

I forgot the minor turned written into a giant

0:49.5

Laboratory for hard-right economic policies which really triggered economic apocalypse and sent mortgage payments

0:55.5

Purning upwards unquestionably these have all caused the Tories

0:59.5

One-a-tee problems I grant you, but they actually have a much bigger problem than that and much bigger problem

1:04.4

How how is that possible given all of those I would say pretty dire

1:09.6

Circumstances that they're responsible for

1:12.3

The bigger problem they have is wait for it brace yourselves

1:16.1

It's a graph

1:18.2

Yeah, it's a graph

1:20.2

Sure, I'm being serious

1:22.8

Deadly serious in fact this graph which I'm going to show you unless you're listening in which case I'll just have to describe it

1:29.0

And should absolutely chill the bones of all those lovely charming folk amongst us who just want to slash taxes for rich people

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