This Tory Hypocrisy Is Nauseating
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 15 August 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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The fact there's more outrage over this than the mass deaths of human beings tells us all we need to know.
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| 0:00.0 | So this is one of these issues where I'd actually really be interested to hear your thoughts. |
| 0:04.3 | As a socialist, I believe learning, like everything else, is a collective experience, I suppose, |
| 0:09.2 | and I tried to apply that principle to these videos. I've learned a lot from people's feedback, |
| 0:14.1 | people's comments. Now, what I'm going to talk about is this, Diane Abbott, the Labour MP for |
| 0:18.4 | Hackney North at Stoke Newington. I say Labour MP because even though she's had the whips |
| 0:22.9 | suspended in the House of Commons by the party, she remains a member of the Labour party. |
| 0:28.6 | Now, she tweeted about 41 migrants who drowned off the coast of Italy with these |
| 0:35.2 | migrants having indeed f'd off to the bottom of the sea. Now, what she was doing is responding |
| 0:40.4 | to comments by the Conservative Vice Chair, Lee Anderson, in which she said that migrants should |
| 0:45.4 | foff back to France. Now, before I share my own thoughts, let's have this clip from the Jamie |
| 0:52.0 | Vine show discussing it to kind of set the scene a bit more. And then Diane Abbott, obviously, |
| 0:56.2 | is lampooning what he said, but she's deleted her tweet and rightly so. |
| 1:01.4 | Well, no, I don't think it's rightly or wrongly. I was astonished at how the right right in this |
| 1:07.4 | country got apoplectic over Diane Abbott's tweet, right? How dare she? How dare she? Didn't get |
| 1:13.9 | at all apoplectic over Lee Anderson's tweet and never talked about freedom of expression. |
| 1:19.4 | So, he's free to express. I think he said it. I think Lee Anderson said it in an Instagram. |
| 1:24.2 | Would obviously say it wasn't a tweet. So, Lee Anderson says they should foff back to France. |
| 1:28.7 | She says they've f'd off to the bottom of the sea. Would you think she should? |
| 1:32.3 | Now, there was outrage from conservatives over her comments, including one who told the express |
| 1:37.1 | that Kia Starmer should sling this clown out of the Labour Party for good. Now, firstly, |
| 1:42.0 | I just want to say this. I think this is really important because Diane was the first black woman |
| 1:48.1 | elected to the House of Commons. To end up there, as a black woman, was to defy the odds. |
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