Thousands Complain Over Ed Balls' Vile Interview With Zarah Sultana MP
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🗓️ 7 August 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Now this frankly is just a combination of disgraceful and wild and it is no wonder that the British public have responded as they have. |
| 0:08.0 | Now I've got my own history with the subject of this video who is Ed Bulls. |
| 0:13.0 | That's related to Israel's genocide in Gaza. |
| 0:16.3 | I'll show you that later on. |
| 0:18.1 | First, just a bit of context. |
| 0:19.6 | Now, Ed Bulls is a politician who, to be blunt, does not have a track record, which, let's put it this way, screamed |
| 0:25.6 | success. |
| 0:26.6 | He said to be leader of the Labour Party in 2010. |
| 0:29.1 | He lost. |
| 0:30.1 | He became Shadow Chancellor under Ed Millerband, was desperately unpopular, failed to offer |
| 0:34.7 | any coherent alternative to the Conservatives as they wrecked this country with austerity, driven by George |
| 0:41.5 | Osborne and then lost his seat in the 2015 general election. |
| 0:46.0 | He was best known for accidentally searching for his name on Twitter. |
| 0:50.7 | He then reinvented himself as a reality TV star on strictly come dancing and rode the wave of that fame to become a regular presenter on I TV's Good Morning Britain. He then became business partner and friend to the aforementioned George Osborne, the man who did more than almost any |
| 1:03.7 | the politician to wreck this country, with a political podcast called Political Currency where |
| 1:09.0 | they pal around with sort of insidery gossipy stuff. |
| 1:12.8 | Now this is an important point because while Ed Balls likes to trim around with this really |
| 1:16.3 | very maligned conservative, he is nothing but burning contempt for anyone vaguely on the left. |
| 1:22.2 | And although he's supposed to be bound by |
| 1:23.7 | professionalism and impartiality, that contempt certainly shines through, as I can |
| 1:28.3 | testify, but again more than that shortly. Now Edmalls is also the literal husband of the Home Secretary, Ive Cooper. |
| 1:35.4 | What's wrong with that British media system, honestly? There is a widespread problem. |
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