Tories Declare Class War
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🗓️ 24 September 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
The Tories aren't even bothering to hide it: their so-called "mini budget" shovels vast sums of money to the booming 1% while millions are left struggling. This is class war. Just how bad is it, what will it do to the economy, how worried should you be about your own circumstances - and what's the alternative?
We're joined by the economist and author Grace Blakeley to unpack it all - plus, former Corbyn advisor and author of new book 'Our Bloc: How We Win', James Schneider, on Labour's response on the eve of conference.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, hello. Sorry everyone, we're late for five minutes late. Is that a record? |
| 0:11.3 | It's not great. It's not great as a professional show. One of the guests had technical problems |
| 0:16.0 | basically because people are going to labor party conference, which I'm going to go to. |
| 0:19.6 | Come wait. It's like going to the dentist for four days. People are traveling. They're |
| 0:23.8 | on trains. It's all very complicated and chaotic. But we are here. I'm going to labor party |
| 0:28.1 | conference shortly. My Wi-Fi can see it doesn't collapse by then. Brilliant. We're off to a flying |
| 0:33.4 | start. So we've got a very special show today. We're going to do two things. We're going to talk |
| 0:36.9 | about the mini budget. We're going to talk about that with Grace Blakely, who's one of the best |
| 0:40.5 | economic thinkers on the left. Well, just generally, why not? Let's just give her that tie off. |
| 0:44.3 | And we're going to talk to James Schneider, who used to work for Jamie Corbin and various other |
| 0:50.2 | things journalist. But has just written a new book called Our Block, which we will give lots of |
| 0:54.2 | love and tell you what to buy. And here we're talking with Miss Rahman, who used to be on |
| 0:58.6 | Labour's NEC, about Labour's response to what we're talking about today, which is declaration |
| 1:03.4 | of class war by the Conservative Party. Now, just quick before bringing Grace, before when I was |
| 1:09.8 | growing up, I was born in Sheffields, built in Stockport with a quite left-wing family. I'll be |
| 1:15.4 | honest with you. I didn't grow up enamored with the Conservative Party. Let's just put it bluntly. |
| 1:21.2 | So, that was where I started, but it was really Oxford, where I was an undergrad, which I think |
| 1:26.5 | really sharpened that. And I met Conservative. I met people who went to private school for the first |
| 1:31.5 | time. I also met people who were Conservatives for the first time in my life. Some of them are now |
| 1:35.8 | running the country. The year below me was called Simon Clarke, who I'm sure you've seen lots of. |
| 1:41.6 | Including his Conservative friends, some of whom I remember were viciously homophobic. And |
| 1:47.3 | they're now senior figures, or have stood for the Conservative Party. I might explain more about |
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