Tories Engulfed by Michelle Mone Scandal
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 7 December 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
It gets worse and worse for the Tories: Rishi Sunak stood up at Prime Minister's Questions to say he was 'shocked' about the Michelle Mone scandal, involving allegations around a massive government contract to a company the Baroness allegedly lobbied for and allegedly profited from. But this scandal goes so much further: it's about how a society in which we are told that plucky entrepreneurs make their own money through their hard graft, while benefit claimants are dependent on the state. But who are the real state dependents we should be worried about?
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| 0:00.0 | I wish you seemed like a shocked, shocked, I tell you about these revelations about the Tory Peer Michel Mone. |
| 0:06.0 | Let's just have a little listen to what he had to say. |
| 0:09.0 | Mr Speaker, let me say, like everyone else, I was absolutely shocked to read about the allegation. |
| 0:16.0 | It's absolutely right. |
| 0:21.0 | It's absolutely right that she is no longer attending the House of Lords and therefore no longer has the conservative wit. |
| 0:29.0 | The one thing we know about the Honourable Gentlemen, he is a lawyer, he should know there's a process in place. |
| 0:37.0 | It's right that that process concludes. |
| 0:40.0 | I hope that it's resolved promptly, but I say one thing, Mr Speaker, because I tell him what is weak. |
| 0:46.0 | I tell him what is weak is not being able to stand up to people. |
| 0:53.0 | I know he's taken some advice from Gordon Brown lately. |
| 0:58.0 | Why doesn't he listen to a former minister in Gordon Brown's government who just said, |
| 1:03.0 | why does the Labour Party refuse to stand up for workers in businesses like pubs and restaurants, |
| 1:10.0 | who will lose business as a result of those train strikes? |
| 1:14.0 | Labour should stand up for working people. If he's strong, that's what he should do. |
| 1:19.0 | It must be a little bit of Larry Davis fainting quite dramatically in curpientism. |
| 1:27.0 | Now, of course, he started deflecting by going on about workers going on strike, |
| 1:33.0 | workers driven to go on strike because the government interfered to stop a deal being reached between train workers |
| 1:38.0 | and the train operating companies because they don't want to settle the dispute. |
| 1:42.0 | Instead, what they want to do is crush Mick Lynch's RMT union to make an example of them. |
| 1:48.0 | And because they don't want to pay a proper wage to the nurses who've they've subjected to an 8% on average pay decrease |
| 1:55.0 | since they came to £20,000. Yeah, the nurses could carry this country through national catastrophe at great cost, |
| 2:01.0 | at great sacrifice, but they've got their claps from toy ministers. |
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