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The Owen Jones Podcast

Tories Face Annihilation As Rishi Sunak Declares Election

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The Tories are toast - but Labour aren't offering an alternative, so let's send them a message here: https://wedeservebetter.uk/

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0:00.0

Oh wow, he's really going to do it this time, hasn't he?

0:02.9

Ritchie Sunac has announced a general election.

0:05.7

Like a particularly reckless turkey, cheerfully opening a Christmas banquet with some

0:11.1

particularly hungry customers who are extremely partial to Turkey.

0:15.0

In delivering that stability, showing that when we work together anything is possible.

0:21.0

Our economy is now growing faster than anyone predicted outpacing

0:26.2

Germany, France and the United States and this morning it was confirmed that

0:30.4

inflation is back to normal. That is moreifying. It's like watching someone else's anxiety dream. I mean if

0:36.4

that was anxiety dream or someone we had respect for this would be painful but

0:40.6

given it's the Prime Minister of the most disastrous government in

0:43.8

British democratic history it's actually quite funny now you might be wondering

0:48.5

what is this guy thinking look at him getting absolutely drenched on television, trying his best not to slip into his default speaking mode, which is Children's TV presents on the verge of losing his temper.

0:59.0

Do you know what his personal rating currently is. Minus 51.

1:05.0

Absolutely incredible. That means to put it in perspective,

1:08.0

his popularity is somewhere between Salmonella and the Bebonic Plague.

1:12.8

Now the first poll out suggests that Labour is on 48%

1:16.2

and the Conservatives on 27%.

1:19.4

Goodness me, is he high?

1:21.4

If you're wondering what he's actually thinking, let's listen to this bit of useful coverage from Sky News.

1:26.1

We think that a lot of confident votes of confidence letters have been going in, that there hasn't been a single flight yet to Rwanda.

1:33.0

This is a former minister saying to me,

1:35.0

I said, do you think that they're calling it

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