Tories: Facing Oblivion?
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 10 October 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
After a disastrous party conference, Liz Truss and the Tories are in polling freefall, and the spectre of electoral calamity now seems increasingly likely. Is it all over? What on earth is Truss doing? Is she an undercover revolutionary socialist on a mission to destroy the Tories? And where is Labour in all this?
We are joined by Opinium pollster Chris Curtis, and Guardian columnist Zoe Williams.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to the show. Is Liz Tross a revolutionary socialist on an |
| 0:17.5 | under-commission to destroy the concerted pie forever and discredit free market economics |
| 0:21.6 | in their entirety? I think that's a pretty, I mean, there's less rational explanations |
| 0:26.9 | for the behaviour of the Liz Tross government. I think it's fair to say she's had a rocky |
| 0:32.2 | start to her premiership. I say that. I think it is fair to say she's had the most disastrous |
| 0:38.0 | start, the most catastrophic start of any prime minister in history and bear in mind |
| 0:44.2 | for a significant portion of her premiership. There was the Queen's death, there was a period |
| 0:49.2 | of national mourning, so politics was suspended. She's certainly made an impression on the |
| 0:56.6 | British public. They don't like her or her policies. Largely because of her policies. |
| 1:02.7 | So just a quick re-run. She did an energy package which the government was going to have to |
| 1:08.5 | do because otherwise society would collapse because people can't afford to pay over £7,000 |
| 1:13.6 | a year on energy bills and small businesses and medium-sized businesses would have gone |
| 1:17.0 | to the wall. But she refused to do it by imposing a windfall tax on excess profits. But |
| 1:22.7 | at least you can think, well, she's into me and she stops, you know, as much of a calamity |
| 1:29.7 | that would have meant for living standards, though people are still paying more in bills |
| 1:33.0 | than they were. And then of course she, her and her chancellor initiated a mini-budget |
| 1:41.4 | which slashes taxes on the rich, which is going to be paid for by slashing benefits for |
| 1:46.7 | struggling people, as well as of course cutting or reversing the cuts in corporation tax, |
| 1:53.8 | which Rishi Sunack had correctly noted the hikes. So the cuts in corporation tax under |
| 2:00.8 | the concerted says fail to increase investment that she's not interested in evidence. I'm |
| 2:04.4 | afraid she's very, very logically committed list to us. I think we certainly ascertain |
| 2:08.8 | that. That of course creates caused a massive economic crisis. Sell off of government bonds, |
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