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The Owen Jones Podcast

Tories Go Totally Deranged

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Ok, so the Tories are cornered animals, they're desperate, they're running out of time, I get it. But good grief, this is unhinged behaviour.

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0:00.0

Hi, that's my little impression of the Conservatives Electrical Strategy. I know some of you

0:09.0

are thinking, come on now, don't be ridiculous, that was far more coherent than anything that

0:14.8

Rishisanax crew could possibly come up with. Now I realise that in a right or less they

0:21.0

are cornered animals looking at their polling, catastrophic, not getting any better in any

0:27.0

meaningful way for them, hasn't for a very long time. Rishisanax's own popularity is approaching

0:33.2

where Boris Johnson was in the aftermath of partygate, so they really are staring at cataclysmic

0:39.6

election defeat down the barrel of a gun. I mean, just for the sake of dignity, does that really

0:46.2

justify turning your least favourite racist uncle, ranting at a one too many Quantos into

0:54.7

a programme for government? Now, according to the spin doctors in number ten, it does justify

1:00.8

doing that. Now let's just start with this shall we? So after the Tories got a pretty massive

1:06.3

kicking in the recent bi-elections, the Tories decided they'd spotted a little life raft,

1:10.7

and that life raft was carved with these letters. Well, you're going to spell it out for yourself.

1:18.2

Oxbridge and South Rhyslip. Now, you see, in that particular constituency, they clung on

1:23.6

immediately only by a few hundred votes, after a whopping big swing against them. It must be noted,

1:28.7

in a constituency bear in mind, which they didn't actually win even in their 1997 landslide,

1:34.4

but their view, very clearly was, it was Yulez, which won it. That's the ultra low emission zone,

1:40.9

which is due across almost the entirety of London by the end of August, where old polluting

1:47.1

vehicles have to pay a charge to be used. Now, let's just park the fact, oh, not upon there,

1:52.6

I didn't even tell you that. Part of the fact, this will only affect about walling ten cars.

1:57.2

Park the fact, most Londoners back Yulez. Part of the fact that even an out of London, where public

2:03.4

transport is more scarce, and there is more position to Yulez, as a consequence, polling suggests

2:08.4

an even split. Part of the fact that this is primarily about clean air, given pollution kills

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