Tories In Meltdown As Omicron Surges
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 12 December 2021
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Boris Johnson's government is in potentially terminal trouble as it is overwhelmed by lies and fury over parties in No. 10 while the country was in lockdown. Meanwhile, the country once again faces renewed COVID crisis as Omicron surges across the country. How bad are things for the Tories, has Keir Starmer's time really come - and how much of a mess is Britain in?
We're joined by journalist Paul Mason and Novara's Michael Walker.
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| 0:00.0 | Picture this, static cars, idling engines, angry horns, now picture you, zooming past |
| 0:12.4 | it all, light and breezy, ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic, book your train |
| 0:21.6 | journey via AvantiWestcoast.co.uk, AvantiWestcoast, feel good travel. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello, welcome to the show. Woo! It is all kicking off.com. Now, exactly, I don't want to |
| 0:46.2 | just force people to live through some pretty painful memories, but it is exactly two years |
| 0:52.4 | since the Conservatives and the Boris Johnson, when a whopping ATC majority crushing the |
| 0:59.2 | Labour Party in many seats and, of course, ending a Corbyn project. Now, why would I do this to |
| 1:05.1 | myself, let alone the rest of us? There is Boris Johnson, with his wife Carrie Johnson, |
| 1:10.0 | celebrating the exit poll, which, for many of us, was one of the worst moments in our entire lives. |
| 1:18.0 | Now, two years on, exactly, Boris Johnson's premiership is in a state of complete and utter |
| 1:25.5 | meltdown. Tory MPs are privately talking about removing the man who led their party into that |
| 1:33.9 | crushing victory over the Labour Party. Now, as his premiership seemingly disintegrates, |
| 1:41.2 | because of hostile links leaks from within his own operation, it's important to note this by |
| 1:45.4 | what we will talk about this, it's his own people here trying to destroy him. These leaks which |
| 1:50.0 | are coming out really nilly are coming from within Boris Johnson's administration. |
| 1:55.3 | Now, the Tory's polling is in a state of meltdown. Let's look at a couple of the latest polls, |
| 2:00.6 | his opinion. So, the latest opinion poll for the observer gives Labour their largest lead |
| 2:06.2 | in any opinion poll since February 2014. That gives the Labour is on 41%, |
| 2:14.0 | up three, the Tory's on 32% down four. Let's have a look at what Yugav shows. Yugav has a similar |
| 2:22.7 | lead, an eight point lead for the Labour, up three, the Tory's down one. So clearly, |
| 2:31.6 | this is a striking example. I'm trying to think in modern political history, an example of a |
| 2:38.6 | premiership, essentially in which the Prime Minister has got a massive can of petrol, |
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