Tory MP Humiliated On National Television
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Oh wow. This Tory MP - Vicky Ford, who represents Chelmsford, unlucky guys! - went on TV to claim Britain had better economic growth than other countries. She could not be more wrong! No European country is set to have such terrible economic growth. Ford offers us a valuable lesson though: about how much of an economic catastrophe Tory rule has represented, and why we should never let them get away with it.
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| 0:21.2 | This really does have to be seen, to be believed. |
| 0:23.6 | This is a Tory MP, Vicki Ford, a former investment banker who's represented |
| 0:28.0 | the good people of Chelmsford since 2017. |
| 0:31.5 | Let's have a listen. |
| 0:32.3 | OK, let's go. |
| 0:33.1 | Our job's out there, caused by global pressures. |
| 0:36.4 | And actually, the UK is better off in our growth numbers |
| 0:40.5 | than France, Germany, Italy, USA, Canada, Japan, Germany and China. |
| 0:44.5 | We're going to show you. |
| 0:45.6 | We're going to show just before we let you go this graph, |
| 0:48.9 | which actually stands in stock contrast to what you've just said, |
| 0:52.5 | Vicki Ford, economic growth since COVID-19. |
| 0:55.7 | I will tell you the figures of G7 countries. |
| 0:58.2 | United States, they're at the top 4.2 percent. |
| 1:01.1 | United Kingdom, at the very bottom behind Canada, Italy, France, Japan and Germany, |
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