Toxic Tory Defects To Labour: What Natalie Elphicke's Defection Means
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 8 May 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Labour's message is clear. Hard right Tory MP like Natalie Elphicke? Welcome! Believe in taxing the rich to invest, public ownership, workers' rights, tackling the climate emergency, opposing war crimes? We think you're trash.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone Jordan Rokai here my brand new album the Loop is out now. This album is about parenthood |
| 0:12.0 | it sort of made me reflect on the way I was |
| 0:14.3 | parented and it's made me reflect a lot on my parenting style and all the issues I face |
| 0:18.8 | internally as well and how that may come across and project onto my child so it's a story of parenthood and I can't |
| 0:25.8 | wait for you to hear it and I really hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:28.8 | You really can't make this up. The Tory him being Natalie Elphick has just defected |
| 0:36.2 | two Kist Armour's Labour parking. Some of you might be going, who the hell is that anyway? |
| 0:40.3 | If you're in the general gist of the politics, think |
| 0:43.0 | Jacobie's Mogg or Priti Patel. |
| 0:45.2 | Not an exaggeration. |
| 0:46.8 | That's what we're talking about. |
| 0:47.8 | Now, the conservative hard rector to hear Steve Baker |
| 0:50.4 | is probably quite amused by it, tweetsets, I've been searching in vain |
| 0:54.6 | for a conservative MP who thinks themselves |
| 0:56.6 | to the right of Natie Elphick. |
| 0:58.6 | One just quit, I didn't realize there was any room |
| 1:01.4 | to her right. How very droll. Now he's not exaggerating there. |
| 1:06.0 | For those who think politics as a football team where you just cheer blindly and |
| 1:09.5 | substance is irrelevant where you win for the sake of it and hope that by declaring yourself |
| 1:13.7 | to be on the winning side you get some reflected glory then this is a great moment. |
| 1:18.1 | You see conventional wisdom goes like this when a political party gains defections |
| 1:22.1 | from their main rival that's seen as a political coup. |
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