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The Owen Jones Podcast

We Proved Our Critics Wrong - And How We Can Win Next Time

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Government, News, News & Politics, Politics

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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0:00.0

Now the dust has settled a bit on the election, I think it's worth taking a bit of stock about the success we've had on the left and how we prove the critics wrong, but crucially how we build on the success.

0:10.0

This is a really exciting moment, as far as I'm concerned.

0:12.8

My view is the left can win dozens of seats at the next general election,

0:16.6

making labour dependent on them, meaning a minority government where in exchange for support,

0:21.8

that government has to agree progressive social and economic

0:25.1

reforms as well as a change in foreign policy and a referendum on changing the electoral system

0:30.4

to proportion of representation so we don't have a far school electoral

0:33.4

system where you can win a third of the vote and two-thirds of the seats, whereas

0:37.2

smaller parties like the Greens are prevented from getting seats and indeed many people who would vote for them don't do so because they fear that the toys will win if they did.

0:48.0

Sounds big and ambitious, doesn't it? Good. Time to be ambitious. Unless we want on the far right to benefit from the disillusionment

0:54.0

we'll see with starmism and we've seen that happen in France after a protracted rule by

0:59.7

their version of stammer president Macron who came to power in a country which was not in

1:04.7

his bad estate as we're in today.

1:06.9

And if it wasn't for the left there, the far right would now be taking power in that

1:10.5

country.

1:11.5

Now back in March I left the Labour Party, a party my family

1:13.8

have backed for generations, literally my great-grand-dall and my grandmother were

1:17.3

labor councillors, my parents met, I'm paying for Labour Party, small violin. I was

1:22.2

gifted a Labour Party membership on my

1:23.6

15th birthday by my mom because I'm such a loser. So I'm back the

1:26.5

founding of We Deserve Better earlier this year, which called for a case-by-case

1:30.8

backing of candidates based on that totally extremely

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