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TRIGGERnometry

What's It Like to Work for Jeremy Corbyn?

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

Politics, Society & Culture, News

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Matt Zarb-Cousin is the director of Clean Up Gambling and is a former spokesperson for Jeremy Corbyn. Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Locals! https://triggernometry.locals.com/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: https://www.subscribestar.com/triggernometry https://www.patreon.com/triggerpod Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/​​​ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: marketing@triggerpod.co.uk Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/sign-up/​​​ Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media:  https://twitter.com/triggerpod​​​ https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod​​​ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod​​​ About TRIGGERnometry:  Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

People on the left are like why you still remember the low party? Why would you vote for low party?

0:04.0

There is no vote for it. It's to destroy it.

0:17.0

I was a spokesperson for Jeremy Corbyn between 2016 and 2017.

0:21.0

I'm off.

0:25.0

One of the things I really like about you is you, you know,

0:28.0

whatever your ideological leanings, you have someone who tries to work across different lines,

0:32.0

and you're interested in talking to people with different points of view and trying to persuade people

0:36.0

as opposed to, you know, screaming, shouting, the way we do politics nowadays.

0:40.0

And how do you reflect on your time in politics?

0:44.0

Does it allow for that sort of thing? Have we got worse at doing that, better at doing that?

0:48.0

What were your experiences like?

0:50.0

Well, I've slowly come to terms with the realisation that maybe we're not going to build

0:56.0

socialism in Britain and any time soon.

1:00.0

Have you now?

1:02.0

How did you realise that? That's a genuinely interesting question.

1:05.0

Or was that just a joke?

1:07.0

No, no, no. I mean, look, obviously the Corbyn project went the way it went

1:11.0

and had its many different structural challenges that were impossible.

1:16.0

He's gone into political speak now.

1:20.0

It didn't work out.

1:22.0

It didn't work out.

1:24.0

And look, I mean, I think that there's a lot of areas where public policy and governance can be improved,

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