Why We Need A Hung Parliament
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 19 May 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Above all else, we need to get the Tories out - but how do we have the best chance of reversing awful Tory laws, getting electoral reform, and stopping Starmer's authoritarian impulses? This is the solution - and here's my answer to the critics, too.
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| 0:00.0 | Ooh, be afraid. Be very afraid. There is a new bogeyman, a who's arrived on the scene, |
| 0:06.0 | and that is the prospect of a hung parliament. Now, this chatter has been largely driven by the |
| 0:11.4 | local elections in which the Tories got absolutely battered. Oof! But, they didn't do as well |
| 0:17.2 | as they hoped, and the Lib Dems and the Greens actually did far better than they could even have |
| 0:22.4 | dreamt of. So, what this showed was, there's a large majority of this country, what the Tories |
| 0:27.6 | out on the way, which makes sense, because they trashed the country. But they're not sold, |
| 0:32.6 | the British public, on Kier Starmer. And if I'm honest, I'm more than empathised with the great |
| 0:36.9 | British public on all of those counts. Now, I actually think a Lib Dem majority is still pretty |
| 0:42.0 | likely, given the extent of Tories' self-destruction. Three Prime Ministers have one term, |
| 0:47.7 | unfortunate. One forced that out of the epic scandal, the other after trashing their government |
| 0:52.4 | means sending mortgage payments, hiking, high. And unprecedented costs of living crisis, |
| 0:58.1 | collapsing public services, and the Scottish Nationalists having a bit of a mayor, |
| 1:02.8 | all truth be told. Now, Starmer is nothing, if not a lucky general, given all of that. But if |
| 1:08.4 | inflation falls, and Starmer's general unpopularity, his ratings are poor, despite getting the |
| 1:14.2 | easiest ride from the media of any Labour leader since Tony Blair. And if that cuts through, |
| 1:19.1 | then who knows? I mean, elections a year away, probably, at least, maybe more. |
| 1:24.1 | Now, I wrote a column this week, arguing that a hung parliament would actually be a good idea, |
| 1:28.8 | contrary to all the kind of noise about it being disastrous. And about it being chaotic, |
| 1:34.9 | oh, can't have chaos in this country, come, imagine that! Could you imagine, chaos, or fall? |
| 1:41.8 | It's like, thank God we avoided that after the Tories won their 80 seat majority. We've just had |
| 1:46.8 | stability, tranquility, ever since. Volunteers will be really, you get the gist, ludicrous, |
| 1:52.5 | clearly, to suggest chaos is something we are protected from by a government with a massive |
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