Can Labour win under Corbyn? | Owen Jones on General Election 2019

[@dannyhoward6690]

This has aged well

[@dannyhoward6690]

Haha hahahahaha.... This has aged so well

[@danbh84]

Damn right lol

[@qetoun]

like a fine wine...

[@andrewburridge5958]

This aged well. 80 seat Tory majority and unlawfully harassed Jews. Great work lads.

[@freemantle85]

This has aged beautifully

[@matthewbaynham6286]

My dad interrupted me watching this and when I said the video was about Owen Jones talking about the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, the working classes, my dad rolled his eyes and I'm wondering why.

[@matthewbaynham6286]

@@corpgov my dad is in his 70's and I think his done enough in his life.

[@thevo4100]

Was he alive during the last radical Labour government? That's why my Dad won't swallow it. He's seen it all before and said it was a nightmare.

[@unabashed26]

The Vo Show thatcher was a real dream. The last 9 years has been even more wonderful. Your dad is right: let’s have more of this. It’s great. Does your dad use the NHS?

[@keithpanton7486]

@@thevo4100 Yeah the NHS and welfare state clearly wrecked everything. The Tories did try to stop it of course, and have never stopped trying to dismantle both.

[@stevenborg102]

Why are they sitting so awkwardly, it's very uncomfortable

[@123eee]

It looks awkward, but I think it’s quite understandable - interviewer expects max space between them, each at an end of the sofa, interviewee is in their own home, so has probably just sat down comfortably as he would any other day in the same spot

[@kirrithkovacs5097]

This aged well

[@duckLife24_7]

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

[@qetoun]

lol me too.

[@ironicchungles5912]

Aged like milk in the warm summer sun

[@dshimmin1]

Putting the current crisis and brexit at the doorstep of the LibCon coalition is a rather cheap analysis. The financial crisis and the governments sleeping at the helm while that crisis brewed also have plenty of blame to share.

[@qetoun]

...and in reality...Labour fell into an absolute disaster :-)

[@dannywalker3784]

This is brilliant he literally knows nothing 🤣

[@JoseWhon]

But face it, this just doesn't feel like the 2017 election Corbyn resurgence....

[@maximthefox]

That happened after the manifesto release

[@johndavies5985]

And we ended up with Johnson, Truss, Sunak and Starmer. That aged well didn't it. Why did people reject Jeremy Corbyn? Just do a little research on Morgan McSweeney.

[@ianpatrick260]

Of course he’s got a cat 🐈

[@timcomley3241]

Clueless

[@AlexAlex-vn2dz]

Is joe a Labour supporter?

[@ianotimelord]

Hey my two Cats, Millie and Cola are Labour cats. Even my old cat Jessy was. She once walked all over a Tory candidate leaving her fut all over his suit. haha

[@Robbscarey]

So if the Queen is the nations nan, I nominated Olivia Coleman as the nations mum

[@AlexAlex-vn2dz]

Joe was so right

[@MegaUluwatu]

Cats worth more than the average weekly wage! hypocrite

[@paulgibbons2320]

Labour are ignoring over half their voters and their constituencies who voted in good faith to leave the EU. Why would people vote for Labour if they don't care about 17.4 million voters. Give your vote to someone who respects it.

[@ImranAli-tm3rq]

They will get a good leave deal then put it to the people. If we leave on a no deal we will be a small nation who will be exploited by Trump, as trying to get deals from other nations will be a lengthy process..

[@codygarland6365]

Ignoring brexiteers is what the remains alliance is. Labour are giving the people the vote between a good leave deal and remain. It’s the only way to end this

[@paulgibbons2320]

@@codygarland6365 don't be stupid. Labour are offering remain or remain. They want to take a sque'd vote in favour of Remain. Don't be confused. Labour are 100% remain. Listen to them speak at their conference. They are not leavers. They want to negotiate a deal then campaign against their own deal in favour of remain. They are a joke. Junker has already said their proposal is a joke. As far as the country are concerned. It's not funny.

[@paulgibbons2320]

@@ImranAli-tm3rq they want to negotiate a deal then campaign to remain against their own deal. Junker has already said their proposals are bollocks.

[@monty1864]

Cody Garland I’m curious ?? Exactly why would the EU give a labour government a good deal ?? Neither the EU or the Labour Party want to leave So trying to convince the electorate a good deal can be negotiated by labour is ridiculous ,, you judge the voting public by your own poor standards,,, we are not as stupid as labour think , but labour a complete bunch of mongs for even trying to push this bollox,

[@currentcomentor1026]

Can I Interview you mr jones.

[@richardgregory3684]

Yes Owen. Spinning a fantasy of lots of free stuff yet no one other than "rich people" paying more tax is always popular. In the real world, though, it would be like Sweden - where "rich people" taxes are about the same as ours, but the taxes on everyone else are MUCH higher (like, 25% VAT, and income tax that starts at 30% on earnings of around £1300 *per year* ). That's because "rich people" are already heavily taxed and are highly mobile. The top 1% pay around 25% of all income tax. If a handful of the leave you are left with a massive shortfall. So the only answer is to broaden the tax base. The Labour Party was spinning a deceptive fantasy and a lot of people liked the sound of it but didn;t believe it. Rightly so. If you want Scandinavian state spending, you get Scandinavian taxes to go with it. Id the Swedes could get it all from their equivalent of Richard Branson, they would do it They don't. And can't. Public suport for higher taxes always, always amounts to "higher taxes on someone with just a bit more money than me". The recent support for a wealth tax made this obvious: it was backed by it only applying to assets over £750,000 and exclusing main homes and pensions. In other words, peopel supported it, so long as they were sure they had excluded themselves from it.

[@infrasleep]

And-for those like Jones who weren't about in the 70;s-hence their ignorant fantasies-BASIC rate tax was 33% and the "services" were bureaucratic Kafka nightmares (not to mention the endless cases of abuse from the wonderful children's services of that era) AND-for idiots like Jones-when we had a socialist Labour government and they did socialist things like huge investment in the railways WHAT was the Unions response ? "If they think they can buy us off like that they've got another think coming" and off they went on strike!! As Gregor von Rezzori said, the only way a socialist government has the slightest chance of working is if everyone from the great leader down to the lowest plebe is a Saint, YES we'd like more equality/fairer society, but idiots like Jones wheeling out clapped out failed dogmas (he is incapable of any original political ideas) we're stuck.

[@AlexAlex-vn2dz]

Not good physical 😂

[@monty1864]

Even if labour get elected why should I respect the vote ? They don't , naaah we can wait another 3 years then have a "people's vote" just to make sure a labour government is what us poor plebs really want aye Owen !

[@morganveitch1422]

yeah that's why we have frequent elections ...

[@monty1864]

@@morganveitch1422 I don't think you quite get my point Morgan ,

[@morganveitch1422]

@@monty1864 i do understand it monty it's just not a very good point

[@monty1864]

We voted leave , labour won't let us leave , so they don't respect the vote , why should I ? It's that simple , but you don't want it to be , do you

[@monty1864]

@@morganveitch1422 if we'd voted remain 48 / 52 do you think labour would be representing the 48 ?

[@AlexAlex-vn2dz]

Boring 😂