12. James O'Brien on disillusionment with Keir Starmer, Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn and Andrew Neil
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🗓️ 2 February 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
James O'Brien and I disagree on a lot - as you'd expect, I'm a socialist, he's a liberal - but we have a very amicable chat about his disappointment with Keir Starmer, our different views on Jeremy Corbyn, about whether Remainers should have pushed for a soft Brexit rather than betting the house on Remain, about Boris Johnson, the right-wing media and Andrew Neil.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello. Welcome to the podcast. This is Owen Jones here. Today, James O'Brien. |
| 0:12.8 | Now, James O'Brien is a bit of a star in the world of radio and beyond. He's the best |
| 0:19.7 | selling author, of course, as well. He's the LBC presenter who's well-known for having |
| 0:25.8 | ding-dongs with callers for his very strongly held views, not least, of course, on Brexit. |
| 0:31.4 | He was a passionate and remains a passionate remainder. So, I want to talk to him. We've got |
| 0:36.3 | different perspectives. I'm a socialist. He's a liberal. But it's important to have these |
| 0:41.5 | sorts of discussions on this podcast. So, we're going to talk about a lot today. Is he |
| 0:46.0 | impressed by Keir Starmer? Does he think that maybe we could have settled on a soft |
| 0:50.6 | Brexit instead? Obviously, we'll have to talk a bit about Jeremy Corbyn when that re-litigating |
| 0:55.6 | that too much. But we need to have that conversation out as well as what's going on in the country |
| 1:01.4 | and the media landscape. We have a little chat about Andrew Neal for us that. Now, a bit |
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