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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

A Labour victory; should we be surprised?

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

Daily News, News

4.3912 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2019

⏱️ 142 minutes

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0:00.0

This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation with James O'Brien.

0:08.8

Three minutes after ten is the time. Fill your boot. Roll up, roll up and fill your boots

0:14.4

with a little bit of political analysis this morning. I have to tell you, I don't know

0:18.7

whether or not you clock this, but I can't remember the last time the bookie's got something so wrong when it comes to the electoral behaviour of the British public. I heard the fellow from, I can't remember which bookmakers it was, but it doesn't matter. But I heard him on with Nick yesterday, and the Brexit party were absolute shoe-ins for this Peterborough by-election. And they came pretty close to winning.

0:37.9

Make no mistake.

0:39.4

It says something about British politics that are an organisation with no members and no

0:43.8

policies and led by an unelected racist liar can come very close to winning a seat in the House of Commons.

0:48.8

I don't know quite what it says about British politics, but it would be foolish to ignore that lesson. However, what lessons do you

0:56.1

draw from this by-election? Labour won. There is no mistaking that simple fact, but was it a glorious

1:05.6

victory? A glorious victory, I do not know. 17% down, but the actual majority was up.

1:12.6

It's not a traditional Labour seat.

1:14.6

It was held by that lady who had to resign after driving offences, wasn't it?

1:22.6

She was jailed for driving offences.

1:24.6

So you've kind of some people have suggested because the lady that won in Peterborough had done something on social media that was anti-Semitic.

1:33.7

Whether or not she knew what she was doing is, I suppose, debatable. But of course, some people are simply observing that Labour have replaced the criminal with the anti-Semite, whereas other people are pointing out that the left-wing racists beat the right-wing racists in the race to represent Peterborough. I don't know. I'm just telling you what's out there. I'm just telling you what's out there. And just in reference to that anti-Semitism accusation against Labour's new Peterborough MP. She has stressed already that she believes all anti-Semitism is abhorrent,

2:03.0

but she had liked a Facebook post that said Theresa May had a Zionist slave masters agenda.

2:10.2

She also endorsed a message that said Islamic extremists were created by the CIA and Mossad. It's not a good look. I mean,

2:21.1

the policing of social media is quite incredible. I use likes as a bookmark. I once liked a tweet

2:29.0

that was on one of the sort of far right websites, oddly, it ended up in my feed explaining why Ian Duncan Smith was a genius.

2:36.9

I liked it because I thought, whenever,

2:39.3

whenever I'm feeling low,

2:41.6

whenever I find myself in times of trouble,

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