A long long list of jobs we cannot fill
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
Global
4.3 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2023
⏱️ 141 minutes
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This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's live, daily show on LBC Radio. To join the conversation call: 0345 60 60 973
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. It is three minutes after 10. And you are listening to James O'Brien on LBC. |
| 0:05.6 | How would you divide the world, do you think? Or at least the country, the population of this country. |
| 0:10.8 | I think when I say the word migration or immigration or emigre, which is the word I'm going to try and use instead of immigrant moving forwards, |
| 0:19.4 | because I think that the word immigrant has been |
| 0:22.0 | sullied somewhat and quite deliberately by various people so emigre is the one that I prefer |
| 0:27.1 | I think you can split we can split ourselves into three can we there are people who's and I |
| 0:33.5 | think it is an intersecting Venn diagram. All three of these circles intersect each other. |
| 0:39.8 | Goodness knows what it's like to be in the very middle |
| 0:41.9 | when you've got a foot or a finger in each of these three camps. |
| 0:46.7 | But I think there are three camps. |
| 0:48.0 | I think that you have people whose heart sinks, genuinely. |
| 0:52.7 | People who just think, oh, Lord. |
| 0:54.4 | And I think the reason why your heart sinks is partly because of the strength of feeling |
| 0:59.3 | or the attitudes of the people in the other two camps. |
| 1:01.5 | So today you turn on your favorite radio station, LBC, and your favorite presenter, Sheila Fogarty, |
| 1:07.4 | but James O'Brien is still on. |
| 1:09.1 | And he says, today we're going to talk about immigration and you go, oh, flip it, heck. |
| 1:13.1 | So that's camp number one. |
| 1:15.0 | Camp number two is the, what you might call the red meat munchers. |
| 1:19.0 | Today we're going to talk about immigration. |
| 1:20.2 | Before I've even got to the end of the word, you're ringing me in a state of righteous fury |
| 1:25.6 | to complain about everything from traffic jams on the M25 |
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