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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

Daily News, News

4.5840 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2022

⏱️ 146 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

Three minutes after ten is the time. A very good morning to you. And where I wonder to begin.

0:07.0

Can you turn it off and on again? Do you think would that work? That should be care of Starmer's policy regarding the dreaded B word.

0:12.6

We are going to turn it off and then turn it on again. You may think that I'm making this up. But you should know by now, I never make stuff up, unless I tell you in advance that I'm making stuff up, or I'm playing a trick on Theo Oshelwood. But the Daily Telegraph, no less, the sort of House Journal, I've said it before it, I shall say it again. The Daily Telegraph is to Boris Johnson, as the Beano is to Dennis the Menace.

0:38.0

And the Daily Telegraph this morning carries a story.

0:40.2

You don't need to read it.

0:41.1

Under the headline, time is running out to prove Brexit is not a historic failure.

0:46.2

I took a decision about halfway through last year to confine most of my newspaper references regarding the dreaded B word to newspapers that were

0:55.8

absolutely tireless cheerleaders for it at the time of the referendum and in the four years

1:02.9

immediately afterwards. Well, the five years were basically the five years up until it happening.

1:10.5

They were full-throated and tireless cheerleader.

1:13.4

So the Daily Express has been dropping some headlines that make me do a double take.

1:17.2

So close to the truth are they finally becoming.

1:20.0

And so completely at loggerheads, completely at odds with what they said was going to happen,

1:26.0

is now going to happen.

1:27.9

I mean, just by way of example, if you were looking at politicians instead of newspapers,

1:31.9

do you remember Reese Mogg and the rest of them queuing up to tell you that your energy prices

1:35.4

and your food prices would be lower after Brexit?

1:39.3

Is that a penny drop moment?

1:40.9

Is that a little sort of breakthrough minute?

1:43.6

I do not know. But the Daily

1:45.6

Telegraph carrying that headline today. And Kirstarmer's speech yesterday, and I think today is one

1:51.9

of those days where you realise just how daft most of the British media is. The Daily Mail has

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