Can we call him Failing Grayling?
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
Global
4.3 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2019
⏱️ 138 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation with James O'Brien. |
| 0:09.2 | Three minutes after ten, you are probably not going to believe this. |
| 0:12.0 | And in fact, you might want to sit down before I share this information with you. |
| 0:14.7 | But a massive policy introduced by Chris Grayling has had to be completely reversed after failing in an astonishingly miserable way. |
| 0:22.6 | More on that after 11. I mean, seriously, who could possibly have seen that coming? |
| 0:27.6 | Chris Grayling presiding over something that everybody else says was a ridiculous idea, |
| 0:30.6 | but he insisted was an absolute winner. That turns out he was wrong all along. |
| 0:35.6 | We may attempt, although I'm not sure I've got an abacus big enough, |
| 0:38.9 | we may attempt to tot up all the public money that Chris Grayling has, I've almost used a Boris Johnsonism there, |
| 0:44.7 | that Chris Grayling has thrown away, shall we say, in the course of his ministerial career. It's |
| 0:50.7 | Thursday which means from 12 o'clock, mystery hour will be upon us, your weekly |
| 0:54.6 | opportunity to achieve the sort of satisfaction, not ordinarily available anywhere else on your |
| 0:59.4 | radio dial. And forget money, X and Y are key to happiness. I'll tell you what X and Y are. |
| 1:07.1 | If you're very, very good. But we begin with a story that, well, I mean, it ticks boxes, doesn't it? |
| 1:14.3 | And it certainly covers territory that we've covered before. |
| 1:17.3 | But as is my want. |
| 1:18.4 | I try and present it to you in a way that's a little bit out of the ordinary, |
| 1:22.1 | or at least a little bit less predictable, than it might traditionally be. |
| 1:30.1 | It's a story about Islamophobia. |
| 1:33.7 | Now, I, and I need a little bit of help. |
| 1:36.1 | I'm not going to set my stall out necessarily this morning |
| 1:38.3 | and put my coconuts on their holders |
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