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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Cummings Showdown

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

News, Daily News

4.3912 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2021

⏱️ 143 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

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0:23.2

Couldn't have explained your pet insurance deal better myself.

0:25.2

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0:27.4

Be savvy. Fill the deal at... Go dot compare!

0:31.8

This is LBC, from Global,

0:35.2

leading Britain's conversation with James O'Brien.

0:44.8

Three minutes after ten is the time. Good morning.

0:47.9

Thank you for choosing OBC on this remarkable day for British politics.

0:53.4

And of course, perhaps inevitably, part of the conversation we're going to have today

0:56.6

is going to look at whether it actually matters.

0:59.8

And I hate that question already.

1:02.0

I mean, I've pointed out to you on countless occasions recently

1:06.0

that the Donald Trump line about shooting someone on Fifth Avenue

1:09.7

and not losing a single vote has been

1:11.8

multiplied by approximately 130,000 in the context of coronavirus. And yet here we are. People in my

1:18.5

profession still arguing over whether or not it will cut through, whether or not whatever

1:23.3

Dominic Cummings says or has already said or indeed is currently saying, will it make any

1:29.1

difference to anything? Will it, in other words, swing the pendulum? Will it move the needle? And I

1:34.5

don't know the answer to that. I probably get a little bit more downcast than most at the absolute

1:39.3

removal of objective truth from British politics. But here's the kicker. Nobody has done more over the last

1:47.1

five years to undermine the role of objective truth in British politics than the man currently

1:53.4

appealing for your support, Dominic Cummings. It's quite incredible. All of my cliched phrases

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