Does Zahawai realise Ratcliffe is talking about people like him?
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
Global
4.3 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 154 minutes
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| 1:00.1 | Very good morning to you. Four minutes after 11 is the time. And I mean, I don't know if it is reluctantly the right word. |
| 1:06.5 | Reluctantly, we return our attention to the racism of Jim Ratcliffe, who pays zero income tax in this country on his personal income, but is furious with the immigrants who paid last year an estimated £17 billion. |
| 1:21.0 | Should we start with a few numbers? |
| 1:23.3 | How wrong was his figure yesterday? |
| 1:26.7 | Do you think he was out by 150%, 250% or 350%? |
| 1:30.8 | Or 350%? |
| 1:32.4 | It was out by 350%. |
| 1:35.0 | Which, of course, doesn't stop the likes of Dick Little John in the Daily Mail or Nadinems-aharwee explaining. |
| 1:40.6 | No, he was actually right. |
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