How can we trust the PM with the NHS if he doesn't use it?
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
Global
4.3 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2022
⏱️ 133 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, it's three minutes after 10 and you're listening to James O'Brien on LBC. |
| 0:04.9 | Kirstom is currently delivering a speech. I had a thought. I've had two thoughts so far this |
| 0:10.8 | morning. Oh, there's a lovely poem I meant to share with you ages ago. I'll probably get it |
| 0:15.1 | slightly wrong. Wendy Cope, do you remember? I love Wendy Cope. It's something like some men |
| 0:20.1 | never think of it. |
| 0:22.7 | You did, you'd come along and say you'd almost bought me flowers, but something had gone wrong. |
| 0:27.5 | The shop was closed. You'd had some thoughts, the sort that minds like ours. |
| 0:32.2 | Dream up endlessly, you thought, I might not want your flowers. |
| 0:36.1 | I used to smile and hug you then. |
| 0:38.4 | Now I can only smile. |
| 0:40.3 | But look, the flowers you almost bought have lasted all this while. |
| 0:45.0 | Isn't that? |
| 0:45.6 | It just gets me that poem. |
| 0:47.1 | And I only thought of it because I've had some thoughts. |
| 0:49.7 | The sort that minds like ours think up endlessly. |
| 0:52.5 | And the first thought I had was let's wait |
| 0:54.3 | until Kirstama's speech has finished, because there are two headlines around today focusing |
| 0:59.5 | upon what he is expected to say. The Daily Telegraph goes very big, and that is significant for |
| 1:04.1 | reasons we'll get onto a little later in the programme. Very big on the line of he's going to |
| 1:08.2 | wean the UK off immigration, off its reliance on immigration, |
| 1:13.6 | because we're going to start training our own people more. |
| 1:16.6 | But I always thought that an awful lot of the anti-immigration argument was based upon the idea that it was unskilled. |
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