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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

How did you end up thinking the EU was your enemy?

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

News, Daily News

4.3913 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2019

⏱️ 133 minutes

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Summary

Listen to James O'Brien's phone-in show, which will make you think - and possibly change your outlook on the big stories.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Britain's conversation with James O'Brien.

0:03.6

Three minutes after ten is the time.

0:05.8

And on today's program, we will be talking to a succession of prominent politicians

0:10.0

who have either been proved completely wrong about everything or shown to be profiting

0:14.3

personally from the catastrophe they've helped to create.

0:17.3

So in the first quarter, David Davis, after that Ian Duncan Smith, we'll be

0:21.0

talking to Jacob Rees-Mogg, Boris Johnson, Nadine Dorries, Andrew Bridgen, we'll be talking to

0:25.1

Nigel Fatt. No, sorry. Of course we won't. Because when you soil yourself in public, you don't

0:32.6

get invited back to do it again, unless you're talking about the relationship between the British media

0:38.3

and so-called Brexiters. We can all agree, I think, that today is the day we rename, remain,

0:44.5

and leave more accurately as right and wrong. But please do not fall into the trap of thinking

0:52.2

that the nightmare is in any way over.

0:54.3

It could quite realistically only just be beginning.

0:57.9

And you heard the first indications of why in the news.

1:01.5

Because unless you listen to this programme on a regular basis,

1:04.8

you may not be aware of the fact that Jacob Rees-Mogg's favourite economist

1:08.3

has already predicted the collapse of British agriculture and manufacturing that that tariff schedule, just reported by Simon in the news, would see become fact.

1:20.1

Imagine being a beef farmer and discovering this morning that if you want to flog stuff to some of your biggest customers on the other side of the English channel,

1:28.5

you're going to have to stick a tariff in the region of 50% on your products.

1:34.1

Whoa. They might not buy it. Here you go. You think I'm making it up.

1:38.7

Well, I think that it's perfectly true that if you remove protection the sort that has been given

1:45.9

in particular than the car industry and to

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