I think it's grim and I think it's weird
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
Global
4.3 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2023
⏱️ 153 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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| 0:32.1 | listening to james o'brien on lbc i do you want to play a little game first. So you know the story that's leading the |
| 0:38.3 | news. It is quite correctly leading the news. It is an important story. It affects many, many, |
| 0:44.2 | many, many, many of us. I mean, actually it affects all of us. Just some of us very directly and |
| 0:49.9 | some of us somewhat less so. It is Rishi Sunak's somewhat belated attempt to meet the paid demands of |
| 0:56.3 | various unions and the attempt has been greeted rather differently depending upon which sector you |
| 1:03.5 | are looking at. Teachers, as you've heard, seem set to pause their industrial action. They were seeking just north of 10% and have received roughly half of that. Basically, these offers are between 5 and 7%. I know what question I'm going to ask you, but if you were in charge of the program, what question would you ask this morning? |
| 1:27.8 | Just text me. |
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| 1:31.1 | Just a genuine clever question based upon these conflicting or combined. |
| 1:37.1 | Combined is a better word. |
| 1:38.7 | These combined headlines. |
| 1:40.6 | NHS unions fury after PM insists pay offer is final. |
| 1:46.2 | Foreigners to fund half of pay rises. |
| 1:49.1 | Sunac orders one billion pound cuts to fund pay rises for public sector workers |
| 1:55.2 | and pay rises for one million UK workers as number 10 tries to end strikes. Actually, I'll give you the |
| 2:03.3 | Daily Express Front page as well because it's a pretty grim reflection of Brexit Britain. |
| 2:08.1 | Fees paid by migrants will fund pay rises. So we find ourselves now in the frankly incredible |
| 2:16.2 | position of having a government that is simultaneously telling us that we need fewer foreigners coming here, but also that they need to come here in order to pay for the pay rises of people in the sectors that are so crippled by vacancies that we need more people to cut. You just couldn't make it up, you don't have to pay relief but cuts pain on the front of the |
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