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London Calling

Is it Over?

London Calling

Ricochet

News, Politics

4.4975 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s London Calling, James and Toby argue about whether the global pandemic is over (Toby thinks it is, while James thinks it’s a false dawn) and discuss the Johnny-come-latelies who claim to have been lockdown sceptics all along. They compare them to repentant Communists after the fall of the Berlin Wall. They also worry that it may be all over for their old friend Boris (well... Source

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0:00.0

This is London Calling.

0:02.0

London Calling.

0:03.0

Mr Speaker, I want to apologize.

0:06.0

I know that millions of people across this country have made extraordinary sacrifices

0:12.0

over the last 18 months and I know the

0:15.5

rage they feel with me and with the government I lead when they think that in Downey Street itself the rules are not being properly followed.

0:30.0

Welcome to London Calling with me James Dellingport and my very good friend Mr.

0:38.1

Toby young Toby. Toby it's going to be another those weeks where I winch about your

0:41.8

back bed about my ailments how about you I

0:45.6

recovered from my my COVID started testing negative which is great but then immediately succumbed to a cold

0:56.5

which seemed a bit unfair given how how... Oh that note you know what I've been worried about this this very thing I was thinking

1:06.0

surely the rules of the law of of justice would surely see that one wouldn't get a cold.

1:13.0

Absolutely. I mean I thought you know Omicron is essentially a cold so if you've just you know if your

1:18.4

antibodies have just you know vanquished Omicron surely they're kind of primed ready to kind of

1:25.3

see off any cold viruses but apparently not because either it's a kind of the long

1:31.2

tail other I've got long omicron, which is just a permanent

1:34.8

head cold, or else I got a cold as soon as I recovered from omicron, but it's really annoying

1:40.2

because I've now still got that cold.

1:43.0

I really disapprove by the way of this citation of this invocation of names like Omicron as kind of evidence of what one has had.

1:52.0

Because A, I don't trust the testing system.

1:54.7

And B, I think all these names are just part of the

1:58.1

SIOOP designed to, they've turned this into a nation of excessive.

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