Is Starmer's dullness a problem? Or not?
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
Global
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🗓️ 6 December 2024
⏱️ 154 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Three minutes after ten is the time. |
| 0:02.1 | I don't know, can we expand unhinged headline into unhinged newspaper? |
| 0:07.9 | The response of one newspaper this morning to that very anodyne speech by Kirstarmer yesterday is absolutely, and I'm going to get it out early today. |
| 0:18.2 | Extraordinary. |
| 0:19.4 | Listen to this. |
| 0:20.3 | Seven pillars, six milestones, five missions, three foundations, |
| 0:22.7 | but not one firm target to cut migration. |
| 0:25.3 | Our sketchwriter endures. |
| 0:26.5 | And then the biggest words of all, |
| 0:28.2 | Starmer's Bingo Hall parade of buzzwords and political nerd speak. |
| 0:33.1 | Again, it falls to me to remind you that these are the people who told you |
| 0:36.1 | that Liz Truss was an economic genius, that Boris Johnson was the new Winston Churchill, that |
| 0:40.8 | Brexit would make us richer and liether and happier and that austerity a consequence of |
| 0:47.5 | a international financial crisis caused in large part by irresponsible bankers must be paid |
| 0:52.3 | for by librarians in Wolverhampton and |
| 0:54.7 | Shawstock mothers in Stoke-Newington. |
| 0:57.9 | These are the same people. |
| 1:00.1 | And yesterday's speech prompts the kind of response that I think is probably more at home |
| 1:05.1 | in Looney Tunes cartoons. |
| 1:07.6 | Which means once again we have to turn to each other for slightly more sane guidance and |
| 1:13.7 | I'm drawn immediately to two texts that came into the program yesterday when we did that quick |
| 1:19.0 | round up after the speech had finished and listen this is not a conversation about the speech |
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