Is there greater clarity?
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
Global
4.3 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2019
⏱️ 122 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | with James O'Brien. |
| 0:02.6 | Three minutes after ten, a regular morning indeed to you. |
| 0:06.1 | Where to start on a day like today. |
| 0:08.3 | I wonder whether... |
| 0:09.6 | I heard Michael Gove this morning. |
| 0:10.9 | Let's begin with the death of irony. |
| 0:12.8 | I heard Michael Coe this morning, |
| 0:14.2 | warning that if the House of Commons doesn't pass |
| 0:17.3 | the withdrawal agreement today, |
| 0:18.8 | it would expose the country to a long period of damaging uncertainty. |
| 0:23.7 | That from the chairman of vote leave, who now can't even agree with the other chairman of vote leave, Boris Johnson. |
| 0:33.1 | How do you want to play it? I honestly don't know because this is where reasonable analysis ends |
| 0:38.1 | today I think at least for the for the duration any attempts to as we've proved on this program |
| 0:45.1 | I think conclusively you cannot reason people out of the position that they haven't been reasoned |
| 0:49.9 | into so reason evidence and analysis are not really what's in play today. It's all about, well, |
| 0:56.9 | I guess in the first instance, it's all about Jeffrey Cox. And, oh, of course, other breaking |
| 1:03.9 | news, well, it's not really breaking. It came out last night. You know how I've struggled for the |
| 1:07.9 | duration, really, to try to work out what was in it, what was motivating, |
| 1:13.0 | particularly Jacob Rees-Mogg, who has been a great spouter of sound bites, vassal state and all that kind of thing. |
| 1:22.7 | But as you look at the evidence, indeed I asked him myself, what is it you can see that none of us, |
| 1:29.5 | no one else can in the context of the no deal scenario, which is not off the table by any |
| 1:35.4 | stretch of the imagination. Channel 4 News last night, four found seven million possible reasons |
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