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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Is this May's best move yet?

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

News, Daily News

4.3912 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2019

⏱️ 134 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

James O'Brien.

0:01.7

Three minutes after ten is the time, and then there were two.

0:05.9

I think no deal's dead now, isn't it, completely?

0:08.8

Which leaves either deal or no Brexit.

0:11.3

What deal? God knows.

0:13.2

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.

0:17.0

Here's a weird thing, though.

0:18.4

Have a little think about what Theresa May did yesterday.

0:21.2

Bearing in mind that her recent record

0:22.5

suggests that her promises aren't worth

0:24.4

the paper that they're written on.

0:26.6

If she were to keep this one and somehow

0:28.7

get the withdrawal agreement through Parliament

0:30.7

and then resign, do you know

0:32.7

what that would involve? That would involve

0:34.7

a tribute act of David Cameron, making

0:36.7

an almighty mess of everything, putting party unity ahead of national interest, and then waltzing off into the sunset, leaving other people to clear up her mess.

0:47.4

Which would, again, as with Cameron, be followed by a bunch of blowhard Brexiters, bloviating and blundering around the place, exercising and demonstrating

0:55.7

their epic ignorance, before we return to chaos again. And that's it. That's British politics.

1:05.0

I don't quite understand how it's happened, although I possibly have a slightly better insight

1:10.0

into it than people who have been lucky enough not to have to spend the last three years scrutinizing every twist in turn. But that is where we are now. I mean, the indicative votes notwithstanding, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. There's no Brexit.

1:28.0

The indicative votes notwithstanding, I find it very difficult to push forward, don't you?

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