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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

It's like a racist groundhog day and it's absolutely exhausting

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

Daily News, News

4.5840 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 156 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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0:00.0

Good morning. Three minutes after ten is the time. Was there ever a mo- there was, wasn't there?

0:04.8

I wish we could graph it. I wish we could plot a graph to see. Do you know that in the immediate

0:10.0

aftermath of the Brexit vote, immigration ceased to be a particularly salient point for the British

0:15.2

public. Would you like to know why? Oh, you probably know already. Because people behind

0:20.0

microphones like this and writing articles for newspapers like that were not constantly telling people to be frightened or angry about immigrants.

0:28.5

It doesn't really matter what immigrants you're talking about, does it?

0:31.2

Whether it's asylum seekers or Polish builders, the song remains the same.

0:35.1

You should be terrified. You should be terrified. I'm on the Daily Mail website and I'm angry. You should be furious. You're being robbed. You're being nicked. Never mind that the paper's owned by an actual Blumen Viscount. It's that fellow over there laboring on a building site that's really responsible for the paucity of your existence or those people living four to a room in a former hotel who are the real

0:54.4

reason why you haven't got, I don't know, a golden water feature in the back of your garden.

0:59.7

It's a slightly unfortunate turn of phrase. I meant a water feature made of gold.

1:04.6

And it just works. It's so simultaneously illuminating and depressing

1:11.6

to understand it and to watch it happen

1:13.4

because there's a tiny little bit of you

1:14.9

that always thinks people will do better next time

1:17.2

people will know better next time

1:19.2

do you remember when Farage was wanging on about

1:20.9

Romanians all the time

1:22.1

and I mean all the time

1:23.5

you wouldn't want to live next door to one

1:25.0

it was Romanian,

1:26.0

Romanians here legally working legal I wouldn't want to live next door to one. It was Romanians, Romanians here legally working.

1:28.0

I wouldn't want to live next door to one of them. Go back to the 1970s, it was everybody with dark skin that was the problem.

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