OH SO SOVEREIGN

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

News, Daily News

4.3 • 913 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2020

⏱️ 134 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

At 11PM tonight, we leave the European Union. Special Advisors, Civil Servants and Politicians alike have been scrambling for the past fortnight to ensure Big Ben's bell will bong for the occasion. Following a COBRA meeting, a study commissioned out of Tufton Street and a quick trip to the local hardware store, I am pleased to announce THE BELLS WILL RING (via a projector). Will Brexit be as budget as this announcement? Discuss. This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's live, daily show on LBC. Listen live, weekdays 10AM-1PM and join the conversation: 0345 60 60 973

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation with James O'Brien.
0:14.5	Four minutes after ten, I had to do a quick double take there during the news
0:17.6	when we heard that phrase quacks, charlatans and cranks who exploit people's
0:21.4	concerns using fake news on the internet it was actually the head of the NHS talking about
0:25.7	Gwyneth Paltrow not the path that leads us to where we are today happy independence day
0:31.9	apparently is a is a greeting in some cornice which which I... Who knows?
0:38.3	So here's the thing.
0:40.3	What happened?
0:41.3	Genuine question.
0:43.3	Interesting answers.
0:45.3	Go back to 2010, shortly after David Cameron became Prime Minister.
0:48.3	And listen, these things are not...
0:50.3	What's the word I'm looking for?
0:52.3	They're not ex-cathedral. They're not gospels.
0:54.5	They're not irrefutable examples of broader truths.
0:58.9	They are polls.
1:00.0	They are guidance.
1:01.5	But 1% is such a starkly low figure that it probably speaks of a wider truth, doesn't it?
1:09.7	And if we go back to 2010, we would
1:12.8	find that when asked to list
1:14.8	the things about which they are most concerned,
1:18.4	1% of the population,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Global, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Global and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.