It is three minutes after 10 and you are listening to James O'Brien on LBT.

I think we might pause that conversation about so-called guppies, grown-up professionals

who have given up on owning property.

And turn our attention instead to that story that you just heard in the news.

I mean, you know, I know he's made all his promises and all of that, and the latest is that we'll join Russia and Belarus as non-signatories to the European Convention on Human Rights.

Should we just pause for a minute and reflect once again upon how far and how fast we have fallen as a country?

Conservative Party now suggesting they might campaign on a pledge to follow Belarus and Russia

out of the European Convention of Human Rights.

I don't actually know.

I mean, can you get chucked out or do you have to actually withdraw?

I presume you can get chucked out.

But that is now, and I think it also imperils the Good Friday

agreement, but you won't hear that in any right-wing newspapers. You won't read that. The people that

brought you Brexit, and you remember what they promised you, will also try to sell you the withdrawal

from the European Convention on Human Rights without mentioning the Good Friday Agreement or the

fact that it would make us the ethical

equivalent of Vladimir Putin. That's where they are now because they have to keep finding stuff

to tell you is ruining your life or ruining your country. They've been in charge for 13 years and

they are literally running out of scapegoats, which is quite remarkable when you think

about it.

They are running out of scapegoats because Brussels was the best.

I wonder whether any of them sit there thinking, oh damn, we should never have left the European

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