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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Sadiq Khan's reaction to Starmer's "island of strangers"

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

Daily News, News

4.5840 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 157 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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0:27.3

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0:30.1

It's three minutes after ten, and all human life is here. Mark and Mike to kick things off.

0:36.2

Mike writes, the comparisons to Enoch Powell are hyperbolic

0:39.0

and demonstrate the left's inability to tackle these issues seriously, leading to the rise of Farageism.

0:44.5

If the left and right are calling you names, you're probably doing something right. I think the

0:48.6

first place to look for the plan is next week's EU summit. Meanwhile, Mark in Edinburgh writes,

0:53.3

if Farage had made this disturbing dog whistle island of stranger's speech,

0:57.0

we would call it out for what it is. This is Starrma's Enoch Powell moment,

1:01.0

shamelessly pandering to the far right in a deferent effort to stop hemorrhaging votes to reform UK.

1:08.1

There are, oh, and another mark. Should we try and do...

1:10.9

We only take messages from mics and marks today. So it's Mark 2, Mike 1 at the moment.

1:15.5

And another mark, this one says, hi James, it's Mark in Bristol. I'm a Labour voter. I think

1:20.1

Kirstama has navigated a variety of serious issues very well. However, I don't feel comfortable

1:25.0

with this language. I think he is doing this to sweep up some of the

1:28.7

centre-right ground, which the Tories are falling out of. Great for votes, I don't know if they've

1:34.5

mean, if that's true, then, you know, there's a calculus that justifies it. But if it's not true,

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