Should Keir Starmer call for a ceasefire?
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
Global
4.3 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2023
⏱️ 138 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. It's three minutes after ten, and I have been sitting here for the best part of seven years now, |
| 0:05.7 | starting the program on some mornings by suggesting that we have moved into unprecedentedly perilous waters. |
| 0:13.2 | And here we are again. I've had enough. I don't know about you. But my goodness me, what I'd give for a return to days of polite disagreement. |
| 0:22.8 | Well, not even polite disagreement, but just disagreement about actual sort of policies and |
| 0:27.8 | ideas rather than people trying to tell us what reality is. We now have a government that is |
| 0:33.9 | trying to introduce the notion of a vote in parliament changing observable reality. |
| 0:42.0 | So Rwanda is not a safe country. |
| 0:44.6 | That is the finding of the United Kingdom's Supreme Court. |
| 0:49.4 | But Rishi Sunak thinks if he can just get all of his Lickspitil MPs to vote in a certain way, |
| 0:57.2 | then they can make it safe. |
| 0:59.2 | If I were Rishi Sunak, I wouldn't stop there. |
| 1:02.0 | I'd introduce a motion designed to state, not claim, state that England has won every |
| 1:08.3 | World Cup since 1930. |
| 1:10.6 | I would introduce a motion designed to state that England has won every World Cup since 1930. I would introduce a motion designed to state |
| 1:13.6 | that it is going to be a lovely weather, but there's going to be snow on Christmas Day and sunshine |
| 1:20.7 | on Boxing Day. We could introduce a motion, we could have a vote in Parliament on whether or not |
| 1:25.7 | Morkham and Wise is the finest comedy programme of all time. |
| 1:30.0 | Actually, that's probably the least controversial thing that I've said. |
| 1:32.7 | Oh, how about the earth is flat? |
| 1:34.7 | We can have a vote on the earth being flat. |
| 1:36.5 | And the COVID vaccines being sort of secret microchips that allow Bill Gates to control when you go to the toilet. All of these |
| 1:45.4 | things, if you got a parliamentary majority in support of them, they wouldn't suddenly become true |
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