This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation with James O'Brien.

Good morning, three minutes after ten is the time, and the staggering site yesterday of 800 P&O workers being told that their jobs no longer exist effectively

over a Zoom call from a bloke they'd never really heard of before, it's hard to know where to

start, isn't it?

It is symptomatic of a much broader malaise, a malaise which, if you're kind enough to listen to this

program on a regular basis, you'll be very, very familiar with because free market think

tanks and much of the right-wing media believes that workers' protections, that red tape,

that all of the things that the trade union movement exists to protect. And I'm afraid you have to point out that the

RMT in this case were pro-Brexit as well, thinking that that would somehow enhance the

protections that their workers enjoy. This is what they dream of. You'll remember that four

members of the current cabinet actually wrote a book explaining how British workers are among the idlest in the world and they need to start copying the practices of South Asian countries.

If you're wondering which four it is, you could probably guess.

Priti Patel, Elizabeth Truss, Dominic Rob and Quasi Quartang.

So, I mean, staggering really to think that anybody is surprised by what happens when you create a working environment designed to let bosses do whatever they want and reflecting a sort of contempt for the ordinary working people.

And I come back again to that phrase. I don't know about you.

It was a team's call, not a Zoom call,

apparently, but I'm not doing an apology yet. That was yesterday's program. I don't know about you,

but it comes back. I keep coming to that phrase. I didn't mean you, which was the phrase that

we were introduced to in the immediate aftermath of the Brexit vote, when much of the

agitation and campaigning, of course, was decidedly and deliberately anti-foreign or anti-immigration.

And when the result came in, and many people who weren't born here but had made their lives here

felt horribly victimized and insulted and heard, They'd be told by their Brexit voting family

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