‘Starmer is weak, unprincipled and utterly unremarkable’ | Rod Liddle

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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News, Society & Culture, Government, Politics

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Times Radio host Rod Liddle returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Rod and Brendan discuss the utter uselessness of Keir Starmer, the civil war in Labour and the elite betrayal of the voters. Listen to Rod’s Times Radio show, Saturdays 10am to 1pm: https://www.thetimes.com/radio?utm_source=spiked&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=FY26_TML_RodLiddle_ Join us for the spiked summit, our biggest ever live event, on Saturday 27 June in Westminster featuring Lionel Shriver, Katharine Birbalsingh, Toby Young, Allison Pearson, Brendan O’Neill, Tom Slater and more speakers to be announced. Get tickets here: https://www.spiked-online.com/event/spiked-summit/ Become a spiked supporter to access all of spiked’s exclusive content, and get unlimited, ad-free reading and other perks: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Order Brendan O’Neill’s Vibe Shift now from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vibe-Shift-Wokeness-Greenism-Technocracy/dp/106871932X/ 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Vibe-Shift-Wokeness-Greenism-Technocracy/dp/106871932X/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good.
0:00.4	Everything's so expensive.
0:01.7	Going from A to B,
0:03.1	train prices, keep going up, bus there and back.
0:05.2	$11.60.
0:05.8	A meal deal.
0:06.2	I won't get one free.
0:07.1	Man, I'm going to be left.
0:07.7	Have I got my lessons planned?
0:08.7	Direct that on before the store.
0:10.0	No, but too much stress.
0:11.5	One big exprising.
0:12.4	Is this worth it?
0:14.0	Just want to think less about money.
0:15.6	New government policies are making every day easier, like freezing train fares, which could save some commuters over £300 per year.
0:23.4	This is just one of the ways the UK government is tackling the cost of living. See more at gov.uk.
0:28.6	U.K. slash cost of living help. I feel like we need an injection of little common sense.
0:35.5	West Streeting, I don't think he stands a hope.
0:38.3	She's a chancer, she's greedy, she is a gob on a stick, basically.
0:43.3	I don't care about the ginger growler stuff.
0:46.3	And if she became primalish, I would be so ashamed.
0:49.3	A generation which is fantastically being stupid, i.e. ignorant of the fact. And that's how you get
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