Test, Trace, MIA
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
Global
4.3 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2021
⏱️ 135 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation with James O'Brien. |
| 0:14.3 | Three minutes after ten is the time. A very good morning indeed to you and a happy new year. |
| 0:20.1 | Let me begin with an outbreak of unbridled balance. I should |
| 0:24.3 | have also added that the Mayor of London also has a linguistic characteristic that would see him |
| 0:30.3 | describe mingling and mixing in the nation's primary schools yesterday. But we remain somewhat entranced |
| 0:36.9 | by the notion of three |
| 0:38.0 | million kids going to school yesterday and not going to school today. The U-turn on this |
| 0:43.9 | occasion undertaken by the Prime Minister was arguably the most violent of them all, not least |
| 0:50.2 | because it was so obviously on the horizon. I guess that's what being gaslit feels like. |
| 0:55.5 | You begin to actually question the evidence of your own eyes and ears. You think, well, that cannot |
| 1:00.9 | possibly sustain. You look at the situation in intensive care wards. You look at the warnings |
| 1:07.2 | coming from pretty much every professional medic in the country and you think well we |
| 1:11.9 | can't possibly god knows it's a disastrous bulletin to arrive in most households that the children |
| 1:18.5 | won't be returning to the school site but lesser of two evils it occurred to me over the break |
| 1:25.3 | that that is the thing that he cannot negotiate the lesser of two evils you It occurred to me over the break that that is the thing that he cannot negotiate. |
| 1:29.1 | The lesser of two evils, you have to give bad news. He can't do it. All he ever really wants |
| 1:35.1 | to do is trumpet bogus triumphs and unfounded optimism. And yet what we really need now |
| 1:41.9 | is somebody who can look the nation in the eye. Listen to me. |
| 1:47.9 | It's January 2021. I think the first time I said to you that what we really need now is clarity and |
| 1:55.6 | leadership was in March of 2020. The groundhog day nature of this government's handling of the coronavirus |
| 2:03.4 | pandemic has not only seen tens of thousands of people die unnecessarily. It shows no signs |
| 2:09.2 | whatsoever of recovering. Please, please, please, please, whatever God you may hold holy or whatever powers you may subscribe to, let this vaccine |
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