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

Three minutes after at ten is the time. I've got a new catchphrase, boys and girls.

Sit down and be quiet. It has to hurt to help, doesn't it? I think this is true of almost everything. And do you know the people

I envy the most in many ways? The people who don't seem to suffer or struggle when they do the right

thing. So I am taking tiny, tiny, pathetic, frankly, steps towards trying to live a slightly greener

life. I was genuinely affected by the extinction rebellion protest

and more powerfully, I have to be honest,

by Greater Thunberg's interventions.

But I heard a story only yesterday evening

of a plumber who lives in North London

and he's just had, he's 25 quid a day,

Bish Bosh, before he's laid a single pipe

until he can get rid of his diesel van and replace it with something that won't be susceptible to the new charge.

So have I got the right to tell him to suck it up?

That's my question for you today.

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It has to hurt to help.

So do you agree with me that the government...

This is the terrible thing about politics at the moment.

In fact, in many ways, it's the corollary of what is ludicrously called populism.

Populism and popular, oddly,

do not mean the same thing in political science. You might be able to find a dictionary definition that lends itself to the notion that populism and popularity mean the same thing. Populism is making

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