The Lady IS for turning
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
Global
4.3 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2020
⏱️ 144 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | They did it again. Flower, instead of flowers, on my birthday. And 95 minutes late, but it's hard to leave when you've shared so much. Your postcode, your gluten intolerance. Then I saw it. 25% off your first Akado shop, plus free delivery. And I just knew I'd found the online supermarket of my dreams. |
| 0:21.8 | Arcado, life delivered. |
| 0:23.5 | Geographical restrictions, mined spend 60 pounds and charges apply. |
| 0:26.7 | Max saving 20 pounds, new customers only, terms at Accardo.com. |
| 0:31.5 | This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation with James O'Brien. |
| 0:44.7 | Hello! |
| 0:45.7 | It's three minutes after ten. |
| 0:46.8 | A very good morning. |
| 0:47.5 | Indeed, to you. |
| 0:48.6 | And it's Wednesday, |
| 0:49.4 | so it must be U-turned in the news. |
| 0:52.6 | The eighth, I think. |
| 0:53.5 | Is it the eighth, |
| 0:55.2 | or are we up to nine yet? |
| 1:02.5 | And as I mentioned a moment ago, it's not the fact that the direction of traffic is changed so frequently, |
| 1:04.0 | although the frequency is a problem. |
| 1:08.5 | It's more the fact that they are always preceded the so-called U-turns. |
| 1:14.6 | Who's already thinking of Margaret Thatcher and that famous clip from one of her early speeches. An incredibly powerful rhetoric, but a mark perhaps of just how nuts things have become, because I presume that people who are still waving their little flags for the current Prime Minister would see themselves as great admirers of Margaret Thatcher as well. Is that a lazy generalisation? Is that too broad an assumption? So you've got one, Conservative |
| 1:33.5 | Prime Minister, who was cheered to the rafters for refusing to undertake a U-turn, and another |
| 1:38.6 | Prime Minister, Conservative Prime Minister, who continues to be supported in some quarters, |
| 1:43.7 | despite the fact that he's undertaken more U-turns than... Oh, what's the analogy here? Come on. More U-turns than a... What makes a lot of U-turns? I don't know, actually. More U-turns than a driving test? More U-turns than a learner driver? More... I don't like... More U-turns than a driving instructor. Yeah, it's not my best. Four minutes after ten is the time. |
| 2:03.1 | Also in the news today, I wonder if you can think of the alliteration that I have jotted down in front of me. |
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