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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

The One with Hugh Grant

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

News, Daily News

4.3914 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2019

⏱️ 144 minutes

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0:00.0

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

0:09.1

Four minutes after ten is the time, and you're sort of immersed in it every day. You sometimes

0:14.9

can't see the wood for the tree, so to speak. I actually understand what that figure of speech

0:19.4

means, for possibly the first time in my life.

0:23.4

But then, of course, when the finish line is in sight, you do manage to rise above the fray,

0:29.5

particularly if you don't have much skin in the game, or actually that's the wrong figure of speech.

0:35.1

If you don't have a dedicated dog in the race,

0:38.7

then you can rise above the fray

0:41.4

and marvel anew at the absolute state of it.

0:45.6

It's quite incredible, isn't it?

0:47.0

How many people are casting their vote tomorrow

0:49.6

based upon who they find least unpleasant

0:52.4

or least frightening in the context of party leaders,

0:56.3

as opposed to, 2020 hindsight, but I don't think it's rose-tinted,

1:01.3

as opposed to all those elections where you've got to vote for someone who actually excited you.

1:07.2

If you're going to do a sort of brief analysis of it, I encounter, and I think my sort of sample is fairly accurate.

1:19.0

I still encounter a lot more people who are passionate about Jeremy Corbyn and what they think he represents than are genuinely passionate about Boris Johnson. People are passionate about

1:29.5

Brexit, of course, and Boris Johnson has successfully cast himself as the custodian of Brexit.

1:38.3

It's forgotten completely, of course, that he wrote two columns the day before the referendum,

1:43.6

one explaining why we should

1:46.2

remain in the European Union, which had always been his position, and one explaining why we

1:50.7

should leave, which had, of course, arguably only become an issue in this country as a result of the

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