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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

Daily News, News

4.5840 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2022

⏱️ 146 minutes

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Summary

This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's live, daily show on LBC Radio; to join the conversation call: 0345 60 60 97

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good morning! It's three minutes after ten. I made it. I made it to work. It wasn't easy. I'm not going to lie. Do you think I need to add that I'm about to be a bit tongue-in-cheek when I pretend that my struggle to get to work today was comparable to Edmund Hillary's scaling of Mount Everest? Because you know what'll happen, don't you? They'll clip it up, put it out, and everyone will think I was being serious. But it does.

0:25.6

Somewhat ironically, we're due to be joined by the general secretary of the RMT, Mick Lynch.

0:28.6

But he is struggling to get to the studio at the moment.

0:31.7

Hopefully he'll make it before the show is over.

0:35.6

And we can talk to him about unfolding events.

0:37.9

But you know how my mind works.

0:41.5

I see like the kid in the sixth sense.

0:44.2

I see links rather than dead people.

0:49.6

And I can't help thinking that we shouldn't separate these two stories. That the tale of the DP world profits and the tale of the industrial action currently being undertaken

0:56.4

by the RMT with others set to follow are actually inextricably linked.

1:02.3

I think that there is an inextricable connection between the two that many people are desperate

1:07.5

for you not to see.

1:30.3

What should we do? How should we do it? I think from the top, actually. I cut the stories out of the newspaper in the morning. I've managed to lose them somehow between, on the journey from upstairs to downstairs. So I've got all the newspapers in front of me, but I haven't got all the stories. This is going to be fun, isn't it? So I currently have in front of me eight completely blank sheets of paper.

1:40.8

Off the top of my head then, DP World, the company that owns P&O, got rid of 800 workers without any notice whatsoever, without any warning at all.

1:46.3

Everyone went nuts, and they've just posted profits of hundreds of millions of pounds.

1:50.7

I've got the figure of 800 workers and 60 million pounds. They're probably in the bin.

1:54.3

We should probably have done this off there. I've probably put them in the bin by accident.

1:58.8

Let me just have another look. I'll see if I can find them. It's very professional this, isn't it?

2:04.0

No, absolutely nothing.

2:04.7

So we'll do it all.

2:05.2

We'll do it all.

2:06.8

We'll do it all cold.

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