It is three minutes after 10 and you are listening to James O'Brien on LBC, where the answer to the question that I posed a moment ago, and despite me asking you, impotuning even, you not to text me with your answers. Many of you did. Some incorrectly.

The answer, well, what am I going to do now? I'm going to be all sniffy about people who I think have got it wrong and then it'll turn out they got it right and I got it wrong

and I'll look like a wombat. 12, 12 zeros in a trillion. I'd quite like to talk about that, but

I'm not quite sure how to. It's not just the, I mean, the vulgarity of it, the obscenity of it, the idea that anybody is worth

that sort of money, essentially for selling cars.

But, but, and what it says about our society, but also the impunity that that man enjoys,

the way that you can be filmed doing Nazi salutes, you can incite race riots on the streets

of the United Kingdom. You can tell absolutely un-paralleled racist lies about a country you know

nothing at all about. You can champion serial criminals who do nothing

but spread lies and division in our midst. You can do all of these things. You can use your money

to put a man found to have incited an insurrection in his own country by his own Congress

back into the White House. the list of things you can do

if you are rich enough without any pushback, punishment or consequence is, I would argue this

morning, I would argue that it's infinite. It's infinite. Or at least there are a trillion ways

in which you could demonstrate that once you

achieve a certain level of wealth, you can do whatever you want. Jeffrey Epstein thought that he could,

of course, but I guess in some ways perhaps he wasn't wealthy enough. I don't know what the

phoning would be about this, but it feels like a very sad moment.

I don't know how much history you've got, for example.

There were no barons more powerful or richer than Henry the 8th, and if there were, he'd just

turn up on a Tuesday and ask for their house.

Isn't that how he got hold of Hampton Court?

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