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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Tory MPs vote to protect guilty Tory MP

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

News, Daily News

4.3914 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2021

⏱️ 143 minutes

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This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's live, daily show on LBC Radio; to join the conversation call: 0345 60 60 973

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A very good morning indeed to you. So where do we start on a daylight today? I'm going to start

0:36.7

in the most unlikely of places. We're going to start on a daylight today? I'm going to start in the most unlikely of places.

0:38.5

I'm going to start with a ghost of Christmas past. The last leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn,

0:43.8

because it's a massive silver lining to his epic uselessness, is that it allowed some of us who

0:49.5

lean to the left to free ourselves from tribal loyalties, to free ourselves completely from partisanship.

0:58.6

I sort of, I keep trying to find a better word than saying blind on the radio, because I know that

1:04.0

that is, it upsets some people, and understandably so, but there is no word that quite close-minded, I don't know, but you know

1:12.0

what I'm talking about. What Corbyn's uselessness did, and I know not everybody's ready to hear

1:16.1

this yet, or to admit it, it's kind of the leftish equivalent of Brexit, and that's fine, but

1:21.3

hey-ho, I'll continue to tell the truth, and when you're ready, you can join me. So one silver lining to Corbyn's epic uselessness was the objectivity that had afforded many of us,

1:30.9

who largely leaned to the left on issues of, for example, social policy and wealth distribution.

1:36.2

You couldn't stay loyal to such epic uselessness unless you were, you know, the line that comes in next,

1:43.4

unless your scarf was tied so tightly around

1:45.4

your neck that you'd cut off the flow of blood to your brain. So I like that on a daylight

1:49.9

today because you can, I think, see that many, many people, and the front page of the Daily

1:55.7

Mail goes at least as far in its condemnation of what happened in the House of Commons yesterday,

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