Two unlikely politicians unite against assisted dying
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
Global
4.3 • 914 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2024
⏱️ 154 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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| 0:40.0 | Four minutes after 10 is the time. |
| 0:42.7 | A quick line from this letter that Diane Abbott and Edward Lee, |
| 0:46.5 | the mother and father of the house, respectively, have written together. |
| 0:50.9 | Just one paragraph. |
| 0:53.0 | Imagine the pensioner whose children cannot afford |
| 0:55.6 | houses of their own, watching her limited savings earmarked for those children, disappear |
| 1:01.3 | on social care and so feeling a, quote, duty to die. Just think on that for a moment. |
| 1:09.7 | I have struggled, I think, to articulate to you why this story |
| 1:14.4 | makes me feel different from how most other stories that we discuss together do. It's a danger |
| 1:19.5 | of my job, I think. I've mentioned to you before. You've got to guard against seeing everything |
| 1:24.3 | as a potential topic. Sometimes you have to pause and reflect upon the |
| 1:28.6 | ramifications of a story far beyond the four walls of this studio or your ears, you know, far beyond |
| 1:35.2 | the time that we spend together. So, I mean, to put it bluntly, my gut reaction sometimes |
| 1:40.8 | will be crikey. That would make a good phone in. And that can cover a multitude, |
| 1:45.7 | well, as you know, it could cover almost anything. I also occasionally find myself thinking that would |
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