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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

What happened to the Tory party?

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

News, Daily News

4.3912 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 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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0:00.0

It's three minutes after 10 and a very good morning indeed to you. What a strange little conference this has been and an important one.

0:11.5

attempting though it is to look away or to ignore that sense of sort of fatigued disgust that you feel whenever Suella Braverman starts blasting away on her various dog whistles.

0:22.9

They're not even really dog whistles anymore. It's a hurricane. Did you know a hurricane of

0:26.5

migrants is coming now? A hurricane. What will it be next year? A tsunami. There'll be a,

0:31.7

what comes after a tsunami of people like her parents? I don't know. What would it, what would it be? And I say fatigue

0:41.3

disgust, because I'm never on the receiving end of this sort of rhetoric, obviously, not,

0:46.7

not, well, I sort of am actually. I presume when she talks about, because you can't really name

0:51.6

anyone. This is what's so bizarre about this new iteration of the Tory party is that they talk about

0:57.8

who their enemies, they all of these people who call you racist when you talk.

1:02.0

Who are these people?

1:03.2

I could, off the top of my head, you've got Gary Linneicker, Carol Vorderman and me.

1:08.9

Who else is there?

1:10.1

And I don't have exactly what you'd call an enormous platform.

1:14.2

I've got no complaint, but it's not an enormous platform. And Gary Lineker and Calvorderman

1:19.5

don't even have jobs in the context of political broadcasting. Where is the, I don't know,

1:25.7

the anti-racist equivalent of the Daily Mail? What is it? What would it be? The Guardian?

1:30.1

I can come on. Just bizarre. And speaking of the Daily Mail today, they haven't really written, it's a really odd speech, actually, by someone called Quentin Lett, who's a curious character.

1:41.3

And the very, very first line of the coverage in the cheerleader in chief

1:46.6

newspaper at the moment, the very first line of the article is, predictable voices will hate it.

1:53.5

How many times have I said to you over the last few years that they are moving towards a space

1:58.6

where every single thing they do will be designed not to

2:01.6

improve anybody's lives, but just to annoy the people that they consider to be their enemies.

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