What's so terrible about a 'nanny state'?
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
Global
4.3 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2024
⏱️ 151 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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| 0:30.1 | I hate it when this happens. |
| 0:31.8 | I've changed my mind during the news bulletin about the topic that I want to start with. |
| 0:35.1 | We'll get on to the nanny state at 11 o'clock, |
| 0:37.7 | the so-called nanny state. This is, I think, a really significant moment in Keir Stama's |
| 0:43.2 | leadership, actually, and indeed in his attempt to secure government, because he is essentially, |
| 0:53.1 | I think he's, I think that what's interesting about it is that he's not, |
| 0:57.3 | the people he's promising to help are not voters. The people that he's promising to help don't |
| 1:01.7 | have votes. Kids whose parents haven't been, for whatever reason, haven't been fully sort of |
| 1:09.6 | educated on parenting issues and child rearing, |
| 1:13.3 | that they don't have votes and their parents are measurably less likely to vote than other people. |
| 1:18.0 | Kirstama is appealing to members of this country who care about people in this country less fortunate than themselves. |
| 1:24.2 | And it's an absolutely fascinating political gambit. |
| 1:29.1 | It is, of course, that simple. |
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