What's the point of arguing about something appalling?
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
Global
4.3 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2022
⏱️ 138 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It is three minutes after 10. A very good morning indeed to you. I hope you had a splendid weekend. |
| 0:05.5 | And the week ahead is looking rather lovely. Of course, if you are one of the people facing a deportation or relocation to Rwanda, |
| 0:14.4 | then obviously you're not going to be in that category of people who are looking forward to the week ahead. |
| 0:18.5 | And that, I suppose, is the point. |
| 0:21.0 | I know this will sound as if I'm trying to stoke up tensions |
| 0:25.8 | or incite a little bit of disagreement or unpleasantness. |
| 0:32.9 | But I'm really not. |
| 0:34.5 | I think the world is divided into two camps or the country is divided into two camps, or the country is divided into two camps, |
| 0:39.9 | both of which know that the plan to deport people who've risked their lives to come to the |
| 0:44.6 | United Kingdom for reasons of family or language or simple admiration of our magnificent |
| 0:50.0 | culture and history. Deporting them to Rwanda is objectively appalling, as Prince Charles reportedly said this |
| 0:56.3 | weekend, a rare break, of course, with Royal Convention, although I do find the use of the |
| 1:01.5 | P-word in these contexts a little bit odd, because I don't know if it counts as being political. |
| 1:09.0 | I mean, I don't know if you've read the Bible, |
| 1:16.2 | but the idea, for example, that the Archbishop of Canterbury should stay out of politics is literally impossible. |
| 1:21.8 | The Bible is the mother of all political tract. It's hard to think of a more political book than the Bible. It's more political than Das Capital or Mime Kampf. It's a supremely political book. |
| 1:28.5 | Every single page of the New Testament certainly is dedicated to the idea of how societies should function |
| 1:34.3 | or contingent upon the prescription for how people should treat each other. |
| 1:40.3 | They should stay out of politics. |
| 1:42.0 | And the idea that the head of state or the next head of state should stay out of matters of state, |
| 1:48.4 | it is a little odd. |
| 1:49.5 | I know the Queen's done a pretty good job over the years, apart from that hatchie wore one time, |
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