Where is May laying the blame?
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
Global
4.3 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2019
⏱️ 139 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | With James O'Brien. |
| 0:01.9 | Three minutes after ten is the time. |
| 0:03.4 | If I started every show for the next few days, |
| 0:05.8 | obviously I'm not here for the weekend, but bear with, |
| 0:08.3 | if I started every show for the foreseeable, |
| 0:10.5 | with the opening bars of I Got You Babe by Sonny and Cher, |
| 0:14.5 | would you get the reference? |
| 0:15.9 | Would you know what that was nodding towards? |
| 0:19.4 | I'll leave it hanging. |
| 0:20.8 | We are, of course, discussing the single most important political event to befall this nation since, arguably since the serious crisis. |
| 0:29.9 | Certainly in peacetime, it's a contender for the most important political event ever. |
| 0:36.5 | And in peacetime, not including wars. |
| 0:39.7 | And of course, what's most astonishing about it is that every single pace, every step, |
| 0:46.2 | has been plotted in advance, right up until today when Theresa May, having failed to do |
| 0:51.4 | all the things that she, I think deep down knew she wasn't going to be able to do, |
| 0:56.0 | we'll try to blame it all on the European Union that we voted to leave. |
| 1:01.2 | And a speech in Grimsby, if early reports are to be believed, |
| 1:05.5 | will seek to pin the blame for any failure that occurs on Tuesday when the... |
| 1:12.6 | I mean, it's actually breathtaking now in its absurdity. |
| 1:17.9 | Have you seen what Karen Bradley, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, has said today? |
| 1:22.5 | She goes, I mean, this is... |
| 1:24.1 | I'm going to get the words absolutely right, actually, because... |
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