Who broke Britain? With James O'Brien
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
James O'Brien joins us in The News Agents bunker to talk all things client journalism, talk radio, and whether he'll be as harsh on Labour as he has been this Conservative government, should Starmer win July's election.
A final hurrah from... Laura FitzPatrick
Editor: Tom Hughes
Senior Producer: Gabriel Radus
Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Video Production: Shane Fennelly & Arvind Badewal
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.5 | They hate you. |
| 0:14.5 | I'll tell you what I really hate. |
| 0:17.2 | I hate how much they hate you. |
| 0:19.4 | I hate how much they hate you. I hate how much they hate you. |
| 0:21.4 | I hate the idea of them sitting around an editorial table |
| 0:24.2 | and think, will they swallow this one, boss? |
| 0:26.5 | We're going to try and make it about Kirstama this week. |
| 0:29.1 | There's a few tame broadcasters that will probably go along with it. |
| 0:32.3 | There's a few backbenchers who are too stupid to tell you what day it is. |
| 0:36.2 | He'll swallow whatever we feed them. |
| 0:37.7 | We're going to try and make it about Kirstama this week, boss. |
| 0:40.7 | And they sit there and they hate you so much. |
| 0:45.0 | They look at each other and go, yeah, let's do it. |
| 0:47.9 | We put Johnson in Downing Street. |
| 0:49.8 | We fated Dominic Cummings as some sort of political genius. |
| 0:52.9 | We looked the other way when he had to |
| 0:54.3 | walk the plank after falling out with the Prime Minister's wife. We've inflicted Brexit upon this |
| 0:59.0 | country. We've turned the people against judges. We've turned the people against MPs. We've set |
| 1:04.6 | loose the dogs that have led to death threats and actual assassinations in this country. We've |
| 1:10.3 | done all of that. |
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