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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Who else is to blame for the riots?

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

News, Daily News

4.3913 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 158 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

Living for your next getaway, nothing beats a vibe holiday.

0:07.0

You and your mates all in one place, chilling by the pool all day or partying all night in hotspots like Ibiza, Zanty and Cyprus.

0:17.0

Whatever your holiday vibe, book early from Birmingham Airport and lock in today's price with just a 60 pounds deposit per person vibe by jet two holidays it is three minutes after ten a very good morning indeed to you and um I don't think it is time necessarily to breathe an enormous sigh of relief

0:39.5

regarding the big picture, regarding the possibility that the likelihood of the kind of

0:47.2

hideous scenes that we have been watching now for a week and a half coming to an end,

0:53.0

but we can certainly breathe the sigh of relief

0:54.9

over fears that last night would mark a serious escalation,

1:00.4

the targeting, the reported targeting of various law firms

1:04.9

and centres dedicated to helping vulnerable people

1:08.8

were, I don't know whether they were exaggerated, some people

1:13.4

suggesting that it was all a massive hoax, which is clearly ridiculous, but it is clearly

1:18.2

true that nobody turned up. Or at least if they did, and I was following events quite closely

1:25.1

in my own part of town, not least because I could hear from my back garden the locale of the protests.

1:32.9

If anybody did turn up, then they would have got straight back on the bus again.

1:38.3

Because the anti-fascist element, the people rejecting hatred,

1:44.1

outnumbered the people there, whether through

1:46.8

ideological racism or simply because they quite fancied getting involved in some of the looting

1:51.6

that they'd been watching on their screens in recent days. They would have turned tail and

1:57.7

headed off very, very quickly. I don't know what your favourite image is

2:00.8

of the problems that didn't happen in England last night. There were some fellas who tried to

2:06.8

sort of occupy a traffic island while shouting, quotes, patriotic end quote, slogans. There were four

2:12.6

fellas, I think in Brighton who turned up to, I don't know, do you support hate? How do you call it? I mean,

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