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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Who Liz Truss reminds me of

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

Daily News, News

4.5840 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2022

⏱️ 141 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

Good morning. It's three minutes after 10, and you are listening to James O'Brien on LBC.

0:05.2

When does a man-bites dog scenario become a dog-bytes man scenario?

0:10.6

How often, for example, does something have to happen before it stops being remarkable,

0:14.9

extraordinary and newsworthy, and becomes instead rather commonplace?

0:17.7

How many times a year or three years would we need to change

0:24.0

prime ministers before it stops being a moment of epic import? Quite remarkable to reflect that we're

0:30.0

now onto our fourth in six years. With the three previous ones having essentially being

0:36.5

banjacked by a bloke called Boris Johnson.

0:39.0

David Cameron was banjacked by Boris Johnson's Brexit shenanigans.

0:43.2

Theresa May was banjaxed by Boris Johnson's Brexit shenanigans.

0:47.3

Boris Johnson was banjacked by Boris Johnson's myriad shenanigans.

0:52.1

And Liz Truss quite possibly will be banjaxed by Boris Johnson's shenanigans.

0:59.4

A man so supremely self-absorbed, so spectacularly arrogant, so epically self-obsessed that he really would trash an entire country in pursuit of short-term gratification.

1:12.2

There can be little doubt of that now.

1:15.6

Well, at least in the minds of people who are not cultish in their outlooks, people who are,

1:22.3

I don't quite what the word is, people have got their eyes open.

1:24.8

Is that a fair way of putting it?

1:26.5

How you can look at the last

1:28.2

three years of government and conclude anything other than, well, not that we dodged a bullet, we

1:34.0

categorically didn't dodge a bullet, but with a tiny bit of luck, it's going to prove possibly to be

1:38.9

a flesh wound or just a loss of a limb as opposed to a fatal blow to the body politic. Wherever you begin, we spent three hours on Friday, trying to put together a catalogue of this man's calumnies, catastrophes, scandals, lies and corruptions. And we barely touched the sides. Well, actually, that's not fair. I'm being unkind to you. We did touch the sides, but we definitely missed a couple out, and we were only

2:00.8

talking about his career as Prime Minister. We didn't touch upon his time as London Mayor, when

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