Who's in charge here?
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
Global
4.3 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2021
⏱️ 145 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's four minutes after ten. A very good morning indeed to you. I don't send help yet or anything like that. And don't worry. Don't summon matron. But I think I might be broken. What do I mean by that? I mean, I think I might have reached some sort of saturation point. I'm cursed with this desire, which is often frustrated. Please don't think I'm being cocky, but I do have a desire |
| 0:21.9 | to work things out. I like to understand things, even if they're not very nice, even if it's bad, |
| 0:30.2 | it's better to understand. I prefer to understand how something works, even if it's something |
| 0:34.3 | that might harm me. That makes sense, right? I appreciate completely that not everybody's like that. |
| 0:38.8 | And I think the days of thinking that one approach to life was materially better than the other, |
| 0:44.2 | at least in retreat, if not necessarily completely behind me, the phrase ignorance is bliss |
| 0:50.8 | is a cliche for a reason. |
| 0:53.3 | I mean, it is bliss. There are many times where you'd think, |
| 0:56.3 | I'd rather not know what was actually going on. This government seemed to be, well, I don't know, |
| 1:02.3 | actually. But the reason why I described myself as being broken is I don't know what to say to you |
| 1:08.5 | this morning. And that's the first time this has happened, |
| 1:10.9 | I think, since it started. It wasn't as a result of the 19th of July pronouncements. I could get my |
| 1:17.3 | head around those. And the I newspaper today perhaps confirms some of the suspicions that we had |
| 1:25.3 | and that we've shared on the program already this week. White Horse Source tells the eye that the driving force to stop the mandatory face coverings |
| 1:32.4 | came from modelling that showed events in hospitality industries could lose more than four billion pounds. |
| 1:40.0 | So, and here's a line that I do still find frightening. |
| 1:44.1 | Ministers decided to lift restriction despite scientists' warnings that baseline measures |
| 1:49.2 | should be kept in place to control a resurgence in infections and stop super spreader events. |
| 1:58.5 | So, once again, immediately, we start thinking of Wembley Stadium tonight with 60,000 people in it. |
| 2:04.4 | If that's not a super spreader event, then I am a banana. |
| 2:08.6 | I'm also, I think, a bit broken because what do you say now? |
| 2:12.9 | It's happening. |
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