Why do we keep backing insular, dishonest, ignorant politicians?
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
Global
4.3 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 157 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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| 0:32.5 | It is four minutes after 10, |
| 0:35.1 | and you're listening to James O'Brien on LBC. |
| 0:36.5 | I hope you're all right. |
| 0:39.1 | I presume you want to talk about domestic politics today. |
| 0:42.9 | Not least because, as some bloke in the news just said, |
| 0:44.9 | the Conservative Party is not, |
| 0:47.5 | but of course it could be facing an existential threat, |
| 0:51.3 | which is of interest to anybody who has any interest in this country, |
| 0:55.8 | regardless of your politics. You also have this generic character, honest Bob generic, one of, do we know what happened to him? I mean, he went from |
| 1:01.3 | being inadequate and not ridiculous to being inadequate and enormously ridiculous. In the space of |
| 1:07.5 | about two minutes, was anybody paying enough attention to his ridiculous existence to actually track the point at which his little brain broke? |
| 1:17.1 | I honestly don't know. I probably should do. I should be the one paying attention to this sort of stuff. |
| 1:22.3 | Speaking of domestic politics, of course, mayor of London, Sadiq Khan will be with us in the next hour. I'd quite |
| 1:29.1 | like to put my feet up if that's all right with you. Ease my way into the weekend. So please |
| 1:33.7 | send in some decent questions by getting in touch with the program in all the usual ways. |
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