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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Why should we have a second vote?

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

News, Daily News

4.3912 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2019

⏱️ 133 minutes

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Summary

Listen to James O'Brien's phone-in show, which will make you think - and possibly change your outlook on the big stories.

Transcript

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0:00.0

O'Brien.

0:01.2

Four minutes after ten is the time you are listening to James O'Brien on LBC, where once again I find myself wondering whether we really should have.

0:10.3

I got you, babe, my sonny and chair, pucking away in the background as we begin our contemplations of what feels like yet another Groundhog Day.

0:17.7

Although, I guess, in a sense, the deck chairs on the deck have been

0:21.4

rearranged slightly. It would appear that the ship is still sinking, but which ship, the ship

0:26.5

of Brexit, or the ship of Great Britain? It seems to be boiling down to a fairly stark choice

0:30.7

between the two. And those of us persuaded that it is the ship of Great Britain that is sinking

0:36.3

and the ship of Brexit that perhaps will float,

0:40.1

can only conclude thus, after watching the Prime Minister Panda and bow once again

0:45.8

to the people that caused this mess.

0:48.1

It's quite incredible.

0:49.9

And although I'm not a full-time student of modern politics, I don't think anybody gets it.

0:59.8

So I'd like to have a crack at explaining that first.

1:03.6

If you look at what Theresa May's biggest mistake has been since the very beginning,

1:08.4

I think that it is the, to me, almost inexplicable decision to throw all of her weight

1:18.1

behind whether you want to say the 52%, I don't think is right.

1:25.2

The thing that's really getting to me now, and in an intellectual way,

1:29.8

rather than an emotional way, we'll get onto the stuff that's getting to me emotionally,

1:33.4

perhaps, a little later in the program. But this, I know lots and lots of people. I wouldn't

1:41.3

be surprised if I really put my mind to it. If I could get up into the,

1:45.0

I could probably be knocking at the door of actually being able to name a hundred individuals

1:50.0

in my life, whether they are people that I see every day, colleagues and friends, whether

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