Fiery clash with caller claiming there's a witch hunt for Boris Johnson | LBC
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2024
- This is Eddie Mair's fiery clash with a caller who argues the media is engaged in 'a campaign to get Boris Johnson out'.
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Sticking up for wealthy elites who couldn't give a flying toss about you. Your average Briton right there.
Spot on
@catfishale asad Great analogy!
Exactly that!!!! what's wrong with humanity...
Average, yes. Thankfully just under half of Britons are better than that (48% at the last referendum).
I wonder if he was this outrage about the witchhunt against corbyn
@Budo Ka Heaven knows what the architect of 140,000 covid deaths is then
@@stephencunningham6557 that would be the shooter.
@@stephencunningham6557 Pure distilled Etonite, or the most corrupting element in the known universe.
@@GingerRuss75 nice!
As soon as you mention Jeremy Corbyn you lose.
Everyone,, according to David if you have committed a crime more then 6 months ago that should be your line of defence
To be fair summary offences have to be dealt with within six months or they are discontinued. So it is actually absolutely a line of defence.
Actually in a court of law the defence solicitor would be questioning why these "annonymous sources" stayed silent since October. The media are not to be trusted, they do not operate as the public views them. The idea of a "free press" is a joke
@@ricardosmythe2548 BS !!!! this is not parking ticket or Littering!!. There are plenty of convictions for serious crimes that go back 20-30 years easily. maybe the people reporting this now have a vested interest in telling the story NOW. This is politics. People put stuff "IN THE BANK"
@@nopants4259 More like they have something to gain, politically. I wonder how they vote, oh wait no I don't. The first question a defence lawyer would put to them would be "why didn't you come forward at the time?"
@@ricardosmythe2548 you’re fundamentally misunderstanding how unnamed sources work in journalism. Behind the scenes they’re not anonymous. My editor and the fact checking team have to know their names so they can follow up with them to verify the claim before it appears in print / on air. If it can’t be verified, I can’t use the information the source provided. You can’t compare anonymous sources to a court of law - because they’re not anonymous behind the scenes and because that’s not how a court of law works, so they’re not comparable.
The sycophantic fawning over Bojo is embarrassing.
its like trumpism. thick wankers love boris and do mental gymnastics to ignore anything bad he does
@@kanedNunable how’s that 80 majority been treating ya? You seem very well balanced.
@@kanedNunable Couldn't put it better myself!
@@paulies5407 Well so far it's given us 127,000 Covid deaths and the worst recession in 300 years so...
@@kanedNunable That's very true - the West seems to have a real fixation on idolatry over policy at the moment.
Johnson, Trump, Corbyn - all amassing cults of people prepared to overlook any sin, even if it's one they've railed against in the past.
One of the reasons I'm so overjoyed we have Starmer and Biden at the moment isn't because they necessarily have a compelling set of policies, but just because they're boring but competent.
And it's difficult to amass a cult around a dull person.
You know when a child lashes out and has a tantrum because they can’t deal with the emotions of being made to face their mistakes? Yeah, that.
Absolutely! When faced with the realisation that you gave your vote to a total c word, bluster and denial are all you have left
I've heard people on Twitter saying that he probably said it but it was taken out of context.
Boris Johnson has the type of cult following that Trump had and still has.
Well said 👏👏👏
@@OrphanAnnie10 In all fairness it probably was.
If he had come out and said that yes he had said "something like that" but he was just venting frustration privately and didn't actually mean it or else he wouldn't have ordered those lockdowns" it would have been fine. (One of the witnesses did say that it sounded like venting)
But once again, he refused to admit reality and went Trump's way of "alternative facts".
So yeah, he said it and his refusal to admit it implies that he meant it.
I (sadly) don't see how he could go down for this, but if he does it will be of his own doing.
@@OrphanAnnie10 the only way it could be taken out of context, is if he said 'lets make sure we don't have bodies piled up in their thousands'.
This caller will be horified when he finds out what the sun, telegraph, and the daily mail are
There just more tools of manipulation and there political leanings are for your benefit
Exactly. Spot on
What's happening to Johnson is exactly what would be happening to Cameron or May were they still PM, the only difference is that Johnson would be the leaker.
No it wouldn't whTs happening to johnson is he has a 10 point lead. Do you know what that means. It means labor are losing voters. Labor are losing voters who are wondering into the conservative side. There has to be a reason for this. Can you tell me why?
@@ashleybishton742 Because as time goes on, people are getting more moronic and apathetic. Only a careless fool at this point would cast their vote for Johnson.
@@andrewpillion7729 thats not the case. a 10 point lead suggests that labour voters are leaving in their droves pushing the fuckit button. they are not coming from thin air are they.
@@ashleybishton742 Gove wants to be PM and doesn't feel like waiting around 15 years for Labour to get their act together and actually beat the Tories in an election, which paper does Gove's wife write for and which paper broke the story first? I doubt there were any Labour heads that happened to pass just in time to be seen as a credible source, never mind three sources that have said they heard it too!
@@ashleybishton742 because Starmer is at war with the membership of his party.
As an Australian it is truely staggering to see just how incompetent and corrupt a government can be and still have high approval rates and people defending them.
We're utterly brainwashed in England nowadays, that's why the Scots and Irish want away.
Yup. But - excuse me - Australia has nothing to crow about right now either
@@polliebain7450 really? Because our handling of the last 2 major crisis to face the world has been phenomenal. The envy of the world.
Yeah, not everything they do is great but for an aussie to be complaining now about their leaders is a little amusing.
Err.... How many leaders have you guys had in the last 10 years?
Look at how your men in parliament treated Julia Gillard. Disgusting!
@Budo Ka are you confusing me, an Australian, with some other nationality because none of those things have happened here?
What are you talking about?
The mental gymnastics Tories do to try and justify themselves is amazing...
Olympic level isn't it. In fact I'd like to see it as a new competitive sport, extreme close ups of Tory faces getting redder and redder as the cogs turn faster and faster, only the wrong way until a bendy banana gets caught in the mechanism
This caller seems to think a source is only valid if they post a video of themselves saying "Hello, my name is John Smith, here is my position in the government, here is my home address".
Actually I think that this caller seems to think a source is only valid of they say something that he agrees with.
@@Henrik_Holst We can all conjure up allegations, however you need substance in form of evidence to give the allegation any credibility.
For me it is the sources should be named
@@matthewm5074 Yep because it's just an empty allegation that we can all conjure up.
They still won't believe that because they'll just say deep fake video
“From ITV, another gutter newspaper as far as it goes”
Nice fact based argument there
Guessing he's a Telegraph/Express/Mail reader then, eh
I'm just here waiting for this caller to spew the words "He's doing his best"
Imagine if courts disregarded evidence because it was six months old 😂
Or the Met not investigating Covid crimes that happened in the past.
Unnamed sources doesn’t mean that the sources is anonymous to the journalists that have interviewed them and are reporting the information. Unnamed sources means that the journalists are choosing to withhold the sources’ identities from the public, for one reason or another.
The reason is that they will never be trusted with another "secret" again. This is how it works and every journalist out there knows that they have the right to protect their sources, and that it is protected by the law.
@@swingro2011 Also, but don't know if this is true in the UK, over here it's even illegal for a journalist to reveal his sources if they have requested to be anonymous with up to one year in prison as penalty.
Exactly. It is very common practice for journalists not to disclose their sources; either because they have been asked/told not to or choose not to for some other reason.
Unlike "studies show..." which almost certainly means "what follows has no basis in fact..." but, ironically many people take as gospel.
Also means things can be completely made up by an unnamed source.
@@martyfeldman3269 True. I guess there's no way of disproving it but it doesn't necessarily mean it was totally made up. The caller is claiming that it's all "tittle-tattle" (his words, not mine!) so it should be up to him to prove that, not the opposite.
It is fascinating some people do not hold their leaders to higher standards. Leaders should be held to the highest of standards.
Boris Johnson and the *Conservative Party* have done too much damage to this great country. We need change.
I agree with the first bit and the last bit, but 'great country'? What does that even mean?
I know quite a few definitions of the word 'great' and none of them apply, unless you're talking about history in which case you could say that it was great at being criminally horrible to the people of other countries.
@Jo Bloggs no, they are not, stop dreaming
Eddie's absolutely done him
@RUclipsisrun bynastyignoranthypocrites Yes, he has.
Some people just want to be enslaved by corrupt elites. No idea why.
Why are some people, like this caller, so desperate to defend corruption and mendacity?
If he’s such a student of journalism he’d surely know that sources are almost always unnamed to prevent reprisals. Fool
Torries supporters are lost its sad
They don't like it when, very occasionally, the press aren't on their side.
‘They’? ‘Their side’?
Sounds like the rhetoric of a bigot.
@@seanie002 "They" being the right.
Yep
Bigot.
I love it when Boris fans get upset, and they better get used to it, they backed a charlatan and the sooner they realise it the better.
Gamon, gamon, hear the news
We all thought Dominic Cummings had a big file of dirt on Boris when Barnard castle happened and we are getting to see it all now
GSK have a head office in Barnard Castle hmmm
I think he pulled that file out last week 😂
He should have phoned Talk Radio. He would have got a free mask cut up by Mark and an I ❤️Boris t-shirt
Talk radio aren't on Johnsons side on this one.
That guy is so deep into the Cult of Boris that he's suffering an overload of cognitive dissonance.
Your the anti tory CULT
@@thelordismyshepherd9980 Would that be the cult of common sense?
Cognitive dissonance is perfectly normal. Two things in your mind are at odds in your mind so you can accept it, change your perception, alter what you attribute to be the causes or deny it and form an alterantive reality. Altering your attribution can be healthy but it can go all the way to deep deep deep self delusion.
This is the type of person Cummings and Johnson targeted.
Don't care about the quote or the flat. Paying his mistress with public money and helping Dyson with his tax issues is really serious and could be a resigning issue
I'm also not quite sure why the flat is seen as the more damaging issue than the quote either.
Sure, it's not great but the quote suggests that the man running the country who decided how and when we would lock down and for how long was quite prepared to let "the bodies pile up in the street".
If and when we actually get this lockdown inquiry, that ought to have tremendous ramifications for questions about the decisions he made and how many deaths could have been avoided by locking down earlier.
"Let the bodies pile up in the streets"
"Let the Bodies pile high"
"Let the bodies reach the thousands"
"Let it rip"
I've heard about 7 versions of this now 🤔
Its everything combined, its time for BOJO2GO.
The No 10 cat is the source of the gossip and you heard it on here first..regards Tony
I listened to this one live, it is as astonishing in the replay as it was live. Brilliant performance by Eddy Mair.
There is enormous pressure coming from No.10 to identify the source, presumably so that they can be silenced by threats or bribery.
Politicians constantly don't want to be named. This argument is silly.
if the tapes came to light, i doubt this guy would even change his tune.
Then why can't we all just wait and see. Your all jumping on the band wagon. Just like the bias lbc and the BBC. Lbc are just anti tory. No surprise there.
Does this man not realise that the media involved have been checked. Also his doesn’t get it that the P.M is being investigated, but he feels the media is wasting time reporting? Crazy
This caller needs to wake up
DAVID, he's been lying before, he's got a record of lying.
Don't know how 'justice' works do you! If you were caught speeding once, does that mean you were speeding whenever anyone wants to make anonymous claims that you were ?
The funny thing is that he would have been screaming from the rafters for someone like Nicola Sturgeon to resign without there being any credible source whatsoever apart from assumptions, but as soon as theres actual sources of Boris lying then the world is ending? Comedy gold honestly 😂
Denial is a way of denying you've made a mistake, poor guy!
So this caller would be happy that a political scandal could be , err, overlooked, or hidden for 6 months and then it doesn’t matter
Hardly a scandal. Who paid for a roll of wall paper is hardly headline news. I'm just glad the tax payer didn't pay for the refurb. ALL parties have donors - who expect a bit of back scratching in return. It is the whole aspect of donors to ALL parties which should be looked at.
Labour has the unions as their major donor - they expect their backs to be scratched.
Unnamed sources are known to the journalist and have been part of journalism for decades. Its often the only way to get people to talk.
They also make stuff up using "unamed sources" as a means too tho.
The caller is Brexit Britain encapsulated.
I would guess that, under normal circumstances, this caller would normally be a fan of the Daily Mail.
The Tories wouldn't be liars? Gee, that's really Breaking News!
Aren't all politicians liars?
The most prominent ones being Blair and Alistair Campbell.
Don't forget that live on air Johnson defended lying "as a means to get what you want" the interview is here on YT
This caller has the standards of a gutter.
I struggle with this callers ability to critically hold elected people to account. Elected leaders who are there to represent 'our' interests and not 'their' own.
Poundland Tory?????????
Politics has changed sadly. 20 odd years ago Boris would have been out on his ear by now. But these days they can ust about do anything, and get away with it!
Just look at Biden
“20 odd years ago”, Tony Blair lied in order to invade Iraq . He wasn’t “thrown out on hi ear”. He got 3 terms, he was never punished, and even yet is given a soap box to spout from whenever he wishes.
Where there be Witches, there be Witch Hunts...
Thought you were going to say bi****s!! 🤣🤣
.... hmmmm.... it is a catchy phrase, but one has to start with - there were never witches, so a witch hunt was just wrong... but when it comes to liars and cheats - you have a point
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha this caller is hilarious, what a spanner.
OMG these people are unbelievable...they can't see the wood for the trees😏
People are more interested in massive rain forests than a mere copse
It's amazing how biased people are. If you support a party then there's absolutely nothing they can do wrong in some people eyes 🙄
Not the sharpest tool.
Oh Eddie I do miss you on Radio 4 PM prog. This was a treat for me. Thank you Eddie.
Just posted that too !
@@johnnywhite58 wipe your chin.
Hahaha "and that's your fatal mistake" dum dum dum. Quality
Caller requires evidence to back up disputed comments, but then requires zero evidence to come to the conclusion that it's a big media conspiracy
Poor David he's judt so cross, because he doesn't like what's been said..
David sounds like he works at Downing Street .
Stanley is that you with a disguised voice ??? ha ha
stuff what Boris said... he did let bodies pile high
If/when he learns what the word means, David might wish he'd rung in anonymously.
Ah ITV, that world-renowned gutter newspaper.
😃😃😁
David lives in Peppa Pig land.
Well said I’m sick of the media
He does not understand how journalism work.
Boris is a proven liar. Come on people, Occam's razor. This isnt difficult
That’s the problem. Some people are blind because they like Boris Johnson or vote Conservative. This is becoming a cult
I agree with the caller. Get the facts first. Whether Boris is in the wrong or not will be shown .
Keep calm and con on
Even Rees-Mogg believes that the £350 million on the bus was a lie. He's stated that. He didn't believe it was OK to tell barefaced lies because 'everybody would KNOW it was a lie'. Rees-Mogg thinks that blatant lying is beneath the noble ideals of Brexit. If you can believe that..
He doesn't know the difference between a source being 'unnamed' and 'unknown'.
This caller thinks it's all tickle tackle
How cooked is this guy? WOW!!!!😷🤣🤣🤣🤣.
What was the point of his long and repetitious call? Reminded me of an irate Victor Meldrew repeating "I don't believe it!" (Showing my age! LOL)
He probably believed Jezza was a Czech spy
Boris has got right idea keep calm and deal with media the same contempt they give him as for labour I would not give them the time of day and I wouldn't explain myself to Captain Hindsight and his bolshy crew of Leninists?
@catfishale asad They probably go public school and probably proud of him and there allowance will be more then you earn in a year if you work at all.
Keep doffing that cap!
I don’t want to slate the caller. They have been duped. Badly duped. So bad that even when the evidence is there they are on radio humiliating themselves to offer mind numbing defence of “he must be due a truth by now” excuse
And when it went south wanted to change the show to talk about Yemen instead!
Isn't it illegal to divulge what goes on in Government meetings.
Surely Cummings should face prosecution under the Official Secrets Act
The Johnsons ladies & gents:
Stanley: "if the number of births each year cannot be reduced then deaths must be increased until the net growth of the worlds population is cut down to a more manageable number"
-His book 'life without birth' 1970
Boris: "I simply cannot understand why no one discusses this impending calamity… and why no world statesman has the guts to treat the issue with the seriousness it deserves.. we seem to have given up on population control"
-Writing in the telegraph 07
Stanley Johnson also wrote a novel in 1982 called the virus in which the government releases a virus as cover for population control through forced vaccine. He's also a former employee of the World Bank, one of the most prominent promoters of 'Carbon' taxation; which would increase the cost of both food and fuel, exponentially. Resolving, they hope, the 'population issue'.
When will ppl realise what this guy really is? All this eccentric, quirky affable buffoon.. give me a break
You told the guy 3 times checked is not the same as naming, he is in bad faith, just toss him out!
Awww... poor Boris supporter. Boohoo
I think its quite understandable why they are unnamed. The sources come from inside the Tories.
It's just internal Tory backstabbing probably as revenge for Bozo commissioning an investigation into Greensill. Probably Cameron himself is the "source".
There's absolutely a hunt and it's fully deserving
"Why are we spending an hour talking about this?! Give us 5 minutes! ".. says the caller making this into a MUCH bigger issue than is necessary. 🙄
Eddie Mair is one of our very finest broadcast journalists.
No..... he lied now he has lost our support...
Surely he should have lost our support by killing 130,000 of his own citizens?
Boy is this one triggered. I'm always fascinated by what is really driving the anger of these people........🤔
The irony of the caller whinging for 4 minutes about a topic he says he's heard enough of...... go figure!!
It's called confidentiality, David.
What was the quid quo pro for this? We don't know, this might be his reward for the taxpayer paying four times over the odds for PPE via tory middle men.
It was at about the time that this recording was uploaded that two parties were being held in Downing Street (prior to the funeral of the Duke of Edinburgh) despite public health regulations being in force prohibiting gatherings. The Gray update has investigated this, and the Metropolitan police is investigating further as it has reason to believe that the law has been broken.
“Witch hunt” is what Trump used to moan about. These people are simultaneously entitled and claiming to be victims. Apparently superior, yet strangely suffering unfairly. 🤣
Latest yougov poll say the majority of the electorate don't give a hoot. The caller is right. LBC are out of touch
The Primeminister has no integrity. Why is the caller so adamant we should trust him on this?
Caller is 100% correct..
He's my favourite, leave him alone.
Sectarian Tory voter !! And this is why we are where we are !!
Keep crying. The opposition won’t have a chance of clawing back power for at least a decade.
@@paulies5407 hahahahhaha opposition doesn’t need to clawback power , with boris at the wheel the tory boat is going to sink with all the voters in it
@@carpediem5892 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@carpediem5892 Well said thick people who voted for the tories deserve to suffer badly under them then maybe then they will change their tune and grow a brain.
@@fishandchips9033 I have never seen so much backstabbing like in the Tory party !! I ll never turn my back to a Tory voter ever again 😂
please stop calling him boris,like he is some sort of nice bloke.this personna he shows to the media and the public,it,s just an act.he is a ruthless,spineless human being,who thinks only of himself
The downing street sources have said they will testify in an inquiry and if called,in court
David's listening to the wrong radio show, a Tory voter shouldn't read the Daily Mirror, nor should they listen to LBC.
Go for it Eddie...... deluded DORIS supporters
These are the people who enable the tories.
Why no mention of Johnson's record as a reporter?
Bent bananas was a lie?