LBC caller in knots after 'vintage' phone-in to James O'Brien
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- 'Sunak is the best of a bad bunch.'
'You can't just keep saying that! What's he good at?'
James O'Brien allows LBC caller Chet to tie himself in knots trying to answer the question: What is Rishi Sunak actually good at?
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People like him will vote Tory no matter who is in charge .
My mum lives in a Tory stronghold constituency (even pre-Brexit). At the local elections she went to vote and the pill clerk commented to her that she was quick. My mum asked what she meant and it transpired that most voters were spending several minutes deciding who to vote for. The council went from completely Tory to No overall control. Many life long Tories had changed their vote. Obviously local elections aren't the same as national ones, but given their MP has had a lot of front page scandal there's an increased likelihood that voters will either switch party support or not vote at all.
It's people like this caller... You know... Nice... But dim! Which is why this country is going to the dogs in the first place!
Generally speaking, the electorate is WEAK! Misinformed, uneducated, bigoted, short sighted, ignorant... All the while as they are DEEPLY distracted trying to survive and make ends meet! A perfect storm to ensure that the elites remain in COMPLETE control!
This won't last of course... It's only a matter of time until things start blowing up! But yeah, the reason why Democracy is failing, is because of it's weakest link: The voters themselves who vote the sort of people in, who wish to suppress and erode our Democracy.
and you will vote labour ? even worse
@@ravd8082 You would have to REALLY try hard to do worse than the Tory party has been for the last decade or so
@@ravd8082...so you want perpetual Tory rule then? ....where the UK ceases to be a democracy and becomes an Autocracy - that's even worse.
Not being a serial killer must qualify you to be PM these days.
I wouldn't rule that out quite yet.
It helps to be a millionaire married to another millionaire of course - yep; THAT is how to comprehend the problems 'normal' people face...
@@PH5221 too funny (and, eeek).
Pay your taxes and it’s just business
No, just a Tory mp
The classic response to the raising of issues in the Tory Party, "But Labour.....".
Boomers response to the raising of issues in the Tory Party, “I remember labour in the 70’s…..”
You missed the stammering, "But, but , but Labour... "😊
I wonder where people learned that 😉
Blind leading the blind here!!! 🪧
It's all they've got left , " They're all just as bad as each other"😂
We get the same thing here in Canada. You challenge the Conservative party on something related to their platform, you can count on two meaty hands the number of seconds it will take for them to start talking about Trudeau.
When boris was lying they all backed him up and lied with him, you can't trust any of them.
Dawn Butler was literally thrown out for accusing Johnson of lying!
Sunak resigned from the cabinet , not on principle, but because it made him the obvious next choice.
We need lying in a public capacity to be made a criminal offence.
@@anonnona8099 it's weird how Johnson managed to even out lie the liars in a place known for deception and lies as daily life in a place of work, so yeah maybe we need that now lol
The best out the Tories... What a sad time for Britain. Don't get me wrong anything is better than any Tory right now
One of my neighbours cats died a couple of months ago, it'd make a better job of things
Im from america. Dont say that......
@@yurmomsaccount You may get a second round of Donald Duck!
anything? Even Nigel Farage? Not all the nuts are in the same box.
@@stuartmorgan3654 Nigel Ferage is a smug wan*er.
My biggest worry was that Sunak would be charming enough to reboot the Con job through another election cycle. He removed that concern.
Hold your nerve man
"I can't be responsible for your failure to keep up."
I will be using that line
It won’t be original then though.
@@karlhinze The people I work with don't even know who James is, let alone listen to his sparkling wit. They won't have heard it before
@@harveysmith100 It will just make you sound arrogant uppity and ignorant…..Just like James O’brien.
The caller is defending the indefensible in Sunak and then slandering Corbyn. The fact that people like this exist is worrying.
both parties are useless labour and tory
Boomers
Problem is that J.O'B slanders Corbyn too!
@@ravd8082yes, but one is clearly worse than the other for the majority of citizens of the UK. That would be the one messing up for the last 13 years
@@anonihme5142 and with Tory & labour totally aligned on policy, Stùrmer reneging on every pledge he made to become leader, expelling members that have the audacity to vote for PR at conference, being aligned to Jeffrey Epstein and the trilateral commission and going to Murdoch garden party along with half the shadow cabinet, what exactly do you think will change!
Corbyn was antisemitic? Sounds like slander to me.
He voted for Boris Johnson for London Mayor and Corbyn lives rent free in his head. He never misses an opportunity to claim the worst about Corbyn. Oddly, he's gone off Boris now, lol.
It is slander. And James was agreeing with him by not challenging it.
@@alastairbrewster4274 James perpetuates this interpretation whenever possible. Whether he admits it or not. LBC is opinion based radio. Yes he claims that everything he says is fact based. But that's how you get your opinions accepted by a mass audience. If Corbyn was antisemitic, why has he not been personslly charged with a hate crime? Obviously conclusion. He's not. But Mr Fact based journalism here doesn't require a fact to allow him to perpetuate his narrative does he?
@@davidsmith5523 exactly and I remember not too long ago JB described himself as , “ the most cogent critic of Jeremy Corbyn” and yet not long soon after that he made a joke about sleeping with JC then winced in a rather childish manner.
@@alastairbrewster4274 i have no problem with scrutiny but perpetuating a personal attack actually undermines James's credibility. I recall him claiming that Corbyn lacked the education to be a credible leader of the Labour Party. I mean, the irony is crushing bearing in mind the current state of things run by the very highly educated but arguably inexperienced. My personal bias is different. Though I personally find Rees-Mogg objectionable. Braverman and Johnson too. I'm not interested in character assassination but capability evaluation. But his methods seem popular regardless of my opinion.
We should plug the caller’s head into the National Grid. Free electricity for the next decade.
Lol
And heating Rishi's pool
Huh? That was a short cirquit for sure!
Not too sure - he cant keep up with CURRENT affairs
@@huwpickrell1209Probably find them SHOCKING!
I think the caller is a closet Tory supporter finding it difficult to face up to the fact he has been repeatedly "mugged off"
So Rishi brought in furlough, which any government would of done, well done 👏
And the compensation scheme was so complex many fell through the gaps and went bankrupt.
Others claimed money they did not deserve.
@@johnrussell3961 and are not being forced to pay it back ...
"Would have done"
@@SunofYork wood av dun
To be fair, Kier Starmer isn't a socialist. I'm not even sure you could call him left-wing.
Authoritarian, centre-right, neoliberal. Same as every prime minister we've had since Thatcher, and probably before.
The more James tried to point the guy towards untying himself, the more knots he got himself into. Priceless. These people are a gift that keeps on giving......plenty of laughs, that is.
This is the typical clueless Tory voter. Is it any wonder the country is in a complete mess
That line at the end genuinely gave me a laugh out loud moment this morning. Brilliant
Yes, that was great. 😂 Do these plonkers ever think things through in a rational manner?
In another century someone displaying this lack of intellect wouldn’t have been allowed to pass childhood. What an age we live in…
Offensive and unenlightened
@@terrylewis4941 sounds like your a benefactor of living in these times mon ami
Is that seriously an argument in the 21st century to return to the ancient habit of selective infanticide? I spose the ideas market like all others works in cycles of fashion but Jesus Christ 😂
I assume you meant “you’re“ but still can infer nothing from your reply. I have nothing but contempt for this government but have no nostalgia for the times when infanticide was commonplace.
@@terrylewis4941 I didn’t say your, you’re or any such word. Not sure what your correcting. And wanting to have people not pass childhood because of intelligence traits - that’s the Spartan culture of infanticide. I agree Tory’s are idiots but they do have rights, especially as kids
2 notes- 1.Jeremy Corbyn has never been shown to have been antisemitic in his speech or actions
2. Furlough was proposed by John McDonnel
The German state has a perpetual and scalable furlough policy. I love the way the tories speak as if they invented the concept.
Apart from the times he was.
@@grahamheathcote5914 Please cite them. Literally never happened.
@@NaaahBruv the Jewish trope painting? The comment about the Jewish sense of humour? Our friends from Hamas?
@@grahamheathcote5914 Did he paint the painting?
I'm not sure what you're referring to with the Jewish sense of humour thing.
He was clumsy to use that language when speaking about Hamas, but he wasn't literally calling them his mates. He used diplomatic language in the interest of encouraging a peace process.
The corporate media couldn't criticise his policy because his policies were overwhelmingly popular. All they could do was clutch at straws and try to character assassinate him. Evidently it worked.
I am also not Keir Starmer, therefore I look forward to this man's endorsement of my campaign for Prime Minister.
"I'm not Keir Starmer and so's my wife!"
James doesn’t even need to try so hard. He just make a gentle bump and the caller ends up in a train wreck
I'm really getting bored of this imagined anti-semitism problem.
Anti-Zionism is NOT Anti-Semitism.
Great at debating social issues and far more.. Excellent radio presenter 👍
Launched the furlough scheme 😂 nice one lad
It's a well known fact, you only have to keep saying the same thing over and over eventually people will start to believe you.
Yep. 1984!
James always shows how to keep your head when those on the phone to you lose theirs.
I am not Boris Johnson either… or Kier Starmer… or Jeremy Corbyn does that mean I can have a go???
Are you Lee Anderson?
@@verystripeyzebra nah I am Rees Mogg’s nanny
@@joeleaton8752Ooh! Matron!
Braverman is also anti-Muslim and Sunak has done nothing about her either.
I was disappointed it didn't end with '.......love to the family Chet'
To be fair to the caller, Sunak's major plus is indeed that he is not Johnson or Truss. And he actually did accomplish some things. He was in charge of the furlough scheme, putting money in the pockets of people when they needed it the most. Also he brokered the Windsor Framework, showing that he acknowledges the fact that the EU is never ever going to allow a back door in to their market. He had a fairly succfull visit with Macron, restoring a bit of the souring relations between the UK and France. And slowly but surely he is dealing with the UKIP elements in his party, slowly removing them one by one. So I do think he is for now the right man for the job. Not the job of PM because I dont stand for Tory policies, but the job of steering the party to its former "centre-right" position.
When is James O'Brien going to get into politics, id vote for him, its very easy to stand on the sidelines and critcise everyone, go James go!
Checkmate ... love James 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
O'Brien being his usual self highjacking calls to suit his own narrative - Leading Britain's Conversation???
What a joke!
My only complaint with James is he is always trying to cover for starmer when the guy is unlikely to implement any policies that will help working people and has already rolled back on most of them to keep the right wing press on side.
And his slandering of Corbyn
Keeping the right wing press onside is handicapping UK politics.
You completely glossed over the Forde report clearing Corbyn of any antisemitism.
Why is this still such a blindspot?
Rishi Sunak is the best Prime Minister of the last five, which only highlights that he's the least dismal failure among those five. He's still in office, so he still has the chance to be worse than his predecessors..
He didn’t help my business.
Turkeys will still vote for Christmas
A third person reference typically refers to the last person mentioned, Rishi.
Chums with Corbyn, even though Starmer has done everything he can to distance himself from Corbyn. Sure.
It's amazing. Starmer made the right political decision and people are trying to act like their perception on his views about Corbyn should dictate the results of the next election. Madness.
James you are very wrong about Corbyn. I just wish you’d open your mind up to being possibly wrong about him. I think you should look at the fact so many politically inactive/passive people (black ppl, working class people, POC, the youth & more) all mobilised to support him. Should tell you a lot about him.
Corbin wasn't antisemitic!
you can not have a debate with this bloke as he is always right
Unfair to call it for low sane as unemployment benefit. It kept the businesses afloat !
Not one of your best interviews James 😢
'...try and keep up...'😂 I listened to this live; it was hilarious!
This channel should be counted as a party political broadcast for the liebour party.
Anti Israeli is not anti Semitic
james you got your nick knots in a knot come onn
People keep telling me I'm also talented and extremely gifted from birth at not being someone else. It seems to run in the family.
Sunak is (perhaps) the best of the bad bunch of the Brexiteers.
But most would rather have a remainer Tory than a Leaver Tory.
And most would rather have Labour than a Tory.
And most would rather have another party or PR than either of the big 2 parties.
So hardly the best of a bad bunch. It’s like having a box of celebrations and saying only the bounty is edible.
No most would rather have a brexiteer, check the referendum result
@@jimmylovett5833 it’s been 7 years, mate. Leavers have died off in droves or changed their minds, while young people who wish we’d remained have joined the electorate. Check any non-biased poll from the last 5 years…
O' Brien is actually a terrible judge of character going on initial impressions.
James O'Brien is a bully.
He learned it at school, no doubt.
He is educated then?I would never have guessed.
@@sheilaroddick5853 gosh we needn't guess. He unleashes his claim of educational superiority virtually on a daily basis. He is proud of the leg up it bought him while simultaneously selling the notion of "not bring one of them". Yet his techniques reek of the very devision abd "footballification" he says that he opposes. Referred to the press as "the media class" the other week. Fill of contradictions is our James.
Is anyone going to address the Forde report?
Of course not, a lot of politicians and media people pretend they haven't seen it, because they'd have to admit they were using A/S to attack the left, at Peter Oborne has been honest enough to say he was wrong.
@@assses-3216 the report which clears Corbyn of any wrong doing and anti-semitism.
@@assses-3216 Yes, and the media rely on people to do just that. They don't want us challenging them on their nonsense. As much as I enjoy listening to J.O.B, I feel strongly about his views on Corbyn. He just repeats the lies like all the others, and I don't know why.
Rwanda is nothing other than just a political manoeuvre. What's the government doing about the backlog of patients? Is the government going to send them fir treatment to Rwanda??
I loved this call. Here we have a someone who really knows what they want to say. I am sure just for pure entertainment.
Once you pin him down he cuts you off !
What colour is the sky on your planet? You should try reality sometime, it's amazing!
Its a year later ,i hope this caller got the help he needed and he's now free of those in white coats carrying keys .
CHECKMATE!
People like this with a generalist answers are certainly the most dangerous critique….. because quite often so many other generalist followers speak the same way and they don’t know the facts….
We’re in desperate times, and we need honest, cohesive, strong Liberal (not liberals) leadership…to stitch the country back together
What does "concise leadership" mean?
Most people are going to have a hard time articulating their points and will come a cropper at some point if questioned in this way. Well educated and highly experienced media trained professional radio host pummelling random member of the public on the phone is not exactly Brazil vs Italy in the World Cup.
O'Brien loves to belittle those less well researched as he is. His arrogant, holier than thou snobbery is nauseating. I admit it's been a long time since I listened to the odious left wing prat but apparently nothing has changed. I'm grateful for Mike Graham on Talk.
@@kenhampshire9917 Two points here - O'Brien lets idiots like this caller humiliate themselves, which they do every time they spout silly things, and and if you're grateful for Mike Graham on Talk, presumably you now prefer to listen to an odious right wing prat.
Are you saying the caller had a point?
@@chilloutcentral2097 indeed. Sunak is the best of the most useless, lacklustre parliament, that's all parties, I have ever had the misfortune to witness.
@@kenhampshire9917 Maybe people should know what their arguments are before they ring in? Still, the fact you think that Mike the concrete grower is a serious radio presenter says a lot!😆
I was expecting the caller to hang up
Starmer is a disgrace, James trying to defend him is vile. Getting rude just to protect the unprotectable
Just how is he a disgrace?
@@Ffinity what he is doing to that sitting Mayor, not letting him run again on completely made up nonsense. Plus all the other purges from the party. And also the purge of his promises
I love the fact these tory scuumbag fans, don't really have much to say
Sunak did NOT help everyone with furlough. 3.8 million self employed denied any support. They were pushed on universal credit. James you got him at the end! Called doesn’t like socialism but supported handouts to employees via furlough. Check mate indeed 😂
They created an overly complex system. I returned to Austria for holiday for the fist time since covid. They had a simple system. They took peoples tax declaration from before covid, and gave them what the tax declaration said was their income.
Business owners where expected to keep paying wages and not keep the money for themselves.
James O'Brien dislikes Johnson's broken promises but is perfectly with Starmer's ones.
Given that Starmer has not had the platform to backtrack on policies, given that he is not yet P.M - what's this argument that he is a U-Turner?
"Complete chums with Jeremy Corbyn."
🤣
The mention of anti-semitism by this Tory voter really grinds my gears.
Antisemitism is a very old form of racism. Its been around for centuries. But the only time ive ever heard the Tories talk about it is when it was clearly a problem in rhe Labour Party. Its the most cynical point scoring ive ever seen by one party against another.
The guy criticises Starmer for it, when Starmer has made it clear that any hint of Antisemitism (or any other racism) wont be tolerated in Labour. Hence why he got rid of people like Dianne Abbott and Rebecca Long-Bailey.
Loving it you legend 😂
"He launched the Furlough scheme", it wasn't Sunaks idea though!! 😂😂😂
Quality James
Keir Starmer was not 'buddies' with Corbyn. They come from opposite sides of the Labour Party. Don't confuse Party unity in public with policy emphasis.
Where do you get them from?
Has O'Brien ever been wrong in his entire life?
Yes, he once voted Tory.
If a Tory’s house was on fire he’d be calling the water company to fix his neighbour’s leaking plumbing.
You wana get up early in the morning to get one over on James o Brien lol 😂 😂 😂
I'm guessing the call 📞 screening wasn't working particularly well on that day then. 😂
And he gets to cast a vote for his version of Democracy. !!!!
James is obsessed with corbyn
how? pretty sure the caller brought him up
The caller brought Corbyn up though.
James is a Lib Dem supporter
Go back and see how often he mentions him, its weekly if not daily
@Lezzyboy87 I agree Corbyn lives rent free in his head.
Richard Cranium phones in.
If you like scabies, it doesn't itch
Im fkn exhausted with all off them............
Amazing
He still actually thinks Corbyn is any way antisemetic.. Laughable.
Corbyn lives rent free in his head.
The caller is Nathan Shelley from Ted Lasso, right?
There’s not much between the parties now is there so a lot of conservative voters myself included will vote for Labour just for a change and to give the kids a chance…The younger generation will see a different flavour in government and that’ll be the learning curve. Hopefully they won’t be as chaotic, but they’ve got a few loose spanner’s in their box, and it’ll be interesting to see how the markets react after their first budget…
The guy is some Hindutva fan admiring Sunak. The best of the bunch, ha ha.
I picked up this as well but it’s not something that can be easily pointed out.
As a conservative I agree Sunak is very poor.
Sunak is one of the people who floats some distance above the water line. What can he know about being a regular person?
But, but, but, ........... look over there.
I'm not Liz Truss does that make me qualify to run the country 🤔
Remember Boris Johnson's disgraceful "letterbox" jibe? Just reminding the caller.
I have consistently identified three reasons for voting Tory: self-interest; intellectual laziness; or plain stupidity. I wonder which category this caller belongs to?
They overlap somewhat, so in this case it could be all 3.
Just like Thornberry ex public school boy middle class O’Brien looks down on working class people.
It's a sad indictment of society when people can just rub their wealth and privilege in the face of working class people like Rishi Sunak.
Best vote for a down to earth working class man like rishi subak then.
Look down on working class people who look down on other working class people, thinking they're too blame for everything instead of the wealthy.
It's those on superyachts coming here that are damaging, not those on small boats.
The least minging grape in the bunch… 😅
Furlough. Some on 2500 to stay at home while im out working 45 hours for 1600. Want to punch Sunak every time he brings it up thinking he’s great.
Hahahahahaaaaaaa... these people walk amongst us. Scary.
If I have two bunch of grapes 🍇🍇 and both going really bad I probably will grab an apple 🍎!
Great James Brill
It’s always someone else’s fault with tories , they have been in charge of this country for 13 years & haven’t done anything wrong because it’s someone else’s fault that the country is tanking , that is tory policy !
James - I respect you highly - but the way you speak to people a lot of the times is disrespectful. You didn't specify who you meant by "him". I didn't know you were talking about either. So instead of just saying, "Sorry, Boris", you are degrading this man. I don't much respect his political views either. But please respect the person when you are talking to them.
Give this man a shovel 😂😂
Backing kier starmer will not put you on the right side of history, he'll be as bad as the tories
We are all on the wrong side of history since Brexit,
How?
No, he won't be. But did you get your fiver from conservative party hq.