Who broke Britain? With James O'Brien | The News Agents
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- čas přidán 27. 05. 2024
- James O'Brien joins us in The News Agents bunker to talk all things client journalism, talk radio, and whether he'll be as harsh on Labour as he has been this Conservative government, should Starmer win July's election.
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James has been the voice of reason and the Socratic inquirer who has kept me sane and informed since the crazy decision to leave the EU.
Yep .... He has been "a lone voice in the wilderness" for years.
@@Harryset1he is a vile leftard
Great interview
Intelligent debater - we need more people like James and Lewis
He's a master debater......... a total utter W⚓️.
They are oddly obsessed with trying to persuade people that Brexit broke Britain.
@@sagittariusA..26.670haha the irony that you're literally the kind of buffoon they're speaking about
@@sagittariusA..26.670 Not sure if that was meant to be funny but :D
@@sagittariusA..26.670'He's a master bater'........erm, I think you meant to say 'mass debater'. Not only unfunny but you cocked it up!😂😂 Well done you melon!😂
Great interview, love both Lewis and James. Definitely like to have a pint with either!
Well done you guys,need more integrity in journalism today.
The BBC is culprit number one by far. And that dies sadden me to say. But the BBC platformed all these individuals and organisations that broke Britain. The BBC gave them the weight, prominence and the credibility of being taken seriously that only the regular appearances on programmes could have built.
Yes but who turned the BBC? it was Osbourne by threatening to take the licence fee away from them and gradually they've platformed your Farages and alike
Agree 👍, the bbc were complicit in the brexit disgrace, sold there soul to the far right tories and Rupert murduck,,,
They were stuck between a rock and a hard place. If the BBC had not allowed them a platform then the right-wing claim that the BBC are biased towards left-wing narratives. So they allowed everybody free reign. The BBC were simply defending the liscence fee.
Murdoch and Rothmere laid the groundwork years before.
@@Skygrey2943 : it's debatable that the delusional English exceptionalism that led to brexit was injected into the population by newspaper proprietors in the 1980s. No doubt it was played heavily upon, having taken earlier residence n the post-war psyche of the nation. There's still no sign either after 75 years of any all that effective therapy happening.
George Osborne, David Cameron, Boris Johnson, the Bullingdon Club. All the Tories and the BBC and Murdoch
O'brien voted for Boris to be mayor ffs.
@@johnmarkrobinson2924 Thatcher began it.
@@johnmarkrobinson2924one thing I know is it started with John major when he brought PFI in 1992 … so no it wasn’t Labour
@@yetidodger6650and unlike people like you is honest enough to admit he made a mistake 🙄
Fascinating, honest discussion. Thanks.
😂😂😂😂😂
We like James he is a man of integrity.
Speak for yourself
James is a rockstar
*sophistry, though he's now saying what he'd slate JC for back in the day, so fair play for changing his mind, but a bit late.
@@jeffsimon9594 keep sobbing
No he's a remoaner who doesn't even supported brexit. Now millions of former remainers support brexit
Lot of time for these guys
Me too 💪💪💪💯
I'm glad James said his favourite conservative is Michael Heseltine - he's mine too. Here he is at age 91 still being active to speak up (and work) against brexit. He's with another favourite of mine, and that's Vince Cable.
What if Heseltine was Anti-EU though?
What a great interview
😂😂😂😂😂
Hilarious. It was tragic.
James is my favorite Journalist. I listen to James's show most days on LBC. He the most articulate Journalist I've ever listened to. I pity some of his callers to his show for example the Coach driver who said the European commission was corrupt organization and told lies. James asked him for his source of these accusations. He hadn't a clue what he was talking about. Had I been that caller I would be so embarrassed I wouldn't go out for weeks. James keep doing what you do because you're brilliant at it.
Always happy to listen to James being interviewed, as it's usually the other way round. Yes, he gives his opinions every weekday, but by being interviewed we get to know what really makes him tick.
Plenty out there don't like him, and that's their choice. But I'm primed for LBC, at 10am every day of the week. From those penny drop moments, to "idiot's corner", it's a brilliant show with generally excellent callers...plus, we get Mystery Hour once a week. Who doesn't like that?! 😁
James O'BRIEN is the best, straight talking interviewer on Talk Radio in the UK👍👍
Really enjoyed this interview 👍👍
James O'Brien is the main light on the modern Dark Age in olde England. Long may it shine
Does he know what a woman is?
@@_Too_Late If that is all you have against Starmer, then you are wasting your time. Go and vote for Reform and help displace the Tories!
@@triffid68 That's a 'no' then
@_Too_Late that's a "I've got nothing else ' then.
@@_Too_LateIt's curious that you've got David Bowie as your profile picture while posing the 'does he know what a woman is question?'.
James speaking to the man to whom he will pass the baton😊😊
Not for a long time , Lewis isn't there yet
My 2 fave journalists together
Remember the" it's not about you." Asking them, why would there be an exception for me? What about my British kids and husband? I am still boiling years later
Wish there were more like him!
Super deliberation & what a brilliant connection you both have.....
Brilliant.
What's the betting that, if Starmer doesn't grasp the "We Must Rejoin" nettle by the end of year 2, the Conservatives will grab it saying "David Cameron wanted us to Remain, remember!" 😮
I think ultimately that would be a huge fail for the Tories because we have 7-8 years of proof that the Tories were in fact the reason why Brexit is in such a mess. They can claim that Cameron was the one that wanted to remain but the simple answer to that from Labour is he also the one who promised there would be a referendum.
@@ogbrux I've just got my UK vote back but don't have a penny in the UK. I'm an amused French millionaire, having escaped Prison Island 🏝️🇬🇧 35 years ago and divested all investments after June 23rd 2016. Tories out 👍.
That is delusional on your part.
@@kathrynwilson2813 No more delusional than "the Brexit benefits" still waiting in the wings of the darkest days since World War Two. 👍🤣
@@kathrynwilson2813tories will do anything power. They will wait for Labour to actually pay off some of the eye watering debt the conservative government has signed us up to and then seek power again to empty out pockets again. As my grandmother 97 said ' never vote tory or I will haunt you, you cant trust them'.
Brexit Britain, from live and work in any EU Country to a Brexiteer forced labour camp in less than 5 years. Well done Leave voters.
Keep sobbing
Those remoaner tears are superb.
Watching the council-estate country of my birth from the faraway Mediterranean 🇨🇵🇪🇺, your comment seems SPOT ON, Gavin, zero effs and not a penny for thoughts given 👍😀.
@@andylaauk This Andy has removed all wealth from the UK, lala bloke. 😊
@@jeffsimon9594 Those tears are tears of laughter - rogered. 😮
Great debate. Well done Lewis and James. I'm going to buy James book now.
I've got them both.
Brilliant books by an excellent author
You won't regret it.
J O'B: "I try not to overthink things." Lewis: "You've come to the wrong place." :D
Notable omissions from the tory campaign are austerity, the ERG, the role of "think tanks", Brexit, Johnson, the Covid disaster and Truss. "Only we can keep you safe in a dangerous world". They've created the sh*sh*w we're now living and in complete denial of the fact.
Don't forget the print and TV media who were absolutely complicit in the brexit s##t show,,,,
Great show you two geezers. Will be buying your book James.
Love these two.
Outstanding...as becoming the standard for this channel.
brilliant
From across the pond, I really enjoy O'Brien. Very intelligent talk radio....
Extremely bright men
fantasic interview. It was a privilege to listen
Brilliant interview between both of you. Thank you.
Brilliant interview!!
“Johnson, Truss and Sunak broke Britain” - Surely Cameron and Gove played a large part in both Brexit and breaking Britain before J, T & S?
Top man James o brien,best presenter on LBC,although that said,it wudn't be hard now would it,,,
Not since Nigel Farage left.
Fantastic interview, I too was wondering James prepared his monologues. To hear that he goes acapella has only increased further the already high respect I had for him.
Lewis, I am really starting to enjoy your shows and podcasts, like James you’re becoming a real favourite when it comes to journalists, up there with Richard Lewis. Keep it going!
Where is Sangita ?
Why is Sangita
What is sangita
I love Sangita!
Making NAAN BREAD
When is Sangita?
Really been looking forward to this Noel Edmonds chat…..
If James O'brien ever went into politics I'd vote for him. We need to find a way of encouraging people like him into politics.
Yep he also lies about Jeremy corbyn .remember he's still right wing.
Been listening to James for a while now....read his books....unfortunately still can't decide what he stands for
...do like him though...need more people in the media to question what is being put to the public....start with how we getting back all the dosh going off shore
@@williamclarke5004 He's nothing like "right wing"; and no, he didn't "lie" about Corbyn. He simply identified, like may others did, that Corbyn simply could not win a general election.
He's a walking contradiction. He's built a following by been anti brexit and anti Tory.
Found James during lockdown & he hooked me on LBC. Really missing him this week.
Saggy faced misery guts smugly denouncing the working class.
Shameful.
I'm finding Lewis a pretty respectable fill-in, to be fair. Different style of course, but still appealing.
@@annphillips1086 Way better than the smug curmudgeon O'Brien.
@@stephfoxwell4620 I like the curmudgeon too, though.
@@annphillips1086 Don't be silly.
He is dreadful.
indeed James is man of integrity
I love james!!
New Labour broke britain. The wholesale takover of the Labour Party by SDLP types has left us with an Overton window so narrow that there is no effective oppostion to Neo -Liberalism. We're in a death spiral of greed and individualism with barely any reference to social remedies.
...and yet, under New Labour....everything improved and prospects for more, were just better. Look what the last 14 years have done....
@@swanvictor887 Comparing 14 years of tories to New Labour isnt the flex you think it is. If you can see any ideological differences between Starmers Labour and the tories, espeically since he's kicking out socialists and bringing Tories on board,, then do let me know.
easy enough: Labour policy, as far as I'm aware, doesn't include the total destruction of government departments, insane privatizations of services, the degradation of the population and deliberate, callous disregard to any on the fringes of society with demonization language. Labour have no plans to LOOT the country dry over the next ten years, using off-shore tax havens and as far as I'm aware, Starmer and the Labour Front bench, have no personal or financial links to Russian Oligarchs and people smugglers, using the UK to launder money WITH THE ACTIVE co-operation of the Tories. The wholesale destruction (literally, thanks to bad concrete) of the NHS and the wilful disregard of Schools and Education for the population in general, while blessing Public Schools with Tax breaks and gifts.
Need I go on?
But yeah... "They're All the Same..." right...?@@oafee1053
Excellent interview! you may not agree with everything James says but be sure he tells the truth like it or lump it!
He tells his truth from the perspective of an ex private schoolboy.
@@Getagrip543 He's the product of his middle class privately educated life.
@@therealrobertbirchall Typical reply from someone who can't handle the truth.
@@MrRailjunkie I'm well ahead of OBrian on the state of the British Isles sun shine. In fact I despise that disingenuous MOR ordinary bloke routine from a privately educated millionaire. There is no middle road in politics, we crush the rich or we continue to let them crush us and our communities.
Why does JOB always looks so knackered?
Too obvious. Those who graduate eaton/harrow and straight to ox/cam mostly thanks to their parent have no idea of what’s really happening in reality.
Lewis Goodall seems to have fallen for the fallacy that Britain was not sovereign inside the EU.
As usual, clarity and insight from JOB - a great listen.
Universities are "less conservative" because the data is in on conservative social and economic theory, and it's been largely disproven.
I'll never forgive the BBC for Brexit.
@markshirley. 1). Don’t pick on the BBC over this. 2). Right-wingers have been campaigning against the BBC for years. They fear its independence from government 3)They want privatisation - and a financial bonanza like the crooked business of British Telecom.
From across The Pond, maybe it's not Brexit, per se, but the crash out. Current and future trade deals should help build what should have been built before leaving the E.U.
Any news on Sangita LBC employees?
She works at the balti house she's making NAAN BREADS
@@karlwilliams2703why do you keep commenting that on everyones comments you weird person?
Who said it had been fixed. In 2010 Cameron referred to 'broken Britain', so was it fixed, then somebody broke it again? Personally I think we need to get back to basics, otherwise we'll never see the green shoots of recovery. We face the challenge of our times and we need the new hope for Britain, we know Britain deserves better, we have ambitions for Britain, we want to move forward not back, Britain can be better, we want a better plan, a better future, for the many, not the few. Spot the slogan.
James O’Brien needs to live for a year in a Northern town, without anyone from his social bubble surrounding him.
And you think brexshit/the tories/farage cares about any of you lot? 😂😂😂😂
Got to love him!
Nigel and Boris
JOB can be arrogant and rudd to callers and I don't agree with him all the time, But, he's right on who broke the country. Without a doubt the tories.
He voted for Bojo years ago too which surprised me, but I guess at least he admitted it.
As mayor of London tho
@@BrofessorDG yes but I'm superised he fell for the Etonian lies then 🤷♂️
@@rustynail1194 Johnson hadn't revealed himself as the odious little toad he is. And some of his ideas for London were actually great like the free bus for young people. Then came the water cannons and the ambition to be PM
One private school chap voting for another private school chap? Posh boys rule-ok.
If you consider who Johnson was running against then that decision seems a bit more reasonable, if not any less disastrous.
I can hear it well
Yes... I agree that the 'centre' in politics according the the media [eg BBC] is what I'd classify as well to the 'right'
A bit too left-wing for me at times, but still very important. Basically, a man fighting against the hijacking of values and principles for individual gain. Something that has been the undoing of Britain for best part of the last 50 years.
Don't know who is worse. Tankies or centrists. They both make way for the far right. So, thanks for that, guys.
James O’Brien has been the real “Minister for Common Sense” for nearly a decade. It’s why so many people listen to him.
You have got to be joking, whining and moaning about the eu this man is a digrace.
Funny. I think he's just a very nasty man who clearly gets off on his own self-righteous anger.
George Osbourne, one of the most machevellian characters of this century in British politics
Yes...even has us calling him george. Apparently more easy on the ear...need the people's to learn about how money works. We are such fools when it comes to folk like Gideon
Tony Blair and the BBC......
Paul Dacre as bad as Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere.
Short answer: the Tories.
If only Britain voted for Jeremy Corbyn it would all be alright 😍
@@Hail_To_The_King It couldn't be worse.
Debt to GDP ratio
Greece 177.434 %
Italy 144.696 %
Portugal 116.048 %
Spain 111.978 %
France 111.063 %
Belgium 105.270 %
United Kingdom 102.636 %
No it couldn't possibly
@@Take_Me_Back_To_The_1980s Source?
@@MocatafamulusdeSet These are their respective government's own numbers
How often does Lewis say, 'to what extent...' Has he just come from an essay tutorial?
O'Brian voted for Boris to be Mayor of London then helped unseat Corbyn from the Labour Party and said James Cleverly was a decent bloke.
Voting for Johnson he has already issued a Mel Culpa and public regret on that wrong in. Corbyn resigned after leading the Labour Party into its worst ever election result…don’t think O Brian was the leading cause for the downfall. If you read his book, Corbyn is in it cos he was so useless
Your point being? No-one can change their mind? I used to support the union of the UK. Im now rabidly pro independence for Scotland. What you going to do?
@@taekwanlew of course people can change their mind. That's a strawman. Their point was his mistakes and lack of vision have consequences. Quite obvious.
@@M2Mil7er I'd say yours is a strawman. More than once he's said on air that he was beguiled by Johnson around that time. Many were. Johnson was is & probably continues to be a convincing liar.
@@turntheblueiris4626Didn’t he realise Johnson was a Vaudeville act ,repeated wherever he went? We saw him here in Australia putting on his Old Etonian routine which has beguiled the lower classes for ages.
There is no “revisit”, no rejoin. The uk does not even reach 50% of the Copenhagen Criteria. The EEA has said not to the UK so the only other way to join the CU and SM is to be a member state of the EU. Since the Copenhagen Criteria are not even nearly being adhered to there isn’t even an application to be proffered. Also, the EU have said, NO more deals like Switzerland and for the uk to look for a bespoke deal is just more cakeism and cherry picking that will not ever happen. That will NOT happen. Furthermore, Barnier is now gone and it’s not 1973 anymore. So an application is not even on the cards for now. And a simple fact is, when they have the choice people do business with people they like! In the past, because of the “empire” most countries HAD to trade with the uk and now they don’t. Everyone knows owns what and who the uk was in the past and what they are currently. The uk has very very few friends globally.
I love listening to your show James. At least you talk your mind and make such sense. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with such interesting and intellectual perspective.
Much justified criticism here of the contamination of the Conservative Party but studiously avoiding Sir K's frequent mantling of himself in conservative values. For me it's a red warning triangle on the road ahead but for James, maybe, merely a no left turn sign?
James played his part when he helped spread anti-Corbyn propaganda, I hope people don't forget that easy.
All 18 year olds …o i don’t mean your kids lol
Is it just me, or is James starting to get a touch of the Noel Edmonds look about him?
A Richard Tice fanboy and James O'Brien. Wasn't it James who once told Tice to get lost?? I think he used the F word.
I dunno, was it???
@@jeffsimon9594 Yes, it was. Didn't you know that?
@@uksubversion He said 'I dunno' so I suppose he answered your question before you asked it. :)
@@onawhim9079 not sure
The people who broke Britain are the same type of people who would cancel Sangita on LBC for speaking the truth
Where’s Sangita..
Tony Blair broke Britian? But James has no idea what mass immigration has done to the uk? I would like to see James take on Douglas Murray
So would I. James would destroy his bigoted propaganda. I would like to see Douglas Murray take on Mehdi Hasan. No one is a match for Mehdi.
@@MrRailjunkie yer ok
🤣🤣🤣🙄🙄🙄🤦🤦🤦
When was the first of the old Etonians made Prime Minister?
Every prime minister, and civil servant since ww2
Two awesome journalists!
2 snowflakes
Who broke Britain
Only one person actually responsible
Maggie Thatcher
GDP Per Capita 1980 £16,981
GDP Per Capita 1987 £20,543
GDP Per Capita 1994 £22,872
GDP Per Capita 2001 £28,140
GDP Per Capita 2008 £31,165
GDP Per Capita 2015 £31,816
GDP Per Capita 2022 £33,497
Debt to GDP 1980 40.3%
Debt to GDP 1987 31.0%
Debt to GDP 1994 34.5%
Debt to GDP 2001 28.1%
Debt to GDP 2008 50.6%
Debt to GDP 2015 81.3%
Debt to GDP 2022 95.7%
Yeah Thatcher obviously
is lewis secretly in fight club?
I know some people criticise the News Agents videos for being a couple of days out of date, but when James said that Sunak isn't chaotic :D (Every day since the election was launched seems to include a new clustermess for his campaign).
hard for anyone to keep up with rishis mishaps
@@wijjf8064 Sure, wasn’t really a criticism.
The British.
Pound-for-pound the most successful nation of the last 400 years
Sorry?
Talk about BBC NI.
Random question but where is your ring? 😅 is it gone for adjustment because last time it was so loose I was scared you were going to lose it. Am sorry to be so nosey but I really want to know.
Why dont you invite Sangita?
It was the protocols of the elders of Zion old son about 1902 Imperial Russian secret service
I've stumbled into Far Left Central.
How is Britain broken?
Has Jobber had a hair transplant?
James is one of the people (in media) responsible for how broken this nation is. He derides "football" politics yet he absolutely participates in it. He'll repeat propagand and lies just like mainstream media does. And his hostility to anyone who criticises Labour is genuinely disgusting in regards to how hostile he is about it. Yep, he is part of the problem.
It is not broken...it is just how it should be. Over paid fops nattering away about their books and deep insights...wow... Obrien is a meme now.
I never thought I'd see the day when I'd watch anything with the name James O'Brian attached to it. Pleasure to hear him talking without shouting and belittling someone.
Ive never heard him shout at anyone, and he only belittles people who try to make silly arguments and then fold when they see themselves in the mirror.
No sound
I had no sound but reloaded it and its fine
O'Brien - a DJ still utterly possessed by Brexit & still utterly powerless to influence or do anything about it. And never will be.
Tony Blair and self centeredness.