Sunak threatening us with a huge majority | James O'Brien - The Whole Show

This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's live, daily show on LBC Radio from the 1st of July 2024.
00:00 - Tory 'Super-majority' warnings backfire as voters say it makes them more likely to vote Labour - what's the problem with a large majority?
49:12 - What's the difference between England and France, politically? What impact would a far right administration have on the next British government?
01:17:24 - The far right wins the first round of France's snap election - Lewis Goodall, co-host of The News Agents podcast
01:39:46 - Teenagers are crying out for the return of youth clubs - what did we lose as youth clubs declined?
02:18:50 - Campaign trail - Natasha Clark, LBC's Political Editor
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[@datingdave1310]

HIS Party had a HUGE majority and made a complete clusterf**k of it... not to mention a laughing stock of the country!

[@chatham43]

@datingdave How do you mean "laughing stock" .?

[@enlightendbel]

You can confidently state it's beyond the country.

[@thaneofwhiterun3562]

​@@chatham43I don't think there are many different definitions for that term.

[@MsCharlieBrown78]

The Brits did that to themselves, unfortunately.

[@timapple9157]

​@@chatham43Cattle with a sense of humour.

[@jamiemack2349]

Isn’t “supermajority” a term being used by the same lot that shouted “Project Fear” from the top of their voices some years ago (?)

[@chelloandra]

Exactly James - how come no one stressed when it was Tory

[@monkeyboy8424]

Ritchie Sunak's biggest lie to Britain; "Government integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level" - 25/10/22 outside number 10.

[@pamelaadam9207]

And the next day bravery was back

[@noproblem4158]

Vote Labour to give the Tories a super-minority!

[@NB-nk1qy]

No vote Reform to make them the opposition to the nightmare that’s is Labour; whom are no different to the Tori’s.

[@steefc84]

Yes yes yes VOTE LABOUR ⚘️

[@NB-nk1qy]

@@steefc84 why?

[@steefc84]

@@NB-nk1qy because

[@thaneofwhiterun3562]

​@@NB-nk1qyIt'd be a shorter list if you asked why not XD.

[@leotrevas]

"The problem with Portillo moments is political purdah paranoia" would be a great title for a Panic at the Disco song

[@michaeladkins6]

The moment Liz Truss is unemployed.

[@AMorandir]

In the Australian Federal election of 2007, the Australian tories tried to frighten the electorate with talk of 'wall-to-wall Labor' - it was hilarious. For a time, the Australian PM aand every Australian state Premier was Labor. The highest elected tory official in Australia was the Lord Mayor of Brisbane.

[@Skylark_Jones]

If the French think they'll get a better deal on the domestic front with a far right govt they'll be very disappointed.

[@chatham43]

@Skylark Based on what? You mean you've done some research?😊😊

[@johndownes3841]

@@chatham43 Fourteen years.

[@angusmckenzie9622]

@Skylark_Jones "If the French think..." That's probably quite right among the woke and muslim French, anyway, if how it's got up the noses already of their British ilk is anything to go by.

[@thaneofwhiterun3562]

In their defense, the french far right is in favour of social security and has economic proposals to the left of the communist party. They're not one to one.

[@mvaughan007]

My favourite potential Portillo moment for Thursday: Liz Truss losing her seat (not sure about that but 🤞) and Jeremy Corbyn beating the New Labour machine in Islington (I say that as a Labour voter).

[@catznjam470]

I think it'd be GREAT to see a huge labour majority in the House of Commons - the optics alone, the ability to shout down the crazy people 👁️👁️😆🤣😜

[@petelawless811]

Dream on

[@malcolmmitchell6529]

You have obviously forgotten bliar and " new labour". Never again.

[@shaun906]

and show a united front to the EU, and other trade partners! get the growth going again!

[@shaun906]

@@malcolmmitchell6529 doubled the economy, no waiting lists. the list goes on..they hit every manifesto pledge, and exceeded them sometimes. kids had food!

[@spike5873]

Tory Blair was a grade 1 listed W@nkR, but labour still improved people's lives despite things like blairites and Tories working hand in hand to deregulate the banks

[@nanslife]

When I was young my Dad was a trainer at a youth club and my brother ended up as a trainer later on as well. It was great you could do Marshall arts, boxing, gymnastics, body building, drum corps, you could learn first aid which got you in free to the football games, there were many weekends away for inter club competitions. It was moral building and in some cases you made life long friends.

[@pamelaadam9207]

And funding was smashed under the tories first thing they did.

[@mickreaddin4979]

If you make a promise to someone but have absolutely no intention of keeping that promise, what is that called James? What word would we use to describe that?

[@deadcert]

you know he is bonkers

[@sasserine]

Faragism?

[@brianharris7243]

I see the Russian bots are here early.

[@petelawless811]

Are you 5 years old ?

[@timthegallant]

@@petelawless811 its much easier then having a proper opinion.

[@JohnnyMaverik]

*Beep* Rebuild *Boop* Communism *Beep*

[@brianharris7243]

@@petelawless811 yes

[@timthegallant]

@@brianharris7243 ?

[@rossgalvin]

James O'BRIEN, of self-proclaimed Irish decent, casually forgetting that Britain is sandwiched between IRELAND and France, not the US and France. Ireland just bucked the far right trend too, with such parties getting less than 1% of the vote in local and European elections. There's still some sanity in Ireland too, Mr O'Brien!

[@johndownes3841]

Decent and descent.

[@TortleTalk]

Can I live there, please?

[@thaneofwhiterun3562]

Absolutely unacceptable, I am appalled and dismayed.

[@rossgalvin]

@@thaneofwhiterun3562 cool story.

[@user-ym5ml3he1b]

Not worried one bit

[@DustyCarlyon]

I rather enjoy this long-form content as I can get on with what I'm doing without having to fire up a new video.

[@andrewstevenson118]

Me too. They tend to get posted at the start of the day, so I can listen to it while getting ready.

[@PepaGenova-tr3ck]

Like James O'Brian. Like this show.

[@coppershark1973]

If I hear another journalist say the term ‘supermajority’ I’m gonna explode with anger! The BBC used it on the News yesterday without quoting. So very angry.

[@scotthub3256]

So if Europe is going to be right wing, could Brexit turn on it's head with the Brexiteers wanting to get back into Europe and the remainers and being glad we have left?

[@stephfoxwell4620]

75 seats maximum Sunak.

[@martinaxford47]

The only reason I can think of that makes sense to me is that they want to lose. They know they can't fix anything and life will be far easier poking labour from the opposition benches for not fixing their mess quick enough.

[@catherinemartin6258]

I hope labour get a massive majority

[@shaun906]

me too

[@chatham43]

@catherine It's the first time they can be smug and complacent about winning since Kinnock in 92. Enjoy it!😊

[@genesis1765]

Thatcher had a 180 odd majority in 83 so thats ok but not for labour these tories are funny

[@ArtyFactual_Intelligence]

Funny Peculiar. Not Funny HaHa.

[@safetysonrookie]

My name is Mike - so I had to subscribe when he directly told me to.

[@dimi3ixian]

1:47:37 this where a bit of the argument for saving young starts falls apart. Being dry, having food, being with you family or playing games is not enough anymore as a matter of perception. This is due to entirely entirely on social media algorithms and the inability to put pressure and place governance on them .

[@fumbleBumble82]

Youth clubs are so important. Especially for working class communities.

[@pamelaadam9207]

For all I worked in a well off area and the young people had a level of neglect also. Money before family giving money and things no guidance support or interest. I would much rather work in urban priority the. Well off

[@fumbleBumble82]

@@pamelaadam9207 Young people should have access to youth centres regardless of financial status. But what I'm saying is, our head of youth service used to sign forms for us where we would have needed a doctor to do it or someone who had known us for 5 years. We also used the pcs to print off cvs when we started looking for jobs. Working class people don't always have access to those things and can be a way to get help when they are young adults because it's not easy to work out what to do if you have no support network around you.

[@allowit328]

James saying at 6:03 that a large parliamentary majority could be dangerous 'but only if you have a demonstrably corrupt liar in charge' and then going on to say at 11:20 that Starmer 'breaking promises made in pursuit of the Labour leadership that he is not intending to keep once he secured it, but that's just politics' is the chef's kiss of footballification.

[@lhopo2647]

Delphines mix of French and Welsh accent is lovely

[@joil6649]

Agreed.

[@ArtyFactual_Intelligence]

Election Date was chosen so that students registered at the College location will be on their way home to family locations elsewhere (and disenfranchised), whereas OAPs will be in their same location as always. This will limit the storm against the Tories.

[@pamelaadam9207]

And many Scots are on holiday. Our lot finish on Friday with many families leaving earlier in the week

[@colinturner1951]

I don’t care how immense Starmers majority is if he doent proscribe the tory party for being a criminal enterprise they will be back .

[@Frithogar]

Gargantuan should be the word to use for a Labour majority. Rabelais's libertarian philosophy would match the current Labour Party's current worldview.

[@DennisMoore664]

A massive majority! It's got alliteration.

[@paulgibbon5991]

Ginormous.

[@MikeRailey]

Hey James, you'd be surprised what one Mike subscription can do for you 😅

[@JoeRichardsWells]

I think we need to stop referring to whsts happening on France as rhe "far right", it becomes meaningless

[@andiidoode]

1:52:36 ...and that's the answer!!

[@GreatHealer.]

Sounds like something Lord Flasheart would say

[@missaj5623]

I suppose my issue with a large majority of any government is that for our system to work we need an effective opposition. We need the opposition to hold government to account to make counter arguments to make sure new laws and legislation has past the test of being questioned and that things have been taken into account to ensure it is right and fit for purpose and there is an appropriate appeals process in place etc. It also encourages getting cross party consensus, working with other parties to ensure it is right and fit for purpose.

[@jayjaymoshows3696]

It makes absolutely no difference. A majority of 1 or a majority of 100 are exactly the same. This isn't the US

[@VincentPeters-vs2us]

Mahout : In India, one who rides Elephants. Mahoosive: Very large elephant situation. James you naughty young chap.

[@margaretbloomer9001]

Thanks for that clarification. I tried to look it up in the OED. Mahout was the nearest. The thing I love about JOB, is that he makes me get the dictionary out at least once a week! 🤣

[@peterduncan-smith463]

France likes to go far right not the first time wont be the last

[@siep6922]

Ah, well, can half a bee be said to be a visa vis it's entity? When half the bee is not a bee, to be speaking philosophically?

[@tillthewheels]

James's lack of understand of the influence of donors on policy in the UK drives me nuts. If the same people are buying influence the influence is the same. Starmer's labour won't be left wing.

[@abulayla1000]

Gargantuan majority

[@Emilyb21-dm3bf]

Looking at Europe im not sure if call it far right more like desperate

[@Tonyd5996]

Mahoosive is in the Oxford Dictionary.

[@ChrisArmstrong-qn1ob]

Jeez Ned give it a rest without picks you’d be getting stuffed great episode more please 💙👍

[@mickreaddin4979]

Great British Energy is nothing more than an investment vehicle.

[@cachecow]

"P's" are always the easiest and longest alliteration

[@deadcert]

"making big strides on youtube" its a ghost town here.

[@williamgeorgefraser]

You can fool some of the sheeple all of the time.

[@noneofyourbusiness4022]

Starmer is Hannah gadsby

[@joecooltasker]

Hi James

[@onyenmehieihenagarankeoma2070]

The name is pronounced *PUTIN* James keeps saying *Pewteen*

[@greamespens1460]

Equity should kick out Andrew Parker

[@deadcert]

don,t you mean the far left on the march in France.

[@rewmitchell5020]

Tories and Labour are the same, and James O'Brien will never know what he's talking about because he doesn't listen to other human beings when they speak.

[@robertstrong6798]

Well GB news is always talking about Trump , why can’t James talk about France. Richie needs to understand we want Tory’s to be a minority

[@DennisMoore664]

Shout out to Matt from this KZbin viewer!

[@sbmoonbeam]

if RN is far right then I think Reform must be too. Seems weird that the label is used for one and not the other in a lot of sources in the UK.

[@gabrielhodgkins-webb5977]

in terms of the conservatives not having enough to form a full opposition, why wouldnt they just have to form a coalition opposition with another party, either lib dems or reform or even another party. they do it for government why wouldnt they do it for opposition

[@shaun906]

its against the rules apparently!

[@jaewonmoon2970]

Vote Conservative😊

[@jiimmyyy]

Nah

[@mikepost8965]

Ireland could also be in this sandwich.

[@Platoface]

Ah, the fear mongering. You are such victims…

[@colinturner1951]

The Ukraine

[@user-ms7ep9zw9y]

🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸

[@markrobertson4320]

How on Earth James O’Brien is classing Kier starmer as left wing ? Oh ma sides 😂😂😂😂😂

[@Ontime110]

Stop saying mahoosive. You’re a grown man.

[@paulconder8155]

Mr BS himself J Obrian 😅

[@jiimmyyy]

Present an argument like an adult.

[@TrevorD2502]

Not a fan of this exaggerater 👎

[@colinturner1951]

Voting in general elections has been seen by the majority of those that do vote being keeping the uniparty in power . Conservative sausage egg and chips or labour egg chips and sausage with a bit of dry toast .

[@paulgibbon5991]

Look up who that catchphrase was coined by, and then ask yourself if you want to model yourself on her.

[@mickreaddin4979]

Wow... WOW, James, your hypocrisy is astounding!? You rightly point to Johnson as being an overt and almost pathological liar, yet excuse Starmer for being the same. In your explanation of the two leaders, did you not see the irony and double standard dripping from your words?

[@timthegallant]

Boris johnson had a reputation for lying in a proffession known for people not telling the exact truth.does that not tell you something.

[@greamespens1460]

James when you add to your carbon footprint and visits the south of France perhaps you can ask them why they are voting the way they are.

[@GusinLanzarote]

LOVE to know the ethnicity of the lad sent home from the Exter Youth club for turning up 4x with a knife 🗡🤔🤔Want to bet me his ancestors were in the Doomsday book Obrien?? 💰🪙📕🤣🤣

[@craphead9842]

Just more BS from JOB totalling more than 2 hrs... LOL.... Tony cuenca

[@billpugh58]

James has a great job!

[@chrstnldg6652]

Why listen then?

[@uniquerebeljaney3639]

​@@chrstnldg6652 It gives them something else to moan about.

[@twisteddancer7773]

Oh well at least France are going the Right way

[@SmokeroftheFuture]

@twisteddancer7773 Make the Left's arguments redundant and outdated!

[@brianharris7243]

@@SmokeroftheFuture dream on

[@twisteddancer7773]

@@SmokeroftheFuture It sure does. It will be interesting to see the difference between France and here a year from now knowing what going to happen on Friday

[@timthegallant]

Well done on celebrating the rise of the far right in europe.but you are voting for our version of it after all.

[@crncrn6370]

Bot

[@NB-nk1qy]

What far right parties are there in this country James?

[@twisteddancer7773]

He would say one half of the uni parties and Reform lol

[@impamiizgraa]

@@twisteddancer7773 he would be incorrect because Reform UK are not a party. They are a far right limited company.

[@greamespens1460]

​@@impamiizgraa what have they said was far right that was not in the manifesto in the conservatives from 20 years. All you can do is through the trite far right slur

[@twisteddancer7773]

@@impamiizgraa Lol just Lol

[@joelhall5124]

He just thinks that anything not socialist is "far right".

[@UKMXUSAMexicoUKUSA]

Why does Jim keep calling Farage. Faridge !! There's nothing wrong with people's views in a free country not wanting anymore immigrants let in because we do not have the infrastructure to sustain a way of life !! Every nation has a right and reform is really not a far right!! Not at all ! James is just a hater but I'll tell u one thing. Trump.!! LePen!!!

[@johndownes3841]

Why do you call James 'Jim'? As for Nige, it depends whether you park your car in a garage or a garaaage.

[@UKMXUSAMexicoUKUSA]

@@johndownes3841 nice one. Every one of the Farage haters call him Faridge !! They know it's pronounced by 99% one way the real way as Farage wants it!! Jim is the example we have to go on as to why the UK will be changing it's name in about 30 years

[@SmokeroftheFuture]

Definitely voting Tory and never for those Labour scumbags!

[@brianharris7243]

Hello Russia

[@Britain4775]

Hello, indian

[@My_cool0]

how can u call ppl scumbags and say ur gonna vote for the tories of all ppl is mad, cabinet with a scammer in it ffs

[@shaun906]

hello stagnation

[@timthegallant]

Hello eton

[@thomasgalligan134]

Ah sure your a lovely man James.