'Theresa May was an awful Prime Minister' | James O'Brien - The Whole Show

[@CoreyCarrington-g6h]

My dad thankfully died during the wind rush scandal. As a Jamaican It would have broken him. He worked in immigration civil rights in the uk for decades. Without recognition.

[@ArtyFactual_Intelligence]

Credit to your Dad, and please don't ever think he lived too long.

[@stevieduggan1763]

Teresa May says there's been a reduction in crime. Nope! There's been a reduction in the reporting of crime. There's a subtle difference It's a vicious circle. If you reduce police manpower they can't attend calls. They don't attend calls, you stop reporting crimes. If you stop reporting crimes you need less police officers. You reduce the police........

[@chrispalmer7893]

For me, the tears when she left are part of why you don’t feel sorry for May. She faced - and contributed to - the suffering of others perfectly stoically, the tears she shed were of self-pity. Hard to feel compassion for someone so apparently incapable of feeling compassion for others.

[@Andrew-ti8hi]

@chris But you do because you say so? Words are notoriously cheap!

[@chrispalmer7893]

@@Andrew-ti8hi Don’t think I made any claims about my own compassion in there at all. Is reading difficult for you? It is, of course, hard to demonstrate compassion in a KZbin comment, but if it helps, I have some sympathy for the people in your life…

[@phantasmbunny]

The rehabilitation of Theresa May (“not as terrible as Johnson”) is like a much lighter version of the rehabilitation of George W. Bush (“not as terrible as Trump”). They’re both benefiting from absurdly low bars.

[@phantasmbunny]

Actually, I’ll amend that. GWB may not be as personally repellent as DJT, but long-term consequences of his policies remain arguably as bad if not worse.

[@Ridghost]

Trump is vile but his presidency will serve as a curious blip in the annuals of the presidency as a whole. Nothing really of note achieved. GWB jr. will continue to live on as one of the worst presidents through a foreign policy / war which drastically changed the course of history for the worse, and one we (the entire western and middle-eastern world) are still paying for today.

[@AsifKhan-hf9zy]

@@Ridghostmiddle eastern world is paying for it. nothing happened to the western world at all. is just humming along as before.

[@Ridghost]

@AsifKhan-hf9zy tell that to all the men and women who get shipped off over there to continuously fight the never-ending war, which this all stems from.

[@AsifKhan-hf9zy]

@@Ridghost those men and women went there because THEY ARE GETTING PAID to! nobody forced them to go there ==== there is no draft in USA and Britain ==== unlike russia, where you do get "shipped off" ==== in USA you sign up to the military because it is IN YOUR SELF INTEREST to do so

[@brianferguson7840]

"Strong and Stable Government" ! Endlessly repetitive and soul destroying.

[@captainhowdy9845]

No Tory of the past 20 years has the remotest sliver of a redeeming feature. There might be one or two who you could point at and say 'Well, that one wasn't so bad', but just look at the things they voted for and the devastation wrought by those decisions on the lives of people in this, and other, countries and they are ALL complicit. Every. Single. One. Of. Them.

[@Smonnie13]

Kenneth Clarke.

[@Smonnie13]

Anna Soubry.

[@Smonnie13]

Dominic Grieve.

[@captainhowdy9845]

The same Ken Clarke who was a minister under Thatcher? Dear oh dear.@@Smonnie13

[@captainhowdy9845]

As public health minister, was a huge supporter of Tory attempts to destroy the NHS. Was a minister during Cameron's ideological rampage through British life.@@Smonnie13

[@goblinwisdom]

Look out everyone! She's going to be running through the wheat fields !

[@wpl955g9]

Thatcher in the rye.

[@andal7404]

All that stands out from May's time are the 'Johnny go Home' placarded vans.

[@KarenHawes]

Train times in the UK are approaching those in the US, sigh

[@MrsGardiner]

The Hostile Environment can never be forgiven. Further, she enabled so much that has come to fruition since. When she (years before) stood up in parliament and said 'some think of the Tory party as the nasty party', I thought yes indeed and so are you! That has been the case. May the enabler is all bad. And the fact that she has defined what hard Brexit Britain must have, because she was pushed by the ERG, makes it even worse. No back bone but brutal in carrying out nasty politics is not a reason to rehabilitate her.

[@ArtyFactual_Intelligence]

GRENFELL. Say no more.

[@marugmad]

If you are a citizen of everywhere, you are a citizen of nowhere. As EU national living then in the UK, I started to pack my bags then.

[@gungrthespear3543]

The Amber Rudd thing is poigniant because her father had just passed away.

[@greyedoutman3018]

"Steel of the New Iron Lady" wasn't on her appointment, it was during the negotiations over the withdrawal agreement.

[@blurry67]

I came to live in the UK 30 years ago. If the hostile environment and current immigration rules had been in place then, I could not have come.

[@Applepie409]

5 prime ministers with 5 great pensions

[@colinturner1951]

She was running to the cliff edge and taking the country with her .

[@colinturner1951]

John major held them at bay but didn’t destroy them may never stood a chance

[@kashmone9y99]

The port will make it easy to steal the oil from the fields I. The gazan sea.

[@thethinkingcatakaneonormie3527]

I work for SWR and the budget cutting at all levels is so bad that people traveling the 100 minutes journey between Reading and Waterloo have no toilets or plugs with a heating system that is hit and miss on 53 year old trains. I find I'm having to apologize to people alot now and advise using a station toilet.

[@zigowl1193]

"Steel of the new iron lady". More like kitchen foil.

[@CoreyCarrington-g6h]

As a British Commonwealth Citizen He also was one of the first Jamaicans to work the high Arctic circle in Canada for an American contractor wiring and installing the ballistic missile early warning system in Goose Bay Canada. During the cold war.

[@Applepie409]

All I remember is Brexit means Brexit every single time she opened her mouth-and still nothing constructive happened. All she did was buy one set of clothes after another to utter these meaningless words.

[@onenote6619]

Well, yeah. But of the last 5 she was probably the most competent. It's not much, but better than nothing.

[@Odd_pictures]

I think she’s probably the least corrupt as well.

[@ArtyFactual_Intelligence]

@@Odd_pictures Hooray Hooray. Applause for the attainment of 1/10

[@shardwone7715]

The Tory Party needs to change it's name to "Bad Politicians R Us"

[@ArtyFactual_Intelligence]

Or Syd Bishop's WATCH IT COME DOWN.

[@sergiodbd]

I think the *conversation about the things a politician has “done to you” and the conversation about protesting at the homes of these very politicians are, or at least should be, related/connected… 🤔

[@Mounhas]

May had the opportunity to stop brexit, instead she surrendered to the erg and the right wing press, i.e. they were more important than the future of the UK.

[@Torquemadia]

O'Briens's inability to treat May in the same manner as he would treat Johnson just illustrated his own sexist bigotry and bias, as well as his internalised misandry, which does repeatedly come out in all his shows.

[@GigiDavis-u6d]

"Donald Trump orange 🍊 paw"😂😂😂😂

[@andym.6141]

£15k? That was a lot of Kentucky Fried Chicken and about the sum I paid to get my foreign wife through to an Indefinite Leave to Remain visa, over 5.5 years.

[@edvigq]

The poor lad in West Drayton should probably just stay indoors.

[@Barralet58]

James, nice to see you, to see you nice🤣

[@christinemcneil4499]

Theresa May presents as a very cold and disconnected person.

[@movingpicutres99]

Trump held her hand to steady himself going down some steps.

[@robyn-ky1dz]

I may have to skip over AD soon. Well,I would if I was allowed😂😂

[@PostingCringeOnMain]

If I didnt work on a flexi-time contract, I wouldn't be able to work because I depend on trains to get to and from work and the regularity with which they are delayed is such that I question why they don't just adjust the timetable. I kid you not when I say the train I get home is delayed more than it's ever on time.

[@samuelsmith7851]

She did that one groovy dance that one time 😉

[@mickreaddin4979]

That was a dysfunctional AI robots interpretation of a groovy dance.

[@Rael_486]

She was sharp enough to know that "Brexit meant Brexit." 🙄

[@goblinwisdom]

It's sad af, that you can look back at her time and think, wasn't that bad ( it was embarrassing then) with their, Red white and blue utter nonsense 😒

[@Barralet58]

Please define Brexit🤣🤣🤣

[@Silver-st2zq]

Simple with the Tories i don't entertain them and never vote for them, Tory press don't entertain them unless one runs out of toilet roll.

[@laulau194]

On the sexism issue, her being a woman is absolutely not a reason to hold back on criticising her political performance. However, I do think she was unfairly srutinised or attacked for some things which would far less likely to attract commentary for male politicians: most notably, the suggestion that she was unsuitable to be PM because she didn't have kids, and also aspects of her appearance like footwear choices and that godawful legs-it headline (my personal nom for the nadir of Brexit headlines).

[@nothereandthereanywhere]

She didn't have kids? Didn't know that... I guess my ignorance is a blessing as I don't read daily fail and similar trash..

[@laulau194]

@@nothereandthereanywhere That particular criticism came from Angela Leadsom during the leadership campaign IIRC.

[@nothereandthereanywhere]

@@laulau194 What a nasty backstab... I don't have many feelings for May, she was in dangerous waters, but statements like that are just... Vile.

[@robyn-ky1dz]

When I fk up, I'm now going to recalibrate😂😂

[@robyn-ky1dz]

Steve Coogan getting jealous 😂😂

[@martincheeseman5809]

We used to be inth eu Sunak took us out I despise him!

[@andym.6141]

Theresa May ….. Utterly clueless.

[@deancyrus1]

1:07:18 the police need to be kept safe. increased numbers will always help

[@alanavery2002]

You mean Treasonous May

[@johnrussell3961]

52% had just won Brexit, and she stood in order to replace Cameron , with no belief in it. She hoped to get never ending Brino.. We needed a realist .

[@Smonnie13]

No, we needed a second referendum and a cancellation of imposing sanctions on ourselves.

[@kamillionaire4054]

Atleast she cared about domestic violence and victims, regardless if what people say, she was here to support women and didn’t get a chance

[@mickreaddin4979]

"Didn't get a chance"? What? She was the PM, arguably the most powerful position in the country. Everyday that she woke up and got out of bed she had the chance.

[@CoreyCarrington-g6h]

She is responsible for stopping Operation Trident, which helped directly stop serious knife crime and london.

[@samuelking879]

What are you talking about?

[@mattjones1207]

TBF she was better than anything we've had since, but that is more on them lol

[@davethompson3326]

That bar is below ground level.

[@mattjones1207]

It's closer to the centre of the earth than the surface, that's for sure lol@@davethompson3326

[@robyn-ky1dz]

Why are you ranting to one person given the amount of people on YT? Have you ever watched Alan Partridge?

[@louieberg2942]

The irony of this post is stunning. You've left 5 separate comments in the span of 16 minutes, buddy.

[@robyn-ky1dz]

@@louieberg2942 I didn't realise YT Police were counting my comments. If they're not and it's just you then I'll leave as many comments as I like.

[@louieberg2942]

@@robyn-ky1dzNo, but... you're missing the point. Why talk about ranting when you're the one being a fountain of random non sequiturs that sound vaguely angry and defensive? It's like an angry man shouting at the clouds.

[@robyn-ky1dz]

@@louieberg2942 I'm OK with anyone thinking I'm missing the point. Thanks for getting back to me. I know I'm not blocked anyway 😁😁

[@robyn-ky1dz]

@louieberg2942 Stop ranting and I'll read it 😁

[@robyn-ky1dz]

Just scrolling through your comments, getting a feel for who you appeal to 😂

[@joil6649]

Shouldn’t you have a bulldog avatar?

[@robyn-ky1dz]

@@joil6649 Dunno. Should I?

[@Geewizz69]

Cucks to labour

[@robyn-ky1dz]

How much is your autograph worth? I'll meet you

[@greamespens1460]

James fawns interviewing Tony Blair and he criticises Teresa May.

[@V4Now]

Define "thawn"? Also, Blair's war on terror was a travesty but British lives were measurably better, and he was a better PM than any Tory since.

[@greamespens1460]

@@V4Now typo Fawn. Blair's war killed over 100,000.

[@w.kfontaine7084]

Well you have displayed your reluctance to speak freely on certain political matters. I wouldn’t think you were just inclined to be nice. I assumed you was in some type of political checkmate like most outlets. Only the outlets that you do not know🤧, like Novara Media, speak what they see and think. I get it though, obviously you can’t tell David Lamy he’s a waffler if he appears on your show and you have clear connection and bias towards Labour. I get it. But making excuses about being too nice is a cop out.

[@Smonnie13]

Oh shut up.

[@TonyGame-k2x]

Well your awful presenter

[@V4Now]

He still has a job, unlike someone else...

[@louieberg2942]

Well, you're an awful presenter?* Or are you telling LBC to put James in a well (thereby "welling" him)?

[@annphillips1086]

I was waiting for the rest of the sentence.

[@AngeliqueStP]

Better than your English, mate.

[@ItsSafehands]

Late to this one - but my gosh. Someone should of reminded James of his appearance on Have I Got News For You. He was on at the time of May's premiership and appeared to, or at least pretended to joke about having sympathy for her then too.😅

[@DavieBee1988]

compared to the 3 PM after her she looks like the best one and am pretty sure they are different subjects people want to talk pressing subjects that matter

[@derekspence6994]

james been told you owen lbc true?

[@gsuk28]

what?

[@jamiegoss4970]

The blood of every child victim of these ☪️ coming into this country is on your revolting hands.

[@louieberg2942]

Are you a real person? This post looks like an AI ate some rags and crapped out a comment.

[@nothereandthereanywhere]

@@louieberg2942 Should be called Jamie Gross

[@AngeliqueStP]

Berk.

[@jamiegoss4970]

@@nothereandthereanywhere Cleverboy!