Covid: How it all went wrong | James O'Brien vs The Government

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  • @bobwatson5970
    @bobwatson5970 4 роки тому +61

    James O'Brien is the best presenter on radio. He misses nothing and says it like it is. Honesty is valued even more these days after years and years of political and press - lying to such an extent it's almost acceptable for politicians and hangers on to bare faced lie on television, newspapers and social media without a hint of apology. Well done James - I know the trolls don't bother you - they are in denial.

    • @middleman9183
      @middleman9183 4 роки тому +4

      says it like he THINKS it is

    • @Number9s
      @Number9s 4 роки тому +2

      @@middleman9183 Don't we all?

    • @MrRailjunkie
      @MrRailjunkie 4 роки тому +4

      @@middleman9183 says it like it is, the truth doesn't support a right wing narrative.

    • @randal_gibbons
      @randal_gibbons 2 роки тому

      @@middleman9183 he thinks clearer than most. Even though James is older than myself, I've taken him as a mentor.

  • @balorprice
    @balorprice 4 роки тому +125

    "Flip a coin, shout heads and tails, whichever way it lands, do a lap of honour." Perfect summary.

    • @millwallholdings
      @millwallholdings 4 роки тому

      Only to idiots

    • @balorprice
      @balorprice 4 роки тому +4

      @@millwallholdings, unfortunately, we're *all* idiots.

    • @randal_gibbons
      @randal_gibbons 2 роки тому

      @@balorprice spoken like a true idiot.

    • @randal_gibbons
      @randal_gibbons 2 роки тому

      @@millwallholdings pitiful statement.

  • @ianmilligan9781
    @ianmilligan9781 4 роки тому +173

    Key words here ".....and they still have a job".

    • @Truth_Seeker1
      @Truth_Seeker1 3 роки тому

      The one who should have been fired 100% was Cummings. Went out to attraction then thinks we are stupid enough to believe that he went to test his eye sight driving 60 miles on his wife’s birthday.

    • @lily_m3538
      @lily_m3538 7 місяців тому

      And no only that, they are still inflating their bank balances with speaking jobs and other side lines that should be barred.

  • @joeharley1423
    @joeharley1423 3 роки тому +27

    O'Brien is a legend! People talk too much crap about him, hope he knows that there are people on his side, and one of them is me!

    • @toneyingram732
      @toneyingram732 2 роки тому +1

      Just people who don't live for the truth

    • @davidaward82
      @davidaward82 11 місяців тому +1

      'people talk too much crap about him', definitely a diplomatic way of saying it...
      i think the colloquial term for them is 'Becky's' (the 'i'm not racist buuuuut...' brigade)

    • @stephenmurray2851
      @stephenmurray2851 9 місяців тому

      ​​@@davidaward82race card alert 🚨

    • @davidaward82
      @davidaward82 9 місяців тому

      @@stephenmurray2851 learn to read.

  • @AshPaddyM
    @AshPaddyM 4 роки тому +82

    The cabinet must sit in meetings laughing their arses off at how much they can get away with and the gullibility of the public.

    • @gary1642
      @gary1642 4 роки тому +14

      Every time they win an election they must have a good laugh . Especially after last years election when ex coal miners voted Tory . Never in my lifetime did I see that . As a school leaver I used to give £10 of my £47 per fortnight dole money to the striking miners . I feel like asking for it back . Totally disgusted with the British electorate .

    • @petermizon4344
      @petermizon4344 4 роки тому +3

      @@gary1642 well said man uk is full of yes men now thanks to the bitch Thatcher

    • @petermizon4344
      @petermizon4344 4 роки тому

      @@gary1642 well said man uk is full of yes men now thanks to the bitch Thatcher

    • @adamw2911
      @adamw2911 4 роки тому +2

      @@gary1642 Well.....there is no party that is palatable to the Northern working class. Please do not suggest Labour....they have sold out to London's middle class.

    • @gary1642
      @gary1642 4 роки тому +12

      Selling out isn't the problem it's the complete lack of honour and morality shown by today's politicians all around the world . In the past there would be instant resignations when scandal or rule breaking was highlighted . Now reporting is just dismissed as fake news , Johnson and Trump would both now be out of office if today's standards were comparable to those in the past . It's the blatant lying , the hypocrisy , rule and law breaking all done with impunity that leaves us being governed by these dishonest , profiteering attention seeking clowns . I have never seen western governments so morally bankrupt as those ruling the UK and America .

  • @PenguinBooksUK
    @PenguinBooksUK  Рік тому +8

    Want an update to this timeline? James was back in the studio with us recently to run through the events of UK politics since 2020, from 'Partygate', to Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak. Check it out 👉ua-cam.com/video/lKLQQeKw1e4/v-deo.html

  • @DarthCipient
    @DarthCipient 4 роки тому +164

    When Boris got it, that's when I got worried. It shows that the virus could jump species from human to neanderthal.

    • @techtipsuk
      @techtipsuk 4 роки тому +3

      Very good

    • @paulheath7407
      @paulheath7407 4 роки тому +4

      Well you will definitely get it then

    • @pseudonayme7717
      @pseudonayme7717 4 роки тому +1

      *alien

    • @millwallholdings
      @millwallholdings 4 роки тому +1

      @@paulheath7407 Fingers crossed, the less labour voters around the better

    • @edism
      @edism 4 роки тому

      I would not make this joke, lol

  • @BigGuyZee
    @BigGuyZee 4 роки тому +38

    Seeing JOB just sitting there, hunched over the laptop, looking exhausted at everything. Sums it all up really. 😅

  • @ClannCholmain
    @ClannCholmain 4 роки тому +128

    ‘He meant well, but then so did Hitler.’
    Spike Milligan.

    • @sawtoothiandi
      @sawtoothiandi 4 роки тому +5

      lol. he was just misunderstood as an artist.

    • @michaelmouse4024
      @michaelmouse4024 4 роки тому +2

      I disagree with this analogy - Hitler had the decency to shoot himself.

    • @millwallholdings
      @millwallholdings 4 роки тому +1

      Spike Milligan the well known comedian who had mental issues all his life

    • @millwallholdings
      @millwallholdings 4 роки тому

      @@michaelmouse4024 Wish you would, mind hanging is less messy if you do ha
      On the losing where we hun at the GE and regards to Brexit
      All these Gammons and Nazis still about spouting hate
      Got to love it x

    • @michaelmouse4024
      @michaelmouse4024 4 роки тому +2

      @@millwallholdings Congratulations. I think you have found the world's thinnest argument. Certainly the most incoherent.

  • @Stranglerxx77
    @Stranglerxx77 4 роки тому +19

    I know someone who has had this virus back in may and is still ill ( Breathing problems 55) and it's all looking very sketchy and disturbing now in our increasingly dysfunctional society

  • @craigoneill2216
    @craigoneill2216 4 роки тому +15

    “Cavalcade of chaos and catastrophe” says it all

  • @aimeerivers
    @aimeerivers 4 роки тому +27

    Don't forget when we Ate Out to Help Out, and then got told we were all fatties who were to blame for the increased infection rates.

    • @notsosecretsnacker5218
      @notsosecretsnacker5218 4 роки тому +7

      We were told to Eat Out to Help Out, then we were told to Drink Up and Fuck Off

    • @millwallholdings
      @millwallholdings 4 роки тому

      Like all the fat kids around but of course they are all starving we are told by some "expert" who kicks a bit of plastic about for £100k a week

    • @WasabiDreams
      @WasabiDreams 7 місяців тому

      @@notsosecretsnacker5218 so so so true lol

  • @willumwhitmore9419
    @willumwhitmore9419 4 роки тому +8

    Well done James

  • @caravaggiosaccomplice5103
    @caravaggiosaccomplice5103 4 роки тому +23

    James, I take it all back. That was brilliant. Thank you.

  • @harrybooks8436
    @harrybooks8436 4 роки тому +25

    love JOB, hes great at what he does. people dont like him because he asks people to explain the reasons behind their opinions. and people dont like that.

    • @IQute
      @IQute 4 роки тому +2

      MR X James admitted he was wrong and apologised to Frank. Conduct far beyond our government, sadly.

    • @candyman5912
      @candyman5912 4 роки тому +3

      @@MR-X-. it looks like you've been destroyed with facts and reason. But unlike JOB, you don't have enough about you to show some humility and take your comments back.

    • @MR-X-.
      @MR-X-. 4 роки тому

      @@candyman5912 which comments candyman?

  • @michelekett8450
    @michelekett8450 3 роки тому +3

    Listening to this in Australia on March 10th 2021. We’ve had similar problems with allowing people back from overseas, and the Petri dish environments of quarantine hotels. A bloody disaster.

  • @sharonramsey715
    @sharonramsey715 4 роки тому +8

    Great work James. I couldn’t disagree with anything you’ve said. Somethings I couldn’t even remember.

  •  4 роки тому +10

    Love James O'Brian . That guy speaks so much sense .

    • @cuckingfunt9353
      @cuckingfunt9353 4 роки тому +5

      His book is called how not to be wrong .... FFS, he never gets it right. He was wrong about Brexit, he was wrong about Trump...
      The dude is a professional loser. His book should have been called how to spend all eternity in denial.

    • @originalbadboy32
      @originalbadboy32 4 роки тому +2

      @@cuckingfunt9353 I think maybe the only here in denial is you.

    • @cuckingfunt9353
      @cuckingfunt9353 4 роки тому +1

      @@originalbadboy32 What am I in denial about ?... It's like you lot trying to pretend Trump isn't the president, or Boris is not the PM... That's denial. Time to just get to grips with reality dudes.

    • @pseudonayme7717
      @pseudonayme7717 4 роки тому +1

      @@cuckingfunt9353 Tory propaganda moulded your mind into the exact shape they wanted it to be, and now, you are incapable of admitting your fault. The tories don't do anything for the benefit of us plebs, only for themselves and their ilk. the sooner you realise how true that is, the better it will be for all of us. I voted for brexit btw, but am able to admit it was a terrible idea. I still think the European parliament is a terrible idea and not necessary. It's just a way for the rich to get richer and give jobs to their friends and family. It's nepotism writ large. I voted for brexit because I don't think we need another layer of toffs lording it over us all, we have quite enough of them in the two layers we have here. It seems I was the only person who voted for it based on that.

    • @cuckingfunt9353
      @cuckingfunt9353 4 роки тому

      @@pseudonayme7717 iI have never voted Tory. I don't understand anyone (who isnt a banker or toff) voting for them, I havn't fallen for any of their lies. . . But what has Labour done for the working man in the last 40 years ? .. If it wants to get it's red wall seats back it needs to offer something to the workers.

  • @gpan62
    @gpan62 4 роки тому +33

    The Greek government saw what was happening in Italy and their warnings then shut down the country. The population largely complied with regulations. They kept cases and deaths low. They opened up in summer and cases have gone up, but nowhere at the rate of the UK. They've got a plan. The UK could have done this.

    • @wanderschlosser1857
      @wanderschlosser1857 4 роки тому +9

      @Hugh Jones All European countries are doing better than UK! So that's not a big deal for Sweden. But Sweden is still not a good example because different mentality and way better health system than UK. And still they could have done better. Simply compare them with other Scandinavian countries who have similar social systems and mentalities. Swedens elderly paid the price for the younger and the economy to not lock down.

    • @axeletzold9406
      @axeletzold9406 4 роки тому +3

      More power to the Greeks for having gotten that right!

    • @fatfrreddy1414
      @fatfrreddy1414 4 роки тому

      @@wanderschlosser1857 The Swedes admit that they got it very wrong with the elderly..if you factor that into the stats, they got it very right...

    • @wanderschlosser1857
      @wanderschlosser1857 4 роки тому +2

      @@fatfrreddy1414 No they didn't! They got much worse numbers than all their neighbors including Germany. And their economy didn't do much better compared to their neighbors. Now during the 2nd wave, which hit them as bad as others with no herd immunity benefits, even them are implementing partial lockdown measures. Also you might find elderly less important but they still have the right to be alive and not being sacrificed to ease the life of the younger and to save the economy.

    • @fatfrreddy1414
      @fatfrreddy1414 4 роки тому

      @@wanderschlosser1857 yes they did...they have an economic future.. we don't! The whole thing is political corruption gone viral...

  • @mulattotvc15
    @mulattotvc15 4 роки тому +9

    The critical one for me was discharging patients into the care homes from hospital without testing; QED no one had a clue . The second one was ”corona doesn't discriminate” mantra when the median death rate was 82 & 60 per cent disability rate; if I were cynical, has anything really changed?

  • @ztattonful
    @ztattonful 4 роки тому +16

    Thank you James for as always your straight down to earth facts.

  • @andrewpalmer9634
    @andrewpalmer9634 4 роки тому +9

    There will be an inquiry when it's to late and the dead are buried, facts for our children to see

    • @mentaldetecting
      @mentaldetecting 4 роки тому +3

      There should be but whether there actually is or not. I fear that it will all just be 'brushed under the rug'.

    • @Hickalum
      @Hickalum 4 роки тому +1

      Too late.

  • @darrenwilliams2921
    @darrenwilliams2921 4 роки тому +4

    He seems to be explaining all the problems not only us , but many other countries experiencing the same and similar problems .

    • @candyman5912
      @candyman5912 4 роки тому +3

      Does that include the lies and deception from our government?

    • @darrenwilliams2921
      @darrenwilliams2921 4 роки тому

      @@candyman5912 Yes , i've never known of any Government foreign and domestic not to .

    • @candyman5912
      @candyman5912 4 роки тому

      @@darrenwilliams2921 So you're saying we cannot hope to have a better government than our current one, in the future because, they will all lie and be as corrupt as our present one?
      That cannot be true.

    • @millwallholdings
      @millwallholdings 4 роки тому

      @@candyman5912 No its true, go for the Jew haters did you, classy

  • @Roguetrainer
    @Roguetrainer 4 роки тому +14

    Excellent as ever Mr OB. There were indeed many voices trying to scare people into going back into their office for fear of losing their jobs. To understand why you could ask your colleague who has the three hour slot before yours every day.

  • @indricotherium4802
    @indricotherium4802 4 роки тому +29

    The words that come to mind when I think of this government are bad faith, contemptuousness and delinquency.

    • @I7275-p2d
      @I7275-p2d 4 роки тому +1

      I can’t believe the plural form of a word beginning with the letter ‘c’ didn’t make your list.

    • @indricotherium4802
      @indricotherium4802 4 роки тому +1

      @@I7275-p2d : don't worry, Angela Rayner might have it on hers. If so, can't wait for her to use it.

    • @jojoUK120
      @jojoUK120 4 роки тому +1

      'Incompetence' springs to mine

    • @Hickalum
      @Hickalum 4 роки тому

      Only THIS government?

    • @millwallholdings
      @millwallholdings 4 роки тому +1

      BUT not Jew haters like a certain other party

  • @truthtrumpsdumbness638
    @truthtrumpsdumbness638 4 роки тому +10

    James, fabulous and all based upon irrefutable facts - thank you, Sir

  • @miketemple876
    @miketemple876 3 роки тому +1

    We are now over a year on from this and its still vital to remember what was being done...or rather what wasn't being done when this started

  • @nillybetty7599
    @nillybetty7599 3 роки тому +1

    "Turkish equivalent of Del boy Trotter"😂🤣. I'm a Turk and still find this line hilarious.

  • @MiguelGarcia-qq8wp
    @MiguelGarcia-qq8wp 4 роки тому +1

    You have my full support & respect
    Thanks for your hard work!

  • @mohammedbashir1922
    @mohammedbashir1922 4 роки тому +8

    Brilliant. Can we please have a follow up in December, and maybe a summary of incompetencies. Great work.

    • @millwallholdings
      @millwallholdings 4 роки тому +2

      someones easily pleased, brilliant oh dear, his nothing a nobody a part time radio hack

  • @ChlorineD
    @ChlorineD 4 роки тому +4

    Well done James! At last a voice of supreme intelligence and integrity!!!

    • @middleman9183
      @middleman9183 4 роки тому +1

      are you taking the piss?

    • @ChlorineD
      @ChlorineD 4 роки тому

      @@middleman9183 Judging by your question it sounds like you’re from the dark side so I won’t dignify your question with a response.

  • @brianodonovan8470
    @brianodonovan8470 4 роки тому +6

    Hello from Dublin. Thank you James. ☘️

  • @geezalee1677
    @geezalee1677 4 роки тому +6

    So, Boris boosting shook hands on 14 March, tested positive on 27 March, between 14 and 27 = 13 days incubation period

  • @TartanABU
    @TartanABU 4 роки тому +30

    Some issues with terrible posture aside, an informative video - thanks James and Penguin

    • @cuckingfunt9353
      @cuckingfunt9353 4 роки тому +3

      He is physically bitter and twisted... I think he will turn into a pretzel after Trump gets re-elected !

    • @lauranorris3716
      @lauranorris3716 3 роки тому

      @@cuckingfunt9353 okay 👌

    • @randal_gibbons
      @randal_gibbons 2 роки тому

      @@cuckingfunt9353 you certainly must be tired of losing.

  • @SahmAhmad
    @SahmAhmad 3 роки тому +1

    I think although there is factual analysis in what James said, there is a fair point to acknowledge there is that often the companies bosses, political leaders and other leaders have been, scientifically, proven to be leaning towards narcissism. In fact, narcissism is a trait that helps leaders to have a high level of self confidence necessary to be a good leader. However, the most important characteristic in a leader is not his ability of being narcissist but his capacity EMPATHY. #Thatswhatsmissing.

  • @susanmacdonald5487
    @susanmacdonald5487 4 роки тому +18

    Fab oversight over the whoel sorry mess!

  • @baztiger
    @baztiger 3 роки тому +1

    Advice from Italy! Yet when the opposition said the same Torys called hindsight!!!

  • @leemondez
    @leemondez 4 роки тому +5

    Book per-orded . Legend !!

    • @middleman9183
      @middleman9183 4 роки тому +1

      useful if you run out of toilet paper

    • @leemondez
      @leemondez 4 роки тому +2

      @@middleman9183 useful if you like to read and aren't a dim prick. Good lad

  • @AlexNinoLDN
    @AlexNinoLDN 4 роки тому +1

    This is fantastic. I've been a fan since J. O'B was Sandi Toksvig's warm up man..... Happier times, to be honest.

  • @Britain_and_Rome
    @Britain_and_Rome 4 роки тому +2

    James has the perfect face for radio

  • @eileenorourke7428
    @eileenorourke7428 4 роки тому +14

    Just a summary of a diabolical lot. Thanks James 👏👏👏

  • @suevans6436
    @suevans6436 4 роки тому +6

    Nick Ferari I thought was the loudest voice to go back to work to help the coffee shops

  • @SuperCambois
    @SuperCambois 4 роки тому +6

    Spot on, James lad.

  • @davidhaesler8371
    @davidhaesler8371 4 роки тому +5

    Great summary. Though no mention of seeding the carehomes? 🤔

    • @paulmaddison8792
      @paulmaddison8792 4 роки тому +2

      Boris drove the minibus back to the care homes personally.
      Thank you NHS.....

    • @Number9s
      @Number9s 4 роки тому

      @Enigma MK
      to cede is to give up (something)
      to seed is to cause (something) to begin to develop or grow

    • @davidhaesler8371
      @davidhaesler8371 4 роки тому

      @@Number9s I feared Enigma was being ultra witty. I declined to clarify 😂

    • @Number9s
      @Number9s 4 роки тому

      @@davidhaesler8371 My apologies for missing the humour. 😂

    • @davidhaesler8371
      @davidhaesler8371 4 роки тому

      @@Number9s No no, I feel you made the right call ultimately 😀

  • @drdel76
    @drdel76 4 роки тому +15

    O’Brien summed up the present mess in 3 words: “Absence of honesty”

    • @cuckingfunt9353
      @cuckingfunt9353 4 роки тому +3

      His book is called how not to be wrong .... FFS, he never gets it right. He was wrong about Brexit, he was wrong about Trump... The dude is a professional loser. His book should have been called how to spend eternity in denial.

    • @drdel76
      @drdel76 4 роки тому +4

      @@cuckingfunt9353 I agree with you. I left his book on the shelf of a charity shop because 50p was excessive for that sanctimonious garbage

    • @dicksmall7976
      @dicksmall7976 4 роки тому +2

      @@drdel76 You read it wrong. The charity shop was paying 50p to anyone who would take it away during the toilet paper shortage.

    • @millwallholdings
      @millwallholdings 4 роки тому +1

      @@cuckingfunt9353 All his book is good for is wiping yer arse with, Who is he A nobody, a nothing, dont even have a full time job

    • @James_36
      @James_36 4 роки тому +1

      the irony.. the blairites JOB supports are the most sinister devious liars ever to have walked into the govt in its history

  • @rigsby1454
    @rigsby1454 4 роки тому +10

    Ha, this is excellent. Should be a weekly feature

    • @mikeo678
      @mikeo678 4 роки тому +1

      5 times a week in LBC radio

  • @aabb6677
    @aabb6677 2 роки тому +1

    WOW!!!! Some people suffer from amnesia....

  • @colinbrigham8253
    @colinbrigham8253 4 роки тому +1

    Thanks James 😊

    • @fuckfannyfiddlefart
      @fuckfannyfiddlefart 4 роки тому

      For ensuring labour would lose the election you neoliberal POS.

  • @WasabiDreams
    @WasabiDreams 7 місяців тому

    i love his LBC show , mystery hour can be laugh out loud funny !

  • @brucemacdougall6121
    @brucemacdougall6121 4 роки тому +1

    Well said

  • @Ayeayecapn88
    @Ayeayecapn88 4 роки тому +2

    James O’Brian lovely man of the people. Unless he disagrees with you. When he is bored of the discussion he will turn to name calling and bully boy tactics.

    • @lordkorner
      @lordkorner 4 роки тому

      listen to him all the time and don't evenremember him calling any caller names. maybe you could add a clip in which he does so. As for members of the parliamentary party , game on.

  • @DrCreepen
    @DrCreepen 4 роки тому +71

    ...and here we go: another venue for people to be upset with Mr. O'Brien. As to the point as ever. BTW I'm also heartbroken by Ian Brown's lunacy.

    • @Johnboysmudge
      @Johnboysmudge 4 роки тому +5

      Me too. Total let down man 😕

    • @Popboy2015
      @Popboy2015 4 роки тому +5

      I've always been a massive fan of him too but he is clearly well and truly off the reservation now.

    • @bonnie3447
      @bonnie3447 4 роки тому

      Eh? All the comments are positive.

    • @AKAtAGG
      @AKAtAGG 4 роки тому +1

      On my right forearm, I have the Stone Roses lemon logo as a tattoo. I learned to play guitar after hearing Waterfall and wanting to be able to recreate it - which I did, succesfully. My entire life has been spent adoring (lol) the men from that band, and Ian Brown is the greatest front man who ever lived. And now he's a fucking moron. Listen, drugs are fkin amazing, but it turns out that further down the line bad things happen. Stop it, Ian. Keep quiet. Please. My tattoo begs it.

    • @neiltansey3041
      @neiltansey3041 4 роки тому +15

      JOB... Used to listen to him on LBC until he became RUDE with less educated listeners than himself. The man is a two faced f**k wit. Rude, rude and triple rude!!

  • @lm7143
    @lm7143 4 роки тому

    This is quite good job better than the radio show

  • @Andrew-dp5kf
    @Andrew-dp5kf 4 роки тому +3

    I think if wearing masks in public was made mandatory from March it would have kept the “danger about ” in the mindset, it’s easy to forget when there’s no fire at your door.

    • @DrumToTheBassWoop
      @DrumToTheBassWoop 4 роки тому +2

      That’s coming real soon, mandatory masks as soon as you walk out the door. I can see it.

    • @anewworldnormal1957
      @anewworldnormal1957 4 роки тому +1

      mandatory masks, then mandatory lockdowns, then mandatory vaccines, then mandatory tracking devices, then mandatory transition to digital money, and it will go on and on and on...

    • @DrumToTheBassWoop
      @DrumToTheBassWoop 4 роки тому

      @@anewworldnormal1957 just look at Making Tax Digital, once fully operating. No one will be able to set up a business, without a real time digital records. 😐

  • @saabsa
    @saabsa 4 роки тому +6

    Job you're a treasure

  • @judymainwaring5596
    @judymainwaring5596 4 роки тому +3

    Loving the Etch-a -Sketch analogy. Great piece, James.

  • @sh0352
    @sh0352 3 роки тому

    James always tells it how it is, admittedly he trails off a bit but eventually does get to the point 👍

  • @clarkeokah1154
    @clarkeokah1154 4 роки тому +7

    “The Art of the bad posture “.. James O’Brien

    • @Thanos1908
      @Thanos1908 4 роки тому +1

      That's what you kept from this whole video? :S

    • @Thanos1908
      @Thanos1908 4 роки тому +1

      ​@South London He is a realist.
      Whether he comes off as "negative" or "positive" has to do with how "grounded" the listeners opinions/views are.

    • @Thanos1908
      @Thanos1908 4 роки тому +1

      @South London I'm going to be honest...i enjoy listening to him deconstruct half baked opinions on issues.
      A lot of us don't really think things through when choosing a side on an argument...and at the same time we entrench ourselves behind it.
      (Human nature is to justify any choice we make as the best choice...if it weren't the best choice...then why would we choose it?.)
      Is he a bit of a cheeky twat to his callers? More often than not...but if you are going to put your opinion on national radio (public display) it needs to be able to stand scrutiny.

    • @cuckingfunt9353
      @cuckingfunt9353 4 роки тому

      @Jamis Billson 1 He is physically bitter and twisted... I think he will turn into a pretzel after Trump gets re-elected !

    • @cuckingfunt9353
      @cuckingfunt9353 4 роки тому

      @@Thanos1908 He is an expert in denial, he is consistently wrong about EVERYTHING... He then has to rant on about how it's not his fault, the public are all stupid, the quint essential brat... So bitter and twisted at always being wrong, no wonder the guy resembles a worn out sock used wanking.

  • @petergilbert7106
    @petergilbert7106 4 роки тому +20

    There has got to be a role for James O Brien as a sort of Charlie Brooker surrogate, doing a more politics heavy Newswipe on UA-cam.

  • @howtoappearincompletely9739
    @howtoappearincompletely9739 7 місяців тому

    This is my first time watching this: three years, six months, and five days after its publication. It's a pretty depressing reminder of how things were, and also of how much worse things got. We may be out of lockdown by now, but governance has hardly improved and polarisation has got worse. I'm sure part two will be about as uplifting. 😒

  • @Bushcraft222
    @Bushcraft222 Рік тому

    Thank god for James the most onis presenter on radio 👍

  • @davidaward82
    @davidaward82 11 місяців тому

    absolutely no shade to the creators of doctor who, it's fans, or any of it's periphery, (i'm one of the fans), but boris' stay at home announcement bore SO MANY shades of harriet jones' 'where are you doctor' announcement from david tennant's first episode.
    couldn't take anything seriously from mophead before that, but that moment was just surreal.

  • @Mistrons
    @Mistrons 4 роки тому +2

    Just imagine how long this would be if he'd added all the contracts awarded to donors and the care homes being forced to take in untested residents from hospitals and the school results and the sending uni students back and the blaming of the public for being to much freedom loving etc.....

  • @ricoroometoo4697
    @ricoroometoo4697 4 роки тому +4

    James O’Brien , one of the best journalists that calls bull*hit out when politicians lie or just make stuff up , fact checking is important for a reason

    • @middleman9183
      @middleman9183 4 роки тому

      O'brien's contirbutions are all rather pointless

  • @radboo4384
    @radboo4384 4 роки тому +2

    great knocking. I know you want to stick the boot in. well done.

  • @alanhigh9677
    @alanhigh9677 4 роки тому +6

    Seems like "he who cotrols the pubs controls the universe". Unbelievable !

    • @antonycharnock2993
      @antonycharnock2993 4 роки тому +1

      Drinking has always been used as a way to sedate the seething proletariat in this country.

  • @francisexperience
    @francisexperience 4 роки тому +5

    The government has made a mess of an impossible situation. However if everyone who has made a mistake should resign James should have resigned when he made unforgivable remark to a father concerning sending his child to school, and if the child died it would be his fault. Really cruel awful interview. He should have resigned or been dismissed.

    • @BTLP
      @BTLP 4 роки тому

      Are you saying that 46,000 people could have been saved? How? Was the lockdown a mistake or did it not go far enough? The lockdowns in Spain, Italy and France were far more draconian than ours and yet tens of thousands have perished there too. Please do educate us with your greater intellect.

    • @francisexperience
      @francisexperience 4 роки тому

      @silverfoxeater Double standards muppet

    • @millwallholdings
      @millwallholdings 4 роки тому

      @silverfoxeater Labour voter i smell, JEREMY THE TRAMP WOULD HAVE SAVED US ALL ON HIS WHITE HORSE HA HA , WELL APART FROM THE JEWS OF COURSE
      IF HE HAD BEEN VOTED IN HE WOULD HAVE SHIELDED THE WHOLE COUNTRY WITH HIS MAGIC
      THESE LIEBORE VOTERS REALLY ARE INSANE
      CAN YOU IMAGINE THE HATEFUL CHARACTERS LIKE MCCONNEL, LAMMY ABBOTT AND BUTLER, THEY WOULD ONLY BE INTERESTED IN THEIR "OWN" PEOPLE

  • @kenboon1478
    @kenboon1478 4 роки тому +5

    I took Dominique Cummings advice and went for a drive to test my eyesight and realised I needed glasses when I couldn't read the signs on the motorway , not until the police pulled me over for driving on the wrong side .

    • @bluescousenilsatis
      @bluescousenilsatis 4 роки тому

      I did similar when I was at a party drinking all day. I wasn't sure if I was rat arsed so decided to settle the argument with the party host. I drove home. In the morning i realised my bumper was hanging off and i had blood and hair in the grill.... now, how that happened I've no idea, but i phoned the host and said I must have been bladdered because someone damaged my car last night and I heard nothing.

  • @danielbtwd
    @danielbtwd 4 роки тому +1

    Politicians get away with any excuse. Unlike the rest of us.

  • @Kellyjellycones78
    @Kellyjellycones78 4 роки тому +7

    Glaxosmithkline HQ is in castle barnard! Just an observation guys! I'm sure a uncanny coincidence!

    • @peteanderson7416
      @peteanderson7416 4 роки тому +1

      Our headquarters are in London and we employ over 99,000 people in 150 countries.

    • @Number9s
      @Number9s 4 роки тому +3

      It's Barnard Castle.
      Harmire Road
      , Barnard Castle, Co Durham DL12 8DT
      uk.gsk.com/en-gb/about-us/uk-locations/barnard-castle/

    • @antonycharnock2993
      @antonycharnock2993 4 роки тому +2

      @@peteanderson7416 But Barnard Castle would be an ideal out of the way place for underhand government deals involving Dominic Cummings. Lo and behold a few days later a new government contract for Glaxosmithkline. Do you know what your senior management are up to?

  • @greggbisgrove7499
    @greggbisgrove7499 4 роки тому +1

    We live on a island we had warning it was coming just like New Zealand did we have the highest deaths in Europe.

  • @taffshep1
    @taffshep1 4 роки тому +1

    Well done James full hindsight and concise unbiased report on where the govt. has gone wrong, easy init!? all you have done is a report on what has happened and your ideas and critique did with the safety of hindsight. Thanks for that you brave individual that you are!!

  • @Maintenance_Mark
    @Maintenance_Mark 3 роки тому

    James please don't call them skeptics That's an insult to all of us real skeptics worldwide. Please call them what they actually are which is fake skeptics or pseudoskeptics. Thank you

  • @CloudhoundCoUk
    @CloudhoundCoUk 4 роки тому +1

    Democracy may be at risk. Unfortunately, humanity doesn't learn from history.

  • @christopherjones8096
    @christopherjones8096 3 роки тому

    What an amazing reaction at 07:47 🤣 Sums up the nations collective recollection of that point in time I think!

  • @steveuphill3795
    @steveuphill3795 4 роки тому

    And not a comment on how the government turned a democracy into a tyranny, a power they had no right to do. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
    But I do agree that politicians in general never admit their mistakes and never ever appologise for them. Which I find is a complete lack of ethics and honour. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

  • @trevorcrowther5430
    @trevorcrowther5430 4 роки тому +1

    Not usually a fan James, but credit where it’s due. And we have so called educated people or our supposed betters running this fiasco. Barnard Castle to test your eyesight has to be up there! I’m not being flippant about people who have lost loved ones and friends, as a result of COVID-19.

  • @gaving7095
    @gaving7095 3 роки тому +1

    Thanks, James - good video :-)
    Keep pointing out their lies & hypocrisy.

  • @stuartvayro-wright2545
    @stuartvayro-wright2545 4 роки тому +1

    There it goes....bouncing off the walls of its own echo chamber. Depressingly accurate non-the-less.

  • @deancompcomp866
    @deancompcomp866 4 роки тому +1

    Good man. Thanks! I feel just the same. Keep safe.

  • @meatball7665
    @meatball7665 3 роки тому

    Lots of wise people around with hindsight.

  • @jackwilliams7539
    @jackwilliams7539 4 роки тому +3

    And this is just the tip of the iceberg 🤦‍♂️

  • @tobytroubs
    @tobytroubs 4 роки тому

    yeah , you have all the answers right James ?

  • @TheZororya
    @TheZororya 4 роки тому

    James you see u can be cleaned and looking good. Don’t get me wrong I listen to your show on LBC I like you. 👍

  • @garywilliamson5156
    @garywilliamson5156 4 роки тому

    No Quantifiable Isolations = No Evidence of a Virus = NO VIRUS ,.. Koch's Postulates ,. NOT SATIFIED ,... also ,. NO SUCH THING AS ASYMPTOMATIC SPREADERS !!! look it up ,........ LIEDEMIC! rememebr the lie 14-21 days to flatten the curve !!!!!!!!! LIES LIAR's AND DECEPTIONS

  • @spage2102
    @spage2102 4 роки тому

    Barnard Castle, isn't that also the home of Gaxosmithkline?

  • @frank1847
    @frank1847 4 роки тому +3

    121 Tory MPs have given this a thumbs down.

    • @cuckingfunt9353
      @cuckingfunt9353 4 роки тому +1

      At least they have so many MPs . .. Labuor seems to be lost in the wilderness. Maybe if they hadn't betrayed their voters things could have been different.

  • @geraldstephens6612
    @geraldstephens6612 4 роки тому

    Same thing here.

  • @Csut555
    @Csut555 3 роки тому +1

    Should have waited another two months James, they’ve provided enough material in December alone for a whole series of these.

  • @jamescooper3783
    @jamescooper3783 4 роки тому +2

    Bang on James. Only a narcissist won’t change their minds, ever. ✌️

    • @jonsid6628
      @jonsid6628 3 роки тому +1

      Is he still going on about brexit then?

  • @jojomara
    @jojomara 4 роки тому +12

    "He looks about.. 43 years younger there"

  • @angeljoseph-gordon2861
    @angeljoseph-gordon2861 3 роки тому

    Brother Seamus. Please learn about the HPF setting on your sound gear. I love your velvet baritone, but HPF takes the boom away. Also, in that particular room you are in, cut a big chunk of 400hz out. So we don't keep hearing that slightly flat A ringing along. That's just my two cents of nerdy tech advice. Help keep your voice sweet. LOve your shows.

  • @patrickhiggs1215
    @patrickhiggs1215 4 роки тому +13

    Brilliant summation of the total shit show going on day by day. Thank you for a clear chronology of the debacle now know by all. Huge changes are and must be reached. Keep up the fair and factual information stream. Best wishes.

  • @alanhigh9677
    @alanhigh9677 4 роки тому +3

    "petri dish" reference to pubs opening- hilarious. You brighten our Brexit future James, thank you and let them av it!

  • @1569-f8x
    @1569-f8x 4 роки тому

    In regards to Cummings,on a driving test your eyesight is check before you get in the car.If fail,the test is over.I believe that Cummings broke the law by driving without knowing if his eyesight was up to standard.A bit like putting your hand in a fire to see if it will burn.

  • @jonsid6628
    @jonsid6628 3 роки тому +1

    JOB at last looks happy as he declares himself an author. I wonder if he'll still be so proud when they're being pulped.

  • @key948
    @key948 4 роки тому +1

    if only everyone was as smug clever and wise as James O'Brien, what a different this planet would be

  • @triciacol
    @triciacol 4 роки тому +1

    Conservatives will go on backing Boris no matter how inept he is for fear of Starmer standing in the wings.

    • @triciacol
      @triciacol 4 роки тому

      @Oulse Vectum Do your fellow patients all feel the same way?

    • @millwallholdings
      @millwallholdings 4 роки тому

      @@triciacol Do yours, spose you go for the Jew haters Party full of racist mps like Lammy Abbott and Butler etc etc
      voting for them is a mental illness

    • @triciacol
      @triciacol 4 роки тому

      @Oulse Vectum Nothing Liberal about our politics. We are socialists.

  • @peterwalch6034
    @peterwalch6034 4 роки тому +1

    Should check out how Victoria Australia has handled it

  • @paulhaskell-cooper676
    @paulhaskell-cooper676 4 роки тому

    Siting hunched over compresses heart and lungs and is also bad for the spine.