How Johnson, Truss and Sunak Broke Britain | James O'Brien Vs The Government Part 2

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James O'Brien is back to run through the timeline of events in UK politics since 2020, from Boris Johnson, to Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak. His new book, How They Broke Britain, is available to buy here: bit.ly/3ueKA2x
Watch Part 1 here: • Covid: How it all went...
Something has gone really wrong in Britain.
Our economy has tanked, our freedoms are shrinking, and social divisions are growing. Our politicians seem most interested in their own careers, and much of the media only make things worse. We are living in a country almost unrecognisable from the one that existed a decade ago. But whose fault is it really? Who broke Britain and how did they do it?
Bold and incisive as ever, James O'Brien reveals the shady network of influence that has created a broken Britain of strikes, shortages and scandals. He maps the web connecting dark think tanks to Downing Street, the journalists involved in selling it to the public and the media bosses pushing their own agendas. Over ten chapters, each focusing on a particular person complicit in the downfall, James O'Brien reveals how a select few have conspired - sometimes by incompetence, sometimes by design - to bring Britain to its knees.
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  • @AchtungMonkey
    @AchtungMonkey5 ай бұрын

    This is the first time I've heard James in an Interview out with his show as he is not on my regular feed. I can see the genuine hurt and disgust within him I and agree with his views on our current government.

  • @1flinns

    @1flinns

    4 ай бұрын

    Get this guy on your list.

  • @ExploreGamesAndMore

    @ExploreGamesAndMore

    4 ай бұрын

    It's worth bearing in mind that James campaigned vigorously against Labour in the last general election. He partly has himself to blame for all this, but has terrible trouble admitting it.

  • @user-xk2ig4tc3f

    @user-xk2ig4tc3f

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@ExploreGamesAndMore except he didn't campaign vigorously against Labour

  • @DrMontague

    @DrMontague

    2 ай бұрын

    We want tory starmer!

  • @user-xk2ig4tc3f

    @user-xk2ig4tc3f

    2 ай бұрын

    @DrMontague sounds like you want Sunak, you are cheering for him

  • @joanneburford6364
    @joanneburford63645 ай бұрын

    We had our own 'Johnson' here in Australia, at the same time, Morrison and he are still mates, travelling to Israel together. You'll find Murdoch behind everything.

  • @lizziebkennedy7505

    @lizziebkennedy7505

    4 ай бұрын

    Yes!

  • @cristosl

    @cristosl

    4 ай бұрын

    Most dangerous man in the world

  • @princesssharkie

    @princesssharkie

    4 ай бұрын

    💯

  • @Jack908r

    @Jack908r

    4 ай бұрын

    Don't get me started on a moron who has to force a handshake from a fire victim, from fires he helped start with dodgy fire mgt policies.

  • @lordsummerisle852

    @lordsummerisle852

    4 ай бұрын

    You had dictator Dan zedong Andrews. He was the worst thing to happen to Australia since Gallipoli

  • @michaelcoward1902
    @michaelcoward19025 ай бұрын

    Personally I blame Cameron. Only a failure of his magnitude could have paved the way for Johnson and the rest.

  • @0w784g

    @0w784g

    5 ай бұрын

    So not Labour allowing banking to get so light touch causing the biggest financial shock ever? Or Labour getting involved in several unwinnable wars?

  • @sarahann530

    @sarahann530

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@0w784g You would think Tories would have got around to solving those problems by now . How many decades does it take to change banking regulations? Which unwinnable wars wars should the UK have stayed out of that would have prevented this Tory mess ?

  • @jimmyhun91

    @jimmyhun91

    5 ай бұрын

    And now he is back-an unelected parliamentarian, who isn't even an MP. He just waltzed into the job after his amazing record of causing untold disaster...I don't want to live in this country anymore.

  • @myce-liam

    @myce-liam

    5 ай бұрын

    Agree. It's almost as though he disappeared just long enough for the whole Brexit shit show to settle enough in the media so that he can come back without the proper scrutiny. And making him a LORD what the fuck?? The house of lords - the upper chamber of our government, needs abolishing or massive reform. Politicians seem to nominate their cronies always. Never anyone in the country of millions are selected who've done something that actually deserves a lordship

  • @jgmediting7770

    @jgmediting7770

    5 ай бұрын

    A collapsing economic system and an elite fearing for its economic and political power paved the way. Same as a century ago.

  • @moniquehenry4041
    @moniquehenry40415 ай бұрын

    From France. UK citizens, please wake up and do something to get out of that !

  • @JJONNYREPP

    @JJONNYREPP

    5 ай бұрын

    How Johnson, Truss and Sunak Broke Britain | James O'Brien Vs The Government Part 2 0841am 17.11.23 from UK: i am left wondering who boris johnson ended up having a literal fight with to then decide he needed to jump ship...? the best resignation speech i have ever heard. he was saying, as those who have fallen on their sword a little to early: ok, you think others can do a better job? i'm beggering off!! which is the underpinning literary motif of that nice little bit of media hyperbole. i like it! get to the effin point rather than fannying about... the commons could learn a lot from that kindda of stance...

  • @Moomin360

    @Moomin360

    5 ай бұрын

    Sort out your own problem in France mate, and stop off loading your migrate problem on Britain.

  • @JJONNYREPP

    @JJONNYREPP

    5 ай бұрын

    @@Moomin360 Comments on ‘How Johnson, Truss and Sunak Broke Britain | James O'Brien Vs The Government Part 2’ 0953AM 17.11.23 my migrant problem? ok, send them all back to their countries of origin... i was gonna say stop stealing our water...

  • @Paul_C

    @Paul_C

    5 ай бұрын

    Not going to happen: GB is England only.

  • @cws2355

    @cws2355

    5 ай бұрын

    @@Moomin360extremely intelligent comment.

  • @electron8262
    @electron82625 ай бұрын

    "The bigger the lie, the bigger the applause" good phrase

  • @laurie113

    @laurie113

    4 ай бұрын

    Sounds like trump

  • @125ZJK
    @125ZJK5 ай бұрын

    That level of hubris is generated by the firm belief , the General Public are and will always be cannon fodder .

  • @acolli777

    @acolli777

    5 ай бұрын

    "Let the bodies pile high" but don't forget the stupidity "could someone inject me with covid live on TV?". Staggering that such a narcissistic buffoon could ever become PM

  • @theworldaccordingto4555

    @theworldaccordingto4555

    5 ай бұрын

    Excerpt from ''War Is A Racket'' By Major General Smedley D. Butler:- WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes... How many of these war millionaires shouldered a rifle? How many of them dug a trench? How many of them knew what it meant to go hungry in a rat-infested dug-out? How many of them spent sleepless, frightened nights, ducking shells and shrapnel and machine gun bullets? How many of them parried a bayonet thrust of an enemy? How many of them were wounded or killed in battle? Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few -- the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill. And what is this bill? This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations. For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it. Now that I see the international war clouds gathering, as they are today, I must face it and speak out..." - Maj Gen Smedley Butler

  • @ChillwithLaurenZen
    @ChillwithLaurenZen5 ай бұрын

    I'll always be thankful for James during this awful, yet never ending period of history in the UK. He gave me sanity and hope.

  • @marythorpe928

    @marythorpe928

    4 ай бұрын

    I totally agree with James O' Brien ..

  • @billhamilton7066

    @billhamilton7066

    3 ай бұрын

    Cum on James. Tory's 😂 by by.

  • @mandyharewood886

    @mandyharewood886

    3 ай бұрын

    Why never ending?

  • @howtoappearincompletely9739

    @howtoappearincompletely9739

    19 күн бұрын

    @@mandyharewood886 It hasn't ended yet. "Never-ending" is probably too pessimistic.

  • @Scanini
    @Scanini5 ай бұрын

    You're on the van radio everyday James, keeping me sane in a world gone mad.

  • @remainertears

    @remainertears

    5 ай бұрын

    He is a deeply dishonest Kunt who talks shit. First one for the chop after the revolution.

  • @karlmylnere5712

    @karlmylnere5712

    5 ай бұрын

    Scannini, then you are very easily fooled.

  • @Scanini

    @Scanini

    5 ай бұрын

    @@karlmylnere5712 No, that's the people who thought Boris Johnson tells the truth.

  • @TheValeyard92

    @TheValeyard92

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@karlmylnere5712Rich, coming from some Johnsonite Tory clown.

  • @rossturner8581

    @rossturner8581

    5 ай бұрын

    The left are easily brainwashed that's why they protest with hamas😂

  • @mrdaveythebaby
    @mrdaveythebaby5 ай бұрын

    Remember, Johnson didn't resign over this, he wasn't even removed as PM by his party over this. They just moved on.

  • @cws2355

    @cws2355

    5 ай бұрын

    well said. And to think that Boris removed the whip from decent people like Dominic Grieve.

  • @steevsmith2792

    @steevsmith2792

    5 ай бұрын

    The Criminal Tory PM, JohnSCUM, lied, lied, lied & lied, let advisers & government ministers be sacked or resign....& still LIED. Then, when the House of Commons, Tory Majority scrutiny committee told him - we have you BANG to rights you lying Tory toad....30 days suspension, he gobbled like a Turkey & threw his toys right out of the pram...this is a git with 8 children!!...& went off to Daily Fail & G.B.Sewage...without taking any responsibility for his destroying of the UK as a credible nation anymore! Remember still, the UNelected criminal Sunak was there (in Govt) the WHOLE time, sneering, smirking & sniggering while people died...along with SCUM Blabberman, Ree - Smogg, Shapps & Gove. NEVER TRUST a Tory! LET'S Get them removed!

  • @dianegardner3584

    @dianegardner3584

    5 ай бұрын

    But that doesn’t mean we want him back,a disgrace to humanity and the covid debacle.

  • @mrdaveythebaby

    @mrdaveythebaby

    5 ай бұрын

    @@dianegardner3584 i mean his party just moved on. They don't care.

  • @mrdaveythebaby

    @mrdaveythebaby

    5 ай бұрын

    @@dianegardner3584 and lots of Tory MPs and party members would have him back.

  • @roaldknutsen1924
    @roaldknutsen19245 ай бұрын

    I stayed in a 4 star hotel in Nottingham in May this year. Half the residents were asylum seekers and families evicted under S21 - they lived one family to a room, ate separately, the kids were bored stiff, most of the adults were working in low paid jobs and no one I spoke to wanted to be there. In one place, that is Tory Britain.

  • @benfisher1376

    @benfisher1376

    5 ай бұрын

    Then they shouldn't have come here

  • @cws2355

    @cws2355

    5 ай бұрын

    @@benfisher1376another Brexiteer bravo for your insightful comment

  • @colincampbell4261

    @colincampbell4261

    5 ай бұрын

    Thanks for the reality check. Hotel landlords are doing well though and probably vote tory.

  • @sevecc939

    @sevecc939

    5 ай бұрын

    Have you ever considered getting a DNA test? You might find that you aren't 100% British yourself.

  • @kanedNunable

    @kanedNunable

    5 ай бұрын

    @@benfisher1376 he said half of them were english. read better?

  • @roboldx9171
    @roboldx91715 ай бұрын

    What gets me is that they actually thought they could get away with it.

  • @TimothyCHenderson

    @TimothyCHenderson

    5 ай бұрын

    They did, for 13 years.

  • @ollyreader18

    @ollyreader18

    5 ай бұрын

    @@TimothyCHendersondid… still are ?!

  • @michaelcoward1902

    @michaelcoward1902

    5 ай бұрын

    They have gotten away with it. David Cameron is a lord, and the other three are all making pots of money talking to cretins on the after dinner circuit.

  • @Paul-eb4jp

    @Paul-eb4jp

    5 ай бұрын

    All our money is in their offshore accounts, Johnson who had to persuade a party donor to buy his wallpaper has since bought a £4m mansion, they've not just got away with it they're still fleecing us.

  • @kanedNunable

    @kanedNunable

    5 ай бұрын

    and they will. nothing will happen. people who defraud benefits for 100 quid will still get a far harsher sentence.

  • @jackcantdie
    @jackcantdie5 ай бұрын

    Really bizarre to hear James swearing haha. Obviously not allowed to on his broadcasts so it’s a refreshing addition to the rightful vitriol we all hold towards the govt

  • @yorkiegilly4355

    @yorkiegilly4355

    5 ай бұрын

    @jackcantdie = just like many other hard left puppets on these pages ,once you start using bad language in you posts you have lost the argument .People can see you for what you are ! .

  • @petefl1818
    @petefl18185 ай бұрын

    Boris Johnson who's probably been to more party's than the rest of the population has had hot dinners thinks we're as stupid as he is to think he can get away with saying he doesn't know what a party is when he's at one and needs someone to tell him he's at a party.

  • @BambiTrout

    @BambiTrout

    5 ай бұрын

    "Well of course it wasn't a party! We were only drinking Prosecco from the local Tesco! It's not a party until you've got at least 3 bottles of Bollinger and some vintage Chateauneuf-du-Pape!"

  • @Jamietheroadrunner

    @Jamietheroadrunner

    5 ай бұрын

    Boris is busy praying everyday that 2 million Palestinians flow into Europe so Brexit will seem prescient and he somehow becomes leader again.

  • @jordanbooth4470
    @jordanbooth44705 ай бұрын

    James quite literally keeps me sane in this current Tory Britain

  • @staciamj1
    @staciamj15 ай бұрын

    My God. RS is so dang dense and clueless that he asked a man at a homeless shelter, if he was in business or something like that and the man had to tell him "no bro I'm homeless". You cannot make this stuff up. We are all in the sunken place, lol.

  • @jonathanc2959

    @jonathanc2959

    24 күн бұрын

    Change a leader from one stupid corrupt idiot to another just incompetent, clueless and nasty and a permanently broken declining country.

  • @jonpritz8358
    @jonpritz83584 ай бұрын

    Thank you James O'brien for years of honesty & the "balls" to deliver it..Your an outstanding journalist & author of the time..

  • @tonybain3513
    @tonybain35135 ай бұрын

    I cannot believe all these people are allowed to be in power. Keep it going bro. Please. Respect M'r O'' Brian. All of the love in the world from Scotland bro.

  • @maneshipocrates2264

    @maneshipocrates2264

    2 ай бұрын

    James O'Brien. He is Mr O'Brien

  • @christophermccullough2280

    @christophermccullough2280

    2 ай бұрын

    @@maneshipocrates2264 James O'Brien or Mr O'Brien..... Still leaves one total twat.

  • @davidbeckett1565
    @davidbeckett15655 ай бұрын

    It's interesting that Rishi Sunak scrapped HS2 because it was taking too long and costing too much, when the same is true for the Rwanda scheme that they are pressing ahead with like they've never heard of the sunk cost fallacy

  • @cyberhermit1222

    @cyberhermit1222

    5 ай бұрын

    Not deporting economic migrants costs more in the long run.

  • @ThecovertCustomer

    @ThecovertCustomer

    5 ай бұрын

    And zero acknowledgment about the swathes of money wasted on HS2. Why couldn’t it be brought in on time and on budget?

  • @JamesOversteer

    @JamesOversteer

    5 ай бұрын

    I wonder what happens to all the land that was compulsory purchased for Hs2… hmm..

  • @JelloTR

    @JelloTR

    5 ай бұрын

    @@JamesOversteerthe land has already been sold as developable land, at a loss (which no one is talking about) so even if a future government wanted to proceed with the Manchester section of HS2 they won’t be able to without going through the CPO process again.

  • @tylerclayton6081

    @tylerclayton6081

    4 ай бұрын

    @@cyberhermit1222Migrants and their children add way more to the economy. Migrants usually have higher birth rates as well, so they’ll raise the overall birth rate of Britain which is an abysmal 1.45 births per woman. Way under what is needed to have a naturally growing population. So without migration, population would decline and the work force would shrink and Britains’s birth rates would sink even lower

  • @wolcek
    @wolcek3 ай бұрын

    After 14 years of Tory government, blaming anything on "inherited from...." is a truckload of BS.

  • @mrbearbear83
    @mrbearbear835 ай бұрын

    How has that line from Sunak about funding not destroyed him

  • @mirceapintelie361

    @mirceapintelie361

    Ай бұрын

    becaus there are MANY who think like him

  • @ronroberts8070
    @ronroberts80705 ай бұрын

    Of course if the public managed to organise massive demonstrations about the cost of living and the health service no doubt that would be classed as a " hate march " and of course they would be right !

  • @danielokeefe2072

    @danielokeefe2072

    5 ай бұрын

    Justifiably so...

  • @DarrenSmith-zz6fk

    @DarrenSmith-zz6fk

    5 ай бұрын

    People need to take action and become their own central bank and bet against the debt we have 1 percent of purchasing power left in the British pound fact get ready for a credit event that is going to make the LDI crisis look like a picnic James o'Brien has no idea what is really happening or does he wait until debt cards stop working and ATMs stop working which is going to happen guess what they'll have a solution cbdcs get any wealth outside the banking system banks are insolvent no deals no deposits and no loans

  • @matt_cummins28
    @matt_cummins285 ай бұрын

    Thanks very much for this analysis. I do like the way you manage to contain your outrage within a very sober and (despite its brevity) very fulsome account of the idiocies and frankly evils perpetrated by the Tories. I shall certainly now at least go and search out part one of this discussion. Thanks again, James, I do wish there were more people like yourself in our often miserable media sphere.

  • @countfosco8535

    @countfosco8535

    5 ай бұрын

    I always feel like drawing a Hitler moustache on her face when I see Liz Truss.

  • @josephshortt3171

    @josephshortt3171

    5 ай бұрын

    The Government and the opposition are two cheeks of the same backside. They're all socialist communist and globalist like James they don't believe in free speech, they don't believe in democracy, they don't listen to the people of this country but are all ears to anyone else. They're collectively destroying this country and it's culture. I suppose James being white is the problem

  • @lordsummerisle852

    @lordsummerisle852

    4 ай бұрын

    Sober? James O'Brien is a raging alcaholic just look at him

  • @alantaylor1201
    @alantaylor12015 ай бұрын

    Johnson and Truss together will go down in history as being the Wreckers of UK PLC.

  • @tommac5184
    @tommac51845 ай бұрын

    At this point he’s the only one publicly calling it out for what it is

  • @noneofyourbizness

    @noneofyourbizness

    5 ай бұрын

    With VERY few exceptions the UK's 'client' news media is truly pathetic in its blatantly partisan output, an enthusiastic backer of ALL that gives to the rich, no matter WHAT the cost to everyone and everything else on Earth.

  • @meantares
    @meantares4 ай бұрын

    It’s time to fly Priti Patel, Cruella Braverman, Rishi Sunak to Rwanda on a one-way ticket.

  • @davie7967
    @davie79675 ай бұрын

    Politicians have to remember they work for the people and it’s the people’s money and should be held accountable what they do with our money politicians are our servants Not our masters

  • @jgmediting7770

    @jgmediting7770

    5 ай бұрын

    They don’t work for the people. In any economic system based on an explorative foundation, politicians work for the minority that benefit from it. Under slavery it’s slave owners, under feudalism its land owners, under capitalism it’s capital owners. Any system that separates work from ownership will have a class system and minority rule. Only way politicians will ever work for the people is if the economic system doesn’t have concentrated ownership and decision making.

  • @noneofyourbizness

    @noneofyourbizness

    5 ай бұрын

    (the world's largest finance/investment ) corporations effectively run (at LEAST) the English speaking world now. Their power will only increase...until financial/economic collapse/ruin occurs. That's the only way their grip will be loosened. Thanks to tory and its infantile infatuation with 'private profit', at the exclusion of ALL else, no mater how much destruction/death the 'monied set' delivers to everyone/everything else on Earth.

  • @ZeroGHome24

    @ZeroGHome24

    4 ай бұрын

    They should be but aren't unfortunately. Instead they are our masters with their Wealthy buddies who can dictate to us who we can fall in love with (no foreigners), where we go where we live, take away any financial freedom we once had. Turn us into slaves is the end goal.

  • @mrdaveythebaby
    @mrdaveythebaby5 ай бұрын

    Remember that what Truss did to the country, interest rates, public finances and interest rates, was just to give a tax cut to the richest 1% of millionaires in the land. She trashed the country and most peoples finances to mek rich people slightly richer. That's it.

  • @fionazerbst5771
    @fionazerbst57714 ай бұрын

    So good. Thank you, James. Not from the UK, but have friends over there, and I am horrified by what has happened to the country. Keep fighting to get your country back from these entitled sociopaths.

  • @davidriley9717
    @davidriley97175 ай бұрын

    Johnson is, without doubt, a psychopath. He ticks the highest level on almost every box on Hare's psychopathy checklist.

  • @yuchoob

    @yuchoob

    4 ай бұрын

    Strictly speaking, he's probably a narcissist. See symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Psychopathy and narcissism are closely related, although BJ's behaviour ticks some specifically narcissistic traits, too. That said, some recent studies suggest that narcissism would be more accurately categorised as a type of psychopathy.

  • @georginikolov1141

    @georginikolov1141

    4 ай бұрын

    And we all know what narcissist with power does..only destruction

  • @DeniseWilliams-jr5xo

    @DeniseWilliams-jr5xo

    4 ай бұрын

    Yes I've gone through the checklist and compared it to Johnson. There is no doubt he is a psychopath.

  • @babybluesky9238
    @babybluesky92385 ай бұрын

    I really don't know how the wheels came so far off but the emotional recovery from this lot is going to take a long time. People don't really think of trauma as a collective thing, but at the very least the last 3 years have been incredibly so, for all types of voter - Even when Brexit was going across the line people were debating and talking, these days you get none of that.

  • @stephenobrien5909

    @stephenobrien5909

    5 ай бұрын

    Britain was broken by blair and his middle class bunch of tossers who gave us a massive NHS management structure, a unjust illegal war, totally stupid HR BS that hindered growth and innovation, and maybe his worst folly, the opening of the borders to the failed multi cultural experiment that even his advisor on it said it was a massive mistake. The tories just did the same because to do a U turn would cause twats like O'Brien to throw their rattles out of the push chair.

  • @bluesunquake

    @bluesunquake

    5 ай бұрын

    Trauma can definitely be a collective thing!

  • @ashroskell

    @ashroskell

    5 ай бұрын

    Can I share my story with you? I put it in the main comments, but it feels important to reach out to someone who seems like a, “normal, reasonable,” human being, who might just get it? I feel the need for, “contact,” so to speak. So, please be patient, as I’ll make it as brief as possible: My trauma began when Covid was relatively new and still not properly understood, with completely clear guidance. In the midst of this, my dad who presented as otherwise a strong and fit 80 something, had a cluster of health issues, the most relevant to this story of which was a series of mini-strokes he’d suffered. He couldn’t make new memories, a bit like the hero in the Christopher Nolan film, Memento. He got Covid from the doctor who was treating him for a broken arm, from a fall. He got sick really fast, as so many did, and was soon surrounded by a battery of machines. The staffers who held up the phones and iPads, through which we communicated with him, were always too tired to hold it close enough or where we could see him for long enough to have a meaningful conversation. They were exhausted and rushed off their feet the whole time, making communication a nightmare. The painful bit: He repeatedly asked why his four kids were not with him and had to have it all newly explained to him, over and over, but it never took. He even asked for his wife, my mum, whom we’d buried years before. He died, isolated, confused by what seemed like a massive rejection to him, and alone; simply terrified and not understanding why he was alone. He died hard. I then had to get special permission to travel from Scotland to his funeral, at which there were no hugs, no meaningful physical reassurances, because of the rules. We all sat apart, etc. It was a long drive home. Exhausted and deeply sad, I made the mistake of putting on some news, to distract me from my own troubles and I literally said to my wife, “I need a reminder that others are in the same boat as us.” The first thing I saw was that female staffer, laughing about the drunken antics of Cabinet, while my family had just been through that . . . It is the first time in my life that I actually felt revolutionary rage, at a deep, visceral level. And it just kept getting worse from there. I saw how that collective trauma took root in our nation, because I knew that there were literally hundreds of thousands of grieving family members, friends and colleagues, all witnessing the government’s hypocrisy, callousness and then craven cowardice with their attempts at covering up, down playing and dismissing what they had done, again and again, as we learned. You’re right. The country needs a collective outcome: a collective consequence; collective justice for their collective betrayals. Not just one betrayal either. But repeated and systematic.

  • @lestrem11

    @lestrem11

    5 ай бұрын

    You are ill, seek help for your trauma.👍😂

  • @myce-liam

    @myce-liam

    5 ай бұрын

    I see James o Brien as a very moderate centrist. These days I think he'd be labelled as a part of the "looney left". The political system has become so polarised.

  • @davidlloyd1485
    @davidlloyd14855 ай бұрын

    You just have to see what happened to pension fund values for the short episode Truss was in to see how much they personally cost everyone. Speaking to one city finance professional, he couldn't believe how much was wiped off values and as he said this is not savings that recover, this is actually money lost, the bonds have gone.

  • @jonharris1654

    @jonharris1654

    5 ай бұрын

    Truss did not 'do' anything she did not have time - the big money did things to make it look like she what she was going to do was wrong - but just think about that for a minute or two and then realise who is really in power.

  • @gazza595

    @gazza595

    5 ай бұрын

    @@jonharris1654 How grossly ignorant can a person be? Like most countries the UK depends upon literally hundreds of billions in market financing. If the people who provide that finance don't have confidence that the government is fiscally responsible they put the rates up due to perceived risks. If you cannot see that the financial institutions had no confidence in a right wing government mainly of their own people you didn't really understand the problems we have.

  • @DarrenSmith-zz6fk

    @DarrenSmith-zz6fk

    5 ай бұрын

    If you had watched the debt market which was melting down you would have seen what was going to happen wait for what is going to happen again meltdown in the debt market cash is going to move from the risk of assets stock markets and property and the bond market cash is going to move into risk off assets James o'Brien is not going to tell you the truth maybe he doesn't know what is really going to happen plz educate yourself about the financial system globally and how it works follow the herd and you will get hurt become your own central bank bet against the debt and you will be ok very simple

  • @johnturner6656

    @johnturner6656

    4 ай бұрын

    And the 2 or more % points added to borrowing as the market applied a moron premium to lending, stinging every mortgage holding home owner and every renter whose rent is not fixed.

  • @deadforever
    @deadforever5 ай бұрын

    Thank christ for James Obrien

  • @symbiat0
    @symbiat05 ай бұрын

    Im an ex-pat living and working in New York. I’ve watched from afar at what has happened in the UK over the past decade and it just blows my mind how low the country has come. We have the same performative nonsense and utter incompetence on the conservative side in the US too. Conservative parties on both sides of the Atlantic are run by crappy stupid people who seem have lost their grip on reality. My Dad and younger brother still live in the UK and I told them on a recent call that unless things start turning around, the UK is basically finished, relegated to just being a mediocre country on a small island outside Europe. Ironically I resisted applying for US citizenship thinking my British passport was more valuable and useful but have found myself rethinking the whole thing over the past year…

  • @batcollins3714

    @batcollins3714

    5 ай бұрын

    What's an "ex pat"? If you've emigrated to the US, then you're an immigrant unless you're still working for a UK company. Just confused as to what's the difference between an expat and an immigrant

  • @symbiat0

    @symbiat0

    5 ай бұрын

    @@batcollins3714 Anyone living outside of their native country is an ex-pat. Nothing to do with immigration status.

  • @noneofyourbizness

    @noneofyourbizness

    5 ай бұрын

    it's not incompetence, that's just how criminals appear to the rest of us when they attempt to disguise what they are actually doing.

  • @raingulfdrengot195

    @raingulfdrengot195

    5 ай бұрын

    @@batcollins3714 Ex pat is white, immigrant is arab

  • @wallacegrommet9343

    @wallacegrommet9343

    5 ай бұрын

    America and Britain are essentially the same. The same arrogance, prejudice, entitlement, and racism. America was founded by religious fanatics, slavery proponents, and worse.

  • @MrDirtybear
    @MrDirtybear5 ай бұрын

    I loved the phrase 'the essence of Brexit' to describe the personal appeal of Liz Truss as PM. It sound like the perfume a snake oil salesman would package, being infinitely careful to never let it anywhere on his person.

  • @Domzdream
    @Domzdream5 ай бұрын

    You’re a good man James 🤛

  • @EstelleCecil
    @EstelleCecil5 ай бұрын

    James the quicker you get back on the BBC's Newsnight program or Channel 4 news, the better for the whole of the UK and the world. We need good and proper direct questioning from great journalists regardless of their personal positioning. Too many of our great broadcast journalists are retiring or moving away from the main media. We've already lost guru's like: Jon Snow, Peter Snow, John Tusa, Jeremy Paxman, Kirstie Walk (due to retire), Emma Barnett (a rottweiler of an interviewer), Emily Maitlis. Channel executives reading this; give this man the platform the deserves in keeping the world leaders honest....Drop mic...Boom......

  • @eddygrunge4749
    @eddygrunge47495 ай бұрын

    This is going in the right direction, a lot more of this is required, as the myopic stupidity is not over.

  • @jimwitt21
    @jimwitt215 ай бұрын

    I have never voted for the tories and I voted remain. My conscience is clear. Imagine how bad you'd feel if you voted for this.

  • @Dynasty1818

    @Dynasty1818

    5 ай бұрын

    Imagine how you'll feel when you vote Labour and within 6 months of them winning you've realized how moronically stupid you were to believe their lies and the country gets worse.

  • @loolfactorie

    @loolfactorie

    5 ай бұрын

    Who have you voted for, and when?

  • @commiebastard3633

    @commiebastard3633

    5 ай бұрын

    I don't imagine tabloid readers feeling bad about anything. Either too thick, or too heartless.

  • @Taffy064

    @Taffy064

    18 күн бұрын

    You are making the assumption that they are capable of critical thinking my friend.

  • @Hattonbank

    @Hattonbank

    15 күн бұрын

    Most of them don't feel bad about it as they still do not know what they voted for, just ask them.

  • @user-mb9dw8hg9o
    @user-mb9dw8hg9o5 ай бұрын

    Someone explain to me how on earth a theft David Cameron became Lord. ? What has happened to £10 million pound that Greensill gave to David Cameron night before announcing bankruptcy ?? I can't move £30 with bankruptcy asking me question but how come he can move £10 million pound over night ? Fuck this rules

  • @MrAnyoneman
    @MrAnyoneman5 ай бұрын

    Keep up your great work, we need someone like you to tell us the truth

  • @bishton

    @bishton

    5 ай бұрын

    Who did he vote for in 2019?

  • @tobywalden7381

    @tobywalden7381

    5 ай бұрын

    @@bishtonLabour

  • @mickadatwist1620
    @mickadatwist16205 ай бұрын

    Johnson never attended those parties during lokkdown. It was his twin brother Ricky.

  • @curiousuranus810
    @curiousuranus8105 ай бұрын

    Remembering all this... I've screamed my voice hoarse!

  • @57rosebud
    @57rosebud5 ай бұрын

    Such a mess. I wonder will it ever be fixed. Can labour do it? Or is it too late? Im so worried about my children and grandchildrens future.

  • @colincampbell4261

    @colincampbell4261

    5 ай бұрын

    It is just part of the overall economic decline of european nations, although Poland is doing well.

  • @stephenparslow7964

    @stephenparslow7964

    5 ай бұрын

    Labour will do it, don’t worry about that. 20mph everywhere, open borders, huge national debt, loads of young men and woman not knowing what sex they are. It will become illegal to call a man dressing up as a woman a man, migrants will go top of housing lists, shall I continue. We need Trump over here to sort this mess out. Make England Great Again.

  • @carolspencer6915
    @carolspencer69155 ай бұрын

    Yip Yip and YIP. Same thoughts feelings I hold currently and for a while now regards NHS RCN and my local government. Super grateful for you, James. Sensemaking at its best. 💜

  • @annamariadangelo7296
    @annamariadangelo72965 ай бұрын

    Great video. Always look forward to what you have to say. Thank you 🙏🏻 Greetings from Essex

  • @Traceva
    @Traceva5 ай бұрын

    It is a Game to them And on the way they are making themselves VERY VERY RICH

  • @andrewsteele9165
    @andrewsteele91655 ай бұрын

    Keep telling everyone to move on.. some do. But not us. It's insane to see how quickly everyone let all this pass while myself has some form of ptsd from the whole thing. Call it stupid but I can't let it go and won't

  • @noneofyourbizness

    @noneofyourbizness

    5 ай бұрын

    they were directed to 'move on' (AKA: forget) by the UK's pathetic client news media...owned/controlled by the only folks that tory serves, as its the only group of people that tory views as 'worthy'... the wealthiest folks on Earth.

  • @dixieflatline1189
    @dixieflatline11895 ай бұрын

    With collapse of the 4th Estate into "paid for" advertising & propaganda - we need people like James more than ever.

  • @kerryfry1857
    @kerryfry18575 ай бұрын

    As the wealth gap widens, the political system gets more insane. It needs too, to keep the population from revolt.

  • @EEX97623

    @EEX97623

    5 ай бұрын

    True revolt in the UK is highly unlikely, no matter how bad it gets. If the years of record poverty, Brexit lies and Covid scandals didn’t light the fuse then what will?

  • @liamodriscoll429
    @liamodriscoll4295 ай бұрын

    Absolutely spot on James as usual when it comes to the Tories, keep up the good work fella, great radio show as well.

  • @knox1664
    @knox16645 ай бұрын

    Well done James from Ireland ❤

  • @tommonk7651
    @tommonk76515 ай бұрын

    The failure of the government to call for an election is mindboggling....

  • @petefl1818

    @petefl1818

    5 ай бұрын

    Turkeys don't vote for Christmas, especially Tory ones.

  • @robclarke3923

    @robclarke3923

    5 ай бұрын

    They won't release their kung fu grip on power from the carcass of Britain they've left us with today

  • @mnky75

    @mnky75

    5 ай бұрын

    Believe me.... it's not a failure.

  • @Paul-eb4jp

    @Paul-eb4jp

    5 ай бұрын

    @@mnky75 They're clinging on as long as they can, there are still areas they can influence to ensure their backers continue to prosper at our expense.

  • @petefl1818

    @petefl1818

    5 ай бұрын

    @@mnky75"Believe me.... it's not a failure" ha, ha, ha, ha, how pathetic but thanks for the laugh.

  • @instancesofawol7968
    @instancesofawol79685 ай бұрын

    I love this. The sarcasm, humour and controlled outrage in how you deliver this is just amazing. - it made me laugh a few times. - you hit the nail on the head perfectly there.

  • @shonagiffen4913
    @shonagiffen49135 ай бұрын

    Spot on James thank you 👍

  • @daveh3193
    @daveh31935 ай бұрын

    Omg James Excellent!!!!

  • @stoat2
    @stoat25 ай бұрын

    "Mr. Speaker, I am a swallower and not a spitter! And I commend this statement to the house!" - Boris Johnson

  • @jaywalker3087
    @jaywalker30875 ай бұрын

    No more NEWSPEAK.. We have been in a DEPRESSION since 2008 ... Financial Crisis, Austerity!! It's a full blown DEPRESSION!!!!!

  • @jonpritz8358
    @jonpritz83585 ай бұрын

    Brilliant deliberation from a very upfront bloke..Please keep shining your honest light...

  • @stevphenrose7820
    @stevphenrose78205 ай бұрын

    Well done James, hold the powerful to account. Remember all rules were broken!

  • @nickclinton7661
    @nickclinton76615 ай бұрын

    Fully agree sir, well said

  • @liamponsonby1862
    @liamponsonby18625 ай бұрын

    I am convinced that without James O'Brian the government would have got away with there behavior's during covid. The press seemed very happy to let it slide.

  • @lukespencer-harrop3378

    @lukespencer-harrop3378

    5 ай бұрын

    Leading up to and during COVID; nobody worked harder to keep the Tories in power

  • @zxbzxbzxb1

    @zxbzxbzxb1

    5 ай бұрын

    Piers Morgan did a lot to hold the government to account too, though it pains me to admit it. Even so, they have got away with most of it

  • @colinstephenson5386

    @colinstephenson5386

    5 ай бұрын

    Hey up Luke leading and during covid. ? Why have you picked those two ? Did Mr O’Brien behave differently at other times ? As you’re accusing him of helping the Tories , I’m curious as to what’s made you think this way ? Remember the song. ‘ don’t leave me this way “ please rid me of this bit of ignorance x

  • @StratsRUs

    @StratsRUs

    5 ай бұрын

    He voted Johnson for Mayor and gladly hosted a reactionary TV show. Privately Schooled, he knows where the money is. Books to sell. The book is old news now. Suella's sacking interrupted his flow.

  • @Soliy87

    @Soliy87

    5 ай бұрын

    Lol deluded

  • @SteveEvansFilms
    @SteveEvansFilms5 ай бұрын

    The same level of incompetence was displayed during the Brexit negotiations...It's embarrassing. The school for future Tory MP's needs shutting down!

  • @nigelhardy7218
    @nigelhardy721823 күн бұрын

    The anger in Suank's voice when telling Beth Rigby the country didn't want a GE was telling. He knew it wasn't true. He also knew his bunch of crooks are heading for defeat. Furthermore, that anger displayed an arrogance of their right to rule; how dare the voters have their democratic say.

  • @lawrencium2626
    @lawrencium26265 ай бұрын

    Anyone who loves his analysis here should go and watch again his analysis in 2016, 17, 18, and 19; some most excellent years of analysis back there, and even better - you get to view each and every moment of it with the crystal clarity of hindsight.

  • @peekingmanofficial
    @peekingmanofficial4 ай бұрын

    Very insightful book by James. The attention to detail is exceptional. Really good read. Look forward to the next.

  • @user-bz5ni8li2l
    @user-bz5ni8li2l4 ай бұрын

    If Britain have brave men like you we be in a better place

  • @johnconstable2464
    @johnconstable24644 ай бұрын

    One of the biggest things I picked up, as James did was the party before country mentality

  • @nakhan4132
    @nakhan41325 ай бұрын

    Like your thoughts and program James even though sometimes i may disagree with you. Thank you balanced and genuine journalism

  • @robbailie5878

    @robbailie5878

    5 ай бұрын

    His about as balanced as a three legged racehorse. His as salty as you can get about Brexit. Hates Conservatives, wants wide open borders and likes bullying callers into a show because all of a sudden his a font of bloody knowledge about everything.

  • @darrenwilson8042

    @darrenwilson8042

    5 ай бұрын

    @@robbailie5878 Hope you and none of your friends and family are on any kind of benefits mate coz YOUR Govt have signalled today they are coming to get you

  • @Julesybabes70

    @Julesybabes70

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@robbailie5878I think that you are wrong in your assessment. James does tend to know more about the political situation and the events that led to it than his callers. His job does revolve around it, after all. Still, it is surprising, and kind of enjoyable, to listen to woefully unprepared callers, who are unable to explain the rationale for the decisions they took and the opinions they have. If you don't like dark people, or those 'not from around here' just say so. If you believe, without any supporting evidence, that severing economic ties with one of, if not, the largest economic blocs in the world, and that being outside of it gives us greater access and influence than being in it, say so. Just don't expect anyone to believe that these decisions and opinions are based on logic and are aimed at improving the society in which we live. Still, you do you. Love to the family. Love to the family.

  • @Toupret

    @Toupret

    5 ай бұрын

    Guess who didn't like idiots corner.

  • @ChrisBrown-dj1mi

    @ChrisBrown-dj1mi

    5 ай бұрын

    @@robbailie5878balance is subjective…if you’re a xenophobe then I imagine you’d struggle to the balance he has

  • @bungee7503
    @bungee75035 ай бұрын

    This is why I’m glad to be a Kiwi and to have been in NZ during Covid.

  • @Julesybabes70

    @Julesybabes70

    5 ай бұрын

    Definitely picked the right country to be in. Well done! Excellent choice! 😂

  • @colinbaker3916

    @colinbaker3916

    5 ай бұрын

    Except the best world leader of all was forced out.

  • @CJ98762
    @CJ987625 ай бұрын

    What a recap to despair about.

  • @upthedubs1000
    @upthedubs10005 ай бұрын

    Well said James.

  • @philiphalpenny9761
    @philiphalpenny97615 ай бұрын

    A forensic indictment. The prosecution rests!!

  • @rrbh
    @rrbh5 ай бұрын

    Starmer is on the wrong bench - he would fit in comfortably as one of these Tories .

  • @Alex-cw3rz
    @Alex-cw3rz5 ай бұрын

    Thank you for this

  • @charliestewart885
    @charliestewart8855 ай бұрын

    has he admitted he was wrong during the 2019 GE, and apologised to jeremy corbyn & his supporters then? of course not

  • @Downarshed
    @Downarshed5 ай бұрын

    Sunak is desperate and angry all the time...I wonder how much pressure he is under to deliver his India deal. The only reason he is there is to enrich himself and family.

  • @JJONNYREPP

    @JJONNYREPP

    5 ай бұрын

    How Johnson, Truss and Sunak Broke Britain | James O'Brien Vs The Government Part 2 0845am 17.11.23 considering the culture of splice and dubious editing.... you could ask what does boris johnson need be contrite about? is he actually aware of what the fuck was going on? i think not... as for your covid larks. i wasnt even aware that there was any issue or that a large heap of b.s had been set into place other than my being asked to don a mask if i wanted to travel on a bus... that's how out of touch i am or in touch or alienated or isolated - depending on your purview...

  • @sevecc939

    @sevecc939

    5 ай бұрын

    It's very obvious and a disaster for the UK.

  • @colinstephenson5386

    @colinstephenson5386

    5 ай бұрын

    Hello matey methinks you’re on to something here. Even before Cameron’s appointment had been announced he’d had a meeting with his Indian counterpart or maybe it was someone else from the Indian government , Sunak’s daddy in law has mucho business in India , plus now that the EU is out of the game ( Tories think so ? ) the greedy are able to exploit the poor kicked upon in India , expect an influx of the cheapest workforce Britain’s ever had , enjoy your time spent at the end of the Garden ,

  • @JJONNYREPP

    @JJONNYREPP

    5 ай бұрын

    @@colinstephenson5386Comments on ‘How Johnson, Truss and Sunak Broke Britain | James O'Brien Vs The Government Part 2’ 17.11.23 1535pm ???????? sounds like yer spouting post war 1950's Britain scare stories.. which may have turned out to be quite prescient in their baring...

  • @public.public

    @public.public

    5 ай бұрын

    Sunak bought his job to profit from insider information and influencing the markets.

  • @steeple001
    @steeple0015 ай бұрын

    Yet the queen sat alone at her husband’s funeral!!

  • @eriktopolsky8531
    @eriktopolsky85315 ай бұрын

    UK is SLIDING to some kind of post APOCALYPTIC stage of state, thank God Brits quickly forget how prosperous was UK just 20 years ago.. in a way that is mearciful gift, because they would get constantly depressed if they would be constantly reminded how deeply UK have fallen and this process is not over by far

  • @avrilevans1737
    @avrilevans17374 ай бұрын

    James you're our truth warrior Thank goodness for people like you who understand the importance of The Truth I thank you from the bottom of my heart

  • @SteveEvansFilms
    @SteveEvansFilms5 ай бұрын

    It would be funny if it was happening elsewhere but sadly it's our Country that has this circus😒

  • @deebarnard5439
    @deebarnard54395 ай бұрын

    Sunak is hanging on in tlhere until his Indian deal has gone through. His family will be rake in even more than they already have. Afterwards he'll fly off to his 10 million dollar home in California. With the addition of Priminester title. Mission accomplished.

  • @stephenlees9386
    @stephenlees93863 ай бұрын

    Reading this book at the moment. Absolutely brilliant!

  • @Whamystrang
    @Whamystrang3 ай бұрын

    Thank you James.

  • @stephenfegan6827
    @stephenfegan68275 ай бұрын

    Great James they got away with it

  • @kinlaird
    @kinlaird4 ай бұрын

    James O’Brien in great voice I listen to all his shows . I just hope the media gods don’t get to his or LBCs voice we need voices in the media who reflect the views of average people.

  • @coppershark1973
    @coppershark19733 ай бұрын

    Thanks James. Keep exposing these bastards. I hope people will wake up and demand more respect.

  • @michaelstanley3961
    @michaelstanley39615 ай бұрын

    Nice one James

  • @atomiswave1971
    @atomiswave19715 ай бұрын

    The UK has aircraft carriers protecting people struggling to buy food, energy and shelter. The 3 things the government absolutely needs to get right and has absolutely got wrong.

  • @George-hs2zm
    @George-hs2zm5 ай бұрын

    James you're a legend mate.

  • @sjbolton3291
    @sjbolton32915 ай бұрын

    As always ‘well said James’ 👍👍

  • @safa4786
    @safa47863 ай бұрын

    James.....one of the few objective journalists out there. Pilger broke the mold.

  • @antonpellini
    @antonpellini5 ай бұрын

    Excellent analytical review of a major travesty of leadership of our country at a time of greatest need .

  • @JustinTimeEnglishClip
    @JustinTimeEnglishClip5 ай бұрын

    Keep up the good fight, James!

  • @no9nufc956
    @no9nufc9565 ай бұрын

    Bang on again James

  • @paunixon
    @paunixon4 ай бұрын

    Expat living in Canada. Go back to the uk 4 or 5 times a year. In some ways, I see change every time I go - and it's not good. The conservatives are flaming wreck, more concerned about retaining power than good governance. My parents now taking private healthcare that they can't afford (20K quid for a new knee) as she'd have to wait 2 years immobile and likely losing her health under the NHS. Leaving the EU was a massive mistake, done so the Establishment/Tories can feather their nests, at the expense of others without restrictions. It's very much a 2 tier society, and that suits the Rishi and his establishment kronies. Starmer has stepped up of late, and hopefully, their will be a party change and some long term change.

  • @gary5737
    @gary57375 ай бұрын

    Spot on James. The world of investment in national competence is long gone. The price we paid, as a result, is national psychosis. Total insanity..

  • @GermanGreetings
    @GermanGreetings5 ай бұрын

    Dear Mr. O`Brien, I followed you through the whole Brexit-Time... My deep respect, Sir: You fought like a Lion. My goddaughter his half british... Therefore thank you in the deeper sense, that I felt responsible, to stay up to date.

  • @MrBanzoid
    @MrBanzoid5 ай бұрын

    "The contrast between observable reality and political rhetoric " So true.

  • @Sbudre
    @Sbudre5 ай бұрын

    He said; "The sort of crack cocaine of Brexit bollocks..." and now I'm buying his book.

  • @user-ez8bx6ly8v
    @user-ez8bx6ly8v5 ай бұрын

    Excellent analysis James you smashed right out of the park. Watching Sunak, and the Tory Party, reminds of Monty Python's Life of Brian, He's not the Messiah, he's just a naughty boy 😅

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