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1:24:28 well just off the top of my head perhaps he has had bad experiences with a star girls in the past or at least one and is over generalizing and 2 i imagine when you are 71 every one under the age of 50 seems "young" to you lol maybe he thinks there too enthusiastic .. or perhaps his heart sinks because he knows that all that joy is going to perish in the hellish reality of life in death that is the operating room
1:22:27 and particularly in places like the nhs if the wheels stop ..people die its not that a product doesn't get moved or a thing is delayed …people will die and well to quote the man .. the patient comes first …. tho i feel uncomfortable linking the too so clumsily but i think there is a grain in there
Theresa May is one of the 3 best Prime Ministers of all time, the other two being Churchill and Thatcher. She is a brilliant leader, a tirelessly devoted MP and a stunningly beautiful and stylish woman. She is the 'Great' in 'Great Britain'. A woman of whom we can all be proud. She is awesome! I love Theresa May!
The politician's that sacrificed their career for going against what the people voted for you mean
She, along with David Cameron, destroyed british policing, so will always be loathsome individual in my book.
I don’t like this guys attitude. I’ve tried many times.
Darren did not seem angry enough considering the treatment of his daughter 😳
0:24: 🥚 Politicians are more complicated than our tribal loyalties allow.
11:04: 🗣 The speaker criticizes Theresa May's attempt to portray herself as a victim and highlights the injustice faced by Caribbean immigrants in proving their residency in the UK in 1974.
21:35: 🔍 The video discusses the controversial decision of Boris Johnson appointing Boris Johnson as the Foreign Secretary and the questions surrounding his actions and relationships.
32:38: 🗣 The speaker discusses the importance of having someone who is both a friend and a manager in their life.
54:22: 📚 The speaker discusses a person who is bitter about their exam results but still managed to get into medical school.
1:05:36: 😔 The speaker describes a culture of bullying, abuse, and lack of reporting within the NHS, with personal experiences of being bullied and sexually assaulted.
1:16:19: 💡 A retired consultant anesthetist discusses the changing culture in the medical field and the complexity of the issue.
1:27:04: 😔 The speaker discusses the importance of whistleblowing and shares a personal experience of harassment in the workplace.
1:37:35: 📚 The speaker is praised for their invention of the sandwich toaster and recommended to read Robert Thorogood's books.
1:48:24: 💬 The video discusses assassinations of British politicians and their political motivations.
2:10:19: ! Waving a fan does not produce extra heat and the evaporative cooling effect outweighs any heat generated.
Recap by Tammy AI
Enjoying access to the full broadcasts but could the title (or at least the description) reflect all the issues discussed? Thanks.
Did anyone comment on the assassin hashish eater (hasashin) cult brainwashed into killing and thinking they return to their walled garden life in paradise if caughtvand killed?
Windrush – the hostile environment and weak leadership? If that's all she gets then it's kind.
No.
Q1,. James, I am 61 and the reason it can happen is because that is the reality., then and today.
The bigger question James is that you don't get it……
The issue with regards to history, is noone is viewed in isolation. Juat as George Bush Jr was seen as a terrible US President, he now seems better due to the existence of Donald Trumps presidency. May will been in the same vein. Compaired to Johnson and Truss, May seems a far better person than she was at the time (and Cameron seems almost statesmanly).
On Brexit and May:
1. Labour came out within weeks of the referendum result and said explicitly they would not cooperate on a deal, meaning the only votes the government could rely on would have to come from the Tories (who were split into multiple mad sects that wanted mutually exclusive things). That put her in an almost impossible position where, if she wanted to get anything close to a compromise, she first had to hoodwink her own party into letting her stick around and let fools like David Davis drive their own fantasies into brick walls before the conversation could progress. In essence, she could never actually say what she thought because doing so would have seen her sacked and replaced by a hard-line nutcase like, well, like Boris Johnson.
2. May's withdrawal agreement included an all-UK-EU customs union that could last, potentially, indefinitely, and a commitment not to roll back certain rules such as on various rights and environmental protections (and taxation , competition law and so on). That would have protected the UK from the worst of the economic damage (exporters had been screaming that the UK needed to prioritise a customs union because leaving it would have a more serious impact on supply chains than leaving the single market). It was much, MUCH more favourable to the UK than Boris Johnson's permanent trade deal and had the advantage that, in time, when tempers had cooled and sanity had been restored in Parliament and in the country, it would have allowed the UK to get closer to the EU. In effect, the withdrawal agreement she negotiated gave the UK a safety net and the ability to stay in a holding pattern for however long it required. It also avoided a border in the Irish Sea (insanely, the DUP voted against it!).
3. Without Labour support, single market was never going to be able to get past the Tories in Parliament and in any case looked really problematic as an interpretation of the vote. You could not tell leave voters with a straight face that they were "taking back control" while telling them simultaneously that the UK was keeping the substantial majority of the rules, just losing any say in what they were (!). Once things had calmed down, perhaps you could start having that discussion, but as the first step after the referendum result, it was an utter non-starter.
I think people really underestimate what she tried to deliver on Brexit, in almost impossible circumstances. She DID offer the most sensible compromise available. But everyone was too polarised and, frankly, utterly ignorant of what was and was not on offer from the EU: Jeremy Corbyn's own Brexit policy was to pursue a type of customs union that does not actually exist(!!) and, to this day, in both the British media and in Parliament, many journalists and MPs STILL very obviously do not know what a customs union is and yet continue to prattle on about them, saying things that make absolutely no sense as a result.
Parliament also seemed possessed of the delusion that they were sovereign over the 27 sovereign member state governments of the EU and so could reject whatever came down the pipe until the EU gave the British whatever they liked.
I also do think it fair to say that Bercow's actions in preventing the agreement going back to the house, no matter whether they came about because of his personal politics or through his sheer stupidity, were very, very, very harmful to the UK's prospects. Again, the British Parliament does not get to tell the 27 governments of the EU what to do. MPs needed to understand what they were voting for. They didn't, and that is inexcusable, given that they were being provided with incredibly detailed briefing notes from Commons researchers. But to pull a deal off the table because MPs were so clueless they didn't understand what they were saying no to the first time round, and to stop them being able to consider it again was utter madness. Did Bercow think the member states would say "gosh, terribly sorry, sir, we'll run up another draft"?
We, as a country, took what was very obviously the best deal that was politically achievable and looked the gift horse in the mouth. Well, that turned out well, didn't it…?
No sorry she deserves everything she gets . No she is a horrible person
Hope Pandoras box is closed and nailed shut
Theresa may paved the way to the most vilifying environment for any foreigner living in the country .
She was dancing with wolves and now she wants us to feel sorry for her because the very wolves she was dancing with chewed her and spat her out like a bad bad meal
Happy fishes come to mind,
Where can i get one of those sportts direct cups on steroids with lbc on?
In the Country's "hour of need" we expected parliament to do what is best for the country, David Cameron should have put a stop to Brexit but he resigned and past the buck to Theresa May and again she could have put a stop to Brexit but instead she passed artical 50 through parliament without a vote on Brexit and so are we now facing a "hard Brexit" the last straw to break the camels back?
You can feel right now that British politics is utterly, completely broken and so is its client media. It is even offensive to me to ask this question about rehabilitating Theresa May! She set out the 'red lines' with hubris to the harshest withdrawal agreement. She was a malicious, vile Home Secretary and set the tone for ALL the rest.
It is notable just how broken the UK is right now, which makes it all the more dangerous for the rest of us.
Its not crazy that Johnson resigned over May's deal and then supported the same thing. He did it to become prime minister.
Whats mad is that his party and the press let him get away with it.
My memory is seeing David Davis going for a Brexit Meeting with European negotiators, the first I believe, with no paperwork in hand!
Jimmy is the first person getting the rope once the revolution comes
Condescending, wise, cold, victim, hard working, weird, cool-ish, POLITICIAN.
Thacher grew the middle class , home ownership grew under her not declined . American socalist idiot blame regan . Public housing not owing a home we want more home ownership that happens with less taxes
You can't be in the Conservative Party, unless you hated immigrants!
On a plus , if wed relied on Europe in 1939 we'd have lots within days , sadly remainers haven't figured out that Europe is economically dying , as for the British and joining the club , has being in the club been beneficial considering the whole place is collapsing around us ,
Johnson was too lazy to make many changes to the deal as it was when he took over.
Thank you for posting the whole shows! The app doesn’t show the live video and often crashes so this is brilliant. Thank you lbc
The problem with the May retrospective is we're looking at it now knowing that the Brexit project has been a catastrophic (and widely predicted) failure, whereas in her time as PM the whole lot of them were still pushing the starry-eyed, sunlit uplands delusion.
By comparing her to who came after i'm fairly certain it will
“We’ve got our first entry into idiot’s corner”. 😂😂 Gotta love James.
I'd much prefer dorky May as opposed to: Bigoted Mop, I've been here for 6 weeks and I added 10billion to our debt or multi millionaire cheaping out paying striking workers.