Antagonistic caller who hates Mick Lynch rings James O'Brien | LBC 

Matt is one of the many working class who work against their own interests. The right wing media has taught him well. Do as we say not as we do. It’s horrendous how much influence the media have especially over uneducated citizens

This guy has never had a single thought of his own. Just read the daily mail and decided thats his opinion for any matter

Matt's one of those people who uses the term "champagne socialist" as an insult without realising that he's a "pint of bitter tory"

Nothing sadder or more puzzling than a working class tory.

Matt hates Lynch but would quite happily have a pint with Johnson. Don't be as gullable as Matt.

That caller is exactly the kind of person that the Tories love. Unwilling to think critically and just blindly follow the nearest avenue of hate

The workers have waited 13 years for jam tomorrow , and the recent inflation was the final straw. All they are asking for is the return of the buying power they had in 2010. It was taken away to fuel tax cuts for the rich. Tax cuts which never created growth and never will. The Tories make ordinary people poorer to make the rich richer.

These working class forelock tuggers, who have sat quietly while Tories have decimated healthcare, public transport and schools etc are now outraged , as TalkTV instructed them to be, about working people finally standing up and saying they have had enough.

This man defines 'hard of thinking', which is why he absorbs the Daily Mail nonsense

Just because someone maybe on £100k plus doesn’t mean they can’t have empathy or want others to earn a decent pay packet. I find it incredulous that it’s working class people are the ones criticising those that seek better pay and conditions.

‘Working class Tories’ the literal turkeys that look forward to Christmas because the Daily Mail told them to. 🤦‍♂️

I agree - this man is a Daily Mail reader - it is obvious!!!

Dude sounds like he drinks pints of gravy.

How does someone who claims to earn less than 20k a year complain about striking workers?

This Matt character sounds like one of the zillions of Brits not handicapped by any knowledge or ethics, voting Tory against their own best interests.

The other day I said something about unions and my mum said my great grandfather would have been proud of me. Listening to this idiot I'm suddenly proud of my great grandfather for raising our family to respect the role of unions. Of course they aren't perfect but we're all better off when unions support their members. Not all of my family have been in unions but we still understand more people in jobs that don't provide a living wage doesn't help anyone except the most wealthy.

Always makes me laugh when people complain that workers have chosen to strike on days that aren’t convenient! 😂

Right wing media such as the the Daily mail and The Sun absolutley love people like this caller.

Poor old mat , happy to keep his own class firmly in there place

Why, oh why, do these numpties bother calling James?

Poor little Matt he came second in a IQ test to a flip-flop 😂😂😂😊

"I didn't know we were talking about Boris Johnson." says the man who started the conversation saying he doesn't trust people on above average wages...Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the working class Tory...

Ive been on an NHS waiting list for a stoma reversal for a year now and my mums currently a patient in a complex care demetia ward and I fully support the Nurses and Doctors taking strike action.

The caller has a serious issue with reality.

When you're so thick that you're working class and arguing aginst union action then the Tories have you utterly duped.

I'm a "Northerner " and a football fan too .I stand in solidarity with all workers .

Defending the right to withdraw your labour does Matt not hold with British values ?

Just think, people like Matt are allowed the vote.

Ten bob tories, sad really , they hate the very people who stand up for them !

The Dunning kruger effect is strong in this one

Mugs ringing up James never cease to amuse 😂

It’s always sad when someone has really strong opinions but can’t explain why

This guy voted to Brexit 100% 😂

Self awareness is not strong in this one.

O, what a fool the caller is. Id love to just watch him go about his day. Just to see how he functions

These people come on his show thinking they're smart. Which makes me worry.

The kids these days have a term called “smooth brain”, which I think is relevant to this conversation.

The argument that some peoples hobby's, football, horse racing, are more important than people being under paid and their living standards dropping for years, is the epitome of selfishness. "I dont care if you cant afford your rent or food for your kids, you are interrupting me enjoying an hour and a half of sport...!"

I'd love to know what that guy does for a living. No doubt he enjoys some of the perks that the unions won. Weekends? Holidays? A safe work place?

Matt is toxic, he’s trying to stay calm but he is fuming really! Matt runs out of things to say so his last answer is that he doesn’t go to London because of people like James O’B. haha 😂

Matt smacks of someone who has never had a cogent or original thought in his life and his deeply uneducated take is falling apart under the first glimmer of scrutiny. It’s depressing to say the least.

It always makes me smile how quick James is to call out these people bs Which they probably get from gb news

You can actually hear this callers brain grinding away.

There's Matt talking about spitefulness and concluding his interview with "I don't go to London cozza people like you."

What a grade a certifiable maroon

Ah some of that famous Northern friendliness there

What a thick man Matt is.

Poor Matt thinks he is knowledgeable but doesn't realise he isn't.

"I don't go to London because of people like you", funny that, I don't go to Manchester because of people like him.

Respect to James thank you 🙏 people like you gives me hope

People like this caller may not be able to walk and chew gum at the same time, but they can read a Daily Heil headline, and are allowed to vote.

Absolute respect to James.

I never get this “they shouldn’t strike on this or that day” argument. The question nobody ever asks is “which days would you like them to strike?”

Through spite and bitterness he'd rather drag everyone down to the bottom. Ive given up on any hope of positive change in this country. With Matts viewpoint being more representative than i like to admit, frankly I'm not sure we deserve it.

Schools should make it part of their curriculum to include education re politics pre and post 1832 reform act , then think again about supporting Tories against organised workers .

You avoid the capital of the country you live in because some people you don't like live in it. How small can you get.

He’s quite happy to watch multi millionaires kicking a bag of air around a field

Striking needs to be effective. Otherwise there's no point to doing it.

"You can't watch the operation on the telly." 🤣

Sums up over 13 years of the toff Tories, the rich will be having a extra lol at that caller.

What a 🔔 end.

The crazy thing is, all the caller has to say is 'i was being a bit hyperbolic saying 'most', obviously health is more important than football' and then the conversation can continue. However, theyre onviously too narcisitic to even admit that level of fault (something no one would even blame them for) and then it goes nowhere, pathetic.

Incredible how people like this caller have been completely brainwashed and conditioned to blindly hate the wrong people.

Had to laugh when James asked Matt for his thoughts. Really...? From that echo chamber in his head!!!!!

Is this for real?

Some of your callers are amazing. It’s like trying to herd cats. 😂😂

Matt is one of those people who think the ambulance is a taxi service

Dear or dear - he needs to give his head a huge wobble

Love James laughter at the end, Matts head was exploding 😂

I read every UK front page on a news app. Amazing how many times you can link talking points back to Mail / Express

Well the species benefited from his contribution lol

Can you imagine this muppet's reaction if Londoners talked about people from the north in the same way he talks about Londoners? He'd be hyperventilating for weeks! What is it with regional people getting a free pass to disparage those in big cities?

The problem with democracy

Sometimes admitting you were wrong isn't the worst thing in the world

As a socialist, I'm always accused of "hating rich people" - I don't, what I hate are massive unjustified disparities in wealth and power. I find it very odd when people on the right then turn around and point to the personal wealth of certain individuals on the left, and act as if that is somehow an argument against their position. Same as when people are accused of being 'champaigne socialists.'

A Red Wall Tory voter from the sounds of it, should one lol or fill a sick bucket?

I was listening to what I presume is a fairly obscure little mini-album from 1985 called "Freq" - a solo offering by Robert Calvert, ex-front-man and lyricist for Hawkwind. He recorded it in 1984 during the miners' strike, and in between the tracks are little vox-pop recordings that he made during the strike, talking to people on the picket-lines and at strike meetings. Hearing those "archive" recordings from nearly 40 years ago really rubbed in how nothing has changed... In the recordings, you hear people slagging off union leader Arthur Scargill for going around in a big car (Calvert asks them whether they think he should ride a bike to union meetings instead), and people accusing the union leaders of being in the thrall of the Russians. The current batch of Tories tried to plant exactly the same poisonous idea about striking NHS workers: a few months ago in December 2022, since-disgraced Tory tax-dodger and ministerial code breacher Nadhim Zahawi said striking NHS nurses were (quote) "exactly what Putin wants to see.” Listening to Matt in Manchester, it's all the same anti-union lines being trotted out yet again; working-class people's minds poisoned against their own best interests by Tory anti-union propaganda, portraying union leaders as well-paid and therefore insincere and not "down with the common people" (projection, or what?) and trying to claim that strike action makes those dastardly Commies rub their hands in glee. All the same tricks as 40 years ago under Thatcher, basically. But I guess the Tories don't need to get any new tricks when their tried and tested old tricks still work so wonderfully well on the feeble-minded :(

Classic James .. on point as always!! 💎

I've said it before, these eejits walk amongst us..jeeze what a peenarse 😅

"ggrrrr im angry!!!" "why are you angry" "this reason" "that's not really a reason is it? that's just some nonsense you've made up isn't it"... "well yes but im still angry about it!"... "can you tell me why you're angry?" "errr well no...."

‘Don’t like London because of people like you.’ Bet he’s a laugh down the pub

He is an example of what is wrong in Britain and why governments take advantage of working people.

Any rmt member can see that mr Lynch is worth every penny of his salary.

This guy is thicker than a bus drivers jacket

James, may I say that you are a linguistic hero by saying 'shedyool' (British English) as opposed to 'skedyool' (American English)! The whole conversation was worth while for the comedic moment at the end, too!

When someone like this calls in I cannot help but think that this is a Tory activist who gets paid to do this

Fudge me how does this person tie their shoelaces

James you must have the patience of Job having to to deal with these idiots daily

Matt supports the right to strike, but only when it's least effective and certainly not when it makes it harder for him to get to the footie?

Eh up he's a northern lad and one day he'll go to that strange place called London town.Till then put wood in door and kiss your Thatcher photo for luck lad.

00:01 millionaire man of the people 😂😂😂😂 where does Matt get his info from?!

That made me laugh out loud

"He's not been in the news for a couple of weeks, so he's weighed things up and decided he'll get back in the news". Actually, he (the whole Train Operating Company side of the union) was in the process of negotiating a deal with the Rail Delivery Group so called off all strike action up until the government yet again added in unacceptable terms to the negotiations, which meant the Union had no choice but to call more strike action.

Poor Matt.

This caller is what the UK population is like now, I'm in utter disbelief at how people have become so self centred and so unintelligent.

he gets someone to read the long words in the sun for him, the only tory in the pit village

It is impossible to get through to people that have closed their minds since they were ten years old. But is it learned behaviour ! I have heard this nonsense in working mens clubs, you know, the place where they don't acknowledge that women work as well !

Still waiting on James O'brien to talk about the Abbott situation. Methinks provided a person wears red they're exempt from criticism from James O'brien.

Ring an ambulance for a lift? Jesus wept...

It must be awful not knowing what your own words mean