James O'Brien meets Keir Starmer | LBC 

youve said it. exactly the reason im wasnt sure

He was asked, "have you ever felt gifted in some field?" and he just said... no. No, he hasn't, but that's because he doesn't think about himself that way. What a great answer.

Anybody can be open when they're not saying anything. He constantly changes his mind, that's why he's called sir flip flop. And I'll never forgive him for standing shoulder to shoulder with Corbyn.

@@fang_xianfu you have a very loose definition of the word great.

@@fang_xianfu you have a very loose definition of the word great.

@@georgemorrison4064 There aren't any perfect politicians and I'm still holding back my opinion on him for when he's in power. Anyway, he told a lot of personal life stories that came across as genuine, he didn't um and ah, they came straight from him. That's all I'm referring to. Johnson and Sunak just straight up lie all the time. There's a lot of hatred aimed at him through blind loyalty to one view or another, though.

Interesting that this has been re-published. I wonder why🤭

What he needs is some actual policies.

He's a Tory with a red rosettes and is in the pockets of the same billionaire/millionaire capitalists as them, too. He won't re-nationalise anything either. Bad news.

@@GleebyDawk I think you are mad if you prefer the tories to him.

We have heard enough lies

Yeah I think your mad why you watching it if you can't stand him

Starmer is an establishment man from head to toe. His failure to do anything about Saville or grooming gangs tells you he's in the club...

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The tories just take the public for granted where’s I really feel kier and the Labour Party don’t

His mum and dad sound nice people and the great dance story was cool. Reminds me as a kid when we went on holiday. The car was so packed out and the roof rack and the trailer, the they realised the dogs couldn't fit in!

"I think he cracked more genuine jokes" Electing a comedian last time really worked out well.

The Independent's article on how the Corporate side of the Labour Party conspired to sabotage Jeremy Corbyn's leadership so that he would lose to Theresa May who they preferred and be replaced with a more corporate friendly leadership like Tony Blair. The truth is Starmer and his ilk preferred Boris Johnson than real actual help for the working class and unless this corporate capture of the Labour Party is rooted out it will be more of the same. Wars, corporate greed and the hollowing out of Britain for the benefit of the 1%. The system works.

And since this Kier has backtracked on pretty much all of the promises he made that put him in the position he’s in.

Do you understand how elections work? @@karlhinze

@@mmcfarlane001 Er, yes. Obviously. What’s your point?

How will he improved society in times of austerity without taxing the rich? It cannot happen.

Thats a tory lie. Keir has had to postpone some because you tories have crashed the economy.

Gawd you must be depressed.

Nope. Not depressed.

It’s ever likely American politics is in the state it is, if you let Obrien shape your point on view. Try and spend more time looking at the facts and not just soaking up presenters biased rhetoric. Don’t just listen to people you like. Their actions give away their true intent.

Just as Corbyn has no idea what the word means !.

He said fiercely loyal to friends. That is an important difference.

​@adamturowski3765 Starmer once listed Corbyn as a friend then subtly denied it when things were coming down. Also, watch how he has purged the left..

​@@ogribiker8535there's a difference between blind loyalty and critical affection for ones country, I'd argue the latter is what changes things for the better. Nationalism is loving your country no matter what, patriotism is loving your country enough to point out its flaws to fix them

The Independent's article on how the Corporate side of the Labour Party conspired to sabotage Jeremy Corbyn's leadership so that he would lose to Theresa May who they preferred and be replaced with a more corporate friendly leadership like Tony Blair. The truth is Starmer and his ilk preferred Boris Johnson than real actual help for the working class and unless this corporate capture of the Labour Party is rooted out it will be more of the same. Wars, corporate greed and the hollowing out of Britain for the benefit of the 1%. The system works.

You've set a very low bar...

You want a lying tyrant?

Last time he turned up in Liverpool he was berated by a proper Labour supporting constituent for backtracking on every pledge he made to become leader. He just sat there speechless wishing he was somewhere a million miles away from Liverpool at that moment. My guess is he won’t be back this way anytime soon. That’s what a disingenuous chancer gets when trying to pull the wool over the eyes of a proper Labour city.

@@gavleopardi70 Well, Liverpool is the City of Resistance...its how they roll up there.

Waffle waffle blah blah

He has much to be humble about unfortunately.

in what universe ? disagree sorry.

Yeah imagine expecting a politician being interviewed and asked about politics

Everything is political and if he had said anything worth listening to it would have been controversial, which he is trying to avoid at all costs.

Feb 22

@@balibelle63 Thanks 😊👍

Starmer will be better than any Tory Prime Minister. However, Starmer lacks the integrity, charm and perception of hope to win convincingly. You can't really blame Labour voters for finding his message uninspiring. It's Labour's responsibility to inspire voters at the end of the day. I voted for Corbyn and Miliband. I'm not motivated to vote for Starmer like many others though. There's a reason we feel like this.

@@TheAjrclark my dear fellow - Starmer is a Tory PM! He’s just wearing a Labour leader hat at present. He’s most certainly centre-right leaning. On most things. Believes in the integrity of the establishment institutions we have, the tradition of them… he’s from that world professionally, which is very central tenet of conservatism. Andrew Sullivan, the Anglo-American journalist, sat next to Starmer at Reigate Grammar school in Surrey and said much the same.. he was even back then, a young small-c conservative in many ways.

In fact - the things he actually seems to stand for, which are hard to even parse out, are more conservative in many ways. They certainly don’t pertain to the propagation of the working class particularly.

....perfect summation for once.....!

@@chatham43 well, when did the Labour Party truly stand for the working class? Not for a long time. It treats them with contempt more than anything. Sad.

If he were alive , Jimmy Savile would agree.

@@readmylisp "Thanks for chiming in," I say with a grin, A chance to connect, let the conversation begin. Let's steer toward the light, away from the shade, Where ideas take flight, and respect won't fade. Though paths may diverge, opinions take flight, In sharing our thoughts, we can find common sight. So let's leave behind jests that can hinder and fray, And focus on insights that brighten our day. In discourse we thrive, when kindness we share, A respectful exchange, showing that we care. So join in the dialogue, let's rise above din, "Thanks for chiming in," as the journey begins.

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Google Kier Starmer +Broken pledges... He told a pack of lies to dupe party members to elect him leader... He made pledges, all of which he dropped... He said he Wasn't a Zionist... then promised to "rip out" antizionists... He conflates antizionism with antisemitism... then purges the former, claiming he is fighting the latter... He claims Israel is Not an apartheid state... He flip-flops and U-turns on topics so much he must surely suffer a nose bleed... "Impressive" is Not the word... "shameful"... maybe... Zionist just about sums him up...

The Independent's article on how the Corporate side of the Labour Party conspired to sabotage Jeremy Corbyn's leadership so that he would lose to Theresa May who they preferred and be replaced with a more corporate friendly leadership like Tony Blair. The truth is Starmer and his ilk preferred Boris Johnson than real actual help for the working class and unless this corporate capture of the Labour Party is rooted out it will be more of the same. Wars, corporate greed and the hollowing out of Britain for the benefit of the 1%. The system works.

Why is starmer and streeting taking private health donations?

@@britnatzaredemocracydenier5922I’ve never heard that, could you point me to where you got that information so I can check it out for myself please. That would be very interesting to read and know.

@@ellaj8912 Google it or go to damo rants who shows proof you can't deny

@@ellaj8912 why do you think starmer is called kid starver starmer and I hate the tories

@@britnatzaredemocracydenier5922I really don’t know, I was hoping that you were going to tell me and show where that is coming from the evidence really, I would like to see it for myself.

Totally agree. Even the worst and most cynical interpretation of the current Labour party is still orders of magnitude less harmful than the status quo...

if you concede to keir youre not on the left

@@trevfindley5704 Starmer is the status quo.

Starmer's the exact same as the Tories. All the policies are the same.

@@abigailweir7287 don't know if you noticed, but the status quo involves constant low level donor based corruption, maximising divergence from the EU, and wasting money on culture war non-issues. All of these things will be reduced significantly under a KS government. That was the point of the original comment. KS may not be all things to all people, but he's the only alternative on the table, and definitely represents an improvement.

Wouldnt disagree with your opinion Rayner should be leader. But the fact is, its going to be Keir as leader vs Tories. As frustrating as those things may be, they have all suffered in the past 12 years and none will improve in the future under the Tories.

This obsession of us on the left to ONLY support the exact thing that we 100% agree with is the exact reason why we are in this Tory/uber capitalist mess. If you guys want to keep up the destructive criticism from within... it's your choice, but I for one am done with the self-inflicted misery. Keir is a competent guy whi can WIN and change SOME things. Let's take it one step at a time, shall we?

Jezz loves welfare breeders and his mate John loves the IRA. That was a big, big part of losing the red wall. But if it's easier for you to blame the Daily Mail than face reality, go ahead.

Unless working people's livelihood's, lives and families have been harmed and destroyed by the wrongs of Brexit and Covid. The first was a choice, the second could have been made less worse than it was. A public inquiry into the UK government's response to the outbreak is ongoing at the time of writing, the lessons have to be learned and applied at the earliest opportunity. Refusing to recognise the mistake of withdrawing from the EU and refusing to correct it by preparing to apply fixes nothing, and leaves a gaping wound. This is not rational behaviour.

@@AnaInTh3Sky There are many things I can overlook, but throwing trans people, of which I know many, to the wolves isn't one of them.

Don't quote things that weren't actually said in the interview - unless it was the voices in your own head that said them and you struggle with the barrier between fiction and reality.

@@terrydaktyllus1320 No you see, that is not what he was doing, he was summing up James O'Handsome's obsequious brown-nosing interviewing approach.

@@jeffsimon9594 Here's a thing... I'm an intelligent person who, for example, has no interest in horse riding. So what I don't do is make myself miserable by posting negative comments in equestrian video channels on RU-vid because it's a topic I have no interest in and I have too much intelligence and self awareness to realise that if I did that, then I would just look like a sad little idiot amongst all those in the channels who do like equestrianism. There's your sign, right there. Don't let the door hit you in the proverbial when you leave to be a happier person in the outside world, rather than upsetting yourself in a place where you clearly don't want to be. Now you run along, sonny. Mind how you go and let your mum have her PC back now up there in the spare bedroom of your parents' house. Discussion closed. Dismissed.

@@terrydaktyllus1320I think you’ve been owned here chap but just can’t quite get to terms with it. If you’re only allowed to comment on stuff you like and agree with then what’s the point eh? It’d be just like O’Brien’s show each day, one big love in, echo chamber…but that’s how you lot like it I suppose.

@@nick1065"I think you’ve been owned here chap but just can’t quite get to terms with it." What you think as a complete stranger on the Internet to me is of no relevance - you over-estimate your personal impact in my existence. I did not read the rest of your comment which I assumed to be of equal low quality nonsense to the first sentence you vomited onto here. You wasted your time writing the rest of it. You run along now, mind how you go and stay away from sharp scissors. Do not concern yourself with someone you could walk past in the street tomorrow and not know it. Discussion closed. You are dismissed.

What is deemed an injustice will be decided by his boss Rupert Murdoch

He’s saying whatever he thinks he needs to in order to oust this current cabal. Pretty difficult to see that as a negative.

He doesn't need to repeal them to neutralise them and make them ineffective. Repealing them would just waste precious parliamentary time when there are much, much more important things to do. It's telling that when we have such an awful government, you choose to defend them by attacking their only opponent.

​@@wofutokeratiyou'd think so wouldn't you? But then imagine saying in a comment that Murdoch's his boss after having heard his testimony to the Leveson inquiry. We're obviously dealing with galaxy brains here...

@@wofutokerati so he can say anything and win at ANY cost?

brown lipstick in the corporate suite

"O'Brien" - I have difficulty dealing with people that can't even use a spell checker or just proof read their comments as they post them. 2/10 - must try harder.

Rather a cynical question

New.

Last years

He’s got all the personality of a chair leg, and I don’t believe a word that comes out of his mouth. He lied numerous times in the first 15 minutes of this. Would still take him over Sunakers.

Are you implying that the negative commenters are too thick to be able to view Starmer as the UK's saviour? Maybe we are actually astute enough to see him for what he is, and it is you who don't realise he is a snake.

Counting not your strong point ? Look at your ballot paper, you'll see we have more than one Option.

Starmer won’t do anything for this country, they’ve convinced you swapping from Tory to Tory lite every decade or two is doing you a favour. Not one politician you elect will see out the will of the people, they will continue to dictate to us what our will is and what’s best for us. Until people wake up and realise it’s the political system that needs to change nothing is going to get better in British politics.

I agree, Starmer is our only chance. That's why we are completely f'#@ed and most likely in for another Tory government :( it's a shame because he seemed so promising start.

👍 Me too

....and forsake his big LBC salary...I don't think so...😊

@@chatham43 lol

This is a liar. There is nothing great on Starmer. He will never be a PM

This was 2022 before Johnson was removed. A lot of water has passed under the bridge since then and he couldn’t have known at that time what was going to change

Oh wow, I did not know this. Thank you for the information. That makes a lot more sense@@pamelagartner3759

his dad definitely produced a tool in this situation.

...James not watching the pounds...?😊

I'm not sure that's the reason why he didn't like Corbyn...

Not sure how this is your take away….but JC followers can hear only JC

@@SamOliverYT I will never be able to find the quote, but he literally said so once on air, something about it being the tipping point

He's owned by the same interests as the Tories so you can already see it.

@@adzmitch do tell.

@@toterola451 Labour was fully funded by the members of the Labour Party between 2016-2020. Now it's recieving 100's of thousands of pounds from private healthcare interests looking to dismantle the NHS and millions from the likes of Lord Sainsbury who previously spent millions undermining The Labour Party.

Has James even mentioned that particular documentary?

Who cares

@@bwright227 people who 👍 their own replies (like you) 😂

@@chrisjames1924 except I don't care so what is your point again??

@@bwright227 But you don’t care what my point is. Don’t waste my time wasting your time.

And change it some the minority demographic can get their foot even more in the door, whilst making the majority into a minority

...and the ability to define a woman would be the icing on the cake sure you would agree....😊

@@chatham43 How would you define a woman? by genitalia, chromosomes, hormones, upbringing, identity, how do you feel about hermaphrodites :) I don't know and neither do you so what's the point in trying to decide what other people should believe :)

...maybe your wife could help you with your conundrum...😊

Starmer is not a leader, pure weathervane politician

@@keithparker1346 It's difficult to make solid commitments amid a Tory smash and grab on the public purse but he's put the Labour party back together from the wreckage left behind.

Oh please, it's this kind of sentiment which has kept the Tories in power for so long. To say they are Tories in disguise is exactly what the right wing press want you to think. If you can't see a difference between the years of labour and the years of conservative rule (don't know your age of course) then you're not paying attention to reality.

🤣🤣🤣

Starmer got one thing right: Leeds IS great.

@bulletproofblouse. Corbyn often looked sheepish and silly. Trying to look innocent and pure. It only worked with his pals.

"A normal bloke..." 😂

I don't want a "normal bloke" leading the country. I want someone with drive, real principles and ideas. Someone who promises change and actually delivers it.

@@tomtheeagle1 You mean somebody like Johnson ? HE had drive, personality ( “ call me Boris”) in spades , and he definitely had principles. And look where we are now. It’s our own fault though. We ignored too much that was very wrong.

Why doesn't he stand as Tory then ?

Yawn

thaaaaaaaaaaaatchaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

Unlike Boris, he loves an easy Ride

James is very cosy with Starmer..almost a sycophant. This is just Obrien’s way of presenting Starmer as a man of integrity and compassion. Obviously, a lot of people will fall for the image they see on the golden screen. Fine words butter no parsnips. We need to look at what he actually does rather than the image.

There are issues other than Palestine, get a grip ffs!

The labour party has been donated 20m more from large companies than the conservative party for the first time In their history, membership and public donations at an all time low for labour, and kier having dinner with Rupert Murdoch doesn't seem suspicious at all. But yeah, labour totally haven't been bought by the economic elite 😂

starmer is already on the take, more corporate gifts in his few years as opposition leader than tony blair had in his entire premiership, (and tony mostly matched the gifts he did get with commensurate charity donations). In fact with almost 30000£ of bribes in his pocket, his total gifts since 2020 add up to more than the last 4 labour leaders took in the 20 years before that. Also look how much funding starmer,wes streeting and other pro-corporate labour MPs have already received from the same private healthcare and shadowy telecoms companies that donate to the tories. Tory politics and tory personal character are inseperable im afraid, back in the old days we had a word for it....selfish...hmm not quite...immoral...nearly....ahhh! I got it, evil, thats what we used to call people like that.

@@Kohanman i didn’t know a lot of that, but even so, that’s how the entire Tory party operate, Starmer is clearly competent and Labour actually want to run the country, the tories just want us to fight each other while they run the country into the ground with their own incompetence. The difference between the two parties is vast

The Independent's article on how the Corporate side of the Labour Party conspired to sabotage Jeremy Corbyn's leadership so that he would lose to Theresa May who they preferred and be replaced with a more corporate friendly leadership like Tony Blair. The truth is Starmer and his ilk preferred Boris Johnson than real actual help for the working class and unless this corporate capture of the Labour Party is rooted out it will be more of the same. Wars, corporate greed and the hollowing out of Britain for the benefit of the 1%. The system works.

​@@Kohanman*citation needed

And don't mention Gaza! 🙈🙊🙉

Spot on.

It made you a character from Shakespeare? How extraordinary

Probably not much change just a slight shift away from a further rigtward direction.

LETS JUST HOPE HE DOESNT F IT UP SO BAD THAT WE END UP WITH A MORE EXTREME TORY GOV AFTER A SINGLE TERM sorry, my capslock was on and im too lazy to retype lol.

But he is not offering change! He's barely offering tweaks and he is certainly not offering hope!

Any change will be tiny. Look at all they are proposing. Continuity tories in all but name.

@@SI-vb7hd Yep. No 'banning landlording', no mass-nationalisation, no adult-schooling or community-health centres to upkeep education, no UBI. If this Labour is all we have to look forward to, then this is just going to be the end. If the nightmare that's been the Conservatives over the past 60 years can't motivate people to demand a better society, I just don't know what will.

why? what did he say that makes you think otherwise? or is it something he did?

You've more faith in the tories? This sounds like a personal gripe over intellectual analysis of the options 🤣

The Tories aren't going to save the country they've caused it all 14year's and look at the mess we are in .

The Independent's article on how the Corporate side of the Labour Party conspired to sabotage Jeremy Corbyn's leadership so that he would lose to Theresa May who they preferred and be replaced with a more corporate friendly leadership like Tony Blair. The truth is Starmer and his ilk preferred Boris Johnson than real actual help for the working class and unless this corporate capture of the Labour Party is rooted out it will be more of the same. Wars, corporate greed and the hollowing out of Britain for the benefit of the 1%. The system works.

hes totally destroying the labour party !!!

Corbyn was and is a loser. If you want to avoid Tory rule you need to be in the centre ground. No left wing government will ever happen in this country.

Paymasters, not 'friends'. He's betrayed many who considered him a 'friend'. They should have heeded my advice: once you bend the knee, you're only serving one side of the class divide.