James O'Brien vs Jacob Rees-Mogg: A look back on the iconic Brexit interview| LBC 

Rees Mogg moved his own company to Eire in preparation for the brexit that he eulogized.

Tories have utterly destroyed this country!!😢

"It's alright, we can postpone the adverts." 🤣🤣🤣🤣

How are we all enjoying our cheaper food 8 years after the vote?

The public must push hard keep pushing, for accountability to take place.

Thank you, please keep showing them up for what they are and how wrong they are on everything

JRM, the haunted pencil…..it’s absolutely amazing to me how this man ever worked out how to open his own front door, but he managed to do that, presumably his nanny helped him ? …… then found his way to Westminster. That was a major leap forward for JRM and a giant leap backwards for the U.K.

When Rees-Mogg is made Minister for Brexit Benefits and all he can come up with is changing the signs in the Dartford Tunnel, there is not much more to add.

He wasn't wrong, he lied, lied and lied.

It's the baffling unearned confidence JRM has, when he talks utter nonsense.

James O'Brien was one of very few people who actually challenged Mogg and Farage. Other interviewers were either fearful of their jobs, or woefully underprepared.

The sad thing is JRM will never debate you again, he was out of his depth then, now it would be an utter demolition job.

What people don't realise is that we haven't yet experienced 'Brexitmageddon' here in the UK : the full impact of the additional controls and checks we have to place at our borders as a consequence of leaving the EU. That really starts today with the introduction of the long delayed post Brexit food checks at our borders on EU imports. Even the Govt has said that there will be an increase in food price inflation as a result. Where it gets really serious, though, is in the delays these checks are likely to cause in the supply chain. We don't have food security in the UK. We import 46% of the food products we consume. Any significant delays will result in gaps in the shelves in supermarkets, higher prices on food stuffs that are available and food price inflation far greater than the Govt is allowing for. Nor is it a question of just growing more of our own foodstuffs to replace EU imports. Brexiteers seem not to have noticed that there is a distinct lack of a Mediterranean climate in the UK to grow the peppers and salads and citrus fruits that we have grown accustomed to. Turnips don't really cut it as a substitute. I think Rees-Mogg is both a fool and a liar. His lofty and patronising condescension that everything will be OK and that Brexit is wonderful is about to be fully exposed by the cold reality that everything is NOT OK.

It is astonishing to think that grown adults actually voted for JRM. Then again, look at the Republican primaries.

I absolutely hate the Conservative Party for what they have done to the people of this country

Makes my blood boil

Isn't the "exciting opportunity" that he spoke about, his own exciting opportunity to make hundreds of millions from shorting the pound? Therefore, he said whatever it took, to get that opportunity.

I probably shouldn't have watched this. I always feel vaguely violated after listening to JRM talk down to everyone around him.

Please can we have a dancing squirrel instead of this lord snooty, I need to be sick now...

You've got to admit it James, it's all the fault of us 'remoaners' we failed to believe hard enough in the brexit fairies

brexiteers for the most part do not have a mind that can change but i appreciate o'brien's effort.

The fact his name comes up as "smog" if you follow this with captions says it all. 😀

Mogg said that leaving would make us £65bn better off, yet Bloomberg has calculated that leaving has cost us £100bn a year in lost trade and investment. Mogg is a fool

If he didn't have a posh voice he would be a nobody that everyone laughed at

Mogg and his Nanny is the most frightening thing since that H. P. Lovecraft movie Re-animator.

When will the penny drop for Brexiteer’s? They need to genuinely be studied to find out more about cognitive dissonance

The sight and sound of him makes my skin crawl, I am from Somerset and I ashamed people from my county elected for that thing.

About time we brought back the ole choppy chop for termites like mogg.

Anyone that voted Leave in 2016 was gullible, naive and easily fooled.. Anyone that still supports it is just plain thick.

Hyacinth Rees-Mogg is detestable.

JRM waxed lyrically on Beef from Australia, beef pumped with growth steroids and anti biotics which would fail our standards, but his company Somerset Wealth opened a branch in Australia to make money from trade.

What Mogg saw, but of course couldnt say, is that all the billionaires need a safe place to store their money, preferably without paying any tax, without being subject to those pesky EU laws. That there are literally only downsides to that plan for ordinary Brits wasnt apparantly seen as something beneficial to share with the public. The result is clear though and we now see within the same country, the wealthiest and one of the poorest areas in Europe. One has to question the virtues of the UK democratic system if the people behind this plan managed to convince so many people exactly from these poor areas, to actually vote for this. If people cannot cast their vote on the basis of objective truths like hard statistics and forecasts by professionals, what exactly are they voting for instead?

☘ *Anyone else getting impatient that still NO evidence of a Brexit benefit?* 😮

That man should be kept out of public office for the rest of his life. Let him enjoy his fortune with his fanily but never darken our political doors again.

So if we can judge people on past performance; why does he still have a public voice?

Supercilious twaddle. How on earth did a majority of the people of Somerset vote for this? What is wrong with them?

Thanks to people like you “James O’Brien” you are a STAR

Painful, ludicrous, and so, so, sad; either incompetence or lying (that's verging on criminality); I tend to believe it's lying, chiefly for self-interest, and on behalf of his backers, who gained a lot from everyone else's loss. His father wrote the book on it.

Imagine him on the cross-country run? What a baggage!

Jacob Rees-Mogg just knew exactly how to make money out of it all.

We have not done very well in Brexit. The poor man of Europe

Go on JAMES! U crush him, he was lost for words, and out off his lies... I hope people off Britain finally will wake up from Tories lies... To lie in the parliament should cary serious consequences!

“Born with silver spoons in every orifice”! 😂😂

JRM is confidently wrong about many things.

Johnson and Mogg... The new Laural and Hardy...

and people will still vote for him/them

Send JRM back in the 1800´s

Nice one James 👌. Rees Mogg's daddy wrote a book about to profit from chaos capitalism, his son moved his company abroad before the 2016 vote and profited to the tune of many millions during covid. His off pat, put down replies are what these 'entitled' richards learn at skool. Please keep up your exposés.

It's interesting how he manages to garner blind loyal support after being proven to be completely inept and utterly wrong so many times. I think there is something to be argued about people feeling an affiliation to you if you just say what they want to hear. After that it's plane sailing fleecing them alive whilst keeping them happy.

Great James you are great keep showing them up

JOB. Legend. 👏

Most of the Brexit plan was to model a tax haven, similar system like Singapore.

I would love to buy James a couple of pints and have a variety of conversations. He is a national treasure, and an extremely objective journalist / presenter. I hope he visits Norfolk in the near future. I have, however, given up on Nick "Daily Mail" Ferrari.

Cheaper clothes, food and footware everyone. I'm pretty sure ALL those have gone up, steeply.

Well done James

He is now upset that food entering Britain has to be categorised into safety ratings a law enacted by the British government to protect British consumers. A Brexiteer upset Britain is making its own rules. 🤦‍♂️ Nanny needs to take him to one side and have a quiet word.

Oh young James. There's so much we wish we could warn you

This reminds me of George Orwell's comment on the English in 'The Lion and the Unicorn'. We are a family, but a dysfunctional one with all the wrong people in charge.

JRM equals Lord snooty from the beano ... If u old enough to remember that kids comic lol . If not please google and u see the resemblence 😊

The last refuge of a rouge is politics

The world needs more James O Briens , Honesty and Intellect in Abundance , from Alan and the Tilson family in Dublin/Ireland

Lord Snutty said prices would go down 20% on Brexit . The pound went down by at least 20% after Brexit vote against all major currencies. Therefore all imports went up in price. Food.Fuel. etc.

His voice alone should disqualify him from public office.... Along with his sincere desire to be a politician. He's not a member of the public, he'd wrinkle in disgust if you made that assertion.

I just found your podcast, I really enjoy you and how you try to bring out the truth in people.

So JRM dosent want checks even though he knows that the EU dosent need to check anything heading to the uk. Or strawberries or apples coming from anywhere. It was always going to happen but some people will still blame EU for punishing the UK 😂😂😂😂

He should be behind bars for a long time .

Has there ever been anyone in the media capable of pouring so much scorn on so many as O’Brien.

Why is anyone surprised JRM is and always has been the a bare faced liar.

Excellent points. Rees-Mogg speaks with confidence about the economy, but is absolutely ignorant about the subject.

Smog is ok he's got his own TV show when he should be in Parliament doing a day's work

In the 18th century, they referred to shoes as footware. 😮

James well said every time blessings

sMogg is the kind of person that had very bad luck in 1789.

James seems to forget he was shaking by the end of the Mogg interview. James said it would take ten years to get any trade deal. He was spectacularly wrong. Mogg is disingenuous like all politicians, but James is the one who lives in denial of his many many mistakes.

"It´s a very crowded field" :)

On the button, first class take on the situation.

Possibly Mogg thought that as goods imported through the EU were checked by the EU we need not check them. However goods DESTINED for the UK which enter the UK are NOT now checked. So the checks which were spread out across all members of the EU now have to be checked by the UK. This is a collosal amount.

JRM has the mental agility of a small soap dish. MASSIVE example of Dunning Kruger effect. Money and a plummy accent really will take you far in the UK despite your utter lack of ability because a lot of poor people think a plummy accent and money means you are better than they are.

It would be an act of kindness not to assume JRM considers himself as possibly the only truly intelligent being in the UK.

In 2024, who would be appointed the Minister for Silly Walks? It’s not a crowded field…

JRM's rheorical superiority counts for nothing in 2024. History justified JOB.

This is why Sir James O'Brien is the absolute best at this 🙌 💯👌

Reality disproving near everything JRM has ever said or campaigned for has no meaningful impact on him personally or politically. So he can maintain being some absurd character without ever having to develop a substantive personality or outlook and face no consequence. Politics is full of the shallowest of hells hiding behind grandiose facades

James lost the 2019 debate with JRM

Using the word "footwear" about sums the level of his intelligence.

Got to love recycling people's spoken words. ❤😂🎉

James, JPW is so similar to many wealthy, establishment figures, their schooling, education, privilege and employment affords them positions/places way above their intellect.

“I can see the opportunities of cheaper food, clothing and footwear.” How did that work out?

How the F did anyone see that interview as James getting owned?!

he's not conceited although I'm sure he has every reason to be so

From the first weeks of Cameron's government (remember the attempts to cancel aircraft carriers) they thought every word and view of theirs was golden and would have no more consequence's than a debate in the 6th form of their school.

but they are now saying that after today the price of food, etc will be going up whilst choice will be lessened

"Judged". Best moment. Ever.

Will someone give this man a handkerchief?

Love that O'Brien will always hold people to a point and not let them get past a question. Too many journalist/interviewers are all too happy to let politicians shy away from answering, but even without a real answer James is able to make them look as incompetent as they are.

The only person that I’ve seen, give it to him in the way which he deserves. Go on James 🚀

I remember that interview - it still makes my blood boil... Brexit would bring cheap food, cheap clothes and cheap shoes... The only thing in recent years that has stopped me from going insane is the brilliant James O'Brien.

Sometimes I'm convinced Rees-Mogg is an actor playing a character

Stunning James! I love it when you call these charlatans out

Brilliant! Cheers mate!