This is what happens when you get a Rob Rinder or Martin Lewis on. Someone with real knowledge in the field. A great explanation of why barristers are striking & why legal aid is a cornerstone of our democracy.
Caller just said Jimmy Carr should be ‘locked up’ for his comments on Jews. When I explained it was about gypsies he replied ‘ok that’s a bit different then’. Very revealing.
Still reeling from James Cleverly: 'my father was a former chartered surveyor' in response to Evgeny Lebedev’s father being a ‘former’ KGB Officer.
Nick Robinson: 'I'm not sure that is a direct parallel is it, in terms of national security'.
Trans caller tells
@LBC
that she wishes Westminster would ‘stop obsessing over people like me’
‘I’ve got bills to pay. I’m facing a cost of living crisis. Why can’t people just leave me alone?’
Steve Baker refers to Ian Blackford as a brother of Christ and asks: ‘does he not believe in redemption?’
so it seems politicians can bring in religion but religious leaders can’t bring in politics..
Martin Lewis: what support is there for people with medical conditions facing a doubling of energy bills
Sajid Javid: we keep disability payments under review
ML: people on oxygen concentrators & electric wheelchairs fear their lives will be cut off bcos of energy rises
A 22 yr old woman has been charged today for holding an ‘anti monarchy’ placard. Meanwhile, there are *no* charges for the killing of unarmed black man, Chris Kaba… 7 days later.
Can someone tell Ben Wallace he is speaking to Mishal Husain today. He's called her Martha twice now, whilst talking about respect for women in the workplace.
#r4today
A two year old boy, Awaab, has died in a home which wasn’t fit to live in.
In 2016, 309 Tory MPs voted against a law to make homes fit for human habitation because it would be ‘too costly’ for landlords.
This story is much bigger than Rochdale Boroughwide Housing.
A reminder of bothsidesism. If we’re looking for economic arguments on both sides of the fall of the pound & only Andrew Bridgen is free, there’s probably a reason.
Meanwhile, caller tells
@mrjamesob
he buys Walkers crisps instead of value ones as a ‘special treat’ for his daughter
This is the lived experience for people relying on Universal Credit
@LBC
Social care minister Helen Whately tells
@LBC
that the biggest Brexit benefit was that we were able to roll out the vaccine faster than elsewhere.
a line *still* being repeated.
under European law, the UK could’ve acted independently to approve the vaccine in an emergency.
I see we’ve got to the stage in the Jubilee where Ingrid Seward is describing Prince Andrew as ‘not as nasty man’, after happily critiquing Meghan Markle over an Oprah interview she hadn’t even seen.
also - pretending that all lawyers striking are waltzing straight out of Suits on 100k is lazy in the same way as pretending all rail strikers are doing the same on 60k !
Job watch: Sam Tarry going rogue doing a near full round of media interviews at a picket line at Euston. Claims any Labour MP would have ‘absolute solidarity’ with the workers.
Heartbreaking BBC special in Sunderland right now on the cost of living. Several single mums, disabled individuals etc breaking down with stories about struggling to make ends meet.
it might be a game in the commons, but it’s not for these people.
Moving from a discussion about a lack of free school meals to spending £120m of taxpayers money on a 'Festival of Brexit' which attracted less than 1% of expected visitors is...quite the state of affairs.
#r4today
🚨Mordaunt supporter and Tory MP Heather Wheeler on
@LBC
just now: says she is ‘convinced’ that the 1922 committee has ‘stitched up’ the result & that she was told ‘we can’t have another woman can we’. Blimey.
🚨 PERSONAL NEWS 🚨
I have been promoted to head of the urgent press enquires at DVSA
@DVSAgovuk
all emergency calls are getting diverted to my personal mobile. I think you have a problem. Thanks
Cancer patient tells
@mrjamesob
the actions of climate protestors have got her through her treatment.
‘People need to realise this climate has cancer. I see the parallels between my illness and what is happening to the planet.’
Meanwhile, caller to
@mrjamesob
describes how her sister goes hungry because she is 'too ashamed' to use food banks. This is the current state of our society.
Sadiq Khan tells
@mrjamesob
the amount of racist abuse he received after this false story 'shot through the roof'.
'I don't mind when people attack me for my policies... what annoys me is misinformation, often from the tories, and then written up by sympathetic journalists'.
on Suella Braverman referring to pro-Palestinian 'hate marches', Sadiq Khan tells
@mrjamesob
that she is in danger of making a 'sweeping generalization' about hundreds of thousands of 'lawful, peaceful, citizens doing a democratic thing - going on a protest'
@LBC
🚨personal news 🚨
In January I will be starting a new role as producer of the wonderful
@ShelaghFogarty
every weekday 1-4pm on
@LBC
.
I’ll miss working on Weekend Breakfast with
@AndrewCastle63
but really excited for this next opportunity !
🚨personal news 🚨
I’ve spent the last few months working with
@SadiqKhan
to produce his new podcast, Clear the Air, exploring the most important issue of our times: the climate crisis.
It was a joy to create & the first episode with
@Ed_Miliband
is out now on
@GlobalPlayer
!
Immigration lawyer
@JacquiMckenzie6
tells
@LBC
that the Bibby Stockholm was never suitable for refugees & that 'all the warning were there'
her own client was due to be moved onto the Bibby Stockholm last week - but got a last minute reprieve due to being suicidal
Owen Jones asks David Lammy if he hates the country because he didn’t start his programme on
@LBC
by ordering everyone to stand and sing the national anthem.
Listener writes in to
@LBC
:
‘Rishi Sunak currently delivering a speech about positive thinking with the tonality of a children’s TV presenter talking about yoghurt’.
The
@LBC
team have been chasing a comment from Home Sec Suella Braverman on the Far Right riot outside a hotel containing asylum seekers in Knowsley, Merseyside.
the shadow home sec commented last night - nearly 13 hours ago.
still no comment from Suella Braverman.
Appointing a women and equalities minister has always felt like an afterthought, particularly as a third or fourth position. Especially noticeable in the aftermath of Sarah Everard & Sabina Nessa.
EXCL: Email obtained by
@itvnews
proves over 100 staff were invited to drinks party in No 10 garden at height of lockdown to “make the most of the lovely weather”.
We’re told PM and his wife attended, with staff invited to “bring your own booze!”
BREAKING
Mrs Justice Yip rules that ‘transphobic hostility’ played a ‘significant’ part in the murder of Brianna Ghey in 2023.
describes the murder as ‘brutal’ & ‘sadistic’
Scarlett Jenkinson & Eddie Ratcliffe are currently being sentenced.
‘Our Britishness came under question.’
Anoosheh Ashoori was detained in Iran for 5 yrs. Despite raising his family in this country, he tells
@BethRigby
he was denied support from the PM and was continuously asked ‘how British are you’.
Huge turnout for the Fire Brigades Union rally in Westminster.
Capacity of room (800) over spilling with well over a thousand workers, demanding better pay & working conditions.
Previous offer of 5% pay rise rejected. Inflation currently over 11%.
Tory MP Bob Seely tells
@LBC
that he has ‘tried’ to watch the Harry & Meghan doc but he keeps ‘reaching for the sick bucket’.
he wants to bring forward legislation to strip them of their titles, based on a documentary he hasn’t even seen.
worth noting that at least 72 of those MPs were, at the time of the vote, registered as landlords themselves. So in essence, they were arguing it would be too costly for themselves.
James Cleverly denying that ‘Putin’s buddies’ help fund the Tory party, whilst the photo with the former Russian minister’s wife remains up on Liz Truss’ Instagram page.
Nadhim Zahawi has now brought up Alastair Campbell in 3 interviews so far this morning, denouncing his supposed masterplan to 'divide' the Tories.
Alastair Campbell hasn't been in politics for years. If he was their main problem, they really wouldn't be sweating like this.
Tory mayoral candidate Susan Hall tells
@LBC
that she was a victim of a robbery on the London Underground - losing her Oyster card.
goes on to reveal someone was reportedly sat on her Oyster card & she now has it back.
blames out of control crime in ‘Sadiq Khan’s London’
Charming landlord on
@LBC
this morning: 'people get frustrated when their rents go up...but it's not really our problem'.
says landlords are leaving the business because it's 'not worthwhile anymore'.
Dominic Raab this morning talks about the importance of 'showing humility'. A few minutes later he is telling Susannah Reid that there is 'no point' in him coming when she reminds him that 148 of his party voted against the PM.
#GMB
Human rights barrister
@DrProudman
tells
@_NatashaDevon
: ‘We were told to wear rape alarms. Now we’re told to use this app.’
‘And the question police will ask if something happens to us is - why weren’t you using the app?’
@LBC
Alastair Campbell suggests on
@LBC
that the PM and the police may have struck a 'deal', where the PM suggested he could accept one fine but no more..
'the point, for me, is that Johnson corrupts those around him'. Collusion claims flying around everywhere tonight.
‘People are being examined in cupboards’
Labour MP and A&E doctor
@DrRosena
tells
@LBC
patients are being treated in an ‘undignified’ way.
been a doctor for 17 years & says she’s never seen the NHS this bad. Pretty striking considering pressures during height of the pandemic.
Heartbreaking segment on
#r4today
about Emma, who works 3 jobs, but can't feed her kids. Hasn't done a food shop in nearly 3 months & relies on the goodness of neighbours giving her a loaf of bread. All she wants is for her child to get free school meals.
Nadine Dorries says The BBC licence fee will be frozen to 'help families struggling during a difficult period.'
Glad to see this altruism was also displayed over Universal Credit, free school meals, and fuel poverty.
BREAKING: In his latest stunt, Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey has just taken a ride on ‘Rush’ at Thorpe Park with
@sarahjolney1
🎢
We know you’d love to see it in full, so here it is
@LBC
@LBCNews
Keir Starmer & shadow Foreign Sec David Lammy speaking to Windrush campaigners - 76 yrs since the HMT Empire Windrush docked in Essex.
campaigners calling for all compensation applications to be completed.
Labour has promised to appoint a Windrush Commisioner if elected.
@LBC
@bluecatsarah
@LBC
every woman I speak to doesn’t feel like they have no space or privacy due to trans women. If anything, it’s (a minority of) men that they’re talking about in that regard
On the PM missing D-Day commemorations, Tobias Ellwood tells
@LBC
'there is nothing to justify what has happened here'
'the optics do not look good'.
'veterans up & down the country will make their own judgement on this'.
Susanna Reid: did you vote to ban fire and rehire?
Paul Scully: there wasn't a vote and this wasn't a case of fire and rehire
Susanna provides receipts that ministers scuppered the bill & that the man who ensured he spoke for so long the bill ran out of time was.. Paul Scully
Disgraced Commons porn watcher & former MP Neil Parish says the by-election was a 'referendum on the PM' who 'must take some responsibility'
and on his own responsibility? He 'hastens to stress' that what he did 'wasn't illegal'. 'I was right in the corner of the commons'
@LBC
*AND BREATHE*
was kind of a moment producing a live national radio programme during the fall of Boris Teflon Johnson on
@LBC
with the wonderful
@ShelaghFogarty
!!
now for a cold gin and a lie down x