Covid: How it all went wrong | James O'Brien vs The Government
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- James O'Brien runs through the timeline of events during the coronavirus pandemic and how the government responded. His new book, How Not To Be Wrong, is available to buy here: amzn.to/37437Bg
In this deeply personal book, James turns the mirror on himself to reveal what he has changed his mind about and why, and explore how examining and changing our own views is our new civic duty in a world of outrage, disagreement and echo chambers. He writes candidly about the stiff upper lip attitudes and toxic masculinity that coloured his childhood, and the therapy and personal growth that have led him to question his assumptions and explore new perspectives. Laying open his personal views on everything from racial prejudice to emotional vulnerability, from fat-shaming to tattoos, he then delves into the real reasons - often irrational or unconscious - he holds them.
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"Flip a coin, shout heads and tails, whichever way it lands, do a lap of honour." Perfect summary.
Only to idiots
@@millwallholdings, unfortunately, we're *all* idiots.
@@balorprice spoken like a true idiot.
@@millwallholdings pitiful statement.
James O'Brien is the best presenter on radio. He misses nothing and says it like it is. Honesty is valued even more these days after years and years of political and press - lying to such an extent it's almost acceptable for politicians and hangers on to bare faced lie on television, newspapers and social media without a hint of apology. Well done James - I know the trolls don't bother you - they are in denial.
says it like he THINKS it is
@@middleman9183 Don't we all?
@@middleman9183 says it like it is, the truth doesn't support a right wing narrative.
@@middleman9183 he thinks clearer than most. Even though James is older than myself, I've taken him as a mentor.
Key words here ".....and they still have a job".
The one who should have been fired 100% was Cummings. Went out to attraction then thinks we are stupid enough to believe that he went to test his eye sight driving 60 miles on his wife’s birthday.
And no only that, they are still inflating their bank balances with speaking jobs and other side lines that should be barred.
The cabinet must sit in meetings laughing their arses off at how much they can get away with and the gullibility of the public.
Every time they win an election they must have a good laugh . Especially after last years election when ex coal miners voted Tory . Never in my lifetime did I see that . As a school leaver I used to give £10 of my £47 per fortnight dole money to the striking miners . I feel like asking for it back . Totally disgusted with the British electorate .
@@gary1642 well said man uk is full of yes men now thanks to the bitch Thatcher
@@gary1642 well said man uk is full of yes men now thanks to the bitch Thatcher
@@gary1642 Well.....there is no party that is palatable to the Northern working class. Please do not suggest Labour....they have sold out to London's middle class.
Selling out isn't the problem it's the complete lack of honour and morality shown by today's politicians all around the world . In the past there would be instant resignations when scandal or rule breaking was highlighted . Now reporting is just dismissed as fake news , Johnson and Trump would both now be out of office if today's standards were comparable to those in the past . It's the blatant lying , the hypocrisy , rule and law breaking all done with impunity that leaves us being governed by these dishonest , profiteering attention seeking clowns . I have never seen western governments so morally bankrupt as those ruling the UK and America .
O'Brien is a legend! People talk too much crap about him, hope he knows that there are people on his side, and one of them is me!
Just people who don't live for the truth
'people talk too much crap about him', definitely a diplomatic way of saying it...
i think the colloquial term for them is 'Becky's' (the 'i'm not racist buuuuut...' brigade)
@@davidaward82race card alert 🚨
@@stephenmurray2851 learn to read.
When Boris got it, that's when I got worried. It shows that the virus could jump species from human to neanderthal.
Very good
Well you will definitely get it then
*alien
@@paulheath7407 Fingers crossed, the less labour voters around the better
I would not make this joke, lol
Seeing JOB just sitting there, hunched over the laptop, looking exhausted at everything. Sums it all up really. 😅
Want an update to this timeline? James was back in the studio with us recently to run through the events of UK politics since 2020, from 'Partygate', to Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak. Check it out 👉th-cam.com/video/lKLQQeKw1e4/w-d-xo.html
‘He meant well, but then so did Hitler.’
Spike Milligan.
lol. he was just misunderstood as an artist.
I disagree with this analogy - Hitler had the decency to shoot himself.
Spike Milligan the well known comedian who had mental issues all his life
@@michaelmouse4024 Wish you would, mind hanging is less messy if you do ha
On the losing where we hun at the GE and regards to Brexit
All these Gammons and Nazis still about spouting hate
Got to love it x
@@millwallholdings Congratulations. I think you have found the world's thinnest argument. Certainly the most incoherent.
Don't forget when we Ate Out to Help Out, and then got told we were all fatties who were to blame for the increased infection rates.
We were told to Eat Out to Help Out, then we were told to Drink Up and Fuck Off
Like all the fat kids around but of course they are all starving we are told by some "expert" who kicks a bit of plastic about for £100k a week
@@notsosecretsnacker5218 so so so true lol
“Cavalcade of chaos and catastrophe” says it all
The critical one for me was discharging patients into the care homes from hospital without testing; QED no one had a clue . The second one was ”corona doesn't discriminate” mantra when the median death rate was 82 & 60 per cent disability rate; if I were cynical, has anything really changed?
The words that come to mind when I think of this government are bad faith, contemptuousness and delinquency.
I can’t believe the plural form of a word beginning with the letter ‘c’ didn’t make your list.
@@user-gi5nh6ng7g : don't worry, Angela Rayner might have it on hers. If so, can't wait for her to use it.
'Incompetence' springs to mine
Only THIS government?
BUT not Jew haters like a certain other party
The Greek government saw what was happening in Italy and their warnings then shut down the country. The population largely complied with regulations. They kept cases and deaths low. They opened up in summer and cases have gone up, but nowhere at the rate of the UK. They've got a plan. The UK could have done this.
@Hugh Jones All European countries are doing better than UK! So that's not a big deal for Sweden. But Sweden is still not a good example because different mentality and way better health system than UK. And still they could have done better. Simply compare them with other Scandinavian countries who have similar social systems and mentalities. Swedens elderly paid the price for the younger and the economy to not lock down.
More power to the Greeks for having gotten that right!
@@wanderschlosser1857 The Swedes admit that they got it very wrong with the elderly..if you factor that into the stats, they got it very right...
@@fatfrreddy1414 No they didn't! They got much worse numbers than all their neighbors including Germany. And their economy didn't do much better compared to their neighbors. Now during the 2nd wave, which hit them as bad as others with no herd immunity benefits, even them are implementing partial lockdown measures. Also you might find elderly less important but they still have the right to be alive and not being sacrificed to ease the life of the younger and to save the economy.
@@wanderschlosser1857 yes they did...they have an economic future.. we don't! The whole thing is political corruption gone viral...
"Turkish equivalent of Del boy Trotter"😂🤣. I'm a Turk and still find this line hilarious.
Listening to this in Australia on March 10th 2021. We’ve had similar problems with allowing people back from overseas, and the Petri dish environments of quarantine hotels. A bloody disaster.
I know someone who has had this virus back in may and is still ill ( Breathing problems 55) and it's all looking very sketchy and disturbing now in our increasingly dysfunctional society
There will be an inquiry when it's to late and the dead are buried, facts for our children to see
There should be but whether there actually is or not. I fear that it will all just be 'brushed under the rug'.
Too late.
We are now over a year on from this and its still vital to remember what was being done...or rather what wasn't being done when this started
Excellent as ever Mr OB. There were indeed many voices trying to scare people into going back into their office for fear of losing their jobs. To understand why you could ask your colleague who has the three hour slot before yours every day.
Does he not have a O.B.E. James
Nick Ferari I thought was the loudest voice to go back to work to help the coffee shops
#SackRacistNickFerrari
He's the epitome of old man shouts at cloud
Great work James. I couldn’t disagree with anything you’ve said. Somethings I couldn’t even remember.
Well done James
So, Boris boosting shook hands on 14 March, tested positive on 27 March, between 14 and 27 = 13 days incubation period
Some issues with terrible posture aside, an informative video - thanks James and Penguin
He is physically bitter and twisted... I think he will turn into a pretzel after Trump gets re-elected !
@@cuckingfunt9353 okay 👌
@@cuckingfunt9353 you certainly must be tired of losing.
Fab oversight over the whoel sorry mess!
O’Brien summed up the present mess in 3 words: “Absence of honesty”
His book is called how not to be wrong .... FFS, he never gets it right. He was wrong about Brexit, he was wrong about Trump... The dude is a professional loser. His book should have been called how to spend eternity in denial.
@@cuckingfunt9353 I agree with you. I left his book on the shelf of a charity shop because 50p was excessive for that sanctimonious garbage
@@drdel76 You read it wrong. The charity shop was paying 50p to anyone who would take it away during the toilet paper shortage.
@@cuckingfunt9353 All his book is good for is wiping yer arse with, Who is he A nobody, a nothing, dont even have a full time job
the irony.. the blairites JOB supports are the most sinister devious liars ever to have walked into the govt in its history
James, I take it all back. That was brilliant. Thank you.
He seems to be explaining all the problems not only us , but many other countries experiencing the same and similar problems .
Does that include the lies and deception from our government?
@@candyman5912 Yes , i've never known of any Government foreign and domestic not to .
@@darrenwilliams2921 So you're saying we cannot hope to have a better government than our current one, in the future because, they will all lie and be as corrupt as our present one?
That cannot be true.
@@candyman5912 No its true, go for the Jew haters did you, classy
I took Dominique Cummings advice and went for a drive to test my eyesight and realised I needed glasses when I couldn't read the signs on the motorway , not until the police pulled me over for driving on the wrong side .
I did similar when I was at a party drinking all day. I wasn't sure if I was rat arsed so decided to settle the argument with the party host. I drove home. In the morning i realised my bumper was hanging off and i had blood and hair in the grill.... now, how that happened I've no idea, but i phoned the host and said I must have been bladdered because someone damaged my car last night and I heard nothing.
...and here we go: another venue for people to be upset with Mr. O'Brien. As to the point as ever. BTW I'm also heartbroken by Ian Brown's lunacy.
Me too. Total let down man 😕
I've always been a massive fan of him too but he is clearly well and truly off the reservation now.
Eh? All the comments are positive.
On my right forearm, I have the Stone Roses lemon logo as a tattoo. I learned to play guitar after hearing Waterfall and wanting to be able to recreate it - which I did, succesfully. My entire life has been spent adoring (lol) the men from that band, and Ian Brown is the greatest front man who ever lived. And now he's a fucking moron. Listen, drugs are fkin amazing, but it turns out that further down the line bad things happen. Stop it, Ian. Keep quiet. Please. My tattoo begs it.
JOB... Used to listen to him on LBC until he became RUDE with less educated listeners than himself. The man is a two faced f**k wit. Rude, rude and triple rude!!
I think if wearing masks in public was made mandatory from March it would have kept the “danger about ” in the mindset, it’s easy to forget when there’s no fire at your door.
That’s coming real soon, mandatory masks as soon as you walk out the door. I can see it.
mandatory masks, then mandatory lockdowns, then mandatory vaccines, then mandatory tracking devices, then mandatory transition to digital money, and it will go on and on and on...
@@anewworldnormal1957 just look at Making Tax Digital, once fully operating. No one will be able to set up a business, without a real time digital records. 😐
Brilliant. Can we please have a follow up in December, and maybe a summary of incompetencies. Great work.
someones easily pleased, brilliant oh dear, his nothing a nobody a part time radio hack
James has the perfect face for radio
You have my full support & respect
Thanks for your hard work!
The government has made a mess of an impossible situation. However if everyone who has made a mistake should resign James should have resigned when he made unforgivable remark to a father concerning sending his child to school, and if the child died it would be his fault. Really cruel awful interview. He should have resigned or been dismissed.
Are you saying that 46,000 people could have been saved? How? Was the lockdown a mistake or did it not go far enough? The lockdowns in Spain, Italy and France were far more draconian than ours and yet tens of thousands have perished there too. Please do educate us with your greater intellect.
@silverfoxeater Double standards muppet
@silverfoxeater Labour voter i smell, JEREMY THE TRAMP WOULD HAVE SAVED US ALL ON HIS WHITE HORSE HA HA , WELL APART FROM THE JEWS OF COURSE
IF HE HAD BEEN VOTED IN HE WOULD HAVE SHIELDED THE WHOLE COUNTRY WITH HIS MAGIC
THESE LIEBORE VOTERS REALLY ARE INSANE
CAN YOU IMAGINE THE HATEFUL CHARACTERS LIKE MCCONNEL, LAMMY ABBOTT AND BUTLER, THEY WOULD ONLY BE INTERESTED IN THEIR "OWN" PEOPLE
love JOB, hes great at what he does. people dont like him because he asks people to explain the reasons behind their opinions. and people dont like that.
MR X James admitted he was wrong and apologised to Frank. Conduct far beyond our government, sadly.
@@MR-X-. it looks like you've been destroyed with facts and reason. But unlike JOB, you don't have enough about you to show some humility and take your comments back.
@@candyman5912 which comments candyman?
Seems like "he who cotrols the pubs controls the universe". Unbelievable !
Drinking has always been used as a way to sedate the seething proletariat in this country.
Just imagine how long this would be if he'd added all the contracts awarded to donors and the care homes being forced to take in untested residents from hospitals and the school results and the sending uni students back and the blaming of the public for being to much freedom loving etc.....
Brilliant summation of the total shit show going on day by day. Thank you for a clear chronology of the debacle now know by all. Huge changes are and must be reached. Keep up the fair and factual information stream. Best wishes.
I think although there is factual analysis in what James said, there is a fair point to acknowledge there is that often the companies bosses, political leaders and other leaders have been, scientifically, proven to be leaning towards narcissism. In fact, narcissism is a trait that helps leaders to have a high level of self confidence necessary to be a good leader. However, the most important characteristic in a leader is not his ability of being narcissist but his capacity EMPATHY. #Thatswhatsmissing.
Politicians get away with any excuse. Unlike the rest of us.
Advice from Italy! Yet when the opposition said the same Torys called hindsight!!!
This is fantastic. I've been a fan since J. O'B was Sandi Toksvig's warm up man..... Happier times, to be honest.
Great summary. Though no mention of seeding the carehomes? 🤔
Boris drove the minibus back to the care homes personally.
Thank you NHS.....
@Enigma MK
to cede is to give up (something)
to seed is to cause (something) to begin to develop or grow
@@Number9s I feared Enigma was being ultra witty. I declined to clarify 😂
@@davidhaesler8371 My apologies for missing the humour. 😂
@@Number9s No no, I feel you made the right call ultimately 😀
We live on a island we had warning it was coming just like New Zealand did we have the highest deaths in Europe.
What an amazing reaction at 07:47 🤣 Sums up the nations collective recollection of that point in time I think!
There has got to be a role for James O Brien as a sort of Charlie Brooker surrogate, doing a more politics heavy Newswipe on TH-cam.
Brooker & O'Brien, now there's a combo. They should do a podcast Rogan style.
Charlie Brooker is TALENTED.
No thanks, No place at all for this creep
Glaxosmithkline HQ is in castle barnard! Just an observation guys! I'm sure a uncanny coincidence!
Our headquarters are in London and we employ over 99,000 people in 150 countries.
It's Barnard Castle.
Harmire Road
, Barnard Castle, Co Durham DL12 8DT
uk.gsk.com/en-gb/about-us/uk-locations/barnard-castle/
@@peteanderson7416 But Barnard Castle would be an ideal out of the way place for underhand government deals involving Dominic Cummings. Lo and behold a few days later a new government contract for Glaxosmithkline. Do you know what your senior management are up to?
Hello from Dublin. Thank you James. ☘️
WOW!!!! Some people suffer from amnesia....
121 Tory MPs have given this a thumbs down.
At least they have so many MPs . .. Labuor seems to be lost in the wilderness. Maybe if they hadn't betrayed their voters things could have been different.
“The Art of the bad posture “.. James O’Brien
That's what you kept from this whole video? :S
@South London He is a realist.
Whether he comes off as "negative" or "positive" has to do with how "grounded" the listeners opinions/views are.
@South London I'm going to be honest...i enjoy listening to him deconstruct half baked opinions on issues.
A lot of us don't really think things through when choosing a side on an argument...and at the same time we entrench ourselves behind it.
(Human nature is to justify any choice we make as the best choice...if it weren't the best choice...then why would we choose it?.)
Is he a bit of a cheeky twat to his callers? More often than not...but if you are going to put your opinion on national radio (public display) it needs to be able to stand scrutiny.
@Jamis Billson 1 He is physically bitter and twisted... I think he will turn into a pretzel after Trump gets re-elected !
@@Thanos1908 He is an expert in denial, he is consistently wrong about EVERYTHING... He then has to rant on about how it's not his fault, the public are all stupid, the quint essential brat... So bitter and twisted at always being wrong, no wonder the guy resembles a worn out sock used wanking.
great knocking. I know you want to stick the boot in. well done.
"He looks about.. 43 years younger there"
To believe that ppl were flocking to the beach in Bournemouth because they saw Dominic Cummings get away with his violation, instead of course that it was hot as hell and ppl had developed extreme cabin fever from months of being cooped up in their houses is utter balls! Yes the British Government has managed to save neither lives nor the economy because of their incompetence but far too many ppl pretend not to understand that once the virus had become endemic there was little that could have been done. Had the government locked down hard before the virus numbers began to warrant it they would have been accused of overreacting and once the virus took off it was too widespread for lockdowns to prevent mass casualties already baked into the spread. But this is what you get when you elect weak leaders that attempt to govern by sticking their finger in the wind to tell which way the public opinion is blowing rather than with commitment to principles, ideas and conviction. If they’d had the balls to stay the course with constant advisories and less draconian restrictions at least they’d have experienced the economic and social benefits and would have had something to show for their efforts, a la Sweden. In the end they got just as much death (more per capita than Sweden even) but racked up huge public debt, destroyed jobs, likely caused many deaths from disruptions to medical services and universal condemnation on the left and the right of their handling of the crisis. Well done Boris you managed to get the worse of both worlds!
This is my first time watching this: three years, six months, and five days after its publication. It's a pretty depressing reminder of how things were, and also of how much worse things got. We may be out of lockdown by now, but governance has hardly improved and polarisation has got worse. I'm sure part two will be about as uplifting. 😒
Love James O'Brian . That guy speaks so much sense .
His book is called how not to be wrong .... FFS, he never gets it right. He was wrong about Brexit, he was wrong about Trump...
The dude is a professional loser. His book should have been called how to spend all eternity in denial.
@@cuckingfunt9353 I think maybe the only here in denial is you.
@@originalbadboy32 What am I in denial about ?... It's like you lot trying to pretend Trump isn't the president, or Boris is not the PM... That's denial. Time to just get to grips with reality dudes.
@@cuckingfunt9353 Tory propaganda moulded your mind into the exact shape they wanted it to be, and now, you are incapable of admitting your fault. The tories don't do anything for the benefit of us plebs, only for themselves and their ilk. the sooner you realise how true that is, the better it will be for all of us. I voted for brexit btw, but am able to admit it was a terrible idea. I still think the European parliament is a terrible idea and not necessary. It's just a way for the rich to get richer and give jobs to their friends and family. It's nepotism writ large. I voted for brexit because I don't think we need another layer of toffs lording it over us all, we have quite enough of them in the two layers we have here. It seems I was the only person who voted for it based on that.
@@pseudonayme7717 iI have never voted Tory. I don't understand anyone (who isnt a banker or toff) voting for them, I havn't fallen for any of their lies. . . But what has Labour done for the working man in the last 40 years ? .. If it wants to get it's red wall seats back it needs to offer something to the workers.
how incompetent do you have to be as a tory to get the sack? only seems to be when you upset a colleague not screw the country.
Book per-orded . Legend !!
useful if you run out of toilet paper
@@middleman9183 useful if you like to read and aren't a dim prick. Good lad
Not usually a fan James, but credit where it’s due. And we have so called educated people or our supposed betters running this fiasco. Barnard Castle to test your eyesight has to be up there! I’m not being flippant about people who have lost loved ones and friends, as a result of COVID-19.
Democracy may be at risk. Unfortunately, humanity doesn't learn from history.
Job you're a treasure
really the man is a pure prick
And this is just the tip of the iceberg 🤦♂️
Government should be held accountable in a court of law. Their actions are criminal.
Mass resignations will be the only appeasement.
absolutely no shade to the creators of doctor who, it's fans, or any of it's periphery, (i'm one of the fans), but boris' stay at home announcement bore SO MANY shades of harriet jones' 'where are you doctor' announcement from david tennant's first episode.
couldn't take anything seriously from mophead before that, but that moment was just surreal.
Barnard Castle, isn't that also the home of Gaxosmithkline?
James always tells it how it is, admittedly he trails off a bit but eventually does get to the point 👍
I am not quite sure at which point James drops his believe that citizens should be excused for their stupidity because the ones in charge are setting a bad example. Are you not all allowed to think for yourselves?
Siting hunched over compresses heart and lungs and is also bad for the spine.
I've booked a flight from Canada back to the UK for Christmas. I have no idea, at time of writing, whether I'll be allowed to come back or what restrictions will be in place. This government has been tested with a new virus like every other government across the world and I did genuinely have some sympathy for them. However, the incompetence and the arrogance of the Tory front bench has withered that sympathy to anger and disgust. If I'm allowed to fly will I have to quarantine? If so, for how long and where?
I'm hoping my Christmas dinner will be with my recently widowed Mum or it might be a chesse and pickle sandwich from WH Smith at Heathrow. I don't know and neither, crucially, do the government. I don't want sackings or resignations, I want them to do the job they were elected for which is - amongst other things - to show strong leadership. Let's face it, they've NEVER got to grips with this pandemic and it's about time they did.
There it goes....bouncing off the walls of its own echo chamber. Depressingly accurate non-the-less.
Well said
I never believed it any how, all for show , look at me I'm invincible
Thank you James for as always your straight down to earth facts.
In regards to Cummings,on a driving test your eyesight is check before you get in the car.If fail,the test is over.I believe that Cummings broke the law by driving without knowing if his eyesight was up to standard.A bit like putting your hand in a fire to see if it will burn.
“Wash your hands!!”
Should check out how Victoria Australia has handled it
Ha, this is excellent. Should be a weekly feature
5 times a week in LBC radio
we are sill being treated like mushrooms
Loving the Etch-a -Sketch analogy. Great piece, James.
Bang on James. Only a narcissist won’t change their minds, ever. ✌️
Is he still going on about brexit then?
The only rational explanation for Dominc Cummings continued employment is that he his the real life embodiement of Charles Augustus Milverton.
And not a comment on how the government turned a democracy into a tyranny, a power they had no right to do. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
But I do agree that politicians in general never admit their mistakes and never ever appologise for them. Which I find is a complete lack of ethics and honour. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
JOB at last looks happy as he declares himself an author. I wonder if he'll still be so proud when they're being pulped.
Thanks James 😊
For ensuring labour would lose the election you neoliberal POS.
When all them people went to the beach in Bournemouth you would of thought the positive cases would of gone up but they didn't 🤔
Would *have*
And, Boris going to a crowded rugby match at Twickenham. And, Hancock's racing association and the holding of the horse racing at Cheltenham in early March.
And Boris's dad being often seen without a mask, illegally, and yet nothing resulted.
i love his LBC show , mystery hour can be laugh out loud funny !
This is quite good job better than the radio show
I know where I stand on Covid-19 and Boris Johson...
Worst government we've ever had.
Ha Ha. Boris delivered Brexit.
Anyone would think that James is angry at Boris. Surely not,James is a big brave boy.
He reminds me of Charlie Brooker
Should have waited another two months James, they’ve provided enough material in December alone for a whole series of these.
Just a summary of a diabolical lot. Thanks James 👏👏👏
James please don't call them skeptics That's an insult to all of us real skeptics worldwide. Please call them what they actually are which is fake skeptics or pseudoskeptics. Thank you
Flip a coin and shout heads and tales... says it all. Ha ha
As an Irishman I wish to formally apologise for Jim Corr.
Ian Brown has had too much spliff.