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http://www.lbc.co.uk 16-02-2009 09:36:59
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'It's as if they just did it as a gesture against the Tories.' Labour did not treat the public like 'intelligent human beings' who could understand how 'complicated' migration is when they decided to scrap the Rwanda plan, caller Sarah tells Shelagh Fogarty.
“He was made to sit through the judge’s sentencing remarks for a good while beforehand.” Shelagh Fogarty reacts as a 27-year-old man is handed nine years in prison for taking part in last month’s riots, the longest sentence so far.
'The country is stuck in a doom loop.' 'Tories boasted about fractional changes to headline GDP and called it growth.' Henry Hill tells Shelagh Fogarty we lack 'the financial base to sustain the public's expectations', calling it 'a fatal combination for the previous government'.
'That was the most undiluted gibberish you have ever heard a senior political figure publicly share.' 'We spent weeks talking about Joe Biden's cognitive decline.' James O'Brien reacts to Donald Trump's 'breathtakingly bonkers' answer to a question on childcare.
'This is the woman who, as a sitting MP, spent two weeks in the jungle.' 'Do these people have no shame?' Ben Kentish can't believe Nadine Dorries has the audacity to claim Angela Rayner is 'demeaning her office', despite going on I'm a Celebrity while she was still an MP.
'What's being proposed isn't modern, it's not new, it's not a real attempt at democracy.' Lord Strathclyde deems Labour's plan to get rid of all hereditary peers a 'political stitch-up'. Tom Swarbrick
“People are really scared that they will go cold.” Labour MP 💙Rachael Maskell MP, who disagrees with her party’s stance on winter fuel payments, tells Tom Swarbrick that ‘the evidence concludes that we’ve already seen excess deaths without that layer of protection’.
‘I think this is going to be viewed as a very early, very odd, very unnecessary mistake.’ Tom Swarbrick agrees with ‘the principle’ of Labour’s winter fuel payment cut, but says not considering those who will be ‘really hit’ is ‘politically idiotic’.
'It was cruel, heartless, and thoughtless...' Caller Judy expresses her anger at the 'heartless' government, telling Tom Swarbrick that if Labour doesn't relent on winter fuel cuts, they will be 'forever blamed for it'.
“You’re against the English.” “No, I’m pro the British.” Caller Mervyn and Tom Swarbrick disagree over the distribution of taxes across the UK.