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🗓️ 11 April 2025
⏱️ 154 minutes
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0:00.0 | Oh, a very good morning indeed to you. Honestly, you have to wonder whether that man is capable of speaking without lying. |
0:06.9 | Nigel Farage there comparing Donald Trump's recent disaster to Liz Trusses. |
0:10.7 | Of course, he described Liz Truss's budget as the best since 1986. |
0:15.1 | He was positively agog with excitement at the prospect of what that was supposed to do to the economy. |
0:21.2 | But I suppose there's nothing like hindsight. |
0:22.9 | He also insisted that Donald Trump's administration would impose tariffs on the UK |
0:27.7 | because of Kirstarmer's attempts to settle the future of the Chegos Islands. |
0:33.5 | A Chegos Islands deal, of course, that Donald Trump has subsequently approved. |
0:38.2 | Downing Street at the time stated that Farage was talking Codswallop and once again the people |
0:42.4 | describing Farage as talking Codswallop have been proved to be correct but does, I don't |
0:47.0 | know, does he ever get asked about these incredible U-turns and dishonest statements. |
0:55.0 | We shall have to wait and see. |
0:57.0 | Four minutes after ten is the time. |
0:58.0 | And it is indeed too his most, what would you call, |
1:03.0 | notable achievement, the disaster that is Brexit, that we turn first. |
1:07.0 | I don't know if they count as favourite subjects, do you? |
1:15.5 | If you'd really rather not be talking about them, but you have to. |
1:23.1 | And then 10 minutes into the conversation, when the calibre of calls starts reaching ever-disier heights of quality, |
1:25.1 | I genuinely find myself fascinated. |
1:29.0 | I found yesterday's show I could barely tear my ears away. It's very, very rarely that I find myself fascinated. I found yesterday's show, I could barely tear my ears away. |
1:33.7 | It's very, very rarely that I find myself thinking, oh, I mean, I'm glad it's mystery hour, but I reckon we could talk about this in a very interesting and illuminating way for at least another 11 hours. |
1:38.6 | And it is not an attempt necessarily to make sense of the madness because that is impossible as I think we realized |
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