LBC host says Starmer’s austerity speech is boring

  • Post last modified:August 28, 2024
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LBC host James O’Brien is the perfect poster-boy for the liberal corporate media anti-Tory austerity-to-red-Tory austerity pipeline. He’s also a cautionary tale in centrist commentator goes bootlicking for the Labour Party establishment.

There must be something genuinely rose-tinting about speeches in that famous prime ministerial garden to liberal types. Because, fresh out of Starmer’s callous austerity-riddled speech, and O’Brien has backed the red is the new blue prime minister’s “tough choices” bullshit.

LBC’s James O’Brien makes blunder over “boring” austerity

In one fell swoop, James O’Brien dismissed the fears of everyone Starmer had thrown under the bus in his speech. Granted, he wasn’t fangirling after Starmer as if the prime minister was dropping Oasis’s new hit single for our post-Tory broken Britain times, but he may as well have been. Ostensibly, what O’Brien said was just as out of touch:

It would go something like this:

As it happened though, thankfully, there were no nauseating Oasis reunion quips. Though it wasn’t without Sky News trying:

Fortunately, we didn’t get Starmer making any tone-deaf “man of the people” blunders after his disgraceful speech. Perhaps the media laying into him for his staggering hypocrisy after his frivalous freebies as he cut the winter fuel payment to pensioners and laid the groundwork for more brutal public sector cuts, got to him. LBC’s James O’Brien on the other hand didn’t have a shred of self-awareness. Starmer announcing more of the Tory’s brutal murderous austerity? People on X pointed out that “boring” wouldn’t be the word they’d use for it:

If you hate Starmer’s speech, you hate Britain?

Of course, while branding Starmer and his speech “boring”, James O’Brien couldn’t help but lay into those lambasting Labour too.

Specifically, he implied that anyone not supporting Starmer’s swathe of austerity policies are essentially unpatriotic.

Ultimately though, what O’Brien was really saying was, if you don’t like Starmerite austerity, suck it up. Of course, this means anyone who opposes scrapping the winter fuel payment for millions of pensions, or those who want Labour to ditch the cruel two-child limit on benefits:

Novara Media’s Rivkah Brown underscored that O’Brien was being a good little establishment stooge punching down on oppressed communities fighting for more:

In other words, shut up and be grateful we don’t have the Tories. Except, Starmer’s speech proved again how he practically is a Tory:

Boring is the new buffoon

Overall, James O’Brien’s spiel spelled out what we can likely now expect from the shill liberal corporate media.

During the election debates, one audience member told Starmer he was more of a “political robot” than a person. Now, it seems Labour’s liberal media lackeys are playing into this. However, the thing about “boring” is, that it’s a convenient smokescreen for cruel, continuity Tory austerity politics:

Ostensibly, this image shields Starmer from legitimate criticisms:

It’s Boris Johnson’s slick buffooning clown branding, with a stale Starmerite twist. They’re peddling a bog-standard Starmer bore, doing ‘grown-up’ politics now he governs the country.

Of course, this is the big liberal con, with a Conservative capital ‘C’. When it comes down to it, Labour is simply using its economic black-hole to cry “tough choices” and throw marginalised communities to the City wolves of Westminster. Liberal broadcasters like LBC are simply helping them launder this perception to the public, in much the same way the right-wing press did for the Tories:

James O’Brien: blaming everyone but the new government

And it seems this is exactly the image Starmer is aiming for too. Stood in the Rose Garden, the government’s new three-word political slogan was emblazoned across his podium. Stand aside “Change”, because now it’s time for “Fixing the Foundations.”

Naturally, it’s also a not-so subtle swipe at the Tories after 14 years of wrecking the UK. Largely though, it paves the way for precisely more of the same austerity politics that did this in the first place.

To Labour media lapdogs like James O’Brien, people couldn’t possibly dislike Starmer because of his politics. It all goes to show how superficial centrist media commentators like O’Brien are. Ultimately, his privileged take on Starmer’s Osbourne throwback proves how little he cares for the people these cruel policies will harm.

The Tories and its right-wing client media killed hundreds of thousands of people. Now, Labour and its liberal media are gearing up to do the same – with suck-ups like O’Brien leading the charge.

Feature image via the Canary





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