- I hate the way politicians have started banging on about 'ordinary people' recently. There's no such thing. Everyone's extraordinary in their own way, with extraordinary stories to tell and passionate opinions informed by their experiences and what's in the news.
- "I don't think the problem is going to be a problem"! The Brexiteer logic in a nutshell.
- "Remoaners! Remaniacs!" If you have to invent a word to describe the people who think you're wrong, you're kind of doing the work of your critics for them.
- If pointing out problems has become Unpatriotic, then we are halfway to Fascism.
- [Climate Change] What explains the desire to Pooh-Pooh the Pope and the President?
- Later we'll be discussing teachers who can't teach grammar and literacy due to their poor grammar and literacy.
- I'm sorry to be interrupting you interrupting me.
- [Brexit Negotiations] This absurd idea that we have to scare them that we'll walk away. And I can show you how absurd that is. This is the call by the kind of John Redwood, Owen Patterson wing of the Conservative Party, this is the tactic: "If you don't do what we want, we're going to shoot ourselves in the head!"
- So a year after the Referendum the Government is actually asking "What are the Contributions and costs of people from the EU living here?" And if you need evidence of how bonkers this has become, there it is.
- I am the Brexit Cassandra.
- If you're rushing to meet a target, you're not going to worry so much if some of these removals aren't kosher.
- I wrote on this November of last year. Wrote? It was on Twitter. Does that count as writing?
- There always was a small number of UKIP voters who were comfortable with immigration, I think you'd need a Psychotherapist rather than a Journalist to work out what they were getting out of the deal.
- You know this theory of mine about the Footballification of everything, right? Well, there's a flaw in it I didn't identify. So you pick a side and you slavishly stick at it, hurling horrible abuse at everybody else wearing the opposition's colours, your central defender hacks down their striker in the box and you scream blue murder at the referee that it wasn't a foul at all, you watch the replay and your striker was 14 yards offside for the winning goal, but you swear blind that he wasn't offside at all, you know what I mean by that? The suspension of objectivity that kicks in when your devotion to any team or side is slavish. Tribal. Footballification of Politics, and I love this theory, and I think it describes the discourse in this country at the moment, largely because of Brexit, but not wholly, it's this notion of "Right that's me yes, down with all the rest of you", and that holds true for the central discourse of British Politics at the moment, I've got a feeling, and we'll check this 37% figure, if we had a way of recording overnight the number of people feeling unrepresented, it would have been the biggest number of all. Am I right?
- [Leavers] They somehow think they're worth more to Britain because of, I don't know, some monochrome accident of birth.
- That feeling of frustration you have inside of you as the facts are laid out, that makes you still cling to your position, is called Cognitive Dissonance.
- You reilliterated yourself? That's not even a word!
- God Bless you, and all who sail in you.
- [Brexiting] If it becomes an exercise in denying reality, where does it end?
- Owning the Libs by pretending to be stupid is pretty much the motto of 2018.
- That's why it's so important to ignore the idiots, now.
- We've arrived in a place where it's news to say the Sun will come up in the morning, or that it's a bad idea to jump out of a Plane without a Parachute, because Brexit has broken everything.
- We've got a Country now where abject nonsense is given the same weight as evidence-based reasoning.
- I think we're moving into a period of British Political History that is beyond Rational Analysis.
- [Brexit made Britain worse?] Like a weasel in the Night!
- [on the Radio] Why is it so hard to talk about Mental Illness in this Country?
- [Disillusioned Guest, Nostalgic for the 90s] I promise you it'll get worse.
- Look, all you need to be able to do to do my job, is talk! [Guest sighs]
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