James Max | 04-Jan-24

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Talk today we do it all Soon oh my God it’s the ghost of Margaret fer she says at 10:00 on Saturday night she watches that was the W that was with Pete Barnes Susan Evans Lois Perry and the Fantastic Lord mon come [Applause] On and a very good morning to you it’s Thursday the 4th of January and this is your early breakfast show on talk where we’re on TV on dab on your smart speaker and we’re live from the news building here in London I’m Jay’s Maxs now coming

Up this morning Dr Roger G he’s back to look at the latest business news and today there’s disbelief Defiance and some relatively good news we’ll be talking to him later in the show as always you can get involved in the pay-per-view and talking of the papers one of them lists the UK’s greatest

Cities but there’s an obvious choice that isn’t above them I can only assume that whoever wrote them hasn’t got a Scooby-Doo will find out who what when where and how and why and then also if you pick wisely when it comes to the newspaper review you might find out

Britain’s rudest Street and place names I’ll leave that to you meanwhile K starma says that labor is the party to end despair really meanwhile mortgage rates are falling and National Insurance uh Cuts have come into effect and sunak economic plans they apparently have turned a corner so the economy is the

Key to unlock everything that’s wrong in this country but who’s better to lead and why good morning to you hope you’re well uh this Thursday morning uh the p are full of lots of different stories uh including uh a dance player that lost starma says the headline labor is the

Party to end the despair really I despair s d is to urge voters to hold on to the flickering hope that life can get better and will say that he wants to fight and win the election on the battleground of the economy now labor don’t have a particularly good good track record when

It comes to governing the economy perhaps they have a better track record with other things who knows I wonder what the track record is good with but anyway maybe it’s just that they’re not this lot because here’s the difficulty for you me us as we look at our political

Scene the current incumbents have made such a mess of so many aspects of Our Lives we continue with the doctor’s strike they haven’t solved that they told us that they were going to cut the NHS waiting lists but they’ve gone up they told us that they were going to

Grow the economy and it’s kind of stayed static they told us that inflation would half but that’s nothing really to do with them they told them told us that they’d stopped the boats and they haven’t really achieved that and yet you have a look at the opposition you say

Okay well what would you do so they just throw a whole heap of money at the NHS can we really afford to spend more on it they tell us that they’d probably sto the boats but they probably wouldn’t because you have a look back in their history and they’ve been worried about

It for the last 20 years and they still haven’t come up with a policy that we can see what the alternative is and when it comes to the economy all labor wants to do is canian economics spend more spend your way out of recession when did that ever

Work and where are the tax cuts that are going to put more money in your pocket nowhere so labor is the party to end despair meanwhile The Daily Mail says New Year Mortgage price War boost for Tory hopes yes the starting gun was fired on a mortgage price War yesterday

HSBC they became the first major Bank to offer fixed rate mortgage deals at under 4% rival lenders expected to follow suit so we could see cheaper mortgages we could see more money in your pocket as a result of the uh National Insurance cut the conservatives though still haven’t

Changed the allowances that you’re able to have and indeed yesterday reform said well would say 20,000 is when you start paying income tax maybe that’s the right answer I I don’t know you tell me I want to know from you who’s better to lead and why 0344 499 1000 that’s the telephone

Number of course you can send me a text 872 start your text with the word talk and you can X me or Twitter tweet whatever you want to call it at thejames Max and at talk TV I want to hear from you because I don’t think we’ve ever

Faced a poli iCal situation before where the incumbent have made a complete and utter has of things and the alternative is a shower and the other Alternatives who’s going to vote lib Dem anyone anyone and reform anyone have they even got either of those parties got a chance of winning

More than a handful of seats probably not so it is rightly or wrongly it is between labor and the conservatives K sta I mean that I why labor is the party to end the despair how why because I don’t see that it’s just that they’re not the other

Lot 0344 499 1000 is the telephone number K St or Richie sunak who’s the better leader and why is what I’m asking I’d like you to tell me because I have my views and both seem to be relatively incompetent is that fair I’m just despairing because normally

When you have a choice between various different leaders at least you can see that there’s a an opportunity so when John Major faced his election back in 97 Tony Blair at least had something about him great aitor I didn’t agree with everything he had to say and then

There’s the small matter the Iraq War and weapons of mass destruction completely uh dealing with his credibility and then there was Gordon Brown uh the chancellor at the time who crashed the economy spectacularly and then went on a massive blam storm saying that it was Banks and institutions when

Actually it was Central governments here and in the US that had repeatedly printed money and yet here we are decades later the world is an instable Place halt attacks in Red Sea or else the UK tells Rebels so that’s one side and then you you go to the uh I newspaper and

They haven’t got a cheery story no Trump 2 Z is a threat to the UK warned Britain’s top diplomats oh it’s not it’s not a shiny place to be 0344 499 1000 that’s the telephone number who is best to lead the country and why Heather is in Scotland

Heather good morning good morning Max and you can call me James Heather and uh Happy New Year by the way Happy New Year to you uh well who is the better to run this this country let me see oh nobody because what both labor and conservative done and consecutive

Times when they both were in power in different times and different periods they’ve really wreck this country I mean look at the state of this country right now both labor and conservatives have neglected this country completely so you talk about the neglect what would you do

To fix it what needs to be fixed first well we need to get rid of the soft power we need tough power oh and we need some real smart people who can be trusted to run this country CU that’s that’s there’s a big problem there’s a there’s a big problem with trust isn’t

There with our politicians yeah there a lack of trust you do you know why that is because both labor and conservatives have totally destroyed this country no wonder why this country is turned into a third world bleeding country I’m not sure we’re quite a third world country yet

Heather we are we’re getting there because have you seen have you ever gone to Grims have you ever gone out of London so let a bad though Heather Grimsby is very well named well this been this part this buildings left in bad Decay people’s homes got molded I mean you Lo down in

London you don’t live in the real world right who whoa whoa whoa hang on Heather just you hope one second what do you mean I don’t live in the real world you do oh why not people you people in London do not live in the real

World you don’t go out of London you don’t I do go out of London Heather out there and see I’ve been up north I’ve been to places and I I I agree with you but I go traveling all over the place Heather what you better start look

Keeping your eyes open because tell you what the people’s houses with be with bad mold and badly very true but then on the other hand Heather I remember stories in the 70s the ‘ 80s the ’90s about bad housing uh we saw worse housing after the second world war slam

Clearance all that sort of thing it’s been a perennial problem yeah it’s been a been a perennial problem for one reason it’s these dumb politicians right okay so how do we how do we break this cycle because I’m asking it’s going to be between K

Starmore or richy sun we need to do is get rid of this past the post business oh no off voted so it gives other parties chance to get some bums on seats and start changing the whole political machine because tell you what the political machine in this country is

Knackered well tell it how it is Heather okay well you’ve told us you you’ve given us no hope and and a massive amount of despair yeah but do you know what they we need to do is change the political machine okay um let’s also change direction and

Uh tell me which newspaper you wouldd like this morning so we can start our newspaper review and I love the times please oh the times a number between uh 1 and 64 number eight number eight all right let’s have a look at number eight uh do

You mind if I get my spectacles out uh yeah I know it’s all right there we go oh do you want to hear um about a labor party plan or somebody who’s selling off houses Jet and a yacht uh can I change your a page are you telling me you don’t want

To hear about baroness moan and her husband Doug Baran are selling off luxury houses a private jet and their super yacht pitch seven oh all right because it’s you here we go oh than you oh so this is all about reform um the leader of Reform UK has

Issued a public appeal to Nigel farage to return to the political front line to save Britain that’s uh Richard Ty he told a press conference in central London that farage was still assessing whether to make a comeback should he yeah oh all right then well then that’s that sort of

Heather thank you very much indeed 0344 499 1000 that’s the telephone number Kia St or Rishi sunak who’s better to lead the country and why Ian’s in London Ian good morning I can almost guarantee what you’re going to tell me I’m going to uh should I just should I start snoozing

Now good morning James how are you okay good morning in I’m very well indeed thank you lovely um well quite clearly you know the answer um the sooner he calls a general election then labor can get their policies out and maybe uh start to get this country back on its

Feet now you say that but K starma labor is the party to end the despair convince me as to why or how they’re going to do that because I despair at the prospect of K stama being prime minister in the same way that I despair at the current shambles that we’ve got in

Power when tunak have the minerals to call a general election then the policies will come out but unfortunately as has been shown before the Tories are like mpes uh if you labor yeah but all political parties do that I think that’s that’s a that’s a dull that’s a dull uh

A dull reference there I I would like to understand if Kier starmer is saying that labor is the party to end the despair you tell me you’re obviously uh seeing something that I’m not what is it that they could do is it just that they’re not the other

Lot there was going to be a windfall tax on energy um that was really I don’t see that as a good plan at all okay because we already have we already have Ian we already have windfall taxes on energy companies so should we be taxing companies that are

Based here in the UK more ta no because then they’re just going to move overseas so then you get a bigger percentage of nothing it makes no sense well it’s t stole that policy rebranded it and called it the energy profits Levy yeah it’s horrendous in the

Same in the same way that the other policy that they stole was the uh energy price cap which all that does is just shove prices up to the minimum level I mean or the maximum level it’s just a nonsense but what we’ve got with labor we’ve got some honest people here we’ve

Got people that are more down to earth people that are not corrupt people that are not in it for themselves and in it for their white all politicians are in it for themselves in uh I’m saying it for themselves their father-in-law and their their wife wife’s business things like that they

All do it sorry Ian Ian I I understand your point but until or unless we change the political system the amount of whether it’s labor or conservative MPS who employ members of their family or stuff uh organizations full of their cronies they all do it and and this is

The this is the problem that we face is that you might say oh they don’t do all these things they do we had situations when labor was in power of um handing money to the labor party and suddenly finding themselves uh answering questions in the in the house uh handing

Money over to different political parties and then finding themselves popped into the House of Lords um you know it’s the same old deal that they’re all as bad as each other I don’t know why you have this faith that suddenly labor is going to clean it up they’re

Not because I think that K St is a decent man um you know I know he he’s he’s a man that seems to care he’s got a front bench team that know what they’re doing a person level on a personal level on a personal level i’ I’d agree with you I think that

K sta seems like a decent person in the same way actually D I said I think richy sunak seems like a decent person richy sunak is not a decent person richy sunak lies through his teeth they all constantly he’s in the so they all do St is either a decent person personal he’s

Not I don’t think he lies you wouldn’t have got to be director of public prosecutions if you’re a liar you can get to wow wow Ian Ian you are so naive no I’m not at all not at all so just have a look at have a look at Kier

Starmer’s track record and uh who he kept in the country who he didn’t I mean it’s just a nonsense I mean this is this is the problem you you’ve heard you’ve heard of the um the the the the uh taxi rank situation haven’t you yeah of course with the with barrs yeah that’s

Why he’s defended people that have stayed in the country that lots of people think shouldn’t have been in the country that’s a taxi rank it’s that’s how it is that doesn’t mean he’s dishonest but I tell you what is dishonest uh Shak saying that this Asylum backlog or this this immigrant

Backlog has been cleared and it clearly hasn’t the guy’s absolutely I have to say I have to I have to agree with you I have to agree with you on that that whoever was involv in him and and whoever the pr spin department is in number 10 they should all be fired there

They’re either a bunch of rookies who don’t know what they’re doing or there are a bunch of rookies who don’t know what they’re doing no and he’s say but he’s he’s a prime minister that doesn’t know what he’s doing to be honest but there you go so let’s just that we need

That change the country needs a change it’s gone stale now after all the corruption of of Johnson and all that all right I understand Ian we’ve had some incoming so let me ask you a question um Roger says labor will win this year but we’ll make a bigger mess

Of the economy than we’re already in no they won’t yes they will they I think I think Roger got his eye on the eye on the prize I think Roger knows what he’s talking about meanwhile Wayne tells me that I live in a I live

In a Rish bubble I don’t know what a r bubble is uh you should walk around a around little town at Shops closed I I do see that Wayne and and it I despair at how we’ve allowed our High Street to be hollowed out by uh pathetic tax

Regimes that don’t work and again it’s a wonderful opportunity for labor to reinvent the tax system and they refused to do it well they haven’t released released the policy yet because he hasn’t called the general election yet call a general election and we can have it all out in

The open and it can be debated properly right well I dare say we will uh we will have to deal with that what newspaper do you want uh Daily Star please oh um B End by the way um it’s place a road B end it’s a road in won in

Northamptonshire are you wanted to go to page eight of the Daily Star is that it is that where is that the funny Road names yes yes please okay I may or may not listen I I have to put a warning before I say any of these names these are all

Places these are all places in the United Kingdom I’m going to try not to snigger I’m going to give you a number between 1 and 40 uh pick a number between one and 40 12 Sandy balls uh that’s that’s a new forest in in um H so H yeah so uh pick another

Number between one and 40 11 11 oh no for this one up yeah no we have to so for this one number 11 we have to go to Bolton which apparently is uh in Greater Manchester that’s up north um this is a place called knob end yes bit like band in

Northamptonshire yeah now what number is what number is band uh I’m gonna get so much travel where is it must be there it surely don’t call um oh I don’t know uh sorry I’m just reading this i’ got to shut the page i’ got to stop back now no no what’s number seven

It’s not there number seven it’s not it’s not there it’s not there so there we go 40 naughty place names is the uh article in today’s Star newspaper which is probably the only way we’re going to cheer ourselves up today in um in uh in these terrible uh terrible times are we done

Now thank you have a good day thanks thanks for calling uh if you want to have a place name uh in the United Kingdom you can do so so you can pick a number uh I should probably cross off the ones that we’ve had so we’ve had 11 we’ve had 11 and 12

So you can’t have those but you can have a number between 1 and 40 plus you can help me you can help me uh review the papers Plus I’m asking you this question K starma or Rishi sunak uh who’s the better leader and why uh this is off the

Back of the front page of today’s Times newspaper which says starma labor is the party to end the despair how how are labor going to end the despair that’s my problem I I despair at the lot who are currently in power because they’ve made so many

Mistakes but K starm in his lot are they going to be any better I doubt it 0344 499 1000 uh we will come to more of your calls in just a few moments time and also we’re going to be going across to the United States of America because Jordan’s fed in from

There however if you’re slightly closer to the home call me now couple of free lines into the building and we’ll get as many of your calls on uh between now and 6:00 here on talk TV we’re here thanks for joining us you’re with talk TV on TV on radio online on your smart speaker as well criminals to using XL Bully dogs as weapons to threaten others no matter how well trained most dog owners will tell you a dog can turn you know what I love

About to today we do it all sunak sella scon I rather like David Cameron I don’t sort of bear him any your will because he delivered the referendum that he said he would deliver the tor’s love a scrap you can almost see this coming around the tracks with soela bravman she’s

Heading up one side and richy soon at the other the police are pro Palestine that is just not right you swearing off in the police to act without fear or favor the co inquiry seems to have turned into a sort of pantomim there’s not really any substance to it it’s hard

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Result nil absolutely nil are we only going to be trusting sources like meta and Google where is our unbiased news going to come from Kell in winter is cold that is from the Jeremy Corbin book Kevin O Sullivan is the worst presenter on talk TV sitting on his fat ass talking

For if you’re walking towards me and you’re a vegan should have a great big orange sticker over here saying watch out vegans about the weirdest plank that we’ve had in three years hundreds and hundreds of mice in a box which he walks into a branch of McDonald MC mous man MC mous

Man MC he should be easy enough to catch this guy shouldn’t he I mean he’s got house full of mice this is a major Summit President Biden decided this was important after watching a Tom Cruz film sunac and the current conservative government are not conservative why

Don’t you leave that party and come to one that actually shares your IDE this has been a party political broadcast on behalf of the reform UK party kids think all they have to do is take pictures of everything just shut down Tik Tok problem solved this is really

Unfair what what what’s unfair if it’s on camera we’re not doing interviews yes I’m going to do you’re going to resign yes cuz I cannot continue my work when I say I am God I’m not joking did you feel Elvis was controlling I’ve been answering your question you answer mine

It’s actually not my job to answer your questions are you prepared to call h a terror group is it possible to have a rational I’ve asked you two questions should a mass stay in power and are they a terror group you’re refusing to answer either of them that is very telling talk

TV it’s the only place where you get the truth you’ve done a book on poetry poetry and music for the many I love poetry we can agree on that 5:25 is the time very good morning it’s me Jam Max with you till 6 o’cl here on talk TV where I’m talking to you about Kia stama and Rishi sunak why because Kia stama has said and it’s on the front page of today’s Times newspaper labor is the party to end the despair

Really I despair at the current lot in power because they’ve made so many mistakes but I despare at K starma and his lot as to whether they could do any better I’ve yet to see any policy that makes me think I trust you with our politics and our country and our economy

Because the economy is is what’s going to get us out of this mess we can only afford to invest in our infrastructure to uh change our housing to make sure that our public transportation systems are better to improve uh the lot of the NHS if we have have more money that we

Can then throw at these things and if our economy isn’t delivering then it means that we can’t pay for it we certainly can’t tax anymore we got the highest tax burden in 70 years so we better rethink so how do we get more and

I know that some of you don’t like it I want to see more overseas investment into the UK this whole idea that you tax non-doms well hang on a second that’s a double taxation policy and I know it sounds boring and tedious but if you tax somebody on income that they’ve already

Paid tax on elsewhere because it’s been earned elsewhere and you try and tax them twice they’re not going to be here anymore so you get a larger percentage of nothing so our tax system has to reflect what we can get and what persuades people to bring their business

Their Finance their investment here if you frighten them off then you have a repeat of the 70s an Ever decreasing circle of Despair and by the way if you start putting VAT on school fees what does that do to our national uh education system it shs more people who can’t

Afford to get to the they’re basically paying for education twice already so why do you want to charge vat tax on a tax on a tax they shouldn’t have to pay for their education in the first place but they choose to so if somebody chooses to do that why should they pay

Tax again if they pay tax on the income uh that they’re using to pay for those fees it makes no sense but you tell me otherwise 0344 499 1000 is the telephone number K starm or Richie sunak who’s the better leader and why um I did say that I would go to

Jordan who’s in the USA so here he is Jordan good morning where the heck is he Jordan hello all right we’ll try and get Jordan back meanwhile Dave is curiously in Essex Dave good morning good morning James oh good morning Dave all right let’s get things straight here oh yes Kei starma should

Be the next prime minister sorry who should be yes because I’ll tell you why yes when these lony left idiots go home from work one night and find an asylum seeper sleeping in their bed snuggling up to their old woman then they’ll get what they voted for won’t

They they’ll be happy then right um Howard says K starmer is a hypocrite who at the last general election supported Corbin as the potential prime minister they knew that he was unfit to be prime minister and held and that he held anti-semitic views as per the ehrc

Report in fact some four years on uh had the labor party won the general election we would now have the fical position of a sitting prime minister suspended from the labor party great show says Howard he’s got a point he’s got a point Kei sta will bore the nation to death he

Will bore people to death he’s useless okay so he’s useless what about Richie sunak then oh my God oh oh don’t talk about trouses right sunak yes uh I don’t know if he’s ever kept a promise in his life as he I don’t know I don’t know he’s out life outside

Parliament I mean he’s a liar proven liar oh you know you know a proven liar uh promises well you wouldn’t secondhand car dealer you know it that’s his place in life right okay so it sounds like you’re not particularly en raptured by either of the two Alternatives oh my God okay

Well if you had to choose between one of them which one would you choose well it have to be suck but I’m not happy with him I’m not happy see that’s that’s that’s I think a really telling point which is there are a lot of people up and down this nation who

Are really sick and tired of the Tory party but unless or until Labor come up with something which is an alternative that does end the despair they haven’t got a hope and talking of Despair you know who’s on the front page of the Times newspaper he’s got his head in his

Hands who do you think that is no I don’t know go on so uh this is um Luke ller so he’s the darts guy at the 16-year-old who got to the final of the world darts championships but sadly didn’t win oh well was a shame but good

Luck to him he’s learned a lesson he’ll come back good luck good luck uh meanwhile would you like to pick a news paper uh I’ll go with the Daily Express I didn’t the other day cuz they told lies on the front page oh dear well they

Often do um just before we do that pick a number between one and 40 for me well I want to go for number no this is not the page number this is this is to get a nice um naughty place name right six six

Oh so this is in we got to go to Islington now uh and this is a place called coming Street uh don’t know it but I got family in Islington yeah well there you go so that’s a place in Islington for you so we can now tick number six off the list

Then we managed to do that without sniggering and so well done us aren’t we adults uh number uh a number between one and 60 please uh number six then oh all right six of the Daily Express let’s have a look oh hope for homeowners as big lenders slash their mortgage deals um

The property Market kicked off the new year with a bangers lender SL morgage rate uh sellers reduced asking prices and analysts predicted up to six interest rate Cuts in 2024 well that that’s good news cut the interest rates I believe so anyway lot of people out there struggling on there

Certainly are yeah you know it’s that’s good news that can’t be bad news right well then there you go Dave curiously in essic thank you Ken is in Kent hello Ken good morning CR bottom in w actually it’s in Alon it’s full of a I mean what else can

I tell you well let’s let’s not use bad language although talking of bad language um so would you like to hear what shanara has to say about the um about our politicians no actually politics is like the M25 James either North or South but either way is slow it comes to dead ends

And it’s a disaster with crashes all day long and nobody knows to solve it so what they come up with is smart motorways and then we still where we are and this is our politics are it’s been like it for about 300 years oh dear so

When K Dharma says as he does um the labor party is the uh it labor is the party to end the despair um he says that they can hold on to the flickering hope that life can get get better yeah toys have got empathy how about that one as

Well then right um he wants to position himself as the candidate of change and pledge to end the despair of a downtrodden country yeah well well nothing to sell tell him to have sold it all oh so there is despair I agree with that so where else are we going to go

Now the only thing we got left is NHS and they can’t even afford to pay the doctors a decent living wage so here we are we’re all going end or lying in a hospital bed how much is a decent living how much do you want to pay our

Doctors you should pay them what they deserve and most Junior doctors should be earning at least at least £100,000 a year really they’re saving people’s Liv you pay MPS 86,000 quid a year for what you got a load of them at Pratt’s bottom Westminster right okay um

Who’s going to pay the extra money for all those doctors then well hs2 that’s been a band isn’t it start with selling bess’s B yacht then go after all the others that have had this PPE uh money that’s been wasted then look at all the subsidies 145 billion that we give to

Train companies that we privatize how’s that working out for you James yeah I’m not sure you quite understand how government finances work Ken yeah now I know how it does it gives it away to the rich like train companies like water companies like sewage companies you know like British British steel you know

Subsidize it sell it off sheet and then when it goes um ale up we then give it a no more money that’s what happens to government money that’s your money that’s my money that’s what happens and then somebody else comes along and says we’re going to change you we’re going to

Make it all better for you vote for us and we’re going to build you a better world so Happ they build houses and then sell them all off because the lunatic like fascia comes along that wasn’t a lunic how dare you uh who’s the who’s the better leader out of K starm or

Rishy sunak then listen you’ve said it yourself they all lie to get to where they want to get yeah but you got to choose one of them which one are you choosing and why it’s like a choice between the devil and a deep blue sea is it which one do

You want to do and that’s that’s why I’m asking it Ken because ultimately those are the two choices that we’ve got it’s the same in America where you’ve got a choice possibly between Biden and Trump I can’t think what’s worse my God yeah that’s about like like you know having

Euphanasia or you know dying in a hospital or bed with no nurse I mean which one you want to choose oh dear we are painting a miserable picture this morning Ken well the bottom line these games I mean we’ve allowed this we the voters allow this continuous abuse of the parliamentary

System where we allow these clowns at Pratt’s bottom in Westminster to actually say to us this is your choice there is no choice you’re going to have that idiot that’s going to spend like there’s a there’s no tomorrow and then you’re going to get the other idiot

That’s going to give it away to the rich there’s no choice oh happy New Year so so we all so we all are we all doomed then Ken well I’m not saying we’re doomed yeah what we’re going to do like many pensioners like many people disabled like many people unemployed what we’re

Going to do we’re just going to flit around you know picking up the the pieces and the scraps that are left over while all the T Rich you know like barones moan you know like or any of them just look at them look at what they’re doing all getting big fat pay

Rises as MPS all getting subsidized well they don’t choose they don’t choose to be fair they don’t choose what they’re paid uh okay pick a number between they choose to be an MP don’t tell me well of course they choose to be an MP um I don’t think they paid enough I don’t

Think they paid enough Ken they chose to be an MP I they listen only reason they want to be an M uh bored now um Ken can you pick a number between one and 40 please let’s talk about their pay why no um I’m bored uh can you pick a number

Between one and 40 please yeah you make it sound like they’re a poor MPS that have paid a p and they’re doing us a favor I’ll get yeah um finish that sentence pick a number between one and 40 please Ken one 40 well let’s talk

About lit now got let let’s try again uh Ken can you pick a number between one and 40 please oh if I’ve got to do it they have the Daily Mirror they don’t another Bunch unless they have page three or something maybe no no no I

Wanted you pick it right well we’ll do the mirror in a second when that when the gloves are come in however what you’ve chosen I’ll see no no but I want to I I want so you want number three do you I don’t care I want I want that

Number 10 does that help no it wasn’t helping helping hang on I’ve got the I’ve got the gloves coming how about the number 11 page 11 or you know all number 11 get him out I don’t want those ones which which color do you want red uh pink or or

Green oh God I mean what how about black no I throwing them on the floor right okay what is that red then I’ve got the red ones I’ve got the black go no you can’t have the black Bel I’ve got the red ones right okay so I’ve got the red

Gloves so you want me to go into the mirror and you want page three go for it yeah okay here it is sorry hang on a second this is toxic rag that I’ve got to deal with I do take my health and safety very seriously K there

We go right uh it’s going to be tricky to get here we go oh look at this you’ll be really interested by this story Claudia winlan proves that you can get more bucks for your bangs as we take a look at how her career has this is

Page three of the mirror how her career has thrived alongside the famous haircut the 51-year-old star returns to TV’s uh most devious show the traitors with her most epic Fringe yet who is she what do you mean who is she she’s Claudia winman she co-presents um strictly and she also

Presents traitors strictly what strictly strictly what strictly koring oh right okay well where’s that what what program TV shows that on then well it’s on it’s on BBC it’s their best watch show Strictly Come do they do strictly cboy what do they talk about what politicians well no they don’t talk

About it they dance Ken oh what like MPS dancing around all this nonsense and they keep serving out that kind of dancing do you live under under a rock Ken a rock I live I mean that’s a you know hell of a rock now do you want

Number three from this list of naughty place names or do you want to pick another uh number between one and 40 H um well there’s one down in Devon somewhere isn’t it called um um what number 16 I don’t know do you want number 16 number 16 we’ll have that one

It’s called crapstone in Devon oh craps bottom that’s it no not craps bottom crapstone it’s happy bottom which is number 19 and that’s in wimbor endorse it thank you so much Ken always a pleasure never a chore uh dearo dear um Lenny help good morning James good morning

Lenny I’ll take my marry Golds off cheer us up pick a number between one and 40 what myself oh that’s a bit quick no no no I’ll come to your point in a second I just want you to pick a naughty place name no we left number seven James oh

Seven right number seven is Ming Lane in Upton upon seven in wer there you go thank you very much indeed for that playing along with the game uh okay richy richy sunich K who’s the better leader in why well we’ve got a very good yard stick James regarding starma oh yes because

Starma uh supports and agrees with all mayor KH of London’s policies I’m not a big fan of country you’re going to end up with a country in the same state as London with no law and order the slowest country uh the slowest city in the world to drive around yes

And you’re going to end up with the policies of uh immigration Europe all all the things that we voted against that’s what you’re going to get with starma oh dear uh Boris Johnson by the way is on the front page of the Daily Telegraph Boris Johnson has condemned a metropolitan police investigation into

Israel Over alleged war crimes in Gaza this is Scotland yards counterterrorism police have launched an appeal for Witnesses traveling through British airports to report allegation of war crimes and crimes against humanity what the heck is the Metropolitan Police investigating that for well I cannot understand it James

Because it is not our fight and and and we should not be really uh participating in it I don’t think what is Britain’s top city by the way pardon yes what is Britain’s top City who is Britain’s top City no what uh well it seems to be you know I’ve

Never been there for for uh and it seems to be Manchester at the moment I do believe well uh sford in Greater Manchester is number three um you might like to know that number one according to this list by Anna white who in my view uh hasn’t got a clue and should

Probably be fired from the telegraph uh she says Dum Ferlin is number one number two is Newcastle number three is sford four is Leeds and five is Cardiff and London isn’t on the list of top 10 what kind of idiot is she well uh you know it she’s London is

The greatest city in the world for all its faults and and May car nightmares it’s still an amazing City Lenny well I mean I I haven’t been there for for a long time because I’m frightened to go there James so I you know I I don’t I mean should I be

Frightened to should I be frightened to should I be frightened to get on the tube to go home well I would be myself personally I mean I am I am a I am a cockney at heart a coony and yes I am James yeah well you know my attitude I’m

Not born in the East End of London but no uh I you know but uh I am a true loner at heart but I am frightened to go there right well on that bombshell Lenny hang on there because I’ll come to you in a second to get a newspaper and a

Story from you uh and meanwhile if you want to give me a call you can do so Kia starm or Rishi sunak who’s the better leader and why is what I’m asking 0344 4991 th000 more of your calls and Dr Roger gal that’s next here on talk TV we’re here thanks for joining us you’re with talk TV on TV on radio online on your smart speaker as well criminals to using XL Bully dogs as weapons to threaten others no matter how well trained most dog owners will tell you a dog can turn you know what I love

About to today we do it all sunak sella scon I rather like David Cameron I don’t sort of bear him any ill will because he delivered the referendum that he said he would deliver the tor’s love a scrap you can almost see this coming round the tracks with sella bravman she’s heading

Up one side and rishy soon at the other the police are pro Palestine that is just not right you swearing off in the police to act without fear Fe or favor the co inquiry seems to have turned into a sort of pantomim there’s not really any substance to it it’s hard to know

Whether it’s a fce or a tragedy the amount of time it’s taken the number of illegal migrants currently sent by us to Rwanda zil the amount of money it’s cost we’re saying what are we saying it’s cost about 140 million 140 million pound so far so40 million so far

Result nil absolutely nil are we only going to be trusting sources like meta and Google where is our unbi EST news going to come from Kell in winter is cold that is from the Jeremy Corbin book Kevin O Sullivan is the worst presenter on talk TV sitting on his fat ass

Talking for liit if you’re walking towards me and you’re a vegan you have a great big orange sticker over here saying watch out vegan’s about the weirdest plank that we’ve had him three years hundreds and hundreds of mice in a box which he walked into a

Branch of McDonald m mous man MC mous man mous he should be easy enough to catch this guy shouldn’t he I mean he’s got house full of mice this is a major Summit President Biden decided this was important after watching a Tom Cruz film sunak and the current conservative

Government are not conservative why don’t you leave that party and come to one that actually shares your ideology this has been a party political broadcast on behalf ofform UK party kids think all they have to do is take pict of everything just shut down Tik Tok problem solved this is really

Unfair what what what’s unfair if it’s on camera we’re not doing interviews yes I’m going to do you’re going to Res yes cuz I cannot continue my work when I say I am God I’m not joking did you feel Elvis was controlling I’ve been answering your question you answer mine

It’s actually not my job to answer your questions are you prepared to call H possible terror group is it possible to have a rational I’ve asked you two questions should a mass stay in power and are there ter group you’re refusing to answer either of them that is very

Telling talk TV is the only place where you get the truth you’ve done a book on poetry poetry and music for the many I love poetry we can agree on That 547 is the time it’s me James Max with you till 6 when it’s Jeremy Kyle and Rosie Wright with talk today here on talk TV talking to you this morning about Kia starma and rishy sunak who’s the better leader and why I’m asking you that because on the front page of the

Times newspaper today uh starma is going to say that labor is the party to end the despair I I genuinely don’t understand how or what they’re going to do uh and I do Despair and it’s not that I’m some great fan of the incumbents I think they couldn’t have made a bigger

Mess up if they tried uh that having been said are they even despite all those terrible messes that they’ve made is Kia starm and his lot likely to be better I do Wonder 0344 499 1000 that’s telephone number uh meanwhile I was chatting to Lenny who’s in Kent uh Lenny

Do you want to pick a newspaper for me well can I just answer your question on who to vote for James oh yeah well I think because we’re all confused at the moment and no confidence in the main parties yes I I believe a lot of Voters will not make their mind

Up until they’ve got their pencil in their hand I think that’s possibly right and and uh with that situation I truly believe that it gives an edge to reform are going to be very surprised right I think they’re gonna do very well okay well the polls say that they might get

10 whole percentage points uh meanwhile oh uh dino says morning James you need to introduce Ken to Lenny because Ken made cheer Lenny up I think Lenny is all doom and gloom but I think we’ve had that conversation before and you’ve asked me never to put you on the at the

Same time ever again well you know Ken’s got hiso his opinion and he’s he’s entitled to yes but we we got a different way we agree on many things but we have a different way of getting to the answer right meanwhile newspaper please uh let’s have the Daily Express

James oh I did say newspaper as opposed to rag but anyway a number between one and 60 please uh we’ll stick to number seven James of course we will seven oh no we’ve had that this was hope for homeowners as big lenders slash their morgage deals pick another one for

Me well another number no number 12 James oh oh this is uh by uh my uh colleague Esther crau who says um we need to treat knife crime as a real emergency the Fatal stabbing of teenager Harry Pitman in PR Hill ushered the worst possible start to the new year just 20 minutes

Before midnight uh the 16-year-old lay bleeding to death as revelers watch Sadi Khan’s new year fireworks from the affluent North London suburb it’s been an emergency ever since Theresa May devastated the police force I think it was an emergency before that Lenny but I think you I think you’re

Right uh very quickly let’s go to Stephen who’s in where are you you’re in Spain uh yes good morning James yes certainly good morning Stephen now we’re gonna have to be quick because I’ve got Dr Roger waiting for me so um what about Karm or Richie sunak who’s the better

Leader and why totally agree with you neither I think labor will make it worse I think we I’ve said you before reintroduction of capital controls I know you say that’s not possible but I think with labor it could happen and I think they’ll bring in rent controls and

Even price controls and it will be back to the 1970s oh that’s my fear right well then gloom and doom so if you had to put your box tick in a box or across in a box who would it go to um I’d give reform a chance oh and interesting well

Then there you go Stephen I only move on Just for time reasons thank you for your call though let’s move though to Dr Roger viol who joins me now Roger uh CEO of fair money how are you very well Happy New Year James yeah it looks like your technology has gone really weird

And half your face is chopped off but never mind it looks you know swiveling your weird Bon what the hell jacket are you wearing a jacket what oh it just looked it looked like it was some kind of dinner jacket no it’s all right it’s

Fine okay now um so today um um I I guess you you have a a range of stories for us and we’ll start uh perhaps with um oh disbelief yeah well I think we we hear a lot and we you spoken this morning about uh all the the scandals and the mess ups

And the you know ridiculous things that government and Regulators do but the story that came out um late yesterday uh really tops them all I think and that is the terrible tragic story of the sub post offices the postmasters and post Mistresses yes from as you know 1999 until

2015 my gosh that’s a long time uh more than 700 of these people who ran small sub post offices were accused and prosecuted for fraud and theft well exactly and the and the scandal of the system I mean that I don’t know whether it’s more Scandal of what’s what they did alternatively it’s

More scandalous that the story’s current currently being told doesn’t include the uh former chief executive of the post office a gentleman by the name of Adam croia who’s now the uh chair of ITV oh and where’s the show being shown ITV interesting but I agree it is an

Absolute Scandal and it seems to be very slow to be paying out in terms of what they’re doing very quick Roger though let’s lighten the load a little bit give me a number between 1 and 40 cuz you come from the United States of America and we’ll have no idea what I’m talking

About I’ve been here a long time James 24 uh you’d like number 24 uh oh netherthong uh in Yorkshire so pick another number before me 18 oh excellent choice uh number 18 is a place in East Yorkshire where I’m going to have to work very hard not to get a

Fit of the giggle um there’s a place in East Yorkshire called wet Wang anyway uh let’s move on then uh before I get myself into trouble uh so um back to our conversation though so we’ve had disbelief now we got Defiance so this is a story about Nadim zahari

Tell us more well um a series is being released finally uh about this terrible post office Scandal and these poor people many of were sent to prison uh even more of whom were financially ruined some of whom seemed to perhaps have died early um and the series is coming out

This week I believe and Nadim zahawi who held a lot of different ministerial posts as you know but was sacked by uh rishy Rich uh because of alleged uh questions over some of his tax Affairs uh sacked as Chancellor of the ex- cheer which is kind of stranger if you have

Tax problems allegedly uh he’s actually playing himself I do find that absolutely Star is Born indeed he plays himself absolutely astonishing uh in a sentence please uh re-evaluate your mortgage now this is some relatively good news it is on the front page of some of the papers and this is all to do

With mortgage rates yes you’ve talked about this before and I’d simply like to introduce uh to our viewers a word of caution uh basically what is happening from today is that mortgage lenders uh initiated really by the largest the Halifax are starting to drop their rates

The Halifax is going to drop rates by as much as 1% almost but be very careful because not all the rates are being dropped only some of them it’s it’s what you call a quote loss leader unquote situation to get people into the store basically yeah given uh Andrew Bailey

And the bank of England’s 14 rate Rises which have crushed the mortgage Market their business hasn’t been doing very well so indeed so they try volumes up they try and get you in and through the door Dr Roger gel CEO F money thank you very much indeed we are out of time but

Thank you for bringing us up to date at least we had a little bit of good news but be careful if you are trying to refix your mortgage uh there are good and bad deals out there meanwhile good deal I’m back tomorrow from five next though it’s talk today with Jeremy Kyle

And Rosie Wright when a big bearded member of hisbah here called for Jihad on the Streets of London they are not calling for an inner personal struggle with the Divine if you’re not tolerant go die in a trench Mak is not very bright I only read his books because I’m paid to I was

Out as gay when you were still talking about whether or not you were sorry love you’re not a celebrity you’re just Gay we’re here thanks for joining us you’re with talk TV on TV on radio online on your smart speaker as well criminals to using XL Bully dogs as weapons to threaten others no matter how well trained most dog owners will tell you a dog can turn you know what I love

About to today we do it all sunak sella gon I rather like David Cameron I don’t sort of bear him any ill will because he delivered the referendum that he said he would deliver the Tories love a scrap you can almost see this coming around the tracks with soel braan she’s heading

Up one side and richy soon at the other the police are pro Palestine that is just not right you swearing Al in the police to act without fear or favor the co inquiry seems to have turned into a sort of pantomim there’s not really any substance to it it’s hard to know

Whether it’s a FSE or a tragedy the amount of time it’s taken the number of illegal migrants currently sent by us to Rwanda zil the amount of money it’s cost we’re saying what are we saying it’s cost about 140 million 140 million