0600 Nick Ferrarri (Leans right)
1000 James OB (leans left)
1300 Shiela F (leans left)
1600 Eddy M (broadly keeps his counsel, with a suggestion he also tends to look left)
1900 Iain (Leans right)
2200 Tom S (leans right, albeit with a coma-inducing style)
I'd say there is balance across the weekday schedule.
Ferrari - very right wing
O'brien - not left, he approved of many of Cameron's policies like the Bedroom tax and Universal Credit
Fogerty - wishy washy
Mair - obviously centre right
Dale - stood as a Tory MP (failed)
Snorebrick - very right wing
Adam - centre right
Allen - old school Tory
0600 Nick Ferrarri (Leans right)
1000 James OB (leans left)
1300 Shiela F (leans left)
1600 Eddy M (broadly keeps his counsel, with a suggestion he also tends to look left)
1900 Iain (Leans right)
2200 Tom S (leans right, albeit with a coma-inducing style)
I'd say there is balance across the weekday schedule.
Ferrari - very right wing
O'brien - not left, he approved of many of Cameron's policies like the Bedroom tax and Universal Credit
Fogerty - wishy washy
Mair - obviously centre right
Dale - stood as a Tory MP (failed)
Snorebrick - very right wing
Adam - centre right
Allen - old school Tory
O'brien unquestionably leans left to the same extent that Ferrari leans right which makes me think your other opinions aren't particularly accurate either.
Ferrari - very right wing
O'brien - not left, he approved of many of Cameron's policies like the Bedroom tax and Universal Credit
Fogerty - wishy washy
Mair - obviously centre right
Dale - stood as a Tory MP (failed)
Snorebrick - very right wing
Adam - centre right
Allen - old school Tory
Do you think it is possible that your own political beliefs may have influenced your analysis as to where the centre ground is when determining the political leanings of others?
The reason I ask is that I have spent a lot of time listening to LBC over the last couple of years, and I hear a very different line up to the one you describe.
We can probably agree on Ferrari - he is clearly quite over to the right, often with quite 'populist' tendencies. Iain Dale has never hidden his Conservative views (and nor should he, he's entitled to them) - nor has he hidden from the fact that he has previously stood for election as a candidate for the Tories - You seem to describe that in such a way as to deride him, which is unfortunate.
'Wishy washy', of course is not any kind of meaningful analysis, it's just a personal insult. Is 'wishy washy' left or right leaning in the context of determining the overall political balance of LBC's output?.. Or is she 'wishy washy' because she engages in discussion on politics from both sides without long partisan monologues?
I am most intrigued how you could possibly describe J O'B to not be of the left... He has spent much of the last two years imploring everybody listening to sign up to a trade union, support striking workers, turn away from Murdoch and Barclay brother-owned newspapers, supporting free school meals for the poorest, etc. He didn't support Corbyn.... but that hardly disqualifies him from holding left-wing views.... most of the Parliamentary Labour Party didn't support him, either.
And as for Eddy Mair - the sheer number of times he has absolutely skewered cabinet MPs to the extent that, on occasion, its actually been uncomfortable listening is overwhelming. The Chris Grayling Jar of Truth, the phone-ins he's done on universal credit, government incompetence and the attacks on accountability during the pandemic. Are you very sure he's
right
of centre?
On the whole, I think the balance is there across the schedule - the problem is I don't listen when I am going to hear somebody whose views are drastically different to my own. I can't listen to Ferrari any more (personally feel he's been increasingly losing it over the last year), I have issues with Tom S's style and much of the weekend output lacks the careful curation of the weekday output.
Ferrari - very right wing
O'brien - not left, he approved of many of Cameron's policies like the Bedroom tax and Universal Credit
Fogerty - wishy washy
Mair - obviously centre right
Dale - stood as a Tory MP (failed)
Snorebrick - very right wing
Adam - centre right
Allen - old school Tory
Do you think it is possible that your own political beliefs may have influenced your analysis as to where the centre ground is when determining the political leanings of others?
The reason I ask is that I have spent a lot of time listening to LBC over the last couple of years, and I hear a very different line up to the one you describe.
We can probably agree on Ferrari - he is clearly quite over to the right, often with quite 'populist' tendencies. Iain Dale has never hidden his Conservative views (and nor should he, he's entitled to them) - nor has he hidden from the fact that he has previously stood for election as a candidate for the Tories - You seem to describe that in such a way as to deride him, which is unfortunate.
'Wishy washy', of course is not any kind of meaningful analysis, it's just a personal insult. Is 'wishy washy' left or right leaning in the context of determining the overall political balance of LBC's output?.. Or is she 'wishy washy' because she engages in discussion on politics from both sides without long partisan monologues?
I am most intrigued how you could possibly describe J O'B to not be of the left... He has spent much of the last two years imploring everybody listening to sign up to a trade union, support striking workers, turn away from Murdoch and Barclay brother-owned newspapers, supporting free school meals for the poorest, etc. He didn't support Corbyn.... but that hardly disqualifies him from holding left-wing views.... most of the Parliamentary Labour Party didn't support him, either.
And as for Eddy Mair - the sheer number of times he has absolutely skewered cabinet MPs to the extent that, on occasion, its actually been uncomfortable listening is overwhelming. The Chris Grayling Jar of Truth, the phone-ins he's done on universal credit, government incompetence and the attacks on accountability during the pandemic. Are you very sure he's
right
of centre?
On the whole, I think the balance is there across the schedule - the problem is I don't listen when I am going to hear somebody whose views are drastically different to my own. I can't listen to Ferrari any more (personally feel he's been increasingly losing it over the last year), I have issues with Tom S's style and much of the weekend output lacks the careful curation of the weekday output.
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They've gone to a lot of effort with this Westminster setup
It's a far cry from the days of Pete Murray, Douglas Cameron and the 'Fix It Phone in'
It's also a far cry from Gough Square, I walked through there last week to see for real their original location. It's not really a square at all, just a wide but not very long street. Their original building has gone, (comparing archive pics on goggle), but they clearly couldn't pretend (or imply) to be occupying all of a 40 storey office block at the top of the TC Road 😎
