Raging lefty James O’Brien took to LBC today to pontificate on Trump’s latest involvement in the Ukraine crisis and his call with Putin. Dispensing his infinite wisdom, O’Brien declared that the historical context of events since before World War II is “impossible to exaggerate.” He sneered that those “getting their knickers in a twist” over Trump’s actions are displaying “historical ignorance.” Reading out a listener’s message that “Liberals seem to really love war, violence, and money-wasting,” O’Brien smugly attempted a history lesson on appeasement:
“So, to take it back to 1939, Hitler has invaded Poland, Neville Chamberlain has suggested that we should just let him keep it, and as long as he promises not to do anything else, then we can stop all the raging wars and stop spending billions of pounds.”
Wrong. Chamberlain had in fact guaranteed war with Nazi Germany if Polish independence was threatened six months before Hitler invaded Poland. O’Brien somehow managed to confuse the events of 1939 with the Munich Crisis of 1938, when Chamberlain pursued appeasement by allowing Hitler to annex the Sudetenland—something any GCSE student would know. For all his grandstanding on historical literacy, O’Brien could use a lesson or two himself…
Sarah Pochin at Reform Scotland’s manifesto launch event: “I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn’t allowed… One day let’s do one of these events not live-streamed. We’ll do all the naughty stuff…”