…but less so for us…

Farage will never go on your show, but they could have got him to host, lined up all your smartest, best informed contributors, and then listen to them slowly dissect his racist, unintelligent, ridiculous arguments. That's 3 hours of Farage I would listen to.

Whoever thought James Not So Cleverly would be a good host needs to give their head a wobble If you connected him up to the energy grid Londoners would get an entire year of heating from his three hours of gaslighting

Hope you’re enjoying your holiday! Good news is there’s been nothing big so far to report on. Still another week to go though…

Two of them are no longer politicians.

All of them are fuckwits, though.

A bit harsh for Uncle Ed. 😂

He's too busy being a clown to be credible as anything else.

Oh well. I’ll be listening to Radcliffe and Coe on catch-up on BBC Sounds.

Hope they don’t tank yr ratings…. Seriously tho, what on earth are management thinking?

When will Farage have the balls to be interviewed by James O'Brien?????

Oh, well. Maybe I'll get some work done before 13:00 all next week.

Ed Davy could definitely have his own games slot midday Thursday .

Three Tories and a Lib Dem? And all English.... leading "Britain's conversation" ? 😏🤔

It's going to take you a while to recover your lost audience.

2 Tories… well I guess they are not busy atm

NOOOOOOOOooo!!!!

Mourdant and Cleverly 🤦‍♂️

What a truly shit line up, do you mean?

Could've been a LOT worse. Was that the feeling of the overton window shifting?

Would have been nice to have had a Scottish voice for a change such as ex SNP Mp @johnnicolson.bsky.social who has broadcasting experience.

Thanks. They do this guest business every year. But they don’t include Scottish voices. And some of the politicians they do include are excruciatingly dull…

I know. I don’t listen to the guests generally as not who I want to hear and not professionals.

Of course it goes without saying that J O’B plays no role in choosing guest or any other presenters. That’s a management decision.

feels like you hand-picked the creme de la creme here 🙃

At least Lewis managed to whip up some controversy that is actually a long overdue debate. Not sure I'd have the patience for the coming week, with possible exception of Ed Davey. We shall see.

Be thankful for small mercies: no F***ge.

Will Mordaunt stand and fight you for the seat on your return?

With that sword?

Mordaunt gets the sword and James the flintlock pistol?

He probably borrowed it from Grease-Smog

Fortunately, I'm away.

2 failed tories, no Green party representation (as usual), at least my MP is representing the Lib-Dems...

I suppose it’s people who aren’t on holiday ..nothing to do with quality, clearly.

I'm on holiday.

Because, politicians don't make enough money, already, from working as MPs, the overly generous expenses, payments for second homes, having tax payers coughing up for their energy bills and subsidised food & drink; all at a time, when lots of those who voted them in can barely pay for the basics!

And they wonder why voters have so little interest in politics, these days!

Things will NEVER get better unless people who want the vote stay engaged.

I wonder how many (myself included) thought that before last year's General Election.

But has any one of them ever heroically chased a River Island shoplifter???

I’m really hoping Ed Davey has at least one Kidderminster Harriers anecdote in his repertoire

It was more of a saunter tbh.

James, I love you, but don't let the truth get in the way of a good story! You can prove anything with facts...

Has Penny stopped fighting?

Colin from Portsmouth will be chuffed 🤣

And it will be renamed .... The Muppet Show!

Froggie will be complaining because his shower haven't been given the opportunity. Which begs the question, why two Tories? They're not exactly relevant anymore, are they?

None could fit to shine Lewis’s shoes, Stella performance last week

Can Ed Davey do mystery hour please?

I'd keep an eye out that he doesn't replace the chair in the studio with an ejector seat

Every day with a text in vote to see if they get sprung? Maybe a dunk tank. Davey would do a dunk tank for sure 😄

Even if he wasn’t voted to be dunked!

Itll be a kayak or jenga or an oap home or such then 😁

A mystery of how Fujitsu got away with it?🤔 That won't take an hour.

PLEASE

Another unhinged headline by Radio Today

Now that would be some show!

Yes please Ed Davey

I’m still waiting for Count Binface ?

Surely not Mordaunt and Cleverly. Do LBC have no respect for the listeners of your show.

Well that's 2 days I wont be listening. No Greens, but 2 failed tories?

All English as well.

What about the audience? Will somebody please think of the audience!

😨 Another week without my JOB fix?

Goodness, no.

Re your argument re defense and Russia. Problem is, governments across Europe, including UK, if they keep cutting public services, make the middle class & working class poorer, the equality gap wider, enough people will vote for far right parties who are mainly pro Russia like Farage's Reform.

It the 1st April?

We were quite happy with Lewis standing in 🙁

What a letdown next week will be. This week has been great. Thank u @lewisgoodall.com

Was the lettuce not available then?

Sure is…..

Abbot aside (plus weekend consumer & legal hour) we've quit LBC top of head, any 5 of the following; @zoejardiniere.bsky.social @sturdyalex.bsky.social Naomi @pimlicat.bsky.social @carolinelucas.bsky.social or @carladenyer.bsky.social @sianberry.bsky.social @naomilong.bsky.social ..exceed word count

Can’t we have Davey all week?

Your audience figures will drop this week. Lol

Only will listen to Emily maybe Ed. But the other 2 really???

Grief, Cleverley.

Why on earth??? Have you run out of journalists? Or here’s a thought! Let some ordinary citizens do it…

James Cleverly there's a misnomer almost as bad as the wading bird the Oystercatcher.

One worth a listen!

Good grief - James did you suggest this lot knowing them in charge will be begging you to come back

I'll pass! Enjoy Greece 🌞😎

You just like non-broadcasters to take over to show how much better it is when the professional comes back.

Well, I'm incredibly busy next week so I won't have the, er, pleasure of listening to any of these shows.

Tune in for Ed

Should be the evening slot with them. Cute for insomnia

Good grief, your reputation will be further enhanced by your absence!

And what a motley crew!

I wonder if any of them can speak honestly outside of their comfort zone?

it's a good job I'm way too classy to phone Cleverly up and recreate the Going Live 5 star interview. But the temptation is there.

A TV Gold, it was like a pre-historic viral moment.

Why 2 Tories and no Green rep?

Matches up well with the politics of the LBC hosts really, a few centrists and a mass of very right wing people.

Ah well, guess as I can't have radio in garden, gardening will get done in the mornings next week.

That's LBC turned off for the week

Yep two days to listen next week.This week's been excellent though.

Why when James goes away, do we get L& R bag of presenters,but when Ferrari is on honeymoon he gets Sterling RW presenter like Tom Swarbrick.Remember James has Suella as a stand in last year!I have enjoyed Louis Goodall though, even though Ian Dale has been clutching his pearls & spitting feathers!

😂🤣😅

Were Diane Morgan, Daisy May Cooper, David Mitchell and Richard Ayoade available?

Don't forget Lee Mack

Can we have Bob Mortimer too, and Katherine Parkinson ? It could be like an awesome panel show with Greg Davies as chair 👍 Now I want Morgana Robinson and Harry Enflield too, impersonating lots of rubbish MPs

Only half-ghastly

So Ferrari's slot gets extended by three hours for a couple of days next week.

Hope the cleaning staff thoroughly scrub your chair with bleach after Mordaunt and “Cleverley” have been on it.

Wot, no Sue Ellen?🤣

More surprising that Farage is missing.

How did Penny Maudlin slip through the vetting process??😂😂😂

My comiserations.

Shame. Would rather @lewisgoodall.com stayed on for another week. He’s been doing a great job!

Totally agree

Yeah, not listening to this...

Colin from Portsmouth will be all over Mourdant.

Fuck me, was EVERYONE else on holiday too?? I could do your show better, if only I knew how to work the knobs, knockers and slidey things

You do know the first rule of radio is never to have a stand-in that might do well enough to take your job.

Well this lineup proves a point

He gods! Did you have any say in recruitment? Thickerly just no. Mordaunt just about tolerable for 17 seconds. Thornberry best of the bunch but meh. Hopefully Davey will be upside down in his pants playing the bongos. Maybe not.

4 very good reasons not to tune in .

Ah finally some time to catch up with some podcasts!!

Sorry - I’ll be washing my hair that day

This is some sort of reverse play so people are so relieved to have you back and tune in in their droves. I see your game Mr.

I think your job is safe James

Think I'll be tuned out most of next week. Lewis had been great cover this week!

Ye gods. I hope I'm on holiday somewhere.

Oh such a shame, was hoping for round 3 of the Lewis Goodall Inheritance tax debate to continue, Lewis v Ian Dale with a bit of Shelagh thrown in too, good job Nick Ferraris on honeymoon he would’ve been having kittens. Top man Lewis

Senior politicians and Penny Mordant

I WILL BE WASHING MY HAIR !

Will give a few if those a miss, especially Ms Stand Up and Fight.

Why not Lewis ???

This should be interesting. Listening to Penny Mordaunt offering them all out. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

At least no Sewer Braverman

Cleverley always puts me to sleep, could be the Rohypnol. Always expect Mordant to whip a sword out and shout There can only be one or by the power of Greyskull

sTaNd Up AnD fIght

😂😂

A week to miss

Bring back Lewis! Alternatively, feel free to come back to work early James.

All very well for you, but some of us are expected to listen. Unlikely to be me, though. Might give Davey a shot, but Morduant in the morning? I think not!

😂

Stand up and fight! (x17)

At least I can catch up on some podcasts this coming week.

And if you turn on your radio. Other people will turn on their radios. And when we all turn on our radios. We will listen to our radios together…

This has ruined next week’s listening time 🫣 May possibly tune in to Emily and Sir Ed 😎 Love the way @lewisgoodall.com caused a riot towards the end of this week 😂👌👏👏👏💜

What happened?

Listen on playback 😎 All I’ll say is TAX and a certain Mr Dale 😅

Which day? I m in France so will need to search. Thanks

Today 👍

2 tories?

You sure?

Penny and cleverly?

The 'Official' Tories.

Haha I see, yeah the davey and the lib dems are more tory 🤣

But will Penny be promoting fight and fight and fight ?

Thornberry yes Davey yes Others can’t be bothered, they’re past it and irrelevant

Not really good of you to help rehabilitate Cleverless the Lettuce Enabler.

Please can everyone ask Cleverly why he stuck by a man who knowingly promoted a sex pest then lied about it.

Thanks for the warning James but I will give your show a miss next week apart from Emily Thornberry and Ed Davey as these obnoxious right wingers get enough airtime as it is.

Happily, I'm off to Greece on Monday morning. Kalimera! Honestly, Cleverly!?!? Good grief.

That's two days when the 'leavers' will be able to phone in without being challenged.

A veritable cornucopia of cnuts. One week to go…

Oh well, at least Simon Marks is covering for Vanessa Feltz at the weekend. You win some, you lose some!

Probably an improvement over last year's replacement, probably...

Lewis has been brilliant this week, but I do need to get some work done, so it’s maybe just as well he’s not on for another week. Shame though

Funny how they always think left wing people should broaden their horizons. When was the last time a left winger stood in for Nick Ferrari?

Nobody from reform 😏

Only Lewis Goodall should deputise

You’ve left the bar at its normal height, yes?

Been listening to Lewis this week, different style to James, but worth a listen. Two Tories who were "of their time " are presenting have persuaded me to read the books I've been meaning to catch up on. Thank you LBC.

I am sick to death of LBC using tories to stand in for you james. when they have cruella on the show was infuriating, the bile that evil woman comes out with is disgusting I had to turn it off. So, i wont be listening to at least two of this lot

Will listen to Ed D, but as for rest, it'll be homes under the hammer.

Peace and quiet for us... Or catch up with your podcast....or Nick Abbot

What fresh hell is this?

At least it’s not Suella Braverman again.

Her coffin lid is stuck down. Might be a while, till she's seen again.

I’ll only listen to Ed

Jimmy Dimly? Good grief...

We want Suella!

Emily and Ed will be great at least. Shame about the others though.

WTF? Presumably the Ed Davey edition will only be 15 minutes long?

That would be in keeping with @lbc.co.uk usual bias against @libdems.org.uk

Well, that's me tuning out for a week then.......Id rather pour hot wax into my ears than listen to any of them! Enjoy your time off though 😀

Should have had Zack. Big missed opportunity to present a new voice.

I'll listen to all of them until one of them makes my ears bleed, but I really want to hear what Ed Davey has to say. He has the political space to say what Starmer is too bloody scared to say, and he's been using it.

Unless Ed Davey could not do any other day I would be suspicious about him being on last as Friday tends to be a more relaxed fun day.

That covers the political spectrum from radical fascist buffoon to reasonable normal person. It also covers intelligence - funnily enough in exactly the same order!

Hmmmm and the listeners? Not so much

Please let one of them do mystery hour and organise all the callers to have very specific and targeted questions about their carry on

Before you went away we didn’t have one flag hanging off a lamppost in our road. Just saying.

One of my colleagues spoke to two lads of about 12 who she saw hanging St George flags on lampposts near her home. ‘Why are you doing this?’ ‘Dunno, we saw it on Tik Tok’.

I’m nervous about nipping over with my ladder and removing it, what with the febrile nature of things at the moment. It’s also entirely possible I’ve missed some patriotic event where it was formally raised by our MP, Suella Braverman.

There's two on a motorway bridge I pass on my way to work. If they disappear overnight during this bank holiday weekend it will be a complete mystery as to what happened to them.

🫡

We’ve decided that what the fascists want is to be martyred by us taking their silly flags down. So we’ve decided to ignore them. Sadly, some people locally have been attacked in racially motivated hate crimes which have increased recently and they now feel threatened by all the flags.

You’re absolutely right, I’m trying to make light of it but it’s thinly veiled and insidious racism in reality. I’m not going react immediately, but I can’t look at it forever. As usual Farage is inciting it, apparently it’s been dubbed ‘Operation Raise The Colours’.

There are a few of those flags in out town. On a few houses, too. Makes it easy to see who they are. Mostly confirmation of what we suspected: Reform supporting people who'll blame anyone (refugees/POC) for whatever's not right in their lives.

Big flip flops to fill James.

2 lying Tories. How fucking awful.

At least no Reform eh? Shame no Green party though.

Don't say their name 3 times or some arsehole will pop up and demand "fair coverage" (which by previous measures means 'nothing for 15 years')

I might listen to Mordaunt just to see if Colin from Portsmouth calls in @explodingheads.bsky.social

How about having JC on one day.

Mr @lewisgoodall.com should be your permanent stand in 😂. We love you James…. but thanks 😜

I sincerely hope that no one tunes in for the tories

Dim Jim 😂😂😂😂🥤

It's tough to get past the relatively recent deceitful political histories of 2 of them. I'll likely find it too unpalatable to listen in.

At least 2 of whom I will give a miss. At least no Suella.

Why? Some of these people have day jobs.

Ed Davey aside, they have picked some of the DULLEST people alive

Penny mordaunt and James Cleverly though. Could you not have asked Lewis back? Or had a word with that Nick Abbott?

Bet you couldn’t carry a sword 🗡️ have our client media then turn you into a sexual object of a right wingers fantasy ! Whilst pretending you were some sort of Admiral? Still Angela Rayner had a drink.

Enjoy your holiday & have a good rest James x

Well I might listen to Emily, def Ed an poss a bit to the Tory Come back soon Lewis was great but miss your voice whilst cutting lawns and hedges Hope you’ve had a great holiday

What an absolute piss take, giving those muppets a platform, surprised Farage isn't on the list.

Oh no. Such a shame, I’ve got a thing at that other thing going on. Really gutted 😭.

Good reason to never tune into LBC ever again with that choice of line up 🤮

Oh what a pity, I'm on holiday next week. Shame.

At least it's not the beery flatulence made flesh... I was half expecting him.

Not Jezza then....

I’d hate to deliver the bad news but the schedule on the ‘new’ LBC app says you’re in.

Listening figures going to nosedive for a week then…

Worst blunt rotation ever.

You know Cleverly slops the cardboard.

And after the first time, Penny would be screaming for people to stand and fight and fight and stand or something like that.

That woman is a waste of a Rizla.

Who thought up this cheap D-list encrusted horror movie?

“Senior”??

When politics and the media become indistinguishable we should all fear for the Democratic process.

Will definitely listen to the Ed Davy edition. Which day will it be?

Friday! 😁👍🏻

TFI Friday

Hope Colin from Portsmouth phones in for a chat with one or two of them.

Can we not just keep @lewisgoodall.com ? Alternatively can we have the days each are hosting so I know when not to tune in. It'd be better for my blood pressure 🤣

@mrjamesob.bsky.social it’s over for you ….. she will fight and fight some more and then fight again to keep you off air 🤣🤣luckily we know otherwise ☺️

Thankfully I'm also in Greece next week !

You found Penny Mordaunt! Well done, LBC.

Is this a cunning ruse by LBC to pretend that the Lib Dems have had their fair share of airtime?

I seem to remember when they gave Bravermann a whole week. I reacquainted myself with all of Mahler’s symphonies instead.

Why two right wing tosspots ffs

😂

Doubt any of them will get death threats or called a "Commie"

He's been having a lot of fun with the tax thing thus week, and it's certainly annoyed the right people. 🫨🙄😀

You did a fab job Lewis

It’s been a pleasure listening to the programme this week. You have not been afraid to provoke very interesting discussions. The depth of the challenges we face as a society needs radical solutions. 👍

Pity you have let us down by not doing 2nd week of James's holiday, you youngsters obviously don't have a strong enough work ethic 🤣

I'd like to see a proper cross bencher from the Lords next time. Someone with real expertise and experience in a field that everyone has some understanding of.

You were/are brilliant 😍

The past few days have been so much fun. Edifying listening with just the right balance of levity and serious news. You will be missed!

Thanks!

Inheritance tax debate has been, erm, lively....🤣😅👀🤣

Where are you going? Indeed, are you going or just taking a holiday?

Darn it!!! I had assumed it would be you again @lewisgoodall.com

You’re being hideously misrepresented right now

Your intro today is the funniest radio I've heard in a long time comrade Goodall

Well done Lewis! Never been so proud. Right wing pundits, *coughs* Ian Dale, super upset at your inheritance tax opinons. You can be sure you’ve done something right when they start writing articles about how wealthy people work super hard and shouldn’t have to give away any money.

She will turn on her radio. Then I will turn on my radio. And if we turn on our radios, others will turn on their radios. And if we all turn on our radios together, we will be listening to our radios together…

We’ll miss you Lewis 😔 Thanks for the entertainment 👌👏👏👏💜

@mrjamesob.bsky.social what do they think about inheritance tax?

Hello there "fanny" you must've accidently travelled back in time about 2 decades when you messaged that fellow 😂

Hurry back, James!

Nope I won’t be listening

Two Tories, one LDP leader & one Labour MP🤦🏻‍♂️, still, better than Braverman….just.

Penny Mordaunt & not so Cleverly Cleverly!!😩

Penny Moribund

🤮

Can’t wait for Emily Thornberry to talk flags

I thought you could get some of your star contributors to host , not the political dead beats

Two Torys and no green very biased don’t think I will bother, first time in years, might as well put Tommy ten names on

Would be interesting to compare listening figures 😉

Oh god! Something massive is going to happen next week isn’t it. It always does when you’re away.

Another week of not listening to Enjoy your holiday 👍

Not sure how I feel about this, a couple of them are a bit dodgy but I’m sure you’ve thought this through … maybe 🫤

@mrjamesob.bsky.social - was Matt Hancock and Michael Fabricant unavailable, or do you have an ultimate veto

Lewis has been brilliant this week. Roll on 1st September.

Excuse to put radio 5 on until you are back not listening to Tory propaganda

Well I might listen to Ed Davey.