I think you're right. Caller on now....."first thing I'd like to say is thank you for taking my call". Mike Dickin wouldn't stans for such Pish and Iain Dale needs to squash it too. It's become a monotonous dirge.

many i suppose are like me just dip in and out, now and then. i doubt anyone listens/watches all the way through.

anyway JoB has a wife, kids, Volvo and a house in chiswick (£300k self certified mortgage) so is well on his way up the pole, but hes 44yrs old and has long way to climb to equal his peers. question is can he achieve his middle class, middle england aspirations before its too late.

No I still think he'd be perfect for Tescos you know.

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Brilliant !

Clive Bull doing "should shops close on Boxing day?" Yawn. Even HE sounds bored.

haha .. except he only talks about waitrose .. tesco wont look good on his CV. #aspiration

I shouldn't think even the non-listening ?listeners, would take to viewing the unviewable on Newsnight. Simply J O'B isn't exactly a cameraman's dream by any stretch of the imagination - they must use reinforced lenses. So, as far as unprotected viewers' eyes are concerned .... And as for those who can't bear him, then multi 'eeks' can only be in order >

It was during the early seventies Nosedive I did a stint at Asda in Sheffield in between working in 't steel mills and yes it was very different.
For example the manager in charge of us at the time I think had undergone intense officer training from remnants of the Waffen-SS division still in hiding after the war such a horrible ####ard was he.

Appreciated Martin.

The viewing figures for Newsnight would plummet as the programme goes on; the same as they do for his radio show.

A friend of mine lives around the corner from JOB in Chiswick, she googled him and apparently he paid £720k or £740k for his house back in 2007 and it's now worth about £1.4m, which is fairly typical in that part of W4.
So, the label 'public school educated, left wing LSE oik, champagne swilling millionaire luvvie' would seem about right

Oh, has he got a Volvo now?
I seem to recall that JOB didn't pass his driving test until well into his mid 30's which I always found odd, a driving licence and a set of wheels was a must have at 17 even for us girlies.....wasn't it?
I remember him saying he'd bought a Vauxhall Meriva, I think they are the ones that catch fire. mr Jeebie said that a Meriva was one up from a Lada.......he said he wouldn't take a dump in a Meriva, never mind a lift..........

I've noticed more and more people are saying this. Also, quite a lot say "As I was just saying to ... er ... the person who answered the phone ...". What's the point of saying that, especially when they've just been told they only have 30 seconds and they waste even more time by hesitating over what to call the person.

I reckon it's a kind of verbal tic, isn't it, just to ease themselves into being on air, checking the host can hear them, and so on.

I once called LBC. They didn't ask where I was from, but they introduced me as being from a certain area, presumably based on my phone number, which wasn't the area I identified as being in. I wasn't sure it was actually my turn, so started off with something anodyne to make sure it was really me and that I was on air.

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Yes, I think it is a nervous thing. Like the people who call in and when the show host says, "Hello, John in Cardiff", the caller says, "Yes, hello John" (ie their own name, not the host's). That also happens surprisingly frequently.

I didn't know anyone on here ever successfully called in to LBC.

Yes. You are right ..."as I was just telling your researcher". Another brainless thing to say. Nobody has been part of this discussion. Just make your point people.

rode one once.... never again.... great image I now have though... Marianne Faithful?

As JOB said this week.......a person described as in the "Metropolitan Elite".....is actually someone who cares about everyone as opposed to someone who just cares about himself. Yep - that is a quote from JOB.

That fits exactly with people who have a Liberal outlook......as does a view that a Car is a form of transport.......not a toy.
These are good things.......


It is hard to make sense of your post. £1.4m in London does not sound a lot for a well paid Radio Presenter. In fact it sounds modest.

Or in the case of JOB the other thing they do in a fit of nerves is mix up his name and say 'Hello Brian" and I kid you not. This wasn't just a made up spoof thing that Mike Rackabit used to go on about. Even I heard it being done when I used to listen several years ago.

I call Steve Allen every day and I never get through..... don't know what's wrong ...must just be me....

you're right Phoebe.... I rode bikes from 10, drove a race car at 8... someone waiting till 30 to pass test is alien to me now and at 17 definitely.....and a Meriva? that's someone really who's in the beige chino dept. in M and S for life - trapped like Father Ted in the lingerie department in a circle of hell...

all our cars are toys here...all 5 of them......... (plus the other 2 daily cars which aren't...)
maybe that's why I don't live in Richmond and Chiswick anymore...wouldn't fit in....

I phoned in back in about May time to Clive Bull. It was about the £10million Dave spent on Remain leaflets. It was very stright forward and easy. The producer took my name and location and the point I was calling for, then hung up and phoned me back about 10 minutes later as she said she would. I held for a minute then Clive cued me in. Easy. I just launched straight in to my point. No 'Hi how are you' b*ll*cks or 'first time caller go easy' nonsense. Even though it was my first time.

Well.....now that we are certain that our cars are killing us.....and that the cleaner Diesel Engines are killing us even faster.....they are clearly not.

In the 80's motoring journalists would test 5 family hatchbacks....and the winner would be the one that corners well at speed.
In 2015 they had all long gone......except for Jeremy Clarkson who was testing road cars with a camera showing his eyes rolling back into his head in ecstasy. And now he has gone.
The Electric Car is now moments away from replacing the petrol version....and the forever childish may need to grow up....

Girl on a Motorcycle with Alain Delon?