Pet-eating migrants, national anthems and a wind-up merchant | LBC's best callers this week

Trump claiming that Haitian migrants are eating the pets the cats and dogs off the streets in Springfield Ohio the fact Checkers in the debate rejected that claim but do those fact Checkers live in Springfield Ohio do they work in Springfield Ohio perhaps not but one LBC listener does Jamie is live in Springfield Ohio Jamie thanks very much indeed for being there for us I wonder as you go around thank you for being there I wonder as you go around your business today um whether you have seen any sign of cats or dogs being eaten by people uh no actually I teach in a in a school and cat and dog were not on the menu for the Haitian students or for my regular students so that's a big no uh have you ever come across an incident of a cat or a dog being whisked off the street to presumably be put in a pot by somebody uh NOP that's not happened either do you have pets I do I have a cat and uh if they took her they'd bring her right back right fine so you know your the whereabouts of your cat that they haven't been eaten yes I do I do she's at home running the house while I'm here at school when you heard this claim from the former president about the town in which you work what did you think well it actually hit us uh earlier in the day because the post hit social media that this is all based on um and everybody thinks it's someone else's sisters brothers dogs goldfish that posted it no one knows the person directly who posted it and we found out earlier in the day that the picture they posted on on Twitter or X um is actually not a Springfield picture so I knew it was coming uh but last night when he called us out I was Furious because I teach I teach Haitian kids I have I I teach American kids but I teach there's some Haitians here obviously because we have 15,000 new Haitians in the City of Springfield and uh they're they're coming into all the schools and I was talking to one of them this morning cuz she'd heard and I explained it to her and I said we don't believe this but there are people who do believe it and they're spreading the lies and you could see she was hurt and she even expressed that she was hurt and it's just awful because these people are leaving a country where the government is so corrupt I mean they assassinated the president and it's run by gangs now yeah and they're leaving cushy lives some of them some of my students come from very cushy background and they're coming here just to find any old job they can so they can support their family and they are working I mean there's always going to be bad actors in 15,000 people but there there are people coming here to have a new life you can't do a new life in a first world country without working so I I don't know they're not eating our pets no I I I don't know whether you um have a vote in the election Jamie um I do but I wonder whether anything from last night changed your mind or further entrenched your view okay well I didn't think I get to be political but um I I made the mistake of voting for GE uh George for Donald the first time when he won because I told everybody he is going to become presidential and he didn't and I've been voting the other side ever since I mean my my parents are spinning in their graves right now and seeing kamla interact with I'm sorry vice president Harris interact with Donald Trump I I was amazed you know she's good on her own but last night she was so sure of herself she was in control of herself she she did such a good job expressing herself and I I agree with the analyst you had on earlier she wasn't clear on some of her plans but to know she has a plan is better than the one I know that's coming because as a student of History I know the path Donald Trump is going down I I visited Munich this summer with students I know what happened um so we can't do that we we have to go forward it's it's too dangerous and seeing the two of them interact Just Nails in the coffin so there you are Jamie teaching in Springfield Ohio about which there's been an awful lot of attention I I presume you're probably teaching now you're about to go into a lesson or something can you just make sure for us can you just look out at the nearest window and just tell us once again that you cannot see any evidence of what the president former president is claiming okay I looking outside I see no cats and dogs but it's a school but we do have a pond in front of us full of geese right now and they are Not Afraid Colin from Portsmouth is on the line well well well what have we here two British heavyweight Titans meeting for the first time calling from Portsmouth and James o bleeding Bryan listen I've been forced to listen to your pathetic woke nonsense and let me tell you this you make me sick you are the epitome of the Lefty liberal goo pudding ramkin hording Metropolitan Elite S in your little Ivory chair speaking over Brave right leaning callers so they're not allowed to tell the nation why brexit was such a good idea crushing listeners arguments using their own logic against them it's disgusting you are what is wrong with this country I bet you don't even care that the National Trust is becoming a Sharia Kingdom that forces its poor unsuspecting customers to have scon without any dairy product in you might as well take your middle name out yeah replace the o with OES James OES briyan because that is how much of an enemy you are to this country I bet you're on a secret WhatsApp group with Carol vman and Gary bloody liner aren't you plotting with K starma to get into the House of Lords and make it law to buy your book oh you'd love that wouldn't you if we had to pay a license to watch the BBC and to read your book you're now the king of radio just because every single caller to your show since 2016 is too frightened to give you one positive of leaving the EU in case they're locked up for free speech well I hope you're happy because you are destroying this once great country from the inside anyway James I've had a lovely time thank you so much for having me on love to the family love to the family Colin um I heard you on tour at the moment are there any tickets still available oh you'd love that wouldn't you if you could come and ruin my tour at Lester Square theater on second of October and elsewhere around the country until October the 12th I'm not having it not having it but yeah tickets are available on so comedy. co.uk or of course you could just uh do a search on exploding heads all all all one word love love to the family Colin do you remember a few months ago I told you I had chickens oh yes well one of them's G me a message to give to Nicki ilford and all the other Kremlin propagandist and apologists that have called in today and he goes I'm sick and tired of hearing them we are in a position now where we have got to make a stand take the gloves off and give Ukraine everything it needs to finish this job stop making them fight with one hand tied behind their back every red line that Putin has set down we've crossed they've crossed nothing happens and if he was going to go nuclear at any point tactical or otherwise it would have been with an invasion of his Sovereign territory guess what he didn't do it China won't let him do it India won't let him do it and he cannot afford to become a pariah so for God's sake the only thing this guy is going to understand is force let him get on with it give them the power to do it and then it might wake up the Russian population they won't feel so safe and secure then they might end up housting him what do you think of that propagandists yes good afternoon Carol and appropo your earlier conversation we talked about the hereditary principle being an anachronism indefensible and we sing this appalling Victorian it's supposed to be a Victorian 34 but it's all sung in a 44 ferial ddge the uh lyric is so embarrassing just explain three4 and 44 I know how to add them up and I know how to multiply them CLA but I'm not a musician three four should be three beats to the bar one two three but it one it ends up with one two yeah it's very and it just sips into basically a ferial durge the um lyric is so embarrassing God save our gracious king longly of our Noble King God Sav the king send him Victorious happy and glorious long to Reign Over Us and every single verse ends God Save the King I I'm not going to sing to that family I'm not going to sing that to a family I don't believe should be reigning over especially somebody from an African Heritage who actually branded Africans and sold them like animals in the African Holocaust the lyric is an embarrassment I have no issue whatsoever with that chap not wanting to sing it I never sing it myself I think the best um national anthem is the South African one which is wonderful what's that one um nios Africa I mean that is wonderful that we need to have a referendum on this apping lyric and if you must stick with the Victorian tune so be it I think we can come up with something better we must sing to the glory of our country and we must sing look what we've achieved in the um par Olympics well well the the thing the thing is CLA and you know whales sings about the land where a sing about our country and how we love our country Scotland the same Flower of Scotland right it's all about the country Ireland uh you know when you're together Standing Tall and all of that when they sing in the Ireland uh rugby now whereas in England it's about the monarchy now now you know some are ringing in I'm sure and messaging in saying oh you know we you know we're very uh Pro the monarchy and so on but I've just read the statistics and a quarter of people in this country actively would prefer uh ahead of State rather than the monarchy so for us to ignore all of those and it's less than 2third because there are you know in addition to that there are around about 12% who say I'm not really sure I don't know which one I like you know there sort of ambivalent towards either so perhaps did you say it's about 45% that want a republic something like that in the younger age range so this is young people it's very young I've always said to myself what good is a head of state who can't speak who can't defend the people I mean the days when they said once more to the breach dear boys is gone they can't take us to war they can't really do anything and what really infuriated me in the same week Carol that they announced they'd be taking the winter War the um fuel allowance away from people just over pension credit they announced that the the um Windsor are going to get a high from 82 million a year to 132 million a year a 50% hike for doing what and yet people who actually served in the second world war who have served as nurses who have served as carers who have actually done so much for the country they can all freeze to death or get hypothermia as long as we've got another 50% hike for one family Who Don't Do Anything