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Let's try this again, shall we, Sean?
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Yeah, let's try again.
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Take two.
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Hello everyone, welcome back to Talking Collegues, episode six?
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Number six.
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Sean is here too.
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Hello, bonjour.
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He's back.
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I'm back.
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He's back.
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Not that I went anywhere.
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No, you don't often go anywhere actually, you basically live at that desk.
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I went to the shop.
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Oh, you did go to Anster today, yeah.
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Other supermarkets are available.
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I went shopping, yeah, I did that and I got some lunch while I was out.
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Oh, what did you get?
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I had a cheeseburger from a well-known fast food restaurant.
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Does this well-known fast food restaurant begin with M and end in Onald's?
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Yeah.
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Ah, yeah.
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And I had a shocker.
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I had a cheeseburger.
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Cheeseburger.
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Double cheeseburger actually.
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A double cheeseburger.
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Yeah, yeah, I really treated myself.
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Oh man, well.
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Episode six then.
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Today is gonna be all Sean, ladies and gentlemen, because I've been so busy at work, I have
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got no notes.
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That's a poor excuse, Chris.
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It is, yeah, I'm really sorry, I've let you down.
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Appointed.
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Not angry, just disappointed.
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Disappointed, yeah, sorry that I've let you down.
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So Sean is gonna take the reins today and talk about Charles and his speech.
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But yeah, today has been a big day.
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Lots of pomp and ceremony and yeah.
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Pop.
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Yeah, that's what it's called.
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That's what it's called.
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It was very glorious seeing the king and queen in the carriage going down, horse guards.
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That carriage must weigh so much.
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So they were in the most up to date carriage today.
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Yes.
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Because they get a choice, they don't have to use the Golden State carriage because that
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is the most uncomfortable vehicle that humanity has ever invented.
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So he used the carriage that had all the mod cons.
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That's the most recently built one.
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Oh nice, so it's got air con, TV, sky.
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Probably, and suspension.
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Suspension?
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I know, which is something the gold carriage doesn't really have.
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Pimp my carriage.
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I know.
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So basically, the king has been given a speech that Kia's written, right?
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It's written by the government.
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It's written by the government, right?
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And it's, go on Sean.
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Essentially, it sets out what the government's agenda for parliament is.
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Basically, it's what their plans are, right?
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Yeah, essentially.
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And it introduces the bills that they're going to bring forward into parliament to try and
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legislate.
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Which will obviously pass with flying colours because they've got a stonking majority.
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Well, some of them may do.
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You've got to remember, the way that our legislative system works is we've got the House of Commons.
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They legislate us for system again.
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No, no, I'm okay thanks.
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It's quite a mouthful, isn't it?
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Damn it, I ruined it.
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Go on, sorry.
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Yeah, so we've got the House of Commons, we've got the House of Lords, and then we've got
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the king.
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So, you know, even though something gets through the House of Commons, doesn't necessarily
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mean it's going to become law.
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Because the House of, as we know with many laws in the past, such as Brexit and stuff
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like that, there's been lots of back and forth between the Lords and the Commons.
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Ping pong, they call it then.
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Yeah, and filibustering.
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Filibustering.
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And stuff like that.
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And it just wastes time, essentially.
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So laws don't get passed.
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But yeah.
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So, I mean, it's good that they have that sort of oversight.
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But the big question today, when I woke up this morning watching the news, I was watching
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Kay Burley.
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Correction, Sean woke up this morning to say goodbye to me at half past seven.
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He then fell back asleep.
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I only went back to sleep for about 15, 20 minutes because I had to get up again.
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As he does every morning, by the way.
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Usually it's longer.
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Usually it's longer, yeah.
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Usually he spends a lot longer in bed.
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Yeah, this morning not quite as long.
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But some days I get home and he hasn't even left a bit.
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Wow, that's not true.
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If it's a weekend, maybe not.
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So yeah, the King goes to the Commons, Sean, and...
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Yeah, so he goes to the Commons, sets out this speech and with all these bills and what
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his government is going to do over the course of the parliament.
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And then he goes off back home.
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There's obviously lots of other pageantry that happens.
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Black Rod bangs on the door of the Commons.
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The King kidnaps one of the MPs.
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Did you know this?
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Yes, that is a...
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That is since King John, I believe.
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It was Charles I.
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Was it Charles I?
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I thought it was John.
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Yes, I read about this today.
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It was Charles I.
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And it was due to poor relations between the King and the...
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Let me see if I still have the history page open on my phone.
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Yeah, but while you're looking at that, one question that I, as I said, so I woke up this
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morning and watched the news.
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And one of the questions that was being asked was, as a democratic nation, should we have
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a King or a monarch?
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What are your thoughts on that, Chris?
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Why do we have a monarch?
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Well, should we have one?
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Should we have one?
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As a democratic nation?
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Yes.
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I believe we should have a monarch.
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Great.
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Me too.
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Because, well, I mean, there's an argument two and four here, isn't there?
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You can say, all right, the royal family don't really do anything.
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They take a lot of money from the public coffers.
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And all this is true.
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However, what people fail to realize sometimes, I think, is that actually the royal family
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do bring in a lot of money to the economy.
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How many Americans that come over to see the royal family?
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You know, it's not just British people that line the streets at these celebrations.
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Foreigners come from all over the world, Canada, all inside the Commonwealth to view the royal
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family.
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So their economic benefit outweighs their economic cost.
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And quite interestingly, the most recent study by Ipsos Mori on support for the monarchy
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puts public support at around 60 percent.
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Still quite high.
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It's actually quite low in the history of monarchy approval.
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They usually used to sit around the 70, 80 mark.
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But yeah, I was going to say, has this dropped since Elizabeth passed?
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It's dropped slowly over the last 30 years, really.
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Diana that it dropped because of Diana, Diana's death and just events.
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You know, it has slowly declined, but it's still at 60 percent.
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That's still more than half of the population.
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I would say that's pretty good, really.
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Yeah, I agree.
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I think we should have a monarchy.
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What is the harm in having the monarchy?
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They bring economic benefits.
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They bring pageantry to our country.
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They, you know, they make us look like a beautiful nation sometimes.
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Beautiful.
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Even though sometimes our politics is actually quite ugly.
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Occasionally, nowhere near as ugly as the American politics, but especially during the
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Brexit years.
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Oh my God.
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That was awful, wasn't it?
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I found the article, Sean, about the hawk.
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Yes.
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So let me just get to the right part.
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Here we go.
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This is a sky news article, by the way, that I'm reading from here.
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So I just wanted to skip back a few lines because two of the most bizarre traditions
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take place behind the scenes during the King's speech.
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So the yeoman of the guard, the Royal Bodyguard, carry out a search of the cellars and the
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Palace of Westminster for explosives.
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Three guesses why that is.
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Three guesses why they do that, ladies and gentlemen.
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Yeah, we wonder why.
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Yeah, November 5th.
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Ring any bells?
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No?
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No, no, it doesn't ring any.
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I have nothing in my calendar.
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So it's a ceremonial search dating back to the King's speech in 1605.
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Then monarch King James I, a Protestant, by the way, had cause for concern in the aftermath
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of the Guy Fawkes gunpowder plot, a failed attempt by English Catholics to blow him and
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Parliament up.
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So another tradition to assure the monarch's safety was introduced in 1649 and this was
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the hostage taking.
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So there you go, which is quite interesting that we still have these really old traditions
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and still carry out these old pageant treatments, like, you know, trooping the colour and stuff
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like that.
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It's part of our constitution.
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It's just going to have a zesty beverage, excuse me.
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It's part of our constitution.
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It's what makes the British democratic system work the way that it does.
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Hooray!
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That's why we need a king.
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Going back to your earlier question, Sean.
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And if you look at other monarchies around the world, they have good standings too, you
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know, there's no detriment of having a monarchy compared to being a republic.
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The UK ranks above the USA, for example, in the majority of stats when it comes to politics,
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political stability, political...
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And these people are trained from such a young age to live this way, aren't they?
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I mean, don't get me, I have the feeling that the...
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Is it the king or queen of Poland now?
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I think it might be a king, right?
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Well, I know the queen abdicated.
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She abdicated to her grandson, right?
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Grandson, yeah.
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Yes.
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So he is the king now.
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I have the feeling he is going to struggle keeping a straight face when Prime Minister
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Dick Schoof turns up.
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Like that, you're going to struggle not to laugh at that, aren't you?
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Even the most...
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Good old Dick Schoof.
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Right?
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I'm sorry, Dick Schoof, if you're listening, you are a great guy.
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I love you.
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I have a really particularly sweary surname, which involves the same appendage.
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So you know, I'm with you, buddy, but I'm sorry.
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But Dick Schoof, please tell me that your full name is Richard Schoof.
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That's what I want it to be.
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You'd be down the courts in the morning, wouldn't you, changing your name?
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Yes, I'd like to change my name to Penis Schoof.
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Yeah, anything but this.
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Anything but this.
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Yes, that's anything but this Schoof.
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Hi, nice to meet you.
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So moving on then.
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But yes, back to the king's speech.
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So the king walks in...
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And not the film.
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Not the film, yeah, not the film.
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No, that is a good film, by the way.
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I've never seen it.
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Have you not?
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Oh, it's a good film.
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I've never seen it.
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It is a good film.
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So the king is giving this speech by Keir, there you go, to speak about his son.
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He hasn't even got to do any work.
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All he's got to do is show up in his golden carriage.
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Yeah, but he has to wear all the crown and the jewels.
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Oh no, he has to wear a huge fucking jeweled crown and be all, mmm, look at me.
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The crown is 1.6 kilos.
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Well, I would be more impressed if it was 1.6 tons.
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Plus the robe itself is many kilos.
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Many kilos.
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Is that a stated fact?
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That is, yeah.
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Many kilos.
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Is that what it says on the Gov website, is it?
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That is the Gov definition of the weight of the robe.
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Many kilos.
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Many kilos.
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Just so you know, many kilos.
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So I'm doing air quotes for those of you listening at home.
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It's heavy stuff.
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And you've got to remember, he's a 76.
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His wife turned 77 today.
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They're old people.
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He literally has to walk up an aisle, sit down in a chair and read.
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He has to get in the carriage.
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Oh yeah, a solid gold carriage with suspension.
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It's not solid gold.
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They don't use the solid gold one anymore.
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They use the black one.
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I wonder why.
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No wonder they did like 50 horses to pull the thing.
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It probably weighs like 50 tons, the gold one.
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It is quite heavy.
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Oh yeah, no shit.
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It's made out of solid gold.
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Anyway.
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Anyway, that's enough about the monarchy.
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It's solid gold.
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Shouldn't have opened that can of worms.
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And then so Kia is introducing 40 bills.
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40 bills, yeah.
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Let that sink in for a second.
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40 over the course of this parliament, ladies and gentlemen.
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With a stonking majority, I might add.
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It's not the most bills ever introduced, but it's up there.
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Yeah?
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Ambitious.
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The most since, I believe, 1951.
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It's ambitious, but completely doable.
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Yeah, he beat Boris Johnson's 2021 state opening of parliament by one bill.
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Oh, so what, Bojo had 39?
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Yes.
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Wow.
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And Kia went for 40.
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How many did Rishi have?
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Like 21.
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Oh nice, okay.
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So, what is our king waffling on about thanks to Kia, Sean?
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Okay, so well, first things first.
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Some of the bills have been brought through from previous conservative governments.
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So some specific ones for that.
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It's Martin's law.
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Yes, Martin's law.
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Which is, oh my god, the terrorism protection of premises.
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So it's to prevent like the Manchester Arena bombing.
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Okay, yeah.
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And it's to ensure higher security events like that.
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Oh cool, okay.
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Yeah, I think that was probably needed, right?
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Yeah, they've brought that forward.
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They've also brought forward Rishi Sunak's tobacco and vapes bill.
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Preventing people born after 2009 from ever being able to buy cigarettes or tobacco.
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So this is the, we've mentioned this on a previous podcast of ours.
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This is the incremental age increase.
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So basically every year, so it'll start at what it is currently now, 18.
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And then every year it'll go, you need to be 19, you need to be 20, you need to be 21,
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you need to be 22, you need to be 23, you need to be 24.
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And till the point everyone is dead who can buy cigarettes.
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And till the point that everybody is dead and smoke fags gone from the country.
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Fags, by the way, are the British term for cigarettes.
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Just to get the wrong idea.
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I'm not using a derogatory term.
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No.
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Just to point that out, okay.
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As part of this bill, it's also about changing the vape packaging and making it like cigarette
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packaging.
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So it's all just plain and it's not colourful and appealing to youves and stuff like that.
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Probably limiting flavours.
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I mean, it's a good idea, right?
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Yeah.
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Yeah?
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I don't know.
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You'd have to look at, it's not something I've looked into, but you'd have to look at
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the statistics about how effective it was getting people, like changing the packaging
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of cigarettes.
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How effective was that in changing smokers behaviour or stopping people from smoking?
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I mean, I don't like the pictures on the packaging.
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No, they're gross.
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Yeah, they are gross.
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Somebody though, here's an interesting tidbit for you that I saw in the news a few years
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back.
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Someone's picture was actually used on those packages that they hadn't agreed to be used.
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So imagine this woman's horror when she went out and bought a pack of fags, cigarettes,
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Ferrara, or what do they call them in America?
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Pack of smokes?
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Pack of smokes.
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Pack of smokes.
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Went out and bought a pack of smokes to her horror, opened it up and saw her granddad's
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illness on the packaging.
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Lovely.
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It was enough to make her stop smoking, you'd be glad to know.
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However, I think they got a payout maybe, you'll have to do some googling.
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Yeah, but that's my question.
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How effective is it in stopping people smoking or preventing people from starting smoking?
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I think this is a more long term thing.
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Yeah, eventually it will go the same way as cigarettes have, where they'll age it out.
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I think we need to look at this in the long term and say actually in 100 years time it
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could be that Britain is smoke free and it's setting the foundations for that.
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Yeah, which is not a bad thing, you know, smoking is a terrible habit.
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Says two vapers.
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Yeah, but we're adults.
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Yes, and that makes it okay.
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Because we made the decision legally to vape.
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Whereas because of the youthful colours used in vape packaging, they say it appeals to
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children who aren't.
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I mean I've got...
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I've purchased them.
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You've got some packaging in front of me, right, okay, and these are SKE crystal lemon
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and lime nicotine pods for my electronic cigarette, right?
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Yes.
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And looking at the packaging, Sean, what do you see?
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Bright colours.
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Yep.
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On the front, can you see anything else?
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It says this product contains nicotine which is a highly addictive substance.
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I mean that's not really a warning, is it?
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That's more of a fact.
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It is a fact, yeah, it literally is a fact.
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Yeah, it says no 18 on the side of it.
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It is security tagged as well because...
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Fantastic.
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...usprits of rascals.
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Yeah, you know, we still coffee apparently.
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Yes, and to get round the disposable e-cigarette thing, what they've done is, and I'm totally
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guilty of this, they've just separated the battery and the pod, so you now buy the two
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pods that are disposable, so the battery you keep.
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Yeah, but, and that's a loophole in the law, I suppose, with the disposables, isn't it?
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There you go, so they've already found a loophole round it and they're already preparing to
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do it, but the packaging hasn't changed.
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That is still brightly coloured.
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It is yellow, green, it's got a little bit of red on it.
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It looks like, do you know what it looks like?
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It actually looks like a Starburst packet.
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Oh yeah, definitely, and that's the problem that they're saying is it appeals to children,
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it appeals to young people.
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It looks good, it looks cool, so if you make everything plain and boring and green like
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cigarettes, then you know, you're not going to have a problem, right?
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So it's, you know, it's following the same thing as smoking, as I said, I don't know
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how effective it's going to be, I don't know how effective it was with smoking, people
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still smoke, there are still millions of people in this country that smoke cigarettes, and
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young people that are just 18, 19 smoking cigarettes, so it obviously wasn't that effective.
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What is even more depressing is on my way to work in the morning in the car, I see school
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kids in primary school uniforms using these things.
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Oh god.
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Yeah.
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I know, I'm not kidding.
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Now whether they've got nicotine in or not, I don't know, I can only assume that they
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do because they look exactly like the ones that we've got.
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Yeah, well that's the thing, and it's so easy for them to get them, so that's why they,
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it's a good thing that they've brought that one forward.
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Start setting the foundations now, and then, you know, maybe in five or six generations,
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think how healthy the country will be.
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Yeah, there's another bill that you'll be pleased to know has been brought forward from
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the Tory Parliament.
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Oh, is it the RRB?
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The Renters Reform Bill has been reintroduced by His Majesty the King.
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So hang on a minute, so far all we've done is put Rishi Sunak's policies through the
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washing machine.
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Yeah, basically.
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Okay, moving on.
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So yeah, so we've got Renters Reform, another one that we've got is the Football Governance
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Bill introducing the football regulator, they've brought that forward.
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Oh, that's a Rishi Bill.
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That's a Rishi Bill!
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That is a Rishi Bill.
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Okay, moving on.
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Yeah, okay.
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Let's get on to some non-Rishi Bills, shall we?
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Okay.
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So they've, they have broken these down into some nice useful headings, so this one is
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Great British Energy.
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Oh, okay, so this is their flagship energy policy during the election, they want to make
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a energy company.
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Energy company, yeah.
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However, the logistics aren't clear, so it's not clear whether they're going to be a wholesaler,
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or whether they're going to be a retail energy supplier.
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So is it going to be a case of businesses go to them to get their gas and electric,
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or can me and you go to them and say, I want my electricity provided by Great British Energy
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as a customer, I want to be your customer?
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Yeah, but surely everyone would just go, okay, let's go to them because they're cheap.
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And all of the other energy companies in the country are going, well, shit.
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Yeah, so these are things that need to be ironed out yet, they're not clear, but this
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is what the Great British Energy Bill is for.
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All right, moving on.
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So they also go for the Crown Estate Bill, so this is to introduce the wealth, the National
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Wealth Fund.
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Oh yes, yes, we spoke about this in Manifesto Destiny, the specials.
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Yeah, yeah, and they also want to, there's more crime and policing bills coming forward,
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tougher sentencing, banning knives.
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All good stuff.
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All good stuff.
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That needed to be done.
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It was quite interesting this evening, I was listening to some campaigners that have, Pooja,
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I can't remember her last name, but she lost her, one of her, I think it was her son was
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killed by a ninja sword.
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A katana.
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Yeah, they're called ninja swords.
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Oh, they're called ninja swords?
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Yeah, and that's what the law, that's what they're going to be called in the law as well.
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And they're going to be banned, for example, so they're saying that they're glad they're
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listening, that the government is finally listening, which is a nice change rather than
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from hearing campaigners who are saying we're not being listened to.
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So we'll see how that gets on.
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Right?
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Hmm.
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Again, only a good thing.
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I mean, this also goes back to how easy these things are to get, right?
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Oh, exactly.
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At the moment, you can just buy them online.
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Same with this crossbow incident that happened.
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Oh yeah, with a double murder, triple murder, sorry.
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With an absolutely horrible thing, John Hunt.
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John Hunt, yeah.
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And his two daughters and his wife.
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BBC's guy bought a racing commentator.
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Obviously, heartfelt condolences.
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What an awful tragedy to have happened.
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I know, can you imagine?
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I can't even fathom the pain and the heart, the heartfelt, you know, the loss.
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I can't begin to comprehend it.
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I can't even find my words.
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That's how crazy it is.
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That's how mad it is.
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And I really hope they find solace in the fact that they got the word I can't say on
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podcast.
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Yes, yes, that person.
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But good news, we didn't need a beep.
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No, we didn't need a beep.
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There you go.
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But yeah, so it's about banning these and making our streets safer, you know?
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It's not safe out there sometimes, especially in certain areas.
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No, exactly.
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Yeah, there are, everybody has that certain part of town that they avoid because they
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know that it's bad.
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Exactly.
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That's the kind of stuff that we need to stop happening.
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And you know what?
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I mean, so far, he's doing the right things.
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Keir, I'm, you know, I didn't vote for his party at the election.
506
00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:37,200
I know, we still haven't said who we voted for.
507
00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:39,480
But I didn't vote for Labour.
508
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:41,560
I will confirm that.
509
00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:45,080
I did vote for someone else.
510
00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:46,080
I didn't vote Labour.
511
00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:47,440
I did vote for someone else, just clarifying that.
512
00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:49,960
I didn't just go in and write not Labour.
513
00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:53,800
I wrote not Labour on the bottom, put a box next to it and crossed in there.
514
00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:58,680
It's going to be interesting to see, like the Great British Energy policy, that was
515
00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:01,080
going to be, you know, an energy provider in my mind.
516
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:03,480
Now they're saying, oh, it could be a real, it could be a wholesaler.
517
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:04,480
Really?
518
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:05,480
Okay.
519
00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:06,480
So we're, are they starting to backpedal?
520
00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:09,120
Well, we need to watch them and give them a lot of scrutiny, ladies and gentlemen.
521
00:24:09,120 --> 00:24:10,200
Well, yeah, definitely.
522
00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:15,280
And that's the point of, that's the benefit of our democracy in this country is we do,
523
00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:18,560
we can scrutinise.
524
00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:26,240
Another quite a, quite an interesting thing is the Ray, railways bill.
525
00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:28,120
This is nationalising the railways, isn't it?
526
00:24:28,120 --> 00:24:33,040
This is bringing all rail companies back under public ownership.
527
00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:39,800
So full re-nationalisation and it'll be called Great British Rail.
528
00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:41,800
For fuck's sake.
529
00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:42,800
Give me hope.
530
00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:44,280
Is everything Great British?
531
00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:45,280
Yeah.
532
00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:47,880
So whenever, when they have their first scandal in office, it's going to be the Great British
533
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:49,160
scandal now, is it?
534
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:50,160
Yeah, probably.
535
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:53,520
Did Keir get all his ideas from the Great British break off?
536
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:55,280
Or the Great British sewing bee.
537
00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:56,280
Oh yeah.
538
00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:58,240
Or the, there's another one about painting.
539
00:24:58,240 --> 00:24:59,240
I can't remember what that one's called.
540
00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:00,240
Oh yeah.
541
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:01,240
It's the Great British painting competition.
542
00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:02,240
Yeah.
543
00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:03,240
That one.
544
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:04,240
Portrait artist of the year.
545
00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:05,240
Yeah.
546
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:06,240
That one.
547
00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:07,240
The Great British portrait artist of the year.
548
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:08,240
Yeah.
549
00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:09,240
That one.
550
00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:10,240
Wow.
551
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:14,640
But at the heart of the King's speech though.
552
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:16,160
At the heart of things.
553
00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:18,080
I think the heart of it is the- That's funny.
554
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,080
I didn't realise Charles had a heart.
555
00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:21,080
Yeah.
556
00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:22,080
Questionably he does.
557
00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:25,880
Even if it's just there to pump blood throughout his body.
558
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:26,880
Yeah.
559
00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:27,880
That's all it does.
560
00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:28,880
Doesn't really serve any other purpose.
561
00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:29,880
No.
562
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:31,880
But it's about growing the economy.
563
00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:32,880
Yes.
564
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:33,880
Boosting growth.
565
00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:37,640
So that is about re-nationalising the railways, trying to improve the railway network transport.
566
00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:41,600
You know, improving buses.
567
00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:43,760
Making the country work again.
568
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:45,360
I feel like, I've said this before.
569
00:25:45,360 --> 00:25:47,440
I feel like the country doesn't work.
570
00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:48,440
Yeah.
571
00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:49,440
You can't get a doctor's appointment anymore.
572
00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:50,440
There's stuff that's broken.
573
00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:51,440
There is stuff that's broken.
574
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:56,600
You can't get a train anywhere anymore without it being delayed or cancelled or leaves on
575
00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:59,880
the line or somebody's trampoline being stuck in the wind.
576
00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:07,040
The question that I have is, is that going to be solved by bringing it under public ownership?
577
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,320
I think it means there'll be more scrutiny.
578
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:10,920
Because they're not going to put the fares down.
579
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:12,960
Let's be honest about that.
580
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:14,240
The fares won't go down.
581
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:17,120
With them being under public ownership, the fares aren't going to profit.
582
00:26:17,120 --> 00:26:18,120
They're going to reinvestment.
583
00:26:18,120 --> 00:26:20,560
So that hopefully will improve things.
584
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:25,120
They're going into the treasury's pocket so that way the treasury could spend the money
585
00:26:25,120 --> 00:26:27,040
elsewhere if it needed to.
586
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:28,040
Well, let's give them the chance.
587
00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:29,680
You know, let's see what happens.
588
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:30,680
We'll see, yeah.
589
00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:37,040
But my question is, I don't necessarily know if re-nationalisation is the way forward.
590
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:38,560
But I could be proved wrong.
591
00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:39,640
I could be proved wrong.
592
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:41,160
I'm always open to that.
593
00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:43,440
They've got the Better Buses Bill.
594
00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:44,440
The Better Buses Bill.
595
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:45,440
The BBB.
596
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:46,440
The Better Buses Bill.
597
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:49,440
Yeah, they've got that.
598
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:54,840
But interestingly, high speed rail crew to Manchester.
599
00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:55,840
What?
600
00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:59,000
Oh my, oh my god.
601
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,240
Shaun, is it coming back?
602
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,360
Well, it's not the original.
603
00:27:03,360 --> 00:27:04,360
It's not the original.
604
00:27:04,360 --> 00:27:05,360
No, it's not the OG.
605
00:27:05,360 --> 00:27:06,360
No, that was, that was...
606
00:27:06,360 --> 00:27:07,360
Sorry, HS2B.
607
00:27:07,360 --> 00:27:11,360
It was used, because that was used into Manchester, wasn't it?
608
00:27:11,360 --> 00:27:12,360
HS2.
609
00:27:12,360 --> 00:27:13,360
Yes, I believe.
610
00:27:13,360 --> 00:27:14,360
It's the northern leg.
611
00:27:14,360 --> 00:27:15,360
Northern leg.
612
00:27:15,360 --> 00:27:18,040
Well, Birmingham to Manchester was the northern leg.
613
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:20,040
Yeah, well, it was from Euston to Birmingham.
614
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:21,040
Birmingham to Manchester.
615
00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:22,040
And then Birmingham to Manchester.
616
00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:24,440
But then it was also going to go onto Leeds as well?
617
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:26,880
Yeah, and then across the northern line.
618
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:27,880
Yes.
619
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:33,560
But, yes, they want to, it's, from the looks of it, crew to Manchester.
620
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:34,560
Crew to Manchester.
621
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:35,560
Yeah.
622
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:38,760
So, for those of you who don't know, crew is just outside of Birmingham.
623
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:39,760
Yeah.
624
00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:41,360
I believe.
625
00:27:41,360 --> 00:27:43,800
From Birmingham.
626
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:45,520
Sean's going to check this on a map for me now.
627
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:46,680
Oh, I am, I am.
628
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:47,680
You are, yeah.
629
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:51,360
So, yeah, crew is roughly, so this is good, because this means we will, Manchester will
630
00:27:51,360 --> 00:27:55,680
have a high-speed rail link to London, which means it will now be quicker to get the train
631
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,360
to London than to fly there from Manchester.
632
00:27:58,360 --> 00:28:00,360
Yeah, crew is just north of Stoke-on-Trent.
633
00:28:00,360 --> 00:28:01,360
Yeah, okay.
634
00:28:01,360 --> 00:28:02,360
So, that's good.
635
00:28:02,360 --> 00:28:04,760
Is the, what about the leg to Leeds?
636
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:05,760
Not mentioned.
637
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:06,760
Okay.
638
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:07,760
Not mentioned.
639
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:08,760
At least we're getting something.
640
00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:09,760
Exactly.
641
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,200
We live in the north of England, so that's important to us.
642
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:13,600
It's a bit more than we were getting before.
643
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:15,640
Because it means the capital is a bit more accessible.
644
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:16,640
Exactly.
645
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:18,240
At the moment, it takes three hours to get there.
646
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:19,680
Yeah, that's if you're lucky.
647
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:22,240
It's crazy, and that's if the trains are running, yeah.
648
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:24,040
Yeah, exactly.
649
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:26,320
And there are, there's quite a lot of bills in there.
650
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:29,440
The Employment Rights Bill is a big one.
651
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:34,800
So, I was looking at this bill, and I went, employers are going to look at this, and they're
652
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:38,480
going to question if that is really boosting economic growth.
653
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:39,480
Okay.
654
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:41,560
It is a good policy, don't get me wrong.
655
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:44,040
So, it's banning zero hour contracts.
656
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:45,040
Okay.
657
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:49,360
So, people should be entitled, should have contracts for the regular hours that they
658
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:50,360
work.
659
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:51,360
Yeah, I do agree with that.
660
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:53,360
So, it would be a bad, but the problem is-
661
00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:58,520
Because I was on a zero hours contract once, and one week they just rang me up and said,
662
00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:00,960
we haven't got any work for you this week, and I was like, shit.
663
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:01,960
Yeah, see I-
664
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:05,560
I've now lost a week's wage, that's like my council tax and my water bill.
665
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:08,240
I used to be on a zero hours contract, and it used to be great for me.
666
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:12,320
I was a student at the time, it was fantastic.
667
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:15,680
The job worked around me if I had more hours one week to work than the other.
668
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,880
For some people it works, some people it doesn't.
669
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:19,880
Exactly.
670
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:26,440
So, it doesn't, the wording doesn't say that it's going to ban it completely in every circumstance.
671
00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:30,120
Well that's good, because I think there are some circumstances that do require it, like
672
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:31,920
veg pickers, for example.
673
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:35,440
Yeah, but again, that's questionable.
674
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,120
It's not set in stone.
675
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:38,880
There's more detail to come about that.
676
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:44,080
So a lot to come, but that'll be good.
677
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:51,760
And yeah, they want to also devolve powers to sort of metro mayors, combined authorities.
678
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:54,640
I mean yeah, that was always a Labour policy, wasn't it, that one?
679
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:57,680
Oh definitely, considering they hold the majority of the mayors.
680
00:29:57,680 --> 00:29:58,680
Mayoralty.
681
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:04,560
Mayoralty, that's the way that was looked for, mayorships.
682
00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:06,200
That's not the right word at all.
683
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:12,240
And if we go back to, I can't remember what episode it might have been, Manifesto Destiny
684
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:15,240
might have been free, immigration.
685
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:16,240
Immigration was the first one, Sean.
686
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:17,240
Oh was it the first one?
687
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:18,240
Shit the bird.
688
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:21,480
Oh well I suppose Nigel Farage did say it was an immigration election.
689
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:23,280
Oh you said it.
690
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:25,120
It was an immigration election.
691
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:27,960
Just a point of order as well, just skipping back to something I said earlier.
692
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:30,200
I didn't wrote reform either, okay?
693
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:34,440
No, definitely not.
694
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:44,120
So what do you think was mentioned about immigration in the King's speech?
695
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:45,680
The task force.
696
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:46,680
Yes.
697
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:47,680
Yeah?
698
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:51,760
The much tailored, trailed border security command.
699
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:52,760
The BSC.
700
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:53,760
Yeah, which...
701
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:57,360
The BSC, it sounds like a bank.
702
00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:59,760
But just before fact checking on this...
703
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:00,760
Oh okay.
704
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:01,760
It already existed.
705
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:02,760
Oh.
706
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:11,840
So just for full clarity, they've just renamed a department.
707
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:14,320
Oh was it, I think I know which one it was.
708
00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:18,960
I can't remember the name of it but I think it was like, was it like the something...
709
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:19,960
It was something...
710
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:20,960
Joint task force, right?
711
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:26,680
Yeah, because it was with the French and essentially it's what, yeah, they've launched...
712
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:30,480
Wasn't it Michael Gove that went over and spoke to them about it?
713
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:31,480
It might have been, I can't remember.
714
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:34,520
I can't remember, it was a while ago that that happened.
715
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:40,800
So yeah, it was, but that's all that was mentioned about immigration.
716
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:41,920
Just the task force.
717
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:43,800
Just the border security command.
718
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:44,880
Baby steps.
719
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:51,920
Baby steps indeed, because if you're asking me, that doesn't look like hitting the ground
720
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:52,920
running.
721
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:53,920
No?
722
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,040
I'd say there's a lot in there.
723
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:57,040
In terms of immigration?
724
00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:58,040
In terms of immigration, no.
725
00:31:58,040 --> 00:31:59,920
Which is the point that I asked.
726
00:31:59,920 --> 00:32:04,040
And it has officially tipped over the 1,000 mark of immigrants that have come over on
727
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:06,880
the boats since Kia took office.
728
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:07,880
Crikey.
729
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:08,880
1,000.
730
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:11,080
One whole thousand people.
731
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:12,080
Yes.
732
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:13,080
Crazy.
733
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:17,600
And we're well running out of space to house them and Kia isn't really doing anything about
734
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:18,600
it.
735
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:19,600
No, no.
736
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:22,760
And that's something that was lacking from the speech.
737
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:28,280
There was nothing about mandatory housing targets, which was something that was expected,
738
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:33,680
but they did say that that might come in the framework later on.
739
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:35,880
I mean, maybe they're...
740
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:39,680
Oh, I lost my trail of thought.
741
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:42,120
God damn it.
742
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:43,120
So easy to do, isn't it?
743
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:44,120
I know.
744
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:45,120
I had a really good point as well.
745
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:46,120
Damn it.
746
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:47,120
I'm not even going to cut this out.
747
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:49,560
I'm going to leave this in so people know how disappointed I am that I lost my trail
748
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:50,560
of thought there.
749
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:51,560
Carry on, Sean.
750
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:52,560
Sorry.
751
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:53,560
Sorry, pardon me.
752
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:56,640
But yeah, moving on to fucking hell.
753
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:57,640
Pardon me.
754
00:32:57,640 --> 00:32:58,640
Are you good?
755
00:32:58,640 --> 00:32:59,640
I'm good, yeah.
756
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:04,640
So moving on to defense.
757
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:11,520
So they are going to introduce a bill to establish an armed forces commissioner, which is an
758
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:16,080
independent champion for the military.
759
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:18,680
I mean, there's only so many times you can launch a review into something and now they're
760
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:20,280
going to hire someone literally to do that.
761
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:22,040
They've already launched a review into the defense.
762
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:24,400
The defense review is already ongoing, yeah.
763
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,880
So yeah, but then they want to introduce this commissioner too.
764
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:29,280
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
765
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:37,560
But they have said that 2.5% will be spent on defense when conditions allow.
766
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:39,680
It's turning into a bit of a slogan now.
767
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:42,800
Yeah, that is a slogan for them and they love a slogan.
768
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They love a slogan.
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They really do.
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So King's Speech then, Sean, you've seen a few of these.
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This is only my fifth or sixth that I've seen.
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Maybe fourth or fifth, perhaps.
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Right, yeah.
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So I don't, I mean, I guess it doesn't really mean much because the government could just
775
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go ahead and do what they want.
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Right?
777
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Well, it's a very full shopping list.
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I've said 40 bills, that is quite high in terms of normal numbers, in terms of historic
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numbers.
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It's only sort of Bojo that came close and then before that you're going back to the
781
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fifties.
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Oh really?
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Wow, that far back.
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Yeah.
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Wow.
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So that's the only, that's in the 45, I think it was 45 or 51.
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They brought forward quite a lot of bills, but again, that was post-war.
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Oh yeah, that makes sense.
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So that'd be expected, wouldn't it?
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Well, you never know.
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We may break that record soon.
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Yeah, post-World War Three.
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Yeah, and one final note that I just wanted to, I don't know if we spoke about this last
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week.
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Did we mention Trump nearly being shot?
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I don't remember.
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No, it happened at the weekend.
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It happened literally just at the weekend.
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It happened at the weekend, right.
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Yeah, so for those of you who haven't seen any news outlet in the last few days, somebody
801
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tried to shoot Trump.
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If you haven't seen it, you've been living in a cave.
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Yeah, somebody tried to shoot Trump.
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He survived, he was clipped in the ear.
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Some massive failing in security by the Secret Service, by the looks of things, but there's
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still a report to be done.
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Honestly, it's...
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Just another point of order.
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Don't throw milkshakes at people, don't throw cement at people, and don't fucking shoot
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them.
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It's not hard.
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It's not rocket science, is it?
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This list is getting longer and longer.
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It is getting longer, yeah.
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And we're only on episode six.
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Right.
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We did all the manifesto destinies as well.
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We'll gloss over those.
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They were specials for a reason.
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Yeah, they were specials.
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They were specials for a reason.
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So we've had milkshakes, rocks, cement.
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Oh, and Jess Phillips' tires were slashed during the elections.
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Don't slash people's tires.
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Just leave people alone.
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Yeah, just let them get on with their jobs.
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So people come into your job when you're working in Tesco and stab you in the face and go,
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where's my cabbage?
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If you've got a problem, write a nicely worded email to your MP and they will respond in
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due course.
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In due course, ladies and gentlemen.
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It takes a lot to run a country, okay?
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These people do work hard.
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However pompous they are, however much you hate them, Nigel.
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One thing...
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I don't hate Nigel Farage, by the way.
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I think he does make some good points.
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Yes, definitely.
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I just don't like the way he goes about things.
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Sometimes he conducts himself in the wrong way.
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There was no reason to drive by John Berka in the house.
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We all know that he was again a bit pompous.
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Order!
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We all know that.
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He was a bit of a bully, wasn't he?
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He was a bit of a bully, yes.
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He was investigated for it and everything like that.
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I didn't see that side of him, but he was a very divisive figure on Brexit.
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Oh yeah, definitely.
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And potentially broke convention within the house, which is controversial in itself.
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But considering this, we've spoken about the King's Speech and how some of our traditions
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go back hundreds of years, or 600 years.
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There is one change to our democracy that the Labour Party King's Speech has presented,
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I will say.
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So currently there are around 100 hereditary peers in the House of Lords.
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So these are people that are in the House of Lords because of the family that they were
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born into.
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Yeah, it's passed down like the King, the Queen, the Crown, right?
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Yeah, so there's around 100 of these that currently sit in the House of Lords, right?
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Will Labour want to abolish that?
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So will they get to stay or will they have to go?
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I believe it'll be a case of they'll phase them out, so it'll be a case of no-one can
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inherit a lordship moving forward.
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But the Lords that are currently there will be able to stay there, as it were.
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So they're not going to lose their job?
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No, I can't imagine so.
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I don't think the Lords get paid.
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They can claim expenses, but they don't get paid.
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And the same goes for the Lords, by the way.
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No cement, no milkshakes.
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No bricks.
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No bullets.
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No bullets.
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No slashing of tyres.
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Nothing.
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Just let the peers get on with their lives.
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Also, one final point on Trump.
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Putin has today backed Trump's past presidential pick.
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Fantastic.
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That bodes well for us all, doesn't it?
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This is the guy that called the UK the first Islamist state with nuclear weapons and has
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tried to backtrack on that by saying it was a joke.
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God.
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Just God.
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Give me strength.
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Well, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for listening once again.
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It's been a pleasure.
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Shaun, thank you for joining me.
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You are always welcome, Chris.
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It's always a pleasure.
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We'll see where we are next week.
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But for now, we'll leave you in peace.
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Yes, we will.
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See you soon.
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Much love.
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For Real.
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Let's try this again, shall we, Sean?
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Yeah, let's try again.
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Take two.
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Hello everyone, welcome back to Talking Collegues, episode six?
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Number six.
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Sean is here too.
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Hello, bonjour.
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He's back.
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I'm back.
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He's back.
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Not that I went anywhere.
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No, you don't often go anywhere actually, you basically live at that desk.
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I went to the shop.
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Oh, you did go to Anster today, yeah.
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Other supermarkets are available.
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I went shopping, yeah, I did that and I got some lunch while I was out.
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Oh, what did you get?
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I had a cheeseburger from a well-known fast food restaurant.
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Does this well-known fast food restaurant begin with M and end in Onald's?
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Yeah.
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Ah, yeah.
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And I had a shocker.
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I had a cheeseburger.
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Cheeseburger.
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Double cheeseburger actually.
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A double cheeseburger.
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Yeah, yeah, I really treated myself.
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Oh man, well.
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Episode six then.
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Today is gonna be all Sean, ladies and gentlemen, because I've been so busy at work, I have
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got no notes.
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That's a poor excuse, Chris.
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It is, yeah, I'm really sorry, I've let you down.
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Appointed.
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Not angry, just disappointed.
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Disappointed, yeah, sorry that I've let you down.
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So Sean is gonna take the reins today and talk about Charles and his speech.
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But yeah, today has been a big day.
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Lots of pomp and ceremony and yeah.
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Pop.
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Yeah, that's what it's called.
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That's what it's called.
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It was very glorious seeing the king and queen in the carriage going down, horse guards.
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That carriage must weigh so much.
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So they were in the most up to date carriage today.
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Yes.
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Because they get a choice, they don't have to use the Golden State carriage because that
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is the most uncomfortable vehicle that humanity has ever invented.
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So he used the carriage that had all the mod cons.
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That's the most recently built one.
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Oh nice, so it's got air con, TV, sky.
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Probably, and suspension.
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Suspension?
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I know, which is something the gold carriage doesn't really have.
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Pimp my carriage.
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I know.
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So basically, the king has been given a speech that Kia's written, right?
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It's written by the government.
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It's written by the government, right?
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Yeah.
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And it's, go on Sean.
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Essentially, it sets out what the government's agenda for parliament is.
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Basically, it's what their plans are, right?
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Yeah, essentially.
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And it introduces the bills that they're going to bring forward into parliament to try and
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legislate.
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Which will obviously pass with flying colours because they've got a stonking majority.
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Well, some of them may do.
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You've got to remember, the way that our legislative system works is we've got the House of Commons.
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They legislate us for system again.
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No, no, I'm okay thanks.
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It's quite a mouthful, isn't it?
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Damn it, I ruined it.
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Go on, sorry.
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Yeah, so we've got the House of Commons, we've got the House of Lords, and then we've got
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the king.
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So, you know, even though something gets through the House of Commons, doesn't necessarily
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mean it's going to become law.
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Yeah.
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Because the House of, as we know with many laws in the past, such as Brexit and stuff
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like that, there's been lots of back and forth between the Lords and the Commons.
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Ping pong, they call it then.
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Yeah, and filibustering.
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Filibustering.
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And stuff like that.
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And it just wastes time, essentially.
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So laws don't get passed.
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But yeah.
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So, I mean, it's good that they have that sort of oversight.
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Exactly.
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But the big question today, when I woke up this morning watching the news, I was watching
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Kay Burley.
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Correction, Sean woke up this morning to say goodbye to me at half past seven.
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He then fell back asleep.
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I only went back to sleep for about 15, 20 minutes because I had to get up again.
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As he does every morning, by the way.
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Usually it's longer.
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Usually it's longer, yeah.
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Usually he spends a lot longer in bed.
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Yeah, this morning not quite as long.
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But some days I get home and he hasn't even left a bit.
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Wow, that's not true.
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Well, it depends.
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If it's a weekend, maybe not.
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It depends.
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So yeah, the King goes to the Commons, Sean, and...
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Yeah, so he goes to the Commons, sets out this speech and with all these bills and what
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his government is going to do over the course of the parliament.
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And then he goes off back home.
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There's obviously lots of other pageantry that happens.
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Black Rod bangs on the door of the Commons.
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The King kidnaps one of the MPs.
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Did you know this?
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Yes, that is a...
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That is since King John, I believe.
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It was Charles I.
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Was it Charles I?
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I thought it was John.
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Yes, I read about this today.
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It was Charles I.
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And it was due to poor relations between the King and the...
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Let me see if I still have the history page open on my phone.
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Yeah, but while you're looking at that, one question that I, as I said, so I woke up this
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morning and watched the news.
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And one of the questions that was being asked was, as a democratic nation, should we have
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a King or a monarch?
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What are your thoughts on that, Chris?
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Why do we have a monarch?
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Well, should we have one?
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Should we have one?
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As a democratic nation?
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Yes.
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I believe we should have a monarch.
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Great.
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Me too.
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Because, well, I mean, there's an argument two and four here, isn't there?
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You can say, all right, the royal family don't really do anything.
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They take a lot of money from the public coffers.
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And all this is true.
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However, what people fail to realize sometimes, I think, is that actually the royal family
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do bring in a lot of money to the economy.
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How many Americans that come over to see the royal family?
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You know, it's not just British people that line the streets at these celebrations.
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Foreigners come from all over the world, Canada, all inside the Commonwealth to view the royal
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family.
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So their economic benefit outweighs their economic cost.
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And quite interestingly, the most recent study by Ipsos Mori on support for the monarchy
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puts public support at around 60 percent.
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Still quite high.
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It's actually quite low in the history of monarchy approval.
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They usually used to sit around the 70, 80 mark.
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But yeah, I was going to say, has this dropped since Elizabeth passed?
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It's dropped slowly over the last 30 years, really.
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Diana that it dropped because of Diana, Diana's death and just events.
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You know, it has slowly declined, but it's still at 60 percent.
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That's still more than half of the population.
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I would say that's pretty good, really.
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Yeah, I agree.
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I think we should have a monarchy.
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What is the harm in having the monarchy?
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They bring economic benefits.
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They bring pageantry to our country.
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They, you know, they make us look like a beautiful nation sometimes.
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Beautiful.
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Even though sometimes our politics is actually quite ugly.
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Occasionally, nowhere near as ugly as the American politics, but especially during the
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Brexit years.
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Oh my God.
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That was awful, wasn't it?
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I found the article, Sean, about the hawk.
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Yes.
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So let me just get to the right part.
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Here we go.
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This is a sky news article, by the way, that I'm reading from here.
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So I just wanted to skip back a few lines because two of the most bizarre traditions
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take place behind the scenes during the King's speech.
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So the yeoman of the guard, the Royal Bodyguard, carry out a search of the cellars and the
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Palace of Westminster for explosives.
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Three guesses why that is.
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Three guesses why they do that, ladies and gentlemen.
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Yeah, we wonder why.
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Yeah, November 5th.
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Ring any bells?
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No?
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No, no, it doesn't ring any.
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I have nothing in my calendar.
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So it's a ceremonial search dating back to the King's speech in 1605.
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Then monarch King James I, a Protestant, by the way, had cause for concern in the aftermath
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of the Guy Fawkes gunpowder plot, a failed attempt by English Catholics to blow him and
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Parliament up.
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Yep.
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So another tradition to assure the monarch's safety was introduced in 1649 and this was
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the hostage taking.
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Exactly.
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So there you go, which is quite interesting that we still have these really old traditions
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and still carry out these old pageant treatments, like, you know, trooping the colour and stuff
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like that.
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It's part of our constitution.
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It's just going to have a zesty beverage, excuse me.
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It's part of our constitution.
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It's what makes the British democratic system work the way that it does.
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Hooray!
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That's why we need a king.
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Exactly.
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Going back to your earlier question, Sean.
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And if you look at other monarchies around the world, they have good standings too, you
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know, there's no detriment of having a monarchy compared to being a republic.
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The UK ranks above the USA, for example, in the majority of stats when it comes to politics,
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political stability, political...
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And these people are trained from such a young age to live this way, aren't they?
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I mean, don't get me, I have the feeling that the...
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Is it the king or queen of Poland now?
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I think it might be a king, right?
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Well, I know the queen abdicated.
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She abdicated to her grandson, right?
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Grandson, yeah.
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Yes.
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So he is the king now.
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I have the feeling he is going to struggle keeping a straight face when Prime Minister
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Dick Schoof turns up.
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Like that, you're going to struggle not to laugh at that, aren't you?
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Even the most...
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Good old Dick Schoof.
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Right?
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I'm sorry, Dick Schoof, if you're listening, you are a great guy.
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I love you.
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I have a really particularly sweary surname, which involves the same appendage.
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So you know, I'm with you, buddy, but I'm sorry.
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But Dick Schoof, please tell me that your full name is Richard Schoof.
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That's what I want it to be.
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You'd be down the courts in the morning, wouldn't you, changing your name?
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Yes, I'd like to change my name to Penis Schoof.
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Yeah, anything but this.
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Anything but this.
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Yes, that's anything but this Schoof.
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Hi, nice to meet you.
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So moving on then.
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But yes, back to the king's speech.
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So the king walks in...
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And not the film.
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Not the film, yeah, not the film.
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No, that is a good film, by the way.
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I've never seen it.
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Have you not?
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Oh, it's a good film.
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I've never seen it.
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It is a good film.
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So the king is giving this speech by Keir, there you go, to speak about his son.
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He hasn't even got to do any work.
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All he's got to do is show up in his golden carriage.
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Yeah, but he has to wear all the crown and the jewels.
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Oh no, he has to wear a huge fucking jeweled crown and be all, mmm, look at me.
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The crown is 1.6 kilos.
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Well, I would be more impressed if it was 1.6 tons.
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Plus the robe itself is many kilos.
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Many kilos.
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Is that a stated fact?
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That is, yeah.
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Many kilos.
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Is that what it says on the Gov website, is it?
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That is the Gov definition of the weight of the robe.
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Many kilos.
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Many kilos.
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Just so you know, many kilos.
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So I'm doing air quotes for those of you listening at home.
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It's heavy stuff.
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And you've got to remember, he's a 76.
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His wife turned 77 today.
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They're old people.
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He literally has to walk up an aisle, sit down in a chair and read.
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He has to get in the carriage.
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Oh yeah, a solid gold carriage with suspension.
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It's not solid gold.
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They don't use the solid gold one anymore.
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They use the black one.
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I wonder why.
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No wonder they did like 50 horses to pull the thing.
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It probably weighs like 50 tons, the gold one.
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It is quite heavy.
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Oh yeah, no shit.
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It's made out of solid gold.
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Anyway.
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Anyway, that's enough about the monarchy.
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It's solid gold.
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Shouldn't have opened that can of worms.
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And then so Kia is introducing 40 bills.
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40 bills, yeah.
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Let that sink in for a second.
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40 over the course of this parliament, ladies and gentlemen.
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With a stonking majority, I might add.
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It's not the most bills ever introduced, but it's up there.
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Yeah?
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Ambitious.
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The most since, I believe, 1951.
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It's ambitious, but completely doable.
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Yeah, he beat Boris Johnson's 2021 state opening of parliament by one bill.
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Oh, so what, Bojo had 39?
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Yes.
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Wow.
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And Kia went for 40.
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How many did Rishi have?
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Like 21.
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Oh nice, okay.
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So, what is our king waffling on about thanks to Kia, Sean?
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Okay, so well, first things first.
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Some of the bills have been brought through from previous conservative governments.
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So some specific ones for that.
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It's Martin's law.
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Yes, Martin's law.
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Which is, oh my god, the terrorism protection of premises.
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So it's to prevent like the Manchester Arena bombing.
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Okay, yeah.
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And it's to ensure higher security events like that.
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Oh cool, okay.
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Yeah, I think that was probably needed, right?
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Yeah, they've brought that forward.
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They've also brought forward Rishi Sunak's tobacco and vapes bill.
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Preventing people born after 2009 from ever being able to buy cigarettes or tobacco.
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So this is the, we've mentioned this on a previous podcast of ours.
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This is the incremental age increase.
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So basically every year, so it'll start at what it is currently now, 18.
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And then every year it'll go, you need to be 19, you need to be 20, you need to be 21,
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you need to be 22, you need to be 23, you need to be 24.
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And till the point everyone is dead who can buy cigarettes.
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And till the point that everybody is dead and smoke fags gone from the country.
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Fags, by the way, are the British term for cigarettes.
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Just to get the wrong idea.
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I'm not using a derogatory term.
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No.
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Just to point that out, okay.
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As part of this bill, it's also about changing the vape packaging and making it like cigarette
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packaging.
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So it's all just plain and it's not colourful and appealing to youves and stuff like that.
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Probably limiting flavours.
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I mean, it's a good idea, right?
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Yeah.
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Yeah?
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I don't know.
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You'd have to look at, it's not something I've looked into, but you'd have to look at
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the statistics about how effective it was getting people, like changing the packaging
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of cigarettes.
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How effective was that in changing smokers behaviour or stopping people from smoking?
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I mean, I don't like the pictures on the packaging.
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No, they're gross.
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Yeah, they are gross.
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Somebody though, here's an interesting tidbit for you that I saw in the news a few years
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back.
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Someone's picture was actually used on those packages that they hadn't agreed to be used.
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So imagine this woman's horror when she went out and bought a pack of fags, cigarettes,
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Ferrara, or what do they call them in America?
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Pack of smokes?
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Pack of smokes.
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Pack of smokes.
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Went out and bought a pack of smokes to her horror, opened it up and saw her granddad's
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illness on the packaging.
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Lovely.
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It was enough to make her stop smoking, you'd be glad to know.
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However, I think they got a payout maybe, you'll have to do some googling.
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Yeah, but that's my question.
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How effective is it in stopping people smoking or preventing people from starting smoking?
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I think this is a more long term thing.
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Yeah, eventually it will go the same way as cigarettes have, where they'll age it out.
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I think we need to look at this in the long term and say actually in 100 years time it
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could be that Britain is smoke free and it's setting the foundations for that.
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Yeah, which is not a bad thing, you know, smoking is a terrible habit.
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Says two vapers.
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Yeah, but we're adults.
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Yes, and that makes it okay.
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Because we made the decision legally to vape.
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Whereas because of the youthful colours used in vape packaging, they say it appeals to
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children who aren't.
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I mean I've got...
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I've purchased them.
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You've got some packaging in front of me, right, okay, and these are SKE crystal lemon
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and lime nicotine pods for my electronic cigarette, right?
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Yes.
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And looking at the packaging, Sean, what do you see?
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Bright colours.
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Yep.
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On the front, can you see anything else?
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It says this product contains nicotine which is a highly addictive substance.
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I mean that's not really a warning, is it?
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That's more of a fact.
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It is a fact, yeah, it literally is a fact.
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Yeah, it says no 18 on the side of it.
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00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:40,920
It is security tagged as well because...
387
00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:41,920
Fantastic.
388
00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:42,920
...usprits of rascals.
389
00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:44,920
Yeah, you know, we still coffee apparently.
390
00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:51,640
Yes, and to get round the disposable e-cigarette thing, what they've done is, and I'm totally
391
00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:55,880
guilty of this, they've just separated the battery and the pod, so you now buy the two
392
00:17:55,880 --> 00:17:58,840
pods that are disposable, so the battery you keep.
393
00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:03,720
Yeah, but, and that's a loophole in the law, I suppose, with the disposables, isn't it?
394
00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:06,540
There you go, so they've already found a loophole round it and they're already preparing to
395
00:18:06,540 --> 00:18:08,520
do it, but the packaging hasn't changed.
396
00:18:08,520 --> 00:18:09,800
That is still brightly coloured.
397
00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:13,920
It is yellow, green, it's got a little bit of red on it.
398
00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:15,400
It looks like, do you know what it looks like?
399
00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:18,200
It actually looks like a Starburst packet.
400
00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:23,480
Oh yeah, definitely, and that's the problem that they're saying is it appeals to children,
401
00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:25,040
it appeals to young people.
402
00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:30,360
It looks good, it looks cool, so if you make everything plain and boring and green like
403
00:18:30,360 --> 00:18:35,280
cigarettes, then you know, you're not going to have a problem, right?
404
00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:40,040
So it's, you know, it's following the same thing as smoking, as I said, I don't know
405
00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:43,400
how effective it's going to be, I don't know how effective it was with smoking, people
406
00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:47,760
still smoke, there are still millions of people in this country that smoke cigarettes, and
407
00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:54,400
young people that are just 18, 19 smoking cigarettes, so it obviously wasn't that effective.
408
00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:58,760
What is even more depressing is on my way to work in the morning in the car, I see school
409
00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:02,680
kids in primary school uniforms using these things.
410
00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:03,680
Oh god.
411
00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:04,680
Yeah.
412
00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:07,280
I know, I'm not kidding.
413
00:19:07,280 --> 00:19:11,040
Now whether they've got nicotine in or not, I don't know, I can only assume that they
414
00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:13,600
do because they look exactly like the ones that we've got.
415
00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:19,120
Yeah, well that's the thing, and it's so easy for them to get them, so that's why they,
416
00:19:19,120 --> 00:19:21,160
it's a good thing that they've brought that one forward.
417
00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:27,600
Start setting the foundations now, and then, you know, maybe in five or six generations,
418
00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:29,440
think how healthy the country will be.
419
00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:32,960
Yeah, there's another bill that you'll be pleased to know has been brought forward from
420
00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:34,760
the Tory Parliament.
421
00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:36,560
Oh, is it the RRB?
422
00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:41,960
The Renters Reform Bill has been reintroduced by His Majesty the King.
423
00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:46,000
So hang on a minute, so far all we've done is put Rishi Sunak's policies through the
424
00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:47,000
washing machine.
425
00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:48,000
Yeah, basically.
426
00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:49,000
Okay, moving on.
427
00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:56,360
So yeah, so we've got Renters Reform, another one that we've got is the Football Governance
428
00:19:56,360 --> 00:19:59,400
Bill introducing the football regulator, they've brought that forward.
429
00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:01,080
Oh, that's a Rishi Bill.
430
00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:02,080
That's a Rishi Bill!
431
00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:03,080
That is a Rishi Bill.
432
00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:04,080
Okay, moving on.
433
00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:05,080
Yeah, okay.
434
00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:08,280
Let's get on to some non-Rishi Bills, shall we?
435
00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:09,280
Okay.
436
00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:12,680
So they've, they have broken these down into some nice useful headings, so this one is
437
00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:14,000
Great British Energy.
438
00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:18,920
Oh, okay, so this is their flagship energy policy during the election, they want to make
439
00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:21,400
a energy company.
440
00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:22,800
Energy company, yeah.
441
00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:28,760
However, the logistics aren't clear, so it's not clear whether they're going to be a wholesaler,
442
00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:34,160
or whether they're going to be a retail energy supplier.
443
00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:39,400
So is it going to be a case of businesses go to them to get their gas and electric,
444
00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:44,560
or can me and you go to them and say, I want my electricity provided by Great British Energy
445
00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:46,480
as a customer, I want to be your customer?
446
00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:51,040
Yeah, but surely everyone would just go, okay, let's go to them because they're cheap.
447
00:20:51,040 --> 00:20:54,760
And all of the other energy companies in the country are going, well, shit.
448
00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:59,200
Yeah, so these are things that need to be ironed out yet, they're not clear, but this
449
00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:01,720
is what the Great British Energy Bill is for.
450
00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:04,760
All right, moving on.
451
00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:10,240
So they also go for the Crown Estate Bill, so this is to introduce the wealth, the National
452
00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:11,240
Wealth Fund.
453
00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:15,720
Oh yes, yes, we spoke about this in Manifesto Destiny, the specials.
454
00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:23,400
Yeah, yeah, and they also want to, there's more crime and policing bills coming forward,
455
00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:26,920
tougher sentencing, banning knives.
456
00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:27,920
All good stuff.
457
00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:28,920
All good stuff.
458
00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:29,920
That needed to be done.
459
00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:34,360
It was quite interesting this evening, I was listening to some campaigners that have, Pooja,
460
00:21:34,360 --> 00:21:40,240
I can't remember her last name, but she lost her, one of her, I think it was her son was
461
00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:43,880
killed by a ninja sword.
462
00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:44,880
A katana.
463
00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:46,680
Yeah, they're called ninja swords.
464
00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:48,160
Oh, they're called ninja swords?
465
00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:52,560
Yeah, and that's what the law, that's what they're going to be called in the law as well.
466
00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:57,720
And they're going to be banned, for example, so they're saying that they're glad they're
467
00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:04,720
listening, that the government is finally listening, which is a nice change rather than
468
00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:07,320
from hearing campaigners who are saying we're not being listened to.
469
00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:09,880
So we'll see how that gets on.
470
00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:11,680
Right?
471
00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:13,640
Hmm.
472
00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:17,440
Again, only a good thing.
473
00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:21,960
I mean, this also goes back to how easy these things are to get, right?
474
00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:22,960
Oh, exactly.
475
00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:23,960
At the moment, you can just buy them online.
476
00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:26,480
Same with this crossbow incident that happened.
477
00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:29,680
Oh yeah, with a double murder, triple murder, sorry.
478
00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:32,080
With an absolutely horrible thing, John Hunt.
479
00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:33,080
John Hunt, yeah.
480
00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:34,080
And his two daughters and his wife.
481
00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:37,320
BBC's guy bought a racing commentator.
482
00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:40,400
Obviously, heartfelt condolences.
483
00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:42,320
What an awful tragedy to have happened.
484
00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:43,320
I know, can you imagine?
485
00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:49,200
I can't even fathom the pain and the heart, the heartfelt, you know, the loss.
486
00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:51,360
I can't begin to comprehend it.
487
00:22:51,360 --> 00:22:52,360
I can't even find my words.
488
00:22:52,360 --> 00:22:54,400
That's how crazy it is.
489
00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:55,400
That's how mad it is.
490
00:22:55,400 --> 00:23:00,800
And I really hope they find solace in the fact that they got the word I can't say on
491
00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:01,800
podcast.
492
00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:02,800
Yes, yes, that person.
493
00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:04,760
But good news, we didn't need a beep.
494
00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:06,040
No, we didn't need a beep.
495
00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:07,040
There you go.
496
00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:13,160
But yeah, so it's about banning these and making our streets safer, you know?
497
00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:15,800
It's not safe out there sometimes, especially in certain areas.
498
00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:16,800
No, exactly.
499
00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:20,240
Yeah, there are, everybody has that certain part of town that they avoid because they
500
00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:22,000
know that it's bad.
501
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:23,200
Exactly.
502
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:25,520
That's the kind of stuff that we need to stop happening.
503
00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:26,520
And you know what?
504
00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:29,560
I mean, so far, he's doing the right things.
505
00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:34,200
Keir, I'm, you know, I didn't vote for his party at the election.
506
00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:37,200
I know, we still haven't said who we voted for.
507
00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:39,480
But I didn't vote for Labour.
508
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:41,560
I will confirm that.
509
00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:45,080
I did vote for someone else.
510
00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:46,080
I didn't vote Labour.
511
00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:47,440
I did vote for someone else, just clarifying that.
512
00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:49,960
I didn't just go in and write not Labour.
513
00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:53,800
I wrote not Labour on the bottom, put a box next to it and crossed in there.
514
00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:58,680
It's going to be interesting to see, like the Great British Energy policy, that was
515
00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:01,080
going to be, you know, an energy provider in my mind.
516
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:03,480
Now they're saying, oh, it could be a real, it could be a wholesaler.
517
00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:04,480
Really?
518
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:05,480
Okay.
519
00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:06,480
So we're, are they starting to backpedal?
520
00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:09,120
Well, we need to watch them and give them a lot of scrutiny, ladies and gentlemen.
521
00:24:09,120 --> 00:24:10,200
Well, yeah, definitely.
522
00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:15,280
And that's the point of, that's the benefit of our democracy in this country is we do,
523
00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:18,560
we can scrutinise.
524
00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:26,240
Another quite a, quite an interesting thing is the Ray, railways bill.
525
00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:28,120
This is nationalising the railways, isn't it?
526
00:24:28,120 --> 00:24:33,040
This is bringing all rail companies back under public ownership.
527
00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:39,800
So full re-nationalisation and it'll be called Great British Rail.
528
00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:41,800
For fuck's sake.
529
00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:42,800
Give me hope.
530
00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:44,280
Is everything Great British?
531
00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:45,280
Yeah.
532
00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:47,880
So whenever, when they have their first scandal in office, it's going to be the Great British
533
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:49,160
scandal now, is it?
534
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:50,160
Yeah, probably.
535
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:53,520
Did Keir get all his ideas from the Great British break off?
536
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:55,280
Or the Great British sewing bee.
537
00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:56,280
Oh yeah.
538
00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:58,240
Or the, there's another one about painting.
539
00:24:58,240 --> 00:24:59,240
I can't remember what that one's called.
540
00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:00,240
Oh yeah.
541
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:01,240
It's the Great British painting competition.
542
00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:02,240
Yeah.
543
00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:03,240
That one.
544
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:04,240
Portrait artist of the year.
545
00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:05,240
Yeah.
546
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:06,240
That one.
547
00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:07,240
The Great British portrait artist of the year.
548
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:08,240
Yeah.
549
00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:09,240
That one.
550
00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:10,240
Wow.
551
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:14,640
But at the heart of the King's speech though.
552
00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:16,160
At the heart of things.
553
00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:18,080
I think the heart of it is the- That's funny.
554
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,080
I didn't realise Charles had a heart.
555
00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:21,080
Yeah.
556
00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:22,080
Questionably he does.
557
00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:25,880
Even if it's just there to pump blood throughout his body.
558
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:26,880
Yeah.
559
00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:27,880
That's all it does.
560
00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:28,880
Doesn't really serve any other purpose.
561
00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:29,880
No.
562
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:31,880
But it's about growing the economy.
563
00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:32,880
Yes.
564
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:33,880
Boosting growth.
565
00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:37,640
So that is about re-nationalising the railways, trying to improve the railway network transport.
566
00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:41,600
You know, improving buses.
567
00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:43,760
Making the country work again.
568
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:45,360
I feel like, I've said this before.
569
00:25:45,360 --> 00:25:47,440
I feel like the country doesn't work.
570
00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:48,440
Yeah.
571
00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:49,440
You can't get a doctor's appointment anymore.
572
00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:50,440
There's stuff that's broken.
573
00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:51,440
There is stuff that's broken.
574
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:56,600
You can't get a train anywhere anymore without it being delayed or cancelled or leaves on
575
00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:59,880
the line or somebody's trampoline being stuck in the wind.
576
00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:07,040
The question that I have is, is that going to be solved by bringing it under public ownership?
577
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,320
I think it means there'll be more scrutiny.
578
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:10,920
Because they're not going to put the fares down.
579
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:12,960
Let's be honest about that.
580
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:14,240
The fares won't go down.
581
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:17,120
With them being under public ownership, the fares aren't going to profit.
582
00:26:17,120 --> 00:26:18,120
They're going to reinvestment.
583
00:26:18,120 --> 00:26:20,560
So that hopefully will improve things.
584
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:25,120
They're going into the treasury's pocket so that way the treasury could spend the money
585
00:26:25,120 --> 00:26:27,040
elsewhere if it needed to.
586
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:28,040
Well, let's give them the chance.
587
00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:29,680
You know, let's see what happens.
588
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:30,680
We'll see, yeah.
589
00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:37,040
But my question is, I don't necessarily know if re-nationalisation is the way forward.
590
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:38,560
But I could be proved wrong.
591
00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:39,640
I could be proved wrong.
592
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:41,160
I'm always open to that.
593
00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:43,440
They've got the Better Buses Bill.
594
00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:44,440
The Better Buses Bill.
595
00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:45,440
The BBB.
596
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:46,440
The Better Buses Bill.
597
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:49,440
Yeah, they've got that.
598
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:54,840
But interestingly, high speed rail crew to Manchester.
599
00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:55,840
What?
600
00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:59,000
Oh my, oh my god.
601
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,240
Shaun, is it coming back?
602
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,360
Well, it's not the original.
603
00:27:03,360 --> 00:27:04,360
It's not the original.
604
00:27:04,360 --> 00:27:05,360
No, it's not the OG.
605
00:27:05,360 --> 00:27:06,360
No, that was, that was...
606
00:27:06,360 --> 00:27:07,360
Sorry, HS2B.
607
00:27:07,360 --> 00:27:11,360
It was used, because that was used into Manchester, wasn't it?
608
00:27:11,360 --> 00:27:12,360
HS2.
609
00:27:12,360 --> 00:27:13,360
Yes, I believe.
610
00:27:13,360 --> 00:27:14,360
It's the northern leg.
611
00:27:14,360 --> 00:27:15,360
Northern leg.
612
00:27:15,360 --> 00:27:18,040
Well, Birmingham to Manchester was the northern leg.
613
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:20,040
Yeah, well, it was from Euston to Birmingham.
614
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:21,040
Birmingham to Manchester.
615
00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:22,040
And then Birmingham to Manchester.
616
00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:24,440
But then it was also going to go onto Leeds as well?
617
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:26,880
Yeah, and then across the northern line.
618
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:27,880
Yes.
619
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:33,560
But, yes, they want to, it's, from the looks of it, crew to Manchester.
620
00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:34,560
Crew to Manchester.
621
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:35,560
Yeah.
622
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:38,760
So, for those of you who don't know, crew is just outside of Birmingham.
623
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:39,760
Yeah.
624
00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:41,360
I believe.
625
00:27:41,360 --> 00:27:43,800
From Birmingham.
626
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:45,520
Sean's going to check this on a map for me now.
627
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:46,680
Oh, I am, I am.
628
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:47,680
You are, yeah.
629
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:51,360
So, yeah, crew is roughly, so this is good, because this means we will, Manchester will
630
00:27:51,360 --> 00:27:55,680
have a high-speed rail link to London, which means it will now be quicker to get the train
631
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,360
to London than to fly there from Manchester.
632
00:27:58,360 --> 00:28:00,360
Yeah, crew is just north of Stoke-on-Trent.
633
00:28:00,360 --> 00:28:01,360
Yeah, okay.
634
00:28:01,360 --> 00:28:02,360
So, that's good.
635
00:28:02,360 --> 00:28:04,760
Is the, what about the leg to Leeds?
636
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:05,760
Not mentioned.
637
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:06,760
Okay.
638
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:07,760
Not mentioned.
639
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:08,760
At least we're getting something.
640
00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:09,760
Exactly.
641
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,200
We live in the north of England, so that's important to us.
642
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:13,600
It's a bit more than we were getting before.
643
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:15,640
Because it means the capital is a bit more accessible.
644
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:16,640
Exactly.
645
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:18,240
At the moment, it takes three hours to get there.
646
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:19,680
Yeah, that's if you're lucky.
647
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:22,240
It's crazy, and that's if the trains are running, yeah.
648
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:24,040
Yeah, exactly.
649
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:26,320
And there are, there's quite a lot of bills in there.
650
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:29,440
The Employment Rights Bill is a big one.
651
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:34,800
So, I was looking at this bill, and I went, employers are going to look at this, and they're
652
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:38,480
going to question if that is really boosting economic growth.
653
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:39,480
Okay.
654
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:41,560
It is a good policy, don't get me wrong.
655
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:44,040
So, it's banning zero hour contracts.
656
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:45,040
Okay.
657
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:49,360
So, people should be entitled, should have contracts for the regular hours that they
658
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:50,360
work.
659
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:51,360
Yeah, I do agree with that.
660
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:53,360
So, it would be a bad, but the problem is-
661
00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:58,520
Because I was on a zero hours contract once, and one week they just rang me up and said,
662
00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:00,960
we haven't got any work for you this week, and I was like, shit.
663
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:01,960
Yeah, see I-
664
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:05,560
I've now lost a week's wage, that's like my council tax and my water bill.
665
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:08,240
I used to be on a zero hours contract, and it used to be great for me.
666
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:12,320
I was a student at the time, it was fantastic.
667
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:15,680
The job worked around me if I had more hours one week to work than the other.
668
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,880
For some people it works, some people it doesn't.
669
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:19,880
Exactly.
670
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:26,440
So, it doesn't, the wording doesn't say that it's going to ban it completely in every circumstance.
671
00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:30,120
Well that's good, because I think there are some circumstances that do require it, like
672
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:31,920
veg pickers, for example.
673
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:35,440
Yeah, but again, that's questionable.
674
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,120
It's not set in stone.
675
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:38,880
There's more detail to come about that.
676
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:44,080
So a lot to come, but that'll be good.
677
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:51,760
And yeah, they want to also devolve powers to sort of metro mayors, combined authorities.
678
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:54,640
I mean yeah, that was always a Labour policy, wasn't it, that one?
679
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:57,680
Oh definitely, considering they hold the majority of the mayors.
680
00:29:57,680 --> 00:29:58,680
Mayoralty.
681
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:04,560
Mayoralty, that's the way that was looked for, mayorships.
682
00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:06,200
That's not the right word at all.
683
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:12,240
And if we go back to, I can't remember what episode it might have been, Manifesto Destiny
684
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:15,240
might have been free, immigration.
685
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:16,240
Immigration was the first one, Sean.
686
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:17,240
Oh was it the first one?
687
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:18,240
Shit the bird.
688
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:21,480
Oh well I suppose Nigel Farage did say it was an immigration election.
689
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:23,280
Oh you said it.
690
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:25,120
It was an immigration election.
691
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:27,960
Just a point of order as well, just skipping back to something I said earlier.
692
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:30,200
I didn't wrote reform either, okay?
693
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:34,440
No, definitely not.
694
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:44,120
So what do you think was mentioned about immigration in the King's speech?
695
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:45,680
The task force.
696
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:46,680
Yes.
697
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:47,680
Yeah?
698
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:51,760
The much tailored, trailed border security command.
699
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:52,760
The BSC.
700
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:53,760
Yeah, which...
701
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:57,360
The BSC, it sounds like a bank.
702
00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:59,760
But just before fact checking on this...
703
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:00,760
Oh okay.
704
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:01,760
It already existed.
705
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:02,760
Oh.
706
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:11,840
So just for full clarity, they've just renamed a department.
707
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:14,320
Oh was it, I think I know which one it was.
708
00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:18,960
I can't remember the name of it but I think it was like, was it like the something...
709
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:19,960
It was something...
710
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:20,960
Joint task force, right?
711
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:26,680
Yeah, because it was with the French and essentially it's what, yeah, they've launched...
712
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:30,480
Wasn't it Michael Gove that went over and spoke to them about it?
713
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:31,480
It might have been, I can't remember.
714
00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:34,520
I can't remember, it was a while ago that that happened.
715
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:40,800
So yeah, it was, but that's all that was mentioned about immigration.
716
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:41,920
Just the task force.
717
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:43,800
Just the border security command.
718
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:44,880
Baby steps.
719
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:51,920
Baby steps indeed, because if you're asking me, that doesn't look like hitting the ground
720
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:52,920
running.
721
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:53,920
No?
722
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,040
I'd say there's a lot in there.
723
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:57,040
In terms of immigration?
724
00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:58,040
In terms of immigration, no.
725
00:31:58,040 --> 00:31:59,920
Which is the point that I asked.
726
00:31:59,920 --> 00:32:04,040
And it has officially tipped over the 1,000 mark of immigrants that have come over on
727
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:06,880
the boats since Kia took office.
728
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:07,880
Crikey.
729
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:08,880
1,000.
730
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:11,080
One whole thousand people.
731
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:12,080
Yes.
732
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:13,080
Crazy.
733
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:17,600
And we're well running out of space to house them and Kia isn't really doing anything about
734
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:18,600
it.
735
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:19,600
No, no.
736
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:22,760
And that's something that was lacking from the speech.
737
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:28,280
There was nothing about mandatory housing targets, which was something that was expected,
738
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:33,680
but they did say that that might come in the framework later on.
739
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:35,880
I mean, maybe they're...
740
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:39,680
Oh, I lost my trail of thought.
741
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:42,120
God damn it.
742
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:43,120
So easy to do, isn't it?
743
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:44,120
I know.
744
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:45,120
I had a really good point as well.
745
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:46,120
Damn it.
746
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:47,120
I'm not even going to cut this out.
747
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:49,560
I'm going to leave this in so people know how disappointed I am that I lost my trail
748
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:50,560
of thought there.
749
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:51,560
Carry on, Sean.
750
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:52,560
Sorry.
751
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:53,560
Sorry, pardon me.
752
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:56,640
But yeah, moving on to fucking hell.
753
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:57,640
Pardon me.
754
00:32:57,640 --> 00:32:58,640
Are you good?
755
00:32:58,640 --> 00:32:59,640
I'm good, yeah.
756
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:04,640
So moving on to defense.
757
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:11,520
So they are going to introduce a bill to establish an armed forces commissioner, which is an
758
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:16,080
independent champion for the military.
759
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:18,680
I mean, there's only so many times you can launch a review into something and now they're
760
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:20,280
going to hire someone literally to do that.
761
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:22,040
They've already launched a review into the defense.
762
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:24,400
The defense review is already ongoing, yeah.
763
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,880
So yeah, but then they want to introduce this commissioner too.
764
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:29,280
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
765
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:37,560
But they have said that 2.5% will be spent on defense when conditions allow.
766
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:39,680
It's turning into a bit of a slogan now.
767
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:42,800
Yeah, that is a slogan for them and they love a slogan.
768
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:45,040
They love a slogan.
769
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:47,000
They really do.
770
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,040
So King's Speech then, Sean, you've seen a few of these.
771
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:53,760
This is only my fifth or sixth that I've seen.
772
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:55,560
Maybe fourth or fifth, perhaps.
773
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:56,560
Right, yeah.
774
00:33:56,560 --> 00:34:00,560
So I don't, I mean, I guess it doesn't really mean much because the government could just
775
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:02,560
go ahead and do what they want.
776
00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:03,560
Right?
777
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:04,800
Well, it's a very full shopping list.
778
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:11,120
I've said 40 bills, that is quite high in terms of normal numbers, in terms of historic
779
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:13,040
numbers.
780
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:16,600
It's only sort of Bojo that came close and then before that you're going back to the
781
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:17,600
fifties.
782
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:18,600
Oh really?
783
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:19,600
Wow, that far back.
784
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:20,600
Yeah.
785
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:21,600
Wow.
786
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:29,640
So that's the only, that's in the 45, I think it was 45 or 51.
787
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:33,080
They brought forward quite a lot of bills, but again, that was post-war.
788
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:34,560
Oh yeah, that makes sense.
789
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:35,840
So that'd be expected, wouldn't it?
790
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:36,840
Well, you never know.
791
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:38,320
We may break that record soon.
792
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:40,920
Yeah, post-World War Three.
793
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:46,720
Yeah, and one final note that I just wanted to, I don't know if we spoke about this last
794
00:34:46,720 --> 00:34:47,720
week.
795
00:34:47,720 --> 00:34:50,720
Did we mention Trump nearly being shot?
796
00:34:50,720 --> 00:34:51,720
I don't remember.
797
00:34:51,720 --> 00:34:52,720
No, it happened at the weekend.
798
00:34:52,720 --> 00:34:53,720
It happened literally just at the weekend.
799
00:34:53,720 --> 00:34:54,720
It happened at the weekend, right.
800
00:34:54,720 --> 00:35:01,280
Yeah, so for those of you who haven't seen any news outlet in the last few days, somebody
801
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:02,280
tried to shoot Trump.
802
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:04,600
If you haven't seen it, you've been living in a cave.
803
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:06,360
Yeah, somebody tried to shoot Trump.
804
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:10,000
He survived, he was clipped in the ear.
805
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:15,400
Some massive failing in security by the Secret Service, by the looks of things, but there's
806
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:17,000
still a report to be done.
807
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:18,000
Honestly, it's...
808
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:19,320
Just another point of order.
809
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:22,280
Don't throw milkshakes at people, don't throw cement at people, and don't fucking shoot
810
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:23,280
them.
811
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:24,280
It's not hard.
812
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:25,280
It's not rocket science, is it?
813
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:28,280
This list is getting longer and longer.
814
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:29,280
It is getting longer, yeah.
815
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:30,920
And we're only on episode six.
816
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:31,920
Right.
817
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:33,720
We did all the manifesto destinies as well.
818
00:35:33,720 --> 00:35:34,720
We'll gloss over those.
819
00:35:34,720 --> 00:35:35,720
They were specials for a reason.
820
00:35:35,720 --> 00:35:36,720
Yeah, they were specials.
821
00:35:36,720 --> 00:35:37,720
They were specials for a reason.
822
00:35:37,720 --> 00:35:39,520
So we've had milkshakes, rocks, cement.
823
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:43,800
Oh, and Jess Phillips' tires were slashed during the elections.
824
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:45,800
Don't slash people's tires.
825
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:46,800
Just leave people alone.
826
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:48,440
Yeah, just let them get on with their jobs.
827
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:51,880
So people come into your job when you're working in Tesco and stab you in the face and go,
828
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:52,880
where's my cabbage?
829
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:58,760
If you've got a problem, write a nicely worded email to your MP and they will respond in
830
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:00,160
due course.
831
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:02,520
In due course, ladies and gentlemen.
832
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:04,600
It takes a lot to run a country, okay?
833
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:05,760
These people do work hard.
834
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:10,040
However pompous they are, however much you hate them, Nigel.
835
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:11,040
One thing...
836
00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:12,280
I don't hate Nigel Farage, by the way.
837
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:13,840
I think he does make some good points.
838
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:14,840
Yes, definitely.
839
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:16,440
I just don't like the way he goes about things.
840
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:18,600
Sometimes he conducts himself in the wrong way.
841
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:20,920
There was no reason to drive by John Berka in the house.
842
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:23,240
We all know that he was again a bit pompous.
843
00:36:23,240 --> 00:36:24,240
Order!
844
00:36:24,240 --> 00:36:25,440
We all know that.
845
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:27,240
He was a bit of a bully, wasn't he?
846
00:36:27,240 --> 00:36:30,280
He was a bit of a bully, yes.
847
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:33,680
He was investigated for it and everything like that.
848
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:39,320
I didn't see that side of him, but he was a very divisive figure on Brexit.
849
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:40,320
Oh yeah, definitely.
850
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:46,240
And potentially broke convention within the house, which is controversial in itself.
851
00:36:46,240 --> 00:36:52,840
But considering this, we've spoken about the King's Speech and how some of our traditions
852
00:36:52,840 --> 00:37:00,080
go back hundreds of years, or 600 years.
853
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:08,680
There is one change to our democracy that the Labour Party King's Speech has presented,
854
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:11,040
I will say.
855
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:17,520
So currently there are around 100 hereditary peers in the House of Lords.
856
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:21,800
So these are people that are in the House of Lords because of the family that they were
857
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:22,800
born into.
858
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:28,760
Yeah, it's passed down like the King, the Queen, the Crown, right?
859
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:35,000
Yeah, so there's around 100 of these that currently sit in the House of Lords, right?
860
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,440
Will Labour want to abolish that?
861
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:39,720
So will they get to stay or will they have to go?
862
00:37:39,720 --> 00:37:47,160
I believe it'll be a case of they'll phase them out, so it'll be a case of no-one can
863
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:51,680
inherit a lordship moving forward.
864
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:56,120
But the Lords that are currently there will be able to stay there, as it were.
865
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:58,000
So they're not going to lose their job?
866
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,760
No, I can't imagine so.
867
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:02,560
I don't think the Lords get paid.
868
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:04,880
They can claim expenses, but they don't get paid.
869
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:06,760
And the same goes for the Lords, by the way.
870
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:08,840
No cement, no milkshakes.
871
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:09,840
No bricks.
872
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:10,840
No bullets.
873
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:11,840
No bullets.
874
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:14,840
No slashing of tyres.
875
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:16,440
Nothing.
876
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:18,640
Just let the peers get on with their lives.
877
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:20,640
Also, one final point on Trump.
878
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:24,000
Putin has today backed Trump's past presidential pick.
879
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:25,000
Fantastic.
880
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:27,760
That bodes well for us all, doesn't it?
881
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:34,080
This is the guy that called the UK the first Islamist state with nuclear weapons and has
882
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:39,080
tried to backtrack on that by saying it was a joke.
883
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:40,840
God.
884
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:41,840
Just God.
885
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:42,840
Give me strength.
886
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:48,320
Well, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for listening once again.
887
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:49,320
It's been a pleasure.
888
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:51,040
Shaun, thank you for joining me.
889
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:52,280
You are always welcome, Chris.
890
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:53,280
It's always a pleasure.
891
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:55,440
We'll see where we are next week.
892
00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:57,400
But for now, we'll leave you in peace.
893
00:38:57,400 --> 00:38:58,400
Yes, we will.
894
00:38:58,400 --> 00:38:59,400
See you soon.
895
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:00,400
Much love.
896
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:22,320
For Real.
