WEBVTT - The Rita Panahi Show | 19 June 0:00:02.759 --> 0:00:07.200 On scars Ostrodio. This is the Reader Panalty Show. 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:12.040 Good evening and welcome to the Reader Panety Show. Coming 0:00:12.119 --> 0:00:16.680 up tonight, Queensland Premier Stephen Miles blames reckless Queensland drivers 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:21.360 for the state's hospital crisis. Peter Dutton announces these seven Sides, 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:25.320 where the Coalition is proposing to establish nuclear reactors. The 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:29.200 always insightful Ralph Scholhammer joins me to discuss Europe's swing 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:33.120 to the right and why Italy's Georgia Maloney has emerged 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:35.000 as the region's strongest leader. 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:38.880 Mi Horowitz will be here to discuss Lefty's. 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:43.760 Losing it, including the usual unhinged scare mongering about climate 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:46.680 collapse from MSNBC, the. 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:50.879 Lucrative politics of climate collapse, and the greed that is 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:52.760 literally letting our country burn. 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:57.760 Joining me now is Sky News contributor Gary Hardgrave. Gary, 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:02.120 a top medical boss in Jeansland, has rubbish claims from 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:06.959 Premier Stephen Miles that careless drivers were choking up hospitals 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:11.240 and putting pressure on healthcare. Miles on Saturday claim the 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:15.200 Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital was forced to cancel surgeries 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:19.240 due to a surge in road related trauma cases thanks 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:21.480 to careless Queensland drivers. 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:25.399 That's a new one from Smiley. I've got to say that. 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:31.560 But whether it's careless drivers or whether it's a respiratory issue, 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:36.880 whatever the causes, surely you can't be blaming the patients. 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:39.360 The fact is Labour's been in power up there for 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:42.440 around the decade and if the Queensland health system is 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:44.840 in trouble, it's on the Labor government. 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:48.400 Well, let's face it, Rita. 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:51.040 Just like in Yes, Minister, the most efficient hospital in 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:54.200 Queensland is the one with no patients. But look, it's 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:57.040 pretty bad look from Stephen Miles, given that we've had 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:01.000 some horrific, horrific acts and so on some of our 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:05.080 rubbish Queensland roads, particularly in regional Queensland. In the last week, 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:08.520 there's been about ten people die. Families have been ruined 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:10.880 off the back of this, So for him to now 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:13.720 throw that sort of stuff into the mix of it 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:16.240 is just horrendous. The simple point here is there's more 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:19.919 people in the Queensland Health Department in inner city buildings 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:23.080 carrying clipboards and coming up with new forms, fees and 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:27.560 directions and plans for inspections than there are people giving 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:30.840 that patient caregiver kind of task. And so we just 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:32.920 need more nurses, we need more doctors. We need to 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:35.639 be deliberately hiring people to do that. We need people 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:39.359 who are in the maintenance teams at our hospitals. We 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:41.920 don't need as many bureaucrats as we've currently gotten. This 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:46.480 bloke's a former health minister, and our health departments are choking, 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:48.920 just like they are all around Australia. And people vote 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:51.360 Labor because I actually think they're good on things like 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:55.320 public health. There mob a completely rubbish because what they 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:59.320 do is they hire a whole battalion of bureaucrats and 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:01.800 then the left over money trickles down to where the 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:06.320 patient needs the help. That's your problem. That is the problem, 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:09.480 full stop. And he is just kidding himself. And I 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:12.000 think it's disgusting. Given the number of deaths that have 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:14.320 been on Queensland roads over the last couple of weeks, 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:17.240 it's disgusting he should bring such things into the mix. 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:23.000 Well, the situation is pretty grim in Victoria as well. 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:26.160 We've got a paramedic crisis down here and parents of 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:29.800 a four year old child who wasn't breathing were forced 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:33.160 to drive themselves drive this child to a hospital after 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:37.200 being told the nearest ambulance was fifty kilometers away. This 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:41.280 wasn't Gary in some regional, far flung area. It happened 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:44.680 in metropolitan Melbourne in the early hours of Monday morning. 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:46.480 When they called. 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:50.080 A fleet, availability across the entire ambulance network in Melbourne 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:54.600 had dropped to just one percent, prompting a code. I mean, 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:56.920 just this a nightmare for a parent to have a 0:03:57.040 --> 0:04:00.760 child who is not breathing and you call an ambulance 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:04.120 in a first world country and they're not going to 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:04.640 be there. 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:08.119 They're not going to be there because they're fifty kilometers away. 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:09.760 They're not going to get there in time, and you've 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:12.640 got to take that child into hospital yourself. 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:16.919 It's just not good enough. Given the amount of money. 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:19.680 We have devoted to this sector, there is so much mismanagement. 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:20.000 Gary. 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:26.120 Yeah, absolutely, and thousands of healthcare professionals have been purged 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:28.960 out of our state health systems as a result of 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:33.039 the overreach during the COVID crisis, the crisis that we 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:37.039 now know more manufactured by government than in reality. Thousands 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:39.839 of people put purged out of the system, and people 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:43.080 don't trust the system anymore. Look, and it's bad enough 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:47.599 that I couldn't imagine the dreadful stress of a parent 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:49.680 worried about a child. But for those of us who've 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:54.280 got elderly family members, parents and so forth, I can 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:57.600 attest to a fifteen hour wait to get an ambulance 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:01.040 in the middle of suburban brisb and not so long ago, 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:05.200 fifteen hours, fifteen hours reader, and they just kept bringing saying, oh, 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:08.160 was he okay? Is he's still alive? It's like this 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:11.240 just is not the way it should work. The basics 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:14.080 are not being done, but the bureaucracy is being built. 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:17.839 The burgeoning bureaucracy is what's soaking up all of the 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:19.839 tax dollars that are going into things like health. 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:26.400 And we've got down here in Victoria paramedics graduating and 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.760 not finding jobs locally, having to go elsewhere to get 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:33.920 jobs ridiculous. And then we've got ridiculous because we've got 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:36.240 the cfm AU getting a twenty. 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:38.040 Percent pay deal increasy. 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:41.000 You've got people holding up stop signs earning two hundred 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:45.160 thousand plus, and yet the paramedics who earn a fraction 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:47.159 of that aren't even getting the jobs. 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.240 It is madness. It needs to change. 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:53.279 But when you don't have a competent opposition, the people 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:56.359 really don't have much of a choice. Now, the Coalition 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:59.840 federally is planning to build a two nuclear power plan 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:04.120 in regional Queensland. Tot Apedadutton announced the locations for all 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:09.000 seven sites where the Coalition is proposing to establish nuclear 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:13.640 reactors and he attacked Anthony Alberize's lack of vision and 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:17.120 the absurdity of the renewable only policy. 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:20.360 The Prime Minister has no vision for our country because 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:23.440 he can't manage the government day to day. We've done 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:25.360 an enormous amount of work. I want to pay tribute 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:28.760 to Ted O'Brien. We've looked at the international experience. We've 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:31.840 looked at why Australians are paying the highest electricity prices 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:34.800 in the world. We've looked at the expert advice from 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:38.120 the regulator who's now telling us that under Labour's renewables 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:41.800 only policy there is a greater likelihood of blackouts and brownouts. 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:46.599 We know that the government has a renewables only policy 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:48.680 which is just not fit for purpose. No other country 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.120 in the world can keep the lights on twenty four 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:54.400 to seven with the renewables only policy. 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:59.240 But Gary, despite the majority of Australians now supporting nuclear 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:03.440 policies inspired this scam mongering we're seeing because there is 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:06.280 so much scam mongering from the media and all those. 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:08.200 Sure rent seekers. 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:13.040 The Queensland opposition leader is still insisting he's not going 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:16.720 to support repealing these states nuclear bad. 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:19.240 How is he determined to snatch. 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:21.000 Defeat from the jaws of victory. 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:22.360 What is happening up there? 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:25.120 Well, times shall tell. 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:26.960 And of course in a couple of weeks time there's 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:29.080 a state conference of the Liberal National Party, so I 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:31.080 guess there'll be a few comments about all of that. 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:33.440 But look, in the end, Peter Duarton is showing the 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:35.480 sort of leadership Australia desperately needs. 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:38.120 Peter Dutton's putting forward a plan that says we. 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:42.760 Don't need twenty eight thousand kilometers of duplication when it 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:45.040 comes to all those high energy towers that. 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:46.360 Dot across the countryside. 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:48.800 Peter Duarton is saying that instead of taking up hundreds 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:52.600 of thousands of hectares of land to put solar panels 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:55.280 on top of good agricultural land, all we need is 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:58.320 a couple of acres of land to build a nuclear 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:01.440 power station next to an exist in culfide power station. 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:04.400 He's also putting, in the words of David little Proud, 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:07.080 the biggest single investment into the South burn at the 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:10.840 area around king Arroy. That's more than just peanuts, king Roy. 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:14.400 Let me tell you, the biggest single investment ever announced 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:17.080 into the south Burnet has been announced as part of 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:20.400 this whole plan. So this is about Some people don't 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:23.160 understand it. They'll catch up to it, but it's about cheap, 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:27.040 reliable base load power that's going to grow jobs. But 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:29.960 I think the most telling part about what Dutton did 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:33.000 today is he's not so much worried about his policy 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:35.920 for the next election. He's thinking about the next generation 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:38.160 and the generation after that and the one after that. 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:42.559 He's talking eighty to one hundred years of certainty when 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:45.320 it comes to our power prices and our reliability of 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:48.720 our electricity. And frankly, given everything that's happening in the world, 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:52.920 this is a national security task and it's not unreasonable 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:56.160 that provincial leaders people in states take a little while 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:58.959 to understand the broader world. Dutton's showing them the way. 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:01.960 I'm sure they'll be on board. Don't you worry about. 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:06.240 That you are being very generous and gentle with the 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:10.520 Queensland opposition leader. I think it's absolutely disgraceful and weak 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:13.480 for him not to just be on the same page 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:17.280 as the federal Party and have a clear understanding of 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:19.480 where this country is headed. And it's not any better 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:23.360 down here in Victoria because the opposition leader here, John Pursuto, 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:28.680 also weak, directionless and really isn't clear on where he 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:31.920 stands in this area. Now tell you, Gary, I am 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:35.880 liking the sound of Quantus under this new regime We've 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:39.200 had the incoming chairman, John Mullen say corporates should not 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:43.880 get involved in political agendas. The current chair Goydas, backed 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:50.319 Alan Joyce's political activism all the way and talking about 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:53.120 the form of CEO. Alan Joyce he may not receive 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:56.720 his sixteen million dollar bonus, as the airline brings in 0:09:56.760 --> 0:10:00.959 a high profile consultancy chief to help decide whether a 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:06.120 series of blunders mean this big bonus will be void. 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:09.640 If it is granted, it means that Alan Joyce would 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:13.960 have earned one hundred and seventy million dollars from Quantas 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:19.600 over fifteen years. This could be a new Quantus that 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:21.240 we are we see emerging. 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:23.839 Well. 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:26.960 Look, I am a unabas big fan of Quotas. I 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:29.520 want Quotas to be the success it's been for one 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:33.959 hundred years, safe airline, safest airline in the world and 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:37.840 its actually the second oldest continuous airline in the world, 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:41.360 and for good reason. And Alan Joyce has gone. Now, look, 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:43.800 the short, medium, long term incentives that are built in 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:46.320 the corporate Australia means that if you perform well, you'll 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:49.520 get something after you've gone. Let's just see what this 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.199 management consultant comes up with. But I think there's plenty 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:55.000 of grief that Joyce has rightly got to be put 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:58.040 through because frankly, as someone who buys a ticket on 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:00.640 an aeroplane, I want to make sure that not much 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:02.920 of my money is going to pay for bonuses to 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:05.360 a bloke who actually caused more grief for a lot 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:07.800 of people, a lot of people who lost jobs, a 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:10.560 lot of people who were dismayed by the fact that 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:13.680 ghost flights existed. All these things they're all on the table, 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:16.360 and rightly so, so well done to mister Mullins. This 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:19.720 is a new quantus and I hope it's an even 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:24.319 better quantus because it's reputation solid, and if the reputation 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:27.079 has been in the slightest bit damaged or tarnish, now's 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:29.520 their opportunity to say so and deal with it Rita. 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:30.920 So we'll watch with interest. 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:36.480 And as someone who flies Quantus regularly, I would like 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:37.360 to stop. 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:40.320 Being welcomed to my own country and have all these 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:44.480 exactly acknowledgment of country announcements that they. 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:48.560 I didn't sign up for. That Just get me there 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:50.960 on time, give me a snack, and we're all happy. 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:57.240 Take on now, absolutely, let's talk about this Robert Irwin 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:02.679 Pauline hansoon clash. Neither one is backing down after the 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:07.000 TV star threatened legal action after being featured in the 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:11.160 latest satirical cartoon series Please Explain, produced by the One 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:11.840 Nation team. 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:12.760 Let's have a look at it. 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:15.840 Oh, no blue racial division. 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:18.160 But don't worry about that, because we've got some of 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:20.160 the funnest theme parks right here in the state of 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:20.840 Queen's Land. 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:23.520 Check this here, Oh, this must be the line for 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:26.720 Warner Brothers movie. Will Now, this is a rental inspection 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:32.480 for a one veteran Rockhampton More mistake Blue, Wait you 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:36.360 see the great barrier reef all this beautiful, pristine rainforest 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:37.200 here in Columbon. 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:40.559 You know, some people think they're yeshores. 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:43.720 But I think they're pretty cool. I Blue, Oh, crok, 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:46.760 Look over there, that's a castle. Wearies and a wedge 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:55.080 told Eagle, Hey, don't worry about that habitat being destroyed. Blue, 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:56.520 We've got so much more to see here in the 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:57.440 state of Queen's Land. 0:12:57.520 --> 0:12:59.080 Let's jump in the land cruiser. 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:04.200 Or no blueing juvenile delinquents s they've knocked off the 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:05.359 land cruiser. 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:07.400 Now. 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:13.360 Robert Owen's lawyer says the cartoon defames Robert with unauthorized 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:16.760 and deceptive use of his image. It's a political satire. 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.640 It's a cartoon and it's pretty funny if you ask me. 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.920 Pauline Hansen says Robert should lighten up and have a 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:26.319 good laugh. And now there's this video that has emerged. 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:29.960 It wasn't too long ago when Robert was saying pretty 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:31.720 much the same thing as Pauline saying. 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:35.240 It's being able to laugh at yourself as well, it's 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:38.120 being able to go. You know, that's the fluff, that's 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:43.120 the opinionated stuff. People will always have their point of view. 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:47.319 Thanks to Peter Ford for unearthing that interview from twenty 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:49.280 twenty two, Gary, how. 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:51.840 Do you see this dispute? Give us your verdict in 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:53.160 twenty seconds? 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:57.560 I laugh at myself often Robert Owen should do that. 0:13:57.679 --> 0:13:59.800 Is only a young bloke, and I guess that now 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:02.600 that he's been fronting the Queensland government out, I guess 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:05.240 he's got to be good to his corporate sponsors. 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:07.520 I think this is a storm and a teacup. 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:09.760 But boy, about five million people have watched the clip 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:11.160 because of his anger about it. 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:14.720 Well done, Robert, exactly. 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:18.880 That's the striisand effect in full force. Gary Hardgrave, thank 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:22.760 you for your time this evening. Joining me now is 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:29.200 academic and author Ralph Scholhammer, also columnist at the Brussels Signal. Ralph, 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:33.160 the president of France's National Rally Party, which is soaring 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:36.200 in the polls, has slammed the comments of star soccer 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:40.680 player Killian Buppe, who has urged voters not to back 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:44.840 what he calls far right parties in the snap parliamentary 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:48.640 elections called by Emmanuel mccron. He is one of more 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:53.040 than two hundred French athletes and celebrities who have signed 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:57.560 an open letter telling voters to reject the far right. 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:01.560 Jordan Bardella has said, I'm a little embarrassed to say 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:04.760 these athletes give lessons to people you can no longer 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:08.000 make ends made, who no longer feel safe, who do 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:12.120 not have the chance to live in the neighborhoods overprotected 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:16.960 by security agents. What do you make of this intervention 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:21.920 by a soccer superstar and all those other celebrities. Will 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:24.480 it have any sort of an impact on the French public? 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:27.680 Well, you put me in a very uncomfortable position here 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:30.640 because the Austrian team lost against the Pace team just 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:31.720 a couple of hours ago. 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:33.040 So who Clearly I am. 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:36.680 Biased against the French soccer players, regardless of what they say. 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:39.560 No, but I think you're absolutely right in analysis. 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:41.280 I mean, I take it like the Romans, Like the 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:43.920 Romans didn't care about the political views of their actors 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:47.920 and decladiators, and basically celebrities and athletes are modern day 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:50.880 actress and gladiators, and we shouldn't care too much about 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:54.720 what they say. The national rally at the European Parliamentary elections, 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:58.720 they want ninety three of a ninety three percent of 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:01.880 all the electoral district in France, and that tells you 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:04.320 where the French public stands, with the exception of Paris. 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:08.160 Basically they are the ruling the land already. When it 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:11.000 comes to two poles as well, we'll see if they 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:13.440 can pull the same thing off on June third and 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:15.800 July seventh with de parliamentary elections. 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:17.960 But it doesn't matter to people anymore. Most people are 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:18.640 annoyed by this. 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:21.800 I think people can distinguish between I like soccer and 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:24.200 I like to make ends made, and these things very 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:25.240 often do not overlap. 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:27.200 We see it, by the way, also in the United States, 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:28.920 people still like Hollywood actors. 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:32.240 But when Joe Biden mingles with these celebrities and gets 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:35.600 the endorsement of Julia Roberts, George Clooney, and Robert de Niro, 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:38.360 nobody sits at home and says, oh my god. Robert 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:40.440 de Niro says, I have to vote for Joe Biden. 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:43.680 I immediately change all my opinions. This is an illusion 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:46.600 that many politicians have because they are very often caught 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:50.720 in their own kind of you know, celebrity obsession that 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:51.680 most people don't have. 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:54.800 I think you're right. 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:58.440 We saw it right here in Australia with the Voice referendum, 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:02.080 where we had the awarding stars, the celebrities, all the 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:05.560 big corporates, all of them backing the Yes side, and 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:10.440 it was trunced quite comprehensively in the national vote. Now, 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:15.760 the leader of France's national rally party, Marine Lipen, is 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:20.199 being credited as the force behind the once fringe party 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:23.520 now standing on the brink of power after they made 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:28.359 enormous gains in the EU elections. President Emmanuel Macron was 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:32.880 spooked into calling a snap election. Was that a massive 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:34.560 miscalculation on his part? 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:35.800 Ralph? 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:38.320 Yes, I think so, And if you look at Macross's 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:41.120 career so far, I think he has calculated quite a bit. 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:43.680 Over the last seven years that he's been in office. 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:46.520 There's this weird idea that are headlines in the Economist 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:49.119 at the Financial time. So this is a four D 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:52.880 chess move by Macron and another brilliant strategy by MacRath. 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:55.439 I mean, I just want to remind everyone Macross started 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:58.920 as a popular politician and is now a very unpopular politician. 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:01.440 So I don't really get where all he's supposed a 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:03.880 brilliant moves are coming from. This is again a delusion 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:05.760 that the media continues to tell us. It's a little 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:08.240 bit like with Joe Biden when they say sure, sure, 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:10.679 he seems frail and out of it in public, but 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:13.840 behind closed doors he's like sharp and super smart. 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:15.920 No, but Crow is exactly how you see him. 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:19.440 He's a again, he's not, let's put it this way, 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:22.840 he knows how to present himself like Visually he's very appealing, 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:25.560 but as a politician, I would say he's kind of moved. 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:26.680 From one blunder to the next. 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:29.159 None of his reform projects, from the pension to the 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:32.480 Ukraine policy, he was capable of taking the French people 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:33.440 with him and that's one. 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:34.560 Of the most important things. 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:38.040 And Lepen for her part, like Milonia, I have to admit, 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:41.560 the face of the European right, or the competent European right, 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:44.919 seems to be female. I'm deeply impressed both with the 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:47.760 way in which he changed the National rally, which once 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:51.520 was upon arsenal of her father, who was in many 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:52.520 ways in the U Nazi. 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:53.960 I think that's not an exaggeration. 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:58.040 She really made it, on the one hand, a respectable party, 0:18:58.240 --> 0:19:00.639 but I think she's still stuck to the issues that 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:02.399 are important for the people and that make it the 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:04.879 right wing party, Like on immigration, and we see the 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:07.560 same in Italy with Maloney. I mean, just as a reminder, right, 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:11.119 remember when Maloney was ported into office. She's a fascist 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:14.040 and she will lead Italy over a cliff. And you 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:16.840 know what's going to happen that the cast catastrophe is 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:19.359 upon us. And now remember just a couple of weeks ago, 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:22.239 a few days actually ago, the G seven meeting, I mean, 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:25.120 the G seven meeting basically was like an episode out 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:28.040 of The Walking Dead, with one exception, which was Georgia 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:32.240 Maloney McCraw on on his last legs right, justin Trudeau, 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:35.520 but with Joe Biden, manam. It's not just metaphorically, it's 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:38.960 almost literally the Walking Dead. And pretty much every politician, 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:41.760 with the exception of Maloney, is deeply unpopular in their 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:43.200 own country except her. 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:45.600 Of all the European politicians that. 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:49.560 Actually won during the European elections, Maloney was the only 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:52.639 incumbent who could gain votes and was not an opposition party. 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:53.840 She's doing a great job. 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:56.040 I know she's often criticized from the right that she's 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:58.600 not moving fast enough and far enough, but I think 0:19:58.640 --> 0:19:59.720 she's playing a long game. 0:19:59.840 --> 0:20:00.600 Just lupendit. 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:02.800 I think they are doing something that's very rude, and 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:03.800 I wish them all the best. 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:08.680 And you were one hundred percent right about the way 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:12.119 the media misrepresented her when she first came to power. 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:15.400 She was called a fascist, far right. 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:20.840 A danger to democracy, so much hyperbole around her election, 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:25.080 and she has emerged, as you've explained, one of the 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:29.399 strongest and most popular leaders now. And I was also 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:33.800 interested in how she greeted the different world leaders. She's 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:37.200 not shy about expressing how she feels about them, whether 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:42.000 she likes them, like if it's the Argentinian leader, Harve Milay, 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:45.600 she's obviously a fan the Indian leader. And then when 0:20:45.600 --> 0:20:50.840 she was seeing some of the politicians she wasn't fond of, 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:53.959 she could not hide her disdain. 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:55.680 Clearly Maloney is not. 0:20:56.200 --> 0:20:59.320 An enormous fan of Brazil there as you can see. 0:20:59.400 --> 0:21:04.800 And I think she saved her greatest sustain for Emmanuel mccron. 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:09.240 She has had ongoing issues with him, but she's going 0:21:09.320 --> 0:21:09.720 to have the. 0:21:09.720 --> 0:21:13.600 Final laugh, Ralph, because mccron is in all sorts of 0:21:13.680 --> 0:21:18.159 trouble as many leaders she greeted during the j seven, 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:22.919 but she's likely to be there for some time, I 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:23.320 hope so. 0:21:23.480 --> 0:21:25.280