1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:02,360 Speaker 1: Right with us. Now we have our UK correspondent in 2 00:00:02,400 --> 00:00:05,120 Speaker 1: to Brady ay Inda. Hey, Heather, great to speak to 3 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:07,840 Speaker 1: you again. So Keys Damas off tonight. I mean this 4 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:09,440 Speaker 1: will be easy stuff for him. He's not going to 5 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:12,680 Speaker 1: stuff this Upasi, No, absolutely not. No, He's hit the 6 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:16,840 Speaker 1: ground running. We've seen legislation pasted already, new MPs coming 7 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:21,440 Speaker 1: into Parliament today and honestly, it feels like the winds 8 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:23,760 Speaker 1: of change, a breath of fresh air. I'm just running 9 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:26,000 Speaker 1: out of cliches here, but you know, to have had 10 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,680 Speaker 1: three or four days of competent governance, it's quite remarkable. Really, 11 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 1: We're just getting used to it and it seems to 12 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:34,640 Speaker 1: be quite a positive good thing. So yes, he's heading 13 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:38,479 Speaker 1: to Washington, d C further natal summer tomorrow and the 14 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:41,240 Speaker 1: big talking point, of course, from the European perspective, will 15 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 1: be the ongoing war in Ukraine, so he will reiterate 16 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:48,640 Speaker 1: UK support for that. Already he's getting squeezed by various 17 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:50,879 Speaker 1: different army chiefs who are coming out and saying we 18 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:54,040 Speaker 1: need more spend on defense, and I think that is 19 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:56,720 Speaker 1: something that quite frankly, will have to be addressed because 20 00:00:56,720 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 1: the latest one is an army chief coming out today 21 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 1: saying that if Britain went to war, it would have 22 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:05,560 Speaker 1: enough materials to last a month. So that's where the 23 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:08,120 Speaker 1: state of everything is after fourteen years of the other lot. 24 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:12,080 Speaker 1: Ye it's pretty grimy, hey Jesus compect from France? Yes, 25 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 1: literally just in the door, So big, big news on 26 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:19,399 Speaker 1: the election over there. Everyone was expecting this far right. 27 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:21,960 Speaker 1: I think everyone in the media, certainly in the UK 28 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:24,880 Speaker 1: was expecting this far right and they are very far 29 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:28,640 Speaker 1: right National Rally Party to win. All the other lot 30 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:32,400 Speaker 1: on the left and kind of Greens, everyone who hated 31 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:36,320 Speaker 1: them cobbled together this very loosely held coalition and they've 32 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:39,399 Speaker 1: won the election. So France has now swung to the 33 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 1: far left. There are communists in this group, there's a 34 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:46,520 Speaker 1: guy who leading it, who's actually a Marxist, and there's 35 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 1: a policy in the papers today saying that so Macron 36 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 1: now is the kingmaker. He can choose who he wants 37 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:55,680 Speaker 1: and he can kind of put together a moderate coalition. 38 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 1: That's what he wants to do. However, the left wing 39 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 1: group themselves are saying that the first tax priority when 40 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:06,280 Speaker 1: they come in is a tax on the super rich, 41 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 1: anyone earning over four hundred thousand euros a year will 42 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 1: be paying ninety percent tax at a certain level. And 43 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:15,240 Speaker 1: they also want to reduce the pension age back down 44 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 1: to sixty So you can see why a lot of 45 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 1: people vote for them. That's not gonna happen, is it. No, 46 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:24,480 Speaker 1: it's not. It's not gonna happen. But I tell you what, 47 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:27,400 Speaker 1: I've spent a few days in France. Now there's a 48 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:31,480 Speaker 1: lot of anger over there. Macron is not popular at all. 49 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 1: People have People on the right and the far right 50 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 1: are very angry about migration. People on the left are 51 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:41,519 Speaker 1: angry about the super rich just basically getting richer, and 52 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:44,600 Speaker 1: everyone else kind of just really struggling to make ends meet. 53 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:47,639 Speaker 1: It's not in a good place. And I spent two 54 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:50,520 Speaker 1: days in Paris, and let me tell you, A they 55 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 1: are not ready for the Olympics, and B you speak 56 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:57,560 Speaker 1: to Parisians and I know they're famously grumpy. They're beyond 57 00:02:57,639 --> 00:02:59,799 Speaker 1: board of telling people that they don't want the oly 58 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 1: So it's strange. I mean, you know, seeing security ramping up. 59 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:06,960 Speaker 1: I went to look at the Eiffel Tower. We did 60 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,240 Speaker 1: some filming yesterday and all Parisians can tell you is 61 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:12,400 Speaker 1: that this is going to be a terrible thing for Paris. 62 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 1: So I was telling them that, you know, we had 63 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:17,240 Speaker 1: the same thing in London and twenty twelve Londoners felt 64 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:19,360 Speaker 1: it wouldn't be good, and by two days in they 65 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 1: were loving it. So Refrench change, I say, they're not 66 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:28,720 Speaker 1: ready because I'm seeing scaffolding everywhere. I'm seeing security operations 67 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:31,360 Speaker 1: with people who genuinely didn't seem to have a clue 68 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:34,240 Speaker 1: what was going on yesterday. And on top of that, 69 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 1: what I really don't like is the fact that the 70 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:40,400 Speaker 1: metro the underground system are there. Cube Basically you can't 71 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:44,240 Speaker 1: tap and go with your mobile phone, so having hundreds 72 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 1: of thousands of people on the move every few hours 73 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 1: for sporting events, the quickest way to get around the 74 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:52,200 Speaker 1: city is the metro. And yes, you can go and 75 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:54,120 Speaker 1: buy a book of twenty tickets in advance if you 76 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 1: qu up. But I think we're so used to certainly 77 00:03:56,960 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 1: in London, you know, tap on your mobile phone, off 78 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 1: you go, set and stops later, you're out where you 79 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:04,560 Speaker 1: want to be, and that can't happen in Paris here. Enda, 80 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:06,840 Speaker 1: thank you very much, appreciate it. Talk to you in 81 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 1: a couple of days. It's into Brady are UK correspondent. 82 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 1: For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive, listen live to 83 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 1: news talks. It'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow 84 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 1: the podcast on iHeartRadio