1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,200 Speaker 1: In a Brady a UK correspondent with us now in 2 00:00:02,200 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: the good evening. 3 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:05,080 Speaker 2: Hey, Ryan, good evening to you. 4 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:08,360 Speaker 1: So is one of the the room is true or 5 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:10,720 Speaker 1: not starming going to face a leadership challenge from within 6 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:11,479 Speaker 1: the party? 7 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:15,640 Speaker 2: I think he is. The rumors have been gathering pace 8 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:18,560 Speaker 2: for a couple of weeks. Now Labor Party conference coming 9 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:22,279 Speaker 2: in a matter of days. Step forward Andy Burnham. He 10 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:25,680 Speaker 2: is Labor to the core, A former MP. This is crucial. 11 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 2: He's not an MP right now. He is Mayor of 12 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:31,400 Speaker 2: Manchester and by all accounts he's doing a very very 13 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:34,520 Speaker 2: good job. Now I know Andy Burnham. He's a very 14 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:38,000 Speaker 2: formidable speaker. He's a good communicator in the media and 15 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:40,520 Speaker 2: people like him and he has a big power base 16 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:44,240 Speaker 2: in the North of England. Now he has strategically given 17 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 2: a couple of interviews in the last twenty four hours, 18 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:52,480 Speaker 2: appointedly saying that the Labor Party is run factionally, that 19 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:55,760 Speaker 2: the leadership is divisive, so a lot of criticism of 20 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:58,600 Speaker 2: Starmer here and saying that the country needs a plan. 21 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:01,080 Speaker 2: So there's the Prime Minister not have a plan. That 22 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:03,920 Speaker 2: is the inference and a lot of people around Starmer 23 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:06,080 Speaker 2: are starting to think that if he doesn't get his 24 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 2: act together, they may not win the next election in 25 00:01:09,319 --> 00:01:11,960 Speaker 2: four years time. Now, it's not an easy path to 26 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:14,520 Speaker 2: number ten for Andy Burnham. He would have to resign 27 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:16,759 Speaker 2: as Mayor of Manchester. He would then have to find 28 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 2: someone to give up their seat so that he could 29 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:21,360 Speaker 2: run and become an MP and then get in that 30 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 2: way and formally challenge Starmer. 31 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 1: Fascinating staff. So yeah, yes, you say, very difficult and 32 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:30,640 Speaker 1: much easier to roll a leader and the Considers than 33 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 1: it is the libor Paddy. Right, So how does it 34 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:33,479 Speaker 1: all actually work? 35 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:37,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right. The Conservatives nice people in the back 36 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 2: twenty four to seven. I mean, well, Badenoch will be 37 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:44,920 Speaker 2: gone by Christmas, it is what I'm hearing. Look, it's 38 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 2: a different beast, but you've got the Union mechanism as 39 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:51,600 Speaker 2: well in Labor's. Yes, it's much more difficult to roll 40 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 2: out an incumbent leader in the Labor Party than it 41 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:58,760 Speaker 2: is with the Conservatives. But nevertheless, I think Andy Burnham 42 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:01,240 Speaker 2: is making his pitch because I haven't seen him do 43 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:03,920 Speaker 2: any interviews for a few weeks and out of nowhere 44 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 2: he's all over the front pages today. 45 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 1: Interesting staff, how the parking industry in the UK apparently 46 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:11,480 Speaker 1: quite the employer. 47 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:16,680 Speaker 2: Have a guess, just just bear with me on this one, Ryan, 48 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:19,240 Speaker 2: how many people do you think are working as parking 49 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:25,160 Speaker 2: wardens in the United Kingdom this morning? One? You got 50 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:28,800 Speaker 2: a it's an unfair question, Well have a stab, have 51 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:33,520 Speaker 2: a stab. One hundred thousand, eighty two thousand. I mean, 52 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 2: it's absolutely staggering. They've turned it into a four point 53 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 2: six billion en z dollar industry. Think about that four 54 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:45,920 Speaker 2: point six billion dollars this between parking charges and the 55 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 2: fines and the follow ups and the double ups when 56 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:51,359 Speaker 2: you don't pay the final time, it is outrageous. Now, 57 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:54,080 Speaker 2: just to put that figure in context, eighty two thousand 58 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:58,000 Speaker 2: people employed in the parking industry that are currently under 59 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:01,680 Speaker 2: seventy four thousand soldiers in the British Army. There are 60 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:05,240 Speaker 2: more parking wardens than soldiers in a country that has 61 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 2: a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. It is 62 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 2: parking mad. 63 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:15,399 Speaker 1: Because your population has got seventy million. I'm just trying 64 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:17,520 Speaker 1: to think of how most of ours here in New 65 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 1: Zealand are now done by cars. At least in Auckland 66 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 1: you don't have mini parking wardens at all. It's cars 67 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:25,560 Speaker 1: that have got cameras on them that drive around and 68 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:27,079 Speaker 1: neb you now. 69 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:31,320 Speaker 2: And yeah, technology, look, we will eventually catch up. But 70 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 2: right now, I guess it's an industry that just keeps 71 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 2: making more and more money. And what really frustrates me 72 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 2: is just how kind of binary they are. I got 73 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 2: a parking fine a couple of weeks ago. I'd ended 74 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:47,360 Speaker 2: up doing a double shift because a colleague went ill 75 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:49,880 Speaker 2: and I had to stay in the studio. I park 76 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 2: in the same and this is all paid for byapp 77 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:56,160 Speaker 2: and it's eighteen dollars to park there. And I park 78 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 2: in the same parking spot at the same time, in 79 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:01,600 Speaker 2: the same car park every day of the week. And 80 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:04,000 Speaker 2: don't tell me the tech you know that they couldn't 81 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 2: just say, oh this, this is a loyal customer here, 82 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 2: not one hundred and twenty dollars fine two days later. 83 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:13,000 Speaker 1: Oh that hurts. Hey, how much is the government giving 84 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 1: foreign criminals who volunteer for deportation? 85 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 2: Would you believe this? Four thousand dollars preloaded onto a 86 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:23,599 Speaker 2: bank card as they leave the United Kingdom? Now this 87 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 2: has been confirmed by the new Home Secretary. Should ban 88 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:29,320 Speaker 2: a ma Mood. She says that on the face of it, 89 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 2: it doesn't look good giving criminals four thousand dollars or 90 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:35,160 Speaker 2: two thousand pounds to go, she said, But if you'd 91 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:38,440 Speaker 2: look into the money figures, keeping them in jail for 92 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:41,160 Speaker 2: a year is costing about one hundred thousand dollars. So 93 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:44,240 Speaker 2: her idea and what the government is doing, is that 94 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 2: once they've served three months of a sentence, if they 95 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 2: agree to be deported, they will be led out early 96 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:51,560 Speaker 2: and then put on a flight back to say a 97 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:55,840 Speaker 2: country like Romania or Albania and given four thousand dollars 98 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 2: pre loaded on a bank card on the proviso that 99 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 2: you know you're out and he ain't coming back. 100 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 1: Thank good luck with that. 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