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Speaker 1: Hey, Heather, New Zealand's capitals will actually be Sydney harsh.

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Speaker 1: But you know we're all coming around to this idea,

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Speaker 1: aren't we. Thirteen away from seven Indo Brady UK correspondence

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Speaker 1: with us Hello Enda.

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Speaker 2: Hello Heather. I'm chuckling what I think to text in

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Speaker 2: my gosh.

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Speaker 1: I know it's the opposite. Do you know what's happening

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Speaker 1: in New Zealand and you'll enjoy this. It's the opposite

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Speaker 1: of declaring independence. We're actually trying to get Australia to

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Speaker 1: absorb us so we can basically peggyback on their economic

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Speaker 1: success story.

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Speaker 2: Well we had that with the English but it was

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Speaker 2: the other way around. Everything we had they took.

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Speaker 1: This is true. This is true. I hear you now,

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Speaker 1: Sarah Ferguson, the six companies getting wound up? Are they?

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Speaker 2: Yes? So this is big news one half of England's

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Speaker 2: happiest divorced couple, as she calls her and Andrew. Yes.

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Speaker 2: Newspapers today have it that there are six companies, all

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Speaker 2: with the director as Sarah Ferguson, which are being wound down,

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Speaker 2: so as over the end of next week they will

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Speaker 2: be struck off Companies House Register of all businesses in London.

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Speaker 2: It's not really clear what any of them do, and

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Speaker 2: all one is connected to p R, one is connected

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Speaker 2: to retail, but the other four it's all a bit flimsy.

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Speaker 2: Look the woman has struggled with huge debt problems her

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Speaker 2: whole life. And the latest tranche of the Epstein emails

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Speaker 2: we see how desperate she was from money, emailing him

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Speaker 2: while he was in prison, you know, complaining about everything financial,

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Speaker 2: How worried she was, how stressed and exhausted she was.

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Speaker 2: She actually emailed the convicted pedophile in prison to tell

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Speaker 2: him that she was exhausted with stress. You couldn't make

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Speaker 2: it up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Now, how is the Telegraph I see is crowing

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Speaker 1: that the other ones who've basically formed forced Kia Stama

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Speaker 1: to abandon the plans to cancel the council elections. Is

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Speaker 1: this right?

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Speaker 2: No, it's Nigel Farage who has done this. So Reform

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Speaker 2: UK put in a legal case against the government the

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Speaker 2: backdrop to all of this, and it does look bad

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Speaker 2: for Starmar. They wanted to postpone some council elections in

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Speaker 2: about thirty areas now they're due to happen in May

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Speaker 2: and some of these councils are going to be structured,

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Speaker 2: some of them are going to be collapsed and squeezed

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Speaker 2: into other council areas. And council leaders were saying, well,

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Speaker 2: we don't to go through the expense of hosting elections

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Speaker 2: if this council is not going to exist in eighteen

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Speaker 2: months time, and Starmer agreed. Now, the suspicion was he

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Speaker 2: agreed very quickly because the polling is absolutely terrible for

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Speaker 2: labor out there at the moment, and he knows that

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Speaker 2: if labor get a pasting in May, he'll be gone

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Speaker 2: in June. So he said, let's postpone these elections then

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Speaker 2: for a couple of years and see what the structure

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Speaker 2: looks like. But ultimately it was Nigel Farage and Reform

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Speaker 2: who put in a legal challenge. It was due to

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Speaker 2: go to court this week and the government's lawyer came

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Speaker 2: back with the advice saying, you just need to hold

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Speaker 2: your hands up and abandon these plans because they're actually right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, quite right. Now, what is up with this eight

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Speaker 1: hundred million dollar payment to the EU?

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Speaker 2: Yes, so Britain famously no longer a member of the

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Speaker 2: European Union. However, Starmer went to the Munich's Security Conference,

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Speaker 2: and clearly there's a lot of business to be done

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Speaker 2: in Ukraine in terms of an arms face. So the

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Speaker 2: European Union is looking to put together somewhere in the

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Speaker 2: region of about five billion dollars worth of an arms

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Speaker 2: fund for basically keeping Ukraine fighting, keeping everything going, and

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Speaker 2: stopping Russia taking the whole country. And Britain has a

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Speaker 2: lot of defense companies. So Brussels is saying to London, Yep,

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Speaker 2: if you want into this fund, you're not part of

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Speaker 2: the European Union. Bi'll have to pay just short of

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Speaker 2: eight hundred million dollars to get access to it, and

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Speaker 2: then we will start offering you contracts. So yeah, the

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Speaker 2: kind of thing Britain would not have had to pay

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Speaker 2: for if it had stayed in the European Union.

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Speaker 1: Interesting, NDA, thank you as always appreciate it. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: to you in a couple of days. Mate Into Brady,

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Speaker 1: UK correspondents. Hither, I'm happy to pay a toll on

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Speaker 1: new roads roads, but on the proviso that the roads

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Speaker 1: are built by a foreign company that works twenty four

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Speaker 1: to seven reckets, not Monday to Friday, seven am to

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Speaker 1: three pm, and it has a contracted finished date with

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Speaker 1: penalties for late delivery and over budget. Anything done in

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Speaker 1: New Zealand is overpriced and underdelivered g's duals. Honestly, if

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Speaker 1: we could get people to just work like a full day,

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Speaker 1: the full shift, I think we'd all pay a little

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Speaker 1: bit for that, wouldn't we.

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