1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,560 Speaker 1: In the Brady UK correspondence with us Hello. 2 00:00:02,440 --> 00:00:04,400 Speaker 2: Inda, Hey Heather, how are you? 3 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:05,800 Speaker 1: I am well, thank you. So what do you make 4 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:07,760 Speaker 1: of the UK reviewing the pension age. 5 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:11,160 Speaker 2: Well, they do this every six years and I think 6 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:13,200 Speaker 2: a lot of people will be watching this and just 7 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:16,599 Speaker 2: thinking can they push it back any further? So we 8 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 2: now at the moment in the UK you get the 9 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:21,759 Speaker 2: state pension at the age of sixty six that you've 10 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:25,079 Speaker 2: paid into all your working life. In twenty twenty eight, 11 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:28,680 Speaker 2: it's already set in stone. It's moving to sixty seven 12 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:31,080 Speaker 2: for a man, so you have to be sixty seven 13 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:35,120 Speaker 2: in twenty twenty eight, and they already have a plan 14 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:37,879 Speaker 2: to push it back to sixty eight by the year 15 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:41,559 Speaker 2: twenty forty six. Now all eyes have been focused on 16 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:44,640 Speaker 2: this recently because Denmark have just pushed the pension age 17 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:47,880 Speaker 2: back to seventy Believe it or not, Denmark are really 18 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:51,000 Speaker 2: kind of leading the way in Europe. Basically government's wanting 19 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:54,800 Speaker 2: you to work forever and it's I mean, when you 20 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 2: look at what the French do and what the Greeks do, 21 00:00:57,840 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 2: you'd be very kind of angry if you were a 22 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:02,440 Speaker 2: war man or woman in Denmark having to go all 23 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:04,680 Speaker 2: the way to seventy. So what the UK is doing, 24 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:07,399 Speaker 2: they're just kind of trying to focus people's minds. One 25 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:10,679 Speaker 2: statistic just to give you on this, three million self 26 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:13,720 Speaker 2: employed people in the UK are not saving into a pension. 27 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 2: I don't know what they think they're going to live 28 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:16,840 Speaker 2: on when they eventually retire. 29 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:18,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, is this going to be like, are you people 30 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:20,600 Speaker 1: going to get upset about it? Or actually have you 31 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 1: got so used to this thing being pushed out you're 32 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:23,400 Speaker 1: sort of take it in your stride. 33 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:27,040 Speaker 2: I think people in the UK take it in their stride. 34 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:28,840 Speaker 2: It's the same people as far as I can see, 35 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:32,280 Speaker 2: paying for everything all the time, and they never seem 36 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 2: to snap back. They never seem to have any radical change. 37 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:38,120 Speaker 2: There aren't any protests on the street about it. Just 38 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:39,600 Speaker 2: kind of suck it up and keep going. 39 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:42,840 Speaker 1: Now, what is going on with the disabled people suddenly 40 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 1: finding that they can walk. 41 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 2: At Oasis gigs? This is truly a miracle, the miracle 42 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 2: of Manchester. Lime and Noel Gallaher of Oasis fame. They 43 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 2: are back together, two brothers of Irish descent who famously 44 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:00,200 Speaker 2: don't like each other. I heard on the Grave Fine 45 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 2: last week. They're staying in different hotels so that minimizes 46 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 2: the chances of a fallout on this massive world tour. 47 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 2: Would you believe it? Story in the papers here this 48 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 2: morning pictures of row after row of people in the 49 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:18,160 Speaker 2: disabled seating area at Heaton Park at the weekend in Manchester. 50 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:21,119 Speaker 2: And when Lim and Noel and the other Oasis band 51 00:02:21,120 --> 00:02:25,240 Speaker 2: members came on stage, hallelujah, all these people stood up 52 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 2: and walked and danced and clapped. So you've got able 53 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:31,840 Speaker 2: bodied people who've tried to gain the system to get 54 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:36,800 Speaker 2: an Oasis ticket, who have fraudulently basically gone online and 55 00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:40,560 Speaker 2: bought wheelchair tickets. They should be ashamed of themselves totally. 56 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 1: Now have you looked at whether you're going to be 57 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:44,520 Speaker 1: staying with these water bills into the tune of hammatch? 58 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:48,079 Speaker 2: Yes we will. So they've already gone up in the 59 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:51,639 Speaker 2: last five years by thirty eight percent. And I live 60 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 2: in an area which is supplied with water by a 61 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:57,240 Speaker 2: company called Thames Water and they are one of the 62 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:01,160 Speaker 2: worst defenders for pollution. And what we're being told now 63 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 2: big review of water in the UK. They're getting rid 64 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 2: of the regulator. They're going to have a new tougher 65 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 2: regulator and our water bills will be climbing year on 66 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:13,440 Speaker 2: year for the next decade to actually clean up the mess. 67 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 2: And if I was the Prime Minister, I would be 68 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 2: taking bonuses back off all these fat cat chief executives 69 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:22,800 Speaker 2: of water companies. They have paid themselves every year in 70 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 2: bonuses millions of millions of dollars. And Heather, if you 71 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:29,920 Speaker 2: came to visit me in Oxfordshire and you suggest that 72 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 2: we go for a swim in the River Thames, I 73 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 2: couldn't in good faith allow you to set foot in 74 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:37,880 Speaker 2: the water in the River Thames because you would end 75 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:41,200 Speaker 2: up in hospital with cryptosporidium. That is how bad the 76 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:43,520 Speaker 2: water is in our area. It is disgusting. 77 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 1: Okay, well, thanks thanks for the warning and I appreciate that. 78 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:48,440 Speaker 1: Into Brady UK corresponding. 79 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 2: For more from Hither Duplessy Alan Drive, listen live to 80 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 2: news Talks it'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow 81 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:57,080 Speaker 2: the podcast on iHeartRadio.