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Speaker 1: Right now we go to the UK. Kevin grag joins us.

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Speaker 2: Hello givin, good morning, Andrew.

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Speaker 1: I would never swim in the scene, would you.

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Speaker 2: That's certainly not at the moment. The athletes for the

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Speaker 2: Olympics were scheduled to swim in the sane in fact

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Speaker 2: around now, but a joint decision from representatives of World

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Speaker 2: Triathlon and the organization responsible for carrying out water quality

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Speaker 2: tests has canceled the swim for health reasons, and the

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Speaker 2: same decision, of course, was reached yesterday. It comes just

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Speaker 2: that twenty four hour period after the men's triathlon race

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Speaker 2: in the first competitive open water swimming event to be

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Speaker 2: held at Paris in twenty twenty four. But I'm afraid

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Speaker 2: the tests revealed water quality levels that frankly were not

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Speaker 2: up to scratch. Why well, because France and in particular

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Speaker 2: Paris has what's called a combined sewer system, and that

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Speaker 2: means both wastewater and storm water flow through the same pipes.

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Speaker 2: So when there's here the rainfall as a course there

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Speaker 2: was at the opening ceremony, those pipes reach capacity and

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Speaker 2: wastewater including sewage, overflows into the River Saine. Instead of

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Speaker 2: being treated in a treatment plant, and so consequently, I'm

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Speaker 2: afraid the river Riversaine is at the moment just simply

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Speaker 2: not fit with frankly a lot of fecal matter in it,

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Speaker 2: not particularly pleasant for the swimmers. Embarrassing because France has

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Speaker 2: spent a staggering amount of money roughly two and a

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Speaker 2: half billion New Zealand dollars in a bid to improve

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Speaker 2: water quality ahead of the Games.

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Speaker 1: Now, Kevin, can I just say that heaving wastewater and

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Speaker 1: water combined in a combined system doesn't just have it

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Speaker 1: in Paris from France. That happens all around New Zealand,

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Speaker 1: including in Auckland, New Zealand, you know. And so my son,

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Speaker 1: who happens to work as a water quality engineer dealing

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Speaker 1: with wastewater, said, gee, is that rain who's watching the

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Speaker 1: opening ceremony when that's not good? And said, why is that? Well,

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Speaker 1: there's going to be a whole crep going straight to

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Speaker 1: the sin right now. And I think I cannot imagine.

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Speaker 1: I kind of imagine just the naive, foolhardy hope that

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Speaker 1: was inside the organizers and the city's minds that they

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Speaker 1: could spend so much money thinking they could do that

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Speaker 1: without actually completely revamping the entire stormwater system of Paris.

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Speaker 2: But who And I'm afraid London has the same system.

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Speaker 1: Too, so yeah, yeah, so dumb call. But there we go.

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Speaker 1: All right, the UK government is well, apparently, according to

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Speaker 1: your new chancellor, has broken broken and so you're now

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Speaker 1: on a money saving drive.

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Speaker 2: We're on a money saving drive. And it's very interesting

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Speaker 2: this because both the Conservative Party who got ousted and

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Speaker 2: the Labor Party, the incoming party in our UK general

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Speaker 2: election back on the fourth of July, both said well,

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Speaker 2: we're going to stick to the current schedule of spending

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Speaker 2: and taxing, and there were lots of promises about no,

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Speaker 2: we're not going to tax this, No, we're not going

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Speaker 2: to tax this. Well, I think we're about to see

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Speaker 2: some tax rises now because the new government is claiming

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Speaker 2: there is a massive forty five billion New Zealand dollar

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Speaker 2: black hole in the finances of this country. And that's

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Speaker 2: not a one off, Andrew, that's every year. And so

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Speaker 2: to get around this, we expect the new chancellor, the

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Speaker 2: first female Chancellor of the UK, Rachel Reeves to unveil

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Speaker 2: a massive round of cuts to basically road rail projects,

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Speaker 2: a reduction on spending, an external consultant and also cuts

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Speaker 2: to public sector spending and waste. But sure apparently going

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Speaker 2: to accuse the previous government of covering up these shortfalls

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Speaker 2: and then running away, so pretty strong language which the

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Speaker 2: Conservative Party Rishie sou Next Party have completely denied. They say,

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Speaker 2: we warned you labor will rise taxes and indeed, now

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Speaker 2: look they are going to raise these taxes and we

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Speaker 2: warned you they were going to do it. So lots

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Speaker 2: of backbiting, backwards and forwards here. Incidentally, one of the

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Speaker 2: big projects that I think is probably going to be

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Speaker 2: canceled is the road tunnel under Stonehead, the World Heritage

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Speaker 2: site and the ancient well artwork or artifact, and gosh,

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Speaker 2: you know what, lots of new hospitals won't be built

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Speaker 2: as well at this moment. So it really is going

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Speaker 2: to be a massive, massive cut to expenditure.

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Speaker 1: And the similar thing happened here in New Zealand as well,

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Speaker 1: except we have our political allegiances around around about face,

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Speaker 1: you know, and that we're we've ended out with the

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Speaker 1: right wing government complaining about the left wing government when

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Speaker 1: we are broken broken and we need to make cuts,

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Speaker 1: et cetera. But we haven't talked about text risers. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: funny odd thing. Now speaking to me, you mentioned Richard

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Speaker 1: Richie Sunk, and of course he's not continuing. Who would

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Speaker 1: want them? But who wants the job? Because you know,

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Speaker 1: people are starting to talk about the death of the

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Speaker 1: Conservative Party.

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Speaker 2: Yes, indeed they are, and so they need a new, bright,

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Speaker 2: shiny leader, somebody that's going to attract support, not just

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Speaker 2: among MPs, after all, there aren't that many other Conservative

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Speaker 2: MPs left, but among the wider public of course. And

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Speaker 2: so the first round, the deadline to get your nomination in, Andrew, well, no,

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Speaker 2: you come your nomination in too become the next lude

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Speaker 2: to the Conservative Party closes at two thirty local time.

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Speaker 2: That's six seven hours ahead really from now. And we

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Speaker 2: now learn that perhaps one of the favorites, one of

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Speaker 2: the outsiders, and yet one of the favorites is the

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Speaker 2: odd sort of combination that a lady called Kemy Badenock

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Speaker 2: has thrown her hat into the ring. She is a

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Speaker 2: forty four year old and she took her first jobs

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Speaker 2: it were in government with the Boris Johnson and she

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Speaker 2: really has been very popular among Conservative Party members and

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Speaker 2: it is they who had the final say on who

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Speaker 2: replaces them. So she joins the whole crowd now of

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Speaker 2: half a dozen others looking to take on the job.

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Speaker 2: But there may be more throwing the hat into the

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Speaker 2: ring before the deadline at two thirty local time Happy

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Speaker 2: and so consequently this is going to be an interesting one.

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Speaker 2: She has said she's probably going to want to leave

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Speaker 2: the European Convention on Human Rights that is massively controversial

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Speaker 2: within the country and the party. Some Conservatives say it

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Speaker 2: is the only way to control immigration to leave that convention.

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Speaker 2: Others are saying it'll damage our international reputation and legal protections.

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Speaker 2: And she's also saying, you know, we need to concentrate

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Speaker 2: on what we stand for and a few of the

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Speaker 2: basics rather than do lots of things. Not very well.

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Speaker 2: But the Conservative Party only one hundred and twenty one MPs. Now, gosh,

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Speaker 2: they really were pretty much slaughtered back at the election time,

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Speaker 2: and so the question is how much infighting will there be.

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Speaker 2: I do think one big mistake they've made, Andrew, is

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Speaker 2: they're not actually going to announce the winner until believed

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Speaker 2: or not November, and that gives us the opportunity to

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Speaker 2: witness four months of in fighting through yourself.

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Speaker 1: Kevin Grave from the UK, I thank you for your time.

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