1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,520 Speaker 1: In the Brady's at UK correspondent in a good evening. 2 00:00:02,360 --> 00:00:05,640 Speaker 2: To you, hey, Ryan, good to speak to you again. 3 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:07,760 Speaker 1: Good to speak to your ton. Now Birmingham has declared 4 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:11,160 Speaker 1: a major incident. It's all to do with rubbish. What's 5 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:11,720 Speaker 1: going on. 6 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:17,360 Speaker 2: An ongoing strike in industrial action between the bin men 7 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:21,120 Speaker 2: and women who work for Birmingham City Council. They're angry 8 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:24,079 Speaker 2: about pay and changes to their working conditions. This has 9 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 2: been going on for some weeks, believe it or not, 10 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 2: and this is absolutely shocking. Seventeen thousand tons of refuse 11 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:36,760 Speaker 2: on the streets of Birmingham are right now uncollected. Now 12 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 2: the councils say they have been sending out the odd 13 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 2: lurry here and there, leaving their depots to try and 14 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:45,800 Speaker 2: get the refuse off the streets. It's un hygiene, clearly 15 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 2: it could cause health problems for the population, and the 16 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 2: councilor claiming that picketers are stopping lurri's leaving the depots 17 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:58,200 Speaker 2: and that's exacerbating the problem. So some common sense needs 18 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 2: to be used here. But it looks if you were 19 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 2: to look at parts of Birmingham right now and say 20 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:06,560 Speaker 2: that this is a small mafia infested town in southern 21 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:11,119 Speaker 2: Italy where there's some corruption problems with the local refuse collectors. 22 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 2: You could see and understand why rubbish is piled high. 23 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 2: This is Birmingham in England in twenty twenty five. 24 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, not a great look, is that? 25 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:19,959 Speaker 2: Now? 26 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:22,320 Speaker 1: The S and P five hundred, the nasdeck composite had 27 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:27,920 Speaker 1: their worst quarters since twenty twenty two this quarter. Obviously 28 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:30,759 Speaker 1: we're all bracing for what Trump is going to do tomorrow. 29 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:34,640 Speaker 1: How is well, what is the UK and Europe doing 30 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:35,720 Speaker 1: to prepare in them? 31 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 2: Well, I can tell you kir Starmer is not going 32 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:43,040 Speaker 2: to put in reciprocal tariffs. That was one view, that 33 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:46,080 Speaker 2: one card that the UK had up with sleeve. But 34 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 2: what we're hearing this morning here is that they will 35 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 2: just see what happens tomorrow. The word in UK government 36 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 2: is that Trump is looking for a big bang tomorrow. 37 00:01:56,280 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 2: So we know he loves the headlines, he loves the limelight. 38 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 2: So the feeling is in Europe that there's going to 39 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 2: be at least a twenty percent tariff right across the 40 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 2: board and everything going into the United States from Europe. 41 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:10,720 Speaker 2: Now Britain is not going to bite back. There had 42 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:14,960 Speaker 2: been the hope that Britain would be exempt, that they 43 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:18,200 Speaker 2: might carve the UK out of all of these European tariffs. 44 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:21,399 Speaker 2: Because Trump and Starmer have a good relationship, the UK 45 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:24,040 Speaker 2: government had put stuff on the table as a kind 46 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 2: of sweetener for the Americans and the Trump administration removing 47 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 2: the Digital Services Tax, which brings in about one point 48 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:34,760 Speaker 2: six billion dollars a year from American tech, that was 49 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 2: going to be taken off the table. And ultimately Trump 50 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 2: wants his big day, he wants his big bang, and 51 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:43,480 Speaker 2: I think the big fear here Ryan is what's it 52 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:46,760 Speaker 2: going to do to UK GDP? All the predictions are 53 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 2: it would wipe zero point six of a percentage off 54 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 2: the annual GDP for Britain. That would put us into reception. 55 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:58,079 Speaker 1: Now, Kise Dama got a lot of US plate. He's 56 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:00,960 Speaker 1: held a news conference in London is over the issue 57 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 1: of the bike migrants. What's he's saying now? 58 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:07,680 Speaker 2: So he says it's unrealistic to reduce it down to zero, 59 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 2: but they have to try. Now. The backdrop to all 60 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 2: of this is that the numbers are getting worse and worse. 61 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:18,200 Speaker 2: So far this year six one thousand, six hundred and 62 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 2: forty two men, women and children, predominantly young working age 63 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 2: men have got into the UK illegally on these dinghies 64 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:29,920 Speaker 2: from France. Six thousand, six hundred and forty two. That 65 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:32,919 Speaker 2: is the highest it has ever been on April the first, 66 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:37,040 Speaker 2: So something needs to change. The mathematics. The financials on 67 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:40,600 Speaker 2: this ryan are shocking. Sixteen million dollars a day are 68 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 2: being spent on hotel accommodation for asylum seekers coming into 69 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:49,120 Speaker 2: the UK via dinghies from France. So Stamer's big conference, 70 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:53,760 Speaker 2: interestingly he got loads of leaders and politicians and police 71 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 2: and coast Guard representatives. He also got the social media 72 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 2: companies in all the big ones. I'm not going to 73 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 2: name them, you know who they are. And the reason 74 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 2: he got them in is because, believe it or not, 75 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 2: these criminal gangs people smugglers are advertising their services on 76 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 2: social media, how you can get into the UK, how 77 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:16,280 Speaker 2: much you need to pay, where you need to be, 78 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:18,480 Speaker 2: and look what they give you, a lovely big hotel, 79 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 2: to give you clothing, then you get a job. All 80 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 2: of this is being advertised that their entire business model 81 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 2: is like something you see on Instagram. 82 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 1: Absolutely shocking, which does that not reinforce the point that 83 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:34,279 Speaker 1: the right makes about not providing those things in the 84 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 1: first place. 85 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:39,760 Speaker 2: It's a very very good point. But look, the criminal 86 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:44,640 Speaker 2: gangs are exploiting everything, the people's desperation, and they're pointing 87 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 2: out what's on offer when you get to the UK. 88 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:50,159 Speaker 2: But I find it amazing that in this day and age, 89 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:53,720 Speaker 2: they're able to use the algorithms, they're able to advertise 90 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:57,280 Speaker 2: as if they're a legitimate business. And Britain's picking up 91 00:04:57,279 --> 00:04:59,680 Speaker 2: the pieces. But look, we've got NGOs here, we've got 92 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:03,200 Speaker 2: charity and I've seen it firsthand myself in Europe. I've 93 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 2: been there in Italy, guys literally getting off boats and 94 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:09,760 Speaker 2: being given brand new two hundred dollars trainers because they've 95 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:13,320 Speaker 2: nothing else. And it is it is a business. It 96 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:15,520 Speaker 2: is That is the only way to describe it. It 97 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:19,080 Speaker 2: is a business. And I've seen this firsthand. Less any 98 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:21,839 Speaker 2: of our listeners get in touch on Twitter, I've been there. 99 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:22,600 Speaker 2: I've seen it. 100 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:25,960 Speaker 1: Interesting Inda, thank you for that really interesting stuff. 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