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Speaker 1: And Darsie Voldegove is only twelve minutes away. Also the news.

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Speaker 1: Right now, let's go to the UK and talk about Europe.

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Speaker 1: And it's Kevin Great. Good morning to Kevin, Good morning Andrew.

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Speaker 1: Now it's good evening here, Good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: I know.

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Speaker 1: Is that old one just a horrific thing in Munich

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Speaker 1: with the cab which drove into the crowd. What's the latest?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so overnight here an addition to the number of

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Speaker 2: people injured, We now believe it it's at least thirty.

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Speaker 2: Earlier we were told it was high twenties. We do

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Speaker 2: believe children are included in that, and we do believe

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Speaker 2: some are critical, but perhaps of more significance. We now

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Speaker 2: are also being told that counter terrorism officers have taken

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Speaker 2: over the investigation, and that we're told is because there

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Speaker 2: are indications the suspect, a twenty four year old Afghan

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Speaker 2: asylum seeker, had an extremist background. Now we're not being

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Speaker 2: told what that is. That's just what it is in

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Speaker 2: Munich today where this happened. There is the Munich Security

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Speaker 2: Common Reference. World leaders including Vlodomeir Zelenski from Ukraine and

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Speaker 2: US Vice President J. D Vance are due to arrive

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Speaker 2: in the city five thousand officers on duty. But as

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Speaker 2: you can imagine, a heightened sense of tension, very very

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Speaker 2: much so in this And what more do we know

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Speaker 2: of the twenty four year old Afghan asylum seeker suspect. Well,

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Speaker 2: it is reported he came to Germany in twenty sixteen

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Speaker 2: as a minor, had his request for asylum turned down

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Speaker 2: in twenty seventeen, but strangely it appears he was then

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Speaker 2: allowed to stay in some sort of a special visa,

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Speaker 2: which meant that everything was suspended for a while, That

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Speaker 2: deportation order was suspended and he was in the country legally.

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Speaker 2: Police are saying. But this is really fraught because the

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Speaker 2: Germany goes to election polls in ten days time and

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Speaker 2: the far right alternative for Germany is polling high with

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Speaker 2: one of its big policies referring to the mass deportations

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Speaker 2: of immigrants.

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Speaker 1: It's amazing how vehicles have suddenly become whipons of mass

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Speaker 1: destruction for terrorists and also bad people. And I remember

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Speaker 1: this from the nice truck in the south of France.

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Speaker 1: I had many friends there there on that night. It

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Speaker 1: was a horrific way to execut any revenge, no matter

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Speaker 1: what the motivation. Now you've got a politician who exaggerated

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Speaker 1: her CV.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and not just any politician, our chancellor, either the

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Speaker 2: second or third most important person in government. We were

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Speaker 2: told when Sekir Starmer took over in July that he

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Speaker 2: was going to restore trust in politics. It's now been

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Speaker 2: revealed that the Chancellor's own she being the Finance Minister,

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Speaker 2: effectively the Chancellor's own curriculum vitai or resume, was full

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Speaker 2: of shall say, exaggerations. So she said a few times

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Speaker 2: that she spent the best part of a decade with

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Speaker 2: the Bank of England. She didn't. It looks like she

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Speaker 2: spent six years there. One of those years was actually

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Speaker 2: working away on a course for a qualification. And also

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Speaker 2: it would appear at one point that she has rather

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Speaker 2: extended other stays at other financial institutions and exaggerated her

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Speaker 2: role within those institutions. Sir Kirstin was asked about this

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Speaker 2: our Prime Minister. He says, always all been dealt with

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Speaker 2: in the past, etc. But as you can imagine, plenty

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Speaker 2: of people saying, no, this isn't dealt with properly. She

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Speaker 2: needs to be sacked and to apologize for what some

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Speaker 2: are claiming our deliberate lies. Her office are saying these

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Speaker 2: are unfortunate things which she hasn't checked. Somebody else wrote

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Speaker 2: her profile even on LinkedIn, and she didn't check it.

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Speaker 2: There's also, incidentally, concern it would appear on one of

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Speaker 2: her jobs where there was a probe about expenses. Again,

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Speaker 2: all that's a bit vague. The BBC has gotten in

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Speaker 2: on this and he's doing lots of investigative work.

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Speaker 1: I'm just looking up in the Oxford English Dictionary what

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Speaker 1: this part means, because you know six years she said

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Speaker 1: Tin it was actually six that's more than where it's

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Speaker 1: over the median point. But is that the best part?

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Speaker 1: What does bespad actually mean? Oh, dear, and fancy a

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Speaker 1: politician actually exaggerating? Who would have thought? And finally we can,

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Speaker 1: on this Valentine's Day here in New Zealand and just

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Speaker 1: dawning for you not talk about love and apparently it

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Speaker 1: is much better to be in love and patterned up

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Speaker 1: than to be single.

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Speaker 2: Yes, financially so, So next time you're complaining about the

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Speaker 2: cost of those roses, have a think, because in the

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Speaker 2: UK they estimate being single costs more than five thousand,

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Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty New Zealand dollars more a year. Why. Well,

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Speaker 2: that's because single people are generally forced to spend about

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Speaker 2: twenty two percent more on rent or mortgages because of

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Speaker 2: course there's only one person, not two. Council tax that's

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Speaker 2: the local rates, the local tax you pay energy is

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Speaker 2: twenty eight percent more because you're paying the same amount

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Speaker 2: of cost to heat a property that you are there

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Speaker 2: were two of you. Thirty two percent more on broadband

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Speaker 2: and phones as well, and that really does suggest that

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Speaker 2: people who are single are finding it very expensive. I'm

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Speaker 2: always mystified by those single supplements you see on holiday,

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Speaker 2: but obviously the situation is much more difficult than that.

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Speaker 2: And this incidentally is far worse if you live in

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Speaker 2: a city like London than it might be in the countryside. Apparently,

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Speaker 2: and I have to say that it looks like the

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Speaker 2: financial resilience of single people is tested really throughout the lives.

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Speaker 2: Forty six percent of them have failed to save enough

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Speaker 2: to cover three months of essential shopping, compared to just

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Speaker 2: sixteen percent of couples here in the UK.

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Speaker 1: Everything's worse in London, mate, And that's why I tell

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Speaker 1: all my mates with the kids that they're going on

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Speaker 1: the oe and they're going to go and live in

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Speaker 1: London and go have you thought about Southampton? Hey, Kevin,

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Speaker 1: have a great weekend and I thank you for your time.

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Speaker 1: Kevin Gray out of the UK.

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