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Speaker 1: The Inde. Brady, a UK correspondent, is with us evening. Inda.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Heather, great to speak to you.

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Speaker 1: Okay. So it's a big day for Nigel Farage because

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Speaker 1: you guys are going to vote on the council elections

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Speaker 1: and whatnot. But what does success look like for him?

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Speaker 2: I think it means winning hundreds of seats in the

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Speaker 2: councils across the country and getting into power in county

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Speaker 2: councils as a first step towards what he believes will

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Speaker 2: be a n IDL Farage premiership in four years time. Now,

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Speaker 2: let's not get carried away here. This is an Everestian

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Speaker 2: task for Farage, but that's the ambition he has set

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Speaker 2: for him and his Reform UK Party Now. Right now,

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Speaker 2: I think UK politics is very split. There's deep unease

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Speaker 2: about Starmar's government. A lot of people are not happy

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Speaker 2: with some of the changes Starmer has made. The Conservatives

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Speaker 2: under Kenny Baden are going nowhere. So there's lots of

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Speaker 2: fractures and splits and Farage is getting a lot of

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Speaker 2: airtime as he always does, and his view is that

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Speaker 2: this is the council election where Reform get into power

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Speaker 2: in some county councils and show what they can do.

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Speaker 2: But make no mistake, he's got huge ambitions.

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, what are the chances that he takes

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Speaker 1: as many seats as the Tories.

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Speaker 2: I think that is absolutely possible. I think the Conservatives

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Speaker 2: will lose hundreds of seats. I think Labor will lose

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Speaker 2: hundreds of seats. And the person who will benefit the most, now,

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Speaker 2: it may well be just the protest vote. One thing

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Speaker 2: that's interesting here today, just on a side note, in

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Speaker 2: terms of turnout, historically low turnout in council elections at

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Speaker 2: this time of year, it is going to be the

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Speaker 2: hottest May Day in English history. It's going to hit

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Speaker 2: twenty nine celsius today in parts of the south and

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Speaker 2: the southeast. It may even hit thirty percent thirty celsius.

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Speaker 2: So what we're looking at is perfect conditions. You know,

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Speaker 2: It's not as if it's going to be lashing rain

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Speaker 2: all day and people will look out the window and

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Speaker 2: say I'm not going to vote. I think voter turnout

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Speaker 2: will be higher than the media are saying, and for

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Speaker 2: As will benefit. You know, he's saying all the right things.

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Speaker 2: What he needs to do is turn a protest vote

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Speaker 2: into an actual movement and get the mechanics of a

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Speaker 2: political party that can take power in four years time.

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Speaker 2: I don't think he can, but that's what he needs

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Speaker 2: to do.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, very interesting, all right? And where are we at

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Speaker 1: with the Birmingham Bins strike?

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Speaker 2: More meetings today? Would you believe this is week eight? Now?

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Speaker 2: There are still thousands of tons of rubbish all over

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Speaker 2: the streets of Birmingham week eight, as I say, And

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Speaker 2: the council leaders are sitting down today with the union leaders.

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Speaker 2: There's talk of now removing pay from the drivers of

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Speaker 2: the lorries as opposed to the guys and girls who

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Speaker 2: actually pick up the rubbish. So it's getting quite acrimonious.

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Speaker 2: But I think the anger they're very lucky in Birmingham

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Speaker 2: that there are no council elections for some reason. Birmingham

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Speaker 2: is not having elections today because I think every single

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Speaker 2: one of those councilors will be out on their backsides

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Speaker 2: the level of failure of leadership we've seen over this issue.

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine eight weeks without having your bins picked up?

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Speaker 2: And as I say, twenty nine Celsius today stuck gonna

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Speaker 2: smell h that's not.

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Speaker 1: Good at all, Hey, Inda, thanks very much appreciate us

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Speaker 1: into Brady, our UK correspondent.

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