From the skying In Center. This is Paul Murray Live.
Thank you Sharry. Happy Tuesday forrever you happen to be around the country. Within this hour, we expect to hear whom Kamala Harris thinks could be her vice president.
That announcement as soon as it lands, along with a more analysis.
And great debate with James Morrow, Joe Hillebrand and the great Node Ferrard joining us from the UK where the problems will.
They stack up by the hour.
But first, this is a program that is thankful of our modern history, that is respectful of the people who came home from World War II and built this country into the place worth defending each and every day. Well, as you will have heard today, the last of the Rats of Tabrook.
Has left us.
More than fourteen thousand men ended up serving their country in that part of the theater of World War II, the Libyan port of course of Tabrook. Well, Tom Pritchard is the last, and he has died today aged one hundred and two. Now you know inside and out the details of the Rats of Trabrook for those who they will be watching.
Us later on the internet or maybe just of a different vintage.
You don't remember all of the details here. How did the Rats of de Brook get the name of the Rats of Tabrook? Well, the Australian War Memorial has got many pieces of information that they led up onto the Internet, as well as the incredible displays that you can go and see in Camber in his part of their explanation behind the name the Rats of de Brook.
Because the Tabrook Garrison was forced to dig in under constant bombardment, the Nazi propagandist Lord Hawhorn declared that they were caught like rats in a trap. The men, hearing this on the radio, adopted the name as a defiant badge of pride and became the Rats of Tabrook. Major General Leslie morse Head was their very aggressive commander, a Gallipoli veteran.
His troops dubbed.
Him ming the Merciless. It was a spirit that he passed on to his men, who, rather than being passive and waiting for the Germans and Italians to come to them, went out into no man's land each night to patrol and to harass the enemy.
The Australian efforts into Brook also produced Australia's first recipient of the Victoria Cross.
The Siege of Tbrook offers examples of humor, matship and endurance. It also has its stories of great heroism.
Jack emission as the first Australian of the Second World Gore to be awarded a Victoria Cross. Jack was involved in a very bitter, bloody hand to hand action on the night of the thirteenth of April, where he saved the life of his commanding officer, but he was mortally wounded in action.
I apologize, one of the first Australians to receive the Victoria Cross and one of the fourteen thousand people who are sadly no longer with us. But the world is a bitter place because of what they did. Is again a story supplied in the same video by the Woman Royal. A man by the name of John Johnson, and he of course was one of many who decided to go off to defend his country, to defend the then Empire,
and to of course repel the Germans. The simple story of where he came from and what was left behind is the same as OsO Mini, who died on those and many other fronts.
He was a carpenter from rural Victoria. He was a father of eight children when he went off to war. Each staated his right to John about a simple things school, the chickens not laying eggs. Tragically, though, Josephine gets a telegram saying John's been killed, but his letters continue to arrive home for some weeks after the event.
Our eternal thanks to all of the rats of to Brook after losing the final one today and slowly but surely the fourteen thousand before, strength and love to Tom Pritchett's family, to John Johnson's family, and to everyone else who's served their country, not just on that but in every other theater of war, from the legends of our past to the of today. And that's what I've got plenty to talk about today.
Now, you know.
I love Queensland. Last night celebrating that Queensland, if it was a country, would be higher on the middle tally than other places. You know, any opportunity to muck around, to have some fun to do in our town, but it holiday or for work. I want to be in Queensland. I want to be a Queenslander, no question right. Well, of course they have the upcoming pool writing. That was fun, wasn't it, And also as you know, the Queensland election coming up sooner rather than later. It'll be the final
weekend in October. Will there be a new premier fingers crossed hopefully?
Why?
Because the current one is obviously not the standard and the government that he and then Palachet before has led is completely terrible.
But they are incredibly good at politics.
And even though it seems like they're going out the back door, remember latest polling suggesting that they're facing something close to, if not guaranteed to be a wipeout, they most likely are set to lose. Now, I throw in all the caveats because firstly, nothing is inevitable. Twenty nineteen taught us all of that. But secondly, these people go out of their way and are shameless in the ways that they hope to brick themselves into office.
Now they deserve to go. They deserve to go last.
Term, but COVID was able to prop them up to give them another term. They thought the Olympics would be able to serve them for this term many terms to come, but the reality of Queensland under Labor has now come to a crashing halt. But this government thinks that they can find new ways to change the subject. In fact, their expectation is that they're going to be able to spend literally b four billions of dollars on so called cost of living relief.
They say so called. These are all policies.
That start in and around the election, and they run out by definitely this time next year, like say fifty cents on the trains or one thousand dollars on power bills. But today were we hit a new low and these two were already new lows. Well he found a new one. The plan of the Miles government is to introduce government owned service stations to bring down the price of petrol.
Stephen Miles also wants to create government owned petrol stations.
Stephen Miles also pledging to build twelve new government owned service stations.
Laborwood trial twelve publicly owned fuel stations. This is rubbish, This is utter garbage. They're not talking about buying existing independence. They are talking about building twelve new petrol stations. Now, of course the detail of all of this, which they don't care about. They just want to have another thing on the list of things that the reason that they're going to fix cost of living, all of which run out,
of course within the first twelve months. And these things, of course, even if they were re elected, will never be built. Remember, they won't be increasing drilling for oil and then refining it in Queens and they'll have to be buying it off the overseas market like everyone else does in Australia, because Australia does not even refine petrol anymore. Bob Catter for a long time has talked about this, The late and great Senator Jim Molan has talked about this.
So their ability to affects the price is literally just the government running for the sake of the billboard loss leading. Our governments can do that because despite the fact that the money still has to be borrowed from somewhere, the consequences don't exist for government that exists the business. But amazingly this detail, which you would think would sink the announcement, didn't stop the announcement, making the headline news that we just showed you. There's no details, there's no plan to
do this between now and the election. It's all after the election, so it's just a BS promise. And as the Qurier Marl pointed out today, Premier Stephen Mars has admitted an election commitment to open state owned fuel stations at a cost of thirty six million dollars was not backed by modeling or research. So it's a thought bubble. It's an idea from labor HQ. It is not an idea from anyone with any idea of how public policy works.
And while for most people that don't care, they just focus on what the vibe is, this is all about trying to change the vibe. But when he's pressed on the detail, it's pretty obvious that no one's done the homework on this ridiculous idea.
Have you done your own modeling or an own research or have you relied on ourcqs.
This is our election commitment for what we will do for Queenslanders to drive down the price of fuel going forward.
You haven't done any research.
You described an idea from the RAC cues that might help with the election.
Not at all.
This is a detailed package of initiatives designed to address what we know from Queenslanders is one of their biggest concerns.
So what research is the government done on this?
Well, this is an election commitment and it's a commitment that I am making to Queenslanders.
Here's a question, have you done, model it or not? Well, this is an election committment.
What does that mean, model or not?
This is an election commitment. So it hasn't been produced by the public service.
It's so they can stand in front of the poster. Now, firstly, again, the.
Idea that twelve petrol stations are going to affect the overall price a petrol that's available in Queensland is garbage. Where and how they get the fuel They'll have to buy it from the same places as everywhere else because they're not a private company. Yes, there's some margins they may be able to fiddle.
With, but again, no detail, no thinking.
It's just so they can make you think that public transports fifty cents, they'll pay your power bill, and now they're going to somehow magically push down the global oil price. They're not able to do any of those things. And if they were able to commit to the current round of spending, it's billions of dollars. They literally took the surplus that came from increase royalties, particularly in and around coal, and they are hurdling it up the wall, literally just
throwing it out the window. On the assumption that Queenslanders are so stupid. They're not paying attention. Well, there is no one in Queensland who is seriously going to think that these people are serious about deserving another four years in power when this is the low road that they plan to go, and they've got billions of dollars left and plenty more announcements. They won't do any homework on whatsoever.
This is stupid.
Remember when Homer Simpson ran for the Sanitation Commissioner and in order to win an election, he just promised everything. Well, unsurprisingly it all ran out of money after just a couple of weeks.
This is exactly that.
And I don't want to call Stephen Miles the Homer Simpson of Australian politics because that's too big a compliment. But anyone who remembers the show knows it doesn't end very well for the everyone gets surprised.
Everyone can eat cake candidacy.
Unsurprisingly, the people of the Courier Male reading this story today, they hate it. Thousands of people have voted thus far, and it's what the best part of eighty.
Four percent of people. They think it's a stupid idea.
The Liberal Party will they of course, following the bound ball of detail. I think This is dumb too.
Stephen Miles is on the side of multinationals and he will wipe out independent retailers, therefore creating less competition in the markplace, in the marketplace, therefore driving up petrol prices for Queenslanders. It will have the complete opposite effect that he thinks this will have.
Okay, another thing about this bloke, and again I'm going to hone it on this because this is not just hardcore Australian politics, but this is an opportunity to send a bad government packing to not fall. For all of the hucksters and the games and the clever ads and the ugur boogers about Campbell Newman from ten years ago that have largely been able to keep Labor in power.
Today Stephen Miles again court with the Labour Party's hand in the taxpayer till they are spending yet again millions of dollars on taxpayer ads that are all overtly about trying to win votes at the election. But nothing to see here. Meantime, here's the reality of Queensland. The number of people who are staying in hospitals for long periods of time because there is nowhere else for them to go.
Is now at a record high. The number of people that sit in the back of an ambulance because there's no room for the person to come from the ambulance into the hospital is.
Also at a record high.
And in a despicable example of all talk no action when it comes to mental health and particularly the mental health of women in Brisbane story from the Courier mar no doctor was the Royal Brisbane Women's Hospital in their emergency SICH unit on one night after ten thirty at night.
So literally, if somebody was having a.
Breakdown or needed immediate medical intervention because of their mental health episode, not one doctor in one of the biggest hospitals in the entire state. Put simply, Queenslanders have a finely tuned bs met. It should be going wild at this election. Flush this mob, get rid of them. Please, for the sake of your fellow Queenslanders, get rid of
this government. They are laughing at you behind the scenes about how dumb they think you are and you can be bought off with garbage like they tried to serve up today. Please, for millions of people they were nervous about what was going to happen with the Reserve Bank today, Thankfully, what we predicted happened, which is nothing.
Mortgage holders have been spared further pain with the Reserve Bank today leaving the cash rate on hold, official interest rates on hold at four point three five percent.
Tonight, interest rates on hold and set to stay there.
And that's the big issue here, which is, as I've said before, the pressure that has been building over all of these months is now at a breaking point. There is a political breaking point whenever interest rates go up, should they ever go up.
But today.
Michelle Bullok made it very clear what was happening behind the scenes when they were discussing what to do next.
Yes, the Board did consider a rate rise at this meeting as well as a hold. The Board is trying, as we've said in the past, to steer a narrow path here not resulting and a spike in unemployment, keeping the interest rate where it is, and making sure that people understand that a rate cut is not on the agenda in the near term given what we know that continued pressure will help to keep demand coming back into line with supply.
Now, all of this is all very clever. When we're talking about inflation, they want it between two and three percent. Reality is it's now closer to four percent than it is three percent based off the latest numbers. But also the reality is is that in the past financial year, the average mortgage in Australia costs fifty six thousand dollars more to pay off than he did twelve months ago.
Let alone, once you start.
To put together the full effect of two years of albow and charmers in charge of our economy, not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, not six, not seven, not eight, not nine, not ten, not eleven, but twelve, interest rate rises.
Thankfully, there's a platter right now.
But the expectation is it's just as big a chance to go up as it is to go down. And as you heard from the Reserve Bank governor today, the reality is they're not going to do anything for maybe another six months. So that financial pain that you have been sitting in month after month after month, at this huge high we're at right now, the highest in a generation, twelve times it has risen since this government came to power.
The media would like to, of course, like to pretend that, oh, will it becomes a problem for the government at the thirteenth No, it was a problem of the twelfth, the eleventh to tenth and all the rest right interest rates are fundamental to with the Australian economy and about people's interaction with that economy, their capacity to live where they choose to live, or to borrow the money for the
place that they would like to live. And right now it is demonstrably worse that it has been for a very long time, and specifically worse after there was a change of government a couple of years ago and again no change for six months.
The Board's feeling is that the market path at the moment is pricing in interstrate reductions by the end of this year. I think the board's feeling is that the near term in the next by the end of the year, in the next six months. That doesn't align given what the Board knows at the moment, and given what the four casts are that that doesn't align with their thinking about interstrate reductions at the moment.
So the chance nothing happens for the rest of this year, and then we're of course into the February meeting next year. All of that, of course becoming quite complicated when it comes to the politics.
But I don't care about the politics, care about the reality.
Of Australians who are suffocating under the bills that they have to pay right now. But of course if you ask the treasure everything's fine.
This decision is welcome because it recognizes the progress that we've made on underlying inflation, the softness in our economy, and also that very substantial global economic uncertainty that we're seeing play out in markets around the world.
Of course it doesn't, but this is the one two game that Charmers has put in place. Remember the reason the government didn't copy it about most of the twelve was because that was all evil Philip Low. Well, then, of course Michelle Bullock replaced, handpicked by the Treasurer, she increased it twice over. Oh but now the treasure now it's not just the treasure are talking. When the Reserve Bank makes this decision, the Reserve Bank has to come
out and do a press conference. So then we have the government responding to see blame them, blame them as if, of course there are no participants in their own economy. Thankfully, there are great people that are willing to call out the absurdity of this treasurer, the messaging and the decision making, and they're way smarter than me, and they're more specific in their understanding, like the economics reporter for The Australian. The Wonder of Judi's Sloane been on the show plenty
of times. You can see a lots of times on Sky. I love reading her stuff and she says all can no responsibility. Jimbo nomics is failing to deliver. Instead of focusing on ways of lifting productivity, charmers as sat back while other ministers have introduced policies that further harm productivity,
most notably Industrial Relations, Energy and the NDIS. She goes on to say Charmer's ownership of the dubious Future Made in Australia is another black mark against his reputation as the lobbyist's flock to argue for questionable projects that push the right buttons. Remember that's about twenty eight billion dollars worth of stuff promoting the renewable energy superpower in particular. Any failures seen as the fault of the Treasurer and
his ill equipped department. But of course it will all be spun the other way by a very friendly media.
The idea that the Treasury, with its.
Commercially naive and inexperienced officials, can identify strategic sectors is complete nonsense, absolutely hallily, yeah, right on. Anyone who's been watching the stock market the past couple of days knows that it's had one heck of a correction, now slightly, but surely what goes down eventually starts to come back up, and lots of people makes lots of money in both directions.
But it's another reminder about just how brittle things are, which is why you don't want this person to be anywhere near the global economy for the next four years.
Bidenamics is working. Last month we created one hundred and eighty seven thousand new jobs. That means today one hundred and eighty seven thousand more Americans are able to go to work.
Yeah, that's generally what a job means. She's a brat.
Meantime, here in Australia, a more familiar person like Mark Buris, remember the Australian host at one point of the Celebrity Apprentice, the manknown for of course many a.
Mortgage over the years.
He's on the radio today saying, guess what Australia is in a recession? Of course, the per capita recession. We've been talking about it here for the whole time, five quarters in a row, more than a year of us going backwards.
Well, he said so too this morning.
We are definitely in a recession. I don't know why they don't look at that number. They just look at the overall number. I don't know why that's the big deal. But on a per capita absolutely, which means our standard living ban is reducing. The standard living per person in this country is lower than it was two years ago.
Well said, watch this space because much of the media will not wish to do it, because it's difficult for a government that is making things worse. Because, of course, their solution many of the people who are paid to be the gatekeepers of the bubble to make sure that the left and far left remain in power in this
country for many elections to come. Well, of course they don't want to call out this government on that central promise which we all know that they ended up failing on, which was that if you vote for a labor government you will end up with a lower cost of living. So of course their target is Peter Dutton, and even in a piece today that started to point out what some of the problems were for the Prime Minister and
some of his failures. Peter Dutton is of course the great savior and the great reason why this government no doubt will be re elected, either in a majority or potentially in a minority. And this of course is written by former Gillard's staff for somebody who wrote a book hating on Scott Morrison. But still this well declared at the very end of the article. Most people don't get that far if this government is forgettable alb and easiest
counting on you remembering the last one. So they expect you to vote in twenty twenty four or most likely twenty twenty five, on how you felt in twenty twenty two, despite the fact that if you own a house you are twelve times higher when it comes to interest rates and how many other indices about bread, milk, fruit, veg. White goods compared to two years ago. It is this belief at senior levels that the governments are re elected not on what they've done, but what they're going to do.
But when all else fails, and he goes through a whole bunch of reasons why p twent Actually they don't have the things to run on. What hindsight often overlooks is just how dominant the end of the government's first term.
The memory of the previous government remains.
This may be one of the reasons governments tend to get a second term. Voters haven't forgotten what came before them, now remember. According to the pole that turns up in the turnabule times in the Freaking Guardian, it says that more than fifty percent of the country believes we are headed in the wrong direction. All of the poles tell us that the Prime Minister's disapproval rating is higher than is approval rating.
So the idea that they.
Can still run against the ghost of the former government, they'll try. Much of the media will help them along the way. But if the reality of people's lives are are you better off than you were two or three years ago? And the answer is hell no, Who knows what's going to happen? Yes, the teals most likely aren't going anywhere, and that blocks the Liberal Party's.
Chances of getting to seventy six. But who knows?
This bloke continues. Peter Dutton has managed to dominate the debate for a surprising portion of the past few months, but given how large the coalition's recent past still looms, there is a more important question to ask with Dunn's forays into migration and nuclear both of which are popular with more than half of the country. But still has he done enough or anything really to convince uters the
coalition has escaped the past and becomes something appealingly new. So, upon the urgings of the bloke who worked for Gillard writing in the Channel nine newspapers, the best way for this government to get re elected is to do more of this.
Of the previous coalition government, under the previous.
Government, under the previous government, the previous government.
Good luck with it all, right, now, let us get to the situation involving police.
Now.
I remember when we were in Renmark a few months ago for our town. There are a couple of big burly blokes who came up to me and talked about their experience as former police officers. They had spoken like big burly blokes who'd spoken to me Queensland, and big burly blokes that had spoken to me in Victoria, and the same in New South Wales. We have conversations in the past year and all of those states with former police officers who talk about what happens once you stop
being a police officer. Now, this show's pro cop doesn't mean everything is sweet and roses.
No, does it mean nobody ever makes a mistake.
No, But as a fundamental default position, support police because, as you know, they run towards what we would run away from. What they deal with on any one day would be the worst day of our lives, and they do it in twelve hour shifts, day after day after day after day. Well, an interesting story is popping up out of South Australia where they're starting to talk about why are we having trouble holding onto the current number of police or being able to get people to replace
the number of police who are leaving. This is part of what they said to the ABC.
It is a concern and this is something that all commissioners around Australia grappling with. We are seeing an increase in attrition and of concern is the rate of resignations compared to retirements. Historically we probably sat around sixty five percent retirement with the remainder being resignations, but that's more around fifty to fifty at the moment, which indicates people are leaving policing to pursue other career options.
Australia has had many Royal commissions, but we absolutely need one into the collective PTSD, how it is not prevented and how it is not dealt with by the emergency services in every state. I remember a few years ago I just was sitting playing the pokies and this young woman was sitting a couple up. We started a chat up.
It turned out that she had been a paramedic. She was a person who was still in her very early thirties, but her post traumatic stress because of what she had seen in this job and horrible things that I will detail for you here, meant that she wasn't able to continue doing the job. So it doesn't matter whether it is the female paramedic, the burly bloke in South Australia,
the fiery in Queensland. We do not support the emergency services in the fashion that we should, and I believe that we must have a royal commission that actually looks
into how we take care of these people. Because despite the fact that the federal government in particular kicked and dragged and delayed and will look the other way when it comes to the way we do with veterans, the state governments need to understand what is happening with their own versions of those defense forces, which are our emergency services. These people are amazing what they do. The fact that when most of them finish, the state is done with them.
Oh a little pension here or there, but no support, no formal support, no mental health support, let alone again the scenario with people who have to see horrible things on a Monday being told to go back out and do them on Monday afternoon, let alone Tuesday morning or next Monday. There are huge problems in the police force. The focus right now is South Australia. Let's start there. Peter malanowskis, do you have the courage to defend the people who have more courage than any of us?
Again, the police commissioner.
It's certainly a very different job. There's a higher level of accountability, more scrutiny, more oversight, more demand.
Calls in your court opposition. Feel free to mention it too. I love when we again do Pomri lives the our town shows. I love going into normal Australia. I love going at normal times again. One of the places we've been beautiful mill Dura. I loved at What a great and fun place that was to do I wasn't very good at the ber mixing, but we did great things and of course we were able to raise a huge amount of money for the great people of Humpty Dumpty
and Mildura Hospital. Well, there is a new tourism campaign by my body double Kenny, who is the more favored of the huskier, grayish bearded gents, because he is the front of a brand new campaign which is trying to get people to come to meal Dura, which has been referred to as tropical North Victoria, which I think is very funny and should be supported, unless, of course you're the ABC and you've got to go and find somebody who complains about it, and they were able to do so.
They found a lady called Julie. My daughter lives in Tropical North Queens and so I know what I'm talking about. Been there many many times. It was minus three degrees a couple of weeks ago. Here I'm sitting here with a heater. I've never got a heater. When I go on to my daughter as ever, what was the community input, Julie. I'm sure you're lovely and I'm sure you're speaking absolutely correctly about how cold it can be. It's a joke,
and it's a funny joke. And that's a good idea to tell people that are in Melbourne or other parts of Victoria. Don't bother go into the gold he come to tropical mill Dura.
It's a good idea. And dare I say funny?
Now, remember when Joe Biden told the world that the only way he was going to get blasted out of the presidency was if God himself sent a message.
If you can be convinced that you can knock defeat Donald Trump while you stand out the terms of the Lord or Mighty, comes on something that I might do.
Two weeks later he was gone.
Why because Nancy Pelosi knew that he wouldn't win the election. Now, of course, this is the party that was going to save democracy all the rest of it. But their way of avoiding democracy, which was the public was going to vote out to the president, was for them to.
Switch out the president. You know that by now.
Well, Nancy Pelosi, who of course had been a mini Dakhead friend and ally and done plenty of favors for Biden as he had for her over the years, did an interview on CNN Today where she was asked a question about the state of their relationship, which I'm sure is not very good. But has this for a bad poker face?
Have you spoken a President Biden since he dropped out? Alhadnah? Do you hope to?
Yes?
I hope too broad.
Is everything okay with your relationship?
You'd have to ask Kim n I hoko. With friends like these, I hope to one day, have you spoken to him? No?
Wow?
These people unbelievable right meantime, as for President Harris, the expectation is by the time the suns comes up in Australia, but the sun is already up at the America. Right now, we will know whom Vice President Harris plans for her vice president to be should she end up winning the election against Donald Trump. Now come down to apparently two main candidates. One is the governor of Pennsylvania. That would
help because you need Pennsylvania to win the presidency. But his small problem is that he fakes a voice to sound like BarackObama.
Somebody willing to say anything to get attention. You deserve somebody who knows you. Let me tell you something. He's pretty afraid.
Y'are sees he's backing under the debate.
Now he's afraid to stand toe to toe with our vice president.
Y'all, it's Pennsylvania, not Oklahoma in the nineteen twenties. The other one is the current governor of Minnesota, the one who was widely criticized for not calling in the National Guard when police stations were overtaken by rioters after the death of George Floyd, the.
Third precinct of the Minneapolis Police Department on fire, nearby businesses ablaze.
And then is of course the global economy and problems when it comes to the Middle East, which apparently is one of the reasons why one of the two shouldn't be being selected, because they want to avoid riots of the Democratic Convention. Yes, Harris is leading, but she's not able to hide in a bubble forever. Although Joe did
a good job and he won. Her plan is to do the same, but to do a basement to her outside with just as many questions being asked, break back with more plenty to discuss you in.
A moment's time. And then Nigel Franst from the UK, let's get you.
So exciting to do the man cave, the man who hosts in my absence done other than the great James Morrow. You can find him on the US Reporter outside is you kicked ars when I was away?
Mate, a lot of fun.
Who's got a great podcast over it and over and we'll be joining him next week.
Yes, thank you very much, my friend.
Now, we of course are all unified in our view that the Prime Minister is the greatest of all time, and that's because of his common touch. And I love when he lets us into just a bit of a bit of the magic, a bit of a bit of the you know, special connection.
Of course, Albo.
Decided to record a video call that he had with olympianc He released that on Twitter tonight and I just feel authenticity when I see this.
For example, number.
One breaking from Australia, and you have given so much pleasure and excite, been and pride to the whole country. So well done to all of you.
And there was no cringe on this call whatsoever.
Hey Shane, how are you going? Sew you up there proudly with your teammates. It's incredibly inspirational. What's your best moment apart from your own sport? Well Well done everyone.
And no trip to cringe town is complete without.
Yeah, just secured to metal. So I'm about to fight on Thursday to change the color.
Awesome. Awesome. So yeah, you're you're in the semis.
I am, yes. So no woman's ever won a boxing medalal force. I've secured that. So to the early morning for you have to set your alarm.
Oh look we're been getting up very early.
Here you can see my little friend here, that's Jane. It's the special connection he has. It is, you know, so natural.
And you know it's it's it's it's like these great unscripted moments and politics, Like the great unscripted moment in politics we had the other day when the Clinton's called Kamala Harris her cell phone to her ear and she also had the clip on microphone on. It's that level of genuineness that shows that the that these politicians on the left, you know that for the working people, they're of the working people, they are part of the common humanity,
the common soil. And so, you know, good on the Prime Minister for calling our heroes and giving them that genuine revelue.
Have we just got the hater's glasses online? Tell Us, tell Us, tell us through the rosies.
Everything James said completely literally.
I associated myself with the transcript.
Is a sports not of course, it was genuine.
Oh yeah, he knew all the details. I've been told you are going for a mental Harris.
We think he's mad. Try and get him away from a Bunnies game. You can't. When Harris got the phone call from the Obamas, she had like she had a.
Film crew that would putting modern day blockbusters to shave. But there's kind of ways, you know, at least the.
Australian PMS holding his own Teah, they're well done.
But that's the speed talking about. I thought it was very sweet.
All right.
Now, today the AZO boss came forward and quite interestingly said that MP's have a role to play when it comes to the overall lowering of the tone, but also calling out of the behaviors that are the beginnings or the outright radicalization of people. We saw Azio yesterday. Of course, say no fixed address to any ideology that happened to be connecting. Now, we do know there are examples of things across the spectrum, but there are quite a few
at the moment. We can talk about literal terrorist attacks that have taken place, the planning of those terrorists that tax that have taken place. But you know, everyone's got a problem here. But what about the political side of this, right, because it's pretty obvious that the Labor Party aren't riving it up, it's pretty probably pretty obvious that Liberal Party
aren't riving it up. It's pretty obvious that the grains and there's been plenty of reporting that you guys have alread and seen and done about how dirty some of their hands can be in the facilitating of some of the people who go off into the terrible things. Yet Labor will still, when faced with the choice, given their preferences.
Yes, they certainly will. And so you know, I also have a bit of a problem with some of this talk around dialing down the tone even because to me this feels like one of these things where they always want to dial it down, but they only want to dial down, you know, one of the two sacks.
They don't want to dial them both down.
And you know, personally, I think, and you know, I want to take a look at like what's happening in Britain right now. And what's happening in Britain right now is because for it's horrible, but it's also because for years and decades. You know, people who have tried to talk about certain really unpleasant things that have been going on had been squelched and dialed down, and then that builds up pressure. So my speech is always the release
and the way that bad ideas are contested. So on some level, you know, it's good on a level when we can see, for example, you know, hate preachers speaking about things, and we can criticize that, and we can call that, be aware of it, because it's much worse if we say, hey, we're not going to talk about some of the underlying issues there, because that might, you know, have people have the wrong ideas about things, and then you might have sold.
So it's all this sort.
Of again the sort of the nebulous code everything in the past couple of days. Right now, they can turn around and say, look, here are the ten most recent incidences, and these are the ten things that link them together. All right now, if six of the ten or four of the ten, or one of the ten, then you can list those as the overall picture. But again to
this point about politics. Right now, I understand that mathematically the Labor Party does not exist without Green's preferences, But how can you simultaneously be raising the terror threat, having public information about some about the political party that is at the very least facilitating some of the conversations that start.
To lead people in directions. You're still give them their preferences.
I think the truth is that in a compulsory preferential voting system like the one where you have, inevitably you'll be preferencing people who you don't like very much, and you will end up receiving preferences from them even though you don't like them very much. And that's just how
it works. And we talk about what's happening in the UK, I can guarantee you there will be people who are sympathetic with that who will be getting and receiving preferences from the National Party or the Liberal Party, and they're not going to like it, and they'll hold their nose. And it's the same with the Greens. I think the PM has actually been really strong on this. I don't
think i've seen a prime minister. I mean, look, let's not forget the horror show of the previous Labor government where a deal was actually done with the Greens' government saying we want nothing to do with you.
Will never form a coalition with you.
He's accused them of basically sort of enabling the sort of high temperatures that have inflated this terror threat. I mean, that's an incredibly strong thing to say. And I don't disagree with him, by the way, because I think when you legitimize things like vandalism of war memorials, which one of the Greens did, then again you're just opening the door. The next question just becomes, all right, well how far how far do you go? Is it just property like the Suffragettes?
Is it life? Is it? You know?
Like, where do you Suddenly you're saying, okay, we approve of political violence. It's just just time to talk about the line. So I think he has been really strong. I think he's personally, I think and know he is sick to the back teeth of them hanging around his electric office and making staff scared to go in.
But he let them hang around for six months.
Yeah, but I don't.
Again, it's like with the City of Union stuff, and look, I have absolutely no love for these people.
They have.
You call the cops over helps out for a day? You happy by I.
Think if we're talking about free speech before, I think it is difficult that they're not actually in the office.
They're just around it and there, and people obviously do not shut the office though, Okay, they shut the office down.
That's right, because obviously no one wants to walk through again. I mean, I've been heckled by the exact same people at A Yeah, and they knew who I was as well.
So let's get to But enough about but the most important part of your career.
I understand Stephen Miles pretending that he's going to be able to fix petrol prices by maybe if re elected, building twelve petrol. This is about as low rent as you can get. It really is. I keep saying, it's like Homo Simpson running to be sanitation commissioner. Right, It's just we promised to do everything. Does anyone believe this stuff?
Well, I mean, pul we were sitting downstairs before that. Stephen Miles feels like a gambler who's lost everything in their chuck at the car key is taking off the jewelry and throwing the watch out there. They're spinning every last spin, hoping for that big because I.
Got a chance.
Two is the Stephen Miles Soviet here where you know Cobrad. We will have Steven the petrel bowsers will be very cheap. I think though, this is part of the greed, you know, lefty plan to get everybody into electric vehicles by destroying the entire.
Patrol station infrastructure.
Joe. And then and then then there was like, well we got to buy ITV now because Stephen Byles screwed it all up.
You should have been building state run EV charging stations.
Well what about it that properly runs state owned hospitals in terms of priorities, but only for us?
Correct?
It just smells in every way about about how desperate things happen to be.
I've got a minute here.
We'll find out in the next little while about whom Kamala Harris chooses as vice president. Let's get a prediction so we can prove that one of you is wrong. Is it going to be the governor of Minnesota or the governor of Pennsylvania?
James Minnesota, Pennsylvania.
So the interesting thing there is that he opens the door to the George Flyer George Floyd Wright's response, or it opens to the lunatics turning up because they don't like that he is pro Israel.
Bring the lunatics is Jewish.
But yes, apparently there is a test where you can find out how many edits have been made to the Wikipedia pages of vice presidential candidates. And jd Vance has shot up just before Trump announced him and Shapiro have shot up.
So you're on the yep all right, and you're ignoring fedam and interesting to say thank you lads when of' youll been right or wrong? We'll find out with the US report on Friday, and of course Joe every other time here piece on sits Sky News Quick break back with more plenty to talk about. Nigel Farrage. What's going on in the UK?
One a sec. Nigel Farrag needs no introductions and.
Mainly the United Kingdom of course, the leader of the Reform Party and a parliamentarian now of course after the most recent UK election, Nigel, love you to see you also, good to see you back on gbing News as well.
But I've got to ask you.
One of the things that you reiterated at almost every rally when you were in the lead up to the election was that you had perched political parties of the of the far right, that you had gone hard against all of these people. Yet amazingly and unsurprisingly the very despite your your proven trek record of doing that, the media is trying to pull you into the worst elements of what we've been seeing in the past few days.
Yes, it's been despicable.
I mean broadcast as saying these are Farag's riots, prominent labor politicians. This is what Nigel Faraj wanted. Yeah, you know, as if somehow I'm responsible, some even suggesting that I'm orchestrating the riots. I've spent thirty years fighting elections, believing that is the way to solve problems in society, not to resort to violence. I've never gone anywhere near I wouldn't touch with a barge. Poll members of the extreme right who say very provocative things, like Tommy Robinson or
the others. The reason they hate me, the reason they're blaming me is twofold. The first is the Labor Party are terrified that many of their own voters will vote for me, because when kir Starmer, our Prime Minister, says
everything that's happening is the fault of the far right. Well, yes, of course there are some far right thugs behaving appallingly, but actually, when it comes to being concerned about mass immigration, when it comes to being concerned about societal breakdown, when it comes to being worried that many of our towns and cities are no longer recognizable as even being English. If you use that term far right, you're using it against your own voters and a majority of the population.
That's the first reason they're attacking me. They're scared of me politically. The second reason is I was right. I said last Wednesday that unless we cleared up some of the conspiracy theories on social media by telling us the truth about who this young man was that stabbed to death those three little girls at that Taylor Swift party, unless we sourted it out that I said, I felt the country was on the verge of revolt. Well, we didn't clear up the mass and we have had a revolt.
So they secondly hate me because I was right.
What I find so dishonest by those who again seek to tar the people that have spoken about a very obvious issue right so say, illegal border crossings right now, very obviously you can have an absolute passionate view on that issue. That does not mean that you endorse somebody breaking into the places where some of those people who are legally into the.
Country end up.
This is what I find again, the maliciousness in and around this. I mean, we can sit here for the next eight minutes doing what I know you've done on your show in the UK and what we've done here, which is the riots are despicable. They are not acceptable. Everyone who involved in the violence must be held to account just like anyone else who does it. But that doesn't mean you can't have the view about does a country have a border and are you allowed to police it?
Well, that's right, And one of the fears here, you know, by Starmer saying we're going to crack down on the far right, We're going to use video imaging, one of the worries is that they actually try to suppress that debate even further whilst effectively turning a blind eye to marauding gangs of masked Muslim young men walking around some of our cities in a very intimidatory way. Don't misunderstand me, most of the thuggery has been young white males setting
far out of things and behaving terribly. But it's not as if it's just one side that's fault with all of this. Now, I really worry that Starmer may use this to try and suppressed eight, to suppress free speech, to make it even harder to talk about these issues. And no one's spoken out more pool than me about the cross Channel migrants. The young men, undocumented young males who isis themselves have said they'll put their operatives into
our country through this route. And yet what I was out there three years ago in the Channel and there were two young men that capsized from a dinghy, you know there I was physically putting them out of the English Channel. And the fact you think something's wrong doesn't mean you're a subhuman percent Let's.
Talk quickly about the economies of the world that have all had a jiner in the past couple of days. In is what an absolute reminder about what is the choice before the American public? Here where Kamala Harris, who just would sell it to her way through an explanation of inflation, would have no idea what leave it a pool?
No, And of course what we're learning is that the Americans have been ever so slightly playing games with the economic figures as this election approaches, and as the truth got out towards the end of last week that the American economy is slowing that the Fed have not reduced interest rates as quickly as they ought to. We've seen some precipitous downward moves on stock markets, Japan of course being perhaps the biggest example. But I think we're now
entering a period of economic reality. We're living way beyond our means. Debt is much much worse at a governmental, corporate and individual level than it was back in two thousand and eight. Growth in most countries is anemic. Growth even in America is not quite as good as people thought it was. And whilst I'm not on your show to make stock market predictions, I think we're in for a very very bumpy autumn on the stock exchanges as this reality begins to bite.
And depending on the choices that are made in the next little while about whom that VP is, well, a whole bunch of stuff is going to happen in Chicago. Let alone, the court process revving up again against Trump will be fascinating to watch. Thankfully, we get to talk to you and see you on JB News. Thank you, Nigel, appreciate it. That's our shaffa and I will see you again tomorrow.
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