Enda Brady: 40,000 illegal asylum seekers could arrive in the UK this year

Illegal immigrants from France are still arriving in the UK.

Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron are set to announce a deal that addresses this.

Junior Doctors are also going on strike despite pay-rises from union-negotiations.

UK correspondent Enda Brady says they're lacking public sympathy as everyone's already struggling financially.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the Brady is our UK correspondent with us. Good evening,
good morning in the nice heavy on the program.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hey Ryan, good to speak to you again.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Now Starma and Machron getting down to business today and
it's all about the boats. Have they been able to
come to some sort of agreement to try and stop
the flow.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
We'll find out very shortly. So the officials have certainly
been working behind the scenes, the French and the UK
government officials and diplomats. They will have been putting in
the hard yards while Macron and Starmer were having to
stay banquet the other night with the King. Elton John
was there, Mick Jagger as well. You know, the UK
does rasmatas as well as anyone else. So Macron has

(00:39):
had a wonderful few days. But today is the sharp
end of the trip. Can he stop these small boats
coming over from France? Now? It was very interesting last week.
You may have seen this footage that went viral of
French cops wading out into the water with pen knives
and just slashing a dinghy that was crammed full of
illegal asylum seekers who were about to embark and head

(01:02):
off towards England. Twenty six miles of water that stretches,
and that happened out of nowhere, and of course people
here saw it and thought, well, hang on, why haven't
they been doing this for years? Twenty thousand people have
illegally entered the UK this way in the first six
months of the year. So if that continues at the
pace it's going, that's forty thousand people a year. That's

(01:23):
a small town every year of illegal asylum seekers. So
something has to change now. The French believe that the
UK make life too attractive for these people, that the
benefits system here is far too lucrative for them. Let's
see what Macron and Starmer come up with. But something
needs to change because people in the UK are absolutely exasperated.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah, and you've only got to visit and talk to
people and it's pretty It's front of everyone's minds and
pushing reforms chances up too, hasn't it. Hey, Oh yes,
what's happening with the junior doctor that's going on strike?
What's it about.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Well, we thought this was all fixed last year. Labor
came into power exactly one year ago this week and
one of the first things Starmer did, and he was
immediately criticized for it because people said he was caving
into the unions. He looked at a situation he'd inherited
where doctors wanted more money, junior doctors were going on strike,
nurses wanted more money as well. It was a mess.

(02:22):
So he rattled the financial cages a bit, came up
with some money and gave them pay rises. Now, sure enough,
the junior doctors are back this week. They voted to
go on strike July twenty fifth day will walk out
and they feel that their pay has not kept track
of inflation and that they've actually had a pay cut.
So I don't think there'll be a huge amount of

(02:42):
sympathy in the UK public. Everyone struggling here at the
moment financially, the majority of working people, I would say,
and junior doctors threatening strike action. When the NHS is
in the state, it's in the National Health Service, I
don't think there'll be an outpouring of public sympathy.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Sounds like they'll be quite the outpouring of money for
this new stadium, Manchester United Stadium eight billion dollars and
they've chosen someone to iris see all this.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
They have saib Co, Lord Coe as he now is so.
Former Olympic gold medalist middle distance runner. He then went
into sports administration. He flirted with conservative politics and never
really made much of a dent there, but he's put
in the decades in sports administration. He wanted to be
the new boss of the IOC, but he was beaten

(03:31):
by the lady from Zimbabwe. So this is the new
gig he has just landed. He will be put in
charge of delivering Manchester United's new stadium. It's going to
cost eight billion ENZ dollars. It will be one hundred
thousand seater stadium and his challenge is working with Jim Ratcliffe,
the guy who is twenty eight percent shareholder and owner

(03:53):
of Manchester United, Britain's richest self made man. I've had
a few dealings with Ratcliffe over the years. He is
a very demanding taskmaster. So let's see how seb Cole
and him work together.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
Sounds like it's going to be interesting. In to thank
you for their end, Brady, a UK correspondent. For more
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