Over in the UK, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has promised to fix every pothole in Britain.
In an earlier radio interview, Starmer announced plans to provide a 'record amount' of money to local authorities to fill 7 million potholes a year.
UK correspondent Enda Brady says Starmer promised to use AI and technology to speed this process up.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the Brady is a UK correspondent. He's with us
right now in the good evening.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
To you, hey, Ryan, lovely to speak to you again.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Now. The boss of Heathrow is going to face a
parliament next week over the fire, FIESCO. What are we expecting?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Well, I think they're going to turn their verbal fire
on him because people are very angry about what happened
on Friday. Now. Thomas Wolby is the chief executive Heathrow Airport.
He's quick to point out that it is not the
airport's fault that there was a fire at an electricity
substation on Thursday night, but a lot has emerged since.
(00:35):
So he took the decision that his deputy would work
through the night and that he, the CEO, would go
home sleep and then wake up refreshed for the task
on Friday of making the decisions that would ultimately get
the airport open again to the traveling public on Saturday.
A lot of people are saying why didn't you just
work on How could you sleep? The Transport Minister here,
(00:58):
Hidi Alexander. She's even come out on radio and said
I wouldn't be able to sleep if that had happened
in my job, and I was dealing with the closure
of the biggest airport in Europe and the busiest I
would not be able to sleep. So I think he
can expect a few verbal bullets next week. He's under pressure.
But it has just shown up the chronic problems we
(01:20):
have deep in our infrastructure in the UK. That a
fire at a substation a few miles away knocks out
an airport with three hundred thousand passengers going through it.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Goodness may well, we'll look forward to that little inquiry.
Kese Thamas is he wants to fix every pothole in Britain.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yes, and I think it was John Lennon who sang
that there were four thousand potholes in Blackburn, Lancashire. That
was in the sixties. Well, I think he'd be underestimating
the task at hand now because in all honesty, I
run a lot, as you know, Ryan, I now run
cross country mostly because the danger of twisting an ankle
(01:59):
or worse, because of the pothole situation here. It is
so bad now. Kre Starmer has given a radio interview.
He actually said, at this moment in time, as I'm speaking,
someone will be driving over a pothole. He used the
figure seven hundred million, not dollars in terms of fixing
the problems. Seven hundred million potholes is what the Prime
(02:21):
Minister believes there are to be fixed in the UK.
So he was challenged on how he's going to do this,
and he used the phrase AI and tech eight times
and the presenter said, well, just explain how that works,
and he goes, look very simple, he said, each time
the Council fills in a pothole, they go online, they'll
update it, they get some more money and they can
go fill another one. So that's where we are right now,
(02:44):
seven hundred million potholes in the UK. According to Kure Starmer.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Goodness may may how much AI's got to do with
fixing it, but that's interesting by putting.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
It men with shovels and gravel, Ryan, that's that's what's
not AI.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, hey, very quickly right. She is going to address
Parliament this week, the House of Commons. Do we know
whether they're going to cut the universal school lunches? Have
you heard anything about that or is that all just
scuttle that rumor?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I think everything's being cut. I think Britain is heading
back to austerity. There is no money. Not only is
she getting rid of the school lunches for really kind
of disadvantaged, vulnerable kids, fifty thousand civil servants are going
to lose their jobs. I think Britain is heading back
into a decade of austerity. There is no money left here,
there is no growth and we are where.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
We are finally. Connor McGregor wants to run for president
of Ireland.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, watch this one, it's going to be interesting. He's
making a lot of noise online For anyone who doesn't
know who Connor McGregor is. He is an extremely wealthy
and successful cage fighter from that UFC brand in America.
He is Irish. He's Dublin through and through. He has
a really bad reputation amongst a lot of people in Ireland.
(04:01):
There was a civil case brought against him in court
last year for sexual assault by a woman, which he lost.
There was a previous conviction for punching an elderly man
in a pub. Yeah. He's been speaking out about immigration
and a lot of illegal immigrants coming into Ireland. He
is getting some support on the far right of the
(04:22):
political spectrum in Ireland. But the problem he has in
terms of becoming president, you need twenty elected representatives to
come out and say they back you. He's not going
to get twenty. In fact, I would go so far
as to say if I ran against him, I from
County Wexford as a journalist, I would get twenty people
to back me and he would get zero. And I'm
(04:43):
not being big headed here, I'm just stating facts.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Right, Thig So much for that in the in the
Brady a UK Correspondent.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
For more from Hither Duplessy Alan Drive, listen live to
news talks. It'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio
In the Brady is a UK correspondent. He's with us
right now in the good evening.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
To you, hey, Ryan, lovely to speak to you again.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Now. The boss of Heathrow is going to face a
parliament next week over the fire, FIESCO. What are we expecting?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Well, I think they're going to turn their verbal fire
on him because people are very angry about what happened
on Friday. Now. Thomas Wolby is the chief executive Heathrow Airport.
He's quick to point out that it is not the
airport's fault that there was a fire at an electricity
substation on Thursday night, but a lot has emerged since.
(00:35):
So he took the decision that his deputy would work
through the night and that he, the CEO, would go
home sleep and then wake up refreshed for the task
on Friday of making the decisions that would ultimately get
the airport open again to the traveling public on Saturday.
A lot of people are saying why didn't you just
work on How could you sleep? The Transport Minister here,
(00:58):
Hidi Alexander. She's even come out on radio and said
I wouldn't be able to sleep if that had happened
in my job, and I was dealing with the closure
of the biggest airport in Europe and the busiest I
would not be able to sleep. So I think he
can expect a few verbal bullets next week. He's under pressure.
But it has just shown up the chronic problems we
(01:20):
have deep in our infrastructure in the UK. That a
fire at a substation a few miles away knocks out
an airport with three hundred thousand passengers going through it.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Goodness may well, we'll look forward to that little inquiry.
Kese Thamas is he wants to fix every pothole in Britain.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yes, and I think it was John Lennon who sang
that there were four thousand potholes in Blackburn, Lancashire. That
was in the sixties. Well, I think he'd be underestimating
the task at hand now because in all honesty, I
run a lot, as you know, Ryan, I now run
cross country mostly because the danger of twisting an ankle
(01:59):
or worse, because of the pothole situation here. It is
so bad now. Kre Starmer has given a radio interview.
He actually said, at this moment in time, as I'm speaking,
someone will be driving over a pothole. He used the
figure seven hundred million, not dollars in terms of fixing
the problems. Seven hundred million potholes is what the Prime
(02:21):
Minister believes there are to be fixed in the UK.
So he was challenged on how he's going to do this,
and he used the phrase AI and tech eight times
and the presenter said, well, just explain how that works,
and he goes, look very simple, he said, each time
the Council fills in a pothole, they go online, they'll
update it, they get some more money and they can
go fill another one. So that's where we are right now,
(02:44):
seven hundred million potholes in the UK. According to Kure Starmer.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Goodness may may how much AI's got to do with
fixing it, but that's interesting by putting.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
It men with shovels and gravel, Ryan, that's that's what's
not AI.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, hey, very quickly right. She is going to address
Parliament this week, the House of Commons. Do we know
whether they're going to cut the universal school lunches? Have
you heard anything about that or is that all just
scuttle that rumor?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I think everything's being cut. I think Britain is heading
back to austerity. There is no money. Not only is
she getting rid of the school lunches for really kind
of disadvantaged, vulnerable kids, fifty thousand civil servants are going
to lose their jobs. I think Britain is heading back
into a decade of austerity. There is no money left here,
there is no growth and we are where.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
We are finally. Connor McGregor wants to run for president
of Ireland.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, watch this one, it's going to be interesting. He's
making a lot of noise online For anyone who doesn't
know who Connor McGregor is. He is an extremely wealthy
and successful cage fighter from that UFC brand in America.
He is Irish. He's Dublin through and through. He has
a really bad reputation amongst a lot of people in Ireland.
(04:01):
There was a civil case brought against him in court
last year for sexual assault by a woman, which he lost.
There was a previous conviction for punching an elderly man
in a pub. Yeah. He's been speaking out about immigration
and a lot of illegal immigrants coming into Ireland. He
is getting some support on the far right of the
(04:22):
political spectrum in Ireland. But the problem he has in
terms of becoming president, you need twenty elected representatives to
come out and say they back you. He's not going
to get twenty. In fact, I would go so far
as to say if I ran against him, I from
County Wexford as a journalist, I would get twenty people
to back me and he would get zero. And I'm
(04:43):
not being big headed here, I'm just stating facts.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Right, Thig So much for that in the in the
Brady a UK Correspondent.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
For more from Hither Duplessy Alan Drive, listen live to
news talks. It'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio
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