Enda Brady: UK correspondent on the petition for a second UK general election hitting two million signatures

A petition calling for a second UK election is growing in support - and tech billionaire Elon Musk has voiced his support for it.

Musk labelled the UK a 'tyrannical police state' and boosted a video by a jailed far-right figurehead.

UK correspondent Enda Brady says Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is unlikely to resign based on this poll.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the Brady UK corresponding with us, Now, Hyinda, hey Heaven,
how are you good? Thank you Mike. But why has
this petition got so much traction? I mean, it's never
gonna happen? Is it so a petition to have another
general election which we had one four months ago? Elon
Musk retweeted it on his platform and the end result

(00:20):
is it's gone off like a rocket, not quite as
far as Mars, but up in the air and down
like a damned squib because there's not going to be
another election. It's I find it very, very funny all
the people calling for an election now immediately because Keir
Starmer is so bad. Apparently these are the exact same
people who told us after the breggsit referendum that we

(00:41):
must respect democracy and we had her say and the
people voted and we must listen to the people's voice. Well,
the thing is the people did vote here on July fourth,
and Labor came back in with four hundred and twelve seats.
Keir Starmer is not going to wake up in the
morning people. If we've believe there are two million people
who signed this, because I think there's an awful lot

(01:03):
from what I'm seeing an awful lot of foreign interference
going on here. Kirs Starmer's not going to wake up
tomorrow in Downing Street and say, gosh, we must have
an election before Christmas. Turkeys and Christmas. It's not going
to happen. No too right now, Okay, explain to me
how Boris Johnson blames the obesity crisis on the Church
of England. I thought it was April first when I
saw the papers here this morning, but apparently it's not.

(01:26):
There's an inquiry into Britain's obesity crisis. And let's speak
frank here. There is a problem with weight. A lot
of people are clinically obese in the UK right now.
It has everything to do about diet and exercise and
the lack of leadership we've seen in the last fourteen
years on this. Many of those years, Boris Johnson was

(01:47):
actually the Prime Minister, the one person who could actually
do something about health policy. He's been asked to take
part in this report and along with other previous Prime
ministers and health secretaries, he has given his thoughts. And
the problem he has here, of course, is he fell
out years ago at the Archbishop of Canterbury, the guy
who just quit justin Welby. So he's putting the knife

(02:08):
into Welby and the church. Boris Johnson says that people
in Britain are so desperate for the bread of life,
the bread of Christ. He said that their spiritual needs
are being ignored by the Church of England. And he
said the bread of life is being provided by the
major supermarket Tesco, and in Johnson's words, people are gorging
themselves on it. He points out that when he was

(02:31):
a kid, he said he couldn't say this publicly because
he'd be shot. He said, when he was a kid,
there were no fat soos in his class. And he said,
and this is his word, fatso. By the way, before
anyone jumps on me, he said, nowadays every single kid
is a fatso And he said, you're not allowed to
say it. So he's had a right all rant today.
I mean, if anyone's in need of cheering up and

(02:51):
living on a slightly different universe for five minutes, find
the Johnson interview. It is jaw droppingly bad. Oh. I
didn't realize he was such a good squatter. He's not.
I think he lives up the road from me, and
I think he's bored out with his brain and I
think on a Sunday the only thing to do is
that little church and he's gone along with his family.

(03:12):
He's not massively religious. He would probably quote various different
chunks of the Bible that were hammered into him at
Eaton at some stage when he was ten. But I think,
you know, with respect to his beliefs and everything, the
problem in Britain and Britain's obesity issue Rember. Bearing in
mind this is the guy who nearly died because he
was so fat during COVID. I mean, you couldn't make

(03:32):
this up. The problem comes from consecutive governments taking no
interest whatsoever in what children are eating. And I think
to a point he absolutely has a point that there
are a lot of rather obese kids around nowadays. But
boris Johnson going out and calling everyone a fatso And
to help illustrate the issue, the Times newspaper have put

(03:54):
a picture of Johnson up in his jogging days. It's
not great, but in all honesty, if he had this
level of passion about Britain's obesity crisis while he was
Prime Minister, he could have gone a long way to
solving it. You know, I'm going to google this picture
right now and have a look at him and his
jogging here. Thank you for that. Ended it's not good,
it's cool, No, it really isn't. Wow, it's quite enough

(04:18):
to turn you off. All men, hey da, thanks very much,
really appreciated. Into Brady, UK Correspondent. For more from Hither
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