Rod Liddle: UK Correspondent gives an update on the Liverpool car ramming

There are still many questions regarding the man who drove his car into a crowd in Liverpool. 

Fans of Liverpool Football Club had flooded the city's streets to celebrate its Premier League title win. 

Nearly 80 people were injured, and a 53-year-old local was arrested for attempted murder. 

UK Correspondent Rod Liddle told Mike Hosking one theory is that it was an accident. 

He said the driver may have simply followed the ambulance and upon finding themselves surrounded by screaming people, didn’t know what to do. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Two Britain. We go Rod Little, Good.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Morning, Matte, good morning to you major.

Speaker 1 (00:03):
This Liverpool situation which we started funnily enough, it was
unfolding as we were on here the other day. So
we've got the bloke. The bloke seems what to have
been on drugs and a lot of questions around how
he gets to be behind an ambulance and get to
do what he did. Where are we at?

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yeah, I think there are interesting things about this aside
from the fact of course, so we have to remember
the eighty people nearly and there was seventy hundred people
in the latest gont have been injured by this, although
none of them we think now seriously, so the car
did indeed plow into people so at about twenty miles

(00:38):
an hour. It was following an ambulance. The guy was
immediately identified in a break with tradition and break with
what we believe as procedure as a white Britain. This
was to stop people going mad and burning mosques, of course,
and we found out that he's a fifty three year
old company director, businessman, owns a business, has a very

(01:03):
respectable houses, adored locally. Nobody could understand it and I
think the odium which has been bored on Eman, which
of course quite right, is that he'd made a mistake.
This may not be some premeditated attack. It may simply
be he followed the ambulance and found himself surrounded by

(01:24):
screaming people, didn't know what to do, and that the
drugs may well be prescription drugs. These are all guesses,
but you know, it's one of those things where where
life doesn't turn out quite an over as the script
had it very interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Well, it'll be interesting to see how it Unfalds and Court.
Of course I saw a fight. Who have snipers on
the roof and all that sort of thing, And I'm thinking,
I mean, there are questions around, how do you in
a function of that size end up in a car
driving down a street with what happened? How does that happen?

Speaker 2 (01:57):
It looks as if he did what quite a lot
of UK drivers do in our crowded country, which is
noticed that there was a heavy build up of traffic,
wasn't getting anywhere. What's the thing to do? Follow an
ambulance because they'd be to pass through. That's my guess.
I mean, I don't know. Clearly something was a miss
something was a miss somewhere. But you know, we can

(02:22):
do nothing spontaneously in our country as crowded as ours.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Mate, we cannot does he throw fire? Which I followed
with a great deal of interest at the time when
it was pointed out that they'd been warned previously that
the power supplied to the airport was a problem and
they didn't have enough backup in all of those sort
of things. Now we find out the boss was asleep.
How is this possible? And when his phone's on silent, his.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Foe was unsilent and he was asleep. Now, basically the
inquiry is rather exonerated his throw and said that they
were right to have closed the airport because whatever alternative
arrangements that could have been made couldn't have been made
quickly enough, or had it quickly. But the use of

(03:09):
this guy was fast asleep whilst all of this was happening.
It's embarrassing that being said, Mike, you know, I put
my phone on silent a long time ago, nineteen ninety seven,
went to bed. It rang and rang and rang. I
lord it completely woke up in the morning and apparently

(03:31):
was my office telling me the Princess Diana had been.
Oh I missed it. We all do this, don't we.
We all do this.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
I supprise I. It depends on what you're in charge of,
doesn't it.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yes, it does. Yeah, well mine was only a national
broadcasting station, so don't worry about that. But you have
to feel whilst lassy, you have to feel a degree
of sympathy, don't You just have to feel a degree.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Of Exactly, there's some we were talking on the program
Earlia this morning, Marco Rubio and students being banned from
Harvard and universities and cancelations of appointments and you may
or may not even get there. Now we've got this
OFFCOM thing. How broad I mean, how many people are
going to be caught in this nick do you think
eventually on what they may or may not have seen
about America at some point in their life.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Well, I hope lots of them get caught. It's a
wonderful moment of Saud and Floyd for all these appalling people,
particularly off COM, which judicates upon what people can and
cannot say on on air of radio programs such as
the What I Do on a Saturday. And they've already
investigated me, mate, I am down with Donald Trump all

(04:45):
the way on this one. So it's basically the trust
of it is if you are silencing American people who
wish to tell you something, even if it's a load
of rubbish, then then you're not allowed into the country.
I don't think it's going to attact many people, but
it has cheered to be up enormously over the last
twenty four hours.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
You go, well, we'll catch up next week. Nigel Farage,
he was talking about tax breaks for children. He's walking
a very fine line because it's for married people. He's
been divorced twice and he says he's not a great
advertisement for marriage, but making marriage a little bit more
important is the right thing to do, and it gives

(05:27):
children the best chance of success in life, is his argument.
So there's a tax break coming and he, along with
the Labor Party, would lift and this is interesting given
where he comes from politically. He would lift the cap
that they have on two children in Britain. If you
don't know for benefits welfare, you can have two children
and if you want to have more, there is no
more money. He would lift that, as with the Labor Party,

(05:49):
which I find interesting. For more from the mic, asking Breakfast.
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