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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Inda Brady, UK correspondent back from hollidays. How are you Inda, good, Heathery? Yeah,
great to speak to you again. Good to be vack.
Yeah you feeling refreshed? We'd you go? Have you got
a ten? So as much as Irish people get a hand. Yes.
We went to a little Canary island for two weeks.
It was about twenty five celsias each day and around
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most days my son came out with me. It was brilliant.
It's just gorgeous sound little fishing village We've been going
to for nearly twenty years and absolutely nothing much changes.
I love it. Oh nice, that sounds awesome. Hey, I
see it was actually a reasonably successful night in terms
of those rallies and riots. Yes, so the police are
very very pleased this morning here across England because all
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of the talk yesterday had been of one hundred planned
protests by the far right, and look we've seen all
the rioting of the last week or so and all
of the arrests and the dreadful, appalling behavior, the racist
abuse of many many minority communities in the UK. People
messaging me yesterday saying should I come to work where
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a hit job is you know, just we've seen the
absolute worst of Britain in the last week and what
we saw last night I think was the best. People
turned out and they turned out to counter protest. So
in all of these towns and cities where they felt
that the far right we're going to turn up and
wreck places and burn businesses and hurt families, pens of
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thousands of people turned out. They lined the mosques, they
stood outside asylum seeking centers, they stood outside immigration lawyers' offices,
and everything passed off peacefully. There were three arrests in
the town of Northampton last night for public disorder and
that was pretty much is so. I think the police
will be hoping that that is now the end of
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all of the awful rioting that we've seen. Do you
think it's going to change the government's approach, the government's
policies at all in terms of asylum seekers and migrants
and so on. No, not at all. I don't think
anything is going to change. I think we've had four
weeks of clere starmer and I think in all honesty,
what people should be thanking their lucky stars right now
is that the UK has a prime minister who has
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a background in law and was the chief prosecutor here.
So there was a message that went out yesterday very
very clearly from the courts and the judges. Three of
the rioters from Southport got seven years jail between them
yesterday one guy got two and a half years for
punching a police officer. And you think back. You know,
in the last few governments, we've had a hedge fund
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manager in Rischie Sunek, We've had Liz Truss, let's just
not even go there, Boris Johnson, a failed journalist. You've
actually got a guy now who's a serious man, who
wants to work for the country and as a background
in prosecuting criminals. You know, this week could have been
far worse had any of the other been in power.
But I don't think anything is going to change. And
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I think, look, there is a conversation to be had
about immigration, but abusing people who are out there working
and paying tax I mean, it broke my heart yesterday
to see people posting messages on social media, doctors and
nurses saying we're thinking about leaving this country and why
because they've had racist abuse off the scale. And this
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is I'm just going to say it. Heather this has
been people have been empowered to speak in such racist
fashion because of some of the poor leadership and really
poor politicians and journalists who've been peddling an awful lot
of this racism in the last decade. Interesting. Heyinda, thank you,
it's really nice to have you back. I've actually missed
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having you on here. It's into Brady now UK correspondent.
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