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2/2: #FRANCE: Hunting season and the price of everything. Simon Constable, Occitanie

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🗓️ 10 October 2024

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2/2: #FRANCE:  Hunting season and the price of everything. Simon Constable, Occitanie

1920 France

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0:00.0

This is a CBSI on the world. I'm John Batscher with my colleagues Simon Constable

0:08.2

who's in the South France, have French now, and he reports on the climate and the commodities and the wild boars.

0:15.0

However, the English part of him is watching the very entertaining news from London.

0:21.0

Labor has an overwhelming majority. They can do what they want. More

0:25.3

than 400 seats. There are not enough by-elections and not of resignations between

0:30.4

now and kingdom come or labor to lose this advantage. Therefore

0:34.3

Sir Kirst Thormer. They call him the Prime Minister but really he's very close

0:38.8

to a dictator. What he wants he gets, for example he gave away the Chego's archipelago in the Indian Ocean where what why? Who knows?

0:48.0

However, what great fun about labor is that is decided at a circular firing squad and the first victim is Sue Gray.

0:58.0

Simon, Sue Gray, Chief of Staff to Circussed Armour, the new Prime Minister, is now resigned, walking away.

1:07.0

Is this the same Sue Gray, who used to be a civil servant tasked with investigating Boris Johnson, Rascal who was partying during the

1:15.4

the pandemic is that the same sugray or there are two of them thank you this is

1:20.3

exactly the same sugary.

1:22.6

She was a long serving civil servant.

1:26.8

She did investigate Boris Johnson.

1:29.5

I think a lot of people wanted to investigate Boris Johnson. And now she went over to be part of

1:34.7

Kia Starmer's team and unfortunately the optics didn't look good because she was being

1:41.4

paid more as an advisor to Kia Starmer than he was being paid.

1:48.0

Now, I'm sure there are plenty of people say, well, you know, maybe she's smarter than than him maybe she's worth more money but anyway it wasn't it

1:56.0

didn't look good and pretty soon she was booted out the door and and of course they've tried to gloss it over with you know you need to go

2:05.2

because it's making life impossible for kir stammer I actually think kirstammer is making

2:10.4

life impossible for kirstama, not so great.

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