Global Citizens
London Calling
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4.4 • 975 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is London Calling. |
| 0:04.0 | I do think that it's important to be cautious in this. |
| 0:07.0 | We do want to do some opening up on May the 17th, but I don't think that the people of |
| 0:16.2 | this country want to see an influx of disease from anywhere else. I certainly don't. |
| 0:22.4 | And we've got to be very very tough |
| 0:24.7 | and we've got to be as cautious as we can whilst we continue to open up. |
| 0:31.6 | Welcome to London calling with me James Stalingpole and my very good friend Mr. |
| 0:36.8 | Toby Young. Tops, how have you enjoyed your bank holiday which I think Americans |
| 0:41.4 | don't have do they? they don't have holidays at all |
| 0:44.9 | No, they do I think isn't there a big holiday at the beginning of May in America I think there is isn't it labor is |
| 0:50.4 | Is there and it's especially the beginning of the summer. |
| 0:53.2 | That's one of the two holidays that Americans are because they're allowed Labor Day and |
| 0:56.7 | Thanksgiving and the rest of the year they just work, don't they? |
| 1:01.2 | There's Memorial Day. |
| 1:02.2 | So they have three days. I think they have as |
| 1:04.0 | as memorial day three days have as many holidays as asked to be old. |
| 1:06.0 | They don't have when you work for an American company they give you about like a |
| 1:11.2 | weeks holiday or two weeks holiday they're not as generous |
| 1:14.0 | they look at the statutory 20 days like we do I think they do we're just kind of you know it's always |
| 1:20.2 | maniana and was having siesta and yeah well that's certainly true of the French |
| 1:25.1 | and the Spanish but I don't think they think of that think of the British in that same |
| 1:28.9 | category do they I don't know maybe they do but it's it's been pretty miserable in London I don't know it's been But it's been pretty miserable in London. I don't know what it's been like where you are, but it's pouring with rain. It's quite cold. I can hear the people next door heroically trying to have a bar and sort of sheltering under a kind of gazebo. |
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