Another prediction of mine looks like it's going to come true. The Unite unions come out overnight and said

the binstrike in Birmingham is just the beginning because pretty soon there's going to

be bin strikes all over

the country. And I said this about two weeks ago, that this is the kind of thing that brings down

a government, because once the bins don't get emptied, once you've got a situation in Birmingham

where the piles of black bin bags have now reached epic proportions, they're 12 feet deep.

This means that the country does not actually work.

It's like a third world country. It's like something out of Calcutta. It's like something out of

the Philippines. It is an absolute disgrace. And if it starts to spread to other cities in this

country, then I'm afraid the government is going to be under severe pressure to sort it out.

0344-4-49-1,000 is a number.

Let's talk to Benedict,

Conservative Commentator.

Benedict, very good morning to you.

Good morning, Michael.

I mean, I suppose we have to start with a tariff story,

but it looks as though, you know,

despite all the doom and gloom merchants around the world,

and despite people saying,

oh my God, you know, look at all the

money that we're losing off our pensions and look at the crashing of the stock market.

It looks as though, I mean, if I said a von der Leyen's suddenly offering zero tariffs to America,

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