Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Loadseter's episode 1,206 for Friday, July the 11th, 2025.

I'm your host, Luca, joined today by Bo and special guest David English.

How are you, sir?

I'm very good, how are you?

Very well, very, very well.

Today we're going to be talking all about the issues facing France, or I suppose

the issue that is France. We're also going to be talking about the controversy surrounding

the migrant boat effigy over in Northern Ireland, and then we're going to be discussing

the UK's ongoing financial decline, economic decline. So with that

said, Beau takes away. Right. Maybe we should talk a little bit about the French connection,

the French problem. The French question. Yeah. I mean, one thing to say just before we get into

it, I mean, the headline is that a deal has been struck between the English and the French governments to help smash the gangs and stop the small boats and all that sort of thing.

But before we go into any of that, I just want to make it clear that we are still rivals with France.

And ever since the,

ever since the middle ages,

we've been,

we've been rivals.

Never stopped.

And we still,

it's not like we're,

they're our best friend,

who've got our best interests at heart.

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