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🗓️ 18 February 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Outgoing German chancellor Olaf Scholz describes Starmer and his rushed Ukraine plans as irritating. Harry Cole continues The Sun's DOGE campaign against the UK's government waste whilst Mike has a right old ding-dong with Chris Daw KC who's suffering from a very advanced form of Trump derangement syndrome.
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0:00.0 | A bit of Blacksies here, full of common sense, as you might expect. |
0:10.6 | Let's talk Peter, shall we, about the front page of the sun, which is day two of Harry |
0:16.7 | Cole's exposure of all the sort of ridiculous amounts of money that are handed out for various |
0:21.6 | different projects around the world. These are more at home today. Yesterday we had 15 billion |
0:26.9 | pounds worth of stuff that was going to places like the Congo in Iraq. Today we've got |
0:31.2 | eight billion pounds a year earmarked for UK research and innovation grants. This is the UKRI, |
0:37.4 | which I must confess I didn't know anything about. |
0:39.3 | But amongst the things that they're giving away, the University of Exeter was awarded 247,000 quid for a project on queer nature's animals, environment and modern sexual knowledge production. |
0:50.3 | The UKRI also funds private sector research software firm Clucivity, |
0:56.5 | $214,000 quid to them for AI robots to help make companies more accessible to non-binary |
1:02.0 | and LGBT plus minorities. This is a joke, isn't it? |
1:06.8 | Elon, do you fancy popping over and having a look at our wastage? |
1:11.5 | I mean, for God's sake. |
1:13.2 | But yet again, this is the Donald Trump effect. |
1:16.7 | Yeah. |
1:17.1 | Because he's come in, him and his administration are going, |
1:20.6 | let's look at the nonsense expenditure. |
1:23.5 | Let's cut waste. |
1:25.0 | Let's do it. |
1:26.1 | Hats off to Harry Cole for picking up the ball and running with it in the sun |
1:30.1 | and identifying all this utter tripe, this waste, wicked waste of money. |
1:37.6 | And it is a wicked waste of money. |
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