1 00:00:07,941 --> 00:00:14,948 ♪ ♪ 2 00:00:21,922 --> 00:00:27,361 ♪ ♪ 3 00:00:27,427 --> 00:00:30,364 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 4 00:00:30,430 --> 00:00:31,865 >> John: WELCOME, WELCOME 5 00:00:31,932 --> 00:00:33,367 WELCOME TO "LAST WEEK TONIGHT"! 6 00:00:33,433 --> 00:00:34,368 I'M JOHN OLIVER, THANK YOU SO 7 00:00:34,434 --> 00:00:35,369 MUCH FOR JOINING US. 8 00:00:35,435 --> 00:00:36,870 IT HAS BEEN A BUSY WEEK! 9 00:00:36,937 --> 00:00:37,871 ELON MUSK BECAME THE WORLD'S 10 00:00:37,938 --> 00:00:39,373 FIRST TRILLIONAIRE, TRUMP TURNED 11 00:00:39,439 --> 00:00:40,874 80 AND CELEBRATED BY WATCHING 12 00:00:40,941 --> 00:00:43,377 MEN FIGHT ON HIS LAWN, AND THE 13 00:00:43,443 --> 00:00:45,379 TEXAS REPUBLICAN PARTY HELD 14 00:00:45,445 --> 00:00:46,880 THEIR CONVENTION, AND BROUGHT A 15 00:00:46,947 --> 00:00:49,383 LIVE ELEPHANT ALONG, ONLY FOR 16 00:00:49,449 --> 00:00:56,456 THIS TO HAPPEN. 17 00:00:56,957 --> 00:01:00,394 ♪ ♪ 18 00:01:00,460 --> 00:01:02,896 [LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE] 19 00:01:02,963 --> 00:01:06,900 GOOD ELEPHANT. 20 00:01:06,967 --> 00:01:08,001 WELL DONE. 21 00:01:08,068 --> 00:01:08,902 SET ASIDE THAT'S BASICALLY JUST 22 00:01:08,969 --> 00:01:10,404 A REAL-LIFE EDITORIAL CARTOON 23 00:01:10,470 --> 00:01:11,905 THAT'S SO MUCH MORE PISS THAN I 24 00:01:11,972 --> 00:01:12,906 THOUGHT AN ELEPHANT COULD 25 00:01:12,973 --> 00:01:14,408 PRODUCE. 26 00:01:14,474 --> 00:01:15,909 AND I WANT TO THANK THIS 27 00:01:15,976 --> 00:01:16,910 CREATURE WITH A BLADDER THE SIZE 28 00:01:16,977 --> 00:01:18,912 OF A SUBARU FOR PROVING ME WRONG 29 00:01:18,979 --> 00:01:22,416 AT THE BEST POSSIBLE TIME. 30 00:01:22,482 --> 00:01:23,417 MEANWHILE, THE IRAN WAR MAY'VE 31 00:01:23,483 --> 00:01:24,918 POTENTIALLY ENTERED ITS END 32 00:01:24,985 --> 00:01:25,919 STAGES, WITH TRUMP CLAIMING ALL 33 00:01:25,986 --> 00:01:27,920 WEEK THAT A PEACE DEAL WAS 34 00:01:27,988 --> 00:01:29,423 IMMINENT -- SOMETHING SLIGHTLY 35 00:01:29,489 --> 00:01:30,424 UNDERCUT BY THE FACT HE'D 36 00:01:30,490 --> 00:01:32,426 PREVIOUSLY SAID THAT AT LEAST 38 37 00:01:32,491 --> 00:01:33,926 TIMES. 38 00:01:33,994 --> 00:01:35,429 ALSO, THERE ARE REAL QUESTIONS 39 00:01:35,495 --> 00:01:36,430 ABOUT WHAT THE DEAL MIGHT 40 00:01:36,496 --> 00:01:37,931 CONTAIN, OR HOW LONG IT MIGHT 41 00:01:37,997 --> 00:01:40,434 HOLD, GIVEN HOW CHAOTIC THE WEEK 42 00:01:40,500 --> 00:01:42,936 WAS LEADING UP TO IT. 43 00:01:43,003 --> 00:01:43,937 >> OVER THE PAST 24 HOURS 44 00:01:44,003 --> 00:01:45,439 PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS GONE FROM 45 00:01:45,505 --> 00:01:46,940 THREATENING STRIKES TO CALLING 46 00:01:47,007 --> 00:01:47,941 OFF STRIKES TO ONCE AGAIN 47 00:01:48,008 --> 00:01:49,443 CLAIMING A PEACE DEAL IS WITHIN 48 00:01:49,509 --> 00:01:50,944 REACH. 49 00:01:51,011 --> 00:01:51,945 >> I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HEARD 50 00:01:52,012 --> 00:01:53,947 BUT WE ENDED THE WAR WITH IRAN 51 00:01:54,014 --> 00:01:55,449 TODAY. 52 00:01:55,515 --> 00:01:56,450 THE PRESIDENT SAYS AS PART OF 53 00:01:56,515 --> 00:01:57,451 THE AGREEMENT THE STRAIT OF 54 00:01:57,517 --> 00:01:58,452 HORMUZ WOULD REOPEN. 55 00:01:58,518 --> 00:01:59,953 BUT THE FUTURE OF IRAN'S NUCLEAR 56 00:02:00,020 --> 00:02:01,455 PROGRAM, ONE OF HIS BIGGEST 57 00:02:01,521 --> 00:02:02,456 REASONS FOR STARTING THE WAR IN 58 00:02:02,522 --> 00:02:03,457 THE FIRST PLACE, WOULD BE 59 00:02:03,523 --> 00:02:04,958 DISCUSSED IN THE WEEKS TO 60 00:02:05,025 --> 00:02:06,460 FOLLOW. 61 00:02:06,526 --> 00:02:07,461 >> SO IS THIS JUST ESSENTIALLY 62 00:02:07,527 --> 00:02:08,961 SETTING THE STAGE FOR DEEPER 63 00:02:09,029 --> 00:02:10,464 TALKS ON NUCLEAR? 64 00:02:10,530 --> 00:02:11,465 >> IT'S A VERY STRONG MEMORANDUM 65 00:02:11,531 --> 00:02:12,966 OF UNDERSTANDING THAT IS A 66 00:02:13,033 --> 00:02:14,968 LITTLE CONCEPTUAL. 67 00:02:15,035 --> 00:02:15,969 >> John: WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU 68 00:02:16,036 --> 00:02:18,472 TALKING ABOUT? 69 00:02:18,538 --> 00:02:19,473 "IT'S A VERY STRONG MEMORANDUM 70 00:02:19,539 --> 00:02:20,474 OF UNDERSTANDING THAT IS A 71 00:02:20,540 --> 00:02:22,476 LITTLE CONCEPTUAL?" 72 00:02:22,542 --> 00:02:23,477 IT'S NOT IDEAL TO BE TALKING 73 00:02:23,543 --> 00:02:24,478 ABOUT SOMETHING AS IMPORTANT AS 74 00:02:24,544 --> 00:02:25,478 THIS, WHILE SOUNDING LIKE AN ART 75 00:02:25,545 --> 00:02:26,980 HISTORY MAJOR DESCRIBING A 76 00:02:27,047 --> 00:02:30,484 ROTHKO WHILE HAVING A STROKE. 77 00:02:30,550 --> 00:02:31,985 AND LOOK, WE'RE TAPING THIS ON 78 00:02:32,052 --> 00:02:33,487 SATURDAY, SO WHO KNOWS WHAT WILL 79 00:02:33,553 --> 00:02:34,488 HAVE HAPPENED BY THE TIME YOU 80 00:02:34,554 --> 00:02:38,492 SEE THIS? 81 00:02:38,558 --> 00:02:39,493 BUT I WILL SAY -- IRAN'S 82 00:02:39,559 --> 00:02:40,494 MILITARY FORCE DENIED THAT IRAN 83 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:41,495 WOULD SIGN AN AGREEMENT WITH THE 84 00:02:41,561 --> 00:02:42,496 UNITED STATES ON SUNDAY, AND 85 00:02:42,562 --> 00:02:43,497 SUGGESTED THAT TRUMP WAS ONLY 86 00:02:43,563 --> 00:02:44,498 PUSHING IT SO HARD BECAUSE HE 87 00:02:44,564 --> 00:02:45,499 WANTED A DEAL TO COINCIDE WITH 88 00:02:45,565 --> 00:02:47,000 HIS BIRTHDAY. 89 00:02:47,067 --> 00:02:48,502 WHICH, I WILL SAY -- WOULDN'T BE 90 00:02:48,567 --> 00:02:51,004 THE FIRST TIME HE EXPLOITED IRAN 91 00:02:51,071 --> 00:02:52,506 FOR PERSONAL REASONS, GIVEN HE'D 92 00:02:52,572 --> 00:02:54,007 PREVIOUSLY SUGGESTED THAT 93 00:02:54,074 --> 00:02:55,008 ONGOING NEGOTIATIONS WERE THE 94 00:02:55,075 --> 00:02:56,510 REASON HE COULDN'T ATTEND 95 00:02:56,576 --> 00:02:58,512 DON JR.'S WEDDING, SAYING, IT'S 96 00:02:58,578 --> 00:03:01,515 NOT GOOD TIMING FOR ME, "I HAVE 97 00:03:01,581 --> 00:03:03,517 A THING CALLED IRAN." 98 00:03:03,583 --> 00:03:05,018 WHICH IS INCREDIBLE. 99 00:03:05,085 --> 00:03:07,020 "PRESIDENT DAD MISSED SON'S 100 00:03:07,087 --> 00:03:09,022 WEDDING FOR A PEACE DEAL HE 101 00:03:09,089 --> 00:03:10,524 DIDN'T GET" ISN'T BREAKING 102 00:03:10,590 --> 00:03:12,526 HEMINGWAY RECORDS FOR SHORTEST 103 00:03:12,592 --> 00:03:14,027 SAD STORY, BUT IT MIGHT BE THE 104 00:03:14,094 --> 00:03:20,033 DUMBEST. 105 00:03:20,100 --> 00:03:21,535 ON TOP OF ALL OF THIS THE 106 00:03:21,601 --> 00:03:22,703 WORLD CUP BEGAN THIS WEEK WITH 107 00:03:22,769 --> 00:03:24,037 SPECTACULAR OPENING CEREMONIES 108 00:03:24,103 --> 00:03:25,038 IN THE THREE HOST COUNTRIES. 109 00:03:25,105 --> 00:03:26,039 MEXICO WENT WITH SHAKIRA AND 110 00:03:26,106 --> 00:03:27,040 SALMA HAYEK, CANADA HAD 111 00:03:27,107 --> 00:03:29,042 MICHAEL BUBLE AND 112 00:03:29,109 --> 00:03:30,043 ALANIS MORISSETTE, WHILE AMERICA 113 00:03:30,110 --> 00:03:31,545 FOR SOME REASON OPTED FOR KATY 114 00:03:31,611 --> 00:03:35,048 PERRY, DRESSED LIKE A LAMPSHADE. 115 00:03:35,115 --> 00:03:36,049 WITH THE U.S. AS ONE OF THIS 116 00:03:36,116 --> 00:03:37,551 YEAR'S HOSTS, VISITORS FROM 117 00:03:37,617 --> 00:03:39,052 AROUND THE WORLD HAVE BEEN 118 00:03:39,119 --> 00:03:40,554 MARVELING AT WHAT THIS COUNTRY 119 00:03:40,620 --> 00:03:41,555 HAS TO OFFER, AND IT'S BEEN FUN 120 00:03:41,621 --> 00:03:43,055 TO SEE AMERICA THROUGH THEIR 121 00:03:43,123 --> 00:03:44,558 EYES. 122 00:03:44,624 --> 00:03:45,559 A SWEDISH VISITOR POSTED "WHY 123 00:03:45,625 --> 00:03:49,563 DID NO ONE TELL ME RANCH SAUCE 124 00:03:49,629 --> 00:03:50,564 IS LIKE CRACK?," A GERMAN NAMED 125 00:03:50,630 --> 00:03:52,566 FREDDY WENT VIRAL WITH POSTS 126 00:03:52,632 --> 00:03:54,067 LIKE THIS ONE, FROM OUTSIDE A 127 00:03:54,134 --> 00:03:55,067 BUC-EE'S, "DUDE LMAO THIS IS A 128 00:03:55,135 --> 00:03:58,071 GAS STATION." 129 00:03:58,138 --> 00:03:59,072 AND IN BOSTON, A BUNCH OF 130 00:03:59,139 --> 00:04:00,073 SCOTTISH FANS FOUND THE INFAMOUS 131 00:04:00,140 --> 00:04:01,575 COP SLIDE AND SENT A BAGPIPER 132 00:04:01,641 --> 00:04:04,578 DOWN IT. 133 00:04:04,644 --> 00:04:06,580 BUT UNFORTUNATELY, NOT 134 00:04:06,646 --> 00:04:08,081 EVERYONE'S BEEN ABLE TO ENJOY 135 00:04:08,148 --> 00:04:10,083 THE WONDERS OF AMERICA. 136 00:04:10,150 --> 00:04:11,084 FANS FROM MORE THAN A QUARTER OF 137 00:04:11,151 --> 00:04:12,586 THE COUNTRIES TAKING PART IN THE 138 00:04:12,652 --> 00:04:13,587 WORLD CUP ARE FACING TRAVEL 139 00:04:13,653 --> 00:04:15,088 BANS, TIGHTER RESTRICTIONS, OR 140 00:04:15,155 --> 00:04:16,589 HIGH VISA REJECTION RATES. 141 00:04:16,656 --> 00:04:18,091 AND WHEN TRUMP WAS ASKED ABOUT 142 00:04:18,158 --> 00:04:19,593 THAT, HIS ANSWER WAS PRETTY 143 00:04:19,659 --> 00:04:22,095 TELLING. 144 00:04:22,162 --> 00:04:22,729 >> SOME PEOPLE ARE AFRAID THAT 145 00:04:22,796 --> 00:04:23,597 IT'S GOING TO BE HARDER AND 146 00:04:23,663 --> 00:04:24,598 HARDER TO GET VISAS TO COME FROM 147 00:04:24,664 --> 00:04:25,599 OUTSIDE. 148 00:04:25,665 --> 00:04:26,600 CAN YOU REASSURE THEM -- 149 00:04:26,666 --> 00:04:28,101 >> WE'RE WORKING ON IT VERY 150 00:04:28,168 --> 00:04:29,603 CLOSELY TO MAKE SURE THAT THE 151 00:04:29,669 --> 00:04:30,604 RIGHT PEOPLE COME INTO OUR 152 00:04:30,670 --> 00:04:31,605 COUNTRY. 153 00:04:31,671 --> 00:04:32,606 >> John: OH, "THE RIGHT PEOPLE." 154 00:04:32,672 --> 00:04:34,107 I'LL BE HONEST, I'M NOT SURE I 155 00:04:34,174 --> 00:04:35,609 TRUST TRUMP'S JUDGMENT ON WHO 156 00:04:35,675 --> 00:04:37,611 THE RIGHT PEOPLE ARE, ANY MORE 157 00:04:37,677 --> 00:04:39,112 THAN I TRUST HIS ABILITY TO LOOK 158 00:04:39,179 --> 00:04:40,113 A CIVIL WAR REENACTMENT AND 159 00:04:40,180 --> 00:04:43,617 POINT AT THE GOOD GUYS. 160 00:04:43,683 --> 00:04:44,618 AND IT'S NOT JUST FANS. 161 00:04:44,683 --> 00:04:46,119 IRAQ'S STAR PLAYER WAS HELD FOR 162 00:04:46,186 --> 00:04:47,621 ALMOST SEVEN HOURS AND HAD HIS 163 00:04:47,687 --> 00:04:48,622 PHONE INSPECTED BEFORE BEING 164 00:04:48,688 --> 00:04:49,623 ALLOWED ENTRY. 165 00:04:49,689 --> 00:04:50,624 IRAN'S NATIONAL TEAM HAD TO 166 00:04:50,690 --> 00:04:52,125 RELOCATE THEIR TRAINING CAMP 167 00:04:52,192 --> 00:04:53,627 FROM THE U.S. TO MEXICO, IN 168 00:04:53,693 --> 00:04:55,128 ORDER TO RESOLVE POTENTIAL VISA 169 00:04:55,195 --> 00:04:57,130 ISSUES, AND ONE REFEREE FROM 170 00:04:57,197 --> 00:04:58,131 SOMALIA WAS ACTUALLY DENIED 171 00:04:58,198 --> 00:05:00,133 ENTRY AT MIAMI AIRPORT AND 172 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:02,135 FORCED TO FLY BACK HOME. 173 00:05:02,202 --> 00:05:03,136 ONE REPORTER ACTUALLY CAUGHT UP 174 00:05:03,203 --> 00:05:04,638 WITH THE HEAD OF THE WHITE HOUSE 175 00:05:04,704 --> 00:05:06,139 TASK FORCE ON THE WORLD CUP 176 00:05:06,206 --> 00:05:07,641 ANDREW GIULIANI -- YES 177 00:05:07,707 --> 00:05:10,644 RELATION -- AND POINTED OUT THE 178 00:05:10,710 --> 00:05:13,146 OBVIOUS PATTERN HERE. 179 00:05:13,213 --> 00:05:14,147 >> GIVEN THE PEOPLE HAVING 180 00:05:14,214 --> 00:05:15,649 TROUBLE ACCESSING THIS 181 00:05:15,715 --> 00:05:16,650 TOURNAMENT AND THEIR SKIN 182 00:05:16,716 --> 00:05:17,651 COLOR -- 183 00:05:17,717 --> 00:05:19,152 >> HOW SO? 184 00:05:19,219 --> 00:05:20,153 >> IS THIS SHAPING UP AS A 185 00:05:20,220 --> 00:05:22,656 RACIST WORLD CUP? 186 00:05:22,722 --> 00:05:23,323 >> FIRST OFF, FIRST OFF, EXPLAIN 187 00:05:23,390 --> 00:05:24,658 YOUR QUESTION BECAUSE I THINK 188 00:05:24,724 --> 00:05:25,659 THE PREMISE IS FALSE. 189 00:05:25,725 --> 00:05:27,160 >> SWISS STRIKER BREELE EMBOLO 190 00:05:27,227 --> 00:05:29,162 CAMEROON BORN, HE HAD TROUBLE 191 00:05:29,229 --> 00:05:30,664 GETTING INTO THE COUNTRY. 192 00:05:30,730 --> 00:05:33,166 IRAQI STRIKER IMAN HUSSEIN WAS 193 00:05:33,233 --> 00:05:36,169 DETAINED FOR SEVEN HOURS -- 194 00:05:36,236 --> 00:05:37,170 >> ARE, ARE, ARE, ARE IN THE 195 00:05:37,237 --> 00:05:38,171 COUNTRY? 196 00:05:38,238 --> 00:05:39,172 THEY'RE IN THE COUNTRY? 197 00:05:39,239 --> 00:05:39,673 >> THEY WERE DETAINED. 198 00:05:39,739 --> 00:05:40,240 >> DON'T YOU THINK THE MOST 199 00:05:40,307 --> 00:05:41,174 IMPORTANT THING ABOUT A 200 00:05:41,241 --> 00:05:42,175 TOURNAMENT IS MAKING SURE THAT 201 00:05:42,242 --> 00:05:43,176 THOSE FANS THAT COME TO THE 202 00:05:43,243 --> 00:05:44,177 UNITED STATES, ALL THOSE 203 00:05:44,244 --> 00:05:45,178 AMERICANS THAT ARE GONNA ENJOY 204 00:05:45,245 --> 00:05:46,680 THIS TOURNAMENT, THAT THEY'RE 205 00:05:46,746 --> 00:05:47,681 SAFE AND SECURE. 206 00:05:47,747 --> 00:05:48,682 THAT'S WHAT I ULTIMATELY THINK 207 00:05:48,748 --> 00:05:50,183 IS IMPORTANT. WE'RE GOING TO 208 00:05:50,250 --> 00:05:51,685 CONTINUE TO FOCUS ON THAT -- 209 00:05:51,751 --> 00:05:53,687 >> WAS A SOMALIAN REFEREE NOT 210 00:05:53,753 --> 00:05:55,689 ALLOWED INTO THE COUNTRY BECAUSE 211 00:05:55,755 --> 00:05:57,691 DONALD TRUMP HAS A PROBLEM WITH 212 00:05:57,757 --> 00:05:59,693 SOMALIA? 213 00:05:59,759 --> 00:06:02,195 >> John: THAT'S PRETTY DAMNING 214 00:06:02,262 --> 00:06:03,697 ALTHOUGH I "DO" LOVE THE 215 00:06:03,763 --> 00:06:04,698 IMMEDIATE WHIPLASH OF "EXPLAIN 216 00:06:04,764 --> 00:06:05,699 YOUR QUESTION, YOUR PREMISE IS 217 00:06:05,765 --> 00:06:06,700 FALSE" TO "OH, I UNDERSTAND THE 218 00:06:06,766 --> 00:06:07,701 QUESTION NOW, EXCUSE ME I HAVE 219 00:06:07,767 --> 00:06:10,704 TO LEAVE." 220 00:06:10,770 --> 00:06:11,705 BUT I GUESS YOU'D EXPECT NOTHING 221 00:06:11,771 --> 00:06:13,206 LESS FROM ANDREW GIULIANI -- NOT 222 00:06:13,273 --> 00:06:14,207 JUST RUDY'S SON, BUT A GUY WITH 223 00:06:14,274 --> 00:06:17,210 TRULY ABYSMAL VIBES. 224 00:06:17,277 --> 00:06:18,712 HE LOOKS LIKE RON HOWARD 225 00:06:18,778 --> 00:06:20,213 DROWNED. 226 00:06:20,280 --> 00:06:22,215 HE LOOKS LIKE HE GOT KICKED OFF 227 00:06:22,282 --> 00:06:23,717 DUKE'S GOLF TEAM FOR BEING TOO 228 00:06:23,783 --> 00:06:24,718 MUCH OF A DICK... 229 00:06:24,784 --> 00:06:25,719 BUT THAT'S ONLY BECAUSE HE 230 00:06:25,785 --> 00:06:27,220 ACTUALLY DID! 231 00:06:27,287 --> 00:06:28,221 THAT'S A REAL THING THAT 232 00:06:28,288 --> 00:06:29,723 HAPPENED! 233 00:06:29,789 --> 00:06:31,224 THAT MAN IS EXACTLY WHO YOU 234 00:06:31,291 --> 00:06:33,226 THINK HE IS. 235 00:06:33,293 --> 00:06:34,728 MEANWHILE, GIANNI INFANTINO, THE 236 00:06:34,794 --> 00:06:36,229 HEAD OF FIFA AND NOT -- AS YOU 237 00:06:36,296 --> 00:06:37,230 MIGHT'VE GUESSED BY HIS NAME AND 238 00:06:37,297 --> 00:06:38,231 FACE -- ITALY'S VERSION OF 239 00:06:38,298 --> 00:06:40,734 "THE BOSS BABY," HAS CLAIMED 240 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:42,736 THAT "THE WORLD IS WELCOME IN 241 00:06:42,802 --> 00:06:44,237 AMERICA," VERY MUCH A "CITATION 242 00:06:44,304 --> 00:06:46,239 NEEDED" SORT OF A STATEMENT. 243 00:06:46,306 --> 00:06:47,240 AND WHEN A REPORTER PRESSED 244 00:06:47,307 --> 00:06:48,241 INFANTINO THIS WEEK ON THE 245 00:06:48,308 --> 00:06:49,242 PROBLEMS PEOPLE WERE 246 00:06:49,308 --> 00:06:50,744 ENCOUNTERING, HIS RESPONSE WAS 247 00:06:50,810 --> 00:06:52,746 MADDENING. 248 00:06:52,812 --> 00:06:56,249 >> CHILL, RELAX. 249 00:06:56,316 --> 00:06:57,751 WE WORK ON EVERYTHING, WE TRY TO 250 00:06:57,817 --> 00:06:59,753 SOLVE EVERYTHING. 251 00:06:59,819 --> 00:07:01,755 >> YOU SAY WE SHOULD RELAX ABOUT 252 00:07:01,821 --> 00:07:03,256 THESE SITUATIONS. 253 00:07:03,323 --> 00:07:04,257 BUT YOU'VE GOT ONE OF THE 254 00:07:04,324 --> 00:07:05,759 WORLD'S TOP REFEREES TOLD HE 255 00:07:05,825 --> 00:07:08,261 CAN'T ENTER THE UNITED STATES 256 00:07:08,328 --> 00:07:09,763 SENT BACK HOME, ACCUSED OF 257 00:07:09,829 --> 00:07:12,265 HAVING LINKS WITH SUSPECTED 258 00:07:12,332 --> 00:07:13,767 TERROR ORGANIZATIONS. 259 00:07:13,833 --> 00:07:14,768 ARE YOU EMBARRASSED THEREFORE BY 260 00:07:14,834 --> 00:07:16,770 WHAT HAS ACTUALLY COME TO PASS? 261 00:07:16,836 --> 00:07:17,771 AND HAVE YOU -- DO YOU HAVE TO 262 00:07:17,837 --> 00:07:18,772 ACCEPT THAT YOU'VE LOST SOME 263 00:07:18,838 --> 00:07:20,774 CONTROL OF YOUR OWN TOURNAMENT 264 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:21,274 HERE? 265 00:07:21,341 --> 00:07:23,276 >> WHEN I SAY TO "CHILL", I 266 00:07:23,343 --> 00:07:24,277 DON'T MEAN TO CHILL AND DO 267 00:07:24,344 --> 00:07:26,279 NOTHING. 268 00:07:26,346 --> 00:07:29,282 I MEAN, TO TRUST US. 269 00:07:29,349 --> 00:07:31,785 >> John: LOOK, THERE ARE TIMES 270 00:07:31,851 --> 00:07:33,286 WHEN "NO WORRIES" IS A GOOD 271 00:07:33,353 --> 00:07:34,287 ATTITUDE. 272 00:07:34,354 --> 00:07:35,288 LIKE WHEN YOU'RE MEDITATING, OR 273 00:07:35,355 --> 00:07:36,790 WHEN YOUR FATHER'S BEEN MURDERED 274 00:07:36,856 --> 00:07:37,791 BY YOUR UNCLE, YOU FLED YOUR 275 00:07:37,857 --> 00:07:39,292 HOME AND NOW YOU'RE MOVING IN 276 00:07:39,359 --> 00:07:40,293 WITH YOUR FRIENDLY GAY 277 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:40,794 NEIGHBORS. 278 00:07:40,860 --> 00:07:42,295 BUT WHEN TRUMP'S USING THE WORLD 279 00:07:42,362 --> 00:07:43,797 CUP AS AN EXCUSE TO PUNISH 280 00:07:43,863 --> 00:07:45,298 SPECIFIC GROUPS OF PEOPLE 281 00:07:45,365 --> 00:07:46,299 TELLING EVERYONE TO "CHILL" 282 00:07:46,366 --> 00:07:47,801 WON'T CUT IT. 283 00:07:47,867 --> 00:07:49,302 AND AS FOR "TRUST FIFA," NO 284 00:07:49,369 --> 00:07:52,806 FUCKING WAY. 285 00:07:52,872 --> 00:07:54,808 WE'VE DONE MULTIPLE STORIES ON 286 00:07:54,874 --> 00:07:56,810 HOW TERRIBLE THEY ARE. 287 00:07:56,876 --> 00:07:58,311 I CAN BARELY THINK OF A LESS 288 00:07:58,378 --> 00:07:59,813 ETHICAL ORGANIZATION -- AND I'M 289 00:07:59,879 --> 00:08:00,814 VERY MUCH INCLUDING COMPANIES 290 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:02,816 LIKE "LET'S KILL SOME WILDLIFE!" 291 00:08:02,882 --> 00:08:04,317 "GIVE US YOUR BLOOD, IT'S FINE 292 00:08:04,384 --> 00:08:06,319 WE SWEAR," "BOOMER BRAINROT 293 00:08:06,386 --> 00:08:07,821 FEATURING MYANMAR GENOCIDE" AND 294 00:08:07,887 --> 00:08:09,322 "OOPS, WE DIDN'T PUT THE WINGS 295 00:08:09,389 --> 00:08:11,324 ON RIGHT." 296 00:08:11,391 --> 00:08:12,325 AND IT'S ESPECIALLY HARD TO 297 00:08:12,392 --> 00:08:13,827 TRUST FIFA TO STAND UP TO TRUMP 298 00:08:13,893 --> 00:08:15,829 GIVEN INFANTINO'S SUCKED UP TO 299 00:08:15,895 --> 00:08:17,831 HIM IN SO MANY WAYS -- HE'S 300 00:08:17,897 --> 00:08:19,332 ACTUALLY MADE MORE PUBLIC 301 00:08:19,399 --> 00:08:20,834 APPEARANCES IN THE OVAL OFFICE 302 00:08:20,900 --> 00:08:23,336 DURING TRUMP'S SECOND TERM THAN 303 00:08:23,403 --> 00:08:25,338 ANY WORLD POLITICAL LEADER. 304 00:08:25,405 --> 00:08:26,840 AND HE OPENED AN OFFICE IN TRUMP 305 00:08:26,906 --> 00:08:27,841 TOWER IN MANHATTAN, MEANING FIFA 306 00:08:27,907 --> 00:08:29,342 ARE PAYING RENT TO THE TRUMP 307 00:08:29,409 --> 00:08:30,343 FAMILY BUSINESS. 308 00:08:30,410 --> 00:08:31,845 ALSO, FIFA NOT ONLY MOVED THE 309 00:08:31,911 --> 00:08:32,846 WORLD CUP DRAW AWAY FROM LAS 310 00:08:32,912 --> 00:08:34,847 VEGAS TO THE KENNEDY CENTER. 311 00:08:34,914 --> 00:08:36,850 REMEMBER: THEY HAD THE GALL TO 312 00:08:36,915 --> 00:08:39,352 PRESENT TRUMP WITH THE INAUGURAL 313 00:08:39,419 --> 00:08:42,856 "FIFA PEACE PRIZE" DURING IT. 314 00:08:42,922 --> 00:08:44,357 >> MR. PRESIDENT, THIS IS YOUR 315 00:08:44,424 --> 00:08:48,361 PRIZE, THIS IS YOUR PEACE PRIZE. 316 00:08:48,428 --> 00:08:52,365 THERE IS ALSO A BEAUTIFUL MEDAL 317 00:08:52,432 --> 00:08:54,367 FOR YOU THAT YOU CAN WEAR 318 00:08:54,434 --> 00:08:59,372 EVERYWHERE YOU WANT TO GO. 319 00:08:59,439 --> 00:09:00,373 >> John: THAT'S SO MUCH 320 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:02,375 WEIRDNESS IN ONE 12 SECOND CLIP. 321 00:09:02,442 --> 00:09:03,877 FIRST, INFANTINO SAYING "IT'S A 322 00:09:03,943 --> 00:09:05,378 BEAUTIFUL MEDAL YOU CAN WEAR 323 00:09:05,445 --> 00:09:07,881 EVERYWHERE YOU WANT TO GO," 324 00:09:07,947 --> 00:09:09,883 SOUNDS LIKE HE'S SELLING IT ON 325 00:09:09,949 --> 00:09:11,885 THE HOME SHOPPING NETWORK. 326 00:09:11,951 --> 00:09:12,485 THEN THERE'S TRUMP'S EXCITED 327 00:09:12,552 --> 00:09:14,387 REACTION. 328 00:09:14,454 --> 00:09:15,388 HE SAW THAT MEDAL, WENT 329 00:09:15,455 --> 00:09:16,890 "OOOOOOH" LIKE A MONKEY SPOTTING 330 00:09:16,956 --> 00:09:18,892 A BANANA, THEN YOINKED IT OUT OF 331 00:09:18,958 --> 00:09:20,894 THE BOX LIKE THE HAMBURGLAR. 332 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:21,895 HE LOOKS LIKE A CARTOON CAT 333 00:09:21,961 --> 00:09:24,397 PULLING A FISHBONE OUT OF A 334 00:09:24,464 --> 00:09:25,398 GARBAGE CAN. 335 00:09:25,465 --> 00:09:26,399 THAT'D BE GROSS ENOUGH, BUT 336 00:09:26,466 --> 00:09:27,400 INFANTINO STILL WASN'T DONE 337 00:09:27,467 --> 00:09:28,401 PANDERING, BECAUSE HE ALSO -- 338 00:09:28,468 --> 00:09:29,402 AND THIS IS TRUE -- HIRED THE 339 00:09:29,469 --> 00:09:30,904 VILLAGE PEOPLE TO PLAY "YMCA" 340 00:09:30,970 --> 00:09:33,406 FOR HIM AT THAT EVENT, SO HE 341 00:09:33,473 --> 00:09:35,408 COULD DANCE TO HIS FAVORITE 342 00:09:35,475 --> 00:09:36,409 SONG. 343 00:09:36,476 --> 00:09:38,411 WHICH IS REALLY A MATCH MADE IN 344 00:09:38,478 --> 00:09:39,913 HEAVEN SINCE THE VILLAGE PEOPLE 345 00:09:39,979 --> 00:09:41,915 AND TRUMP BOTH ELICIT THE 346 00:09:41,981 --> 00:09:42,915 EMOTION "OH! 347 00:09:42,982 --> 00:09:44,417 THEY'RE STILL ALIVE," JUST WITH 348 00:09:44,484 --> 00:09:46,419 SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT GENERAL 349 00:09:46,486 --> 00:09:47,420 TONES. 350 00:09:47,487 --> 00:09:48,922 AND IN HINDSIGHT, THAT MIGHT 351 00:09:48,988 --> 00:09:50,423 ACTUALLY TURN OUT TO BE THE HIGH 352 00:09:50,490 --> 00:09:52,425 POINT OF HIS SECOND TERM. 353 00:09:52,492 --> 00:09:53,426 BECAUSE SINCE THEN, HIS APPROVAL 354 00:09:53,493 --> 00:09:55,995 RATING'S CRATERED, HE'S STARTED 355 00:09:56,062 --> 00:09:56,996 A STUPID WAR HE DOESN'T SEEM TO 356 00:09:57,063 --> 00:09:58,498 KNOW HOW TO END, AND THE VERY 357 00:09:58,565 --> 00:10:00,934 BUILDING WHERE THAT TOOK PLACE 358 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:01,935 STARTED REMOVING HIS NAME FROM 359 00:10:02,001 --> 00:10:04,938 THE FRONT OF IT THIS WEEKEND. 360 00:10:05,004 --> 00:10:06,439 AT THIS POINT, SURELY EVEN HIS 361 00:10:06,506 --> 00:10:08,942 MOST ARDENT SUPPORTERS MUST SEE 362 00:10:09,008 --> 00:10:09,943 THAT LETTING HIM BACK INTO THE 363 00:10:10,009 --> 00:10:11,945 WHITE HOUSE WAS LIKE BRINGING AN 364 00:10:12,011 --> 00:10:15,448 ELEPHANT TO A CONVENTION CENTER: 365 00:10:15,515 --> 00:10:16,449 IT WAS A TERRIBLE IDEA FROM THE 366 00:10:16,516 --> 00:10:17,951 START, AND YOU DON'T GET TO BE 367 00:10:18,017 --> 00:10:19,953 SURPRISED THAT IT'S CAUSED A 368 00:10:20,019 --> 00:10:22,455 GIGANTIC MESS. 369 00:10:22,522 --> 00:10:24,958 AND NOW THIS. 370 00:10:25,024 --> 00:10:28,461 >> Announcer: AND NOW 371 00:10:28,528 --> 00:10:30,597 DID YOU KNOW ABOUT THE BROKEN 372 00:10:30,663 --> 00:10:34,968 URINAL AT SCRANTON? 373 00:10:35,034 --> 00:10:35,468 >> NO. 374 00:10:35,535 --> 00:10:36,736 >> ONE OF THEM CLOSEST TO THE 375 00:10:36,803 --> 00:10:38,605 STUDIO HAS BEEN BUSTED OUT FOR 376 00:10:38,671 --> 00:10:39,105 TWO WEEKS. 377 00:10:39,172 --> 00:10:41,975 >> RIGHT THERE THROUGH FIVE AND 378 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:42,742 6:00, TOTAL SUNSHINE. 379 00:10:42,809 --> 00:10:44,244 OUR URINAL IS BROKE HERE. 380 00:10:44,310 --> 00:10:47,580 JOHN, I JUST CHECKED, IT STILL 381 00:10:47,647 --> 00:10:47,981 -- 382 00:10:48,047 --> 00:10:49,482 >> IT STILL BROKEN? 383 00:10:49,549 --> 00:10:50,183 >> ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. 384 00:10:50,250 --> 00:10:51,251 >> I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS JUST 385 00:10:51,317 --> 00:10:54,587 A RUMOR BUT SOMEONE FLUSHED DUDE 386 00:10:54,654 --> 00:10:57,490 WIPES DOWN THE TOILET HERE. 387 00:10:57,557 --> 00:11:00,493 >> THIS IS NOW PLACED ON THE 388 00:11:00,560 --> 00:11:00,727 URINAL. 389 00:11:00,793 --> 00:11:03,596 IT'S THE URINAL REBUILDER KIT. 390 00:11:03,663 --> 00:11:08,001 SHOULD WE DO THIS? 391 00:11:08,067 --> 00:11:12,005 IT'S A URINAL REBUILDER KIT. 392 00:11:12,071 --> 00:11:13,506 >> JOHN, DID YOU SEE THE GOOD 393 00:11:13,573 --> 00:11:15,008 NEWS IN THE LAVATORY? 394 00:11:15,074 --> 00:11:16,009 >> IT'S EXCITING. 395 00:11:16,075 --> 00:11:18,011 >> I HEARD ABOUT IT. 396 00:11:18,077 --> 00:11:19,012 >> THE URINAL IS BACK. 397 00:11:19,078 --> 00:11:20,513 >> I SAW THEM WORKING ON IT 398 00:11:20,580 --> 00:11:21,014 YESTERDAY. 399 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:23,650 >> I LOST ABOUT 5 POUNDS WALKING 400 00:11:23,716 --> 00:11:25,218 TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE 401 00:11:25,285 --> 00:11:26,019 BUILDING URINAL OVER THE LAST 402 00:11:26,085 --> 00:11:26,219 WEEK. 403 00:11:26,286 --> 00:11:27,120 CHECK IT OUT. 404 00:11:27,187 --> 00:11:28,521 THE ONE CLOSE TO THE WEATHER 405 00:11:28,588 --> 00:11:29,022 OFFICE. 406 00:11:29,088 --> 00:11:31,658 FINALLY, IT'S BEEN FIXED, RIGHT? 407 00:11:31,724 --> 00:11:34,194 WE ARE BACK IN BUSINESS, BIG GUY 408 00:11:34,260 --> 00:11:34,527 GUY. 409 00:11:34,594 --> 00:11:36,529 >> IT IS OPEN ONCE AGAIN. 410 00:11:36,596 --> 00:11:38,531 >> NO DISTANCE WALKING. 411 00:11:38,598 --> 00:11:40,533 >> OKAY. 412 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:42,035 >> TOPPING OUR NEWS THIS 413 00:11:42,101 --> 00:11:44,537 MORNING, A MAN IS DEAD AFTER A 414 00:11:44,604 --> 00:11:46,639 HOUSE FIRE. 415 00:11:46,706 --> 00:11:47,540 >> John: MOVING ON. 416 00:11:47,607 --> 00:11:48,540 BEFORE WE GET TO OUR MAIN STORY 417 00:11:48,608 --> 00:11:49,175 TONIGHT, I WANT TO TALK TO YOU 418 00:11:49,242 --> 00:11:50,043 ABOUT AN AREA IN THE UK CALLED 419 00:11:50,109 --> 00:11:51,044 MAKERFIELD. 420 00:11:51,110 --> 00:11:51,611 IT'S BETWEEN MANCHESTER AND 421 00:11:51,678 --> 00:11:52,545 LIVERPOOL AND CONTAINS, AMONG 422 00:11:52,612 --> 00:11:54,047 OTHER THINGS, PARTS OF WIGAN 423 00:11:54,113 --> 00:11:54,614 THE TOWN WHERE, CHARMINGLY 424 00:11:54,681 --> 00:11:57,050 WALLACE AND GROMIT LIVE, AND 425 00:11:57,116 --> 00:11:58,051 WHICH WAS -- SLIGHTLY LESS 426 00:11:58,117 --> 00:11:59,052 CHARMINGLY -- ONCE PORTRAYED BY 427 00:11:59,118 --> 00:12:00,553 GEORGE ORWELL AS "A SINKHOLE OF 428 00:12:00,620 --> 00:12:02,555 MISERY." 429 00:12:02,622 --> 00:12:03,556 TWO FUN FACTS I FRANKLY CAN'T 430 00:12:03,623 --> 00:12:05,058 BELIEVE AARDMAN ANIMATORS 431 00:12:05,124 --> 00:12:06,059 HAVEN'T ALREADY COMBINED INTO A 432 00:12:06,125 --> 00:12:08,561 SINGLE MOVIE. 433 00:12:08,628 --> 00:12:09,562 AND TO BE FAIR: GEORGE ORWELL'S 434 00:12:09,629 --> 00:12:11,064 NOT THE ONLY ONE WITH A LOW 435 00:12:11,130 --> 00:12:12,065 OPINION OF WIGAN. 436 00:12:12,131 --> 00:12:13,566 JUST WATCH AS THIS GUY PAYS THE 437 00:12:13,633 --> 00:12:14,567 TOWN A VISIT AND INTERVIEWS SOME 438 00:12:14,634 --> 00:12:16,569 LOCAL KIDS. 439 00:12:16,636 --> 00:12:17,203 >> WHAT'S THE BEST THING ABOUT 440 00:12:17,270 --> 00:12:18,071 WIGAN? 441 00:12:18,137 --> 00:12:19,072 >> IT'S SHIT. 442 00:12:19,138 --> 00:12:19,572 >> IT'S SHIT? 443 00:12:19,639 --> 00:12:20,073 >> YEAH. 444 00:12:20,139 --> 00:12:20,740 >> ONLY GOOD THING IS GALLOWAYS' 445 00:12:20,807 --> 00:12:21,574 PIES. 446 00:12:21,641 --> 00:12:22,175 >> BUT WHY DOES EVERYONE SAY 447 00:12:22,242 --> 00:12:23,076 GALLOWAYS' PIES? 448 00:12:23,142 --> 00:12:24,077 >> 'CAUSE IT'S BETTER. 449 00:12:24,143 --> 00:12:24,577 >> BOLTON OR WIGAN? 450 00:12:24,644 --> 00:12:25,578 >> BOLTON. 451 00:12:25,645 --> 00:12:26,079 >> REALLY? 452 00:12:26,145 --> 00:12:26,713 >> YEAH, I'D CHOSE BOLTON OVER 453 00:12:26,779 --> 00:12:27,580 WIGAN. 454 00:12:27,647 --> 00:12:29,082 IT'S JUST A SHITHOLE, BUT 455 00:12:29,148 --> 00:12:29,682 THEY'RE BOTH SHITHOLES AT THE 456 00:12:29,749 --> 00:12:30,583 END OF THE DAY. 457 00:12:30,650 --> 00:12:32,085 >> John: FANTASTIC. 458 00:12:32,151 --> 00:12:32,752 I THINK MY FAVORITE PART OF THAT 459 00:12:32,819 --> 00:12:34,087 IS "WHY DOES EVERYONE SAY 460 00:12:34,153 --> 00:12:35,088 GALLOWAYS PIES" BEING ANSWERED 461 00:12:35,154 --> 00:12:37,090 WITH, "BECAUSE IT'S BETTER." 462 00:12:37,156 --> 00:12:39,092 BETTER THAN WHAT EXACTLY? 463 00:12:39,158 --> 00:12:40,093 ALTHOUGH, TO BE FAIR, BASED ON 464 00:12:40,159 --> 00:12:41,094 THOSE KIDS' ATTITUDE, I'M 465 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:42,095 GUESSING THE ANSWER WAS "BETTER 466 00:12:42,161 --> 00:12:43,096 THAN ANY OTHER PART OF MY DAY IN 467 00:12:43,162 --> 00:12:46,099 THIS GODFORSAKEN SHITHOLE TOWN." 468 00:12:46,165 --> 00:12:47,600 AND LOOK, AS NICE AS GALLOWAY'S 469 00:12:47,667 --> 00:12:49,102 PIES SOUNDS, I SHOULD TELL YOU: 470 00:12:49,168 --> 00:12:50,603 ONE OF WIGAN'S PRIZED LOCAL 471 00:12:50,670 --> 00:12:52,105 CUISINES IS ACTUALLY SOMETHING 472 00:12:52,171 --> 00:12:53,606 CALLED A BABBY'S YED, A SUET 473 00:12:53,673 --> 00:12:54,607 PUDDING THAT CAN BE SERVED 474 00:12:54,674 --> 00:12:57,110 "FLOTTIN," OR FLOATING IN GRAVY 475 00:12:57,176 --> 00:12:59,112 OR PEY WET, SERVED WITH, AND I 476 00:12:59,178 --> 00:13:00,113 QUOTE, THE "SORT OF DISCHARGE 477 00:13:00,179 --> 00:13:03,116 THAT COMES OFF OF MUSHY PEAS." 478 00:13:03,182 --> 00:13:04,617 WHICH SOUNDS LESS LIKE A RECIPE 479 00:13:04,684 --> 00:13:05,618 AND MORE LIKE AN EPISODE OF 480 00:13:05,685 --> 00:13:06,619 CHOPPED WHERE THE ONLY 481 00:13:06,686 --> 00:13:07,620 INGREDIENTS WERE ITEMS FOUND IN 482 00:13:07,687 --> 00:13:09,622 THE DUMPSTER. 483 00:13:09,689 --> 00:13:10,623 JUST LISTEN TO THIS MAN EXPLAIN 484 00:13:10,690 --> 00:13:13,126 THE DISH EVEN FURTHER. 485 00:13:13,192 --> 00:13:14,127 >> WHEN YOU TIP IT OUT, IT'S 486 00:13:14,193 --> 00:13:16,129 SUPPOSED TO LOOK LIKE A BABY'S 487 00:13:16,195 --> 00:13:20,133 HEAD. 488 00:13:20,199 --> 00:13:22,135 THE HAT IS OBVIOUSLY THIS. 489 00:13:22,201 --> 00:13:24,137 SO WHEN THEY ASK FOR BABBY'S YED 490 00:13:24,203 --> 00:13:26,639 WITH T'AT ON, OR "BABY'S HEAD 491 00:13:26,706 --> 00:13:28,141 WITH HAT ON", IT'S TO KEEP IT 492 00:13:28,207 --> 00:13:29,142 WARM. 493 00:13:29,208 --> 00:13:30,143 I DON'T LIKE ALL THE GRAVY AND 494 00:13:30,209 --> 00:13:30,710 THE PEAS AND EVERYTHING UP 495 00:13:30,777 --> 00:13:32,145 AND -- CURRY OR WHATEVER MUSHED 496 00:13:32,211 --> 00:13:32,645 IN. 497 00:13:32,712 --> 00:13:34,147 I LIKE THE CHIPS TO BE DRY 498 00:13:34,213 --> 00:13:36,149 WITH -- AND I'LL SQUASH IT DOWN 499 00:13:36,215 --> 00:13:39,152 LIKE THAT, AND I'LL MIX IT IN 500 00:13:39,218 --> 00:13:42,655 WITH THE CHIPS. 501 00:13:42,722 --> 00:13:43,656 >> John: JUST FOR THE RECORD, I 502 00:13:43,723 --> 00:13:46,659 ALSO FIND THAT DISGUSTING. 503 00:13:46,726 --> 00:13:48,161 IN FACT, I GENUINELY MIGHT 504 00:13:48,227 --> 00:13:50,163 PREFER WATCHING HIM EAT AN 505 00:13:50,229 --> 00:13:51,664 ACTUAL BABY'S HEAD. 506 00:13:51,731 --> 00:13:52,665 NOW, THE REASON I'M TALKING 507 00:13:52,732 --> 00:13:54,667 ABOUT THIS RELATIVELY SMALL AREA 508 00:13:54,734 --> 00:13:55,668 IN NORTHERN ENGLAND IS, FOR 509 00:13:55,735 --> 00:13:57,670 COMPLICATED REASONS, NEXT WEEK 510 00:13:57,737 --> 00:13:59,172 IT MAY END UP DECIDING THE NEXT 511 00:13:59,238 --> 00:14:00,673 PRIME MINISTER OF THE UK, AND 512 00:14:00,740 --> 00:14:02,175 CHANGING THE COURSE OF BRITISH 513 00:14:02,241 --> 00:14:03,676 HISTORY. 514 00:14:03,743 --> 00:14:04,677 AND IF YOU'RE THINKING, "WAIT -- 515 00:14:04,744 --> 00:14:06,179 DIDN'T BRITAIN JUST ELECT A NEW 516 00:14:06,245 --> 00:14:07,180 PRIME MINISTER?" 517 00:14:07,246 --> 00:14:08,181 YEAH! 518 00:14:08,247 --> 00:14:08,681 IT DID! 519 00:14:08,748 --> 00:14:09,682 JUST TWO YEARS AGO, KEIR STARMER 520 00:14:09,749 --> 00:14:11,184 AND THE LABOUR PARTY SWEPT TO 521 00:14:11,250 --> 00:14:12,685 POWER, BREAKING THE CONSERVATIVE 522 00:14:12,752 --> 00:14:14,187 PARTY'S STRONGHOLD ON GOVERNMENT 523 00:14:14,253 --> 00:14:16,189 THAT HAD LASTED FOR 14 YEARS. 524 00:14:16,255 --> 00:14:17,690 AND STARMER'S SLOGAN BACK THEN 525 00:14:17,757 --> 00:14:19,692 REALLY WAS "CHANGE." 526 00:14:19,759 --> 00:14:21,694 WHICH MAKES SENSE, AS HE LOOKS 527 00:14:21,761 --> 00:14:23,196 LIKE A MAN WHO SAW OBAMA'S "HOPE 528 00:14:23,262 --> 00:14:24,197 AND CHANGE" CAMPAIGN AND SAID 529 00:14:24,263 --> 00:14:26,199 "HOPE? 530 00:14:26,265 --> 00:14:27,700 C'MON, LET'S NOT GO CRAZY. 531 00:14:27,767 --> 00:14:28,701 LET'S JUST GO WITH CHANGE AND 532 00:14:28,768 --> 00:14:29,702 PUT IT IN THE SMALLEST FONT 533 00:14:29,769 --> 00:14:31,704 IMAGINABLE." 534 00:14:31,771 --> 00:14:33,206 BACK THEN, STARMER WAS RIDING 535 00:14:33,272 --> 00:14:34,707 HIGH, BUT THINGS HAVE NOT GONE 536 00:14:34,774 --> 00:14:36,709 WELL. 537 00:14:36,776 --> 00:14:37,710 >> HE'S BEEN IN OFFICE LESS THAN 538 00:14:37,777 --> 00:14:39,712 TWO YEARS BUT FAILED TO 539 00:14:39,779 --> 00:14:41,214 KICKSTART BRITAIN'S SLUGGISH 540 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:42,215 ECONOMY. 541 00:14:42,281 --> 00:14:43,716 HE ALSO MADE THE DISASTROUS 542 00:14:43,783 --> 00:14:44,717 DECISION TO APPOINT PETER 543 00:14:44,784 --> 00:14:46,719 MANDELSON AS THE UK'S AMBASSADOR 544 00:14:46,786 --> 00:14:48,721 TO WASHINGTON. 545 00:14:48,788 --> 00:14:49,722 MANDELSON WAS KNOWN TO BE A 546 00:14:49,789 --> 00:14:51,224 LONGTIME FRIEND OF JEFFREY 547 00:14:51,290 --> 00:14:52,725 EPSTEIN. 548 00:14:52,792 --> 00:14:54,227 THE SCANDAL HAS BADLY WEAKENED 549 00:14:54,293 --> 00:14:55,728 STARMER, WHO'S FACED RIDICULE 550 00:14:55,795 --> 00:14:58,231 FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP. 551 00:14:58,297 --> 00:15:00,233 >> THIS IS NOT WINSTON CHURCHILL 552 00:15:00,299 --> 00:15:02,235 THAT WE'RE DEALING WITH. 553 00:15:02,301 --> 00:15:03,736 >> John: YES, "HE'S NOT WINSTON 554 00:15:03,803 --> 00:15:06,739 CHURCHILL," A PRETTY SAVAGE BURN 555 00:15:06,806 --> 00:15:08,241 COMING FROM A MAN WHO HIMSELF IS 556 00:15:08,307 --> 00:15:11,244 VERY MUCH "NOT FDR" -- APART 557 00:15:11,310 --> 00:15:12,245 FROM, OF COURSE, HIS PENCHANT 558 00:15:12,311 --> 00:15:13,246 FOR HIDING HIS MEDICAL 559 00:15:13,312 --> 00:15:14,747 CONDITIONS. 560 00:15:14,814 --> 00:15:16,749 THE POINT IS, VOTERS IN BRITAIN 561 00:15:16,816 --> 00:15:18,251 HAVE TURNED ON STARMER HARD 562 00:15:18,317 --> 00:15:19,752 WHICH CAME TO A HEAD LAST MONTH 563 00:15:19,819 --> 00:15:21,254 DURING LOCAL ELECTIONS AROUND 564 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:22,255 THE COUNTRY, WHEN LABOUR GOT 565 00:15:22,321 --> 00:15:24,757 ABSOLUTELY CLOBBERED, LOSING 566 00:15:24,824 --> 00:15:26,759 MORE THAN 1,400 REPRESENTATIVES 567 00:15:26,826 --> 00:15:28,761 FROM ENGLISH COUNCILS. 568 00:15:28,828 --> 00:15:29,762 AND IT'S NOT JUST THAT PEOPLE 569 00:15:29,829 --> 00:15:30,763 FEEL STARMER HASN'T DELIVERED 570 00:15:30,830 --> 00:15:33,266 CHANGE, THEY SEEM TO PERSONALLY 571 00:15:33,332 --> 00:15:34,767 LOATHE HIM. 572 00:15:34,834 --> 00:15:35,768 >> WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON 573 00:15:35,835 --> 00:15:36,769 KEIR STARMER? 574 00:15:36,836 --> 00:15:40,273 >> CAN I SWEAR? 575 00:15:40,339 --> 00:15:40,907 >> YOU CAN BE AS HONEST AS YOU 576 00:15:40,973 --> 00:15:41,774 LIKE. 577 00:15:41,841 --> 00:15:43,776 >> HE'S A PRICK. 578 00:15:43,843 --> 00:15:44,777 >> John: PERFECT. 579 00:15:44,844 --> 00:15:45,778 THE ONLY WAY THAT COULD'VE BEEN 580 00:15:45,845 --> 00:15:46,779 BETTER IS IF SHE'D THEN SAID 581 00:15:46,846 --> 00:15:47,780 "ACTUALLY, CAN I TAKE A MINUTE 582 00:15:47,847 --> 00:15:49,282 TO THINK OF A GOOD ONE? 583 00:15:49,348 --> 00:15:50,283 I WANT TO REALLY HURT HIS 584 00:15:50,349 --> 00:15:50,783 FEELINGS. 585 00:15:50,850 --> 00:15:51,784 HANG ON -- CAN I SAY CUNT ON THE 586 00:15:51,851 --> 00:15:53,286 NEWS?" 587 00:15:53,352 --> 00:15:56,289 BUT INCREDIBLY, STARMER'S BEEN 588 00:15:56,355 --> 00:15:57,290 DIGGING IN. 589 00:15:57,356 --> 00:15:58,290 IN FACT, JUST LISTEN TO HIM LAST 590 00:15:58,357 --> 00:16:00,793 MONTH, RIGHT AFTER HIS PARTY GOT 591 00:16:00,860 --> 00:16:02,795 SHELLACKED IN THOSE ELECTIONS. 592 00:16:02,862 --> 00:16:04,297 >> DID YOU CONTEMPLATE THIS 593 00:16:04,363 --> 00:16:06,299 MORNING THAT THE RESPONSIBILITY 594 00:16:06,365 --> 00:16:08,301 IS THAT IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO GO 595 00:16:08,367 --> 00:16:10,303 AND TO RESIGN? 596 00:16:10,369 --> 00:16:11,304 >> LET ME BE CLEAR, THESE ARE 597 00:16:11,370 --> 00:16:13,306 REALLY TOUGH RESULTS. 598 00:16:13,372 --> 00:16:14,307 I'M NOT GONNA SUGAR-COAT IT. 599 00:16:14,373 --> 00:16:15,808 >> DID YOU CONTEMPLATE THAT THE 600 00:16:15,875 --> 00:16:17,310 PROBLEM MIGHT BE YOU, THAT YOU 601 00:16:17,376 --> 00:16:18,311 MIGHT NEED TO GO TO HELP LABOUR 602 00:16:18,377 --> 00:16:20,813 WIN THESE SEATS BACK? 603 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:22,315 DID YOU EVEN CONTEMPLATE IT? 604 00:16:22,381 --> 00:16:23,816 DID YOU ACKNOWLEDGE IT AS A 605 00:16:23,883 --> 00:16:24,817 CONVERSATION, EVEN? 606 00:16:24,884 --> 00:16:26,319 >> LOOK, I THINK IT'S ABSOLUTELY 607 00:16:26,385 --> 00:16:29,322 CLEAR THAT THE ELECTORATE ARE 608 00:16:29,388 --> 00:16:31,824 FED UP WITH THE FACT THAT THEIR 609 00:16:31,891 --> 00:16:32,825 LIVES AREN'T CHANGING QUICKLY 610 00:16:32,892 --> 00:16:34,327 ENOUGH. 611 00:16:34,393 --> 00:16:35,828 >> John: WOW. 612 00:16:35,895 --> 00:16:36,829 IT'S BRUTAL HOW THAT REPORTER 613 00:16:36,896 --> 00:16:38,331 JUST KEPT REPHRASING THAT SAME 614 00:16:38,397 --> 00:16:39,832 QUESTION. 615 00:16:39,899 --> 00:16:40,833 "DID YOU CONTEMPLATE IT WAS YOUR 616 00:16:40,900 --> 00:16:41,834 FAULT? 617 00:16:41,901 --> 00:16:43,336 DID YOU EVEN ACKNOWLEDGE IT? 618 00:16:43,402 --> 00:16:44,337 DID YOU WRITE A LIST OF POSSIBLE 619 00:16:44,403 --> 00:16:45,338 PROBLEMS ON A WHITEBOARD AND 620 00:16:45,404 --> 00:16:46,339 INCLUDE AS ONE OF THEM 621 00:16:46,405 --> 00:16:47,840 "YOURSELF?" 622 00:16:47,907 --> 00:16:48,841 HAVE YOU EVER LOOKED INTO THE 623 00:16:48,908 --> 00:16:50,343 MIRROR AND QUESTIONED WHETHER 624 00:16:50,409 --> 00:16:51,344 YOU, KEIR STARMER, ARE THE ROOT 625 00:16:51,410 --> 00:16:52,345 CAUSE OF ALL THE PROBLEMS IN THE 626 00:16:52,411 --> 00:16:53,346 COUNTRY RIGHT NOW? 627 00:16:53,412 --> 00:16:56,349 AND IF NOT, WHY NOT?" 628 00:16:56,415 --> 00:16:57,350 SUFFICE TO SAY, STARMER AND THE 629 00:16:57,415 --> 00:16:59,852 LABOUR PARTY ARE IN BIG TROUBLE. 630 00:16:59,919 --> 00:17:01,854 BUT THEY STILL HAVE A CHANCE TO 631 00:17:01,921 --> 00:17:03,356 CHANGE COURSE HERE. 632 00:17:03,422 --> 00:17:04,357 BECAUSE REMEMBER: THE UK'S 633 00:17:04,423 --> 00:17:05,358 SYSTEM IS DIFFERENT FROM THE 634 00:17:05,424 --> 00:17:06,358 U.S.'S. 635 00:17:06,425 --> 00:17:07,859 OVER THERE, THE RULING PARTY CAN 636 00:17:07,926 --> 00:17:08,861 ACTUALLY SWAP OUT ITS LEADER 637 00:17:08,928 --> 00:17:10,863 WITHOUT HAVING TO CALL A GENERAL 638 00:17:10,930 --> 00:17:11,364 ELECTION. 639 00:17:11,430 --> 00:17:12,865 THAT'S WHY -- WHILE AMERICANS 640 00:17:12,932 --> 00:17:13,866 ARE TYPICALLY STUCK WITH OUR 641 00:17:13,933 --> 00:17:15,367 CHOICE FOR FOUR YEARS, BARRING A 642 00:17:15,434 --> 00:17:17,369 TRULY HILARIOUS MANHOLE 643 00:17:17,435 --> 00:17:20,373 ACCIDENT, IN THE UK 644 00:17:20,439 --> 00:17:21,374 PRIME MINISTERS HAVE A MORE 645 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:23,376 TRANSIENT QUALITY. 646 00:17:23,442 --> 00:17:23,943 IT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WHY 647 00:17:24,010 --> 00:17:25,377 THERE'S BEEN FOUR OF THEM IN THE 648 00:17:25,444 --> 00:17:26,878 PAST FOUR YEARS, INCLUDING ONE 649 00:17:26,945 --> 00:17:28,381 WHO FAMOUSLY DIDN'T EVEN OUTLAST 650 00:17:28,446 --> 00:17:31,884 A HEAD OF LETTUCE. 651 00:17:31,951 --> 00:17:33,386 AND MANY IN LABOUR THINK THEIR 652 00:17:33,452 --> 00:17:34,887 BEST OPTION IS TO REPLACE 653 00:17:34,954 --> 00:17:36,389 STARMER WITH THIS MAN, ANDY 654 00:17:36,455 --> 00:17:37,890 BURNHAM, THE POPULAR MAYOR OF 655 00:17:37,957 --> 00:17:39,392 GREATER MANCHESTER. 656 00:17:39,458 --> 00:17:40,393 THE THING IS, TO BE PRIME 657 00:17:40,459 --> 00:17:41,894 MINISTER, YOU HAVE TO BE A 658 00:17:41,961 --> 00:17:43,896 SITTING MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT. 659 00:17:43,963 --> 00:17:45,398 BUT BURNHAM ISN'T. 660 00:17:45,464 --> 00:17:46,899 ALL OF WHICH BRINGS US BACK TO 661 00:17:46,966 --> 00:17:48,401 MAKERFIELD. 662 00:17:48,467 --> 00:17:49,402 BECAUSE TO MAKE A PATH FOR 663 00:17:49,468 --> 00:17:51,404 BURNHAM, THE LABOUR MP FOR 664 00:17:51,470 --> 00:17:52,905 MAKERFIELD RECENTLY RESIGNED 665 00:17:52,972 --> 00:17:54,407 SPECIFICALLY TO ALLOW BURNHAM TO 666 00:17:54,473 --> 00:17:55,908 RUN IN A BY-ELECTION THERE -- 667 00:17:55,975 --> 00:17:57,410 THE BRITISH EQUIVALENT OF A 668 00:17:57,476 --> 00:17:58,911 SPECIAL ELECTION -- THIS COMING 669 00:17:58,978 --> 00:17:59,912 THURSDAY. 670 00:17:59,979 --> 00:18:00,913 AND IF BURNHAM WINS, HE'S 671 00:18:00,980 --> 00:18:02,415 ALREADY CONFIRMED HE'LL 672 00:18:02,481 --> 00:18:03,416 CHALLENGE STARMER TO BECOME 673 00:18:03,482 --> 00:18:05,418 PRIME MINISTER. 674 00:18:05,484 --> 00:18:06,419 BUT IF HE LOSES, THE LABOUR 675 00:18:06,485 --> 00:18:08,421 PARTY IS PRETTY MUCH FUCKED -- 676 00:18:08,487 --> 00:18:09,922 AND AS YOU'RE ABOUT TO SEE, SOME 677 00:18:09,989 --> 00:18:11,424 OF THE PARTIES WAITING TO TAKE 678 00:18:11,490 --> 00:18:13,426 OVER ARE INCREDIBLY GRIM. 679 00:18:13,492 --> 00:18:15,928 THE POINT IS, ROUGHLY 76,000 680 00:18:15,995 --> 00:18:17,430 REGISTERED VOTERS IN MAKERFIELD 681 00:18:17,496 --> 00:18:19,432 -- THAT'S LESS THAN THE CAPACITY 682 00:18:19,498 --> 00:18:20,433 OF GIANTS STADIUM, AND ABOUT 683 00:18:20,499 --> 00:18:22,935 ONE-SIXTH OF 1% OF BRITAIN'S 684 00:18:23,002 --> 00:18:25,438 VOTING POPULATION -- CURRENTLY 685 00:18:25,504 --> 00:18:26,439 HOLD THE FUTURE OF THE COUNTRY 686 00:18:26,505 --> 00:18:28,441 IN THEIR HANDS. 687 00:18:28,507 --> 00:18:29,942 SO GIVEN ALL THAT, TONIGHT 688 00:18:30,009 --> 00:18:31,444 LET'S TALK ABOUT THE MAKERFIELD 689 00:18:31,510 --> 00:18:32,945 BY-ELECTION -- HOW LABOUR GOT TO 690 00:18:33,012 --> 00:18:34,447 THIS POINT, WHICH PARTIES ARE 691 00:18:34,513 --> 00:18:35,948 NIPPING AT THEIR HEELS, AND WHO 692 00:18:36,015 --> 00:18:36,949 SOME OF THE CANDIDATES IN IT 693 00:18:37,016 --> 00:18:38,951 ARE, BECAUSE THE WHOLE THING IS 694 00:18:39,018 --> 00:18:40,953 FUCKING BONKERS. 695 00:18:41,020 --> 00:18:41,954 AND LET'S START WITH HOW 696 00:18:42,021 --> 00:18:43,456 STARMER'S SUPPORT COLLAPSED SO 697 00:18:43,522 --> 00:18:44,457 QUICKLY. 698 00:18:44,523 --> 00:18:45,958 AND TO BE FAIR, SOME OF THAT WAS 699 00:18:46,025 --> 00:18:46,959 OUTSIDE HIS CONTROL. 700 00:18:47,026 --> 00:18:48,461 THE UK'S ECONOMY'S BEEN 701 00:18:48,527 --> 00:18:49,462 STRUGGLING FOR THE PAST TWO 702 00:18:49,528 --> 00:18:50,463 DECADES, FOR ALL SORTS OF 703 00:18:50,529 --> 00:18:51,464 REASONS, FROM BREXIT TO THE 704 00:18:51,530 --> 00:18:52,465 PANDEMIC, TO RUSSIA'S INVASION 705 00:18:52,531 --> 00:18:53,966 OF UKRAINE. 706 00:18:54,033 --> 00:18:55,468 PEOPLE ARE REALLY STRUGGLING 707 00:18:55,534 --> 00:18:56,469 THERE, WITH ONE POLL SHOWING 708 00:18:56,535 --> 00:18:58,471 ALMOST SIX IN TEN BRITONS SAYING 709 00:18:58,537 --> 00:18:59,472 THEY FELT THE COST OF LIVING 710 00:18:59,538 --> 00:19:01,974 CRISIS WOULD NEVER END. 711 00:19:02,041 --> 00:19:03,476 THAT'D BE A HUGE CHALLENGE FOR 712 00:19:03,542 --> 00:19:05,478 EVEN A SAVVY POLITICIAN, WHICH 713 00:19:05,544 --> 00:19:08,981 STARMER VERY MUCH IS NOT. 714 00:19:09,048 --> 00:19:10,483 HIS SOLUTIONS, LIKE CUTTING FUEL 715 00:19:10,549 --> 00:19:11,984 PAYMENTS FOR THE ELDERLY, HAVE 716 00:19:12,051 --> 00:19:12,985 CAUSED HUGE BLOWBACK, AND FOR 717 00:19:13,052 --> 00:19:14,487 MINIMAL GAIN -- TO THE POINT 718 00:19:14,553 --> 00:19:15,988 WHERE THIS IS HOW ONE GROUP OF 719 00:19:16,055 --> 00:19:17,490 ANALYSTS DESCRIBE HIM. 720 00:19:17,556 --> 00:19:18,491 >> I REMEMBER, I WAS LOOKING 721 00:19:18,557 --> 00:19:19,492 BACK AT WHAT HE SAID AT THE 722 00:19:19,558 --> 00:19:20,493 TIME. 723 00:19:20,559 --> 00:19:21,494 HIS PLAN WAS TO MAKE GOOD 724 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:22,995 DECISIONS. 725 00:19:23,062 --> 00:19:24,997 THAT'S NOT A PLAN. 726 00:19:25,064 --> 00:19:26,499 PARTICULARLY IF YOU'RE NOT GOOD 727 00:19:26,565 --> 00:19:27,500 AT DECISION-MAKING, WHICH TURNS 728 00:19:27,566 --> 00:19:29,502 OUT HE ALSO WASN'T VERY GOOD AT. 729 00:19:29,568 --> 00:19:30,136 >> TALK ABOUT HIS JUDGEMENT OF 730 00:19:30,202 --> 00:19:31,504 PEOPLE. IS HE GOOD WITH PEOPLE? 731 00:19:31,570 --> 00:19:33,005 >> UH, NO. 732 00:19:33,072 --> 00:19:34,006 >> DOES HE WORK WELL WITH 733 00:19:34,073 --> 00:19:36,008 CABINET MINISTERS? 734 00:19:36,075 --> 00:19:37,009 >> THEY REGARD HIM WITH NEAR 735 00:19:37,076 --> 00:19:38,511 OPEN CONTEMPT. 736 00:19:38,577 --> 00:19:40,012 >> John: HOLY SHIT, THAT'S SO 737 00:19:40,079 --> 00:19:41,514 BRUTALLY COLD I ALMOST WISH THEY 738 00:19:41,580 --> 00:19:43,015 KEPT GOING. 739 00:19:43,082 --> 00:19:44,517 "WHAT ABOUT ANIMALS, HOW IS HE 740 00:19:44,583 --> 00:19:49,522 WITH ANIMALS." 741 00:19:49,588 --> 00:19:51,190 BURNS FREQUENTLY TRY TO FLY INTO 742 00:19:51,257 --> 00:19:52,124 HIS FACE AND DOG SHOW HIM EVEN 743 00:19:52,191 --> 00:19:52,692 LESS WAS SPECKED. 744 00:19:52,758 --> 00:19:53,526 "AND WHAT OF CHILDREN?" 745 00:19:53,592 --> 00:19:54,527 "HE HELD A BABY AT A SPEECH ONCE 746 00:19:54,593 --> 00:19:55,061 AND THE BABY CALLED HIM A 747 00:19:55,127 --> 00:19:55,594 RIZZLESS WANKER." 748 00:19:55,661 --> 00:19:56,595 "ANYTHING ELSE YOU'D LIKE TO 749 00:19:56,662 --> 00:19:57,096 ADD?" 750 00:19:57,163 --> 00:19:57,596 "SURE. 751 00:19:57,663 --> 00:19:58,597 AUTOMATIC DOORS REFUSE TO OPEN 752 00:19:58,664 --> 00:19:59,598 FOR HIM AND PLANTS EXPOSED TO 753 00:19:59,665 --> 00:20:00,533 HIS PICTURE ARE 70% LESS LIKELY 754 00:20:00,599 --> 00:20:03,536 TO YIELD FLOWERS." 755 00:20:03,602 --> 00:20:05,538 AND THE PUBLIC'S EVEN LESS 756 00:20:05,604 --> 00:20:07,039 ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT STARMER, WITH 757 00:20:07,106 --> 00:20:08,541 RECENT FOCUS GROUPS' 758 00:20:08,607 --> 00:20:10,042 DESCRIPTIONS OF HIM INCLUDING A 759 00:20:10,109 --> 00:20:12,044 "JELLYFISH" AND A "DOORMAT." 760 00:20:12,111 --> 00:20:13,546 AND ONE BIG REASON FOR THAT IS 761 00:20:13,612 --> 00:20:15,047 FOR A MAN WHO WAS ALREADY PRETTY 762 00:20:15,114 --> 00:20:17,550 MUCH A CENTRIST, HE'S 763 00:20:17,616 --> 00:20:18,551 RELENTLESSLY PANDERED TO THE 764 00:20:18,617 --> 00:20:19,552 RIGHT, ON EVERYTHING FROM TRANS 765 00:20:19,618 --> 00:20:21,554 RIGHTS, TO IMMIGRATION, TO THE 766 00:20:21,620 --> 00:20:23,556 PRO-PALESTINE MOVEMENT. 767 00:20:23,622 --> 00:20:24,557 ON THAT LAST FRONT, HIS 768 00:20:24,623 --> 00:20:25,558 GOVERNMENT'S NOW CLASSIFIED A 769 00:20:25,624 --> 00:20:26,559 CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE GROUP CALLED 770 00:20:26,625 --> 00:20:28,060 PALESTINE ACTION AS A TERRORIST 771 00:20:28,127 --> 00:20:29,562 ORGANIZATION, BANNING IT, WHICH 772 00:20:29,628 --> 00:20:31,564 HAS MADE BELONGING TO IT, OR 773 00:20:31,630 --> 00:20:33,065 INVITING SUPPORT FOR IT, A 774 00:20:33,132 --> 00:20:34,567 SERIOUS CRIME PUNISHABLE BY UP 775 00:20:34,633 --> 00:20:37,069 TO 14 YEARS IN PRISON. 776 00:20:37,136 --> 00:20:38,571 IN THE WAKE OF THAT DECISION 777 00:20:38,637 --> 00:20:40,072 PRIESTS, TEACHERS AND PENSIONERS 778 00:20:40,139 --> 00:20:41,574 ARE AMONG HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE 779 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:43,075 WHO'VE BEEN ARRESTED MERELY FOR 780 00:20:43,142 --> 00:20:44,577 HOLDING UP SIGNS IN SUPPORT OF 781 00:20:44,643 --> 00:20:46,078 THE ORGANIZATION, RESULTING IN 782 00:20:46,145 --> 00:20:48,581 THESE CRAZY IMAGES OF ELDERLY 783 00:20:48,647 --> 00:20:50,082 PROTESTORS GETTING CARRIED AWAY 784 00:20:50,149 --> 00:20:51,584 BY POLICE. 785 00:20:51,650 --> 00:20:53,586 THOSE ARE SOME BAD VISUALS FOR 786 00:20:53,652 --> 00:20:55,588 ANY LEADER, LET ALONE ONE WHO 787 00:20:55,654 --> 00:20:57,089 LITERALLY USED TO BE A HUMAN 788 00:20:57,156 --> 00:21:00,593 RIGHTS LAWYER. 789 00:21:00,659 --> 00:21:02,094 IT'S NO WONDER MANY PROGRESSIVE 790 00:21:02,161 --> 00:21:04,096 LABOUR SUPPORTERS HAVE SINCE 791 00:21:04,163 --> 00:21:06,098 BEEN DRAWN TO THE UK'S GREEN 792 00:21:06,165 --> 00:21:08,100 PARTY, INCLUDING THIS ONE. 793 00:21:08,167 --> 00:21:09,101 >> LOOKING AT THE PARTIES, WHO 794 00:21:09,168 --> 00:21:10,102 DO YOU LIKE THE LOOK OF AT THE 795 00:21:10,169 --> 00:21:11,604 MOMENT? 796 00:21:11,670 --> 00:21:13,105 >> I THINK DEFINITELY GREENS 797 00:21:13,172 --> 00:21:14,607 THESE DAYS, OR INDEPENDENT 798 00:21:14,673 --> 00:21:16,108 PROBABLY, YEAH. 799 00:21:16,175 --> 00:21:16,642 >> YOU SAY "THESE DAYS." 800 00:21:16,709 --> 00:21:17,109 >> YEAH. 801 00:21:17,176 --> 00:21:18,110 >> A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, WOULD 802 00:21:18,177 --> 00:21:19,612 THAT HAVE BEEN THE CASE? 803 00:21:19,678 --> 00:21:20,613 >> NO, I WAS A BIG FAN OF 804 00:21:20,679 --> 00:21:21,614 LABOUR. 805 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:22,214 >> WHAT'S CHANGED IN THE LAST 806 00:21:22,281 --> 00:21:23,115 FEW YEARS? 807 00:21:23,182 --> 00:21:24,617 >> THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF THINGS 808 00:21:24,683 --> 00:21:25,618 THAT HAVE BEEN SLIDING TO THE 809 00:21:25,684 --> 00:21:27,620 RIGHT AND BETRAYING A LOT OF 810 00:21:27,686 --> 00:21:31,123 LIKE, WORKING-CLASS VOTERS AND 811 00:21:31,190 --> 00:21:34,126 PEOPLE OF COLOR, ALSO REFUGEES 812 00:21:34,193 --> 00:21:36,128 AND BASICALLY MINORITIES, EVEN 813 00:21:36,195 --> 00:21:39,131 LIKE, TRANS HEALTHCARE AND LGBT 814 00:21:39,198 --> 00:21:41,133 RIGHTS AND ALL THIS STUFF. 815 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:42,134 >> THAT'S QUITE A LONG LIST. 816 00:21:42,201 --> 00:21:42,635 >> [LAUGHS] 817 00:21:42,701 --> 00:21:43,636 YES. 818 00:21:43,702 --> 00:21:44,136 FOR SURE. 819 00:21:44,203 --> 00:21:45,137 >> John: YEAH, THAT'S A PRETTY 820 00:21:45,204 --> 00:21:46,138 LONG LIST! 821 00:21:46,205 --> 00:21:47,139 IT KIND OF SEEMS LIKE SOMEONE 822 00:21:47,206 --> 00:21:48,140 ASKED STARMER "WHO DO YOU WANT 823 00:21:48,207 --> 00:21:49,141 TO THROW UNDER THE BUS," AND HE 824 00:21:49,208 --> 00:21:52,144 JUST SAID "YES." 825 00:21:52,211 --> 00:21:53,646 SO STARMER'S CLEARLY 826 00:21:53,712 --> 00:21:54,647 DISAPPOINTED MANY ON THE LEFT. 827 00:21:54,713 --> 00:21:56,148 AND NORMALLY, THE CHALLENGE TO 828 00:21:56,215 --> 00:21:57,149 HIS RIGHT WOULD'VE COME FROM 829 00:21:57,216 --> 00:21:58,651 LABOUR'S TRADITIONAL OPPOSITION 830 00:21:58,717 --> 00:21:59,652 THE CONSERVATIVES. 831 00:21:59,718 --> 00:22:01,654 BUT THEY, TOO, SAW MAJOR LOSSES 832 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:02,655 IN LAST MONTH'S ELECTIONS. 833 00:22:02,721 --> 00:22:03,656 AND THE PARTY THAT'S 834 00:22:03,722 --> 00:22:05,157 INCREASINGLY TAKEN THEIR PLACE 835 00:22:05,224 --> 00:22:07,660 IS THE FURTHER-RIGHT REFORM UK. 836 00:22:07,726 --> 00:22:09,662 IT WON NEARLY 1500 COUNCIL 837 00:22:09,728 --> 00:22:10,663 RACES. 838 00:22:10,729 --> 00:22:11,664 WHICH IS CLEARLY GREAT NEWS FOR 839 00:22:11,730 --> 00:22:13,165 ITS LEADER, NIGEL FARAGE 840 00:22:13,232 --> 00:22:15,668 BIBLICALLY ACCURATE FROG PRINCE 841 00:22:15,734 --> 00:22:18,170 AND PROFESSIONAL ASSHOLE. 842 00:22:18,237 --> 00:22:19,171 WE'VE TALKED ABOUT FARAGE BEFORE 843 00:22:19,238 --> 00:22:20,172 -- HE'S THE PROVOCATIVE BIGOT 844 00:22:20,239 --> 00:22:21,674 WHO SPEARHEADED THE CAMPAIGN FOR 845 00:22:21,740 --> 00:22:22,675 BREXIT AND HAS, ON MULTIPLE 846 00:22:22,741 --> 00:22:24,677 OCCASIONS, HAD MILKSHAKES THROWN 847 00:22:24,743 --> 00:22:26,178 AT HIM. 848 00:22:26,245 --> 00:22:27,179 HERE HE IS RIGHT AFTER ONE OF 849 00:22:27,246 --> 00:22:30,182 THOSE INCIDENTS, LOOKING LIKE 850 00:22:30,249 --> 00:22:31,684 HE'S MODELING A SUIT FROM JOSEPH 851 00:22:31,750 --> 00:22:33,185 A. 852 00:22:33,252 --> 00:22:35,187 BANK'S "BUKKAKE" COLLECTION. 853 00:22:35,254 --> 00:22:36,188 FARAGE BUILT THE REFORM PARTY 854 00:22:36,255 --> 00:22:37,690 AROUND HIS USUAL RIGHT-WING 855 00:22:37,756 --> 00:22:39,191 TALKING POINTS, WHICH ARE HEAVY 856 00:22:39,258 --> 00:22:40,693 ON THE XENOPHOBIA, AS YOU CAN 857 00:22:40,759 --> 00:22:43,696 SEE THROUGH VIDEOS LIKE THIS. 858 00:22:43,762 --> 00:22:45,197 >> YOU ASK YOURSELF WHY PUBLIC 859 00:22:45,264 --> 00:22:47,199 SERVICES ARE DIMINISHED, YOU ASK 860 00:22:47,266 --> 00:22:48,701 YOURSELF WHY RENTS HAVE GONE 861 00:22:48,767 --> 00:22:50,202 THROUGH THE ROOF. 862 00:22:50,269 --> 00:22:51,203 THE POPULATION EXPLOSION HAS 863 00:22:51,270 --> 00:22:52,204 DONE THAT. 864 00:22:52,271 --> 00:22:53,706 AND MANY -- LOOK AT PARTS OF 865 00:22:53,772 --> 00:22:55,207 LONDON FOR EXAMPLE WHERE THE 866 00:22:55,274 --> 00:22:56,709 ROAD NAMES, THE UNDERGROUND 867 00:22:56,775 --> 00:22:59,712 SIGNS AREN'T JUST IN ENGLISH 868 00:22:59,778 --> 00:23:00,713 THEY'RE IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE AS 869 00:23:00,779 --> 00:23:01,714 WELL. 870 00:23:01,780 --> 00:23:03,215 ONE MILLION PEOPLE LIVING IN 871 00:23:03,282 --> 00:23:04,717 THIS COUNTRY DON'T SPEAK ANY 872 00:23:04,783 --> 00:23:05,718 ENGLISH AT ALL. 873 00:23:05,784 --> 00:23:06,719 >> John: OKAY, FIRST, AND I 874 00:23:06,785 --> 00:23:08,721 THINK YOU ALREADY KNEW THIS -- 875 00:23:08,787 --> 00:23:10,222 THAT "ONE MILLION" FIGURE IS 876 00:23:10,289 --> 00:23:11,223 JUST BULLSHIT. 877 00:23:11,290 --> 00:23:12,725 AS OF THE MOST RECENT CENSUS 878 00:23:12,791 --> 00:23:14,226 ONLY AROUND 160,000 PEOPLE IN 879 00:23:14,293 --> 00:23:15,728 ENGLAND AND WALES SAID THEY 880 00:23:15,794 --> 00:23:17,730 COULDN'T SPEAK ANY ENGLISH. 881 00:23:17,796 --> 00:23:19,231 BUT ALSO: A BRITISH MAN 882 00:23:19,298 --> 00:23:20,733 COMPLAINING "FOREIGNERS SHOWED 883 00:23:20,799 --> 00:23:22,234 UP, AND NOW THIS ROAD SIGN ISN'T 884 00:23:22,301 --> 00:23:24,737 IN THE LANGUAGE I SPEAK," IS 885 00:23:24,803 --> 00:23:26,739 FUCKING BOLD, GIVEN, Y'KNOW 886 00:23:26,805 --> 00:23:28,741 HISTORY. 887 00:23:28,807 --> 00:23:30,743 I'M JUST SAYING: THE LARGEST 888 00:23:30,809 --> 00:23:32,244 LAKE IN AFRICA WASN'T ALWAYS 889 00:23:32,311 --> 00:23:35,247 CALLED "LAKE VICTORIA." 890 00:23:35,314 --> 00:23:35,814 THAT ONLY STARTED WHEN SOME 891 00:23:35,881 --> 00:23:36,749 PASTY WHITE DUDE SHOWED UP AND 892 00:23:36,815 --> 00:23:38,250 DECIDED TO NAME IT AFTER HIS 893 00:23:38,317 --> 00:23:40,753 NATIONAL MOMMY, AND AS MUCH AS 894 00:23:40,819 --> 00:23:42,755 I'M SURE EVERYONE LIKED 895 00:23:42,821 --> 00:23:43,756 IMAGINING HER DROWNING IN THERE 896 00:23:43,822 --> 00:23:46,759 IT'S PROBABLY TIME TO RENAME IT. 897 00:23:46,825 --> 00:23:47,760 NONETHELESS, BIGOTRY AND 898 00:23:47,826 --> 00:23:49,261 GRIEVANCE HAVE PROPELLED THE 899 00:23:49,328 --> 00:23:50,763 REFORM PARTY FORWARD, DESPITE 900 00:23:50,829 --> 00:23:52,765 FARAGE'S OWN SIGNIFICANT 901 00:23:52,831 --> 00:23:54,767 BAGGAGE, FROM HIS LONG HISTORY 902 00:23:54,833 --> 00:23:56,769 OF LIES AND SEXISM, TO MORE 903 00:23:56,835 --> 00:23:58,270 RECENT QUESTIONS ABOUT A 5 904 00:23:58,337 --> 00:24:00,272 MILLION POUND GIFT HE RECEIVED 905 00:24:00,339 --> 00:24:01,774 FROM A CRYPTO BILLIONAIRE 906 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:02,775 SHORTLY BEFORE ANNOUNCING HE'D 907 00:24:02,841 --> 00:24:03,776 RUN IN THE 2024 GENERAL 908 00:24:03,842 --> 00:24:04,777 ELECTION. 909 00:24:04,843 --> 00:24:06,278 WHEN ASKED ABOUT THAT, HIS 910 00:24:06,345 --> 00:24:09,281 RESPONSE WASN'T EXACTLY GREAT. 911 00:24:09,348 --> 00:24:10,783 >> THIS WAS GIVEN TO ME ON AN 912 00:24:10,849 --> 00:24:13,285 UNCONDITIONAL BASIS, COMPLETELY 913 00:24:13,352 --> 00:24:16,288 UNCONDITIONAL BASIS BUT FRANKLY 914 00:24:16,355 --> 00:24:17,790 IT WAS GIVEN AS A REWARD FOR 915 00:24:17,856 --> 00:24:19,291 CAMPAIGNING FOR BREXIT FOR 27 916 00:24:19,358 --> 00:24:20,292 YEARS. 917 00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:21,293 >> AND IT HAD NO IMPACT ON YOUR 918 00:24:21,360 --> 00:24:22,294 DECISION TO COME BACK INTO 919 00:24:22,361 --> 00:24:23,295 PUBLIC LIFE. 920 00:24:23,362 --> 00:24:26,298 >> NO. 921 00:24:26,365 --> 00:24:27,299 >> BUT HE WHO PAYS THE PIPER 922 00:24:27,366 --> 00:24:28,300 PICKS THE TUNE. 923 00:24:28,367 --> 00:24:28,867 >> HANG ON A SEC, HANG ON A 924 00:24:28,934 --> 00:24:29,802 SECOND. 925 00:24:29,868 --> 00:24:31,804 I CAN'T BE BOUGHT BY ANYBODY. 926 00:24:31,870 --> 00:24:32,304 >> John: WOW. 927 00:24:32,371 --> 00:24:33,305 FARAGE MAKES SOME SHARP TURNS 928 00:24:33,372 --> 00:24:34,807 THERE, GOING FROM "THIS WAS AN 929 00:24:34,873 --> 00:24:36,308 UNCONDITIONAL GIFT" TO "I WAS 930 00:24:36,375 --> 00:24:38,811 PAID AS A REWARD FOR A SPECIFIC 931 00:24:38,877 --> 00:24:40,312 ACTION" TO "I CAN'T BE BOUGHT BY 932 00:24:40,379 --> 00:24:41,313 ANYBODY." 933 00:24:41,380 --> 00:24:42,314 HONESTLY, IF YOU LET HIM TALK 934 00:24:42,381 --> 00:24:43,315 FOR LONG ENOUGH, I'M PRETTY SURE 935 00:24:43,382 --> 00:24:44,817 HE'D GET HIMSELF TO "BUT YOU 936 00:24:44,883 --> 00:24:45,818 KNOW WHAT? 937 00:24:45,884 --> 00:24:46,819 I CAN BE RENTED OUT ON AN 938 00:24:46,885 --> 00:24:48,821 INTERIM BASIS." 939 00:24:48,887 --> 00:24:50,322 BUT DESPITE ALL THAT, REFORM'S 940 00:24:50,389 --> 00:24:51,824 ANTI-IMMIGRANT MESSAGING HAS 941 00:24:51,890 --> 00:24:53,826 CLEARLY FOUND AN AUDIENCE. 942 00:24:53,892 --> 00:24:55,327 JUST WATCH THIS VIDEO OF A LOCAL 943 00:24:55,394 --> 00:24:56,829 REFORM CANDIDATE FROM EARLIER 944 00:24:56,895 --> 00:24:58,330 THIS YEAR, DENYING CHARGES OF 945 00:24:58,397 --> 00:24:59,832 RACISM BEFORE THEN TALKING TO A 946 00:24:59,898 --> 00:25:01,834 SUPPORTER WHO SLIGHTLY UNDERCUTS 947 00:25:01,900 --> 00:25:04,336 HER ARGUMENT. 948 00:25:04,403 --> 00:25:05,337 >> I THINK THE THING I HEAR MORE 949 00:25:05,404 --> 00:25:07,339 THAN ANYTHING ELSE IS A FASCIST 950 00:25:07,406 --> 00:25:09,842 AND NAZI, WHICH IS THE FURTHEST 951 00:25:09,908 --> 00:25:11,844 FROM WHAT WE -- THAN WHAT WE 952 00:25:11,910 --> 00:25:13,345 ARE. 953 00:25:13,412 --> 00:25:15,848 WE'RE JUST NOT THAT AT ALL. 954 00:25:15,914 --> 00:25:17,349 >> NONE OF US ARE RACISTS. 955 00:25:17,416 --> 00:25:17,850 >> NO. 956 00:25:17,916 --> 00:25:18,851 I'M NOT. 957 00:25:18,917 --> 00:25:19,852 >> BUT THEY TELL YOU THAT IF YOU 958 00:25:19,918 --> 00:25:20,853 SAY SOMETHING ABOUT IT -- 959 00:25:20,919 --> 00:25:21,854 >> YEAH. 960 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:22,855 >> BUT THAT'S THEIR-THAT'S THEIR 961 00:25:22,921 --> 00:25:23,355 ONLY -- 962 00:25:23,422 --> 00:25:24,356 >> BUT I TELL YOU WHAT -- TO BE 963 00:25:24,423 --> 00:25:25,858 HONEST, I'VE NEVER BEEN RACIST 964 00:25:25,924 --> 00:25:26,859 BUT I'M GETTING THAT WAY. 965 00:25:26,925 --> 00:25:29,862 >> John: WOW. 966 00:25:29,928 --> 00:25:30,863 "I'VE NEVER BEEN RACIST -- BUT 967 00:25:30,929 --> 00:25:31,864 I'M GETTING THAT WAY." 968 00:25:31,930 --> 00:25:32,865 WELL, GUESS WHAT? 969 00:25:32,931 --> 00:25:33,866 IF YOU'RE CONSIDERING IT, YOU'RE 970 00:25:33,932 --> 00:25:36,368 ACTUALLY ALREADY THERE! 971 00:25:36,435 --> 00:25:38,370 IT'S NOT LIKE GETTING BANGS! 972 00:25:38,437 --> 00:25:39,371 YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE 973 00:25:39,438 --> 00:25:40,372 RACISM TO GROW IN! 974 00:25:40,439 --> 00:25:45,377 YOU DID IT! 975 00:25:45,444 --> 00:25:47,112 THE JOURNEY IS THE DESTINATION. 976 00:25:47,179 --> 00:25:47,880 NOW, REFORM WILL CLAIM THEY'VE 977 00:25:47,946 --> 00:25:48,881 DISTANCED THEMSELVES FROM 978 00:25:48,947 --> 00:25:49,381 RHETORIC LIKE THAT. 979 00:25:49,448 --> 00:25:50,382 FARAGE HAS BOASTED THEY'VE 980 00:25:50,449 --> 00:25:52,384 "PROFESSIONALIZED" THE PARTY. 981 00:25:52,451 --> 00:25:53,385 BUT IT'S WORTH KNOWING THAT THE 982 00:25:53,452 --> 00:25:54,887 CANDIDATES IT RAN LAST MONTH 983 00:25:54,953 --> 00:25:56,388 INCLUDED BRETT MUSCROFT, WHO 984 00:25:56,455 --> 00:25:57,890 REPORTEDLY POSTED ON FACEBOOK 985 00:25:57,956 --> 00:25:59,391 "ISLAM IS LIKE CANCER. 986 00:25:59,458 --> 00:26:00,392 IF YOU DON'T REMOVE IT ON TIME 987 00:26:00,459 --> 00:26:01,894 IT WILL KILL YOU." 988 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:03,395 ANDREW MAHON WHO POSTED "NO 989 00:26:03,462 --> 00:26:04,897 DISRESPECT BUT WHY CAN BLACK 990 00:26:04,963 --> 00:26:06,398 PEOPLE USE THE N WORD BUT WHITE 991 00:26:06,465 --> 00:26:07,900 PEOPLE CANNOT?" 992 00:26:07,966 --> 00:26:09,401 DEMONSTRATING THE EXACT LEVEL OF 993 00:26:09,468 --> 00:26:10,903 DELUSION THAT WOULD MAKE SOMEONE 994 00:26:10,969 --> 00:26:12,404 COMFORTABLE LEAVING THE HOUSE IN 995 00:26:12,471 --> 00:26:14,907 THIS SELECTION OF OUTFITS. 996 00:26:14,973 --> 00:26:16,909 HONESTLY, IF HIS ARGUMENT IS HE 997 00:26:16,975 --> 00:26:18,911 CAN'T SEE COLOR, HE'S MAKING A 998 00:26:18,977 --> 00:26:20,412 PRETTY GOOD CASE FOR IT THERE. 999 00:26:20,479 --> 00:26:23,415 AND WHEN ONE OF REFORM'S LEADERS 1000 00:26:23,482 --> 00:26:25,918 WENT ON THE NEWS RIGHT AFTER 1001 00:26:25,984 --> 00:26:27,419 THEIR ELECTION WINS LAST MONTH 1002 00:26:27,486 --> 00:26:28,921 HE GOT THIS AWKWARD QUESTION 1003 00:26:28,987 --> 00:26:30,923 ABOUT YET ANOTHER OF THEIR 1004 00:26:30,989 --> 00:26:32,925 SHITTY CANDIDATES. 1005 00:26:32,991 --> 00:26:33,926 >> ONE OF YOUR NEW SUNDERLAND 1006 00:26:33,992 --> 00:26:35,427 COUNCILORS, SO A MAN WHO WAS 1007 00:26:35,494 --> 00:26:37,429 ELECTED TO REPRESENT REFORM 1008 00:26:37,496 --> 00:26:40,432 SUGGESTED MELTING NIGERIANS TO 1009 00:26:40,499 --> 00:26:42,434 FILL POTHOLES. 1010 00:26:42,501 --> 00:26:43,936 IS THAT PERSON WHO'S EXPRESSED 1011 00:26:44,002 --> 00:26:46,438 THOSE VIEWS SOMEBODY YOU ARE 1012 00:26:46,505 --> 00:26:47,940 HAPPY TO SEE REPRESENT REFORM? 1013 00:26:48,006 --> 00:26:49,441 >> LAURA, THIS WEEKEND, WE ARE 1014 00:26:49,508 --> 00:26:50,442 CELEBRATING OUR INCREDIBLE 1015 00:26:50,509 --> 00:26:51,443 SUCCESSES. 1016 00:26:51,510 --> 00:26:53,445 LIKE ANY PARTY, YOU HAVE 1017 00:26:53,512 --> 00:26:54,446 INTERNAL PARTY PROCESSES TO LOOK 1018 00:26:54,513 --> 00:26:55,948 AT WHERE PEOPLE HAVE SAID OR 1019 00:26:56,014 --> 00:26:57,449 DONE THE WRONG THING. 1020 00:26:57,516 --> 00:26:58,450 >> BUT DO YOU CONDEMN THOSE 1021 00:26:58,517 --> 00:26:59,952 REMARKS? 1022 00:27:00,018 --> 00:27:00,953 >> LAURA, I CONDEMN ANYTHING 1023 00:27:01,019 --> 00:27:02,955 THAT IS WRONG AND INAPPROPRIATE. 1024 00:27:03,021 --> 00:27:04,456 >> John: WHICH THAT IS! 1025 00:27:04,523 --> 00:27:05,958 JESUS CHRIST. 1026 00:27:06,024 --> 00:27:06,959 I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S WORSE THERE: 1027 00:27:07,025 --> 00:27:07,960 HIS FAILURE TO DIRECTLY CONDEMN 1028 00:27:08,026 --> 00:27:09,461 SOMEONE FOR SUGGESTING MELTING 1029 00:27:09,528 --> 00:27:11,463 NIGERIANS TO FILL POTHOLES, OR 1030 00:27:11,530 --> 00:27:12,965 THAT HE SEEMS GENUINELY ANNOYED 1031 00:27:13,031 --> 00:27:14,466 HE'S BEING ASKED ABOUT IT. 1032 00:27:14,533 --> 00:27:16,969 IF YOU CAN'T DENOUNCE RHETORIC 1033 00:27:17,035 --> 00:27:17,970 LIKE THAT, YOU SHOULD EXPECT TO 1034 00:27:18,036 --> 00:27:18,971 BE ASKED ABOUT IT FOR THE REST 1035 00:27:19,037 --> 00:27:19,972 OF YOUR LIFE. 1036 00:27:20,038 --> 00:27:20,973 IN FACT, EVEN AFTER YOUR LIFE 1037 00:27:21,039 --> 00:27:22,474 AT YOUR FUNERAL, SOMEONE SHOULD 1038 00:27:22,541 --> 00:27:23,976 POLITELY KNOCK ON YOUR COFFIN TO 1039 00:27:24,042 --> 00:27:24,977 SAY "SORRY YOU DIED, BUT LAST 1040 00:27:25,043 --> 00:27:26,979 CHANCE: ANY FINAL COMMENT ON 1041 00:27:27,045 --> 00:27:29,481 THAT POTHOLE RACIST?" 1042 00:27:29,548 --> 00:27:31,483 AND IT ACTUALLY GETS WORSE. 1043 00:27:31,550 --> 00:27:33,485 BECAUSE INCREDIBLY, REFORM 1044 00:27:33,552 --> 00:27:34,486 ITSELF IS NOW BEING CHALLENGED 1045 00:27:34,553 --> 00:27:36,488 ON ITS RIGHT, BY AN EVEN NEWER 1046 00:27:36,555 --> 00:27:37,990 PARTY CALLED RESTORE BRITAIN. 1047 00:27:38,056 --> 00:27:39,992 IT ENJOYS THE SUPPORT OF 1048 00:27:40,058 --> 00:27:40,993 FASCISTS, NEO-NAZIS AND OTHER 1049 00:27:41,059 --> 00:27:42,995 EXTREMISTS, WITH ELON MUSK EVEN 1050 00:27:43,061 --> 00:27:44,496 TWEETING, "ONLY RESTORE BRITAIN 1051 00:27:44,563 --> 00:27:45,998 CAN SAVE BRITAIN." 1052 00:27:46,064 --> 00:27:49,001 AND THE FACT RESTORE IS GAINING 1053 00:27:49,067 --> 00:27:50,002 SUPPORT SHOULD BE PRETTY 1054 00:27:50,068 --> 00:27:52,004 ALARMING, GIVEN HOW POISONOUS 1055 00:27:52,070 --> 00:27:53,005 ITS POLICIES ARE. 1056 00:27:53,071 --> 00:27:55,007 HERE'S THEIR LEADER, RUPERT 1057 00:27:55,073 --> 00:27:58,010 LOWE, GIVING YOU JUST A TASTE. 1058 00:27:58,076 --> 00:27:59,011 >> WE WILL CELEBRATE OUR 1059 00:27:59,077 --> 00:28:00,012 CHRISTIAN HERITAGE AND THE 1060 00:28:00,078 --> 00:28:01,513 IDENTITY THAT BUILT AND SHAPED 1061 00:28:01,580 --> 00:28:03,015 THIS COUNTRY. 1062 00:28:03,081 --> 00:28:04,516 RESPONSIBILITY, RESTRAINT 1063 00:28:04,583 --> 00:28:09,021 FORGIVENESS, DUTY, AND FAIRNESS. 1064 00:28:09,087 --> 00:28:10,522 IN SHORT, A HIGH TRUST SOCIETY. 1065 00:28:10,589 --> 00:28:12,024 THAT WILL MEAN DEFENDING OUR 1066 00:28:12,090 --> 00:28:14,026 CULTURE. 1067 00:28:14,092 --> 00:28:15,527 THAT WILL MEAN RESISTING THE 1068 00:28:15,594 --> 00:28:18,030 RELENTLESS CREEP OF RADICAL 1069 00:28:18,096 --> 00:28:19,531 ISLAM. 1070 00:28:19,598 --> 00:28:20,532 THAT WILL MEAN BANNING THE 1071 00:28:20,599 --> 00:28:23,535 BURQA, OUTLAWING SHARIA LAW 1072 00:28:23,602 --> 00:28:25,537 BLOCKING COUSIN MARRIAGES, AND 1073 00:28:25,604 --> 00:28:27,539 REIMPOSING OUR CHRISTIAN-BASED 1074 00:28:27,606 --> 00:28:29,041 RULE OF LAW. 1075 00:28:29,107 --> 00:28:30,542 A RESTORE BRITAIN GOVERNMENT 1076 00:28:30,609 --> 00:28:32,544 WOULD LEGISLATE TO ENSURE THAT 1077 00:28:32,611 --> 00:28:35,047 NO HALAL OR KOSHER SLAUGHTER ON 1078 00:28:35,113 --> 00:28:36,548 BRITISH SOIL. 1079 00:28:36,615 --> 00:28:37,549 THIS IS BRITAIN AND WE WILL DO 1080 00:28:37,616 --> 00:28:40,052 THINGS OUR WAY. 1081 00:28:40,118 --> 00:28:41,053 >> John: OH, FUCKING SPARE ME 1082 00:28:41,119 --> 00:28:42,554 RUPERT. 1083 00:28:42,621 --> 00:28:44,056 AND WHILE IT'S NOT THE MOST 1084 00:28:44,122 --> 00:28:45,057 IMPORTANT THING THERE, FOR THE 1085 00:28:45,123 --> 00:28:46,558 RECORD: THE CULTURE, HERITAGE 1086 00:28:46,625 --> 00:28:48,560 AND IDENTITY THAT SHAPED BRITAIN 1087 00:28:48,627 --> 00:28:50,062 WAS LITERALLY BUILT ON COUSIN 1088 00:28:50,128 --> 00:28:52,564 MARRIAGES. 1089 00:28:52,631 --> 00:28:54,066 IT'S BEEN A PRETTY CRUCIAL PART 1090 00:28:54,132 --> 00:28:56,068 OF THE WHOLE PROCESS. 1091 00:28:56,134 --> 00:28:57,569 MIGHT WANT TO BRUSH UP ON YOUR 1092 00:28:57,636 --> 00:28:58,570 HISTORY, GIVEN YOUR GENERAL 1093 00:28:58,637 --> 00:29:00,072 VIBE'S SO CARTOONISHLY ENGLISH 1094 00:29:00,138 --> 00:29:01,573 YOU LOOK LIKE YOUR FIRST WORDS 1095 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:03,075 AS A BABY WERE "BRITISH EAST 1096 00:29:03,141 --> 00:29:06,078 INDIA COMPANY." 1097 00:29:06,144 --> 00:29:08,080 THE POINT IS, WITH REFORM ON THE 1098 00:29:08,146 --> 00:29:09,581 RISE AND RESTORE PULLING IT EVEN 1099 00:29:09,648 --> 00:29:11,083 FURTHER TO THE RIGHT, BRITAIN 1100 00:29:11,149 --> 00:29:12,584 RISKS HEADING IN A VERY DARK 1101 00:29:12,651 --> 00:29:14,086 DIRECTION. 1102 00:29:14,152 --> 00:29:15,087 AND AT LEAST IN THE IMMEDIATE 1103 00:29:15,153 --> 00:29:16,588 FUTURE, THE ONLY PARTY 1104 00:29:16,655 --> 00:29:17,589 POSITIONED TO STOP THAT SLIDE IS 1105 00:29:17,656 --> 00:29:19,591 THE ONE CURRENTLY IN POWER 1106 00:29:19,658 --> 00:29:20,592 LABOUR. 1107 00:29:20,659 --> 00:29:21,593 WHICH BRINGS US BACK TO ANDY 1108 00:29:21,660 --> 00:29:22,094 BURNHAM. 1109 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:23,595 HE'S ACTUALLY BEEN A CONTENDER 1110 00:29:23,662 --> 00:29:24,196 TO LEAD THE LABOUR PARTY FOR 1111 00:29:24,263 --> 00:29:25,597 YEARS NOW. 1112 00:29:25,664 --> 00:29:26,598 HE USED TO BE AN M-P, AND EVEN 1113 00:29:26,665 --> 00:29:28,100 SERVED AS HEALTH SECRETARY FOR A 1114 00:29:28,166 --> 00:29:30,102 YEAR. 1115 00:29:30,168 --> 00:29:31,103 BUT AFTER TWO FAILED ATTEMPTS TO 1116 00:29:31,169 --> 00:29:32,104 BECOME LEADER, HE BECAME MAYOR 1117 00:29:32,170 --> 00:29:33,605 OF GREATER MANCHESTER, WHERE HE 1118 00:29:33,672 --> 00:29:34,606 MADE NATIONAL NEWS STANDING UP 1119 00:29:34,673 --> 00:29:36,108 TO BORIS JOHNSON'S GOVERNMENT 1120 00:29:36,174 --> 00:29:37,609 OVER ITS FAILURE TO PROVIDE 1121 00:29:37,676 --> 00:29:38,210 ENOUGH ASSISTANCE DURING THE 1122 00:29:38,277 --> 00:29:39,611 COVID LOCKDOWNS. 1123 00:29:39,678 --> 00:29:41,113 >> IT IS WRONG TO PLACE SOME OF 1124 00:29:41,179 --> 00:29:43,115 THE POOREST PARTS OF ENGLAND IN 1125 00:29:43,181 --> 00:29:45,117 A PUNISHING LOCKDOWN WITHOUT 1126 00:29:45,183 --> 00:29:47,119 PROPER SUPPORT FOR THE PEOPLE 1127 00:29:47,185 --> 00:29:49,621 AND BUSINESSES AFFECTED. 1128 00:29:49,688 --> 00:29:52,624 >> THIS IS AN IMPORTANT MOMENT. 1129 00:29:52,691 --> 00:29:55,193 GREATER MANCHESTER WILL STAND 1130 00:29:55,260 --> 00:29:56,695 FIRM. 1131 00:29:56,762 --> 00:29:58,196 WE ARE FIGHTING BACK FOR 1132 00:29:58,263 --> 00:29:59,698 FAIRNESS AND FOR THE HEALTH OF 1133 00:29:59,765 --> 00:30:01,633 OUR PEOPLE, IN THE BROADEST 1134 00:30:01,700 --> 00:30:03,635 SENSE. 1135 00:30:03,702 --> 00:30:04,636 >> John: YEAH, MOMENTS LIKE THAT 1136 00:30:04,703 --> 00:30:05,637 HELPED BURNHAM BECOME KNOWN AS 1137 00:30:05,704 --> 00:30:07,639 "THE KING OF THE NORTH." 1138 00:30:07,706 --> 00:30:08,640 IN FACT, HE'S CURRENTLY RANKED 1139 00:30:08,707 --> 00:30:10,142 AS BRITAIN'S MOST POPULAR 1140 00:30:10,208 --> 00:30:11,143 POLITICIAN, WITH AN AVERAGE 1141 00:30:11,209 --> 00:30:14,146 POPULARITY RATING OF 35%. 1142 00:30:14,212 --> 00:30:15,647 WHICH I KNOW DOESN'T SOUND LIKE 1143 00:30:15,714 --> 00:30:18,150 MUCH, BUT YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER 1144 00:30:18,216 --> 00:30:19,151 THE BRITISH MIND CAN ONLY HOLD 1145 00:30:19,217 --> 00:30:22,654 35% HAPPINESS AT A MAXIMUM. 1146 00:30:22,721 --> 00:30:24,156 WINNING THE WORLD CUP CAN PUSH 1147 00:30:24,222 --> 00:30:26,658 US UP TO 40%, BUT THAT'S ONLY 1148 00:30:26,725 --> 00:30:27,659 HAPPENED ONCE. 1149 00:30:27,726 --> 00:30:29,161 UNLESS, I GUESS, THEY WIN IT 1150 00:30:29,227 --> 00:30:30,162 AGAIN THIS SUMMER, SO WE'LL JUST 1151 00:30:30,228 --> 00:30:31,663 HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE EXACTLY HOW 1152 00:30:31,730 --> 00:30:33,665 THEY DON'T. 1153 00:30:33,732 --> 00:30:36,168 AND ON ITS FACE, BURNHAM WINNING 1154 00:30:36,234 --> 00:30:38,670 IN MAKERFIELD SHOULDN'T BE 1155 00:30:38,737 --> 00:30:40,172 DIFFICULT, GIVEN IT'S BEEN A 1156 00:30:40,238 --> 00:30:41,173 SAFE LABOUR SEAT FOR MORE THAN 1157 00:30:41,239 --> 00:30:42,674 120 YEARS. 1158 00:30:42,741 --> 00:30:44,176 BUT THE TRUTH IS, VOTERS THERE 1159 00:30:44,242 --> 00:30:45,177 HAVE BECOME LESS PREDICTABLE IN 1160 00:30:45,243 --> 00:30:46,678 RECENT YEARS. 1161 00:30:46,745 --> 00:30:47,679 DURING BREXIT, NEARLY TWO-THIRDS 1162 00:30:47,746 --> 00:30:49,181 VOTED TO LEAVE THE E-U, AND IN 1163 00:30:49,247 --> 00:30:50,682 LAST MONTH'S LOCAL ELECTIONS 1164 00:30:50,749 --> 00:30:52,684 REFORM WON EVERY WARD THERE. 1165 00:30:52,751 --> 00:30:54,686 WHAT'S MORE, BURNHAM DOESN'T 1166 00:30:54,753 --> 00:30:55,687 TECHNICALLY LIVE IN THE 1167 00:30:55,754 --> 00:30:57,189 CONSTITUENCY, AND WHILE SOME 1168 00:30:57,255 --> 00:30:58,690 RESIDENTS MAY FIND HIS AMBITIONS 1169 00:30:58,757 --> 00:31:00,692 FOR HIGHER OFFICE APPEALING 1170 00:31:00,759 --> 00:31:01,693 OTHERS ARE -- UNDERSTANDABLY -- 1171 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:03,195 RESENTFUL AT HAVING HIM SWAN IN 1172 00:31:03,261 --> 00:31:05,697 AND USE THEM AS A SPRINGBOARD TO 1173 00:31:05,764 --> 00:31:07,199 GET THERE. 1174 00:31:07,265 --> 00:31:08,700 >> YOU'RE GOING TO BE VOTING FOR 1175 00:31:08,767 --> 00:31:09,701 SOMEONE WHO'S NOT GOING TO BE 1176 00:31:09,768 --> 00:31:11,703 HERE, WHO'S GOT BIGGER ISSUES 1177 00:31:11,770 --> 00:31:12,704 THAN ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD 1178 00:31:12,771 --> 00:31:13,705 REALLY, SO IT WON'T BE HIS 1179 00:31:13,772 --> 00:31:15,207 PRIORITY. 1180 00:31:15,273 --> 00:31:16,208 >> WE'RE NOT HERE TO ENABLE HIM 1181 00:31:16,274 --> 00:31:17,209 TO PURSUE HIS PERSONAL 1182 00:31:17,275 --> 00:31:18,710 AMBITIONS. 1183 00:31:18,777 --> 00:31:20,712 >> I'M SURE ANDY BURNHAM IS ONLY 1184 00:31:20,779 --> 00:31:22,214 USING US AS A STEPPING STONE 1185 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:24,216 ANYWAY. 1186 00:31:24,282 --> 00:31:25,717 HE DON'T CARE ABOUT MAKERFIELD. 1187 00:31:25,784 --> 00:31:29,221 HE'S NOT LOCAL. 1188 00:31:29,287 --> 00:31:30,722 AND HE JUST WANTS TO GET INTO 1189 00:31:30,789 --> 00:31:32,724 NUMBER 10. 1190 00:31:32,791 --> 00:31:34,226 >> John: MY MOM IS RIGHT. 1191 00:31:34,292 --> 00:31:35,727 I DON'T LOVE THAT SHE'S GOING 1192 00:31:35,794 --> 00:31:36,361 AROUND GIVING INTERVIEWS ABOUT 1193 00:31:36,428 --> 00:31:37,729 ANDY BURNHAM WITH MY DAD, BUT 1194 00:31:37,796 --> 00:31:38,730 THAT'S A CONVERSATION WE CAN 1195 00:31:38,797 --> 00:31:40,232 HAVE AT CHRISTMAS. 1196 00:31:40,298 --> 00:31:41,733 NOW, TO COUNTER THAT "OUTSIDER" 1197 00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:42,734 NARRATIVE, BURNHAM'S TRIED TO 1198 00:31:42,801 --> 00:31:44,736 POINT OUT HIS LOCAL BONA FIDES 1199 00:31:44,803 --> 00:31:45,737 -- LIKE THE FACT HIS CHILDREN 1200 00:31:45,804 --> 00:31:46,738 WENT TO SCHOOL IN THE AREA AND 1201 00:31:46,805 --> 00:31:47,739 THAT HE HAS "LOADS OF 1202 00:31:47,806 --> 00:31:48,740 CONNECTIONS THERE." 1203 00:31:48,807 --> 00:31:49,741 HE EVEN RECENTLY CLAIMED HIS 1204 00:31:49,808 --> 00:31:51,243 FAVORITE WIGAN DELICACY IS -- 1205 00:31:51,309 --> 00:31:54,246 YOU GUESSED IT -- BABBY'S YED. 1206 00:31:54,312 --> 00:31:55,747 BUT REFORM SEEMS TO THINK IT CAN 1207 00:31:55,814 --> 00:31:56,748 EXPLOIT THE PERCEPTION HE'S AN 1208 00:31:56,815 --> 00:31:58,250 AMBITIOUS OUTSIDER. 1209 00:31:58,316 --> 00:31:59,251 BECAUSE THEIR CANDIDATE, ROBERT 1210 00:31:59,317 --> 00:32:01,253 KENYON, HAS GONE OUT OF HIS WAY 1211 00:32:01,319 --> 00:32:02,754 TO REMIND PEOPLE HE'S VERY MUCH 1212 00:32:02,821 --> 00:32:05,257 A LOCAL. 1213 00:32:05,323 --> 00:32:06,758 >> I WAS BORN IN MAKERFIELD. 1214 00:32:06,825 --> 00:32:07,759 IF I WAS ELECTED, I'D BE THE 1215 00:32:07,826 --> 00:32:09,261 FIRST PERSON BORN IN THE 1216 00:32:09,327 --> 00:32:11,263 CONSTITUENCY TO BECOME THE MP. 1217 00:32:11,329 --> 00:32:12,264 I DON'T THINK ANY MP THAT'S EVER 1218 00:32:12,330 --> 00:32:13,765 STOOD IN MAKERFIELD WAS ACTUALLY 1219 00:32:13,832 --> 00:32:15,267 BORN IN THE AREA. 1220 00:32:15,333 --> 00:32:16,768 I'M A PLUMBER, GAS ENGINEER. 1221 00:32:16,835 --> 00:32:21,273 DONE THAT FOR A LONG TIME, I DID 1222 00:32:21,339 --> 00:32:24,443 -- WHO GIVES ME A BIT EMOTIONAL 1223 00:32:24,509 --> 00:32:25,677 SOMETIMES REPRESENTING PEOPLE IN 1224 00:32:25,744 --> 00:32:26,278 PARLIAMENT BECAUSE IT'S A 1225 00:32:26,344 --> 00:32:29,781 MASSIVE HONOR. 1226 00:32:29,848 --> 00:32:36,855 HE SERVICED ME, LAST WEEK. 1227 00:32:36,855 --> 00:32:37,122 >> STRIKING. 1228 00:32:37,189 --> 00:32:37,789 AND WHEN YOUR OPPONENT'S BEING 1229 00:32:37,856 --> 00:32:38,390 ACCUSED OF BEING OUT OF TOUCH 1230 00:32:38,457 --> 00:32:39,291 WITH THE COMMUNITY, IT'S A 1231 00:32:39,357 --> 00:32:39,925 PRETTY GOOD COUNTER TO BE ABLE 1232 00:32:39,991 --> 00:32:40,525 TO SAY "I HAVE LITERALLY BEEN 1233 00:32:40,592 --> 00:32:41,059 ELBOW DEEP IN THIS ENTIRE 1234 00:32:41,126 --> 00:32:41,493 COMMUNITY'S SHIT." 1235 00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:42,294 THE POINT IS, KENYON'S A SALT OF 1236 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:42,794 THE EARTH GUY. 1237 00:32:42,861 --> 00:32:43,295 A STRAIGHT SHOOTER. 1238 00:32:43,361 --> 00:32:44,296 A REGULAR JOE. 1239 00:32:44,362 --> 00:32:46,298 NOT A CAREER POLITICIAN. 1240 00:32:46,364 --> 00:32:46,865 AND IF YOU HAVE THE PATTERN 1241 00:32:46,932 --> 00:32:47,799 RECOGNITION OF A PIGEON, YOU CAN 1242 00:32:47,866 --> 00:32:49,301 PROBABLY TELL WHAT I'M ABOUT TO 1243 00:32:49,367 --> 00:32:50,302 SAY NEXT, WHICH IS THAT HIS 1244 00:32:50,368 --> 00:32:52,304 ONLINE HISTORY IS A FUCKING 1245 00:32:52,370 --> 00:32:53,805 MESS. 1246 00:32:53,872 --> 00:32:54,806 A LOT OF HIS POSTS HAVE 1247 00:32:54,873 --> 00:32:56,308 RESURFACED, INCLUDING ONE THAT 1248 00:32:56,374 --> 00:32:57,309 SAYS "I'M SEXIST -- SORRY BUT I 1249 00:32:57,375 --> 00:32:59,311 AM," AND ANOTHER SAYING ENGLISH 1250 00:32:59,377 --> 00:33:00,812 WOMEN "JUST WALK AROUND WITH 1251 00:33:00,879 --> 00:33:01,813 THEIR FAT BELLIES AND ODD SHAPES 1252 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:04,816 PUSHING A PRAM AT 16 IN THEIR 1253 00:33:04,883 --> 00:33:06,318 PJ'S," ONE POST ACTUALLY CAUSED 1254 00:33:06,384 --> 00:33:07,819 THAT SAME REPORTER YOU SAW 1255 00:33:07,886 --> 00:33:08,820 EARLIER TO PHYSICALLY CHASE HIM 1256 00:33:08,887 --> 00:33:11,323 DOWN TO ANSWER FOR IT. 1257 00:33:11,389 --> 00:33:12,324 >> WHY SHOULD WOMEN IN 1258 00:33:12,390 --> 00:33:13,825 MAKERFIELD VOTE FOR YOU, ROB? 1259 00:33:13,892 --> 00:33:15,327 >> SPEAK TO THE PRESS OFFICE. 1260 00:33:15,393 --> 00:33:16,828 >> WHY DID WOMEN -- WHY SHOULD 1261 00:33:16,895 --> 00:33:17,829 WOMEN IN MAKERFIELD VOTE FOR 1262 00:33:17,896 --> 00:33:19,331 YOU, ROB, WHEN YOU SAID YOU WERE 1263 00:33:19,397 --> 00:33:20,332 A SEXIST? 1264 00:33:20,398 --> 00:33:21,833 >> CAN YOU NOT. 1265 00:33:21,900 --> 00:33:22,834 >> NO, NO, BUT WHY SHOULD WOMAN 1266 00:33:22,901 --> 00:33:24,836 VOTE FOR YOU WHEN YOU SAY THAT 1267 00:33:24,903 --> 00:33:26,838 YOU WERE SEXIST AND THAT THEY 1268 00:33:26,905 --> 00:33:29,341 CAN'T DRIVE? 1269 00:33:29,407 --> 00:33:29,975 >> John: IT'S TRUE, KENYON ONCE 1270 00:33:30,041 --> 00:33:30,842 SAID THAT WOMEN CAN'T DRIVE. 1271 00:33:30,909 --> 00:33:31,843 SO IT MIGHT BE MORE ACCURATE TO 1272 00:33:31,910 --> 00:33:33,345 SAY THAT PEOPLE IN MAKERFIELD 1273 00:33:33,411 --> 00:33:34,346 WILL BE THINKING, "HANG ON A 1274 00:33:34,412 --> 00:33:35,347 MINUTE, THAT GUY DID FIX MY 1275 00:33:35,413 --> 00:33:37,349 BOILER LAST WEEK, BUT HE THEN 1276 00:33:37,415 --> 00:33:38,850 RANDOMLY TOLD MY WIFE THAT HER 1277 00:33:38,917 --> 00:33:39,851 NATURAL PLACE IS IN THE 1278 00:33:39,918 --> 00:33:40,852 KITCHEN." 1279 00:33:40,919 --> 00:33:41,853 BUT AMAZINGLY, IT GETS EVEN 1280 00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:42,854 WORSE. 1281 00:33:42,921 --> 00:33:43,855 BECAUSE KENYON ALSO MADE A 1282 00:33:43,922 --> 00:33:44,856 CONTROVERSIAL POST ABOUT A 1283 00:33:44,923 --> 00:33:45,857 BELOVED FIGURE IN BRITISH 1284 00:33:45,924 --> 00:33:46,858 BROADCASTING NAMED CAROL 1285 00:33:46,925 --> 00:33:47,859 VORDERMAN. 1286 00:33:47,926 --> 00:33:49,361 VERY BASICALLY, FOR DECADES, SHE 1287 00:33:49,427 --> 00:33:50,362 WAS THE COHOST OF A POPULAR 1288 00:33:50,428 --> 00:33:51,363 AFTERNOON GAME SHOW CALLED 1289 00:33:51,429 --> 00:33:52,364 "COUNTDOWN." 1290 00:33:52,430 --> 00:33:54,366 AND BECAME A NATIONAL TREASURE. 1291 00:33:54,432 --> 00:33:55,867 AND KNOWING THAT, YOU CAN NOW 1292 00:33:55,934 --> 00:33:59,371 HOPEFULLY UNDERSTAND THE IMPACT 1293 00:33:59,437 --> 00:34:00,872 OF WHAT I'M ABOUT TO SHOW YOU. 1294 00:34:00,939 --> 00:34:03,375 >> SO, ON CHRISTMAS EVE, YOU 1295 00:34:03,441 --> 00:34:05,377 SPOTTED A MESSAGE SOMEBODY SENT 1296 00:34:05,443 --> 00:34:09,880 TO CAROL VORDERMAN ON HER 1297 00:34:09,947 --> 00:34:10,882 BIRTHDAY, WHICH SAID, "HAPPY 1298 00:34:10,949 --> 00:34:12,384 BIRTHDAY, CAROL, MY GOD, I WOULD 1299 00:34:12,449 --> 00:34:13,385 LOVE TO SMELL AND LICK YOUR 1300 00:34:13,451 --> 00:34:14,886 ASSHOLE." 1301 00:34:14,953 --> 00:34:16,388 NOW YOU RESPONDED TO THAT. 1302 00:34:16,454 --> 00:34:17,389 >> I RESPONDED TO A SEPARATE 1303 00:34:17,455 --> 00:34:17,889 TWEET. 1304 00:34:17,956 --> 00:34:18,489 >> YOU RESPONDED TO SEPARATE 1305 00:34:18,556 --> 00:34:19,391 TWEET? 1306 00:34:19,456 --> 00:34:20,391 SO, GO ON, CLARIFY. 1307 00:34:20,458 --> 00:34:21,893 >> SO, SOMEBODY HAD WRITTEN 1308 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:24,396 THAT, SOMEBODY ELSE HAD 1309 00:34:24,462 --> 00:34:25,897 COMMENTED ON THAT, AND THEN I 1310 00:34:25,964 --> 00:34:27,399 RESPONDED TO THE COMMENT ON 1311 00:34:27,465 --> 00:34:29,400 THAT. 1312 00:34:29,467 --> 00:34:30,902 >> SO, WHICH COMMENT WERE YOU 1313 00:34:30,969 --> 00:34:31,570 RESPONDING TO WHEN YOU RESPONDED 1314 00:34:31,636 --> 00:34:33,905 TO THE -- ABOUT THE ARSEHOLE? 1315 00:34:33,972 --> 00:34:34,906 >> John: I MEAN, IF YOU'RE EVEN 1316 00:34:34,973 --> 00:34:36,408 BEING ASKED THAT QUESTION 1317 00:34:36,474 --> 00:34:37,909 YOU'RE IN SERIOUS TROUBLE. 1318 00:34:37,976 --> 00:34:39,411 AND WHILE HE'S TRYING TO MAKE IT 1319 00:34:39,476 --> 00:34:40,411 CONFUSING THERE, IT'S ACTUALLY 1320 00:34:40,478 --> 00:34:41,413 PRETTY SIMPLE. 1321 00:34:41,478 --> 00:34:42,414 BASICALLY, SOMEONE ON TWITTER 1322 00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:43,415 POSTED, ON CAROL VORDERMAN'S 1323 00:34:43,481 --> 00:34:44,916 BIRTHDAY, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAROL 1324 00:34:44,983 --> 00:34:46,418 MY GOD, I'D LOVE TO SMELL AND 1325 00:34:46,484 --> 00:34:47,418 LICK YOUR ASSHOLE." 1326 00:34:47,485 --> 00:34:48,920 SOMEONE ELSE REPLIED CRITICIZING 1327 00:34:48,987 --> 00:34:49,920 IT, SAYING "IF YOU'RE PREPARED 1328 00:34:49,987 --> 00:34:51,422 TO POST THIS ON A PUBLIC FORUM 1329 00:34:51,489 --> 00:34:53,425 I WOULD SUGGEST YOUR COMPUTER 1330 00:34:53,491 --> 00:34:54,926 DRIVE NEEDS CHECKING," ONLY FOR 1331 00:34:54,993 --> 00:34:56,428 KENYON TO RESPOND, "HE'S ONLY 1332 00:34:56,494 --> 00:34:57,929 SAYING WHAT WE'RE ALL THINKING 1333 00:34:57,996 --> 00:34:58,930 CRY-LAUGHING EMOJI, THUMBS UP 1334 00:34:58,997 --> 00:35:00,432 EMOJI." 1335 00:35:00,498 --> 00:35:01,933 SO KENYON'S DEFENSE OF THAT POST 1336 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:03,435 WAS ESSENTIALLY, "HEY, I'M NOT 1337 00:35:03,501 --> 00:35:05,937 THE ONE WHO BROUGHT IT UP!" 1338 00:35:06,004 --> 00:35:07,439 BUT THAT'S NOT REMOTELY 1339 00:35:07,505 --> 00:35:08,940 EXCULPATORY, IS IT? 1340 00:35:09,007 --> 00:35:10,442 IT'S LIKE IF SOMEONE TWEETED 1341 00:35:10,508 --> 00:35:11,943 "HEY BRONX ZOO, YOU SHOULD LET 1342 00:35:12,010 --> 00:35:13,945 VISITORS JERK OFF THE LEMURS," 1343 00:35:14,012 --> 00:35:15,447 AND I REPLIED WITH "FACTS!!! 1344 00:35:15,513 --> 00:35:16,948 THUMBS-UP EMOJI!" 1345 00:35:17,015 --> 00:35:18,450 SURE, I MIGHT NOT HAVE 1346 00:35:18,516 --> 00:35:19,451 TECHNICALLY BROUGHT IT UP FIRST 1347 00:35:19,517 --> 00:35:20,452 BUT I DIDN'T COVER MYSELF IN 1348 00:35:20,518 --> 00:35:23,455 GLORY THERE. 1349 00:35:23,521 --> 00:35:24,456 AND TO BE CLEAR: KENYON STILL 1350 00:35:24,522 --> 00:35:25,457 HASN'T APOLOGIZED FOR THOSE 1351 00:35:25,523 --> 00:35:26,958 COMMENTS, CONTINUING TO DEFEND 1352 00:35:27,025 --> 00:35:28,460 HIMSELF, CLAIMING THAT HE'S JUST 1353 00:35:28,526 --> 00:35:29,461 AN ORDINARY PERSON WHO'S ROUGH 1354 00:35:29,527 --> 00:35:31,963 AROUND THE EDGES. 1355 00:35:32,030 --> 00:35:32,964 AND FOR THE RECORD: ROUGH AROUND 1356 00:35:33,031 --> 00:35:34,466 THE EDGES" MEANS THAT YOU DON'T 1357 00:35:34,532 --> 00:35:36,468 KNOW WHAT A CRAB FORK IS, NOT 1358 00:35:36,534 --> 00:35:37,469 THAT YOU THINK IT'S OKAY TO 1359 00:35:37,535 --> 00:35:38,470 PARTICIPATE IN INTERNET 1360 00:35:38,536 --> 00:35:39,471 DISCOURSE ABOUT A PUBLIC WOMAN'S 1361 00:35:39,537 --> 00:35:41,973 BIRTHDAY ASSHOLE. 1362 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:43,975 THE POINT IS, THIS IS THE 1363 00:35:44,042 --> 00:35:45,977 CANDIDATE WITH VEHEMENTLY SEXIST 1364 00:35:46,044 --> 00:35:47,979 AND RIMJOB-POSITIVE VIEWS WHO 1365 00:35:48,046 --> 00:35:49,981 COULD, THEORETICALLY, TAKE DOWN 1366 00:35:50,048 --> 00:35:51,983 LABOUR'S BEST HOPE OF RETAINING 1367 00:35:52,050 --> 00:35:53,485 CONTROL OF THE GOVERNMENT PAST 1368 00:35:53,551 --> 00:35:54,986 THE NEXT ELECTION. 1369 00:35:55,053 --> 00:35:56,988 AND IT'S HARD NOT TO FEEL FOR 1370 00:35:57,055 --> 00:35:59,491 THE VOTERS OF MAKERFIELD HERE 1371 00:35:59,557 --> 00:36:00,492 WHO'VE BEEN AT THE CENTER OF AN 1372 00:36:00,558 --> 00:36:02,494 ABSOLUTE CIRCUS OVER THE LAST 1373 00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:04,496 MONTH, AND WHO HAVE PLENTY OF 1374 00:36:04,562 --> 00:36:06,998 LOCAL ISSUES THAT NEED 1375 00:36:07,065 --> 00:36:07,999 ADDRESSING, FROM AFFORDABLE 1376 00:36:08,066 --> 00:36:09,000 HOUSING, TO FLOODING CONCERNS 1377 00:36:09,067 --> 00:36:11,002 TO THIS MASSIVE ILLEGAL WASTE 1378 00:36:11,069 --> 00:36:12,003 DUMP THAT MAKERFIELD'S PREVIOUS 1379 00:36:12,070 --> 00:36:14,005 M-P -- THE VERY GUY, IN FACT 1380 00:36:14,072 --> 00:36:15,507 WHO STEPPED DOWN TO LET BURNHAM 1381 00:36:15,573 --> 00:36:17,008 RUN -- HAD ACTUALLY BEEN WORKING 1382 00:36:17,075 --> 00:36:20,512 TO FINALLY GET CLEANED UP. 1383 00:36:20,578 --> 00:36:22,013 >> IT'S A GROTESQUE DUMP THAT 1384 00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:24,015 SKY NEWS HAS INVESTIGATED OVER 1385 00:36:24,082 --> 00:36:27,018 THE PAST YEAR. 1386 00:36:27,085 --> 00:36:28,520 IT WAS MARCH, ALMOST THREE 1387 00:36:28,586 --> 00:36:29,521 MONTHS AGO, WHEN IT WAS 1388 00:36:29,587 --> 00:36:31,022 ANNOUNCED THAT THE FUNDING WAS 1389 00:36:31,089 --> 00:36:33,024 IN PLACE TO CLEAR THIS UP, BUT 1390 00:36:33,091 --> 00:36:34,526 IT STILL HASN'T HAPPENED. 1391 00:36:34,592 --> 00:36:35,527 >> WHICH OF THE CANDIDATES IN 1392 00:36:35,593 --> 00:36:37,529 THIS BY -- ELECTION DO YOU THINK 1393 00:36:37,595 --> 00:36:38,530 WOULD FOLLOW THROUGH ON THAT AND 1394 00:36:38,596 --> 00:36:39,531 MAKE SURE IT IS CLEANED UP? 1395 00:36:39,597 --> 00:36:41,032 >> I WOULD SAY THAT THE 1396 00:36:41,099 --> 00:36:41,633 CANDIDATES ARE JUST FRONT MEN 1397 00:36:41,700 --> 00:36:43,034 REALLY. 1398 00:36:43,101 --> 00:36:44,035 IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT US ANYMORE. 1399 00:36:44,102 --> 00:36:46,037 IT'S ABOUT, I THINK, THE FUTURE 1400 00:36:46,104 --> 00:36:49,040 OF POLITICS IN THE COUNTRY. 1401 00:36:49,107 --> 00:36:51,543 IT FEELS A BIT MORE, YOU KNOW, A 1402 00:36:51,609 --> 00:36:53,044 BIT OVERWHELMING REALLY THAT WE 1403 00:36:53,111 --> 00:36:55,547 COULD BE PIVOTAL IN THIS. 1404 00:36:55,613 --> 00:36:58,550 AND I REALLY HOPE THAT PEOPLE 1405 00:36:58,616 --> 00:37:00,552 MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE. 1406 00:37:00,618 --> 00:37:02,554 >> John: YEAH, SO DO I! 1407 00:37:02,620 --> 00:37:03,555 AND IF THERE ARE TWO THINGS YOU 1408 00:37:03,621 --> 00:37:04,089 DON'T WANT SOMEONE TO BE 1409 00:37:04,155 --> 00:37:06,558 OVERWHELMED BY AT THE SAME TIME 1410 00:37:06,624 --> 00:37:08,059 ITS "RESPONSIBILITY FOR DECIDING 1411 00:37:08,126 --> 00:37:09,561 ENGLAND'S POLITICAL FUTURE" AND 1412 00:37:09,627 --> 00:37:13,064 "ODORS FROM A MASSIVE ILLEGAL 1413 00:37:13,131 --> 00:37:14,566 WASTE DUMP" SO WHAT HAPPENS 1414 00:37:14,632 --> 00:37:15,066 NEXT? 1415 00:37:15,133 --> 00:37:16,568 WELL, SOMEONE IS CLEARLY GOING 1416 00:37:16,634 --> 00:37:17,569 TO WIN THIS THURSDAY'S ELECTION 1417 00:37:17,635 --> 00:37:19,070 AND WHILE CURRENT POLLS SUGGEST 1418 00:37:19,137 --> 00:37:20,071 LABOUR HAS A LEAD, THAT MAY BE 1419 00:37:20,138 --> 00:37:21,573 PARTLY BECAUSE RESTORE -- THE 1420 00:37:21,639 --> 00:37:23,074 ULTRA-FAR-RIGHT PARTY THAT 1421 00:37:23,141 --> 00:37:24,075 REMEMBER, IS GOING TO SAVE 1422 00:37:24,142 --> 00:37:26,077 BRITAIN FROM KOSHER BUTCHERY -- 1423 00:37:26,144 --> 00:37:27,078 IS SIPHONING OFF VOTES FROM 1424 00:37:27,145 --> 00:37:28,580 REFORM. 1425 00:37:28,646 --> 00:37:30,582 AND EVEN IF BURNHAM DOES WIN 1426 00:37:30,648 --> 00:37:33,084 AND IS ABLE TO UNSEAT STARMER 1427 00:37:33,151 --> 00:37:34,586 HE'LL STILL FACE THE SAME DISMAL 1428 00:37:34,652 --> 00:37:36,087 ECONOMY, AND THE SAME FURIOUS 1429 00:37:36,154 --> 00:37:38,089 VOTERS, WITH ONLY THREE YEARS TO 1430 00:37:38,156 --> 00:37:39,591 FIGURE OUT HOW TO DELIVER THE 1431 00:37:39,657 --> 00:37:41,092 CHANGE STARMER COULDN'T BEFORE 1432 00:37:41,159 --> 00:37:43,595 FACING ELECTIONS IN 2029. 1433 00:37:43,661 --> 00:37:46,097 BUT IF BURNHAM LOSES, IT'S GOING 1434 00:37:46,164 --> 00:37:48,600 TO BE A FUCKING MESS. 1435 00:37:48,666 --> 00:37:50,101 I MEAN A "BABBY'S YED SPREAD ON 1436 00:37:50,168 --> 00:37:52,103 A PILE OF CHIPS" MESS, AND I 1437 00:37:52,170 --> 00:37:54,606 DON'T SAY THAT LIGHTLY. 1438 00:37:54,672 --> 00:37:56,107 A BURNHAM LOSS WOULD BE A HUGE 1439 00:37:56,174 --> 00:37:57,609 SUCCESS FOR FARAGE'S REFORM 1440 00:37:57,675 --> 00:37:59,110 PARTY, AND A HUMILIATION FOR 1441 00:37:59,177 --> 00:38:00,612 LABOUR SO DEVASTATING, THEY 1442 00:38:00,678 --> 00:38:03,114 MIGHT NEVER RECOVER. 1443 00:38:03,181 --> 00:38:04,115 AND AT THAT POINT, WITH 1444 00:38:04,182 --> 00:38:05,116 BRITAIN'S TWO LONG-DOMINANT 1445 00:38:05,183 --> 00:38:06,618 PARTIES CRUSHED, THERE'S A 1446 00:38:06,684 --> 00:38:11,122 GENUINE CHANCE WE COULD SEE 1447 00:38:11,189 --> 00:38:12,123 MONEYSHOT MCFLURRY HERE ELECTED 1448 00:38:12,190 --> 00:38:14,125 AS PRIME MINISTER. 1449 00:38:14,192 --> 00:38:15,627 LOOK, WHEN WE LAST COVERED AN 1450 00:38:15,693 --> 00:38:17,128 ELECTION IN THE UK, WE TALKED 1451 00:38:17,195 --> 00:38:18,129 ABOUT HOW IT COULD BE "AN 1452 00:38:18,196 --> 00:38:19,631 EXTINCTION-LEVEL EVENT" FOR THE 1453 00:38:19,697 --> 00:38:21,132 CONSERVATIVE PARTY, AND IT KIND 1454 00:38:21,199 --> 00:38:23,635 OF WAS. 1455 00:38:23,701 --> 00:38:24,636 BUT IT'S FRANKLY INCREDIBLE THAT 1456 00:38:24,702 --> 00:38:26,638 JUST TWO YEARS LATER, LABOUR'S 1457 00:38:26,704 --> 00:38:29,140 FUCKED UP SO BADLY, AND HAS 1458 00:38:29,207 --> 00:38:30,141 THROWN ITS OWN VOTERS UNDER THE 1459 00:38:30,208 --> 00:38:32,143 BUS SO CONSISTENTLY, THEY NOW 1460 00:38:32,210 --> 00:38:34,646 FACE THE SAME THREAT. 1461 00:38:34,712 --> 00:38:35,647 BECAUSE -- AND I'M SURE THIS IS 1462 00:38:35,713 --> 00:38:37,649 A LESSON WITH NO APPLICABILITY 1463 00:38:37,715 --> 00:38:40,151 TO U.S. POLITICS -- YOU CAN'T 1464 00:38:40,218 --> 00:38:42,153 PROMISE "CHANGE," ONLY TO TURN 1465 00:38:42,220 --> 00:38:44,155 AROUND AND CAPITULATE TO THE 1466 00:38:44,222 --> 00:38:45,657 RIGHT ON KEY PRINCIPLES YOU'RE 1467 00:38:45,723 --> 00:38:47,659 SUPPOSED TO STAND FOR. 1468 00:38:47,725 --> 00:38:49,160 BECAUSE YOU'LL LOSE PEOPLE TO 1469 00:38:49,227 --> 00:38:50,662 YOUR LEFT, AND THE RIGHT WILL 1470 00:38:50,728 --> 00:38:52,664 JUST KEEP MOVING THE GOALPOSTS 1471 00:38:52,730 --> 00:38:58,670 AGAIN AND AGAIN. 1472 00:38:58,736 --> 00:39:01,172 AND YOU'LL ONLY HAVE YOURSELF TO 1473 00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:01,673 BLAME. 1474 00:39:01,739 --> 00:39:02,207 AND IF LABOUR LOSES THIS 1475 00:39:02,273 --> 00:39:03,174 BY-ELECTION, AND WHAT ULTIMATELY 1476 00:39:03,241 --> 00:39:04,175 COMES OUT OF IT IS PRIME 1477 00:39:04,242 --> 00:39:04,843 MINISTER FARAGE, THAT'LL BE HARD 1478 00:39:04,909 --> 00:39:06,177 TO SWALLOW. 1479 00:39:06,244 --> 00:39:08,179 IN FACT, I'D GO SO FAR AS TO SAY 1480 00:39:08,246 --> 00:39:10,181 IT'LL BE THE HARDEST THING TO 1481 00:39:10,248 --> 00:39:11,182 SWALLOW TO COME OUT OF THE 1482 00:39:11,249 --> 00:39:13,184 MAKERFIELD AREA, ASIDE FROM, OF 1483 00:39:13,251 --> 00:39:18,690 COURSE, THE BABBY'S YED. 1484 00:39:18,756 --> 00:39:20,191 WE ALL KNEW IT WAS GOING TO END 1485 00:39:20,258 --> 00:39:24,195 LIKE THIS. 1486 00:39:24,262 --> 00:39:25,196 THAT'S OUR SHOW. 1487 00:39:25,263 --> 00:39:26,698 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WATCHING. 1488 00:39:26,764 --> 00:39:28,199 WE'LL SEE YOU NEXT WEEK. 1489 00:39:28,266 --> 00:39:29,701 GOODNIGHT! 1490 00:39:29,767 --> 00:39:32,203 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 1491 00:39:32,270 --> 00:39:36,708 ♪ ♪ 1492 00:39:36,774 --> 00:39:43,781 ♪ ♪ 1493 00:39:48,786 --> 00:39:53,324 THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME.