Political Earthquake In Uk

A couple of other things out of Australia before I forget. Annika Wells, who you may remember, communications minister, she got herself in a pile of trouble because they've got this weird thing where they get family travel, or what they call officially family reunion travel. And she sort of did a whole lot of travel, one of which her most famous trip was the 1900 trip to New York. And a lot of people questioned that. But anyway, on Friday, she was told to repay 10,000 dollars because she picked her husband up, and I think she might have picked up one of her kids on the way anyway. They went to the grand final of the football, the AFL, and so she's got told to give 10,000 back. But it's it's rife right around Australia because I'm reading also over the weekend that a doctor uh charged taxpayers. These are the sort of these um what you would call locums here, but um they they did a big report in New South Wales, the Auditor General, and the Auditor General's report um found significant and persistent weaknesses in the processes for 8,000 visiting medical officers. So one doctor charged them three and a half million dollars, which is the equivalent of five full-time jobs in a single year. So just three and a half million dollars, please, and of course they paid it. One doctor charge 9,250 hours, which is actually impossible given it would be the equivalent of working 25.3 hours a day. And overall, New South Wales spent 1.32 billion dollars on that nonsense until they had a look at it and worked out they've been ripped off. So uh then we come to Wales, which was sort of the forgotten story. Scotland. So you all know what happened with uh one uh with reform over in Britain over the weekend. So in Scotland, uh Swinney's back to talking about independence again. He wants another vote on independence to sort of this time he's saying you can't let reform take over the country. So let's have a vote on independence, become independent. Remembering, of course, a number of years ago they had one, they lost. So you would have thought that was the beginning of the medal and the end of it. So he's busy arguing that. Meantime in Wales, uh, they've never not been run by Labor ever. Until now. And so the Labour Party got absolutely decimated and played Cam Rhee. They won 43 of the 96 seats. So that's six short of a majority. They're going for a minority government, which will be interesting to see how that goes. My summation, uh, we're talking a Rod about it tomorrow. My summation was the Greens didn't appear to do as well as they thought they were going to. Certainly, their hot spots of inner London, they picked up a few, but nothing like I thought that they were thinking they were going to do. So reform did what was expected, plus some. Labor got annihilated, and this is a really interesting thing for me, as for all the attention that's on Starmer, who may well be rolled overnight. Uh, we'll be interesting to see if he's still in a job tomorrow morning. But um for all the attention that Labor got, the Tories got whacked as well. They just didn't get whacked as badly, and the reason they didn't get whacked as badly is they didn't have as much to get whacked with, because of course they've been going backwards for a number of years now. And so they got whacked again. So Nigel's whacking the Tories and he's whacking Labour, and he's seems to be on a roll. But anyway, more from Rod tomorrow morning. Nine minutes away from nine.