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Enda Brady: UK correspondent on the London pub adding an extra service charge to all drinks (1) · Best of Business

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to a podcast from News Talks. It'd be
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  Speaker 2: Fourteen away from seven and Indo. Brady is our UK
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  Speaker 2: correspondent this evening.
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  Speaker 3: Hey Inda, Hey Heather, great to speak to you. Agains.
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  Speaker 2: Did Kistamma interrupt a family holiday to go over to Washington.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, he did so. This is the second consecutive summer
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  Speaker 3: that the Starmers have had their family holiday interrupted because
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  Speaker 3: a year ago it was the aftermath of the Southport
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  Speaker 3: stabbings and all those riots across the UK. This time
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  Speaker 3: he has left the family in Scotland and gone to Washington.
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  Speaker 3: That is how important he felt it was that the
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  Speaker 3: UK be in the room or in the room next
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  Speaker 3: door while Zelensky was meeting Trump. This has been a huge,
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  Speaker 3: huge meeting last night. But I think there's still a
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  Speaker 3: lot of concern in European capitals that Putin categorically cannot
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  Speaker 3: be trusted. So we're talking and hearing about you know,
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  Speaker 3: America providing a security guarantee for Ukraine. Putin is not
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  Speaker 3: going to accept foreign boots on Ukrainian soil to keep
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  Speaker 3: back Russian forces. So let's see what happens next. But
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  Speaker 3: I guess the next step will be a meeting, a
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  Speaker 3: trilateral between Putin, Trump and Zelenski.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so what is it? I mean, Putin's going to
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  Speaker 2: have to give some ground, though, isn't he If he's
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  Speaker 2: asking Zelenski to give up all that land, He's going
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  Speaker 2: to have to give up some stuff too. Both sides
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  Speaker 2: have to give stuff up.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think what Putin will have to give up
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  Speaker 3: is give up fighting. That will have to be an
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  Speaker 3: immediate end to the war. But everyone in Europe, I
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  Speaker 3: mean people in the Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania,
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  Speaker 3: they're very, very nervous about what Putin does next. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, he's got this meat grinder mentality that he
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  Speaker 3: will just push men. He will push them over the
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  Speaker 3: front line and keep going inch by inch, week by week,
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  Speaker 3: kilometer by kilometer until he has the whole of Ukraine
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  Speaker 3: and then what. So it's fascinating that the show of
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  Speaker 3: strength from Europe last night. I think we need to
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  Speaker 3: really understand that all those European leaders in the middle
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  Speaker 3: of their summer holidays suddenly getting their act together and
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  Speaker 3: being in that room next door monumental.
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  Speaker 2: So do you not think this occurred to me today?
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  Speaker 2: Do you not think that Putin has to settle this time?
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  Speaker 2: Because what's happened is Trump has gone out, He's got
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  Speaker 2: all of this media coverage. It's been just wall to
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  Speaker 2: wall across the world.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So Trump a lot of his reputation is pinned on this.
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  Speaker 2: If Putin dixim over now, it will be humiliating for him.
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  Speaker 2: And then surely he's incentivized, this is Trump, He's incentivized
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  Speaker 2: to come after Putin and make life as hard as
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  Speaker 2: possible and crush the economy. So does Putin now not
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  Speaker 2: have skin in the game to actually settle.
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  Speaker 3: It's a very good point. But look, I think what
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  Speaker 3: Trump wants most of all is the Nobel Peace Prize.
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  Speaker 3: We know that much. And if leaders were serious about
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  Speaker 3: hurting Putin, how this could have been and should have
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  Speaker 3: been done a long time ago was massive secondary sanctions
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  Speaker 3: on people who are buying Russian oil and gas and
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  Speaker 3: keeping the Russian economy going, and that is China and India.
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  Speaker 3: And for whatever reason, people have not shown the willingness
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  Speaker 3: to go after those two countries economically as well Putin.
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  Speaker 3: The feeling in Europe from speaking to European leaders, politicians,
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  Speaker 3: diplomats for the last three and a half years. They
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  Speaker 3: do not trust him, they cannot trust him. And even
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  Speaker 3: as Zelenski was walking into the room, Russia was launching
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  Speaker 3: drawn attacks on Ukrainian civilians last night. That's all we
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  Speaker 3: need to know about what putin is.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Now, explain something to me as the London bar
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  Speaker 2: adding a four percent like a tep when you go
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  Speaker 2: up to the bar to order the drinks or for
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  Speaker 2: all drinks.
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  Speaker 3: So it's all drinks. This is a pub that's brought
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  Speaker 3: this in in Waterloo in London. Four percent. So you
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  Speaker 3: go up, you buy your beer, wine or whatever, and
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  Speaker 3: then you pay, or you go to tap with your phone.
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  Speaker 3: They've already added the four percent and then the only
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  Speaker 3: way you can get this off is if you object,
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  Speaker 3: and then the member of staff has to then go
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  Speaker 3: back into the transaction and remove the four percent. And look, okay,
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  Speaker 3: it's not going to break anyone. But it's about sixty
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  Speaker 3: cents on a pinted lagger and a larger in London
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  Speaker 3: these days is sixteen New Zealand dollars. So my question
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  Speaker 3: is are we now stealthily heading towards an American style,
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  Speaker 3: you know, bar economy, where we're tipping people for absolutely everything,
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  Speaker 3: because normally you ask someone for a tip in a
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  Speaker 3: pub in London, they'll give you the who's going to
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  Speaker 3: win the next race at Lingfield, you know with the horses.
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  Speaker 3: Are we slowly inching our way towards America kind of
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  Speaker 3: tipping absolutely everyone and yet people would say, oh, it's
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  Speaker 3: only four percent, and what they're doing it's very clever
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  Speaker 3: because pubs in London are packed, it's busy. Do you
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  Speaker 3: want to be the guy or the girl at the
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  Speaker 3: bar going oh I object to that, take that off
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  Speaker 3: and suddenly you got someone behind you saying come on, Paul,
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  Speaker 3: hurry up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no one wants to be there, Dick. Hey, thank you, Inda,
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate it. That's in the Brady UK Correspondent.
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