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Gail Downey: UK correspondent on the UK hospitality sector warning jobs will be cut following UK budget · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Gail Downey UK corresponding with us Now, Hi, Gail, Hi there.
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  Speaker 2: Why is a gale that the hospitality seeks are so
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  Speaker 2: worried about these TEX hikes?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I guess the thing is that what they're saying
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  Speaker 3: is hospitality restaurants, bars, cafes. They've had a difficult time
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  Speaker 3: during COVID obviously and the recovery after that, and so
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  Speaker 3: they're worried because actually the National Insurance Tax, which is
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  Speaker 3: an additional tax that we pay over here on top
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  Speaker 3: of our normal tax, is going up. And also not
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  Speaker 3: only that, but businesses are going to have to pay
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  Speaker 3: the tax on employees earning five thousand pounds a year
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  Speaker 3: rather than before it had been nine thousand pounds of years.
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  Speaker 3: So basically more people are going to be brought into
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  Speaker 3: the tax bracket. They say, they're going to be disproportionately
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  Speaker 3: impact because of course going to pubs, cafes, restaurants is
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  Speaker 3: a luxury really at this time of cost of living,
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  Speaker 3: and that's what worries them.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I've got a fair argument if they've already had
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  Speaker 2: a tough They're just going to keep on having a
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  Speaker 2: tough way. Listen, what's going to happen to these guys
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  Speaker 2: who've been arrested in Amsterdam.
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  Speaker 3: All we know at the moment is that they've been detained.
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  Speaker 3: So it's dozens of pro Palestinian demonstrators and what they
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  Speaker 3: did was they defied a ban on public protests in
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  Speaker 3: the Dutch capitol. And the ban follows unrest last week,
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  Speaker 3: whether about sixty two arrests, and it was just after
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  Speaker 3: a match between Maccabee Tel Aviv and Israeli football team
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  Speaker 3: and IAX Amsterdam, obviously a Dutch football team. Yesterday, hundreds
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  Speaker 3: of pro Palestinian demonstrators. They gathered in Damn Square, which
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  Speaker 3: is a main square in Amsterdam, calling for an end
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  Speaker 3: to the conflict in Gaza, and they were very unhappy
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  Speaker 3: with the ban on public protests, so the police went in.
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  Speaker 3: They've now detained dozens of protesters. Meanwhile, the Israeli government
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  Speaker 3: has advised its citizens to, in their words, categorically avoid
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  Speaker 3: Israeli sports and cultural events while abroad, and one of
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  Speaker 3: the things they've focused on specifically is a football match
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  Speaker 3: between France and Israel, which is in Paris this coming Thursday.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, what is it that Jamie Oliver has said in
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  Speaker 2: this book that is inappropriate that's caused them to pull
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  Speaker 2: up right?
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  Speaker 3: Well? I will quote the Chief executive of the National
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  Speaker 3: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education Commission, Sharon Davis. What
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  Speaker 3: she says is the story mainly is set in England,
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  Speaker 3: but part of it goes to Alice Springs, where it
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  Speaker 3: tells the tale of a First Nations girl living in
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  Speaker 3: foster care in an Indigenous community who's kidnapped by the
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  Speaker 3: villain of the book. That's the villain of the whole book.
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  Speaker 3: And what Sharon Davis has said is that this chapter,
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  Speaker 3: which is called to Steal a Child, that it applies
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  Speaker 3: that First Nations families are easily swayed by money and
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  Speaker 3: neglect the safety of their children. Who says it perpetuates
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  Speaker 3: a racist stereotype that has been used to justify child
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  Speaker 3: removals for more than one hundred years, and that the
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  Speaker 3: portrayal is not only offensive but also reinforces damaging biases.
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  Speaker 3: Jamie Oliver has come back. He's currently in Australia promoting
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  Speaker 3: his latest cookbook. By the way, he said, he was
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  Speaker 3: devastated to have cause defense, and he apologized wholeheartedly. The
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  Speaker 3: book has now been withdrawn from sale.
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  Speaker 2: Feels like it's kind of it's like fundamental to the
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  Speaker 2: book though, So that's there, right, the book's not going
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  Speaker 2: to come back.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't seem like it. Yeah, absolutely, I mean I
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  Speaker 3: haven't read I have to confess I haven't read the book,
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  Speaker 3: so I don't know. I'm only telling you what the
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  Speaker 3: criticisms are. But yeah, it looks like it's not going
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  Speaker 3: to come back. That's it. Off the shelves, off the
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  Speaker 3: online that's it.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't feel like a small chaintey. Thank you. Gal
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  Speaker 2: always appreciateds Gal Downey, UK correspondence.
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