gb news. >> hello there. coming up in the saturday night showdown. we've got the fallout from the european elections with riots, tears, and macron saying he'll refuse to resign to preserve democracy. that's not. that's not how democracy works. emmanuel zuta law and has pride gone too far.7 kids have been arrested for leaving scooter tire marks on a rainbow crossing, and james may is among the people saying the regimented flags look oppressive . and flags look oppressive. and there's scandal at the bbc as their new head of sport , alex their new head of sport, alex k joel cauchi, claims that sharron davies and martina navratilova are not experts on the subject

of trans athlete. trans athletes will sharon wrote a book on the subject. so yeah, she is actually a bit of an expert, and going through male puberty gives huge advantages to trans athletes . they're stronger, have athletes. they're stronger, have greater bone density, and find it easier to parallel park outside the stadium. this is your saturday night showdown . your saturday night showdown. and discussing alternates topics with me are my brilliant panel. joining me are susie kennedy and justin panks. but before we get to them, let's get your latest news headlines first from ray addison . addison. >> thanks, leo. our headlines tonight at the princess of wales has resumed some public duties

as she continues her cancer treatment. crowds cheered as princess catherine appeared with the king and other members of the king and other members of the royal family on the balcony at buckingham palace, a 41 gun salute and an raf fly—past marked his majesty's official birthday following the trooping the colour parade . well, the colour parade. well, meanwhile, post office campaigner sir alan bates is among those recognised in the king's birthday honours list. the former subpostmaster says his newly awarded knighthood is recognition of the sheer hell that hundreds of post office workers went through . the pm workers went through. the pm says he'll stay on as an mp , says he'll stay on as an mp, even if the tories lose the general election . rishi sunak general election. rishi sunak said he'll fight to the last day as he responded to a question about a yougov poll which shows that reform uk has overtaken the tories for the first time. the party's leader, nigel farage, is suggesting that he can be the voice of opposition. labour is promising 40,000 extra nhs appointments a week . sir keir

appointments a week. sir keir starmer's claiming that waiting lists could rise to 10 million if the conservatives remain in office. however, experts at the institute for fiscal studies say the claim is unlikely. institute for fiscal studies say the claim is unlikely . well, the claim is unlikely. well, meanwhile, the lib dem leader has been tackling a racetrack and a trampoline as well on the election campaign trail, we have lift—off the bounce in the polls coming . campaigning in surrey, coming. campaigning in surrey, he said. he hopes that blue wall gains will keep his party in the running for the opposition . sir running for the opposition. sir ed is pledging to scrap elected police and crime commissioners to boost. he says frontline policing the prime minister has slammed president putin today for failing to attend a ukraine peace conference. rishi sunak is among more than 90 western leaders attending the event in switzerland. they're hoping to put pressure on russia to end the war. >> putin has no interest in a

genuine peace. he's launched a sustained diplomatic campaign against this very summit, ordering countries to stay away . ordering countries to stay away. and we should ask, why does russia feel that they are so threatened by a summit? discussing the basic principles of territorial integrity, food security and nuclear safety? instead, russia's representative at the united nations recently said the only topic for any international meetings on ukraine will be the unconditional surrender of the kyiv regime . kyiv regime. >> and finally, the home secretary has called for a full and urgent explanation after a police car rammed a cow in west london and a warning that the footage we're about to show you does contain images of that injured animal. the vehicle hit the cow in feltham before knocking it to the ground a second time. surrey police has acknowledged that the incident caused distress , and confirmed caused distress, and confirmed that it's been referred to its professional standards

department. the force says the cow suffered a large cut to its leg and is being seen by a vet. for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. com slash alerts now straight back to . leo. straight back to. leo. >> thank you ray and cows must be indestructible. i thought that cow was dead for sure. anyway, welcome to the saturday night showdown. i'm joined tonight by the comedians justin panks and susie kennedy. now the left wing establishment received an absolute drubbing in the european elections across europe. people voiced their displeasure . open borders, net displeasure. open borders, net zero, rising islamic extremism and an accelerating slide into a really rubbish version of communism . in france, the communism. in france, the national rally, led by marine le pen , which sounds like an pen, which sounds like an enclosure for sea life but is actually a right wing political party, stormed to victory, winning more than twice as many votes as president macron's own

party. i'm sure french leftists tookit party. i'm sure french leftists took it well, though. after all, they're the kind, tolerant people, aren't they? well, french progressives went new and seemingly smashed up shops and looted in areas that are perceived to have voted right wing and some leftists didn't have the energy to burn down small businesses in the name of democracy , so they just cried democracy, so they just cried instead. woohoo macron said he wouldn't resign no matter how badly his party did in the general election. is the establishment ignoring democracy here panel? what do we think are they say about trump? >> because, well, no, it's the thing that it's like it just seems to be the way of the world now that we champion democracy until it doesn't go your way and nobody seems to nobody seems to accept defeat, and then everyone seems to accuse their opponents of not accepting defeat. >> yeah, but i want to go back to that girl crying at the fridge. that's. i've done that in a hotel. when you see the price of the minibar in the morning, you know, you clean the fridge. you're like £8.50 for a

mini tube of pringles. >> i thought she was crying because, i mean, you could see the background of that kitchen. i mean, i know, i know, they're in the continent. yes, but, but that was not a clean. that was not a clean house. and she was probably crying because she had a tea towel on her shoulder as well. >> i don't i usually cry when i'm in europe and i have breakfast because it's just a croissant and coffee and juice and that's breakfast. that's not breakfast. >> bowl of , where's the hot >> bowl of, where's the hot chocolate? >> where's the beans and the mushrooms? where's the black pig's? so i'd cry over that. they realise they've got a continental breakfast at their airbnb. >> you know, you vote, you get to this point now where people are voting for something. >> there's no sort of like a dirty word or sort of like, was it populism ? yeah. what's the. it populism? yeah. what's the. were you supposed to vote for things you don't like? it's like you can't vote for things that are popular to you. you need to vote for unpopular things that i agree with. >> well, this this is the thing. >> well, this this is the thing. >> because right wing politicians are always smeared as populists. yeah as if as if appealing to what people want, as you point out, some kind of, you know, that's what gauche and disgusting. but really it's the socialists who are being populist because they're telling

people, oh, we're going to take all the money of all those evil rich people, and we're going to give it to you. that's the thing that people want to hear. they're like, oh, we're going to we're going to increase all the free stuff you get from the from the government without actually telling people, actually, that's not free stuff. that's stuff. we take other people's money and then spend it really badly and then spend it really badly and then give it to you. so really it's the left or the, the populist. of course it is. who say, oh, there's going to be some tough decisions. the thing is, you have to do some nasty things. they're they're the ones who aren't being punished. >> it's like when things are as bad as they are, and i think we can all agree it's a it's a horror show at the moment. it's basically you're going to have protest votes, aren't you? i think they just want change when things are like they are. everyone's just going to vote for change. and i don't even think it's a left versus right thing with a lot of people vote. they're just like, we need a drastic change. >> yeah. and it's interesting in denmark and sweden, which were two of the countries in europe that didn't see this big swing to the right. they have sort of centrist governments that have already implemented tough immigration or tough there

immigration or tough there immigration rules. so then people didn't need to sort of do that. you know, the trouble is the establishment, the left wing establishment have just ignored polls have repeatedly revealed that people don't want open borders. they want immigration. but, you know , at a at a but, you know, at a at a reasonable, sustainable level and from culturally similar places. so our establishment is just ignored that across the west for, for years and now they're now they're on the reward. >> but they haven't got left wing policies. i think that's the problem. where we've gone wrong is we haven't got left a left wing party. yeah we've got a party that kind of anarchy. yeah. they dictate what the pubuc yeah. they dictate what the public should be doing and the pubuc public should be doing and the public are saying, but we don't want that. and that leaves these other parties to come to come in because i don't really i definitely don't want le pen. i don't i think i think because i think that her policies are really. that's truly right wing y. >> which, which one in particular, the fact that she's saying that if she doesn't think that you are, french enough, she'll take your citizenship ?

she'll take your citizenship? >> i think that's really dangerous, because if you're starting to go down these right , starting to go down these right, you know i'm not. but it's because macron is so bad and this is the thing. >> it's like she le pen is just looking at, removing citizenship for people who've been convicted of, horrific offences or, or that sounds good or subscribing to, but how far dangerous ideologies. so if you're if you're an islamist, you're a hate preacher or you you know, you go to i agree with that. >> so but that's how it starts. so that's what she's telling you. but when he says a hate preacher, what is your classification of a hate preacher? because as we've seen you saying that you don't think a man is a woman is considered hate speech. so you've got to be really careful when people say, oh, we're going to do this. you 90, oh, we're going to do this. you go, oh, i like that because i don't like this hate preacher. but then somebody else could come along and say, actually, you've just said something really hateful. i think that's a good point. >> i think the irony is, and it's like a catapult, it's like you pull it back this way and then you release it. the more it flings the other way. yeah. like i saw the polish guy. i saw him in an interview talking about. now poland aren't heading towards bupa right wing because they're sort of more. it's like when you have this sort of like open borders, let anyone in and the things and people like, you know, i've sick of the cost of

living and you are going to blame. that's what they do, isn't it? yeah. you know, we're going to go further, right. because it's gone so far. left. yeah.i because it's gone so far. left. yeah. i mean that's so you sort of if you don't keep it around the centre, you're going to get these extreme swings either way, it's never good. historically. >> and in belgium, the establishment blamed the swing to the right when people being too stupid to for vote the correct parties. i'm not joking. according to the expert , it's according to the expert, it's the right wing party vlaams belang, which is a cool name. sounds like an 80s pop star. scored better in areas where more people without university degrees live, while environmentalist left wing party gruen did better in places with more highly educated people. but that doesn't show that smarter people vote left wing. it shows that universities are now communist indoctrination camps, and they're very successful at it. although phil marks to that paper for actually somehow saying stupid flanders. now, but see this is the argument, isn't it? >> if you don't agree with someone immediately , you're someone immediately, you're stupid. yeah. >> smilk smear tactics. >> smilk smear tactics. >> we saw this after brexit as well. >> oh, yeah?

>> oh, yeah? >> yeah, exactly, exactly. you're racist. and remember everyone was saying, oh, not everyone was saying, oh, not everyone that votes brexit is racist, but all racists vote brexit. it's like, well, all smug people vote remain. i said that yeah that's right. >> you know those people who voted remain are smug but all smug people of course. >> is it though? so if you say to someone i don't agree with you, you're stupid. yeah, i actually think that we've got open borders is quite dangerous when you're racist. i actually don't think that any man. like if you just put on a dress. justin, i've got to call you a woman. i just think that's right. well, you're transphobic. so the thing is, is because we've used these terms and just, like, watered them down. yeah. you've got to the point where that racism is the most disgusting thing ever. but that word is just throw it. it's like the word nazi. stop using that word. it's so offensive to people that that lived under nazis. >> the boy who cried wolf. yeah well, there was some good news for the left in italy. the far left antifa member eliana salas won at the time , she was in jail won at the time, she was in jail in hungary awaiting prosecution for charges relating to attempting to murder right wing people with a hammer, but here she is in the guardian. oh.

look. she's smiling. it is a nice, cosy sweater on. you wouldn't know that. she'd been part of a gang that were hitting people in the head with hammers because they looked a bit right wing. and even the telegraph, which is an ostensibly, conservative newspaper, called her an italian antifa . wokeist. her an italian antifa. wokeist. it sounds almost romantic, as if she's zipping around italy on a vespa, putting up posters and waving her hands around, doing some sexy arguing. well, she's now been released under political immunity rules because she's been elected to the european parliament. but can you imagine anyone on the right who went on a spree with a hammer whacking people in the head? i mean, i can't show the picture because it's horrific, but, you know, somebody had big debts taken out there. >> people are saying in america that trump shouldn't be allowed to run because he's falsified a little court. you know, whatever . yeah. >> yeah, exactly. >> yeah, exactly. >> it's so double standards, isn't it ? isn't it? >> just a little, little court. >> just a little, little court. >> well, it is compared to hitting someone with a hammer, isn't it. >> it's like a it's like a technicality compared to someone, but it's just the hypocrisy that the thing is this the left wing , you've got to the left wing, you've got to handit the left wing, you've got to hand it to them. they're so good at branding. yeah. like antifa.

sounds like anti—fascist. who's going to black lives matter ? going to black lives matter? who's going to disagree with that? >> they're good at slogans. exactly. >> but the sort of antifa. >> but the sort of antifa. >> we're anti—fascist. >> we're anti—fascist. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> everyone is where they were running around hitting people were hammers. they're actually fascist, right? yeah. that's what fascists did. >> that's what they, you know, if like, right wing, i don't know, like the kkk, if they rebranded as the don't kill kitten group, then maybe it's just like you just pick you call your you call your sort of organisation saying that no one can disagree with and then you can disagree with and then you can do what you want. it seems like they think, yeah, even kim jong un hammer time. >> hammertime. that's a good name for antifa. but even kim jong un does it. like with a democratic republic of north korea. yeah. it's democratic. that's. >> yeah. anything with that sort of thing. >> the people's republic is never is, is it? it's always like a complete sort of always like a complete sort of always like the fat rich guys republic , like the fat rich guys republic, anyway. but yeah, it's nuts in this country when right wing people put up stickers, they get arrested and sent to jail for two years. it's crazy, anyway, coming up, we will assess the week's winners and losers in cursed or blessed . this week, cursed or blessed. this week, richie's assistant takes a gamble. a left wing journalist

tries to smear an old woman, and a celebrity gets misgendered . a celebrity gets misgendered. the horror. and we'll show you what happened when these firefighters inspected a sewer pipe. what did they discover? find out in a couple of minutes

welcome back to the saturday night showdown. castor blessed is coming up. but first, i promised i would show you what happened when those firefighters inspected a rather large sewer pipe. let's take a look . pipe. let's take a look. for anybody listening on radio, that was some sewer workers in russia. apparently who opened up

a sewer pipe and found a man somehow wedged in there. i think what had happened was a child had been given a pet human for christmas, and then it got bigger, like the ninja turtles. they flushed it. >> they flushed it down the toilet. you see alligators in florida, you know what i mean? >> oh, he took a detour at the water slide and he's gone down the wrong pipe. it was clean, though. >> yeah, that's the weirdest thing. it must have been an inlet pipe rather than an outlet pipe, inlet pipe rather than an outlet pipe, i mean, i remember there was no water in it at all, because, i mean, i guess he didn't. russia. he didn't suffocate, but. yeah, i wonder where he went. terrifies that terrifies me. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> apparently he's a sewage worker who climbed inside the pipe worker who climbed inside the pipe and got stuck and then tried to wiggle to get out and just made himself even more stuck. >> oh, yeah. no, that's that's give me anxiety . yeah, just give me anxiety. yeah, just thinking about that. >> anyway, it's time now to go through the winners and losers of the week. matt smith went viral this week for passive aggressively calling out superm for misgendering his co—star in house of the dragon, emma darcy. now emma is a woman, but

pretends to be non—binary. they them to be annoying. it's a made up thing. she's a woman. anyway, let's take a look . let's take a look. >> she gave you all the credit for that? >> well, i mean, i can't take the credit. i have to say they are. aren't they brilliant? i mean, i don't know what you've seen this year, episode wise, can't. >> i can't work out the multi—layered security interruption thing. >> i absolutely brilliant, i bet. and, wait for it. you're in for a real treat with emma this yeah >> how many times can you say they. yeah some people have applauded saying that matt is a true ally. and sue perkins was forced into posting a grovelling apology, saying it was a mistake. i had loads of stuff going on in my earpiece. i know the feeling. sue. so wasn't as focused as i should have been. no excuses though, these things matter and i feel terrible about it. i'm a massive fan of their work and would never want to be disrespectful . i mean, come on, disrespectful. i mean, come on, this is what he was talking about. >> a group of people. yeah, that's not a good word, is it? >> it's not a singular word. >> it's not a singular word. >> yeah. if i was watching that, i'd be thinking, who are they? >> i've only seen one person, but that was so cringe. >> rebecca reminded me, if

you've ever been on a speed awareness course, there's that one person that wants to get every question right. yeah, it's like he was awarding himself some imaginary gold star. yeah, it's like. and the thing is, can we. i've been thinking this a lot recently. they call it inclusive. it's actually exclusive language. it's about saying , have you read the memo? saying, have you read the memo? are you down with are you sort of like subscribing to this cult? because if you're not, you're not one of us. yeah. and it was a bit like beatniks did it was a bit like beatniks did it by saying daddio and calling each other cats. and it's a way of sort of like. and that's what it's really. he went so over the top with it there. yeah. >> and it's like a linguistic bear trap. it's this cerebral version of having to like, you know, rub your stomach. >> and when you've been saying they means more than one. yeah. because i had it. i actually did a gig once, and there was a non—binary person in the front row, and i kept i called them she a couple of times, and i thought i was going to get lynched, but it's like it's like, you know, you can't expect people to just get it like that. yeah. you, you speak a certain way for 40 odd years. oh, no, you don't speak like that anymore. it's like, oh, come on, give me a chance. yeah. >> and also, what if you're, you

know, you've got you're making dinner for someone and this, you know, you've got to use the pronouns or whatever she's saying. >> there's five people coming. >> there's five people coming. >> in fairness though, i do make so much pasta. i can't monitor pasta. so they can come round for pasta because i make about enough for about ten also. >> so sue perkins isn't a, you know, she's a bigot. >> yeah. she's not a famous bigot. >> she she's not jeremy clarkson, is it? she's just she's clearly a slip of the tongue. and to be fair, he didn't really reprimand her, but he he sort of did that thing sort of like, one of the cool cats. and you're not. yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but just just a bit. i'm a bit sick of men telling us what women are anyway, so , you know, he should anyway, so, you know, he should just. he could have just said emma, couldn't he? yeah he could have just kept saying emma this emma, they they was making a point of it. it was. >> or because i mean, one of the, one of the things that eddie izzard does because he's obviously a bloke but you know, he does this whole day them nonsense as well or i think he's a, she. yeah. >> it's got my name, he does. yeah like the thing that he does is he says i'm not really that bothered because obviously people are going to get it wrong because he looks like desperate

dan, this is the thing you've got the thing. >> the trouble is like, you know, i've you know, i've misgendered people when i've spoken on the phone. >> they point at me for, you know, oh no, no, but i worked in a call centre and it was no picnic, like some customers would ring. >> they'd be like from the north. yeah. and like this woman answered and went, hello. and i went , hello sir. she went, it's went, hello sir. she went, it's madam. that was it. i actually misgendered , but genuinely misgendered, but genuinely misgendered, but genuinely misgendered someone. she didn't care. >> yeah, but the thing is, 20 years ago, because when i worked in call centres and stuff, you know, you'd have people and it would be, you know, 40 cigarettes a day. >> yeah, exactly . no, it's >> yeah, exactly. no, it's because they were born a fella. and, they need attention because they. >> he's not even. that's just. >> he's not even. that's just. >> it is. this is the thing your pronouns. >> you shouldn't be allowed to pick your own pronouns. no, not for you. they're for other people to describe you when you're not there. it's like trying to pick your own nickname. you can't pick your own name. >> no, it's true, and i've noficed >> no, it's true, and i've noticed this is with the thing where if you control language, they can control. >> people can control, not saying they i mean them. i don't mean this person, but they can see how confused they get. it's like they can pick, oh, you got to call me this. you can't call me that. but i'm going to call you gammon. i'm going to call

you gammon. i'm going to call you this. >> yeah. you mean they are in charge of all language? >> you decide what i've got to call you and you can call me what you want. yeah, yeah. it's like if you control the language, you control the minds, i guess. >> yeah. no gammon and proud here. >> anyway. anyway, moving on. we've got a video that went viral of an 80 year old woman allegedly telling an interviewer to go back to her own country. i say allegedly because the interviewer claimed that she was told to go back to her own country, but at no point in the video was she actually told to go back to her own country. but let's take a look at a clip of it anyway. >> so what would you say about someone like me who's mixed? would you say that enoch powell had the right idea about someone like me? well not just you. >> it's everybody else that's come in into it. >> what would you prefer for people like me ? people like me? >> just not where you are, not to come here? i'm not. i'm not being personal. really? >> no, no, this is this is really useful . really useful. >> i really feel that, you know, i watched this whole this whole video, and you know, i'll write the women says, you know, a few

things that are maybe, you know, a bit old fashioned, a bit old fashioned . old fashioned is fashioned. old fashioned is a good word for it, you know, i mean, because she's an old woman, she's 80 years old. >> yeah. you expected she didn't like. >> she doesn't just graduated from a gender studies degree. you know, she hasn't dyed her hair pink. >> and if that's what, how far you've got to go to find someone saying stuff like that who's just basically someone from a bygone era. yeah and just sort of like, i would i would not take that not being nasty to the woman. yeah. i would not take her opinion on anything. i don't care what she, she, you know, she would say, look, suet pudding is better than curry. i was like, no, i don't don't agree with anything she says. yeah totally bygone era targeted. >> they're targeting i see this on this a lot on the internet especially that i won't say their name. maybe we can't say their name. maybe we can't say their name, but they literally target. they know what they're looking for. yeah, they go up to people that they and they say things like, i'm not judging that woman's intelligence because i don't know her, but their targeting a certain demographic of people. yeah. to try and get vulnerable. vulnerable. vulnerable. yeah, exactly. she's a vulnerable, elderly lady who doesn't, you know, you say they them to her

and she's going to expect a lot of people to turn up. yeah. >> yeah, exactly. yeah. >> yeah, exactly. yeah. >> it's just cruel and she's entered into the interview in good faith and she's being honest. >> and the stuff that she's saying, i mean, she might not articulate it as perfectly as somebody like, you know, douglas murray might, but she's this stuff that she's saying isn't particularly radical. she's just saying, i mean, obviously over her 80 years, she's seen the country change a great deal and she's seen some of the, you know, the sectors in violence, the internecine conflict that we get, you know, between, different ethnic groups that have come to, to the uk, as you've seen the terrorism, the she knows nothing about that woman. >> so she knows nothing about that, that woman you don't know anything about her family. >> all it is, is she just hasn't got this like i said, the memo about the modern language and how you have to use words. you just thought like she's just someone from a bygone era. yeah. i'm not excusing her opinion, but why would you put that out? >> yeah, and it's like, you see, susie is a gotcha interview. >> somebody on twitter summed it up. they said, this is this is what you do. if you want to do one of these. gotcha interviews, you go to a rundown post

industrial constituency, identify a working class individual who may struggle to articulate their instincts, ask articulate their instincts, ask a vague, condescending question about immigration, derail their reply with non—sequitur, irrelevant factoids . pretend irrelevant factoids. pretend you've got no idea what they're talking about, and deliberately misinterpret them. pull a horrified, shocked face, the camera plaster the footage all over social media to humiliate them. right? a disingenuous follow up piece about the far right, and then bask in overwrought praise and sympathy from fellow leftists. i mean, that just seems what i said to you. >> yeah, you said i saw the whole thing at the start. >> she said, i'm not voting. yeah. what does it matter? well, she says, really? yeah. if you didn't stick a microphone in her face, no one would have known what she thinks. >> what she really needs to do is actually vote. she needs to get out there and vote for her. >> i just think represents her. >> i just think represents her. >> maybe that apathy is why the country is that someone should take these people on. >> i really do, because if that was like, i mean, my mum would never be interviewed on the street, she'd be like, nope. yeah, but if that was a member of my family that someone did that to and targeted them and put them on the internet . yeah. put them on the internet. yeah. i don't know if there's any lawyers watching. i'm not

legally minded, but this has got to be something done about this because that's someone out there, that's someone's family. and they've been their words have been changed. and it's and it's cruel because these things that get a million viewers just walked into a trap get exactly . walked into a trap get exactly. it's and it's abuse and it's not be elder abuse. >> yes . >> yes. >> yes. >> in fairness i mean she's not she's not being particularly misrepresented apart from that claim that she told the interviewer to go back home, which she didn't, you know, she but specifically you said it's gotcha. >> where is the where is the win in getting a gotcha over this woman? yeah, exactly . you could woman? yeah, exactly. you could get some lunatic on a night bus and just interview them and go, oh, they said this really weird things like, yeah, of course they did their mental. this woman is old. she's got, like, really old fashioned, antiquated ways of talking. yeah, she probably thought she probably doesn't think it probably sounds worse than it does, because you just use an old fashioned language . yeah, it used to be language. yeah, it used to be acceptable. yeah. blunt, maybe. >> and bullying. and anyway, we'll move on now. and you're probably aware that one of rishi's closest assistants, craig williams, placed a £100 bet on the date of the election being announced. he's very lucky

because, incredibly, he won what are the chances he should buy a lottery ticket? unfortunately for craig, the bookies reported it and he is now under investigation . but rishi sunak investigation. but rishi sunak has refused to say if craig had been told the date of the election before he placed the wager. now this is a potentially criminal investigation so we can't speculate as to guilt or innocence. but i've just got to ask how did they know who it was ? he's not famous. do you think bookies just have pictures of politicians on the wall? if anybody walks in from any political party, they know not to. >> not to say though, i love it. i love the fact that he did that. i just think it's so cute. i know, i know, it's a criminal. they're saying it's criminal. but just to think like, well, we don't know. >> we don't know if he did it. he's still under investigation. >> but isn't it like, doesn't he earn enough money already? >> why only a hundred? >> why only a hundred? >> why only a hundred? >> why would you only stick a hundred on a sure thing? but i just think i don't know. is this a conspiracy? that seems like a complete smokescreen ? do you complete smokescreen? do you think it's just like a such a small little thing? like £100 on andifs small little thing? like £100 on and it's criminal? and if he

has. but i think , why is it has. but i think, why is it criminal? >> because it's inside information inside him. yeah. yeah yeah. >> but it's like you think like nancy pelosi, he's she's the most successful stock trader ever. >> eveh >> she's just incredibly good at stocks. but she's not very good at politics. but this guy is wrong . wrong. >> isn't this like a sacrificial lamb like, oh, you know, we'll have this court case about this. and so you think, oh, we do police insider trading when actually they know that's all it is. that's all it is. >> but don't you think it's just it's one of those things. it's like another nail in rishi sunak's coffin , which is to be sunak's coffin, which is to be honest, at the moment it's about 99% nails. it's you know, he's he started the election off the started campaigning off in a hole and he's just continued to keep digging. i mean, this is this is something that should have been it should have been such a, if it did happen stuff like this should be tight and taken care of. and, you know, people shouldn't be placing bets. and also, yeah, it was only for £100. it's not a life changing what the odds were. >> i'm just interested. >> i'm just interested. >> it was 5 to 1 apparently. or 4 or 5. 4 to 1. 4or 5. 4to 1. »- 4or5.4to1. >>i 4 or 5. 4 to 1. >> i should have put more. you put well, you know he was going to win or if he did it, but he

like someone who did that sort of thing. >> but if you know you're going to win, surely you must have had more than £100. >> i know i would if i'm going to risk a criminal investigation. >> that's one of the ones where you would do it's hypothetically, you would do a thousand to every bookies. >> yeah. you'd spread it around, go in with a beard. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> of course you would. >> of course you would. >> get your wife to go in. yeah, exactly. >> with a page. could have a beard. oh come on. yeah >> do them, send them in. yeah. send them in on mass. well yeah. >> yeah. because if you, if you're a non—binary , you could you're a non—binary, you could lay, several different bets because you're several, several different people all at once. >> yeah. i wonder if he identifies as somebody else. does he get charged? >> well, he's probably going to try to. >> no. >> no. >> well, i just think it's just one of them stories. oh, look, we know we would police it. i just think it's a sacrificial offering to distract from all the other stuff. >> the one thing i do like about this is rishi hasn't thrown him under the bus. rishi could have come out and said, oh yeah, no, sorry. he knew this is bad. and like , maybe she's got a bit on like, maybe she's got a bit on it himself. do you think rishi was splitting it? i can't imagine going into like betfred either and going, what are your

odds on when the sky bet could have been. >> it could have been sky bet. >> it could have been sky bet. >> it could have been sky. >> it could have been sky. >> there are many, but it's not. you don't really fit in with the blokes in there are you? maybe. >> yeah. yeah, maybe. that's why it was suspicious and maybe that's why it got flagged up. if you're going in for a specific weird like, can you turn this racing over to the news channel? >> well, go on, go on. sort of like cheering on the election anyway, next on the saturday night showdown, we've got culture corner. >> it's a pride special. and speaking of safe bets, we've got the trans athlete. absolutely trouncing the female competition. plus i'll show you what happened when one bungee jumper was not jumping forjoy . jumper was not jumping for joy. bungee jumping. what could possibly go wrong? stay tuned and find out after

break. welcome back to the saturday night showdown. culture. coroner is coming up next. but first, i promised i would show you what happened when this bungee jumper

went wrong. let's take a look . went wrong. let's take a look. >> so, guys, that is a bungee jump >> so, guys, that is a bungee jump rope that snapped. >> don't worry, don't worry. the crocodiles, that eater are absolutely fine. no, she she's fine. i mean, i say fine, she was obviously a bit knocked up and she's literally now a they. >> because she's in loads of pieces. >> that's like roadrunner when the coach would like fall and then he'd step off it and when i thought, i bet does that work? >> but planes crashed. >> but planes crashed. >> if you should step off at the last minute, say what she hit the water and then it snapped. >> well, yeah. so she she she she was pretty much near the bottom of the, you know, the spnngy bottom of the, you know, the springy bit, the down springy bit. i think that's the technical. >> yeah. yeah yeah, yeah. >> yeah. yeah yeah, yeah. >> and, yeah, she just spring it back up and it snapped. and then she fell quite a long way into the water. and then because it's in zambia. so it's the i believe it's the victoria falls. so she

was getting dragged into these waterfalls into these rapids. and she's got 30m or 30ft of rope still attached to her legs and her legs, her legs. >> dangerous. >> dangerous. >> is this the legs of parasites? yeah. and a and a bungee rig that's been put together by zambia and literally crocodiles as well. >> she said that morning she'd seen lots of crocodiles in the water. so can you imagine the amount of terror? i mean, never mind the terror you get from a normal bungee jump, but from a bungee jump like that. >> i mean, that's not good for business, is it? no, no, for the bungee business. yeah >> that's like, i don't know so much because we live in the instagram age. i bet everyone wants to go there now. >> really? yeah, because they do works. wife >> well, no. >> well, no. >> no parade is in full floor. and the rainbow pride flag is the universal flag of the west. you'll see it in every shop, every government building in 2024 and every zebra crossing. now looks like the rainbow bridge to valhalla. governments have spent fortunes on pride crosswalks, labour run hounslow

council splurged nearly 50 grand on for just pride council splurged nearly 50 grand on forjust pride crossings council splurged nearly 50 grand on for just pride crossings when chiswick high road. i'm sure they didn't have anything better to spend money on. there's been a spate of vehicle based pride crossing. defacing is going on as well, some with their truck trucks, wheel spinning on them like in this video here. this is in america and also children have been at it too with their pesky little scooters. three kids were actually arrested in america after making tire marks on a pride crosswalk and are now facing ten years in jail, which seems a little excessive. i mean, do you think the pride flag is now become this sort of like symbol that can't be criticised? it's become we've almost become an emblem of anti—big tree. >> even if you don't, you know, it's lost. that sort of meaning, isn't it? yeah. but the thing is, like, you know, like with in america, they're very sensitive about the flag. like, you mustn't put it on the floor if you don't. >> why is it on the floor? >> why is it on the floor? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> don't paint it all over the

roads. >> i mean, this is the thing. it's very hard to not walk in it or. exactly. >> it's so disrespectful place to put a flag, isn't it? yeah. >> it's like i've got a good idea though, because i think there's a way we can make the two sides come together and we've got a pothole problem. right so why don't we just have pnde? right so why don't we just have pride? potholes. so all the potholes get filled with pride. colours with rainbow. yeah. so everyone who wanted the potholes filled, they're happy. all the gammons, they're all happy because they're all like potholes and potholes. all the queer community are happy because they've got pride flags everywhere. and then everyone's in. >> but did you see when the horses wouldn't walk across? >> no. yeah >> no. yeah >> so what, they're going to lock them up. >> they've been big bigoted horses. the police are going to come and ram them like that. cohen. exactly. >> but yeah, the apparently lime bikes because, you know, they've got gps on them. so they know where they are. >> all you have to zap in, don't you? >> yes, you have to. you have to zap in. but they've now disabled them on pride crosswalks in america or this particular pride crosswalk. so, you know, within a certain radius of this pride crosswalk, your lime scooter will just stop working so you won't be able to go onto it and do any.

>> this is the start of like, blade runner. you have electric cars. oh, you can't go to that. yeah, they're just going to turn things off. >> so horses and lime bikes are homophobic. >> they need to be banned. well the horses are homophobic. >> they're definitely. >> they're definitely. >> that's why they live in stables . they refuse to live in stables. they refuse to live in homes. but the lime bikes, that's their trenton . stop that's their trenton. stop people doing any homophobia by stopping people riding them. but to be honest, if i was riding along in my line bike, they go quite fast and then all of a sudden, all of a sudden it just stopped and threw me off because we were getting to a rainbow in the road. i wouldn't be delighted. >> but you think it's a crime though. >> but the thing is, if you had any any thing painted on the road, it's going to be a good place to do doughnuts because i'm going to show up more. >> yeah. so i don't know. you can't automatically i don't think you should jump to it's homophobia. yeah. and all they're saying paint on the road. i want to deface it like people paint on anything, don't they? >> more of these because if they're stopping the lime bikes from going, because all the crime at the moment in london is on these electric bikes, right? they're skidding around. so we just need loads of pride flags all over the pavement. yeah. and then every time you get your phone out, just go and make a

call on a pride flag. >> yes. and then you go home playing it when you're a kid. >> yes. it's like, yeah, home base. >> it's you're there. >> it's you're there. >> the pride flag isn't i mean, this is the thing people say the pride flag is just about inclusivity or, you know, against bigotry or whatever, but it's not. some people see it as incredibly bigoted because, you know, for example, lesbians have seen have been thrown off pride marches because the trans people marching on the on the march didn't agree with them . so didn't agree with them. so there's, you know, there's a lot of schisms within the sort of. yeah. >> because the more letters of the alphabet that get added, the broader that church gets, the less in common you're going to have, aren't you . have, aren't you. >> yeah. yeah. it's now like, you know, an a is asexual. >> yeah . asexual. >> yeah. asexual. >> yeah. asexual. >> why do you need to be on there. >> they're not discriminated against. >> yeah i don't know who they. what is that like you know they don't want sex at all. >> no. yeah. they're literally. why are you. >> so what are you going to go down like down compton street like in a, in a tank top bar where you're not allowed to have sex in. >> it's like that's most bars. >> it's like that's most bars. >> yes. every bar in norfolk. yeah >> and there was scandal at the

bbc this week. don't worry. the kids are safe. this was the bbc's recently appointed head of sport , alex kay joel cauchi, who sport, alex kay joel cauchi, who came under fire for claiming that sharron davies and martina navratilova are not experts on the subject of trans athletes. this to led accusations of misogyny for the bbc head of sport, and it's also wrong. sharon has written a book on this subject , so it was actually this subject, so it was actually a bit of an expert, she wrote on x, which is what twitter is called now. for some reason it's changed its pronouns. i have written to tim davie at the bbc for an explanation of the obvious misogyny, suggesting martina and i, with over a combined 100 years in elite women's sport, aren't experts in women's sport, aren't experts in women's sport. sharon's book is called unfair play because trans athletes who've been through male puberty do have an advantage in sport. they're stronger, have greater bone density, and find it easier to parallel park outside the stadium. if you want to have an idea of how unfair it is to have biological males performing in women's sport, have a look at this clip from april of a trans athlete competing against women. >> you see gallagher later on in

the relays. great knees, great drive quickly, ladies. quickly . drive quickly, ladies. quickly. >> and people will genuinely see there's no trans athletes don't don't have an advantage that that runner was literally about a mile ahead of them. >> and like i said, it's all well and good. saying it's a theoretical thing. but there are , you know, in america especially, there will be biological females missing out on college scholarships because they come second to that. yeah, that, you know, the think of the women who don't get a space on there's actual real world consequence. and anyway how can that martina navratilova navratilova not be an expert. yeah. because she was way ahead of the curve on getting misgendered surely because she was jacked. yeah she was i mean i would have looked. yeah. >> what you can do to like you know get the veins to pop out your forearms like that. oh no. >> in fact, my whitbread was the other one. they were very, very. >> i just can't think it's really like as a woman i love

you guys. right. but as a woman , you guys. right. but as a woman, i'm sick of men telling women they're wrong . yeah. so, yeah, they're wrong. yeah. so, yeah, we've got a train, right? yeah >> stick to subjects, you know, iron and that she . iron and that she. >> they know about sport. they know about women's sport. yeah. and man's telling them you don't know. >> well, this is the thing. >> well, this is the thing. >> i just think like that's misogyny. >> how why why have we got to a point now where you can only sort of comment on your own? we can't appreciate common humanity, like, okay, like why are you not an expert ? because are you not an expert? because you're not a trans athlete. but that doesn't mean you're not an expert in sport. >> yeah. who's he to say they're not? >> i don't know, it's just silencing people, isn't it? saying well, you can't talk about it because you're not directly involved. i am directly involved. i'm a woman in sport. >> and also sharron davies or martina navratilova. could go double trans. they could be, trans identifying , woman who trans identifying, woman who identifies as a man who then identifies as a man who then identifies back as a woman. and so the double trans. so then they are qualified to, you know, to i mean, the question here, though , the question is where's though, the question is where's all the men going into to trans

trans men going into male sport. >> it's not there. yeah. and it's not there for a reason because we'd lose if i suddenly if me and you had a race and i'm really not fit and i don't think you are, you're still going to beat me. not fit in that way. sorry to your wife. you're fitting that way in the athlete way. but it's not. this is about women's sport. and with respect to trans people , you want to to trans people, you want to identify, that's fine. but the most common sense thing is, is that i can't be a male person . that i can't be a male person. yeah, i'm not gonna go because there's leah thomas hasn't been allowed . allowed. >> good. so it's you have all these arguments, everyone falls out and gets like, angsty over it. and then in the end they go, oh, actually, he can't compete. well, of course not. we knew that all along. why did we all have to pretend to go through this whole roller coaster ride of falling out and bigot in people? you know what i mean? yeah. >> anyway, next on the saturday night show down, it's clown world. plus, i'll show you what happened when two women thought it was a good idea to drink champagne on horseback. see how ended up right after this break.

>> no. ready?

>> welcome back to the saturday night showdown. clown world is coming up. but first, i promised i would show you what happened when two women thought it was a goodidea when two women thought it was a good idea to start drinking champagne on horseback. let's take a look. >> now. ready one, two. oh >> now. ready one, two. oh >> i love it. the bottle of champagne just jets off for anybody listening on radio. >> that was two women on horseback. one of them pops open a bottle of champagne and the horse gets spooked and throws them both to the ground. but neither of them are hurt. >> the horses remain. >> the horses remain. >> yeah. or the horses anyway. anyway, we've only got a few minutes, so let's start with clown world. this this week we start with someone struggling with timekeeping. she says that those she has, she's she's late to work. she has time blindness and that accommodations must be

made for her terrible affliction. let's take a look . affliction. let's take a look. >> so i just got yelled at for asking a very reasonable question . so i'm applying to go question. so i'm applying to go somewhere, and i just wanted to know, are there accommodations for people who struggle with time blindness and being on time? you know, and then the person i was with interrupted and acted like i was asking something else. and then when we were done , they actually started were done, they actually started yelling at me and saying that accommodations for time blindness doesn't exist. and if you struggle with being on time, you'll never be able to get a job. >> so basically, she's late to work. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and she said, you can't be late to work. and she's like, but have time blindness. so i'm, i'm going to be late to work. is this just an example of an entitled i think i think it's real. >> i'm sorry. i have time blindness. >> yeah, it's actually called. it's called a tides optimist. oh. is it. yeah. it's got a real name. yes it's tides optimism. it's people who always think they've got more time than they have. they've got more time than they have . and always late. i'm always. >> i'm the other. i'm always early. >> oh no that's oh that's fine. you can be early to work because i get panicky. >> so yeah i'm like that super early for everything. >> yeah. because she said there's solutions to this. >> and i'm like, what? what

possible solution could there be to you needing to be at work and not being at work that just yeah, there's not going to fly if you're a waitress. >> and not for the first two hours of the restaurant being open. there's no waitress. yeah. how does it work? yeah, you've got to be there. i don't know what she does, but it's just everything's as a condition . everything's as a condition. it's just. you're just rubbish. you're just rubbish . yeah. you're just rubbish. yeah. you're just rubbish. yeah. you're just rubbish at turning up to work. no, but you've got. there are other ways, susie. you're early. >> and also because we've got, we've got a society that, you know, accommodates people in every possible way. it's like oh, what pronouns do you have? you know, what special thing can we do for you? what neurological conditions can you make up and diagnose yourself with? so, you know , she's grown up in that know, she's grown up in that environment. so now she obviously thinks, oh no, i don't need to actually be. >> and i would like to be the first to congratulate you, leo, @gbnews for being very supportive of the time blind community, because we've got the fourth member of the panel, actually, that's a box you've ticked, isn't it ? ticked, isn't it? >> yeah, we're doing it to get arts council funding anyway , arts council funding anyway, another woke bombshell for you. next doctor zahid pranjal, a

senior academic at the university of sussex , has university of sussex, has claimed that making students sit traditional exams is racist and exposes colonial biases. critics however, have said that the doctor st giles' claims are just the latest sign of a general dumbing down of education. i mean, isn't this academic actually being racist by claiming that, you know, he seems to be implying that only white people can. >> you know, this all started with when it was like, oh, everyone gets a medal at sports day. yeah, it's like now. so if you did an english exam and you can't speak english, they're like, well, we should let them pass because yeah, you know, it's racist to say that because you can't speak english, that you can't speak english, that you can't speak english, that you can't get an english degree. yeah, that's what you're doing. that's what you're being measured in. yeah. but it's just like this . i don't know, it's like this. i don't know, it's just i can't i'm really rubbish with numbers. i've got like dyscalculia, like i'd failed maths, but. so you didn't demand that you pass maths because you're terrible at numbers but you're terrible at numbers but you don't want to feel bad. no, i don't feel bad because i took it, though i quite like it. >> i think we should be. i think instead of race it should be

called sexist. so if i don't pass my exam, it's because of sexism. >> so if i don't pass my exam, is it anti tall scottish person ism? >> well they actually say that the school system doesn't favour boys because boys are more experiential, whereas women are much. girls are better at sitting and learning. so the whole school system is actually sexist against men. >> yeah, apparently because men are underperforming , terribly, are underperforming, terribly, so terribly. >> so girls at school always underperform sitting and listening. and that's how women learn. apparently it's more female suited boys do things and everyone's now been diagnosed with adhd because, oh, a six year old doesn't want to sit for five hours and just stare at a teacher . yeah, yeah. it's like, teacher. yeah, yeah. it's like, of course he doesn't. that's not that's not natural. >> yeah. it feels like the medicalisation of these conditions that previously would have just said , you know, all have just said, you know, all right, stop running about and sit down. now, they can be diagnosed with adhd or whatever. yeah, exactly. it's almost given people and it is saying it's like like when i was young, like if you had if i swore i didn't say i've got tourette's, it would be like you get slapped around until you stop swearing. >> yeah. so but now it's like, oh god, oh god have had it. and

they go, oh, i can say, and you know, if you said someone said to me, you can swear as much as you like when i was like, basically what i do for living. >> now they diagnose people in scotland anyway, right up next tonight it's mark dolan. tonight. what have you got for us? this evening, mark? >> well, leo, a busy show. >> well, leo, a busy show. >> my mark meets guest is nasty nick cotton from eastenders . in nick cotton from eastenders. in my opinion, a labour mp can't go to the hustings because she knows the difference between a man and a woman . and in my take man and a woman. and in my take at ten gb news and three years of glorious broadcasting, will we still be here in three years time? my verdict at ten. wow three years already? >> well, there's obviously going to be a nuclear war over the next three years, so i don't think we will be here. but anyway, that's all for the saturday night show down tonight. thank you so much to my brilliant panel comedians justin panks and susie kennedy. so check them out and i'll see you again next week. and don't forget headliners as well. tonight at 11 pm. >> looks like things are heating

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