00:00Sometimes we have to go, come on mate, don't be silly.
00:02We'll see what Andy Burnham does when he first meets Donald Trump.
00:06Do you just take it on the chin?
00:08OK, he believes in Irish unity, or that's what he thinks he needs to say.
00:13He's flirting with the idea of the Falklands going to our...
00:16Do you kind of ignore it?
00:18Or do you stand up and say, we're not having this?
00:20It depends what it is, doesn't it?
00:21Because some of it is just, let's be honest, plain old and ex-learing.
00:25It's the kind of thing that people say if they think they'll get away with it.
00:28That's Irish unity, is it?
00:30I would have thought that's probably more where he is on the Irish unity question.
00:35And on the Falklands?
00:36Is he going to do anything about it? No.
00:38Likewise on the Falklands, you know, let's be frank,
00:41the military capability of Britain in the Falkland Islands today
00:45is radically different from what it was in 1982.
00:48We haven't had the Foreign Office itself negotiating, you know,
00:53to give it up over the last, whatever it is, five, ten years,
00:55which is what was happening before 1982.
00:57So we're in a very different position.
00:59What he's doing is he's bumping his gums on some issues
01:03that he thinks are supportive to various electoral issues for himself at home.
01:07He's got, you know, he's got elections coming up in November.
01:10He knows he's got votes to win.
01:12Is it helpful to us?
01:13No.
01:15But this is his politics, not ours.
01:17So sometimes we have to say something
01:19and sometimes we have to go, come on, mate, don't be silly.
01:21We do.
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