Ian Smith

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Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4 · The People Have Spoken Ep3. British Maple Syrup · 4 Sep 2026 podcast

This week Specky bus nerd Andy Burnham travelled to the active war zone of Kyiv to mark Ukraine's independence day for his first overseas visit as Prime Minister.

Fair play to Burnham.

If I was PM, I'd just be going on nice holidays and disguising it as diplomacy, desperately stressing the important economic time.

And securing an important trade deal with the Amalfi Coast.

Burnham travelled with the president of the European Council, Antonio Costa, who has clearly done very well for himself since leaving the Boyband Blue.

The government has agreed to hand over blueprints, not you, Anthony.

For British made components for the scalp missile, allowing Ukraine to produce a weapon domestically.

That's a bit like Ukraine saying they desperately need some lasagna and us sending them a Jamie Oliver cookbook.

But you know the old saying, give a man a bomb and he'll bomb for a day.

But teach a man to bomb and he'll bomb for a lifetime.

This week we also learnt that political parties are very similar to house parties, in the sense that they're pretty much over when a man brings out a guitar.

That's right.

Andy Burnham serenaded the Ukrainian troops with Rush Home Ruffians.

A Smith song about a knife fight at Manchester Fairground.

Oh, happy Independence Day, Ukraine!

Christ, it's hardly I could do, is it, brother?

Um guys, what did you think of Andy Burnham's trip to Ukraine?

Well, um, don't worry about that because none of us elected him.

I wasn't expecting harmonica

And then lies the issue.

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