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UK Column News — 8th May 2026 · UK Column Radio

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon.
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Speaker 2: It's Friday, the eighth of May twenty twenty six, just
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Speaker 2: after one o'clock. Welcome to the UK Colin News. I'm
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Speaker 2: your host Mark Robinson. Joining me in the studio today
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Speaker 2: is Patrick Hennixon.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back, Patrick, it's great to be with you, Mike.
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Speaker 2: And by video link we're joined by Basil Valentine as usual,
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Speaker 2: now a letter in the program, we're hoping to be
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Speaker 2: joined by Frank Romero from the Global s Flatola. We'll
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Speaker 2: be reporting on the head of virus incident, the hypocrisy
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Speaker 2: of the UK and other countries, on the safety of journalists,
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Speaker 2: and Basil will be bringing us yet anow they're dose.
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Speaker 2: Sorry for the pun of in case you missed it,
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Speaker 2: but we're going to begin today with the election results.
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Speaker 2: And if we just put the statistics on screen here now,
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Speaker 2: these are about forty five minutes out of did so.
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Speaker 2: In fact, the Liberal Democrats have won a few more
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Speaker 2: seats and have moved ahead of the Tories, but clearly
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Speaker 2: the winners are the Reform Party so far. The losers
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Speaker 2: are absolutely liber But Basil, at this point the Greens
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Speaker 2: are doing not so well as I expected.
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Speaker 3: Hello Mike, Hello everyone, great to see you today. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: On the face of it, Reform have done extremely well.
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Speaker 4: Nigel Farage saying that this pivotal moment in British politics,
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Speaker 4: we can certainly talk about the end of the two
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Speaker 4: party system. Back in nineteen fifty one, ninety seven percent
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Speaker 4: of all people that voted in the general election that
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Speaker 4: year voted either Conservative or Labor. Those days are behind us.
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Speaker 4: We're in a new multi party era with effectively five
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Speaker 4: major parties Reform, the Greens, the Liberal Democrats, Conservative and
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Speaker 4: Labor of course, and the fifth of those, arguably Liberal Democrats,
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Speaker 4: are currently as you said, in second place in terms
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Speaker 4: of seats one to date. It would appear to be
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Speaker 4: a disappointing night for the Greens, but most of their
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Speaker 4: key targets are yet to report. But whereas some national
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Speaker 4: polls had them beating Reform into second place, it's clear
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Speaker 4: that their support remains rather patchy. But geographically they have
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Speaker 4: just won the mayoral contest in the London borough of Hackney,
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Speaker 4: which was one of their key targets. They've won that
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Speaker 4: from Labor. But beneath the surface, just looking at the results,
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Speaker 4: believe it or not, Reform may well have topped out
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Speaker 4: Peter Kellner points out that behind their impressive tally of gains,
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Speaker 4: which is likely to end up more than a thousand,
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Speaker 4: fans should be privately concerned because in last year's local
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Speaker 4: elections Reform forty one percent of all seats contested across England,
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Speaker 4: and on today's because it looks like they're going to
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Speaker 4: win more like a third of all the seats contested,
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Speaker 4: so not as good a result as last year for them. Nevertheless,
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Speaker 4: if we can go to my slides now, it's a
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Speaker 4: bad night for Keir Starmer. In particular, Lord Dave Watts,
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Speaker 4: former leader of the Parliamentary Labor Party who served in
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Speaker 4: government under Gordon Brown, says it's clear we need a
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Speaker 4: change of leader. Andy Burnham must return to Westminster. He
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Speaker 4: was writing in the Huffington Post in an article which
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Speaker 4: I'm sure he had prepared in advance of the election.
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Speaker 4: And he's not the only one. Number of other Labor
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Speaker 4: MPs are saying that Starma is the problem and he's
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Speaker 4: got to go. I mean, for sure, he's a big problem.
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Speaker 4: He's got absolutely no charisma whatsoever, no principles or anything else,
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Speaker 4: and will come on to his lack of principles and
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Speaker 4: how that's hurting him in a But for now, let's
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Speaker 4: have a look at the second slide. Yeah, there we are,
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Speaker 4: and this is Ed Milliband again, a report from before
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Speaker 4: election day saying that Starmer needs to set out a
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Speaker 4: timeline for his resignation. He'll be underlining this point. But
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Speaker 4: Angela Rayner, where's streeting? Their own constituencies have performed very
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Speaker 4: badly for Labor, so it's not as if there's a
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Speaker 4: Labor stronghold somewhere where an incumbent MP has been able
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Speaker 4: to carry the local elections on the basis of their
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Speaker 4: personal popularity. Even in Manchester, where of course Andy Burnham
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Speaker 4: is met but doesn't have a seat in Parliament, they've
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Speaker 4: done badly. Nevertheless, as a former leader, Ed Milliband's voice
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Speaker 4: still carries some weight and he's lining up behind the
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Speaker 4: Midiband must Go crowd.
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Speaker 3: Nearly three in five.
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Speaker 4: Members of the general public thinks Startmer should quit over
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Speaker 4: the losses. This is researched by j L Partners, which
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Speaker 4: has found that sixty one percent of voters in Wales,
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Speaker 4: fifty eight percent of those in England and fifty six
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Speaker 4: says Wales again, but I'm sure that Scotland think the
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Speaker 4: PM should resign. Labor expected to do particularly badly in Wales,
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Speaker 4: but where of course, for decades they were the natural
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Speaker 4: party of government. They had that stronghold amongst the mining
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Speaker 4: communities in the south of Wales, in particular, where most
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Speaker 4: of the votes are. That's all completely disappeared. Clyde Cumbery
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Speaker 4: only existed in the Wells speaking parts of the North
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Speaker 4: and West Wales. But Clyde Cumbrie may well eclipse Reform
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Speaker 4: to become the largest party in the Senate. I've only
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Speaker 4: just started counting there within the last couple of hours,
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Speaker 4: so we won't know for some time. But Wales now
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Speaker 4: a battle between applied Coumery and Reform, believe it or not.
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Speaker 4: Next up Ian Lavery, former Labor Party chairman. He's another
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Speaker 4: particularly strong words from Ian Lavery, former party chairman. Speaking
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Speaker 4: to the World at one today, he said Starmer could
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Speaker 4: kill the Labor Party and that the most effective thing
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Speaker 4: he could do would be to have an organized withdrawal
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Speaker 4: from his leadership and hence Prime Minister. I firmly believe,
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Speaker 4: he said, and I am among many others in the
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Speaker 4: party that the party could cease to be in the
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Speaker 4: immediate future.
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Speaker 3: Well wouldn't that be a wonderful thing.
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Speaker 4: We cannot have stability when we're sixteen percent in the
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Speaker 4: polls and witnessing annihilation. He thought that there would be
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Speaker 4: a leadership election in the coming weeks. Lavery, a left
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Speaker 4: winger who was a prominent Corbin supporter, along with John
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Speaker 4: McDonald and Mariam Eslam Dowst, the Transport Union leader, said
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Speaker 4: that that Starmer's got to go, and the Guardian pointing
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Speaker 4: out there that his language is pretty strong, but the
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Speaker 4: man himself is defiant. I'm not going to walk away,
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Speaker 4: he says, as Starmer.
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Speaker 3: Says.
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Speaker 4: Starmer has for og Hale's this historic shift. The results
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Speaker 4: are tough. They're very tough, and there's no sugarcoating it.
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Speaker 4: We've lost brilliant labor representatives across the country. These are
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Speaker 4: people who put so much into their communities, so much
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Speaker 4: into our party. We've had a series of economic shocks
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Speaker 4: in recent years, he said, and there's a very difficult
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Speaker 4: international situation at present. They know that, but they still
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Speaker 4: want their lives to improve. They still want to see
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Speaker 4: the change that we promised. They know the status quo
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Speaker 4: is letting them down, and they're frustrated. They don't feel
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Speaker 4: the changes. Well, I'm not quite sure what these changes
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Speaker 4: are that Starmer's referring to. That people aren't feeling sufficiently,
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Speaker 4: sufficiently strongly. Other labor MPs this morning have said that
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Speaker 4: they feel the need for change amongst the country. Well,
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Speaker 4: we had changed two years ago, didn't we. But obviously
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Speaker 4: they're not the right kind of change. It's extraordinary how
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Speaker 4: this amorphous word which can be interpreted in so many ways.
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Speaker 4: You know, change, you know, change your clothes to you know,
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Speaker 4: completely many we have the globe, the Tony Blair Institute
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Speaker 4: for Global Change, believe it or not.
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Speaker 3: But in what direction?
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Speaker 4: But to go back to Starmer and his problems, research
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Speaker 4: from a University of College London's Policy Lab says that
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Speaker 4: voters feel Starmer has a discomfort with progressive values. This
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Speaker 4: from international human rights lawyer Key fights that the government
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Speaker 4: could pick included a more robust challenge to Donald Trump
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Speaker 4: and a more passionate defense of environmentalism. Apparently, Mark Steers,
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Speaker 4: director of the Policy Lab, said, Keir Starmer came in
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Speaker 4: on a wave of frustration with politics as usual and
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Speaker 4: a promise of change. There it is that keyword again.
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Speaker 4: There's no hiding from the frustration voters feel with his
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Speaker 4: time so far. Some of this can be put down
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Speaker 4: to his personal style about the reports suggets, it's also
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Speaker 4: due to his discomfort with progressive values. The party in
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Speaker 4: politics that is able to tap more effectively into the
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Speaker 4: core values of their potential supporters might do better in
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Speaker 4: this newly polarized age. Examples given by the reports authors
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Speaker 4: include Starmer's decision not to join the Iran war, which
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Speaker 4: was welcomed by voters, but which they said needed to
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Speaker 4: be accompanied by a strong value statement about why the
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Speaker 4: war was wrong, rather than technocratic explanations about legality. Well,
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Speaker 4: the point is that Starmer and his Labor Party don't
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Speaker 4: have any values. They have no core principles other than
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Speaker 4: the acquisition of power for its own sake, and of
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Speaker 4: course they're robust defense of the state of Israel, regardless
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Speaker 4: of what genocide or crimes against humanity it commits. Plus,
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Speaker 4: of course they refuse to renationalize the water boards or
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Speaker 4: railways as they as Starmer has promised in the past,
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Speaker 4: and refuse to undertake any meaningful redistribution of wealth either,
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Speaker 4: which used to be a core labor policy going back
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Speaker 4: to the end of the Second World war. Meanwhile, they're
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Speaker 4: privatizing the NHS, so we don't know what they believe in.
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Speaker 4: This is the problem, and the reason for that is
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Speaker 4: because they don't believe in anything, Mike.
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Speaker 2: Well, indeed, Basil, they don't seem to believe in anything
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Speaker 2: except for the continuation of exactncy and agenda that was
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Speaker 2: in operation under the Tories. And you know, another example
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Speaker 2: of the complete lack of change here is you know
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Speaker 2: the last couple of how many prime ministers we have
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Speaker 2: in the last parliament, and it looks like we're heading
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Speaker 2: in the same direction. We change our prime ministers every
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Speaker 2: six months or so because there are no there's no
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Speaker 2: actual direction here other than to continue unpopular policies that
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Speaker 2: nobody actually is interested in.
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Speaker 1: Let us, stock is running low apparently, and the produce
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Speaker 1: section absolutely, Basil.
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Speaker 2: I noticed that the turnout for this was six forty
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Speaker 2: seven percent somewhere around that, which is higher than usual.
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Speaker 2: So I just wonder what your thoughts are on whether
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Speaker 2: this actually is any indication of what we might see
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Speaker 2: in the upcoming general election in a couple of years time,
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Speaker 2: or whether there's enough time between now and then for
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Speaker 2: this all to change once again.
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Speaker 4: Well, first, of all, your reference to stock makes me
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Speaker 4: think of the Labor Party as a failing retailer who,
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Speaker 4: in order to try and boost sales, are going to
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Speaker 4: change the dummy in the front window, but the stock
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Speaker 4: in the backgroom remains exactly the same. One thing to
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Speaker 4: point out on this spectacularly high turnout, forty six percent
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Speaker 4: is unprecedented for local elections, which I think indicates a
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Speaker 4: voter's frustration with politics. You know, they do want change,
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Speaker 4: they want something to change, hence the you know, multi
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Speaker 4: party plurality that we're now seeing. It's worth pointing out
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Speaker 4: the first past the post system, which we continue to
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Speaker 4: use for local and national elections in this country is
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Speaker 4: increasingly badly serving us.
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Speaker 3: There's a tipping point.
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Speaker 4: It's just over thirty percent, and it doesn't matter how
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Speaker 4: many parties there are contesting, depending on your national distribution
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Speaker 4: of votes. You start getting above thirty percent of the
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Speaker 4: popular vote in a five party split and you can
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Speaker 4: win a majority in parliament. As Labor demonstrated a couple
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Speaker 4: of years ago. Reform will be hoping that that tipping
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Speaker 4: point is in their direction next time around, and that
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Speaker 4: there's going to be a left of center split. Although
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Speaker 4: I hesitate the call the Labor Party left of center
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Speaker 4: in any way, shape or form, but a perception in
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Speaker 4: the public sye anyway that Labor are left of center.
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Speaker 4: Between Labor and the Greens, possibly your party if they
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Speaker 4: get their act together. Finally at the next general election,
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Speaker 4: which would open the door to reform, because of course
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Speaker 4: last time round Reform got half a million more votes
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Speaker 4: than the Liberal Democrats, but only five seats.
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Speaker 3: The Liberal Democrats got seventy two.
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Speaker 4: Liberal Democrats support again quite regional, but holding up very well.
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Speaker 3: They've made gains.
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Speaker 4: At every local election for the last five rounds and
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Speaker 4: you know, still very much pitching in there, so to speak.
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Speaker 4: But a lot of people, even polytimebeing the Guardian now
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Speaker 4: saying that first past the Post has had it in
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Speaker 4: Britain and with five parties, all of them are wanting
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Speaker 4: a share of power. The system simply can't cope. It's
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Speaker 4: broken now in terms of that next general election. World
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Speaker 4: Turkeys don't vote for Christmas, so there's no way Labor
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Speaker 4: and peace for all. They might want to ditch Kear
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Speaker 4: Starmer and change the dummy in the shop window, you know,
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Speaker 4: have a different mannequin, perhaps with a different different hand
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Speaker 4: up the back, you know, operating the ventriloquist dummy. They're
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Speaker 4: not gonna they're not gonna bring down this government. They've
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Speaker 4: got a something majority and they all want to carry
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Speaker 4: on drawing their salaries for the next three years, thank
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Speaker 4: you very much. So for all the public are dissatisfied
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Speaker 4: and indicating that they've had enough. You know, Maggie Thatcher
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Speaker 4: had some terrible local election results when she was a
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Speaker 4: leader of the Tory Party. It doesn't change anything, and
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Speaker 4: we're stuck with this slot for another three years. Even
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Speaker 4: if they do change the figurehead, which is looking I
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Speaker 4: would say this morning slightly more likely than it did
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Speaker 4: this time yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Love that they just don't feel the change. What's wrong
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Speaker 1: with the electorate. They're just not feeling the change. Well,
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Speaker 1: they're feeling it all right, but it's basically spare change
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Speaker 1: that they're feeling in their pockets right now with this economy.
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Speaker 1: So that's another big issue that none of these parties
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Speaker 1: are going to really address properly.
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Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, no, buzz. Let's just end this segment then
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Speaker 2: with a quick video clip. I've got to say, at
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Speaker 2: least it was a red fist video clip.
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Speaker 1: In the end, but just introduce this.
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Speaker 4: Well, this was itv Anglia interviewing a newly successful reform
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Speaker 4: candidates just being elected. We don't have his name, unfortunately,
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Speaker 4: but this was what he said.
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Speaker 5: Our message is you keeps here working hard with local communities. Sorry,
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Speaker 5: reformers here working hard with local communities. And we have
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Speaker 5: been doing this for the last fifteen years, from the
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Speaker 5: UKIP days all the way through to reform.
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Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean, let's face it, reform is to
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Speaker 4: all intents and purposes, you keep rebranded. It's Nigel Farage's
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Speaker 4: party and there's no doubt this morning that you know,
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Speaker 4: the bandwagon that he hopes will take him to number
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Speaker 4: ten Downing Street is still rolling.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Basil, thank you for that night.
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Speaker 2: We're just going to do a quick shuffle of the
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Speaker 2: running order here and go straight to the flotilla situation, Bazil,
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Speaker 2: because we have been joined by frankment Romana and I
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Speaker 2: so just introduced this if you could.
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Speaker 4: Yes, this time last week we hope that Frank would
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Speaker 4: be able to join us from the flotilla. But last week,
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Speaker 4: of course, the boats were intercepted off the coast of Crete.
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Speaker 4: Frank is back aboard. Now I'm pleased to say. He's
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Speaker 4: an activist and academic, one of the organizers of the
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Speaker 4: flotilla seeking to bring at least a symbolic, if not
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Speaker 4: hope and significant amount of aid to the Beleagan population
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Speaker 4: of Gaza.
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Speaker 3: And Frank joins us. Now live from one.
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Speaker 4: Of the boats aboard the flotilla off the coast of Greece,
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Speaker 4: somewhere in the Mediterranean, and we're keeping some about exactly
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Speaker 4: where Frank, for obvious reasons.
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Speaker 6: Thank you. Can you hear me?
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Speaker 4: Okay, I can hear you now, Frank. Yes, that's great.
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Speaker 4: We've lost your picture, but I can hear you.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: I don't see the picture either. But the main thing
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Speaker 7: we've thought we couldn't see me in the picture anyway.
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Speaker 7: It seemed like I'm on the bow of the boat.
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Speaker 7: And the reason why is the motor. We've had the
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Speaker 7: motor because the wind. It's a sailboat, but the windows
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Speaker 7: died down and we ended up lagging in the foot.
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Speaker 7: You where now about over a thirty boats. But you're right, Basil,
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Speaker 7: and nice nice to see you.
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Speaker 6: Patrick.
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Speaker 7: We were definitely intercepted and went to a real of
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Speaker 7: a hellish shit at thirteen Prison Boat, which is that
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Speaker 7: infamous commando group which usually does the intercepting, and also
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Speaker 7: they send them in to places like Al Shifa hospital
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Speaker 7: inside when they really need someone a group to clean up,
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Speaker 7: and they certainly cleaned up Al Shifa when they just
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Speaker 7: literally masacred everyone and killed babies in crib. It's one
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Speaker 7: of those tough commando groups, but we were trained to
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Speaker 7: not provoke them.
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Speaker 6: But the prison ship was really hellish, you know.
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Speaker 7: And we'll get to that suffect for questions, but the
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Speaker 7: main thing is we're back on board another ship and
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Speaker 7: we were able to group and freet and not hang
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Speaker 7: our heads too low, even though we are concerned about
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Speaker 7: Thiago and Safe being the only two people that were
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Speaker 7: held by the ship and that were transported to Israel
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Speaker 7: in a prison. But trying all we can, and I'm
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Speaker 7: glad you've allowed me this platform, Basil and Patrick to
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Speaker 7: share experiences and hopefully and entice or encourage people to
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Speaker 7: get out there and really pressure Israel to release these prisons.
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Speaker 4: You know, I believe Tiago's mother died while he's being
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Speaker 4: incast rated. He may not even be aware of that.
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Speaker 4: And the two of them are now on hunger and
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Speaker 4: thirst strike. So last week you were taken off the
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Speaker 4: boat that you were on by Israeli command. Those transferred
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Speaker 4: to a prison ship. You were then allowed to make
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Speaker 4: your way to Crete, while those two, because they are
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Speaker 4: leaders of the Flotida, they were transferred to an Israeli dungeon.
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Speaker 7: Am I right, absolutely right, And really this prison ship
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Speaker 7: was a form of a dungeon itself. It was really
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Speaker 7: containers looked like railroad guards perspective of sort of the
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Speaker 7: type of cars that would that took many Jews from
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Speaker 7: from France East western Europe into the death camps. This
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Speaker 7: whole we were surrounded by these kind of looked like
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Speaker 7: railroad car type of containers and they were flushing the
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Speaker 7: place with water all the fact that it was constantly wet,
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Speaker 7: so we're sleeping in a wet area, and they were
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Speaker 7: constantly pounding on the metal side, so we wouldn't get
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Speaker 7: any sleep. And so in Thiago rightfully, so generated a
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Speaker 7: very massive well all of us. We were about one
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Speaker 7: hundred and eighty one prisoners massively chanting to release six
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Speaker 7: people because before that, including safe, six people were at
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Speaker 7: random basically ganged from our our.
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Speaker 6: Dungeon and placed in too enfinement.
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Speaker 7: He said, uh, so we were transported crazy force. We're
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Speaker 7: not going to cooperate these commandos unless they released our
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Speaker 7: six comrades, and so we were kind of resisted when
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Speaker 7: they came in, but they literally pulled us out, you know,
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Speaker 7: they you know, they they pointed to us and threatened
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Speaker 7: physical violence and they.
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Speaker 6: Pulled the woman a woman pulled.
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Speaker 7: A woman into this cell area ten feet by our
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Speaker 7: hair and kicked people. They were broken noses, broken ribs,
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Speaker 7: there were concussions.
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Speaker 6: Uh, there there were all types of injuries. They were
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Speaker 6: shooting this.
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Speaker 7: Weapon, uh kind of a crowd control a bit of
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Speaker 7: a whole understand about about.
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Speaker 6: An inch and bleeding.
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Speaker 7: So this was threat just transport us about so they
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Speaker 7: really forced them into these boats commanded uh uh you
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Speaker 7: know that were reganized by the Greek government to take us.
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Speaker 4: To Cree because you were in international waters when this happened.
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Speaker 4: Were you or in Greek waters either way? A part
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Speaker 4: of the Mediterranean over which Israel has no jurisdiction.
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Speaker 6: Absolutely, it's not absolutely clear.
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Speaker 7: But when we were being transfer to the Cree, so.
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Speaker 6: We be.
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Speaker 4: Unfortunately Frank is using a starlink and he seems to
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Speaker 4: have broken up. We might be able to go, but
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Speaker 4: I think the safest thing to do at the moment
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Speaker 4: is to go back to you, Mike. That's Frank Romano
22:49
Speaker 4: joining us, as you can hear from one of the
22:51
Speaker 4: boats on the Garza Aide Fatilla currently in the Mediterranean.
22:55
Speaker 3: They've set off again. Very brave if you ask.
22:58
Speaker 1: Me, Yeah, absolutely, thank you for that. Bass. You got
23:01
Speaker 1: any thoughts before we move on? No, well, we haven't
23:04
Speaker 1: had a few questions for Frank there, but obviously he's
23:07
Speaker 1: probably keeping things quite tight to his chest, considering the
23:10
Speaker 1: fact that they're being targeted, probably in international waters illegally
23:15
Speaker 1: by the Israelis, so anything could happen, drone attacks, commando raids,
23:20
Speaker 1: and so forth. My criticism would have been with the
23:23
Speaker 1: Greek government. Why didn't they Why do they allow Israel
23:26
Speaker 1: to abduct the Tiago Avala and sayef Why those two activists?
23:34
Speaker 1: Why were they allowed to have been kidnapped in international waters?
23:38
Speaker 1: The Greeks were well within their ability to demand that
23:41
Speaker 1: those two well, one is a European citizen, say if
23:45
Speaker 1: he's Spanish, and the other is Brazilian Tiago, So that
23:48
Speaker 1: would have been my question to Frank. But that might
23:51
Speaker 1: even be a tricky question for him to ask considering
23:54
Speaker 1: the political situation they're in right now.
23:56
Speaker 2: Absolutely, so we're going to say thank you very much
23:59
Speaker 2: and misic effort to be able to make a connection
24:01
Speaker 2: at all from there, So well done for that.
24:03
Speaker 1: So thank you.
24:05
Speaker 2: Let's move on then to Haunta virus Patrick, because well
24:09
Speaker 2: we've got the graphic here that says it all really
24:12
Speaker 2: doesn't this.
24:13
Speaker 1: Well, this is a sneak preview, Mike. We just thought
24:15
Speaker 1: we'd get everybody in the proper frame of mind here,
24:18
Speaker 1: So we're running with this sort of look for the
24:21
Speaker 1: hand to virus. There's an outbreak, believe it or not.
24:24
Speaker 1: What are they saying about this new virus, mic Well,
24:27
Speaker 1: looks like a serious one.
24:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's have a look and see what the UK
24:30
Speaker 2: Health Security Agency is saying. So they've made a statement.
24:33
Speaker 2: It was updated yesterday. The UK Government continues to work
24:38
Speaker 2: with international authorities and preparing for the arrival of British
24:41
Speaker 2: nationals to the UK from the Handius cruise ship, where
24:45
Speaker 2: an outbreak of antavirus was confirmed by the World Health Organization.
24:51
Speaker 2: It has to be said the World Health Organization wasn't
24:53
Speaker 2: really sure whether this was a contigious thing or not,
24:56
Speaker 2: because earlier in the week they were saying, no, this
24:59
Speaker 2: is something that's transmitted from rats to humans, but human
25:03
Speaker 2: to human transmission is almost never heard of, and then
25:07
Speaker 2: within twenty four hours that were attempting to change that
25:09
Speaker 2: story to say, well, actually this is the and these
25:12
Speaker 2: variant of it, and therefore that is possible to have
25:15
Speaker 2: human to human transmission.
25:17
Speaker 1: But normal and normal absolutely in four hours, yes, but
25:21
Speaker 1: here we go.
25:22
Speaker 2: F CDO and UKHSA teams will be on the ground
25:26
Speaker 2: to support these arrangements, bolstered by a rapid deployment team
25:29
Speaker 2: sent from the UK. The FCDO is chartering a dedicated
25:33
Speaker 2: repatriation flight for the British ship passengers and crew only.
25:36
Speaker 2: This flight will be free of charge, so they're absolutely
25:40
Speaker 2: getting straight on with it.
25:41
Speaker 1: And then here we are.
25:42
Speaker 2: Public health and infectious ease specialists from UKHSA and the
25:46
Speaker 2: NHS will be on board to monitor British nationalists while
25:50
Speaker 2: on the flight, to ensure that preventive measures are in
25:53
Speaker 2: place and to provide any care in the unlikely event
25:55
Speaker 2: that any pastor has become unwell on the flight. All
25:59
Speaker 2: British pastors cruise a crew on board the MVY Hondius
26:03
Speaker 2: will be asked to isolate for forty three days for sorry,
26:07
Speaker 2: forty five days upon returning to the UK, and UKHSA
26:11
Speaker 2: will monitor mostly these individuals with testing as required. So
26:15
Speaker 2: we're usual routine there, Patrick and UKHSA is aware of
26:20
Speaker 2: seven British nationalists who disembarked the ship at Saint Helena
26:23
Speaker 2: on the twenty fourth of April. Two of these people
26:26
Speaker 2: have returned to the UK independently and are isolating at
26:29
Speaker 2: home in the UK. So, of course the media immediately
26:35
Speaker 2: started coming out with the likes of this, and so
26:39
Speaker 2: hantavirus has given me COVID flashbacks. How worried should we be?
26:43
Speaker 2: The side of people in hasmat suits, alongside phrases like
26:48
Speaker 2: self isolation dominating the air whips is bringing back troubling
26:51
Speaker 2: memories for Kitty, who is considers whether we should all
26:55
Speaker 2: be stocking up on toilet roll. And not to be outdone,
26:59
Speaker 2: somebody has decided to set up a website here it is.
27:02
Speaker 1: Had to watch fantastic, absolutely fantastic dashboard of death.
27:06
Speaker 2: Dashboard of death, absolutely and as you can see on
27:09
Speaker 2: the bottom left there it says that the global risk
27:12
Speaker 2: level is set low. But actually if we go back
27:15
Speaker 2: to the UKHSA statement for a second, they said, the
27:17
Speaker 2: risk to the general public robbins very low. But if
27:21
Speaker 2: you remember in twenty twenty, Patrick, coronavirus was originally considered
27:26
Speaker 2: to be a high risk disease or high risk virus.
27:32
Speaker 2: But all of a sudden, this happens. If we put
27:34
Speaker 2: this on screen, They said, as of March nineteenth, twenty twenty,
27:38
Speaker 2: COVID nineteen is no longer considered to be a high
27:41
Speaker 2: consequence infectious disease. So they took it off the high
27:45
Speaker 2: consequence list, but that was before the lockdown, so they
27:48
Speaker 2: went ahead with the policy anyway, despite the fact. So
27:52
Speaker 2: are we to believe that the risk is low the
27:55
Speaker 2: least that their narrative is that the risk is low?
27:57
Speaker 2: Or is that going to change in the coming day.
28:00
Speaker 2: I'm not clear what's going to happen here, Patrick, What
28:02
Speaker 2: are your thoughts?
28:03
Speaker 1: You know, as far as I concern, Mike, we need
28:05
Speaker 1: to get that threat level up, you know, because it's
28:07
Speaker 1: just not high enough. You know, because listen, because the
28:11
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28:14
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28:18
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28:21
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28:24
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28:27
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28:30
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28:34
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28:38
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28:41
Speaker 1: we opened up with there. Oh sorry, we'll go back.
28:45
Speaker 1: This is the uh that's the opening gambit there, so
28:49
Speaker 1: it should invoke enough fear there. But we're going to
28:52
Speaker 1: introduce the main character here. Everybody I want you to
28:56
Speaker 1: meet this is Handy. Handy is going to be the
29:00
Speaker 1: face of the hantavirus. So we feel with enough, if
29:03
Speaker 1: we get enough people behind this, we can all come
29:05
Speaker 1: together and unite to battle this next pandemic. Here. I
29:10
Speaker 1: think it's cute. I like the color scheme. It's a
29:12
Speaker 1: little less threatening than Coroni. And so so the big
29:17
Speaker 1: question is looking at those poll numbers during the election segment, Mike,
29:21
Speaker 1: this could be a good opportunity for Kure Starmer to
29:23
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29:27
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29:31
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29:33
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29:37
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29:41
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29:46
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29:49
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29:52
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29:55
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30:00
Speaker 1: you know, did so well uniting the country behind all
30:03
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30:06
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30:07
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30:10
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30:13
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30:16
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30:18
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Speaker 2: for that. Okay, let's move on then, Patrick to Iran.
32:54
Speaker 2: What's the latest.
32:55
Speaker 1: Well, there's a lot going on. We'll just run through
32:58
Speaker 1: the latest updates here will bring this up on a screen.
33:02
Speaker 1: And you know, I stopped calling this the Iran war
33:04
Speaker 1: because it makes it sound like the Iraq War, because
33:08
Speaker 1: they didn't start the war. This is a war on
33:10
Speaker 1: Iran by the US its allies in Israel as well.
33:15
Speaker 1: And I just want to add something. Looking at the
33:17
Speaker 1: elections and hearing the different Cope statements about keeping Britain
33:23
Speaker 1: out of the war, how is that Britain's being used
33:26
Speaker 1: as a launching pad for US long range bombers. So
33:30
Speaker 1: it's amazing how they spun that, yes, to make it
33:33
Speaker 1: sound like Starmer was pushing back against Trump on that,
33:36
Speaker 1: when in fact Britain's is a co belligerent just as
33:40
Speaker 1: much as the Gulf States are, from being used as
33:43
Speaker 1: a launching pad and in effect painting a big target
33:47
Speaker 1: on Britain in the process. So I thought i'd just
33:50
Speaker 1: point that out there. Germany falls in the same category,
33:53
Speaker 1: as does Portugal, as does Greece, as does Cyprus. I
33:57
Speaker 1: just wanted to clarify that. We spoke about that last
34:00
Speaker 1: Friday as well. So Donald Trump weighed in on this
34:04
Speaker 1: and issued one of his periodic threats of annihilation let's
34:09
Speaker 1: watch this clip.
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Speaker 8: After these trying to is the dea fire.
34:15
Speaker 9: With you're on still on?
34:16
Speaker 1: Yeah?
34:17
Speaker 3: It is.
34:17
Speaker 10: It said they trifled with us today we blew them away.
34:22
Speaker 3: They trifled. I call that a trifle. I'll let you know.
34:25
Speaker 10: When there's no sea, you won't have to know. If
34:27
Speaker 10: there's no ceasefire, you're not gonna have to know. You're
34:30
Speaker 10: gonna have to look at one big glow coming out
34:32
Speaker 10: of Iran, and they better sign their agreement fast on.
34:38
Speaker 8: What is the lead in pop?
34:39
Speaker 10: You know it's going The talks are going very well,
34:41
Speaker 10: but they have to understand if it doesn't get signed,
34:45
Speaker 10: they're gonna have a lot of pain.
34:47
Speaker 3: They're gonna have a lot of pain. What they want
34:49
Speaker 3: to sign it?
34:49
Speaker 10: I will tell you they want to sign it a
34:52
Speaker 10: lot more than I do. What was it?
34:55
Speaker 1: Well, let's just be clear, there are no talks going on,
34:58
Speaker 1: so I don't know what the president there is talking about.
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Speaker 2: If they want to sign it much more than he does,
35:04
Speaker 2: why don't they just sign it? If they're just dying
35:06
Speaker 2: to sign it, why aren't they signing it? Well, there
35:08
Speaker 2: are no talks, so they can't sign it. There's no
35:11
Speaker 2: negotiations happening.
35:12
Speaker 1: So if I was his psychologist, I would say, President Trump,
35:16
Speaker 1: are these Iranians in the room with us right now,
35:19
Speaker 1: the ones that you're referring to as he relaxes on
35:22
Speaker 1: the couch. So here is the latest. Here US Project Freedom.
35:27
Speaker 1: That's the blockade, the thing that's supposed to open the
35:30
Speaker 1: Straits and Foremosts. It fell apart yesterday. Why the Saudis
35:34
Speaker 1: and the Kuwaiti said you cannot use our airspace to
35:37
Speaker 1: attack Iran. So that basically means Project Freedom only lasted
35:42
Speaker 1: for what forty eight hours or something like that, So
35:45
Speaker 1: an abysmal failure. But what the US did try to
35:48
Speaker 1: do is run the Straits and Foremosts with two US ships.
35:52
Speaker 1: Those were fired on by Iranian naval boats and then
35:57
Speaker 1: in retaliation, the United States bombed to Iranian port facilities
36:03
Speaker 1: in the Strait of hornm Moose. Here, we'll look at this.
36:06
Speaker 1: The US is calling it a self defense strike against Iran.
36:10
Speaker 1: Believe it or not. This is from the USA today,
36:13
Speaker 1: regarded in America as the world's largest school newspaper. There,
36:17
Speaker 1: Trump says, ceasefire still on. So the US is saying, yes,
36:20
Speaker 1: we bombed Iran. But the ceasefire is still on, you see.
36:23
Speaker 1: So this is the world that we're living in here.
36:25
Speaker 1: But if we go back to there, yeah, just this,
36:28
Speaker 1: that's the operative word, the self defense strike. So add
36:31
Speaker 1: that to your military lexicon and lingo. The problem is
36:35
Speaker 1: here and if we just move on is you see
36:38
Speaker 1: reports like this that is the US intelligence community. They're
36:40
Speaker 1: saying Iran can outlast Trump's horror moose blockade for months.
36:45
Speaker 1: The problem is the US can't last for months doing this.
36:49
Speaker 1: This is going to require so much in terms of resources,
36:53
Speaker 1: naval assets, air support, all the rest of it. So
36:56
Speaker 1: the US can't do this. So you know, the US
36:59
Speaker 1: has painted itself into an incredible corner. Meanwhile, here's the
37:02
Speaker 1: Secretary of State. He's finally appeared. He's weighing in on
37:06
Speaker 1: the Iran situation after disappearing for the better part of
37:10
Speaker 1: two months. Here's Marco Rubio. This is what he has
37:12
Speaker 1: to say about getting things back to normal in the
37:16
Speaker 1: Strait of Homers.
37:18
Speaker 9: The actor that enables Iran sanctions evasion is going to
37:21
Speaker 9: face secondary sanctions exposure and a loss of access to
37:25
Speaker 9: the US financial system, as President Trump has said, and
37:28
Speaker 9: the facts clearly bear out. The United States of America
37:31
Speaker 9: holds all the cards. There is no scenario here in
37:35
Speaker 9: which if they decide to join a ladder of escalation,
37:38
Speaker 9: they wind up getting the last say. But our preference
37:41
Speaker 9: is for these straits to be opened to the way
37:43
Speaker 9: they're supposed to be opened, back to the way it was.
37:46
Speaker 9: Anyone can use it, no minds in the water, nobody
37:49
Speaker 9: paying tolls.
37:50
Speaker 3: That's what we have to get back to, and that's
37:51
Speaker 3: the goal here.
37:52
Speaker 9: Every day the conflict continues, however, our leverage on Iran
37:55
Speaker 9: will continue to increase and their position will continue to weaken,
37:58
Speaker 9: especially as the blockade really begins.
38:02
Speaker 1: So we're in total Orwellian and version territory here. So
38:07
Speaker 1: if the US holds all the cards, Mike, why did
38:09
Speaker 1: they beg for a ceasefire on April eighth? Because the
38:13
Speaker 1: US begged for a ceasefire on April eighth, not Iran.
38:16
Speaker 1: So obviously you're not holding all the cards, and the
38:20
Speaker 1: leverage by Iran is only increasing over time, not from
38:24
Speaker 1: the US. There, But Marco Ruby is basically saying, we
38:27
Speaker 1: just need to get things back to normal. Forget about
38:30
Speaker 1: the fact we started this war in the first place Israel.
38:33
Speaker 1: In the US we bombed Iran. We started this, It's
38:36
Speaker 1: been an absolute disaster for the global economy which want
38:38
Speaker 1: to get things back to normally. Iran needs to respect that.
38:42
Speaker 1: They need to respect that. So listen, there are no
38:45
Speaker 1: international waters in the Strait of Hormuth, the territory waters
38:48
Speaker 1: of Iran and Oman joined together. There is no international
38:53
Speaker 1: waters there. In Iran is not a secondtory to the
38:56
Speaker 1: United Nations Convention on the Law of the Seas in
38:59
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty two. Guess who else isn't a signatory to
39:02
Speaker 1: that convention? United States? The United States? So what earth
39:06
Speaker 1: are they banging on about anyway? Here, Let's look at
39:09
Speaker 1: the money though, Mike, because this says everything here. This
39:13
Speaker 1: is the Coblici letter here. We put a link in
39:16
Speaker 1: the show notes for this. I believe, according to our analysis,
39:20
Speaker 1: nine hundred and twenty million worth of crude oil shorts
39:23
Speaker 1: were taken seventy minutes before Axios reportedly claimed the US
39:28
Speaker 1: in Iran. We're near a fourteen point deal here, and
39:31
Speaker 1: let's just break break this down. That's nine hundred and
39:34
Speaker 1: twenty million worth of crude oil shorts taken seventy minutes
39:38
Speaker 1: before this plan. What does that mean after that on
39:41
Speaker 1: this timeline. Here, nearly ten thousand contracts worth a crew
39:44
Speaker 1: of oil shorts were taken out without any major news. Wow,
39:48
Speaker 1: this is the equivalent to nine hundred and twenty million
39:51
Speaker 1: in notional value and unusually large trade at that time.
39:56
Speaker 1: And just seventy minutes later, Axios then reports that the
40:01
Speaker 1: is close to a memorandum of understanding to end the
40:04
Speaker 1: war in Iran, which leads us to the final point here.
40:08
Speaker 1: Oil prices then fall twelve percent, with these crude oil
40:12
Speaker 1: shorts gaining approximately one hundred and twenty five million of
40:17
Speaker 1: these trades in value here, and minutes later again Iron
40:20
Speaker 1: launched the Persian Gulf straight authority and oil prices searched
40:24
Speaker 1: another eight percent up. Do you see what's going on here?
40:28
Speaker 3: Yes?
40:29
Speaker 2: Obviously we've just mentioned nine to eleven because of what
40:31
Speaker 2: we're doing on Thursday next week, but of course the
40:34
Speaker 2: put options that were on the airlines and the lead
40:37
Speaker 2: up that we're done just before that event, and of
40:39
Speaker 2: course there was a huge amount of money made on
40:41
Speaker 2: that day as well. We've never found out who did that.
40:45
Speaker 1: Well, we know Buzzy Congruart and some of his colleagues,
40:48
Speaker 1: but nobody who's ever arrested for it.
40:50
Speaker 2: No, but how that information got out in the first place,
40:54
Speaker 2: we still have no idea.
40:55
Speaker 1: And so insider trading exactly well, there was no Polymark
41:00
Speaker 1: or Calshi website back then, but if there was, bets
41:03
Speaker 1: would have been placed.
41:05
Speaker 2: So you know, are we ever going to find out
41:07
Speaker 2: who's you know, tipping off the insider tridding here?
41:12
Speaker 1: This is just one incident, by the way, and Barack
41:15
Speaker 1: Revied former Mussad agent is implicated in this. He works
41:19
Speaker 1: for Axios, right, and he has all the secret sources,
41:22
Speaker 1: doesn't he in Tel Aviv? So everybody is making a
41:26
Speaker 1: mint off of this war here, including the military industrial complex.
41:31
Speaker 1: This is what Pete Hegseth, the self styled Secretary of War.
41:35
Speaker 1: There he is looking great, a little bit tight on
41:37
Speaker 1: the waist in the suit. Maybe he can afford a
41:39
Speaker 1: new tailor, who knows, but what he's what's he saying here?
41:42
Speaker 1: Thanks to President Trump's one point five trillion dollar defense budget,
41:46
Speaker 1: that is an increase of six hundred billion in one year,
41:51
Speaker 1: this war Department has moved from bureaucracy to business. This
41:55
Speaker 1: is called fiscal responsibility, says Pete Hegseth. Are ours of freedom?
42:01
Speaker 1: I mean, what kind of propaganda are we looking at here?
42:04
Speaker 1: This is just something special. But here's pete hegseth. They
42:07
Speaker 1: put out these new happy clappy propaganda video, folks, and
42:12
Speaker 1: I've never seen anything like this. This is going to
42:14
Speaker 1: go down history as a watershed moment in war propaganda.
42:19
Speaker 1: Roll it.
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Speaker 11: A broken Pentagon bureaucracy was doing the same thing for
42:25
Speaker 11: decades when our warfighters needed more weapons, aircraft, and ships.
42:30
Speaker 11: The Department of Defense allowed contractors to double dip at
42:35
Speaker 11: your expense. They charged you, the taxpayer, to build their
42:39
Speaker 11: factories and then charge you again for the final product.
42:44
Speaker 11: And despite paying companies to make weapons faster scheduled delays
42:48
Speaker 11: were constant and cost overruns were the norm, all while
42:53
Speaker 11: their CEOs got rich. But today President Trump's War Department
42:59
Speaker 11: is flipping this rigged system on its head. We're not
43:04
Speaker 11: tolerating delays in production or cost overruns anymore. We've pushed
43:08
Speaker 11: out the bureaucrats who have made these deals in the
43:11
Speaker 11: past and replaced them with the most talented negotiators in
43:14
Speaker 11: the private sector, a group of businessmen so elite they've
43:18
Speaker 11: been rightly dubbed Deal Team six. It's simple, We're putting
43:24
Speaker 11: the American taxpayer first by offering you a better deal.
43:29
Speaker 11: We now move at the speed of business, not bureaucracystem Now,
43:33
Speaker 11: when a defense company expands its production to sell more
43:36
Speaker 11: equipment to the US military, they pay the bill they
43:40
Speaker 11: pay for new factories, assembly lines, manufacturing plants, not the taxpayer.
43:46
Speaker 11: In exchange, we're giving these companies steady, long term orders
43:50
Speaker 11: for exactly what our warriors need, and defense companies are
43:55
Speaker 11: making things in higher volumes much more quickly while keeping
43:58
Speaker 11: their prices flat. Should these companies fail to deliver, we
44:03
Speaker 11: will hold them accountable and bring in new companies who
44:05
Speaker 11: will speed volume and fiscal responsibility. It's common sense and
44:12
Speaker 11: it's what the American taxpayer demands. This War Department has
44:16
Speaker 11: made the move from bureaucracy to business. Over the next month,
44:22
Speaker 11: we will release a series of videos that highlight how
44:24
Speaker 11: President Trump's historic one point five trillion dollar defense budget
44:29
Speaker 11: will make a generational investment in our arsenal of freedom.
44:33
Speaker 11: This investment will secure and protect the homeland and ensure
44:37
Speaker 11: America's military remains the most lethal fighting forced on earth
44:41
Speaker 11: for generations to come. We're going to spend every dollar
44:44
Speaker 11: of that money responsible, because that's what you deserve. That's
44:49
Speaker 11: what America needs, and that's what this president demands.
44:59
Speaker 1: Sp firing propaganda, isn't it, isn't it? War war, war.
45:03
Speaker 1: You're going to need a lot of wars to keep
45:05
Speaker 1: this production volume up. Right. There are going to be
45:09
Speaker 1: cost overruns. There is going to be a thirty five
45:12
Speaker 1: percent guaranteed override for every contract because that's how they
45:16
Speaker 1: make their money. And this is otherwise. These companies aren't
45:18
Speaker 1: going to take the job. They're not going to go
45:20
Speaker 1: bankrupt a bit under threat to have lost their contract
45:25
Speaker 1: because the Trump administration doesn't like them. So this could
45:27
Speaker 1: destroy the military industrial complex and that could be an
45:30
Speaker 1: interesting thing actually for the people. But it's still going
45:33
Speaker 1: to cost us. So let's talk about fiscal responsibility. Pete Hegseth. Here,
45:38
Speaker 1: there is the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Washington, D C.
45:42
Speaker 1: Scott Bessett. Here, the US Treasury will have to borrow
45:46
Speaker 1: two trillion this year just to continue functioning more than
45:50
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty six billion every month. Let's break
45:53
Speaker 1: this down so you know what this actually means. Here,
45:56
Speaker 1: that means that the US Treasury will likely have to
45:59
Speaker 1: borrow two trillion by the end of this fiscal year,
46:01
Speaker 1: a figure described as beyond scary by budget hawks. This
46:05
Speaker 1: is Fortune magazine. So as of April, the Office of
46:08
Speaker 1: Management of Budget expects the twenty twenty six fiscal year
46:12
Speaker 1: to run at a deficit of over two trillion, higher
46:15
Speaker 1: than estimates from Congressional budget offices. And just finally here,
46:21
Speaker 1: this means that for every month of the current fiscal year,
46:24
Speaker 1: the government will have to have issued more than one
46:27
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty six billion in debt per month. Break
46:32
Speaker 1: that down per week, break that down per day. And
46:36
Speaker 1: what does this mean that? So that means on the
46:39
Speaker 1: real projections, Mike on this are at the end of
46:42
Speaker 1: this next year, Trump will have run a deficit of
46:45
Speaker 1: two point five trillion dollars over budget. To what does
46:50
Speaker 1: that mean in terms of inflation? That it speaks for itself. Now,
46:54
Speaker 1: when immediately he was elected, he brought it in Elon Musk
46:59
Speaker 1: and those to cut costs. And how does that work?
47:03
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, doj was going to fix all this. Elon's
47:05
Speaker 1: going to get it all under control. So it's a joke.
47:08
Speaker 1: So we're getting hit with an inflation tax. The public
47:11
Speaker 1: is getting hit with an inflation tax. In America, it's
47:14
Speaker 1: going to also be a global inflation tax if this
47:18
Speaker 1: war keeps going. These wars are really bad for the economy,
47:22
Speaker 1: for the global economy, and it's not going to be
47:24
Speaker 1: good for America. Here. So let's look at just a
47:26
Speaker 1: few a few signals here coming from the market here
47:30
Speaker 1: at US. This is recent. US has airline jet fuel
47:34
Speaker 1: costs are up one point eight billion, or fifty six
47:37
Speaker 1: percent in March. So a jump of fifty six percent
47:40
Speaker 1: for jet fuel costs. This is now shortages in the
47:43
Speaker 1: jet fuel markets MIC. So this is going to hit
47:45
Speaker 1: the military cost It's going to hit the private jets,
47:48
Speaker 1: the politicians, as well as passenger airlines and the cost
47:51
Speaker 1: of shipping courier ups, federal express, all of that stuff
47:56
Speaker 1: is going to get hit.
47:57
Speaker 6: Here.
47:57
Speaker 1: US inflation tripled last month, record spike in gas prices.
48:03
Speaker 1: That was just from a few weeks ago. This is
48:05
Speaker 1: much worse now. You can cherry pick any story you
48:08
Speaker 1: want from this, but let's just go to mom and
48:11
Speaker 1: pop here, and this is hope rising on X here,
48:15
Speaker 1: Grocery prices are getting ridiculous. This user on x says
48:19
Speaker 1: to two dollars and forty nine a pound for potatoes. Wow,
48:23
Speaker 1: they used to be cheap, not anymore. Five ninety nine
48:27
Speaker 1: for a pound of tomatoes, nine to ninety nine for
48:30
Speaker 1: a pound of chuck roast, round steak, and ground beef.
48:35
Speaker 1: A pot roast dinner for a family of five is
48:37
Speaker 1: going to cost one hundred dollars at that rate. This
48:42
Speaker 1: is very real. I just came from America. Mic. The
48:46
Speaker 1: price of food is just astronomical and it's scary. People
48:50
Speaker 1: are being forced to sort of, you know, cut back
48:53
Speaker 1: on a lot of things. And you know who wins
48:56
Speaker 1: during this market, the processed food companies. Because they have
48:59
Speaker 1: the cheapest food. They throw it out there. It's not healthy,
49:02
Speaker 1: it's bad for you. It's full of chemicals. And this
49:04
Speaker 1: White House has just signed deregulation program of deregulation to
49:10
Speaker 1: free up the chemical industry and the genetically modified food industry,
49:15
Speaker 1: and also the Monsanto round up ready, all those dangerous chemicals.
49:21
Speaker 1: He's basically taking the handcuffs off of those companies. Not
49:24
Speaker 1: a problem.
49:24
Speaker 2: Patrick Bill Gates is sitting there with his crickets. He'll
49:27
Speaker 2: be along anytime now to sort of side the bugs.
49:31
Speaker 1: Yes, back to the bugs. Yeah, there we go. So
49:33
Speaker 1: Trump working hand in hand with the globalists, as he
49:36
Speaker 1: always has done. So that's the real story.
49:40
Speaker 2: Okay, let's move on to this then. So last weekend
49:43
Speaker 2: was Press Freedom Day. The world celebrated World Press Freedom Day.
49:47
Speaker 2: I should to say, I'm sure everybody that's watching this
49:50
Speaker 2: was well aware of it, and I to celebrate this
49:53
Speaker 2: auspicious day. The Starma regime, along with those of Austria, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro,
50:01
Speaker 2: and the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Finland all gave a
50:06
Speaker 2: statement of such spectacular hypocrisy that it's going to be
50:10
Speaker 2: difficult to even deliver this report. It has to be
50:13
Speaker 2: noted that Albinia and Dora, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria,
50:19
Speaker 2: Czech Republic, Croatia, Cyprus, Iceland, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia,
50:27
Speaker 2: Ukraine all joined in hypocracy by aligning themselves with the sentiment.
50:32
Speaker 2: Sorry to read out the full list, but I think
50:34
Speaker 2: it's important that we know who is kind of in
50:37
Speaker 2: the cabal of this. Because this statement was delivered by
50:41
Speaker 2: Ambassador Vessa Hakkinen of Finland, who said to mark World
50:45
Speaker 2: Press Freedom Day, we recognize the vital, yet increasingly perilous
50:49
Speaker 2: role the journalists and media actors play in conflict situations.
50:53
Speaker 2: According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, one hundred and
50:56
Speaker 2: twenty nine journalists and media workers were killed in twenty
50:59
Speaker 2: twenty five, looking at the deadliest year since CPJ began
51:02
Speaker 2: collecting such data more than thirty years ago. Reporters covering
51:07
Speaker 2: conflicts are afforded protection under international humanitarian law and recognized
51:11
Speaker 2: by UN Security Council Resolution two to too too. Yet in reality,
51:15
Speaker 2: where once a jacket and blazoned with word press offered protection,
51:19
Speaker 2: it's not often seen as a target. This is clearly
51:23
Speaker 2: demonstrated by the Russian Federation's illegal, an unjustified war of
51:27
Speaker 2: aggression against Ukraine. A significant number of journalists have been
51:31
Speaker 2: killed or subjected to arbitrary detention, torture and enforcement, and
51:35
Speaker 2: enforced disappearance by Russia while exercising their profession. So is
51:41
Speaker 2: he justified in singling Russia out and mentioning no other names.
51:46
Speaker 2: Let's look at the statistics for twenty twenty five by
51:49
Speaker 2: way of illustration, and now there seems to be one
51:52
Speaker 2: country orders of magnitude out in front with the targeting
51:56
Speaker 2: and murder of journalists, and that is Israel. Not to
51:59
Speaker 2: mention at all the statement not mentioned at all, sorry,
52:02
Speaker 2: but in the statement by all those countries, including the UK,
52:06
Speaker 2: let's just remind us.
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Speaker 1: And that's just twenty twenty five on screen.
52:09
Speaker 2: That's just twenty twenty five on screen. Of course, what
52:11
Speaker 2: we haven't mentioned is the journalists that of course have
52:14
Speaker 2: been killed in Lebanon for example this year, and the
52:17
Speaker 2: continuing deaths in Gaza as well. So we haven't got
52:21
Speaker 2: the statistics for this year yet. So that's just for
52:24
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. And I mentioned that because that was
52:26
Speaker 2: the year that they mentioned in their statement, But they
52:29
Speaker 2: focused one hundred percent on Russia and they said nothing
52:32
Speaker 2: whatever about Israel.
52:33
Speaker 1: Well, they said nothing about Ukraine. Ukraine has arrested and
52:36
Speaker 1: detained dozens, if not hundreds of journalists from the early
52:42
Speaker 1: days of the conflict, languishing in Ukrainian jails for questioning
52:46
Speaker 1: the Zelenski government or for criticizing the fact that the
52:50
Speaker 1: country needed to go to war, calling for peace. All
52:52
Speaker 1: of that gets you locked up or worse, targeted definitely,
52:56
Speaker 1: and abused in prison. We even know some of these
53:00
Speaker 1: journalists ourselves personally, and no one knows where half of
53:04
Speaker 1: them are.
53:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, if you just put the graft back up
53:07
Speaker 2: on screen again for a second, you'll notice that Russia
53:10
Speaker 2: isn't that's the top six countries right there. Russia is
53:13
Speaker 2: not on that list. Ukraine is on that list.
53:15
Speaker 1: Well, this is where they're killed, right this is the location.
53:18
Speaker 1: So the implication is that Russia has done this in Ukraine.
53:22
Speaker 1: So that's eight. So I would question these statistics massively
53:27
Speaker 1: with regards to Russia Ukraine because on the West, that's
53:30
Speaker 1: a huge that's usually politicized. So total number of journalists
53:34
Speaker 1: killed in Gaza, for instance, I think it's north of
53:38
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty right now since October seventh, twenty
53:43
Speaker 1: twenty three. So that's more than that's more than the
53:46
Speaker 1: sum total mic of all of the major wars since
53:48
Speaker 1: World War Two. Journalists killed. No room to condemn Israel
53:53
Speaker 1: on this issue, apparently by the Committee to Protect Journalists
53:57
Speaker 1: that would.
53:57
Speaker 2: Be anti Semitic. No, let's just remind ourselves what it's
54:00
Speaker 2: like to be on the receiving end of Israeli attempted murder.
54:06
Speaker 8: Further rocket attacks were reported against Naharia in a minute.
54:21
Speaker 1: So you know, he's one of the lucky ones. Yes,
54:24
Speaker 1: many didn't survive. He survived to tell his story. Steve Sweeney,
54:28
Speaker 1: a British journalist targeted by the IDF in an air
54:31
Speaker 1: strike intentionally, intentionally. So, but there's one other journalists we
54:34
Speaker 1: shouldn't forget here well exactly so you know, of course
54:38
Speaker 1: you know Russia, So we just want to say here
54:42
Speaker 1: and just to underline this fact here, award winning journalist
54:45
Speaker 1: Julius Sange was deprived of his liberty in Russia, detained
54:50
Speaker 1: by Putin arbitrarily for over ten years one nine hundred
54:54
Speaker 1: and one days as unconvicted or sorry should be unconvicted prisoner,
54:59
Speaker 1: plus roughly said years of confinement in an embassy. Never
55:02
Speaker 1: forget what Russia did to this man. Everybody, it's absolutely outrageous.
55:06
Speaker 1: But actually no, it was not. It was Britain who
55:11
Speaker 1: kept Julius Sane locked up essentially for over twelve years.
55:15
Speaker 1: So we just thought we'd remind everybody there absolutely.
55:19
Speaker 2: Now let's just very briefly mentioned online safety here because
55:22
Speaker 2: two announcements from Meta in the last couple of days
55:25
Speaker 2: relating to online safety yesterday, Meta brought a judicial review
55:29
Speaker 2: against Ofcom in the High Court. No, it's not complaining
55:33
Speaker 2: sadly about the Online Safety Act itself. It's arguing that
55:36
Speaker 2: ofcom's method for calculating fees and penalties is disproportionate. And
55:41
Speaker 2: we've talked about this before, but if you remember that
55:43
Speaker 2: under this online safety regime, as at least as Offcom
55:47
Speaker 2: interprets it, fees and any penalties are calculated against a
55:51
Speaker 2: provider's qualifying worldwide revenue that's global income tied to regulated service,
55:57
Speaker 2: rather than the UK part of it. So the Act
56:00
Speaker 2: permits finds with up to ten percent of that figure,
56:03
Speaker 2: and on METAS twenty twenty five numbers, then the theoretical ceilings,
56:07
Speaker 2: it's somewhere around sixteen billion dollars i met as public
56:11
Speaker 2: position given by a spokesperson outside the court is we
56:16
Speaker 2: and others in the tech industry believe ofcom's decisions on
56:19
Speaker 2: the methodology to calculate phase and potential fins are disproportionate.
56:22
Speaker 2: We believe phees and penalties should be based on the
56:25
Speaker 2: services being regulated in the countries that are being regulated
56:28
Speaker 2: in And the lawyer told the court that the regulator
56:32
Speaker 2: intends to issue the first round of invoices that's Offcom
56:36
Speaker 2: in the third quarter of this year, so that's most
56:38
Speaker 2: likely in September, so a judgment isn't expected before the autumn,
56:44
Speaker 2: and so probably after that first round of bills goes out,
56:47
Speaker 2: and so Meta's challenge might mean refunds from Offcom. But anyway,
56:51
Speaker 2: we'll see keep you posted on how that goes. But
56:54
Speaker 2: the second part of that is that today, being the
56:57
Speaker 2: it to may, Meta removes and and from Instagram direct messaging. Now,
57:02
Speaker 2: this feature was ruled out as an opting in twenty
57:05
Speaker 2: twenty three, but after today it's gone. So the company
57:09
Speaker 2: hasn't issued any kind of press release on this. There's
57:11
Speaker 2: no post in the Meta news room. The change is
57:15
Speaker 2: documented on a quietly updated page on the Instagram help center,
57:20
Speaker 2: which states only that end to end encrypted messaging will
57:22
Speaker 2: no longer be supported after today, and it instructs affected
57:27
Speaker 2: users to download what they wish to keep, because any
57:30
Speaker 2: thing that was encrypted in the past will be disappearing.
57:34
Speaker 2: So the only comment that was given by a Meta
57:38
Speaker 2: spokesperson was to The Guardian back in March when they
57:40
Speaker 2: announced that It originally announced that they were intending to
57:42
Speaker 2: do this at some point in the future, and at
57:45
Speaker 2: that point they said that very few people were opting
57:47
Speaker 2: into into end encrypted messaging in direct messages, so we're
57:51
Speaker 2: removing this option from Instagram in the coming months and
57:55
Speaker 2: so on, and they also suggested that people move on
57:58
Speaker 2: to WhatsApp if they want to maintain that functionality at
58:00
Speaker 2: least in the meantime. It's worth noting that this is
58:03
Speaker 2: an absolutely reversal in Meta's position because in twenty nineteen
58:08
Speaker 2: Mark Zuckerberg published a manifesto entitled a Privacy Focused Vision
58:13
Speaker 2: for Social Networking, and then in twenty twenty two they
58:17
Speaker 2: publish this a Human Rights Impact Assessment on expanding default
58:22
Speaker 2: end to end encryption to Messenger and Instagram, and they
58:26
Speaker 2: said that this was a human rights commitment at the time.
58:29
Speaker 2: So it's quite incredible how they seem to be reversing
58:32
Speaker 2: their position on that. And of course, as we've been
58:34
Speaker 2: reporting quite a lot over the last while, this is
58:39
Speaker 2: largely because the British government is pushing so hard to
58:42
Speaker 2: have this functionality removed from every person to person chat
58:47
Speaker 2: functionality that's on the Internet at the moment.
58:49
Speaker 1: They want this gone because they want to be able
58:51
Speaker 1: to snoop on what we're doing on everybody, on everybody, Yes,
58:56
Speaker 1: and everything they say at any time.
58:58
Speaker 2: Absolutely to come back to you, you know, and in case
59:02
Speaker 2: you missed it.
59:04
Speaker 3: Yes, thanks Mike.
59:05
Speaker 4: Half a dozen stories here that may have escaped your
59:08
Speaker 4: attention over the last seven days. First of all, one
59:12
Speaker 4: of a number of very disturbing stories about the relationship
59:15
Speaker 4: between the Israel lobby and law and order in Britain,
59:19
Speaker 4: in this case police refusing to investigate British nationals accused
59:24
Speaker 4: of war crimes in Gaza. The decision comes after the
59:28
Speaker 4: Palestinian Center of a Human Rights and the Public Interest
59:31
Speaker 4: Law Center filed a two hundred and forty page dossier
59:35
Speaker 4: with the METS war Crimes Team. Why does the MET
59:39
Speaker 4: even bother having a wartimes cream team if they're not
59:43
Speaker 4: going to investigate when there is so much evidence and
59:48
Speaker 4: worth remembering, of course, that the MET Commissioner Mark Rowley
59:51
Speaker 4: met with the former Israeli ambassador Zippi Hotelveli and himself
59:57
Speaker 4: is the subject of a particular Lily Stern letter from
1:00:01
Speaker 4: the Palestine Coalition accusing him of falsehoods with respect to
1:00:06
Speaker 4: the direction of marches. And of course there's also the
1:00:11
Speaker 4: case of Rajiev Menon, who is being prosecuted for contempt
1:00:14
Speaker 4: of court, something that Michael Mansfield QC, the prominent human
1:00:20
Speaker 4: rights barrister, says he's not experiencing fifty years in the
1:00:24
Speaker 4: bar on. We move though and eyepaper here reporting that
1:00:29
Speaker 4: Starmer wants an even softer Brexit. This may well form
1:00:35
Speaker 4: the centerpiece of a big speech Starmer is apparently planning
1:00:39
Speaker 4: next week in a bid to save his premiership after
1:00:43
Speaker 4: the disastrous election results, and central to it is going
1:00:47
Speaker 4: to be an appeal to progressives that he wants a
1:00:50
Speaker 4: closer relationship with Europe and apologies there for forcing you
1:00:56
Speaker 4: to look at the dreadful Harid and Ursula von der leyon.
1:01:00
Speaker 3: Arguably the best thing come out of.
1:01:02
Speaker 4: Brexit is the fact that we're no longer anything to
1:01:05
Speaker 4: do with her. Next up, this is another really abysmal story.
1:01:10
Speaker 4: Israeli AI is now blaming Palestinians for the three hundred
1:01:16
Speaker 4: and fifty five bullets that the IDF pumped into the
1:01:20
Speaker 4: body of hind Or Radjab. Of course, there's that wonderful
1:01:25
Speaker 4: but extremely harrowing film about her bloodthirsty murder.
1:01:31
Speaker 3: That's the only way to describe it.
1:01:32
Speaker 4: She was trapped in a car with her dead relatives,
1:01:36
Speaker 4: when of course she was I mean, you know, murdered
1:01:40
Speaker 4: in such a brutal way.
1:01:41
Speaker 3: Now the.
1:01:44
Speaker 4: A Israel has created nine English language websites explicitly aimed
1:01:48
Speaker 4: that MANIPULATINGAI platforms like Claude and chat GPT in order
1:01:55
Speaker 4: to try and distort the truth about what happened to
1:01:57
Speaker 4: her extraordinary stuff. A man has been arrested on the
1:02:01
Speaker 4: next slide on suspicion of handling Morgan McSweeney's stolen phone,
1:02:04
Speaker 4: which may have vital information about it, about what Keir
1:02:08
Speaker 4: Starman knew and when and all the rest of it.
1:02:12
Speaker 4: But the phone itself has not been recovered. They have
1:02:16
Speaker 4: arrested somebody and charged him with handling stolen goods I believe,
1:02:20
Speaker 4: but they haven't got hold of the phone itself. Next
1:02:24
Speaker 4: up Michael O'Leary of Gigginstown House stud of course Keen
1:02:31
Speaker 4: racehorse owner. He wants airports to stop selling beer to
1:02:35
Speaker 4: people before they get on the plane. I would imagine
1:02:38
Speaker 4: spirits as well. I failed to understand why anybody in
1:02:41
Speaker 4: airport bars is serving people at five or six o'clock
1:02:44
Speaker 4: in the morning. He said, who needs to be drinking
1:02:47
Speaker 4: beer at that time. Well, some people get very nervous
1:02:50
Speaker 4: before they fly, especially if it's with Ryanair Ryan dare
1:02:55
Speaker 4: as some people call it, but I can understand cabin
1:03:00
Speaker 4: crew must get exasperated with people who've had more than
1:03:04
Speaker 4: one pint or more than half a dozen, even before
1:03:07
Speaker 4: getting on a cheap flight to the Sun. Now, this
1:03:11
Speaker 4: lastly is our and finally story this week, and finally
1:03:17
Speaker 4: a Green Party candidate who has pushed Britain to pay
1:03:20
Speaker 4: trillions of pounds in slavery reparations is herself descended from
1:03:24
Speaker 4: a Nigerian role family that traded slaves. Antoinette Fernandez is
1:03:30
Speaker 4: the reparations officer for the Green Party's Global Majority Greens Group,
1:03:35
Speaker 4: which works towards racial.
1:03:36
Speaker 3: And environmental justice.
1:03:39
Speaker 4: She's the daughter apparently of a billionaire Antonio Oldendi Fernandez,
1:03:44
Speaker 4: who was one of Africa's richest men. A candidate for
1:03:49
Speaker 4: Lee Bridge in Hackney, she has campaigned for taxpayers to
1:03:52
Speaker 4: pay reparations for the Transatlantic slave trade, and has previously
1:03:57
Speaker 4: said politicians and I assume the rest of us who
1:04:00
Speaker 4: oppose it show an appalling arrogance. However, the Green Party
1:04:07
Speaker 4: in response has said that reporting her family history is
1:04:11
Speaker 4: racist and bad faith and a bad faith attempt to
1:04:15
Speaker 4: undermine the case for a reparative justice. So the fact
1:04:22
Speaker 4: that Britain abolished the slave trade in eighteen oh seven
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Speaker 4: and service personnel lost their life in doing so seems
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Speaker 4: lost on the likes of mus Fernandez, who enjoys the
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Speaker 4: lifestyle of somebody descended from very wealthy slave owners herself.
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Speaker 4: But you and me, whose families may have never owned
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Speaker 4: a slave in our lives, we've got to pay, according
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Speaker 4: to her, and you're racist if you don't like it.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I think they've been taken some lessons from Israel there,
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Speaker 2: but anyway, we'll leave it there for today because we're
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Speaker 2: absolutely out of time. Thank you, Basil and Patrick. Thanks
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Speaker 2: for everybody that's watched. Don't forget Jerem carl tonight a
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Speaker 2: thousand words on Sunday. We'll see you Monday for another
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Speaker 2: UK CO one PM as usual. Have a great weekend.
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Speaker 2: We'll see you then.
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Speaker 1: Bye bye.