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UK Column News - 21st July 2025 · UK Column Radio

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Good afternoon. Today is Monday, the 21st of
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July 2025, just after 1:00. Welcome to UK column News.
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I'm your host Brian Garish and I'm delighted to be joined today
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by Diane Rasmussen. Mccaddy and Ben Rubin, both
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coming in on live link. So welcome to you both to the
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news. I'd also like to say we'd hoped
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to give you a sunny Plymouth today.
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It certainly started off that way, but as you can tell from
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the view behind me, we're into a little bit of rain and grey sky.
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But not to worry now, today's news.
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We're going to really be having a good look at what's happening
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in UK. Many people feeling very uneasy
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at the moment. They know something's wrong in
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the country, they know that there's a sense of fall falling
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apart, of breaking down sometimes.
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This is echoed back by the press.
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We're going to try and take people through what we see
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happening and we're going to explain some of the things going
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on. So I'm going to be taking a look
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at the NHS very quickly, just a moment.
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Ben is going to be having a look at Shattered Britain, a report
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talking about the state of the country.
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Very interesting. Diane is going to be delving
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into people who are active. And in Durham recently
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councillors voted out climate change and they voted in
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improved care for children. And we're also going to be
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having a look at claims for Christianity back in Britain.
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That's by our old political friend Danny Kruger.
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And last but not least, I'm going to be having a look at the
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French press giant AFP and a curious e-mail we received a
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little while ago. But let's start off with a trip
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to A&E at Derriford Hospital, Plymouth.
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This is a little video I shot at the end of last week.
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Let's have a look. So this is my experience of a
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visit to Accident and emergency at Derriford Hospital.
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And you come out the car park, you're faced with building works
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everywhere. Now this is part of a expansion
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of Gersford Hospital that the pond are making in this report
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is that this is what people were faced with.
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If you try and come to accident and emergency.
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This is the main entrance to the hospital dominated by Marks and
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Spencer. We've got adverts that are
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abseiling but what we haven't got is any directions to A&E,
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which is at the down this road here with traffic controls.
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I was actually forced to stop in the road to speak to the Workman
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to ask them how I could drop the person I was with off A&E.
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They were kind enough to let me come down this road.
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And while I'm looking at the chaos to my left, great areas of
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open parking space with nobody there apart from the police.
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Meanwhile for the public, utter chaos in the crowned car parks
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and everywhere noise and bustle and building works.
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And this is the final little bit that takes you across the road
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towards A&E. So this is where the ambulances
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have to come in and you can see some of them parked in front of
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the A&E building. And we've got a mixture of
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everything from police to hospital staff to the workers.
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So the harsh reality is utter chaos when you try and bring
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somebody to accident an emergency.
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Here's the board inside. 11 hour, 52 minutes for the longest
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wait. But to be fair triage moved very
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quickly while we were there, but altogether we were waiting from
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8:45 in the morning till 5:20 and the television was pure
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propaganda from the BBC on the failure of Britain.
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Dereford Hospital, Plymouth. Well, there you are.
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Now to qualify that video, this is the start of a 200,000,000 LB
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improvement scheme to Dereford Hospital.
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So some of you might say, well of course there's going to be
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disruption. Yes, that's true.
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But my point is that trying to get to A and EA very serious
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place for many people to get to was virtually impossible.
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I needed help from the workers who were on site and very good
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they were too. And then once we were in A and
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E, we were subjected to noise, open doors, dust, ceiling tiles
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being taken down. This was not a clean medical
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environment. This was utter chaos.
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And of course, is the 200,000,000 LB improvement going
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to be enough? Well who knows because of course
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Plymouth is determined to become one of the world's super cities
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and it's already looking to increase the population of
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Plymouth dramatically. First of all 300,000 but it's
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even been suggested to me that by 2070 the population is going
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to be 500,000. So will the NHS facilities being
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built even cope with these crazy increases in population in UK?
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My opinion is not. Ben, let's bring you into
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today's news because you're on the case with this report about
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a shattered Britain. Very interesting document.
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But I'm going to encourage our audience today to think, is the
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decline of Britain just accidental or is this country
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under attack by its own government?
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And you will know if you're a regular UK Column viewer that
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it's the opinion of UK Column. We are under attack by our own
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government. Ben, welcome.
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Thanks, Brian. Hello, everybody.
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I've got to say, Brian, that looked like one of the most
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stressful things I've ever seen going to the hospital.
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A&E should be somewhere where people can seek solace and care.
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And I mean just the pneumatic drills on the way in, I mean,
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that was absolutely appalling. So anyway, an example of of the
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shattered Britain that we are living in, right?
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So I'm going to talk a little bit about this recent report
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came out last week or the week before, Shattered Britain,
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making sense of what Britain's want in a country that feels
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broken. It's the subtitle.
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I'd actually think it doesn't feel broken.
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It is broken actually, and it's been broken largely by the
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people circulating around this report.
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It's been brought to us by More in Common, which is a charitable
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organization funded by Open Societies, Robert Bosch,
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European Climate Foundation, the usual suspects.
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They say that their mission is to understand the forces driving
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us apart, find common ground and bring people together to tackle
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shared challenges. But I'm not really getting that
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from this report, to be honest with you, and not just because
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of the title. A little bit more about the
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organization. It was founded by Brendan Cox,
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who is, or was should I say, married to Jo Cox, the Labour MP
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who was murdered tragically in 2016 during the Brexit campaign.
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Her sister Kim Ledbetter is behind the assisted dying bill.
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Been very high profile over the past year since the election.
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And Brendan Cox was interestingly remarried in 2023
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in the ceremony which was officiated over by Justin Welby.
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So there's a really sort of interesting mix of people around
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Brendan Cox, this organization and this report.
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To be honest with you, you know, when I, when I looked at that, I
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found that all rather strange. The report, as I said, it kind
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of breaks the come the country up into tiny little pieces.
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They they talk about the seven segments from top to bottom
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going essentially politically left to politically right.
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So we've got the progressive activists, incrementalist left,
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the establishment, established liberals, sceptical scrollers,
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rooted patriots, traditional conservatives, dissenting
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disruptors, you get the picture. I just going to read the report
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will provide a link to it. You can get a sense of who
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they're talking about. I think the heartening thing for
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me is that basically 67% of the country are not in this top
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group. That's Labour, heartland, the
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progressive liberal world. Only 33% of the population fit
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into those categories, which means that the rest of us don't,
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quite frankly. And a lot of this is about
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politics, right? Let's be completely honest,
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we've looked at the provenance of the report, where it's come
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from, but also a lot of what it's talked about in the report.
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Yeah, so it says that Britain's political map is fundamentally
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changing as frustration with the status quo is leading to
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traditional two party loyalties collapsing into a volatile multi
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party system. Yeah, and we can see this
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playing out right now with the emergence of new political
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parties seemingly every week to be honest with you.
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Whether that's on the left with Jeremy Corbyn and Zara Sultana
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launching their, I believe still as yet unnamed radical left wing
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party, or on the right with the ever expanding Habib Low forage.
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Whoever else is going to step into the arena next access
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right? And this feels like deliberate
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breakdown. They're warning that we're
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heading into volatility and chaos.
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But actually it strikes me that this report is about carving up
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political fiefdom so that these kind of micro parties can take
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their own piece of the political pie and preside over it.
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The report was launched last week.
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Formally. Ed Miliband was there helpfully
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pointing out the fire exits in case the venue spontaneously
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combusted due to climate change. He also had liberal media Titans
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like Emily Maitlis there, plus some bloke off the telly who I
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may be recognised centre left, and also Kenny Badenoch who is
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running what remains of the Tories.
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Which kind of is one of the reasons why I feel like this is
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a political action essentially. You know, these people like the
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chaos and the breakdown. They feed off it both
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financially and politically. And they're creating their own
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little fiefdoms within the segments defined in the rapport.
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And despite the fact the organization behind it is called
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more in common, there isn't really much to unite us.
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Yeah, although we are united by our distrust of politicians
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quite entertainingly given who was at the launch event.
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So 75% negative perspective on politicians across the whole
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population, but also rather encouragingly, 42% positive on
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our neighbors. So we distrust politicians, we
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like our neighbors. Maybe that's why the politicians
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are so obsessed with getting with getting into neighborhoods
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and kind of trying to attach themselves to local
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neighborhoods at the moment. Interestingly, we're also, we
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also have a universal dislike for a news journalist and big
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businesses. And and also for some reason, if
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we get that back on screen quickly, we can see people trust
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judges. I think that's probably because
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most people don't come into contact with the judiciary very
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often and the scientists have somehow remained unscathed
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despite all what's happened over the past five years.
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So that's rather surprising to me.
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The the category that I'm quite particularly interested in is
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the one in the middle. You can see the established
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liberals on the bottom level there.
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They're very trusting of everyone.
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I think that's because they're basically insulated from
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everything that's happening in the country.
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These are the managerial elites, we're running the institutions,
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right? And we can see that because in
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the next slide asking about the desire for radical institutional
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change, only 2% of them actually wanted to, to quote from the
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report, burn down the institutions.
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So those are the people who are running the country.
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They're comfortable, but but actually no one else is.
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And this is, there's quite a lot of radical sentiment in here.
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Also a lot of some grey areas, huge grey areas around attitudes
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towards things like climate change, for example.
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Again, I'm sure Ed Miliband was rather upset about this, but you
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can see here across the whole country, essentially you've got
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nearly 70% of the country sort of neither this way or the
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other. Particularly they don't have a
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firm opinion on whether we're doing the right thing or the
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wrong thing on climate change. I think that's a debate that is
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still not in firmly 1 and I'm very happy about that because
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institutionally we're certainly going in the wrong direction.
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Interesting insight into attitudes around immigration.
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Actually got 46% think immigration should be
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significantly reduced, 16% think it should be reduced slightly,
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and actually those numbers are probably 20 to 30% higher.
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Given how the case calculations have been done in the report.
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Is quite a lot of manipulation and bias built into the
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methodology through waiting, but also the way that questions are
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being phrased. Actually, we can see here on
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attitudes towards growth versus fairness.
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Questions are either we should close the gap between rich and
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poor, even if it means the country doesn't get richer
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overall. Or on the other end of the
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spectrum, we should aim for everyone to be better off, even
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if it means the rich get more of the growth than the poor.
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But there's never any question in here saying, you know, should
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we could, we could close the gap between rich and poor while at
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the same time increasing the wealth of the nation.
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All right. I think she's actually designed
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to demonstrate and reinforce polarization to fit us into
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these entrenched and ultimately intractable political positions.
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However, one other thing that we are united on is our distaste
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for the current Labour government.
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And we can see here that even amongst Labour supporters,
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people who voted for Labour last year, 40, a full 40% of them
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would vote for someone else today, which I personally find
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quite encouraging. Ben, thank you very much for
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that excellent overview. And let's just stress for the
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audience, many people picking up on this in the chat box.
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We are being attacked, the country is being ripped apart
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and this is another indication of of non government
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organisations measuring the effect.
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But in measuring the effect, they are of course helping us to
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see what's actually happening and also to judge who we can go
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to in our own communities in order to get more support.
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Now perhaps that's a great point to bring Diane into today's news
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because Diane, you've been out and about looking at what's been
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happening in County Durham where local councillors are taking the
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initiative and fighting the system themselves.
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What have you got for us? Yes, thanks Brian.
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Hello Ben. It's great to be here today.
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I, I'm happy to report that I have good news today and I'm
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saying that because even though as the country continues to
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crumble, we have to take action, otherwise it will continue to do
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so. And I'm here with the message
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today of some examples that we can do as we act locally.
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I'd like to 1st review last week's report very briefly that
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I gave on Durham County Council that they were having a vote
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last week to review the net zero spending and policies that are
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in alignment of course with the Paris Agreement and UK wide
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policies. And as Karen Allison, who is one
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of the newly elected Reform Council members, said that
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Reform were in fact elected with the mandate to review net zero
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and to identify efficiencies and savings for the people of County
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Durham. It's important to note that
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Reform gained very substantial political control in last year's
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local elections in this county by winning 30 seats out of the
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98 elected. So that's quite a substantial
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amount. And so of course they had to act
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with what they said they would be doing, which of course would
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be looking at, among other things, net zero.
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Now in County Durham specifically, they had a climate
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emergency response plan that went over several years.
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It started what in 2019 when this was first voted on when
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there was a Lib Dem LED coalition?
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There have been 3 iterations of this plan and this is obviously
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going to be the last one now that it's ending.
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There was 1 from 2020 to 2022 and then 2022 to 24 and then
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2024 to present. So this was the thing they were
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voting against. So I will get into that in a
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minute. But first of all, just to set
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the scene for the meeting, when I first arrived at the meeting
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at the County Hall last Wednesday morning, you can see
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that there were people out front.
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They were just standing there. It was obviously some kind of
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protest. I didn't quite know exactly what
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was going on until I was able to spend some time before the
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meeting looking at what they were doing.
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So we see various signs that I, I took some photograph,
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photographs of, for example, one saying there's no Planet D.
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So a lot of people protesting the, the, the descending of the
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climate emergency as well as other things that you would kind
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of expect to go along with that. So other people that sort of
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campaign on similar things. So I have a short clip here just
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so we can see a few seconds of the kind of speeches and what it
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looked like out in the audience. Ocean on climate change, which
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of course it's incredibly important, we've also.
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Come from stand up to racism. City of Durham along with along
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with members of City of Durham Labour Party because we are
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really, really. Concerned.
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About. The increase in racist incidents
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that are happening since this new party came into.
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Power here. So lots that had nothing to do
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with with what was being voted on.
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So while while that was going on, I talked to somebody on the
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side who was a part of a protest talking about houses and
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multiple occupation, which is a very serious concern for the
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county. And let's hear what he had to
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say. It's very similar.
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We live in Eastern, which is an area of high deprivation and
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disadvantage and always house green and it hasn't changed and
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all the HMOS do is contribute to great disadvantage and
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depredation and so that's partly protest as to why we're trying
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to stop. This proliferation and
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concentration in which general was a very poor deprived, that's
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one of the most powerful you can find out.
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Thanks. Thank you.
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Hopefully you can hear what he had to say in the background.
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You heard all the chanting going on in the background, which was
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the crowd saying what do we want climate justice?
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What do we want? What do we want climate
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emergency, you know, so back and forth.
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He was really hard to hear what he was saying in some cases, but
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that was what it felt like to be there.
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So when the council meeting opened at 10:00 in the morning,
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we first went through some questions that were asked and
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these were some interesting things to take a look at.
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So before we got into the vote, which of course was the thing
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that I was there for, there were some other things that happened
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that were kind of interesting. There was one question, there
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were several questions raised from the public.
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This one was from Miss Michelle Lane, a former labor counselor
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which was put onto the screen and her question was as reform.
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County counselors for CM Division have publicly declared
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they will not attend diversity, equality and inclusion or DEI
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training, including any such British anti man and anti woman
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nonsense. Can the leader of the council
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explain why certain Reform counselors are refusing to
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attend DEI training and how this refusal may impact their ability
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to make legally informed and compliant decisions during
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committee meetings, particularly when matters concerning DEI are
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discussed? So the the short, the short
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version of the answer came from Counselor Andrew Husband, who is
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the Durham County Council leader from Reform UK saying, quote,
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there is no requirement in law for counselors to complete EDI
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training. So it was interesting to hear
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that and just did to see how the vote works.
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So if we go on to the votes and first of all, there was a motion
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to extend the time for debate, which would sort of go against
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the usual council rules. And they voted overwhelmingly,
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as you'll see to they voted for not extending the time.
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And so then we went on from there to look at what the actual
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vote was and what the motion was.
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So the motion as presented by Darren Grimes, who's the Deputy
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Leader of Reform UK, was firstly to reset and the climate
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emergency declaration made on the 20th of February 2019.
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As we can see here, there was an amendment by Councillor Wilkes,
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who was the former Lib Dem who was previously in charge to
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remove that. And what he proposed was to keep
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the climate emergency declaration, but also to
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maintain the care emergency that was being declared in favor of
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children's social care provision.
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So we can go on to see what happened as with what the the
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voting results next. It was interesting that the
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amendment that was present from Councillor Wilkes was 64
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against, 24 in favor and what extension during Grimes motion,
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which as it was presented to rescind the climate emergency
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and in favor of care of children was 6247 against and seven
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abstentions. So of course they were very,
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very happy about this result. So I this is an exclusive to UK
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column because I have to say that what happened was after the
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vote I didn't see any other media outlets present.
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It was just me and my secret cameraman who could not be
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revealed for privacy reasons for on his behalf.
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But I have some 3 short clips here from three councillors.
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The first one here is Councillor Ian Catchford.
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It just sounds expensive because if you look at the plan for
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change, it's millions of pounds, right offshore winds four times
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more expensive than onshore, right, because it's very it's
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very expensive. That's what I'm saying.
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But it's also we've all we've already got existing main farms,
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we've got dog a bank existing right.
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What we don't do, yeah, is we don't site battery stories close
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to the chore where the where the power comes in story.
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Wind. Wind energy is intermittent,
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right. Right.
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So it's that intimate and solar power and it is very Peaky,
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especially in this country. Both of those technologies, they
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require an element of storage before they go into National
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Grid. Yeah.
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That's what people don't really sound.
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They just think, oh, yeah, we'll do loads of sort, but do loads
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when that doesn't work that way, you need to sort the energy out
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before it goes into National Grid.
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OK. Yeah, that makes sense.
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OK. Thank you.
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Thank you. Yeah, so as you can see, he gave
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me a lot to think about there. He had some very practical ideas
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for for deal with actual solutions for what what could be
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actual climate issues. Next I have a short interview
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clip from Councillor Kenny Hope thought up some interesting
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information about the opposition in the meeting.
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Do you have to say something about that?
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Yeah, so one of the opposition was he had a lot to say.
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He basically my eyes was a hypocrite.
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He drives in and out the coming hall pretty.
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Daily. With his work van and he is
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quite keen on claiming his expenses now he's coming in on a
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in a diesel guzzling van and then he's shouting about the
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climate. Well does make sense to me.
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Also the what else I stated on is the the production of lithium
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batteries and the silica and stuff for the solar panels now.
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It is widely recognised and reported on that this is being
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done using child and adult slave labour now.
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We abolished the slave labour trade within the 1800s.
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How can we now start supporting that?
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Because we want to go down the screen agenda.
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It's just nonsensical. Yeah, because they have to get
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the materials from somewhere, and that's what seems to be
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forgotten. Is that it because it's
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extracted from somewhere in Africa or whatever?
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You know, whatever the people go through to get it is really not
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good. Yeah, yeah. 100% we can't forget
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the root of where all the stuff coming from, the material that's
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coming from and how you know how people are trapped doing this.
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You know, child and adult slave neighbor is absolutely not
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acceptable and we should not be part of that whatsoever.
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If the stuff was proven, that it was took out the ground and all
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of that sort of stuff in a, in a way that doesn't use child and
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adult slave labour and that the CO2 emissions are, you know,
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going to be reduced long term, then fine.
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But it's not. I would say as a resident to
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County Durham, I don't want my council tax to go to support
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that kind of activity personally, neither do I.
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And so the the final interview that I have here is from
25:21
Councillor Darren Grimes, who, as I said, raised the motion to
25:24
himself. I shared the full video on
25:26
Twitter last week or X and it's had over 18,000 views since I
25:30
shared it on Thursday. But I have just a short clip
25:32
here. Darren, I just want to say thank
25:35
you for such an excellent performance today.
25:37
Oh, thank you very much in the meeting.
25:39
How did you feel it went? Well, apart from me losing my
25:41
voice, it's starting to sound like Mrs. May when she gave that
25:44
infamous speech. And.
25:46
The letters started falling off the wall behind her.
25:48
You know, apart from that, I thought it went very well.
25:51
Yeah, I think that the the team was totally united and actually
25:54
we've made clear to County Durham that we are going to
25:57
prioritise them over virtue signal and fads, frankly.
26:02
Yeah, I have to say it's just as a resident speaking personally
26:05
of County Durham, I would like to see my my council tax money
26:07
go to helping people who really need it.
26:09
And you know, my feeling is that a lot of this climate finance
26:12
actually goes to sort of these companies and gets through the
26:16
City of London. And I've looked into this quite
26:18
a bit and that's not personally. And I think that a lot of people
26:20
would feel that way as well if they knew how that's where their
26:23
money was going. Absolutely, Yeah.
26:24
I think actually the the mandate that we had from the public was
26:29
to actually scrutinize all of that expenditure and make sure
26:32
that we're getting the best bang for our book, which is, you
26:35
know, the council tax bill that's been put forward to
26:38
everybody goes up and up and up, but the services don't get
26:41
better, better, better. So actually you know, we need to
26:44
re balance the scale so it actually delivers fairness for
26:49
the public as well. Right.
26:51
So do you think that you had pretty much unanimous support
26:53
and agreement across Reform UK in that meeting or do you
26:56
whether some oppositions to what what you what you moved or no?
26:59
100% agreement. You know, actually I think the
27:02
difference between US and the Tories is that we are a totally
27:04
the United party united behind the movement and what the cause
27:08
is. And that for me is a really
27:10
beautiful thing. And I'm it's especially proud of
27:13
the whole group today. Actually, I thought they did our
27:16
party and our county, our great service today.
27:20
Yeah, I think so too. And, you know, it was
27:21
interesting as well to hear some of the supporting councillors
27:25
who spoke on your behalf. And also I was very excited when
27:27
the amendment was was turned down.
27:29
That was a wonderful moment. How did you feel when that
27:31
happened? Oh.
27:32
Glorious to defeat the Lib Dems gets.
27:36
Me out of. Bed on the morning, of course.
27:41
So just to close this segment, I just want to mention the
27:43
coverage by the BBC. So obviously I didn't see anyone
27:46
for the BBC in attendance, but of course, they had to weigh in.
27:49
And mostly they they quoted from the Mark Wilkes who had
27:52
originally started the economy emergency agreement, saying that
27:56
the social care issues had nothing whatsoever to do with
27:58
climate change. And they focused a lot on the
28:00
protesters, including one sign that was apparently held up by
28:04
young one boy that read if you care, allow me to have a future.
28:07
So they're using the children to push the climate change agenda
28:10
according to the propaganda presented by the BBC, which I
28:13
think is absolutely disgusting, Brian.
28:17
I totally agree, Diane, but the first thing I want to say is
28:20
what an excellent job those councillors did.
28:23
It's very difficult for many of them because they're newly
28:26
elected into a council position and this can be quite
28:29
challenging for them. But they are learning very
28:32
quickly and it doesn't matter what party they're from.
28:35
In this case, reform doing well, but there are many other very
28:38
small parties. There's also independence.
28:41
These people need huge support because they are now at the
28:45
front end challenging the system.
28:47
Now I'm just going to take you to a quick video.
28:50
This was actually a Labour Party election, part of their election
28:54
manifesto. Let's just have a look about
28:57
Kia's Starmer's team was saying a little while ago.
29:06
This cost of living crisis comes on the back of decades of high
29:10
inequality and low growth. Now the number of people in
29:12
England waiting to start routine hospital treatment has risen to
29:16
a new record high. Rishi Sunak gave a speech
29:19
rolling back on the government's Net 0 pledges.
29:22
The rising cost of mortgages is causing misery.
29:24
Across the country, the record-breaking.
29:27
Week for numbers crossing the Channel this year so far, we
29:34
know growth is the answer. It's higher wages, stronger
29:39
communities, more vibrant high streets, public services that
29:42
lift you up, less poverty, more opportunity, warmer homes,
29:47
healthier food, holidays, meals out, more cash in your pocket,
29:52
an end to a segregating cost of living crisis.
29:55
We will set up a proper national champion, Great British Energy.
29:59
Some nation will become a clean energy superpower, why not
30:02
Britain? An NHS where prevention comes
30:05
first, where care is closer to home, where patients have more
30:09
control. The biggest expansion of NHS
30:12
training in its history. Whatever the obstacles to
30:15
opportunity, wherever the barriers to hope, my Labour
30:18
government will tear them down. We'll get 13,000 extra police on
30:23
our streets. A mission driven government that
30:26
will end sticking plaster. Politics will unlock the pride
30:30
and purpose that is in every community.
30:33
It will give this country its confidence, its hope, its future
30:37
back. So Ben, I'm going to apologise
30:48
for bringing that video clip in just before your segment, but I
30:52
wanted to remind people of the absolute hypocrisy of Keir
30:56
Starmer with what he promised to do for UK and what he's actually
31:00
doing at the moment. Billions and billions of pounds
31:03
going into the war in Ukraine, million dead Ukrainian soldiers,
31:09
British arms and weapons and money going into Israel to
31:13
prosecute the war in Gaza. We've got damage in Yemen
31:17
wherever we go in the World War. And we've got Kier Stormer's
31:21
government behind it. So the idea that this government
31:24
is helping to build a better Britain is absolutely laughable.
31:29
He is destroying Britain and we are now really starting to be
31:34
able to focus on the techniques being used.
31:37
Let's bring you in Ben and Sadiq Khan, because of course this man
31:42
is, in my opinion, up to no good and on a world stage.
31:48
He certainly is. I mean, Elise Starmer is talking
31:52
about building back Britain. So we said building a better
31:55
Britain. You know, even if he isn't, at
31:57
least he's talking about it. Sadiq Khan is supposedly the
32:01
Mayor of London, but let's have a little look at what he's been
32:03
up to over the past couple of weeks.
32:06
This is why London and Accra need each other.
32:13
My Majesty, pleasure to meet you.
32:14
How are you? Pleasure to meet you.
32:16
You're welcome. It's impossible to come to Accra
32:18
and not pay a courtesy call to your old Majesty.
32:21
London and Accra have a lot in common.
32:23
Our boundless creative energy, our passion for music, food and
32:27
culture, and our both spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship.
32:30
Our cities also have a heavy history.
32:33
It's an uncomfortable truth that London played a key role in the
32:38
organization and funding of the transatlantic slave trade for
32:44
standing here. I feel optimistic that despite
32:48
our difficult past, our two cities, our two nations, are
32:52
ready to write a new chapter. And I'm excited at the prospect
32:57
of what we can do together to build a brighter, more
33:01
prosperous and fairer future for all.
33:04
The establishment of Imperial Global Ghana, it is a landmark
33:09
moment. For the first time, Auk
33:12
University, a London University, has a permanent base in Africa
33:19
that's dedicated to science and technology.
33:23
And I don't think it'll be the last.
33:27
The vote that your visit today will act as a springboard for
33:30
developing mutual beneficial partnerships.
33:34
Economic stability of both London and Agra look forward to
33:39
a long lasting fruitful relationship.
33:47
So Sadiq Khan is travelling around the world like some
33:52
imperial viceroy going on a trade mission to Africa, talking
33:57
about making amends for slavery while there are still 40 million
34:02
estimated slaves Live Today, many of them in Africa, working
34:07
on the clean energy systems that he's a big proponent of.
34:10
You can see him here in one of the frames on the right hand
34:13
side standing in front of the Gone Independence Arch, which is
34:17
built in 1957 when they were freed from the empire.
34:22
And yet he's there literally to promote the imperial agenda.
34:27
You know, the clue is in the name.
34:28
It's Imperial Global, it's an Imperial College, it's backed by
34:33
the Gates Foundation amongst many others.
34:36
But you know, it is still an imperial entity just because he
34:41
is over different ethnicity, a supposed person of colour.
34:44
The God I suppose has been let down, right?
34:47
And what are they promoting? Genomics.
34:49
So we can get out. Back on screen we can see the
34:51
genomic medicine building. So this is genetic engineering,
34:56
this is all the 4th industrial revolution.
35:03
I can just click on, sorry, my click has disappeared.
35:07
There we go. We can see they're promoting
35:09
smart farms. So this is all the globalist 4th
35:14
industrial revolution agenda and importantly funded by the City
35:20
of London. So we can see on the right hand
35:22
side there, he's talking about the economic stability of
35:25
London. What he really means is the
35:28
city, which isn't really London at all.
35:30
And actually we can see here this is from the past few weeks
35:33
as well, an event held at the Mansion House where he's
35:38
speaking alongside the Lord Mayor of London, which I believe
35:42
shows at least where some of his loyalties lie.
35:46
This is another perfect example of what I call the unholy
35:49
alliance between money and power, right, the city and these
35:53
political supposed elites. He's also representing, of
35:58
course, C40 Cities and I believe this is where his true
36:02
allegiances lie. He's actually the Co president
36:04
of C40 Cities. It's controlled by the Uber
36:10
Zionist American billionaire Michael Bloomberg up in the top
36:14
left hand side there, who's also joined on the board.
36:18
Interesting. This is a recent development by
36:21
a key Sadiq Khan, Lieutenant Meteco Ban, who I've spoken
36:26
about many times previously, the sort of MI six US State
36:30
Department Rothschild family creation who's also been in
36:35
London recently. Glad handing the African
36:38
diaspora here at the African Achievers Award a couple of
36:42
weeks ago, which again I think is a perfect demonstration of
36:46
the constituencies the Khan and the people around him are
36:50
actually serving rather than the people of London.
36:57
Think you've absolutely hit that one on the headband.
37:00
The whining and dining, fine food, it's all there.
37:05
This is imperial takeover on Africa, the target, as opposed
37:10
to being people that we're trying to help.
37:13
No help for people in trouble in London.
37:17
He's jet setting around the world helping to create climate
37:21
change, I would have thought. But the hypocrisy is
37:25
breathtaking and we are going to continue to call these people
37:29
and their policies out. Now.
37:31
We'd like to say a huge thank you to everybody that's been
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Now, as you will have noticed over recent weeks and months, UK
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contents increased. Very pleased to say tonight at
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7:00 PM on germ warfare, we've got Mike Yeadon talking about or
38:15
asking the question is science dead?
38:18
And coming up on Thursday, I'm also very pleased to have the
38:22
first of what should be a series of interviews with Jewish people
38:27
who are now starting to question what's actually happening in the
38:30
Middle East and what is actually taking place with the support of
38:35
Zionist Israel. So on Thursday at 1:00, I have
38:39
an interview with Lynn Lopez Salzado.
38:42
And this is entitled From Zionist to Anti Zionist
38:46
Memories, dreams and visions of peace.
38:49
I think you'll find it a fascinating interview and we
38:52
have more to come. I'd also like to remind people
38:55
that Totnes this Friday at 7:00 Andrew Bridgen will be speaking
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The UK column team will be there.
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Mike and myself will be there, and we look forward to seeing
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39:14
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individual because the abuse he's absorbed from mainstream
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meter and press since speaking out is truly incredible.
39:25
And we know there are going to be some hostile elements in
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Totnes. Unfortunately, that won't stop
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wonderful hotel. We're looking to get the 400
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from the 28th of July, so watch out for those.
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And it will be your support at that, at this event in York that
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is going to make the difference for us doing what everybody or
40:12
so many people has asked us. And that is, can we do a weekend
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event? Well, we're going to do our best
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in 2026. So come along to York and help
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us make that very special weekend next year happen.
40:28
Now where does, where does that take us?
40:31
And we're going to come on to the subject of physical
40:35
materials in the digital age. And Diane, we bring you back
40:40
again because you've been out and about, you're meeting people
40:46
who are campaigning. Tell us what you've been doing
40:49
and what people are themselves doing in order to fight back
40:53
against this horrific system which has installed itself in
40:57
the UK. Yes, Brian, I, I want to say
41:01
that first of all, I think that what what they did to us in 2020
41:05
and beyond really I think stopped the feeling of
41:09
community, the feeling of what it, what it is like to be around
41:13
other people, the feeling of working together.
41:14
And I personally believe that the whole technocracy that was
41:17
behind that was very deliberate. So this weekend, this past
41:20
weekend, as has been announced on UK column for the past few
41:24
weeks, I attended the Thetford Truth and Freedom Festival and I
41:28
was asked to give a talk on the topic of the importance of
41:31
physical materials in the digital age.
41:34
So as you'll see here at my my first slide that shows this
41:38
image of a wolf of monsters and middle school.
41:42
So one of the reasons, one of the many reasons why it's so
41:45
important to preserve physical materials is that they're
41:48
changing things. And they're changing things that
41:50
we might have known from our childhood, that people might
41:52
have known from previous, you know, literature, previous
41:56
things that are now being changed digitally.
41:59
And when things are changed digitally or when they're
42:01
removed, we don't know it quite as well as when things have been
42:04
sitting on our shelves for years.
42:06
So I gave a talk on this. So there's just a photo here of
42:09
me with my UK column banner, which was donated by Jenny, who
42:13
made one of our banners for us in Cheltenham and is now behind
42:16
me here in my own studio along with one of the organizers,
42:20
Mark, who's up there in the front.
42:23
And so that was me sort of giving my talk at at the on the
42:28
Friday. So there were several talks
42:29
throughout the Friday and Saturday.
42:31
Overall, I would say that the focus was on bringing people
42:34
together and looking at all alternatives.
42:36
They passed on business cards that said that the aim of the
42:38
festival was to raise your frequency, frequency and
42:41
vibration with great music, great information and some great
42:45
company. And I think all of those were
42:46
definitely achieved. So for example, some of the
42:49
talks we're focusing on parallel systems as Ben talks about
42:52
frequently. They were talks about the
42:55
spiritual war that Brian talks about frequently and and what
42:58
happens when we awaken to these these entities and the agenda.
43:02
Bob from Thetford from Thetford Council Watch, who Brian has
43:06
interviewed previously was in attendance and I spoke with him
43:09
for a while. There's some legal advice on how
43:11
to protect your assets using trusts and including the issues
43:14
of around inheritance tax. The idea of direct democracy,
43:19
which is the right to call for referendums on important local
43:21
issues and other things. So basically bringing back real
43:24
democracy to the people where it belongs.
43:26
Originally Kim Isherwood was not there in person, but she did
43:30
give a reported talk about the work that she continues to do,
43:34
the excellent work with public protection whales.
43:36
There was a veteran called Chris Thrall who was a YouTube who
43:40
gave a talk about how he is planning to climb Mount Everest
43:43
in 2026 and then and he is going to do this to support veterans
43:47
dealing with complex PTSD. And he's asking for everyone for
43:51
financial donations to help him do that.
43:53
And there was a really good discussion around the English
43:56
constitution at sorts of at the end of Saturday.
43:59
I have some photos here to kind of give some idea of what was
44:03
happening throughout the weekend.
44:05
The first one here is some people from a group called the
44:08
Community Assembly of the British Isles.
44:10
You can look them up on their website and get more
44:12
information. They were saying that they are
44:14
working with individuals and local communities to help
44:17
preserve and protect our core rights and values.
44:20
There are also some other stalls available.
44:23
There was 1 here from Louise's Radiant Art.
44:26
She was selling some items that I may have spent some money at
44:30
on her booth there, which is we can see that on the next slide.
44:34
If we can Pink bring up a picture of her stall there.
44:37
She there's her Louisa's stall. There was another one there
44:40
called Solder Sphere Healing Oils and Tinctures, which offers
44:44
natural approaches to dealing with health issues.
44:47
There's the stall there for some things for sale.
44:50
There was a natural healer we can see on the next slide called
44:52
Steve and Carl, where he had a little place set up where you
44:57
could deal with that and sort of get a spiritual healing from
45:01
him. And we also had in attendance,
45:05
we had someone who was, I say, I guess claiming to be Thomas
45:10
Paine, born in Thetford. He played a role in the American
45:13
and French Revolutions, if you don't know who he is, but he
45:15
advocated for the revolutions and he was at Thetford Native.
45:19
What was really interesting to see was the amazing Support for
45:22
UK Column that was throughout the festival and I had a really
45:26
great time with some of this talking to these people.
45:29
Here's some signs that we originally provided to us.
45:32
I believe this is at our Bristol events last year, so I've got an
45:36
updated version from the person who made those saying UK Column
45:39
is the antidote to mainstream propaganda.
45:42
What else do we have here? We have a photo with me with one
45:45
of our members with that very thing on his T-shirt.
45:49
So we had some really great conversations and he told me
45:52
some information about what he's doing, what with his MP.
45:55
There's a picture of Jenny and she set up her own little stand
45:58
with copies of the light paper and some UK column information,
46:02
including, if you can see it at the bottom there, a screenshot
46:06
of Charles and Brian together at the desk.
46:08
It's a very large print out of the screenshot that she had
46:11
available. What else do we have here?
46:14
Some more photos. This was a lady who wanted me to
46:17
show that she had her badges on her hat.
46:20
So on one side we have what UK column views and the other side
46:23
we have I love. So those are both of course
46:26
badges that we have for sale in the shop.
46:28
She wanted to make sure that I had photographed those.
46:31
And so some other things we have here, some people made some
46:34
stickers of all of us presenters saying safe and effective around
46:39
each of our photos. So I have several sheets of
46:41
these stickers for everyone of all of us presenters.
46:46
It's it was good to see this this kind of effort putting put
46:49
into and I think that we truly are safe and effective at UK
46:51
column compared to other news outlets and compared to other
46:54
things that they could be doing to us, Brian.
46:56
So I'll have some more about this and extra.
46:59
I have some more photos to share.
47:00
But overall, I just want to say that it was a great weekend and
47:03
a great chance for people to come together with like minds to
47:06
solve the real problems that are happening on the ground and
47:09
practical solutions for what we can do about them.
47:12
Diane, thank you very much for being there and thank you for
47:15
that report. And yes, it is great to see more
47:17
and more people who are doing something.
47:20
This is the start, isn't it? Standing up to be counting,
47:24
doing your research, challenging the system and getting more
47:27
people on board. So I, I think we've, we've got
47:30
some really encouraging news in our UK column, news content
47:35
today. And we know this is going to
47:38
grow. And of course, the more people
47:40
that give support to these sorts of initiatives, the faster
47:44
they're going to grow. OK Ben, let's bring you back
47:49
with us. Because is Christianity going to
47:52
be a focal point for the push back against this pernicious
47:57
system in UK? And should we trust Danny
48:00
Krueger? The answer to the first question
48:04
is yes. The answer to the second
48:06
question is I'm not so sure. But let's have a little listen
48:09
to what he said in Parliament at the end of last week.
48:16
It is an honour to stand here in this empty chamber to speak
48:21
about the original purpose of this space, which was a Chapel
48:24
in the Church of England. The old Chamber of the House of
48:28
Commons, on which this space is is modelled after the great fire
48:33
of 1834, was Saint Stephen's Chapel, formerly a royal church
48:38
given by the heirs of Henry the Eighth to Parliament to serve as
48:42
its debating chamber. And Madam Deputy Speaker, your
48:45
chair stands on the altar steps and the table with the dispatch
48:49
boxes is where the lepton stood. And I mentioned this because the
48:54
link between this place and the Church of England isn't merely
48:57
ceremonial. The prayers we say here at the
49:00
start of every day aren't just a nod to tradition.
49:03
Our democracy is founded on Christian faith.
49:07
And indeed this Parliament remains the law giving power of
49:10
the Church of England. We in this place have the
49:13
responsibility to approve or disapprove the doctrine and the
49:16
rules of the Church. And that is as it should be.
49:20
Because the Church of England is not some private club, just
49:23
another eccentric denomination. The Church is a chaplain to the
49:27
nation and through the parish system, in which every square
49:31
inch of England has its local church and its local priest, we
49:35
are all members. We all belong.
49:38
Even if you never set foot in your church from one year to the
49:41
next, even if you don't believe in its teachings, it is your
49:43
church and you are its member. So Christian revival is on the
49:50
agenda. I'm a fan.
49:53
Is it going to come from Parliament?
49:54
I'm not so sure. I don't think he should come
49:56
from Parliament. Is it going to come from Danny
49:58
Kruger? I don't know.
50:00
I can't quite work it out. There was quite a flutter of
50:02
excitement about this at the end of last week in various bits of
50:05
the Internet, which I happen to for Grant.
50:07
But if I look at Kruger, I'm not sure that I view this as being a
50:13
honest effort. He is a Conservative Party
50:17
insider. He's the current MP for Devices
50:20
and now E Wiltshire. Since 2019, there's been a
50:23
change to the constituency there.
50:25
He's a former leader, writer at the Telegraph, Co, founder of
50:29
Only Connect, which was a charity focused on people coming
50:32
out of prison. And he's very much part of the
50:34
establishment, right. He was a former speechwriter for
50:37
David Cameron and Ian Duncan Smith back in the early
50:40
naughties, which would explain why it was in the very, very
50:43
good, very well polished and well delivered speech, right?
50:46
But at the time he was famously quoted as saying Brian talks
50:50
about this a lot. We plan to introduce a period of
50:52
creative destruction into the public services.
50:56
For me, this makes him one of David Camerons change agents.
51:00
Yeah. And he's been working back in
51:02
the Tory Party for Cameron and for Boris Johnson.
51:07
And he sort of sits at the Nexus of the destruction of the
51:10
country over the past 20 years. And it seems to me very
51:14
convenient now for him to be stepping forward and saying, oh,
51:16
goodness, we've got to sort this out.
51:18
And it's not going to come from politics.
51:19
It's going to come from the church.
51:21
Also, if you go to his personal website, it says here that his
51:25
politics are probably best described as communitarian,
51:29
which is another huge red flag, right?
51:31
The communitarian systems, the big society that David Cameron
51:35
pushed forward based on ideas from Saul Alinsky, that is a
51:39
radical left wing communitarian approach, right?
51:43
This is sort of neo Marxism writ large.
51:45
And this is written directly on his About Me page, What he
51:48
believes. And importantly, there's no
51:50
mention on Here's What I Believe page about Christianity.
51:54
Yeah, I know. So back to the speech.
51:56
It was a great speech. Go and watch it.
51:58
It's only 10 minutes long. He talks about a wind blowing, a
52:01
storm coming, that when it hits, we're going to find out if our
52:04
house is built on rock or sand. He speaks of the importance of
52:08
Christianity to the nation and its founding.
52:11
Yeah, the fact that England, uniquely among the nations of
52:16
the world, was founded, created consciously, he says, on the
52:19
basis of the Bible and importantly on the story of the
52:22
Hebrew people. And he does tie us very closely
52:25
theologically to the Jewish people.
52:28
I noticed that it's impossible not to in the current context,
52:32
everything going on around us. He talked about a fight back
52:35
against another religion, not Islam that he did reference, but
52:40
actually this religion of woke. So he describes this combination
52:45
of paganism and Christian heresies and the cult of
52:50
modernism and an ideology of power that needs to be exercised
52:54
from the public discourse. And he views Christianity as
52:58
being the way of achieving that. But then on the flip side, and I
53:02
found this quite difficult to understand.
53:04
He talks about Christian values as being freedom and tolerance.
53:10
It's word tolerance. We're actually I don't believe
53:12
is a Christian value and I think it's probably fair to say is one
53:17
of the things is brought us into this mess in the 1st place.
53:20
Too much tolerance. And I would remind people of
53:23
Matthew 1034 think not that I come to send peace on earth.
53:28
I came not to send peace but a sword.
53:32
Much more on this to come. Ben, thank you very much.
53:37
Yeah, lots of questions about that and it's stirred up quite a
53:40
lot of discussion in the chat box today.
53:42
So we will definitely focus in on Mr. Kruger more in the
53:46
future. Let's end with a little bit of a
53:49
story because a little while ago I was approached by a journalist
53:54
from the very big French media organization Associated French
54:01
Press. And the lady was called Anna
54:04
Malpass and she sent me a an e-mail.
54:07
Let's have a look. Just pop this up on the screen.
54:10
Here we are. So dear Brian, I'm a journalist
54:13
at AFP news agency working in London.
54:16
I'm interested in alternative media like UK column and would
54:21
like to organise an interview with you if possible.
54:24
She gave me a number best regards from Anna.
54:28
Well, I went to have a look at her and very quickly I found out
54:32
that she was labeled as disinformation reporter in
54:35
Europe. And I thought, my goodness, I
54:38
wonder what's coming here? So I decided to e-mail her back
54:42
and this is what I said. Thank you for your e-mail.
54:45
Would you be kind enough to tell me a little bit more about what
54:48
you would like to achieve in the interview?
54:50
What is your interest in UK column and what would you like
54:53
to cover? It would also be helpful to know
54:56
a little more about you and your work at AFP.
55:00
Do you have a summary CV and perhaps three of your articles
55:03
that you can share that you feel best reflect your work in a
55:07
related subject area? Well, fair enough, She did
55:12
respond, she said. Thank you Brian for getting back
55:15
to me. I've been looking at independent
55:17
media outlets like The Light Newspaper, the Conservative
55:20
Woman and UK Column, which I wasn't very aware of before,
55:25
which seemed to be expanding since the pandemic.
55:28
While they're different, I see overlaps in terms of topics,
55:32
contributors and readers. Viewers.
55:35
I met some UK column fans at a rally in London this month and
55:38
you'll post some videos often come up.
55:42
So my main questions are about why people are looking at this
55:46
media, what topics and opinions are aired, the use of social
55:50
media, what the business models are, Also what links there there
55:54
are with similar media outlets in other countries.
55:57
Happy to answer any questions. And then she does also respond
56:04
sort of to my question about her career because she says I'm
56:07
fairly freshly back in the UK after working in Ukraine and
56:11
Poland, and I've spent most of my career in Russia.
56:14
So most of my stories are not very relevant.
56:18
And here are some links. And she sent me three stories.
56:21
Absolutely right. They weren't very relevant, but
56:25
I decided to be a good investigative journalist and go
56:28
and have a look at Anna in a bit more detail.
56:31
This is part of Mark Rack. Apologies to Mark Racks and I
56:35
should have their header on the top of this, but here you can
56:39
see you've got an image for Anna which is the same image on her
56:44
ex page. And the first article in the
56:48
most recent is Brothers Blame, influence of mum's conspiracy
56:52
theories after sister's death. And this is Anna's own version
56:57
of Marianna Springs Vicious, vicious hit piece on Kate
57:01
Shemorani. And if you have a look at the
57:05
article itself by Anna Malpass, you can see that she's
57:09
absolutely mimicking Marianna Springs vicious attack on that
57:15
family. But when I got deeper into AFP,
57:18
of course, you discover they're absolutely vast media
57:21
organization. And not only that, they're in
57:25
bed with the political side of the European Union.
57:29
And via their media Lab creation, they're involved in
57:34
research and development for the EU, which of course is funded by
57:39
the EU. And I'll let people have a look
57:42
at this particular diagram on screen, but it's showing how
57:47
they are supposedly protecting citizens from misinformation and
57:54
disinformation via this quite complex surveillance system.
58:00
Now the boss of the organization fabrics Freeze, he's got a very
58:05
interesting quote available public publicly, which says the
58:08
three big press agencies do not play the same role of gatekeeper
58:13
that we did 20 years ago. And he goes on to say news
58:17
agencies can no longer only report facts.
58:20
They must now debunk fake news. And this is a new mission for
58:26
AFP. Well, if you do a bit more work,
58:29
you find that this is heavily embedded into the European Union
58:34
and their research and innovation unit.
58:36
And amongst other things, the EU is crowing that they're going to
58:39
be using AI in order to take down misinformation and
58:47
disinformation. So I responded to Anna and I
58:51
said thank you for the response outlining your interests and
58:54
providing the links that you have.
58:56
Your response does raise a couple of questions, so I'll be
58:59
interested in your answers. Your LinkedIn page simply shows
59:03
your career starting November 2020.
59:06
How did you progress into journalism and how did you come
59:09
specialized in reporting from Ukraine, Poland and Russia?
59:14
Mainstream media journalists are usually quite open on LinkedIn
59:18
regarding their education, training and career progression
59:21
in journalism. And there was a little bit more.
59:24
LinkedIn also describes you as disinformation reporter in
59:29
Europe. Is disinformation reporting your
59:32
professional role with AFP? And if so, is this the reason
59:36
you're now showing an interest in the light the Conservative
59:39
woman and UK column? Is your approach to the UK
59:42
column linked to any of Associated French Press's 14
59:48
existing European fact checking projects?
59:51
But lastly, I understand that you may be working with and or
59:54
sharing research work and stories with Marianna Spring,
59:59
disinformation expert at the BBC.
1:00:02
Is this the case? Well, I'm happy to tell our
1:00:05
audience today that the reply from Anna was absolute silence.
1:00:10
She's run away and presumably asking the telling questions
1:00:15
about what she was really up to and intended and intending as.
1:00:21
As put a as a cat on a hot tin roof, Ben.
1:00:25
We're going to end with a video here, which should also produce
1:00:28
a bit of a smile on our audience's face.
1:00:31
What have you got for us? If you don't laugh, you'll cry.
1:00:36
Brian, this is the list. There you got your bucket list,
1:00:41
your grocery list, you listed things to do.
1:00:43
You got a list of all your wishes.
1:00:44
That's a wish list, dude. You got your Amazon and Santa
1:00:47
Claus and good fair too. But I know a list that don't
1:00:50
exist and buddy, so do you. It's the Epstein list.
1:00:53
It's a mystery list. But the twist is a myth of a
1:00:56
list that we all just missed being optimist.
1:00:59
Not a passing. Miss if you wish.
1:01:01
To persist, it's probably best to forget that list.
1:01:03
And what were we talking about? I don't remember, but I'm sleep
1:01:08
a lot better at night. Yeah, life can just go along.
1:01:12
Knowing this, 10,000 hours of sunshine, flowers and nobody
1:01:16
doing a damn thing wrong here. No see, no damn bongi, no cash,
1:01:20
but tell Well, I wouldn't want to be a.
1:01:22
Sweating man with bulging eyes, but tell me them fellas ain't
1:01:26
compromised. Dude, dude, dude, dude.
1:01:30
Any implicated dude will tell you.
1:01:32
Anybody on the big list knows. Just how far the folks in charge
1:01:37
of go to keep? The status quo.
1:01:39
So when the war bell rings, a song that they'll sing is a song
1:01:43
that we well know. So it's off to where I go.
1:01:49
But they said it's. Going to fix it, but now they're
1:01:51
all complicit. They old, they old.
1:01:54
They old, they old. So it's after we go send the
1:02:00
poor after war? What?
1:02:01
Else are we for music and a sense of humour does a lot.
1:02:13
Ben, thank you very much for that.
1:02:16
Ben Duan, thank you very much for joining me today and thank
1:02:20
you to our audience wherever you are in the world.
1:02:22
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1:02:25
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