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UK Column News - 19th November 2025 · UK Column Radio

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Good afternoon. It's Wednesday the 19th of
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November just after 1:00. Welcome to UK Column News and
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host Mike Robinson. My host, Co host today is
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Charles Malcolm Charles Mallett. Welcome to the program, Charles.
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Thank you, Mike. Tripping over my own words and
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joining us live via live Link. We have Vanessa Bailey now.
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Later in the program we'll be looking at the ongoing
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implications of the police crime bill and we're looking at MBS,
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his visit to Trump in Washington, the developing
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Chinese spy allegations here in the UK, and more on the
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situation of farmers here as well.
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But we're going to begin today with hate crime because the
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Starmer regime has launched a review into public order and
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hate crime as a result of the so-called terrorist attack in
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Manchester on the 2nd of October this year.
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The regime says that you better hold on to your hats everyone,
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because this just might make you lose your lunches.
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They say the government will always protect the right to
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lawful protest and free speech, but will not tolerate
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individuals or groups who intimidate others, incite hatred
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or create disorder. So I suppose that fairly massive
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caveat. And the second part of that
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gives a lie to their protection of free speech and awful lawful
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protest is why we've seen the Police, Crime Courts and
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Sentencing Act, the Covert Human Intelligence Sources Criminal
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Conduct Act, the Online Safety Act, the Public Order Act, and
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the upcoming Police and Crime Bill, to name but five pieces of
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recent legislation from successive governments.
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Now let's not mention what they were willing to do in the
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so-called emergency with the Coronavirus Act as well.
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So the regime goes on to say that the review will therefore
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look at the powers of the sorry, look at the powers police have
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to manage protests and the current hate crime laws,
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including offences for aggravated behaviour and
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stirring up hatred. It will examine whether existing
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legislation is effective and proportionate, and whether it
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protects communities from hate and intimidation.
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It will also consider if the law protects free speech and
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peaceful protest while also preventing disorder and keeping
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people safe. Shabana Mahmoud, the home
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secretary, said the terrorist attack in Manchester on the 2nd
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of October shocked the nation. Well, I'm going to suggest it
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didn't shock the nation in the sense she means.
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Anyway. What shocked the nation is how
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the regime has turned an admittedly unpleasant but
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relatively minor and completely police mishandled issue into a
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major terrorist event. Does that meant a fair
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statement? No, no, I think I, I, I must say
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I think that's totally fair. Absolutely.
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OK, well she went on to say lawful protest and free speech
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are fundamental rights, but we cannot allow them to be abused
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and to spread hate or cause disorder.
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The law must be fit for purpose and consistently applied.
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And I wonder what she means by consistently applied.
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Does she mean in all circumstances?
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Or does she mean consistently applied for the protection of
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one particular group or demographic?
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Well, maybe we can answer that if we look at who's going to
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lead the review, because it's this man, Lord MacDonald of
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River Gliven KC. This is Ken MacDonald.
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He has practiced as a barrister since 1978.
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In 2003 he was elected chairman of the Criminal Bar Association
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and later that year he was appointed Director of Public
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Prosecutions for England and Wales.
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And it was in that role that he was responsible for the
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prosecution and subsequent dropping of the case of
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Catherine Gunn. Now, in 2007, he was knighted
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for services to the law, and in 2010, he was appointed to the
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House of Lords, where he sits as a crossbencher.
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Currently, he practices for Matrix Chambers.
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It's the same Matrix Chambers founded by Cherie Blair.
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So if you just put him back on screen again, I'll just zoom out
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a little bit to show that he is also part of the All Party UK
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Israel parliamentary group, not that there could be any
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coincidence there. Now he's going to be supported
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in this role by this person, Owen Weatherill.
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He's a senior policing expert who brings operational
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experience. It says on this page here from
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his role as national police chiefs, council lead for civil
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contingencies and national mobilisation.
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Because of course, the Civil Contingencies Act also puts
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massive restrictions on protest and freedom of speech under
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certain circumstances. Charles, just to name yet
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another piece of legislation. Sorry that that quote there was
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from the government press release.
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He left that role in September 2023 and he currently works for
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this organization, Investogo Government Solutions, who are
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pretty vague about what they do. But anyway, alongside this role
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for that organization, he serves as associate chief officer of
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the College of Policing. He serves the National Police
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Chiefs Council, lead for UK, for the UK COVID public inquiry and
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he's a commissioner for the National Preparedness
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Commission. So that's who's going to be
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running this review. And it's pretty clear what the
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focus of the review is. It's been, it's being kicked off
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because of the events in Manchester on the 2nd of
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October. And clearly it's going to be
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about restricting criticism of Israel.
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Absolutely, without a doubt. And, and it just highlights the
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way in which so much legislation goes now particularly that that
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pertains to any sort of criminal activities.
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It's almost entirely subjective and it removes the element of
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intent. So it, it, it is for the
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supposed victim to interpret the action in whichever way they see
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fit or indeed to, to whichever, whichever way in which the
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agenda wants to appropriate it. Or or should I say
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misappropriate. I think, I think the other thing
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to, to bring out, particularly with the data concerned is to go
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back to the Cameron government, which I reported on fairly
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recently. And the way in which the
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Community Security Trust holds the data for hate crime.
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Because they wrote the, the document and entered into a data
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sharing agreement with the Home Office back in I think it was
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2011. So the, the, you know, the, the
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pedigree and the, and the direction of travel with
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specific regard to this issue. It it means that the entire
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thing is compromised from the outset.
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Vanessa, I'd be interested in get getting a bit of comment
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from you on this because you know, obviously we have the
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situation with ongoing trials now over Palestine action.
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But just when, as as I read the, the, the list of legislation,
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each of which has its own restrictions on the ability to
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protest and the ability to make comment on current events, you
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know, this is, this is a pretty what what do we say about the
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United Kingdom at the moment? It is impossible, or is
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increasingly impossible to, to actually push back against
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policies that we disagree with. Well, it's interesting you say
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that, but a number of the cases that have gone forward have
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actually either been dismissed or the, the the the person
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defending themselves on the basis of free speech,
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particularly when it comes to criticism of Israel, have been
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set free without charges basically.
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And so therefore, I think to a degree, what that tells us is
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the only way to go up against it is through lawfare, because at
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the moment that is being extremely successful.
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And of course, Professor David Miller being the the the flag
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bearer from that perspective, of course.
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You any thoughts on that? Well, not specifically on that,
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but sorry, just before the moment passes, just just to
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remind people that the interview that Catherine Gunn did with UK
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column is called a defence of necessity and particularly with
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regard to Ken McDonald's part in what you're talking about.
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It's absolutely a must listen. So so please do go to the
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website to to have a have a look at that.
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Well, OK, then of course I did mention the police and Crown
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bill there a couple of times. So what's the latest on that
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then? Well, the latest is the sort of,
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I suppose in a way, moving in from an oblique angle and we'll
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just take a look at what the BBC has been reporting on recently.
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This is actually going back to February.
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Electronic devices used for car theft set to be banned.
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Now this is against the backdrop of around 700,000 vehicle
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related thefts in 2024. And the critical detail here is
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that approximately 60% of them, and that comes from the
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Metropolitan Police Service of our electronic means.
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So we've now got the BBC reporting this month that
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keyless car theft devices used by criminals being sold for up
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to 20,000 lbs a pop. Now what this relates to, as
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Mike has alluded to, is the Crime and Policing Bill.
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And throughout the course of this year, since February when
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it was first announced, there have been several fact sheets
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put out and the BBC obviously is rehashing this as though it is
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new news. It absolutely isn't, but we'll
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just dip into the serious Crime fact sheet, which was last
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updated in July of this year, and I quote directly from it.
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The bill introduces 2 new offenses to criminalize the
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possession, importation, making, adapting, supplying or offering
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to supply an electronic device such as a signal jammer for use
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in theft of a vehicle or theft of anything in a vehicle.
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So what this is referring to is an electronic means of
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interfering with a vehicle and being able to unlock or indeed
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steal it by a remote mechanism that deals with the car key
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itself and gets to trick the car into thinking that the person
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using the device has ownership of the key itself.
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So the the significance here is that this is a, this is a move
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away from the way in which the police are able to deal with
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such incidents at the moment. And the fact sheet also says
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these devices are not in themselves currently illegal to
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possess. Offenders can be charged with
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going equipped to commit theft under Section 25 of the Theft
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Act 1968, conspiracy to steal or conspiracy to handle stolen
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goods. That the offender's motivation
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needs to be proved now goes back to the point I was literally
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just making, which is about the subjectivity or indeed the
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element of intent in in a the Commission of a criminal
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offence. Now, in the same moment, the
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government put out another fact sheet concerning the police
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powers that would come with the Crime and Policing Bill.
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And it's just interesting, on a related note, to point to the
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fact that they're also talking about giving police the power to
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access information held in online accounts.
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And they're saying the reason for this is that it is
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increasingly important to be able to investigate crime and
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protect national security. And we're going to come back to
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this. The changes will make sure that
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law enforcement agencies can access vital evidence and
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intelligence and of course, to allay concerns they say that
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there are safeguards and statutory practices in place.
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But if anyone can point to an example where things of exactly
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that ilk haven't been ritually and routinely abused, then I I
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would be very surprised. Now this also is again something
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to to bear in mind for later, but the the point to draw out
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here is that what this does is it appears at least to turn on
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its head the presumption of innocence.
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And this is set out, well, it obviously exists long
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established in common law, but it's set out specifically in the
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Human Rights Act of 1998 under Article 6, which says everyone
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charged with a criminal offence shall be presumed innocent until
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proved guilty according to law. So as far as police and indeed
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the remainder of the judiciary might be concerned, this
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obviously makes it inconvenient if they have to prove that
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somebody carrying such a device is actually intent on stealing a
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car or stealing from a car with it.
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So what's the answer? Well, you just change the law
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and therefore you deflect the necessity to provide that burden
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of proof. And in doing so, this is where
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we come back to the to the failure to adhere to the
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presumption of innocence. Because to quote from the bill
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itself, there are very few legitimate uses for these
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devices, which is why we are taking steps to criminalize
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their possession. Those who do have a valid use
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for such a device should have no difficulty in demonstrating that
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this is complete inversion of the current situation.
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Basically, if you're found anywhere near one of these
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devices, it's up to you to be able to prove that you had
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absolutely no intent, consent to do conduct any criminal activity
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with it, which is very, very significant in its own right,
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but also pertaining to the rest of the bill.
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Now the other thing I've talked about quite a bit before are
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respect orders, which again are a means within this bill to be
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able to place an order on somebody, even if they're
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suspected of doing something that's not a criminal activity,
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which is to conduct anti social behaviour.
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And a subsequent order can be put upon them which either
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mandates or prohibits certain activities or for them to be in
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a different place or, or or whatever it is.
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And by breaching that order, they will then enter into
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criminal territory. So the, the, the whole sort of
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tenor of this bill is, is really a significant departure of the
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way in which law really should be written and indeed put into
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statute. Now, as I say, in order to be
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have an offence commissioned under this particular piece of
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legislation, you literally just have to be in the same place as
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such a device. And of course it's one rule for
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us and indeed another for the state.
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Mike's already referred to the Covert Human Intelligence
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Sources Act 2021, and no issue to use such devices there if
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you're working for the State, because of course that was an
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Act to make provision 4 and in connection with the
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authorisation of criminal conduct in the course of or
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otherwise in connection with the conduct of covert human
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intelligence sources. And just to extend the theme of
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the State being able to do what on earth it likes when it likes,
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I refer back to His Majesty's Government Communication Centre,
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which a year or so ago announced competition to produce a gizmo
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that was going to be able to capture information off people's
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electronic SIM cards. And then now putting out a
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challenge to create realistic prosthetic facial masks for
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training exercises, or at least so they say.
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Now, of course, the purpose of that is to be able to defeat
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artificial intelligence and live facial recognition, but that is
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specifically something that the remainder of the population is
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prohibited from doing, which is really quite extraordinary when
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when one thinks about the the background to all of this.
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Now to go back to the car theft and the what this points
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towards, we go back a number of years to the International
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Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection and
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their theory on how this technology could actually be
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used to interfere with many other things that are held on
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mobile telephones. And in particular, we're really
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considering here attacks on what might be described as digital
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wallets. And the technology here we're
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talking about is a near field communicational and NFC relay
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attack. And again, Kopersky daily going
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into specific references here with regard to Apple Pay and
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Google Wallet, essentially saying that the attackers in the
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previous, in part, they say that the attackers would start
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devising new cheats, for instance, relay attacks against
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phone applications. Of course, this has now come to
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pass. And Kopersky saying that in late
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90s, sorry, late 2024, fraudsters came up with another
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NFC relay scheme in Russia and victims weren't even asked for
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their card credentials. Basically they were convinced to
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install an app on their telephone purporting to be
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government or banking or another important service.
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And this has especially taken effect since Russians have been
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deprived of access to certain things due to sanctions.
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So people have agreed to install such apps.
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And then the victim is prompted to hold their card to their
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smartphone and enter their PIN. And of course, that essentially
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highlights the incredible vulnerability of all of these
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sorts of technologies, which it's being insisted by the state
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we are able to use securely and of course, conveniently.
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And by coincidence, yesterday the Home Affairs Committee
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hosted evidence, oral evidence on harnessing the potential of
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new digital forms of identification.
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And one of those contributing was Laura Foster, the Associate
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Director of Tech UK. And just to point to the
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direction that Tech UK is coming from, they in an article
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entitled Digital ID 2030, building a Digital UK based on a
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digital government backbone, they say that the decentralized
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ID Model 1, where multiple trusted actors from both
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government and the private sector work together is the best
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fit for EU KS specific environment.
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So again, leaping the obstacle of whether or not there's
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actually a problem that needs to be solved.
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The insistence that there are indeed trusted entities on both
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sides of the fence points very strongly towards all of this
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legislation really being used to being used as a as a smokescreen
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and to divert away from the inherent vulnerability of the
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new technology that's being put in front of us.
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And just to before I ask for some comment, which I know that
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Mike will have, I'll just point to an example that has been sent
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in by Auk column viewer Jules, which comes from an MOD vehicle
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or at least a vehicle leased to the MOD.
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And it just highlights exactly the problem that we're in.
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So there are two signs if you're, if you're listening or
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not watching 2 signs on the dashboard of the vehicle.
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The first of which says MOD devices are not to be connected
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to the vehicle. And then the next one says avoid
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conversations above official within the vehicle.
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I mean, is there really any better way to illustrate the
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absurdity of the situation that the government's trying to push
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us into? Yeah, Yeah.
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I mean, so they're leasing vehicles they have no control of
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and they're so worried about snooping and the capable of the
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digital capabilities of these vehicles that they've got to put
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put warnings in them to stop people talking.
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It's quite incredible. It it it is absolutely
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incredible. But I mean, you know, whilst a
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lot of this is, is laughable, actually the, the way in which
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the entire country and indeed the legislative background is
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being sort of railroaded into this.
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It is, is incredibly unthinking. And one hopes that there are
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examples like the Crime Policing Bill, which is, which is, has
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overreach on so many levels that people will actually wake up to
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the fact of that. And I think, you know,
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specifically within Parliament. So you know, if there is further
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debate to be had on this, which of course there is, that people
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do realise the the unwarranted measures that are being set out
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in this bill. Well, I would like to hope so,
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but I have to say I'm not optimistic about it because when
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was the Chisak 20/17/2018? 2016 I think. 2016 so so I mean
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we're going back in nearly 10 years now and and if that piece
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of legislation didn't waken up to what the government said so
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every piece of legislation that we've talked about in the last
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10 years where we've said there's government overreach,
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it's an enabling act, secondary legislation's just waiting
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around the corner. It's a slippery slope.
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We've used all these kinds of words and it the message does
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still not quite getting through yet.
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So anyway, OK, well look, let's let's move on then and.
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Bring Vanessa back onto the programme.
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And Vanessa, let's start with the United Nations Security
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Council. Yes, well, first of all, good
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afternoon, everyone. Yeah, sad news really in the
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sense that the UN Security Council has now adopted the US
20:22
resolution on Trump's Gaza peace scam, as I call it.
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Now, of course, what this plan, we've we've covered the plan
20:30
itself in in previous news programs, but effectively what
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it does is to kick Palestinian statehood down the road while
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enforcing international occupation with Tony Blair
20:45
involved. Effectively it's it's a criminal
20:49
project to further reduce the territory within Gaza that is
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under the control of the Palestinians.
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And of course, it relies upon the disarmament of the
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resistance factions, including Hamas.
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The resistance military factions have put out a very strong
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statement saying that they reject the plan entirely.
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But the furor, particularly on social media, has been over the
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abstention by Russia and China. And of course, this is
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reminiscent, as many analysts pointed out, of their abstention
21:22
back in 2011 over the Libya No Fly zone, which, of course, as
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we now know, didn't end very well for former President
21:31
Moammar Gaddafi or for Libya itself, which has now plunged
21:35
into terrorist vacuum with effectively all powerful nations
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involved in capturing Libyan resources and territory.
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So first of all, I also want to point out what I consider to be
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a split in the statements being made on the diplomatic scene,
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particularly by Russian representatives.
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So this is from Vaselina Bancia after the abstention.
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The full statement will be in the show notes.
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But he does actually say it is reminiscent of colonial
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practices and the League of Nations, British Mandate for
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Palestine, when the opinion of Palestinians themselves was not
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taken into account. And that's a very important
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point. Many people are arguing that
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Arab States and Palestinian authorities themselves also
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approved the plan. But we're talking about Mahmoud
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Abbas of the Palestinian Authority, who's known to be a
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stooge of the Zionist entity and is generally hated by the
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majority of Palestinians who support resistance against the
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increasing occupation and expansion, particularly of the
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settlers in the occupied territories.
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But then we have Carol Dmitriev, who's of course the special
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envoy of Putin, educated in Stanford and Harvard, connected
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to Davos and the WEF. Very strange and and really
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rather shadowy history to this guy who's been heavily promoting
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relations between Russia and the United States and pushing
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Trump's monarchist origins, which is another odd factor in
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his in his discourse on social media.
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But here, effectively, he posts a video with Trump basically
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thanking Russia and China for abstaining, which again, is is
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an odd position to take when one considers the statement from
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Vaseline Abencia. So what I want to do is look at
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the events that led to this abstention.
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I'm certainly not going to come up with any smoking gun evidence
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of what I'm I'm looking at, but I just want to look at those
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events because I think it's important to take note of them.
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So first of all, of course, we had the visit from Saudi Arabia.
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Saudi Arabia originally, of course, was created by the
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British alongside the UAE, effectively as an extension to
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the Zionist entity in the region.
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So Israel effectively. This was reported in Axios wants
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Trump to condition the F35 sail to Saudi Arabia on Israel
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normalisation. So we here we have the state of
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Israel effectively telling the US how they should do business
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with Saudi Arabia. That's number one.
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And secondly, I want to show this video between Trump and
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Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia.
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And this is another clue as to what was going on behind the the
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UN Security Council resolution. Today and tomorrow we're going
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to announce that we are going to increase that that 600 billion
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to almost $1 trillion for investment, real investment and
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real opportunity by details in many areas.
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And the agreement that we are signing today in many areas and
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technology and AI and bare materials magnet, etcetera, that
25:00
would create a. Lot of investment opportunities.
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So you are. Doing that now you're saying to
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me now. That the 600 billion will be 1
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trillion. Definitely because what we are
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signing, it will facilitate that and and and I like that very.
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Now, that's interesting when 1 looks at some of the commentary
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again on acts. This is Doctor Russell McGregor,
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and he points out there is a reason that President Trump,
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Trump met MBS on the day that the Epstein files were
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proceeding through the House and Senate.
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And now, of course, unanimously, House and Senate have insisted
25:37
on the release of the Epstein files.
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And it's now on Trump's desk for him to basically agree to that.
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So Zionists have threatened, according to McGregor, to thank
25:50
the US currency economy. Sorry if the Epstein files are
25:55
released and therefore the one trillion from Saudi Arabia is
25:59
extremely important to maintain stability in the US economy.
26:04
Just a theory that I think is worth considering.
26:08
And then of course Saudi Arabia has been very keen on guarantees
26:13
from the United States regarding the defence assistance that the
26:19
US has traditionally provided to Saudi Arabia.
26:22
And here Trump elevates Saudi Arabia to a major non NATO ally
26:27
status. So perhaps they've now achieved
26:30
that reassurance and those guarantees from the United
26:33
States in return possibly for their vote at the UN.
26:38
Then, interestingly enough, the the Western elected regime in
26:46
Syria, Foreign Minister Assad Al Shabani, was recently in China.
26:50
Now, up until now, China has actually basically not
26:53
recognized the Syrian government.
26:56
This comes after Jelani's visits to Moscow, to the White House,
27:01
to the UK, to France, Turkey, Saudi Arabia.
27:04
In other words, he's been making the rounds and having backroom
27:09
meetings with Israel over the security in the South.
27:13
And here we have Shibani in China almost immediately after
27:17
the visit to the UK and the US talks on Economic Cooperation.
27:21
So China gets a foothold back in Syria with regards to the Belton
27:25
Rd. initiative and counterterrorism to some degree.
27:29
China then gets reassurances from Jolani's Riga terrorists
27:34
will be sent back to China rather than being allowed to
27:37
circulate in the region, potentially pose a risk to
27:40
China. So China benefits also just to
27:45
the abstention. Then, very interestingly, on the
27:48
15th of November, Putin initiated a phone call with
27:52
Netanyahu to discuss the Middle East, which included discussions
27:56
on both Syria and Gaza. 2 days later, a Russian military
28:01
delegation turns up in Damascus and is filmed touring the South
28:09
of Syria. That comes immediately after the
28:13
phone call between Netanyahu and Putin and just before Russia's
28:17
abstention at the UN allowing the Trump bill or resolution to
28:24
go through. Now, perhaps more disturbingly,
28:28
with the passing of this bill, effectively what has now
28:31
happened, it's given a green light to Israel.
28:34
This was last night here in Lebanon.
28:36
It was a Palestinian or is a Palestinian refugee camp in the
28:40
South in Sudan that was bombed by precision missiles from
28:45
Israeli aircraft. Now this was claimed by Israel
28:50
to be a Hamas centre in this refugee camp.
28:55
The reality is very different. So the Israeli military
28:58
spokesperson, Avoche Adre claimed that the attack targeted
29:03
A Hamas training compound. If we could just have this on
29:06
the screen where militants were preparing to carry out terrorist
29:10
operations. In fact, it was a sports field.
29:15
Within the refugee camp, 15 civilians were killed, many of
29:20
them young teenagers who were playing football at the time,
29:23
and there were dozens of injuries in the attack, all of
29:26
them Palestinian refugees. At the same time, Israeli
29:29
Defence Minister Israel Katz has said humanitarian considerations
29:33
no longer apply to Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon,
29:37
holding the government responsible for what he
29:39
described as terrorist camps inside areas classified as
29:44
refugee camps. He added that Israeli forces had
29:47
been given orders to neutralize them.
29:50
So now, with the passing of this resolution, Israel expands its
29:55
attacks on Palestine, on Palestinians in diaspora.
30:00
OK. Thank you, Vanessa.
30:01
Thank you for that. OK, let's move on then.
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31:59
Right. Yeah.
31:59
So now on sale, Christmas is coming.
32:02
Neil, I say more. Oh, OK.
32:04
Well, a second ago Vanessa was talking amongst the other stuff
32:08
there about MBS visit to Washington, C Donald Trump.
32:14
I've got another little clip from the press conference.
32:18
So let's have a listen to this and then we can discuss it.
32:22
You're 1. Joe Highness, the US
32:24
intelligence concluded that you orchestrated the brutal murder
32:27
of a journalist. 9/11 families are furious that you are here in
32:30
the. Oval Office Why should?
32:32
Americans. Who are you with?
32:33
And the same to you, Mr. President.
32:34
Who are you with? I'm with ABC News, Sir.
32:36
You're with who? ABC News, Sir.
32:37
Fake news, ABC Fake News. One of the, as far as this
32:40
gentleman is concerned, he's done a phenomenal job.
32:43
You're mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial.
32:47
A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking
32:49
about. Whether you like him or didn't
32:51
like him, things happen. But he knew.
32:54
Nothing about it and we can leave it at that.
32:56
You don't have to embarrass our guests by asking a question
32:58
like. That.
33:01
So Vanessa, I'm interested in your thoughts on this because it
33:04
seems to me that it doesn't really matter what any of us
33:06
thinks about because that's who we're talking about here.
33:10
It doesn't matter what we think about him or his journalism.
33:13
What Trump has effectively done there is say that state
33:17
sanctioned murder is quite all right.
33:21
Yeah, absolutely. And I think Khashoggi was not
33:25
only murdered, of course, his body was dismembered while he
33:27
was still alive. So it was one of the most brutal
33:30
and gruesome murders in in a foreign country, in Istanbul.
33:36
And the fact that Trump used to flee the genocide committed by
33:42
another ally, Israel, and here is whitewashing MBS's role in in
33:50
the murder of Khashoggi is, is just, it's grotesque.
33:55
Yeah, I mean, I mean, have you got any thoughts?
33:57
Well, grotesque is exactly the right word.
33:59
But we've just been talking about the Care about Human
34:02
Intelligence Services Act and the ability to to commit
34:06
criminal acts effectively under the auspices of sort of doing
34:09
stuff on the state's behalf. We had Linda Graham the other
34:11
day talking about killing all the right people.
34:13
I mean, you know, the people have been desensitized to such
34:16
an extraordinary degree that this almost seems normal.
34:18
So I think, you know, we have to absolutely have to recognise who
34:22
is leading all our countries at the moment and we've got to be
34:26
willing to hold them to account. And now, no matter what you
34:29
think about ABC, for that matter, and Trump may be right
34:33
in suggesting that they represent fake news, it in many
34:37
ways that's not the point here. Uh, the point is that first of
34:42
all, he said that at that moment, to discredit a
34:45
journalist from attempting to hold a world leader to account,
34:49
that is the role of journalism. We've got lots of criticism to
34:53
make about mainstream journalism, but that is the role
34:55
that they're supposed to hold. And suggest that by doing that,
34:58
you're somehow embarrassing someone who's come to visit.
35:01
This is, it's, it's, it's disgraceful.
35:03
But anyway, let's let's move on to to the latest in Lebanon,
35:08
Vanessa. Yeah, I mean, it's also
35:10
interesting because she mentioned 9/11 victims, so they
35:13
were also dismissed by Trump's comment.
35:17
Yes. So Lebanon, this is also an
35:20
interesting development, very much connected to what's just
35:23
happened in the UN, the US councils, Lebanon army chiefs
35:28
trip as frustration grows over the Hezbollah disarmament.
35:32
This is Rodolf Heikel, the head of the Lebanese Armed Forces
35:38
that of course are sponsored by the US in order to not be able
35:42
to defend Lebanon against Israel.
35:45
And in fact, he made a statement which effectively blamed Israel
35:50
for the ongoing more than 5200 violations of the ceasefire that
35:55
came into effect in November 2024.
35:59
And of course, they set off a flurry of commentary on X.
36:03
This is Lindsey Graham the the dreadful Lindsey Graham.
36:08
It is clear that the Lebanese chief head of defence, because
36:11
of a reference to Israel as the enemy and his weak, almost
36:15
nonexistent effort to disarm Hezbollah is a giant set back
36:19
for efforts to move Lebanon forward.
36:21
This combination makes the Lebanese Armed Forces not a very
36:24
good investment for America. I mean, just extraordinary
36:28
language here. He was responded to by someone
36:32
from the region who said the Lebanese army has never been an
36:36
investment for the United States.
36:38
It's support for the army which isn't enough to arm a gang.
36:41
Stealing candy has always been a pretext to interfere in
36:44
Lebanon's defence affairs. If you want to assess the United
36:48
States investments, you can count the Lebanese children who
36:51
were killed by American bombs, American planes, American cover
36:55
and Israeli hands. Very much a comment that
37:00
reflects the opinion of the majority of people here in
37:03
Lebanon. And then this was Tom Harb again
37:07
who reposted Lindsey Graham's post saying thank you Senator
37:12
Lindsey Graham for taking notice of the Lebanese Army's behaviour
37:15
and the Lebanese government's unwillingness to take action
37:18
against Hezbollah and to implement a UNS CR1559 instead
37:24
just blaming Israel. I mean, how dare they.
37:26
You have made the right decision by cancelling the meeting with
37:29
the head of the army, General Rudolf Heikel.
37:32
Our tax money must provide a return on investment in Lebanon.
37:36
Hopefully the president will read Trump administration very
37:40
well and replace the head of the army with someone willing to get
37:43
the job done soon. So this is extraordinary.
37:47
This is a direct threat against the head of the Lebanese Forces.
37:50
Sovereignty goes out of the window, of course.
37:52
Not that we ever expected it to be a consideration of the US or
37:57
the UK at any point. But just to reinforce what
38:01
Heichal actually said this morning, there was a terrorist
38:05
Israel attack that struck A civilian vehicle in the town of
38:10
Al Tayli Bent, Jebel District, South Lebanon this morning,
38:14
causing multiple casualties, among them school children who
38:17
were riding in a bus directly behind the targeted car.
38:21
The attack once again highlights Israel's blatant disregard for
38:24
the rights of children and for its utmost disrespect of any
38:29
ceasefire agreement. So I mean just extraordinary
38:33
events really here in this region.
38:36
Thanks Vanessa. And well, we'll talk about much
38:40
more about that and extra, I've no doubt.
38:43
Okay, let's move on then to back to the UK in fact, because we've
38:48
all got to be very, very afraid because Chinese spies are here
38:53
in Britain as if that's a new thing.
38:56
The BBC is leading the charge on all of this.
38:58
Of course. They say that China has financed
39:02
10s of billions of pounds worth of investment in UK businesses
39:06
and projects this century, some of which give it access to
39:09
military grade technology. And this is according to BBC
39:12
Panorama. I mean this is incredible.
39:15
A few days after BBC Panorama has has caused the departure of
39:21
the head of BBC News and the the MD of of of the BBC in total.
39:28
But anyway, we just bring that back on screen for a second.
39:31
This is the same BBC Panorama, by the way, that that is guilty
39:34
of of attempting to interfere with an election in a foreign
39:38
country. The same Panorama that attempted
39:40
to interfere with the US vote and whether it did not bombed
39:42
Syria in 2013. Panorama has investigated how
39:47
this led to cutting edge technology and skills being
39:50
transferred to China. And the UK was far too free and
39:56
allowing access to strategically important industries.
40:00
That was they were calling a former head of GCHQ.
40:02
They didn't say which former head.
40:05
Now they were given exclusive early access to data collected
40:07
by this organization on screen at the moment, Aid data.
40:11
This is a research group at William and Mary University in
40:16
the US state of Virginia. Now that's the same William and
40:20
Mary University. Which sends many alumni to their
40:24
neighbors at Langley, if you know what I'm talking about
40:26
here. As for AI data itself, in
40:31
collaboration with multilateral organizations, they say about
40:36
themselves, the IMF, World Bank, U.S., government agencies, US
40:41
AIDS, State Department, private foundations including the Gates
40:45
Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, the Ford Foundation,
40:48
the McGovern Foundation, and foreign governments including
40:51
Germany, Denmark, the United Kingdom, amongst others.
40:55
So there can't be any conflict of interest there at all.
40:58
You know, it must be absolutely objective and an honest
41:02
brokerage going on. I'm quite sure of of data at the
41:05
moment that they passed to the BBC and the BBC is pushing this
41:08
narrative. But anyway, going back for the
41:10
to the BBC for a second, this particular article is a disgrace
41:14
because it says that when MPs and members of the House of
41:18
Lords and their staff were warned about the threat from
41:20
Chinese spies in one office in Westminster, a quick check
41:24
began. Simon Welband is a Conservative
41:28
councillor and also works for the Conservative MP Neil
41:30
O'Brien, who was sanctioned by China in 2021.
41:33
Simon went into his LinkedIn messages and there it was, a
41:37
message from an account in the name of Shirley Shen, sent some
41:41
weeks earlier. Had he?
41:42
He hadn't responded to the unsolicited message and reported
41:46
it to Parliament's security services.
41:48
He was then advised to block the account.
41:51
The note, according to the BBC here, comes across as pretty
41:56
innocuous. He said the message wasn't
41:58
written in very good English. It was a message to say there
42:01
was a job opportunity and I was interested and to get in touch
42:05
if I was. I've worked around Parliament
42:08
for about 10 years now, so I'm kind of used to this.
42:10
But if you're more junior, you don't know what you're looking
42:13
for. You might think it's a, it's
42:15
genuine offer that's made, that's made to you on LinkedIn.
42:19
They might accept and the BBC says that.
42:21
He added that he thought it was becoming more common for those
42:24
working at parliament to be targeted by China.
42:27
So here we go. Because the name attached to the
42:31
the message on LinkedIn was Shen and it's immediately Chinese.
42:36
I mean, this is pathetic. How many messages do we all
42:39
receive that are fishing for information about us in all
42:42
kinds of names from all kinds of country countries?
42:46
This is criminal activity in the main.
42:48
And there's zero evidence that this or any other case is state,
42:52
state sanctioned or deep state operations in any way.
42:56
The BBC terror campaign has been followed up with an alert issued
42:59
by MI 5 and and an action plan from the British government.
43:06
So that's all good stuff. The plan, they say, is going to
43:08
see intelligence services deliver security briefings for
43:12
political parties and issue new guidance to election candidates
43:15
to help them recognise, resist and report suspicious activity.
43:19
They're going to help people work with professional
43:21
networking sites to make sure sorry to make them a more
43:26
hostile operating environment for spies.
43:28
And they're going to tighten rules on political donations
43:31
through a a new elections bill. Goodness knows what else that's
43:34
going to cover. And wonderful £170 million is
43:39
going to be invested in renewing the sovereign, sovereign
43:43
encryption technology that civil servants used to safeguard
43:47
sensitive work. While in the meantime, as
43:49
Charles has already mentioned, they're passing out vehicles to
43:52
the Ministry of Defence where they need to put labels on to
43:54
make sure that that certain conversations aren't had within
43:58
the vehicles in case they're being spied on.
44:00
This is, I mean, I don't even know where to start with this,
44:04
with this. One of the one of the real
44:07
skills of the mainstream press over the last couple of decades
44:11
has been to persuade us that something which is absolutely
44:16
normal is somehow abnormal, that there's something different
44:19
going on, that there's something we've got to be scared of.
44:22
And the fact of the matter is that countries have been spying
44:25
each on each other, not forever, right?
44:29
So it's not the Chinese are suddenly spying on Britain.
44:33
Britain is currently spying on China.
44:35
Britain is spying on Russia. Britain is spying on Iran.
44:38
Britain is spying on the United States.
44:41
We are spying on each other and have been forever.
44:43
There's nothing abnormal about this.
44:45
And to suggest that that a phishing e-mail or a phishing
44:49
message coming in for on a social media platform is somehow
44:52
evidence of a spy network that we've all suddenly got to be
44:56
afraid of is just. It's just off the charts, not
44:59
nuttiness. And if we fall for it, we
45:02
deserve everything that's coming.
45:05
I think it's great. I mean it's, it's almost like
45:07
the foreign influence registration scheme doesn't
45:10
work. The security minister was very
45:13
clear. People who come into the country
45:14
and are working for foreign government need to declare the
45:17
government, I mean, of course, and they would do that.
45:19
So, so we should know about all of this.
45:21
I mean that that must be working, wasn't it?
45:26
There's that. But then the suggestion going
45:27
back to the Med vehicle that somehow China might be able to
45:31
listen into conversations in vehicles leased to the MOD.
45:34
But letting Israel design absolutely every single
45:38
component of all the military vehicles is is absolutely fine.
45:41
But the the the last bit that I've.
45:42
Well, well, just no. Just before you get on the last
45:44
bit, but also the the fact that Israel is basically running the
45:48
core of the Internet through Unit 8200 originated companies
45:55
providing the backbone of of the Internet and we're worried about
45:58
Huawei. I mean this, this, it's just
46:00
insane. But no, I mean, the final part
46:03
is, I'm not sure why in the Houses of Parliament, something
46:07
being written in not very good English meant that it was
46:10
definitely going to be somebody from another country.
46:12
It's. Probably somebody from the next
46:14
office, yes. Exactly.
46:15
Yeah, OK, let's move on to farming.
46:17
Yeah, we will. Now at the Budget last year
46:23
there was a surprise and unmandated announcement about
46:27
the changes to inheritance tax, specifically agricultural
46:30
property relief and business property relief, which since
46:33
1992 had had a a 0% relief effective, sorry, wrong, 100%
46:42
relief so that businesses and agricultural holdings were not
46:46
subject to inheritance tax. The Chancellor, without any real
46:50
warning, said that from April 2026 this would change and a
46:55
threshold would be introduced at £1,000,000.
46:59
Now this meant that there were substantial protests a year ago
47:04
and with the Budget approaching next week, there's been much
47:08
chat about this as one would expect because of all the
47:12
various knock on effects. Now Angela Eagle, who's the farm
47:17
minister, was on farming today, just this morning, saying the
47:20
Treasury is resistant to making any change to the position on
47:25
the matter. And as I say, this was not in
47:27
the Labour manifesto. There was no advance warning of
47:29
it and inheritance tax, ineffective one, if one does
47:33
want to make another arrangement, does take seven
47:35
years to to take full effect, even though there is a sort of
47:38
tapering system between the start and finish of that
47:41
process. Now over the past week, things
47:43
have been gathering a bit of momentum and just yesterday
47:47
farmers were up in London, as reported by Farmers Guardian on
47:51
Twitter, saying that farmers aren't giving up.
47:53
So there's been engagement with MPs and there is a sort of a
47:57
sense of, if not positivity, certainly optimism that there
48:02
are enough ministers and indeed MPs out there who are at least
48:06
willing to talk. And the the backdrop to this in
48:12
terms of reporting, at least in the mainstream, is that the
48:15
Treasury has not been playing with a straight bat.
48:18
And we see City AM here saying they've buried a farming report
48:21
until after the budget in an inheritance tax blow.
48:24
Now what they're talking about here is the farming
48:28
profitability review, the terms of reference of for which were
48:31
published back in April 2025. But just before we go into the
48:36
specifics of that, to clarify the position, when the
48:39
government said that they were going to change the threshold on
48:42
inheritance tax in order to recoup this amount of money, the
48:45
then Minister Daniel Zeitner admitted that the money that was
48:50
anticipated to be brought out from it was only £500 million,
48:54
which is roughly equivalent to a day spending for the NHS.
48:58
The Treasurer also saying that it's only going to affect 1/4 of
49:03
those with land holdings. But the fact remains that no one
49:09
seems to be entirely sure where they've got those figures.
49:12
The reason all of this is relevant in terms of the delay
49:15
of this report is that during the announcement of the
49:18
profitability review, it's said that the final report be
49:21
delivered within six months of appointing the farming
49:23
profitability review lead. Well, six months has elapsed and
49:27
in that very document it was announced that Minette Batters,
49:30
the former chair, former president sorry of the NFU had
49:34
been appointed to lead the review.
49:37
So why therefore, is the review to be delayed?
49:42
There doesn't seem to be any strong reason for this.
49:46
However, when we look further into it.
49:48
Manette Bassist turns out to be an outspoken critic of
49:51
agricultural policy, but especially with regard to
49:53
inheritance taxes. She, she wrote in Country Life
49:56
last year that there are serious questions to be asked as to
49:59
whether the advice given to ministers is correct.
50:02
And I quote in in this article she wrote that ministers claim
50:05
that 73% of farms will not be affected by the changes, yet
50:09
they haven't explained how they got to that figure.
50:11
I suspect it includes so-called lifestyle farms that don't
50:14
produce significant amounts of food and comprise less than 40
50:18
acres. So essentially she's trying to
50:20
make a a distinction here between farms that are run in
50:24
effect for the good of the public in so far as food
50:28
production is concerned. But of course, the the issue
50:30
being ignored here is that the government is doing its level
50:33
best to stop people producing food by incentivising the de
50:36
risking of farming practices by introducing environmental Land
50:39
Management schemes that encourage people not to grow
50:43
food, but instead to enter into periods or at least tracts of
50:47
land of nature recovery to meet various targets that have come
50:50
from from outside of government. Specifically the terracotta from
50:53
the Sustainable Markets Initiative and the United
50:57
Nations, the 30 by 30 pledge. So I've been in touch with the
51:02
Treasury to get clarification on this course.
51:04
They passed the buck to Defra who wrote back to say that the
51:07
batter's profitability review is an important step in our
51:11
commitment to boosting the long term profits of farmers and will
51:14
be published before Christmas. They went on to refer to the
51:17
Farming Road map which they hope to publish before Christmas as
51:22
well. So the inference there to be
51:24
drawn, I think is that the review will be highly critical
51:26
of government agricultural policy as it is and it seems
51:31
highly unlikely that the Treasury hasn't indeed
51:33
intervened to suppress this report coming out before the
51:37
budget. Now, as Mike mentioned earlier,
51:41
I've run an interview with Alan Hughes who was with Farmers to
51:44
Action and he articulates exactly what the problem is and
51:47
indeed how it can be solved and how although supermarkets are
51:53
very keen to put forward the idea that they are supporting
51:55
British farmers and and that that does actually make the
51:58
system work. Of course, they pressure farmers
52:00
into producing according simply to yield rather than nutritional
52:05
value. And the intensive pressure
52:07
that's put on land, of course, is detrimental to both the
52:10
environment and indeed the food that's supposed to come from it.
52:13
But it does yield good profits from corporations.
52:16
And just to go into that in in some detail, we'll look at the
52:18
grocery report for the current year from Savills.
52:22
And the first point to make here is that the current market value
52:26
of the food and grocery market is £195 billion in the year.
52:30
And just to see how that breaks down, the graph on screen now
52:34
shows from the left the biggest take from the supermarkets,
52:37
which is kept Tesco going down to the smallest admittedly
52:40
delivery service, which is a cardo.
52:42
And in in the box on the right are the two sort of other
52:46
classifications which are other outputs and and independents.
52:50
So it just gives a, a scale, sorry, a, an indication of the,
52:55
the incredible weighting towards corporate influence.
52:58
But also the other thing that it brings out, which is very
53:01
interesting is to show how the if one's being generous to say
53:06
that the opportunity was seized in 2020.
53:09
An arrow pointing to the amount of investment in increasing the
53:13
supermarket estate to the number of enormous shops that were put
53:18
up in 2020, which of course was at exactly the time when people
53:22
were prohibited from engaging directly with farmers or going
53:26
to smaller producers because it was only food supermarkets that
53:30
were able to continue trading. And just to reinforce the point
53:34
with sort of academic bent to it, Lancet has published a
53:38
report just yesterday called ultra processed foods and human
53:43
health. And in the executive summary
53:45
they say that there's a rise in the rise in ultra processed
53:48
foods is driven by powerful global corporations who employ
53:51
sophisticated political tactics to protect and maximise profits.
53:55
And it goes on in the main editorial section to say that
53:57
the ultra processed foods industry generates enormous
54:01
revenues that support the continued growth and fund
54:03
corporate political activities to counter attempts at ultra
54:07
processed food regulation. A handful of manufacturers
54:09
dominate the market including Nestle, PepsiCo, Unilever and
54:12
Coca-Cola. A comprehensive government LED
54:15
approach is needed to reverse the the rise in the consumption
54:19
of these types of foods. Now I think there's essentially
54:23
A coherent point being made there with the exception of the
54:27
suggestion the government may do something about it.
54:29
Which is why I would encourage you to listen to the interview
54:32
with Alan Hughes because he sets out this very, very important
54:35
part that frankly the power lies with the people who are able to
54:40
make those direct transactions with farmers and to cut out the
54:44
corporations and indeed the government, the brewing system
54:47
and the environment at the same time.
54:49
And of course, there are to be protests next week, both on 24th
54:52
and the 26th of November, so we'll be covering that and
54:55
indeed the budget as it turns out.
54:59
Vanessa, let me bring you back onto the programme and let's
55:03
have a look at what Gilani has been up to.
55:08
Well, I mean, he's been doing his whistle stop tours of
55:11
course, as we mentioned at the White House, he's been added to
55:14
the anti ISIS coalition, which effectively is going to be a
55:18
recruitment drive for ISIS with the multiple tech ferries that
55:23
are under Jolani's commands basically defecting to ISIS
55:27
because he's not upholding the tech ferry vision of a caliphate
55:32
in in the region. He's pivoting towards the West
55:36
and Israel. Now interestingly enough, this
55:40
was agreed with by one of the most active kind of Israeli
55:45
based research centres or think tanks, Alma.
55:49
They did an entire paper, research paper on Syria, the
55:53
threat to Al Shadah, the dangerous scenarios for the day
55:56
after and the Israeli challenge. So the day after Ahmed Al
56:00
Shadah, because what they're saying is that now, because he's
56:04
basically been added to this coalition against ISIS and
56:07
bearing in mind also that China is, is now pushing him to reject
56:12
his Uyghur attack theories, which is going to put him into
56:17
even greater hot water with the elements of the new Syria
56:22
military. So they're saying there's a very
56:25
high risk to his life, primarily from the the elements include
56:33
ISIS. And of course, I'm just adding
56:36
the the weak takfiri elements that he's going to return.
56:39
And so basically what the paper is saying is that this will
56:43
throw Syria into a terrorist vacuum situation, which might
56:49
mean that ISIS and other terrorist groups might reform in
56:53
the South and pose a threat to Israel.
56:55
Of course this is partially what the Western Zionist axis is
57:00
trying to to achieve, contain chaos within Syria that prevents
57:04
any re emergence from the coup in December 2024 or economic
57:11
stability. And I would also put this in
57:15
relation to Russia suddenly being allowed to go into the
57:18
South because if there is a re emergence of ISIS, what will
57:22
Russia provide? Russia will provide alongside
57:24
the US security for Israeli expansion in the South.
57:28
And I just wanted to recommend that people take a look at the
57:31
Syria centric section on UK column where we're bringing in
57:36
journalists and analysts from the region.
57:40
I say Syria centric, but it's actually going to be covering
57:43
pretty much global news related to the ongoing Zionist
57:49
expansionism and the latest is written by myself which was
57:55
published today. The endless spiral of violence
57:58
in Syria while Jelani is crowned interim puppet despot by Trump.
58:02
This is Part 1, which goes in to some details about the ongoing
58:06
violence and ethnic cleansing massacres being committed by
58:12
Jelani's forces in Syria. And the second part, we'll look
58:16
at the rise of political actors, individuals, resistance actors,
58:21
individuals and groups on the ground inside Syria that may
58:25
present a threat to the Western imperialist plans, but also to
58:31
Gilani in the very near future. Thank you, Vanessa.
58:36
Charles, we have a bit of a, an and finally to and with.
58:39
We do, and it is desperately serious.
58:42
But the government, through the mouthpiece of Defra, have just
58:46
announced that new laws are in place to ban plastic wet wipes
58:51
in order, they say, to protect rivers and seas.
58:54
Now this this presents a significant threat to national
58:58
security. And human health.
59:00
And yes, and human health indeed, but the but the main
59:03
concern here is of course, national security because we
59:05
only have to go back to 2018 and the statement from Public Health
59:09
England in the wake of the events in Salisbury and how to
59:13
clean your clothes if you've been in contact with a nerve
59:16
agent when they said wipe personal items such as phones,
59:20
handbags and other electronic items with cleansing or baby
59:25
wipes and dispose of the wipes in the bin brackets.
59:30
Ordinary domestic waste disposal.
59:33
So the situation has changed. Therefore, I have been in touch
59:36
with the revamped Public Health England, which course now exists
59:41
under the banner of UK Health Security Agency, and I asked
59:46
them, with both the Strategic Defense Review and the National
59:49
Security Strategy predicated on the existential threat to the
59:52
British public which is posed by Russia.
59:55
May I have a statement from UK HSA on the actions to be taken
59:59
in the event of a nerve agent attack?
1:00:01
Neither. Wet wipes are banned.
1:00:04
I'm afraid to report I have not yet had a response.
1:00:07
I assume it's because of the level of detail they'll have to
1:00:10
go into to satisfy all at UK column and the UK column
1:00:14
audience. But I'll get back to you when I
1:00:16
hear anything. Yes, well, well, I'm sorry that
1:00:19
we have to leave the program on that grim piece of news, but but
1:00:22
we do because we are absolutely out of time.
1:00:25
So thank you, Charles, and thank you to Vanessa for today and
1:00:29
thanks to everybody that's been watching.
1:00:31
Stay on the live stream. If you UK column member for some
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UK column news extra and there may even be a little bit more of
1:00:38
this kind of silliness. But anyway, we'll leave it there
1:00:41
for for now. Thanks for joining us and we'll
1:00:44
see you in a minute. Bye, bye, bye.