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UK Column News — 28th August 2026 · UK Column Radio

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon. Today is Friday, the 28th of August, 2026,
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Speaker 1: just after one o'clock. Welcome to UK Column News. I'm
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Speaker 1: your host, Brian Garish. Delighted to have with me in
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Speaker 1: the studio, Ben Rubin.
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Speaker 2: I've been in the office on a Friday.
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Speaker 3: Amazing.
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Speaker 1: There's no answer to that. We're also delighted to be
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Speaker 1: joined by Basil Valentine. We've got a very busy news today.
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Speaker 1: It is very serious because there are some truly very
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Speaker 1: serious things happening in the country. And it's certainly the
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Speaker 1: job of the UK column to expose what is really happening,
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Speaker 1: to lift off the veil of propaganda so that people
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Speaker 1: can see what is being done. We can only do
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Speaker 1: something about it if we can actually see and understand
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Speaker 1: what's happening. We thought today we had to start with
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Speaker 1: Middlesbrough and really the headlines in the papers say it
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Speaker 1: all because here we are, town gripped by fear, nine
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Speaker 1: lives lost after the horror crash. That was the crash
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Speaker 1: between a vehicle going the wrong way and a police
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Speaker 1: vehicle a couple of days ago. We've got a deadly fire.
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Speaker 1: We've got a brutal gang war. And I have no
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Speaker 1: doubt that certain families in Middlesbrough are actually very frightened indeed. Now,
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Speaker 1: this theme carried across some of the press in the
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Speaker 1: United Kingdom. So here we've got the Daily Telegraph police
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Speaker 1: surge to tackle northern gang wars. And this is really
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Speaker 1: following up on the fact that the local authorities are
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Speaker 1: indicating that another 200 police from other forces have are
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Speaker 1: going to be drawn into the area to deal with
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Speaker 1: the trouble. And so this is clearly a very, very
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Speaker 1: serious event. And if I just bring in the sun, well,
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Speaker 1: of course, 200 cops sent to tackle gang feud that
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Speaker 1: killed Girl 7. How did the UK town become a
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Speaker 1: war zone? So perhaps we can say today that's a
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Speaker 1: key question that the sun is actually choosing to answer. Now,
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Speaker 1: I decided to go to the Cleveland Police website in
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Speaker 1: order to see what had been reported on the problems.
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Speaker 1: And I was very surprised that once you got onto
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Speaker 1: the website, there was nothing really to see. There was
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Speaker 1: a banner headline, but the banner headline is giving people
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Speaker 1: advice if they've got any concerns about the recent landslide,
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Speaker 1: the mudslide in Nepal. And I found this extraordinary. I
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Speaker 1: did actually speak to Cleveland police and ask them why
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Speaker 1: they had no information on what was actually happening in Middlesbrough.
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Speaker 1: The press team couldn't explain to me, but they did
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Speaker 1: tell me that the banner about Nepal had actually come
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Speaker 1: from an automated broadcast, if you like, from the Met police.
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Speaker 1: And so if we just put that one back on screen,
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Speaker 1: I'll just add in there that, uh, Absolutely nothing in
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Speaker 1: the latest news from Cleveland police. And it seems that
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Speaker 1: what's happening in Nepal is apparently more important to the
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Speaker 1: Met police and presumably the government than what's happening in
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Speaker 1: Middlesbrough itself. Now, just to get a feel for how
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Speaker 1: things are with the police, this is a clip from
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Speaker 1: the chief constable talking a couple of days ago at
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Speaker 1: the very sad death of two police officers in that collision. However,
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Speaker 1: her presentation to camera was described as being very emotional
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Speaker 1: and that was indeed the case. Let's have.
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Speaker 4: A look at it. At 3.39 this morning, a Volkswagen
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Speaker 4: Passat that was travelling the wrong way down the A66
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Speaker 4: has collided with a marked Cleveland Police armed response vehicle
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Speaker 4: which was travelling on the correct side of the road. Tragically,
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Speaker 4: two police officers, PC Matthew Blades and PC Tom Clough,
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Speaker 4: died at the scene along with the five occupants of
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Speaker 4: the Passat as a result of the collision.
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Speaker 1: I've got some comments to make here. Possibly our audience
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Speaker 1: will think I'm being exceptionally hard. But of course, a
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Speaker 1: tragic event, two lives lost. But that chief constable can
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Speaker 1: barely speak because the emotions have got on top of her.
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Speaker 1: And yet this is the woman who's now in the
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Speaker 1: seat to deal with gang warfare unfolding in Middlesbrough. So
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Speaker 1: I personally think, Ben, there are some deep questions to
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Speaker 1: ask as to whether this lady is really capable of
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Speaker 1: managing this job. I would have thought that the families
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Speaker 1: of those two men would have been reassured by her
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Speaker 1: making a much more robust statement about the sad loss
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Speaker 1: to be followed by robust police action in order to
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Speaker 1: deal with what appears to be gang warfare getting out
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Speaker 1: of control. And you've got an extraordinary piece of video
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Speaker 1: footage here, which raises a whole raft of other questions
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Speaker 1: about what's actually happening in Middlesbrough.
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Speaker 2: It certainly does, yes. It was actually more than two men.
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Speaker 5: It was the two police officers who were killed, plus
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Speaker 5: various others, including those driving the car at extraordinary speeds
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Speaker 5: down the wrong side of the motorway. And then we've
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Speaker 5: just seen this come in, which is the celebration of
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Speaker 5: the young man's death, or his life, should I say.
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Speaker 5: which involved setting fire to vehicles in fields outside Middlesbrough.
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Speaker 5: And if you look at a lot of the symbology
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Speaker 5: that these young men were putting out there, the tone
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Speaker 5: of their social media posts, that kind of thing, it
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Speaker 5: strikes me that they're completely unhinged, actually. And this response
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Speaker 5: to a death is something I've never seen before. I mean,
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Speaker 5: what is this? This conflagration of expensive... German cars. There
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Speaker 5: was an Audi, I think, that I saw that had
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Speaker 5: been set on fire. This is really remarkable behaviour.
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Speaker 2: And you've got to wonder what on earth is going
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Speaker 2: on in Middlesbrough.
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Speaker 1: Well, we can't find out what's going on in Middlesbrough.
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Speaker 1: That was the point of my phone call first thing
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Speaker 1: this morning, was to find out what the actual police
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Speaker 1: viewpoint was. But a rather surprised, very pleasant young lady
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Speaker 1: in the police media section said, well, no, there was
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Speaker 1: no statement by the chief constable. And it was clear
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Speaker 1: that she had very little idea as to what was
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Speaker 1: actually happening. So lots of questions to be asked. But
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Speaker 1: at the moment, are the police capable of dealing with
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Speaker 1: this issue? We've no idea.
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Speaker 2: That's a very good question, Brian. Very good question.
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Speaker 5: In what appears to be a total breakdown of law
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Speaker 5: and order in the country, it's only going to get
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Speaker 5: worse over the coming months. And a lot of that
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Speaker 5: is to do with The divide and rule operation that
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Speaker 5: is being run against the entire British people by the establishment,
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Speaker 5: I haven't used this in a little while, but I'll
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Speaker 5: just remind you of my thoughts on this divide between
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Speaker 5: the white, masculine, native, rural, conservative, Christian, Israel-supporting right wing,
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Speaker 5: as the narrative would like us to have it.
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Speaker 2: We can all fit neatly into this box, or....
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Speaker 5: The black, feminine, immigrant, urban, progressive, Islamic, Palestine-supporting left wing.
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Speaker 5: And we're being presented with this sort of binary option,
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Speaker 5: black versus white, Israel versus Palestine, Islam versus Christianity, progressive
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Speaker 5: versus conservative left. that is tearing the country apart. Essentially,
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Speaker 5: you've got these warring factions who can't talk to each other,
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Speaker 5: can't find any resolution to any significant problem. And in
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Speaker 5: that chaos and a lack of consensus, the establishment agenda
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Speaker 5: just trundles along in the background.
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Speaker 2: It's how we've got into the position that we're in today.
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Speaker 5: And slap bang into the middle of this over the
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Speaker 5: past couple of weeks, of course, we've had the story
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Speaker 5: about Jason Arday the former Cambridge University professor who committed
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Speaker 5: suicide two weeks ago today I believe it was and
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Speaker 5: this is a story that isn't going to go anywhere
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Speaker 5: there's been extensive reporting on this in the alternative media
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Speaker 5: so this is from the byline times who've been speaking
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Speaker 5: about a supposed race science network that penetrated Cambridge University
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Speaker 5: and and targeted Jason Arday. And the fact that Nathan Kofnes,
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Speaker 5: the chap on the left there, if we can just
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Speaker 5: get that slide back up, we can see he's the
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Speaker 5: Jewish academic, former Cambridge academic, whose article and various writings
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Speaker 5: sparked the events around Arday, the investigations, the articles in
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Speaker 5: the mainstream press. who is part of a network that
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Speaker 5: includes Peter Thiel, so one of the founders of PayPal,
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Speaker 5: the first external backer of Facebook, one of the founders
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Speaker 5: of Palantir as well, who's been putting a lot of
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Speaker 5: money into Cambridge, particularly into the networks around James Orr,
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Speaker 5: who is the policy chief for reform, as well as
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Speaker 5: into individuals surrounding Toby Young's free speech union and and
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Speaker 5: to me this whole thing just stinks of a psychological
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Speaker 5: operation it's basically designed to deliver a very specific set
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Speaker 5: of outcomes which are ultimately about restrictions on the press
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Speaker 5: free speech, specifically around the issue of race. And this
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Speaker 5: is extremely concerning, given that we're being told that we
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Speaker 5: must have more racial minorities in positions of power across
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Speaker 5: every area of society, but we're not going to be
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Speaker 5: allowed to criticise them. And this obviously presents quite a
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Speaker 5: significant danger to the people of the country. Now, we've
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Speaker 5: talked a little bit about Kofnas and Teal and that.
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Speaker 2: Side of the debate.
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Speaker 5: Let's now have a little listen to Dawn Butler, the
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Speaker 5: Labour MP for London's Brent East constituency, speaking at a
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Speaker 5: vigil for Arday at Trafalgar Square last Monday.
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Speaker 6: When we say his name, do not miss out the professor,
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Speaker 6: because that is exactly what they wanted to do. So
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Speaker 6: whenever we say his name, we say Professor Jason Arday.
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Speaker 6: Professor Jason Arday. I'm sorry because I think we let
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Speaker 6: him down. I let him down. And I'm sorry to
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Speaker 6: the family that we couldn't protect him. But now is
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Speaker 6: the time for unity. Now is the time for us
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Speaker 6: to ensure that we have sustainable change. Now is the
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Speaker 6: time to bring down the systems that don't protect us.
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Speaker 2: There was something evangelical about that, wasn't there?
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Speaker 1: A theatrical stage, but I've got to say that the
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Speaker 1: opening where she's getting the audience to respond to her,
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Speaker 1: they're going to call him Professor. This is like dealing
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Speaker 1: with children at a pantomime, heavily orchestrated, and she's saying
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Speaker 1: all of this has got to be done so that
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Speaker 1: they get the sustainable change they need. But, of course,
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Speaker 1: what that change is is not fully declared to the
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Speaker 1: public audience present.
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Speaker 2: No, no, it isn't.
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Speaker 5: And it's all presented in very emotionally charged and manipulative language. Also,
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Speaker 5: this idea, I mean, he's a 41 year old man.
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Speaker 5: He doesn't need protecting, shouldn't be protecting particularly by anybody.
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Speaker 5: And certainly not about, you know, words, sticks and stones
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Speaker 5: may break my bones and all that. I think it's
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Speaker 5: something we should teach children. We probably need to reinforce
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Speaker 5: that message to people. And you're right, you talked about
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Speaker 5: sustainable change. Then also the need to bring down the
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Speaker 5: systems that haven't protected us. So that is a revolutionary message.
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Speaker 5: And actually in the crowd, you could see This sign,
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Speaker 5: conveniently put there, obviously we're told that this is an
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Speaker 5: organic thing that's just appeared. This is the sentiment of
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Speaker 5: the people that have come along to the march. But actually,
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Speaker 5: I think this is the preconceived outcome that the establishment's
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Speaker 5: looking for, which is that they're saying racism within mainstream
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Speaker 5: media is responsible for Jason Arday's death. So therefore, something
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Speaker 5: needs to be done about that, which ultimately is going
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Speaker 5: to involve regulation and restrictions on your ability to write
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Speaker 5: about people in the public sphere and based on racial categorisation,
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Speaker 5: I guess. I mean, the potential for abuse here is
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Speaker 5: absolutely extraordinary.
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Speaker 1: And we could certainly expect David Lammy to get on
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Speaker 1: the back of this for the regulation.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, no doubt about that.
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Speaker 5: Let's now listen to another leading figure in this movement,
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Speaker 5: Miss Anne Harriman, who was also speaking at that event.
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Speaker 3: Jason should still be here today. And those who knew
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Speaker 3: him Those who love him, those who have joyful memories
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Speaker 3: of him should cherish it like a bird with broken wings.
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Speaker 3: It is important for Jason's children to know how he lived,
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Speaker 3: who he was. His legacy must be one of change
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Speaker 3: and hope. The impunity of the fourth estate must stop,
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Speaker 3: otherwise more lives will be lost.
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Speaker 2: It sounded a bit like a threat at the end there.
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Speaker 5: The impunity of the fourth estate must be stopped.
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Speaker 1: Being media and press. So that is absolutely a threat.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: That what these people are going to work for is
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Speaker 1: further manipulation and control of a free press.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 5: So they're pushing for more legislation. And then the question is,
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Speaker 5: who are these people? So actually, Dawn Butler obviously is
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Speaker 5: an MP.
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Speaker 2: Mr.
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Speaker 5: Harriman is... Actually, a rich kid. I've been talking about
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Speaker 5: him a few times over the past year or so.
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Speaker 5: He's come to some significant prominence over the past few
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Speaker 5: months because he was attacked by the Telegraph for supposed anti-Semitism.
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Speaker 5: So he's a big time figure in the pro-Palestine movement.
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Speaker 5: But he's also the chair of the South Bank Center,
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Speaker 5: which is heavily funded by Zionist billionaire Michael Bloomberg. So
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Speaker 5: the idea that Ms. Anne Harriman is anti-Semitic is not
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Speaker 5: actually backed up by certainly his business associations. And also
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Speaker 5: he comes from what is essentially a ruling family in Nigeria.
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Speaker 5: So his arrival in the UK was announced in the
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Speaker 5: Tatla back in 2014, I think this article was.
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Speaker 8: Yes, 2014.
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Speaker 5: You can see there it's described as posh people. The
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Speaker 5: Nigerians have arrived. And effectively he's part of a ruling family.
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Speaker 5: So his father, Chief Hope Harriman, was one of the
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Speaker 5: founding fathers of modern Nigeria and And that family is
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Speaker 5: actually part of the ruling elite of the slave coast
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Speaker 5: in Nigeria, interestingly. And he does talk on the issue
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Speaker 5: of slavery and reparations, but he never does mention that
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Speaker 5: his family's from the slave coast, which I think is
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Speaker 5: probably a bit remiss on his part. Now let's have
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Speaker 5: another listen to another leading voice in this space, Dr.
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Speaker 2: Shola Moss Shogbamimu, talking about racism, of course.
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Speaker 7: Nathan Kofner is a white Jewish man. A white Jewish
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Speaker 7: man who is a white supremacist because he is a
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Speaker 7: white man. A white Jewish man who is a Zionist
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Speaker 7: Jewish supremacist because he is a Zionist. He is a
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Speaker 7: white man who masterminded the downfall of the youngest black
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Speaker 7: professor in Cambridge University. because he could not stand that
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Speaker 7: a black man could have this professorship.
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Speaker 1: So the trail gets more and more interesting now as
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Speaker 1: this agenda is woven between these groups that you've described.
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Speaker 5: Yes, well, that clip was fascinating to me because it's
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Speaker 5: very much promoting a specific group bringing together of two terms, right,
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Speaker 5: which is white and Jew. White, Jew, Zionist, Jewish supremacist.
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Speaker 5: So essentially you're integrating whiteness with Zionism, which are absolutely
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Speaker 5: not the same thing. as each other at all, not
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Speaker 5: even close. In fact, Jewishness and whiteness are not the
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Speaker 5: same thing. So there's something very, very manipulative happening here.
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Speaker 5: And this actually comes from the Canary. If we can
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Speaker 5: just get that back on screen. This was an official
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Speaker 5: post from the Canary, and it says, white people, regardless
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Speaker 5: of faith, are the perpetrators of racism, not the victims.
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Speaker 5: It's a definitive statement. That is categorically not true. That's
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Speaker 5: not how it works. So this is just a propaganda exercise.
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Speaker 5: And I've got to ask some questions, if I may,
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Speaker 5: about Shola, because I've spoken about this before, that actually
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Speaker 5: she was selected to interview Al Sharpton. at an event
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Speaker 5: in 2021 at Plexil, which is an MI6 facility, which
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Speaker 5: was hosted by the supposed youth charity, My Life, My Say,
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Speaker 5: who I've spoken about many, many, many times. I think
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Speaker 5: I spoke about them when I was on the news
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Speaker 5: earlier this week, actually, who are directly linked to the
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Speaker 5: US State Department, the Blair Institute, the Secret Intelligence Service
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Speaker 5: at MI6. the Rothschild family, the Rothschild Foundation, Tortoise Media,
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Speaker 5: and Shola was selected by them to present one of
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Speaker 5: the main sessions at their big Common Futures event at
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Speaker 5: the mayor's office at the end of 2021, which does
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Speaker 5: beg the question, is Shola actually controlled opposition? Is she
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Speaker 5: deliberately trying to stir up some kind of racial... situation
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Speaker 5: in the country.
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Speaker 1: Or she's drawn into something she doesn't understand.
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Speaker 5: Or perhaps if we give her the benefit of the doubt,
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Speaker 5: she's been drawn into something that she doesn't understand.
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Speaker 2: Who knows? But the question needs to be asked.
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Speaker 5: I think the question absolutely needs to be asked. Now,
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Speaker 5: just to wrap things up, we've got My Life, My Say,
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Speaker 5: the Rothschild-backed supposed youth charity, have been very excited about
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Speaker 5: the arrival of a new minister, the Minister for Democracy.
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Speaker 5: So they were putting this on their Instagram a couple
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Speaker 5: of days ago. This is Florence Eshalomi MP. She's the
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Speaker 5: MP for Vauxhall and Camberwell Green. Her role is officially
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Speaker 5: the Minister for Homelessness, Democracy, Communities and Faith.
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Speaker 2: That's quite an extraordinary portfolio, isn't it? Democracy.
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Speaker 1: It's immensely powerful because it's covering the whole foundation of society,
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Speaker 1: if you if you like, to describe it like that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely.
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Speaker 9: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: And putting homelessness in the mix there as well, given
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Speaker 5: recent policy announcements, I think that's quite interesting. So we
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Speaker 5: need to keep an eye on what's going to go
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Speaker 5: going on with this new role. But my life, my.
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Speaker 2: Say, the Rothschild-backed charity like her a lot. I'll just
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Speaker 2: put it like that.
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Speaker 5: And then this does beg the question, I think, which
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Speaker 5: is why are there so many Nigerians leading public debate
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Speaker 5: in England at the moment, whether they're elected officials or not?
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Speaker 1: And indeed getting a lot of support to facilitate their
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Speaker 1: role in that position.
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Speaker 5: Enormous support, yes, from behind the scenes in order to
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Speaker 5: establish their position in society. And there might be some
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Speaker 5: clues to that in this short video clip of Rory
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Speaker 5: Stewart from 2019 speaking to an audience in Nigeria in
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Speaker 5: his role as International Development Secretary.
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Speaker 8: Beginning of 2020, we will have an African Investment Summit.
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Speaker 8: And I'm looking forward, I hope, to seeing most of
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Speaker 8: you in this room at the African Investment Summit.
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Speaker 10: And in that summit.
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Speaker 8: These announcements from this day is about everything. It is
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Speaker 8: about our fundamental principle, which is that when Africa prospers,
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Speaker 8: the world prospers.
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Speaker 9: When the world prospers, Britain prospers.
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Speaker 8: That we should partner together, develop together, learn together, bring
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Speaker 8: our very, very different strengths and weaknesses together. Bring the
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Speaker 8: Asian population of Britain together with the incredible dynamic young
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Speaker 8: population of Africa. bring your natural resources together with the
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Speaker 8: finances of your government, but above all, harness the power
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Speaker 8: of people, trust people, local people, people on the ground,
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Speaker 8: their innovation, their ingenuity, their energy in the central field,
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Speaker 8: which is that in the end, through this partnership, through
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Speaker 8: our investment, which I and the British people are deeply
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Speaker 8: proud to make with you, we will discover But we
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Speaker 8: probably have less to teach Africa than we have to
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Speaker 8: learn from Africa.
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Speaker 10: Thank you all very much.
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Speaker 1: So truly incredible, Ben, to hear what he's saying there.
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Speaker 1: The ageing UK population, so no encouragement for families in
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Speaker 1: the UK to increase the birth rate. You're just going
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Speaker 1: to become old and fade away, but don't worry. because
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Speaker 1: we're going to use that vitality and youth of Africa
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Speaker 1: in the United Kingdom to replace you. There's no doubting
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Speaker 1: what he's actually talking about, particularly when he adds in
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Speaker 1: the City of London.
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Speaker 2: Well, yes, there was that too, yes.
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Speaker 1: This is a policy.
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Speaker 2: It's absolutely a policy, yes.
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Speaker 1: To displace people out of their own country with all
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Speaker 1: of the problems and suffering that creates in Africa itself,
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Speaker 1: and then double that problem by moving people these people
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Speaker 1: into the UK. And starting a race war. This is
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Speaker 1: political migration. This is not being done out of the
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Speaker 1: goodness of Florence, Lawrence of Arabia's heart, Florence of Arabia,
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Speaker 1: as he's known. This is malicious political policy. While all
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Speaker 1: of this is happening in UK and people's heads really
22:41
Speaker 1: increasingly becoming in a spin, I think some of our
22:45
Speaker 1: audience today have described the United Kingdom as being the
22:48
Speaker 1: magic roundabout, which is not far off the mark. Of course,
22:52
Speaker 1: the other propaganda, which is hitting people in a very
22:55
Speaker 1: big way, is to do with the war in Ukraine.
22:58
Speaker 1: And I wanted to come in and have a look
23:00
Speaker 1: at some of the propaganda to see through it and
23:03
Speaker 1: to show people the danger of what Andy Burnham's Labour
23:06
Speaker 1: government is creating at the moment. So this was just
23:11
Speaker 1: taken from the Defense Intelligence X feed. And you can
23:15
Speaker 1: tell that things are not going well in the Ukraine
23:17
Speaker 1: war because Defense Intelligence has been forced to make reports
23:23
Speaker 1: from the battlefield dating back to June 2026 in its
23:27
Speaker 1: news of up to date in August 2026. Couple that
23:32
Speaker 1: with the fact that the UK press and the Express
23:36
Speaker 1: in particular are now ramping up the fear factor. And
23:40
Speaker 1: here's the Express newspaper with a special edition where you
23:45
Speaker 1: can plot out the destructive blast maps, supposedly from Russian
23:51
Speaker 1: nuclear attacks on UK cities. Propaganda, fear, misleading information on
23:58
Speaker 1: top of all this troubled political policy weaving its way
24:03
Speaker 1: through our society. This is orchestrated chaos. And of course,
24:07
Speaker 1: it's out of the chaos that Andy Burnham hopes to
24:10
Speaker 1: build his new society. But I also went and dug
24:14
Speaker 1: a little deeper. I had a look at the official
24:18
Speaker 1: channel of the permanent joint headquarters. And so this is
24:22
Speaker 1: also X, of course. Now, they were talking here about
24:28
Speaker 1: HMS Medway, one of the smaller patrol vessels of the
24:33
Speaker 1: UK operating down in the Falklands. But they say about
24:37
Speaker 1: their organization itself that they're dedicated to providing information on
24:44
Speaker 1: UK military operations. So I took their video from the
24:50
Speaker 1: little X tweet on the right. And this is what
24:56
Speaker 1: they presented to the public as information on UK military operations.
25:03
Speaker 4: I hope you find some peace of mind in this lifetime.
25:12
Speaker 11: Tell them.
25:14
Speaker 1: Tell them. Tell them the truth.
25:15
Speaker 6: I hope you find some paradise.
25:18
Speaker 3: Tell them.
25:20
Speaker 1: Tell them the.
25:23
Speaker 11: Truth.
25:24
Speaker 1: Tell them.
25:24
Speaker 7: Tell them.
25:25
Speaker 1: Tell them.
25:26
Speaker 7: Tell them your.
25:26
Speaker 2: I've been going through something.
25:29
Speaker 3: 1,855 days.
25:35
Speaker 2: I've been going through something. Be afraid.
25:42
Speaker 1: So make of that what you will. I found it astonishing.
25:45
Speaker 1: And of course, immense amounts of money now being spent
25:49
Speaker 1: on this propaganda through the Ministry of Defence and through
25:53
Speaker 1: Defence HQ and now this channel. But what was that
25:56
Speaker 1: about and what was the music supposed to represent? And
25:59
Speaker 1: I've really no idea. If you think that's bad, let's
26:03
Speaker 1: just move on to Ministry of Defence again and on
26:08
Speaker 1: their website, which is talking about being secure at home
26:12
Speaker 1: and strong abroad. This is their official X channel. Here's
26:18
Speaker 1: an image of some Cold Stream Guards playing music. Let's
26:22
Speaker 1: have a listen to what they were playing. Now, if
26:53
Speaker 1: you didn't understand what was going on, the music is
26:55
Speaker 1: obviously from Dolly Parton, but this here, if we pop
26:59
Speaker 1: it on the screen, is the caption, a special tribute
27:03
Speaker 1: to the Queen of Country at Dolly Parton from her
27:07
Speaker 1: many friends, fans and admirers across the pond. So the
27:11
Speaker 1: Ministry of Defence official channel and army units being used
27:16
Speaker 1: to put out trash propaganda and about Dolly Parton with
27:21
Speaker 1: due respect to the fact that she's recently passed. So
27:26
Speaker 1: is this something that's getting better? Well, absolutely not. Now
27:32
Speaker 1: let's contrast that utter nonsense with some very serious information
27:37
Speaker 1: that's come out as a result of an interview between
27:40
Speaker 1: the American Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis, retired, and Steve Jermey,
27:46
Speaker 1: who is a retired Commodore from the Royal Navy here
27:49
Speaker 1: in United Kingdom. I've got three clips where these gentlemen
27:55
Speaker 1: are talking about the really serious issues going on as
27:59
Speaker 1: a result of the war and the carnage in Ukraine.
28:02
Speaker 1: Let's have a listen to the first clip.
28:05
Speaker 12: Journal, and one of the claims there is that the
28:07
Speaker 12: trip was to warn Russia not to attack NATO. That's
28:12
Speaker 12: what a lot of people are speculating.
28:13
Speaker 2: What do you think?
28:15
Speaker 10: I think that's plausible. I think it's plausible, Danny. And
28:19
Speaker 10: I'll Team Tbilisi WhatsApp group, I did speculate about whether
28:24
Speaker 10: or not it might be the reverse, which is the
28:26
Speaker 10: Russians actually saying to the director that they will attack NATO,
28:34
Speaker 10: in particular Britain, and that they wanted, though, first to
28:38
Speaker 10: offer a warning on that subject. So it could be
28:41
Speaker 10: either way. I'm not sure.
28:45
Speaker 1: So I'll say to our audience, Steve Jermey there, taking
28:48
Speaker 1: a very big risk as a very senior retired Royal
28:52
Speaker 1: Navy officer in giving his opinion. And I think the
28:56
Speaker 1: man is absolutely on the button, saying that the Russians
29:00
Speaker 1: are now virtually their backs against the wall as the
29:04
Speaker 1: increasing weapons, supplies, ammunition, drones come in, including the UK,
29:09
Speaker 1: boasting of making the weapons systems which are targeting Russia
29:14
Speaker 1: sites well inside Russia. So there was Steve Jeremy warning
29:20
Speaker 1: what he thinks the meeting with the CIA director was about.
29:24
Speaker 1: But let's hear a little bit more of the clip.
29:28
Speaker 10: However, the more I've thought about it, Danny, I think
29:30
Speaker 10: there's another rather sad reason, which is that why would
29:35
Speaker 10: you fly a C-17 in? Of course, you can fly
29:37
Speaker 10: a C-17 in to have an entourage of American vehicles
29:45
Speaker 10: to get the director from the Kremlin or from the
29:49
Speaker 10: airport to the Kremlin. But there is another reason, Danny.
29:52
Speaker 10: It did occur to me after a bit that I
29:54
Speaker 10: wondered whether or not this was actually a body exchange project.
29:57
Speaker 10: and whether or not the direct was actually picking up
30:02
Speaker 10: caskets of lost US servicemen and possibly lost UN CIA operators.
30:11
Speaker 10: And when you look at an entourage of about three vehicles,
30:13
Speaker 10: you've still got space in a C-17, which is huge
30:17
Speaker 10: for between 30 and 40 caskets. So I might be wrong,
30:19
Speaker 10: but it did occur to me that might be an alternative.
30:22
Speaker 10: It's the... Only other plausible reason that I can think
30:25
Speaker 10: of actually flying in a C-17. But who knows? I'd
30:27
Speaker 10: be interested to see what you think.
30:31
Speaker 1: So now we're getting into the reality of it. Of course,
30:34
Speaker 1: the British government and the Ministry of Defence constantly saying
30:38
Speaker 1: that we haven't got boots on the ground in this war.
30:41
Speaker 1: And here is this senior retired officer now absolutely questioning
30:47
Speaker 1: the official narrative. But he goes further. Let's hear the
30:51
Speaker 1: final clip.
30:53
Speaker 12: You can have a full-size NBA basketball court in the
30:57
Speaker 12: inside there, and it's just as cavernous. It's amazing how
31:00
Speaker 12: big it is.
31:02
Speaker 10: Well, it just did occur to me, and it might
31:03
Speaker 10: not just be American personnel. It might be other personnel.
31:07
Speaker 10: About six months ago, I put a Freedom of Information
31:11
Speaker 10: Act inquiry into the British Ministry of Defense to ask
31:14
Speaker 10: about British casualties, and I got an answer which refused
31:16
Speaker 10: to tell me the answer. And it refused to even
31:20
Speaker 10: say whether they were nought or more than nought. But
31:22
Speaker 10: this is an incredibly sensitive issue, of course, because NATO
31:27
Speaker 10: and U.S. personnel operating in the Ukraine war are essentially
31:31
Speaker 10: engaged in a war. And so this is something which
31:36
Speaker 10: we pretended not to be. But there will have been casualties.
31:39
Speaker 10: In fact, I'm sure there have been casualties. I don't
31:42
Speaker 10: know the exact numbers.
31:43
Speaker 12: If British personnel are killed in actions, I mean, their
31:48
Speaker 12: families are going to want some kind of notification, aren't they?
31:50
Speaker 12: I mean, are they just everyone going to stay silent
31:52
Speaker 12: about it as though it didn't happen?
31:53
Speaker 10: I think it's possibly to do with a deliberate suppression
31:59
Speaker 10: of the information for operational reasons, although really it's for
32:04
Speaker 10: political reasons. And I've got it in good authority from
32:07
Speaker 10: at least two sources that the British have had KIA,
32:15
Speaker 10: I don't know the numbers. One figure I've heard, which
32:18
Speaker 10: is just special forces, is 12 minimum. Other figures I've
32:22
Speaker 10: heard are in excess of running into the tens of casualties.
32:26
Speaker 10: And it wouldn't be surprising if we're talking about 50 overall,
32:29
Speaker 10: that sort of number. I don't know. But what you
32:31
Speaker 10: have in the British system is a thing called a denotice.
32:33
Speaker 10: And a denotice prevents the publication of anything like this
32:36
Speaker 10: during operations. So I suspect this has been kept quiet,
32:41
Speaker 10: if I'm right. This has been kept quiet under a
32:44
Speaker 10: denotice scheme and that actually what the MOD in general, sorry,
32:50
Speaker 10: the MOD in particular, but the British establishment in general
32:52
Speaker 10: are trying to prevent is knowledge seeping out that actually
32:56
Speaker 10: British service personnel have been active in operations against Russia
33:01
Speaker 10: and that actually have been killed during that.
33:05
Speaker 1: So immensely serious reports by the Commodore in that clip.
33:13
Speaker 1: And of course, what this suggests is that the UK
33:17
Speaker 1: has had troops fighting on the ground against the Russians.
33:22
Speaker 1: And yet we are now to be told that all
33:24
Speaker 1: of the angst and threats is simply coming back from
33:27
Speaker 1: the Russian side because they have some policy to invade
33:31
Speaker 1: Western Europe. Basil, if I can bring you on, what's
33:35
Speaker 1: your opinion when he says that, well, it's not so
33:39
Speaker 1: much the military trying to... keep quiet about their operations.
33:44
Speaker 1: If there's a denotice in place, this is political, so
33:48
Speaker 1: that the UK tries to hide the fact it is
33:52
Speaker 1: at war with the Russians. Do you think that position's
33:55
Speaker 1: a bit strong?
33:57
Speaker 13: No, not at all, Brian. And that's very much the
34:00
Speaker 13: direction of travel of all the rhetoric The drumbeats for
34:05
Speaker 13: war get ever louder. It really is insane.
34:08
Speaker 2: And while it's.
34:10
Speaker 13: Up to 50 special forces that have been killed, which
34:13
Speaker 13: is a considerable number, that's 50 completely unnecessary tragedies, the
34:20
Speaker 13: aim is for far more Brits to get killed. in
34:24
Speaker 13: this completely insane and unwinnable war. And to fill the ranks,
34:30
Speaker 13: we're going to have conscription. Now, the Daily Express, for one,
34:33
Speaker 13: has been running stories about conscription pretty much every day
34:38
Speaker 13: this week, talking about the age range for women who
34:44
Speaker 13: will have to be conscripted as well. Of We are
34:48
Speaker 13: closer to World War III than we have been for decades.
34:54
Speaker 13: When you think of wartime conscription, you potentially think of
34:59
Speaker 13: young men going to the front lines to fight for
35:02
Speaker 13: our freedom.
35:03
Speaker 2: How extraordinary.
35:04
Speaker 13: What an extraordinary thing to say that somehow they're fighting
35:07
Speaker 13: for our freedom when this war has been entirely confected
35:12
Speaker 13: by the UK national security state. And they go on. Now,
35:18
Speaker 13: this is London Loves Business, which is a very obscure publication.
35:23
Speaker 13: UK's next generation could be forced to fight as Russian
35:28
Speaker 13: tensions fuel conscription fears. It's always fears. Fears are rocketing.
35:34
Speaker 13: Fears of escalation. Now, this has brought some pushback. A
35:40
Speaker 13: coalition of British peace and faith organisations has launched a
35:44
Speaker 13: campaign demanding that A coalition of British peace and faith
35:48
Speaker 13: organisations has launched a campaign demanding that the government rule
35:52
Speaker 13: out any return to military conscription as heightened tensions with
35:56
Speaker 13: Russia intensify debates over Britain's military preparedness. Thirteen organisations, including
36:03
Speaker 13: Forces Watch, the Peace Pledge Union and the Quakers in Britain,
36:07
Speaker 13: are backing a petition calling for ministers to reject compulsory
36:11
Speaker 13: military service or any form of national service involving the
36:15
Speaker 13: armed forces. What is extraordinary, of course, is that this
36:18
Speaker 13: really important story has been completely ignored by the corporate media.
36:24
Speaker 13: But it's not unusual for organs like the Express to
36:31
Speaker 13: run with this kind of thing first. Emma Sangster of
36:34
Speaker 13: Forces Watch speaking on behalf of the coalition, said compulsory
36:38
Speaker 13: service would place unacceptable constraints on young people. Well, not
36:42
Speaker 13: just that. It was also going to bring us to
36:44
Speaker 13: the brink of Armageddon. Conscription is now a threat held
36:48
Speaker 13: over young people in the UK. People talk patronisingly of
36:51
Speaker 13: national service being good for young people as if it
36:54
Speaker 13: didn't pose significant risks to their physical and mental health.
36:58
Speaker 13: and impose the moral burdens of warfare on them. And
37:03
Speaker 13: of course, why is this necessary? Well, as you said, Brian,
37:07
Speaker 13: Prime Minister Andy Burnham has been warned that the UK
37:10
Speaker 13: faces an inevitable Russian attack in revenge for the UK's
37:14
Speaker 13: constantly strengthening backing for Ukraine. Security chiefs have been put
37:19
Speaker 13: on high alert this week for a potential Kremlin reaction,
37:22
Speaker 13: either targeting the Prime Minister himself or key military sites
37:27
Speaker 13: after Mr Burnham's high-profile visit to Kiev and his decision
37:31
Speaker 13: to deepen military alignment with President Vladimir Zelensky. It's worth
37:37
Speaker 13: pointing out that Burnham has absolutely no mandate to do this.
37:42
Speaker 13: It's certainly not the will of the British people at all,
37:46
Speaker 13: quite the opposite. So we have to ask ourselves where
37:51
Speaker 13: this is coming from. And interestingly enough, Of course, after
37:57
Speaker 13: Burnham's visit, Zelensky got together with the Prime Minister of Israel,
38:02
Speaker 13: talking about how strong their connection is, so we can
38:07
Speaker 13: see the Anglo-American Zionist Alliance before our eyes, Brian.
38:14
Speaker 1: Basil, thank you very much. We can discuss a lot
38:17
Speaker 1: more of this in extra time, and there is so
38:19
Speaker 1: much to discuss, but we're truly in a very dangerous
38:23
Speaker 1: position in the United Kingdom. not only with the policies themselves,
38:27
Speaker 1: but the layer of lies, misinformation and disinformation from the
38:32
Speaker 1: government itself to make sure that the public doesn't really
38:36
Speaker 1: understand what's happening. And as the Commodore reinforced in his statement,
38:41
Speaker 1: the use of denotices to ensure that nothing appears in
38:45
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38:48
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42:24
Speaker 13: Yes, this is a particularly concerning story, Brian, and it
42:27
Speaker 13: really does go hand in hand with what we've been
42:30
Speaker 13: talking about throughout the programme, which is the ever louder
42:35
Speaker 13: drumbeats for war, and thus the fascistic way dissent is
42:41
Speaker 13: being silenced. Now, in this case, again, a story completely
42:45
Speaker 13: ignored by the corporate media as we descend into authoritarianism
42:50
Speaker 13: here in Britain. Two Irishmen were detained at Stansted Airport. Now,
42:58
Speaker 13: these are campaigners for Ireland to remain neutral. There's tremendous
43:02
Speaker 13: pressure on Ireland to join NATO at the moment. British
43:06
Speaker 13: authorities detained two Irish neutrality activists on their way to
43:11
Speaker 13: an anti-NATO demonstration outside London on anti-terrorism grounds.
43:17
Speaker 2: So basically, if you support.
43:18
Speaker 13: Neutrality, if you want peace, you're now a terrorist. And
43:24
Speaker 13: that's what Donald Trump has been saying in America over
43:26
Speaker 13: the last couple of days as well. designating Palestine Action
43:30
Speaker 13: and also an Italian communications company as terrorists. Police invoked
43:35
Speaker 13: powers under the Counterterrorism and Border Security Act of 2019.
43:40
Speaker 13: Bill O'Brien and Patrick Downey of the Truth and Neutrality
43:44
Speaker 13: Alliance flew from Dublin airport to Stansted on August the 15th.
43:49
Speaker 13: They'd both been invited to speak at a protest organised
43:51
Speaker 13: by No to NATO, which incidentally I think Vanessa Bealey
43:57
Speaker 13: and Patrick Henningsen have both spoken at No to NATO
44:00
Speaker 13: events in the past. They'd been invited to speak. And
44:04
Speaker 13: it's a campaign for Britain to withdraw from NATO and
44:07
Speaker 13: end its proxy wars against Russia, China and Iran. On
44:11
Speaker 13: arrival in Britain, the authorities approached them and seized their
44:15
Speaker 13: mobile phones and detained them for almost five hours, invoking
44:19
Speaker 13: anti-terror laws. It was just long enough to make sure
44:22
Speaker 13: we didn't make it to the protest. Downey told The Ditch,
44:26
Speaker 13: which is an Irish publication. That's where I dug this
44:29
Speaker 13: out from, if you pardon the pun. Detention notices seen
44:32
Speaker 13: by The Ditch show police invoke powers which allow border
44:36
Speaker 13: officers to detain people to determine if they are involved
44:39
Speaker 13: in threat activity.
44:42
Speaker 2: On behalf of a foreign power.
44:43
Speaker 13: Now, this is an important point because the claim which
44:48
Speaker 13: we will see oft repeated in the months ahead, no doubt,
44:51
Speaker 13: is that if you advocate for peace, you're actually doing
44:56
Speaker 13: the work of the Russians. It's extraordinary, isn't it? That's
45:00
Speaker 13: the twisted logic that we've.
45:02
Speaker 12: Ended up with.
45:04
Speaker 13: They say they were subjected to invasive personal examinations, with
45:09
Speaker 13: authorities taking their fingerprints, handprints, prints of the sides of
45:12
Speaker 13: their hands, and placing swabs on the inside of their mouths. Now,
45:16
Speaker 13: that's usually to gather DNA evidence, no doubt to be
45:21
Speaker 13: incorporated in Shabana Mahmood and Peter Thiel's panopticon of control.
45:27
Speaker 13: They told us we were being detained, not arrested, said O'Brien,
45:31
Speaker 13: and that if we didn't answer any questions, we'd be
45:34
Speaker 13: incriminating ourselves. You don't have the right to remain silent,
45:38
Speaker 13: they were told. They said, as soon as we charge
45:40
Speaker 13: you with an offence, all your rights kick in. Well,
45:45
Speaker 13: it's an extraordinary joke. Isn't it wonderful? You know, once
45:48
Speaker 13: you get charged, you get some rights. Until then, while
45:51
Speaker 13: you're being detained, you're in this Kafkaesque situation. You're not
45:55
Speaker 13: allowed to remain silent. This is off the charts stuff. And,
46:00
Speaker 13: of course, these are peace activists going to an anti-war event.
46:06
Speaker 2: It's very, very dark days.
46:10
Speaker 1: Basil, you are doing exactly what we find ourselves doing.
46:14
Speaker 1: It is so bad that you have to laugh. But
46:16
Speaker 1: what we are describing is so serious because, of course,
46:21
Speaker 1: if the state can arrest you for campaigning for peace
46:25
Speaker 1: or for a conflict to stop, then the oppressor has
46:29
Speaker 1: got to be the state itself. And I'll just add
46:31
Speaker 1: that the lady called Deepti, who's joined the UK column
46:35
Speaker 1: on several occasions, as part of UNIT, a worldwide organization
46:41
Speaker 1: which has been campaigning particularly to stop the war in Ukraine.
46:46
Speaker 1: She has also been arrested and subjected to interrogation by
46:52
Speaker 1: the security forces, SO15, on the basis that she poses
46:57
Speaker 1: a threat to this country by her work for peace
47:02
Speaker 1: and speaking out for peace. So this isn't just happening
47:05
Speaker 1: to these Irish people. It's also happening to people who've
47:10
Speaker 1: got an established track record working to stop conflict. Back
47:15
Speaker 1: to local issues, Ben, because at the end of the day,
47:18
Speaker 1: the battle is going to be fought at local level.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah.
47:21
Speaker 5: We talk a lot about international affairs, but the fight
47:24
Speaker 5: against globalism actually is taking place in your local area.
47:28
Speaker 2: That is the front line.
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Speaker 5: I've spoken a lot recently about Tothill Park, which is
47:32
Speaker 5: my local park, and.
47:34
Speaker 2: The fact that the local cafe.
47:37
Speaker 5: Owner was forced to move into this temporary location after
47:40
Speaker 5: the council came in at the end of February.
47:42
Speaker 2: And said, we're just going to shut you down for
47:44
Speaker 2: three days.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, so they came into that building at the back there,
47:48
Speaker 5: you can see, and said, we're just going to shut
47:49
Speaker 5: you down for three days. We've got some health and
47:51
Speaker 5: safety issues, some fire safety issues we've got to deal with.
47:54
Speaker 5: And then six months down the track after almost, you know,
47:58
Speaker 5: countless new dates for decisions to come through, they got
48:03
Speaker 5: put back again and again and again. The whole thing has...
48:07
Speaker 5: been coming to a head. Here's the proprietor. This is Lucy.
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Speaker 5: She's the founder of the cafe. Set the whole thing
48:13
Speaker 5: up with their own money. Small, independent trader, entrepreneur, exactly
48:18
Speaker 5: the kind of person the council should be backing. But
48:21
Speaker 5: of course, they aren't doing what they should be doing.
48:23
Speaker 5: They're doing pretty much the exact opposite. The community has
48:26
Speaker 5: been stalwart in its support of Lucy and the cafe
48:30
Speaker 5: and community center I actually headed down there last week
48:33
Speaker 5: to this protest with.
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Speaker 2: The first rain of the summer, actually. We've had a
48:37
Speaker 2: little bit of it since then.
48:39
Speaker 5: And Councillor Sue Dan, you can see on the left there,
48:41
Speaker 5: she's the Labour councillor for the area, came out to
48:44
Speaker 5: give some words to the group. And I took the
48:46
Speaker 5: opportunity to have a quick chat with her, which we're
48:48
Speaker 5: going to watch now. I'm here with Sue Dan at
48:53
Speaker 5: the cafe in the community centre today.
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Speaker 2: In Tothill Park.
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Speaker 5: And is this in your ward is that correct?
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Speaker 11: I've been a great advocate both for anything that happens
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Speaker 11: within the park I work the friends group yeah and
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Speaker 11: I've worked with Lucy since she took over the cafe four.
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Speaker 5: Years ago yeah fantastic and you said in your speech
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Speaker 5: a moment ago that Plymouth Council hasn't covered itself in
49:15
Speaker 5: glory it's been six months where Lucy's had almost.
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Speaker 2: I'm not speaking.
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Speaker 11: For the council though here.
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Speaker 2: I'm not asking you to speak for the council.
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Speaker 5: I'm not asking you to speak for the council, but
49:27
Speaker 5: you did comment that the council hasn't covered itself in glory.
49:30
Speaker 5: And it's been about six months while this process has
49:32
Speaker 5: been ongoing. Is that standard procedure in the council to
49:37
Speaker 5: let people carry on for that long without proper information
49:41
Speaker 5: or the notices being issued? Or is this an unusual case?
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Speaker 11: Okay, so I'm not going to comment on that because
49:49
Speaker 11: the council put out a press release last week and
49:51
Speaker 11: what you're using is some of the misinformation that has
49:54
Speaker 11: been in the press. So I don't think it took
49:56
Speaker 11: a long time for the council to be able to
49:58
Speaker 11: get the right specialists on board to do the safety
50:01
Speaker 11: checks that was required. And they've then gone on to
50:04
Speaker 11: see what work is necessary to get the cafe open
50:07
Speaker 11: and then the community centre open, which is what the
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Speaker 11: process is now. And that's about the meeting with Lucy.
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Speaker 11: In terms of the normal procedure, I'm not going to
50:16
Speaker 11: comment on that because I am not an operator.
50:19
Speaker 2: I am not an officer.
50:20
Speaker 11: I am a councillor who's advocating for the community centre.
50:24
Speaker 11: I just feel that the communication could have been better
50:28
Speaker 11: the way through this, just so that people can understand
50:32
Speaker 11: what's going on So I'm not saying that the council
50:37
Speaker 11: does always do this because it does not. This is
50:40
Speaker 11: a very specific local community issue.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 5: So you think this is an isolated case where the
50:47
Speaker 5: communication has been this poor over the past six months
50:52
Speaker 5: and the constant moving of deadlines and the failure to
50:57
Speaker 5: issue formal documentation, that's not standard procedure for Plymouth Council?
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Speaker 11: You are putting words into your mouth. Those are not
51:05
Speaker 11: the words that I'm using.
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Speaker 2: No, I'm asking you a question.
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Speaker 5: I've spoken to Lucy and I've understood what process she's
51:14
Speaker 5: been through over the past six months. I'm just asking
51:16
Speaker 5: if you think that that's normal for Plymouth Council or acceptable.
51:19
Speaker 11: So that is Lucy's process. I am saying that I
51:26
Speaker 11: just think the council... could have been better in the
51:29
Speaker 11: way it communicated it with Lucy in terms of what's
51:33
Speaker 11: been going on I can't say whether this is normal
51:37
Speaker 11: procedure or not and also I am not part of
51:41
Speaker 11: the council on that procedure I am advocating for Lucy
51:45
Speaker 11: within that so I am not going to turn around
51:48
Speaker 11: and give you the pleasure of saying that I think
51:51
Speaker 11: the council is way out of line I'm just saying
51:54
Speaker 11: that the council could have done better.
51:56
Speaker 5: Okay That's a very political answer.
51:59
Speaker 11: It is a political answer, but you are giving me
52:02
Speaker 11: a question which has either got a yes or a
52:04
Speaker 11: no answer. And I'm really sorry, but life in local
52:07
Speaker 11: politics is never yes or no. It's always complicated.
52:10
Speaker 2: Always complicated.
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Speaker 5: And do you know if there's going to be any
52:13
Speaker 5: internal review in the council to make sure this doesn't
52:16
Speaker 5: happen again?
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Speaker 11: I've got absolutely no idea. I think there are lessons
52:21
Speaker 11: to be learnt in how... you can communicate these things,
52:25
Speaker 11: which will be looked at, because it hasn't been great.
52:29
Speaker 11: And I've been open and honest about that the whole
52:31
Speaker 11: way through.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
52:32
Speaker 5: Thank you very much, Councillor Sue Dan. Okay.
52:37
Speaker 1: So, and if I may, a really interesting interview. And,
52:40
Speaker 1: of course, you can feel, you can see that local
52:44
Speaker 1: councillor feeling very uncomfortable to be asked direct questions about
52:50
Speaker 1: what has actually happened.
52:51
Speaker 2: I think that's the first time it's ever happened to her.
52:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely true. But of course, this cafe has been
52:57
Speaker 1: closed because of a specific problem. The specific problem has
53:01
Speaker 1: never been presented to the community.
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Speaker 8: No.
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Speaker 2: Six months, just shut it.
53:08
Speaker 1: Let's put this in thing. What is she really saying?
53:12
Speaker 1: She is saying, I'm a counsellor. I'm not part of
53:15
Speaker 1: the cabinet system. I'm not part of the ruling elite.
53:19
Speaker 1: So I've got to say the right things to protect
53:21
Speaker 1: the council. And I've got to say the right things
53:24
Speaker 1: to keep my community constituents on board. She is between
53:28
Speaker 1: a rock and a hard place. And if she doesn't
53:31
Speaker 1: grow a backbone, one side or the other, I would
53:35
Speaker 1: suggest is going to cause a problem. But the reason
53:38
Speaker 1: this is so important for our audience is that There
53:41
Speaker 1: is a demonstration here of what happens when local people
53:46
Speaker 1: stand together to challenge these immensely powerful councils as to
53:52
Speaker 1: what they're doing. So well done to the Tottill Park community, Benan.
53:56
Speaker 1: Well done to yourself for getting out there and posing
53:59
Speaker 1: those questions.
54:00
Speaker 2: Thank you.
54:01
Speaker 5: And there has actually been some good news. So there
54:04
Speaker 5: was a meeting last week with Lucy and Councillor Dan
54:08
Speaker 5: and the council, and essentially they've agreed to carry out
54:11
Speaker 5: the works that were supposed to have taken place.
54:13
Speaker 2: We still don't know exactly what they were.
54:15
Speaker 5: And then the cafe is going to shut down for
54:18
Speaker 5: six weeks and going to reopen in October. And I'll
54:21
Speaker 5: be paying very close attention to that. So if it moves,
54:25
Speaker 5: then we're going to get back in the mix with
54:26
Speaker 5: this one, because this is absolutely indicative of the issues
54:30
Speaker 5: going on in the council, but also more broadly in
54:32
Speaker 5: the country. I mean, first of all, this idea that she's,
54:35
Speaker 5: I'm not an operator, I'm a councillor. If we can't
54:37
Speaker 5: elect you into office and then you can actually have
54:40
Speaker 5: a direct influence over what's going on in the city,
54:42
Speaker 5: then what's the point of this whole process?
54:44
Speaker 1: And that's a really great question, Ben. And it's one
54:48
Speaker 1: of the areas where people can be very fair and
54:52
Speaker 1: reasonable to their locally elected councillors because, of course, when
54:56
Speaker 1: a councillor is elected, far from being able to do
55:00
Speaker 1: their job to represent the people who elected them, they
55:03
Speaker 1: find that they walk into an organisation tightly controlled by
55:08
Speaker 1: government-level party political politics. And this is how these city-states operate,
55:15
Speaker 1: and this is what Andy Burnham thinks he's going to
55:18
Speaker 1: do build on so that the oppressive power of these
55:23
Speaker 1: city states would just crush anybody that dared challenge it
55:28
Speaker 1: on any policy. So this is very important. And if
55:32
Speaker 1: I may, I'll just say that on Monday, UK Column News,
55:36
Speaker 1: we're delighted that we're going to be joined by Madeleine Hunt,
55:38
Speaker 1: the General Secretary from the Heritage Party. And Madeleine and
55:43
Speaker 1: the Heritage Party have been doing a lot of work
55:46
Speaker 1: to help local people and local councillors fight this very
55:51
Speaker 1: oppressive system which um andy burnham is desperate to spread
55:56
Speaker 1: across the whole country so it's special edition uk column
56:00
Speaker 1: news on monday.
56:01
Speaker 5: And this is you're absolutely right this is manchesterism in
56:04
Speaker 5: action essentially you've got local councils operating like like feudal
56:07
Speaker 5: landlords and it's crucial for us to understand this and
56:10
Speaker 5: to push back against it at this local level because
56:13
Speaker 5: this is how global policy meets the ground and actually
56:16
Speaker 5: gets implemented in to our society. Now, we've talked previously
56:19
Speaker 5: about the leader of Plymouth Council, this lovely chap, Tudor Evans,
56:23
Speaker 5: taking a selfie with a report in front of him
56:26
Speaker 5: called On the Waterfront, which was written for this organisation,
56:29
Speaker 5: where he's part of the executive team. This is the
56:31
Speaker 5: Key Cities Network. Regular viewers will be familiar with this.
56:34
Speaker 5: I've spoken about it a number of times. And this
56:36
Speaker 5: is just one example of a national network of local
56:40
Speaker 5: councils who are coming together to enact global policy, essentially.
56:44
Speaker 5: And a lot of that is about flogging off land
56:46
Speaker 5: to property developers so that they can build whatever they
56:48
Speaker 5: want to build on it, essentially. Now, this is definitely
56:51
Speaker 5: linked into the Greater Plymouth project. So Brian talked about
56:55
Speaker 5: this a couple of weeks ago. This is a massive
56:58
Speaker 5: expansion of Plymouth Council and a bit of a land
57:03
Speaker 5: grab and power grab, I would say, by Tudor Evans
57:07
Speaker 5: and others. And you can see that Plymouth is now
57:09
Speaker 5: going to not just encompass Plymouth, but also areas to
57:13
Speaker 5: the north, to the east over near Dartmoor, and then
57:17
Speaker 5: down into the South Hams as well. And this is
57:21
Speaker 5: a significantly larger area, significant areas of land that are
57:26
Speaker 5: going to come under the purview of this new authority. Interestingly,
57:30
Speaker 5: and very importantly, South Hams District Council and West Devon
57:34
Speaker 5: Borough Council have already issued a consultation over the past
57:39
Speaker 5: few weeks, what they're calling a strategic land availability assessment.
57:42
Speaker 5: This is the main thing that they're going out to
57:45
Speaker 5: ask people about in the county. And they put this
57:49
Speaker 5: email out a few weeks ago now, so this is
57:52
Speaker 5: the end of July, but the consultation is running to
57:54
Speaker 5: September 20th. And this is being done in collaboration with,
57:58
Speaker 5: you can see there, an online consultation platform called Commonplace.
58:02
Speaker 5: It's really important there. So they're running this on a
58:05
Speaker 5: technology platform called Commonplace, which is actually this organization. So
58:11
Speaker 5: it's ZenCity, which looks like it acquired Commonplace not that
58:14
Speaker 5: long ago. And ZenCity was founded by this guy, Eil
58:19
Speaker 5: Feder Levy. the CEO and co-founder, who is a member
58:23
Speaker 5: of the World Economic Forum's Future of Cities Advisory Board,
58:26
Speaker 5: as well as being heavily involved in planning in Israel
58:30
Speaker 5: and Tel Aviv and future of urbanism and all that
58:33
Speaker 5: kind of thing. So this one example in Tothill Park
58:37
Speaker 5: of a piece of land and a public asset being
58:42
Speaker 5: sniffed around very aggressively by Plymouth Council very quickly ladders
58:46
Speaker 5: up to the implementation of the World Economic Forum Great
58:49
Speaker 5: Reset Agenda in British cities in 2026.
58:52
Speaker 1: Which, of course, Tudor Evans, the leader, does not tell
58:56
Speaker 1: people in Plymouth that he's actually involved in this. But
59:00
Speaker 1: he's happy to take the selfie. He's very pleased with
59:04
Speaker 1: himself in that selfie. I think, Ben, credit to you
59:08
Speaker 1: for this report. And this is really an getting to
59:11
Speaker 1: the heart of the new political agenda in UK. We
59:15
Speaker 1: said that Andy Burnham was going to be an immensely
59:18
Speaker 1: dangerous prime minister. He's now bringing this global power base
59:24
Speaker 1: to local level, if we allow it. Basil, let's bring
59:29
Speaker 1: you back on just to close out the news. And
59:31
Speaker 1: I think you've got a few items that we may
59:34
Speaker 1: have missed.
59:36
Speaker 13: Yes, that's right. It's the quick trawl through stories that
59:41
Speaker 13: the corporate media have abandoned or things I find particularly interesting.
59:46
Speaker 13: This is one of many people murdered by Israel this week.
59:49
Speaker 13: This woman was killed two days after her wedding in Lebanon.
59:53
Speaker 13: Of course, let's remember that the the indiscriminate slaughter of
59:57
Speaker 13: Palestinians after October the 7th was supposedly because there were
1:00:01
Speaker 13: hostages taken by Hamas. But we can see now that
1:00:07
Speaker 13: Israel has simply embarked on a murder orgy across the
1:00:11
Speaker 13: Middle East, indiscriminately killing whoever it wants. And that's happened,
1:00:16
Speaker 13: of course, because it's been given impunity by the international community. Now,
1:00:20
Speaker 13: a particularly egregious murder during the genocide itself was the
1:00:27
Speaker 13: attack on the World Kitchen employees in Gaza. And just
1:00:33
Speaker 13: this week, surprise, surprise, Israel found itself not guilty, as
1:00:38
Speaker 13: we can hear now in this report.
1:00:41
Speaker 9: Remember like two years ago when Israel slaughtered seven World
1:00:44
Speaker 9: Central Kitchen aid workers by bombing their clearly marked aid
1:00:48
Speaker 9: vehicle and then bombing the second clearly marked aid vehicle
1:00:51
Speaker 9: that came to pick up the wounded from the first
1:00:53
Speaker 9: bombing and then bombing the third clearly marked aid vehicle
1:00:56
Speaker 9: that came to pick up the wounded from the second
1:00:57
Speaker 9: bombing until every last volunteer in the aid convoy was dead?
1:01:01
Speaker 9: Well just a few days ago the Israeli government concluded
1:01:04
Speaker 9: that the soldiers directly responsible for this heinous war crime
1:01:07
Speaker 9: are completely innocent of any legal wrongdoing. According to Israeli officials,
1:01:12
Speaker 9: the fault for this massacre lies with a single member
1:01:15
Speaker 9: of that aid convoy who was armed and not with
1:01:18
Speaker 9: the soldiers who falsely assumed that he was a member
1:01:20
Speaker 9: of Hamas, failed to verify that racist assumption, and then
1:01:24
Speaker 9: slaughtered seven innocent people based on that incorrect and arbitrary assessment.
1:01:29
Speaker 9: The decision to forgo prosecuting any of the perpetrators of
1:01:32
Speaker 9: this massacre was issued by Israeli Military Advocate General Itay Ofer,
1:01:37
Speaker 9: who rose to his current position after his predecessor, Yifatomer Yerushalmi,
1:01:41
Speaker 9: was forced to resign in disgrace because she leaked video
1:01:45
Speaker 9: evidence of Israeli soldiers gang raping a Palestinian hostage, in
1:01:49
Speaker 9: the hopes that making the footage public would force the
1:01:51
Speaker 9: Israeli government to investigate that heinous crime. But after a
1:01:55
Speaker 9: similar investigation, the Israeli government concluded that the implicated rapists
1:01:59
Speaker 9: were also innocent of any wrongdoing, reinstated them to their
1:02:03
Speaker 9: military positions, and the Israeli Minister of Defense even apologized
1:02:07
Speaker 9: to the rapists for prosecuting them at all. Instead of
1:02:11
Speaker 9: asking Israel, pretty please, to stop murdering aid workers and
1:02:14
Speaker 9: Palestinian civilians and gang raping Palestinian hostages, by participating in
1:02:18
Speaker 9: and organizing with the BDS movement, we can revoke Israel's
1:02:22
Speaker 9: economic ability to maintain their apartheid and genocide, whether bloodthirsty
1:02:27
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Speaker 9: Thank you, free Palestine, and more updates to come soon.
1:03:04
Speaker 13: Now three British former soldiers were killed with the World
1:03:13
Speaker 13: Kitchen massacre. John Chapman, Jim Henderson, who was only 33,
1:03:18
Speaker 13: and James Kirby, 47. There was also an Australian killed,
1:03:22
Speaker 13: Zomi Frankham. And a representative of the Israeli embassy was
1:03:29
Speaker 13: questioned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation about it. And he
1:03:35
Speaker 13: said that the strike order on the World Kitchen that
1:03:37
Speaker 13: killed Jacob Flickinger and six other aid workers, that's the Australian,
1:03:43
Speaker 13: says he's not sorry because the World Central Kitchen has
1:03:47
Speaker 13: Hamas links and is not really an organisation you can
1:03:51
Speaker 13: say is innocent. Israeli commander defends ordering drone strike that
1:03:58
Speaker 13: killed aid workers, Omi Frankem, and the direct quote is,
1:04:01
Speaker 13: so the World Central Kitchen too, unfortunately, they aren't really
1:04:04
Speaker 13: a neutral organisation. uh, not really an organization you can
1:04:08
Speaker 13: say is innocent and completely clean. It had ties to Hamas. Uh, well,
1:04:13
Speaker 13: that is obviously contradicting, uh, what the Israelis have themselves
1:04:16
Speaker 13: had said, which is that, uh, one member of the
1:04:19
Speaker 13: convoy had a weapon. I don't even know if that's true.
1:04:23
Speaker 13: So basically, uh, you can retrospectively label anything Hamas and, uh, just,
1:04:29
Speaker 13: you know, slaughter people trying to bring food to the starving. Uh,
1:04:33
Speaker 13: next we see, uh, Starving indeed they are. Israeli settlement
1:04:38
Speaker 13: leaders tour Gaza, calling for the starvation of Palestinians. That
1:04:42
Speaker 13: was this week. They want to settle the whole of
1:04:46
Speaker 13: the Gaza Strip. This is becoming increasingly clear, full ethnic
1:04:50
Speaker 13: cleansing to follow on the genocide. And then finally, I'm
1:04:54
Speaker 13: afraid this isn't a funny slide this week at all,
1:04:57
Speaker 13: but it does tie into the whole theme of the programme.
1:05:01
Speaker 13: And that's that we're all being told now to prepare
1:05:05
Speaker 13: for war at home. UK households are set to be
1:05:08
Speaker 13: urged to stock up on tinned food and bottled water
1:05:12
Speaker 13: as part of a national resilience campaign. This initiative aims
1:05:16
Speaker 13: to help the public prepare for severe weather, cyber attacks,
1:05:19
Speaker 13: power outages and potential hostile state action. Work is being
1:05:25
Speaker 13: accelerated on the government's war book, Defence Manual, following updated
1:05:29
Speaker 13: risk assessments and rising threats from Russia. Brian, Ben, we'll
1:05:36
Speaker 13: have to talk about this after the break. This hasn't
1:05:39
Speaker 13: been widely acknowledged yet, but nobody ever voted for this,
1:05:44
Speaker 13: did they?
1:05:46
Speaker 1: Absolutely not. But we're at the end of the news
1:05:49
Speaker 1: for today. So we will say to our audience, thank
1:05:52
Speaker 1: you very much for joining us. Lots of very, very
1:05:55
Speaker 1: serious things happening in the country. UK Corp is going
1:05:58
Speaker 1: to work increasingly hard to get the lid off, to
1:06:02
Speaker 1: explain what's really happening, as opposed to what the BBC
1:06:07
Speaker 1: and the mainstream media would have us believe. And of course,
1:06:10
Speaker 1: fighting back rests absolutely on being able to see what's
1:06:14
Speaker 1: being done, understanding it, and that allows the challenge to
1:06:18
Speaker 1: be made. And small battles at local level, very important.
1:06:22
Speaker 1: important to peeling back this really horrible agenda now the
1:06:27
Speaker 1: most important thing is that we've still got some sunshine
1:06:30
Speaker 1: so get out and get some exercise and fresh air
1:06:33
Speaker 1: over the weekend relax chill out spread the word as
1:06:37
Speaker 1: to what's really happening and we hope to see our
1:06:39
Speaker 1: audience back refreshed and ready to go on monday but
1:06:44
Speaker 1: of course there'll be a uk column extra in a
1:06:51
Speaker 1: Signed on supporter with us. We will see you then.
1:06:54
Speaker 1: For the main audience, we'll be back with the UK
1:06:57
Speaker 1: column news at one o'clock on Monday. See you then.
1:07:00
Speaker 13: Bye bye.