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UK Column News — 16th February 2026 · UK Column Radio

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Good afternoon, today is Monday the 16th February 2026, just
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after 1:00. Welcome to UK column News.
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I'm your host Brian Garish. Delighted to have Ben Rubin here
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with me in the studio. Delighted to be here, Brian.
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Just in time delivery, where are we going to start?
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There is so, so much happening and I think we're going to try
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really hard in today's news to help people see through what is
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increasing froth and chaos swirling all around us.
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But people are often saying to us, what is the good news?
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So let's kick off with the good news.
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And thank you very much to yet another UK column member that
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sent me an e-mail. And this was the headline.
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BBC to pursue cuts of up to 600 million as bosses point to fall
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in licence fee income. So let's get that up as a
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banner. Headline 300 Another 300,000
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households have decided that the BBC is not for them.
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They are not paying the licence fee.
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And what is the result? A 600 million hit for the BBC.
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So anybody ever wants good news? This just shows what the power
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of ordinary people doing a simple action together.
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This can make a huge effect. What do?
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What do you think they? I think these people all need to
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be put into RE education camps. How could you not pay your
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licence fee? Appalling.
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Well, it's true, but we've got a result there.
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So we we'll kick kick off today's news with that and let
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you think about it. Now we're going to get straight
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back into the subject of Epstein because this is where a huge
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amount of the froth and turbulence is.
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BBC headline here Bondi criticise after saying all
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Epstein files have been released.
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This clearly is not true because within the Department of Justice
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itself it acknowledged that this second release was not going to
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be all the files. But let's have a look at what
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the BBC actually said in that article.
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If we put that one back on screen so it gives names, Donald
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Trump, Bill Gates, Andrew Mountbatten, Windsor and Bill
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Clinton are included in the list.
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All have documented, documented past relationships with Epstein
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and Maxwell. And then, of course, what
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everybody has to say, including the UK column.
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There's no suggestion that appearing in the documents
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implies any wrongdoing, and each has denied any involvement in
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Epstein war crimes. But look at this.
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Shock horror. The list also includes the names
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of deceased musicians Janis Joplin and Elvis Presley.
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So the BBC getting really excited here because they can.
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Now I'm going to use the word smear.
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The lists smear the horror of what was actually done to young
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women, demonstrated by the Epstein releases.
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The BBC is going to bring in Janis Joplin, tremendously
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important, and Elvis Presley. It is quite astonishing what
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this organ, what the BBC is prepared to do.
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And maybe it's such a good thing that 300,000 households have
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decided they're going to switch off.
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Now let's just compare what the BBC has been doing with the
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Daily Mail, because the Daily Mail seems to be blowing hot and
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cold. So we've got a front page here
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and I've said that the Daily Mail is blurring the importance
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of Epstein withdraws over Lisa and Ant and a reunion to grieve
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their beloved dog. That's the real headline to grab
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people's attention. And then under Epstein, it's So
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what are the police waiting for? And that's the focus absolutely
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on Prince Andrew. And then of course, you've got
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more low grade stuff on on the Winter Olympics, all put in
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juxtaposition on a front page, which is going to confuse
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people's minds. Let's bring up another Daily
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Mail report. This one's got more substance in
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it. Sorry, here we are.
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Let's bring that one up. And so this is actually talking
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about the Epstein files with a lot of emotional music.
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But you noticed in the image that they choose to use there's
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a teddy bear. So is this some sort of crude
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reflection that it was young women who were being abused?
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Or is this is somebody with the sort of 6 sick sense of humour
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about what the Epstein affair is really about?
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Now of course we don't know, but this is a common theme of many
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of the press editions in UK when they do this sort of thing.
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Now, having said that, credit to the Daily Mail because the Daily
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Mail has had the courage to actually bring up, you won't be
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able to see these names on screen.
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We'll make sure that you can actually find the Daily Mail
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article in the show notes. But here are here is the list of
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the names as released by Pam Bondi.
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And now we can see, of course, that this involves a huge number
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of people, very, very powerful people in the political circles,
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in business and in between and much greater than simply Andrew.
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But what the documents don't do in the release from the United
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States is actually give some basic details as to who these
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people are and what their significance is.
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Nevertheless, the fact their names have come out does allow
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people to go back into the Department of Justice database
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to search each and every one of those names to see what's really
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being said about them. Now, how do we, how do we
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describe what's happening? There's this release of millions
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of documents. There is the press swirling
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around, there's the public, there's bloggers, there's
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analytical channels on YouTube. What we now have is an absolute
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froth around the Epstein case. And what we can't see is if
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there's any police investigation actually taking place, whether
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it's in the UK side or the US side.
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So let's bring a little video on screen.
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It is silent. I'll talk you through it.
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But this is the best that UK column could do to describe what
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we've actually got happening here.
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So this is a feeding frenzy. It's actually, well, it would be
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a feeding frenzy if the seals could get hold of the herring,
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but they're having trouble. So let's bring this on screen
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and just play this little clip through because if it'll run for
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us, what we see is the body politics and the public
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represented by the seals. They're desperately trying to
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get the froth, the Shoal of the Epstein files, but every time it
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moves away from them. So you've got chaos and
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confusion as the public and the press and politics are feeding
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or trying to feed on the Epstein files.
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Meanwhile those fish, the evidence within those files gets
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away. So for Ben, for me, as as I've
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tried to get to grips with what this release of the Epstein
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material is all about, you see that the more the frenzy is
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around it, the less there's any real police or FBI action to
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investigate the original crimes. That's certainly the case and
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also very little focus on the the serious implications for the
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for the establishment policy agenda, I would say.
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So there's two names that jumped out at me that I couldn't
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actually see on that list that you put up a moment ago that are
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in the files because I saw them over the weekend.
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And there was a dinner hosted back in, I believe it was 2010,
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which had Len Blavatnik attending and also Michael
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Bloomberg. Len Blavatnik is the founder of
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the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of
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Oxford which is basically training the current managerial
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class in British and international politics.
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As well as he funded the extension of the Tate Modern
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building which is where Keir Starmer chose to hold the
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electoral victory party after the general election when
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Starmer was voted in as Prime Minister, they held it at the
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Blavatnik building at the Tate. And also Michael Bloomberg who
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is the primary founder of C40 Cities, which is Sadiq Khan's
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actual job. He's not really the Mayor of
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London, he's the Co president or Co chief executive of C40
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Cities. And Michael Bloomberg has also
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put enormous amounts of money into the Earth Shot Prize, which
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is Prince William's international vehicle for
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progressing his climate agenda. Right.
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So and actually there's a lot of links into things like some
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impact investment that we've spoken about previously and even
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into the the SDGS, the sustainable development goals
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themselves. So the people have been
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formulating those and progressing them and named in
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the files, but they don't want to talk about that.
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They just want to talk about Prince Andrew and a bit of Trump
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and a couple of other things, but just headlines deliberately
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so. Deliberately so, yeah.
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Now, just for one example, we're limited in the amount of time
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we've got in the news, but we're going to bring up one of the
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released emails. Let's put this one up on screen
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if we can just expand it a bit. So these are released from the
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FBI themselves. It then says re Clinton in the
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main s s, there was mention of an orgy with Tony Blair.
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Can you cut and paste that? Now remember that whatever's
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said in any of these documents does not mean anybody has done
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anything. We are focusing on what the FBI
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have actually been saying, and if we bring more on on screen,
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then we can see a whole list of names.
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We've got Trump, we've got Weinspin, we've got Prince
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Andrew, we've got Glenn Dublin, Jez Stately and Leon Black
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dropping off the end of the screen here.
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But there's some really, really, really serious things about here
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to do with abuse and rough sex. And at the moment is anybody
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investigating possible crimes carried out here?
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We simply don't know because it's gone into that froth well
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that we can't see through. If we bring up the second page
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of the the particular e-mail, we've got talk about back
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massages, we've got an accusation of rape, we've got
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very, very serious things being talked about.
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A whole heap of other names have now come on screen.
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But of course we don't know exactly what's going on.
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One e-mail here says thank you. Can you write me a sentence or
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two for the? Below are the salacious
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statements made against the individuals in the file.
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Feel free to add if I missed someone.
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So nobody's being accused of anything.
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But the key point is that we want we, the public do not know
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whether there's even an investigation going on at the
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moment into what appears to possibly be very serious
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accusations in some cases. And if we just bring up the last
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one and these, you can find yourself in the Department of
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Justice releases. It says, good morning.
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I did not find an interview of Nicholas Tartagallini, Epstein's
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cellmate during his first suicide attempt, documented in
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Sentinel. Please reach out to CASE agent
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Amanda Gildaire for additional information.
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So clearly there were things going on inside the cell which
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the wider public haven't been talked about, but meanwhile the
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media in UK and indeed worldwide focusing in on tiny salacious
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bits. So this is the Metro saying that
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Jeffrey Epstein had become fixated with the British TV star
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after his release from prison and yet there's no comment on
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the real detail of what's actually happening in those
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releases. So I've done my best with that
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analogy of the the the Shoal of fish, fish, which is the Epstein
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files. Everybody's trying to chase it
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to get the real meat of what's going on.
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But the whole thing just keeps moving around.
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And I wonder whether they've deliberately been released in
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this very ad hoc, haphazard form in order to make sure that the
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the public and indeed official bodies can't get to grips with
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the evidence that is really there in the release.
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Over to you, Ben. Should we just go to war and
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forget about it? Well, I think that's where they
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want us to go. Probably what they like us to do
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exactly. So on Friday, Mike mentioned
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that the Munich Security Conference was taking place and
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showed a few of these little images.
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We can get this running. We can see this is some of their
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communication. The world has entered an era of
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Wrecking Ball politics. There's Trump the Wrecking Ball.
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And the question that they're asking is, can destruction be
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creative? That's quite, a quite a
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question, isn't it? And or are we witnessing the end
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of progress? So Trump apparently is going to
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disrupt progress, the great progress towards this supposed
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utopian future that no one actually really understands or
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can describe and probably can't be built.
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And is it time for us to address the elephants in the room from a
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geopolitical perspective? Right.
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And the world is apparently under destruction at the moment.
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And the the collective leadership of Europe and some
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further afield come together. This was just, as I said on
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Friday through to Sunday last week.
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And this is an event that's been backed by the German government
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and has been running since the 1960s.
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And it describes itself as the world's leading forum for
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debating International Security policy.
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It's got an extraordinary Advisory Council overseeing it.
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We can see a few names here. Chrystia Freeland, so former
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Deputy Prime Minister of Canada and now special representative
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for the reconstruction of Ukraine.
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She's one of the the Co chairs. So that I think that's very
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telling. This reconstruction of Ukraine
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keeps on coming up. Also, Carl Built the Co chair of
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the European Council on Foreign Relations, which was established
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originally by George Soros as very, very heavy Soros
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involvement in this whole thing. We also have Joe Kaiser,
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chairman of the supervisory board of Siemens Energy, such as
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a World Economic Forum partner, very interested in the
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reconstruction of Ukraine. I'm sure Kaya Callis from the
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European Union. And we're going to come back to
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shortly, John Kerry, David Miller Band, Nancy Pelosi.
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She's on the Advisory Council. Well, that's useful.
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Absolutely, yes. You know, maybe it's be feeding
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into her extraordinary portfolio returns that she's seen over the
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past several decades. So a big time progressive
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liberal establishment council overseeing this and then backed
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by an extraordinary array of multinational corporations.
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And we can just see here. I'll pull out a few names as
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they whiz past, right? But we can see Bloomberg in the
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mix. I just mentioned Andrel, which
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is Peter Thiel's AI offering. One of them, Google in there,
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sponsoring Accenture, Amazon Web Services, BCG, Deloitte, PWCEY
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Palantir, YouTube, BMW. Who else?
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Bloomberg, DS, Deloitte are in there?
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Goldman Sachs, the Open Societies Foundation.
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You know, So when they say that war is a racket, this is what we
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mean, yeah. Right.
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And let's just remind the audience, Ben, and when we look
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at the Epstein files and we see a swirling mix of powerful
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people in politics and people within big global companies,
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some of which have appeared on screen, is it any wonder that
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there's clearly this massive attempt to suppress what Epstein
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files really mean and really show?
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Absolutely, absolutely. And of course, Keir Starmer was
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there to deliver a keynote address.
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Let's have a little listen to his opening remarks.
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Ursula, thank you for that presentation.
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It's always a real pleasure to follow you on this stage as we
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work ever more closely together. Ladies and gentlemen, for many
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years, for most people in the United Kingdom, the war has been
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remote, something that concerns us deeply, but which happens far
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away. But now we feel the solidity of
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peace, the very ground that we stand on, softening under our
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feet. It is the job of leaders to be
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ahead of these seismic shifts, yet that is against the grain of
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history. Time and again leaders have
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looked the other way, only re arming when disaster is upon
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them. This time must be different.
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So we've got to get ahead of history and re arm now.
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Or follow Hitler who re armed in order to start the war.
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Yes, well, maybe he's appealing to Hitler.
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Maybe that's what Starmer is going for, because apparently
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there is an inevitable conflict with Russia on the horizon.
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The whole of Europe is going to come into a state of conflict,
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open war with Russia at some point between now and the end of
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the decade. It's kind of presented as this
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inevitability and Britain is going to be absolutely at the
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heart of European security. Starmer said explicitly, as we
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can see here, that there is no British security without Europe
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and no European security without Britain.
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That is the lesson of history and it's today's reality as
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well. So together we must rise to this
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moment. We must spend more.
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Critical word there, spend, deliver more and coordinate
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more. And what he's alluding to is
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what has been reported on the UK column for many years now.
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We've spoken about it, particularly over the past 18
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months or so, which is this drive towards total
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militarisation of the economic system.
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He talks about this idea of NATO becoming more European.
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He does appeal to the United States.
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So he holds out a fig leaf to Trump and basically says that we
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are grateful, we need this, we need you involved in this.
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But ultimately NATO is going to become more European.
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Europe is a sleeping giant from an economic perspective, that
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would dwarf the Russian economy. 12:50 And this needs needs to be
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harnessed through closer economic alignment with the UK
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placed at the centre of European industrial renewal.
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And all of this done in an understanding that, as he puts
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it in the speech, hard power is the currency of the age.
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And I think we should just examine Keir Starmer projecting
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hard power. Look at it, hard power for Mr.
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Starmer. I'm sure Putin is is quaking in
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his boots. But anyway, Brian, you've got a
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couple of clips from the speech to share as well, haven't you?
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Yeah, there was. There's so much emerging here
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that EU military unification was something that the UK column
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warned and warned and warned about.
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Nobody else would speak about it.
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But this is now coming to the surface again.
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This was always the European Union plan for the formation of
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a single European military power.
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But yeah, Keir Starmer in the ring.
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Oh my goodness. Let's have a listen to another
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clip of him speaking. We are not the Britain of the
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Brexit years anymore because we know, And that is because we
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know that in a dangerous world we would not take control by
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turning inward. We would surrender it.
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And I won't let that happen. That's why I devote time as
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Prime Minister to Britain's leadership on the world stage.
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And that's why I'm here today, because I am clear there is no
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British security without Europe and no European security without
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Britain. That is the lesson of history
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and is today's reality as well. So there we are, very
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interesting little clip. We won't take control by turning
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inwards. Well, we would be taking control
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if we turned inwards so that our own parliament was making the
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core decisions to protect the nation state.
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But of course Starmer has has said very clearly to the to the
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BBC that Davos to him is more important than Westminster.
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So we've got a, we've got a Prime Minister absolutely will
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not tell the truth to the nation about what he's doing.
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And then of course Britain dependent on the European Union
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because we've given away our military industrial base to
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build what is needed to defend the nation.
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And I know there'll be some of our viewers and listeners
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thinking, yeah, but we don't want war, but we're heading
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towards war even on the basis that we can't protect ourselves
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because that potential has been given away.
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Meanwhile, we have utter chaos now emerging between NATO and
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the European Union. Let's have a listen to this next
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clip with Ruta trying to talk his way out of the American
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position, which is you Europeans.
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Just get on with it. The mindset is that you now see
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the Europeans taking more the lead when it comes to NATO and
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Europe, the Europeans really stepping up when it comes to
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defending Europe and therefore the US being more anchored in
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NATO because finally we are dealing with what they wanted us
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to deal with the Europeans, and that was spending more and
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taking more of the leadership role.
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For NATO to be strong, you need a strong European pillar.
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Nobody wants to break the bond with the United States.
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There's nobody who really wants that.
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You want to maintain that relationship because for the
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United States to stay stable and strong and secure, they need
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NATO because they need a strong and secure Europe.
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They need a strong and secure Arctic.
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They need a strong and secure Atlantic for the US.
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It's for its own safety and security.
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So either this man is living his own illusion or he is a complete
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idiot because the Americans do not need Europe in the way that
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he's suggesting. This is utter desperation.
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Now that Trump has has pointed a finger at Europe and said,
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basically you get on with it. And Ruta on one hand now is left
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alienated by the Americans and clearly he's desperate.
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And on the other hand, as we'll see in in a minute, we've
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basically we've basically got the fight between NATO and this
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EU military unification. I don't know whether you picked
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up in that little video clip, Ben, but he he mentioned the
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word pillar. And of course, this comes back
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to Mike Robinson's reporting from many years ago on the
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creation or the attempted creation of the EU military
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unification project, which was based on so many pillars that
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had to be put in place. So let's come on to the boss
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herself, Ursula von der Leyen, and see what she had to say on
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security, on economy, on defending our democracies. 10
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years from Brexit, our futures are as bound as ever, dear Keir.
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So it is in our common interest to be ambitious about our
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partnership because the UK and the European Union, in fact all
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of Europe, we are in this together and we will always
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stick together. This is the common promise, the
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common promise. Call that the common purpose
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because that's really the language they're talking about.
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But it's dear Kia. This is a this is a love affair.
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But I think if I put Ursula von der Leyen in the ring with Kia
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Starmer, I think the lady would come out on top.
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Now I've got one. The further clip.
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This is Euronews recognising the absolute breakdown of relations
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now between the US, NATO and the European Union.
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And of course Zelensky's in the mix because he's there in
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Eastern Europe, stirring the pot for continued war with the
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Russians. But let's have a little listen.
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Europe has no choice but to assume more responsibility for
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its own security, European Commission chief Ursula von der
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Leyen told a security conference in Munich on Saturday as she
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called on European leaders to instill momentum into mutual
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defense commitments. Von der Leyen also referred to
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NATO Secretary General Mark Rutter's comments that Europe is
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not in a position to guarantee its security alone at this
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point. But the line said an
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independence Europe means not constantly leaning on someone
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else. She, however, called for more
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cooperation between the EU and the UK.
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Speaking about Ukraine, President Vladimir Zelensky
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described Europe not being at the negotiating table for peace
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talks with Russia and the US as a big mistake.
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Zelensky called the EU to do more to clamp down on Russia's
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shadow fleet as he expressed hope that another round of talks
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next week will be serious and helpful.
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So the truth coming to the surface now we have absolute
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chaos and mayhem unfolding in the European Union.
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It can't defend itself. It needs UK if it's to do
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anything. It can't work with the
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Americans, The EU project can't work with NATO.
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This is complete meltdown. I'm quite enjoying watching it
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to be honest with. You.
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I wondered what you might say. I agree.
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Yeah, absolutely. And we've got a few more
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comments here. So the it's ladies in the top
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job at the EU at the moment. So we've talked about Ursula.
27:44
We've also got Kaya. I'm going to say Kaya.
27:46
It's maybe Kadja, but Kaya sounds a little bit softer.
27:49
Anyway, she's the Vice President of the European Commission, Kaya
27:51
Callas, former Prime Minister of Estonia.
27:55
Estonia, which is basically a Ukraine proxy.
27:58
I've talked about that quite a bit previously and she says that
28:01
contrary to what some might say, woke, decadent Europe is not
28:06
facing civilisation or Eurasia. In fact, people still want to
28:09
join our club and not just fellow Europeans.
28:12
Interestingly, she doesn't say that Europe isn't woke or
28:15
decadent. She just says that actually
28:17
we're going to be fine. She's proud of it.
28:19
Yeah, she's. Actually proud of it.
28:21
Absolutely yes. And who are these people that
28:25
want to join the club? I don't know how non Europeans
28:27
can join the European club. That seems slightly crazy.
28:30
But one of them might be this guy.
28:32
And this is Vladimir Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, who
28:37
was on stage at the Munich Security Conference saying it
28:39
would be an illusion to believe that this war can now be
28:42
reliably ended by dividing Ukraine, IE entering into some
28:45
kind of peace agreement with the Russians.
28:47
So we've got to carry on fighting.
28:49
And just as it just as it was an illusion to believe the
28:51
sacrifice in Czechoslovakia would save Europe from a Great
28:54
War. And Zelensky, interestingly
28:58
enough, did figure in the Epstein releases.
29:01
There's this some exchange that Epstein had with Larry Summers,
29:05
the former U.S. Treasury secretary and president
29:07
of Harvard, saying that. Does Zelensky even have a clue?
29:10
He comes across as a typical Eastern European adventurer who
29:13
trades on the theme of Ukrainian pride while being a halachic
29:16
Jew. It is clear that this is a cheap
29:18
comedy for voters, but it is alarming when he starts playing
29:22
this out in front of our investors.
29:25
And of course, many of those investors are absolutely
29:29
cleaning up as a result of the killing and the destruction of
29:32
Ukraine. So all those assets coming to
29:35
the fore? Absolutely you've.
29:36
Seen. Really.
29:37
It is obscene. And we've talked about some of
29:39
the investors, but who else did Epstein in particular represent?
29:42
Well, in his own words, I represent the Rothschilds and I
29:46
showed this a couple of weeks ago, this release saying Ukraine
29:50
upheaval should provide many opportunities, many from Jeffrey
29:54
Epstein to Ariana the Rothschild, one of the top
29:57
leaders in the Rothschild banking dynasty, which I think
30:01
is important, really critical context to what's happening in
30:08
the world at the moment and particularly at the Munich
30:10
Security Conference last week. OK, Ben, thank you very much for
30:14
that. We'll talk more about this
30:15
subject in UK column Extra, which will follow today's news.
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32:02
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32:07
Epstein, file releases and Japan's snap election.
32:13
Also just like to remind people that on the UK Corn website is
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32:23
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32:31
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32:36
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32:39
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32:46
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32:50
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32:59
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33:02
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33:12
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33:22
obviously it will be up on UK column website shortly after
33:26
that. Now amongst Epstein and around
33:30
Epstein, we've got this increasing breakdown and chaos
33:34
in UK. I've just got a few little
33:38
slides here to show people the sorts of things that come into
33:42
the UK column. We are looking at what our
33:44
members are saying alongside what we're reporting from bigger
33:49
media organisations and indeed our own research.
33:53
But this one was of interest. It came in from Alan and it was
33:58
pointing to me to a YouTube clip where a local councillor, a lady
34:02
was proudly boasting that on Valentine's Day she or prior to
34:08
she had produced some Valentine cards with her daughter.
34:12
And they were then handing them out at the micro camp at
34:16
Crowborough on, on Saturday the 14th.
34:21
And I thought to myself, my goodness, Can you imagine that
34:24
somebody is handing out with a daughter Valentine cards into a
34:30
camp? The completely different culture
34:32
for many people. What is this crass stupidity or
34:36
ignorance or misplaced altruism? How do how do you rate it, Ben?
34:42
Well, Stan, what terms people use Toxic empathy?
34:46
OK, we'll stick with that if we pop that one back on screen.
34:50
I just want to bring something in over the top.
34:54
Here's a Telegraph article. Small boat migrants awarded
34:58
210,000 after border agents seized their mobile phones.
35:03
So a whole lot of migrants came into the country and what
35:08
happens is their phones were taken, as often happens to many
35:12
people. But in this case that results in
35:15
210,000 of compensation. And of course, once again what
35:20
the Telegraph is cleverly doing is bringing people's attention
35:24
to the relatively tiny number of people who come in by rubber
35:28
boats and ignores the problem of the Tony Blair in his day.
35:33
And there onwards the permitted huge numbers of migrants coming
35:40
into the country, which we can now see used to help destabilise
35:44
and breakdown. That's not the fault of the
35:46
migrants in the first instance because they're being used.
35:50
We've also got this one. Thank you very much for the
35:55
person that identified this. This is from Declassified and
35:59
basically what this article is talking about is split loyalty,
36:03
as it's emerged from Freedom of Information that some 2000 Brits
36:10
joins the Israeli Defence Force in the horrors that went on in
36:14
what many people call a massacre in Palestine.
36:18
So we have people inside the country, they have split
36:22
loyalty, some of them have dual citizenship and yet the wider
36:27
body of the UK public has no idea who these people are and
36:31
what their real agenda is. Are they here for the benefit of
36:35
Israel or are they here for the benefit of the UK?
36:38
We simply don't know. And that is of course why the UK
36:42
column many years ago pointed out that when David Cameron said
36:46
his loyalty to Israel was unshakable, it meant that we
36:50
were left in the position of 2 masters, which was it to be UK
36:55
or Israel? And of course, Cameron never
36:58
really did explain what what he was doing to the public.
37:03
Now, another one that was sent in was Russia Today, UK Catholic
37:07
diocese seeks to settle 1100 child sex abuse cases.
37:12
And there's already been $100 million paid out apparently to
37:16
victims of abuse within the Catholic Church.
37:20
This is in the States, but there's more to come and of
37:25
course we're not seeing any coherent reporting across
37:29
mainstream media. We've also got a grey a grey
37:33
zone reports here. The spelling in Kincora was part
37:37
of the original article, so I haven't changed it.
37:39
There's an I missing in Kincora. But the key thing in this
37:43
article is that it's talking about the clear fact that MI 5
37:48
MI 6 knew what was happening around the abuse of boys in
37:53
Kincora home and yet this was all covered, covered up.
37:58
And why is this so important? Well, it's important as we see
38:02
it as the backdrop of the Epstein files.
38:07
Meanwhile, the Institute of of Government has got this headline
38:13
up recently. Peter Mandelson case shows peers
38:17
need stronger sanctions. So this is nothing about the
38:21
failure of security which allowed Mandelson to do what he
38:25
did. No, the Institute of Government,
38:27
very clever. They turn it round and say
38:31
effectively why we need a mechanism to remove peers who
38:36
break the rules. So no investigation into what
38:39
Epstein really means around Mandelson.
38:42
No, this is the agenda to remove peers.
38:46
And also if we get into the article, it does provide the
38:50
Institute of Government does provide a really excellent
38:53
overview of the current structure of the centre of
38:57
government. But if you look elected MPs,
39:01
nowhere to be seen and this is a really accurate picture.
39:06
So we've now got a country run by people who are unelected and
39:13
nobody can actually pin them into a corner to say who they're
39:16
really working for. And clearly the Institute of
39:19
Government knows it. And then I'll just bring this
39:22
one up on screen. This is ABBC article which is
39:26
entitled Could Manchester be a model for the UK to kick start
39:30
growth? But what an incredible image to
39:34
use in relation to the group. The economic growth of a city, a
39:39
group of girls, presumably hi alcohol, anything else having a
39:46
great time partying. And this is the banner for a
39:49
headline on economic growth. Utterly crazy.
39:53
So Ben, over to you. Because the turbulence and chaos
39:58
is clearly, clearly created in the country at the moment and
40:02
people need to see through it to see where the real dangers
40:06
coming from the restructuring of government and society.
40:11
Absolutely. And that hard centre at the
40:13
middle of government that you just put up there I think was
40:15
really interesting because that is actually the that is where
40:18
the power lies ultimately. And we're going to talk about
40:22
this concept of divide and rule more over the coming weeks.
40:25
And it's just a model that I've put together to describe the
40:30
division, the polarisation, the increasing polarisation that
40:34
we're seeing in our society. And this is being pushed down
40:38
into society from the top. It's deliberate and we're being
40:42
split out into these essentially warring factions.
40:45
So you've got on the right hand side, like the right wing,
40:49
white, masculine, not men necessarily, but more masculine,
40:53
more individualistic, native, rural, conservative, Christian
41:00
that I've put in exclamation marks because it's not
41:03
necessarily Christian. With people who appeal to
41:06
Christian heritage, you hear that a lot.
41:08
They don't actually talk about Christianity.
41:10
They just put pictures of churches up and say, well, we're
41:12
sort of Christian and align to Israel.
41:15
I think that's very important. And then on the left hand side,
41:17
the counterpoint to that, we have black, feminine slash
41:21
women, immigrant, urban, progressive, Islamic or
41:25
increasingly Islamic who has sided with Palestine.
41:29
But actually I've put that in exclamation marks because the
41:32
people who are driving the left wing agenda are not actually on
41:36
the side of the Palestinian people.
41:38
They're just using them as a way to generate this chaos and
41:43
antagonism and divide and rule in the country that allows the
41:47
establishment to progress it's agenda.
41:51
And the establishment currently is aligned with the left, the
41:56
left hand side of this of this diagram.
41:58
And you can think how the traditional political parties
42:02
would fit onto this model. If you can look on the right
42:04
hand side, that would be the Conservatives.
42:06
The left hand side will be Labour.
42:08
In more recent times you could think that reform would be on
42:11
the right hand side and the Green parties would be on the
42:13
left. But into this heady mix of new
42:17
political movements across the UK, we've got a brand new
42:22
political party that's launched over the weekend.
42:24
It's restored Britain, It's led by Rupert Low, the MP for Great
42:28
Yarmouth, and we've got a short clip here launching the party to
42:32
the country. I have chosen to speak to you
42:43
today from the farm because places like this represent what
42:47
proper Britain is about. Hard work, responsibility,
42:52
effort, duty, stewardship. This is the England I know and
42:58
this is the England that I love. On a farm, you don't think in
43:02
election cycles or headlines or polling.
43:06
You think in seasons, You think in generations, in what you
43:10
leave behind to those who come after you.
43:13
And that's why here on the farm, I am now launching Restore
43:17
Britain as a national political party.
43:20
I'm now going to dedicate my life to finding, organizing,
43:24
funding and providing hundreds of qualified candidates to
43:29
present to the British people at the next general election.
43:34
So a new political party, Restore Britain was a an
43:40
advocacy group launched last year, about seven months ago and
43:44
it's now reintroduced itself, relaunched itself as a political
43:48
party. Rupert Lowe is leading it.
43:50
Rupert Lowe, formerly of Reform, he left due to differences of
43:54
opinion, shall we say, with Nigel Farage.
43:57
As that video was running, Brian just commented to me.
44:00
Farage 2.0 I think that was probably quite astute actually.
44:04
So what do we have here? We got the farm, right?
44:07
So this is a rural proposition from proper Britain which is
44:12
about seasons and generations and legacy.
44:15
And Low is going to be finding, organising and funding political
44:19
candidates, hundreds of them, to run in the next general
44:23
elections. So this is very emphatically a
44:25
political action, right? So they're going to try and take
44:29
power in the country. Ultimately.
44:32
The video goes on. It's about 7 minutes long.
44:34
We'll put a link to it so you can watch the whole thing.
44:36
He talks in particular about reversing mass immigration.
44:40
He wants to detain and deport illegal immigrants in
44:43
particular. He's saying that millions will
44:46
go. He wants to get the nation back
44:49
to work. He wants to punish indolence and
44:51
reward hard work. He says that the state has
44:55
definitively become the enemy of the people, which I would tend
44:58
to agree with. There's something that we say
44:59
here a lot on the UK column and he says that Britain is a
45:02
people, our people, which again, I agree with a lot of the
45:06
sentiment here. He appeals to Christianity.
45:09
This is what I'm talking about. He shows a picture of a church
45:12
but doesn't actually show any Christians.
45:13
I think that's quite interesting.
45:15
And it's explicitly anti Islam. So he wants to ban the burqa,
45:19
ban Sharia law, ban halau. And interestingly, he doesn't
45:23
mention kosher slaughter as well.
45:24
And he calls these ritualistic forms of, of slaughter.
45:27
And this is the platform that they've gone out on.
45:30
Now, there's already been quite a bit of debate about the
45:33
electoral prospects of a new nationalist party in the
45:36
country. I was particularly interested in
45:40
this letter which was published a few weeks ago, about a month
45:44
ago by Nick Griffin, the former leader of the BNP.
45:47
We'll provide a link so you can go and read the whole thing
45:49
yourself. And this again, is ahead of the
45:51
launch that we've just seen over the weekend where he says, I
45:54
take the liberty of writing purely with regards to a single
45:56
issue, Your proposal that a large number of patriots should
46:00
contest the next general election, which is what Lowe has
46:02
just said he's going to do, right?
46:04
Whether this would be on behalf of Restore Britain or as
46:07
independent nationalists seems unclear at present, but in
46:10
either case it would be an act of electoral suicide.
46:14
I have my emphasis right, I've put that in bold.
46:16
But I think that's an important point and Nick Griffin probably
46:19
knows more than most about this, the amount of time and money and
46:23
energy the BNP put into trying to win seats around the country
46:26
and a lot of that delivering next to nothing in terms of
46:31
political influence. He then goes on to say in the
46:34
event that Reform actually win the contest, it would become
46:36
even more important that you, Rupert Lower, returned in Great
46:39
Yarmouth. We both know Farage and how he
46:41
will inevitably betray much of the trust put in him by the
46:44
British. Which people a country needs you
46:46
in Parliament? So this is essentially is a is a
46:48
positive communication to Rupert Low saying we need you in
46:52
Parliament and we need you to hold Farage's feet to the fire.
46:55
Assuming he becomes the next PM to act as a rallying point
46:58
within the House around whom MPs who encouraged to favour can
47:01
regroup. There's much more to this
47:05
letter. I think it I, I actually, I've
47:08
been following Nick Griffin a lot recently.
47:10
I think he talks a lot of sense. As I say, he's very experienced
47:13
in terms of electoral politics here in the UK.
47:15
And I, I would tend to agree with his first statement that
47:17
actually running loads of nationalists against reform.
47:22
We talked a lot recently about reform and the fact that it's,
47:25
you know, essentially it's already begun to collapse with
47:27
the introduction of all of these former Tory ministers and a lot
47:30
of Farage's positions on anything for migration to
47:33
economic policy. But he's Rupert Low answering
47:37
the, the fray here and running hundreds of candidates around
47:41
the UK requiring 10s of millions of pounds of, of, of, of just
47:45
money before you get into the man hours and the, the legwork
47:48
required to make that actually viable.
47:51
It seems like an extraordinary level of investment.
47:55
And also it's still 3 1/2 years out, right?
48:01
Yeah, indeed. I just like to respond to some
48:04
of that that Ben, because I can imagine that there are people
48:06
out there saying, Oh, well, you know, where do we look to?
48:11
You know, where, where do we put our hope that somebody is going
48:14
to stand up? And, and this is the weakness is
48:18
that ultimately the change to what is happening around us has
48:23
to come from each and every person standing up and not being
48:27
there and waiting for one of these new leaders to emerge who
48:32
is going to change everything. And the next thing for Mr. Lowe
48:35
is what is he actually talking about?
48:37
Is he talking about the policies that have been used to disc to
48:41
destroy the country where those policies have come from?
48:44
Who were the individuals who created the policy?
48:47
No, we don't talk about any of that.
48:49
We just use the emotive, nationalistic terms in order to
48:54
bring people to his banner, but he's not getting to grips with
48:59
who's actually doing the damage in the country and why.
49:03
And the other thing that many people are saying is a lot of
49:06
support for his new, for Mr. Lowe and his new party coming in
49:11
from Israel. And So what are we now dealing
49:14
with? Are we dealing with a truly
49:16
independent political initiative or have we got more layers in
49:20
the background? It's until these layers are
49:23
brought to the surface and the public can see who is who is
49:29
circling around trying to take power, we're never going to be
49:33
able to deal with it. So in the first instance, the
49:36
people who've got to make the change, it's us, it's inside
49:40
ourselves. It's not sitting and waiting for
49:43
somebody in a new political party to to be able to, you
49:48
know, tackle what's happening. Just felt the need to bring that
49:52
in, Ben, because I think so many people, they don't want to get
49:55
into the battle. They just want to sit and wait
49:57
for somebody, somebody else to take the lead.
50:01
Someone else to come and fix it in three years time when
50:04
actually a lot of the policy issues that we that we we
50:07
struggle with. Absolutely yes.
50:09
I mean, if you think that things are bad now three years down the
50:12
track, it's going to be exponentially worse.
50:14
Just a few more things to flag up.
50:16
So Brian just mentioned Israel below has made several
50:20
statements very pro Israel with this one from 2024 saying how
50:24
cowardly government must find the courage to stand with
50:26
Israel. We must support them however we
50:27
can. So you've been on the record on
50:29
this stuff. He has done some good work
50:32
running the independent Rape gang inquiry which ran through
50:36
January, and some of the testimony coming out of this, it
50:41
was absolutely harrowing. It's been seen across social
50:44
media. Would provide a link for you to
50:46
go and have a look at the website.
50:47
And in his own words, Low set this up because he was so
50:50
frustrated with the lack of action on the rape gangs and
50:52
Labour's failure to establish a national investigation.
50:55
He crowdfunded over £600,000 to start this as an independent
50:59
inquiry. No, I don't want to trivialise
51:02
this in in any sense. And we've spoken about the the
51:05
issue with rape gangs in the north of England extensively.
51:09
I interviewed Roger Meyer on this exact topic almost exactly
51:13
a year ago. But I will say that this is a
51:16
much bigger issue. It's not just about Islam, it's
51:20
not just about men called Muhammad.
51:23
It's endemic across the whole of British society from the top to
51:27
the bottom and presenting it as just relating to 1 ethnic group
51:32
I think is is misleading. I would.
51:36
Say it's deliberately misleading Ben, because you can you can see
51:41
on certainly on social media people jumping on this
51:44
background on this bandwagon they want to get onto on board
51:49
with a simplistic idea that that the whole problem is the
51:53
grooming gangs. But if we take our reports on
51:57
Finesse, 10s of thousands of little girls went through an
52:01
abusive education system up there in Scotland, no coherent
52:07
police investigation into into what's taken place.
52:11
If we look at Kincora, when the security services were clearly
52:16
aware and involved of the abuse of little boys, most likely for
52:21
that compromise, that compromising information or
52:25
photographs in order to control people.
52:28
Lowe's not going to go near any of this.
52:30
He's not going to go into the family courts and the stealing
52:34
of children. He's not going to look at
52:36
documentation north of the border which says actually the
52:40
children under the child protection system in Scotland
52:44
and indeed across UK are at greater risk of being abused
52:48
than those who are not. He's not going to deal with that
52:52
because he wants the public to be sucked into an agenda that
52:56
it's simply the rape gangs that are part of the system.
53:01
And, and we, we, we've even seen people reporting that basically
53:06
it's the, it's the powerful links between the rape gangs
53:11
which form the abuse culture. When in fact it, it is a known
53:16
and well established fact that being part of a child abuse
53:21
system is a club. And it doesn't matter what your
53:26
professional status is. It doesn't matter whether you're
53:28
white or black or you're religion.
53:31
If you're interested in abusing children, you're in the club and
53:35
you will work with them, work with other people to obtain
53:40
those children. You will also work with other
53:42
people to protect them from prosecution.
53:46
So this is a very, very dangerous line.
53:49
And Ben, I absolutely agree. It appears that this man is
53:53
helping to drive people into the divide that you you showed with
53:57
your two arrows at the beginning of your segment.
54:01
Certainly seems to be the case, yeah.
54:03
So more, more on, more on Low, heavily backed by Elon Musk.
54:08
So Musk has come out saying you got to join Rupert Low and
54:10
restore Britain because he's the only one who will actually do
54:13
it. Musk, he was desperate to go to
54:14
Epstein's island. We was never invited.
54:18
Potentially now going to be ploughing money and to restore
54:20
Britain, having fallen out with Nigel Farage.
54:23
Ruperlo has said, by the way, that he hasn't had any kind of
54:26
external investment. So I should just point that out.
54:29
And also, interestingly, there's quite a bit of back and forth
54:32
between Rupert Lowe and Jeremy Clarkson, so there seems to be
54:38
some suggestion that he might join Restore Britain as a
54:42
candidate over the coming weeks. If that does happen, I think
54:45
Jeremy Clarkson probably needs to answer some questions about
54:48
his relationship with the other members of the Chipping Norton
54:52
set. Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire,
54:54
which includes, amongst many others, David Cameron, who
54:58
launched the Big Society, Matthew Freud who launched to
55:00
the Sustainable Development Goals and currently runs the
55:03
Sustainable Markets Initiative for the King.
55:05
Because I haven't actually heard Jeremy Clarkson calling out any
55:08
of these people at any point about their policies.
55:11
And just as a final point on Rupert Lowe should just point
55:14
out that he's also an investor in this thing which is Kona
55:17
Energy delivering the 0 carbon future.
55:20
There's the farm. Look, there's the farm.
55:23
He's covered in batteries. Is that what he means when he
55:26
says farm? Because he seems to be queuing
55:29
himself up to make quite a bit of money from the great energy
55:32
transition which is part of the global transformation agenda.
55:35
There. He is on the right hand side.
55:36
So call me cynical, I don't know, but I'm a little bit
55:40
sceptical about where he's going with all this stuff.
55:43
Anyway, I will just whip through.
55:44
I've got a bit more to talk about but not much time.
55:48
But I think it's important that we have a little look at what's
55:50
going on on the other side of that diagram as well as we
55:53
talked about the right and Rupert Lyon, Restore Britain.
55:56
Who is the counterpoint today that I'm going to talk about is
55:59
this guy, it is our esteemed Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
56:04
there on the right hand side. And I've just got three things
56:06
that he's been doing over the past two weeks to give you a
56:09
sense of what the left is up to right.
56:10
So here he is on stage with Colonel Shaw, the Co CEO of
56:14
Goldman Sachs International. So these are the people that I
56:17
think Sadiq Khan is really governing for in London.
56:20
Just a coincidence. Yeah, that he just he
56:22
accidentally walked through the door and sat down and the guy
56:25
was just sat there. Who knew?
56:26
But and what else is is is is Khan doing?
56:30
So he just launched this thing the You Are Loved and Wanted
56:33
Here initiative. Yeah.
56:35
So when you think about the the right, the left diagram, like I
56:37
talked about before, the natives versus the immigrants, he's
56:40
absolutely on the side of the immigrants.
56:42
And he's all presented in this kind of feminine, caring,
56:45
altruistic, empathetic manner. There are thirty of these things
56:49
all around London. And this is backed by £1.8
56:52
million investment from the Mayor of London.
56:54
He claims ownership of this. This is taxpayer money, but
56:57
actually it's come from him. This is real Tim Pot dictator
57:01
stuff that we're looking at here.
57:02
What else has he been doing? He's been turning on the lights
57:05
for Ramadan in central London. He's also been at the launch of
57:09
the British Muslim Trust, which is a new organization which is
57:13
just launched in the past two weeks, which is about ending
57:16
hatred and amplifying hope. So what is?
57:20
The danger hope does not actually take you anywhere.
57:23
It doesn't actually do anything right.
57:26
Action is what people need, not the hope.
57:30
Exactly. And we've just seen Rupert Lowe
57:32
presenting Child rape as a purely Islamic issue.
57:38
And then the counterpoint of that is an increase in hate
57:41
incidents that Sadiq Khan can get excited about.
57:43
And you see there the tension between those two things
57:45
creating this chaos and conflict in society.
57:49
This is run by this lady who is this Akilah Ahmed MBE.
57:53
For too long anti Muslim hate has been under recognised and
57:56
under reported. BMT exists to change that.
57:58
So we've got to report this stuff more.
58:00
Basically it's creating narrative around it and it's
58:02
chaired by this guy should be around CBE who says that
58:06
tackling anti Muslim hatred is essential to building safer,
58:09
more inclusive communities. And this is the point about the
58:13
establishment because as you can see there, he's got ACBE and
58:16
he's also a trustee of King's Trust International, which is
58:21
overseen by Lloyd Dorfman CBE. He used to run Travelex, really
58:25
wealthy guy. And then you can see Shabir
58:27
Randary, CBE, who's on the chair of the International board for
58:30
the King's Trust. And just, you know, without
58:32
labouring the point too much, the King is that guy.
58:35
You see him there on the right hand side.
58:37
I felt you needed to say that in case people thought the King's
58:40
trust was some sort of other name.
58:43
Now we're talking about the man himself.
58:45
Exactly that king. So he's backing Khan and this
58:49
whole Nexus on the left hand side of this diagram.
58:51
And I do like this quote from Aristotle, which is it is a mark
58:55
of a tyrant to have men of foreign extraction rather than
58:58
citizens as guested table and companions feeling that citizens
59:01
are hostile but strangers make no claim against him.
59:04
That says quite a bit about old Charlie Boy.
59:06
And then also our friend Shabir Andre is also a trustee at the
59:12
Windsor Leadership Group which is based at Windsor Castle.
59:17
So again, this is absolutely establishment with a bunch of
59:20
other grandy's former BBC people and this organization was
59:25
actually mentioned in this article from Martin Edwards from
59:30
2016 leadership training for a common purpose.
59:33
The Windsor leaders group is is referencing this article.
59:37
And actually common purpose I think is absolutely in the mix
59:39
of this, which appears to be something that Rupert Lowe knows
59:43
something about too. Let's just have a little listen
59:45
to this final clip. OK.
59:54
But we don't have the clip there about Rupert Low talking about
59:58
common purpose, but we'll bring that into extra.
1:00:01
And then just to reiterate, this is what I think that we're
1:00:04
looking at. I'm going to talk about this
1:00:08
more over the coming weeks. And by the way, people in the
1:00:10
chat box getting excited about the fact that you don't
1:00:13
necessarily align to or agree with all of these points.
1:00:16
It's not about you necessarily. This is about mass media, mass
1:00:19
political communication. And the division of the society
1:00:23
so that the establishment agenda embodied by the king, embodied
1:00:27
by the civil service can drive through in the background.
1:00:31
And that is what we're seeing playing out, I believe right
1:00:34
now. And, and the people that we've
1:00:35
just talked about, Reefer Lowe and Sadiq Khan, are playing
1:00:38
their roles in this, in this whole heady mix.
1:00:40
Yeah, Ben, thank you very much for that.
1:00:43
We will do more in extra time for those who are the UK column
1:00:46
members. But before we get there, I just
1:00:49
wanted to play a little video clip to remind people that on
1:00:53
Friday Patrick Henningson did a very good report from Tehran in
1:01:00
Iran. And what happened very quickly
1:01:04
thereafter? Well, the BBC did an exclusive
1:01:08
from Iran. Let's just have a look at 2 tiny
1:01:11
bits of clip juxtaposed. And also be able to inspect the
1:01:19
damage sites from the Israeli, the unprovoked Israeli attack on
1:01:25
Iran last June and of course the unprovoked US attack Operation
1:01:30
Midnight Hammer as it's called and to inspect some of the
1:01:33
damage of that. We we might talk more about that
1:01:36
in in subsequent reports. The ball is in America's court.
1:01:40
I mean, they have to prove that they they want to.
1:01:43
To, to, to have a deal with us. And if there is a sincerity, if
1:01:49
you see a sincerity on their part, I'm sure that we will be
1:01:53
on, on a road to, to have to, to have an agreement.
1:01:56
We are ready to discuss this and other issues related to our
1:02:00
program provided that they are ready also to talk about the
1:02:03
sanctions because sanctions as we call it, illegal sanctions
1:02:08
that you know, those sanctions have to be also on the table.
1:02:14
So 2 clips and I have two points. 1 is absolutely
1:02:18
fantastic that Patrick Henderson was able to get out and report
1:02:22
from Tehran and credit credit to Patrick for doing that.
1:02:28
And then surprisingly, the BBC seem to be caught out because
1:02:31
they had to do an exclusive report from Iran but noticed
1:02:36
that the BBC reporter wearing a headscarf.
1:02:40
And yet only a few years ago the BBC was trying to stir up
1:02:43
trouble inside Iran by telling Iranian women quite right, you
1:02:48
shouldn't be wearing headscarf. So utter malicious hypocrisy
1:02:54
from the BBC. And what a contrast in the in in
1:02:58
the two styles of reporting. But of course the BBC with it's
1:03:03
billions still left in funding obviously gets access to
1:03:07
government ministers which are very difficult for the UK column
1:03:11
to do. We'll leave you with the thought
1:03:14
of that. Good news.
1:03:15
BBC 600 million short due to 300,000 households saying no,
1:03:22
the BBC is not for us really does demonstrate what people can
1:03:27
do when they act together in a very simple way.
1:03:31
Ben, thank you very much for joining me.
1:03:33
We will leave it there. If you remember of UK column,
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