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UK Column News - 14th July 2025 · UK Column Radio

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Good afternoon. Today is Monday, the 14th of
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July 2025, just after 1:00. Welcome to UK column News.
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I'm your host, Brian Garish. I'm delighted to be joined today
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both by Ben Rubin and Diane Rasmussen Mccaddy.
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They'll both be joining me by live link, so a little bit
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lonely. Excuse me, a little bit lonely
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here in the studio. But perhaps most importantly, we
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should comment on the fantastic weather here in Plymouth.
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As you can see from my backdrop, the rain and grey sky of earlier
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is cleared and we're left with this beautiful day.
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And we can sigh with relief that most of the population of UK has
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survived the terrible heat wave that we've been hearing so much
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about. So we certainly hope you enjoyed
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your weekend. Now, one of the consistent
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themes that UK Column has pushed with our audience is the fact
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that we are being attacked as a society by our own government.
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And we make no apologies in continuing that theme today
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because the moment we start to think in this way, many of the
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government's policies become crystal clear.
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So let's just remind ourself of the areas of society that the
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government and its agents are busy attacking.
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And probably the first one to bring in here is the
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Constitution. And today we've got a full
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section on the attack on society.
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The Constitution is part of that.
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Ben is going to be looking at lawfare and English devolution.
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Diane is going to be looking at net zero and libraries and
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really censorship. And we'll end by having a look
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at policing. So a busy news today, but let's
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think of it in in line with these attack vectors of the
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Constitution. We've got an attack on free
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speech. We've certainly got an attack on
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policing. We've got an attack on the law.
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This is becoming ever clearer. And of course they want the
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children because the children represent the future.
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Now we can come in at slightly different angle and one of the
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main headlines from today, the front page is the Daily
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Telegraph and you can see the the the headlines very clearly.
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Tax rate looms for middle classes.
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Well, let's put something alongside that and that is the
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UK Support to Ukraine fact sheet, which proudly declares
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that we have committed £18.3 billion to support Ukraine.
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So there's going to be a tax raid on the middle classes.
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Why? Because we've got a government
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that is only keen to support war overseas, whether it's in Gaza
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or Ukraine, and billions of taxpayers money is going to be
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squandered on helping to promote death.
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But the front page of the Telegraph actually tells us a
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little bit more because, well, it actually talks about
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migration. And of course the story of the
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rubber boats is the big story which most of the media loves to
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push. But can you see here the real
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truth in the small print? And of course you can't.
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Well let's help you out because in the Telegraph article it's
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talking about net migration being close to 1,000,000 people
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fairly recently in the Tory administration years.
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Now of course no country can survive a million people coming
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into the country each and every year, but that is the reality of
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what's happening. And so I'm going to suggest
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we're looking at deliberate and calculated madness as the as we
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witness the breakdown of our society and mass migration is a
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weapon for that. Now, I just want to say before I
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move on that we are always encouraging our audience to dig
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in and have a look at the detail themselves.
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So I'm just going to put up this UK, sorry, UK support for
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Ukraine fact sheet. Do go and have a look at it
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because there's a lot of detail about the vast amounts of money
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that are being pumped into Ukraine in order to keep the war
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going because ultimately that war was about regime change in
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Russia. Now, where do we go next?
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Well, let's come back to those rubber boats.
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And of course Nigel Farage from Reform has been making this one
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of his key statements. So let's just remind ourselves
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of the sorts of things that he was saying about a year ago.
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What? We can see is a white dinghy.
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You think the white ones. Lately we're trying to get some
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Intel as to how many are in it. That is the boat that takes us
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through. 50. Thousand that have come since
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Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister.
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I've just spent the last three or four hours on the Channel
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with Nigel Farage where we've essentially looked for migrants
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that may be crossing, given that the seas, particularly today,
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are very calm and the wind is very low.
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What we saw was essentially a number of migrant dinghies, but
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particularly one in particular which had about 45 migrants on
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it. This was the number that took it
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past the 50,000 mark. They were being shepherded by a
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French vessel known as the Mink. So there's a typical little
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video clip. People who are regular viewers
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of UK column news will know that I'm not personally a fan of
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Nigel Farage. He was getting very excited
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about those rubber boats. The figures gone up to 50,000,
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but of course, against the backdrop of a million people
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coming into the country, or even 240,000 Ukrainians, this is a
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very small number, but of course it distracts the population.
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Now, one of the reform MPs, Lee Anderson, has absolutely been
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talking about what's going on. So let's just have a look at his
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quote here. He says our soft touch
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immigration policies have allowed widespread exploitation
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of the system. Well, he's nearly on the button
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because of course it's the policies themselves that have
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allowed these vast numbers of people into the country.
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Not so much a soft touch as a planned attack on the
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established population of UK. He went on to say this one that
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benefits the policies talking about 1 is one that benefits
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everyone except hard working Britons.
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It costs the taxpayers billions and exacerbates the housing
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crisis and the strain on public services.
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And of course here Lee Anderson is absolutely correct.
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This is a policy which is destroying the country and he is
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picking up on the real thing which is the policy.
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The rubber boats are the froth and the distraction for the
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wider public to make them think that immigration is about
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unlawful migration when in fact the bulk of it is lawful policy,
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permitted migration. Now are we going to be able to
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talk out about mass migration where the government in this
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country's already hinted that if you do, you're going to quickly
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be labelled a right wing extremist or indeed a terrorist?
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But we should also watch the UN, because the United Nations has
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been getting very uptight about what it calls misinformation and
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disinformation. And the UN is now encouraging
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all nations to work together in order to control what is being
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said in their countries. Let's just have a little listen
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to what the Secretary General of the UN had to say.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the life changing
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power of the Internet. Digital technology has saved
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lives by enabling millions of people to work, study and
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socialise safely online. But the pandemic has also
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magnified the digital divide and the dark side of technology, the
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lightning fast spread of misinformation, the manipulation
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of people's behaviour and more. We can only address these
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challenges united through strengthened cooperation, by
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establishing real rules to safeguard human rights and
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fundamental freedoms, by regaining control over our data,
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by countering disinformation and hate speech, and by connecting
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everyone to the Internet. By 2030, Internet Governance
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Forum was a crucial role in shaping the conversation, the
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vision of an open, free and secure digital future.
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And there pins my road map for digital cooperation.
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And my recent report on our Common Agenda proposes a global
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digital compact aimed at bringing governments, the
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private sector and civil society together.
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In support of this vision. I hope this forum will create
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momentum and spur progress. I urge you to be bold and I wish
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you successful deliberations. Thank you.
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So he's encouraging A compact to get countries to work together
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in order to increase the censorship.
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So they only talk about what the UN and the big global players
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talk about. But inside UK we've got
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something else going on. We've got an attack on law and
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the constitution. And this is best summarised by
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this Telegraph article here with the headline Lord Hermer gives
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himself a veto over government policy.
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Now I know that Ben is going to get deeper into this in in just
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a moment. But before we hand over, I'll
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just remind the people that back in 2015 UK column was warning
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about the rise of what we were calling Star Chambers courts
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with a single judge and no jury. And if you just search for Star
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Chambers on the UK column website you'll find a number of
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articles but including reference to a male article which was
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talking about 3000 trials already being held in secret
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under new Fast Track Money saving scheme which ends
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centuries of open justice. Well it's nothing to do with
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saving money. What is actually happening is to
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remove the system of law in this country and that is presumed
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innocent until proven guilty in front of a jury of your peers.
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Ben, welcome to today's news and you're hot on the money today.
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You're hot on the money today with a look at Lawfare, which is
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the system that's being used against us.
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Absolutely. Hello, Brian.
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Hi, Diane. Hi everyone at home.
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Great to be here. And as Ryan said, the best way
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to understand what's happening around us is to think about the
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fact that you're being attacked by your government.
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And one of the major vectors of attack is the legal system.
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There's a word for it. It's lawfare, and we define that
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as the use of legal systems and principles to achieve strategic
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military or political objectives.
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The strategic objective in this case is the destruction of the
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nation and the imposition of global systems of governance.
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That's what Brian's been talking about.
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It's what we talk about on a regular basis on the UK column.
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Where does that manifest? Well, let's go right to the top
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of the legal system. So the Attorney General, Richard
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Lord Hermer, as I like to call him and I'm sure he likes to
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call himself, he's been in position since last summer, July
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5th. He was appointed directly by
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Keir Starmer, who we used to work with actually, as I'll get
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on to in a minute. Before that he was head of
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chambers at Matrix Chambers, which was originally established
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by Cherie Blair. So this guy is completely
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ensconced at the top level of the New Labour establishment.
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Before that, he was a barrister at Doughty St Chambers, working
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directly for Keir Starmer. Keir Starmer was essentially his
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mentor and he basically spent his career making lots of money
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on the taxpayer through the legal aid system, defending the
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interests of terror suspects and various enemies of the British
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people, Al Qaeda operatives, members of ISIS, that kind of
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thing. Lovely guy.
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And he's also a die hard communist essentially.
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So he was the editor of the On Guard magazine, which is the
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youth anti fascist movement. Anti fascist of course, not
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fascist, although these things do become rather similar at the
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extremes. He is heavily involved with
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Searchlight magazine, importantly the potentially
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communist magazine. They covered him here from his
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time at university running for the executive of the National
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Union of Students on an anti fascist platform.
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But he was also maintaining those links while he was
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practising as a barrister, so there are minuted examples of
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him attending Searchlights meetings.
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We'll provide some links, You can go and have a look at that
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yourself. He's also very close to Nick
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Lau, the former editor of Searchlight and then the founder
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and still current head of Hope Not Hate, who miraculously
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managed to avoid being charged for incitement last year when he
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falsely reported acid being thrown at Muslim women during
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the riots in the wake of the Southport killings.
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Despite the fact that many others were sent to prison by
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the regime are doing much less. They just happen to be on the
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other side of the argument. I wonder if Hermer had anything
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to do with that. I don't know.
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So how is this lawfare being waged beyond the examples that
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I've already provided? So Brian mentioned the Telegraph
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article. This was also reported in
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similar fashion in the Mail. It also said that the Attorney
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General, Lord Hermer, has been accused of handling himself
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effective veto over government policy.
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Well, how's he doing that? Well, through this document.
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So this is the attorney general's legal risk guidance.
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You should go and read it. It's just one page of a four
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very short but very powerful and direct document.
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So how does it open up? So first point, a central
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element of the rule of law is that everyone, including the
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government, is subjected to the law.
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I'll come back to that because it's not actually true.
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I'll continue as such. The government is required to
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comply with legal obligations arising under domestic and
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international law. This is affirmed in the
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Ministerial Code, which refers to the overarching duty of
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ministers to comply with the law, including international
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law, right. So they've they've added that
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because the quote doesn't mention international law.
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The quote from the ministerial code just talked about the law.
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So Herma has added international law and he's mentioned it twice
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in his opening statement. So it's quite clear what he's
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getting out, I think. And let's remember this is being
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issued to government lawyers to guide them in their duties
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coming from the top lawyer in the government.
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So people know exactly what's being said here as this is
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distributed around the the various departments of state.
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The document continues. I'm skipping ahead a little bit.
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As I said, you should go and read the whole thing.
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But just to pull out a few more key points here.
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Number six, the principal factor for legal risk is the likelihood
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of a legal challenge being successful.
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This is essentially what lawyers are being asked to advise on.
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Is there a risk here that we're doing something illegal?
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Ultimately, I'll continue again from the point some legal issues
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will not or are unlikely to be tested before a court.
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For example, they may not be just issuable before domestic
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court, which is to say it's entirely possible that they
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would not be appropriate for adjudication by a domestic
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court. But nevertheless, for the
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purpose of assessing legal risk, you should assume that a
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challenge will be brought and consider what a court would be
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likely to decide, even if it wouldn't be brought for a
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domestic court. Which would suggest that you
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need to think about what an international court might say
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about this if they were to look at that, even if that is
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incredibly unlikely to happen. Right.
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And these are the things that are injected into the decision
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making process inside government in order to slow things down,
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throw a spanner in the works. Yeah.
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Ultimately to get the government doing what Herma and the people
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that he represents, the global entities that he's promoting the
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interests of, want to happen. Right.
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Final point 8, if you are concerned that there is no
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tenable legal argument, you should consult your line manager
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and legal director before you advise AGO the the Attorney
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General's office and LSAG, the Legal Support Advisory Group,
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which is an internal body to the the lawyers operating in the
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civil service should should be talked about.
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They may need to be alerted at this stage.
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What that means is they definitely need to be alerted at
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this stage. Yeah, so he's, he's issuing a
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very clear directive to the people working in legal
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positions inside the British government.
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The international law needs to be considered, even if this
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isn't an issue in in domestic legislation.
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And you need to tell me exactly what you're doing at every point
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of the process. Right.
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I think that's that's abundantly clear.
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Yeah. He's exerting his power.
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That's just one example about how how lawfare is being carried
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out. But this is happening all over
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the place. I'm going to come back to it in
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the segment a bit later on. We're just being inundated with
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new legislation at the moment. But I also just wanted to flag
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this, which Charles mentioned last week, right, which is the,
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the, the right Honourable Sir Brian Leveson, the Investigatory
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Powers Commissioner Commissioner, who in that
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position actually has the ability to allow British state
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operatives to break the law in the interests of protecting the
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law, which is what I mentioned earlier, that some of the
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government officials don't have to, to actually follow
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legislation. That's absolutely true.
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And that sits underneath Brian Leveson's jurisdiction.
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He issued this report last week, the independent review of the
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criminal courts, which essentially is about denying
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access to jury trial constitutional issue that Brian
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was mentioning earlier on. And interestingly, and I think
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crucially on the front page of that, the cover literally says
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when justice sleeps, justice is cancelled.
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And that comes from the Babylonian Talmud, one of the
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the key theological documents of of of Judaism, which might give
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some further insight into how and why the law was being
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weaponized against the British people in this fashion.
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Thank you very much for that. Yes, it is quite incredible when
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we see that on the front cover of his report.
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So are we still here in England? Are we operating under English
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common law? Is the nature of the country
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Christianity? Clearly not when it comes to
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Leveson, but let's remind ourselves that this was the man
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who several years ago was driving what was essentially,
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let's just come back, sorry, an assault on on the press and this
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ultimately left. Sorry.
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This ultimately resulted of course in press freedoms being
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absolutely curtailed as he pushed through what was
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supposedly reforms and protective measures for the
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public. Over the weekend I was sent a
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reminder about this Telegraph report, which is back in 2011,
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how Labour's favourite lobbyist is pushing the hacking campaign.
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And this is when the Telegraph and indeed the Daily Mail were
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warning about the organisation Hacked Off and the lobbying
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groups that were clustered around Leveson.
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Not least of which was the political charity common Purpose
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with the then Chief Executive, Julia Middleton who's featured
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on the right hand column of that image on screen.
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Well, I just wanted to remind people that as we see further
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attacks on our common law and the jury system continuing with
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Leveson, of course, one of the people at the helm of that
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attack, Common Purpose, or at least Julia Middleton, is still
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at work. And I found it interesting that
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she's now got an organisation called the Women Economic Forum,
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the WEF. And what is she doing?
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Well, she's working amongst other things, with women
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emerging from isolation, but she's also back focusing on
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young people to make them into future leaders.
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And although it's small print, highlighted in the centre of
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this article is Europe 101, which she's also involved in.
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And if we have a little look at that, we discovered that
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essentially this is to engage and increase accessibility for
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young people, young participants, and they're going
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to equip those young people with the networks and skills so that
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they can become agents for change.
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Now, remember these young people highly susceptible to this type
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of reframing, but they are going to become Julia Middleton's
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agents for change. And if we can just put that one
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back on screen for a second, look on the right, because
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there's a very interesting quote here.
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It says liquids fill any shape and turn to vapour or ice.
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Well, OK, they seep into every corner.
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They collect, converge, combine. They go fast or they go slow.
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They keep moving. They flow, adapt, evolve.
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Ours is a liquid leadership. Spelling is from the original
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website, flowing between us as a generation.
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So this is what Julia is still up to, which is recruiting young
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people and training and reframing them to become agents
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for change. The change is never declared.
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But here is the Europe 101 initiative as advertised by
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Ambassador Schools, which is closely linked into the European
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Union. And if we just have a look at a
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bit more detail about this organisation, she founded it
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with a gentleman called Gordon Bajanai in 2021.
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And if you go and check that name, you will find that you're
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straight into enormous wealth and hedge funds.
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So we've got hedge funds and young leaders and we simply ask
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the question what could possibly go wrong.
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So we are definitely sealing all the same people in the
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background doing their works to force through a change agenda.
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But of course, the population in UK or other Western democracies
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are never told what the final destination of that change is.
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Before we discuss that in a bit more detail, Diane, welcome to
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the news today. And of course, you're going to
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take us into Net 0, which is one of their key weapons for
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inducing fear and anxiety in the population in in order to help
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smooth through that very change agenda.
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Yeah, absolutely, Absolutely. Thanks Brian, and hello Ben.
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It's good to be here today. I found out this morning it was
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just reported on the Guardian and the Telegraph and other
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mainstream sources that our net zero secretary Ed Miliband is
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going to tell MPs who reject net 0 policies that they are
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betraying future generations. If we can just put this quote up
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here from here on the screen, he said.
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I feel a deep sense of responsibility to tell them the
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truth about what we know about the climate and nature crisis.
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I want this to become an annual statement where where it's an
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exercise in radical truth telling.
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I thought that's what we did on UK column.
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But apparently Ed Miliband does it instead about the state of
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the climate in nature. And what he's talking about with
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this annual statement is he is now going to come up with what
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he calls a state of the climate address to the Commons, setting
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out the findings of in this case, what is now of the 1st, I
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believe, Met Office LED report that says the UK is already
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facing extreme and its effect. So this is going to be an annual
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event coming from the energy that net zero secretary, there's
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more reporting about this, about the net office release saying
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that there's profound concern from from the scientists saying
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that this extreme heat, you know, because we had a little
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bit of nice weather over the weekend.
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So now we're all experiencing global boiling.
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Of course, that this is now the norm in the UK, which has not
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been my experience for the past 10 years.
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But anyway, the increasing frequency of heat waves and
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flooding raises fears over health, infrastructure and how
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society functions, as reported by The Northern Echo, which is a
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local media outlet up here where I am in the north of England.
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The Reform U KS stance on net 0 targets and carbon emissions in
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County Durham in particular, which is what I'd like to focus
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on as an example of just a certain area that is enacting
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these global policies, has been questioned.
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So if we can put Karen Allison up here on screen, she is the
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cabinet member for Neighbourhoods and Environment,
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Durham County Council. And she said, and I have to say,
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of course, that in Durham County Council, the Reform UK is kind
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of the ones in charge right now since the most recent election.
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And she said Reform were elected with a mandate to review net
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zero and to identify efficiencies and savings for the
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people of County Durham. And it seems as though they may
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be trying to actually, actually follow up on that.
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Back in June of this year, Mark Wilkes, who was a Lib Dem former
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cabinet member for neighbourhoods and climate
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change, asked the new Reform administration whether it would
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continue the previously agreed council ambition to reduce its
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carbon footprint and achieve net zero.
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And that's because during the campaign that they're that they
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were doing, Reform UK told voters that it would scrap net
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zero and energy levies to save households hundreds of pounds
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per year. Councillor Wilkes, however, said
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that pushing back on this thing that our low carbon teams are
26:49
trying to decarbonize us has achieved some amazing positive
26:53
benefits for our council, our communities, our county and our
26:55
businesses. And also, quote, this has
26:57
generated huge savings for the council and helped to secure
27:00
millions of pounds of grant funding.
27:02
Now what I would like to know, and I'm still investigating
27:05
this, is what what this grant funding was meant to do and
27:08
where the funding came from. Back in 2019, Durham County
27:11
Council declared a climate emergency and I have a video
27:15
here from a few years ago when this was all starting, setting
27:19
out the agenda from during Durham County Council at that
27:22
time. Durham County Council has
27:25
declared a climate emergency. We've set a target of reducing
27:28
our emissions by 60% based in the 2008 baseline by 20-30, and
27:32
we've also set a wider target of reducing the entire.
27:35
County's emissions to neutral by 2050.
27:38
If you live, work, travel or shop in Durham, we need your
27:41
views on how we should approach this problem.
27:44
In October 2018, the International Panel on Climate
27:47
Change boost a special report which stated that we have 12
27:49
years remaining to take drastic action to mitigate climate
27:52
change. In response, the Council has
27:54
produced a report which outlined potential pathways to being
27:58
carbon neutral. The report explores what the
28:00
Council needs to do to reduce our emissions, what the county
28:04
as a whole needs to do working in partnership, and what central
28:06
government needs to do to enable us to meet our targets.
28:10
At the moment we use natural gas to heat our homes and other
28:13
buildings. Most of our electricity is
28:15
produced by burning natural gas. And coal.
28:19
And are buses, trains and cars run on fossil fuels, which, as
28:23
well as CO2 pollution, could also lead to worsening health
28:25
effects in city centres, such as poorer air quality.
28:29
As the level of CO2 in the atmosphere increases, it will
28:32
lead to more extreme weather events like storms, flooding,
28:37
droughts and heat waves. We need to act now to mitigate
28:40
this as well as prepare ourselves for these weather
28:42
events when they do happen. We believe we need to increase
28:47
investment in renewables such as the new solar farm at Tanfield,
28:51
the council building. We need to invest more in
28:54
efficiency measures like LE DS and insulation.
28:57
We need to change our transport to low carbon solutions such as
29:01
ultra low emission vehicles. And we need to strive to protect
29:04
and enhance our peatland and woodland which are important
29:07
carbon sinks. Now it's time for you to tell us
29:10
what you think. So that was five years ago when
29:16
they first declared the local emergency.
29:19
So Darren Grimes, who is the deputy leader of reform here in
29:22
County Durham, and I will come back to him later in the news,
29:24
he's requested that the authority instead to declare
29:27
what he's calling a County Durham care emergency rather
29:31
than a climate emergency to recognise the, quote, critical
29:34
and escalating crisis in children's social care.
29:37
And this includes provisions for children with special needs and
29:41
disabilities. This will be voted on this
29:43
Wednesday at a full council meeting on the motion.
29:46
And so that should be an interesting meeting to attend if
29:48
you can do so. The current climate emergency
29:51
response plan, which I mentioned, has gone through
29:53
several items. It has several objectives for
29:56
meeting these net zero agenda items.
29:58
The current one will run until 2027 if it's left in place.
30:02
It warns that the ongoing crisis is, quote, the most urgent
30:05
threat to the well being of our children and the financial
30:08
stability of our county. But of course, it seems that
30:11
Counsellor Grimes disagrees. We can look at this Climate
30:14
County Durham website and this is just a screenshot of the home
30:17
page where they say they are turning climate talk into
30:20
climate action. This was funded originally by
30:24
the Northeast Local Enterprise Partnership, which has now
30:26
become, as of last year, the Northeast Combined Authority.
30:30
And according to the website, with a population just under 2
30:33
million, the area covered by the combined authority, We can see
30:36
how how huge this authority now is, is the seven local authority
30:40
areas of County Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle, N
30:44
Tyneside, Northumberland, S Tyneside and Sunderland.
30:47
Kim Guinness is the first northeast mayor.
30:50
So again, coming into this last year, she says that she is
30:53
committed to getting a northeast that goes beyond net 0.
30:57
So I don't know how you go beyond net zero.
30:58
I guess we go negative from there With climate change
31:01
policies that change lives and delivering on the green jobs
31:04
revolution are her priorities. And according to the website for
31:08
this new combined authority, it is the home of the green energy
31:11
revolution. And it says that we will grasp
31:14
the opportunity that net zero presents to the Northeast.
31:17
And it is important that the transition to a more climate
31:21
friendly 1 is a just one. And of course, that goes into
31:24
the globalist language if you look at Doctor Paul Raskin's
31:27
work and the Club of Rome. So Speaking of the Club of Rome,
31:30
just to kind of end this on a globalist point here.
31:34
According to Alexander King, who was one of the founders of the
31:37
Club of Rome, he wrote in a report by the Club of Rome,
31:40
which was published in 1991, the common enemy of humanity is man
31:45
and searching for a new enemy to unite us.
31:47
We came up with the idea. We came up with the idea.
31:51
I want to stress that the threat of global warming that the bill.
31:55
So this was an idea come up. And you know, if you look at
31:58
this coming up from globalist policies and we see it acting
32:01
all the way down into local authorities around the world,
32:05
including the funding, including the fear, including creating
32:08
enemies for people other than ourselves or maybe in addition
32:12
to you are worse than ourselves. So I just wanted to give an
32:15
example of how this actually plays out on a local level.
32:18
So Brian, I don't know or Ben, I don't know if you have anything
32:20
to add to that. Well Diane, I'll come straight
32:24
back in and say thank you for that report.
32:26
It is really encouraging that we are now starting to see at least
32:31
at sort of councillor level, local council level, people are
32:35
challenging this nonsense. And by the young man who was
32:38
speaking in that video clip, the reframing is incredibly powerful
32:44
because I'm sure he believed in the nonsense that he was
32:47
spouting to the camera just then.
32:49
But it's absolutely great to know that people are challenging
32:53
this and that even within Reform, we are now starting to
32:59
see that there is a focus on the policies and not just accepting
33:04
the hit that those policies make on our daily life.
33:08
So I hope that amongst other smaller parties that Reform
33:12
councillors are really going to be staying on target this one
33:17
Now, as we always do, we want to say a huge thank you to our
33:21
audience for the support that you give us.
33:24
If you donate to the UK column or you're paid up member of UK
33:29
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So thank you very much to everybody who's out there, not
33:40
only in UK but worldwide. And I have to say to you that
33:45
although in some countries it's a very small number of people
33:49
viewing, we are astonished at the number of countries that UK
33:53
column actually reaches in order to get out some very different
33:58
news from the nonsense espoused by the BBC.
34:02
In the coming days and weeks, we'll talk more about the people
34:06
who are supporting us and indeed which overseas countries we've
34:11
got support in. But suffice to say, thank you to
34:15
everybody who's actually making that financial contribution
34:18
because we wouldn't be here without you.
34:21
Now, Diane, one of the things that we've been trying to do
34:24
over recent months at least, is to encourage people to view UK
34:29
column written material. And I believe you've got a
34:32
couple of articles here which are going to be up, sorry, which
34:37
are up on the website at the moment.
34:40
I don't know whether you'd like to just make a quick comment.
34:45
I'd be happy to Ryan as the Commission to get into for
34:48
written content this was. I would like to say first that
34:51
Vanessa B Lee is, as I mentioned a couple of weeks ago now doing
34:55
a weekly blog related to Syria issues.
34:58
Last week's was called a terrorist suicide bombing in a
35:01
Damascus church triggers A wider purge of Syrian minorities.
35:05
Apologies for the picture there of David Lammy and Jelani
35:08
shaking hands, but Vanessa and I decided it was necessary to get
35:11
across how terrible this all is. Another article that we
35:15
published last week was was called the Virus Prices
35:18
Playbook, which is by Sarah Newlin.
35:20
What she did here was she compared the foot and mouth
35:23
disease outbreak from around 25 years ago to the so called
35:27
COVID, so called pandemic and there's some very interesting
35:31
parallels between the two situations.
35:33
Sarah Newlin also published the most recent front page story and
35:37
the new issue of the Light Paper, so take a look at that as
35:40
well. That's some great work.
35:42
OK, excellent. And the interview going out
35:45
tomorrow at 1:00 is Doctor Judith Brown.
35:47
I think that one's yours as well, Diane, is that?
35:51
Correct. Yes, it is.
35:52
So it is correct yeah, we we entered Brown a couple of years
35:55
ago I'm UK Colin, but this is a new interview talking about some
35:59
recent work that she's done. I have called this interview
36:02
Fact Checking the Fact Sensors because I think especially after
36:07
you watch our discussion, you'll see exactly why the fact
36:09
checkers are actually censoring the actual facts.
36:12
So please tune in for that tomorrow at 1:00 PM.
36:15
Yeah, brilliant. And tonight we've got germ
36:18
warfare and that will be lessons from the COVID and AIDS scam.
36:23
So that should be very interesting.
36:26
And with guest Ken McCarthy, watch out for that one.
36:30
And of course, a big update to say October the 18th, we've got
36:37
our UK card on location in in York.
36:41
We will be announcing those tickets.
36:43
We're keeping you at tent tenterhooks at the moment.
36:46
But essentially this is going to be a fantastic event and it's in
36:50
a fantastic location. So stay posted with that and
36:54
we'll give you more details in due course.
36:57
Now we also give a reminder for the Sunday the 20th of July,
37:02
regional sovereignty versus devolution.
37:05
Absolutely on the button with what Ben Rubin's been talking
37:08
about in today's news. And that's a meet up in the
37:11
Field of Dreams Exeter EX40 9JL. Bring your own lunch, a mug and
37:18
a folding chair it says, and that's from 9:30 to 4:30.
37:23
We've also got the theft for truth and Freedom Festival.
37:26
That's eight this eight, sorry, this Friday, 18th through to
37:31
Saturday, the 19th of the Angel in in Larling NR162 Qu and
37:37
Diane, I believe you will be at that one.
37:39
We will do more on that in extra UK column extra.
37:43
And lastly, we've got here the Freedom Music Festival, 22nd of
37:49
the 21st of 25th of August this year.
37:54
And of course, that's Bank Holiday weekend.
37:56
UK column team will be attending.
38:00
Now where does that take us? I think, Ben, that brings you
38:03
back in with us. And the subject is that Eve
38:07
English devolution. Not quite what it seems.
38:11
I'll suggest. Is anything ever quite what it
38:17
seems, Brian? Yes, the English Devolution and
38:21
Community Empowerment Bill came out last week.
38:24
I was talking about Lawfare earlier.
38:26
And actually this sort of constant onslaught of
38:29
legislation, bills, acts, running to quite literally
38:34
thousands of pages per week is, is the kind of sharp end of
38:38
that. Essentially, it's designed to
38:40
overwhelm us. It makes it almost impossible to
38:43
keep up with what the government's trying to do.
38:46
This is one of the things that landed last week.
38:49
So this is the English Devolution Community Empowerment
38:52
Bill. It's not been enacted yet, but
38:54
it is on its way to becoming law.
38:56
And this sits in a long process of evolution that nobody asked
39:03
for. We actually voted against it,
39:04
but they decided to go ahead with it anyway.
39:06
And this latest iteration comes from Deputy Prime Minister
39:11
Angela Rayner, who I like to call affectionately Big Ange.
39:16
She took to LBC to talk about the bill.
39:20
Try and sell it to us, saying Labour was elected to deliver
39:24
change and our English Devolution Community Empowerment
39:27
Bill will do just that, change, transformation of the country,
39:32
she continues. That means handing power back to
39:35
where it belongs, to local leaders with skin in the game,
39:39
so they can make decisions on what really matters to their
39:42
communities. Skin in the game, it's one of
39:44
those words terms that's been heavily focus grouped.
39:47
All of the politicians are using it.
39:49
I actually think it's, it's probably quite misleading.
39:52
Skin in the game normally means that you've got some money or a
39:54
proper interest in something and I don't think that any of these
39:57
leaders do to be honest with you.
39:59
They're just, they're on a grift.
40:02
She then continues to say we will drive the biggest transfer
40:06
of power out of Whitehall to our regions in a generation and make
40:11
evolution the default setting. And again, this is this is where
40:16
I think things start to get really misleading.
40:18
We've talked about this a lot. This idea that we're going to
40:20
drive transfer of power out of Whitehorn in into the regions is
40:26
very, very misleading. Essentially what's happening is
40:29
that the regions are becoming departments of Whitehall, right?
40:33
And actually the best evidence to support that came just under
40:36
a week of the Starmer was voted into Downing St on July the 4th
40:42
last year when you had all of the metro mayors go up for their
40:46
big meet and greet on the 9th of July, I believe it was.
40:49
So about five days after the general election, they were some
40:52
of the first people invited into Downing St to talk about the
40:56
implementation of this new system of governance rights, but
40:59
nothing about the evolution of power.
41:02
Angela Rayner continues to say that we'll give local people a
41:07
new community right to buy to save much love, community assets
41:11
like pubs and shops, and to have a bigger say in shaping their
41:14
local area through effective neighbourhood governance.
41:16
This right to buy thing is really important.
41:19
This is a shift towards a communitarian system, right?
41:22
That's absolutely what this is. Pubs should not be bought owned
41:26
by the community, they're owned by a landlord, right?
41:28
Shops should not be owned by the community, they should be owned
41:31
by people who use them as shops. That's what they're for.
41:34
All of this ignores is the fact that our economic system has
41:38
been destroyed over the past 50 years by the people who are
41:41
actually behind this policy agenda.
41:44
Ultimately, shops should be used as shops.
41:46
Pubs should be used as shops, as pubs even.
41:49
We shouldn't be changing the fundamental structure of the
41:52
system in order to align it with this new new communitarian
41:56
vision that no one actually really understands, Right.
41:59
Let let, let's be completely honest about this.
42:01
I'm sure sources there that this is all about effective
42:04
neighbourhood governance. And so again, this is about
42:07
control at a neighbourhood level.
42:10
And she then goes on finally in this article to say we should
42:13
provide a link to she's going to have a look at it.
42:15
She says we'll get local leaders working together over larger
42:18
areas to drive through big pro growth projects like integrated
42:22
transport networks and housing by creating new strategic
42:25
authorities, which actually runs completely counter to what she's
42:29
just said. She's saying she's going to
42:31
devolve power down to local leaders, but then we're going to
42:34
get those local leaders to collaborate with each other over
42:36
larger areas to drive through big pro growth projects, which
42:39
are these huge, huge investments in infrastructure and
42:44
transformation of energy systems, transportation,
42:47
housing, you name it, and that's all going to be driven through
42:50
these strategic authorities. These are the new entities that
42:54
are being brought in. As ever, I like to read between
42:57
the lines a little bit on this stuff, particularly in the
43:00
context of the war that we're currently being subjected to.
43:03
Authority is the power to enforce laws, exact obedience,
43:08
command, determine, or judge in a manner that is essential to
43:12
the effective conduct of war. That's the way that I'm reading
43:15
that. I don't think that it's a it is
43:17
a good thing for anyone other than the people who are pushing
43:20
forward this agenda. What are the strategic
43:22
authorities all about? Well, they list out in the bill
43:25
a bunch of areas of competence. These are the things that the
43:28
these authorities are going to have to be able to, to, to
43:32
operate within. And, and as I said, this is a
43:34
huge scope here. Transport and local
43:36
infrastructure, skills and employment, housing and
43:39
strategic planning, economic development, regeneration,
43:43
environment, climate change. Obviously we've got to get that
43:45
in there. Health and well being, public
43:48
service reform and public safety, right?
43:51
This is an absolutely huge scope for these new strategic
43:54
authorities covering basically every single part of our society
44:00
across the piece. That final point about public
44:03
safety that rang some alarm bells.
44:05
I always think about this quote from Albert Camus.
44:07
The welfare of the people has always been the alibi of
44:10
tyrants. I think that's absolutely the
44:13
case here. So what else is in the bill?
44:16
I'd say I normally suggest people to go and read these
44:19
things. It's 330 pages long.
44:22
It's incredibly technical and deeply, deeply boring, a lot of
44:26
it. So maybe you don't want to.
44:28
But just to summarise a few things that I picked out, right,
44:31
that really jumped out at me. The first one is that these new
44:34
strategic authorities are able to create what they call
44:37
subordinate legislation, which is to say they're able to create
44:41
their own laws. They also talk a lot about how
44:44
commissioners are appointed, not elected.
44:47
So elected mayors are able to appoint up to seven people to
44:50
support them in delivery of their duties, right?
44:53
So the idea that this is wholly democratic, I think is, is, is
44:57
very misleading. They talk, again, as I've
45:00
mentioned, a huge amount about collaboration with other
45:03
authorities. This is crucial, right?
45:05
So they're saying that this is devolved, but then actually
45:07
these mayors are going to collaborate with each other and
45:10
they dedicate 10 entire pages of this bill to describing the
45:15
exact process that the strategic authorities are going to have to
45:18
go through in order to ask each other for support on issues in
45:23
mind bending bureaucratic detail.
45:26
And essentially this is a matrix, this is a mesh network
45:29
that's going to be used to knit together the country ever more
45:33
tightly to this centralised power structure.
45:36
Obviously, as you'd expect, there's a quite a pointed
45:39
reference to the imposition of levies.
45:41
So the idea that lower levels of the system are going to be
45:44
tapped up to provide funding for the higher levels of the system.
45:48
And then crucially, there's a, a, a, a very detailed section
45:53
about how they can go about borrowing money.
45:56
Yeah. And this is crucial because all
45:58
of this new infrastructure is going to be paid for by debt
46:01
based lending from private investors.
46:05
And actually this has got a lot less to do with Big Ange and the
46:08
Labour government delivering for the country and a lot more to do
46:12
with delivering the bottom line of people like Larry Fink, who
46:17
we know Big and Angela Rayner, Deputy Prime Minister, is a big
46:21
fan of. Ben, thank you very much for
46:27
that excellent summary. Was it my imagination or was
46:30
there actually touching of skin in that last photograph?
46:33
I think maybe we should just pop it back on screen.
46:37
I think the fingers are definitely touching there.
46:39
So obviously there's a good relationship and no doubt the
46:43
money streams will come online in due course.
46:45
I'd like to say to the audience that the summary that Ben has
46:49
given there, interpreting what these people are doing and, and
46:54
he's given it in very simple terms is very powerful.
46:59
Because if our audience echoes back to the system itself that
47:05
we can see exactly what they're doing and we know what they're
47:08
doing as opposed to what they say they're doing, this has
47:12
quite an effect on them. So for all the people that say
47:15
yes, what can we do? I think we can look you in the
47:19
eye and say, take some of the material from today's news and
47:22
post it far and wide on all of the social media platforms of
47:27
the government and its agencies that are bringing in this
47:31
deceptive new devolution strategy.
47:35
Because once they know they can be seen, it has a, a deeply
47:39
profound effect on them. Perhaps we'll discuss that a bit
47:43
more. Also in extra Diane, let's bring
47:45
you back and you're looking at the at what's going on really
47:51
with our ability to read books, to get hold of books and what's
47:54
happening around the the libraries.
47:56
But of course, libraries very often very important for young
48:00
children. Doing a series of talks around
48:06
the country related to what's been happening in libraries.
48:09
And first of all, I would like to thank Cabin Algebra for
48:12
hosting the talk that I did last week in Edinburgh.
48:15
It was a really well attended event, a great Andy.
48:17
It's lots of engaging conversation and thanks in
48:20
particular, of course to the chair of Common Knowledge,
48:22
Edinburgh, Professor Richard Enos, who for hosting me and
48:25
letting me have a place to sleep in his house for the night.
48:28
The title of my talk was They're Burning Books Again, Stop the
48:31
destruction of our Libraries. And I was looking at in
48:34
particular hypocrisy that I have really been thinking about very
48:37
deeply recently. If we can put this photo on the
48:40
screen, please, of me at the top.
48:42
This was a photo that one of the other committee members took of
48:45
me. And if you can't see the screen,
48:47
it was me talking about a picture book that is available
48:50
in children's library collections around the country.
48:53
The book is called And this is just one many examples in My
48:56
Daddy's Belly, the story of a transgender dad giving birth.
49:01
The author is Logan Brown. The official summary says that
49:04
inspired by the author's real family, this heartwarming story
49:07
about two dads eagerly awaiting the birth of their first child
49:12
follows the excitement and joy of welcoming a new baby into a
49:15
loving family. The person giving birth just
49:17
happens to be one of the dads. Interesting.
49:21
So last week Brian, if you remember, I covered what was
49:24
happening in Kent Council libraries regarding children's
49:26
access to agent appropriate books.
49:28
And just as a review of what I covered, here's the video I
49:31
showed last week from Councillor Paul Webb and Kent.
49:36
Good evening everybody. Paul Webb here, your Reform UK
49:38
cabinet member for Communities and Regulatory Services at Kent
49:41
County Council. I was recently contacted by a
49:44
concerned. Member of the.
49:45
Public who found trans ideological material and books
49:48
in the children's section of one of our libraries.
49:50
I've looked into this and this was the case.
49:53
I've today issued instruction for them all to be removed from
49:57
the children's section of any of our libraries.
49:59
They do not belong in the children's section of our
50:00
libraries. Our children do not need to be
50:03
told they were born in the wrong bodies.
50:04
So from today, this will stop. Thank you very much.
50:11
So that's just a reminder of what he did.
50:12
There was a bit of controversy around that.
50:14
But anyway, we can talk about that more in extra if we need to
50:17
talk about it some more. But I want to update some things
50:19
that have happened in the past week in response to what
50:21
happened. My former professional body, the
50:24
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals,
50:27
or Scillip, responded to this with a press release saying,
50:31
quote, libraries are trusted for providing facts and freedom,
50:35
which, you know, in my case, I did not experience either one by
50:38
the time I was pushed out of the organisation.
50:40
But here's a quote from the CEO of Scillip.
50:43
He said the idea of politicians policing or banning books is
50:47
profoundly troubling. It evokes images of
50:50
authoritarian regimes, not a modern democratic and diverse
50:53
society like UK. So as a result of this reporting
50:58
that I did last weekend, I'm not working with some people locally
51:01
here in the Northeast. I had a call with Darren Grimes,
51:04
counsellor Darren Grimes in County Durham, who I mentioned
51:07
earlier in the news. We had a really good call.
51:10
He wants to look at what these books are that are located in
51:13
children's departments and to make a list of the books that
51:16
are that are available in the children's departments of Durham
51:19
County Council libraries. So just as one example that I
51:22
found in the quick search, which I'm just starting to do this
51:25
work, here's one book that is located in the children's
51:28
section called She's My Dad, a story for children who have a
51:33
transgender parent or relative. This is an illustrated picture
51:37
book that tells the story of Mimi MINI and her dad Haley.
51:42
Her dad Haley, a transgender woman, as many explains to her
51:47
cousin why misgendering is damaging and emphasises the need
51:50
to treat trans people with respect.
51:53
This title is for children aged and up, three years old, who
51:57
have a family member who is. So that's just one example.
52:02
This is located in the Durham Clayport Library, which is in
52:05
the city centre of Durham. So what we see here with this
52:09
dichotomy and this hypocrisy that I've been talking about
52:13
recently is, as I've mentioned before previously in UK column,
52:17
the decolonization of library collections and universities.
52:20
And in my opinion, anyone old enough to be at university
52:22
should have the right to read whatever they want, but what
52:25
they're doing with the older generations of young people, So
52:28
the people in universities are removing things from library
52:31
collections or changing them. And so here's an example here
52:35
from a university in England here, I believe this is the
52:38
University of East Anglia talking about decolonizing the
52:42
library from the perspective of their students.
52:46
Hi, I'm Virgilo pronouns he him, and I'm here with Ebony she her
52:50
and Molly she her. We're going to chat to you about
52:54
decolonizing the library. We really wanted to get involved
52:57
with this initiative because we wanted to.
52:58
See change in who is. Represented in library texts,
53:01
the knowledge from authors of colour is invaluable.
53:04
If you head to the new online subject guide for
53:06
decolonisation, you can request more texts from a variety of
53:09
different backgrounds. This push, coming from students
53:12
especially, will make such a difference to the library's
53:15
resources. Go to the website below to get
53:18
started. So the website that they're
53:23
referring to was for people to indicate which books needed to
53:27
be changed one way or the other and within the university
53:30
library, And this can be seen in university libraries all around
53:33
the country, Brian, that they have this agenda going on.
53:35
So what we're seeing on the one hand is destroying children's
53:39
innocence by putting pornography in front of them, and on the
53:41
other hand, on the university level where everything should be
53:44
able to be explored, removing things that people should be
53:47
exposed to, including the history of Britain and the
53:50
amazing cultural history that this country has.
53:54
Just dangerous times, but to fight it, we've got to
53:58
understand what's actually happening.
54:00
So Diane, thank you very much for taking the lid off what you
54:03
are seeing occur around the libraries and small children.
54:07
Now we're going to end on the subject of an LGBT article that
54:12
appeared in the Telegraph. It's, it's about a pretty
54:16
serious subject of a man, Stephen Ireland, who ended up in
54:20
prison as a result of abusing a young child.
54:25
This was the Telegraph's headline.
54:27
If the council had listened to me, this paedophile would have
54:31
been stopped. And it goes on to say in 2021,
54:34
reports of a Surrey Pride founder's abuse of power were
54:38
ignored. Four years on, he's been gaoled
54:41
for a string of sexual offences. Now there's all sorts of things
54:45
in this report. I've I haven't got much time
54:49
during the news, but I will go into it more with UK column
54:52
extra. But let's just have a look at
54:55
the key facts. Now part of the sons report with
54:59
a different set of pictures about this man is that the four
55:02
week trial followed an extensive investigation by Surrey Polices
55:06
Complex Abuse Unit. And if we have look at a bit of
55:09
the report on that, it says Ireland enticed a boy to his
55:15
flat, gave him the key code and then the boy, tired and hungry
55:20
was given a quote bong to smoke, which was later found found to
55:24
be laced with methamphetamine. Pornography was played on a
55:30
laptop and then he was raped by Ireland and the assault filmed
55:35
for the sadistic enjoyment of their cohorts.
55:38
It says that Ireland and his friend Sutton were both arrested
55:42
on June the 11th, 2024 for distribution and possession of
55:45
indecent images of children and on August the 14th charges were
55:50
authorised for 44 offences, later increased to 45.
55:56
Now there was a bit more. It went on to say he was also
56:00
convicted of three counts of causing a child under 13 to
56:04
engage in sexual activity, sexual assault, a conspiracy to
56:08
engage in sexual activity with a child, facilitating a child's
56:12
sexual offence, 6 counts of making child abuse imagery,
56:16
distributing pornographic images of children and possession of
56:20
one of the most serious child abuse images involving a
56:23
toddler. Sutton, who was a sorry Pride
56:25
volunteer, was sentenced for offences including voyeurism and
56:30
possession and distribution of prohibited images of children.
56:35
Now the starting headline here now becomes very important
56:41
because somebody was trying to say that if the council had
56:44
reacted to their warnings, these abuses may have been stopped, at
56:48
least stopped much earlier, so that less youngsters were
56:52
damaged. And if we get into the report
56:55
and what is interesting is that members of the LGBT community
57:00
themselves were trying to warn what was going on.
57:03
One of the people commenting here said that they'd seen
57:06
images of people in leather pop play fetish gear such as masks
57:11
and dog collars, and this had worried them as children as
57:15
young as two or three were being encouraged to pet the people
57:19
wearing this gear. This is during St parades and
57:24
the person said I asked if this kind of fetish was going to be
57:28
allowed at Woking Pride. The woman at Woking Borough
57:31
Council sent a reply reassuring me that Pride in Surrey have
57:35
been working closely with, quote, Surrey Police and youth
57:40
organisations to make the first bride in Surrey a truly
57:43
inclusive event that it is with UK law.
57:46
So concerns were fobbed off. But if we go into more, if we go
57:53
into a bit more detail here, other members of the public had
57:56
already picked up that this man was getting very close to young
58:00
children. Well a youngster at least.
58:04
So this is a young person celebrating their 18th birthday.
58:08
But you can see dressed up in this sort of fetish gear and
58:12
this was put out on Stephen Ireland's ex channel celebrating
58:18
at Pop Astro 18th birthday radio woken.
58:23
So if we delve in a little bit more in the text, there is
58:30
another quote here that somebody was making a formal safeguarding
58:33
complaint to Surrey County Council and it was then
58:38
suggested that the the individual and lady should
58:41
contact Surrey Police. But she said she was reluctant
58:45
to do that because it was well known how close Surrey Police
58:49
were to pride in Surrey. And this is really the key part
58:54
of this story, that what we're actually seeing here is that the
58:58
police are no longer separate. They're in partnership with
59:02
organisations to such an extent that they don't want to
59:07
investigate them. This could be embarrassing for
59:10
the police. And so somebody in the public
59:13
who was deeply concerned doesn't get the police to react because
59:18
they said to themselves, if I contact the police, nothing is
59:22
going to happen. Now if we just delve in a little
59:25
bit more to Surrey Police, the one of the previous long
59:30
standing chief constables has gone on to head the police chief
59:36
constables organisation. He's become chair of that.
59:41
There is a new Chief Constable, Tim De Meyer in power.
59:44
He's been in for I think it's three years.
59:47
So what was Surrey Police doing? Well, you've only got to look at
59:52
their website to see that they're prepared to corrupt
59:55
their own police badge with the LGBT logo in order to show their
1:00:02
support for the LGBT agenda. And if we come in a slightly
1:00:08
different from a slightly different angle and we're going
1:00:12
back to 2010, it was actually the UK column that revealed that
1:00:17
the then. Chief Constable from Surrey
1:00:21
Police Mark Rowley was part of the organisation Common Purpose.
1:00:28
He was part of the Common Purpose organisation to select
1:00:32
candidates. Now when they were challenged on
1:00:36
what was going on here, they said that Surrey status is one
1:00:40
of the safest counties in the country and it's largely due to
1:00:44
the commitment of Surrey Police in bringing out the best of our
1:00:47
staff in developing, quote, top quality leaders.
1:00:51
They added to that that Surrey Police in the past has sent
1:00:55
senior managers on training courses outside the police
1:00:59
environment to broaden their skills to work more effectively
1:01:03
with partners. So I'm suggesting to the
1:01:05
audience that perhaps Surrey Police have got a track record
1:01:08
not of being the best, but of actually doing their things
1:01:11
outside their proper powers and duties, which has actually put
1:01:16
the public at rest. Now that particular gentleman
1:01:20
went on to become commissioner of the Met Police, and let's
1:01:25
hear what he had to say in a recent interview.
1:01:29
This is still a problem. For the Met, isn't it relations?
1:01:31
With minority communities, this is so difficult for us.
1:01:37
We can't pretend otherwise. Then we've got a history between
1:01:40
policing and black communities where policing has got a lot
1:01:42
wrong. We get a lot more right today,
1:01:44
but we do. Still make mistakes, that's not.
1:01:47
That's not in doubt. I'm being as relentless about
1:01:49
standards as we can be, and the vast majority of our people are
1:01:52
good people. But that that legacy combined
1:01:56
with. The tragedy.
1:01:58
That some of this crime falls most heavily in black
1:02:00
communities. That creates a real problem
1:02:03
because the legacy creates concern.
1:02:08
Meanwhile, policing, we want to reach into the.
1:02:12
Communities. We have suffering most crime and
1:02:13
make the biggest difference because everyone deserves equal
1:02:15
chance to thrive in London. It's not right that black boys
1:02:19
growing up in London are more likely to be dead by the.
1:02:21
Time they're 18 far more likely than than white boys.
1:02:24
That's, I think that's shameful for the city.
1:02:29
So here's the boss of the Met admitting that he.
1:02:31
Can't do his job. And yet diversity training was
1:02:34
rampant through the police back in that era of around 2010 to
1:02:39
2015. And the other thing I'd like to
1:02:42
point out with you out to our audience is that essentially
1:02:46
within the Common Purpose network was a gentleman called
1:02:51
Rennie who was eventually put into prison for horrific abuse
1:02:55
of children, including children at the age of three months.
1:02:59
The Sky News report at the time didn't reveal that Rennie was a
1:03:03
Common Purpose graduate, but at the time that UK column was
1:03:06
reporting on Common Purpose, we'd pointed out that Common
1:03:10
Purpose trainers were going into schools with no background
1:03:15
cheques at all. So a complete mess within the
1:03:18
police, which is created by the police adhering to outside
1:03:22
training by essentially we would say unqualified organisations,
1:03:27
but also no separation of powers during these partnerships.
1:03:31
Now I know we're overrunning slightly for time here, but I
1:03:34
think this is really important subject.
1:03:37
And Ben, I'm just going to say to you that this is really one
1:03:40
of the things that you've been warning about with your public
1:03:44
private partnerships where we're getting a mix between outside
1:03:49
bodies and formal constitutional structures like the police.
1:03:54
And you are seeing that the PPP side of the devolution agenda is
1:04:00
on the increase. I don't know whether you'd like
1:04:03
to just comment on that briefly. Yes, I mean every.
1:04:09
Area of society is riddled with these networks.
1:04:12
Common purpose is one that we've spoken about a lot, but there
1:04:14
are many, many, many examples. Some of them linked into common
1:04:18
purpose, some of them independent from it, all of them
1:04:21
driving in the same direction ultimately.
1:04:23
And they have created a marketplace out of this.
1:04:27
So they're getting paid a lot of money to deliver this training
1:04:30
and to to transform society. And this is the the, the, the
1:04:36
agenda, the the change maker agenda that is enabling the
1:04:40
transformation of the system. And essentially it's, it's
1:04:42
infected it at every level. Yeah, Ben, thank you very much
1:04:46
for that. Now, Diane, just bring you in to
1:04:49
close because we decided after a pretty heavy news from the
1:04:53
column today, our viewers and listeners might need a little
1:04:56
bit of a lift up. What have you got?
1:05:00
Yeah, thanks, Brian. I just.
1:05:02
Wanted to maybe reflect a little bit on the actual summer weather
1:05:05
that we had over the weekend here in this country.
1:05:08
Unfortunately, mainstream media tried to fill us with fear about
1:05:12
the fact that we were having summer.
1:05:14
This is from the Mirror posted on Friday on Facebook saying
1:05:17
Brits were warned not to consume fizzy drinks this weekend as
1:05:21
temperatures to hit 33°C. Now, I don't know if carbonation
1:05:25
means that it heats us up, but anyway, I looked at the actual
1:05:28
article and it basically was a warning from the UK Health
1:05:32
Security Agency to issue heat health alerts across the nation.
1:05:36
And it said that basically, while water and diluted squash
1:05:40
are top picks for hydration, fruit juice and sugary dizzy
1:05:43
drinks lead to further dehydration due to the high
1:05:46
sugar levels as stated in the official heat wave guidance.
1:05:50
So this comes from UKHSA as well as gov.uk Sugar.
1:05:54
It's not the carbonation. So it's interesting how they
1:05:57
like to mislead the headlines for to make people click on
1:05:59
them. This was just another meme that
1:06:01
I saw over the weekend. This is the climate propaganda
1:06:05
colouring book. And so as you know, we've seen
1:06:09
all of these red colours. So now we have crayons and that
1:06:12
the crayons that it comes with are sort of a bright orangey
1:06:14
red, a regular orange, a dark purple and one is either a black
1:06:18
or a brown. So that must be for the really,
1:06:20
really hot burning up areas of the country.
1:06:23
You can colour those in. And you know, but I have to say
1:06:26
I personally enjoyed the heat over the weekend, although it
1:06:29
was a bit uncomfortable, but I loved it mostly.
1:06:32
I was in Durham on Saturday and I took this picture Saturday
1:06:35
morning in Wharton Park, which is right in the city centre of
1:06:38
Durham. And I just thought, you know, we
1:06:41
need to find, find a bit of peace in nature anywhere we can
1:06:44
find it right here in the middle of Durham where I took this
1:06:46
picture. The sunshine, the green leaves,
1:06:49
some good energy and some peace that we can find anywhere we
1:06:52
look. So I think despite all the
1:06:54
brine, we have to make an effort to find something that does make
1:06:57
us feel good in these in these difficult times.
1:06:59
And then we're better equipped to face them once we come out of
1:07:02
our walk. Absolutely true Diane and thank
1:07:07
you very much for that lovely bit of scenery.
1:07:09
And the last boost will give our audience for we end today's news
1:07:13
that if you were eagle eyed, you might have seen on the Telegraph
1:07:17
front page that even Ofcom has now had to admit that the
1:07:22
British public do not trust the BBC.
1:07:26
So there we are, one of the BB CS buddies.
1:07:30
Ofcom is now turning on them and saying no, people don't trust
1:07:34
you. What better news could we have?
1:07:37
We'll end there. Diane, Ben, thank you very much
1:07:40
for joining me and a huge thank you to everybody watches.
1:07:43
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1:07:46
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1:07:56
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