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UK Column News - 13th October 2025 · UK Column Radio

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Good afternoon. It's just gone 1:00 on Monday
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the 13th of October 2025. Welcome to UK column News.
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I'm your host, Charles Mallett, and I'm joined in the studio
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today by Ben Rubin. Welcome to the programme, Ben.
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Thank you, Charles. Good.
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And on the live link from Somerset we have Sandy Adams.
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Now today we'll be taking a closer look at the attack on
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home education, perhaps I should say the continued attack via the
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Schools and Well Being Bill. We'll take a take a look at a
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report on what's come out of the lot of last week's apolitical
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day, as well as some further scrutiny into the relationship
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between the Community Security Trust and the police.
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We'll also be examining Michael Bloomberg and the Behavioural
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Insights teams meddling in local government, as well as the
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incessant promotion of United Nations Sustainable Development
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Goals in schools. But we will start with the story
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of the hour, which is the situation in Gaza.
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And of course, it was not even a fortnight ago that the Red Cross
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announced that it was withdrawing personnel from Gaza
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City due to what they described as the intensification of
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military operations. They wrote that in Gaza City
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today, civilians are being killed, forcibly displaced, made
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to endure dire conditions. Their statement went on to say
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that a cessation of hostilities is imperative and urgent, and
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under international humanitarian law, civilians must be protected
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whether they stay or leave Gaza City.
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Israel, as the occupying power, has an obligation to ensure
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their basic needs are met. Now, this is the same Red Cross,
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of course, this morning, which was charged with the running the
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process of handing over hostages, Israeli hostages back
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to Israel, process which is reported as now being complete.
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And indeed, Donald Trump either is or has been addressing the
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Israeli parliament rather remarkably.
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And of course, I have to skim somewhat on the details because
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it has literally just happened. But he received a standing
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ovation for telling the Knesset that his daughter had converted
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to Judaism. So the the mood was a strange 1.
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And I, and I think to illustrate this extraordinary gulf between
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the way in which it's being discussed and the reality of
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life on the ground for the people in Gaza, we'll listen to
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what Donald Trump had to say before he flew to Israel
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yesterday. This is a very special event.
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They had 500,000 people yesterday and today in Israel
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and also the Muslim and Arab countries are all cheering.
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Everybody's cheering at one time.
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That's never happened before. Usually if if you have one
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cheering, the other isn't, the other is the opposite.
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This is the first time everybody is amazed and they're thrilled
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and it's an honour to be involved and we're going to have
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an amazing time and it's going to be something that's never,
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never happened before. So I'll see you on the plane and
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we're going to have a good time, OK?
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There we are, Trump the saviour. He's nailed it again.
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And he seems to be absorbed only in his perception of the effect
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that he has had on a situation. And he did actually say that
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we're going to have a good time. But back to the events of this
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morning. The Red Cross states on Twitter
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that we hope this marks the beginning of a sustained
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commitment to the recovery and long term stability, starting
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with the immediate and unimpeded delivery of essential aid into
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Gaza and the release of all the remaining hostages.
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Now handover of course marks the start of a swarm of
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international activity as the gravy train pulls out of the
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station. The Prime Minister's Office has
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put out a statement at the so called peace summit in Egypt,
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saying among other things, the Prime Minister pledges UK
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leadership in Gaza's reconstruction effort.
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Sorry, in Gaza's reconstruction at historic Egyptian peace
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summit. And they go on to say the Prime
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Minister will attend the signing ceremony of the Gaza peace plan,
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marking A historic milestone for the region after two years of
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conflict and suffering. Of course, we'll come back to
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that particular point. They go on to say he's expected
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to commit the UK government to playing a leading role to
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accelerate Gaza's reconstruction, working with
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international partners. Now we're getting slightly
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closer to the mark and a £20 million humanitarian aid package
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will deliver essential water, sanitation and hygiene services
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to 10s of thousands of civilians across Gaza.
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One might consider that after two years of sitting on their
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hands implicitly and at times explicitly supporting a
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genocide, the British administration declares that
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it's not going to miss out on the lucrative opportunities
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presented by this next phase of the operation, described very
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euphemistically as reconstruction.
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The document goes on to say that the 20 million support forms
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part of the UK's broader 116,000,000 LB aid commitment to
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the Palestinian people this year, including 74,000,000
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already allocated for life saving assistance and so forth.
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Now for context, and of course I'm not intending to make a
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direct comparison at all, but the United Kingdom has committed
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more than £5 billion to Ukraine in what's described as non
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lethal aid. Dishing out the opportunities
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for investing in this process will start this afternoon.
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And we'll just finish with one of the closing remarks in that
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statement, which of course is the aim of how best to mobilise
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private sector resources to address the scale of
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reconstruction required after more than two years of conflict
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of damaged or destroyed 92% of homes.
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And it is to Wilton Park that we go.
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The Wilton Park Summit organised due to start this afternoon and
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now it describes itself as an executive agency of the Foreign,
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Commonwealth and Development Office.
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And they say the UK Wilton Park Summit will bring together a
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coalition of representatives from businesses, civil society
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and governments to convene crucial planning and
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coordination efforts for post war Gaza.
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Now, if you've been following the the sort of train of
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sentiment so far, you'll you'll consider that it seems very much
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like an afterthought. There's then finally a reference
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to the involvement of the Palestinian people who've not
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yet been considered in any of this.
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But the state statement does say discussions will also cover
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efforts to support the Palestinian Authority's own
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transformation and reform programme to ensure it can
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support Gaza's recovery. And then bear in mind the title
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of the statement in the 1st place, with Starmer apparently
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playing a leading role. It goes on to say that
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reconstruction will be a Palestinian LED will be
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Palestinian LED with absolutely no role for Hamas in its future
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governance. So it seems that little doubt
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can remain about who the real winners will turn out to be.
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And I quote the conference will be attended by a range of
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international partners, including Germany, Italy, Saudi
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Arabia, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority, as well
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as private sector and International Development
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finance and financiers, including the European Bank for
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Reconstruction and Development and the World Bank.
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Now Starmer is, as I say, has has quoted that figure of saying
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that 9092% of homes have been either damaged or destroyed
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during this period. And the only response from the
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United Kingdom really seems to be to push bankers to the fore.
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Yvette Cooper also weighing in, saying that of the UK has to
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play a crucial part and that they are again bringing in
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investment from the City of London to support
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reconstruction. So it seems that with pounds and
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dollars at the forefront of the minds of all the self declared
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peacemakers, it's hard to consider that this latest
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development is anything but something that should be
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regarded with a huge degree of suspicion and scepticism.
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And and just to close out even Chatham House in this article,
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can the Trump peace plan for Gaza succeed?
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Forced to conclude with the some might say, blindingly obvious
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statement, which is that however even highly focused and
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successful delivery of the missions aims will not disguise
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the fact that it does not really address the Palestinian right to
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self determination. Now, there's going to be
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obviously a lot more to come out on this, certainly even as today
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progresses, but one might consider that things do not bode
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well despite all the glad handing that's going on within
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and without the Trump entourage. Now Sandy, we are going to look
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now to you to get the latest on the children's well being in
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schools Bill and exactly what it's going to set out to, to
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change particularly for the home educators.
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Thank you, Charles. Yes well, the Children's Well
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being in schools Bill, it hasn't been passed yet because it's
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between the committee and the report stage in the Lords as of
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last week on the 9th of October, it still contains serious
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concerns about parental rights and children's rights actually
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state data sharing and educational freedom.
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And now is a key moment really for parents to act, to write,
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speak and make their voices heard before this becomes law.
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It'll ping pong around, you know, umm, uh, between the
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Commons and, and the Lords until it gets royal assent and it's
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only got uh, like 3 stages now before it gets to royal assent.
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So we, we do need to act fast if we, if we're going to do
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something about this. In short, the bill is live, but
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not finished. It's falls between stages and
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it's a great time to, to become aware of what, what's going on.
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Now this, umm, uh, there's this, uh, this editorial called the
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home daily and they, they are flagging up some real concerns
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about this. If you, I, I've put everything
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in the show notes for you to catch up on this.
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So, um, yeah, it's it, you know, the, the, the, the provisos of
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this bill, the key provisions of it, it would create a, a
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consistent unique identifier for each child, which is virtually
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digital ID. It would enable across across
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agency flow of information of welfare, health and safeguarding
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issues, strength and duties to local authorities, health
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agencies, police, schools, police schools and etcetera to
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share safeguarding D data, a compulsory register of children
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who are not enrolled in schools. And it, it really is, it's a
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standardisation of all the curriculums in schools, which is
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is not favouring, you know, the academies because they've done a
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lot of work on this and it's also caps on branded items of
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school uniform. So, but the main, the main
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problems are really the if, if, if you want to dig a bit deeper,
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the bill shifts authority from parents to the state and beneath
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the language of safeguarding and well being, it's it threatens
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family autonomy and privacy. Is erosion of parental lights a
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threat to educational freedom, Data harvesting, which actually
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in the Lord's in, in Hansard, only one Lord really mentions
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this and we'll get on to him in a minute.
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Uh, a criminalisation of parents and the risks to vulnerable
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families. So umm, the, the, the, the Lord
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who did speak up about data surveillance and umm, parental
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rights on, on, on home schooling was umm, uh, Baron way of
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Shoreditch. And he's an interesting chap
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because he, umm, he, he actually was involved with Cameron, with
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big society, uh, with so social entrepreneurship and all that
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sort of thing, which is a bit on the commutarian side for my
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liking. But on this issue, he, he
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really, really stands out. He's a a conservative, he's a
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Christian and we'll just listen to what he has to say because he
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says on on the on the quote here.
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My Lords, it is with heavy heart that I rise to speak today,
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heavy because the legislation before us cuts to the very the
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fabric of democratic society. So let's just listen to him in
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the House of Lords from Hansard. Thank you.
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See on every state funded primary school to introduce free
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breakfast, making them accessible to all children
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regardless of background. Breakfast clubs have proven
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benefits. They boost attendance, improve
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academic attainment and enhance children's social and an
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emotional well being. However, access remains
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fragmented. Despite the good work of the
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National Schools Breakfast programme.
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It reaches only around 2000 primary schools, covering only a
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fraction of those in need and funding only 75% of the cost of
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food and delivering delivery, leaving schools to cover staff
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wages and other expenses. This bill goes further than
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simply expanding the existing programme, it makes a
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fundamental shift in how we support children's education and
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well being. From April, 750 schools across
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all nine regions, including 45 special schools, have led the
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way in free daily breakfast clubs, saving parents up to £450
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a year. Early adopters will be part of a
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test to learn phase to strengthen delivery of national
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roll out. We will learn what works and
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develop the programme, and this Bill will ensure that the
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opportunities provided. Sorry that that wasn't the hard
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way. I don't know what happened
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there. But yeah, that that there is a
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really there's a 2 minute clip of him speaking about this and
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that unfortunately isn't it. So never mind, we'll have to
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catch up on that another time. Thank you.
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Thanks, Andy. I mean, you're welcome to sort
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of summarise what it is that he did say if you'd like to do that
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now, if you can remember enough of what he said or I.
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Mean, yes, I'll try and remember what he said.
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Hang on a SEC. Let me just see.
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Let me just, yeah, bring this up.
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Yeah. Well really he, he, he, he went
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into the fact that it's an erosion of parental rights.
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The bill treats all parents as potential risks by forcing every
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home educated child to be registered with local
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authorities. Every withdrawal request would
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be assessed under safeguarding framework, meaning every parent
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is subjected to a risk assessment.
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Local authorities could issue school attendance orders.
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He basically is saying that this it would effectively the state
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would would dictate what counts as acceptable education.
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Home educators would be required to meet improved standards
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making child LED faith based based or creative learning
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harder to defend. Academics would lose freedom of
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to innovate data harvesting. The bill proposes a unique
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identify. He does flag that one up for
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every child and expanded powers for agencies to share personal
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data. Such centralised databases risk
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leaks, wrongful interventions and long term profiling.
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It's criminalising parents and it's it's got risks for
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vulnerable families and he thinks it's a a step too far.
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It undermines responsible parents, criminalises home
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education and turns local authorities into enforcers
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instead of supporters. And I totally agree with him on
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that score. Thank you.
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Thanks very much, Andy. And I think as reported on
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before on on exactly this issue, but the the bill itself, the the
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critical issue is how it's being done.
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And of course, it it's very easy in a sense to present the case
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for there being a problem with children who can't be educated
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or have their needs met by formal education system.
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And therefore they're taken out of it home educated and bingo,
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you've got your problem child. And therefore the reason for for
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having a register in order that the state can intervene and make
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sure that nothing goes wrong. And it's a most insidious way of
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doing it. And of course, to cast such a
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wide net over such an enormous number of people who are home
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educating is utterly immoral. But you can see exactly why it's
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being done. Sandy, thank you very much
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indeed for that. Now we're going to go to other
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things which are not quite perhaps as they seem, but we
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were talking just before the programme started.
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What's been going on at Church House then?
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Nothing very churchy, unfortunately.
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Yeah, quite predictable, yes. We're going to look at the
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ongoing subversion of national governance and its replacements
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with a new global system that runs on a completely different
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programme, a completely different agenda, and has thus
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far escaped any kind of serious democratic or even just basic
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public scrutiny, as far as I can tell.
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We talked a lot about this organisation, Apolitical and
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this will be the focus of this first section.
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And just to remind our regular viewers and introduce new
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viewers, this is an organisation that has been set up to build
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21st century governments. It's what they do.
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They work with the government departments, foundations,
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academic institutions, think tanks, NGOs and businesses to
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bring the latest knowledge and skills to government in order to
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transform government. Is a key partner of the Cabinet
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Office. You can see down the left hand
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side there that he's operating internationally, very heavily
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linked into the World Economic Forum.
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In fact, the apolitical Global Public Leaders programme was
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delivered in partnership with the World Economic Forum of
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Young Global Leaders. So they are completely hand in
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glove. They are international, they
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have global impact in over 170 countries operating essentially
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out of London as a hub for this neo imperial system that's being
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established. And I think there's probably a
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good way to describe it. This is a new empire running on
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the rails of the old British Empire, which is essentially
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pushed the nation state down into second position.
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So this is no longer British or English even.
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This is global and detached from the national system completely.
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So actually whenever we see happening on a daily basis,
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whether it's Kier Starmer or Kemi Badenoch or Nigel Farage or
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Zach Polanski, any of these kind of national political leaders
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effectively redundant as this thing is being rolled out in the
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background. This is what's been going on for
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for quite some time now for for for over a decade actually in
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this organisation. If we could just get that back
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up. It's run by Lisa Witter.
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You see her in the top right hand side there.
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We'll provide links. So there's plenty of videos you
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can go and see to get some more information about these people.
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So there's Lisa Witter and actually if we put her centre
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frame, we can see her alongside Pooja Warrior Hamilton on the
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left, Robin Scott on the right hand side.
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These three ladies, all young global leaders of the World
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Economic Forum running this organisation, operating on a
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remit to transform global governments everywhere.
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And who asked them to do that? It was this fella.
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That's Adam Parr. And last year, a political day
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which was held in October last year, he regaled us with the
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story about when Lisa, Robin and I went for a walk in France in
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2015. And I asked him to do something
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pretty much impossible, which is to transform government globally
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in about a decade, which at the time I think Brian and I were
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quite confused about. Which is essentially to say, who
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is this guy and how does he get to ask that question and how do
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they get to accept that invitation and begin that
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process? Right.
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And we're now in the business end because 2015 for keen
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observers will know. That was 10 years ago, he said,
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transformed government in a decade.
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So they're right into the mix here.
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And last year, you will remember.
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And again, we'll provide links to this The Catherine Day, who
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is a senior civil servant. She actually runs Foresight at
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the Cabinet Office essentially revealed to us that she she has
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no foresight and essentially admitted that.
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And this is a paraphrase, not a direct quote.
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We have no idea what we're doing.
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And then Robin Scott on the left there from a political doing her
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ice queen saying that she does basically say, I'm going to take
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you for everything that you have.
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And that's what's been going on in the background for over a
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year now. And they have reconvened last
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week at Church House, as, as Charles pointed out, for a
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political day 2025. And a big announcement came out
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of this. But let's just first of all,
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quickly look at some of the people in the room who are
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leading this conversation from this year's event, right?
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So they're there to talk about the future of government.
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That's what they're doing this to the brief that they've set
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themselves. Interestingly, by the way, there
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was no live stream this year. I like to think that I had
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something to do with that because we gave them a bit of a
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hard time last year. Maybe it'll pop up in the next
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few days, I don't know, but it certainly didn't go out live.
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But we do know who was there. So General Sir Nick Carter,
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former head of the UK armed forces, guy that ran 77th
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Brigade during Covic, now works at the Blair Foundation.
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Also Varelia Ionian, the deputy minister of digital
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transformation of Ukraine, who actually spoke about two weeks
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ago. She's part of this trilateral
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UK, Estonia, Ukraine partnership to deliver the digital identity
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scheme. She's absolutely in the mix
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here. Also some European royalty, His
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Royal Highness, I think I'm saying that.
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Is it gem or Jamie? Not sure.
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Jim de Bourbon at the Palm, wonderful name describes himself
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as climate envoy of the Netherlands, but he's a Dutch
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Prince and actually grandson of the man who set up and chaired
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the Bilderberg meetings. So top tier connections here.
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Also mark Boris Andrew Janich, former minister of digital
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transformation in Slovenia, also a member of the Global future
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Council on Gov tech and digital public infrastructure at the
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World Economic Forum. Also a young global leader of
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the World Economic Forum. Also there Mariano Matsukoto,
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who's a professor at UCL. It's very famous clip of her a
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World Economic Forum event describing how she wants to use
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water as a means to to control humanity.
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So this is the kind of the tone of of what's going on inside
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these these discussions. Also Siobhan Haviland, CBE,
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director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, she
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actually established a political in the Cabinet Office, took
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personal responsibility for that.
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And last year she was crowing about the apolitical business
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model, essentially saying it's fantastic that they've built a
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monopoly position in government transformation and kind of
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presenting that to us as a good thing and a positive thing when
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it really isn't. It's good for people who want to
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monopolise wealth and power, like I'm guessing Siobhan
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Havilland and certainly the royal family, who she's very
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close to. I believe she's very close to
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Queen Camilla in particular. Also Lord Case, head of the
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civil service during COVID. So she'd probably be in front of
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a war times tribunal rather than attending events like this.
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And then finally, although there were many other speakers, I'll
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just draw attention to Lord Reece OBE, the former mayor of
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Bristol, who apparently, according to someone who was
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there, delivered the best quote of the day, which is nostalgia
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for the past feeds off an absence of vision for the
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future, which I think is probably quite revealing given
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that they don't actually have a clear vision for the future of
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the country. None of them can articulate 1
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and that is the problem ultimately, and it's why they
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keep on having these highfaluting events and
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announcing these big international programmes.
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And this year was no different. Catherine Day took to LinkedIn
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to talk about the joy that she had on the day.
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If you're watching back, you can pause this, you can read the
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whole thing yourself. But to get to the fact, to the
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to the point, essentially they're building an institute
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for the nation. A new, independent, apolitical
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and lasting way for the UK to plan and act together for the
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long term, across sectors, generations and divides in our
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shared interests for our common good.
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And the prize is huge. A country that can think long
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term and act together. A society with a future we can
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all believe in and an example that the world can follow.
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Showing that the UK is actually a test case for global
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governance. They can do it here.
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They're then going to export that everywhere else.
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Importantly, we can respond to this and there is an appeal for
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help to build the institute and we'll provide a link to this.
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And essentially they're saying the first major initiative will
25:20
be a national dialogue launching in spring 2026.
25:24
This is Auk wide deliberation. So this will be a controlled
25:28
deliberative process using Delphi technique that we speak
25:32
about a lot on the column. They're going to engage millions
25:35
of people apparently, and then turn that into a plan for
25:38
lasting action. And we need your help to make
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that happen. Whatever your background and
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support brings us closer to launching the national dialogue
25:53
and building a stronger future together.
25:54
So apparently they want people to chip in money for this.
25:57
All seems very odd, but you can go and tell them what you think.
26:00
So be polite, but be clear about the fact that this is
26:03
extraordinarily inappropriate and probably that they shouldn't
26:09
be doing it. I think that would be.
26:10
That would be my take on it anyway.
26:13
I don't think you'd find much disagreement with the people
26:15
that have just listened to that. The question that pops out is
26:17
who do they think they are? Well.
26:19
Yes. Well, it's one of the questions
26:21
I guess, Ben, thank you very much indeed for that.
26:25
No, I think that segment articulates perfectly the
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So it is a very, very important resource for people who are or
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27:24
Now going out on the German warfare platform tonight. 7:00
27:28
Pepe Escobar speaking to Jerem on the importance of bricks and
27:33
not the sort that you might be building with, but that should
27:36
be an excellent one. And also, I now go on with a
27:39
with a slight apology. I'm afraid Patrick Annington's
27:42
talk from the hope event back in August was meant to go out on
27:47
Thursday just gone. I'm afraid it didn't for reasons
27:50
that I won't necessarily go into because I think I'm qualified
27:53
to, but it will go out tomorrow at 1:00.
27:56
And apologies for anybody who was who was waiting for it to go
28:00
out on Thursday last week. Now, Sandy, tell us back to
28:03
earth. You're, you're going to be going
28:05
up up to the north of England next month.
28:08
Yes, I am. Um, because the North, you know,
28:11
they're quite unrepresented, really not unrepresented, but
28:14
they don't get as much of, of our, our sort of input as the
28:17
South. So this ones called back to
28:19
Earth. It's in, uh, Bedale, at the
28:22
water mill in Bedale on Saturday, the 15th of November.
28:26
And it's rediscovering balance through soil, soul and
28:28
schooling. But we're also looking at, you
28:31
know, the world's regenerative agriculture, animal and human,
28:35
integrative medicine and classroom free education.
28:39
So it's about the stuff that I've been speaking about today.
28:42
But a lot of the farmers, I was asked to go up there because a
28:44
lot of the farmers still aren't getting what Agenda 2030 really
28:49
will mean to their livelihoods. So that's why I'm going up
28:53
there. Fantastic Sandy, thank you very
28:55
much. And obviously if anyone can get
28:57
up there, please do because it will be I'm sure a very positive
28:59
day with with with lots of productive outcome.
29:02
Now the moment is very nearly upon us.
29:04
I can hardly believe it, but our live event in York is getting
29:08
underway this Saturday the 18th of October.
29:10
Again, as you will know, all tickets are sold out for the in
29:14
person event, but that does not stop you from signing up to the
29:16
live stream. And again to remind you that but
29:19
if you buy a ticket to the live stream, you don't have to watch
29:22
it at the at exactly that moment, it will be available
29:25
afterwards. It will also be available to
29:27
people who've bought in person tickets as well.
29:30
And it includes access to Andy Wakefield's incredible film
29:35
Protocol 7. And just quickly to run through
29:38
the speakers we have, we've got Andrew Wakefield coming.
29:41
He will be talking about the making of Protocol 7, as well as
29:43
how his career was derailed after he questioned the process
29:47
by which vaccines are made. Tess Laurie, who has set up the
29:52
World Council for Health and Background to that, Liz Evans on
29:56
the very murky world of medical ethics.
29:59
And we've got Sir Julian Rose on the critical relationship
30:01
between human health and the soil.
30:03
But also speaking this Saturday, it's Ben Rubin.
30:06
Ben, what are you going to be talking about?
30:07
You just say medical ethics. I said medical.
30:09
Ethics. An obviously moron it is.
30:12
I'm going to talk about the NHS, what we thought it was, what it
30:14
actually is, how that happened and what to do about it.
30:18
Perfect. So please do go to the UK column
30:20
website and to the shop where you'll find a ticket for the
30:23
live stream. Also, if you do have an in
30:25
person ticket, may I remind you that registration will be open
30:28
on the Friday in the event space that that we'll be holding the
30:33
day. So it'll start at 6:00 on Friday
30:36
evening and run until 8:30 on Friday.
30:38
So it would make things a lot easier on Saturday morning.
30:40
So if you are able to do that, please do.
30:43
You will also get an email about it with all the necessary
30:46
details. Now, that takes us back to
30:49
Sandy. And you're going to tell us
30:51
about the way in which the United Nations are continuing to
30:54
muscle their way into children's classrooms.
30:58
Yes, I mean, this is called the, the, the, the largest lesson in
31:04
the world's largest lesson. And it's a, it's a, it's a way
31:08
of this was launched over 10 years ago, but it's ongoing.
31:12
And it's a, it's a, an instrument that they use in in
31:16
primary schools for teachers as well as children to really
31:20
indoctrinate them into climate change and the, and the 17
31:24
goals. So let's listen to the the the
31:28
the promotional video that they teach to children.
31:32
Thank you. None.
33:06
Back. I so that's, that's it.
33:32
It's, it's really, you know, telling the children that the 17
33:35
goals are really good, wonderful thing that will, will actually
33:38
improve inequality. Now we've had 10 years of 17
33:42
goals and they've done the exact opposite.
33:44
So I just want to flag up. Yeah, they've, they've, they've
33:47
now got the 2025 Global Goals toolkit.
33:53
Actually, they've, they've launched now somebody got in
33:56
touch with me because their child is, is being given all
33:59
this stuff at school through the teachers.
34:01
The teachers are going along with it.
34:03
Now what I noticed that the, the, the, the whole thing is
34:06
produced by project Everyone. And if you look at Project
34:10
Everyone, you'll realise that actually it's it's got some very
34:16
interesting partners. And yeah, here we go.
34:20
They're lead partners are Bill Bill and Melinda Gates
34:22
Foundation and Open Society Foundation, which is George
34:26
Soros's Open Society. And then they've got some
34:32
partners which are Pricewaterhouse, Cooper, the
34:36
Rockefeller Foundation, TikTok, UNICEF, as well as they've,
34:41
they've got some supporters. The supporters are that.
34:46
Can we see the supporters? Yeah, they, they think they've
34:49
gone as well. Sorry.
34:52
So, yeah, we've got obviously C40 cities, you know, the, the,
34:58
all of these different supporters who are all part of
35:02
the global agenda. So yeah, the next one is I just
35:08
wanted to flag up that that obviously this is all about
35:11
quality education, which is goal 4, which they say is to ensure
35:15
inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong
35:19
learning opportunities, opportunities for all.
35:22
But actually in reality, I've got a slide from my website,
35:27
which is education will be remote online, lifelong training
35:32
in STEM. That's science, technology,
35:35
engineering and mathematics accredited with blockchain.
35:38
Micro badges, non fungible tokens and credentials on the
35:42
blockchain, social reputation and score.
35:46
So it's almost like a social credit system.
35:49
Children's outcomes determined from birth and AI guided Biomet
35:53
biometrically, social and emotional learning, profiling,
35:57
creating the perfect global citizen.
36:00
That's what it's all about. And that's what I notice in this
36:02
new bill that they're bringing in and STEM education as as I
36:07
mentioned before, science technology in engineering and
36:10
mathematics. So what is presented as
36:13
something really wonderful is, has actually got a different
36:16
meaning. Creating perfect compliant
36:18
global citizens. That's what it's about.
36:22
Absolutely right. Sandy, you're very much on the
36:24
mark there. And I think the the way in which
36:29
the sort of proof can be found in the eating is that if you
36:33
speak, if you do have the opportunity to speak to
36:34
somebody, a child who's in the school system, it will
36:37
absolutely be quite clear how these influences are affecting
36:40
themselves. And of course, if, if you don't
36:42
know children necessarily of that age, then speaking to the
36:45
parents is, is, is just as illustrative because of course,
36:48
this stuff does flow uphill as well.
36:51
And it's quite remarkable, the way in which it's it's pervaded
36:54
the mind. Now with regard to meddling,
36:57
where we shouldn't really be having meddling.
36:59
We're going to talk about, well, Michael Bloomberg among others,
37:02
I think, aren't we? Yes, well, it's just amazing how
37:04
all these things link together, right?
37:06
So that was, that was really fascinating.
37:08
Sandy, thanks for that. And you highlighted a couple of
37:11
organisations at the end there, but projects everyone.
37:13
By the way, that's run by Kate Garvey, who was Blair's former
37:16
diary secretary in #10 and it's very closely linked into Freud
37:20
communication, who were on the partner list and Gold's House
37:23
and all these other things that we speak about on a regular
37:26
basis. And you also mentioned C40
37:28
cities. C40 cities, the global network
37:31
of metro mares, which is overseen by as President Michael
37:35
Bloomberg. And we're going to hear a little
37:37
bit now about his innovation teams that he funds in mayor's
37:41
offices around the world. Cities are growing.
37:48
Half the people in the world live in cities.
37:50
Pretty soon 2/3 will live in the cities.
37:53
Cities are incapable of taking care of that growth unless they
37:57
change and do new things. What we're trying to do is to
38:01
help governments all over the world to try something that's
38:04
new outside the box. The Innovation Teams programme
38:08
is one of the first things that we started here at Bloomberg
38:10
Philanthropies. We fund staff to work for a
38:14
mayor to really serve as an in house consultancy within city
38:18
government. They are focused on
38:19
experimentation, R&D. Using design to expand the way
38:23
that we're thinking about what's possible, I teams inject those
38:27
new ways of thinking into city halls to help them dream bigger
38:30
can create better solutions. I Teams.
38:36
Sounds great, doesn't it? So there we have Michael
38:40
Bloomberg saying cities are inevitable essentially, but
38:43
they're also incapable of dealing with their own
38:46
inevitability. The fact that we're going to
38:48
have 2/3 of the world's population in cities,
38:50
apparently. So he's funding these innovation
38:52
teams to work as in house consultancies to interject new
38:56
ways of of thinking into city halls, initially in the US.
39:00
So they started in 2012 in Memphis.
39:02
It's now a global programme. And last week, Mr Bloomberg
39:07
touched down the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park in central
39:11
London and the great and the good, or maybe they're not quite
39:17
so good, Not sure We're there to listen to him speaking.
39:19
We had Lord Vasey, who helped establish Ofcom.
39:22
Tracy Brabin, the mayor of West Yorkshire, who's absolutely in
39:26
this metro mayor scheme. Also, Brent Hoberman, the chief
39:29
executive of Founders Fund, who's also a World Economic
39:32
Forum, young global leader, Baroness Reebok, who's the chief
39:35
executive of Penguin Random House, one of the biggest
39:37
publishing companies on Earth, and also the mother of Georgia
39:40
Gold, former mayor of Camden, now runs the Cabinet Office.
39:43
They're all there, amongst others.
39:45
To hear Mike Bloomberg speaking about a $50 million investment
39:50
that he's putting into Europe to support 30 European mayors and
39:54
60 city leaders in this development process, in this
39:58
innovation process, the transformation into a new
40:03
digitally connected global system of governance.
40:07
Controlled in large part by supposedly philanthropic
40:10
philanthropic wealth. So I've handed down or injected
40:15
down into the system by people like Michael Bloomberg and into
40:20
institutions importantly like the London School of Economics.
40:24
So this is a key partner for the programme.
40:26
You can see here it's talking about the European City
40:30
Leadership Initiative, and this is Bloomberg LSE.
40:33
They've got a joint logo at the top there, Strategic
40:36
Partnership, obviously LSE, founded by the Fabian Society.
40:41
They, they put in a bunch of money in order to fund
40:44
propaganda. That's what the LSE was set up
40:47
to do, to do to deliver propaganda for Fabian Ames.
40:50
And who better to come and speak at this first event than Sadiq
40:53
Khan who is the Co chair of C46. He's working under Michael
41:00
Bloomberg and also on the executive committee of the
41:02
Fabian Society. And sometimes he has time to be
41:05
Mayor of London as well. Whether he's doing a good job of
41:08
that or not, I wouldn't care to comment right now.
41:11
And these pics came from Claudia Chalice who was also there.
41:16
There she is on the right hand side, who is the founder of
41:19
Democracy Next. And she was there to answer the
41:23
question, how do we strengthen citizens trust in government?
41:27
Governments trust in citizens and citizens trust between one
41:32
another. And they say this quite a lot
41:34
and it always does make me wonder why on earth we should be
41:37
concerned about where the governments trust their
41:39
citizens. It's got nothing to do with
41:41
them. It's about we, we have to trust
41:44
them. But it doesn't go back the other
41:45
way. That's not the way that the
41:47
relationship works. But unfortunately, that's what's
41:49
what's kind of imbued this whole discussion.
41:52
If we just drop that back on screen quickly, we can see she
41:55
was talking about this permanent citizens assembly in Paris,
42:00
which they've established where they are already using
42:02
assemblies in order to, to, to, to define and implement
42:07
legislation. Yeah.
42:08
So this is something that is happening.
42:09
They've done it in Paris. They've done it in Ireland,
42:12
they're even doing it A at a global level around COP and
42:15
around the UN, right. So these these deliberative
42:18
processes which are very tightly controlled and stage managed
42:22
pseudo democratic decision making processes that she's been
42:26
pioneering are absolutely at the centre of how these systems are
42:31
working, are going to work in the future unless we do
42:34
something about it. And I was rather tickled
42:38
recently to hear her talking on another interview about what her
42:42
actual thoughts are on democracy.
42:44
And we've got a little clip here which we can listen to now.
42:48
There's been a notion that legitimacy has been equated to
42:52
how many numbers and how many people are participating based
42:54
on the lens through which we tend to view it through our
42:57
existing electoral and representative institutions of
43:00
what we think about as democracy today.
43:01
But there's no reason to think that the only thing from which
43:06
legitimacy stems from is numbers, so.
43:10
Do you hear that? There's no reason to think that
43:13
legitimacy comes from numbers in democratic processes.
43:17
All right, she's running this whole programme.
43:20
She's been invited to talk at the LSE alongside Sadiq Khan,
43:23
funded by Michael Michael Bloomberg.
43:26
And this is essentially what we're looking at here.
43:29
They talk a great game about democracy, but actually this is
43:33
technocracy, tyranny, ultimately with a very thin veneer of
43:38
democratic process layered over the top, right?
43:41
This is completely unsurprising because as we've mentioned, this
43:44
thing is being completely embedded into the Metro Mare
43:47
scheme. And when we were asked to vote
43:49
on the Metro Mare scheme, the devolution in England, it was
43:53
soundly rejected. So if we go back to 2004, we can
43:56
see here's a clip from some of the the reporting on as the
44:01
results came in from the referendum for devolution in the
44:04
North East and it was rejected. 78% said no to 22% saying yes.
44:12
And what did the Labour government do?
44:14
They cancelled all the subsequent referendums.
44:16
This is a total humiliation for Blair, for Prescott, for this
44:20
whole agenda. And when it was rejected by the
44:24
by the populace, they just said, well, tough, we're going to do
44:28
it anyway. And that's exactly what's been
44:29
going on, right? So none of this has ever been
44:31
voted on. When it was voted on briefly
44:35
thickened over 20 years ago now, we said no, but they've
44:39
proceeded. And this isn't just theoretical.
44:41
It's actually rolling out because as we've talked about,
44:44
there are millions of dollars coming into this from
44:47
international billionaires and Oliver Coppard.
44:49
We can see here who is the mayor of South Yorkshire, who is also
44:52
at that Ben at the Serpentine, his advertising roles in his
44:58
administration overseen by the Behavioural Insights team,
45:02
right? So the Behavioural Insights Team
45:03
and Nestor are administering this money being put down into
45:07
the UK mayoral system as part of the Bloomberg Philanthropies I
45:14
Team programme with the aim ultimately they say, of what
45:18
have we got here? Implementing solutions to
45:22
pressing local challenges, deploying data, collecting
45:25
insight, collaborating across sectors to develop resident
45:28
centres. Interventions that improve
45:32
people's lives for your own good, whether you like it or
45:35
not. Yeah, just keep calling it
45:37
democracy. A little bit.
45:40
Exactly. So it seems, and thank you very
45:42
much indeed. Now we're going to move on to a
45:45
subject that was covered a little bit in the news last
45:48
week. Of course, the events that took
45:51
place at the Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester have
45:54
raised the profile of the Community Security Trust.
45:57
Brian Garish talking about this last Monday and it brings out a
46:00
number of concerns, not least with regard to the relationship
46:03
between the police and the Home Office, or at least the
46:06
relationship between the CST, the police and the Home Office.
46:09
Now on their pinned post on X, which is what Twitter was, it
46:14
makes specific regard to security notice for the UK
46:18
Jewish community. And I'll just pull out the the
46:21
highlighted text with the underlying text there saying a
46:23
security notice for the UK Jewish community and talk about
46:26
everybody having a part to play, looking out for suspicious
46:28
activity and reporting it immediately to security
46:31
personnel, police and CST as though in some ways they are to
46:36
be regarded as equivalent organisations.
46:39
Now, of course in in that the CST has what it describes as
46:44
being a responsibility for the physical security of Jewish
46:48
people. Fair enough to an extent,
46:50
although there's very strong inference that police are there
46:53
to deal with an incident because the people are Jewish rather
46:57
than in spite of being Jewish. Now there's also the suggestion
47:03
that they're on an equal footing, which of course is not
47:05
the case, although problematic in that police do have certain
47:09
powers whereas those working for the Community Security Trust do
47:14
not. The relationship between the two
47:16
is certainly unique. CST, you may not be aware, but
47:20
they are the only organisation in the country which conduct
47:22
joint patrols with police. And of course, as I say, if
47:26
they're not holding any powers, it's hard to see how the
47:28
operational independence of police isn't challenged by this,
47:31
since police would have to act on behalf of the CST which has
47:37
the specific task, as I say, of providing physical security, but
47:40
only for the Jewish community. So there are a number of areas
47:45
in which that there are problems with the the way in which not
47:48
just the relationship is set up in the 1st place, but the way
47:51
that it actually gets conducted in effect on the ground.
47:54
Now it goes back to 2015 and I've got the statement from the
47:59
National Police Chief's Council from the 25th of March of that
48:01
year, which concerns data sharing between police, the CST
48:07
and an organisation called Tell Mama, which I'll come on to talk
48:11
about. John Mann MP.
48:13
He was then chair of the all party Parliamentary group to
48:15
combat anti semitism, said at the time data sharing between
48:19
the police and the CST allows the UK to boast one of, if not
48:23
the best data set on anti semitism in the world.
48:27
Now I'll come back to why exactly that's significant.
48:32
The CST website on the police partnership slide, which we just
48:36
looked at a moment ago, it says that the CST works closely with
48:39
police at regional, local and national levels to help protect
48:43
Jewish communities. This includes joint patrols, as
48:46
I say, training classes, exercises, exchange of anti
48:50
Semitic incident data and numerous advisory roles.
48:53
We're also proud to assist in the work of the police in
48:55
tackling hate crime and preventing terrorism now.
48:59
Specifically on what they describe as involvement with
49:02
Parliament. They say they work with members
49:04
of Parliament from all the main political parties and regularly
49:07
meet government ministers and opposition spokespeople to
49:09
discuss anti semitism, racism, extremism and terrorism.
49:13
Now with this in mind, it can't really be regarded as
49:16
coincidence that in 2015 David Cameron's speech to the CST came
49:21
only a few days before announcement about the sharing
49:25
of data. And we'll just look at a couple
49:26
of things that he said during that speech.
49:28
First of all, I want the CST to have a state of the art Mission
49:31
Control centre with closed circuit television command and
49:34
control and the ability to respond rapidly to those who
49:38
need their help right across our Jewish communities.
49:41
Now I make the point again that they do not have any powers over
49:46
and above that those of an ordinary citizen.
49:50
He went on to say. I will always stand up for the
49:52
right of Israel to defend its citizens, right enshrined in
49:56
international law, in natural justice and fundamental
50:00
morality. And interesting of course,
50:03
considering what's happened in the intervening 10 years.
50:05
Now the next point to make is that prior to this, the
50:08
Community Security Trusts had published what they called a
50:11
Guide to Fighting Hate Crime for the Home Office and in doing so
50:16
effectively took ownership of the very notion of a hate crime.
50:20
And I'll just remind you what the definition is and how
50:25
entirely exposed it is to subjective interpretation.
50:29
Any criminal offence which is perceived by the victim or any
50:33
other person to be motivated by hostility or prejudice based on
50:38
a person's religion or perceived religion.
50:41
Now they've completely stripped away the element of intent.
50:46
And since 2023, most notably, there's been a very well
50:48
orchestrated push to conflate anti Zionism with anti Semitism.
50:53
And it's this video on the CST website which I would say does
50:58
exactly that. We just have a listen to this.
51:02
So when people talk about the Zionists without qualifying what
51:06
they mean, they're generalising about most Jews.
51:09
And it's dangerous because generalising about the vast
51:12
majority of any minority group will lead to racism.
51:15
But that doesn't mean that criticising Zionism is racist.
51:19
If you said to me, listen, I think that the Zionist movement
51:21
had terrible consequences for the Palestinian people, I might
51:24
say, well, so do I. Another Jewish person might feel
51:28
totally different. In short, you can assume as much
51:31
about someone who says they're a Zionist as you can by their
51:34
favourite TV show Love Island. You're a genocidal monster.
51:39
But what's this all got to do with learning how to be an anti
51:41
semite? Well, you can very quickly
51:45
expand the type and variety of the terms you use for Jew.
51:48
You can start with plain old Zionist, but why not give Zio a
51:52
go? Or if you really want to piss
51:54
them off, try Zio Nazi to be really offensive.
51:59
Something else you can do is use Zionism to accuse a British Jew
52:03
of not being truly British because they support the
52:05
existence of a Jewish state. It's dead racist.
52:08
And instead of saying that Jews are running the world, you could
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say that Zionism is a secret global power structure that
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conspires to manipulate governments, cause wars,
52:15
destabilise countries, and incites hatred between
52:18
communities. Now don't let me tell you how to
52:21
be an anti Semite. You should feel free to
52:23
experiment. If you're wondering whether
52:24
something is legitimate criticism of Israel or whether
52:27
it's slips into anti semitism, just take an anti Semitic
52:30
statement. Swap the word Jew for Zionists
52:33
and see how it sounds. For example, if this sentence is
52:36
anti Semitic, Jews run the banks and control the global financial
52:39
markets, then so is this. Zionists run the bank and
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control the global financial markets.
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Jews control the media. Zionists control the media.
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Jews created ISIS and are behind global terrorism.
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Zionists created ISIS and are behind global terrorism.
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We're very busy. A remarkable reframing exercise
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there under a very thin veil of humour, but that is indeed on
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the Community Security Trust website.
53:08
Now the other thing to point out is that they fund and assume
53:11
some control over the organisation which records
53:15
Islamophobia, incidents of Islamophobia tell Mama, and this
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was in the data sharing agreement which I showed
53:22
earlier. This comes under their heading
53:25
of, of helping other communities.
53:27
And indeed, they say that the, the, the initiative is to
53:32
measure and combat anti Muslim hate crimes.
53:34
And referring to the, to the hate crime booklet that I've
53:37
just referenced, tell Mama themselves, of course, talk
53:41
about having people who are non Muslim as their patrons and
53:45
various Advisory Board members. So in effect, the community
53:51
community security trust taking ownership of, of almost all
53:55
incidents of what it's describing as hate crime, which
53:58
of course is very significant. Now it's more data for them,
54:01
although they're not necessarily so keen themselves on sharing
54:05
information. The Charity Commission website
54:08
shows that there is no trustee information available for this
54:13
particular charity. I should also point out the
54:15
government funding for the CST went up dramatically last year
54:18
in response to what was reported as a dramatic increase in hate
54:22
crime. These hate crimes of course, are
54:24
recorded and curated by the CST itself.
54:27
So there are a number of serious issues here, I think, not least
54:30
concerning the operational independence of police.
54:32
And I would just leave you with the suggestion that you might
54:35
like to read an ask that I wrote nearly two years ago about the
54:38
way in which police were being manipulated to achieve exactly
54:41
these sorts of outcomes. Now, Sandy, my apologies, I've
54:45
overrun slightly, but we're now going to go to in a way what
54:49
might be regarded as slightly bizarre relationship between the
54:51
lions and eyesight tests and biometric data.
54:57
Yes, I mean, I was quite amazed at this.
54:59
A parent flagged this up to me last week and you know, we've
55:04
got, we've got the International Lions charity and, uh, they,
55:10
they're, they're partnering up. Um, they're, they're, they're
55:13
going into schools and, uh, testing children's eyesight.
55:18
Um, as it's almost like a, it's a mission thing that, you know,
55:22
they're, they're going to help, um, help children's eyesight
55:25
throughout the UK. Um, and uh, can I just flag up
55:29
the, the next slide? Yeah, it's a clearer future for
55:32
every child. So they're, they're testing
55:35
children's eyesight basically, which all sounds very worthy and
55:38
wonderful until you realise that this isn't just a, a charity
55:42
initiative in the UK, it's actually a global initiative.
55:46
And you've got the equivalent is the the Lions Kids site in the
55:51
USA. Now if you dig a little bit
55:53
deeper, you realise that this is even bigger because it's got
55:59
companies, they've got, they're partnered up with Johnson and
56:02
Johnson with the world, the World Health Organisation, many,
56:07
many, many partners worldwide. And you realise that this is
56:11
actually quite interesting because the, the person that got
56:14
in touch with me was worried about biometric data, you know,
56:18
iris, you know, scans, all that sort of thing.
56:22
And the children being identified by their iris scans.
56:25
And I think they've probably got something, you know, behind this
56:30
because I looked at their privacy policy and unfortunately
56:34
it does say that that's highlighted there.
56:37
This will all be in the show notes, but it actually says that
56:40
they can share this data with third parties, which is really
56:44
concerning, I think. And I think we we really have to
56:49
follow this up and, you know, schools shouldn't be doing this,
56:54
you know, just letting charities come in and do it.
56:56
And they're training people up to do this.
56:58
So I think we need to really look at it because I think there
57:01
is a worry there. Thank you.
57:04
Absolutely, Sandy. There is.
57:05
And I think even if they're saying that they have permission
57:08
or they may share, it is in a way beside the point.
57:10
Because of course, even if they don't and they're a third party,
57:13
the, the, there's, there's no way they can guarantee the
57:15
security of that data in the 1st place, as as exemplified by so
57:19
many cyber disasters in recent times.
57:21
No, we're just going to finish off with a very brief look at
57:24
the latest news on pseudo scientific propaganda, which is
57:28
dressed up as health advice, thinly veiling the aim of
57:31
continuing to destroy land, landscapes, rural economies and
57:34
common sense. And I give you the rehash of the
57:38
Planetary Health Diet of 2019, which had sunk without trace.
57:42
But it's just up to the surface again, thanks to The Lancet.
57:45
Now it states that actions on food systems strongly impact
57:51
lives and well being of all and are necessary to progress
57:54
towards goals highlighted in the Sustainable Development Goals,
57:58
the Paris Agreement and the Kunmingmong Triol global
58:00
biodiversity Framework. So no surprises there in a
58:04
sense. But what's changed now is they
58:07
that they're saying, or at least not necessarily change, but what
58:10
they're stating is that more than half the world's population
58:12
struggles to access healthy diets, leading to devastating
58:15
consequences for public health, social equity and the
58:18
environment. And this latest paper is saying
58:21
that it's expanding its scope and strengthening its evidence
58:24
base, which is why it's come out again.
58:27
And I would suggest that it bodes I'll by stating exactly
58:31
what it does there. Now, on the changes to be made
58:34
to the diet of people who are currently alive in the world,
58:39
they say that some sectors would need to contract and they're
58:43
putting out a figure of 33% reduction in ruminant meat
58:46
production. They say that others would need
58:48
to expand and they're calling for a 63% increase in fruit,
58:52
vegetable and nut production. But this is only in comparison
58:56
with the 2020 production level. So it's very drastic changes
58:59
that they're putting out. And one might consider that this
59:03
is modelling at its very worst, or it's extreme, absolute cherry
59:07
picking and wilful avoidance of the many variables that are
59:10
concerned with all of this. But it's exactly the sort of
59:13
paper which provides impetus for organisations like the Office
59:17
for Health Economics which suggested just last year an
59:20
entirely plant based diet for the whole of England in its 2024
59:25
report. And of course they, with the use
59:28
of modelling and pure speculation, they were
59:31
suggesting that not only would this vastly reduce disease of
59:37
all forms, but it would also reduce food production costs as
59:40
well. Now there's not really
59:42
sufficient time to go into more of this in this brief report,
59:45
but what I would like to do is to point you towards John
59:47
Fleetwood's analysis of this on Substack.
59:50
And it'd be something that we come back to in the future.
59:53
There'll be a link to it in the show notes.
59:55
And of course also to consider all matters food and farming by
1:00:00
going to the farming section on the UK column.
1:00:03
Website Now that does bring us to the end of the programme.
1:00:08
So just a reminder that we've got Germ speaking to Pepe
1:00:11
Escobar at 7:00 tonight. Don't miss that.
1:00:14
And indeed, Patrick Henningson will go out at 1:00 tomorrow,
1:00:18
Thursday speaking from the Hope event in Sussex over the bank
1:00:23
holiday weekend. If you are, if you are AUK
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1:00:33
weekend. Ben, thank you very much indeed
1:00:36
for joining me in the studio. Thank you, Sandy, thanks for
1:00:39
being on the live link and we'll see you again in a minute for
1:00:41
extra. If you're not able to join,
1:00:43
we'll look forward to seeing you again at 1:00 on Wednesday.
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Bye bye.