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UK Column News Podcast 19th March 2025 · UK Column Radio

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon. It's Wednesday, the nineteenth of March twenty twenty five,
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Speaker 1: just after one o'clock and welcome to UK Collin News.
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Speaker 1: I'm your host Make Rumson, and joining me via video
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Speaker 1: link today is Charles Mallett, Vanessa Billy and Sandy Adams.
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Speaker 1: We're going to begin today with the UK regime's attack
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Speaker 1: on the welfare system. The Liberal government has announced major
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Speaker 1: cuts to the welfare system in the UK and today
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Speaker 1: they're publishing a green paper called Pathways to Work. The
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Speaker 1: main focus of this announcement was on the disabled and
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Speaker 1: long term sick and getting them back into work. This
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Speaker 1: is what they were trying to claim. It's all about
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Speaker 1: getting them back into work. So they've announced they're going
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Speaker 1: to spend one billion pounds that's one billion pounds to
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Speaker 1: do that. This is they say, going to end years
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Speaker 1: of inaction, government in action which has led to one
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Speaker 1: and eight young people not currently in work, education or
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Speaker 1: training and two point eight million people in economically an
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Speaker 1: active due to the long term sickness. And they say
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Speaker 1: that this is one of the highest rates in the
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Speaker 1: G seven. Now, I think the first thing to note
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Speaker 1: is that no one in the mainstream media at least
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Speaker 1: in their coverage of this was wanting to speak about
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Speaker 1: why there are so many people on disability benefits because
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Speaker 1: the fact is that these they're roughly double the number
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Speaker 1: of people. So if we just bring this graph on
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Speaker 1: screen and have a look at how this situation has
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Speaker 1: changed since twenty fourteen fifteen, but around twenty nineteen there
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Speaker 1: were something around two hundred thousand people claiming PEP this
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Speaker 1: is Personal Independence Plan payment sorry, and by twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: three twenty twenty four, that was up to around four
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Speaker 1: hundred thousand, so a doubling in the last few years.
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Speaker 1: The DWP has reinforced this graph by admitting that since
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Speaker 1: the pandemic so called, the number of working age people
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Speaker 1: receiving PIP has more than doubled from fifteen three hundred
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Speaker 1: to thirty five one hundred a month, and that the
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Speaker 1: number of people aged sixteen to twenty four receiving PIP
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Speaker 1: per month has also got risen from in this case
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Speaker 1: twenty nine hundred and sixty seven to seven eight hundred
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Speaker 1: and fifty seven a month, And they're saying that over
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Speaker 1: the next five years, if no action has taken, they
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Speaker 1: say the number of working age people claiming PIP is
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Speaker 1: expected to increase from two million in twenty twenty one
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Speaker 1: to four point three million, costing thirty four point one
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Speaker 1: billion annually. But the question is what do they mean
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Speaker 1: by taking no action? Do they mean if they don't
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Speaker 1: simply cut the support or do they mean that they're
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Speaker 1: going to do something to actually repair the damage done
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Speaker 1: by the government policy that we've seen over the last
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Speaker 1: several years. And let's you know, never mention the jobs.
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Speaker 1: But my question is what's this really about. One thing
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Speaker 1: that it isn't about is filling job vacancy is because
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Speaker 1: the number of unfilled jobs has been falling now for
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Speaker 1: two and a half years. The estimated number of vacancies
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Speaker 1: was eight hundred and twelve thousand in the UK according
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Speaker 1: to the latest statistics from the NS That was between
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Speaker 1: October and December twenty twenty four. Now eight hundred and
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Speaker 1: twelve thousand might seem like a big number, but isn't really,
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Speaker 1: And it represents a decrease of twenty four thousand from
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Speaker 1: the previous quarter. That's two point nine percent fall and
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Speaker 1: the twelve point seven percent fall from the previous year.
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Speaker 1: Same period the previous year, So the direction of travel
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Speaker 1: is not good if one hundreds of thousands of new
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Speaker 1: people are going to be forced into the market, because
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Speaker 1: there are already one point nine people per vacancy before
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Speaker 1: this change. But I think that actually the disabled here
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Speaker 1: are effectively the poster children for something else that's going on.
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Speaker 1: Certainly part of this is about punishing anyone for whom
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Speaker 1: lockdown in Jabs had a major debtri metal effect on
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Speaker 1: their lives. But it's also, as say, cover about something else.
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Speaker 1: So here's an exchange from the debate yesterday in the
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Speaker 1: House Common. This is Tory MP Mark Pritchard asking Liz
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Speaker 1: Kendall well he had this to say.
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Speaker 2: Youth unemployment stood at six hundred and forty two thousand
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Speaker 2: as of the last quarter of twenty twenty four, a
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Speaker 2: rise of one hundred and thirty six thousand on twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty three, and a youth unemployment rated fourteen point eight percent.
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Speaker 2: She mentions earlier in her statement earn and learn. Does
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Speaker 2: she agree with me that one way of perhaps attracting
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Speaker 2: some people back into work is for her to have
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Speaker 2: discussions with her colleague in the Ministry Defense, the Defense Secretary,
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Speaker 2: And would she agree with me getting more young people
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Speaker 2: into his Majesty's Armed Forces, Air Force, Navy, Army would
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Speaker 2: be a starting place.
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Speaker 3: I absolutely agree with the Honorable Gentleman Ded. Before I
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Speaker 3: was appointed to this position in opposition as a constituency MP,
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Speaker 3: I've discussed with my local job center around the Armed
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Speaker 3: Forces recruitment precisely these issues because of the really citing
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Speaker 3: careers and opportunities that are available, I think are really
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Speaker 3: important for young people in my constituency and the one
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Speaker 3: that he represents. And I will certainly be having more
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Speaker 3: conversations with colleagues in the Ministry of Defense to make
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Speaker 3: sure we put this plan into action.
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Speaker 1: So she's going to put this plan into action? What plan?
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Speaker 1: What are the details? No one's talking about this plan.
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Speaker 1: So maybe this is something everyone might like to write
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Speaker 1: to their MP about and ask exactly what is the
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Speaker 1: plan with the Ministry of Defense which is going to
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Speaker 1: be put in action. I think we know, whether it's
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Speaker 1: called conscription or national service, it is coming, and I
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Speaker 1: think if we don't want our children and grandchildren involved,
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Speaker 1: now it's the time to take note and take action. Charles,
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Speaker 1: any thoughts on that.
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Speaker 4: Thanks man, Good afternoon. All.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I think my first thought is that the
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Speaker 5: government have an amazing amount of control over the younger generation.
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Speaker 5: First of all, like we see here, people who are
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Speaker 5: claiming any sort of obviously financially dependent upon the government,
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Speaker 5: so therefore can be pushed in any which way. But
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Speaker 5: the other thing, looking at it the other way around,
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Speaker 5: if we're to say this is a plan when quite
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Speaker 5: clearly it isn't. But if we're talking about people who
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Speaker 5: are willfully staying out of the workplace, either because they're
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Speaker 5: unfit enough to enter it due to quite probable injuries
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Speaker 5: from pharmaceutical products or indeed the product of simply living
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Speaker 5: a very healthy, sorry unhealthy lifestyle from twenty twenty haven't
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Speaker 5: been sort of interned, what sort of people are going
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Speaker 5: to be fed into the armed forces if they're not
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Speaker 5: willingly coming forward? The bar would have to be lowered
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Speaker 5: considerably in all of people got through whatever training is required.
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Speaker 5: So the outcomes for anybody concerned would be absolutely terrible.
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Speaker 5: But the euphemistic language previously described course as economic inactivity
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Speaker 5: is you know that there is an absolutely enormous disaster
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Speaker 5: here below the surface which is just not being being
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Speaker 5: dealt with a tool. So exactly what do the government
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Speaker 5: mean when they say they're talking about dealing with it exactly.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, yes, indeed, Okay, well just to finish
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Speaker 1: this off, then I'll just bring this tweet on screen,
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Speaker 1: Robert here saying I'm seventy six and work since it
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Speaker 1: was sixteen. Explained to me how the UK state pension
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Speaker 1: is a benefit, because this is also part of these cuts.
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Speaker 1: Where's the money I paid into it?
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Speaker 4: Gone?
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Speaker 1: You talk ponzi scheme, I give you the UK government.
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Speaker 1: I just want to say, this is exactly the point
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Speaker 1: that I've been trying to make for years now. State
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Speaker 1: pension obligations for the UK state at the moment, the
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Speaker 1: six point one trillion pounds, this is unpayable, and so
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Speaker 1: it is a Ponzi scheme. And there was only ever
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Speaker 1: going to be a rolling back on the state pension scheme,
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Speaker 1: whether that means increasing the pension age or reducing the pension.
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Speaker 4: So we'll keep you.
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Speaker 1: Posted on that as we As we move on, Vanessa,
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Speaker 1: let me welcome you to the program now. And of
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Speaker 1: course everybody talking about Donald Trump and the great peace
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Speaker 1: maker with his conversation with Putin yesterday, But what else
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Speaker 1: has he been up to?
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Speaker 6: Well, you're absolutely right, I mean, he's so far fulfilling
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Speaker 6: his mandate to bring a.
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Speaker 7: Ceasefire to Ukraine.
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Speaker 6: However, he's turning his attention to West Asia and in
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Speaker 6: particular Iran on behalf of Israel. So this was something
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Speaker 6: that Donald Trump tweeted out I think yesterday, the hundreds
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Speaker 6: of attacks being made by Huti, which is of course
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Speaker 6: known as an shrula, the sinister mobsters and thugs based
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Speaker 6: in Yemen, based in Yemen I mean as if they're
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Speaker 6: not Yemeny and hated by the Yemeni people. In reality,
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Speaker 6: of course, supported by the huge majority of the Yemeni
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Speaker 6: people in their battle to end the occupation and oppression
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Speaker 6: of Palestine. All emanate from and are created by Iran
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Speaker 6: in capital letters. He then went on to add to
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Speaker 6: this with the threads every shot fired by the whodies
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Speaker 6: will be looked upon from this point forward as being
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Speaker 6: a shot fired from the weapons and leadership of Iran
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Speaker 6: in capitals again, and Iran will be held responsible and
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Speaker 6: suffer the consequences, and those consequences.
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Speaker 7: Will be dire. Then, basically, I.
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Speaker 6: Think it's one of the spokespeople for the White House
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Speaker 6: basically went onto Fox News to reiterate the message that
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Speaker 6: Trump was putting out. So let's just play this extraordinary statement.
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Speaker 8: Well, the Trump administration and the White House were consulted
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Speaker 8: by the Israelis on their attacks in Gaza tonight, and
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Speaker 8: as President Trump has made it clear, Hamas the who
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Speaker 8: thies Iran, all those who seek to terrorize not just Israel,
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Speaker 8: but also the United States of America will see a
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Speaker 8: price to pay. All Hell will break loose all all
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Speaker 8: of the terrorists.
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Speaker 4: In the Middle East.
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Speaker 9: Again.
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Speaker 8: The Huthis, Hesblahamas, Iranian backed terror proxies, and Iran themselves
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Speaker 8: should take President Trump very seriously when he says he
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Speaker 8: is not afraid to stand for law abiding people. He
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Speaker 8: is not afraid to stand up for the United States
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Speaker 8: of America and our friend in our ally Israel.
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Speaker 6: I mean this is just I mean Trump is effectively
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Speaker 6: apparently declaring war on the entire resistance access across the region, from.
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Speaker 7: Palestine through to Iran.
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Speaker 6: At the same time, in Israel, this statement was put
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Speaker 6: out by Israel katz I called him the war Minister
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Speaker 6: of Israel. If Amas doesn't release all the hostages, the
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Speaker 6: gates of Hell will open, and Gaza and the murderers
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Speaker 6: and rapist Fromas will meet the ideaf with forces they
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Speaker 6: have never known before.
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Speaker 7: Of course, we're back to the.
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Speaker 6: Ceasefire Shenanigans, which is never anything more than a theatrical
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Speaker 6: play to effectively be used as a weapon to blame
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Speaker 6: the mass and to enable what is now happening, the
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Speaker 6: violation of the ceasefire in Gaza and the continuation of
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Speaker 6: the ethnic cleansing and genocide. And then again Ben Gavier
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Speaker 6: is announced to be rejoining the natan Yanho coalition, praising
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Speaker 6: the mass killings carried.
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Speaker 7: Out in Gaza in the last forty eight hours with.
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Speaker 6: Mass bombing, and then the statement by the Zionist IDF
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Speaker 6: Israeli occupation forces who said that they launched a strong
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Speaker 6: offensive against of course they called them terror organizations. These
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Speaker 6: designated areas are considered dangerous combat zones.
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Speaker 7: For your own safety.
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Speaker 6: Addressing the Pustinians sheltering and got what's left of Gaza,
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Speaker 6: you must evacuate immediately to known shelters in western Gaza
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Speaker 6: city and in Communis. Of course, this is again force
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Speaker 6: displacement of people that have already being multiple times displaced.
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Speaker 6: The Rapha crossing where Egypt is now closed to all
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Speaker 6: medical cases looking to enter Egypt for hospital care or
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Speaker 6: even to go abroad for medical treatment. So we're back
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Speaker 6: to full on genocide. While a number of Hamas resistance
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Speaker 6: fighters were killed in the attack, I think it was
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Speaker 6: three or four, the majority of the victims, of course,
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Speaker 6: were children. Yet again, just a couple of photos from
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Speaker 6: the aftermath of the attack itself the other day and
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Speaker 6: the headlines even in Western media, I have to say
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Speaker 6: I didn't have to look very far more than four
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Speaker 6: hundred Palestinians.
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Speaker 7: I think the number is now around four hundred and.
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Speaker 6: Sixty two in one attack, guilld and schools injured now
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Speaker 6: reaching close to an estimated six hundred injured, of course,
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Speaker 6: the majority children. In extensive Israeli air strikes on Gaza,
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Speaker 6: and this is a state and from Tanya, doctor Tanya
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Speaker 6: Hadj Hassan, who works for Medicine San.
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Speaker 7: Frontier or Doctors with our Borders.
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Speaker 6: In Gaza itself, she said immediately after, she described the
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Speaker 6: horrors that she saw, and of course she's been there
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Speaker 6: for much of the genocide in Gaza.
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Speaker 7: There were probably three men, the rest.
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Speaker 6: Were all children, women and the elderly, ever, be caught
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Speaker 6: in their sleep, wrapped in their blankets, terrifying. So she
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Speaker 6: describes the fact that again the majority of the victims
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Speaker 6: were disabled, elderly, innocent civilians, children and women that have
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Speaker 6: been targeted since October the seventh. At the same time,
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Speaker 6: of course, Trump is effectively with the UK started a
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Speaker 6: new round of the war against Yemen, which began in
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Speaker 6: March twenty fifteen, and in the initial strikes around fifty
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Speaker 6: Yemenis were killed injured in the US UK aggression on
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Speaker 6: Yemen the cities, which include the targeting of hospitals and
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Speaker 6: cancer centers and schools.
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Speaker 7: Yemen has retaliated. Harry S.
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Speaker 6: Truman attacked for a second time within hours by various
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Speaker 6: ballistic missiles and drones, and there are reports now that
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Speaker 6: there have been four attacks on the USS Truman. At
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Speaker 6: the same time, when we're talking about Trump launching what
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Speaker 6: is effectively a regional war, Israel has been increasing its
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Speaker 6: attacks on Syria. It bombed southern Syria a couple of
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Speaker 6: days ago in Dada. There are convoys of Israeli troops
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Speaker 6: and hardware coming into Syria for the last forty eight hours,
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Speaker 6: and yesterday they bond what they described as missile battalion
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Speaker 6: in homes in Syria, so on the border very close
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Speaker 6: to the border with Lebanon, and I'll come on to
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Speaker 6: that next.
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Speaker 7: If we have a quick look at the map.
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Speaker 6: We talked about this previously, just to keep them up
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Speaker 6: on screen. The red circle shows the area on the
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Speaker 6: Syrian Lebanese border which was attacked I.
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Speaker 7: Think about a month ago.
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Speaker 6: We talked about it on UK Column by the HTS
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Speaker 6: al Kaaid forces who were driven back by the tribesmen
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Speaker 6: and the clans in this area. There has been a
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Speaker 6: more concerted attack in the last few days by HTS forces.
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Speaker 6: There's now a sort of a semi c spire, but
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Speaker 6: they were again driven back by the tribesmen, and now
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Speaker 6: the Lebanese army forces are on the border with heavy
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Speaker 6: artillery to force back the Syrian terrorist attack. I won't
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Speaker 6: call them Syrian actually because the majority of them foreign mercenaries.
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Speaker 6: So and at the same time Israel was actually bombing
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Speaker 6: the Lebanese side on behalf of Jolanese forces. Israel has
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Speaker 6: been bombing southern Lebanon corresponding with the attack by HDS,
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Speaker 6: So it becomes very clear that Israel is trying to
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Speaker 6: open two fronts against Hosbular and Lebanon using HTS or
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Speaker 6: al Kaeda as a proxy in the northeast and attacking
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Speaker 6: directly in the south, while of course disrupting and destabilizing Syria,
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Speaker 6: and while al Kader is continuing with the massacreds of
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Speaker 6: the ethnic minorities inside Syria. So it appears to be
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Speaker 6: very clear that Trump, while let's say, ending the war
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Speaker 6: in Ukraine in agreement with Putin, is now focusing very
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Speaker 6: much on West Asia, with Iran, one assumes is the
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Speaker 6: final target.
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Speaker 1: Thank you very much for that, Fanessa. With more international
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Speaker 1: news later on, But let's come back to the UK first,
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Speaker 1: and Charles, a couple of weeks ago we were talking
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Speaker 1: about gb energy. That must be going very well.
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Speaker 5: Surely well, I think we can probably qualify that, yes,
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Speaker 5: we'll look at great British energy. And this is something
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Speaker 5: that the UK column has talked about, even back at
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Speaker 5: its inception last year twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 4: Spider alert.
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Speaker 5: It is not great, it's not really particularly British, and
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Speaker 5: there is going to be very little in the way
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Speaker 5: of energy. But the reason it's in the news today
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Speaker 5: is that there has been a report from the Institute
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Speaker 5: for Public Policy Research which relates back to the Labor
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Speaker 5: Party Manifesto of twenty twenty four, so right away we
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Speaker 5: are stuck in the zone of net zero being absolutely
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Speaker 5: ideological rather more than anything else. And in the manifesto
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Speaker 5: they said that they were going to turn the page
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Speaker 5: decisively on the conservative ideas that have caused chaos in
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Speaker 5: order that they can take ownership of the chaos themselves.
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Speaker 5: The proposal is that this is pushed on by a
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Speaker 5: two point three billion pounds worth of investment which can
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Speaker 5: only be said to secure perhaps five percent of the
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Speaker 5: total energy requirement following the year twenty thirty, so that's
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Speaker 5: an absolutely paltry amount of electricity to be generating. At
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Speaker 5: one minute past midnight this morning, they were meant to
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Speaker 5: publish the full report, but like all things connected to
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Speaker 5: net zero, that didn't work. And we'll then take a
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Speaker 5: look at the Chief Executive just to see the sorts
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Speaker 5: of alignment we're considering here, run by a chap called
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Speaker 5: Jurgen Meyer, who is also running the Digital CASPPULT here
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Speaker 5: accelerating the digital future. And of course, because we know
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Speaker 5: now from the National Energy System Operator that all energy
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Speaker 5: is really to be diverted towards artificial intelligence and control
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Speaker 5: of our lives in order that we surrender our own
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Speaker 5: requirement for energy. This is entirely in keeping with the
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Speaker 5: direction of travel. Now, this of course provide it's an
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Speaker 5: opportunity for political opportunism, and this is where the leader
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Speaker 5: of the opposition has jumped in, receiving a certain amount
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Speaker 5: of criticism.
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Speaker 4: But of course it's all very theatrical.
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Speaker 5: Kenny bad Knock here taking flak for saying that we
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Speaker 5: are now going to be dependent upon China, which has
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Speaker 5: instantly meant that she's been fact checked by Carbon Brief. Now,
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Speaker 5: the moment you start telling lies about this sort of stuff,
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Speaker 5: you are definitely going to get caught out. So the
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Speaker 5: irony being that last year the IPPR produced a paper
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Speaker 5: written by the same man who's produced today's report, Simon
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Speaker 5: Gaspar produced a document called Second Wind, in which they
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Speaker 5: said to meet global net zero twenty thirty targets, the
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Speaker 5: world's wind manufacturing and your capacity will have to increase
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Speaker 5: to three hundred and fifty gigawatts, which is significant increase
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Speaker 5: on where we are now. I know these figures are
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Speaker 5: slightly meaningless, but the point is needs to be ramped
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Speaker 5: up dramatically. And the report went on to say that
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Speaker 5: China is the global wind superpower China accounts for three
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Speaker 5: fifths of the world capacity in wind at nasseels and blades,
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Speaker 5: and accounts for the overwhelming majority of mining and refining
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Speaker 5: of essential rare earth minerals. So but not might be right.
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Speaker 5: But of course is China a threat or not? And
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Speaker 5: is one to take the Richard Deer Love line or not?
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Speaker 5: So this absurd line being walked when it concerns net zero, which,
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Speaker 5: as I say, of course, is an ideological commitment rather
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Speaker 5: than anything else. Now, what I'll do is I'll just
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Speaker 5: set in context what this means in terms of energy.
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Speaker 5: This is taken from Energy Dashboard Live at six o'clock
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Speaker 5: this morning. The overall picture of energy on the left there.
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Speaker 5: Now I'm putting a red arrow down onto the renewable contribution,
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Speaker 5: which was only just over nine percent this morning because
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Speaker 5: the sun hadn't yet got up and it wasn't really
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Speaker 5: blowing much in the way of wind. What is worth
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Speaker 5: drawing your attention to is the box just to its right,
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Speaker 5: which I've ringed there in red, because that is the
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Speaker 5: total contribution from imput thought and nuclear, which amounts to
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Speaker 5: just over eight point five gigawatts of energy, which is
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Speaker 5: what great British energy is supposed to recover from an
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Speaker 5: eight point three billion pound investment. Now, is it worth
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Speaker 5: it if the sun's not going to shine and the
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Speaker 5: wind's not going to blow? I will leave you to
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Speaker 5: answer that question yourself. And now on the right we
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Speaker 5: see the what's called the carbon intensity. So, even if
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Speaker 5: all of this stuff works and we do get by
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Speaker 5: some miracle five percent of renewable energy, if you turn
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Speaker 5: the gas on, then you're destroying your fiction of net
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Speaker 5: zero because of course you're straight into the zone of
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Speaker 5: what they call high carbon intensity. Now, just to give
21:39
Speaker 5: an indication of the direction this dreadful scam is going,
21:43
Speaker 5: the Alpha Ventus offshore wind capability that Germany had set
21:48
Speaker 5: up fifteen years ago is now going to be closed
21:50
Speaker 5: because it cannot be profitable because the subsidy has dried up,
21:54
Speaker 5: which just reinforces the point this is absolutely a totally
21:57
Speaker 5: an utterly failed policy. And us to contextualize the requirements
22:03
Speaker 5: by space for all of these various technologies, we'll just
22:07
Speaker 5: look at the Nuclear Energy Institute, which shows here with
22:12
Speaker 5: a graphic which i'll describe the acreage taken up in
22:16
Speaker 5: order to produce a million megawatt hours. Now, to produce
22:20
Speaker 5: a million megawatt hours. Nuclear would require one hundred and
22:23
Speaker 5: three acres, solar would require three thy two hundred acres,
22:27
Speaker 5: and wind would require a whopping seventeen thousand, eight hundred acres.
22:32
Speaker 5: So we talked a lot on this program about the
22:36
Speaker 5: stealing of agricultural land in particular, but land that belongs
22:41
Speaker 5: really in the natural world being completely destroyed by the
22:45
Speaker 5: so called renewable technology. Now, last week I spoke about
22:49
Speaker 5: a food and farming symposium that was going to take
22:52
Speaker 5: place in Cheltenham at the weekend, which it duly did
22:55
Speaker 5: and it was a great success. Sandy was there too,
22:57
Speaker 5: and very pleasingly. This reported by the strad News and Journal,
23:01
Speaker 5: an article put in by k Devine. So we see
23:04
Speaker 5: this on screen, and it's worth noting that there were
23:06
Speaker 5: two members of Parliament there, one pictured here standing next
23:10
Speaker 5: to a UK column journalist, and here's the Jeffrey Clifton Brown,
23:15
Speaker 5: the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, which of course
23:17
Speaker 5: is significant because he has recently audited the absurd carbon
23:21
Speaker 5: capture scheme and highlighted the incredible inefficiencies of that particular technology.
23:27
Speaker 5: But within the article, I just like to draw out
23:29
Speaker 5: the following text, which is how it concluded, which is
23:31
Speaker 5: that supernational and unaccountable influence over the food supply via
23:36
Speaker 5: the UN's Sustainable Development goals and the Davos influence is
23:40
Speaker 5: something that those present expressed their determination to challenge and resist.
23:44
Speaker 5: So I think to have it on record that a
23:47
Speaker 5: sitting member of Parliament, and indeed one who chairs.
23:50
Speaker 10: The Public Characters Committee was present at such an event
23:53
Speaker 10: is significantly. It means that this is being heard and
23:57
Speaker 10: it really cannot be hidden that agenda every term is
24:04
Speaker 10: absolutely coming of public concerns over to people to keep
24:10
Speaker 10: pressure on, particularly where it concerns the utter waste of
24:15
Speaker 10: taxpayer money, as indeed seeing this absurd idea for great
24:20
Speaker 10: British energy.
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Speaker 1: Charles, thank you very much for that. Let's come on
24:26
Speaker 1: to Sandy Charles, talking about twenty thirty is a deadline.
24:30
Speaker 1: Undoubtedly what you're about to report here is also related
24:34
Speaker 1: to the year twenty thirty as well, and later on
24:36
Speaker 1: we'll be going to be talking about European defense and
24:39
Speaker 1: it's also becoming related to to twenty thirty to twenty thirty,
24:43
Speaker 1: massively significant year. But what's been going on in Bristol.
24:48
Speaker 9: Well, the residents of Barton Hill, East Bristol got a
24:52
Speaker 9: bit of a shock last week. An overnight police operation
24:57
Speaker 9: took place in Bristol to finish in storing a contry
25:00
Speaker 9: virtual Liverpool Neighborhood scheme. The council and its contractors I
25:05
Speaker 9: think they're called ETM and Avon and Somerset Police arrived
25:08
Speaker 9: at Barton Hill at approximate approximately three am in the
25:12
Speaker 9: morning on Thursday, the thirteenth of March to install planters,
25:16
Speaker 9: bus gate signs and paint roads as part of the
25:19
Speaker 9: East Bristol Liverpool Neighborhood scheme. The installations took place in
25:24
Speaker 9: multiple locations at the same time. Protesters arrived between four
25:28
Speaker 9: and five am to attempt to stop these works, but
25:31
Speaker 9: only succeeded in stopping the installment of one bus gate
25:34
Speaker 9: at the junction of Marsh Lane and Avondale Road, where
25:37
Speaker 9: a group of women actually laid down in the road
25:39
Speaker 9: to hault the contractors as work was abandoned at this gate.
25:44
Speaker 9: The final e left on gate bus gate was not completed,
25:49
Speaker 9: so they did actually, you know, at least stop something.
25:54
Speaker 9: Now you know, this scheme attempts to reduce traffic in
25:57
Speaker 9: parts of Barton Hill.
25:57
Speaker 7: Lawrence Hill, Redfield.
25:59
Speaker 9: And Saint George by closing off side roads to cars
26:03
Speaker 9: and creating a series of no through roads, dead ends
26:06
Speaker 9: and caldi sucks, whilst allowing pedestrians and cyclists to go through. However,
26:11
Speaker 9: many locals in the area of Bristol said it's made
26:14
Speaker 9: life really difficult for them, with some saying car journeys
26:17
Speaker 9: of doubled or tripled in lengths because of the congestion.
26:19
Speaker 9: I mean, we've seen this in other areas. This time,
26:24
Speaker 9: you know, this nightmare. You know, we've seen it in
26:27
Speaker 9: all these other cities. Contractors were supported by twenty eight
26:30
Speaker 9: Avon and Somerset Police officers and a police drone operator
26:35
Speaker 9: team by mourning planters. Road blockages and bus gates were
26:39
Speaker 9: installed across the area, including two locations, you know, other
26:44
Speaker 9: locations in East Bristol. Officers and contractors left the scene
26:48
Speaker 9: at around six am. Now Avon and Somerset Police confirm
26:52
Speaker 9: that twenty eight officers did attend with drone support, and
26:56
Speaker 9: they said that they had they were sort of trying to,
27:02
Speaker 9: you know, calm the protesters. They said they'd held back
27:07
Speaker 9: a few demonstrators. Now there's a cafe owner who said
27:11
Speaker 9: that she was not told about this. She said her
27:15
Speaker 9: business would suffer if the closure of the road happened,
27:19
Speaker 9: and she said that there was nothing about bus gates,
27:22
Speaker 9: nothing about road closures. Not a single time did they
27:26
Speaker 9: mention it.
27:27
Speaker 4: Now.
27:27
Speaker 9: The Police and Crime Commissioner for Avram Somerset Police, Claire Moody,
27:32
Speaker 9: said she'll look into the heavy police presence at protest.
27:35
Speaker 9: At the protest and she said, I obviously have a
27:39
Speaker 9: scrutiny role around policing, so I just want to acknowledge
27:43
Speaker 9: that it's something I'm aware of the number of police involved.
27:46
Speaker 9: I mean, it's something I'm investigating and it's something I'll
27:50
Speaker 9: be following up. Meanwhile, the Green leader of the Council,
27:53
Speaker 9: Tony Dyer, said, I think it's very clear there are
27:56
Speaker 9: some very strong feelings about this process. We do take
27:59
Speaker 9: those seriously well. I wonder what we have to remember
28:03
Speaker 9: is that Bristol is a combined authority. Weka the West
28:07
Speaker 9: of England Commide Authority. With the new directly elected mayoral
28:11
Speaker 9: elections on Mays first, this will drive the people further
28:14
Speaker 9: away from any decision making process. And what's deeply concerning
28:19
Speaker 9: is that is the assault on the community has not
28:21
Speaker 9: undergone any democratic process despite strong opposition. This is a
28:26
Speaker 9: classic example of what we can expect when these smart
28:30
Speaker 9: city mayors are in power. The fact that the Police
28:35
Speaker 9: and Crime Commissioner said she will investigate the heavy handed
28:38
Speaker 9: approach of the police in this incident incident is ironic.
28:43
Speaker 9: Her position as Police and Crime Commissioner will not exist
28:45
Speaker 9: in the future. According to the Cities and Communities Acts
28:49
Speaker 9: of twenty sixteen and the Devolution White Paper of twenty
28:52
Speaker 9: twenty five, the powers of the Police and Crime Commissioners
28:55
Speaker 9: will be given over to the mayor's for climate and
28:57
Speaker 9: energy in the combined authorities, along with all the powers
29:00
Speaker 9: currently led by you know held by Westminster. This begs
29:05
Speaker 9: the question, really, where will this leave the people of
29:08
Speaker 9: the UK with their freedom of movement and rights to
29:10
Speaker 9: go about their business trampled on. It's nothing short of
29:14
Speaker 9: fascism in my view. Devolution is set to cost the
29:18
Speaker 9: taxpay over four hundred million. So let's look at what
29:21
Speaker 9: the devolution means straight from the Devolution White Paper and
29:25
Speaker 9: Angela Rayner has quoted, we will give mayor's strong powers
29:29
Speaker 9: over housing, planning, transport, energy, skills and employment, backed up
29:34
Speaker 9: with consolidated funding. Devolution will no longer be agreed at
29:39
Speaker 9: the whim of a minister in Whitehall, and Jim McMahon,
29:45
Speaker 9: you know, he was quoted as saying this white Paper
29:48
Speaker 9: initiates the biggest transfer of power out of Westminster to
29:52
Speaker 9: English regions this century. He also, you knows, he also
30:00
Speaker 9: so did mention another quote in the summary of the
30:05
Speaker 9: Devolution white Paper which I found interesting. He said, this
30:08
Speaker 9: is ambitious, but it's not new. This program of reform
30:12
Speaker 9: continues the work of the nineteen ninety seven governments onwards,
30:16
Speaker 9: which saw the formation of the Mayor of London, devolved
30:20
Speaker 9: parliaments of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and freedoms for
30:24
Speaker 9: local government with the creation of combined authorities the power
30:28
Speaker 9: of economic, social and environmental well being. Well, what he's
30:32
Speaker 9: really saying is it's the continuation of Tony Blair's legacy
30:35
Speaker 9: of devolution from nineteen ninety seven, which ended up with
30:38
Speaker 9: Northern Ireland in the Good Friday Agreement. In my view,
30:41
Speaker 9: he speaks of economic, social and environmental well being and
30:46
Speaker 9: I think what he really means is ESG, environmental and
30:49
Speaker 9: social governance. So that's my report from Bristol.
30:54
Speaker 1: But the key point here is Sandy that you know,
30:58
Speaker 1: lots of people will look at evolution and they'll think, well,
31:01
Speaker 1: this is a great thing. It's taking parer away from
31:03
Speaker 1: these idiots in Westminster, who are you know, clearly incapable
31:07
Speaker 1: of using it properly. It's bringing it to the local level.
31:10
Speaker 1: We will have more of a say in what happens
31:12
Speaker 1: at a local level. But in fact it's quite the opposite,
31:15
Speaker 1: because it's putting. We're just replacing a prime minister with
31:19
Speaker 1: an elected mayor who may be elected, but in fact
31:23
Speaker 1: is ideologically aligned with more global interests. And they have
31:30
Speaker 1: the election for the mayor sawn up just as tightly
31:33
Speaker 1: as they have for Westminster, so we will end up
31:35
Speaker 1: with someone who is basically untouchable.
31:39
Speaker 9: Absolutely, I mean one hundred percent. It's a trojan horse
31:43
Speaker 9: to actually remove the powers from Westminster, to destroy our
31:47
Speaker 9: representation government, even if they are I mean, yes they're
31:50
Speaker 9: not good, but at least you know you do have
31:53
Speaker 9: some sort of say, but with this lot you won't
31:55
Speaker 9: have any say at all.
31:56
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31:59
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33:35
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33:38
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33:42
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33:46
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33:50
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33:52
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Speaker 1: And Liz will be joining us on the News on Friday,
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33:59
Speaker 1: to hear more from her, and then Charles the Food
34:02
Speaker 1: Finder's Hub.
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Speaker 5: Yes, indeed, this was the sort of fallout and follow
34:07
Speaker 5: up action from the symposium that I referred to on Sunday,
34:11
Speaker 5: launched by Mark Byford, who spoke very well about it.
34:13
Speaker 5: This is a way of connecting producers of food with
34:18
Speaker 5: the consumer in a really, really direct way, So please
34:20
Speaker 5: do take a look at this.
34:21
Speaker 4: The link will be in the show notes.
34:23
Speaker 5: It's not to say that everything has to go through
34:25
Speaker 5: the food Finders Hub, but it's really just to understand
34:27
Speaker 5: the concept of dealing directly with farmers and the producers
34:31
Speaker 5: of food and cutting out all the influences that turn
34:34
Speaker 5: things bad.
34:36
Speaker 1: Brilliant, Thank you, Charles, and I let's move on then
34:39
Speaker 1: to European defense, and well, Ursula von de Lan is
34:43
Speaker 1: frankly off ahead and I mean really insane actually, so
34:46
Speaker 1: alime me tod demonstrate. Yesterday she was speaking to military
34:52
Speaker 1: cadets in Denmark about the future of war in Europe,
34:55
Speaker 1: and she announced what she called readiness twenty thirty because
34:59
Speaker 1: twenty thirty, as we've mentioned already, is a key deadline
35:02
Speaker 1: year for everyone. So she announced four priorities for ready
35:06
Speaker 1: as twenty thirty A surgeon defense spending with up to
35:09
Speaker 1: eight eight billion, sorry eight hundred billion euros. We talked
35:14
Speaker 1: about that over the last couple of weeks. This is
35:15
Speaker 1: her plan, and then we've got pan European cooperation was
35:20
Speaker 1: the next thing she was talking. That includes military mobility,
35:23
Speaker 1: which is what they describe as a functioning EU wide
35:26
Speaker 1: network of land corridors airports and seaports to facilitate the
35:30
Speaker 1: fast transportation of troops and military equipment. They don't call
35:34
Speaker 1: it this, but let's call it the Russian Front, because
35:36
Speaker 1: that's what it's all about. They're talking about, or she's
35:40
Speaker 1: talking about what she's calling a porcupine strategy for Ukraine,
35:44
Speaker 1: whatever that means, and maybe she means it's completely so
35:46
Speaker 1: bristling with missiles that it's dangerous to touch it or something.
35:50
Speaker 1: She talked about setting up a joint task force with Ukraine,
35:53
Speaker 1: and finally she talked about the other feature of European
35:57
Speaker 1: defens that we've been talking about for a long time,
35:59
Speaker 1: which was an EU white market for defense equipment and
36:02
Speaker 1: a single point procurement process. So this is the defense
36:06
Speaker 1: union that we've been warning about for fifteen years, and
36:08
Speaker 1: the war danger that comes with it is absolutely there
36:12
Speaker 1: for everyone to see. So how was she justifying this? Well,
36:16
Speaker 1: first of all, she had something to say about Greenland.
36:19
Speaker 1: Let's have a listen.
36:22
Speaker 11: Europe must get ready for war. I'm of course talking
36:26
Speaker 11: about the ongoing war in Ukraine and conflicts in other theaters,
36:32
Speaker 11: but also the repeated and continued attacks on critical infrastructure
36:36
Speaker 11: in the Baltic Sea, and of course the ongoing competition
36:40
Speaker 11: for influence in the Arctic region, including Greenland, and to
36:45
Speaker 11: all the people of Greenland and of Denmark as a whole,
36:48
Speaker 11: I want to be very clear that Europe will always
36:51
Speaker 11: stand for sovereignty and territorial integrity.
36:58
Speaker 1: Sovereignty and territory royal integrity was something that we're talking
37:01
Speaker 1: about with respect to Ukraine either talking about with respect
37:04
Speaker 1: to Greenland. Is their intention to seriously, you know, face
37:09
Speaker 1: off against the United States. I don't know, but this
37:12
Speaker 1: is this is unhinged language that she's using. She went
37:15
Speaker 1: on to talk about Trump's desire to reorient to China.
37:21
Speaker 7: Just take Russia.
37:22
Speaker 11: We already know its determination to deny other countries their
37:26
Speaker 11: right to choose their own path. And now Russia is
37:28
Speaker 11: on an irreversible path to creating a pure war economy.
37:34
Speaker 11: It has massively expanded its military industrial production capacity. Forty
37:39
Speaker 11: percent of the federal budget is spent on defense nine
37:44
Speaker 11: percent of its GDP, and this investment fuels its war
37:48
Speaker 11: of aggression in Ukraine while preparing it for future confrontation
37:53
Speaker 11: with European democracies. And just as these threats increase, we
37:58
Speaker 11: see our old partner, the United States move their focus
38:03
Speaker 11: to the Indo Pacific.
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Speaker 1: So we're going to talk about this much much more
38:10
Speaker 1: an extra I'm quite sure. But let's just listen to
38:13
Speaker 1: a final clip because she's absolutely determined. I mean, obviously,
38:16
Speaker 1: what Trump is doing here is justifying this move towards
38:20
Speaker 1: military integration in Europe. Let's listen to why her comments
38:24
Speaker 1: about when the United the Europe you need should act.
38:29
Speaker 11: The point is that we must see the world as
38:32
Speaker 11: it is, and we must act immediately to face up
38:35
Speaker 11: to it because a new international order will be formed
38:40
Speaker 11: in the second half of this decade and beyond. So
38:43
Speaker 11: as we stand here today, Europe faces a fundamental choice
38:48
Speaker 11: about its future. Do we keep reacting to each challenge
38:52
Speaker 11: in an incremental and cautious way, or are we ready
38:56
Speaker 11: to grasp this opportunity to build a more secure one
39:00
Speaker 11: that is prosperous, free and ready, willing and able to
39:05
Speaker 11: defend itself. Dear carrots, the answer is clear. The choice
39:10
Speaker 11: is none. Europe is ready to step up. We are
39:14
Speaker 11: ready to take control of the change that is inevitable
39:18
Speaker 11: because we cannot afford to be pushed around by history,
39:22
Speaker 11: and that means acting now is a must.
39:28
Speaker 1: So we got to act now, and not just to
39:29
Speaker 1: clarify the jump cuts that were in those three video clips.
39:32
Speaker 1: I wasn't cutting any words out of that, I was
39:34
Speaker 1: cutting out silences. So it was just to slightly compress
39:38
Speaker 1: the time that she said those words. But the words
39:41
Speaker 1: were in the order that she gave them. But in
39:43
Speaker 1: the meantime, as we've been reporting for a couple of weeks,
39:46
Speaker 1: and Yops was reporting on this again in Monday, Germany
39:50
Speaker 1: has been subverting its own constitution in order to enable
39:54
Speaker 1: Starmer and vonder Land to enable their war policy. Well
39:58
Speaker 1: yesterday it actually I did so. A two thirds majority
40:01
Speaker 1: in the budness Stag voted to allow these huge increases
40:05
Speaker 1: in defense and infrastructure spending. And this of course is
40:09
Speaker 1: going to exempt spending a war from Germany's otherwise strict
40:15
Speaker 1: debt rules, and it's going to create out of nothing
40:18
Speaker 1: something like five hundred billion euros of a war fund.
40:21
Speaker 1: The question now, or the question of whether to go
40:23
Speaker 1: ahead with this now moves to the upper house, the Bundesrat,
40:27
Speaker 1: which needs to approve the deal also by a two
40:31
Speaker 1: thirds majority before it actually becomes law, and that vote
40:33
Speaker 1: is going to happen on Friday. But as Patrick has
40:36
Speaker 1: been reporting, the incoming Chancellor, Friedrich Mertz, proposed these measures
40:42
Speaker 1: immediately following his election, when in one hundred and eighty
40:45
Speaker 1: degree reversal of the policy he campaigned on. So you know,
40:48
Speaker 1: this is wrong in so many levels as far as
40:51
Speaker 1: I can see. But finally on this topic for now,
40:54
Speaker 1: Kajat Kallus, who is the equivalent of the UEU Foreign Minister,
41:00
Speaker 1: the Special Representative, was in the UK this week to
41:04
Speaker 1: meet with John Hilly, who's the Secretary State for War
41:07
Speaker 1: and David Lammie, who's Foreign Secretary. Let's listen to what
41:11
Speaker 1: helly and callous had to say, KaiA welcome.
41:16
Speaker 12: This is a time when the demands of the moment
41:21
Speaker 12: mean European partners must come together, recognizing the NATO as
41:27
Speaker 12: our cornerstone of European security, but we need to do more.
41:32
Speaker 12: You and the Commission and the European Union are stepping
41:35
Speaker 12: up just as we are in the UK. We must
41:37
Speaker 12: step up together on European security and defense spending and
41:41
Speaker 12: on reinforcing our industrial basis.
41:43
Speaker 13: And to add to that it is more defense spending.
41:47
Speaker 13: How can we do more? But also how we can
41:51
Speaker 13: spend the money and more cleverly I mean the new technologies,
41:54
Speaker 13: what could be their innovation and the capabilities that we
41:59
Speaker 13: can develop further so that we could have a European
42:03
Speaker 13: security in really strong hands.
42:06
Speaker 12: Exactly so, and I think we can learn from what
42:09
Speaker 12: we have been involved in with supporting Ukraine, can't We
42:12
Speaker 12: We need our European defense industries to be able to
42:16
Speaker 12: innovate at the wartime pace. We need to make sure
42:19
Speaker 12: that what we spend on defense also drives economic growth
42:23
Speaker 12: on Ukraine. Now is also the time when we must
42:27
Speaker 12: maintain our strong support for Ukraine. We must not jeopardize
42:30
Speaker 12: the peace by forgetting about the war, and we will
42:35
Speaker 12: together reinforce our efforts to secure that peace.
42:38
Speaker 13: Because European security starts with the Ukraine right now, and
42:42
Speaker 13: that's why we need to support them to be able
42:45
Speaker 13: to defend themselves. So thank you very much for exactly questions.
42:49
Speaker 1: Thank you, Vanessa. These people are off their heads.
42:56
Speaker 7: That wasn't scripted at all.
43:00
Speaker 6: I mean, just listening to them is like I'm in
43:05
Speaker 6: the Truman Show or something. It's so disconnected from reality
43:10
Speaker 6: it's quite incredible.
43:13
Speaker 7: Sorry, I'm a bit speechless actually on this one.
43:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, move on with it, because we've got more
43:19
Speaker 1: from you on the UK and the corporation.
43:23
Speaker 6: Ah, yes, exactly. Well, I mean people will remember back
43:27
Speaker 6: in January, just after the international coup finally toppled the
43:32
Speaker 6: Syrian government and replaced it with al Qaeda. So Lammi
43:37
Speaker 6: was then saying that he discussed the importance of an
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Speaker 6: inclusive political transition and regional security with interim Syrian Foreign
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Speaker 6: Minister A Sad Shaibani. UK will support Syria's long term
43:49
Speaker 6: stability through humanitarian aid and coordination.
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Speaker 7: Of course they didn't.
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Speaker 6: They basically destabilized Syria to the maximum from about two
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Speaker 6: thousand and nine onwards. But let's look fast forward to
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Speaker 6: seventeenth March, UK pledges up to one hundred and sixteen
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Speaker 6: million to support Syria's recovery and stability in post to
44:10
Speaker 6: sad Era. The UK government has pledged one hundred and
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Speaker 6: sixteen million in aid. I always put that in inverted
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Speaker 6: commers to help stabilize should also be an inverted commerce
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Speaker 6: Syria following the fall of the Syrian government.
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Speaker 7: Let's have a look at what.
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Speaker 6: The actual Minister for the Middle East, Hamish Vulcan, has said,
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Speaker 6: UKA delivered through trusted UN and NGO partners, will provide
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Speaker 6: life saving support for Syrians, including refugees across the region.
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Speaker 7: Of course, Mike, we know who.
44:41
Speaker 6: Those trusted NGOs are, predominantly the White Helmets. We also
44:46
Speaker 6: know that there will be zero transparency about that one
44:49
Speaker 6: hundred and sixty million add to the previous millions, if
44:53
Speaker 6: not billions, that the UK has sent to support basically
44:57
Speaker 6: Al Qaeda and their White House helpers and all other
45:01
Speaker 6: NGOs associated with Al Kader in Syria, and then this
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Speaker 6: is quite interesting.
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Speaker 7: This was on the sixth of March. And update on
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Speaker 7: Syria lifting asset freezes on twenty four entities which includes the.
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Speaker 6: Syrian Airlines, the Syrian Central Bank. But interesting that they
45:20
Speaker 6: maintaining sanctions on the Asad family because of their alleged
45:25
Speaker 6: linked to the Captagon drug trade in Syria that we've
45:29
Speaker 6: covered quite a few times on UK column and debunked,
45:32
Speaker 6: particularly a BBC documentary accusing former President Assaid of being
45:39
Speaker 6: the head of the capt country. And interesting that there
45:42
Speaker 6: have been a number of arrests recently of drugs muddlers
45:46
Speaker 6: in Syria, so despite President has said no longer being present.
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Speaker 6: The most recent one Iraq's Interior Ministry an now Sunday
45:54
Speaker 6: the seizure of one point one tons of capticon and
45:56
Speaker 6: the arrest of a major cross border drug network in
46:00
Speaker 6: coordination with our Bill and Solimani Council Nicotic Units authorities.
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Speaker 6: Tractor truck going from Syria via Turkey.
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Speaker 7: So one of humes.
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Speaker 6: It's going from Idlib, which was previously under the control
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Speaker 6: of Jilani, who is now the honor elected self progained
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Speaker 6: president in Damascus, and it is one of the Iraq's
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Speaker 6: largest drug busts. So a few questions to be raised
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Speaker 6: over won the reason for the sanctions and to the
46:27
Speaker 6: propaganda regarding the capto con production in Syria. And then
46:32
Speaker 6: we move on back to Brussels and von de Lyon
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Speaker 6: and the whole team there. This is standing with Syria
46:39
Speaker 6: donor conference in Brussels that ended I think a couple
46:42
Speaker 6: of days ago, and who was invited the interim Foreign Minister,
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Speaker 6: who of course was previously al Qaeda.
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Speaker 7: I know that we've mentioned this before.
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Speaker 6: He was actually a founder of al Qaeda in Syria,
46:57
Speaker 6: named back in December as a caretaker foreign minister. I
47:00
Speaker 6: know I keep repeating this, but I do think it's
47:03
Speaker 6: quite important. And here is a picture of him on
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Speaker 6: the right or left, depending on how you're looking at it.
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Speaker 6: I think that was at the WEF in Dubus and
47:14
Speaker 6: on the left as an acting al Qaeda and formerly
47:18
Speaker 6: ISIS member carrying out a trustees against Syrian civilians. And
47:22
Speaker 6: of course he did meet kaya Hadas. Sorry, I'm putting
47:29
Speaker 6: on the Arabic Alexent bilateral meeting between Foreign Minister said
47:33
Speaker 6: al Shaivarni and EU High Representative Kayak Callis on the
47:37
Speaker 6: sidelines of the Brussels Donor conference on Syria. So again
47:41
Speaker 6: the EU and their various representatives embracing al Qaeda members
47:48
Speaker 6: in Brussels, and of course they're also opping the ANTI
47:53
Speaker 6: and their funding for Syria. The EU and its partners,
47:57
Speaker 6: Kayak Cullis says, just fledged by ero point eight billion
48:01
Speaker 6: for Syria and its neighbors. This will support Syria at
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Speaker 6: a crucial time of transition and address the dion needs
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Speaker 6: on the ground. This is a chance for the people
48:10
Speaker 6: of Syria to seize the moment and shape their own destiny.
48:15
Speaker 6: But I just want to move on to as said
48:17
Speaker 6: Chaivanes's actual speech that he made, where again he was
48:22
Speaker 6: blaming he was basically reiterating the propaganda that has sustained
48:26
Speaker 6: the regime change war for the UK, the EU and
48:29
Speaker 6: the US against Syria since twenty eleven, that it was
48:33
Speaker 6: all the fault of the minorities, and President is sad.
48:36
Speaker 7: He states that the age of tyranny is over.
48:39
Speaker 6: We have sworn an oath to our people that the
48:41
Speaker 6: age of oppression has.
48:43
Speaker 7: Passed and will not return.
48:45
Speaker 6: And he goes on, he says, and as is the
48:49
Speaker 6: case now, I've put in brackets there, the unelected al
48:53
Speaker 6: Qaedo Syrian government remains the sole guarante or of civil peace.
48:58
Speaker 6: Will really, I mean, last week we talked about the
49:01
Speaker 6: ethnic cleansing and the effect of genocide that's being conducted
49:04
Speaker 6: by HTS, and it's various foreign mercenary, fanatical extremists, terrorist
49:11
Speaker 6: groups against the people in the coastal area, particularly Christians
49:16
Speaker 6: and other whites, but even against Sunny Muslims who are
49:20
Speaker 6: protesting massacres of Syrian athero whites.
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Speaker 7: So I just want to play this video.
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Speaker 6: Of a lady who was being interviewed in Jablet on
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Speaker 6: the coastal area in Syria.
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Speaker 14: Zero the Idians that the hell bob.
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Speaker 7: A lot.
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Speaker 4: What I was done.
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Speaker 14: But we're not SUPs Loll's song.
50:25
Speaker 7: The massacres are continuing.
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Speaker 6: Houses, apartments, shops are being looted and burned, and there
50:32
Speaker 6: are is now talk of displacing all of the Alla
50:34
Speaker 6: white civilians and replacing them with sunny Muslim extremist actions
50:40
Speaker 6: to actually sort of reconstitute that area of Syria. And
50:45
Speaker 6: I just wanted to quickly show this rather than another
50:48
Speaker 6: execution video. This is a kid in Alba being given
50:53
Speaker 6: a semi automatic I think it is by an HTS fighter.
50:58
Speaker 6: This is how the children in Syria are being indoctrinated.
51:19
Speaker 6: So I would also ask when to the UK or
51:22
Speaker 6: EU pledge money to actually.
51:24
Speaker 7: Alleviate the problems in the target countries.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, good question, Faness, A good question. Thank you for that.
51:30
Speaker 1: And Sandy sticking with EU and UK. Nigel Fries is
51:36
Speaker 1: pretty silent, and but what are what's going on with
51:39
Speaker 1: respect to our potential rejoining.
51:42
Speaker 9: Well, Keir Starmer, as we know, has been strengthening ties
51:46
Speaker 9: with EU without allegedly reversing Brexit. I mean he's proposing
51:51
Speaker 9: an EU security packed you know, UK EU SE security
51:55
Speaker 9: packed with the collaboration on defense and intelligence matters, aiming
52:00
Speaker 9: to bolston NATO all that kind of thing, the stuff
52:03
Speaker 9: that we've been talking about. He's now in May, on
52:07
Speaker 9: May the nineteenth, twenty twenty five, he's hosting an EU
52:09
Speaker 9: Leaders for post Brexits summit, and this is the first
52:14
Speaker 9: summit obviously since Brexit, to explore avenues for deeper cooperation
52:18
Speaker 9: and to reset relations between the UK and the EU,
52:23
Speaker 9: you know, engaging in bilateral talks with the E with
52:25
Speaker 9: key EU nations, He's engaged in discussions with the leaders
52:29
Speaker 9: like German Chancellor Olaf Schultz and French President Emmanuel Macron
52:34
Speaker 9: to negotiate bilateral agreements focusing on defense, energy, security and
52:38
Speaker 9: scientific collaboration. So he's advocating for closer economic ties whilst
52:45
Speaker 9: apparently ruling out rejoining the EU, and he seeks to
52:48
Speaker 9: improve economic relations by addressing trade barriers and all that,
52:51
Speaker 9: you know, the recognition of agreements to facilitate smoother trade
52:55
Speaker 9: between the UK and the EU member states without allegedly
53:00
Speaker 9: reversing Brexit. But yesterday, on Monday, this was published on
53:06
Speaker 9: Monday from the House of Commons Library that on Monday,
53:10
Speaker 9: the twenty fifth of March, at four point thirty, there'll
53:13
Speaker 9: be a debate in Westminster Hall on E Petition seven
53:18
Speaker 9: zero zero zero zero five on applying to join the EU.
53:22
Speaker 9: The debate will be led by Paul Davis MP. So
53:25
Speaker 9: as we all thought, Starma is you know he's determined
53:29
Speaker 9: to reverse Brexit and debate on US rejoining.
53:36
Speaker 1: Yes, and it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone really,
53:40
Speaker 1: but yes, I believe that's what's happening. So Charles, let's
53:43
Speaker 1: come back to you then, and well, what's going on
53:47
Speaker 1: with the police.
53:50
Speaker 5: Well, as ever, never quite the right thing. And we
53:54
Speaker 5: have our attention drawn to this by the tribunal that's
53:57
Speaker 5: been going on in Croydon last week shown here by
54:01
Speaker 5: sex Matters, who have described it as the tribunal concerning
54:05
Speaker 5: and particularly they're reporting on the anonymity of a witness.
54:09
Speaker 5: Now that's not actually specifically what I want to go into,
54:11
Speaker 5: but this concerns Melanie Newman, and Metropolitan Police Service employee
54:15
Speaker 5: who submitted a statement of evidence that goes back to
54:19
Speaker 5: twenty twenty three. And I think this really just lays
54:21
Speaker 5: bare the intentional destruction of the public services, which I'll
54:25
Speaker 5: go on to qualify now she was in twenty twenty
54:30
Speaker 5: three signed up for what's called the Transgender Day of
54:34
Speaker 5: Visibility and In her statement, she makes the following. Well,
54:42
Speaker 5: she describes what it is that she thought in the workplace,
54:45
Speaker 5: and she is very explicit in her belief She says,
54:48
Speaker 5: I have gender critical beliefs, by which I mean that
54:50
Speaker 5: I know there are two sexes with immutable biological differences
54:54
Speaker 5: between them. I believe sex segregation and recording is essential
54:59
Speaker 5: in some circumstance answers to ensure female safety and equality opportunity, sorry,
55:03
Speaker 5: an equal opportunity, in much the same way that people
55:06
Speaker 5: are routinely segregated and classified by age. So it's important
55:10
Speaker 5: to note she's giving the policing context there, and she
55:14
Speaker 5: goes on to say, I view this classification as particularly
55:17
Speaker 5: important in the criminal justice sphere. Male's, irrespective of self identification,
55:22
Speaker 5: make up the vast majority of violent and sexual crime suspects, defendants,
55:28
Speaker 5: and convicted offenders. She also went on to say that
55:33
Speaker 5: she believes very much in freedom of speech and expression,
55:38
Speaker 5: which presumably kind of endeared her to the Metropolitan Boluek
55:42
Speaker 5: Service or perhaps the tribunal itself. But the point really
55:48
Speaker 5: in all of this is that it teases out the
55:51
Speaker 5: fact that really what we're dealing with is an ideology
55:56
Speaker 5: and nothing to do with the way in which a
55:58
Speaker 5: police service should be able to conduct itself, and just
56:01
Speaker 5: to go on to give a flavor of what happened
56:04
Speaker 5: during this training, there were two transactivists there speaking. One
56:09
Speaker 5: I might get the name wrong, it might be Shaer
56:12
Speaker 5: Coffee reposted a video on Twitter of Posey Parker being
56:16
Speaker 5: assaulted at a Let Women Speak event in New Zealand
56:19
Speaker 5: with a caption saying this was hilarious. And another one
56:23
Speaker 5: called Eva Echo, who spoke in hyperbolic terms about need
56:26
Speaker 5: to save trans people from gender critical people with quote
56:30
Speaker 5: warped twisted views end quote, but never identified the nature
56:34
Speaker 5: of the risk. He advised on how to dismiss concerns
56:38
Speaker 5: about trans women in female only spaces, and spoke about
56:41
Speaker 5: the government and media in a conspiratorial manner. Now, I
56:47
Speaker 5: think really one thing that's come out of the tribunal.
56:52
Speaker 5: We yet to see the full transcript. It's hard to
56:54
Speaker 5: know exactly which way it would have gone, what the
56:56
Speaker 5: significance is. But certainly a senior police officer they're speaking
57:01
Speaker 5: at tribunal wouldn't even commit to saying that there was
57:05
Speaker 5: an identifiable link between the male sex and violent crime.
57:11
Speaker 5: So that is the degree to which the police psyche
57:15
Speaker 5: and modus operandi has been infected by this kind of ideology.
57:19
Speaker 5: And I would say this points back to the Equality
57:22
Speaker 5: Act twenty ten, which is now to be seen to
57:26
Speaker 5: be doing that which it was intended for, which is
57:30
Speaker 5: really to create division, confusion, the breakdown of the family unit,
57:34
Speaker 5: and particularly hypocrisy and contradiction in both law and the workplace.
57:38
Speaker 5: And I think really what this comes to is the
57:43
Speaker 5: use of the positive action as enabled by sections one
57:47
Speaker 5: five eight and one five nine.
57:49
Speaker 4: Of the Equality Act, which are.
57:52
Speaker 5: Contextualized by this phrase, which is participation in an activity
57:57
Speaker 5: by persons who share a protected characteristic that is disproportionately low. So,
58:02
Speaker 5: although it's an absurd example, this means that you could
58:05
Speaker 5: manipulate the situation in order to justify, for example, putting
58:11
Speaker 5: more pregnant women into frontline soldiering, because of course they
58:15
Speaker 5: would be represented in a disproportionately low fashion. So once
58:19
Speaker 5: you've done that manipulation, it allows you to go over anything,
58:24
Speaker 5: regardless of whether it's appropriate or suitable or even desirable
58:27
Speaker 5: by the people who are looking for employment, into a
58:29
Speaker 5: position where as an employer, you can treat a person
58:32
Speaker 5: more favorably in connection with recruitment or promotion than another person,
58:36
Speaker 5: because person A has the protected characteristic but person B
58:41
Speaker 5: does not. And so with that in mind, we should
58:44
Speaker 5: look at this lady here, Emma Dunn, who is the
58:49
Speaker 5: chair of a Gender just spelt a colon and then gender,
58:53
Speaker 5: but of course it is an a gender and in
58:56
Speaker 5: her profile there it describes her as being the chair
58:59
Speaker 5: of a Gender, the Cross Government network supporting trans and
59:02
Speaker 5: intersect staff across government. Emma is intersects and identifies as female.
59:07
Speaker 5: Her pronouns are she, her or they them most confusing,
59:11
Speaker 5: But the point is this organization agender. It sits within
59:16
Speaker 5: central government. And given what I've just said about the
59:18
Speaker 5: Equality Act and the clauses that enable positive action, and
59:23
Speaker 5: the way in which the Metropolitan Police Service has treated
59:26
Speaker 5: its own employees with regard to indoctrination around in this
59:30
Speaker 5: case gender issues and indeed the protected characteristics parst of,
59:34
Speaker 5: it's very hard to see how the government itself is
59:37
Speaker 5: not weaponizing the Equality Act in order to unlawfully positively
59:42
Speaker 5: discriminate in order to pursue this ideology. Now, obviously, if
59:47
Speaker 5: anything significant is to come out of the results of
59:50
Speaker 5: the tribunal then I'll report back on that. But I
59:53
Speaker 5: think this gives a very good insight into the incredibly
59:56
Speaker 5: corrosive influences that are attacking police from all sides, and
1:00:00
Speaker 5: in a completely intentional manner.
1:00:03
Speaker 1: Thank you, Charles, thank you. We're just going to end
1:00:05
Speaker 1: then with this bit.
1:00:07
Speaker 7: Well.
1:00:07
Speaker 1: On Friday, I was talking about the fact that Elon
1:00:09
Speaker 1: Musk and the US SORRY in the US is running
1:00:13
Speaker 1: his doge operation to cut bureaucracy right across the federal government,
1:00:16
Speaker 1: and just a few weeks later, as I mentioned on Friday,
1:00:18
Speaker 1: Starmer had announced effectively the same policy with the NHS
1:00:22
Speaker 1: England the first to fall. Here's the next effort then,
1:00:26
Speaker 1: because they're cutting government waste apparently, and they're going to
1:00:30
Speaker 1: cut up a bunch of credit cards. Twenty thousand credit
1:00:34
Speaker 1: cards so far is what They're intended to cut up,
1:00:37
Speaker 1: or at least freeze them so they can't be used.
1:00:39
Speaker 1: And then they're going to make anyone that wants to
1:00:41
Speaker 1: use a credit card in the civil service I'm talking
1:00:44
Speaker 1: about here, they're going to make them reapply for their
1:00:47
Speaker 1: credit cards. So, according to the Cabinet Office, who's behind
1:00:49
Speaker 1: this great innovation, their aim has reduced a number of
1:00:53
Speaker 1: active cards around ten thousand. They haven't been able to
1:00:57
Speaker 1: give the quality reports of Ringe's spending that Musk was
1:01:01
Speaker 1: able to do, and the examples they gave them weren't
1:01:04
Speaker 1: talking about millions or hundreds of thousands. Even They spoke
1:01:08
Speaker 1: about one two hundred pounds spent on luxury coffee pods
1:01:13
Speaker 1: by one team in two months, and eighteen hundred pounds
1:01:16
Speaker 1: on a quote value for money. Course absolutely shocking. So
1:01:20
Speaker 1: rest assured as the as the Prime Minister said out
1:01:23
Speaker 1: last week, he will be making sure that every pound
1:01:27
Speaker 1: spent delivers for us. What a nice man. I'm not
1:01:30
Speaker 1: sure what it's intending to deliver. Perhaps missiles on our
1:01:33
Speaker 1: heads is where we're heading, but we'll talk more about
1:01:37
Speaker 1: that in extra as well. We're going to end there.
1:01:39
Speaker 1: I'm going to say thank you very much to Vanessa,
1:01:42
Speaker 1: Charles and Sandy for joining us today. Thank you for
1:01:44
Speaker 1: joining us. Stick around at a UK column for some extra.
1:01:48
Speaker 1: We'll see in a few minutes. Otherwise, enjoy the interview
1:01:51
Speaker 1: at one pm tomorrow and we'll see you on Friday.
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Speaker 4: Bye bye,