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UK Column News — 21st August 2026 · UK Column Radio

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon. Today is Friday, the twenty first of August
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, just after one o'clock. Welcome to UK
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Speaker 1: column News. I'm your host, Brian Gerrish. Delighted to have
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Speaker 1: Basil Valentine with me in the studio. Basil, welcome, quesse Brian,
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Speaker 1: great to be here. It's great to be here. So
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Speaker 1: a different combination for our audience to enjoy, never seen before. Indeed,
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Speaker 1: now we have got a pretty packed news today. There
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Speaker 1: are so many things happening in UK. We've decided that
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Speaker 1: the Hillsborough Report is of particular interest because effectively we've
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Speaker 1: got the government trying to reassure the Hillsborough families that
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Speaker 1: they're going to change their spots and start telling the
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Speaker 1: truth and be transparent. So we'll be taking a little
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Speaker 1: bit of a look at that. We're also coupled with
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Speaker 1: that being having a look at Labour's really track record
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Speaker 1: and view on information and freedom of information. And I
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Speaker 1: have to give our audience a warning that will include
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Speaker 1: pictures of Tony Blair, so if you're a weak disposition,
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Speaker 1: please turn away. We're going to follow up on asylum,
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Speaker 1: which of course is such a major issue, but particularly
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Speaker 1: with the crazy guidance that recently come out about rape
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Speaker 1: and who you can touch and who you need to
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Speaker 1: get consent from before you take action in an inappropriate direction.
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Speaker 1: We're going to be looking at the clampdown on Palestine
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Speaker 1: action and this is all part of really the government's
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Speaker 1: clamp down on free speech. We're delighted to have a
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Speaker 1: guest with us today, that's Peter Ford, former UK Ambassador
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Speaker 1: to Syria. That will be a very interesting discussion and
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Speaker 1: we'll leave you with a little bit of suspense in
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Speaker 1: that and Buzz, you're going to be ending with you
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Speaker 1: missed it?
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Speaker 2: So yes, that's right, the entertaining stories from the news
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Speaker 2: screed of the week that people may have missed, and
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Speaker 2: it ends with it's worth staying at the end of
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Speaker 2: the program today because the last sliding in case you
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Speaker 2: missed it might and finally had our researcher Jimma Cooper
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Speaker 2: laughing out loud as indeed had you Branton, which is
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Speaker 2: a good end for Friday exactly. So we end on
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Speaker 2: a very funny note today.
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Speaker 1: Okay, well, let's kick off with Hillsborough and thank thank
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Speaker 1: you Basil for picking up on this one. So here's
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Speaker 1: the headline it's from the classified but it says can
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Speaker 1: Andy Burnham make MI I five respect the Hillsborough Law.
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Speaker 1: And if you are curious as to what this is about,
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Speaker 1: well it's all off the back of the Hillsborough disaster
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Speaker 1: from nineteen eighty nine, when some ninety seven people died
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Speaker 1: as a result of a crush really in the football stadium,
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Speaker 1: Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, and of course in the events
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Speaker 1: that followed, the key factor was that the police lied
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Speaker 1: about what had taken place. They attempted to blame the fans,
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Speaker 1: and it was only later in the twenty sixteen Hillsborough
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Speaker 1: in Quest where they concluded that this hadn't been as
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Speaker 1: a result of a failure by the fans, and so
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Speaker 1: the emphasis of failure was put back on the state
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Speaker 1: and in particular the police. But I think we can
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Speaker 1: say basil that as that horrible event took place and
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Speaker 1: we saw how not only the police but the government behaved,
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Speaker 1: it was clear to us that we were not living
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Speaker 1: in any sort of democracy where the government was going
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Speaker 1: to be telling the truth. Now I just bring up
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Speaker 1: on screen this is part of a sort of explanatory
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Speaker 1: document about what the the Hillsborough Bill effectively will do so.
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Speaker 1: It's talking about a duty of candor. It's talking about
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Speaker 1: parity of arms in coroner's investigation, public inquiries, legal aid,
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Speaker 1: expanding legal aid, it's talking about misconduct in public office,
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Speaker 1: legal background, and then the extent and application. So this
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Speaker 1: is only just a brief summary here for the UK
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Speaker 1: column viewers, but you can see that there's quite a
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Speaker 1: lot that they're talking about. And I think there's about
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Speaker 1: seventy odd ages of this altogether, so apparently they're going
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Speaker 1: to change their spots. Basle is this well.
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Speaker 2: On the face of it, this is a positive piece
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Speaker 2: of legislation. It aims to improve transparency among public officials,
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Speaker 2: particularly with respect to major events. It's called the Public
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Speaker 2: Office Accountability Bill. The Commons passed in July. Itx expected
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Speaker 2: to go through the Lords in September. The key elements
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Speaker 2: include whether or not I five and six officers will
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Speaker 2: be required to tell the truth about so called deep events,
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Speaker 2: and indeed this delayed the passage of the bill. When
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Speaker 2: seeing it, five and six officers insisted that it shouldn't
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Speaker 2: apply to them. Within their view, disclosures would damage quotes
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Speaker 2: national security.
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Speaker 3: That old one again. Brian A.
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Speaker 2: Compromise has finally been reached, whereby an intelligence officer will
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Speaker 2: be protected from revealing the truth if that means breaching
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Speaker 2: the official secret sect. So theoretically, at least, yes, this
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Speaker 2: will mean greater accountability, greater transparency from public officials with
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Speaker 2: respect to major events. Of course, it's unlikely we're going
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Speaker 2: to see it retrospectively applied to things like seven to
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Speaker 2: seven Brian, where, of course, disgracefully we never had a
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Speaker 2: public inquiry into the Beginningy COVID really exactly, So, inasmuch
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Speaker 2: as it goes as far as it does, it is
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Speaker 2: to be welcomed. But as you're about to say, the
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Speaker 2: best thing Tony bled was bringing the Freedom of Information Act,
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Speaker 2: something he now regrets. So it rains to be seen
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Speaker 2: the extent to which this legislation is actually used for
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Speaker 2: the benefit of the general public, because it might just
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Speaker 2: turn out to be window dressing.
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Speaker 1: Or propaganda, possibly fazzil. Thank you for that. I just
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Speaker 1: wanted to add that, of course, we need to remember
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Speaker 1: the COVIT Human Intelligence Sources Criminal Conduct Act of twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty one, in which the government passed a law giving
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Speaker 1: it and its agents the ability to break the law
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Speaker 1: at will. So my feeling was from the passage, the
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Speaker 1: date of the passage of that particular bill onwards, we
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Speaker 1: were living in a lawless state where the government really
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Speaker 1: might obey the lawa it might not so consider Hillsborough
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Speaker 1: on the back of that. But let's move on through.
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Speaker 1: And I just want to remind people that a little
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Speaker 1: while ago I did an interview with a remarkable man,
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Speaker 1: Martin Brighton. He was talking about corruption within labor administrations,
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Speaker 1: in particular in cities across UK, with a focus on Sheffield.
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Speaker 1: And so really this was about labor denial and cover ups, fraud,
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Speaker 1: corruption with and alongside common purpose And why is this
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Speaker 1: so important to remember this? Well, of course labor is
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Speaker 1: now saying, via the Hillsborough Bill, they're going to be
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Speaker 1: telling the truth from here on. Well, Martin Brighton has
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Speaker 1: been working over a great many years to ask some
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Speaker 1: simple questions, including one of Keir Starmer. And in this one,
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Speaker 1: this little excerpt, he says, I've written to you, Keir Starmer,
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Speaker 1: via your various contacts and offices, since the twenty ninth
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Speaker 1: of December twenty twenty five concerning your alleged cover up
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Speaker 1: of child's exploitation and to date you have failed to respond.
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Speaker 1: So we're getting a full example here of how the
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Speaker 1: government at the highest level responds when it's asked to
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Speaker 1: reveal information which could be incriminating, and the result is silence.
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Speaker 1: But in this particular case, there was one particular letter
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Speaker 1: of considerable importance and this had come from the Police
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Speaker 1: and Crime Commissioner and it was on the subject of
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Speaker 1: Cyril Smith. So this was asking questions about the Cyril
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Speaker 1: Smith affair of Keir Starmer. So this letter did not
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Speaker 1: get a reply. So we're back to twenty twelve and
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Speaker 1: we're into a complete mier. So let's expand this on screen.
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Speaker 1: And what did the letter from the Police Commissioner say.
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Speaker 1: Dear mister Stalmer, I refer to my recent comments regarding
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Speaker 1: Cyril Smith and the lack of transparency as to why
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Speaker 1: he was not prosecuted in nineteen seventy for child abuse charges.
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Speaker 1: I would like from yourself on behalf of the public
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Speaker 1: in Greater Manchester a detailed explanation as to why Cyril
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Speaker 1: Smith was not prosecuted despite there being an eighty page
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Speaker 1: file of police evidence supporting these allegations. It went on
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Speaker 1: to say that I understand there's been substantive changes, the
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Speaker 1: means of prosecution, etc. All of this needs clarification and
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Speaker 1: finally down here I therefore ask that you complete a
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Speaker 1: thorough investigation as to what went wrong. And whilst it's
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Speaker 1: too late to really do anything for the victims, we
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Speaker 1: can at least reassure them this will never happen again.
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Speaker 1: So this is the heart of the government being asked
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Speaker 1: about a very serious, serious matter, which is the abuse children.
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Speaker 1: And the topic is this labor denial and the continuum
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Speaker 1: covered up around Cyril Smith. Well, eventually Martin Brighton had
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Speaker 1: to write to Ellie Reeves MP asking if she could
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Speaker 1: provide the reply that had been sent to the request
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Speaker 1: of the late Tony Lloyd. That's the letter we've just
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Speaker 1: shown and of course nothing really happened. And then the
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Speaker 1: whole thing goes through to the labor complaints procedure and
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Speaker 1: what is the language used. Well, thank you very much.
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Speaker 1: You now need to make a complaint and we can
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Speaker 1: actually manage this complaint through our website so that it
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Speaker 1: goes essentially into the long grass and the language goes on.
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Speaker 1: If the conduct behavior complaining about wasn't directed you specifically,
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Speaker 1: you're unlikely to hear anything further after you've submitted your complaint.
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Speaker 1: So it's a self policing and cover up organization. And
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Speaker 1: of course this is the very organization, the Labor Administration,
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Speaker 1: which has spawned Alie Burnham. Can we expect transparency? We
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Speaker 1: think not. But you gave a little bit of a
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Speaker 1: spoiler at their buzzle. So let's put Tony Blair on
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Speaker 1: screen and what is the subject. Well, we're going way back.
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Speaker 1: We're fifteen years We're going back to a Guardian interview
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Speaker 1: with Tony Blair and this was back on the subject
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Speaker 1: of labor denial and cover ups, fraud, corruption, common Purpose
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Speaker 1: and the Freedom of Information Act. Now let's have a
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Speaker 1: look at what Tony Blair said to the Guardian. He said,
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Speaker 1: freedom of information. I'm slightly tongue in cheek about it.
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Speaker 1: He went on with a bit more. I beg your pardon.
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Speaker 1: Let's just come back here. It seemed to have lost
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Speaker 1: that one. Let's just bring this through on the screen again.
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Speaker 1: When it comes to the working of government at the
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Speaker 1: highest level, you've got to be able to have a
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Speaker 1: completely frank conversation in cabinet committees between civil servants and
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Speaker 1: their ministers, where things can be reduced to writing and analyzed.
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Speaker 1: And he further went on to say, whether you're in
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Speaker 1: business or in running a newspaper, there are conversations that
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Speaker 1: you want to have preliminary to taking decisions that are
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Speaker 1: frank conversations. And if those conversations then are put out
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Speaker 1: in a published form that afterwards are liable to be
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Speaker 1: highlighted in particular ways, you're going to be very cautious.
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Speaker 1: What he was saying was he was feeling nervous about
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Speaker 1: the Freedom of Informatation Act, but when he was talking
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Speaker 1: to the Guardian he seemed to have forgot that he
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Speaker 1: wasn't actually running a business or a newspaper. He was
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Speaker 1: supposed to be heading an accountable government. But as far
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Speaker 1: as that Guardian report, Tony Blair mealy mouth but said yes,
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Speaker 1: the freedom of him was a little bit of a problem.
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Speaker 1: Contrast what the Guardian reported with what Tony Blair had
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Speaker 1: to say in his own autobiography. Let's just call a
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Speaker 1: bit up on screen freedom of information. Three harmless words.
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Speaker 1: I look at these words as I write them and
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Speaker 1: feel like shaking my head till it drops off my shoulders.
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Speaker 1: He goes on to say, you idiot, you naive, foolish,
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Speaker 1: irresponsible income boot will give him a tick for that,
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Speaker 1: because clearly he's describing himself accurately. But this is where
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Speaker 1: it gets very interesting. There's really no description of stupidity,
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Speaker 1: no matter how vivid that is adequate. I quake at
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Speaker 1: the embecility of it. So Tony Blair quakes at the
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Speaker 1: thought of what truth should and could have come to
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Speaker 1: the surface during his reign, and he realized that as
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Speaker 1: far as covering up the truth of Freedom of Information
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Speaker 1: Act was a huge mistake. But the reality is that
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Speaker 1: at present that it's a controlling influence as well. So
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Speaker 1: I'll just bring in that very quickly. In the Labor administration,
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Speaker 1: if that was the lack of transparency under Blair one
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Speaker 1: point zero, we've now got Blair two point zero with
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Speaker 1: Andy Burnham and the intermediary somewhere between the two was
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Speaker 1: Keir Starmer, who we saw challenged over Cyril Smith at
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Speaker 1: the start of the news And basically it's three iterations,
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Speaker 1: but we're dealing with the same labor lies. And what
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Speaker 1: has happened to mister Martin Brightens as a result of
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Speaker 1: his questioned well his home was broken into by South
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Speaker 1: Yorkshire Police and all of his evidence of the cover
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Speaker 1: up child abuse was taken, all of his electronic devices taken,
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Speaker 1: thirty years of work gone, so I think was that
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Speaker 1: that was coming up to a year ago now and
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Speaker 1: none of that material has been returned. So we have
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Speaker 1: a law which says the police amongst other government agents
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Speaker 1: can break the law out their discretion, and we have
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Speaker 1: the stealing of evidence in order to help cover up
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Speaker 1: child of views. It's pretty apparent that we're in a
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Speaker 1: lawless society, bus all.
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Speaker 3: I think.
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Speaker 2: Speaking of lawless societies, Bran, some new guidance has been
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Speaker 2: issued by our esteemed government for asylum seekers and how
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Speaker 2: they should behave. It's entitled Understanding Behaviors and Expectations in
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Speaker 2: the UK and Guide for asylum Seekers. Well, so far,
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Speaker 2: so good, and it goes on living in the UK.
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Speaker 2: You are in the United Kingdom UK because you are
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Speaker 2: seeking asylum. We understand that coming to a new country
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Speaker 2: can be difficult and that laws and customs here may
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Speaker 2: be different from your home country. Okay. Gender equality in
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Speaker 2: the UK, men and women have equal rights. This is
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Speaker 2: an important part of UK culture and is protected by law.
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Speaker 2: Women can work and earn their own money, studying and
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Speaker 2: go to university, travel freely, choose who they marry or
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Speaker 2: not to marry, make their own decisions about their lives.
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Speaker 2: Women do not need permission from a husband, father, or
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Speaker 2: brother or any other man to do any of these things.
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Speaker 2: Men and women are treated equally by the law, by employers,
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Speaker 2: by schools, and by services like hospitals and the police.
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Speaker 2: It is against the law to treat someone fairly because
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Speaker 2: of their gender. This all obviously needs explaining, particularly with
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Speaker 2: respect to sex and consent. Consent means both people freely
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Speaker 2: agree to sex or sexual contact. In the UK, the
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Speaker 2: law is clear and strict. Both people mist to greet
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Speaker 2: to sex of any kind. This means both people must
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Speaker 2: say yes freely without any threat or pressure. Someone may
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Speaker 2: chase their mind at any time, even if they said
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Speaker 2: yes before. If someone is asleep, drunk, or unable to respond,
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Speaker 2: they cannot consent. If you have sex with someone without
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Speaker 2: their consent, this is called rape. Rape is a serious
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Speaker 2: crime in the UK. You could go to prison, Brian,
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Speaker 2: lose your support and accommodation, and it will affect your
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Speaker 2: asylum claim. What gets me there, of course, is the
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Speaker 2: use of the conditional You could go to prison. I
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Speaker 2: wonder if in their defense, an asylum seeker accused of
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Speaker 2: rape may point to this guidance and say, well, I
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Speaker 2: was only told I could go to.
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Speaker 1: Prison, so English is not my first language, I read
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Speaker 1: it and didn't understand it properly. That would be a
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Speaker 1: credible defense, I think exactly. So what is expected of
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Speaker 1: the asylum seeker.
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Speaker 2: You're expected to always make sure the other person freely
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Speaker 2: and clearly agrees to sexual sexual concept, Never use threat,
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Speaker 2: force or pressure.
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Speaker 3: Never time to have sex.
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Speaker 2: With someone who is just sleep drunk or unable to consent,
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Speaker 2: and stop if they say no or change their mind.
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Speaker 2: It all obviously needs to be spelled out, as does
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Speaker 2: the legal age of consent, which is sixteen. Of course, again,
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Speaker 2: sex with someone under the age of sixteen is a
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Speaker 2: serious crime in the UK.
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Speaker 3: There are no exceptions to this rule.
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Speaker 2: Even if they say yes, it is still illegal you
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Speaker 2: could go to prison. So, in other words, you might
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Speaker 2: go to prison for committing what the government themselves are
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Speaker 2: saying is a serious crime. Does that apply to other
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Speaker 2: serious crimes that you may or may not go to prison?
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Speaker 1: You know who knows? In this day and age, basil
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Speaker 1: what of course, The other thing is that of course,
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Speaker 1: the resuiding population are constantly told and have been for
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Speaker 1: many years, that ignorance of the law is no excuse.
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Speaker 1: But now we've got a special case and a lot
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Speaker 1: of people very very offended by this pamphlet by the government.
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Speaker 2: Exactly and finally respect in public how we're all supposed
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Speaker 2: to behave You apparently are not allowed to whistle at
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Speaker 2: people or make kissing noises. I remember when whistling was
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Speaker 2: regarded with some was regarded with some joviality. Mike, do
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Speaker 2: you know what I mean? All that's gone follow somebody,
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Speaker 2: I'll block their path, make or rude or offensive justice,
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Speaker 2: or verbally abuse somebody because of their gender, religion.
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Speaker 3: Or how they look.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'm very glad the government have spent it, spelled
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Speaker 2: it all out for all of us, not just a
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Speaker 2: silence seekers there, right, and that's we all need. We
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Speaker 2: all need to abide by these new guidelines our behavior,
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Speaker 2: which I think have come from the Nudge unit at
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Speaker 2: the Home Office.
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Speaker 1: Indeed, I would guess so completely outrageous. And of course
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Speaker 1: what it also signifies is that there is a problem
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Speaker 1: for this particular group of people. They need to be
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Speaker 1: targeted with a leaflet telling them to behave themselves. So
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Speaker 1: this is the government that says there is no problem
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Speaker 1: with what is happening across the country with politically facilitated
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Speaker 1: migration now changing its spots and saying, WHOA, we need
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Speaker 1: to provide you with some special guidance on how to
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Speaker 1: behave But overall, what a disgusting insult to people in
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Speaker 1: this country for wherever they are from, but a particular insult,
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Speaker 1: I think to women because it's a very condescending style
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Speaker 1: that this guidance has written. Well, should we expect more
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Speaker 1: of this under Andy Burnham? I think the answer to
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Speaker 1: that is absolutely yes, because he's up to a number
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Speaker 1: of things. Just taken this image a little bit naughty
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Speaker 1: here from the Defense HQ ex postings, But this is
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Speaker 1: Andy Burnham getting very excited at not only about defense
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Speaker 1: but also the ability of the defense and military industrial
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Speaker 1: complex to create jobs. So, having seen him on screen there,
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Speaker 1: let's just have a little look at what's happening around
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Speaker 1: military defense and indeed wars overseas. So we'll start with
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Speaker 1: a little bit of a clip which of course is
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Speaker 1: very worried because the Russians are upset British weapons are
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Speaker 1: being used to target facilities inside Russia itself. Let's have
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Speaker 1: a look at this report.
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Speaker 4: Russia's just threatened the UK with consequences over its supply
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Speaker 4: of drones to Ukraine, which are being used to strike
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Speaker 4: inside Russia. The greater Britain's involvement, it said, the higher
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Speaker 4: the price it would pay, according to a statement from
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Speaker 4: the Russian embassy here in London. So what might Russia
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Speaker 4: do well. Direct military action is unlikely, but Russia is
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Speaker 4: already waging a covert war against all countries in the
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Speaker 4: NATO Alliance. This takes the form of, for example, Russian
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Speaker 4: naval activity in UK waters, of sabotage and cyber attacks.
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Speaker 4: So for example, the arson attacks on property and a
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Speaker 4: car belonging to the former Prime Minister Sakia Starmer last
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Speaker 4: year were linked back to Russia. There was also a
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Speaker 4: Russian ordered attack on a warehouse in London in twenty
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Speaker 4: twenty four there was story aid for Ukraine. The latest
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Speaker 4: warning from Russia only underlines why it's been seen as
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Speaker 4: a growing threat to UK interest. But Andy Burnham has
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Speaker 4: made clear that the UK will not be intimidated into
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Speaker 4: backing off from what he called it one hundred percent
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Speaker 4: support for Ukraine after Russia's illegal invasion.
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Speaker 1: So there we have it with lots of hand movement
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Speaker 1: to make sure that you can emphasize that what the
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Speaker 1: BBC is saying is true.
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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I've got to interrupt. Bright.
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Speaker 2: I was gobsmacked that she had the audacity to claim
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Speaker 2: that the attack on Keir Starmer's cars was linked back
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Speaker 2: to Russia.
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Speaker 3: I don't know that there's any evidence of that being presented.
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Speaker 1: Well, they don't need any evidence, because Bazil, this is
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Speaker 1: how the law works in this country. The intelligence services
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Speaker 1: can simply go into the public domain and claim to
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Speaker 1: have saved the country from one thousand, two thousand and
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Speaker 1: ten thousand attacks in the last year or two months
23:12
Speaker 1: or three days, and nobody is going to challenge them whatsoever.
23:17
Speaker 1: And if they did, it wouldn't be a problem because
23:20
Speaker 1: intelligence services, alongside the police and others, have been given
23:24
Speaker 1: the ability to break the law if they think it's appropriate.
23:27
Speaker 1: So we're in very, very dangerous times in UK and
23:31
Speaker 1: it's accelerating, and I've no doubt it's going to drastically
23:35
Speaker 1: accelerate under Andy Burnham. But if that's the pushback against
23:40
Speaker 1: the Russians, who are obviously upset that British weapons are
23:44
Speaker 1: targeting their territory. Let's just have a look at what's
23:49
Speaker 1: happening in the defense field. And I've got this clip
23:53
Speaker 1: of Defense Minister Sander Jones on board an aircraft carrier.
23:58
Speaker 1: Let's have a look at her before mo months.
24:02
Speaker 5: They're on board HMS Prince of Wales as part of
24:05
Speaker 5: the Carrier Strike Group which is working with our allies
24:08
Speaker 5: to defend the North Atlantic. After protecting NATO airspace in
24:12
Speaker 5: the High North, the Carriers Strike Group is now participating
24:16
Speaker 5: in NATO Nettune Strike. We are training with our allies,
24:20
Speaker 5: ready to respond wherever and whenever we are needed. We
24:24
Speaker 5: have thirty five five debts flying missions. We have a
24:27
Speaker 5: Toms duncan protecting from threats from the air, along with
24:30
Speaker 5: ATMs Somerset and a French destroyer, and we're being sustained
24:34
Speaker 5: by URFA Tidespring. Across this Carrier Strike Group, our sailors,
24:38
Speaker 5: aviators and crew are working around the clock to protect
24:42
Speaker 5: British interest and keep the UK safe. This is NATO
24:45
Speaker 5: first in action, Stronger together and ready together.
24:52
Speaker 1: Now, what is utterly laughable about that clip is the
24:55
Speaker 1: lack of knowledge by Defense Minister Luise and Jones there
25:01
Speaker 1: because she's on board the carrier. She talks about the
25:04
Speaker 1: carrier battle group. In fact, there isn't one. There's two ships,
25:08
Speaker 1: one Type forty five no longer effectively at sea and
25:13
Speaker 1: a French unit. So the raw Navy unable to provide
25:17
Speaker 1: a full defense force a battle group around that carrier,
25:23
Speaker 1: and as such the carrier extremely vulnerable, which is why
25:27
Speaker 1: the British government is not able to put either of
25:29
Speaker 1: the carriers in a war scenario. So she clearly didn't
25:35
Speaker 1: know what she was seeing, and of course everybody on
25:38
Speaker 1: the ship would have been briefed to have been telling
25:41
Speaker 1: her how wonderful everything was. So you don't see her
25:45
Speaker 1: ask questions, you don't see her even getting any feedback
25:49
Speaker 1: from the ship's company of the carrier itself. She ends
25:54
Speaker 1: by effectively being used as a puppet for a little
25:58
Speaker 1: real clip for the Ministry of Defense. Bas utterly pathetic.
26:04
Speaker 1: But what she is actually doing by being on board
26:07
Speaker 1: the carrier and saying it's a full battle group is
26:11
Speaker 1: deceiving the public that we still have a Royal Navy
26:15
Speaker 1: that's capable in this field. Now I just add to
26:19
Speaker 1: this that the UK column was absolutely alone in continually
26:24
Speaker 1: warning way back. This is an article from twenty eleven
26:29
Speaker 1: on the UK Column. The Franco British Council plan to
26:32
Speaker 1: destroy Britain's military capability, and we were pointing out deception
26:37
Speaker 1: at the heart of government as Britain's military forces were
26:41
Speaker 1: being weakened in order to supposedly strengthen the creation of
26:45
Speaker 1: a pan European military. We warned and we warned, and now,
26:50
Speaker 1: of course we got to the situation where our weakened
26:52
Speaker 1: military cannot actually function in the field. So the propaganda
26:57
Speaker 1: has to come out from the Ministry of Defense. Let's
27:00
Speaker 1: have a look at this latest clip by Andy Burnham,
27:03
Speaker 1: who's now really declaring where his policies are going to go,
27:07
Speaker 1: because defense and war and military industrial complex is a
27:12
Speaker 1: great thing. Let's see what he says.
27:15
Speaker 6: I want to tell you about what I think we
27:17
Speaker 6: can achieve together. You might have heard me say that
27:21
Speaker 6: I am determined to deliver the biggest changes this country
27:23
Speaker 6: has seen in forty years. At the heart of that,
27:27
Speaker 6: we are going to reindustrialize this nation and create the
27:30
Speaker 6: jobs and opportunities people desperately want to see. But we
27:35
Speaker 6: can't do that on our own. We will do it
27:38
Speaker 6: by working together with brilliant businesses like those at Farmborough
27:41
Speaker 6: this week. The civil, aerospace and defense sectors combined will
27:46
Speaker 6: support half a million jobs across the country by twenty
27:49
Speaker 6: thirty and right now two thirds of those jobs are
27:53
Speaker 6: outside London and the Southeast. I've seen those jobs for
27:56
Speaker 6: myself and the difference they make. It is a success story,
28:01
Speaker 6: and so we want to go further. As I said
28:03
Speaker 6: on the steps of Downing Street yesterday, we are going
28:06
Speaker 6: to honor our commitments on defense and use that investment
28:10
Speaker 6: to transform people's lives. And we are going to work
28:14
Speaker 6: even more closely with our allies. So today we are
28:17
Speaker 6: not just recommitting to our state of the art GCAP
28:20
Speaker 6: fighter program. I'm delighted to announce that Canada will join
28:25
Speaker 6: the program as the first observer nation. GCAP is already
28:30
Speaker 6: one of the world's most ambitious defense and industrial partnerships,
28:33
Speaker 6: supporting four five hundred jobs across the UK. Today's announcement
28:40
Speaker 6: makes it even stronger.
28:43
Speaker 1: Bride softly delivered, but people need to understand the dangers
28:47
Speaker 1: of what this man is talking about. So apparently we're
28:49
Speaker 1: going to reindustrialize the United Kingdom boy using the defense
28:54
Speaker 1: industry and on the back of that, he's already declared
28:57
Speaker 1: that he's going to keep more in Ukraine running for
29:02
Speaker 1: as long as it takes, and he's going to continue
29:06
Speaker 1: to pump arms into Ukraine, and he's very happy that
29:11
Speaker 1: those armaments are also used to attack home territory of Russia.
29:15
Speaker 1: This is unbelievably dangerous basil for this man delivers it
29:20
Speaker 1: as if butter wouldn't melt in his mouth.
29:22
Speaker 2: It's not only dangerous, Brian, it's mendacious. Four and a
29:25
Speaker 2: half thousand jobs in the context of reindustrializing Britain is
29:30
Speaker 2: not very many at all. It's a tiny number. And
29:33
Speaker 2: of course, as any a level economic student will tell you,
29:37
Speaker 2: spending on military equipment has the least multiply effect in
29:43
Speaker 2: terms of reviving the rest of the economy through suppliers
29:49
Speaker 2: and people down the supply chain manufacturing components. It's something
29:53
Speaker 2: like one point seven. Of course, it does help if
29:58
Speaker 2: contracts are awarded to UK suppliers. We don't know if
30:01
Speaker 2: there's going to be any of that, but defense spending
30:05
Speaker 2: is always very investment heavy in terms of the number
30:09
Speaker 2: of jobs you get out of it. So he's really
30:12
Speaker 2: being very misleading to the public. By claiming that some
30:16
Speaker 2: kind of sort of major reindustrialization to the scale of
30:21
Speaker 2: the nineteen seventies is going to be achieved by building
30:23
Speaker 2: a few fighter planes.
30:25
Speaker 1: Well that's the fighter plane contract. But of course alongside
30:29
Speaker 1: that they're now particularly targeting startup, so he is claiming
30:35
Speaker 1: large numbers of people will be involved with it. We
30:37
Speaker 1: will see.
30:38
Speaker 2: Well, the other thing is these products are have no
30:40
Speaker 2: benefit to the orderary keeper of Britain. I mean, if
30:42
Speaker 2: we were actually building new cars or something and people
30:45
Speaker 2: drive on the roads, or any other consumer product of
30:49
Speaker 2: the kind that China turns out endlessly, then perhaps we'd
30:53
Speaker 2: all be a little bit more excited about it. But
30:55
Speaker 2: how many of his constituents are ever going to ride
30:58
Speaker 2: in one of those planes?
31:00
Speaker 1: Very few? I would think. Let's just summarize this to
31:03
Speaker 1: give a little bit of a picture as to what's
31:05
Speaker 1: going on. We'll put the blank sheet on screen for you.
31:08
Speaker 1: Let's bring in the trio Blair effectively from one to
31:13
Speaker 1: two point zero with Andy Burnham, and think about what
31:17
Speaker 1: Burnham has already declared major constitutional change in the country's
31:22
Speaker 1: reciting and reframing the whole idea of what the Prime
31:26
Speaker 1: Minister's office at number ten is and what the role
31:30
Speaker 1: of Westminster is. He's talking about well, not talking about
31:34
Speaker 1: the creation of super cities and mayors acting within their
31:38
Speaker 1: own fiefdoms. This is now well on the way and
31:41
Speaker 1: of course it's part of a global agenda for supercities.
31:45
Speaker 1: And he's talking about power, his power being delivered to
31:49
Speaker 1: every community in UK, however small. It's not giving power
31:54
Speaker 1: to the people at a local level. It's delivering the
31:57
Speaker 1: arm of government power to those local community. So this
32:02
Speaker 1: is the destruction of democracy as we know it, with
32:05
Speaker 1: all its faults, and he's boasting that he's going to
32:08
Speaker 1: be introducing major change very quickly. Now he's talking about
32:13
Speaker 1: reindustrialization of the country through basically a pro military policy
32:20
Speaker 1: and in addition to that, anybody that dares to challenge
32:25
Speaker 1: what's going on is going to be stamped on. But
32:27
Speaker 1: we've also got the increasing use of applied political psychological
32:32
Speaker 1: behavior with the Behavioral Insights Unit, and it's coupled with propaganda.
32:38
Speaker 1: And yes, a sneak previewer gave you that if you
32:41
Speaker 1: dare speak out about this, then you are going to
32:45
Speaker 1: be shut up by being accused of being some helper
32:49
Speaker 1: for a foreign agency under the national Security States threat
32:54
Speaker 1: at twenty twenty six. So what drives everything that he
32:59
Speaker 1: wants to achieve. Well, of course it's war and more war,
33:03
Speaker 1: because the more war this government can support, the more
33:07
Speaker 1: it is going to need the military industrial complex, and
33:10
Speaker 1: the more it can then integrate people in society. And
33:14
Speaker 1: they're keen on getting young youngsters in from school to
33:18
Speaker 1: help build this. So I think we've seen a Reich
33:21
Speaker 1: like this before, but it's being built in a softer way.
33:26
Speaker 1: That's my opinion on this.
33:28
Speaker 2: Exactually reindustrialization through militarization. That could be a slogan from
33:33
Speaker 2: the nineteen thirties, couldn't it. Indeed, very quickly before we're
33:37
Speaker 2: joined by Ambassador Peter Ford to talk about the myriad
33:43
Speaker 2: issues affecting the Middle East.
33:45
Speaker 3: He was ambassador to Syria.
33:47
Speaker 2: Of course, I do just want to run through three
33:50
Speaker 2: important legal cases. There are indeed several ongoing. First of all,
33:57
Speaker 2: Tony Greenstein, who has been involved in Palestine action, former
34:01
Speaker 2: Labor Party activists, the son of an Orthodox rabbi. You
34:06
Speaker 2: don't get more Jewish than Tony yet of course, he
34:08
Speaker 2: was kicked out of the Labor Party for antisemitism. Now
34:12
Speaker 2: he's facing terrorism charges for a few mean tweets. Under
34:17
Speaker 2: Section twelve, he could face fourteen years in prison for
34:22
Speaker 2: social media posts. Interestingly, the defense team, you'll like this, Brian,
34:28
Speaker 2: refer to evidence that the Crown and the Court had
34:30
Speaker 2: decided the jury should not be allowed to see. We're
34:33
Speaker 2: seeing this increasingly evidence presented to a court.
34:37
Speaker 1: God, well, this is transparency. If you don't understand what
34:41
Speaker 1: it is. This is government application of transparency.
34:44
Speaker 3: Heavy dose of.
34:49
Speaker 2: Frida, and the defense cross examined police on the gap
34:51
Speaker 2: between the size of the original interview transcript and the
34:55
Speaker 2: heavily redacted one shown to the jury.
34:57
Speaker 3: Consequently, the judge ordered the jury to leave.
35:00
Speaker 2: Caught on several occasions in an attempt to prevent the
35:02
Speaker 2: defense from referring to excluded evidence.
35:06
Speaker 1: Entirely appropriate if you want to run a dictatorship, so
35:09
Speaker 1: it's easy to see what's happening here.
35:14
Speaker 2: Warning that the court was not tasked with examining the
35:17
Speaker 2: broader history of the Middle East, the judge directed the
35:20
Speaker 2: defendant Tony Greenstein, to say focused on the specific indictment.
35:25
Speaker 2: He retorted from the witness box that that's the problem
35:28
Speaker 2: with the ruling class in this country. They turn a
35:31
Speaker 2: blind eye to genocide. That's when they're not actually actively
35:35
Speaker 2: helping it.
35:36
Speaker 3: Brian. Of course.
35:37
Speaker 2: Next, of course, in Scotland, Craig Murray has been spearheading
35:43
Speaker 2: a tremendous campaign for a judicial review into the prescription
35:46
Speaker 2: of Palestine action north of the border, and he was
35:50
Speaker 2: speaking outside the High Court in Edinburgh yesterday as we
35:54
Speaker 2: can hear.
35:55
Speaker 7: Now it is ridiculous for eight months after permission, granted
36:01
Speaker 7: we're still not hearing anything.
36:02
Speaker 8: At the substance to the peace.
36:04
Speaker 7: We weren't hearing anything today about all the people who
36:06
Speaker 7: have been arrested. They've alone anything about the tunicide in
36:10
Speaker 7: Gaza that this is about. The government has just dragged
36:14
Speaker 7: this into this quand mile of procedual motions and request
36:18
Speaker 7: the delay and after spending eight months with motion after
36:24
Speaker 7: motion to delay the case day to day, said that
36:28
Speaker 7: the case has to be finished because there's no time
36:30
Speaker 7: to conclude.
36:31
Speaker 8: This in Cinega. And it's attempting.
36:36
Speaker 7: To prevent the people of Scotland getting a decision from their.
36:41
Speaker 8: Own courts under Scott's Hall.
36:44
Speaker 9: The willingness of the courts to go along with the
36:48
Speaker 9: shadad of all these excuses for delay, and the latest
36:53
Speaker 9: excuse for delay is that we have to wait to
36:55
Speaker 9: air for special advocates and are closed settiments.
36:58
Speaker 7: That is an entirely.
37:01
Speaker 8: Closed process.
37:03
Speaker 7: It's not hitting evidence from us about genocide in Gaza.
37:07
Speaker 7: It's not hearing evidence from us about all the people
37:12
Speaker 7: who've been arrested.
37:13
Speaker 8: For exercising their right of de speech.
37:17
Speaker 7: It is hearing evidence from the intelligence services in secret
37:22
Speaker 7: alleging that we are all agents that are on or
37:26
Speaker 7: all teriders with bonds under our beds, or whatever bloody
37:29
Speaker 7: lies for security services have concocted against us. Again, the
37:35
Speaker 7: notion that this in any sense is a process of
37:38
Speaker 7: justice is ludicrous.
37:41
Speaker 8: And the reason for the further weeks delay.
37:43
Speaker 7: Is so that the court here go the closed.
37:47
Speaker 8: Secret intelligence process.
37:49
Speaker 7: How much more time the security services need to invent
37:53
Speaker 7: some more lies about us and to say that we
37:56
Speaker 7: can't have a court case because it is too expensive,
38:00
Speaker 7: And that was actually the main government argument today. But
38:04
Speaker 7: it is too expensive for the courts to hear our case.
38:08
Speaker 7: It's not too expensive for them to look to put
38:11
Speaker 7: the and a half thousand people.
38:13
Speaker 8: In the United Kingdom in present. That's not too expensive.
38:21
Speaker 7: That's going to cost millions and millions and millions of
38:24
Speaker 7: pounds to trial those people. It's going to cost tens
38:27
Speaker 7: of millions to imprisonment. The arguments we were hearing in
38:31
Speaker 7: there were absolutely bloody, but Bettic historians are going to
38:36
Speaker 7: look back on this period in astonishment at the kind
38:40
Speaker 7: of fascist back down that it's been happening in this
38:43
Speaker 7: country in order for the UK government to maintain its
38:48
Speaker 7: complicity in genocide.
38:50
Speaker 8: Because that's what.
38:52
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, tremendous speech from Craig Murray. Indeed,
39:01
Speaker 2: it seems like the government are just throwing everything they can,
39:04
Speaker 2: I mean, the specious, nonsilent, unbelievable stuff. Finally, the jury
39:11
Speaker 2: has refused to convict defendants in the latest Palestine Action
39:17
Speaker 2: filt in twenty five case. They've already spent eighteen months
39:21
Speaker 2: in prison, which is far longer than the six months
39:23
Speaker 2: recommended for anybody on remand the jury deliberrated for more
39:28
Speaker 2: than thirty seven hours and we're unable to reach verdicts.
39:32
Speaker 2: As Craig actually pointed out in a tweaked Craig Murray,
39:35
Speaker 2: if you take any random twelve people in Britain, you're
39:38
Speaker 2: going to find three or four who think that weapons
39:41
Speaker 2: manufacturers making products for genocide should be targeted. Indeed, government
39:48
Speaker 2: as an obligation under the Genocide Convention to prevent genocide,
39:52
Speaker 2: but they've completely abandoned that years ago. So in response
39:56
Speaker 2: to these verdicts, the film and twenty five Committee are
40:00
Speaker 2: an attempt by the state to justify the disprobortionate description.
40:05
Speaker 2: And of course they may yet go for a retrial
40:07
Speaker 2: because they weren't found not guilty, they just refused to
40:10
Speaker 2: convict them. The additional trial would be a huge waste
40:15
Speaker 2: of resources and a cynical attempt to manipulate the court
40:17
Speaker 2: process in order to convict the defendants. This is another
40:20
Speaker 2: case where the terrorism connection may be appended after the
40:25
Speaker 2: verdict as well. And of course note that should the
40:28
Speaker 2: government choose to proceed with another trial, they'll find the
40:32
Speaker 2: money for that, but not for the judicial review into
40:36
Speaker 2: the legality of the prescription.
40:37
Speaker 3: Of the first place.
40:38
Speaker 2: Anyway, moving swiftly on now to the major events of
40:43
Speaker 2: the Middle East, and it really is a more perilous
40:49
Speaker 2: situation on multiple fronts than we've ever seen before. Quite frankly,
40:54
Speaker 2: I'm delighted to say were joined on the program by
40:58
Speaker 2: Britain's former ambasile to Siria Peter Ford.
41:02
Speaker 3: Welcome to the program. Peter. We can't hear you, Peter.
41:08
Speaker 3: You may be muted.
41:10
Speaker 8: You're in.
41:15
Speaker 3: Just as hell, Peter. No, there we go reconnect our control.
41:24
Speaker 2: And is suggesting we reconnect while we're just waiting for
41:28
Speaker 2: this bazzle. Yes, it's let's go to the first slide
41:31
Speaker 2: then go on.
41:32
Speaker 1: Well, I was just going to say that the danger
41:35
Speaker 1: inside this country is becoming easier and easier to see
41:39
Speaker 1: already in our chat what people are saying. But what
41:41
Speaker 1: do we do about it? And the answer, a simple
41:45
Speaker 1: answer is to talk to as many people as possible.
41:48
Speaker 1: Because the government can only do this while relatively few
41:53
Speaker 1: people challenge it. When it's a majority of the population,
41:57
Speaker 1: this is over. So the spa of information and truthful
42:01
Speaker 1: reporting is absolutely key. And get you understand very quickly
42:07
Speaker 1: that the government is going to do everything it can
42:09
Speaker 1: to shut down alternative new media, which is challenging the
42:15
Speaker 1: government indeed what the established media are talking about. So
42:19
Speaker 1: there's a lot that people can do, and the key
42:22
Speaker 1: thing is very simple. It's talked to other people and
42:26
Speaker 1: spreading proper information and the truth. So, yes, I'm a
42:32
Speaker 1: bit more optimistic, Brian. I don't think they're going to
42:34
Speaker 1: be able to crack down on us in any meaningful sense.
42:36
Speaker 1: But we do, of course have to keep talking. We
42:38
Speaker 1: have to support independent media across the board as far
42:42
Speaker 1: as we can, as far as I'm concerned. Now, before
42:45
Speaker 1: Peterford joins us, let's just have a look through at
42:49
Speaker 1: a statement from the governments of Britain, Canada, France and
42:57
Speaker 1: other countries yesterday on the ey Settlement project. Now, as
43:03
Speaker 1: I'm sure viewers are aware of, Britain and indeed until
43:06
Speaker 1: recently the United States was committed to this two state
43:10
Speaker 1: solution and independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and
43:13
Speaker 1: Gaza Strip alongside Israel. Well, that is becoming increasingly impossible
43:19
Speaker 1: with the physical destruction of Palestine via the building of
43:25
Speaker 1: the settlements, and the E one Settlement project is now
43:29
Speaker 1: out for tender. This will cut across the heart of
43:32
Speaker 1: Palestine and separate the West Bank from East Jerusalem, thereby
43:37
Speaker 1: making a Palestinian contiguous Palestinian state effectively impossible. The UK
43:43
Speaker 1: said the government has been clear privately and publicly in
43:46
Speaker 1: our opposition to E one and now support for two
43:49
Speaker 1: state solution as the only way to ensure the long
43:51
Speaker 1: term security and peace of both Palestinians and Israelis. All settlements,
43:55
Speaker 1: they said, damage that prospect and are a flagrant beach
44:01
Speaker 1: of international law. Well, indeed, all the settlements are a
44:04
Speaker 1: breed of international law, but Britain hasn't done anything about
44:08
Speaker 1: the vast majority of them. The Israeli government's decision effectively
44:16
Speaker 1: would I mean, they've said it privately, they've said it
44:18
Speaker 1: in the Nesset, they send it all over the place,
44:21
Speaker 1: bring an end to the possibility of a Palestinian state.
44:25
Speaker 1: But finally, finally it seems the UK are going to
44:33
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44:35
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Speaker 8: Now.
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Speaker 1: I'm delighted to say we've finally got our guests connected,
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Speaker 1: so I'll hand over to you Basil.
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Speaker 2: Thanks Brian, welcome to the piece to the program, Peter,
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Speaker 2: sorry it slightly delayed very quickly. First of all, this
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Speaker 2: E one settlement block that threatens to cut the West
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Speaker 2: Bank in half and effectively end the possibility of a
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Speaker 2: contiguous Palestinian state. This has been an inevitability for some time,
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Speaker 2: and when you factor in that none of the candidates
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Speaker 2: for the Prime ministership, one of the major parties in
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Speaker 2: the upcoming Israeli election to talking about a two state solution.
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Speaker 2: We finally reached the point of irresistible force meets immovable object,
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Speaker 2: haven't we. And these claims of a two state solution
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Speaker 2: as being viable claims from you know, Western government's, Europe
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Speaker 2: in particular, and theoretically at least still the United States. Well,
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Speaker 2: the chickens are finally coming home to roost, aren't they.
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Speaker 10: Indeed, this statement will not make a blind bit of difference.
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Speaker 10: It will be water off a duck's back as regards Israel,
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Speaker 10: and in fact, the Netanyahu government probably welcome this kind
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Speaker 10: of statement because it allows him to pose as the
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Speaker 10: natural leader, standing up to the horrible goyim who all
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Speaker 10: hates Israel and setic a pathetic reaction. A serious reaction
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Speaker 10: would have been to institute immediately economic sanctions against Israel,
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Speaker 10: but this is not in serious prospect. The European countries
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Speaker 10: have been talking about possible sanctions on Israel for at
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Speaker 10: least three decades. I know that because I might help
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Speaker 10: set the ball rolling all those years ago, and still
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Speaker 10: nothing serious has happened, nor is it likely to happen.
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Speaker 10: People should be judged by actions more than words. And
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Speaker 10: the first action of the Burnham government when Burnham entered
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Speaker 10: en Downing Street with regard to the Middle East was
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Speaker 10: on day one to allow the Americans to use British
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Speaker 10: spaces to bomb Iran, the one country which has been
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Speaker 10: defending Palestine. And on day two he authorized its Foreign
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Speaker 10: Secretary to instruct the British representative ambassador in the Hague
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Speaker 10: to vote for the dismissal of the International Criminal Court
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Speaker 10: prosecutor who had gone after and indicted Netan Yahoo for
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Speaker 10: war crimes. A kangaroo court was got off in the
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Speaker 10: Hague which ignored the previous findings of an internal investigation
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Speaker 10: into the Trump charges against Karim Khan, the British Chief prosecutor.
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Speaker 10: And they voted by an overwhelming majority, who dismiss this
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Speaker 10: brave and principled man that was in the back for Palestine,
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Speaker 10: for international legality and for any hopes of a two
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Speaker 10: state solution. So everything judge judgment by their actions. And
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Speaker 10: this was on day one and day two, and they
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Speaker 10: will carry on in that vein. I'm sure look at
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Speaker 10: their actions, not some words which are merely mouthed anyway,
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Speaker 10: you are.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely right, Peter.
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Speaker 2: Now, Israel appeared in a speech by nettiyou this week
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Speaker 2: to change its military doctrine to one of openly admitting
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Speaker 2: that they intend to initiate aggression. And we then saw
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Speaker 2: Israeli strikes on a base in Syria. The idea is
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Speaker 2: that the Turkish were about to position troops there. Tremendously
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Speaker 2: increased tension between Israel and Turkey leased over the whole
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Speaker 2: Cyprus question as well. But so surely even the Israelis
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Speaker 2: can't risk an open confrontation against the NATO member in Turkey,
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Speaker 2: can it.
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Speaker 10: Well. This development came days after the announcement with fanfares
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Speaker 10: of what's being called the Meca Pact or Mecca Agreement
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Speaker 10: defense agreement between Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan, equivalent to
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Speaker 10: Article five of the NATO Charter. They promised to come
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Speaker 10: to each other's defense in the event of one of
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Speaker 10: them being attacked. And I would read this development as
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Speaker 10: Israel something its nose at the new Mecca Agreement and
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Speaker 10: showing up it's hollowness. Now it may not be hollow.
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Speaker 10: This wasn't Israel declaring war on Turkey. It was a
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Speaker 10: minor skirmish, if you like, but it does show that
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Speaker 10: tension is ratcheting up, that Turkey is being drawn into
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Speaker 10: a non NATO alliance, which can only be a good thing,
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Speaker 10: and we have to read it as part of the
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Speaker 10: fallout from the Iran crisis. It shows this country is,
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Speaker 10: particularly Saudi Arabia, moving out of the orbit of the
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Speaker 10: United States.
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Speaker 2: Brian, I know you wanted to ask Peter about nord
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Speaker 2: Stream and indeed the wider context of Britain's increasing hostility
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Speaker 2: towards Russia, which was highlighted earlier as his program.
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Speaker 1: Yes Speeder, If I may, I watch with interest and
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Speaker 1: horror really, as we've now got to the stage where
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Speaker 1: the United Kingdom is boasting that it's weapons, in particular
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Speaker 1: drone weapons are now being used to target sites well
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Speaker 1: within Russia itself, and of course Putin has pushed back
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Speaker 1: about this and said, well, he's entitled to a response.
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Speaker 2: I just get the.
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Speaker 1: Impression that our government is desperate for full blown war
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Speaker 1: with Russia and they're prepared to ramp up and provoke
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Speaker 1: at every opportunity to achieve this state. I never thought
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Speaker 1: i'd sort of hear myself saying this as a military
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Speaker 1: person with some idea of where a measured response can be.
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Speaker 1: But when I look at what the government is doing,
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Speaker 1: the cavalier attitude of the British government, it seems to
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Speaker 1: me that the intention is to deliberately provoke Russia so
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Speaker 1: as to exacerbate the fighting. What's your opinion.
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Speaker 10: Yes, Britain is goading Russia. That could be no two
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Speaker 10: ways about it. It's not just the drones, it's across
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Speaker 10: the whole range of hybrid warfare, economic warfare, which includes
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Speaker 10: the the tension in June on the high seas the
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Speaker 10: English Channel of a tanker with that was carrying Russian oil,
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Speaker 10: one hundred thousand tons of Russian oil, and we saw
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Speaker 10: the thrilling pictures of British I think they were marines
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Speaker 10: HAPs sailing down onto the decks for unopposed landing on
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Speaker 10: the decks, and we saw a few of the startled
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Speaker 10: Indian sailors. But this was a deeply political act. I
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Speaker 10: cannot see any shred of legal justification. The ship was
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Speaker 10: not in British waters, there's no dispute about that. The
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Speaker 10: British government alleged contravention of British sanctions. Well, these are
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Speaker 10: purely British sanctions not endorsed by the United Nations, and
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Speaker 10: it followed to its logical conclusion. It means that the
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Speaker 10: British government and the American government can carry out acts
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Speaker 10: of piracy at any time and in any place that
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Speaker 10: they want. If this is not goading Russia, I don't
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Speaker 10: know what is. What amazes me is that Russia hasn't
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Speaker 10: responded in kind, and we must hold our breaths. It
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Speaker 10: could happen at any moment that we get some news
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Speaker 10: about with the Russians retaliate thing.
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Speaker 2: Indeed, and you know, con commisant with these threats made
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Speaker 2: by the Israelis and indeed the American government and the
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Speaker 2: sanctions placed on carrying Khan, the other prosecutors at the ICC,
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Speaker 2: and of course Francesca Albanesi. There's a pattern here, isn't there,
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Speaker 2: of a sort of international gangsterism by the Anglo American
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Speaker 2: Zionist alliance.
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Speaker 10: Peter, as a former Foreign Office official, I'm absolutely shocked
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Speaker 10: by the cavalier attitude, to put it mildly, towards the
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Speaker 10: international law. When I was in the Foreign Office, the
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Speaker 10: Foreign Office lawyers were forced in the land and you
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Speaker 10: had to go to great length to keep them on board.
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Speaker 10: Now they are just rubber stamps. It seems Britain has
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Speaker 10: from being a genuine champion of Internet, Britain one of
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Speaker 10: the one flouters of international We failed to condemn the
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Speaker 10: illegal American on Iran. Not just that, but we helped
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Speaker 10: facility and still to this day are helping to facilitate
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Speaker 10: a totally illegal are basis. Furthermore, in the run up
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Speaker 10: to that war, we used every tool in the information
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Speaker 10: warfare toolkit to prepare the way for war, and we
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Speaker 10: would have been the first to congratulate America if it
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Speaker 10: had succeeded.
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Speaker 2: Yes, finally, Peter, because we're just about out of time.
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Speaker 2: The former Republican congresswoman and its ally Donald Trump, Marjorie
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Speaker 2: Taylor Green so her sources in the White House have
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Speaker 2: told her that Trump is seriously consideredly new King Iran.
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Speaker 2: I mean, this is insanity of the most extreme variety.
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Speaker 2: I mean, if they're even contemplating this, this would indicate
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Speaker 2: a really, really dangerous cabal at the heart of the
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Speaker 2: United States government.
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Speaker 10: Yes, I find the ex Senator's statement entirely credible. It's
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Speaker 10: entirely consistent with what we know about Trump. And with
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Speaker 10: statements that he made strongly hinting that he was looking
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Speaker 10: at a nuclear option. So in fact, I would say
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Speaker 10: highly likely that Trump looked at this, asked for options,
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Speaker 10: but with walk back on fairly obvious grounds, not on
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Speaker 10: grounds of it being illegal even in today's world it
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Speaker 10: would shock the lawyers if you just nuclear country you
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Speaker 10: didn't like, but on more practical grounds that it would
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Speaker 10: not be well received by the American public for their
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Speaker 10: country for a second time to bomb an Asian country,
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Speaker 10: and it were particularly not good if civilians were killed
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Speaker 10: on mass And secondly, unless it was a Nagasaki Hiroshima
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Speaker 10: type attack, it wouldn't.
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Speaker 3: Believe it that we're going to do.
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Speaker 2: In case you missed it, a quick roundup of the
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Speaker 2: stories from the you missed it, including the funny one.
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Speaker 2: We're going to do it in extra Brian, aren't we,
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Speaker 2: because well we've come hard up again. It's the barriers
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Speaker 2: at the end of the at the end of the
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Speaker 2: railway line.
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Speaker 1: So so a big thank you to our viewers. Today.
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Speaker 1: We have had a couple of minor technical issues, but
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Speaker 1: luckily we've got Pe to ford On with us, and
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Speaker 1: that was a very interesting segment. We'll just reiterate the
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Speaker 1: fact that it is very clear some very very serious
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Speaker 1: things were unfolding in UK. The thing is for people
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Speaker 1: to be able to see them and recognize them for
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Speaker 1: what they are. And the minimum we can say here
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Speaker 1: as the UK Column News team is that we're witnessing
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Speaker 1: the Government of UK disregarding law at all levels. That's
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Speaker 1: both within the country and how court should be properly
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Speaker 1: run and it's external in what international law does and
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Speaker 1: does not permit. So essentially we're looking at Burnham's labor administration.
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Speaker 1: This was happening of course under the Tories as well
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Speaker 1: and through Keir Starmer. We've got a government out of control.
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Speaker 1: It's prepared to attack its own population, it's prepared to
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Speaker 1: attack the Russians or Iran, and once this thing is
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Speaker 1: fully off the leash, we are in dangerous times.
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Speaker 8: Now.
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Speaker 1: You made an optimistic comment to me. Just now let's
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Speaker 1: end with that on the news. Can people do something
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Speaker 1: about this as or what's your advice?
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Speaker 2: Yes, as you said, Brian, keep talking, keep raising awareness.
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Speaker 2: We are in particularly challenging times, but it's in challenging
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Speaker 2: times that well, this is what we were born for, Brian.
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Speaker 3: We were born for this standing up at this moment.
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Speaker 1: Been counted exactly absolutely, So have courage, look after yourself,
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Speaker 1: support each other, and of course, because it is Friday,
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Speaker 1: make sure you get some rest and recreation and fresh
1:02:57
Speaker 1: air over the weekend. These are all simple things that
1:03:01
Speaker 1: make you feel better and give you the strengths to
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Speaker 1: fight the fight. So thank you very much for everybody
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Speaker 1: who's joined us today, and.
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Speaker 2: Very very quickly, Ben Timperley, the Labor anti corruption campaigner,
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Speaker 2: is going to be joining us in extra where we
1:03:14
Speaker 2: will pick up on these themes about the current government
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Speaker 2: and what Burnham has got planned for us.
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Speaker 3: This mysterious word change. We're going to get the biggest
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Speaker 3: change in forty years. But you know it isn't always
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Speaker 3: for the best.
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Speaker 1: It certainly will not be for the best. We must
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Speaker 1: stand there. That's it for today's uk ON News. We'll
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Speaker 1: be back on Monday at one o'clock. See you then,
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Speaker 1: Bye bye,