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UK Column News - 26th January 2026 · UK Column Radio

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Good afternoon, today is Monday the 26th of January 2026, just
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after 1:00. Welcome to UK column News.
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I'm your host Brian Gerrish, Delighted to have Ben Rubin here
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in the studio with me. Delighted to be here, Brian.
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You had a good weekend in Torquay.
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That was on Thursday. Oh, was it?
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Yeah, I was in Ivybridge on the weekend.
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I've got a little video I'm going to play later actually.
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Excellent. So staying local, meeting local
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people, this is always good. Well, we've got a very
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interesting and we think important news today.
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We're going to be having a look inside the deeper layers of
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politics and in particular we're going to be having a look at
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Davos again. We're going to be looking at
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remarks that Nigel Farage made, we think some of those very,
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very important comments. We're going to be having a look
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at the Institute of Government again to see who is planning
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what for the UK state and what that may mean for the future.
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And in particular, we're going to be focusing in on the phrase
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broken Britain. And is that the phrase that we
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should be using? And if so, why?
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Or indeed why not? We're going to be having a look
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at the World Economic Forum. Well, you are, Ben.
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That's the AI apocalypse. We're going to be having a look
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at interfaith dialogue plans for a national police force across
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England, which I think is England and Wales, very, very
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significant. We're going to be giving an
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update on the cruelty of the ongoing war in Ukraine and we're
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also going to be having a look at Pax Judaica.
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So very interesting stuff. We've got a very, very turbulent
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political system internationally and in UK and we're going to try
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and pick some of that apart today.
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But let's kick off with Nigel Farage.
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And here he is looking very excited prior to his departure
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for Davos. But Nigel's overwhelming message
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to people supporting him and reform was trust me and this
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will be something for us to discuss today.
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Should you be trusting Nigel Farage on everything he says or
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do we need to look a little bit deeper?
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Let's have a look at his own self promotion clip about his
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visit to Davos. The online conspiracy is running
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riot. Nigel Farage is going to Davos.
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He's become a globalist. Slow down.
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I spent 20 years going to the European Parliament.
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Never once did I change my views.
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In fact, they probably hardened. And yes, I am going to Davos, as
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is President Malay of Argentina and Donald Trump of the USA.
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And my message to Davos is going to be very, very simple.
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You guys, the globalists have had it your way for far too
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long. British governments have been
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Craven to you, rather pandering to you than standing up for the
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interests of British people and British workers.
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And I'm going to tell them all of that is going to change.
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There is going to be a new government in Britain that puts
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British priorities first. So ask yourself a question.
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Would you rather I stayed at home or rather I went and gave
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that honest message? Well, there we are.
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There's Nigel Farage in his own words, and I'm going to say he's
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saying some really important things there that he's going to
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take on the really, really powerful people who are running
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global policy, dealing with the World Economic Forum and Davos,
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he's going to take them on. He's going to get politics back
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to Britain, looking after it itself, and that's all there is
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to it. Well, is it as simple as that?
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Did he do a good job in the European Parliament?
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Often yes, because he was introducing vital and very hard
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hitting comment on the damage that the European Union was
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doing to UK. But whilst he was taking that
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enormous annual salary from the European Union, there was a lot
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going on in UK that Nigel Farage didn't appear to want to engage
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with. And let's not forget that after
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building up the momentum of UKIP, he then abandoned it to
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say he was leaving politics and particularly he was getting a
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bit scared as to what was happening around him.
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And then suddenly he turned up on the world stage with Trump.
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So very, very difficult to know exactly what's going on in
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Farage's mind. Let's look at a separate video
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clip where he's being pretty specific that he's going to
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target welfare. Basically said we won't increase
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spending in line with inflation. So for our program to work, what
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we absolutely have to do is to say to people we are going to
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reduce welfare spending, we are going to reduce excessive
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government waste. And I think if we do that, the
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markets will applaud it. I think a lot of people would
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hear you on those sort of what we would say, you know,
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microeconomic things going wrong.
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You say I'm going to change these micro things.
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But if you're putting the whole system of, of the, the way that
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macroeconomic policy has been run in the country, particularly
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the independent fiscal watchdog, independent central bank, if
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that is in question, when you walk into #10 you don't think
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there's going to be an enormous amount of concern in
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international markets that will affect your ability to.
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Maybe people or maybe people will think finally we've we've
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got a government that actually has within it people who've been
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in business because we haven't got that now and we haven't had
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much of it for many, many years. Doesn't.
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Sound like you're very worried about having a repeat of a sort
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of list trust type? I'm not because we're going to
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cut spending. You know, for example, you can
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now go, you can now get benefits if you suffer from mild anxiety.
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Well, I have mild anxiety every morning.
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You know, I mean, we, we, we, we've just reached a ridiculous
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level with all of this and it can't go on.
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It just can't go on. We're looking at a benefits bill
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of 300 billion by 20-30, something like that.
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So it can't go on. So there we are.
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Obviously that was just a clip of out of all the things that he
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said in that interview with Stephanie Flanders from
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Bloomberg, banks got mentioned and he's going to cut back on
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profits for the banks as we'll hear a little bit more of, but
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he's going to target welfare. Out of all the things which he
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he was he discussed, what was he most hard hitting on in my mind
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that he was going to target welfare.
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So is this Nigel Farage going to look after ordinary people in UK
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or is he simply on the trail of the money Ben?
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Well, I mean, the headlines there sound kind of interesting,
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right? But The thing is banks are
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stripping out costs, left rights and centre anyway.
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That's what all this artificial intelligence is doing.
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So they're not going to need the cost base they've currently got.
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So they're, he's probably kind of going along with the tide on
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that front, cutting benefits. I think that we could all agree
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that there's too much money going into the benefit system.
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I'm assuming that that includes the NHS budget as well, that 300
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billion, because that is an extraordinarily large number.
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It's not clear on that. Right.
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Yeah. So I mean NHS spend could come
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down, but I mean by an order of magnitude.
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My personal belief is, but he's not talking really about any
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kind of serious economic policy. Like where's grub, like actual
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economic growth going to come from.
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Indeed, that's the case. Let's listen to this second
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clip, though, where there's more about the banks.
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But you say you're going to do it.
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It's a part of your plan. It's not just part of your plan
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to discuss it. No, no, we're going to.
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Do it at least 20. Billion.
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We're going to do it and. Tax the Banks 20.
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Billion. Some of the banks won't like it.
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You're quite right. They will all pass well.
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I don't like their. Consumers.
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Well, I don't like the banks very much because they debanked
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me, didn't they? Didn't I?
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I wouldn't give me, wouldn't give me an account.
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They're trying to force me out of the country.
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No, look, this will be tough for banks to accept.
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I get that. The drain on.
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I'm sorry, but the drain on public finances is just too
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great. But how do they make their money
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if they don't make it there? Don't you think it, I mean, it's
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pretty clear it's going to go on to interest margin.
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It's going to go on to the mortgage costs and the interest
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rates they charge your your voters.
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Or they become more or they become more efficient, or they
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cut costs or they do whatever this money, they should not have
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had this money over. Look, frankly, the whole QE
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programme has not achieved anything very much other than to
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make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
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And everything we've done on QE since George Osborne and Co put
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it into place has been bad for most people in the.
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Country that's I mean that's been really helpful because it's
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very clear you are you're very you're happy to have a very
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hefty extra tax on banks. It's not a so sort of more anti,
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more anti bank than this government is that.
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It's it's not a tax. They're just not going to get
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free money anymore. It's taking £20 billion from the
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banks. It doesn't really matter how.
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They'll adapt. They'll adjust.
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Business does, right? You disagree with the Bank of
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England governor, on that? If we have an election on
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schedule, there'll be a new Bank of England governor.
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By the time you would become Prime Minister.
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They'd come in in early 28. One of the other things that
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people are worried about is that you're actually questioning one
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of these key pillars of UK economic policy, one of the few
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stable pillars in the last 15 years or so, 20 years, the
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independent Bank of England. Will you?
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Will you let that new Bank of England governor rule, you know,
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continue in their term, their full term?
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Well, given what a catastrophe UK economic policy has been over
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the last 15 years, I think we should challenge every single
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tenant of it. And I think the one of the
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biggest mistake, I mean, we vote Brexit.
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Now. If you vote Brexit, use it as an
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opportunity to do things differently.
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And the trouble is, from day one the Conservative government
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viewed it as a damage limitation exercise as opposed to an
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opportunity. And they, and Andrew Bay is a
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perfectly polite, nice man, but they should have picked somebody
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who was a Brexiteer to be in charge of the Bank of England
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and to think totally differently, especially around
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financial markets, financial market regulation.
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We've ignored this. So I think this was a very
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interesting dialogue. And certainly Stephanie Flanders
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for Bloomberg, they're absolutely desperate to protect
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the bankers. We shouldn't be taking any more
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money from the bankers. But the real debate under the
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surface of this, I think, is 2 things is one, who is actually
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creating the money? Who is pushing the money into
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the economy? Who's in control of it?
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Are are the central banks truly independent?
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That's certainly a question which doesn't get discussed,
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which needs to be dealt with if Nigel Farage is actually going
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to be take taking fiscal policy and economic policy under
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control so that a lot of things don't come out.
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But certainly from the World Economic Forum, desperately to
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protect the banks and the idea that we have independent central
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banks. So Nigel Farage under quite a
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lot of pressure there. And he does come back with some
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fairly hard statements about the fact that quantitative easing,
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pouring money into the banking system in order to protect it
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from bad debts, caused huge trouble.
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He's saying the right words. Is he going to stick with it,
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Ben, do you think? Well, difficult to say really,
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but the fact that he called Andrew Bailey a nice, polite
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man, I think there's a bit of a red flag.
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He's what? He's an arch Fabian and we
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talked about that just before Christmas.
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Andrew Bailey's was president of the Fabian Society, Cambridge
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University, one of the top central bankers, not just in
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this country, obviously, he's governor of the Bank of England,
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but he's on the board of the Bank of International
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Settlements, he's on the board of the G30.
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And the central banking system is really the head of the snake
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as it comes to global economics and and really politics as well,
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because they put a lot of the strings there.
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And then just a final thing on that 20 billion number, that
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does sound good. But he actually touched on
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something I was talking about after your first clip, which was
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about efficiency taking 20 billion back from the banks.
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But if they're saving 200 maybe more through the implementation
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of new technologies and actually they're getting a better deal
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than it's been presented here. So that needs closer
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investigation. Indeed, as as is corruption
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within the banking system. We'll come onto that a little
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bit more in a minute. Now, in the next clip, Farage is
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onto the subjects of NATO, but he's also talking about foreign
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policy for Britain. Let's hear this one.
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Look, of course we understand collective strength through NATO
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and organisations like that. All right, I get that.
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But let's face it, let's face it, the the globalist idea that
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we should all do the same thing, have the same regulations, have
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the same targets. And the EU, of course, is the
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epicentre of all of this. For the globalists, that's now
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for the birds, there's a change of debate.
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There is now something called national interest, and that's
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the new politics that you're saying.
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That's the new approach that you're saying.
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I think a lot of people in this audience would say the
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conclusion from this week was not that was that countries
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cannot go alone, especially in their relationship with
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President Trump. They need to group together.
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And a lot of people in the UK will be thinking and what if we
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know from the polls that they want to be closer to Europe?
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But you're you're saying the opposite.
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You don't want to work with other countries, and especially
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not with. Europe.
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I'm very happy to work with other countries.
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I love Europe, I love Europeans. I just don't like Brussels and
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and and and and the terrible autocratic structures that it's
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built. I don't believe it's brought any
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benefits whatsoever. It may have been good for one or
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two big companies, but beyond that it's been a failure, not a
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success. I just, it's been a little bit
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hard from this conversation to to see where the where the
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direction would be. An independent.
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Foreign policy. This is the point.
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Actually do. An independent United Kingdom
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chooses its own future, chooses its own relationships, makes its
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own decisions. We're doing it in trade policy.
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Trade policy is one example of what you can do if you're not,
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if you're not part of a structure that tells you what
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you can and can't do. And that's what the EU was and
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that's what the Brexit world's about, making our own choices,
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making our own decisions. And yes, of course, in terms of
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defence, in terms of defence, NATO is crucial, America is
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crucial. But you ask yourself a question,
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you know, has Donald Trump made NATO weaker or stronger over the
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last 10 years? And I would argue he's made NATO
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a lot, lot stronger by waking Europeans up to the fact they
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couldn't go on having a free lunch.
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So again, a very interesting mix of comments.
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So according to Nigel Farage, Davos has changed all those
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people. They've dumped the idea of a
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global rules based international system and they've moved on to
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something about national independence.
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Do I believe that? I certainly don't.
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Does he think that or is he just playing for the cameras?
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We don't know. And then as far as foreign
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policy is concerned, well if Britain's in control of its own
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foreign policy, clear of the rules based international order,
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presumably we can make foreign policy as a nation state.
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Is it that clear or is Nigel Farage manoeuvring through the
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atmosphere of Davos Now you've got an extra clip here, Ben,
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where you're actually looking at Nigel Farage in the aspect of
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thinking more globally. Let's have a look at that and
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see how these two bits fit together.
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I just think we've underutilised the amazing advantages we have
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across the rest of the world. You know, we, we, we turned our
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backs on India, we turned our backs on the Commonwealth
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countries in the 70s. We decided that Europe was our
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future. That became a sort of Foreign
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Office and political priority over decades.
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And we've turned our backs on large parts of the world where
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there is still a remarkable relationship between those
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former colonies and ourselves. So we need to think more
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globally in every way. OK, so a little bit more detail.
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Are we going to be backing in control of our foreign policy
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with Nigel Farage and Reform? Who knows?
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We can't be unless we control the people making the global
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policy. And we can't control the people
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making the global policy unless we get the banks under control.
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And just around that point home, let's just have a look at
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comments here. This is from 20/22 from the Bank
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of International Settlement quarterly review.
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They're talking on vast sums of money missing within the system,
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non banks outside the USO, 25 trillion in missing debt, non-us
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banks, so upwards of 35 trillion.
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And if we go back to another report, Reuters here obviously,
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but this was December the 6th, 2022, it's talking for an
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exchange swap debt of 80 trillion, just a mere 80
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trillion. We don't know what's happened to
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it. It's gone into hidden off
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balance sheet dollar debt in financial exchange swaps.
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So vast, vast amounts of money disappearing.
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Some examples coming up on the screen to do with Dutch pension
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funds, etcetera and how the system works.
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But essentially 80 trillion disappears from the world
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system. But the banking system itself is
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independent and we're going to rely on it in order to to move
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forward. So lots of questions to be asked
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and I'll put this one on the screen.
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This is from Auk column news report from 2022.
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But essentially we're pointing out that the Bank of
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International Settlements is taking a leading role in
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coordinating the work of central banks on technological
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innovation, and it's basically working with the Bank of
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England. But you can't ask what's going
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on because it's all secret. And then basically we've got
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Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England.
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As a central bank, we recognise the importance of innovation.
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So they're deep into innovation, but what they're not actually
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doing is sorting out the fraud and corruption in the banking
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system. And we can't ask questions about
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it because all of this is under diplomatic immunity and immense
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secrecy in Switzerland, the UK and worldwide.
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So a lot of work to Nigel, for Nigel Farage to do because he
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cannot change the globalist policy, cannot change the World
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Economic Forum and Davos unless he deals with the corruption in
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the banking system. And one thing he did comment on
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was the Office of Budget Responsibility, which is
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supposed to be producing the detailed data for the Treasury.
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So I'm going to give him credit for that.
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And if we have a quick look at individuals connected, it's the
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normal revolving door of interest.
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But maybe we should just end on the fact that Nigel Farage
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attended Davos, but his bills were paid by an Iranian
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billionaire. And it's this article in the,
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excuse me, the Financial Times brings this out reform UK
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leaders pass and hotel costs for the World Economic Forum event
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were paid by Suzanne Khandahari. And if we look at a bit of
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detail on this gentleman, it is family with Iranian.
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Basically, we've got a $10 billion family trust.
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Now, is Nigel Farage working with that family?
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It's not too clear. It's not too clear in the
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article and I don't think there's any doubt about the
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facilities being paid. But is Nigel Farage working on
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behalf of that billionaire? That is not clear, and it's
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certainly not proven in the Financial Times article.
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Now compare what Farage said there at Davos with what we are
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actually seeing the Institute of Government talking about, and we
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would say that until we deal with what is destroying Britain
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from the inside, we cannot possibly move along with the
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policies that Nigel Farage says he wants.
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Let's look at what the Institute of Government had to say
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recently. Thank you.
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Thank you very much for that introduction and welcome
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everyone here today. I'm delighted to have the
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opportunity to say a few words to introduce Darren Jones MP,
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Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister and Chancellor of the
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Dutchie of Lancaster. Unsurprisingly to any of you
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here, the Institute for Government agrees that
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government must think hard about the how as well as about the
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what. Without setting up the people,
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institutions and processes of government for success, no
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government is going to deliver for the voters.
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And that's why we were really pleased to see the creation of
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the Chief Secretary role at the centre of government and to
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learn about the decisions to clarify the structures there.
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And to hear about the government's plans to make it
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easier for the public to access public services using digital
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tools. Something that what 3 Words
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knows all about. Of course, Labour is not the
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first government to talk about tackling public sector
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productivity, more about making government more innovative and
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agile, and that's a point that Darren made at our conference
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last week. So the obvious question is why
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will this time be different? What the IFG would say based on
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2 decades of research is that what is important is what comes
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next. How the vision for reform that
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we hear about today is communicated across government,
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how political focus on these priorities is sustained, and how
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civil service leaders are held to account for delivering what
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ministers want to see. So whether it is Greenland or
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Gaza, the war in Ukraine or the famine in Sudan, these
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challenges threaten not only our International Security and that
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of our allies, but also make life more difficult for ordinary
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families across Britain. As the Prime Minister set out
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yesterday, this calls for strong British leadership abroad.
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But also a more active government at home, because for
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too long government hasn't worked the way it should.
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Everybody agrees that the status quo in our public services is
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not working. To quote a phrase, the public
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will often refer to the so-called broken state.
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That's why the public, politicians and yes, civil
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servants are all frustrated by the pace of change.
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But this diagnosis is not new. And that's why the Prime
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Minister has asked for nothing short of a complete rewiring of
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the state. So there we are.
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So while Davos goes on and apparently we're going to tackle
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the globalist policy inside UK is being hollowed out and we've
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now got massive change coming in through Keir Starmer.
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But notice also the broken state expression.
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And let's mirror this with the fact that Nigel Farage also
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saying Britain is broken, but UK column is going to challenge
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this very much with is it broken Britain or is it Britain that's
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been deliberately broken from the inside?
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And we absolutely say that's the case.
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And until the attack on the UK from the inside is dealt with,
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there's going to be no change to the standing of this country.
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So over to you, Ben. Well, how do we fix it?
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They think that pouring loads of technology into the mix is going
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to sort everything out. That seems to be the the
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hypothesis that they're pushing ahead with.
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And a lot of that's being driven by this chap on the left hand
24:15
side. Alex Karp, the founder, chief
24:19
executive of Palantir, here at the World Economic Forum last
24:22
week, talking to Larry Fink, the CEO, founder of of BlackRock.
24:27
And Karpy's fascinating character, We talk about him all
24:31
the time. And at the centre of this
24:34
transformation of the British state, Palantir is deeply
24:39
embedded into the NHS and increasingly more and more
24:43
facets of the civil service. And he's really kind of easing
24:47
the system from the inside. But I'm not going to show any
24:50
clips. I've just mentioned a couple of
24:52
the points that he raised. And I'm going to talk a bit
24:54
about what Elon Musk talked about as well.
24:57
But essentially what Karp is saying to think is that
25:00
government is their core business.
25:02
They work with all sovereign nations who can work with the
25:06
US. So this is the Western sphere of
25:08
influence ultimately, and a lot of that centred around Israel
25:12
ultimately as well, because that's where I believe it's
25:16
probably reasonable to say a lot of Karp's interest lies.
25:21
And this is rooted in warfare and battlefield technology.
25:27
And what these systems do, to use the terminology directly
25:30
from this interview, is to take out the fat, as he calls in the
25:34
system so that actual workers can be elevated.
25:38
So that fat is the white collar tier, that's the management tier
25:42
that is being stripped out and completely replaced by out by
25:46
these algorithms. So everyone inside these
25:49
organisations is now subservient to technology, right?
25:54
And that's where a lot of the high higher paid jobs were.
26:00
That's where the managerial class was the professional
26:02
classes that's been destroyed by the technology that has been
26:05
developed and deployed by by Alex Carp.
26:09
And think actually says to him, is this going to destroy jobs?
26:12
And he says, yes, it's going to destroy jobs.
26:15
And the note that I wrote to myself on a piece of paper, by
26:18
the way, Ali's car, if I wrote something down on a bit of paper
26:21
with a pen, we have these pens, you see, we can write on the
26:24
papers. It's quite good technology,
26:26
actually. What I wrote down to myself was
26:28
the machine wins and the soul loses.
26:30
And I think that's probably quite an act, quite apartment as
26:33
it relates to Palantir. I'll just touch on Musk as well.
26:37
We'll provide links to these interviews.
26:39
You should go and watch them. They're only kind of half an
26:41
hour long. It's worthwhile to get some
26:43
insight into these. People are thinking Musk is, if
26:47
nothing, quite entertaining. I've got to say it.
26:50
So he opened with a quip saying that he only came to Davos
26:54
because he'd heard about this thing called the Board of Peace,
26:57
but he thought it was spelt P i.e.
26:59
CE, because you get a piece of Greenland in a piece of
27:02
Venezuela in a piece of Gaza, which although it was a kind of
27:05
throwaway remark, I think that's probably quite revealing,
27:08
actually. And maybe a little bit of a
27:09
glimpse into the way that Donald Trump sees the world and how all
27:12
these people see the world. But what was he there to talk
27:14
to, to think about abundance for all, which can only be delivered
27:19
by artificial intelligence and robotics produced by people like
27:23
Elon Musk ultimately. And his vision is a future where
27:27
artificial intelligence will be smarter than humans, this than a
27:31
human this year. And by 20-30, we'll be smarter
27:35
than all humanity collectively. That's reassuring.
27:38
You have an AI that, yeah. And what he wants to do is to
27:41
put AI data centres in space, so they'll be orbiting the Earth
27:46
and we will then have this super intelligent AI running on solar
27:50
power from deep space 24/7 that will then become like this new
27:56
technological deity, I guess. We'll be happy and it will be
27:59
well fed, watered and happy and. There'll be more robots than
28:03
humans. I don't know.
28:05
It sounds, I don't know if it sounds pretty out there to me,
28:09
but it's, it's doesn't sound like any kind of future that I
28:12
want to live in. And, and the other thing that I
28:14
really noticed this year was this kind of consumerisation of
28:18
Davos. And we had people like this chap
28:22
turning up. So this is Stephen Bartlett from
28:25
the diary of Aceo, big YouTube channel.
28:29
So he was there, the kind of content creators and influencers
28:32
were out in force and the BBC was beginning to give real
28:35
coverage to, to to the Davos agenda.
28:37
And you know that I think that this is all part of the
28:40
propaganda push the reputational selves.
28:43
They're under pressure. They're.
28:44
Absolutely under pressure and they need people to go along
28:47
with this. Yeah.
28:48
So lots to go on out. I'm going to still be looking at
28:52
stuff coming out of us all through this week, to be honest
28:54
with you, because there's so much material, so many people
28:56
speaking there. So we'll just reinforce that.
29:00
So good news in there in the UK column, news today that
29:04
basically it is clear that people driving the global agenda
29:09
are under huge pressure, huge and increasing pressure.
29:13
They're running behind time with their plans and they're also
29:17
getting wobbly when you hear them in interviews, so this
29:21
needs more pressure from the mass of of mankind in order to
29:25
destabilise what's happening. Agreed.
29:30
We've got to get organised though and we do have a fight on
29:33
our hands. One final segment from the World
29:37
Economic Forum, the one that really jumped out of me actually
29:39
this this clip has been doing the rounds which relates to to
29:42
this discussion. This is the advancing interfaith
29:46
dialogue for peace session. If we can just get that up on
29:49
screen, we can see there that's Mohammed Alisa, Secretary
29:52
General of the Muslim World League, and Pinchas Goldschmidt
29:56
who's the chief Rabbi of Moscow amongst other things.
29:59
And of course, as you'd expect for an interfaith dialogue for
30:02
peace, there was a lot of talk of peace, a lot of talk of talk
30:05
of dialogue, a lot of talk of tolerance and education, and
30:09
then also this remarkable clip about the rise of anti-Semitism
30:13
in Europe. Your Eminence, especially in
30:19
Germany, you're facing a rise of anti-Semitism.
30:22
But we are facing this all over the world.
30:25
So I would like to hear what is your perspective on this.
30:29
The 7th of October has created turbulence in the whole world.
30:34
The tremendous rise of anti-Semitism, organized state
30:37
sponsored, many instances in universities on the streets and
30:43
the rise of 500%, maybe some instance to 1000% of
30:47
anti-Semitic acts. And there has also been a
30:51
reaction of Europe. I think the rise of the extreme
30:54
right in many European countries is a response to the insecurity
31:00
felt by the old European, so-called old Europeans
31:03
regarding the new immigrants who came from the Middle East.
31:06
So I think that fighting Islamophobia and anti-Semitism
31:12
is an interest of both religions and both communities and when we
31:16
do it together it's going to be much more useful.
31:20
We have created under also also the Saudi umbrella, more than 10
31:25
years ago, the Muslim Jewish Leadership Council and which was
31:30
successful, and we believe that we have to go this way if we
31:36
want to make sure that every European can live in peace and
31:39
walk in peace in the streets. So, Ben, I have to ask, was
31:44
there a Christian input on that panel?
31:47
Absolutely not. Absolutely not.
31:49
Absolutely not. Thing I'm right in saying so.
31:51
The largest world religion not represented by the World
31:56
Economic Forum. No.
31:58
And particularly in Europe, right.
31:59
So they're talking about Europe because Europe is Christian,
32:02
Christian Europe. And there was a number of things
32:06
that jumped out at me just from that little segment alone.
32:08
Again, we'll provide a link as you go and watch the whole thing
32:11
is that the main outcome of October 7th, there's an increase
32:14
in anti-Semitism. That's our primary concern about
32:16
what's gone on since October 7th, 2023.
32:20
The he refers to the rise of the extreme right being down to the
32:24
insecurity of the old Europeans, the old Europeans.
32:30
They're a problem, aren't there? I know, yeah.
32:32
They can remember what life used to be like.
32:34
Yes, yes, dangerous people. Absolutely.
32:37
And this idea that the new Europeans in the brave new world
32:41
that we're moving into are the ones that are coming in from the
32:43
Middle East and also further afield, not just from the Middle
32:46
East, but that's what he referred to.
32:48
And also the he is established under the Saudi umbrella, this
32:53
organization, which is the Muslim Jewish Leadership
32:57
Council. I'm just going to have a quick
32:58
look at now. So this was set up in 2016 with
33:02
the aim of freeing religious people and religions from
33:06
prejudice, false claims, attacks and violence so that each
33:11
religious tradition has the right and duty to contribute to
33:15
European Society. And it is Co chaired by Mufti
33:21
Nedzed Grabus. He's got great headgear by the
33:24
way. I think the Muslims are
33:25
definitely out in front when it comes to head it's.
33:28
Very smart to say. Absolutely.
33:30
And then you've got the Rabbi Pinchers there in the in the
33:33
centre, Chief Rabbi of Moscow, and then three others on the
33:38
leadership team. She got Rabbi Shlomo Hofmeister,
33:40
who I think has got a very cool name and also a very cool hat.
33:43
And then this chap on the left hand side, Michael Shudrick,
33:47
who's the chief rabbi of Poland, has been since 2004 and he's
33:51
worked extensively since 1998, so nearly 30 years with the
33:56
Ronald S Lauder Foundation in Warsaw.
34:00
And Ron Lauder is a fascinating character because as soon as you
34:03
start getting into the, the world of, of, of international
34:07
jury, he pops up because he is the president of the World
34:11
Jewish Congress who spoke about him at the back end of last
34:14
year, not least because of his fond for the current Syrian
34:20
President, Ahmed Al Sharar, AKA Jelani, who is a former
34:25
terrorist, terrorist ISIS commander, essentially dogs
34:29
beheading people. And you know, all the things
34:31
that kind of kind of go, go along when you're venturing into
34:34
that territory. And what Lauda's here talking
34:36
about the positive discussion that he had with Jelani about
34:39
normalisation between Israel and Syria.
34:41
And maybe this tells us something quite significant
34:44
about the relationship between Judaism and Islam that's being
34:49
pushed forward by the World Economic Forum.
34:51
I don't know. It's.
34:52
Certainly very complex and it's certain that a lot of questions
34:55
need to be asked, but this is a key part of our reporting is to
34:59
lift the stones so that people can see what's actually
35:03
happening instead of what mainstream media is reporting so
35:05
that we can ask the key questions.
35:08
Yeah, absolutely. And read between the lines of
35:11
some of the things that are happening in terms of terror
35:13
related activity in this country and further afield, for example.
35:17
Now just a couple more points on this, because he, he said that
35:21
the, that the, this, this new body that has been established
35:25
has been set up under a Saudi umbrella.
35:27
And we've known for quite some time that Saudi Arabia has been
35:32
funding the spread of particularly radical forms of
35:38
Islam across the rest. And that relates to the, the,
35:41
the establishment of radical mosques all across the UK in
35:45
this, in this country with further afield.
35:47
But this report, which comes from 2018, references a piece of
35:51
work done by the Henry Jackson Institute.
35:53
And the Henry Jackson Institute was the initial vehicle for the
35:57
creation of the Council for Inclusive Capitalism, which was
36:00
set up by Linda Rothschild child in 2015, I believe it was, who's
36:03
actually herself on the board of Estee Lauder.
36:06
So Ron Lauder's family business, she's on the board of and Ron
36:10
Lauder's brother, Bill Lauder is also on the board of Council for
36:13
Inclusive Capitalism. So there's quite a mix going on
36:18
here. And then finally, this entire
36:20
thing relates directly back to the Drum Landry Accords that I
36:23
spoke about back in October last year, which is the Muslim Jewish
36:26
Reconciliation Accords, a framework of reconciliation,
36:29
understanding and solidarity signed in the presence of
36:34
Charles the Third almost exactly a year ago today.
36:37
It was news on the 15th and 16th of January last year.
36:42
And just to reinforce the question that you asked a moment
36:46
ago, Brian, my question is where are all the questions in this?
36:49
Well, they're, they appear to be excluded.
36:52
Or we could look at the Christian community and say that
36:55
there's not enough oomph. There's not enough political
36:58
awareness in the Christian community under the Anglican
37:01
Church, for example, to actually get involved in these types of
37:05
very important discussions because the people who are
37:09
absent from the discussion of course have no say in the
37:11
policies that result from them. So lots of questions to ask, but
37:17
overall, lots of things that we need to see and understand about
37:22
the power behind the creation of not only globalist policy but
37:27
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Very, very timely. And I think the title of that is
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absolutely on the button because that's certainly what we think
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we're looking at. And this one's also very
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interesting. Tonight at 9:00 PM, the day the
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Wolves based order died. Canada's revolt in the end of US
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hegemony. That's Colesar's Silk and Steel
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podcast and he's going to be talking to Ina Tang and senior
39:26
fellow at CIGI. And actually if I if I've got
39:31
this correct, this will be giving us a look into some of
39:34
the institutions who have been clustered around the rules based
39:38
international order. So this one should be very
39:41
interesting to tune in at 9:00 PM this evening.
39:45
Now I also just want to give a little bit of a heads up that UK
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School in Scotland. It's a really unique series of
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These ladies great courage to speak out about their
40:11
experiences and the trial that's just taken place.
40:15
So we're saying to our audience, watch out for that because we'll
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be streaming it soon. And back to you, Ben, on the
40:24
growing police state, I think in UK.
40:26
Right, absolutely. So the Institute for Government
40:30
video that Brian showed a few moments ago talked about
40:33
centralisation of power into Cabinet Office.
40:35
Well, there's a lot more centralisation happening.
40:37
This monolith of a state is accruing power at an
40:42
extraordinary pace. And just over the weekend we've
40:45
seen the introduction of what has been billed as the British
40:48
FBI. That sounds great, doesn't it?
40:51
We really need one of those. British FBI will free up forces
40:54
to tackle everyday crime, Home Secretary says.
40:58
So this is a new body, the National Police Service, that is
41:01
going to bring the work of existing agencies such as as the
41:04
National Crime Agency and the regional organised crime units
41:07
under the same organization, right.
41:10
So massive centralisation, power in the police service.
41:13
And this is all because according to the Home Secretary,
41:16
the current policing system is broken.
41:18
Is that word again? Broken.
41:20
Nobody broke it. It was just the incompetence of
41:23
the population of the UK. They slowly fell asleep and
41:27
allowed the country to fall apart.
41:29
That is not the case. What has happened is Britain has
41:32
been broken apart from the inside.
41:34
It's very easy to see. This is very sinister and I'd
41:38
just like to say here, Ben, that a few years ago we saw the
41:42
centralisation of the Police Scotland, of the police north of
41:45
the border in Scotland. And what that meant was the
41:49
creation of 1 unified police system, Police Scotland.
41:53
And has this got problems and issues?
41:56
Absolutely, because if you have any corruption within the police
42:00
force itself, it will investigate itself.
42:04
Whereas if you have different police forces spread spread
42:09
across the country, at least you can bring in a remote police
42:12
force to investigate wrongdoing amongst the police.
42:16
So on that thing alone, Ben, some really worrying
42:19
implications. But this is the creation of a
42:22
state policing system, isn't it? This is not about bobbies
42:26
protecting members of the public.
42:28
This is about the state controlling the population
42:32
through a militarized police system.
42:35
Yeah. Absolutely, and doing it
42:37
completely off script as well, because none of this was in the
42:40
Labour manifesto, wasn't it? I don't think we did.
42:43
No one voted for this. The creation of a new FBI for
42:47
the UK, It's all been done in an extraordinary fashion, right?
42:51
So I'll get our esteemed Home Secretary up on screen.
42:55
This is her the MPCC conference last year and interestingly you
43:00
can see the National Police Chief's Council is actually
43:03
sponsored by PwC. See the PwC logo just poking out
43:07
of the derriere there on the bottom right hand side who are a
43:10
World Economic Forum strategic partner so you can get a sense
43:13
of where the new strategy for policing is coming from.
43:16
Just just to reinforce that a corporate entity which is there
43:22
sponsoring, as you say, what what the National Police Chiefs
43:25
Council is doing here. Yeah.
43:28
Amazing. And the MPCC, interestingly was
43:33
the was the only place that I could actually find any kind of
43:35
formal communication about this this this development over the
43:38
weekend. So there there were There's a
43:40
BBC article, but the and and various other newspapers pick
43:44
this up. It's always a big development,
43:45
but there's no formal address, no formal statement on a.gov
43:49
website or from my mood at all. Apparently there's something
43:52
coming out later on today, but this is all just being done by
43:54
press release. And Bennett, if I may, I'm going
43:58
to support Nigel Farage here, which is very rare of me to do.
44:02
But one of the things that he did in pushing back against
44:04
Stephanie Flanders, the lady interviewing him from Bloomberg,
44:09
was to say it was obvious to him that very little was being
44:13
discussed on the House of of Commons, on the floor of the
44:17
House of Commons, and also that the committees were incompetent
44:21
and not doing their jobs. And certainly I'd absolutely
44:24
agree with him. And this topic itself has not
44:27
come up in the House for your MP to understand what's really
44:32
being proposed. Right.
44:33
And this is an enormous shift. So we got Mahmoud at the MPCC
44:38
conference and then, as I said, the only place I can find formal
44:41
communication was through this joint statement from
44:44
counterterrorism police in the Mets and the MPCC, essentially
44:48
saying that our organisations operate in an environment where
44:51
crime is becoming increasingly complex, digitally enabled and
44:54
dangerous. Terrorism, hostile state
44:57
activity, organised, criminal networks now more interconnected
45:00
than ever. They demand the policing model
45:02
that is agile, capable and resilient and that is going to
45:05
be the National Police Service. So this is about the integration
45:10
of police and it's the top tier, right?
45:14
So this is the real in depth intelligent investigation work
45:19
all being centralised into one place, right?
45:22
And this is, is part of a trend. It's not the only thing that's
45:26
happening in terms of centralisation.
45:28
We're actually looking at reducing the number of police
45:30
forces across the country as well.
45:31
So this came out a few days before the the announcement
45:34
about this new FBI type body. My mood has pledged to
45:38
significantly cut the number of forces from its current level of
45:41
43 down to what could potentially be just 12 mega
45:46
forces. And do you think that those will
45:48
be completely aligned to the the metro regions?
45:51
I think they probably will be, won't they?
45:53
Yeah, that will fit quite nicely, won't it?
45:55
I wonder if that's coincidence or if that's just, you know,
45:57
accident. Well, we'll, we'll find out in
46:00
due course. Yeah, potentially we will.
46:02
Rather concerningly, Shabana Mahmoud has said some
46:05
extraordinary things as well. Apart from all this policy that
46:09
we're talking about, she's actually made some unbelievable
46:11
statements over the past couple of weeks as it relates to
46:14
justice and policing in the UK. I'll direct your attention to
46:17
this article from The Telegraph. Build the minority, Minority
46:22
Report, Policing to catch criminals before they strike.
46:26
Minority Report. Obviously film came out goodness
46:29
probably 25 years ago, which essentially was about tackling
46:32
pre crime. And you think that this is
46:35
science fiction? It's really not.
46:37
And they quote an interview that the Home Secretary did with Tony
46:41
Blair last month where she said that AI and technology can be
46:45
transformative to the whole of the law and order space.
46:49
When I was in justice, my ultimate vision for that part of
46:51
the criminal justice system was to achieve by means of AI in
46:54
technology what Jeremy Benson tried to do with his benopticon.
46:57
That is, the eyes of the state can be on you at all times.
47:03
Yeah, that's what they're pushing towards.
47:05
And this is what all of this is about.
47:07
And that is a state that we've already been describing at the
47:10
beginning of UK Column News, which is essentially utterly
47:14
corrupt and incompetent. But it's going to be watching
47:18
you, the individual, to see that you are running your life
47:22
correctly. Hypocrisy, apart from anything
47:25
else, is breathtaking. Absolutely.
47:27
And just just to kind of reinforce the point, for those
47:29
who are unfamiliar with the concept of the panopticon, it
47:32
came from a 18th century philosopher called Jeremy
47:35
Bentham, who promoted this idea of a circular prison with a
47:39
central inspection tower from which a single guard could
47:42
observe all inmates all the time while remaining unseen.
47:46
And it has actually been built as an example of it.
47:49
I believe this is in Holland. You can see the central tower in
47:52
the middle and then all the cells which completely open all
47:55
the time. And actually, let's just
47:57
reinforce the point that this is a prison.
48:00
We're not supposed to be living in a prison.
48:02
We're supposed to be living in a free society.
48:04
Maybe someone should tell the home secretary.
48:06
And also, I do rather wonder if this has got anything to do with
48:10
the interfaith dialogue that the home secretary was involved in
48:13
herself towards the end of last year.
48:15
But I don't know. Well, again, we don't know
48:17
because nothing is debated in openly in front of the public.
48:22
It's all decided in meetings and closed closed door events which
48:28
the public is not Privy to. So lots of questions to be
48:32
asked. What do we think is being
48:34
constructed? It appears UK is taking the slow
48:38
slide into some form of fascist state.
48:41
So on one hand we're being told don't worry the a rules based
48:46
international order or the new world order is collapsing.
48:49
That's apparently the message at Davos, according to Farage.
48:54
But here in UK the tightening up goes on and this is certainly I
48:59
think a very worrying development.
49:02
So people should be aware of that.
49:06
Let's move over to the subjects of Ukraine, because of course,
49:09
the war in Ukraine has driven a lot of the international
49:13
turbulence in Europe and the friction between EU and NATO,
49:19
and indeed within NATO and also with the United States.
49:24
What is the key problem? Well, the key problem is it's
49:27
now absolutely clear that Ukraine has lost the war.
49:31
Yes, the fighting still goes on, but the reality is that Ukraine
49:36
has essentially lost the war, and Russia's demonstrating that
49:40
it's capable of continuing to fight and destroying Ukrainian
49:46
infrastructure with weapons systems to which the West does
49:49
not have any counter. Let's just have a listen to
49:53
retired Colonel Douglas McGregor in an interview here.
50:00
The question is, if you're losing a war and there's
50:03
absolutely no evidence that anything you can do will change
50:06
that outcome, why would you take such irrational steps?
50:10
Now, we know you pointed out something just a second ago.
50:12
If you go back and look at Crimea, when the Russians opted
50:15
to seize it very suddenly and very quickly, what people didn't
50:18
know is that there were great plans in NATO to occupy a
50:21
Crimea, to use the naval facilities there for the very
50:24
purpose that you outlined, to turn the Black Sea into a NATO
50:27
lake, if you will. But the bottom line is that
50:30
we've we've unambiguously failed in Ukraine.
50:33
There's an unwillingness to admit this truth.
50:35
And if we persist in provoking, as we are doing right now and
50:39
have been doing for months, frankly, we will eventually get
50:42
a reaction. And we don't, We may not like
50:44
that reaction because let's be frank, we are not prepared for a
50:48
major war with Russia, but Russia is prepared for a major
50:51
war against us. And I think people in Washington
50:54
have lost sight of that. There's something else here too,
50:55
that we shouldn't lose sight up. We have a problem in this
50:59
country. It's an infatuation with air
51:01
power. Air power is the equivalent of
51:04
sex without consequences. You can bomb or missile attack
51:08
people on the ground. There is no real response
51:11
against you sitting in the United States or sitting in
51:13
Western Europe. Nobody has the air defenses to
51:16
stop you. You don't really accomplish
51:18
anything other than alienating and offending people.
51:21
But it feels good to the politicians in Washington that
51:24
we're able to do that with impunity.
51:26
Well, that's worked with Iraq. It's it's worked in Libya, it
51:30
works in Africa. You know, it's worked in many
51:32
places, but it's not going to work with the Russians.
51:38
So very wise words from Colonel McGregor.
51:42
Russia has won the war. The fighting is going to go on
51:46
until Ukraine stops receiving support from the West.
51:52
But at the end of the day, the West knows that they've been
51:55
beaten. And that is the combined arms of
51:58
the European Union together actually with the with the
52:01
Americans. It has absolutely failed.
52:04
And in the meantime, the slaughter goes on on the
52:07
battlefield. And of course, as the Ukrainian
52:10
military breaks down South, losses increase.
52:15
But before we have a look at some of those losses, we just
52:18
have a a little look at this clip showing some of the horrors
52:21
of of events on the battlefield. And let's see if we can play
52:27
this. And drones, of course, are being
52:30
used now to flush out Ukrainians from the last of their defensive
52:35
positions around key towns and key lines where the Russians are
52:39
moving forward. Ukrainians also using drones.
52:43
But the Russians have the upper hand.
52:45
And this is horror, the horror of the warfare, this sort of
52:48
Russian drone attack on the assembled group of Ukrainians.
52:52
And this little clip here is going to show a 3000 kilogram
52:58
Russian bomb being used to deploy an assembly point of view
53:02
of Ukrainians. And this is where the war is now
53:05
so cruel because Russia has ample of these weapons to
53:10
destroy Ukrainian strongholds before it moves forward.
53:13
Look at the size of that explosion.
53:16
The killing radius is truly vast due to the shockwave, but also
53:22
Russia is capable of moving into where the Ukrainians are trying
53:26
to hide military vehicles to just been indicated they're
53:30
within civilian infrastructure, but the accuracy of the drones
53:34
can still locate those vehicles. So the war goes on, Ukraine
53:40
becoming more fragile, the economy destroyed to to a large
53:46
extent through the Russian attacks on the infrastructure
53:49
and on the battlefield. We just really see the horrific
53:52
killing going on because the West will not admit that it's
53:57
adventure in Ukraine is over. This last clip very important.
54:02
This shows the height to which the drone war has got to where
54:06
you now have drones attacking other drones in the air.
54:09
This is technology which the West is desperate to catch up on
54:14
because at the moment it's clear that it's been outproduced and
54:18
outdeveloped by Russia and its arms industry.
54:21
And that has a particular significance.
54:24
But if we just look here that Ukrainian deaths now, this is
54:29
one of the websites that was pointed out to me as being
54:33
fairly accurate. On the left, you've got a scale
54:37
going up to between 1000 and 1200.
54:40
And these are weekly deaths. It's claiming many of the other
54:45
statistics would indicate indicate a lot more.
54:48
But in the course of the war so far, according to this website,
54:52
177,000 Ukrainians dead already. But what you can't see is more
55:00
or less an equivalent number missing in action.
55:03
These people have just disappeared on the battlefield.
55:06
This can often be the result of very heavy shelling or very big
55:09
bomb blasts where people literally disappear.
55:13
And so horrific casualties funded by the West and the
55:17
killing goes on. If we get into this particular
55:22
website, we can actually see that as is being done by the BBC
55:27
in Russia, people in Ukraine trying to track their own
55:32
citizens that have been killed. And I can tell you these pages
55:35
go on and on and on. And what they also tell you is
55:39
the average age of the men being killed is 38 years.
55:44
If we have a look at the latest American National Defence
55:49
Strategy document, particular statistic caught my eye.
55:55
And this was Trump, prompted by Trump.
55:58
The source is actually from the World Bank 2024, but it's
56:03
basically the spend on military equipment on military and
56:08
defence in the West compared to Russia.
56:12
Now this does not include the US, so it's known US, NATO 26
56:18
trillion being spent on defence compared to Russia's true 2
56:22
trillion. But Russia is wiping the floor
56:26
with NATO in Ukraine. What this suggests, Ben, is that
56:30
the fraud and corruption in the military industrial complex in
56:34
the West is truly mind blowing. 26 trillion disappearing where
56:41
we haven't even got the way with all of the equipment to fight in
56:45
Ukraine. But the war over in as much as
56:49
there's no doubt that Russia is now fully in control.
56:53
And This is why Russia does not need to reach any agreement
56:58
because the because it is in control on the battlefield.
57:02
So truly horrible that Keir Starmer and the other Western
57:07
leaders are allowing this destruction to take place.
57:10
That is extraordinary, isn't it? Absolutely extraordinary.
57:14
Yeah. Where does that take us?
57:17
That takes us to just to wrap up, I would like to draw
57:20
people's attention to this video.
57:22
Well, this is a still from the video.
57:25
It's presentation by Benjamin Netanyahu at the AIPAC
57:29
conference in 2018. And he's talking about what I
57:35
view as the projection of imperial power by Israel
57:39
politically, economically, industrially.
57:42
And he talks about turning the map blue.
57:45
And you can see all of the countries on there that he views
57:48
as blue on the side of Israel. Isn't that fascinating?
57:53
It is fascinating and I'd like to know what is in his mind.
57:56
Does, does he mean these are countries that have got
57:59
exceptional support for Israel, or are these countries that he
58:02
now believes that Israel has got such a a controlling hand within
58:08
their national political system that it's hard to tell whether
58:13
it's the national government in control of Israel?
58:16
I know there's a lot of people who won't like that question,
58:19
but I think it's reasonable to ask.
58:21
That's absolutely reasonable to ask when the man standing on
58:23
stage presenting the world as being something that's
58:26
controlled by by him and his his government ultimately.
58:29
And the reason this has come to light in the past couple of
58:31
weeks is because of this little clip which we can take a look at
58:34
now. By the way.
58:37
What are we doing with Greenland?
58:39
We got to do something with Greenland.
58:42
Where's my advance team go to Greenland?
58:44
They must have some satellite needs or something that we could
58:46
do there. But we are colouring the world
58:49
blue. What is going on with Greenland?
58:54
Just qualify that that was from 2018. 2018. 2018 and Netanyahu,
59:00
with all his problems, is pointing a finger at Greenland
59:04
and saying we should be paying attention to it.
59:06
We. Should be saying attention to
59:07
it. And then within 12 months, we
59:09
have this from Trump, since Trump starts talking about
59:12
Greenland. So obviously this has come to
59:15
the foreground again in the past few weeks.
59:17
But actually, it's not the first time that Trump's been talking
59:19
about it. He's always, you know, he does
59:20
this, he makes these jokes and we're going to put a casino up
59:23
there, you know? Truly horrible.
59:26
Or maybe they've got other ideas for it.
59:27
I don't know. Let's have a little.
59:29
Listen to this clip from The Golden Girls in 1987.
59:33
At 2:00 in the morning, waiting for George to come home, I
59:36
called a radio talk show. I gave them the solution to the
59:39
crisis in the Middle East, giving the Palestinians
59:43
Greenland. I didn't know that was you.
59:48
You were great. Giving the Palestinians
59:57
Greenland. It's a big place, nobody uses
1:00:01
it. You would take a desert people
1:00:04
and put them in the ice and snow.
1:00:06
With the proper clothes, they'll be fine.
1:00:12
Just a coincidence, Ben. Maybe.
1:00:14
From 1987. From 1987, maybe we've got a
1:00:17
glimpse into next week's controversy.
1:00:19
Let's see what the Board of Peace have to say.
1:00:23
Indeed, a lot to think about there, but we understand today's
1:00:27
UK column news. Well, I've got my little clip of
1:00:29
my my little walk. Let's, let's, let's, can we drag
1:00:32
that out? Of course.
1:00:33
OK, very good. So this is me and Ivy Bridge
1:00:35
over the weekend, just on the edge of Dartmoor.
1:00:39
And just look at that river raging.
1:00:43
Raging like the world's political system.
1:00:46
Exactly. Yeah.
1:00:47
I thought it was quite, quite, quite poetic actually that given
1:00:51
in the context of everything going on.
1:00:53
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