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UK Column News Podcast 1st March 2024 · UK Column Radio

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Good afternoon. It's Friday, the first of March twenty twenty four, just
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after one o'clock. Welcome to the UK called News. I'm your host Marke
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Robinson joining me today by video link. We have Ben Rubin and Debbie Evans.
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We're going to get started with the Rochdale by election results, so let's
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just bring it on screen and have a look and see what the final result
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was. George Galloway returns to the House of Commons for the first time in
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quite some time with thirty nine point seven percent of the vote. David Tully,
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who was an independent, obtained twenty one point three percent of the vote.
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And this really should be a very positive result for anybody that's considering standing
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in the general election as an independent because he beat the Tories, Libor Party,
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Liberal Democrats and the Reform Party in the second place and ran a very
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close risk with George Galloway, which I think is hopefully shows a positive sign
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for the coming months. But let's have a look and see what George Galloway
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said. He said, a Keir Starmer, this is for Gaza. You
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will pay a high price for the role that you've played in enabling, encouraging
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and covering for the catastrophe presently ongoing in occupied Gaza, in the Gaza Strip.
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So he very much seeing this as a result a vindication or an acknowledgment
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by the electorate in Rochdale that what's going on in Middle East is genocide and
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therefore in support of that. So let's just bring David Tully on screen.
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Here he is, and he is basically not a politician, and this is
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quite interesting. He's just a member of the general public who decided to stand
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as an independent. He owns a car repair center and well the video clips
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that I've seen from speaking at public meetings, he's quite nervous. He's certainly
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not experienced. He's not the traditional politician at all. And this seems to
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be a very strong message being sent to the mainstream political parties that if okay,
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we didn't want to vote for George Galloway, also didn't want to vote
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for the mainstream political parties and we've chosen an independent to vote for. I
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think that is a very clear signal there. Richard Tice was a bit upset
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with the result and he made a statement via gb News this morning and then
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also following up on social media as to why the Reform Party hadn't done so
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well. Let's just listen to this now the polls have closed. People across
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the United Kingdom need to know the truth about this election campaign and the implications
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for our country and our democracy. To suggest that a parliamentary election in this
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country has not been a truly free and fair election is a very serious allegation.
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Indeed, unfortunately, the behavior of certain candidates and their supporters in this
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contest for very far short of our traditional democratic standards. What we've witnessed and
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experienced in Rochdale is deeply disturbing. Our candidate and campaign team has been subjected
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to racist death threats, racist abuse, refused entry to hustings in council buildings,
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had to be relocated for their own safety, suffered daily intimidation and slurs.
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I've already removed all of my staff from this count now. He went
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on to say that he was concerned about the size of the postal votes,
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so he's trying to play the Trump game here. The difference is that the
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Form Party basically didn't have any chance of winning this seat in Rochdale. Trump,
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on the other hand, might have had a chance, or probably did
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have a chance at the last general election the United States, so I think
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there's a difference there. But the point here is the question that I would
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ask at this point is if it's true that the Reform Party was receiving these
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types of this type of abuse and death threat including death threats, why was
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nothing mentioned about this in the run up to the vote itself. Why were
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the police not involved or at least we haven't heard of any of that kind
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of thing going on. I would have thought GB News would have been covering
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that in detail in the run up to this, but he's chosen to make
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this statement after the event. So the question is why. And it's interesting
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the statement that he's making that people were at risk, that there's a threat
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to democracy, because of course we've heard this story before. We heard it,
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we showed it on the on previous UK column news programs from the House
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of Commons and well we have Penny Mordant in a second to reinforce this.
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But before we get to that point, let me just bring this on screen
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because if you notice the lower third on gb News there it said by election
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results imminent and underneath that voter turnout at Rodsdale at thirty nine point seven percent,
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down from sixty point one percent in twenty nineteen. Now, there's nothing
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unusual about that. In fact, in the last couple of by elections that
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have been held in recent weeks, thirty seven percent turnout at Kingswood, a
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thirty eight percent turnout at Welling Bristles is absolutely normal. So why would g
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BE News be attempting to highlight this? Are they attempting to suggest that the
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lower voter turnout was because of death threats that were made and maybe intimidation and
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people being concerned to come and vote. That seems to me to be possibility.
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But there's nothing unusual about a thirty nine point seven percent turnout at a
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by election. But remember what here's well, let's bring Penny Morton on screen
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because she was replying to a question in the House of Commons. Let's have
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a listen to what she had to say. And I would just caution him
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also just to reflect with the things that have been said about his own behavior,
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what he does on social media, the security measures that have perhaps to
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be stepped up for honorable members in this place in the wake of some of
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his social media tweets and questions in this House whatever my disagreements with the honorable
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gentlemen, I will always stand ready to get answers from departments and assist the
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honorable gentleman in his work. But I'm going to call out on every occasion
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when he is doing things that are I think a danger to our democracy and
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also the safety and security of members of this House. So my point here
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is that anybody who is attempting to speak out on various issues that certain people
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don't agree with are being libeled as being threatening and so on. I think
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this is a very dangerous position to be heading in. If we're saying that
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we've got to keep certain people quiet because there are a threat democracy just because
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we maybe don't agree with them on certain issues, I think that's quite a
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dangerous situation. The other issue is this, I believe this is an attack
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on us as individuals and the decisions that we make, and it's a government
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attack. And we've got to ask questions when we're hearing same narratives from certain
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players, from government and from other people, is there something broader going on
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here? We've heard of the term deep event, and is that what we're
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witnessing here? Because the general public in the UK it's in the military doctrine
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for the UK are considered a threat. Let's just remind ourselves of that.
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This is the integrated operating concept, which is a Ministry of Defense doctrine.
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Home is no longer a secure sanctuary, is how they view the situation.
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The UK public is no longer a safe institution, let's call it for the
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parts of b and So we're hearing this narrative being increasingly built that there is
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a danger to our democracy from us and I think this is something that we've
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got to really keep in mind here when we hear this type of rhetoric from
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various people. Ben, just very quickly, I'm going to give you the
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opportunity to comment on that, because I realized what I've said is potentially difficult
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for some people. Just be interested in what do you think. There appears
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to be a concerned attempt to undermine democracy in the name of democracy. That's
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what seems to be going on at the moment. And you know, we
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talk about these almost every week. I'm sure this was brought up last week
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as well. The political classes, not just the politicians, but the bureaucratic
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and civil service ecosystem, the surrounds them apparently. I don't think that they
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should be accountable for anything, right, And that's as undemocratic as I can
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as you can possibly imagine, one hundred percent. So let's let's move on
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with this attack on democracy which isn't coming from the general public, and isn't
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coming even from George Galloway. It is coming from the likes of the Fit
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of Britain. Yes, well, it's coming from above. I think that's
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the most important thing. It's not coming from the ground up. It's coming
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to been disseminated down through the superstructure, through the media, through the political
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classes, through the philanthropic groups, and also kind of coming through the art
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world as well. And you mentioned this thing, the Fate of Britain.
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This took place in Manchester on the fifth, twenty second to twenty fifth of
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February. It's a four day celebration of collaboration and imagination in the face of
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the great challenges of our time, from the climate crisis to the cost of
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living crisis. And nothing is off the table. And this is really a
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coalescence of the art world, hard left wing politics, dodgy philanthropic money,
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people really looking to radically transform Britain, I mean, is a real push
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towards a total wholesale transformation of the country and really subverting democracy in the name
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of democracy. As we just kind of touched on a moment ago. So
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the fate of Britain was organized by these two people, Claire Farrell, who
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is one of the founders of Extinction Rebellion and an artist, and then Brian
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Eno on the right there, who is a kind of uber producer, musician.
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He worked with David Bowie and has also become a very high profile activist,
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and it's been very involved in pushing forward things like citizens Assemblies, which
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we'll talk about a bit more in a moment. Now. They've started this
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thing called hard art, right, which is it's it's like a prepackaged art
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movement that these two who have started pushing out there, and they're doing it
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because they see, as Claire Farrell puts it, that the world that we're
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in is self terminating and he's not working for that many people in many ways.
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So we want to build a new one. We want to build a
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new world. I want to transform things and do sorry in quite a radical
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way. Is Brian Eno talking about the same topic. It's funny that I
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haven't been thinking of audiences at all. I haven't been thinking of the people
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who come to the Fate of Britain as audiences. That it's interesting when you
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use that word, because I realized that wasn't in my mind. I imagine
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people who were taking part in something. What I hope people will find is
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that they'll come in and they'll see a lot of things happening and think,
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wow, I could do that. That's the most empowering thing. I remember
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when I was a kid and I first saw a painting by Mandrian. It
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was my life changing experience really because it was when I realized I want to
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be an artist. And the reason was because I saw those pictures and I
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thought I could do that, and I'm going to and I think that's what
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happened. That's the way a lot of people become artists. And becoming an
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artist is actually, you know, that seems like a kind of airy fairy
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thing to do, but it's really saying I can make something, I can
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create something new, I can create something that never existed before. There's a
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really interesting term he used there, which is airy fairy. Now I don't
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want to be dismissive of the fate of Britain completely. Actually, I think
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there's a lot of people who are involved in these events, in this movement
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who are doing so for the right reasons. Actually, they want to build
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a better few, and I think it's quite clear that the nation that we're
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in currently is massively dysfunctional. I just question whether this is the right approach,
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or whether artists who are great at creating concepts and visuals and flights of
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fancy are the people to be deciding on the future of the country. Right.
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It's actually a very complex thing that needs to be addressed here. It's
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not just about how things are presented, how they look, what have they
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done. They've created their own flag, so actually they see themselves in some
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way as separate from Britain. Actually, I think the symbology here is really
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important. The fate harks back to the glory days of the trade union movement
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of the sixties and the seventies. You can see this image here of one
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of the events, or the banners and the flags hanging from the ceiling calls
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for strike action. There's one about the Anti Nazi League there you can see.
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So this is clearly rooted in a very strong tradition. Unfortunately it's quite
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ironic given what we know sits behind a lot of the politics that these groups
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are pushing. Some of the work on display was really quite powerful. I
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actually know people who were personally involved in delivering things at this event as well,
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so you know, I don't want to be dismissive out of hand,
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and as I said, I think that a lot of this is coming from
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the right place. There's this great piece here from Manchester Street Poem, which
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is an organization run by and for the homeless in Manchester. They invited people
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to come in and collaborate around the creation of a piece of installed art work.
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I thought this was really neat. Actually, how was all this funded?
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Because it's quite lavish actually, and it's very heavily backed by the public
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sector. So you've got Manchester City Council and the Arts Council England are actively
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involved in funding this, but also a bunch of philanthropic groups, including Bloomberg
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Philanthropies are quite why Michael Bloomberg, former Mayor of New York backing this event
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in Manchester, I don't know. And the Paul Hamlin Foundation, who's been
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on my radar for a while because of the involvement that they have with My
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Life, My Say, which is the Tony Blair Aligned Youth charity. So
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there's a bunch of money sitting around this stuff that is extremely questionable. You've
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also got the UN there, and remember the UN think that they own the
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science around climate change, and the IPCC report, which is being used to
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drive most of the activity happening around climate action globally is from the United Nations.
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The UN body involved here though, is called it UNBOSI Board of Significant
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Inspiration, which is quite interesting. They focus on human genius. It's really
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quite a sort of niche, oddball thing for the UN to be talking about.
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But as I said before, they're really really driving hard on citizen assemblies
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and participatory democracy, you know. So there were numerous events focused on that
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specific topic. There was this Bluffer's Guide to what the why and the how
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of this is and assembly is. They then had a case studies showcase on
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the world's first Global Assembly, which ran on the back of one of the
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cop meetings a few years ago. And they really are coming out and saying
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that if we run a panel of one hundred people globally, that is somehow
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representative of the world population. It's really complete nonsense. And to me,
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this is why it's a total subversion of the democratic process. You can't say
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anything useful about global opinion really of eight billion people from one hundred person sample
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size, it doesn't make any sense. Another one here, the future of
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democracy in a time of crisis, a crisis that's been largely constructed by the
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people behind this event, unfortunately, and this is all playing directly into mainstream
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politics. So there's an article here from Civil Service World. This is my
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new favorite website to go and look at, absolutely scintilating stuff from Civil Service.
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Well, this is a guy from NESTA writing NESTA who owned the Babor
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and Insights team. They are pushing citizens and assemblies hard. Civil servants should
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embrace this. This is the future of democracy, according to NESTA. Also
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plays directly into labor policy. So this is Sue Gray, Starmer's chief of
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staff, am the top civil servant who ran the party Gate investigation which got
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Boris Johnson fired and is often known as the woman who runs the country.
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Interestingly, and apparently she still does think she runs the country. She says
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that the assemblies will get the public directly involved in deciding contentious issues such as
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constitutional reform. They want to get rid of the House of Lord Steve Alusha,
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housing, net zero technologies, all that kind of thing. And this
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has been welcomed and probably ushered in in some way actually by this lady Claudia
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Challis, who I've spoken about previously. She's the founder of Democracy Next.
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They've been pushing a new way of democratizing city planning really hard. It's obviously
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fed into this. She's a young global leader at the Obama Foundation, so
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very clear left wing ideological perspective. And Democracy Next is funded by Open Societies,
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George Soros, who also funded Extinction Rebellion, the Rockefeller Foundation, the
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One Project, and a whole bunch of these other philanthropic funds who sit behind
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a lot of this activity, and for my money, are really pushing to
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subvert the democratic process in the name of democracy. It's all in the name
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of democracy. We're not clear exactly where they're intending to change us or what
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they're intending to change us into, but it's all in the name of democracy.
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And Debbie, let's look at another massively democratic institution, the MHRA.
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Yes, let's good afternoon, everyone, and today, just as a little
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bit of a warning, I am dressed to impress. I hope you can
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see. I have my MHRA T shirt on limited edition now collectors' items for
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everyone, So please join my club with the T shirt, the MHRA Dame
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June Rain. Let's look at Dame June Rain. We have a nice image,
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interesting hand gesture there from Dame June Rain. But let's listen to a
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couple of things that she has said with the knowledge that we have now on
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Pfizer, in particular at the Alistair Breckenridge homage. Now, so Aliston Breckenridge
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was the architect of the yellow card scheme. So let's just listen to a
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minute or two of what Dame June said at that lecture. I think I
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can look at somewhere near with some affinity because of those long, long hours,
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weekends and evenings spent looking at data as soon as it appears. And
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it might sound so obvious to anyone not in our space that you don't wait
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until the package is tied up with pink ribbon and delivered to you. So,
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as Alistair would have wished, we planned the proactive vigilance studies. This
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is the fires a vaccine as it happens, six months before approval approval a
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year ago tomorrow, in fact, six months planning ahead to those vigilance studies,
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just as Alison Alistair envisaged with the Institute of Medicine's report, that would
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actually enable us to hit the ground running with efficient monitoring systems, giving the
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public that extra layer of assurance. And of course everyone will remember that rather
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beautiful graph in the New England Journal paper with separation of the curves around seven
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days. And we don't often see efficacy of that level. We certainly hadn't
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expected it. We spent a long time in our regulatory discussions talking about maybe
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fifty percent, and so that hope that came from that level of efficacy was
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truly truly inspirational. So she was hitting the ground running then and she's hitting
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the ground running now because for those of you who may not be aware,
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she's announced that she's stepping down. She'll be stepping down as chief Executive of
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the MHRA after five years in the role, and the announcement goes on to
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say that she'll be still there until August. So perhaps we should put a
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notice of liability into her whilst on email it into her whilst she's still in
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post. But I want to bring to your attention Graham's stringer MP. Now
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Graham's stringer MP. He's Blackly and Broughton or Broughton. I do apologize if
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I've pronounced either of those incorrectly. But he's written a letter in reply to
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Steve Brian's original letter where he had all the MP's sign concerns over the MHR.
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Now part one of that letter I wrote about in my blog on the
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thirteenth of February. So for those of you who want to look at that,
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please go to that blog. Let's le see what it says. So
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it says about raising concerns about the MHRA, and if we go to the
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next slide, he says that there's reason to believe that the MHRA was aware
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of a signal for post vaccination myocarditis and pericarditis in February twenty twenty one.
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He also talks about the fact that the MHRA failed to mention it despite a
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thorough review. If we go on to the next slide, we can also
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see that he was making comments on threats that he had heard that had been
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made to the Telegraph with regards to their coverage of the astrazenka serious adverse reaction
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of blood clots. Now this is a very interesting point because I actually sent
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in an FOI direct to Dame June Rain with regards to this. Had a
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senior member of the MHRA phoned the Telegraph and threatened them, told them to
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soften the news, told them that they would be banned from press briefings.
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My question there is in italics, and then on the next slide you'll see
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that they very very directly say, having reviewed our records for this date,
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for this date, and to the best of our knowledge, we have no
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evidence that any phone call of this nature took place. So the telegrapher still
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publishing about serious adverse reactions yesterday and a couple of days ago, the medical
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Regulator failed to sound the alarm over COVID vaccine side effects and should be investigated.
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And they went on to say, I won't read out the whole slide,
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it's just to give you an example of what they were saying about the
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MHRA being a response for approving drugs but failing to sound the alarm. So
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you know, when it comes to patient safety, we have to look at
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who's in charge of patient safety at the MHRA, and of course that's doctor
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Allison Cave. So let's remind ourselves of what Allison Cave gets paid. She's
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the highest paid member of the team at the MHRA, on a nice one
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hundred and ninety five thousand pounds a year. But has she not read the
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PISA documents analysis, has she not been to our PISA situation room or has
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she not even looked at her Yellow card data? That would be my question
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for Alison Cave. And you know, despite all of this, there are
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still COVID vaccines being rolled out. Just a couple of days ago, MHRA
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approved Commarati and new Vaccoid. This means that these approvals have been reapproved if
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you like, to enable re relabeling and rethawing outside of the NHS. But
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Da Allison Cave is very busy rolling those out and not looking at serious adverse
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reactions of the injection. But she's very concerned about codeine, and this is
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what she's been doing. She's been taking codeine link to us off our pharmaceutical
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shelves because it's now been reclassified to prescription only because of risk of abuse and
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addiction. And if we go and look at the MHRAS or sorry, yes,
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I'll just give you a quote from Dr Allison Cave, because we must
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remind ourselves patient safety is our top priority, and that's what Dr Allison Cave
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says about codeine. She doesn't seem to be saying the same about the COVID
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nineteen vaccines. However, if we go to the MHRA website, we can
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see there those are the brands that you can expect to see disappearing off your
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shelves. So those are the actual brand brand names. But let's look at
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the serious adverse reactions of codeine. And I was quite surprised there, or
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maybe not surprised to see that they have accelerated. You can see they've risen
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since the rollout of the injection. Now, whether this or not is linked,
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I don't know whether they're apportioning things to codeine. I don't know.
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However, what did strike me was this announcement and I hadn't seen it before
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on the MHRA website. This is very important risks and benefits of medicines.
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For a medicine to be considered safe, the expected benefits of the medicine will
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be greater than the risks of suffering harmful reactions. This is what Cheryl was
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saying last week. I don't see a book of benefits with regards to the
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COVID nineteen injections. However, I see plenty of evidence to the risks.
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It also says or medicines can cause reactions. It also says two down at
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the bottom, if a new side effect is identified, information is carefully considered
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in context of the overall side effect profile for them medicine and how it compares
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with other medicines used to treat the same condition. It also says the MHRA
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will take action. Thus far, I don't see the MHRA taking any action
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at all. Oh, well, they certainly are taking action. Debate,
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So let's have a look at some of the action that they're taking. They're
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shortening time frames, and what are the shortening time frames about. Well,
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it's about the process changes for the assessment of established medicines. In this case,
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the changes will enable the agency to assess applications more efficiently, helping to
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ensure a smoother and more rapid approvals process for applicants. Applicants, of course,
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the pharmaceutical companies that want their products on the shelves. So let's see
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what they're saying. Established medicines include products that are not new active substances or
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line extensions to new active substances. This process change applies specifically to chemical products.
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It excludes so called biosimilars. And they say that the timely processing of
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marketing authorization applications for established medicines of the highest importance because otherwise how could the
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pharmaceutical companies make the profits that they do. The measures of the measures the
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MHR is putting in place are already resulting in significant improvements to whom well for
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the pharmaceutical companies, and the agency will continue to publish monthly updates providing applicants
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the pharmaceutical companies with transparent information unexpected time skills. So if you're a member
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of the public and you're worried about safety, don't worry that there's safety issue
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or not. The pharmacuy companies are making sure they get the full reporting whereas
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we don't. But let's not leave it there, because they've decided that they're
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really proud that they've managed to I'm not quite sure how you pronounce this.
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Ex JAVA perhaps has been approved in thirty days, so let's just have a
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look and see what the statement they said. Here, a new formula for
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x Jaeva, which is Deno sumab, a treatment used adults to prevent serious
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bone related complications caused by bone mestastasis is and to treat giant cell tumor of
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bone adults and adolescents. Is the first product to be authorized by the MHRA
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via the new international regulation procedure. Now, this is something that Debbie has
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talked about before, and this is basically where the MHRI says, well,
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somebody else has approved it already, so that's good enough for us, so
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we'll approve it by default. So they went on to say this, if
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we put that back on screen, the product was authorized in thirty days,
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Great job the MHRA is doing, but it's a great job for this pharmaceutical
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32:20
Now let's move on to the farmers, and particularly the European farmers,
32:24
and well, sticking their fingers up at the European farmers is none other than
32:30
the European Parliament. So here they are, and they have passed their Nature
32:34
Restoration Law, which is basically the fundamental underlying reason for the protests in the
32:38
first place. So, amongst other things, this law requires that thirty percent
32:44
of habitats that's forest, grasslands, wetlands, rivers, lakes, coral beds,
32:46
these kind of things need to be risen from a poor to a good
32:51
condition by twenty thirty. And of course this means that farmers and in fact
32:55
fishing fleets need to be considering these things rather than food production over that period
33:01
of time. But it has to increase now to sixty percent by twenty forty
33:06
and then to ninety percent by twenty fifty. So here is the agriculture minister
33:12
from Lombardy, and this is what he had to say about it with its
33:15
ideological and extremist view. Not only this is the euni's talking about. Its
33:20
ideological and extremist view not only wants to indefinitely bury our productive agriculture system,
33:24
but is also an enemy of the environment. The message of this law,
33:29
in fact is stop cultivating land and the little we allow you to do will
33:34
undergo more and more constraints, while countries do not comply with the rules will
33:37
take care of your food. Now, I'm going to disagree with that slightly,
33:40
because the point is that countries that are not complying with the rules will
33:45
not necessarily be in a position to supply the food that's needed. So either
33:51
we're going to be eating less or we're going to be eating differently, and
33:54
I think we all know that the latter is much more likely, as they
33:59
attack to bring in much more cricket protein and other kind of insect protein into
34:04
our diets. And we should not forget the UK legislation passed last year to
34:08
permit the gene editing of organisms, animals and plants, which will allow for
34:15
much more factory indoor factory type production of food rather than farmland production of food.
34:24
Things are really coming to a head in Poland. It is quite incredible
34:29
what is going on there with more daily protests. Now the borders of Ukraine
34:34
and Slovakia blocked by the farmers. But here we had estimates between ten thousand
34:39
and thirty thousand people out on the streets of Warsaw over the last couple of
34:44
days. Let's just have a look, sorry, let's just have a look
34:46
at the video which if I can get it to play, which apparently I
34:52
can't, but anyway, you can see you can see the scale of the
34:55
numbers of people there that the demonstration when on for a great distance. If
35:01
we look at this from notes from Poland, Polish farmers have begun blockading the
35:06
border with Slovakia, which they say is being used to bring Ukrainian product produce
35:12
into Poland. By passing the blockade of the border with Ukraine on Friday,
35:15
they also planned to start a blockade of the border with Lithiania. So the
35:21
issue here is that there are two main areas of protest in Poland. One
35:25
is the EU legislation which has just passed, and the other is the fact
35:30
that grain is coming in from Ukraine into Poland and the grain is of low
35:36
quality and low cost and it's undercutting Polish grains and therefore they are effectively being
35:43
put out of business by this. Now they have been taking some direct action
35:49
as well as the peaceful demonstration, and Ukraine has been going on. Zelensky
35:53
in particular has been going absolutely nuts over this. So Ukraine condemned dumping of
35:59
grain transitting through Poland, says notes from Poland, and many other mainstream media
36:05
and alternative media from Poland as well, so keep an eye on what's going
36:08
on there. They are getting support from Germany and other countries, but keep
36:13
an eye on that. Meanwhile, in Ukraine itself, the Ukrainian government getting
36:17
really upset about the position that they're in, and this is kind of related
36:22
if we just do a quick translation on This is from the Ukrainian Center for
36:24
Combating Disinformation and they're talking about the statement of the Intelligence Committee under the President
36:31
of Ukraine. So let's just have a look at the final paragraph of this.
36:35
They say, in view of the above circumstances, we appeal to Ukraine
36:38
society, our international partners and allies to strength and joint resistance and comprehensive security
36:44
measures, especially in the information space, in order to effectively counter global threats
36:50
and challenges of a new global hybrid war, the war that the Russian Federation
36:53
and its criminal allies are waging against the entire civilized world today. They're calling
36:59
a global hybrid war. Our society needs unity. So they're very concerned that
37:05
farmers are getting worried about grin coming across the border. They're also very worried
37:09
about the fact that they are losing the war and that that is becoming public
37:15
knowledge. So they're demanding that international partners shut down discourse on this. Quite
37:21
an incredible situation and quite an incredible situation palln with the farmers, So keep
37:24
an eye on it. Okay, let's move on. Ben Debbie has mentioned
37:31
Aria before, but you've got more on it. I do, indeed,
37:37
and just listening to the segments today, it strikes me that there is a
37:43
war going on. There's a war going on between the old world and the
37:47
new world. Yeah, we've got new forms of democracy, new forms of
37:52
healthcare, new forms of farming, and they seem to serve the purpose of
37:59
the people in power, not the people on the street unfortunately. And where
38:02
does all this new stuff come from. It comes from places like Aria,
38:07
which is the Advanced Research and Invention Agency. This was the brainchild of Dominic
38:15
Cummings when he was in number ten. It's a modeled on Darper, the
38:19
American institution which invented the Internet, RNA, vaccines, weaponized drones just three
38:25
examples. And this is an eight hundred million pound fund and it's here to
38:30
empower scientists to reach for the edge of the possible. Interestingly, they define
38:37
success as shaped by one question. When the children of the UK grow up,
38:45
how will their lives have been transformed by Arina's work. Now we can
38:50
interpret that in a number of ways, but from where I'm sitting, it
38:53
doesn't sound entirely positive. Now. It's run by these two gentlemen, This
38:59
guy mac Clifford who's the chairman, who also founded something called entrepreneur First.
39:04
It's basically gets top tier grads from Oxbridge and elsewhere into the big tech ecosystem.
39:10
He was also the Prime Minister Sherpard to the AI summit of Bletchley Park
39:15
last year, so he's quite a top level character. Former McKinsey consultant as
39:19
well. And it's run by this guy Ilan Gerr, doctor Ilan Gerr.
39:23
Should I say who is in an Israeli American. I don't know why we
39:28
couldn't find an Englishman or a brick to run this. It seems ridiculous.
39:30
And he's also a member of the Atlantic Council, whose mission is shaping the
39:36
global future. All right, so that's mister Gerz or sorry should I say
39:42
doctor Gurz prominence. Now let's hear from him about where he sees the real
39:45
challenges facing the British people. What kind of stuff are we talking about?
39:51
We're talking about, like, are you framing an idea as we're going to
39:54
cure cancer? Or like is that like a broad is that too broad?
39:59
Or what kind of like what kind of ideas? So when they announced Matt
40:02
and my appointments, we basically said, hey, we're open to people suggesting
40:07
hosting a roundtable where we're just brainstorm where could already be transformational. One of
40:13
the roundtables I'll point to that sticks with me is if you look at climate
40:17
change, a significant amount of global greenhouse gas emissions comes from the agricultural sector,
40:24
actually less from CO two and more from methane. The biggest source of
40:31
methane emissions is cow burps. Number one challenge facing Aria is methane emissions from
40:44
cows. You heard it here first people. But it's good news because Google,
40:50
just this week, as an aside, has announced a global tracking mechanism
40:55
for keeping tabs on methane sources. Yeah, so we just click on there's
41:00
a little visual you can see they've got a satellite, an AI driven satellite,
41:05
which is going to fly around looking for sources of methane. So,
41:09
gentlemen, if you feel the urge to let out a top or indeed a
41:13
bottom book, know this you are being observed by Google. Ladies, that
41:17
doesn't apply to you, because you'll know you don't do that kind of thing.
41:25
I think that might destroy the destroy the satellite. Sorry, there was
41:34
I no, no, no, that's fine. I'm just talking about farts
41:37
on uk CO on the news. Hey everyone, So when else is on
41:40
the agenda? At Ario? You've got programmable plants genetic engineering for food,
41:46
but also so that plants are able to provide a thriving and sustainable biosphere for
41:52
future generations, which is what I thought plants would already do it, but
41:55
apparently aria need to intervene in that. We also have precision interfaces between the
42:01
human digital technology. So this is the kind of neuralink stuff that Elon Musk
42:07
is promoting. There's another program director focused on managing our climate and weather through
42:15
responsible engineering, which actually is completely nuts. If you go and read on
42:22
the ARIA blog, they have a substack Aria Researched or substack dot com and
42:27
also you can go to ARIA dot org dot UK you can read a bit
42:30
more about the different programs. This weather one in particular is crazy the way
42:35
that they're talking about it. The Time's picked up on it and basically pointed
42:38
out that there was some significant there was significant potential for unintended consequences, right,
42:45
and I think that's probably the case across the board with each of these.
42:49
Now each of those are that's just three of the program directors. There
42:51
are eight in total. Each of them have been giving fifty million quid of
42:55
your money. My money is. It's all taxpayer funded to distribute as they
43:00
see fit, and they engage with the research ecosystem in a number of different
43:06
ways. Let's hear from doctor Go again. ARIA can fund based on a
43:12
number of different mechanisms, not just research grants, investments prizes. ARIA can
43:16
set up subsidiaries if that's what's needed to move one of these visions forward it
43:22
can fund research outside of the UK. This is actually, for me really
43:25
important one of the I think the important just sort of characteristics of ARIA needs
43:34
to be a laser focus on how we can get massive benefits for the UK
43:37
and a recognition that the way to do that is to be globally minded in
43:40
reach and ambition. And then maybe the most important one is the ARIA Act
43:45
actually gives ARIA and signals for everyone. This should be an experiment with sort
43:52
of a decatal time constant and time horizon for impact. And so Parliament basically
43:58
said the govern can't shut down ARIA and actually shouldn't evaluate seriously aria's progress until
44:05
tenure. So there's a few really interesting things that he just mentioned in there.
44:10
The first one that really jumped out of me is that they're not actually
44:14
interested in the UK at all. They see this as a global investment fund.
44:19
So the idea that this is necessarily going to benefit British people is a
44:22
bit far fetched given what he's just said. The timeline thing, I think
44:28
is correct. Real innovation takes between five to seven years to have a real
44:31
impact on an organization, so I think that that makes sense. But what
44:37
you refer to is the fact that actually ARIA is completely independent, so it
44:42
was founded based on this government statue. I think he's in the right term
44:46
there, which is the independence of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency documents a
44:52
memorandum of understanding between the different heads of state across the UK, and this
44:57
is basically about maximizing strategy, kicking operational autonomy so whatever they want, and
45:02
minimizing bureaucracy and oversight. So we can't actually go and have a look at
45:06
what's going on there. They do have a board and there's a few interesting
45:09
people to just pick out here. So the first one is Kate Bingham,
45:14
who is a Bench capitalist and was also the former chair of the Vaccine to
45:17
Task Force, so she was the person responsible for working with the MHRA to
45:22
get those vaccines into people's arms really quickly. Also Paddy Valance, Sir Paddy
45:28
Valance, should I say, former Chief Scientific Advisor mits all over COVID,
45:32
now working with the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, just announced this week,
45:37
so Blair is represented on this board in some capacity. Lovely little quote
45:42
here for Mike Yaden. Thank you Mike, who actually knows pat balance and
45:45
apparently is an idiot, so that's good to know. Outside of the board,
45:52
we have an advisory group which includes I'm just going to put a couple
45:55
in here. You should go to the IRI website to check this out for
45:58
yourself. The Hasavis, who is the Deep Mind CEO. This is the
46:02
Google Artificial intelligence play Tony Blair described to him as our demis all right,
46:08
so apparently Tony Blair thinks he owns this guy. And then finally, and
46:15
I guess poetically, given what we've just been talking about with the mhra Ozell
46:20
Terrecci, who is the founder of boon Tech, who basically is one of
46:24
the people most responsible for the Pizor vaccines that have for so much damage that
46:30
we talk about on a regular basis on this show. And these are the
46:35
people overseeing the use of eight hundred million pounds worth for public funds designed to
46:38
transform the lives of British children or could possibly go wrong. Indeed, thank
46:45
you, Ben and Debbie. Let's move on to smart meters. Oh yes,
46:50
let's move on to smart meters. So apparently smart meters. We've all
46:53
been bombarded, haven't we by our energy companies. Will we change our meters
46:58
let's get into this. According to this money, and bearing in mind this
47:01
was in twenty twenty two, this is going to be a very expensive exercise
47:06
because most of the smart meters, or a lot of them that have been
47:08
installed, are going to be obsolete because they won't be able to cope with
47:14
four G or five G. They can only operate on two G and three
47:17
G. It's cost eleven billions so far. So apparently a lot of them
47:22
are going to need to be replaced. So let's go and have a look
47:23
at what the House of Commons says. The House of Commons Committee of Public
47:28
Accounts the update on the rollout of smart meters, and they talk about the
47:32
replacement of smart meters. So they say that replacing non functioning smart meters.
47:39
March twenty twenty three, three million smart meters weren't working properly, one million
47:45
of the new installations weren't commissioned when installed, and six hundred thousand we were
47:52
not preceded because due to the switching process of energy switching process. They also
47:57
said that seven million hubs will be needed to be replaced ahead of twenty thirty
48:01
three because of this four and five G compatibility. It's going to cost two
48:07
pounds per household and that's going to cost you. It's going to be your
48:10
money. And then the last slide on that really I'll let you go back
48:15
and read this slide, but it's upgrading basically the first generation of smart meters.
48:22
But you know what, let's listen to what EDF have to say,
48:27
because at the end of the day, there's a lot of myths, aren't
48:30
there about smart meters, So let's hear them debunk some of them. A
48:36
lot of people get confused between their smart meters and they're inner home displayers.
48:39
This is a smart meter. Once you have it installed, it will go
48:43
where your old meter previously was. The smart meter will automatically send us your
48:46
gas and electricity readings so you don't have to and that will mean that you'll
48:51
get accurate BIS. This isn't in home display, it's not a smart meter.
48:55
It's simply a small digital display that will show you in real time usage
49:00
and your costs. Let's debunks in this. Smart meters don't use Wi Fi
49:02
to send your data. Every smart meter has its own simcard. It will
49:07
send your meter readings remotely through a safe and secure data network. Because of
49:13
this, smart meters shouldn't cause any issues or delayed with your Wi Fi connection.
49:16
We understand installing new technology in your home can sometimes be a bit daunting,
49:21
but your smart meter isn't a spy. Smart meters can't hear anything or
49:25
see anything. The only information that a smart meter will collect is how much
49:29
energy you're using. The data we receive from your smart meter will be used
49:32
to provide you with an accurate bill if you won't give your data to anyone
49:37
else without your consent. Your personal details, which is your name, address
49:40
and bank account details aren't stored or transmitted by your smart meter. Smart meters
49:45
have been extensively tested for your safety. They've passed all the UK and EU
49:50
regulations that make sure our product is safe. These are the same regulations that
49:54
your TV, your microwave, and your mobile phone will have had to look
49:58
passed too. So essentially, if your smart meter is just as safe as
50:00
you're my ball phone, this isn't true. You can still get a smart
50:05
meter if you're renting, just make sure you get your landlord's permission before installing
50:08
one. There are many benefits to installing a smart meter, from taking control
50:13
of your energy bills to the environmental benefits. One of the biggest selling points
50:16
of a smart meter is if they do the whole way for you. A
50:22
couple of interesting points there, Debbie. The first is smart meter is not
50:25
a spy. That's a complete lie. And we'll talk about a little bit
50:29
more about that an extra But the other thing that she said has completely gone
50:35
out of my mind. So already you again, right, Well, I
50:39
mean, how do you get a smart meter? And I quite agree with
50:42
you the spies, and yes, there's a lot to say about this,
50:45
but how do you get one? So go to the off GM website and
50:49
it'll tell you exactly how to get a smart meter. They'll also tell you
50:53
that you can go to this smart Energy GB website. We'll come onto that
50:58
in a minute. This is the general of new smart meters. If you
51:01
jump to the next slide again, you'll see that you don't actually have to
51:07
have a smart meter. But once you've got one, you're going to keep
51:09
it. I can tell you that for nothing, but we'll come on to
51:13
that in a minute. Your data will be used but only with your permission,
51:19
So a lot a lot of information there to process. But who is
51:23
oh, yes, of course Einstein who remembers the Einstein adverts of go get
51:29
a smart meter. This is the this is the website that they were referring
51:31
to, this smart meter website. I haven't I haven't bothered with one of
51:37
the Einstein adverts because I'm sure you've seen enough of those. But let's go
51:40
to the guide for households. So a guide for households really says that this
51:45
is gov dot UK. It's as smart meters put consumers in control. Well,
51:50
actually I disagree with that and say that it puts the energy companies in
51:54
control. Let's look and see what they say about security. So you get
52:00
so you get a smart meter from any of your energy suppliers. But let's
52:05
see who it's been developed by. And this really shocks Well it didn't shock
52:08
me, but it did to see it in writing. The National Smart Metering
52:12
infrastructure has been developed from the outset in consultation with experts from industry and government,
52:17
including the National Cyber Security Center, part of Government Communication Headquarters GCHQ.
52:25
So smart meters surveillance meters or spy meters. Good question A what about health?
52:30
Because according to the government, there's no evidence that smart meters pose any
52:36
risk to health. And according to the UKHSA. But I mean we've heard
52:40
this from the MHRA. We've heard of no need to worry about safety,
52:45
no need to worry about risks. Well should we? If we go to
52:49
one peer reviewed paper and I've just taken this one as an example, electromagnetic
52:53
radiation safety, Dr Joel Moskovich, he's at Berkley, says that this does
53:00
exist. Electro hypersensitivity does exist. Not everybody is electrosensitive, but this advanced
53:07
metering infrastructure, which is basically smart meters. He says that those that become
53:13
ill should have the ability to opt out. But the problem is it's a
53:16
benefit for the utility company, not the consumer. So let's just go and
53:23
look at GCHQ website because or the National Cyber Security Center. Should I say,
53:30
because I think it's really important we look at what is actually behind this
53:35
smart metering system. And this is doctor Ian Levy. Levy explaining the design
53:42
considerations that underpin the smart metering systems. So if we go further on,
53:47
we can see that it's the Department of Energy and Climate Change, together with
53:52
GCHQ, have designed this system. Now, this is a system, not
53:57
just a collection of meters and they make that very plane that this is a
54:00
system. If we jump on one from there, we'll see a diagram.
54:07
Now, I'm sure Michael wants to talk about this more in extra because that's
54:09
your house on the left, and it's going to need some explanation, which
54:14
I will leave for Mike to explain more in extra. But you can see
54:17
the gateway pathways there from your house, from your hub in your house that
54:22
goes all the way to your energy suppliers, which also provides your network operators
54:28
with the data, and your data will go to third parties. So I
54:34
wanted to know can we get rid of them? Can we get rid of
54:37
them? I went to a Telegraph article ask an expert can I get rid
54:42
of my smart meter? And according to this article, there's actually no reason
54:46
why anybody would want to get one removed. Excuse me, I think there
54:51
are. But they say that you can put your meeting means that you have
54:57
to read it, that the energy company won't automatically have the reading, so
55:01
it's less convenient for the consumer. So I chose a website, a blog,
55:07
really a consumer blog called First Electricians. They call themselves the number one
55:13
source to find top electricians. You can see their website address there, and
55:17
I just went there to see what they were saying. Can an electrician remove
55:22
a smart meter? No, basically no, they can't. It has to
55:27
be an approved electrician from the energy company. Can you remove a smart meter
55:32
once one is installed? Pretty much no, it's really really difficult to get
55:37
one removed. You can sometimes on health grounds if you get a doctor's letter,
55:43
but it's not for the faint hearted. You're also not allowed to tample
55:46
with them, and it's immediately a legal matter. I went on then to
55:52
see what would happen if somebody disconnected one or disconnecting one they say could lead
55:57
to serious consequences e illegal or considered illegal, considered a theft of services because
56:04
the equipment belongs to the energy company. They say. In the UK,
56:08
it's also against the law and can result in legal action for your energy supply,
56:13
and I believe this is true in the United States as well. So
56:15
smart meters, like traditional meters, are the property of the utility company.
56:21
Therefore, unauthorized removal of a smart meter is typically illegal. But there's a
56:25
lot to say because is it a deal breaker if you're buying a house or
56:30
you're renting are you asking before you're viewing does that property you have a smart
56:35
meter? And if it does and you can't get it removed, will you
56:38
move lots of questions to maybe talk about an extra Yes, good, okay,
56:44
thank you, Debbie. Now you find a little bit of video recently
56:49
and that well terras from the World Health Organization from the United Nations. Just
56:54
give us an reduction to this little introduction. I suddenly saw him pop up
57:00
at the United Nations Environment Summit, of all places, and it suddenly clicked
57:05
to me. World Health Organization, not people health organization, not human health
57:10
organization, world planet Earth. Let's hear what Dr Tedross. I'm very story.
57:17
I can't pronounce his surname. I do apologize, but that's what he
57:21
says about the health of the world, climate change, biodiversity laws, and
57:30
pollution. If our planet were a patient, it would be admitted to intensive
57:37
care. It's vital signs are alarming. It's running a fever, with each
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of the last nine months the hottest on record. As we heartle towards the
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one point five degree threshold, its lung capacity is compromised with a distraction of
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forests that absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen, and many of the elderswater sources
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its lifeblood are contaminated. Most concerning of all, its condition is deteriorating rapidly.
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Is it any wonder then, that human health is suffering when the held
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of the planet on which we depend is in perin More frequent and severe weather
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events cause dests and injuries as you know, and damage to health facilities and
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other essential infrastructure. More heat waves contribute to more cardio vascular disease. Air
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pollution drives lung cancer, asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Chemicals such as
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lead cause intellectual disability, cardiovascular and kidney disease, and drought and water scarcity
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affect food production, making healthy diets less affordable. Meanwhile, climate change is
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leading to shifts in the behavior, distribution, movement, range, and intensity
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of mosquitos, birds, and other animals that are spreading infectious disease such as
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dengi and malaria to new areas. Illegal wildlife trading also increases the risk of
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zenotic spillover that can trigger a pandemic, highlighting the importance of primary pre to
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reduce risk World health, World's health, not our health this is all about
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world health hence World Health Organization. Why didn't I hear it or see it
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before? Yeah, okay, good point, Okay, thank you, Debbie
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and Ben. Just very quickly, Elon Musk has launched a legal action.
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He has. Yeah, So just following on from the piece that I did
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last week focused on AI. I said that in that session last week that
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Musk was one of the original investors in open ai. He put one hundred
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million dollars into it on the basis that it was going to be creating artificial
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intelligence for the benefit of the holy humanity. And obviously open ai has now
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cut a big deal with Microsoft, and Musk has issuing open ai and Greg
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Rockman, who's the president of open ai in the US. He says that
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open eye ink has been transformed into a closed source the facto subsidiary of the
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largest technology company in the world, Microsoft, under its new board, it's
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not just developing, but it's actually refining an AGI to maximize profits for Microsoft,
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rather than the benefit of humanity. Contrary to the founding agreement, defendants
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have chosen to use GPT for not for the benefit of humanity, but as
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proprietary technology to maximize profits, but literally the largest company in the world.
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So interesting to see how this plays out. I don't see musk of some
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kind of white Night in this situation, but this kind of big tech soap
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opera is certainly keeping a lot of people engaged in entertained right now, so
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we'll see how that develops. Yeah, okay, brilliant, Thank you Ben.
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Okay, Well, look we've got to leave it there for today.
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I'm going to say thank you very much to Ben and Debbie and to everybody
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who's been watching. We'll be back in a few minutes if you're a UK
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colun member for some extra Otherwise, we'll see at one pm as Monday.
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Hope you have a great weekend. Bye bye, mm hmm