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UK Column News — 27th March 2026 · UK Column Radio

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon. It's Friday, the twenty seventh of March twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty six, just after one o'clock. Welcome to the UK
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Speaker 1: Colin News. I'm your host Mike Robinson. Joining me in
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Speaker 1: the studio today is Brian Gerrish. Welcome to the program. Brian,
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Speaker 1: pleasure to be here, Mike, and by video link we're
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Speaker 1: joined by Basil Valentine a letter. In the program, Basil's
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Speaker 1: going to have the littust on the Jewish ambulances story
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Speaker 1: and we'll be taking a look and you'll also be
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Speaker 1: taking a look at Zionists funding of politics in the UK.
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Speaker 1: I go as the littus on what's happening with Palestine action,
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Speaker 1: and Brian's going to be reporting on changes in the
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Speaker 1: family courts. But we're going to begin, of course with
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Speaker 1: what's going on with Russia and Iran.
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Speaker 2: Brian, well, yes, I pause at this point, Mike, because
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Speaker 2: to understand what's actually happening is probably as difficult as
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Speaker 2: seeing through the mist and the clag over the sound
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Speaker 2: behind us. Yes, but let's bring in the Independent because
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Speaker 2: this headline did really catch my eye. So well, okay,
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Speaker 2: the big print Britain's economy is the worst hit by
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Speaker 2: Trump's Iran war. That caught my eyes. It was supposed
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Speaker 2: to do. But let's just remind the audience that at
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Speaker 2: the top of this little front page we've got transgender
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Speaker 2: athletes banned from all women's Olympic events, and then we've
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Speaker 2: got four hundred and seventy million of missing savings. That'll
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Speaker 2: be corruption, Mike, which you've both been heavily into recently.
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Speaker 2: So this headline really shows that the pitiful state of
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Speaker 2: UK Britain is not broken. It has been broken. It's
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Speaker 2: been deliberate policy. But here's the headline, and of course
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Speaker 2: it's blaming the war on Iran. But there we have
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Speaker 2: a starmer on the right side of the screen, and
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Speaker 2: let's just bring in some comment. We've got to say
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Speaker 2: to the Independent that actually the war's a joint effort.
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Speaker 2: It's not to do with just Trump, because storm has
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Speaker 2: been working hard, obviously to give the US the bases
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Speaker 2: and supported needs. But let's turn to Stormer and his
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Speaker 2: ex account and hear what the good man has to say.
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Speaker 3: It's early morning here in Helsinki and I'm about to
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Speaker 3: meet Northern European leaders as part of a military capability.
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Speaker 3: The focus here is very much on Russia, and obviously
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Speaker 3: we're facing war of two fronts at the moment in
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Speaker 3: Iran and Russia's invasion of the Ukraine. That invasion of
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Speaker 3: Ukraine really matters for the United Kingdom. It affects US
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Speaker 3: and that's why I'm announcing that I've given permission to
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Speaker 3: the UK to interceent Russian shadow Fleet vessels, and these
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Speaker 3: are vessels that are acting our lawfully and fret much sanctions.
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Speaker 3: Well now as much later in Helsinki, we just wrapped
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Speaker 3: up the meeting of Northern European Leaders, very successful day.
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Speaker 3: I'm always conscious that for many people, god only are
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Speaker 3: they worried about the wars, but also they're worried about
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Speaker 3: the impact on them and their energy bills. And that's
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Speaker 3: why it's really important that we're able to next week
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Speaker 3: reduce household energy bills and then keep them reduced. World
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Speaker 3: wider picture here, it is a war on two fronts,
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Speaker 3: and as we said in the conclusion of the meeting,
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Speaker 3: we are the leaders of today. We've got to step
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Speaker 3: up to this challenge. That means doing more on defense
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Speaker 3: and security and always for me, as the British Prime Minister,
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Speaker 3: making sure that I'm acting in the British National intro.
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Speaker 1: What did he mean by a war on two fronts?
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Speaker 2: Well, the Russians are after us, the Iranians are after us,
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Speaker 2: but don't a few days ago we were supposed to
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Speaker 2: be worried about the Iranian missiles striking UK, but now
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Speaker 2: it's the energy bills that are clearly upsetting everybody. There's
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Speaker 2: something interesting actually in this little piece to camera Mike.
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Speaker 2: If you consider the pressure that Starmer must be under
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Speaker 2: at the moment to do the bidding of his globalists,
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Speaker 2: what is he really worried about. He's worried about the
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Speaker 2: backlash from the UK public over something much more simple
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Speaker 2: energy prices. So for people who say nothing we do
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Speaker 2: makes a difference, it absolutely does. When people stand up
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Speaker 2: and shout about what they're really upset about, that impacts
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Speaker 2: on the political scene without question. Now we should have
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Speaker 2: another little clip of Starmer here, but we just see
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Speaker 2: what he's got to say in this one, because I
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Speaker 2: think it's got more focus on those nasty Russians and
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Speaker 2: the fact that UK is not going to fix the
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Speaker 2: potholes in the road roads. We're going to get out
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Speaker 2: there and we're going to snatch Russian vessels which are
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Speaker 2: supposedly broken sanctions. Let's have a listen to Starmer on
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Speaker 2: this one.
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Speaker 3: The focus here is very much on Russian aggression in Ukraine,
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Speaker 3: and we have to accept there's a war on two fronts.
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Speaker 3: There's the Iranian conflict and the continuing Gian conflict. Today
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Speaker 3: I'll be talking to Allied about what more we can do.
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Speaker 3: Of course will be discussions about defense spend, also defense capability,
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Speaker 3: and today I'll be making clear to them that I'm
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Speaker 3: giving permission for the UK to intercept shadow fleet Russian
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Speaker 3: shadow fleet ships. These are ships that are unlawfully breaching sanctions,
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Speaker 3: usually with oil, and we'll be working with others on
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Speaker 3: that project. On defense, obviously I've already committed to increasing
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Speaker 3: defense spend. We'd have the commitments to go further, and
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Speaker 3: we will keep those commitments.
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Speaker 1: You'd think that'd be that have enough money for a
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Speaker 1: wind sock for the bag phone there?
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Speaker 2: You would have thought so. But of course this is
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Speaker 2: this is a little real, isn't it. This is starm
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Speaker 2: At trying to be one of the one of the
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Speaker 2: boys effectively. But what's this man up to? He's going
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Speaker 2: to go further, wants that further into war I think indeed.
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Speaker 1: So as he's just said, he's talking about the Shadow Fleet.
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Speaker 1: So if we bring this on screen that is being
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Speaker 1: covered by NIVY lookout here, and they're talking about Royal
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Speaker 1: Navy warships. I'm not sure where they're going to get them,
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Speaker 1: but they will come onto that in a second. They're
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Speaker 1: talking about commandos, they're talking about law enforcement to intercept
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Speaker 1: and hoard and board sorry suspected Russian fleet vessels and
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Speaker 1: British waters. And now the Starmer's narrative is that Russia
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Speaker 1: operates and estimated one thousand aging tankers in order to
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Speaker 1: get round Western oil sanctions, with several transiting the English
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Speaker 1: Channel each week. Now, each interception, he says, is going
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Speaker 1: to require ministerial approval following assessment by military, legal and
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Speaker 1: energy specialists. So the Royal Marines are going to be
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Speaker 1: involved in Special Boat Service, naval air squadrons, it's going
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Speaker 1: to be helicopter led. And they say that this policy
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Speaker 1: aligns the UK with JF that's the Joint Expedition for
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Speaker 1: Sorry Expeditionary Forces partners already active in the Baltic and
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Speaker 1: the aims to force Shadow Fleet vessels into costlier rerouts,
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Speaker 1: and this is all about increasing pressure on Russia's sanctioned
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Speaker 1: energy exports. And I of course Starmer is ignoring Trump's
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Speaker 1: lifting of oil sanctions on Russia. Britain still has sanctions
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Speaker 1: in place, and this is part of the justification for
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Speaker 1: the action, just to reinforce this point. I'm sorry to
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Speaker 1: do this, everybody, but we should listen to what these
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Speaker 1: people say. This is John Healy's take on the whole thing.
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Speaker 4: The Defense Secretary, there's an access of aggression between Russia
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Speaker 4: and Iran. We've seen the similar tactics and technologies used
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Speaker 4: by Iran as Russia uses in Ukraine. And I'm releasing
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Speaker 4: today our latest defense intelligence assessment which confirms ahead of
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Speaker 4: this conflict, Russia was sharing intelligence, it was providing training
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Speaker 4: to Iran, including on types of drones and on elect
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Speaker 4: it warfare. And while Putin wants us to be distracted
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Speaker 4: from what he is doing elsewhere, we won't let him.
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Speaker 4: And we'll see the Prime Minister again this afternoon confirming
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Speaker 4: as far as Ukraine goes that we and the allies
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Speaker 4: he's with will stand with Ukraine for as long as
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Speaker 4: it takes to see off Putin.
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Speaker 2: We're wearing ourselves. Well, it is utterly incredible. These people
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Speaker 2: have now gone themselves in such a complex situation. They
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Speaker 2: don't know which way to turn. But now blaming the
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Speaker 2: Russians for giving the Iran information. We give the Ukrainians
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Speaker 2: information in order to target Russia. This is utter madness
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Speaker 2: from these people. They are out of control and you
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Speaker 2: can see it on their faces because more and more
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Speaker 2: when they're in front of camera you hear them stutter.
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Speaker 2: They don't know what to say because there's no coherent
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Speaker 2: plan behind what's going on. That is the front bit
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Speaker 2: about it is these people are just out of control.
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Speaker 1: So the question is what is the state of the
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Speaker 1: Royal Navy? Because Donald Trump was pretty critical for the
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Speaker 1: last there to abide Britain's involvement in helping with the
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Speaker 1: Iran situation. Let's just listen to Donald Trump's comments.
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Speaker 4: The UK say that we'll send this is three weeks ago.
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Speaker 5: We'll send our aircraft carriers, which aren't the best aircraft
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Speaker 5: carriers by the way, the toys compared to.
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Speaker 6: What we have.
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Speaker 1: But we'll send our aircraft carrier when the war is over.
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Speaker 1: I said, oh, that's wonderful, thank you very much.
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Speaker 6: We don't bother.
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Speaker 1: We don't need it, and we don't need it, and
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Speaker 1: we don't need.
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Speaker 2: Them as off ahead as he is. He's absolutely right
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Speaker 2: in this case. In this case, he's right. No disrespect
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Speaker 2: to the people serving in the Royal Navy and at
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Speaker 2: sea and on board our aircraft carriers. But it's absolutely
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Speaker 2: true our aircraft carriers I'm not as bad powerful as
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Speaker 2: their US equivalents. But the key thing here is that
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Speaker 2: we no longer have a navy to put around those
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Speaker 2: carriers to make them work as a cohesive unit. And
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Speaker 2: one carrier on its own is a liability, it's not
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Speaker 2: a help. So I can absolutely believe the US forces
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Speaker 2: simply do not want the complexity of a partly functioning
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Speaker 2: Royal Navy alongside them in the golf. They don't want
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Speaker 2: a fractious European military force alongside them in the golf.
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Speaker 2: It's a hindrance, it's not a help to them. And
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Speaker 2: the state of the Navy at the moment here in
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Speaker 2: the UK means that the assets we've got are pitiful
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Speaker 2: compared to what we should be able to provide if
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Speaker 2: it was justified and giving help to the Americans, well,
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Speaker 2: let's qualify that a bit by going to a Mark
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Speaker 2: Felton production. This man is done some really excellent documentaries
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Speaker 2: recently on more on current politics as o supposed to
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Speaker 2: historical events, but he's done a particular video on the
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Speaker 2: state of the Navy. This is just a small section
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Speaker 2: from that video.
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Speaker 7: If we compare today's active fleet with the fleet that
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Speaker 7: retook the Falklands in nineteen eighty two, the sorry state
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Speaker 7: of the Navy is planed to see if another Falklands
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Speaker 7: type crisis was to emerge today, could we deal with it?
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Speaker 7: Probably not. In nineteen eighty two, the Royal Navy was
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Speaker 7: quite large. Britain at the time had three aircraft carriers,
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Speaker 7: twelve destroyers compared to six today, and forty three frigates
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Speaker 7: compared to just seven today. In nineteen eighty two, the
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Speaker 7: Royal Navy deployed the Falklands Task Force, which was two
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Speaker 7: aircraft carriers, eight destroyers and sixteen frigates, plus an assortment
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Speaker 7: of other vessel and still manage to fulfill its other
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Speaker 7: worldwide obligations. If the Falklands kicked off today, the Royal
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Speaker 7: Navy could add a stretch deploy one aircraft carrier, two
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Speaker 7: destroyers and five frigates.
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Speaker 2: Well, I think the truth is, although Mark Felton's really
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Speaker 2: excellent documentary, the r end today is not capable of
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Speaker 2: doing even that. And this is what causes the problem.
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Speaker 2: You can't put an aircraft carrier into a hostile theater
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Speaker 2: without a full supporting force around it, and we are
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Speaker 2: not capable of doing that.
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Speaker 1: So let's just look at in a little bit more
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Speaker 1: detail of this. First of all, Nick Ferrari was speaking
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Speaker 1: to John Heay recently and it was yesterday I think,
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Speaker 1: and basically John Heilly didn't seem to be aware of
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Speaker 1: just how many ships are actually available to them. Let's
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Speaker 1: just watch this.
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Speaker 8: How many frigates do we have in the fleet?
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Speaker 9: We have?
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Speaker 1: We have, we have, we have, we have.
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Speaker 4: We have seventeen frigates and destroyers. It's down from twenty
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Speaker 4: three at the end of the last Labor government. And
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Speaker 4: as I say, the number of mine hunters have been
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Speaker 4: cut by more than a half. And so that we
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Speaker 4: can meet not just the threats we face now, but
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Speaker 4: the threats in the future. If we've got a fleet
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Speaker 4: of seventeen in total, where are they all? Well, every nation,
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Speaker 4: with every piece of its military kit, has some, some
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Speaker 4: some in operation, some undeployment, some in, some in states
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Speaker 4: of readiness, some being repaired and maintained, regular rhythm that
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Speaker 4: is common to military planning. But I'm look, I'm I'm.
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Speaker 8: Drugging in operation down there?
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Speaker 7: Now?
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Speaker 8: Where are all the others? Are all the others being
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Speaker 8: repaired in some way, shape or form.
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Speaker 1: Look, I'm proud of what we're.
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Speaker 4: Able to do. I'm proud of the fact that the
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Speaker 4: forces quickly. Are they all risen to the challenges in
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Speaker 4: the Middle East?
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Speaker 3: I know?
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Speaker 8: So are the others? Are they all being repaired? Or
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Speaker 8: is there some? Are they not functioning correctly? Seventeen vessels.
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Speaker 8: We would have known for months that we were heading
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Speaker 8: this operation in April. Why did it not occur to someone, Well,
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Speaker 8: we're going to need one of our but warships because
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Speaker 8: we're commanding the operation in April. Let's make sure it's available.
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Speaker 8: Why did that not occur to anyone?
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Speaker 4: We were preparing Dragon for that flagship role.
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Speaker 8: So we have one warship available because Dragon had to
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Speaker 8: down to Cyprus.
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Speaker 3: I have.
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Speaker 8: I have.
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Speaker 4: I have to make decisions based on what we've got,
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Speaker 4: So he.
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Speaker 1: Has to make decisions based on what they've got. But
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Speaker 1: they've got nothing this is true.
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Speaker 2: I hesitate to say this, but I could possibly feel
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Speaker 2: some sympathy for Heale because I suspect one of the
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Speaker 2: reasons he does not know what he's got is because
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Speaker 2: the whole military system is now so broken. It's so
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Speaker 2: chaotic that we haven't got anything. But of course what
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Speaker 2: the military then does when they don't have the assets
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Speaker 2: is that they start to manipulate information to ministers to
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Speaker 2: make it appear everything is okay. So I'm going to
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Speaker 2: say Heally should have done his homework, he should have
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Speaker 2: been briefed. But essentially, the situation now in the Royal
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Speaker 2: Navy and the RAF and indeed the army is so
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Speaker 2: broken and chaotic that people do not know what we
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Speaker 2: have and don't have.
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Speaker 1: And then he was on ITV and he was asked
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Speaker 1: if he was prid of the state of the Royal Navy.
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Speaker 2: I think, do you think the Navy is at its
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Speaker 2: very best? It represents the greatest naval force in the
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Speaker 2: world as it used to do.
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Speaker 5: Are you proud of it?
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Speaker 4: My point is that we strengthen our defenses, we defend
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Speaker 4: our allies as we have done. We protect our bases
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Speaker 4: and our people as we have done. From day one
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Speaker 4: in a range of ways, and that includes the fact
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Speaker 4: that our jets have been flying since day one. Our
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Speaker 4: British pilot.
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Speaker 9: Ask you about the navy hours now forgive me, I'm
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Speaker 9: asking you about ships and you're answering me about planes.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, well the truth is now coming out. We
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Speaker 2: are watching breakdown of the armed Forces. But of course
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Speaker 2: this is not accident a dental. It's been engineered over
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Speaker 2: the years and part of the formation of the of
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Speaker 2: the EU Military Force. Military unification was part of that.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so let's bring Ben Obviously Jack Ede on screen.
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Speaker 1: I've probably messed up his name, but anyway, this is
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Speaker 1: what he posted on X on Wednesday. So he said
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Speaker 1: that the Royal Navy has officially run out of ships.
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Speaker 1: I've been raising this issue for weeks. Well I have
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Speaker 1: to say we've been raising this issue for about twenty years.
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Speaker 5: I believe.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, I'm glad you finally caught up. And he
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Speaker 1: went on to say, now it's a fish. The Germans
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Speaker 1: have had to bail as ode. This was following the
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Speaker 1: announcement from the German embassy in London that Germany is
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Speaker 1: increasing its military presence in the North Atlantic under NATO,
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Speaker 1: and as they say here that as the UK deploys
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Speaker 1: HMS Dragon to the Eastern Mediterranean, German frigate Saxon will
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Speaker 1: take over from HMS Dragon as NATO Maritime Task Group flagship. Now,
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Speaker 1: the German Embassy is very diplomatic in saying this is
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Speaker 1: an expression of the close German British partnership, not a
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Speaker 1: result of the pathetic state of the Royal Navy at
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Speaker 1: the moment. But anyway, in the meantime, the narrative from
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Speaker 1: all in Sundry is that Britain is said to play
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Speaker 1: a key role in forming an alliance to reopen the
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Speaker 1: Straits of Hormuz, and that the Royal Navy could be
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Speaker 1: involved in escorting oil tankers, securing vital shipping leans supporting
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Speaker 1: a wider international coalition. This marks a potential shift, is
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Speaker 1: the type of language that we're seeing in the press. Well,
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Speaker 1: among all the couldbes and the potentials, the question is
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Speaker 1: what's the reality. We've got a report here from Charles
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Speaker 1: Mallard who was in Portsmouth this morning and sent us this.
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Speaker 9: Now, I'm just crossing Portsmouth Harbor from where HMS Brockleby,
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Speaker 9: the Hunt class mine sweeper deployed into the Solent yesterday
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Speaker 9: after completing sea trials. I've requested further information from the
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Speaker 9: Ministry of Defense with regard to the Prime Minister's statement
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Speaker 9: we will not be drawn into the wider war. But
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Speaker 9: over my right shoulder at His Majesty's Naval Bates Portsmouth,
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Speaker 9: you'll be able to see first of all HMS Prince
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Speaker 9: of Wales, the aircraft carrier that deployed to the Indo
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Speaker 9: Pacific on an operation supposedly involving trade in twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 9: Of course, there's been much confusion surrounding her likely tasking,
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Speaker 9: as she was earmarked to go up to the High
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Speaker 9: North on a NATO exercise earlier this year. But of course,
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Speaker 9: alongside and interestingly next to her is the Type forty
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Speaker 9: five destroyer HMS Duncan, sister ship to HMS Dragon, or indeed,
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Speaker 9: as she should be known, drag On now in the
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Speaker 9: Eastern Mediterranean. Duncan notable because she was deemed to be
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Speaker 9: more seaworthy and at a higher state of readiness, and
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Speaker 9: yet here she is alongside in Portsmouth. There are many
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Speaker 9: unanswered questions, says Charles Mallett on the ground for UK
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Speaker 9: column in Portsmouth.
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Speaker 2: I know we've got to watch time in this news
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Speaker 2: might but just to say, you see a largely empty
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Speaker 2: naval base there in Portsmouth, and if you come to Plymouth,
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Speaker 2: which has an even larger naval base three hundred and
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Speaker 2: forty hectares of naval base, and you're lucky if you
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Speaker 2: see one or two ships, possibly a submarine in that base.
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Speaker 1: Well, there's a lot of scrap submarines. That's another subject. Yes, indeed,
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Speaker 1: so let's just have a look at exactly the situation.
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Speaker 1: So if we look at the aircraft carriers HMS Prince
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Speaker 1: of Wales in Midlands and Portsmouth, as Charles has just mentioned,
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Speaker 1: HMS Queen Elizabeth in dry dock for over a year
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Speaker 1: and parts from that ship were cannibalized for HMS Prince
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Speaker 1: of Wales. In terms of type forty five destroyers, HMS
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Speaker 1: Daring is in working up trials. How long do those
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Speaker 1: normally take?
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Speaker 2: Probably a month and then after that, well then they
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Speaker 2: should go for operational training, which could be anything up
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Speaker 2: to six weeks.
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Speaker 1: Okay, So then we've got HMS Dauntless that's in midtnance,
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Speaker 1: We've got HMS Diamond that's in refit, we've got HMS
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Speaker 1: Dragon that's deployed as we know that, We've got HMS
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Speaker 1: Defender that's in refit. We've got HMS Duncan operational maybe
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Speaker 1: currently in Portsmouth, as Charles has just mentioned, we're not
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Speaker 1: entirely sure exactly what it states is at the moment
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Speaker 1: type twenty three frigates. We've got HMS Richmond effectively retired,
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Speaker 1: HMS RN Duke in MIDTLANDCE HMS Kent major refit, each
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Speaker 1: MESS Portland operational just abide itch Miss Somerset is supposedly
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Speaker 1: operational itach Miss Sutherland is active. Each Albans is deployed.
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Speaker 1: Not your where at this point in time. I think
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Speaker 1: with the NATTO exercises. Then submarines, what's the situation there, Well,
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Speaker 1: they're all Navy operates six Stude class submarines. The low
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Speaker 1: operational availability and miintenance backlogs often limit the active fleet
21:28
Speaker 1: to one or two deployed vessels. Only one of the
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Speaker 1: six student class attack submarines is currently at high readiness,
21:35
Speaker 1: four others were assessed at low or very low readiness
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Speaker 1: due to maintenance and refit cycles, and one is actually
21:41
Speaker 1: on its way to Australia at the moment. To take
21:43
Speaker 1: part in PR over August. So two operational, well, one operational,
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Speaker 1: one on a PR soft power exercise to it's yeah, yeah, okay,
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Speaker 1: And then then the question is how many ships have
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Speaker 1: been retired under Starmar's This just since here Starmer became
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Speaker 1: Prime minister. ITMS Albion, HMS Bulwark, HMS Northumberland, r with Knight,
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Speaker 1: RFA with Ruler and HMS Lancaster all retired in the
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Speaker 1: last couple of years. And then under construction we have
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Speaker 1: this five of it Type twenty six City class frigates
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Speaker 1: are various diges of construction. One of three Type thirty
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Speaker 1: one Inspiration class frigates is built, one is under construction,
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Speaker 1: and one skill is laid. And the number of new
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Speaker 1: warships commissioned and service and Starmer became Prime Minister is zero.
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Speaker 1: So there we go. Okay, then Brian, then there's a
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Speaker 1: question of ships that have been retired, and well, what
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Speaker 1: has happened.
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Speaker 2: To the Well, this is the significance of one small
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Speaker 2: but I think very significant ship. This is HMS Brummington,
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Speaker 2: a tonne class moin sweep. They were built way back
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Speaker 2: in the fifties. But this is HMS Bronington's. This is
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Speaker 2: the King's old ship. And despite pleas from many many
23:09
Speaker 2: people that this ship was preserved HMS Bronington, here we
23:14
Speaker 2: see in its former glory. Prince of Wales was captain
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Speaker 2: in his day. I was actually navigator of that ship,
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Speaker 2: not with the Royalty on board, but essentially that ship
23:25
Speaker 2: has been allowed to decay and sink, and it seems
23:28
Speaker 2: to me, just to give us a clear picture of
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Speaker 2: what's in the King's head, he simply does not care
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Speaker 2: about this country, all the raw navy, or his old ship.
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Speaker 2: He's happy for that to rot and slip under the surface,
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Speaker 2: which I think is very telling. Now, I just wanted
23:44
Speaker 2: to pop this slide up to thank the people that
23:48
Speaker 2: have made really good clips of HMS Bonnington. Many people
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Speaker 2: still want this ship actually raised and preserved, but it's
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Speaker 2: quite apparent that there is no interest from King Charles
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Speaker 2: at all, despite the billions in the royal coffers, which
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Speaker 2: I think is a shame.
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Speaker 1: Yes indeed, okay, Basil, let me welcome you to the
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Speaker 1: program at this point, and let's move on to the
24:11
Speaker 1: situation with the ambulances and the claim or the alleged
24:18
Speaker 1: setting on fire.
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Speaker 5: Hello Mike, yes, welcome everybody. This is the story that
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Speaker 5: dominated the new cycle earlier in the weekend. Yesterday, two
24:29
Speaker 5: UK nationals were released on bail while the Metropolitan Police
24:33
Speaker 5: continue their investigation into the ambulance arsen in Golder's Green,
24:38
Speaker 5: But that same media now seemed much less interested in
24:41
Speaker 5: discovering the identity or affiliations of those arrested and then
24:46
Speaker 5: bailed than they were in the original story. Commander Helen Flanagan,
24:51
Speaker 5: the head of countertreans and Policing in London, said there
24:54
Speaker 5: were strict bail conditions in place while we continue to
24:58
Speaker 5: investigate their suspect involvement in this incident. Now the case
25:04
Speaker 5: is not being classed as a terror incident, although the
25:08
Speaker 5: METS said that the investigation is currently being led by
25:11
Speaker 5: counter counter terror officers. Make up that what you will.
25:15
Speaker 5: Police have previously said the investigation is looking at an
25:19
Speaker 5: Islamist group with potential links to Iran, following unsubstantiated claims
25:25
Speaker 5: of responsibility by Harrakat Ashab al Yamin al Islamia, the
25:30
Speaker 5: Islamic Movement of the People of the Right Hand. In
25:34
Speaker 5: a remarkable coincidence, this group chose to attack the London
25:38
Speaker 5: ambulances just hours before Metropolitan Police Chief Commissioner Samark Rowley
25:44
Speaker 5: was due to address a fundraising event for the Community
25:47
Speaker 5: Services Trust, the group which receives enormous payouts from the
25:51
Speaker 5: British Treasury for consistently exaggerating the scale of anti Snemism
25:56
Speaker 5: in the UK, out of which, of course the King
25:59
Speaker 5: has recently become a patron. But we need to look
26:04
Speaker 5: at who exactly this Harracat al al Yamin al Islamia
26:09
Speaker 5: are well. This group simply didn't exist until the US
26:14
Speaker 5: and Israel decided to attack Iran, when it suddenly appeared
26:18
Speaker 5: fully formed and started causing small incidents of property damage
26:24
Speaker 5: to Jewish assets in Belgium, Man the Netherlands. From day
26:28
Speaker 5: one of its appearance. Is rarely backed think tanks and
26:31
Speaker 5: security groups instantly claimed to have linked it to Iranian militias.
26:38
Speaker 5: Now these Israeli claims first surface via the regular Israeli
26:43
Speaker 5: security service outlet Joe Truzman of the Foundation for Defending Democracy.
26:49
Speaker 5: He makes a living from fronting Israeli claims that all
26:51
Speaker 5: the deaths in Gaza were Hamas. The first online evidence
26:57
Speaker 5: of the existence of the group was indeed on the
27:00
Speaker 5: ninth of March, and on the sixteenth of March, the
27:03
Speaker 5: entire Israeli has Bar, a propaganda machine in coordination, went
27:08
Speaker 5: into overdrive about Harakat. The Diaspora Ministry issued a statement,
27:14
Speaker 5: and so did Israel's MFA, so did the Institute of
27:18
Speaker 5: National Security Studies and likewise becom the British Israel Communications Center,
27:24
Speaker 5: all of them on the same morning when Harakat al
27:28
Speaker 5: Shabab al Yamine had done nothing except allegedly start a
27:32
Speaker 5: small fire in Rotterdam. So we have to ask if
27:37
Speaker 5: this frenzied publicity activity about this until that point practically
27:42
Speaker 5: non existent group, but was prioritized by the Israeli state
27:47
Speaker 5: on the morning of some of the most intense missile
27:49
Speaker 5: and bombing attacks by Israel and USA since the start
27:54
Speaker 5: of the war. Now this group have produced a scary
27:58
Speaker 5: looking statement in which they refer to Palestine as the
28:04
Speaker 5: land of Israel in both English and Arabic, which is
28:08
Speaker 5: particularly unusual because Iranian textbooks use the Farsi language and
28:15
Speaker 5: don't even refer to Israel on a map. Typically. Of course,
28:20
Speaker 5: UK corporate media are wholly uninterested in doing any serious
28:25
Speaker 5: forensic analysis of this group, but uns Sarah Mifha, a
28:29
Speaker 5: political anthropologist at the VU University in Amsterdam, has posted
28:35
Speaker 5: in detail about the group on his linked In profile profile,
28:41
Speaker 5: and he's also quoted in an article.
28:43
Speaker 1: In Dutch News.
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Speaker 5: The academic makes numerous points which cast serious doubt on
28:49
Speaker 5: the Arabic language portrait portion of the statement, including the
28:55
Speaker 5: fact that the language is clearly generated by an AI
28:58
Speaker 5: tool and shows a lack of fluency in arab Furthermore,
29:02
Speaker 5: the electronic device on which the new video was edited
29:05
Speaker 5: does not have Arabic or English as its native language
29:08
Speaker 5: in its operating system. That's clear from where the colon
29:11
Speaker 5: and the exclamation mark are placed in the sentence. This
29:16
Speaker 5: would indicate that the group is neither native to Arabic
29:20
Speaker 5: or English and native speakers are habituated to correcting these
29:25
Speaker 5: technical glitches. He concluded that based on their language use,
29:31
Speaker 5: I don't think these are a direct proxy or a
29:34
Speaker 5: sleeper cell associated with the so called access of Resistance.
29:42
Speaker 5: Of course, earlier in the week, numerous politicians and public
29:46
Speaker 5: figures immediately condemned the attack and framed it as an
29:50
Speaker 5: anti Semitic hate crime carried out by an Islamic group
29:55
Speaker 5: linked to Iran. Mark Gardner of the same community Security
29:59
Speaker 5: Trust told the Daily Telegraph Iranians have long used terrorism
30:04
Speaker 5: against Jewish communities around the world for decades. I'm not
30:08
Speaker 5: quite sure where the evidence for that is, but anyway,
30:12
Speaker 5: the Telegraph led with headlines such as counter terror police
30:18
Speaker 5: investigating Iran backed fire bombing. It appears that the Telegraph
30:23
Speaker 5: have particularly good access to Israeli government information channels. The
30:30
Speaker 5: Telegraph says that Israeli embassy sources told them that the
30:34
Speaker 5: firebombing had all the hallmarks of an Iran backed attack,
30:40
Speaker 5: and they additionally add this nugget of information. An internal
30:44
Speaker 5: report by the Israeli government seen by The Telegraph claimed
30:49
Speaker 5: the group probably hired local criminals to carry out the attacks.
30:56
Speaker 5: This statement is report obviously admits to extraordinarily detailed knowledge
31:02
Speaker 5: of the workings of this fledgling group, and right on
31:06
Speaker 5: q Dutch News reported that five local teenagers had been
31:12
Speaker 5: arrested in relation to the attack in Holland, all of
31:16
Speaker 5: them age between fourteen and nineteen and all from the
31:20
Speaker 5: city of Tilburg. Now, if this was indeed an Iran
31:24
Speaker 5: link group, we would expect the young people to be
31:27
Speaker 5: members of the Tilburg Muslim minority, probably Shia but while
31:32
Speaker 5: Tilburg does indeed have a Muslim minority, around seven and
31:36
Speaker 5: a half percent of its citizens being of Turkish, Moroccan
31:40
Speaker 5: or Syrian origin, the five teenagers arrested are reported by
31:45
Speaker 5: Dutch news as being of Antillian heritage. It's refers to
31:50
Speaker 5: the overwhelmingly Christian Dutch Antilles Islands, meaning that they are
31:55
Speaker 5: in all probability of Afro Caribbean heritage. So it seems
32:02
Speaker 5: then that the author of the internal report by the
32:04
Speaker 5: Israeli government mentioned above and to which The Telegraph mysteriously
32:10
Speaker 5: has access, is thinking along the right lines by saying
32:14
Speaker 5: that local youths were being employed by the Iranians, or,
32:18
Speaker 5: in the case of the two men released on bail yesterday,
32:22
Speaker 5: middle aged men in the UK being recruited to do
32:26
Speaker 5: the dirty work. So we sum it up by saying,
32:31
Speaker 5: a group that doesn't know how to sound pro Palestinian
32:34
Speaker 5: in English and needs use to use chat GPT to
32:38
Speaker 5: produce broken Arabic and then still doesn't get it right,
32:42
Speaker 5: hires some young people, including children of no particular faith,
32:46
Speaker 5: to carry out at tax on the Jewish community. Those
32:50
Speaker 5: attacks are then immediately propagated across media and political system
32:54
Speaker 5: in a way that heightened spheres and anti Semitism and
32:58
Speaker 5: links it to Iran and the pro Palestine movement without
33:02
Speaker 5: any supporting evidence. As Sarahmifar points out, Iran has shown
33:09
Speaker 5: consistent disinterest in anti Semitic expressions and discord that target
33:16
Speaker 5: Jewish faith and communities, focusing their rhetoric instead on Zionism
33:21
Speaker 5: and Israel, and indeed, in the midst of an existential war,
33:25
Speaker 5: setting fire to ambulances in North London would hardly be
33:30
Speaker 5: a priority for the Iranian government. Now, of course, the
33:34
Speaker 5: group is claimed to be planning a tax in the
33:37
Speaker 5: United States, where support for the Iran war has collapsed.
33:42
Speaker 5: This narrative is of course very convenient for those seeking
33:46
Speaker 5: to stow up fear and prop up support for the war.
33:49
Speaker 5: But as the rapper low Key points out, this group
33:53
Speaker 5: appears to operate entirely within the Zionist propaganda ecosystem, as
34:00
Speaker 5: we can see in slide five, the CBS being the
34:06
Speaker 5: sole group to which they've spoken. Finally, as a coda
34:11
Speaker 5: to this story, there was some very aggressive and intimidatory
34:14
Speaker 5: behavior towards an al Jazeer television crew covering the scene,
34:19
Speaker 5: and it turns out that one of the individuals involved
34:22
Speaker 5: is a Metropolitan Police reservist, David Soffer. We trust that
34:28
Speaker 5: the Metropolitan Police will leave no stone unturned in their
34:32
Speaker 5: zeal to follow up his case and indeed to find
34:36
Speaker 5: out who the real perpetrators of the arsenal attack were,
34:40
Speaker 5: and that the media organizations and politicians will attract statements
34:45
Speaker 5: in which they claim there is proof that Iran is
34:48
Speaker 5: behind the attack, because quite simply there is none.
34:52
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38:56
Speaker 1: cyber warfare and corporate complicity and Zionist US attack. This
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Speaker 1: is by Professor David Miller. Another look at what's been
39:04
Speaker 1: going on over the data center attacks that happened pretty
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Speaker 1: much at the beginning of the current Iranian conflict. And
39:12
Speaker 1: also from Vanessa Sawmore Lebanon a legacy of persecution and
39:16
Speaker 1: resistance not under sustained Zionist bombardment. We mentioned this on
39:19
Speaker 1: Wednessey's program. If you haven't read it, yet please do
39:24
Speaker 1: where does that take us? That takes us to Palestine Action.
39:27
Speaker 1: Because the Metropolitan Police has issued a new statement they've
39:32
Speaker 1: decided to resume the arrest of anyone alleged to be
39:35
Speaker 1: showing support for Palestine Action. They suggested that the police
39:39
Speaker 1: would be unlikely to make arrests after the High Court
39:42
Speaker 1: judgment in February which ruled that the government's designation of
39:45
Speaker 1: Palestine Action as a terrorist group under anti terror legislation
39:49
Speaker 1: was unlawful, Deputy Assistant Commissioner James Harmon was ruled out
39:54
Speaker 1: to make the statement, and he said that while the
39:57
Speaker 1: Court has found the prescription of Palestine Action to be unlawful,
40:00
Speaker 1: it has confirmed the impact of that judgment will not
40:03
Speaker 1: take effect until the government's appeal has been considered, which
40:06
Speaker 1: could take many months. That means it is still a
40:09
Speaker 1: criminal offense to support Palestine Action. We must enforce the
40:13
Speaker 1: law at this time, not as it might be at
40:16
Speaker 1: a future date. We must do that consistently and without
40:19
Speaker 1: fear or favor. Allegedly, the High Court decided on the
40:24
Speaker 1: twenty fifth February to grant the Hope Secretary permission to
40:27
Speaker 1: appeal and leave the prescription in place. Pending the outcome
40:30
Speaker 1: of that appeal, we've determined that while Palestine action remains
40:33
Speaker 1: prescribed and support for remains unlawful under the Terrorism Act,
40:38
Speaker 1: we must continue to enforce the law and this is
40:40
Speaker 1: likely to involve the rest of those, sorry, the arrest
40:44
Speaker 1: of those committing offenses. So there we are. That's the
40:48
Speaker 1: current situation. Basil, be interested in your thoughts.
40:51
Speaker 4: On this.
40:53
Speaker 1: Speaking.
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Speaker 5: He's right it is still unlawful to support Palestine action.
40:59
Speaker 5: It might be that the law is an ass in
41:02
Speaker 5: this case. And of course the police have contradicted themselves
41:05
Speaker 5: because immediately after the High Court ruling they said they
41:08
Speaker 5: wouldn't be arresting people. So they've gone back on their
41:11
Speaker 5: own words and consistency would be appreciated. I hope and
41:16
Speaker 5: believe that on appeal the government's claims are thrown out
41:21
Speaker 5: once again and the ban is lifted, in which case
41:25
Speaker 5: the police are just making an awful lot of additional
41:28
Speaker 5: work for themselves, an expense for the taxpayer, because they're
41:32
Speaker 5: going to arrest I think hundreds more people defend our
41:35
Speaker 5: Jurists who've been organizing the mass protests have got one
41:39
Speaker 5: plan for next month where doubtless more retired clergymen and
41:43
Speaker 5: assorted peace campaigners will be arrested for holding pieces of paper. Meanwhile,
41:50
Speaker 5: just yesterday Dr rame Aladuan, one of the most outspoken
41:57
Speaker 5: shall we say, people on the internet in terms of
42:02
Speaker 5: her defiance shall we say, of the prevailing pro Zionist narrative.
42:09
Speaker 5: I've got to be very careful about what I say,
42:10
Speaker 5: because she was arrested for the fifth time yesterday, carted
42:14
Speaker 5: off in handcuffs. Quite why it's necessary to handcuff a
42:18
Speaker 5: physician for posting things on social media that the government
42:23
Speaker 5: doesn't like, I'm not sure about. I don't think Peter
42:26
Speaker 5: Manilson was handcuffed anyway. She's due to appear in court
42:31
Speaker 5: today in Westminster for breaching her bail conditions. This of course,
42:38
Speaker 5: all goes back to her support for Palestinian resistance, and
42:44
Speaker 5: in particular for the organization that won the elections there
42:50
Speaker 5: some twenty years ago. I'm not even going to name it,
42:53
Speaker 5: but that organization is currently fighting its own prescription in
42:59
Speaker 5: the court, and there was an update on that this
43:01
Speaker 5: week from the barrister. Frank McGinnis, now the judge in
43:06
Speaker 5: that case, as already criticized the government for its endless delays.
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Speaker 5: The reason ultimately why Rame al Duan was arrested is
43:17
Speaker 5: because she is prepared to speak up on behalf of
43:23
Speaker 5: the international law entirely legitimate resistance by the Palestinian people
43:29
Speaker 5: to their oppressors. But as you can tell by the
43:33
Speaker 5: way I've been dancing around this subject, we don't really
43:39
Speaker 5: have freedom of speech about matters in the Middle East
43:42
Speaker 5: in Britain at the moment.
43:43
Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely right on the topic land of protests.
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Speaker 2: Brian Well great segue into the fact that, of course
43:50
Speaker 2: we've got a big demonstration together coming up in London
43:55
Speaker 2: over the weekend. Now, I just picked on the warning
44:00
Speaker 2: put out the US Embassy here, US Embassy and Consulates
44:03
Speaker 2: in the United Kingdom demonstration alert planned demonstrations in London
44:08
Speaker 2: March twenty six, twenty eight, twenty twenty six, and the
44:12
Speaker 2: Americans give a bit of detail of the starts, but
44:15
Speaker 2: effectively they are saying to their own people and personnel,
44:21
Speaker 2: steer clear of London. So the first thing we can
44:24
Speaker 2: understand is these demonstrations do hit home on the big
44:28
Speaker 2: players because the American consulate has got to pay attention
44:31
Speaker 2: to what's happening. But one of the things UK Colin
44:35
Speaker 2: would like to highlight, and Ben Rubin will be looking
44:38
Speaker 2: into this and more detail on Monday. Is the fact
44:42
Speaker 2: that a very big demonstration plan Together is the main
44:47
Speaker 2: glue holding everything together. But of course there's lots of
44:52
Speaker 2: players at work and therefore there are concerns about what
44:58
Speaker 2: is really going to come out of this demon Now,
45:00
Speaker 2: the running order here is that at twelve o'clock there's
45:04
Speaker 2: going to be assembly at Park Lane and then it
45:08
Speaker 2: moves on to the afternoon later afternoon in Trafalgar Square,
45:13
Speaker 2: finishing at six pm. The police are clamping down on
45:16
Speaker 2: a lot of things, including live announcements and music in
45:22
Speaker 2: the wrong places and drumming and also the use of firework,
45:25
Speaker 2: so the police pretty aggressive before things have even kicked off.
45:30
Speaker 2: And just to highlight this business of who is protesting
45:33
Speaker 2: and why if you look at the Together site, hopefully
45:37
Speaker 2: this will run, but we should be able to sort
45:40
Speaker 2: of here we are his on the right of your
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Speaker 2: screen as a list of all the various groups taking place,
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Speaker 2: far too many to list or name for the news,
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Speaker 2: but really this is symptomatic. People are there supposedly for peace,
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Speaker 2: to stop the bombing against Iran in particular, but they
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Speaker 2: have so many other interests that it becomes difficult for
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Speaker 2: a cohesive a gender as to why they're really there.
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Speaker 2: But we all look into this in a greater commentary
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Speaker 2: in the in the news on Monday. Now, if we
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Speaker 2: look at the main players we've got together, and they
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Speaker 2: are really for stopping the US and the Israeli strikes.
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Speaker 2: But we've also got Stage for Freedom, which is a
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Speaker 2: group actually pushing for the overthrow of the Iranian government.
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Speaker 2: They want quote democracy installed installed in Iran itself. But
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Speaker 2: this just gives you another idea of the of the
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Speaker 2: undertones of one demonstration which appears to be one thing,
46:49
Speaker 2: but within it there are a number of very different
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Speaker 2: groups with very different objectives. There's actually a second Iranian
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Speaker 2: group which is talking about regime change effectively in Iran
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Speaker 2: Stage of Freedom and if we have a look at
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Speaker 2: what they say, they say that since September twenty twenty two,
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Speaker 2: Iranians of all backgrounds have come together to build a
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Speaker 2: free and democratic Iran, and the British Iranian diaspora is
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Speaker 2: no exception. Now they may believe what they do. I
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Speaker 2: have spoken to some of these people and in the
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Speaker 2: next few days we will have some of those interview
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Speaker 2: clips available, but there's a lot of passion there. But
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Speaker 2: of course, is Iran ever going to be free if
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Speaker 2: the Western axis gets its hands on it? So it
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Speaker 2: remains to be seen. But let's take our minds back
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Speaker 2: to the days of the anti Vietnam War protests, not
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Speaker 2: only taking place in UK but America, and you can
47:52
Speaker 2: see a difference in that there was one United viewpoint,
47:58
Speaker 2: which was the war in Vietnam had to be stops.
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Speaker 2: Let's have a little look at this historic footage.
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Speaker 8: Thanks in London.
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Speaker 6: Some estimates put the figure as high as one hundred thousand,
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Speaker 6: others much less. But the anti war in Vietnam demonstration
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Speaker 6: was a massive magnet which drew protesters from all over
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Speaker 6: the country. Just a few agitators in the crowd good
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Speaker 6: sparkle trouble which one started would be very difficult to controvel.
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Speaker 6: Matt Stewarts, however, did a good job in maintaining order.
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Speaker 6: The United States Embassy where the target.
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Speaker 10: On April thirtieth, nineteen seventy, after President Richard Nixon announced
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Speaker 10: the war's expansion into Campodia, on me the first students
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Speaker 10: at nine hundred US high school and university campuses began
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Speaker 10: an anti war protest strike which escalated rapidly after the
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Speaker 10: May fourth Kent State massacre, when twenty nine National guardsmen
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Speaker 10: opened fire on peaceful anti war protesters at Kent State University,
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Speaker 10: killing Alison Kraus, Sandy Schuer, Jeffrey Miller, and William Knox Schroeder.
49:20
Speaker 10: Two of the victims, Schuer and Schroeder had been walking
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Speaker 10: to class when they were struck by stray bullets. Making
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Speaker 10: the Vietnam War protest movement a time of deep division
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Speaker 10: in America and the free world at large.
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Speaker 2: So some poignant historical footage there obviously talking about the
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Speaker 2: fat American students were shot as a result of protests.
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Speaker 2: But when we looked back with Hoinsis on the Vietnam
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Speaker 2: War and the sheer futility of that war, is very
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Speaker 2: clear that the protests, particularly in America, made a huge
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Speaker 2: impact on the American government and put the government onto
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Speaker 2: huge pressure to stop the war. So the question is
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Speaker 2: will the protests here in UK against the war against Iran,
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Speaker 2: will they have that same unified pressure or are there
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Speaker 2: going to be elements working within the groups for testing
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Speaker 2: to water down and fragment the view to stop the
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Speaker 2: war We will follow up more on this in the
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Speaker 2: UK Common News on Monday. So say, posted for.
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Speaker 1: That, Basil, let me welcome you back, and let's just
50:32
Speaker 1: have a look at Zius money going into politics in
50:36
Speaker 1: the UK.
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Speaker 5: Yes, well, this is the rye Craft Review and it's
50:43
Speaker 5: the absence of any reference to Zionist money going into
50:46
Speaker 5: the UK that stands out the format obvious eivil servant
50:49
Speaker 5: Philip Ryecroft review of overseas funding of UK political parties
50:53
Speaker 5: was unveiled in the Commons yesterday and it is immediately
50:57
Speaker 5: going to implement two record commendations. Those are a cap
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Speaker 5: on overseas donations and a total ban for the time
51:05
Speaker 5: being on cryptocurrency donations. These are believed to affect reform
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Speaker 5: UK more than anybody else. Rykoff recognized that these manages
51:15
Speaker 5: are justified by the real and unique risks that both
51:19
Speaker 5: oververseas donations and cryptocurrency pos in terms of interferencing UK politics.
51:25
Speaker 5: It's a detailed, sixty page report which mentions Russia seven times,
51:29
Speaker 5: Iran twice, and China twice, about Israel zero times. He did, however,
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Speaker 5: point to the risk emanating from Donald Trump's America. He
51:40
Speaker 5: says in the report. Separately, Beyond these hostile state threats,
51:45
Speaker 5: I am also cognizant of a potential new threat and
51:48
Speaker 5: emerging widerness of foreign actors and private citizens, including from
51:53
Speaker 5: allies like the United States, to interfere in and influence
51:58
Speaker 5: politics abroad in pursuit of their own agenda. I wonder
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Speaker 5: which allies like the United States he might be referring
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Speaker 5: to now. The report was unveiled by the Secretary of
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Speaker 5: State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Steve Reid, who
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Speaker 5: unsurprisingly failed to declare his own affiliation with the Labor
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Speaker 5: Friends of Israel group on social media. It's been pointed
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Speaker 5: out that this is simply shocking, and the influence of
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Speaker 5: a country being investigated for genocide, whose Prime Minister and
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Speaker 5: Defense Minister are wanted by the ICC for war crimes,
52:36
Speaker 5: and which is currently waging illegal wars on at least
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Speaker 5: three fronts actually funds twenty percent of UK labor MPs
52:45
Speaker 5: and eighty percent of UK Conservatives being registered as Friends
52:50
Speaker 5: of Israel. None of this is referred to in his report,
52:55
Speaker 5: but in this regard, of course, Steve Reid is far
52:59
Speaker 5: from unusual among MPs, as we can see on these
53:03
Speaker 5: slides now any number of conservative and Labor MPs are
53:10
Speaker 5: funded in part or can I well, yeah, if we
53:16
Speaker 5: can just see the slides, then we can see the
53:19
Speaker 5: extent of Israel funding of British MPs, often to the
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Speaker 5: individual Trevor Chin. Now, Trevor Chin is a UK citizen,
53:30
Speaker 5: elderly businessman, but he was awarded a presidential medal by
53:35
Speaker 5: the State of Israel. So we have to ask ourselves
53:38
Speaker 5: where his priorities lie and whether people whose ultimate loyalty
53:44
Speaker 5: may appear to lie elsewhere other than the UK should
53:49
Speaker 5: be counted as foreign donors in this case, because certainly,
53:54
Speaker 5: if we were talking about Russian oligarchs who with UK citizenship,
54:00
Speaker 5: I don't think there'd be any hesitation in pointing out
54:03
Speaker 5: that their donations might be seeking foreign influence. But of
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Speaker 5: course we have the we have the Israel exception to this,
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Speaker 5: as we do with so many other things.
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Speaker 1: Mike Puzzle, thank you for that. Just before we move
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Speaker 1: on from there, just you mentioned Trevor Chen. Let's bring
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Speaker 1: him on here because this graphic says that he is
54:29
Speaker 1: a UK business businessman with deep ties to pro Israel
54:32
Speaker 1: organizations such as the Joint Israel Appeal and Liberal Friends Israel.
54:37
Speaker 1: We've seen slides there of the Tories of Libor and
54:43
Speaker 1: we also saw some reference to reform as well. But
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Speaker 1: they're not the only political parties, no.
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Speaker 5: You know the Green Party as well. Who knows who's
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Speaker 5: funding them. The one party that I would say is
54:56
Speaker 5: unlikely to be funded by Israel is your party, but
55:02
Speaker 5: remains to be seen whether they are accused of outside funding.
55:07
Speaker 5: Of course, there was a claim earlier this year that
55:08
Speaker 5: Palestine Action was funded by Iran. That's completely ludicrous and
55:11
Speaker 5: made up. So I welcome transparency from all political parties
55:16
Speaker 5: and all politicians about who is paying them and.
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Speaker 1: Why indeed, and so we'll talk more about that and
55:24
Speaker 1: extra and particularly considering the legislation which is going through
55:29
Speaker 1: at the moment with respect to foreign influence, and of
55:31
Speaker 1: course that's aimed at people that are perceived to be
55:34
Speaker 1: influenced by Iran and Russia and China, but no mention
55:38
Speaker 1: of anybody that might be influenced by Israel. But away,
55:41
Speaker 1: let's say, change topics, Brian, And of course one of
55:44
Speaker 1: the topics of the UK column has been covering four
55:46
Speaker 1: twenty years has been what's been going on with forced adoptions,
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Speaker 1: children's courts, and so on.
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Speaker 2: Indeed, and one of the things that I am saying
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Speaker 2: more and more is while people have focused on politics
55:58
Speaker 2: outside of UK, something that's never changed, as Mike' syndicated,
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Speaker 2: is the attack on not only the minds of our children,
56:06
Speaker 2: but the children themselves, particularly getting them away from their parents. Now,
56:11
Speaker 2: a huge thank you to one of our viewers who
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Speaker 2: emailed me to say had I seen this article, which
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Speaker 2: I hadn't at the time. So it's a BBC report.
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Speaker 2: The headline says it all mum that took own life
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Speaker 2: after a forced adoption, Now I want an apology. This
56:30
Speaker 2: is a very sad story about a young eighteen year
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Speaker 2: old mother who desperately tried to keep her ab after
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Speaker 2: giving birth in nineteen seventy one, and the article says,
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Speaker 2: but like two hundred and fifty thousand other British women,
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Speaker 2: she was forced to give up her child for adoption.
56:48
Speaker 2: Twenty years later, she took her own life, which was
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Speaker 2: directly linked to losing her daughter. Now I want to
56:57
Speaker 2: reinforce with our audience this is one the key topics
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Speaker 2: the UK column has talked about over the years. So
57:04
Speaker 2: we just bring a little bit of comment in here
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Speaker 2: from Helen Hayes, MP, chair of the Education Select Committee,
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Speaker 2: who has been dealing with some of these cases, and
57:15
Speaker 2: not surprisingly, she says this, hearing the evidence from the
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Speaker 2: survivors was one of the most moving days I've experienced
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Speaker 2: in Parliament. This is the reality of what we're talking about.
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Speaker 2: It's something truly horrible. She goes on to say this
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Speaker 2: historical forced adoption caused unimaginable trauma for multiple generations of
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Speaker 2: women and profound, often devastating impacts for their children. But
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Speaker 2: we've got to correct her here and take out historical
57:45
Speaker 2: because the forced adoption is now and we need to
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Speaker 2: tell Helen that, and not only that, the forced adoption
57:53
Speaker 2: is about to be made easier. Why do we say
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Speaker 2: this Well, this has recently been announced for the Governor
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Speaker 2: that children are to get swifter justice. This creepy title,
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Speaker 2: creepy expression straight away, my children to get swifter justice
58:10
Speaker 2: as new family court approach expands nationally and this is
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Speaker 2: to bring in child focus courts. Not surprisingly, David Lammy
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Speaker 2: is again at the forefront of this. So if we
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Speaker 2: get into a little bit of the meat of it,
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Speaker 2: this is going to make forced adoption easier. Why do
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Speaker 2: we say this Well, let's follow it through. We're talking
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Speaker 2: about the new Child Focus courts formerly known as Pathfinder courts.
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Speaker 2: They're going to be expanded across England and Wales. And
58:42
Speaker 2: then if we listen to Lammy himself we get to
58:45
Speaker 2: understand what's going on here because he straightaway starts talking
58:49
Speaker 2: about court backlogs and numbers, and this ties in with
58:54
Speaker 2: Levison's reviews of the courts. More on that in a minute,
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Speaker 2: but let's see what he says. Court backlogs are not
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Speaker 2: just numbers on a page when it comes to the
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Speaker 2: family courts. They represent victims waiting, families in limbo, and
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Speaker 2: children and domestic abuse victims left to linger in harm's way.
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Speaker 1: It goes on.
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Speaker 2: That is why the national rollout the Child focused courts
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Speaker 2: matter so much. It will protect, support and hear the
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Speaker 2: voices of children, helping family courts make safe and fair
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Speaker 2: decisions without delay. It also shows that through innovative reforms
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Speaker 2: we can make our courts work better, tackle delays and
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Speaker 2: bring down the backlog so more victims and families get
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Speaker 2: the swift justice they deserve. Now, the reality here is
59:47
Speaker 2: that what is going to be done is that the
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Speaker 2: corruption and abuses which take place inside the courts to
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Speaker 2: take children, steal children from their families. This whole process
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Speaker 2: is going to be made master and streamlined, in particular
1:00:02
Speaker 2: using AI, which Lambie's already talked about. And so they
1:00:06
Speaker 2: are not going to deal with the lies, the corruption,
1:00:10
Speaker 2: the perjury which takes place in the family courts. They
1:00:14
Speaker 2: are going to smooth the whole system so they can
1:00:18
Speaker 2: get more children through the same corrupt courts with the
1:00:22
Speaker 2: help of AI. And I'm going to bring people's attention
1:00:26
Speaker 2: to the UK column. If you search for childs Stealing
1:00:29
Speaker 2: by the State, you will see interview after interview, article
1:00:34
Speaker 2: after article that we've done warning people about what's happening here.
1:00:38
Speaker 2: And are also just going to bring in our magazine
1:00:42
Speaker 2: to show you how relevant the magazine is because apart
1:00:46
Speaker 2: from other relevant articles, the one highlighted here is one
1:00:51
Speaker 2: that I wrote for the magazine which is about the
1:00:54
Speaker 2: fall of jury, nullification, the removal of juries from court,
1:00:59
Speaker 2: the rise of star chambers, that is courts where the
1:01:03
Speaker 2: judge has total power and there is no jury. And
1:01:07
Speaker 2: of course family courts fall into that latter category, so
1:01:12
Speaker 2: wars overseas. But the state is after our children and
1:01:16
Speaker 2: that for me is one of the key attacks that
1:01:19
Speaker 2: we should pay attention to.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Basil, we're absolutely behind time, but we'll just do
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Speaker 1: this new segment that you're introducing now, which we're calling
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Speaker 1: in kise you missed.
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Speaker 5: It, yes, very quickly. Half a dozen stories that may
1:01:35
Speaker 5: have escaped people's attention today, just rattled through these slides.
1:01:41
Speaker 5: First of all, the United Nations. This week US and
1:01:45
Speaker 5: Israel voted against recognizing slavery as a crime against humanity.
1:01:50
Speaker 5: I wonder why. Okay, next one is yes this. Brian
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Speaker 5: mentioned this at the top of the program. The Olympics'
1:01:58
Speaker 5: is banning transgender women from female events, a rare victory
1:02:02
Speaker 5: for common sense, it would seem. Next one, please, this
1:02:08
Speaker 5: is a rather disappointing story. Volkswagen, the carmaker, in a
1:02:12
Speaker 5: lot of trouble at the moment, losing money. So they
1:02:15
Speaker 5: are considering moving into producing iron dome rockets at one
1:02:21
Speaker 5: of their factories in Germany to protect Israel instead of
1:02:26
Speaker 5: making cars for the people of Europe. So we'll see
1:02:29
Speaker 5: about that. No surprise here. Labor lost the white working
1:02:33
Speaker 5: class voters to the Greens in the Gorton and Denton
1:02:37
Speaker 5: by elections, say analyst. This is Labour Zone internal report
1:02:41
Speaker 5: wondering if the endless lurches to the right are in
1:02:45
Speaker 5: fact costing them votes. People need a reason to vote labor,
1:02:50
Speaker 5: is their conclusion. Wow, I mean, there's certainly no reason
1:02:55
Speaker 5: to vote labor at the moment. And also I believe
1:02:59
Speaker 5: we'll be looking at this in detail with Ben Rubin
1:03:02
Speaker 5: next week. Former Google executive is now set the takeover
1:03:06
Speaker 5: at the BBC, consolidating the Tech Bros grip on our
1:03:12
Speaker 5: media now via the biggest national institution that we have,
1:03:17
Speaker 5: the BBC. This one is particular particularly sad for me,
1:03:22
Speaker 5: to be honest, and goes beyond the remit of what
1:03:25
Speaker 5: a government elected with one by one in seven of
1:03:28
Speaker 5: the adult population should be able to do. Seven new
1:03:32
Speaker 5: towns to be built in England. More of our precious
1:03:37
Speaker 5: green belt and countryside is to be torn up to
1:03:40
Speaker 5: build what are invariably very badly shoddily built cheap little
1:03:46
Speaker 5: houses with the kitchen in the living room, no built
1:03:50
Speaker 5: in cupboards, and what's more, tearing up the countryside, as
1:03:53
Speaker 5: I say, to no obvious purpose. There are lots of
1:03:57
Speaker 5: brown field sites available in written, lots of other ways
1:04:01
Speaker 5: we can increase housing capacity without destroying the countryside, but
1:04:05
Speaker 5: Labor seem determined.
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Speaker 1: To do so absolutely, thank you for that. Also, this
1:04:10
Speaker 1: is going to be a regular segment to end the
1:04:12
Speaker 1: program on Fridays, so thank you for that. No, and
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Speaker 1: we do have to end the program now. Thanks to
1:04:18
Speaker 1: everybody it's watched and the Bason and Brian for contributions,
1:04:21
Speaker 1: and we will be back. If you're a UK column member,
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Speaker 1: at least stay on the livestream for UK col News Extra,
1:04:28
Speaker 1: don't forget the magazine, don't forget German and Carl tonight.
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Speaker 1: Have a great weekend and we'll see you at one
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Speaker 1: pm again as usual on Monday. See you then, ba
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