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UK Column News Podcast 27th November 2024 · UK Column Radio

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon. It's Wednesday, the twenty seventh, November twenty twenty four,
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Speaker 1: just after one o'clock. Welcome to the UK column News.
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Speaker 1: I'm your host Mike Robinson joining me today video link.
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Speaker 1: We have Vanessa Billy, Charles Mallett and Kimberly Ashu would
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Speaker 1: welcome to the program everyone. Vanessa, We're going to start
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Speaker 1: with you, and of course the big news over the
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Speaker 1: last day or so has been claims of a ceasefire.
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Speaker 1: So tell us to give us a background.
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Speaker 2: Well, the ceasefire came into effect at four am this morning.
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Speaker 2: Prior to four am, of course, Israel was heavily bombing
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Speaker 2: pretty much all of Lebanon and all of the borders
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Speaker 2: and infrastructure in Syria until four am when the ceasefire
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Speaker 2: came into effect. If we just have a look at
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Speaker 2: how Western media is portraying it. So this is in
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Speaker 2: the ABC News and if we look at the wording
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Speaker 2: and the report, it's.
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Speaker 3: The Lebanese army and.
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Speaker 2: Security forces will deploy in southern Lebanon over the next
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Speaker 2: sixty days and take control of the territory controlled by
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Speaker 2: his Bela. And notice the wording Biden said.
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Speaker 3: At the same time, Israel.
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Speaker 2: Will withdraw its forces over the next sixty days in
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Speaker 2: order for civilians to return to their homes on both
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Speaker 2: sides of the border. And I have to say that
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Speaker 2: today we have seen Lebanese as civilians returning to their
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Speaker 2: homes both in the southern suburbs of Beirut and also
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Speaker 2: heading to the southern border, despite the warnings from the
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Speaker 2: Lebanese army not to do so, because the Israeli army
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Speaker 2: is still embedded in many of the border areas. Israel
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Speaker 2: appreciates the US contribution to the process and reserves its
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Speaker 2: right to act against any threat to its security, so
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Speaker 2: we're back in the self defense paradigm. Many resistance followers
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Speaker 2: are very much seeing this as a victory for the
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Speaker 2: resistance because Netanyahu has effectively accepted a ceasefire agreement which
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Speaker 2: is a watered down version of the UN Resolution seventeen
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Speaker 2: oh one and doesn't include many of the.
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Speaker 3: Extra clauses that the Israelis were trying to get included.
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Speaker 2: I'm perhaps a little more cynical in that I don't
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Speaker 2: believe Netamyao, who would accept anything that is not to
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Speaker 2: the advantage both of Netanyahu and of the Zionist regime.
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Speaker 3: And movement.
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Speaker 4: As Tim Anderson Professor Tim Andison pointed out, we haven't
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Speaker 4: seen any official statement from Hezbollah, and in fact, we're
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Speaker 4: very much.
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Speaker 3: At that point.
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Speaker 2: We're getting fed information purely by Israeli and Western media,
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Speaker 2: which of course is very much in lockstep with Israel.
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Speaker 2: And this is just a very short video showing the
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Speaker 2: exodus from the central areas of Beirut that actually hadn't
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Speaker 2: been targeted by Israel before, which include areas around Hamra,
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Speaker 2: which is the main shopping area in the center of Beirut. So,
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Speaker 2: as I said, typical of Israel prior to any kind
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Speaker 2: of ceasefire, which throughout history, Israel has never honored any
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Speaker 2: of the ceasefires that it has agreed to, but what
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Speaker 2: they always do is intensify the attacks prior to any
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Speaker 2: kind of arranged cease fire. So Natanyahu's speech prior to
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Speaker 2: the ceasefire coming into effect was quite interesting and to
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Speaker 2: some degree bears out my reading of the situation.
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Speaker 3: So let's have a look at, first.
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Speaker 2: Of all, what he says about Iran at the beginning
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Speaker 2: of his speech.
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Speaker 5: Karim Nachlati Petrida Garla.
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Speaker 6: And last called.
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Speaker 5: Mahazimayn i sh shamimt charmani ga al kavanatam. It's about
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Speaker 5: the Mss Mahuva botel Kilda shelmdinati soil.
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Speaker 2: So very clear message from him, and as I said,
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Speaker 2: one of the first parts of his fairly long nine
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Speaker 2: minute speech, and of course with the view that Trump
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Speaker 2: will then be in the throne in the United States
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Speaker 2: vance his running mate has made it very clear that.
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Speaker 3: The US will be going after Iran.
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Speaker 2: And so my feeling is that this agreement gives Israel
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Speaker 2: time to regroup, to re arm and to basically wait
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Speaker 2: for Biden to go and for Trump to come in
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Speaker 2: when I think they feel that.
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Speaker 3: They will have greater support.
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Speaker 2: And again that's borne out by what he next says
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Speaker 2: about President a Sad and Syria.
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Speaker 2: Ish And of course this goes hand in hand with
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Speaker 2: a number of threats that have been issued by spokespeople
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Speaker 2: of the Zionist regime threatening the life of President Asad
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Speaker 2: basically if he continues to allign himself with the resistance
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Speaker 2: access and then very typical message from Nataniahu and from
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Speaker 2: Israel regarding self defense in relation to the ceasefire.
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Speaker 3: So let's just play that section.
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Speaker 2: So I think that's pretty clear from that message that
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Speaker 2: self defense sort of cannard is going to be rolled
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Speaker 2: out at any minute that Natanyahu feels ready to renew
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Speaker 2: the conflict. And then if we look at the three reasons,
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Speaker 2: the first two are described in this section of the
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Speaker 2: speech for Ceasar, it becomes clearer.
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Speaker 3: Again as.
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Speaker 2: So what he's basically saying exactly what I said, focus
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Speaker 2: on Iran regroup re armed weight for Trump to come
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Speaker 2: in in the belief that Trump will provide even better
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Speaker 2: and more sophisticated weapons to Israel. And then finally, his
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Speaker 2: third reason is Hamas. So let's see what he says.
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Speaker 3: About this.
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Speaker 5: Silas cap and he took a Hamas Mayoma Hamad, a
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Speaker 5: Hamas banal.
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Speaker 2: Hamas, so he believes with this ceasefire that he succeeded
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Speaker 2: in isolating Hamas. Of course, the two fronts have been
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Speaker 2: kept separate anyway. Initially, has Billar in support of Gaza,
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Speaker 2: was providing a second front to distract the Israeli forces
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Speaker 2: from using full power against Gaza. And a Sad said
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Speaker 2: before his assassination those two fronts will never be separated.
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Speaker 2: In some ways, his Bolla was put under pressure to
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Speaker 2: agree to a ceasefire now because of the internal divisions
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Speaker 2: that are being stoked by Israel and of course the
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Speaker 2: United States in Lebanon itself, and because Israel was expanding
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Speaker 2: the war to include the Lebanese people, not only the
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Speaker 2: southern Hesbala Front. There was a need for some kind
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Speaker 2: of cessation of hostilities to give people time to recover,
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Speaker 2: as said Mirandi says, of course, there is also the
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Speaker 2: opportunity for his Bolla to recover and in my second
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Speaker 2: segment today, I'll cover the attacks by Israel on Syrian
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Speaker 2: infrastructure last night in an attempt to prevent this, and
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Speaker 2: I'll end with some more cheerful pictures of Lebanese returning
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Speaker 2: to the southern suburbs of very route to very much
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Speaker 2: decimated areas, but still displaying a sense of victory and
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Speaker 2: a sense of relief that they can finally return to
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Speaker 2: their homes without being bombed. However, I have been told
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Speaker 2: that the drones are still everywhere performing there is surveillance
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Speaker 2: and spying act above Beirute itself so uncertain times. I
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Speaker 2: don't have an awful lot of faith in Israel's integrity.
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Speaker 2: And as I said, my cynical side is saying that Natamya,
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Speaker 2: who is seeing it as an opportunity to take a
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Speaker 2: breather until Trump is fully in power, when he believes
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Speaker 2: and the rest of his cabinet also believe that Trump
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Speaker 2: will be far more behind them than Biden was in
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Speaker 2: respect to war with Iran.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and remind me even asa how long the sees
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Speaker 1: fires for.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's officially for sixty days, to give Israel time
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Speaker 2: to withdraw its troops from southern Lebanon, which isn't very
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Speaker 2: far because they didn't achieve very much territory in the south.
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Speaker 2: But Biden is pushing the idea that it could be permanent. However,
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Speaker 2: as I said, we will know Israel Netanyahu's language that
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Speaker 2: they are prepared to react if basically anything happens on
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Speaker 2: the Lebanese side that they deemed to be a threat.
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Speaker 3: So I think, you know, I think time will tell. Personally,
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Speaker 3: I don't think it's going to be permanent.
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Speaker 1: Okay, thank you very much for that, Vanessa. Now let's
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Speaker 1: come back to the UK and to Wills in fact
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Speaker 1: and welcome Commissioner Wood to the program. Kim, you have
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Speaker 1: a story for us here, a young team of group
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Speaker 1: in Wills who has come up against the Welsh health
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Speaker 1: and Social security social services infrastructure when with respect to
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Speaker 1: bodily autonomy. Give us the details.
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Speaker 7: A little has a five road nooma. So this is
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Speaker 7: benine lump in her breast. She has had a biopsy
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Speaker 7: and this biopsy has come back the lamp is benign.
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Speaker 7: They have been keeping on top of this lamp looking
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Speaker 7: into things, you know, regular appointments and everything else, and
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Speaker 7: now they've kind of been railroaded they'd been forced to
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Speaker 7: have another biopsy. As you rightly said, social services as
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Speaker 7: well have been putting pressure on the family, even though
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Speaker 7: this is beyond the jurisdiction. This is medical. There's no
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Speaker 7: family issues whatsoever. The devil is in the detail. The
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Speaker 7: family were under the impression this second biopsy was being
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Speaker 7: forced on them until the court papers arrived on Friday.
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Speaker 7: The family had no idea that the NHS had action
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Speaker 7: this case. So when you look at the actual details
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Speaker 7: of this case, the consultant has applied for full control
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Speaker 7: over the breast, so they want another biopsy, and if
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Speaker 7: that biopsy that comes back as benign, they are going
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Speaker 7: for removal of the lump, and if they deem the
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Speaker 7: lump too big, they will perform a full masectomy. So
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Speaker 7: they are going for full consent over this child's breast.
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Speaker 7: You know that she's still developing the most common form
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Speaker 7: of lump you can get for an adolescent anyway, And
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Speaker 7: this is all being actioned by a consultant who openly
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Speaker 7: admits they have little to no experience dealing with patients
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Speaker 7: of this age. Therefore they could not comment on Gillick competence.
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Speaker 7: So it was quite scary, really, this court case has
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Speaker 7: been actioned for next week and it's in a High
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Speaker 7: Court in London, so that's pretty much where we act
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Speaker 7: with the MIKE.
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Speaker 1: So the issue of Gilly confidence cuts both ways, doesn't
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Speaker 1: it ken Because of course, during the vaccination program we
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Speaker 1: had people suggesting that gill competence could be applied when
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Speaker 1: youngsters wanted to choose to be vaccinated against their parent
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Speaker 1: parental wishes, for example. But in this case gillant competence
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Speaker 1: doesn't seem to apply, and in fact the parents wishes
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Speaker 1: don't apply in this case either because the consultant and
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Speaker 1: the social services in the NHS opinion applies here. You know,
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Speaker 1: many many people have felt that they stood up against
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Speaker 1: or for the idea of bodily autonomy during the covidocracy,
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Speaker 1: and now we are that's forgotten about in many people's
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Speaker 1: minds apparently, but this issue of who decides what medical
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Speaker 1: treatment someone is subject is subjected to still exists, is
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Speaker 1: still a thing, and so that's why this case is
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Speaker 1: so important.
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Speaker 7: Well, yeah, it is important because this is not the
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Speaker 7: parent's decision, This is the child's decision. I will add
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Speaker 7: as well. This child is sixteen in March, so this
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Speaker 7: is the child being supported by mom. However, Mum has
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Speaker 7: all been twisted as if Mum is in control of
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Speaker 7: it all and their house being. They've even threatened this
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Speaker 7: young girl that she's going into foster care if she
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Speaker 7: doesn't have the biopsy. This family have never had any
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Speaker 7: local authority involvement. She's the third girl out of four.
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Speaker 7: She has two sisters in their twenties. You know, so
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Speaker 7: it's a female household. They're all supportive of each other.
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Speaker 7: But because Mum will not persuade the young girl to
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Speaker 7: go ahead with this, Mom has now been taken to court.
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Speaker 7: Like I said, if you look at the court order
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Speaker 7: and the statement as well, they are going for a fault.
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Speaker 7: They want permission for a fullmerseectomy even when the results
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Speaker 7: or if the results come back again has been nine.
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Speaker 7: They also state they will not be one hundred percent
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Speaker 7: satisfied until one hundred percent of the lamp is removed
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Speaker 7: and if the lamp is too big, and these are
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Speaker 7: their words, if the lamp is too big, we're going
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Speaker 7: for a film a sectomy. These are life changing decisions
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Speaker 7: that are does usually make under life threatening conditions. You know,
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Speaker 7: it's quite this is quite scary here, I don't want
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Speaker 7: to put my own personal opinion across because I've only
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Speaker 7: been asked to speak about certain aspects of this case.
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Speaker 7: But it is alarming, it is concerned, and I cannot
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Speaker 7: get my head around it. And like I said, the
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Speaker 7: family of being misled. I'm kind of bullied into consenting
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Speaker 7: to another biops here under the impression that all of
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Speaker 7: this is going to go away when they get the
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Speaker 7: results of that. With the code order, which was submitted
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Speaker 7: last week without anybody knowing, clearly states that they do
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Speaker 7: have intentions of going for a film a sectomy if
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Speaker 7: they deem this lamp too big. And again I'll go
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Speaker 7: back to the fact that this consultant has admitted doesn't
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Speaker 7: have experience dealing with patients of this age. So who
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Speaker 7: is going to deem this too big? And whose watch
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Speaker 7: is this too big? You know? Is this person even
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Speaker 7: experience enough to make these decisions? So, as far as
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Speaker 7: I'm aware now, there are other medical experts on the case,
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Speaker 7: experts that have dealt in the pediatric field, you know,
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Speaker 7: So this is pretty much I said, this is pretty
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Speaker 7: much where we're at. It's quite alarming when you look
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Speaker 7: at the details of this case.
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Speaker 1: Right and just Finally, then, Kevin, what I'm not clear
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Speaker 1: about is if this core case were to go against
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Speaker 1: the family and the child, what are they.
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Speaker 6: Going to do.
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Speaker 1: Are they going to arrest her? Are they going to
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Speaker 1: hold her down tired of a bed and wheeler into
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Speaker 1: the operating theater? How are they going to force the issue?
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Speaker 7: Well, your case is as good as mine, Mike, Novice
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Speaker 7: is very new to us.
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Speaker 6: All.
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Speaker 7: There's a lot of anxieties in the household. The family
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Speaker 7: is distraught. They have absolutely no idea what's going on.
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Speaker 7: You know, they're being told one thing, but the paperwork
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Speaker 7: is saying something different. We have absolutely no idea what's
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Speaker 7: going to happen the other side of this, you know,
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Speaker 7: but they go in for full control over the breast
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Speaker 7: up until the age of eighteen.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Ken, thank you very much for this. Where can
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Speaker 1: people keep tabs on this story? Would you be publishing
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Speaker 1: details on public child protection wills?
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Speaker 6: Yeah?
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Speaker 7: Well public child protection wills isn't actually dealing with the case.
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Speaker 7: We're just supporting the family right now. But yeah, with
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Speaker 7: the families permission, we will be publicizing details on their
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Speaker 7: behalf on details of the court case in London next
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Speaker 7: week as well.
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Speaker 1: Right Thank you very much, Kevin. We'll keep everybody posted
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Speaker 1: on that as well. So thanks for joining us today.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Charles. Let's move on to you then, and
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Speaker 1: well the question of gender which has been in the
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Speaker 1: Supreme Court.
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Speaker 8: Thanks very much, Mike.
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Speaker 6: Good afternoon, Good afternoon.
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Speaker 8: All is indeed yesterday and today there is a case
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Speaker 8: in the Supreme Court which I think may be regarded
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Speaker 8: as a first world problem that might be seen to
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Speaker 8: epitomize the so called progressive culture which is responsible for
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Speaker 8: so much degradation in the United Kingdom and indeed other
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Speaker 8: parts of the world. But this is brought by four
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Speaker 8: women Scotland and as I say, is being heard in
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Speaker 8: the Supreme Court. To sorry yesterday and today. Now the
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Speaker 8: issues are stated to be is a person with a
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Speaker 8: full gender Recognition certificate which recognizes that their gender is
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Speaker 8: female a woman for the purposes of the Equality Act
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Speaker 8: twenty ten. So it bills down to on the one hand,
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Speaker 8: the question what is a woman? But also it concerns
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Speaker 8: the scrapping really between two different bits of legislation, and
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Speaker 8: this is articulated by for women in Scotland will just
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Speaker 8: put their point of view on screen and they say
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Speaker 8: that they believe that there are only two sexes, that
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Speaker 8: a person's sex is not a choice nor can it
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Speaker 8: be changed. Women are entitled to dignity, safety and fairness. Now,
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Speaker 8: there is a lot of technical detail to this and
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Speaker 8: as I say, it concerns the Gender Recognition Act two
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Speaker 8: thousand and four and the Equality Act twenty ten. On
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Speaker 8: the four Women in Scotland website, there's a very good
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Speaker 8: concise briefing note and I would recommend that you do
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Speaker 8: go to it. Their website is four Women dot scott
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Speaker 8: for further background. For details on the case itself and
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Speaker 8: what is actually happening. Nick Wallace, independent journalist going who's
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Speaker 8: at the trial at the moment, is broadcasting from the
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Speaker 8: Supreme Court on Twitter and is producing sort of up
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Speaker 8: to the minute reports. But I think the significant detail
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Speaker 8: seems to concern sort of Section nine of the Gender
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Speaker 8: Recognition Act, and as I say, the complete contradictions being
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Speaker 8: highlighted and have been highlighted by for Women in Scotland
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Speaker 8: since twenty twenty, and this course has gone on for
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Speaker 8: considerable period of time already so has taken up a
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Speaker 8: huge amount of bandwidth legal bandwidth, and now seems to
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Speaker 8: require the presence of a number of judges in order
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Speaker 8: to try and establish what a woman actually is now
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Speaker 8: in terms of the mental contortion side of things, we
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Speaker 8: see that the responses have been different across the board,
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Speaker 8: Amnesty International saying that it's a human rights issue and
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Speaker 8: that they're intervening on that basis. As for the mainstream media,
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Speaker 8: we've got the BBC having just announced that the Zambian
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Speaker 8: footballer Banda has been voted as a Women's.
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Speaker 6: Footballer of the Year. Of course, she or he was
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Speaker 6: withdrawn from.
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Speaker 8: The Africa Cup of Nations due to questions over the
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Speaker 8: biological sex of the player. The BBC interestingly had a
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Speaker 8: section in their business part of their website called Women
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Speaker 8: at the Helm and I was wondering whether this presented
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Speaker 8: something of a challenge to them. I looked at their
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Speaker 8: website today and couldn't find this. I had already previously
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Speaker 8: taken this screenshot, but it does the result of this
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Speaker 8: case will throw into some doubt the way in which
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Speaker 8: mainstream media are to play. This agenda got the Telegraph
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Speaker 8: course going back a few months with the writer and
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Speaker 8: journalist David Thomas now wants to be referred to as
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Speaker 8: Diana Thomas rather remarkably saying they don't want to be
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Speaker 8: famous for being transgender, whilst writing about being famous for
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Speaker 8: being transgender. At some point in the next six months,
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Speaker 8: I hope to have my gender confirmation surgery. It will
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Speaker 8: be a very intimate, gory, personal event, and I'm not
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Speaker 8: sure that it's a good idea to share that with
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Speaker 8: the world. And as I say that, go on, I
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Speaker 8: don't want to be famous for being trans. If I
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Speaker 8: dream of a happy ending, it simply consists of being
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Speaker 8: a perfectly normal, reasonably contented woman with the roof over
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Speaker 8: her head and someone to love and be loved mine.
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Speaker 8: And I think it could be contested that there's nothing
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Speaker 8: perfectly normal about this whatsoever. But the problem is it
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Speaker 8: has been allowed to go so far and has become
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Speaker 8: therefore a very very contentious issue from which it seems
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Speaker 8: very difficult to extricate oneself. On a related note, the
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Speaker 8: Labor sorry former Labor MP now Independent MP Rosie Duffield
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Speaker 8: has been allocated a Conservative slot on the Women in
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Speaker 8: Equalities Committee. She notably wrote a very very strongly worded
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Speaker 8: letter of resignation to Keir Starmer, and this is a
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Speaker 8: subject that she takes a great interest in so it
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Speaker 8: will be worth noting what kind of contributions she made
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Speaker 8: to this committee, especially in light of the decision from
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Speaker 8: the Supreme Court, and to refer back to what was
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Speaker 8: just being talked about in Kim's segment under Gillick competence.
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Speaker 8: There are obviously many issues surrounding all of this, and
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Speaker 8: I would point you towards an article I wrote for
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Speaker 8: UK column just over a year ago, really about the
24:21
Speaker 8: horrific harm, both mental and physical, that's being done in
24:25
Speaker 8: the name of apparent progress and freedom over the choice
24:31
Speaker 8: of gender, even if it's biologically impossible. But the article
24:35
Speaker 8: does refer specifically to the cherry picking that goes on
24:39
Speaker 8: with Gillick competence, and as might quite rightly point it out,
24:42
Speaker 8: it was used as a means by which child could
24:45
Speaker 8: decide that they wanted to take a vaccine where the
24:48
Speaker 8: parents did not want it. But of course it doesn't
24:50
Speaker 8: work the other way around, so in effect it is
24:52
Speaker 8: used as a weapon with which to prosecute the chosen narrative.
24:57
Speaker 8: But nonetheless, we will continue to to look at the
25:00
Speaker 8: result of this Supreme Court decision whenever it does actually
25:04
Speaker 8: come out today, and to see where this takes the
25:08
Speaker 8: effectively the gender and what is a woman question?
25:13
Speaker 1: Thank you, Charles, Thank you. Now let's come on to
25:16
Speaker 1: the issue of false communications. Now, this was the absolutely
25:20
Speaker 1: disgraceful our article on the BBC Rioter sixty one find
25:27
Speaker 1: hanging in cell in quest told this course is referring
25:30
Speaker 1: to the death of Peter Lynch, who as funeral is
25:33
Speaker 1: taking place today. But of course Peter Lynch was not
25:36
Speaker 1: a rioter, so this headline an absolute lie. Now, just
25:41
Speaker 1: to give an idea of how much Peter Lynch was
25:44
Speaker 1: not a rioter, let's just look at a little bit
25:46
Speaker 1: of video of him speaking.
25:49
Speaker 9: Right, So turns why you're here today because we did
25:52
Speaker 9: a vault in twenty sixteen the democratic vote.
25:55
Speaker 6: It's not being a bell.
25:57
Speaker 9: Parliaments took you on to and send the corrupt MP's
26:00
Speaker 9: have took it onto themselves to deny what we put
26:03
Speaker 9: them in power for. But now they're in power, they're
26:07
Speaker 9: stuck there and defining what we put them in here for.
26:10
Speaker 9: And all these corrupt and peas that are saying the
26:13
Speaker 9: game picked on and have youngs, but why not they
26:17
Speaker 9: actually went in there to do a job and they're
26:19
Speaker 9: gone and turned against will it people, which is absolutely ridiculous.
26:24
Speaker 6: I mean, how do we go by.
26:26
Speaker 9: Our rights and bring our children up if the corrupt
26:29
Speaker 9: system all way for please judisal services, everything, it's all involved, Parliament,
26:37
Speaker 9: MPs everything, they're all corrupt and get five minister's corrupt.
26:41
Speaker 9: So how can we tell our children to bring them
26:44
Speaker 9: up the street and narrow when everybody above them us corrupt.
26:48
Speaker 9: But yet they're expecting the people to do as they're
26:51
Speaker 9: told by people that's not going as they're told. What
26:54
Speaker 9: we're a premunire for so as I can't see any
26:57
Speaker 9: on Western Mary right.
27:02
Speaker 7: Now.
27:02
Speaker 1: Of course that was a few years ago, but nonetheless
27:05
Speaker 1: clearly a gentleman and therefore you know it absolutely outrageous
27:09
Speaker 1: the way that the BBC in particular presented him. But
27:12
Speaker 1: I'm going to divert a little bit here and talk
27:14
Speaker 1: about the air crash of the DHL cargo plane in Latvia.
27:20
Speaker 1: So this happened a couple of days ago, as everybody
27:23
Speaker 1: will know, because we just want to highlight a couple
27:25
Speaker 1: of the headlines that were presented as a result of this.
27:30
Speaker 1: Here's the Guardian. The DHL plane crash in Lithianio maybe
27:35
Speaker 1: the result of sabotage, says German minister. And this was
27:39
Speaker 1: the narrative right across the mainstream press immediately after the accident.
27:43
Speaker 1: Nobody at that point knew anything about what had happened.
27:46
Speaker 1: The planet crashed, one person was dead, it was a
27:49
Speaker 1: cargo plane, so only four people on it, so three
27:52
Speaker 1: others survived. But the narrative in mainstream press was Russia
27:56
Speaker 1: did it. And the most agreat example of it in
28:00
Speaker 1: the British press at least was the sun Putin's jet blast.
28:04
Speaker 1: DHL plane crash sparks fear of deadly Russian terror as
28:09
Speaker 1: Secret Service investigates the VIDs and VIDs emerge of jet fireball.
28:14
Speaker 1: It wasn't just the mainstream media, the so called influencers
28:17
Speaker 1: were in force on social media. Russian sabotage bombs already
28:21
Speaker 1: nearly donned DHL aircraft. Now, this said Edward Burke, is
28:27
Speaker 1: a Burke, another one old growth. Here a crash of
28:30
Speaker 1: DHL plane in Lithuania. I automatically think of of the
28:33
Speaker 1: DHL parcel far at Leipzig and so on in this narrative,
28:37
Speaker 1: that there were parcel fires and warehouses in Leipzig, that
28:40
Speaker 1: this plane came from Leipzig, and therefore this plane was shot,
28:43
Speaker 1: that was was blown up by the Russians. It was
28:46
Speaker 1: absolutely nuts. Now this article at least was a bit
28:51
Speaker 1: more reasonable cargo plane crashes in Villness. And I just
28:54
Speaker 1: want to highlight a couple of parts out of this,
28:56
Speaker 1: because this was published at about the same time as
28:58
Speaker 1: all those article, all those other articles came out and
29:03
Speaker 1: making the point that the police had already spoken to
29:05
Speaker 1: one of the crew members at this stage who had survived,
29:09
Speaker 1: that there'd been nothing unusual on the aircraft at this point.
29:12
Speaker 1: So the question is what did happen. Well, let's just
29:15
Speaker 1: have a look. So this is the information plate that
29:20
Speaker 1: the pilots have on board. This is the jettison one.
29:24
Speaker 1: Others may have others, but they all say the same thing.
29:27
Speaker 1: And a couple of things to note here. First of all,
29:29
Speaker 1: at various way points as they're approaching, it's very clear
29:34
Speaker 1: what's supposed to happen. So at cut off here they
29:37
Speaker 1: are supposed to be at a maximum of two hundred
29:39
Speaker 1: and thirty knots. And the reason for this is because
29:41
Speaker 1: the turn that they have to make once they get
29:44
Speaker 1: to the next waypoint is quite tight for a commercial jet,
29:49
Speaker 1: and therefore they need to be a little bit slower,
29:52
Speaker 1: and so this is giving them speeds and heights that
29:54
Speaker 1: they need to be at. And in fact, by the
29:56
Speaker 1: time that this particular jet had got to get by,
30:01
Speaker 1: just as they're about to join the instrument landing system,
30:04
Speaker 1: they were too fast. They overshot this turn, and so
30:10
Speaker 1: they had to compensate for that. By the time they
30:13
Speaker 1: got to the point where they're supposed to be in
30:15
Speaker 1: a stabilized approach for the runway, they were just about stabilized.
30:19
Speaker 1: They were still too fast, they were a little bit high,
30:22
Speaker 1: and at the same time, they completely misunderstood the instructions
30:27
Speaker 1: from air traffic control for the frequency that they had
30:29
Speaker 1: to change to speak to the TAR and so as
30:33
Speaker 1: a result, by the time they were heading down the
30:35
Speaker 1: instrument landing system, they were busy, clearly busy trying to
30:39
Speaker 1: actually re establish communications with air traffic control which they
30:43
Speaker 1: had lost. So why am I talking about this Because
30:46
Speaker 1: if we compare what happened with the people who were
30:49
Speaker 1: commenting following the riots and so on and around the riots,
30:55
Speaker 1: and we compare it with this type of thing from
30:57
Speaker 1: the sun and the treatment of people has been quite
31:01
Speaker 1: different in each case. So just remind ourselves this was
31:04
Speaker 1: the headline DHL crash sparks fear of deadly Russian terror up.
31:09
Speaker 1: This was complete false communications by the Sun. And if
31:12
Speaker 1: we remember the Online Safety Act, a person commits false
31:15
Speaker 1: communications offense if they send a message conveying information that
31:19
Speaker 1: they know to be false, and at the time of
31:21
Speaker 1: sending it they intend the message to cause non trivial
31:23
Speaker 1: psychological or physical harm to like the audience. I would
31:26
Speaker 1: argue that the Sun headline absolutely did those things, and
31:31
Speaker 1: so they were guilty of that offense, except they can't
31:34
Speaker 1: be because the Online Safety Act then says that a
31:37
Speaker 1: recognized news publisher cannot commit an offense of false communications,
31:42
Speaker 1: and in fact a broadcaster cannot commit an offense of
31:44
Speaker 1: false communications. So I would argue that the police should
31:49
Speaker 1: be round the visit this guy, Edward Burke. If they've
31:52
Speaker 1: been round to visit the people that were alleged to
31:55
Speaker 1: be winding up the riots a few months ago, they
31:58
Speaker 1: should be around to visit Katie Davis, the journalist at
32:02
Speaker 1: the Sun. Because the day that we start treating one
32:06
Speaker 1: section of society different to another section of society, then
32:11
Speaker 1: we are not in a democracy. We are in a dictatorship,
32:14
Speaker 1: because we are supposed to be standing by the rule
32:16
Speaker 1: of law. The rule of law is supposed to apply
32:18
Speaker 1: to everybody. In this case it clearly doesn't. So we're
32:23
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32:26
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34:17
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34:20
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34:23
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34:27
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34:33
Speaker 1: UK Concerned Citizens Advisory Assembly. They're organizing a series of
34:38
Speaker 1: zoom calls. Details on screen, more information in the show notes. Charles,
34:43
Speaker 1: Let's come back to you now, and an update on farming.
34:51
Speaker 8: Yes, typically the finance is involved in farming, which of
34:54
Speaker 8: course have been under spotlight for the last few weeks
34:57
Speaker 8: and therefore have been diversing attention perhaps from some of
34:59
Speaker 8: the bigger is use concerning not just farming but the
35:02
Speaker 8: environment overall. And yesterday's statistics concerning the what's called the
35:07
Speaker 8: balance sheet of farming in England was updated. I've drawn
35:11
Speaker 8: out some of the significant details, which is that the
35:14
Speaker 8: average debt per farm is reckoned to be in the
35:17
Speaker 8: region of two hundred and ninety five thousand pounds, which
35:20
Speaker 8: is an eight percent increase this course, sorry for the
35:23
Speaker 8: financial year twenty two to twenty three. The average networth
35:26
Speaker 8: of a farm and obviously meaningless in some senses because
35:30
Speaker 8: it's an average, is two point two million, which bears
35:33
Speaker 8: scrutiny in some senses because of course the inheritance tax
35:36
Speaker 8: threshold is going to be introduced at one million from
35:39
Speaker 8: twenty twenty six. The return on capital employed is just
35:44
Speaker 8: half a percent, which is down half a percent relatively,
35:48
Speaker 8: And just to give a frame of reference, a business
35:51
Speaker 8: is reckoned to be doing well or well enough if
35:55
Speaker 8: that figure is around twenty percent, so this is forty
35:58
Speaker 8: times lower than one might expect it to be. On
36:02
Speaker 8: a similar note, gearing ratio is largely unchanged twelve percent,
36:06
Speaker 8: which is roughly the relationship between overall assets and liabilities.
36:12
Speaker 8: And then on the more current basis, liquidity is at
36:14
Speaker 8: three hundred and twenty one percent, which is an increase
36:17
Speaker 8: every year over the last five years, which in effect
36:20
Speaker 8: is the ability of farm to be able to satisfy
36:23
Speaker 8: its debts on a current basis. But of course all
36:26
Speaker 8: these figures are in some way misleading. Just to add
36:31
Speaker 8: a little bit of detail, just to give an idea
36:34
Speaker 8: of how much farms make again on average, here's a
36:37
Speaker 8: graph showing the return on capital employed at just nine
36:42
Speaker 8: thousand pounds per farm versus the capital employed of one
36:47
Speaker 8: point six million per farm. Obviously average figures, so not
36:52
Speaker 8: the huge amount to be said about the specifics of it.
36:55
Speaker 8: But the point to be made here is that these
36:57
Speaker 8: figures are set in light of the changing value of
37:03
Speaker 8: money and not land. So this graph, which is slightly
37:07
Speaker 8: difficult to read, produced by Savil, shows how land values
37:10
Speaker 8: have changed since nineteen ninety three, and the arrow is
37:14
Speaker 8: pointing at the figure the overall figure. The different colors
37:18
Speaker 8: of different types of land but in effect they all
37:20
Speaker 8: show the same trend, and the value of land has
37:23
Speaker 8: gone from about one thousand pounds and acres in ninety
37:26
Speaker 8: three up to over eight thousand pounds an acre today.
37:29
Speaker 8: And as I say, it's not that the land has
37:31
Speaker 8: necessarily increased in value, it's just that the money represented
37:34
Speaker 8: by it has been devalued so significantly. Now, to come
37:38
Speaker 8: back to the money and the inheritance tax thing, it
37:41
Speaker 8: was reckoned that perhaps five hundred and twenty million would
37:44
Speaker 8: be recouped by introducing inheritance tax or getting rid of
37:48
Speaker 8: agricultural property relief from twenty twenty six. The Daily Express
37:51
Speaker 8: here highlighting the absurdity that a slightly larger amount is
37:55
Speaker 8: to be handed over to foreign farmers. Note the advertisement
38:01
Speaker 8: for Tesco at the bottom of the page, which I'll
38:04
Speaker 8: come back to in a second. But this is something
38:06
Speaker 8: that's been looked into by the Taxpayers Alliance, and they
38:10
Speaker 8: quote a figure of five hundred and thirty six million,
38:13
Speaker 8: sorry billion in foreign aid, which again is just a
38:18
Speaker 8: ludicrous statistic if the figure calculated for the agricultural property
38:23
Speaker 8: relief loophole being closed is actually to be treated as verifiable.
38:31
Speaker 8: Now we talked a bit about the gathering that Mike
38:34
Speaker 8: and Brian went to on the nineteenth, and in particular
38:37
Speaker 8: the requirement for registration and exactly why that may have been.
38:42
Speaker 8: I was in touch yesterday with one of the organizers,
38:44
Speaker 8: Olly Harrison. Just showing his Twitter profile here because it's
38:47
Speaker 8: interesting to know he describes himself as a media personality.
38:51
Speaker 8: In terms of the capturing of that data which has
38:54
Speaker 8: now been got rid of, it was in effect at
38:57
Speaker 8: the behest of the police, Twalton Police who required it
39:01
Speaker 8: in order to be able to ascertain the type of
39:04
Speaker 8: space that was going to be appropriate for it. They
39:06
Speaker 8: reckoned about one in three people did actually register, which
39:09
Speaker 8: means in attendance of about forty thousand people probably. I
39:12
Speaker 8: think the more significant thing about Harrison is that his
39:17
Speaker 8: pinned tweet on his profile talks about the necessity to
39:22
Speaker 8: farm with the herbicide glypher sate, And without going too
39:27
Speaker 8: much further into the detail, I would just wind the
39:30
Speaker 8: clock back to nineteen sixty two when Rachel Carson published
39:34
Speaker 8: her very very significant book Silent Spring, in which she
39:38
Speaker 8: said chemical sprayed on croplands or forests or gardens lie
39:42
Speaker 8: long in soil, entering into living organisms, passing from one
39:46
Speaker 8: to another in a chain of poisoning and death. And
39:49
Speaker 8: of course, with industry pressure and indeed government subsidy, this
39:54
Speaker 8: has become a practice that has become completely part and
39:58
Speaker 8: parcel of farming and is now not really questioned in
40:02
Speaker 8: the way that it should be. And Carson went on
40:04
Speaker 8: to say, can anyone believe it is possible to lay
40:07
Speaker 8: down such a barrage of poisons on the surface of
40:10
Speaker 8: the earth without making it unfit for all life? They
40:14
Speaker 8: should not be called insecticides, but biosides. She was talking
40:18
Speaker 8: course specifically about DDT, and her work had a very
40:22
Speaker 8: significant impact on that particular industry. Now, I'm going to
40:26
Speaker 8: share a slide that I've used in the past, and
40:29
Speaker 8: indeed Mike has these all the types of businesses that
40:34
Speaker 8: largely are stocked by supermarkets. And of course, the point
40:37
Speaker 8: I'd like to make under the heading of what can
40:39
Speaker 8: I do is to draw people's attention to the fact
40:43
Speaker 8: that producing food in a effectively a chemically induced environment
40:49
Speaker 8: is simply not conducive to achieving optimal human health. It's
40:53
Speaker 8: a very straightforward point to make, and the messages that
40:56
Speaker 8: if people keep buying this, not only are we financing
41:00
Speaker 8: the globalist corporations, but we are also leading to bad
41:04
Speaker 8: health outcomes. Now, to get further into all of this,
41:08
Speaker 8: I would encourage you to go to a new series
41:11
Speaker 8: page on the UK column website, which the address is
41:15
Speaker 8: listed on the screen there UK column dot Org slash
41:18
Speaker 8: Series slash Farming. It will be in the dropdown menu
41:21
Speaker 8: from the series tab and it contains all the content
41:26
Speaker 8: that we have which is now very wide, very varied,
41:28
Speaker 8: and I really encourage you to take a good look
41:31
Speaker 8: at that because there's a lot of very very worthwhile
41:33
Speaker 8: information to research there. Thank you, Charles.
41:37
Speaker 1: No, let's come back on to the issue of war sadly,
41:41
Speaker 1: but we have to deal with it. We're going to
41:43
Speaker 1: start off with a video clip of Rob Bar speaking yesterday.
41:48
Speaker 1: This Rob Bar, for anybody who does know, is chair
41:50
Speaker 1: of the Need or Military Committee, has been since June
41:52
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. Let's just have a quick listen to this.
41:57
Speaker 10: Business leaders in Europe and America need to realize the
42:00
Speaker 10: commercial decisions they make have strategic consequences for the security
42:06
Speaker 10: of their nation. Businesses need to be prepared for a
42:11
Speaker 10: wartime scenario and adjust their production and distribution lines accordingly.
42:17
Speaker 1: So he's absolutely clear that we are heading into a
42:20
Speaker 1: war footing. That's where we're going. If anybody thinks that
42:25
Speaker 1: the emergency legislation was brought in with respect to COVID
42:29
Speaker 1: with draconian that is only a fraction of what we
42:32
Speaker 1: are likely to see should we actually end up on
42:34
Speaker 1: a war footing and openly declared war footing. At least
42:39
Speaker 1: now the next thing that another quote or another section
42:42
Speaker 1: of that. After he gave his full presentation, was asked
42:46
Speaker 1: a few questions, let's have listened to a little bit
42:49
Speaker 1: more from Rob Barr.
42:52
Speaker 10: And I'm very happy that we had it and that
42:53
Speaker 10: we have now changed this attitude from the idea was
43:00
Speaker 10: where defensive alliance. So we will only sit and wait
43:04
Speaker 10: until we're attacked, and then when we're attacked, we will
43:07
Speaker 10: be able to shoot down the arrows that come to us.
43:11
Speaker 10: But this smarter not only to do that, but also
43:18
Speaker 10: to attack the archer that is in Russia.
43:22
Speaker 1: So it should be pretty clear this guy appears to
43:25
Speaker 1: be off his head at the moment, absolutely a state
43:28
Speaker 1: of in Saturday one final clip, however.
43:32
Speaker 10: There were security guarantees for Ukraine in nineteen ninety four
43:37
Speaker 10: when they gave away their nuclear weapons. Those parties were US,
43:44
Speaker 10: UK and surprisingly Russia. So one of the parties that
43:48
Speaker 10: were supposed to provide security for Ukraine invaded Ukraine in
43:54
Speaker 10: twenty fourteen, as you said, for the first time, and
43:58
Speaker 10: the full fledged invasion in twenty two to.
44:00
Speaker 1: So well we'll talk a bit more about that an
44:04
Speaker 1: extra as well, this whole issue of who invented hermand
44:08
Speaker 1: and so on, and whether there was a coup or not,
44:11
Speaker 1: and whether there was and so on. But anyway, in
44:13
Speaker 1: the meantime, one of the other points that bar Mid
44:16
Speaker 1: was he was talking about nuclear weapons in Ukraine being
44:20
Speaker 1: part of the sort of disincentive for or the protection
44:24
Speaker 1: for Ukraine in the past. And the timing of that
44:26
Speaker 1: was very interesting because the headline in roters here Russia
44:30
Speaker 1: condemns irresponsible talk of nuclear weapons for Ukraine because suddenly
44:34
Speaker 1: there's talk of nuclear weapons going back into Ukraine. And
44:37
Speaker 1: where's that come from. Well, it's come from the New
44:40
Speaker 1: York Times. Trump survied and the war could leave Ukraine
44:43
Speaker 1: with a few options, as the headline, and what they
44:46
Speaker 1: say and here is that several brackets unnamed officials even
44:51
Speaker 1: suggested that mister Biden could return nuclear weapons to Ukraine
44:55
Speaker 1: that were taken from it after the fall of the
44:56
Speaker 1: Soviet Union. That would be an instant and enormous deterrent.
45:00
Speaker 1: But such a step would be complicated and have serious implications. Well,
45:04
Speaker 1: it certainly would. But I just find it interesting that
45:07
Speaker 1: that narrative appears in the New York Times at the
45:09
Speaker 1: same time that Barr's talking about this in his presentation
45:13
Speaker 1: or in the questions following his presentation. But coming back
45:16
Speaker 1: to the UK, then here we have the Defense Accelerator,
45:23
Speaker 1: the Defense and Security Accelerator, sorry, and they have announced
45:26
Speaker 1: the appointment of an organization called IoT Tribe as its
45:30
Speaker 1: delivery partner for business acceleration services, operating from dasa's London hub.
45:36
Speaker 1: And they're saying that IoT Tribe will lead a group
45:38
Speaker 1: of specialist organizations operating under the name jenus sorry, reflecting
45:44
Speaker 1: the dual use nature of technologies. And this issue of
45:47
Speaker 1: dual use nature of technologies is one that we've been
45:50
Speaker 1: talking about for quite some time. We'll come on to
45:53
Speaker 1: that in a second, But first of all, here here
45:55
Speaker 1: is IoT Tribe. They say they are building a technology
45:59
Speaker 1: enabled future together but together with whom, well, first of all,
46:02
Speaker 1: with utmost ventures in this case, at least with respect
46:05
Speaker 1: to GENUS atmost ventures building a future with trailblazing founders
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Speaker 1: pushing the limits in what's possible. This is all seed capital.
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Speaker 1: And then we've got Set Squared who are transforming telecoms
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Speaker 1: and of course this is where we saw the first
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Speaker 1: instance of this sort of dual use between government and
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Speaker 1: civilian use of infrastructure and telecoms infrastructure being the key
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Speaker 1: point of it. And also Row the electronics company. So
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Speaker 1: these are the key deliver deliverables from genus dual use innovations,
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Speaker 1: expert technical support okay, access to investment opportunities including the
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Speaker 1: NATO Innovation Fund, connections with the Pan NATO ecosystem, and
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Speaker 1: tailored business acceleration support. So this is bringing NATO and
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Speaker 1: NATO innovation directly into civilian.
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Speaker 3: Use as well.
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Speaker 1: So there are many many questions and concerns to be
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Speaker 1: had here, but in the time, the Chancellor of the
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Speaker 1: Duchy of Lancaster, Pat McCAT McFadden was speaking AT's cyber
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Speaker 1: Defense conference on Monday and this is what he had
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Speaker 1: to say. NATO has stayed relevant over the last seven
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Speaker 1: decades by constantly adapting to new threats. Now it needs
47:16
Speaker 1: to adapt to the world of AI because as the
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Speaker 1: tech involves, the threat involves. As we developed this technology,
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Speaker 1: there's a danger it could also be weaponized against us
47:28
Speaker 1: as we Sorry, that's the duplication because our adversaries are
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Speaker 1: also looking at how to use AI on the physical
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Speaker 1: and cyber battlefield. They won't hesitate to use AI to
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Speaker 1: gain advantage against US, So we have to stay one
47:41
Speaker 1: step ahead in terms of this new AI arms race.
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Speaker 1: So that's how it's being described as a new AI
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Speaker 1: arms rice. And therefore he is pleased to announce that
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Speaker 1: they've launched a new laboratory for AI security research at
47:54
Speaker 1: the University of Oxford, backed by eight point two million
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Speaker 1: pounds of funding from the UK government Integrated Security Fund. Vanessa,
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Speaker 1: We're going to come on to Syria now. But you
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Speaker 1: know this issue of AI correctly if I'm wrong, but
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Speaker 1: it has been used quite actively by Israel in Gaza.
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Speaker 2: Two hundred former members are involved in such research and development.
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Speaker 3: Would be interesting to dig a bit deeper to find out.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so we're back in Syria and related very much
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Speaker 2: to my first segment talking about the ceasefire, because last night,
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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm about fifteen minutes from the main border,
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Speaker 2: but my windows were rattling from about midnight onwards while
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Speaker 2: Israel was bombing virtually the entire Syrian border with Lebanon.
48:52
Speaker 2: This is just a photo of the Masna border, which
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Speaker 2: is the main border that I used to use to
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Speaker 2: go into Lebanon. Interesting that since the seasfire came into effect,
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Speaker 2: I am being told that now the borders can be repaired,
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Speaker 2: having bombed them in the last eight hours. Quite extraordinary.
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Speaker 2: I've written extensively about this situation at my sub stocks.
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Speaker 3: So before the ceasefire is real.
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Speaker 2: Intensively bombed the Syrian border with Lebanon. And let's just
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Speaker 2: have a look at the Ministry of Defense statement. So
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Speaker 2: five minutes after midnight, the Israeli enemy launched at air
49:28
Speaker 2: aggression from the direction of Lebanese territory, targeting the border
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Speaker 2: crossings between Syria and Lebanon in the West End countryside
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Speaker 2: of homes. The aggression led to the martyrdom of six people,
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Speaker 2: including two soldiers and the rest civilians, in the injury
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Speaker 2: of twelve others including children, women and workers or other
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Speaker 2: volunteers in the Syrian Arab red Crescent, and the occurrence
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Speaker 2: of a significant material damage. So let's just have a
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Speaker 2: look at a few seconds of video of those attacks,
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Speaker 2: particularly at the main border in the north.
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Speaker 4: Valible, so extensive damage.
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Speaker 2: And people might remember that when I last went to
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Speaker 2: Beirute a few weeks ago, I had to use that
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Speaker 2: northern border at Alarida, which has now been put out
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Speaker 2: of service. And there were actually people killed on the
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Speaker 2: Lebanese border as well as on the Syrian border and
50:37
Speaker 2: the Syrian Arab red crescents that there were a greater
50:41
Speaker 2: number of the volunteers killed and injured three I think critically,
50:47
Speaker 2: So let's have a look at what else is going
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Speaker 2: on inside Syria, which kind of bears out what I'm
50:51
Speaker 2: saying that there is potential that Israel will use the
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Speaker 2: ceasefire with Lebanon.
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Speaker 3: To focus on Syria, so as I said.
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Speaker 2: The Lebanese General Security, who maintains all border crossings, announced
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Speaker 2: that twelve of their members were injured in the strikes
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Speaker 2: overnight on the border. At the same time as Israel
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Speaker 2: the homes, countryside and border crossings, it also targeted crossings
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Speaker 2: closer to Damascus, in Sakhaya and al Zabadani. These crossings
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Speaker 2: are often used to bring Lebanese goods into Syria and
51:22
Speaker 2: are a lifeline for many Syrians. In lockstep with israel
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Speaker 2: isis Terris have been attacking military transport trucks on the
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Speaker 2: Alhasseka to Al Raka road from the US occupied northeast.
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Speaker 2: The attack killed two drivers and critically injured a third.
51:38
Speaker 2: A curfew has been imposed for motorbikes on the roads
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Speaker 2: used by Syrian oil convoys after they were attacked by
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Speaker 2: gunmen on motorbikes. This includes the road from Alhasseka to
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Speaker 2: de Resoor for a two week period. The Syrian government,
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Speaker 2: of course is forced to negotiate oil supply with the
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Speaker 2: Kurdish contras under the control of the US occupation forces,
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Speaker 2: so again attacking the meager oil supply to the Syrian state.
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Speaker 3: This is a match just showing the areas that.
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Speaker 2: Were attacked, so all around the homes countryside on the
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Speaker 2: border with Lebanon and then with Damascus. Also on the
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Speaker 2: border with Lebanon and about ten crossing points both major
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Speaker 2: and minor were put out of action and serious damage
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Speaker 2: to infrastructure and to bridges in the area. And I
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Speaker 2: just wanted to show this final map which shows Syria.
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Speaker 2: This was drawn up in twenty nineteen and was printed
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Speaker 2: by mind Press.
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Speaker 6: News.
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Speaker 3: But the red circle shows sorry, another explosion here.
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Speaker 2: The red circle shows the area around Toms and you
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Speaker 2: can actually see the concentration of air defense and.
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Speaker 4: Radar detection systems and homes.
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Speaker 2: Is known partly because of its geographical location in the
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Speaker 2: center of Syria with access to all areas of Syria
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Speaker 2: as being the military capital. You'll remember last year the
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Speaker 2: attack on the Homs military academy that killed hundreds, that
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Speaker 2: was carried out by drones of the terrorist groups in
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Speaker 2: the Northwest and Edleb under the control of Turkey, but
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Speaker 2: also of course supported by Israel. So in my opinion,
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Speaker 2: what Israel is going to do during this time, and
53:34
Speaker 2: it's made it very clear in the Bellacos rhetoric and
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Speaker 2: statements that it's been putting out. I think it's going
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Speaker 2: to ensure that the supply routes to Hesbula are destroyed,
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Speaker 2: not only the supply routes but also the manufacturing centers
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Speaker 2: in Syria that themselves have been producing the weapons and
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Speaker 2: military equipment that has been supplied to Hesbola. And the
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Speaker 2: green arrow shows the land bridge. It should actually drop
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Speaker 2: a little bit lower to alba Quamal crossing, but it
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Speaker 2: shows that Syria is crucial to the resistance access as
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Speaker 2: a land bridge from Iran through Iraq to Lebanon of
54:14
Speaker 2: course onto Palestine. So I think this is an opportunity
54:18
Speaker 2: for Israel to put its focus on Syria and to
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Speaker 2: potentially destroy any future ability for Hezbollah to receive weapons.
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Speaker 3: Whether it succeeds or not is besides the point. But
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Speaker 3: I think that that is very much the agenda.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you for that, Vanessa Charles. Let's come
54:38
Speaker 1: back to the UK, and of course the closure of
54:40
Speaker 1: the Luton van plant yesterday is linked to this requirement
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Speaker 1: of car manufacturers produce electric vehicles. But this is becoming
54:52
Speaker 1: a big argument.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, it is.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, well, effectively the continued collapse of the climate change
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Speaker 8: and net zero narrative. But of course the fallout is
55:04
Speaker 8: that these very destructive policies do have a real effect
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Speaker 8: on industry and of course the people that are employed
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Speaker 8: by them. The BBC here reporting not just the closure
55:14
Speaker 8: that you refer to, but of course the government effectively
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Speaker 8: being forced or at least looking like they might have
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Speaker 8: to row back on the absurd demands they've made on
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Speaker 8: the vehicle manufacturing industry. At the BBC saying that there
55:27
Speaker 8: are flexibilities in the system allowing manufacturers who can't meet
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Speaker 8: the targets to buy credits from those that can. In practice,
55:34
Speaker 8: this means buying credits from companies such as Tesla or
55:37
Speaker 8: Chinese firm BYD, which build electric models exclusively. Of course,
55:41
Speaker 8: they do talk about Stilantis, who own Vauxhall, as well
55:45
Speaker 8: as Pergio and Citron, having decided to close their loot
55:48
Speaker 8: and plant, which they say will cost eleven hundred jobs,
55:51
Speaker 8: but of course the knock on effect is likely to
55:53
Speaker 8: be much greater than that. What they're talking about there
55:56
Speaker 8: in buying the credits is that it's been imposed upon
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Speaker 8: vehicle manufacturers that they must be selling twenty two percent
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Speaker 8: of their stock as electric vehicles. But like all these schemes,
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Speaker 8: there's effectively an offsetting in place which if then unable
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Speaker 8: to meet that themselves, they can effectively pay another manufacturer
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Speaker 8: who is doing it in order to satisfy the criteria.
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Speaker 8: Clearly totally unsustainable and frankly absurd, but nonetheless they carry
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Speaker 8: on with it anyway. Guess who's fault all this is
56:24
Speaker 8: the extremists for spreading misinformation about the problems with electric
56:29
Speaker 8: vehicles catching fire and generally not actually being good for
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Speaker 8: the environment. Their reference there to byd which some viewers
56:37
Speaker 8: and listeners may not have heard of. Build Your Dreams
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Speaker 8: a Chinese business started in nineteen ninety five, interestingly specializing
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Speaker 8: in batteries first before moving into the automobile business, and
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Speaker 8: significant really to note that whilst they do use lithium,
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Speaker 8: they do not use cobalt or nickel in the production
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Speaker 8: of their batteries. You are likely to be seeing one
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Speaker 8: of these showroom soon. Here is a distribution map of
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Speaker 8: the United Kingdom. I think there are over one hundred
57:04
Speaker 8: and thirty outlets either in existence or planned for the UK,
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Speaker 8: so they'll be hitting our street soon. I've just returned
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Speaker 8: from Hong Kong where I visited a showroom there, just
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Speaker 8: to get the picture on how really, not so much
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Speaker 8: the vehicles themselves, but how the push to get people
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Speaker 8: into electric vehicles is going, particularly via incentives. So I
57:24
Speaker 8: hope we've got a video now of a showroom in Cychum,
57:28
Speaker 8: Hong Kong. This is the BID showroom in Cycung, Hong Kong,
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Speaker 8: and of the vehicles on display here, there is the Dolphin,
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Speaker 8: the standard model, which is their entry level vehicle with
57:44
Speaker 8: a battery that has a lifetime warranty, they have no
57:48
Speaker 8: idea how long it might last from new. But this
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Speaker 8: significant detail here is that had you a combustion engine
57:56
Speaker 8: vehicle would say a resale value of even five hundred pounds,
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Speaker 8: you could trade it in on a scrappage scheme and
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Speaker 8: effectively recoup many times its value in terms of the
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Speaker 8: discount you get on the purchase of this which equates
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Speaker 8: to nearly four thousand pounds, and that is an incentive
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Speaker 8: that is continuing to drive sales for bid very considerably
58:19
Speaker 8: at the moment. So really the point there that people
58:25
Speaker 8: are obviously gaming the system buying very cheap old bangers
58:29
Speaker 8: and then trading them in, not not that you've actually
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Speaker 8: given a car, but you get a massive discount on
58:36
Speaker 8: an ev which of course you could then sell on
58:39
Speaker 8: making considerable profit. The significant point there is, again compared
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Speaker 8: to the UK market, they're offering a lifetime warranty on
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Speaker 8: the battery. The stipulation in the UK is eight years
58:50
Speaker 8: or approximately one hundred thousand miles byd currently at one
58:52
Speaker 8: hundred and twenty five thousand miles. But the question of
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Speaker 8: what next is one that hasn't been satisfactorially answered in
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Speaker 8: the UK at all. Now, in terms of the effect
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Speaker 8: on the industry, here, I've looked at data provided by
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Speaker 8: the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, which produce reports
59:13
Speaker 8: annually that you can see the graph here showing the
59:16
Speaker 8: decline in car manufacturing over the years, and again a
59:19
Speaker 8: significant detail here when we consider smoke and mirrors being
59:22
Speaker 8: at heart of this. Of course, the export percentage is
59:25
Speaker 8: vast eighty respectively twenty twenty one and twenty two eighty
59:29
Speaker 8: two and seventy eight percent of cars produced in the
59:32
Speaker 8: UK in fact being exported. Anyway, a little bit more detail,
59:37
Speaker 8: and we see really the gray section of the graph here,
59:41
Speaker 8: which is diesel production, is what's really being squeezed. So
59:45
Speaker 8: this can't be trumpeted as a success of the EV.
59:49
Speaker 8: It's more squeezing out of the combustion engine vehicles. The
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Speaker 8: government has an extraordinary amount of false confidence in their
1:00:00
Speaker 8: ability to deliver this. In their Office for Zero Emission
1:00:03
Speaker 8: Vehicles document on batteries, they say that there are more
1:00:07
Speaker 8: than enough resources to build EV batteries to meet the
1:00:09
Speaker 8: estimated demand until twenty to fifty and they appear to
1:00:12
Speaker 8: have worked this out because the Faraday Institution said so,
1:00:18
Speaker 8: and they termed it as such, which was many countries
1:00:21
Speaker 8: around the world are embarking on a similar path to electrification.
1:00:24
Speaker 8: Even so, global markets for raw materials should be able
1:00:29
Speaker 8: to deliver the demand in the UK and elsewhere. I
1:00:33
Speaker 8: don't think that really groans for suggesting that we're okay,
1:00:37
Speaker 8: especially if everybody else in the world wants what we want.
1:00:41
Speaker 8: And indeed this is very much at odds with something
1:00:43
Speaker 8: produced by the World Economic Forum. No doubt the Prime
1:00:46
Speaker 8: Minister has read it. They said that as the world
1:00:50
Speaker 8: produces more batteries and evs, the demand for lithium is
1:00:53
Speaker 8: projected to reach one point five million tons of lithium
1:00:56
Speaker 8: carbonates equivalent by twenty twenty five and over three million
1:00:59
Speaker 8: tons by twenty twenty thirty. For context, the world produced
1:01:02
Speaker 8: roughly half a million tons of else in twenty one,
1:01:06
Speaker 8: so effectively a production needs to triple by twenty twenty
1:01:09
Speaker 8: five and increase nearly sixfold by twenty thirty. Although supplies
1:01:14
Speaker 8: being on an exponential growth trajectory, it can take anywhere
1:01:17
Speaker 8: from six to more than fifteen years for new lithium
1:01:21
Speaker 8: projects to come online. As a result, the lithium market
1:01:24
Speaker 8: is projected to be in deficit for the next few years,
1:01:27
Speaker 8: something the British government doesn't know or doesn't want to acknowledge.
1:01:32
Speaker 8: So we have really lie upon lie here, And of
1:01:37
Speaker 8: course the fallout from all of this is that people
1:01:40
Speaker 8: are being pushed further and further away from being able
1:01:44
Speaker 8: to do what they want to do with regard to
1:01:46
Speaker 8: vehicle ownership and drivership. And of course this is in
1:01:50
Speaker 8: conjunction with the declaration by the new itseration of the
1:01:54
Speaker 8: National Grid that there's going to be an increase in
1:01:57
Speaker 8: the cost of electricity but also a decrease in the
1:02:00
Speaker 8: availability of it due to the continued push for so
1:02:03
Speaker 8: called renewable energy. So a space to watch, but obviously
1:02:08
Speaker 8: the hope will be that the government will be forced
1:02:10
Speaker 8: into a position of rowing back on the ludicrous declarations
1:02:13
Speaker 8: that they've made about production of electric vehicles.
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Speaker 1: Which nobody wants. Of course, thank you very much for that, Charles.
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Speaker 3: We got to end there.
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Speaker 1: Unfortunately, time is up. We'll be back in a few
1:02:26
Speaker 1: minutes for some extra and one of the things we
1:02:28
Speaker 1: will be mentioning is the question of webcams in London
1:02:32
Speaker 1: that everybody's talking about this on social media at the moment,
1:02:35
Speaker 1: but we'll talk a little bit about that and some
1:02:37
Speaker 1: other things in extra. If you're a UK Call member,
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Speaker 1: stay on the stream and we will start in a
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Speaker 1: few minutes. Otherwise, don't forget the discussion with Alex and
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Speaker 1: his contributors tomorrow one pm and we'll be back for
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Speaker 1: the news at one pm on Friday. See then bye bye.
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