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UK Column News — 24th July 2026 · UK Column Radio

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon. Today is Friday, the twenty fourth of July
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, just after one o'clock. Welcome to U
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Speaker 1: Kate Column News. I'm your host, Brian Gerrish, delighted to
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Speaker 1: have Patrick henningson with me in the studio. We're also
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Speaker 1: joined by Basil Valentine and I very please say that
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Speaker 1: Basil has a special guest today that we'll leave that
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Speaker 1: as a surprise. Now we've got what I think is
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Speaker 1: a very very important news today we're going to be
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Speaker 1: focusing on the new Prime Minister and did Burnham and
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Speaker 1: just and having a deep look at what he's up to.
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Speaker 1: It's pretty incredible. I think some really serious things are
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Speaker 1: unfolding and will follow through from his policies. But more
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Speaker 1: on that, Patrick, you're going to be mentioning Burnham's bombs
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Speaker 1: and of course incomes the next this latest legber prime minister.
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Speaker 1: Is that going to produce peace? Absolutely not, because he's
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Speaker 1: going to pave the way for an easier access to
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Speaker 1: the UK military facilities for the Americans to conduct their
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Speaker 1: forming operations. We're going to have a little look at
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Speaker 1: Rupert Lowe's reaction to what's actually happening in the country.
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Speaker 1: The breakdown of the country. That'll be part of a
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Speaker 1: second section on Andy Burnham. Patrick, You're going to be
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Speaker 1: having a look at UK fuel poverty, which is a
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Speaker 1: really extraordinary statement because we should be flush with fuel,
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Speaker 1: but it depends on what policy is being followed. We're
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Speaker 1: going to be having a look at some events in
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Speaker 1: Gaza and we're also going to be focusing on the
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Speaker 1: BBC accounts. So we'll get straight off with reporting on
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Speaker 1: Andy Burnham, and of course no better place to go.
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Speaker 1: I've just got to say nicely, William, we are short
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Speaker 1: of a thank you. So this is the BBC report
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Speaker 1: and we follow through on this. I'm just going to
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Speaker 1: have to break the flow of the news slightly, William.
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Speaker 1: We need a device if you can just provide that
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Speaker 1: for us, Okay. So the key thing here is that
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Speaker 1: the reports are now starting at Burnham spending his day
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Speaker 1: working in the northern branch of Number ten. I think
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Speaker 1: what's happening here the constitutional system of government in UK
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Speaker 1: is being turned on its head. There's been no real
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Speaker 1: prior announcement about this. We're just seeing this dribbled into
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Speaker 1: the press itself, and the BBC report talking about up
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Speaker 1: to three hundred civil servants ready to go to join
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Speaker 1: the location of so called Downing Street in the Northwest. Now,
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Speaker 1: this is a major change to the country's constitutional structure.
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Speaker 1: There's no way it's been dreampt up by Andy Burnham
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Speaker 1: in just a few minutes. So this has clearly been
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Speaker 1: well planned and therefore we can ask the question, has
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Speaker 1: this man just been voted into power as an unfortunate
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Speaker 1: situation or as something else happened. So if we follow
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Speaker 1: through on this report, one thing the BBC does tell
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Speaker 1: us is that there are strategic decisions about devolution and
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Speaker 1: local economic growth which are going to move from the
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Speaker 1: Treasury and the Ministry of Housing. This is all going
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Speaker 1: to go to Number ten of the North. So this
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Speaker 1: is absolutely massive change in policy in this country and
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Speaker 1: Andy Burnham is going to be handling this not under
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Speaker 1: the eye of the elected MPs in Westminster, but within
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Speaker 1: the constraints of his enclave in the North. There's an
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Speaker 1: additional part of this report, if we can pop it
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Speaker 1: up on screen Police, and that is that Number ten
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Speaker 1: North will operate out of Heron House in Central Manchester,
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Speaker 1: in the same building which houses offices for the Intelligence
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Speaker 1: Services GCHQ. So think about what happened during COVID lockdown,
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Speaker 1: when the government was prepared to use the military seventy
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Speaker 1: seven Brigade to interfere with anybody who was daring to
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Speaker 1: challenge the government's policies. Now we've got Andy Burnham withdrawing
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Speaker 1: from accountability from the general public and operating in the
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Speaker 1: same building where a revitalized GCHQ component in that building
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Speaker 1: is going to be looking at ever more control over
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Speaker 1: dissent in the country. Now, this is one of the
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Speaker 1: statements that Burnham actually made. He said, for forty years,
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Speaker 1: power and resources have been sucked into the center, and
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Speaker 1: too many communities have felt forgotten without the attention investment
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Speaker 1: they deserve, they deserve. This is very very dangerous language.
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Speaker 1: If we pop the next one on screen, is very
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Speaker 1: deceptive because it leads people to believe that the government
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Speaker 1: is going to serve local people. For what's actually happening
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Speaker 1: here is centralized control is being brought down right to
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Speaker 1: the lowest level. I think this is so dangerous Patrick,
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Speaker 1: And of course it's being presented in a very relaxed way,
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Speaker 1: as though there's nothing really to see.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's extraordinary. I mean, this is the most another
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Speaker 2: unelected Prime Minister. It seems to be quite a few
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Speaker 2: of those in recent years.
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Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, and this key statement by Burnham the days
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Speaker 1: of White Tall resisting devolution are over for good now.
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Speaker 1: The resistance to devolution has largely come from the population
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Speaker 1: of UK. So this is a gross understatement of the
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Speaker 1: emerging plan, which is to destroy the United Kingdom in
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Speaker 1: its present forms, because what Burnham is going to do
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Speaker 1: is he's going to reorganize everything to do with the
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Speaker 1: Constitution in a way that will destroy the powers of
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Speaker 1: that Constitution. Now, against the background of all those serious issues,
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Speaker 1: let's have a look at how the BBC reports what
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Speaker 1: the UK column has just reported.
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Speaker 3: It's not here, though this pub in Manchester City Center
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Speaker 3: has changed its front door more in hope than expectation.
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Speaker 3: It's not Salford Lads Club, made famous by the Smiths,
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Speaker 3: though Andy Burnham did choose it to launch his last
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Speaker 3: mayoral campaign, and it definitely won't be on the cobbles
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Speaker 3: of Coronation Street. But it is on Albert Square in Manchester.
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Speaker 3: This is Heron House. It's already being used as offices
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Speaker 3: for the Intelligence Agent GHQ and now it's also the
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Speaker 3: new Northern branch of Downing Street. Andy Burnham says he
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Speaker 3: wants to base himself here one day a week. The
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Speaker 3: new PM not so much working from home, has working
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Speaker 3: from Manchester, and hundreds of civil servants will end up
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Speaker 3: working here full time. Many currently working in London are
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Speaker 3: being offered thousands of pounds to relocate. It may not
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Speaker 3: stay here forever. New government offices are being built just
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Speaker 3: outside the city center. Andy Burnham sees this as a
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Speaker 3: long term project. He's told his team that number ten
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Speaker 3: North isn't a gimmick.
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Speaker 1: So Patrick, for me, that real, as it's called now,
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Speaker 1: utterly outrageous. No investigation from the BBC, no real understanding
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Speaker 1: from that young reporter about what Andy Burnham is doing,
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Speaker 1: no comment on the constitutional issues. That that is outrageous
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Speaker 1: propaganda featuring Coronation Street and making a joke of the
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Speaker 1: building in Albert Square. It's targeted behavioral insights, applied political
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Speaker 1: psychology on the population of this country. But the BBC I.
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Speaker 2: Wants you to think it's totally normal. This is just
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Speaker 2: absolutely normal. Let's just get onrail with the business with
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Speaker 2: this new change, even though we didn't tell you anything
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Speaker 2: about it. So what about the foreign policy front? What
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Speaker 2: about the wars. Are we going to see any change. No,
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Speaker 2: that's what we're talking about at the moment.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, bring you over to that. Excuse me in a moment.
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Speaker 1: But let's just reinforce this business about Andy Burnham's government
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Speaker 1: sat alongside GCHQ. This is a report from the GCHQ
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Speaker 1: website about Manchester and the Northwest Secure site in Albert
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Speaker 1: Square in the heart of the city of Manchester and
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Speaker 1: Northwest and basically they go on to boast about the
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Speaker 1: fact that it was opened in twenty nineteen. It's the
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Speaker 1: government's newest high tech offices and they're going to be
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Speaker 1: contributing to a hub for innovation and technical expertise and
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Speaker 1: this is going to be sucking in civilians, particularly young
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Speaker 1: people and even children visiting this facility. And of course,
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Speaker 1: as usual we should expect the King to have been there.
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Speaker 1: So here's the report on his majesty the King paying
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Speaker 1: a visit to these GHQ Northwest offices, where it says
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Speaker 1: the Monarch met with staff and local school children. So
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Speaker 1: again the emphasis on this is well, this is all
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Speaker 1: very nice. We're just the security and intelligence services working
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Speaker 1: along and through with government and the King has been
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Speaker 1: there to put his stamp on it. But if that's
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Speaker 1: not bad enough, the other thing we can report is
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Speaker 1: our old friend, the political charity Common Purpose, very big
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Speaker 1: in Manchester. Here's a report from fourth of October I
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Speaker 1: think is twenty twenty three University of Manchester Partnership spokes
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Speaker 1: quote hope for tomorrow's leaders. But if we look into
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Speaker 1: the detail of that report, the mayor of greed Manchester,
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Speaker 1: Andy Burnham, closed the Common Purpose program, sharing his vision
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Speaker 1: for a cleaner, greener, greater Manchester and taking the time
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Speaker 1: to really listen to what the participants had to say.
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Speaker 1: If you look into the text in detail, there's one
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Speaker 1: focus and that's driving home un sustainable goals. So the
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Speaker 1: smokescreen Patrick is don't worry about us. We're going to
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Speaker 1: protect you, or we're going to look after you. We're
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Speaker 1: going to keep you safe, protect you from the sun.
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Speaker 1: The reality, I think is going to be more war.
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Speaker 2: Well let's just take a look here. I mean, how
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Speaker 2: long has he been in office, Brian, A couple of days.
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Speaker 2: That dirt's not even on the rug. I mean, which
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Speaker 2: number ten are we going to talk about?
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Speaker 1: There's one, there's only one now, and that is number
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Speaker 1: ten North.
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Speaker 2: Patrick anyway, I'm disoriented, so I can't imagine what the
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Speaker 2: what people so here it is he's hit the ground running.
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Speaker 2: Let's just say when it comes to all the various
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Speaker 2: wars going on in the world, here, bomb's away Burnham,
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Speaker 2: we're calling it here and really this is what This
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Speaker 2: is the sort of vibe we're getting right here. If
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Speaker 2: you look below there, you see those eyes. Those look familiar,
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Speaker 2: don't they do. That's kind of the vibe we're getting here.
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Speaker 2: So the unelected prime minister is just a seamless foreign policy.
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Speaker 2: Let's just take a look at this. Well, look, the
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Speaker 2: US bombs hern from a UK air base for the
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Speaker 2: first time under Andy Burnham. So Donald Trump's he's given
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Speaker 2: Trump permission to use the RAF fairfield for defensive strikes.
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Speaker 2: This is I miffed, Brian, how can you help me
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Speaker 2: with this? What are defensive strikes? What's the difference between
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Speaker 2: offensive bombing and defensive bombing?
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Speaker 1: It's offensive, It is offensive most the use of the
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Speaker 1: term defensive strike that is offensive and what they're actually
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Speaker 1: doing on the ground is offensive. Of the manipulation of
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Speaker 1: the language is to actually confuse people that this language
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Speaker 1: is being deliberately chosen because it interferes with people's cognitive
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Speaker 1: process and their ability to assimilate what is actually happening.
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Speaker 1: So this is a psychological attack in order to defend
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Speaker 1: the fact that we are now participating in this war.
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Speaker 2: There's no question. I mean, you bring this back up
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Speaker 2: on screen here. I mean, this is a grade or
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Speaker 2: well Ian propaganda. Basically, this is double speak, news speak,
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Speaker 2: whichever speak you want to call it here. But here's
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Speaker 2: the rub right, Brian breaking Iran's IERGC has warned that
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Speaker 2: any British military basis used by the US to launch
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Speaker 2: attacks on Tehran will become legitimate targets. So by participating
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Speaker 2: in this, why would you have to I mean, they
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Speaker 2: could fly these missions from a number of other countries.
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Speaker 2: Why does Britain need to be involved and have a
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Speaker 2: target painted on it? Because that's really what we're talking about, right,
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Speaker 2: Because we've.
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Speaker 1: Never not been involved, Patrick, We've clearly been involved in
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Speaker 1: the whole planning process for what's taking place in the
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Speaker 1: Middle East.
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Speaker 2: So the fact that this point has come up, Brian,
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Speaker 2: as luck would have it, two weeks ago, I was
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Speaker 2: in Iran and at a press conference with the chair
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Speaker 2: of their National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, The Parliamentary Committee.
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Speaker 2: So this is the highest ranking national security official in Iran,
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Speaker 2: and I asked him this very question, and as luck
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Speaker 2: would have it, Thank you to my colleague Dmitri Lescari,
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Speaker 2: we actually had this on tape. Let's have a listen,
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Speaker 2: thank you, And briefly, the GCC countries.
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Speaker 4: When Iran retaliated at the beginning of the Cyber forty
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Speaker 4: Day War and struck US Bass across the Persian Gulf,
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Speaker 4: in terms of the laws of war the Geneva Conventions,
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Speaker 4: Iran is within its right to retaliate against the source
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Speaker 4: of the threat, and that's why the world community did
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Speaker 4: not really pushed back very hard.
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Speaker 5: However, what is the difference between the US launching attacks
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Speaker 5: from the GCC and the US launching attacks from Germany,
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Speaker 5: from Italy, from Greece, from Romania, from Cyprus, etcetera. The EU,
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Speaker 5: NATO is there is is Iran. How do they consider
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Speaker 5: these two things or is there no difference?
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Speaker 6: Have any action any attack on Yuvan. The result is
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Speaker 6: the same.
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Speaker 7: The origin of hocinity is being retargeted. Again, I got
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Speaker 7: their habilim. If you're targeting the US faces in the region.
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Speaker 6: But listen, is that they're nice day hab mad day.
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Speaker 7: That's a jolo party that passionate one size.
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Speaker 6: The region of hostilities on your own in rover it
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Speaker 6: is in the world, it will be targeted decisively, inducting risponse.
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Speaker 4: We have said time and again.
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Speaker 7: And the emphasize again.
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Speaker 4: Had Cassis.
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Speaker 6: Direct your para in.
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Speaker 7: That they want to pregnitive or facilitate US attack as
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Speaker 7: they want reconsider it as a kind of they are completed. Happens,
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Speaker 7: it's our natural rights half the mass legitimate vites a
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Speaker 7: lot of man DeFore has as a defairs logic behind it,
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Speaker 7: thank you.
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Speaker 2: So that was at a press conference in Mashad, and
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Speaker 2: so he said any country right, any country.
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Speaker 1: When she is logical because if you are attacked by
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Speaker 1: another country, you are going to consider the auction of
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Speaker 1: retaliating against that particular country and wherever they are launching
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Speaker 1: weapons system from.
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Speaker 2: So it's not a cost free participation exercise by the
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Speaker 2: UK by enabling US. You have to remember where does
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Speaker 2: Britain stand on this in terms of international law? I mean,
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Speaker 2: this is an undeclared war of aggression against Iran started
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Speaker 2: by the US and Israel. Does that come into the
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Speaker 2: equation at all? How on Earth. Could this be defensive
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Speaker 2: bombing raids by the US. So the risk is incredible,
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Speaker 2: you know, absolutely, And we could say the same about
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Speaker 2: Russia and Ukraine and we have discussed that risk as well.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, again, painting targets on European and in this
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Speaker 2: case Britain exact same way the US painted targets on
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Speaker 2: the Gulf States. Yes, and they paid for it, and
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Speaker 2: they paid and we're still we're all paying for it
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Speaker 2: in terms of energy, which we'll talk about later. But
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Speaker 2: it's extraordinary, Brian. And why can't we have a serious
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Speaker 2: debate about this nationally here? So the reaction, of course,
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Speaker 2: is already underway. The UK is ready to defend itself
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Speaker 2: after the Iranian threat over a US basis. So the
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Speaker 2: UK has allowed the US to launch defensive operations with
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Speaker 2: the British basis hosting American planes, but has refused to
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Speaker 2: help in offensive operations. So they've covered themselves, Brian. I mean, well,
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Speaker 2: I'm laughing here, but it's.
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Speaker 1: Only the language that is the attempt to cover them.
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Speaker 1: Because when you push this nonsense language aside and you
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Speaker 1: use the correct terminologyat to describe what they're doing, what
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Speaker 1: they are doing becomes very clear this is offensive operations
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Speaker 1: where we are working hand in glove Americans.
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Speaker 2: Anyway, we'll just round this out here, and just another
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Speaker 2: salient point if we bring this back up on screen
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Speaker 2: at the moment here and spokesperson for the British governments
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Speaker 2: that our armed forces are ready to keep the United
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Speaker 2: Kingdom safe from any kind of attacks, whether it's on
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Speaker 2: our soil from or abroad twenty four to seven. So
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Speaker 2: what's the UK going to do that the United States
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Speaker 2: hasn't already done to Iran?
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Speaker 1: Well, the answer to that is nothing. But even that
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Speaker 1: statement that you've had on screen, Patrick is a lie
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Speaker 1: in itself because at the moment we have no nuclear
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Speaker 1: attack submarines at sea, and therefore the nuclear deterrenty itself
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Speaker 1: is not being protected as it should be. This is
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Speaker 1: open knowledge now, so that statement is complete fraud on
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Speaker 1: the nation, and for the Guardian to repeat it verbatim
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Speaker 1: is astonishingly bad journalism.
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Speaker 2: And here's the IRGC giving well a little history lesson
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Speaker 2: accusing the British monarchy regime of causing of being the
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Speaker 2: primary cause of hardships in our region with a black
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Speaker 2: record of partitioning Islamic nations, widespread massacres, imposing despotic regimes,
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Speaker 2: and organizing the occupation of Palestine. Hard to argue there.
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Speaker 2: And here is the US threats. We're expecting a massive
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Speaker 2: escalation from the United States. Donald Trump says the Iranians
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Speaker 2: haven't received enough pain yet and claims that they want
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Speaker 2: to negotiate but are not ready to make a deal,
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Speaker 2: contradicting Iran's comprehensive no negotiations policy with the US. Here
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Speaker 2: so that we could follow the mixed messages from Washington
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Speaker 2: all day long and end up nowhere, but suffice to
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Speaker 2: say this is on the record here from the US
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Speaker 2: President that any ship that is fired on in this
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Speaker 2: straight by Iran will be met with one bridge or
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Speaker 2: one power plant and so forth. So the US is
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Speaker 2: putting out a declaration of war crimes here civilian infrastructure
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Speaker 2: which they're threatening. And again, Secretary of State Marco told
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Speaker 2: reporters the President's approach to the war was a head
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Speaker 2: for an eye, not an eye for an eye, a
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Speaker 2: head for an eye. So they're adopting these Raeli maxims,
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Speaker 2: if you noticed, which means one of our soldiers means
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Speaker 2: one hundred of your civilians. Kind of things, So a
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Speaker 2: head for an eye, extraordinary stuff. So here's the bottom line.
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Speaker 2: Let's just do it, just quickly to wrap this up.
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Speaker 2: There he is, he's looking quite light on his feet,
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Speaker 2: isn't it. They tend to be like that when they're
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Speaker 2: not elected. Rishie Sunak. That little bounce, didn't he and
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Speaker 2: does remind me a little bit of a young mandelsshn.
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Speaker 2: But I digress here. No change in policy on Israel's
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Speaker 2: genocide in Gaza, Israel's expansion programs in the West Bank,
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Speaker 2: Israel's illegal invasion of Lebanon, Israel's a legal invasion of
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Speaker 2: Siris goln Heights, the US and Israel's illegal war in Iran,
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Speaker 2: and the US and NATO's escalation of the war in Ukraine.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely new management, but no change in policy. So it's
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Speaker 2: really a case, Brian of new management same as the
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Speaker 2: old management. Indeed, So there we are, and just to
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Speaker 2: quickly a thumbs up there, just to keep it corporate.
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Speaker 1: But Andy Burnham is now a Prime Minister who's working
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Speaker 1: from his own enclave number ten in the North. So
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Speaker 1: the checks and balances that Westminster will produce on a
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Speaker 1: normal prime minister, by the fact that they are visible
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Speaker 1: that the rumor mill will be leaking what that Prime
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Speaker 1: Minister is up to. It's all changed with Andy Burnham
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Speaker 1: and he's got GHQ working within the same building.
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Speaker 2: Cocooned by a layer of intelligence and spooks, and it's bizarre,
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Speaker 2: to say the least bizarre.
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Speaker 8: Basil.
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Speaker 1: Let's move over to you, and I'm delighted for you
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Speaker 1: to bring in our guests today.
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Speaker 9: Yes, thanks, gentlemen. My guest today is Ben Timperley, former
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Speaker 9: Labor Party activist and Momentum member. Ben has been researching
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Speaker 9: corruption in the Labor Party and the machinations that go
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Speaker 9: on behind the scenes, and digging deep into the policy
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Speaker 9: changes that we've seen from what under Starmer was apart
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Speaker 9: from anything else, arguably the most authoritarian government that Britain
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Speaker 9: has ever seen. Welcome to the program, Ben.
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Speaker 8: Thank you very much for having me. Much appreciated.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 9: Much has been made of Burnham's claim to be dropping
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Speaker 9: digital ID, but the fact is the infrastructure is still
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Speaker 9: there and the roll out of facial recognition software continues
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Speaker 9: a pace. So am I right in saying that the
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Speaker 9: Home Secretary who stays in post pan not the kind
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Speaker 9: of control is likely to remain completely unchanged.
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Speaker 8: Under Burnham, I think you're absolutely right. I think the
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Speaker 8: as you call it, the put of control is absolutely
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Speaker 8: still going to remain in place, and it has been
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Speaker 8: in place for many years. I think the announcement that
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Speaker 8: digital idea is going to be rolled back is essentially
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Speaker 8: a smoke screen. It's a way of going, oh, there's
23:30
Speaker 8: not a problem here, we don't have to worry about this,
23:33
Speaker 8: when in reality, the Online Safety Act and other legislation
23:37
Speaker 8: for many years has been in play I would say
23:40
Speaker 8: since around twenty eighteen, and much of this legislation has
23:43
Speaker 8: been in play that allows the government to have overarching
23:47
Speaker 8: control of online narratives of information security and basically giving
23:53
Speaker 8: them the ability to reach into people's private lives, extract
23:56
Speaker 8: the information they want and use it as they see fit.
23:59
Speaker 8: The same actually a blackmail scam that the government has
24:03
Speaker 8: a cart blanche on in total control.
24:05
Speaker 9: Of, and indeed Burnham embedding himself up there with GHQ
24:13
Speaker 9: is particularly concerning. But we should all know by now,
24:17
Speaker 9: Ben that Tony Blair was, and in all probability still
24:20
Speaker 9: is a security state asset, and personally I think Starmer
24:24
Speaker 9: may well have been the same. Burnham appears to be
24:28
Speaker 9: a more honest broker than either of those two. It's
24:31
Speaker 9: certainly an extremely low bar, but the hidden hand of
24:35
Speaker 9: the national security state looks certain to continue a made
24:38
Speaker 9: playing a major part in how Britain's government, doesn't it.
24:43
Speaker 8: It really does. I think there has to be a
24:45
Speaker 8: lot of context here that is very important that most
24:48
Speaker 8: people will be completely unaware of. Recently, UK column hosted
24:52
Speaker 8: an excellent article by David Miller regarding the rise and
24:56
Speaker 8: rise of a spook an MI six spook to the
25:00
Speaker 8: General Position to Homeland Security Group and as part of
25:03
Speaker 8: the analysis in that article he essentially positive the idea
25:07
Speaker 8: that six is essentially put in place of power grab
25:11
Speaker 8: across government under what's known as the fusion doctrine. They're
25:17
Speaker 8: essentially putting in place what's known as whole of society resiliency.
25:21
Speaker 8: So their idea is that there must be no weak
25:24
Speaker 8: links in the governmental chain, national, local, regional, all the
25:27
Speaker 8: way through. There has to be essentially a system of
25:30
Speaker 8: control and protection. As they see it, nice government, you
25:34
Speaker 8: have their be shamed if something happened to it. That's
25:37
Speaker 8: the way they view it, and that's exactly what they're doing.
25:40
Speaker 8: And if you look at ghq M, I five, m
25:43
Speaker 8: I six. They're all intertwined, along with the various other
25:45
Speaker 8: intelligence services that are held in place by individual departments.
25:50
Speaker 8: We have a real problem in the UK and that
25:52
Speaker 8: the public is grossly unaware of and underinformed about the
25:56
Speaker 8: way that these systems, these organizations and the individuals within work.
26:01
Speaker 8: Roughly around I'd say it was around twenty eleven twenty ten.
26:06
Speaker 8: It was recognized within relevant circles of government that what
26:10
Speaker 8: they needed to achieve after the National Security Capability Review
26:15
Speaker 8: in twenty eighteen, but they recognized it a bit before
26:17
Speaker 8: then that the cost of maintaining this whole of society
26:22
Speaker 8: resiliencies they call it, was prohibitive. There was a huge
26:26
Speaker 8: amount of money that was needed to do it, huge
26:28
Speaker 8: amount of access and essentially control over digital systems and
26:32
Speaker 8: private systems. So they recognized they couldn't do it by
26:34
Speaker 8: themselves as government. So essentially what they did was they
26:38
Speaker 8: wroped in with various deals the private sector, especially the
26:43
Speaker 8: tech platforms, to put them in a position where they
26:46
Speaker 8: had access to these networks, they had access to digital platforms,
26:49
Speaker 8: and they were allowed to essentially build this resiliency system
26:55
Speaker 8: where they could use private money to reinforce narratives to
27:00
Speaker 8: create and political situations that were completely under their control.
27:05
Speaker 8: So the inexplicable rise of Andy Burnham, just like the
27:09
Speaker 8: inexplicable rise of Keir Starmer, you know, it starts taking
27:13
Speaker 8: on a different context when you look at the level
27:16
Speaker 8: of control of these organizations and the people behind them
27:20
Speaker 8: and the funders behind them. They have this level of
27:23
Speaker 8: input which is unprecedented and extraordinary in terms of British history.
27:27
Speaker 8: There has never been anything like this, this level of
27:30
Speaker 8: societal resiliencies they call it, in the history of the UK,
27:34
Speaker 8: and it really is frightening the level of reach and
27:36
Speaker 8: power that these people have. Andy Burnham is literally a puppet.
27:40
Speaker 8: He is a face mask for what is going on
27:43
Speaker 8: behind the scenes, and it is absolutely no surprise at
27:46
Speaker 8: all that he would position his number ten of the
27:49
Speaker 8: North in the GCHQ office in Manchester. That makes absolute
27:53
Speaker 8: sense that he would do that.
27:56
Speaker 2: That's right, Ben.
27:57
Speaker 9: I've long since said that only certain people are allowed
28:01
Speaker 9: to become Prime Minister, and Jeremy Corbyn obviously wasn't one
28:05
Speaker 9: of them. The shadowy labor together was supposed to have
28:09
Speaker 9: gone out of the window with Morgan McSweeney, but that's
28:12
Speaker 9: not really the case is it we've got James Pernella
28:15
Speaker 9: the heart of government and what role is Josh Simon's
28:19
Speaker 9: that jap fell on his sword and of course was
28:23
Speaker 9: responsible for trying to rake up all that muck on
28:26
Speaker 9: investigative journalists. What about Labor Together under Burnham?
28:32
Speaker 8: I think Labor Together are as a brand, a busted flush.
28:37
Speaker 8: You know, they've rebranded for a reason, you know, to think.
28:41
Speaker 8: I think it was think Labor or something along those lines,
28:43
Speaker 8: something very inane rebranded. But in terms of what they're
28:48
Speaker 8: actually there to do, that hasn't changed. They What most
28:51
Speaker 8: people won't recognize is that Labor Together was essentially a
28:55
Speaker 8: sister organization to the CCdh, which was the Center for
28:59
Speaker 8: Countering digit or Hate. And if you look at the directors,
29:02
Speaker 8: as I did in twenty twenty two, we find a
29:05
Speaker 8: man called Simon Clark who was the chair of the CCdh.
29:09
Speaker 8: Simon Clark basically is a private sector spook. He used
29:14
Speaker 8: to work in the agencies. He was involved with various
29:17
Speaker 8: Whitehall based think tanks which are essentially private spook organizations,
29:21
Speaker 8: as well as the other people in the CCdh, Imran
29:25
Speaker 8: Ahmed and various others. These are all players that are
29:27
Speaker 8: attached to intelligence agencies and for Morgan McSweeney to be
29:31
Speaker 8: a double hatter between the CCdh and Labor together is
29:35
Speaker 8: absolutely no surprise. Now, obviously various people have moved on
29:38
Speaker 8: into different organizations and it's worth for those of you
29:41
Speaker 8: at home who are feeling curious looking at where they
29:45
Speaker 8: have gone and the jobs that they have taken up,
29:47
Speaker 8: especially Simon Clark, it will tell you what their priorities are.
29:51
Speaker 8: Their priorities really are about delivering prosperity. Twenty thirty. The
29:56
Speaker 8: agenda which has been in play for some time that
29:59
Speaker 8: came out of UCL University College London. This agenda has
30:03
Speaker 8: been played out in Greater Manchester under the Greater Manchester
30:07
Speaker 8: Combined Authority for some time now, and that is essentially
30:13
Speaker 8: now pulling in place a whole realm of policies which
30:17
Speaker 8: we're seeing which is essentially doing what was done to
30:20
Speaker 8: the NHS, which is making it public at the point
30:23
Speaker 8: of purchase, but behind the scenes just a glorified p
30:26
Speaker 8: FI scheme. And we're going to see that across energy, water,
30:29
Speaker 8: public transports, We're going to see it further in healthcare,
30:31
Speaker 8: We're going to see it across different areas of government
30:34
Speaker 8: and labor together is essentially the state's hand in the
30:38
Speaker 8: till of the Labor party, and you'll find it in reform.
30:42
Speaker 8: We will find it in the Conservative Party, the Liberal Democrats.
30:45
Speaker 8: They have versions of these organizations in every single party,
30:48
Speaker 8: and all of them report to two heads, which is
30:51
Speaker 8: the state intelligence authorities and also the private MgO what
30:55
Speaker 8: I call philanthrospook organizations which fund them.
31:00
Speaker 9: Ben Timperley, thank you so much for joining us today
31:03
Speaker 9: on UK Column, and it's great that you can join
31:05
Speaker 9: us too for the extra program after two o'clock. Brian
31:10
Speaker 9: over to you.
31:12
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, and thank you to Ben. Really
31:16
Speaker 1: interesting analysis and it's going to be really good to
31:18
Speaker 1: have a longer discussion in UK Column Extra at the
31:22
Speaker 1: end of today's news. Let's counter that deep analysis focused
31:27
Speaker 1: around Andy Burnham with a little look at an interview
31:32
Speaker 1: that Rupert low conducted just a few days ago. But
31:35
Speaker 1: it gives us an insight into his mind. I have
31:38
Speaker 1: two clips on we may just have a time I
31:41
Speaker 1: think for one of them, but let's have a look
31:43
Speaker 1: at what Rupert Lowe had to say about what has
31:47
Speaker 1: been attacking the United Kingdom.
31:51
Speaker 10: Well, the history of it is that Basically, as you
31:54
Speaker 10: probably know, Britain after the war decided they were going
31:59
Speaker 10: to play a part in Europe, a bigger part in Europe.
32:02
Speaker 10: Are elite, did the British elite, And to do that
32:05
Speaker 10: they had to basically diminish the power of the nation
32:08
Speaker 10: state and they had to head towards this European superstate,
32:11
Speaker 10: which is the EU, the genesis, which was obviously not.
32:14
Speaker 11: Why did they have to diminish the power of the
32:17
Speaker 11: nation to do.
32:17
Speaker 10: That, because I think Britain was a proud nation state
32:21
Speaker 10: with with the American help, we'd won the war and
32:25
Speaker 10: we hadn't been invaded or conquered, which most of Europe
32:28
Speaker 10: had been. So you'd had mass dislocation in Europe. Huge
32:32
Speaker 10: numbers of people had been dislocated and pushed all over Europe.
32:37
Speaker 10: And I think the Socialists. I was in the European Parliament,
32:40
Speaker 10: so I spent a brief time as an MEP, a
32:44
Speaker 10: member of the European Parliament. When we finally.
32:50
Speaker 1: Okay, what is fascinating about Rupert Low is that historically
32:56
Speaker 1: he's now talking about some really important things. He's talking
33:01
Speaker 1: about how the UK got involved with the European Union,
33:06
Speaker 1: the manipulation of all of that process, and then finally
33:10
Speaker 1: the fact that we had immense cross order migration which
33:15
Speaker 1: has caused huge problems to all the western countries and
33:18
Speaker 1: indeed in the home countries from which the migrants have come.
33:23
Speaker 1: So he is delving into some very accurate and appropriate
33:29
Speaker 1: analysis as to what has been taking place. That is
33:32
Speaker 1: called UK column for the UK under Pressure. But effectively
33:38
Speaker 1: he's not gripping the immediacy of what is happening, for example,
33:43
Speaker 1: around Andy Burnham. So it's as though he's working ten
33:47
Speaker 1: years out of step. And if we can just try
33:50
Speaker 1: the second clip, please, William, because that one is a
33:53
Speaker 1: shorter one. Let's follow it through a little bit more.
33:58
Speaker 10: So it really is generated after ninety seven when a
34:02
Speaker 10: lot of the legislation that Tony Blair and his cohorts passed,
34:07
Speaker 10: such as the Human Rights Act which embeds within it
34:10
Speaker 10: the ECCHR. He created the Supreme Court, They passed laws
34:14
Speaker 10: like the Equalities Act and the raft of other legal
34:18
Speaker 10: acts they passed which effectively empowered a multicultural society which
34:25
Speaker 10: in some ways I think damaged the interests of the
34:28
Speaker 10: British people.
34:30
Speaker 11: And you think this is on purpose, and this is
34:32
Speaker 11: my point is What is the benefit for them to
34:36
Speaker 11: be joined up with the rest of Europe? Is it
34:38
Speaker 11: just purely financial? Is it a power based strategy where
34:42
Speaker 11: if you can diminish the quality of life for people
34:45
Speaker 11: and institute more laws and put more restrictions on them,
34:50
Speaker 11: you can control them easier and it's less pushback for
34:53
Speaker 11: the politicians push back for the people that are in charge.
34:57
Speaker 10: Basically, yes, I think it's the age old battle between
35:01
Speaker 10: individualism and collectivism.
35:04
Speaker 1: So my comment to this is these are very low
35:07
Speaker 1: key responses. What is actually building very quickly in this
35:11
Speaker 1: country is a dictatorship where we've got the government and
35:14
Speaker 1: the surveillance systems and the services and the security services
35:19
Speaker 1: working hand in glove. So if Rupert Lowe is to
35:22
Speaker 1: get a grip of what's actually happening in the country,
35:25
Speaker 1: seems to me, Patrick, he's got to soften up his
35:28
Speaker 1: understanding or expand his understanding of how quickly this beast
35:32
Speaker 1: is a system is being created and exactly how ruthless
35:37
Speaker 1: it is. And to me, he just doesn't seem to
35:39
Speaker 1: be gripping it.
35:40
Speaker 2: Ten years out of step, this is about accurate.
35:43
Speaker 1: Ten years out of step. Yeah, absolutely, So if we
35:46
Speaker 1: just followed through this section very quickly. I just wanted
35:48
Speaker 1: to make sure that we say to our audience that
35:51
Speaker 1: the UK Column has been reporting accurately on this stuff.
35:55
Speaker 1: One of the things that Rupert Lowe mentioned was that
35:58
Speaker 1: it was really exit without us coming out of the
36:02
Speaker 1: European Union. That was exit without the exit, which UK
36:06
Speaker 1: Column warned and warned about, and we were absolutely correct
36:10
Speaker 1: about that. And I want to contrast mister Lowe's performance
36:15
Speaker 1: by bringing on this lady Madeline hunt. She's the general
36:19
Speaker 1: secretary of the Heritage Party and on her substack she's
36:22
Speaker 1: written a truly excellent analysis of the mayor's control system
36:28
Speaker 1: and the Burnham Blueprint. This is going into detail with
36:32
Speaker 1: exactly what he's doing, what he's trying to do with
36:34
Speaker 1: the creation of the city states, the economic development zones
36:39
Speaker 1: and mayors with total control. So this lady who lived
36:44
Speaker 1: in Poland originally under the communist system, she absolutely knows
36:48
Speaker 1: what's coming. And as she points out there, they are
36:51
Speaker 1: seeking really to neutralize local counselors and why because local
36:57
Speaker 1: counselors ultimately holds all to stopping this policy coming to
37:02
Speaker 1: the lowest level. If you'd like to see more of
37:05
Speaker 1: Madeline Hunts, then have a look on the UK column
37:08
Speaker 1: for the Twilight of Democracy, where I did an interview
37:12
Speaker 1: with our very interesting and predictive interview back in March
37:17
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, and also she hosted a panel actually
37:22
Speaker 1: having a look at the enemy that was attacking the country. Now,
37:26
Speaker 1: to finish this section, I just want to show a
37:29
Speaker 1: clip of an interview that I've conducted with a gentleman
37:33
Speaker 1: called Martin Brighton that will be streamed relatively short. He
37:36
Speaker 1: will let you know when, but I just want to
37:40
Speaker 1: let's share this clip with our audience today because I
37:45
Speaker 1: do indeed.
37:46
Speaker 12: Yes. The memory is when it kicked off and just
37:54
Speaker 12: coming home one afternoon we're talking about nearly thirty years
37:59
Speaker 12: ago now, and my wife was crying on the settee
38:05
Speaker 12: and she'd been told that she wasn't going to be
38:08
Speaker 12: involved in the community center anymore. She was no longer
38:11
Speaker 12: to be a volunteer. They were going to take her clients,
38:15
Speaker 12: the play group and the building and none of this
38:20
Speaker 12: was legal, but she wouldn't know because someone from the
38:25
Speaker 12: council said it was all a done deal. Now, at
38:31
Speaker 12: that time, I was acting as an auditor, so I
38:35
Speaker 12: started asking the questions, where's all this coming from and
38:39
Speaker 12: it was at that time when I started to dig
38:42
Speaker 12: deep that I realized that from central government topped down,
38:49
Speaker 12: they were appropriating European funds and using it for their
38:56
Speaker 12: own agenda, not for the benefit of the people. And
38:59
Speaker 12: if no one got in the way, they were removed.
39:04
Speaker 1: Now, this is truly an extraordinary interview because in a
39:07
Speaker 1: very mild manner, this man talks about twenty plus years
39:13
Speaker 1: of work challenging fraud and corruption and bullying within the
39:17
Speaker 1: city authority system. And I can tell our audience that
39:21
Speaker 1: a few months ago his home was raided, all of
39:23
Speaker 1: his computers and phones taken because he'd moved on in
39:29
Speaker 1: his investigation into corruption from what was happening with big
39:33
Speaker 1: money inside cities such as Sheffield for example, to having
39:38
Speaker 1: a look at the state covering up of the abuse
39:40
Speaker 1: of children. So he has not received any of that
39:43
Speaker 1: equipment back from the police. And really the interview will
39:47
Speaker 1: spell out the ruthlessness by which this new system, which
39:53
Speaker 1: Andy Burnham is clearly leading, the ruthlessness of the system,
39:57
Speaker 1: and what it will do to anybody who challenges it.
40:00
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41:55
Speaker 2: Is that correct?
41:56
Speaker 13: No?
41:57
Speaker 2: I think we are a UK fuel poverty. Yeah, we're
42:01
Speaker 2: going to be looking just at that issue here and
42:05
Speaker 2: we'll bring this up on screen here. A big issue
42:09
Speaker 2: of course for everybody Brian is the cost of living crisis,
42:12
Speaker 2: and so let's just take a look at that for
42:14
Speaker 2: a moment. Now you're probably wondering what does Germany have
42:17
Speaker 2: to do with life in the UK. Well, Germany's currently
42:20
Speaker 2: paying five times more for gas after ditching Russian imports
42:24
Speaker 2: Nordstream pipeline. Anybody, Germany is now paying five times as
42:28
Speaker 2: much for imported gas that did before abandoning it's long
42:31
Speaker 2: term Russian supply contracts part of the EU sanctions. The
42:35
Speaker 2: Berliner Zeitung has reported here, and this is the important
42:40
Speaker 2: bit Brian long term contracts with Moscow were not vulnerable
42:44
Speaker 2: to external shocks, market fluctuations, etc. Berlin now has to
42:49
Speaker 2: rely on the volatile international energy market, as does the UK,
42:55
Speaker 2: as does the UK, which is reeling from the de
42:57
Speaker 2: facto closure to the Straits of Hormouse during the ongoing
43:00
Speaker 2: conflict between the US run Russia Ukraine as well. And
43:04
Speaker 2: this is the reporting on this here, So let's bring
43:07
Speaker 2: this to the UK. Brian. This is a great website
43:09
Speaker 2: here which we're following. And Fuel Poverty Coalition this is
43:13
Speaker 2: a UK based organization here, and energy bills rising thirteen
43:17
Speaker 2: point five percent as households face difficult summer. And now
43:22
Speaker 2: if some of us have been given demands to pay
43:26
Speaker 2: twelve hundred pounds fourteen hundred pounds out of the blue
43:30
Speaker 2: because of the rise in rates, we'll bring this up here,
43:33
Speaker 2: adding an extra two hundred and twenty one pounds to
43:36
Speaker 2: the average household, pushing it to one eight hundred and
43:39
Speaker 2: sixty two pounds per year. This is even wearing the
43:43
Speaker 2: extra sweater Brian, okay, and not using your central heating.
43:48
Speaker 2: So but let's look a little closer at that, and
43:52
Speaker 2: this is exactly as they say with the German market,
43:55
Speaker 2: global market disruptions and conflicts in the Middle East and
44:00
Speaker 2: Ukraine has driven up the cost of natural gas, which
44:04
Speaker 2: frequently sets overall wholesale electricity pricing. In the UK is
44:07
Speaker 2: totally over reliant on natural gas to power its grid, Brian.
44:12
Speaker 2: So you're probably wondering, you know, most people say, well,
44:15
Speaker 2: foreign policy, Andy Burnham, what's that got to do with me?
44:19
Speaker 8: That?
44:19
Speaker 2: What will bring this back up on screen? If you
44:22
Speaker 2: could could, William, That's exactly what it has to do.
44:25
Speaker 2: Those policies are directly affecting whether you can afford to
44:30
Speaker 2: use electricity or gas in your home. These exact policies.
44:35
Speaker 2: The government is pushing for war. They've abandoned diplomacy. They're
44:39
Speaker 2: escalating against Russia, they're escalating against Iran, as we've shown here.
44:44
Speaker 2: So it gets back to where we were before this matters, Brian.
44:49
Speaker 2: All of these policies which this new government is basically backstopping,
44:55
Speaker 2: is going to mean you're going to pay more for
44:57
Speaker 2: everything because they're doing no think to change the fundamentals
45:02
Speaker 2: that are causing the energy volatility and the energy market.
45:05
Speaker 2: So what when we talk about foreign policy, everybody, when
45:08
Speaker 2: we talk about Iran in Russia, Ukraine. This has to
45:11
Speaker 2: do with our bottom line.
45:13
Speaker 1: It's a very good point, Patrick, because talking about the
45:17
Speaker 1: wars over seas many people who think, yeah, but this
45:20
Speaker 1: is happening overseas well. No, there's a direct impact on
45:24
Speaker 1: the population in the UK. Population that is suffering in
45:28
Speaker 1: this country and it's going to suffer more as a
45:30
Speaker 1: result of these pellicos policies by the government and the
45:35
Speaker 1: likes of the new Prime Minister.
45:37
Speaker 2: And I'm sure we'll talk more about this during the
45:39
Speaker 2: extra segment.
45:40
Speaker 1: Okay, so Basil, it is over to you on the
45:44
Speaker 1: subject is back on initially Gaza.
45:50
Speaker 2: Yes, Brian, thank you.
45:51
Speaker 9: One of the hallmarks of the Gaza Holocaust since the
45:55
Speaker 9: outset has been the continual downplaying of the scale of
45:59
Speaker 9: the horror of corporate media, which has ignored the massacres
46:03
Speaker 9: at every available opportunity. That's more true than ever now
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Speaker 9: that we are nine months into the so called cease fire.
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Speaker 9: But the truth is there hasn't been a ceasefire. Israel
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Speaker 9: continues to kill people every day, including today, as we
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Speaker 9: can see in these pictures from Garza this morning. On Monday,
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Speaker 9: at least twelve Palestinians including six members of one family,
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Speaker 9: were murdered in three separate strikes in the Gaza Strip.
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Speaker 9: Tax continue across northern Gaza. At least six people, including
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Speaker 9: women and children, have been killed over the last forty
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Speaker 9: eight hours alone. The latest victims include Kusai Abubaid and
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Speaker 9: another child, who were killed in front of their home.
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Speaker 9: The You and Human Rights Office this week condemned the
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Speaker 9: recent intensification of Israeli military air attacks, which have sorted
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Speaker 9: at least fifty seven Palestinians in the week between the
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Speaker 9: thirteenth and the twentieth of July, in residential buildings, including
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Speaker 9: women and children, a tent camp for displaced families, and
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Speaker 9: other very crowded areas. Now it's worth remembering that during
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Speaker 9: this period since Sisi has Amas has not killed any
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Speaker 9: Israeli civilians or any Israeli soldiers since the ceasefire so
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Speaker 9: called ceasefire agreement was signed. But the Israelis have now
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Speaker 9: killed more Palestinians than Israeli civilians died on October the seventh,
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Speaker 9: quite apart from the hundreds of thousands who of course
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Speaker 9: were slaughtered between October the seventh and this fake ceasefire.
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Speaker 9: Now the October twenty twenty five ceasefire agreements stipulated that
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Speaker 9: the battle lines in place at the time of the
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Speaker 9: deal would remain frozen until later phases of the agreement
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Speaker 9: were implemented. That provision paved the way for the creation
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Speaker 9: of the so called Yellow Lion, unilateral Israeli demarcation, designating
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Speaker 9: vast areas of Gaza as no go zones and barring
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Speaker 9: Palestinians from accessing large parts of their land, including all
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Speaker 9: the viable agricultural land. At the time that deal was signed,
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Speaker 9: Israeli forces controlled around fifty three percent of the enclave.
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Speaker 9: Since then, the Israeli military has expanded that Yellow Line,
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Speaker 9: effectively bringing around seventy percent of Gaza under its control
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Speaker 9: and forcing Palestinians into less than half more than a
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Speaker 9: third of the territory's land area, and that Yellow Lion
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Speaker 9: is now being dug with the Bulldozer. Under the terms
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Speaker 9: of the agreement, the subsequent phases were meant to including
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Speaker 9: gradual Israeli withdrawal from the entire Gaza strip, but that
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Speaker 9: looks extremely unlikely at this point. Israeli forces have also
49:34
Speaker 9: carried out near daily home demolitions in another breach of
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Speaker 9: the ceasefire. Also, under the agreement, Israel was required to
49:44
Speaker 9: ease restrictions on deliveries of life essentials and allow up
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Speaker 9: to six hundred trucks a day carrying food, fuel, medical
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Speaker 9: supplies and shelter materials into Gaza. However, un data shows
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Speaker 9: those commitments have not been met, with rights groups warning
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Speaker 9: that continued restrictions have prolonged the humanitarian crisis and severely
50:08
Speaker 9: restricted relief operations. By the end of April, only just
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Speaker 9: over four and a half thousand eight trucks had entered
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Speaker 9: the Enclaver, more a mere twenty five percent of the
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Speaker 9: eighteen thousand trucks stipulated under the agreement. That's a daily
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Speaker 9: average of just over two hundred trucks, which is far
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Speaker 9: below the agreed threshold. The amount of food allowed is
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Speaker 9: way below the level needed to sustain the population, and
50:38
Speaker 9: Israel has also excluded much needed shelter materials, tents, mobile homes,
50:43
Speaker 9: as well as essential medicines, medical equipment and fuel. Result
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Speaker 9: is a record number of orphans, miscarriages, and associated diseases,
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Speaker 9: including outbreaks of chicken pox and children now. An analysis
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Speaker 9: by The New York Times back in jeney We revealed
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Speaker 9: it is world have demolished two and a half thousand
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Speaker 9: buildings in the first three months of the agreement, a
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Speaker 9: rate of demolition that has continued a pace, and a
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Speaker 9: new Oxfam report says human development has been set back
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Speaker 9: by seventy seven years. The EU World Bank Rapid Damage
51:19
Speaker 9: and Needs Assessment report in April said it would take
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Speaker 9: an estimated seventy one point four billion dollars to recover all.
51:29
Speaker 9: This has prompted activists to launch the they lied to
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Speaker 9: Following the complete evisceration of the guys the strip, Don
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Speaker 9: Trump started his fraudulent Ponzi scheme, dubbed the Board of
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Speaker 9: Peace that like some Macarbore game show. He said it
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Speaker 9: was a billion dollar buy in for permanent membership, but
53:24
Speaker 9: unsurprisingly almost no countries have actually put any money in
53:27
Speaker 9: the bank and it remains toothless. Instead, they held this
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Speaker 9: sham ceremony in Charmel Shaikh where an assortment of world
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Speaker 9: leaders told Donald Trump how wonderful he is. And then
53:38
Speaker 9: they put in charge of former un official and Bulgarian
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Speaker 9: Defense and Foreign Minister Nikolai Mladinov. That's him on the
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Speaker 9: left of the slide, along with Blair, of course, and
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Speaker 9: Jared Kushner. Now, Vladanov was well known to Palestinia. He
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Speaker 9: had met with kerlil Ohio and others during his time
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Speaker 9: at the at the UN and I think Palestinians initially
54:05
Speaker 9: felt that he was a better bet than Tony Blair,
54:08
Speaker 9: although Blair apparently remains deeply involved. However, from the moment
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Speaker 9: Maladanov got involved, it was very clear that the Israelis
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Speaker 9: had gotten to him, and you can see him there
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Speaker 9: shaking hands with the executioner in chief at Netanyahu. What
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Speaker 9: Mladanov and his cronies are trying to do is put
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Speaker 9: an international stamp of legitimacy on the genocide and ethnic clending. Because,
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Speaker 9: of course, Trump managed to obtain a UN Security Council resolution,
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Speaker 9: probably the most shameful act in the entire history of
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Speaker 9: the United Nations, endorsing this so called Board of Peace.
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Speaker 9: And remember that Trump remains the head of the Board
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Speaker 9: of Peace even after he's left office, and it gives
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Speaker 9: him the right to deploy a privatized armed force of
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Speaker 9: which he is the command. Now, Maldanov is working with
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Speaker 9: Ariel Lightstone US official, who unsurprisingly is an absolutely fanatical
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Speaker 9: Israel first and the two of them sent a letter
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Speaker 9: to the Palestinian Palestinian Technical Committee that's theoretically supposed to
55:21
Speaker 9: take over actual governance of Gaza, basically saying that if
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Speaker 9: Hamas doesn't agree to disarm immediately, which was never part
55:29
Speaker 9: of the original ceasefire agreement, then they will have to
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Speaker 9: let Israel resume the genocide, which sadly, it appears, is
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Speaker 9: precisely what has happened. The underlying aim, of course, the
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Speaker 9: long term aim, is the complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza
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Speaker 9: as is freely admitted by the likes of Israeli Heritage
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Speaker 9: Minister Amichai eliahu You said on Wednesday that the government's
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Speaker 9: ultimate goal is indeed to regain control of the Gaza
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Speaker 9: strip and establish Israeli settlements there. That's according to the
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Speaker 9: Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation Elia, who of course is a
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Speaker 9: member of the Ozama Yahudi's Jewish Power party led by
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Speaker 9: National Security Minister Atamar Ben Gevir. He said, our ultimate
56:24
Speaker 9: goal is to regain control of Gaza, including establishing settlements.
56:31
Speaker 9: Also this week, the terrorists in chief, ultra Zionist land
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Speaker 9: thief Daniel A. Weis, led a rabble of assorted thieves
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Speaker 9: with no doubt many murderers amongst them, from the Israeli
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Speaker 9: Army to the edge of the Gaza death camp, claiming
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Speaker 9: that they wanted to get in and start building and
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Speaker 9: of course kicking all the Palestinians out those that they
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Speaker 9: don't kill.
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Speaker 15: As we can see now, Israelis want to resettle Gaza.
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Speaker 15: They converged on its northern border in a march organized
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Speaker 15: by the far right Nakala Settlement movement.
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Speaker 8: We will go here.
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Speaker 14: The cousins will scatter all over the world. They lost
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Speaker 14: any link with this area on the seventh of October.
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Speaker 14: This is the end of the chapter of cousins here.
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Speaker 15: Israeli Prime Minister Netanyao has denied plans for Gaza settlements,
57:27
Speaker 15: but members of his government openly support them. Several joined
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Speaker 15: the march, including his far right National security minister Itama
57:34
Speaker 15: bank Via. Ahead of the march, the military closed off
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Speaker 15: areas closed to Gaza, but did little to stop the
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Speaker 15: activists from passing through roadblocks. For Israel unilaterally dismantled its
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Speaker 15: settlements in Gaza and drew from the territory in two
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Speaker 15: thousand and five, but since the Hamas terror attacks in
58:04
Speaker 15: October twenty twenty three, Israeli settlers and officials have pushed
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Speaker 15: to resettle Gaza, an issue also expected to feature in
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Speaker 15: the upcoming election. Last week, Israel's Defense Minister Israel Katz
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Speaker 15: said that he intended to set up three Najal military
58:20
Speaker 15: outposts in northern Gaza. For decades, these types of outposts
58:24
Speaker 15: usually paved the way for Israeli settlements, which are illegal
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Speaker 15: under international law. Israel now occupies up to seventy percent
58:32
Speaker 15: of Gaza. This is beyond the fifty three percent degreed
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Speaker 15: on the last year's US broke at ceasefire. About two
58:38
Speaker 15: million Palestinians are pushed into an ever shrinking fraction of
58:42
Speaker 15: Gaza's territory after a devastating war that has been described
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Speaker 15: by some scholars and a UN Commission of Inquiry as
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Speaker 15: a genocide.
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Speaker 9: Mike sorry, Brian Patrick, a uniquely depressing picture, and of
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Speaker 9: course those pictures show I've seen on social media some
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Speaker 9: of the most horrific images of Burn's victims. Apparently the
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Speaker 9: Israelis are now bombing with a kind of napalm gel
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Speaker 9: that reaches fiable five thousand degrees centigrade. It's really absolutely
59:15
Speaker 9: obscene stuff.
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Speaker 1: Basil, thank you very much for that. Yes, it is tragic,
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Speaker 1: of course, it's tragic for the Palestinians. It's also tragic
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Speaker 1: deaths amongst the Israeli soldiers, many of them and many
59:30
Speaker 1: of whom it is clear, do not want to fight
59:33
Speaker 1: this type of warfare. So truly horrible situation. Let's just
59:39
Speaker 1: focus in now on the BBC and these things related, well,
59:43
Speaker 1: sort of. I was fascinated to have a look at
59:46
Speaker 1: the BBC group annual report and accounts for twenty twenty
59:51
Speaker 1: twenty six, and according to the chairman, the BBC's a
59:55
Speaker 1: vital national asset in today's world. He had something else
1:00:00
Speaker 1: to say, let's blow that up on screen. There is
1:00:03
Speaker 1: no other country in the world that has a media
1:00:05
Speaker 1: organization like the BBC. We are an instrument of social
1:00:10
Speaker 1: cohesion in the world where division, disruption and distrust are
1:00:15
Speaker 1: becoming a way of life. So we've just seen what
1:00:17
Speaker 1: the BBBC does and doesn't report over the war in
1:00:21
Speaker 1: the Middle East, and to claim that their for cohesion
1:00:25
Speaker 1: is simply arrogance beyond belief for Patrick. But if we
1:00:30
Speaker 1: get deeper into the report, you find pages dedicated to
1:00:34
Speaker 1: this type of self promotion. The BBC pursues truth with
1:00:40
Speaker 1: no agenda. It is independent, fearless and fair. I think
1:00:44
Speaker 1: there are many people that would challenge that. Not least
1:00:48
Speaker 1: this was a meme sent to me a couple of
1:00:50
Speaker 1: days ago. It's got a BBC stylized logo over dead
1:00:56
Speaker 1: bodies on the ground and it said we don't cover
1:00:59
Speaker 1: his rails, Israel's crimes, we cover them up, which I
1:01:03
Speaker 1: think many people would agree with. But that's come back
1:01:06
Speaker 1: to the look at the BBC, because in these accounts.
1:01:11
Speaker 1: In very small print, you can see something very significant
1:01:15
Speaker 1: and that's the BBC's real fear, and that is a
1:01:19
Speaker 1: fear of falling revenues. So what is this about. Well,
1:01:24
Speaker 1: if we bring up the actual box on screen, and
1:01:27
Speaker 1: it is a very small paragraph, the meat on the bones.
1:01:32
Speaker 1: Is this a statement by the BBC that the outturn
1:01:36
Speaker 1: for twenty twive twenty six has been adversely impacted by
1:01:40
Speaker 1: lower than anticipated license fee income and the BBC's reported
1:01:45
Speaker 1: deficit was one hundred and twenty one million. If you
1:01:49
Speaker 1: read the language in this report, you will see the
1:01:52
Speaker 1: BBC is fearful that people are not supporting its rhetoric
1:01:58
Speaker 1: over it being independent. They are switching off and they're
1:02:01
Speaker 1: doing so by stopping paying the license fee. But there
1:02:05
Speaker 1: was something else that caught my eye in this report.
1:02:10
Speaker 1: It was in very small print. It was at the
1:02:12
Speaker 1: bottom of a section on BBC Media Action charity. What
1:02:17
Speaker 1: did it have to say, Well, it said that BBC
1:02:20
Speaker 1: Media Action was going to launch a new podcast season
1:02:25
Speaker 1: for traumatized children in Gaza. Are there any traumatized children
1:02:30
Speaker 1: left Patrick or are they all dead? I found this
1:02:35
Speaker 1: unbelievably callous and cynical. But what was interesting was that
1:02:40
Speaker 1: the document, the BBC document suggested if you wanted more
1:02:44
Speaker 1: information on what BBC Media Action was going to do
1:02:48
Speaker 1: in Gaza, to have a look at their website. So
1:02:50
Speaker 1: I did go and visit BBC Media Action website to
1:02:54
Speaker 1: look about their initiative with traumatized children in Gaza. I
1:03:00
Speaker 1: could find nothing. I did find a statement bemoaning the
1:03:05
Speaker 1: fact that US eight had been cut to the BBC
1:03:08
Speaker 1: charity and therefore they were struggling. And I did find
1:03:13
Speaker 1: this response BBC Media Action response to Gaza attacks. But
1:03:18
Speaker 1: this is nothing to do with children. This is very
1:03:21
Speaker 1: big on journalists who've been killed in trying to report
1:03:26
Speaker 1: at what's been happening in Gaza. Now, I know that
1:03:29
Speaker 1: is an important issue, but we were on the trail
1:03:31
Speaker 1: of what the BBC was going to do for traumatized children.
1:03:36
Speaker 1: So the trail becomes very opaque, very quickly, even though
1:03:41
Speaker 1: the BBC license payer, the general public of the United
1:03:44
Speaker 1: Kingdom are paying for this nonsense. I decided to go
1:03:48
Speaker 1: direct to BBC Media Action, so I've sent them this
1:03:53
Speaker 1: email asking for details of their initiative for traumatized children
1:03:58
Speaker 1: in Gaza. They have a two day response time for
1:04:02
Speaker 1: media inquiry, so next week, early next week we should
1:04:06
Speaker 1: have a response from the BBC. But overall, when you
1:04:11
Speaker 1: look into their accounts, what you discover is vast amounts
1:04:15
Speaker 1: of money are totally opaque to public scrutiny because they
1:04:21
Speaker 1: are being used for BBC and Foreign common Wealth and
1:04:25
Speaker 1: Development Office initiatives overseas, which clearly they do not want
1:04:30
Speaker 1: to deliver the details of those contracts to the public.
1:04:36
Speaker 1: So when you try and open up the BBC accounts
1:04:40
Speaker 1: to find where public money is going, it becomes ever
1:04:44
Speaker 1: more opaque and to me this is the start of
1:04:48
Speaker 1: very questionable activity by the BBC, and UK Column will
1:04:52
Speaker 1: be delving in more. Now we've got to say that
1:04:56
Speaker 1: we're at the point where we need to finish today's news.
1:04:59
Speaker 1: We've covered a a lot of very important topics, Basil.
1:05:02
Speaker 1: I know that you've normally got some have you missed
1:05:05
Speaker 1: slides for us. We'll include those in the UK Column
1:05:09
Speaker 1: Extra in just a few minutes. But firstly, a huge
1:05:12
Speaker 1: thank you to our guest Ben for his excellent coverage
1:05:18
Speaker 1: on really the deep State, and of course he will
1:05:21
Speaker 1: be with us in the UK Column Extra. Basil, thank
1:05:24
Speaker 1: you for joining us, and Patrick, thank you for joining
1:05:27
Speaker 1: me here in the studio. Huge thank you to all
1:05:30
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