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UK Column News - 4th February 2026 · UK Column Radio

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Good afternoon. Today is Wednesday the 4th of
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February, just after 1:00. Welcome to UK column NEWS.
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I'm your host, Brian Garish, delighted that Ben Rubin with me
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in the studio. And we'll just say pretty bad
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day here in Plymouth. You might be able to see it in
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the background, but we've got rain and wind howling and
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lashing on the sea front. But we're very warm in the UK
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column studio today, so that is good.
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Now we have very exciting news today.
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This will be an extended, slightly extended UK column news
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because of course we've got part of our team in China, which
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we're absolutely delighted. We've only been able to do that
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with the huge support that the UK column is getting from all
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its members and supporters. So lots of exciting things
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happening, but we decided that we will kick off in just a
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moment with the Epstein story because it represents so much.
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It tells us so much about not only high level politics, but
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the high level state and control inside it.
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We'll be making a report from Chongqing in Central China,
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which is where Mike Robinson and Charles Mallett and some of the
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team are at this very moment. We're Charles will be giving us
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a report taking us from matters around Defra to conscription.
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If that sounds pretty extraordinary, it is.
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So stay posted for that. Ben, you're going to be having
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looking at look at matters around national emergency here
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in UK. Mike Robinson will be talking
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about digital ID. We'll be having a look at links
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between full fact and and GCHQ. Yes, that's what I said.
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And Ben is also going to be having a look at at policy
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profession, the means by which local council policies are being
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captured by the corporates. Really, Ben?
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Not just local councils, the whole the whole stack of the
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civil service. Yeah, and if that's not enough,
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we'll end off with a little look at what the king has or has not
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been doing. So let's kick off with Epstein
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and Folk. What's your focus, Ben?
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Yes, well, we're going to start with a short video clip,
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actually, not about Epstein, but about our dear Prime Minister
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speaking this time last year in Washington, DC, in the first few
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weeks of the second Trump administration.
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Ready. I can feel there's a real buzz
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around Washington right now. You can sense that there's a new
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leader in town, that he's a true one off, a pioneer in business
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and in politics. Many people love him.
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Others love to hate him. But to us, he's just Peter.
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And Peter is the right person to help us work with President
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Trump and to take this special relationship from.
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Well, there we are. Such a nice man, Peter.
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That was actually quite good from Starmer, but you know that
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was. It.
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Was it was, it was probably scripted, but kind of funny but
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also hideous at the same time, right?
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Because he's talking about Peter Manderson Madison, who'd already
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had to resign twice and then subsequently had to resign again
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because of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, relationship
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that Starmer must have known about while he was making that
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speech, right? And we've seen so much more of
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this, readers, the Daily Mails, where I got this from, will have
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been treated to the site of Mandelson's underwear over the
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past couple of days. It's just one more example that
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we've seen coming from from the Epstein files, this time with a
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young lady no less. And there are more messages
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coming out by the day. And I I do have to ask Brian, at
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what point do you think Starmer might think about tendering his
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resignation because of this? I think that won't have
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happened, Ben, until sufficient pressure comes on him.
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And as we're going to see in today's news, the whole state is
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geared up to make sure pressure doesn't come on him.
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But yeah, let's wait and see. It's extraordinary, absolutely
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extraordinary. And in fact, these are coming
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out by the day. I was just on X before we came
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on air, and I'd seen some messages from Mandelson to
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Epstein on the day that Epstein was released from prison for
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child sexual abuse crimes, congratulating him on his
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Freedom Day and asking him what he was going to be getting up
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to. Absolutely extraordinary.
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And then this yesterday, which is from Anderson to Epstein,
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notifying him of internal recommendations from inside #10
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about the need to sell national assets to pay down government
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debt. This was a internal government
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email from Gordon Brown's team back in 2009 telling him that
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the UK needed to sell national assets.
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Manderson has forwarded this to Epstein and Epstein has replied
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saying what saleable assets, because obviously he's in the
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business of, of buying up those kinds of assets.
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And and my question, another question for you then is, is
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that treasonous? It's a really good question
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because these people are clearly not working in the best
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interests of the of the country and they're certainly not
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working within law. And if they're putting the
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nation state at risk that it might but would be treason.
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But of course, mainstream media is not going to even suggest
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that is the case. But we've put it as a question.
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I think it's a reasonable question.
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I think it certainly is. Now we're going to be talking
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about the Epstein files for, I would imagine years, maybe
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decades to come, maybe longer, to be honest with you.
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Just a a couple more examples have really jumped out at me
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from the most recent tranche that have come out over the past
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few days. One was this, This is Noam
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Chomsky with Epstein and unnamed individual in the in the centre
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there these two gentlemen very close.
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And this tells me a lot. I think about the radical left,
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Chomsky being one of the most vocal left wing polemicists
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theorists over the past several decades.
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And this is the kind of relationship that he's happy to
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cultivate. And then finally from me on this
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section is this one the, the, the fact that Epstein was a
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Rothschild agent, he represented the Rothschild family.
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He was paid $25 million to do so that we know of, right?
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So it's just one transaction that we've seen.
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And you can see here, part of the advice that he was
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delivering to them was the the upheaval in Ukraine back in 2014
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would provide many opportunities.
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Many. And I think that probably tells
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us quite a bit about what's happening in Ukraine today.
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Opportunities that are now the slaughter of hundreds of
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thousands, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, hundreds of
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thousands of Russians slaughtered while the assets are
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stripped. But that's an opportunity in an
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email. It's quite disgusting, Ben.
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Well, let's just follow it through.
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And perhaps unusually for me, I'm I'm going to pop up on
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screen that a while ago, back in December, but presumably this
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work had been going on for several months.
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The BBC was doing some investigation.
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And here's the headline. Epstein's UK flights had alleged
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British abuse victims on board. And there was ABBC journalists
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team working on this. I'm only going to take a little
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bit out of it. But they, amongst other things,
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they did bring up in the article that they'd looked at the number
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of flights connected to Epstein, which had continued to fly to
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the UK after his conviction. And you can see there on the
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left it's saying there were 15 UK flights after Epstein's
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release from prison in 2009. And then on the right is a
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segment out of the flight logs. And the key thing is that
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passengers are normally meticulously recorded by name in
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case there is an air accident. But in the case of Epstein's
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logs, names were either not recorded or there was only
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initials so that people couldn't be identified.
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But you will notice that information has been redacted by
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the BBC in relation to these other alleged victims.
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Now, in the article, there's a quote from Sigrid Mccrawley, who
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was one of the lawyers involved with Epstein's victims.
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And she said the British authorities have not taken a
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closer look at those flights, at where he was at, who he was
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seeing at those moments and who was with him on those planes and
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conducted a full investigation or there's no full British
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investigation which has been conducted.
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And then if we have a look at Will Dalgreen, who was one of
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the more senior reporters who were looking into these flights.
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He said that two months ago the BBC sent the Metropolitan
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Police, which has previously examined allegations about
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Epstein's activities in Britain, publicly available information
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about the flights about UK flights with suspected traffic
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trafficking victims on board. Later, we sent the Met a
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detailed list of questions about whether it would investigate
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evidence of possible British victims of Epstein trafficked in
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and out of UK. The Met did not respond to our
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questions. So the BBC team doing their job
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here and what happens? The Met doesn't respond.
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He went on to say that on Saturday, the Met released a
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broader statement saying that it not received any additional.
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Can we just pop that one back on screen, please?
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Thank you. And not received any additional
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evidence that would support reopening the investigation into
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Epstein and Maxwell's trafficking activities in the
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UK. And let's bring up the key
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person at the time, proceeded Ditt, the Met Police
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commissioner. She was quoted as saying that
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she'd asked her team to have another look at the Guthrie
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material, but it went on. The Met review is complete, but
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we will liaise with other law enforcement agencies who lead
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the investigations into matters related to Jeffrey Epstein.
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So basically no full investigation and nothing to
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see. According to the Met Police.
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This is all par for the course. Let's just pop Cracida Dick on
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screen and just hear what she was up to.
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She couldn't investigate the abuse of women and most likely
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children on a substantial scale. Know she was doing something
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else. Let's hear what she was up to.
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I have absolutely no intention of going.
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And I believe that I am and have been actually for the last five
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years, leading a real transformation in the Met.
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So there we are, a real transformation in the Met more
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woke agenda to the extent the Met cannot or won't do its job
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when it comes to protecting the British public from paedophiles
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in in positions of immense power.
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No surprise then that the the lawyer, if we pop her back on
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screen, Sigrid McCauley had this to say.
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The Met, the message, sorry, the message the Met is sending to
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victims is that if you come to law enforcement and this is a
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powerful person you're reporting on, it will not get
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investigated. And I think Ben, she absolutely
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sums up the situation here. So the BBC focusing as as per
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the decision presumably of the editorial team on the froth
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around Epstein, meanwhile the investigation their own team was
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quite rightly started is squashed.
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So who's making these decisions inside the BBC?
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Well. It's a very good question.
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Sorry, Christina de Dee. Was she common purpose?
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Absolutely yes, through and through, right?
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OK. And, and, and he's, he has been
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pointed out, someone just mentioned it in the chat box
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there. But I've seen a bit of
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discussion about this online. Is that actually a lot of what
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we're seeing coming out, although that it is revelatory
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in a certain sense, a lot of the people that have been hung out
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to dry in these new files that are coming out essentially out
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of out of the out of out of the, they're not going to have to
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face any kind of democratic scrutiny.
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There's no real implications for them at a personal level.
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It's very unlikely that Mandelson or Bill Clinton or
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certainly Blair or anyone like that is actually going to be
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arrested because of this. And, and actually the people who
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are we can potentially hold to account are not, are not in the
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crosshairs here. I think they're very worried
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people, but they're not in the crosshairs yet and they won't be
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until the appropriate authorities.
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So that includes the Met includes our security services,
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the the FBI and CIA actually take the correct action to
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prosecute this case. And that hasn't happened yet
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because it involves many people in very powerful positions.
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Now we have to leave that there. But let's move on to the
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subject, to the UK columns, teams reports from China.
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We're going to show you in just a few seconds a clip of
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Chongqing in central China where Mike and Charles and the team
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are. But we want to say to our
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audience, this has only been possible due to the huge support
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that we've had from our wider supporters.
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And this allows UK column, and we're extremely proud of this to
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start reporting from in country. So instead of reporting on
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information, which is web, we're going to be able to increase the
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strength of the UK column in actually understanding what is
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happening on the ground, what governments say and what people
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in a nation state have to say. And I'll just remind our team
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that Patrick Henningson has done excellent reporting.
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He's been into Syria, he's been into Russia, he's been into the
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troubled zone in Donbass and quite close to the area of the
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war with Ukraine. So that was really excellent.
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And of course, Vanessa Bailey, putting yourself at great risk
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to report from within Syria and more laterally being in a new
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home in Lebanon. So this has been part of the
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Power of UK column. We're extremely proud that we've
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got the capability to do this. We're going to expand it.
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But today we've got some reports coming from inside China.
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So let's just have a look at a little minute clip giving us a
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feel for Chongqing where Mike Robinson and Charles Mallet and
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team are at the moment. Hey.
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This. Is absolutely a priceless just
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everybody doing exactly the same thing.
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Respectable. To the train, going through the
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building or everyone? Yes, exactly.
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Yeah. So a short clip there just to
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give you a taster. That's a very big cities by the
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Yangtze River at this time of year.
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Quite a lot of fog. It's not smog that you can
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possibly see in the background. It's fog connected with the
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temperature of the river and the surrounding area.
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And that little clip was taken just outside the Laziba, if I've
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pronounced that correctly, metro station.
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And I believe it's also that area is also connected with some
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form of memorial to do with the war between China and Japan.
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So there are people on the streets.
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But let's now switch to Charles Mallett.
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We've got the first of two clips that Charles made on location,
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but he's focusing back in on matters very pertinent to the
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UK. Let's see what he had to say.
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Good afternoon all. Now the focus of the report for
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today is going to be on Defra, the Department for Environment,
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Food and Rural Affairs, and in particular the documents that
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they've put out recently. And one of considerable note
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because it escalates the level of fear mongering to, I would
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contend, somewhere that we haven't seen before.
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And you might like to think of it as being the culmination of
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five years of shaping operations through the intertwined
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narratives of the COVID emergency, or at least so we
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were told. The conflict in Ukraine and the
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enduring problem as it's presented, of climate change.
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And all of these things have been brought together in order
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to deliver the idea that food and national security are
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inextricably linked and it affects you.
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So we'll look at the document in some detail because it really
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does deserve terrific scrutiny, both in terms of its alarmism,
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but also the consequences or perhaps the considerations that
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drop out of it. Here it is on screen now, global
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biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security.
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So in order to make sense of it, we'll just have a look at the
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definitions and they make a distinction between ecosystem
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degradation and collapse. Now degradation is regarded as a
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long term reduction in an ecosystem structure,
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functionality or capacity to provide benefits to people.
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And collapse is a reference to a critical threshold beyond which
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an ecosystem is potentially irreversibly changed and can no
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longer maintain essential structure or function.
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So the premise of this document is that they've made seven key
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judgments, obviously too small for you to read on the screen
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there. So I'll just go through three of
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the perhaps most pertinent and what they start with is the
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assumption that global ecosystem degradation and collapse
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threaten UK national security and prosperity.
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So straight away making the connection between what is seen
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and felt on the ground in the United Kingdom and the rest of
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the world. The world is already
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experiencing impacts including crop failures, intensified
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natural disasters and infectious disease outbreaks.
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Of course, there are now certain threats will increase with
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degradation and intensify with collapse.
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Without major intervention to reverse the current trend.
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This is likely to continue to 2050 and beyond.
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Now this is strong language and in terms of their confidence in
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this judgement, they are giving that a high rating.
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So therefore they think that there is a very high probability
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of their being correct on this particular judgement.
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Now to to look at the next one. Critical ecosystems that support
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major global food production areas and impact global climate,
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water and weather cycles are the most important for UK national
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security. So again, there this focus or
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the link being made between the global food production and the
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state of national security in the United Kingdom.
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Severe degradation or collapse of these would highly likely
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result in water insecurity, severely reduced crop yields, a
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global reduction in arable land fisheries collapse changes the
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global weather patterns, release of trapped carbon, exacerbating
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climate change, novel zoonotic diseases, and loss of
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pharmaceutical resources. Now, we've seen a lot of this
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being mentioned in in certain respects before, but to have it
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all combined in such a format is really a new departure.
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And they go on to reinforce this point about global and local
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being connected by saying the Amazon rainforest, Congo
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rainforest, boreal forests, the Himalayas and Southeast Asia's
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coral reefs and mangrove mangroves are particularly
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significant for the UK. So from a from a worldwide
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perspective, we are all in it together.
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And again, they give this a high rating.
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They think there is a high likelihood that they are correct
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in their assumption making this judgement.
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The last one we're going to have a quick look at is that without
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significant increases in UK food system and supply chain
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resilient, it is unlikely the UK would be able to maintain food
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security if ecosystem collapse drives geopolitical competition
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for food. Again, linking local and
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worldwide, the UK relies on imports for a proportion of both
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food and fertiliser and cannot currently produce enough food to
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feed its population based on current diet, current diets, a
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critical part there pointing the focus back at the individual and
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in effect setting up the what will come as the answer.
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Country's best place to adapt are those that invest in
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ecosystem protection and restoration and resilient and
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efficient food systems. And they highlight here that
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they think there's a a moderate chance that this is on the
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button. But what they've introduced
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there, of course, is this idea that the responsibility for this
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is to be borne on the individual.
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And that is absolutely something that is further reinforced by
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some of the graphics here showing here how the degrading
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ecosystems lead through to physical and biological impacts.
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And then of course, intertwining the idea that human security
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risks and International Security risks are linked.
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But the the critical phrase that is brought out here in the first
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paragraph below this graph is that nature is a foundation of
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national security. And again, another sort of
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scaremongering graph with a trend showing how biodiversity
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is decreasing and what will happen if we don't do anything.
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And then if you're unable to see the graph, there is of course
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the split, or at least the fork where we're projecting via
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modelling, of course, what it is that could be done if we were to
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get a grip and change this. And, and again here we see yet
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more graphics reinforcing the point, particularly around
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climate change and the fact that we are responsible for this and
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therefore it is beholden upon us as individuals to do something
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about it. Now, if you're in any doubt as
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to the tactics employed in this and whether or not it is
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designed to be a moderate and reasonably worded document or
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not, this might clarify it for you.
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There is a paragraph here qualifying the loss of
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biodiversity and they say the rate of extinction is 10s to
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hundreds of times higher than the average over the past 10
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million years. It suggests that a 6th mass
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extinction may be underway. Now they don't qualify that by
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saying whether they consider that to be across all species,
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including human beings. But the inference there is
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absolutely that if you as an individual do not do something
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about this, then you as an individual will suffer the
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consequences. Again, you might be wondering
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where this has come from and it says rather opaquely, it's been
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developed by analysts and experts across in His Majesty's
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government. It supports long term resilience
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planning. And by publishing this
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assessment, we are highlighting the opportunities for
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innovation, green finance and global partnerships that can
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drive growth while safeguarding the ecosystem that underpin our
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collective security and prosperity.
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So the the the key things which I've highlighted to fall out of
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this, of course are talking about the opportunities for what
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are going to be public private partnerships.
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And that is where you will find that your collective security is
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guaranteed. And they are without doubt
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tearing up the situation for the suggestion that there must be
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some sort of a national sacrifice which is to be met by
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the individual. And This is why I prefix this by
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talking about the intertwined narratives of the supposed COVID
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pandemic, the crisis or the conflict in Ukraine, and indeed
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climate change. Now this is pointing in several
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different directions I might say, but all along the same
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theme. I had the opportunity to see
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that prior to the news. Ben, you haven't what?
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What was your take on it? Money and power.
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That's what it's about, Brian. It's all about money and power,
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power and money. Consolidation of power through
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these new technological systems and concentration of wealth
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because we all have to pay for it.
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And it's public, private marketplace meets the technical
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definition of fascism, and that's what they're driving us
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into. Yeah, drive us into it by the
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use of absolutely a brutal attack on people's minds in the
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UK. So very, very pertinent report
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and we do need to see what is being said because these are the
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policies destroying UK from the inside.
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Let's go back to Charles Ballots and just hear what he said in
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the ending part of that segment. What we're going to look at now
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is who's going to benefit and referenced even in the document
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is the push towards nature recovery 30 by 3030% of nature
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recovery and land not being used for producing food critically by
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the year 2030. So already a raft of
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contradictions, this here, the Sustainable Markets Initiative
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and the terracotta owned of course by King Charles the 3rd.
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And just as an illustration of how public partner, public
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private partnership does in fact manifest, a small example taken
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from the Defra website to their animal disease monitoring page,
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which has just been updated to reflect the fact that Newcastle
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disease, something that is said to afflict poultry, has been on
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the rise. And here's a document,
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admittedly not from the United Kingdom, but from a project in
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East Africa. And very clearly there is the
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partnership between the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the
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UK government. And that is absolutely the theme
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of things to come. So the individual is going to be
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told that for their for their safety, for their convenience,
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for the national security. In other words, the collective
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effort they are to further the interests of the corporations
27:40
and so called philanthropists in order to protect and preserve
27:45
our future. Now again, in terms of judging
27:49
whether there's any sincerity to this, we'll look at another
27:51
press release saying that the UK's first ever plan to tackle
27:54
forever chemicals is now underway, specifically referring
27:57
to to the PFAS category, which is per and polyfluoroalkyl
28:03
substances. Now what is important to note
28:06
here is that one of the most widely applied chemicals in the
28:10
food production process is of course glyphosate.
28:12
The herbicide which whilst not regarded as a forever chemical
28:15
because it doesn't fit into that neat category, is of course
28:18
destructive to very much of the environment, in particular water
28:22
and aquatic life, and yet it doesn't fall into this category
28:26
and therefore will not receive any of that kind of attention.
28:30
And also sodium chloride. Wrong.
28:32
Sodium chlorate, which is used again in food hygiene and
28:36
because it's considered to be a safe part of making food
28:41
hygienic, it's use over and above the maximum residue limit
28:47
is of course ignored. The other thing to point out is
28:49
that there's now an interim chair appointed at the Office
28:52
for Environmental Protection. You'd think that certainly they
28:56
would have their ducks in a row, but Julie Hill has had to take
28:58
over in what looks like fairly short order.
29:01
She was a non executive director and notably previously a board
29:06
member of the Eden Project. So on the one hand, whilst the
29:09
government is intending to set out that there is a plan for
29:11
this, it doesn't look very much like there's much sincerity to
29:15
this, or indeed that there are mechanisms by which the path can
29:20
be ventured upon in a coherent way just yet.
29:27
Where has this come from? Well, from many strands which
29:31
have absolutely been discussed on the UK column over the past
29:34
couple of years. The National Preparedness
29:36
Commission having a a key role there, sowing the seeds of doubt
29:40
in the minds of people that we are in any way able to deal
29:44
with. A shock to the system.
29:46
Again, a graphic I've shown several times over the last few
29:49
months and all the various schemes by which we are given
29:53
the idea that we must have a a whole of society response to the
29:58
various emergencies that are said to beset us at least in the
30:02
future. The critical to that the the
30:04
right hand side being the National Security Strategy and
30:06
the Strategic Defence Review. All those documents came out
30:09
last year and it might be said that they point very, very
30:12
strongly to the idea of conscription.
30:15
And so this is in effect a step further making this connection
30:20
between not just food and national security, but between
30:23
your responsibility for the production of food in such a way
30:28
that national security can be guaranteed.
30:30
And it's looking very much like with certainly conscription at
30:33
the end there possibly not in actual fact people being signed
30:37
up for military service necessarily, but the adoption of
30:40
a whole of society approach and that the national interest is at
30:45
stake. And This is why the the the
30:48
COVID narrative, the COVID policy is so indicative of what
30:53
looks like it is going to be coming down the track now.
30:56
And the most obvious thing that I would say this points towards
30:59
is the use of digital identity in order to be able to control
31:04
and enforce the system that will push forward for the idea of
31:09
national security at all costs. Now, there's an irony in
31:14
reporting this from China, of course, because China in the
31:18
mainstream context, certainly in the United Kingdom, is always
31:22
presented as a threat to the United Kingdom.
31:24
And yet it's very clear when one reads between the lines of a
31:27
document like this. But in actual fact, all of these
31:31
supposed problems and threats are absolutely a problem of the
31:36
making of policy and indeed the connections between governments
31:40
and corporations from within the United Kingdom and indeed
31:44
influences from elsewhere. Well, there we are for a long
31:50
but very, very important report from Charles and, and his final
31:55
point, I think absolutely key that this agenda being brewed
32:01
and fermented and spread within the United Kingdom.
32:05
And this is the key point for our audience.
32:08
This has got to be dealt with before we can stop problems
32:12
outside the country and move on to stopping some of these
32:16
horrific wars overseas. It's understanding, No, You're
32:20
on the subject to the national emergency briefing.
32:23
Yes, more and more emergencies. And actually just just to echo
32:25
your thoughts on that final point, it was a great report
32:27
from Charles. But my view is that if the Anglo
32:30
American establishment are telling you that someone is your
32:32
enemy, then they're probably not and you should go and find out
32:35
more. All right, I'll just leave it
32:36
there. But the emergency briefing and
32:41
terror ultimately that we've been subjected to on a daily
32:44
basis is going to continue to ramp up.
32:46
Charles has just talked about some of the policies that have
32:48
been put in place over the past 12 months and the end of last
32:52
year. I talked about this event at
32:55
Westminster Hall, the national emergency briefing, suitably
32:59
dramatic, black and white. Let's just play a little clip to
33:03
remind ourselves of what was on the agenda.
33:08
The biggest concern is that we're facing the potential of an
33:11
ungovernable state unless government takes this seriously.
33:15
So I'm often. Asked could these European style
33:18
mega floods happen here? The honest answer is yes.
33:22
We're running an increasing risk of these tipping points,
33:25
including this critical one for the UK.
33:28
In London it's -20° C and three frozen months of the year, and
33:33
in Edinburgh it's -30° C and five and a half frozen months of
33:36
the year. And I'm talking about the
33:38
increasing pressure. On global food supplies in the
33:42
face of accelerating climate change and nature loss, and when
33:46
families can't afford to feed their children, societies
33:50
breakdown. We see this all the time.
33:53
I'm 63, I may not have that much longer left on the planet, but
33:57
I'm scared for my own life and future and I'm absolutely
34:00
terrified for that of my son. And you should be too.
34:03
A safer future is still possible, but it requires
34:06
urgency, coordination and sustained investment.
34:10
But there is also good opportunity if we do treat this
34:15
as the security challenge it is. The solutions make us stronger.
34:27
Total breakdown in society. Be afraid.
34:30
Be afraid we, the government will protect you.
34:35
It's becoming pretty obvious. And actually there's good
34:38
opportunity there as well, probably to make quite a bit of
34:40
money as well. But it's about increasing the
34:43
strength of the state, the centre. 1 of the things that
34:47
jumped out at me particularly from that was the idea that
34:50
these European style mega floods might happen here and there's a
34:54
real possibility of that. Are those the floods like the
34:57
ones in Valencia where the EU went around removing flood
35:00
barriers 100 and 30 or something like that in the preceding 5 or
35:06
10 years or? The OR the Environment Agency
35:08
not cleaning out the reins in Somerset Levels and flooding
35:13
resulting it's exact same policy then.
35:16
Exactly, exactly. So that was the national
35:19
emergency briefing. It was let out, as I reported
35:22
back in December, by Chris Packham CBE.
35:25
So coming right from the top level of the British Imperial
35:29
administration, heavy ink sock vibes feels very very 1984.
35:35
And this was for the benefit of MPs and and Lords, but they
35:40
really want to go after the mass population now.
35:43
So just last week they've introduced this parliamentary
35:46
call for a televised emergency briefing, right.
35:50
So as members of Parliament and peers, we have a responsibility
35:53
to ensure the public is well informed about risks facing the
35:56
nation. The scientific evidence is clear
35:59
that climate change and nature lost present a rising threat to
36:02
the UK's food security, health, infrastructure, economy and
36:04
national security. These are all the policy agenda
36:07
items that Charles just talked about.
36:09
These risks already affecting communities across the country
36:12
and will only grow in the years ahead.
36:14
We need a prime time televised emergency briefing across all of
36:19
the main channels. In order to drill this into
36:22
people's heads. Terrify the population, absolute
36:27
psychological abuse and frankly, torture going on here.
36:31
That's what they're they're trying to tee up.
36:34
This is I'll just remind people, I'll put a link to the previous
36:38
report. This a lot of the coverage from
36:42
the, the emergency briefing back here at the end of November did
36:46
feature Zach Polanski. I've I've said that I think that
36:48
he's chosen candidate for the, the, the for the British
36:52
establishment. I absolutely stand by that.
36:54
I think he's been selected. I think he's been chosen.
36:57
They literally said in the video, they put great people out
37:01
there and then and then had him sent a frame.
37:03
You know, it's, it's not exactly subtle and, and this is just
37:06
part of the propaganda push, but then behind the scenes, we've
37:12
got a whole bunch of organisations that are building
37:16
the capability for whole of society action.
37:22
So this is public, private and social sector coming together to
37:25
act in a coordinated fashion and to deliver what they call
37:29
resilience, right? So there are these terms that
37:31
are coming out now. Resilience is absolutely one of
37:33
them. Preparedness is another.
37:35
I'll just draw your attention to two organisations in this area
37:38
that we'll come back to more over the coming weeks, I'm sure.
37:41
So this is the National Preparedness Commission.
37:44
This was established in 2020, part of the COVID response, and
37:50
it exists to promote better preparedness for a major crisis
37:53
or incident. Heaven forbid that something
37:56
like that should happen. Certainly, you know, not
37:59
constructed by our own government.
38:02
And this is a public, private set up.
38:06
So it's sponsored by Google and Amazon and a bunch of other big
38:10
corporations. British Red Cross.
38:12
That's an interesting. Right.
38:13
So there's a load of charities in there.
38:14
So this is, this is, these are the networks they want.
38:17
They, they got access to all of the integrated capabilities of
38:20
the British establishment ultimately.
38:22
And it's chaired by this guy, Lord Harris of Harringay, who
38:26
was made a live peer in June 98 by Tony Blair.
38:29
He's been a chair of the Labour peers since 2012.
38:32
He was chair of the Fabian Society at Cambridge University
38:36
before becoming president of the Cambridge Union.
38:38
And then after university he was national chair of the Young
38:40
Fabian's and also served on the executive of the Fabian Society.
38:44
So this is Fabian operation to deliver preparedness and
38:49
resilience. So this is the power through
38:52
politics alongside and through politics.
38:55
Yeah, politics, corporations, they love working with big
38:58
companies because, well, just one example during COVID, if, if
39:04
you want to put signage up in all of the shops around the
39:07
country, it's much easier for you to do that.
39:09
If, if you can ring up Sainsbury's and Tesco and, and,
39:12
and Waitrose and you know, you've got about 5 or 10 phone
39:15
calls that you need to make and then you can push your message
39:17
everywhere, get your policy distributed.
39:19
If you've got loads of small independent people, then, well,
39:22
they might say no and we couldn't have that.
39:25
Just one more example. Again, I'll come back to this in
39:28
more detail over the coming weeks, but this jumped out of
39:31
me. The UK Resilience Academy and
39:34
this is was formerly the emergency plan in college and
39:39
interestingly enough for UK government entities, this is
39:41
operated by Serco, which is a FTSE listed corporation
39:45
significantly controlled by the royal family.
39:47
This is sort of East India Company style governance that we
39:50
all have to pay for and actually is corporatism, which is part of
39:55
the technical definition of fascism.
39:57
So this is what's currently in place in the UK right now.
40:00
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40:04
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40:25
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The first thing is we all have to understand what's being done.
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40:44
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42:46
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42:50
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42:58
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43:03
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43:07
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43:11
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43:15
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43:21
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44:03
Very pertinent with regard to today's UK column news.
44:09
And also we're just in extra going to be having a little
44:14
preview of a telephone call I had with Mike from Slough and
44:19
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44:23
So if you're curious as to what that is, join us for UK column
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Extra at the end of the news. Now this brings us back to Mike
44:34
Robinson. And Mike has also got a report
44:37
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and they have still been able to produce material for today's
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news. So we're very grateful for that.
44:52
Let's have a listen to what Mike Robinson had to say on the
44:55
subject of digital ID. In the middle of last month,
45:01
David Davis MP course, most recognised for championing
45:06
privacy issues I suppose, wrote to 17 government departments
45:11
asking them how much they plan to reduce their government the
45:14
department's budget to help fund the digital ID scheme.
45:17
Now most of the responses he received were basically
45:21
templated. It looked like costs in this
45:22
spending review period will be met within the existing spending
45:25
review settlements, is what it said, except for one response
45:29
and that came from the Home Office.
45:30
And Mike Tapp, who said the Cabinet Office, in collaboration
45:34
with the Home Office and other government departments, is
45:36
currently in the process of working through the policy and
45:40
design decisions that will underpin the digital ID.
45:43
While this activity is underway, it's not currently possible to
45:47
finalise cost estimations and the impact these will have on
45:51
the Home Office budget. So that was his position.
45:55
In other words, it remains to be seen whether or not costs will
45:58
be met within the existing spending review settlements,
46:02
which is what the template that answers seem to say.
46:05
But if we go back to November last year and the Office for
46:09
Budget Responsibility, in their response to the budget, they
46:14
forecast what they described as the unfunded cost of digital ID
46:18
cards at a provisional annual cost of 0 point £6 billion.
46:22
That means 1.8 billion over the next three years.
46:27
Since they've already said the digital ID is to be designed,
46:31
built and run by government in house government teams and not
46:35
by outsourcing to private companies, probably that price
46:40
is going to go up somewhat. Now if you remember a number of
46:45
years ago when the original design for digital ID was
46:48
released by the Tory government of the day, this was what it was
46:52
looking like. Basically a a wallet is how
46:56
they're describing it. And the wallet would be held and
46:59
securely on your device, your phone, and it would store
47:03
attributes. And this is what they called
47:05
trusted pieces of information about yourself.
47:08
So all these claims suggesting that nothing is happening until
47:11
it happens, that they're waiting for consult consultations to
47:14
take place, that that you know, this is something that's all in
47:17
the future. They're continuing to press
47:19
ahead regardless under the surface.
47:21
And remember, this design was what the previous Tory
47:24
government had in mind. Obviously, the Starmer regime
47:28
all change. And so everything changes,
47:30
except it doesn't change because here we go.
47:33
Uh, this is exactly what they're going to roll out.
47:36
Uh, they have had this gov.uk wallet in beta test since the
47:41
middle of last year. It's about to go live in the not
47:43
too distant future. Uh, and, uh, they've told us
47:47
that the first thing that we can do, uh, is to get a digital
47:50
version of our driving licence. So Brits will be given the
47:53
option to use a digital version of their driver's licence from
47:56
their phone to easily prove their age when buying age
47:59
restricted items online and in person, as well as proving their
48:02
right to drive. So then you talk about this
48:05
digital driving licence and then it's and as well as.
48:11
It's all the same theme and it's so important because this, this
48:16
is the massive attack on the UK population unfolding, all fear
48:22
based but all around know for the state knowing everything
48:26
about us. Through the digital ID system,
48:29
the state will know everything about you because that is the
48:32
way the ultimate control can come in.
48:36
Let's see the second part of Mike's clip.
48:40
No mention of age restricted content on there and the
48:43
question is will the decision by the House of Lords to amend the
48:46
Children's Well Being in Schools Bill to ban social media to
48:51
under sixteens Dr demand for digital ID?
48:54
Well, the answer to that is probably yes, at least if this
48:57
is any indication with Ireland pushing digital ID verified
49:01
social media access in the EU, clearly no more anonymous
49:06
Internet use is very key agenda item coming up with the not too
49:11
distant future. But as the Register reported
49:13
last week, fewer than 1% of eligible veterans have applied
49:17
for the digital version of their veterans ID card here in the UK
49:20
since its launch in October. So the question is, do the
49:24
adults in the room just not see the benefits and the aim here?
49:28
It's clearly to use children once again to drive an unpopular
49:32
policy. And by the way, Canada has
49:35
joined the growing list of countries banning children from
49:38
social media apparently, or least in work heading in that
49:40
direction. They've announced their heading
49:42
in that direction at the moment. Now just looking internationally
49:46
then to see what the the lie of the land is, more and more
49:49
companies joining the fray to zoom.
49:52
But one, this is Seon. They describe themselves as the
49:55
command centre for real time fraud prevention and they
49:59
announced the launch of an AI part identity verification
50:02
solution. And so that is yet another
50:05
country joining the fray. But in terms of national
50:08
policies then let's just have a look around the world a little
50:11
bit. We have Pakistan has just
50:15
announced it's enabled facial recognition based biometric
50:18
verification via the Pack ID app, which they say allows
50:22
citizens to obtain digital verification certificates.
50:26
In Hong Kong, the Digital Policy Office has reported that their I
50:30
Am Smart digital identity platform is now being used by
50:35
over 4 million people and provides access, they say, to
50:40
1300 public services. Brazil, their Federal Police has
50:45
confirmed that airlines from the end of January must validate
50:51
every departing passengers QR code identity on the Gulf Dot BR
50:54
platform before issuing a boarding pass.
50:57
And in Malaysia, the In fact, since mid January, the Malaysian
51:01
Ministry of Home Affairs is using My digital ID as a single
51:06
login system for Malaysian citizens.
51:09
This does not apply to foreigners, just to citizens
51:11
accessing the my Nicey. Maybe it's pronounced my nice,
51:16
I'm not sure. Mobile application.
51:18
Now my nice is Malaysia's new AI part digital platform, which
51:23
they claim aims to enhance border security and streamline
51:27
Immigration Services using facial recognition and QR code
51:31
clearance for faster traveller processing.
51:34
So this is for absolutely the same policy as Brazil.
51:38
And so undoubtedly we'll start seeing this being rolled out to
51:41
to other countries as well. So that's where we're at with a
51:46
quick round up of the digital ID situation in the UK and abroad.
51:51
This is clearly a topic that isn't going to go away anytime
51:54
soon. Well, Mike absolutely said it
51:58
there. It isn't going to go away
52:00
because these are the government, government's
52:02
priorities. So you drive in UK at the
52:05
moment, the roads dangerous with potholes, the flooding is not
52:10
under control. It's not supposed to be because
52:13
the policies that we've taken our audience through in UK
52:17
column news today, these are the ones that the government wants
52:20
to enforce because this is part of the globalist agenda.
52:24
Now let's focus in again on Keir Starmer.
52:28
Should we trust Keir Starmer? Personally, I don't think so.
52:31
But let's have a little look at full fact from June 2020.
52:35
Here's the headline. Keir Starmer led the CPS when it
52:38
did not charge Jimmy Savile, but he wasn't the reviewing lawyer.
52:43
Mr Starmer was head of the CPS when the decision was made not
52:46
to prosecute Savile, but he was not the reviewing lawyer for the
52:50
case. An official investigation
52:52
commissioned later by Starmer criticised both prosecutors and
52:57
police for their handling of the allegations.
52:59
Well what a position to be in. So really full fact there clears
53:04
Keir Starmer and rubber stamps the official narrative.
53:08
Nothing to see. Nobody knew that Jimmy Savile
53:11
was doing what he was doing. And of course, this is exactly
53:14
the same line with Epstein. If we focus back in on Full
53:18
Facts though, it's moving into some pretty interesting
53:21
territory. So let's have a look at the CEOA
53:24
gentleman called Chris Morris, and he said recently that Full
53:28
Facts is delighted to announce the appointment of Sally Walker
53:31
as the charity's new chair. Sally's a former senior GCHQ
53:35
leader and LED the creation of the UK's National Cyber Force.
53:40
She now works with organisations on navigating rapid
53:43
technological change and disruption.
53:47
So we're controlling the truth narrative with people whose
53:51
agenda is clearly to break the country down.
53:55
That's the way it would appear to many people.
53:57
Or the man or the Clapham omnibus.
53:59
Certainly so as can we look at this a bit deeper?
54:05
Well, if we have a look at Chris Morris himself, he said that
54:09
he's chief executive, sorry, chief executive of the UK's
54:13
independent. Well, roughly, fact checking
54:16
charity, bad information promotes hate, it damages
54:20
people's health and it hurts democracy and we fight against
54:24
it in different ways. I was a senior BBC correspondent
54:28
for three decades and of course the BBC squeaky clean.
54:33
So this is the lady, she said. It's clear to me that full facts
54:37
work is more essential than ever and I'm excited to help the
54:41
organisation with the next phase of their strategic growth and
54:46
impact. It sounds like a global
54:48
corporation inside some news checking organisation and we'll
54:53
just end with a little video clip of Sally talking about her
54:58
expertise. I'm Sally Walker, I was a
55:03
government official for 25 years in national security and now I'm
55:07
on the board of with You. With me, being a woman in cyber
55:10
and having a leadership responsibility has been an
55:13
absolute privilege. Ironically, because people focus
55:16
on the tech, it's all been about the people.
55:19
It's about the teams that I've worked with, the places I've
55:21
been, the experiences I've had, and as I look back over a career
55:25
of 25 years, almost all of it has been absolutely brilliant.
55:29
The cyber workforce is changing. It's more diverse, both in terms
55:34
of the society it represents, but mostly in terms of cognitive
55:38
diversity. Different people thinking
55:40
differently about the modern problems, the complexity of the
55:43
world that we live in. So I'm going to suggest a pretty
55:49
woke agenda there coming into how we establish fact and truth
55:55
and connections. Presumably back to her old
55:58
organisations. But let's just end by what full
56:03
fact had to say about this lady. And it's said that over the
56:07
course of her career, Sally has advised UK and US governments on
56:11
cyber policy, data integrity and Internet international
56:16
information threats. She's provided regular
56:19
commentary and analysis to media on AI and misinformation and
56:25
design training for companies on AI readiness and ethical
56:30
leadership. So full fact independent moving
56:34
forward, it's going to grow the truth empire.
56:37
But don't worry because it's all under ethical leadership or you,
56:42
reassured Ben. Oh yes, it's great to have
56:46
someone who understands this guardrails and resilience.
56:50
Keep us safe. And absolutely yes, from those
56:55
alternative facts on the Internet.
56:56
Crazy. I'm sure we'll be talking about
56:58
her much more over the coming months, right?
57:02
I think we should. OK.
57:04
So we're going to wrap up. I think maybe we were something
57:08
after this. I'm not sure.
57:09
We'll see how I do for time, but we're going to talk about policy
57:12
profession. God, that sounds exciting,
57:14
doesn't it? This is how the civil service
57:16
has been captured. We're going to have a glimpse
57:17
into how sausages are made in the back end of the British
57:20
government. And let's have a little look at
57:22
some of the characters involved. There's some funky visuals from
57:26
their website. Policy profession set up about
57:30
10 years ago. And it's there to build
57:32
capability and develop the right skills for policy professionals
57:36
across the civil service. Policy meaning plan of action.
57:39
So what we're going to do, these are the people who actually
57:42
decide what we're going to do inside government.
57:45
We thought it was politicians who you voted for.
57:47
Oh no, no, no, it's, it's these people and the organisation, the
57:51
the people who work within this organisation, including this
57:55
lady up until recently. So this is Dame Tamara
57:57
Finkelstein. She is the was head of
58:01
government policy profession into a few months ago.
58:04
She's senior sponsor of the Civil Service Jewish Network.
58:07
She was permanent secretary at Defra from 2019 to 2025.
58:11
S Charles was talking earlier about some of the, the terror
58:14
messaging coming out of Defra. This is an organisation that
58:19
Dame Tamara used to be in charge of and you can see her here
58:23
speaking at a joint event between Policy Profession and
58:26
Institute for Government to Brian's been talking about loads
58:29
recently, which is funded by Lord Sainsbury and they're
58:32
rewiring the British state at the moment.
58:35
And this is one of those overlap points where you have civil
58:40
service organisation like Policy Profession and the Institute of
58:45
Government and then also we can get that image back up on
58:47
screen. You've got Paddy Valance over
58:49
there on the left hand side of the stage who when this image
58:52
was taken was working as an advisor to the Blair Foundation
58:56
amongst others. Might use an interesting comment
58:59
in his report a moment ago. It's all change apart from there
59:02
isn't any change and the reason for that part of the fact that
59:05
all the politicians were the same people.
59:07
If you look inside the civil service, this is what you.
59:10
Yeah, right. So here we have Lord Case on the
59:12
left, who was the former Cabinet secretary, head of the civil
59:16
service appointed by Boris, who left that position at the end of
59:20
last year and was replaced by the chap on the right hand side
59:23
there. That's Chris Wormald.
59:25
Sorry, Sir. Chris Wormald, who at the time
59:28
this image was taken a couple of years ago, was permanent
59:30
secretary of the Department of Health.
59:31
So he oversaw UK government delivery and policy through the
59:36
COVID era. And This is why nothing changes,
59:40
because actually behind the scenes, it's these people who
59:42
are doing everything. They'll do the top job.
59:44
And then Simon Casey's got shunted off to the Lords.
59:47
Chris Wermo comes into position, no doubt.
59:49
He'll probably end up going to the Lords at some point in the
59:51
not too distant future. And the whole thing just
59:54
trundles along. That image was taken at Civil
59:57
Service Live. They're fantastic, exciting live
1:00:01
event which interestingly enough, was sponsored by
1:00:05
Accenture. Who are a World Economic Forum
1:00:09
strategic partner? All a coincidence ban.
1:00:12
Yeah, I'm sure there's no quid pro quo that goes on there at
1:00:15
all. It's all completely above board,
1:00:17
not making any kind of suggestions at all that anything
1:00:19
improper is happening here. I just think it's interesting
1:00:22
that you've got a massive international technology and
1:00:26
management consulting firm that just happens to deliver 10s,
1:00:29
potentially hundreds of millions of pounds a year in UK
1:00:32
government contracts sponsoring the civil service event.
1:00:35
Do you not think they could just do the event without any
1:00:36
sponsorship? Well, apparently we can't
1:00:38
anymore because the obviously the corporates are locked into
1:00:42
the government system. This is this is how Bill Gates
1:00:46
can walk in and out of Downing St.
1:00:47
Yes, absolutely. But they're not just locked in
1:00:50
by the corporates, they're also ideologically captured.
1:00:52
So we can see here. Centre left on this image is Sir
1:00:57
Jeff Morgan, the former editor of Marxism Today, the founder of
1:01:01
Demos, who also shared an office with Common Purpose Tight
1:01:04
friends with Julian Middleton from back in the mid 90s, with a
1:01:07
bunch of other dignitaries at that event.
1:01:10
Also, you've got the Behavioural Insights team in the mix.
1:01:12
So here's David Halpern at a an event at King's College in
1:01:18
London, which is designed to target and recruit students
1:01:24
coming out of King's College into the civil service to become
1:01:27
policy professionals helping their the man who came up with
1:01:31
the nudge units and the Mindspace document that we talk
1:01:34
about all the time when UK column, which is absolutely
1:01:37
infected every single area of the UK government.
1:01:40
I think there's over a nearly 100 nudge units all around the
1:01:45
UK government, not just in central but out in the in the
1:01:49
regions as well. Halpin was the man who who
1:01:52
instigated that process at the behest of David Cameron.
1:01:55
Before that he was working for Tony Blair.
1:01:57
Again, you can see here, Labour, Tory doesn't make any
1:02:00
difference. These are the people actually
1:02:01
calling the shots behind the scenes.
1:02:03
Also very closely linked into the London School of Economics
1:02:07
and you can see here Dame Tamara with Sir Anthony Selden at the
1:02:13
10th anniversary of the, what was it, the Executive Masters in
1:02:19
Public policy to the 10th anniversary of that of that
1:02:22
which is actually offered to members of public of policy
1:02:26
profession. So actually people in the civil
1:02:28
service get promoted to go to the LSE, The LSE obviously
1:02:33
founded by the Fabian Society. So this is the the kind of
1:02:37
milieu that these people are circulating within.
1:02:39
And Anthony Selden's an interesting chap.
1:02:42
Let's have a little listen to this clip of him talking, which
1:02:46
was distributed through one of the policy profession social
1:02:49
media channels. My name is Anthony Selden and I
1:02:54
have such a fun job I write. Books.
1:02:57
About Prime Ministers 8 so far. I'm writing Sunak at 10 at the
1:03:03
moment, and then I'm going to write Starmer at 10.
1:03:06
Now here's my provocation. If all those prime ministers
1:03:10
came into Downing St on their first day and their first
1:03:14
question was what will history say about me?
1:03:17
What even will Anthony Selden say about me then?
1:03:21
They will be much better Prime ministers by thinking in time,
1:03:27
thinking historically now. How can you help them be the
1:03:32
best they can be? How can everyone in their own
1:03:34
departments be the best that they can be?
1:03:37
Find out more. Come and hear me at the Policy
1:03:41
Festival. Look forward to seeing you.
1:03:53
Well, astonishing, astonishing Ben I I don't have, there's not
1:03:57
much good I can say about any of the prime ministers that we've
1:04:00
had in very well, I was going to say recent years, but in fact.
1:04:04
Any of our lifetimes? Many.
1:04:06
Years. But for him to say that they'll
1:04:10
be better if they pay attention to Sir Anthony Selden, I reckon
1:04:14
it's just beyond the pale. But he talks about holding them
1:04:18
to account and that's a key thing because if the millions of
1:04:21
people in UK stood up to hold their Prime Minister to account,
1:04:26
things would change very quickly.
1:04:28
Absolutely, yes. What would Anthony Selden say
1:04:31
about me? What an arrogant thing to say,
1:04:33
Sir Anthony. I hope you won't mind me
1:04:36
pointing that out. So what's this all about?
1:04:39
So I mean the LSE in King's College, it's all about scooping
1:04:42
up the the bright young things from university and letting them
1:04:46
loose in the corridors of power once they have been fully
1:04:49
indoctrinated in the policy profession standards.
1:04:54
There they are in a meeting room at one of these convenings that.
1:04:57
They have controlled meeting. Absolutely.
1:05:01
Well, they're kind of being lectured to here, right?
1:05:03
And what are they learning about?
1:05:06
They're learning about this. And these are the policy
1:05:07
professional standards. By the way.
1:05:09
It's amazing what you can find lying around on the Internet.
1:05:11
I mean, this is, these are the inner workings of the civil
1:05:13
service basically. And you can just go provide
1:05:16
links, you can go and look at these and download them and read
1:05:18
them yourself. But just a few little clips from
1:05:20
this. So the policy profession
1:05:22
standards are a competency framework for all UK civil
1:05:25
servants involved in policy work and operating in a policy making
1:05:28
environment. Again, policy is what we're
1:05:30
going to do next. These are the people coming up
1:05:32
with that. The standards framework
1:05:33
describes the essential features of policy in any administration.
1:05:38
Yeah, it doesn't matter who's in power.
1:05:40
This is how we create policy in any administration.
1:05:43
They've been redesigned recently, been updated in the
1:05:48
last 12 months, and this marks the first time the policy
1:05:51
profession will have a common capability framework right
1:05:53
across the civil service, with shared expectations in every
1:05:56
nation. So this is about standardisation
1:05:58
onto a single operational platform across the whole civil
1:06:02
service, from top to bottom, left to right, England,
1:06:04
Scotland, Ireland, Wales. This framework for policy
1:06:06
practise what policy is and what skills it involves.
1:06:09
It's also useful throughout the public sector when we continue
1:06:12
to build partnerships across public services and tiers of
1:06:15
government, breaking down barriers between different parts
1:06:19
of government, different departments in order to make it
1:06:21
easier to implement single policies.
1:06:24
Let's just have a quick look at some of the the detail here.
1:06:28
So they've got a process that they go through from strategy to
1:06:30
democracy to delivery. And the few things that jumped
1:06:34
out at me first one is this idea of participation and engagement.
1:06:38
So there's loads of discussion about this at the moment.
1:06:40
That is basically deliberative processes.
1:06:43
So they're embedding that into the policy to development
1:06:46
process working internationally. Why does the UK civil service
1:06:49
need to operate internationally? It doesn't, does it?
1:06:53
It does. It does.
1:06:54
If your agenda is to create a globalist system, you lock each
1:06:58
country's civil service into another one.
1:07:02
This is this is what the partnership arrangements are
1:07:05
about. This is what the memorandum of
1:07:07
understanding with Israel, for example.
1:07:09
This is what they're designed to do is lock countries together.
1:07:13
Yep, absolutely. If we can get that back on
1:07:15
screen quickly, we can see the the need for multi level
1:07:19
government. So this idea that there's
1:07:20
separation between different parts of government, devolution,
1:07:23
for example, it's not devolution, it's actually
1:07:25
integration and then commercial on the right hand side.
1:07:29
So a lot of this is about buying services from outside providers
1:07:33
and development of these public private marketplaces, which is a
1:07:37
lot of what we talk about here on the column.
1:07:39
How is this being enabled? Again?
1:07:41
Amazing. They just put this stuff online.
1:07:43
You can just go and grab this. We'll provide links as to where
1:07:45
the where this stuff was stored. They need infrastructure, so
1:07:48
access to data, a lab in each department, policy lab in each
1:07:52
department. It's going to be funded
1:07:54
centrally. There's a need for leadership
1:07:58
and an awareness of what's going on across all the different
1:08:00
component parts of the system. They use this term boundary
1:08:04
spanning, you can see there, which is about better
1:08:06
integration with all government functions.
1:08:09
And for me that is about that's breaking down silos, leading
1:08:12
beyond authorities is all absolutely common purpose
1:08:15
principles. And then they they want to make
1:08:17
sure that this is embedded and understood across the whole of
1:08:21
government, as we've already touched on.
1:08:23
And what's driving this? Where's it coming from?
1:08:25
What's going on behind the scenes?
1:08:27
Well, funnily enough this picture was taken in 2023 and
1:08:32
you can see in the back there David Cameron.
1:08:36
Big Society and. The big society, not big
1:08:38
government. Which many people believed was
1:08:41
just a flash in the pan because it was put into a brochure by
1:08:45
the Tory party. It circulated for a few months
1:08:49
and then it disappeared. And of course, later Cameron
1:08:53
left politics. When he didn't, he was in
1:08:55
politics but working through charities.
1:08:58
Big society was a big plan. It never went away and This is
1:09:03
why we can now see it pinned to the wall of this particular
1:09:07
meeting. Absolutely.
1:09:08
Yeah, Incredible. Again.
1:09:10
Well, all change apart from no change.
1:09:13
Indeed, we must bring you today's UK called news to a
1:09:17
close. We have had an extended news
1:09:20
because we think there's so much that is important that's going
1:09:23
on. Most of our news today focused
1:09:26
on the attack coming from within UK itself and until people see
1:09:32
this and recognise it, it's impossible to deal with it.
1:09:35
So you've been given the information today in the news,
1:09:38
the sources, the images, the documents, spread the word with
1:09:42
other people, warn them that they're under attack.
1:09:45
And that attack is coming from within our own governmental
1:09:49
system on the people of this country.
1:09:52
And I want to end today's news by a huge thank you to somebody
1:09:55
that pointed out that every time there's an attempt to attack
1:10:00
people, to break people apart, they're normally drawn into
1:10:05
groups, Black and white, Christian, Muslim, immigrants,
1:10:10
indigenous people. It's always a label.
1:10:13
And it appears that the latest attack is on free media itself
1:10:18
by labelling people as being in particular camps.
1:10:22
I think this is a dangerous precedent because we all need to
1:10:26
be working together. That is the only way we can
1:10:29
stand up against such a powerful global system.
1:10:33
But we will be reporting further on what's now stirring the free
1:10:39
media pot to create angst and fear and suspicion amongst many
1:10:47
good people who are trying to get good, accurate counter news
1:10:51
out. We'll end there.
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