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UK Column News — 6th July 2026 · UK Column Radio

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon.
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Speaker 2: It's Monday, sixth July twenty twenty six, just after one
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Speaker 2: o'clock and you are watching UK column News. I'm your host,
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Speaker 2: Ben Rubin, and I'm delighted to be joined in the
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Speaker 2: studio by mister Brian Gerrishado O'Brien.
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Speaker 3: Pleasure to be here against the backdrop of stunning plymouthair
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Speaker 3: and a very blue sea.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, beautiful day in Plymouth, beautiful day across the whole
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Speaker 2: of the UK. I think by the sounds of it,
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Speaker 2: we've got a pack show today. We're going to be
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Speaker 2: looking at the secret networks or female leaders who are
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Speaker 2: coordinating the global climate change agenda. We're going to be
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Speaker 2: looking at increasing state crackdowns on free speech in pursuit
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Speaker 2: of the protection of democracy, supposedly the latest in the
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Speaker 2: Russia Ukraine conflict, including a look at the increasingly parlous
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Speaker 2: state of the UK armed forces, and also examining Andy
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Speaker 2: Burnham's concerning but probably unsurprising proximity to issues relating to
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Speaker 2: child sexual abuse. Before we get into that, though, let's
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Speaker 2: start by talking about the common good, which is a
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Speaker 2: term that we're going to hear much more of over
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Speaker 2: the coming months and probably years. Now as we went
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Speaker 2: on to air last week, Andy Burnham, the new MP
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Speaker 2: for Makerfield, was delivering his remarks up in Manchester wearing
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Speaker 2: his Manchester clothes.
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Speaker 1: He's got a T shirt on, so it's.
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Speaker 2: Informal and outside the normal discaws value, but still professional
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Speaker 2: of course, and he covered a lot essentially talking about
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Speaker 2: max devolution, even to the point of moving some of
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Speaker 2: the functions of Downing Street to Manchester, which is an
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Speaker 2: extraordinary change which he's got no mandate for. But you know,
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Speaker 2: this is the state of politics in twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 2: I definitely recommend going to watch the full speech. I'm
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Speaker 2: going to focus in today on this quote, which he
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Speaker 2: actually repeated at the end of the speech. So this
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Speaker 2: is good growth in every postcode, hope in every heart
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Speaker 2: and Brian is actually tearing up as I said. That's
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Speaker 2: really got you in the fields, isn't it.
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Speaker 3: Very emotive stuff, very very cynical of course, but playing
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Speaker 3: on the heart strings.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: So I'm going to dissect this statement because it's clearly
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Speaker 2: been focus grouped to death and I think we're probably
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Speaker 2: going to hear this a lot coming out from Berman.
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Speaker 2: So let's just focus first on the good growth bit.
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Speaker 2: And who better to talk to us about that than
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Speaker 2: Mariana Matsakato from UCL who's going to tell us about
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Speaker 2: her new books, The Common Good, Economy.
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Speaker 4: And Traditional Economic Theory. The public good is framed as
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Speaker 4: just a correction basically, for something that the private sector
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Speaker 4: is not doing. So we need the public sector to
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Speaker 4: come in and fill the gap, whether it's clean water
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Speaker 4: or defense systems. The common good that I've been thinking
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Speaker 4: about a lot, is really about transforming this correction mindset
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Speaker 4: to an objective mindset where the how matters as much
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Speaker 4: as the what. This new way of thinking about the
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Speaker 4: common good, in my opinion, has to actually be founded
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Speaker 4: on top of some pillars that we hold the system accountable.
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Speaker 4: And the five different pillars that I've been thinking about
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Speaker 4: our first direction and purpose not surprising given all my
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Speaker 4: work on missions. Second, the admission that this is also
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Speaker 4: about co creation and participation. This is the police part
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Speaker 4: of Aristotle's that theory of the common good, not just
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Speaker 4: the tellos the goal, but the police the how. The
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Speaker 4: third is also about sharing sharing knowledge, especially in the
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Speaker 4: twenty first century where we talk so much about collective intelligence.
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Speaker 4: How do we share the knowledge along the way? How
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Speaker 4: do we bang heads together, but also structure that for
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Speaker 4: example to patent pools, but also a knowledge sharing agreements
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Speaker 4: in these collaborations. The fourth is sharing not just the
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Speaker 4: knowledge but the rewards, the profits. How do we socialize
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Speaker 4: both risks and rewards or as a good friend of mine,
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Speaker 4: the Prime Minister in Barbados says, share the burden, share
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Speaker 4: the bounty. And the fifth, very important, is about transparency
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Speaker 4: and accountability. If we don't have the data sharing in
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Speaker 4: terms of what's actually happening in the system, we can't
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Speaker 4: then actually hold it accountable who's doing what and why.
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Speaker 2: So that is the common good economy as described by
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Speaker 2: Mariana Matsakato, who is the Professor of Economics and Innovation
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Speaker 2: and Public Value at the University College of London. And
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Speaker 2: this is her new book that she's just written, and
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Speaker 2: I'm going to just put apart some of the language
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Speaker 2: a little bit because I think it's quite important for
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Speaker 2: us to do that. The first thing she talked about
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Speaker 2: there is that the common good economy is about establishing
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Speaker 2: a market correction, and that basically means the market isn't
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Speaker 2: doing what she wants, so she's going to make the
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Speaker 2: market do what she wants. She talks about this idea
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Speaker 2: of filling the gap and then used the analogy of
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Speaker 2: water and defense systems. So this, for me is this
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Speaker 2: idea of the welfare state and the warfare state. There
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Speaker 2: are two wings to this system. One is about welfare,
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Speaker 2: one's about warfare. She's talking about the welfare side of it,
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Speaker 2: but it's intrinsically linked to warfare, and she's kind of
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Speaker 2: explicitly linked the two things together. They're talking about water
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Speaker 2: and defense systems. She has this objective mindset, which basically
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Speaker 2: I think means there's only one way of doing things,
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Speaker 2: and that's Marianna's way of doing things. And she wants
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Speaker 2: to hold the system accountable, which basically means.
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Speaker 1: Tell the market what to do.
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Speaker 2: And she's coming into this from the kind of public
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Speaker 2: sector side of things, and basically this is a wolf
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Speaker 2: in sheep's clothing. She's at UCL, not the Line School
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Speaker 2: of Economics where the favoring society is from, but it's
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Speaker 2: all the same stuff.
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Speaker 3: And I'll just add to that, Ben, I think many
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Speaker 3: people might just think she's a lady who's written a book.
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Speaker 3: She's got some knowledge and she's written a book and
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Speaker 3: now she's advertising her book with a bit of name
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Speaker 3: dropping my good friend the Prime Minister of Barbados. But
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Speaker 3: in reality this is one of a number of very
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Speaker 3: powerful women backed by some immensely powerful people. So this
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Speaker 3: isn't just a book. This is policy being revealed from
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Speaker 3: a different direction, and it's something people really need to
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Speaker 3: pay attention. Don't expect the BBC or the Labor Party
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Speaker 3: or the Conservative Party to be revealing policy. It's going
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Speaker 3: to come from a different direction. This is key part
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Speaker 3: of Andy Burnham's new ten.
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Speaker 1: Really absolutely so.
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Speaker 2: This is the intellectual foundation for what they're proposing to
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Speaker 2: do in government. Right, So what she's saying is is
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Speaker 2: essentially translates directly into government policy. And she's being platformed
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Speaker 2: the UN, the World Economic Forum, everywhere that you'd care
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Speaker 2: to mention, and occupying a very senior position inside the
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Speaker 2: British academic establishment and essentially set in the direction for
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Speaker 2: the current Labor government ultimately. And she talks about this
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Speaker 2: common good system being built on five pillars, and again
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Speaker 2: I'm just going to translate these a little bit for you.
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Speaker 2: The first one she said was purpose and directionality. One
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Speaker 2: thing you should notice though, is these people they use
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Speaker 2: really strange words for really simple things. Directionality is not
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Speaker 2: a real word, it's just direction. This is a way
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Speaker 2: of making you feel intellectually inferior to them, basically, But
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Speaker 2: what does that actually mean? Miss, We set policy, She
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Speaker 2: sets the policy. The next pillar is co creation and participation.
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Speaker 2: And I used to run co creation processes for corporations
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Speaker 2: and sincely what that is is a stage managed way
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Speaker 2: of getting what you want right, So she controlled the process,
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Speaker 2: We control the process.
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Speaker 1: The next pillar is collective.
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Speaker 2: Learning and knowledge sharing, which I translate to we define truth.
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Speaker 2: And she also talked about patent sharing. So this is
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Speaker 2: basically giving her access to intellectual property. Yeah, like, show
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Speaker 2: me what you know and what you can do so
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Speaker 2: that we can do something with it for the common good.
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Speaker 3: So that we can take it. And I can say
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Speaker 3: when the Government Office of the Regions was in force
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Speaker 3: back in Tony Blair's era, that organization with the development agencies,
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Speaker 3: was very good at taking people's intellectual property. One day
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Speaker 3: somebody had a business plan and the next day it
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Speaker 3: was taken over by the government. There were a number
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Speaker 3: of evidence stories about this happening.
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Speaker 1: For the common good. This is just formalizing it, absolutely. Yes.
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Speaker 2: Next pillar is access for all and reward sharing, which
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Speaker 2: basically means private capital wins. And I talked about Manchesterism
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Speaker 2: last week about the idea that actually the real beneficiaries
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Speaker 2: of all of this have been capital investors and people
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Speaker 2: working in central government departments. No real benefit to the
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Speaker 2: people of the UK at all, that you might get
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Speaker 2: a job if you're lucky and you're not too critical
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Speaker 2: of the government. And then the final pillar of the
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Speaker 2: five is transparency and accountability, which basically means total surveillance.
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Speaker 2: That's what she described there, who's doing what and why.
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Speaker 3: The average person reads that and they think, oh, well,
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Speaker 3: this is them saying we recognize we've got to be accountable. No, no, no,
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Speaker 3: this means that you are going to be suppressed so
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Speaker 3: that you know nothing and then nothing you do know
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Speaker 3: is going to be fully revealed. So it's a complete
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Speaker 3: inversion of the truth.
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Speaker 2: Of what they're of how they're even describing it to
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Speaker 2: which is which is pretty much part of the course
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Speaker 2: at the moment in politics. So that's good growth, right,
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Speaker 2: So it's going to deliver the things that we've just
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Speaker 2: described in the way that we've described it. Now that's
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Speaker 2: going to be delivered according to Andy Burnham into every postcode.
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Speaker 2: So this is every single postcode in the country, every neighborhood.
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Speaker 2: On extension of that, which is a term that we
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Speaker 2: talked a lot about recently, and to understand this a
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Speaker 2: bit better, let's watch this film from that we're right
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Speaker 2: here about neighborhood governance.
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Speaker 5: Families face many challenges at once housing, rising cough, mental
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Speaker 5: health issues, and childcare, but support services don't always reflect reality.
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Speaker 5: They often fragmented and hard to navigate it, meaning busy
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Speaker 5: parents can miss out on vital support, putting their children's
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Speaker 5: healthy development at risk. A community covenant is one way
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Speaker 5: to change this. It brings real people, community groups, businesses,
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Speaker 5: councils together as e wills to make decisions that solve
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Speaker 5: problems they agree priorities and develop solutions that fit the
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Speaker 5: local family's needs. By sharing power in this way, decision
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Speaker 5: making becomes truly collaborative and draws on everybody's insights and ideas,
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Speaker 5: resulting in happier and healthier neighborhoods. It's a practical, community
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Speaker 5: powered approach that can work across the country. Our government
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Speaker 5: plans to introduce new neighborhood governance arrangements across England join
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Speaker 5: our car to ensure new arrangements put communities in the
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Speaker 5: driving seat, not just politicians.
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Speaker 3: That's a cartoon, Ben, But what our audience watching today
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Speaker 3: is a sneak preview bya The UK column of what
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Speaker 3: Burnham's policy is. This is already cooked up. It's on
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Speaker 3: the hot tray, ready to be served up to the population.
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Speaker 3: You're not going to hear the BBC talking about it
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Speaker 3: in this level of detail or any of the other
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Speaker 3: mainstream media. But this, in a cartoon, is where government
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Speaker 3: and then constitutional and issues of law are going to
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Speaker 3: go so.
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Speaker 2: Total centralized control and everything right down to a neighborhood level.
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Speaker 3: And it's all for your best interest because that cartoon
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Speaker 3: began by saying effectively that families couldn't survive without the
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Speaker 3: help of the states. Exactly, they need social services, they
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Speaker 3: need the childcare because otherwise you just fall apart if
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Speaker 3: the state's not there, and then and then the rest
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Speaker 3: leads on. It's very cynical, very very dangerous, very dirty.
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Speaker 1: In fact, indeed it is.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and actually you're right the way that they dress
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Speaker 2: it up as a child development issue ultimately.
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Speaker 3: And another adults in fact, if they succumb to this.
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Speaker 1: Yes, well it is.
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Speaker 2: It really infantilizes the population and it does, as you say,
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Speaker 2: it kind of positions the state as this it's almost
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Speaker 2: like as a as a kind of godlike entity that
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Speaker 2: has to be involved in every single part of your life.
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Speaker 3: As you can't cope because you can't co which is
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Speaker 3: a little individual and you can't cope without a centralized
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Speaker 3: government exactly.
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Speaker 2: So this is that was one of a short series
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Speaker 2: of four films which will provide links to from this organization.
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Speaker 2: This is we're right here one of many groups operating
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Speaker 2: in this space, supported by a bunch of charitable foundations,
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Speaker 2: people that we're very familiar with, certainly here at UK
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Speaker 2: column Esme Fairburn, Joseph Browntree Trust, the Young Foundation, but
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Speaker 2: also some Cameron.
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Speaker 1: Era entities as well.
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Speaker 2: So Local Trust and Locality you can see on the
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Speaker 2: top right hand side there partner list. Those are big
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Speaker 2: society initiatives from way back in twenty eleven actually, so
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Speaker 2: Local Trust was founded in twenty eleven. So this has
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Speaker 2: been in trained for at least fifteen years across administrations,
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Speaker 2: and this is something the UK Conum have been reporting
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Speaker 2: on pretty much since the inception of this whole thing.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Yeah, So this is this is it playing out.
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Speaker 2: The NHS importantly is at the core of all of
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Speaker 2: this and a lot of the neighborhood type organizations that
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Speaker 2: we've been reporting on that I've in particularly been reporting
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Speaker 2: on myself over the past year and a half. I'll
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Speaker 2: just draw your attention again to this one. So this
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Speaker 2: is Collaborate CIIC, which is founded by this guy, Lord
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Speaker 2: Victor Adaba Wiley, who amongst other things, is chair of
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Speaker 2: the NHS Confederation, collaborate and put together this document last year.
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Speaker 2: This is the building blocks of place based working as
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Speaker 2: another term. You hear a lot of place that just
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Speaker 2: means a local area exactly, post code, neighborhood, whatever it
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Speaker 2: might be. And you can see here that they've mapped
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Speaker 2: out as I showed on the news last year, they've
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Speaker 2: mapped out the country all the different organizations, different groups,
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Speaker 2: right the way down to the neighborhood level, with the
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Speaker 2: NHS being at the core of this. And this is
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Speaker 2: obviously reflected in NHS policies. So again are reported on
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Speaker 2: this last year Neighborhood Health Guidelines delivering a neighborhood health service.
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Speaker 2: And it's not just the NHS. It's every component part
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Speaker 2: of mission delivery. So this is icon independent Commission on Neighborhoods.
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Speaker 2: Again I reported on this last year. This is where
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Speaker 2: David Halpened from the Behavior Insights team is spending his
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Speaker 2: time at the moment, and they talk about there being
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Speaker 2: no pathway to mission delivery without putting neighborhoods front and center.
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Speaker 2: They've mapped out with Local Trust all of the neighborhoods
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Speaker 2: around the UK that deserve special attention. Obviously, this is
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Speaker 2: deeply interlinked with the whole devolution agenda. And if you
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Speaker 2: remember this time, I think pretty much exactly two years ago,
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Speaker 2: within the first week, perhaps in the first two or
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Speaker 2: three days of the new Labor government, all of the
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Speaker 2: Metro mayors went to go and see Starmer, which saw
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Speaker 2: Andy Burnham as the then mayor of Manchester, standing shoulders
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Speaker 2: shoulder with kir Starmer, which tells us us that these
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Speaker 2: two are completely aligned. There's going to be no change
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Speaker 2: really in policy direction. It's all really just branding and
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Speaker 2: this is the direction of travel they're pushing towards. So
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Speaker 2: that's good growth in every post code. And then just
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Speaker 2: to wrap up hope in every heart God that sounds nice,
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Speaker 2: doesn't it. And it's funny because I was down Union
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Speaker 2: Street over the weekend in Plymouth and I saw this.
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Speaker 2: It was a hope posters on the front of a
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Speaker 2: derelicts building and I think that's probably what we're.
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Speaker 1: Looking at here with mister Burnham.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, the ultimate goal is to destroy the country. People
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Speaker 3: might find this a bit difficult to believe, but as
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Speaker 3: this policy becomes more clear, you're going to understand just
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Speaker 3: how destructive it is, because so is not going to
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Speaker 3: be as the average person imagines it. It's going to come
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Speaker 3: under this new label. And then we are working very
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Speaker 3: hard to do some interesting reporting from how this system
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Speaker 3: penetrates into a city, how it gets into the local community,
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Speaker 3: and what it's ultimately going to create.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, all of course of the UK right down from
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Speaker 2: the top levels of global governance and the rich families,
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Speaker 2: the dynastic wealth that actually pulled the strings behind the scenes.
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Speaker 2: And then just to close this section on this issue
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Speaker 2: of hope. So we've seen this as a political strategy
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Speaker 2: of political narrative before, particularly with Obama, Well how did
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Speaker 2: that end up invady seven countries? He further bankrupted America
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Speaker 2: through various programs started a race war and all of
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Speaker 2: that done, no doubt for the common good. So this
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Speaker 2: is very familiar.
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Speaker 3: Very familiar, but we can add to it. And of
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Speaker 3: course it was a proponent of Saul Olynski, as was
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Speaker 3: Cameron Conservatives and Blair's Labor Party. And if you've still
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Speaker 3: not read the book is easily available as a pdf online.
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Speaker 3: Have a look at Saul Olinsky and his book Rules
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Speaker 3: for Radicals and you will see many of the tech
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Speaker 3: techniques that the government is using in order to attack
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Speaker 3: communities and individual family members. It's very clear what the
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Speaker 3: agenda is certainly is well if the government says everything
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Speaker 3: is about communities and local people. Of course, the reality
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Speaker 3: is that billions of taxpayers money is being spent to
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Speaker 3: fund wars overseas which you create. The war in Ukraine
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Speaker 3: has been one of the biggest and is absorbing most money,
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Speaker 3: and all of the pledges from the UK government are
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Speaker 3: that more money, more billions are going to go in,
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Speaker 3: whether it's munitions or ammunition, general war supplies or of
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Speaker 3: course the all important drones. So the carnage and the
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Speaker 3: killing go on. UK government's got money to support that carnage,
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Speaker 3: but it hasn't got money apparently support families at home. Now,
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Speaker 3: one of the big lies that's being pushed, particularly by
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Speaker 3: the BBC, but Western media in general, is that Ukraine
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Speaker 3: is winning. This is far from the truth. The progress
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Speaker 3: on the front is a Russian advance. It's always been slow,
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Speaker 3: but it's never stopped, and now it's coming home to roost.
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Speaker 3: It's a bit like saying there's a lava flow five
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Speaker 3: or six miles down the road and nobody's bothered about
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Speaker 3: it until all of a sudden it's only a couple
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Speaker 3: of hundred yards away. So if we just have a
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Speaker 3: look at this first video, big Russian attacks on Kiev.
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Speaker 3: These have been drone attacks by Russia or Ukraine. Of course,
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Speaker 3: have been going on since they in particular since the
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Speaker 3: latter half of the war. These are now growing. The
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Speaker 3: Russians now targeting military facilities hidden inside Ukrainian cities. And
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Speaker 3: this this is a report about what's been happening in Key.
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Speaker 3: Let's have a listen.
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Speaker 6: Lots of videos on this matter. For example, in this
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Speaker 6: video we can see not just an explosions somewhere in
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Speaker 6: the teditor of the city of Gift, but we can
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Speaker 6: also see this secondary destination. So there were lots of
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Speaker 6: videos about the secondary detonations, which means that the Russians,
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Speaker 6: as a results of the over united attack managed to
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Speaker 6: hit some warehouses or m depots. Maybe the Russians managed
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Speaker 6: to destroy warehouses with interceptors. Furthermore, according to information we have,
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Speaker 6: the Russians hit lots of military facilities. This morning, the
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Speaker 6: Minister of Defense of the Russian figuration provided a list
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Speaker 6: of military facilities that were attacked by Russians. And furthermore,
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Speaker 6: this morning, these information about military facilities that were attacked
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Speaker 6: by Russians were confirmed by satellite pictures where we might
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Speaker 6: see something like fire anomalies. Lots of fire anomalies were
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Speaker 6: recorded through the Chaity of Kiev, and when talking about
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Speaker 6: this zoom we see these icon over fire and as
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Speaker 6: you can see just from this angle, at least five
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Speaker 6: fire anomalies were recorded through the Chity of Giev. Two
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Speaker 6: of them are located in the southwestern parts of the city.
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Speaker 6: We're talking about these two fire anomalies and three fire
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Speaker 6: anomalies were recorded through the northern and the northwestern parts
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Speaker 6: of the city of Giev. Once again, the Russians we're
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Speaker 6: trying to hit objects of military facilities that the Ukrainians
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Speaker 6: were using and military and surprises that the Ukrainians were
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Speaker 6: using first of all to produce drones, long range weapons,
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Speaker 6: mid range weapons and many many other different things for
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Speaker 6: the military purposes. In this video we can see a
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Speaker 6: warehouse that was destroyed by Russians as the results of
21:55
Speaker 6: the overnighted side.
21:58
Speaker 3: Two things are happening uk column showing that video clip. Firstly,
22:03
Speaker 3: we're giving people a look into what's really happening in
22:06
Speaker 3: Ukraine and these massive, massive attacks by Russia, largely against
22:11
Speaker 3: military but also energy infrastructure, and we'll be talking about
22:15
Speaker 3: a little bit more about that in just a few minutes.
22:17
Speaker 3: But the second point is really accurate detailed reporting by
22:23
Speaker 3: a YouTube aanelist and blogger able to report each day,
22:28
Speaker 3: sometimes twice a day, events, sometimes to the hour. None
22:34
Speaker 3: of this material covered by the multi billion pound BBC
22:38
Speaker 3: because they do not want to tell the truth about
22:41
Speaker 3: what's happening in Ukraine. And thus it's no surprise that
22:45
Speaker 3: we're now seeing the government switching off alternative media on
22:50
Speaker 3: YouTube in order to promote the BBC, another favored Western media.
22:56
Speaker 3: So the reality is, of course they didn't tell the
22:59
Speaker 3: truth because Ukraine is losing and that process is accelerating.
23:04
Speaker 3: Now I'll bring on defense politics to Asia. This is
23:07
Speaker 3: another man who started analysis since the beginning of the
23:12
Speaker 3: Ukraine War. Also extremely accurate, very balanced in the reports,
23:16
Speaker 3: taking information from both the Ukrainians and the Russians and
23:21
Speaker 3: synthesizing that into a balanced picture. But the key point
23:26
Speaker 3: of this particular slide is that he is, amongst others,
23:30
Speaker 3: reporting that Constantinivka that on screen, has fallen, and yet
23:36
Speaker 3: the BBC in particular has been denying this for at
23:41
Speaker 3: least a week. Two weeks the Russians have been saying
23:45
Speaker 3: the city has have fallen apart from mopping up. Now
23:49
Speaker 3: finally it's evident, with Russian flags all the way across
23:52
Speaker 3: the geographic area of the city that Constantinivka has indeed fallen.
23:59
Speaker 3: We might get so response, but the BBC utterly lying
24:03
Speaker 3: to the British public by deceiving them about the reality
24:07
Speaker 3: of what's happening on the front. Now Constantinivko strategic town.
24:12
Speaker 3: So it falling means the Russians are in an even
24:15
Speaker 3: better position to move from the southeastern corner further into
24:22
Speaker 3: Donbas and towards Zaparisia, and that progress is going to accelerate.
24:28
Speaker 3: Now where this is getting to and this has moved
24:31
Speaker 3: up now more to the north, the northern sector of
24:37
Speaker 3: the front. We've now got the Russians that have made
24:41
Speaker 3: progress from the east and the next two strategic cities
24:46
Speaker 3: to be taken Slavianskire and to the south of it,
24:52
Speaker 3: kramer Torsk, And these are the last two strategic cities
24:56
Speaker 3: left in the Donbas And when Russia has taken them,
24:59
Speaker 3: progress will still cost them casualties, you could say, will
25:03
Speaker 3: cost them dearly. But the Russians are now going to
25:07
Speaker 3: be able to move deeper into Ukraine if they want
25:10
Speaker 3: to take more of the Donbass. Now, how is all
25:13
Speaker 3: this happening on the grounds, Well, let's bring in a
25:15
Speaker 3: little bit of video here. The Russians supplied with highly
25:20
Speaker 3: accurate air launched and missile systems which they are targeting
25:25
Speaker 3: any group of Ukrainians on the ground or any mustering points.
25:30
Speaker 3: As you can see from the size of the explosions
25:32
Speaker 3: on screen, there's no survival in this and Ukrainian force
25:37
Speaker 3: is increasingly unable, particularly to counter missile attacks, and Patriot
25:43
Speaker 3: system is now known to be effectively useless in the
25:46
Speaker 3: Ukrainian theater. The American defense industry doesn't want to admit that.
25:51
Speaker 3: But also the Americans refusing to give the Ukrainians more
25:56
Speaker 3: interceptor missiles because they have a shortage with the US
26:00
Speaker 3: military as a result of the loss of the war
26:03
Speaker 3: against Iran. But if I had this little video clip,
26:07
Speaker 3: this is where life is very harrowing on the front
26:10
Speaker 3: because this is effectively when men are being hunted by drones.
26:15
Speaker 3: This is Ukrainian support based drone support base, the man
26:21
Speaker 3: easily identified from the drone and then the strikes are
26:25
Speaker 3: called in on top. And so this is the reality
26:29
Speaker 3: of the war that Britain is helping to fund. Men
26:33
Speaker 3: and women hunted on the battlefield by drones produced in
26:37
Speaker 3: uk and apparently we're to be pleased that our young
26:40
Speaker 3: people and teenagers are going to be recruited into those
26:44
Speaker 3: defense industries. Then it's truly sickening and I've no doubt
26:49
Speaker 3: Burnham's going to continue the same policy. But I also
26:53
Speaker 3: want to point out that the Russians and out targeting
26:55
Speaker 3: petrol stations across Ukraine in order to event supplies getting
27:01
Speaker 3: to the front. Some two hundred plus petrol stations outtaken
27:05
Speaker 3: out of action and of course, when this happens, there's
27:08
Speaker 3: massive disruption to military reinforcement and supplies to the front.
27:14
Speaker 3: This little clip is the aftermath. This is the burnt
27:17
Speaker 3: out petrol station, but this scene is mirrored across thousands
27:21
Speaker 3: of others in Ukraine where there's only one word destroyed.
27:26
Speaker 3: So the overall picture is that the Russians are certainly
27:31
Speaker 3: going to take the Dombas, and if the West continues
27:34
Speaker 3: to supply weapons into Ukraine, the next logical step is
27:40
Speaker 3: that the Russians will decide to take out the factories
27:43
Speaker 3: in Europe and indeed uk But we'll come onto that
27:47
Speaker 3: in the second part of the report.
27:50
Speaker 1: Do you think have you heard Burnham say anything about
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31:30
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31:40
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Speaker 1: We can get that back on screen.
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Speaker 2: We can see that's the former Prime Minister of Australia
31:48
Speaker 2: who is a member of the Fabian Society and she's
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Speaker 2: this event was taking place during London Climate Action Week. Actually,
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Speaker 2: the Welcome Trust posted saying that it was powerful to
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Speaker 2: the case for decisive and collective leadership.
32:15
Speaker 1: Is that word again? Work? Yeah?
32:17
Speaker 2: On climate progress. They also issued a joint op piece
32:21
Speaker 2: in the New State Spurn, which was the in house
32:23
Speaker 2: Ragular Fabian Society, where they put forward a vision of
32:26
Speaker 2: climate action as one of our greatest public health opportunities,
32:30
Speaker 2: a chance not to merely avoid the worst consequences of
32:32
Speaker 2: climate change, but to build countries that are healthier, more
32:34
Speaker 2: prosperous and more optimistic than those we inherited. So they're
32:38
Speaker 2: going to scrap everything that's gone before. They're going to
32:41
Speaker 2: go to a completely new model, and climate change is
32:45
Speaker 2: the vehicle for that.
32:46
Speaker 1: And apparently it is now a.
32:47
Speaker 2: Public health crisis, which is why we can get organizations
32:50
Speaker 2: like the Welcome Trust, which was set up with one
32:52
Speaker 2: of the world's largest endowments to focus on healthcare.
32:55
Speaker 1: You can drag that into the mix as well.
32:57
Speaker 3: Now, can I just add a bit in that two things.
33:01
Speaker 3: One is a little bit of black humor because a
33:04
Speaker 3: couple of people in our chat boxes, the news has
33:07
Speaker 3: been running sort of said are these women or are
33:10
Speaker 3: these ladies? Now? I'm looking at the way these ladies
33:14
Speaker 3: are dressed because to me, they're in very expensive clothes.
33:18
Speaker 3: This is not the genes and slacks that you see
33:22
Speaker 3: for the community activism. You're now into probably designer clothes.
33:28
Speaker 3: Maybe you know an outfit more than somebody earn's in
33:31
Speaker 3: a week. And so people, you need to be viewing
33:35
Speaker 3: these women and there's equivalent in men. These are the
33:40
Speaker 3: new politicians. Don't think in terms of the power base
33:43
Speaker 3: being with the MPs, think of the power base being
33:46
Speaker 3: with these people. These people are in some very expensive
33:50
Speaker 3: clothes that's reflective of their status and I would say
33:54
Speaker 3: their power.
33:55
Speaker 2: Ben absolutely couldn't agree more. And they're members of exclusive
34:00
Speaker 2: national networks such as that one you see, so you
34:04
Speaker 2: can just see when get that back on screen, you
34:05
Speaker 2: can see on their lapels and actually Julia Gillard's got
34:09
Speaker 2: it in the center of her collar. This this is
34:12
Speaker 2: the Dandie Lion and this is a women led climate
34:17
Speaker 2: active group where they're trying to make every issue a
34:21
Speaker 2: climate issue, so they're all dandy lyons. Professor Charlotte Watts,
34:25
Speaker 2: who's the executive director of Solutions that the Welcome Trust
34:28
Speaker 2: is also a dandelion. You can see that on her
34:30
Speaker 2: chest there, and she says in a post on LinkedIn
34:33
Speaker 2: that the climate crisis is a health crisis.
34:36
Speaker 1: So great, glad we got that cleared up.
34:38
Speaker 2: And then also, interestingly, this guy Alan, I'm going to
34:42
Speaker 2: say Alan Danger. It's spent, it's spelt d A n
34:45
Speaker 2: g o us. It might be Dan Gore, but I'm
34:48
Speaker 2: going to say mister Danger because I quite like it.
34:50
Speaker 2: He's got one on as well. So they've actually expanded
34:52
Speaker 2: it out. Now it's not just women, it's also I
34:54
Speaker 2: guess allies. They probably used the term allies, so men
34:58
Speaker 2: who are adjacent to this stuff.
35:00
Speaker 3: We've got more of the power base there because of
35:01
Speaker 3: course we've got the right to royal carpets, and we've
35:05
Speaker 3: built the King himself showing intense interest. He's not going
35:08
Speaker 3: to turn up to your community center to hear what
35:11
Speaker 3: your community problems are, but he is going to be
35:14
Speaker 3: there alongside the Welcome Trust and these immensely powerful but
35:18
Speaker 3: unelected people.
35:19
Speaker 1: Absolutely yes, So this organization.
35:24
Speaker 2: I've spoken about it a few times over the past
35:27
Speaker 2: couple of years, but it was founded by this lady,
35:29
Speaker 2: Ronda Carnegie's cool project Dandelion, and she took to LinkedIn
35:34
Speaker 2: last week say that this week at LUND the Climate
35:36
Speaker 2: Action Week, I found myself looking for one small thing
35:39
Speaker 2: in every room, a dandelion pin project Andylion is a
35:42
Speaker 2: movement of people who are connecting, mobilizing, and amplifying one
35:46
Speaker 2: another's work, helping good ideas find the people who can
35:49
Speaker 2: help them flourish. To everyone wearing a dandelion, to everyone
35:52
Speaker 2: who has been pinned, and to everyone who has helped
35:55
Speaker 2: someone else feel seen, thank you for reminding me that
35:58
Speaker 2: movements don't grow because of a logo or a strategy.
36:01
Speaker 2: They grow because people choose to trust each other. So
36:05
Speaker 2: it sounds like some kind of sorority, doesn't it. You've
36:08
Speaker 2: been pinned, you've been selected, You're now in the in crowd.
36:11
Speaker 3: Well, this was all the common purpose agendas, selecting future leaders,
36:17
Speaker 3: selecting grooming, training people to act outside their silos as
36:23
Speaker 3: future leaders. It's the same language, which just slightly rebranded
36:27
Speaker 3: for a new and slightly different organization.
36:30
Speaker 1: And completely global as well.
36:32
Speaker 2: And this actually is I reported on previously came out
36:34
Speaker 2: of this organization.
36:36
Speaker 1: This is the Connected Women Leaders Network.
36:40
Speaker 2: Where Ron the Canegie is also one of the founders,
36:43
Speaker 2: one of the co founders and this group, I'd recommend
36:47
Speaker 2: just going to provide a link in the show notes
36:49
Speaker 2: you can go and have a look at it. But
36:50
Speaker 2: essentially you've got about one hundred and twenty ladies from
36:53
Speaker 2: the un Time magazine, the World Economic Forum, Young Global
36:57
Speaker 2: Leader Network, Vital Voices, which was an organization set up
37:01
Speaker 2: for the State Department to essentially looks like coordinate this
37:06
Speaker 2: global network of female leaders back in the nineties or
37:09
Speaker 2: is there something's been going on for a very long time.
37:11
Speaker 2: And then also a political foundation you can see in
37:14
Speaker 2: the bottom right hand side there Lisa Wittos, the founder
37:16
Speaker 2: of a political I've spoken about many many times on
37:19
Speaker 2: the news, and I suppose I just have to ask
37:21
Speaker 2: the question very gently intensatively, is is this treason?
37:25
Speaker 5: Right?
37:25
Speaker 3: In my book, absolutely, and particularly for the king, because
37:28
Speaker 3: the king of course has got his own particular responsibilities
37:32
Speaker 3: to the nation. So in my book it's absolutely treason,
37:36
Speaker 3: and anybody who's dambling and it should be helped to account.
37:40
Speaker 1: I couldn't agree more.
37:41
Speaker 2: And this is important, not the least because he goes
37:43
Speaker 2: right to the heart of the policy debate in Westminster.
37:46
Speaker 2: So this week is actually next zero week starts today
37:51
Speaker 2: and tomorrow evening. There's a drinks reception to talk about
37:54
Speaker 2: international alignment being critical to real world impact and that
37:58
Speaker 2: bit international linement is exactly what the Dandelion Network is doing.
38:03
Speaker 3: Yeah, because we mustn't have disagreements in nation states. We've
38:09
Speaker 3: got to destroy the nation state and then get the
38:12
Speaker 3: whole fabric of governance in that country working in a
38:16
Speaker 3: lined way so that this becomes a global policy.
38:21
Speaker 1: Ruled by technocracy.
38:24
Speaker 2: Unelected appointees have been brought into these networks for the
38:29
Speaker 2: common good.
38:30
Speaker 3: Of course, we could really just go home and relax, exactly.
38:35
Speaker 1: I'm feel so much better about it all now.
38:37
Speaker 3: People have only got our best in dress at hard Yeah.
38:40
Speaker 1: We're not certainly do.
38:42
Speaker 2: And just to wrap this up and we'll come back
38:43
Speaker 2: to this in extra actually, so just I've found this
38:46
Speaker 2: quite entertaining that we saw Mary Robinson from the Dandelion
38:50
Speaker 2: Network interviewing our Gore about an Inconvenient Truth then and
38:55
Speaker 2: now An Inconvenient Truth is his film. We put out
38:57
Speaker 2: about climate change in two thousand and six, and interestingly,
39:01
Speaker 2: all of his predictions in their film were wrong.
39:04
Speaker 3: But that's not a problem for them because they just
39:06
Speaker 3: carry on regardless.
39:08
Speaker 2: Well, yes, and he's made North for three hundred million
39:10
Speaker 2: dollars person they from heat climate transition, so you know
39:14
Speaker 2: someone's doing all right out of it.
39:16
Speaker 3: Absolutely. A lot of that is about anxiety and stress,
39:22
Speaker 3: getting people stressed in order that they're going to better
39:25
Speaker 3: a deer to the globalists or the international rules based
39:29
Speaker 3: order policies. But the other great stressor, of course is war.
39:34
Speaker 3: And if we come back onto this topic, we're going
39:36
Speaker 3: to be a little bit broader. We're just going to
39:37
Speaker 3: be looking at Russia, but also having a look at
39:40
Speaker 3: some of the factors around the UK's defense or what's
39:44
Speaker 3: left with it. But this is also based on fear
39:48
Speaker 3: and chosen the Telegraph here. So the big headline from
39:52
Speaker 3: a few days ago Russia planning attack on Poland to
39:57
Speaker 3: test NATO resolve US war. Critical infrastructure could be targeted
40:03
Speaker 3: by missiles and drones, with soldiers potentially crossing the border
40:08
Speaker 3: from Kaliningrad or Belarus. Now, the Russians at the moment
40:12
Speaker 3: have got over seven hundred thousand soldiers operating in the
40:18
Speaker 3: don Bas area in Ukraine and close to and of
40:22
Speaker 3: course this is on a scale that the West can't
40:24
Speaker 3: match because the West offense capability has been deliberately destroyed
40:30
Speaker 3: from the inside. We'll comment on that a bit more.
40:33
Speaker 3: But is Russia just planning to attack or is there
40:37
Speaker 3: a possibility that Russia will attack for a reason. I'm
40:41
Speaker 3: just going to bring in this interview between Professor Glenn Dieson,
40:45
Speaker 3: who I think is one of the highly respected interviewers
40:49
Speaker 3: of matters to do with Ukraine in particular, and we're
40:54
Speaker 3: just going to have a look at this video clip
40:55
Speaker 3: with him talking to Steve Jeremy, was a retired rawned commodore.
41:01
Speaker 3: I can only give you a little bit of this,
41:03
Speaker 3: but I encourage people to go and watch the whole
41:06
Speaker 3: of the interview because the retired commodore does make really
41:10
Speaker 3: good points and it's clear that certainly he's certainly in
41:15
Speaker 3: order daring to the government's approved opinions and policy. So
41:22
Speaker 3: let's have a listening.
41:25
Speaker 7: The European leaders are making a lot of comments about
41:28
Speaker 7: preparing for war with Russia, even setting dates so stating
41:32
Speaker 7: the intent. They're also developing the capabilities. And again, if
41:37
Speaker 7: you're sitting in Moscow, you're doing a threat assessment, you
41:40
Speaker 7: look at the intentions and capabilities, and a clear threats
41:47
Speaker 7: begins to emerge. And so I was wondering if you
41:51
Speaker 7: can to unpack your argument, because it doesn't really seem
41:53
Speaker 7: as if the Europeans are ready for war with Russia.
41:58
Speaker 5: Yeah.
41:58
Speaker 8: No, I don't think they are, Glenn. I think the
42:00
Speaker 8: reason that I wrote the article because I don't think
42:03
Speaker 8: they have really thought through the potential costs and consequences
42:08
Speaker 8: of such a war. I think what they're essentially thinking
42:11
Speaker 8: is that Russia will sit quietly as they prepare for war,
42:14
Speaker 8: and then in twenty thirty they'll be ready to go.
42:17
Speaker 8: But before that that they can fire as many or
42:19
Speaker 8: they can provide as many missiles and Christmas Stars and
42:23
Speaker 8: drones to attack into Russia with no reaction from Russia.
42:26
Speaker 8: On both of those things go completely against what's being
42:30
Speaker 8: said and heard in Russia, and indeed, even Putin recently
42:34
Speaker 8: said to I think it was to new graduates on
42:40
Speaker 8: police and armed forces and things like that, that the
42:43
Speaker 8: Europeans were preparing for a war and that they Russia
42:46
Speaker 8: would to prepare as well. I think what the Europeans
42:49
Speaker 8: fundamentally don't seem to understand, or I should say, are
42:52
Speaker 8: European elites Glenn the leaders don't seem to be understand,
42:56
Speaker 8: is that as far as Russia is concerned, this is
42:58
Speaker 8: defensive warp. They are in a defensive posture and everything
43:02
Speaker 8: that they are doing is to protect themselves from what
43:04
Speaker 8: they see as a native expansion and getting closer and
43:08
Speaker 8: closer to the borders about which they've argued for years
43:12
Speaker 8: and years and years. So it shouldn't be surprised to us,
43:14
Speaker 8: but the Europeans seem to see it as something of
43:17
Speaker 8: Colindal ambition. I mean, I can't think why Russia would
43:20
Speaker 8: want to take over Europe. But more fundamentally, what the
43:24
Speaker 8: European leaders also haven't done is to actually think through
43:27
Speaker 8: what would that war would be like? And as I
43:30
Speaker 8: say in the article, the first thing is that there's
43:34
Speaker 8: no guarantee, indeed quite the opposite, that the Russians would
43:39
Speaker 8: wait until twenty thirty.
43:43
Speaker 3: A very interesting interview. Commodore very quietly spoken, but he's
43:49
Speaker 3: making all the key points. So he talks about the
43:51
Speaker 3: bellicost nation and nature of the Western nations, the movement
43:56
Speaker 3: of NATO eastward, breaking Russia's so called lines and bring
44:00
Speaker 3: in Russia unto under more and more pressure. He also
44:05
Speaker 3: later in the interview talks about the fact that he's
44:08
Speaker 3: very sure that the Russians decided to go back into
44:12
Speaker 3: Ukraine because the military advice that Putin was getting was
44:17
Speaker 3: that if they left it later another eighteen months, another
44:20
Speaker 3: two years, the NATO would have reinforced Ukraine to such
44:26
Speaker 3: an extent the Russians would have a really enormous battle
44:30
Speaker 3: on their hands. And so, with the help of Boris
44:33
Speaker 3: Johnson smashing a past the peace talks, the Russians really
44:37
Speaker 3: forced to take in the action in Ukraine. And many
44:40
Speaker 3: people would say, even though it appears to be brutal,
44:43
Speaker 3: it's only a fraction of the true power that Russia
44:47
Speaker 3: could be unleashing. So the comments from the Commodore very interesting.
44:53
Speaker 3: Never heard on the BBC, never heard somebody giving the
44:56
Speaker 3: opinion that actually Russia's been put on forced up against
45:01
Speaker 3: the wall and they've got to react due to the
45:04
Speaker 3: aggressive posture of the West. So courage people to have
45:08
Speaker 3: look at it. But what is interesting is that as
45:11
Speaker 3: Starmer or the rest of the British politicians have ramped
45:15
Speaker 3: up the war in Ukraine. At home, we see nothing
45:19
Speaker 3: but the demise of our military. I'm just going to
45:21
Speaker 3: focus on the Royal Navy here. This was a BBC
45:24
Speaker 3: report from a couple of days ago that the Navy
45:27
Speaker 3: is to build drone equipped warships instead of replacing aging destroyers.
45:32
Speaker 3: Now that sweeps over the fact they're talking about the
45:35
Speaker 3: Type forty five destroyers and the six of these have
45:40
Speaker 3: never worked properly since they've been in the fleet. This
45:42
Speaker 3: article on screen now from the National Security Journal is
45:47
Speaker 3: saying that one Type forty five destroyer has been useless
45:51
Speaker 3: for eight years. But actually the six of them have
45:54
Speaker 3: had such enormous problems that it's represented a disaster, and
45:59
Speaker 3: there's been operational time from these ships due to poor
46:02
Speaker 3: design and defect So North Korea can launch ships, it
46:06
Speaker 3: can commission immensely powerful new weapons systems, including hypersonic missiles,
46:13
Speaker 3: but uk being hollowed out, destroyed from the inside, can't
46:17
Speaker 3: even manage to produce an effective warship. But the policy
46:21
Speaker 3: seems to be true across Europe. This is the Wall
46:25
Speaker 3: Street Journal here reporting that France's Tali's firm is to
46:29
Speaker 3: take a hit after Germany scraps frigate program. So this
46:34
Speaker 3: was a really big contract for the French to build
46:38
Speaker 3: very big warships, certainly as far as Germany's scale is concerned.
46:43
Speaker 3: But that project has now been kicked offline. And a
46:47
Speaker 3: lot of this is happening because Germany and the other
46:50
Speaker 3: Western nations now realize they are years behind in military
46:55
Speaker 3: technology because of the speed at which new developments and
46:59
Speaker 3: new technology has been employed. In Ukraine, drones are part
47:03
Speaker 3: of that. The hypersonic missile systems, which Russia clearly specialize in,
47:09
Speaker 3: is an absolute lead.
47:11
Speaker 1: Now, this is.
47:11
Speaker 3: Another remarkable headline from Defense News. It says that the
47:16
Speaker 3: UK is left without any is the word that needs
47:20
Speaker 3: to go in their active attack submarines, as the entire
47:23
Speaker 3: Astute class fleet remains stuck in port. So that means
47:27
Speaker 3: that there are no UK nuclear attack submarines. There are
47:31
Speaker 3: no UK nuclear attack submarines at c to defend the bombers,
47:36
Speaker 3: the nuclear delivery submarines. They are now very vulnerable to
47:41
Speaker 3: anything that the Russian submarine fleet would do. And of
47:44
Speaker 3: course we've got no attack submarines at sea to sink
47:47
Speaker 3: the Russian submarines themselves. So is this simply incompetence over
47:53
Speaker 3: a great many years through different governments, conservative labor or
47:59
Speaker 3: is this or a straighted breakdown. Personally, I think it's
48:03
Speaker 3: the latter, and we'll be commenting more on that in
48:05
Speaker 3: forthcoming news reports. Now, on top of all this, billions
48:11
Speaker 3: has now been formed to sorry, has now been found
48:14
Speaker 3: in order to install a massive upgrade to the underwater
48:20
Speaker 3: listening system which has been in place for many years
48:24
Speaker 3: to track Russian submarines as they leave their northern bases
48:28
Speaker 3: and move southwest through the Norwegian Sea. We have no
48:33
Speaker 3: money for anything to rebuild the country's production or manufacturing infrastructure,
48:40
Speaker 3: but billions are now going to come online for this
48:44
Speaker 3: so called listening to the ocean secrets enablers in the
48:48
Speaker 3: underwater battle. And if people want to go and have
48:51
Speaker 3: a look at this as just you go to RUSSI
48:54
Speaker 3: and its report on the Atlantic bastion.
48:57
Speaker 8: Here.
48:58
Speaker 3: This is a very good artic. It goes about as
49:01
Speaker 3: close to the wire as you can go without the
49:04
Speaker 3: author of this particular article breaching the Official Secrets Act.
49:09
Speaker 3: If you watched Hunt for Red October, which had a
49:11
Speaker 3: little bit of truth in a lot of excitement, you
49:15
Speaker 3: can understand a lot more about how we should be
49:18
Speaker 3: dealing with the Russian submarine fleet if we had the
49:23
Speaker 3: units to support Atlantic bastion. But just excuse me, just
49:28
Speaker 3: remember billions available here for this project, even though it
49:32
Speaker 3: requires new technology to be developed and built in order
49:38
Speaker 3: to make it happen. Now, while that's going on, of course,
49:42
Speaker 3: the military being taken apart with the woke agender and
49:46
Speaker 3: the Telegraph here reporting about a civil servant suing over
49:51
Speaker 3: an attack on white people as a result of a
49:54
Speaker 3: diversity course within the mod And this was a paper
50:00
Speaker 3: called the Psychosis of Whiteness, which was available as a
50:04
Speaker 3: resource for managers. So Ben, this is getting back into
50:08
Speaker 3: your territory. And if that's not bad enough, well we've
50:11
Speaker 3: only got to look at the weekend and Pride in
50:13
Speaker 3: London in order to see where the British military has
50:17
Speaker 3: got to. This is just a small excerpt from the parade.
50:22
Speaker 3: And I can tell you that part of this video
50:27
Speaker 3: showing British military at this parade is now circulating on
50:31
Speaker 3: Russian media where they are simply laughing at Britain's military
50:37
Speaker 3: as if they are a joke. And this should be
50:42
Speaker 3: very embarrassing to our armed forces. But of course, the
50:46
Speaker 3: armed forces of more money for this sort of agenda
50:49
Speaker 3: than they do for producing the weapons and the systems
50:53
Speaker 3: that they need to fly to war. So as we
50:56
Speaker 3: see this clip unfold, I've got to say, Ben, the
51:01
Speaker 3: marching is appalling. Part of that was due to the
51:04
Speaker 3: fact there's so much noise that it's difficult to control
51:08
Speaker 3: the squad of men and women here, But nevertheless, the
51:12
Speaker 3: sights of some people wearing Royal Navy T shirts here,
51:18
Speaker 3: what is this? Is this a successful nation that's proud
51:22
Speaker 3: in its ability and its armed forces or have we
51:26
Speaker 3: got something else at work? Certainly, as far as the
51:28
Speaker 3: Russians are concerned, they regard it as a joke, and
51:33
Speaker 3: it's more evidence that really UK is no longer a
51:37
Speaker 3: viable military force, which of course is exactly what the
51:41
Speaker 3: Americans have been saying. And in a recent episode of
51:46
Speaker 3: Scott Ritter he simply says, don't bother with the Brits
51:50
Speaker 3: because they are no longer capable of operating on a
51:54
Speaker 3: battlefield in Europe. We don't want the wars. But this
51:58
Speaker 3: commentary is about the pitiful state of the military and
52:02
Speaker 3: UK and that decline has been engineered, no question of.
52:07
Speaker 2: It, no question Brian, and we must remember that warfare
52:12
Speaker 2: is not just kinetic involving soldiers and sailors and planes
52:16
Speaker 2: and whatnot. It's also about narrative and information. And there
52:22
Speaker 2: is an increasing threat to what is being described as
52:25
Speaker 2: democratic resilience. And to tell you a little bit about
52:29
Speaker 2: that is Chris Morris from Full Fact.
52:35
Speaker 9: The next UK general election will take place in an
52:37
Speaker 9: information environment unlike anything we've seen before, and we're not.
52:41
Speaker 3: Ready for it.
52:42
Speaker 9: With trust in political institutions at an all time low,
52:46
Speaker 9: reliable public interest information needs to be easier to find,
52:50
Speaker 9: not harder. That's one of the key findings of our
52:53
Speaker 9: twenty twenty six report on Strengthening the UK's Democratic Information Environment.
52:59
Speaker 9: The report defies real concrete harms public disengagement, community tensions,
53:05
Speaker 9: a growing erosion of trust in the institution that hold
53:08
Speaker 9: democracy together, and a widening gap between reliable information and
53:13
Speaker 9: people's ability to find and trust it. UK's response pretty fragmented.
53:19
Speaker 9: Responsibilities are spread across too many bodies. There's no system
53:23
Speaker 9: for cutting through uncertainty when it matters. The report sets
53:28
Speaker 9: out four things that need to change. First, secure the
53:32
Speaker 9: information ecosystem. Accurate information needs to spread faster than confusion,
53:38
Speaker 9: especially when the stakes are highest. Second, strengthen public resilience.
53:43
Speaker 9: People need to know where to find reliable information and
53:46
Speaker 9: how to recognize it when they find it. Third, modernize
53:51
Speaker 9: laws and institutions. They need to be clear, coordinated, and
53:55
Speaker 9: fast enough to actually respond in real time. Four hold platforms,
54:01
Speaker 9: search engines, and AI systems accountable for how they shape
54:05
Speaker 9: the information environment. We can't turn back the clock, so
54:10
Speaker 9: we need to build systems that work in the world
54:12
Speaker 9: we actually live in. The decisions made now will determine
54:15
Speaker 9: whether future elections are defined by confusion and mistrust or
54:20
Speaker 9: by clarity, confidence, and democratic resilience.
54:27
Speaker 3: Short statement in that clip member so important because, of
54:32
Speaker 3: course full Fact has been operating ever since the Leveson
54:35
Speaker 3: Inquiry into the media in order to help gain government
54:39
Speaker 3: control over the media. It says it's there for free speech,
54:43
Speaker 3: but everything it does is about closing free speech down.
54:47
Speaker 3: I was particularly taken with this comment the public disengagement
54:52
Speaker 3: was a failure. I don't think public disengagement is a failure.
54:55
Speaker 3: It's actually a success story. It shows that the public
55:00
Speaker 3: capable of thinking independently, and they're switching off from this
55:04
Speaker 3: propaganda and bias of the BBC and the other state
55:08
Speaker 3: controlled media, so full fat, very very dangerous, and they
55:12
Speaker 3: are pushing the same policy that Levison is now back
55:17
Speaker 3: pushing as he attacks juries, getting rid of juries from court.
55:23
Speaker 3: And of course the next step is the constitution, which
55:27
Speaker 3: that man says is about modernizing the systems which may
55:32
Speaker 3: effectively make decisions. This is an organization making out it's
55:37
Speaker 3: about free speech and protecting free speech, but actually it
55:41
Speaker 3: is about helping to implement control of speech via centralized government.
55:46
Speaker 1: Absolutely and very much dictating the policy agenda. Right.
55:50
Speaker 2: So that was Chris Morris, CEO of Full Fact, former
55:53
Speaker 2: BBC guy, talking about their latest report. Can get up
55:56
Speaker 2: on screen you can see the Full Fact Report twenty
55:59
Speaker 2: twenty six. Will provide a link in the show notes
56:01
Speaker 2: you can go and read it for yourself. That landed
56:03
Speaker 2: three weeks ago. One of its key recommendations is the
56:05
Speaker 2: elevation of reliable public interest information. And then would you know,
56:10
Speaker 2: like two weeks ago, so like a week later, this
56:13
Speaker 2: comes out from central Government what's this space and new
56:16
Speaker 2: strategic direction for UK media, a green paper and public consultation,
56:20
Speaker 2: so they're actually looking for responses. Again, we'll provide a
56:23
Speaker 2: link so you should go and reply to the questions
56:25
Speaker 2: in this and one of the key recommendations or things
56:28
Speaker 2: that they're exploring in here is the idea that we
56:32
Speaker 2: need to give more prominence to trustworthy news. So this
56:37
Speaker 2: is exactly what Chris Morris was just talking about. We
56:39
Speaker 2: need to elevate public service broadcasters. We need to invest
56:42
Speaker 2: in new media literacy and provide it and make that
56:46
Speaker 2: a duty for public service broadcasters to indoctrinate the population
56:54
Speaker 2: into only accepting truth coming from official channels and then
56:58
Speaker 2: to do it and to a new joint initiative to
57:02
Speaker 2: promote media literacy. So the main public broadcast is BBC,
57:06
Speaker 2: ITV channel five, Channel four are going to come together
57:09
Speaker 2: to coordinate around this. And this has blown up over
57:14
Speaker 2: the past few days primarily because of this issue of
57:18
Speaker 2: pushing BBC and other formal official content into people's timelines
57:23
Speaker 2: to the detriment of everyone else, including organizations like UK
57:26
Speaker 2: column and interestingly, the establishment scenes have broken ranks on
57:31
Speaker 2: this front because we were sent this and all YouTube
57:33
Speaker 2: channel owners were sent this over the weekend, essentially saying
57:37
Speaker 2: that the YouTube is always operated on the principle that
57:40
Speaker 2: creators should have a fair shot, but these new UK
57:43
Speaker 2: proposals would change that. So YouTube is even coming out
57:46
Speaker 2: and saying that they don't want this, which is quite extraordinary.
57:49
Speaker 2: So lots of pressure coming from full fact that appears
57:52
Speaker 2: to be flown directly into policy. Lots of pressure going
57:55
Speaker 2: towards Burnham at the moment. So actually this came out
57:58
Speaker 2: just a couple of days after he delivered is a
58:01
Speaker 2: big speech in Manster last week. Dozens of organizations burned
58:05
Speaker 2: to strengthen online safety laws, big list of people guesses
58:09
Speaker 2: on it, full factor on it obviously, as well as
58:12
Speaker 2: the and on the Online Safety Act Network, which is
58:16
Speaker 2: basically set up by the people who wrote the Online
58:19
Speaker 2: Safety Act. They then went on to set up a
58:20
Speaker 2: network of which most of these organizations apart Institute who
58:24
Speaker 2: Strategic Dialogue are clocked on there as well. Hope Not
58:26
Speaker 2: Hate further down the list, Demos further down the list,
58:29
Speaker 2: all the same names that we would expect trying to
58:32
Speaker 2: lock down debate, anding enforced an establishment narrative.
58:36
Speaker 3: When you know where to look, you can see them.
58:39
Speaker 3: Everything is there, hidden in plain sight. It's just understanding
58:43
Speaker 3: the rules, the nuances of what you're looking for, and
58:46
Speaker 3: when you get on this trail, you are then starting
58:49
Speaker 3: to see what the real political agenda is and where
58:52
Speaker 3: everything is coming from. So Westminster Debate, that's just absolute
58:58
Speaker 3: popets show to keep people believing that system works.
59:04
Speaker 1: But it's this.
59:05
Speaker 3: Corporate public private partnership with the corporate powers that's now
59:11
Speaker 3: producing the policies. A little bit of a dark human
59:16
Speaker 3: note to end the news, but I came across this
59:20
Speaker 3: organization Hold the Line at the end of last week
59:23
Speaker 3: and this is the Labor Party getting very, very worried
59:26
Speaker 3: at the high churn of prime ministers and in particular
59:30
Speaker 3: Burnham coming into post without really any consultation of labor members.
59:36
Speaker 3: So this organization is saying, if you're a labor member,
59:40
Speaker 3: pay attention, get onto your local MP and say members
59:45
Speaker 3: views and opinions need to be taken into account. This
59:48
Speaker 3: made me laugh because of course Burnham's not going to it,
59:53
Speaker 3: is not interested in hearing what local labor members think.
59:57
Speaker 3: He's too busy with his globalist policy. But it is
1:00:01
Speaker 3: sadly amusing to see these people attempting to do something
1:00:06
Speaker 3: after the horse has bolted into the prime ministership as
1:00:10
Speaker 3: it were. Now I'm going to end on a serious note,
1:00:13
Speaker 3: and that is there were a number of reports over
1:00:18
Speaker 3: the last week, and a bit about the fat met
1:00:21
Speaker 3: Police could be forced to reopen four thousand grooming gang
1:00:25
Speaker 3: cases dating back sixteen years. Note the headline anything to
1:00:30
Speaker 3: do with child abuse is to do with grooming gangs. Well,
1:00:34
Speaker 3: this is not true. It's absolutely not true. I'll just
1:00:38
Speaker 3: pop ifout Cooper, Home Secretary on screen here because this
1:00:43
Speaker 3: is a few words of her talking about government's attention
1:00:48
Speaker 3: to protecting children, and then I'll ends that off with
1:00:51
Speaker 3: a comment from UK column. But here's about Cooper.
1:00:56
Speaker 10: So we will introduce new laws to protect children and
1:01:00
Speaker 10: support victims so they stop being blamed for the appalling
1:01:03
Speaker 10: crimes committed against them. New major police operations to pursue
1:01:08
Speaker 10: perpetrators and put them behind bars. New national inquiry to
1:01:12
Speaker 10: direct local investigations and hold institutions to account for past failures.
1:01:17
Speaker 10: New ethnicity data and research so we face up to
1:01:20
Speaker 10: the facts on exploitation and abuse. New action across children's
1:01:24
Speaker 10: services and other agencies to identify children at risk, and
1:01:28
Speaker 10: further action to support child victims and tackle the new
1:01:32
Speaker 10: forms of exploitation and abuse online. Taken together, this will
1:01:37
Speaker 10: mark the biggest program of work ever pursued. To root
1:01:41
Speaker 10: out the scourge of grooming gangs and child sexual exploitation.
1:01:46
Speaker 10: Those vile perpetrators who have grown used to the authorities
1:01:50
Speaker 10: looking the other way must have no place to hide.
1:01:57
Speaker 3: Well, the only thing she said that was true there
1:02:00
Speaker 3: authorities looking the other way must have no place to hide.
1:02:04
Speaker 3: This is a pertinent comment because the reality is it's
1:02:07
Speaker 3: the very authorities which should be protecting children which have
1:02:11
Speaker 3: not only been involved in the abuse, but they've been
1:02:14
Speaker 3: helping the cover up. And I can tell our audience
1:02:18
Speaker 3: that there is a lot happening behind the scenes to
1:02:22
Speaker 3: do with evidence that's coming to the surface, which takes
1:02:26
Speaker 3: us back to the abuses around Elm Guesthouse and Dolphin Square,
1:02:31
Speaker 3: where it's absolutely apparent that the authorities across the board.
1:02:36
Speaker 3: So we're talking the government, we're talking local authorities, and
1:02:40
Speaker 3: we're certainly talking the police were not only involved in
1:02:43
Speaker 3: the abuse of children, they were involved in the cover
1:02:47
Speaker 3: up of any exposure as to what was actually happening,
1:02:50
Speaker 3: and that cover up also included threatening witnesses coming forward. Now,
1:02:56
Speaker 3: we very much hope that in the coming weeks UK
1:03:00
Speaker 3: column is going to report be able to report more
1:03:02
Speaker 3: detail about just what's been happening under the surface. A
1:03:07
Speaker 3: documentation I've seen over the last week in particular, demonstrates
1:03:12
Speaker 3: that the police is just one example, absolutely involved in
1:03:16
Speaker 3: the abuse of children and involved in the cover up,
1:03:20
Speaker 3: not least by helping to warn off other police and
1:03:24
Speaker 3: of the witnesses bringing these crimes to the surface. So
1:03:28
Speaker 3: the big lie for the government will always be the
1:03:31
Speaker 3: only abuse is grooming gangs, whereas the truth is that
1:03:35
Speaker 3: the abuse of the children goes through the system of
1:03:38
Speaker 3: government itself. I have to end on there. But as
1:03:42
Speaker 3: soon as the UK column has got more material that
1:03:44
Speaker 3: we are given permission to share with our audience, we
1:03:48
Speaker 3: will do that.
1:03:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for that, Brian. That was an extraordinary statement
1:03:53
Speaker 2: from a bit of cooper. It just strikes me as
1:03:55
Speaker 2: about twenty years too late. Well, they've probably probably and
1:03:59
Speaker 2: someone of that as well.
1:04:01
Speaker 3: I think they all worried.
1:04:02
Speaker 1: Ben.
1:04:03
Speaker 3: I think you can see more and more research and
1:04:07
Speaker 3: evidence is coming to the surface. And of course where
1:04:10
Speaker 3: is that appearing. It isn't appearing on traditional media like
1:04:14
Speaker 3: the BBC. It's appearing on social media, new media, alternative media,
1:04:20
Speaker 3: and that's the target they want to close down because
1:04:23
Speaker 3: that's where the danger is. The truth comes to the
1:04:26
Speaker 3: surface where it can, so they want it silenced. It's
1:04:30
Speaker 3: pretty obvious what these people are up to.
1:04:33
Speaker 2: It certainly is. Okay, that's all we have time for today.
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