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⚠️ Just Happened! (London MASS Power Outage!) · Neil McCoy-Ward Podcast

0:03
SPEAKER_01: Just happened again today.
0:07
SPEAKER_01: A mass power outage right across London.
0:12
SPEAKER_01: Why are we not surprised by this?
0:16
SPEAKER_01: We've talked about this a lot, how this is going to keep happening.
0:20
SPEAKER_01: We've had all these warnings over and over again.
0:23
SPEAKER_01: The dark winter warning, the fuel warning, the infrastructure warnings, the government warnings.
0:30
SPEAKER_01: And now we've had yet again another power cut.
0:34
SPEAKER_01: It started at 10.30am and went right the way through to the early afternoon.
0:41
SPEAKER_01: Now, what I thought was really interesting about the media reporting
0:45
SPEAKER_01: of this mass power outage was that they said 33 distinct districts,
0:53
SPEAKER_01: that's how they described it, were affected.
0:57
SPEAKER_01: And they said it was...
1:00
SPEAKER_01: Get ready for this.
1:01
SPEAKER_01: It said the regions of London that were affected were North London,
1:06
SPEAKER_01: East London, South London, Central London.
1:12
SPEAKER_01: All they had to say was the whole of London was affected except for West London.
1:18
SPEAKER_01: I mean they didn't need to go into so much detail naming every single part.
1:21
SPEAKER_01: They said even Westminster The Houses of Parliament,
1:25
SPEAKER_01: where everything goes on, was plunged into darkness.
1:29
SPEAKER_01: You'd think that they'd have a backup generator, but obviously not.
1:34
SPEAKER_01: That might fly in their face of their policies, hey, with the net zero and everything else.
1:43
SPEAKER_01: But I just found it absolutely baffling that this took place,
1:46
SPEAKER_01: although it wasn't really a surprise and it's not the first time.
1:51
SPEAKER_01: They said that the,
1:53
SPEAKER_01: this bit made me laugh,
1:54
SPEAKER_01: the fault caused today that triggered the blackout was caused by a fault on
2:00
SPEAKER_01: an electrical cable.
2:02
SPEAKER_01: Well, obviously the fault was caused by a fault.
2:08
SPEAKER_01: This effect, gosh, I mean,
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SPEAKER_01: it said that this caused absolute chaos across London,
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SPEAKER_01: Liverpool Street, Railway station was the worst affected.
2:18
SPEAKER_01: They said that it was just a complete blackout.
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SPEAKER_01: Nothing was working whatsoever across the station.
2:25
SPEAKER_01: If you were there or you know someone who was there, leave a comment for us.
2:28
SPEAKER_01: Let me know what your experience was.
2:32
SPEAKER_01: The City of London was in a blackout as well, nothing could happen.
2:38
SPEAKER_01: Financial district, why did they not have generators?
2:42
SPEAKER_01: Surely the financial district would have backup generators.
2:44
SPEAKER_01: It said it affected the financial district.
2:48
SPEAKER_01: A lot of money was lost today in trading and everything else.
2:52
SPEAKER_01: Wi-Fi networks were down.
2:54
SPEAKER_01: Another interesting thing is that CCTV was down.
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SPEAKER_01: Again, why would you not have backups on your CCTV or the security services?
3:07
SPEAKER_01: This is bizarre to me.
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SPEAKER_01: It doesn't make sense.
3:11
SPEAKER_01: Unless, you know, that would be a perfect cover though, wouldn't it?
3:14
SPEAKER_01: Think about that one day when something really major happens and they say,
3:18
SPEAKER_01: oh, there was a power cut.
3:20
SPEAKER_01: We just don't have the Video evidence or something like that.
3:25
SPEAKER_01: You remember when I told you my van was stolen in the UK.
3:30
SPEAKER_01: I'd driven over from the Isle of Man.
3:32
SPEAKER_01: I was there for one night basically.
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SPEAKER_01: My van was stolen.
3:36
SPEAKER_01: They had two or three pieces of evidence.
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SPEAKER_01: They said We really need some video evidence, some CCTV.
3:43
SPEAKER_01: We need that extra piece of evidence.
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SPEAKER_01: Otherwise, there's no point.
3:47
SPEAKER_01: I said, I can describe it.
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SPEAKER_01: I can tell you about the guys, you know, everything.
3:51
SPEAKER_01: No, no, no, no, no.
3:52
SPEAKER_01: Not interested.
3:53
SPEAKER_01: No, no, no.
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SPEAKER_01: They wanted some CCTV.
3:57
SPEAKER_01: So they said they have restored power now to most areas.
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SPEAKER_01: There's some areas that is still ongoing.
4:05
SPEAKER_01: And wow, wow, wow.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, so this was interesting.
4:09
SPEAKER_01: I want to really focus then on the The warnings and what could come a bit later on.
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SPEAKER_01: And just so that I couldn't be accused of being biased in this,
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SPEAKER_01: I even used Google, yes, Google,
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SPEAKER_01: to help me to forecast some of the scenarios for the UK power grid going forward.
4:28
SPEAKER_01: And I think you'll find this quite interesting because
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SPEAKER_01: when I used Grok versus Google,
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SPEAKER_01: Grok was a little bit more extreme in its forecast,
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SPEAKER_01: but even the Google forecast was extreme.
4:42
SPEAKER_01: It started out by saying,
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SPEAKER_01: yes, there are significant ongoing concerns regarding the UK electrical grid.
4:50
SPEAKER_01: And it was talking about all these concerns right across the board,
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SPEAKER_01: from government to power companies,
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SPEAKER_01: all the way through to climate activists, so I had to get those in there.
5:00
SPEAKER_01: But it said the impact...
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SPEAKER_01: Of war on supply and cost.
5:07
SPEAKER_01: It blamed all of this on the war.
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SPEAKER_01: It blamed it on Russia, first of course.
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SPEAKER_01: Then it blamed it on Iran.
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SPEAKER_01: Blaming it on Iran is a bit of a stretch.
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SPEAKER_01: Blaming it on Iran starting a war.
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SPEAKER_01: Firstly, Google, Iran didn't start the war.
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SPEAKER_01: But anyway, we won't even get into all of that.
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SPEAKER_01: It's also talking about the gas squeeze.
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SPEAKER_01: It said this is the one that isn't being talked about,
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SPEAKER_01: is the disruption to LNG, so liquefied natural gas.
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SPEAKER_01: It says this is going to be one of the big ones right across Europe,
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SPEAKER_01: and Europe hasn't got a plan to stop this as they go into freezing winter.
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SPEAKER_01: So that's one that isn't talked about a lot.
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SPEAKER_01: The other one it said is soaring bills.
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SPEAKER_01: It said not blackouts, but soaring bills.
5:54
SPEAKER_01: This is going to be,
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SPEAKER_01: and I'll come onto an article on this,
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SPEAKER_01: it's just come out today, on what is going to happen to UK energy bills.
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SPEAKER_01: Shocking.
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SPEAKER_01: So is the grid at risk of failing?
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SPEAKER_01: Well, yes and no.
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SPEAKER_01: They've put in some new emergency safety nets to try and stop this from happening,
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SPEAKER_01: especially in London.
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SPEAKER_01: But they say that net zero policies and some other things are blocking this.
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SPEAKER_01: So they can't start putting in redundancies because it would counter the net zero policies.
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SPEAKER_01: And apparently most people in London support this.
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SPEAKER_01: So they don't want to have backup diesel and coal and all the other stuff in place.
6:34
SPEAKER_01: They would rather have a blackout than actually...
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SPEAKER_01: It just is mind-blowing to me.
6:43
SPEAKER_01: I was reading a really interesting book last night and it kind of builds on some of
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SPEAKER_01: the other books I talked about previously on energy and civilization
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SPEAKER_01: and how civilization was built.
6:57
SPEAKER_01: And this book was kind of interesting because it went another level further,
7:01
SPEAKER_01: so a bit of foundational context here then.
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SPEAKER_01: Civilisation, GDP,
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SPEAKER_01: the rise of living standards right across the world is actually built upon
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SPEAKER_01: from energy.
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SPEAKER_01: Fossil fuels if you want to call them that,
7:19
SPEAKER_01: I don't really like that term,
7:21
SPEAKER_01: but either way that's the term, fossil fuels, hydrocarbons etc.
7:26
SPEAKER_01: So that is what has built
7:31
SPEAKER_01: This was one of the biggest fallacies of the whole thing.
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SPEAKER_01: It was destroying the infrastructure before the renewables and the connections to
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SPEAKER_01: the grid were in place.
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SPEAKER_01: Not only that, the The electricity is very different now.
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SPEAKER_01: So you think about how it was produced before with coal and power plants and things like that.
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SPEAKER_01: Now a lot of it is your wind turbines.
8:00
SPEAKER_01: Out at sea, you've got your...
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SPEAKER_01: Solar panels,
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SPEAKER_01: and why don't they like geothermal,
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SPEAKER_01: which is always the question that I ask,
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SPEAKER_01: or your tide,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: you're on an island with waves constantly,
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SPEAKER_01: all that energy, but no, they don't seem to like that as much.
8:18
SPEAKER_01: They want to focus on making the landscape look ugly with wind turbines and solar panels.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, it defies belief, really.
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SPEAKER_01: Cutting down forests, beautiful forests, in order to put a solar farm there.
8:34
SPEAKER_01: It's like the big climate conference.
8:36
SPEAKER_01: Do you remember when we covered that?
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SPEAKER_01: They bulldozed the rainforest for I don't even remember how long that stretch was.
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SPEAKER_01: So they could build a road so that delegates could get to the climate conference.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, this is the absurdity of some of the things going on.
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SPEAKER_01: But coming back to it, what's actually happening now is this big transition.
9:00
SPEAKER_01: But the transition was based upon or predicated upon...
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SPEAKER_01: The very premise that the US would continue to supply energy,
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SPEAKER_01: that Hormuz would continue to provide energy,
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SPEAKER_01: Bab al-Mandeb Strait would continue to provide energy,
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SPEAKER_01: that other places would continue to provide energy.
9:21
SPEAKER_01: Well, that's actually not what's happening.
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SPEAKER_01: We're seeing this breakdown of globalization,
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SPEAKER_01: especially energy globalization, is actually breaking down.
9:30
SPEAKER_01: And you're seeing everyone's dying to close ranks.
9:33
SPEAKER_01: And we just had another big announcement out this week which didn't surprise me.
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SPEAKER_01: And that's that China has joined in with Russia and some of
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SPEAKER_01: the other BRICS countries to actually put an export ban on energy as well.
9:49
SPEAKER_01: So this is going to be even worse.
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SPEAKER_01: It is just getting worse and worse and worse.
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SPEAKER_01: And I'm surprised that they haven't called a COBRA meeting,
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SPEAKER_01: an emergency meeting, to say, OK, look, we've messed up here.
10:03
SPEAKER_01: What are we going to do?
10:04
SPEAKER_01: At least let's get in some of the Brent and the crude, let's do something with refineries.
10:11
SPEAKER_01: Let's figure this out now.
10:13
SPEAKER_01: They're not even trying to figure this out.
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SPEAKER_01: They're just going to keep releasing,
10:16
SPEAKER_01: that's their plan, keep releasing oil and other fuels from the emergency reserve.
10:24
SPEAKER_01: And that's basically it.
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SPEAKER_01: They're saying, look, the International Energy Agency is going to figure this out.
10:30
SPEAKER_01: It's not for us to figure it out at a government country level.
10:33
SPEAKER_01: No, no, no, we're going to let them figure it out.
10:36
SPEAKER_01: So that's their plan.
10:37
SPEAKER_01: That is no plan whatsoever.
10:40
SPEAKER_01: I mean, talk about a dark winter.
10:42
SPEAKER_01: I know we've talked before and I've said,
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SPEAKER_01: hey, make sure you've got your emergency sleeping bags, right?
10:48
SPEAKER_01: These things, emergency sleeping bags.
10:51
SPEAKER_01: Talked about these.
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SPEAKER_01: I have got, I think, six or eight of these things.
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SPEAKER_01: Trust me, these things will save your life.
10:59
SPEAKER_01: I've talked before about the emergency water straws, right?
11:03
SPEAKER_01: Or pure water straws.
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SPEAKER_01: These things are brilliant.
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SPEAKER_01: I'll leave a link below in the description.
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SPEAKER_01: You know, these are absolutely brilliant.
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SPEAKER_01: It's like a giant felt tip pen.
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SPEAKER_01: You don't just store gallons and gallons, hundreds of litres of water.
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SPEAKER_01: You just get yourself one of these, you know.
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SPEAKER_01: Now this is a clean glass of water, but if it was dirty, stick it in there.
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SPEAKER_01: Other way.
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SPEAKER_01: Stick it in there.
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SPEAKER_01: Drink it up right from the...
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SPEAKER_01: I don't recommend it from a nasty pond, but you could.
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SPEAKER_01: I'll leave a link below.
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SPEAKER_01: In fact, let me just show you that very quick.
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SPEAKER_01: So, you know, these are the things here.
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SPEAKER_01: That's what it opens up as.
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SPEAKER_01: That little blanket I just showed you opens up with that.
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SPEAKER_01: Absolutely save your life.
11:52
SPEAKER_01: And there's the pure water straw.
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SPEAKER_01: Here's Richard there drinking out of a puddle with his German Shepherd just
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SPEAKER_01: to show what it does.
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SPEAKER_01: But yeah, I'll leave a link below for this sort of stuff.
12:04
SPEAKER_01: You've genuinely got to start preparing for a lot of this stuff now.
12:07
SPEAKER_01: You really do.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm definitely prepared.
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SPEAKER_01: I've already written...
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SPEAKER_01: Hundreds and hundreds of pages, actually, for a new preparedness guide.
12:15
SPEAKER_01: And then once I'd written so much of it, I thought, actually, we need some interviews in here.
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SPEAKER_01: So I'm now speaking to some incredible guys,
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SPEAKER_01: about a dozen guys, one lady, who are experts around the world in preparedness.
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SPEAKER_01: Not necessarily survivalist,
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SPEAKER_01: but preparedness,
12:33
SPEAKER_01: because I don't want the whole pack and the course to be just about,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
12:37
SPEAKER_01: if you've ever seen the movie The Road,
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SPEAKER_01: No, we're not talking about cannibalistic marauders going around.
12:43
SPEAKER_01: No, no, no.
12:44
SPEAKER_01: What we're talking about is realistic things.
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SPEAKER_01: You've seen what's been happening with the weather recently.
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SPEAKER_01: Crazy.
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SPEAKER_01: Crazy things with the weather.
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SPEAKER_01: You've seen what's happening with blackouts,
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SPEAKER_01: and the government's warned us of blackouts,
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SPEAKER_01: telling us to prepare 72-hour emergency supplies.
13:04
SPEAKER_01: You've seen what's happening with riots and protests and Crime and home invasions,
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SPEAKER_01: not in America as much now, but happening right across Europe.
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SPEAKER_01: There's all this stuff you've got to start preparing for.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, what was the big one last year?
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SPEAKER_01: It was the big chemical fire in the US.
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SPEAKER_01: Do you remember the big train chemical fire?
13:27
SPEAKER_01: We've got wildfires now.
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SPEAKER_01: All sorts of things that people just...
13:33
SPEAKER_01: So that's what the guide is going to be, the course is going to be.
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SPEAKER_01: So we're going to have some really good interviews.
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SPEAKER_01: The first interviews are going to begin potentially this week,
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SPEAKER_01: but I've written about 800 pages of guide for you.
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SPEAKER_01: So that will be coming out very shortly.
13:48
SPEAKER_01: If you're on the email list, you'll get an email about that.
13:50
SPEAKER_01: Probably get a series of email, write some emails, teach you a lot of stuff beforehand.
13:55
SPEAKER_01: So yeah, if you're on the email list, you can get that as well.
13:58
SPEAKER_01: If not, again, link below in the description to get on the email list.
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SPEAKER_01: But let's continue on with this.
14:04
SPEAKER_01: This is probably a longer stream today because there's a lot I want to cover.
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SPEAKER_01: Not just this, there's a lot of stuff.
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SPEAKER_01: So what have they said?
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SPEAKER_01: Well, Coming back to the blackouts there, new emergency safety nets have been approved.
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SPEAKER_01: Because the geopolitical climate is volatile, the UK has updated its contingency plans.
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SPEAKER_01: One of them is called Rapid Response Power Cut.
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SPEAKER_01: So this is as of 2026 this year.
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SPEAKER_01: The authority has now been passed to,
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SPEAKER_01: it's called NESO basically,
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SPEAKER_01: it's passed to this organisation
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SPEAKER_01: to initiate Rolling three-hour emergency power cuts,
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SPEAKER_01: giving just eight hours notice to residents.
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SPEAKER_01: So they said this is one of the things they're going to be looking to do to balance
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SPEAKER_01: the load across the UK.
14:50
SPEAKER_01: Gosh, reminds me of South Africa.
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SPEAKER_01: For my South African subscribers here, leave a comment.
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SPEAKER_01: Does it sound like the shedding that you guys have there?
15:01
SPEAKER_01: So I wanted to go over the sort of Medium-term cases through to
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SPEAKER_01: a worst-case scenario, I guess, hypothetically speaking.
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SPEAKER_01: So it said, best-case scenario... What?
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SPEAKER_01: I had to check this again.
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SPEAKER_01: Best-case scenario is a controlled three-hour blackouts for the United Kingdom.
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SPEAKER_01: And again, it's not saying when this will happen.
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SPEAKER_01: It's saying because the infrastructure is getting so old,
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SPEAKER_01: there's no plans to replace it, and all the other stuff...
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SPEAKER_01: Hedge funds are bought, some of the power companies, all the other things.
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SPEAKER_01: He's saying this is now the best case scenario that it predicts.
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SPEAKER_01: So these are controlled three-hour blackouts.
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SPEAKER_01: So it said,
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SPEAKER_01: if a severe winter,
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SPEAKER_01: and it says gloomy weather with zero wind generation and a failure
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SPEAKER_01: of net zero coincides with a major war-related gas halt, Neso,
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SPEAKER_01: which is N-E-S-O,
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SPEAKER_01: it's the National Energy System Operator,
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SPEAKER_01: will trigger emergency eight-hour blackouts for the United Kingdom.
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SPEAKER_01: Wow.
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SPEAKER_01: So the mechanism then is to shed up to 20% of the country's electricity load at
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SPEAKER_01: a time, and this translates to three-hour daily.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, daily blackouts mapped across the UK by postcode.
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SPEAKER_01: And if you think, you know, if you're thinking, it's just Neil making this up, by the way.
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SPEAKER_01: Here's the evidence for it.
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SPEAKER_01: This was last month.
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SPEAKER_01: You can see this article is one month old.
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SPEAKER_01: Millions in Great Britain could face emergency power cuts at short notice.
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SPEAKER_01: So this was the article, if you want to read it.
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SPEAKER_01: People always say, could you put all the links in the description?
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SPEAKER_01: I actually can't put all the links in the description to a lot of this stuff, unfortunately.
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SPEAKER_01: And it's annoying, I know,
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SPEAKER_01: it's annoying for me as well,
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SPEAKER_01: because if you put too many links in the description,
17:03
SPEAKER_01: when you think I've got 20 different articles open here,
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SPEAKER_01: If you put all these links in the description, YouTube penalizes the contents.
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SPEAKER_01: It thinks I'm spamming, spamming you with links and stuff.
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SPEAKER_01: So that's why I don't put links.
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SPEAKER_01: But all you have to do is just do a search for the title of the article, by the way.
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SPEAKER_01: That's the easy way to do it.
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SPEAKER_01: So who will get spared them?
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SPEAKER_01: It said the emergency blackout plan will protect sites like hospitals,
17:29
SPEAKER_01: water treatment plants, and major transport hubs.
17:33
SPEAKER_01: But here's the interesting thing about the water treatment plants,
17:37
SPEAKER_01: straw again by the way,
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SPEAKER_01: just because that's protected, it doesn't mean the pumps are going to work.
17:44
SPEAKER_01: If you've got no electricity, how the tap's going to work, right?
17:50
SPEAKER_01: I actually didn't know this when I was a kid, you know, when the electricity went off.
17:55
SPEAKER_01: I said, but I don't understand.
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SPEAKER_01: Why don't the taps still work?
17:59
SPEAKER_01: And because, oh, well, it needs electricity, you need pumps and everything else.
18:03
SPEAKER_01: So, you know, it says for three hours a day, your home will be dark.
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SPEAKER_01: You'll have zero power, no Wi-Fi, no heating.
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SPEAKER_01: Get your emergency sleeping bag.
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SPEAKER_01: Get yourself some warm pyjamas and some blankets.
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SPEAKER_01: No cooking either.
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SPEAKER_01: Even mobile data probably won't work because of heavy congestion.
18:28
SPEAKER_01: So if you've got an emergency, good luck there, ladies and gents.
18:33
SPEAKER_01: Okay, let's go on to the next.
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SPEAKER_01: This is the sort of medium case, worst case.
18:38
SPEAKER_01: It's called total system collapse.
18:42
SPEAKER_01: It says if this happens due to a sudden imbalance of the grid or
18:47
SPEAKER_01: an international cyber attack targeting substations during a period when
18:51
SPEAKER_01: the grid is already operating outside the safe limits,
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SPEAKER_01: frequency would drop too fast for automated safety switches to cope and
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SPEAKER_01: the entire UK grid would instantly shut down to prevent the actual burning out
19:04
SPEAKER_01: of transformers which would be even worse.
19:07
SPEAKER_01: If that happens,
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SPEAKER_01: a black start is triggered and it would enter the country into uncharted territory.
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SPEAKER_01: And it gives you, it even explains all this.
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SPEAKER_01: Hour 1 to 12, immediate chaos.
19:19
SPEAKER_01: Total darkness.
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SPEAKER_01: No street lights, no traffic lights, no digital sight.
19:24
SPEAKER_01: Hold on, how is this the medium case?
19:27
SPEAKER_01: Surely this is the worst case scenario.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't even want to know what the worst case is if this is the media.
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SPEAKER_01: Stranded trains and elevators.
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SPEAKER_01: Elevators would stop mid-floor.
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SPEAKER_01: Communication blackout.
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SPEAKER_01: There would be absolutely no phone usage.
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SPEAKER_01: The battery backups, it says, on the mobile towers would only last two to three hours.
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SPEAKER_01: Internet would vanish entirely.
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SPEAKER_01: Day 2-5, the Black Star Nightmare.
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SPEAKER_01: It's said that restoring a collapsed national grid is not like flipping a switch.
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SPEAKER_01: You can't just turn on a giant power plant.
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SPEAKER_01: It takes days.
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SPEAKER_01: Engineers must start small and isolated,
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SPEAKER_01: beginning with diesel generators to start a hydroelectric dam.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, and then the dam would start a gas plant and it would gradually wake up piece
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SPEAKER_01: by piece and it would be improving area by area.
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SPEAKER_01: The complication is whistleblowers and energy consultants have warned that,
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SPEAKER_01: by the way,
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SPEAKER_01: I'm just going to put this on screen a second here,
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SPEAKER_01: just in case you think, where's Neil reading this from?
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SPEAKER_01: This, look, you can see the URL, this is Google here.
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SPEAKER_01: And this is the actual page, right?
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SPEAKER_01: So complication,
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SPEAKER_01: whistleblowers and energy consultants have warned that the UK's massive influx
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SPEAKER_01: of uncontrolled home solar panels
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SPEAKER_01: and localized wind turbines makes this balancing act incredibly erratic.
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SPEAKER_01: This just goes on and on.
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SPEAKER_01: It talks about wind turbines,
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SPEAKER_01: government admissions,
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SPEAKER_01: internal documents from the Department of Energy,
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SPEAKER_01: Security and Net Zero admit that recovering from
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SPEAKER_01: a nationwide total grid outage would take weeks to fully restore.
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SPEAKER_01: Weeks.
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SPEAKER_01: It said this would then go on to an even worst case scenario here.
21:23
SPEAKER_01: Okay, so this is where we've got the food supply chain would break down within 24 hours.
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SPEAKER_01: There would be no refrigeration.
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SPEAKER_01: Supermarkets would legally have to take off the food out of the refrigerators,
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SPEAKER_01: out of the freezers.
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SPEAKER_01: You wouldn't be able to get any food.
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SPEAKER_01: Obviously, there'd be a run on the supermarket as well.
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SPEAKER_01: That goes without, it doesn't say that here, but there'd be a massive run on the supermarket.
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SPEAKER_01: Water pressure drops and
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SPEAKER_01: without any electrical pumps there would be no water pressure
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SPEAKER_01: so you wouldn't have water and you'd have to figure out a way to get water.
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SPEAKER_01: You wouldn't be able to have any fuel.
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SPEAKER_01: Actually,
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SPEAKER_01: this is a key one that I was writing about only yesterday in my guide was what to do
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SPEAKER_01: about prepping your vehicle,
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SPEAKER_01: prepping for fuel and other things because this is a big one that would be hit
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SPEAKER_01: as well.
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SPEAKER_01: How to actually get out of certain areas because you know what everyone does, people are sheep.
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SPEAKER_01: They all follow,
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SPEAKER_01: they all get onto the motorway and they all go on the motorway at the same time,
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SPEAKER_01: of course.
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SPEAKER_01: So this was an article that just came out And it says the UK faces
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SPEAKER_01: the worst winter energy crisis since 2022.
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SPEAKER_01: This is the suppliers, by the way.
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SPEAKER_01: It's the suppliers that are actually warning of this.
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SPEAKER_01: And they said that the PM, basically, should provide more help to the poorest of households.
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SPEAKER_01: That's what the Industry body has now warned.
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SPEAKER_01: So British households face a winter energy crisis, a dark winter, as bad as 2022.
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SPEAKER_01: Now remember, that was meant to be just a blip when the whole Russia-Ukraine thing started.
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SPEAKER_01: Suppliers have warned and they've called for ministers to take urgent action
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SPEAKER_01: to support struggling bill payers.
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SPEAKER_01: The industry group said typical household bills could rise to £2,100 in just a few months time.
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SPEAKER_01: But they said this is the equivalent of £2,500 in 2022.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, the government's being very misleading on this and they're not explaining that.
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SPEAKER_01: They're saying, oh, it's still less than 2022.
23:33
SPEAKER_01: No, it's not.
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SPEAKER_01: Why?
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SPEAKER_01: Because, two reasons.
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SPEAKER_01: Number one is inflation, that's the minor reason.
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SPEAKER_01: But number two is that energy prices have increased dramatically since 2022.
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SPEAKER_01: So a rise to £2,100 is basically the equivalent to £2,500.
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SPEAKER_01: And that's also because energy usage has been cut a lot by homeowners now.
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SPEAKER_01: Because the prices have gone up,
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SPEAKER_01: people have started to reduce their energy usage,
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SPEAKER_01: turn off their lights and everything like that.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, I thought this was interesting.
24:10
SPEAKER_01: What did they blame this on?
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SPEAKER_01: Let's get this in black and white for you here.
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SPEAKER_01: What did they blame it on?
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SPEAKER_01: Iran War.
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SPEAKER_01: The sharp rise in energy costs this winter follows widespread disruption
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SPEAKER_01: to gas supplies because of the conflict in the Middle East.
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SPEAKER_01: That is not the reason why, ladies and gents.
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SPEAKER_01: It's their own making.
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SPEAKER_01: The government has done this to us.
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SPEAKER_01: Another crazy one that happened.
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SPEAKER_01: This is, again,
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SPEAKER_01: my South African friends are going to say,
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SPEAKER_01: this is what happens in South Africa, not in the UK.
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SPEAKER_01: You ready for this one?
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SPEAKER_01: More households are now stealing energy to cope with rising cost of living.
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SPEAKER_01: The numbers on this are staggering as well.
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SPEAKER_01: They're absolutely mind-blowing.
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SPEAKER_01: So it's risen that this is the number of gas and electricity.
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SPEAKER_01: How on earth do you steal gas?
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, I know how to do it with electricity.
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SPEAKER_01: Not that I've ever done it.
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SPEAKER_01: I understand that, but gas, how on earth do you steal gas?
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SPEAKER_01: That must be dangerous.
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SPEAKER_01: So they've confirmed now it's risen to 21,354 cases of this just this year,
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SPEAKER_01: and that's an analysis by Stay Safe Energy.
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SPEAKER_01: Some of the biggest increases have been among theft from businesses,
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SPEAKER_01: which has more than trebled.
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SPEAKER_01: More than 61% of people surveyed for this said it was easy
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SPEAKER_01: to understand why households stole energy due to the increase in bills.
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SPEAKER_01: 38% believed that people were stealing energy because of financial need rather
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SPEAKER_01: than cheating, according to the poll of more than 2,000 members of the public.
25:54
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, maybe.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, does the average person Know how to steal electricity.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't think so.
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SPEAKER_01: It's the sort of thing you see in developing nations, isn't it?
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SPEAKER_01: You see that a lot there.
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SPEAKER_01: So this massive rise is again correlated.
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SPEAKER_01: The data shows electricity and gas,
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SPEAKER_01: and when we see the areas, again,
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SPEAKER_01: I just said, okay,
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SPEAKER_01: surely this is obvious at this point when it names the areas,
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SPEAKER_01: but the data shows electricity and gas are most likely to be stolen in Certain parts
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SPEAKER_01: of London, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, Bradford and Doncaster.
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SPEAKER_01: It's estimated that the rising theft could be costing the industry and consumers
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SPEAKER_01: a billion pounds a year, meaning that your bills have to go up.
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SPEAKER_01: They said the latest figures from the industry confirmed more than 100,000.
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SPEAKER_01: This is confirmed, but they believe it's five to ten times that amount.
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SPEAKER_01: 100,000 were confirmed in the last few years.
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SPEAKER_01: They also said friendly fraud is on the rise.
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SPEAKER_01: This is what they're calling it now.
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SPEAKER_01: They're calling it, here it is, friendly fraud.
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SPEAKER_01: This is where people are scamming, using their credit cards to scam businesses.
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SPEAKER_01: And they're saying, and then doing chargebacks and other things.
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SPEAKER_01: And they're saying that this is a friendly fraud and it's more of a misdemeanor.
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SPEAKER_01: You know, these business owners, yeah, let's not worry about them too much, hey.
27:36
SPEAKER_01: We had another big one out today, just adding to energy.
27:40
SPEAKER_01: And here it is.
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SPEAKER_01: Europe's diesel woes just got even worse.
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SPEAKER_01: Europe's diesel supply crunch is worsening with imports hitting
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SPEAKER_01: a record September low as China suspends fuel exports
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SPEAKER_01: and Russia Supplies remain constrained.
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SPEAKER_01: So the BRICS are really, really doing a number at the minute on the West.
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SPEAKER_01: Europe is heavily dependent on imported diesel after decades
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SPEAKER_01: of diesel-focused demand and the closure of 30% of the EU refineries.
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SPEAKER_01: Strategic stock releases may become unavoidable,
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SPEAKER_01: particularly if the US restricts diesel exports before the flows actually recover.
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SPEAKER_01: China this week announced it will suspend all fuel exports.
28:28
SPEAKER_01: Also this week,
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SPEAKER_01: President Trump demanded that Germany and France release 120 million barrels,
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SPEAKER_01: or they could be hit with a ban.
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SPEAKER_01: So this is not looking good at all.
28:41
SPEAKER_01: It's really not looking good for what is taking place here.
28:46
SPEAKER_01: Now, the UK's supply has actually dropped even further, so we're now down to roughly 20 days
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SPEAKER_01: This is commercial diesel and gas oil cover.
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SPEAKER_01: Now remember that's rolling days,
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SPEAKER_01: it doesn't mean they'll run out in 20 days, it just means it's rolling.
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SPEAKER_01: So now there's just coming down and down and down and down and down.
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SPEAKER_01: And wow.
29:10
SPEAKER_01: But they've said, I thought this was an interesting one, good news today.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah, what's this good news?
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SPEAKER_01: Let's hear it.
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SPEAKER_01: Well, Britons will no longer have to scan passports at gates.
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SPEAKER_01: You can use your face instead.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah,
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SPEAKER_01: facial recognition technology could mean Britons no longer need
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SPEAKER_01: to show their passports at eGate when they fly back to the UK.
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SPEAKER_01: This, they're saying, is a great thing.
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SPEAKER_01: You don't need anymore to show your passport.
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SPEAKER_01: You just scan your face now.
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SPEAKER_01: Facial recognition technology.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm sure everybody loves this.
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SPEAKER_01: You'll still need to travel with your passport.
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SPEAKER_01: But it's going to be contactless now.
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SPEAKER_01: And this is all to reduce cues.
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SPEAKER_01: So it's all for you.
29:52
SPEAKER_01: It's not for,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: they're saying because the border force has been shrinking,
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SPEAKER_01: all these difficulties, of course.
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SPEAKER_01: My goodness.
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SPEAKER_01: So they're saying this is a good thing.
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SPEAKER_01: Or did they deliberately shrink the border force?
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SPEAKER_01: That's what I'm wondering.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, look at these long cues.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't worry, we've got the solution to this problem.
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SPEAKER_01: We're going to make these contactless facial recognition gates so
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SPEAKER_01: that you can just walk your way through.
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SPEAKER_01: This is going to be extended to all the e-gates already in operation at Birmingham,
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SPEAKER_01: Bristol,
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SPEAKER_01: Cardiff,
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SPEAKER_01: East Midlands,
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SPEAKER_01: Edinburgh,
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SPEAKER_01: Gatwick, Glasgow, Heathrow, London City, Luton, it's basically all of them.
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SPEAKER_01: Let's just be honest, it's almost all of them at this point.
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SPEAKER_01: Another one, interesting.
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SPEAKER_01: We'll talk about this in a second.
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SPEAKER_01: Entire town under police powers after, look at this, anti-migrant protest breakout, really.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, we'll come to that in a minute.
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SPEAKER_01: The government is keeping a list now of people who question their policies.
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SPEAKER_01: Social media posts here And they've blocked a couple of them out.
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SPEAKER_01: But social media posts criticizing government policy are being monitored
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SPEAKER_01: and investigated by officials.
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SPEAKER_01: If you post a negative X post or a Reddit post,
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SPEAKER_01: then you will be logged under the UK's anti-terror program called Prevent.
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SPEAKER_01: And this is if you create critical comments.
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SPEAKER_01: It doesn't have to be illegal.
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SPEAKER_01: It can just be critical now.
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SPEAKER_01: We are falling deeper and deeper into an authoritarian regime.
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SPEAKER_01: We really are.
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SPEAKER_01: One campaign group whose tweet was recorded in the database said
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SPEAKER_01: the revelations raised serious questions about the freedom of expression and
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SPEAKER_01: the right to protest in the UK.
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SPEAKER_01: Jacob Smith,
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SPEAKER_01: who fought for a year to get the Home Office to publish the information,
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SPEAKER_01: said you should be allowed to criticise government policy without being put on
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SPEAKER_01: a list.
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SPEAKER_01: Another person got put on the list for this tweet here, this post.
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SPEAKER_01: I sat through prevent training at work a few weeks ago and
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SPEAKER_01: the narrative was very much that the far right is the biggest threat.
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SPEAKER_01: I kid you not.
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SPEAKER_01: It only had 10 views, but it doesn't matter.
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SPEAKER_01: Even if it had zero views, it still gets logged and this person gets put on the list.
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SPEAKER_01: This is pretty disturbing.
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SPEAKER_01: All of these things are going on.
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SPEAKER_01: Let me know what you think in the comments, by the way.
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SPEAKER_01: Please subscribe if you're not already.
32:45
SPEAKER_01: But let me know in the comments what you think about this insanity that is going on in the UK.
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SPEAKER_01: It's just going from bad to worse.
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SPEAKER_01: It really is.
32:57
SPEAKER_01: Let's go on now then to talk about what's happening in Gosport.
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SPEAKER_01: Wow.
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SPEAKER_01: Wow.
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SPEAKER_01: I really had to look into Gosport.
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SPEAKER_01: Do a lot of research on the legality of what's taking place there.
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SPEAKER_01: I thought, surely this can't be legal.
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SPEAKER_01: They've basically, in effect, locked down an entire town.
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SPEAKER_01: That is the only way I can describe it.
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SPEAKER_01: They have put a Section 34 notice on an entire town,
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SPEAKER_01: locking the town down,
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SPEAKER_01: restricting their movements, just so they could bring in illegal migrants.
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SPEAKER_01: This is insanity.
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SPEAKER_01: Absolute insanity what they are doing.
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SPEAKER_01: You cannot believe what is going on here.
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SPEAKER_01: So residents took it into their own hands.
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SPEAKER_01: What did they do?
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SPEAKER_01: They started putting up barricades.
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SPEAKER_01: Started putting barricades up.
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SPEAKER_01: Well, a lot of these were arrested right away.
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SPEAKER_01: Arrested for doing that.
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SPEAKER_01: This was another one then.
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SPEAKER_01: Screen recording.
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SPEAKER_01: This was...
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SPEAKER_00: Single file line.
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SPEAKER_00: Hundreds of migrants.
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SPEAKER_00: All in a single file line.
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SPEAKER_00: I promise you this is not a joke.
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SPEAKER_00: I promise you this is 100% genuine.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, this was actually genuine.
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SPEAKER_01: It was from drone footage.
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SPEAKER_01: And then you look at the ambulances arriving.
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SPEAKER_01: No wonder you can't get an ambulance.
34:35
SPEAKER_01: Look at this.
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SPEAKER_01: Look at them all.
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SPEAKER_01: Just a line after line of ambulances.
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SPEAKER_01: It's terrible what's going on.
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SPEAKER_01: It really is.
34:56
SPEAKER_01: So, you know, the arrests are emptying the prisons of actual criminals.
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SPEAKER_01: And putting people in for tweets or for being in the area.
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SPEAKER_01: Where was the...
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SPEAKER_01: I wanted to talk about...
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SPEAKER_01: I had to really research it because, you know, I'm not a
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SPEAKER_01: lawyer or have a deep legal background.
35:21
SPEAKER_01: So I was looking into this and I just couldn't believe it was true.
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SPEAKER_01: So section 14 of the Public Order Act 1986, the police can invoke this without...
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SPEAKER_01: Well, they've got to have reason,
35:36
SPEAKER_01: but they said anyone gathering to protest had to go to a designated area
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SPEAKER_01: in Walpole Car Park, and this was in force until 4pm.
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SPEAKER_01: If you ignored it, it was an arrestable and you could be convicted for this.
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SPEAKER_01: Section 158 of the Crime and Policing Act 2026 and Section 60AA of
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SPEAKER_01: the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 were Face coverings used
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SPEAKER_01: to hide identity at protests are banned.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, so let's just talk about that for a second.
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SPEAKER_01: Why is it,
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SPEAKER_01: I've said this before,
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SPEAKER_01: you saw all of these protests of Antifa and all of these other groups,
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SPEAKER_01: and even, do you remember that video I did?
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SPEAKER_01: Where, in fact, I'm going to pull it up right now while we're talking.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm going to pull up that video where I was in London, and I said, what on earth is going on?
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SPEAKER_01: What have I...
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SPEAKER_01: What have I just walked into here?
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SPEAKER_01: Do you remember that?
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SPEAKER_01: And all of those guys, and I even interviewed that police officer.
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SPEAKER_01: Here it is.
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SPEAKER_01: Let's get this on.
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SPEAKER_01: I'll turn the sound off of it.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, so here it was.
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SPEAKER_01: Just load this up.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, do you remember this video?
36:58
SPEAKER_01: They were all...
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SPEAKER_01: All these guys, not all, but look at this guy.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, I'm just randomly picking one thing here.
37:04
SPEAKER_01: Look at this guy.
37:06
SPEAKER_01: And he had tactical gear on as well.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, so you had all these people in, look at this as well.
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SPEAKER_01: They were all masked up in the park.
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SPEAKER_01: Loads of guys masked up in the park.
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SPEAKER_01: It was the police, if you remember.
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SPEAKER_01: Didn't like me filming them, but okay.
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SPEAKER_01: So you just had loads of people in masks.
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SPEAKER_01: And this was fine.
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SPEAKER_01: There was no problem with all these guys wearing masks.
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SPEAKER_01: But all of a sudden now, everyone, they've banned masks.
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SPEAKER_01: It's crazy the way this is going.
37:57
SPEAKER_01: And then the other one was Section 34 Dispersal Order under
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SPEAKER_01: the Antisocial Behaviour Crime in Policing Act 2014.
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SPEAKER_01: It covered the whole of Gosport.
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SPEAKER_01: And this is still in force, by the way, until tomorrow.
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SPEAKER_01: So basically two full Days, an officer can order someone to leave and not return.
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SPEAKER_01: They were blocking people.
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SPEAKER_01: There's videos on X of people who were...
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SPEAKER_01: They've got their shopping bags trying to go home and the police wouldn't let them through.
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SPEAKER_01: And the guy's shouting and swearing and he's saying,
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SPEAKER_01: if you do that, you're going to be arrested.
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SPEAKER_01: And he's like, I'm trying to get home.
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SPEAKER_01: I've got kids at home.
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SPEAKER_01: What are you doing?
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SPEAKER_01: I have nothing to do with this protest and all the other stuff.
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SPEAKER_01: It is just...
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SPEAKER_01: So it's completely...
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SPEAKER_01: Even though what's happening,
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SPEAKER_01: because I started,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: talking about this and saying,
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SPEAKER_01: having a conversation with my AI about this,
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SPEAKER_01: saying it doesn't make any sense if,
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SPEAKER_01: you know, this is illegal landings, is what it's known as.
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SPEAKER_01: And it says, yes,
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SPEAKER_01: it is a criminal offence under section 24D1 of the Immigration Act 1971,
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SPEAKER_01: but there's something called Nationality of Borders Act 2022.
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SPEAKER_01: So it's trying to say this is a grey area now.
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SPEAKER_01: Well, why is it a grey area?
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SPEAKER_01: What have they passed?
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SPEAKER_01: And they're also saying that because of how this is going on in the sea and
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SPEAKER_01: that France is not living up to their responsibility and they're helping
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SPEAKER_01: to move them over and we know about Danny Tomo and everything with the slashing
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SPEAKER_01: the boat and all the other stuff.
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SPEAKER_01: It's obvious now to me,
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SPEAKER_01: I don't know what your thoughts are,
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SPEAKER_01: probably this will get flagged,
39:36
SPEAKER_01: oh this extreme content or something,
39:39
SPEAKER_01: but it's obvious that you look at the videos and you see inside the coaches
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SPEAKER_01: and you see the board of force and everyone, it's obvious this is all planned now.
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SPEAKER_01: They're deliberately facilitating this.
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SPEAKER_01: And the BBC doesn't report on it,
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SPEAKER_01: or if they do,
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SPEAKER_01: they just say,
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SPEAKER_01: all these thugs,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: thugs and what they're trying to do, they're racist and all the other stuff.
40:02
SPEAKER_01: And you can't even talk about the crime statistics.
40:05
SPEAKER_01: You talk about crime statistics or you can't talk about that because that's racist
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SPEAKER_01: towards these other countries in Africa and the Middle East.
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SPEAKER_01: It's facts.
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SPEAKER_01: It's what's happening.
40:17
SPEAKER_01: You know, it's crazy what is happening now.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, you look at what happened as well in this article.
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SPEAKER_01: US bombers now, they've pulled out of RAF Fairford after the terror plot.
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SPEAKER_01: And You've got to ask why.
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SPEAKER_01: Why did they pull out?
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SPEAKER_01: You listened to Trump, you heard him on the interview.
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SPEAKER_01: He basically said he just couldn't believe that these men were released.
40:45
SPEAKER_01: Okay, they didn't have explosives in the van,
40:47
SPEAKER_01: but they had huge quantities of,
40:51
SPEAKER_01: I think it was petrol,
40:51
SPEAKER_01: I don't think it was diesel, it was petrol in the back of these three vans.
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SPEAKER_01: Well, is that not suspicious to anyone?
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SPEAKER_01: And they found terror-related material.
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SPEAKER_01: So they released these guys on bail.
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SPEAKER_01: Release them on bail because there isn't enough prison places.
41:11
SPEAKER_01: It is crazy.
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SPEAKER_01: I just can't believe how insane this is.
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SPEAKER_01: So Trump is saying the same thing.
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SPEAKER_01: They released these guys.
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SPEAKER_01: So it's no surprise that now An ally of the UK,
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SPEAKER_01: the strongest ally militarily,
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SPEAKER_01: can't trust the UK to protect its bombers on UK soil.
41:35
SPEAKER_01: That is how bad this has now gotten.
41:40
SPEAKER_01: Another one today.
41:42
SPEAKER_01: We talked about this the other day.
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SPEAKER_01: They've calculated that it's going to be £8 billion to seize all
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SPEAKER_01: of these empty homes that are around.
41:51
SPEAKER_01: But it's not just the empty homes.
41:53
SPEAKER_01: This is what worries me.
41:56
SPEAKER_01: It's not just the empty homes that they're looking at.
41:58
SPEAKER_01: They're also going to be looking now at buy-to-lets if they are vacant after just six months.
42:04
SPEAKER_01: Now, let me tell you why that's disturbing.
42:06
SPEAKER_01: Because a lot of Pensioners in the UK,
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SPEAKER_01: a lot of older people, they have a buy to let as their pension.
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SPEAKER_01: This is very, very common.
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SPEAKER_01: And these people are not rogue landlords.
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SPEAKER_01: They're not evil people trying to take advantage of families and young people.
42:26
SPEAKER_01: No, they're offering a service.
42:28
SPEAKER_01: They are renting a home at a fair price because the market sets the price.
42:33
SPEAKER_01: And the standards have to be maintained to a certain level, right?
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SPEAKER_01: You can't Rent out rat-infested cockroach properties with no running water, right?
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SPEAKER_01: It's not legal.
42:44
SPEAKER_01: So there's already
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SPEAKER_01: legal things in place to make sure that property is rented correctly, right?
42:56
SPEAKER_01: So what are they going to be going after?
42:59
SPEAKER_01: They're not going to go after those houses like the one you just saw in that image,
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SPEAKER_01: all boarded up and everything.
43:05
SPEAKER_01: Oh, no.
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SPEAKER_01: They're going to go after the easy, the low-hanging fruit.
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SPEAKER_01: These are the buy-to-let rental properties because who's going to fight the council?
43:15
SPEAKER_01: If you're just a mom and pop or you're just retired,
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SPEAKER_01: are you going to have the resources to fight the council?
43:22
SPEAKER_01: No.
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SPEAKER_01: If it's a big company,
43:24
SPEAKER_01: like you've got these big companies now that own hundreds and hundreds
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SPEAKER_01: of properties, they're not going to touch them, are they?
43:30
SPEAKER_01: So this is what they're going to do.
43:32
SPEAKER_01: They're going to go after the low hanging fruit because this 8 billion pound bill is
43:36
SPEAKER_01: a lot of money.
43:38
SPEAKER_01: It's going to cost 25,000 pound on average per property.
43:42
SPEAKER_01: So it's going to be up to 8 billion pounds.
43:44
SPEAKER_01: And they've even said that they've scrapped the previous rules.
43:48
SPEAKER_01: This was empty dwelling management order.
43:52
SPEAKER_01: So before there had to be a reason for taking the property.
43:55
SPEAKER_01: Now, no, if it's unoccupied for six months, then it can be confiscated by the government.
44:05
SPEAKER_01: So is it any surprise that we heard this today?
44:10
SPEAKER_01: Britain's second richest person, man, leaves the UK for Monaco.
44:18
SPEAKER_01: This guy is worth, where is it?
44:21
SPEAKER_01: He is worth 28 billion pounds.
44:26
SPEAKER_01: 28 billion pounds.
44:28
SPEAKER_01: And he's going to be leaving with all of that money, which is sat in UK banks, a lot of it.
44:33
SPEAKER_01: He's taking that money with him.
44:36
SPEAKER_01: And people are celebrating this.
44:38
SPEAKER_01: They don't understand the implications of that.
44:43
SPEAKER_01: Now, he may have some sort of arrangement or deal,
44:48
SPEAKER_01: I would have thought, with the British government anyway for taxes.
44:51
SPEAKER_01: So he'll probably pay less taxes than you would pay as an employee or something like
44:57
SPEAKER_01: that, right?
44:58
SPEAKER_01: You might pay 40%, 45% on the higher rate, national insurance on top.
45:03
SPEAKER_01: Some people might be paying as much as 60% taxes, right?
45:08
SPEAKER_01: It'd probably be less than that, actually, when you scale it out.
45:10
SPEAKER_01: But either way, he won't be paying that sort of money.
45:15
SPEAKER_01: But he will be paying a lot of money in taxes.
45:17
SPEAKER_01: So the reason I share that,
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SPEAKER_01: you've got to think about the loss of that one man would probably be equivalent
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SPEAKER_01: to huge numbers of people, employees that pay taxes.
45:32
SPEAKER_01: And the government, the Labour government, Just doesn't get it.
45:36
SPEAKER_01: They don't see it.
45:37
SPEAKER_01: They don't get it.
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SPEAKER_01: What they are doing to the country.
45:42
SPEAKER_01: It wasn't just him that's left.
45:44
SPEAKER_01: That's David Rubin.
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SPEAKER_01: Christopher Rokos, worth $4 billion.
45:48
SPEAKER_01: Lashmi Mattel, remember we talked about him, the steel magnet, Jaguar Land Rover, etc.
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SPEAKER_01: $15 billion.
45:55
SPEAKER_01: Alan Howard, we saw Richard Node, I think his name is.
46:01
SPEAKER_01: And they keep talking about, well, we're replacing all these people.
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SPEAKER_01: We're replacing them with new people migrating into the country.
46:10
SPEAKER_01: Well, that's just, again, one doesn't equal one.
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SPEAKER_01: You don't replace a billionaire with someone from a developing nation or whatever.
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SPEAKER_01: It doesn't work like that.
46:28
SPEAKER_01: My goodness, we are in for some dire times.
46:32
SPEAKER_01: Get you a sleeping bag.
46:35
SPEAKER_01: Start thinking about all these things.
46:37
SPEAKER_01: I'll let you know as soon as that preparedness program is ready.
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SPEAKER_01: Get on that right away.
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SPEAKER_01: It's going to leave no stone unturned.
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SPEAKER_01: If you're not sure how to prepare for all this stuff, that will cover everything for you.
46:49
SPEAKER_01: Long live stream today.
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SPEAKER_01: Long one.
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SPEAKER_01: But I hope you got a lot of value from that.
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SPEAKER_01: Hope it really helped.
46:56
SPEAKER_01: Thanks so much.
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SPEAKER_01: Take care.
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SPEAKER_01: God bless.
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SPEAKER_01: And I'll see you on the next one.