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UK Column News — 25th May 2026 · UK Column Radio

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon. Today is Monday, the twenty fifth of May
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. Yourselfter one o'clock. Welcome to UK column News.
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Speaker 1: I'm your host Brian Gerrish Deloyde to have been rubin
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Speaker 1: with me in the studio and you've had a pleasant weekend, Ben, I've.
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Speaker 2: Had a very pleasant weekend Brian. Yeah. I've been day
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Speaker 2: tripping around South Devon. It's fantastic absolutely with blue sky
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Speaker 2: and sunshine. Everybody around me at least in a really
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Speaker 2: great mood. They're pleased to see the sun. They know
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Speaker 2: it's hot, they know how to cope with it, they
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Speaker 2: know how to protect their children. So I like the
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Speaker 2: BBC's message of doom because the sun is out. Most
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Speaker 2: people around us in Devon had a really spectacle a weekend.
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Speaker 2: We hope you did as well. Now we've got a
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Speaker 2: very busy news today. There's a lot happening and it's
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Speaker 2: going to be focusing on by elections and political maneuvering.
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Speaker 2: He's also going to be having a look at what
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Speaker 2: he calls command and control. I'm going to say to me,
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Speaker 2: this is the bringing in of the new order. It
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Speaker 2: is visible if you know where to look. But most
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Speaker 2: people do not realize that there is a massive attack
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Speaker 2: on the Constitution and the system of law at the moment.
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Speaker 2: So I think those are going to be two very
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Speaker 2: interesting segments, Ben, and I'm going to be having a
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Speaker 2: look at trial by jury under massive attack. I'm also
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Speaker 2: going to be having a look at the family courts
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Speaker 2: in that context, and I will be commenting on Ryana
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Speaker 2: Formick and the trial process around him. We will be
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Speaker 2: ending today with some lovely slides from the weekend, so
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Speaker 2: stay with us for that at least. Well, Ben, take
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Speaker 2: us away. People are very pre optic with the.
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Speaker 1: Wars overseas at the moment, but done the price of oil,
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Speaker 1: as I've said, food price is going up. There's something
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Speaker 1: very devious happening under the surface.
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Speaker 2: There certainly is, yeah, and the political situation just gets
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Speaker 2: more and more chaotic. So just this weekend, campaigning is
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Speaker 2: really kicked into gear for the Makerfield by election up
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Speaker 2: in the northwest of the UK is coming up on
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Speaker 2: the eighteenth of June. Candidates have been announced and I'm
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Speaker 2: actually pleased to see that Alan Howlin, Lord Hope from
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Speaker 2: the Monster Raving Looney Party is throwing his hat into
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Speaker 2: the ring. And do you think it's time for them
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Speaker 2: to step forward into government. Brian, Well, of.
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Speaker 1: Course this has been going on for many years and
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Speaker 1: most people regard it as good of fun during election periods.
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Speaker 1: But I have said in twenty twenty six, perhaps the
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Speaker 1: Mons Raving Looney party is very pertinent. There's very accurate
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Speaker 1: as the situation we find out.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, you could use that name to describe any
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Speaker 2: of the main political parties. Obviously the big hitters are
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Speaker 2: there too. This is has been widely reported an opportunity
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Speaker 2: for Andy Burnham to throw his hat into the ring,
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Speaker 2: potentially to make a leadership bid for the Labor Party
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Speaker 2: to become the next prime minister. Potentially he's put his
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Speaker 2: name forward. He's currently polling in the lead at forty
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Speaker 2: three percent, against Reform at forty percent and Restore Britain
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Speaker 2: actually coming in third at the moment around nine percent
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Speaker 2: in current polls. But let's just remind ourselves about Andy
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Speaker 2: Burnham's thoughts on vaccine passports. Would you be happy carrying
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Speaker 2: a vaccine passport? Yes, no doubt about it. Absolutely Okay,
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Speaker 2: So if we need him run in the country, short
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Speaker 2: and sharp and very scary that somebody should be so
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Speaker 2: deceived as to what the reality is. Well, yeah, sure,
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Speaker 2: I mean whether he was deceived or not. I think
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Speaker 2: he's certainly up for debate for people who don't quite
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Speaker 2: get the point as it relates to vaccine passports, that
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Speaker 2: is the digital ID system. Essentially, it's the same technology.
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Speaker 2: So that's who we potentially got heading into into Westminster,
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Speaker 2: potentially into Downing Street next, who knows. And Burnham himself
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Speaker 2: is a very high profile figure nationally. He's currently the
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Speaker 2: mayor of Greater Manchester, one of the old regions, absolutely
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Speaker 2: aligned to the Fabian Society. So he's a wolf in
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Speaker 2: sheep's clothing as they say, and also has a lot
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Speaker 2: of questions to answer I think about the cover up
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Speaker 2: of the grim and gangs issue in the Greater Manchester
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Speaker 2: region over the past ten or fifteen years. So whether
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Speaker 2: we want this guy leading the country or not is
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Speaker 2: certainly up for debate. So other people on the ballet
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Speaker 2: include Peter Ward from Rejoin EU, which seems to be
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Speaker 2: getting a little bit of traction at the moment. I
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Speaker 2: bet he's a real who's at parties, isn't he? Peter Ward?
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, But of course the undertone within labor is very
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Speaker 1: much that we should be rejoining the European Union. But
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Speaker 1: the iron ears, as the UK column alone reported, we
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Speaker 1: achieved Brexit without the exit. We're still effectively in, but
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Speaker 1: the talk as if no, we're not. And look no
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Speaker 1: further than military collaboration, military unification with the EU if
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Speaker 1: you want to understand what this is really about.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and then also of note, we have Restore Britain
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Speaker 2: embodied by Rebecca Shepherd, who is hoping to become the
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Speaker 2: second MP for Restore Britain. Obviously the party leader, Rupert Lowe,
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Speaker 2: is already in Parliament having been elected as a reform candidate.
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Speaker 2: And we're going to show you now a fantastic piece
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Speaker 2: of footage captured over the weekend from again a man
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Speaker 2: called Frank Wright. He was out canvassing for Restore Britain
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Speaker 2: talking about why he likes Restore and the currents of
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Speaker 2: the nation and the West more broadly.
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Speaker 3: Well, you can see that there's obviously, there's the bankruptcy
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Speaker 3: of the general liberal idea. There's the fact that you
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Speaker 3: get a sense that the Western idea and the ideas
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Speaker 3: we've had since the Second World War winding down themselves.
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Speaker 3: And at the same time you can't escape the fact
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Speaker 3: that we appear to be morally as well as financially
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Speaker 3: bankrupt across the West, across Europe and in Britain, that
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Speaker 3: the whole system is in a form of crisis, if
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Speaker 3: you like. What we used to call normal life has
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Speaker 3: been replaced by permanent state of emergency in terms of
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Speaker 3: our social incohesion, in terms of demographic change, in terms
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Speaker 3: of the fact that there appear to be no realistic
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Speaker 3: solutions offered, and whoever you vote for, the same mad
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Speaker 3: policies get continued throughout your life. And that's what I've
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Speaker 3: seen in the last thirty years. And if it goes on,
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Speaker 3: we're finished.
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Speaker 1: So what does finish look like?
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Speaker 3: What does finished look like? Finished looked like and economic collapse.
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Speaker 3: Finish looks like spending all your money on foreign wars
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Speaker 3: when nothing works in the country. Finish looks like you
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Speaker 3: can't get a job for being competent. There's no sanity
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Speaker 3: even in recruitment. We have a competency crisis because, for
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Speaker 3: increasingly ideological and insane reasons, employment opportunities, even training opportunities,
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Speaker 3: are restricted.
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Speaker 1: There's one new.
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Speaker 3: Story after another about why, for political reasons, we're doing
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Speaker 3: mad things that bankrupt the country. That basically park people's
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Speaker 3: careers that exclude talented people of genuine principle from any
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Speaker 3: area of influence whatsoever, and taking collectively this is the
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Speaker 3: politics and economics of national suicide.
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Speaker 1: So it has to stop.
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Speaker 3: And there's increasingly a sense, not just in Britain but
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Speaker 3: throughout the West that something has to change. And I
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Speaker 3: think that's only going to build as we begin to
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Speaker 3: see the devastating consequences of the latest round of reckless
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Speaker 3: warmongering in the Middle East, which we should never have
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Speaker 3: been involved in. But we're all going to have to
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Speaker 3: live with those consequences, and from this summer on we're
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Speaker 3: going to see how bitter they are. And it's only
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Speaker 3: going to get worse unless we change the system. And
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Speaker 3: there's no real change that's offered by the parties of
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Speaker 3: the force consensus that was the liberal establishment after the
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Speaker 3: Second World War, and it doesn't work anymore, and it
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Speaker 3: hasn't produced the utopia it's promised. It's produced a sort
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Speaker 3: of hell on Earth.
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Speaker 2: Extraordinary off the car remarks there from Frank Wright.
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Speaker 1: And that says that the man has been thinking for
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Speaker 1: a very long time. He's got all of his thoughts organized.
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Speaker 1: He understands what he's looking at. Of course, this is
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Speaker 1: the sort of man that the BBC would hate automatically
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Speaker 1: and not give him any sort of platform. Wouldn't it
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Speaker 1: be wonderful if that opinion could be taken across society
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Speaker 1: in a wider form. Instead of people being in their
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Speaker 1: respective right wing left wing camps, we actually start to
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Speaker 1: focus on the actual problems and the people causing those problems.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, We'll provide a link to go and watch
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Speaker 2: the full video. It's about thirteen minutes long. And I
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Speaker 2: agree with pretty much everything that he says in the video,
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Speaker 2: apart from his belief that Restore Britain is the only answer,
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Speaker 2: and I've talked about Restore Britain a lot. I don't
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Speaker 2: believe there's a political solution, and actually I do have
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Speaker 2: to point out there are some very odd things going
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Speaker 2: on in Restore Britain at the moment, in the very
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Speaker 2: center of the party. So, first of all, this guy
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Speaker 2: appeared sometime in the past couple of weeks. It's been
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Speaker 2: noted that Scott Benton, who is a disgraced former Tory
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Speaker 2: MP who was forced out due to his involvement with
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Speaker 2: the gambling industry, he's now running campaign operations for Restore.
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Speaker 2: He's very heavily influenced by Israel. Not just standing by
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Speaker 2: the flag, but you can actually see he has the
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Speaker 2: word Israel tattooed on his body there down by his
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Speaker 2: left hip. On the right side of the images we're
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Speaker 2: looking at this. Also he has Messiah of Zion and
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Speaker 2: ball tattooed on his arm, which means overseer.
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Speaker 1: And he's proud of this enough to have this image
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Speaker 1: on his own feed.
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Speaker 2: On his own social media. I think it's just from
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Speaker 2: his Instagram account. Yeah. Absolutely, our worship involved human sacrifice, right,
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Speaker 2: so it's a really extraordinary thing to see on anyone,
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Speaker 2: tasted on anybody, let alone inside of the Nationalist political party.
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Speaker 2: Seems very very old to.
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Speaker 1: Me, even as black humor.
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Speaker 2: It's yeah, nothing funny about it, so absolutely absolutely so,
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Speaker 2: you know, I think some questions there and a lot
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Speaker 2: of questions being asked about this on social media over
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Speaker 2: the weekend. And also just worth noting that Elon Musk
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Speaker 2: is absolutely piled in behind Restore Britain. He's been sharing
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Speaker 2: videos from Rupert Low. Actually during the council elections, he
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Speaker 2: provided some tesla's so the Low and team could drive
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Speaker 2: around Yarmouth. And I just think it's worth pointing out
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Speaker 2: that Musk has been predicting a second Civil war in
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Speaker 2: the UK for the past two years, very vocally, and
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Speaker 2: he's promoting Rupert Lowe as a preferred candidate. And Lowe
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Speaker 2: appears to be very o fay with the First Civil War,
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Speaker 2: British Civil War, that period of history, because we actually
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Speaker 2: see in his own private office at the absolute center,
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Speaker 2: at the pinnacle at the top of the back wall,
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Speaker 2: there is an engraving titled the Emblem of England's Distractions
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Speaker 2: from sixteen fifty eight, which shows Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector,
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Speaker 2: and this appears to be Hulo is looking up to
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Speaker 2: Well trying to emulate. I don't know, it's difficult to say,
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Speaker 2: but it's certainly in a prize position there in his
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Speaker 2: own personal office, and.
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Speaker 1: That's exactly right prize position where it can be seen immediately.
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Speaker 2: By those who know what it is, because actually took
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Speaker 2: us a while to work out what that image is.
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Speaker 2: It took us a good few days to find it.
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Speaker 2: And I think it's important to note that Cromwell did
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Speaker 2: a number of quite significant things. He beheaded the King
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Speaker 2: he decimated the church, he allowed freemasonry to flourish in England,
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Speaker 2: He essentially laid the foundations for the City of London,
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Speaker 2: led British Empire, and also sparked a civil conflict that
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Speaker 2: killed around four percent of the population, which in modern
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Speaker 2: terms will be about two point four million people.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the casualties in the Civil War absolutely horrific. And
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Speaker 1: the other thing to remember, of course, was interesting history
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Speaker 1: around who was actually funding him to allow this to happen.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, So let's just hope that mister Lowe isn't
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Speaker 2: trying to emulate the Lord Protector in that regard. And
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Speaker 2: the polls open on Dune the eighteenth.
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Speaker 1: No, we're just to add to that little bit of
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Speaker 1: segment that we realize many people desperate to actually stop
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Speaker 1: the breakdown which is happening, which that gentleman talked about
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Speaker 1: on the street, and they're involved with smaller parties. We
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Speaker 1: think the rule is that if you're involved with the party,
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Speaker 1: then make sure you're paying attention to what your own
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Speaker 1: party is doing at the same time that you are
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Speaker 1: calling out people in the established parties. As long as
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Speaker 1: those two things go hand in glove, it works very
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Speaker 1: well well. Let's come on to the subject of trial
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Speaker 1: by jury and the law. And over the weekend I
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Speaker 1: was very interested, a lot of people getting very interested
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Speaker 1: in this Guardian article which will pop up on streen
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Speaker 1: on screen. So the headline is new breed of political
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Speaker 1: prisoner arises in Britain as anti protest sentences rise. But
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Speaker 1: if we focus in a little bit on the sub headline,
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Speaker 1: it says more people are being jailed in England and
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Speaker 1: Wales as a result of acting to prevent climate breakdown
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Speaker 1: and the war in Gaza research reveals. So I was
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Speaker 1: just fascinated. It was almost as though the Guardian was
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Speaker 1: putting out a disposed viewpoint of course, that the climate
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Speaker 1: change is real and if you dare to stand up
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Speaker 1: against that, you're putting yourself in conflict with the government,
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Speaker 1: which is right. But there's something strange about this article.
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Speaker 1: Now when I got into it, this man features a
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Speaker 1: great deal and basically he's a professor within the Climate
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Speaker 1: Justice part of Queen's Queen Mary University in London, and
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Speaker 1: he says these are exceptional sentences that are being used
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Speaker 1: to apply to protests which are themselves profoundly political. Well,
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Speaker 1: the interesting thing is people are protesting in the first instance,
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Speaker 1: because they don't believe the scientific so called scientific message.
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Speaker 1: But is it political as it progresses, Yes, because the
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Speaker 1: government is pushing this scientific line, which many would challenge.
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Speaker 1: But this is what the gentleman says, And if we
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Speaker 1: go on, he says, it's clear that extreme sentences and
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Speaker 1: the level of remand detentions before trial at an extreme
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Speaker 1: level are being used to respond to one category of prisoners,
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Speaker 1: and that's prisoners who have been detained because they've been
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Speaker 1: involved in civil disobedience direct action as a result of
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Speaker 1: political protest. So there's something going on which is profoundly political.
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Speaker 1: That's absolutely correct. If you challenge the government, you're going
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Speaker 1: to be in trouble. Very often those protesters reflecting majority
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Speaker 1: rather than a minority view. And finally, here the real
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Speaker 1: danger is that you criminalize people for breaching something which
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Speaker 1: is essentially a civil injunction. Now at this point, the
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Speaker 1: professor added something else, and immediately I thought of you, Ben,
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Speaker 1: so let's bring this up on screen. He said that,
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Speaker 1: So that so that doesn't start as a criminal offense,
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Speaker 1: but it ends up with a criminal penalty. And that's
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Speaker 1: very concerning because it means that private companies effectively are
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Speaker 1: imposing injunctions which lead to large numbers of people going
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Speaker 1: to jail. So now the system is getting more interwoven,
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Speaker 1: and it's the companies that are the problem, and they're
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Speaker 1: imposing injunctions. And as a result of the companies, not
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Speaker 1: as a result of the government and the system of law,
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Speaker 1: people are going to jail. So some very interesting comments.
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Speaker 1: Now Professor David White, apologies I didn't bring his name
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Speaker 1: up earlier. If you go to the Queen Mary website,
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Speaker 1: you can find a conversation with David White. He says
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Speaker 1: he joined the Department of Law in February twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: two as a professor in climate Justice. We ask him
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Speaker 1: about his research, his vision for the Center for Climate
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Speaker 1: Crime and Justice, and what role academic should play in
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Speaker 1: the fight against the climate crisis and social injustice. Now,
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Speaker 1: this man is fully committed to the reality of climate change.
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Speaker 1: So let's bring in some of the texts. Legal questions
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Speaker 1: are big questions for Richard and I, but also for
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Speaker 1: everyone who might be involved in a center on climate
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Speaker 1: crime and climate justice. At the same time, the center
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Speaker 1: can play an active role in supporting struggles for climate justice.
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Speaker 1: Climate change has been permitted and indeed encouraged by industrial
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Speaker 1: processes that are enshrined in and protected by force by law. Again,
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Speaker 1: we need to be very honest here. This means accepting
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Speaker 1: that any legal system that has allowed us to get
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Speaker 1: to this point is a major problem standing in the
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Speaker 1: way of a sustainable world. So he's saying that climate
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Speaker 1: change has been encouraged by industrial processes, and to deal
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Speaker 1: with those corporate interests, we've actually got us change the
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Speaker 1: system of law itself. And this comes into material that
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Speaker 1: we're actually covering with escape Key when we were talking
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Speaker 1: about Epstein a week or so ago. Let's continue on
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Speaker 1: through with this comment, and he goes on to say this.
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Speaker 1: The Center's agenda will evolve over the coming months and
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Speaker 1: will depend on the people who get involved, but certainly
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Speaker 1: this agenda will need to be will need to directly
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Speaker 1: challenge a system of law that has encouraged climate change,
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Speaker 1: and it will need to find ways to support social
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Speaker 1: movements that seek sustainable alternatives. So this man is not
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Speaker 1: in the first instance after justice. Let's underline this bit.
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Speaker 1: We've got to challenge, i e. Change the system of
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Speaker 1: law which he alleges has encouraged the climate change in
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Speaker 1: the first place, and then he's going to be supporting
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Speaker 1: the social movements that seek sustainable alternatives at the same
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Speaker 1: time as he is supposedly pre protecting people who challenge it.
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Speaker 2: So totally, everything I agree with will be legal, everything I.
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Speaker 1: Disagree with will be illegal, because earlier today I was
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Speaker 1: really struggling with how to explain this message to people.
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Speaker 1: It's so silky smooth. You can read this article and think, oh, yes,
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Speaker 1: this man is there for the underdog, the person who's
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Speaker 1: ended up with a huge prison sentence because they've dared
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Speaker 1: to challenge the government on climate change. But no, he's
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Speaker 1: actually working in the background to change the whole system
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Speaker 1: of law to ensure that the government's policy goes into
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Speaker 1: play in the first place. Now, within the article Defend
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Speaker 1: our Juries is mentioned. I went to the website because
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Speaker 1: these are the people apparently challenging the law that's putting
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Speaker 1: people in prison. So this is just one image from
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Speaker 1: the website itself. But let's have a listen to what
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Speaker 1: Defend our Juries have to say in their own words.
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Speaker 4: This right in the UK which is really really important
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Speaker 4: and it's been there since sixteen seventy and it's the
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Speaker 4: right of juries to acquit a defendant based on their conscience,
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Speaker 4: so regardless of what a judge thinks, or what the
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Speaker 4: government of the day thinks, or what the media think,
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Speaker 4: but on their conscience. And this right is really it's
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Speaker 4: puts the moral sense of ordinary people at the heart
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Speaker 4: of our criminal justice system.
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Speaker 5: The blank balance. At the moment, they're becoming a bit
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Speaker 5: of a signifier for just how gagged defendants and protests
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Speaker 5: are becoming across this nation of ours, and indeed across
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Speaker 5: the rest of the world as well. They're becoming a
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Speaker 5: symbol of resistance in themselves.
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Speaker 4: In recent months, a retired social worker in a sixties
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Speaker 4: held up a sign which was pertaining to that right
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Speaker 4: of juries to acquit according to their conscience, and she
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Speaker 4: was arrested by order of a judge and threatened with imprisonment.
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Speaker 4: And twenty four others since then have been threatened with
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Speaker 4: the same thing for the same action. So we're here again,
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Speaker 4: back in greater numbers, to defend that right of juries
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Speaker 4: and the right to a fair trial.
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Speaker 6: To me, it isn't about any specific trial.
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Speaker 5: It's about the wider.
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Speaker 6: Context of what's happening in this country, in this legal system,
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Speaker 6: and this real repression that we're.
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Speaker 7: Seeing, of course obviously deciding they don't like from the verdict.
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Speaker 1: Now excuse me. What I've got to say here is
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Speaker 1: what is actually happening is the organization campaigning for juries
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Speaker 1: do they really understand what's coming because they're in bed
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Speaker 1: with this professor from Queen Mary who actually is changing
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Speaker 1: the system to bring in what the climate people are
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Speaker 1: challenging in the first place. So is this a bona
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Speaker 1: feidi campaign organization that's been subverted or is this a
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Speaker 1: joint operation with the universe in order to capture the
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Speaker 1: type of activists that would support a campaigning against climate change.
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Speaker 1: My message to the audience is you've got to be
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Speaker 1: very very careful what's actually happening here now so that
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Speaker 1: we understand the importance of the jury and as the
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Speaker 1: lady said, juries are quitting according to their conscience. I'm
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Speaker 1: just going to bring in this video clip talking about
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Speaker 1: the history of that particular court case.
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Speaker 8: I'm now joined by Katie Broomfield, who is a researcher
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Speaker 8: in history at Royal Hallaway University of London, to find
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Speaker 8: out more about why pen and Mead's case led to
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Speaker 8: the establishment of trial by jury So then, Katie, what
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Speaker 8: happened after pen and Mead were charged?
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Speaker 6: They appeared in the Old Bailey on the first of
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Speaker 6: September sixteen seventy. They pleaded not guilty to unlawful assembly,
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Speaker 6: and their trial before twelve Duramen started straight away.
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Speaker 8: So if it was pen and Meade who were charged,
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Speaker 8: why do we call this Bushell's case?
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Speaker 6: Edward Bushall was one of the men appointed to the
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Speaker 6: jury to hear the trial of Pen and Meade, and
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Speaker 6: it was his actions, along with his fellow jurors, which
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Speaker 6: arguably led to the establishment of the right trial by
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Speaker 6: jury as we now know it.
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Speaker 8: What did Busher and his fellow jurymen do well?
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Speaker 6: In a nutshell? And, to the great annoyance of the court,
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Speaker 6: the jury refused to find Pen or Meat guilty of
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Speaker 6: the offense of unlawful assembly under the Conventicle Act, which
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Speaker 6: was a law that was widely disliked for the restraints
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Speaker 6: it placed upon civil liberties and religious freedoms.
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Speaker 2: Look upon the prisoners of the bars, I'll say you,
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Speaker 2: is William Penn guilty of the matter?
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Speaker 9: Where all the stands indicted in manner and form or
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Speaker 9: not guilty.
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Speaker 5: Guilty of speaking in Gracechurch Street.
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Speaker 2: Is that all?
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Speaker 10: So what happened next?
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Speaker 6: While the judges just refused to accept that verdict.
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Speaker 9: The law of England will not allow you to part
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Speaker 9: till you have given in your verdict. We have given
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Speaker 9: in our verdict and we can give in no other. Gentlemen,
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Speaker 9: you have not given in your verdict, and you had
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Speaker 9: as good say nothing. Therefore go and consider it once
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Speaker 9: more that we may make an end of this troublesome business.
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Speaker 8: This is a jury amens their verdicts.
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Speaker 6: No, the jury refused to amend their verdict and that
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Speaker 6: made the court really angry.
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Speaker 9: Gentlemen, You shall not be dismissed till we have a
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Speaker 9: verdict that the court will accept, and you shall be
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Speaker 9: locked up without meat, drink, fire and tobacco. You shall
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Speaker 9: not think thus to abuse the court.
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Speaker 1: So a very simple little clip there. But the key
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Speaker 1: point is the jury has the power. They can acquit
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Speaker 1: anybody on their decision. They do not have to adhere
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Speaker 1: to the law that is in play at the time.
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Speaker 1: So there's a moral code that can be brought into being.
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Speaker 1: But of course the judge there, much as the present
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Speaker 1: day judges, believing that he rules in his own court
24:57
Speaker 1: now we've popped up on screen. Here comment from an
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Speaker 1: anonymous judicial spokesperson. This is in relation to the article
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Speaker 1: about Queen Mary University. Judicial independence and impartiality are fundamental
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Speaker 1: to the rule of law. Upon taking office, judges take
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Speaker 1: the judicial oath where they swear to act without fear
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Speaker 1: or favor affectional ill will. In each case, the judges
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Speaker 1: make decisions based on the evidence and arguments presented to
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Speaker 1: them and apply the laws. It stands, so judges are
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Speaker 1: beyond reproach and trust us. We can run justice. And
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Speaker 1: if we bring in the next comment they said, or
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Speaker 1: the spokesperson said, judges and magistrates sentence according to the
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Speaker 1: law set by Parliament and the sentencing guidelines said by
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Speaker 1: the Independent Sentencing Council, as well as the facts of
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Speaker 1: each case which may have aggravating or mitigating factors. Now
25:57
Speaker 1: that is the claim by the judicial system. We are
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Speaker 1: squeaky clean, trust us. But of course they're hammering anybody
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Speaker 1: who's challenging government policy. One more video clip here which
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Speaker 1: actually gives us real insight into the way judges think
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Speaker 1: about themselves.
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Speaker 11: I am the judge and it's my job to interpret
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Speaker 11: and uphold the law. Other people present during a trial
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Speaker 11: at the Crown Court are the prosecution barrister and the
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Speaker 11: defense barrister, usually with solicitors behind them taking notes, and
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Speaker 11: the jury. The defendant will sit in the dock and
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Speaker 11: be present during the trial. It is at my discretion
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Speaker 11: whether or not there is a public gallery. After the
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Speaker 11: jury has been sworn in, I address them directly. I
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Speaker 11: inform them that it is for them to decide if
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Speaker 11: the evidence they are going to hear proves the defendant's guilt.
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Speaker 11: I also inform them that it is their job to
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Speaker 11: consider the evidence, not the law, and that I will
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Speaker 11: guide them if necessary on points of law. If the
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Speaker 11: defendant is found not guilty, I will release the jury
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Speaker 11: from the cord. If the defendant is found guilty, I
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Speaker 11: will move to sentence him. In a straightforward case. It
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Speaker 11: is likely in that instance that the jury will remain
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Speaker 11: in court. I may, however, postpone sentencing where other factors
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Speaker 11: are to be considered. This can be particularly appropriate where
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Speaker 11: there have been contentious issues, or whether the defendant's background
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Speaker 11: is likely to have a significant impact on the sentence.
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Speaker 5: I pass.
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Speaker 1: So, just to be clear, that's a training video that
27:45
Speaker 1: isn't a comment treat from in court. Nevertheless, it's pretty
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Speaker 1: accurate because the judge says, well, I uphold the law.
27:51
Speaker 1: It completely ignores the role of the jury which can
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Speaker 1: actually overturn his decisions and this is the key problem.
27:58
Speaker 1: But will come on to more on the courts and
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Speaker 1: the attack on our system with common law by looking
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Speaker 1: at the family courts in a minute and over to
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Speaker 1: you so much.
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Speaker 2: To talk about that an extra as well. It's the
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Speaker 2: way that this is being attached to issues like climate
28:15
Speaker 2: change as well. I think he's very, very manipulative. So
28:19
Speaker 2: we're going to head over to the BBC and we've
28:22
Speaker 2: got a new broom in the top job. Matt Brittain,
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Speaker 2: former European head of Google, has just started as the
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Speaker 2: director General and we're excited to show you what he's
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Speaker 2: been up to in his first week.
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Speaker 7: I've had the privilege of traveling around on a sort
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Speaker 7: of speed internship. I'm blown away really by the teamwork
28:48
Speaker 7: and the collaboration that you see. I can tell that
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Speaker 7: we've got world class people here and a world class mission.
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Speaker 7: My question is how together can we re vent the
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Speaker 7: BBC for the world we're in today.
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Speaker 2: I think we need to.
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Speaker 7: Bring together the BBC's incredible storytelling and insight and creativity
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Speaker 7: to make the case for a BBC that's fit for
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Speaker 7: today and for tomorrow and for decades to come.
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Speaker 2: Well that was that made me feel really good. Okay
29:42
Speaker 2: about a new man in the top job at the
29:44
Speaker 2: BBC got a lot to do actually, so I think
29:46
Speaker 2: that he's been giving a target of cutting costs by
29:48
Speaker 2: about ten percent on top of.
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Speaker 1: The five hundred million they've already had to get.
29:53
Speaker 2: Exactly, so what we're going to see that means automation
29:55
Speaker 2: basically AI getting deployed everywhere, and more job cuts, well
30:01
Speaker 2: more job cuts and probably just more content. I think
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Speaker 2: the BBC produced like a week's worth of material every
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Speaker 2: day or something like that. I mean, it's just this
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Speaker 2: absolute extrapolating mess of.
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Speaker 1: Their budgets bigger than ours.
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Speaker 2: Yeah well again, yeah absolutely so. I don't know. We'll
30:23
Speaker 2: see how he gets along. I'm interested to follow his progress,
30:28
Speaker 2: but it strikes me as very much an inside man
30:31
Speaker 2: establishment man ex Google ex Google was at Google for
30:35
Speaker 2: fifteen plus years. He was a former Olympic rower before that.
30:41
Speaker 2: But when he was at Google, he was involved in
30:44
Speaker 2: setting up the Trusted News initiative During during COVID which
30:48
Speaker 2: involved the BBC. So is essentially the same crowd of
30:51
Speaker 2: people just circulating through the top jobs as far as
30:54
Speaker 2: I can tell. But he does have a big job
30:56
Speaker 2: on his play regarding the Charter renewal, which is absolutely
31:01
Speaker 2: up for debate at the moment. And I'm going to
31:03
Speaker 2: show a short clip now with Alex marn the former
31:07
Speaker 2: chief executive of Channel four, talking about the BBC and
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Speaker 2: the Charter in your process to Parliament just a few
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Speaker 2: days ago.
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Speaker 12: Thikes, well, I was just going to add to what
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Speaker 12: Pats saying, and coming from broadcasting, I guess what we're
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Speaker 12: saying here is it's not so much how do you
31:24
Speaker 12: protect the BBC, but how do you protect Britain, you know,
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Speaker 12: and the UK. When we're talking about the BBC and
31:30
Speaker 12: the news and the information it provides, it's about its
31:33
Speaker 12: importance to democracy as well as British society, and I
31:37
Speaker 12: think we're coming from the position that that's it's a
31:40
Speaker 12: kind of public good, it's a civic essential and to
31:43
Speaker 12: some degree it's our core national infrastructure and the public
31:46
Speaker 12: service media system that we have in the UK, as
31:49
Speaker 12: you've heard from the previous witnesses, is the best in
31:52
Speaker 12: the world. It's wonderful when Britain's the best in the
31:54
Speaker 12: world at something anything. But I think the government has
31:58
Speaker 12: a real opportunity here to ensure that strengthened and to
32:02
Speaker 12: think about not just what we need to preserve, but
32:04
Speaker 12: maybe more what we need to build, and to stop
32:07
Speaker 12: thinking about it as how can they do less or
32:10
Speaker 12: how can they do better, as to think about what
32:12
Speaker 12: do we need to build that makes us stronger and
32:15
Speaker 12: they can do better? And that takes some choices, but
32:17
Speaker 12: it's really important to think about it in that frame,
32:20
Speaker 12: and that's why establishing a permanent charter is probably a
32:24
Speaker 12: critical decision to make and ensuring that the purpose of
32:27
Speaker 12: the BBC as part of that is clear.
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Speaker 2: Yes, so permanent charting me is you don't have to
32:33
Speaker 2: justify your resistance.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely. You don't want the trouble about actually having to
32:38
Speaker 1: fight to justify yourself in front of the public who
32:41
Speaker 1: pay for you. So just get a charter in and
32:44
Speaker 1: leave it at that.
32:45
Speaker 2: And come up with some way that you can take
32:47
Speaker 2: it off council tax or something so that people can't
32:49
Speaker 2: knock out of it. It's the things they're talking about,
32:52
Speaker 2: but it's just fascinating to listen to top many of
32:54
Speaker 2: executives like Alex marn and I'm sure Matt Britain would
32:57
Speaker 2: agree with pretty much everything that you just said, talking
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Speaker 2: about the BBC being there to protect Britain, to protect
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Speaker 2: democracy being a public good. In realities, it's about protecting
33:07
Speaker 2: the existing power structure. That's what it's there to do, absolutely,
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Speaker 2: and it has been since its inception.
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Speaker 1: I would say, yes, so well we just add a
33:16
Speaker 1: couple of black humor clips. Really this is a Telegraph article.
33:20
Speaker 1: Apologies Telegraph, I haven't got Oh yeah, it does say
33:23
Speaker 1: Sunday Telegraph on it. BBC brings in debt collectors to
33:29
Speaker 1: police license fee, very very aggressive headline. You're in debt
33:34
Speaker 1: to the BBC and they are going to bring in
33:37
Speaker 1: people to police you and to claw their money back.
33:41
Speaker 1: If you want an amusing time, go on to the website.
33:45
Speaker 1: Go onto the Telegraph website. Have a look at the
33:48
Speaker 1: comments underneath. The public absolutely hammering the BBC, which is
33:54
Speaker 1: good to see. And while we are talking to our
33:57
Speaker 1: audience today saying that there's very dangerous tach going on
34:00
Speaker 1: in the country, the breakdown of this country, increasing chaos,
34:07
Speaker 1: what is the BBC's solution while on their website today
34:11
Speaker 1: it's football. If we are all playing more football, we're
34:15
Speaker 1: going to be able to deal with everything. So a
34:17
Speaker 1: new drama, Dear England, drama, a story of real hope.
34:21
Speaker 1: We're in a situation of utter breakdown, treasoner's criminality in Westminster.
34:27
Speaker 1: But the BBC says play more football, and of course
34:31
Speaker 1: this is reframing and propaganda in action. Okay, let's leave
34:36
Speaker 1: that there now. I just want to say that we've
34:39
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38:51
Speaker 1: on to a subject which UK colum I think perhaps
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Speaker 1: uniquely has covered over the last twenty years, and that
38:59
Speaker 1: is the still feeling of our children by the States.
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Speaker 1: This is an article back from twenty ten that I wrote,
39:05
Speaker 1: wake up, watchmen and children are being stolen by the state.
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Speaker 1: This is the abuse of the court system where families
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Speaker 1: have to try and defend their family and children inside
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Speaker 1: a court with a judge, with no jury and very
39:20
Speaker 1: often with no media or press. Now, the key parts
39:25
Speaker 1: of the article were this that these vicious star chamber courts,
39:30
Speaker 1: as I call them, block evidence. If there's evidence of abuse,
39:34
Speaker 1: it's actually blocked. False rumors are spread around the family
39:39
Speaker 1: to discredit them in order to weaken their ability to
39:42
Speaker 1: defend themselves and keep their children. Malicious use to the
39:47
Speaker 1: psychiatric system to brand parents as unfit parents or indeed
39:52
Speaker 1: mentally ill as a way to leave the children away.
39:56
Speaker 1: We've also got coaching children who've been abuse hoos to
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Speaker 1: reframe them that their abuse is imaginary. This is unbelievably
40:05
Speaker 1: vicious and cruel, but it absolutely goes on in the
40:09
Speaker 1: so called child protection system. We've got psychological harassment where
40:15
Speaker 1: all sorts of games are played on the families, particularly
40:18
Speaker 1: the mothers, I must say, in order to leave them
40:21
Speaker 1: away from the children. And it doesn't stop there because
40:25
Speaker 1: if the parents' moms and dads try to speak out,
40:29
Speaker 1: there are threats made in court you will be jailed
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Speaker 1: if you dare to speak about the case. Excuse me.
40:37
Speaker 1: So we've got malicious collusion here between the police, social services,
40:42
Speaker 1: the NHS and the legal teams so that the victim
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Speaker 1: is held on the outside of the decision making system.
40:49
Speaker 1: Parents are isolated. Sorry, I've got a duplicated headline.
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Speaker 8: There.
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Speaker 1: There are repeated court hearings, and we've also got removed
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Speaker 1: of the child by these secret star chamber courts, no
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Speaker 1: jury present. And if we remember, the former Justice Secretary,
41:09
Speaker 1: Jack Straw, was involved in a very strange thing. He
41:14
Speaker 1: said as of April the time this is going back
41:17
Speaker 1: to February two thousand and nine, because of a change
41:21
Speaker 1: in legislation being introduced by Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary,
41:25
Speaker 1: the media will no longer be able to identify those
41:28
Speaker 1: involved cases child cases such as the Websters. This is
41:32
Speaker 1: where it was absolutely clear the accusations made against the
41:37
Speaker 1: parents were untrue, but the state still went ahead and
41:41
Speaker 1: took children. And he continued by effectively making it or
41:48
Speaker 1: trying to make it illegal for any child currently in
41:50
Speaker 1: care to speak out even if they felt they were
41:54
Speaker 1: being mis maltreated or abused. This did not actually succeed,
41:59
Speaker 1: but even the media was very very suspicious as to
42:02
Speaker 1: what Jack Straw was trying to do, because it almost
42:06
Speaker 1: seemed that you were shutting down children from warning when
42:10
Speaker 1: they were being abused. So very very dark actors around
42:14
Speaker 1: our court system and particularly the children's courts, and recently
42:20
Speaker 1: we've been warning about Lord Levison making changes and trying
42:24
Speaker 1: to get rid of the jury, but a hand in
42:26
Speaker 1: glove with that, we've also got the drive to accelerate
42:31
Speaker 1: family courts, the so called child focus courts. What this
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Speaker 1: is really going to do is make it easier to
42:38
Speaker 1: take children away from their parents, because the whole secret
42:42
Speaker 1: court system will be accelerated. If you go onto the
42:45
Speaker 1: UK column website and put in childs stealing by the State,
42:49
Speaker 1: you'll see many interviews that I've done with mothers and
42:54
Speaker 1: talking about their children being stolen by the state, the
42:58
Speaker 1: state covering up abusive children in care. This is the
43:02
Speaker 1: reality of the legal system in UK. And of course
43:07
Speaker 1: the emphasis now is that everything will be made more
43:10
Speaker 1: secret as AI is used to replace juries, maybe to
43:16
Speaker 1: replace judges, in order to take children away from families.
43:20
Speaker 1: Very serious stuff then, and I think there are many
43:24
Speaker 1: people in this country who feel this cannot be possible.
43:28
Speaker 1: But it's reality.
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Speaker 2: It is reality, and it's being smuggled into policy in
43:36
Speaker 2: very underhand ways. I would say. So if we look
43:40
Speaker 2: at the next section here, the segue is remarkable because
43:45
Speaker 2: I'm going to talk to you initially about a piece
43:48
Speaker 2: of work coming from the secutive state of housing, communities
43:52
Speaker 2: and local government. This guy, Steve reid Obe. He's also
43:56
Speaker 2: a Fabian, also ultra Zionist, and last week he put
44:00
Speaker 2: out this piece of policy, the Neighborhood Guarantee to improve villages,
44:05
Speaker 2: towns and cities. You couldn't argue with that, could you, Brian.
44:08
Speaker 2: They're going to improve villages, towns and cities.
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Speaker 1: If you trust them, which I don't.
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Speaker 2: Bet well, I'm not sure that I do either, Right,
44:14
Speaker 2: But let's have a little listen to what this is
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Speaker 2: about and then we'll see how it actually links into
44:17
Speaker 2: the family course, because it does in quite a remarkable way.
44:21
Speaker 2: So what does the document say. We'll provide the links.
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Speaker 2: You can go read this yourself. There is only a
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Speaker 2: short document, it's worth having a look at. It starts
44:28
Speaker 2: out by saying communities are set to benefit from clear
44:31
Speaker 2: expectations around the level of public services they should expect
44:34
Speaker 2: to see in their area under old changes and ouce today.
44:37
Speaker 2: It was last week twenty first to May. Key issues
44:41
Speaker 2: that matter to local people, from cleaner streets, filled in potholes,
44:45
Speaker 2: and other vital public services communities rely on will come
44:49
Speaker 2: under a neighborhood guarantee for the first time. So this
44:52
Speaker 2: is central government sw one developing a gay guarantee around
45:00
Speaker 2: basic level of service for what your councils should be doing. Right,
45:02
Speaker 2: there's absolutely nothing to do with national politics. Yeah, they've
45:07
Speaker 2: inserted themselves into this conversation in a very comprehensive way.
45:11
Speaker 1: So this is bringing state control to a lower level exactly.
45:16
Speaker 2: But it's okay because it's about clean the streets and
45:19
Speaker 2: fixing potholes, which I think we can all agree needs
45:22
Speaker 2: to be done. But it's about some other stuff as well,
45:25
Speaker 2: as we'll come on to. We also, it goes on
45:30
Speaker 2: say the government is also bringing forward more measures to
45:32
Speaker 2: put power back into the hands of communities. So this
45:34
Speaker 2: is where citizens assemblies and all that kind of stuff
45:37
Speaker 2: is going to start coming through to ensure local public
45:39
Speaker 2: services are working for people, not private companies, and give
45:43
Speaker 2: local leaders the tools to deliver real change. Steve Reid
45:47
Speaker 2: is quoted in this document saying the government's new Neighborhood
45:50
Speaker 2: Guarantee sets minimum standards local people can expect to see
45:53
Speaker 2: and hold public services to account, and if things don't
45:56
Speaker 2: improve my emphasis, there are new powers to force change. Yeah,
46:01
Speaker 2: that's what is ultimately this is about. It is the
46:03
Speaker 2: transformation of local government. And if you don't do what
46:06
Speaker 2: we say we're going to force change, but apparently this
46:09
Speaker 2: is about all about showing respect for the place's people
46:12
Speaker 2: call home. Strikes me that it's not actually strikes me
46:16
Speaker 2: that you don't think those people are going to look
46:17
Speaker 2: after their own affairs and you need to insert yourselves
46:20
Speaker 2: into everything. Steve Reid and Labor more generally, let's go
46:24
Speaker 2: back to the policy document says the government is taking
46:26
Speaker 2: decisive action to route out profiteering by private companies exploiting
46:30
Speaker 2: public services, which I think we can all agree is
46:33
Speaker 2: a good thing. This is why we've just legislated to
46:35
Speaker 2: have the powers to introduce and inforce a profit cap.
46:39
Speaker 2: So they're not going to stop privatization of public services,
46:42
Speaker 2: they're just going to put a profit cap on it,
46:44
Speaker 2: which I'll come back to in a moment, because I
46:46
Speaker 2: think there's something buried in that. Then goes on to
46:48
Speaker 2: say wider government reforms to the children's social care market,
46:54
Speaker 2: my emphasis will fix the broken placement system and put
46:58
Speaker 2: children first, including expanding fostering, supporting families earlier, and ensuring
47:03
Speaker 2: residential care is only used when necessary. This is what
47:06
Speaker 2: you were just talking about, Brian.
47:07
Speaker 1: Absolutely Ben and children taking children away from their parents,
47:13
Speaker 1: looking after children in care fostering. This is a multi
47:18
Speaker 1: billion pound industry in the UK. It is utterly vicious
47:23
Speaker 1: and they are now going to bring in more controls
47:27
Speaker 1: and systems to be able to do more of this faster.
47:32
Speaker 1: I've got to say, as nicely as I can looking
47:34
Speaker 1: at the audience in the eye through the cameras. People
47:37
Speaker 1: have got to wake up very fast here. It's one
47:40
Speaker 1: thing to have your life messed up by people who
47:43
Speaker 1: are basically idiots with their particular political agenda. But if
47:48
Speaker 1: they are coming for your children, what are you living for?
47:53
Speaker 1: This is unbelievably serious stuff.
47:56
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and actually just look at what we've been living
47:59
Speaker 2: through through and the kind of direction of travel. If
48:02
Speaker 2: you have an opinion that is not deemed to be
48:04
Speaker 2: acceptable by the state, they're going to becoming to take
48:07
Speaker 2: your kids. And there's this been buried in the policy document,
48:10
Speaker 2: which is the outset is ostensibly about feeling in potholes
48:13
Speaker 2: on the road.
48:14
Speaker 10: Because that's what this looks like, so extraordinary. Yeah, sheer
48:19
Speaker 10: contempt for children, Yes, because effectively they equate potholes in
48:24
Speaker 10: the road. Well, except they make money out of children.
48:27
Speaker 10: They don't make money out of the potoles.
48:29
Speaker 2: Yes, extraordinary, and then just finally to wrap up from us,
48:33
Speaker 2: they're going to say we will monitor the market carefully.
48:36
Speaker 2: I still can't go over the fact that there's a
48:38
Speaker 2: market in child social care, but anyway, they're going to
48:41
Speaker 2: monitor it and based on our assessment and subject to consultation,
48:44
Speaker 2: we will cap the profits of private providers place in
48:46
Speaker 2: vulnerable children in care if required, which I think is
48:49
Speaker 2: a gateway to impact investing, and that segues us nicely
48:53
Speaker 2: into the second big piece of policy which came out
48:55
Speaker 2: last week from this guy is Darren Jones, MP, Chancellor
48:59
Speaker 2: of the Duchy of Lancaster, within which capacity he is
49:03
Speaker 2: responsible for all Cabinet office policy, all cross government delivery,
49:08
Speaker 2: all national security policy coordination, all state reform and civil
49:13
Speaker 2: service reform, and all communications coming out of Central Government.
49:16
Speaker 2: Very important role. He's also Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister,
49:19
Speaker 2: so absolutely central works directly for STARMA and also was
49:25
Speaker 2: instrumental in bringing impact investing into the British State, which
49:28
Speaker 2: I'll come back to in a moment. Last week he
49:31
Speaker 2: announced that all departments in the civil service will have
49:34
Speaker 2: a delivery team led by a top civil servant embedded
49:39
Speaker 2: into them. And this is a massive change with every
49:43
Speaker 2: single government department is going to have a new delivery
49:45
Speaker 2: team embedded into it with what they describe as high
49:50
Speaker 2: ranking leadership. The Chief Secretary to the PM said that
49:54
Speaker 2: the plans followed the introduction of a new shared intelligence
49:57
Speaker 2: platform that connects departments and the Number ten Deliver Unit,
50:00
Speaker 2: offering a shared view of priorities, progress against them and
50:03
Speaker 2: problems encountered. Total centralization of visibility and control an answer
50:09
Speaker 2: to the Civil Service Leadership publishing Civil Service World, goes
50:14
Speaker 2: on to say. In a speech to the annual conference
50:16
Speaker 2: of the Civil Service leaders Union in the FDA yesterday,
50:18
Speaker 2: Joanes said it is hoped that extending the current delivery
50:21
Speaker 2: expertise across departments and integrating it properly into the center
50:25
Speaker 2: of government will bring ministers and civil servants close together.
50:28
Speaker 2: It's all about accelerating delivery of their agenda. And he
50:32
Speaker 2: describes this as probably the biggest change in private office
50:35
Speaker 2: arrangements since special advisors are introduced in the nineteen sixties.
50:38
Speaker 1: So he's actually telling the truth there, I think. But
50:41
Speaker 1: what are people watching? You're watching the utter destruction of
50:46
Speaker 1: our constitution in the first place. What you're seeing destruction
50:51
Speaker 1: of law because this is going along hand with it,
50:55
Speaker 1: and this is essentially the rules based international system being
50:59
Speaker 1: a posed a street level, at family level.
51:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, and essentially entering the host, which is the
51:11
Speaker 2: existing system is some kind of parasite and then replacing
51:14
Speaker 2: it from the inside so that people don't really understand
51:17
Speaker 2: quite what's happening. It's really extraordinary what they're doing. Just
51:20
Speaker 2: as a final point, he then goes to say that
51:23
Speaker 2: he gave an update on his January announcement about plans
51:27
Speaker 2: for a peacetime task force based on the success of
51:31
Speaker 2: the Johnson Government's vaccine task Force to bulldoze delivery problems.
51:36
Speaker 1: So we've got force force it through, bulldoze it through.
51:41
Speaker 1: These people are utterly vicious and they are going to
51:46
Speaker 1: use everything in their powers to try and force this
51:49
Speaker 1: thing through.
51:50
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
51:51
Speaker 1: Yeah.
51:51
Speaker 2: A lot of its centers around this. So we talked
51:52
Speaker 2: about impact investing a lot, and Darren Jones was instrumental
52:00
Speaker 2: in introducing impact investing into the center of government. We
52:04
Speaker 2: reported on the announcement of all the creations, so I say,
52:08
Speaker 2: of the Office for the Impact Economy back in November.
52:11
Speaker 2: Impact Investing, the Impact Economy, This entire paradigm comes from
52:17
Speaker 2: the Rockefeller Foundation, but then also importantly from work done
52:20
Speaker 2: by Jeffrey Epstein working with Bill Gates and the Gates
52:23
Speaker 2: Foundation back in twenty eleven. This is an email that
52:26
Speaker 2: I reported on a couple of times now where he
52:28
Speaker 2: says to Jess Staley from JP Morgan that he wants
52:31
Speaker 2: to create what he calls a donor advised fund that
52:33
Speaker 2: he could tie to initially to the Gates Program minimum
52:37
Speaker 2: gift of one hundred million, and the Tension is making
52:39
Speaker 2: money from a charitable orgue. Therefore the money making parts
52:42
Speaker 2: need to be at arm's length. This is what fed
52:45
Speaker 2: into impact investing. This is what has now been embedded
52:49
Speaker 2: into the heart of the Cabinet or fifth and is
52:52
Speaker 2: going to be the new model for how governance, not
52:56
Speaker 2: just governance, the whole society is going to run essentially
53:00
Speaker 2: total merger between state market and increasingly what they call philanthropy.
53:07
Speaker 2: But it's not very philanthropic and more exploitive, I would.
53:11
Speaker 1: Say, just to add add in there, Ben, And of
53:13
Speaker 1: course this comes back to our analysis of the Escape
53:17
Speaker 1: Key work. So while Epstein was doing his dirty business
53:21
Speaker 1: with the young women, what was going on was the
53:25
Speaker 1: formation of these plans. But if you believe the BBC
53:29
Speaker 1: at the moment, Epstein was just something that's faded away
53:33
Speaker 1: into the long grass and the people who've got any
53:36
Speaker 1: problems Andrew and Mandelssohn so Epstein completely air brushed out
53:43
Speaker 1: of the picture. But aside from the abusive issue, very
53:47
Speaker 1: very important and serious. What they were doing was working
53:51
Speaker 1: behind the scenes to bring in this this political monetary
53:56
Speaker 1: capitalist agenda.
54:00
Speaker 2: And then behind that the Office for Impact Economy very
54:04
Speaker 2: closely linked into this organization Regenerate, who I need to
54:07
Speaker 2: do a much longer report on. Essentially this is a
54:11
Speaker 2: non partisan charitable foundation, think tank types thing who have
54:15
Speaker 2: just secondered this lady Esmee Clifford into the obvious for
54:19
Speaker 2: the Impact Economy, so she has now essentially been embedded
54:22
Speaker 2: there and he's helping to establish that and to run it.
54:25
Speaker 2: And this organization Regenerate is overseeing at a board level
54:29
Speaker 2: by an assutes from the Crown of State and Richard
54:32
Speaker 2: Bross and Rothchild and co. Amongst others. But I think
54:35
Speaker 2: that gives you a very neat descripture there of who's
54:39
Speaker 2: behind this policy, who's driving the transformation of the British state,
54:44
Speaker 2: and who's ultimately pulling the strings behind the scenes.
54:47
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Ben, and I will just add
54:49
Speaker 1: in response to a comment in our chat box while
54:52
Speaker 1: you were talking, that you're absolutely right these policies can
54:57
Speaker 1: only work if they can enforce them at local level,
55:00
Speaker 1: and this means that local counselors are very very important
55:04
Speaker 1: people because if they stand up to represent the people
55:09
Speaker 1: who elected them, they can absolutely stop these policies dead
55:15
Speaker 1: within the local councils. So this is where if people
55:19
Speaker 1: are elected on the ticket of one of the smaller
55:23
Speaker 1: emerging parties, this is really good because once they are
55:28
Speaker 1: a counselor, they can make a difference as long as
55:32
Speaker 1: they're fully informed as what they're fighting. So don't dismiss
55:36
Speaker 1: local counselors because they're just local counselors. These are very
55:40
Speaker 1: very important people, I would suggest more important than MPs
55:45
Speaker 1: because of course MPs most of them are frightened rabbits
55:49
Speaker 1: they will only do what the party whip tells them.
55:52
Speaker 1: But particularly independent or small party local counselors can absolutely
56:00
Speaker 1: got this stuff dead in its tracks. And of course
56:02
Speaker 1: if you give them information and praise them when they
56:05
Speaker 1: do the right thing, this raises the confidence and we
56:08
Speaker 1: can fight back as to what's happening here. Now, I'm
56:12
Speaker 1: just going to end on the subject of Rhina Formick.
56:16
Speaker 1: As many people will know, I went to Germany to
56:19
Speaker 1: visit Rhino Formick in prison in BREMAFORDA. That was a
56:23
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago. My goodness, how time flies. And
56:28
Speaker 1: this was part of my journey to actually find out
56:30
Speaker 1: what had happened to Rhina and whether he was guilty
56:35
Speaker 1: or not of the crimes which the German court found
56:39
Speaker 1: him guilty of. Now, as I have talked to more
56:42
Speaker 1: people and I've dug into more information, what my brain
56:47
Speaker 1: is saying is that there is a lot more to
56:49
Speaker 1: discover in this case. Because, of course, as we've just
56:52
Speaker 1: heard in today's UK column News in UK, at least
56:56
Speaker 1: if you dare to challenge the government, the government is
57:00
Speaker 1: going to challenge you, and if it can put you
57:03
Speaker 1: through a legal process and put you in prison, it'll
57:06
Speaker 1: treat you viciously. But of course, Hina, whatever he may
57:10
Speaker 1: have done subsequently, is the man who brought a huge
57:13
Speaker 1: number of expert witnesses together together, very highly qualified people,
57:19
Speaker 1: in order to expose the lies and abuses through the
57:23
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen So called pandemic and the resulting lockdown. And
57:29
Speaker 1: therefore we might ask what would happen if Rhina Formick
57:33
Speaker 1: had been brought in front of a jury instead of
57:37
Speaker 1: a jury at common law, instead of a panel of
57:41
Speaker 1: judges in Germany? Could it be that he would have
57:46
Speaker 1: been found not guilty due to the reasons that he'd
57:51
Speaker 1: set up the CIC in the first place, and the
57:54
Speaker 1: work he did to expose wrong doing by the government
57:58
Speaker 1: and the corporates pushing their vaccine for huge profits. Well,
58:04
Speaker 1: many people have attacked him, and today I just want
58:07
Speaker 1: to say to our audience you might like to go
58:10
Speaker 1: to this particular website. The details are on screen, but
58:15
Speaker 1: we'll have it in the show notes. It's called Responsibility
58:18
Speaker 1: with Class under the broad title of End Times. And
58:23
Speaker 1: this website is carrying several detailed reports about Ryana Formick.
58:30
Speaker 1: And indeed, the owner of the website has spent a
58:34
Speaker 1: huge amount of time looking at the German court documents.
58:39
Speaker 1: He speaks German completely fluently, and he's been looking into
58:44
Speaker 1: what's been happening all the way through the court case.
58:48
Speaker 1: Now he's raising several questions. Court documentation is vast, it's
58:54
Speaker 1: in very complex German legal language and that makes it
58:58
Speaker 1: difficult for many people to understand what being set. But
59:01
Speaker 1: he's told me in speaking to him direct, he simply
59:05
Speaker 1: doesn't believe that some of the things reported in court
59:08
Speaker 1: documents are accurate. We've also got the proceedings in the
59:13
Speaker 1: court very very unusual, and at one stage verbal evidence
59:19
Speaker 1: evidence in person was actually barred. So you can go
59:23
Speaker 1: on the website and have a look at some of
59:24
Speaker 1: these things. He also finds it unusual that Rhiner, for
59:29
Speaker 1: a crime to do with money, has received such brutal
59:32
Speaker 1: treatment in prison, six months in solitary confinement. Not least.
59:38
Speaker 1: He has also talked about the importance of the Corona
59:44
Speaker 1: Investigating Investigative Committee itself in bringing the evidence forward to
59:49
Speaker 1: people worldwide. And lastly, the site has got some deep
59:55
Speaker 1: concerns about the quality and style of third party reporting
1:00:00
Speaker 1: on RHIN. So those are just a few questions. But
1:00:04
Speaker 1: for the audience who say, what is this about, I
1:00:07
Speaker 1: don't really know much about Rhina, encourage you to go
1:00:10
Speaker 1: to this website and excuse me to start reading. We're
1:00:14
Speaker 1: both struggling here a bit today. Somebody's commented on Ben's speaking,
1:00:20
Speaker 1: you are a feeling a little bit under the weather today.
1:00:24
Speaker 1: I'm struggling a bit as well, but we're nearly at
1:00:27
Speaker 1: the end of the news, so we will end on
1:00:31
Speaker 1: a positive note. I'll let you bring the image up
1:00:33
Speaker 1: on screen.
1:00:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, isn't Devin lovely? So this is Hope Cove. I
1:00:39
Speaker 2: spend a bit of time over the weekend. Starling doesn't
1:00:43
Speaker 2: do it justice at all. It was just breathtaking, yes, atally.
1:00:47
Speaker 1: And of course this is all coastline relatively close to Plymouth.
1:00:52
Speaker 1: If you have you've never been down to Plymouth and
1:00:55
Speaker 1: seen the sea and the coastline, The coastlines both in
1:00:59
Speaker 1: Cornwall and the Devons side of Plymouth absolutely spectacular. If
1:01:03
Speaker 1: you come and join us for our twentieth event and
1:01:07
Speaker 1: make it a holiday, spend more than our days down
1:01:12
Speaker 1: you will not be disappointed because it's truly spectacular down
1:01:16
Speaker 1: here as you, as a London boy have discovered.
1:01:19
Speaker 2: Man, yes I have indeed, And then I find a
1:01:22
Speaker 2: bit of good news, maybe an omen I don't know.
1:01:25
Speaker 2: A rare species of birds, said to be the guardian
1:01:28
Speaker 2: of King Arthur's soul, have returned to Tintagile Castle for
1:01:31
Speaker 2: the first time in one hundred years. Red billed chuffs
1:01:34
Speaker 2: have been spotted at the historic site in Cornwall where
1:01:37
Speaker 2: they were previously considered extinct after an absence of about
1:01:41
Speaker 2: a century, and these have been woven into Cornish folklore.
1:01:45
Speaker 2: King Arthur's soul is said to live on in the
1:01:47
Speaker 2: form of a chuff. So I guess the question is
1:01:50
Speaker 2: is this an omen? Is something about to happen?
1:01:52
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know. I'm a chuffed though.
1:01:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, we could do a new king. That was a
1:01:55
Speaker 2: great joke. By the way, Brian, what.
1:01:57
Speaker 1: Was the best I can do?
1:01:58
Speaker 2: At this time?
1:02:00
Speaker 1: We are at the end of today's news. We know
1:02:03
Speaker 1: that UK column news is are very serious. We need
1:02:07
Speaker 1: to be serious because what's happening in the country is serious.
1:02:12
Speaker 1: If you're thinking, how do we deal with what's happening,
1:02:16
Speaker 1: all of the chaos and the uncertainty and the angst
1:02:20
Speaker 1: and the wars, the answer is it requires a very
1:02:22
Speaker 1: large number of us to do simple things together. And
1:02:27
Speaker 1: today we've suggested that if you really want to make
1:02:30
Speaker 1: a difference, mix it with those newly elected local councilors.
1:02:34
Speaker 1: Give them your support, tell them what they should be doing,
1:02:38
Speaker 1: give them the information and the ammunition. I'm using that
1:02:44
Speaker 1: in the correct paperwork way. Give them what they need
1:02:49
Speaker 1: to fight the battle, and let us try and get
1:02:52
Speaker 1: rid of this infighting which we see as people get
1:02:56
Speaker 1: anxious and distressed about for all system. As we've said
1:03:02
Speaker 1: many times, if we're to be in the camps, you
1:03:05
Speaker 1: won't be worrying whether the person next to you is
1:03:08
Speaker 1: left wing or right wing, or black or white. You're
1:03:11
Speaker 1: going to be wondering whether you can trust them and
1:03:13
Speaker 1: whether they will help you survive. We're not going to
1:03:17
Speaker 1: get as far as the camps because people are going
1:03:19
Speaker 1: to work together. So do the work, but also take
1:03:24
Speaker 1: time to relax. The sun is shining and that's a
1:03:27
Speaker 1: good thing. We'll leave it there, Ben, thanks very much
1:03:30
Speaker 1: for joining me. Thank you for joining UK column News.
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