Latest / UK Column Radio / UK Column Podcast 14th June 2024
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- 0:08Good afternoon. It's Friday, the fourteenth of June twenty twenty four, just
- 0:11after one o'clock. Welcome to UK column News. I'm your host Mike Robinson
- 0:14joining me today by videolink. We have Debbie Evans and Ben Rubin who welcome
- 0:19to the program both. We're going to get started today with the G seven,
- 0:23which of course is kicked off in Italy, and here they all are
- 0:27for their family photograph. Actually, the final image that we show at the
- 0:32very end of the program will have the same people on it, but we'll
- 0:35keep that for later. So of course this is the G seven group of
- 0:40nations as Canada, France, Germany, at Lee, Japan, UK,
- 0:43United States and the EU of course there as well. So what have they
- 0:47been talking about. Well, yesterday they had a session on Africa, climate
- 0:51change in development and as you could see from that photograph, Africa well represented
- 0:55amongst the leaders there. But anyway, then they had a session on the
- 0:59Middle East, and they had a session on Ukraine. We'll come on to
- 1:02that in one second. And then today they're talking about migration and artificial intelligence
- 1:07and so on. So anyway, they were having a session on Ukraine.
- 1:11Here they are and Zelensky was invited. He was taking part in it,
- 1:15so they were very happy for their virtue signaling photographs to be published. There
- 1:21Sean Michel, and there is Justin Trudeau. I'm sure we recognize him.
- 1:26And of course Richie Sunak was there. I'm not sure whether he left us
- 1:29earlier or not, but anyway, he was there. But what else happened,
- 1:34Well, of course there was a deal done between Zelenski and Joe Biden.
- 1:38I'm not quite sure how that happened, as you'll see in a second,
- 1:40but anyway, it appears to have happened. They've signed a ten year
- 1:44bilateral security deal between Ukraine and the United States. They're calling it historic,
- 1:49but of course it's not really worth the paper that's written on because it has
- 1:53a get out of Jill free card associated with it, and that is that
- 1:59either party can with draw from the agreement with six months notice, so it
- 2:01doesn't tie whoever the next president of the United States might be into anything.
- 2:07So Biden, of course then also went on to and the others went on
- 2:12to announce fifty new sanctions, a crackdown on Putin's war chest. It's always
- 2:17prudence, it's not Russia. It's putin because of course, Saul Olinsky says,
- 2:23you've got to personalize everything, and that's what they're doing. They don't
- 2:25like anybody personalizing it in their direction, but they'll do it whoever they like.
- 2:30So fifty new sanctions and this includes fifty billion pound loan which they are
- 2:37funding by stealing the money from the sanctioned companies and individuals. So money that's
- 2:45been frozen by the G seven is going to be stolen and given to Ukraine
- 2:51instead. And they say this as a long term funding mechanism, so they're
- 2:54looking forward to doing more of this. We do understand that this is the
- 3:00rules based international order at work, but where apparently there are no particular rules.
- 3:06Now, as for Joe Biden himself, let's have a look at this
- 3:10a little bit of video, because there was a demonstration of parachutists. They
- 3:16were all falling out of the sky with various flags attached to their to themselves,
- 3:22and this one had the G seven flag, and all the leaders were
- 3:25of course very excited about that. But Joe got a bit bored and he
- 3:30decided to walk away, and well they all gathered around him because they wanted
- 3:36to hurt him back into the group again, and they were looking after him
- 3:42very carefully. There are a bunch of videos on social media at the moment,
- 3:46Ben, I see you laughing there, So I'm going to ask you
- 3:49for comment on this because there are a bunch of videos on social media and
- 3:52I basically showing the same kind of thing with Biden losing attention, his attention
- 3:58span isn't that great anymore, losing his attention, drifting off away from the
- 4:02party, and then they all try to gather random again to hurt him back
- 4:05in the right direction. It is a bit pathetic. And my question is
- 4:10at what point are we going to recognize or are people broadly going to recognize
- 4:14that this man is not fit for purpose. That's a very good question.
- 4:21It's been going on for some years now, right even in the previous presidential
- 4:26campaign, IDEM was presenting with well, essentially looks like Alzheimer's with dementias or
- 4:31something like that, and then nothing has happened in the subsequent four years to
- 4:35dispel those impressions. And actually I think that he's fairly well accepted. It's
- 4:44fairly well accepted at this point. Well, yes, but I just find
- 4:47it fascinating how they are clearly slightly embarrassed about the whole situation, but they're
- 4:54doing their best to put a brief fast on it. It's a bit pathetic,
- 4:57but let's just have another example of him giving a speech following the signing
- 5:02of the agreement with Ukraine. It includes major commitments from Ukraine to impact excuse
- 5:12me, dimplomented democratic, economic and security reforms. Right. Social media is
- 5:18just full of clips of a similar nature where he is trying to read from
- 5:23the auto Q is not capable of doing it anymore, and really is the
- 5:28United States seriously considering having this man stand for another four year term now as
- 5:34I understand it. In the meantime he is going to take part in a
- 5:39live debate with Donald Trump. I just don't see how that can possibly happen.
- 5:43But I mean getting back to the G seven and related issues. Then
- 5:46in the meantime, we have the bricks. Over the last couple of days
- 5:51have been holding a meeting of foreign ministers and this was taking place in Russia.
- 5:58This is a first gathering of bricks since the expansion to include Egypt,
- 6:02Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates. Another fifteen countries including Turkey,
- 6:09were there and one of the things that they did was to complete its D
- 6:15dollarization program. So we'll talk about that in a second, but before we
- 6:17do, I'll just say that Lavrov on Monday was saying that bricks countries are
- 6:23developing their own payments platform in order to underpin this whole thing which was going
- 6:30to allow them to bypass the US dollar, and he said that the platform
- 6:34will improve international monetary system and allowed payment in national currencies for mutual trade.
- 6:41They of Russia, of course, very keen to move its trading partners off
- 6:45the dollar because they effectively feel that they're being held to ransom at the moment.
- 6:48But let's just have a look at a comparison, a quick comparison between
- 6:53the G seven and the bricks. Of the bricks is in purple and the
- 6:56G seven is in sort of tail color here, and if we look at
- 6:59the globe will share of GDP, we see that Brix is quite well ahead
- 7:02share of world population. Of course, bricks is very well ahead. In
- 7:06terms of global oil production, they're quite far ahead, and in terms of
- 7:11contribution to economic growth, they're very far ahead, at least double the economic
- 7:16growth in terms for bricks as opposed to the G seven. So we've got
- 7:19to ask ourselves when we're looking or we're hearing Western countries banging the war drums
- 7:26as hard as they are, is the reason for it. But of course
- 7:30it's not just bricks countries that are looking at the dollarization, because Saudi Arabia
- 7:34has ended its eighty year petro dollar deal with the United States in favor of
- 7:41multi currency sales. And so this is an article India today and they're making
- 7:46the point that they've decided not to renew the eighty year petro dollar deal with
- 7:51the US. It expired on Sunday, the ninth of June. The agreement
- 7:57was originally signed in nineteen seven four. It's been a key part, according
- 8:01to this article of US global economic influence, and of course it has,
- 8:07and the article saying by choosing not to extend this contract, Saudi Arabia can
- 8:09now sell oil and other goods using different currencies such as the Chinese runimbi,
- 8:16euros, yen, and juan instead of only US dollars. This is a
- 8:20really significant development. But before we start thinking that Sidi's doing something positive,
- 8:28we should also just kinter point that with the fact that SAIDI has decided to
- 8:31join Project Mbridge, which is the Bank for International Settlements sort of UBERCDBC CBDC.
- 8:39Sorry, So every central bank will have a central bank digital currency,
- 8:45and m Bridge is the glue that connects all the various central bank digital currencies
- 8:50together. So this is going to be what they're describing a collaborative effort exploring
- 8:54a digital currency platform shared amongst central banks and commercial banks. And headline says
- 9:01it has reached minimum viable product stage and Sadi Riba has decided to join.
- 9:07So there we go. That's a quick rind up of the G seven and
- 9:11the sorry state of Western leadership, Debbie. Where does that take us?
- 9:18That perhaps takes us to organs for sale? Well, yes, I've been
- 9:24doing a little bit of deep diving and I've been joining a few dots that
- 9:26I'd like to share with our audience because I know that we've got a lot
- 9:31of researchers, data crunches, doctors and experts watching. So what if,
- 9:37for example, different areas or different countries were going to be targeted by different
- 9:43pathogens creating epidemics, not pandemics this time, but epidemics. Is it even
- 9:50possible many of our regular watchers and listeners will remember the times that I've mentioned
- 9:56Professor James Giardano so very quickly. I have to read all of these things
- 10:00from my notes because it's so big. James Giardano is chief of the Department
- 10:05of Neurology at Georgetown. He's head of the European Brain Project. He's a
- 10:11member of DAPER. He's the project leader for Dual News Neurotechnologies. He's also
- 10:18a member of the Joint Staff of Pentagon. He's published three hundred papers,
- 10:26seven books, and he's authored twenty United States Government white papers. Just before
- 10:33this clip I'm about to show you. Just remember what he says, a
- 10:35lecture delivering to a military audience is not science fiction, it's science fact.
- 10:43So is this possible? Can we spread pathogens about? Have a listen to
- 10:48what he has to say. Here a technique that's become very well known,
- 10:52chrisper cast nine, that allows us to literally modify bugs in a variety of
- 10:56different ways. So I now may be able to take a relatively harmless microbiological
- 11:01agent, a bacterium or a virus, do some gene editing and make this
- 11:05thing far more morbidly viable. Make it far more virulent and in some cases
- 11:11even make it far more lethal. But I don't want lethality, at least
- 11:13not necessarily. But I want is high morbidity. I want people to complain.
- 11:18So what do I do. I go to des Moines. Ladies and
- 11:20gentlemen of people on the screen. I have nothing against des Moines. I
- 11:24live there for four years. I go to des Moines. I infect a
- 11:26couple of sentinel cases in des Moines. I go to Seattle. I infect
- 11:31a couple of cases there. I go to North Carolina, I go to
- 11:35Wisconsin. What I'm doing is I'm using a dispersion methodology to be able to
- 11:39infect sentinel cases with a highly morbid condition. These individuals complain. Again,
- 11:45this is a central nervous system condition, so they're complaining of whatever the bug
- 11:48may do, it'll produce some cascade of neurological and neuropsychiatric signs and symptoms.
- 11:54And then when I do the real bug that I use is the Internet.
- 12:00I take attribution for that. Yes, I'm a terrorist group, and I
- 12:03have done this by infecting him with a highly little agent. And the first
- 12:05signs and symptoms of lethality are x y and z these people are really sick
- 12:11with this. But then I say, others who are also infected will show
- 12:15subdromal pre dromal signs of lethality, and what that will be is anxiety,
- 12:20sleeplessness, agitation. What I've now done is I've got every individual who is
- 12:26diagnostically hypochondriacal, and I've got every individual who's the worried well flooding the public
- 12:31health system banging on the door. The CDC comes back and says nonsense,
- 12:35that's not real. I come back and say that's fake news. And as
- 12:41a consequence of doing that, what I do is I create a schism between
- 12:45the police and the public health system. I fracture the integrity of trust and
- 12:50reliance upon the population and its government. So we know it's possible. Now
- 12:58last week, might remember I was talking about ecoli. So can they make
- 13:03up an ecoli? Well, according to the Smithsonian yes, Now scientists can
- 13:07create ecoli with a completely different genome, so they could create it. So
- 13:15this is eco line. Remember we were talking about antimicrobial resistance last week,
- 13:20and I don't suppose many of you have heard of a pandemic exercise, A
- 13:24little known pandemic antimicrobial resistance exercised by the UK government. So this took place
- 13:31in twenty eighteen in Argentina by our very own Dame Sally Davis, and they
- 13:37were using ECOLI to see what happens to livestock, what happens when you travel,
- 13:41does it cross borders? Now, as you know, ecoli's been quite
- 13:46interesting to me, and back in my blog actually which I'll come onto in
- 13:50a minute. But back in twenty twenty two, the WHO prepared a paper
- 13:56and it was called Strengthening the Global Architecture for Health Emergency Preparedness and Response called
- 14:03HEPRA. Now in this document there was a map and the map is very
- 14:09significant and I'm going to show you this map now. Now you might have
- 14:13to go to the document which is in my blog, which is on the
- 14:16front page of the UK column on Editor's Choice. Now, notice the title
- 14:22of the document, increasing number and scale of health emergencies from all hazards,
- 14:28and the headings at the top are newly emerging, re emerging, resurging,
- 14:33deliberately emerging. So this map would appear to forecasts targeted ap epidemics in different
- 14:39countries, so not looking at a pandemic, but looking at epidemics, and
- 14:43you'll notice there that if you do zoom in, you'll see anthrax bioterrorism is
- 14:48deliberately targeted. Now this slide here is zoomed in on the UK and Western
- 14:54Europe and you can see that we're looking at cryptospidium at which is drinking water,
- 15:01and ecoli which is wastewater, and these are highlighted as newly emerging.
- 15:07This document was published in twenty twenty two because of this map, which I
- 15:11think is significant. Thanks to Cheryl Granger very much for bringing my attention to
- 15:18a video that Dr David Martin has recently put out. He was being interviewed.
- 15:24He was being interviewed about newly emerging pathogens. Let's listen to what Dr
- 15:28David Martin says. Yeah, well that's a great question, and Emerald,
- 15:33too few people are asking that question. And unfortunately the House Select Committee that's
- 15:39looking into the COVID origins is actually missing the point because and I want to
- 15:43come back to this, well, a lot of people think this is a
- 15:45COVID story or a SARS spike protein kind of approach. The problem is there
- 15:50are sixty eight scheduled pathogens that are currently developed and ready for various stages of
- 15:58release on the population. And that schedule of toxins is something that NIH and
- 16:03NIAID have funded both in the gain A function research side as well as distributed
- 16:10through a little known company, BI Resources, which was started by the Rockefeller
- 16:14Foundation at the early part of the last century. And that particular platform of
- 16:19essentially a library of the most hideous forms of chimeras known to humanity include are
- 16:26you ready for this? The H five N two that, according to the
- 16:29World Health Organization had never been seen before. Well, it turns out you
- 16:33can buy it from the BEI Resources. Hmmm, buying it from BI Resources.
- 16:41So I went to b EI Resources and found out that b E Resources
- 16:45are actually under contract for seven years to American Type Culture Collection otherwise known as
- 16:52ATCC. So just remember that ATCC. So what do BI do and what
- 17:00do they sell? So if you just pop to the next slide, you'll
- 17:02see that they were established by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases NIAD.
- 17:07You might think of FAUCI when you think of that organization. So basically,
- 17:14this is a bank of toxins and body parts. Some can be made
- 17:17to order, you can deposit into it as well, and they have a
- 17:21catalog, so let's look and see what's in their catalog, and there's a
- 17:25whole heap of stuff. You can find pretty much anything you want, and
- 17:30I'm just going to highlight a few of the things that they've got in their
- 17:33catalog because according to this company, if you're registered and approved, and I'm
- 17:38not sure how you get registered or approved, you can pretty much order anythink
- 17:42you want, including SARS covy two. So if we go into their catalog,
- 17:48there you'll see SARS CoV two. This one was particularly isolated in England
- 17:53in twenty twenty from a sick patient. And this is just one of the
- 17:57things we can buy input in our cart and have delivered in three days.
- 18:03I'm not quite sure how or what vans are passing us in the street with
- 18:07all of these substances on board. But let's look at ATCC next, because
- 18:11ATCC are a global Biological Resource Center, so basically life sciences, and that's
- 18:18a catalog of everything that they do. If we have a look at ATCC
- 18:22collection holdings, we can see that they're into everything. They actually specialize in
- 18:29donor diversity, ethnic gender diversity. They have tumor cells for sale, eighteen
- 18:36thousand bacterial lines, seven six hundred species of fungus and yeast. They've got
- 18:41tissues, they've got body parts, they've got pretty much everything. They even
- 18:47store cancer. And they have a big page just on cancer where they talk
- 18:52about organoids. And at the next slide you'll see right at the bottom they
- 18:57talk about organoids, which is very very important when we think about genomic medicine.
- 19:03But perhaps we can talk about that a little bit in extra. So
- 19:07what kind of stuff can you buy then from ATCC. Well, you can
- 19:11buy a frozen uterus if you want one, and it'll cost you three thousand,
- 19:15seven hundred and seventy nine dollars. Or you can have some cancer metastatic
- 19:22cancer from the large intestine of the colon, and again that costs three thousand,
- 19:26seven hundred and seventy nine dollars. Let's see what else we can buy.
- 19:30Let's see what sells on the menu. Oh, ecoli, so you
- 19:34can have I mean, there are heaps of ecolies that you can buy.
- 19:37I've I've just highlighted a couple. You've got Ecolife for four hundred and sixty
- 19:42dollars, and then you've got the genomic DNA for three hundred and eighty eight
- 19:47dollars and one more. Let's go for one more because I think we'll probably
- 19:49be able to find cryptos barridium. And oh yes, there's cryptos barridium at
- 19:55a cool five hundred and seventy four dollars. So when I went to look
- 20:00who ATCC supply, especially in the UK, one of the people that they
- 20:06supply is LGC, and you'll see that on the heading there, I've just
- 20:11marked ATCC and LGC. Now LGCS was formerly the laboratory of the Government Chemist.
- 20:17They are now a private chemist. So you've got a private company literally
- 20:22running the government chemist. And this the government chemist is called Sir Julian Braybrook,
- 20:32I believe, And this is all financed by venture capitalists. But what's
- 20:37even more interesting is LGC, who can buy all of these toxins and body
- 20:42parts and pretty much everything else. They are directly linked into our very good
- 20:48friend, the MHRA. So LGC supply the MHRA, who actually test all
- 20:56of the medicines before them H give approval. So a little bit more about
- 21:03the MHRA LGC alliance, and there you can see forty scientists they test the
- 21:08medication so that the MHR can approve them as safe for patients. And my
- 21:15question is is where are your body parts going if you've had surgery? Perhaps,
- 21:21and especially ladies who are having babies, placentas are worth a lot of
- 21:23money, But are your body parts going to academics, to laboratories for a
- 21:30lot of money being sold? What are you consenting to? And also there
- 21:34is that question two of what's happening to organs that are removed during post mortem?
- 21:40So more to come on this in the very near future. Debbie,
- 21:45thank you very much. That video clip at the beginning was incredible. I
- 21:48have no doubt we'll be speaking about this an extra But Ben, let's move
- 21:52on to you and well queer advertising. Absolutely, yes, it's June,
- 22:00so that means it's Pride month. So the already ubiquitous LGBTQ propaganda has reached
- 22:07an even more fevered pitch. The question is is this messaging appropriate for public
- 22:14consumption? Does it break advertising standards? And are some of these messages being
- 22:19deliberately targeted towards children and going against the wishes of their parents. Now I'm
- 22:26going to endraw your attention to these billboards. I took this video last week
- 22:30Wednesday, the fifth of June, around three thirty in the afternoon, and
- 22:33you can see that they are flashing up some rather striking messages now every sort
- 22:42of fifteen to twenty seconds, right, so this is high repetition communication across
- 22:48these digital billboards. They were flashing up words like pan sexual, which the
- 22:53Cambridge Dictionary defines as sexually or romantically attracted to people of any gender. I
- 22:59suppose this is the upgrade of bisexual, given that we now have an infinite
- 23:03number of genders. Also, this was on the screen. Cis gender and
- 23:07relatively new term if you're not familiar with it. It's used to describe a
- 23:11person whose sense of personal identity and gender corresponds to his or her sex at
- 23:17birth. And then this classic is gay it means homosexual. And this was
- 23:26going on on a constant basis. There was a constant stream of these messages
- 23:32popping up. I was really quite taken aback by it, to be honest
- 23:34with you, because this is hyper sexualized. It's in your face, there's
- 23:37no nuance whatsoever, and I don't feel like it's appropriate or necessary for these
- 23:42things to be being pushed out like this in public you know, which is
- 23:47bad enough. But then about three hours later, I was walking back past
- 23:52the same billboards and we should be able to see this video playing, and
- 23:56what it's going to show you, I won't play. The whole thing is
- 23:59when it will show you is that those ads, the ads saying gay,
- 24:03pan sexual assisienda, they aren't on the screens. Three hours later, it
- 24:08struck me that what could be happening here is that someone has decided to deliberately
- 24:15target children or young people on the way home from school. If you think
- 24:21about who's on the road at three point thirty in the afternoon, four o'clock
- 24:23in the afternoon, it's kids, right, Whereas at six six thirty rush
- 24:27hour that's when the parents are going home from work generally, right. So
- 24:32that seemed to me that that was a deliberate attempt to target those hyper sexualized
- 24:37messages at children, potentially young children. And so we don't know who's going
- 24:41to be looking at this stuff really really important. So I wanted to understand
- 24:45who are who's the organization behind this, what exactly is going on here?
- 24:48And I came across this website. So the organization is called social arts dot
- 24:55work and the url their web address is very prominent placed on those adverts.
- 25:02You probably couldn't see it that well because I was a bit back from the
- 25:04advert. It was very clear who it was coming from. It was this
- 25:08organization Social Arte dot Work. You can see another example of the campaign on
- 25:12their screens run by this fella, A lovely bit of one I Shenanigan's going
- 25:19on there. His name is Martin Ferrell or Ferrell, and he's a British
- 25:25public artist long associated with the international out of home industry. So that's the
- 25:30billboard industry, right, and these organizations that run the billboards, but huge
- 25:33international companies. He does a lot of work with them, apparently, and
- 25:37it says that his works challenged unjust power systems of all kinds, including patriarchal
- 25:44power, the oppression of women and non heterosexuals, and the heteronormative status quo.
- 25:49Okay, so you get a sense of what mister Ferrell's about. And
- 25:55this campaign is called All Varieties. It's a nationwide public art work celebrating the
- 26:00labels that help people express their individuality and define their place in the world.
- 26:07He's got a quote from Stephen Frye. All Varieties is a wonderful thing when
- 26:11the tide of justice around the world is moving out, leaving our beach of
- 26:17fellowship, love and solidarity all the more there typical Stephen Frye quote sounds like
- 26:25they're recruiting. Actually when I read that, really quite odd actually when you
- 26:30dig into what's going on here. So a bit more about mister Farrell's ideological
- 26:36background. So he's a big socialist. Apparently socialisms and moral ideas is another
- 26:40campaign that he's done. Also, this one which I came across in Hackney
- 26:45in twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen. I remember seeing All Men Are Dangerous and
- 26:48I remember saying to my friend, why is someone telling me and everyone else
- 26:52that all men are dangerous? It feels like, well, first of all,
- 26:55it's not true. Then also, is this a deliberate attempt to divide
- 26:59us up? Could be? Yeah, So that was first put out in
- 27:02two thousand and six, but it's certainly been run recently. As I said,
- 27:04I mentioned seeing it myself back in aund around twenty nineteen. It was
- 27:08certainly pre pandemic, so highly politicized, highly sexualized. Who's behind it?
- 27:15Well, let's have a little look at the funders and the backers. So
- 27:18there's an organization called Nordern. Can't find anything out about Nordern. I don't
- 27:23know who they are, but they're very prominently based there in the top left
- 27:27hand corner. Also Bury Brothers and Rudd who if you're not familiar with that,
- 27:30they are a very very posh and expensive wine shop in Mayfair. Right,
- 27:36So they're in the mix here as well as basically the entire out of
- 27:40home media industry. So this is remarkable. You've got JC decal, you've
- 27:44got a clear channel, you've got a light media. You know. This
- 27:48is basically all of outdoor advertising across the whole of the UK, all of
- 27:52the billboards, all of the bus stop ads, absolutely everything are aligned behind
- 27:56this campaign. And the organization that operated the billboards that I saw was this
- 28:03one Alike Media. They describe themselves as positively different, out of home,
- 28:10inclusive, out of home, built on positive connections. Quite sure what that
- 28:15means, but anyway, they run ads and I got in touch with them
- 28:19and I downloaded some of their information and it turns out that it is actually
- 28:23possible through their digital planning platform to what they call offer optimized campaigns based on
- 28:32multiple goal types, including day parts, so you can actually select in their
- 28:37system specific time slots based on who you want your messages to be seen by.
- 28:44So actually my assumption or my interpretation of what I saw, I think
- 28:48is borne out by the facts. The capability certainly exists to target younger people
- 28:52and to keep messaging away from their parents who are going to be traveling through
- 28:56the same area at a different time. Next organization was this one, and
- 29:03I think is an interesting one to look at, Queer Britain, and the
- 29:08campaign describes its Queer Britain as its museum partner and Queer Britain is the UK's
- 29:15first and only LGBTQ plus museum. They're based on Granary Square in some Pancreas,
- 29:22just behind some pangres where the big Google European headquarters, the Facebook European
- 29:26headquarters, the Guardian newspaper central, some martins, a whole bunch of cultural
- 29:30and media and technology institutions are based there. That's where the Queer Britain Museum
- 29:37is based. They've got a load of corporate backing, so from big international
- 29:41drinks companies Ago to Leaves to M and C, SARChI the advertising agency,
- 29:48as well as e Y. They seem to crop up everywhere I go at
- 29:52the moment, Universal Music Groups, Sony Music Group, Fitch Group, who
- 29:56do ratings for the financial markets. They've got a huge network of patrons and
- 30:04partners, including Elizabeth Bingham Obe who's a top Ey partner, Dr ANLM Cbe,
- 30:11who was the former chair of the Scouts. It tells you what you
- 30:15need to know about the Scouts a plus links with a whole range of other
- 30:21big cultural institutions, from the TAKE to the BNA, and a whole bunch
- 30:25of other people. So we've got, as I said at the start,
- 30:29hyper sexualized messaging apparently being targeted towards young people and children, coming from an
- 30:38organization that is back to the hilt by cultural stars like Stephen Frye, the
- 30:44British establishment, big international corporations, and I really just don't understand how why
- 30:51this stuff is going on. So I got in touch with them. I
- 30:53sent them an email on Wednesday basically to our for a bunch of information,
- 31:00but specifically relating to the question do you view younger people as your target audience
- 31:06for all varieties and does this have any bearing on the timing of the advertising
- 31:11when you're putting this stuff out. I haven't received the response back yet.
- 31:15I think it's probably unlikely that I will. I am going to get in
- 31:18touch with the Advertising Standards Agency because I actually do think that this is a
- 31:23violation of a part of the code which relates to causing physical, mental or
- 31:30moral detriment to persons under the age of at and you know this is hyper
- 31:33sexualized messaging. I'm not really sure why it's being put out and certainly some
- 31:41questions I think to be answered about this organization, what it's up to,
- 31:45and whether all this is legal or not. And thank you very much for
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- 33:09that and I let's move on then to Northern Ireland and doctor Anne McCluskey,
- 33:15who many people will know was a prominent doctor speaking out on COVID issues in
- 33:22Northern Ireland from the beginning. She subsequently was given a fine of two hundred
- 33:28and fifty five pounds for not conforming with the COVID restrictions and that particular legal
- 33:36issue has been dragging on for quite a long time. Now, and she
- 33:39ended up in court in a magistrates court where she was seen in front of
- 33:45a district judge who give her the option to pay the fine or go to
- 33:49prison, and as a result, she is now in prison. She is
- 33:54in prison in High Bank would Prison, which is a women's prison, which
- 33:58is adjoint to a a young offenders prison in southeast Belfast or just to the
- 34:02southeast of Belfast rather, and so she's there for fourteen days for not paying
- 34:08this fine. Now, the documentation I saw in this used the term in
- 34:14lieu of paying the fine. So I'm not clear at this point, and
- 34:16if anybody can help me, please let me know. I'm not clear whether
- 34:21the time in prison will remove the obligation to pay the fine, or whether
- 34:25she will still be required to pay it or not. But the interesting thing
- 34:30about this is that she was standing in the general election as an independent candidate
- 34:36in Derry, and so of course if she's in prison for the next two
- 34:40weeks, she can't do any campaigning. Her name will be on the ballot,
- 34:45but you know, she doesn't get the opportunity to do any campaigning.
- 34:49I just find that incredible timing. Now we should make the point that many
- 34:54many people are still refusing or have not paid their COVIDI that fines for breaking
- 35:01COVID restrictions. And this article from itv X was from December because lawyers were
- 35:07calling at that time to give an amnesty because thousands of these fines remain unpaid
- 35:14and the courts aren't capable of actually dealing with them because the court is under
- 35:19so much pressure that they can't get them through the lists. And so again
- 35:22I'm just going to ask why was Anne McCluskey brought the court at this time
- 35:29for this issue when she made it absolutely clear that she had no intention of
- 35:34paying the fine. I think there is a political motivation to this, but
- 35:38anyway we can have we can discuss that more in an extra as well.
- 35:44Let's move on then, and Debbie, the NHS and people being treated in
- 35:50cupboards, Oh my goodness. Look, they want us all out of hospital.
- 35:54It's as simple as that. They want to frighten you so badly that
- 35:59you're never going to want to go to hospital. And I'm sure many people
- 36:01watching won't want to go to hospital. But what happens if you do go
- 36:06to a and E so Sky brought out this story about nurses have declared a
- 36:12national emergency. As NHS patients are treated in cupboards and car parks as well
- 36:16as corridors, I might have to say. The story went on to say
- 36:22that all of this information was taken from the Royal College of Nurses survey.
- 36:29They'd surveyed eleven thousand frontline staff and had actually called this a national emergency.
- 36:35Now in the nursing times, nurses are warning of hospitals that are crumbling,
- 36:40literally falling down around their ears, and they're saying that the ceilings are falling
- 36:46down. They talked about it at the Royal College of Nursing Congress which was
- 36:52held and actually I'll talk about more about that in a minute, but thank
- 36:54you so much to Paul, one of our regular viewers and subscribers who gives
- 36:59us actually full on reports on the RCN. But they've been saying that basically
- 37:04the nurses are too busy watching the ceilings to see if they're moving in order
- 37:09to treat patients. So, as I say, the RCN Corongress was held
- 37:15last week in South Wales and they were discussing this a lot, and they'd
- 37:22also brought out a report the RCN and it's called Corridor caate a care unsafe,
- 37:28undignified, and unacceptable. The report goes on to say that this is
- 37:35affecting patients privacy, dignity, and worryingly, more than half of the respondents
- 37:40said that patients had no access to life saving equipment and they were running out
- 37:46of oxygen. In fact, it's everything is becoming so normalized now that treating
- 37:52patients in inappropriate areas has been normalized, and it's unsafe, undignified, and
- 37:57unacceptable. This was written by Professor Nicola Ranger, who's acting CEO of the
- 38:02RCN, and the RCN put out a very short video about corridor care.
- 38:08Let's have a listen. There are patients who'd been in the department over thirty
- 38:14hours waiting for beds. Every cubicles full, so there are patients on beds
- 38:19and trolley's in the corridors. It is very, very difficult to provide safe,
- 38:30outstanding care when you haven't got the equipment, when you know patients are
- 38:36not having the privacy and dignity that they require, and that takes a real
- 38:40toll on our members. I've felt inhumane and felt my pin as a registered
- 38:46nurse's compromised. It's a silent safety scandal. The reason why it particularly affects
- 38:53nursing staff is they are the constant twenty four to seven presents and they've had
- 39:00the stress of some people being asked to be examined in A and E departments
- 39:04in the toilet. What we're putting our patients through is unsafe, undignified,
- 39:24unacceptable, and we absolutely have a responsibility as nursing staff to call it out
- 39:38and infection control. Let's not forget that these are never events. They would
- 39:44never have taken place on my watch, and many people that are watching that
- 39:49trained at the same time as myself will be saying the same. However,
- 39:52the message from the RCN, I'm so angry. The message from the RCN
- 39:58doesn't seem to have reached the na Chess board. Let's listen to what the
- 40:01NHS Board meeting said in February just this year. We have a minimum risk
- 40:08escalation matrix, so that we say that we agree that as a trust that
- 40:14the trust will not accept delays to patients requiring an ambulance in their place of
- 40:17residence is the highest risk to our system, not necessarily to our organizations with
- 40:22our system, and then it works down with the lowest risk being business as
- 40:25usual. So we go from risk of being the highest is that the people
- 40:30in their own homes, the next is people in an ambulance, the next
- 40:32is people in d and then finally we're going to get into the real detail
- 40:36around the kind of escalation plan that we have within the hospital. We're very
- 40:39clear about, for example, how many additional patients on a ward, and
- 40:43then working through the lowest risk is probably corridor care and ED, which is
- 40:49not great and nobody wants that right through to caring for additional patients in areas
- 40:53on the wards that are not designed for those patients. So we've got a
- 40:57very clear risk matrix and we have various escalation figures. Have we got complete
- 41:01buying from everybody. No, it's absolutely a work in progress. So corridor
- 41:10care is acceptable for the NHS board, and yet it's been declared as an
- 41:15emergency from nurses. I suggest the board listen to nurses, I really do.
- 41:21But they don't want us in hospital. They want us out of hospital
- 41:23as quickly as possible. And I've noticed that more and more people, including
- 41:28myself, have got hospital beds in their front rooms. But where do you
- 41:31get these hospital beds from? Because they're saying that you get ten thousand.
- 41:36Now we have ten thousand extra hospital beds, which is your bed. So
- 41:38this is a company called vivid Care and they're the key supplier to the NHS.
- 41:43Now I'm not going to go into the mechanics of vivid Care and who
- 41:46owns it, etc. We'll do that on another news but very quickly,
- 41:50how do you get a free hospital bed? So the way you get a
- 41:53free hospital bed is basically from the NHS, from the Council, from a
- 41:57social worker referral, from a GP refer and in fact, there's not really
- 42:00any criteria. Anybody can have a hospital bed. So what do you need
- 42:06to have? What kind of disease or illness do you need to have?
- 42:08Well, that again it's fans, cathetera care, wound care, chronic disease
- 42:14management, bandaging, pressure area care, bowel care, and end of life
- 42:19care. So if you fit any of those brackets and more, that's another
- 42:22way to keep you out of hospital, to give you a hospital in your
- 42:25front room. And let's not forget the other way to keep you out of
- 42:29hospital is to send you to our very good friend or old friend. Now,
- 42:32the community Diagnostic Centers of which you're going to see springing up on your
- 42:37high street very soon. So corridor care and cupboard care completely unacceptable. But
- 42:44where are your relatives going? Should they have to need to visit A and
- 42:49E? Thank you Debbie for that night. Speaking of old friends, let's
- 42:54bring Marianna Spring on screen because she has published a new article on the BBC
- 43:00yesterday Bought or Not are fake accounts swaying voters towards re form UK? And
- 43:06I just wanted to mention in passing the sheer hypocrisy of this article because,
- 43:10of course, when it suits her to present the idea that people are using
- 43:15bots on social media, on Twitter and other social media in order to drive
- 43:20a political narrative, she of course has already admitted and she's quite proud of
- 43:24the fact that she has used this these types of tactics in order to troll
- 43:30people that are what she views as conspiracy theorists. So well done, Marianna,
- 43:36glad to see you sticking to your standards there. But anyway, sticking
- 43:39with the media, this is really what I wanted to talk about. This
- 43:44is a report entitled preventing Torrents of hit or Stifling free expression Online and this
- 43:50is from the future of free speech, which is a sort of pressure group
- 43:55think tank thing, and they're talking about your union in particular in all the
- 44:00various legislation that the EUS brought in. But of course what we see in
- 44:04terms of online safety legislation in the EU is no different to what we see
- 44:08here in the UK. We have the same types of strategies being employed in
- 44:14every G seven nation. So if we put that back on screen, let's
- 44:17just have a look and see what they're saying in this. The analysis found
- 44:22that legal online speech, so that's speech which is online, which is legal,
- 44:25it's no way illegal, made up most of the removed content from posts
- 44:30on Facebook and YouTube in France, Germany and Sweden. Of the deleted comments
- 44:35examined across platforms and countries, between eighty seven point five percent and ninety nine
- 44:39point seven percent depending on the sample, were legally permissible. Now, of
- 44:44course this harks back to the days of the Online Safety Bill as it was
- 44:49before became an act and the issue of legal but harmful content, And although
- 44:52that was dropped in the UK, it was only dropped sort of overtly.
- 44:58Covertly, it's still a thing. So let's go on with this, the
- 45:00highest possible proportion of permissible deleted comments was observed in Germany, where ninety nine
- 45:06point seven percent and ninety eight point nine percent of deleted comments were found to
- 45:10be legal on Facebook and YouTube. Perspectively, this could reflect the impact of
- 45:15the German Network Enforcement Act on the removal practices of social media platforms, which
- 45:20may over remove content with the objective of avoiding the legislation's heaf defined In comparison
- 45:27to the corresponding figures for Sweden or ninety four point six percent for both Facebook
- 45:30and YouTube, France is the lowest percentage of legally permissible deleted comments, with
- 45:36ninety two point one percent of the deleted comments in the French Facebook sample and
- 45:39eighty seven point five percent of the deleted comments in the French YouTube sample.
- 45:46Among the deleted comments, the majority were classified as general expressions of opinion.
- 45:52In other words, these were statements that did not contain linguistic attacks, hate
- 45:55speech, or illegal content, such as expressing the support of our controversial candidate
- 46:00in the abstract. On average, more than fifty six percent of the removed
- 46:05comments fall into this category. Moderation of social media is understood by several countries
- 46:10as a delicate balance between freedom of expression, security and protection of minorities.
- 46:15However, recent evident events and geopolitical developments could disrupt this perceived balance. National
- 46:21security concerns have cause governments to try to counter misinformation interference from hostile nations with
- 46:27blunt tools. We can have a whole discussion about whether what's being presented is
- 46:31misinformation or whether it's be even being inspired by so called governments from outside hostile
- 46:38nations. But anyway, it finally goes on to say additionally, without making
- 46:42any definitive conclusions, there's some indication that legislations such as NETZGDG, which is
- 46:49the German legislation aimed at strengthening citizens and granting them certain rights, has the
- 46:53unintended effect of encouraging social media platforms to delete a larger fraction of legal comments.
- 47:00This is a preview into the potential impact of the EU's DSA now n
- 47:05force on freedom of expression. And I'm going to say very clearly, we
- 47:08said this for years. This was going to be the outcome of this legislation
- 47:14right across the Western world, in the UK, in the EU, and
- 47:16in the United States. No, there's nothing about the intention was not.
- 47:22Sorry, there was no una unintended effect here. The effect was absolutely intended.
- 47:29This is about countering any narrative which goes against the official approved narrative and
- 47:35it's extremely dangerous. And just to finish this segment off, I just want
- 47:38to remind everybody of the Camcross Review, and I'm sorry to bring Matt Hancock
- 47:43back on screen here. This is from twenty eighteen when he was Secretary of
- 47:46State for Digital Culture, Media and Sport, and he was talking about the
- 47:51Cancross Review exploring whether intervention may be required to safeguard the future of our free
- 47:55and independent press. And he's talking about the mainstream press. Of course,
- 48:00now that was pre COVID, and then the mainstream press which was absolutely suffering
- 48:05with dodgy business plans and so on business models rather were supported throughout COVID with
- 48:12the vast advertising budget that the government presented. But let's move over to Canada,
- 48:20because they have, through there online safety legislation, have decided that they
- 48:24are going to impose a three percent tax on streaming platforms like Netflix and Google,
- 48:30sorry, Amazon Prime and so on in order to fund mainstream media in
- 48:36Canada. There's a local media in Canada. But they're basically taking money from
- 48:39the streaming companies via the online safety legislation and using that to fund mainstream media
- 48:45in Canada. This is very, very dangerous. But we can talk about
- 48:51more. Sorry, we'll talk about more about that on Extra Ben. Let's
- 48:54come back to you and well some election used because perhaps some people will be
- 49:00voarding for an AI bot. Well quite he probably will get some votes.
- 49:06Actually, yeah, we talk a lot about democratic innovation, new forms of
- 49:09governance, and especially the introduction of advanced tech like AI into the democratic process.
- 49:15It's a big topic at the moment and I came across this the other
- 49:17day. Ai Steve, who is Brighton and Hove's first aimp policies for the
- 49:24People, by the People. Now it comes from a new party it looks
- 49:30like called Smarter UK, but apparently they didn't register in time as a party
- 49:34for the general election. So Steve Ai Steve is going to be standing as
- 49:38an independent in Brighton Pavilion. And it's not only a tech enabled representative but
- 49:47also a completely newer way of formulating policies. So Smarter UK talks about recruiting
- 49:53local people into two groups, one that creates policies called creator and then commuters
- 50:01who are going to get from Brighton rail station who will then school those policies,
- 50:06and they call those people validators, and any policies that meet a fifty
- 50:10percent threshold will be adopted, and then the validators will control all of AI
- 50:16Steve's parliamentary votes and they call this the ultimate form of democracy, right is
- 50:22total direct control of your member of Parliament. So you can sign up on
- 50:28their website to be a creator or a validator, and then it says he
- 50:32how can AI Steve actually represent me in Parliament? Well, it turns out
- 50:37that AI Steve is backed up by another Steve, Steve Endercott, who is
- 50:42a Sussex entrepreneur. He's created many of the initial policy ideas and will physically
- 50:49attend Parliament to vote on policies as guided by AI Steve's feedback from his constituents.
- 50:55I'm just reading this directly from the website. So although Steve maintain house
- 51:00in Brighton and will use this when attending Parliament, he actually now lives in
- 51:04Rochdale with his new wife, which will restrict his ability to talk to constituents
- 51:08in Brighton and Hove. So they've created this AI platform so that Steve Endercott
- 51:15can live outside of Brighton and still do the job of the MP. It
- 51:19seems incredibly convoluted. And also this model removes the kind of traditional relationship human
- 51:28to human, peer to peer relationship that we're supposed to have with our members
- 51:31of Parliament, right, because this is Steve actually, you know, it's
- 51:36not that little avatar that we've been looking at. It's this guy, and
- 51:38they actually look different and they are different ultimately because Steve Endicott is a real
- 51:43person. He's not an AI bot, right, And he's got a background,
- 51:46so he's an entrepreneur. He was the UK MD of a four billion
- 51:52pound turnover travel business, so a pretty successful guy. He describes himself as
- 51:57a capitalist with socialist conscient which sounds a little bit public private partnership to me.
- 52:04You know, that remains to be seen. He says he's a green
- 52:08evangelist. Yes, he's big into sustainability and particularly the rollout of electric vehicles.
- 52:15And he can bring clear leadership because he's been a company director since he
- 52:20was twenty five. He understands business, He understands commercial realities and work kind
- 52:23of stuff. He's not just some chilly career politician. But let's dig into
- 52:29this a bit more. So. I went to have a look at his
- 52:30LinkedIn profile to find out what all of that actually means. You know,
- 52:32he says he's big in business. Let's find out some more so. He's
- 52:37the chairman of an organization called Neural Voice and another one called Neural River,
- 52:42and these are the AI incubators, the AI technology firms that have been used
- 52:46to build AI Steve and the underlying technology. He also looks like made a
- 52:52bunch of money during the lockdown's building work from home spaces, So, you
- 52:57know, entrepreneurial, opportunistic, obviously a big fan of lockdowns because he seems
- 53:01to have made quite a bit of money from it. And then crucially,
- 53:05he's also the chairman of this sting electric car organization ECO, which provides end
- 53:09to end solutions to increase uptake of electric vehicles, from testing, leasing,
- 53:15buying, driving, to charging the whole way through. Right, So he
- 53:17talks about being a politician with a green agenda, but actually, really crucially
- 53:23he's potentially going to make a lot of money out of this as well.
- 53:27Right, So there's a very clear conflict of interest going on that they're not
- 53:30really trying to hide rights. It's all written into the communication. So why
- 53:34would you vote for him? So there are a whole bunch of reasons.
- 53:37We'll go back to their website here we can see why would we vote for
- 53:38a Steve Well sensible and practical policies. That's the first thing, right,
- 53:43So they don't employ any career politicians. Is completely staffed by sensible business people.
- 53:47Oh so, very sensible, no political egos. That's good. And
- 53:52they've actually done quite a good job in their policy platform of cutting through the
- 53:57traditional left right issues. So he's proingtion, for example, very pro immigration,
- 54:01but then also pro prisons, and those two things would normally be seen
- 54:07as left and right issues, and they've done quite a neat job of bringing
- 54:12those things together. He described himself as practically green, so basically, we've
- 54:16got to save the planet, but we've got to do it in a way
- 54:19that's affordable, very much driven by technology. So actually, and there's a
- 54:23real interesting little hint here, they've talked about creating AI. Steve, they
- 54:28actually think that they could perform government more broadly with this same technology. Right,
- 54:32So they've clearly got big ambitions. What else would we vote for him,
- 54:37so he's available twenty four seven, three sixty five. Have you ever
- 54:39tried to get a meeting with your MP? It takes months. They don't
- 54:43reply to you. You have to go to their office. Whereas AI Steve,
- 54:45you can chat to them twenty four hours a day from the comfanment of
- 54:49your own home, seven days a week, including bank holidays and Christmas Day.
- 54:52Isn't that convenient? Everything will be transcribed and captured through the platform.
- 54:58You'll have much more involvement with the creation of policies. So this is kind
- 55:02of a bit like it's venturing into the sort of sortition territory that we talked
- 55:07about previously. It's not exactly what it is, but it does strike me
- 55:12that we have a group of creators that are selected from somewhere, it's not
- 55:15specific as to where they come from, and then a bunch of validators,
- 55:19which is just the general public. So interesting to see how that would actually
- 55:23play out in practice. And then the final point for why we'd vote him
- 55:29is because you can actually control your MP via AI, right, So they
- 55:32want to give you, they want to give me, They want to give
- 55:36the general population total control, and they see this as a potential future model
- 55:40for how parliamentary democracy is going to play out, right, So it's pretty
- 55:44interesting. One of the policies is very quickly to wrap up. So it's
- 55:50Brighten and Hove issues. So big on education and youth. They're talking about
- 55:54cutting tuition fees or university by fifty percent and paying for that by doubling or
- 56:00even I think quadrupling the cost for foreign students, so that again. They're
- 56:04big on immigration bringing people into the country, really big on affordable housing,
- 56:08net zero homes, and they're talking about automatically granting planning commission for applications on
- 56:15brownfield sites. Right, so they're going to potentially completely remodel and transform the
- 56:19center of Brighton based on these policies. Good policies, scrap you lays great,
- 56:23but also on the flip side of it, talking about making huge investments
- 56:28into electrification and greed infrastructure, which Steve will make a lot of money from
- 56:32importantly Brightened voters. Bear that in mind, and obviously because it's Brighton,
- 56:37and also because his Pride month is paying tribute to the LGBTQ plus community and
- 56:44promising to pay for lots of parties for them. Because they're so special and
- 56:46important. So a big platform, a big move into a technological future.
- 56:52And we'll see how Steve does in a few weeks of the general election.
- 56:57Thank you, Ben and Debbie. Let's come back to you then. The
- 57:00NHS, and we're beginning with blood. Oh yes, we're all talking a
- 57:05lot about blood, aren't we, just recently, and there's a very good
- 57:07reason why. So of course many of you will know, and we've reported
- 57:10it before, about the cyber attack that took place in London. They've been
- 57:15asking for urgent appeals for blood donors. I can't see that there's going to
- 57:20be a huge queue. However, they're looking for oh, blood type O
- 57:23positive blood type donors because of the cyber attack. So NHS in trouble there.
- 57:30NHS also been trying to reclaim a lot of money back from a company
- 57:34who were making faulty PCR tests. This is an overseat. They've agreed to
- 57:39pay the government five million pounds to settle the claims that they supplied the NHS
- 57:44with faulty tests. I don't suppose they'll be telling any of the people that
- 57:47had used the faulty tests about this. The claim was originally much much bigger
- 57:52it was for one hundred and forty five million. The article does go on
- 57:57to say about these failed tests that the government have basically been sold a load
- 58:04of tests that never worked. But did you take one? The Independent are
- 58:09talking about thousands of blood samples set to be destroyed after that very same cyber
- 58:15attack. It seems to have rippling consequences. So all of these blood tests
- 58:21now have got to be destroyed. And most of the GP surgeries where they
- 58:24were obtained are in the same area as the area that was cyber attacks,
- 58:30so that South London, Bromley, Southwark, Lambeth, Bexley, Greenwich and
- 58:36Lewisham. So if you had your blood taken and you haven't got a result,
- 58:39that's probably why. And digitization isn't it fantastic? Because even down here
- 58:45in Cornwall we had a complete outage and procedures were canceled at patients, appointments
- 58:52were canceled because of significant IT issues. So not all in the park is
- 58:59rosy for the NHS. Far from it, okay, And what about Greenhoust
- 59:06gas emissions? Well, yes, this was just a little finally, because
- 59:09I happened to see a story in the Daily Mail. I think it was
- 59:14this week saying that we're not going to be able to breathe because we're we're
- 59:17breathing out too much meat then carbon. You know it, Basically, breathing's
- 59:21not good for you. So I went back to this article in the Conversation.
- 59:24We calculated the UK's greenhouse gas emissions from people breathing out. Here's what
- 59:30we found. And they're finding out that actually we should all be holding our
- 59:34breath. But of course we can't hold our breath, can we. But
- 59:37that's obviously what they've got in line for us. Fits in quite nicely with
- 59:42the agenda twenty thirty, doesn't it. And for anybody that wants to see
- 59:45the academic paper, here's a slide of the academic paper that you can go
- 59:50and have a look at. Yes, and just to end, we began
- 59:52with the G seven, we'll just end with the G seven. And I
- 59:57just wanted to highlight this tweet from somebody to that family photograph that we showed
- 1:00:00at the very beginning, and you can see they've all been labeled as unelected
- 1:00:06bureaucrats to s Nile to stand trial. We know who that is twenty six
- 1:00:10percent approval rating, about to lose election, just lost election at fifty year
- 1:00:16low poll numbers. We get the idea and I mean obviously everybody in the
- 1:00:22West totally viewing appropriately the standard of leadership that we have, and well we
- 1:00:31should leave that there, I think, and we'll talk a little bit more
- 1:00:34about that an extra. So thank you very much Debbie and Ben today.
- 1:00:37Thanks for everybody that watched. We will be back in a couple of minutes
- 1:00:42if your UK column member for some extra and we will see you there.
- 1:00:45Otherwise we'll see you at ten am on Sunday, hopefully for UK Column Live.
- 1:00:51See you then, Bye bye.