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UK Column News Podcast 29th November 2024 · UK Column Radio

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon.
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Speaker 2: It's Friday, the twenty ninth of November twenty twenty four,
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Speaker 2: just after one o'clock.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to UK column News.
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Speaker 2: I'm your host Mike Robinson joining me today. We have
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Speaker 2: Mark Anderson and Debbie Evans. And Debbie, we're going to
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Speaker 2: get started straight away with the Assistant Assisted Dying Bill,
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Speaker 2: which of course is being inverted Commas debated in Parliament today.
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Speaker 2: I did notice, Debbie that the room was mostly full,
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Speaker 2: which of course it never is if they're debating war
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Speaker 2: for example.
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Speaker 3: No, good afternoon, everyone, and yes, thank you for that, Mike,
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Speaker 3: and yess I noticed too that the chamber was full.
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Speaker 3: I wonder how full it's going to be later, but
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Speaker 3: we'll talk about that in a minute. So, yes, as
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Speaker 3: he rightly said, Parliament are debating the Private Members Bill
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Speaker 3: for assisted Dying in the Chamber today. It's going to
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Speaker 3: be a five hour debate and the vote will take
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Speaker 3: place around about two thirty, so we may actually be
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Speaker 3: still on air during extra when the vote result comes through.
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Speaker 3: I'm not quite sure, but I want to look at
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Speaker 3: how slippery the slope actually is with regards to assisted dying.
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Speaker 3: We've talked many times about the medically assisted in dying
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Speaker 3: scheme in Canada and now here we are looking at
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Speaker 3: it in the UK. But I just want to refresh
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Speaker 3: people with regards to two other countries at Belgium and Netherlands.
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Speaker 3: They've done an awful lot of work and they have
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Speaker 3: had assisted dying for many, many years. They refer to
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Speaker 3: it as euthanasia, and it's been extended now to cover
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Speaker 3: the under eighteens and exceptional circumstances, and they're now looking
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Speaker 3: to make it new law for people with dementia more flexible.
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Speaker 3: This paper here two seventeen from Jarma research into potential
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Speaker 3: organ donors after euthanasia requiring hospital euthanasia for organ donations.
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Speaker 3: I find this extremely concerning and clearly that's what's been happening.
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Speaker 3: As far back as August twenty sixteen there have been
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Speaker 3: forty three donated all. And of course this means that
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Speaker 3: people would have to go into hospital for an assisted
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Speaker 3: death because they have to be circulatory dead before organs
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Speaker 3: are donated. And the results of the results in the
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Speaker 3: paper show here that apparently in twenty fifteen twenty twenty
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Speaker 3: three patients had euthanase had medical euthanasia in a population
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Speaker 3: of eleven million, and it's thought that ten percent of
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Speaker 3: that potential population would be donors with at least one
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Speaker 3: suitable organ for donation. So I'm just saying, this is
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Speaker 3: what is happening. This is evidence of what is going
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Speaker 3: on in other countries, and I think we must need
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Speaker 3: to be aware of all of it. And the rest
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Speaker 3: of the world are watching us as well. You know,
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Speaker 3: it's not just us in the UK or extremely interested
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Speaker 3: in this. The New York Times are reporting compassional coercion
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Speaker 3: Britain's emotional debate over assisted dying. But according to you
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Speaker 3: guv the here, it would appear that three quarters of
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Speaker 3: Brits support the assisted dying law. Now it goes on
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Speaker 3: to say that apparently seventy three percent of Britain's believe
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Speaker 3: this should be legal and thirteen percent not. But I
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Speaker 3: think that I'll be able to prove to you that
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Speaker 3: we could be looking at a false communication if you
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Speaker 3: stay with us for extra and I think that's going
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Speaker 3: to be very important. But let's look at the bill itself.
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Speaker 3: So UK Parliament Terminally Ill Adults End of Life Bill
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five. This was published
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Speaker 3: on the twenty second of November twenty twenty four and
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Speaker 3: it's been presented by Kim Ledbetter MP. She's put this
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Speaker 3: from a through a private Members bill. It's the second reading.
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Speaker 3: But as well as today assisted death, what else is
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Speaker 3: going on in Parliament? And I just want to look
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Speaker 3: at what is the up and coming business for today.
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Speaker 3: So clearly the main debate is terminally ill adults, but
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Speaker 3: you can also see funding for children hospices Private Members bill,
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Speaker 3: interesting goes alongside the assisted Dying bill. There's also right
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Speaker 3: at the end, right at the end of the day
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Speaker 3: and buried is Sir Christopher Schops Vaccine Damage Bill. So
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Speaker 3: I just wanted to highlight that that bill. There are
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Speaker 3: all of these bills that are taking place in the
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Speaker 3: Chamber today, But who is Kim Ledbetter? While Kim Ledbetter
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Speaker 3: is the labor MP for Spend Valley and I noticed
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Speaker 3: this next slide on the green Belt Festival because she
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Speaker 3: of course is the sister of Joe Cox and she
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Speaker 3: started an organization called More in Common which is working
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Speaker 3: for the common good. And indeed the University of Huddersfield
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Speaker 3: have actually now officially opened the More in Common Center,
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Speaker 3: which was actually a faith center formerly a Faith Center,
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Speaker 3: but that was closed down and it's now the Joe
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Speaker 3: Cox More in Common and you can see David Lammy's
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Speaker 3: picture there and fra C Brabin as well. If we
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Speaker 3: go on to the next we can see that Kim
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Speaker 3: Ledbetter she's the ambassador for the Joe Cox Foundation More
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Speaker 3: in Common And if we go on to see her background,
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Speaker 3: we can see actually she was a trainer, was a
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Speaker 3: if you like to call her a physical coach, an
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Speaker 3: activity coach. She was a hockey player. She says she's
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Speaker 3: not party political, she's new to the voluntary sector and
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Speaker 3: she's very people focused. Well that's strange because I took
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Speaker 3: those screenshots a couple of days ago and it's quite
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Speaker 3: clear that she does have an agenda. Who's funding this organization?
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Speaker 3: While I looked an ASTRA, I didn't find out a
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Speaker 3: lot about Astro. It's a loneliness charity and there's not
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Speaker 3: much about it. But you can clearly see that the
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Speaker 3: other funders are Joseph Rowntree and the Community Fund. But
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Speaker 3: I do find as we lay this bill down now
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Speaker 3: in Parliament, it's very strange that none of those of
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Speaker 3: the Joe Cox Foundation has been mentioned in Kim Ledbetter's
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Speaker 3: registered interest. So that is the context for today's parliamentary day.
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Speaker 3: But more to come in the news on assisted dying.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we'll be talking a little bit more about a
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Speaker 2: sister dying, and then not later on in the news program,
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Speaker 2: but Debbie in the on Radio four a couple of
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Speaker 2: days ago, and certainly in part of the debate this morning,
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Speaker 2: there was the big question of whether this is the
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Speaker 2: start of a quote slippery slope, and I'd be very
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Speaker 2: interesting to get your thoughts on you're looking at what's
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Speaker 2: happened in Canada, in the Netherlands and Belgium, in other
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Speaker 2: countries that already have so called euthanasia bills, whether you've
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Speaker 2: mean you're certainly suggesting at the early part of that
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Speaker 2: segment that there has been a slippery slope in those countries.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, for sure, there as a slippery slope. And
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Speaker 3: indeed in Canada, and we've spoken to doctor Charles Hoff
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Speaker 3: and we've spoken to other people in Canada who have
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Speaker 3: said that this bill is extended for younger people, for
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Speaker 3: people with dementia, learning disabled, and also the messaging is
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Speaker 3: being pushed and I'm going to show you later on
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Speaker 3: in extra why that I feel I believe that this
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Speaker 3: is a false communication because we are being fed a
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Speaker 3: death agenda here. We are literally having it forced down
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Speaker 3: our next No one's listening to the vaccine injured though,
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Speaker 3: are they?
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Speaker 1: Now?
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Speaker 3: Everybody's listening assisted dying debate, but nobody's listening to the
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Speaker 3: vaccine injured.
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 2: I'll be talking about that in another segment in the second.
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Speaker 2: But the other point here is that you know, Harry Metcalf,
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Speaker 2: who's a farmer in the UK and has a YouTube channel,
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Speaker 2: was talking about the recent budget for farming and the
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Speaker 2: pressure that particularly older farmers as they're about to pass
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Speaker 2: their farms onto the younger generation, and the potential of
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Speaker 2: how are they going to feel the day before this
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Speaker 2: new legislation comes into force, knowing that their business is
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Speaker 2: effectively potentially forever damaged by this legislation from the budget.
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Speaker 2: This wild be give some of these farmers and I'd.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely. It throws up so many questions for so
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Speaker 3: many people. I mean, I spoke to my mum today
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Speaker 3: and I said, Mum, the assisted dining bill. If you
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Speaker 3: had a life insurance policy that perhaps expired next year,
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Speaker 3: like the farmers losing their farms, if you had that
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Speaker 3: would would one of us would you expect one of
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Speaker 3: us to say to you or mum, you know it's
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Speaker 3: probably time for your death, isn't it, because we don't
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Speaker 3: want to miss out on the insurance payment. Are people
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Speaker 3: going to get co erst and gas lit into making
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Speaker 3: a decision on an early death when they don't want to?
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Speaker 2: These are all very good questions. Well, Debbie, thank you
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Speaker 2: for that. We'll be talking more about this a little
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Speaker 2: bit later in the program. But let's come on to
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Speaker 2: the issue of migration. And yesterday our glorious leader Keir
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Speaker 2: Starmer was speaking at Number ten Dining Street on this
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Speaker 2: He was giving a speech on migration and this was
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Speaker 2: of course following the announcement by the Home by the
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Speaker 2: Office for National Statistics that net migration was at its
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Speaker 2: highest ever rate last year. That was nine hundred and
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Speaker 2: six thousand. So that's nine hundred and six thousand, nearly
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Speaker 2: a million extra people in the country, never mind the
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Speaker 2: people that left. So I've got a few clips from
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Speaker 2: this because he made a few comments.
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Speaker 1: That I think need to be challenged. So let's just
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Speaker 1: listen to the first.
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Speaker 2: This was the introduction when he was admitting that the
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Speaker 2: migration situation was by design.
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Speaker 5: Good afternoon when we came into office. We immediately conducted
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Speaker 5: an audit of the public finances and we found a
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Speaker 5: twenty two billion pound black hole. Now, the Independent Office
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Speaker 5: of National Statistics conducted vital work on the state of
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Speaker 5: immigration and found the previous government were running an open
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Speaker 5: borders experiment. As the OENS sets out, nearly one million
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Speaker 5: people came to Britain in the year ending June twenty
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Speaker 5: twenty three. That is four times the migration levels compared
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Speaker 5: with twenty nineteen. Time and again the Conservative Party promised
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Speaker 5: they would get the numbers are down. Time and again
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Speaker 5: they failed. And now the chorus of excuses has begun.
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Speaker 5: We heard that from the leader of the opposition yesterday.
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Speaker 5: But what we didn't hear, what the British people are
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Speaker 5: owed is an explanation, because a failure on this scale
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Speaker 5: isn't just bad luck. It isn't a global trend or
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Speaker 5: taking your eye off the ball. No, this is a
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Speaker 5: different order of failure. This happened by design, not accident.
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Speaker 2: Now, if anybody thinks that there's a certain amount of
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Speaker 2: hypocrisy in that, you may be justified in thinking that way.
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Speaker 2: Was he telling the truth about it being a failure.
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Speaker 2: I don't think it was a failure that was intentional,
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Speaker 2: as he said it was by design. He went on
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Speaker 2: to cleim that the rules were going to be enforced, so.
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Speaker 5: We're taking a different approach. We will publish a white
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Speaker 5: paper imminently which sets out a plan to reduce immigration.
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Speaker 5: The Migration Advisory Committee is already conducting a review and
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Speaker 5: where we find clear evidence of sectors that are over
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Speaker 5: reliant on immigration, we will reform the points based system
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Speaker 5: and make sure the applications for the relevant visa routes,
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Speaker 5: whether it's the skilled worker route or the shortage occupation lists,
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Speaker 5: will now come with new expectations on training people here
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Speaker 5: in our country. We will also crack down on any
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Speaker 5: abuse of the visa routes. For far too long, we've
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Speaker 5: been casual about malpractice in our labor market, which sends
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Speaker 5: a clear signal overseas that we're a soft touch. Well,
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Speaker 5: no more, Our rules will be enforced.
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Speaker 2: Does anybody watching this believe that he went on to
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Speaker 2: talk about the situation of being a migration based economy
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Speaker 2: because we need these people working, because there's so many
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Speaker 2: people on long term sick.
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Speaker 5: Because you cannot separate this failure from their refusal to
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Speaker 5: do the hard yards on skills, on welfare reform, on
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Speaker 5: giving our young people opportunities, rather the easy answers of
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Speaker 5: looking overseas, because clearly the vast majority of people who
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Speaker 5: entered this country did so to plug gaps in our workforce,
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Speaker 5: skill shortages across the country which have left our economy
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Speaker 5: hopelessly reliant on immigration. Two point eight million people out
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Speaker 5: of work on long term sickness a problem ignored left
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Speaker 5: to Festa.
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Speaker 2: Now, that was for me, Debbie, that was the most
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Speaker 2: egregious comment in that we've heard so far, because of
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Speaker 2: course he's offering no acknowledgment about why two point eight
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Speaker 2: million people are on long term sick and of course,
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Speaker 2: anybody suggesting that perhaps it's the result of COVID policy,
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Speaker 2: vaccination policy, anybody suggesting that that is no, that that's
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Speaker 2: absolutely not possible, and therefore it is ignored. In the meantime,
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Speaker 2: as you said a few minutes ago, the vaccine injured
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Speaker 2: are being ignored, but indeed the whole you know, two
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Speaker 2: point eight million people are largely being ignored. In fact,
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Speaker 2: so far, he's claiming that he's going to put start
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Speaker 2: putting pressure on these people to get back to work
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Speaker 2: despite their illness.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but he won't listen to them, will he. He's
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Speaker 3: ignoring them. And you know, we have had warnings from
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Speaker 3: the likes of the amazing Ed Dowd, who we've done
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Speaker 3: an interview with. Please go and look on the website
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Speaker 3: for the Ed Dowd interview. And Ed Dowd was looking
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Speaker 3: at the rates of personal independence payments that the data
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Speaker 3: from the UK government with regards to this huge rise
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Speaker 3: in claims, many of course vaccine injured, and they're ignoring it.
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Speaker 3: They're not listening to the vaccine injured. They don't want
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Speaker 3: to listen to the vaccine engine And can you imagine
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Speaker 3: some of these people with vaccine injuries and we'll talk
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Speaker 3: about Allison in a minute during the adverts. But these
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Speaker 3: people cannot possibly go back to work, and yet kir
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Speaker 3: Starmer is quite clearly going to be refusing them benefits,
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Speaker 3: making it conditional on them returning to work. They can't
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Speaker 3: even get a doctor's appointments.
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Speaker 2: Right Exactly. It didn't end there. It got I'm not
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Speaker 2: going to say worse, but certainly as bad listen to this.
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Speaker 5: And I'm pleased to announce today a new security agreement
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Speaker 5: between Iraq and the UK. This is a world first
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Speaker 5: that will help us smash the people's smuggling gangs and
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Speaker 5: secure our borders. The Home Secretary has been out in
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Speaker 5: Iraq to seal this deal, and we've also announced funding
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Speaker 5: for Iraqi law enforcement to tackle this problem upstream, way
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Speaker 5: before it reaches our shores.
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Speaker 2: Unbelievable hypocrisy. So let's just look at the scale of
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Speaker 2: migration from Iraq, shall we. So this is non EU
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Speaker 2: migration according to the LIZT figures, and as you can see,
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Speaker 2: India way out in front there with two hundred and
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Speaker 2: forty thousand people coming into the country last year, Nigeria
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Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty thousand, Pakistan one hundred and one thousand,
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Speaker 2: China seventy two thousand, Zimbabwe thirty six thousand, Iraq three thousand,
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Speaker 2: three hundred and sixty eight. Iraq is fourteenth on the list,
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Speaker 2: and yet he's proud.
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Speaker 1: Of what he's doing with Iraq.
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Speaker 2: So the Iraqi deal, you can see on screen what
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Speaker 2: they're talking about here. I'm not going to go into
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Speaker 2: detail on it right now, but of course why would
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Speaker 2: there be anybody coming from Iraq at all. This man
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Speaker 2: is still not in prison for what happened in Iraq
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Speaker 2: in two thousand and three. And so the hypocrisy, bearing
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Speaker 2: in mind that Tony Blair is the man with his
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Speaker 2: hand up Ker Starmer's back, this is sheer hypocrisy on
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Speaker 2: the part of Ker Starmer. And you know then we've
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Speaker 2: got comments from this. This is from twenty twenty three. Turkish,
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Speaker 2: Egyptian and Iraqi Kurdish migrants could be sent straight back
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Speaker 2: home to home countries. This was a Tory Party policy.
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Speaker 2: So of course he was elected on the basis of change,
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Speaker 2: changing everything that the Tory Party had done in the past.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely not. He is simply continuing the same agenda. And
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Speaker 2: what we're witnessing here is the Uni party and auction.
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Speaker 2: And so if anybody expects any substantive change in migration
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Speaker 2: policy as a result result of walth caare Starmer and
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Speaker 2: on yesterday, I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed. So
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Speaker 2: we'll talk more about this and extra I have no
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Speaker 2: doubt Mark, let me welcome you to the program and
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Speaker 2: moving on towards I suppose more warled topics. Jen Stoltenberg
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Speaker 2: has been given perhaps part of his reward for what
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Speaker 2: he did while he was head of NATO.
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Speaker 4: You could definitely say that. I'll comment very briefly. Stay tuned.
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Speaker 4: Next week I'll do a report on what Texas is
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Speaker 4: doing to assist the federal government with their alleged plan
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Speaker 4: for major deportations dealing with migration here. But anyway, a
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Speaker 4: very unusual thing happened, Mike. Good day everybody out there.
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Speaker 4: Sorry I missed last week. Builderberg actually issued any kind
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Speaker 4: of information off season, not in conjunction with their annual
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Speaker 4: summer meeting. And what was that announcement? Very recently Builderberg
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Speaker 4: Meetings mourns the loss of Professor Halberstadt one Victor Helberstat,
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Speaker 4: a Dutch economist, and moving on. There's more to it,
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Speaker 4: as you indicated, Mike, than just an obituary. This is
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Speaker 4: from the obscure media department of Builderberg. No physical address,
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Speaker 4: no one is named who works there. It just comes
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Speaker 4: out of nowhere, probably Holland. They said in their press
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Speaker 4: release it's with profound sadness that Builderberg Meetings, as they're
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Speaker 4: formerly called, announces the passing of its esteemed co chair
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Speaker 4: and decades long leader of the Bilderberg Foundation, Professor Victor Helberstat.
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Speaker 4: He did pass away back in thirteen September, but there
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Speaker 4: were subsequent announcements. The Builderberg press release went on to
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Speaker 4: note Helberstat cemented Bilderberg's profile as a key forum for
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Speaker 4: constructive dialogue between European and North American leaders, always passing
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Speaker 4: it off as just a dialogue anyway. The release while
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Speaker 4: saying Helberstat carried out an impressive forty four year tenure
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Speaker 4: in the leadership of Team Bilderberg, that release added the
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Speaker 4: following quote, Helberstat's dedication to Transatlantic relations by partisan cooperation,
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Speaker 4: cross sector exchange and constructive critical discussions under Chathamhouse rule,
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Speaker 4: of course, is considered by many to have been second
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Speaker 4: to none. In fact, it turns out, Mike that he
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Speaker 4: was probably the longest serving individual in Bildeberg's history for
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Speaker 4: that group. A little bit more about him. Helberstat cemented
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Speaker 4: Builderberg's profile as noted, Helberster's successor as chair of Builderberg
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Speaker 4: Foundation and co chair of Bilderberg Steering Committee will be announced.
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Speaker 4: Of course, it's been announced. A drum roll, please in
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Speaker 4: just a minute. Bilderberg co chair Marie Cravis, she noted,
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Speaker 4: we extend our deepest sympathies to his family and friends, etc.
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Speaker 4: We'll go from there. Helberstadt has been Helberstat has been
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Speaker 4: closely involved with the Bilderberg Meetings since nineteen seventy five,
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Speaker 4: acting as its Honorary Secretary General from nineteen eighty to
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Speaker 4: two thousand and as chair of its foundation until his passing.
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Speaker 4: His work span multiple sectors, including serving on advisory boards
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Speaker 4: for major corporations such as Dammler, Chrysler and Goldman Sachs,
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Speaker 4: for various academic institutions, as well as being a member
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Speaker 4: of the World Economic Forum's faculty since nineteen ninety. So
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Speaker 4: he was a very busy man leading up to his passing.
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Speaker 4: But he has been replaced and as you indicated, Mike
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Speaker 4: jen Stoltenberg did not make it all the way out
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Speaker 4: of this internationalist fold. He is no longer the head
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Speaker 4: of NATO, but he is taking over for Helperstat as
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Speaker 4: co chair on the all important Steering Committee. And that
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Speaker 4: bottom segment of this slide is right from the Builderberg
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Speaker 4: Meetings dot org website. So right along with Marie Kravis,
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Speaker 4: we now have Jen Stoltenberg sticking around and he's been
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Speaker 4: attending Bilderberg meetings ever since they met in Copenhagen, Denmark
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Speaker 4: in twenty fourteen, and so he's going to be embedded
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Speaker 4: there for the foreseeable future, while Mark Route, the Prime
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Speaker 4: Minister of Holland, of course, is now the new Secretary
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Speaker 4: General of NATO. Anyway, this is the actual seventy one
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Speaker 4: word press release. It's the only mainstream press item I
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Speaker 4: could find about Jen Stoltenberg and what's going on. It
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Speaker 4: came from Bloomberg and I need not read it. It
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Speaker 4: basically just gives the very basics that Jen Stoltenberg, the
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Speaker 4: former Secretary General of NATO, will become the new co
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Speaker 4: chair of the Bilderberg Group, the Steering Committee. And a
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Speaker 4: very important note along with that, however, is as that
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Speaker 4: slide indicates, Bloomberg editor in chief John Micklethwaite has long
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Speaker 4: attended the Builderberg meeting, so for Bloomberg to announce this
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Speaker 4: is basically synonymous with Bildeberg announcing it. And this is
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Speaker 4: just a little something I wrote up as a news
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Speaker 4: brief and people can read it. It basically outlines what
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Speaker 4: I just got done, saying, just as the Dutch PM
22:20
Speaker 4: Mark Route a long term Builderberg attendee himself. Just as
22:24
Speaker 4: he settles in as NATO's fourteenth Secretary Generro replacing Stoltenberg,
22:29
Speaker 4: Stolteberg has decided to stick around with Bilderberg. The steering
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Speaker 4: committee that Buildeberg that Jen Stoltenberg will co chair on
22:37
Speaker 4: Bildeberg right now has thirty one members and they're very important.
22:42
Speaker 4: They oversee the ultra exclusive annual gathering. They decide who
22:45
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22:50
Speaker 4: and how to pay for it all. And as I
22:52
Speaker 4: noted here, therefore, the revolving door between the public lives
22:56
Speaker 4: of these and many other officials remains well oiled, guarantee
23:00
Speaker 4: to further blur the important line between public service and
23:04
Speaker 4: privately conducted arrangements which ensure the financial gain of those
23:08
Speaker 4: involved in Buildeberg, uphol their obscure deal making and uphold
23:13
Speaker 4: their shadow globalism behind the throne of officialdom. As I
23:17
Speaker 4: noted in this news release, and there's a little bit
23:22
Speaker 4: more background there about Stoltenberg, how long he was Norwegian
23:26
Speaker 4: Prime minister before he got involved in NATO. People can
23:30
Speaker 4: freeze these slides and read them, and NATO, I noted,
23:33
Speaker 4: is a pillar of Bildeberg. NATO goes back to pretty
23:36
Speaker 4: much the beginning of Bilderberg, when they met in the
23:38
Speaker 4: Netherlands at Hotel de Builderberg in nineteen fifty four, and
23:43
Speaker 4: hence the name of the meetings. That's where that name
23:45
Speaker 4: came from. And anyway, that basically sums it up. Might
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Speaker 4: I don't know if we have any additional slides on
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Speaker 4: this or not. I will note that when Stoltenberg became
23:58
Speaker 4: Prime Minister into in Norway, he was portrayed as their
24:03
Speaker 4: Norwegian Tony Blair according to many news accounts, and his
24:07
Speaker 4: policies were inspired by Tony Blair's new labor agenda. So
24:12
Speaker 4: that tells you something about Stoltenberg's thinking when he was
24:16
Speaker 4: head of NATO and now he's part of this steering
24:19
Speaker 4: committee for Bilderberg, and that pretty much sums it up.
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Speaker 2: Yes, okay, thank you, Debbie. Now let's move on to
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Speaker 2: Ukraine and well, yesterday, sorry day before yesterday and Wednesday,
26:53
Speaker 2: the Middle Ukraine canitile was being held in Brussels and
26:57
Speaker 2: this was they said to discuss the security said Ukraine.
27:00
Speaker 2: Following Russia's launch of an experimental intermediate range ballistic missile
27:05
Speaker 2: last week. This, of course is the Roshnik, so they
27:10
Speaker 2: are extremely worried about this. They issued a statement it
27:13
Speaker 2: said NATO allies reaffirmed their support for Ukraine. The attack,
27:17
Speaker 2: which targeted to Apro, is seen as another attempt by
27:20
Speaker 2: Russia to terrorize the civilian population Ukraine and intimidate those
27:24
Speaker 2: who support Ukraine as a defense itself against Russia's illegal
27:27
Speaker 2: and unprovoked aggression. As earlier noted by the NATO spokesperson
27:32
Speaker 2: Parah dak Haala, deploying this capability will neither change the
27:38
Speaker 2: course of the conflict nor the terror NATO allies from
27:41
Speaker 2: supporting Ukraine. That's their position. That the reality is, of course,
27:46
Speaker 2: that this weapon is absolutely unstoppable by anything that NATO
27:51
Speaker 2: has in its possession. Here is Mark Rudder that Mark
27:55
Speaker 2: was talking about a second ago. His subsequent comment was,
27:59
Speaker 2: our support from you has kept them in the fight,
28:02
Speaker 2: but we need to go further to change the trajectory
28:04
Speaker 2: of the conflict. Now, whether Ukraine should have been kept
28:08
Speaker 2: in the fight or whether there should have been presence
28:11
Speaker 2: at a negotiating table by this point, perhaps that's something
28:15
Speaker 2: that Mark Ruter will appear in court for later.
28:18
Speaker 1: On as well. Yeah, in Stoltenberg and others.
28:21
Speaker 2: But he went on saying we need to provide critical
28:23
Speaker 2: air defenses and deliver on the commitments made at the
28:26
Speaker 2: NATO summit in Washington. I just want to remind everybody
28:29
Speaker 2: what this actually looked like and make the point that
28:32
Speaker 2: there are no critical air defenses available to tackle this
28:36
Speaker 2: particular weapon because this is a hypersonic weapon. It's an
28:39
Speaker 2: intermediate range hypersonic weapon, and there's no prospect of dealing
28:45
Speaker 2: with it with currently available technology on the NATO side. Now,
28:50
Speaker 2: we have been talking about Trump and whether Trump is
28:53
Speaker 2: going to be willing to or is actually going to
28:57
Speaker 2: do anything about Ukraine, or whether he's just during with
29:00
Speaker 2: an effort to get the EU to step up to
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Speaker 2: the plate and do what, as he says, it pay
29:06
Speaker 2: for their own defense and to take the lead with
29:10
Speaker 2: respect to Ukraine. Well, we're starting to see the rhetoric
29:14
Speaker 2: coming from EU politicians. Here is a lovely Ursula who
29:18
Speaker 2: was saying yesterday, consider this, Russia allocates up to nine
29:22
Speaker 2: percent of its GDP for defense, while Europe averages only
29:26
Speaker 2: one point nine percent. This disparity is problematic, she said,
29:30
Speaker 2: and she went on to talk about how they needed
29:32
Speaker 2: to change this situation. And all I can say about
29:35
Speaker 2: that is the thought of nine percent of European GDP
29:38
Speaker 2: being in the hands of Ursula vonder Lyon and her
29:43
Speaker 2: team in the European Commission for Warfare is a scary
29:47
Speaker 2: one and it's one that we should all be opposing,
29:49
Speaker 2: and certainly we should be opposing any effort by the
29:52
Speaker 2: UK to get involved in European defense at all. In
29:56
Speaker 2: the meantime, sorry, just before we leave Ukraine, I'll just
29:59
Speaker 2: mention of Russia has been targeting power infrastructure, electricity supplies
30:05
Speaker 2: at a time of course Ukraine coming into the winter again,
30:10
Speaker 2: and so people are getting round this in Ukraine by
30:14
Speaker 2: installing diesel generators in blocks of flats and so on,
30:17
Speaker 2: and you know, sometimes there's several hundred people living in
30:21
Speaker 2: a block of flats. So we're talking about fairly major
30:23
Speaker 2: installations of diesel generators and widespread across the country because
30:29
Speaker 2: the electrical supply has been disrupted so badly by Russia.
30:34
Speaker 2: And I just asking the question at this point, you know,
30:39
Speaker 2: where is Greta because you know this is going to
30:44
Speaker 2: be pushing out lots of CO two generating diesel fumes,
30:49
Speaker 2: and nobody seems to be terribly concerned about that at
30:52
Speaker 2: the moment, other than to complain about the fact that
30:54
Speaker 2: it's putting pressure on the Zelenski regime.
30:59
Speaker 1: So we will keep you posted on this as it
31:01
Speaker 1: develops in the meantime.
31:03
Speaker 2: The next topic that I wanted to talk about was Georgia,
31:07
Speaker 2: because of course Georgia, as we know, experienced a war
31:12
Speaker 2: with Russia in two thousand and eight in South Assetia.
31:15
Speaker 2: Because at that point, under Mikhail Sackersfilly, the Georgian regime
31:19
Speaker 2: was very anti Russian and very pro EU. Well, people
31:24
Speaker 2: out in the streets there because in fact, the george
31:28
Speaker 2: and the new Georgian government, which is much more pro
31:33
Speaker 2: Russian and pro Putin, has decided to suspend its application
31:38
Speaker 2: for entry into the European Union, and so as a result,
31:42
Speaker 2: we saw riots on the streets with water cannon and
31:46
Speaker 2: pepper spray being used the so called riders themselves, or
31:50
Speaker 2: the riders themselves using lasers back at the police.
31:53
Speaker 1: Again.
31:54
Speaker 2: Now, these riders, of course claiming that they're discussed at
31:59
Speaker 2: the fact that the government has decided to postpone entry
32:03
Speaker 2: into the EU for now, because they've been putting pressure
32:06
Speaker 2: on this for a while now. This follows on from
32:09
Speaker 2: a law that came in last year from the Georgian government,
32:13
Speaker 2: which is very similar to the foreign agents laws that
32:18
Speaker 2: we've seen in other countries in around the world, in
32:20
Speaker 2: Russia and also in the United States for that matter.
32:24
Speaker 2: But Georgia doesn't want to see that the sort of NGOs,
32:30
Speaker 2: the Western back the n GUS and think tanks and
32:32
Speaker 2: so on, pushing in their and media pushing in their
32:36
Speaker 2: narratives into Georgia that are certainly calling in the question
32:40
Speaker 2: the result of the recent election and so on, amongst
32:43
Speaker 2: other things, and certainly calling in the question this decision.
32:46
Speaker 2: But I just wanted to end by this segment by
32:48
Speaker 2: highlighting and reminding everybody about this organization BBC Media Action,
32:53
Speaker 2: because this is a so called charity subsidiary of the
32:57
Speaker 2: BBC which goes in the countries and trains the media
33:02
Speaker 2: in those countries in the BBC way of doing things
33:05
Speaker 2: and in BBC type narratives. And so here we have
33:09
Speaker 2: them providing support independent media in the Eastern Partnership countries.
33:13
Speaker 2: These are the countries to the east of the EU
33:16
Speaker 2: that the EU considers as part of its expansion arena,
33:20
Speaker 2: but specifically Georgia. They have an article here on their
33:26
Speaker 2: Media Action website, the Struggle to Remain Independent George's net Gazzetti,
33:32
Speaker 2: and this article talks about how media Action has gone
33:35
Speaker 2: in to help Net Gazetti develop their capability.
33:40
Speaker 1: In terms of pushing a particular narrative.
33:43
Speaker 2: And I just want to end by reminding everybody of
33:45
Speaker 2: the quote from this lady Juliette Harkin, formerly a BBC
33:48
Speaker 2: Media Action talking about Syria and saying that the BBC
33:53
Speaker 2: Media Action had worked in two thousand and four, so
33:55
Speaker 2: remember that's seven years before the conflict in Syria, had
33:59
Speaker 2: worked with individuals within the Syrian ministry who wanted change
34:02
Speaker 2: and tried to get them to be the drivers of that.
34:05
Speaker 2: So they were not just going in the trend media
34:07
Speaker 2: organizations or media and journalists and so on. They were
34:10
Speaker 2: actually specifically looking for people within the government of Syria
34:15
Speaker 2: at the time and trying to them to sorry, trying
34:19
Speaker 2: to get them to be the drivers of change, which
34:21
Speaker 2: of course what we mean by that is regime change.
34:25
Speaker 2: And so it's absolutely appropriate, I think, for Georgia to
34:27
Speaker 2: be putting in legislation to try to stop this kind
34:29
Speaker 2: of activity. But when we see riots like this on
34:32
Speaker 2: the streets of Georgia, we've got to ask is this
34:35
Speaker 2: really a grassroots uprising or is it in fact backed
34:41
Speaker 2: by this type of organization and the surros type organizations
34:45
Speaker 2: that we've seen operating in these countries over the years. Debbie,
34:49
Speaker 2: let's come back to you and more on assisted dying.
34:54
Speaker 3: Yes, thanks, Mike. Yeah, and where who is actually taking
34:58
Speaker 3: us down this slippery slope of sister dying? Who wants
35:01
Speaker 3: us to have a right to a good death? And
35:02
Speaker 3: I want to introduce you to campaign the Campaigners for
35:06
Speaker 3: Dignity in Dying. So these they're supporting Kim Ledbetter and
35:11
Speaker 3: of course we've spoken about Kim Ledbetter earlier and this
35:14
Speaker 3: is where the key to the assisted dying door has
35:17
Speaker 3: come from from her. And they want to spread the
35:20
Speaker 3: message far and wide about choice on billboards, newspapers, online.
35:26
Speaker 3: In fact, they want to spread the message from each
35:29
Speaker 3: corner of Britain right through to the center of Westminster.
35:32
Speaker 3: This is a nonprofit organization based in Westminster. And at
35:36
Speaker 3: this point I'd like to acknowledge and thank very much
35:38
Speaker 3: doctor Callum Miller. His posts on X have been absolutely
35:42
Speaker 3: fascinating with regards to dignity in dying, So I'd like
35:46
Speaker 3: to thank him for his information. And also i'd like
35:49
Speaker 3: to thank Charlotte Gill whose Globe well, whose first hand experience,
35:54
Speaker 3: as you're going to see, was extremely interesting. Because when
35:59
Speaker 3: you go down to the Tube this week, what are
36:03
Speaker 3: you about to see? Let's have a look at Charlotte's video.
36:08
Speaker 6: Assistant dying adverts at Westminster Tube. There are quite a
36:13
Speaker 6: lot of them. Fancy a bit of a sister dying
36:15
Speaker 6: Global Right, Global, Global and Global. Would you want the
36:26
Speaker 6: production company that gave you the Newsagents with John Soap
36:30
Speaker 6: or Emily Maitlis and Lewis Goodall to be running the
36:36
Speaker 6: Tube advertising? Would you want the company that gave you
36:40
Speaker 6: LBC with James O'Brien, Paul brand Sometimes and Carol Vorderman
36:46
Speaker 6: to run the Tube adverse? They're very divisive, they've put
36:50
Speaker 6: a lot of political content out well, they are running
36:54
Speaker 6: the Tube adverse, They're running most of them. In September
36:57
Speaker 6: they got one of the biggest outdoor advertising contracts with TfL,
37:02
Speaker 6: so people are saying why doesn't TfL take them down?
37:07
Speaker 6: Because TfL gave that contract Global and the Mayor of
37:11
Speaker 6: London also has a contract with Global as something called
37:15
Speaker 6: the Outernet, which is that Tottenham Court Road. So by
37:20
Speaker 6: all indications, they're perfectly happy with it. Okay, and I'm
37:24
Speaker 6: just walking past all the adverts now, okay, she watched
37:28
Speaker 6: my videos because I've explained it all. I've done some
37:31
Speaker 6: really in depth work on this. It even touches on
37:33
Speaker 6: the father. Carol Vorderman, an LBC employee Global, wrote about
37:38
Speaker 6: Esther Ranson in her book and his sister dying. There's
37:40
Speaker 6: too many coincidences and it all comes back to Global.
37:46
Speaker 3: So thank you to Charlotte, because there's so much more
37:49
Speaker 3: to explore. But let's have a look at that poster
37:51
Speaker 3: one more time of a young girl dancing in the
37:53
Speaker 3: kitchen in her pink satin pajamas, looking very happy to
37:55
Speaker 3: get her dying wish that her or her family doesn't suffer.
38:00
Speaker 3: I want you to take note of this young lady
38:01
Speaker 3: and the reason will become clear in a minute. But
38:04
Speaker 3: were you shocked at the adverts? Well, apparently TfL Transport
38:09
Speaker 3: for London, according to the BBC, weren't shocked and they
38:12
Speaker 3: say that their their adverts are compliant and they campaign
38:16
Speaker 3: for positive imagery. Now, this is where I take it
38:20
Speaker 3: back to that young lady in her pink satin pajamas.
38:22
Speaker 3: These are real people. They're either campaigning because they're terminally
38:27
Speaker 3: ill themselves or they're campaigning for family members. And apparently
38:31
Speaker 3: many of them have had to be supported because there's
38:33
Speaker 3: been such an outcry about this, including the Samaritans. And
38:38
Speaker 3: here in the mail you'll see that the Samaritans have
38:40
Speaker 3: been very busy slapping helpline posters all over these adverts,
38:45
Speaker 3: telling people where to go should they need help. And
38:48
Speaker 3: I'm hearing from both people that are pro assisted dying
38:52
Speaker 3: and anti assisted dying that they are utterly shocked. So
38:56
Speaker 3: let's look at Let's go back to a Dignity in
38:59
Speaker 3: Dying again and let's look at them because they campaign
39:02
Speaker 3: for choice, access and control, and they also say they
39:07
Speaker 3: claim that eighty four percent of the public support this
39:10
Speaker 3: choice for assisted dying. Well, please stay with us again
39:13
Speaker 3: for EXTRA, because I do believe that this is false
39:15
Speaker 3: information and false communication, and we'll look at it more
39:19
Speaker 3: in EXTRA, but stay tuned. So Compassion in Dying, This
39:25
Speaker 3: is dignity in dying, sister, and they are ready to
39:28
Speaker 3: give you every single bit of help. If you want
39:30
Speaker 3: any help making decision, you've got it. And here you
39:33
Speaker 3: can see them saying that we want you to be
39:36
Speaker 3: in control at your end of life decisions. But what
39:39
Speaker 3: do they actually offer. What do they tell you to do? Well?
39:43
Speaker 3: A living will, of course, and we've spoken about living
39:46
Speaker 3: wills before, probably for different reasons because people are scared
39:49
Speaker 3: of going to the NHS, but living wills. It doesn't
39:53
Speaker 3: stop there. They say that you can get help if
39:56
Speaker 3: your relatives wishes are not being respected even and actually
40:00
Speaker 3: a specialist nurse is going to come and help to
40:03
Speaker 3: your loved ones. They're going to be heard, unlike the
40:07
Speaker 3: vaccine injured. But that's not all they'll do to help
40:10
Speaker 3: you decide to die. They'll draft letters for you, they'll
40:13
Speaker 3: prepare meetings in advance with doctors, they'll help you ask
40:17
Speaker 3: the right questions. They'll even arrange a nurse to speak
40:21
Speaker 3: with you. Easypasy. I bet you wish you could get
40:23
Speaker 3: a GP's appointment that quickly, And I bet the vaccine
40:26
Speaker 3: injured wish they could get help and they could get
40:28
Speaker 3: someone to listen to them that quickly. But it doesn't
40:31
Speaker 3: stop there. They can make it. They're saying that you
40:34
Speaker 3: can make a decision for someone else in case you're
40:39
Speaker 3: not able to yourself. But what does the law say?
40:42
Speaker 3: So you go on to see what they say about
40:44
Speaker 3: the loss of mental capacity unless that person has made
40:48
Speaker 3: a living will or lasting power of attorney for health
40:51
Speaker 3: and welfare, the decision making power and responsible force to professionals,
40:55
Speaker 3: not to family members. So best interests, what does that
41:00
Speaker 3: actually really mean? Well, it actually says here that relatives
41:04
Speaker 3: are pretty shocked because they feel completely unprepared and surprised
41:09
Speaker 3: that professionals are suddenly making decisions on behalf of someone else,
41:13
Speaker 3: especially someone that has been in their family and that
41:15
Speaker 3: they've known and loved forever. So who is the decision maker?
41:20
Speaker 3: That's what we have to look at. And if apparently
41:23
Speaker 3: according to compassion and dignity and dying, if there's no
41:27
Speaker 3: lasting power of Attorney of Health and welfare, the professional
41:31
Speaker 3: in charge of your care will make that decision. Really,
41:35
Speaker 3: who is that person and what grade is that person?
41:38
Speaker 3: So I consulted Dr Robert Everett, as I usually do.
41:42
Speaker 3: Our Wonderful Retired GP are a member, and we've done
41:46
Speaker 3: interviews with Robert before, and I asked him and I said,
41:49
Speaker 3: this is a very concerning thing because if you have
41:51
Speaker 3: lots of capacity and professionals are going to take decisions
41:55
Speaker 3: for you, And he directed me to the Office of
41:57
Speaker 3: Public Guardian making decis decisions independent mental capacity Advocate service
42:03
Speaker 3: who say slightly different, and they go on to say,
42:07
Speaker 3: determining a person's best interests. If a person is felt
42:12
Speaker 3: to lack capacity and there's no one suitable to help
42:15
Speaker 3: make decisions about medical treatment, such as family or friends,
42:20
Speaker 3: an independent mental capacity advocate must be consulted. Well, that's
42:27
Speaker 3: very different from what we've just heard where relatives don't
42:30
Speaker 3: get a say. So the muddy that the water is
42:32
Speaker 3: slightly mudded there. But also, let's go on to the
42:35
Speaker 3: Court of Protection, because Dr Everett referred me to the
42:39
Speaker 3: Court of Protection where it says in situations where there
42:42
Speaker 3: is serious doubt or dispute about an incapacity, what is
42:46
Speaker 3: in an incapacity to a person's best interests? Then healthcare
42:50
Speaker 3: professionals can doesn't say they do, can refer the case
42:55
Speaker 3: to the Court of Protection for a ruling. So I'm
42:58
Speaker 3: seeing that there is a lot of debate around this
43:02
Speaker 3: to be had. It's unclear who's saying what and who
43:06
Speaker 3: and what is going to actually happen in real time.
43:09
Speaker 3: So let's go back to Dignity and Dying, and let's
43:11
Speaker 3: look at their patrons because you might know a few
43:13
Speaker 3: of the names. Sir Patrick Stewart there, Sir Terry Pratchett
43:17
Speaker 3: and of course Joe Brand. And I went to look
43:20
Speaker 3: at the funding because where do they get all of
43:22
Speaker 3: this money is a big campaign that they're running, and
43:26
Speaker 3: they're not a charity, so they don't actually have to
43:28
Speaker 3: declare what they spend their funds on, and they rely
43:31
Speaker 3: on subscriptions, donations and wills, and they lobby, they campaign,
43:37
Speaker 3: they work with the media, they brief parliamentarians and they
43:41
Speaker 3: meet really regularly. But how do they spend their funds?
43:45
Speaker 3: So they spend their funds on awareness and all of
43:48
Speaker 3: these campaigns and advertising. And thanks to Unity NewsNet, because
43:55
Speaker 3: I've been looking at social media intently on how this
43:58
Speaker 3: organization is funded, and here they're showing Bernard Lewis, who's
44:02
Speaker 3: the founder of River Island. He's donated hundreds of thousands
44:07
Speaker 3: of pounds to both organization. But you can also see
44:11
Speaker 3: that the Bernard Lewis Family charity group have huge Israel
44:16
Speaker 3: connections and right there on the right hand side. You
44:18
Speaker 3: can see all of those connections. The Canary. Also, I
44:21
Speaker 3: didn't rely just on Unity News Net. I went to
44:24
Speaker 3: look at the Canary and they say too, the assisted
44:28
Speaker 3: Dying bill is an ableist abomination, not that Kim lead
44:32
Speaker 3: Beater even realizes. And if we go back and look
44:36
Speaker 3: at the Canary in further depth, they talk about this
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Speaker 3: advertising campaign and just very briefly, in one week second
44:43
Speaker 3: to eighth of November, Dignity and Dying even surpassed the
44:46
Speaker 3: Disasters Emergency Committee in Gaza because of ads. They'd forked
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Speaker 3: out thirty seven hundred and seven pounds for one hundred
44:55
Speaker 3: and thirty four ADS in just seven days. And that's
44:58
Speaker 3: just the tip of the iceberg. And it goes on
45:00
Speaker 3: the article to point out Hannah Sharlon from The Canary
45:04
Speaker 3: who has said basically that this organization has links with
45:07
Speaker 3: the Genesis movement, links with labor government as we've clearly seen,
45:12
Speaker 3: and that a huge amount of money has been passed
45:15
Speaker 3: into this organization. There's much more to come on this,
45:17
Speaker 3: much more, but needless to say that heading this organization
45:22
Speaker 3: is Baroness Metcha, Michael Meetscher's wife, and there's much more
45:27
Speaker 3: to be seen because this really is a very dark,
45:29
Speaker 3: slippery slope. More in extra though.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was just going to say, Debbie, you know
45:33
Speaker 2: I asked the question, is its a slippery slope?
45:35
Speaker 1: I think we can absolutely say it is.
45:37
Speaker 2: And you know, I want to absolutely talk in extra
45:40
Speaker 2: about this, these living wills, because that looks a lot
45:43
Speaker 2: like asset stripping to me, particularly if you're an organization
45:46
Speaker 2: that is funded through wills.
45:48
Speaker 1: I mean that.
45:50
Speaker 2: Well, lots of questions to be asked there. Okay, a
45:54
Speaker 2: little bit of general you here. I'm going to start
45:56
Speaker 2: off with, and thanks to the person who sent this
45:58
Speaker 2: through to me job advertisement. We apply for it myself
46:01
Speaker 2: for a non executive director at Offcom to join the
46:06
Speaker 2: Advisory Committee on Disinformation and Misinformation. Mark said to me
46:10
Speaker 2: earlier that I was very well qualified for that. I
46:13
Speaker 2: could take that in a number of different ways. We'll
46:15
Speaker 2: talk about that later too, but anyway, I also wanted
46:18
Speaker 2: to remind everybody about this, the acceptance of cash to
46:22
Speaker 2: be investigated by the Treasury Committee, because the consultation on
46:25
Speaker 2: this ends on Monday at five pm. So just to
46:28
Speaker 2: remind everybody. They are asking a number of questions, For example,
46:33
Speaker 2: what is the current state and recent trends in the
46:35
Speaker 2: forecast for cash acceptance in the UK are the groups
46:39
Speaker 2: in society that disproportionately rely on businesses and public services
46:42
Speaker 2: accepting their cash? And should the government require parts of
46:45
Speaker 2: the economy to always accept cash? I personally think they should,
46:49
Speaker 2: but anyway, that's a question that they're asking, and they're
46:54
Speaker 2: also asking about practical challenges that businesses might face from
46:57
Speaker 2: always having to accept cash, and what would the com
47:00
Speaker 2: and so on, and also how might such a requirement
47:03
Speaker 2: for cash accept acceptance affect financial services firms?
47:07
Speaker 1: Who cares?
47:08
Speaker 2: Are there any other areas of particular sectors where decline
47:11
Speaker 2: and cash acceptance would cause problems? So as say there
47:14
Speaker 2: is a consultation. The link will be in the show
47:16
Speaker 2: notes towards under the video on the UK called website.
47:21
Speaker 2: And if everybody has until Monday to make any thoughts known,
47:27
Speaker 2: and you can do that as an individual, So I
47:29
Speaker 2: would just like to encourage everybody to do that, and
47:33
Speaker 2: also just want to let you know that super Bacter,
47:37
Speaker 2: who of course a wonderful man and doctor who is
47:42
Speaker 2: part of the Doctors for COVID Ethics organization and has
47:45
Speaker 2: spoken out so much over the last number of years
47:48
Speaker 2: on COVID related issues. Is back in court after Christmas
47:54
Speaker 2: on this charge that he has well, let's just have
47:58
Speaker 2: a look at what it says, so having incited hatred
48:01
Speaker 2: against a religious group and attacked the human dignity of
48:04
Speaker 2: others by insulting and maliciously disparaging that religious group, while
48:08
Speaker 2: acting in concert in a manner likely to disturb the
48:10
Speaker 2: public peace, and having publicly trivialized and I committed under
48:14
Speaker 2: the rule of national socialism for the kind described in
48:18
Speaker 2: section six Brackets one of the International Criminal Code in
48:21
Speaker 2: a matter likely to disturb the public pace. Of course,
48:24
Speaker 2: what did he actually do. He criticized Israel's vaccination policy
48:28
Speaker 2: from twenty twenty one, and that's all he did, and
48:32
Speaker 2: that is being presented as being somehow anti Semitic. He
48:36
Speaker 2: was in court and found innocent on this charge several
48:42
Speaker 2: months ago. This is just some footage from outside the
48:45
Speaker 2: court and you can see the number of police that
48:47
Speaker 2: attended because they obviously thought that the people that would
48:49
Speaker 2: be there supporting him were going to riot or something.
48:52
Speaker 2: I don't know, but anyway, because apparently there's no double
48:57
Speaker 2: jeopardy in this case to have another go trying to
49:01
Speaker 2: get him for this, I believe in February, so we
49:05
Speaker 2: will keep you posted on it as that develops. Mark,
49:10
Speaker 2: let's come back to you. And you wanted to talk
49:14
Speaker 2: about Donald Trump and the question of tariffs.
49:19
Speaker 4: Yes, indeed, Mike. And what's interesting is you're seeing things
49:23
Speaker 4: in the media on TV flashing all the time tariff threat,
49:27
Speaker 4: the threat of tariffs, And I wanted to report this
49:30
Speaker 4: in a way that sort of de mythologizes tariffs. But anyway,
49:35
Speaker 4: here's something from the fort Worth Star Telegram, fort Worth,
49:38
Speaker 4: being kind of a twin city of Dallas, Texas. Economist
49:41
Speaker 4: explains what a Donald Trump tariff plan would mean for
49:44
Speaker 4: the state of Texas in twenty twenty five. It really
49:47
Speaker 4: means for the nation too. And we'll move on from
49:50
Speaker 4: there and briefly explain what this economist is saying. This
49:53
Speaker 4: is from that newspaper. Many Americans are still trying to
49:56
Speaker 4: understand how possible campaign promises made by President elect Trump
50:01
Speaker 4: following the election could impact them. One of them was
50:04
Speaker 4: to improve the nation standing in international trade by imposing
50:08
Speaker 4: sweeping tariffs during his second term. However, economists warn that
50:13
Speaker 4: carrying out that pledge might come at a significant cost
50:16
Speaker 4: to American workers. And this is where we hear the
50:18
Speaker 4: same narrative over and over and over again, and it's
50:22
Speaker 4: coming from in this case, Dennis Jansen, a professor of
50:25
Speaker 4: ECON and director of the Private Enterprise Research Center at
50:29
Speaker 4: Texas A and M, which is in College Station, Texas.
50:32
Speaker 4: They call that Bush Country, by the way, and he
50:35
Speaker 4: explained to the Star Telegram his views the implications of
50:38
Speaker 4: these tariffs. And we'll keep going from there and kind
50:42
Speaker 4: of get through this. So I can add a little
50:44
Speaker 4: commentary at the end. How could Trump's tariffs affect Americans?
50:47
Speaker 4: As the sub had goods imported into the US could
50:51
Speaker 4: be subject to ten to twenty percent tariffs in twenty
50:54
Speaker 4: twenty five under Trump. Trump also suggested imposing an additional
51:00
Speaker 4: tariff of at least sixty percent that is high on
51:03
Speaker 4: Chinese goods, and in the event that the border doesn't close,
51:08
Speaker 4: impose a tariff between twenty five percent and one hundred
51:11
Speaker 4: percent on tariff on items imported from Mexico. And I'll
51:15
Speaker 4: mention just yesterday Mike, the new Mexican president, a lady
51:20
Speaker 4: this time that's a rarity in Mexico, has already tentatively
51:24
Speaker 4: agreed that Mexico will definitely get involved in slowing down
51:28
Speaker 4: or stemming the flow of illegal migrants into the US
51:32
Speaker 4: if they can avoid that tariff. So so far, Trump
51:36
Speaker 4: seems to be using the tariff against Mexico more as
51:39
Speaker 4: a bargaining chip, not necessarily a reality depending on how
51:44
Speaker 4: Mexico cooperates on migration. Anyway. We have a couple quotes
51:48
Speaker 4: with a picture of mister Jansen, the Texas A and
51:52
Speaker 4: m E Com professor. In these two slides, it gives
51:56
Speaker 4: his view in a summary kind of way. The first
51:58
Speaker 4: one quote, if we impose a ten percent tariff, other
52:02
Speaker 4: countries are going to have a hard time selling stuff
52:05
Speaker 4: to us because the prices are going to be higher
52:08
Speaker 4: and the people in the US are going to buy less.
52:11
Speaker 4: And the other part of his view on this is quote,
52:15
Speaker 4: so there's a chance we could get into a tariff war.
52:19
Speaker 4: This is the other part of the constant thing that
52:22
Speaker 4: we hear prices will go up and there'll be a
52:24
Speaker 4: tariff war. But again this quote, so there's a chance
52:27
Speaker 4: we could get into a tariff war, which is US
52:30
Speaker 4: raising ours to ten percent and they raise theirs to
52:34
Speaker 4: ten percent. The government revenue will go up, and I
52:39
Speaker 4: added this emphasis, but international trade will decline, and you
52:43
Speaker 4: see that's what Trump is really after. He's really after,
52:48
Speaker 4: as far as I can tell, and keep that slide
52:50
Speaker 4: up of that book cover, He's after actually reducing international
52:54
Speaker 4: trade and increasing US self sufficiency. Maybe not toward our
52:59
Speaker 4: autar where a nation becomes very significantly self sufficient, that's
53:04
Speaker 4: a term autarchy, but definitely headed that way. Now, this
53:08
Speaker 4: book cover comes from a late GM executive that I
53:14
Speaker 4: knew personally for a short time, Gus Stelzer. He passed
53:18
Speaker 4: away some years ago. He wrote a book called The
53:21
Speaker 4: Nightmare of Camelot, an expose of the free trade trojan Horse.
53:25
Speaker 4: An excellent book, never got the renown that it should have.
53:29
Speaker 4: And Camelot actually refers of all times to the administration
53:34
Speaker 4: of JFK. When Stelzer said that JFK passed a trade
53:39
Speaker 4: law that sort of set in motion the free trade
53:43
Speaker 4: nightmare that we have these days. And I don't know
53:46
Speaker 4: how much JFK was complicit in that. I don't know
53:49
Speaker 4: how much he understood it. I'll talk about some very
53:52
Speaker 4: interesting things regarding JFK's Dallas retirement plan quote unquote in extra,
53:57
Speaker 4: but moving on from there, I don't know that we
53:59
Speaker 4: have much more slidewise. This is important as an afterthought.
54:04
Speaker 4: Trump's ambassador to Canada is former Michigan Congressman Pete Hoakstra,
54:10
Speaker 4: who very much shares Trump's tariff and trade philosophy. He's
54:15
Speaker 4: a former Michigan congressman and the Commerce Department nominee, as
54:19
Speaker 4: this slide also shows, is Howard Lutnick, chairman and CEO
54:24
Speaker 4: of Canter Fitzgerald, a US financial services firm. It's interesting
54:30
Speaker 4: to note that Canter Fitzgerald is one of only twenty
54:34
Speaker 4: four primary dealers authorized to trade US government securities with
54:39
Speaker 4: the New York funder Reserve. That's a very exclusive and
54:42
Speaker 4: big deal. But what's interesting about mister Lutnik is he
54:46
Speaker 4: spoke at that major recent Trump rally at Madison Square
54:49
Speaker 4: Garden and recalled the strength of the US economy way
54:53
Speaker 4: back in nineteen hundred. The US economy survived with no
54:58
Speaker 4: income tax whatsoever but high tariffs, and he therefore supports
55:03
Speaker 4: broad tariffs. Now I'll just add that one of the
55:08
Speaker 4: things that is being completely overlooked in these constant reports.
55:13
Speaker 4: Tariffs are going to raise prices. It's going to start
55:15
Speaker 4: a tariff for this is what we hear over and
55:18
Speaker 4: over again is as I indicated here, it begins to
55:22
Speaker 4: put a different source of revenue into the US treasury.
55:26
Speaker 4: And that's just the beginning. Tariffs are intended. And I'm
55:30
Speaker 4: looking at my notebook where I scribbled thick some things down.
55:33
Speaker 4: Tariffs are intended in the media medium to long term,
55:37
Speaker 4: medium to long term timeframe to protect the US industrial
55:40
Speaker 4: base and prevent dumping like Chinese dumping from having an
55:47
Speaker 4: adverse effect on the US economy and on the industrial base.
55:50
Speaker 4: And this is important, and to prevent existing US industrial
55:55
Speaker 4: companies from closing their US factories and they're therefore prevent
56:00
Speaker 4: them from moving out, closing down here and moving their
56:04
Speaker 4: factories to cheap labor havens such as Mexico and many
56:08
Speaker 4: other places with much cheaper labor than the US. And
56:12
Speaker 4: that to prevent that from happening. That in turn protects
56:17
Speaker 4: the US tax base, the local and county and state
56:20
Speaker 4: tax base. In particular, that tax base funds our roads,
56:25
Speaker 4: It funds our bridges, it funds our schools, the nine
56:28
Speaker 4: to eleven emergency system, the police at the local state,
56:34
Speaker 4: at the local and state levels, fire departments, ambulance, public transportation,
56:39
Speaker 4: all of that. The majority of the tax money that
56:44
Speaker 4: supports those things comes from larger firms like nuclear plants,
56:52
Speaker 4: tool and die shops, various factories making various products automotive parts,
56:58
Speaker 4: for example. As these tariffs go up, these things are protected,
57:02
Speaker 4: those jobs stay in place, they're typically good paying jobs,
57:06
Speaker 4: and then that tax space is kept intact. So the
57:10
Speaker 4: people that only argue that tariffs will make things cost more,
57:14
Speaker 4: which is true, and talk about tariff wars, they overlook
57:19
Speaker 4: all these other aspects of tariffs, which used to be
57:22
Speaker 4: one of the main federal revenue sources in the country
57:26
Speaker 4: until the income tax came along, resulting in the sixteenth
57:31
Speaker 4: Amendment in nineteen thirteen. So there's a whole background, a
57:34
Speaker 4: whole history to tariffs that's being overlooked constantly in the media.
57:39
Speaker 4: But if Trump follows through putting some of these tariffs
57:44
Speaker 4: in place, and in the case of Mexico, maybe only
57:47
Speaker 4: using it for a leverage, it's going to be very
57:50
Speaker 4: interesting to see what happens. But at least we can
57:52
Speaker 4: start thinking in a more objective and complete sense about
57:56
Speaker 4: what tariffs are and what they do. So I just
57:59
Speaker 4: want to report on what Trump is doing, but clarify
58:02
Speaker 4: the whole issue of tariffs today, Mike, So back to you.
58:06
Speaker 1: Thanks Mark.
58:06
Speaker 2: There's certainly a lot of discussion needed to around that
58:09
Speaker 2: whole issue, for sure. Okay, Debbie, MHRA board meeting.
58:15
Speaker 3: Yes, I just wanted to update you. I can't go
58:18
Speaker 3: and use really, we can't go and use it. Be rude,
58:20
Speaker 3: be rude. Not much in the MHRA, so yes, most
58:23
Speaker 3: people will recall I went to the MHRA board meeting
58:26
Speaker 3: last week and if you remember rightly, they said that
58:29
Speaker 3: there was going to be a December board meeting and
58:31
Speaker 3: I couldn't quite work out what was going on because
58:33
Speaker 3: nothing's been advertised. So thank you Mike for advising that
58:36
Speaker 3: I write to the MHRA press office, which I did,
58:41
Speaker 3: asking them about the December board meeting. And it seems
58:43
Speaker 3: that there's going to be a board seminar format. It's
58:47
Speaker 3: going to be the board meeting is going to be
58:48
Speaker 3: held in a board seminar format in December, which is
58:53
Speaker 3: going to be a kind of a like a little
58:54
Speaker 3: Christmas jolly which we're not invited to. So the public
58:58
Speaker 3: are not invited to view the mh board meeting. How
59:02
Speaker 3: transparent is that not? And they'll be having their own
59:05
Speaker 3: little jolly, I'm sure, with mince pies and all sorts
59:09
Speaker 3: of tinseled. Maybe to welcome the new chair or maybe
59:13
Speaker 3: say goodbye to Dame June. Who knows, but we won't
59:16
Speaker 3: know because it's all going to be held in private.
59:20
Speaker 1: Yes, and a final video.
59:22
Speaker 3: Clip ah yes, So what have the Democrats been doing
59:26
Speaker 3: drowning their sorrows since the loss of the election. Well,
59:29
Speaker 3: this is what a bunch of people has been circulating
59:32
Speaker 3: all over social media. This is what a bunch of
59:34
Speaker 3: people in Michigan have been doing to console themselves. I'm
1:00:01
Speaker 3: thinking of going down to the beach myself and screaming
1:00:03
Speaker 3: at south Westfurt. So what do you think?
1:00:07
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, okay, the weather may not be up to
1:00:11
Speaker 2: just at the moment, but okay, I think there's lots
1:00:15
Speaker 2: to unpack there as well. Well, but we've got to
1:00:18
Speaker 2: leave that for today. So lots to discuss in extra
1:00:22
Speaker 2: in a couple of minutes time. If you UK call
1:00:23
Speaker 2: amember please join us for that. Just stick around on
1:00:25
Speaker 2: the live stream otherwise, have a great weekend. We will
1:00:29
Speaker 2: be back at one pm as usual on Monday. See
1:00:31
Speaker 2: you then, bye bye.