Good afternoon. It's Wednesday the 23rd of July,
just after, well, 1:00. Welcome to UK column news from
your host, Mike Robinson. Mike Hulk host.
Today in the studio is Charles Mallett.
Welcome to the program, Charles. Thank you, Mike.
And joining us via Live Link, our researcher and activist
Sandy Adams and journalists and peace campaigner Vanessa Bailey.
Now, later in the programme, we'll have a report on the
inquest of the passing of Kit Shamarani's daughter, uh, used
so cynically by the BBC's Mariana Spring to push her
agenda. Uh, Vanessa will be reporting on
Trump's forced removal of people in prison to prisons in South
America. And Sandy will be reporting on
more success against the green agenda at council level.
But we'll begin today with Charles and the ongoing migrant
crisis and its use in the promotion of one policy agenda,
at least Charles. That's right, one very
particular policy agenda. And there are a number of
apparently loosely related Home Affairs stories that have been
inserted into the new cycle in the past week.
And I would suggest that if you've been following UK column
news for a period of time, you will know what the destination
is. But the start point, suffice it
to say, is illegal migration, and in particular the various
responses to it. We have reports of agreements
with France, new policies concerning small boat crossings,
all of which steadfastly ignore the unstaunched flow of legal
migration. Now the Office for National
Statistics reports that net migration has dropped to 431,000
for the year to end 2024. This is still double what it was
a decade ago and the government wants you to look exclusively at
the people smuggling gangs, which is, statistically
speaking, at least a small percentage of the problem.
Now the Home Office and the Foreign and Commonwealth and
Development Office have issued a joint statement about sanctions
to be imposed on the gangs in order to, quote, disrupt the
flow of money and materials, including freezing property,
bank accounts and other assets which allow organised criminal
gangs to facilitate irregular migration to the UK.
End Quote. The recently lifted super
injunction on the Afghan data breach, which is reported to
have cost the taxpayer billions, has been neatly slotted into
this narrative. The breach went unnoticed for 18
months, so it's hard to argue that there was a genuine threat
to the lives of those that the government has subsequently
claimed to protect. All of which makes it look like
the court action was designed to hide the failure and the cost,
but also to enable the airing of the story at exactly the right
time. Which turns out to be now.
There's no doubt that large groups of young male foreign
nationals being corralled in the same place within small
communities is a terrible idea. And this is precisely the issue
that's being confronted by the people of Epping and of Dis
among many others. The catalyst in Epping appears
to be the charging of a migrant with the sexual assault of a
local girl. And the police are reported as
having acted in such a way as to inflamed the situation by, in
particular, transporting counter protesters from the station to
the Bell Hotel. We've a report from Will
Coleshill which will play to you in News Extra, so if you're not
yet Auk column member then you'll need to join us to be
able to view that. Today's Daily Mail rites of
fears of riots akin to those stoked in the wake of the
Southport events last August and due to the ongoing protests.
Epping in particular has attracted the mainstream media
racist hunters who are desperate to find people to conform to
their image of a far right fascist.
Well, the BBC at least hasn't had much luck, and Victoria
Derbyshire was openly surprised by what this man had to say.
I've just been talking to the council leader and he said that
Tommy Robinson is expected here. What do you think of that?
I look, I'm mixed race, OK? I'm going to stay that.
I'm mixed race. I'm I'm old enough to remember
the BNP. Tommy Robinson is not racist.
As far as you're concerned, he is welcome here.
I think he for me personally, I don't mean he's a good idea.
Oh. Because of the amount of people
he'll bring outside the area at the moment, it's a local thing
for local people who want to voice their opinion and want the
government to do something about it.
You bring Tommy Robinson here with all the good intentions in
the world. I don't think he's going to.
So there's a final word missed there, which was end well.
He said he didn't think it was going to end well.
And I'd say the final comments on whether or not an influx of
outsiders headed up by Tommy Robinson or others are extremely
astute. Now, as pointed out at the time,
the riots of 2024 were almost exclusively driven by those from
outside the communities which were affected, and thus the
desired result was gifted to the government.
Suddenly everyone was an extremist and the full force of
the law was to be felt then as it is now.
The way was paved for new police powers and new legislative
measures. And now 20 years since the 77
events in London, the BBC is running a series called State of
Terror. And the Home Secretary Yvette
Cooper has featured on a recent programme talking about the new
laws she is to create which will concern what she calls mass
attacks, which was which are specifically not conducted by
terrorists. Essentially what she's talking
about is a pre crime interference which is already
possible under terrorism legislation and Cooper wants to
push the edge of the envelope. At this point it's worth
reminding you that the actions of criminal damage for which the
Palestine Action Group was prescribed as terrorist were to
put paint on 2 aeroplanes. Returning to the specifics of
housing migrants, this is what the Prime Minister said when
asked by the Chair of the Liaison Committee, Meg Hillier,
how he would manage the problem. What other accommodation
precisely are you planning to take over to provide temporary
accommodation for for families? Oh, there's lots of housing and
many local authorities that can be used, and we're identifying
where it can be used. But I mean look.
Sorry, can you give us have? You got any examples you can
give us because? No, but I'll I'll, I'll write in
and give you details. I could say certainly the number
of our local authorities are are already picking up from around
the table. There isn't a lot of spare
housing available. If there were, councils would be
able to be dealing with it by now.
Well, exactly. Completely out of touch as
always, the truth is very hard to get to and quite what he
meant by exactly at the end is anyone's guess.
At least. Housing though was mentioned in
the Labour manifesto, but digital identity was not.
However, there can be no doubt at all that these strands are
leading to one point of focus and that is digital identity.
The Brit card here seen on screen has been proposed by the
Labour Together think tank with impeccable timing as the entire
scan is predicated on the battle against illegal migration.
Now from the proposal document, we see that they say 1,000,000
people live in the UK without permission to do so, undermining
Britain's social contract and sense of Fair play.
And it goes on to advocate for a mandatory universal national
identity credential. Brit Card can help Britain
control illegal migration and secure its borders.
And with that, I'll draw to a close as Mike's got more on this
specific issue. Well, indeed.
And so the Home Affairs Select Committee has a cross.
Sorry. They describe themselves as a
cross party committee of MPs responsible for scrutinising the
work of the Home Office and its associated bodies.
It says that it examines government policy spending and
the law in areas including immigration, security and
policing. But just like the Intelligence
and Security Committee which we were discussing on this program
last week, they are more about, or at least I would argue
they're more about creating justifications for government
policy. So let's take their latest
consultation for example, which is all about harnessing the
potential of new digital forms of identification.
And I'm going to say thanks to Andrew for the tip off for this.
Now, digital ID can refer to many different aspects of a
person's identity, they say, which can be recorded and stored
digitally, including names and demographic information, digital
versions of government issued documents such as visas, or even
biometric information like fingerprint or face scan.
And they say that in an increasingly digital world,
several countries have begun to develop digital ID systems in
support of functions like identification, proof of
residence and facilitating access to government services.
They go on to say that they've been calls for the UK to adopt
digital ID, with those arguing for its introduction saying it
would have benefits in like improving citizens access to
services and supporting more effective enforcement of
immigration rules. Just by coincidence they happen
to be banging on with exactly the same narrative that Charles
been talking about just a few seconds ago.
So they are running a consultation on digital ID and
the closing date for that is the 21st of August.
The call for evidence is asking several questions.
How effectively is data relating to individuals currently being
used and shared by Home Office and it's agencies?
What potential benefits could be could the use of new forms of
government issued digital ID have for the government's
ambition to reduce crime and manage migration?
What different categories of information about individuals
could most usefully be included in government issued digital
identification? Another question is what
potential risks does the adoption of new forms of digital
identification have for individuals, including risks to
privacy and security of personal data?
And another final question is what capabilities could the Home
Office and and its agencies need to develop efficiently, Sorry,
introduce to efficiently introduce and take advantage of
new forms of digital identification?
Sorry, there is one more How could the adoption of new forms
of identification improve efficiency and interactions
between the Home Office or law enforcement agencies and other
government departments? And so they go on.
So this is very much about justification, not scrutiny, in
my opinion. My Big Brother Watch is running
an active campaign on this issue, and they provide a
template for responses to the Home Affairs Committee.
But as they themselves acknowledge, it's a bad idea
just to use a templated response, so they recommend you
take the time to write your own, because otherwise responses can
be dismissed out of hand. And I would say that for all the
naysayers out there who refuse to take the time to make this
kind of effort, just remember that everyone who is silent is
taken to agree. And really, that is the point,
Charles. I think it's absolutely the
point and I think in a way last summer was a sort of warm up
exercise. I mean, cynical as that may
sound, with exploiting the events in and around Southport.
And this year there's a there's a, in effect, a change of tack,
but it should really be regarded as a development of the same
thing. And of course, the other thing
that I would point out is that the statement issued by Yvette
Cooper and David Lammy talking about controlling and freezing
assets belonging to the migrant gangs.
Of course, what they're not going to say, but you should
absolutely be aware of is at the moment there's any advance in
the move towards digital identity and the digital
currency, That's exactly what can happen to you and indeed
anybody else. But the key point of this
segment is to really reinforce the idea and recommend people
that pay attention to the possibility that this irregular
migration issue is being stocked up in order to drive forward
this digital identity policy amongst with others.
Absolutely yes. Vanessa, let's let me welcome
you to the program and, well, let's have a look at Donald
Trump's removal of people from the United States into prisons
in South America. Yeah, I mean, we reported on
this with some pretty disturbing videos if you're a member of
Donald Trump, illegally deporting immigrants of all
nationalities. But in particular, 200
Venezuelans that were claimed to be gang members or in some media
reported as being terrorists, but of course, they were
deported without any due legal process whatsoever.
And recently, for example, this is an article in Politico, there
has been recent moves for actually the repatriation of
many of the Venezuelan deportees in return for 10 American
citizens to be sent back eventually to the US by the
Venezuelan government. But I just want to remind people
of what the San Salvador Centre that one of the toughest prisons
in Latin America, a pioneer project for Buchele the the
president of San Salvador. This was a Reuters report back
then which shows the conditions for the prisoners.
The US has sent. Hundreds of mostly Venezuelan
migrants to be held without trial at this mega prison in El
Salvador. It's known as SECOT, an acronym
for Terrorism Confinement Center in Spanish.
The prison opened in February 2023 as part of Salvadoran
President Naive Buchelli's highly popular hardline security
policy, which has resulted in a sharp drop in homicides.
El Salvador claims it is Latin America's biggest, with capacity
for 40,000 inmates. It stretches across 57 acres and
is located in an isolated rural region east of the capital, San
Salvador. Blue Calais has said the prison
cost $115 million to develop and equip.
Video taken from inside the facility often shows prisoners
tightly packed together. Sorry, extraordinary horrendous
conditions that these probably majority innocent detainees were
being held in. And this basically was something
that happened back in May where Venezuela's government has
launched a campaign demanding the return of two year old
Michael Espinosa Bernal, who remains in US custody after both
her parents were deported without her.
Her parents were accused of being gang members without any
evidence or criminal charges. Her mother was deported to
Venezuela, while her father was sent to El Salvador and
imprisoned indefinitely without charge in the notorious secret
prison. So let's just have a look at the
photo of the family prior to the the deportation of the parents.
Now, since then, I'm happy to report that the Venezuelan
government has campaigned and the baby has been returned to
her parents, with the father having been released in the
latest deal with the United States from the Secot prison in
San Salvador. And now, of course, what is
happening is that Venezuela is accusing El Salvador of
torturing the migrants under their control in the Secot
prison. The attorney general, Tarek
Saab, said Monday that his office will investigate
President Naive Bokele and two officials over alleged abuse of
Venezuelans detained in El Salvador.
And let's see what he actually said in In the report, which is
on France, 24 detainees suffered human rights abuses ranging from
sexual abuse to beatings, were denied medical care or treated
without anesthesia, and given food and water.
That made them I'll, Saab said at a press conference.
Some detainees showed obvious signs of torture and injuries,
including missing teeth, bruising and scars, which were
said to be as a result of the abuse they suffered in what
appears to be like nothing more than another CIA black site.
And I just want to show this video of the return of the
American prisoners from Venezuela to San Salvador.
And then it will be followed by images of the Venezuelan
detainees returning to Caracas and, and you can see the
difference between the between the two. 10US detainees held in
Venezuela waved American flags as they touched down in El
Salvador on Friday. The group on route to the US is
part of a coordinated prisoner exchange.
Over 200 Venezuelans who were deported from the US on
allegations of gang membership earlier this year and detained
in an El Salvador jail arrived home to Caracas.
U.S. President Donald Trump had
invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to swiftly deport them to El
Salvador's notorious sea. Caught.
Maximum security prison. The deportations drew fierce
criticism from human rights groups and a legal battle with
the Trump administration over allegations that due process was
not followed. Family members and lawyers
representing many of the detained Venezuelans deny they
had gang ties, and lawyers say they were not given a chance to
contest the Trump administration's allegations in
court. And of course, there are
benefits for San Salvador and Naive Buchello as a result of
him providing the prison area for for these deportees to be
kept and clearly tortured. And so this was an article in
the last few days from the New York Times how El Salvador is
reaping rewards from Trump's deportation agenda.
And let's have a look at what it actually says.
So in part of the article, they say that an investigation led by
The New York Times found that the US government not only paid
Mr. Buchelli's government around 5 million to incarcerate more
than 200 Venezuelan deportees, but added a bonus at his
request. The return to El Salvador of
several top MS13 leaders in American custody.
MS13 are basically a San Salvador gang that originated in
Los Angeles to ostensibly protect refugees from San
Salvador during the civil war. And then basically, if if we
consider that what might happen with this project that has been
launched by Bokele and profited from by Trump, of course, this
could lead to the replication of these kind of prisons and
detention centres across Latin America, just as we saw
previously in the Middle East to act as detention centres for
deportees and torture centres for anyone that that the US
deems to be ready for deportation.
But then I also wanted to show this is actually an article in
the Telegraph that was published today.
Inside Alligator Alcatraz, prisoners describe nightmare
conditions. And if we have a look at the
content of the article itself, cooped up like chickens in
cages, eaten alive by bloodthirsty mosquitoes, and
living in cells said to be awash with human waste and filth.
They're just some of the appalling conditions described
at Alligator Alcatraz, the Florida prison which has become
the latest symbol of the Trump administration's uncompromising
attitude on immigration enforcement.
Built on the site of an abandoned airstrip deep in
Florida's Everglades, set in a mosquito ridden swamp infested
with pythons and crawling with alligators, the mega jail can
house up to 3000 migrants. There's only one Rd.
The only way is out through a one way flight, declared
Caroline Leavitt, the White House press secretary.
Last month, and I think one of the more frightening aspects of
this, which is where I bring in the comparison to what is
happening in Gaza and effectively across the Middle
East, this was a statement from a Venezuelan detainee in this
Alcatraz. The conditions in which we are
living are inhuman. My main concern is the
psychological pressure they're putting on people to sign their
own self deportation. Well, that reminds me very much
of the situation in Gaza, where people are being put forced to
go through such horrific conditions that they will be
forced to leave of their own volition.
Thank you for that, Vanessa. Thank you.
Quite grim. And as you say, there'll be,
we'll be sort of linking that to what's going on in Gaza later on
in the programme. Before we get there though, we'd
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Now tonight on Germ Warfare, Germ will be speaking to
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about China. Tomorrow at 1:00 PM on the live
stream. Brian will be speaking to Lynn
Lopez Salzedo who is Israeli but former Zionist becoming an anti
Zionist and she'll be talking about that journey.
I saw a few other advertisements here on Friday.
This Friday evening, Andrew Bridging will be speaking in the
Seven Stars Hotel in Totnes. Tickets are going fast for that.
I urge everybody that would like to go that anybody that's in the
Southwest, please do consider going to it and grab your ticket
on Eventbrite if you possibly can.
Tickets are available on the door but as I say tickets are
going fast so probably best if you possibly can to book in
advance. And then on Saturday the a
Glasgow Peace rally. Stanford Peace is hosting the
latest Glasgow Peace Rally in Glasgow.
It starts at 12:00 PM. Details will be in the show
notes, but get along to that if you possibly can.
And Sandy, very briefly, then well, welcome to the programme.
First of all, but very briefly, the the Glastonbury event that's
been on and off and on and off is apparently on again.
It's finally on and it's on private land in Langport in
Somerset, celebrating freedom of speech with Clive de Clark,
Richard Vogbes and myself. Arrive at 1:00 PM.
I'll be speaking about all things 2030 as usual and there's
a wood fired pizza and a bar open till 11:00 PM and it's the
happy end the Windmill Lane TA10 9EP so come along and enjoy
freedom of speech. Thank you.
And then finally, well, no, not quite finally, almost finally,
the Hope Festival. We will all be at the Hope
Festival. And we, in fact, we're in charge
of a tent for a whole day. Charles for speaking events.
Believe it or not, we are. Yeah, I know that would be a
terrific day. All day Saturday UK call them,
have the tent. So get to the event 1st and then
get to the tent. And then finally, the UK column
on location event, the date for the Darius the 18th of October
2025. The topic's going to be health
tickets going on sale on Monday the 28th.
That's this coming Monday. And we'll have details of
speakers and so on for you then. So well, anything else to add?
Well, I think to make the point that tickets both in person and
live stream tickets will be going on sale on on Monday.
So if you know you're not going to be able to make it in person,
don't worry, you will be able to to get your live stream tickets
immediately. OK, now, Charles, let's talk
about the ongoing inquest into the daughter of Kate Schemerani.
Yes, absolutely. Now, Brian was talking about
this, or at least the way it's been treated by elements of the
mainstream media on Monday and therefore today what we're going
to do is start with a report from Will Coleshill, who's been
following the inquest into the death of Pomoma Schemerani.
Hello, my name is Will Coleshill, reporting for UK
column and today I'm down at Ken and Midway Coroner's Court
reporting on the inquest into the death of Paloma Shamrani and
about whom many people would have heard quite a lot
considering the recent BBC smears and attacks.
Obviously many people will know Paloma as the daughter of Kate,
famous freedom activist, but this has been a very interesting
case. It involves the NHS, involves
the BBC parano Rama, Mariana Spring and we have had the first
day of the inquest today. We've seen a few bombshells
being dropped this day, mostly focused around the evidence of a
Doctor Mohan, one of the key doctors who's going to be
testifying in this case. Now, most of the claims and most
the attacks by the BBC revolved around the concept that Kate was
somehow coercing her daughter into dangerous medical treatment
and these were put forth by her son Sebastian and Gabriel.
Gabriel was in court today. He attempted to question Doctor
Mohan on this as the coercion and Doctor Mohan was quite clear
Paloma had competence and there was no coercion was being
alleged here by Cake is that her daughter was medicated without
her consent which weakened her and moved her down the path to
her death. Cake had the opportunity today
to question Doctor Mohan and took a substantial amount of
time questioning her and her conduct and that of her
colleagues. In particular our concerns with
what drugs Gloma was given, when she was given them, how much she
was given and whether she was given the correct information
and even the correct information as to her diagnosis.
Some of the main contention points were that she was given
no wristband by which to identify her, the fact that she
did not sign a written consent form as is part of the procedure
of the hospital, the fact that she was given a large dose of
steroids as admitted by Doctor Mohan.
Despite it being alleged she was only offered a small dose, and
being denied her information, including her Histology, in
order to make an informed decision which she could pass
over to doctors for second opinions.
In fact, Paloma was allegedly only able to get her Histology
through a subject access report. But I spoke to some of the
mainstream media reporters down here today and it was quite
interesting that a lot of them weren't aware of the statements.
Her statements couldn't be clearer.
They are very, very specific that she said that she wanted to
choose the natural path over chemotherapy, which she
considered to be dangerous. It seems in this case, her
mother's position and her mother's prominence may have
factored into how doctors treated Paloma.
In fact, after Paloma discharged herself, doctors were still
attempting to persuade Paloma to go back into chemotherapy for a
substantial amount of time. There was some contention with
the coroner between the coroner and Kate, as Kate continually
read out again and again the statements signed by Paloma.
At some point Kate was muted, which was particularly
interesting in the court. However, it is more relaxed than
most courts have been down to now.
This is just the first day of this inquest.
This is just the first stage which led to Paloma moving in
with her mother to look after her, keep her safe before the
eventual incident that led to her death.
But this is the start of that road.
I'm going to be back down covering more of this and I
think there are massive implications with regards to it.
We'll have more from Will in due course about this, but it's
perfectly obvious, even if you've had no previous contact
with this case, that there are enormous number of issues that
come out of it that that bear serious scrutiny and indeed many
that concern elements well beyond the remit of the various
organisations and medical professionals that were
concerned in this case. On top of which, of course,
regardless of your point of view on Kate Shamarani or indeed the
the wider family, the fact that the family has been dragged into
this in a sort of propagandist, sensationalist sense is,
objectively speaking, seemingly completely abhorrent.
Now what I'd like to do is point you towards an article published
on the UK column website just yesterday by Eugenie Vernie when
Marianna met the Shemeranis. How reporting becomes
propaganda. Now you'll remember that Brian
has recently spoken to Eugenie for a very interesting interview
about her career in journalism and indeed how she's seen the
system be subverted in front of her very eyes.
It's a very well constructed piece and I really would
encourage that you do look at that and also in terms of UK
column content. The other issue that that's
brought to the fore is this very problematic area of organ and
tissue donation and No Time to Die, an article which is on the
website and has been some time by Doctor Mike Williams really
gets into all the issues that that presents.
So there's there is a lot more to come out in this.
I don't know, Mike, if you've got a few words to say on this
or whether it's something that we look into more in in extra,
but nonetheless, I really would encourage you to go into those
articles on the website. Now, we'll, we'll cover this
more in extra, but in a related topic, you know, another day,
another the platform has decided to leave the UK because of the
Online Safety Act. And what we're talking about
here in many ways is related to freedom of speech and the
ability to make your own decisions and these kinds of
things. Now, in this case, it is an
organization called or a company called Janitor AI, which very
few will be sad to see them gone perhaps, but it's the principle
which is of importance here. In their statement, Janitor AI
said quotes. We have to block UK access to
Janitor AI starting July 24th and just so that's just four
days notice, they said the in the blog post they said, I know
this is a terrible, this is terrible timing and I'm
genuinely sorry about that. We've been trying to wrap our
heads around the UK Online Safety Act and honestly a
completely botched understanding what this thing actually
requires. When it first passed, they said
in the blog post I thought, OK, some new content moderation
rules, we can handle that. Turns out I was dead wrong.
This is not just a content moderation, this is a complete
regulatory framework that assumes every platform is a tech
giant. And this is the problem and very
much the point that we at the UK column have been making since
the beginning of this. And in the blog post, they go on
to say that the requirements are insane.
They talk about legal risk assessments that cost more than
our entire monthly budget. They talk about biometric ID
verification systems, brackets. Reddit is implementing Persona
for It's for this, which costs 1 1/2 dollars, $1.50 per person.
Constant legal review of thousands of pages of guidelines
that keep changing. And they talk about the
penalties, which include fines of up to £18 million plus
personal criminal liability for the chief executive and their
team. Actual jail time if Ofcom
decides that they screwed up. Well, the janitor AI statement
mentioned that Reddit will be using Persona for age
verification. Now they say that Persona,
sorry, this is Persona. They say at Persona, we're
humanizing online identity by helping companies verify that
their users are who they say they are.
Now this is really ironic because there's literally 0
information about the Persona team or its board on their
website. And bearing in mind that they're
collecting their collection is all collecting data is all about
what is what their company is all about.
So they're collecting highly sensitive personal information,
ostensibly for Know your customer purposes, and their
privacy policies and disclosures provide exactly no information
about limitations and how data that they collect is kept.
So, you know, it's pretty ironic that they refuse to comment on
who they are. But in the meantime, then Ofcom
has published its guidelines for yet another layer of compliance
administration which every platform will have to carry out,
and that's transparency reports. Now this requirement will apply
to all categorized services, So larger companies, or at least
companies with more than 3,000,000 UK users.
This might seem like a great thing.
Platforms will have to publish reports detailing how they've
kept children safe. But this is again cover for
censorship, as the fact checkers are well aware of, because
they're banged to be part of the regime.
They demand to be given access to data related to so-called
misinformation so that that data becomes part of the transparency
reporting. It is still unclear to what
degree that will take place, but one of the bodies which Ofcom is
still required to set up as part of the Online Safety Act is
called the Advisory Committee on Disinformation and
Misinformation and the fact checkers expect to be part of
that. So since the Online Safety Act
has moved on a pace and with each new development we see a
greater and greater chilling effect on freedom of speech.
Now I'll just end by pointing out this repeal the Online
Safety Act petition, which has around 30,000 signatures
including mine. I would urge everyone, no matter
what we might think about petitions to sign it because as
just make the point yet again, who is silent has taken to agree
and so on. So it's, you know, it doesn't
really matter what we think about the effectiveness of these
things. We should be taking, in my
opinion at least, every opportunity to make our opinions
known. Quite right.
Yeah, absolutely. Sandy, let's welcome you back to
the program. And recently you were at the
Dissident Southwest event. Yes, indeed, and it was a it was
a brilliant weekend and reporting back on this meeting
distant Southwest, we held it in Exeter this weekend.
It was 3 days focused on alternative health and regional
sovereignty, attending reform, former Conservative MP Andrew
Bridgen and David Curtin from the Heritage Party.
We had a speaker, David Leighty who addressed the banking fraud
and he's setting up alternative people's councils which is a
very interesting thing. I mean these these events are so
important because people come, they exchange ideas and get
empowered and the hope is that they just won't go home and
watch TV but they'll galvanise themselves.
We had Glynn Owen who collaborated with the the
original 7 concerned citizens of Torbay, Devon and Cornwall.
The seven concerned citizens have issued default notices and
contacted clerks from over 450 councils requiring them to
declare a food and farming emergency and this is really
gaining traction. Town and city councils are being
forced to listen to the people. Do visit their website
sevenconcernedcitizens.co.uk. We had Chris Coverdale, he ran a
workshop on the Freedom Co-op Southwest and Tax Rebellion
which was well attended. I delivered a presentation
reviewing the three key government papers on devolution.
Now Ben and I have focused on devolution in the past few weeks
to really ensure that people understand the pitfalls of
devolution. And it's important because once
democracy is lost, there's no going back, you know it'll be
lost forever. And to summarise, a total of
approximately 360 town councils and city councils in the UK will
be drilled down, boiled down to about 7 or 8 regions, reflecting
Tony Blair's original plan in the 1990s to align with the EU
federal England. Each of these regions will
appoint a mayor for energy and climate, whose responsibilities
will be centred exclusively on on matters related to net zero.
The government is selling it to us as a democracy for the
people, but it's the exact opposite.
You know, authority from count, you know, will be, will move
from councils and Whitehall and to mayors, reducing your
influence really on opportunities to, to challenge
any decisions made. It's crucial to understand that
this distance, this distances you from decision making and
your democracy will be lost. And that's what Agenda 2030
needs. The plan allows for relaxed
planning rules on surveillance and 5G infrastructure, making
opposition impossible. As the mayors will have
increased powers over planning applications, there'll be more
restrictions on cars, meat, dairy consumption and possible
possible future kind of lockdowns, geofencing lockdowns
or or health lockdowns. So here's a clip of my talk on
Sunday what devolution means for the UK.
It means net 0 restrict restrictions such as more
Eulers, more healthy ends, 15 minute cities, 20 mile an hour
zones, increased surveillance, bans on gas and wood burning
stoves, higher carbon taxation, forced retrofitting of our home.
And they're going to use the climate change and the power
they're called the Global Covenant of Mayors for Energy
and Climate. Now these a bit like what Sadiq
Khan is in, in, in London. If you imagine a Sadiq Khan in
every region, that is what we're looking at.
So This is why all these restrictions and, and things
will, if they get their way will be happening because they,
they're selling it as a benefit to us.
Oh, let's get rid of the power of Parliament.
Let's transfer it all over to these local mayors.
And they're going to be so much better.
These guys have got your interests at heart.
That is not true. You will lose all your, you
know, every bit of the last vestment of democracy that we
have will be gone. So yes, there's plenty of
information out there. We, we can and we must oppose
this. I mean, so subscribe to
ukcitizen.org and look at their legal pack packs.
They've got loads of downloadable stuff.
So you can, you can oppose this and challenge your councils on
other issues as well. Join your local residents
association. We had Cassie Langford speaking
about their successes and I'll be speaking about the National
that the National Residents Association later in the show.
Write to your MPs on mass, Make a noise.
Intelligent strategic dissent really does work.
I've put in information in the show notes to help you to oppose
this with templates for councils and MPs.
So you know, we've really got to get get this going because if
once we've lost, our democracy is gone forever.
Back to you, Mike. Thank you, Sandy and I just once
again would say urge people that if you are using a template,
it's fantastic the templates are made available and thank you for
that Sandy and also Big Brother Watch providing templates.
Please make sure you take, make the effort to make it your own
because if it's perceived by people as being, you know, an
organized Internet campaign, they'll, it just, it loses its
effect. And so you make the effort to to
make it personal. OK, let's come back on to the
war agenda then. And well, as we forecast in
October last year, it looks like United States nuclear weapons
are back on British soil. USB-601-12 nuclear bombs seem to
have been transferred to RAF Lake and Heath, the US base in
eastern England that's home to F35 stealth fighters and F15
Strike Eagles. Now these are this is AUS base
even though it's got a an RAF label on it.
But now this article here from the Aviationist reports on the
arrival into Lake and Heath of AUS Air Force C-17 cargo plane
which flew non-stop supported by mid air refuelling from Kirtland
Air Force Base, New Mexico to Lake and Heath.
It arrived at Lake and Heath on the 17th of July, coinciding
with airspace restrictions over the base which are going to last
until this coming Saturday. The particular C-17 used on this
flight is assigned to the 62nd Vision Airlift Wing at Joint
Base Lewis McCord in Washington state, and the 62nd is the only
unit in the United States Air Force certified for what are
called Prime Nuclear Airlift Force missions.
This is all coincidental with Starmer's announcement of the
NATO summit a few weeks ago of the plan to buy a nuclear
capable F35A's, although they're supposed to be based at RAF
Maram, which is about 20 miles away, and also to join NATO's
joint sharing plan. So, I mean, I don't know very
briefly if you've got any thoughts on that, but you know,
the last time the there were nuclear weapons based, US
nuclear weapons based in the United Kingdom, there was quite
a lot of protest about it. And one would expect the same
now, if that were to to, to be founded on, on fact.
Absolutely. But I wonder if that will be the
case. I mean, this is this is exactly
what we're talking about. You know, at what point are
people going to agree that prosecuting a war somewhere else
is actually the right thing to be doing?
We just we keep looking out for some event that's going to tip
people into that that belief. But umm, but absolutely be.
I mean the the direction of travel is very much to suggest
that this could well turn out to be the case.
Indeed, and the, as I say, you know, you're right to point this
out, the, the evidence for it is circumstantial at the moment,
but you know, we did report last year that uh, the, the
developments, the building work that was going on at, uh, Aiken
Heath in order to support this kind of thing.
So it would not be surprising, Uh, now further to the
Kensington treaty then signed last week, uh, which formalised
the so-called E3 as the key war mongers of Europe.
Chatham House has published an article on this very topic.
Uh, they point out that the Kensington treaty quotes also
anchors the bilateral relationship into the white.
This is the relationship between the UK and Germany into the
wider European framework framework of the E3 format.
Unusual for a bilateral treaty. It expli, it explicitly mentions
the aim to intensify trilateral cooperation between the UK,
Germany and France. Going to say the E3 group
coordinated a European position on the Middle East and the Iran
Israel war. While the framework expanded the
Weimar Plus format, which is France, Germany, Poland, Italy,
the United Kingdom plus the EU and sometimes NATO on supporting
Ukraine against Russian aggression.
And they said that the UK and France are also leading the
coalition of the willing a reassurance force for potential
ceasefire in Ukraine. Well, of course, it's not about
a potential ceasefire in Ukraine at all.
It's just about the further development of that.
So an interesting article and really making the point that the
E3 seems to be the main axis for the future war plans that that
have been what we've been reporting on for quite a lot of
years now. But Vanessa, let's come back to
you and Gaza. Yeah, well, as I said, you know
what the Trump external detention or detention by proxy
and sensor and potentially other Latin American countries reminds
me, basically make life so unbearable that people will self
deport from the United States. This is an image in the last two
days from Gaza and there are many flooding social media right
now. I'm not going to show some of
the more dramatic or or upsetting, although there was a
video published today of Israel bombing a child and A and a
woman who was searching or scavenging for food amongst the
rubble. I recommend everybody to follow
the sub stack of Dennis Kucinich.
You will probably know him as the campaign adviser for Robert
F Kennedy Junior. He left when Kennedy showed
himself to be an Uber Zionist supporter.
And this is just one section from his latest sub stack
talking about how the US is complicit in the genocide in
Gaza. He says witness Gaza look at the
faces of a people stripped bare with the curse of nothingness.
For it is our own future unless we change America's direction in
the world. And of course, I will add the UK
and every other member of the Zionist bloc. 2 other images
that I just wanted to share. And how many times have we seen
this? Gaza is not starving.
It is being deliberately starved to death, just as Yemen was,
just as many countries and in the continent of Africa have
been over the years. There is absolutely no need for
starvation in this world today. But of course, those in power
are ensuring that those they want to eradicate are being
starved to death. This is a video that, again, was
published on one particular Telegram Palestinian channel.
So let's have a look at this. What does it truly mean to be
starved in Gaza? It means a reality where one in
three people goes without food for days at a time.
It means a terrifying future where 1,000,000 children are at
risk of starving to death. Starvation has already claimed
the lives of over 86 Palestinians, among them 76
innocent children. The closed border crossings have
choked off vital supplies. And in a cruel twist, even
seeking aid has become a death trap, with the hungry being
targeted at aid distribution points.
Unless urgent action is taken, Gaza is on the verge of an
official famine declaration by this coming September.
I mean, I would say that we're already at at the most I run out
of words to actually describe what's happening in Gaza.
But this is the July OCHA humanitarian update.
I've just taken 1 section but the full report will be in the
show notes. And again, what they say is
while cooked meal provision at community kitchens continue at a
limited scale, around 240 to 250,000 daily on average, Of
course, there's a population of around 2 million in Gaza.
General food distribution remains paused as most
humanitarian food cargo collection is paused across the
strip because of the attacks on the people going to try and
collect aid for their families. Most have been suspended in
southern Gaza since the 4th of July.
And I just want to look quickly at this map that was also
contained within the report. You're going to have to freeze
frame and and zoom in. But basically if you look at all
of the colours, what they are the, the orange, the deep
purple, the the lavender. They're militarized zones or
zones that are under displacement orders since March
or combined displacement militarized zones.
So that gives you an indication of the spaces that are actually
left for Palestinians to to relocate to that are then being
bombed on a regular basis. Just horrendous conditions.
But again, I compare it to what's happening globally, not
only in Gaza and not only in the region here.
Yes. Well, thank you for that report,
Vanessa Charles. Yes, coming onto matters in this
country and something of an environmental round up.
Steve Reed, the environment secretary, has responded to the
publication of Monday's report from the Independent Water
Commission authored by Sir John Cunliffe.
And I Reid said the government will respond in the autumn,
which means that until then this report really counts for little.
But on the regulatory side of things, off what's to be
abolished. And of course it remains to be
seen whether the new system will have any merit.
Climate change, climate change rather, is of course blamed for
the water system not working. But the reality is rather
different and a differing reality is becoming a more
dominant theme. And of course we should keep
sight of this now. As reported by Diane on Monday,
Durham County Council has decided after all, that there is
not a climate emergency. And yet the people of that
county are at present currently unaffected by this change now.
So I'll mark this as a 0 emergency, one of a raft of
failures in the propaganda war concerning climate change.
You may remember that last year Germany's first wind farm, Alpha
Ventas, was decommissioned as it no longer made financial sense.
We'll call that a wind fail. In the UK, the Public Accounts
Committee by and large recognised that carbon capture
and storage is extremely expensive, inefficient and a
dangerous waste of taxpayers money, delivering no serious
change whatsoever. And back in 2016, NASA research
showed that an increase in carbon dioxide has turned out to
increase the rate at which vegetation grows.
Which of course would have come as a surprise to nobody who
understands what carbon dioxide is actually for.
A propaganda fail there. Now, most recently, and the
reason for this report, is that the BBC are finally daring to
suggest that digging up this bit of ground, as opposed to that
bit of ground, might not make in much sense in ecological terms.
And here we see a piece on the extraction of lithium in South
America, which, as the BBC asks, she sheepishly, is the world's
race to decarbonize, unintentionally stocking another
environmental problem. Now, it's this specific area on
which there should be so much more debate, the intentional
destruction of the environment in order to protect the
environment. And these examples just go to
show what happens when you try to obscure the truth.
Now, of course, this is an area that Sandy has been looking in
for into for a long, long time. So, Sandy, I'd be delighted to
hear your comments on what I would say is the falling apart
of this particular narrative. Well, you're, you're absolutely
right, Charles. The net 0 narrative is falling
apart and it's been a propaganda life for many, many years.
And I think the more we challenge our, our, our councils
to drop the whole net zero climate emergency, the better it
will be because they're really under pressure now to listen to
us. Because the, you know, if you
like the, the cats out of the bag and you know, we, they, they
can't, they can't defend this anymore.
It's, it's absolutely ridiculous.
And you know, the, the, the lithium battery thing, I mean,
lithium batteries burst into flames.
We've got problems with storage and all sorts of things, so
absolutely we have to really fight this tooth and nail.
Super Sandy, thanks very much indeed.
And you heard her. Get out that and fight it
locally, of course. That's the place to start and
that's the place to get things done.
Absolutely, yeah. Yeah, so sorry, Sandy.
Let's move on, then, to the National Residence Association.
Yes, I mean, Cassie Langford spoke about the National
Residents Association at the Distant Southwest meeting this
weekend. Now, this is how they describe
themselves on their website, and they are a really good Action
Group. They were founded in 2022 by a
group of concerned residents from around the United Kingdom.
The aim was to create a national group which can help people
protect their national and local communities.
And as you can see there, it's got all sorts of different
concerns that people may have and it all fits into this
framework of understanding that we can come together with these
concerns and and, you know, approach our councils.
New members are welcome from anywhere in the UK and more
associations that join the more influence we have.
So what happens when a group of residents empower themselves and
challenge their town council after repeatedly being ignored
at council meetings? On the 10th of July, 40
frustrated people from the Merseyside National Residents
Association descended on Sefton Council and had the audacity to
ask them a few questions. Now this is a problem up and
down our country where ineffectual and uninformed
councils are buckling under the strain of dissatisfied residents
who have very genuine concerns. They ask questions about the
cost of immigration, serious local safeguarding issues, 5G
policies and planning and Net 0 expenditure.
Sefton Council's reaction to these questions was really quite
shocking. To be fair, one councillor tried
to answer, but as questions from the last meeting had been
ignored and with 40 annoyed constituents in the room, the
council became increasingly defensive.
As they had no meaningful means of addressing these answers, the
meeting spiralled into chaos. The mayor, unable to respond,
decided to pause the meeting. Which is their way of saying
we're going to just pretend this isn't happening.
And despite the residents not being aggressive or threatening,
but simply asking reasonable questions, the mayor abandoned
the meeting and called the police.
There's nothing like calling the police when you've lost control
of a situation because somebody's asked why are we
spending 1.1 million on immigration related grants when
we're in a we're in a a cost of living crisis.
So one councillor even uttered the words fascist under his
breath. Clearly the definition of
fascism is standing in a town hall reading out Freedom of
Information requests. That's their idea of fascism.
The positive aspect of this is that the public is becoming more
aware and challenging these council.
So let's see what happened in Sefton Town Council, starting
with this video of a woman very concerned about safeguarding
women and children on the streets of Sefton.
So I ask again. Will you hold a public meeting
to address residents safeguarding concerns face to
face and show that you take seriously your duty to protect
all of us? Then we had a gentleman asking
about expenditure of net zero, and that seems a reasonable
request. How can the Council claim that
its net 0? Policy is justified or
affordable for. Residents, especially during the
cost, cost of living prices with that regard.
We we we see that it's. Time to put a force and.
Appropriate independent review before pushing the head further.
And then finally we have the Council abandoning ship.
This is really quite shocking. If we couldn't get out, did you
have to rule out and answer that question?
Answer this question to the core.
The love here. That's right.
Well said. That man.
Our children's lives, our young children.
New love, new love. Welcome.
Dead questions. Well, that that really is quite
shocking. Councils up and down the country
are taking our money and acting in dishonour.
They're no longer fit for purpose.
We pay their salaries. They need reminding of the Nolan
Principles and be held to account by them.
I doubt if they even know they exist.
So let's remind us what the Nolan principles are.
They councillors must operate with selflessness, integrity,
objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and
leadership. We're not seeing any of this.
We must keep keep asking and keep showing up at council
meetings. We must be intelligent and
strategic, and we must be empowered.
Sandy, thank you very much for that.
I'll just, I'll just end by saying, you know, a lot of years
ago there was an organization that existed that called
themselves the People's Public Trust and they simply went to
their local council meetings in high vis gear and sat and took
notes. They sat quietly and took notes
and they found very quickly Sandy that agenda items would
suddenly that the items that were published in the agenda
would suddenly just not be commented on.
And bearing in mind that a lot of these councils have time
constraints, they want to get some of these policies done and
dusted within a certain amount of time.
It seems to me that the easiest way to push back against that is
to just prevent them from making their deadlines and just just
getting involved in this way Is is the best way to do that.
Yeah, I think, I think if we, if we approach it in a very
intelligent way and not an aggressive way and just
literally play them at their own game because, you know, they
clearly do not know what they're doing.
And we do. And we, we, we don't realise our
own power. Yes.
Yeah, I think this is it. I mean, I think, I think the
other aspect is the the way in which councils particularly have
sort of been sleepwalking into this.
And first of all, they haven't interrogated the issues that
they're supposed to be dealing with, but specifically nor the
legislation which binds them toward what either the council
above them if if that's if they're sort of lower level.
And that in turn leads, of course, as you've articulated so
many times, back to upholding the values of the United Nations
Sustainable Development Goals. And I think a lot of people even
in those offices do not realise that is actually written into
law. And of course, when they get
caught out, they have nowhere to turn because they've never
interrogated at the right stage. And and and that presents a
massive problem. So the message is get involved
and well, we'll have to leave it there on that message.
I would say thank you very much Sandy and Vanessa and Charles of
course, and thank you to everybody that's been watching
today and we'll be back in a few minutes on the UK column live
stream. If you are a member, you can
watch some UK column News Extra. Otherwise have a oh great rest
of the day. Don't forget Germ at 7:00 PM
tonight. Uh, another interview going out
at 1:00 PM tomorrow and we'll be back for the news at 1:00 PM on
Friday as usual. See you then.
Bye bye. Bye bye.