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Good afternoon. 
Today is Monday, the 14th of 

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July 2025, just after 1:00. 
Welcome to UK column News. 

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I'm your host, Brian Garish. 
I'm delighted to be joined today

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both by Ben Rubin and Diane 
Rasmussen Mccaddy. 

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They'll both be joining me by 
live link, so a little bit 

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lonely. 
Excuse me, a little bit lonely 

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here in the studio. 
But perhaps most importantly, we

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should comment on the fantastic 
weather here in Plymouth. 

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As you can see from my backdrop,
the rain and grey sky of earlier

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is cleared and we're left with 
this beautiful day. 

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And we can sigh with relief that
most of the population of UK has

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survived the terrible heat wave 
that we've been hearing so much 

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about. 
So we certainly hope you enjoyed

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your weekend. 
Now, one of the consistent 

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themes that UK Column has pushed
with our audience is the fact 

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that we are being attacked as a 
society by our own government. 

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And we make no apologies in 
continuing that theme today 

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because the moment we start to 
think in this way, many of the 

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government's policies become 
crystal clear. 

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So let's just remind ourself of 
the areas of society that the 

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government and its agents are 
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And probably the first one to 
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Constitution. 
And today we've got a full 

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section on the attack on 
society. 

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The Constitution is part of 
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Ben is going to be looking at 
lawfare and English devolution. 

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Diane is going to be looking at 
net zero and libraries and 

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really censorship. 
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at policing. 
So a busy news today, but let's 

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think of it in in line with 
these attack vectors of the 

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Constitution. 
We've got an attack on free 

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speech. 
We've certainly got an attack on

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policing. 
We've got an attack on the law. 

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This is becoming ever clearer. 
And of course they want the 

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children because the children 
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Now we can come in at slightly 
different angle and one of the 

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main headlines from today, the 
front page is the Daily 

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Telegraph and you can see the 
the the headlines very clearly. 

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Tax rate looms for middle 
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Well, let's put something 
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UK Support to Ukraine fact 
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that we have committed £18.3 
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So there's going to be a tax 
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Why? 
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that is only keen to support war
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or Ukraine, and billions of 
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squandered on helping to promote
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But the front page of the 
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little bit more because, well, 
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migration. 
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rubber boats is the big story 
which most of the media loves to

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push. 
But can you see here the real 

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truth in the small print? 
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Well let's help you out because 
in the Telegraph article it's 

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talking about net migration 
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fairly recently in the Tory 
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Now of course no country can 
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into the country each and every 
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what's happening. 
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we're looking at deliberate and 
calculated madness as the as we 

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witness the breakdown of our 
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weapon for that. 
Now, I just want to say before I

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move on that we are always 
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in and have a look at the detail
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So I'm just going to put up this
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Ukraine fact sheet. 
Do go and have a look at it 

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because there's a lot of detail 
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that are being pumped into 
Ukraine in order to keep the war

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going because ultimately that 
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Russia. 
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Well, let's come back to those 
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And of course Nigel Farage from 
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of his key statements. 
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of the sorts of things that he 
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What? 
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You think the white ones. 
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Intel as to how many are in it. 
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through. 50. 
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I've just spent the last three 
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with Nigel Farage where we've 
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that may be crossing, given that
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What we saw was essentially a 
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particularly one in particular 
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it. 
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past the 50,000 mark. 
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French vessel known as the Mink.
So there's a typical little 

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video clip. 
People who are regular viewers 

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of UK column news will know that
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Nigel Farage. 
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about those rubber boats. 
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but of course, against the 
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coming into the country, or even
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very small number, but of course
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Now, one of the reform MPs, Lee 
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talking about what's going on. 
So let's just have a look at his

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quote here. 
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immigration policies have 
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of the system. 
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because of course it's the 
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Not so much a soft touch as a 
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established population of UK. 
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benefits the policies talking 
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everyone except hard working 
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It costs the taxpayers billions 
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And of course here Lee Anderson 
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This is a policy which is 
destroying the country and he is

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picking up on the real thing 
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The rubber boats are the froth 
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wider public to make them think 
that immigration is about 

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unlawful migration when in fact 
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permitted migration. 
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talk out about mass migration 
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country's already hinted that if
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be labelled a right wing 
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But we should also watch the UN,
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been getting very uptight about 
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disinformation. 
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all nations to work together in 
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said in their countries. 
Let's just have a little listen 

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to what the Secretary General of
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The COVID-19 pandemic has 
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power of the Internet. 
Digital technology has saved 

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lives by enabling millions of 
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socialise safely online. 
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magnified the digital divide and
the dark side of technology, the

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lightning fast spread of 
misinformation, the manipulation

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of people's behaviour and more. 
We can only address these 

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challenges united through 
strengthened cooperation, by 

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establishing real rules to 
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fundamental freedoms, by 
regaining control over our data,

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by countering disinformation and
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everyone to the Internet. 
By 2030, Internet Governance 

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Forum was a crucial role in 
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vision of an open, free and 
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And there pins my road map for 
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And my recent report on our 
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digital compact aimed at 
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private sector and civil society
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In support of this vision. 
I hope this forum will create 

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momentum and spur progress. 
I urge you to be bold and I wish

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you successful deliberations. 
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So he's encouraging A compact to
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in order to increase the 
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So they only talk about what the
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talk about. 
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something else going on. 
We've got an attack on law and 

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the constitution. 
And this is best summarised by 

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this Telegraph article here with
the headline Lord Hermer gives 

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himself a veto over government 
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Now I know that Ben is going to 
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a moment. 
But before we hand over, I'll 

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just remind the people that back
in 2015 UK column was warning 

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about the rise of what we were 
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with a single judge and no jury.
And if you just search for Star 

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Chambers on the UK column 
website you'll find a number of 

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articles but including reference
to a male article which was 

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talking about 3000 trials 
already being held in secret 

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under new Fast Track Money 
saving scheme which ends 

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centuries of open justice. 
Well it's nothing to do with 

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saving money. 
What is actually happening is to

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remove the system of law in this
country and that is presumed 

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innocent until proven guilty in 
front of a jury of your peers. 

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Ben, welcome to today's news and
you're hot on the money today. 

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You're hot on the money today 
with a look at Lawfare, which is

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the system that's being used 
against us. 

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Absolutely. 
Hello, Brian. 

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Hi, Diane. 
Hi everyone at home. 

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Great to be here. 
And as Ryan said, the best way 

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to understand what's happening 
around us is to think about the 

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fact that you're being attacked 
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And one of the major vectors of 
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There's a word for it. 
It's lawfare, and we define that

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as the use of legal systems and 
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military or political 
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The strategic objective in this 
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nation and the imposition of 
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That's what Brian's been talking
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It's what we talk about on a 
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Where does that manifest? 
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of the legal system. 
So the Attorney General, Richard

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Lord Hermer, as I like to call 
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call himself, he's been in 
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5th. 
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Keir Starmer, who we used to 
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on to in a minute. 
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chambers at Matrix Chambers, 
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by Cherie Blair. 
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ensconced at the top level of 
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Before that, he was a barrister 
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directly for Keir Starmer. 
Keir Starmer was essentially his

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mentor and he basically spent 
his career making lots of money 

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on the taxpayer through the 
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interests of terror suspects and
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people, Al Qaeda operatives, 
members of ISIS, that kind of 

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thing. 
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And he's also a die hard 
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So he was the editor of the On 
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youth anti fascist movement. 
Anti fascist of course, not 

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fascist, although these things 
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extremes. 
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Searchlight magazine, 
importantly the potentially 

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communist magazine. 
They covered him here from his 

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time at university running for 
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Union of Students on an anti 
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But he was also maintaining 
those links while he was 

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practising as a barrister, so 
there are minuted examples of 

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him attending Searchlights 
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We'll provide some links, You 
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yourself. 
He's also very close to Nick 

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Lau, the former editor of 
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and still current head of Hope 
Not Hate, who miraculously 

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managed to avoid being charged 
for incitement last year when he

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falsely reported acid being 
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the riots in the wake of the 
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Despite the fact that many 
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the regime are doing much less. 
They just happen to be on the 

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other side of the argument. 
I wonder if Hermer had anything 

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to do with that. 
I don't know. 

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So how is this lawfare being 
waged beyond the examples that 

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I've already provided? 
So Brian mentioned the Telegraph

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article. 
This was also reported in 

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similar fashion in the Mail. 
It also said that the Attorney 

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General, Lord Hermer, has been 
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effective veto over government 
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Well, how's he doing that? 
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You should go and read it. 
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very short but very powerful and
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I'll come back to that because 
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Ministerial Code, which refers 
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ministers to comply with the 
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law, right. 
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getting out, I think. 
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coming from the top lawyer in 
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I'm skipping ahead a little bit.

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As I said, you should go and 
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Number six, the principal factor
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of a legal challenge being 
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Is there a risk here that we're 
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about this if they were to look 
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incredibly unlikely to happen. 
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making process inside government
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throw a spanner in the works. 
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that he represents, the global 
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interests of, want to happen. 
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tenable legal argument, you 
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which is an internal body to the
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this stage. 
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very clear directive to the 
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of the process. 
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I think that's that's abundantly
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the place. 
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the segment a bit later on. 
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new legislation at the moment. 
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this, which Charles mentioned 
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the, the right Honourable Sir 
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Powers Commissioner 
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position actually has the 
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operatives to break the law in 
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law, which is what I mentioned 
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government officials don't have 
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legislation. 
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criminal courts, which 
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access to jury trial 
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crucially on the front page of 
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when justice sleeps, justice is 
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the key theological documents of
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weaponized against the British 
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Thank you very much for that. 
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we see that on the front cover 
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Christianity? 
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Leveson, but let's remind 
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let's just come back, sorry, an 
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ultimately left. 
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absolutely curtailed as he 
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supposedly reforms and 
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reminder about this Telegraph 
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how Labour's favourite lobbyist 
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warning about the organisation 
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groups that were clustered 
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attacks on our common law and 
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Leveson, of course, one of the 
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attack, Common Purpose, or at 
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she's now got an organisation 
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the WEF. 
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emerging from isolation, but 
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young people to make them into 
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this article is Europe 101, 
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essentially this is to engage 
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young people, young 
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to equip those young people with
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they can become agents for 
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Now, remember these young people
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of reframing, but they are going
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agents for change. 
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back on screen for a second, 
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there's a very interesting quote
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It says liquids fill any shape 
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Well, OK, they seep into every 
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They collect, converge, combine.
They go fast or they go slow. 

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They keep moving. 
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Ours is a liquid leadership. 
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website, flowing between us as a
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people and training and 
reframing them to become agents 

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for change. 
The change is never declared. 

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Ambassador Schools, which is 
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Union. 
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bit more detail about this 
organisation, she founded it 

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And if you go and check that 
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straight into enormous wealth 
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the question what could possibly
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background doing their works to 
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are never told what the final 
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Before we discuss that in a bit 
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the news today. 
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take us into Net 0, which is one
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inducing fear and anxiety in the
population in in order to help 

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smooth through that very change 
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Yeah, absolutely, Absolutely. 
Thanks Brian, and hello Ben. 

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It's good to be here today. 
I found out this morning it was 

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just reported on the Guardian 
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mainstream sources that our net 
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going to tell MPs who reject net
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betraying future generations. 
If we can just put this quote up

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here from here on the screen, he
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I feel a deep sense of 
responsibility to tell them the 

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truth about what we know about 
the climate and nature crisis. 

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I want this to become an annual 
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exercise in radical truth 
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I thought that's what we did on 
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But apparently Ed Miliband does 
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the climate in nature. 
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this annual statement is he is 
now going to come up with what 

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he calls a state of the climate 
address to the Commons, setting 

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out the findings of in this 
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believe, Met Office LED report 
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facing extreme and its effect. 
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event coming from the energy 
that net zero secretary, there's

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more reporting about this, about
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that there's profound concern 
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that this extreme heat, you 
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So now we're all experiencing 
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Of course, that this is now the 
norm in the UK, which has not 

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been my experience for the past 
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flooding raises fears over 
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society functions, as reported 
by The Northern Echo, which is a

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local media outlet up here where
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The Reform U KS stance on net 0 
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County Durham in particular, 
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on as an example of just a 
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these global policies, has been 
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So if we can put Karen Allison 
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cabinet member for 
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Durham County Council. 
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of course, that in Durham County
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of the ones in charge right now 
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zero and to identify 
efficiencies and savings for the

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people of County Durham. 
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be trying to actually, actually 
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Back in June of this year, Mark 
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cabinet member for 
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change, asked the new Reform 
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continue the previously agreed 
council ambition to reduce its 

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carbon footprint and achieve net
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And that's because during the 
campaign that they're that they 

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were doing, Reform UK told 
voters that it would scrap net 

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zero and energy levies to save 
households hundreds of pounds 

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per year. 
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that pushing back on this thing 
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trying to decarbonize us has 
achieved some amazing positive 

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benefits for our council, our 
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businesses. 
And also, quote, this has 

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generated huge savings for the 
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millions of pounds of grant 
funding. 

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Now what I would like to know, 
and I'm still investigating 

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this, is what what this grant 
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where the funding came from. 
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Council declared a climate 
emergency and I have a video 

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here from a few years ago when 
this was all starting, setting 

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out the agenda from during 
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time. 
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declared a climate emergency. 
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our emissions by 60% based in 
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we've also set a wider target of
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County's emissions to neutral by
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If you live, work, travel or 
shop in Durham, we need your 

460
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:42,840
views on how we should approach 
this problem. 

461
00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:47,000
In October 2018, the 
International Panel on Climate 

462
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,880
Change boost a special report 
which stated that we have 12 

463
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,320
years remaining to take drastic 
action to mitigate climate 

464
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:54,760
change. 
In response, the Council has 

465
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:58,480
produced a report which outlined
potential pathways to being 

466
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:00,880
carbon neutral. 
The report explores what the 

467
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:04,160
Council needs to do to reduce 
our emissions, what the county 

468
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:06,640
as a whole needs to do working 
in partnership, and what central

469
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:09,280
government needs to do to enable
us to meet our targets. 

470
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:13,760
At the moment we use natural gas
to heat our homes and other 

471
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:15,800
buildings. 
Most of our electricity is 

472
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,600
produced by burning natural gas.
And coal. 

473
00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:23,080
And are buses, trains and cars 
run on fossil fuels, which, as 

474
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:25,640
well as CO2 pollution, could 
also lead to worsening health 

475
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,440
effects in city centres, such as
poorer air quality. 

476
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,560
As the level of CO2 in the 
atmosphere increases, it will 

477
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:37,080
lead to more extreme weather 
events like storms, flooding, 

478
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:40,080
droughts and heat waves. 
We need to act now to mitigate 

479
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:42,800
this as well as prepare 
ourselves for these weather 

480
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:47,280
events when they do happen. 
We believe we need to increase 

481
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:51,320
investment in renewables such as
the new solar farm at Tanfield, 

482
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:54,400
the council building. 
We need to invest more in 

483
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:56,600
efficiency measures like LE DS 
and insulation. 

484
00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:01,400
We need to change our transport 
to low carbon solutions such as 

485
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:04,760
ultra low emission vehicles. 
And we need to strive to protect

486
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:07,640
and enhance our peatland and 
woodland which are important 

487
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,280
carbon sinks. 
Now it's time for you to tell us

488
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:16,160
what you think. 
So that was five years ago when 

489
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:18,280
they first declared the local 
emergency. 

490
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:22,040
So Darren Grimes, who is the 
deputy leader of reform here in 

491
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:24,560
County Durham, and I will come 
back to him later in the news, 

492
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:27,920
he's requested that the 
authority instead to declare 

493
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:31,040
what he's calling a County 
Durham care emergency rather 

494
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:34,680
than a climate emergency to 
recognise the, quote, critical 

495
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:37,280
and escalating crisis in 
children's social care. 

496
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:41,000
And this includes provisions for
children with special needs and 

497
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:43,240
disabilities. 
This will be voted on this 

498
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:45,720
Wednesday at a full council 
meeting on the motion. 

499
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:48,480
And so that should be an 
interesting meeting to attend if

500
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:51,120
you can do so. 
The current climate emergency 

501
00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:53,720
response plan, which I 
mentioned, has gone through 

502
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:56,200
several items. 
It has several objectives for 

503
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,480
meeting these net zero agenda 
items. 

504
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:02,040
The current one will run until 
2027 if it's left in place. 

505
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:05,560
It warns that the ongoing crisis
is, quote, the most urgent 

506
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:08,520
threat to the well being of our 
children and the financial 

507
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:11,040
stability of our county. 
But of course, it seems that 

508
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:14,720
Counsellor Grimes disagrees. 
We can look at this Climate 

509
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:17,480
County Durham website and this 
is just a screenshot of the home

510
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:20,960
page where they say they are 
turning climate talk into 

511
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:24,280
climate action. 
This was funded originally by 

512
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:26,960
the Northeast Local Enterprise 
Partnership, which has now 

513
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:30,520
become, as of last year, the 
Northeast Combined Authority. 

514
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:33,920
And according to the website, 
with a population just under 2 

515
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:36,840
million, the area covered by the
combined authority, We can see 

516
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:40,920
how how huge this authority now 
is, is the seven local authority

517
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:44,320
areas of County Durham, 
Gateshead, Newcastle, N 

518
00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:47,120
Tyneside, Northumberland, S 
Tyneside and Sunderland. 

519
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:50,160
Kim Guinness is the first 
northeast mayor. 

520
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:53,840
So again, coming into this last 
year, she says that she is 

521
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:57,240
committed to getting a northeast
that goes beyond net 0. 

522
00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:58,960
So I don't know how you go 
beyond net zero. 

523
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:01,680
I guess we go negative from 
there With climate change 

524
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,560
policies that change lives and 
delivering on the green jobs 

525
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:08,120
revolution are her priorities. 
And according to the website for

526
00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:11,840
this new combined authority, it 
is the home of the green energy 

527
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:14,240
revolution. 
And it says that we will grasp 

528
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:17,440
the opportunity that net zero 
presents to the Northeast. 

529
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:21,360
And it is important that the 
transition to a more climate 

530
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:24,320
friendly 1 is a just one. 
And of course, that goes into 

531
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:27,360
the globalist language if you 
look at Doctor Paul Raskin's 

532
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:30,360
work and the Club of Rome. 
So Speaking of the Club of Rome,

533
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:34,080
just to kind of end this on a 
globalist point here. 

534
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:37,320
According to Alexander King, who
was one of the founders of the 

535
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:40,160
Club of Rome, he wrote in a 
report by the Club of Rome, 

536
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:44,960
which was published in 1991, the
common enemy of humanity is man 

537
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:47,400
and searching for a new enemy to
unite us. 

538
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:51,280
We came up with the idea. 
We came up with the idea. 

539
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:55,720
I want to stress that the threat
of global warming that the bill.

540
00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:58,920
So this was an idea come up. 
And you know, if you look at 

541
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:01,840
this coming up from globalist 
policies and we see it acting 

542
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:05,040
all the way down into local 
authorities around the world, 

543
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:08,560
including the funding, including
the fear, including creating 

544
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:12,400
enemies for people other than 
ourselves or maybe in addition 

545
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:15,720
to you are worse than ourselves.
So I just wanted to give an 

546
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:18,360
example of how this actually 
plays out on a local level. 

547
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:20,960
So Brian, I don't know or Ben, I
don't know if you have anything 

548
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:24,840
to add to that. 
Well Diane, I'll come straight 

549
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:26,920
back in and say thank you for 
that report. 

550
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:31,240
It is really encouraging that we
are now starting to see at least

551
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:35,160
at sort of councillor level, 
local council level, people are 

552
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:38,800
challenging this nonsense. 
And by the young man who was 

553
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:44,000
speaking in that video clip, the
reframing is incredibly powerful

554
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:47,400
because I'm sure he believed in 
the nonsense that he was 

555
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:49,200
spouting to the camera just 
then. 

556
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:53,480
But it's absolutely great to 
know that people are challenging

557
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:59,720
this and that even within 
Reform, we are now starting to 

558
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:04,640
see that there is a focus on the
policies and not just accepting 

559
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:08,000
the hit that those policies make
on our daily life. 

560
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:12,640
So I hope that amongst other 
smaller parties that Reform 

561
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:16,040
councillors are really going to 
be staying on target this one 

562
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:21,720
Now, as we always do, we want to
say a huge thank you to our 

563
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,760
audience for the support that 
you give us. 

564
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:29,200
If you donate to the UK column 
or you're paid up member of UK 

565
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:33,520
column, you are the people that 
keep us going and we could not 

566
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:36,680
do what we do without your 
financial support. 

567
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:40,040
So thank you very much to 
everybody who's out there, not 

568
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:45,320
only in UK but worldwide. 
And I have to say to you that 

569
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:49,200
although in some countries it's 
a very small number of people 

570
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:53,640
viewing, we are astonished at 
the number of countries that UK 

571
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:58,640
column actually reaches in order
to get out some very different 

572
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:02,320
news from the nonsense espoused 
by the BBC. 

573
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:06,160
In the coming days and weeks, 
we'll talk more about the people

574
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:11,159
who are supporting us and indeed
which overseas countries we've 

575
00:34:11,159 --> 00:34:15,000
got support in. 
But suffice to say, thank you to

576
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,600
everybody who's actually making 
that financial contribution 

577
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:20,760
because we wouldn't be here 
without you. 

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00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:24,639
Now, Diane, one of the things 
that we've been trying to do 

579
00:34:24,639 --> 00:34:29,760
over recent months at least, is 
to encourage people to view UK 

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00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:32,920
column written material. 
And I believe you've got a 

581
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:37,880
couple of articles here which 
are going to be up, sorry, which

582
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:40,120
are up on the website at the 
moment. 

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00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:44,560
I don't know whether you'd like 
to just make a quick comment. 

584
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:48,239
I'd be happy to Ryan as the 
Commission to get into for 

585
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:51,920
written content this was. 
I would like to say first that 

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00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:55,120
Vanessa B Lee is, as I mentioned
a couple of weeks ago now doing 

587
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:57,640
a weekly blog related to Syria 
issues. 

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00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:01,200
Last week's was called a 
terrorist suicide bombing in a 

589
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:05,160
Damascus church triggers A wider
purge of Syrian minorities. 

590
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:08,720
Apologies for the picture there 
of David Lammy and Jelani 

591
00:35:08,720 --> 00:35:11,720
shaking hands, but Vanessa and I
decided it was necessary to get 

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00:35:11,720 --> 00:35:15,040
across how terrible this all is.
Another article that we 

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00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:18,400
published last week was was 
called the Virus Prices 

594
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:20,240
Playbook, which is by Sarah 
Newlin. 

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00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:23,200
What she did here was she 
compared the foot and mouth 

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00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:27,240
disease outbreak from around 25 
years ago to the so called 

597
00:35:27,240 --> 00:35:30,880
COVID, so called pandemic and 
there's some very interesting 

598
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:33,120
parallels between the two 
situations. 

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00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:37,960
Sarah Newlin also published the 
most recent front page story and

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00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:40,240
the new issue of the Light 
Paper, so take a look at that as

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00:35:40,240 --> 00:35:41,440
well. 
That's some great work. 

602
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,160
OK, excellent. 
And the interview going out 

603
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:47,560
tomorrow at 1:00 is Doctor 
Judith Brown. 

604
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:51,320
I think that one's yours as 
well, Diane, is that? 

605
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:52,040
Correct. 
Yes, it is. 

606
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:55,800
So it is correct yeah, we we 
entered Brown a couple of years 

607
00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:59,560
ago I'm UK Colin, but this is a 
new interview talking about some

608
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:02,920
recent work that she's done. 
I have called this interview 

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00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:07,120
Fact Checking the Fact Sensors 
because I think especially after

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00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:09,440
you watch our discussion, you'll
see exactly why the fact 

611
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:12,400
checkers are actually censoring 
the actual facts. 

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00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:14,760
So please tune in for that 
tomorrow at 1:00 PM. 

613
00:36:15,240 --> 00:36:18,600
Yeah, brilliant. 
And tonight we've got germ 

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00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:23,200
warfare and that will be lessons
from the COVID and AIDS scam. 

615
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:26,240
So that should be very 
interesting. 

616
00:36:26,240 --> 00:36:29,880
And with guest Ken McCarthy, 
watch out for that one. 

617
00:36:30,240 --> 00:36:37,640
And of course, a big update to 
say October the 18th, we've got 

618
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:40,760
our UK card on location in in 
York. 

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00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:43,400
We will be announcing those 
tickets. 

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00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:46,160
We're keeping you at tent 
tenterhooks at the moment. 

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00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:50,440
But essentially this is going to
be a fantastic event and it's in

622
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:54,400
a fantastic location. 
So stay posted with that and 

623
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:56,680
we'll give you more details in 
due course. 

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00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:02,600
Now we also give a reminder for 
the Sunday the 20th of July, 

625
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:05,280
regional sovereignty versus 
devolution. 

626
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:08,720
Absolutely on the button with 
what Ben Rubin's been talking 

627
00:37:08,720 --> 00:37:11,840
about in today's news. 
And that's a meet up in the 

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00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:18,320
Field of Dreams Exeter EX40 9JL.
Bring your own lunch, a mug and 

629
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:22,800
a folding chair it says, and 
that's from 9:30 to 4:30. 

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00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:26,160
We've also got the theft for 
truth and Freedom Festival. 

631
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:31,080
That's eight this eight, sorry, 
this Friday, 18th through to 

632
00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:37,160
Saturday, the 19th of the Angel 
in in Larling NR162 Qu and 

633
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:39,280
Diane, I believe you will be at 
that one. 

634
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:43,000
We will do more on that in extra
UK column extra. 

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00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:49,520
And lastly, we've got here the 
Freedom Music Festival, 22nd of 

636
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:54,160
the 21st of 25th of August this 
year. 

637
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:56,760
And of course, that's Bank 
Holiday weekend. 

638
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:59,600
UK column team will be 
attending. 

639
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:03,600
Now where does that take us? 
I think, Ben, that brings you 

640
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,760
back in with us. 
And the subject is that Eve 

641
00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:11,960
English devolution. 
Not quite what it seems. 

642
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:17,160
I'll suggest. 
Is anything ever quite what it 

643
00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:21,880
seems, Brian? 
Yes, the English Devolution and 

644
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:24,400
Community Empowerment Bill came 
out last week. 

645
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:26,040
I was talking about Lawfare 
earlier. 

646
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:29,760
And actually this sort of 
constant onslaught of 

647
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:34,120
legislation, bills, acts, 
running to quite literally 

648
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:38,040
thousands of pages per week is, 
is the kind of sharp end of 

649
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:40,040
that. 
Essentially, it's designed to 

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00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:43,040
overwhelm us. 
It makes it almost impossible to

651
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:45,960
keep up with what the 
government's trying to do. 

652
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:49,520
This is one of the things that 
landed last week. 

653
00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:52,840
So this is the English 
Devolution Community Empowerment

654
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:54,480
Bill. 
It's not been enacted yet, but 

655
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:56,480
it is on its way to becoming 
law. 

656
00:38:56,840 --> 00:39:03,040
And this sits in a long process 
of evolution that nobody asked 

657
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:04,440
for. 
We actually voted against it, 

658
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:06,480
but they decided to go ahead 
with it anyway. 

659
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:11,760
And this latest iteration comes 
from Deputy Prime Minister 

660
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:15,960
Angela Rayner, who I like to 
call affectionately Big Ange. 

661
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:20,040
She took to LBC to talk about 
the bill. 

662
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:24,200
Try and sell it to us, saying 
Labour was elected to deliver 

663
00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:27,440
change and our English 
Devolution Community Empowerment

664
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:31,920
Bill will do just that, change, 
transformation of the country, 

665
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:35,480
she continues. 
That means handing power back to

666
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:39,520
where it belongs, to local 
leaders with skin in the game, 

667
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:42,240
so they can make decisions on 
what really matters to their 

668
00:39:42,240 --> 00:39:44,160
communities. 
Skin in the game, it's one of 

669
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:47,400
those words terms that's been 
heavily focus grouped. 

670
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:49,160
All of the politicians are using
it. 

671
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:52,240
I actually think it's, it's 
probably quite misleading. 

672
00:39:52,240 --> 00:39:54,960
Skin in the game normally means 
that you've got some money or a 

673
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:57,840
proper interest in something and
I don't think that any of these 

674
00:39:57,840 --> 00:39:59,360
leaders do to be honest with 
you. 

675
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:01,680
They're just, they're on a 
grift. 

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00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:06,600
She then continues to say we 
will drive the biggest transfer 

677
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:11,240
of power out of Whitehall to our
regions in a generation and make

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00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:16,200
evolution the default setting. 
And again, this is this is where

679
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:18,320
I think things start to get 
really misleading. 

680
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:20,720
We've talked about this a lot. 
This idea that we're going to 

681
00:40:20,720 --> 00:40:26,560
drive transfer of power out of 
Whitehorn in into the regions is

682
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:29,320
very, very misleading. 
Essentially what's happening is 

683
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:33,240
that the regions are becoming 
departments of Whitehall, right?

684
00:40:33,240 --> 00:40:36,920
And actually the best evidence 
to support that came just under 

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00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:42,760
a week of the Starmer was voted 
into Downing St on July the 4th 

686
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:46,480
last year when you had all of 
the metro mayors go up for their

687
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:49,600
big meet and greet on the 9th of
July, I believe it was. 

688
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:52,200
So about five days after the 
general election, they were some

689
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:56,120
of the first people invited into
Downing St to talk about the 

690
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:59,520
implementation of this new 
system of governance rights, but

691
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:01,400
nothing about the evolution of 
power. 

692
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:07,320
Angela Rayner continues to say 
that we'll give local people a 

693
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:11,560
new community right to buy to 
save much love, community assets

694
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:14,560
like pubs and shops, and to have
a bigger say in shaping their 

695
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:16,760
local area through effective 
neighbourhood governance. 

696
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:19,040
This right to buy thing is 
really important. 

697
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:22,640
This is a shift towards a 
communitarian system, right? 

698
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:26,400
That's absolutely what this is. 
Pubs should not be bought owned 

699
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:28,760
by the community, they're owned 
by a landlord, right? 

700
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:31,560
Shops should not be owned by the
community, they should be owned 

701
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:34,680
by people who use them as shops.
That's what they're for. 

702
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:38,160
All of this ignores is the fact 
that our economic system has 

703
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:41,560
been destroyed over the past 50 
years by the people who are 

704
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:44,000
actually behind this policy 
agenda. 

705
00:41:44,240 --> 00:41:46,720
Ultimately, shops should be used
as shops. 

706
00:41:46,720 --> 00:41:49,280
Pubs should be used as shops, as
pubs even. 

707
00:41:49,720 --> 00:41:52,960
We shouldn't be changing the 
fundamental structure of the 

708
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:56,040
system in order to align it with
this new new communitarian 

709
00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:58,920
vision that no one actually 
really understands, Right. 

710
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:01,520
Let let, let's be completely 
honest about this. 

711
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:04,760
I'm sure sources there that this
is all about effective 

712
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:07,280
neighbourhood governance. 
And so again, this is about 

713
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:09,320
control at a neighbourhood 
level. 

714
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:13,880
And she then goes on finally in 
this article to say we should 

715
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:15,640
provide a link to she's going to
have a look at it. 

716
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:18,920
She says we'll get local leaders
working together over larger 

717
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:22,640
areas to drive through big pro 
growth projects like integrated 

718
00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:25,880
transport networks and housing 
by creating new strategic 

719
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:29,160
authorities, which actually runs
completely counter to what she's

720
00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:31,000
just said. 
She's saying she's going to 

721
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:34,000
devolve power down to local 
leaders, but then we're going to

722
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,640
get those local leaders to 
collaborate with each other over

723
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:39,920
larger areas to drive through 
big pro growth projects, which 

724
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:44,160
are these huge, huge investments
in infrastructure and 

725
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:47,040
transformation of energy 
systems, transportation, 

726
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:50,080
housing, you name it, and that's
all going to be driven through 

727
00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:54,080
these strategic authorities. 
These are the new entities that 

728
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:57,080
are being brought in. 
As ever, I like to read between 

729
00:42:57,080 --> 00:43:00,000
the lines a little bit on this 
stuff, particularly in the 

730
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:03,360
context of the war that we're 
currently being subjected to. 

731
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:08,040
Authority is the power to 
enforce laws, exact obedience, 

732
00:43:08,240 --> 00:43:12,800
command, determine, or judge in 
a manner that is essential to 

733
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:15,840
the effective conduct of war. 
That's the way that I'm reading 

734
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:17,800
that. 
I don't think that it's a it is 

735
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,800
a good thing for anyone other 
than the people who are pushing 

736
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:22,960
forward this agenda. 
What are the strategic 

737
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:25,920
authorities all about? 
Well, they list out in the bill 

738
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:28,720
a bunch of areas of competence. 
These are the things that the 

739
00:43:28,720 --> 00:43:32,080
these authorities are going to 
have to be able to, to, to 

740
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:34,320
operate within. 
And, and as I said, this is a 

741
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:36,600
huge scope here. 
Transport and local 

742
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:39,200
infrastructure, skills and 
employment, housing and 

743
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:42,840
strategic planning, economic 
development, regeneration, 

744
00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:45,760
environment, climate change. 
Obviously we've got to get that 

745
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:48,000
in there. 
Health and well being, public 

746
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:51,400
service reform and public 
safety, right? 

747
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:54,840
This is an absolutely huge scope
for these new strategic 

748
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:59,520
authorities covering basically 
every single part of our society

749
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:03,160
across the piece. 
That final point about public 

750
00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:05,040
safety that rang some alarm 
bells. 

751
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:07,440
I always think about this quote 
from Albert Camus. 

752
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:10,760
The welfare of the people has 
always been the alibi of 

753
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:13,240
tyrants. 
I think that's absolutely the 

754
00:44:13,240 --> 00:44:16,640
case here. 
So what else is in the bill? 

755
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:19,480
I'd say I normally suggest 
people to go and read these 

756
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:22,600
things. 
It's 330 pages long. 

757
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:26,760
It's incredibly technical and 
deeply, deeply boring, a lot of 

758
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:28,400
it. 
So maybe you don't want to. 

759
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:31,960
But just to summarise a few 
things that I picked out, right,

760
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:34,840
that really jumped out at me. 
The first one is that these new 

761
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:37,720
strategic authorities are able 
to create what they call 

762
00:44:37,720 --> 00:44:41,000
subordinate legislation, which 
is to say they're able to create

763
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:44,080
their own laws. 
They also talk a lot about how 

764
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:47,240
commissioners are appointed, not
elected. 

765
00:44:47,240 --> 00:44:50,480
So elected mayors are able to 
appoint up to seven people to 

766
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:53,320
support them in delivery of 
their duties, right? 

767
00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:57,400
So the idea that this is wholly 
democratic, I think is, is, is 

768
00:44:57,400 --> 00:45:00,080
very misleading. 
They talk, again, as I've 

769
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:03,520
mentioned, a huge amount about 
collaboration with other 

770
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:05,400
authorities. 
This is crucial, right? 

771
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:07,960
So they're saying that this is 
devolved, but then actually 

772
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:10,040
these mayors are going to 
collaborate with each other and 

773
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:15,280
they dedicate 10 entire pages of
this bill to describing the 

774
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:18,440
exact process that the strategic
authorities are going to have to

775
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:23,680
go through in order to ask each 
other for support on issues in 

776
00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:26,400
mind bending bureaucratic 
detail. 

777
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:29,920
And essentially this is a 
matrix, this is a mesh network 

778
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:33,040
that's going to be used to knit 
together the country ever more 

779
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:35,480
tightly to this centralised 
power structure. 

780
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:39,480
Obviously, as you'd expect, 
there's a quite a pointed 

781
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:41,960
reference to the imposition of 
levies. 

782
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:44,520
So the idea that lower levels of
the system are going to be 

783
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:48,160
tapped up to provide funding for
the higher levels of the system.

784
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:53,440
And then crucially, there's a, 
a, a, a very detailed section 

785
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:56,080
about how they can go about 
borrowing money. 

786
00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:58,240
Yeah. 
And this is crucial because all 

787
00:45:58,240 --> 00:46:01,800
of this new infrastructure is 
going to be paid for by debt 

788
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:04,960
based lending from private 
investors. 

789
00:46:05,240 --> 00:46:08,760
And actually this has got a lot 
less to do with Big Ange and the

790
00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:12,000
Labour government delivering for
the country and a lot more to do

791
00:46:12,240 --> 00:46:17,240
with delivering the bottom line 
of people like Larry Fink, who 

792
00:46:17,240 --> 00:46:21,520
we know Big and Angela Rayner, 
Deputy Prime Minister, is a big 

793
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:27,200
fan of. 
Ben, thank you very much for 

794
00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:30,480
that excellent summary. 
Was it my imagination or was 

795
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:33,760
there actually touching of skin 
in that last photograph? 

796
00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:36,720
I think maybe we should just pop
it back on screen. 

797
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:39,600
I think the fingers are 
definitely touching there. 

798
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:43,000
So obviously there's a good 
relationship and no doubt the 

799
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:45,680
money streams will come online 
in due course. 

800
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:49,400
I'd like to say to the audience 
that the summary that Ben has 

801
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:54,480
given there, interpreting what 
these people are doing and, and 

802
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:59,960
he's given it in very simple 
terms is very powerful. 

803
00:46:59,960 --> 00:47:05,200
Because if our audience echoes 
back to the system itself that 

804
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:08,440
we can see exactly what they're 
doing and we know what they're 

805
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:12,440
doing as opposed to what they 
say they're doing, this has 

806
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:15,160
quite an effect on them. 
So for all the people that say 

807
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:19,000
yes, what can we do? 
I think we can look you in the 

808
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:22,840
eye and say, take some of the 
material from today's news and 

809
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:27,640
post it far and wide on all of 
the social media platforms of 

810
00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:31,280
the government and its agencies 
that are bringing in this 

811
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:35,280
deceptive new devolution 
strategy. 

812
00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:39,800
Because once they know they can 
be seen, it has a, a deeply 

813
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:43,480
profound effect on them. 
Perhaps we'll discuss that a bit

814
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:45,960
more. 
Also in extra Diane, let's bring

815
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:51,520
you back and you're looking at 
the at what's going on really 

816
00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:54,800
with our ability to read books, 
to get hold of books and what's 

817
00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:56,880
happening around the the 
libraries. 

818
00:47:56,880 --> 00:48:00,480
But of course, libraries very 
often very important for young 

819
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:06,160
children. 
Doing a series of talks around 

820
00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:09,040
the country related to what's 
been happening in libraries. 

821
00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:12,680
And first of all, I would like 
to thank Cabin Algebra for 

822
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:15,160
hosting the talk that I did last
week in Edinburgh. 

823
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:17,880
It was a really well attended 
event, a great Andy. 

824
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:20,400
It's lots of engaging 
conversation and thanks in 

825
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:22,480
particular, of course to the 
chair of Common Knowledge, 

826
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:25,480
Edinburgh, Professor Richard 
Enos, who for hosting me and 

827
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:27,680
letting me have a place to sleep
in his house for the night. 

828
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:31,320
The title of my talk was They're
Burning Books Again, Stop the 

829
00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:34,200
destruction of our Libraries. 
And I was looking at in 

830
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:37,400
particular hypocrisy that I have
really been thinking about very 

831
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:40,040
deeply recently. 
If we can put this photo on the 

832
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:42,160
screen, please, of me at the 
top. 

833
00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:45,000
This was a photo that one of the
other committee members took of 

834
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:47,400
me. 
And if you can't see the screen,

835
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:50,520
it was me talking about a 
picture book that is available 

836
00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:52,880
in children's library 
collections around the country. 

837
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:56,680
The book is called And this is 
just one many examples in My 

838
00:48:56,680 --> 00:49:00,680
Daddy's Belly, the story of a 
transgender dad giving birth. 

839
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:04,280
The author is Logan Brown. 
The official summary says that 

840
00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:07,720
inspired by the author's real 
family, this heartwarming story 

841
00:49:07,720 --> 00:49:11,720
about two dads eagerly awaiting 
the birth of their first child 

842
00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:15,200
follows the excitement and joy 
of welcoming a new baby into a 

843
00:49:15,240 --> 00:49:17,880
loving family. 
The person giving birth just 

844
00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:20,880
happens to be one of the dads. 
Interesting. 

845
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:24,240
So last week Brian, if you 
remember, I covered what was 

846
00:49:24,240 --> 00:49:26,800
happening in Kent Council 
libraries regarding children's 

847
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:28,640
access to agent appropriate 
books. 

848
00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:31,880
And just as a review of what I 
covered, here's the video I 

849
00:49:31,920 --> 00:49:34,480
showed last week from Councillor
Paul Webb and Kent. 

850
00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:38,680
Good evening everybody. 
Paul Webb here, your Reform UK 

851
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:41,880
cabinet member for Communities 
and Regulatory Services at Kent 

852
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:44,360
County Council. 
I was recently contacted by a 

853
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:45,160
concerned. 
Member of the. 

854
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:48,720
Public who found trans 
ideological material and books 

855
00:49:48,720 --> 00:49:50,560
in the children's section of one
of our libraries. 

856
00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:52,880
I've looked into this and this 
was the case. 

857
00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:57,320
I've today issued instruction 
for them all to be removed from 

858
00:49:57,320 --> 00:49:59,080
the children's section of any of
our libraries. 

859
00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:00,920
They do not belong in the 
children's section of our 

860
00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:03,120
libraries. 
Our children do not need to be 

861
00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:04,520
told they were born in the wrong
bodies. 

862
00:50:04,680 --> 00:50:07,640
So from today, this will stop. 
Thank you very much. 

863
00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:12,680
So that's just a reminder of 
what he did. 

864
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:14,240
There was a bit of controversy 
around that. 

865
00:50:14,240 --> 00:50:17,080
But anyway, we can talk about 
that more in extra if we need to

866
00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:19,720
talk about it some more. 
But I want to update some things

867
00:50:19,720 --> 00:50:21,720
that have happened in the past 
week in response to what 

868
00:50:21,720 --> 00:50:24,440
happened. 
My former professional body, the

869
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:27,280
Chartered Institute of Library 
and Information Professionals, 

870
00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:31,480
or Scillip, responded to this 
with a press release saying, 

871
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:35,120
quote, libraries are trusted for
providing facts and freedom, 

872
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:38,160
which, you know, in my case, I 
did not experience either one by

873
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:40,200
the time I was pushed out of the
organisation. 

874
00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:43,200
But here's a quote from the CEO 
of Scillip. 

875
00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:47,440
He said the idea of politicians 
policing or banning books is 

876
00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:50,080
profoundly troubling. 
It evokes images of 

877
00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:53,840
authoritarian regimes, not a 
modern democratic and diverse 

878
00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:58,320
society like UK. 
So as a result of this reporting

879
00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:01,720
that I did last weekend, I'm not
working with some people locally

880
00:51:01,720 --> 00:51:04,440
here in the Northeast. 
I had a call with Darren Grimes,

881
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:07,000
counsellor Darren Grimes in 
County Durham, who I mentioned 

882
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:09,720
earlier in the news. 
We had a really good call. 

883
00:51:10,120 --> 00:51:13,280
He wants to look at what these 
books are that are located in 

884
00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:16,000
children's departments and to 
make a list of the books that 

885
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:19,080
are that are available in the 
children's departments of Durham

886
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:22,720
County Council libraries. 
So just as one example that I 

887
00:51:22,720 --> 00:51:25,640
found in the quick search, which
I'm just starting to do this 

888
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:28,560
work, here's one book that is 
located in the children's 

889
00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:33,280
section called She's My Dad, a 
story for children who have a 

890
00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:37,440
transgender parent or relative. 
This is an illustrated picture 

891
00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:42,200
book that tells the story of 
Mimi MINI and her dad Haley. 

892
00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:47,080
Her dad Haley, a transgender 
woman, as many explains to her 

893
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:50,680
cousin why misgendering is 
damaging and emphasises the need

894
00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:53,000
to treat trans people with 
respect. 

895
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:57,880
This title is for children aged 
and up, three years old, who 

896
00:51:57,880 --> 00:52:02,560
have a family member who is. 
So that's just one example. 

897
00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:05,880
This is located in the Durham 
Clayport Library, which is in 

898
00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:09,520
the city centre of Durham. 
So what we see here with this 

899
00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:13,080
dichotomy and this hypocrisy 
that I've been talking about 

900
00:52:13,080 --> 00:52:16,960
recently is, as I've mentioned 
before previously in UK column, 

901
00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:20,000
the decolonization of library 
collections and universities. 

902
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:22,840
And in my opinion, anyone old 
enough to be at university 

903
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:25,480
should have the right to read 
whatever they want, but what 

904
00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:28,800
they're doing with the older 
generations of young people, So 

905
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:31,720
the people in universities are 
removing things from library 

906
00:52:31,720 --> 00:52:35,040
collections or changing them. 
And so here's an example here 

907
00:52:35,040 --> 00:52:38,400
from a university in England 
here, I believe this is the 

908
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:42,360
University of East Anglia 
talking about decolonizing the 

909
00:52:42,360 --> 00:52:44,440
library from the perspective of 
their students. 

910
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:50,960
Hi, I'm Virgilo pronouns he him,
and I'm here with Ebony she her 

911
00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:54,200
and Molly she her. 
We're going to chat to you about

912
00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:57,480
decolonizing the library. 
We really wanted to get involved

913
00:52:57,480 --> 00:52:58,880
with this initiative because we 
wanted to. 

914
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:01,440
See change in who is. 
Represented in library texts, 

915
00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:04,080
the knowledge from authors of 
colour is invaluable. 

916
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:06,560
If you head to the new online 
subject guide for 

917
00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:09,800
decolonisation, you can request 
more texts from a variety of 

918
00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:12,680
different backgrounds. 
This push, coming from students 

919
00:53:12,680 --> 00:53:15,320
especially, will make such a 
difference to the library's 

920
00:53:15,320 --> 00:53:18,320
resources. 
Go to the website below to get 

921
00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:23,480
started. 
So the website that they're 

922
00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:27,480
referring to was for people to 
indicate which books needed to 

923
00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:30,520
be changed one way or the other 
and within the university 

924
00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:33,400
library, And this can be seen in
university libraries all around 

925
00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:35,680
the country, Brian, that they 
have this agenda going on. 

926
00:53:35,680 --> 00:53:39,160
So what we're seeing on the one 
hand is destroying children's 

927
00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:41,920
innocence by putting pornography
in front of them, and on the 

928
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:44,280
other hand, on the university 
level where everything should be

929
00:53:44,280 --> 00:53:47,320
able to be explored, removing 
things that people should be 

930
00:53:47,320 --> 00:53:50,040
exposed to, including the 
history of Britain and the 

931
00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:52,400
amazing cultural history that 
this country has. 

932
00:53:54,480 --> 00:53:58,440
Just dangerous times, but to 
fight it, we've got to 

933
00:53:58,440 --> 00:54:00,120
understand what's actually 
happening. 

934
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:03,680
So Diane, thank you very much 
for taking the lid off what you 

935
00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:07,040
are seeing occur around the 
libraries and small children. 

936
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:12,840
Now we're going to end on the 
subject of an LGBT article that 

937
00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:16,040
appeared in the Telegraph. 
It's, it's about a pretty 

938
00:54:16,040 --> 00:54:20,400
serious subject of a man, 
Stephen Ireland, who ended up in

939
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:24,520
prison as a result of abusing a 
young child. 

940
00:54:25,520 --> 00:54:27,680
This was the Telegraph's 
headline. 

941
00:54:27,720 --> 00:54:31,360
If the council had listened to 
me, this paedophile would have 

942
00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:34,520
been stopped. 
And it goes on to say in 2021, 

943
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:38,240
reports of a Surrey Pride 
founder's abuse of power were 

944
00:54:38,240 --> 00:54:41,200
ignored. 
Four years on, he's been gaoled 

945
00:54:41,200 --> 00:54:45,560
for a string of sexual offences.
Now there's all sorts of things 

946
00:54:45,560 --> 00:54:49,360
in this report. 
I've I haven't got much time 

947
00:54:49,360 --> 00:54:52,880
during the news, but I will go 
into it more with UK column 

948
00:54:52,880 --> 00:54:55,680
extra. 
But let's just have a look at 

949
00:54:55,680 --> 00:54:59,240
the key facts. 
Now part of the sons report with

950
00:54:59,240 --> 00:55:02,000
a different set of pictures 
about this man is that the four 

951
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:06,840
week trial followed an extensive
investigation by Surrey Polices 

952
00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:09,960
Complex Abuse Unit. 
And if we have look at a bit of 

953
00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:15,200
the report on that, it says 
Ireland enticed a boy to his 

954
00:55:15,200 --> 00:55:20,000
flat, gave him the key code and 
then the boy, tired and hungry 

955
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:24,560
was given a quote bong to smoke,
which was later found found to 

956
00:55:24,560 --> 00:55:30,640
be laced with methamphetamine. 
Pornography was played on a 

957
00:55:30,640 --> 00:55:35,200
laptop and then he was raped by 
Ireland and the assault filmed 

958
00:55:35,480 --> 00:55:38,200
for the sadistic enjoyment of 
their cohorts. 

959
00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:42,200
It says that Ireland and his 
friend Sutton were both arrested

960
00:55:42,200 --> 00:55:45,880
on June the 11th, 2024 for 
distribution and possession of 

961
00:55:45,880 --> 00:55:50,440
indecent images of children and 
on August the 14th charges were 

962
00:55:50,440 --> 00:55:55,680
authorised for 44 offences, 
later increased to 45. 

963
00:55:56,480 --> 00:56:00,400
Now there was a bit more. 
It went on to say he was also 

964
00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:04,120
convicted of three counts of 
causing a child under 13 to 

965
00:56:04,120 --> 00:56:08,320
engage in sexual activity, 
sexual assault, a conspiracy to 

966
00:56:08,320 --> 00:56:12,720
engage in sexual activity with a
child, facilitating a child's 

967
00:56:12,720 --> 00:56:15,920
sexual offence, 6 counts of 
making child abuse imagery, 

968
00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:20,240
distributing pornographic images
of children and possession of 

969
00:56:20,240 --> 00:56:23,040
one of the most serious child 
abuse images involving a 

970
00:56:23,040 --> 00:56:25,960
toddler. 
Sutton, who was a sorry Pride 

971
00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:30,320
volunteer, was sentenced for 
offences including voyeurism and

972
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:34,760
possession and distribution of 
prohibited images of children. 

973
00:56:35,120 --> 00:56:41,240
Now the starting headline here 
now becomes very important 

974
00:56:41,240 --> 00:56:44,360
because somebody was trying to 
say that if the council had 

975
00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:48,800
reacted to their warnings, these
abuses may have been stopped, at

976
00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:52,560
least stopped much earlier, so 
that less youngsters were 

977
00:56:52,560 --> 00:56:55,440
damaged. 
And if we get into the report 

978
00:56:55,760 --> 00:57:00,200
and what is interesting is that 
members of the LGBT community 

979
00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:03,000
themselves were trying to warn 
what was going on. 

980
00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:06,960
One of the people commenting 
here said that they'd seen 

981
00:57:06,960 --> 00:57:11,960
images of people in leather pop 
play fetish gear such as masks 

982
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:15,320
and dog collars, and this had 
worried them as children as 

983
00:57:15,320 --> 00:57:19,800
young as two or three were being
encouraged to pet the people 

984
00:57:19,800 --> 00:57:24,800
wearing this gear. 
This is during St parades and 

985
00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:28,120
the person said I asked if this 
kind of fetish was going to be 

986
00:57:28,120 --> 00:57:31,560
allowed at Woking Pride. 
The woman at Woking Borough 

987
00:57:31,560 --> 00:57:35,800
Council sent a reply reassuring 
me that Pride in Surrey have 

988
00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:40,000
been working closely with, 
quote, Surrey Police and youth 

989
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:43,720
organisations to make the first 
bride in Surrey a truly 

990
00:57:43,720 --> 00:57:46,880
inclusive event that it is with 
UK law. 

991
00:57:46,880 --> 00:57:53,120
So concerns were fobbed off. 
But if we go into more, if we go

992
00:57:53,120 --> 00:57:56,360
into a bit more detail here, 
other members of the public had 

993
00:57:56,360 --> 00:58:00,320
already picked up that this man 
was getting very close to young 

994
00:58:00,320 --> 00:58:03,840
children. 
Well a youngster at least. 

995
00:58:04,400 --> 00:58:08,400
So this is a young person 
celebrating their 18th birthday.

996
00:58:08,640 --> 00:58:12,720
But you can see dressed up in 
this sort of fetish gear and 

997
00:58:12,720 --> 00:58:18,160
this was put out on Stephen 
Ireland's ex channel celebrating

998
00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:23,000
at Pop Astro 18th birthday radio
woken. 

999
00:58:23,520 --> 00:58:30,040
So if we delve in a little bit 
more in the text, there is 

1000
00:58:30,040 --> 00:58:33,640
another quote here that somebody
was making a formal safeguarding

1001
00:58:33,640 --> 00:58:38,120
complaint to Surrey County 
Council and it was then 

1002
00:58:38,120 --> 00:58:41,440
suggested that the the 
individual and lady should 

1003
00:58:41,440 --> 00:58:45,200
contact Surrey Police. 
But she said she was reluctant 

1004
00:58:45,200 --> 00:58:49,560
to do that because it was well 
known how close Surrey Police 

1005
00:58:49,560 --> 00:58:54,120
were to pride in Surrey. 
And this is really the key part 

1006
00:58:54,120 --> 00:58:58,320
of this story, that what we're 
actually seeing here is that the

1007
00:58:58,320 --> 00:59:02,400
police are no longer separate. 
They're in partnership with 

1008
00:59:02,400 --> 00:59:06,400
organisations to such an extent 
that they don't want to 

1009
00:59:07,680 --> 00:59:10,720
investigate them. 
This could be embarrassing for 

1010
00:59:10,720 --> 00:59:13,880
the police. 
And so somebody in the public 

1011
00:59:13,880 --> 00:59:18,360
who was deeply concerned doesn't
get the police to react because 

1012
00:59:18,360 --> 00:59:22,440
they said to themselves, if I 
contact the police, nothing is 

1013
00:59:22,440 --> 00:59:25,560
going to happen. 
Now if we just delve in a little

1014
00:59:25,560 --> 00:59:30,280
bit more to Surrey Police, the 
one of the previous long 

1015
00:59:30,280 --> 00:59:36,560
standing chief constables has 
gone on to head the police chief

1016
00:59:36,560 --> 00:59:40,440
constables organisation. 
He's become chair of that. 

1017
00:59:41,240 --> 00:59:44,480
There is a new Chief Constable, 
Tim De Meyer in power. 

1018
00:59:44,680 --> 00:59:47,560
He's been in for I think it's 
three years. 

1019
00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:52,280
So what was Surrey Police doing?
Well, you've only got to look at

1020
00:59:52,280 --> 00:59:55,760
their website to see that 
they're prepared to corrupt 

1021
00:59:55,760 --> 01:00:02,040
their own police badge with the 
LGBT logo in order to show their

1022
01:00:02,040 --> 01:00:08,040
support for the LGBT agenda. 
And if we come in a slightly 

1023
01:00:08,040 --> 01:00:12,040
different from a slightly 
different angle and we're going 

1024
01:00:12,040 --> 01:00:17,840
back to 2010, it was actually 
the UK column that revealed that

1025
01:00:17,840 --> 01:00:21,400
the then. 
Chief Constable from Surrey 

1026
01:00:21,720 --> 01:00:28,320
Police Mark Rowley was part of 
the organisation Common Purpose.

1027
01:00:28,400 --> 01:00:32,600
He was part of the Common 
Purpose organisation to select 

1028
01:00:32,600 --> 01:00:36,840
candidates. 
Now when they were challenged on

1029
01:00:36,840 --> 01:00:40,560
what was going on here, they 
said that Surrey status is one 

1030
01:00:40,560 --> 01:00:44,040
of the safest counties in the 
country and it's largely due to 

1031
01:00:44,040 --> 01:00:47,520
the commitment of Surrey Police 
in bringing out the best of our 

1032
01:00:47,520 --> 01:00:51,320
staff in developing, quote, top 
quality leaders. 

1033
01:00:51,920 --> 01:00:55,240
They added to that that Surrey 
Police in the past has sent 

1034
01:00:55,240 --> 01:00:59,240
senior managers on training 
courses outside the police 

1035
01:00:59,240 --> 01:01:03,080
environment to broaden their 
skills to work more effectively 

1036
01:01:03,080 --> 01:01:05,640
with partners. 
So I'm suggesting to the 

1037
01:01:05,640 --> 01:01:08,400
audience that perhaps Surrey 
Police have got a track record 

1038
01:01:08,400 --> 01:01:11,960
not of being the best, but of 
actually doing their things 

1039
01:01:11,960 --> 01:01:16,120
outside their proper powers and 
duties, which has actually put 

1040
01:01:16,120 --> 01:01:20,360
the public at rest. 
Now that particular gentleman 

1041
01:01:20,360 --> 01:01:25,000
went on to become commissioner 
of the Met Police, and let's 

1042
01:01:25,000 --> 01:01:27,320
hear what he had to say in a 
recent interview. 

1043
01:01:29,080 --> 01:01:31,600
This is still a problem. 
For the Met, isn't it relations?

1044
01:01:31,640 --> 01:01:35,800
With minority communities, this 
is so difficult for us. 

1045
01:01:37,200 --> 01:01:40,080
We can't pretend otherwise. 
Then we've got a history between

1046
01:01:40,080 --> 01:01:42,160
policing and black communities 
where policing has got a lot 

1047
01:01:42,160 --> 01:01:44,960
wrong. 
We get a lot more right today, 

1048
01:01:44,960 --> 01:01:46,560
but we do. 
Still make mistakes, that's not.

1049
01:01:47,080 --> 01:01:49,560
That's not in doubt. 
I'm being as relentless about 

1050
01:01:49,560 --> 01:01:52,360
standards as we can be, and the 
vast majority of our people are 

1051
01:01:52,360 --> 01:01:56,560
good people. 
But that that legacy combined 

1052
01:01:56,560 --> 01:01:58,080
with. 
The tragedy. 

1053
01:01:58,080 --> 01:02:00,720
That some of this crime falls 
most heavily in black 

1054
01:02:00,720 --> 01:02:03,480
communities. 
That creates a real problem 

1055
01:02:03,480 --> 01:02:08,280
because the legacy creates 
concern. 

1056
01:02:08,560 --> 01:02:12,200
Meanwhile, policing, we want to 
reach into the. 

1057
01:02:12,200 --> 01:02:13,920
Communities. 
We have suffering most crime and

1058
01:02:13,920 --> 01:02:15,920
make the biggest difference 
because everyone deserves equal 

1059
01:02:15,920 --> 01:02:19,880
chance to thrive in London. 
It's not right that black boys 

1060
01:02:19,880 --> 01:02:21,600
growing up in London are more 
likely to be dead by the. 

1061
01:02:21,600 --> 01:02:24,000
Time they're 18 far more likely 
than than white boys. 

1062
01:02:24,000 --> 01:02:26,840
That's, I think that's shameful 
for the city. 

1063
01:02:29,360 --> 01:02:31,560
So here's the boss of the Met 
admitting that he. 

1064
01:02:31,560 --> 01:02:34,640
Can't do his job. 
And yet diversity training was 

1065
01:02:34,640 --> 01:02:39,480
rampant through the police back 
in that era of around 2010 to 

1066
01:02:39,480 --> 01:02:42,080
2015. 
And the other thing I'd like to 

1067
01:02:42,080 --> 01:02:46,280
point out with you out to our 
audience is that essentially 

1068
01:02:46,960 --> 01:02:51,000
within the Common Purpose 
network was a gentleman called 

1069
01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:55,800
Rennie who was eventually put 
into prison for horrific abuse 

1070
01:02:55,800 --> 01:02:59,080
of children, including children 
at the age of three months. 

1071
01:02:59,440 --> 01:03:03,120
The Sky News report at the time 
didn't reveal that Rennie was a 

1072
01:03:03,120 --> 01:03:06,960
Common Purpose graduate, but at 
the time that UK column was 

1073
01:03:06,960 --> 01:03:10,680
reporting on Common Purpose, 
we'd pointed out that Common 

1074
01:03:10,680 --> 01:03:15,040
Purpose trainers were going into
schools with no background 

1075
01:03:15,040 --> 01:03:18,720
cheques at all. 
So a complete mess within the 

1076
01:03:18,720 --> 01:03:22,840
police, which is created by the 
police adhering to outside 

1077
01:03:22,840 --> 01:03:27,560
training by essentially we would
say unqualified organisations, 

1078
01:03:27,840 --> 01:03:31,520
but also no separation of powers
during these partnerships. 

1079
01:03:31,920 --> 01:03:34,800
Now I know we're overrunning 
slightly for time here, but I 

1080
01:03:34,800 --> 01:03:36,720
think this is really important 
subject. 

1081
01:03:37,040 --> 01:03:40,040
And Ben, I'm just going to say 
to you that this is really one 

1082
01:03:40,040 --> 01:03:44,000
of the things that you've been 
warning about with your public 

1083
01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:49,000
private partnerships where we're
getting a mix between outside 

1084
01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:54,080
bodies and formal constitutional
structures like the police. 

1085
01:03:54,440 --> 01:04:00,440
And you are seeing that the PPP 
side of the devolution agenda is

1086
01:04:00,760 --> 01:04:03,080
on the increase. 
I don't know whether you'd like 

1087
01:04:03,080 --> 01:04:09,680
to just comment on that briefly.
Yes, I mean every. 

1088
01:04:09,680 --> 01:04:12,080
Area of society is riddled with 
these networks. 

1089
01:04:12,080 --> 01:04:14,760
Common purpose is one that we've
spoken about a lot, but there 

1090
01:04:14,760 --> 01:04:18,960
are many, many, many examples. 
Some of them linked into common 

1091
01:04:18,960 --> 01:04:21,280
purpose, some of them 
independent from it, all of them

1092
01:04:21,280 --> 01:04:23,520
driving in the same direction 
ultimately. 

1093
01:04:23,520 --> 01:04:27,480
And they have created a 
marketplace out of this. 

1094
01:04:27,480 --> 01:04:30,040
So they're getting paid a lot of
money to deliver this training 

1095
01:04:30,040 --> 01:04:36,160
and to to transform society. 
And this is the the, the, the 

1096
01:04:36,200 --> 01:04:40,480
agenda, the the change maker 
agenda that is enabling the 

1097
01:04:40,480 --> 01:04:42,720
transformation of the system. 
And essentially it's, it's 

1098
01:04:42,720 --> 01:04:46,680
infected it at every level. 
Yeah, Ben, thank you very much 

1099
01:04:46,680 --> 01:04:49,040
for that. 
Now, Diane, just bring you in to

1100
01:04:49,040 --> 01:04:53,400
close because we decided after a
pretty heavy news from the 

1101
01:04:53,400 --> 01:04:56,840
column today, our viewers and 
listeners might need a little 

1102
01:04:56,840 --> 01:04:58,360
bit of a lift up. 
What have you got? 

1103
01:05:00,720 --> 01:05:02,240
Yeah, thanks, Brian. 
I just. 

1104
01:05:02,240 --> 01:05:05,800
Wanted to maybe reflect a little
bit on the actual summer weather

1105
01:05:05,800 --> 01:05:08,200
that we had over the weekend 
here in this country. 

1106
01:05:08,560 --> 01:05:12,320
Unfortunately, mainstream media 
tried to fill us with fear about

1107
01:05:12,320 --> 01:05:13,840
the fact that we were having 
summer. 

1108
01:05:14,200 --> 01:05:17,880
This is from the Mirror posted 
on Friday on Facebook saying 

1109
01:05:17,920 --> 01:05:21,760
Brits were warned not to consume
fizzy drinks this weekend as 

1110
01:05:21,760 --> 01:05:25,960
temperatures to hit 33°C. 
Now, I don't know if carbonation

1111
01:05:25,960 --> 01:05:28,760
means that it heats us up, but 
anyway, I looked at the actual 

1112
01:05:28,760 --> 01:05:32,080
article and it basically was a 
warning from the UK Health 

1113
01:05:32,080 --> 01:05:36,160
Security Agency to issue heat 
health alerts across the nation.

1114
01:05:36,520 --> 01:05:40,040
And it said that basically, 
while water and diluted squash 

1115
01:05:40,040 --> 01:05:43,200
are top picks for hydration, 
fruit juice and sugary dizzy 

1116
01:05:43,200 --> 01:05:46,280
drinks lead to further 
dehydration due to the high 

1117
01:05:46,280 --> 01:05:50,120
sugar levels as stated in the 
official heat wave guidance. 

1118
01:05:50,120 --> 01:05:54,200
So this comes from UKHSA as well
as gov.uk Sugar. 

1119
01:05:54,320 --> 01:05:57,000
It's not the carbonation. 
So it's interesting how they 

1120
01:05:57,000 --> 01:05:59,720
like to mislead the headlines 
for to make people click on 

1121
01:05:59,720 --> 01:06:01,920
them. 
This was just another meme that 

1122
01:06:01,920 --> 01:06:05,480
I saw over the weekend. 
This is the climate propaganda 

1123
01:06:05,480 --> 01:06:09,000
colouring book. 
And so as you know, we've seen 

1124
01:06:09,000 --> 01:06:12,040
all of these red colours. 
So now we have crayons and that 

1125
01:06:12,040 --> 01:06:14,720
the crayons that it comes with 
are sort of a bright orangey 

1126
01:06:14,720 --> 01:06:18,920
red, a regular orange, a dark 
purple and one is either a black

1127
01:06:18,920 --> 01:06:20,680
or a brown. 
So that must be for the really, 

1128
01:06:20,680 --> 01:06:23,240
really hot burning up areas of 
the country. 

1129
01:06:23,240 --> 01:06:26,920
You can colour those in. 
And you know, but I have to say 

1130
01:06:26,920 --> 01:06:29,560
I personally enjoyed the heat 
over the weekend, although it 

1131
01:06:29,560 --> 01:06:32,240
was a bit uncomfortable, but I 
loved it mostly. 

1132
01:06:32,600 --> 01:06:35,880
I was in Durham on Saturday and 
I took this picture Saturday 

1133
01:06:35,880 --> 01:06:38,520
morning in Wharton Park, which 
is right in the city centre of 

1134
01:06:38,520 --> 01:06:41,360
Durham. 
And I just thought, you know, we

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need to find, find a bit of 
peace in nature anywhere we can 

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find it right here in the middle
of Durham where I took this 

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picture. 
The sunshine, the green leaves, 

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some good energy and some peace 
that we can find anywhere we 

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look. 
So I think despite all the 

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brine, we have to make an effort
to find something that does make

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us feel good in these in these 
difficult times. 

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And then we're better equipped 
to face them once we come out of

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our walk. 
Absolutely true Diane and thank 

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you very much for that lovely 
bit of scenery. 

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And the last boost will give our
audience for we end today's news

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that if you were eagle eyed, you
might have seen on the Telegraph

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front page that even Ofcom has 
now had to admit that the 

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British public do not trust the 
BBC. 

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So there we are, one of the BB 
CS buddies. 

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Ofcom is now turning on them and
saying no, people don't trust 

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you. 
What better news could we have? 

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We'll end there. 
Diane, Ben, thank you very much 

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for joining me and a huge thank 
you to everybody watches. 

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Watch today's news wherever you 
are in the world. 

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Thank you for your support. 
We've got UK column Extra coming

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up for our members. 
UK column News will be back on 

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Wednesday at 1:00. 
See you then. 

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Bye bye.