Good afternoon. It's Friday the 24th of May
2024, just after 1:00. Welcome to UK called News.
I'm your host Mike Robinson, joining me by video link.
Today we have Debbie Evans and Ben Rubin.
Well, of course we're going to get started with the election.
Hopefully this we won't be talk talking too much about the
election over the next six weeks, but we will talk about it
a little today. So we put that on screen.
Polling stations will be open on the 4th of July and well of
course that's Independence Day if you're in the United States.
So I thought it was appropriate we should call that Independence
Day in the UK because we would like to see many independent
candidates doing very, very well and kicking a bunch of these
party Political Animals out. So what's been going on today?
Well, first of all, they are now rushing in the Commons to pass
certain types of legislation. So the infected blood
compensation legislation, they want to get passed.
They want to get the Post Office convictions quashed today.
They want the Victims and Prisoners Bill passed if they
possibly can. The media bill is going to be
heard, but it's unlikely I suppose, which gets a yellow and
the Reds are the no fault evictions that's going to be
dropped or has been dropped. And the cigarette ban seems to
have been dropped. But of course, what else has
been dropped? While they're busy campaigning,
require any opportunity to read the House of Commons Library
briefing on what is the proposed World Health Organization
Pandemic preparedness treaty. That, of course, will all take
place while the House of Commons is away shouting at people to
vote for them. So nobody gets to read this this
article within the House of Commons.
Perhaps that's not a bad thing, but the rewards have been coming
out because many Tory MPs, of course, are not standing again.
They see the writing on the wall and they don't see the points.
So they're running for cover at the moment and not standing
again. One of those, of course, is Matt
Hancock. But he is very proud that he's
been given the whip back. So the whip as a Tory, he's back
in the Conservative Party as of yesterday after two decades
serving his country, he says, in opposition and in government.
And he wishes Rishi and all his colleagues all the best in the
campaign, campaign to come. But he's proud to leave
Parliament as a Conservative. MPI don't know whether these
people even recognise the optics of of their behaviour sometimes.
But anyway, I thought we should take a look at who is going to
be the next Prime Minister because he is probably going to
be the next Prime Minister, and that's Keir Starmer.
And of course we all remember a few months ago when he was at
Davos being asked whether he would rather be in parliament or
at Davos. And he was very clear that he
would prefer to be at Davos because he could get business
done at Davos. And what kind of business was he
talking about? Well, we'll have a look at that
in a second. But of course we can't forget
that sitting on his shoulder is the ghost of Jimmy Savile, and
Keir Starmer should never be allowed to forget that.
So what am I talking about when it comes to why would he prefer
to be at Davos? Well, this is the main reason,
of course. Keir Starmer, one of only two
sitting MPs to have been a member of the Trilateral
Commission and he's still a proud member.
Or sorry, he's still proudly mentioned on the Trilateral
Commission website. He is no longer a member,
allegedly. I'm not certain that if you join
an organization like this you ever leave, but that's another
question. And the other MP that was
serving whilst being a member of the Trilateral Commission was
former MI 6 agent Rory Stewart, otherwise known as Florence of
Libya of Arabia. So these are the only two MPs
that have been serving in the Trilateral Commission at the
same time as being MPs. Now of course we all know that
Rory Stewart was the man who went to Bilderberg Group and
then refused to explain to his constituent when he was asked
what he whether he was there in a professional as as an MP or a
personal capacity. And we know that Tobias Elwood
has played the same gag with respect to 77 Brigade.
So maybe there's some questions to be asked about Keir Starmer
and his activities outside of Parliament and whether he's
really appropriate to be an MP or, sorry, a Prime Minister or
not. Now, if you want some more
background to this, Declassified UK has this article.
Keir Starmer joined secretive CIA link group while serving in
Corbyn's shadow cabinet, and I published this in July last
year. It gives a lot of background to
Starmer's involvement with the Trilateral Commission, and I
strongly recommend that everybody reads that and perhaps
would want to distribute that as far and wide as possible.
So then we should remember, and Ben, I'm going to ask you about
this because during Passover, of course, he was recording a video
at the Allith Synagogue. But but Ben, this isn't this
isn't the normal synagogue that he goes to.
No, it's not. Starmer and his family go to the
Liberal Jewish Synagogue in St. John's Wood, which is also the
synagogue attended by various members of the Rothschild
family. Right.
So what we see here is someone who pretends to be a politician,
a career politician, pretends to be wanting to be Prime Minister,
but in fact prefers to be hobnobbing with the people at
Davos, with the people in the Trilateral Commission and with
the Rothschilds. So where does that leave us with
respect to democracy? That's a very good question.
And you know, let's not just pick on Keir Starmer.
He's clearly got some questions to answer here.
But this is just the political class through and through, isn't
it? Well, it is and well, I'm
picking on him because he wants to be the boss.
So it's it's reasonable to pick on him, I think.
I mean, you're right, it does go beyond him as well.
So what we would say then is let's not have either of these
fools. We don't certainly don't want
Rishi Sunak. We don't want Keir Starmer
either. It is going to be Independence
Day. And so let's create this hashtag
of Independence Day and let's make sure that the independents
get a fair shout. Now we've said it before, I'll
say it again. In the past, independents don't
get it, haven't had a fair shout.
And when Brian stood as an independent in the 2010
election, if you remember the story, the BBC arrived at the UK
column office and invited him to give an interview to the BBC.
He asked how long have I got? And they said 6 seconds.
So that is the type of coverage that independents normally get.
It is up to us to give the independent, the independents,
their standing that we agree with at least the opportunity to
get a fair hearing. So we'll leave it there.
And as I say, hopefully not too much from us on the election
over the coming weeks because it's not really that
interesting, I think, but I thought we should at least make
some kind of opening comment on it.
But Ben, you've got war on Starmer.
Absolutely. And you are absolutely correct
Mike. He is going for the top job so
he does require special scrutiny and let's let him tell us what
his plans for the country are, in particular what the most
important mission is facing the UK.
The most important mission, bar none, is economic growth.
I see you as the engines for change.
Today, we're here to talk about how we as mayors can focus on
growth. We're already doing it.
The incumbent throwing our economy faster than other places
in the country. We know that devolution.
Works. It's an absolute.
Privilege here to be here. Partners group rooting with
Labour. Making the difference the Labor
mayors working with local government can give certain
people in this region for the first time a generation, hope
that the last can better hope that the power is in a better
future here, and hope that the places really.
Live have a better future too. We.
Need to build from the foundations of create good
quality local jobs that really matter to people, to get control
of our public transport and to train the childcare workers so
that people can overcome those barriers to getting into work.
The engine room of National. Renewal is around this table.
Our task is to rebuild our. Economy from the ground up, and
that can only be done with leaders like.
You that. Was delightful.
Wasn't it just, yes, the engine room of national growth?
They're going to rebuild the economic system from the ground
up. There's nothing more hilarious
than politicians talking about economic growth.
Not a single one of the people in that film have created a
single viable job in their entire careers.
And they're not going to at any point in the future.
I can promise you that. But they've been engaging in the
economic discussion. And this week a bunch of those
people, that was the the metro mayors and Keir Starmer, a bunch
of the metro mayors have descended on Leeds for this
event, which is UK Reef, the Real Estate Investment and
Infrastructure Forum. And they are helping to build
Back better as she still says that on their LinkedIn page.
Ryan, Build Back better is obviously the World Economic
Forum mantra that I thought most people had abandoned around 2022
because we worked out what it meant.
But they're still at it up in Leeds.
It's a big exhibition and a public private marketplace
ultimately for new technologies in energy and infrastructure.
Bunch of the mayors were there. So you can see here, these are a
few of the people that were in that video, Steve Rotherham from
Liverpool, Tracy Brabin, the mayor of West Yorkshire upfront,
they're taking a selfie, doing the the major work of current
21st century politician, taking pictures for social media.
You've also got Oliver Coppard from South Yorkshire, Richard
Parker, the new mayor of the West Midlands and Angela Rayner
there, shadow secretary for levelling up at the back.
Andy Burnham was also floating around mayor of Greater
Manchester. And Rory Stewart, who Mike has
already talked about, he was there too.
And I actually don't think that he's ever been to the north of
England before. This is the kind of gentleman
that gets a a bit of Vertigo if he goes north of the Watford
Gap. So anyway, he made a special,
special effort to get there. And as I said, this is a, this
is a public, private marketplace, right?
So this is about introducing investors and developers to
mayors who are ultimately going to be funding this new energy
system, this new economic system that we're going to build from
the ground up, right? And as we've spoken about a lot
and we'll continue to speak about this kind of public,
private marketplace is, is fascist.
This is a fascist system. And it's predicated really on
the wholesale demolition of existing cities, especially
existing industrial capacity, which is ultimately where
economic growth comes from, right?
So you've got these people talking about growth.
They want to use taxes to fund growth.
That doesn't make any sense. And in the process of doing what
we're planning to do, we're going to destroy the actual
source of growth. Try and make sense of that.
You can't. It's, it's completely
contradictory. And so this is about
construction, but it's also very much about about transportation
especially. You would have seen that that
video with Starmer in at the start was held in a bus station.
So this is about the transportation systems, public
transport driving towards 0 carbon technologies, smart
grids, ultimately 15 minute cities, the whole shebang as put
forward by the World Economic Forum.
And it is being fully backed by the cabinet with the shadow
cabinet certainly as as they still are at the moment, this
moment in time. So this is Angela Rayner, the
shadow secretary for levelling up, basically standing there and
giving the full formal front bench stamp of approval to
proceedings. This is what we're going to do.
This is where Gross is going to come from.
Regional mayors borrowing money from private investors to
purchase services from private sector companies in a public in
a, in a, in a fascist marketplace, which will leave
our cities looking like this, right?
So this is the reef site up in Leeds.
This is the creative quarter, right?
This doesn't look like a, a, a northern city.
That's not actually what Leeds is like, right?
This is some little little bubble that they've created with
these identity kit buildings. You could be anywhere in Europe,
you could be anywhere in the world really.
Like there's absolutely no flavour, no local personality to
this. And, and all of it, particularly
the, the electric stuff, the net zero stuff is built on really,
really dodgy technology, right? So we know that it's predicated
on the use of slave labour. This is a cobalt mine in the
Congo. There are over 40,000 child
slaves working in appalling conditions to mine the raw
materials for this smart grid that we're being told that we
need to move over to. And actually, this is a big
geopolitical issue because just this last week there was an
attempted coup in the Congo, right?
So this was actually entertainingly perpetrated or
they attempted to to carry out a coup.
One of the people involved was this fella Benjamin Rubin.
No relation, but I thought that was quite funny to see my own
name pop up. Slightly different spelling.
And a lot of this is being coordinated by or, or it
certainly has been suggested, it's being coordinated by this
fella Dan Gertler, who is an Israeli billionaire who runs
many of these mines alongside a lot of Chinese mining companies
as well. So labour economic policy, the
engine of growth, this big transition that they're saying
that they're going to invest in is predicated on the use of
slave labour. And ultimately, it's just
another form of Western imperialism, right?
That's what being offered here and how they're going to get us
to go along to it and pay for it.
Well, let's have a little look at what's been going on in
Hackney in London. It's an urban setting, it's
overpopulated, so the impact of heat is much bigger. 2022 The
40° heat wave across London that was putting a huge amount of
pressure resources on an already stretched NHS.
The most vulnerable people are the ones who work outside.
Homeless people, single parents who have nest means people who
are elderly. I've.
Found it very very uncomfortable.
I nearly passed out a couple of times.
When the weather is too us. I'm short of breath so you can
imagine how it affects people who are older than me.
So questions how can work together to minimize that harm,
to help a population stay fit and healthy, to cope with that
heat? The council, they have a lot of
part to play and we in the community have a lot to play as
well. People should be educated, tell
people what to do in case of this emergency.
How prepared we are in London is a big question mark.
So it's a great Ave. to start this conversation and start
acting on it. Democratic innovation sortition,
basically railroading the public into agreeing to signing up to
these new technologies, all handed down from the Economic
Forum and and the UNA wholesale transition of our society.
A new energy system, untested technologies, destruction of
existing cities and industrial capacity using experimental
technologies paid for with taxpayer money in a deeply
compromised public private marketplace.
All predicated on the use of slave labour in Africa to
ultimately benefit the Chinese mining companies.
And an Israeli billionaire who may have just tried to carry out
a military coup. All with the blessing of labour
leadership. He really couldn't make this
stuff up. Yeah, a little later in the
programme we'll be talking about the National Grid, and so we'll
have more to say on that in a second.
More public private partnerships on the way.
But Debbie, they're rushing through the legislation to give
compensation to people affected by the infected blood scandal.
Tell us more about blood. Yes.
Well, good afternoon everyone. And you know, blood is essential
to life fact. And in light of the infected
blood scandal, which has taken 40 years to get to this point, I
might add, let's look at blood because is history repeating
itself again, because I have a feeling it might be.
So just before I I start off, I just want people to know that
the average adult will will carry just over a gallon of
blood. OK.
And you have to be 17 to 65 years old to give blood.
So are you able to give blood in the UK?
Well, actually when it comes to the COVID injection, you might
want to take note because according to the NHS Blood and
Transplant Service, if you have had a coronavirus vaccine,
Please wait. Now, Please remember this
everybody 48 hours after having the vaccine before giving blood.
So just note that 48 hours. Now I found an article in The
Eye which says that the NHS blood service is amongst the
world's safest. But of course infection risk
will never be zero. Now this was an article written
by Paul Gallagher. Now I wonder where he got that
from? Well, as you saw on Wednesday,
Mike showed June Dame June rain. Ensuring the public that the
blood is safe in the UK maybe carries a little risk, but it's
safe. So let's go and have a look at
some proofs. Are we, shall we deemed June
rain? Because at the MHRA board
meeting, of which can I just say to everybody listening, please
join us for extra because I have so much more to say about the
MHRA board meeting. But clearly during the MHRA
board meeting, blood was declared to be safe.
So let's go and have a look at AHA journals circulation, which
actually says here that circulating spike protein
detected in post COVID-19 mRNA vaccine myocarditis.
Free spike antigen was found in the blood of adolescents and
young adults who developed post mRNA vaccine myocarditis.
So we know that free spike antigen is in the blood.
So if we go further and look at the British Journal of
Hematology, there's a paper, very interesting paper actually
called refusing blood transfusions from COVID-19
vaccinated donors. Are we repeating history?
So when I look further on in the paper, and this is where it gets
very interesting because it talks about deferral times.
That's how long it should be after you've had an injection to
how how long you should give blood.
Now, according to the West, to the National, the National
Library of Medicine, there is no standard deferral time.
However, if you just go back to that slide very quickly, you'll
see that The Who actually are recommending 28 days after
having COVID vaccination because the mRNA and the adenovirus
AstraZeneca would all be classified as indeterminate.
So that's 28 days. There is no evidence.
I have to say that's what the blood service have to say.
However, if we go to the next paper, we can see that vaccine
mRNA can be detected in blood at 15 days post vaccination.
It says the bio distribution and pharmakinetics of the mRNA
containing lipid nanoparticles in these vaccines are unknown in
humans and we know that they are in the blood 15 days.
Post vaccination. So I I rest my case.
Currently blood is not being screened for mRNA and spike
protein. No one knows the effects at all.
Do you trust the blood that you or your family may be receiving
now while we're on to the MHRA very, very quickly they
announced that the board meeting a consultation on improved
safety for high risk in vitro diagnostic devices.
These are devices that can examine samples taken from the
human body to diagnose and monitor health conditions.
And you might see in red there I've I've written to identify
blood type before transfusions or tests which identify life
threatening diseases. And the next slide is just the
consultation. Please go and look at it because
the consultation has now officially opened.
But there's much more to say and a lot more exposure to do of the
MHRA board meeting coming up in Extra.
Yes. OK.
So, so basically we've got a situation where the MHRA is
suggesting 48 hours and all the advice from the other official
bodies, never mind what we might think the other official bodies
saying, actually the time scale needs to be much longer than
that. Yeah.
And I can also say there Mike, too, that nobody is asked at the
point of transfusion. And Cheryl Granger wanted me to
make this point in particular. This is lipid nanoparticles as
well as mRNA and this gets distributed by the blood to, to
all of your organs, testes, reproductive organs.
And nobody is asked at the time of of donation, have they
received the COVID vaccine or not, how many they've received
boosters. No one's asked anything.
So there are no guarantees. OK, Debbie, thank you very much.
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Debbie, your latest blog is up. It is indeed.
And can I just say what is Wellness?
And you're going to be hearing a lot more about Wellness from
Professor Diane Rasmussen Mukady.
It's it's going to be mind blowing.
So keep an eye out for that. MHRA, of course, UK royal
family. Where are they and what is Wig
Ovi being used for? Yes, OK.
Thanks, Debbie. And Debbie, you are about to
release an interview about something called the Control
Group. Oh yeah, I'm really grateful for
for the opportunity to have spoken to this amazing
organization. Now, guys, if you want a
parallel system, this is the parallel system for you.
I'm going to tell you about the control group.
So basically it's an independent observational health outcome
study working outside of corporate medical establishment.
I had the privilege of interviewing Denny Van Cleef
about this. She's a mum, she set this up
from scratch. It is absolutely mind blowing
and I can't tell you enough that they issue you with a card.
There's the interviews coming out on Tuesday.
We're going to show you a preview, but they issue you a
card if you join up. We need 1,000,000 people,
everyone. And if you join up, you're
technically participating in a worldwide study, and therefore
you can't be included on any other experimental studies.
If you get my meaning, let's have a quick sneak preview of
Tuesday's interview when we first.
Started the control group. The idea was that we needed to
stand up and be proud of our status and not people who
haven't taken the vaccine were terrified of talking up and
speaking up and making themselves known in the crowd.
And we said the best way to fight back about this is to come
together and be visible. So we created a card.
Let's get it on screen there. I don't know.
If you can see it, it was, it was our membership card and we
sent these out around the world. And the idea was that when
people ask you to show your vaccine pass, we say, actually,
I'm in the control group. I don't have one.
The great thing was people were letting people in.
So people would use these to get into work.
They'd use them to get into restaurants.
We've even had people use them to get into other countries,
even want some of our members of staff have used these when you
weren't allowed to travel if you're unvaccinated.
This has worked. And it wasn't.
It's not a fake pass. It is what it is.
It's a membership card. But it's it's helped people.
People told us that they felt protected by it.
They felt that actually just having it on them, even if they
didn't need to use it, made them feel that they weren't alone.
That is not going to be an interview anybody wants to miss.
It's absolutely brilliant. Don't let the title put you off.
Please watch all. Right.
So that'll be Tuesday at 1:00 PM.
It is indeed. It is indeed.
And also I'd really like to give a big shout out to John Watts.
Scottish vaccine injured. Now you probably all remember
John Watt. We've had him on the column
before and he was one of the cofounders of the Scottish
Vaccine Injury Group and he is not resting on his laurels.
He's fed up with the government doing nothing.
So he's organised an amazing event with some great speakers.
It's coming up very soon and I got that.
It's a good fortune to catch up with him earlier.
So have a listen to what John Watts says about the event that
he's putting on to raise money for the vaccine injured.
So obviously there's an event on the 2nd of June in Glasgow, it's
called the Bring the Noise Live podcast.
It's to try and raise our money for the vaccine injured.
Unfortunately, you know, there there be.
The vaccine injured have kind of been left by the government and
the NHS unfortunately. And basically I'm trying to do
what the government should be doing after making fronting
Rishi Soonak. I still haven't heard anything
from that man. So we would think that this is
the kind of alliance that we need to go to to try and help
these people. So this event on the 2nd of June
is very, very important. It's a topic that must not go
away. I don't think we should ever
forget this. You know, they talk about the
blood scandal, the post office scandal, all these scandals.
Well, this is the biggest scandal in history around the
world. So this event 2nd of June pass
the Grand in Glasgow. We've got fantastic speakers
such as Doctor Asim Mahaltra as we all know has been been doing
fantastic work going round the round the world.
He was in Helsinki speaking to governments over there.
We've got Doctor John Campbell, as we all know, I feel Doctor
John Campbell's done a fantastic job on YouTube getting the world
out there telling as many people as possible as he was a man that
took this and has now done a full U-turn on it.
And, and now reading out the data, Neil Handry MP, again,
another man who took this thing, done a full U-turn and he's now
speaking on XSS alongside Andrew Bridgen.
And Neil's a fantastic man. And then we'll get Doctor Tina
Pearce, who's a fantastic woman. Her and her team are one of the
one of the best doctors in the country.
The her and her team and the protocols they put in place was
one of the reasons why how I managed to go to my bed and how
I managed to go to the wheelchair.
Debbie. So I still struggle myself, but
I'm still here to raise as much awareness on this important
topic. This is our kind of way to go
back to the people because I know in the past people have
donated to the vaccine injured. So I'm putting on an event which
I'm hoping will be assure as well very powerful so they can
walk out of here saying, yes, that's that's subject can't go
away. This is a very important topic
and we must never give up. And I like to say bring the
noise, Debbie, because we've got to keep keep going, every single
one of us. And if anyone questions, that's
thing I ask both does to come along MPs, anyone from the real
mainstream media should be coming along to this event
because it needs to be held. Can get tickets at Ticket
Scotland. So if you type in Ticket
Scotland and then type in Bring the Noise, the VIP tickets have
sold out, Debbie. There's only a handful of seated
tickets left and we've still got standing tickets available so we
are one week away. The 2nd of June Classic grand in
Glasgow. Get your tickets at Tickets
Scotland. So if you can, please join them
all on the 2nd of June. Brilliant.
Thank you for that. Debbie.
Now, staying with you then in Plymouth, I don't know whether
you're about to mention this, but in Plymouth they've just
announced a new community health centre kind of place being built
at a huge expense right in the centre of the city.
This isn't just happening here though.
No. And thank you very much indeed
for sending me that article. And if you're in Plymouth,
you're going to get Rd. closures for a long time coming.
So after you sent me that mic, I did a bit of research and I'm so
sorry, go back to my own research.
So on UK column I published this NHS long term plan at Mental
Health Implementation plan, Phoenix or dinosaur.
What we're going to be looking at here is a complete different
change in health. We're looking at diagnostics,
but we'll come on to that in a minute.
So where did this all start? Well, the Blair overhaul, that
wasn't very surprising, was it? Where he said 501 stop shops
where members of the public would be able to see dentists,
social care professionals and GPS under one roof.
So we've been calling them one stop shops.
So what happened in the May Johnson era?
Well, in the May Johnson era, we went into prevention, Prevention
and early diagnosis. Remember that word diagnostics?
And there you have genetics monitoring, surveillance
basically. So I've went to the Guardian and
it doesn't take long. I mean, there's so many
articles, quite frankly, to talk about the crumbling hospitals,
sewage that's flooding, walls that are crumbling, hospitals
that are literally falling apart.
But of course, don't forget the Department of Health and Social
Care. They announced a building, 5
more major hospital plans. Doesn't that sound great, £20
billion investment? So if we go to look at the DHSC
fact sheet, we can see that indeed they were.
They're planning on building 5 major hospitals.
There was 4040 hospitals in total, but five major hospitals.
But of course, we've got reinforced autoclaved aerated
concrete, which has damaged many of them, which is why we're
looking for to rebuild the hospitals.
But in May 2024, it looks as though all of that is on hold.
What a surprise. So the government programme,
this is an article from The Independent, a government
programme to build 40 new hospitals has been beset by
delay and indecision. Well that's a surprise isn't it?
But let's go and see what they're going to be replacing
them with because these are these community diagnostic
centres AKA one stop shop. So this was published in 2021.
So we're looking at millions of patients will benefit from
earlier diagnostic tests thanks to 4040 community diagnostic
centres set to open across England.
So what are these one stop shops then?
What are they going to be doing? Well, they're going to be doing
scans, tests, £350 million investment, early diagnosis,
folks, there's that word again, which early diagnosis means
early pharmaceuticals. Let's not forget that.
Pharmaceuticals before you actually need them, testing
healthy people before they're even sick, seeing you before you
need to be seen. And they're looking at cancer
ophthalmology, They're looking at pretty much doing every
single test under the sun in order to keep you out of the
hospitals because hospitals of course, are overwhelmed as well
as falling down around our ears. So let's jump forward to 2023
when gov.uk then announced that forty turns into 160.
So we've now got 160 community hubs all to be open my March
2024. So I've got a very, very short
video now just to show you what is actually a community
diagnostic centre. Have a look at this.
This is an exciting moment in the development of the Community
Diagnostic Centre here at Newmarket Community Hospital.
This will mean that for the local population, they'll be
able to get CT scans, MRI scans, ultrasound scans, lung function
tests and heart scans much more quickly and locally.
The Community Diagnostic Centre will make a difference to the
local community, giving patients better access to high quality
diagnostic imaging on their doorstep.
You know, I have to travel to Inching Brook for my
assessments. I'm fortunate I have a vehicle.
I appreciate other people are not as fortunate.
This can only be a good thing. Plan is to have the CDC
completed for November 2024, see patients before Christmas.
It's a £15,000,000 expenditure expenditure, so it's quite a
significant investment in the site and the team are really
excited to deliver this project on behalf of the organization.
So there you have it and now I'm going to show you 4 very quick
slides which you're going to want to screenshot probably
because I'm going to show you where these hubs are, is one in
your area. So the NHS are delivering record
number of tests and checks. Now the next three slides are
going to be where they are. So freeze the screen and just
see if one of these, one of these slides has got your area
on it. And after you've frozen the
screen and looked at whether you've got one down the road, I
want you to find out really or to hear from me how people are
recruited. And there was a nice little
video. I've got a little screenshot of
the video. I watched it so you don't have
to. It's called NHS England
Community Diagnostic Centre International recruitment
webinar notes the word international.
So let's have a little bit about what they were talking about.
I've taken a couple of screenshots.
They're talking about international safe recruitment.
We're talking about everybody from radiographers, scientists,
dermatologists, you name it, pretty much everyone.
So when we start to look at the recruitment model, we can see
that these people are being built up, being brought in very,
very quickly. 4 to 8 weeks selection process in country,
training, assessment, competence, supervision, follow
the Lego block of training and boom, there you go.
You have a lot of international staff working at these centres
who will be doing your tests, who will be looking after you.
But if you do want one nice new major, brand new spanking
hospital, when you've been to the community diagnostic centres
and you've got your diagnosis of cancer or whatever, there is
going to be a beautiful new Cambridge Cancer Research
Hospital. It's already being built, so
that's what there is to look forward to.
Brilliant. Thank you, Debbie.
Now let's come back on to public private partnerships.
This was actually in a number of places in mainstream media over
the last couple of days. National Grid to double
investment in UK network to £30 billion over the next five
years. Now of course electric cars, all
the new infrastructure we need because everybody's going to
replace gas central heating with electric central heating means
that we've got to generate much more electricity.
We don't have any power stations to do that.
So we're building more windmills and we're going to build more
storage facilities, which may or may not go on fire at some
point. But anyway, the headline £30
billion. But when I went to have a look
at the the National Grid press release, they're talking about
£60 billion investment plan building now at pace for the
future, they said. So it turns out that they
produce a nice infographic to tell us all about it here.
So National Grid is investing around £60 billion across our
businesses in the next five years, nearly double the
investment of the last five years.
So it's £30 billion in the UK, more than doubling of our
investment in the last five years.
They want to make sure we know that bit and around £28 billion
in the United States. So they have a presence over
there as well. And so they, they have raised £7
billion or they're in the process of raising seven, £7
billion to get this thing started because this is a public
private partnership as we'll see in a second through a rights
issue. And so to do that, they are
issuing, they say 1085 million new shares.
So I wonder what that did to the share price.
Well, there you go, it's tanked yesterday when this news came
out of the day before. So the market's not so impressed
with this new share issue. But I was talking about a public
private partnership there and, well, here's a little bit of the
detail of it, or a hint at it anyway.
This is another National Grid press release or article.
Huge boost to UK supply chain as National Grid launches the Great
Grid Partnership with seven new industry partners all united in
the drive to deliver the Great Grid upgrade.
So you can't go wrong with the Great Grid because that's what
we're going to have in this country, a Great Grid.
I'm sure there's no cynicism amongst any of our viewers to
that. But there we go, £30 billion
being spent in the UK and lots of people on social media saying
that this would be taxpayer money.
Yes, ultimately, of course will be because these are public
private partnerships. They're they're setting up here
and they're wanting to bring in all this private capital from
the so-called industry. And as we've seen through the
the water infrastructure situation, we all know the
direction of travel once these types of public private
partnerships are put in place. But don't worry, it gets better
because the City of London isn't going to be left out of this.
They have just held a panel discussion all about securing a
nature positive future, because of course, this is all about net
zero. And so this is finance enabling
innovation. Now the financial side hasn't
been so impressed with the with the national grids plans, but
they have their own plans because this is all being run
through Terracotta and Sustainable Markets initiative
who are the strategic partner of the City of London in this
particular project. And As for the the question of
whether we need all this extra power generation capability or
not, electric cars, of course, a major driver.
But GB News here reporting that another car manufacturer has
decided to duck out of electric cars, or at least they're
massively reducing their production of electric cars
because there is no market for them.
Everybody has realised that they're rubbish and nobody's
buying them. So this is a headline here.
Major car brand pauses development.
This is Nissan in this case, amid a slump in demand for
drivers. There's been a slump in demand
for electric cars for quite a long time now.
This is why the second hand car market is so flat at the moment,
because nobody's buying new cars and it's really the the electric
cars being sold to to the corporate fleets, nobody in the
private markets really buying them at this stage.
But the other point to make here, building back better,
levelling up, what does that actually mean?
If we have a look at global carbon emissions here, we've got
a bit of a graph here to show who's emitting the most.
We can see that that really this sort of levelling up agenda, the
build back better agenda, really only applies to the West.
If we take China, Russia and the rest of the world, so-called
global S into account, that is absolutely the vast majority of
so-called carbon emissions. But of course, levelling up
isn't about increasing anything with respect to the first world.
It's about bringing our carbon emissions down to a level that's
acceptable and but other countries perhaps ignoring that
particular agenda quite wisely. But it gets better because the
World Bank held a live stream a couple of days ago on the issue
of net zero and so on. And they, of course, in this
case, we're talking about food production.
They produced a nice report on it.
The report is called Recipe for a Livable Planet.
Now, can we imagine what the suggestions are in this?
I'm sure we can. I'm sure we know what they are,
but let's just have a look. First of all, we've got to
protect and restore nature by not doing any farming anymore.
So we shouldn't do farming. We should make sure we turn all
that back into wildflower meadows and so on.
We need to start eating insects, plant based meat, plant based
dairy, edible insect protein, and we need to make sure that we
are funding much more research and development in these areas.
And of course we've got to promote healthy diets through
what they're describing as product reformulation.
They also want to bring in global nutrition targets.
And again, this is all about levelling up.
So global nutrition targets doesn't mean bringing
nutritional targets in for people that are starving.
It's about bringing people that are perhaps a bit wealthier in
the world down to a certain acceptable level.
And we put that back on screen a second.
The third item on that list, targeted school feeding
programmes. It makes children sound like
cattle targeted school feeding programmes.
It's quite incredible language. But just just to finish off, if
you remember last year, King Charles went off to France, to
Versailles. And I just wanted to remind
everybody how the other side will live while we're all eating
our insects and so on. So this has been doing the
rounds of social media. I think I saw this on Jackie
Devoie's Twitter feed this morning.
So thanks, Jackie for this. But just to remind ourselves,
these are the people that are pushing the net zero agenda the
hardest and this is how they want to live.
And we should never forget that when we're talking about net
zero and levelling up. OK, that's enough of that now,
Ben, that this brings us on to another person.
That's Sasha Lord. Yeah, absolutely.
So there's a story that caught my eye earlier this week that
ties together Labour Party figures, the UK music industry,
central government funds relating to COVID and also the
money behind the emerging independent media scene in the
UK. It starts with this story which
and the question is, did Sasha Lord cheat his way to £400,000
worth of public money during the pandemic?
And the first question that you're going to ask after that
is who is Sasha Lord? Well this is Sasha Lord Shiny
website here with his name in big letters and he is a big time
event promoter. Amongst other things.
He runs Parklife Festival in Manchester which is a huge
annual gathering coming up again in June.
Lots of big name stars from the major labels and elsewhere.
He also runs The Warehouse Project which basically makes
him the biggest nightclub promoter in the UK.
They take over huge former industrial units across
Manchester every year and do seasons of shows towards the end
of the year. He's also the chairman of the
NTIA, The Night Times Industry Association, which represents
the interests of clubland venues, restaurants, which
interestingly was founded by Norris Windross and then it was
run by Alan Miller from the Together Decoration up until
Alan resigned couple of years ago to run Together.
That's an aside back back to Sasha Lord.
He's also, he's a very busy man, right?
Very busy and prominent man, particularly around Manchester.
He's also the night time economy advisor to Andy Burnham.
All right. So he's tapped right into the
top levels of the Labour Party and and in fact has himself been
tipped as a potential mayor at some point in the future.
And he's certainly doing a lot of the things that you'd expect
someone with political ambitions to be doing.
So there's a very, very prominent businessman, and I'm
sure he'd probably say a philanthropist who's been
accused of fraudulently obtaining public funds, right?
So it's quite a serious accusation here.
Let's go back to the article. And we can see that the mill, it
says, has obtained evidence that a security company controlled by
law repeatedly lied in an application for COVID-19
support. And as a result of this
misleading application, the company received over 400,000
lbs of taxpayers money at the height of the pandemic.
And we've seen a copy of the funding application in which
Lord's business partner makes a series of false claims about
what it does, calling itself the backbone of the national
creative events sector. Mark Turnbull, who's a former
director of the company's, told us the Mail that he believes
Lord's company is guilty of fraud and should be investigated
by the police. So this clearly seems like it's
got legs. Lord vehemently denied the
claim. Earlier in the week, he
threatened to sue the mill for defamation.
So my learning friends placed a little statement in the Times of
London saying that we vehemently disagree with the article and
strongly dispute the accuracy, reliability and transparency of
its sources. The Mill, to their credit, stood
their ground. They've been making hay out of
this all week. They put out the the request for
further information and evidence from their community and got a
lot of information back. And actually it turns out just
this morning that Lord has withdrawn his threat to sue the
mill, he said. I've decided not to pursue legal
action for the time being, that he continues to reject their
allegations in the strongest terms.
So there's something going on here and we'll see how it
develops over the coming weeks and months, right?
So this is quite, quite dodgy, potentially fraudulent behaviour
circulating around the top levels of the Labour Party,
right? You know, coming up to the
general election, I think it's important to look at this.
But actually, I think it's useful to take this as an
opportune moment to look more broadly at Lord's role in COVID,
but also the way that the culture, the cultural sector,
the events industry was roped into helping coerce people to
complying with COVID restrictions, right?
So Lord himself was hyper critical of people breaking the
lockdown restrictions. He says here in this tweet that
from June 2020 that if you are one of the morons who attended
one of the illegal raves last night, you're a disgrace.
You aren't clubbers, you're just selfish idiots, right?
This is a man with really significant influence in the
music industry, particularly as it relates to younger clubbers,
right? It's really important.
It's about the youth in particular, right?
And, and the event industry was used to coerce the population
into accepting unprecedented lockdowns, mass vaccinations and
most importantly, I think digital identity systems and the
normalisation of having to share private health status and data
in order to engage in the basic functions of society.
Right. So this is from the Warehouse
Project website. This is their COVID policy.
They ask all ticket holders to demonstrate their COVID-19
status via the COVID pass, the NHS COVID pass.
Upon arrival, you have to have proof of a negative lateral flow
test. Do you remember all this rubbish
we had to do? Or you have to prove that you've
been vaccinated with both doses, with the 2nd dose being received
at least 14 days before the date of the event, right?
So this is the Warehouse Project.
This is Sasha Lord's business pushing government policy,
insisting that people coming to these events comply with things
that should not be complied with.
We shouldn't have, should never have been asked to comply with
them, right? And it's not just the Warehouse
Project, it's the entire events industry.
We saw this happening all over the place.
And I think that the Arts Council sits right at the centre
of this, right? So we've talked about this
400,000 lbs. But where did it come from?
It came from the Arts Council, right?
What is the Arts Council? It's an arm's length body link
directly to DCMS, the Department of Culture, Media and Sport.
The Arts Council itself was set up in 1946, and it was initiated
by John Maynard Keynes, the economist, the socialist
economist. It's currently chaired by
Nicholas Sirota, who was the former director of the Tate, and
he's also a companion of honour to the King.
Yeah, one of only 66 people who hold that position.
Yeah. And Oliver Dowden, who's
currently the Deputy Prime Minister telling everyone that
we got to prep and make get ourselves ready for some
unspecified catastrophe that's going to come up in the next few
months. He was the running DCMS at the
time. Alright, so this is central
government money, taxpayer money controlled by central
government. It's probably more accurate way
of describing it, of a fund of £1.57 billion, but about 900
million of which was distributed to organisations like the
Warehouse Project, This fake security company that Sasha Lord
is, or actually it was a real security company that presented
it as something other than security company in order to get
the money. Sadler's Wells, the Roundhouse
in Camden, Fabric Nightclub, a bunch of the kind of digital
ticketing platforms like Resident Advisor and Boiler
Room. Like all of these people were
getting money from the government ostensibly to see
them through the pandemic, but with strings attached and as a
way of using these organisations to comply with and disseminate
public policy in response to what we now know in hindsight
was was a fake pandemic, Right? And none of these measures
should have been put in place and they certainly shouldn't
have been paid for by on the public purse and they shouldn't
have been promoted by these organisations who, who, who have
been in receipt of these funds. I think it's an absolute scandal
and we can't, can't let this just disappear down the memory
hole as I think that a lot of people would like us to do.
So we'll, we'll talk about this more in the future.
And I'm particularly interested in seeing how Mr. Lord's case
develops. Just as a final point in this, I
want to just focus in on the on the mill actually.
So we talked about the case in this story.
Well, where was the story found? So it was on this news website.
So this is a bit of information that the mill have shared about
their own performance and the scale of their operations.
So it's an online thing. It runs on the sub Stack
platform. It launched in June 2020.
They then launched in October of that year, a new, another title
called the Post focused on Liverpool.
Then in March 21, the Tribune focused on Sheffield.
So these are very locally focused news operations.
Essentially they're to replace the local newspapers.
They've massively grown their audience.
So they're up to about 100,000 people now with about 5 to
10,000 of paid subscribers. They they, they're quite vocals.
They're very open about this stuff.
They talk about it a lot on on their social media.
And they've also just launched in another title called The
Dispatch in Birmingham in June last year.
So they're making a big play to become a new national news
network. But the question is, who's who's
backing this? Yeah, because they talk about
themselves as being independent, but they aren't really
independent. They've got a lot of funding
that's coming from pretty top level people in the traditional
media. I actually mentioned this back
in October and November, Mark Thompson, who is the current CEO
of CNN and was formerly the director general at the BBC
during the Jimmy Savile cover up, right?
And then he basically skipped the country, went to the New
York Times. He's now at CNN.
He's put a load of money into the mill.
That's quite interesting. They've also been getting some
very high profile recognition. Joshi Herman, the the founder of
the Mill was at the Truth Tellers event last week
alongside Jeff Zucker makes amongst other people, who is The
Who is the former chief executive of CNN.
He was also at the Lords recently giving some testimony
to the Lords on on the media in the UK.
He's been getting picked up by William Hague in the Times as
well as Alan Rubbisher, sorry, Ross Bridger, the former
Guardian editor. So the Mill has got some big
backers, and I just wonder whether Joshi, Hermann and the
team there really know what they're getting themselves into.
So what's this space? Yes, indeed.
Well, sticking with the media then, let's come to Ofcom.
And well, we've been talking about the issue of regulators
wanting to become global regulators and Ofcom leading the
way with online safety and censorship on the Internet.
So they have just published this Global Online Safety Regulators
Map out vision to improve international coordination.
Now, we've talked about the fact that the global online safety
regulators exist, and we'll remind you who's involved with
it in a minute. But they've decided that they
want to map out the plans for this.
So let's just have a look and see what they're saying.
Though each of us has our own domestic regulatory framework,
we understand that neither the risks people face online nor the
online services they used are confined to the national or
continental borders. Accordingly, it is important
that our regulatory approaches acknowledge this.
With global service providers now being required to comply
with online safety legislation in multiple jurisdictions, the
possibility of cross-border regulatory fragmentation is
heightened, potentially creating compliance challenges and costs
for companies. And that's a real shame for the
likes of Google and organisations with, you know,
multiple sets of three zeros at the end of their annual income.
By pursuing regulatory coherence, we can ensure that
the online safety of Internet users in our respective
countries does not stop at the border and that companies can
benefit from compliance, economies of scale and legal
certainty. So what we're seeing here is
that beginning in the UK, we began this narrative that we
needed to regulate the Internet, that we needed online safety,
online harms protections. That was fed into various other
countries, EU, the United States less so, but certainly the EU
and other jurisdictions around the world who joined on the
gravy train and managed to get their legislation in first.
So, but nonetheless the Online Safety Act as you all know was
eventually passed. But the but Ofcom, who is the
regulator for the Internet in the UK now always had its eyes
set on becoming the chair or the global lead on this.
So this is the global online safety regulators network.
These are the current members from Australia, Fiji, France,
Ireland, Republic of Korea, Slovakia, South Africa and the
chair, the current chair, United Kingdom.
And then they have a bunch of organisations that consider
themselves observers. So a number of global observers,
there are some from Canada, some from the EU, Germany, New
Zealand and so on. So this is a growing network of
online safety regulators and others related to the regulatory
space who all want to form a network to try to produce some
coherent, cohesive ideas of how online regulation should work.
So that the poor old multi billion pound companies like
YouTube and Google and whatnot don't have to work too hard to
maintain the regulatory standard, which will effectively
mean censorship and a sort of level playing field for
censorship around the world. We'll watch this space and we'll
continue to report on it. So that more or less brings us
to the end, Debbie. But you have one final thing.
And thank you so much to Pip. I want one of our wonderful
members who sent me this predictive programming.
I guess I'm going to be talking and showing you a little bit of
a film called Humane, although perhaps we ought to call it
inhumane. And this is a trigger warning.
So if you've got kids with you, although this is just a trailer,
you might just want to come back and look at this little clip
later. But we're talking climate
crisis, we're talking environmental collapse.
We're talking about, oh, should we depopulate the population?
And is this the new Logan's Run? Have a look at the trailer.
While we every day bear witness to the catastrophic ecological
collapse that is. Plaguing our planet, we must
not. Forget that this is above all a.
Human. Crisis.
I am in favour of this government.
Doing whatever it takes to win this war.
It's not a war. Wars have opposing side.
Humanity is the opposing side. We are engaged in nothing.
Less than a life and death struggle.
Against our own extinction. What is going on?
We've decided to enlist. You're not going to like.
This, but we're here to collect two bodies.
I already told you, Don left. And that's unfortunate.
But the. Rules are the same for
everybody. Think about your lives.
I'm sure one of you is going to realize that it's not all that
great. Do you think I'm the bad guy?
But I'm doing important work to save the planet.
We can get through this, but we have to stick together.
It's been a, it's been a hell of a night, huh?
All I can say, Debbie, is wow. I don't know what to say either,
Mike. It was released on April the
26th and there are trailers on YouTube, but I would put out a
trigger warning if you happen to have vulnerable people with you
or children. Yes.
OK. Well, on that happy note then we
need to end for today. We will be back in a few
minutes. If you're UK column member for
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We'll see you on Monday at 1:00 PM as usual.
See you then. Bye bye.