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us us this . thank you for joining us this lunchtime. i'm dawn neesom and for the next two hours i'll be keeping you company on tv, onune keeping you company on tv, online digital radio. online and on digital radio. coming up this hour, jeremy hunt is set to go to war over woke whitehall wasters as he continues to tease the prospect of tax cuts in the budget . but of tax cuts in the budget. but has he revealed some sneak peeks as to what will appear in the spnng as to what will appear in the spring budget this wednesday .7 spring budget this wednesday? then, on the third anniversary of sarah everard's murder, labour say they will introduce compulsory training on violence against women and girls for police officers . but hello, why police officers. but hello, why has it taken this long and why wasn't it done before? so many questions on this. you don't want to miss one. and at want to miss this one. and at the the hour, do you the end of the hour, do you think that given every 30 year old british citizen , ten grand old british citizen, ten grand will help redistribute wealth? well one tory peer seems to think so . hm.
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well one tory peer seems to think so. hm. freeman here. but any case, this show is not about me. it's about you. nothing without your views. so let's know your thoughts on all the stories we're discussing today or anything you to talk or anything you want to talk about. just me about. basically just email me at gbviews@gbnews.com or message me on our socials. we're at gb news. really, really simple. but first let's get the news headunes first let's get the news headlines with the very lovely sam francis . dawn thank you very much. >> good afternoon from the gb news room, the headlines just after 1:00. and we start with the story leading the news today that the chancellor has hinted at be in his spring at what could be in his spring budget. but he's been cautious to that unfunded tax cuts to say that unfunded tax cuts aren't on the cards. to say that unfunded tax cuts aren't on the cards . forecasts aren't on the cards. forecasts appear to show that jeremy hunt has little to no headroom for tax cuts, limiting the prospect of pre—election giveaways . of pre—election giveaways. however, speaking to gb news earlier this morning, jeremy hunt did say his budget will include a number of reforms to pubuc include a number of reforms to public services, which he said
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will mean better for value taxpayers. it is wrong to say that we should be putting more money into the public sector, fewer civil servants to be more productive, correct ? productive, correct? >> you want fewer people to do more . more. >> i think we've got to stop always looking at the inputs and always looking at the inputs and always that the way to always saying that the way to get better services is to get better public services is to spend more and actually ask if we be more efficient as we could be more efficient as well as we've been hearing in the last hour or so. >> a seven year old girl, we understand has drowned today after a small boat capsized while trying to cross the engush while trying to cross the english channel. we also understand 15 people were on board that boat, including the girl's family , when it sank off girl's family, when it sank off the coast of calais , the local the coast of calais, the local authority said it was not appropriately sized to carry that many people . yemen's houthi that many people. yemen's houthi militant group has issued a fresh threat against britain. they're warning that it will target, strike and sink more british ships. the rebel group says britain is a rogue state
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and have accused the government of attacking yemen and collaborating with the us in crimes against gaza's civilians . crimes against gaza's civilians. it comes less than 24 hours after a british cargo ship, which was abandoned after a recent missile strike, sank in the red sea. meanwhile, the uk , the red sea. meanwhile, the uk, the red sea. meanwhile, the uk, the us and the eu all have military ships patrolling the region to protect commercial vessels that are passing through the important shipping route here in the uk, the government is reportedly considering blocking hate preachers from entering the country , with more entering the country, with more people being added to warning lists. reports suggest that current powers could be used to increase the number of people who are prevented from entering the that's if they're the country. that's if they're deemed to be non—conducive to the public good. that could include those who preach racism, intimidation or incite violence. current the rules are typically used to ban people who are known to pose a security threat . rail to pose a security threat. rail passengers in england and wales are facing new 5% price hikes on
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their tickets from today. that's despite train cancellations being among the worst in ten years. campaign argue the public are being unfairly punished by the increase. it comes after thousands of services were cancelled in the past year. in one of the worst performances in the rail industry since records began. the rail industry since records began . in. two iran now and began. in. two iran now and counting is continuing. after the election. there on friday that saw a historically low turnout. the islamic republic, which is an ally of the hamas terror group in gaza , was hit by terror group in gaza, was hit by anti—government protests last anti —government protests last year anti—government protests last year after the death of a woman who'd been arrested by morality police . kasra arabe, the police. kasra arabe, the director of research at united against nuclear iran, told gb news this morning that there is growing frustration over restrictions on political and social freedoms. there >> this regime is a totalitarian dictatorship and the lack of consequences by the west on the
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regime has made harmony believe it's given khamenei the confidence that he can get away with anything that he wants and really , the iranian people no really, the iranian people no longer believe in this system. uh, they seek the overthrow, the they seek outright regime change and a vote for this system . any and a vote for this system. any in any case, voting for any candidate who is personally hand selected by the supreme leader is a vote for the islamic repubuc is a vote for the islamic republic from iran to the united states. >> now, where an election rematch is looking more likely , rematch is looking more likely, with donald trump winning three more republican contests overnight in missouri, michigan and in idaho, the former president's only rival, nikki haley, is still searching for her first win, trailing second in each state so far. mr trump made several false claims at campaign rallies, including the allegation that president biden is, he said , trying to overthrow is, he said, trying to overthrow the united states . that's the united states. that's despite mr trump himself being charged with conspiracy to defraud the us. part of the 91 serious crimes he's accused of
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in four ongoing criminal trials. and finally , if you haven't and finally, if you haven't heard about the news already , heard about the news already, here's a quick look at last night's brit awards, where rae swept to a stunning turnaround victory for the 26 year old singer after she was dumped by her own record label . i'm so her own record label. i'm so proud of this album . proud of this album. >> i'm in love with music all i ever wanted to be was an artist, and now i'm an artist with an album of the year. >> rae there, who claimed top honours including album and artist of the year and best new artist. in total, she scooped up an astonishing six gongs, which were the most wins in a single year ever at the brit awards and i'm those are the headlines more coming up in the next half hour. in the meantime , you can sign up in the meantime, you can sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the code your screen, or go the code on your screen, or go to gb news. com alerts. to gb news. com slash alerts. now though, it's to dawn .
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now though, it's back to dawn. thank you very much. >> congratulations to ray , by >> congratulations to ray, by the way. i wish i could hum a single song she'd ever done, but i'm afraid i can't. probably not my market. let's get my market. right, let's get straight into today's story, shall we? uh, jeremy hunt is set to to war over waste in woke to go to war over waste in woke whitehall in his spring budget on wednesday . lots of w's there. on wednesday. lots of w's there. um, earlier on, gb news jeremy hunt told camilla tominey he wants to reform the public sector a bid to improve the sector in a bid to improve the productivity. let's have a look what said. what he said. >> bring the numbers of >> want to bring the numbers of civil servants down to the level that they were before the pandemic between 2010 and 2019, we saw sustained increases in pubuc we saw sustained increases in public sector productivity over that period. by the way, standards in our schools went up. crime went down, we had more doctors and nurses in the nhs treating more people than ever before. the pandemic stopped that. and what i'm saying in the budget on wednesday is i want to restart the process of public sector reform because public
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sector reform because public sector productivity is 6% lower than pre—pandemic hmm'hmm . than pre—pandemic hmm'hmm. >> the chancellor also played down the prospect of tax cuts, warning he'll only do so in a sustained way . okay, right. sustained way. okay, right. joining me now, i'm pleased to say is political commentator benedict spence to explain in ordinary speak what the chancellor was actually on about. benedict. good afternoon . about. benedict. good afternoon. thank you for joining about. benedict. good afternoon. thank you forjoining us. um, thank you for joining us. um, what did you make of what jeremy hunt had to say to the wonderful camilla this morning? oh i think it was. >> it will have come as a very disappointing, uh, >> it will have come as a very disappointing , uh, contribution, disappointing, uh, contribution, i to of people. i think, to a lot of people. >> tend to think of, uh, >> i tend to think of, uh, anybody who's a game of thrones fan will remember for the first sort of five seasons, we were promised out that there are dragons coming . dragons coming. >> point, there are >> at some point, there are going dragons the going to be dragons in the series, going be series, and it's going to be really and really really exciting and really interesting and don't worry, you really exciting and really inteihang; and don't worry, you really exciting and really inteihang on 1d don't worry, you really exciting and really inteihang on long n't worry, you really exciting and really inteihang on long enough. , you really exciting and really inteihang on long enough. and| just hang on long enough. and dragons then when just hang on long enough. and drag
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disappointing because everybody waite of too well, that's disappointing because everybody waiteoftoo thisa/ell,that's disappointing because everybody waiteof too this alell, th the kind of what this is with the tories promises tax tories and their promises of tax cuts. hearing for cuts. we've been hearing for months worry. cuts. we've been hearing for mo the worry. cuts. we've been hearing for mo the tax orry. cuts. we've been hearing for mo the tax cuts they're coming, >> the tax cuts they're coming, they're better. >> and now here we are the >> and now here we are on the eve budget. there eve of the budget. and there aren't really aren't going to be any really meaningful cuts. and we're meaningful tax cuts. and we're back whitehall meaningful tax cuts. and we're back uh, whitehall meaningful tax cuts. and we're back uh, know, whitehall meaningful tax cuts. and we're back uh, know, andtehall meaningful tax cuts. and we're back uh, know, and there waste. uh, you know, and there is truth in don't get is some truth in that. don't get me wrong. he's right that, uh, the miserably, the state has failed miserably, certainly start certainly since the start of the pandemic. that is, of pandemic. uh, but that is, of course, let's let's remember who's been charge throughout course, let's let's remember who'period. charge throughout course, let's let's remember who'period. that's ge throughout course, let's let's remember who'period. that's been'oughout that period. that's been happening watch of happening on, uh, the watch of the conservatives um, so, you know, good of them to know, it's good of them to recognise that and to admit their failings and no doubt that there of waste in there is a lot of waste in things wokester teams, things like wokester teams, which of things that which are one of the things that he's to tackle he's supposedly going to tackle and, but it's and, and productivity. but it's come late. and this is come far too late. and this is not actually going to make any sort real, meaningful sort of real, meaningful difference, people and difference, uh, to people and their what their living situations. what people needed were tax cuts, several years ago, if they were going to be tax cuts what going to be tax cuts and what they've are they've had instead are tax rises repeatedly this rises repeatedly under this government bloat , government increasing the bloat, increasing the size of the state, lowering the state, whilst lowering the productivity state? i productivity of the state? i have no doubt that many of the things that jeremy hunt says he
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wants achieve in terms of wants to achieve in terms of cutting whitehall and cutting down whitehall waste and increasing productivity are achievable have achievable. but it would have been helpful been really helpful if they didn't was didn't wait until there was a matter between 6 9 months matter of between 6 to 9 months before election . uh, before the general election. uh, frankly, i think it's come far before the general election. uh, franlatei think it's come far before the general election. uh, franlate in1ink it's come far before the general election. uh, franlate in the it's come far before the general election. uh, franlate in the day. come far too late in the day. >> i mean, we did see >> benedict. i mean, we did see the cut in the autumn the tpp cut in the autumn statement, didn't we, to national that didn't national insurance that didn't do any favours, did national insurance that didn't do it any favours, did national insurance that didn't do it didn't any favours, did national insurance that didn't do it didn't make favours, did national insurance that didn't do it didn't make everyoneiid it? it didn't make everyone go, whoopee let's go vote whoopee do let's go and vote conservative. it didn't even register on the opinion polls. >> it didn't because people's paper , because people's taxes paper, because people's taxes and the amount coming and the amount of money coming out packages in out of people's pay packages in inflation had already gone up so exponentially that, in fact, it literally made no difference to the average person. so to now hean the average person. so to now hear, well, they're hear, oh well, they're sort of toying maybe 1 to 2% of toying with maybe 1 to 2% of income tax, but that's probably not going to happen anyway. and then this, you ask, then after all of this, you ask, well, is are tax well, why is why are these tax cuts not come anyway? cuts not going to come anyway? and there isn't and that. well, there isn't enough . the enough budget headroom. why the office for budgetary responsibility says so. right. office for budgetary resp setibility says so. right. office for budgetary resp set upity says so. right. office for budgetary resp set up the ays so. right. office for budgetary resp set up the office. right. office for budgetary resp set up the office forght. office for budgetary resp set up the office for budget who set up the office for budget responsibility ? the conservative responsibility? the conservative party set that up in order to trap labour when labour tried to
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spend its way out of an economic gridlock the next time around, because they didn't anticipate being this long, they being in power this long, they thought were to thought labour were going to come and they thought, this come back and they thought, this will and it'll will be really clever and it'll show really in show that we're really in control oh, whoops. control of spending. oh, whoops. now that has of now it's us that has let go of the strings. everything's the purse strings. everything's gone own gone horribly wrong. and our own office budgetary office for budgetary responsibility says, no, chaps, you do this. you can't do this. >> you know what, benedict? i think whoops just sums up today's politics. so i'm going today's politics. so i'm going to there . you to leave it there. thank you very benedict very much. that's benedict spence our political spence, our political commentator. what jeremy commentator. explain what jeremy hunt was talking about this morning. very well. there i think. and we end the word think. and we end on the word whoops. i don't need to say much more, do i? sadly i'm more, do i? sadly for you, i'm going i've also got my going to, um, i've also got my panel as well joined by a political emma political consultant, emma burnell social policy burnell and social policy analyst , rakib burnell and social policy analyst, rakib hasan. thank you so much forjoining me on a lovely sunday afternoon . soon lovely sunday afternoon. soon now, jeremy hunt, he's on one, two, three, four sunday papers cut tax or lose the grey vote . cut tax or lose the grey vote. chancellor in last in last ditch fight to cut tax by £0.02 tax cut tax cuts will backfire.
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that's the observer by the way. just in case you were wondering. um and hunt goes to war on immoral whitehall waste. lots and lots of words. what does rikki neave. i'm going to come to you first on this one. well, i'm at the stage where i don't believe a word anyone says anymore. what do you make of what you've heard jeremy hunt say today? and these front pages with with so many, i'm going to do a, b and c, but not a lot of detail. >> well, it seems like a lot of the focus is on trimming down on woke initiatives public woke initiatives in the public sector. honest , if you >> but to be honest, if you really shore our really want to shore up our national economy, to national economy, we're going to need lot more that. need to do a lot more than that. now, sure now, dawn, i'm not sure actually. this is the time where we be talking about about actually. this is the time where we cuts. be talking about about actually. this is the time where we cuts. if be talking about about actually. this is the time where we cuts. if truth king about about actually. this is the time where we cuts. if truth beg about about actually. this is the time where we cuts. if truth be told, ut about actually. this is the time where we cuts. if truth be told, it about tax cuts. if truth be told, i think that politicians all too often, when it comes to election time, they promise voters all sorts . and i don't think that's sorts. and i don't think that's actually responsible politics at all. i think it's overly short . all. i think it's overly short. termist. i think what we actually need, unfortunately, is actually need, unfortunately, is a high tax and spend agenda to really sort out our social and
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economic systems , look at our economic systems, look at our nhs, the waiting lists, astronomical. we have a totally dysfunctional asylum system. our court system is bursting at the seams and if we want to talk about reducing our hyper dependence on immigration, which is skyrocketed , illegal is skyrocketed, illegal immigration in recent times, then we need to invest in the skills and the training of our own british people. but that's not going to come cheap. >> this war on on immoral whitehall waste . i mean, emma, whitehall waste. i mean, emma, it's words. it's words that appeal to the, the red wall, this this red wall. who are after red meat, evidently lots of red going on. um, but, i mean, it's designed to appeal to them. we're going to cut through all waste. how much money is all the waste. how much money is it actually save? and it actually going to save? and how it going to be? how helpful is it going to be? >> well, not very much, not >> well, not very much, and not at uh the two simple at all. uh the two simple answers, , look, there are answers, um, look, there are lots and lots of schemes that are considered woke. some of which you could easily drop . which you could easily drop. they're more about sort of
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staffing initiatives , some of staffing initiatives, some of which are actually really important . so which are actually really important. so take which are actually really important . so take the which are actually really important. so take the nhs, for example . if you're a black example. if you're a black woman, you are four times more likely to die in childbirth than if you're a white woman. there is going there . it is something going on there. it is something going on there. it is woke agenda that we is not a woke agenda that we should look at that there are other things in the nhs which i think you probably could scrap without it. having an impact on patients, but ultimately these tiny it's a nonsense. tiny schemes, it's a nonsense. i'm reminded of. tiny schemes, it's a nonsense. i'm reminded of . there's a scene i'm reminded of. there's a scene in father ted. do you remember the wonderful comedy father ted? they've got this, um, ongoing situation where there's a bomb on a milk float. it's very funny. it's based on speed. and their is, oh, should we their answer is, oh, should we do and this is do another mass? and this is what it feels like with the tories . it's like you're. tories. it's like you're. nothing's working. should we nothing's working. oh, should we do yes. mhm do another tax. yes. mhm >> it does feel like that doesn't it. and i think i think if we, we come back to um the, the by—election in doddie aid , i the by—election in doddie aid, i mean that just demonstrated how disarray people are disappointed
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ed with the two main parties as well. and the lib dems who weren't even mentioned. i mean, the fact that george galloway and the independent guy who came second, who was just running the local garage and just didn't even know how to campaign, but he came second. labour and it doesn't matter what front page it doesn't matter jeremy it doesn't matter what jeremy hunt about that woke hunt says now about that woke waste in whitehall using it or the w words he possibly can, they're doomed , aren't they? they're doomed, aren't they? >> no, absolutely. and i think that the response of some politicians in, in the political establishment , it's quite establishment, it's quite disappointing to the rochdale by—election, i think, you know, you had the prime minister, for example, outcome example, labelling the outcome as i think as horrifying. i don't think that's the best way to engage with forms of political with various forms of political disaffection and institutional distrust in communities, which i consider to be very left out . consider to be very left out. >> very much so. i mean, that was the thing is, it's coming back to but it's the there is waste in whitehall. i mean, i think we do and there are efficiencies to be made.
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>> absolutely. yes. >> absolutely. yes. >> i mean, like but we >> i mean, sort of like but we are if we're are talking about if we're talking cost of living talking in the cost of living crisis here, 66,000 civil talking in the cost of living crisis hejobs»6,000 civil talking in the cost of living crisis hejobs are 00 civil talking in the cost of living crisis hejobs are at civil talking in the cost of living crisis hejobs are at risk, servant jobs are at risk, according to the plans that have been out lined today. and, you know , we do employ more civil know, we do employ more civil servants than we did before the pandemic. that has taken us read. but you think right, okay. well, a these are people we're talking yeah, we're talking about. yeah, we're going to jobs. they're talking about. yeah, we're going to just jobs. they're talking about. yeah, we're going to just numbers, they're talking about. yeah, we're going to just numbers, theynot not just numbers, they're not just thing that needs to just a woke thing that needs to be out. are people be sorted out. they are people with who will be with families who will be struggling their bills well. >> and it's worth saying >> and it's also worth saying that in terms of civil service jobs, not based in jobs, they're not just based in whitehall. sw1 whitehall. they're not just sw1 jobs. one of the things jobs. one of the good things that happened in the last 20 that has happened in the last 20 years is an awful lot of the civil service pushed civil service has been pushed out country, and that out around the country, and that really lots of local out around the country, and that really and lots of local out around the country, and that really and their lots of local out around the country, and that really and their employmental out around the country, and that really and their employment, so areas and their employment, so they understand it's like they understand what it's like in those areas. >> the other >> exactly. um, but the other thing wanted is we thing i wanted to mention is we say we've got too many civil servants. right? okay um, but on the other hand, we haven't got enough people process asylum claims. >> no. absolutely. so, so what's going on here? >> they both can't be right,
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surely? >> no. i mean, and i think that we can look the ways we can, >> no. i mean, and i think that we reform k the ways we can, >> no. i mean, and i think that we reform systems. vays we can, >> no. i mean, and i think that we reform systems. i|ys we can, >> no. i mean, and i think that we reform systems. i think can, uh, reform systems. i think jeremy hunt, for example, is talking about how he can create efficiencies in a variety of systems, introducing more things to video calls , for example, to video calls, for example, especially when it comes to criminal investigations. but the thing is , you can't take thing is, you can't take shortcuts either. if actually you find better quality of evidence in terms of taking witness statements, and that actually in actually needs to be done in person. those shortcuts can be quite, counterproductive . quite, um, counterproductive. >> it really is. and the other one, i mean, all of this stuff as well, when you get as well, right? when you get down bits nitty gritty down to the bits of nitty gritty that actually mentioned , down to the bits of nitty gritty thatpolice actually mentioned , down to the bits of nitty gritty that police actut use mentioned , down to the bits of nitty gritty thatpolice actutuse drones1ed , down to the bits of nitty gritty thatpolice actutuse drones toi , the police will use drones to assess incidents as traffic assess incidents such as traffic collisions . well, i mean, collisions. well, i mean, i mean, come on, really is that is that what you want out there? is that what you want out there? is that your great white hope the police going to use drones. police are going to use drones. it'll us a of money. i it'll save us a lot of money. i mean, whoops, i mean, that's going been going to be so haven't we been going to be so haven't we been going and on about the need going on and on about the need for visible community policing? >> maybe they meant >> um, you've maybe they meant drones with wilhelm . maybe drones with wilhelm. maybe that's what they meant. maybe.
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maybe mean. i maybe this is what they mean. i don't drones little don't know, drones are little helmets, i thought don't know, drones are little hel|idea i thought don't know, drones are little hel|idea was i thought don't know, drones are little hel|idea was putting i thought don't know, drones are little hel|idea was putting bobbies1t the idea was putting bobbies back not putting back on the beat. not putting bobbies the air. bobbies in the air. >> flying bobbies? yes i mean, pigs >> flying bobbies? yes i mean, pigs will fly, bobbies will fly. i mean, and actually. >> and i'll just make a point with the asylum system as well in, in terms of face to face interviews, to, um, interviews, they tried to, um, they replace that with they tried to replace that with written . so written questionnaires. so i think of those shortcuts, i think some of those shortcuts, i think some of those shortcuts, i think quite think they can be quite counterproductive, from counterproductive, even from a security perspective. counterproductive, even from a sec well,)erspective. counterproductive, even from a sec well, that's:tive. counterproductive, even from a sec well, that's dangerous , isn't >> well, that's dangerous, isn't it? dangerous. oh gosh . it? it's dangerous. oh gosh. it's mess, it? warps it's a mess, isn't it? warps indeed. for all the best indeed. now for all the best analysis and opinion that, analysis and opinion on that, even two. uh, even better than these two. uh, just to the website just go to the website gbnews.com. i'm dawn neesom . gbnews.com. i'm dawn neesom. this is gb news on sunday. hope you're having a lovely weekend. uh, but there's lots more coming up on today's show. uh, on the third year anniversary , third third year anniversary, third year anniversary of sarah everard's murder, labour say they will introduce compulsory training on violence against women and girls for police officers . but why has it taken officers. but why has it taken so long? i'm speechless at this
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welcome back to gb news sunday with me dawn neesom on your tv online, on digital radio. hope you have a wonderful sunday afternoon this afternoon out there. now this story really annoys me. sorry trying to be not biased, but i am late . others say they will am late. others say they will introduce compulsory training on violence against women and girls for they also for police officers. they also vowed to revamp police vetting procedures in a bid to stop those with a history of domestic abuse or domestic or sexual abuse or domestic or sexual abuse offences from joining the force. it comes as we mark the three year anniversary of the horrific murder of sarah everard . a report published this week found that wayne couzens should never have been given a job as a police officer , and challenges police officer, and challenges to stop the sexual predator were
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repeatedly ignored and missed. i'm sorry, i'm angry. how? anyway, this is not about me. it's about you. so gb views at gb news for a start. but i'm going to see what my panel make of emma i'm coming to you as of it. emma i'm coming to you as a you find this a woman. don't you find this absolutely horrific? okay, labour are going to make training compulsory. why was it not done in the first place? >> well, that's a very good question. there been a long question. there has been a long been a real problem with attitudes towards domestic violence . it's just a domestic . violence. it's just a domestic. mhm. uh, you know, we are living in a country where between two and three women are murdered a week , uh, largely by their week, uh, largely by their partners or recent ex—partner hours. um, this is not something that we should be accepting. it's not something we should be shrugging off as just a domestic. so, yeah, it should have happened a long time ago, but i'm very , very glad that it but i'm very, very glad that it is proposed finally now. is being proposed finally now. and . i mean, we and police vetting. i mean, we all saw . the disgusting report
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all saw. the disgusting report on on wayne couzens and his his history , but he's not the only history, but he's not the only one we've seen story after story , particularly in the met, but in police forces around the country. >> but only this week, emma, we had the appalling story of emma caldwell , the girl in scotland. caldwell, the girl in scotland. >> absolutely . >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> you know, and you >> i mean, you know, and you know, family statement. her >> i mean, you know, and you know, saidfamily statement. her >> i mean, you know, and you know, said itmily statement. her >> i mean, you know, and you know, said it was statement. her >> i mean, you know, and you know, said it was a atement. her >> i mean, you know, and you know, said it was a toxicent. her >> i mean, you know, and you know, said it was a toxic culture. mum said it was a toxic culture. misogyny corruption meant misogyny and corruption meant the . many the police failed. so many failed. just but so failed. not just emma but so many girls. many women and girls. >> and again this comes >> yeah. and again this comes back the attitude emma back to the attitude emma caldwell was in a woman in prostitution. yes um, you just say sex worker . no, i hate that say sex worker. no, i hate that phrase . absolutely. yeah. it is phrase. absolutely. yeah. it is not a job that i would allow my niece to do then. it's not. it's not a job. um. um ultimately, you know, you think back to the yorkshire ripper in the 70s and everyone was like, oh, never again. must treat these again. we must never treat these women in such a way. and this happened 2000, 30 happened in the early 2000, 30 years that, we just have years on from that, we just have to be clear that we shouldn't victim blame when it comes to
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what whatever they were doing with their lives. however much trouble they got into , they did trouble they got into, they did not deserve to be murdered and they deserve the same policing as anybody else. this is a god. >> i'm sorry you are the only man here. yeah, i'm not holding you responsible. not all men are the same, by the way. and making that clear. right. okay. most men are lovely. even married that clear. right. okay. most m
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not, then the effectiveness of this kind of training is going to be limited . to be limited. >> but why? why do we need to? i mean, i'm going to ask i'm going to you as the only man here, to ask you as the only man here, i'm no, all, um , um, i'm sorry. no, it's all, um, um, i'm sorry. no, it's all, um, um, i'm not sorry. you're a man by the way. i'm sorry that i. i'm asking you the feminist asking you all the feminist questions. i'm why do men need training on on how to treat women when they. you know, when they when they're living this sort of experience , when they sort of experience, when they come to them with these complaints, men training? >> but i it's a crying >> but i think it's a crying shame, but it's very clear that there's, in, there's, there's a problem in, in of our police forces in many of our police forces when it comes to a prevailing culture have culture of misogyny, you have to be about that. and also be honest about that. and also look some the grooming look at how some of the grooming gang across country gang scandals across the country have wasn't have been treated. that wasn't just a of racial just a matter of racial sensitivities . political sensitivities. political correctness in some cases , there correctness in some cases, there was victim blaming, was clear victim blaming, blaming tendencies as so blaming tendencies as well. so we need to root out those problematic when it problematic cultures when it comes women and girls are comes to how women and girls are treated within forces. treated within police forces. >> do it, emma? >> how do we do it, emma? i mean, all right. yeah. training okay. have to take domestic
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okay. you have to take domestic violence seriously. why you weren't in the first place is another matter. but, i mean, it's like how do we make sure that we are attracting the right men? i mean , because we are men? i mean, because we are talking about men here, the right men to become police officers ? officers? >> well, i think, um, we have to structure the police differently , probably. i think there is , , probably. i think there is, um, a macho culture that exists within the police and then, of course, attracts macho culture people. if we can make the police something that is much more , more, um, much less about more, more, um, much less about having power over people and much more about empower working and working in communities. i think, again, coming back to that community policing point where people have respect for each other, you respect the police and the police respect you . and i think both of those you. and i think both of those things are vital. and i think at the moment that we are expected to respect the police and i think we should live in a society where that is an expected option. but the lack of respect from the police makes
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that harder and harder. and the irony of this, i asked a friend of mine the other day, a really, really important question would you get into a police car with a single police male police officer? >> well, this is what happened to sarah everard. she got that police car because he was a police car because he was a police officer and she trusted him. now, everard, i'm him. now, sarah everard, i'm sure we all remember the case. she everything right. she was doing everything right. she was doing everything right. she dressed sensibly. she she was dressed sensibly. she was wearing flat shoes. she was walking along a well—lit street . walking along a well—lit street. everything that women told everything that women are told to to make themselves safe. to do to make themselves safe. so and this is still the question and how do we ever get around that now, the fact that women are are worried about trusting the police , well, trusting the police, well, worried about going to the police. this is why so few rapes and assaults reported and sexual assaults are reported , because women feel , because so many women feel they're to taken seriously. >> now, that, they >> now, on top of that, they have system where have a court system where there's there's such a there's such a there's such a huge when comes huge backlog when it comes to domestic violence and sex, uh, sex offences related cases. and i think what's interesting , i think what's interesting, dawn, is that i've looked through, um , old data when it through, um, old data when it comes to public trust in the
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police. traditionally women actually police more actually trust the police more than it traditionally, than men. um, it traditionally, i suspect that's not the case anymore. which is why i feel like it. no, it doesn't it really doesn't . and i know that really doesn't. and i know that we think crying shame we think it's a crying shame that even that this training is even needed, i think that after needed, but i think that after recent think it's recent events, i think it's necessary. >> absolutely. know, and the >> absolutely. you know, and the irony this, whole >> absolutely. you know, and the irony couzens, whole >> absolutely. you know, and the irony couzens horror/hole >> absolutely. you know, and the irony couzens horror happened wayne couzens horror happened under female . under a female. >> all. yeah. the men absolutely see the dick. and that's the that's the sky's the limit of representation. >> you can put you can put a woman in a high position of power and influence. it doesn't mean that she's going to deliver the goods. >> well and again, >> well. and also again, it comes back to it's not about that individual , it's about the that individual, it's about the culture. and she did nothing to change that culture. >> she's very, very much in favour of the continuation of the status quo in my view. >> i agree with that. >> yeah, i agree with that. >> yeah, i agree with that. >> well, i mean, look , it's >> well, i mean, look, it's a plan and hopefully it will work. but the fact we need this plan is thing . is the disappointing thing. agreed isn't it. oh well, any case, uh, we have to move on. i'm dawn neesom mrs. gb news
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sunday, there's loads more sunday, and there's loads more coming the show, including coming up on the show, including some stuff, honestly, some fun stuff, honestly, including pubs . uh, first, including pubs. uh, but first, here's news with sam francis i >> -- >> dawn, thank you very much . >> dawn, thank you very much. it's just coming up to 131, and we start with the top story of the day, tax cuts may be, we understand, unlikely in this week's budget with the chancellor promising what he's called a prudent spending plan. reports suggest the government has been forced to revise its plans with the for office budget responsibility figures showing there's around £2 billion less to spend than was previously thought. that's after britain was confirmed to have slipped into a recession at the end of last year , including a seven last year, including a seven year old girl has drowned after a small boat capsized while trying to cross the english channel. we understand 15 people were on board that vessel, including the girl's family, when it sank off the coast of
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calais, the local authority in france said it was not appropriate sized to carry that many people across . jeremy hunt many people across. jeremy hunt has also spoken out today against intimidating pro—palestine protests , saying pro—palestine protests, saying they have now crossed a line. his comments come as thousands of people take to the streets again across britain this weekend, after the prime minister's called for tolerance to be restored. campaigners have also targeted around 50 barclays bank branches , which they've bank branches, which they've accused of having financial ties with suppliers of weapons. it all comes after rishi sunak's speech in downing street on friday, where he warned that islamist extremists and far right groups are, he said , right groups are, he said, spreading poison in british democracy . an aide rail democracy. an aide rail passengers are facing another higher price from today as fares across england and wales are hiked by 5. that's despite train cancellations being among the worst in a decade. campaign say commuters are being priced off
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the railway and onto the roads . the railway and onto the roads. it comes after thousands of services were cancelled in the past year , which was one of the past year, which was one of the worst performing years in the rail industry since records began. rail industry since records began . for the latest stories, began. for the latest stories, you can sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the code on your screen or go to gb news. common alerts . common alerts. >> thank you very much, sam . now >> thank you very much, sam. now remember, you can get in touch about all the topics we've been discussing today by email me or gbviews@gbnews.uk or messaging on our socials . we're at gb on our socials. we're at gb news. really, really simple , but news. really, really simple, but there's loads more coming up on today's show. now, rail passengers in england and wales face a price hike from today. words you never hear. um, a despite train cancellations cancellations being amongst the worst in ten years. i'm asking how do we fix british rail ? all how do we fix british rail? all of that and much more to come. if you've got the answer, please do give us a call. i'm dawn
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>> 2024 a battleground year. >> 2024 a battleground year. >> the year the nation decides as the parties gear up their campaign for the next general election . election. >> who will be left standing when the british people make one of the biggest decisions of their lives? >> who will rise and who will fall? >> let's find out together. >> let's find out together. >> for every moment. the highs, the lows, the twists and turns. >> we'll be with you for every step of this journey in 2024 gb news is britain's election . channel >> welcome back to gb news sunday with me dawn neesom on your tv, online and on radio. hope you're having a wonderful afternoon soon, but you've been getting in touch with me, which is really nice because that makes afternoon better is really nice because that ma both afternoon better is really nice because that ma both of afternoon better is really nice because that ma both of us.rnoon better is really nice because that
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ma both of us. now] better is really nice because that ma both of us. now um, better is really nice because that ma both of us. now um, yes. tter is really nice because that ma both of us. now um, yes. on for both of us. now um, yes. on the budget, taxes . we've talked the budget, taxes. we've talked about money already, aren't we? uh, derek. good afternoon. derek says says, um, tired of funding your budgets when billions. he's talking jeremy hunt. me, your budgets when billions. he's talthe jeremy hunt. me, your budgets when billions. he's talthe way.3remy hunt. me, your budgets when billions. he's talthe way. um,( hunt. me, your budgets when billions. he's talthe way. um, tired t. me, your budgets when billions. he's talthe way. um, tired of me, your budgets when billions. he's talthe way. um, tired of funding by the way. um, tired of funding your budgets when billions have been air been wasted on rwanda, air france, crossings france, boat crossings and hotels migrants? a hotels for migrants? exactly. a lot people think the same. lot of people think the same. um, steve says, what's an interesting one? i thought about this should have at this one. we should have at least until least road tax suspended until they agree to repair the bit of a naughty word. potholes not a fan of potholes ? um, is anyone fan of potholes? um, is anyone but yeah, it's got a point. and what roads all over the country. uh, meanwhile , caz says, um. oh, uh, meanwhile, caz says, um. oh, interesting . we should link tax interesting. we should link tax thresholds to benefits if benefits go up 8, so should the thresholds . okay. and meanwhile , thresholds. okay. and meanwhile, john says will the cost of living payments still carry on as families up and down the country are still suffering with the cost of living , especially the cost of living, especially with council tax? yes. of course that's another one, isn't it? going again this year by 5% going up again this year by 5% and bills, etc. energy
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and water bills, etc. energy prices. da la la la. oh my prices. da la la la la. oh my god john, are so on all with god john, we are so on all with you on that one. it's just that never ending money going out. not a of it coming in now. not a lot of it coming in now. okay, let's talk trains shall we? how will the government fix british rail . we? how will the government fix british rail. bit of we? how will the government fix british rail . bit of a we? how will the government fix british rail. bit of a that's a bit like, you know , explain the bit like, you know, explain the universe to me. it's that complicated rail passengers in england and wales face a new 5% price hike from today. despite train cancellations being among the worst in ten years, with thousands of services cancelled in the past year , it's been one in the past year, it's been one of the worst performances in the rail industry since records begun.so rail industry since records begun. so why on earth are we now paying more for a worse service ? joining me now is our service? joining me now is our west midlands reporter, jack carson, who has all the answers to these questions. take it away, jack . i wish i to these questions. take it away, jack. i wish i had some of the answers, dawn, but let's just put some of this rail fares into context. >> of course, they've gone up 5.
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the government judged that based off the consumer price index and the inflation figures from the year before that, so the consumer price index , inflation consumer price index, inflation figure this time last july was around 6.8. so the westminster government, as well as the welsh government, decided to set the increase of rail fares for the next year at around 4.9. so 5% rail fare increase put that into the context of roughly what that means in real terms. say you're getting an annual season ticket from woking to london. that's going to add around another £190 to your fare. if you're getting maybe a flexi season ticket in between liverpool and manchester a couple of days a week, that's going to add around £92 extra per year. so many campaign groups for the railways saying that this is a necessary pressure on people's pockets. as you say, it's possibly turning people away from the railways more onto the roads. but what are the great british public think these rail fare prices? think of these rail fare prices? have to what some have a listen to what some people have told us. >> i think at the minute nothing's really changed the
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nothing's really changed on the trains. it's not really fair trains. so it's not really fair to raise the prices . to raise the prices. >> we are students, so we are always struggling over here because we have to meet our expenditure fees and our rents and everything. so in that case, when the train fare goes higher, it's more difficult for us to survive here. >> i would be quite happy for the rail fares to go up if they invested the profits in the infrastructure, so that the rail network and the rolling carriage was consistently good, standard , was consistently good, standard, and that the trains ran on time . and that the trains ran on time. yeah >> so labour's shadow transport secretary, louise haigh, has said that this fare rise will be tough for passengers to stomach. but the rail minister, huw merriman, said last month that the government had attempted to essentially the difference essentially split the difference between the taxpayer and the between the uk taxpayer and the fare payer, with in relation to these prices. we know in the year up to march last year, the government had spent around £44 billion subsidising the railways
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and we know from the likes of the disruption that we've had alone just from the strikes, around £775 million has been lost in revenue. so it's no surprise maybe for the likes of the government both, of course, in westminster and wales, that they've had to put prices up. are >> jack, thank you very much. i haven't cheered me up, love. sorry. that's jack carson in birmingham. they're talking expensive rail fares. oh dear. right. luckily my panel are still with me . one of them has a still with me. one of them has a theory on this . i'm going to theory on this. i'm going to pretend to understand what she's saying, but i didn't in any case, i'm going to talk to ricky first. look, they're not very good. no um, they're they're very expensive. the most expensive in europe. >> it's not value for money, is it ? it? >> it's not value for money. that's that's putting it mildly. what do we do, though? what do we fix it? come on. we do to fix it? come on. >> think firstly in >> well, i think firstly in terms rail this terms of these rail fares, this is increasing . and we is ever increasing. and we didn't that in scotland. is ever increasing. and we dthink that in scotland. is ever increasing. and we dthink it's that in scotland. is ever increasing. and we dthink it's trto in scotland. is ever increasing. and we dthink it's trto increase|nd. is ever increasing. and we dti8.7, it's trto increase|nd. is ever increasing. and we dti8.7, 8.7. trto increase|nd. by 8.7, 8.7. >> good luck. scottish people, which is absolutely remarkable. >> we need to look at
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>> i think we need to look at a new when it comes to how new model when it comes to how british rail works post—brexit. britain shouldn't be about british rail users , um, paying british rail users, um, paying extortionate fares and then much of that ending up in the public coffers of european countries. it's a fair point actually. yeah. which is remarkable really. so that trains are running really well though, aren't they? indeed and i think that who's fairly well that anyone who's fairly well travelled in will look at travelled in europe will look at the as they're much the rail fares as they're much cheapen the rail fares as they're much cheaper, more punctual, i'd cheaper, um, more punctual, i'd say, in terms of services . and say, in terms of services. and they're cleaner as well. >> , cleaner, cheaper, >> yes, cleaner, cheaper, efficient. i mean, god almighty. who'd have thought it? um, now, obviously one the big answers obviously one of the big answers to to, to to this is to, um, is to nationalise it, which i think is one of labour's ideas . um, but one of labour's ideas. um, but you know, i don't want the government running my bath, let alone the train company. at the moment, old enough to moment, i'm old enough to remember rail remember british rail back in the was worse . the day, which was even worse. emma solution , so i don't emma has a solution, so i don't think it's about nationalising asian versus the current model. >> and those are the only two opfions
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>> and those are the only two options on the table, right? there are ways and ways of taking it out of the insane, broken franchising model that we have at the moment . broken franchising model that we have at the moment. um, partly it could be run by not for profit cooperatives for example, so that at the moment these are private companies whose number one duty is to their shareholders , not to rail users . shareholders, not to rail users. we'd spotted that if we want a train system in this country that puts rail users first, then it needs to be run by and for rail users . and that can mean rail users. and that can mean doing it through the government, but could also mean doing it through an arm's length, distance co—operative that is set up and run in the benefit of rail users . and here's the rail users. and here's the thing. we have at the moment. you've got, um , the rail you've got, um, the rail infrastructure run by one set of people , different rail companies people, different rail companies bidding for these franchises, but they can't run against each other. they get these franchises . they've no investment in the rolling stock, which is part of the huge, huge problem. um, um, the huge, huge problem. um, um, the investment in the actual
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rail infrastructure is very poon rail infrastructure is very poor. we know that our climate is changing. we're seeing more flooding. that's one of the things that's that's devastating . a lot of the infrastructure trains we need to use these trains we need to use these trains much, much more. and at the moment this short termism is putting people off of the railways and into their cars. it's opposite of what we it's the opposite of what we should be doing. >> just very, very >> right? okay. just very, very quickly, out of quickly, ricky, we're out of time. problem is, mean, time. the problem is, i mean, the companies the train companies at the moment, a fortune moment, it will cost a fortune soon for to take control. soon for us to take control. yeah. coming from? >> no, absolutely. and think >> no, absolutely. and i think that that is that the point that emma is making isn't making there, that this isn't going matter of full going to be a matter of full blown renationalisation of rail, is not for profit is this not for profit cooperatives essentially more pubuc cooperatives essentially more public private corporation could help on this front in order to keep the costs down. but one thing we know for sure the current model is simply not sustainable. >> and you don't need to buy them out. you need to time them out. essentially, reduce the franchises. if they fail their franchises. if they fail their franchise conditions . and let's franchise conditions. and let's face it, an awful lot of them are failing their franchise
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conditions. then they can be taken away from them. that's when can step in with it when you can step in with it needs to greater accountability. >> that's that's sure. yeah >> that's that's for sure. yeah okay. taking over okay. emma is taking over running the train and you've got my vote. brilliant. go for it. good luck. um, right. okay i'm dawn neesom. this is gb news sunday. lots more coming up on today's . do you think today's show. do you think i love this one? do you think that giving every 30 year old british citizen £10,000 will help redistribute wealth ? one tory redistribute wealth? one tory peer seems to think so, so we'll be having a chat about that in a minute. all of that and much more to come. this is gb news, britain's channel don't go britain's news channel don't go too far
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hello and welcome back to gb news sunday with me dawn neesom on your telly, online and on digital radio. now hey, how would you like £10,000? no it's
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not our great british giveaway . not our great british giveaway. it's a suggestion from a tory peen it's a suggestion from a tory peer, lord willett says a ten grand citizens inheritance should be given to every british citizen. the only catch being you have to be 30, not 29, not 31, 30. he has argued that a generous payout from the next government, whoever that's going to to be, those born between 1981 and 1996, would help redistribute wealth in the country . hm redistribute wealth in the country. hm um, i'm just a little bit past 30. you might have spotted just a bit . you have spotted just a bit. you know, it wasn't that long ago, obviously . um, emma know, it wasn't that long ago, obviously. um, emma , just know, it wasn't that long ago, obviously . um, emma , just give obviously. um, emma, just give every 30 year old regardless of how wealthy they are, £10,000 to help them. i think the original idea is to help them get on the housing ladder. >> i'm not sure where ten grand gets you a deposit for a house these days. not many places . these days. not many places. yeah, um, look , we do need to do yeah, um, look, we do need to do something about wealth inequality , but i'm not sure
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inequality, but i'm not sure that giving everybody ten grand does anything about inequality. because you've just given everybody ten grand. so those people who had a lot more to start with have an extra ten grand. those people who had a lot less to start with still have a lot less to finish with. >> they've just got ten grand, but they've got grand. but they've got ten grand. >> love 310 grand. i'm >> i'd love 310 grand. i'm obviously only 30. in way did obviously only 30. in no way did i turn 49 last week. >> you don't look 49. bless you . >> you don't look 49. bless you. >> you don't look 49. bless you. >> you're kinder than you are. honest but, um. but i just think, yes, there are . i'm glad think, yes, there are. i'm glad we're having a conversation about wealth inequality. i'm just not sure this is the solution . solution. >> okay. um okay. i mean, obviously you're just a shade past 30 as well. this is a panel of youngsters here. you have before you, um , this is like before you, um, this is like just every 30 year old, right? regardless of whether they're sort of regardless of their own made in chelsea, for god's sake. it could be millions , you know, it could be millions, you know, or whatever. but yeah , here, or whatever. but yeah, here, have ten grand. no. >> and i think we need to have a
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serious we need to have serious policies spreading policies in terms of spreading wealth across the country. we live of the most live in one of the most inter—regional , imbalanced inter—regional, imbalanced economies in the industrialised world. i just don't think this is the right way to go about it. dawn, if it's ultimately about giving people a boost terms giving people a boost in terms of trying to get on the housing ladden of trying to get on the housing ladder, emma has mentioned, ladder, as emma has mentioned, ten do that ten grand doesn't do all that much of the kind of much in terms of the kind of housing that's required, housing deposit that's required, especially cities and especially in the cities and also commuter towns, which are close example, close to london, for example, and the important thing here is what might do. might what it might do. it might increase for housing, but increase demand for housing, but we building . we're not we ain't building. we're not we're not increasing supply . so we're not increasing supply. so what might happen? it what might actually happen? it might to an increase in might lead to an increase in house prices , heating the house prices, heating the housing . housing market up. >> and if i was selling a house with that shortage of housing, which , i'd just which we still have, i'd just be going, just the price up. >> well, and also, you only >> well, and also, if you only have that ten grand, right. and you'll have to get you'll have trying to get a mortgage, the mortgage conditions that you would get on that you are poorer will that because you are poorer will be significantly worse than the
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mortgage conditions. you get. if you have a much bigger deposit and we know what that ends up in, because we saw this in the subprime mortgage market that crashed world economy in 2008. >> and is there any guarantee that this this mythical ten grand that we're going to conjure knows conjure up from god knows where? by conjure up from god knows where? by given to 30 year by the way, um, given to 30 year olds is going to be spent wisely on the deposit for a house. ricky. well, indeed , with this ricky. well, indeed, with this 10,000, when you were a young , 10,000, when you were a young, much younger, someone gave you 30 grand. would you have spent it well it's not all it sensibly? well it's not all about me. >> of the day, but >> at the end of the day, but the thing that the only thing i say is that this isn't, um. the only thing i say is that thisi'di't, um. the only thing i say is that thisi'd be um. the only thing i say is that thisi'd be ohi. the only thing i say is that thisi'd be on a plane to new >> i'd be on a plane to new york. sorry, i won't be. york. i'm sorry, i won't be. >> and that's the whole >> yeah, and that's the whole point. there's no. there's no strong point. there's no. there's no strorthis £10,000 would be how this £10,000 would be utilised . i think that this utilised. i think that and this what emma said to me on there, maybe it's just better to invest money ambitious money in a sort of ambitious house building. absolutely. expanding social housing expanding the social housing stock, social housing, stock, build social housing, take that money, build a bunch of social housing, change the whole house, running the railways. >> you can't have housing as well. can i see?
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>> i mean, infrastructure, i just be the minister for infrastructure. >> infrastructure? yes, indeed. yeah. nice car, nice car. rikki neave a nice car? neave you had a nice car? >> think. think for me, what >> i think. i think for me, what we have to we have to think we have to do, we have to think more but for me, more deeply about. but for me, i think this is a classic case where state intervention can actually harm than good. actually do more harm than good. >> i mean, i'm all for >> indeed, i mean, i'm all for state intervention. >> i'm a, you know, a big old lefty, it's the type of lefty, but it's the type of state intervention that matters. >> this was tory by the >> this was a tory peer, by the way. mean, i think way. indeed. i mean, i think his heart's in the right place and there housing, you know, there is a housing, you know, seriously, housing seriously, there is a housing problem. are problem. youngsters are struggling. but i just don't struggling. um, but i just don't think this is the way to solve. goodhart has be matched with goodhart has to be matched with a well. a solid mind as well. >> well, didn't he be >> well, didn't he used to be called two brains on fire? >> so you'd actually go and spend grand very spend that ten grand very sensibly, wouldn't just sensibly, wouldn't you? i just know wouldn't know you would. you wouldn't fritter it like my best on fritter it like i try my best on the place. the first place. >> you. >> you. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> let's go shopping, girl. >> no, absolutely. >> no, absolutely. >> me. >> macy's for me. >> macy's for me. >> , okay. well, i mean, it's >> um, okay. well, i mean, it's a nice. and what about what about pensioners? right what about pensioners? right what about the waspi women were about the waspi women who were caught suddenly you can
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caught in that? suddenly you can retire okay yeah. right. okay. retire. okay yeah. right. okay. what would you spend that is not going to answer me. is he very annoyingly so. what would you spend £10,000 on? gb views at gb news when you were 30? when you were younger? let me know. gb views at gb news for ten grand. right. i'm dawn neesom. this is gb news sunday there's loads right. i'm dawn neesom. this is gb nicoming day there's loads right. i'm dawn neesom. this is gb nicoming day but there's loads right. i'm dawn neesom. this is gb nicoming day but firste's loads right. i'm dawn neesom. this is gb nicoming day but first let's ads more coming up. but first let's have at the with . greg. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello there! i'm greg dewhurst and welcome to your latest weather for gb news. it's going to be quite cold tonight again, some frost and fog and then we'll see some rain bearing weather fronts coming in from the atlantic. we can see that nicely the pressure chart . nicely on the pressure chart. this pressure moving this area of low pressure moving into the southwest through into monday giving outbreaks monday, giving some outbreaks of rain, not as heavy and rain, though not as heavy and persistent as it has been of recent weeks , but this evening
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recent weeks, but this evening dry for many. clearing skies mean temperatures start falling away and into the early hours with light winds will generally see some mist and fog patches reforming freezing fog patches across parts of the uk, as well as temperatures fall below freezing, particularly the freezing, particularly in the countryside . but temperatures countryside. but temperatures rising the far southwest rising across the far southwest as this weather front moves in, bringing outbreaks of to bringing outbreaks of rain to parts of cornwall into devon, wales, as we move the wales, as we move through the morning, reaching northern ireland by lunchtime . it ireland by around lunchtime. it could be some heavy bursts in there, it starts to fragment there, but it starts to fragment as it slowly north as it slowly pushes north and eastwards afternoon . eastwards into the afternoon. soon elsewhere, plenty of sunshine to come through the day, the northern isles day, though the northern isles generally remaining quite damp here with here and temperatures with southerly winds start to rise. double figures across many parts of the uk for tuesday . the of the uk for tuesday. the weather front gets stalled across eastern areas in the west. we'll see some blustery showers moving in, but plenty of sunny spells . and as the week sunny spells. and as the week goes on, it generally becomes dnen goes on, it generally becomes drier. will be variable amounts of cloud, but there'll be some sunny spells at times too, and
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really simple . but first, here's really simple. but first, here's the news with sam francis . the news with sam francis. >> dawn, thank you very much . >> dawn, thank you very much. good afternoon from the newsroom. it'sjust good afternoon from the newsroom. it's just coming up to 2:02, and we start with the top story of the day. the tax cuts may be unlikely in this week's budget , with the chancellor budget, with the chancellor promising what he's called a prudent spending plan . reports prudent spending plan. reports have suggested the government has been forced to revise its plans , with the office for plans, with the office for budget responsibility figures showing there's around £2 billion less to spend than previously thought . but that's previously thought. but that's after was confirmed to after britain was confirmed to have recession at have slipped into recession at the end of last year. well speaking to gb news earlier this morning , jeremy hunt said morning, jeremy hunt said his budget deliver better value budget will deliver better value for taxpayers . for taxpayers. >> it is wrong to say that we should be putting more money into the public sector , fewer into the public sector, fewer civil servants to be more productive of. >> correct. you want fewer people to do more. >> i think we've got to stop always the inputs and
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always looking at the inputs and always looking at the inputs and always saying that the way to get services to get better public services is to spend more and actually ask if we could be more efficient . in we could be more efficient. in other news this afternoon, we've heard that a seven year old girl has drowned after a small boat capsized while it was trying to cross the english channel. >> 15 people were on board that boat, including the girl's family , when it sank off the family, when it sank off the coast of calais. the local authority in france have said the boat was not appropriately sized to carry that many people across the channel yemen's houthi militant group has issued another threat against britain, warning that it will target strike. and it says sink more british ships. the rebel group says that britain is a rogue state and they've accused the government here of attacking yemen and collaborate with the us in crimes against gaza civilians. it comes less than 24 hours after a british cargo ship, which was abandoned after a missile strike sank in the red
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sea meanwhile, the uk, the us , sea meanwhile, the uk, the us, the eu and many others have military ships patrolling the region to protect commercial vessels that are passing through that important shipping route . that important shipping route. those who preach hate could be blocked from entering britain that's under new plans being considered by the government . considered by the government. reports suggest that current powers could be used to increase the number of people who are added to blacklists if they're deemed to be non—conducive to the public good. that could include those who preach racism , include those who preach racism, intimidation or incite violence . intimidation or incite violence. currently, the rules are typically used to ban people who are known to pose a security threat . the labour party will threat. the labour party will ensure that compulsory training on violence against women and girls is given to all police officers. that's following the inquiry into sarah everard's killer last has also vowed to revamp police vetting procedures to stop those with a history of domestic abuse or sexual offences from joining any police force. the report , published
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force. the report, published this week, found that wayne couzens should have never been given a job as a police officer and chances to stop the sexual predator were, they say , predator were, they say, repeatedly ignored and missed. well, today marks three years since he killed sarah everard, who was 33 at the time, after he tncked who was 33 at the time, after he tricked her into thinking he was being she was being arrested. he was sentenced to life in prison and will never be released . ray and will never be released. ray hall passengers in england and wales are facing another 5% price hike from today. wales are facing another 5% price hike from today . that's price hike from today. that's despite train cancellations being among the worst in ten years. campaigners argue the pubuc years. campaigners argue the public are being unfairly punished by the increase . it punished by the increase. it comes after thousands of services were cancelled in the past year . in services were cancelled in the past year. in one of the worst performances in the rail industry since records began in israel has today said that its forces did not strike a gaza aid convoy last week, where more than 100 palestinians died. why while they were queuing for food , a spokesperson for israel said
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the majority of people died in a stampede as they charged towards the aid trucks, according to israel's review of the incident. they say warning shots were only fired to try and disperse the crowds and to the united states, where an election rematch is looking ever more likely with donald trump winning three more republican contests overnight night in missouri, in michigan and in idaho, the former president's only rival, nikki haley, is still searching for her first win, trailing second in each state. mr trump has made several false claims at previous campaign rallies, including the allegation that president biden is, he says, trying to overthrow the united states . and that's the united states. and that's despite mr trump himself being charged with conspiracy to defraud the us part of 91 serious crimes he's accused of in four ongoing criminal cases. and finally , last night, brit and finally, last night, brit awards was dominated by singer songwriter ray in a stunning turnaround for the 26 year old
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after she was dumped by her old record label . here's the moment record label. here's the moment that she claimed one of the top honours. >> i'm so proud of this album. i'm in love with music. all i ever wanted to be was an artist and now i'm an artist with an album of the year. >> she won album and artist of the year and best new artist, and she was also named songwriter of the year and went on to win the r&b category pubuc on to win the r&b category public vote in total, that means she scooped up an astonishing six awards. that's the most wins in a single year at the brits even in a single year at the brits ever. congratulations to her for the latest stories , you can sign the latest stories, you can sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. com slash alerts. now though, it's back to dawn . now though, it's back to dawn. >> thank you very much, sam. you know, the thing i liked about that clip we just showed of ray was fact she had man on
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was the fact she had a man on stage with her. i thought that was really lovely because you would name, wouldn't was really lovely because you would let's name, wouldn't was really lovely because you would let's get me, wouldn't was really lovely because you would let's get straight ldn't you? now, let's get straight into shall into today's story, shall we? uh, jeremy hunt says uh, chancellor jeremy hunt says he the economy to he doesn't want the economy to be too dependent on migration for growth. earlier on, gb news camilla tominey asked hunt if the tories will introduce a migration cap. let's see what he had to say, shall we? what is decided for the next parliament will be a matter for the manifesto . manifesto. >> but what we want to do, and what i'll be doing on wednesday is we move from is saying, how do we move from an that has been an economy that has been dependent on migration for growth to a high wage, high skill economy that is not dependent on high levels of migration? and that is a profoundly different approach to the labour party. they have no strategy or no plan to control migration . ian, we do . migration. ian, we do. >> right. sorry, i was just going, okay. and your plans are exactly any case. sorry. um, let's go to political commentator benedict spence, who might have a better grasp of what the plans actually are . uh,
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what the plans actually are. uh, benedict, you don't look too confident about that one. um okay. migration um, what jeremy hunts plans exactly. >> i mean , honestly, your guess >> i mean, honestly, your guess is as good as mine, because perhaps this just sort of shows how cynical i am ultimately is that, you know, i've heard this before. >> i've heard this exact same soundtrack before. we want to get immigration down and we want to high, uh, high skilled, uh, workforce . uh, in the uk , one workforce. uh, in the uk, one that's not dependent on immigration. you have to say, actually, given how badly the uk economy has been doing recently , economy has been doing recently, it would be very difficult to say is dependent on say that it is dependent on on migration, it's migration, because it's certainly not doing it any favours, when you favours, especially when you look at the number of people that of work or that are actually out of work or on some form benefit. we're that are actually out of work or on stall; form benefit. we're that are actually out of work or on stall; fortime benefit. we're that are actually out of work or on stall; fortime benethere e're that are actually out of work or on stall; fortime benethere are told all the time that there are lots of jobs that need lots and lots of jobs that need filling in. that's why we need lots but lots of people to come. but actually there's plenty of people who aren't work people who aren't in work in this that this country and all that this does, this mass does, all that this mass migration does is simply under, uh, pressure uh, put more pressure on wages to them ultimately, to keep them down. ultimately, if want a situation where if you want a situation where you don't need lots people
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you don't need lots of people coming country, the coming into the country, the first actually you need is first thing actually you need is to the people yourself. to create the people yourself. you need replacement of you need replacement levels of births, and we don't have that. so actually, you know, this isn't simply a question of immigration. this if you want to achieve this, you need pro—natal policies and that includes all sorts of things. baby it tax breaks for families and people who actually have children to affordable childcare to more who actually have children to afforda placesldcare to more who actually have children to afforda places ,icare to more who actually have children to afforda places , uh,3 to more who actually have children to afforda places , uh, t0) more who actually have children to afforda places , uh, to better school places, uh, to better university education to houses. these are none of these are things that we plan on doing. and it's sort of all part of this. all encompass thing, uh, problem that we it's very problem that we have. it's very easy of pinpoint one easy to sort of pinpoint one very unpopular issue, which we all know that migration is very unpopular and say, well, we've got but it's got to address this, but it's part sort of a systemic part of a sort of a systemic wide problem. there is no easy fix for it . fix for it. >> why is the devil always in the detail and the detail is never there ? never there? >> i mean, ultimately, because i don't think the conservatives actually expect to win the election, that all this is, is about damage limitation. so they
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can sort of put out these sort of quite meaningless slogans in the that they'll sort the hope that they'll sort of garner a few votes because they know that not going to know that they're not going to be for this. know that they're not going to be is for this. know that they're not going to be is going for this. know that they're not going to be is going to for this. know that they're not going to be is going to be for this. know that they're not going to be is going to be labour's this is going to be labour's problem up problem that labour ends up inheriting. conservative, inheriting. so the conservative, it's things i it's one of the things that i find it slightly that, find it slightly bizarre that, you chancellor you know, that the chancellor finds so in hock to the finds himself so in hock to the obr, almost obr, he can promise almost anything. it doesn't by anything. it doesn't matter by the to actually the time it comes to actually implementing not implementing things. he's not going anymore. going to be chancellor anymore. so, know, it comes to so, you know, when it comes to saying, what we're saying, oh, well, what we're going to do is we can have a low immigration in, society. he immigration in, uh, society. he could say we're going to have immigration in, uh, society. he coulduh,( we're going to have immigration in, uh, society. he coulduh, migration ng to have immigration in, uh, society. he coulduh, migration if] to have immigration in, uh, society. he coulduh, migration if he have immigration in, uh, society. he coulduh, migration if he wanted zero, uh, migration if he wanted to. he could literally just pluck out the air. pluck a figure out of the air. it's going to make it's not going to make the blindest difference. and blindest bit of difference. and ultimately they to ultimately, even if they were to get power somehow, get back into power somehow, nobody anyway, nobody would trust them anyway, because every single time they have promised lower levels of immigration and they've gone up significantly more than anybody possibly imagined that they would do. >> lovely . benedict spence, i'm >> lovely. benedict spence, i'm so glad you joined us all on this sunday afternoon to cheer us there. thank you very us up there. thank you very much. time. us up there. thank you very much. you. time. us up there. thank you very much. you. have time.
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us up there. thank you very much. you. have a time. us up there. thank you very much. you. have a lovely1e. us up there. thank you very much. you. have a lovely rest of thank you. have a lovely rest of your weekend and rikki neave , your weekend and rikki neave, because have got such a because we have got such a marvellous record on immigration in this country. i mean, we've got 745,000, the highest net legal migration pretty much even legal migration pretty much ever. i think . um, so we've got ever. i think. um, so we've got a really good record on this, haven't we? so fair play to jeremy hunt for tackling it in the way that he is saying he is. >> well and we're, we're seeing these figures often in 14 years of tory led rule . uh, as well. of tory led rule. uh, as well. i think there's , there's such think there's, there's such a fundamental gap between the rhetoric and the reality when it comes to the conservative party statements on matters of immigration. and one of the ways you , you, um, reduce immigration you, you, um, reduce immigration is actually by having an active industrial strategy, investing industrial strategy, investing in british skills, apprenticeships , training. i apprenticeships, training. i don't see much of that. more than anything when it comes to nhs and, um, social care . the, nhs and, um, social care. the, uh, tory led rule has seen the rolling back of those bursaries , rolling back of those bursaries, um, especially in nursing. so
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it's very contradictory. it's very muddled. and i think that very muddled. and i think that very much characterises much of the tory led rule over the past 14 years or so. i mean, this isn't tory bashing, by the way, but they are the ones in power. >> are talking >> exactly. and we are talking about with jeremy. about an interview with jeremy. indeed. i mean, so that's why we're you know, you we're i mean, you know, you don't much detail don't exactly hear much detail from or you do hear from labour or when you do hear detail , they explain they're detail, they explain how they're going everything by going to fund everything by tackling playing tackling the non—dom tax playing status. um, stop looking at me like emma. you're you're running the trains after this, remember? you've lot on your you've got a lot, a lot on your plate afternoon. we've, plate this afternoon. but we've, you know, benedict you know, you know, benedict mentioned sort of like, you know, childcare know, improving childcare so families of like we can families can sort of like we can have babies basically. and have more babies basically. and then sort of like, you know, you know, this know, expanding training in this country, especially in country, you know, especially in the where we the care industry where we nobody is doing that job, nobody wants to do that job because we treat so appallingly. treat carers. so appallingly. absolutely. so mean, know, treat carers. so appallingly. althisitely. so mean, know, treat carers. so appallingly. althis all'. so mean, know, treat carers. so appallingly. althis all just mean, know, treat carers. so appallingly. althis all just a mean, know, treat carers. so appallingly. althis all just a white know, treat carers. so appallingly. althis all just a white noise ;now, is this all just a white noise of promises? is this all just a white noise of pr mean,? is this all just a white noise of prmean, i'm not even sure >> i mean, i'm not even sure it's that they keep saying, you know, that obviously the tory strategy at the moment is to say
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labour we a labour has no plan. we have a plan. never a next plan. there's never a next sentence as to what that plan is. comes there none, you is. plan comes there none, you know, and then they go, oh, we need to fix these things. and he's like, well, who's been in charge for 14 years? why is it all broken ? because of the all so broken? because of the things that you have done. so even if you had a plan, i wouldn't trust you with it because actually your plans that you implemented have been you have implemented have been so poor and have led us to where we now. we are how. >> we are now. >> and do , i mean, it's >> and if we do, i mean, it's better mentioning that you better than mentioning that you know, say, know, jeremy hunt could say, right, no migration. right, we'll have no migration. we'll have no one coming into this country. how would we fare if case? if that was the case? >> no, absolutely, absolutely . >> no, absolutely, absolutely. because there's been such a shortage of investment in british skills, apprenticeship and training, you simply just can't you and training, you simply lust can't you can't and training, you simply just can't you can't plug those gaps overnight . but yeah, should overnight. but yeah, we should have for some have been doing that for some time. but there's been there's been of been a fundamental lack of government action these government action in these areas. when it comes to areas. and when it comes to social care, nhs, we need to have serious discussion have a very serious discussion about working conditions. if about pay working conditions. if we want to have a more family
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friendly country , we to friendly country, we have to make that it make the point that when it comes parental for comes to parental leave, for example , after a newborn example, after a newborn arrives, we lag behind most of europe on those fronts. so we need so . so we need to talk need so. so we need to talk about more family friendly protections for the british worker don't worker as well. i don't hear much the much of that from the conservative party. >> also know, we >> and we also we you know, we talk people who are of talk about people who are out of work an awful lot of people who are out of work are choosing to be poorer , doing so because work be poorer, doing so because work is so bad for so many people. we never talk about that. we never talk about making working conditions better for people. it's always , oh, you know, make it's always, oh, you know, make the benefits. even more punitive. people are choosing to be poorer because work is so appalling for so many people. >> i want you mentioned it actually apprenticeships in this country. now. it was tony blair, laboun country. now. it was tony blair, labour, who encouraged everybody to go to university. we should all university forget to go to university. we should all thejniversity forget to go to university. we should all the traditional forget to go to university. we should all the traditional working about the traditional working class jobs and apprenticeships. they're not important. go to university, even university, get a degree, even if a degree baby nappy if it's a degree in baby nappy changing or whatever. >> management. >> golf management. >> golf management. >> golf management. >> yeah. golf management. yeah.
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you've got first in that. >> didn't you know did >> didn't you know i did actually. yeah. very impressive. um we need to get um so but we, we need to get that message. we do. and i think that message. we do. and i think that involves tackling that also involves tackling the culture snobbery surrounding culture of snobbery surrounding certain as well . certain professions as well. because if you actually look, if you if you look how you dig deep, if you look at how some, in some, some people are paid in those professions, paid those professions, they're paid very indeed . and they very handsomely indeed. and they haven't debt haven't got much university debt either . haven't got much university debt eitino, no. absolutely. >> no, no, no. absolutely. i mean, putting mean, i think putting apprenticeships with a apprenticeships on par with a university degree is essential . university degree is essential. uh, and quite rightly so. um, you know, there are lots and lots of people who are non—academic, but are hugely skilled in other areas . there skilled in other areas. there are lots of people with academic skills who wouldn't to skills who you wouldn't trust to change . um, you know, change a washer. um, you know, but should be treating those, but we should be treating those, as say, equal we as equal as you say, equal we as equal value to society . value to society. >> why aren't we considering it's very well, both it's all very well, both parties, way . not i it's all very well, both parties, way. not i mean, parties, by the way. not i mean, it's that conservatives it's just that conservatives have emma have been in power, as emma points why are we not points out. why are we not tackling the things that actually problem actually would fix the problem rather than these nebulous statements ? um, that, you know, statements? um, that, you know, we'll do a, b and c? >> i used to work for an
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organisation called unionlearn, which was part tuc and which was part of the tuc and that was all about apprenticeships . it was, you apprenticeships. it was, you know, it was a huge and we worked quite closely with the government. this is in the early 20105. it government. this is in the early 2010s. it was under the 2010s. so it was under the conservative government and they just sliced the money and slice the money and slice money. the money and slice the money. and is you know, they would and that is you know, they would talk a good game on apprenticeships. and when apprenticeships. and then when it came it, just didn't it came to it, they just didn't fund it. and ultimately it is an investment in our future . and investment in our future. and you know we constantly talk about all government spending as if it's waste some of it is about investment in the state of our services in the country that we live in and in its people, and that is essential. >> and we don't we and certainly i think it's a very interesting point about the point you made about the snobbery regarding some jobs, in particular the traditional working jobs, building working class jobs, the building side, the scaffolder, the driving, the lorries , the driving, the lorries, the working in a care home, the cleaning industry. i mean , my cleaning industry. i mean, my mum, my nan was a cleaner. i come from a history of
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come from a long history of cleaners. like , do cleaners. um, it's like, why do we that snobbery in this we have that snobbery in this country about these jobs? these are the important jobs. these are the important jobs. these are that actually keep are the ones that actually keep this they were this country going. they were the jobs the pandemic the jobs during the pandemic that kept country going. the jobs during the pandemic tha absolutely.ountry going. the jobs during the pandemic tha absolutely. but ry going. the jobs during the pandemic tha absolutely. but what,1g. the jobs during the pandemic tha absolutely. but what, um, was >> absolutely. but what, um, was the percentage of mps in the current house of commons that hailed from traditional working class professions ? well, i think class professions? well, i think that if you want the answer to what you've just asked, you find it there because there's been such an obsession with university education and there's been such a lack of emphasis on vocational skills . i said that vocational skills. i said that if you really want to spread wealth and opportunity in the country , you'd german country, you'd put a german style vocational college in some of the more left out, um, parts of the more left out, um, parts of the more left out, um, parts of the country. and i think overnight you'd actually see opportunities and skills rising across the country if you did that. across the country if you did tha what you think about this? >> what do you think about this? i mean, do you think i mean, are you impressed you've you impressed by what you've heard hunt today, or heard from jeremy hunt today, or do we actually to do you think we actually need to tackle in tackle getting people in work in this country and respecting some of those traditional working class jobs that we bring people
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>> 2024 a battleground year. >> the year the nation decides as the party's gear up their campaigns for the next general election, who will be left standing when the british people make one of the biggest decisions of their lives? >> who will rise and who will fall? >> let's find out together . >> let's find out together. >> let's find out together. >> for every moment, the highs , >> for every moment, the highs, the lows, the twists and turns , the lows, the twists and turns, we'll be with you for every step of this journey. in 2024. gb news is britain's election . news is britain's election. channel. how do . channel. how do. >> welcome back to gb news sunday. i'm sorry , i could tell sunday. i'm sorry, i could tell you i've just been talking about doing i would i'd doing that, but i'm i would i'd be . definitely sacked and be sacked. definitely sacked and probably , it's probably sacked anyway, it's a sunday evidently. um sunday afternoon, evidently. um hope you're having a lovely weekend. neesom weekend. i'm dawn neesom michelle on michelle dewberry news on tv, onune michelle dewberry news on tv, online digital radio. online and on digital radio. now. lots of you have been sending your thoughts. some sending in your thoughts. some of i can even read out. of them i can even read out. yes, angry as well. i know, yes, i'm angry as well. i know, but try and keep it clean but do try and keep it clean right? this. you'll love this story as i did. this is on
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story as well i did. this is on the £10,000 handouts to 30 year olds by this is suggested by a tory peer to help youngsters get on the housing ladder. on on the housing ladder. basically tony. good basically uh, tony. good afternoon. says at 30, afternoon. tony says at 30, i was married with two kids, had a mortgage and was doing two jobs, and could raise kids and my wife could raise the kids and my wife could raise the kids and state. i have never and not the state. i have never had benefit in my life. i had a benefit in my life. i wouldn't take handout. wouldn't take a ten k handout. it's my style . this it's not my style. this generation needs to get a grip . generation needs to get a grip. yeah, you're not alone on that one. by the way, tony, um, another lee says um, or lee. or rather, i'll spend my £10,000 on a ticket out of the country , but a ticket out of the country, but i'd never have it because i'm 76. only i would actually rather give pensioners £10,000, especially the waspi women who have been literally robbed and still campaigning for the money they've meanwhile, they've lost out. meanwhile, juue they've lost out. meanwhile, julie good afternoon julie. hope you're having wonderful you're having a wonderful sunday. uh, julie julia, sunday. uh, julie says julia, i'm single mum, 56, with two i'm a single mum, 56, with two younger teenagers paying a fortune in rent for a small three bedroom in woking . three bedroom flat in woking. i'm to find a new i'm also trying to find a new job. it's not just year job. it's not just 30 year olds who struggling . single
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who are struggling. single parents and aged people parents and middle aged people are hard hit in this cost are hard hit too. in this cost of living crisis. we're not all boomers living in luxury here. here julia, thank you for all those comments on that. lots of very strong. some i couldn't read out. by the way , but i'm read out. by the way, but i'm with spirit on that with you in spirit on that one. now now move on to another now now let's move on to another cheer the cheer up subject. sorry the prime that prime minister has claimed that extremist groups uk are extremist groups in the uk are trying to tear us apart. in a speech to the nation friday. speech to the nation on friday. you that dramatic coming you know that dramatic coming out of 10 with the out of number 10 with the lectern? mm rishi sunak said that threat that democracy is under threat from extremism the wake of from extremism in the wake of hamas october 7th attack on israel . the mayor of london, israel. the mayor of london, sadiq khan, sadiq khan even in an address to the london labour conference yesterday, reacted to mr sunak speech. let's have a listen to what he had to say, shall we? >> what we're witnessing is a concerted and growing attempt by some to degrade and humiliate minorities for political and electoral gain .
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electoral gain. >> and remember , we've been here >> and remember, we've been here before . before. >> we've been here before . in >> we've been here before. in 2016, when the tories waged a disgraceful, disgraceful campaign against me and against us. we cannot let them try to do it again as the poison of anti semitism and the poison of islamophobia continue to infect our politics now more than ever , our politics now more than ever, we need to display our best values rather than our worst fears . fears. >> okay , right. so basically >> okay, right. so basically he's blaming the tories for the rhetoric they use for creating the hatred and division in answer to rishi sunak comments at that very dramatic moment on friday night, which was like, he's going to call a general election. no, it's not, um, okay. what do you what do you make what just heard make of what you've just heard sadiq there ? sadiq khan say there? >> well, i he has a point,
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>> well, i think he has a point, but also needs to but i think he also needs to look mirror well. look in the mirror as well. if i'm completely honest, i'm being completely honest, i think times of think that at times the mayor of london has indulged in into draining tribal interests as opposed to genuinely cultivating social cohesion in the capital. so i think the thing with me, what can you give us an example of what you think he's done to? well, i think, for example, we in what i consider to be inclusive celebrations, for example, year's example, the new year's fireworks, i think there fireworks, i think that there have been overly politicised in my view, and i don't think that's i don't think that's right at all. i think it's irresponsible from mayor to irresponsible from the mayor to essentially very essentially promote very specific forms of political messaging when it comes to those inclusive celebrate scenes in the capital. i think the more generally dawn i was very disappointed by the response by mainstream politicians to the result in the rochdale by—election because i think that the labour party and the conservatives, the idea that there political activities are motivated and um, in the name of the wider common good in terms
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of, you know, promoting national solidarity, that idea is for the birds . mhm, solidarity, that idea is for the birds. mhm, mhm . birds. mhm, mhm. >> and emma's frowning at me. emma, stop frowning at me . emma, stop frowning at me. sorry. what did you make of what our, um, um, they have to say. yeah. >> i mean i think sadiq khan does have a point and because he's been on the sharp end of the rhetoric recently, um, you can absolutely see why he's got the right to say that, um , i the right to say that, um, i think there are wider issues , think there are wider issues, too. and i would say that it is important to say in the same way that we said earlier in the programme, not all men. it's also not all tories. we all looked that so , you know, some looked that so, you know, some of the conservative party have come out and said we need definitely need to dampen down this rhetoric. this is not helpful . it's this rhetoric. this is not helpful. it's making this rhetoric. this is not helpful . it's making everything helpful. it's making everything worse. others see, um, some of the divisive rhetoric as and the culture war stuff as an important election gearing tool. um, i personally hope that they're wrong. i hope they're wrong for two reasons. first of
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all, i want the tories to lose. and if that's how they decide, it's a fairly safe bet, to be honest with you. but also because i would like the tories to and learn . um, and because i would like the tories to and learn. um, and i to lose and learn. um, and i think if we would all do better, if tool does turn out to be if that tool does turn out to be blunt. >> okay , the problem i've got >> okay, the problem i've got with this is that the whole rhetoric, mean, sort like rhetoric, i mean, sort of like you basically rishi sunak you know, basically rishi sunak kind of said in that very dramatic friday night emergency intervention, emergency intervention, emergency intervention, saying nothing. >> it was bizarre what he said. >> it was bizarre what he said. >> a lot of words . >> a lot of words. >> a lot of words. >> yes. >> yes. >> again, mealy mouthed platitudes at the end. >> there wasn't actually he gave me i found . he gave me the me what i found. he gave me the problems which were all very aware of. >> extremists don't like liberal democracy. >> problem with his >> i mean, the problem with his speech that i have is who's going to make the opposite speech , like it wasn't a speech speech, like it wasn't a speech in which you had here's my side of the argument, and here's your side of the argument. was side of the argument. it was everyone him. everyone could agree with him. great yeah. but what? this great yeah. but then what? this was the problem. >> he gave me the problems he gave problems. mean,
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gave us the problems. i mean, the really think the politicians really think we're don't they we're thick, don't they? they gave problems, but they gave us the problems, but they didn't the solutions ans ho. 110. >> no. >> and he's talking robust >> and he's talking about robust policing, example, it policing, for example, when it comes protests and comes to protests and demonstrations, we have the laws in place to tackle , for example, in place to tackle, for example, anti—semitic chanting , the anti—semitic chanting, the displaying of protest paraphernalia . that's if that's paraphernalia. that's if that's taking place at protest sites. the police have the powers to intervene . and at the end of the intervene. and at the end of the day , people talk sadiq day, people can talk about sadiq khanin day, people can talk about sadiq khan in terms of policing in london. actually, when london. but actually, when it comes there's model comes to met, there's a model of co—governance, comes to met, there's a model of co—goveithe ce, comes to met, there's a model of co—goveithe mayor london and between the mayor of london and the so maybe the the home secretary. so maybe the prime minister should have a strong his home strong word with his home secretary, james cleverly, if he's policing in london. >> yeah, and london. >> yeah, why did >> yeah, well. and why, why did it take the rochdale by—election for that dramatic friday night statement ? um, to for that dramatic friday night statement? um, to make for that dramatic friday night statement ? um, to make those statement? um, to make those statements when really you know, we've seen sort of like, you know , what is perceived to be know, what is perceived to be anti—semitic , you know, from the anti—semitic, you know, from the rivers of the sea beamed onto big ben. we've had mps scared extra protection for mps. we've had mps targeted at their homes,
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their families threatened . why their families threatened. why did it take the rochdale by—election to make these statements ? statements? >> i mean, i think it was a culmination , an to be fair to culmination, an to be fair to rishi sunak , not something i say rishi sunak, not something i say very know, um, think very often. i know, um, i think the rochdale by—election was, was at the end of a period of things that have been going on, which includes all of the things that you mentioned , um, threats that you mentioned, um, threats from extremist acts in a number of different directions. we had, um , you know, mps have been um, you know, mps have been killed , including my friend joe. killed, including my friend joe. um, you know, these are very difficult, very, very divisive times. and i like, as i say, i couldn't disagree with anything that rishi sunak said , but that that rishi sunak said, but that sort of the problem that if what you're saying is we need to come together, great. what do we need together, great. what do we need to come together to do ? to come together to do? >> and this is that look, we all agree that the hatred that we're experienced now, the fact that we've imported that , the
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we've imported that, the problems going on in gaza and israel to the streets of rochdale , quite basically , um, rochdale, quite basically, um, and we all hate this division and we all hate this division and extremism and we all want to, to work together to make this country great again and a better place to be. so why then, do rochdale elect someone the most divisive? i think we'd all agree. politician pretty much. we've seen in a long time in the shape of george galloway . he has shape of george galloway. he has the support of nick griffin from the support of nick griffin from the national front. yeah, yeah. >> but then the fact that the prime minister mentioned nick griffin, griffin prime minister mentioned nick grif most griffin prime minister mentioned nick grifmost publicity griffin prime minister mentioned nick grif most publicity he'siffin prime minister mentioned nick grif most publicity he's received the most publicity he's received in the last 15 years or so. so i thought was counterproductive. >> counterproductive. griffin? >> w- w“ >> yeah, i'd made the point though think some of the though about i think some of the commentary surrounding the rochdale by—election has been somewhat simplistic. now, what i mean by that is rochdale. the constituents, 30% are muslim. that means 7 in 10 constituents are not muslim. and the reality is that george galloway, he's not only he's not only able to be competitive in palestine, focussed muslim communities,
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he's giving labour a headache, especially with white british working class voters who may be pro—brexit and protectionist as well. if you see some of the things that you talked about in his electoral messaging, he talked about the open air market being of the town. um, being the heart of the town. um, the long tum future of rochdale association club, association football club, talking about how local businesses are the lifeblood of local communities. so so. and then say, oh, but he's then people say, oh, but he's microtargeting tailoring microtargeting he's tailoring his different his messaging for different communities. listen, labour have been for a long time been doing that for a long time in my town of luton. can in my home town of luton. i can say much. in my home town of luton. i can say unfortunately, we're running >> unfortunately, we're running out time this. but do >> unfortunately, we're running out think?! this. but do >> unfortunately, we're running out think? comeiis. but do >> unfortunately, we're running out think? come on,3ut do >> unfortunately, we're running out think? come on, let's do >> unfortunately, we're running out think? come on, let's no do >> unfortunately, we're running out think? come on, let's no gb you think? come on, let's no gb views @gbnews. i mean, do you think khan a think that sadiq khan had a point , or do think that sadiq khan had a point, or do you think that rishi sunak really didn't have a point? let us know. um, i'm dawn neesom gb news sunday plenty more coming up on today's show. but first, here's the news with sam francis . sam francis. >> dawn, thank you very much . >> dawn, thank you very much. good afternoon. it's 233 and leading the news this afternoon .
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leading the news this afternoon. tax cuts may be unlikely in this week's budget, with the chancellor promising what he's called a prudent spending plan. reports suggest the government has been forced to revise its plans with the office for budget responsibility's figures showing there's around £2 billion less to spend than previously thought. that's after britain was confirmed to have slipped into a recession at the end of last year . into a recession at the end of last year. meanwhile, jeremy hunt has also spoken out against what he's called intimidating pro palestine protests, saying they've now crossed a line his comments come as thousands of people have taken to the streets again this weekend across the country, after the prime minister's plea for tolerance to be restored, campaigners have also been seen targeting around 50 barclays bank branches , which 50 barclays bank branches, which they accuse of having financial ties with suppliers of weapons . ties with suppliers of weapons. it's after rishi sunak's speech in downing street this week, when he warned that islamist extremists and far right groups are, he said, spreading poison in british democracy . a seven
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in british democracy. a seven year old girl has today drowned after a small boat capsized while trying to cross the channel 15 people were on board, including the girl's family, when the boat sank off the coast of calais , the local authority of calais, the local authority in france said that the boat was not appropriately sized to carry that many people , and rail that many people, and rail passengers are facing another price hike from today, as fares across england and wales go up by 5. that's despite train cancellations being among the worst in a decade . labour has worst in a decade. labour has accused the government of letting ticket prices rise almost twice as much as wages, with passengers now forced to pay with passengers now forced to pay more for less . it comes pay more for less. it comes after thousands of services were cancelled in the past year in one of the rail industry's worst performances since records began . for the latest stories, you can sign up to gb news alerts. just scan the code on your screen right now. or if you're listening on radio, go to gb news. common alerts .
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news. common alerts. >> thank you very much, sam. remember, you can get in touch about all the subjects we're talking about today by emailing me on gb views at gbnews.com. on your screen there , or message me your screen there, or message me on our socials . we're at gb on our socials. we're at gb news. there's loads more coming up on today's show. that's a real cracker. a survey of real cracker. um, a survey of almost 200 scientists at british universities found 58% of respondents think sex is binary, but in the same survey, almost two thirds of the academics also thought gender was in fact fluid . what does all of that mean ? oh . what does all of that mean? oh yeah, all of that and much more to come. i'm dawn neesom and you're with gb news, britain's news channel .
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campaigns for the next general election, who will be left standing when the british people make one of the biggest decisions of their lives? >> who will rise and who will fall? >> let's find out together. >> let's find out together. >> for moment, the highs , >> for every moment, the highs, the lows, the twists and turns . the lows, the twists and turns. >> we'll be with you for every step of this journey. >> in 2024. gb news is britain's election . election. channel >> oh, we do love that advert right ? welcome back to gb news right? welcome back to gb news sunday with me. dawn neesom on your tv , online and on digital your tv, online and on digital radio. now let's talk sex, shall we? it's a sunday afternoon. it's safe . okay, you've got to it's safe. okay, you've got to send the kids out. uh new polls show a majority of scientists say that sex is binary . a survey say that sex is binary. a survey of almost 200 scientists at british british universities found 58% think sex is binary, i.e. just two of them, except in rare cases like intersex individuals . like that's like
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individuals. like that's like the athlete, isn't it? but in the athlete, isn't it? but in the same survey, almost two thirds of the academics also thought gender was in fact fluid . now, raqib has been waiting for this debate with bated breath. all laughter. i can't tell you how excited he is to talk about this one. sandgrouse rikki neave raqib okay, right. sex is binary, i.e. there's only male and female , no biological male and female, no biological sex, but hey, gender is completely fluid . you can be completely fluid. you can be whatever you want when you want . whatever you want when you want. >> oh well, for me, i think this is i find, i find this topic so confusing in terms of some people's takes on it. um, for me , i just look at, yeah, i find it interesting that 58% for me in a survey of that nature that sounds quite low. and more than anything, this is a survey of scientists . yeah, 58. so that scientists. yeah, 58. so that means less than 3 in 5 believe that sex is binary among science. i find that quite disturbing . i think that almost disturbing. i think that almost shows the degree of radical transgenderism worming its way in among scientists. i mean, i suspect some of those scientists
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are astrophysicists rather than biologists. >> but yeah, i mean, it does feel low . but go on. um, i mean, feel low. but go on. um, i mean, look, the thing is, stop there. sex is binary, right? most people accept that, um, there are rare individual sex biology. all sex is male or female x, y or x x chromosomes. gender is a social construct that is largely based on stereotypes around whether you are that we associate traditionally with male and female. there are basically three positions on all of this debate. there's the, uh pro—trans position, which is genderis pro—trans position, which is gender is real. and if you if you identify with the traits that we traditionally associate with, with, um, female and you have a male body, you are therefore a woman. um, there is the, um, position then of conservatives, which is gender is real. um, and only aligns with sex. and then there's the
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radical feminist position to which i subscribe, which is that genderis which i subscribe, which is that gender is a social construct . gender is a social construct. um, and it forces women into very constrictive roles. so again , it comes back to, you again, it comes back to, you know, i was quite a tomboy. i liked to climb trees . um. me liked to climb trees. um. me too. i'm wearing dm boots , but too. i'm wearing dm boots, but also a pretty top that does make me look like oliver cromwell. i get it. uh very pretty. >> cromwell , it has to be >> oliver cromwell, it has to be said, but so, uh, so those are. >> and quite often those positions get conflated with each other. so women like me who say that gender is a social construct. so of course it's fluid because it can mean what you want it to mean . but it is you want it to mean. but it is not the same as sex and that it is important that when we come to making laws and having things like prisons or changing rooms, sex is what is primary. um get conflated with conservative, who would argue that , yes, um, sex would argue that, yes, um, sex is real, but also so is gender.
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and we should go back to the kitchen. and those are not the same gender. >> those are gender norms though , aren't they? at the end of the day, i mean, i think the point that make me from my that i'd make for me from my personal i think personal perspective, i think that is an adult that a woman is an adult biological female and for me, a man is an adult biological male. and that in in that and i think that in in that sense, i think that the on the bafis sense, i think that the on the basis of that and this is what i do support emma's view that when it comes to sensitive of, um, spaces such as, um, female , uh, spaces such as, um, female, uh, domestic violence sanctuary , his domestic violence sanctuary, his rape crisis centres , um, when it rape crisis centres, um, when it comes to public toilets, changing rooms , the integrity of changing rooms, the integrity of those sensitive, um , sex based those sensitive, um, sex based spaces that needs to be protected, that needs absolutely , absolutely. >> but what i would also argue is when it comes to wearing a dress, who cares? who cares ? dress, who cares? who cares? let's stop saying that . uh, you let's stop saying that. uh, you know, there are male clothes and female clothes. let's stop saying there are male toys and female toys . let's stop saying
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female toys. let's stop saying there are male jobs and female jobs. it really should jobs. so it's it really should be just in terms of where we need to protect the rights of vulnerable women for the rest of society . let it let it all society. let it let it all loose. i mean , i'm a huge rocky loose. i mean, i'm a huge rocky horror fan. uh, you know, i can hold both of those positions at once because i believe in broader knowing what is allowed for everybody and making sure that we also have protective safeguarding. >> i think. yeah, i mean, the worrying thing about this survey, by the way, is that 29% of academics are apparently unaware that biological sex is just a chromosomal thing. there are only two. that was the thing i found more worrying about it, and my other point on this one is we had that horrific murder this week, um, committed by a woman who then sent to woman who was then sent to a male prison. and it skews so many stats and so many statistics and it's just it's just i think the collection of those kind of statistics in itself is quite misogynistic in my view.
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>> i think it's very clear you have biological males there who are identifying as women . and are identifying as women. and then when they commit crimes, thatis then when they commit crimes, that is going against, you know, the that's ultimately that crime is crime that's is registered as a crime that's been committed a woman . i been committed by a woman. i think that's wholly unfair. i think that's wholly unfair. i think a grave injustice. think it's a grave injustice. >> dangerous . oh, gosh. >> it's dangerous. oh, gosh. we've some topics this we've got some topics this afternoon , haven't we? i'm afternoon, haven't we? um, i'm dawn this is gb news dawn neesom this is gb news sunday and lots more sunday and there's lots more coming let's talk about coming up. let's talk about alcohol because it's a sunday afternoon . i think we might be afternoon. i think we might be needing it after. this is buying a at the pub triggering ? a round at the pub triggering? do you a safe space? do you do you need a safe space? do you need helpline? well, one need a helpline? well, one lecture the university of lecture at the university of manchester seems to so. manchester seems to think so. so you to out about this you want to find out about this one, you? more to one, don't you? much more to come me. it's gb news. come with me. it's gb news. britain's news channel. don't go too you can get a pint. too far, but you can get a pint. it's that triggering
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welcome back to gb news sunday with me. dawn neesom on your
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telly's online and on digital radio. now next time you go to the pub , did you know that the pub, did you know that buying a round could be triggering? you might need a safe space. uh, warning was slapped on a sociology lecture at the university of manchester concerning money and finance , concerning money and finance, which addressed topics including picking up bar tabs, the lecturer stressed that buying a round of drinks at the pub could be seen as uncomfortable be seen as an uncomfortable financial issue for cash strapped students. now look, to be fair, to be fair to the lecturer, he was talking about serious financial issues that can cause a lot of stress, like, you know, getting into debt, not being pay your bills , being able to pay your bills, etc, bit got a few etc, etc. but this bit got a few of the students going well, so i'm just going to see if my brilliant panel list. emma, who lives , takes a drink. i think lives, takes a drink. i think it's fair to say you're joining me on this. we're actually going to the pub after, um, what do you make of this? buying around can be triggering. >> i mean, it can be quite a thing when you've got £20 in
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your bank account and you've got five people sat at a table, you're not going to get a round of drinks for that. that is a problem. i am slightly sceptical about the way that this story is being reported , because there being reported, because there are , um, not here, but more are, um, not here, but more widely, uh , but i think there is widely, uh, but i think there is nothing wrong with it. i mean, i did sociology at university the first time round , um, when first time round, um, when you're discussing concepts like this and then giving people an advice line at the end that doesn't seem like a crazy thing to me . like, i mean, know, to me. like, i mean, you know, students are in financial hardship at times. there is an advice line. why not let them know ? i just don't. i think this know? i just don't. i think this is all a bit overblown if you ask me . ask me. >> well, we've all looked . i'm >> well, we've all looked. i'm slightly older than some people, but i mean, we've all had mates like this in the past, right? you go to the i to you go to the pub. i go to football, we the pub football, we go to the pub before after . if you're a before and after. if you're a west fan, you need it after. west ham fan, you need it after. um, you to the pub and
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um, but you go to the pub and it's you're it's like, if you're a bit skinny, you go, sorry, skinny, you just go, i'm sorry, i stump up for me round. i can't stump up for me round. um, triggering. it's um, it's not triggering. it's just your mates, just you just say to your mates, i'm get this one i'm sorry, i can't get this one a a bit short. >> okay, first i made the point. fantastic win for the hammers. away everton yesterday away to everton yesterday three one. thank you very much. keep cracking . cracking. cracking. cracking. >> on with it okay listen i, >> get on with it okay listen i, i would be in the business i would never be in the business of trivialising people's anxieties surrounding their own socioeconomic when at socioeconomic position when at the same time their long words but at same time. but at the same time. >> got another long. >> and i've got another long. i wouldn't in business of wouldn't be in the business of mollycoddling. and i think there has mollycoddling has been some mollycoddling creep come on, on creep that's come in on, on certain universal campuses. i think it's important that we encourage a certain spirit of resilience and determination as well. the this is this well. this is the this is this is my point. well. this is the this is this is rspirit.|t. well. this is the this is this is rspirit. spirit spirit >> spirit. spirit spirit spirits. yeah okay. >> that was unintended . >> that was unintended. >> that was unintended. >> no. no lie. i'm sorry. >> i'm triggered by the fact that you're talking about spirits. talking about spirits. we're talking about going where's pint? spirits. we're talking about goiiyou've'here's pint? spirits. we're talking about goiiyou've gote's pint? spirits. we're talking about goiiyou've got a pint? spirits. we're talking about goiiyou've got a glassint? spirits. we're talking about goiiyou've got a glass of? spirits. we're talking about goiiyou've got a glass of water. >> you've got a glass of water. shut no, don't shut up . shut up. um, no, don't shut up. >> on. literally >> actually. carry on. literally not. you're paying me for. not. what you're paying me for. >> that's true, actually. not. what you're paying me for. >> i that's true, actually. not. what you're paying me for. >> i mean,. true, actually. not. what you're paying me for. >> i mean, it'ue, actually. not. what you're paying me for. >> i mean, it keepstually. not. what you're paying me for. >> i mean, it keeps gotly. but, i mean, it keeps got a point. it is a bit sort of
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wrapping them in cotton in wrapping them in cotton wool in the real world. >> well, as i say, i was going to there. to trigger you there. >> are, there are issues >> there are, there are issues around ism on campus. around safety ism on campus. >> i'm just not convinced that this is one of the best examples of that . um, i'd say if you are of that. um, i'd say if you are discussing socioeconomic conditions , don't you start. conditions, don't you start. well, i've got half a sociology degree. i did a joint honours sociology in english, which is a bizarre thing to study a pint while you were doing it was a pound a pint at my university . pound a pint at my university. there was a scandal when i went up to £1 five. >> oh, my lord, were you were you manchester university? you in manchester university? manchester university? you in manchester university? maino,�*ster university? you in manchester university? maino, iter university? you in manchester university? maino, iter untoersity? um proud, >> no, i went to kent. um proud, proud graduate of elliot college. university of kent. um, but we are talking the 90s, so it's a long time ago we could actually talk about beer and football all afternoon. >> but unfortunately, we can't . >> but unfortunately, we can't. so. okay, um, that's it from me today. we are off to the pub. we're not going to be triggered because we can't afford it, but
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nanais because we can't afford it, but nana is up next, and we will be watching nana in the pub because you can these days. uh nana. what's coming up on your show? well, of course, we're talking about going to war about jeremy hunt going to war with whitehall on waste . um, so with whitehall on waste. um, so that's, know, we're gonna with whitehall on waste. um, so that'sa know, we're gonna with whitehall on waste. um, so that'sa chatznow, we're gonna with whitehall on waste. um, so that'sa chat aboutne're gonna with whitehall on waste. um, so that'sa chat aboutne're al50,i have a chat about that. also, a top football team that top girls football team that refused to play because they were saying that they should have or a boy playing in have a man or a boy playing in the refused the game. the girls refused to play. we'll discussing that. >> so we'll be discussing that. >> so we'll be discussing that. >> starmer, got plan. >> well, finally we're here. one of the plans. >> oh uh yeah i know. shocker >> oh uh yeah i know. shocker >> but idea is to ban >> uh, but the idea is to ban zero hours contract. but what does he know? that sounds like a nonsense plan. >> we'll be discussing that. i've joining i've got a panel joining me. plus mystery guest plus a brilliant mystery guest for my monologue is on for five. and my monologue is on that theatre performance of the slave. that may well be coming to the uk with a black only night. i mean , it's absurd, but night. i mean, it's absurd, but that's coming up. night. i mean, it's absurd, but that's coming up . yes, that was that's coming up. yes, that was a great story, wasn't it? and that sounds like a great show, to be honest with you. well, thank you for joining to be honest with you. well, thank you forjoining me to be honest with you. well, thank you for joining me this afternoon. i've binned dawn neesom. be dawn neesom , um, neesom. i'll be dawn neesom, um, probably the rest of the probably for the rest of the day. you day. then i might you know,
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identify uh, this identify someone else. uh, this is it will be gb is gb news sunday. it will be gb news sunday all afternoon with the so don't go the lovely nana. so don't go anywhere. thank you for watching. for joining watching. thank you for joining us. for all your us. thank you for all your messages and hope you have a lovely of weekend. um lovely rest of your weekend. um nanais lovely rest of your weekend. um nana is up next. but first, let's take a look at what the weather is doing with greg. see you . soon. you. soon. >> looks like things are heating up . boxt boilers spot answers of up. boxt boilers spot answers of weather on gb news news. >> hello there! >> hello there! >> i'm greg dewhurst and welcome to your latest weather for gb news. it's going to be quite cold tonight. again, some frost and and then we'll see some and fog and then we'll see some rain bearing weather fronts coming in from atlantic. we coming in from the atlantic. we can nicely on the can see that nicely on the pressure this area of low pressure chart. this area of low pressure moving into the southwest into monday, southwest through into monday, giving some outbreaks of rain , giving some outbreaks of rain, though heavy and though not as heavy and persisting as it has been of recent weeks. but this evening
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dry for many clearing skies mean temperatures start falling away and into the early hours with light winds will generally see some mist and fog patches reforming freezing fog patches across parts of the uk, as well as temperatures fall below freezing, particularly in the countryside . but temperatures countryside. but temperatures rising the far southwest rising across the far southwest as this weather front moves in, bringing of rain to bringing outbreaks of rain to parts of cornwall devon, parts of cornwall into devon, wales . as we move through the wales. as we move through the morning, reaching northern ireland lunchtime . it ireland by around lunchtime. it could be some heavy bursts in there, starts fragment there, but it starts to fragment as pushes north and as it slowly pushes north and eastwards the afternoon . eastwards into the afternoon. soon elsewhere, plenty of sunshine to come through the day, though the northern isles generally quite damp generally remaining quite damp here temperatures with here and temperatures with southerly winds start to rise. double figures across many parts of the uk for tuesday . the of the uk for tuesday. the weather front gets stalled across eastern areas in the west. we'll see some blustery showers moving in, but plenty of sunny spells . and as the week sunny spells. and as the week goes on, it generally becomes dnen goes on, it generally becomes drier. variable amounts drier. will be variable amounts of cloud, but there'll be some sunny spells at times too, and
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big topics hitting the headlines right now. this show is all about opinion. it's mine. it's theirs , and of course it's theirs, and of course it's yours. >> we'll be debating, discussing and at times we will disagree. >> but no one will be cancelled . >> but no one will be cancelled. so joining me the next hour so joining me in the next hour are broadcaster and journalist anthony kelly, and also actress danielle mason . in a few moments danielle mason. in a few moments time, we'll be going head to headin time, we'll be going head to head in a clash of minds with meteorologist and social commentator jim meteorologist and social commentatorjim dale and also businessman and activist adam brooks . brooks. >> but first, before we get started, let's get your latest news headlines . news headlines. >> nana. thank you very much. good afternoon from the gb newsroom leading the news at 3:00. tax cuts may be unlikely in this week's budget, with the chancellor promising what he's called a prudent spending plan. reports suggest the government has been forced to revise its figures, with reports from the office for budget responsibility
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