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name . the land name. the land of make believe that's the first music video filmed in the of england forecasting office as you know we also ended last week with the biggest drop in living since 1956. that's a long time ago. so long ago that doris day was number one case and set of what ever will be will be the future not ours to see . okay said not ours to see. okay said i said i taste sera. whatever will be will be the future's not ours to see sera sera that's jeremy
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hunfs to see sera sera that's jeremy hunt's autumn statement translated into english. as you know , we also ended the week know, we also ended the week with mr. hunt imposing the biggest tax burden you since the second world war. but without the mitigating circumstance senses of the second world war. that's a long ago, so long ago that britain didn't have a pop chart. but america did. and in 1948, which was the last time the uk tax burden was this high . woody woodpecker was . number . woody woodpecker was. number guess who . that's guess who. that's woody woodpecker song song . he's woodpecker song song. he's american all day long. doesn't government feel woody woodpecker? they picked their
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way through everything . so now way through everything. so now it's all riddled with holes from the nhs to the immigration system . still they won't stop system. still they won't stop packing. everything is they did it but you're going to for it. rishi rich jeremy and boris johnson will all be enriched and rewarded for picking britain hollow in the land of make believe will be will be the one thing you can take to the is that they're still a speck in it all day long we're going to plough through aspects of the wreckage tonight with a stellar line up patrick o'flynn arlene foster james melville christopher monckton . and of christopher monckton. and of course, the most important of the show you can you see light at the end of the tunnel or is just the headlamps of another lorry load of albanian asylum . lorry load of albanian asylum. email me gb news at gbp user uk you can tweet me gb news. it's all coming up after tamsin roberts with the news stamps .
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roberts with the news stamps. and marks you and good evening from the gb newsroom wales back in the world for the first time since 1958 but are currently trailing one nil to the usa half time earlier england won their opening match against iran, winning six two with goals. goal by bellingham saka sterling rashford and grealish both wales and england along with five other european teams decided not to wear a rainbow anti—discrimination armband in their matches. it's over concerns . players may be concerns. players may be penalised with a yellow card on the pitch for wearing non sanctioned kit while speaking after the england match earlier. these fans say they're happy with the result . i thought they with the result. i thought they really put out the five goals. we have a slow start . once they we have a slow start. once they got going, they really got going and they just couldn't stop grinning. we were expecting that negativity five, but
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negativity flop back five, but no goals football intensity strangely enough a comfortable win if have carried on it could have been eight or nine. but we'll settle for that fantastic performance you can't really criticise anyone . it's just that criticise anyone. it's just that everyone was pretty faultless. the prime minister. he will place innovation at heart of his government agenda . addressing government agenda. addressing business leaders earlier , rishi business leaders earlier, rishi sunak said re—establishing stability is the critical step to stabilise the uk economy . he to stabilise the uk economy. he told delegates controlling was key to improving living standards and to pushing the economy on a stable footing for the future . a court has heard the future. a court has heard a woman who left london to join so—called state seven years ago was influenced a determined and effective propaganda machine . effective propaganda machine. shamima bacon's lawyers say she should have been treated a child trafficking victim . the 23 year trafficking victim. the 23 year old is appealing the removal her
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uk citizenship after was revoked when she was found a syrian refugee camp . she has denied any refugee camp. she has denied any involvement in terror activities. human lawyer hardship saying sing bangor says bacon should be treated the same as a british citizen . the issue as a british citizen. the issue is if he's a british citizen , is if he's a british citizen, which he has because she holds a british passport or she did hold a british passport or british citizenship , then should she be citizenship, then should she be treated like other british or should she be sent to a where she's not born in, she hasn't lived in or just the basis that her parents from that an earthquake in indonesia has 162 people and injured more than 700, according to local officials. the epicentre of the 5.6 magnitude earthquake was in the west java region , about 75 the west java region, about 75 kilometres from the capital jakarta . rescuers are trying jakarta. rescuers are trying reach survivors trapped under the after at least 25 aftershocks hit the region
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region . tv online and dab radio. region. tv online and dab radio. this is gb news. now it's back to . to. mark this is the united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland and its territories and possession lines around the globe is a great. it is the nafion globe is a great. it is the nation more than any other can close humbly claim to be . the close humbly claim to be. the one that built the modern world in fact that building just over my shoulder across the river once legislate did for a quarter of the planet and did it rather well. and with far spades and interns whatnot than those guys need. interns whatnot than those guys need . but it's kaput. nothing need. but it's kaput. nothing works anymore . you did such works anymore. you did such a grand job of the nhs that it's retired to the turks and caicos. it's so since you last a gp,
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they ought to be on the endangered species list. we have excess mortality in week out, all year and the propagandist girls and britain's ghastly media barely cover it. girls and britain's ghastly media barely cover it . busy media barely cover it. busy trying the latest flop show booster shot. almost everything in our public life these last years has been a terrible debilitating lie . boris johnson debilitating lie. boris johnson , a lazy sod. i know . personal , a lazy sod. i know. personal experience. 20 years ago i thought he'd change aged, but he's just the same . so boris, he's just the same. so boris, being a lazy sod sloughed off the covid to the panned and then the covid to the panned and then the health which he and vallance and professor pants down and stood by as the expert trek to everything and through it all the justification for this collection of hollow pseudo conservatives who believe in nothing was that well , at least nothing was that well, at least they got brexit , except for one
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they got brexit, except for one quarter of our home nations brexit wasn't done at all, and in fact, has been used to facilitate the end goal of irish republicans for over a century, a goal that looks closer than at any time in the history of anglo—irish relations . and now anglo—irish relations. and now the remaining three quarters of the remaining three quarters of the home nations are headed for the home nations are headed for the same fate as senior in the government. abso nothing to do with the fellow on the right here at all. no, it's to do with him whatsoever. don't don't think he's got anything to do with it. whatever you do, it's more likely to be that poor, terrified looking schoolboy on the left. but some senior in his majesty's government having absolutely nothing to do with that fellow on the right that are now advocating a swiss model for britain's relationship , the for britain's relationship, the european union. what does that mean ? well, switzerland, let's mean? well, switzerland, let's see , accepts the eu regulatory
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see, accepts the eu regulatory regime and, the eu judicial regime and, the eu judicial regime and, the eu judicial regime and the eu internal migration, open borders regime. so it's just like being a member , the eu, except you don't to go to any tedious in brussels former . mep patrick 0 to any tedious in brussels former. mep patrick 0 is here . former. mep patrick 0 is here. what is the politics of this rumour which rishi sunak has denied , but it's no accent and denied, but it's no accent and it's being placed in sunday times in deeds. i mean like you heaven forbid that we, we would point the finger at jeremy hunt the chancellor as well remain campaigner of foresight and do this but the treasury has long you know hostile to so i point the finger towards the treasury the finger towards the treasury
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the conservatives were elected on that three words slow and get brexit . it now looks like very brexit. it now looks like very senior figures within the government got a new three west. i didn't get brexit right. they have no mandate whatsoever jeremy hunt doesn't rishi sunak himself has no mandate . jeremy hunt doesn't rishi sunak himself has no mandate. he's squatting on boris johnson's to get brexit . i think they must get brexit. i think they must have a political death because the last constituency really that the conservative party can hope for keep the faith with it is the determined brexit voters . but i don't think people can trust , though rishi sunak has trust, though rishi sunak has now denied doing anything that would mean coming alignment with the eu. he's broken enough manifesto promises already for no one to be able to bank that who lived through the last six years of people like hunt trying to obstruct brexit altogether. and keir starmer promising he hate the deal and then trying overturn it. why should we
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believe rishi sunak on the conservative? i would suggest they're not people who believe in brexit . they are willing to in brexit. they are willing to water it down. they're willing to get back to free of labour, which is what the big corporate unions are lobbying them about the time. well and it's also the fact, the idea of just becoming a sort of protectorate of the european union as opposed to a member state might be actually preferable to these guys because if you're not in, it's difficult to then hold a another referendum trying get out so it might and what's so terrible this is the continuous subversion of , the will of the subversion of, the will of the people we've seen whatever you thought of liz truss we've we've just seen , you know, forces just seen, you know, forces unknown saying, oh look, you ru is out there in the country , put is out there in the country, put the wrong person in number ten. so we're correcting your mistake and we put our guy in. yes, you
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guys voted the wrong way on brexit . but don't worry, we're brexit. but don't worry, we're going to undo so subtly you won't even notice . you know, won't even notice. you know, you're kind of setting up revolut missionary conditions if you're the masses that this an import done. yeah i think playing very fast and loose with democracy say we're not really or haven't been a revolutionary type country but i think that millions millions more people on current trajectory are going to sit on their hands on election day. they'll primarily conservative voters . so it would conservative voters. so it would look like labour isn't going to have to really sweat all that. keir starmer is got to do is convince people they're not actually mad marks anymore although they they have quite a few of them in their ranks i would suggest. and they're going to waltz home, you know as that reminds me of someone like , reminds me of someone like, draghi, a sort of technocrat put in to these decisions. and of course, the other thing that the swiss style deal does is it
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involves an annual membership fee as well, which was another another key point of getting out was not to have to pay the and it drastically your ability to make meaningful free trade deals with sort of sunrise parts of the world economy too. but but it's also i mean, the united kingdom even in its present diminished state, switzerland. switzerland is a neutral country that has , you know, with the that has, you know, with the exception of banking arrangements , doesn't really arrangements, doesn't really have any hard core relations with the rest of the world. there's there ought to be such obvious difference between uk and switzerland that . nobody in and switzerland that. nobody in their right mind would propose . their right mind would propose. yeah, i mean, personally, i think we won't we're not jeremy hunt, but somebody of his outlook still doesn't understand what the brexit vote was all is completely baffled , it totally completely baffled, it totally insensitive to key aspects like ending free movement was
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supposed to go hand in hand with lowering migration. so working class british people trying to raise families didn't see their wages undercut by you know six guys from eastern europe you know sharing sharing a two bedroom flat and undercutting the wages so everyone knows that the wages so everyone knows that the people who wanted brexit said they they wanted those eastern european plumbers replaced by albanian and somali welfare recipients . you could welfare recipients. you could ask any brexit about that. well, if you look the array, the sort of mania for net zero at any price, the failure tackle the woke revolution in politics immigration clearly they're now basically saying they're aiming for immigration of more 200,000 a year net that's 12 years of pathetic failure and watering down brexit to a do they talk to that remain 25% vote share at
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all. i'm saying people i know who've been tories resigning from the party in those are the activists who supposed to carry the message whenever they are at the message whenever they are at the next election . it's not the next election. it's not looking good. i mean, i'm not someone who would necessarily say, bring boris back, but they need to have a substantial agenda. they actually believe in that's in tune with with those voters . oh, are we are we beyond voters. oh, are we are we beyond that? you and i talked just before the show about the 30 years ago that canadian election when the canadian tories were reduced two seats and it was a very good thing because proper conservative party arose in the west that actually just by being an effective opposition accomplished more conservative goals than than a conservative government had done . do you government had done. do you think a similar situation is possible here ? you could get a possible here? you could get a party that would inflict sufficient punishment on this decadent , depraved tory
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decadent, depraved tory government that . it would that government that. it would that it would have to read , discover it would have to read, discover its roots . i certainly think its roots. i certainly think it's now looking possible that a party such as could take another 8% of what's left of the tory poll share, which would be enough to flip a lot more seats to particularly the labour party than were in the lap . the gods than were in the lap. the gods really about do we land in a situation in the next parliament where labour to a form of proportional. if where labour to a form of proportional . if that where labour to a form of proportional. if that happened then the smaller parties are you know are really game on. i think on current course you you see the losing very badly then some one like kemi badenoch kind of got conservative who is not ashamed of conservative ideas being put in you know a two two leader recovery . yeah possible leader recovery. yeah possible all that could just as easily be
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some you know i don't know justin greening type who is who is put into oh we were we lost because we're perceived as the nasty party so we need work even harder at you know i don't i will say anyway always good to see you patrick. thank you very much. patrick is a great piece in the spectator on the opportune one. it is for some fellow called i got to check this name nigel farah. i don't know what. see you that was the name of a political party i come. i don't know what he's been doing in last couple of years, but. but there's a great piece by patrick. the opportunities for nigel, piece by patrick. the opportunities for nigel , the opportunities for nigel, the present situation with the tories. up next, we'll get to your tbe views and dame arlene foster here to talk about what like to be selfie pranked somebody who thinks the guys shot your dad and bombed your school bus totally cool viscount and the merely missed james
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j.b. news is the people's channel. so let us channel the people wanted to know whether you thought rishi sunak was to betray brexit. alice rishi would betray brexit. alice rishi would betray his image . the mirror. betray his image. the mirror. tony says yes. he those two crooks. i think that's and hunt are not crashing the economy for nothing heather yes if he's given the opportunity , i don't given the opportunity, i don't trust him and i trust hunt less. they have to go there just got it. and they've been in stalled
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by mysterious forces so i don't they're planning on going anywhere just cathy says yes is anywhere just cathy says yes is a member of the world economic forum he's been advised those higher up than him is very odd . higher up than him is very odd. we showed you this last week that photograph of rishi and justin with klaus schwab. they sinister teutonic megalomaniac hiding in plain sight as a sinister teutonic. hiding in plain sight as a sinister teutonic . they were at sinister teutonic. they were at the 620 sinister teutonic. they were at the g20 all in matching shirts and it was very weird . it's like and it was very weird. it's like it's like a rishi and justin a junior members of x—men and klaus schwab is professor the guy who's recruiting and training them how says he's flying a flag anymore or mistakes and he's not only but burnt toast meghan says too early to say that illegal immigration will be his downfall if not stamped on soon. it's a
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numbers thing that she can let a thousand people and also not just letting a thousand people walk into the country every night it's a fact that this is supposed to be a pandemic you've had a hellish two, three years. you've got to get jabbed and boosted up the wazoo at the behest of the government and yet go oh yeah, if get your jabs in your boosters you'll be able to have freedom of movement again. well wait a minute, we don't even know who's got these thousandeight just walking in anyone checked whether they've got vaccine they don't have regular passports . okay my gb regular passports. okay my gb news colleague dame arlene foster was a business awards dinner over the weekend not the most exciting event or not usually it's all a bit worthy , usually it's all a bit worthy, but that's good when it's at the europa hotel in belfast, which not so long ago was the most bombed hotel on the planet so
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young lady came up and asked for a selfie and as of us have on such occasions , arlene was happy such occasions, arlene was happy to oblige . a look at the food to oblige. a look at the food across . the what's that guests across. the what's that guests saying up the ra ra is short for ira and that's an ira rallying cry up the ra that was at a local women's business awards dinner and. the ira during arlene's childhood . i'd shot dad arlene's childhood. i'd shot dad in the head and, blew up her school bus, but evidently during this somewhat extended , the ira this somewhat extended, the ira are just totally cool . northern are just totally cool. northern ireland's former first minister, dame arlene foster, is with me . dame arlene foster, is with me. arlene you were at to distance yourself from her and rebuked
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her as she started that but it's it it must be a straw ordinary for you to be confronted with thousands of fellow people in northern ireland who still after all this , somehow think they all this, somehow think they i.r.a. is hip and, groovy, as all these young people . well, all these young people. well, mark, thanks for letting me come on your show. i haven't talked to anybody about this today because i knew it was coming on to speak with you. i mean , i to speak with you. i mean, i went to that award ceremony saturday night. it was a really occasion, actually. there are a lot of young people there wanting to get south these young people there to celebrate the of their businesses . and it was their businesses. and it was a really great night. their businesses. and it was a really great night . and this really great night. and this young lady came up . nothing out young lady came up. nothing out of the ordinary on that and asked me could she get a selfie. i said of course. she then proceeded to stand me. and you've seen what happened? i the
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horrible , i think for of us here horrible, i think for of us here is suffered as a result of the ira . and thankfully my father ira. and thankfully my father survived murder attempt on his life in 1979. it's something i remember well because i was there at the time i was eight years of age in our home when my father came in with blood coming from his head. but as i say he survived and were always thankful that he did . but then , thankful that he did. but then, as you relate, mark, when i was going to school, aged 16, i was our age, 17, i was blown up in school bus simply because our bus driver was a part time of the security forces. so this lady comes up to me , shouts up lady comes up to me, shouts up the, roar, as if it's some culturally cool thing to do. it's not. and the worry for me is that, first of all, it's so disappointing that a young
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person should think that that's acceptable in society. but secondly , has become normalised secondly, has become normalised because republican leaders in northern ireland said over the summer that there was alternative to killing people dunng alternative to killing people during the troubles that they had to do it. so then a young people in northern ireland think it's normal. and so the ira were some good guys , whereas in some good guys, whereas in actual fact they went around in the dead of night sticking car bombs under people's and coming to people's homes to run to them . the reality is this young woman and indeed others who have been guilty of singing should visit some of the victims family. some people. i mean, i used to have a young girl who worked for me who was only 11 months when her father gunned down on his farm . and, you know down on his farm. and, you know , need to understand that the ira were vicious criminal
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organisation that was seeking eradicate support for the union here northern ireland. they have gone on a different path and have decided to go into politics. but they still do not what they did. mark that's the fundamental issue. i have no difficulty condemning absolute criminal and terrorist some matter where it comes from, but they still don't murdering their neighbours in northern ireland. just bitterly in this something that goes back at least a century because the same thing happenedin century because the same thing happened in the years in the run to the irish free state in 1922. and it's what they think extraordinary about the situation in ireland is the particular coldness with people who are willing to kill their neighbours people who live in the next street in the next village and a remark like the
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heartless ness of a remark like this because even if they didn't know your story personally i was with you in enniskillen few a couple of months back . i talked couple of months back. i talked to three or four people and within talking to those three or four you knew that there was no family that had not been touched by ira terrorism . one woman said by ira terrorism. one woman said to me that three family members of hers had been killed by the ira and i. and so this says to me, 25 years after the belfast agreement is that for a lot of these young it's actually a total old peace. they that that at a certain the acceptance of a common humanity is not there woolmark and i was really delighted you came along dennis skelton and met with people there and integrated yourself well and listened to their stories because there are so many stories like that that you
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heard from innocent victims just wanting to get on with their everyday . many of targeted everyday. many of targeted because they were only sons of farmers therefore if they were taken out of the equation then they would not be able to farm they would not be able to farm the family farm . and so it was the family farm. and so it was a very brutal campaign, a very brutal campaign . what is so brutal campaign. what is so disappointing is that this is a young lady who was out of business award ceremony . and by business award ceremony. and by the way, i said so sorry for the organisers of award ceremony because it was a brilliant night and they are not responsible for all of their guests . that cannot all of their guests. that cannot be . and for this to over shadow be. and for this to over shadow what was a very good night. really very sorry that that has . but this lady came to me , told . but this lady came to me, told her, she said to me , will delete her, she said to me, will delete it. she clearly delete it. mark. she put it out . i'm not going to she put it out. i'm not going to disappoint all of this. and then this is overshadowed what was a great night at the award
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ceremony but it is a cold. you're right about that. that cold news comes from the republican leadership because they refuse to condemn . they they refuse to condemn. they refuse to condemn the criminal activities of the ira . and activities of the ira. and unless and until they do , there unless and until they do, there will be a cadre of young people who think that it's cool to support the ira. it's who think that it's cool to support the ira . it's not cool support the ira. it's not cool these people young men and women right across northern ireland many of them from their own community it has to be said. well mark many catholics side with the hands of the ira and therefore these people said after happened i would like to take young lady to a cemetery anywhere in county fermanagh . anywhere in county fermanagh. she would see the results of supporting the ira and would see many headstones of young man who were murdered trying to defend their country and working for their country and working for the good of the whole community. so it is it is depressing. it is sad . and i think we really needs sad. and i think we really needs to happen is for to have some
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grown up leadership from the republican movement but unfortunate mark and not hold my breath for that happening and well the reason the lack of a grown leadership is because this is the largest party now north and south. i don't i wouldn't assume to know the population of ulster as well as you arlene but l, ulster as well as you arlene but i, i certainly get the impression on recent visits to dubun impression on recent visits to dublin and elsewhere in the south basically every young person they're not interested in finnegan or fan of foyle or those guys basically everybody under 30 is hot for them. maybe under 30 is hot for them. maybe under 40 or 50. i'm not sure where the cut off line is, but certainly young people, hot for sinn fein down . are you sinn fein down. are you disturbed? where where this ultimately is going ? yes, i am, ultimately is going? yes, i am, because they don't when they're challenged about sinn fein supports the ira they will say
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and i've heard young people say this both in northern ireland and in the republic of ireland that. that's in the past the difficulty is mark it's not in the past because sinn fein leadership will condemn what leadership will not condemn what they want . ira leadership will not condemn what they want. ira did during the 72. it is a so therefore that's the ification of terrorism continues and it happened again at the weekend michelle o'neill and adams were down at an event to celebrate martin ferris. martin ferris is a criminal. he was also a sinn fein td and they think it's okay to celebrate somebody of his ilk . and when somebody of his ilk. and when people see that and people understand the people who have done things in the past are being celebrated and glorified, then it's no surprise that young people will think that it's okay to walk up to a former union leader and say of the ira, it's just so depressing, very, very .
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just so depressing, very, very. and i really think these young people need to have a in humanity . they need to have some humanity. they need to have some empathy for their neighbours as to what they have gone through. i understand this young woman is from south armagh and many young men and women lost their lives because of ira violence and that area and they to understand what happenedin area and they to understand what happened in the not so recent past time 52 years of age this went on right throughout my teenage years into my and so it's not ancient history it's only happened decades ago and thankfully what's the belfast but of course the belfast has now been dishonoured as you and you were talking about brexit just before i came on on way in which the european union have a coach and horses through the belfast agreement. and unless and until that is dealt with , and until that is dealt with, the unionist leadership will not be able go back into devolution and a departure because powersharing means for both
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communities and unfortunately it's not there at the moment in time no well the one communal t has the entire european uni ian on its side lending its weight thatis on its side lending its weight that is not an answer to the irish question. mr. glad with would have foreseen but it is certainly something that is most thatis certainly something that is most that is the biggest foot on the pedal that anyone has since that agreement was signed . you very agreement was signed. you very much arlene you're taking this very well . i don't know whether very well. i don't know whether i would have acted with such forbearance toward that young . forbearance toward that young. we'll we'll talk. it's forbearance toward that young. we'll we'll talk . it's always we'll we'll talk. it's always good to see you . are you having good to see you. are you having difficulty getting an appointment with your gp or local hospital. well, nhs scotland has come up with a solution to that. get out your credit card and pay . we're going credit card and pay. we're going to talk about that with james melvill and about kiss stamas
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sir keir starmer , who would be sir keir starmer, who would be the first serving labour prime minister with a knighthood, is nevertheless a man of the people. so he says he wants to get rid of the house of lords to restore trust in politics because a peerage is just a way of rewarding lack , ease and of rewarding lack, ease and donors. yeah, well , whose fault donors. yeah, well, whose fault is that, you, blairite nincompoop. but he does have a point. if boris johnson's league resignation honours are to be believed , he's going to make two believed, he's going to make two of his 12 year old interns , the of his 12 year old interns, the youngest peers in the house.
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james melville is here . james, james melville is here. james, what do you make of starmer's declaration to abolish the house of lords ? well, i think it's of lords? well, i think it's good news . i mean, it of lords? well, i think it's good news. i mean, it might be a little bit kind of tokenism at this stage and sort of a populist gesture. the devil's in the detail, but fundamentally , i the detail, but fundamentally, i agree with it. the house of lords is basically an unelected chamber of cronyism . i mean, i'm chamber of cronyism. i mean, i'm all for democracy . if we're all for democracy. if we're putting through legislation and then check some legislation which is to the benefit of the house of lords. it has to be by democratic means, not a set of flunkies and cronies that are placed by whatever government of the day is filled out for future generations to shape votes and also check mechanisms in the future. what we need i do think we should abolish in its current form , but we should have an form, but we should have an alternative. so whether that's a senate or something that's been mooted before we take it to a
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different location in which the by labour to have it in york. but i do think fundamentally we have something that is elected by the people that is actually non—political . by the people that is actually non—political. imagine a second chamber which is about the great and good the experts in our communities and regions , which communities and regions, which is voted for by the people in a bipartisan way to put a check on basis. the political aspect of the house of commons. so i think what starmer's saying is a move in the right direction by said at the start, the devil's in the detail. yeah but if that was the old house of lords to a degree , old house of lords to a degree, because you can say what you like about a 14th or a 12th marquess, but there independent and several generations removed from the state that appointed them in the first place. tony blair for deliberate reason is chalk out the independ and element of the house of lords and left just the cronies cast .
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and left just the cronies cast. sharma is actually arguing against blair's perversion of the second of the upper house . the second of the upper house. well, he isn't . he isn't. i well, he isn't. he isn't. i mean, if you talk about hereditary peers, i've got no time for that either. i think it should be basically elected representative house and a senate is second chamber. i think that's what james. james, they they won't have it. they don't want that. they've got a house of commons and getting elected to the house of commons makes you something they don't want. alternative sources of democratic legit army legitimacy in a second chamber. blair doesn't want that. starmer doesn't want that. starmer doesn't want that trust. john sutton, cameron and whatever other no name tory prime minister has come out. none of them want that. they don't want a demo cratic rival to the commons . yeah, i mean, as i've commons. yeah, i mean, as i've said before , there will be no
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said before, there will be no cheeks of the same backside. they want to protect their own power. i'll look at it from my point. if you i think most people would actually want. i was actually a form of democracy . i mean, we talked before occupy want democracy, whether we don't want technocrats telling us what to do . so why telling us what to do. so why should we have to peer's telling us what to do or cronies who are elected telling us what to do? well, i want to thank the majority is to use that majority people is to use that chamber effectively and get elected representatives that are possibly not politics actual representatives, but actually understand the constituencies and communities. i'm maybe i'm just being a naive old fool and actually wanting that. but i suggest that most people in the country want that as a second chamber, not the motives to hoover up more power to claw back forms of legislation that will just basically go through the house of lords with a nod and a wink. we need to have a democrats second chamber whatever shape and function and form that is well, we'll
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whatever shape and function and form that is well , we'll see. form that is well, we'll see. i don't see any sign that either sir keir or mr. sunak or any of those guys would go along with that. but we'll see. i'm i'm reminded of the immortal words of i think it was spongebob squarepants. good luck with that . had a lot of hair and a lot of insight on these matters. thank you very much, james. speaking of those hereditary peers, you are denouncing, viscount monckton is standing by. he's in the chair and he's ready to respond. recommend right back .
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one of the reasons for example, that brexit is being undermined is because the house of lords is abso lutely stuffed with ramona's case. but unlike the commons remainers who don't have to answer to their electorates andifs to answer to their electorates and it's for that reason they're overweight , and it's for that reason they're overweight, alarmingly opposed to reforming the northern ireland protocol because they actually like the idea of one quarter of the uk still being stuck in the eu. so the present composite version of the house of lords is very inimical to the will of the people. indeed the house of lords is at present more unrepresentative of the people than it was when it was composed entirely . if i people than it was when it was composed entirely. if i read it trippier's because then there was very little room for placement . you could only placement. you could only appoint a new one if somebody fell off his perch and there was no air. and that happened relatively slowly. so as you were saying earlier in the
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programme, one of the advent pitches of the hereditary house of lords is you've got a wonderful mix of people. i mean, it was there was a young peer once , once who was a sainsbury's once, once who was a sainsbury's shelf stacker. he inherited at the age of 21. so you know, the little children that boris is trying to appoint, the piers, they won't actually be the youngest piers because the hereditary system actually had much younger people on average in the house of lords than you ever got in the house commons. but they also, whatever one felt about heredity free house, about an heredity free house, they also had a wider range. i mean, boris's 12 year old in terms just full time political sock ups and there's already 800 of those. that's right. it's just hack upon hack upon hack when what you had was to use the fashionable word, diverse city. that's what they had in the old days. yeah, that's what's gone what is now being proposed by keir starmer.
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what is now being proposed by keir starmer . fascinating keir starmer. fascinating laboun keir starmer. fascinating labour. not at all. surprisingly, given the history of the labour party is an idea of the labour party is an idea of what used to be called the occupational and geographical franchise. it franchise is in the house of lords in the regions and trades and industries are lacked. special representatives to go to the house of lords. that idea is in fact a very old one. it goes back to the 1930s and to the manifesto of tomorrow. we live of also of mosley's british union of fashion ist. oh, there we are. so oswald and sir keir like like two peas in a pod on house of lords reform . let me, house of lords reform. let me, let me throw this one at you, because i mentioned to eileen the inauguration of the irish free state. exactly a century ago. i think it was december six, 1922, something like that. and looking at the bills as they passed through the house of lords , there were in those days lords, there were in those days there were about 100 self—select
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young activists . piers there's young activists. piers there's something because the others, i guess, had more important things to do, whereas when you're given a one of tony blair's crappy peerages , basically being in peerages, basically being in that building across the river is the entirety of your identity . so we now have hundreds and hundreds of shouldn't it be a much smaller chamber ? well, it much smaller chamber? well, it used to be much smaller for the reason you describe there were typically about 600 hereditary peers of whom at any one time, somewhere between one and 200, depending on when you look at it, were the active ones. and because they were the active ones and because they came from all backgrounds, they had one priceless advantage over anyone else in the legislature in the world, apart from, of course, good breeding and proper schooling. so of course i wouldn't know about that. well well, what they had was precisely because they were
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beholden to no one. they didn't have to appeal to an electorate . they didn't on the other hand, over their position to some political shenanigans . they were political shenanigans. they were there because they were there because they were there. i knew at the age of ten that i was one day going to be the third. viscount monckton of brent. and i remember going into the house and sitting as you could as the eldest son of a peer on the steps of the throne to watch their lordships doing their thing. and i said to myself then at the age of ten, this is not going to last. i will never actually have my seat here, but if i do just in case i do, i'm going to make sure that i am properly prepared so that i can be of some use in this place and not just an ornament. and so that's the lifetime of preparation that those who were the active ists were just the ones who were interested in making a contribution that was very valuable. and that doesn't exist in any legislature in the
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world. and it doesn't any longer exist here either. and let's get let's also deal very briefly with this point about is the house of lords elected ? well, of house of lords elected? well, of course the hereditary house of lords is indeed elected . we are lords is indeed elected. we are elected by a higher authority. god bless you. well, you know, that's quite a good slogan celebre diversity with the house of lords . the problem with what of lords. the problem with what blair did to it, he he wrecked so much but what he wrecked at the house of lords is he turned it into basically a chamber of yesterday's opinion , which is yesterday's opinion, which is why it's stuffed full of remote owners who are screwing the british people over on brexit and the northern ireland protocol and all kinds of other stuff . thank you. thank protocol and all kinds of other stuff. thank you. thank you very much , christopher. we are going much, christopher. we are going to go . to the one and only dan to go. to the one and only dan wootton , who's had a massive wootton, who's had a massive eight year monday. what triggered dan mark steyn? great show. i'm still thinking about
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