hey welcome along to the mark steyn. sure. before we go any further , want to apologise for further, want to apologise for last night's mark steyn show not for being cranky and ill tempered that , worked wonders tempered that, worked wonders for the ratings , had a boffo for the ratings, had a boffo night gangbusters. i never for the ratings, had a boffo night gangbusters . i never knew night gangbusters. i never knew that the key to success was being obnoxious and unlikeable now i want to apologise for this. this me. exactly 24 hours

ago. i say albanian independence . we just got the ratings for this show and 94% of our audience, our baby and males who've arrived the last month so happy albania independence day to you . albania is independent, to you. albania is independent, increasingly independent of albanian males all left for britain . well, that was just a britain. well, that was just a lame gag . lame actually lame gag. lame actually dependent on premise that albanian independ stay isn't really a big deal the uk. so it's a bit like me wishing you a happy birth of william tupman day which happens to be in a liberia. if you don't know who william tubman in he's liberia's longest serving god bless his memory but so i it was just one of those kind of jokes. and then when the show ended, i left the building and found the streets full of albanians all

celebrating an albanian independence day for real at the expense of all the known albanians . as you can see, they albanians. as you can see, they brought central to a standstill. so i really need to apologise, to stop now whom i breezily blamed for the chaos and gridlock last night did chaps a great disservice and my apologies are sincere i should have known that you pampered white privileged upper middle class transgender climate change module elderly varsity boys would never have been capable of causing chaos on that scale for shutting down the centre of a g7 capital city. you need albanians working hand in hand with the world's most incompetent constabulary. we'll get into that later . constabulary. we'll get into that later. i'd also like to apologise our china coverage for reasons i'll expand on in a moment. managing also want me to apologise for appearing to call

for the violent overthrow of the government of the united kingdom, which is apparently in of ofcom guidelines. but i'm taking legal advice on that one. i don't see why if albanians can treat the british state as a total joke of flailing in antwerp's the rest of us shouldn't be able to anyway . shouldn't be able to anyway. have a crackerjack line up for you, pat . greg o'flynn is head you, pat. greg o'flynn is head plus james melville, andrew stedman bowen and kate hoey to stick it to those who afflict us. and of course, the most important of the show that's you can you see light at the end of the tunnel or is that just the headlamps of oncoming elbow fenian revellers email me . tweet fenian revellers email me. tweet me at gb news all coming up after tatiana's with the latest news . thank you very much, news. thank you very much, mark is the latest from the gb

newsroom a man has been arrested gloucestershire in connection with deaths of at least 27 people who drowned in the engush people who drowned in the english channel in a dinghy last 32 year old haram ahmed abu bakr is accused of being a member of a gang behind the crossing . two a gang behind the crossing. two people survived. four are still missing . people survived. four are still missing. he'll appear at westminster magistrates tomorrow . an error at a lab which saw thousands of positive covid cases reported as negative could have led to the deaths of 20 people. invest data that the uk health security say the mistake of the wolf okehampton lab meant nearly 40,000 pcr tests were wrongly between september and october last year. researchers also estimated almost 700 additional hospital admissions that may not have otherwise occurred . bosses at the uk hsa occurred. bosses at the uk hsa say they fully the findings and recommendations made in the report .

recommendations made in the report. ukraine as first recommendations made in the report . ukraine as first lady report. ukraine as first lady has told the opening of a russian war crimes exhibition . russian war crimes exhibition. london. the exhibit document says atrocities committed by russians soldiers across ukraine earlier and is landscapes spoke employees in westminster and highly to the ongoing torture and violence . president and violence. president zelenskyy is wife likened russia's invasion to the second world war. china's ambassador to the uk has been summoned to foreign office over a diplomatic following the arrest and alleged of a bbc journalist . covid of a bbc journalist. covid protests . a heavy police protests. a heavy police presence has been in several cities in to deter further after unrest over the weekend. earlier today , foreign office minister today, foreign office minister answered urgent question on the matter . he says the answered urgent question on the matter. he says the uk government demanding a full and thorough explanation over the arrest of ed lawrence . a section arrest of ed lawrence. a section of the new online safety bill has been removed following criticism . some conservatives

criticism. some conservatives that posed a risk to free speech. the amendment means big tech like social media sites , tech like social media sites, will no longer be required to remove material if it's deemed be legal. the online bill is due to return to parliament next week after being repeated daily delayed . the foreign secretary delayed. the foreign secretary is accusing russia's president putin of trying to freeze the ukrainians into submission. speaking at a meeting of nato foreign ministers in bucharest, james cleverly said russia's war was destined to fail due to the resilience of the ukrainian people . ministers at the talks people. ministers at the talks are looking for ways to support caves. military and keep civilians safe, despite constant blackouts and heating shortages . and england and wales are facing each other in their final b match at the world cup as currently nil nil at half time to get through to the knockouts. wales must beat england and hope the usa with iran. meanwhile, gareth southgate's side are

looking to bounce back their draw with the us and qualify as top of the group group . tv, top of the group group. tv, onune top of the group group. tv, online and dab+ this is gb news. that was to mark steyn . that was to mark steyn. thank you, tatiana . this the thank you, tatiana. this the united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland and its territories and possessions . the territories and possessions. the globe is a great nation . don't globe is a great nation. don't let anyone tell you otherwise that building across river once legislated for a quarter of the planet and did it rather well. and with far fewer spans and into ones and whatnot. then these guys require now, but the buffer moons shysters and sell outs over there are killing this country. last night central london was shut down. i had to

abandon my cab get out and pound the pavement all the way to the studios. i got here with 3 minutes to spare my hair piece was all askew, not glued on the proper position like now i wheezing like someone had just my iron lung. the reason as i found out when left the studio was al bane in independence day, which apparently way bigger in metropolis than, say , st metropolis than, say, st george's day or the king's official birthday . as we've official birthday. as we've discussed before , according to discussed before, according to the home, and i think this is an under aspect, quite a big one, the estimate, some 2% of albania's entire male population have moved here in the last year because you can never have albanian men can . you even if albanian men can. you even if they're just employed as extras on the receiving end of liam neeson in taken . seven, neeson in taken. seven, according to the bbc in the guardian. these people are refugees fleeing, passing fashion with nothing but the

clothes on back. you wouldn't have got that impression from the scenes on westminster bridge. lambeth bridge, millbank , parliament square. birdcage walk, horse guards, the male pal now trafalgar square . last night now trafalgar square. last night these guys were driving . yeah, these guys were driving. yeah, look at that . that's. that's the look at that. that's. that's the albanian , by the way. get used albanian, by the way. get used to it. you're going be seeing a lot of it. they were dry. oh, here come some more if you can hear the sirens, the background, that's the police coming to close bridge for the convenience of the albanians they were also driving , as you can see, their driving, as you can see, their porsches and lamborghinis these are cars that cost . north of are cars that cost. north of 120,000 quid. and i like that. see that , they were using them see that, they were using them to do the spectacle killer wheel spins , which is sometimes it's spins, which is sometimes it's really fun. i mean, that's that's doing it and whatever that's doing it and whatever thatis that's doing it and whatever that is , doing it in a that is, doing it in a lamborghini is good. and they were doing wheel spins on westminster bridge, lambeth , a westminster bridge, lambeth, a bunch of other bridges , which is bunch of other bridges, which is fun. i for my own part. i

certainly would have enjoyed it on the bridge over the river at skoda , while tootling to my skoda, while tootling to my houday skoda, while tootling to my holiday villa in cash strapped . holiday villa in cash strapped. but oddly enough, the albanians only seem to acquire the lamborghini knees and mercs and bmw after they wash up on the shores of dover and folkestone last night as i was strolling the boulevards of the new tehran on thames, the metropolitan , on thames, the metropolitan, whose cars were everywhere close past the bridge behind me. so we asked the coppers why are you closing the bridge? and the officer that it was because the albanians were doing their wheelies the bridges and wheelies on the bridges and backing traffic miles so the backing up traffic miles so the useless plod solution that was to close down the bridges and back up traffic for even miles and instead have the doing their supercar spins in parliament and the now you don't need a constabulary to make decisions that stupid the coppers are useless. they use us for burglary . they use us for rape,

burglary. they use us for rape, they use this for stabbings. they use for grooming gangs. and now we they're useless for basic traffic management. they colluded with the albanians to , colluded with the albanians to, hand them a great victory who controls the public space in london night albanians the pubuc london night albanians the public space. we invited the chief constable of the met on the show to explain his insane decision , but he decided to decision, but he decided to declined our invitation and. the best we could get was a statement from scotland yard spokesperson pete davey . the spokesperson pete davey. the police became of a large group of vehicles and people congregating the south—east one on southwest one area officers work to minimise disruption and some diversions put in place. one person was reported being arrested. no details on quote you didn't disruption you maximised it you shut down the

key arteries of central london for albania an independence day how how crazy is that by the way i'm talking about this because it's a micro of how long things have gone basically for this millennium. so you have a problem of albania ends with albania ends. so the people you punish are the law for native residents and cities of the united kingdom because true with everything isn't it. oh the ukraine war we got to help plucky ukraine so grandma will have to freeze to death oh look some guys are blowing up buildings in new york. some guys are blowing up buildings in new york . you have buildings in new york. you have to take off half your clothes and shuffle like a great bovine through the airports until the end of time. this what happened night is where it's all gone wrong for free societies . the wrong for free societies. the last 20 years. why is

independence day so big? well, right now it's because just 2% of albania and males have moved to the uk by next year. independence mp woke for the 6. i'm putting this request in a yearin i'm putting this request in a year in advance like the chief constable from scotland yard to be in studio for next year's albanian independence day . we're albanian independence day. we're getting it in early so we expect you to say yes . the useless you to say yes. the useless british political class have wrecked your country . they're wrecked your country. they're not done yet. calvin robinson of this parish tweeted . look at this parish tweeted. look at this. he's showing you some footage of the how, bringing the streets of london to a standstill. the useless coppers . maybe we can get that useless copper on the shed and just put three words above it not an invasion to which the member of parliament for bury st edman , parliament for bury st edman, adds fellow christian wakeford responded approximately point 4%

of the uk population is only slightly less than gb news viewers share play another tune hate filled muppet . listen hate filled muppet. listen what's the name of that mp again 7 what's the name of that mp again ? what she called champion michael spence . whatever his michael spence. whatever his name is, i've forgotten his name, but that 0.4% is an underestimate, right now when you have a thousand, quote, asylum washing up on the shores of southern england, about percent of them are estimated to be albanian . let's pretend that be albanian. let's pretend that 0.4% is actually accurate. that's an awfully high number for a nation that is neither a member of the commonwealth nor of the european union. 30 years ago, the uk census recorded only 338 alba unions in realm. so albanian independence day on. westminster bridge would have been a lonely just a decade ago . the 2011 census recorded .

. the 2011 census recorded. a mere 13,295 alba indians in england with 100 and another 120 in wales as if christian drake third mp for bury st is correct , it's now 0.4. the albanian population in the uk is now over 270,000, so it's 20 times what it was a decade ago all on the watch of the cameron johnson trust crap serve it if party if it increases 20 fold in the next decade , that would mean five and decade, that would mean five and a half million. alba union steering wheels on lambeth . the steering wheels on lambeth. the good news is that there's only and a half million people left in albania . but thinking about in albania. but thinking about that idiot mp bury st edmunds, i may have to stand him in 2024. think think about what he's saying over . think think about what he's saying over. ten on his numbers . over 10% of the population of is now in the united kingdom .

is now in the united kingdom. these feckless men and women across the river will cost you your country . let me know what your country. let me know what your country. let me know what you think you can email me gb at gbnews.uk. the former mep patrick o'flynn is here . patrick patrick o'flynn is here. patrick it gets worse . gets worse, it it gets worse. gets worse, it gets worse it gets worse and no one even pretends we're going to do anything about it. now yeah, this is actually what social adjusts the few sense ones there. cool balkanisation appropriately enough, which is the removals that come from the removal of the overall feeling of loyalty to a country to and society. and the artemis into loads of different groups who are only loyal to each other. and so you today yesterday it was albanians bringing london to a standstill . on other days, a standstill. on other days, it's palestinians sympathisers or iranians attacking british police . we can't even appoint

police. we can't even appoint these days a to here evidence of a crown court case because half the jury will oh that person agrees with me so i'm letting them off anyway. the whole feeling of loyalty to our country overall seems to me to be in collapse because of the mismanaged principally the mismanaged principally the mismanaged and the crude that's been to persist. i suppose the only good thing last night, two good things. one, it could have been like the moroccan fans in belgium hate the country they grown up in. so that their football team beat , grown up in. so that their football team beat, belgium, they decided to smash it up. at least it wasn't that . and the least it wasn't that. and the other thing is haven't like an awfully they came penniless awfully they came over penniless as moderns slaves obviously those so—called turkish barber shops that that we see in our high streets that usually pretty empty to me are generating enormous quantities of instant . enormous quantities of instant. yeah. to allow these massive teddies and lamborghinis and range rovers to be purchased know you could argue it's sort

thatcherite entrepreneurial i mean that in fairness you couldn't actually take a on a load of albanian because there wouldn't be much left of the once you'd gone a mile and a half but they but but just to go back a story tatiana had in the news in news bulletin this guy has just been arrested in gloucestershire for causing the deaths . sea of 27 people deaths. sea of 27 people drowning in the english channel. he's got a name, abu . the one he's got a name, abu. the one were allowed to spec urinate on these things and in britain's controlled media would say that he is likely a person of immigrant origin who nevertheless has decided to get a piece of the human action. i've no doubt that of the albanians who arrive each night , some of them also going to be attracted into some of these booming industries like human smuggling, sex trafficking in

drugs, prostitution , what why drugs, prostitution, what why are people still the do nothing conservative party? well think increasingly they're not. if look at the opinion poll ratings , you know i talked to conservative mp say especially in those red wall seats their morale is in their boots they know that rishi sunak is coming across as just a guy who wants to be back slapped by his mates trudeau and max von doesn't want to take any difficult on behalf of the british people you know he looks like he's sort of you know every time he appears sits with some other world leader or the city, lord mayor's banquet, he's very with ordinary people. well that seems to be. and to me, he's projecting how proud making his mum and dad and it's like winchester college speech all over again than delivering for the british people . i do for the british people. i do think that the conservatives on

immigration , legal and illegal, immigration, legal and illegal, have lost their base and i it is going to destroy them at the next general election. some of them are aware of that. they come out with these sort of slight write a letter to the home secretary about about albanians and things. it's not all about if you took albanians out of the picture this year the number of people who've come across on small dinghies is still already 3000 more than it was for the entirety of last yean was for the entirety of last year, which in itself was a disastrous . it's albanians. this disastrous. it's albanians. this it could be iranians, afghans , it could be iranians, afghans, eritreans . they've lost the eritreans. they've lost the control across peace. why if thatis control across peace. why if that is the case, why don't tories who want to sink on the good ship, irish, are actually form some sort of breakaway faction? now it doesn't have to be a formal party. they could come up with some time and get into the group and the would be a signal to . the ghastly

a signal to. the ghastly conservative central that there's a party in waiting here. i think like that might happen, that you might see them sign up to a charter of, you know, five key points , including stopping key points, including stopping the and the measures to do that to distinguish themselves which could be a stepping stone to a full break away should the erosion of the conservative poll position carry on as it looks like . it will do when you talk like. it will do when you talk about that, who still likes these guys ? well, they seem to these guys? well, they seem to be caught in people who will never vote for them in a million years, i guess. rishi sunak is kind of popular in what's known as the blue wall and a sort of remaining home counties posh tories who like to think of themselves oh so terribly liberal and nice, so , you know, liberal and nice, so, you know, helpful to people like jeremy hunt, surprisingly enough. yeah. well dominic raab but you know,

the further go outside the m25 in, away from london , the more in, away from london, the more people are turning up their noses at what they're being offered by the conservative party. and there's not blue wall seats to deliver, you know , any seats to deliver, you know, any decent return at all. i'm not. i mean, they've squandered 12 years this is quite disgraceful. i can't even understand where not now. on why i think it's the sixth failed tory prime minister in in a row but this is just insulting you . what the what the insulting you. what the what the coppers did last night. thank you.thank coppers did last night. thank you. thank you very patrick. we always appreciate your insight as to where this story is headed . and you're right, it's not just although if every other country in the world had 10% of its population living in the uk , it would be a mighty crowded place . up next, your thoughts? place. up next, your thoughts? jb at gbnews.uk and james is here on the weird selling of the

british media when it comes to protests . andrew ted, more protests. andrew ted, more coming up on the so—called onune coming up on the so—called online harms bill and. the one and only kate henry is here . and only kate henry is here. don't touch that now. we'll be right back . thanks.

quick correction to i was saying a few minutes ago . mr. christian a few minutes ago. mr. christian wakeford is the member not for bury st edmunds for bury in lancashire , which is next door lancashire, which is next door more or less to oldham and rochdale. do you anything to say about grooming gangs ? mr. mp about grooming gangs? mr. mp happy to welcome . anybody who happy to welcome. anybody who wants to come here into the country, you have anything to say about grooming gangs know you have anything to say about people being picked up and gang

raped out of oldham police station? we've mr. wakeford to come on because . he's chosen to come on because. he's chosen to pick a fight with a gb news colleague of mine. so i wouldn't him as prancing pillock a word not for the fact he's chosen not to come the show. but that's the thing . that's the thing we've . thing. that's the thing we've. covered girl being picked up and gang out of the lobby of . oldham gang out of the lobby of. oldham police station. what are you going to say about that mr. what she called wakeford ? gb news is she called wakeford? gb news is the people's . so let's channel the people's. so let's channel what . the people are saying we what. the people are saying we wanted to know what you thought about the albanian takeover of central london. phil says they should have done with them what they would have done with us . they would have done with us. we'd tried that . the woods, he we'd tried that. the woods, he says. if people took to the streets for st george's that way they would have been . yeah, but they would have been. yeah, but that's because st george's is a big haiti. haiti, haiti racy,

racy, racist events . no. st racy, racist events. no. st george's day celebrations for you, francis says there was no take over . just some people take over. just some people celebrate eating their country's national day . it happens quite national day. it happens quite often, actually doesn't happen that they close. the bridges of central and interest interestingly when you say they countries national day these are albanian peons resident in the united kingdom their country is supposed to be the united kingdom isn't it? supposed to be the united kingdom isn't it ? steve says the kingdom isn't it? steve says the police should have used their comprehensive training stop the albanian version of the macarena . they can't do it. they can't it. the police are so lousy at everything. they only dance they can do. everything. they only dance they can do is everything. they only dance they can do. is the macarena . because can do. is the macarena. because that dance requires no skill. i was just as i was walking back to the excitable albanians , i to the excitable albanians, i was thinking this night can't

get any worse what? not for the lincolnshire police and the police service of northern ireland turning up. that's the equivalent. that's the dancing equivalent. that's the dancing equivalent of the england wales match. the police psni from ulster versus the lincolnshire coppers to see who are the terps victorian policemen in these islands a week or three back. i'm usually when media are going all in on a topic, it's usually because there's something else they don't want you talking about. they don't want you talking about . for example, if you're about. for example, if you're wondering dominic being wondering why dominic being beastly to his interns or matt hancock killing it on imus celebrity sucks up all the media oxygen . it's because otherwise oxygen. it's because otherwise some that oxygen might find some of that oxygen might find its vaccine victims and its way to vaccine victims and excess mortality and grooming gangs and demographic transformation , open borders and transformation, open borders and all the other subjects at the politico media class . rather, politico media class. rather, you didn't take an interest in. i forgot my own rule when it came . the current kerfuffle

came. the current kerfuffle about china. there are people on the streets of china protesting lockdown . oh my the bbc and sky lockdown. oh my the bbc and sky and fleet street can't get enough of that story. but these are the same media organisations that when it came to the canadian truckers or the millions of demonstrators across europe protesting the exact same thing didn't cover the story at all and certainly not a great human rights struggle. james melville is with me . you made melville is with me. you made this point , twitter, that this point, twitter, that suddenly lockdown protests are of interest to all the same media organisations who've ignored them for the last two years. yeah turned a blind eye to those protests for basically two years. not just in the uk, but in canada and right across there's protest happening most weekends and it wasn't just sort a fringe minority either. it's justin trudeau was talking about the great, you know, hypocrite that he is we're actually

trudeau tonight . so today came trudeau tonight. so today came out and said that the chinese people are entitled talk about this he was bank accounts of protesters in canada and the hypocrisy is astounding in all of this it's not just twitter politically a media as well and it's great that for instance, the media are covering what's going on in china. but the chinese are protesting for the same things that people across europe and canada protesting about as well and ties for freedoms and an end to the draconian measures . yeah. and draconian measures. yeah. and basically the i mean they're being a little more heavy handed it but they're basically not doing anything that western governments didn't feel entirely doing confining to a flat all day saying you could go out for 20 minutes a day to do a bit of exercise in the park as long it was a nearby park but you couldn't take to the roads you buy non—essential items in

supermarkets . i mean, it's very supermarkets. i mean, it's very it's almost as if the media are trying to memory whole all the crazy totalitarian behaviour western states engaged in just the day before yesterday . yeah the day before yesterday. yeah there's a couple aspects to this. yeah. the screenlife thing at all, i mean we you there's penods at all, i mean we you there's periods then of lockdowns , you periods then of lockdowns, you know, civil liberties were completely lost . it's stripped completely lost. it's stripped from us. but it's also the smearing that went on well. smearing that went on as well. some of the that went on about anyone protesting and anyone who's protesting and questioning and questioning the response and coping with called covidiots or conspiracy theories on far right are anti—vax and they're now looking at the same protests on same issue in china with very different optics . they're saying different optics. they're saying that they're heroes. they're standing to authoritarianism. you know basically authoritarianism is authoritarianism is authoritarian ism wherever it lands. authoritarian ism wherever it lands . but the hypocrisy is lands. but the hypocrisy is absolutely the other aspect with our media. i suspect they turned a blind eye to this in terms of

the protesters and the questions that were raised over the lockdowns and restrictions is because guess who largely funding media over this ? it funding the media over this? it was the government. the government became , the number government became, the number one spender within most of our media. most our media, media. most of our media, probably without trace it probably without a trace if it wasn't the government ad spend went into about 400 million over the pandemic. they certainly bite the hand that feeds them now , there's certainly a lot of now, there's certainly a lot of truth that. and speaking of that , the hand that feeds you what do you think lies behind the chinese ? us see these images chinese? us see these images china's is has somewhat strange it's official numbers for coded covid deaths are preposterous . covid deaths are preposterous. think in 2020 people just stopped dying on april the 23rd or may the 12th or whatever it was. and they and nobody added to those numbers for a year and a half. so chinese covid numbers a half. so chinese covid numbers a complete lead dishonest . do

a complete lead dishonest. do you why do you think the chinese are presenting this image of freedom loving protesters to the world well i mean yeah i mean you're right but the numbers are suddenly stopped in terms of deaths , you know, literally deaths, you know, literally within days they've within a couple of days they've stopped. you've got stopped. and then you've got a question where the are question where the numbers are but this i think it's just it has actually got of hand i has actually got of hand mark i think protest is in such think the protest is in such numbers and people sharing these clips the world and clips around the world and social media is amplify and then that's basically like that's basically becoming like a snowball effect. i think we know at a stage where there's a momentum to process in the same way for the protesters in way that for the protesters in iran the numbers are there in such great degree some of the messages and the images are just leaking beyond their borders so it's difficult these authoritarian regimes suppress that, especially in the day age of social media. i think it's run away with it. so fantastic thing because the more we can get meaningful power to stand up

to this sort of thing, the better but lest we forget and our media shouldn't forget their own hypocrisy on this because they were not covering in the mass freedom protests that went on to the summer of 2020 right through 2021 as well. anyone who went to those protests. they were very, very different things to what the protesters are being called . china yeah, that's called. china yeah, that's that's very true. james let's not forget the all the people cheering them on. andrew neil, formerly of this desk , this formerly of this desk, this timeslot and piers morgan and all kinds of other people . thank all kinds of other people. thank you very much, james. the phoney baloney pseudo conservatives across the river have everything in sight . but across the river have everything in sight. but there's a few things not in sight, that they're determined to get to before self detonate in 2024. don't go anywhere . we're coming don't go anywhere. we're coming right back on the tory build that will not die . see you in that will not die. see you in a minute .

most of the things these god awful fake tories have wrecked would take money to fix . they would take money to fix. they haven't got any money because they spent half trillion quid killing the economy during the covid. but the so—called online safety bill in reality a death of free bill doesn't cost anything . they could do the anything. they could do the world a favour and kill it. stone dead tomorrow and yet they don't . andrew tetteh and born don't. andrew tetteh and born professor of law at swansea university. andrew what exactly is this thing alive ? i think the is this thing alive? i think the point is that the tories would love to be able to get of it. they're bitterly regretting having started this but having started it they can't now stop it at the point was made by

fraser nelson that they ought to have seen this was going to be a census it's classic case of government saying something must be done following admittedly very tragic death. the death of molly russell russell if the government had had any sense either they would have noticed that there wasn't much they could do or they would have had something absolutely limited to. protection of children . protection of children. unfortunately, they couldn't . unfortunately, they couldn't. the temptation to say, we're going to go out rather like st george against the monster of big tech and corral. big tech . big tech and corral. big tech. they they've sown the wind and they've reaped the whirlwind. this this is very much a damage limitation exercise . well, you

limitation exercise. well, you mentioned that one particular terrible case but it's an old cliche of members the legal profession that hard cases make bad law. why are they encouraging a regime in which big tech will start sending instead of doing anything for children they're just going to do what's perfectly obvious and censor even than they do political opinions that do not conform to the official narrative . i think that most narrative. i think that most governments are actually a little bit unhappy with free speech, or at least puts it the other way around . there are very other way around. there are very few politicians who will root very for . free speech. one or very for. free speech. one or two tories, and one rather brave labour mp actually did so when

bill was going through its second reading last april , but second reading last april, but actually if you look at the second reading, most of the movement in parliament wasn't to complain about restriction on free speech, it was actually to increase the restrictions on free speech that you had a number of people coming in and saying, for example , it saying, for example, it shouldn't only be big platforms . we need to get people big shoot and mind because . they can shoot and mind because. they can be far more frightening . you've be far more frightening. you've lucy powell , the person who lucy powell, the person who rather said, i think today ago but it's very, very problematic that the government is going for free speech rather than over what's said on the internet. she pre zero in april room two she's got four she pre virtually in april said oh actually i want to

extend this and give the government power shut down whatever they see as misinformation in other words the labour view you know the government gets it right and if you disagree that's tough . well you disagree that's tough. well we've had we've had three years of rule experts we basically had unified approach to the covid era and the result of that is that we're all broke we're shivering our bills the experts all got it wrong if ever there were a time for a wider of opinion, it would be how come ? opinion, it would be how come? instead doubling . on the well, instead doubling. on the well, i'm not quite sure because they have actually improved thing. they've got rid of the idea of suppressing that which is legal but harmful . what's rather but harmful. what's rather worrying is they now want to keep provision in the

communications act that makes it a criminal to say anything that's gross that some grossly offensive which has been used to suppress a great deal online speech they were going to get rid it as the law commission but they're now to keep it. why not quite sure, unless it's the chief constable has said that, it's actually rather useful . it's actually rather useful. deal with the bloody minded . deal with the bloody minded. yeah, it's you. it's useful . you yeah, it's you. it's useful. you want to go round and harass a guy who makes a bad joke about nelson dying or captain tom dying, but actually when you're policing bad as opposed to things that are seriously in bad taste like the grooming gangs same chief constable constable's do nothing about you have completely lost plot of what policing is . thank you very much policing is. thank you very much for that andrew. you read what andrew had to say in spectator and that is an important point.

he about the communications act of 2003 a little blairite thing and on that the stain looms you can ask anything and kate hoey is right in studio. we're coming right back. don't miss a moment . see you in a minute.

we were speaking earlier with patrick o'flynn about this migrant business, which anyone who criticises gets to the usual accused actions of racism . accused actions of racism. interestingly enough, in ireland , south of the border, this is which has always been gung for so—called asylum seekers . people so—called asylum seekers. people have apparently had enough are out protesting . baroness hoey out protesting. baroness hoey from , north of the border is from, north of the border is here me again kate. it's let

just ask you about this irish situation . as you know there are situation. as you know there are in the in grand scheme of things the difference is between irish protestants and irish catholics so entirely minimal yet there bedevilled anglo irish relations for centuries . what on earth for centuries. what on earth when you finally wiggled free of that as the irish free state did a century ago. why would you then decide ? well, now we we've then decide? well, now we we've cleared out the protestant ascendancy. we're going to in chaps from albania somalia, sudan, all the rest it. yeah well ireland been very very upfront about taking as many asylum seekers and have made a big issue about it how good they are kind they are how modern are how progressive they are . and how progressive they are. and most people up until quite recently have just although if

you spoke to people privately, they would be saying this is, you know , it's really wrong. you know, it's really wrong. this, it's changing things but just recently i think maybe because been an end of really big influx in ireland that people are actually out on the streets protesting now you know that's of course i don't know how well it was or whether it was , but it's maybe a sign , sign was, but it's maybe a sign, sign of things to come in some of our areas. it's always funny to me when you're in dublin and you see sinn fein election posters compared to if you're in west belfast, west belfast is there's still a conventional irish republican party. when you stroll around dublin you would think tony had become the leader of sinn fein . it's like one of of sinn fein. it's like one of these multi cult happy. we like to teach world to sing absolutely aiming particularly at young people because that's how sinn fein have managed to increase their support in the

repubuc. increase their support in the republic . of course the election republic. of course the election coming in the future, they want that. but it's very interesting because it's actually been another protest apparently dubun another protest apparently dublin recently where a lot of people in a very middle class have been protesting at some new social housing being built for people and it was rather but yet would be up arms at anyone who dared suggest that maybe some of these illegal immigrants who are not genuine i mean everybody and i know we all this everybody genuinely wants to help someone who is fleeing from torture persecution and absolutely nowhere else to what we're seeing course in the united kingdom at the moment is people who are clearly absolutely coming from a fairly safe , safe coming from a fairly safe, safe country as far everyone says and we're still accused of being racist. if you say anything, don't you ? it's just like a wee don't you? it's just like a wee bit odd if you look at the way

the bbc , for example, covered the bbc, for example, covered the bbc, for example, covered the slight demographic shift between catholics loyalists in northern ireland , that very northern ireland, that very slight shift that fascinate to bbc and they all have discussion on what it means if 10% of the population of albania is living in england . nobody says a one. in england. nobody says a one. i mean was genuinely thinking about it today is it about our country makes us so unhappy about you know, being british and being of our country even when it is going through a terrible economic situation and i mean, i think maybe there something about whole guilt thing still keeps being hammered through now particularly you know colonialism of the of what did we do and all these people we ripped off apparently all of that. and it seems that that's

there's something about our country . you know, the idea that country. you know, the idea that they wouldn't even put up some people , some councils wouldn't people, some councils wouldn't put up st george's flags, and yet put up albanian flags. yesterday to celebrate albanian day. what is it about, our country that we lost many many people have lost in positions of establishment positions lost a sort of feeling for our own country . and that's not what's country. and that's not what's out there. and on on, you know , out there. and on on, you know, average person still is very, very keen to support the country. but get ignored , country. but get ignored, particularly by the bbc. well you know, in the in the country of ireland i'm slightly surprised given i mean you know whatever one feels about irish national rights but if you looked at guys david lira , looked at guys david lira, michael collins, arthur griffith a century ago they wanted to

have an irish state that would be irish an irish state where irish where catholic . that's it irish where catholic. that's it yeah. irish where catholic. that's it yeah . and that's what they yeah. and that's what they wanted. and here we are a century on and they just look like any other cookie cutter multicultural society where everybody under 40 in the downtown areas comes from somewhere else. well it's also worse not because they have completely , you know, gone for, completely, you know, gone for, you know, very keen to multi—nationals to dublin and to ireland generally, which isn't really helping the economy in, the long term for ordinary . and the long term for ordinary. and also , you know, they have also, you know, they have i mean, i think the irish government has has lost its way in terms of what it means to be independent because now the european, i mean, is really running their lives. you know, they've the eu is now said that they're not going to be able to

have any any more. pete taking people out of you know now i can imagine some rural areas in the west ireland how are they west of ireland how are they going to feel about that. so it's very very it's very it's very it's very it's very interesting that this first kind of demonstrations on streets have come in ireland on this. yeah i think that's true. but yeah. the english know what you're paid. remember that ? you're paid. remember that? thank you very much, kate . we thank you very much, kate. we got time to stump now. let's have one lunch. forman says gb news should become the gb party and have their presenters stag for election thoughts on that ? for election thoughts on that? i'm not sure i'm sure where i'm going with that , simon says what going with that, simon says what to do with trudeau ? well, rishi to do with trudeau? well, rishi sunak just wants to have a big bromance with trudeau . think bromance with trudeau. think they should go off and do i'm a celeb ? yeah i had dinner with

celeb? yeah i had dinner with justin's mom a couple of years she delightful lady can't imagine how this son came along dan wooden is here but she loves every loves his son. although justin surely test is tests thesis dan wootton is here to titillate tuesday watching out for dad would you remember i had justin trudeau's brother on not ago and he certainly isn't a fan of canadian prime minister. i'm just imagining, though, mark, a captain it with all of us in it what what portfolio you want surely culture minister minister . oh no. because it's all mixed up. it's like digital culture media spy short grade. we this table here right now don't we. but anyway big show you know who is , who is. yeah. okay yeah, big is, who is. yeah. okay yeah, big show ahead. where are you going . we've got to in at show ahead. where are you going .we've got to in at in me show ahead. where are you going . we've got to in at in me about .we've got to in at in me about mackenzie we've stanley johnson

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