very good morning. welcome to bev turner today on gb news. i hope you've had a lovely few days and managed to get through with your liver and your relationships intact. i did just about on today's show, more travel chaos as strikes continue. border force workers are out today at uk are walking out today at uk airports until new year's eve. we'll speak to our reporter at gatwick . and as we take gatwick. and as we take a breather between this week's big celebrations, let's look at the year and consider how the year ahead and consider how the political might change political landscape might change in 2023. and i know it's a bit mean before new year's eve , but mean before new year's eve, but i'm to be joined in the i'm going to be joined in the studio by two health experts to talk about getting fit and staying new year.

staying well in the new year. that's coming up a that's all coming up after a look at latest news with look at the latest news with tamsin roberts . beth, thank you. tamsin roberts. beth, thank you. good morning from the gb news forum. it's 10:01 border force forum. it's10:01 border force staff and driving instructors are the latest to stage industrial action with travel disruption. also expected along industrial action with travel the rail network as commuters return to work today , members of return to work today, members of the pcc union representing border force staff , multiple the pcc union representing border force staff, multiple uk airports will continue their industrial action over pay, jobs and conditions. driving instructors have begun a five day strike affecting more than 70 testing centres in eastern england and the midlands. meanwhile, on the rail network, tsa say union members will walk out from midday, causing disruption on the great western railway and west midlands trains . while travel correspondent for the independent simon calder told gb news the unions are losing power. well we got this

audio message coming from the rmt union on christmas eve saying where's the ministers .7 we saying where's the ministers? we want to talk to them. i think there is a sense talking to individual railway men and women, those in the frontline doing fantastic work , they're doing fantastic work, they're exhausted. they have lost hundreds, sometimes thousands of pounds and well, hundreds, sometimes thousands of pounds and well , the whole idea pounds and well, the whole idea of the unions is this is an essential industry. travel is the travelling public is sort of saying , no, you're not. pope saying, no, you're not. pope francis has asked for prayers for his predecessor, former pope benedict, saying he's very sick. the 95 year old former head of the catholic church became the first pope in 600 years to resign when he stepped down in 2013. he's been living in the vatican since then . pope vatican since then. pope francis, seen on the left here, made the surprise announcement to the end of his general audience, but didn't give any further details. cricketer to all i would like to ask all of you for special prayer for pope

emeritus benedict, who in silence is sustaining the church. let us remember him. he is very sick, asking the lord to console and sustain him in this witness of love for the church . witness of love for the church. until the end , the family of until the end, the family of a 23 year old man who was stabbed to death at a nightclub on boxing day, say their hearts are broken. semi—professional footballer cody fisher was attacked on the dance floor at the crown nightclub in birmingham . the crown nightclub in birmingham. in a the crown nightclub in birmingham . in a statement, his birmingham. in a statement, his family say they've lost their best friend. hundreds of people were in the club at the time. west midlands police are urging anyone with information to come forward . four people have been forward. four people have been injured in a suspected gas explosion at a house in worcestershire. emergency services were called to the incident in evesham last night shortly after 5:00. three of the injured were taken to hospital and ten neighbouring properties were evacuated . the north east

were evacuated. the north east of england could be the latest region to have a directly elected mayor as the government announces a £14 billion devilish deal . the arrangement devilish deal. the arrangement would give powers over education, transport and housing to people across northumberland, newcastle and sandal and elections for the new mayor would take place in may 2024 after a consultation process . after a consultation process. labouris after a consultation process. labour is warning families are losing millions of pounds due to unsolved crime . the party says unsolved crime. the party says more than a million thefts went unsolved last year, with cases dropped because police failed to find a suspect . labour dropped because police failed to find a suspect. labour has called the figures disgrace for a home office spokesperson says the government has provided record investment in policing alongside the recruitment of 20,000 additional officers . by 20,000 additional officers. by march 2023 . in the us, the death march 2023. in the us, the death toll in and around the city of

buffalo has risen to 32 as the country is battling a deadly winter storm. authorities in the new york state have been digging out from under four feet of snow after a record amount of snowfall left at least 60 people have died as the monster storm has battered north america over the last week . this is gb news. the last week. this is gb news. we'll bring you more news as it happens, of course. now, though , it's back to back . , it's back to back. very good morning . welcomes back very good morning. welcomes back tenants day on gb news. thank you for joining tenants day on gb news. thank you forjoining me. well done. mums and grannies and a few blokes as well for making christmas a success. take a breather now. pick up the chocolates and keep me on. until 12 members of the armed forces have steps up across the uk as

border force staff strike at our airports again. we're going to be live at gatwick to see if it's having the disruptive effect that the unions are hoping for. the last year has been a political cluster of chaos that the country has seen. four chancellors and three prime ministers. sir keir starmer's labour party are well ahead in the polls. so can the tory party claw back support ? and if so, claw back support? and if so, how long will that take? what does 2023 have in store politically for the country? i'm going to be speaking to some experts about that . and like me, experts about that. and like me, you probably eat in a drunk way too much this week. but how do you tell if your drinking is becoming problematic? i'm going to be joined by doug mcgregor, who's been for six years, who's been sober for six years, and be telling us about and he'll be telling us about how to approach dry january. he might have to do a bit to convince me that's a good idea. let me know what you think. email me, gbviews@gbnews.uk or tweet gb news have your tweet me at gb news to have your say anything we're discussing say on anything we're discussing this . so border force

this morning. so border force staff have walked out today at uk airports until new year's eve. the pc union has warned that industrial action could continue for months unless the government enters into talks over paid jobs and conditions. it coincides with further disruption on the railways as many commuters return to work dunng many commuters return to work during this little break between christmas and new year. so our national reporter theo chikomba is live at gatwick airport this morning . good morning, theo . morning. good morning, theo. looking like a miserable day in particularly miserable if you arrive to get on an aeroplane and you can't. what's it like down there ? yes good morning. down there? yes good morning. i'm here at gatwick . it's been i'm here at gatwick. it's been wet and windy for passengers who are going in and out of the airport. it's another straight day for them. they did have some bright days last week, but today, the first of a number of them, we're going to be seeing this week in terms of disruption. last week, airport bosses there's free

bosses were saying there's free flowing, air traffic was moving smoothly inside airport. so smoothly inside the airport. so passengers were able to get in and out. but mark, so what's guy , who's general secretary of , who's the general secretary of the union saying the the pcc's union is saying the government putting plaster government are putting a plaster over they're saying is an over what they're saying is an opportunity to sit down and discuss improve the pay deal discuss and improve the pay deal that they've been offered . so 2% that they've been offered. so 2% is members have been is what members have been offered in terms of people inside military personnel and sailors . we've heard reports of sailors. we've heard reports of that. they're the ones who are in there at the moment letting passengers through. so no immigration officers deck immigration officers on deck today. but in terms of moving forward, there hasn't been an opportunity yet for members to say, okay , this is a right deal. say, okay, this is a right deal. that's good for us, particularly with the cost of living problem that we're seeing across the country at the moment. it's a 2% while inflation is around 10. they say it's needs to get to that stage. so that we can call off the strike. they're saying they have a mandate to continue these strikes for up to six months. so if there isn't a deal which negotiated by both which is negotiated by both parties, could see further

parties, we could see further strikes over the next couple of months. but in terms of disruption , it has been free disruption, it has been free flowing over the last couple of days. and of course, as days. and of course, today as well. okay, thank you so well. okay, theo, thank you so much. news national reporter. much. gb news national reporter. theo i'm joined now theo to cover. so i'm joined now by deputy of spiked by deputy editor of spiked onune by deputy editor of spiked online fraser myers and also former editor of the sun kelvin mackenzie . good morning, mackenzie. good morning, gentlemen . i think you are both gentlemen. i think you are both there. i'm looking for kelvin. he's not here. he is. okay. morning guys. now, you look at that kelvin mackenzie down at the airport . we've had a tough the airport. we've had a tough few years. most people, all they want to do is get on an aeroplane, go and enjoy some sunshine , get away from the sunshine, get away from the hideous rain. we've just seen theo stowed beneath . what's your theo stowed beneath. what's your reaction when you hear about more strikes from the workers? well, to deal with . to deal with well, to deal with. to deal with those border force workers , of those border force workers, of course, we want them to stay on strike for as long as possible. the reality is that everything

is free flowing and despite all these messages of doom and gloom from organised labour in our country , strangely we have got country, strangely we have got on rather well with the fact that loads of state workers have been out on strike . and it may been out on strike. and it may been out on strike. and it may be that we don't need them. we certainly approved, as you're the simon calder was reflecting on, we certainly don't need the number of train employees we don't need post office workers . don't need post office workers. and now it appears that we don't even need border force employees and so i say carry on striking for as long as you like. they are trying to hurt us. they are the people that pay their wages. they're trying to damage ordinary taxpayers and ordinary people and it's turned out that it hasn't worked out the way they want it to. and i am very, very grateful for them. no grave for the for the armed forces who are having to step in, though,

kelvin , at the moment i totally kelvin, at the moment i totally agree. kingwell okay, that's a very good point and it's actually my point that we should not be allowing people who have asthma, who think they have us by the by the proverbial right to actually walk out at 100. there should be a minimum amount of work that they have to do. oh dear. of work that they have to do. oh dear . state workers having to do dear. state workers having to do work . excuse me. how terrible . work. excuse me. how terrible. so, actually, actually , i am so, actually, actually, i am 100% in favour of actually a legislation which i hope the conservatives will bring in, which will stop 100% of walkouts . but you're you're you're colleague that may disagree with me . fraser, the front page of me. fraser, the front page of the mail today is talking about this. this story's extraordinary loyalty card for strikers. so basically what's happening is there are some what the papers are calling union barons. i guess that's the decent name for them. they've launched a loyalty card scheme , which means that

card scheme, which means that you can be rewarded for turning up on picket lines , like the up on picket lines, like the flying pickets go around. it's not the industry not necessarily the industry that you're striking for, but to swell numbers . isn't that swell the numbers. isn't that just just a truly disgusting thing to do? i think we are long out of the age of union barons. i think those kinds of references are about four years out of date. the unions have never been less powerful in this country , and as a result, country, and as a result, workers have never been less powerful . and, you know, kelvin powerful. and, you know, kelvin might think that's a good thing , but, you know, there are millions of people who are getting a below inflation pay rise, which means in real terms, take up. and we're now living through the worst squeeze in living standards since the napoleonic wars. that's a serious problem . you know, serious problem. you know, that's why people are asking for 10, which might sound like a big figure, but that's only to keep in line with inflation and one thing that's been missed on the on the border stuff, it's not just that. it's not about them being lazy, about them being

ineffective . the fact is the ineffective. the fact is the navy and the army people who are taking over actually don't have the authority to stop people. so actually , a lot of people, yes, actually, a lot of people, yes, things are flying because a lot of people are getting through a lot of people who should be being stopped right getting being stopped right now getting through. there is a problem. through. so there is a problem. there's disruption for the there's less disruption for the average , but our average traveller, but our borders are now totally porous . borders are now totally porous. i mean, you might say that like that anyway. and, you know, this is area that is is clearly an area that is underinvested in. it's big underinvested in. it's a big priority for the government. know rishi sunak the border know rishi sunak says the border is focus . i know rishi sunak says the border is focus. i don't know rishi sunak says the border is focus . i don't know is his main focus. i don't know how that is going to be. yeah. how is that how are we going to and how is he going to make it his fight? it is so under resourced if staff grumpy is, you know, if things aren't working. you always working. kelvin, have you always been very much against the rights of workers to strike or has that been crystallised , has that been crystallised, particularly at the end of 2020 to. it's gotten it's got nothing to. it's gotten it's got nothing to do with 22. i've worked in

the print during the seventies and the eighties and aps nightmare basically highly paid thugs working for the nca. and so we got making life impossible for ordinary for the production of the paper and that actually actually magnifies actually my view of today . but i'm very view of today. but i'm very grateful anyway to the way that we have managed to circumvent the problems of the railways. 20 odd years ago, if the railways had gone on strike as therefore the rmt, the nation would have come to a grinding halt that moment has now come because somebody is actually pointed out there is a there's there is something called a car or even a coach or even even a bus. although i see in london that they're planning the bus drivers that are going out on strike . that are going out on strike. so, you know, the reality of it is that we are now circumventing through tekken and the fact that the individual is more important than the collective . and i agree

than the collective. and i agree with your your speaker that the trade unions have never been weaker . am trade unions have never been weaker. am absolutely weaker. and i am absolutely delighted when you think that ambulance people were prepared to leave your mum lying the to leave your mum lying on the floor broken head and floor with a broken head and having a stroke, leaving having had a stroke, leaving them i have them for hours on end. i have never heard anything so disgraceful in all my life. organised labour should hang their head in shame . organised labour should hang their head in shame. but here's his here's the post back then. kelvin. so this is what i'm interested but we all now interested in. but we all now living in because it's not the seventies and the eighties now living in because it's not the sevewe'veand the eighties now living in because it's not the sevewe've nevere eighties now living in because it's not the sevewe've never lived|ties now living in because it's not the sevewe've never lived ines now living in because it's not the sevewe've never lived in a now living in because it's not the sevewe've never lived in a time and we've never lived in a time where they've got more corporate power, centralised power. power, more centralised power. the newspaper the the sun newspaper was always the newspaper working man. it newspaper of the working man. it was person that picked up was the person that picked up the their way to work. the paper on their way to work. so what's what what do you say to those people? because they would come on, we would say, well, come on, we need need some strength. we need we need some strength. we need we need some strength. we need power. swalwell but need some power. swalwell but we're not getting paid enough. you got terrible you know, we've got terrible working conditions. we've got so many we're many 0 hours contracts. we're not as workers, not being respected as workers, just just kind of put yourself in their shoes for a minute. do you have any sympathy with them?

i don't accept your zero work 0 hours argument. i'm sure you saw the other speaker might well do, but the 0 hours actually falls in line with people's working practises and the way they they view work today. the reality is that we haven't got enough people , we haven't got enough people, we haven't got enough workers to do the work. i've never known an individual. be so powerful in my life and i'm 100% in favour of it. what i don't like is when i see collective force saying, we're going to batter you into the ground till you give us the money we want. look at the end of the day, i'm not in favour of 2% border force employees . yes, they. and in the employees. yes, they. and in the end of the day, there will be a deal to be done. but nor am i in favour of the ten and 11, which all it does is keep inflation flowing through the system. nobody wants that. that damages everybody they whether you everybody when they whether you are union employee or are a trade union employee or you some some , you know, you or some some, you know, corporate or you or some some, you know, corporate or even you or some some, you ki'iow, corporate or even some entrepreneurial type. okay.

fraser my last word to you then . do you see these strikes just rumbling on into 2023? is that anything that this government can do to draw a line in the sand for the people who just want to go about their business? i think the government needs to take these strikes seriously and needs to you know, i think it's not going to meet them demands entirely. but at the moment it feels like the government isn't even come to the even willing to come to the table. i mean, other thing table. i mean, the other thing is right, you know, is kelvin's right, you know, we need get on inflation need to get a grip on inflation as that's the reason these as well. that's the reason these payday as well. that's the reason these payday demands high and payday demands are so high and the government's only going to get grip inflation if it get a grip on inflation if it gets a grip the energy gets a grip on the energy situation the moment it situation and at the moment it seems determined to treat seems pretty determined to treat that as a kind of emergency thing. it has no long plans thing. it has no long term plans for bringing down the cost of energy. fact, the long term energy. in fact, the long term policy the cost of policy is to raise the cost of energy to net zero. so energy through to net zero. so there's all kinds of things the government could be doing on top of strikes, of dealing with these strikes, on top of raising the level of pay- on top of raising the level of pay. and don't see that it's pay. and i don't see that it's doing that. okay. all right,

gentlemen, much for gentlemen, thank you so much for joining different joining me on this. a different kind of week. is there this little period between christmas and year? former editor of and new year? former editor of the mackenzie and the sun, kelvin mackenzie and from spike's online , fraser. from spike's online, fraser. fraser myers. right we're going to take a quick break in a moment and introduce you to my guest for the first time today. we're going to be looking at all the stories in the paper. we've got clips. so on sunday, people at a certain nigel who at a certain nigel nelson, who also happens be husband, also happens to be her husband, the bar jones and the owner of the bar jones and sons, andy jones, to find out what hospitality is going to be facing new year, though. facing in the new year, though. time break first .

good morning. it's 1022. good morning. it's1022. this is bev turner today on gb news. now to 2022 was the year of financial reckoning. thanks to unscientific lockdown policies , unscientific lockdown policies, we've enjoyed a year of political and economic turmoil, with the country seeing full chancellors and three prime ministers. labour's sickest drama has surged ahead of the polls, with many members of the pubuc polls, with many members of the public unable to trust the conservative anymore . is conservative party anymore. is there prime there anything that prime minister rishi sunak can do in the year ahead ensure victory the year ahead to ensure victory in the next general election ? in the next general election? well, let's bring in our two guest. joining me now is political commentator susanna evans and former editor of labour list , peter edwards. labour list, peter edwards. good morning to both of you. i think i'm going to see you down the line that was claire pearsall. you just got a glimpse of that, one of our guest guys here as well. right. suzanne and peter, lovely to see you this morning. susanna with you.

susanna let me start with you. it's prognosis going it's a terrible prognosis going into 2023 for rishi sunak on the conservatives. if and when could they turn around their popularity to? well, they certainly could, but i think it would take a huge amount of effort . let's just have a look effort. let's just have a look at the state of the polls shall we? so at the moment, the labour party is polling anything between 45% and 51% i think is the highest poll rating that they've had so far. the conservative lives, meanwhile, are on around about are languishing on around about 23 to 28. there was one poll, i think put them at 32, perhaps a little bit of an outlier. then we've got lib dems on eight we've got the lib dems on eight or nine and the other or nine and then the other parties making up the of parties making up the rest of the percentage. so not really any strong for minor any strong showing for minor parties making breakthrough. parties making a breakthrough. i don't yet at the next don't think yet at the next election. so yeah, it's looking extremely bleak for rishi sunak , ben walker of britain . aleks , ben walker of britain. aleks has done some quite interesting research talking about how people who are cool conservative voters might very well say they're going to vote labour in

they're going to vote labour in the middle of a parliamentary term, but then they revert back to type. but and of course it works the other way as well, but the there is only around the swing there is only around about 9. so yeah , looking about 9. so yeah, looking really, really bad. what could he do? i don't really think he could do anything apart from a major volte face really. and i don't think that's going going to happen . we've got a to happen. we've got a conservative government that in many behaving very much many ways is behaving very much like a labour government . we've like a labour government. we've got highest taxation burden got the highest taxation burden in 70 years. we've got very high pubuc in 70 years. we've got very high public spending, we've got a big state, we've got an absolute failure to control immigration. so it is perhaps also odd that conservative voters are swinging to labour because to be honest, you can't really put a cigarette paper between the two of them at the moment. i think the only way. sorry sorry. but i've got to interrupt you. sorry no, no, no. it's okay. i just want to bnng no. it's okay. i just want to bring peter in as well. you must be delighted. we've got a socialist government. we don't at all have a socialist government. i don't accept the idea that you call that

cigarette pipe. between cigarette pipe. that between laboun cigarette pipe. that between labour, excuse me, labour, the tories. excuse me, but let's not go that old ground. i think the reason labour won't be complacent at all pick some of the all to pick up on some of the polling, it's very interesting is just midterm, but is also a not just midterm, but the number of vote nos. so we see this humongous labour lead. you know, it reaches blair like levels of above 20% admitted and got above ten. if you're getting above 20, it's looking really good. but first of all, exclusive don't knows and they're going to crystallise or not vote so and that's one reason not to be complacent. secondly the government can do things it was the opposition can only announcing . so we will deny only announcing. so we will deny and from leadership election and inflation was really sunak's priority coming into office . now priority coming into office. now we have the small boats crisis as well. now i don't think which is what i meant and i don't think he's got the answers. but you can expect, you know, basically from january the first measure after measure after measure after measure after measure on inflation of small boats crisis, don't think he's boats crisis, i don't think he's

got tools resolve these got the tools to resolve these problems, awful lot is problems, but an awful lot is going change there may going to change and there may not election in 24, ten or not be an election in 24, ten or 11 months, but very as he makes predictions these days . well, predictions these days. well, well, guys , we've run out of well, guys, we've run out of time. thank you so much. quick with you both, but always nice to see you. susan evans there and edwards. i'm going to and peter edwards. i'm going to bnng and peter edwards. i'm going to bring guest. you've bring in my guest. you've already a glimpse of of already seen a glimpse of one of them, former conservative adviser is with adviser claire pearsall is with us, editor the us, political editor at the sunday mirror, nigel nelson , sunday mirror, nigel nelson, who's looking after your kids when you two there. when you hear you two there. he's his dad . can you he's offered his dad. can you say there's nothing we have to call you back on an owner of the ball jones and sons. andy jones is with us now. right. thank you for all giving up your time this week. let's go to your first story, claire. you're doing this one is rail workers one for us. this is rail workers are going balloted again are going to be balloted again on action under new on strike action under a new tactic help them strike tactic to help them to strike more. exactly. so here is another tactic that we've got union leaders principal different groups of workers separately. so you'll get this kind of rolling strike situation

. it will be consecutive days, different groups could set out one day. you might have train drivers, but no signalling staff or no station staff . and it just or no station staff. and it just has that sort of mass impact on the commuting public, which we've already had to be honest. but this is now going to look great. consecutive days, multiple walkouts and even more disruption . nigel, i don't know disruption. nigel, i don't know whether you saw the interview that i just did with kelvin mckenzie, furious mckenzie, but kelvin is furious about these strikes and that the powers have, as always , very powers have, as always, very close the trade deals. but he close to the trade deals. but he would like to have these powers stripped from these unions so that they cannot strike. well i think they would go along with that one, too. and the right to strike is fundamental for that. there's been an awful lot of anti trade union legislation to make it more and more difficult. so the rolling strikes are are understandable because what they want to do is try and make them effective . they can't have a effective. they can't have a general strike . i think if we general strike. i think if we had a it was possible you would

have a general. general strike now. but it's not. so they need to make it effective . the to make it effective. the government are talking about watering down the powers even even more for strike action. so the minimum services they're talking about for the railways, well , the whole thing is the well, the whole thing is the reason you go on strike is because you've come to the end of the road with negotiation signs. and it's a way of getting negotiations going again to turn round and make strikes ineffective makes that whole whole process says completely redundant and the let me come to you because you have experience. obviously, you run restaurants, bars and hospitality. how disruptive is this sort of transport chaos when you're in your industry ? it's a mess. the your industry? it's a mess. the whole thing is a mess from my staff trying to get to work on the weekends. everybody's showing late, kind of showing up late, kind of a whatsapp groups popping off with i today. i can't get into work today. i can't get here today. i'm going to be an hour late. that doesn't help me run business from our help me run a business from our customers exactly the customers coming in exactly the same booking same things they have booking

times. and when is times. it's a mess. and when is this going to end? it's across every sector at the moment. it just seems a real, real pain in the, know, to where the, you know, to where get anything moment. but anything done at the moment. but i what that's going i wonder what that's going to look politically, because look like politically, because you as we look you sort of thing as we look down lens towards 2023, who down the lens towards 2023, who is going to affect? because is that going to affect? because if unions , major if labour as major unions, major donors to labour, they quite happy about this disruption . happy about this disruption. doesn't this make voting for labourin doesn't this make voting for labour in the next general election much more appealing? lots of people go nothing works in this country. we need a new government. the unions have government. then the unions have one plan. think you're right one plan. i think you're right and it feels to me very much as they face the unions looking to bnng they face the unions looking to bring down the government, that's how it feels a very concerted effort getting together bring down a together to bring down a government which isn't right, that democracy . that that isn't democracy. however, i see the voting however, i can't see the voting for labour is going to change that because train workers, nhs staff will still be in the same position unless labour magic position unless labour can magic up some money from somewhere. they haven't told quite where they haven't told us quite where that's from and

that's going to come from and what it's going to do. so it's a very difficult position for the conservative party. they to conservative party. they need to remain but there remain strong on this, but there is going to have to be some movement otherwise the country really is just grinding to it really is just grinding to it really which kind of brings really is, which kind of brings us story as well. us on to this story as well. nigel doesn't it? loyalty cards for strikers? yes, i'm i mean, it's not quite sort of giving them nectar cards or anything like that, but the but the idea is it's a group called strike map and they put up an idea which the trade unions back a little bit of prizes for people who go on picket lines. so in fact, it'll be a t—shirt or something like that, but the daily mail is terribly angry about. daily mail is terribly angry about . so i think well, daily mail is terribly angry about . so i think well , just about. so i think well, just they just feel just like when you hit . well, i think because you hit. well, i think because when you hear people like andy talking about the damage that businesses you would hope this is like a place in my heart that goes at least if they're striking , they're doing it for striking, they're doing it for the right reasons. they're doing it for their industry. they're doing for their own

doing it for their their own bank account, their family, what they can buy for their family at they can buy for their family at the the month. the idea the end of the month. the idea that they're go and that they're going to go and stand somebody else's picket stand on somebody else's picket line disruption line just to cause disruption and shirts. well when and get free t shirts. well when you on someone else's you stand on someone else's picket what you're doing picket line, what you're doing is showing is you're actually showing solidarity. secondary solidarity. i mean, secondary strike now of strike action is now one of those things is now those those things that is now illegal. so anybody can stand on the picket line. it doesn't have to the striking workers. to be just the striking workers. it can people who it can be those people who support those workers who will it can be those people who supporyeah,a workers who will it can be those people who supporyeah, this rkers who will it can be those people who supporyeah, this isers who will it can be those people who supporyeah, this is at who will it can be those people who supporyeah, this is a bit|o will it can be those people who supporyeah, this is a bit ofnill it can be those people who supporyeah, this is a bit of all go the yeah, this is a bit of a gimmick, but i don't think i think it's a pretty harmless gimmick certainly idea think it's a pretty harmless girother; certainly idea think it's a pretty harmless gi|other people�*rtainly idea think it's a pretty harmless gi|other people showing idea think it's a pretty harmless gi|other people showing somea of other people showing some kind of support by going out there and saying, yeah , we're there and saying, yeah, we're behind you, we're behind the nurses , we're behind the nurses, we're behind the doctors, ambulance doctors, the ambulance men, whoever might i don't whoever it might be. i don't think it's any bad and think it's any bad thing. and i don't. and i think elizabeth , in don't. and i think elizabeth, in trying to get people to constantly strike, constantly strike, okay. from where i'm sitting , nick, strike, okay. from where i'm sitting, nick, i'm not in the political world. i have a small to medium sized business. this affects me . this affects my affects me. this affects my staff. this affects my customers. so i'll just stay in

my lane and say how this affects me. sister is a nurse and she me. my sister is a nurse and she said that striking was an unavoidable thing that they had to do. now she decided not to strike for reasons that i won't go into , but from where i'm go into, but from where i'm sitting, this is just affecting me and getting people kind of giving people a reason to strike. how is that helping me? how that people out how is that helping people out on street? how is that on the street? how is that helping people we are going helping the people we are going to able. but do you then so to be able. but do you then so do blame the strikers or do do you blame the strikers or do you blame government for not you blame the government for not giving more money? not giving more money? it's not working, it's 6 to 1 working, you know, it's 6 to 1 evidence you evidence of the other. if you don't have money to give don't have the money to give people, can't dole it out. people, you can't dole it out. where getting this where are they getting this money unless they start money from unless they start getting creative on tax? now, when come the nurses when you come to the nurses strike, why can't you get creative tax? saying creative on tax? i'm saying before, if you want 25,000 a year and you live in north wales , i'm originally from okay , you , i'm originally from okay, you can get by if you want 25,000 a year and you live in london . year and you live in london. that's a very different sum of money, everything working with a cake get can you cake. can you not get can you not creative frontline

not get creative on frontline nurses paying a slightly different tax bracket? i mean, there is yeah there is a thing, but it's not that much. if they were geographic the way that you can sort tax out so people have more money in their pocket they just pay a lot of creativity and they thank you, guys. thank you. so back in a moment, so we'll be back in a moment, won't don't about won't you? now, i don't about you, christmas is the time you, but christmas is the time of year when we all drink way more than we need. it's more than we need. but it's really nice, isn't it? however, to longer and healthy, we to live longer and healthy, we should little bit should probably be a little bit more so after the more abstemious. so after the break, going joined by break, i'm going to be joined by dale macgregor. he's been sober for and be for six years and he'll be advocate for dry january. that's all morning's news. all after your morning's news. thanks, bev. good morning. it's 1034. i'm tamsin roberts in the gb newsroom border force staff and driving examiners are the latest to stage industrial action with travel disruption. also expected along the rail network, commuters return to work . members of the pcc's union work. members of the pcc's union represent border force staff at

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todayitis welcome back to bev turner. today it is a 1039. i think it's wednesday said wednesday that you might get snow. what day is this week? it's about right. it's what i call the marinade. the little bit in between , i the little bit in between, i guessin the little bit in between, i guess in middle quiz show about. oh, you got that smell. excellent. okay, good. well, thank you for joining excellent. okay, good. well, thank you forjoining me. you thank you for joining me. you have been sending me your views. michelle has said mentality michelle has said the mentality of ambulance workers of the ambulance workers prepared in prepared to leave people in perilous conditions. they ought prepared to leave people in periloustheiritions. they ought prepared to leave people in periloustheir head. they ought prepared to leave people in periloustheir head inhey ought prepared to leave people in periloustheir head in shame.ht to hang their head in shame. joanna you in the joanna says when you work in the private sector, if money private sector, if the money isn't you get an isn't that you don't get an increase, all struggling increase, we are all struggling and i'm not happy to subsidise pubuc and i'm not happy to subsidise public sector wages so that i will to struggle more than will have to struggle more than them. his very divisive this topic, isn't it? and richard just said there is no travel. travel chaos is the best i've ever smooth, polite, ever seen. smooth, polite, efficient, service efficient, a brilliant service from our superb armed service . from our superb armed service. as i say, keep it this way. that's in relation to the border force control because force control, because the border workers, which border force workers, which is part pcc's union, have part of the pcc's union, have been replaced by soldiers and angie. so armed forces soldiers, listen to me. i don't really know my military language. you

could say that's not my strong point. and angie says public service workers should never be allowed strikers are allowed to strike. strikers are struggling much financially allowed to strike. strikers are strugcan't much financially allowed to strike. strikers are strugcan't keep uch financially allowed to strike. strikers are strugcan't keep taking ancially allowed to strike. strikers are strugcan't keep taking ancia off they can't keep taking days off work is, except work to strike. that is, except a posting who delivered parcels was christmas eve. you can't was on christmas eve. you can't afford to strike and afford to go on strike and likely suffering bullying. likely be suffering bullying. bullying bravery. i had bullying for bravery. i had a parcel delivered last may on christmas eve. i literally nearly parcel nearly hugged the parcel delivery guy because it's arrived. thank you so much. i was so late doing all my shopping. get to my shopping. right. let's get to my next guest is the co—founder of the social change and who is also six years sober. dom mcgregor joins me now. hello mcgregorjoins me now. hello dom. hi, barbara. mcgregorjoins me now. hello dom. hi, barbara . good morning. dom. hi, barbara. good morning. what's the social chain ? such what's the social chain? such a shame was social media marketing business. so working with big brands to help kind of navigate social media. okay. so can i ask you a personal question i'm sure you a personal question i'm sure you don't mind because you're on the telly. so you probably don't mind admitting this or not because you're here. are you sober because alcohol became a

problem you in terms of problem for you in terms of being an alcoholic, was it being an alcoholic, or was it just a lifestyle choice from a health view, a it health point of view, a it definitely became a problem with me, a business me, you know, running a business and augn me, you know, running a business and align with me, you know, running a business and and align with me, you know, running a business and and i align with me, you know, running a business and and i was align with me, you know, running a business and and i was always gn with me, you know, running a business and and i was always someone who me. and i was always someone who kind found alcohol. i had a kind of found alcohol. i had a good relationship with it, but when started to grow up and when i started to grow up and become in terms of become more active in terms of life and meeting new people, i found the alcohol which is causing me problems. in what way 7 causing me problems. in what way ? dom like what are the kind of things that we should look out for? know ? i like a drink. for? you know? i like a drink. i can't lie . but what are the kind can't lie. but what are the kind of things that we should look for when starts to tip over for when it starts to tip over into being problematic ? yeah. so into being problematic? yeah. so for it was definitely meeting for me it was definitely meeting new people and managing relationships. so you'd always wake up in the morning and think of god, what they do last night, what i say to person what would i say to that person and did i embarrass myself? did i kind of gain someone. did i do something so that something embarrassing? so that was kind of a real thing i lived with was the kind what people with was the kind of what people call fear in the morning. but also you kind of start to

realise of drinking realise the of drinking continuously and i think the biggest was biggest trait i realised was that home after that i couldn't come home after a day or a day in fact, a bad day or a good day in fact, and not drink because it kind of became habitual, made up became so habitual, made up anything happened my life anything that happened my life i would have to respond by reaching a drink and having reaching for a drink and having it became kind of like it and it became kind of like a medicine, for example, for anybody stressful day anybody already stressful day that have to have that i just have to have a bottle of wine. so how did you do it ? it's a bottle of wine. so how did you do it? it's a very good question. and i think it was something which took a lot of focus and energy. so basically, you know , i'm into people that you know, i'm into people that i've to say and to i've got a to say and to friends, family that i'm going to try stop drinking. that to try and stop drinking. that was first part that was was the first part and that was the hardest part because you have admit you've got have to admit that you've got a problem. you know, problem. secondly, you know, there little there is a little bit of avoidance there. you have to avoidance there. so you have to kind of avoid social situations for a period of time. so you're comfortable. you have comfortable. thirdly, you have replacement. so you look at the kind emotional reaction kind of emotional reaction between and how you between drinking and how you feel and you to change feel and you have to change that. for example, i had that. so, for example, i had a really bad day already. good day. i'd celebrate by going out for really nice meal. so it

for a really nice meal. so it was kind of emotional was that kind of emotional response me drinking and my response of me drinking and my emotions had to changed. and emotions had to be changed. and then i think finally time you start to realise the benefits that happen from not drinking through, know, 1 to 3 months through, you know, 1 to 3 months and you go actually this is, this in itself is quite addictive. you go, i don't addictive. so you go, i don't need my life because need alcohol my life because actually i'm starting to see my life get better progressed without it. what what without alcohol in it. what what do you replace alcohol with ? i do you replace alcohol with? i know that's a really it's probably one of the most stupid questions a way. mean, i've questions in a way. i mean, i've got list of them, but got a long list of them, but that's one of my stupid questions. is it that you go for something is it something a bit different? is it that you just get your diet coke or you sparkling water? like how? can be the how? because that can be the hardest to go to hardest thing. is it to go to the pub go, don't really the pub and go, i don't really want glass of water. yeah, want that glass of water. yeah, i think i replace it with food. so if i go out with friends for a meal or go out, i'll have a meal or if i go out, i'll have i'll eat some nice food. so that would be my replacement terms would be my replacement in terms of for like from of like, like for like from a dnnk of like, like for like from a drink perspective, you'll find me, find the put out me, you find in the put out a cup of tea because i enjoy

taking cup of tea. so if taking a cup of tea. so if personal preference, you know, i don't think that someone wants to enough okay , i to drink enough to go, okay, i dnnk to drink enough to go, okay, i drink and tonics. i'm going drink gin and tonics. i'm going off gin and tonic. off to drink no gin and tonic. it's not it's not binary as it's not it's not as binary as i'm of much more like, what i'm kind of much more like, what do you actually enjoy doing? what you enjoy your life and what do you enjoy your life and what is a treat for you? because i lot of people see i think a lot of people see alcohol as a stress relief or as alcohol as a stress relief or as a so exactly. so what do a treat. so exactly. so what do you a trait and then you see as a trait and then replace it with that? that's interesting because i think if we drink, we lose. we don't drink, we tend to lose. you know, notice you lose a you know, you notice you lose a few pounds because about as few pounds only because about as much a glass of wine much sugar and a glass of wine i think is the same probably a few chocolate but if you chocolate biscuits. but if you replace it food, that replace it by food, does that not problem that you not become a problem that you end getting more end up then getting more unhealthy eating too much? unhealthy from eating too much? i do express a little bit, i do express that a little bit, but what not in but what you're not having in the morning is a massive hangoven the morning is a massive hangover, actually find hangover, so you actually find yourself energy to go and do yourself the energy to go and do not more exercise, go for a not do more exercise, go for a walk. so only probably walk. so not only probably having the same you're having the same calories you're having the same calories you're having drinking, having when you're drinking, but so the morning so you wake up in the morning feeling it feeling fractured, go to it start small and what am i going

to do? i well might find myself going a walk. i might find going for a walk. i might find myself a gym you myself going for a gym or you know, people in a know, a lot of people in a sobriety process take a break because find just having because they find just having this excessive energy to this kind of excessive energy to just throw into something. so you're completely you you're completely right, you know, and just know, going out there and just replace straight, replace it straight, straight, straight but the straight isn't healthy. but the other have other thing is, you don't have hangovers. you find yourself hangovers. so you find yourself in better situation. in a much better situation. fantasy stick. you. fantasy stick. thank you. dum dum well done. dum macgregor that well done. six years without a drink. my panel still here. i want to panel is still here. i want to come you, angie jones, come to you, angie jones, obviously, somebody obviously, as a somebody that works hospitality owns works in hospitality and owns pubs , sydney interesting one, pubs, sydney interesting one, isn't it? because we need people to out and drink alcohol to go out and drink alcohol because part of our because is a big part of our culture and it's what keeps the you know we've got it's a huge part of the economy going round and everything and huge and everything and it's a huge part culture now, if you part of our culture now, if you think my business is led think 35% of my business is led so have to have alcohol sales so i have to have alcohol sales to the business work. okay. to make the business work. okay. if looking at from if i'm looking at it from a personal point of view, if i don't drink, my productivity massively increases. so as a business works business owner, it works seven days six, nine, 17 hours

days a week, six, nine, 17 hours a day, pretty much my productivity to be so productivity has to be high. so when drink, like dom was when i do drink, like dom was saying, you wake up with saying, if you do wake up with a hangoven saying, if you do wake up with a hangover, productivity just hangover, your productivity just decreases don't run decreases so much. you don't run your properly . i decreases so much. you don't run your properly. i have your business properly. i have a number two that runs the business me, but i always business with me, but i always have as well. so have to be there as well. so productivity is a big thing from a personal point of view, but as a personal point of view, but as a business point view, i need a business point of view, i need people come in buy people to come in and buy alcohol. to sell wine, alcohol. i need to sell wine, i need to sell beer. absolutely and isn't the problem as well, guys? right lockdown was so changing for cultural behaviours in it's pretty in so many ways and it's pretty well—documented that we all drank much, particularly drank too much, particularly our first was all first lockdown when it was all sun in the garden and we sun sunny in the garden and we were my god, i don't were like, oh my god, i don't have drive anywhere. and you have to drive anywhere. and you have to drive anywhere. and you have 2:00 the have a rose at 2:00 in the afternoon and a lot of those habhs afternoon and a lot of those habits been quite difficult habits have been quite difficult to get out of, particularly drinking at home. nigel and that's what hits the pub. i don't drink so you don't drink at all. although i agree with dom, all the dom, i think that all the benefits of not drinking no hangoven benefits of not drinking no hangover, able to hangover, being able to drive a car whenever you you need to more energy. i'm going right off you, nigel . i thought had

you, nigel. i thought we had a lot common in the household. lot in common in the household. ready for the last couple of things. all right, so, robyn glass , what i think you're glass, what i think you're right. i think with lockdown, it becomes almost socially acceptable to three in the afternoon to be out in garden with a glass of wine or a gin and tonic. and it was perfect timing for the recycling boxes going out. you could hear all the clinking down street, the clinking down the street, the clinking down the street, the bottle banks were the local bottle banks were absolutely lockdown. absolutely full during lockdown. yeah, full of than yeah, they were full of than they've ever been. were. they've ever been. they were. and it's one of those and i think it's one of those things that some us enjoy things that some of us enjoy drinking can do it safely. i don't drink very much with nigel , though. i'd like it as a social aspect so we don't drink very much at home. i maybe have one or two drinks around christmas new year, but that's about it. i think it's for me it's a little bit more about control, but i do like to go to a pub and have a, you know, a proper drink because a soft dnnk proper drink because a soft drink doesn't really cut it for me. and know that we've found me. and i know that we've found some alternatives for you now in pubs are along to the

pubs are coming along to the zero route. but yes, zero alcohol route. but yes, sometimes it's just nice to have a and tonic in your hand a gin and tonic in your hand with your friends. i think that it's just one of those things. it's social for me. it's a social thing for me. yeah. i don't have a problem yeah. and i don't have a problem with you just decide with that. did you just decide one day that say i've never really been of drinker? really been much of a drinker? oh, used to it used to oh, no, no, i used to it used to dnnk oh, no, no, i used to it used to drink like fish. i did. you drink like a fish. i did. you know, it was a health things, right. so i stopped because because i couldn't carry on doing like a doing that. so partly like a fleet street it's fleet street thing, it's a general use all that. general politics. use all that. and you were just drinking constantly day and it sort constantly all day and it sort of comes to an end. the other thing about it is that alcohol then becomes very much part of your character. then becomes very much part of your character . the worst then becomes very much part of your character. the worst thing was thinking, oh, what's that? what to be like when what am i going to be like when i don't drink at? in fact, you just find so many other benefits. i mean, a bit of benefits. i mean, takes a bit of a yeah. and as claire a while. yeah. and as claire says pubs are actually says that now pubs are actually serving up really good, non—alcoholic drinks really could be is out there which it was drinking and alcohol really great cocktails so where you'd

actually be stuck there with a coke feeling really bored and that's all they're expensive there aren't they. they are expensive. what is that about? non—alcoholic gin was on the shelf in a supermarket. the same price normal gin. i've got price as normal gin. i've got you the the way you on the hook the way i haven't. if you want to buy regular gin. yes, if you want to buy, like a seed lip or like that, that's going to cost you as well. these companies have to make money. look it from make money. i look at it from a business point of view. always we things to make we have to sell things to make a profit. profit isn't a bad thing. okay, you have to sell thing. okay, so you have to sell it for a certain price. yeah, but way i think could but the way i think things could go you go to an alcohol go would you go to an alcohol free pub? oh yeah. if they served good it served really good food and it was alcohol free, wouldn't was alcohol free, you wouldn't have the licencing issues have any of the licencing issues that local councils that you have a local councils think huge market for think there's a huge market for alcohol free. i think it's a great business model. it's a great business model. it's a great business model. surprising in you think country in what do you think any country healthy would have thought healthy i would have thought like some like australia must like some of the sure there are the countries i'm sure there are some that have it but some countries that have it but it's such a part of british culture. actually came culture. i actually came to drinking drunk

drinking like i never got drunk till was 23. me too. actually, till i was 23. me too. actually, i've made up it all. i was i've made up for it all. i was about to say something in this model. if you did an alcohol free pub really good chef. great food , really interesting food, really interesting selection of drinks , teas, selection of drinks, teas, coffees, whatever you want to do . that's a great business model . probably very quickly , i'll be . probably very quickly, i'll be on the phone. should we talk about anything else in the papers because papers today? because you're making me want to drink all this. i've lived in a box fizz induced haze for the last three days. well, have we days. right well, else have we got about guys? what got to chat about guys? what were that were the other stories that caught churches caught our eye about churches still haunted by the pandemic mimic? what is that about ? still haunted by the pandemic mimic? what is that about? yeah, it's a haunted by modern life . it's a haunted by modern life. go on. i do . no one's been going go on. i do. no one's been going to church for years . i don't to church for years. i don't know your goes or not. know if your church goes or not. i anybody that goes i don't know anybody that goes to church anymore. do know to church anymore. do you know anyone who goes to church? yes but they're elderly and it's a generational thing . i haven't generational thing. i haven't been to church. maybe apart from, you know, hatch match dispatch . yeah. you know, i dispatch. yeah. you know, i don't go to church . i don't know don't go to church. i don't know who goes to church. and i don't

think pandemic think it's a pandemic thing. yeah think modern yeah i think it's modern society. we go to church. society. we don't go to church. well, was thing well, there was that thing recently, wasn't there, about the fact that for the first the fact that we, for the first time ever, we have than 50% time ever, we have less than 50% of the uk who identify being. of the uk who identify as being. christine and that christine yeah, yeah. and that might i guess this us might partly i guess this us affecting the figures people numbers of people who are part of congregation . i guess you of the congregation. i guess you also have a have a church which has actually left the society it represents by and i think that over a number of things it took until 2015 to have the first woman bishop . there is still woman bishop. there is still a row over same sex relationships and whether a same sex marriage can be blessed in church if they're not in tune with the way that society is going. certainly especially young people aren't going get involved. so, so you're absolutely right. that is elderly congregations . and of elderly congregations. and of course, they're disappearing . course, they're disappearing. you know what i have found, though, talking to these elderly relatives of mine who do go to church, the sense of community, the support they give each

other, we should all incredibly envious of, because that's what we don't realise how they rally round a lot of the church communities they rally at communities they rally round at christmas. you need anything? christmas. do you need anything? can i bring you something? someone baby with someone has a baby arrives with a that does i think is a dish that that does i think is a dish that that does i think is a that we're losing a real shame that we're losing that of do we get that sense of where do we get that sense of where do we get that now , if not from those that from now, if not from those villages ? that was one thing villages? that was one thing that pandemic showed our that the pandemic showed us. our local am ash church, local church, i am ash church, put together a sort of virtual service for people and was also sort of stand outside the windows of elderly people's homes to help them get things set up , but homes to help them get things set up, but also just to keep in touch with people. and that was the one thing you found that they had endless time and patience. they knew where all the vulnerable community lived , the vulnerable community lived, which is something when you're trying to make sure people are okay, absolutely perfect. and okay, is absolutely perfect. and they a really good job. what they did a really good job. what some of the old people said is they missed the company. they just missed the company. yeah. of being in church for them. it was actually about the community and about the comfort

that they received. but church has can't continue just with that elderly congregation who are dwindling . claire what's are dwindling. claire what's this story about? sadiq khan's latest to make harder latest plan to make it harder for us all to drive ? now, this for us all to drive? now, this is the expansion of the ultra low emission site . so not low emission site. so not content just with having london under his grubby little control . he wants to extend that out into parts of kent, my own county and further out and this is not to do with air quality . is not to do with air quality. let us all be brutally honest . let us all be brutally honest. it isn't going to have that much of an impact on air quality. what it is going to do is prop up the failing budgets of the london mayor. he needs that to money come in. his administration is failing so he's going to take it off of people that can least afford it. those people that live in greater london, especially in places like orpington and dartford, nicer where dartford, which near nicer where we live , they need cars to we live, they need their cars to go around . don't a go around. we don't have a pubuc go around. we don't have a public transport system like london. so sick , andy jones london. i am so sick, andy jones of this war on the car. i don't

know whether you saw jordan peterson. fantastic psychologist. i adore him. and he did a an impassioned defence of the car and he said he's a radical symbol of autonomy and privacy and freedom to take away our car . i'm a privacy and freedom to take away our car. i'm a car maker. well, i'm a call guy. i drive everywhere. you know , you can't everywhere. you know, you can't get on a train at the moment, so you've got to drive it forever, right? you can't wait for a bus. i drive. i've a few cars. it's one of my passions in life. i like my cars. two of my cars. i need to pay the congestion for because they're not euro six engines. i get hammered my engines. i get hammered on my monthly pay bill. one of my monthly auto pay bill. one of my businesses three to businesses has three vans to and trucks delivery . now trucks for food delivery. now i get stung every month with a bill. i had one hgv truck that was pre—euro six. i had to go euro six of them, but that was £300 a day to drive through london. what, £300 a day to drive through london. what , £300 a days? london. what, £300 a days? exactly how the businesses afford this . so you have to afford this. so you have to invest in the future of your vehicles as a business. if you're just driving your car, look at everybody. look at

everybody that owned like a thousand and 15 or which thousand and 15 or below which is the majority of car is probably the majority of car owners around. you've got to buy £12.50 a day, not only is your insurance higher, near insurance higher, living near area, that's going to be you less have pay that less. you have to pay that charge petrol prices through charge now petrol prices through the it is an app the roof. it is it's an app sloop war on coal really if you want electric car they're not 50 £60,000. nigel isn't this as well because there are so many people i don't know whether a city can have has to take his city can have a has to take his kids to swimming club if i kids to a swimming club if i might know so many toys. might i know so many toys. children swim. actually does children to swim. actually does he ever have to take to swimming club whilst picking up the supermarket on the way supermarket shop on the way in the office to pick the rain via the office to pick up some paperwork you've left behind people don't behind this. these people don't live in the real world making these decisions us. but these decisions for us. no, but we've got to actually accept we've all got to actually accept that. you that. well, it you if you believe in climate change, it then if you think we then depends if you think we should going for zero carbon should be going for zero carbon emissions 2050. are emissions by 2050. if we are going do those things, going to do all those things, then ultra low emission then ultra, ultra low emission zones across the country are going to be a going to come in

everywhere , as i say. well, that everywhere, as i say. well, that depends. do we believe those things? i think. well when you believe in climate change without necessarily being convinced that it's being caused entirely by man, and whether thatis entirely by man, and whether that is such an emergency , that that is such an emergency, that right now we all have to change the way, live our life and bankrupt your businesses and affect our free time to move. that's because that's the cost of that ambition and that's the conversation. i don't think we're having enough in this country anyway . thank you all. country anyway. thank you all. that's end of our first that's the end of our first houn that's the end of our first hour. going right hour. we're going to be right back with off this very back with more off this very short .

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very good morning. welcome to bev turner. today on gb news. now before midday as border force workers strike at airports across the uk, i'll be asking you if it's the anticipated disruption or if things are actually running pretty smoothly . and i'll be getting some top tips from a nutrition and personal trainer on how to get fit the new year. i know it's fit in the new year. i know it's a early. at least get new a bit early. at least get new year's of the way. year's eve out of the way. before you think about all that. it is all, though, coming up after look at the news with after a look at the news with thomson . bear. thank you. good thomson. bear. thank you. good morning. from the gb newsroom. it's 11:01 border force staff and driving examiners are the latest to stage industrial action with travel disruption also expected along the rail network as commuters return to work members of the pcc's union representing border force staff at multiple uk airports will continue their industrial action over paid jobs and conditions, driving examiners have begun a five day strike affecting more

than 70 testing centres in eastern england and the midlands. meanwhile on the rail network to assess a union members walkout from midday, causing disruption on the great western railway and west midlands trains . travel midlands trains. travel correspondent for the independ and simon calder told gb news the unions are losing power. we got this odd little message coming from the rmt union on christmas eve. say where's the ministers? we want to talk to them. i think there is a sense talking to individual railway men and women, those in the front don't fantastic work there, exhort still, they have lost hundreds, sometimes of pounds. the idea lost hundreds, sometimes of pounds.theideais lost hundreds, sometimes of pounds. the idea is this is an essential industry . trouble is essential industry. trouble is the travelling public is sort of saying, no, you're not. pope francis has asked for prayers for his proudest, says a former pope benedict, for his proudest, says a former pope benedict , saying for his proudest, says a former pope benedict, saying he's very sick . the vatican says pope sick. the vatican says pope benedict had a sudden worsening of health in recent hours , but of health in recent hours, but that his condition was under

control and that he's receiving constant medical care. the 95 year old former head of the catholic church became the first p0pe catholic church became the first popein catholic church became the first pope in 600 years to resign . pope in 600 years to resign. when he stepped down in 2013. pope francis, seen on the left here, made the surprise announcement at the end of his general audience, but didn't give any further details regarding the total. i would like to ask all of you for special prayer for pope emeritus benedict, who in silence is sustaining the church? let us remember him. he is sick. asking the lord to console and sustain him in this witness of love for the church . until the end , the the church. until the end, the family of a 23 year old man who was stabbed to death at a night club on boxing day say their hearts are broken . hearts are broken. semi—professional footballer cody fisher was attacked on the dance floor at the crown

nightclub in birmingham . in nightclub in birmingham. in a statement, his family say they have lost their best friend . have lost their best friend. hundreds of people were in the club at the time. west midlands police are urging anyone with information to come forward . for information to come forward. for people have been injured in a suspected gas explosion at a house worcestershire. emergency services were called to the incident in evesham last night, shortly after 5:00. three of the injured were taken to hospital and ten neighbouring properties were evacuated . the north—east were evacuated. the north—east of england could be the latest region to have a directly elected mayor as the government announces a £14 billion devolution deal. the arrangement would give powers education, transport and housing to people across northumberland, newcastle and sunderland . elections for and sunderland. elections for the new mayor would take place in may 2024 after a council tation process . labour is tation process. labour is warning families are losing millions of pounds due to

unsolved crimes. millions of pounds due to unsolved crimes . the party says unsolved crimes. the party says more than a million thefts went unsolved last, more than a million thefts went unsolved last , with more than a million thefts went unsolved last, with cases dropped because police failed to find a suspect . labour called find a suspect. labour called the figures disgraceful . a home the figures disgraceful. a home office spokesperson says the government has provided record investment in policing alongside the recruitment of 20,000 additional officers by march 23 . in the us, the death toll in and around the city of buffalo has risen to 32 as the country's battling a deadly winter storm. authorities in the york state have been digging from under four feet of snow after a record amount of snowfall. there at least 60 people have died as the monster storm has battered america over the last week . this america over the last week. this is gb news. we'll bring you more news as it happens. now it's back to that .

back to that. very good morning. welcome to bev turner. today on gb news. thank you for joining bev turner. today on gb news. thank you forjoining me. thank you for joining me. members of the armed forces have stepped up at airports across the uk as border force staff strike again. is it fair that they have to give up their time to cover for the workers who've walked out? and is this strike any actual disruption . we'll be any actual disruption. we'll be live at gatwick airport then i'll be taking a look at the ukraine war. russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has an ultimatum. either ukraine gives in to the demands of the kremlin or the army decides the fate of the nation. i'm going to be speaking to a superb russian expert right here in the studio. plus, if you sat there making your way through the remaining 8 minutes. i don't blame you, but don't anywhere. we may just don't go anywhere. we may just inspire rid of those inspire you to get rid of those pesky in new year. pesky pounds in the new year. i'm to be speaking to i'm going to be speaking to a personal trainer and nutritionist to get that top tips . i think next nutritionist to get that top

tips. i think next thing , tips. i think next thing, speeded up positive people in gym. you don't have to run at that speed. and of course, i want your views. email me, gbviews@gbnews.uk or tweet me at gbviews@gbnews.uk or tweet me at gb news to have your say . more gb news to have your say. more serious issues now than someone going at 70 miles per hour on the rowing machine . right. in the rowing machine. right. in the rowing machine. right. in the latest round of strike action, border force staff are walking out today at uk airport until new year's eve. the union has warned that industrial action could continue for months unless the government enters into talks over pay as the cost of living arises. it coincides with further disruption on the railways as many return to work following the christmas break on national theo chikomba is live at gatwick airport where it looks like it is still grey and rainy. theo but all the queues there as these striking workers

would . hope yes, that's the would. hope yes, that's the question you've been asking morning. just a few moments ago i heard from gatwick airport and they're saying they're expecting no disruption and there hasn't been any disruption this morning. but what they are saying to passengers who will be making their way here today is to carry water or drink or food . so in the there are queues and delays inside the airport that you have something to keep you going for the time being. but we do know the peaks union have staged another day of strikes today. staged another day of strikes today . it's the first of a today. it's the first of a number of days this week. last week it was a similar picture. airport bosses saying the traffic inside the airport was free flowing. and this is not here. but a number of airports across the country, including heathrow as well. and, of course, the port of new haven in the south of england, which has ferries taking people across the waters to places like france. so in the next few weeks, the next few months, we don't know how

much longer this is going. go on. we've heard from the unions themselves saying the government need to sit with them to need to sit down with them to get better pay deal for them. get a better pay deal for them. they've been offered 2% at the moment and also talking moment and have also talking about their conditions as well. working in this industry at the moment, no dates of how long this is going to last for, but as for now, union members are walking out today in what could be potentially disruptive for passengers in the next couple of weeks. okay thank you, steve. they should to their they should come to their at gatwick. now by a gatwick. i'm joined now by a political commentator and host of reason uk , jess gill. jess, of reason uk, jess gill. jess, what reason to uk? first of all, so basically we're a youtube channel dedicated towards people fighting the left wing bias. channel dedicated towards people fighting the left wing bias . any fighting the left wing bias. any university in our education system. okay, so what are your thoughts then on the strikes? i think having the british public being fair enough, we've just gone for a lockdown on the economy is an absolute state and now we're basically being pitted

against each other. i don't think it's fair people want a pay think it's fair people want a pay rise. i think that's rational. i think people should be ambitious. and i don't think it's unfair that people can play again. like i think after lockdown , you know, after lockdown, you know, after christmas , people want to enjoy christmas, people want to enjoy their time with , their family. their time with, their family. people want to travel. people want to you know. enjoy this country after . but we've not country after. but we've not been able to. and now this has just it worse. do you think , just it worse. do you think, jess, you would . i think a lot jess, you would. i think a lot of people can relate to what you're saying in terms of our sympathy for the striking workers and. i think that pushing this through all of this action before christmas, as we've with the airports we've seen with the airports it's really making any it's not really making any difference. that difference. it turns out that the better that job the armed forces better that job than border people than the border force people themselves. that's slightly backfired in terms backfired on them. but in terms of public our train of public transport, our train network, are losing network, the public are losing sympathy . i network, the public are losing sympathy. i think network, the public are losing sympathy . i think because they sympathy. i think because they held these strikes in the run up to christmas. do you think the rmt and other unions should have waited until the year and waited until the new year and then might have taken

then they might have taken the pubuc then they might have taken the public think again public with them? i think again , for the , i have sympathy for the strikers . i , i have sympathy for the strikers. i don't , i have sympathy for the strikers . i don't think there's strikers. i don't think there's anything wrong wanting anything wrong with wanting a pay anything wrong with wanting a pay especially you're pay rise, especially when you're up the government. up against the government. you know , in the public sector, know, in the public sector, strikers are holding the country hostage . it's against the hostage. it's against the taxpayer, rather than a general business. you know, if amazon goes on strike, you can always goes on strike, you can always go to ebay. but what you're going to do when all the trains are on i know the trains are on strike, i know the trains aren't really public. but even keir that the rail keir starmer said that the rail is much nationalised and is pretty much nationalised and i think this is just a problem with inefficiency frankly. i think this is just a problem vllhink efficiency frankly. i think this is just a problem vllhink ifficiency frankly. i think this is just a problem vllhink if itiency frankly. i think this is just a problem vllhink if it moves frankly. i think this is just a problem vllhink if it moves privatisezly. i think if it moves privatise it, if it doesn't move private privatise it as my favourite economist who also blocks it, i think that's a way. so you'd like see a privatised nhs, like to see a privatised nhs, for instance? yeah definitely. i mean, the nhs completely failing . what's the point of it being .what's the point of it being free to the point of use when no one can use it with the long waiting? it doesn't serve anyone. it doesn't serve the overworked , the doctors anyone. it doesn't serve the overnurses , the doctors anyone. it doesn't serve the overnurses who , the doctors anyone. it doesn't serve the overnurses who are 1e doctors anyone. it doesn't serve the overnurses who are and)ctors and nurses who are and underpaid. it doesn't help . the underpaid. it doesn't help. the patients who desperately need the help due to desperately need

medical treatment . i think the medical treatment. i think the nhs is as massive monopoly and we need to see it for it is. but there are times just when the nhs is superb , you cannot get nhs is superb, you cannot get better service anywhere in the world, particularly in an emergency situation . should the emergency situation. should the nhs and, the nurses and doctors who work there is superb under some circumstances . i mean, i some circumstances. i mean, i have no problem against doctors and mum's a midwife. and nurses. my mum's a midwife. i nurses and doctors i think the nurses and doctors superb. i think the staff are one of the best things about this country. but i think the system is isn't giving anyone a fair deal quite , frankly. and fair deal quite, frankly. and i think reform is desperately neededin think reform is desperately needed in all these sectors, especially nhs, comes to especially nhs, when it comes to people's health, i think that should prioritised. it should be prioritised. it shouldn't stake due to shouldn't be at stake due to ideology . do you shouldn't be at stake due to ideology. do you think your generation, how old are you if you don't know? 19, you're early 19. blimey 19 year old is sat at home. probably now playing well. well done for you here. but do you think your generation are you think your generation are you typical? is what i'm saying in terms of your generation,

think well, the nhs will just be privatised like this is we don't feel it in hearts. like i think there are older generations that we feel that the nhs is something was worth hanging on to. think you're quite to. do you think you're quite typical well, we typical and thinking, well, we can it?i typical and thinking, well, we can it? i don't can live without it? i don't think quite typical. i think think i'm quite typical. i think the average young person, let's be really need use be they don't really need to use health elderly health care as much as elderly people do. so i don't think they've given much consideration. the consideration. again, the idea of the coming together of the is all coming together and care, you and paying health care, you know, the paul health know, so the paul get health care well as the rich think care as well as the rich i think that's a noble cause but. in reality, it just results in everyone worse off. you know, like said they don't like thatcher said they don't care rich being. care about the rich being. no, they care about the poor they don't care about the poor being poorer as as makes being poorer as long as it makes the rich poorer. i think that's true with nhs. thank true with the nhs. okay, thank you. meet you. you. just lovely to meet you. just left from greece and the just go left from greece and the uk. one of the few 19 year olds is out about it this time on the week between christmas and new yeah week between christmas and new year. is to year. now the strike is to continue four days. it's not continue for four days. it's not clear disruption it clear how much disruption it will cause. is the border will cause. this is the border force. for passengers force. but for passengers worried getting stranded, worried about getting stranded, what action you if the

what action can you take if the worst happens? well, me worst happens? well, joining me now who the now is someone who travels the world living she's seen it world for a living she's seen it all being stranded all experience being stranded herself. owns her herself. lee boatwright owns her travel pr firm and joins now. i love fact your name is love the fact the your name is boatwright. there's a bit of nominative right nominative determinism right there. fine. so how bad is there. lee fine. so how bad is it right now for people who are trying travel, go on holiday? have you ever seen it this bad ? have you ever seen it this bad? no no, i haven't. have you ever seen it this bad? no no, i haven't . so. so what? no no, i haven't. so. so what? what your tips be for people who , you know, right now we've heard that this week is when most people will book that the houdayis most people will book that the holiday is actually . i was holiday is actually. i was seeing a thing in the news this morning that this is the week where most people are going to get we're going book a get online. we're going book a holiday. we need some sunshine, right? we something on the right? we need something on the honzon right? we need something on the horizon for. what do horizon to aim for. and what do you good? do we have you think it's good? do we have that? book those that? we should book those holidays we've had holidays because we've had so much , haven't we? much uncertainty, haven't we? i think we can go ahead and book. my think we can go ahead and book. my advice to anyone would be if you're booking a holiday sure

you're booking a holiday sure you're going with tour operator an airline or a travel company thatis an airline or a travel company that is apta and atol protected. i would also book on a credit card rather than a debit card because a credit card can give you extra protection if anything goes wrong in the height of the pandemic, i had several flights booked from, you know , smaller booked from, you know, smaller airlines , european to european airlines, european to european destinations to, you know, long haul destination . and instead of haul destination. and instead of hanging on for hours and hours on the phone to the actual airline to get a refund , which airline to get a refund, which they were at the height of the pandemic. those were the anticipate waiting times . i anticipate waiting times. i called my credit card company , called my credit card company, and i just had give them the details , my flight when was due details, my flight when was due to travel and my credit company were amazing . and i had all my

were amazing. and i had all my flights refunded. what you think are going to be the popular places this year? lee to go on on holiday? well where are we going to see people maybe moving back towards? because obviously the pandemic and the lack of travel kind of ripped up travel kind of just ripped up all rules, didn't it? and i all the rules, didn't it? and i feel kind of settling feel it's all kind of settling in different now. where in a different place now. where should look this year? what's should we look this year? what's going to be popular ? popular going to be popular? popular destinations. i think the ocean will still remain really popular. it was the maldives was booming . the pandemic , the booming. the pandemic, the latter part of 2020 really saw an uptick in bookings to the maldives. and i do think indian ocean is going to is going to be strong as well as european destinations, especially like portugal. it offers us, you know , it's a short haul destination and it offers the sun, the sea, the sand that most of us brits crave . mm hmm. do you think we

crave. mm hmm. do you think we see? because, of course, if you haven't had the covid vaccines, you still can't travel to america or which not had enough of them, you can't travel of them, you still can't travel to i'm not quite sure to america. i'm not quite sure what are around what the rules are around australia. think it's australia. i don't think it's quite in same but quite that. in the same now. but do you there'll be a lot do you think there'll be a lot of people who are still feeling like, oh, i just, you know, pcr testing and lateral tests testing and lateral flow tests are all still, all still quite in memories, it, in people's memories, isn't it, that pop people off or that it will pop people off or are we desperate? back on a are we desperate? get back on a plane? i think you know, my people. i know i was desk were absolutely desperate to get back on the plane. and you know the travel industry does need people in order to survive to book , to in order to survive to book, to travel. and there are things that you can do to make your journey so much easier. so, for example , believe in pre example, believe in pre preparation and planning prevents poor performance . and prevents poor performance. and if you spend about 10 to 15 minutes really thinking about what you're putting in your

luggage, most airlines give you a hand luggage allowance of between five and eight kilos. you do to check with your airline to see what their allowance is within those 5 to 8 kilos, you can really wisely on that. kilos, you can really wisely on that . so, for example , i've been that. so, for example, i've been caught short with flight connecting flight. my luggage didn't arrive in the and from that i've learned i've you know if i'm travelling to a hot country indian ocean for example . i always pack in my hand luggage, i spend, i pack a bikini, i pack a kaftan , i pack bikini, i pack a kaftan, i pack a pair of flip flops. bikini, i pack a kaftan, i pack a pair of flip flops . and i also a pair of flip flops. and i also use my liquid allowance well, so you get 100 mail, which is quite generous. you can fit it, you get regulation size fine. and within that ipac a mouthwash. i

pack, a face cream , i pack , a pack, a face cream, i pack, a toothbrush , i pack it, take my toothbrush, i pack it, take my toothpaste and make miniature perfume and, a little hair brush andifs perfume and, a little hair brush and it's surprising, but yeah. how you manage. okay, leigh, thank you . top tips, silly boat. thank you. top tips, silly boat. the owner of travel pr firm , the owner of travel pr firm, right? coming up, i'm going to be back with my panel in just a moment to discuss the top stories of the day, including how actually pop how diets can actually pop weight on us. lots to discuss. that's after the .

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your views as i asked you. thank your views as i asked you. thank you . the range of ongoing you. the range of ongoing strikes are on your radar as much as they are, as rob has said. let them strike for as long as they all leaders need to show a bit of thatcher spirit . show a bit of thatcher spirit. when they're broke and fed up, they'll go back to work just like the minus did. and west says it's time to totally disband border force, use the money saved to expand the armed forces and give them job of protecting our borders as michelle has said, maybe the right to strike shouldn't be fundamental. this chaos and disruption is outrageous and completely unacceptable. and duncan has said the solution to the strikes are to no longer use the strikes are to no longer use the royal mail, make the country car friendly again, offer an to nurses every to work or get sacked . let's outlaw trade sacked. let's outlaw trade unions that are not fit for purpose anymore . i can feel purpose anymore. i can feel nigel nelson beside me just shaking his head in disbelief. the days that the workers any power gone. nigel nelson and i'm going to come to you in just a

moment . now, russia's foreign moment. now, russia's foreign minister , sergei lavrov, has minister, sergei lavrov, has issued a stark to ukraine, stating that either the country fulfils the kremlin's demands or the army decide the fate of the nafion the army decide the fate of the nation . this comes after russian nation. this comes after russian president vladimir putin claimed that moscow is ready for peace talks , end the war in ukraine talks, end the war in ukraine and a state televised interview sunday. he said not us who refuse to talk , it's them. well, refuse to talk, it's them. well, let's bring in our russian specialist, donny armstrong danny. thank you so much. good to see you. so what did he say. putin in his address. to see you. so what did he say. putin in his address . was there putin in his address. was there anything that we haven't heard before? not really. i mean, they've been banging the drum for peace talks . well, even for peace talks. well, even before the invasion , there was before the invasion, there was that back and forth between the and nato and the threats that russia said said, look, we don't want encroaching these red want you encroaching these red lines that we have. of course. that was the failure to guarantee that ukraine would enjoy then fallout enjoy nato and then the fallout that. sergei his second in that. what sergei his second in command is pretty much said the

foreign minister is that you still need to accept our proposals for the demilitarisation i know that speech very well . vladimir putin speech very well. vladimir putin came out and announced invasion into ukraine. i was the first man to voice those words in the engush man to voice those words in the english language. of course i was on airf english language. of course i was on air f rt english language. of course i was on air f r t when the news was on airf r t when the news broke. that is pretty much the same as what lavrov has said now, he says. look you need to accept these proposals. as russia many times, that russia has said many times, that they're peace talks . they're open for peace talks. but kind of bit of but it's a kind of bit of a gaslighting on we've seen this in in march as in minsk in march in turkey as well will after those talks in minsk came to no conclusion russia was saying, look, you can stop this at any moment. he said, lavrov, this is mindless, senseless resistance from the kyiv regime. and of course, it's as we see , that mindless as we see, that mindless resistance is just purely defending the nation, defending ukraine from an invasion. but of course, that that kind of back and forth game of, well, you can stop this at any time. all you need to do is lay down your arms and us get these message to the camp of the ukrainian people. is

that not targeting you? we're targeting kyiv regime targeting the kyiv regime and that's want. and that's what we want. and demilitarise . and of course, demilitarise. and of course, they're very, very good and very, effective pretext for very, very effective pretext for war and for this invasion. but russia used to their russia is used to their advantage. but here's the thing, danny. right. so everyone always says well, he says about about putin. well, he says about about putin. well, he says he that then says this now. he says that then he'll more. says that he'll want more. he says that what more. but we have what we want more. but we have is never said he wants more. we have evidence would have no evidence he would want more. is a very sentiment more. and he is a very sentiment and soleimani's sentimental and soleimani's very sentimental about history is in about russia. history is in a way, and it's first on the speech that he gave when he ukraine about i want ukraine it wasn't about i want to over was i think to take over europe was i think the also and i think russia the us also and i think russia what we should be we should we should just have our territories which us. yeah. mean which are us. well, yeah. i mean this headline that, you this is great headline that, you know, wants return to know, putin wants to return to the of course is not the us so of course is not territorially a return to the ussr of course with all the member states of the soviet , member states of the soviet, it's to the status of the ussr. when western russia was revered respect it and was a major, major world force. that's where

he gets most of his support from, especially within the very ultra patriotic russians . and ultra patriotic russians. and they see him the man to return russia to that that former status we've had we've had zelenskyy flying out to the white house for some reason, inexplicably still wearing his army combat gear , getting out of army combat gear, getting out of the helicopter and up the steps. i trust him. danny armstrong , i i trust him. danny armstrong, i know that might be a controversial thing to before this war. he was considered to be the most corrupt head of the most corrupt regime in europe. that's very, very true. and there's a there's a couple of outlets, i'm sure i'm not sure whether he's camp host or kevin dependence. i name them. dependence. i won't name them. right that be right now because that could be a bit dangerous. but they saw zelenskyy as this kind of media figure. was a comic figure. this this he was a comic and actor he came to and an actor before he came to power much the vein as power in much the same vein as donald he he was seen as donald trump, he he was seen as carrying on the corruption his predecessors, poroshenko and yanukovych . if there's one thing yanukovych. if there's one thing that he says that he doesn't

have, so one thing that he does have, so one thing that he does have in his arsenal, it's a very, very good pr company and very, very good pr company and very, very good pr company and very, very good pr people behind him. pushing that it, him. they're pushing that it, making him out be like this making him out to be like this sort of this head of state that that will turn the force of the russian aggressors, might russian aggressors, which might be now time man be true. but he's now time man of year. and why would he of the year. and why would he want would to want to why would he want to stop? would you want to stop? why would you want to sit down a talks when he down to a peace talks when he has millions of billions of dollars funnelled into the country? absolutely that's that's argument that's the other argument for these. see any these. well, is don't see any anytime and i afraid anytime soon. and i i'm afraid my patience running rather my patience is running rather thin, the ukrainian thin, not with the ukrainian people who feel for desperately, desperately their are desperately sad. their lives are ruined this. ruined by contact with this. some behind some powerful men behind the scenes bring this scenes who could bring this out if they wanted to. danny armstrong, thank you so much. right. conservative adviser, former conservative adviser, claire pearsall, political edhon claire pearsall, political editor, nigel nelson editor, sun people nigel nelson and of jones and sun's and owner of bar jones and sun's andy right claire. andy jones. right claire. vulnerable, 16 and 17 year olds placed it on regulated housing after leaving the care system . after leaving the care system. what is this story about? all right. are 8850 children

right. there are 8850 children in the social care system and many of them are living in accommodation action, which is for adults. now, these are six, 18 and 17 year olds. there is this kind of gap that they seem to fall down. the government did put a review in care system in place and said that anybody 15 and under would not be placed in kind of pieces of accommodation , but 16 and 17 year olds were thought to be robust enough to last on their own. now, anybody who has got a teenager as i know you do, and only two, i couldn't imagine them living in dependently, in accommodation shouldn't with grown adults without somebody to care for them and i think this is the real sadness is that they are now going to be targets for criminal gangs. these are still, in all intents and purposes children and we're letting them live a bedsit without somebody to just make sure that they've got food in the they can deal

with the bills that are coming through. they can get to college or university in such a vulnerable age. it is a completely vulnerable age and think just extraordinary think it's just extraordinary that the end of that here we are at the end of 2022 and this is the case. so there needs to be some urgent reforms on to live with ex—prisoners when you're 16 years old. can't imagine how years old. i can't imagine how frightening be . frightening that would be. awful, right ? frightening that would be. awful, right? nigel sir? frightening that would be. awful, right ? nigel sir? lindsay awful, right? nigel sir? lindsay hoyle has been saying that democracy has died. why? well, largely because everything been happening this year. i mean, i kind of agree with him. yeah i mean, his point is that the britain is now the world's laughing stock . it britain is now the world's laughing stock. it comes to britain is now the world's laughing stock . it comes to two laughing stock. it comes to two democracy. he dates it to brexit. this is not a criticism of brexit, simply that it did divide people divided families and. we've also had this extraordinary site this year of three prime ministers in three months. the last of which was never elected by anybody . so never elected by anybody. so none of this actually feels like

very democratic. and lindsay hoyle being the speaker of the house of the house of commons, is meant to be the mother of parliament for all other parliaments in the world. and i think his point is we can't even get our own democracy right. it really does. it kind of have to sort of scratch yourself, pinch yourself, don't you? antigens when have got when you you know, we have got a prime minister literally nobody voted for nobody. well well, they did vote for him, but he lost when people did get a chance to vote for him, he actually lost. here he is, sucking up the throne. so how does out? you know, does that work out? you know, i got fired from somewhere. i wouldn't, of wouldn't, you know, kind of backdoor run the backdoor myself back, run the company it's very company again. it's very bizarre, isn't it? and it just is. no wonder, really, that there's little faith, the there's so little faith, the conservative at conservative party at the moment. about. so no moment. what talk about. so no wonder lost wonder that people have lost trust because felt like there was answers to how was never any answers to how that decision was made. well, that's right. i mean, was bad that's right. i mean, it was bad enough ended up enough when we ended up replacing boris johnson with a prime minister who was elected by 0.0, nought 4% of the

population . i mean, that was population. i mean, that was that was bad . but then when you that was bad. but then when you get to your third prime minister and now no one puts the vote down at all, it doesn't say very much for our democracy. what he should have done, of course, is if he believed in it, is gone on and got his own mandate and called it. oh, yeah, absolutely . claire. remind me because you were on the telly with me at the time. you were a rishi sunak fan , weren't you? oh, i think fan was pretty big. was the lesser of two evils. and that's what it came down to. the choice i was given was persuade sunak and liz truss and you have to kind of make your own decision. i know there will be people that disagree with this and i thought that sunak the that rishi sunak would be the better team. i mean, liz better of the team. i mean, liz truss last 5 minutes, truss didn't last 5 minutes, 5 minutes and 40, 48. prime minister in history let overtook her life span terms but was her in life span terms but was her in life span terms but was he my first choice. no he wasn't . do you feel like you know what he stands for now? do you feel like you know what ism is? like you know what sunak ism is? i don't . and that's the most

i don't. and that's the most worrying thing, is conservative. you know what these people you don't know what these people stand for . you don't know what these people stand for. where has the prime minister been over the last six, eight weeks when all of these strikes are taking place, when the country is in chaos with with strike action, with the cost of living crisis . gas and cost of living crisis. gas and electricity , he is not being electricity, he is not being visible on the one thing you needis visible on the one thing you need is your prime minister to be out there invisible and reassuring you, even if you don't agree with what he's going to say to you. you to see him. absolutely. well, we just seen few clips of him when he was doing the supercommittee the doing his the supercommittee the select committee, where he select super committee, where he was yeah quite was grill almost. yeah quite recently. and that's probably the most we've seen of him and he unimpressive and he deeply unimpressive and i think your real problem think that's your real problem is doesn't have the is that he doesn't have the personality boris. now personality of boris. now whether you agree with boris johnson or not, he had that personality people enjoyed. johnson or not, he had that persowanted people enjoyed. johnson or not, he had that persowanted to people enjoyed. johnson or not, he had that persowanted to listen e enjoyed. johnson or not, he had that persowanted to listen toenjoyed. johnson or not, he had that persowanted to listen to him ed. johnson or not, he had that persowanted to listen to him and they wanted to listen to him and he was the best campaigner, i think, that we've ever had. i didn't disagree. i didn't agree with him. but you can't take that. okay. got to move

that. okay. we've got to move on, i'm going be taking on, guys. i'm going to be taking a in a moment to to a look in just a moment to to how those pesky pounds how lose those pesky pounds after . i'm to be after christmas. i'm going to be speaking personal trainer speaking to a personal trainer and coach to get their tips. and a coach to get their tips. i hope all recognise that. so after your morning stays with thomson . thanks very much, beth. thomson. thanks very much, beth. good morning for the gb newsroom. it's 1134. well, let's just by bringing you some breaking news in the last few minutes . breaking news in the last few minutes. police breaking news in the last few minutes . police say they've minutes. police say they've arrested two men on suspicion of in connection with the stabbing of a 23 year old in a birmingham nightclub. west midlands police say a 22 year old was arrested in birmingham city centre last night and a 21 year old was also arrested . london. arrested. london. semi—professional footballer cody fisher was stabbed to death on the dance floor of the crown nightclub on boxing day . nightclub on boxing day. hundreds of people in the club at the time and family have said their hearts were broken following his death . so that

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gb news. very good morning . welcome to very good morning. welcome to bev turner today. thank for joining me. it's 1139 bev turner today. thank for joining me. it's1139 now. i know we're all a little bit of what's the word if i let me come to my panellists and ask them what the word is for this time of the year? ali ahmed, a personal trainer and also so situated in such positive, nutritious how we feel at this time of the year. guys are sluggish lethargic. sujata are you feeling? i'm actually feeling quite . oh, i know you feeling quite. oh, i know you were going to say that you guys

have that. how you feeling? have that. how are you feeling? ali not too all ali yeah, i'm not too bad. all right. well, thank you. right okay. how feeling? feeling okay. well, how feeling? feeling i'm feeling a bit tired. i've drunk too much . i've eaten too drunk too much. i've eaten too much. i've all the things much. i've eaten all the things i normally eat right. the thing is it this time of the year to a table, they're on it too much cream, pies loads and cream, mince pies loads and loads. and you have some there. i see. yeah. no that's props i can see. yeah. no that's props that they probably been there for about two weeks to be completely what completely honest. but what do we do now, right. we've all got we do now, right. we've all got we got the best of to do at this time of the year. all feel a time of the year. we all feel a bit fat. what do we do now? i think it's actually about planning ahead rather than just diving january i'm diving into january saying i'm going doing everything. going to stop doing everything. i plan ahead i think if you just plan ahead and actually want to make and see, i actually want to make and see, i actually want to make and just doing maybe and focus on just doing maybe i always say do three things and maybe five things. and even if three are much, maybe just three are too much, maybe just focus few things that focus on a few things that you can every make it fun can every day and make it fun and make it something that actually daily actually fits into your daily life than doing something life rather than doing something that from only live. that is so far from only live. because if you can do it every

day and you can do it living in your own family rather than having go away for yeah . st having to go away for yeah. st you'll actually be finding that this then allows you to get more energy to lose the belly bloat and you know maybe even drop a dress sign it's similar ali isn't it with exercising that people think, right, that's it, i'm going to run a marathon, i'm going to do a triathlon and that's going to get but that's going to get me. but sometimes we set the goals too high, you know, fall off that particular down. no particular track down. no absolutely. all about absolutely. so it's all about balance sujata i balance and. like sujata said, i totally if we were totally agree with a if we were totally agree with a if we were to some goals, some micro to set some goals, some micro goals to get to a macro goal, often that's the way forward . often that's the way forward. what do you think a smartwatch is? smartwatch is ? a lot people is? smartwatch is? a lot people will look at them in their stockings this year. my daughter got one this year from a family member. she's only 38. i'm not a massive , to be honest . i well massive, to be honest. i well buy what i say to my clients is what i what you've just said to me actually, the good in certain

ways in terms of obviously the calories, the walking, the steps but you didn't want to be too obsessed by the watch yourself. yes so but it is when your hands are moving it's actually counting some steps in some cases. counting some steps in some cases . so it's not counting some steps in some cases. so it's not as counting some steps in some cases . so it's not as accurate cases. so it's not as accurate as you might just doing things. i would say to her, that's all very well. look at your watch to see how many steps you've done. that's great. but don't lose connection with your own body. listen your own body don't just always think got to to always think you've got to go to always think you've got to go to a piece right? you've a piece of tech, right? you've brought food with you. brought some food with you. sujata, this sujata, what are these? is this alternative a fasting? just alternative to a fasting? just yeah. so this is just a very homemade snack , you know, if you homemade snack, you know, if you like snickers chocolates, this an that. it's an alternative to that. it's just everyday ingredients an alternative to that. it's just oats everyday ingredients an alternative to that. it's just oats , everyday ingredients an alternative to that. it's just oats , peanutiy ingredients an alternative to that. it's just oats , peanut butterzdients an alternative to that. it's just oats , peanut butter ,iients an alternative to that. it's just oats , peanut butter , cocoa like oats, peanut butter, cocoa powder or chocolate powder, some honey. powder or chocolate powder, some honey . so these are things that honey. so these are things that we can do at home ourselves, just make something simple. they look like the kind of things you put off the squirrels . if you put off the squirrels. if you think of that, you would think,

oh likewise, this is . but how do oh likewise, this is. but how do you sell it to the kids? it's because they're to go, oh, no, no, i'm going to wait. i want a snickers. i think they try them once they try them. and you don't need to necessarily say, oh, this is really healthy because minute this, because the minute say this, this is, you know, a health food. people go, i don't want eat going to taste eat it. it's not going to taste nice, but just somebody it nice, but just somebody try it and like the taste of and if they like the taste of it, then fine. but you it, then that's fine. but you don't need to go and have something like this. you know, you take regular you could just take regular brownie which is what brownie recipe, which is what most like. if the sees most kids like. so if the sees 100 of sugar, could 100 grams of sugar, could you reduce 90 grams and reduce it down to 90 grams and then maybe 80 and you then maybe 80 grams and you know, just and make swaps within your yeah. ali you your own recipes. yeah. ali you said about these micro goals rather than massive ambition. so what give idea what what give us an idea of what kind we factor kind of things can we factor into day . well, it's just into our day. well, it's just the basics want to it depends on the basics want to it depends on the person, the individual to start their background, start with their background, their age and they've got any underlying that we need to be aware of . and then slowly, aware of. and then slowly, gradually build up through

bodyweight exercises , whether it bodyweight exercises, whether it be a basic plank or squats, and then they go through that period , then look them, make it a little bit more difficult, bit more challenging for them. you know, i do , i do my squats while know, i do, i do my squats while i'm cleaning my teeth everyday. twice the, twice day. okay? my teeth. i do my squats while i'm, while i'm doing that. that's the kind of thing you're talking about as these little movements factor them especially factor them in especially obviously you have obviously through times you have to have to modify. yeah and to we have to modify. yeah and challenge ourselves in different because we didn't have the gym facility so how do we do that do that by like you said at the sinks do some squats, a couple cansin sinks do some squats, a couple cans in kitchen detritus, they do some navel chair , just basic do some navel chair, just basic things like that to start with . things like that to start with. and then once, you know, i was saying back stage and siddartha is so important to us also know the psychology the psychological side of the person that you're deaung side of the person that you're dealing with as as the physical.

yeah such as at one tip then for food just one we've got, we got 10 seconds one tip for food would be can you include more vegetables. i think that's one food group. i see. so many people not having enough of and make vegetables taste good. make the vegetables taste good. whichever of vegetables you whichever kind of vegetables you like okay, thanks , guys. like just. okay, thanks, guys. and it's the first time someone back stage as though this is a glamorous environment, back stage as though this is a glamorous environment , the grey glamorous environment, the grey area. thank you, guys. so much for joining us. now area. thank you, guys. so much for joining us . now the festive for joining us. now the festive season is that we've done we just i'm just just talk amongst yourselves a minute while i get to where we're supposed to be. we're going to go through a lovely little package. i think that cameron walker done for us . this is about the fact that the 8th of september was a day will go down in history. her majesty queen, the queen elizabeth second died, of course, peacefully at her summer retreat . and walker has retreat. and cameron walker has looked that day the looked back on that day and the events followed the news events that followed the news that everyone was dreading

happened. palace has happened. buckingham palace has announced queen announced that the queen has died peacefully at balmoral, a day that is now etched in history . queen elizabeth, the history. queen elizabeth, the second was the rock on which modern britain was built. our country has grown and flourished under her reign , britain is under her reign, britain is great country. it is today because of . her thousands because of. her thousands gathered royal residences to lay flowers and paddington bears a nod to her late majesty's surprise sketch at her platinum jubilee . she . immediately jubilee. she. immediately charles the throne and was formally proclaimed king at the ascension in st james's palace . ascension in st james's palace. politicians past and present unhedin politicians past and present united in grief, despite their policy differences, he lost his mother on the thursday here he was on the saturday morning, standing in front of all of his

private counsellors there. his counsellors and i, the king paid tributes to his beloved mother and renewed her pledge of lifelong wrote. thank you so much . an olive branch from much. an olive branch from prince to his brother, prince harry, when the siblings reunited, secretes to the public with their wives and b flowers outside windsor. any reconciling was short lived. the queen's coffin accompanies by her daughter . princess anne was daughter. princess anne was dnven daughter. princess anne was driven to saint charles in edinburgh to lie rest an opportunity for the people of scotland to pay their last respects to the queen of the united kingdom , an raaf c—17 united kingdom, an raaf c—17 flew her late majesty back to london . the state hearse, london. the state hearse, specially designed for the pubuc specially designed for the public to see inside drive down crowds lined streets before one final night in buckingham palace . well rehearsed ceremonial procession brought the queen westminster hall so the public could pay their last respects as . her late majesty lain state people would queue for hours end

they'd finally get in and it would be 5 seconds, 6 seconds and it just happened. so beautifully and sounds like the seats gong carriage of the royal navy pulls by 142 royal naval ratings to queen elizabeth. the second coffin to westminster abbey for the state funeral . at abbey for the state funeral. at the king's request, the wreath on top of the coffin contained flowers. the gardens of buckingham palace , clarence buckingham palace, clarence house and highgrove the royal family's dignity and stoicism shone through in the face of unimaginable grief . princess unimaginable grief. princess charlotte's of brooch in the shape of a horseshoe she was gifted by her great grandmother the queen. she alongside her future king brother george , future king brother george, recessed behind the coffin with . their parents, the prince and princess of the seats, hers to windsor castle for the committal service. more than 800 people, including queen's personal staff, filled st george's chapel in stark contrast to prince philip's funeral , where just 30 philip's funeral, where just 30 people could attend because of

covid restrictions , the imperial covid restrictions, the imperial state's crown , the orb and the state's crown, the orb and the sceptre were removed from the coffin and placed on the high altar. the king placed the queen's cup colour of the grenadier guards on the coffin , grenadier guards on the coffin, the ones broken, creating the symmetry with the three instruments of state being removed , ready to be passed on removed, ready to be passed on to their successor . the queen to their successor. the queen was buried with her late husband's philip in a private service in the king george four six memorial chapel back together for eternity . catherine together for eternity. catherine walker . gb together for eternity. catherine walker. gb news, thank you , walker. gb news, thank you, cameron. i'm joined now by my mega brand news hounds is here again . and nigel nelson, please again. and nigel nelson, please to the sunday mirror and owner of restaurant jones and sons jones right andy this is a story that's page to express today failure to bring in the ban on the junk food ads is disappointing this is a conversation between effectively george osborne, former chancellor and jamie oliver

criticising rishi sunak for not bringing this in sooner. would it make a difference, you think funding advertising on junk food? i think if people want to eat junk food, they're going to eat junk food, they're going to eat i think eat junk food, i think if they're millions and they're to pump millions and millions advertising like millions into advertising like they do, why can't that be taxed a little why can't we a little bit more? why can't we start these bigger start taxing these bigger companies with the dominance that over sector? that they have over the sector? you they have so many ways you know, they have so many ways of their now. of selling their food now. deliveroo, eats. they deliveroo, uber eats. they dominate every high street in every in the country. what every town, in the country. what about the small independent restaurant that's restaurant like mine that's falling because falling by the wayside because you i don't want a you say, hey, i don't want a secondary delivering, secondary policy delivering, my food to a substandard level. they need to spend as much they don't need to spend as much on can't on tv on this, can't turn on the tv without john doing without news that john was doing the right thing. the advert i think they pump so much money does not did people stop does not need. did people stop smoking when they know they banned advertising smoking . banned advertising for smoking. you people want do you know if people want to do something do something, they're going to do it anyway. what the that it anyway. what the effect that glorifying food has on the nhs long term . what do you think long term. what do you think guys? because i don't like banning anything so . be banning anything so. be completely but it does

completely honest, but it does feel like behemoth that the feel like the behemoth that the food industry is so huge for parents in particular. yes, for kids, it's really hard for us because we are up against such a machine. yeah. with the odds, the answer when it comes to children, they shouldn't be exposed to this stuff any more than necessary . so certainly than necessary. so certainly a ban on the advertise. we're not saying don't eat it. so it's not like a ban on the food. you're just saying let's not encourage kids to get the wrong route. yeah. what do you think ? yeah, i yeah. what do you think? yeah, i think there is a place for it. so it looks that's pretty watershed time where younger children perhaps watching programmes and they shouldn't be subjected to adverts for junk food. however they're teenagers . i don't know about you, but mine doesn't actually watch television . they don't watch television. they don't watch streaming services . hey, i'm streaming services. hey, i'm able to take out youtube , all of able to take out youtube, all of those kind of things. but the advertising is still going to be there anyway. yeah so i think there's going be a minimal there's going to be a minimal impact it really is down to impact and it really is down to parents to not buckle under the

pressure, said pressure, which is easier said than done. yeah. i'm jamie oliver who basically edited this radio osborne radio show that george osborne did that believes did was saying that he believes that tax should be that the sugar tax should be used then extend the used to then extend the provision of school meals . provision of free school meals. and seem logical that if and it does seem logical that if you take money from these these companies virus tax and you use that to pay for healthy school meals where the kids don't get a choice. absolutely. that's that's kind you know, but it's the choice element, right. claire, talking of food fad diets make us fast. apparently yeah.i diets make us fast. apparently yeah. i mean, isn't this a front? this is a front page of the is front page at the times this week that time of year, where we are all looking at the excesses of christmas and going into the new year , i think that into the new year, i think that we all know that fad diets and get thin quick doesn't work. it takes a lot of discipline . it takes a lot of discipline. it takes a lot of discipline. it takes exercise, it takes healthy eating and a mindset to want to do it. so always this time of yean do it. so always this time of year, we get in and i sit with all of these tips, how to lose weight and to how the pounds,

how to look bikini ready . you how to look bikini ready. you just think you know what is the end of december? if i want to do it, i will do it and i'll have to do in my own way. because to do it in my own way. because unfortunately, i one of those unfortunately, i am one of those people ever so slightly people that's ever so slightly lazy the motivation lazy until i have the motivation that i want something and then i will throw everything at it. but, i think that but, you know. i think that these dangerous diets, restrictive great restrictive diets are not great and are at risk and teenagers are always at risk falling them. this from falling into them. this is from the association , which the british association, which represents 10,500 qualified dietitians urging people. so they've all come together to basically tell us all, don't do anything , basically tell us all, don't do anything, you basically tell us all, don't do anything , you know they say, anything, you know they say, avoid the boiled egg diet, anything, you know they say, avoid the boiled egg diet , the avoid the boiled egg diet, the water diet. they're even including the keto diet. but i'd say that's a little controversial. and do you also worry, though , as you've got a worry, though, as you've got a couple of i know, but this couple of kids? i know, but this normalisation of big body image i find actually quite concerning . listen, it depends on your type, okay? i'm, you know as you can possibly say, i'm a little bit big boned this december. i'm a bit jowly. i own a restaurant

, lots of restaurants . so five , lots of restaurants. so five days a week , i'd prefer football days a week, i'd prefer football less, but it's not the case anymore. okay my wife, very tall, very lean . she is actually tall, very lean. she is actually a vegan who only eats alkaline food. so we go for a guy who owns a restaurant yes. so when we go to a restaurant like, oh, what am i doing today? but she looks incredible . she's looks incredible. she's incredibly healthy. she's incredibly healthy. she's incredibly lean. you talk about being bikini ready. she's that thrilling. you just off. i'm not showing off. i just wish could be more like her with my diet. and i'm not. so is she this and i'm not. so what is she this just what does that just alkaline? what does that mean? to speak to mean? oh, you'd have to speak to her. mean? oh, you'd have to speak to hen you mean? oh, you'd have to speak to her. you mean taken an her. but you mean taken an interest in i have, interest in this? i have, because like to cook home. because i like to cook at home. when i'm at home, i like cook. so she. she replaces with teff. what earth is it again? i what on earth is it again? i don't know. it's about . it's don't know. it's about. it's something that's in a box in my car, but i add water to add a bit of seasoning to make it taste, you know, acceptable. but the way she eats, she gets all her food from very small suppliers . she even goes travels suppliers. she even goes travels down to we in north, and then

she down to brixton to she travels down to brixton to go to particular supplier. go to one particular supplier. the vegetables the only do alkaline vegetables she's strict with it. she's great with the kids. she allows the kids to eat a bit of chicken, a bit of this, bit of chicken, a bit of this, a bit of brown rice. but the kids are very, very healthy i'm an very, very healthy and i'm an advocate you know, advocate for it. you know, verbally, you probably verbally, as you can probably say, much physically say, eat not so much physically at moment. well, that's at the moment. well, that's exactly kind of fatty that exactly the kind of fatty that we should not be promoting here, but actually excited but we will actually be excited to bit more about. to learn a bit more about. right. come to end of right. we've come to the end of the it has flown by you to the show. it has flown by you to claire. you to nigel. claire. thank you to nigel. thank thank thank andy. thank you for watching well. enjoy your new watching as well. enjoy your new yeah watching as well. enjoy your new year. going to be after year. i'm going to be back after the year. i don't know what the new year. i don't know what day i think it's day that's to be. i think it's wednesday. i think it's a week today. but coming up next is mark long i'm bev turner and have a lovely new year. hello there. to your weather there. welcome to your weather update. i'm claire nasir. here are headlines. windy today are your headlines. windy today with gales as pushes with gales as rain pushes northwards the risk of hills snow later across scotland and some showers . follow your bigger some showers. follow your bigger picture . low pressure firmly in picture. low pressure firmly in charge now the ice warning

across scotland eases through the morning, but there's rain warning across southern parts of wales as as. the west wales as well as. the west country extends through the afternoon. wet through this afternoon. it's wet through this lunchtime . you can see the rain lunchtime. you can see the rain slowly towards the central belt of scotland where. it will be heavy rain also for ireland covering much of the midlands. northern england drier further north with some cloud south and southwest. we'll see some brighter skies emerge, but also some showers. and those winds will be relentless, but delivering some milder conditions to the south of . that conditions to the south of. that weather front now overnight the rain continues its passage northwards towards the west as we head through the evening and overnight, more showers gather across northern england, wales and the west country. some clear skies further east, but still a few showers here . now it's going few showers here. now it's going to be a windy night keeping. temperatures up away from the far will be a chilly far north. it will be a chilly start to the day thursday , start to the day on thursday, even little sunshine, but even with a little sunshine, but rain never too far away rain and never too far away through we watch as through thursday. we watch as showers continue in on showers continue to track in on that strong across england and

wales. we'll some wet weather for northern ireland around lunchtime as well as western scotland and that again will ease it eases towards the ease as it eases towards the east. so some wet weather across many areas , but sunshine and many areas, but sunshine and showers and wales , showers for england and wales, some will be on some of these showers will be on the side and temperatures the heavy side and temperatures are on today , now are notched on today, now through the evening and overnight we watch as another batch of rain arrives across ireland , some clearer skies ireland, some clearer skies ahead of it. temperatures take a tumble, but it does mean a start to the day come friday across these parts. generally speaking as we head through the next few days, few days of 2022 days, the last few days of 2022 remains , but some dry remains unsettled, but some dry weather through new year's eve and into new year's day across some parts .