right. as we take look at yes, right. as we take look at tomorrow's newspapers tonight , tomorrow's newspapers tonight, which is going to trouble if it's big story, we'll be it's a big story, we'll be covering it. spill some tea on him. there will also have some fun. stick up a fun. i wouldn't stick up a i like father didn't love me so headliners every night from 11 on gb news the people's channel britain's news . britain's news. channel good evening and it's 8:00 friday night and the weekend starts right here . i'm neil fox. starts right here. i'm neil fox. i'm standing for in the magnificent mr. mark dolan, who's having a very well earned evening off. now, we've got 3 hours of great guests, lively debate and plenty of laughs along the way as well between now and 9:00, i'll speak to former tory mp, a musical legend and the world's favourite

motivator as well. later in the show. i'll tell you why i think our entire political system needs a major overhaul and we'll also discuss whether king charles is already losing support in australia. so we've got lots in store for you all after the latest news headlines brought to you this evening by karen armstrong . yes, thanks, karen armstrong. yes, thanks, neal karen armstrong. yes, thanks, neal. i'm on armstrong in the gb newsroom lancashire police investigate . the disappearance investigate. the disappearance of a missing mother and, i believe she fell into the river wyre . nicola bailey disappeared wyre. nicola bailey disappeared a walking her dog. the a week ago walking her dog. the investigation is focusing on a ten minute window that's unaccounted for the 45 year old's phone was found on a bench still connected to a works teams with her dog nearby but no trace of her has found superintendent sally reilly has confirmed officers have searched a one kilometre radius from that location and 15 kilometres of water from the river wyre to the

sea . our main working high sea. our main working high offices, therefore is that nicola has sadly fallen into the river that there is no third party or criminal involvement and that this is suspicious but and that this is suspicious but a tragic case of a missing person . this is particular person. this is particular important because speculation and otherwise can be really distressing for the unfinished lost children . disgraced pop lost children. disgraced pop star gary glitter has been freed from jail after serving half his 16 year sentence for abusing young girls. the 79 year old was jailed in 2015 for historical sex attacks on three schoolgirls he spent eight years in a low security prison in dorset and now be subject to licence conditions . a man who brought a conditions. a man who brought a crossbow windsor castle with the intention of harming queen elizabeth has pleaded guilty to charges under the treason act.

jaswant singh child told a protection officer he was here to kill the queen after breaking into the castle grounds on christmas day in 2021, he was wearing mask and was carrying a loaded weapon. with the safety catch released , the late queen catch released, the late queen was in residence at the time . was in residence at the time. u.s. was in residence at the time. us secretary of state antony blinken's postponed his trip to china after a suspected spy balloon was tracked flying across the country china says the balloon was in fact a civilian airship which had deviated from its planned route because of bad weather was spotted over montana , close to spotted over montana, close to a us nuclear air force base. blinken was due to depart tonight. his visit to china would have been the first by a top us diplomat for years and comes at time of increasing increasingly tensions between the countries . china increasingly tensions between the countries. china has issued an apology . on the 5100s closed an apology. on the 5100s closed at a record high as concerns over rising global inflation and

interest rates have eased slightly. it was briefly trading at 7906 earlier, the highest level seen in nearly five years. it's been put to down hoping global inflation easing, leading to a stronger in the stock markets . but also it's been markets. but also it's been supported by a drop in the pound against the dollar and an easing of covid restrict funds in china tv online and dab plus radio. this is gb news. now it's back to neil fox . to neil fox. hey, welcome into mark dolan tonight me neil fox. now in a i'll bring you the clips of the week. yes i'll be running through the weird and wonderful moments from the last seven days on gb news. and there are some caucus also this hour, former conservative mp neil parish

gives his verdict on whether dominic raab can survive as deputy prime. i'll be joined a music legend, lee , as he gets music legend, lee, as he gets ready to celebrate 40 years of soul group imagination . and we soul group imagination. and we could all do with a pick me up, couldn't we.7 i could all do with a pick me up, couldn't we? i mean, what week? what a year it's been so far. who better than mr. to deliver a p9p who better than mr. to deliver a pep talk to the nation evening from o'clock. we'll have all of your favourite features, including my big opinion and my big interview this evening will be with mega man, the founder of so solid crude. we'll also be talking all things music. that's all to come between now and 11:00. but first, let's bring you the good, the bad and the ugly from the last seven days of gb news. in our clips of the week . yup, it is feature that week. yup, it is feature that celebrates the best of gb news and also looks back at the times

when things didn't maybe go quite as smoothly. smoothly like that as they might have done. so we're going to start off with clips of the week with dewbs& co and the story that's got everyone talking. what we all went through , i mean, at my age, went through, i mean, at my age, it was because i mentioned it was finding a magazine in the bushes. that was your first access. bushes. that was your first access . exactly yes, that's access. exactly yes, that's right. a new term has been born. hedge, the sky edge of britain. apparently, we just can't stop talking about a well trim bush nowadays. it's no laughing matter unless you're this guy. ha ha ha . yes. dan? dan the ha ha ha. yes. dan? dan the laughing man on the camilla tominey show last sunday. gb news correspondent paul hawkins was testing the mood of the nafion was testing the mood of the nation in milton keynes . how you nation in milton keynes. how you feeling about what you see there being . yep. that's amazing news. being. yep. that's amazing news. you heard it here first. rishi's

fired himself. paul hawkins , fired himself. paul hawkins, with an extraordinary revelation . and you did. you heard it here first on gb news. i'd give rishi. well, at least another six months. come on. right next up, the queen of gb news michelle dewberry with dewbs& co.the michelle dewberry with dewbs& co. the topical news show on monday to friday at 6:00 every evening . so unknown. what did it evening. so unknown. what did it make me feel ? it made my bottom make me feel? it made my bottom clench a little bit. it made . so clench a little bit. it made. so here's the big question . what here's the big question. what was she talking about? what made her bum clench ? i think we all her bum clench? i think we all know the answer to that . one know the answer to that. one yep. ben habib, what a free speech nation. the show where nothing is off the table . it's nothing is off the table. it's the safe haven of the cancer world. and thanks to leo kearse , the home of rubbish actions. somebody comes the tannoy or

somebody stands up for you and court and says, in a west country or a birmingham accent will be experienced, a little turbulence . you're going to be turbulence. you're going to be lucky to be that brummie. you're going to be reaching for that parachute . you know, i mean, i'm parachute. you know, i mean, i'm just showing my read on say who doesn't enjoy a terrible brummie accent? i everyone was laughing. everyone even this guy . accent? i everyone was laughing. everyone even this guy. ha ha ha . yeah, it's the laughing again. the great mark dolan interview . the great mark dolan interview. the great mark dolan interview. the american comedian alex stein on mark dolan tonight last week , the stand up comic came out with a rather strange confession. tucker carlson's biological son. and that's what people don't realise when you are the son of tucker carlson. nobody can be prime time nine. not exactly sure if that's true. the biological of tucker carlson. well, at least he had one guy in absolute hysterics . one guy in absolute hysterics. ha ha ha . the man, the myth, the

ha ha ha. the man, the myth, the patrick christys he's out next and he's talking about the ongoing strikes . well, mckenzie ongoing strikes. well, mckenzie joins me now. the former of the sun . thank you very much . public sun. thank you very much. public sympathy is starting to wane when it comes to train drivers who many believe are already on a pretty good wage . yep don't a pretty good wage. yep don't leave us hanging, kelvin. we want hear your nuanced and, balanced views on the striking workers. come on. but most of these most of these people are politically motivated. who run unions because they've got nothing else to do except talk to other socialists all day long about kelvin. and he's really mellowed in his old age, hasn't he? i wonder what he really thinks the great nana aquifer is up next. her shows are always flawless , no mistakes. we could flawless, no mistakes. we could have a laugh. we're there. of

course. she sharp, she's sophisticated. and queen of self—promotion. i mean , just self—promotion. i mean, just take a look at her account . wow, take a look at her account. wow, wow, wow, wow, wow , wow . wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. slightly cringeworthy , even the slightly cringeworthy, even the channel's newest recruit, jake bryce mogg, enjoyed that one, didn't you, jake . those eyebrows didn't you, jake. those eyebrows . maybe he's auditioning for a macdonald. zac, neil oliver is on gb news every saturday between six and eight. he's away . he always interviews those who gone above and beyond in sport, culture and the arts. and this week's britain had achieved something humans could only dream of . what was your winning dream of. what was your winning time ? 35.4 seconds. unbelievable time? 35.4 seconds. unbelievable taboo. time? 35.4 seconds. unbelievable taboo . that's right. the world taboo. that's right. the world pie eating at a meat and

potatoes pie. and the 35.4 seconds. but wait there is more . yeah, but not just once. not just twice but three times. if you've achieved this . yes. times you've achieved this. yes. times i've achieved it. and i ventured about 15 times. now i didn't do . you've done this 15 times. .you've done this 15 times. it's . a spread that's made my it's. a spread that's made my night . barry rigby, the three night. barry rigby, the three time world champion pie eater. finally the answer to that age old question . who ate all the old question. who ate all the pies? well done, barry. your name will go down in the annals of history . take a bow, sir. of history. take a bow, sir. right back to michelle dewberry. just loves being on clips of the week. this happened just over an hour ago from dewbs& co and everyone at gb news. a very happy friday . i know it was happy friday. i know it was a you out. we've only got seconds. one for the road. ready my, my ,

one for the road. ready my, my, my . a little bit of a moment. my. a little bit of a moment. why as a former pop idol judge , why as a former pop idol judge, i can say is michele , don't give i can say is michele, don't give up the day job. all those are your clips of the week. hope you enjoyed them . well, after the enjoyed them. well, after the break, we'll look back on another dramatic week in politics by all all round with the conservative mp neil parish. we will see you in three mins.

hey, welcome back. the deputy prime minister dominic raab is under mounting pressure to stand aside during an investigation into claims that he bullied staff. it's reported barrister adam tolley is investigate getting complaints from 24 civil

servants into mr. robb's. getting complaints from 24 civil servants into mr. robb's . well servants into mr. robb's. well earlier today anti—brexit campaigner gina miller said the minister bullied her and, called her stupid during the encounter in 2016. now rishi sunak is facing calls to sack his deputy just five days after nadhim zahawi lost his job as tory chairman . after he was found to chairman. after he was found to have committed a serious breach of the ministerial code. now, mr. raab, we should denies any wrongdoing . now, to get more on wrongdoing. now, to get more on dominic and this week's other big issues politics, i'm joined now by the former party mp, neil parish. neil a very good evening to you. thank you very for joining us on this friday night. so do you think that dominic raab will stay or should he go ? raab will stay or should he go? well, i mean, dominic raab is not got a bedside manner , know not got a bedside manner, know him sort of reasonably well. he's very direct and very exacting. so i mean, adam totally. he just really needs to

get to grips with this inquiry because whilst i don't think the prime minister can do is allow this to carry on for much longer, either lies dominic raab will need to stand down until he's cleared. but of course the prime minister very much likes to go through due process and that's what he's doing here . but that's what he's doing here. but see, adam, tony's been looking this since november and i think it's this since november and i think wsfime this since november and i think it's time it came to came to a crunch . i mean the thing with crunch. i mean the thing with him, zahawi is the fact that he it was tax he denied it and. he was proved that he had actually made huge mistakes. and so therefore he broke the ministerial code and he and the prime minister sacked him. the trouble with this is it appears to be dragging out and dragging out. and i think is a real problem for the prime and the conservative party . okay. do you conservative party. okay. do you think just going to last week, do you think the prime minister handled that in the correct manner by due process to

continue ? then clearly, when it continue? then clearly, when it was obvious that the minister could have been broken, that he acted pretty swiftly. do you think that was good? do you think that was good? do you think he should acted think he should have acted earlier? i i personally would have liked to have a bit quicker, but i think what he has doneis quicker, but i think what he has done is put much store by due process and that's what he allowed to happen and then he did act decisively after it. i think problem he's going to have with dominic raab how much with dominic raab is how much did know about bullying did he know about the bullying when became prime minister when he became prime minister all of is becoming a story all of this is becoming a story in the trouble in in itself. the trouble in politics not altogether politics is not altogether whether you are right or wrong. a or innocent is the a guilty or innocent is the amount time stays. as you amount of time stays. as you know, a top news item. and i think this is a problem that dominic raab and the prime minister are facing at the moment. right. mean, do you think dominic raab should i mean is i've heard a lot of reports that he this tough character. you obviously said so and that doesn't mean he's done wrong. you can be tough . you can be you can be tough. you can be straight talking and you can be direct. but that doesn't necessarily mean you are a

bully. there have been bully. but there have been an awful lot complaints now . and awful lot 24 complaints now. and do you think he can and should this ? well, i mean, i think it this? well, i mean, i think it does depend . you know, if adam does depend. you know, if adam tolley comes clearly out to say that bullying did, in his opinion, did take place, then i think there's no doubt that dominic raab will have to leave his position as deputy prime minister. but i think the trouble you've got with this is i suspect as far as dominic raab is concerned, he he didn't bully and now he may well have bullied . but i think this is problem and i know the character of him and i know the character of him and he is a you know, he is tough very . tough and he hasn't tough very. tough and he hasn't got a bedside manner. tough very. tough and he hasn't got a bedside manner . and so got a bedside manner. and so therefore it could well be a problem . but i think it's not problem. but i think it's not easy to settle once and for all. but i think the prime minister will have to make a decision pretty quickly. i feel, i mean, tough though, is not a bad thing necessary really, is it? and tough isn't a legal isn't wrong

i guess it's just how tough has he been and how unpleasant. and do you think in this day and age, things are slightly , i want age, things are slightly, i want to say easier to blame people for them. they may have been ten years ago or 20 years ago . yeah. years ago or 20 years ago. yeah. i mean, in my younger days i was sort of deputy leader of a district council. in those days i was pretty tough on and, you know, dealt with officers, you know, dealt with officers, you know, pretty a pretty tough way. now, suspect today i would not now, i suspect today i would not be able do that, nor should i do it. so i think times have changed and i there is a case where i think dominic raab hasn't really, shall i say moved exactly with the times and i think he he does need to probably kerb his behaviour now but i suspect that he doesn't actually believe he's done bullying but i you know it'll be for adam tolley taking the evidence from the civil servants to come to a conclusion as whether he did or not. because i can't see dominic actually sort of standing down otherwise . is

of standing down otherwise. is he increasingly hardened ill for people to do their jobs as an mp people to do theirjobs as an mp with the intense scrutiny that anyone is under and how easy it is in a way to make a claim against someone instantly becomes a 24 hour news cycle. because once out there it's very hard to quash it, isn't it? yes mean, the thing is, once somebody has made an accusation, it may be true. it may not be, but it does. it covers a huge amount. a huge amount. it's phosphorous. it burns very hard and very fast and very hot . and and very fast and very hot. and i think that is the trouble . and i think that is the trouble. and i think that is the trouble. and i think, you know, when these may be , be true, but if may well be, be true, but if they are not, some of the ones that are coming around now, some of them may not be. but of course, all of the time it adds to the pressure. and it is very difficult in politics today because i think people try to come into politics to make a difference , make some changes difference, make some changes and if they are too tough about it, perhaps this environment. i mean, i, i chaired a select

committee before i left parliament and i had to be careful with one or two individuals on that will for the select committee because they were very and the trouble is sometimes if you are to direct, you would upset them and you don't want to do that . and i don't want to do that. and i think that is the balance that you've got to try and make now. rishi sunak neil celebrated 100 days as prime minister this week. a gb news poll out today labour a 24 point lead over the tories. what have you made of rishi sunak as prime minister so far ? well, i mean, let's be far? well, i mean, let's be blunt rishi sunak inherited a pile of poo . there is no doubt pile of poo. there is no doubt about that . and you see, the about that. and you see, the party itself , the conservative party itself, the conservative party was through a civil war. you'd have the problems with the truss regime and the that went wrong in the run on the pound and the amount of money the bank of england had to do to prop up the pound and all of this he

inherited along with a very divided party. and i actually think in the circumstance announces he's done okay and what he's doing setting out a plan which may not be as ambitious as would like. but i think what he's out is that the bofis think what he's out is that the boris era in particular, boris was very good at promising earth, but not being able to deliver it. and i think therefore sunak will concentrate on trying to perhaps deliver that less but actually deliver it and so in that respect mean i watched last night you know the interview with the prime minister with morgan and i thought he came over okay. i think that was a difficult party. he is pulling it together . and i think, you know, the tory party has got two choices actually. it either backs rishi and get on with it and pulls the government round and then perhaps a fight to the next general election . it be general election. it may not be a completely foregone conclusion that will hammer the that labour will hammer the

conservatives, but in they do and rishi can keep going a reasonable way , then you know it reasonable way, then you know it will be disastrous the next election and there's no doubt that you know the health service cost of living energy , all of cost of living energy, all of those things are hugely important. and of course the trouble with with the with the previous conservative chairman zahawi was that it was so where you have people struggling to make a living and somebody doesn't whether they should have paid 29 million tax and a £5 million fine in the end that was very bad. so i think all of these rishi has had to deal with and think. i think so far so goodin and think. i think so far so good in a very difficult place. as i said a couple of ways about it . and that sadly is the it. and that sadly is the choices said something slightly different to that . i was trying different to that. i was trying to be polite tonight . no, i to be polite tonight. no, i don't buy that. let's just say it as it is. please. i mean, you mentioned boris able to promise a maybe not delivering.

a lot, but maybe not delivering. look, tuesday we the three look, on tuesday we the three year anniversary , the uk leaving year anniversary, the uk leaving the eu a lot was offered . i have the eu a lot was offered. i have to say an awful lot of people are thinking not an awful lot. seems to have happened. what does the government to do to make a success? and i know you originally to remain in and then obviously once the two democratic process had come in the vote came in he went, right let's get on with it. try and make the best of it. i have to say that's exactly my thinking as well. the people voted, so let's with it. but we let's crack on with it. but we haven't the brilliance haven't seen all the brilliance we, all the we, haven't seen all the benefits promised benefits that we were promised yet. going to. yeah, because yet. are going to. yeah, because what we were promised was a lot of less bureaucracy , but most of less bureaucracy, but most businesses trying to export and import from europe have actually found more bureaucracy . and so found more bureaucracy. and so therefore that's got to be ironed out and you see, i think what we haven't done, we need to replace some of the european trade that we've lost with international deals , the trade international deals, the trade with australia and using that

helps a bit but is about point 7% of gdp it's a help but it won't take for some time so me mind you is that so the deal with europe so that northern ireland protocol out and make sure we keep as much trade with europe and then build international trade deals you see in the conservative party are almost hell bent on saying you know don't want the r of a tool. well we got we still got nearly half our trade with europe. so it's very important. so, you know, that's not how anymore debates about brexit are not brexit. with brexit, it but what we haven't done is delivered very well on getting that extra trade brexit because you see you see the gdp, there are averages , we're below g ten are averages, we're below g ten aren't we. in all of us. and this is what we've got to now. we've had covid, we've had a lot of people saying you that haven't gone back to work. lots of other things. so it's very cloudy the blame it all on brexit i'm not going to but brexit i'm not going to but brexit hasn't helped. i think

could make it a lot better and think jacob rees—mogg is looking regulation for goodness sake . regulation for goodness sake. you know if one of those you know i was fighting the to remain and i was told by george eustice and rowan carson and others all be a wonderful world and we leave the eu there'll be no more bureaucracy. well i think if you talk to most businesses, most you'll find there's more bureaucracy . so there's more bureaucracy. so they're going to say, get on unsorted . that's what i would unsorted. that's what i would say to them . it's been nine say to them. it's been nine months now since you stepped down as mp and you're talking a lot of common sense tonight. have you? ms. though the madden of the house of commons and would you like get back into frontline politics or, you know, what? have you had enough of? i missed what i missed what i really enjoyed was chairing the environment, the real affairs select committee. i'm a farmer i understood it as a practical man and i held the ministers account and i held the ministers account and i held the ministers account and i really enjoyed it but some of some of the parts of parliament i didn't enjoy as much. yeah i am to have a have

another go . i made a very stupid another go. i made a very stupid mistake . i resigned. i did what. mistake. i resigned. i did what. i believed to be the right thing . but i think hopefully there can forgiveness and. i would like people to forgive me for my stupid mistakes and i would like really because i still have a lot to offer food, environment , lot to offer food, environment, agriculture. i believe in fair, fair , fair distribution of food. fair, fair distribution of food. i a lot with with getting food out to helping to get out to poorer people all these things are very important the cost of living prices all these things so there's still a lot burning inside me that i would like to. and of course, i was brought up and methodist i'm a nonconformist almost so i am for once to have a go as an independent and see how it went because you know home home rule for some was at home rule for devon . i can see that as devon. i can see that as a really good idea and would even do a little deal with it.

cornish if we have to i'm only joking , but like i said, but for joking, but like i said, but for the west country , you can tell the west country, you can tell by the accent that part of me is always wanted a little bit of a little bit of a go as an independent i was always pretty. it depended in part of it had a station for that. so that you see where it takes me very well. it's been lovely having you on a paper and i appreciate your honest and frank on everything. it's so nice when people are out of politics, they can suddenly put their sensible hat on and actually have a proper debate things. pleasure. things. but neal, pleasure. i wish you a very nice weekend. thanks for being on. thank you. thanks for being on. thank you. thank you . thank you. bye . thank you. thank you. bye bye. after the break, i'm going to be joined the studio music joined in the studio by music legend and generally lovely fella the lead singer fella lee john, the lead singer of imagination. they're celebrating years in the business. we'll see a very short

hello. welcome back to a little bit of fox on friday and happy to be looking after things the lovely marc dolan . it's time to lovely marc dolan. it's time to welcome another star and tonight i am very chuffed to have with us in the studio british soul funk star lee john who enjoyed three classic top tens in the eighties with body talk just an illusion music and lights loved that one thing. i'm such fun. i love to sing please i don't want to ruin people's friday night they hang on such fond memories of of the pops of endless top of the pops performances, groovy dances performances, some groovy dances and of the first and actually one of the first proper stars i ever got to interview when i was just starting radio in starting out in local radio in the midlands, lee to gb news before we start a quick question, tell me , is this truth question, tell me, is this truth or is this just one of those wikipedia made up things? okay, the band imagination. yeah. john lennon , it was a tribute to. it lennon, it was a tribute to. it was true. yeah, yeah. because we were looking at steve walsh, who is one of the top deejays who

supported imagination. he in the office with our and our guy morgan signed morgan khan who actually signed me and we were trying to find a name and at that time imagine was one and it was something someone he said something like, you know, the nation's and stuff like and the radio , the like that and the radio, the record came on and it was like of we say, why not of a sudden we say, why not imagination? was and so imagination? that was it. and so we said, i a bit of the essence of the beatles and john lennon will into our careers. so will come into our careers. so that kind of you that was that kind of thing. you know, yeah, it's know, mysticism but yeah, it's very okay well, very very true. okay well, very lovely. mean, to it's lovely. i mean, to me, it's a completely different clip, of course. of course. obviously, 1980, sadly, wasn't it? it was just before, but it is nobody saw. it was in the winter of 1980 and then released in 1981. okay you know, when on all the club scenes and we were a really what they call urban a club act. yeah you know, very, very much a part of the deja djs. i've always been a part of the culture. me anyway, and the group . and that's how we came group. and that's how we came through. we through like how? like with all the kids. we

like today with all the kids. we were that , the whole were part of that, the whole brit . that's how body talk brit funk. that's how body talk , you know, it was on every single chart before we even got into the national charts . so we into the national charts. so we had quite a build—up towards it wasn't like top of the pops. yeah. and it was actually, you know, we'd have some, it always some some great british some british, some great british soul. i was thinking like the real thing people who were real thing the people who were american, they came from american, but they came from liverpool a few years liverpool just a few years before. and then when before. right. and then when you guys, eighties is, is guys, i mean the eighties is, is one of decades that people one of those decades that people still the greatest musical still say the greatest musical decade ever has such fond memories so many people things changed in the eighties, some brilliant pops and dance, all kinds of greats and it was it was a big era of everything. i mean, prior to us, you mentioned the for me, the real thing. but for me, i remember group like candida remember a group like candida high who broke through high tension who broke through the the world central the light of the world central line. all these guys then line. i knew all these guys then links. i got to see links with david grant , the dominion david grant, the dominion theatre just was one of them was part of links at the time and we're still friends we're all still great friends now, was wonderful seeing now, so it was wonderful seeing all this music coming from uk

all of this music coming from uk and also north london as well, because any time the world's been i'd go to their gigs or links or whatever, you know, we supported each other. the supported each other. but the sad was was in a group and sad thing was was in a group and i was thinking oh my god, his, my turn was my ten and i was the last one, know, another last one, you know, another group candidate group called candidate who incidentally are supporting us may the 20th at the shepherd's bush got get that bush empire got get that in. come and then but central come and see us then but central line were like they were in the r&b charts we were in the r&b charts in america and so it was great seeing all of this this home—grown we now call heritage artists. but they were all from areas i knew and we all came from went to the same and all that kind of stuff. so it was great. and then by the time we broke, i had kind studied everyone i'd studied everything, i studied the american . so i studied the american. so i thought, you know, we need to sustain, we need to know to , how sustain, we need to know to, how you know, because the industry was not really supportive of black british artists and truth of the matter is, when

imagination broke, then the and our guys started to say , know our guys started to say, know what we can invest in? black british artists, they weren't before before imagination . they before before imagination. they weren't many. and our guys have told me this wow. and that don't realise they started having black female artists they took five star and you know they , five star and you know they, they didn't invest but they saw on an international level that they were, we were earning money and it was consistent, we were having a lot of hits, our albums, our albums were bigger than singles globally. so than the singles globally. so the fact is the record companies took chance, you know, and hence forth. yeah, well, look, again it is amazing, actually. 40 years they they don't you know, i remember coming to and coming out and next friday, february the 10th, the 17 albums. wow it's a wonderful by it's the first of all by so i'm gobsmacked now you made 1770 an album incredible and it's really got some great stuff, but it's also got some original on there.

like some of the songs we did like so good , right? well, yes, like so good, right? well, yes, i can like the different versions on there, but different songs because we changed them as we went along in the heat of the night. there's a wonderful version which i loved and we neverit version which i loved and we never it on any album. so that's there and we've got some live performance is that we did it all around the world like a 30 minute version of body taught which is great 30 or 30 minutes of body talk so there's some wonderful things on there and i have my jazz album on there, so there's a lot of different music that think it's not the ordinary books that where they do the 12 inch and seven inch 12. this inch and the seven inch 12. this is inviting you a is really inviting you to a beautiful music. so beautiful world of music. so next friday, the 10th. next friday, the 10th, you can purchase it but no something wonderful. let me 40 years is amazing i know you talked about and our man and you know how the record industry and it's changed so much drastically technology has changed a lot of things the

technology and streaming platforms how record companies they don't ever at the moment and i was talking a british exec moved to america and was just getting so sick of the whole thing going people don't invest in and on him no if you don't and always artists and and always for artists and repertoire people that used to get demo tapes coming in and use any of demo into a record any of demo tape into a record company record label, and they'd listen to it and think they listen to it and think all they any send a scout any good i might send a scout out a look at you and out to have a look at you and onto that doesn't really happen anymore is they look at anymore they do is they look at your at your your social they look at your tech talk and they see how many people you or following people like you or following you. and now are you you. it's lazy and now are you you. it's lazy and now are you you around at the time you were or are you slightly jealous the way things are now or do you not have a view on it. i'm so glad i was in the year i was i worked in bingo in pubs i learnt my craft. i in an a shares acting for a while i was doing background vocals all before

imagination broke, so i had a lot long period of years just learning my craft , my craft learning my craft, my craft lending, my craft learning harmonies, learning to how deal with audience. the bingo with the greatest audiences, because it's like they were the old theatres and they'd sometimes have 2000 people in them. and so i'd be doing three or four sets. i'd be doing three or four sets. i was just a group sun i was just a group called sun valley serenade us, and they do steel calypso , reggae, steel band calypso, reggae, funk, everything and i'd be up there doing my bit with them and it was fantastic. and it was a great learning ground. so the great learning ground. so by the time imagination appeared on top of the pops and we did , the of the pops and we did, the dominion theatre eight shows seven nights at the dominion theatre we were ready. yeah. because had really got us craft and then we started to go international performing to, you know, in canada , america and in know, in canada, america and in the far east , know, in canada, america and in the far east, you know, in canada, america and in the far east , you know, we, you the far east, you know, we, you know , it was an awful lot of know, it was an awful lot of costume changes , i will say costume changes, i will say that. but it was wonderful . we that. but it was wonderful. we met different audiences i still do to today. but the difference is you don't have some of those

platforms anymore because over tea tap tap tap that ended up tap tap tap the some of the good things are that i can communicate with other artists to work with them quite easily now in a sense and i'm doing that with the brazilian artists george forcillo we've got our a single together coming out in march and he's singing in brazilian and i'm singing engush brazilian and i'm singing english and it's a, it's called and it was great because we were doing it during the lockdown and he was there. i was here. so you can have those wonderful communiques oceans in creating but there are some essences that i love performing live and. i think sometimes you can get a bit disappointed when you see, especially in some of the reality shows, you see people winning or they're there for 2 minutes on tv, but if you will, you on stage for you see them on stage for a whole hour . will you digest the whole hour. will you digest the whole hour. will you digest the whole show for a whole hour? yeah, very much yeah, it's very much a production line. it is. and i suppose i like the rawness i really do. i like to go out. i'm the vaudeville old the i'm the vaudeville old

school . get there and school days. get out there and sock to them . you know, sock it to them. you know, couple of big stories that have been this actually. been around this week actually. so with an amazing you so one a guy with an amazing you know, smith he's causing a know, sam smith he's causing a bit outrage with his video after having seen the video . it's not having seen the video. it's not particularly outrageous , but my particularly outrageous, but my daughter's got a take on this . daughter's got a take on this. she goes, the thing is, it's because a slightly larger guy, if he a larger guy, no if he wasn't a larger guy, no one really care. you know, one would really care. you know, if harry styles was dressed up as has been many time or as a as he has been many time or in attire, no one would in female attire, no one would really be commenting this . i really be commenting on this. i mean, tried to mean, music's always tried to shock a way. always trying shock a way. it's always trying to and push to break barriers and push anything sam smith . anything wrong with sam smith. that's the first time i've been silent. he is really? well, i just found john woods. no i mean, when we first we came on the scene, especially body talk. you know, i was playing being sexy.i you know, i was playing being sexy. i didn't really what sex was was you know it's just like play was was you know it's just like play to the camera and got our outfits and stuff and it was

fun. yes. a person wearing certain things can look a certain things can look a certain way . i know some certain things can look a certain way. i know some some big, big friends. good friends who are big. but look, you know, funky and sexy, they they can work it but i don't know something's not right in how he's it i mean i'm glad he's doing what he's doing. yeah but something it's how whoever is dressing him or whoever designing what he's doing, i don't think . it's true actually. don't think. it's true actually. right how it can be done . but right how it can be done. but something's not right. it's looking a little bit for me personally, and i'm pleased i'm not offending any sam smith fans. something's not right in the in the design of it can because you can slightly laugh at it and you don't want to do it. you know it's subjective like these. yeah, of course it is. i mean, it's great has gone to the edge. i love that he is doing what he wants to do and, get with it and what get away with it and what have you. know of that. but you. you know all of that. but it's thing wants to do it's his his thing wants to do that. so what can i you know,

everybody's got their thing that they want to do, but i just think artists actually at this point in his career, i wouldn't think he needs to do that. okay thank you for being on. thank you. 40 years, the clock and safety doing it. i know why they bother. it's next friday for two years. 40 years. and don't shepherd's bush empire may the 20th. may the 20th. come and get your tickets and going to be some special surprises. special guests and it's been a great four years and i can tell you if it wasn't for the fan base, wouldn't be here. okay, leigh, john, thank you very much. and thank you, rob gates. let's have a look coming up. you've got a busy year for you. thank you for being so i thank you very much indeed. we could all do with some motivation. wait. yes, we've got plenty to him. that's why he has. we need a bit of motivation. we've got the ultimate the perfect ultimate for you. the perfect solution for your friday night. i'll joined after the by i'll be joined after the by mr. motivator back. don't go away .

hey welcome back to your friday. in just a moment mr. motivate will join me to deliver a pep talk to the nation and give us all. some reasons to be cheerful , but on sunday gb news will bnng , but on sunday gb news will bring you an exclusive interview with conservative james sunderland . he talks about the sunderland. he talks about the threat to politicians safety following the murders of sir david, artist and joker fox. in recent years . james sunderland recent years. james sunderland also talks to now was the last mp to sit over there. mr. we flew back from carter together. i had a great trip and he was dead. i had a great trip and he was dead . 6 hours later kim leopard dead. 6 hours later kim leopard 2 friend of mine she's been outspoken recently about it and she's absolutely right . so the she's absolutely right. so the threats are there . we're not threats are there. we're not sure what the threats are . sure what the threats are. threats are many. and i think

it's incumbent upon all of us as meps to do what we can to protect ourselves. but that's not just about physical protection. it's also accounts violence. it's about understanding what threats , understanding what the threats, it's about briefings in, westminster and becoming part of the solution because we are part of the solution for our own security will always be at risk risk . james sunderland also risk. james sunderland also talks , gloria, about his career talks, gloria, about his career in the military and you can hear at length from sunderland plus interviews with labour mp , alex interviews with labour mp, alex davis jones and former minister baroness hoey in gloria meets that's every . sunday 6 baroness hoey in gloria meets that's every. sunday 6 pm. now wherever you look it's difficult to escape bad news at the moment the cost of living crisis is hurting millions of people . hurting millions of people. rates are up again. the war in. ukraine rumbles on with no in sight and closer to home. there's still a way to go before the war, before the warmer weather and those longer days of spnng weather and those longer days of spring and summer arrive. what all need is a pick me up and who

better to provide that than my next guest ? it is 30 years since next guest? it is 30 years since derek bounced onto our screens as mr. motivator and. i'm delighted to say he joins now to bnng delighted to say he joins now to bring some joy to our friday night's derek. mr. motivate sir how would you like to be ? how how would you like to be? how would you like to be labelled this evening? oh, i'd say , sir. this evening? oh, i'd say, sir. so would you. but never mind . so would you. but never mind. your lordship is right out. have you on? of course you did make it reappear on our screens dunng. it reappear on our screens during . covid motivating us all during. covid motivating us all as well . so how is life with as well. so how is life with you? you know, let me say this. your life is. good. because i think life is what. we make it. you know, we have a choice about whether we are happy or sad . and whether we are happy or sad. and each time, matter what each time, no matter what happens to my life and there've been plenty of troughs decided been plenty of troughs i decided that i'm going to have smile through it . because through all of it. because you know don't like the know what? i don't like the alternative. the alternative of being sad just not me. and so being sad is just not me. and so therefore, i'm trying spread therefore, i'm trying to spread joy therefore, i'm trying to spread joy everybody and say

joy to everybody and say no matter bad things , things matter how bad things, things will . and the best will get better. and the best analogy i can give you a nail is this single autumn those this every single autumn those trees out there lose lives, but they still stand up tall and they still stand up tall and they wait because they know that in spring they're going to flower again. that is us. that's what's happening. we're going to get through this and things will become all right. we've seen it before . hey, when you when you before. hey, when you when you were a kid , were you always . mr. were a kid, were you always. mr. far from it. you know something? my far from it. you know something? my life is just been a series of. it's been a wonderful learning ground. and as i've said many times the difference between school and life a school. you're taught a then given a test. but in you're given a test. but in you're given the test which often teaches you a lesson. and so for me it's been a building block of experiences that has made me get to the point where, you know what? i still stand up every single day. i look in mirror and i'm proud of what i see. i still count my blessings because . i count my blessings because. i realise matter how bad things

realise no matter how bad things are with me, there's always out there who's actually in a worse state. and the thing is, we still need to our blessings, even are simple even if there are only simple like choice about like you have a choice about what to eat or that can still walk with as some people maybe have difficulty doing that . so have difficulty doing that. so therefore we have got to remain optimistic. otherwise, do optimistic. otherwise, what do we get? you lose hope and, we do get? you lose hope and, you lose your life. well, winston famously said, of course i'm an there seems little point being anything else and i kind of have to agree with that to a certain extent. you've got certain extent. now you've got you've brilliant you've always been a brilliant advocate exercise as a way advocate for exercise as a way of getting those endorphins going and making us feel better. i presume you do it every day. you are there on our screens . you are there on our screens. covid the same covid doing exactly the same when in our when we're all stuck in our homes you advocate homes. do you still advocate that for people going through really times and they're really tough times and they're genuinely, times , genuinely, really hard times, bills? yeah. of living and bills? yeah. cost of living and just hearing it 24 seven is depressing . what is your best depressing. what is your best advice? is it to get out and smell ? well, my but my best smell? well, my but my best advice is guess what? there are

so many benefits you get by moving your body . the moment you moving your body. the moment you stop moving, you release those happy hormones and those happy hormones and endorphins makes you feel good . not just for the you feel good. not just for the time when you're moving, but also for hours afterwards . so also for hours afterwards. so therefore, if you're feeling depressed and close to the edge, you've got say to yourself, okay, how am i going to put back? the moment you start walking. moment you start walking. the moment you start doing something physical, i guarantee at life guarantee you at life differently , everything differently now, everything that's bad in our life is a bad moment. it is not a bad life. and we've all been in the washing machine that we were like the clothes you put the dirty clothes in the washing machine spins you around around you get soap. then you get you get soap. and then eventually go the last eventually you go to the last cycle, hear a ping cycle, you hear a ping on a machine, door machine, you open the door and the come out cleaner the clothes come out cleaner than before. what than they were before. what happens to us? that's what life is about. watching you there is all about. watching you there took me back to some of those early tv . you just thought it's early tv. you just thought it's a great thing that it's a do you still have all those crazy lycra

costumes ? i mean, my life just costumes? i mean, my life just because it's not on breakfast television doesn't mean you have died . my life has always been . i died. my life has always been. i do i do music festivals. i've just come off working on saga ships . have to help the ships. we have tried to help the older to make older person to make them understand you get those understand that as you get those are important years in your are very important years in your lives. and the thing is beautiful, intelligent, wonderful is a freak wonderful teenagers is a freak of nature. but to us, us beautiful older people are works of art. and so therefore we must treasure later life . and i'm treasure later life. and i'm sitting on a bouncing ball because that way i keep my posture . listen, i'm 70 years of posture. listen, i'm 70 years of age and i have intention of looking any older. 50. all right. so therefore can stop this nonsense. there's no age, and you get old when you stop being young . one bit of advice being young. one bit of advice may be for someone genuinely to go right tomorrow . i've been go right tomorrow. i've been having a really bad week . i'm having a really bad week. i'm not feeling so good. i hate the news. depressing at the moment. what they do. one simple change to someone's life. they can go and do easily. that costs to someone's life. they can go and do easily . that costs zero and do easily. that costs zero money. tomorrow get your old

albums out in your photo album. your only got good news and your photo album is all those good times you had. i just reminisce on those good times and that will keep hope alive . god, will keep hope alive. god, i think you were going to say that. i thought you said get elliott on and go running down the street. but no, not at all. no never. you know, the thing is, drive for inspiration . and is, drive for inspiration. and these guys, everyone listening now , follow me on instagram real now, follow me on instagram real motivated because every day i post something uplifting something that would make you feel good. i don't use social media for fun or laughter. it's about charging your batteries and you feel good . your and you feel good. your batteries seem charged. i to be honest, you know, it does. it also come down to really clever diet? no you know, sensibly eating is important for all of us, right? we know when we have overdone it. you know, if you've had too much. i've stopped eating meat 20 years ago, but have nothing against the meat industry that

industry. i just know that eating fish and lots of vegetables good for me . so vegetables is good for me. so sensible the answer . sensible eating is the answer. it's not about diets, it's about watching saying watching what you eat and saying to yourself, i have a of to yourself, i have a bit of that. if i'm some upper cumberland how about cumberland custard, how about the cumberland ? you fancy the cumberland? you fancy a small drink? have small drink, small drink? have a small drink, but overdo . leave the but don't overdo. leave the table half hungry. i guess we'll have another me later on. space your meals out during the day . your meals out during the day. not meal, but also not just one big meal, but also most important thing is to remain positive always have a goal your life we're going to goal in your life we're going to have to go back it's been such a joy have to go back it's been such a joy having on it's booming out of my screens but i wish you a lovely lovely weekend derek sir motivator . thank lovely lovely weekend derek sir motivator. thank you very much indeed. that's all we've time for the moment, but we've got lots on the way between now and 11:00. i'll joined by my all star panel . jane, gerry hayes star panel. jane, gerry hayes and precious mia will debate whether it's morally wrong for teachers to go on strike. and in a few minutes, tell you why i think our political system may need major. right? don't go away

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hey, welcome along to mark dolan's tonight with me neal fox. delighted be standing in for marc tonight and tomorrow as well. now in my big opinion at 9:00, everyone agrees that the nhs needs reforming but maybe it's our entire political that needs a major surgery . in the needs a major surgery. in the big question after over 100,000 teachers join me, industrial on wednesday, we'll ask the teacher strikes are justified and in the news agenda with my brilliant panel can rishi eradicate sleaze in british politics. plus how should you settle a dispute with your neighbours? this is tonight

. and as marc always says , don't . and as marc always says, don't do boring. i'll you after the headunes do boring. i'll you after the headlines with . karen armstrong headlines with. karen armstrong . hi there. i'm armstrong in the gb newsroom. police investigating the disappearance of a missing mother now believe she fell into the river wyre while walking her dog nicola believe vanished in lancashire last friday morning . the last friday morning. the investigation is focusing a ten minute window between ten and 9:20 that's unaccounted . the 45 9:20 that's unaccounted. the 45 year old's phone was found on a bench still connected to a work team's with her dog nearby. superintendent sally riley confirms officers have conducted an extensive search of the area , including the 15 kilometres of water from , the river water to water from, the river water to the sea . our main working the sea. our main working hypothesis, therefore is that nicola is sadly fallen into the river that there is no third

party or criminal involvement and that this is not suspicious but a tragic case of a missing person . this is particular person. this is particular important because speculation shouldn't otherwise can be really distressing for the family and for nicola's children . disagree pop star gary glitter has been freed from jail after serving half of his 16 year sentence for abusing young girls . glitter, whose real name is god, was jailed in 2015 for the historical sex attacks on three schoolgirls at the height of his fame in the 1970s. he was released from a low security prison in dorset after eight years behind bars and will now be subject to licence conditions . a who brought a crossbow to windsor with the intention of harming queen elizabeth, pleaded guilty to charges under the treason act. jaswant singh kyle told the protection he was here told the protection he was here to kill the queen after breaking

into the grounds on christmas day in 21. he was wearing a mask and was carrying a loaded weapon with the safety released. the late queen was in residence at the time time. late queen was in residence at the time time . the us secretary the time time. the us secretary of state, antony blinken has postponed his trip to china . a postponed his trip to china. a suspected spy balloon was tracked across the united states. china says the balloon was in fact a civilian airship which had deviated from its planned route because of bad weather . when it was spotted weather. when it was spotted over montana close to a us nuclear air force base. blinken was due to depart tonight, his visit to china would have been the first by a top us diplomat for and it comes at a time of increasingly strained relations between the countries . china has between the countries. china has issued an apology . and to issued an apology. and to mysterious neolithic monuments which are part of a complex known as the stonehenge of the nonh known as the stonehenge of the north have been gifted to the nation. the thornber henge complex near in north yorkshire

, consists of three human made enclosed circles 200 metres in diameter, which may date back to 3500 b.c. a construction have donated two of those monuments to historic england. the sites will be open to the public, free of charge . minister rishi sunak of charge. minister rishi sunak has welcomed its safeguarding and preservation for the nation . tv, online and dab radio. this is gb news now. it's back to the fox . fox. right on lockdown . and tonight right on lockdown. and tonight with me, neil fox . and my big with me, neil fox. and my big opinion every one agrees that the nhs needs reforming , but the nhs needs reforming, but maybe it's our entire system that needs some major. in the big question after over 100,000 teachers joined the industrial action on wednesday, i will ask if the teachers strikes are

justified in the news agenda with my panel . can rishi justified in the news agenda with my panel. can rishi sunak eradicate sleaze in british politics? plus how should you settle a dispute with your neighbours? i'll be talking music as well. just after nine. so sonic crew found mega is going to be here to tell us about his remarkable life as leading player on the uk. music scene. plus, we'll have tomorrow morning's papers from 1030 with full panel reaction . now, full panel reaction. now, speaking of my brilliant panel, i am joined tonight by tv personality and broadcaster precious muir , criminal precious muir, criminal barrister and former conservative mp gerry hayes and the deputy leader of ukip , jane. the deputy leader of ukip, jane. now i want to hear from you throughout the show. it's gb views gb news dot . we'll get to views gb news dot. we'll get to your emails . we can, but it's your emails. we can, but it's a busy show . so for the next 2 busy show. so for the next 2 hours, 2 hours it is big debates , big guests and always pretty big opinions. let's start this .

big opinions. let's start this. one i think last month was a game changer. for the first time i can ever remember, all political parties using the nhs as some kind of political football and all agreed that it was indeed of a total transformation. if it was to survive as an organisation, it is sadly very sick, not terminally ill. well, not yet anyway . all parties agree that anyway. all parties agree that it's something we all should be extremely proud of and an institution at the very heart of what britain stands for many ways. it's kind decent, it's fair and it's for all. it's going to take a lot of thinking to work out what needs to be changed and how change can be implemented to make the nhs an efficient, well—funded organisation where patients get the care they need from nurses and doctors who work. hours and and doctors who work. hours and a paid properly , but a grown up a paid properly, but a grown up cross—party conversation has

started and that is a huge move in the right direction. but can i suggest that there is a way bigger problem that we need to start talking about. if we are to start making progress and not let other nations overtake us. and that's how this incredible nafion and that's how this incredible nation of ours is governed . nation of ours is governed. because week by week, month , because week by week, month, month, year by year, i fear that our system of government is simply longer fit for purpose . simply longer fit for purpose. winston churchill famously , winston churchill famously, after being voted out of office just after the second world war, democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others that have been tried. but that was 78 years ago. and the world is a very different place now. technology and especially social media, has totally transform and how we connect with each and we receive information . the media and how information. the media and how politics is reported and discussed has changed beyond recognition. with a 24 hour no holds barred rolling news cycle.

it is a very big beast that constantly needs feeding, but so about our political system. seems to be stuck in the past and for so many represents a system that doesn't really reflect modern life in the uk. the phrase politically homeless is often used now and our main parties appear so out of touch with how most of us live our lives. it's crazy. do we need change? what kind of people we allow to stand for parliament? only allowing those that have experience in the real world to stand rather than a life spent in the westminster bubble of a just too many mp. maybe we need to reduce amount we have and get better qualified candidates by paying better qualified candidates by paying them better. perhaps government needs to move from the houses of parliament which the houses of parliament which the experts say is crumbling and no longer fit for purpose and openit no longer fit for purpose and open it up to the public. has a tourist attraction and only use it for state occasions. maybe move parliament to a purpose built new home in the same way the modern large corporations move relocate , reimagine

move relocate, reimagine themselves to keep relevant and working official neatly. and please don't get me started on how our main parties run. last year highlighted how insane it is . just 200,000 conservative is. just 200,000 conservative party members can decide who our country's minister is or prime ministers, as was the case last yeah ministers, as was the case last year. labour are still funded by the unions and with the current of discontent content in full effect showing just how much power the unions still have over all of our everyday lives . how all of our everyday lives. how would that affect a future labour government? and although there are many political parties in effect. we still just have to, despite the fact the internet and nowadays social media has created the opportunity for any like minded people to connect and have a voice . but people so often still voice. but people so often still feel they have to vote tactically election time, make sure that the right or the wrong person does or does not get in. it's crazy. and it seems so wrong. and out of date. so maybe

now is the time to at least start talking about some form of dare say, proportional representation . we know it's not representation. we know it's not efficient, but it does seem to be fairer and more a chance to have your views heard and discussed. who knows? it may even start getting people to think positively about our politicians and our political system again. anyway let's do that after we sort out the nhs. don't hold your breath . so what don't hold your breath. so what do think? i mean, do you agree or are you shouting at a screen in disagreement ? gb views at gb in disagreement? gb views at gb news dot uk and i'll get to your emails after the break. now reacting to my big opinion monologue. here are a fabulous panel of tv personality and broadcaster precious mia criminal barrister and former mp gerry hayes and the deputy leader of ukip jane. so gerry as

a former mp, let's start with you. what do you think about our system ? does it need to change system? does it need to change or does it work just fine? it doesn't work just fine. and the reason it doesn't work just fine is honesty has disappeared from politics in. my day. 83 to 97. okay, people may have been a little bit economical with the truth, but at the end of the day, whether you agreed or disagreed, margaret thatcher, you knew where she stood. she would have not tolerated what was going on in boris johnson's number 10 downing street. she would have not tolerated the total number since that liz was coming out with . the sad thing coming outwith. the sad thing is you've got, i think an honourable, decent and competent man, rishi rishi sunak. honourable, decent and competent man, rishi rishi sunak . but he's man, rishi rishi sunak. but he's picked up a lot of baggage . picked up a lot of baggage. yeah, but all is not lost. picked up a lot of baggage. yeah, but all is not lost . 1992, yeah, but all is not lost. 1992, it was my second. yeah no, gosh,

it was my second. yeah no, gosh, it was my third. pardon but the election . neil kinnock was 30 election. neil kinnock was 30 points ahead. so it is now perhaps probable. it's possible all the tories can bring it back again. okay. i mean, taking aside whether the tories get back in or not is the whole system though broken and so out , date that it really does need a major look and a major overhaul and a major surgery. a surgery . rebecca, what do you surgery. rebecca, what do you think as a deputy leader of ukip, you're probably nodding along, thinking something needs to change here. but of course, you know, as smaller party, you know the likelihood of having an mp is pretty . okay. but a lot of mp is pretty. okay. but a lot of people may actually agree with views but won't vote with you because they may think it's a wasted vote that seems in this modern day and age. wrong. it absolutely wrong. and i couldn't agree more. i do think that change does have to happen. you only have to look at 2019 when

22 million votes were basically had no effect on the outcome. and those didn't really matter . and those didn't really matter. the views weren't heard and every vote counts. so we do need a brand new because if there's one thing that i learnt, i'm sure that you probably know when i became obviously deputy leader in i think was september, october last year. in i think was september, october last year . politics in i think was september, october last year. politics is a game and they all use it as such. it's not a case of what people want and how they care and what policies are important. it's about who plays the best game. i don't play that game. i'm not a politician . i am by i'm not a politician. i am by title. i obviously, but i'm a human. that actually and i care that every single person has a vote and they all need the issues and problems to heard. and we need to do something about it. we're not going to be able to do something about your deputy. hamilton heaven's sake. who's the biggest player of the game of all time? salute he's one of my closest friends. come one of my closest friends. come on together. no, no. 93. no, no,

no, no . rebecca and gerry , let no, no. rebecca and gerry, let me just bring in precious at this point. precious. what you feel firstly about the opening monologue and the for change in the whole political . well, i the whole political. well, i mean, obviously, i'm not a politician i'm actually, you know, part of the general public. and so my opinion is going to be a lot different to those two in regards ricci's those two in regards to ricci's coming on with a different perception of what he's trying to achieve. he's man of colour. he's representing a lot of people in this country. but he has to i personally feel like he has to i personally feel like he has to i personally feel like he has to step lightly because he may not get this opportunity again . he may not be able to be again. he may not be able to be again. he may not be able to be a leader . so again. he may not be able to be a leader. so he has to make sure that. he doesn't lose the respect his colleagues because at the end of the day, they're being investigated for several things at the moment, including bullying. so how does he deal with that? i'm not. but obviously he wants to sure that he's not going to lose their , he's not going to lose their, you know, the respect. and

obviously their loyalty. it's hard . so he's got a huge like, hard. so he's got a huge like, as you said, a lot of baggage . as you said, a lot of baggage. he's got a lot of things to deal with . but he's kind of bringing with. but he's kind of bringing something that we've not seen in a while . and that's is a while. and that's what is different to what we've seen in the past . and i think the past. and i think it's a good thing. gerry and rebecca, you both said politics is a game. we've heard that term. so times, how can it stop a game? it's always going to be a game. is something we've got big, is this something we've got big, serious it serious issues going on? it shouldn't but . oh, shouldn't be a game, but. oh, oh, come on play the game. oh, oh, come on play the game. it's always going to be a game broadcasting the game . you know broadcasting the game. you know who you're listening opinions from us now in a proper and professional way, which i would expect. but you us to spark off each other that's the game but we you have different personalities something different. yes it is whether we're a different point of view , we're sharing those views and it's actually quite interesting to hear each and every one of us, of course, it's definitely interesting , however, what interesting, however, what politics needs to change is the

career politicians . people are career politicians. people are going into it because . they want going into it because. they want to be you and all the rest of it. they're not going into it because they care about people and what has to change. we have to representation from to have representation from people actually ukip people who were actually so ukip care about or is everyone care about people or is everyone or just their you know the three of you. a very simple yes or no. i know it's the least thing. do you think in this day and age when communication there are so many tools out there that allow people to have a voice, small groups to have a voice and find each do think we do each other. do you think we do need form, whatever may need some form, whatever it may be, of proportional representation . yes, we do know representation. yes, we do know . £100. n0 representation. yes, we do know . £100. no no. shall i tell ? . £100. no no. shall i tell? you? why? no, because what is so important about the parliament? true democracy is about being in touch with your constituents . touch with your constituents. proportional representation means that you're sucking not to your constituents, to your party. it's a list system . it's party. it's a list system. it's wrong and it's corrupt . that

wrong and it's corrupt. that i mean politics, is i mean, there's no you know, this is the world that we live in is corrupt. no, it's not. you know , corruption in this world. it's unbelievable. why do you think people get there's no votes actually achieve anything like you said? no, he didn't say that. he didn't back up for now. can i just say let's leave it. i think it could quite lively on friday night, which is good stuff. yeah. thank you very much. your opinion so far later tonight in the news agenda, a big news people's poll says just 7% of people think rishi sunak can tackle tory sleaze . and i'll can tackle tory sleaze. and i'll be getting into that with my panel later on. i think that could be fun . but next in the could be fun. but next in the big question as industry election continues to grip our nafion election continues to grip our nation we'll be asking if teachers are justified . please teachers are justified. please don't go away .

welcome back to mike tolan with , me neil fox. now time the big question in which we tackle a major news story of the week . major news story of the week. the biggest strike day for a decade place last wednesday where up to a million workers in england and wales took the streets demanding a pay rise in line with inflation. with inflation. now, among the strikers were teachers and university lecturers leading to 51.7% of schools being at least partial fully closed, according to government . now, prime to government. now, prime minister rishi sunak condemned the strike, saying children deserve to be in school. but of the national education union claim, only 36% of parents oppose the strikes . so are oppose the strikes. so are teachers strikes justified ? now, teachers strikes justified? now, joining me to discuss this , joining me to discuss this, founder and director of education skills, think tank ed gsk. tom richmond, welcome along. and professor of sociology and author frank

fioretti . welcome, frank and tom fioretti. welcome, frank and tom very nice to have you on. tom, let's start you, if we could. is there any reason why we can justify strikes ? absolutely. justify strikes? absolutely. there plenty of reasons. and that's part of the. so you've mentioned that with inflation running at 10% this year, the government have only offered teachers 5. that's bad enough. but if you go all the way back to 2010, since then, even before the cost of living crisis , hit the cost of living crisis, hit teacher pay and, head teacher pay teacher pay and, head teacher pay was down over 10. so the problem that we've got now are clearly being caused not just by the current cost of living , but the current cost of living, but by over decade of a really poor pay by over decade of a really poor pay settlement. and teachers , pay settlement. and teachers, nurses and many other public sector workers that just saying they've had enough right now . as they've had enough right now. as a former myself, i have a former teacher myself, i have enormous that. and enormous sympathy that. and course, it's so very difficult, this one, because there was on wednesday walking my dog and the number parentswandering number of parents wandering around park with their around the same park with their kids obviously kids who haven't obviously been

able themselves able to go to work themselves because to stay at because they need to stay at home their home looking after their kids. it's tough one, isn't it? it's a tough one, isn't it? really is, frank. teachers hard working, they're well—deserving of pay rise, of course. but why you so firmly against strikes? well, i have to say that i'm very sympathetic to the teachers and the and i fully support their demand for money. but i think the industrial action in schools has a perverse because the only impact it has is to depnve the only impact it has is to deprive children of education. these are kids who already a bad time after the pandemic. so they becoming the targets of something that they are not aware of, what it really is all about. it creates a lot of problems for parents, working parents have to juggle as it is even the best of times and know loads and loads of parents where i live like to take a day off work and had to reorganise their lives and it doesn't really an impact on the employers . so it's

impact on the employers. so it's a complete waste of time an industrial relations point of view. it's a exactly useless gesture that has entirely corrosive effect upon young children. so for that reason, although i'm fully support teachers getting more money, i just think it's a really morally wrong thing to do to make children the consequences for what is in fact a dispute between two groups of adults. okay it's interesting because last week we were discussing the same issue ahead of the strikes and saying, of course, in modern day and age, an awful lot, if is asked of teachers , a lot of asked of teachers, a lot of teachers their way early school, there's breakfast clubs . they're there's breakfast clubs. they're often dipping into their own pocket to pay for food for kids that there are social workers there, counsellors that they're sort of stand in parents. i mean, it's more than just teaching and maybe enough is enough for them. do you think, tom, one question that the over the lockdown period, obviously

we all learn how to cope from working from home and how technology could help us. do you think? i know a lot of teachers wouldn't want to go out and strike. i know they are caring human beings and individuals and they they take their job seriously. but do you think it's made life easier for them to make decision? they make this decision? because they know can be at know a lot of kids can be at home, maybe online, and home, maybe online, in and technology. will allow it not to have quite such an impact. i take your point. i mean, there has be a huge change during covid to adjust to some quite astonishing circumstances . but astonishing circumstances. but the truth is that teachers don't get paid when they go out on strike. so the idea that they'd be happy to lose that money, particularly in the bank which course is one of the reasons why they are strike now that if you have situation they're not have a situation they're not getting that really does getting paid that really does send, think, a very strong send, i think, a very strong message they've just can't message that they've just can't put up with this anymore. and like i say, this has been a one year problem. it's been year problem. it's just been a bad for one year. bad settlement for one year. i think the public would perhaps be that on the idea of teachers

striking, but polling evidence does that more people does show that more people support teachers on strike than disagree them, and support disagree with them, and support for strikes is even among working age men and women in this country. and i think that shows that the message has got through that after ten, 12 years of bad pay that is really is too much to ask in a single year to take another 5% pay cut and that's unfortunately i think the government are in a very difficult position and they haven't budged so far to be fair to them . but i don't think to them. but i don't think they're themselves they're doing themselves any favours feel favours because teachers feel very strongly and parents at the moment support the moment seem to support the strike mean, we've strike action. i mean, we've with a horrendous way that we've had four strikes, be had four strikes, whether it be transport workers or civil servants or obviously teachers . servants or obviously teachers. you pressure on the you know, the pressure on the are under enormous pressure to are under enormous pressure to try are under enormous pressure to try and come up with some kind of settlement. you do have to ask where on earth just the money because with money come from because with everything the cost covid and lockdown to the nation was clearly astronaut out of all

proportions and something that needs to be dealt with now. frank can i just put one question to you? the government missed their teacher recruitment by almost a third this year, which clearly means something needs to. why don't people want to become teachers and i'm sure pay to become teachers and i'm sure pay is an important one and conditions to what can change? well, you raise a very important problem that's longstanding . and problem that's longstanding. and the problem is , is that a lot of the problem is, is that a lot of highly young people who in a different era would have become decide to opt out of their career and teaching has become almost like a job of last resort for a lot of people. i wanted the reasons why i like conditions to is because we need to improve the quality of our teachers . think by a large teachers. think by a large british the british teaching culture really needs a massive improvement. it's not exactly the most stimulating . it's not the most stimulating. it's not exactly of the high standard. it's certainly what children

need. and that's one of the reasons why i think they should have more money. so a real vocation and teachers understand that their profession is really value and that's a tragedy for the nation . it's a tragedy for the nation. it's a tragedy for the nation. it's a tragedy for the future of the nation . but the future of the nation. but the future of the nation. but the fact that this is a massive problem is not going to be solved by going on strike for the very simple reason that contrary to what's been said, the government isn't on the very much i think these strikes are not making a big impact on pubuc not making a big impact on public life. they're not the strikes that we saw in the seventies or the 1980s. most people in a sense can get on with their lives without it being disrupted . and in that being disrupted. and in that sense, the public sector strikes are actually not the government , not the employers, but ordinary . and that's that's ordinary. and that's that's that's the paradox because the unions believe that this is having a huge which is under tremendous pressure , isn't it, tremendous pressure, isn't it, because the real that they're kind of putting forward is on

ordinary people rather than who they actually believe. and for that reason i doubt very much that reason i doubt very much that the government going to change their mind any time soon, which is unfortunate because i do think teachers need more money. the strike action is a complete waste of time and its impact on children is entirely negative. and i think for that reason we should have rethink about what is the best way going forward till it seems like i'm some kind of crazy radical wants to change everything in our nafion to change everything in our nation at the moment but i do wonder and as a former teacher now in obviously an education think tank do think it's beyond that the entire educate nation system needs to be looked at so that we are teachers play a different role , educate our kids different role, educate our kids are educated in a way. has it got to a point people keep trying to meddle with kids are learning at schools and that's making the working conditions of teachers tough . yeah i mean teachers tough. yeah i mean there's certainly of parts to education system that need to be

reformed but like you say the teacher workload issues are massive problem already and if we bring in more change so i'm sorry neil but you're radical change right now probably won't go brilliantly with the teaching profession at the moment. teachers country , an teachers in this country, an average of 50 hours a week, the head, it's about 55 hours a week. and i can assure you that a lot of teachers do end up working a lot more than that just to keep show on the road. and i think all that you're seeing is seeing in these strikes is teachers just to teachers saying we just want to be it. we don't want be respect it. we don't want people's sympathy the time. people's sympathy all the time. we to hard. we know we have to work hard. we know important we have know it's important job. we have to hours. that's not to put long hours. that's not a problem. teachers are willing to do but the end of the do that. but at the end of the day, is being cut on day, if your pay is being cut on year on the government put year on year, the government put more into november last more money into in november last yean more money into in november last year, very welcome. but year, which is very welcome. but all that did was get back to where funding was in where school funding was in 2010. how can you look at 2010. and so how can you look at that and say to people, you was saying just a second ago about trying to get new people teaching. can we them teaching. how can we say to them this respected, trusted this is a respected, trusted profession government profession when the government has been cutting the time

has been cutting all the time and still cutting and they're still cutting another 5% of teachers pay this year frank absolutely year and frank is absolutely right. of education right. the quality of education has be most important has to be the most important goal has to be the most important goal. how we achieve that if we're cutting teachers pay by 5% in a single year and, it could get even worse next year as well. i don't see how that ends. well, i really don't. should the government, me ask you this government, let me ask you this one, impose law to force one, frank impose law to force teachers to inform employers of their plans . strike. do you their plans. strike. do you think ? i don't know. i think think? i don't know. i think that i respect the right to strike an important right. people have fought for centuries . and i, i think it's wrong of government to tell strikers you , you know, how they should how they should conduct their affairs . i think that the really affairs. i think that the really important issue that we need to address is what do we think of education is the meaning of education is the meaning of education for our society. i think what the could do and it wouldn't cost very much money is to cut down the bureaucracy in

teaching or get rid of all the outstanding sections, which i think from my is a complete waste of time . basically trust waste of time. basically trust the teachers and trust their professional judgement instead of imposing this curriculum on them in the way that it's kind of operating at the moment. and i think it liberated the teaching profession from many of the micro—managed sort of impulses that are being imposed on them that will go a long way towards relieving them of some of the unnecessary burden. i think one thing that is particularly important here, you mentioned earlier on the teachers are not just teachers, they're babysitters , therapists. they're babysitters, therapists. they'll do all kinds of different things. that's wrong. i think we need to have teach. they should be teaching that discipline, their knowledge . discipline, their knowledge. there should be authoritative intellectual and they shouldn't be , in a sense, doing jobs that be, in a sense, doing jobs that other sections of society should be responsible for. i think that division of labour between parents and teachers, the classical division has got to be

reinstated if the teaching profession is going to in our country . okay, gentlemen, thank country. okay, gentlemen, thank you much agreement. so many good thoughts there as well. founder and director of education and skills, think tank ed s.k, tom richmond and professor of sociology and frank ferretti. gentlemen thank you very much. well on all things what's a poll this evening we you with widespread action taking place across the uk. we want know are teacher strikes just to fight. well 20.9% of you say yes while 79.1% of you say no thanks . 79.1% of you say no thanks. getting in touch. still to come tonight , getting in touch. still to come tonight, i'll be meeting the garage music pioneer mega, who in i was a regular in the charts with so solid crew and continues enjoy a successful music career today first in the news agenda are gb news people's poll says just 7% to voters think rishi sunak's come tackle tory sleaze

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to join me camilla tominey at 930 on sunday morning when i'll asking business secretary grant shapps whether the government is doing enough for britain's cash strapped, overtaxed . in strapped, overtaxed. in a special report to mark the third anniversary of brexit the spartans, give me their verdict . whether it's been a success or failure , and i'll be sharing the failure, and i'll be sharing the results . an exclusive gb news results. an exclusive gb news poll . reviewing the papers will poll. reviewing the papers will be street legend eve pollard . be street legend eve pollard. all that and more at 930 on . sunday right. welcome back to your friday night. i'm neil fox standing in for mark dolan. so let's take a look at some of your quickly about my monologue.

graham says the government to stop talking the talk and he says start walking the walk and stop arguing about each other's political parties failings and think about the people or the voters they are meant to be voters that they are meant to be representing . a lot of nodding representing. a lot of nodding heads, i'm sure. jamie says on the thank you very much. i firmly a new system of government. i think proportional representation would a fairer way. it's time for a change. terry says. the problem with new policies is that they think they can get people voting them can get people voting for them through the media, through leaflets and the media, but they need knock doors but they need to knock on doors and introduce themselves to people otherwise. the people otherwise. it'll be the same old, same old, right on the teacher strikes by way, as a former teacher from trevor i recorded teaching as a profession . it was a vocation. profession. it was a vocation. professionals should go on strike i think is actually incomprehensible but perhaps today's teachers don't understand the concept of vocation and probably meaning of incomprehensible . trevor, do you incomprehensible. trevor, do you really mean that? anyway, thank you very much indeed for emails . get in contact right . time for

. get in contact right. time for the news agenda. prime minister rishi sunak has just celebrated 100 days in office, albeit while being stuck in a slum of sleaze. poor guy . the tax affairs of his poor guy. the tax affairs of his then party chairman nadhim zahawi , the tories with egg on zahawi, the tories with egg on their faces . now it's the turn their faces. now it's the turn of his deputy pm dominic raab, facing a slow of bullying allegations from many as 24 civil servants. recent polling by gb news isn't good it shows that just 7% of voters have confidence that prime minister can tackle the sleaze ripping through his government with as little as 1% having complete confidence. it's safe to, say the prime minister's first hundred days in his dream job have not been a breezy ride . but have not been a breezy ride. but what do these numbers really mean for the future? let's go to my old style panel for reaction on this precious can sunak sort out sleaze and can the tories recover ? i don't think they can recover? i don't think they can necessarily recover in regards

like the future . you know, being like the future. you know, being leader of the conservative is not easy. he's got so many things to deal with . and so he's things to deal with. and so he's not a magician. he's things to deal with. and so he's not a magician . he's literally not a magician. he's literally come in 100 days. he still got so many things to accomplish and tried to target and try to achieve. he's sold us a dream he'd been voted in and we can't really expect him to change history . he seems to have calm history. he seems to have calm things down bit because they were a little out of control last year when they really were. they really were. i mean, boris had to cause the chaos, mess and all of above. so he's in all all of the above. so he's in trying to do a cleanup job at the moment. he's trying to fix what's already broken. and this you know, he's not going to be able to do the impossible. it's only days. sure. jerry only been 100 days. sure. jerry well, we got a weird situation . well, we got a weird situation. on the one hand, you've got the right mad wing the tory party right mad wing of the tory party who desperately desperate want sunak to lose because he destroyed boris johnson. not true. but you know , that's what

true. but you know, that's what they think. and then on the left, you've got all these mad left, you've got all these mad left people who say, we want you to lose starmer because really, really, really . corbyn and it's really, really. corbyn and it's weird. it's the internal partying is appalling. the channel political party within each party. how you get around that, i don't know. because are a lot of people within the tory party want boris back. it's insane. party want boris back. it's insane . there's a lot of people insane. there's a lot of people insane. there's a lot of people in the labour who want corbyn back. it's insane. insane. would you have , boris back? no, no . you have, boris back? no, no. he's a crook. rebecca me ask you this . i've he's a crook. rebecca me ask you this. i've been talking about potentially having some change. we've got what? we've got at the moment. do you think there is any chance that rishi can out the mess and actually as well get the confidence back from who are watching this programme in the public that actually not just the party but the

politicians in general the can function sensibly unlike grown up adults . absolutely not. no, up adults. absolutely not. no, he can't. he can't restore faith. he can't restore trust. we need to have a whole new government to, even try and start doing that. whatever that may look like not for me, unfortunately . we're talking unfortunately. we're talking about him being in 100 days and all the rest of it. he was there right by boris johnson's side , right by boris johnson's side, creating the mess that we're in. so don't understand why anybody would he's now to be would think he's now going to be the you know when we the saviour. you know when we have. the saviour. you know when we have . yeah and three boris under have. yeah and three boris under the bus so he also didn't loyalty either and when we're talking about that there's only 1% of people who actually think that possibly that they that he could possibly that they have trust in him that's because that's all that rishi operates for is 1% and forgets about the 99. this feel to you guys 99. does this feel to you guys that it feels to me we're slightly approaching that same situation we had in 96 and 97, when, again, the conservatives

have been in power for a long time run out of ideas and, we just felt like, oh my god, we need something new and different. the difference that time was we had a labour party get run. you had tony blair and they seem to have ideas . they they seem to have ideas. they seemed locked in and they weren't frightened of him. they weren't frightened of him. they were kinnock in were frightened of kinnock in the same way at the last election. they frightened. election. they were frightened. corbyn starmer's seal deal. corbyn has starmer's seal deal. i'm not sure he has. people are not quite sure because on the other hand people are saying , other hand people are saying, well, you did support jeremy corbyn, you sat to him on the shadow cabinet table. so i don't think it's cut and dried , but think it's cut and dried, but don't be complacent. tory i think he needs to focus less on rishi. well. i think his whole campaign is. is about how rishi can't do this and he can't do that. i think he needs to think less about what she's doing and focus on what can offer. but he wants to portray him as. that's what that's that's that's that's what's got him down with the trouble. sorry about but you

guys have no traction. my guys have got no traction. my name still rebecca. rebecca name is still rebecca. rebecca rock. name is still rebecca. rebecca rock . gosh, that's awful. oh rock. gosh, that's awful. oh yeah. oh, wow. rebecca so i do not. okay, so for that can give me a second for this one. there yeah, we do have traction. thank well, you haven't even seen what's been happening over the last month, so thankfully. yes, we are working on the centre right alliance . we are quite right alliance. we are quite a long way down the road with it. we're to announce we're about to announce something . there is only something pretty. there is only one party that completely one party that we've completely ruled people ruled out to. part of it people are for change. yes, we are ready for change. yes, we are. and thankfully we've got thousands coming to us every week goodness . they're week. thank goodness. they're the people who came from you, law over the tories, the brexit as well. and they're coming back all they know back. they know we can get the job done and nobody else can. it's like it's a sizzling . we have the same and sizzling. we have the same and jerry roberts on the backside of . that's right. yeah i know my take that time should we be more

concerned about china recent events suggest maybe we should. plus i'll be talking to music mega, the founder of so solid crew, a producer of some huge acts , drake. but coming up next, acts, drake. but coming up next, we'll talk about australia's decision , not feature king decision, not feature king charles on their $5 note .

royal welcome back to mark dolan tonight. with me neil fox . now tonight. with me neil fox. now this week we learned the world learned so that the new design for the australian $5 bill will not include photo of king charles. the third with the reserve bank of australia, instead saying that the design will be an ode to the culture and history of indigenous bonus australians. the debate over the future of the monarchy in australia has been reignited since the of her majesty queen elizabeth second. and this move has been welcomed by many

campaign groups. while of course many royalists . well. joining me many royalists. well. joining me to discuss this is the former leader of the liberal party of australia, alexander down. good evening, alexander. thanks for joining me this evening. so can i ask you the first question, please, is why have the australians taken what is obviously a big decision ? well obviously a big decision? well i wouldn't describe it as a big decision , but it's a decision decision, but it's a decision which, as said in your introduction is a little bit controversial , but the introduction is a little bit controversial, but the king's head will be on all of the coins of australia , so it won't be of australia, so it won't be eliminated altogether and this is a decision that been made by the relatively new labour and the relatively new labour and the labour party in australia. as for many years been strong labour republicans. so they think it's a way of making statement that they would like to wage australia towards a republic that that will be what

is behind it. but i think it's going to have a big impact on the public generally . i was the public generally. i was going to say how has the decision been received or are we slightly blowing it out of all proportions over here ? well, it proportions over here? well, it is . what clearly people who want is. what clearly people who want to retain the current system, retain the monarchy, are unhappy about this in principle , but about this in principle, but it's not seen as a major in australia. i mean to change the country to a republic would be a hugeit country to a republic would be a huge it would require not just an act of parliament a referendum of the whole of the public. and you have to win a majority of the public , a majority of the public, a majority of the public, a majority of the public, a majority of states . if opinion majority of states. if opinion polls are any guide, there's no interest in a republic in australia at the moment. the latest opinion poll, which was only published last week , showed

only published last week, showed 39% of people favour the republic. so if the government decided to proceed with a referendum as it almost certainly be defeated, then i don't think a referendum of that kind is likely within the next yeah kind is likely within the next year. frankly, in australia . i year. frankly, in australia. i mean, on the whole, people are happy with the constitutional in australia , you know the australia, you know the mainstream the public not some of the activist elites but the mainstream of the public are pretty with the way the constitution works as that being a different of the monarchy since , the queen's death. do you since, the queen's death. do you feel or everyone very happy with how king charles third started? i think they are happy with the way king charles has started . way king charles has started. you know, he's not as popular as the queen was, but he's fun, popular. he went to school for a year or so in australia at geelong grammar school he's often been to australia , has often been to australia, has many friends , australia knows

many friends, australia knows many friends, australia knows many australia kids. and so i don't people have much changed mind. i mean talking about opinion in the last of all was done which was before the death of the queen the republic . had of the queen the republic. had 36% support and now it according to the same poll , 39. and so to the same poll, 39. and so a move of 3% isn't really terribly significant. i mean i have expected it to be stronger that but i think people have accepted charles pretty well as the king in australia . do you think this in australia. do you think this decision it's probably too early to give impact on australia's future in the commonwealth? no not at all, no. australia whatever happens, australia will remain committed to the commonwealth. you've got to be able to remember that well , 60% able to remember that well, 60% of the australian population

have the ethnic origins have their ancestry in the british isles. and so there's huge affection for britain and australia. i think of all the countries in the world, only news island would be as popular amongst australians as the uk. so i mean people don't there isn't a mood in australia as a country we want to with the uk or reduce the nature of the relationship or that there's hostility towards the uk. i mean obviously , australia has obviously, australia has 6 million people. of the 26 million people. of the 26 million people, there is some sort hard for activists, some won't pay people and so on who want change everything, not just get rid of the monarchy, but destroy the capitalist system. there are always few people like that, but when you take the great minds of australia, the great minds of australia, the great and by the way includes

young people are pretty happy with constitutional arrangement . alexander downer, formerly of the liberal party of australia, thank you so much for joining the liberal party of australia, thank you so much forjoining us this evening. for a bit of light entertainment, we're a look at some the other potential some of the other potential candidates the candidates to be on the australian . here's what the team australian. here's what the team up with tonight. my good stefan dennis that's paul robinson neighbours all around good guy yeah should he be on it? of course. dame edna everage may be in with a shout . skippy, the in with a shout. skippy, the kangaroo, the cultural icon, of course, the one and only legendary . sadly, not here any legendary. sadly, not here any longer . steve irwin, my producer longer. steve irwin, my producer maria nominated former pm tony abbott because she's obsessed with him scarily. gb news chief executive angelos french of paulus always need to keep up with the boss, of course. yes, some brown going on there. or how about calling him an oak pictured here with a dashing deejay who looks rather familiar

from somewhere? oh my , god. take from somewhere? oh my, god. take it away. thank you. that's enough. right. let's see what my think of this one. rebecca, are sad about how the aussie decision to take . king charles decision to take. king charles the $5 note know i'm not like that but . that's okay it's that but. that's okay it's pretty hostile to me . not going pretty hostile to me. not going to lie if are committed to staying in the commonwealth. i don't understand why they're trying rewrite history and erase the monarchy being on the brink no, but like i said, i'm not going lose any sleep. the bigger issues at play it is what is fair enough. maybe just that they're dipping their toe in the water to just see what the reaction is of this one. precious. what do feel? precious. what do you feel? i think it's quite sad. think that it's quite sad. obviously they've lost faith since the queen has passed. and i absolutely she was an i absolutely thought she was an amazing woman. she inspired so many women. everyone around world was inspired by the queen. so they've faith probably in the

monarchy . and it's is a sad monarchy. and it's is a sad thing and he doesn't get the opportunity to be on the $5 note but think charles understands you know that obviously they're doing it for the right reasons they're doing it to possibly you know, finally embrace their indigenous people of australia , indigenous people of australia, which hasn't happened for so long. so it is a thing that they're doing and i'm sure prince charles king charles will be happy with the decision. okay, jerry , briefly. i don't okay, jerry, briefly. i don't really care how many things i had a great in australia, he probably had the best in his life in australia as a young man. so he's australian. he loves the place . they love him. loves the place. they love him. 39% want to end what is true? i may have to i may have to leave it there for a moment. ha ha ha ha ha. don't forget , have a full ha ha. don't forget, have a full review of tomorrow morning's papers on the 1030. but first, in my take ten is us secretary

of state anthony blinken postpones a trip to china after . a spy balloon flew across the states . should we be more states. should we be more worried about china? we'll discuss .

hey, welcome back to mark dolan tonight with me, neal. now, coming up, this hour, it might take a turn as us. army of state antony blinken postpones a trip to china after spy balloon flew across the states. should we be more worried about china? plus morning's front pages at 1030 sharp with full panel and in the news agenda , how should in the news agenda, how should you deal with neighbours? but first, the headlines with our own armstrong . hi there, i'm

own armstrong. hi there, i'm howard armstrong , the gb howard armstrong, the gb newsroom. police investigating disappearance of a missing mother now believe she fell into the river while walking her dog , nicola believe vanished in lancashire last friday morning. investigate is focusing on a ten minute window between ten and 9:20 that's unaccounted for the 45 year old's phone was found on a bench still connected to a work team's meeting with her dog nearby. sprinter sally riley has confirmed officers have conducted an extensive search . conducted an extensive search. the area, including kilometres of water from , the river wyre to of water from, the river wyre to the sea . our main working the sea. our main working hypothesis is therefore is that nicola is fallen into the . river nicola is fallen into the. river that there is no third party or criminal involvement and that this not suspicious but a tragic of a missing person . this is of a missing person. this is particularly important because speculation. otherwise can be

really distressing for the family and for nicola's children . a man who brought a crossbow to windsor castle with the intention of harming queen elizabeth in 2021 has pleaded guilty to charges the treason act. just one sing child told, a protection officer. he was here to . kill the queen after to. kill the queen after breaking into the castle on christmas day two years ago. the 21 year old was wearing a mask and was carrying a loaded weapon with safety catch released. the late queen was in residence the time the us secretary of state antony blinken says the presence of china's spy balloon over skies means conditions are no longer conducive for a constructive visit . america's constructive visit. america's top diplomat was to travel to china later , but has postponed china later, but has postponed his trip because . it's, in his his trip because. it's, in his words, a violation , u.s. words, a violation, u.s. sovereignty. his detrimental to substance of discussions that were due to take place . his

were due to take place. his visit china's apologised and has claimed it was merely a civilian airship being used for meteorological research. but blinken says his top priority now is to bring it down safely . now is to bring it down safely. violation of our sovereignty it's a violation of international and it was very important that we of course take the actions we did to protect any sensitive to protect people . and to make clear to china that, again, this is an unacceptable as well as irresponsible action . and that irresponsible action. and that is it for the moment. tv, online and dab, plus radio . this is gb and dab, plus radio. this is gb news, but now it's back to . news, but now it's back to. neil brought up mark dolan tonight.

with me, neil fox in the news agenda with my panel. how with me, neil fox in the news agenda with my panel . how should agenda with my panel. how should you settle a dispute with neighbour? plus is it cool to fly business class and leave your wife and toddler in economy of so sun a crew found mecca is going to be here to tell about his remarkable life as a pioneer of the uk garage scene and a producer of some of the biggest acts, the music world. plus, we'll have tomorrow papers from 1030 sharp with full panel reaction. my brilliant tonight our tv personality and broadcaster precious muir. we've got criminal barrister and former conservative mp jerry and the deputy of ukip, rebecca jane. now i want to hear from you throughout the show. thank you throughout the show. thank you for getting contact so far. it's gb views at gb news. don't we'll get your emails. it's gb views at gb news. don't we'll get your emails . we can, we'll get your emails. we can, but it's a busy show. but for the next hour. big debates, big guests, and always big opinions . first up, though, it's my take

. at ten. so as you were just heanng . at ten. so as you were just hearing in the news, this massive story is unfolding in america . and the question we're america. and the question we're asking is , should we be worried asking is, should we be worried ? a senior pentagon official has flatly rejected beijing's claims that a chinese air spotted flying sensitive u.s. that a chinese air spotted flying sensitive us. military sites was a meteorological balloon . brigadier general rida balloon. brigadier general rida said during a press briefing at midday today that the us was continuing to weigh its options and describe the ship's presence as an unacceptable violation of us airspace . he refused to give us airspace. he refused to give precise about the ship's location , adding the public location, adding the public certainly has the ability to look up in the sky and see where the balloon is now. defence officials have said the balloons flight path taken it over a number of sensitive sites, including the malmstrom air force base in montana, which

houses 150 nuclear warheads . houses 150 nuclear warheads. earlier, secretary of state antony postponed his planned trip to china after beijing claimed ownership of the balloon . so all the diplomatic and military row continues. is this a dangerous escalation of the posed by china . for many years posed by china. for many years now we've seen china's economic muscle being flexed. we've heard about the potential cyber threats posed by chinese and 56 equipment systems . and people equipment systems. and people are even worried about influence. tiktok is on our kids and whether they're spying through that app. the fbi in america state on their website though the advent the adversary is not the chinese people or the people of chinese descent or heritage. the threat comes from the programs and policies by unauthorised authoritarian government. the chinese government. the chinese government is employing tactics that seek to influence lawmakers and public opinion to achieve policies that are more favourable to china. at the same

time, the chinese government is seeking become the world's greatest superpower through predatory lending and business practises. systematic theft of intellectual property and brazen cyber intrigue . asians. that's cyber intrigue. asians. that's what the fbi is saying. but is this all scare by the west or should we be genuinely worried . should we be genuinely worried. now, i really would love to know. what do you . do you agree? know. what do you. do you agree? do you disagree ? have you got do you disagree? have you got a view on this? i'm sure you have. it's gb views at gb news dot uk . i'll get your emails after the break. now still with me until 11 to personality and broadcaster precious mia , broadcaster precious mia, criminal barrister and former conservative mp gerry hayes and the deputy of ukip, rebecca jane . so rebecca, what do you make of the story and these and these very concerning reports ? oh, i

very concerning reports? oh, i don't know . very concerning reports? oh, i don't know. i'm very concerning reports? oh, i don't know . i'm actually don't know. i'm actually a little bit undecided is very unlikely to be based the fence in one respect. yes it is concerning . however, i am more concerning. however, i am more concerned i don't let my mind get too carried away and get caught into 10000 to 1 conspiracy theories. however, obviously what we have seen over the last few years is that the most ridiculous things can come true. so i think it is something to keep an eye on. but however, let's just take a breath and calm for down second. unless just see how it goes. but i stand to be corrected and am open to all opinions on this subject. well, let me correct i mean, if it's an airship, let's be honest, it's a long way away from home, isn't it, to be found over montana compared to being over montana compared to being over what you over china? jerry, what do you feel? me you . feel? well, let me correct you. go may . look look at go on, if i may. look look at the inside seduce influence that the inside seduce influence that the chinese government has over universities. look at, the insidious influence that the chinese government has will had over our nuclear power system .

over our nuclear power system. 46, sg , over our nuclear power system. 46, 56 , you have an 4g, 56, you have an authoritarian government president xi has really defied everything that the government's used to stand for. in other words, they their presidents purely for ten years, otherwise they became dictators. they are dictators . then you've got the dictators. then you've got the access between china and russia. they are tacitly supporting the war in ukraine. this is all about power politics. the chinese government is trouble because of the economy. therefore, they want to start a war. they are concerned the west might react in the same if they invaded taiwan, which china believes to be part of itself. yes we should be not concerned, but very concerned. china is a threat to all of . but don't you threat to all of. but don't you

think obviously it's kind of like why keep borrowing money from china then, if they're such threat? so obviously they're checking in on their investment. the us keep borrowing money china and so hence why they're checking in on them, they want to see where their money is going. that's my i think that is a very astute remark because i'm not being patronising, but it is because there's an economic away from somebody and then don't expect them to check in to find out where this is being spent. they're in debt to china for billions of dollars. absolutely right. and also, they've bought a lot of the mineral reserves in africa. the real problem is going to be chinese domination of we might also just be a distraction for something else. you know , these are the kind of you know, these are the kind of things that you then start about. but at the end the day, i think that you can't expect china stay away but give you billions of dollars. you've got to you've got to . but the reason to you've got to. but the reason we're here, there are 3000 maybe

we're here, there are 3000 maybe we should be concerned . we have we should be concerned. we have to be concerned. but what i'm saying is the reason why they keep doing the things that they're and checking and sending in balloons and sending all this kind stuff, because there is a reason behind it why you reason behind it why would you keep country money if keep giving a country money if you like it's not going to you feel like it's not going to get you a return, doing it. but it's a spy balloon or is it just a weather balloon? i think it might be both. i think that it's something that they could use maybe, possibly but it's not what china's about. they do things a lot more small things are a lot more easier for them. they don't have to do something like that on a big scale. it's the moment. precious jerry . the moment. precious jerry. roberta. sorry rebecca. oh, right we are. we will be back . right we are. we will be back. it's friday night. coming up. we've got the papers at 1030 sharp with full panel reaction. but next, i'll be meeting the founder of so solid crew and top music producer to talk about his sizzling career. we will see you

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grammy , nominated music grammy, nominated music producer, the likes of drake smalls and lil wayne , which i smalls and lil wayne, which i have to say is all pretty impressive . he starts off in impressive. he starts off in battersea. that's not bad at all. well, come along , it seems all. well, come along, it seems .thank all. well, come along, it seems . thank you for guessing my personal tgif. doesn't it seem a long time ago that we were doing stuff on the chart for so solid it just seemed a long time for a bit if it feels like the other day last week, 20 years was last week, right? yeah. that's the crazy 20, 20 years ago, man. it's been a comfortable journey for me far, man. and a bit for me so far, man. and a bit headache from the lads all the time . know 35 members scrambling time. know 35 members scrambling for limelight and stage and 135 members. yeah, 3535. we had all of them signed. i looked after of them signed. i looked after of them signed. i looked after of them for a while. isn't the crazy thing about. look, if you're a if you're the beatles there were four of you that have to split the money. yeah right just of this 35 just the economics of this 35 isn't slightly was isn't that just slightly it was a bit smaller. me and my a little bit smaller. me and my business, and my business business, me and my business partner, g man the time set partner, g man at the time set up companies and wanted

up the companies and wanted to sign friends to us and help sign our friends to us and help them music . and we had them out with music. and we had a bunch of artists like shabazz with good ac burrell with some good ac burrell creating some music. but i started off all the production. i was the first producer for sorry that created all the songs and put them out and yeah, just them prove to our friends that there's another avenue to me. it's interesting, earlier on we had lee john on in eighties icon he was saying how you know for a young black british soul funk bandit young black british soul funk band it was pretty tough and they were breaking new new barriers when . you guys started barriers when. you guys started as well. what was what has become the grime scene that people have heard about, which was garage scene at the time? again something new and fresh and actually guess a voice from . the streets, a voice from the estates from people that make slightly by society making a big statement. it was it was a little bit of that garbage was was just beautiful feel good . was just beautiful feel good. yeah and then us kids from the street said, look, we need a way

to get on that stage with you. we looked at all of our stars . we looked at all of our stars. we looked at all of our stars. we found the way we saw radio stations and them promotions, you know, and yeah, we found a way to get on that stage and we kind of just put our lifestyle into that and created music , you into that and created music, you know, sounds to go with the way how we danced. we danced different those days. yeah. so and he still dance a little. a little bit, but it needs a little bit, but it needs a little bit, but it needs a little bit getting there now. so now like we've done we've done well, we've got into the business and we just brought like i would say like the street culture to gary's music. it was a yeah. for most a rough time. yeah. for most artists, like in those early days. but i think we'd done well to russell us in the industry bringing to the garage scene too. it's and you know up some brit awards you did yeah i mean 21 seconds 21 seconds to flow. yeah it's like in my head after 21 years, isn't it really 22 years. it is a big song.

21 years, isn't it really 22 years. it is a big song . it was years. it is a big song. it was a huge record for you guys . it a huge record for you guys. it what's interesting as well, though, is, you know, they've always been, i guess ever since music began, protest songs, people saying things need to change about what was really interesting about when you guys came on the scene, you you came on the scene, you did you were british sound as well were a british sound as well that happened, which was in an area been influence by area that been influence by probably black americana . it was probably black americana. it was uniquely british and urban from all over the uk , not just all over the uk, not just london. yeah. with the from over the uk man. i mean so much. but from it you had funky house from raw, you had bassline niche . raw, you had bassline niche. there was so much different sounds that spurt from it and even grime . so but what we was even grime. so but what we was influenced by was influenced by a from africa, lot of a lot of from africa, a lot of people from america and even parts europe because they was parts of europe because they was getting funded in big way. the industry never seen what industry had never seen what we'd before and i just we'd done before and i just wanted to take that point. i had some support albert samuels some good support albert samuels and david jace and and brother david with jace and the good support the team good support and we went into industry and we said look like this is our sound but

we're going to bring that street sort of element it held sort of element to it and held our ground . creative control was our ground. creative control was always a priority to my mindset and even today, like even while we're doing big deals, we've got a big arena tour coming up which is across the uk from to 21st. what was the june the 25th. yeah, well i've done. not like i've looked on the industry it's been 30 years of the business of the uk, many platinum records , the uk, many platinum records, so many awards won by top acts and female acts . have you ever and female acts. have you ever seen gary's concert before? never never know why . well, this never never know why. well, this is the first time that you're ever going see a garage concert across the whole of the uk with over 29 to 40 acts. all one building. i don't think i've seen the desire as this like ten thousands. this is this is full. we're going for full capacity , we're going for full capacity, going for at least between 10 to 20000. yet at least for of 20000. wow yet at least for of the five venues. i don't think cardiff could it that much, but we're going for it and just feel

that everyone deserves it. from the awards shows to reality shows tv, know , films. shows to tv, you know, films. this music has borders like you know like like nobody's business and we just feel that it's that time . so yeah, the first time time. so yeah, the first time ever arena tour first of 21st of june this year is called uk original stars tickets are on sale now follow us on instagram and stuff it's very very it's a big a big show it's a big show for us and i'm i'm pleased to put it together with my business partner, billy. and yeah, just people their flowers i think it kisses overdue many people since you have said actually they found you guys inspirational and sort of say yes you definitely influence their careers who influenced yours you were a kid growing up when i was a kid growing up when i was a kid growing up when i was a kid growing up man michael jackson luther vandross. lionel richie billy ocean. teddy pendergrass you know the temptations looked at a lot of american like pop acts. they were pop bands those times, you know. and as time was

going on different genres. bob, andy , you know bob marley . andy, you know bob marley. dennis freddie mcgregor. yeah. so many different reggae as well. and then when you look at the genre of hip hop, you had your biggie smalls, your jay—z's, your big l's , your our jay—z's, your big l's, your our occasions, we was, we was inspired by the wow factor and that was missing from from our culture in the uk and in the late you know late nineties. so early 2000, i think that changed think that a lot of us youth decided to, you know, really for it and bring a different sort of feel to the music industry and now everyone's just flooded business and i'm happy spouses of us. you know, you ended touring with eminem yeah yeah. say it's pretty . whoa. what was say it's pretty. whoa. what was that like ? give you any tips? he that like? give you any tips? he give me any tips? i was i was angry . i give me any tips? i was i was angry. i had the biggest room in the building, and i had 35 people to take care of. so i was looking him. don't hold that against but against me wherever you are. but not it. i wouldn't say we

actually toured him in britain. one big show is what it like . it one big show is what it like. it was an honour to be on that stage. bought dynamite out stage. we bought dynamite out one docklands , but one big show in docklands, but we christina we toured with christina aguilera . that the aguilera. now that was the biggest artists at that time. if you look at what adele was doing over , you know, people britney over, you know, people britney spears is so full of what she's done all your beyonce's at that time . christina aguilera's album time. christina aguilera's album that she'd done featured a lot of hip hop artists. that was a big, big tour for her worldwide . and we was on the european leg of that tour. now i'm going to see a lot of people in your position, know, position, you know, sort of a young band know, were very big and became big stars. so and became big pop stars. so they start to be pop they didn't start to be pop stars. but you became big pop stars. but you became big pop stars just sure for pop stars just being sure for pop enough them fall by enough how little them fall by the managed to the wayside. what you managed to do, think clever do, which i think was clever and i wondered this i wondered whether this was something you decided when you started is you seem started to try is you guys seem to have some pretty savvy business sense. you go clearly wanted some money of wanted to make some money out of it. the brand. we are it. we are the brand. we are still and you what it was i still and you know what it was i really thought myself if

really thought to myself that if we're if we're going to get into what happened, running around with vinyl's in the back of your boot of , your car, going to boot of, your car, going to these record shops, you had a little invoice book then as distribute distribute it as distribute and distribute it as started to cool you they started to send us and i was like, oh, i see. this looks a bit formal. i think, i think we need to scratch up a little bit. so yeah , called my uncle who had an accounting company . , called my uncle who had an accounting company. i , called my uncle who had an accounting company . i looked at accounting company. i looked at my and and his my father and his and his brother's. had companies in brother's. they had companies in the and just the building trade and i just thought, do like this, thought, i need to do like this, but i love music. i don't want my clothes dirty, don't want to cut me and so, yeah, music is the way and they help me it up and yeah, so it was order, and yeah, so it was born. order, order on the ground label stuff was born. but yeah pulled it was born. but yeah we pulled it through and i'm still learning. is 20 years in the is this day 20 years in the business i'm still learning. business and i'm still learning. thank or thank you for triple aid or triple amazing talk that is that that looked at my idea looked at my pitch and said, you know, my god, this is well overdue, okay, yeah. and we're supporting you get to get this big project

done. so you jewel, a star done. so you go, jewel, a star is . and like i i'm is born. and like i say, i'm just trying to, you know, keep i've got to learn to play this show still. yeah you know what's interesting, though, is that youridea interesting, though, is that your idea was abandoned an artist straddled move artist you guys straddled move from digital right into into where we are today so you know what when 21 seconds came out, you can still buy a cd. you can still buy a cd, finance tapes, digital is it good now is the is the system i mean people of people say it's very unfair for musicians the amount you musicians because the amount you get totally tiny. get stream is totally tiny. definitely unfair for musicians. but was a lot more fair for but it was a lot more fair for the business. a lot of record labels. i can't say contracts to artists, but i would say from, you know, from the streaming side and oh, how they lost dramatically. and when hmv and these other people downsized, you , there was a lot of cds and you, there was a lot of cds and that yeah. that went missing. so but yeah i think, i think is , is but yeah i think, i think is, is it's just a different time to my understanding . and i have an understanding. and i have an open mind in the music industry

. it's been like this before. no worked out how to make real money from the business and it was torturing and you know gigs the way of life and then kind of got a hint of it and said let's create something to generate money for ourselves. but as well as safeguard these artists masters because some people will get in just rubbed you know big story around this way you could just get your view on it you might exact song might not know the exact song but welsh rugby union has but so the welsh rugby union has banned tom jones's song delilah tonight because said it's got it's got unsavoury lyrics it so that it can't be sung to the of stadium anymore. you wouldn't think like tom jones that's self crazy radical singer but tom as mainstream you'd think as you can get! mainstream you'd think as you can get i was just thinking the solid probably it was more what was it what was it why they banned him. what? because there's one of the lyrics in delilah about he stands at the door knife in his hand door with a knife in his hand and they said, look, this is wrong this day and age. oh, but you been censored you guys, have you been censored

many , many times many times, many times containing records? i've containing some records? i've got to be honest, we've been blocked barred. you blocked. we've been barred. you know what, we was just hard to understand. many understand. there was so many people that, you maybe people around us that, you maybe gave different gave people a different impression , what soul singer was impression, what soul singer was about. we're bunch about. but we're just bunch of young to find way young people trying to find way in and yeah, we in the business. and yeah, we get banned. yeah, because i'm the that the culture that we you know followed us into the competition thing though getting banned kid wants to banned every kid then wants to know you're know why you know why you're banned. look in one way it banned. think look in one way it was good thing in another way was a good thing in another way like it was disheartening really really like we we've really honestly like we we've never able to do never been able to actually do a european tour. yeah uk tour as socially group . we've done socially group. we've done different, you know , concerts different, you know, concerts here and there , but we've never here and there, but we've never been able to actually travel. so this is this this uk guy use us being is one of the one of the best things that i could even even even envision because . it even even envision because. it gives, it gives my team an opportunity all of to grace opportunity all of us to grace an arena stage. and that's that's the best thing. but got banned so we went first we were

the first you urban you the first british you urban you know crew to be banned know street crew to be banned across board and blamed for everything that happened in society . you know i'm in an society. you know i'm in an industry so it wasn't all fault was in no way so if people to come along uk what are they uk garbage all stars instagram youtube twitter facebook like everywhere i'm official so solid so i'm the guy kind of pushing it with the whole team but we have an array of artists lovely lovely team . we're all lovely team. we're all travelling together . going to be travelling together. going to be a it's going to be a crazy journey. yeah. bring out the family out the family, you know, come and grab your seats and get the best seats in the building and yeah you could go use those 1st june so the 25th this 1st of june so the 25th this yeah 1st of june so the 25th this year. to so nice year. nice to make it. so nice to see again after 22 years. to see you again after 22 years. yeah, just let's not make it another 20 to just do earlier this time. all right. yeah. well, coming up after the break, it's almost for tomorrow's it's almost time for tomorrow's front including front pages, including reaction from panel . plus, from my fabulous panel. plus, how resolve dispute with how do you resolve dispute with annoying neighbours and should travel business while ? your wife

travel business while? your wife and kid are back economy one husband did and ended up in a spot trouble as you can imagine. we'll see you children .

hey, welcome back to , mark dolan hey, welcome back to, mark dolan tonight. with me, neil fox after things. it's 1030, tonight. with me, neil fox after things. it's1030, so tonight. with me, neil fox after things. it's 1030, so it's tonight. with me, neil fox after things. it's1030, so it's time for this . yep. it's time for for this. yep. it's time for a look at tomorrow morning's newspapers which are literally hot off the press. right. let's go through them . one story, as go through them. one story, as you can imagine, is dominating at the moment the times appeal appeals ban for migrants who reach the uk illegally . also, a reach the uk illegally. also, a picture of the nicola bully, the lady that sadly gone missing that we've been talking this evening, the guardian kabul

chaos whistleblower sues ministers after sacking the eye has new h.r as t. shortage hits women . the uk as their headline. women. the uk as their headline. daily telegraph of course. more about the missing mother who may have fallen in the river and onune have fallen in the river and online misogyny to be outlawed . online misogyny to be outlawed. the daily mail has did nicola slip into the river going after dogs bull that is the theory that people are discussing tonight daily boris tax cuts will win tories election the sun has nicola nicola the riddle of the lost dog bowl they are talking about also the mirror women's stars revolt on clerks and exclusive wants to be a millionaire book out after that mega jibe and the independent lead with now a top comedian says rob tell asians apart deputy pm in retreat as he fails

to deny gina miller's charge. comic nish kumar backs mel out and says rob was racially insensitive. the official investigation could include the independence bullying evidence . independence bullying evidence. the daily star's got psycho owls holding hostage. although we are , we are what a cracking with everything going on in the world. there you go . right world. there you go. right panel world. there you go. right panel, so nice to have you with me tonight. thank you very much. it's been quite a sparky so far this evening. i'm sure it will. one major story dominating coming up, as well as a 20 year dispute a garden fence dispute over a garden fence leads court totalling more leads to a court totalling more tha n £100,000. we'll be asking . than £100,000. we'll be asking. how should you settle disputes over a little bit later on? but let's talk about the papers . let's talk about the papers. rebecca where do you want to go? well, i mean they're all obviously talking about this this story. i guess there's nothing we can say apart from it's really tragic story it's just a really tragic story about nicola bailey. yeah, absolutely. and nicola's from a

village that's just about 20 minutes from my actual home. so it has been very much dominating our local area and rightly so . our local area and rightly so. absolutely horrific stories, desperately for her family. apart her two daughters who i believe are about six and four years old, roughly . the sad years old, roughly. the sad thing is, is that it started to become quite apparent that they may never get any closure and to live with that for the rest of their lives, i think it would be absolutely heartbreaking at the best times. but again best of times. but this, again you that they get some you only hope that they get some answers has happened. answers as to what has happened. so it's becoming so i think it's becoming unlikely be unlikely that she's going to be found . you know, whilst is found. but, you know, whilst is still a little bit of hope out there, i think that we should have it. i quite agree. front page of daily express. gerry page of the daily express. gerry what do you feel that there's a bofis what do you feel that there's a boris tax ? well it doesn't go boris tax? well it doesn't go away . no, he doesn't go away. away. no, he doesn't go away. he's like , no, i was ready to he's like, no, i was ready to say that. but i smell it a little good. i mean , you know, little good. i mean, you know, he's always that he's like katie

. he has to live in the media. he has to be there. he has to be moment. he has to be talked about. look, one thing about margaret thatcher, i knew her very well. didn't always very well. we didn't always agree when she had tax , agree is that when she had tax, she it . now fund them at she funded it. now fund them at the moment . yeah. so these are the moment. yeah. so these are just empty words. he believes the empty words because he's desperate become the true desperate to become the true churchillian leader , fate has churchillian leader, fate has decreed for he wants to come back , but he ain't coming back. back, but he ain't coming back. you're not a fan, i.e. gerri. i've known him for 30 years. anyone who knows boris is never a fan. everyone who thinks ? oh, a fan. everyone who thinks? oh, we need a lovely old. no he's a thoroughly dishonest man. yeah, yeah. selling a dream, isn't he? yeah, he's the dream. absolutely deluded. awful precious. knew h rt deluded. awful precious. knew h r t shortage hits women across rt shortage hits women across uk. women are struggling to find homeownership medication because of supply problems with too million and using it to alleviate symptom of menopause

drug . manufacturers say that drug. manufacturers say that they are frustrated by from the government and it's a really big deal for an awful of people. it really does affect their life in a huge way . what can be done. a huge way. what can be done. i'm on whatsapp and here do you think i mean i'm not sure because obviously, you know , the because obviously, you know, the government obviously supply drugs , medication for certain drugs, medication for certain things that can serve. and so schools , you know, you have schools, you know, you have those things set up . so for those things set up. so for women are going through women who are going through menopause or younger people menopause or even younger people are needing those, kind of like to help with something else, it's hard to find that kind of thing. and it's i don't it it might be quite difficult. we have to look into it. well, i'm not sure about it. what i want to know is it's not the only drug that the shortage for adhd medications the same . what's medications got the same. what's the all about ? medications got the same. what's the all about? i medications got the same. what's the all about ? i don't know. i the all about? i don't know. i can't quite get head around it, but it's yet another situation where i think it's something deepeh where i think it's something deeper. but you know, call me cynical again. yeah. all right. that's true . i think sometimes that's true. i think sometimes it could be something like a

placebo something . no, it's placebo for something. no, it's for bones . when women go to for bones. when women go to a certain age. right. but there's that all the medications that they need is some do, but a lot a lot women go through menopause and don't anything they just go through the process without medication . yeah but why should medication. yeah but why should we deprive the ones who deserve more do think because i think women i think women go through a lot of stuff and we have to support them and we have be there them. but we don't there for them. but we don't always need to be pumping women with the side effects with because the side effects could actually cause more problems than helping the situation . i'm telling you most situation. i'm telling you most time, they make a difference. i think they can a difference. they may change lives for the better, but they're just seems to be. there are some things here that i avoid that supply problems here. yeah. i mean the only way we could go to canada but i mean, i don't we're going to get any, anything from there

i think there are other problems out there like vat problems on certain products. this certain ladies products. this because they're a necessity not a you like tampons a luxury, you know, like tampons should now they need should be free now they need things be changed. things needs to be changed. things need to be rebalanced. you know , certainly. let me ask you know, certainly. let me ask you about this because we you about this one, because we haven't and haven't mentioned meghan and harry this show. oh oh, we're not going to . come on. let not going to. come on. let equation. here is the front of the mirror. say women's revolt on clerks oh, jeremy clarkson . on clerks oh, jeremy clarkson. that article, which was it was way over the top. i have to say. and i, i don't think it was well written. it wasn't funny. no, but but that said should it be i think i think guys, let's be reasonable here. okay. it's not the first time that he's done something that is taken him to fall he's lost his his his show originally from saying something complete racist so he doesn't know when to stop . he needs to know when to stop. he needs to know when to stop. he needs to know where the line is . he can know where the line is. he can think whatever he wants to think

at his home do. you don't write it down and do not say it in pubuc it down and do not say it in public because can offend public because you can offend people. with multi people. he's done it with multi poor not just meghan. poor women, not just meghan. he's of scotland he's it with the pm of scotland he said some horrific things that woman i don't agree with i think it's nicola ferguson but i mean obviously as duchess said , mean obviously as duchess said, i don't believe obviously everything that she's doing with regards to women and transgender and all those kind things. but i don't believe she deserved the things that he's said about her as well. sure. this goes too . do as well. sure. this goes too. do we cancel him? no course we say. we will never wait for them again. he lies. the repercussions, his actions. i think he is talking about women and every that he's and he's losing every that he's ever had. one by one every day because of it. the daily telegraph interesting are leading with online misogyny needs outlawed. yeah needs to be outlawed. yeah freedom of speech again i mean come on how well does that think this should be? speech but then there's also when it goes too far and i listened how you do how do you do who decide who's going to follow you? shadow

properly person you know what's. no, no. the bell. yeah, yeah. i agree you do. but how do you decide whether when it's a crime or not, you remotely police that you can't use a mobile . found it you can't use a mobile. found it but i have it go. i i think with with respect . i've had an with respect. i've had an incredible amount abuse online less so in times thank goodness . and some of the things that have been said to that you know i've rape my own children and my children should die and things that goes far too far. but that that goes far too far. but even! that that goes far too far. but even i don't say that we should police people because when we're talking you know, if talking about, you know, if you're going offend you you're going to offend you shouldn't do we can't go around saying . what offends me saying that. what offends me will not offend you. and vice , will not offend you. and vice, who on earth is going to say is supposed to offend? we should all have human decency , which all have human decency, which unfortunately we're humans and. we don't. yeah i'm not sorry. i don't think. do you think that's just. no, that's a bit of a copout, to be honest. i think that, you know, the line between respect and giving opinion.

yeah, but i disagree your opinion on somebody is different than actually belittling them and disrespecting them. i really let's be really be honest . and i let's be really be honest. and i was you fired your. i can tell you about your career or something like that in a way you won't be so offended that i'm actually tearing you apart. i was offended by you earlier. what you. but that's perfectly okay. what you. but that's perfectly okay . well, he was always when okay. well, he was always when precious mocked me about ukip care. yes, i really passionately care. yes, i really passionately care. and obviously we had a discussion off air about it. you offended , me? i did not see how offended, me? i did not see how that sort of. we didn't have a position of you offended me. i don't think understood what i was trying to say because ukip has been known . keep on going. has been known. keep on going. but i'm not going to say my minded. is this a funny place is a farce. not okay. i mean, is it as simple as that? you speak over me . weren't going to give over me. weren't going to give me moisturiser. oh, yeah . that's me moisturiser. oh, yeah. that's just presented itself. five veterans said briefly . and then

veterans said briefly. and then we'll move back to the papers. if we could go on please answer you offended me. didn't you offended me. i didn't go. i don't think i did and think don't think i did and i think you know something that little was going be and just divided was going to be and just divided your eye your ego you to just the thing that is in inclusive to all just have my opinion it's just you just have if you did it i move . on ladies and gentlemen i move. on ladies and gentlemen , it's all ladies and gentlemen. i the best. right? we're back to the papers come on both women stars know this now top comedian says rob let's talk about dominic raab because we were talking about a lot earlier on whether this problem will go away for him or whether rishi has got to act now. comedian has got to act now. top comedian says , tell asians apart. says rob, tell asians apart. it's front page of the it's the front page of the independent rallies . okay. can independent rallies. okay. can we define what asian? he's talking about i haven't got the whole paper as deputy pm in retreat as he fails deny so by chance gina what do you believe that he can survive this rob or

is the evidence beginning getting to come around golden rule in yeah if you become the story for more than about a week . zahawi was yes and you're dead in the water that's the alastair campbell he's been the for a while you've got to have due process absolutely right but there's 23 there's 23 allegations of bullying against him. and i think the person we should be at is not various prime ministers and the rest of it, but simon case , the cabinet it, but simon case, the cabinet secretary, he knew about this. why didn't he tell the prime minister well, let's leave that that panel thing. we just kind of a cup of tea, but it's going chill out for a psych . i was chill out for a psych. i was holding a hostage is . far more holding a hostage is. far more people on the sofa tonight coming up as a 20 year dispute over a garden leads to a court costs totalling more than 100 grand. we'll be asking how should you settle disputes with your or on a tv show so first class as it cool to fly business

class as it cool to fly business class and leave your wife and kid turning right in economy that's all to come after.

break so welcome back to final part of tonight's marathon and we are going to finish off with a couple of more subjects have caught our eye this week how do you get on with your neighbours. it's an honest question better than the warring parties in nonh than the warring parties in north london who've racked up than north london who've racked up tha n £100,000 in court costs. in than £100,000 in court costs. in a dispute over simple garden fence . is it really that simple? fence. is it really that simple? the disputes been running for over 20 years and remains unresolved, despite the pleas of the judge with one of the participants adamant, the judge with one of the participants adamant , the participants adamant, the placing of the fence ignores the boundary between the properties. right. let's have a word with my

panel about actually, gerri, as a lawyer placed . tell me. well, a lawyer placed. tell me. well, never go to lawyers , never go to never go to lawyers, never go to litigation . go and meet your litigation. go and meet your neighbour. have cup of tea. talk about , for god's sake. i'm to about, for god's sake. i'm to wonder whether that happen to start with . i mean, here we are. start with. i mean, here we are. i doubt. yes i doubt becomes an obsession. and people keep diaries of it all is by neil, who is a time out. there's a footprint there . go over it. and footprint there. go over it. and the judge is actually do not go to lawyers unless you really, really, really have to a case like that you don't have to . like that you don't have to. yeah, it's a it's a garden fence. you're garden fence specialist . go on with your specialist. go on with your neighbours. well i hardly see mine because i live in an apartment building you know, apartment building so you know, everybody comes but everybody just comes. goes. but if a problem then if i had a problem with then like complaint or like a noise complaint or something i definitely something i would definitely just on door and just go knock on the door and say, discuss this? say, can we discuss this? because obviously you're irritating me . this a irritating me. this is a difference. i mean , they have difference. i mean, they have spent £100,000. they could have just utilised that and done

something with the gate that they're trying to call over . they're trying to call over. rebecca is not your neighbour. you know, she's definitely not. not that i'm stirring the pudding. you in the pudding. you start it like that, sir. i think it's a waste of money. okay. how are you with neighbours ? really are you with neighbours? really good, actually. yeah, they're lovely. i recently moved and even my last ones were lovely too. thank goodness for that. although i did. oh, yes. no, i did once have a neighbour over again. yes, we did have a bit of argue about a clement. yes what was the sexual . knocking argue about a clement. yes what was the sexual. knocking him. it's a cook. tell him you needed to cook . clement it's a cook. tell him you needed to cook. clement his mobile . to cook. clement his mobile. anyway, she was very upset and a of 86. i got the points this is that this is people with too money and not enough common sense because the actual issues are that they the spray upset the patio and the swimming pool 800 first. well right absolutely right but they try to stir and

say that she's a widow, you know, so it gets you like quite sensitive about it. but at the end of the she didn't the end of the she didn't have the funds. she wouldn't have gone to do it 20 years. what i'll stress what, do you think of everything else on, the rumours else going on, the rumours stuff going you sorry. much more going on, you sorry. much more the holidays and all, but rather just quarrel with a world. did you sort out your neighbours for a while, right? oh finally tonight , one a while, right? oh finally tonight, one of the posters on mumsnet has been about the seating arrangement on a long haul flight . the mother was left haul flight. the mother was left enraged when her husband enjoyed business class seats, courtesy of his , while her and their of his, while her and their young right turn in economy right even worse the husband had earlier placated his half by claiming he had premium seats for her and the toddler. right then, rebecca brings this kind of behaviour acceptable in any way slightly rude , i think it's

way slightly rude, i think it's really. oh i think he's really sad, actually. but also i notice is i'd been a lot less mad with him if he took the toddler and left me in the. yeah, i'm fine with that. but i'll stay in standard class if you take the baby on a 14 hour flight because that sounds like absolute hell on earth to me. yeah that says the mother of two darling daughters. they were wonderfully behaved flights. terrible, rude and you know, there's twice say that would be my third. oh oh a twice divorced says it all they think got it guidance. i do know the people though that have looked like up premium or club seats and made the kids in the back you know when they were oh yeah exactly the age just they're ruined. yeah. if you able to take care of themselves, you might not need to babysit, but if you paid class, do you want screaming kids want to let a screaming kids next, yeah i mean next, you know. yeah i mean dependsi next, you know. yeah i mean depends i don't have kids so i my you know i would prefer for them to be somewhere no offence but i love to . but i wouldn't

but i love to. but i wouldn't want to in business class for 14 hours. my oh but if i was a mom i would be in first class or business class or whatever . a business class or whatever. a class with my children. yes. i wouldn't be able to be on a plane and my kids are here. they need to be able to they need to know my personality i know i wouldn't able to, do wouldn't be able to, but i do have a a friend , mine, have a story, a friend, mine, who going back to new york and was getting married and her future husband actually did that he booked her an economy seat and he went into business class and he went into business class and she still married him . and she still married him. really? she went to new york. london new york. he just said, you know , i just want to go into you know, i just want to go into business and use my miles. and you off you to economy and you off you go to economy and she actually documents it, put it on and everyone was like, you still married him. i was like, yeah, i love him . so it is yeah, i love him. so it is a common thing that is not something that you would actually agree on. that is not marriage, right? that is . oh, we marriage, right? that is. oh, we married him after that. she was

actually flying to new york to prepare for her wedding. if you'd done that to mrs. fox? what would, yeah. what would . what would, yeah. what would. well, what do you. your face is 7 well, what do you. your face is ? well, we have three kids that i'd want to be with my kids. of course. gentleman he would. but of course the problem is, as much flying upfront . oh, much nicer flying upfront. oh, oh, oh. there. no, i there. no, you wouldn't see that i just. where do you fly with your family? you get to sit with each other, right? there's like three seats seat. yeah you seats for seat. yeah you know, you your row . at least you get your own row. at least i wouldn't, know . got to look, wouldn't, you know. got to look, there's a bright side. it. well there's a bright side. it. well there yeah. oh so they there is. yeah. oh so they always go save the money always got to go save the money and emails when and gaffes, better emails when you end that would and gaffes, better emails when y(better end that would and gaffes, better emails when y(better thing end that would and gaffes, better emails when y(better thing for end that would and gaffes, better emails when y(better thing for me! that would and gaffes, better emails when y(better thing for me as|at would and gaffes, better emails when y(better thing for me as a: would and gaffes, better emails when y(better thing for me as a fact. ld a better thing for me as a fact. it's ludicrous really nice. i'll say thank you very much. in a beeping a bunch tonight. beeping a feisty bunch tonight. it's really good. hope we can it's really good. i hope we can go and, you know, at least go out and, you know, at least have drink after and not have a drink after this and not fight. think we need a fight. yeah, i think we need a group hug , fight. yeah, i think we need a group hug, particularly to rebecca. thank you so much. say, gerry, really you coming on and thank you . that's it. yes, thank

thank you. that's it. yes, thank you very much. i'll be back tomorrow . you have a really good tomorrow. you have a really good night headline . this is up next. night headline. this is up next. see you . good evening, alex see you. good evening, alex deakin here with your latest weather updates this weekend, we'll go from mile and cloudy to a bit colder , but a lot sunnier a bit colder, but a lot sunnier by sunday, most of us will be dry for much of the weekend, but there will be some rain around tomorrow from this front that's slowly , surely approaching. slowly, surely approaching. we've got a high pressure dominating, though. and in between these two weather fronts, we've got the moment fronts, we've got at the moment quite of mild air. not quite a lot of mild air. so not to chilly there for to chilly out there for a february evening . a lot of cloud february evening. a lot of cloud keeping those temperatures up drizzle from that cloud and western over coasts and western areas over coasts and hills some this hills and there's some rain this evening shetland but even evening over shetland but even that should be easing as we that should be easing off as we head if you breaks head towards dawn if you breaks in cloud could in the cloud could lead temperatures the drop temperatures in the east to drop maybe to or five celsius maybe to four or five celsius but most will step at seven but for most will step at seven or eight celsius. so pretty mild to saturday a fairly drab to saturday as well. a lot of cloud around. but again, apart from a bit of drizzle. most places dry

until the weather arrives, bringing rain northwest scotland by lunchtime , trickling down by lunchtime, trickling down through the central belt early afternoon and spreading across northern ireland to another great day across highlands of scotland. wet , windy here, scotland. quite wet, windy here, but further south but elsewhere, further south most of england, wales dry , a most of england, wales dry, a lot of cloud, but some brightness coming . it will be brightness coming. it will be mild double digits most. mild double digits for most. some that rain will push into northern england and during saturday evenings, about in mind if you're heading out that band of southwards and of rain working southwards and fizzling so more the old fizzling so no more than the old spot through the hours spot through. the early hours of sunday morning in south and then clearer skies and colder air arrives so are much more likely to have a frost on sunday morning certainly from the midlands northwards in rural spots. but although it will be cold air, it is going to be a sparkling day of sunshine for most. on sunday. some cloud here and there. but if a breeze on some north sea coats and the northwest but for most light blue skies , lots of sunshine and blue skies, lots of sunshine and we'll still lose that frost. i suspect temperatures up to about average for the time year. so

average for the time of year. so lower it has been but lower than it has been but feeling pleasant in the afternoon. sunshine .

welcome back to gb news. i'm armstrong in the newsroom police investigating the disappearance of missing mother now believe she fell into the river while while walking her dog nicole i believe vanished lancashire last friday morning . the friday morning. the investigation is focusing on a ten minute window between , ten ten minute window between, ten and 9:20. that's unaccounted for. the 45 year old's phone was found a bench. it was still connected to work teams meeting her dog was nearby sprinting and sally riley confirms officers have conducted an extensive search of the area including the 15 kilometres of water from the river wyre to the sea . our main

river wyre to the sea. our main working hypothesis