gb news, there are high court challenges there are high court challenges there are high court challenges there are protests and it's happening all over the country as local people object to the number of people being put in local hotels. >> and as they cross the english channelin >> and as they cross the english channel in ever larger numbers, the problem doesn't go away. we'll discuss latest on the we'll discuss the latest on the huw jim huw edwards story with jim davidson, man who knows what davidson, a man who knows what it's like to be called guilty before he proved his innocence and we'll talk about china. can you believe we're still giving them £50 million a year in foreign aid.7 you them £50 million a year in foreign aid? you couldn't make it up. but first, let's get the news with rory smith . news with rory smith. >> thank you very much, nigel. the prime minister has set out pay the prime minister has set out pay increases for millions of pubuc pay increases for millions of public sector workers, police and prison officers will receive and prison officers will receive an increase of 7, while teachers will get 6.5. teachers unions

say the new pay recommendations will allow them to call off strike action. rishi sunak warns there will be no more negotiating. chancellor jeremy hunt has ruled out increasing taxes or borrowing to fund the pay taxes or borrowing to fund the pay rises . pay rises. >> we want to pay them fairly , >> we want to pay them fairly, which is why we've taken the decision to accept the independent pay review body recommendations. but at the same time, the reason that many of them are angry, the reason that we've had strikes, is because they've seen their take home pay eroded by inflation. and it's vital that we don't do anything in accepting these awards that fuels inflation. it means we're having the same dispute us this time next year , while junior time next year, while junior doctors will continue striking tomorrow . tomorrow. >> so as the 6% offer to the british medical association falls, well below the 35% rise, the union is calling for, it's part of a five day of walkouts in what's being described as the longest in the history of the

nhs . another news this evening nhs. another news this evening the government has been given the go ahead to take a legal battle over its rwanda deportation policy to the supreme court. the prime minister had said he fundamentally disagreed with the court of appeals ruling the deal was unlawful . home secretary was unlawful. home secretary suella braverman has been battling to get the policy off the ground after it was previously blocked by appeal. judges. mental previously blocked by appeal. judges . mental health charity judges. mental health charity mind says people like huw edwards experienced serious mental health problems should be given the space to receive treatment. questions have been raised regarding the sun newspaper conduct, as well as the bbc's response to the allegations that mr edwards paid allegations that mr edwards paid a young person for sexually explicit images . the explicit images. the corporation's director general will be questioned in parliament next week on how the story was handled. the met police has found no evidence of criminality

at the coronation robes worn by the king and the queen will be featured as part of the summer display at buckingham palace . display at buckingham palace. king charles and queen camilla have already viewed the exhibition ahead of the official opening tomorrow , the public opening tomorrow, the public will have the opportunity to see the robes up close in the palace ballroom, where secret rehearsals for the royal family were held ahead of the big day with the special event will last until september. tv online dab+ radio and on tunein. this is gb news. now, though, back to . nigel good evening. >> there are over 50,000 people who've crossed the english channel staying in hotels all over this country. there are a further 5000 empty rooms that

are booked already by the home office waiting for the next wave to cross the english channel. and people understandably are saying why on earth are we spending 6 or £7 million a day on this? and so the government has sought alternatives by barges, former military sites , barges, former military sites, but no one's happy about that. and all over the country, there are a variety of protests and legal actions and questions to councils going on just the other night we showed you in surbiton local residents talking about a hotel there. that one, that particular one was full of people who'd come from afghanistan and not directly across the english channel. but there is no doubt about it, across the english channel. but there is no doubt about it , the there is no doubt about it, the pressure is becoming absolute , pressure is becoming absolute, absolutely enormous. and i wonder, given the sheer number of these challenges, legal challenges, protests , i wonder, challenges, protests, i wonder, have we now had enough? tell me what you think. farage at gb news dot com. now, one of these

that i followed is of course our aslef scampton. i've been up there a couple of times. i've been to the great dambusters pub just down the road and of course the site of the historic dambusters raid. and to think that not only will that place stop being used for aviation , stop being used for aviation, but a plan, a proposal that could have been worth as much as £300 million to the local economy has been shelved . and economy has been shelved. and many of the world war two artefacts, including many personal items of guy gibson vc, have been cleared out of the rooms as they make way for 2000 young men to move in. and it's met with huge objections locally and the local council , west and the local council, west lindsey district council are expecting a decision that will come from the high court tomorrow morning at 10:00 to see whether they can move on and push for a judicial review . i push for a judicial review. i have to say i believe what's

happening to scampton is not only total cultural desecration action, but robbing and depriving the area of perhaps some really good opportunities . some really good opportunities. now, gb news reporter will hollis is there right now outside the gates of raf scampton will please bring us up to speed with the local mood . to speed with the local mood. yes well, it's around 158 miles south that the high court decision is going to be made . decision is going to be made. >> but ultimately this is the place that it's affecting. if you came here a few hours ago, nigel, you would have seen a load of people that have been outside protesting. they've been protesting ever since the decision was made in march. now, what's been happening today at the high court is essentially a permissions hearing. it's a stepping stone, a penultimate stepping stone, a penultimate stepping stone, a penultimate stepping stone on towards the judicial review . west lindsey judicial review. west lindsey district council, which represents rf scampton and braintree district council, which represents raf

wethersfield, wethersfield , wethersfield, wethersfield, they're locked in this legal battle and tomorrow the decision will be made on if they can go to the bigger judicial review, where there'll be that full investing session into whether the government has acted lawfully in their plans to house asylum seekers at places like scampton town council roger patterson you're the scampton councillor . thanks for talking councillor. thanks for talking to gb news tonight . how are you to gb news tonight. how are you feeling? right now on the eve of this big decision ? is it going this big decision? is it going to be a sleepless night for you? no it'll be to get a good night's sleep . night's sleep. >> i'm confident. i've always been confident. but think been confident. but i think we're the right plans. we're we've got the right plans. our our case is lawful. the home office is acting unlawfully in what they're trying to do , what they're trying to do, overlooking a £300 million investment deal, ignoring planning rules, planning policies have just been renewed . so they're absolutely crystal clear what can and can't happen at scampton. it does include, doesn't include anybody else

coming in other than scampton holdings and their developers. so i'm confident that we're going to win this and get through to the judicial review. well, we've got a fantastic team of officers and our legal people , and so i'll sleep well tonight in the hope that we'll we'll get the right outcome tomorrow morning. >> and then just describe for me that £300 million investment, what will it mean for scampton, which is a small part here around the camp, but also for lincoln and the wider lincolnshire area? >> it's probably the i mean, the time i've been up here, it's probably the biggest deal that we've ever had in lincolnshire . we've ever had in lincolnshire. it's certainly in my memory anyway . it will make a it's certainly in my memory anyway. it will make a huge difference . tourism, jobs, difference. tourism, jobs, growth , education facilities growth, education facilities coming here, space, you name it , it would be massive for us. we're sitting in a corridor where we've got the bomber command memorial up the road next door. up the road is raf ingham, the polish bomber base dunng ingham, the polish bomber base during world war ii, and it's got poland's national bomber

memorial there. and scampton sits right in the middle of these on a heritage would be on a heritage trail. so there's plenty to bring people in enthusiasts, tourists to come and got and learn and see what we've got and learn about our history of the whole area. this would massive for area. this would be massive for us. best, best thing that's ever happened to central lincolnshire in this area for , well, it in this area for, well, it probably years and years , if not eve r. >> even >> and then if you wake up tomorrow, you get to 11:00. and then just very quickly that decision doesn't go your way and it's refused. and what happens next? >> well, we fight on. we've got they've got to april before they have to go for planning permission . and we believe that permission. and we believe that they're going to try to skirt around it and not come for local democracy. don't believe they i believe they don't believe in local democracy. so it wouldn't be the end if you don't get the decision you want tomorrow. so i believe that they'll go to the secretary of state. again, secretary of state. but again, our central lincolnshire local plan all the plan section 75 and all the

other is absolute rock solid. and if the secretary of state or whoever deals with it goes by the and goes by the the book and goes by the planning rules , he's going to planning rules, he's going to have to refuse them . have to refuse them. >> councillor patterson from west lindsey district council, hope you get a good night's sleep course , asylum sleep tonight. of course, asylum seekers won't be arriving at scampton for another month or so. but nigel, you would have seen that yesterday. they did start arriving at raf wethersfield in essex . wethersfield in essex. >> they did well, thank you very much indeed luck to much indeed and good luck to councillor patterson. i have to say, those prospects for say, i think those prospects for the complete regeneration of that site very, very exciting for the people of lincolnshire . for the people of lincolnshire. it's turned into a migrant centre. all that be gone centre. all that will be gone now. gear. the story now. changing gear. the story that's everything that's dominated everything this week the huw week, of course, is the huw edwards story . but for the first edwards story. but for the first few days, even though his name was all the internet , plus few days, even though his name vior all the internet , plus few days, even though his name vior 2ll the internet , plus few days, even though his name vior 2 pictures,e internet, plus few days, even though his name vior 2 pictures, we |ternet , plus few days, even though his name vior 2 pictures, we weren't plus 1 or 2 pictures, we weren't allowed to say it was that right? was it wrong? joining me is jim davidson, comedian, former host of the generation game and of course, now now running a very successful

ustream channel. jim joins me from torquay. jim you went through all of this, didn't you ? you were arrested and you went through murder and there was a presumption that you were guilty and you had to prove your innocence in the light of that wasn't it right earlier in this week that elle edwards was not named ? named? >> well, i'm not sure about that. i think he wasn't named because of various people in the media were frightened to name someone because they were actually getting this story out there before all the facts were there. it's a sad story. nigel it's very sad. and i don't think we know the half of it. i mean, if you look online, everyone is now an expert apart from all the jokes. that's going around. but everyone has an idea. is it a girl? is it a boy? what did he do? but the fact is , now that do? but the fact is, now that the police have said he did not break the law and now he is in a

mental institution and will be suffering probably terrible shame. and yes , mental illness. shame. and yes, mental illness. i went i went through this for a yean i went i went through this for a year. i was arrested but never charged . and i always remember charged. and i always remember these words as i was walked to these words as i was walked to the police station. it was still scary. this policeman said , scary. this policeman said, don't worry, jim, yours is not under age sex. yours was just a bunch of old. and i thought, oh well, fair enough . it's taken well, fair enough. it's taken the pain away a bit, but the pain does not go . it's not pain does not go. it's not knowing what other people are doing. what you watch. nigel i'm down here in torquay. i've got fish and chips today and i threw a bit on the floor that wasn't very nice. and a million seagulls up devoured seagulls turned up and devoured it. that's what's going to happen . everyone's to happen now. everyone's going to want this story for want a bit of this story for their for their own their own, for their own reasons. >> jim, tell us, did it really have a bad effect on you? >> well , actually , i wrote a >> well, actually, i wrote a book about it . book about it. >> and because i mean, cliff richard and everyone said, we're

going to sue the police. we're going to sue the police. we're going to sue the police. we're going to do this. and paul gambaccini was very upset. and i didn't think the police behaved badly me because at the end badly for me because at the end there was no further action and i neven there was no further action and i never, ever charged. um i was never, ever charged. um but i wouldn't want to go through it again. it's slightly different now. i mean, so he, i was accused of breaking the law. he's not been accused of breaking the law, but it's just the accusation. i think that's done the damage. and at the end of the day, the sun newspaper, which i quite love, i think it's great but i saw neil great fun. but and i saw neil wallace with you last night, they would just wring their hands the next hands and wait for the next little titbit and they won't care. they'll put that story away they'll get on with away and they'll get on with the next it's bit much. when next one. it's a bit much. when the sun are the moral guardian of our country. >> nigel i know, but jim, be honest about it. anybody in the pubuc honest about it. anybody in the public eye, hasn't it always been a like that? been a bit like that? >> yes , i think it is me and my >> yes, i think it is me and my lawyer , henry bradman, used to lawyer, henry bradman, used to get up at 3:00 in the morning and and get the newspapers to and go and get the newspapers to find if i could go home to the

current wife. i mean, it was it was was but you would was it was crazy. but you would think that edwards, who think that mr edwards, who i don't going to be more don't it's going to be more current wives well going. um, current wives as well going. um, l, current wives as well going. um, i, i think you've got to watch yourself . everyone's a reporter. yourself. everyone's a reporter. everyone's a conspiracy. what what if it's true? and i say if with a capital i, if these stories are true , then he was stories are true, then he was foolish. he has made a mistake. it seems to me. and we don't know if it's a man or a god, but i'm assuming that it's a male, that that he was dealing with . that that he was dealing with. then this this is a gentleman that's living not a double life. no, but this is someone that can't control the urges inside of this man. that's the mistake . and i don't think he should be bashed up for that. there is a little bit of homophobia, i think, sneaking into all this stuff. and i just think it's sad. it's sad for his wife. i mean, she's been ridiculed now that and it's just so sad. >> i mean, jim , jim, we don't

>> i mean, jim, jim, we don't know the full facts of this not being charged. >> kid said he didn't do it and the sun print it anyway. >> yeah. i mean, we don't know the full facts, but a final thought on how have the bbc handled all of this? >> well, i'm not sure how the bbc of i don't understand why the bbc have to be involved. >> if it was a dustman that was doing it, would you phone up the corporation and say, bert, the dustman's been sending pictures of his erg fathers to my boy? i'd i really don't know. yeah, but come on, come on, come on. you know, is huw edwards rock and hard place? >> huw edwards you know, he has been. he's been the modern day dimbleby, hasn't he? the face of the bbc. you know, the announcement of the queen's death, the coronation he is a pubuc death, the coronation he is a public figure. that's the difference, it? well it is. >> and people say that he's he's paid he is paid through public money. well well, i don't buy that. really he gets paid for the job he did. and as you know,

nigel, he was very good at what he did. and now the allegation is the money went to this is the money that went to this person, this young person has been drugs. well, how been spent on drugs. well, how would huw edwards, if he did, in fact, give this money? how would he control what that he know on control what that money was spent on? i mean, it's crazy. it's a witch hunt. and we've had enough of this now think. jim davidson , think. all right, jim davidson, clear ever. clear as ever. >> enjoy yourself in torquay. see you very soon. thank you. in a moment , a see you very soon. thank you. in a moment, a story that i hope is all over the front pages, literally , of every single literally, of every single newspaper tomorrow. it is that important . i newspaper tomorrow. it is that important. i doubt it will be, but it's all about china, not just the going on, giving them large amounts of foreign aid, but a committee report in the house of commons released this morning telling us they pose an existential threat to our liberal democracy. all of that in just a couple of minutes.

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radio . let's radio. let's let's talk china. >> it matters is quite extraordinary to think that last year we gave china £50 million in foreign aid . oh, it's okay. in foreign aid. oh, it's okay. we're told, because that's down from £80 million the year before. we shouldn't be giving them a single bean . and i think them a single bean. and i think you'll agree with that in just one moment, because a report today issued by parliament's intelligence and security committee has said the following without swift and decisive action, we are on a trajectory sorry for the nightmare scenario where china steals blueprints , where china steals blueprints, set standards and builds products , exerting political and products, exerting political and economic influence at every step. such prevalence in every part of the supply chain will mean that in the export of its goods or services, china will have a pliable vehicle through which it can also export its values. this presents a serious

commercial challenge , but also commercial challenge, but also has the potential to pose an existential threat to liberal democratic systems . have a think democratic systems. have a think about that, folks . an about that, folks. an existential threat to liberal democratic systems. and it runs through business and it runs through business and it runs through our universities and it's real. and yet so few people in parliament dare speak out. i have to say i thought the wording that was put out by this isc committee was very fundamental. and it's why i said earlier, before the break, this needs to be on the front page of every national newspaper tomorrow. luke de pulford joins me. is executive director of me. he is executive director of the inter—parliamentary alliance on china . luke, i mean the inter—parliamentary alliance on china. luke, i mean , this on china. luke, i mean, this report did not mince its words. >> it didn't it set out pretty clearly that in every area of uk national life are critical infrastructure. our universities , our investment screening rules in terms of chinese overseas

espionage through the united front work department, the uk does not have a plan. it isn't so much that we've been asleep at the wheel, it's that we've blindfolded ourselves, got on the back seat and given the keys to the car to china. we have no plan and no strategy to address what we see as or we're supposed to see as our greatest strategic threat today. and it's deeply disconcerting . disconcerting. >> universities , cambridge >> universities, cambridge colleges in particular, something called the confucius program, which i want you to explain very briefly to people. tell us about confucius and universities . universities. >> so confucius institutes were founded as a way of trying to increase knowledge of china language exchange , that sort of language exchange, that sort of thing. they find themselves associated with particular universities and sadly, they've over time become too associated with various organs of the chinese state, including chinese embassies. they've become hotbeds of intellectual property, theft, of intimidation

in of hong kongers and others. for example, in the uk . and very for example, in the uk. and very worryingly, we haven't really had a plan to deal with that. we did have the uk government say at one time we were going to close them all the us has close them all like the us has and like other countries have, but on that and but then we u—turned on that and said we wouldn't do that after all. >> and of course rishi sunak, when he was running to be leader of the he didn't win, but he became later. he was talking became pm later. he was talking very these very tough about these institutes, wasn't he. he's u—turned completely. >> he was . in it u—turned completely. >> he was. in it was one of >> he was. in fact it was one of his campaign promises. he his major campaign promises. he said was a threat and he said china was a threat and he said china was a threat and he said was to going close said that he was to going close confucius believe, confucius institutes. i believe, on his premiership. on day one of his premiership. well he didn't do that. quite the opposite. he's u—turned on it. in fact found it. and in fact we found ourselves in a much more friendly posture diplomatically towards which is, as this towards china, which is, as this report rightly says today , report rightly says today, imperilling us. >> so they're infiltrating our universities and corrupting them. they are spying on our industry . they are them. they are spying on our industry. they are posing an increasing military threat. they

have absolutely fundamentally broken all the promises over hong kong. and i mean, literally every single promise over hong kong. every single promise over hong kong . and yet we don't speak kong. and yet we don't speak out. and i'm going to put it to you that that is because there are so many people , retired are so many people, retired civil servants , retired senior civil servants, retired senior businessmen, politician ones who frankly, are in the pay of china. we have been corrupted by chinese money. >> well, there's a very interesting part of the report that came out today, which identifies certain individuals who came out of government and ended up being recruited by the chinese communist party or chinese communist party or chinese state linked institutions to work in very highly paid jobs. institutions to work in very highly paid jobs . so that's highly paid jobs. so that's certainly true. but i think probably the bigger question for us and again, this is pointed out by the report, why is it that we are putting trade interests before our values consistently when it comes to china? have been duped . we china? we have been duped. we have been led down the path of economic promises that this this

idea that if we hitched our wagon to the chinese economy, we were going to somehow be able to rescue the uk's economy has proven this was the george osborne vision, wasn't it? yeah. and the osborne vision is clinging on to its death by its fingernails is that's really put us in a difficult position with china when it comes to beijing's behaviour and we find ourselves now instead of having woken up to this akua fully walking back, we've had the high water mark already during the johnson premiership, believe it or not, of standing up to china and we seem to be rowing back on that now and that's really worrying, as the report points out. >> well, i think the potential corruptible rmt of our ruling classes is a very big factor. >> i noticed myself actually many of the people who were happy the brussels happy to sell us the brussels are equally happy to sell us are now equally happy to sell us to china. but that's separate to china. but that's a separate point. but what does interest me, luke, is this when you go out into into the country, the real country , and you poll

real country, and you poll attitudes on the chinese communist party, what's happened to the uygurs, all these things , you will find a public that really are beginning to wake up to this problem in quite a fundamental way. poll after poll showing us great concern about the threat that china poses to us, and yet we still go on buying chinese products. but but it's quite difficult, isn't it? you order something online. it doesn't tell you when you buy it, it's made in china, it, whether it's made in china, it's quite difficult to avoid it. but here's the thing. the it. but here's the thing. so the pubuc it. but here's the thing. so the public changing . trump, public mood is changing. trump, when president, when he was president, talked a lot and i think, lot on this issue. and i think, you know, whether you like him or did raise the level of or not, did raise the level of debate on it. but here's the big question. when ever this china issue up , iain question. when ever this china issue up, iain duncan issue comes up, iain duncan smith up and talks about smith gets up and talks about it, 1 or 2 others do the same. they found themselves now being banned from visiting hong kong or china . their families banned or china. their families banned to. and why? oh why? luke de pulford are there so few members of parliament talking about

this? >> well, i want to make you feel a bit better about that because the report that was issued today was a parliamentary report, and i think it represents the consensus of parliament that there are very few people who still want uncritical engagement. it's a tiny little corner of parliament now. they are obsolete. those guys. it's not hawks and doves , not so much hawks and doves, it's wishful it's realists and wishful thinkers and mps don't want to be wishful thinkers. but be the wishful thinkers. but you're , having had these you're right, having had these sanctions imposed on a number of politicians , the others know politicians, the others know that that kind of thing, that sort of tit for tat, might face them if they are to stand up. maybe they don't want to do it. >> they're scared. i think i think that might be the case. okay. so you think quietly parliament is moving in the right direction , but it's not right direction, but it's not making its voice heard? >> i think there is no question that country, that with the country, parliament is waking up. it's just government that's way behind it. >> de pulford, thank you >> luke de pulford, thank you very it is very much indeed. and it is folks, i say, a very, very folks, as i say, a very, very important story. in a moment, we'll talk about protests that

took down instantly took place down instantly yesterday and in dorset, objections happening at dorset council about a barge that's due to go into the docks there. all of that in a

radio. >> well, it's been pretty tricky for me for the last 2 or 3 weeks with this whole banking fiasco. i've spent an inordinate amount of time trying trying to get other bank accounts and completely and utterly failing. i've also been broadcasting about it, writing about it. i've learnt so much and i have to tell you, it needs to be an absolute right for everybody in this country, as it should be entitled to having a bank account and a business bank account and a business bank account because it's even harder to open and keep open business account . s now the banks are account. s now the banks are acting as a drag on the british economy, but you've got to knock me down with a feather. when this morning, opening the daily

mail, there it was in the centre page a big article from the guy that set up the bank of dave. whatever you think of farage, he has the right to an account. he should talk to the bank of dave. we're money lenders, not free speech. please and it's a great, great piece by dave fishwick, who set up the burnley savings . who set up the burnley savings. well, it's not really a bank , well, it's not really a bank, but it's a great piece just describing how mad the banks have gone, how politically correct the banks have become . correct the banks have become. and he says, look, we're a community bank up here in burnley. you can save money from us. you can borrow money from us. you can borrow money from us. and he said he would sit down and have a chat with me and, you're the first and, dave, you're the first person in the entirety of the british financial establishment that come forward and made that has come forward and made that has come forward and made that and i haven't seen that offer. and i haven't seen the film yet. bank of dave. i am now going to i understand there's going to be a netflix follow up as well. so the guy's quite a character, but the authorities did refuse him a full banking licence quite what

we can do. i don't know the other what the farage moment. this is amazing. so the covid inquiry want boris johnson's whatsapp messages from the start of the pandemic right through until may 2021. that covers the penod until may 2021. that covers the period of all three lockdowns. now he changed his phone in may 2021, when he was advised that his number had been out in the pubuc his number had been out in the public domain for the last 15 years or so . but they can't get years or so. but they can't get the whatsapp messages back. do you know why ? well, it's very you know why? well, it's very simple . he can't remember the simple. he can't remember the password . and now you know , you password. and now you know, you can make your own mind up on that. either you think johnson's not telling the truth or you think his life is so completely chaotic and all over the place that genuinely he can't remember. he said he can't with 100% certainty, say what the password is and the danger is if he gets it wrong. all of those

messages would be deleted . how messages would be deleted. how very, very convenient. now leslie has been in the news a lot this week and a little village on the outskirts called furness, because that is where all the stroudley park hotel and spa is. and goodness me, there have been some very big local protests about this great hotel, very well known to the people of leslie nana. 95 people employed at it. well, there were 95 people, but they've all now been fired because this is now to become a migrant hotel . all become a migrant hotel. all roadblocks have been put in place. the council have got involved and it seems that maybe the protesters are beginning to win. last night, large numbers of people turned up to protest . of people turned up to protest. at the moment, perhaps they may even be winning. i don't know. i'm joined by robert lloyd from the furness action committee , the furness action committee, and that's the protest group around baroness hallett . and it around baroness hallett. and it was a very big turnout last night . but there were 1 or

night. but there were 1 or 2 people detained by the police. i understand, last night. >> no. in fact , the incidents >> no. in fact, the incidents there on sunday night when there were four arrests. but to be fair to everybody there, there have been really well behaved and very civil and very respectful of all activity. there there's a large presence at the hotel tonight. again, about 100 people all oddly enough, we've just seen a young couple from france turn up for what they thought was a romantic break in west wales. and only to find, of course, the hotel is shut. and it was closed last week . and it's a tragedy for the week. and it's a tragedy for the town of natalie and the village of furness . of furness. >> yeah. i mean, 95 people, half of them full time, half of them part time. but, you know, that's a lot of people, isn't it? you know, whose money would be going into the local community. i also understand that, robert, that it was a favourite place for sort of birthday teas , weddings and

of birthday teas, weddings and all of that's gone , too. all of that's gone, too. >> yeah , that's right. i mean, >> yeah, that's right. i mean, everybody has had a life event at the stradey park hotel intellectually, you know, because you've either been there for weddings or birthday celebrations sunday lunches or dinners or funeral weeks. so everybody has been connected to the place and people intimately . and the wider west wales community have supported this hotel down the years. it's a four star hotel which offers quality bedroom accommodation andifs quality bedroom accommodation and it's in a lovely spot and it represents more than 50% of natalie's quality dodi bedrooms for hospitality purposes . you for hospitality purposes. you know, so what has happened is that we've lost that tourist potential and tourism capacity in one fell swoop. all for a totally barmy and bonkers plan totally barmy and bonkers plan to turn the place into a home for asylum seekers who are having their applications hurt. >> yeah, and i understand, robert, that the road leading to

the hotel is a private road , the hotel is a private road, which is why sort of concrete blocks have been put in place. it sounds almost like there's a siege there at the moment, right? >> yeah, it's a it's a bit like manning the barricades, you know, in le miserable and but people are well—behaved there. i mean, we've been working on this now for seven weeks, basically because it's a great example of a community in action, a community gathering together to challenge the sort of the dogma of the home office and what they're trying to do here. the home office home office is trying to steamroller something through. we're the little through. and we're the little guys fighting against it. we've had five boulders which have appeared at the entrance that appeared at the entrance that appeared early on in the protest . and we've nicknamed the rolling stones , actually, and rolling stones, actually, and the we've also had his gates that have been set up primarily to protect privately owned land at the entrance to the hotel , at the entrance to the hotel, because this is the one thing which we've discovered that the

home office and clearsprings ready homes will be operating this site and the owners of the hotel sterling woodrow, they fail to realise the big flaw in this plan is they don't actually own the land which leads from the car park entrance to the main road of and lets people out. so quite reasonably we've we've taken that . we've local we've taken that. we've local landowners are protecting their rights also what we've done to protest is we're man in the rear entrance to the hotel 24 hours, the side entrance which has become a subject of what is called locally hedge gate , called locally hedge gate, because there's a gap in the hedge where they've been using to transport materials through security guards and clearsprings ready homes and so on. so we effectively there is a blockade of the site now, security people and clearsprings staff left there peacefully last night. they they opened the gates . the they they opened the gates. the protesters opened the gates , let protesters opened the gates, let them out, and they departed quite peacefully. and frankly, we hope we never see them again

. but the reality is, it sounds to me it sounds to me robert lloyd , it sounds to me like lloyd, it sounds to me like you've got your tail wagging bit. >> it sounds to me like you think you can win this. >> well, yeah. i mean, you know, last night, lose in the security staff and so on, it was a partial victory. staff and so on, it was a partial victory . we know that partial victory. we know that we're up against it. partial victory. we know that we're up against it . we're. we're up against it. we're. we're little one down in the game, so to speak. we always were from the start because the home office clearsprings and sterling woodrow had entered into this deal. so once it entered into that deal, we were always to going be 1—0 behind. and now we've recovered a little bit. we're sort of into the second half of the game and it's going to get really interesting. we've the we've had one hearing in the high court. we hope to get another in high court another hear in the high court in but between then and in october. but between then and now, we're obviously to now, we're obviously hoping to stop this place being used for asylum seekers . i have to say asylum seekers. i have to say it's a great example of a community coming together and a community coming together and a community campaign working. it is people power in action. >> i have to say, it's a

fascinating case. robert, thank you for joining fascinating case. robert, thank you forjoining us fascinating case. robert, thank you for joining us tonight. fascinating case. robert, thank you forjoining us tonight. here you for joining us tonight. here on gb news. well all this is happening, as i said to you at the start of the programme all over the country in a moment we head to mid dorset where a council meeting is taking place and some very serious questions are being asked about the idea to a barge in the docks at to put a barge in the docks at portland. all of that and more in just a moment.

the migrant barge, the bibby stockholm, is due to arrive in portland docks tomorrow. it will take 500 young men. there is considerable disquiet in portland and indeed in the county of dorset. and tonight the council is meeting in dorchester. the being accused of

being there, being accused of lying to residents. jeff moody , lying to residents. jeff moody, gb news reporter, is there in dorchester right now as this meeting goes on. jeff, what's happening ? happening? >> i am indeed. well as you say, the bibby stockholm is still in falmouth. we think it's going to be on the move tomorrow , but it be on the move tomorrow, but it will take around 20 hours, nigel, to travel the 100 nautical miles from falmouth to portland . the council meeting is portland. the council meeting is still in progress. we've seen two campaign groups outside and inside that meeting there have been two to propose easels put forward to try to stop the barge from coming here. well, i spoke earlier on to councillor louis o'leary , who put forward one of o'leary, who put forward one of those two motions. this is what he had to tell me earlier on alongside my colleague, councillor tony farage. >> we are putting forward a motion to request that the barge thatis motion to request that the barge that is not yet to arrive, but we believe is in imminent to be removed as quickly as possible

as we don't feel it's an appropriate location to have it on portland port and it shouldn't be sited within this county. >> why do you think it shouldn't be here? >> because to have 500 people put here when we're already struggling to provide certain services is with a number services as it is with a number of issues around and infrastructure . so housing and infrastructure. so housing and those sorts of things, it's going to create an awful lot of tension, i think. and that's what concerns me . what concerns me. >> well, one of the two campaign groups has joined me outside to talk to talk to me about what actually happened in the meeting. alex, you're the main organiser for no to the barge. how has the meeting been going? >> well, so we learned two things one, that things today. jeff one, that dorset clearly do not dorset council clearly do not have confidence to stand by have the confidence to stand by their morals in this regard . and their morals in this regard. and we learned the name of the we also learned the name of the barrister that employed in barrister that they employed in this. this idea of planning this. now this idea of planning permission , stopping at the sea permission, stopping at the sea is something that need is something that we need to start thinking about and analysing and really talking to legal advisers on this regard.

and that is going to be the next step in our campaign. >> you say next step, but the barge is going to come here. it's on its way. we think tomorrow . so what happens to tomorrow. so what happens to your no, to the barge campaign when it arrives ? when it arrives? >> so there are three elements to that. one, as i shared the legal side, we're going to start looking into again, holding our publicly elected representatives accountable. this will also be on through a barrister , through on through a barrister, through a solicitor understanding the maritime issues here and also looking to be there when the cruise liners appear, because we're going to show them what what this private port has done, which is inhumane for both the people of portland. weymouth and dorset. >> kate talking about the cruise liners, we were hearing that the protests that happened in portland port on saturday prevented a cruise liner from coming into portland port . and coming into portland port. and people have been complaining that there's been a significant loss of income in weymouth and

portland because the cruise passengers haven't been able to come off. is that true, do you think? i absolutely beg to differ there. >> so cruise ships don't come in overly often. weymouth is actually packed at the moment, and most of the cruise passengers go off in coaches outside of weymouth. they go to stonehenge, they go to salisbury, to various salisbury, they go to various places of interest, basically . places of interest, basically. obe if portland port hadn't agreed to moor the barge, there would be no protest. so they are the only blame here. the only ones to blame here. they are absolutely incredulous to this. they have treated the community with absolute contempt. silence is contempt. their silence is absolutely deafening. bill reeves , i call you out, come and reeves, i call you out, come and speak to us. what you doing? speak to us. what are you doing? the vulgar disparity, the way they earning money. you've they are earning money. you've got your cruise line. if your luxury passengers, you on luxury passengers, you know, on a ship and few a luxury ship and then a few hundred feet you have 500 hundred feet away, you have 500 men vulnerable men on a barge that was designed for less than half that. that is not going to mix. so you need to make your choice. >> e okay. thank you >> rachel reeves okay. thank you

very well, did very much indeed. well, i did ask the ceo of ask bill reeves, the ceo of portland , to talk to us, portland port, to talk to us, but he didn't want to talk to us today. back you, nigel. today. back to you, nigel. >> very much indeed. >> thank you very much indeed. jeff can all jeff well, you can see all around the country the anger, genuine is building. genuine anger is building. now, the office said today the home office have said today delivering accommodation on surplus sites end surplus military sites will end the expensive hotels to the use of expensive hotels to house those arriving in small boats. continue to work boats. we continue to work closely with local authorities to address the local community's concerns. well, there are. to address the local community's conc< solves ell, there are. to address the local community's conc< solves itl, there are. to address the local community's conc< solves it all. ere are. to address the local community's conc

memphis, tennessee. feisal, good evening. i know you've been putting some thinking into what we can do to try and stop people from leaving these countries so please share some of that with us as well. >> thank you so much for having me here. and i'm here in memphis talking to you from freedom fest, which is one of the organisations that tried to bnng organisations that tried to bring a lot of people who believe ideas of liberty believe in the ideas of liberty and others together. one of the main articles of my work is really focussed on how to prevent that refugee crisis from happening in the first place and how work these issues. how to work within these issues. the of the refugees the challenges of the refugees within the region, not outside the and what we have the region and what we have seen, even based on data, is that many of the people who are leaving syria, leaving iraq and many places, many other places, they're mostly to stay within these mostly like to stay within these places. they like to stay around these days based upon upon data and , to some extent, have and turkey, to some extent, have been one taken a lot of these refugees . however, what what refugees. however, what what i think has been lacking is that there is in many job opportunities for many of these refugees. so what we have worked

on a lot of local partners on with a lot of local partners inside turkey who are aiming to hire these refugees for hire many of these refugees for them to stay there. in the case of iraq , the kurdistan region of of iraq, the kurdistan region of iraq, which is now relatively of iraq, the kurdistan region of iraq, vmore is now relatively of iraq, the kurdistan region of iraq, vmore stable relatively of iraq, the kurdistan region of iraq, vmore stable thanively of iraq, the kurdistan region of iraq, vmore stable than the' of iraq, the kurdistan region of iraq, vmore stable than the rest much more stable than the rest of the country, has also been hosting a lot of people. so i think that i mean, one of the think is that i mean, one of the one of the main things is that how can we make these areas habitable enough? and i've written in my article in how to prevent the refugee crisis, that being a refugee and asylum is not a human right. people have their countries around the world have the right accept or have the right to accept or reject they reject based upon what they think is appropriate for them. but that as a kind of but i think is that as a kind of a value is that we a universal value is that we have to figure out a way to empower people to stay within these countries in which there is there would be less likely to want to leave those countries, and that would working within and that would be working within the obviously, is and that would be working within tilot obviously, is and that would be working within tilot of obviously, is and that would be working within tilot of challenges. ly, is and that would be working within tilot of challenges. i', is and that would be working within tilot of challenges. i mean, is a lot of challenges. i mean, many these countries are many of these countries are authoritarian. of these authoritarian. many of these countries refuse. they themselves people to themselves love their people to be outside and therefore they

they will claim less responsibility and less and less damage. so i think is that there's definitely the work is hard, but but i think it's definitely doable. and that's really the my bazball these are ideas beyond borders and others i >> -- >> yeah, these are all very positive arguments you're positive arguments that you're making but you making. but turkey, you mentioned turkey . huge numbers mentioned turkey. huge numbers of refugees are living in turkey. they've come into turkey from syria and other places. and the european union have been bribing with money try bribing turkey with money to try and stop them crossing the mediterranean. although we're told italians are expecting told the italians are expecting 400,000 to land on their shores this year . 400,000 to land on their shores this year. are turkey happy for those people to stay and work in turkey ? turkey? >> so it depends . i mean i mean, >> so it depends. i mean i mean, the there is some divisions. the opposition in which which recently lost in the in the elections have have really said a lot of anti immigrant rhetoric or anti syrian refugee immigrant rhetoric. the erdogan government who i now consider myself a fan of that government is generally

tends to be more pro refugee than others . but i think what's than others. but i think what's happening in turkey because of the policies that erdogan has pursued economically , which most pursued economically, which most of them have failed to some extent, has created a lot of resentment within the local turkish population against those refugees. but i think is that that being said, i think the situation is definitely can be contained in fact. and the data that you're talking about when it comes to italy, these are mostly, i believe, coming from northern africa and africa in general. they're less likely to come from. no , i accept that. >> i accept that. i was just talking about sheer numbers. feisal a pleasure to have on feisal a pleasure to have you on the show and talk to you and we'll again. and we'll talk to you again. and thank you. well, nice to hear somebody talking positively about to stop about what can be done to stop people leaving and just people from leaving and just a thought 2012, when thought on this in 2012, when david cameron and of course , the david cameron and of course, the french president and the american president decided to launch their war on libya, which i thought was utterly colonel gaddafi and i'm not a fan of

his, colonel gaddafi warned us, get rid of me and millions will cross the mediterranean . he was cross the mediterranean. he was right. we were wrong. i'm joined by jacob rees—mogg on what i think holac has been quite a good day in that we've been through so many strikes over the course of the last couple of years. do you think these pay deals for the public sector are between 5 and 7? to me it feels about right. >> it feels about right. pay always has to catch up when you have an inflationary period, it's usually a bit delayed until you get back up to the full inflationary amount to maintain nominal wages. i think the governments agreed something sensible, but crucially it's demanding productivity increases because actually productivity in the public sector since 1997 has declined and we can't afford that. how will it be enforced? well government departments have budgets and the treasury says to them, this is the amount of money you've got. you have to operate within that amount of money and you've got to cut your

coat according to your cloth. and departments will back and and departments will go back and ask money and so on ask for extra money and so on and but if the and so forth. but if the treasury is robust, that is how it works. >> interesting. well, i felt today was slight step forward. today was a slight step forward. clearly junior doctors yet clearly junior doctors not yet convinced, else convinced, but everybody else is. teachers yeah, is. the teachers are. and yeah, no, no, a much better day. no, no, it's a much better day. jacob, you covering? jacob, what are you covering? >> that's what i'm >> well, that's what i'm covering. that's. that you >> well, that's what i'm cov�*meg. that's. that you >> well, that's what i'm cov�*me up'hat's. that you >> well, that's what i'm cov�*me up perfectly.t you >> well, that's what i'm cov�*me up perfectly. thatyou >> well, that's what i'm cov�*me up perfectly. that isj set me up perfectly. that is going be the main topic of going to be the main topic of conversation that we're talking about with, about the about to start with, about the strikes, ending the strikes, the ending of the strikes, the ending of the strikes the for strikes and the need for increased productivity. but we've finland coming on we've also got finland coming on who is going to be a guest at the end of programme, who's the end of the programme, who's run brave from run these brave people from hong kong chinese government kong who the chinese government has put a bounty on head of. has put a bounty on the head of. i it's like something has put a bounty on the head of. i the it's like something has put a bounty on the head of. i the wild like something has put a bounty on the head of. i the wild west. omething of the wild west. >> it's terrifying. i covered china in quite a big way tonight on show. i'm hoping that on the show. i'm hoping that china the front page china is on the front page of every newspaper but every newspaper tomorrow, but i bet won't be. i bet it'll bet it won't be. i bet it'll still be huw edwards who knows? anyway, that's it from me. i'm back monday evening back with you on monday evening at wish you all a at 7:00. i'll wish you all a very good weekend. and up next,

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