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this is gb news. now, though, back,to . this is gb news. now, though, back, have you got a spare room now, have you got a spare room in your home? >> well, you're in luck because the combat, the £35 billion per year cost of asylum seekers. a new report is urging brits to house these immigrants in our spare rooms . forget the fact spare rooms. forget the fact that most voters don't want them in our country in the first place. this report by the policy exchange think tank and backed by former tory party chairman brandon lewis, urges us to invite undocumented and vetted men into our homes. i mean, what could possibly go wrong? i'll tell you what. why don't the refugees welcome brigade go first? you know , bleeding hearts first? you know, bleeding hearts like sadiq khan , labour's home like sadiq khan, labour's home secretary, yvette cooper , and secretary, yvette cooper, and liberal democrat leader ed davey . why all the holier than thou nicola sturgeon jeremy corbyn, diane abbott care for calais staff know what about the archbishop of wokery justin welby? any room at your in

thought? not old gary lineker could squeeze a football team of them into his £4.5 million surrey mansion and not just heavily vetted poster boys like rashid here who stayed at chateau big ears for a mere 20 day pr stunt . of course, this day pr stunt. of course, this won't ever happen because these refugee welcome hypocrites are the nimbys. no illegals in my backyard. and it's not just the mps and the luvvies on saturday. gb news reporter from a protest in portland against the barge set to house 500 men in the town's port. and guess what? the refugees welcome anti—racists didn't even want the barge in their town because of the strain. 500 men would place on the local health service. you couldn't make it up and look how these refugee welcome protesters responded when a reporter asked them if they'd house an immigrant in their spare room on list saying you're willing to take the refugees into your home.

>> aukus only problem is i rent. you rent. yeah well, if i had any space, i would . any space, i would. >> no, i'm sorry. i can't. you can't take one. >> i don't have. i don't can't take one. >> i thave.1ave. i don't can't take one. >> i have. live. i don't can't take one. >> i have. i don'tdon't can't take one. >> i have. i don't have. don't have. i don't have. >> i don't have the rental >> i don't have the space rental place rental . place like rental. >> yeah. yeah. >> yeah. yeah. >> you can't it. >> yeah. yeah. >> yeah.an't it. >> yeah. yeah. it. >> yeah. yeah. oh, >> yeah. yeah. oh, wait >> yeah. yeah. oh, wait. >> yeah. yeah. oh, wait. i can't. because house is only can't. because my house is only little small. >> and yes, if had room. little small. >> and yes, i1particular?1. any reason in particular? >> what sort refugee >> i don't. what sort of refugee are talking? are you talking? >> no. like lineker and co. these holier than thou hypocrites would rather dump tens of thousands of immigrants on the working classes who voted for stricter border control in every national election since 2010. but it gets worse. just yesterday, after local objections were completely and utterly ignored, the government announced that the first 50 of 1700 military aged men are to be dumped on wethersfield airbase in essex. asylum seekers will be welcomed in arabic and farsi. they'll enjoy freshly painted three square meals a day

rooms, three square meals a day on site, medical care, a gym sport hall, multi—faith rooms and a free shuttle bus into nearby braintree and colchester . and sites like this colchester. and sites like this will crop up all over the uk and you will fit the bill. remember the two point billion pounds we spend on asylum seekers, hotels alone every year is bigger than the second wave of levelling up funding for the entire uk . and funding for the entire uk. and shamefully, it's three times more than we spend on our own homeless, including at least 6000 armed forces veterans . as 6000 armed forces veterans. as britain is now a free travelodge for any economic immigrant potential criminal or terrorist who makes it to our shores. of course, the only place you'll never catch them are inside the homes of the politicians , the homes of the politicians, the luvvies charity workers woke journalists, anti—racists and the archbishops who all will this madness on. they are the nato illegals in my backyard .

nato illegals in my backyard. hypocrites. and they'll be sitting pretty in their piety as your community goes to the dogs . well reports. i'm joined now by its author and friend of the show, doctor raqib eshan raqib . show, doctor raqib eshan raqib. you must have expected a bit of pushback on this idea, but it's fair to say it's landed worse than a at a funeral . than a at a funeral. >> well, i think that much of the reason why we received the pushback is that many people have been thoroughly engaged with report. martin what with the report. martin what i argue for in the report is a significant streamlining of the asylum system. i'll call for an annual cap on refugee , which is annual cap on refugee, which is democratically determined and by the uk parliament. and under that cap. martin i'd like to see women and girls prioritised, especially those who are at major risk of sexual violence in their homelands , and insecure their homelands, and insecure displacement, displacement camps, which is a sharp contrast to the male dominated unauthorised migration that we're seeing on the english south coast . now, more

south coast. now, more generally, what i actually mentioned in the report as well is that we do have people in relatively wealthy, privileged metropolitan suburbs with liberal views towards immigration , asylum and border immigration, asylum and border security . maybe they should put security. maybe they should put their money where their mouth is. so what we could do is have an expansion of the ukraine style sponsorship model. and let's see, can are those people in those areas? are they personally willing to rehome newcomers and perhaps these pro refugee advocates could also play refugee advocates could also play a greater part in aiding the integration of refugees by improving their english language skills? put your money where your mouth is . if you have your mouth is. if you have liberal views towards these particular issues, then perhaps you should directly participate in such schemes . in such schemes. >> yes, i certainly agree that the refugees welcome brigade should be doing more, but of course every time they're course every time when they're asked, they don't want anybody in their back yard. it's a case of passing buck. of always passing the buck. and

isn't problem ? ideas isn't this the problem? ideas like governments like this are governments passing the buck and they expect to actually to control our to actually fail to control our borders despite every single vote 2010, demanding they vote since 2010, demanding they do . and now they're do so. and now they're outsourcing their incompetence to british households . it's just to british households. it's just not the way to govern. surely >> well, i think that for some time we've had an utterly dysfunctional asylum system. martin at the end of 2022, the silent backlog was 166,261. there's quite a remarkable figure. and as you say, you mentioned some of those costs there that i mentioned in my report for policy exchange . the report for policy exchange. the estimate one year cost when it comes to spending on hotels, accommodating migrants, 2.2 billion. and as you say, that's that's larger than the entire pot of round two of the levelling up fund . and it's levelling up fund. and it's three and a half times larger than the uk government's budget to tackle homelessness in 2022, 23. and i think that if this situation continues, it is

unsustainable and it's a direct threat to social cohesion in some of the most underprivileged communities and in my view, working class communities . they working class communities. they have done incredible work in terms of rehoming the world's most persecuted peoples. but i think their traditional generosity has been taken for granted. i absolutely agree. >> and i think also people are a little bit of out about little bit kind of put out about the that we should the idea that we should be comparing plight people comparing the plight of people leaving country, leaving france a safe country, no what you think about no matter what you think about paris the moment paris at the moment to the plight who are plight of ukrainians who are actually fleeing a genuine war zone. and britain's been very welcoming. so don't you think it's slightly wrongheaded to conflate two separate conflate the two entire separate situations ? situations? >> says no, absolutely . and i >> says no, absolutely. and i think that we've seen in recent times, especially in 2022, the most common nationality among small boats, migrants crossing into the uk via the english channel was albanian in albania has an experienced conflict since its civil war. all the way back to 1997. martin there was also a sharp jump in migrants

coming from india, the world's largest democracy and a vital strategic partner for post—brexit britain . so i think post—brexit britain. so i think that what it clearly shows is that what it clearly shows is that the line between economic migrants and genuine refugees fleeing the direct risk of persecution and violence has become increasingly blurred . and become increasingly blurred. and that has to change and it must be rectified . be rectified. >> okay. rikki neave at the top of the show, we put this question out to gb news viewers. would be willing an would you be willing to take an asylum your spare asylum seeker into your spare room? perhaps won't be too room? you perhaps won't be too surprised the surprised to learn that the overwhelming majority of people said began with said things that began with a word we can't say and ended with off. have got a few here off. but we have got a few here that can read out. ralph lane that we can read out. ralph lane says perhaps the migrants could galvanise their own voluntary spirit spirit by not coming here in the first place. it's a dog . in the first place. it's a dog. it's a dog's life size. no chance. but there's plenty of room in the royal palaces if they want to give it a try. david reece, also on twitter, says no , but i want to see how says no, but i want to see how many placard waving , virtue

many placard waving, virtue signalling refugees. welcome crowd do offer a place in their homes . precious few is my homes. precious few is my prediction . rakhi there is one prediction. rakhi there is one positive voice here. andy berg on twitter. remember that name says, i'm happy to do so. raqeeb if andy berg is happy to do so, can we put him in touch with you so he can put his money where his mouth is? >> well, i think that it seems like there's someone who wants to directly participate in the expansion of these sponsorship schemes. but i think truthfully, what it really shows is that there are many people who have very liberal views, especially when it comes to refugee policy , but it's not their metropolitan suburb and their leafy, affluent neighbourhoods which experience large numbers of asylum seekers being relocated there and all too often it's deployed in inner city areas and left behind post—industrial towns across northern england that disproportionately bear the brunt of rehoming refugees . and brunt of rehoming refugees. and that really needs to change. >> dr. rakhi bhushan i totally agree with you. thank you for

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radio. >> welcome back to the show. i am martin daubney for in laurence fox, joining me in the studio now is benjamin loughnane, researcher , fellow at loughnane, researcher, fellow at the bow group. and making her debut tonight on gb news is jenni author and jenni trent hughes, author and broadcaster across many channels and a behavioural observation. i want to kick off, jenny by asking sounds fascinating . asking you sounds fascinating. what behavioural what is a behavioural observation ist? >> it's somebody who observes behaviour and well . behaviour and well. >> well, that's all me ask a silly question. >> there's kind of not much more to say than that. >> well, would you do. it's kind of like modern day anthropology. okay. and so you watch the patterns in society and figure out why people all of a sudden

are doing one thing or not doing another . and then are doing one thing or not doing another. aristhen are doing one thing or not doing another. aris used by information is used by politicians , runs for campaigns politicians, runs for campaigns for products to know politicians, runs for campaigns for produso to know sew; politicians, runs for campaigns for produso that'syw sew; politicians, runs for campaigns for produso that's what 3:2. politicians, runs for campaigns for produso that's what it is . develop. so that's what it is. >> so what's the sort of key learning you can take, say, from example, on the topic of asylum seekers and the public reaction to that, what would you observe? very tribal about these matters now? we greatly divided us? >> it's very divisive because , >> it's very divisive because, you know, i have to be honest, i actually know quite a few people who've done it , who have who who've done it, who have who brought in refugees into their homes. it is notl would do. and personally that i would do. and when i asked them because i was really shocked, i said , why are really shocked, i said, why are you doing this? and a lot of them were people who had been alone during covid. oh, i see. >> so, so it was like companionship. >> exactly. and it had really affected them spending basically two years on their tod , you two years on their tod, you know, so that's very , very interesting. >> so were there some positive

experiences and also were there some bad ones that you heard about? >> what's really shocking is that and once again, it is not something i would do, but everybody that i know who did it thought it was absolute wonderful. and they i live in i live in warwickshire . oh, there live in warwickshire. oh, there you go. i live in warwickshire. and you'll go to social events now like a village fete or whatever. and there's all everybody's got a ukrainian flag there's ukrainian food and and there's ukrainian food and they're fitting into the community. >> and yeah , i mean, so you're >> and yeah, i mean, so you're talking about ukrainian refugee tall/mg about u'ranan refugee not undocumented tall/inc. about u'ranan refuqee not undocumented asylum is not undocumented asylum seekers from france, of course . seekers from france, of course. >> quite a different thing. benjamin let's bring you in at this point, because that is a key , key difference. the key, key difference. yeah, the government saying to us, government is saying to us, let's all be let's all galvanise our public spirits and invite undocumented , unvetted asylum undocumented, unvetted asylum seekers into our homes to basically cover up for government incompetence and controlling our borders. what do you of this idea? you make of this idea? >> well, think a lot of >> well, i think a lot of people, you were saying, people, as you were saying, people, as you were saying, people who take asylum people who take in asylum seekers refugees into their

seekers or refugees into their home, a lot of time it's because they of they want to be the sort of person do that. so person who would do that. so they virtue it. but they see the virtue of it. but they see the virtue of it. but the very the reality often is very different to what they expect. and few weeks or a few and after a few weeks or a few months situation , even months of this situation, even living together, find that living together, they find that they have lot of differences. they have a lot of differences. and doesn't work they have a lot of differences. and but doesn't work they have a lot of differences. and but then doesn't work they have a lot of differences. and but then they're't work they have a lot of differences. and but then they're at vork out. but then they're at a position where they say, position where they can't say, well, now to kick you well, i'm now going to kick you out worse out because that's even worse than the than not taking them in in the first and sort of first place. and this sort of festers a really bad festers and it's a really bad idea , especially since the idea, especially since the government much government are doing pretty much no all no safeguarding measures at all around this. they're saying you people to in some people need to take in some asylum seekers effectively because we didn't plan for how many people coming in and many people were coming in and we to we don't have anywhere to put them. let's pass the buck to them. so let's pass the buck to you. it's the public's job now to these people because to host these people because they've been in hotels they've been housed in hotels for, however long. think for, however long. and i think that, the government that, you know, the government have really abdicated their duty in talking in this. yeah jenny, i'm talking about of topic. >> seems to me extraordinary >> it seems to me extraordinary that this is backed by the conservative party, the conservative. this this report was backed by brendan lewis , was backed by by brendan lewis, who was a former immigration minister, former justice

minister, former justice minister, former justice minister, former conservative party chairman. and yet they constantly say we are going to stop the boats. and yet now they're saying have a have an asylum in your spare asylum seeker in your spare room. a lot of people who voted conservative scratching room. a lot of people who voted conseheadsz scratching room. a lot of people who voted conseheads and scratching room. a lot of people who voted conseheads and thinking, :hing room. a lot of people who voted conseheads and thinking, whose room. a lot of people who voted cons areads and thinking, whose room. a lot of people who voted cons are yournd thinking, whose room. a lot of people who voted cons are you on thinking, whose room. a lot of people who voted cons are you on here? ng, whose room. a lot of people who voted conwell,/ou on here? ng, whose room. a lot of people who voted conwell,/ou thingre? ng, whose room. a lot of people who voted conwell,/ou thing about whose room. a lot of people who voted conwell,/ou thing about it hose room. a lot of people who voted conwell,/ou thing about it is se >> well, the thing about it is that idea is the that to me, this idea is the silliest idea that i've heard since spend £170,000 to put somebody on a plane to go to rwanda. i mean , i think that rwanda. i mean, i think that both ideas are absolutely ridiculous and it doesn't surprise me that they're doing this because i feel that we're in a you know, remember, i don't know if you have siblings, but when you were a little child and somebody wanted something off your at the dinner table your plate at the dinner table and they'd say, oh, look over there. back and they'd say, oh, look over theryour back and they'd say, oh, look over theryour food back and they'd say, oh, look over theryour food was back and they'd say, oh, look over theryour food was gone. back and they'd say, oh, look over theryour food was gone. andick and your food was gone. and i think that we're suffering from that kind of politics a lot now. so what i call distraction politics. and so they come up with any kind of stupidness that gets us all yapping while gets us all yip yapping while they're doing whatever behind they're doing whatever behind the scenes . the scenes. >> yeah, that's a fair point. here's a dead cat. we're going

to out cat. to throw out a dead cat. >> that's the phrase i was trying to remember. dead cat. yes. >> throw out there. it is >> to throw out there. but it is extraordinary, don't think? extraordinary, don't you think? benjamin the benjamin that here we have the conservative live conservative party who will live and their and die on fulfilling their pledge, their electoral pledge. one those five pledges of one of those five pledges of stopping the boats, basically saying, , we can't stop the saying, well, we can't stop the boats by way, open up boats and by the way, open up your boats and by the way, open up youyeah, it's ridiculous. and >> yeah, it's ridiculous. and i completely agree with jenny about distraction tactics. about the distraction tactics. if at when the rwanda if you look at when the rwanda policy was announced, it was effectively in the same week that the partygate story broke. so boris johnson's under huge flak from the press about partygate. and so he turns around and says, oh, we're going to send loads of migrants over to send loads of migrants over to rwanda, get angry about that. instead of getting angry about partygate. and to some degree, it . i mean, for a short it did work. i mean, for a short time, people forget time, people did forget about the mean, it the birthday cake. i mean, it was lower the was it was lower down on the agenda had been . and i agenda than it had been. and i think hadn't really thought think they hadn't really thought through a through the policy. it wasn't a policy going work . policy that was going to work. it that was even it wasn't a policy that was even legal. functionally, it's legal. and functionally, it's never actually yielded any results. they've not sent a single over to rwanda

single migrant over to rwanda yet. and think it was really yet. and i think it was really just said, well, this just they said, well, this is a controversial this will controversial policy. this will annoy all the right people. let's there and let's throw it out there and then will take the flack away then it will take the flack away from us. then it will take the flack away froryeah, another >> yeah, and another story i want to now i want to move on to now where i think is, know, think the problem is, you know, nobody the difference nobody knows the difference anymore party anymore between the labour party and party and the conservative party because highest because we've got the highest taxes world ii. we've taxes since world war ii. we've got inflation. we got soaring inflation. we already have de facto open borders obsession with net borders and obsession with net zero that's bankrupting the working . and it seems working classes. and it seems an overriding contempt for brexit. you'd be hard pushed to find a more party if you more socialist tory party if you tried, but today , if you ask me, tried, but today, if you ask me, they went full corbyn because they went full corbyn because they backed an uncut , unsourced they backed an uncut, unsourced £2 billion a year per public sector pay rise. tonight, i want to ask my panel. sector pay rise. tonight, i want to ask my panel . with britain to ask my panel. with britain £2.6 trillion in debt, can we even afford this? jenny, i'm going to turn to you. this is exactly the sort of thing that you'd expect the labour party to be doing, giving away billions , be doing, giving away billions, £2 billion per year, and they've even admitted the tories they haven't got a clue, haven't

haven't got a clue, they haven't got scooby where the money is got a scooby where the money is going come from . this is going to come from. this is corbyn well see i don't corbyn omics well see i don't really believe that they don't know where coming from. know where it's coming from. >> they just don't want >> i think they just don't want to tell us. okay, so, where to tell us. okay, so, so where do think? do you think? >> way of doing >> look, the only way of doing this more money, >> look, the only way of doing this more, more money, >> look, the only way of doing this more, imakingyney, >> look, the only way of doing this more, imaking cuts ? taxing more, or making cuts? >> well, there's part of me >> well, there's a part of me that feels that there's a lot more money lurking around than we because when they need we think because when they need when they put it this way, when they want money for something, they want money for something, the money appears. ukraine, you know so well. but think think about it. think about covid aukus all the money that was wasted on ppe that didn't fit, ppe, that wasn't really ppe . you ppe, that wasn't really ppe. you know, all of that billions were spent. where did that money come from? so i think that they actually do have money. and i think also, too, that they're trying to put the squeeze on us for lots of different things because all they to do is because all they need to do is to tax the profits more of the oil companies, tax the profits , oil companies, tax the profits, more of the you know, of the

companies, but they won't do that. >> well, if they do that, it might drive away those companies and leave us more with their donors. yeah, at the realms of importation of stuff we don't want to do. but back to this topic . if the tory party are topic. if the tory party are caving in to unions on pay demands, although of course the junior doctors are still going on about wanting 30% and the nurses is it 27, which is strikes me as frankly kind of toytown kind of imaginary unicorn politics. but nevertheless, one of the one of the schemes that they put forward today, an idea i'd like to talk about with you, benjamin, is notion benjamin, is the notion of taxing foreigners. arrivals in the £400 a pop to pay for the uk £400 a pop to pay for half of this pay rise. so they say foreign people coming in will donate £1 billion if we tax them at £400 a head and to make them at £400 a head and to make them pay because of course they haven't put money into the service far. is idea service so far. is that an idea that think merit? well, that you think has merit? well, i don't think it's worth discussing because it will never happen. >> one of ideas they

>> it's one of those ideas they float out there to get people talking it. again, as you talking about it. again, as you say, distraction politics. say, distraction in politics. but will it ever actually happen? i think it's very unlikely. policies they unlikely. half the policies they announce discarded within announce get discarded within the but in the matter of months. but in terms of the pay rises, i don't think there's anything wrong terms of the pay rises, i don't thinkpeople. anything wrong terms of the pay rises, i don't thinkpeople asking ng wrong terms of the pay rises, i don't thinkpeople asking ng 'pay g with people asking for pay rises. you real term rises. if you look at real term wages , you've seen wages fall in wages, you've seen wages fall in line with against inflation and the cost of living. people are actually making less money now than they would have been ten years ago doing same years ago doing the exact same job. are getting a pay job. so people are getting a pay cut i don't cut year on year. so i don't think it's worst thing think it's the worst thing in the say, look, the the to world say, look, the cost of gone inflation of living has gone up. inflation is death spiral. we would is in a death spiral. we would like more so we like a bit more money so that we can to the life can continue to live the life that we've accustomed that we've become accustomed to. >> to know a >> would you like to know what a behavioural observation does behavioural observation is? does a observation a behavioural observation is wonders we live in a world wonders why we live in a world where people are complaining about nurses and doctors getting to more an hour and a to pay more an hour and a footballer comes along and he gets half 1 million or £1 million a week and everybody says that's very good. >> i it's because it comes says that's very good. >> i a it's because it comes says that's very good. >> i a it'spurse.se it comes says that's very good. >> i a it'spurse. and comes says that's very good. >> i a it'spurse. and that's; from a public purse. and that's the distinction . long it's the distinction. as long as it's private, mind how private, they don't mind how

much when much people are paid. but when they got pay for they know they've got to pay for it that's it through taxes, that's where it through taxes, that's where it yeah. and also, isn't there it through taxes, that's where it issue and also, isn't there it through taxes, that's where it issue that also, isn't there it through taxes, that's where it issue that we .o, isn't there it through taxes, that's where it issue that we have|'t there it through taxes, that's where it issue that we have the 1ere an issue that we have the bank of england continually telling us spiralling are us that spiralling wages are what's inflation? the what's driving inflation? the government us the time government tell us all the time we've cut back, we've got government tell us all the time we save cut back, we've got government tell us all the time we save money,t back, we've got government tell us all the time we save money, we've, we've got government tell us all the time we save money, we've got 've got government tell us all the time we save money, we've got to got government tell us all the time we save money, we've got to get to save money, we've got to get refugees spare rooms refugees into our spare rooms because we've got money because we've got no money left to hotels. and yet to pay for hotels. and yet pumping £2 billion into into the pay pumping £2 billion into into the pay packets of public sector workers, surely he's got to do it does it doesn't make any sense. >> it doesn't make any sense unless they say where is the money, where the money really is going to come from? and if they really wanted to raise money, what what i feel they really need to do is make the distinction between been refugees and economic migrants and allow a lot of the people who come in who aren't allowed to work, allow them to work. so that they pay taxes. we would probably be able to pay for a lot of the things that we have shortages with. >> by the way, for what >> yeah, i by the way, for what it's worth, i think the public sector workers do deserve pay

sector workers do deserve a pay rise massively sector workers do deserve a pay rise i'm massively sector workers do deserve a pay rise i'm friends/ely sector workers do deserve a pay rise i'm friends with underpaid. i'm friends with a lot my mother lot of teachers. my mother was a teacher her career. teacher for all of her career. my teacher for all of her career. my missus is a to want to point out that armed services people are pay rise are getting the lowest pay rise at 5. what does that say about how we value our veterans and our armed services compared to the rest? but anyway, it's a huge talking point. send your views over on that or any other topic. dot topic. gb views at gb news dot com. you're watching and listening to gb news. still to come, theory . come, critical race theory. should be teaching children should we be teaching children that racists? we'll be

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yes yet another report has proved that the covid conspiracy theorists like me were right all along . this time it's the along. this time it's the international monetary fund's turn to state the bleeding obvious. when they announced this week that lockdowns have damaged children's education and left scars on the global economy that will take years to heal. the numbers of pupils completely missing from the education system has doubled since 2019 to 120,000, with the most disadvantaged suffering, the most . so, jenny, will this most. so, jenny, will this report make the lockdown addicts finally admit they got it totally wrong ? totally wrong? >> well, no, because when you have a very skewed idea on something, you're never going to admit that you're wrong. you know, they're just going to keep banging on. yes, it was fine. whatever. but what what i care about because actually about because i've actually written programme , um, called written a programme, um, called life lockdown . and we have life after lockdown. and we have got to stop moaning about what it did to us, what it's doing to our children. we need to start

enacting solutions quickly , enacting solutions quickly, early, quickly. it was bad for a lot of people. it was awful for a lot of people. i'm a teacher and i was teaching online during it, so i saw how it was affecting kids and we've just really got to actually fully work on fixing it instead of whining about what it's done . whining about what it's done. >> that's a fair point. but benjamin, it's also a fair point to say a lot of people were saying this is the mistake. a lot of people were saying it's guaranteed who guaranteed to affect those who are most , guaranteed to affect those who are most, children are neediest. the most, children with special needs , children with special needs, children with special needs, children with dyslexia , children who with with dyslexia, children who are deaf, who couldn't see teachers mouths lip reading through , and teachers who through masks, and teachers who were pushing vaccines in were pushing for vaccines in classrooms to say , classrooms were allowed to say, hang on you got this hang on a minute, you got this completely and utterly wrong. >> . and i think, you >> absolutely. and i think, you know, there point where know, there is a point where it can whining without know, there is a point where it can a whining without know, there is a point where it can a solution. hining without know, there is a point where it can a solution. hiniri| without know, there is a point where it can a solution. hiniri also |out know, there is a point where it can it's solution. hiniri also |out know, there is a point where it can it's importantiinirl also |out know, there is a point where it can it's important tori also |out think it's important to highlight they did get it highlight that they did get it wrong and to it clear wrong and to make it very clear that these shouldn't that these people shouldn't be trusted to make decisions trusted to make the decisions in future other people's future without other people's voices being heard as well, because at the time they were shutting about

shutting down any debate about lockdown said the lockdown, they said this is the policy, this is the solution, this we're and this is what we're doing. and anyone challenged or anyone who challenged it or said, , maybe should said, no, maybe we should consider this, we should consider this, maybe we should consider the other factors. the people get as side people who get harmed as a side effect enacting this policy. effect of enacting this policy. it a tunnel vision approach. it was a tunnel vision approach. you miss everything else, all the other factors and i think it's very important to say actually, the people were actually, the people who were self—appointed covid and sort of almost dictators over lockdown, they said no one else can have an opinion or speak about this should be, you know, taken down a p99 should be, you know, taken down a peg or two. >> and jenny, the key point is we must we must never repeat this mistake again. >> but the thing is that every single thing that do wrong, single thing that we do wrong, if you think the well, if you think of the last well, probably from the beginning of time, the time, but let's just say the last 50, years, we keep doing last 50, 60 years, we keep doing the same crap over and over and saying, oh, no, but this must never happen again. and when you point out to somebody, you say , point out to somebody, you say, but this no different than but this is no different than that. no. it's little that. oh no. well, it's a little bit different because this is different that's different. bit different because this is diffeit's: that's different. bit different because this is diffeit's the that's different. bit different because this is diffeit's the same s different. bit different because this is diffeit's the same rubbish.1t. and it's the same rubbish. nobody listening .

nobody listening. >> but must, jenny, have >> but you must, jenny, have come some heartbreaking come across some heartbreaking stories. i did. like stories. i know that i did. like i said, i a lot of friends i said, i got a lot of friends with teachers. missus is a to with teachers. my missus is a to very, upsetting stories very, very upsetting stories about kids who simply given up on education. they were already behind. fell behind. they behind. they fell behind. they felt education them . felt education wasn't for them. these are kids who are already been dealt with absolutely in life . life. >> absolutely. and that's. do you want to start crying? i promise not to cry. but that's exactly what i'm mad about. i have friends who are adults who are now barely functioning because of it. i know children are barely functioning because of it. and so we have got to get up off our backsides and start interacting with these people instead of, you know , spending instead of, you know, spending money, putting people on a plane and sending them to rwanda and all these other silly things that we're doing. spend the money reachability station money on reachability station for the population for what they suffered. >> i mean, we can agree on that. benjamin. you know , it is benjamin. you know, it is heartbreaking think to think heartbreaking to think to think back about what particularly

happened to children. they were they pawns in the game as they were pawns in the game as far as i'm concerned. and i think we have to i totally concur, think we have to i totally concur , jenny. we can't just say concur, jenny. we can't just say everything is terrible, but we concur, jenny. we can't just say eversurely is terrible, but we concur, jenny. we can't just say eversurely sayerrible, but we concur, jenny. we can't just say eversurely say this le, but we concur, jenny. we can't just say eversurely say this mustt we concur, jenny. we can't just say eversurely say this must never can surely say this must never be allowed happen ever again be allowed to happen ever again to our children. yeah, absolutely. >> i think certainly for the children but children it was terrible. but i think suffered due to think everyone suffered due to lockdown way or another. lockdown in some way or another. i there's a lot people i mean, there's a lot of people i mean, there's a lot of people i who a sort of i speak to who have a sort of amnesia about lockdown. they think about it as, you know, oh, remember that time we got to work and make banana work from home and make banana bread rest of it? bread and all the rest of it? but of things but you remind them of things such remember when such as? you remember when people for going people got arrested for going for with a of coffee. for a walk with a cup of coffee. or remember people or do you remember when people got fined £10,000? these peccadilloes , these tiny peccadilloes, these tiny breaches, none of those fines have been overturned . none of have been overturned. none of these things, you know, now that it's supposedly over. i mean, the world health organisation said the global health emergency was over. well why are we still trying court for trying people in court for breaches that happened two years ago still finding them? ago and still finding them? what's interest in what's the public interest in that? and i think, you know, people forgotten what people have just forgotten what

was agree. was done to them. i agree. >> jenny, one of the key >> and jenny, one of the key findings of the report is findings of the imf report is the because, of the economic impact, because, of course, if you hamper a generation's education, educational or educational opportunities or you're you're putting them behind in the job market down the line, know, the most the line, you know, the most disadvantaged are already the least attend least likely to attend university in britain, especially white working especially the white working classes and especially boys. something i've campaigned for something i've campaigned on for a time . they're going something i've campaigned on for a be time . they're going something i've campaigned on for a be furthertime . they're going something i've campaigned on for a be further and . they're going something i've campaigned on for a be further and furtherre going something i've campaigned on for a be further and further behind| to be further and further behind . another . and now they're saying another conspiracy theory has come true. it's going to impact economy it's going to impact the economy and damage life chances for those at the bottom in a way that's quantifiable , in a way that's quantifiable, in a way that's quantifiable, in a way that they blame brexit for everything. but actually, this is quantifiable . is quantifiable. >> oh, yeah, well, you're talking to someone who got £32 a month, you know , that was the month, you know, that was the allowance because i'm self—employed. i was entitled to £32 a month. that was what i had . that was what i was supposed to be living off of the entire time. >> nothing because i was >> i got nothing because i was between jobs. >> think lot of people >> oh, i think a lot of people a lot people nothing there lot of people got nothing there were got were certain people who got

furloughed enjoyed it furloughed and really enjoyed it because work because they did less work and they and they they were from home and they still their wage still got their full wage or most a lot of people went out >> but a lot of people went out of lost their livelihoods. >> absolutely. forgetting >> absolutely. we're forgetting about up, about the people who ended up, you know, unfortunately, killing themselves you know, unfortunately, killing them of ves you know, unfortunately, killing them of things. sorts of things. >> that is brushed >> and all of that is brushed under the carpet. and when we >> and all of that is brushed undeathe carpet. and when we >> and all of that is brushed unde at what'pet. and when we >> and all of that is brushed unde at what lockdown when we >> and all of that is brushed unde at what lockdown actually look at what lockdown actually achieved in terms of preventing the on and so the spread or so on and so forth, science isn't there forth, the science isn't there to defend. >> do we do, though? >> but what do we do, though? >> but what do we do, though? >> see, my complaint >> you see, we got my complaint is, is what do we do we is, is what do we do? do we spank the people who made the mess or do we put that to one side, not vote them in again, if that's what we if we feel it's a party thing and spend our energy trying to rebuild all the different . different. >> these people are still politicians. they're still standing they'll standing for election. they'll still next still be in government next time round replaced round and they'll be replaced by other by what can we other by what mechanism can we replace them ? replace them? >> you're doing very well tonight. avoiding expletives. well that. but i think well done on that. but i think a key though, you mentioned key point, though, you mentioned there can we vote them out? there is can we vote them out? but agreed we but everybody agreed with it. we had a unified because we but everybody agreed with it. we had frightenednified because we but everybody agreed with it. we had frightened .fied because we but everybody agreed with it. we had frightened . well,ecause we but everybody agreed with it. we had frightened . well, we use we but everybody agreed with it. we had frightened . well, we were re were frightened. well, we were were frightened. well, we were we cowards . and did we did we

we cowards. and did we did we act on on logic and observational data like how children aren't spreading this only ten children died in all of the uk who had serious underlying health conditions already. the facts of the matter were that instead we had a we had a paranoid propaganda campaign where you can kill your granny wasn't on fact. it granny wasn't based on fact. it was on fear. was based on fear. >> yeah, absolutely. it was based but i think based on fear. but also i think the didn't have the the politicians didn't have the backbone their their backbone to do their job. their job be the ones who job is to be the ones who scrutinise the evidence and lead. that leadership scrutinise the evidence and le something that leadership scrutinise the evidence and le something they've. leadership is something they've. >> but didn't listen to the evidence. >> didn't they didn't care >> they didn't they didn't care about didn't about the evidence. they didn't even evidence. even look at the evidence. they just was just went with what the mood was and what the tone was. and they all voted for it. and labour all voted for it. and the labour party went along with it. they provided at any provided no opposition at any point during those two years. that was their one job was to scrutinise what the government was doing. >> well, didn't an >> well, we didn't have an opposition. benjamin opposition. ben benjamin jenny raise excellent point. should raise an excellent point. should we forget it or we forgive and forget it or should we see some form not forget of trial ? forget of trial? >> i think you can not forget once you've dealt with what was done and ensure that it can't

happen again. because if you just forgive with no remorse, if they've said no, we did nothing wrong and we all move on, it will happen again . yeah, it will. >> and we also have a graphic we're you of nhs we're about to show you of nhs waiting times. there a waiting times. there was a fantastic report today in the telegraph from a heart surgeon who says people are so grateful for any form of care they're getting because waiting lists are now so big. because we became we became the covid health service. look at that there. that's waiting lists. you can see where lockdowns started. it takes off like a rocket. that is a tangible , direct is a tangible, direct consequence of this disastrous experiment. the same as we're now seeing on children. so, jenny, i hear what you're saying. you're very humanitarian , ian. you're very compassionate. you're very caring , but people aren't caring, but other people aren't quite in that place yet. and they think we were systemically failed by our political class. >> can i come back and talk about nhs? please do . thank about the nhs? please do. thank you. do it now. all right now, because i just i just went

through a very intense three months. you know, they thought i might have cancer, blah, blah, blah. and the treatment i've lived in this country 30 years, but the treatment that i got was is exemplary. it was not waiting. it was fast. it was caring . it was just caring. it was just unbelievable. and you know, more power to it. and i think that they don't i think that they don't get enough recognition. >> so on that point, thank you for sharing that story with us. on that point , do for sharing that story with us. on that point, do you think that the junior doctors pay demands of 30% the nhs nurses of 27? of 30% or the nhs nurses of 27? all those all those just stratospheric inflation busting and silly, or do you think they deserve a really good chunk? >> i'm very old fashioned. i think that we all want too much spend too much, we're too capitalistic , too materialistic. capitalistic, too materialistic. i think we all all genders need to put on our big girls pants and stop whining. we need to start eating gruel. boiling potatoes . and i'm not kidding. potatoes. and i'm not kidding. yeah. superb

>> benjamin yeah, well, i think with the nhs , you know, a lot of with the nhs, you know, a lot of people have these accounts of having fantastic treatment and other of other people have accounts of having treatment and having terrible treatment and a lot a postcode lot of the time it's a postcode lottery. if live in a lottery. if you live in a certain where you good certain area where you have good treatment , certain area where you have good treatment, you'll certain area where you have good treatment , you'll of treatment, you'll have sort of raised about the raised tinted goggles about the nhs it's the most nhs and think it's the most wonderful thing in the world. but live area which but if you live in an area which is, vastly is, you know, vastly oversubscribed in terms of your local hospitals and waiting lists, you just won't receive the so i think we need the same. and so i think we need sort root and branch reform sort of root and branch reform of the nhs prevent of the nhs to prevent that. >> been >> yeah, well, it's been an excellent . fair, excellent balance. fair, compassionate and wonderful debates you for debates. thank you both for joining us. thank you. to jenni trent hughes and benjamin lochner. superb. coming up , lochner. and superb. coming up, charities are in on charities are cashing in on telling your kids they're telling your kids why they're racist. is this how you want your children's education budget being ? don't go anywhere .

welcome back to the laurence fox show with me, martin daubney . welcome back to the laurence fox show this| me, martin daubney. welcome back to the laurence fox show this week,/iartin daubney . welcome back to the laurence fox show this week, a rtin daubney. welcome back to the laurence fox show this week, a shocking ney . well, this week, a shocking report was published that for the first time revealed the true size of the multi—million pound critical race theory industry that's invaded british schools and is teaching your children that white people are inherently racist. the report was called who are the experts? an investigation into anti racist third party organisations in schools. it was written by don't divide us, a grassroots movement that calls itself the uk's common sense voice on race as well. i'm delighted now to be joined by its author and don't divide us director dr. alka sahgal. divide us director dr. alka sahgal . cuthbert hello to you, sahgal. cuthbert hello to you, alka . fantastic report, which alka. fantastic report, which i've read in its entirety is shall we first start off, can you give us a flavour of some of the more extreme dream teaching practises that your report

unearthed . unearthed. >> okay. well, hello . thank you. >> okay. well, hello. thank you. thank you for having me on. i think what you can see in terms of the content is that in in some cases we are seeing very explicitly children being told that they are bearers of white privilege or that they, you know, are sort of have to see themselves in terms of being oppressed . and this can take the oppressed. and this can take the form of, uh , being split up into form of, uh, being split up into affinity groups, which is a sort of come from america. we've also seen it's been in the press this week, um , uh, you know, schools week, um, uh, you know, schools take various forms of positive action, including in, you know, providing funding for supplementary classes for children only of black or black heritage families . um, we see we heritage families. um, we see we see, uh, we see material that is

aimed at teachers that, that tell them that even children as young as 3 or 4, uh , see colour young as 3 or 4, uh, see colour which makes you then wonder why they then need to be taught to see colour. but apparently that's what they have to do. and so there are courses, you know, that are endorsing the idea that it very important that it is very important that wherever you see children playing spontaneously , obe playing spontaneously, obe naturally together across ethnic lines, that , you know, they do lines, that, you know, they do need to be introduced to the difference of skin colour, which is really just very strange. >> can i move on now to what i think is the most fascinating part of your report? and that is you've managed to quantify the financial size of this industry. there's a fascinating graphic from page 26 of the report. we can see on the screen there. now, this is a number of these organisations in british schools that you chart or you chart a 39 of them, and look at that. you can see that viewers, you can see that viewers, if you can't radio in 2020 can't see that on radio in 2020

yet, the year of the george floyd murder and the black lives matter movement, there was an absolute the number absolute skyrocket in the number of these organisations entering our schools. i'm assuming our at that point this became much more political . well, absolutely . political. well, absolutely. >> we actually . sampled 49 out >> we actually. sampled 49 out of that 49, only one organisation was not endorsing these sort of beliefs , these these sort of beliefs, these very partisan political beliefs , and talked about britain being, you know, having a role in in abolishing slavery as well as just being, you know, inheritors of slavery, which is pretty shocking, really. only one out of 49. um, yes. in 2020, we see we see a sort of real upsurge and that that kind of tallies with conversations that we've had with teachers and with some headteachers as we've been asking them what happened and why they why why they sort of felt impelled to do this to the

sort of $64,000 question. >> i suspect it's much, much more because fascinating work by you, megxit fabulous work out of those 49 organisations you've managed to quantify the size of this financial . how big is this this financial. how big is this burgeoning market in teaching people there racist ? people there racist? >> well, um , the largest >> well, um, the largest category where most of these organised organisations sit in terms of finance is, is in the £1 million plus category. so we have the largest , the largest, have the largest, the largest, um, company we found was a hearts for learning , which is hearts for learning, which is one of these strange new thing, new kind of, um, school hubs that collect together and they provide each other service bodies including equity , bodies including equity, diversity and inclusion across you. >> there we can see that this is this is over £10 million easily. and the big question now, elke ,

and the big question now, elke, how many of these groups are getting money from government grants , i.e. the taxpayer? grants, i.e. the taxpayer? i want to ask you , are british want to ask you, are british taxpayers paying for their children to be told they're racist ? racist? >> um, i think indirectly, yes. i mean, the what we've found, for example , beth mead 1—1 for example, beth mead 1—1 company has had a government grant of £17,000, which is , you grant of £17,000, which is, you know, this is a company where one of its leading representatives is actively telling teachers to not be impartial , telling teachers to not be impartial, you know, to sort of treat impartiality as a as something to be avoided . um, something to be avoided. um, we've got another group that has has funding from the paul hamlyn foundation , the paul hamlyn foundation, the paul hamlyn foundation, the paul hamlyn foundation does have has had money from the government and has recently been in the news. but because it's accepted money and been against the government policies, dr. alka sehgal cuthbert i'm afraid i will have to stop you there. >> we've simply run out of time. but the big message, the big takeaway from that is this is a

multi—million pound industry and government money is going to these organisations. us taxpayers are paying for our children they're children to be taught they're racists. look, racists. well, look, that's enough tonight. i've been enough for me tonight. i've been laurence enough for me tonight. i've been laureto e enough for me tonight. i've been laureto the magnificent mark dolan. >> martin what a great show. i enjoyed every minute. listen, we'll pick up the baton at 9:00. the makeup firm maybelline have used bearded men to sell women's makeup . the erasing of the makeup. the erasing of the female race continues apace. and i'll be fighting for women's rights in my take at ten, huw edwards woke luvvies in north london. hope that this scandal will go away . well, it's not will go away. well, it's not going to go away. not on my watch. we wish him well , but watch. we wish him well, but there are plenty more questions to those to be answered. and those allegations remain in place. it's going to be busy show. it's going to be a busy show. we've pundits and the we've got my pundits and the papers first, weather , a papers first, the weather, a brighter outlook with boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> good evening . my name is >> good evening. my name is rachel ayers and welcome to your latest gb news weather forecast

brought to you by the met office. so it's been quite an unsettled, wet and miserable end to the week and that isn't going to the week and that isn't going to change much as we go through the weekend. it's all due to this area of pressure that's this area of low pressure that's to going be pushing north eastwards across the uk and it's going to bringing some pretty going to be bringing some pretty strong as go into strong winds even as we go into tonight. that tonight. but that rain that we've seen through much of friday will start to clear away towards northern scotland, but bringing heavier bursts for bringing some heavier bursts for eastern so there could be eastern areas. so there could be some localised disruption there. elsewhere, a drier night, maybe the odd shower, but with those strong winds, temperatures still remaining in the low teens now looking to the start of the weekend and that rain will start to clear away from northern scotland. a rash of showers developing across the rest of the uk. these could be heavy and thundery and with some particularly strong winds as well, they'll be rattling from west east throughout the day. west to east throughout the day. so we might just see the odd, more moving shower across more slow moving shower across parts in those parts of scotland. but in those strong winds, it's to strong winds, it's going to continue feeling continue to be feeling unseasonably cool through

saturday. looking ahead to sunday, though, generally the better of the weekend for better day of the weekend for many.

gb news. >> happy friday one and all the weekend starts here. it is 9:00 on television, on radio and onune on television, on radio and online in the united kingdom and across the world. this is mark dolan tonight in my big opinion, a top makeup brand and uses bearded men in a top makeup brandrand uses bearded men in g a top makeup brandrand uses bearcfemale| in g a top makeup brand and uses bearcfemale cosmetic products. their female cosmetic products. the cancellation of women continues apace. my mark meets guest is the maverick businessman john mappin, who turned down £1 million from the government to house migrants in his cornish castle hotel . in my his cornish castle hotel. in my take at ten, the media elite circling the wagons to defend huw edwards will be sorely disappointed . shocking disappointed. shocking allegations remain . this story allegations remain. this story is going nowhere .

allegations remain. this story is going nowhere. i'm allegations remain. this story is going nowhere . i'm not allegations remain. this story is going nowhere. i'm not on my watch . watch. that's right. we wish huw edwards well, but it doesn't stop me doing journalism. so a busy two hours to come. it is friday night, so get the kids and early, into bed. nice and early, snuggle up with the missus or your other half fire up the kettle or even put something cold the fridge and cold and fizzy in the fridge and let's have a night to remember. lots to get through. big lots to get through. my big opinions way . lots to get through. my big opinions way. but first, opinions on the way. but first, the with the very the headlines with the very excellent rory smith . excellent rory smith. — , mark. >> thank you very much, mark. our top story , a legal bid to our top story, a legal bid to challenge the decision by the home office to use former raf bases to house asylum seekers has been approved by the high court. west lindsey district council opposes the