good morning. it's 930 on thursday, the 20th of july. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> very good morning. thank you for joining us. now, the summer forjoining us. now, the summer of strikes underway. of strikes is underway. thousands consultants have thousands of consultants have walked this morning for 48 walked out this morning for 48 hours in a dispute over pay. nhs bosses are warning there will be severe disruption . severe disruption. >> an outrageous . it's not just >> an outrageous. it's not just a senior doctor, as many of you might have had your travel disrupted today due to rail staff striking in the long running dispute over pay and

jobs conditions. is your patience wearing with patience wearing thin with all of strikes? mine is. yeah, absolutely. >> the farage versus coots >> and the farage versus coots row rumbles on. the prime minister had his say yesterday says stating that no one should have their bank account closed because of their political views. we're going to have nigel on the show this morning to tell us what's been happening. >> stay tuned for that. later >> so stay tuned for that. later in the show, we're also to going discuss new research that shows britons spend less time the britons spend less time in the office than anywhere else in europe. heard of civil europe. you heard of the civil service a bit service we will become a bit lazy working from home. lazy or is working from home. the future . the future. >> everything is just the civil service. but if you are working from home and it works for you, let us know. gb views at gb news. com is the email. or if you're a boss and you are absolutely tired of people not being in the office, let us know as well. >> nigel will have strong views on that. >> nigel will have strong views on oft. i'm he will. >> of course i'm sure he will. now first all, though, here

now first of all, though, here is very latest with is the very latest news with karen armstrong . karen armstrong. >> good morning. it's half past nine. i'm karen armstrong in the gb newsroom . voting has started gb newsroom. voting has started in the three by elections taking place in england today. all three seats in uxbridge and south ruislip, selby and ainsty and somerton and frome have been held by the conservatives since the last general election in 2019. polling stations closed at 10:00. constituent are being reminded to bring photo id with them . thousands of medical them. thousands of medical appointments and operations have been postponed as senior doctors hold a 48 hour strike over pay. consultants and dentists have agreed to offer emergency care only as they walk out for the first time in a decade. it comes just two days after junior doctors staged a five day strike, the longest in the history of the nhs. health secretary steve barclay says the government have listened to the bma's demands. >> average nhs earnings of a consultant after this pay rise

will be £134,000 a year and on top of that 20% of their salary goes into their pension, which means they'll be able to earn when they retire by the age of 65, tax free up to £60,000 a year. 65, tax free up to £60,000 a year . the 65, tax free up to £60,000 a year. the number one ask of the bma was for pension tax reform , bma was for pension tax reform, and we listened to that as we acted on it. and in addition, we've also accepted in full the independent pay review body recommendations and rail passengers are facing further disruption this morning as rmt members launch fresh strikes. >> it's the first of three days of industrial action, affecting 14 train companies in england and it may have a knock on effect into scotland and wales, too. in some areas, only half of train services will run . other train services will run. other areas have no services at all. that's it for the moment. we'll have more throughout the morning and afternoon. our website has more to gbnews.com. now back to andrew and .

andrew and. bev >> very good morning . it's 933. >> very good morning. it's 933. thank you for joining >> very good morning. it's 933. thank you forjoining us on gb thank you for joining us on gb news now. thousands of senior doctors in england will go on strike today over pay disputes causing disruption across causing major disruption across the nhs. >> this is consultants and >> so this is consultants and dentists. now are staging a 48 hour walkout. consultants remember average pay, £128,000 a year plus pension . it threatens year plus pension. it threatens to bring all sorts of procedures to bring all sorts of procedures to a standstill. >> so let's go now to gb news, south—west of england. reporter jeff moody. good morning, geoff. where are you and what is the mood like there ? mood like there? >> i'm here at the royal infirmary in bristol. the picket line is just beginning to form. they began their strike at 7:00 this morning and it's going to be for 48 hours. now, this one is being said to be extremely significant, is being said to be extremely significant , extremely significant, extremely disruptive, because it is

consultants. it's also hospital dentists, but it's the consulting ants that's really causing the problem because not an awful lot can be achieved in an awful lot can be achieved in a hospital without consultants , a hospital without consultants, particularly the junior doctors who rely very heavily on consultants. so this really is bringing the nhs to a standstill. they're saying that coveris standstill. they're saying that cover is going to be a christmas day type cover . in other words, day type cover. in other words, just emergency care and a few routine appointments. but very few. most people have had their operations cancelled today, their appointments cancelled today. the nhs england says it really isn't fair that this strike should happen. hot off the heels of the junior doctors strike because they haven't had chance to regroup, restart , chance to regroup, restart, reorganise rotors before being plunged into yet another crisis. so they're saying it's very unfair from the consultants to do this right now . and patients, do this right now. and patients, of course, are saying, look , you of course, are saying, look, you know, we're really suffering at

the moment . we're suffering on the moment. we're suffering on all fronts. cost of living, crisis, etcetera, etcetera . and crisis, etcetera, etcetera. and now we're finding that even our routine appointments are cancelled . and so word on the cancelled. and so word on the street now is that people are pretty tired of this altogether. but the junior the consultants themselves say that they are angry and that they've now hit rock bottom . rock bottom. >> okay. thank you, geoff. jeff moody there, our south west of england. reporter joining us now england. reporterjoining us now is dr. lawrence buckman, former chairman of the british medical association's general practise committee. good morning to you. thank you for joining committee. good morning to you. thank you forjoining us. and thank you for joining us. and who needs to budge here? dr. buckman, how are we going to find any sort of solution? >> both sides have to go back into a room with each other and talk deals are never done by either side shouting across a wall. you have to go through and to find what it is that you need to find what it is that you need to do to do a deal. deals are

there to be done, and i'm disappointed that the two sides are not in the same place now. >> dr. buckman, a lot of people watching and listening this to this programme will be horrified that people earning around £128,000 a year are going on strike. and they could well be instead of working in nhs, instead of working in the nhs, working in private sector, working in the private sector, earning money. well earning even more money. well that's an interesting observation because of course a large number of consultants already work in the private sector and the exodus from the nhs amongst all grades of staff is going up and up and up and the number of people coming into the number of people coming into the nhs is going down and i'm sad to say that consultants can walk whether abroad or into the private sector and it wouldn't suit us if we all went private because there's still not enough medical humans goes on in the great britain to be able to deliver care for patients . deliver care for patients. >> the nhs is broken and it's going to be very difficult to

make it work and the consultants are fed up. you're looking at one of the most conservative parts of the nhs workforce. there aren't many consultants who would see this as a political crusade. they're there to try and make the nhs work and you don't compare their pay with anybody else's pay. i've never earned the kind of money they're likely to earn, and i don't begrudge it to them for second. >> yeah, but you say they're the most conservative, but they are also the best paid. and i repeat again, dr. buckman, £128,000 a yean again, dr. buckman, £128,000 a year, plus the pension, they get on plus they're often on top. plus they're often working in the private sector on other days the week, there's other days in the week, there's going very little public going to be very little public sympathy doing sympathy for what they're doing today. i think reach a point today. i think you reach a point where you stop worrying about pubuc where you stop worrying about public sympathy. >> i think the consultants >> and i think the consultants and think, have and the juniors, i think, have got that when you're got to that point. when you're desperate, feel the nhs desperate, when you feel the nhs is around your ears, is crumbling around your ears, you start to feel that actually i would like the general public to come with me, but if they don't, well, okay. and and i

think the consultants are now so desperate and the juniors too, in a completely different way that i think i think they can't see that they really have got to get round the table with a political the political centre to try and get some some movement . movement. >> is it entirely about pay? is there complaints just purely about pay? because we think of these being the compassion hit occupations ? i mean, are you occupations? i mean, are you saying then that the doctors get to a point where you're effectively saying, is there compassion? has abated for their patients and they are no longer susceptible all to any sort of outside feeling from the public? and that sounds like a mindset that i don't ordinarily associate with doctors . associate with doctors. >> no, most of us went into the business to care not to get rich . i mean, they're welcome to their pay , but it's not about their pay, but it's not about pay- their pay, but it's not about pay. of course, the headline that you're broadcasting is

about pay , but there's much more about pay, but there's much more to it than that . the level of to it than that. the level of discontent within the health service is the worst it has ever been. i've been saying that for 20 years and of course for 20 years. every week has been the worst it's ever been. and now it's reached a point where people almost don't care. they care about their patients. so the patient in front of them matters as much as it ever did. but they can't do the things they want to do for that patient in the room with them. as in the room with them. and as for wider public, i think for the wider public, i think they've point of no they've reached a point of no return. now and if you say you've not seen that before, i think many of your many of your viewers, listeners would be very worried to find that the doctors and nurses now almost care more about keeping the health service going in some way than they do about how it will look if they strike. that's a very dangerous point to reach. >> they can't care that much about their patients, can they,

doctor, if they're going on strike, know they care about the one the room. one in the room. >> always care about the >> i always care about the patient who's with me much more than the broader brush of general practise and the same appues general practise and the same applies to hospital doctors . applies to hospital doctors. they see it as their they don't see it as their responsibility to worry about patients in the wider context because they believe that the health service needs so much of a shake up. and it's not going to happen, i don't think. and it's probably now. sorry >> thank you. thank you for joining us. former chairman of the bma's gps committee, dr. laurence buckman there . laurence buckman there. >> very frank. >> very frank. >> very frank. yeah >> very frank. yeah he >> very frank. yeah he was >> very frank. yeah he was he said we're just the doctors are they've hit a wall really saying they've hit a wall really saying they don't care any more. they they don't care any more. they they need change and they don't feel they need to take the pubuc feel they need to take the public with them because i don't think the public is with them on a strike where they are only £128,000 a year plus pension. that's right. but if you or any of loved ones have had of your loved ones have had treatment postponed this week, do know, you? do let us know, won't you? vaiews@gbnews.com is the email address. okay. the head of

address. okay. so the head of the group is under fire the natwest group is under fire this morning after multiple mps , minister this morning after multiple mps , the minister this morning after multiple mps , the secretary nister and the home secretary criticised banking company's criticised the banking company's handung criticised the banking company's handling nigel farage handling of the nigel farage dodi banking scandal. the banking is the new word and we talked here yesterday said will rishi sunak raised this at prime. >> his questions at rishi sunak said government be said the government would be cracking banks cancel cracking down on banks cancel ing this is what he ing customers. this is what he had to say yesterday . had to say yesterday. >> it wouldn't be right if financial services were being denied to anyone exercising their right to lawful free speech. our new financial services and markets act puts in place new measures to ensure that politically exposed persons are being treated in an appropriate and proportionate manner, and having consulted on the payment services regulations, we are in the process of cracking down on this practise by tightening the rules around account closures. but in the meantime , any individual can the meantime, any individual can complain to the financial ombudsman service, which has the power to direct a bank to reopen their account . their account. >> well, quite interesting that he didn't mention nigel farage

by name because he couldn't bnng by name because he couldn't bring himself to. but david davis from davis certainly did from the backbenches. response , backbenches. now, in response, coutts it is them coutts bank because it is them coutts bank because it is them coutts bank, the queen's bank, the said that it is the king's bank, said that it is not coutt's policy to close customer solely on the customer accounts solely on the bafis customer accounts solely on the basis held political basis of legally held political and views . and personal views. >> they decisions to close >> they said decisions to close an account are not taken lightly and involve a number of factors , including commercial viability , reputational considerations . , reputational considerations. and that's the important one, i think. and legal and regulatory requirements is absolute hogwash. >> olivia utley is our political reporter. >> olivia, this has really stuck. it's caused a quote unquote cliche political storm andifs unquote cliche political storm and it's united all sorts of people. well, absolutely. >> and it does seem to get murkier and murkier the more you look into it. there is now nigel farage has got his hands on the dossier that cootes presented as its for de banking him. its reason for de banking him. and in that dossier, it makes completely clear it says in plain english that that nigel farage was a commercially viable customer. so why did they choose

to not let him bank with him? it does seem to be down to these reputational concerns and what it like though as it sounds like as though is as though cootes is using the rules around p p politically exposed persons to essentially get rid of people who they don't really like. and it could be that there are legal concerns here as well, because one of the reasons cited in that 40 page dossier for removing nigel farage from the coutts books is that he written seated ricky gervais tweet making a transgender joke . and making a transgender joke. and cootes said that that's demonstrates transphobia well under the equalities act. you are not allowed to discriminate against someone for gender critical beliefs . so could there critical beliefs. so could there be a legal issue there ? either be a legal issue there? either way, it is not a good look . way, it is not a good look. >> ricky gervais is one of the most popular comedians and he he has lit the touch . a firestorm has lit the touch. a firestorm here now, hasn't he? nigel farage. i mean, they've really picked the wrong person. but the problem i think as well, olivia, they lied coutts bank in their defence, which the bbc took.

hook, line and sinker. the bbc political editor simon simon, jacques, jacques and. and. and the ft. >> well, this is a massive problem for cootes as well. i mean, you could argue that you are a bank. you can choose who you want to bank with you or not, but then lying about it massively the issue. massively compounds the issue. and come out and it and now what's come out and it was in the telegraph this morning is that night before morning is that the night before the published its story that the bbc published its story that claiming that nigel farage was only removed from coutts's roster because as he didn't meet the financial eligibility criteria, something which we now have proof is not true . so he have proof is not true. so he was a commercially viable customer the night before that story was published by simon jacques on the bbc website. simon jacques was sitting to next the ceo of coutts bank. alison rose, at a at a glitzy charity, bbc dinner. so when he said a senior source because i remember that story he said a senior source it was a pretty

senior source it was a pretty senior source it was a pretty senior source couldn't have been more senior. >> it was the chief executive of the at the moment. the bank at the moment. >> both the bbc and coutts >> both, both the bbc and coutts are to comment on this. are refusing to comment on this. but know, it's not to but you know, it's hard not to put two and two together and think that perhaps was think that perhaps there was some conversation. some sort of conversation. >> executive of this >> the chief executive of this bank, let's be honest here, got the lie. i and the the bbc to lie. i mean and the bbc fell for it on the face of it, that's what it looks like. >> i mean, maybe more will come out decide that out when they decide that they're comment they're willing to comment on this. bbc did publish this. but the bbc did publish that after simon jacques that story after simon jacques had alison rose. and had sat next to alison rose. and when read the dossier, is when you read the dossier, it is completely clear that that it's not it's just simply not true that nigel farage was turned away financial reasons , he away for financial reasons, he admits. nigel farage that his that his that his cash in his savings account fell below the £3 million required by coutts. but according to all the evidence that we've seen, that happens all the time and coutts has never made a fuss about it before. so pretty sinister before. so it is pretty sinister and government is now and the government is now getting serious it. getting quite serious about it. we rishi sunak talking about we saw rishi sunak talking about it in yesterday. they're

it in pmqs yesterday. they're talking drawing talking about drawing up laws sort as soon today, sort of as soon as today, starting process of drawing starting the process of drawing up crack on banks , up laws to crack down on banks, excluding because excluding people because of their but it their political beliefs. but it will take quite a long time. and i expect really haven't heard i expect we really haven't heard the of this. i expect we really haven't heard the we're f this. i expect we really haven't heard the we're notis. i expect we really haven't heard the we're not russia, you know, >> we're not russia, you know, we're because that's we're not china, because that's what like is so what it feels like it is so sinister. what's what's quite interesting as well about is interesting as well about it is the got a list of the telegraph have got a list of coote's previous coutts customers and they include and the head of the mafia in in the 2000 who was responsible for the deaths of 3000 people or something. >> so he doesn't seem to be too far for coutts. but but nigel farage is because of brexit, the brilliant thing that nigel has done has has shone a light on the fact that we are edging closer and closer to being russia and china in terms of how some of these corporations respond . respond. >> and somebody that we have on this show quite a lot is a woman called mollie kingsley, who set up the campaign group us for

them all about defending children's rights. and she's tweeted out this morning to say, for anyone who thinks the debunking of nigel farage is purely about a narrow focus on right wing politicians, our experience suggests otherwise. we've been a campaigning group for children's interest. we were debunked paypal in september debunked by paypal in september 2022 without notice or explanation like farage. there's no way we are a peep. a politically exposed person. so this was plainly an ideologically motivated attack because our views didn't align with paypal. but she says she makes a very good point actually, mollie. she says if paypal and others can do this and coots, what next? broadband access to train, access to emergency services. and so i think the this might seem like, oh, it's just nigel farage can't get a bank account. it is not bigger. it's much the implications are huge aren't they? olivia yeah. >> and i mean the fact that, that having bank account is that having a bank account is now essential service. i now an essential service. i mean, obviously it's always been pretty have a bank pretty useful to have a bank account, it account, but previous early it was if wanted to,

was possible if you wanted to, simply all of your money simply to have all of your money in your mattress. now in cash under your mattress. now with not taking cash with places not taking cash anymore, a bank is essential anymore, a bank is an essential service as though service and it sounds as though coots might not be the only bank that has been that nigel farage has been turned says we're going to have >> he says we're going to have nigel coming. he's going to be on within the half an on within about the next half an hour so. so don't anywhere hour or so. so don't go anywhere because fireworks, has because fireworks, there has been a going on for nigel been a lot going on for nigel farage the 24 hours. and farage in the last 24 hours. and we will find all about it. we will find out all about it. olivia, you. he's he's olivia, thank you. he's he's always been an heroic for me. >> and but this is i just think the coots have lost the plot completely. this is the royal bank. it'd be fantastic bank. i think it'd be fantastic if members of the family if members of the royal family said enough with this. we're pulling money. wouldn't pulling out our money. wouldn't that great? pulling out our money. wouldn't tha i great? pulling out our money. wouldn't tha i gr< really imagine >> i can't really imagine king charles defend charles doing anything to defend nigel you? i mean, nigel farage, can you? i mean, it be would be lovely. it would be it would be lovely. it be great. if you're it would be great. if you're watching your majesty. >> course watching. and >> of course he's watching. and queen consort. if you're watching listening , queen consort. if you're watching listening, sort it. watching or listening, sort it. >> they've got coote's chequebook . chequebook. >> likes a chequebook. >> likes a chequebook. >> i do like my chequebook. it's not a coots chequebook, though. >> retailers have been feeling

the pinch since the pandemic, with shops with an estimated 18,000 shops shutting the uk shutting down throughout the uk in 2022. >> but here we talk about one landlord in dorset who has turned tables. he's turned the tables. he's attempted turn around attempted to turn things around by two years rent free by offering two years rent free to high street that to high street businesses that will take on the challenge of bringing one of the empty units to life. >> it sounds like a great idea, so it's worth so let's see if it's worth joining us now is alex schlagman founding save the founding partner at save the high .org. tell us about high street .org. tell us about this, give us a bit more this, alex. give us a bit more detail to this story. >> so the gaps left by big brands very publicly disappearing from high streets across the uk, they're either shrinking or they're disappearing entirely. now need to be filled by a new generation of entrepreneurs with access to the space and support that they need to be successful. and these entrepreneurs are either staff start up businesses entirely or they're businesses that are selling online line, or they're growing local independents who are moving maybe from a market or from a secondary location into more of a town or city

centre. and so it's very important that in the market we create the conditions to allow this to happen . and so there's this to happen. and so there's a number of different initiatives going on across the uk, including this example down in poole where they're giving two years rent free for the businesses in other examples here, it saved the high street .org. we're setting up incubator spaces that give businesses the chance for two months to try out a space with no rents, no business rates, no service charges and a load of support to give them a chance to test out their offering in a high street setting. prove that it works before doubling down and starting to commit to paying either rent in a conventional way or rent linked to the performance of their business. so what has happened post—covid, particularly , is a need to particularly, is a need to innovate around reducing the friction to get new businesses onto high streets . onto high streets. >> so alex, with this one particular landlord, he was able to afford to give people his

premises for two years without receiving any rent. have i understood that correctly? but i guess most landlords can't afford to do that. >> so the, the landlords that are able to make those kind of decisions typically own a lot of real estate in that local area. so in this case here they own the shopping centre next door and what they're looking to do is basically inject life into that entire town centre to get more footfall. there there's also the total cost of these spaces here. so you need to look at the total cost and there's actually business rates that typically businesses will still be expected to pay, which if they didn't pay, the landlord would have to pay themselves . would have to pay themselves. >> as alex said, the local councils , of course can help councils, of course can help too. parking is always a huge issue high streets if people issue for high streets if people have can't park or it's too have to can't park or it's too expensive to park and yet there's very little movement from councils in that area . from councils in that area. >> well, look, we're in the most transformational period in the entire history of high streets. we we need to be very we need to we need to be very clear about that post. covid is

an opportunity for us to very quickly accelerate towards a stronger, quickly accelerate towards a strongithinking high street. and future thinking high street. and there's that needs to be there's lots that needs to be done everybody , even the done by everybody, even at the business level themselves. andrew know, we need to andrew you know, we need to start to think about not just selling products but selling experiences. make experiences. we need to make sure businesses for sure businesses are ready for the need to be the future. they need to be onune the future. they need to be online and using the internet to their advantage to get people back into high streets. they need data driven. need to be data driven. they need to be data driven. they need community driven. need to be community driven. working the working together. and yes, the councils have a very important role to play on a number of levels and not just parking a significant amount of funding has been released by central government as part of the levelling up agenda and a series of other funds that are now being added to a whole series of strategies to support high streets in different ways . streets in different ways. parking is one of many things that councils and high streets overall need to think about . overall need to think about. >> alex i'm just i'm kind of interested the fact you're the founder partner at save the high street .org. what's, what's your

interest in this topic? how and what can people do to help. yeah >> so we're really interested in changing high streets for the better for everyone . so from our better for everyone. so from our point of view , you know, we want point of view, you know, we want to make sure that every single type of stakeholder that has an interest in high streets is able to do the things that they can do to have the impact to make a difference. so if you're an independent business, it's very important that there's a number of things that you really focus on making your business as strong as it can be for the future. and there's a whole range of support we're providing around that for councils. we're running series of initiatives running a series of initiatives in with councils in partnership with councils to make that the plans are in make sure that the plans are in place for that high street, that they've businesses they've got the right businesses in doing the in the right places, doing the right and the right things and that the councils understand the councils really understand the things that they can be doing to have impact. you're have an impact. it if you're a landlord a vacant space, landlord with a vacant space, it's taking we've run out it's about taking we've run out of use of it. of time making use of it. >> run out of time, but >> we've run out of time, but please come back and talk to us again think it's again because i think it's

absolutely fascinating. i think it's more can it's probably a lot more we can learn there. still to learn there. right. still to come morning, more on nigel come this morning, more on nigel farages battle against cuts tide bank. >> and nigel is going to be joining us discuss what is joining us to discuss what is frankly, a scandal. this is britain's newsroom news, britain's newsroom on gb news, the people's channel. >> temperature's rising >> the temperature's rising. boxt solar power sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> hello there. good morning. i'm jonathan vautrey here with your latest gb news weather forecast provided by the met office. it is a fairly pleasant and sunny start to the day for many of us. good amount of many of us. a good amount of sunshine and some of us will hold on to that sunshine throughout day as well. throughout the day as well. but do umbrella on hand do keep the umbrella on hand because start see because we will start to see some showers quite some showers bubbling up quite widely across the uk. it could turn on the sharp side in places most across parts turn on the sharp side in places m

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breakfast. strike also known as pooch stand. >> what does she run ? >> what does she run? >> what does she run? >> well . good >> what does she run? >> well. good morning. >> well. good morning. >> it's 10:00 >> well. good morning. >> it's10:00 on thursday. >> well. good morning. >> it's 10:00 on thursday. the 20th of july. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with bev turner and andrew pierce. >> it's the summer of strikes. it's underway. thousands of hospital consultants have walked out this morning for 48 hours, dispute over pay. nhs bosses warned they'll severe warned they'll be severe disruption . disruption. >> and it's not just the senior doctors. many of you might have had your travel disrupted today

due staff striking again due to rail staff striking again in running dispute over in a long running dispute over pay- in a long running dispute over pay. your patience wearing pay. is your patience wearing thin with all of these strikes ? thin with all of these strikes? how is it affecting you and farage versus queues? >> you know who's winning that row. the prime minister's intervened, stating that no one should have their bank account closed their closed because of their political views. delighted that nigel is joining us live nigel farage is joining us live this morning programme this morning on this programme to his take. to give his take. >> and later in the show, we're going to discuss new research that britons spend less time in the office than anywhere else in europe . have we all become a bit europe. have we all become a bit lazy or is working from home the future , especially for . future, especially for. parents let us know your thoughts this morning. vaiews@gbnews.com is the email address . but first of the email address. but first of all, here's the very latest news with aaron armstrong .

with aaron arm strong. >> with aaron armstrong. >> good morning. it's a minute past ten. let's get you up to date with the headlines from the gb newsroom. voting has started in three by elections taking place in england today. all three seats in uxbridge and south ruislip selby and ainsty and somerton and frome have been held by the conservative since the last general election in 2019. polling stations will close at 10 pm. and constituents will need to bring photo id with them to vote . photo id with them to vote. thousands of medical appointments and operations have been postponed as senior doctors hold a 48 hour strike over pay . hold a 48 hour strike over pay. consultants and dentists have agreed to offer emergency care only as they walk out for the first time in a decade . only as they walk out for the first time in a decade. nhs bosses have warned of severe disruption to patient care . it disruption to patient care. it all comes just two days after junior doctors walked out for five days, the longest strike in the history of the nhs health secretary steve barclay. though says the government has listened to the bma's demands.

>> average nhs earnings of a consultant after this pay rise will be £134,000 a year and on top of that 20% of their salary goes into their pension, which means they'll be able to earn when they retire by the age of 65, tax free up to £60,000 a yeah 65, tax free up to £60,000 a year. the number one ask of the bma was for pension tax reform , bma was for pension tax reform, and we listened to that as we acted on it. and in addition , acted on it. and in addition, we've also accepted in full the independent pay review body recommendations , rail passengers recommendations, rail passengers are facing further disruption. >> this morning as some 20,000 rmt members go on strike. it's the first of three days of industrial action which will affect 14 train companies in england, although it may have a knock on effect in wales and scotland. two drivers in the aslef union are being banned from doing overtime this week. general secretary mick lynch, though, is hopeful fresh talks will mirror the progress he's making with london underground .

making with london underground. >> let's get try and get a deal all cooked up, but we can try and get back round the table. we're doing that with london transport right now about what's going on in london underground. we've the we've been in acas, the conciliation service all week. so if we can get the same atmosphere where people are trying work some trying to work towards some solutions, we can do solutions, perhaps we can do that national rail. i'm that on national rail. i'm hoping london hoping that maybe london underground will come up with some proposals that are steps forward we can consider forward and we can consider that. we do that on that. but if we can do that on both parts of railway, if both parts of the railway, if you like, can maybe get some you like, we can maybe get some progress. >> the travelling to europe via train is on average four times more expensive than flying . more expensive than flying. that's according to greenpeace analysis , as flying was cheaper analysis, as flying was cheaper on all of the routes from the uk , including between london and edinburgh , according to the edinburgh, according to the environmental group now travelling to barcelona from london by train was ten times more expensive on average and a last minute booking was up to 30 times more expensive . the eu's times more expensive. the eu's top diplomat,

times more expensive. the eu's top diplomat , josep borrell, top diplomat, josep borrell, says russia is responsible for causing a major global food crisis. on monday, moscow withdrew from the grain deal, which guaranteed safe passage of ukrainian shipments through the black sea. russia has subsequently bombed storage facilities in odesa and other port cities and global wheat pnces port cities and global wheat prices have now soared following russia's threat to view ships bound for ukrainian ports as potential military targets . at potential military targets. at least two people have died and multiple people have been injured after a shooting in auckland in new zealand , a man auckland in new zealand, a man opened fire in the centre of the city in the business district . city in the business district. early this morning. local time. he was also killed . the prime he was also killed. the prime minister of new zealand has confirmed there has been no change though to national security and the risk of that after the shootings. the fifa world cup, though, will go on as planned . it is underway in new planned. it is underway in new zealand. the investigation is still ongoing . instances of anti

still ongoing. instances of anti muslim hate have more than doubled in a decade, according to new research. the study by the monitoring group tell mama covered more than 20,000 cases over a decade . looking at online over a decade. looking at online hate towards muslims. now, the group said the activities of the far right have to led a spike in abuse. other peaks came around the time of attacks against asylum seekers and centres supporting them and also when the cricketer azeem rafiq highly cited the racist abuse he had suffered at yorkshire cricket club tiktok is now the most single used source of news across all platforms for teenagers in the uk. ofcom's news consumption report found it's the most favoured platform amongst 12 to 15 years old. figures show tiktok is most popular with young people and used by 28% of teenagers, followed by youtube and instagram, both at 25. this is gb news. we'll bring you more as

it happens, as always. and now it's back to andrew and . it's back to andrew and. bev >> thousands of senior doctors in england are on strike today, over over pay, causing massive disruption across the nhs . disruption across the nhs. >> consultant doctors and dentists are staging a 48 hour walkout, which threatens to bnng walkout, which threatens to bring planned procedures to standstill. >> so let's talk to gb news south west england reporterjeff south west england reporter jeff moody. jeff you're outside a hospital. tell us all. yes i'm outside the royal infirmary here in bristol, where the picket line began at 9:00 this morning. >> the strike itself began at 7:00 and is set to go on for 48 hours till 7:00 on saturday morning. well it's the consultants today that are on strike, and that's particularly disruptive because the consultants are the key to

everything in the nhs. junior doctors , for instance, can't doctors, for instance, can't really do their job without the consultant work that backs them up. they're very heavily reliant, reliant on these consultants. so it does mean that the service being offered in the royal infirmary behind me is said to be a christmas day type service, which means emergency care. only some small routine procedures, but not very much at all. most appointments have been cancelled. most operations have been cancelled. in fact, i spoke to a gentleman just now who sadly didn't want to camera, he was to come on camera, but he was saying how bitterly angry he is that his wife has had three operations postponed in the last few months due to the succession of strikes from junior doctors to nurses to now the consultants. three times her operation has been cancelled and he says he is absolutely fuming when all the consultants say that they are fuming, too. they say they've reached rock bottom in this dispute. nhs england

also say that they are fuming. they're fuming because they say they haven't had enough time after the junior doctors strike to regroup, reorganise rotors to sort things out, to provide adequate cover for this strike. they're saying that it's happened too soon off the back of the other strikes for them to properly work out how to staff things inside. so it's a very unhappy and angry situation for all concerned . here down in all concerned. here down in bristol . bristol. >> thank you very much. let us know this morning if you've been affected by this. you've been getting in touch already, talking about the strikes. robert said, i worked in the robert has said, i worked in the nhs four months ago, not nhs until four months ago, not clinical but procurement. clinical staff, but procurement. the admin are the conditions that admin are state procurement and state staff procurement and other services working state staff procurement and ot shocking. services working state staff procurement and ot shocking. and vices working state staff procurement and ot shocking. and roger working state staff procurement and ot shocking. and roger says, ling state staff procurement and ot shocking. and roger says, am is shocking. and roger says, am i the only person fed up listening to doctors and nurses saying, well, well, pay up or we're going go to australia? we're going to go to australia? >> can is we're not >> all i can say is we're not stopping you. that's you stopping you. if that's what you

want please go and hire want to do, please go and hire about it. roger i disagree. i'm afraid you've trained the afraid if you've trained in the nhs all years, there nhs for all those years, there should be a limit on when you can abroad or you have to can go abroad or you have to repay the money. can go abroad or you have to rep coline money. can go abroad or you have to rep colin has ney. can go abroad or you have to rep colin has said, you, >> colin has said, thank you, colin, good morning. i would colin, and good morning. i would like you to report on how governments have consistently underfunded brought underfunded the nhs, brought in private underfunded the nhs, brought in priresources underfunded the nhs, brought in pri resources with agreements of resources with agreements with big pharma to get with american big pharma to get a pie. they seem to a piece of the pie. they seem to be pushing hard towards privatisation, which is the worst possible for the worst possible outcome for the entire population . entire population. >> well, let's move on now to the extraordinary story about nigel nigel farage coots , the nigel nigel farage coots, the banking scandal. it's united. it's on many front pages again today. rishi sunak talked about it in the house of commons. many tory mps rishi sunak couldn't quite bring himself to mention trevor kavanagh, but somebody who couldn't who sorry, rishi sunak couldn't bnng who sorry, rishi sunak couldn't bring himself to mention nigel farage, somebody who will is farage, but somebody who will is the son's very excellent columnist. trevor kavanagh trevor, you . first trevor, morning to you. first >> are you there? good morning, trevor, this is a quite an

extraordinary story. >> i mean, coots have been caught out, hook, line and sinker here. >> they have . i mean, this is an >> they have. i mean, this is an extraordinary story in every possible way and deep sinister. what we've learned over the last few days is that we do live in a world of big brother , a sort of world of big brother, a sort of stasi type environment, which we thought was only only used to exist. and in the past in other countries. but now we have it here in britain and what is most worrying about this is that it's not just one company, one bank. coots bank. this is a view of the world, a world view which is held right across commerce broadcasting , politics and broadcasting, politics and whitehall . and i suspect that whitehall. and i suspect that precisely the same sort of procedures and vetting processes are taking place in companies up and down the country. we don't know about it. this is an amazing story that has broken simply because of coots handedness. they've they've

opened they've ripped the lid off a an amazing scandal which i think is much more widespread. and deeply sinister. >> also , the bbc here, trevor , a >> also, the bbc here, trevor, a part of it in a sense, aren't they, because they reported that nigel farage had lost his account because he didn't have the money in the account? not true . we now discover in the true. we now discover in the daily telegraph today that simon jack, the bbc's business editor, was sitting next to the chief executive of coutts bank at a dinner the night before they ran the story. funny that well, it isn't funny really. >> andrew, because i think that the bbc is as much a part of this sort of process, a sort of. inofice this sort of process, a sort of. i notice that all the way through the, the versions of events that have come from coutts is the word purpose or common purpose here is on the inclusion and diversity agenda . inclusion and diversity agenda. net zero, the gender wars and so on. this is in itself a significant fact because you're

old enough in long enough in the tooth to remember common purpose and the organisation in a very sort of secretive organisation which is now global, which uses exactly the same terminology erg and they were set up in order to affect and influence our police, our local authorities, whitehall andindeed our local authorities, whitehall and indeed it seems the banks and indeed it seems the banks and they are having an extraordinary impact. they are the mob in, in essence and they have spread their tentacles through almost every part of our administration , our government administration, our government and our commerce . and our commerce. >> i don't want to defend cootes trevor, but to just play devil's advocate here, they would say, we have a responsibility to our employers, our employees and our shareholders to be involved , shareholders to be involved, mentally and socially. respond all we have to save the planet and we have to teach everyone what is the right way to behave

whilst we're also looking after your money. but something in thatis your money. but something in that is deeply flawed, isn't it ? >> 7- >> it's ? >> it's deeply flawed. while they're still accommodating people who have extremely nefarious backgrounds in terms of crime, politics, people from abroad with very shady records on on all sorts of things from crime to embezzlement, and yet they decide that because of his 86 references to brexit, it that nigel farage is simply intolerable. >> do you think he should sue over this report , trevor because over this report, trevor because i think it's defamatory. he it's called him racist, homophobic , called him racist, homophobic, disingenous it's a variety of deeply, deeply personal criticism of him. and it's in an official document . he must have official document. he must have grounds for to, to sue the bank i >> -- >> well, i would happily back that idea. i think that nigel has all sorts of grounds to act

on this, not just against coots but against the bbc. but this is much bigger than nigel farage. this is a threat to the way we live . the fact that we have live. the fact that we have people watching us without our knowledge and judging us and actually ruling on our ability to go about our daily lives, which after all, is what banking is all about these days. we don't have cash anymore. we have to do it digitally. we have to go through a bank. we have to have a bank account and even beggars in the street have bank accounts and you can make your donations to their cause with their cash card system. so we cannot operate without banks. this is our way. we live . and this is our way. we live. and it's not just as i say, that the cuts are doing this every boardroom and i know this from people who represent major companies in their media relations that they are everything is filtered through

the lens of diversity and the sort of blob mentality of the right approach to gender wars to net zero to brexit and beyond. and while this is going on, until this week, we didn't know about it . now until this week, we didn't know about it. now we do. and i think it's incumbent upon everybody to act, not just nigel farage. >> okay. thank you, trevor . >> okay. thank you, trevor. trevor kavanagh there from the sun.thank trevor kavanagh there from the sun. thank you so interesting. such wisdom. and it's about manipulation, isn't it? it's about the fact that we don't know. we don't even know we're being manipulated they're being manipulated as they're watching they watching us now, are they deciding can we our bank deciding can we keep our bank accounts? well absolutely, because be because that's what could be happening many, many people. happening to many, many people. and we've dodsworth and we've got laura dodsworth who's wrote the book who's written she wrote the book state fear, how the state of fear, about how the government weaponized in government weaponized fear in the she's going government weaponized fear in th

though, nigel farage is coming on this. he's had on to talk about this. he's had an extraordinary 24 hours. and trevor kavanagh point trevor kavanagh makes the point it's about nigel, but it's not just about nigel, but nigel is the embodiment of what's with this what's going wrong with this country. brother knows best. >> i had i had dinner with nigel farage last night, actually. so i you there has been a i can tell you there has been a huge amount and he will huge amount going on and he will have a lot to say this morning. it coutts's policy. say it is not coutts's policy. say the close customer the bank to close customer accounts solely the basis of accounts solely on the basis of legally held political and personal views. >> close an account >> decisions to close an account are not taken lightly. they involve number of factors, involve a number of factors, including viability, including commercial viability, reputation and considerations and and regulatory and legal and regulatory requirements. if requirements. and of course, if you can't you support brexit, you can't have bank account. clearly at have a bank account. clearly at coots . and of course they got coots. and of course they got rid of his bank account after he'd paid off his mortgage. so cynical, cynical . cynical, so cynical. >> we're going to get some more of views well of your views as well this morning. let know morning. so please let us know if this has affected you in any particular way. have been particular way. have you been turned sort of turned down for any sort of banking services? did get banking services? did you get an explanation if not, explanation why? and if not, what you do about it? but what did you do about it? but still come, we say, nigel still to come, as we say, nigel will be talking to here on gb

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tv, radio and online gb news. britain's news . tv, radio and online gb news. britain's news. channel it's 1023. >> you're with britain's newsroom, with gb news, with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> so rishi sunak and ben wallace formally apologised to the commons yesterday for the decades ban lgbt people decades long ban on lgbt people serving in the uk armed forces. after the publication of a government commissioned review , government commissioned review, the prime minister said the ban, which 2000, which lasted from 1967 to 2000, was an appalling failure of the british state. >> decades behind the law of this land. >> so major—general tim cross, who one three who commanded one of three divisions field army, divisions in the uk field army, joins us from the home of the british army in aldershot. good

morning you. ithink british army in aldershot. good morning you. i think a lot of morning to you. i think a lot of people, tim, will be really shocked to think that this ban continued until . the year 2000. continued until. the year 2000. >> yeah , yeah it did. >> yeah, yeah it did. >> yeah, yeah it did. >> and i was still serving serving throughout that period actually. let me start with a story the british military is about delivering what we call fighting power , the ability to fighting power, the ability to win on a battlefield . when i was win on a battlefield. when i was in australia, i lived in australia in the 19 early 1950s. as a young boy, and my father worked for shell and he employed a man called mike calvert. mike calvert was known as mad mike calvert. he was a royal engineer and he fought with the chindits under wavell in the far east against the japanese, one of the bravest men i've ever met. actually, i had him to come and lecture when i was a member of the directing staff at the british army staff college. he's a wonderful guy and a very, very brave man. he was basically only forced of the army forced out of the british army of being suspected to be a homosex , which was a disgrace.

homosex, which was a disgrace. and, you know, this is not about people's sexuality. it's about their ability to win on a battlefield . and the fact that battlefield. and the fact that this went for on so long is, you know, is wrong . and most people, know, is wrong. and most people, when they when they suffer these sort of things, want an apology. and in particular, i think for the military , anybody who the military, anybody who suffered by for not example, being awarded a campaign medal medal for serving in places like northern ireland or indeed the falklands campaign or anywhere else , you know, they need to be else, you know, they need to be they need to be recompensed for that, as in receive their medal and tim some i'm glad you raised that because some service service men actually had their medals removed from them when the army discovered they were homosexual, which is so shaming and appalling. >> it is . >> it is. >> it is. >> and in a way in a way almost unbelievable, really. now it has to be said, i'm not a great fan of apologising for, you know , of apologising for, you know, morality of 100 years ago or whatever, but i do think in this particular case, it's absolutely right, because that is a

scandal. and i think people need to be you know, they they need to be you know, they they need to receive an apology. and i think there are going to be things that come out of the woodwork in ahead of the woodwork in years ahead of the morality live today. morality that we live in today. and sorts of areas that and all sorts of areas that probably were going to have to find apologising find ourselves apologising for to. logic, tim? to. what was the logic, tim? >> what was the logic behind it? can ask you, what was the can i ask you, what was the logic behind the ban? what was the behind ban? was it the logic behind the ban? was it was a fear that homosexual was there a fear that homosexual men heterosexual men would pounce on heterosexual soldiers trenches or soldiers in the trenches or something? what the something? i mean, what was the logic? it wasn't that. >> no, it wasn't that. >> no, it wasn't that. >> but it does come back to this issue fighting power right. issue of fighting power right. you when you're when you know, when you're when you're in the you're on an operation in the heart of winning on a battlefield is about what we call the moral component. it's about friendship. about about friendship. it's about being die for your being prepared to die for your mates. was this mates. and there was this concern that anybody who who didn't conform route to fighting power, who , you know, weakened power, who, you know, weakened it or watered it down or whatever, you know, we shouldn't have. now, that includes i have to say, people who committed

adultery and people who had an affair . so if adultery and people who had an affair. so if as a commanding officer, for example, of a regiment, you had an affair with the wife of one of your young soldiers, you were court martialled, you kicked out martialled, you were kicked out of if you were if you of the army, if you were if you were a serial adulterer , you were a serial adulterer, you were a serial adulterer, you were out. so because, as were kicked out. so because, as you know, were undermined , you know, you were undermined, the component of fighting the moral component of fighting power my view , power now wrongly, in my view, but because of the story that i've already you, was i've already told you, it was considered that being a homosexual automatically undermined that fighting power. now it may have done with some people, it may have been that some homosexual people were predatory or whatever . and if predatory or whatever. and if that was proven to be the case, they would have to be dismissed they would have to be dismissed the same as somebody who committed adultery or whatever. but you know, a blanket ban on that basis clearly wrong . that basis was clearly wrong. >> and so you think they were right to apologise yesterday? tim i mean, i'm with you. i think people apologise for things that they didn't do or they nothing to do or they had nothing to do with or always feels little bit always feels a little bit hollow. but i think the very hollow. but i think in the very even, very fact that we're

even, the very fact that we're discussing and discussing discussing it and discussing how recently change had to recently this this change had to happen , i think probably that happen, i think probably that justifies why they needed to raise it in the commons, didn't it? of there'd be it? because of course there'd be a generation have a younger generation have no idea . yeah. that this was going idea. yeah. that this was going on recently as 2000. on as recently as 2000. >> no , no that's right. no >> no, no that's right. no i think it's i think it is. right. ben wallace who i've got a lot of time for and sadly is stepping down as secretary of state for defence and leaving the commons at the next election. i think ben, you know, wanted to do this probably before he left and he was right to raise it and it's been right that they've done like that they've done it and like all these things , you know, all these things, you know, we've got to be careful we don't keep on about it. coined keep banging on about it. coined a it's happened. a phrase. i mean it's happened. we recognise happened. we recognise what has happened. it's apologised for and it's now been apologised for and the military today is a very different place to military different place to the military that i joined back in 1960s that i joined back in the 1960s actually, and then commissioned in 1970. in all sorts of ways. it's still a tough fighting organisation, but rightly it sees things differently . it sees sees things differently. it sees things through a different lens,

which is good. >> tim just finally do you >> and tim just finally do you think for homosexual men or think now for homosexual men or gay women is a career in the military now? okay or do you think there is still residual discrimination ? discrimination? >> i don't i don't honestly think there is discrimination per se. i mean , there is per se. i mean, there is discrimination in all sorts of ways. the bottom line is, of course, we're all flawed human beings. we all get things wrong. we all make mistakes. we all say things we shouldn't say. and in the know, i often the military, you know, i often say sort of interviews, say in these sort of interviews, the army is a deeply the british army is a deeply flawed organisation because it's made me. but, made up of people like me. but, you the institutionally it you know, the institutionally it has dramatically. there has changed dramatically. there are issues of misogyny and are still issues of misogyny and sexism and so forth which, you know , come to on a pretty know, come to light on a pretty regular basis do in regular basis as they do in every other aspect of society. and just hearing about it and we're just hearing about it in but in in mcdonald's, of course, but in the military , in fact, i had the military, in fact, i had a young lad chatting to me the other day and he said to me, you know, did i think he should

join? and i don't understand why anybody between the ages of about 25 wants to do about 18 and 25 wants to do anything other be the anything other than be in the military. it's fantastic life. military. it's a fantastic life. it's wonderful career, it's a wonderful career, wonderful people of wonderful people with lots of opportunities . and it will never opportunities. and it will never be perfect. but it is a much, much better place today in the context our conversation . so, context of our conversation. so, yes, think it's a great place yes, i think it's a great place for young people to join and have a thoroughly successful and happy career. >> fantastic. thank you, tim. major—general tim cross there. i think i'm going to go and sign my son up. >> well, i think it's a great i think it's a great option. it is, isn't it? and it is staggering that only 20 years ago it was still you couldn't be 93v- ago it was still you couldn't be gay. and so if you were found out, you were court martialled. >> you, though, >> doesn't it show you, though, how how far that pendulum is swung, much swung, that we spend so much time talking about pride time now talking about pride week and i have many criticisms of tony blair. >> i mean, i could criticise tony blair all day, but in the terms of for gay men and women, he transformed the lives of gay men and women because civil

partnerships equal age of consent . and look, people now consent. and look, people now you go into your your car shop and there's a card for civil partnerships. yeah. and you see granny saying, i want a civil card. my granddaughter. and i think it's rather it's rather charming. >> i i do. >> i do. i do. »- >> i do. i do. >> and that's give blair i will give him some credit. not much, but happen very but for that doesn't happen very often that no . often does it, that no. >> let's just give you a couple of more views that you've been getting this getting in touch with this morning. is about the morning. this is about the strikes the nhs. barbara has strikes in the nhs. barbara has said, of said, from my experience of working throughout my professional life, junior doctors paid doctors have always been paid poorly. they work 24 over seven and sometimes due to their on call rotors, don't get sleep for days to pay them less per hour. for like hospital for example, like hospital cleaners is appalling. >> they're not going to get 35. and that's the problem. they're seeking 35% pay which is seeking a 35% pay rise, which is wildly particularly wildly unrealistic, particularly as we've just seen inflation drop 8. drop below 8. >> anne has said, why >> yeah, and anne has said, why don't watch critical don't people watch 999 critical condition ? well, presumably condition? well, presumably they're watching gb news when that's on. yes. she said then they will realise why these

doctors to be looked doctors deserve to be looked after after all, they're studying coming out of university with debts, university saddled with debts, not pressures not to mention the pressures they're under every day. i don't think any of us would dispute that. difficult and that. it is a difficult and necessary job. >> nigel farage is >> certainly now nigel farage is joining very excited joining us later. very excited about that. to talk about that. he's going to talk about that. he's going to talk about great coops banking about the great coops banking scandal. right. scandal. that's right. >> all after your . news >> all after your. news >> all after your. news >> it's 1032. >> all after your. news >> it's1032. good morning to you. i'm aaron armstrong here in the gb newsroom . well, voting the gb newsroom. well, voting started in the three by elections that are taking place in today. all three in england today. all three seats uxbridge and south seats in uxbridge and south ruislip in selby and ainsty and somerton in frome have been held by the conservatives since the last general election in 2019. the polling stations will close tonight at 10:00. constituents will need to bring photo id with them if they want to vote . them if they want to vote. thousands of medical appointments and operations have been postponed as senior doctors hold a 48 hour strike over pay . hold a 48 hour strike over pay. consultants and dentists have

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gb news radio. >> it's 1038. you're with britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pearson bev turner the australian state of victoria. >> they've pulled out of holding the 2026 commonwealth games. they say because of the spiralling costs. >> now it's a very unexpected announcement. this and it means that one of the major events for many athletes is now jeopardy many athletes is now in jeopardy with three years to go. >> so we're joined now by the former australian foreign minister, alexander downer. morning alexander . morning to you, alexander. >> . >> good morning. >> good morning. >> this is mean spirited, isn't it ? it? >> i think it is , yes. in— >> i think it is , yes. i it? >> i think it is , yes. i think >> i think it is, yes. i think it's rather, rather shocking . i it's rather, rather shocking. i mean, a month ago, they estimated the cost would be 2.6 billion aud. that's about what's that about £15 billion, a bit. a bit less than that. so that's pretty much the cost of the commonwealth games in birmingham . um, and then suddenly the premier of the state , you know, premier of the state, you know, like the prime minister of the state, announced that it would

cost 6 to $7 billion and therefore was being cancelled. so you can only be very suspicious of what might have gone on here. but of course it, it fires a torpedo into the high highest profile of all commonwealth events. the flagship event of the commonwealth, the once every four years, commonwealth games and now they'll have difficulty finding another country to host it or another city to host it. well he's he's obviously cooked the books, hasn't he , to come up the books, hasn't he, to come up with those wildly exaggerate the huge change in those figures. >> alexander is he is he anti commonwealth do you think he's the premier of that state? >> i think we're talking about the awful dan andrews here, aren't we? >> dan andrews exactly . so he's >> dan andrews exactly. so he's the premier like the state prime minister of the state. victoria very left wing, very exactly . very left wing, very exactly. yes. he would not be he would have no sympathy for the commonwealth. of course, he'd be a strong republican . not that a strong republican. not that that's particularly relevant to

this issue, but he would associate the two, no doubt, in his own mind. so my guess is that they decided the labour party in victoria, his political party decided in the lead up to the last state election to agree to host these commonwealth games in a whole lot of regional centres, which will logistically would be incredibly difficult and obviously very expensive . and obviously very expensive. um, as an election promise, as an election bribe in regional victoria , having won the victoria, having won the election, he's decided he can junk that and the way to do it is to pretend that it would cost $7 billion to hold it, which, you know, clearly wouldn't cost anything like that. >> in reality, this, this is a man who was on the tv pretty much nightly during the pandemic wanting more and more restrictions on more and more wanting more and more restrictpeople more and more wanting more and more restrictpeople closing nd more wanting more and more restrictpeople closing swimming young people closing swimming pools, closing athletics tracks, parks. this is a guy that never showed any compassion for young people, actually. and the

implications of this of saying we don't want the commonwealth games , particularly to the games, particularly to the australians for whom swimming, netball , all a sport like netball, all a sport like netball, all a sport like netball, the ones that the aussies excel at, there is no netball in the olympics. this is their olympics . how can he just their olympics. how can he just say this and just not care about all athletes who've all of those athletes who've trained for their whole life? >> as i feel less sorry for the australian , british, canadian australian, british, canadian and new zealand athletes because they do get many opportunities and of course their sports bodies have a lot of money. but i really feel sorry for the athletes who come from small island developing states, you know, place like saint kitts and nevis and samoa and so on, and smaller countries like papua new guinea, the commonwealth games are a highlight for athletes and it's something that their young athletes work towards. and then just to cancel it like this, obviously just for political reasons, is outrageous. and you

make a good point, by the way, about the lockdowns . dan about the lockdowns. dan andrews, this premier we're talking about long locked down for melbourne longer than any other city in the whole world. yeah, in the whole world. children were in schools for something like 240 days. >> yeah. alexander do you think what he really wants to do is get australia out of the commonwealth altogether? >> oh, i'm sure he'd be happy to see australia leave the commonwealth. well, let me let me just say this, though. he is only a state premier. of course australia does have national australia does have a national government i'm very government and i'm very surprised . i'm very surprised surprised. i'm very surprised the federal government hasn't intervened and tried to put together a package here to try together a package here to try to make sure that the commonwealth games will continue to be held in australia. but they have simply said the prime minister has simply said this is a matter for the victoria government. actually it's not it, it's a matter for the whole

of the commonwealth and it's a matter for australia's reputation. so look, honestly, normally i stick up for everything that happens in australia and what australia do, but i cannot stick up for this decision and it might be that we come along and save the day. >> we will have the commonwealth games potentially back here. we did an amazing job in birmingham and it was only last year wasn't it ? phenomenal success those it? phenomenal success of those games, maybe ? alexander we can, games, maybe? alexander we can, we can save the day . we can save the day. >> the difficulty is, though, for , for example, if you take for, for example, if you take birmingham or you can think four years earlier the gold coast in australia, which is just near brisbane, where very successful commonwealth games were held as well, the sports facilities are all still there or or pretty much there , but the commonwealth much there, but the commonwealth village, the athletes village has all been sold off and difficulty . you'd have to difficulty. you'd have to rebuild a village and as you know, finding the land for building that's all

controversial . yeah. controversial. yeah. >> yeah. well, it is very controversial. thank you so much for joining us. it's really forjoining us. it's really interesting, actually. former australian foreign minister alexander there. alexander downer there. >> i think we should pinch them i >> -- >> i'm not should we just tell everybody to see carole maloney ? you'll know that. you'll know the voice. sam lister's here as well. from the he normally makes a clattering racket when she walks in. >> emu em- em“ e should do it. >> do you know? i don't know. >> do you know? i don't know. >> i mean, i've just listened to what alexander said and completely sympathise, i'm completely sympathise, but i'm just thinking london is skint and can't go back and why is sadiq can't go back to birmingham? we go to birmingham? well, would we go back birmingham with sadiq back to birmingham with sadiq khan?is back to birmingham with sadiq khan? is sadiq khan? speak khan? is sadiq khan? can't speak for birmingham. london for birmingham. he says london is willing able to is ready and willing and able to take but how can it be? take it on. but how can it be? well it will bring more well i guess it will bring more money it would than it money than it would than it would cost us. >> sam events , i mean, >> sam these events, i mean, that packs hotels in that packs out the hotels in birmingham, restaurants, the birmingham, the restaurants, the transport. for transport. it's brilliant for the all the hotels are the city, but all the hotels are full migrants. oh, i mean, full of migrants. oh, i mean, let's honest. let's be honest. >> hotels. >> 100 hotels. >> 100 hotels. >> that's truth, isn't it? >> i don't wish to be unkind. >> i don't wish to be unkind. >> i'm sure we could find a few rooms in birmingham. it's it's

big enough, but i think. yeah, i mean, i think as long as the pubuc mean, i think as long as the public aren't having to foot the bill, know, that's. that's bill, you know, that's. that's the and it's a the will, isn't it. and it's a very difficult time sadiq very difficult time for sadiq khan wants to this because khan wants to do this because he's a mayoral campaign he's got a mayoral campaign next yeah he's got a mayoral campaign next year. he has and he's up >> well, he has and he's up against this woman. see the front standard that a front of the standard that was a flashing photograph, wasn't it? >> susan hall? >> susan hall? >> yeah, she looks like loony. >> yeah, she looks like a loony. >> yeah, she looks like a loony. >> saying, don't >> i was just saying, why don't they somebody? everyone they put up somebody? everyone knows big player instead. knows a big player instead. i mean, doesn't good. mean, she doesn't look good. there she is. she does say she's going to ban which hold going to ban ulez, which hold that which is it's that up, which is it's a terrible photo. >> can't i can't believe that >> i can't i can't believe that this photo entirely this photo was entirely accidental. on on the on the part we're trying show it. part of we're trying to show it. >> nobody's looking. >> but nobody's looking. >> but nobody's looking. >> there standards >> there she is. there standards so photo so that's so this is a photo so that's a sign that the standard are not going to back the party. i think that election that is true. >> chosen a photo which >> they've chosen a photo which looks deranged, looks slightly deranged, not slightly. it's not entirely slightly. and it's not entirely flattering. sam, mean, flattering. and sam, i mean, does chance maybe does she have any chance maybe they as a good, they could cast her as a good, strong because we strong matriarch because we need some those politics, don't we? >> yeah, but i think the point

is the tories, they could have won. absolutely hated. won. ulez is absolutely hated. it they had it yes, they. they had a fighting chance of winning this and they've chosen and instead they've chosen people. they've chosen a woman that nobody nobody's that nobody knows. nobody's ever heard of. she might be brilliant, nobody knows who brilliant, but nobody knows who she they'd have she is. and if they'd have chosen like a big hitter, know chosen like a big hitter, i know they with a chance. and they were in with a chance. and it almost bit like they it almost feels a bit like they just want, you know, they're not bothered they bothered about losing it. they don't win it. there's no don't want to win it. there's no hunger there to win it. >> you think the big figures >> do you think the big figures who've mayor boris ken who've been mayor boris ken livingstone have livingstone yes, the tories have tried. at one tried. jeffrey archer at one stage. stephen lewis he's a big figures and khan, know, figures and khan, you know, is not, knows his not, although everyone knows his name, everyone knows his name because mistakes he's because of the mistakes he's made, things made, but because of the things he's done wrong and for the money, overspent. money, he's overspent. >> he's not he's you >> yeah, he's not he's not, you know, thought of as a big hitter because good. because he's good. >> farage have >> nigel farage now, he'd have been candidate for mayor london. >> well, that have been. >> well, that would have been. >> well, that would have been. >> i'm waiting >> you know what i'm waiting for? out when all our for? to find out when all our bank accounts are going to be cancelled. >> well, they're probably watching us malone. yeah. watching us now, malone. yeah. thinking. what are you saying? >> know. i don't >> well, i don't know. i don't think interesting, isn't think it's interesting, isn't it? kept on talking

it? cuts kept on talking about the damage by the reputation damage caused by having client and having nigel as a client and what is actually is what they've done is actually is completely their what they've done is actually is comjreputation, their what they've done is actually is comjreputation, bigotry eir own reputation, their bigotry and division and their their division and their their. know, their and their. you know, it's interesting. they're saying i think have to publish think they have to publish a list of these so—called values that they i agree, because this is remember, is the bank. if you remember, in 2012 £8.5 is the bank. if you remember, in 2012 £85 million is the bank. if you remember, in 20�*the £8.5 million is the bank. if you remember, in 20�*the financial £8.5 million is the bank. if you remember, in 20�*the financial services million by the financial services authority for not proper authority for not giving proper care to their how should we say, not dodgy money, but the money that was coming through their accounts that wasn't 100% kosher. you know , their kosher. so, you know, their values are questionable to say the least, frankly. but can we ask you about the bbc as well? >> because we mustn't let them off the hook here, because the telegraph has reported today brilliantly the simon jack brilliantly that the simon jack , the bbc business editor , sat , the bbc business editor, sat next to alison rose , the very next to alison rose, the very woke chief executive of coutts bank, the night before the bbc ran that story, saying nigel farage account had been closed because he didn't have enough money in the bank. which was lie. >> yeah , and i mean actually >> yeah, and i mean actually simon, if he's been told that by the top person at the bank, then

clearly as a source you report it. obviously you know it. yeah. but obviously you know the questions for the bank, right? going joined right? we're going to be joined by farage. right? we're going to be joined by here farage. right? we're going to be joined by here he rage. right? we're going to be joined by here he is|e. sorry, simon, >> here he is now. sorry, simon, to interrupt you. >> good drum. >> good morning, drum. >> good morning, drum. >> morning, nigel. well >> good morning, nigel. well you've you've had a rather you've had a you've had a rather busy 24 hours. bring our viewers and our listeners up to speed. nigel what's happened in the last day ? last day? >> i've been cancelled . i'm now >> i've been cancelled. i'm now a non—person. i don't exist . you a non—person. i don't exist. you realise i think ricky gervais is funny. i know the djokovic. i mean, the crimes that i've committed, the list as your arm . look, you know , i've done two . look, you know, i've done two things. firstly me, i've blown the whistle on the british banking industry , which has been banking industry, which has been going in the wrong direction for years and years and years , and years and years and years, and many thousands of people who don't have a platform have been shut down, have been closed out . and that's really awful . but . and that's really awful. but also i've used something called subject access request , which i subject access request, which i didn't even know existed two months ago. and it's important

for us as a channel now to say to people, if you've been closed down by the bank or treated badly, you have as much right as i do in subjects access i do to put in subjects access requests. and i recommend that you what was your you do what what was your thought , you do what what was your thought, nigel, when you got this dossier on your desk for the first time you saw the first time and you saw yourself about those yourself talked about in those terms of being disingenuous , terms of being disingenuous, homophobic, racist, just what was the emotion i expected the report to say, because i'm a politically exposed person, the costs of compliance are too great. therefore, we don't want the account. that was what i expected. you know, of course, if you're mega rich, it wouldn't matter. but that's what i expected . what i looked it. expected. what i looked at it. i simply couldn't believe the vile and vile, horrible , vitriolic and vile, horrible, vitriolic prejudice people. i mean, literally every single one of the worst and often very wrong newspaper articles that's ever been written about me. is there . and the way it's been written, you know, he's not yet been convicted of anything. well, that's of them, isn't it ?

that's nice of them, isn't it? um, was the most um, it really was the most poisonous i've read poisonous thing i've ever read about myself . i thought to about myself. i thought to myself, it was rather like being a going into a a barrister for going into a criminal case. you know, this is the charge sheet you'd criminal case. you know, this is the and charge sheet you'd criminal case. you know, this is the and you'd;e sheet you'd criminal case. you know, this is the and you'd cross—question have and you'd cross—question the person in the door. i was really , really shocked by it. it really, really shocked by it. it is absolutely horrible . and to is absolutely horrible. and to have allowed the newspaper access to this and to put it out there have to be honest, it does cause a slight sense of disquiet within me. but i've done it because . cause i've done it because. cause i've done it because. cause i've done it because it would nip this in the bud. who the hell is going to go into public life in britain? because if your family can be subjected to being peps, that really is a price too high for going into politics or senior position in the judiciary or whatever it may be. but i've really done it because i've been aware for some years now that thousands of people are being shut down by the banks , shut down by the banks, particularly people taking cash as they want us to drive towards

as they want us to drive towards a cashless society. and thank goodness gb news has got its don't kill cash campaign . so don't kill cash campaign. so i've done it on behalf of all the others. and what's really interesting is the response from members of parliament, the response from ministers and even the prime minister has been as quick as it has. why because they've been written to by their constituent for years. they've seen a banking industry making profits of 35 billion last year, an industry who, through their greed and stupidity , we bailed greed and stupidity, we bailed out , put our greed and stupidity, we bailed out, put our taxes up as a direct result of it. and those mps , those mps are conscious of mps, those mps are conscious of their own constituents being treated terribly . treated terribly. >> are you going to sue coutts bank for defamation? because if i had written that in my newspaper or carole malone written her newspaper or sam rhiannon own newspaper, we would expect be sued because it is expect to be sued because it is defamatory , we are you going to defamatory, we are you going to sue them ? sue them? >> i don't know yet. andrew right now my real focus right now is to get this debate out as

broadly as possible, to get people to understand that subject access requests exist. and please , please to use them . and please, please to use them. and please, please to use them. and i'm going to urge the government and the treasury select committee to act. don't go to benidorm for three weeks or wherever you might be going. that committee needs to hold dame alison in front of it in short order. we need to find out what is going on in a bank that has 19 million customers and is 39% owned by us. the taxpayer . 39% owned by us. the taxpayer. still, when it comes when it comes to options , i'm comes to options, i'm considering all options. andrew right. >> and there'll be some people who will say, well, it's only nigel farage. you know, he's a bit controversial. it's only him. but how many other people and what kinds of people have beenin and what kinds of people have been in touch with you in the last 24 hours? >> as i've had one today, a chap who had a coutts account closed down 15 months ago with no good reason. he went to the financial ombudsman and he's still waiting

for an answer. but he said, nigel, i didn't know who i could request this personal information on. i've had another guy ' a information on. i've had another guy , a younger guy, client of guy, a younger guy, client of coutts, trades in crypto currencies. apparently that's not acceptable to coutts, but i've also had, you know, people running small businesses and they go into their bank once a week . if they've still got week. if they've still got a branch that is , are they put in branch that is, are they put in the takings and the banks are saying, you know what, we don't want this, we don't need this , want this, we don't need this, go somewhere else. so a lot of little people, little but i don't mean that in any pejorative sense. a lot of little people sole traders, men and women running their own lives are effectively being shut out of the system. and bev, it's thousands. out of the system. and bev, it's thousands . it's thousands. thousands. it's thousands. >> can i ask you something? you know what's really surprised me over this has been the response from people who i would say some of whom are your greatest critics and the reason they're on side with you over this is because they understand what it means. i think andrew neil

called day in mail. he called it a day in the mail. he called it a day in the mail. he called new form of called it a new form of mccarthyist ism . mccarthyist ism. >> yes, he did. >> yes, he did. >> i thought you might want to expand on that. are you surprised that at the support you've had from from people who in the past have criticised you on on all levels politically ? on on all levels politically? >> one of my daughters is very politically aware and has had to suffer being my daughter for many, many years said to me she'd never seen such support for me online. yeah it's come, it's come from across the spectrum and i'm really quite humbled by it. i really am. well nigel, thank you for joining us. >> keep up the good fight. it's a very important fight because it could. they could be watching us now completely. and us for here now completely. and they could close batus. now they could close our batus. now we've read this we've got to read out this ridiculous from ridiculous statement from coutts. and i'm going to call it ridiculous because but ridiculous because it is, but this is what they say it is not coutts policy customer coutts policy to close customer accounts of accounts solely on the basis of legally held political and personal views. >> yeah, that's right. >> well, do you believe a word still to come, just how lazy are

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gb news. >> it's 11 am. on thursday, the 20th of july. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> very good morning. thank you for joining us. well, the summer forjoining us. well, the summer of strikes underway. of strikes is underway. thousands of consultants have walked 48 thousands of consultants have walkeyin 48 thousands of consultants have walkeyin a 48 thousands of consultants have walkeyin a dispute 48 thousands of consultants have walkeyin a dispute over 48 thousands of consultants have walkeyin a dispute over pay 48 thousands of consultants have walkeyin a dispute over pay .i8 thousands of consultants have walkeyin a dispute over pay . nhs hours in a dispute over pay. nhs bosses are warning that there will disruption in. will be severe disruption in. and i'm afraid it's not just senior doctors. >> many of you might have had your travel disrupted today. yes

it's trains drivers that it's the trains drivers that train staff are striking again. it's over pay. it's your patience. wearing thin with all these strikes. mine is on the farage v coots rail rumbles on. >> the prime minister had his say yesterday stating that no one should have their bank account closed because of their political views . political views. >> and later in the show we're going to discuss new research which shows britons spend less time in the office. and guess what? than anywhere else in europe become bit lazy with europe become a bit lazy with working from home. the future civil servants answer the question . question. and we would love to know what you think of everything we're discussing today and nigel farage was brilliant. if you heard his interview with us earlier, small clip earlier, we'll play a small clip from considering from that. and he is considering taking legal action against coots. think should . he was coots. i think he should. he was defamed lot of times in that defamed a lot of times in that document. yeah, 40 pages. >> as said when he saw >> and as he said when he saw it, he expected that he

it, he expected to see that he was politically vulnerable. it, he expected to see that he was poliwhaty vulnerable. it, he expected to see that he was poliwhat hejlnerable. it, he expected to see that he was poliwhat he sawable. it, he expected to see that he was poliwhat he saw was. it, he expected to see that he was poliwhat he saw was a very >> and what he saw was a very personal he said he was personal and he said he was shocked . shocked. >> he's been in public life >> and he's been in public life for he's a lot for decades and he's had a lot of written about him, of stuff written about him, which hostile, which has been hostile, but he couldn't just how couldn't believe just how inaccurate and hostile that was by coutts bank, which i don't forget is state owned. 38% of it is owned by the taxpayer. >> it's easily it's >> it's not easily shocked. it's nigel farage. that's says nigel farage. so that's says something, right. something, doesn't it? right. first very first of all, here is your very latest news with . aaron it's 11:03. >> good morning from the gb newsroom. voting has started. polls are open in the three by elections taking place across england today. all three seats in uxbridge and south ruislip in london. selby and ainsty in nonh london. selby and ainsty in north yorkshire. and somerton and frome in somerset have been held by the conservatives since the last general election in 2019. polling stations will close at 10:00 tonight. constituents will need to bring photo id with them if they want to vote . thousands of medical

to vote. thousands of medical appointments and operations have been postponed and as senior doctors hold a 48 hour strike over pay , consultants and over pay, consultants and dentists have agreed to offer emergency care only as they work out for the first time in a decade. out for the first time in a decade . nhs bosses have warned decade. nhs bosses have warned of severe disruption to patient care. and it comes just two days after a junior doctors staged a five day walkout, the longest in the history of the nhs . health the history of the nhs. health secretary steve barclay says the government has listened to the bma's demands as average nhs earnings of a consultant. >> after this pay rise will be £134,000 a year. and on top of that 20% of their salary goes into their pension, which means they'll be able to earn when they'll be able to earn when they retire by the age of 65, tax free up to £60,000 a year. the number one ask of the bma was for pension tax reform, and we listened to that as we acted on it . and in addition, we've on it. and in addition, we've also accepted in full the

independent pay review body recommendations , up to 20,000 recommendations, up to 20,000 rail staff are on strike this morning overjob security and pay- >> it's causing disruption and cancelled sessions across many services. it is the first of three days of industrial action over the next week and a half or so, it will affect 14 train companies in england , which may companies in england, which may have a knock on effect into scotland and wales. drivers in the aslef union. additionally are banned from doing overtime. this week. general secretary mick is hopeful fresh mick lynch is hopeful fresh talks with network rail will mirror the progress he's making with london underground . with london underground. >> and let's get try and get a deal all cooked up, but we can try and get back round the table. we're doing that with london transport now about london transport right now about what's going in london what's going on in london underground. been in acas what's going on in london unde conciliation been in acas what's going on in london unde conciliation service] in acas what's going on in london unde conciliation service all acas , the conciliation service all week. so if we can get the same atmosphere where people are trying work some trying to work towards some solutions we can do solutions as perhaps we can do that national rail, i'm that on national rail, i'm hoping that london hoping that maybe london underground with underground will come up with some proposals that are steps

forward and we can consider that. but if we can do that on both parts of railway, if both parts of the railway, if you can maybe get some you like, we can maybe get some progress europe progress travelling to europe via train is on average four times more expensive than flying i >> -- >> that's according to greenpeace analysis. the flying was cheaper on all routes from the uk , including between london the uk, including between london and edinburgh , travelling to and edinburgh, travelling to barcelona from london by train was ten times more expensive on average. and how about this? a last minute booking up to 30 times more expensive supermarkets are not displaying pnces supermarkets are not displaying prices as clearly as they should, preventing shoppers from finding the best deals. that's the findings of the competition and market authority, which says retailers could be hampering people's ability to compare products. the watchdog is warning supermarkets to make necessary changes or risk facing enforced payment and is calling on the government to tighten the laws around pricing display. on the government to tighten the laws around pricing display . the laws around pricing display. the eu's top diplomat, laws around pricing display. the eu's top diplomat , josep eu's top diplomat, josep borrell, says russia is responsible for causing a major

global food crisis. on monday , global food crisis. on monday, moscow withdrew from the grain deal , which guaranteed the safe deal, which guaranteed the safe passage of ukrainian shipments through the black sea. ross russia has subsequently bombed storage facilities in odesa and other port cities and global wheat prices have soared following russia's threat to view ships bound for ukraine as potential military targets . two potential military targets. two people have been killed in a shooting in auckland in new zealand. it took place just hours before the women's world cup got underway there. six other people, including police , other people, including police, have been injured. the gunman is also dead. the shooting took place on a building site in the downtown area of the city. new zealand's prime minister says the threat level hasn't changed zealand's prime minister says the the at level hasn't changed zealand's prime minister says the the footballhasn't changed zealand's prime minister says the the football tournamentied zealand's prime minister says the the football tournament will and the football tournament will proceed as scheduled. a minute's silence was held before the opening match of the tournament . new zealand beat norway 1—0 five whale sharks have been rescued by divers after they were found trapped in fishing nets in ocean waters off

indonesia. there's some underwater footage can show how the divers pulled away the nets and gently guided the whale sharks in the right direction. so they were able to swim freely. look at that majestic animals, huge as well. the whale shark is considered the largest species of fish in existence. it is on the red list of the international union for conservation of nature. as a vulnerable species . great news vulnerable species. great news that this is gb news. we'll bnng that this is gb news. we'll bring you more as it happens. but now it's back to andrew and . bev >> well, hospital consultants earning on average £128,000 a yeah earning on average £128,000 a year. they've gone on strike today in a row over pay , causing today in a row over pay, causing massive disruption. again across the nhs. >> so this is consultants and dentists are staging a 48 hour walkout which threatens to bring planned procedures to a

standstill. >> we're going to bring in journalist rebecca reid, as well as david maddox, who is the political editor of express online. >> good morning to you both. rebecca how much sympathy do you think people have these think people will have for these highly paid consultants going on strike? >> i mean, i think it's a slightly leading question. the highly paid bit, and i think thatis highly paid bit, and i think that is they are highly paid people. they are not earning a small amount of money, especially compared to some of the other people who have been on for strike instance, nurses. so i do understand why people's knee jerk reaction is to be like, you earn loads of money, what's your problem? but the reality is these some of the reality is these are some of the most skilled in most highly skilled people in the of the the country doing some of the most in the most important work in the country. were country. and if they were working any other working abroad in any other country, would be earning country, they would be earning three, more three, four, five times more than are here. and also, than they are here. and also, there are specific other concerns that they have. for instance , around pensions. and instance, around pensions. and i think with conditions. so think to do with conditions. so it's not just about that headline. and i think it's very convenient for the government to be like, this one's be able to be like, this one's not on they're greedy.

not on us. they're just greedy. they more money when they just want more money when in to it. in reality there is more to it. >> but there is more to it >> but but there is more to it because of if they were because of course, if they were working they wouldn't working abroad, they wouldn't be working abroad, they wouldn't be working funded by the working in an nhs funded by the taxpayer . taxpayer. >> yes, that's true. they would be working in a variety of different systems and there's a reason that they make in reason that they make so much in america. you know, you could be earning million, $1 million a earning £1 million, $1 million a year role. it is earning £1 million, $1 million a yedifferent role. it is earning £1 million, $1 million a yedifferent fundingrole. it is earning £1 million, $1 million a yedifferent funding system.s earning £1 million, $1 million a yedifferent funding system. i do a different funding system. i do recognise think they recognise that and i think they do but there is do as well. but there is something where are do as well. but there is somewhere where are do as well. but there is somewhere their where are do as well. but there is somewhere their pay/here are do as well. but there is somewhere their pay hasn't are now, where their pay hasn't necessarily been fairly reviewed or adjusted the five, or adjusted over the last five, ten years and earning £1 million a year . a year. >> david do you think that the pubuc >> david do you think that the public losing sympathy public are losing sympathy with with doctors? we appreciate them as rebecca said, they are incredibly highly trained. they study for years for these jobs. when you're family are ill, study for years for these jobs. when you're family are ill , that when you're family are ill, that is when you realise how much we appreciate them. but the nhs waiting lists never been waiting lists have never been longer and all these strikes do at this time is extend those waiting lists and caused delays for people who are poorly . i

for people who are poorly. i think most people are outraged by it actually, especially the consultants . consultants. >> they are highly paid. they have gold plated pensions . have gold plated pensions. they've got improved gold plated pensions thanks to the government's recent changes. and you know, there's no real excuse . i was texted by a close friend last thursday who is in a state of despair because he may well have cancer. he's had his biopsy cancelled three times because money grubbing doctors who want to pay rise, who are already very well paid, are going on strike. and these are the people who are really suffering. it's not doctors who actually have good salaries, good pensions , good salaries, good pensions, things which most people in this country would would love to have. >> are they are they just money grabbing rebecca as david says, i don't think i've ever heard someone say the word money grabbing doctor before. >> it's such an oxymoron . like >> it's such an oxymoron. like if you're a money grabbing person and you are highly

skilled very clever. the skilled and very clever. the last would do is be an last thing you would do is be an nhs i think the idea nhs doctor for, i think the idea that medicine that anybody goes into medicine to make money in this country is sort of quite funny, almost . and sort of quite funny, almost. and you know, the junior doctors who have been strike much more have been on strike much more really, really don't earn much money. and it's not a particularly lucrative career. so i don't think that anybody is out there training to be in medicine because they want to make bank . i medicine because they want to make bank. i just don't think that's what anybody's doing . that's what anybody's doing. >> but rebecca, it was widely reported when these consultants said they would go on strike that not that on these when they're not working they will working for the nhs, they will actually be working in the private , earning vast private sector, earning vast amounts of money the amounts of money while the nhs waiting which they're not waiting list, which they're not working longer. working on, gets longer. >> i mean, it's not vast amounts of money and it is in their own time. so whatever you want to time. so do whatever you want to do side as the as do is your side hustle as the as the zs would is the gen zs would have, it is completely up to you whether there is to go jogging or whether it's to do surgery. but also that does take some pressure them working also that does take some press|hours them working also that does take some press|hours th some )rking also that does take some press|hours thsome pressure more hours takes some pressure out . i don't think out of the system. i don't think anybody country

anybody in this country is pretending that the nhs is running perfectly a world in running perfectly and a world in which get hip which you can get your hip replaced within six months if you and it's six you can pay for it. and it's six years, if you can't, it's not a fair or a good one. but i don't see any reason why they shouldn't able to use their see any reason why they shoulytime. able to use their see any reason why they shoulytime. but le to use their see any reason why they shoulytime. but that use their see any reason why they shoulytime. but that does:heir see any reason why they shoulytime. but that does mean spare time. but that does mean they're much longer spare time. but that does mean they'reand much longer spare time. but that does mean they'reand especiallych longer spare time. but that does mean they'reand especially when ger spare time. but that does mean they'reand especially when you week. and especially when you get point where you're get to the point where you're sort of pre—retirement, that's tiring. that's a lot put tiring. that's a lot to put somebody you somebody through. david are you feeling sorry for these consultants this life that rebecca them? rebecca is painting for them? >> well , you know, i guess it's >> well, you know, i guess it's a tough life on the golf course for them. >> and they're you know, they are expensive holidays that they can afford aid and all the rest of it , you know? no, i can afford aid and all the rest of it, you know? no, i don't. and i think it's absolutely disgraceful that they've gone on strike. i think the people who will suffer, i mean , you know, will suffer, i mean, you know, i'll give you another story, a friend of mine, because of doctor strikes, missed two heart operations . it resulted in her operations. it resulted in her having a major heart attack, falling a fall broke her spine. this is the sort of result of

what the doctors are doing and they are deliberately putting people's lives and health at risk to get more money when they earn well above the national average . well, well above the average. well, well above the national average , they could national average, they could earn well into six figures and, you know, there's no real excuse for this, i'm afraid at a time when, you know, public finances are being are under massive pressure for those who actually are. well paid, need to take the hit , as many are. well paid, need to take the hit, as many of us are presumably in this example, this didn't like . didn't like. >> it's very, very unusual for consultants to go on strike. so in these examples and i'm so sorry for your friend, that is awful, presumably that awful, but presumably that wasn't result of the wasn't a result of the consulting strike, that consulting being on strike, that that result junior that was the result of a junior doctors on strike. doctors being on strike. >> so the junior doctors get paid. you're talking about this just worse, aren't they? you know , you know, i mean , this know, so, you know, i mean, this is the result of various health strikes. junior doctors , the strikes. junior doctors, the nurses as well, you strikes. junior doctors, the nurses as well , you know, and

nurses as well, you know, and now the consultants . it's just now the consultants. it's just going to make matters worse . i going to make matters worse. i mean, those those are just two stories. those are two i know of. there'll be thousands of people like this. the nurses get paid repeat money grubbing doctors and, you know, wanting to cash in on on a dwindling pubuc to cash in on on a dwindling public pot of funds. >> don't we could reasonably suggest that nurses in this country are money grabbing the idea if you ever see, as i said, money grabbing they work the hours they clock the amount of steps they do in a day. the idea that they're money grabbing feels like , i have to say, feels like, i have to say, i think this whole this whole strikes have put a lie to the fact that they are there for pubuc fact that they are there for public service , frankly. public service, frankly. >> and it's an absolute outrage that it's been carrying on the nurses have at least seen sense and made a deal. and they we had and made a deal. and they we had a bit more sympathy for the nurses. i have to be honest. but there is no excuse for what the doctors are doing . and it is an

doctors are doing. and it is an absolute national disgrace and they should be called out for it at every opportunity. >> and rebecca, can i ask you, do really think junior do you really think the junior doctor should be given a 35% pay rise, their rise, which is what their striking they haven't had striking over? they haven't had a pay striking over? they haven't had a pay rise for what? >> well, i'm asking you a >> well, no, i'm asking you a question. do you think they should given 35% pay rise? should be given a 35% pay rise? do do 100% do? do you do 100% do? >> right >> yes. right >> yes. right >> and who for that >> and who pays for that? that comes public purse. comes out of the public purse. >> i'm very comfortable >> yes, i'm very comfortable with . right. with that. right. >> that's taxes going >> okay. so that's taxes going up even more . up even more. >> up even more. >> i'm comfortable with that. i feel like also, if we stopped wasting so much money in so many, many, many directions as there would probably be more money to spend on this . but money to spend on this. but really, you're the backbone of your country is the health of the people who live there. the nhs needs to be massively overhauled. nobody is suggesting otherwise, but the but the people who keep people well and healthy country should people who keep people well and he'a:hy country should people who keep people well and he'a top, country should people who keep people well and he'a top, top, country should people who keep people well and he'a top, top, toprntry should people who keep people well and he'a top, top, top priority)uld people who keep people well and he'a top, top, top priority .rld be a top, top, top priority. >> dodi right. be a top, top, top priority. >> dodi right . well, you're not >> dodi right. well, you're not going to get that out of the labor party, by the way, because

probably going to almost certainly new government certainly get a new government next year. they're not they're not offering them 35. >> . and i'm sad and i'm >> i know. and i'm sad and i'm sad about that. but i don't think they would had a think they would have had a situation where course situation where over the course of pretty much ten years, of ten, pretty much ten years, nobody have had nobody would have had a significant or proper pay rise because effectively because they are effectively earning less than earning almost less than they were years now. not were ten years ago now. not quite. that's quite. but it's that's hyperbole. they are not hyperbole. but they are not being suitably remunerated and i'm disappointed labour i'm disappointed the labour party to address that. >> rebecca, let just ask you >> rebecca, let me just ask you one you say about one question. when you say about the i think we all agree the waste, i think we all agree there is there is sort of a kind of profligacy of general profligacy amongst governments of general profligacy amongst govern usents of general profligacy amongst govern us ents crazy. where drives us all crazy. but where would you trim that waste from? do you have any idea which departments you think are particularly you particularly wasteful, where you would want have some funds would want to have some funds redirect from towards the nhs ? redirect from towards the nhs? >> i mean, my views on this very rarely go down well, but i would get rid trident. i would say get rid of trident. i would say that we could have a considerably reduced army . i considerably reduced army. i would the police . and i would defund the police. and i think there's a lot of places i think there's a lot of places i think you've just lost the room. >> there defunding the police.

>> there defunding the police. >> rebecca defunding police, >> rebecca defunding the police, right. that's a good idea. >> you what would you >> what would you what would you put instead the put instead of instead of the police? you police? like, how would you defund so police defund the police? so police abolition is about the idea that at the moment the police are, broadly speaking, sort of social workers with truncheons and they're expected 45 they're expected to do about 45 different all of which different things, all of which they're do. they're badly trained to do. >> not that, you >> so by not having that, you would reinvest towards would basically reinvest towards health care. so health and social care. so if you if you tackled addiction, for instance, like one for instance, which is like one of biggest drivers for crime for instance, which is like one othen biggest drivers for crime for instance, which is like one othen you|est drivers for crime for instance, which is like one othen you don't'ivers for crime for instance, which is like one othen you don't need for crime for instance, which is like one othen you don't need to crime for instance, which is like one othen you don't need to have; for instance, which is like one othen you don't need to have as , then you don't need to have as many the sort of many people doing the sort of policing familiar many people doing the sort of policiso familiar many people doing the sort of policiso it's familiar many people doing the sort of policiso it's about familiar many people doing the sort of policiso it's about kind liar with. so it's about kind of addressing. abolition addressing. and prison abolition is same . i also believe in. >> and so someone, somebody burgles my house who's going to investigate burgles my house who's going to invest thee burgles my house who's going to invest the moment, no one you'll >> at the moment, no one you'll call? you're defunding the police. >> there'll be no police to investigate it. >> at the moment, no one. there's no police. >> at the moment, no one. thethere'spolice. >> at the moment, no one. thethere's noice. >> at the moment, no one. thethere's no police your >> there's no police in your brave right? brave new world, right? >> that's thing right >> that's the same thing right now. if get burgled and now. if you get burgled and you call they'll like, call the met, they'll be like, um, yeah. that sucks for um, yeah, yeah. that sucks for you.by >> you, though. well great >> thank you, though. well great debate. thanks, guys. david maddox is lost for words. >> unusual . rebecca reid, thank

>> unusual. rebecca reid, thank you for joining >> unusual. rebecca reid, thank you forjoining us. david maddox express online. well she didn't just lose the room. she lost the country. >> yeah, but i like to have those conversations. >> i like to think that we need to come up with different visual images for how we this images for how we can make this work. why i wanted to ask work. that's why i wanted to ask her which department her about which department she would. rebecca would. didn't expect rebecca to say police. say she'd defund the police. that surprise. that took me by surprise. >> with the >> i'd start with the international . international aid budget. >> we're giving money to india. do that? we're giving do you know that? we're giving money to india, which is developing its own space programme to spend our international more cleverly? >> i do. but i don't think we can disband it because do you know why i've been thinking about this a lot? funnily enough . who you interview? . uh, who would you interview? the we were talking the other day we were talking about know about migration. ian oh, i know one think it was the one of our, i think it was the hardeep singh bhangu that hardeep singh bhangu that hardeep the lawyer hardeep singh bhangu, the lawyer . yeah, immigration lawyer. and he saying that problem he was saying that the problem with immigrants here is with so many immigrants here is because there are so many country are in a mess country ages which are in a mess overseas is that's people overseas is that's why people want leave them. and i think want to leave them. and i think that's argument that's quite a strong argument for increasing our international aid budget, those

aid budget, help fix those countries then we help countries and then we help possibly immigration . possibly with the immigration. >> if needs money, they >> if india needs money, they should spending it should stop spending it on a space program. >> mean, that's >> yeah, i mean, that's ridiculous. shouldn't ridiculous. we shouldn't be funding that funding helping countries that have a space program , right? have got a space program, right? >> so britain's the latest people in europe. we're going to be the broadcast and be speaking to the broadcast and psychotherapist beresford, be speaking to the broadcast and psychotheryusst beresford, be speaking to the broadcast and psychotheryus what beresford, be speaking to the broadcast and psychotheryus what she resford, be speaking to the broadcast and psychotheryus what she thinks. who'll tell us what she thinks. i'm

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britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pearson, bev turner. >> now, have you ever noticed that either you or someone close to you nowadays are so easily influenced by what's on the telly? media? telly? radio or social media? >> our next guest says >> well, our next guest says it's important for to us understand impacts and learn understand its impacts and learn how influence. so how to resist its influence. so here she is, co—author of free your mind . morning. laura your mind. good morning. laura dodsworth. easily are we dodsworth. how easily are we influenced? >> oh , we are influenced very >> oh, we are influenced very easily. you know, we're herd animals. certain inbuilt animals. we have certain inbuilt biases , social conformity. you biases, social conformity. you know, we want to be liked . we know, we want to be liked. we also want to be right. we're also want to be right. we're also so inbuilt to respect authority . there's the authority. there's the authority, bias and fear . you authority, bias and fear. you know, manipulators play on our secret desires and fears. i can give you an example of myself being scammed, which is quite funny. i was recalling it on the way do you remember in way in today. do you remember in lockdown there this tweet lockdown, there was this tweet that viral about woolworths that went viral about woolworths returning to the high street. >> i think that's totally got me. >> it totally got me. i retweeted it and you'll find propaganda or scams often play upon fears and hopes . these are

upon fears and hopes. these are the in our emotional the steam in our emotional engine. and they they then depress your rational brain. >> so this playing on your >> so this is playing on your hope was coming back. hope that it was coming back. >> on hope because >> it played on my hope because of course, was really of course, it was this really awful the awful gloomy time. the high street lockdown street was dying lockdown was killing we killing the high street. we weren't going out. and so it played on nostalgia played on this nostalgia of childhood pick'n'mix, sweets and records and other records. yeah. and then other people tweeting, oh, this is this is a scam. look at all the idiots that have been taken in. i really shamed, you know, i was really shamed, you know, fool once, shame on you. fool fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice, shame on me. so this bookis me twice, shame on me. so this book is all about how you spot the scams before they even happen to you. >> book you wrote >> so the book that you wrote before state of fear, before this was state of fear, which the which was inspired by the pandemic government pandemic and how the government weaponized pandemic. weaponized fear in the pandemic. so how does this follow on so how does this then follow on from that? and just remind us a little more about what that little bit more about what that book involved? >> well, i'm really you >> well, i'm really glad you asked me, because the thing is that time for me was a really big epiphany. it kind a big epiphany. it was kind of a political awakening, i had political awakening, and i had a strong being political awakening, and i had a strongillusory, being political awakening, and i had a strongillusory, you being political awakening, and i had a strongillusory, you know being political awakening, and i had a strongillusory, you know ,yeing political awakening, and i had a strongillusory, you know , it ng political awakening, and i had a strongillusory, you know , it was quite illusory, you know, it was natural for people to be frightened pandemic, frightened of a pandemic, especially who were especially for people who were

vulnerable to it. of course, it was. but that fear was put on steroids by a very deliberate campaign science campaign of behavioural science nudging and fear in nudging propaganda and fear in order to induce a certain level of docility and compliance with what were very draconian rules. now some people argue that's justified . md the head of the justified. md the head of the nudge unit still says it's justified. >> that's a government unit. the behavioural unit. it's behavioural insights unit. it's called unit . called the nudge unit. >> was at the time >> yeah, it was at the time a government unit. it's now independent. by, by nesta. independent. so by, by nesta. but you the head of the but you know, the head of the nudge even couple of nudge unit even said a couple of weeks interview with weeks ago in an interview with the justified the telegraph, it's justified to frighten they are frighten people if they are wrongly calibrated . and this wrongly calibrated. and this really comes to the heart of it . see, don't normally . you see, we don't normally talk calibration when it talk about calibration when it comes human beings. comes to human beings. we normally little normally calibrate little bits of to them work of machinery to make them work properly. so so that was very much a kind of a the state we're in book and i find a lot of books these days are like that, you know, old civilisations in decline, democracies crumbling woe is us. and you read it and you think, goodness, i agree with every word. but now what do we about and at the end

we do about it? and at the end of the state of fear, i realised there's literally no government white going white knight. they're not going to you to tell you about how you manipulate because it manipulate it because they do it too. you want to be too. yeah. so if you want to be an , if you want to an individual, if you want to control own mind , you need control your own mind, you need to understand how various people you waiter who you know from the waiter who asks still or sparkling to asks you still or sparkling to the castle salesman to the government propagandist the government propagandist to the big how they do it now, big brands. how they do it now, ultimately , we no man is an ultimately, we no man is an island as john donne said, we're all involved in humankind and you can no more avoid manipulation on than an island can avoid being lapped by the waves. but you can learn to recognise techniques. gives you immunity in this book is immunity. in a way, this book is like vaccine against manipulation. >> what is a classic technique? >> what is a classic technique? >> oh goodness me. >> oh goodness me. >> which one should i start with? yeah okay. so right now you'll see there's a lot about climate in the weather and there are various techniques being used so first of all, used there. so first of all, there images everywhere there are images everywhere of things this is because things on fire. this is because there's something the there's something called the truth venus effect with pictures. that's a real pictures. yes that's a real scientific term . truthiness.

scientific term. truthiness. yes. so pictures and videos have a bigger emotional impact on us than words. if you want to make your decision in a cool state, read about it. don't look at pictures . so they're using pictures. so they're using pictures. so they're using pictures. they're using pictures. they're also using salience. using numbers. salience. they're using numbers. so it's predicted to so they'll say it's predicted to be 48 degrees. it may never get to degrees, but they've put to 48 degrees, but they've put the your because the number in your head because it's out number. it's a pretty stand out number. >> we think climate >> so now we think climate change, also change, global warming, and also it's non—stop. >> now, this is something called the truth, illusory effect. you may start off sceptical all by the time you've seen your 50th picture of a car on fire or scorched wasteland after a wildfire which is supposedly due to a heatwave. you start believing it's true and maybe you will cancel holiday you will cancel your holiday because it's too because you think it's too hot in it's not. in turkey and it's not. >> not though the media >> it's not as though the media deny this happening. there deny this is happening. there was there was a collaboration, wasn't there, between sky television and the behavioural insights team that they were doing press releases about a few years ago before the pandemic, 2021. >> the nudge unit, which was then one third owned by the

government and sky, a licenced broadcaster, produced a report called the power of tb tv . and called the power of tb tv. and the whole premise of it is how to use tv to socially engineer people to decarbonise their lifestyles to comply with net zero, which a not zero, which is a not uncontentious policy . uncontentious policy. >> now what broadcaster doing conspiring with the nudge unit? >> well, it's an admission of social engineering . social engineering. >> that's the thing. i actually complained about it at the time with toby young, the chairman of the free speech union . and the the free speech union. and the complaint wasn't upheld because the way works there are the way ofcom works is there are retrospective regulator, but you can see the effects . you can see can see the effects. you can see how has out. but it how sky has turned out. but it wasn't just sky. it was 11 major broadcast it's from the broadcast us so it's from the lurid weather maps to the sedimenting climate sedimenting of climate information in every type of programming from children's programming from children's programming to even recommend product placement. what better way to wash your brain than a soap? beverly yeah, so during cop 26, all of the major soap operas in the uk had converging storylines. did they characters swapped over? they cross—referenced each other. now

these soaps , well, they're these soaps, well, they're normally in competition. yeah so when they actually collaborate , when they actually collaborate, it's like operating like a cartel . it is it's like operating like a cartel. it is like a cartel. i tell you what, there are examples in this book of invitations to conferences to encourage covid 19 vaccine uptake, and you may well say , uptake, and you may well say, well, that's great, they should have been doing it. but i spoke to a hollywood who to a hollywood scriptwriter who said too far. it's said it's a step too far. it's not job to be encouraging not my job to be encouraging people to have medical interventions. i'm supposed to be writing stories. yeah, interventions. i'm supposed to be vkindg stories. yeah, interventions. i'm supposed to be vkindg thingtories. yeah, interventions. i'm supposed to be vkindg thing goes. yeah, interventions. i'm supposed to be vkindg thing goes oneah, this kind of thing goes on behind a lot. i mean, behind the scenes a lot. i mean, a example was top gun. i a classic example was top gun. i love gun . oh, yeah. but love top gun. oh, yeah. but don't think top was just don't you think top gun was just a bit of fun? that was also really the final rehabilitation for the army after vietnam . for the us army after vietnam. it did wonders for army recruitment . you know, they had recruitment. you know, they had access to all of the planes, the military personnel . that's why military personnel. that's why it's such an exciting and with the climate nudging the with the climate nudging that's on. that's going on. >> laura who's got the vested interest would say well interest they would say well that's these that's that's lovely that these media this media outlets are doing this because save because they're trying to save the planet . is it because they're trying to save the planet. is it just as simple

as that is it the executives at as that? is it the executives at sky tv sit and they say, sky tv sit around and they say, we to take moral stance we have to take a moral stance and planet so we're and save the planet so we're going with the going to collaborate with the behavioural going to collaborate with the behav people change their make people change their behaviour well, do. behaviour. well, they do. >> mean, think there's a bit >> i mean, i think there's a bit of a club of people who are probably, know, genuinely, probably, you know, genuinely, really they really well meaning and they probably they're to everything they're trying to push. involved in push. i don't get involved in the the science side of the kind of the science side of climate . what i'm interested is climate. what i'm interested is the side. the behavioural science side. it's they're it's the fact that they're trying your behaviour trying to change your behaviour by you. i don't by frightening you. i don't agree that. look , we are agree with that. i look, we are vulnerable biases, conformity vulnerable to biases, conformity , authority and fear. but the hope lies within. i think it lies within humanity because we're also ingenious. we're founts of creativity and we're individuals and our brains are brilliant. they're wondrous, they're miraculous , and they they're miraculous, and they should so those people should be free. so those people may have the best intentions , may have the best intentions, but agree with their but i don't agree with their methods. don't agree with methods. i don't agree with manipulating people unwittingly. >> think generally that >> i don't think generally that people are stupid. >> no, they're not. >> no, they're not. >> we have to let you go. but here's it's rather here's the book. it's rather good. your mind the new good. free your mind the new world of manipulation and to

world of manipulation and how to resist the fabulous laura dodsworth. >> you and patrick fagan, >> thank you and patrick fagan, good it. really good luck with it. really interesting . right. good luck with it. really intestillng . right. good luck with it. really intestill to . right. good luck with it. really intestill to come,:. good luck with it. really intestill to come, our brits, the >> still to come, our brits, the laziest people in europe, according to one survey. we certainly as we want work certainly are as we want to work more from home. we more and more from home. we don't have that luxury, do we? do don't have that luxury, do we? do gb don't have that luxury, do we? do gb news, do not. this is gb news, britain's newsroom . and it's britain's newsroom. and it's just after 11:30. >> i'm aaron armstrong in the gb newsroom. voting has started in three by elections taking place in england today. all three seats in uxbridge and south ruislip in london, selby and ainsty in north yorkshire. and somerton and frome in somerset that have been held by the conservatives since the last general election . our polling general election. our polling stations closed at 10 pm. with results expected to come in on friday morning. you'll have to bnng friday morning. you'll have to bring photo id with you if you want to vote. thousands of medical appointments and operations have been postponed as senior doctors strike for 48 hours over pay. consultants and

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carole malone and the daily express. >> sam lister, what about nigel farage? what did you think of that interview? >> i thought it was fascinating. >> i thought it was fascinating. >> thought particularly >> i thought particularly your question going question about are you going to see. he he was a bit see. yeah. and he he was a bit hesitant on that. and i'm not really why, because if i really sure why, because if i was go for it. was him, i'd just go for it. >> mean, i mean, we've all >> i mean, i mean, we've all written stories, we've had written stories, we've all had threatening about threatening letters about defamation defamatory. threatening letters about def i nation defamatory. threatening letters about defi think| defamatory. threatening letters about defi think| was defamatory. threatening letters about defi think| was hesitant ory. >> i think he was hesitant because doesn't to say because he doesn't want to say too much in case he decides to sue is astonishing sue them. but it is astonishing and than sinister that and more than sinister that a bank can cancel you because when you take your bank account away, you're non—person , exist. you're a non—person, not exist. when they do that, they can do that basis of what you that on the basis of what you think about it's think about brexit. it's interesting that there was a woman that handled his account who was an avowed who was who was an avowed brexiteer who had said publicly she was an avowed brexiteer , and she was an avowed brexiteer, and nigel that every time nigel had said that every time he was a bit he spoke to her, she was a bit sniffy. was little bit sniffy. she was a little bit snotty everything. but, sniffy. she was a little bit snotknow, everything. but, sniffy. she was a little bit snotknow, if everything. but, sniffy. she was a little bit snotknow, if isverything. but, sniffy. she was a little bit snotknow, if i iferything. but, sniffy. she was a little bit snotknow, if i if i/thing. but, sniffy. she was a little bit snotknow, if i if i had g. but, sniffy. she was a little bit snotknow, if i if i had my ut, sniffy. she was a little bit snotknow, if i if i had my money you know, if i if i had my money in coutts, of course i'm not rich enough to be but rich enough to be in, but if i was, think is a was, which i also think is a terrible rule but anyway, if i was i would take all my money

terrible rule but anyway, if i wasofnould take all my money terrible rule but anyway, if i wasof there.take all my money terrible rule but anyway, if i wasof there. howall my money terrible rule but anyway, if i wasof there. how dare iy money terrible rule but anyway, if i wasof there. how dare theyyney out of there. how dare they judge you and judge what you think you feel what think and what you feel and what you how you see things you vote and how you see things politically. how they? >> eg- ea.- ea.— >> well, this is what nigel said to earlier. nigel farage to us earlier. nigel farage talking earlier . to us earlier. nigel farage talking earlier. he is talking to us earlier. he is coming apparently . are you going coming apparently. are you going to sue them ? to sue them? >> i don't know yet. andrew right now, my real focus right now is to get this debate out as broadly as possible and to get people to understand that subject access requests exist. and please, please to use them. and please, please to use them. and i'm going to urge the government and the treasury select committee to act . select committee to act. >> sam, he's been around a long time in public life, and he's had a lot of terrible things said about him and written about him. that is a man who's hurt. yeah, think he really is hurt yeah, i think he really is hurt because i mean, incredibly brutal. >> the assessment of him is incredibly brutal for a bank to be making of moral be making those kind of moral judgements is judgements on somebody is shocking . shocking. >> e he's shocking. >> he's homophobic. >> i'm saying he's homophobic. >> i'm saying he's homophobic. >> and think, know, >> yeah. and i think, you know, it well within his it would be well within his

rights take legal rights to take legal action. i think the broader point, though, is when banks start becoming is when did banks start becoming political organisations. political moral organisations. yeah. i think actually, yeah. and i think actually, i mean if i was a banking chief, now we're in a capitalist society. a society. there are obviously a lot people in this country lot of people in this country who did vote brexit, there's lot of people in this country wbigiid vote brexit, there's lot of people in this country wbig proportionzxit, there's lot of people in this country wbig proportion of, there's lot of people in this country wbig proportion of the there's a big proportion of the population who obviously aren't acceptable to some banks. i would be saying, look, we're the bank for the silent majority. come and bank with us. >> do you know what i'd like? >> do you know what i'd like? >> i'd like to see them print a list accounts they list of all the accounts they have politicians. i have with other politicians. i want i'd like know who want to i'd like to know who they are, and i'd like to know what organisations they signed up have up to, what countries have business with them that are not democratic countries. it would be just interesting to see where their values actually are. but i mean , i do. i do find it mean, i do. i do find it astonishing because sam just alluded it there. they called alluded to it there. they called him they called him him a xenophobic they called him a and they said he was a racist and they said he was a grifter . i a racist and they said he was a grifter. i mean, god, if grifter. i mean, my god, if anyone's grifter in this anyone's a grifter in this world, our banks and if world, look to our banks and if anyone's kind of, you know, not looking and playing you looking after us and playing you know, tricks, know, playing underhand tricks, it's the banks these days. but,

you know, what is going to happen? repeat happen? we should repeat that thing this thing again. shouldn't we? this this we could this thing, he said, we could all if we thought all take action if we thought it had happened to us. it's called the subject access report. request. access request. request. subject access request. i that we can all do that i mean that we can all do that even existed, which he did. even know existed, which he did. and he doesn't know god, any and if he doesn't know god, any of us know. and if he doesn't know god, any of ll'vetow. a subject >> i've done a subject access request government and request to the government and i and they have report on me and i, they have a report on me for was saying during the for what i was saying during the pandemic. for what i was saying during the parisemic. for what i was saying during the paris that true? >> is that true? >> is that true? >> so this story, this story about nigel, it doesn't actually shock been on shock me because i've been on the of quite lot the receiving end of quite a lot of abuse the last three of this abuse for the last three years terms of your your years in terms of your your opinion the overall opinion not fitting the overall counter narrative . yes. counter narrative. yes. particularly about the particularly i've said about the fact that there was some evidence emerging about the effects of the vaccines effects of the covid vaccines on menstrual which has menstrual cycles, which has since that those since been confirmed, that those those changes are signalled . and those changes are signalled. and but of course , even if the but of course, even if the science changes, the fact that i was saying it, then that meant that that that meant i was a person of interest to the government because saying government because i was saying things that were medically accurate. but again, the narrative, filters down,

narrative, it filters down, doesn't it? >> it's interesting that even if you're media and if you're in the media and even if you're in the media and even if you're particularly you're not particularly controversial, get controversial, i try to get a house insurance nfu mutual. house insurance with nfu mutual. okay. who say we insure everybody? said no. and everybody? they said no. and i said, and they said, said, why? and they said, because a famous person. because you're a famous person. i said, well, i'm not actually , i said, well, i'm not actually, i'm a working journalist who is i said, well, i'm not actually, i'ntelly)rking journalist who is i said, well, i'm not actually, i'ntelly every journalist who is i said, well, i'm not actually, i'ntelly every now 1alist who is i said, well, i'm not actually, i'ntelly every now andt who is i said, well, i'm not actually, i'ntelly every now and again. s on telly every now and again. and they said, no, no, on that bafis and they said, no, no, on that basis won't have you because basis we won't have you because you're how dare you're a risk. i mean, how dare they? because i. they? because. because i. because telly every because i appear on telly every now they insure now and again. they won't insure me. filters down. it's me. so it filters down. it's filtering down through a lot of organisations. >> what other organisations doing that's what we don't doing it? that's what we don't know. doing it? that's what we don't knoit's doing it? that's what we don't kno it's esg doing it? that's what we don't knoit's esg though, isn't >> it's about esg though, isn't it? environmental, social it? this environmental, social governance. it's about every single organisation having to be nice , having to be kind, having nice, having to be kind, having to buy into because there are genuinely there are league tables of companies and where they sit in this esg system, it's a very this is the it's the it's a very this is the it's the it's the vested interest, isn't it? >> it's like stonewall, for example . yeah. asking example. yeah. asking organisations to pay them money and then they will put them in a league table of who's the most

kind of lgbt friendly. league table of who's the most kind of lgbt friendly . yeah. you kind of lgbt friendly. yeah. you know, it's vested interests are kind of gripping these organisations, actually , you organisations, but actually, you know, about most people ? know, what about most people? most want just give most people want to just give you the money and we'll take the money our money. money after our money. >> and what happened about ordinary because >> and what happened about ordinawhat's because >> and what happened about ordinawhat's happening because >> and what happened about ordinawhat's happening here. jse that's what's happening here. this culture this is part of this culture war, that this tory war, isn't it, that this tory government get to grips government should get to grips with because it's a the with it because it's a huge the country crying out for country are crying out for common sense here and is you know, actually we have had a conservative government for 13 years. >> and how have allowed >> and how have they allowed allowed the kind of left wing groups to hijack but how they've allowed because the left wing groups have gone in via the corporation and not by the government. >> that's how they've done it. we've got this we've got to read this statement, i'm sorry we statement, i'm afraid. sorry we do this. coops aren't do have to do this. coops aren't here defend themselves. here to defend themselves. we don't want to into trouble. don't want to get into trouble. and have is not and we have to say it is not coutts's close coutts's policy to close customer accounts on the customer accounts solely on the bafis customer accounts solely on the basis legally held political basis of legally held political and personal. well, that's that's their statement. >> and i think it's ridiculous. >> and i think it's ridiculous. >> yeah, well, that's my you've justi think it's ridiculous and

>> i think it's ridiculous and i don't believe it. >> i think nigel farage was cancelled his views cancelled because of his views on brexit, primarily 84 times. it was mentioned in. >> but isn't it interesting, piers, that i said earlier that even people who really don't like nigel farage, we need to move like nigel farage, we need to moi'm so sorry. we've got >> i'm so sorry. we've got somebody waiting to talk to us. have the need for have we outgrown the need for going are we going into the office or are we just lazy? brits now just getting lazy? brits now work hours remotely than work more hours remotely than almost nationality work more hours remotely than almc do nationality work more hours remotely than almcdo survey. nationality they do survey. >> british employees spend an average and half days average of one and a half days per week working from the comfort their home or their garden. >> so let's speak to the >> so let's speak now to the broadcaster and psychotherapist lucy beresford. good morning, lucy. you. lucy. always lovely to see you. what psychological what might the psychological effects of people working from home be? good and bad ? home be? good and bad? >> well, some of the good , i >> well, some of the good, i think, speaks to the way in which more people want to work from home, which is about commuting people find commuting so many people find their commute very stressful and very expensive live. and in this report, it was identified that brits are working from home more and would actually like to work home more than they do compared to countries in europe where the

commutes are often much shorter, much cheaper , and people feel a much cheaper, and people feel a greater sense of community. but i think there is a danger that if you spend too much working from home, spend much time, from home, spend too much time, and obviously i'm speaking to you from my home, it's a bit you from my home, so it's a bit difficult for me say this difficult for me to say this that actually people miss on that actually people miss out on the inter action and the soft power of being around colleagues. the informal trading of information , the different of information, the different skills that you might get if you're just starting out in your career that you can observe in the colleagues around you. and i think we have to be careful in saying, yes, there were some really great things that came out of the shift in working patterns as a result of the pandemic , which resulted in more pandemic, which resulted in more people working from home. but i think we also need to recognise people can be more lonely. they can miss out on promotions, they can miss out on promotions, they can miss out on promotions, they can miss out on the general chatter that's going on around best practise within the workplace . and also they can workplace. and also they can just end up feeling stuck in a silo and that there's something

really quite fluid about working with your colleagues that we're missing out on at our peril. >> you miss the gossip by the by the water, by the water distributor, don't you? and the gossip by the photocopier ? gossip by the photocopier? >> yeah, i think there is a really big dimension to that is that actually having some gossip on a whatsapp just really doesn't cut it through. but it isn't just about the gossip. it's about working what's it's about working out what's happening workplace happening within your workplace . are people that you . who are the people that you need to? are the need to talk to? who are the people to best avoid people who are to best avoid and what's practise what what's the best practise what changes and what thoughts are people having about the way in which world of works which the world of work works within own workplace ? we within your own workplace? we miss but also just miss out on that, but also just normal interaction. but normal social interaction. but stress, again, for a lot of people, they feel more productive. feel more in productive. they feel more in control of their work life , control of their work life, which they don't if they particularly they have a very particularly if they have a very long commute and have long commute and they have a very long day. and also very long working day. and also they better life they can have a better work life balance. and balance. so swings and roundabouts, really hard to roundabouts, it's really hard to identify is best for some identify which is best for some and best for other people . but i and best for other people. but i

always should be always think it should be a hybnd always think it should be a hybrid . hybrid. >> thank w“ >> okay. thank you, lucy. good to see you. broadcaster and psychotherapist lucie beresford. sam, about you were sam, let's talk about you were in office partly at home. in an office partly at home. does work for everybody? i does it work for everybody? i think generational, think it might be generational, possibly , but i think i mean, possibly, but i think i mean, certainly the job i do, i couldn't do it from home. >> work >> occasionally. i work from home. really, whole home. but really, the whole point it's about point of politics is it's about interaction. you want see the interaction. you want to see the mps done? yeah. >> see them in portcullis >> you see them in portcullis house wandering around corridors you much just from you pick up so much just from wandering rather wandering round rather than actually people actually formally meeting people or whatever. >> it's actually people you >> it's actually the people you bump the way the bump into on the way to the meeting. yeah that actually that's where happen. that's where things happen. i mean, that's the case mean, but that's not the case for everybody. do get that. for everybody. i do get that. and think actually would and i think actually i would say, with young say, you know, women with young children childcare say, you know, women with young child fall childcare say, you know, women with young child fall them childcare say, you know, women with young child fall them chthey re say, you know, women with young child fall them chthey i! say, you know, women with young child fall them chthey i can does fall to them and they i can see case where people in that see a case where people in that scenario who want to be at home, it's interesting. >> it's interesting, don't you? >> it's interesting, don't you? >> but there was a poll >> yeah, but there was a poll last year and it was of gen z, people aged between 18 and 34. and they said interestingly and they said where they worked from half worked from their bed or

from sitting on the bed, half worked from the sofa. but interestingly, year, interestingly, after a year, most of them it was most of them said it was exciting at first, but there were missing buzz exciting at first, but there werethey missing buzz exciting at first, but there werethey admitteding buzz exciting at first, but there werethey admitted they buzz exciting at first, but there werethey admitted they were zz exciting at first, but there werethey admitted they were less and they admitted they were less productive. and i think people are i mean, i think production in is problem. in this country is a problem. and think have something and i think we have something like 30 odd % of people still like 30 odd% of people still working like working from home. places like italy, 12% in i think italy, it's12% in i think australia it's 3. and their productivity is way higher than ours. oui's. >> ours. >> so, you know, we brought our entire newspapers out, of course, from course, in the pandemic from home. course, in the pandemic from horthere was one person, it >> there was one person, it wasn't good. >> good though, but it >> it wasn't good though, but it wasn't. no, it wasn't good. >> you were having zoom meetings. have the meetings. you can't have the same interaction and gossip. >> them out. >> and we got them out. >> and we got them out. >> it was was not the >> but it was it was not the same products that it would be in times. in normal times. >> just want to bring you >> we just want to bring you a little bit of breaking news on >> we just want to bring you a littlbanking3reaking news on >> we just want to bring you a littlbanking story ng news on >> we just want to bring you a littlbanking story ng i'iiwe'vei the banking story that we've been about all morning. been talking about all morning. so bbc correspondent sopel, been talking about all morning. s

of my old employer. he's not bbc anymore. is he global? if your political views were even part of the reason why the account was suspended from coots, that is totally reprehensible. from john. right. john. quite right. >> john. >> john. >> because he's taken advice though because been though, because he's been pointed of pointed out in a lot of newspapers that he mocked nigel farage completely for suggesting that he'd lost his . that he'd lost his. >> yes, he took the bbc line that he hadn't got enough money in his bank account, and now he's blaming the bbc, not himself. >> that was quite pointed, actually, yeah. my actually, wasn't it? yeah. my former employer. >> exactly. >> yeah, exactly. >> yeah, exactly. >> a very belated >> yeah. that's a very belated mea >> yeah. that's a very belated me take responsibly for your own >> take responsibly for your own comments. yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah i >> -- >> well, i wonder. >> well, i wonder. >> i think there'll be a few other doing as of other people doing that as of today couple of today in the next couple of days, they? days, won't they? >> yes. back—pedalling a little bit. >> and because the trouble is, nigel controversial nigel is such a controversial figure easy, it's figure that it's too easy, it's too to easy jump into pile on, too to easy jump into a pile on, isn't it? and when the facts emerge. hopefully people isn't it? and when the facts eme be. hopefully people isn't it? and when the facts eme be apologising. ully people isn't it? and when the facts eme be apologising. ully shoulde isn't it? and when the facts eme about)logising. ully shoulde isn't it? and when the facts eme about just sing. ully shoulde isn't it? and when the facts eme about just appalled, houlde talk about just appalled, shouldn't talk about just appalled, shoyes. 't not? we >> yes. why not? because we can't them. can't stand them. >> stand them. >> well, i can't stand them. i can't them alone . can't stand them alone. >> we should get that.

>> we should get that. >> should back >> we should get that lad back on you had on a couple of weeks ago the talked about ago the one who talked about boiling, boiling own sweat. just stop. boil >> just stop. boil >> just stop. boil >> what's happened here. >> what's happened here. >> so. so. so who's starting? okay, , this was okay, okay. i mean, this was a guy in the street yesterday. there pregnant lady there was a pregnant lady driving her car because of all the chaos . she little bit the chaos. she had a little bit of crash and she jumped out of of a crash and she jumped out of the clearly distressed and the car, clearly distressed and saying, stop all of this saying, can you stop all of this ? of course, stop. i ? of course, just stop. i ignored the guy ignored her. and the guy in the car there, then out car were there, then jumped out of and attacked the. it of the car and attacked the. it was a guy called. nor wasn't it david north. a he david north. he's a bloke. he was who was who was he's the bloke who was who was. yeah. so and it was it wasn't good to watch. i mean this guy kicked him, smacked him, punched him, whatever. and he and later he was on the ground. and later this saying, you know, he this guy is saying, you know, he doesn't malice . daniel doesn't hold any malice. daniel noyes called 21 he said, noyes called 21 and he said, danny law said he doesn't hold any malice against the guy. but but then, you know, god knows what effect this has had on the pregnant lady. you know, she was distressed. she was upset. she was crying and shouting. you don't know what this could have

done know, this don't know what this could have dcthis know, this don't know what this could have dcthis was know, this don't know what this could have dcthis was always know, this don't know what this could have dcthis was always going w, this don't know what this could have dcthis was always going to this is this was always going to happen to keep happen and it's going to keep happening cops happening until the cops start doing job and this doing their job and drag this lot off streets. lot off the streets. >> but it was always going to happen, wasn't it? happen, though, wasn't it? >> patience snapped. >> i think. think this is the >> i think. i think this is the problem. actually, problem. and actually, these people, they've got people, they think they've got good on their side, right on their side. they think they've protected, sanctimonious and actually , you know, are actually, you know, people are people stressful people if you're in a stressful situation, you've situation, if you've got a pregnant in the and pregnant woman in the car and you're this stressful you're in this stressful situation, people situation, then people don't necessarily always keep control of emotions and anger. and of their emotions and anger. and so, of course, was going to so, of course, this was going to happen. and robert goodwill, the conservative mp, he says essentially reached essentially the public's reached the their tether with it. the end of their tether with it. and i think that's a very fair assessment i think these assessment and i think these people conscious people do need to be conscious of you know, it's of the fact that, you know, it's actually really quite horrible video was video and nobody nobody was really shocking. >> they are now in trouble with the community because the jewish community because they actually tried to compare oil bosses to the, tax architects of the holocaust, which is shocking. i mean, shocking . shocking. >> carole malone, by the way, is going to be with me in the studio next week. i'm off

monday, tuesday, wednesday, not monday, tuesday, wednesday, not monday, wednesday. monday, tuesday, wednesday, not m01we'll wednesday. monday, tuesday, wednesday, not m01we'll here. wednesday. monday, tuesday, wednesday, not moiyou're here. wednesday. monday, tuesday, wednesday, not moiyou're heretovednesday. monday, tuesday, wednesday, not moiyou're hereto be nesday. monday, tuesday, wednesday, not moiyou're hereto be myday. monday, tuesday, wednesday, not moiyou're hereto be my co. conspirator. >> the thing is, work and >> the thing is, your work and that and i can't do it that autocue and i can't do it and you can't do it. so god knows to be. knows what's to going be. >> be it'll we're looking >> it'll be it'll we're looking forward to it. >> next, forward to it. >> coming up next, though, is the live desk with mark longhurst and pip tomson be longhurst and pip tomson will be back week. a lovely next week. have a lovely weekend . see then. . we'll see you then. >> the temperatures rising, boxt solar. >> proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello there. good morning. i'm jonathan vautrey here with your latest gb news weather forecast provided by the met office it is a fairly pleasant and sunny start to the day for many of us. a good amount of sunshine and some of us will hold to sunshine hold on to that sunshine throughout as well. but throughout the day as well. but do umbrella hand do keep the umbrella on hand because we will start to see some bubbling up quite some showers bubbling up quite widely the uk. it could widely across the uk. it could turn sharp side in places turn on the sharp side in places most persistently across parts of up to north—east of shetland up to north—east scotland, where also scotland, where it will also remain breezy . scotland, where it will also remain breezy. but remain relatively breezy. but elsewhere light winds, elsewhere with light winds, it should in should feel pleasant in that sunshine. highs between 18 and

24 c into this evening, though showers will gradually fade their way out and many of us will see clear intervals will see some clear intervals developing and on to some developing and hold on to some of skies overnight developing and hold on to some of well. skies overnight developing and hold on to some of well. touch skies overnight developing and hold on to some of well. touch moreovernight developing and hold on to some of well. touch more cloudght as well. touch more cloud pushing across northern ireland into parts of southern scotland. northern england , but northern england, but particularly hold particularly where you hold onto those , those clearer skies, temperatures drop down to temperatures will drop down to around degrees in around ten degrees celsius in cities. figures cities. even into single figures in rural areas. we start in some rural areas. we start off friday, then again still with some sunshine around, but perhaps cloudier that perhaps cloudier for that central slice through there. and then increasingly into the afternoon, could start see afternoon, we could start to see some showers push some of those showers push further as always further south as well. always shetland the far north—east shetland in the far north—east of staying that bit of scotland staying that bit breezier cloudier breezier and generally cloudier . temperatures perhaps a smidgen down to thursday, but down compared to thursday, but still relatively pleasant around 18 to 21 c. d0 still relatively pleasant around 18 to 21 c. do make the most of the sunshine that you've got over the next couple of days, though, because this area of low pressure is moving its way in for the weekend, going bring pressure is moving its way in fospellweekend, going bring pressure is moving its way in fo spell of ekend, going bring pressure is moving its way in fospell of much, going bring pressure is moving its way in fospell of much moreg bring pressure is moving its way in fo spell of much more widely ng pressure is moving its way in fo spell of much more widely wet a spell of much more widely wet and enjoy your and windy weather. enjoy your day by temperatures day by by the temperatures

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