to sound like he's starting to sound like a reform politician, but is the small boats crisis about to explode? the war in syria has just kicked off again. last time this happened, it sent millions of refugees into europe and this time round it's only borderless britain holding the door open to them. and as greg wallace has been a naughty boy, the bbc presenter has stepped down pending an investigation into his behaviour. he's accused of inappropriate behaviour, including prancing around with his top off and making kung fu noises. i mean, it's not exactly savile level , is it? it just savile level, is it? it just sounds like my uncle. after a few beers and jk rowling has gone to war with the british transport police, who have put the trans in transport by letting biological males who pretend they're women conduct intimate body searches on women. sounds inclusive until there's a lady who looks like rod stewart with fingers like a bunch of bananas rummaging around your harry potter. this is your saturday night showdown .

discussing all tonight's topics with me are my brilliant panel. joining me tonight are the irish comedian aideen mcqueen and paul the people's gammon cox. we've got an irish woman, an englishman and a scotsman. we should all walk into a pub after this. anyway. first, let's get your latest news headlines from joe caspar . joe caspar. >> good evening. it's a minute past eight i'm joe caspar. here are your top stories from the gb newsroom. some breaking news for you this evening. the sunday times is reporting a bbc executive warned gregg wallace about his alleged behaviour in 2017, while the sunday times quotes a former producer saying she raised concerns about the masterchef presenter but was dismissed and the observer says

a letter sent to the bbc in 2022 reported multiple allegations of inappropriate behaviour by the host, but did not prompt further investigation. it comes after the masterchef producer, bannau uk, announced city law firm lewis silkin will investigate alleged misconduct by mr wallace. the bbc said if issues are raised with us, we have robust processes in place to deal with them swiftly and appropriately. mr wallace's lawyers insist the claims are entirely false, saying the suggestion that wallace, who was presented, who was presented the popular bbc one cooking show alongside john torode since 22,005, engages in behaviour of a sexually harassing nature, was entirely false . a memorial entirely false. a memorial service has been held today for former first minister of scotland alex salmond. his wife of more than 40 years and supporters arranged a remembrance service for him on saint andrew's day. mr salmond died last month in north macedonia at the age of 69. he

was at a conference when he suffered a heart attack and was buned suffered a heart attack and was buried in a private family ceremony near his home in aberdeenshire at the end of october. a murder investigation has been launched after the death of a woman in her 60s in south london. officers were called to an address in surrey quays at about 3 pm. on friday, after reports that a woman had been stabbed. the metropolitan police said the london ambulance service and london's air ambulance also attended, and the woman was taken to hospital, where she later died. a 61 year old man was arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in custody . football action now in custody. football action now and there were wins for brentford, nottingham forest and bournemouth in the premier league today. meanwhile , crystal league today. meanwhile, crystal palace scored a last minute equaliser to draw one one at home to newcastle in the evening kick off. arsenal thumped west ham five goals to two and england ladies were in action. they ended usa's nine game winning streak with a goalless

draw in a friendly at wembley. now to a story that will sweeten your day. a man has been awarded £2 in compensation after he complained about a smooth mars bar. harry seager, from buckinghamshire, picked up the chocolate treat at a service station in oxfordshire but contacted manufacturers mars wrigley when he discovered it didn't have its signature ripple. in a letter, the firm apologised for his experience and enclosed a £2 voucher, but offered no explanation. mr seager said i think £2 is great. it will be two free mars bars. maybe they could have sent me more but i'm not being ungrateful . well worth the ungrateful. well worth the complaint . those are your latest complaint. those are your latest gb news headlines. i'm joe caspen >> more than an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com/alerts .

or go to gbnews.com/alerts. >> thank you joe. there's something oddly sexual about that smooth mars bar. i don't know why. anyway, welcome to the saturday night showdown. immigration to the uk has reached ludicrous proportions. 1.2 million people arrived in the uk in the last year, and 400,000 people left because they couldn't find anywhere to park. a mate pointed out to me, the people leaving tend to be rich, and the people coming in tend to be poor. the british dream is now to get rich enough to be able to move to a country that isn't committing suicide. according to the private wealth migration report, 9500 millionaires will leave britain this year. that's second only to china, where millionaires sometimes go to jail for saying things the government doesn't like . but as we've seen like. but as we've seen recently, british people sometimes go to jail for saying things the government doesn't like. even keir starmer recognises that our immigration situation is unsustainable. have a look at this. >> this happened by design, not

accident. policies were reformed deliberately to liberalise immigration. brexit was used for that purpose to turn britain into a one nation experiment in open borders. global britain , open borders. global britain, remember that slogan? that is what they meant. a policy with no support and which they then pretended wasn't happening. >> interesting words from keir there, he says this was by design, a one nation experiment in open borders. keir starmer is pretty close to saying things that would have got you jailed a few months ago. honestly, he's sounding tougher on immigration than reform are the cost to the uk of all this? immigration is extortionate. the total amount spent on hotels and support for asylum seekers ballooned to £5.4 billion in the last year. kemi badenoch this week said that britain isn't a hotel. well, no kemi, because people pay to stay in a hotel. anyone who can get

to britain gets to stay here for free. and the government's own figures show that the average low earner, who came to britain aged 25, cost the government more overall than they pay in. from the amount they arrive, each low skilled migrant will cost the taxpayer over half £1 million over the course of their lifetime. mass immigration also exposes the lie of net zero. when someone moves from the third world to britain, their carbon footprint increases hugely. someone moving here from the congo will see their carbon emissions increase by up to 100 150 times. that's an insane increase. so the quickest and easiest way to reduce carbon emissions is to close our borders. but the same people who want to increase government power and taxation for net zero also want open borders. this suggests to me that net zero isn't actually about carbon emissions. it's about increasing government power and taxes. the day that you see greta campaign to end mass migration, that's the day that you'll know net zero is real. now i'm joined

tonight by the star of headliners. it's paul the people's gammon cox. hello. and the irish comedian aideen mcqueen. dave, it's great to see you both here. now, i mean, paul you both here. now, i mean, paul, this is this is a real, you know, change of tune from from starmer. >> yeah , it really is. that's >> yeah, it really is. that's because he's in power now and he can't pretend not to be in power because he's in front of , you because he's in front of, you know, lectern and saying things like release the sausages twice a week. however, what we have now is a asylum system that's entirely unfit for purpose . and entirely unfit for purpose. and one of the reasons we do that is we've entirely watered down our own asylum. asylum system? asylum system , on the basis that asylum system, on the basis that immigration officers used to be well paid, well qualified , well paid, well qualified, delegated authority to make decisions based on a case by case basis. now we just have low paid staff on on long shifts not making any decisions like that. >> that seems like good value for money for the taxpayer. >> well it does, but what we get is loads and loads of immigration and the reason we do

is because nobody can know, no immigration officer now or uk border force officer can stop anyone coming into the country now because our entire system is at the behest of human rights lawyers. yeah. so if you were to deny them asylum in any way and they said and they appealed it, it would just go into the system last forever, that that border force officer would never be spoken to again. and they'd eventually end up in a semi—detached near you. >> yeah. and i've heard from whistleblowers in the, in our border force that it's actually it's easier to just accept, you know , take an asylum claim off know, take an asylum claim off than to contest it. and, you know, it takes twice as long and you're you're getting paid the same amount per claim that you that you go over. so there's an incentive there to just, you know, put everybody on the yes pile. >> definitely. but i would agree i want everyone to be on the. yes i do. i want everyone to be on the. yesi do.i i want everyone to be on the. yes i do. i love immigration. shout out to my uber jaber halal habibi. the he's an albanian. he told me to tell everyone that they're not all drug dealers. so there you go.

>> and sell you some. >> and sell you some. >> yeah, well, i forced him to, but it was paracetamol because i needed it before coming on here. i mean, there's a massive problems with the system for sure. my sister works in the irish system educating women who have been trafficked or sex trafficked to ireland. but i still think the christian and, you know, right wing thing to do. for those of you who are identify as catholic, like myself, assigned at birth, is to invite people in to open up the borders. but there's, you know, this waiting around this system, ridiculous people should be put working, should be allowed to work, should be we should we should cherry pick the best of other systems like the german system. when the syrians came in, a million people came in. they went and taught them german for a year. they spent a year assimilating the culture. >> huge problems in germany with the with people not assimilating with, with crime, with, with sexual crime in particular. and it's really caused problems for their for their sort of centrist parties who allowed it to happen, who now have lost the

faith of the people and everybody's voting for i mean, it looks like the olaf schulz's party is going to get wiped out at the next election. i think these numbers for all the you know, we'd love to say, oh, yeah, it's wonderful that people want to come to britain and contribute to our society. i mean, i saw a video of a guy, he had an ak 47 tattooed on his face and he didn't look like, you know, i'm like , we're told you know, i'm like, we're told these are the future engineers future. i don't want that guy working on an aeroplane that i'm getting on. you know what mean? >> in the 90s, you wouldn't have been allowed in a nightclub with that on your face. now you can come into the country. it makes a really good faith argument. unfortunately, a lot of the people that are seeking illegal asylum aren't aren't good faith characters, and they're essentially trying to game the system in order to get in and, and live a life that's not assimilated, live a life that's not in tune with culture, of the type of seeing we're seeing in britain. >> i mean, the government even talks about it when they talk about communities and having community leaders. we're seeing the balkanisation of the uk as

different demographic groups form their own almost mini states inside inside britain. i think within a you know, a couple of decades, we're going to see it actually become, you know , they said states they they know, they said states they they said these same things about people. >> and when they came over in the 1840s and 50s, they said the same things about people. and who are these people? me and you, baby. the scottish and the irish . and we all have irish. and we all have assimilated. we are now . assimilated. we are now. >> you can't you can't compare scottish and irish people who are like from a pretty similar cultural background to english people. yes, absolutely. we're from the same. basically the same culture. honestly, we're from a, you know, a christian, a christian background . we speak christian background. we speak the same language, we assimilate . the same language, we assimilate. you can't compare that to somebody coming from afghanistan who wants to set up an islamic caliphate in the west. that's a completely different proposition. somebody got completely, radically different attitudes to women, to lgbtq people. and there's some downsides as well. >> are you talking about glaswegians ? glaswegians? >> i am indeed well, the glaswegians of the future. but

as our government finally makes noises to deal with our open borders, could the refugee crisis be about to get a whole lot worse in 2015? war in syria sent millions of refugees towards europe. well, the war in syria has kicked off once again with rebels once again entering the northern city of aleppo. that's syria's biggest city. let's look at some of the fighting now. here are the rebels who have made remarkable progress. they're toppling statues of syria's leader, bashar al assad . so this is bashar al assad. so this is i mean, this is serious stuff. here's here's more of them. the syrian army has been routed and has abandoned quite a lot of equipment and scenes reminiscent of the fall of afghanistan. look at this ginger one. how come every group of islamists always has a ginger one, no matter where they are ? afghanistan, where they are? afghanistan, islington, anywhere . and here islington, anywhere. and here are rebels in what looks like a captured russian bmp infantry vehicle, doing some doughnuts there. i'm not sure that's good for carbon emissions or for the

tarmac, but i don't think they're worried about that . so they're worried about that. so they're worried about that. so they're capturing a lot of weaponry, a lot of vehicles. and the syrian dictator bashar al assad has been propped up over the last decade by russian military support. but russia's a little bit distracted with another war at the moment. you might have heard of it. it's in ukraine and the rebels have seized plenty of weapons as well as the syrian army retreats. so here are rebels with some captured manpads, which are basically point and shoot air defence. so this means that russian and syrian planes will have a harder time bombing the rebels, because they can shoot down the planes now. now, you might be thinking militant islamists versus a murderous dictator. well, i just hope both sides have a lot of fun . sides have a lot of fun. unfortunately, there are millions of civilians caught in the middle. syria's syria's christian community are likely to be persecuted by the islamist rebels. here's one rebel pulling down a christmas tree in a pubuc down a christmas tree in a public square. bah humbug. although i want to know where they got that stand. that is the most robust christmas tree stand i've ever seen that is full, thatis

i've ever seen that is full, that is fully isis proof . and that is fully isis proof. and here you can see, sadly, a stream of civilians leaving their homes. how many will be coming to europe? and with britain being the only country country in europe with open borders, how many will come here? i mean, while of course i have sympathy for civilians caught up in war, this is an area in syria where isis are active and there's a real risk that allowing them in will bring in people who want to hurt our children. the manchester arena bomber, for example , salman bomber, for example, salman abedi, he was rescued from libya by the royal navy and russia, russia and iran do seem to be they were propping up assad and they were propping up assad and the regime in syria. they now seem to be a bit distracted . and seem to be a bit distracted. and i didn't see this coming at all. and there's reports on on twitter, there's reports i think i think it's been confirmed by al jazeera. but i'm not sure how how verified, verifiable that is that there's been a coup in syria against against the leader and this is it, you know, this is it. after after years of this simmering under the surface,

bashar al assad is gone. >> amazing . it's going to be >> amazing. it's going to be a big influx of immigrants. but again, you know , me, open legs, again, you know, me, open legs, open borders. they call me . open borders. they call me. >> well, this is the thing. see? >> well, this is the thing. see? >> you want them here because they're men. if they were sending women , honestly, if all sending women, honestly, if all the boats coming across the channel the boats coming across the channel, people say, oh, you don't want the small boats coming, that means you must be racist. no, i'm sexist. i don't want those men. if that was all you know. >> oh, leo, you know me. so well. if all these salma hayek came over on the boat, i'm like, no, i don't think so. no . but no, i don't think so. no. but just going back to this is very serious topic, and it is very interesting and adept, which is going back to that redhead point there, because this is something i researched before, given that i'm red haired, to be honest, downstairs it's like ed sheeran and a leg lock. and so, you know, and a leg lock. and so, you know, a bit of dai. but the reason that one of greg wallace's victims. >> are you okay, so the reason that so many red headed people join isis is because they feel

so disenfranchised because of ginger bullying , so they can ginger bullying, so they can really relate to the plight of the jihadi if you're. >> yeah, if you're a fat ginger kid, it's the same. >> is that genuinely i thought it was genuinely just chuck fat in there. >> i thought it was something to do with virgins. >> and yeah, there's probably a connection there. >> well, they're certainly going to meet 72 of them, aren't they? if they carry on the way they're going. it's incredible really. i mean, it's sad by the way, has gone off the scene for a while, hasn't he. he truly was one of the world's biggest baddies. yeah. up until about five years ago. and syria has been an absolute mess. i talked earlier about the human rights law situation. this is going to be a bumper day for those those human rights lawyers in europe, in the uk. >> but i feel like in the uk and in the rest of the rest of western europe, public sentiment is going to kind of soured a little bit towards the refugee plight, i think, because our asylum system, as you mentioned, it's been exploited so much . it's been exploited so much. you've got human rights lawyers who know how to work the system. and this is a system that was

set up after the second world war to, you know, help people in a completely different world. we didn't have the internet, we didn't have the internet, we didn't have the internet, we didn't have social media, you know, sending people images of the wonderful life you can have in middlesbrough. we didn't have you know, mass, mass transport, transport. we didn't have, you know , ryanair putting on 399 know, ryanair putting on 399 flights from damascus. so, you know, this is this is a completely different world we've got now. >> yeah, absolutely . all the jew >> yeah, absolutely. all the jew hating used to take place in central europe . now it's just central europe. now it's just london every other weekend. yeah. so it is, it is, it is a very, very different landscape i just think and this goes back to the argument about the echr as well, the echr for, for a lot of people who are totally uninvolved or uneducated on it is a good thing. and why wouldn't you believe it's a good thing it was set up after the second world war. it's a bad thing to make sure, to make sure that we didn't have the repeat of that again, and we're not having a repeat of that again. there's just lots of other bad stuff going on and what it's enabung stuff going on and what it's enabling or disabling us from doing is managing . managing doing is managing. managing problems within our own society

for ourselves. yeah, we're having to. we're having to lean back into a law that someone can hold against us that prevents us from making our own people safe . from making our own people safe. so anything that that prevents us from making our own people safe has to be looked at again, i think. >> absolutely. and i think you know, after the events of the last decade, i think a lot of people have said, enough's enough. we need to have sustainable immigration, and we need to make sure no more children die in terrorist attacks. well , coming up, we attacks. well, coming up, we will assess the week's winners and losers. we've got jk rowling fighting the police. and in the latest example of diversity and inclusion being total hypocrisy, a civil servant is forced out for sharing reform posts social media. see you a moment

it's now time to go through the winners and losers of the week. jk rowling. she's one of the

winners. she's been criticised. she's criticised british transport police's policy allowing trans women so biological males who identify as women to conduct intimate body searches on female suspects. british transport police announced a campaign against male on female violence called it starts with men. jk rowling posted on social media it starts with men. is this your idea of humour? you've just announced a policy that will allow individuals who started his men to strip, search females. now, some have criticised jk rowling, saying that trans women are women and a woman being searched wouldn't know. but let's have a look at one of these trans women police officers . can we bring up police officers. can we bring up the picture ? the picture? >> just show me. here we go. >> just show me. here we go. >> yeah, here we go. this is this is. i mean, come on. this is. i'm perfectly fine with doing the pronouns and respecting this person's decision to dress how they want, but they should keep their fingers out of my mom's undercrackers. i mean, that is that's quite, quite a scary looking woman. i'm not gonna lie, paul. i mean, i think you

can be polite. you can go along with the pronoun stuff, but there has to be a balance . even there has to be a balance. even though we're we're accepting this person will feel better if we use the pronouns. what about the feelings of women? and i should probably ask you, dean, because she actually is a woman. but i don't know. >> you could you could identify, i could identify as a woman. but it still wouldn't make me one. and that's the whole point of this, isn't it? i mean, amusingly, this probably will cut a female criminals down to zero, because if you think you're going to get filled up by big dave there, you might think twice about about, you know, some, some petty crime. you're about to commit. yeah. but j.k. rowling makes a very serious point here. the idea that they've called the british transport police have called their started their campaign with it starts with men. it also ends with men. it ends with big, big men feeling you up in public. legally, it's their legal right. it's their job, in legal right. it's theirjob, in fact, to body search you . and fact, to body search you. and they only need to. they only need to have suspicion of a crime being committed. and then they can go to town. yeah. big dave can go to town .

dave can go to town. >> no other police forces have, you know, put the kibosh on trans women searching women. i mean, i think we do need some sensible boundaries. i'm perfectly fine with respecting people's right to live however they want to live. however they feel more comfortable. but come on, you can't. it doesn't mean you can, like, go into the olympics and start punching like biological women in the face. it doesn't mean you can stick your fingers in women's underpants. it's, you know, there's got to be some limits. >> i think it's a massive conspiracy. the idea that people transition in order to get into women's spaces like bathrooms and get to be on the police so that they can maybe touch somebody. ditties like, you know, it's not true, right? i mean, think about transitioning. >> so why why allow it? >> so why why allow it? >> think about it. well, i don't think, first of all police move on to. so i think any trans person worth their salt will just say, listen, you can deal with this, sheila. i'm not. i don't think it's going to happen. i don't think it's a big thing. >> i think it's going to happen. >> i think it's going to happen. >> i think i really don't rules than i don't think it's going to

happen. i do. >> why bother having laws ? >> why bother having laws? people would just be like, oh, i'm sure everybody's going to do what they should do. >> i think they should like in switzerland or something. and the other thing is, right, you know, it takes a lot to transition. you have to go through the physical surgery or the hormones explaining to your parents the social shame. right ? parents the social shame. right? that's a lot of effort. that's a lot of effort. right. if a man is to make that kind of effort, i want to meet that man. he sounds fab, right? you know, so i think it's just really scandalous of something that probably isn't going to happen. so we needn't worry about it. >> i think there probably isn't going to happen. i mean, that's not good enough. that's not good enough for me. i think there's some women who would be traumatised by this. and, you know, i don't think it's right that they're putting put in that position and for, for all that we say, you know, oh, but this, this, no transgender people, nobody's transitioning to exploit the system. you're creating a loophole where it could happen, like with the with people transitioning to get sent to female prisons. so in scotland there are male rapists transitioning to get sent to female prisons. and obviously, you know , that's not much of

you know, that's not much of a punishment for a male rapist. if you're sent to a female prison, that's . yeah, it's like a that's. yeah, it's like a busman's holiday. it's disgusting . disgusting. >> they're all sort of buses. you go on, leo. but not the british transport police. once again makes a wonderful, good faith argument. and i want to live in a world where aideen believes we currently live , believes we currently live, because that would be quite marvellous. and she does make a good point. and i'm sure it stands up statistically that most the vast majority of trans people don't set about transitioning so they can. you know, go and touch up women in prison or on the streets. >> but however, however, it's about this happening. >> yeah. and that's that's the point, isn't it? if there's if there's a danger of it happening and quite clearly, i mean, the chapin and quite clearly, i mean, the chap in that photograph that we saw there, it's a woman, sorry. the woman in that photograph that beautiful lady that that absolute damsel we saw in that photograph there quite clearly hadnt photograph there quite clearly hadn't even gone to the effort to stand like a woman. i mean, she looked like she was bouncing

on a nightclub door. >> in fairness, she is standing like a female police officer. >> well, yeah. if you call, if you say that your nana looks like a lesbian, that's also in the trans news this week , the the trans news this week, the new york times referred to women as non—transgender women. >> now , listen to this. this. >> now, listen to this. this. we've got the we've got the excerpt from the new york times here. it says it's talking about the levels of testosterone in women's trans volleyball players. it says trans volleyball players are eligible to play if their testosterone level is less than ten nanomoles per litre. that's at least four times more than what many experts say is the top of the range for non—transgender women. and in the typical range for aduh and in the typical range for adult men. now, non—transgender women. this is 18. you've now been reduced to a subset of men like you're a subset of biological males. we now have men transgender women and non—transgender women. >> but this is perfect for right

wing christians because it's adam. and then the bone, the rib was created eve. so that's ideal was created eve. so that's ideal. they should be delighted with this. >> you know what? you're absolutely right. the patriarchy is back . is back. >> yayi >> yayi >> no. we hear a lot about diversity and inclusion, but it doesn't seem to extend to diversity of political opinions and inclusion of people who aren't left wing. this week, michelle cochran, a civil servant for the department for work and pensions, told the daily mail she felt she had no choice but to resign after being threatened with the sack for sharing reform party and nigel farage posts on social media. she was warned that an investigation would be undertaken into the post. she shared that criticised the labour party around things like immigration and the early release of prisoners. and if she was found to have committed gross misconduct, she would likely be dismissed. michelle feels she has been treated unfairly, as she claims other colleagues have posted political comments on their own personal accounts. she told the daily mail if it was a banned or extremist party, i'd get it. but

it's a legitimate political party who have mps? i thought it was illegal to discriminate against someone for their political beliefs. i think if it had been a more left wing party, i was supporting it wouldn't have been an issue. if it's not okay, it should be a blanket ban for everyone, not just certain views. the department for work and pensions have declined to comment on the story, saying it would not talk about individual staffing matters but adding i just think this exposes the sort of, you know, everybody's like, oh, we've got to be so diverse and inclusive. but i remember when i was banned from a venue in perth in australia, they turned around to me and they said, this is an inclusive space. you have to leave like inclusion always seems to mean exclusion . exclusion. >> yeah. i remember when you tried to get into a nissan micra and you couldn't stand up straight because you were so tall that was hard for you as well, wasn't it? excluded from the japanese cars? yeah, i can imagine if she had shared something about the communist party, it would have been totally fine. she'd been promoted then. this story is a little bit dodgy because there's no actual accusation. she went to the daily mail herself to say that she might have been fired.

do you know how much of my time ispent do you know how much of my time i spent trying to find stories for the daily mail to give you a grant, like every time i'm stuck in a queue, every time the flight is delayed , i'm like, can flight is delayed, i'm like, can ibnng flight is delayed, i'm like, can i bring this to the mail? so we can't really trusted that much, but she was working for the department of pension and work , department of pension and work, so obviously she knows she can retire and she knows exactly to how milk the system to get back in and get her mounted benefits. >> aideen raises a very good point. sometimes women complain for no reason . for no reason. >> yeah, i would, i would to me to comment. >> i really want to complain about that, but i can't women or as i like to call them, those minus ten nana ten himars or whatever. >> i mean, i prefer, i prefer my women to be below ten nanomoles, but i will accept anything over unless they're trying to lift a car off me. >> my testosterone is rising very strongly now, lads, can i just say i think i'm hitting that level? >> you should be looking for. >> you should be looking for. >> i mean, it seems that if we're going to start penalising people who share reform posts,

who share posts criticising laboun who share posts criticising labour, then we should also penalise people who are sharing pro—labour posts. >> i mean, well, absolutely. the reform are legitimate, legitimate, political party. >> you're saying like gerry adams, they're . adams, they're. >> ed davey's going to be triggered then ? they are, aren't triggered then? they are, aren't they? so and you know, i believe labour are nuts. you know, i believe some of labour's policies are absolutely nuts. and they have a huge mandate. what gives the department of work and pensions the right to say that reform are wrong and everybody else is right? yeah, of course they don't have that right. but aideen is absolutely right. but aideen is absolutely right. we have no idea whether they believe that or not. which is a shame, because i'd like to have seen some evidence that suggested because we have a hunch that maybe they would believe that or certainly that the civil service is infiltrated. but we don't know . infiltrated. but we don't know. >> well, we've seen it recently with some other stories. there was a woman, i think, colette fairbanks, who was who was either fired or, you know ,

either fired or, you know, suffered some sort of penalty for sharing similar political views. and i think, i think this is happening from my experience of working in the public sector , of working in the public sector, you're only really allowed to support labour. >> you're not going to have a huge problem in about 4 to 5 years time, because 4 or 5 years of this left wing socialist labour government , you are going labour government, you are going to see a massive rise in right wing populism, and you're going to see at least i would imagine, reform being the opposition party. so i don't know what the civil servants are going to do there. >> yeah. no. absolutely. well, next on the saturday night showdown, we've got the return of kamala, david walliams desperately trying to stay relevant by coming out as non—binary. and how naughty is greg wallace? we've got some of the allegations

welcome back to the saturday night showdown. now greg wallace is the latest bbc presenter to get into trouble. he's been forced to step down from presenting while a probe into

his alleged misconduct is undertaken . 13 former undertaken. 13 former colleagues, including kirsty wark, have come forward to complain about inappropriate sexual comments. a male worker on masterchef in 2005 said. wallace once said a dish tasted like his aunt's vagina. and on another occasion asked a female runner if she put her finger up her boyfriend's bottom. he's been accused of taking his top off in front of a female worker, saying he wanted to give her a fashion show. you do that as well, paul and talked about his sex life to others. he's also alleged to have thrust his crotch at a young member of staff who was cleaning his trousers to mimic a sex act. the artist doctor kate thomas, who appeared on masterchef in 2008, described wallace as a racist piece of s word and alleged that he did an indian accent in front of an indian co—worker on masterchef. a former staff member has claimed that wallace made offensive asian remarks on the set of masterchef. these allegedly included making kung fu, fighting noises and comments

such as me so horny. greg has denied the allegations. while an investigation has been launched. now i've worked on building sites and a lot of the stuff that greg has been accused of would have just been banter on those building sites. nobody would be phoning the police over it. are we seeing the death of banter, paul? >> no , i think it's unfortunate >> no, i think it's unfortunate example he used because on a building site there aren't that many women. yeah. so i think, i think in a, in a television production that greg wallace is working in, there would have been a lot more women. and his behaviour, if true. we have no idea whether this is true or not. but let's say if it is true, it would be wholly inappropriate. there isn't anything in there that would be appropriate , you and i. but come on. >> i mean, it's pretty tame for the bbc. >> yeah. well, exactly. i mean, there there's no children involved or lists of mps, but we don't know anything. right. and probe is obviously an unfortunate term to describe what's going on here in this particular incident. it is indeed. particular incident. it is indeed . but do you know what had

indeed. but do you know what had you asked me this question maybe 15 years ago before i became a dad to a young girl? and i've got a girl in 15 or 16 years old. now, i may have answered this differently, but i do feel really protective of the women involved on the basis that i just couldn't bear this if it happened to my daughter. >> yeah, okay. well, we've actually got a clip of greg wallace on one of his shows. let's take a look. >> i find it quite pleasant. left to my own devices, i'd probably punch the living daylights out of you, you little tart . tart. >> so that's apparently one of the things. >> i mean, come on, that was on tv . that's entertaining. tv. that's entertaining. >> yeah, it's . i mean, he was >> yeah, it's. i mean, he was hidden in plain sight. >> the thing. are we laughing there at what greg wallace has said in terms of we believe it's a joke, it's funny. or are we actually laughing at the audacity of this very thinly veiled joke towards the woman involved? >> i think britain was built on

sexism, thinly veiled sexist innuendo, and i think if we take that away , that's probably the that away, that's probably the cornerstone that upholds civilisation. >> it seems like he's just brought the christmas party vibe to every single workday. he's just mixed up the calendar or something. but i agree, i think what you said was lovely. paul and i think i would have when i was younger, these kind of comments were so common at work and not as a primary school teacher now. but when i worked in bars and i was cleaning and men would say things and you just had to ignore them, you'd warn other women, oh, don't be on your own with him. and you got used to it. and you learn to kind of skills on how to decipher who to stick by. and who not to. but it is actually nice for me to be able to say, no, i don't want that for younger women. now the problem is some of the ones, older ones, we're able to we're hardy , we're we're able to we're hardy, we're able to take it. but the problem is that this story is it's just some of the stuff is pretty shocking. and then some of the stuff you said is quite funny. and the funny mild stuff is going to really attract people's

attention and see that it's not important. like the fact that he said something tasted like your aunfs said something tasted like your aunt's vagina. well, then maybe you shouldn't make things that taste like your aunt's vagina. that's a valid cooking point. >> so how does he. >> so how does he. >> how does he know what his hands were? i mean, that is a very, very specific genre. yeah . okay. >> well, moving to on more to more pleasant things. kamala has resurfaced for the first time since the election. you'd be forgiven for thinking she's been drowning her sorrows. take a look at this . look at this. >> i just have to remind you. don't you ever let anybody take your power from you? you have the same power that you did before november 5th, and you have the same purpose that you did . and you have the same did. and you have the same ability to engage and inspire. so don't ever let anybody or any circumstance take your power from you . from you. >> honestly, i've heard more coherent stuff from men leaning against the bar in wetherspoons

at kicking out time. she tells people not to let anyone take their power unless you're joe biden, presumably. then you should let kamala take your power. run for election. what's interesting is she's not ruling out running for election next time around in 2028. do you think that's a good idea? >> well , why shouldn't she? >> well, why shouldn't she? >> well, why shouldn't she? >> she's entitled to. i mean, come on. so she's a little bit tired and emotional there. like if she was wearing a kilt or a saint patrick's hat, we'd be like, yayi irish prime ministers have done worse whilst in power, so i think it's fine. i like her drunk auntie at the wedding vibe. she appeals to my cohort very strongly. >> yeah, i'd just like to see her sound a bit more sober sometimes . her sound a bit more sober sometimes. hillary clinton is also considering running in 2020. d0 also considering running in 2020. do you think the democrats need to just clear out some some of the old would do you know, i feel like i should say here now and say, look, you know, there's absolutely no chance there's more chance of me running the marathon than there is of kamala or hillary running in 2028, 20, 29 or whatever it is. >> however, we've seen from the

democrats just over the last, they were emboldened by biden winning. yeah. and, you know, there's lots of question marks over that. but they're emboldened by biden winning. and then they just ran this ridiculous campaign with kamala essentially threw her under the bus because she had absolutely no chance. if that was if that was her idea of the campaign, she deserves everything she got. but if that was her advisers idea of a campaign, then they all got what they deserved and they absolutely would have to change because apparently her campaign, the cost of it has been revised up to nearly $2 billion, most of which was her dnnks billion, most of which was her drinks tab, i believe. >> anyway, next on the saturday night showdown, we've got the craziest videos of the week in clown world with the transgender comedian, creepy school indoctrination, and some unhappy left wing people. honestly, are those guys happy? see you a moment.

welcome back to the saturday night showdown. now we've had a

big push for diversity, equity and inclusion over the past decade, and some people have said that it's resulted in people being promoted based on ability to tick a box rather than their ability. well, to prove those bigots wrong, we've got a clip of stand up from a non—binary, neurodivergent, trans comedian of colour named alok vaid—menon, who i think you'll agree is simply superb. take a look at this. >> i can sympathise with why men don't want us in comedy. we have a leg up, an unfair advantage because we don't just tell jokes. according to them, we look like them . i have look like them. i have a biological advantage to be funny. i am literally the love child of beauty and the beast. i'm what happens in the sequel . i'm what happens in the sequel. how are you supposed to compete with that? the minute i walk on the stage, it's over for you

guys. i'm a hit across the world. i don't even need to speak the language in. everyone's laughing . it's everyone's laughing. it's incredibly simple. >> simply brilliant stuff. i mean, do we even need women anymore? now that we've got beautiful trans, nonbinary, neurodivergent people like this? >> it was funny. the audience were laughing , the audience were were laughing, the audience were laughing. they were. they were laughing. they were. they were laughing . laughing. >> they slash she slash z slash delta was absolutely crushing it. paul i mean, paul, you booked gigs? >> i do book gigs. >> i do book gigs. >> are you going to reach out and book this? >> i like i like the female acts on my gigs to be like the female acts, the female acts in my life. i was going to say, i don't know what i meant by that. basically, i'm looking for anything below ten nanomoles right? that's my new benchmark. obviously, that person there was way above the old nana paul's for becoming a woman, but i mean whatever 18 right? makes a

really good point. this once again, it's really frustrating. i want to completely disagree with her. however, the audience laughed and it's the only measure. now we know that audience has come to see that person and that's why they're laughing. it's not going to be something that's universally seen as funny, but there's a place for humour in everything. and, you know, whatever. i'm actually past it now. if i thought if i thought that person would sell tickets, i'd book them. >> and there's some killer trans comedians. that's the thing, i don't know. i don't know what this person in the spotlight when there are so many killers, there's, well, at least a couple of killer trans comedians i can think of. jordan. >> yes. >> yes. >> you know, the one i mean, the one on channel 4. yeah. who got the kit out and played piano with the thing . anyway, moving with the thing. anyway, moving on. liberals in america are still having a hard time coming to terms with trump being their new emperor. these unhappy democrats decided to let off some steam with a bit of primal scream therapy. take a look at this .

that's quite terrifying. i think we could put them on the shore at dover, and the boats would probably turn round . probably turn round. >> yeah, i wouldn't mind giving that primal scream a go, you know? >> have you ever done. >> have you ever done. >> no i won't i'm not going to do it now. >> screamed sometimes i don't want to scream or cry on national television. >> but you know, it it just it does look liberating in some way. but i don't care. i mean, it feels to me like it's something that's that's contrived. it's something that's put on. it's something that's, that's generated to make so they can seek validation. not, not that they're expelling anything or getting over anything or they're the victim of anything, but they want the attention of validation for themselves. >> so it's like a big virtue signal. i don't believe that left wing people would just be performative. that's never perform ative. that's never happened performative. that's never happened before. >> well , actually, i don't happened before. >> well, actually, i don't think these things work . you know,

these things work. you know, you're supposed to break crockery like the gb news mug, or you're supposed to throw things at a wall or punch a bag. they're not actually shown to work that well. oh, really ? no, work that well. oh, really? no, because i used to be really into it. but when i was drinking. but i mean, what does work is taking action and community and helping people and connection with another human being. but yeah, there is like hard work. it is. but it's so worth it. leo. >> anyway , before before we do >> anyway, before before we do hand over to mark the most odious indoctrination of kids i saw this week was this video created by a school in ireland to educate students about cultural appropriation? take a look . look. >> omg you got your braids and i love them! >> yeah, thanks. >> yeah, thanks. >> i want to get them for longitude. i think they're so exotic. >> you shouldn't. my culture isn't an accessory . isn't an accessory. >> what do you mean? i've never tried them before. i want to get them. >> yeah, i know, but this is for my culture, not for your fashion. >> oh, i'm sorry , i should have >> oh, i'm sorry, i should have known, but i had to learn. i should have known. but i had to learn. i should have known. >> but i had to deliver. >> but i had to deliver. >> i cannot wear your braids if i'm white. because that is

cultural appropriation . cultural appropriation. >> cultural appropriation is the act of taking or using things from a culture that is not your own, especially without showing that you understand or respect this culture. >> tell me this braids in a job interview or in a formal situation. >> she only want braids because they're exotic. >> she will not wear them for an everyday purpose . everyday purpose. >> for grace. it was more of a costume for the concert, but for shalom it is part of her culture and who she identifies as . and who she identifies as. >> honestly, that was like some sort of stephen king horror film, and i think we need more cultural appropriation, not less. anyway, up next tonight is mark dolan tonight. what have you got for us this evening, mark? >> well, listen, leo, we've got a very busy two hours. fraser nelson, the brilliant journalist, is on the show talking about a crisis in sickness benefits. it's bankrupting the country. who knew? also in my big opinion, the orange man strikes again . the orange man strikes again. donald trump is not even president. and there's talk of a peace breakthrough in ukraine. and in my take, a ten new

worrying developments in the gregg wallace bbc crisis . gregg wallace bbc crisis. >> it sounds fantastic. mark. look forward to watching it. and yeah, just going back to my panel to discuss that video of the school. i mean , i know it's the school. i mean, i know it's kids making it or teachers making a video , but that was making a video, but that was that was quite creepy. and also i think we do need more cultural appropriation. we need people to mix together . mix together. >> and it did sound like when we were at school and we'd say the prayers and adam and i and, and our torn up, it's reminded me of doing rosaries the way they were doing rosaries the way they were doing it by rote . yeah, just doing it by rote. yeah, just a little bit of cultural appropriation is good. i mean, i got the braids when i was young and then my weak white hair just all fell out. and then i appropriated baldness. so yeah, because braids, i mean, braids were told that braids were, you know, are just in that video. >> they're saying it's just for black people. people had braids back in the viking era. people had braids, you know , thousands had braids, you know, thousands of years ago in britain, my culture's not that accessible

was was one of the lines in there. >> i mean, that's, that's that's madness. but why can't we make culture accessible ? culture accessible? >> absolutely. well, thanks to my brilliant panel tonight, paul cox and eddie mcqueen. see you again next week. and don't forget headliners as well. tonight at 11 pm. i'm on tonight. see you then. bye. hello . hello. >> a nice bright morning will generate a lovely warm day right through to the evening. boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news. >> hello! here's your latest weather update from the met office for gb news during the course of sunday. we'll see some showery outbreaks of rain across the uk. things turning colder from the north into monday, albeit for a time because milder atlantic air will return during the middle part of the coming week. but the detail for the present time, though, and the low pressure guy anker towards the north—west of the uk quite tightly packed isobars. so it's quite a blustery picture and a band of rain starting to work in from the west, across ireland and northern ireland through the course of the evening, reaching scotland, england and wales dunng scotland, england and wales during the overnight period. some of that rain could well

turn quite heavy at times, staying mostly fine towards the southeast and some clearer weather tucking into the north—west of the uk by the morning on sunday. quite blustery though, up towards the north gales are likely and wherever you are it's mild and frost free temperatures holding up in double figures in some places. as for sunday itself, we'll get off to a very showery picture across scotland. a few clear spells at times, but on the whole there will be a fair number of showers moving in from the west. quite mild at this stage in the day though temperatures here in double figures a pretty bright picture across northern ireland to start the day on sunday. just 1 or 2 showers around and a fairly bright to across parts of wales and the south—west again with just 1 or 2 showers moving in from the west. cloudier skies though across central and southeastern parts of england. here some more general outbreaks of rain at times. as for the rest of sunday, well, on the whole it's a pretty unsettled day. bands of showery rain moving in from the west, interspersed by some bright or sunny spells at times, and those blustery winds, particularly towards the north, gradually easing down as we go through the day. and another very mild day for the time of year. temperatures peaking at 14,

possibly 15 degrees down towards the south. 15 is 59. in fahrenheit, to say a temperature a little bit by these showery outbreaks of rain and that brisk breeze. as for monday , we'll breeze. as for monday, we'll nofice breeze. as for monday, we'll notice cold air starting to push in from the north, certainly across scotland, northern ireland and the north of england. towards the south, we hold on to milder temperatures, but here there'll be some outbreaks of rain at times locally on the heavy side, as we go through the day . colder go through the day. colder weather moving south across all parts to give some frost on tuesday, even some snow for a time across the north of the uk, but turning milder by the middle of the week. >> expect a warm front moving from the kitchen right through to the rest of house. boxt

>> good evening. it is 9:00 on television, on radio and online in the united kingdom and across the world. this is mark dolan tonight in the big opinion, with talk of peace deals in ukraine

gathering pace, the donald trump effect is already being felt. far from being a monster , the far from being a monster, the donald might just save the world in the big story is assisted dying a sin? i'll be asking the former chaplain to queen elizabeth the second. also tonight, the chaos of sickness benefits which are trapping people they're supposed to help and they're bankrupting the country. fraser nelson, one of the country's finest journalists, tells tells me about his latest channel 4 film, all about this growing national scandal . and in an hour's time, scandal. and in an hour's time, in my take at ten, as the bbc is engulfed in yet another scandal, this time surrounding masterchef star gregg wallace, we get news that the licence fee is to rise to an eye—watering £174.50 from april. is it still worth the money? i'll be giving my verdict at ten.