tv Patrick Christys Tonight GB News December 27, 2024 9:00pm-11:01pm GMT
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sex sex with a male filmed having sex with a male inmate. why does this pattern seem to be repeating in prisons across the country? we find out more with a leading psychotherapist and the so—called godfather of artificial intelligence warns the technology could see the end of humanity within 30 years. could i kill us sooner rather than later? we'll also bring you the very first of tonight's newspaper front pages. as soon as they land. joining me this evening, head of communication for the iea reem ibrahim former tory mp tom hunt and journalist and broadcaster jj anas sarwar obe. hello. we have a very big show to cover over the next two hours. let's get cracking. at the bottom of
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maslow's hierarchy of human needsis maslow's hierarchy of human needs is the physiological, food, water, shelter, the basics? unless they're covered, unless our population is covered literally. people are not progressing up to social needs, which means we're not progressing as a society. so it is that we should all be very concerned about. a yougov poll for shelter reported in today's guardian that two thirds of working private renters, nearly 5 million people, are struggling to pay their rent. 5% of working renters are already in arrears. and remember, these are the people who are in work playing the game. they're following the rules and the system isn't working for them. the government obviously recognises this as a major issue, putting housebuilding as a priority with the target of 1.5 million homes built during this parliament. but then all of our previous governments have paid lip service to the same problem. actually getting a grip on it is another matter. getting migration under control is now the part of this equation. but
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what hasn't been revealed yet is how many of these homes, if any, and what kind of investment the government are going to be putting into social housing. a recent report called for a one £11.5 billion a year investment that would allow for controlled lower rents in 90,000 new homes, with a cost recouped in three years. something has to happen and very soon, because if working renters, many of them young people, are not even able to pay their rent, then forget expecting them to somehow save enough to ever buy their own home. how are we even going to expect them to afford to start a family? my mortgage payments are about a third of what i used to pay about a third of what i used to pay on rent, and for something three times the size and the situation is much worse then than we were before. we got on a property ladder over a decade ago, and the only person that could help us out, and the only reason we can afford a deposit is because my wife and i live for five years with my grandma. that's how we save. we got married there, we had our first
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child there, and not every person can come and live at my grandma's. so we need to start having kids and a lot of them now. the replacement fertility rate necessary for a population to sustain itself is 2.1 babies in the uk. it's presently 1.44 and falling. it hasn't been 2.1 since the 70s, which is why our leaders have traditionally turned to migration as the solution. if that is going to get cut down. having babies is the only answer. the uk is presently doing better than other countries. we're the only major eu country, not a country in the eu or in europe. oh gosh, don't get me started. not facing an immediate major working age population decline and they're getting desperate out there. the eu birth rate overall is the lowest in 60 years. germany has a ten year record low with 1.3 million vacancies in the workforce. elsewhere in europe, entire mediterranean villages have been emptied. further
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afield in tokyo, they're implementing a four day work week to encourage people to have kids. and in china, they're cold calling married couples to inquire about family planning. they're offering prenatal body checks. they're giving cash to parents to have more kids. universities are introducing love courses for single students. i imagine teaching things like putting the seat down and the most efficient way as a couple to pack the dishwasher over here. things aren't necessarily as bad as that, but unless we can offer young working people a secure future, which means secure accommodation, we're not far behind. so let's get the thoughts of my panel. like i said, head of communications at the iea reem ibrahim former tory mp tom hunt and journalist and broadcaster jj anna sewell zebby. i'm looking at a very youngish panel here, so i don't know if any of this resonates. and of course you're all successful. so i imagine further up this but this is this is like
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i said, it's concerning for all of us as a society. right? >> it's absolutely concerning. and i think that the housing crisis is the biggest political and economic problem facing this country alone. we have huge swathes of regulation and red tape. that means that it's almost impossible to build anything in this country. and that affects not just the housing crisis, but also energy infrastructure and the conglomeration of all those kind of buildings being built in this country in the first place. we are one of the worst in the world. so i think that ultimately the solution to this problem is building more houses, right? it's economics 101. if you want to increase the supply of something and the prices will come down, the more that we build, the more affordable housing will be in this country. now the problem is there are many political problems that face this problem. so effectively we've got huge swathes of the not in my backyard as the nimbys that don't want more housing development in this country, that would actually rather see housing being built not in their area, but somewhere else. what we actually need is to completely liberate, liberate it. and i actually think that if
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you are not the owner of the land, you should have no say whatsoever about what is being built on it. >> but i don't think it's just about building houses. we need to then improve transportation because i would love to live in birmingham. that's where i'm originally from. i live in london because the work for me is in london and i can't. i can't go and live in watford because it means i'll be travelling an hour and a bit on a train just to get into london to do my job. so we need to improve the transport and also and also move and also well listen as well. the cost? exactly. the cost, the cost of trains is ridiculous. so then it's a case of well, i've got a lot of us have to force to then stay living in the city where we'd rather live further out. building housing is obviously a core part of it, but we need to improve everything. >> i think we need to abolish the green belt entirely and actually build build in those areas that housing is actually needed, right? if we had a proper economy where supply and demand is what dictates where housing is being built, then we wouldn't have this problem. and fortunately, the government gets in the way. the nanny state gets in the way. the nanny state gets in the way and tells developers where they can and cannot build. >> not just that, it is it. i
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mean, keeping the green belt artificially inflates the prices. and those are the voters. tom, obviously you're you've actually had i think i think i think it's a danger here. >> we get there's two extremes. i think one extreme is we just have no restrictions at all. yeah. and we just, you know, any idea about, you know, local people wanting to have a view about the impact of housing and the type of housing, and they should be completely cut out of the process completely. yes they should. well, that's a pretty unusual view. but you're entitled to, of course. >> gb news. >> gb news. >> it's a pretty unusual view. >> it's a pretty unusual view. >> but why? why shouldn't you be able to build on land that you own? >> i think it's, you know, i think it's right if you've got if you've got a community, a village, for example, and there's a proposal to build huge numbers of housing, poorly designed housing, without the local infrastructure in place, i think it's entirely legitimate for local people to have concerns. so i think, i think i think there's a danger that this debate could become a bit too polarised. >> we completely disagree.
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>> we completely disagree. >> you've made that clear. >> you've made that clear. >> but, you know, at the end of the day, whilst we have, you know, net migration or almost a million a year, you know, we're sort of, you know, we're built. >> i mean, even if labour party, who, by the way, won't be successful in building all of these houses as they were successful in building all of thes
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