. evening scarlett mccgwire.evening to i was going to to both of you. i was going to say, you know the drill on this programme, don't you? it's not just about austria, is about you guys at home as well. and you know what? modern technology don't it? don't you just love it? >> because tonight, the >> because tonight, for the first show, first time on the show, actually, now so actually, we can now connect. so we can. not just over email we can. yes. not just over email or anything like that. oh, no. we connect line, you can we can connect on line, you can send you can post send your views, you can post your and the rest your comments and all the rest of it. keep them nice. keep them clean, please. try and clean, please. and i'll try and read some of them out. gbnews.com where you to gbnews.com is where you go to with a slash. your say at the end of that it can connect to that. i'll be chatting to that. and i'll be chatting to you the break though you during the break though because and pay attention because i try

and adviser, scarlett mccgwire and pubuc adviser, scarlett mccgwire and public affairs consultantsublic affairs consultants, and former labour aide stella zheng qinwen santykiu. so i thought i was going to do better than that . stella. >> i'm sorry about it. very well, scarlett, let's consider this question of whether a labour government may in fact be blown off course by the international security situation , by which i mean having to having to devote much more time and much more money to defence than presently seems likely . than presently seems likely. >> it was harold macmillan who said it's events , dear boy said it's events, dear boy events, and that that is always raise the problem of going into government is there are things you can plan for and there are things that just happen , you're things that just happen, you're absolutely right. i mean, we have to worry about ukraine. we have to worry about ukraine. we have to worry about ukraine. we have to really worry about what's going on in the middle east and how that's all going to be pulled into. and of course, what's intere

scarlett mccgwire andy williams, who say good morning to both of them. morning.hink ? i want to begin with the think? i want to begin with the rwanda bill? do you think i mean, the prime minister says we're now 10 to 12 weeks away from flights. what do you think, scarlet ? scarlet? >> where do you begin? with rwanda, bill? i mean, if it's not going to work, that that what how many people are going to be sent? over a few hundred. we have thousands coming in. so they know the odds are that that it's not going to work, well, the plan was never to send all of them over. >> the idea was you know, within days, now they're going to start detaining people, earmarking those people for the flights that will go off in the next few weeks. and that will hopefully bubble through a few flights every month. as rishi sunak has said. and that will be the deterrent. >> but if you think of what these people have been through to get here, the fact that there's a lottery of whether they go to rwanda is pretty low. what's also interesting is, is this is the hill that rishi wants to die

. >> okay, anyway, we've got scarlett mccgwire got scarlett mccgwire and we've got leo both leo nemoraled. scarlet very, very much indeed. scarlet i would to start talking i would love to start talking about and smacking about smacking and smacking children, which are which is illegal in scotland. it is illegal in scotland. it is illegal in scotland. it is illegal in wales, but it is legal in england and northern ireland. and you know, if you'd asked me this 20 years ago, i'd have thought smacking kids. so what? that's what they deserve. most of them , but now i just most of them, but now i just don't think. i just think it's all anymore. >> i'm with you, actually. completely. i mean, george bernard shaw said, you know, the only excuse for smacking a child is in anger. i mean, and smacking children on purpose is . smacking children on purpose is. and it leads to other things. now, look, i'm no saint. i mean , now, look, i'm no saint. i mean, ihave now, look, i'm no saint. i mean, i have hit a child in a supermarket. i've done. i've done the classic. but but i've never forgotten that when

former labour adviser scarlett mccgwire . good adviser scarlett mccgwire. good morning to you both. a quick look at the guardian and hate crime reports? most of which the police most of which says, the police are not authentic. >> yes. so this is on the back of the scottish parliament passing a new legislation, crime and public order bill, which was supposedly to protect things like hate crime against minority groups, but particularly , groups, but particularly, following sort of the transgender and lgbt communities. but on the back of that, out of the thousands of complaints that have been made to the police , only 3.8% are to the police, only 3.8% are actually legitimate. so it has opened again, a whole other can of worms as to whether this new act passed in the scottish parliament is fit for purpose, whether the police are actually now being pulled from pillar to post, looking at things that they shouldn't so, scarlet. they shouldn't be, so, scarlet. >> yeah . i mean, what is obvious >> yeah. i mean, what is obvious is, is there is such a campaign against this bill that that i me

i was with the other scarlett mccgwire last night, so that's going to get very confusing very quickly ireland are saying, what do you agree with what ireland are saying , that ireland are saying, that actually they're ending up with people going to ireland because they're worried about being sent to rwanda? is that having a deterrent effect already? >> well, obviously, if ireland are noticing that the number of , are noticing that the number of, of asylum seekers have come up, then it's true. but but as we've seen , it isn't working. it isn't seen, it isn't working. it isn't working for lessening. people coming over here, it was never going to work. i mean, we're talking that what is it, three. just over 300 people might be flown to rwanda in 12 weeks time . they're not worried about it. i mean, you know, frankly , there i mean, you know, frankly, there are at least one person a month drowns in the channel. i mean, and for many of them , they've and for many of them, they've come across the mediterranean. these people are desperate , these people are desperate, right? the odds that th

voters who want more housing. >> well, joining us now to go through those stories and lots more scarlett mccgwireboth. and morning, morning . you both. and morning, morning. we're leading with the missile strike. whatever it was on the food convoy in gaza , scarlett, i food convoy in gaza, scarlett, i this reeks this really this is targeted. this was three separate vehicles over 1.6 miles, and each were hit separately. >> i know, i mean, what an and so it was targeted. yeah. i mean , this wasn't just a missile liv golf. no, no. >> and they were these were three. >> but what's worse is that the people who were hit first went to the second vehicle where they were hit again. so by the third, the time the third one, all the aid workers were killed. and you just think. and then and then netanyahu goes, well, that's war. and you think, yeah , that's war. and you think, yeah, that's your war. i mean, this is this is really , really serious is really, really serious information was given. >> the route was given . >> the route was given. absolutely. these people as to where they were going and what vehicl

scarlett mccgwire i know you do. >> you often do. >> you often do. >> but where do you think the labourre on this? well, they people are saying that there's not enough distinction and differentiation between, the labour party and the tories. well, do you think they're harsh enough on this issue, they have said they'll look at it. and i think just to go back to alex's point, who says this isn't electioneering? it is because it's precisely to push labour into, well, what's your position? >> i can tell you the labour party position will be to avoid it because i don't want to upset people who are on benefits or have great sympathy for those who are and on the other hand, they won't want to anger those who want to clamp down on benefits so they'll avoid it. well, they're playing small target on everything. >> well, there you go. i'll tell you someone that is, angry today. and that is, many of the leaders in ireland, they're basically saying now that they've become some kind of scapegoat, some kind of loophole for people now crossing into ireland because they're terrified, apparently, or the

so scarlett mccgwire, they're saying that voters consider labour to be the least bad option.ging endorsement , but bad option. hardly a ringing endorsement, but i think it is worth saying what a huge achievement that it is that sir keir starmer has dragged labour from this horrendous result back in 2019 to a position where it's now expected that he's going to get a huge majority. and, you know, it's easy. perhaps to underestimate him because of the chaos within the conservatives but he is quite ruthless. he does want to win and he is going to do whatever that takes . it to do whatever that takes. it does look very much at the moment, like he's going to be our next prime minister. >> okay, catherine, thanks very much indeed . much indeed. >> and now judges have been told to consider more lenient sentences for offenders from depnved sentences for offenders from deprived backgrounds. the sentencing council has for the first time explained the mitigating factors that include poverty, low educational attainment, experience of discrimination and insecure housing. >> well, let's tal

also, carol maloney and scarlett mccgwire are back with us as well. hello, ladies. hello.e stories doing the rounds today. some of the stories doing the rounds today . a big one from the rounds today. a big one from the last hour or so. so the s&p has ended its power sharing deal with the scottish greens over their climate strategy. it was called the bute house agreement. humza yousaf chiefs party has been accused of political cowardice and selling out the younger generations because, of course, they've rowed back on the scotland scottish net zero targets. >> yeah, he has , but what he's >> yeah, he has, but what he's doneis >> yeah, he has, but what he's done is quite childish. i think what he's done is he knows that the greens were going to withdraw from the coalition next week anyway, there was a there was going to be a big meeting and what he's done is actually told them to, to go away before they tell him to go away. so which means that it's interesting situation now that the snp now leads a minority government. i think they hold something like is it 69 seats in their

com now i'm joined on my right by scarlett mccgwire director of polling firm jr partners and gb newsn albie amankona and you of course have founded conservatives against racism for equality. correct. albeit you're not as pessimistic about me, about the conservatives chances or rishi's chances are. >> you know, i'm not as pessimistic because i think if we look back in history and you put you did put some general election polling to just election polling to us just then, you mentioned that the then, and you mentioned that the polling accurate in polling wasn't as accurate in those and we'll just talk those days. and we'll just talk about election that about another election that maybe recent in time, maybe is more recent in time, the general election, when the 2017 general election, when theresa snap theresa may called that snap election, think the election, i think the conservatives were 25 points ahead the polls when that ahead in the polls when that election was called, the party almost took granted the fact almost took for granted the fact that it might actually win the election. a

thank you both for joining advisor scarlett mccgwire. thank you both forjoining me. it's not what you story. it's not what you expected to be talking about, and i'm sure it's pretty much not any of us wanted to be not what any of us wanted to be talking about, this saturday talking about, on this saturday afternoon, indeed, a sunny saturday afternoon pretty much like was happening in sydney when this happened. people just with their families going shopping. we've all been there, haven't we all know how this works. you know, big shopping centre. you know, teenage girls doing you're doing the shopping, you're meeting a burger, meeting your mates for a burger, etc, scarlett, do etc, etc. scarlett, what do you make you've heard coming make of what you've heard coming from australia ? mean, from australia? i mean, it's awful. completely tragic , awful. it's completely tragic, and watching all the pictures , and watching all the pictures, listening to everything, you know, it's a very angry man. yeah, who ? we have no idea why yeah, who? we have no idea why or anything, bu

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thank you for joining adviser scarlett mccgwire.h forjoining me on a saturday afternoon. really appreciate your time, now we are talking strike. so the we consultants have settled. hurrah! thankfully nhs crisis over kidding folks. it's not junior doctors are again likely to go out on strike. we know that they've got a mandate to go on september. train on strike until september. train drivers strike again drivers are out on strike again and only this morning i think we have civil servants from the national statistics office going on strike over working from home. hey, let's all go on strike. not us. obviously. we're staying here. what do we make of this? i mean, alb, just this? i mean, alb, can we just just going on strike and just stop going on strike and sort this out? >> first all, dawn, >> well, first of all, dawn, let's news, let's talk about the good news, which, , is that the which, of course, is that the british medical association has accepted a pay deal, finally, that the government has offered them. >> that should really h

correct instincts. on her correct instincts. >> well, let's get the thoughts of on all of of scarlett mccgwirethis comeback, some make of this comeback, some people, think there was people, i think there was a quote, harry cole of the sun saying that she had the opposite of imposter syndrome. >> i mean , most people having >> i mean, most people having crashed economy after the 44 crashed the economy after the 44 days in government, which show some humility. instead, she says, anybody who believes she crashed the economy is either malevolent or ignorant. i mean, i remember those days. i mean, i remember being at the labour party conference watching the pound slide down, and then i read her memoir and she goes, well, you know, it wasn't that bad . it was it was so bad that bad. it was it was so bad that we stopped laughing and thought, there's going to be no money left for us. so she had no she i mean, it is really, really frightening what she did. she was absolutely run by an ideology that. no, i mean, you know, she found patrick minford, one economist, to back her up all the rest of the econo

here's scarlett mccgwire pollster at jl partners . pollster at jl partners. >> and one thing that keiround issues like immigration and the economy and his policy his numerous u—turns on policy have been seized on by the tories. >> now he seems to be opposing that policy. it's only wednesday, i know, he flip flops, but even for him it's pretty quick. >> the war in gaza has led to rebellions and the humiliation of george galloway winning rochdale . but starmer is focused rochdale. but starmer is focused on acting like a prime minister in waiting. >> we actually recently asked voters to describe keir starmer in a single word, and the most commonly used words were weak, boring, unsure . sure, people boring, unsure. sure, people also use words like honest and competent and leader. and i think one thing that we hear more and more from people is that actually, the more they see of him , at least they think he of him, at least they think he might be a little bit more normal than rishi sunak. something we hear a lot. we hear we don't know what keir starmer stands for. we're not sure what the la

here's scarlett mccgwire pollster at jl partners , and one pollster at jl partners, and one thing that opfion and the party look like a safe option again, especially around issues like immigration and the economy numerous u—turns economy and his numerous u—turns on policy have been seized on by the tories. >> now he seems to be opposing that policy. >> wednesday . i know >> it's only wednesday. i know he flip flops, but even for him it's pretty quick . it's pretty quick. >> yeah, the war in gaza has led to rebellions and the humiliation of george galloway winning rochdale . all but winning rochdale. all but starmer is focused on acting like a prime minister in waiting. >> we actually recently asked voters to describe keir starmer in a single word, and the most commonly used words were weak, bonng commonly used words were weak, boring , commonly used words were weak, boring, unsure. commonly used words were weak, boring , unsure. people also use boring, unsure. people also use words like honest and competent and leader, and i think one thing that we hear more and more from people is that