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Rise despite the cost of living crisis MPS are to receive a £6,000 pay Boost but do they deserve It and of course we have Ben Leo with us today on Good afternoon Britain in for Tom Harvard as he takes a much needed rest what’s the up to do you know I don’t know actually you know hobnobbing about having a few parties who knows perhaps going away for a little bit
We’ll find out when he gets back but thank you for stepping in stepping into his shoes big shoes to fill but I’m sure you talking of holidays I’m dued to be going to Iceland in a couple of weeks what’s going on with this volcano well it’s absolutely enormous by the looks of
It and there’s been this earthquake activity for weeks if not months so they thought it was coming then it didn’t come and then it erupted overnight and they were taken taken by surprise I think I I was just speaking to a friend who I have who is Icelandic and she
Lives in reic and she was telling me that this is you know the fourth eruption in only three years and essentially that Peninsula that Rick yanis Peninsula if I pronounce that right is in quotes waking up so it’s something that’s been expected for years but the sight of this the extraordinary
Footage we’re seeing right there of the lava is quite incredible and I’ve seen that there are some Thrill Seekers going and uh ignoring the guidance there was an amazing picture this morning on the the M online thousands of cars instead of driving away from the volcano they’re driving to the volcano
Disaster tourism and actually an admission to make apologies I booked a holiday to Iceland over the weekend so have I jinxed it um you might well have done I mean remember 2010 this is quite different apparently but remember that ash cloud yeah that essentially stopped travel hundreds of thousands of flights
Cancelled millions of passengers disrupted it’s quite something when mother nature takes hold in this way in Iceland really really extraordinary but uh this was an area where people could uh could hike and tourist not too far from the Blue Lagoon that famous Instagram worthy uh Natural Spa which is
Heated um a massive a massive uh holiday hotspot for tourists but that was that’s been closed for the past five or six weeks and they reopened three days ago because they thought that the volcano threat had passed but alas here we go a couple of days later unfortunately for
Them you close it for months reopen and then suddenly this happens but let us know what you think about that and all our other stories today GB views atgb newws Docomo Emily thank you very much this is the latest from the GB Newsroom dramatic scenes continue in Iceland after an eruption that caused lava and Ash to spew into the sky Sky the eruption started north of grevich just after 10:00 last night the nearby International Airport is still open but
There are delays to both arrivals and departures there’s ash clouds that Sky these are pictures coming to us live those watching on television will be able to see lava continuing to bubble out of that 2 and a half mile long crack in the earth Iceland’s government says
It doesn’t pose a threat to life but curious sightseers are been warned to keep away schools are being advised to inform parents if their children say they’d like to change their gender identity under new guidance there’s no obligation to allow students to socially transition or to provide gender neutral facilities
Teachers are also given the choice to opt out of using a students chosen pronoun if they have a reasonable objection the Stonewall charity says it doesn’t consider the needs of trans and gender diverse youth but equalities Minister KY badok says that’s not the case fundamentally dis dis agree with stonewalls analysis we fundamentally
Disagree with their facts uh the cast review has shown that social transitioning is not a neutral act it puts children on a medical pathway that can lead to irreversible uh medical decisions the use of puberty blockers and so on but also something that’s really important to emphasize is that
Just because a child doesn’t conform to gender stereotypes doesn’t mean that they are the opposite sex we shouldn’t assume that because a boy likes pink or a girl likes football that they are of the opposite sex Council planning departments are expected to be put on notice today as
The housing secretary cracks down on those accused of dragging their feet on new applications Michael Gove is calling out local authorities with a history of poor performance on building new homes some councils will be given three months to improve or risk having their powers stripped and developments forced upon
Them labor described Mr Go’s plan as truly Through the Looking Glass but housing Minister Lee Rowley says houses are are being built we go back to the early 2010s it was about 100 to 150,000 a year we’re now into the 240,000 a year the most amount of house building in the
Past 30 years has been in recent years we’ve got more to do there’s no doubt about that but we’re going to hit the 1 million houses this Parliament and we are increasing building even during times of economic Challenge and there’s going to be challenge in the coming
Months but the progress is still being made Dame Esther Anson says she’ll consider using a assisted dying as she battles lung cancer the broadcaster told the BBC she’s joined the Swiss organization dignitas which provides doctor supervis assisted dying she’s calling for a free vote in Parliament to make it legal here in the
UK the old model accessing dental care in England is gone for good that’s the warning from a leading Think Tank most dentists are no longer taking on new NHS patients with warnings the service is in Decay and at its worst point in 7 5 years according to the nuffi trust
Spending on Dental Services has dropped by more than half a billion pounds since 2015 it says a universal service is no longer offered by the NHS and recommends the government take some difficult decisions to ensure those most in need continue to receive basic care there’s been a rise in violence
Against shop workers at ASA Supermarket subid claims that Financial pressure is leading to staff cards Dean Horton from the gmbb Union says staff are coping with unrealistic productivity measures she says the supermarket’s high debt level is leading to hours being cut for cleaning staff and floor workers asda’s
Co-owner Maran Isa told a select committee this morning the company’s debt is coming down and they’re continuing to invest in staff pay Britain’s joining an International Coalition to protect ships as they sail through the Red Sea after a recent series of attacks hthy militants and and Yemen are stepping up assaults on
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Strike in the 1980s could have their convictions overturned it’s part of a bill to be presented in Parliament today thousands of minors were arrested in 1984 and 1985 after they walked out in a dispute with Margaret Thatcher’s government Scotland has already pardoned all those who took part in the strike
Owen Thompson who’s an MP for the SNP wants the law changed in England and Wales too this is GB news across the UK on TV in your car on Digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying play GB news now back to Bent and Emily Right as we were just talking about this volcano continues to spew lava and smoke into the sky this is in Iceland of course and we’re looking at some pictures hopefully will come in a in a little moment cuz it is extremely extreme well incredible yes incredible
So there you can see the lava spewing out and smoke as well and this is in Iceland 4,000 people I think were evacuated from a nearby town and it continues to be a state of emergency and you know what it couldn’t have come at a worst possible time isn’t this the best
Time of the year for the Northern Lights well yes also lots of holiday makers I think December to January particularly is amazing for the Northern Lights have you been to Iceland I have been to Iceland I have um a good friend who lives out there she is Icelandic herself
And she was telling me all about what’s what’s going on how uh this peninsula is is waking up is what she said in in her words it’s waking up they’ve been having earthquake activity for quite a long time now they weren’t sure when it was
Going to erupt and here we go late last night it decides to erupt and that’s how Mother Nature Works doesn’t it really you never know the big fear now is travel I’m as I said from a very selfish perspective um I meant to be going on
Holiday in two weeks so are we going to get a similar situation to 2010 when those flights were down for what was it four or five weeks it caused travel chaos across Europe well we’re going to put that point to a travel expert very soon very shortly on the show I want to
Ask him is there going to be disruption to Ben Leo’s honeymoon so there you go praise the travel Gods we’ll bring you the very latest of course and we’ll speak to that travel expert very soon but moving on schools in England have been told there is no general duty to
Allow children to change their gender identity yeah and it’s part of a long awaited guidance for schools and colleges for peoples who question their gender so the minister for women and equalities kemy badog was asked if children in single sex schools would have to change School if they wanted to
Change their sex here’s what she had to say decisioning does not and cannot change your sex so irrespective of uh social transitioning which we have said is not a neutral act and should only be happening in the rarest of circumstances you should be in a single sex School uh
Going to the school that uh applies to your biological sex well there you go that’s kemy bad knock well saying it as it is really you can’t change your sex so you will have to go to a single sex School even if you are gender dis um so yeah math teacher Bobby seagull
Now joins us to discuss this Bobby lovely to see you thank you for joining us uh prime minister well former prime minister Liz truss said earlier today that the guidance doesn’t go far enough and because it is exactly that guidance do we need a change in the law as some quarters are calling
For and again I I’ll say my perspective as a teacher so I’ve been in a classroom now in secondary schools for 10 years when I first started as a teacher um this wasn’t an issue you know no teacher had heard about it wasn’t in training in
The last few years that we’ve seen the issue of um transgender schools becoming more prevalent so obviously it’s something that we need to be aware of as teachers and people in wider Society so what I understand is that they haven’t gone to the blanket ban and saying no
Social transitioning um but they have said that schools are allowed to use their discretion in certain cases and again I think it’s uh my understanding is if um a child uh discloses to their school they want to transition gender I think now under guidance they should be telling parents but again the exception
Is that from a school’s perspective we Al think about safeguarding so as a teacher we are in local paren so we sort of take on the role of the parent in school so as a duty of that generally you should be telling parents of their issues with the child the academic work
Their mental health wanting to train gender but we can make exceptions currently under the the guidance if we think there’s a safeguarding issue if we think that Mom or Dad might harm the child if we reveal that the child is thinking about changing gender so I
Think in that sense it at least gives schools some leeway rather than being a blanket you must do this policy yeah Bobby I want to get into the particulars of this guidance a little with you but just you mentioned that this wasn’t an issue a few years ago or when you came
Into the profession why do you think uh you know speaking to children every day why do you think it’s become uh so prevalent or at least increased in prevalence quite rapidly would you say there’s an element of social contagion going on so it’s a really challenging question
I would say is that times do change and again even 10 years ago even five years ago I would never talk about my mental health I’d be like I’m always bouncy always happy but over lockdown things changed people talked about their well-being and how they feel and again you start find workplaces different
Environments people are more used to talking about how they feel how they think think you again we’ve got in Britain this stiff up lip we just sort of take things on the chin so as Society changes will become more open this is again an issue maybe again I don’t know
That the research but maybe people had sort of gender dysphoric issues before but maybe they never felt comfortable discussing it so I think Society in general people are more open about discussing things so I guess maybe that just reflects that Trend Bobby have you had any children in your class or school
Who has come to you or your colleagues your fellow teachers um saying that they want to change gender or they want to identify as something else and how how have you dealt with that if so yeah so we have had a couple of students in our school um wanting to be identified as
Non-binary and I think it’s a case of trying to make sure that you have conversations with the child try to inform the parents if you think it’s reasonable and also to make sure that the rest of the school Community because again it’s not just the child that’s being impacted it’s their peers maybe
Certain teachers may have have different perspectives The Wider sort of community in the school so there’s one thing where it’s a lot of people that you’ve got to really consider and I would say from my perspec as a teacher is even though it’s challenging even though it’s a moral
Mindfield it’s making sure that you approach things from a place of compassion because adolescence is a troubling period as it is and again with social media there’s influences it’s a really tough period so as a teacher we shouldn’t just go no shut the argument down have a conversation again I think
They’re the best teachers the ones that can encourage your dialogue with people um what do you do you think that teachers across the board will bear this guidance on Bo take this guidance on board because there has been a head teacher in Liverpool who’s come out and said it’s taken so long for
This guidance to be published there’s been lots of politics going on behind the scenes I’ve had my own guidance for the last you know decade or so why should I change it we’re fine as we are yeah and again that’s the problem with guidance I know in the last few
Years I think the association of school council leaders they came with their own guidance and many schools have adopted that as a sort of defacto policy so until a government decides we’re going to set this as a as in law and statute schools are free to do what they want
And again if you’re a governor of a school you will generally defer to government guidance and again I think most schools will probably follow this policy but because it’s guidance it still leaves maybe some would say the burden on schools to decide and again that’s where some schools find it
Problematic because if burdens on the school Community to decide exactly what to do then it puts undue pressure on them and they can face pressure from external bod social media so the government it’s against it’s really that’s a bit difficult though isn’t it for parents though Bobby because this
Guidance is supposed to put parents first I.E they’re supposed to be told if their child wants to socially transition in school if you then had a school completely disregarding that and treating a a biological girl as if they were a boy in school and not telling the parents you get into quite difficult
Water tricky water don’t you there it’s really challenging because I would say the safeguarding issues where it needs to come down to because when ostad come in they obviously look for academic and the the sort of social environment of the school but they can fail schools on
Safeguarding if you fail in that regard so in this particular case schools need to decide again they’re the best assessor of their safeguarding in their Community if they think on balance they probably should be discussing and telling parents because we would tell parents about child’s you know if myor
Us is failing A M I tell the parents or getting bullied the same thing so in the same thing if someone’s looking to change gender it should be the parents being involved but schools have that overarching responsibility they think it will be a safeguarding issue and that’s
Where the discretion comes in which is why I think the government have decided not to have a blanket um policy saying You must tell the parent because there’ll be you know certain households out there that if a child reveals that considering change their agenda they would face harm at home Bobby there is
Concern and an argument about exactly how many of these children who are identifying as trans or non-binary how many of them actually have genuine um cases of body dysmorphia I mean for example the telegraph a couple of months ago ran a story about how there was a massive increase quite laughably to be
Honest in children identifying as cats I mean have you seen that or heard of that and and what percent of of these trans and B cases are just kidss having a bit of fun because they know they can take the mick so again I think with any system
There’ll always be a small minority that are looking to uh abuse it or or take it for a ride and that’s always going to be the case whether you’re looking at sport media business politics but I think for my experience um um my lived experience
As a teacher the ones that do come out and say they are you know they think they might be trans they might want to change gender you do have to treat them with respect and obviously the ones that are joking around you have to you know have Stern words because it causes
Difficulty for everyone else so again as a teacher I always say listen to the child first understand I know again as a teacher sometimes a child hasn’t done their homework and I know which students are the ones that are genuinely making things up or the ones that are like ah
This child never does work yeah but Bobby Bobby I take your point but because it’s so controversial and it’s become so political I do worry that teachers will feel under a huge amount of pressure to take anything the child says with regards to gender totally serious an as gospel gospel because they
Could you know face repercussions um because of it but thank you very much indeed for your time Bobby seagull math teacher thank you very much always nice to always nice to speak to you difficult one for teachers it’s tough like you said if kids know they’re Untouchable and teachers can’t confront them about
Their their silly antics if they are identifying as cats or whatever else I mean you know where does it end but I mean there is there is going to be a genuine I think that power dynamic between the pupil and the teacher might have shifted a little too much in in in
The in the in the direction of the of the pupil but let us know what you think gbvs atgb news.com great stuff right uh coming up next secretary of state for leveling up Michael Gove is giving a major housing speech in central London today he said the government is on the
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Camila tomin show a politics show with personality on GB news the people’s Channel Britain’s News Channel welcome back thanks for joining us on good afternoon Britain uh this volcano is causing harck isn’t it lots of emails from you guys back home uh Peter says this kind of puts ules in perspective
Doesn’t it it’s pumping out cubic miles of toxic gases every hour s KH would have a have a field day in Iceland I have seen a few a few on that line thought very good very good yes lots of carbon emissions there but yes this volcano is erupted on the rikon
Peninsula of the southwest of Ireland and there were weeks of intense earthquake activity but they weren’t sure exactly when it was going to erupt because these things are often quite random 4,000 people evacuated a 3.5 km crack in the volcano um yeah and many fear that the eruption could lead to mass travel
Disruption not least me I’m going there in two weeks I’m praying to the travel Gods to sort it out um in the week before Christmas and similar to the ashcloud disruption of 2010 pictures oh my goodness wow it really puts into perspective the power of Mother Nature
Doesn’t it it’s you know look at the the raw power and the the smoke and the Flames 4,000 people as you said evacuated lots of holiday makers from the Blue Lagoon a massive popular hot spot for uh for tourists funnily enough as we mentioned a few minutes ago that
Was closed for the past 6 weeks because they thought the volcano would erupt they then over the weekend thought oh the coast is clear we’re going to open the doors everyone can come back and what happens 24 hours later yeah my friend in Iceland in rovic she told me
That the issue is not the safety of people cuz everyone’s being evacuated but more the infrastructure so the Blue Lagoon of course also energy could there be blackouts and so on but should we speak to Simon cuer because he knows all about travel he is an expert Simon CER
Thank you very much for joining us Simon so you’re not in rovic unfortunately or in Iceland but you can tell us a little bit about perhaps compared to the ashcloud we saw in 2010 which disrupted millions of passengers could this do the same no it couldn’t I’m very very glad
To say let me just put this into perspective and people will be perhaps looking and thinking hang on this volcano is 10 miles from a major EUR uh North Atlantic Aviation Hub kfic International Airport and there’s still flights going in and out I mean there
Was a pause last night um easy J delayed a flight by over 5 hours coming back into um uh Manchester and because they they just wanted to make sure that things were going to be safe but flights are going in and out perfectly normally um it’s actually a little bit confused
Because there’s an air traffic control strike that’s been going on for weeks but um planes getting there getting out if you’re going in two weeks that’s actually really good timing because as you can see from these images yeah the Earth is very very restless in Iceland it’s been bubbling away for six weeks
We’ve now got the eruption it seems to be contained and what they’ve got is a whole load of trucks on standby with loads of very big rocks oh how’s he gone Simon seems to have gone he was in actually krov in he gets around isn’t he he was he was
Indeed so there you go Simon CER does get around he is a travel expert of course you always find him at the airport in trouble or the country where there’s or yach had him on a yacht one time on Patrick Show yeah he died in from off the Alan Coast somewhere on but
I mean what he was saying there was that this is sort of normal in Iceland of course there’s huge amounts of volcanic activity and you tend to have earthquakes but they’ve been monitoring oh Simon’s back with us excellent uh Simon what were you saying please do
Carry on yeah okay so um they’ve got truckloads of rocks um ready to go to build um safe saf zones around um Villages and towns already the blue Lagoon’s got rocks around it so that if lava starts flowing it’s not going to harm people and we’re not yet at the
Stage where this is a tourist attraction but in general they are and probably in a couple of weeks you’ll find that they’re organizing tours to go and have a look at this amazing natural phenomenon s what would what would tourists find would it be the the um the
Sort of solidified lava and that kind of thing yeah yes and this is to create a new bit of landscape for Iceland it’s a very very modern uh country anyway it just sort of emerged from the Atlantic it’s on the North uh Atlantic fault line between the Eurasian plate and the North
American Plate and they converge in great uh great style um flights going in as I say perfectly normally everything is going okay except if you want to go to the Blue Lagoon and as you say that did open at last and then it closed fairly promptly as well um I would
Imagine that of course there’s a lot of people watching who are thinking hang on I don’t want to go but look if it is safe to go you will be able to go if it isn’t safe then your trip will be canceled and you’ll get a full refund
Personally I would love to go there imagine flying in or out of kic International Airport especially after I’ll send you a postard down and seeing that yeah it will be fantastic well apparently you can see you can see this from rovic which is where most of the
Population lives and and it’s the most amazing site obviously a little bit scary for residents of course because you never know what way Mother Nature is going to go and the lava is moving away from that town but at the moment but you never you never know essentially but apparently the views are
Extraordinary and if I can just explain why it’s not going to be like a the volcano which closed down aviation in the whole of Northern Europe for a week in 2010 not like oh has he gone again for that no I haven’t no no no I’m I’m all back here
Um for for for afel Yoko you had to have um a lot of water on top of the uh eruption if you’ve got water on top of a volcanic eruption then you could well get an ashcloud with this though the conditions are not in that position it’s just absolutely straightforward there
Isn’t going to be a volcanic ash cloud we very much hope and so it’s more of a kind of interesting tourist attraction though of course our hearts go out to the people in the nearby town of grindvik which has been evacuated because they are you know very worried
About what they’ll find when they’re finally let back Simon why why has Iceland become such a a booming place for tourists in recent years I mean 15 years ago I had hardly heard of anyone who was going to Iceland for a trip what’s changed okay well it’s a great
Destination if you want to be for example breaking your journey on the way to the US lots of Airlines I Land Air and play Airlines will take you to Ru give you a city break and then you carry on from there to North America but it’s also absolutely fascinating it’s what
Three hours frying time from Southern Britain only two hours from Scotland you get there it’s a whole new world really friendly really welcoming little bit on the pricey word side two words for you duty free good beer here as well good beer but but it’s just absolutely
Terrific and so uh yeah the other great thing that you are going to find um is that you’re going to be there at the best possible time in the entire cycle of Northern Lights the Aurora Borealis a spectacular show for you so um yeah your your timing is perfect
That’s fantastic well thank you very much for your time Simon CER their travel expert bringing us the very latest from what’s happening in Iceland I’ve been there beautiful country so much to do couple friendly family friendly um whatever else friendly it’s just a great place I’m so glad we got
Simon on I came into this thinking that my holiday was doomed and now he’s saying that it’s going to be bigger and better than ever before so it is quite expensive though because obviously lots of lots of goods uh not a very not a very large population so I think it’s
Quite expensive to get things over there maybe it’s taxes too but coming up rishy sunak is to face parliament’s liaison committee today MPS are essentially marking the prime minister’s homework will he be getting straight A’s or or not uh more on that after your headlines with Tatiana Emily thank you very much 1231 this is the latest from the GB Newsroom dramatic scenes are continuing in Iceland as a volcano spews lava and Ash into the sky these pictures are coming to us live for those watching on TV you’ll be able to see lava continuing to
Bubble out of that 2 and a half mile long crack in the earth Iceland’s government says it doesn’t pose a threat to life but curious sightseers are being warned to keep away schools are being advised to inform parents if their children say they’d like to change their gender
Identity under new guidance there’s no obligation to allow students to socially transition or to provide gender neutral facilities teachers are also given the choice to opt out of using a student’s chosen pronoun if they have a reasonable objection the Stonewall charity says it doesn’t consider the need of trans and
Gender diverse youth but equalities Minister KY badok says that’s not the case fundamentally disagree with stonewalls analysis we fundamentally disagree with their facts uh the cast review has shown that social transitioning is not a neutral act it puts children on a medical pathway that can lead to irreversible uh medical
Decisions the use of puberty blockers and so on but also something that’s really important to emphasize is that just because a child doesn’t conform to to gender stereotypes doesn’t mean that they are the opposite sex we shouldn’t assume that because a boy likes pink or a girl likes football that they are of
The opposite sex Michael Gove has put Council planning departments on notice saying slow approvals won’t be tolerated in a speech on planning reform the housing secretary said there’s resistance to new development in many parts of the country he’s cracking down on lengthy applications with some councils to be
Given three months to improve or risk having their powers stripped where there is and has been consistent underperformance I will act so today I’m taking steps to deal with underperformers in the planning system and there is no greater failure than the failure to actually have a plan in place
And prepare to act wherever there’s failure I expect all other authorities to make sure that they have a timetable for an upto-date plan in place within the same time frame with a copy provided to my department for more on all of those stories you can visit our website GB Newws good afternoon Britain it is 12:34 in the afternoon and Michael Gove as we were just hearing the Secretary of State for leveling up has been giving a speech in the Royal Institute of Royal Architects that’s in central London he’s been talking about planning reform how to get the country building more homes
He says the government will name and shame local councils by publishing robust League tables on their planning system he’s saying that essentially some councils are holding up the planning process and not allowing enough homes to be built however he’s been quite cautious over the green belt does say
Councils there’s not going to be a review into that he wants to protect the countryside of course there’s a lot of pressure on the government from Tory back benches who are in some of the countryside areas let’s say where they don’t look too too well on uh the Green
Belt being built on of course we’ve also heard we’ve also heard that there are big plans for Cambridge up to 150,000 new homes if you’re in Cambridge how might that affect you because it’s fantastic to hear of new homes isn’t it Ben but there’s not always the infrastructure to match that’s the issue
Isn’t it the local opposition as well I mean if you’re from outside Cambridge I’ll sit here and say fantastic well done Gove well done Cambridge it’s going to be great but if it’s in my backyard in West Sussex near Brighton I’ll probably be more inclined as a the
Self-confessed nimi yeah yes I am to uh to object to it so this is interesting Michael go wants to name and shame councils who are holding up the planning system but will there be any sanctions will let you know um the very latest as we get it right elsewhere in the world
Of politics today uh it marks the closing of a recall petion in the constituency of Welling BR after sitting Tor MP Peter bone was suspended from the commons yes he stands accused of several counts of bullying and one act of sexual misconduct allegations that he strongly
Denies but if at least 10% of eligible voters sign the petition a byelection will be triggered possibly causing yet more headaches for the Prime Minister Rishi sunak joining us now is GB news East Midlands reporter will Hollis who’s on the ground in Welling br will nice to
See you U first of all what are the chances that this petition uh is a is a success and what time will we know the result yes well we’re here in Northampton a shoemakers County in Wellingborough one of the bigger towns where Peter bone has been the MP since
2005 he seemed to be an MP that was quite well liked quite well loved a man that was described to me earlier as a guy that could get things done but things have turned a little bit sour for him quite recently the independent uh expert panel from the p Parliament said
That they uh concluded that Peter bone committed many varied acts of bullying and one act of sexual misconduct 10 years ago that’s the accusation which is an accusation that Mr bone denies but it is now in the Motions of the final few hours of a recall petition which is
Essentially an opportunity for local people Peter bones constituents to have the opportunity to say we want an opportunity now to have somebody else our MP outside of a general election what we call in the business a byelection so they only need 10% of local voters to vote in favor of that
Byelection 10% is essentially 7,904 hello there my froming lots of people in Welling really excited to talk about Peter bone in the byelection my friend there he’s been uh he’s been doing his Christmas shopping and so he’s probably had a uh he just been catching
Up on his last few presents as he’s off it’s only 7,944 votes to be 10% of the 7 uh 70,000 or so uh votes that are available here so How likely is it is what you said at the start Ben well 10% 7,000 that could quite reasonably be a good chunk of the
Local labor voters a good chunk of the libdems that might be vying for the seats or it could be people that are actually quite sick of having uh an MP that’s been in a position for nearly 20 years sometimes they say that uh change is as good as a rest conservatives have
A very big majority here 18,000 but if you can get the local supporters of different political parties that aren’t the conservative party if you can get people that have had enough really then that might be something that they can get over the line but we won’t know that until 5:00
P.m. so that’s the last opportunity for people in Welling BR uh to get a vote in what’s that 4 hours or so now it’s Christmas people are doing their last bits of shopping it’s also raining as as you can see if you’re watching on TV so will people be voting in the last
Selection of the afternoon it’s hard to say um but it’s quite likely because these recall petitions at this point in the political calendar when we’re a year away from the general election they tend to do quite well we saw one in Scotland uh Margaret ferer we remember the the
Story of the MP that traveled uh to Parliament when she had covid there was that recent byelection because of the recall petition so they can be successful well there we go we’ll find out his fate later this afternoon we’ll bring you that of course on GB news will
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Saturday only on GB news the people’s Channel Britain’s News Channel welcome back to good afternoon Britain it’s 12:43 p.m. now rishy sunak is set to face parliament’s liaison committee today as MPS have a chance to question the PM about his tenure yes the Prime Minister usually appears before the
Committee two or three times a year chaired by S Berard Jenkin the committee is comprised of all the chairs of the House of Commons Select Committee so he could be asked anything so joining us now for the latest political analysis is political commentator Peter Spencer
Peter thank you for being with us um I guess this is kind of an end of year report card for Richie sunak is it and also his five pledges at the start of this year some he’s achieved some he hasn’t are MPS going to be grilling him and judging him on
That they most certainly will and I suspect they’ll all be looking out for signs of tetchiness of which he’s been accused rather a lot lately and indeed he was asked by one of our colleagues a couple of days ago if it’s true he is tety he said no I’m not tety I’m just
Passionate which sounded distinctly tety to me but then you can understand why For Heaven’s Sake I mean there he is trying to lead this recusant Rabel laughingly known as the conservative party everything he comes up with there’s going to be one faction or another not liking it I mean today’s
Things for example uh speeding up the planning process okay Q masses of nimi protests right across the blue wall on that and then the other thing transg guidance in schools and um already we’ve had Liz truss um sticking ah head over the parapet gobbing on about how they’re
Far too woke and of course behind all that there is Rwanda not so much elephant in the room more a whole herd of elephants so he is having he has had and is having a jolly hard time and I have to say that I’m reminded when I
Look at the world from through his eyes of that fabulous line from Alan Bennett’s play The History Boys in which teacher says listen lies what um who can Define history um one boy stuck his stuck his hand up and said please sir it’s one nauy word thing after another
That’s that’s how look must look him Peter Well I believe believe it kicks off in just 15 minutes so we’ll be getting the uh we’ll be seeing what he is asked hearing what he is asked but I’m sure it’ll be a grilling and no prime minister really likes being uh
Grilled by their peers and and colleagues do they really it’s a little little beneath them probably from an ego perspective richy sunak you this is very serious business but you did did make me giggle with your impression of richy sunak yes I don’t I don’t think he does appreciate being grilled but apparently
He’s also going to be grilled on cop 28 energy concerns of course the economy Global Affairs too Israel Gaza of course because there’s been a bit of a change in some of the rhetoric um around that moving more towards calling for a ceas fire potential change in tactics from
Israel there’s a lot to go at oh most certainly and in fact you mentioned the the Israel situation that this just a couple of weeks ago whenever it was when son starma was in real difficulty because a lot of his MPS were demanding an immediate ceasefire well the darish
Has whiz around pretty quickly there because we’ve had a I think it’s I think it’s 10 senior MPS have already said look you’ve got to you’ve got to toughen up on this thing you’ve got to demand an immediate Ceasar and you can see why but then again it it’s symptomatic of the
Broader problem that faces Rishi sunak which is that the the conservative party has lost Lo lost the lack of actually behaving itself and so whatever is said whatever is done there’s going to be someone who’s shouting at him from one side or the other and I have to say that
I’m sure that he is Thoroughly looking forward to longing for in fact something that he said to a bunch of kids at a school school um visit the other day when they said said prime minister what would you like for Christmas he said I just like a day
Off yes I’m sure and it wasn’t too long ago that he was before the co inquiry as well although that was rather a longer grilling thank you very much indeed for your time Peter Spencer political analysis thank you very much indeed uh now I believe we are going to be talking
To a junior a junior doctor because in the coming next three busy weeks NHS hospitals will only be operating at full staff capacity for 4 days that’s because Junior doctors are staging mass strike over the festive period make sure you don’t need a doctor in the next uh the
Coming weeks um so we’re joined Now by uh Bashar Muk Junior doctor and form former rather Miss England winner um Junior doctors voted to Stage the strikes in December and in the new year after talks between the government and the BMA broke down some would say that
This is uh the worst possible time for this to happen and actually what happened to the age-old phrase of Do no harm is it isn’t this a selfish move as some are arguing um sorry um yeah I think it’s really sad that this is happening at this festive period I really do hope
That patients um you know don’t go into the emergency services unless they absolutely need to however this is something that we have been fighting for for over a year now and the government are not doing anything to try to resolve the problem and they’re trying to
Aggravate us more by try to threaten us of anti-strike motions so um I really think that the arrowhead should be pointed towards the government at this point but bash with the timing of these strikes yes there’ll be some anger towards the government lots of people would agree that perhaps NHS staff
Should be paid more for their time and for their expertise but when it comes to Christmas periods and hearing that only 4 days over the next 3 weeks and this isn’t coming from me this is coming from Health Chiefs people who know only 4 days the NHS will be working at full
Capacity over a period of 3 weeks during the winter months which is when we know the NHS is most used or at least you get you get overuse of the NHS almost it really is under Peak pressure during that time does make me think that actually the doctors are the ones who
Have got this wrong you have to understand that yes it is over the Christmas period but that’s part of the the Christmas holidays itself is taken into account the strikes are just happening between well tomorrow and Friday and then one week after the new year new year holidays so you know
When you put it into context like that it sounds really bad that it’s four days of of uh maximum capacity but emergency services and anytime emergency uh needs of patients are still being met so it’s it’s only the the elective procedures and elective clinics that would probably
Be affected by this whole thing but Bas we we’ve already got uh record NHS wasting lists which have admittedly come down in recent months but they’re still absolutely staggering we’ve also been dealing with chronic excess deaths uh since covid people weren’t going to hospitals or GPS to get appointments I
Think at one point this year excess deaths were higher than during at some points during the pandemic this is only exacerbating that and I think the general feeling I mean Brasa what are you going to do if uh if your mother or your your father this Christmas trips
And falls and breaks their hip are you I mean who’s going to who’s going to help them out are you going to feel guilty if that happens well if I mean absolutely uh I see your point because I am somebody who dreads going to the hospital and I know
Exactly how dire the situation can be we’ve seen waiting patients in corridors in A&E I’ve personally worked in A&E myself and it really isn’t what the NHS used to be it’s it’s really sad that that’s the direction NHS is now moving in and I feel for the taxpayers who are
Paying towards the NHS but their funds are not being utilized for the right things and the the government who is essentially in charge of where these funds are being spent they’re not taking the right decisions in taking this conversation forward in the right direction ultimately we’re seeing the
Whole NHS being affected and if we what’s the alternative we say no you can’t strike and we just have to settle for this different time and that’s not going to be great either we’re going to end up with leftover doctors essentially and the NHS is now relying more and more on um
Foreign doctors which they’re having to pay less for essentially but are would you be happy with essentially a lowered quality of care in the NHS that you don’t pay as much it’s interesting you point to you know General failures within the NHS and of course the government does fund the NHS and it
Oversees a lot of what the NHS does and how it functions but of course a lot of that comes down to management decisions as well on the ground how things are allocated how resources are allocated but just on the question of Reform what do you make to W streeting he says that
You’re moving towards a 247 NHS do you think that’s Pie in the Sky Thinking um I don’t understand exactly what he would mean by that but the NHS already is a 247 service and as I mentioned the emergency services are still going to be functioning during
This drag period well yes I think he’s thinking of hospitals routine treatments the like that often go undone at the weekend but thank you very much indeed for your time Basha Muki Junior doctor and former Miss England winner two right coming up in the next hour uh MP’s pay
Is set to rise above inflation as as tax payers struggle with the cost of living a six grand pay rise is that acceptable sound sounds quite a lot but are they worth it do they deserve more stay with us let us know what you think looks like things are heating up
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The last hour teachers have been told that a child cannot change gender at school without parental consent but some staff are threatening to ignore the new rules and a bumper pay rise for MPS despite the cost of living crisis they’re about to receive a £6,000 pay Boost but do they deserve It good afternoon thank you for joining us it’s 1:00 Emily MPS deserve it six grand do they deserve this pay rise well it’s £6,000 and it is not decided by the MP’s themselves but I guess the question is what kind of people do we want to be
MPS well that’s what sag Javid said actually he said there’s been such an exodus from Westminster that they’re just not getting enough it is going up to what 92 Grand a year cuz the thing is yes that is a huge salary compared to the median the average salary
Particularly cost of living is biting a lot of people I can see why people would be like for goodness sake MPS are the last people who should be getting an inflation busting pay rise but I do think looking at both sides of the house sometimes perhaps if we paid them a
Little bit more might have a higher caliber of politician but then do you want people to be going into politics for the money or do you want them to be going in for public service well I think that comes hand in hand if you’ve got a decent paying job you’re going to get
The best uh quality of person but I’ve I admittedly have looked at a lot of MPS this year and thought you’re you know a bit low grade a bit below the bar I’m not going to name any names but you know Tom Howard who’s normally sitting in
Your seat he’s done the maths on this and he’s uh tweeted saying that it’s actually a real terms pay cut since 2010 so there you go it hasn’t kept up with inflation since 2010 but it’s still a huge pay rise £6,000 next year at least it’s set to not fully decided what do
You think let us know at home gbvs atgb news.com do you think our MPS deserve a pay rise or do you think it’s a bit of a liberty let us know but before that let’s get the headlines with Tatiana Emily thank you very much 2 minutes past one this is the latest from the GB Newsroom dramatic scenes are continuing in Iceland as a volcano spews lava and Ash into the sky these pictures are coming to us live for those watching watchingg us on television they’ll be
Able to see the lava continuing to bubble out of that 2 and a half mile long crack in the earth Iceland’s government says it doesn’t pose a threat to life but there are some flight delays and curious sightseers are being warned to keep away schools are being advised to inform
Parents if their children say they’d like to change their gender identity under new guidance there’s no obligation to allow students to socially transition or to provide gender neutral facilities to teachers are also given the choice to optt out of using a student’s chosen pronoun if they have a reasonable objection the mermaids transgender
Charity says the guidance is unworkable out of touch and absurd but equalities Minister KY badok says that’s not the case fundamentally disagree with stonewall’s analysis we fundamentally disagree with their facts uh the cast review has shown that social transitioning is not a neutral act it puts children on a medical pathway that
Can lead to irreversible uh medical decisions the use of puberty blockers and so on but also something that’s really important to emphasize is that just because a child doesn’t conform to gender stereotypes doesn’t mean that they are the opposite sex we shouldn’t assume that because a boy likes pink or
A girl likes football that they are of the opposite sex friends family and colleagues have gathered to remember the former Chancellor aliser darling at a memorial service former Prime Minister Tony Blair is among those who paid tribute to the former labor leader who died after a
Short spell in hospital at the age of 70 Shadow Chancellor Rachel reev remembered him as a man of decency Alistar it was about Deeds not words and deeds not words would be our best tribute to him to fight for a politics that rewards decency good judgment and strength of
Character a politics that puts the interests of working people first these were the values that aliser lived Michael go has put Council planning departments on notice saying slow approvals won’t be tolerated in a speech on planning reform the leveling up secretary said there’s a resistance to new development in many parts of the
Country he’s cracking down on lengthy applications with some councils to be given three months to improve or risk having their power strip where there is and has been consistent underperformance I will act so today I’m taking steps to deal with underperformers in the planning system and there is no greater failure than the
Failure to actually have a plan in place I’m prepared to act wherever there’s failure I expect all other authorities to make sure that they have a timetable for an upto-date plan in place within the same time frame with a copy provided to my department the Prime Minister says mign
Actors are seeking to exploit the situation in the Middle East as the UK joins a coalition to protect Merchant shipping in the Red Sea Hy militants in Yemen are stepping up assaults on vessels as they pass through one of the world’s most important shipping routes they’re backed by Iran and allied with
The Hamas terror group a spokesperson for Rishi sunak says it’s within everyone’s interest to protect commercial shipping Dame Esther Ranson says she’ll consider using assisted dying as she battles lung cancer the broadcaster told the BBC she’s joined the Swiss organization dignitas which provides doctor supervisor assisted dying she’s
Calling for a free vote in Parliament to make it legal here in the UK the old model accessing dental care in England is gone for good that’s the warning from a leading Think Tank most dentists are no longer taking on new NHS patients with warnings the service is in
Decay and at its worst point in 75 years the nafil trust says a universal service is no longer offered by the NHS and recommends the government take some difficult decisions to ensure those most in need continue to receive basic care and there’s been a rise in violence against shop workers in ASA supermarkets
Amid claims that Financial pressure is leading to staff cards Nadine Horton from the gmbb union says staff are coping with unrealistic productivity measures she says the supermarket’s high debt level is leading to hours being cut for cleaning Stu St and floor workers asda’s co-owner mhan Isa told a select
Committee this morning that the company’s debt is coming down and they’re continuing to invest in staff pay this is GB news across the UK on TV in your car on Digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying play GB news now back to Ben and Emily now the vast vast vast majority of you it seems think that MP should not be getting their inflation busting pay Rise um but there’s been some interesting comments actually about how it should be linked to productivity or performance or both so for example if they were
Actually able to grow the economy maybe they’d deserve a pay price or if they were able to stop the migrant crisis perhaps they’d get a pay R I think they call them was it kpis in the the corporate world key performance indicators really great email from Sue
Here she says so how much are the expenses that go with the pay rise rentree accommodation and travel and even free prit stick glue I think she’s referring to all the small items their expense I think there is a slight bump in expenses allowances and there a
Couple of hundred quid perhaps yeah and Helen says she thinks it’s a bit of a liberty um she wants to know if MPS ever personally have to worry about the cost of living nope only us lonely folks have to try and make ends meet they’ve never
Had to worry about whether they have to pay a heating bill or pay the rent or mortgage and also something else that’s come through the emails is would some of our MPS be able to command that salary if they weren’t politicians in the House of Commons because this is the issue
Isn’t it a lot of rmps I reckon probably wouldn’t be able to get a salary of over 90,000 elsewhere I went on a Twitter rant about four months ago I said half these MPS wouldn’t get a job anywhere in the corporate world they’d be interns at
Best so uh but then perhaps we have to pay them more to get those type of people keep the emails coming through we love to meet them we read them we love to meet them we love to read them but currently elsewhere richy soon at the prime minister is now appearing in front
Of MPS he’s essentially having his homework marked this is he’s basically having a drill a grilling by MPS from Rwanda to the economy cop 28 energy infrastructure the situation in Israel and Gaza these are the live shots we’re looking at now richy unak 90 minutes of
A grilling from all of these chairs of select committees from across the different policy areas so he could be asked he could be asked really anything I guess he’ll be judged on his five pledges from earlier this year which was harving inflation slashing NHS waiting times um the economy as well some he’s
Hit stopping the boats of course I have to say I think rishy um I hope he does get a bit of a Christmas New Year break because he he’s uh he’s looking slightly tired if I can say so respectfully heart Ben this afternoon you’re all heart yes
To be fair to rishy sunak he has had a very busy year and it wasn’t too long ago that he was before the co inquiry for hours hours of grilling but of course this is how we hold him accountable how will they mark his homework uh we let you know we’ll be
Speaking to our political editor just a little bit later to get the very latest the key highlights that you need to know right from one explosive grilling to another a volcano has erupted on the rikes peninsula of Southwest land following weeks of intense Quake activity about 4,000 people so far have
Been evacuated after lava burst through a massive and this is big a 3 and half km crack in the volcano yes many fear the eruption could lead to mass traveler disruption just in the week before Christmas similar to the ashcloud of 2010 so far it’s not thought the
Explosion will cause the same level of travel chaos but the area is on high alert for more seismic activity joining us now is uh the best man for the job SE I meteorologist Jim Dale Jim thank you for joining us we spoke to Simon CER a
Bit earlier and he said that in terms of travel I’m going there in a couple of weeks I should be okay but from your perspective what happens if there’s followup Quakes or um more uh eruptions from this volcano could things potentially get worse yeah they could um I listened to
Simon CER as well actually I think he did a good job the old volcanologist because it’s not obviously as his field and I should point out actually um I’m a meteorologist uh by trade and this is a geological event rather than a mological event it becomes a meterological event
When the atmosphere becomes involved in other words the pollution as we saw in 2010 uh with the Dome uh the Dome uh I would not not even going to pronounce the name of the volcano at the time because I can’t do it but the Dome one
At the time 2010 that shot a lot of um Ash and dust into the atmosphere that’s what caused the problem this one it’s more of a Fisher it’s more of a sort of cracking the Earth’s core if or the Earth’s surface if you like and um it’s kind of low profile and I
Think that is is serving the traveling Community quite well we’ll have to watch it what I would say is that if it goes on and on some of the some of the smoke that you’re seeing on screen at the moment some of that that that dust and
What have you may well get into the atmosphere and cause some some really nice um skies at night if you like the old red red sky at night even in the UK we’ll see that that’s the airflow from Iceland for the next few days particularly towards Scotland so that’s
Going to be interesting um whether it actually expands further uh in terms of you know more activity and and then and then obviously affecting the travel that’s something that obviously vulcanologist and geologists are watching there there in Iceland at the moment Jim Mike from Manchester has uh
Written in and perhaps this is tongue and cheek but he’s asking uh what’s the carbon footprint of this volcano eruption yeah that’s a good question actually there’s bound to be some there hasn’t there because look yeah modern nature does FL throw up events like this from time to time that do throw up
Carbon um so there’s obviously some involved it’s not the biggest ever um on on Iceland the biggest volcano is catler which is a super volcano um that hasn’t gone up in the way that we hope it won’t go up yet um but sure these kind of events not just here but around the
World do count in terms of the uh the the carbon footprint uh there’s 130 volcanoes apparently on on Iceland and one in every four years you do get something of this nature uh occurring because Iceland is essentially a volcanic island it’s created from volcanic activity yeah and that’s where
It came from so it continues to to do what it’s doing and we we’re just looking at these live pictures now it’s fascinating how I never knew this the lava is still pulsating and spewing out I thought thought that if there’s a volcanic eruption It’s Just One Singular
Burst and the lava flows out but even now with these live pictures we’re seeing um for our radio listeners it’s uh it’s it’s pretty much lava just spewing out nonstop from the earth that’s the that’s the subterrain yeah that’s the subterrain coming to the surface and it’s as if you know you a
Kilometer down two kilometers down that will be happening also and it’s just basically broken the surface the fish is opened up and you’re seeing what normally happens underneath if you like that’s that’s essentially what’s happened it’s it’s reached the surface and it’s going to be a hard an hard task
To say when this will actually end it could continue on for a few weeks yet so it’s quite an interesting watch to say the least just glad of one thing that it’s not actually caused any deaths or any injuries as far as am aware so you
Know at least it’s a it’s a it’s it’s a how can I put this it’s it’s like it’s like a an event to be watched and and mother nature doing its stuff and I I really Revel in stuff like I’ve never been to I and I think you’re going Ben
Aren’t you yeah first time I mean should I still go Jim or should I make alternative plans no I think you should continue and just take the advice to just take the advice as in when you you’re about to go they’ll pull you if there’s a danger
They’ll pull you you won’t be going anywhere Ness perhaps instead so sorry SK but you know what I mean Iceland is a fantastic place even though I’ve never been geographically to topography massively challenging uh a great experience I’m sure you will have but stay safe you don’t have to be a hero
Don’t have to be a daredevil like some people some people have been ignoring the guidance and going up there and having having a look with their own eyes but you can see a lot of it from rovic itself apparently amazing views amazing views but it’s not people who are at
Risk apparently because everyone’s been evacuated it’s the infrastructure potential blackouts or or the Blue Lagoon of course closed but thank you very much indeed for your time senior myologist Jim Dale lovely to speak to you okay moving on uh in Scotland Deputy first Minister and Finance secretary Shona Robinson will deliver her first
Scottish budget at 2 p.m. today and with the prospect of further income tax rise announcements underway uh prime minister Richie sunak has called this quote very disappointing but sha Robertson has hit back at the remarks saying suak has a bit of a cheek accusing Westminster of putting election hearing ahead of Public
Services in the Autumn statement joining us now from Hollywood is GB news Scotland reporter Tony Maguire afternoon from north of the Border who’s right here then is uh is rishy is rishy right or is the Finance Minister talking sense well if history is taught as anything Ben it’s Tit for Tat and round
And round we go certainly today’s budget um shaa Robinson has been laying the groundwork for quite some time now that this is going to be an extremely tough budget she said it’s going to be likely to be the hardest budget in ER 25 years really since Devolution and all because
Scotland has a 1.5 billion pound Gap in its budget funding and it she in her first budget this afternoon will try to find ways to begin to plug that now way back in November when we heard the Autumn statement 545 million pound came north of the Border by way of the Barnet
Consequentials and sha Robinson will need to try and work that she has the option of whether to follow suit for some of the the the budget decisions made by Jeremy Hunt for the rest of the UK or to try something completely different but one thing you did touch on
There was income tax Rishi sunak of course said that he was very disapp he would be disappointed if the Scottish government was to go that route this new tax would be around 45% for earners making between 70,000 £125,000 to some of the top earners but not helping the situation for the deputy
First minister is some of the pledges that hza yusf has made at the SNP conference earlier this year he pledged to um for council tax a n a na Nationwide council tax um freeze for the next year as well authorities I think covers and various yes that’s correct the the basically
Entire country will will go for a freeze now that is obviously one usual resource for the Scottish government to go with but unfortunately this year that is not going to be an option for the deputy first minister so we what we do know is that we’re going to expect to see some
Changes in terms of the finance but of course there are also going to be public services that we reported in the last week week that Scottish fire and rescue service and police Scotland all facing Cuts continuously over the last 10 years um so we’ll need to wait and see this
Afternoon where that ax will fall yes it looks like Scottish people may be facing that twin burden of uh less public spending and of course increased taxes too thank you very much indeed for your time Tony Maguire our Scotland reporter they outside Hollywood okay uh moving on Michael Gove
Says he’ll take action against councils that quote drag their feet over house building yes in his keynote housing speech the Secretary of State for leveling up and housing and communities announced a series of measures says the government is on the side of Builders not blockers as he outlines a commitment
To build new homes across England our political editor Christopher Hope was there uh Christopher good afternoon what can you tell us about Go’s announcement today well we’re going to be talking to Christopher hope our political editor oh here he is excellent thank you very much for joining us Christopher hi what did
He have to say in the room hi Emily hi Ben hi Emily hi Ben that’s right Michael go who’s the housing secretary just finished a speech here at the Royal Institute of of um uh of Architects here in central London a few moments ago he
Said he’s let out plans today he says we mean that 70,000 more homes will be built each year lifting the figure from 230,000 to 300,000 a year he won’t I asked him directly for GB news when will that happen he said it won’t happen until mortgage rates and interest rates
Are back to normal levels which we are expecting hopefully towards the end of next year he did make an interesting link I asked him directly whether record net migration has led to the current housing crisis many young people can’t afford to buy a house we we do see
Soaring uh um uh rental uh rents in London elsewhere as well as housing costs and he said that quite interestingly he made that link he said that high levels of migration do put pressure on housing now it’s very rare you get that being emitted by ministers but they are now linking correctly I
Think soaring net migration with with shorten housing and meaning many young people just can’t get on the ladder I think that’s quite an important moment for the government yeah I always find it ironic Christopher where you’ve get uh particularly the younger generation who are a pro um unlimited immigration and
Pretty much open borders yet on the other uh side of uh the coin they then complain that they can’t get housing um what’s Labor said about this they’ve uh apparently had a go at go for watering down um their the original 300,000 Target well the idea is to get back
There according to Mr go yeah Labour’s point is that this is they’re folding in the face of nimes as they see it now go doesn’t want to have a fight with his own back benches he’s walking narrow ledge here Ben between not annoying Tory MPS with uh with seats mainly in south
Of England who don’t want inappropriate building he says quite interestingly he understands why nimes not in my backyard people um don’t want to build uh inappropriate housing in their areas equally he says we have to do it you know he’s a yimi he says yes in my
Backyard he wants more building in the right places um and bu and councils will be able to build on Green Field spaces but they must then release other areas for for for for nature nature and and and and beautifying those areas so he’s quite Keen very keen on building more
But in the right places Emily and Christopher I heard earlier that apparently plans for 15,000 homes in Cambridge and out outside any word on uh infrastructure to enable those homes to be built School places NHS etc etc Emily you’re totally right the big issue is infrastructure that could often
Get in the way of building putting sewage uh and building the right numbers of Public Services required uh no word yet but the idea is is to try and push more homes onto Cambridge and make use of that of that City’s worldclass relationship with Academia and hopefully
That might work but the government is laterally trying to get on with more building I don’t think any of this will happen before the next election so any benefit might be felt by the next government if that’s Tor or labor well thank you very much for your time
Christop hope there our political editor who was listening to the housing secretary Michael go deliver his speech infrastructure roads as well it’s all well and good having tens of thousands of new houses in a certain area but if the roads aren’t there gridlock you would have thought surely
They would have thought of these things before committing to targets and pledging to build new homes surely I think it really differs depending on where you are right well uh MPS are in line for a bumper £6,000 pay rise right for some we’ve been finding out whether you think they
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To Performance first and foremost but let’s see what the British public make of the Boost I think they get more than enough already for doing a lousy job I don’t think they should get anything really anym but because they claim everything on expenses anyway so that’s counteracts any payrolls that’s
In my opinion I think it’s a bit too much you have to put it politely you know I know they do a lot for us don’t get me wrong but as I said there’s a lot more they can do to to earn the money no they they’ve told everybody that we need
Pay restraint and um they can’t afford to pay mp uh the doctors the nurses that work very hard if it’s a reasonable percentage I don’t know what the MP’s total salary is but if 6% is in line with inflation why not we need good MPS we need to pay them properly yeah it’s
Absolutely ridiculous there’s people who can’t even afford to eat eat their house or feed their children they have to go to food banks £6,000 a year is a ridiculous amount of money some of those guys not holding back there the former editor of Labor list Peter Edwards joins us now in the
Studio to thrash this one out Peter six grand more than teachers doctors is that just ified well let’s look at the starting point um 865,000 is a basic MP salary and bear in mind that they get quite generous pensions and for anyone who’s been a minister you get a higher
Salary most of the cabinet gets six figures and then if you’re an ex-minister you get an even more generous pension as well so I think we should talk about percentages but I think the uh the starting point is very high and I don’t think MP should have a
Six grand pay rise on top for exactly the reasons that your viewers laid out on the street there that um it’s a time that we’re all a bit poorer and our political Masters use words like pay restraint but we just have less money as a nation than we used to after covid but
Apparently taking into account inflation they’ve actually had a a pay cut realterm since 2010 and I think that’s why the starting point is so important because one is um public sector workers we often talk about teachers nurses doctors to give a few examples their starting point is much much much lower
You know nurses don’t get 86 Grand and other point is about about prospects cuz if you’re a nurse you generally stay in medicine if you’re a teacher you’re more likely to stay in teaching but we’ve seen MPS especially ex- ministers go and work in banking and get paid six or
Seven figures go and work in private Equity or they have second jobs in a side and MPS work very hard when they’re in Parliament but when they leave Parliament they sometimes earn Millions but the reality what do you say to the argument which is which has put
Quite a lot that actually if you want to attract the best Minds those who could have big careers is in the city for example or in industry or IG you need to uh absolutely C and I know that’s not your view necessarily you’re just pushing that forward but
That that example was often used about banking but do you remember the name Fred Goodwin and I don’t mean to personalize it but that was a theory that if you just pay larger and larger amounts of money you’ll get better and better people and things will never go
Wrong that’s the excuse for paying people six figures seven figures sometimes eight figures in banking uh and that failed look being an MP is a public service job and I have lots of intelligent um friends who work in teaching or education who have far far lower salaries and as just as motivated
By the public good P isn’t it just the Optics of it though we’ve had so many emails this afternoon from our viewers calling it disgusting undeserved if Tom Harwood is right and they are essentially receiving a pay cut fine but just the the Optics of it at at a time
When people are struggling is there any way they could have not done this you know I mean expenses are even going up as well expense budget I wouldn’t call it disgusting because I defer I think MPS are all Stripes work very hard I think there are immense burdens on them
And um immense scrutiny and we have to accept that um some of the times that tips over into very unpleasant behavior for minority of the public so the pressure on them is enormous but the starting salary is already very high and the comparison with with the rest of
Society I mean it’s just your dropping but hang on you have civil servants who are paid in excess of that far more in some circumstances you have managers within the NHS and also many publicly funded organizations councils as well who are sometimes earning more than the Prime Minister surely if we want the
Caliber of our MPS to be topnotch then we need to pay them a little more because International comparisons show that our ours aren’t that well paid yeah but I mean can you imagine having this debate with Churchill or Mrs satcha or atly what would they have said oh yeah
We’re all here for the money cuz we’re super people no I don’t agree with all those people uh certainly not Mr SAT but they were people motivated by public service patriotism trying to do their best for other people often coping with terribly difficult times like poverty
Sickness and War they they wanted to do something there are lots of ways to earn a lot of money banking um law and working for foot 100 comp example there’s nothing wrong with that as long as you pay ta but um we can get paid 100 Grand 200 Grand you know that shouldn’t
Be the for going into politics well there you go public service you don’t need a pay rise so let us know what you think gbvs atgb news.com thank you very much Peter Edwards former editor of Labor list of course coming up uh from Donald Trump’s potential return to the
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How would you mark rishy Sun’s performance out of 10 because he is of course currently getting a grilling from the chairs of the various select committees on his performance essentially so joining us now to discuss this and other top stories is the director of government relations at the
Adam Smith Institute James price and the journalist and broadcaster Nina mishk Nina let’s kick off with you he’s getting a grilling on his five pledges Rwanda uh the economy he has succeeded on the boats for example he said he’d reduce the boat numbers um no he said
Stop the boats correct stop the boat he’s on he’s on the path though is he not on the path can we give him that on he’s not on the path at all he’s he’s actually trying to flimflam us with this ridiculous Rwanda screen which is never
Going to get in the air or off the the ground in any way and and even if it did even if the plain load of refugees went to Rwanda that’s it they’re full then we’ve you we’ve got room for about 200 that that’s the end of it so then what well
They do say there’s no cut off so there could be more spaces but I take your point that it has not got off the ground as such but out of 10 what would you mark rishy soon out for his record so far nothing above three I wouldn’t think
And usually at school we used to get you know three I never thank God never got three out there but see me just ignore that I don’t want him to see him I don’t want him to see me at all I don’t want to see him he he’s the th you say he’s
Not a leader and the thing is he’s not a politician festive cheer for our prime minister he’s a geeky techy guy you know he’s he’s a true we can’t argue with that he is a he is a techy guy he does like to sit down with you know James PR
You’re a freedom lover at the Adam Smith Institute so how does richy ACT Mark when it comes to that I think it’s the lack of Freedom that Richie has inherited that’s a big problem for him right all the way through his his fancy School his university his what Masters
In Business in America all these fancy things by working really really really hard and studying hard and reading everything there is to read he did really well the problem is now there’s too much to be able to read there’s too much to be able to do and he’s trying
His hardest you know wakes up before the rest of us and goes to bed after the rest of us what time does he wake up I think it’s extraordinarily early the fact he doesn’t drink probably helps right best he’s going to feel all day in the morning but he he is finding himself
Inside this structure now where no matter how hard he works there are so many forces arranged against him you’ve got you you pull these levers inside number 10 or in the dep departments to actually you can’t do that because the European convention on human rights or
The Human Rights Act or the equality act and all these things because he’s trying to work within the system he’s inherited that’s why everything keeps going wrong which he’s not yet trying to fight outside that system but I think that’s where it’s going wrong isn’t it a
Thankless task why does he want this job I mean if reports are to be believed he’s at least got tens of millions in his net worth potentially billions when combined with than King Charles is why why does he want this job and all the the the thankless criticism that goes
With it from people like Nina it’s tough isn’t it I mean it’s been said it’s been said that all political careers end in Failure right and I think that’s been largely born out maybe David Cameron with his his surprise return will will undo that to some extent but it is a big
Question why does he why does he want to do these things maybe he just thinks he’s doing the right thing and you were talking earlier about MP’s salaries it’s not something he has to worry about maybe he feels he’s got more freedom to be able to maneuver because he’s that
Money in the bank I think it’s more basic than that I think the fact is that he’s married U he’s made a lot of money himself uh but he’s he’s he’s made a woman who whose family is stupendously wealthy now the son-in-law has to you know son-in-law cannot make as much
Money as as the father-in-law so the only way he can do it is to retain this is to have a status to have power I mean that’s makes L sense to me so it’s all about uh status and proving himself yes abely maybe it is but in terms of of his
Record Nina to be fair to rishy sunak he has had a difficult time at it some of the things that James mentioned but also because the party is all over the place so much infighting people with differences of opinion on absolutely everything isn’t that partly his fault
Boris well we could go back to then but looking at just the past year very difficult to rally the troops isn’t it well the troops are rats fighting in a sack I mean it’s like different you know bits of the mafia all trying to come together without actually shooting each
Other in the Laboratories I mean and this this may happen we don’t know um but the the thing is that he’s a member of a party um and he has to he’s chosen his bed fellows and he can bloody well lie with them I mean who actually
Would want to be a member of a party like that seriously well can he turn it around James what do you think uh it Ain till it’s over I think the the thing that he could do uh having having a Christmas break come back at in January
U maybe having read some you know conservative philosophy books things that and seeing exactly where he thinks personally he stands the problem that Tores have had right as you say gone through five leaders so far all the rest of it they came into government 13 odd
Years ago having to be Shackled with the lib Dems so that was sort of already a bad St trying to keep them honest and straight and decent and human within within a few weeks one of the Liv dead ministers had to stand down for for lying about his own personal affairs but
You know so they’re all they’re all as bad as each other this is true that’s they’re politicians let’s remember that all how do you know politicians are lying their lips are moving well with you um but if he comes out and he says right okay this is actually what I
Really believe and you’re going to be with me or you’re not and he has some kind of ideological because you know when he has the chance he comes out as quite conservative and lots of things and the public seem to like that when that happens well I don’t like that
Particularly so that half the public likes it half the public doesn’t but this is the problem in the party this is was it the five families that were last week again sending exactly like it’s that of The Godfather or something and saying right this is what we’re going to
Do with me or you’re against me and let’s roll and I think people would like that Clarity that’s a very good point very difficult for Ry soon to try and hold together that Coalition of Voters that voted for Boris Johnson in a very different context Jeremy Corbin kiss
Arma appears more competent and far less divisive and controversial of course and there isn’t brexit to Rally around so very very difficult I think the the concern the trouble is you know his ideas of on say education make kids take maths until they’re 18 and completely ignoring the fact that that that you
Know great majority of people have absolutely no aptitude of maths and forcing them to take maths lessons is not going to turn them into Geeks like him because that they are they are artists or they are plumbers or they are all sorts of other countries do it
Though to be fair to runak and it may include things like uh learning how interest rates work or um how to fill in your tax return which that arguably is quite a a constructive thing I agree I think if you take math uh to the age
You’re 18 and you’re being told how to fill in your tax form when you’re 18 I think that’s not quite what we’re at you you did touch on it isn’t the concern from Tory voters and members in particular who feel like they’ve been betrayed in recent years I mean what a
Spectacular capitulation from 2019 you know a massive majority and they’ve fluffed it up the wall in such a way they have isn’t the real problem and this is a concern for many Tory voters I speak to that they just feel like there’s not many true conservatives left
In the conservative party for I think I think that’s I think that’s a really good concern I don’t think it’s anything to to Hur about because it’s led to this kind of drift that we’ve got and the party fraying itself in different ways and I think it’s partly the fact that
We’ve been too scared to forthrightly say things we really believe in right to tell the truth on issues right the national debt absolutely massive it was a really big issue in that first government and it was Cameron and Osborne for all their other fault who would come out and say long-term
Economic plan we have to do this for the future of the country for your children and your grandchildren it’s not going to be easy don’t listen to Miland he’s lying to you and the public looked at that and they went you know what I like that they’re telling the truth and that
Was right told the hard Tru the austerity that that those two uh enforced upon the country has has unbelievable still affect people nowadays well let’s let’s remember this is obviously a debate from years back now but this austerity was an a slowing down in the increase of public
Spending on things and we keep throwing money at the problem in the way that new labor threw money at problems as well and it’s not made anything any better I think a more fundamental reform is needed which goes back to the point that we need to start thinking outside the
Box whether that’s the NHS whether that’s welfare reform whether that’s our standing and place in the world and I don’t V vote labor but that’s at night worrying about the level of we move on because one uh story caught your eye didn’t it Ben yeah so yesterday we had
That story about Joe Biden hinting that Britain wouldn’t be getting a free trade deal with uh the UK um I made the point that some people had argued in recent years that Joe Biden wasn’t a particular fan of the UK based on some of his previous comments he’s of course got
Irish heritage today story in the telegraph uh saying that White Hall sources um have told the paper that ministers hope a post brexit Free Trade Agreement could be revived if Donald Trump wins the next us election so essentially our ministers want Trump Dreadful aim to to to to to actually
Endanger the entire Western World just so we can get a trade deal with America it’s a positive thing that’s a bit unfair on Trump I mean he was he was the first man to meet I I I I think not I mean look the thought of trump coming
Back is just a nightmare because the damage that that man has done the divisive nature o of his politics what he has done to the American people to set one one kind against another has been absolutely scandalous Jam price you looked a little quizzical uh when Nina
Said that uh it might put the Western World at risk well sadly the uh our cousins across the Atlantic made very clear they didn’t want Brits meddling in their politics 250 odd years ago so far be it from us to say these things but that kind kind of division was in place
Well before the nasty orange man came along right not this a nasty orange man who did the nasty tweets and admittedly the January 6 thing was terrible and that was that really shamed him but the world has become a more dangerous place with Biden in office do we really think
That Putin would have invaded Ukraine do we really think that this would have happened in Israel with Hamas doing it do we really think that Iranians either of those catastrophes there were no major Wars when these things happen and the sanctions on for example on Iran were really hurting that regime it was
Really joking couple of years of Biden trying to normalize relations well the hooti rebels are being funded by Iran Hamas are being funded by Iran two tiny examples there and some of the other the social problems I think coming from these places so Biden who also claims by
The way this Irish ancestry I think people have done the work he’s actually more English than he is Irish better James just quickly just quickly on on some of the points you raised because going back to the Free Trade Agreement uh Donald Trump is very much America
First is he not so he’s not necessarily going to give us a good trade deal even if he does become massive fan of written president well yes it’s the it’s the conflict there what do youis that’s what that’s what it was big fan of the queen his mother was uh was of sadly
Unfortunately no longer with us but my question are we more likely to have a free trade agreement with uh president uh Trump on absolutely right uh Trump as you say protectionist Biden and his administration have taken those protectionist policies and absolutely Juiced them up this so-called inflation reduction Act is massive protectionism
They’re not interested and by the way viewers at home shouldn’t take this personally no nobody is getting a good free trade deal with America with Biden in office in this time around if it’s some other kind of Republican or even if it’s Trump we have a better chance than
Anybody else because exactly as you say some of these uh benefits that Britain gets from Trump liking us one example terrible to to suck up to the playground bully just so we can get is it better not to be in bed with someone who has you know is has our interests at heart
And is is a fan of the country as opposed to say Biden who some argue think Biden has has has has the interests of our country and Europe as a whole as a block couldn’t disagree with that more well he does have he does he knows that that that he needs us
Otherwise and and we need them otherwise why why do we follow everything they do you know we are we are the lap dogs I I think if we look across at Europe and we look at the kind of strategic autonomy as people like macron want to talk about
This that Europe can go its own way and not have to get sucked into it choosing the either the Americans or the Chinese is very very dangerous that works really well for the Chinese and I think we need to look Beyond whether it’s bad orange
Man or confused old man or whoever it is in the White House or hopefully the better crop of people coming and realize that the Americans are our best friends and the special relationship is something we should be investing in much deeper down not just between white house
And number 10 but across the Atlantic in general the trouble is Trump taints everything he taints everything and he and he is completely uncontrollable he is he is he he he Reckless he’s random and do we need that that kind of man with his hand on the button well we’ve
Got just about enough time to squeeze in our final story uh before the but we’ll be seeing you in an hour anyway civil servants were paid 150 million in Golden good buys last year quick word from you on this James uh it’s enough to make a
Cat laugh I think on these things this scheme would have been brought up with by civil servants with an eye on one of these it would have been approved by civil servants with an eye on one of these and if it had been a special advisor like me or a minister daring to
Quibble with it they would have find other areas of their work in that department sty me as well so I think it’s it’s disgraceful that it’s happening it’s outrageous it it really is it it it’s it’s laughs in the face of people who’ve been struggling now for
For for some time who who really are everybody’s having a difficult time apart from the top I guess it kind of falls into the same sphere in the Optics as the MP’s pay rise you know when everyone else is struggling and I think the problem is you’ve got so many civil
Servants right and the department for Education alone 8 and a half thousand the home office right well and and this is Mis misallocation that’s going wrong and the the ministers at the top have got this kind of learned helplessness where they again they feel they can’t
Actually act when they need to be able to do you should be able to hire and fire people a lot more easily than we have and these golden goodbys make that really difficult well thank you there much indeed for your time fantastic panel today James price and the journalist and broadcaster Nino mishk
We’ve got much more to come don’t go anywhere we’re going to be talking about rishy sunak one of the chairs of the select committees been grilling him on we’ll find out and of course the very latest on the Icelandic volcano will you make it on your honeymoon that is the
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Volcanology exciting uh putting parents first elsewhere former prime minister Liz truss says the government’s transgender guidance for schools quote does not go far enough it comes as the department for Education Publishers rules for support to pupils questioning their gender yes and bumper pay rise despite the cost of living crisis MPS
Are to receive a £6,000 pay Boost but do they deserve It now Ben there’s been a lot of talk about house building today because Michael Gove the housing secretary was giving a speech about how he’s going to get tough with local councils try to make them speed up planning process planning approvals to get homes built one idea is for 150,000 homes to be
Built in Cambridge and the vicinity of Cambridge but one question for you at home and to you Ben is uh do you trust the government and local councils and and all the people in charge of these things to provide the matching infrastructure so roads if you’ve got tens of thousands more people schools
NHS places dentists we hear that’s in crisis uh nonstop where’s all the infrastructure coming from um I don’t trust them to do it and you would have thought that they would have sorted all this out before pledging to build 150,000 homes I support obviously like probably most people the building of
Thousands and thousands of new homies we’ve got a chronic housing shortage but if you’re not going to provide the appropriate School places I mean there’s already a school uh crisis at the moment I’m looking at schools for my four-year-old boy um most schools around my area are jam-packed that’s very
Interesting apparently in London actually schools are closing believe it or not because there aren’t enough little kids kids would you believe would you believe more it’s interesting that Christopher hope our political editor did say that Michael Gove admitted that uh high levels of migration might have
An impact on the housing crisis so there you go the penny has dropped well let us know what you think gbvs atgb news.com how is house building affecting your area but first the headlines with Tatiana Emily thank you very much 2 minutes past two this is the latest from the GB Newsroom the Prime Minister says the situation in the Red Sea is deeply concerning as iran-backed groups seek to exploit instability in the region Britain’s joining an International Coalition to protect ships in the Red
Sea after a recent series of attacks houy militants in Yemen are stepping up assaults on vessels as they pass through one of the world’s most important shipping routes they’re backed by Iran and allied with the Hamas terror group Rishi sunak says the Royal Navy’s presence will be a deterrent
It’s not just Aid that will help the situation it’s also military deterrence and Leadership and again we were the first country after the US to send assets into the region so HMS Lancaster HMS Diamond those those they are in the region ahead of any other countries that is leadership that’s because we are
Providing deterrence for commercial shipping and also making sure that humanitarian Maritime corridors remain open schools are being advised to inform parents if their children say they’d like to change their gender identity under new guidance there’s no obligation to allow students to socially transition or to provide gender neutral facilities
Both the Stonewall and mermaids Charities say the advice doesn’t consider the needs of gender diverse youth but equalities Minister kemy badog says that’s not the case fundamentally disagree with stone Wars analysis we fundamentally disagree with their fact uh the cast review has shown that social transition is not a neutral act it puts
Children on a medical pathway that can lead to irreversible uh medical decisions the use of puberty blockers and so on but also something that’s really important to emphasize is that just because a child doesn’t conform to gender stereotypes doesn’t mean that they are the opposite sex we shouldn’t
Assume that because a boy likes pink or a girl likes football that they are of the opposite sex friends family and colleagues have gathered to remember the former Chancellor alist daring at his memorial service former Prime Minister Tony Blair is among those who’ve paid tribute to the former labor
MP who died after a short spell in hospital at the age of 70 Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves remembered him as a man of decency but aliser it was about Deeds not words and deeds not words would be our best tribute to him to fight for a politics that reward
Rewards decency good judgment and strength of character a politics that puts the interests of working people first these were the values that aliser lived Michael go has put Council planning departments on notice saying slow approvals won’t be tolerated in a speech on planning reform the housing secretary said there’s resistance to new
Developments in many parts of the country he’s cracking down on lengthy applications with some councils to be given 3 months to improve or risk having their power stripped where there is and has been consistent underperformance I will act so today I’m taking steps to deal with underperformers in the planning system
And there is no greater failure than the failure to actually have a plan in place I’m prepared to act wherever there’s failure I expect all other authorities to make sure that they have a time table for an upto-date plan in place within the same time frame with a copy provided to my department
But Shadow housing and planning Minister Matthew Penny cook says the new measures will actually mean fewer homes are built the truth is that the changes that are being confirmed today made as a concession to Tory back benches late last year will give those councils who wish to take advantage of it the freedom
To plan for fewer homes than their nominal targets imply and that means less homes for people to rent and to buy across the country for labor that is a clear dividing line we want to have a housing and planning system that meets need in full and we won’t allow councils
To come below their mandatory housing targets which we will reintroduce dramatic scenes to continuing in Iceland as a volcano spews lava and Ash into the sky these pictures are coming to us live those watching on television will be able to see lava continuing to bubble out of that 2 and a
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In your car on Digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying play GB news now back to Ben and Emily right well Wishy sunak is facing parliament’s liaison committee as MP’s question the Prime Minister about his tenure yes the PM usually appears before the committee two or three times a year uh chaired by Sir Bernard jenin the committee is comprised of all the chairs of the house of of common select
Committees yes so let’s go live to our political editor Christopher hope for the latest Christopher I understand he’s been asked quite a few questions so far and is starting to get a bit of a grilling on his stop the boats pledge yeah that’s right the the one of
The key five targets he set himself this year didn’t he Emily and Ben was to stop the boats that means stop the small boats Crossings across the uh the southern Border in the UK he’s failed so far 23,000 Crossings people arrived here by legal um craft the idea now is to
Pass a Rwanda Bill to get them out of the UK or as many as they can and processed and deported to Rwanda to break the model the business model uh that’s being uh used by these people Smugglers and and really deter them from coming but of course number 10 said that
Wasn’t necessarily for this year and in fact the pm has now said it won’t be any date he says in qu to the MPS just now there’s not a firm date on this as as I’ve always been clear from the beginning well he may have said that in
A speech but thought the boats became a very clear uh commitment from his government but they won’t say when it’s going to happen um he also talked about in his same um uh meeting with the committee and it’s ongoing he wants Food Bank used to fall and he’s working day
And night to secure the safe release of UK hostages the first part of this evidence session is about global issues and we’ll come on to more areas of government policy later now earlier today Michael Go’s been doing a speech on housing he’s laid out plans to try
And get more homes built in the UK his plans overall will release will result he thinks in 70,000 more homes being built every year to around 300,000 he would I asked him to for GB news viewers when that might happen he wouldn’t say he said simply that it’s when we have
Normal levels of interest rates and mortgage rates he’s confident it will it can happen of course that won’t happen anytime soon maybe not as late as late next year year on forecasting which means that nothing can happen on house building and unveil today before the next general election I also ask him for
Our viewers whether he felt that the this net migration record migration 1.2 million people more arriving here in the 24 months to June this year compared to uh the previous uh two years and he said that he recognizes that um um migration can put pressure on housing and that to
Me is one of the first times we had a clear link between housing shortages and net migration many people in the UK will wonder why we allow This legal migration to be so high when homes are so expensive for many young people and I think he’s going to at least at least
Acknowledging that connection which is a start Ben and Emily yeah that that’s always been my point um obviously the small boats is a problem but the legal migration which the Tories do uh have control over is uh some would say wildly out of control just going back to the
Small boats though Chris um let’s can we be a bit generous at Christmas time to to Richie sunak I know he’s not stopped the boats but numbers are down on last year at least can we not give him that yeah Ben why not you know it is
Christmas yeah they’re down by a third okay so and that’s was a deal he did with Albania um that’s I mean a lot of um people are now not not coming from Albania being sent back there and also bad weather helped him we had a grim a
Grim summer many of us remember which made meant The Crossings were harders the same as they were in 2021 but they’re nowhere near they’re about a third off the Record set last year 2022 so yeah okay five out of 10 Mrs quite interestingly um Angus Brendan
Mcneel MP who is the chair of the energy security and Net Zero committee he asked the Prime Minister whether he’s uh serious when it comes to global warming or whether he’s using it as a bit of a political football I guess rishy sunak has been giving quite mixed m messages
When it comes to his commitment to uh climate change yeah I mean he what I think the UK is now no longer an outlier now be before he reversed some of those pledges to get rid of new petrol cars and diesel cars in 2030 pushing up back to 2035 the
UK is now in the same ballpark as other comparable economies before that we were much ahead of that um and the PM I I think maybe correctly for some people thought why are we going to enforce these uh rules these Targets on people when cash is so tight when there’s no
Need to he thinks we’re still on course to hit our 2050 Target of Net Zero uh emissions that’s his Target he think it was still on the way he was he made this point to GB news viewers in the at the cop 28 Summit early this month in Dubai
The UK is on course to hit Net Zero um and just just changing pushing to the right some of those targets won’t matter so Christopher just lastly sorry to put you on the spot but we’ve been putting this question to our panel today if we treat this uh hearing as a report card
For rishy sunak what would you mark rishy sunak out of 10 in his performance well I think he would give himself eight out of 10 now I’ve seen quite a lot of him in my privileged position as GB news’s political editor he’s very bullish about his his his uh
Achievements this year the August deal that’s a defense deal he’s done uh um other bilateral deals some with us States uh he’s got the winter framework agree back in April um he’s done he thinks he’s done all he can to deal with the cost of living crisis in fact many
Of people told me the Autumn statement given by um Jeremy Hunt the chancellor back in last month was the one that quasi quatang should have given a year ago where to try and calm the markets work out way through it what people want to see though is action from Mr sunak
And he fails on action uh he hasn’t SLO the boats they’re down by a third but but he hasn’t by his own measure done that um there’s still problems with waiting times the economy is growing anemic barely at all uh inflation is harving Big tick for that so I think
He’s done okay uh within the the grounds if I was giving advice to him and he won’t listen to me I’m sure why should he it’s find a better way to sell your story not just read out facts and I get it why can’t you get it try and make it
A story make it a narrative and that’s what of course Boris Johnson was good at maybe he a journalist training he was able to use what he knew and turn it into a narrative and connect with an audience and I don’t see a lot of connection and that’s why for all this
Effort to try and restore the government’s finances post Li trust post pandemic post Ukraine war it’s not really cutting through Emily and Ben and that’s his problem and that’s why he’s still as far behind the polls as when he started but he’s very upbeat I saw him
Last night at drinks party at number 10 he’s upbeat he’s Jolly talking about his favorite Christmas films he’s not someone who looks like he’s bearing the load of that that um deficit in the polls that maybe he might be and he and he thinks next year is his year what
They want is finally Ben and Emily is to get these 25% of they see they see them as Tory voters who are not declaring for party to come back and if he can get them back by the end of next year at a Tory party we are in hung Parliament
Territory very interesting answer Christopher hope I’m not sure I heard a number out of 10 but we’ll let you off you of course are a political editor and it’s not your place to uh Mark the Prime Minister scorecard just before you go Chris briefly what can you remember what
The PM said his favorite Christmas film was yeah he told me it was the holiday oh of course it was film about yeah it was that one about Kate winsler and and a telegraph journalist so I quite I’m forra I quite like that I can’t imagine rishy sedak sitting down
With his uh his two daughters is it and his wife watching a bit of bit of the holiday when he does eventually get some downtime thank you very much indeed Christopher hope our political editor there from the Westminster Studio yes he didn’t give an he didn’t give a number
Did he but remaining diplomatic some PR advice Perhaps it is about creating a narrative isn’t it as much as it is about results uh which have been uh lacking one might say but we’re just going to pass over to Iceland now a look at some roaring away look at that
Fantastic yeah it very much is still roaring away if you’re listening on radio we’re seeing uh lava spew out of the ground there at the reinus peninsula in Iceland it’s uh it’s kind of like a burst pipe isn’t it it’s just non-stop spewing out and actually I think I read
Correct me if I’m wrong viewers but I read that Iceland’s one of the only places in the world you can go where you can actually see the tectonic plates of uh U Eurasia and North America which come overground um as I said correct me if I’m wrong I’m not uh yeah it’s
Extremely dramatic and this is an area that you know tourists go to people who want to hike and see the amazing landscape that Iceland has to offer but of course the area close to it the town closest to it has been evacuated thousands of people moved out of the
Area in order to protect their safety of course the Blue Lagoon the famous tourist site has been uh closed again due to this of course did you know they they only just reopened they’ve been closed for five or six weeks yeah out of absolute fear that the volcano might
Erupt they opened over the weekend saying coast is clear all good we’re open 24 hours later boom right well we’re going to be speaking to a professor of volcanology he’ll tell us exactly what is happening in the pictures you’re looking at right now um but before that we’re going to move on
Because schools in England they’ve been told there is no general duty to allow children to change their gender identity yeah it’s part of long awaited guidance for schools and colleges uh for pupils who question their gender but government’s transgender guidance doesn’t completely block social trans transition Minister for women
Inequalities KY badok argues a blanket ban is simply unworkable you can’t outright ban social transitioning because it has many elements in it which are perfectly fine for instance changing a name anyone can change their name uh if they if they want to parents can change a child’s name by Deo the
Government shouldn’t be getting involved uh in people’s lives in that way however there are many things that are important like single sex baces for instance like making sure the sport is fair and that boys aren’t playing in girls uh sports for example and and hurting them where they have totally different physical
Characteristics that remove all sorts of fairness uh that you would expect to take place in sports that’s what the guidance is there it is practical advice to ensure schools know how to deal with this very difficult situation well we know this has been a bit of a headache for the government uh
It’s taken a while for this guidance to finally be published so let’s speak to religious education teacher and transgender man George White who who joins us now thank you very much for your time George so do you welcome this guidance being published you think this will be helpful to schools what do you
What do you make of it uh I think that the delay hasn’t been helpful and certainly releasing it perhaps at this time is also not particularly helpful bearing in mind most schools are tying up for Christmas however the guidance has some reasonable suggestions in um in the clip you’ve
Just shown of kemy Bop you know actually the guidance legally has been that Single Sex baces are protected in schools and that you are quite quite able to by law remove somebody from those spaces if they are not of that biological sex do you think if a uh a
Child uh comes to school and they tell a teacher um if they’re a girl they tell a teacher you know I think I think I’m a boy and I want to transition at school please don’t tell my parents do you think teachers should have to tell the child’s
Parents I think this is where some of the Educators probably looking at this issue in a little bit more detail the guidance that’s been released is not statutory the guidance that we have that’s statutory in schools keeping children safe in education does highlight that LGBT pupils might be at
Harm if you are immediately to go and tell a parent of course in an ideal scenario most of us as Educators would want parents to be informed of what’s going on but there are some cases where this can cause ser ious harm in which case the statutory guidance would say
That we don’t have to inform parents George can I ask you 10 15 years ago it was very rare I mean I personally never heard of a a school child who was coming out as trans or non-binary what’s behind this massive increase uh in just that I mean is it as
Some people have suggested what they call social contagion I mean it could be it might not be I’ve spoken before on this and you know I never had any trans representation when I grew up yet I here I am as a trans individual living and thriving so I think people get more
Comfortable there’s the statistics that are often kind of put at the side of this uh when we started to accept that people were left-handed rather than making them right-handed the number of left-handers exponentially grew um for some people it may be a phase and that’s why you know ruling out social
Transition would be silly which they haven’t um and for some people it may not a phase like myself so if if and when you have a pupil coming to you saying that you know I think I might be trans i’ like some help or advice coming
Out uh at what point do you um stretch that advice to I mean the ultimate the extreme end of the spectrum is that when they become an adult they will go down what they call gender affirming surgery or care I mean do you discuss that those
Kind of options with kids who come to you uh no it’s not really necessary it’s not really my place to you know I’m not someone who’s going to be prescribing hormones I’m not someone that’s going to be performing surgery I’m not someone that’s going to give them official
Diagnosis of gender dysphoria but if I can do something that allows them to feel more comfortable in the immediate which might be changing your name and people can do that you know I I’ve taught other kids that are not trans that want to change their name if
There’s something in that in that sense we can do to make someone feel more comfortable then yes we do it but we recommend you know going to the appropriate channels to get the the right support that someone would need yeah just lastly because under this guidance issue by the the government um
Teachers don’t actually have to use self-identified pronouns so they could simply refuse uh to call a Boy by his preferred female pronouns um in practice do you think it would be easy for teachers to refuse to do that or is there a lot of pressure on
Teachers if you can if you can speak to this to go along with the child’s wishes well according to UK Law And as far as I can tell I’m not a lawyer but according to UK law and some of the things that I’ve seen already we are supposed to be respectful of those
Pronouns and we are supposed to use the misgendering could be seen as causing harm to somebody however the document has released um a little bit of support in that scenario that if you don’t want to use the pronouns you can use the the child’s preferred name to refer to them
Instead so maybe that’s a middle ground for the time being yeah cuz I think there’s a conflict there in the law because gender critical ideas are also uh protected under those equality laws but thank you very much really appreciate your time George White there who is a teacher and also a transgender
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Welcome back it’s 227 now today marks the closing of a recall position in the constituency of Welling BR after sitting MP Peter bone was suspended from the commons yes so bone stands accused of several accounts of bullying and one act of sexual misconduct these are allegations that he strongly denies but
If at least 10% of eligible voters sign the petition a byelection will be triggered possibly causing yet more headaches for prime minister rishy sunak joining us now now is GB news East Midlands reporter will Hollis who’s on the ground in Welling bro good afternoon will come on then what’s the uh the
Chances of another byelection headache for richy is this position getting close to the line do you think well Peter bone here in Northampton Shire in Welling bur Shoemaker country was a bit of a local MP success story somebody earlier said to me that he was the kind of guy that
Could get things done he’d been in this position since 2005 as a conservative MP but that really has all soured in the last couple of months an independent investigation from the parliament’s Independent expert panel found that uh he had been uh commit he had committed many varied acts of bullying and at
Least one act of sexual misconduct now those are accusations that were made uh dating back to 10 years ago those are accusations that Peter bone denies he says that there uh things that he has uh not been uh not done they are things that he he has not committed the acts of
Peter bone has a very strong majority here 19,000 but what he doesn’t have anymore is that opportunity to stand as a conservative MP he’s lost the Whip and right now in the House of Commons he sits as an independent so what’s been happening here over the last 6 weeks is
Local people have had an opportunity to put their name to a petition that decides whether Peter bone whether there will be a local byelection so if there is going to be a by elction we will hear from that tonight at 5:00 p.m. and local people have been telling me what they
Would vote for in that instance they’re better than labor they’re better than labor it it’d be labor because they I don’t know they they’re more they’re trying for the working class where conservative like grow when I was younger I didn’t know a lot about but as I’ve got older older it’s easier
To see the conservatives aren’t for the working class therefore the people who already have a bit of money that they could a bit of money in their pocket labor because I think Peter bone hasn’t really served this constituency very well and I don’t like what he’s done with basically supporting Boris every
Step of the way Boris is a crook and so’s people about I think it’d be conservative um I think they’re doing more for well and brown what labor ever did so that’ be my vote if there is a b election in January I would probably stand for myself I feel
That there’s been uh not enough done you know for the people within this uh uh basically constituency um I have things I would have wanted to have dealt or have had dealt with uh by Peter bone myself um but I didn’t have the faith or confidence in uh the Tory machine uh
Therefore something needs to be done there needs to be change um there is just a two-party system at the moment well byelections haven’t served Tory MPS very well or uh the areas where there have been Tory MPS strongholds but what tends to happen with these Rec petitions is that they do
Tend to go in favor of a byelection it’s only 10% of signatures from local voters here in the constituency of Welling BR that need to have taken the time over the last six weeks to go down to their local polling station and put that signature against that petition 10% of
The 70,000 people that vote in Welling br’s constituency is only 7,000 or so I think it’s 7,000 for so that only needs to be a chunk of local voters for other political parties like labor or lebm or people that have really gone quite grown quite tired of Peter bone well thank you
Very much indeed will Hollis there up in Wellen BR where Peter Bone’s seat is I want to hear from more from that man in the red coat he’s got courage his freaking news he wants to stand uh whatever his name is we’ll have to find
That out he actually does it if there is a b election right coming up from a sister dying to wait for it Little Britain bit of a stretch we’ll return to our panel for detailed discussion after your latest news headlines with Tatiana Ben thank you very much 232 this is the latest from the GB Newsroom the Prime Minister says the situation in the Red Sea is deeply concerning as iran-backed groups seek to exploit instability in the region Britain’s joining an International Coalition to protect ships in the Red Sea after a
Recent series of attacks Hui militants in Yemen are stepping up assaults on vessels as they pass through one of the world’s most important shipping routes they’re allied with the Hamas terror group Rishi sunak says the Royal Navy’s presence will be a deterrent it’s not just Aid that will help the situation
It’s also military deterrence and Leadership and again we were the first country off to the US to send assets into the region so h Lancaster HMS Diamond those those they are in the region ahead of any other countries that is leadership and that’s because we are providing deterant for commercial
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Bubble out of that 2 and a half mile long crack in the earth Iceland’s government says it doesn’t pose a threat to life but there are some flight delays and curious sightseers are warned to keep away you can get more on all of those stories by visiting our website gbs.edu Well this morning a very special plane has flown terminally ill and life limited children from Belfast to Lapland to meet Santa himself uh the Northern Ireland children’s halap plan charity helps those children and their loved ones make lifelong festive memories oh our reporter Doogie be has gone along
For the ride tell us more Doogie well good good afternoon and welcome to the most northern inhabited town in the Arctic Circle and I can tell you it is Subzero uh the children have arrived here we were were delayed by about an hour and if I ever hear a uh an airport
In the UK ever telling me again that they’re snow in or can’t land I will not believe them very skilled Pilots of Tu sat down this plane beautifully on snow here and you can see it now I mean this is sub zero stuff the children are here
Behind me there’s just some huskys just have arrived here those children will get on these slays behind the huskys and take circuits around the place they’ve been on scos they’ve been on reindeers and then they will go in to meet Santa and Santa is some boy I’m telling you if
You’ve ever seen s this yeah even the Huskies are agreeing with that uh he is everything you would expect from Santa I’m looking forward to doing the interview with him myself which I shall do very very shortly after we get out of this uh particular weather but it is
About making memories for these children it is about families having a memory that they can cherish together one of the most worthwhile Charities I’ve ever uh went along with and to be fair it’s a day that they will never ever forget you’ve met the real Santa Doogie Bey what’s he
Like well I met him last year and asked him about Patrick and he said he was on the the very very good list and I I doubted him at that stage but there you go uh so uh yeah today I’m going back down to ask him uh this probably a
Similar question does he still think he’s on the very very good list or not but yeah he’s he’s uh he’s everything everything that you would expect Santa to be I mean I mean he is Santa he is the real man himself it’s no wonder he lives up here it’s no wonder nobody can
Find them or very little visitors and of course the elves are in there too it’s in the S of a mountain you go right down into the side of the mountain and there’s the elves workshop and there if I’m lucky if I’m lucky I will get an interview with Santa what an amazing
Experience for those special young kids have you had a chance to speak to any of them or the families much how long are they there for meeting Santa and enjoying their slay rides with the Huskies yeah well you you can imagine that a lot of these children have some
Uh very large physical problems and it is hard for them to stay here here any more than one day so I mean they’re only here for a matter of hours there’s a serious amount of doctors and nurses on that flight on standby and case and I
Goes wrong and that’s why it is a very very hard flight to put together those doctors give their time on those nurses free of charge and come along and actually the hospitals actually suggest the patients that will come on uh this particular trip so as they can control
If anything does go wrong or any uh small problem that are had by those children but uh the families themselves I mean even the photographs with Santa afterwards I’ve I’ve done this for many years and so many times I’ve had families that have lost their children
Uh many months on coming back and ask me for the footage of it and I gladly give it to them for that very reason it is a memory that they will cherish forever what a lovely thing to do for a charity to do and for you to report on it just
Just remind us how many children are on this trip how many children will get this experience there’s just over 200 children 200 passengers on that flight uh so you can imagine there’s a parent with each yeah yeah it is a big trip they it’s a private Charter flight and it comes it
Comes from Belfast in the morning straight into ravini and there the families gather they’re taking there’s four coaches bring them from the airport straight to here where they’re met by this behind us huskys scos reenders it is it is just amazing it is it is a
Place to go even I come out of this thinking wow I missed out when I was a child that I that I didn’t see this it is it is some trip there’s no doubt about it but it is a very somber trip on the way home yes indeed thank you so
Much for your time and keep warm doy VT keep warm in lat Bland and let us know what it’s like to meet the real Santa how is he keeping warm a Bailey’s the nice nice whiskey just lots of coats and warmer you know thermals undergarments I
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Hour whether they deserve this muted 7% pay rise six grand yes do they deserve it or perhaps it should be linked to Performance that’s some suggestions that we’ve received anyway uh joining us is the director of government relations at the Adam Smith Institute James price and the journalist and broadcaster Nina mov
Thank you very much indeed for joining us so let’s get straight to the point pay rise yay or nay uh short answer yay I’m going to upset a lot of your your views on this I don’t think we should think about for this current crop I think there’s been a slide in the
Quality of MPS not only the ones who are watching I don’t mean you guys but just in general and I think that uh if we think about future MPS and future Talent it used to be the case I used to think that we don’t want talented people in
Politics we want them in business or in Charities actually making a real difference I think things have slid so far now we need some quality in there but I think we should really be spending lots of money is in getting more ministers higher pay the prime minister
Min of Singapore earns a million dollars a year uh and leanu who was prime minister there for what 30 years said yeah it’s true we’ve got the best paid politicians in the world but I can guarantee they’re not the richest meaning they’re not corrupt and they are
In lots of other places and all the rest of it so I think you know if you pay peanuts you get monkeys the trouble is no there there well inflation has has has has has riged Havoc with with their pay like for all of us and it it sticks in the craw to
Think that they’d get more than nurses that that’s that’s where where that as you say the current crop they’re very an unedifying bunch I mean Boris Johnson was pretty radical when he rooted out all the wise old heads and just really had men around him or women around him
Who were just yes people who weren’t actually there for their talent or their ability or their brains or anything other than their ability to say yes and um I I find it’s really hard to think that that that nurses would get less in terms of the rate of the ABS they you
They don’t they don’t deserve it having said that we do need people who govern people who make decisions about our lives to be intelligent people to have wisdom to have experience of the world I mean there are some career politicians Theresa May for instance was was basically a career politician we need
People who’ve been in business and but we also need people who are maybe have been teachers um that you know we need to kind of broaden it out isn’t one of the things James that there will be MP in the House of Commons who couldn’t command that type of salary in the
Private sector but there will be some who are potentially considering becoming an MP who were on far more than that but they can’t quite uh give up their salary in the private sector I’ll put myself on sa of ground by talking about the next Parliament where I suspect there’ll be a
Labor majority and I suspect the polic there Shaky Ground with this moment will will not be a terribly talented Bunch if we’re not careful um and I think this is a big problem I think the real problem comes to the fact that that if we’ve got
People for whom this is the best job they’re ever going to have the highest profile or the most exciting whatever else then they’ll do and say whatever they need to to cling on to it uh and which might mean voting against their own government because they think that
Will make them more popular with their own constituents or just desperately trying to cling on if you had a group of people super talented who came in for one or two terms only and said then I’m done they wouldn’t mind making all the tough decisions not worrying about
Getting reelected in the future and actually that’s why you I mentioned earlier why does Richi sunak want the job when he’s got so much money but in actual fact and similar to Trump the argument would be well look you can you can tell they’re in it for the uh for
The the good of the country because they don’t power he’s not in it for the good of the power the power and the status and to impress his wife apparently no to impress his wife’s parents to impress his wife he impressed his wife so so that’s the but the thing
Is you know you you do want people who who who do care about you want it to be you know it used to be almost in a way a vocation because the people who came and to Parliament were people who chose to come in because they they wanted to
Change the way people’s lives were were were dealt with and um it’s it doesn’t seem to be that at all and then of course you get people like is it Jeffrey Cox who you know you say well we should pay them more because otherwise people like Jeffrey Cox are going to get money
From elsewhere they’re going to take a second job the idea of an MP having a second job is anathema to me they they’ve got all these constituents they should be looking after them Rich sunak has a second job he’s prime minister Jeremy Hunt has a second job 100
Ministers or ministers and their MPS as well I think I think every MP should have at least a second job third J that’s how they get more experience in world you are doing the job properly you don’t have time is richy not doing the job properly doing job and richy has not
Doing the job properly he has many people around him that will that will you know he can delegate delegate delegate whereas you know MP may have star but they can’t delegate to now this is an argument about the second jobs that I know will divide our inbox just
As much as MPS pay because people have such different views on it I think that it should be allowed as long as it’s not lobbying or something you know that could lead to corruption but but James the point you raised earlier I want to dig into this they only serve the idea
That MPS perhaps could only serve one or two terms I mean maybe that is a good idea you know it would keep it would certainly keep things a bit fresher wouldn’t it I think the problem is that you get some people who are incredibly talented and you might want people who
Have their time and and learn how system works and all the rest of it someone like Tony Blair some good points to him some very bad points to him he was a backbencher back in 1983 and he wasn’t prime minister until 1997 richy only became an MP in what
2015 these careers get much more truncated now so if we want experience you do have to know what you’re doing in order to run a department or you know navigate how White Hall works for the best of your constituents but I do think you know if we go back to someone like
Edmund Burke father of modern conservatism all that who said in his address to the electors of Bristol that as your representative IOU what I think is the best thing to do and not just to chase whatever it is that the constituents may say in the here and now
And I think sometimes we get that balance wrong I know better than you basically well that’s that’s why people put themselves forward and the voters go actually I want to get on with more important things like raising my family and running my business and I’m going to
Leave it to you to do then but the thing is if you keep there’s a great big turnover you know one or two terms you know constituents have the right to have people that they know and trust I mean God that’s gone out the window hasn’t it
Recently but they you know this is the whole point I think we’ve completely lost sight of the fact of what what an MP should do and it’s not just to tow the party line and one thing I wanted to say Emily is I’m not so exercised about
The MP’s salary as the House of Lords because it it is an overblown ridiculous um institution they what over 800 members nonsense I mean I think Boris Johnson appointed uh 10% of them over 80 Cameron was another one I’m I’m less concerned about the the the
Idea of it the problem is in in actuality some of these guys who’ve been there again for a very long time they used to be the most eminent people in their field and now that over time there’s been a kind of decreasing in in the relevance of what they understand
Which is why if they had second Jobs go back out they would top they tend not to need the money at that stage of the game do they we could debate this all day I genely think we could but a bit of a gear change because Little Britain is
Back James you you must be a fan of of the show the comedy show uh I think if I were to do any impression from that show on this Shen that I would get myself and you guys cancelled so a very different time that’s a good point will it have
Changed beyond recognition do you reckon I think Matt Lucas has come and said I wouldn’t have done this character and I wouldn’t have done that character and maybe that’s that’s right but if you’ve got comics now who are starting to self censor then I think that’s going to get
On a very dangerous route for freedom of speech really unfunny right what’s the point what’s the point there’s a great um scene in South Park you probably don’t watch it but about uh the fure future in 40 50 years time where comedians just can’t joke anymore and
They make the the most pathetic jokes but everyone has to laugh things s North Korea style the one that doesn’t seem to be pulling its punches even now right there was the most recent one where the main character had a dream that he and all his friends had been replaced by
Strong powerful black women you know just having anything like that and they don’t mind you know who they going to offend but the thing Nina with Little Britain back then they took the Mickey out of everyone the the whites the disabled uh black people everyone was
Fair game everybody and and it was close to the edge then it’s not everybody sat around and said well this is all fine you know 20 years ago people didn’t think that actually because and the whole I cringed I must admit I think we all cringed I mean that’s that was it
Was the cringe factor that made it such powerful comedy because you know comedy has to have shock value when it when it comes down to it and and and they took that to the nth degree and and and in a very um very intelligent way but I think
You know times do change and I feel uncomfortable looking at that these days yes so it’s set to return this Christmas of course and this is 20 years since it first aired it’s unlikely to be recognizable really I mean look back at it there was they’re rerunning the old episodes
Oh censored no no just as it is they’re run got Vicky paard the chav everything as far as I know three series they just rerunning it a it’s hard to as you say it’s hard to imagine some of this stuff now and the the one Saving Grace I think
Of Little Britain is that it punched down it punched up it punched left and right it was kind of hay maker right so it was the the the old lady who I think would throw up if food was eaten by someone from an ethnic minority obviously that’s in terrible taste but
The joke is on the nasty old lady there at least right and so at least there was some element there of of hitting every Target that they could think of also just very briefly quite ironically Matt Lucas was complaining earlier this year about people taking the mick out of him
For being Bor and I was just thinking hang on a minute hang a minute you just made this this series you know everyone is perpetually offended well that’s all we’ve got time for but thank you very much James price and Nina Mish you’ve been a fantastic panel thank you very
Much indeed for your time and that’s all we’ve got time for from us Ben and me Emily carille and good afternoon Britain we’ll be back tomorrow at 12:00 see you tomorrow a brighter Outlook with box solar sponsors of weather on GB news good afternoon welcome to your latest GB
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The rest of the afternoon and behind it we’ve got tightening ier bars so there will be a strengthening northwesterly Breeze and that will bring in a flurry of showers mainly to parts of Scotland through the first part of the night but then into parts of northern England nor
North Wales as well as Northern irand through the latter part of the night further south though and East it should stay dry through much of the night and we’ll see plenty of clear spells so as a result across Eastern areas it’s likely to be a colder start tomorrow we could
Have a touch of grass Frost by Wednesday morning and across Eastern areas through the first part of the day it should stay dry and clear albeit a little bit chilly however Cloud will thicken from the north and west through the day as this warm front approaches that will bring
Quite a lot of low Cloud particularly to Western areas and The High Ground as well as some persistent drizzly rain but temperatures will rise however it does turn quite windy as well it’ll be a windier day tomorrow than today but Thursday it will be even windier when we
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