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It’s the lives of of millions of people and you know we know from history that we have to break the law in order to to put pressure on the government and to to be listened to no longer doubt your sincerity in your views you genuinely believe in what you fight for but there
Are others who think differently for example there are islamist extremists who believe that people will go to hell unless they convert to Islam they will sincerely perhaps break the law in order to force people to convert in their view they might be saving people’s lives for eternity there might be abortion
Activists who say that babies are being murdered and to save their lives we need to break the law to stop people having abortions why do you get to say that your moral conviction is the one that’s right and other people’s individual moral conviction are those that are
Wrong so what’s really integral to the just op oil campaign is the fact that it is a nonviolent campaign that’s what separates us from the examples that you’ve just given we’re absolutely dedicated nonviolent vience both as a tactic and as a principle so though we might be breaking the law if individuals
Take it upon themselves to break the law for whatever their cause is surely the way that we decide what Society wants in general is democratic and within the law well of course we know also that protest is absolutely integral to maintaining and upholding a democracy and in particular nonviolent protest I mean I
Really can’t express to you how severe this situation is and I’m sure you know this I’m Michelle jubber and I’m not here to tell you what to think I’d much rather hear what you have to say so send in your opinions to GB views GB newws
Keep them clean and you never know I might read them out with my panel here on jubes and Co we debate we get stuck into the issues of the day on a show where all views are welcome Especially Yours GB news the people’s Channel Britain’s News Channel Good afternoon Britain it’s 12:00 on Tuesday the 13th of February labor in chaos the party suspends its byelection candidate in Rochdale following an anti-Semitism row K stas U-turn follows further comments from azer Ali in which he attacks Jewish journalists it leaves labor without a formal candidate in this
Month’s vote Sussex is under Fire Prince Harry and Megan Markle have been accused of using their Royal TI for commercial gain after they relaunched their websites using the Sussex title and Royal Crest despite having ditched their Royal duties tacky or Savvy and illegals Crackdown record high fines for those who employ or rent
Properties to Illegal migrants will the new measures bring down the numbers who enter Britain illegally Now the child murderer Colin Pitchfork is going to be facing a fresh tribunal over whether or not he should be released yes and this raises the question really of whether child killers and similar criminals should ever be released from prison the mother of one of the victims has come out very strong
Ly and she’s clearly distressed by even the notion that this could be a possibility that you could release a child killer but then the question is whether prison is for rehabilitation you could possibly even if you’re a child killer come around people change at all and what is prison
For is prison for simply removing threats from society or is it about changing and reforming people so that they can re-enter Society uh personally you know what I think I think child Killers I think that’s a line that I think we can all probably agree on no
You’re in there for Life whole life sentence this isn’t just about you this is about your victims their families and the safety of the public and within that almost shows I think an understanding that many people have there are some crimes for which people can perhaps be reformed can reenter society and perhaps
There is a line in the sand there are some crimes perhaps multiple murders that show that people are just irrevocably evil irrevocably bad wrongin by Nature exactly that whereas some people will dispute that is all about all about nurture rather than nature let us know what you think gbvs gbs.edu but first your Headlines Emily thank you your top stories from the GB Newsroom the Prime Minister has defended his government’s economic record during a live appearance on the GB news people’s Forum last night rishy sunak told voters in County Durham that the government’s economic plan was starting to work he answered an array of
Unvetted questions on the economy on housing on education tax the NHS and even the covid-19 vaccine the Prime Minister told the people’s Forum all the UK’s economic indicators were heading in the right direction plan is working you can see that on the economy you can see it in lower taxes the alternative
Is going back to square one with the labor party he can’t tell you what he’s going to do differently he doesn’t have a plan and that means we won’t get the change that our country deserves that’s the change that I want to deliver for all of you labor has withdrawn support for
Rdale byelection candidate Azar Ali over comments he made about Israel Mr Ali apologized after he was recorded during a meeting suggesting Israel had taken the October 7th Hamas assault as a pretext to invade Gaza as such labor has been under pressure to expel him from the party labor MP Steve
McCabe told GB news he would not vote for Mr alley independent advisor to the government on anti-Semitism Lord John man told GB news Labour’s move was bold but necessary to throw a parliamentary seat in a general election year is quite extraordinary to throw it at any time
Has never happened before and so I would say this is a bold decision um it’s certainly the right decision and labor needs to make sure that its systems don’t allow people like Ali to get selected in the future wage growth has slowed in the UK with new figures showing it at its
Lowest level for more than a year the office for National statistics found job vacancies also fell back once again as Britain’s job market called on average regular pay excluding bonuses fell to 6.2% in the last three months of last year compared with the same period a year before it’s the slowest growth
Since October 2022 however after taking price Rises into account pay went up by 1.9% employers and landlords who allow illegal immigrants to work for them or rent their properties will face much tougher penalties from today the penalty for such actions has risen to a maximum of 45 £5,000 per worker for a first
Breach that’s up from £15,000 having tripled it’s the biggest increase in more than a decade that fine could increase again to £60,000 for repeated breaches that’s up from 20,000 ministers believe the Crackdown will help reduce the incentive for illegal migrants Crossing into the UK thousands of train passengers are
Facing severe disruption as repairs are carried out following a land slip on one of the UK’s busiest rail routes Network rail says the incident between centry and rugby blocked a section of the West Coast Mainline between London’s Houston and Burmingham New Street Network rail closed the line in both directions
Overnight to carry out repair work the line isn’t expected to reopen until some point this afternoon the housing secretary is going to put pressure on London as he pushes for all local councils in the capital to build more homes Michael Gove wants all councils in England to build homes on
Brownfield sites under new plans it’s part of a wider effort by the conservatives to boost house building with younger voters in particular expressing concern about the difficulty of getting onto the property ladder under recently proposed reforms it’ll become harder for the larger City councils to refuse construction on a
Previously developed Brownfield land if local housing targets aren’t met housing Minister Lee roley admitted to us earlier that house building has slowed and the government needs to go further of our urban areas some of where there is lots of Brownfield sites are just not building enough the mayor of London
Where I’m standing today he’s not built enough houses in the past few years so we absolutely need to build more homes but we want to build them in the right place and where um where councils where Mayors are not doing the right thing we need to hold them to account the bar for
Refusal on Brownfield site need to go higher and it’s all part of our long-term plan for housing it’s about showing that the government is serious about tackling the challenges that we are seeing and King Charles has returned to London after traveling from sanding and by helicopter his majesty had been
Staying at his country residence following his cancer treatment he’s postponed all public facing duties but is continuing with behind the scenes work on his red boxes of State papers the Queen’s been carrying out her royal engagements and last week said her husband was doing extremely well under the
Circumstances for all the latest stories you can sign up to GB news alerts by scanning the QR code on your screen or you can go to GB news.com alerts now back to Tom and Emily thanks Tatiana now the lawyer who led a review Into the labor party’s
Culture has said that the handling of the row over at Rochdale by elction candidate has been shambolic yes Martin for Casey claims that MPS within the party feels there have been a disparity in treatment of allegations of anti-Semitism following the roack in supports of Azar Ali we could have a
Point starmer’s party withdrew backing for Mr Ali after reports from the Daily Mail suggested that he had blamed people in the media from certain Jewish quarters for fueling criticism of a pro Palestinian MP bit of an anti-semitic Trope there well we can go now to our GB news political editor Chris hope who
Joins us from County Durham and Chris this is a fascinating situation because on the one hand just yesterday the labor party was rowing in behind this candidate despite what he said about this conspiracy theory of Israel knowing about the attacks and only last night did they u-turn on this following further
Revelations that’s right Tom and hello Emily that’s right penny for the penny for the thoughts of Lisa nandy Pat mcfaden um and of course Nick Thomas Simmons those three Shadow cabinet ministers were wheeled out since Sunday night to defend this candidate AAR Ali and that lasted about 36 hours before he
Too had lost the support of cir starma um it’s it’s a self-inflicted blow after last week’s reversal on the 28 billion pounds to be spent annually uh in the second part of the of the next Parliament if the they win win the election on green projects um shows what
How the the labor are not making the Right Moves here despite their 20-point lead in the polls I did see one today suggesting it could have fall to as little as 10 points according according to more in common a real worry here I’ve never known in my time covering politics
Going back two decades for a major party to surrender a seat so easily this seat in Rockdale the by elction is February 29th has a 9,000 majority at the last election the labor party overnight has simply said we we’re not going to win it we’re going to give it to an independent
That independent if that candidate wins the former labor candidate is um as our alley George Galloway could win it we know Simon danuk for the Reform Party of course he has appeared occasionally on GB news um but the party has essentially had to give away a seat it should have
Won or should be winning when the when the vote happens um because it has failed properly to vet this candidate and his views on the oo October 7th attacks on Israel by ham it’s a complete F and Christopher we know George Galloway isn’t without his own uh allegations against him for anti-semitic
Remarks he’s lost jobs over it in the past or at least one that I can think of um Christopher in terms of how kiss ARA looks with all of this going on lack of leadership perhaps a lack of political nowe sending out his uh a member of his cabinet out to defend this
Man yeah we are expecting to hear from sta possibly today he said he needs to say something to get back on the front foot we haven’t heard from him since the allegations first appeared in the mail on Sunday and essentially what’s happened in the Daily Mail overnight as
Far as I can see is the same recording and more allegations have emerged from the same recording now what should have happened at Labor HQ is they should have got hold of the original recording found out what it said and taking a view on it instead they allowed the Daily Mail to
Find more things he said which are unpalatable and then get rid of him after three as I said three Shadow count ministers went out to defend him it’s appalling leadership by by by S he’s got a lot of questions to answer about why allowed it to happen and it does allow the Tories
To throw back the claims that this party hasn’t changed really since Jeremy Corbin was leader and anti-Semitism read its ugly head in that party you have got these issues in some parts of the country it looks like the party was Keen just to Look Away what is most
Fascinating about this to me is The Echoes that it has with Boris Johnson’s time as prime minister of course the big concerns that many people had in the conservative party that eventually arguably got rid of Boris Johnson was being told to go out into the media to
Defend a policy or defend a minister or defend someone like Chris pincher only for the government to then change their position and the minister themselves to look very silly for having made that defense that’s precisely what’s happened here with Kia starmer’s leader ship he’s made one decision he’s u-turned he’s
Made his own ministers his own shadow cabinet ministers look very very silly indeed might there be some people thinking hang on is this man really cut out for the job well there’s history here Tom as you say that that’s right of course you can look at the Boris Johnson example
Although I don’t think it’s as easy to remove um a labor leader as it is to for a Troy leader at least to start a vote of no confidence don’t forget s dama at the beginning of last week was defending that 28 billion P commitment only to
Drop it within two days last Thursday so it has happened before I think also you must reflect surely that if you’re in opposition it’s much easier really to be a party in opposition all you got to control is messaging and do the basics right like checking out the background
Of a candidate if you’re in government that me much harder someone once said that of course you can you’re in opposition in poetry but you govern in Pros that’s the hard bit governing as well as trying to run a party and ensuring discipline being in opposition
Should be the easy part somehow s arm has made it look quite difficult recently yes and Christopher you were reporting at the people’s Forum the GB news people’s Forum last night where rishy sunak was asked many a question rishy sunak did mention this he’d only heard the news that uh labor had decided
To withdraw their support for this candidate five minutes before the question and answer session so what did he have to say well that’s right Rich s is here he was at the at the big Club in Newton a cliff near here where I in Darlington
Market Square um yeah it was it was a Q&A with an audience that was selected by survation um questions were asked um our viewers and and other people stood up to microphones and asked him questions um the range a range of issues the main theme that came out from the
Question the answers given by the Prime Minister was just don’t risk it don’t risk all of what I’m trying to do here return the country back onto a stable footing after the covid pandemic 400 billion pound of of our money spent on that the energy shock caused by the war
In Ukraine don’t risk it all on labor and of course his team couldn’t believe it when at 7:30 p.m. half an hour before it started news from Rockdale dropped and that had I gave him a chance to say look it look it’s the same old labor nothing has changed don’t be fooled by
Sak’s attempts to Rebrand that party is a changed party um I thought it’s interesting to hear um the personal nature of some of the attacks that Mr sunak talked about he felt that the attacks on on private schools and think putting VAT on private school fees he
Felt was an attack on his parents he went to Winchester of course his parents Sav for that and he went on a scholarship and he he the personal nature I think of some of the attacks on seist Arma may not have gone down well in the room I thought but certainly
Outside the room uh for the viewers they would have landed and that’s why the election campaign has started it’s a long road to The Ballot Box but started last nightz that was an interesting one Christopher about the schools I think it would have uh it would have landed there
Differently depending on who you are what type of person you are definitely yeah but I think a very powerful personal moment anyway Christopher hope thank you very much for joining us live from Darlington but let’s let’s continue this conversation now with the conservative Member of Parliament for
Basset law and former deputy chairman of the Tory party Brendan Clark Smith uh Brendan first of all we’ve been discussing the labor party’s Litany of u-turns the sort of backwards and forwards nature of backing a candidate then backing out of backing that candidate despite some uh incredibly unpalatable comments and also just last
Week the U-turn over 28 billion pounds in Green Spending frankly with the chaos at the top of the labor party why on Earth is the Tory party still so far behind in the polls well first of all happy Pancake Day uh Tom and it’s perf isn’t it really
So there you go I won’t I won’t use the other phrase to do with flipping pancakes about the opposition but no I think eventually we’ll catch up I think the Prime Minister did really well last night it’s a very tricky audience there but you just talking about what he was
Saying about education that really really struck Accord with me as as an ex- head teacher and yes some of it was about Independent Schools and aspiration but then he also mentioned apprenticeships uh he was mentioned about what’s right for our children he was talking about improving in standards
And so on so I have to say I think that went down really really well and you seeing now probably under the first actual real pressure and they seem to be falling apart whether it’s on the 28 billion or whether it’s on this candidate they’ve selected for Rochdale
And what a mess that is Brandon do you think he risked there perhaps um suggesting that those who don’t send their children to private schools aren’t as aspirational as his parents though it kind of sounded a little bit like that to me well we all want the best for our
Kids Emily I think it’s it’s one of these it comes down to parental choice at the end of the day some of those parents choose to make massive sacrifices to send their children to a school that’s right for them some people have special educational needs you I’m
I’m desic you know I I have my own needs in that sense you know where where I had changes made for me and a lot of these schools you know they’re not sort of your uh you know eatin your Hogwarts and those kind of things those are small
Independent Schools and the problem with these is and I’ve I’ve got a very large one work top college where I am uh if these kids these kids on scholarships go somewhere else they’re going to need putting in States schools now if your school is already struggling in terms of
Places there’s a lot of competition then they’re going to lose out as well so really I thought that was a really well-rounded uh speech about education there’s something for everybody spoke a bit about this Pathway to University remember Tony Blair told everybody that yeah your kids can go to university
You’ll have a great job after it and then what do we do we flood the market with graduates we’ve got no plumbers no Builders no engineers and so on so I thought that was probably the the best thing I’ve heard on education yet so I’d
Like to hear more of that turning to the byelection now Brendan of course in 2019 in Rochdale your party the conservative party came second second to the labor party now at this byelection the labor party is no longer endorsing a candidate surely it will be very embarrassing for
You and your party if you don’t win it now well I don’t know I mean there’s some very set circumstances it’s difficult for a government party as we know with by elections as it has been with with all of them we had that great success in in Harley paol it’s been a
Bit more difficult since their Oxbridge went went very well for us but even the labor party you know they were scared to death about George Galloway and and other people and that’s maybe been been a factor in why they dithered for so long and okay they did the right thing
In the end I think after yet more news came out in the end but you have to say why did you should really as a party be winning a byelection if there’s not even a a a labor candidate with support from the party well we’ll give it a go certainly
And we don’t take anything for granted uh anything can happen in by elections as we know and it is difficult for a governing party we we’ve got Kingswood we’ve got Wellingborough as well this week as well so probably focus on those focus on those ones first but now you
Know labor they could take their logo off that there’ll be this uh list of candidates to select now are they going to campaign there they they sent a couple of Shadow ministers there that’s incredibly embarrassing for them now that they’ve had to back down but I tell you what the most
Worrying thing is and certainly if I lived in Rochdale you know there was a meeting there where that recording has come out of their candidate now there will have been other people who were in that room at the time and he doesn’t seem to have been challenged on those
Quite appalling views that he’s had so is this an endemic problem is this going to hammer Labor’s vote uh is that going to turn certain communities against labor you know do they feel that labor have been that’s a good point why did he feel comfortable saying those things and
Crucially uh we’re learning and this is unverified but the website gido Forks is asking the question today was Debbie Abrams the labor MP one of your colleagues Brendan of course on the opposite benches might she have been at that meeting that’s a question being asked on social media today I look
Forward to hearing if there’s an answer from the labor party but just very finely Brendan Clark Smith if it turns out that Debbie Abrams was at that meeting the labor MP and she didn’t call out any of this or alert the labor party to it should the labor party withdraw the whip from
Her well that’s that’s quite extraordinary isn’t it and and labor of course have withdrawn the whip from people who said various things about Gaza or various things with anti-Semitism related and I think we’re talking about the double standards with the candidate here and I think certainly
People on the left of the party feel that it’s it’s become very tribal but if an actual Member of Parliament was in that meeting and heard that certainly if I were in the room I would be challenging that very strongly you’ve got a duty to do it so yeah I think
There’s some questions to be answered if it does turn out that whether that Member of Parliament or indeed anybody else or any councilors or some on were in there then uh I think there actually could be more to come with this Tom huge absolutely huge well thank you so much
Bron Clarks Smith for talking through those big big issues with us here on good afternoon Britain of course former deputy chairman of the conservative party interesting some of those points made there um but we’re going to move on Azar Ali has since released a statement in which he apologizes for these
Comments we must read this out he saids I apologize unreservedly to the Jewish Community for my comments which were deeply offensive ignorant and false hamas’s horrific terror attack was the responsibility of Hamas alone and they are still holding hostages who must be released of course he said that after
The first releasing of of these he hasn’t said anything since we learned about Jews in the media or Jewish quarters in the media and all of that tripe but uh here are the candidates standing in the rdale byelection as our Ali still on the ballot it will be
Written as labor party but of course no longer with their formal endorsement markk Coleman independent Simon januk reform UK Ian Donaldson liberal Democrats Paul Ellison conservative George Galloway Workers Party of Britain Michael howth independent William Hoth independent guy utton green party Raven rodent subor official monster raving Looney party and David Tully an
Independent well there you go good stuff those are all the cand British democracy for you let us know what you think about it is it concerning if there were members of the labor party uh you know members of parliament who heard these comments and then didn’t escalate things but anyway coming up
Tough new penalties introduced today for employers and landlords who give jobs to illegal immigrants or rent them properties our security editor will have the story for us after this short break in the GB Newsroom we bring you the news as it happens with our team of dedicated journalists across the UK
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Military as with everybody else it’s the full range of offender Behavior okay so we’re in a pub Jane Dr Jane uh and I guess for some people you know the old tip of alcohol is good uh a bit of fun uh over a weekend relax let your hair
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Saturday only on GB news the people’s Channel Britain’s News Channel good afternoon Britain now I should say that the website gido Forks has actually asked 11 labor members of parliament whether or not they were at that October the 31st meeting where AAR Ali made those comments so it’ be wrong to highlight just one of those questions
Asked because 11 labor member members of parliament have been asked that question although we’re yet to hear back from them but of course we’ll bring you updates but in other news from today Rogue landlords and employers who hire and rent illegal immigrants will face tougher penalties that’s as the
Government continues its efforts to crack down on illegal migration now fines for businesses employing undocumented migrants have tripled to £45,000 for each worker for a first breach and landlords now faced increased penalties of £5,000 per lodger and £10,000 for each occupier for a first breach GB news home security editor Mark White
Reports the home office is r up enforcement activity against those living and working illegally across the UK all right you speak a little bit of English okay we’re going to take you into this room and just speak to you in here yeah this read on an East London
Construction Company one of hundreds of similar operations over the past year which saw immigration Enforcement Officers increase their activity by almost 70% now from today the fines facing businesses and landlords who employ or accommodate illegal workers are being increased substantially a GB news investigation into illegal employment found a number
Of Asylum Seekers working in breach of employment rules at this car wash in aler shot fatos so you’re the manager yes yeah did you know that this man was an asylum Seeker no I didn’t know under the new new rules businesses caught employing migrants illegally will see potential maximum fines rise from 15,000
To £45,000 I support the government’s policy uh it it’s the right one morally speaking Rogue employers Rogue landlords shouldn’t be allowed to accommodate illegal immigrants um but will this make a difference to the pull factor to the number of illegal migrants who want to cross the Channel or arrive here through
The back of a lorry it probably won’t have that much of an effect for a couple of reasons firstly uh this needs to be zealously enforced uh and many legal immigrants operate in a clandestine fashion they’re off the grid so to speak and secondly if you arrive here
Illegally it’s very difficult to for the government to deport you to a country that’s deemed unsafe immigration key come to the door please Rogue landlords accommodating illegal migrants without proper background checks also face a significant hike in fines from £1,000 for each tenant to 10,000 bring it back bring it back
Ministers believe the Crackdown on illegal working will help lessen the pool factors which are being exploited by people Smugglers to entice migrants to cross to the UK illegally many find their way into low skilled work in the likes of the gig economy in Brighton GB news was shown
Evidence of the huge Serge in illegal immigrants working in the food delivery sector taking advantage of a loophole in contracts which enable drivers to lease out their deliveries to third parties there are no official figures for the number of migrants working in the illegal economy but some estimates
Suggest that number may be higher than 1 and a half million Mark White GB news right there you go let’s speak to former liberal Democrat home office Minister Norman Baker on this Norman you were just watching the report there I hope um now would it not be my thoughts
Are would it not be more effective to deal with this problem at the border than chasing after countless landlords and employers who may be harboring illegal well it would be of course in theory but that’s assuming that the border is secure and people can be checked rigorously when they come in and indeed
When they go out and that’s not the case as we know you look I mean there are there are in my mind there are two categories of of businesses or landlords are those who are small businesses who’ve maybe got one person who shouldn’t be there they may not even
Know that they’re not supposed to be employing that person and for for them those funds would be quite heavy it may be an Indian restaurant or something like that and then there are the mass scale employers who know exactly what they’re doing and they’re the ones that
Government you are going after the ones who running cannabis Farms who’ve got got a ship full of people out shipping uh fishermen uh who are known to be illegal they’re the ones I think we should go after not the individual small businesses but let me just say this as
Well there are categories of people who are here and we should differentiate those there are those who know they shouldn’t be here and are cly illegal that’s those have arrived uh without documentation who’ve not declared themselves who’ve not sought Asylum who’ve disappeared into the country there are those who have been refused
Asylum and have disappeared there are clearly people who should be clamped down on but then there are those who are trafficked particularly women and children who are actually being exploited we need to be very careful not to make their situation worse as I think Theresa May for example made very clear
When she was prime minister and then there are those who have properly claimed Asylum and their case has not been determined yet by the inefficient and dysfunctional home office um and I’ve always taken the view that those people who are in a sense playing the system properly should
Be encouraged to work and contribute to society rather than being a drain on this country I think you raised a very valid point there and particularly about those who are women or children a vanishingly small proportion of those who come across the channel but those people should perhaps be treated differently
From the working aged males seem to come across in much larger numbers well Norman Baker I’m afraid that’s all we have time for but thank you so much for joining us here on good afternoon Britain but the law should come down just as hard on the landlords and the
Employers that are exploiting oh if they’re exploiting then absolutely yeah yeah well there you go let us know what you think gbv GB news.com that was of course Norman Baker well coming up the worldwide sussexes Harry and Megan launch a brand new website and get this they’re accused of using their Royal
Titles for commercial gain who would have thought who would have thought well don’t go anywhere this is good afternoon Britain Tom thank you very much our top stories from the GB Newsroom the lawyer who led a review Into the labor party’s culture says it’s handling of the row over comments made by Azar Ali about Israel are shambolic Martin Ford Casey told BBC Radio 4 that MPS within the
Party feel there’s been a disparity in treatment of ations of anti-Semitism Labour withdrew its support for Mr Ali after comments he made recorded during a meeting in which he suggested Israel had taken the October 7th Hamas assault as a pretext to invade Gaza the Prime Minister has defended his government’s
Economic record during a live appearance on the GB news people’s Forum last night rishy sunak answered an array of unvetted questions on the economy housing education tax the NHS and even the covid-19 vaccine the prime minister said all of the UK’s economic indicators were heading in the right direction plan
Is working you can see that on the economy you can see it in lower taxes the alternative is going back to square one with the labor party he can’t tell you what he’s going to do differently he doesn’t have a plan and that means we won’t get the change that our country
Deserves that’s the change that I want employers and landlords who allow illegal immigrants to work for them or to rent their properties will face much tougher penalties from today the Civil pen penalty for such actions has risen to a maximum of £45,000 per worker for a first breach landlords now also face
Increased penalties of £5,000 per lodger and 10,000 per occupier for a first breach that’s up from 80 and £1,000 ministers believe the Crackdown will help reduce the incentive for illegal migrants Crossing into the UK and King Charles has returned to London after traveling from Sandringham his majesty had been staying at his country
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By couple of centimeters a year yeah well one centimeter every two years it’s unrelenting because the um people are so so fixated on the big SUVs the sales have gone through the roof and yet it’s um James Nicks the analyst for transport and environment campaign said the author
Of the report on the trend said spurred on by sales of the largest SUVs vehicles are getting white every year now what does that mean for us well it means that our roads comfortable ride beautiful ength I mean it’s luxury it’s gorgeous well as I know I used to have uh two um
But I don’t us have two SUVs well one SUV at a time but I had two brands of them um but I no longer Drive in London now because I just don’t see the point because of the ules because of the you know you can turn down a thing and get
Fined spes whatever yeah the growth in car size also causes issues for their drivers the report found that largerly luxury SUVs which are about 2 m wide no longer fit in off street parking that’s true they also leave too little space for passengers to get in and out of the
Vehicles in typical off Street spaces and they’re about 2.4 M wide the report found and I’ll tell you I was stuck in a bus last night trying to get home and the buses couldn’t move because the streets were too crammed with all of these massive cars either side and it
Was grid maybe they’re not the problem Maybe buses are the problem buses take people to their place of work and I’d like to know when because when I go through London all I see is empty buses oh you’re lucky every time I’m on one they’re full well they’re obviously only
Full at rushar you see the thing is uh property developers when they do high-rise car Parks or you know they build a multiplex cinema and there’s a car park attached to it that’s not my fault that I can’t fit into their space the it’s it’s their fault so it’s
Different by money isn’t it the more spaces that they have the more people they can I’m Michelle jubber and I’m not here to tell you what to think I’d much rather hear what you have to say so send in your opinions to GB viws GB newws
Docomo here on jubes and Co we debate we get stuck into the issues of the day on a show where all views are welcome Especially Yours GB news the people’s Channel Britain’s News Channel Well good afternoon Britain it is 39 minutes past 12 and Prince Harry and Megan have once again been accused of using their Royal titles for commercial gain this after they relaunched their new website using their Sussex title and Royal Crest yes so their previous site archell now automatically redirect you D
Redirect you to sussex.edu well Megan is described as a feminist and a champion of Human Rights and gender equality ah always modest let’s bring in our role correspondent Cameron Walker Cameron I see that uh the Sussex sources they’re cloud of saying that’s their name they’re not making you
Of their Ro tiles for Comm ties for commercial gain this is all genuine and lovely well it’s certainly a very glossy new website Emily and to be fair to the source speaking on behalf of Sussex is to the mail today it is their name they are Sussex and the agreements which was
Struck between the Royal household and Harry and Megan in 2020 spoke specifically about not using the word Royal for commercial gain or or an inference to do with the word Royal it never mentions the word suss and that’s what clearly they’ve splashed across this website but using a Royal Crest
With a crown on it which is actually Megan’s Crest granted to her by Queen Elizabeth II in 2018 following uh their wedding plus using within the website their children’s titles so Prince Archie princess lilbit and of course the Duke and duess of Sussex all of these could perhaps be interpreted as a similar
Ities or inferences um of their Royal connections now the question for Harry and Megan and the royal family is are they going to have commercial gain from the these inferences I suspect it’s going to come down to your interpretation is this new glossy website going to lead to more media
Deals and therefore making more money for Harry and Megan or is this just going to be a bit of a damp squib and and and and a failed attempt by the sasic is to perhaps get a bit more on the Hollywood PR alist to circuits following quite bad polling following uh
The Netflix documentary of their messy exits as working Royals and indeed Harry’s Memoir spare um and of course it all comes down to the court of public opinion as well but the royal family even if they do absolutely hate the fact that they Harry Megan have launched this
New website not saying they do they might not care less but if they did care um they don’t really have any power to get rid of it and neither does the British government Harry Megan a private individual rules and they’re allowed to do what they want although they struck a
Deal in 2020 it’s not legally binding it’s interesting though because even though Sussex is their name the website doesn’t say Harry and Megan Sussex it doesn’t you could easily have sussex.nj and Duchess of Sussex it has their titles not just their name their titles oh but they’ve taken Royal out of
The website so it’s gone from Sussex Royal to just Sussex got their Crest on it it’s got Prince on it it’s got Duke and Duchess on it I thought they wanted to get away from all those trappings Cameron is this just some people who want all of the benefits and trinkets of
Royalty with none of the duties I’m getting the sense that it is the Duke and duess of Sussex having another attempt to make it in the Hollywood or aista circuit to Mor were expected to see the two of them in public at the one-year countdown to the
Invictus games uh in Canada of course it’s something that Prince Harry has widely been respected for launching the Invictus games for wounded uh veterans and we saw them on the red carpet didn’t we a few months ago cozying up to the Paramount executive we know their
Spotify deal was cut early so a critics would perhaps say they’re running out of ideas really to to make it of course their monito mansion won’t come cheap neither will their round the-clock security which Harry would argue that that he needs to keep his family safe he’s obviously lost his British taxpayer
Funded security so it’s all a bit of a mess for for them but it’s a very glossy website so we’ll have to wait and see yes they very interesting indeed of course people can take a look for themselves thank you Cameron Walker our Ro correspondent let’s get some more
Insight from talent and PR manager Jonathan shot Jonathan thank you very much for joining me again on the show great to speak to you um is this new website tacky or Savvy Savvy definitely Savvy I don’t know why you think it was saki it’s a website promotion themselves when you
Send out your biography to get new work you present yourself in the best possible life like as anybody does anybody watching this program right now Jonathan you know we’re talking about the use of the royal ties the use of the Royal Crest the dukee and Duchess of Sussex when they’ve uh well abandoned
Their duties really to the royal family haven’t they that’s a whole separate issue with his decision to step down this conversation’s not about that this conversation is about how they go forward that is his name Prince Harry you can’t say to someone you’re given a name at Birth and it’s now being taken
Away from you he is Prince Harry that’s a fact he is the son of the king so you’re a prince by definition whether you choose to work as a prince or not you’re still a prince their children were given a title prince and princess
The If he if he wants to be a prince he had every opport Unity to be a prince but I’m sorry being a prince in this country doesn’t mean you just get to go around in a golden Carriage it means you have to go to a rainy Shopping Center in
The East Midlands and open and cut a ribbon and stand there in the drizzle and take your duty but he doesn’t want to do that he wants to Sun himself in California he wants to keep the title Prince without standing there at the old people’s home and shaking people’s hands
And and doing all of the duties that Royals are supposed to do don’t you see the difference there of course I see the difference I stupid but thank you for suggesting it um the fact of the matter is he is not taking any money from the British government he’s not taking any
Money from the British taxpayer he’s not taking any public money whatsoever is if someone has a name by birth because their parents were a certain name or someone gets married and is married to someone for a long while and then gets divorced from them I don’t think it’s
Reasonable to say they then can’t keep using that surname he was born a member of the royal family yes oh but this isn’t just a family it’s a Ferb it’s often referred to as a firm and firms of course have uh various logos that are associated his Crest has a crown on it
How crowns on them first of all I think you just said it was Megan’s press not his press he was she was given that Crest by her her late um grandmother-in-law she’s been given that Crest I don’t think you you’re not giv given the crest and then taken away she
Was gifted that Crest by her ex grandmother-in-law I think if one of us had a f famous surname that granted us certain Privileges and then our son or daughter decided to disown us and run away and slag off our family I wouldn’t be very happy for them to make
Commercial gain for my son and daughter to make commercial gain out of my name not that that will ever happen but thank you very much Jonathan shallot always great to speak to you talent and PR manager I can see Jonathan’s point there you know it is their name they can use
It as they so wish and it’s a Savvy PR move but for me it’s a little bit go as one described it in the daily Ma I don’t I don’t know why it doesn’t just say pilot Harry after all he did get that award for being such a superb pilot why
Can’t he trade off that reputation rather than who his parents are well let us know what you think are we being a bit mean um he a PR manager there Jonathan was he more on the ball with this let us know what you think coming up Bradford’s new 12 million pound cycle
Lane project gets underway is it money well spent we’ll be discussing that after this good afternoon Britain good afternoon Britain join us Tom and Emily to find out what’s happening in the heart of Westminster and why it matters to you week days from midday we bring you the
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It fester and now we’ve Let It win our absolutely spineless surrender Merchant political top brass are rolling over while government ministers wear stab vests and quit their jobs in fear veteran Tory Minister Mike fre has had death threats from islamists as well as an alleged arson attack on his office
The motive there has still not been established he’s standing down because he doesn’t want to die I cannot emphasize how important this is a minister of the government is quitting his job because he doesn’t want to be killed by a lunatic jiadi and our prime minister has said absolutely nothing
Nothing nothing a spokesman for Rishi sunak said he was saddened is that it our prime minister should have been out on the steps of Downing Street saying that we will not be intimidated we will not let this continue enough is enough what does he do instead he tweets about
Exel bullies yeah fantastic where’s K starmer on this well he’s conducting focus groups on how to get the Muslim vote back so he’s hardly going to come out all guns blazing is he Ed Davey well there’s no way a liberal Democrat leader would come out and admit that his
Ideology has helped turn Britain into a poster Nation for Multicultural failure the police have let protesters which include rabid anti-semites Rampage around London every flipping Saturday for the last three months and today they are finally saying that they don’t support some of the protests which in the past have included a now banned
Terror group and people holding up anti-jewish signs they’re saying please don’t March down whitew all right but will you do anything to stop them if they ignore you I doubt it I honestly cannot believe that we have sunk to the level where a serving Minister stands down because of threats from extremists
And our prime minister just doesn’t feel the need to address it wake up to the headlines with Headliners every morning at 5:00 a.m. we treat you to the day’s biggest stories before anyone else 7 days a week you can catch up on everything you need to know before
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Yes it is West Bradford cycle Super Highway will create 1.5 miles of segregation lanes and a is that it 1.5 miles for 12 million wow okay and a spokesperson for the council says he hopes they can lure motorists out of their vehicles and onto bikes well why don’t you do that first
Before you decide to go through this extremely expensive construction process that will just make the area more congested in my opinion now Emily I completely agree with you building things is far too expensive in this country building roads for cars is far to expensive we know the lower temps
Crossing has has gone into the hundreds of millions of pounds for the planning application alone before they’ve even laid anything uh of the road so yes things are too expensive to build completely agree with you but I think it’s a ridiculous it’s a farle point to say why don’t people cycle and then
We’ll build the cycle L people don’t cycle because they don’t want to be hit by J you need to judge demand and also a lot of people don’t cycle because they either can’t cycle or they don’t want to cycle particularly when the weather you look at places like Amsterdam where
Actually very few people cycled what they did then they changed the layouts of the road they separated car separated cars not comparable Bradford is hilly if you’ve been to Bradford you know that it’s hilly it’s not the best place to be cycling and Susan from Bradford who must
Know what she’s talking about regarding the new cycle l in Bradford it’s going to cost1 million for only 1.5 miles we need potholes repairing and there are lots of other things money could be spent on our council is is useless John says it’s another antim motorist scheme it’s PR motorist it’s Pro motorist
Because it’s taking the cyclists out of the road the road should be for cars the cycling should be for cyclist cycling Enthusiast Dave Sherry I think we do Dave thank you and welcome to the program Dave please tell Emily why she’s so wrong to be against this segregated cycle
Lane well if they’re not on the road they’re not going to be a danger or hindrance to car drivers so that’s a good point they like pedestrians are in their safe space so what would you rather them be on a c gate ccle track or
In the middle of the road I think the problem is it constricts the roads so fewer people can drive also can be a bit of a hazard for pedestrians I’m sure I’m not the only one who has tried to cross a road and a bike goes straight past me and almost knocks me
Over well I drive professionally in London and speed limits 20 mil an hour um if the cyclist is safe to overtake there isn’t an issue you’ve got to go with a flow of traffic if a cyclist Beach yeah then you’re going slower and in oh so you drive in London
Actually so do you not think that this is all part of a bit of an anti- motorist Vendetta I do feel a bit sorry for the car drivers I drive majority of my day behind the wheel and to be honest with you the infrastructure for cyclist now
Super seed in the car drivers they are going from two lanes down to one bus lanes are disappearing well this is the thing you could have two lanes for drivers on some roads in London if it weren’t for these cycle Lanes take embankment absolutely terrible but isn’t
Isn’t the point about these cycle lanes and perhaps you can turn this to Dave the point about these cycle Lanes surely is that if someone doesn’t need to take a journey by car you can fit a lot more bikes in a same space of tarmac than you car than you can fit cars
Well the proof’s in the pudding you can get from A to B and get across London quicker than you can in a car so the benefits and the future is cycling Dave it’s been fantastic to talk you to you sorry to cut you off cycling Enthusiast Dave Sherry there coming up we’ll be
Debating whether child killer should ever be allowed out of prison a brighter Outlook with box solar sponsors of weather on GB news hello I’m Alex beel here with your latest GB News weather forecast over the next few days the best chance of staying dry will be across the far north but for
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Thick of it there what’s the mood on the ground well I’ve left there now I’ve actually now come to that EU Council Summit that I was talking about um it’s still pretty chaotic the entire city of Brussels has been completely clogged with these tractors sort of three a
Breast in most of the roads across the city the people of Brussels aren’t particularly happy I mean this is sort of reminiscent for some people of the justop oil protests you know people gluing themselves people are unable to get to hospital appointments and there’s a lot of upset about the destruction
That’s happening on the streets of Brussels today but on the other side there’s also the protest which the farmers are saying that EU green laws simply are not able uh to bit with what they need to do to keep their businesses going and just before the protest happened we saw the European commission
Actually make some concessions to the farmers protests and this is on the the demands that were put on them to set aside somewhere in the region of 5% of their land for regrowing for biodiversity a lot of the farmers have said that’s not possible and the European commission has said that they
Can delay that coming in so they have won a small concession with these protests and Jack that there’s a feeling as well a huge dissatisfaction that the European Union has managed to find 50 billion euros in Aid to send to Ukraine and yet farmers in particular on the on
The receiving end of Net Zero targets taxation on diesel and endless red tape so many farmers Jack saying they’re measuring ditches to see if they have to drain them or not there are minimum requirements on the width of battery hen um enclosures endless red tape as Jeremy Clarkson pointed out in Clarkson’s form
In Britain they’ve simply had enough and they shouting Ursula Von Delan we are here I think the most exciting bit for me is talking to people people who I think are ignored Often by the major news channels we’re going to give news they want to hear there’s a voice there
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The people’s Channel Britain’s News Channel good afternoon Britain it is 1:00 on Tuesday the 13th of February labor in chaos the party suspends its election candidate in Rochdale following an anti-Semitism row Kia’s uturn follows further comments from azer Ali in which he attacks Jewish journalists it leaves labor without a formal candidate in this
Month’s vote H and the PM’s election pitch richy sunak has defended his government’s economic record during a live appearance on the GB news people’s Forum last night but did he do enough to persuade voters to back him in the next election rehab or punishment double killer Colin Pitchfork who raped and
Strangled two school girls is to get another bid for freedom but should this child killer or indeed all child Killers ever be given parole or should we just throw away the Key the inbox is absolutely kicked off when it comes to cycle ends and may I just say that I think I on this occasion am on the right side of the argument I think I think more people will probably agree with you but I don’t think that
Means you’re right um although Gordon he says cyclists should definitely have their own Lanes oh but he says when they start paying for them themselves he says he spends enough on road tax and can’t even get a pothole free Road without having to subsidize the cyclists as well
I bet their Lanes will be pothole free he says well do you know what this road isn’t actually necessarily coming out of uh of of what we pay at the pump because many cars don’t actually pay tax uhad at all like many cars the electric cars for example they don’t contribute towards
The upkeep of those roads because fuel duty is how we do that but um look what Victoria says she says you need to come and have a look at the mess self-proclaimed King of the North Andy Burnham has created in Bolton with cycle Lanes deliberately creating congestion making life difficult for pedestrians
And motorists navigating them hoping they don’t trip or crash into them in the process now can I assume that perhaps you don’t drive Tom well you can you can assume all you want but can I also say this not all cycle lanes are created equal some cycle lanes are made
Perfectly very very well and you have the smooth running of traffic one side you have bicycles that don’t get in the way of cyclists everyone has their own Lanes you have a pavement you have a cycle Lane and you have a driving lane the problems come when all of these
Things get mixed together and then you have Chaos on the roads that’s not how things should be can we all agree though absolutely no way way a 1.5 mile cycl Lane however super it is should cost1 million of our taxpayer money how much do you have to earn to pay that much in
Tax this is ridiculous anyway let’s get your Headlines good afternoon 2 minutes past one these are your top stories from the GB Newsroom labor has withdrawn support for Rochdale byelection candidate Azar Ali over comments he made about Israel Mr Ali apologized after he was recorded at a meeting suggesting that Israel had taken the October 7th Hamas assault as a
Pretext to invade Gaza labor M MP Steve mccab told GB news he would not vote for Mr Ali I’ve been involved in B elections where allegations have been made about candidates sometimes you have to weigh up uh you know how important it is what else uh is influencing it I think the issue
I mean I don’t know Mr Ali at all but I think the issue is that initially people were prepared to give the mind the benefit of the doubt and accept his apology in good faith but I think when the further Revelations came to L that that was just the end of
It independent advisor to the government on anti-Semitism Lord John man told GB news Labour’s move was bold but necessary to throw a parliamentary seat in a general election year is quite extraordinary to throw it at any time has never happened before and so I would say this is a bold decision um it’s
Certainly the right decision and labor needs to make sure that its systems don’t allow people like Ally to get selected in the future wage growth has slowed in the UK with new figures showing it at its lowest level for more than a year the office for National statistics found job
Vacancies also fell back once again as Britain’s job market called on average regular pay excluding bonuses fell to 6.2% in the last three months of last year compared with the same period a year before it’s the slowest growth since October 2022 however after taking price Rises into account pay went up by
1.9% employers and landlords who allow illegal immigrants to work for them or rent their properties will face much tougher penalties from today the Civil penalty for such actions has risen to a maximum of £45,000 per worker for a first breach landlords now also face increased penalties of £5,000 per lodger
And £10,000 per occupier for a first breach that’s up from 80 and 1,000 respectively ministers believe the Crackdown will help reduce the incentive for illegal migrants Crossing into the UK the Prime Minister has defended his government’s economic record during a live appearance on GB news people’s Forum last night richy sunak told voters
In County Durham that the government’s economic plan was starting to work he answered an array of unvetted questions on the economy on housing on education tax the NHS and even the covid-19 vaccine the Prime Minister told the people’s Forum all UK’s economic indicators were heading in the right
Direction plan is working you can see that on the economy you can see it in lower taxes the alternative is going back to square one with the labor party you can’t can’t tell you what he’s going to do differently he doesn’t have a plan and that means we won’t get the change that
Our country deserves that’s the change that I want to deliver for all of you the housing secretary is going to put pressure on London as he pushes for all local councils in the capital to build more homes Michael Gove wants all councils in England to build homes on
Brownfield sites and under new plans it’s part of a wider effort by the conservatives to boost house building with younger voters in particular expressing concern about about the difficulty of getting onto the property ladder under recently proposed reforms it’ll become harder for the largest city councils to refuse construction on a
Previously developed Brownfield land if local housing targets are not met housing Minister Lee Rowley admitted to us earlier house building has indeed slowed but the government needs to go further of our urban areas some of where there is lots of Brownfield sites are just not building enough the mayor of
London where I’m standing today he’s not built enough houses in the past few years so we absolutely need to build more homes but we want to build them in the right place and where um where councils where Mayors are not doing the right thing we need to hold them to
Account the the bar for refusal on Brownfield site need to go higher and it’s all part of our long-term plan for housing it’s about showing that the government is serious about tackling the challenges that we are seeing and King Charles has returned to London after traveling from sanding up
By helicopter his majesty had been staying at his country residence following his first cancer treatment he’s postponed all public facing duties but is continuing with behind the-scenes work on his red boxes of State papers the queen has been carrying out her royal engagements and last week said her
Husband was doing extremely well under the circumstances for the latest stories sign up to GB news alerts by scanning the QR code on your screen or go to GB news.com alerts It’s 8 minutes past 1 and this is good afternoon Britain now the lawyer who led a review Into the labor party’s culture said that the handling of its row over the Rochdale B elction has been shambolic yes Martin Ford casc claims that MPS within the party feel there has
Been a disparity in treatment of allegations of anti-Semitism following the rowback in support of Azar Ali starmer’s party withdrew backing for Mr RI after reports from the Daily Mail suggested that he had blamed people in the media from certain Jewish quarters for fueling criticism for a pro
Palestinian MP well we can now speak with Lord woy a life peer in the House of Lords and former labor MP thank you very much for joining us Lord woy now a lot of people will be asking why was this man ever a candidate for the labor party
Yeah I mean clearly it the whole of this selection process was a was a really big mistake and they they had uh an excellent candidate on offo in um with in in Paul War um and AO Ali should not have should not have made the final cut
I mean that is needs to be a uh a point for Urgent Reflection from from the labor party but but there is a clearly a significant wider problem here given the fact that he he made these comments it openly in a labor party meeting was not challenged uh and and this this ran
Uncontested for um for a number for a number of weeks until it ended up in in the mail on Sunday that should never have happened and it does show that unfortunately these kind of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories are can be really R not I don’t I don’t think not only in
The labor part but um but more widely in communities and and the the labor and um and all of us need to look at that and try to get a grip of it so starma has been trying to say for the last year perhaps two years that the labor party
Has changed this is going to make it a lot harder for S starma to make that case and ultimately we heard last night on GB news the Prime Minister saying that ultimately it’s a mirage to say that the labor party has changed you scratch beneath the surface and you find examples like
This well I I think Kia is deeply committed to to changing the labor party and I have to say it’s been a bit Rich to see Joy Corbin supporters uh around today complaining uh about anti-Semitism given the catastrophe that they presided over when he was leader I mean I I I
Don’t think you would have seen um action that strong from him um had this happened that might be true that might be true but this does show that there is a significantly F there is significantly further to go for uh for Kia that there are real problems remain and he has to
Now redouble his efforts but the biggest points here of course is that he had three days in which he could have proven his commitment to this so-called Zero Tolerance policy it wasn’t in the end the conspiracy theory that Israel allowed the October 7th attacks to happen that that got this candidate to
Not have the labor party’s backing it was another conspiracy theory about Jews in the media that was the final straw ultimately does this not show that the labor party put political expediency above its Zero Tolerance policy for three days they made the wrong call not by by
Not doing it immediately but well I can I can understand that when you’re in the heat of a by election and your candidate is already on the ballot paper and the alternative candidates uh candidate in that election is um someone that you absolutely do not want to see returned
To Parliament I can understand why In the Heat of that moment you don’t make the the right call but I think this is a lesson for that team to make sure that they are always thinking about the country and not not about um internal political management or day-to-day short-term political management they
Have to they have to keep true to what their values and and their long-term mission to change the country is and I think if they can reset along those grounds then we can start making they can start making significantly faster progress and John what do you make of
The comments by the KC that there’s been a inconsistency in how the leadership of the labor party have dealt with anti-semitism there have been accusations from the left of the party that people who were on the far left Jeremy Corbin types were a mood for far
Less I mean I I do just think that that people who were there from The Who tolerated anti-Semitism and often actually some fueled it in the Jeremy Corbin years um need to keep their council at this money the the the period through which k is uh and and his team
Are trying to write the labor party from I mean and there are real imperfections in that and perhaps yes there can be inconsistencies but they are determined to move away from what was the most shameful period in the labor party’s history so if there’s going to be a conversation about
Inconsistency those people who who presided over that era I think you need to keep quiet about it some people might see that as a bit of a deflection isn’t it possible that both the the current leadership of the labor party and the previous leadership of the labor party
Have been wrong on this it’s not an either all it’s not that if one’s wrong one’s right and if one’s right one’s wrong both can be wrong yeah I I I I do understand that but again I mean I I think they took they took longer than
They should have done to come to the to the right decision to um remove support for the candidate but I mean let’s be under let’s be under no Illusions it is a massive deal what that they’ve done to have a labor candidate on a on on the
Ballot before the polls close facing the opposition that they are to then formally pull support it is a very very major call it is not quite the same uh as making this as making the call about a sitting MP in in in relatively relatively easier times so I I think the
The comparison is not light for light I’m not saying I’m not trying to claim that there is that there is zero inconsistency I just think it it is it’s really important that we don’t then think that that this is much of a muchness with what happened under Joe M
Kin which was literally um almost destroyed the labor party now people who ended up um you know probably um uh I’m really pleased stayed uh to be able to be there to write the labor party where when some others left but it was it felt
In the balance for a while and uh let’s not let let’s not uh forget how much progress has been made but this incident shows that there is a significantly more amount the lab party and actually in communities across Britain I think one of the main concerns as you said uh
Before is that this wasn’t escalated sooner that the people in the room didn’t think hang on this is anti-Semitic and we’re going to escalate this but well no doubt it won’t be the last we hear of it but uh uh Lord Wy perhaps better known as John Woodcock
Thank you so much for joining us here on good afternoon Britain yes and of course as a has since apologized for his comments and here are the candidates standing in the Rochdale by elction I’ll let you do this one Tom yes as Ali of course still on the ballot as the labor
Party candidate although not now endorsed by labor confusingly Mark Coleman independent sammon danchuk reform UK Ian Donaldson liberal Democrats Paul Ellison conservative George Galloway Workers Party of Britain Michael howth independent William howth independent guy oton green party Raven rodent sub batona official monster raving Looney and David Tully independent well there you go
H well now last night Rishi sunak did of course face questions from our viewers at our people’s Forum in County darham where he answered questions on a wide range of topics including immigration the NHS and a little bit of tax cuts too yes the Prime Minister also urged disgruntled conservative voters not to
Back reform UK saying it would only boost sakya’s chances of getting the keys to number 10 and insisted his economic plan was beginning to work yes this is despite fears the UK economy could slip into recession when official figures are released later this week so how did the Prime Minister reform let’s
Speak to perform rather not reform goodness people he doesn’t want that word absolutely not let’s speak to someone who’s a bit critical of his performance Peter Whitt director of the new culture Forum joins us now Peter hi Tom you you weren’t a big fan of what
The Prime Minister had to say um well I think it was deeply inadequate and superficial I mean you know it’s it’s a fact that this country I believe is fighting for its survival in all sorts of ways and the way that he came across was essentially rather like a school
Head prefect and what we really need is a very strong leader who basically has the guts enough to say and be honest and say this country is in a very very bad way uh but I’m not going to let it I’m not going to let it fail I’m basically
Going to save it um we don’t get that we get constant justifications in this very technocratic way um of what he has done whatever that might be I mean you mentioned immigration there as one of the topics in fact it extraordinary that when we have 750,000 legal migrants coming to this
Country every year at the moment that this wasn’t even touched on this wasn’t even touched on he was allowed instead just to talk about the boates and indeed claim credit uh you know basically for something which isn’t even really his which is that they’ Fallen by a third
The Crossings far more to do with the WEA that we have 750,000 uh legal migrants there is no plan in place at all it seems to me there’s no will to actually change that Peter Peter what could he what could he have said to show that he understands
People like yours concerns about the issue of immigration you appear fearful about the future what could he have said well I mean the fact is Emily that you know this is the most important issue now for most people in this country and in a recent poll something like 51% of
People wanted a total halt to migration uh the effect it’s having culturally economically and indeed more and more politically is immense so you have a prime minister here not even addressing that similarly what you have is over the past what two months we have seen on our streets very alarming hate
Marches um it’s made a lot of people sit up and take notice uh nothing about this nothing about the growth of threat of Islamic fundamentalism for example nothing about this nothing at all for example about the attacks which are growing on free speech and indeed what’s
Going to happen under under Labor uh is that in fact that will get Tighter and Tighter in the you make such a powerful point about what we’ve seen on our streets about the culture in this country about people who don’t perhaps subscribe to British values but if we
Look at those who came in the last two years we’re looking at over 100,000 Hong kongers who fled communism we’re looking at over 100,000 ukrainians who fled demagoguery we’re looking at people who share our values if we look at the people who are going on what you describe as hate marches they didn’t
Arrive in the last 2 years these are people who have perhaps come in decades past asked no look the fact is that what opened a lot of people’s eyes about those marches is the fact that we’re seeing the end result of mass migration over for example 13 years of Tory rule I
Don’t think that you know even if we’ve taken people from Ukraine and these countries I don’t think it’s uh deniable in any way Tom that in fact there has been a virtual borderless Country Now for this great amount of time we are now reaping all the uh rewards of that uh
There’s nothing from this prime minister at all on that as I said nothing about the uh growing threat to free speech yeah right there was quite extraordinary there wasn’t anything about those cultural issues um but that’s all we’ve got time for sorry Peter great to speak
To you Peter Whittle director of the new cultur of forum rather skeptical about rishy sunak to say the least you know what I’ll say it again I think rishy sunak should have stood up when Mike frier MP was hounded out of office for death threats from mamist extremists
Should have stood up and said we will not accept this intimidation from people who do not believe in our values yeah and I think actually Rishi sunak as the first Prime Minister from a well the second prime minister from an e ethnic minority background but the first of of
Any recent years from from that perhaps has a unique position where he can say there are these things called British values there are these things that we should all sign up to no matter the color of your skin he is perhaps in a unique position where he can make a
Speech like that and make it very powerfully well returning to the criticism facing K sta over the Rochdale byelection candidate here is his speaking a little earlier today came to light over the weekend in relation to the candidate there was a fome apology further information came to light yesterday calling for decisive
Action so I took decisive action it is a huge thing to withdraw support for a labor candidate during the course of a byelection it’s a tough decision a necessary decision but when I say the labor party has changed under my leadership I mean it if it has changed will you then be
Investigating the other counselors we also joined in with that discussion that were recorded uh when Mr Rie made those comments in October well those comments uh were appalling uh and that is why we took decisive action it is virtually unprecedented to withdraw support for a candidate in the way that I withdraw
Support for this candidate yesterday that’s what a change labor party is all about and of course any allegation will be fully investigated by the party but the important thing is the decisive action that’s been taken uh to make it absolutely clear that this is a change labor party you didn’t actually answer
That question there were other counselors who were labor counselors in that room joining in with that conversation were they too be investigating any allegation that needs to be investigated will be investigated and uh Martin fter said that uh there’s a perception that anti-Semitism is been weaponized along faction lines do you
Accept that you have handled previous cases of anti-Semitism allegations in your party differently to the way in which you addressed this case and aren’t you guilty of of double standards I set out four years ago to tear anti-Semitism out of the labor party it’s the first
Thing I said I’d do as labor leader and to change our party I’ve taken a series of decisions along those lines um ruthlessly Chang ing our party and it’s made no difference to me where somebody stands in the labor party the change I brought about is a labor party that is
Now back in the service of working people who should labor supporters vote for in Rochdale then the voters in Rochdale will have to determine who they vote for but I’m not prepared to put forward a labor candidate unless I think that candidate is fit to be a labor MP okay that’s for the
Basically saying labor supporters in Rochdale sit on your hands don’t go out and vote well essentially yeah he’s insisting that the party has changed that it’s taking a strong stance when it comes to anti-Semitism uh but it’s uh lots of people are going to be worrying about
The state of their party to be honest I felt like I was just being gasl there brazenly lied to he was saying he took decisive action he waited three days he was told about this story by the male on Sunday on Saturday because they would have gone to print on Saturday night he
Was told about it on Saturday he sent his ministers out to the Sunday shows to sit through the grilling that they took to take all of that sort of uh accusation of hypocrisy in my view an accurate accusation of hypocrisy there given how he treated some of his own MPS
And then for the whole of Sunday and the whole of Monday he sent his ministers to defend that position before only then a further accusation of anti this the thing am I right in thinking it was only because because the party knew that these further Revelations were coming
Out which made it absolutely Beyond doubt it was he was indulging in anti-semitic tropes I would have thought that it was beyond doubt to start with but what was clear there is that the mail on Sunday held some information back and any good newspaper does this if
You’re going to initially draw a story we saw this with party gate actually first it was the drip you get people to deny the first thing and then you release the next story and then the fear from party involved or the individual involved is that there is a further
Story to come this is journalism 101 and I am shocked Sur if this man had the sense he’d uh pull out of the byelection altogether surely that would be the decent thing to do but frankly I’m shocked that people in the leader of the opposition’s office people in Kira’s
Team don’t know that this is how Sunday papers drop stories don’t understand that this is exactly what happened over party gate don’t understand that this is what’s happened over many of these different um exposes in the past you put forward a a bit of the story but you hold some
Back and see what the person doing does how many people involved in the labor party heard these comments knew this was what this candidate thought about things didn’t stand up and say something that’s what I want to know because that’s how you find out whether there is anti-Semitism still rampant in some
Corners of the labor party just extraordin and in our politics in general action nothing decisive about it at all it’s wavering wobbling all over the place well onto something completely different I’d throw away the key that’s what the mother of daor Ashworth says should happen to her killer Colin
Pitchfork Pitchfork is serving a life sentence for raping and killing her and another 15-year-old Linda man the big question we’re asking today can people be rehabilitated and given a second chance can they can people like this child killer ever be rehabilitated or should be essentially throw away the key
Well delighted to say that joining us now is GB news presenter Patrick Christies and ex offender turn social entrepreneur Mark Johnson uh Mark we’ll start with you can people be rehabilitated particularly of the most heinous crimes Mark are you there let’s turn to Patrick while we wait for Mark’s line to
Wear is surface Patrick You’ take a hard line when it comes to this type of crime a killer child killer should remain in prison for life yeah that’s my view I mean we have to have a look at what we’re not going to do to them okay we’re
Not going to make them go and live on an island with other vile monsters like themselves we’re not going to execute them unfortunately in my view we’re not going to Chuck them down a pit and toss them a bread roll and a bit of water once or twice a week while their victims
Screen blare out that them on a loop so the least we can do is keep these people in prison and there is a mountain of evidence to suggest that these people cannot be rehabil itated look at one of the buer killers for example uh look of course of what actually happened with
Colin Pitchford where he was released and then he was recalled almost immediately for approaching young people in a park uh we can also have a look at Usman Khan so he was not a child killer but he was a terrorist he went on to actually kill a couple of his casew
Workers for goodness sake in the fishmongers Hall attack there are certain things that I don’t think can actually lead to Rehabilitation radical Jihadi terrorism uh sex offenses against children uh and in this case as well of course uh murder and I just wonder why on Earth would we want to take the risk
And I would ask ads if we do manage to get him as well would he be comfortable with Colin pitch moving in next to him and if he’s got daughters Etc if the answer to that is no then why would he be happy for anybody else to take the
Chance well let’s turn now to ads Khan and ads what’ you make of that oh I’m afraid we’re was struggling to get the line established there but Patrick you raise a pretty forthright point there as I suppose GB news viewers would come to expect from you what do
You say to people who would say the whole point of prison is to rehabilitate people can you possibly give up on people who might have taken a wrong turn in life can’t people turn their lives around raping and killing two children is not a wrong turn in life you don’t
Really come back from that in my view Tom and people say as well oh well it cost a load of money to keep them inside well it cost a load of money to look after them on the outside as well because they’ll never work again you
Have to monitor them 24/7 you have to give them a new identity as has happened with The bul Killers for example why AR Earth should the taxpayers be made to pay for that and why are we in this country so keen on putting criminals rise first before the victims rise I had
A very very interesting conversation with Emma Weber who is the mother of Barnaby Weber who was sadly killed by that nosam Rampage killer valdo cakan and she said that at every single turn the rights of the actual killer there have been put ahead of the family’s R
And the victim’s R so in this particular situation surely we have to look at the remaining relatives of those who have actually been killed and say what do they want to do do they really want to see this guy of any kind of normality so
He can kick back go to a pub at the weekend and watch the football with whatever mates are deluded enough to hang out with him no absolutely not like I’ve said if we’re not going to execute them then the least we can do is keep them in solitary confinement for the
Rest of their lives well there we go strong stuff Patrick ads Khan um ads in your view are we focusing not enough on the rehabilitation element of going to prison can people reform people can reform but like just like Patrick said when it comes to something as serious as um I think
Everybody can make mistakes and does make mistakes in life uh but is it a mistake killing two innocent 15y old girls and raping them you know is that does that come down to evilness or does that come down to some mental condition that we don’t have the solution for So
Based on that I do 100% believe in reform and Rehabilitation but I think there’s levels of it and obviously I don’t think everybody can be reformed and rehabilitated especially given the circumstan aners of that case in particular that’s an interesting point of view do you think that prison as an
Institution there is primarily about Rehabilitation or primarily about punishment to be honestly I think it’s it has to be a little bit of both but a rehabilitation it has to be about punishment and it also has to be about reform and Rehabilitation um and that’s something that obviously I actually go into
Prisons I’ve got um going into prisons and speak about uh how you can rehabilitate yourself and how you can change yourself and how you deal with setbacks and how you make comebacks uh and obviously you know being more sort of a positive mindset Focus um so that’s
Why I actually do in prisons and I I do bu uh believe in reform and uh Rehabilitation but something struck me and that is that 57% of the adult prison population have litery level uh literacy levels uh below that of an 11y old and that statistic becomes more than just a
Number when you’re holding letters from Depot that are actually expressing their gratitude and hope after I’ve delivered some of my uh presentations you see so I think if we focus on it’s like a houses and Foundations week and you got to building it’s going to fall down so if
We focus on the ground zero and build up these Educational Tools and I’m hoping that with dedication and health that uh we can actually move forward in a society that’s a lot better Patrick last word to you uh yeah I mean there is one way around all of this of course and
That would be to reintroduce the death penalty to people with certain crimes and I would not be against that when it comes to some of these people I will just come back those girls who were approached or young women who were approached by Colin pitch forg allegely
In a park upon his release they have a right to not be approached by a double rapist and murderer as they go about their lives we all have a right to not be troubled by these vile individuals why on Earth are we living in a country where these people can have any similar
To normality Gary glitcher of course another one obviously not a child killer as far as we’re aware was recalled to prison almost immediately because he as soon as he got out he was looking at things on the dark web for goodness sake there is a lot of evidence that certain
People cannot be rehabilitated and we are wasting our time with them yeah I think Patrick you raised some very important points but perhaps there’s this delineation we can make between the violent offenders that You’ spoken about and nonviolent offenders perhaps that’s where we can reach some Middle Ground
Here but thank you so much Patrick Christies and AD Khan social entrepreneur uh for joining us here for this spicy debate fantastic W well I think we can all agree child Killers absolutely not inow the do you know what we haven’t even the killers of Brianna J
Will be out of prison in their 30s those sadistic individuals will be out of prison in their 30s potentially it’s extraord the legal system the judicial system needs to serve the public more than it does perhaps still to come the Prime Minister has attacked Labor’s plans to introduce vat tax for private
Schools we’ll be discussing that with our panel today uh we’ll be coming up in just one Moment good afternoon your top stories from the GB Newsroom the labor leaders says it was a necessary decision to withdraw support for Rochdale byelection candidate aard Ali over comments he made about Israel Mr Ali apologized after he was recorded during a meeting suggesting Israel had taken the October 7th Hamas
Assault as a pretext to invade Gaza he’ll still be listed as the labor candidate on the ballot paper as under electoral law it’s too late to replace face him but if he were to win he’ll not become a labor MP instead he’ll be independent Zakir has insisted his party’s changed under his
Leadership well those comments uh were appalling and that is why we took decisive action it is virtually unprecedented to withdraw support for a candidate in the way that I withdrew support for this candidate yesterday that’s what a changeed labor party is all about and of course any allegation
Will be fully invest investigated by the party but the important thing is the decisive action that’s being taken uh to make it absolutely clear that this is a change labor party wage growth has slowed in the UK with new figures showing it at its lowest level for more than a year the on
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P.m. lots of people have different ideas but principally a conservative approach to getting growth is to reduce taxes so that people ordinary people and businesses can spend more of their own money to invest and grow the economy so the theory is that you cut taxes and that then pumps more money into the
Economy exactly right and then people you know it’s not government that are creating wealth it’s individuals business businessman companies that create wealth it’s the private sector that creates wealth that the public sector then taxes and and and spends I get the theory but one of the criticisms
Of you sure and I think one of the criticisms actually of all political parties is they appear to be incapable of cutting government spending that’s the key I mean and I think when I look back is that we should have had a a a credible plan to reduce the increase in
Spending now that’s often a difficult con cep to explain but it’s in line with inflation Etc that’s all right so so when you when you when you’re slowing the increase it means you know one year you spend 100 and the next year you spend maybe £101 as opposed to going up
To £10 so the actual level isn’t going down but you’re slowing the increase and that’s very much what I tried to do and actually looking back the one thing I wish we’d done I’d done was to present a credible spending uh plan at the same
Time as the tax cuts that we that we announced you had a go it didn’t work out for whatever reason and and and and that analysis will go on for some years to come we have Jeremy Hunt there as Chancellor now hinting quite strongly now there won’t be any tax cuts but the
Truth of it is under 14 years of conservatives for a variety of reasons the tax burden has risen that’s right to the highest since the atle government way back in 80 years 1951 whatever it is 2024 a Battleground year the year the nation decides as the parties gear up
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With you for every step of this journey in 2024 GB news is Britain’s election Channel good afternoon Britain it’s back to Rochdale now where controversy is in abounds let’s get the very latest with the former labor Minister bill raml and the former uh Sunday Express editor now a senior partner at pagefield Martin
Townend uh Bill we’ll start with you you spent years as a labor MP indeed years as a labor Minister too K St has messed this one up well we’ve reached the right decision but it took too long to get there but there is context uh Ali the comments he made initially that we
Reported completely wrong but he immediately fell on his sword uh apologized and interestingly was backed by people like Louise Elman uh a very respected former Jewish labor MP who said in her experience he was a strong supporter of her and other Jewish colle the criticism that people on the left of
The labor party have that this person came from the same faction of the party as people like Louise and they all knew each other they’d known each other for years so they crowded around whereas there are other people in the labor party who weren’t part of that faction
Who’ve said far less and have been suspended and have the will withdrawn I don’t think it’s about factions you know uh he and Louise were not in the same faction she was making the point that as someone who was under under the Kos under Corbin by the anti-sites that he
Had supported her the other factor with within this are two words and it’s George Galloway uh George Galloway is a repugnant obnoxious individual who specializes in mobilizing hate amongst Muslim communities and rightly or wrongly we didn’t want to give him a free run however when the comments came
Out making clear that he’d referred to Jewish interests in the media Ali I’m talking about that is an anti-semitic trobe that’s been used for over a hundred years completely unacceptable and Kia acted decisively and for people who say this isn’t decisive I’m 64 before I first started campaigning at
The age of 189 I cannot recall a political party disowning a bi-election camp candidate in the midst of the byelection that’s what we’ve done and it’s the right decision but Martin I guess one could ask why did it take further Revelations to come out were the initial comments about October the 7th
And Israel’s involvement basically essentially were they not enough well this is the problem and I think this this raises questions about kir st’s gut instinct which I think is really important in politics is to have a gut instinct when something’s wrong or something’s right it was obviously wrong
Right from the from the get-go and it’s not good enough for K starma to say this morning that he acted decisively because he didn’t he didn’t act decisively act decisively he would have suspended him straight away you know that’s that’s how it should work the the com comments he
Made were absolutely disgraceful and all the arguments about George Galloway with all gesp to Bill completely irrelevant as far as I’m concerned this is this was the wrong guy and he shouldn’t have been actually put in there in the first place that they should have done their
Homework I think it does it does really raise some big questions about the whole pitch of this year’s election so K St is saying that the labor party has changed what richy sunak said last night on this channel was scratch beneath the surface and and has it really no I don’t think
It has changed I think there’s I think there’s still a very toxic seam of antisemitism in the in the labor party and and we’ve seen it this week with these comments and you know you scratch it a bit and there it is again so I I
You I I don’t I agree with Rishi sunak on that I think K starm would love to change it I just don’t think a he’s a strong enough leader to do so as he’s proved this week and B it it runs a lot deeper than he he thinks I think I
Really don’t genuinely think that that is fair um you know Kia has rooted out anti-Semitism within the labor party you know he’s removed Corbin from the scene he responded very he removed it when it’s been politically convenient for him to remove it people who opposed his leadership he was very happy to say
You’re an anti-semite get out but people who supported his leadership he’s suddenly going oh no he’s apologized it’s fine no no no that’s that’s not what he’s done and if you think it was easy removing Jeremy Corbin uh as a labor MP that’s a million miles from the
Truth I don’t think however this is about gut instinct Martin if I am balanced and fair the criticism I would make is that KIA too often spends too long reaching a decision and I think this is an example of that and whilst you can do that in opposition you most
Certainly can’t do it in government and I hope the lesson that he’s learned is that you need to make the decisions quicker right decision decisive decision but should have happen but that is about G Instinct ultimately is it that it is about G Instinct I mean if he gets into
Power it’s the way you make decisions yeah but you know you know instinctively when something’s right or wrong you do know that straight away it’s not like he was arming and aring on Sunday on Monday he said look he’s apologized that’s the end of the matter we’re moving on it
Wasn’t do you know what I’m still thinking about this it was look he’s apologized that’s the end of the matter and then new information comes and then he has to make a further U it’s a U-turn not a long laborious I think he was Ally was being given the benefit of the doubt
Given the context at that stage but what you need to do in politics is see and think round corners and that didn’t happen in these circumstances we should have anticipated that the male had more up its sleeve and more of us to come out but how worried should the labor party
Be in general how worried should K starma be about the impact the issue of Israel Gaza is having potentially on their vote in multiple constituencies well it’s a huge concern of course it must be a good huge concern but just to to pick up on that point um
You know I I I think UL ultimately with this with anti-Semitism generally and we have a big problem with anti-Semitism in this country at the moment and it’s really really dangerous I don’t think that we can afford to have someone that that that takes this long to make a
Decision about something that’s so basic those comments that were made initially were awful and he should have starma should have just said that’s it he’s suspended straight away and actually he’d have ended this week looking decis exactly what you just said Bill actually looking decisive because a decisive
Leader for me is a competent leader I think in decision is part of incompetence I really do it’s just baffling to most people bill because let’s say this was a by elction right at the beginning of a parliament you might have a point that it would be a very odd
Thing to do to sort of say you know what there’s going to be an election in a matter of months the person who elected will only be a member of parliament for a very short period of time the labor party is in opposition it’s not going to
Get into government off the back of this byelection it doesn’t need this seat no but look you know you can make the criticism that the decision should have been made quicker but the idea that this is not decisive action is not borne out by the facts there’s never been a case
In the last 50 years where a major political party labor or conservative has disowned a byelection candidate in the midst of of that campaign that’s what Kier did because he’s rightly concerned to demonstrate that we have rooted out anti-Semitism and and you know it’s a fringe interest in the labor
Party and we will keep on until it’s complet well there you go bill raml says he active decisively Martin not so sure indecisively but coming up soon I attack starma over a plan to introduce vat tax for private schools we’ll show you what he said but see you
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From 9:30 when you listen to Nigel farage’s assessment there do you feel that maybe this is as good as it was going to get given that we had the pandemic and it was inevitably always going to be a bit of a mixed bag well I
Think it’s a bit of a poor excuse from Nigel there that they haven’t done it properly the facts are Nigel that it’s not worked it’s not going to work yes we will rejoin I mean are we better off for it are are they can I jump in there
Charli we’re going to rejoin under which government because labor aren’t going to do that unless you don’t think but but I mean it’s going to be unavoidable not to join because I think it’s getting worse and worse for us I mean let me just say this are the NHS better because we’re
Out of Europe no they’re not because they’re not employing more staff is the building trade better off no is traveling abroad in you EU or staying in EU are we better off no are we better off cuz food’s rise because of the EU no are we better off with Import and Export
No because they’re taking longer the overall result is that we’re not better off the killer Point here is 57% of the public would now vote to remain 33% would leave surely that’s the telling point it depends on the poster Charlie because we were talking to a very good poster earlier said there’s no
Enthusiasm for any change in a year maybe 10 years they might be thinking about it Belinda deluy let’s bring you in I’m sure you want to react to What Charlie said I mean who would have thought that the UK wanting to run its own Affairs and making our politicians
More accountable would be so revolutionary Parliament voted a majority to get rid of the vetos the last remaining scraps of democracy that the EU had now luckily uh for for EU citizens at the moment you know it means a treaty change to actually go forward but that that is the mood the ever
Closer Union we have dodged a federalized globalist international power gobbling anti-democratic organization a and that’s worth more than a few trade and travel perks with for a few wealthy people in this country he Belinda DUI Charlie Mullins great to see you both I’m Andrew Doyle join me at
7:00 every Sunday night for free speech Nation the show where I tackle the week’s biggest stories in politics and current affairs with the help of my two comedian panelists and a variety of special guests Free Speech Nation Sunday nights from 7 on GB news the people’s Channel Britain’s News Channel Well last night at the GB news people’s Forum rishy sunak said that K D’s private school jibes at him were un British let’s take a Liston get attacked by kir sta because of where I went to school and I said to him once actually I said you’re not
Really attacking me you’re attacking my parents and you’re attacking everybody like them that works hard to Aspire for a better life for them and their family I think that’s wrong I don’t think it’s British and that’s not the type of country that I’m going to build wrong unb and not the kind of
Country that he wants to build well let’s dissect that we’re joined by the former labor Minister Bill raml and indeed by the former editor of the Sunday Express and Senior partner at pagefield Martin townend uh Martin is it un-british to attack where someone went to
School I’m not sure what it means by I’m British I’ll be honest with you um I think it’s very unfair and I don’t agree with it at all I don’t honestly care where anybody goes and is educated I think you know the important thing is you had an education um people have
Great State education they have great private educations I don’t particularly like this people being attacked because they went to private school or attack because they went to Eaton or wherever it might be I just just don’t agree with that it’s a very British thing though isn’t it Bill to slag someone off for
Their school leag no it is well there is an element of that in British Society but this was a legitimate criticism what here was highlighting was the fact that we’re committed to removing VAT on school fees a policy by the way supported by other I putting VAT on
School fees yes sorry putting VAT on school fees a policy by the way that’s supported by over two-thirds of the British uh electorate um and it’s it’s it’s not you know you’re not excluded from public office uh if you’re privately educated you know Tony Blair in my view the the best prime minister
We’ve ever had was privately educated but it’s part of a pattern with rishy sunak priv educated hugely colossally wealthy £529 million wife born with 520 million pounds or whatever it is most of it’s inherited not not from his from his wife his his his dad was a GP married
Well married well um and you know uh his wife for a number of years claimed non-dom status all of that is part of a pattern about where someone comes from and how in touch they are with ordinary people and I think that’s legitimate criticism do you think perhaps it’s a
Little tone deaf to say that uh essentially suggest that people who don’t do as his parents did aren’t necessarily aspirational for their children that’s did he suggest that well he said you’re attacking by attacking me on my schooling you’re attacking everybody like them that works hard to
Aspire for a better life for them and their family well actually he was attacking the schooling not people who Aspire for a better life I don’t like on private schools but it can be read that way do you know what I find astonishing about this whole debate is with all
Respect Bill’s argument that the labor party have changed over the anti-Semitism you know anti-Semitism business that’s not true and it’s not true that they’ve changed on this either this kind this his class Envy this is class envy and and that’s what labor specializ in there always envious of
People that have got on in life and that’s a real turn off people might however whatever percentage is support this VAT on private schools that’s that’s going to drive ordinary people that want to send their kids to private school away from private schools it’s going to put pressure on the state
System and it’s straightforward class Envy from labor as it always is Envy of aspiration we’re going to go back to the the old days of like nobody wins at Sports and nobody you know it’s I’m going to have to cut you off in your Prime Martin because we come to the end
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Sooner illegal Crackdown record high fines for those who employ or rent properties to Illegal migrants will the new measur bring the down the numbers who enter Britain illegally and susex is under the Kos Prince Harry and Mega marle have been accused of using their Royal tires for commercial gain after they relaunched
Their website using their Sussex title and the Royal Crest despite having ditched their Royal duties Tey or Savvy well we had a bit of a ding-dong earlier in the show about whether prison is for rehabilitation or whether it’s for punishment now this relates to Colin Pitchfork the serial rapist and child killer yeah and and when and when you put terms like that in front of a name
You just think how can someone like that ever be released into society and I do think there is a serious question that we need to ask about whether people whether some people are just broken in the minds and and should always be kept separate from society now I I’m of the
View that to be honest what is the role of prison it doesn’t necessarily even have to be about punishment it just has to be about separating dangerous people away from away from the rest of us I don’t let let him bounce around in a bouncy castle as long as it’s in a
Secure area and and and the door’s locked and he can’t get out I he can’t have he can’t have a bouny car what are you talking about Tom I don’t I don’t care condition in which he’s kept I don’t care as long as he’s not out in
Society the only thing the only focus of prison in my view for people like that is to separate an individual from the rest of society punishment I mean you can you can make up any determination of what what you want punishment to necessarily look like but what I’m saying is it’s immaterial
To the purpose of prison it’s not about Rehabilitation and it’s not about punishment it’s about separating dangers from the rest of society that’s my view of prison that means that a child killer should never be up for parole and allowed out yeah um so there you go and
Leslie agrees that in her opinion all crimes against children should mean a life sentence terrorist also she says cannot be rehabilitated and deserve topof the range prison sentences that’s what one way of putting it so there you go others have said they’d like to see the the death penalty return uh but
There you go let us know what you think gbvs atgb news.com but it’s your headlines good afternoon these are your top stories from the GB Newsroom the labor leader says it was a necessary decision to withdraw support for Rochdale byelection candidate Azar Ali over comments he made about Israel Mr Ali
Apologized after he was recorded during a meeting suggesting that Israel had taken the October 7th Hamas assault as a pretext to invade Gaza he’ll still be listed as the labor candidate on the ballot paper as under electoral law La it’s too late to replace him but if he
Were to win he won’t become a labor MP following Ali’s comments Zakir dama has insisted his parties changed under his leadership well those comments uh were appalling uh and that is why we took decisive action it is virtually unprecedented to withdraw support for a candidate in the way that I withdraw
Support for this candidate yesterday that’s what a change labor party is all about and of course any allegation will be fully investigated by the party but the important thing is the decisive action that’s being taken uh to make it absolutely clear that this is a change labor
Party High Street chain The Body Shop has entered into Administration putting thousands of jobs at risk the retailer runs more than 200 shops across the UK insolvency experts said the administrators will consider all options to find a way forward for the business after years of financial struggles The
Body Shop will continue to trade though with online sites remaining open and making sales wage growth has slowed in the UK with new figures showing it at its lowest level for more than a year the office for National statistics found job vacancies also fell back once again as
Britain’s job market called on average regular pay excluding bonuses fell to 6.2% in the last three months of last year compared with the same period a year before it’s the slowest growth since October 2022 however after taking price Rises into account pay went up by 1.9% British Army troops and vehicles
Are on their way to Poland to take part in the largest NATO exercise since the Cold War armored vehicles alongside Land Rovers Engineers tractors and support Vehicles were loaded into a 23,000 ton cargo vessel near Southampton over 500 Vehicles will sell from the UK and 1,500 service Personnel will fly out to join
The NATO exercise called steadfast Fender to demonstrate the alliance’s unity and capability the departure comes as HMS Prince of Wales set sail from Portsmouth yesterday to take part employers and landlords who allow illegal immigrants to work for them or rent their properties will face much tougher penalties from today the Civil
Penalty for such actions has risen to a maximum of £45,000 per worker for a first breach landlords now also face increased penalties of £5,000 lodger and 10,000 per occupier for a first breach that’s up from £80 and £1,000 respectively ministers believe the Crackdown will help reduce the incentive for illegal migrants
Crossing into the UK the housing secretary is going to put pressure on London as he pushes for all local councils in the capital to build more homes Michael Gove wants all councils in England to build homes on Brownfield sites under new plans it’s part of a wider effort by the
Conservatives to boost house building with younger voters in particular expressing concern about the difficulty of getting onto the property ladder under recently proposed reforms it’ll become harder for the largest city councils to refuse construction on a previously developed Brownfield land if local housing targets are not met housing Minister Lee Rowley admitted to
Us earlier house building has indeed slowed and the government needs to go further of our urban areas some of where there is lots of Brownfield sites are just not building enough the May of London where I’m standing today he’s not built enough houses in the past few
Years so we absolutely need to build more homes but we want to build them in the right place and where um where councils where Mayors are not doing the right thing we need to hold them to account the bar for refusal on Brownfield site need to go higher and
It’s all part of our long-term plan for housing it’s about showing that the government is serious about tackling the challenges that we are seeing and King Charles has returned to London after traveling from Sandringham by helicopter his majesty had been staying at his country residence following his first cancer treatment
He’s postponed all public facing duties but is continuing with behind the scenes work on his red boxes of State papers the Queen’s been carrying out her royal engagements and last week said her husband was doing extremely well under the circumstances for the latest story sign
Up to GB newws alert by scanning the QR code on your screen or go to GB news.com Alerts good afternoon Britain it’s 8 minutes past 2 and I have you a television exclusive with regards to that Rochdale byelection something that frankly the labor party should have spotted and failed to do so the Labour party’s now disowned candidate had posted a photograph on his social media in 2015
Shaking hands with the then respect party MP George Galloway George Galloway at the time was a very controversial figure he had defeated labor in a byelection only a couple of years before this point and he had defeated the Labor candidates and other candidates accusing them of lacking Islamic values it was
Said at the time that George Galloway ran on a platform of being more Islamic than his Muslim opponents and here we see this labor counselor at the time now then became the labor candidate for this byelection now disowned by labor boasting of his association with George
Galloway at a seminar he says was on say no to terrorism there we have it the former labor candidate shaking hands with George Galloway something that had the labor party known about you’d surely think they would have thought this was not a man who was uh suitable to be a
Candidate especially in a by elction absolutely great spot there Tom um red flag much for the labor party when they were looking at picking candidates George Galloway oh all happy to see you it’s extraordinary especially given George Galloway’s standing in this seat any association with George Galloway
Would throw up a red flag there are Labor candidates who have been removed from the Labor candidates list from in tweets from Caroline Lucas now Caroline Lucas of course stands against the labor party uh is opposed the labor party but I think people would say is perhaps uh
Less toxic in our political culture than George Galloway and if candidates have been stood down for liking tweets from Caroline Lucas but not stood down after shaking hands and boasting of associations with the then respect party MP George Galloway it raises huge questions yes and we’ll have to look
Into what exactly that event was there say no to terrorism find out a little bit more about what exactly that event was all about let’s speak to GB news political correspondent Olivia Utley Olivia thank you very much for joining us Tom just showed us this tweet from
2015 pictured ASA Ali of course the labor candidate for Rochdale smiling and shaking the hands of George Galloway well absolutely I think that tweet that Tom’s une Earth make things makes things even more embarrassing for k s this has really been an extraordinary 48 hours in politics just
Two days ago Kama was defending Mr Ally saying that he had the support of the labor party even when labor members uh labor Jewish groups were saying that they would not campaign in Rochdale for Mr alley following his comments suggesting that Israel uh essentially put a green green light on the hamus
Attacks of October the 7th in order to do whatever they wanted to in Gaza those are abominable comments and finally finally last night K stama withdrew his backing now why did it take him so long well one reason of course is that it is now too late for Labour to put someone
Else on the candidates list nominations have already closed which lead us in the very strange position where Mr Ali dis despite labor having formally withdrawn their support from him will have the labor logo next to his name when Rochdale voters go to The Ballot Box on
Thursday but if he does get elected he won’t have the labor whip now the other reason that perhaps Kier stama stood behind Mr Ally is because and there are those on the left of the labor party were pretty Furious about this previously Mr Ally had been seen as
Someone of the sort of centus tradition someone more in K’s uh own image and actually Louise Elman the Jewish conservative MP who left the party when Mr Corbin was leader but came back under K starma backed Mr Ali because she said that he had a long history of being uh
Anti-islamic extremism so that could be perhaps why K dama took so long to withdraw his support but this image that Tom shows well that puts a very different light on things what’s so difficult for labor about this situation and also of course for the people of
Rochell let’s not forget them in all of this is that because of this mess the chances are that George Galloway will be handed that seat in Rochdale labor have handed over a 9,000 seat majority to someone who is a sectarian a a race biter and doesn’t really have much of an
Interest in actually being an MP he said before that he likes the experience of standing for an MP far more than he likes being an MP it will ultimately be the people of Rochdale who suffer from all of this but K stama too will have his reputation tarnished it raises
Enormous questions about the labor party’s vetting of their own candidates especially given that George Galloway in 2015 it was only a couple of years after he defeated labor in Bradford West at the time the independent wrote about how uh Mr Galloway shamelessly courted Muslim Prejudice in in that by-election
Campaign and huge questions for anyone who would be shaking his hand let alone anyone who wanted to be a labor MP who would be boasting about such an association well exactly and as I say I mean it is it is very strange that he did choose to shake George Galla’s hand
Because actually historically Mr Ali does have a a history of speaking out against Islamic extremism there are those who are suggesting that actually politics in Rochdale has got so toxic that the sort of anti-Semitic uh comments which Mr Ali made are no longer seen as as sort of Fringe that scen as
Mainstream and it is possible that he was uh deliberately trying to cour some votes in Rochdale with those comments as you say Tom it does throw some light on the labor vetting process and we have seen this time and time again in British politics and I should say it’s not just
The labor party who’ve suffered with this especially during the 2019 General election there were quite a lot of conservative MPS who won their seats unexpectedly and then caused the party some embarrassment but in those situations you can sort of understand how it happened in this case there was a
Byelection labor had a long time to choose who they wanted to stand as their candidate and they chose Mr Ali having to backtrack at the last minute to Great personal embarrassment and of course a lot of difficulty for the people of Rochdale thanks Olivia Olivia RGB news political Cor respondent
Presumably he would say I was just shaking his hand doesn’t mean I endorse everything he says doesn’t mean I’m a great big fan of George Galloway and of course people we live in a free Society I I would heartly encourage people meeting with people with whom they disagree but had this picture been
Uncovered at the time of the selection had the labor party vetting procedures found this picture there is no way that Azar Ali would have been selected to even be on the short list to be the labor candidate it does spark these questions about Labor vetting because
After all if you want to be an MP there are questions about your associations and your judgment and the fact that you post pictures smiling away with someone who had run such a vicious campaign against the labor party only a couple of years earlier raises huge huge questions
About that judgment well yes and some of us are often astonished by the caliber of some of the candidates on on in all parties perhaps uh but earlier today when asked whether he believed that he had dealt with other cases of anti-Semitism differently than the Rochdale byelection candidate this is
What kiss Dharma had to say out four years ago to tear anti-Semitism out of the labor party it’s the first thing I said I’d do as labor leader and to change our party I’ve taken a serious of decisions along those lines um ruthlessly changing our party it’s made
No difference to me where somebody stands in the labor party the change I brought about is a labor party that is now back in the service of working people K sta speaking there and of course AAR Ali himself has apologized for his comments uh but these are the
Candidates standing in the rochd by elction yes AA Ali Labour party Mark Coleman independent Simon danuk reform UK in Donaldson liberal Democrat Paul Ellison conservative George Galloway Workers Party of Britain Michael howth independent William Howard independent Guyton green party Raven rodent sorta official monster raving Loney and David
Tully independent there you go well let’s move on now because I’d throw away the key that’s what the mother of daor Ashworth says should happen to the killer of her daughter uh Colin Pitchfork yes Pitchfork is serving a life sentence for raping and killing daor as well as another 15-year-old
Named Linda man so the big question that we’re asking today can people be rehabilitated however henus the crime and giv us a second chance well joining us now is the former prisoner and social campaigner Winston Davis Winston thank you so much for making the time for us
Today uh first of all the biggest question that we’re going to have to ask you on the front of it can people change can people reform no matter what they’ve done well I’m I’m living proof of it you know 15 16 years ago I got caught with a
Car full of cannabis and and I was rightfully sent to prison um I learned from my ways I got trained I run now run a a heating company I’m a chairman of a a charity uh that’s helping young boys to not go down that route and um I’m I’m
Living proof that Rehabilitation can work 100% what about Winston in the case of a child killer or rapist do you think when it comes to that you should just you know life should mean life so this is it like for me I’m a father I’ve got four children I’ve got nephews I’ve got
Nieces if somebody was to kill rape do something like heinous that’s one of my my children or nieces and nephews like is very very difficult for me to say they can be rehabilitated and if it’s personally I’m like well yeah throw away the key the challenge you’ve got in this
Country is that we have a criminal justice system which says there is a tariff for whatever crime it is whether it’s a whole life sentences and that’s a small small tiny percentage of prisoners would ever get a whole life tariff or there’ll be a um an a fix tariff or or
The judge will say I think she say 30 years or 35 years or 25 years after which time the parole board will decide whether or not they’re allowed to be let out as in this case here frankly Winston it it sounds like what you were convicted for was what some might
Describe as a nonviolent offense and in many ways many senior politicians many members of the cabinet had they been caught and had the same sort of uh Criminal Justice System applied to them as it did to you perhaps they would have been behind bars as well of course we
Knew in the 2019 conservative leadership campaign how many people admitted to smoking cannabis lasses and all the rest of it but is there this fundamental difference between violent crime and nonviolent crime well yeah just I mean just to touch on that I think there was cocaine found in in Parliament wasn’t it
So um you know so it’s still still people are still using it even in in in those places like that but the average prison sentence in this country has increased 50% since 2012 2022 it was uh a 14 month sentence 2012 that’s now gone up to 22 months in 2022 so the average
Sentence is very fairly small you know I got 36 months um still a very small a small sentence so the average in this country is small but you’re talking about two Polar Opposites here and if you’re talking about nonviolent crime you’re talking about low-level crime we are busting at the scams the prison
Overcrowded the probation service cannot cope with the amount of cases they’ve got particularly then when you’re talking about serious crime they can’t manage them yeah frankly Winston does it does it work to put someone in for a very short amount of time frankly sometimes this can be a sort of
University of crime can’t it if someone’s arrested for something that’s relatively low level they go into prison for six or 12 months they meet lots of other criminals they’re out and then back doing petty crime again yeah I mean look again it’s down down to our our
Psychology and our our um mindset on crime and particularly talking about drug crime in this country we’ve had a 50 60 year war on crime War on Drugs here hasn’t worked people are using more they’re getting locked up for more uh time and actually do you know what if
You look at that just in that one particular case there if you were we were looking at nonviolent criminals either having yeah a community sentences or even the government taking control of that whole industry and taxing it and and and regulating it so that actually
Take the the money out of the gangs and actually then you can use that to to then enforce um the the the sentences give better resources to prisons to preparation services for the more serious criminals who are a threat to our society I think people would find
Something else to trade but I take your point Winston Davis former prisoner and social campaigner great to get your Insight on that question for me it just comes down to the victims and the families of the victims I can’t imagine hearing that the killer of my child
Could be up for parole could be given back his freedom absolutely not makes no sense when it comes to lesser crimes there’s much more of a you know an argument I I think I think the the a would agree would absolutely agree that for the most heinous crimes there
Should be the most heinous sentencing but for the crimes that perhaps don’t have a direct uh sort of violence victim uh it should be a very different set kettle of fish I do think if it’s not drugs it would be something else but there you go coming up why Prince Harry
And Megan have once again been accused of using their Royal ties for commercial gain you’re watching good afternoon Britain on GB news the people’s Channel I think the most exciting bit for me is talking to people people who I think are ignored Often by the major news channels we’re going to give news they want to hear there’s a voice there that needs to be heard I think there’s a chance here for a diversity of opinion to be
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The first patients to receive a groundbreaking B brain implant from neuralink is recovering well this is all a bit odd uh the product called telepathy uses a robot to surgically place a computer chip in a region of the brain that controls movement yes Elon Musk says that the first goal is to
Enable people to control a phone or a computer just by thinking he says that initial tests show promising signs of brain activity meaning that patients with paralysis could one one day overcome their conditions H not sure about this one joining us to discuss this breakthrough is applied futurist
Tom cheese right Tom this sounds uh well slightly terrifying I certainly think a lot of people will be thinking this is something out of a sci-fi horror rather than reality but this is a technology that’s been a long time coming we’ve been developing direct brain computer interfaces for a long time mostly for
The sort of therapeutic reasons that are the initial goal at least of Elon musk’s neuralink to allow people who are perhaps quadriplegic to have Direct Control via their brains of initially a smartphone and maybe ultimately artificial limbs or a wheelchair it does seem fascinating how quickly this
Technology is moving on I I saw demonstrations perhaps a year or two ago of people playing a very simple pong game just by thinking moving sort of one uh line on a screen up and down this seems like potentially there has been a breakthrough that means far more complex
Things can be controlled just by thinking well there’s lots of different aspects to this technology the initial attempts to interface with the brain used actually quite thick prongs on almost that went into the brain and they were quite solid and so if the brain moved they could potentially cause
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Checking was there checking if he’s still there checking if he’s still are he is he is with you until 3 now Prince Harry and Megan have once again been accused of using their Royal ties for commercial gain that’s after they relaunched their new brand spanking new website using their Sussex title and the
Royal Crest the spanking website goodness me um I didn’t mean that in a weird way but their previous site archwell now automatically directs to sussex.edu is highlighted as a military veteran mental health Advocate and environmental campaigner while Megan is described as a feminist and champion of Human Rights and gender Equity oh it
Sounds like my biography gender Equity not equality feminist champion of Human Rights I am but Equity is a very different thing from equality and that that’s a that’s well we’ll get into that later but let’s bring in the Royal Angle now with our Royal correspondent Cameron
Walker because a lot of people might be asking these are people who walked away from the royal family and are now using their titles and the fact that they’re prince and princess that’s sort of all across the website it’s almost like they they haven’t walked away from the
Benefits of being in the royal family well that is certainly the accusation Tom I think what’s got people really upset this today is the use of the Royal Crest which was a gift from Queen Elizabeth II to Megan following uh her wedding which is of course on the front
Page of the very glossy new website and the fact that they continue to use and clearly want to publicly use the names and titles of themselves The Duke and Duchess of Sussex but also their two children Prince Archie and Princess lilibet as you said they Ste back as
Working members of the royal family at the time they wanted essentially nothing to do with working Royals they wanted to be private individuals to can pursue their own commercial Endeavors but the agreement in 2020 was they could not use their Royal titles or the Royal name uh
For commercial gains so there’s a subtle difference now with a website to name name instead of sussexroyal.com it’s simply Sussex s.com in that agreement in 2020 there was no mention that they could not use the word Sussex it is their right it is their legal name The Duke and Duchess of
Sussex so if Buckingham Palace they may not care but if they did care they wouldn’t have much power to remove that website’s um address because they’re private individuals it’s what a bit strange isn’t it there’s a sort of uh bluring of of of who they are and what’s
Happened in the past and who exactly they now are as a brand simply as people because if you go on the sussexroyal.com which was their previous website it says uh the site was established in 2020 and sets out the work streams of Prince Harry and Megan the Duke and Duchess of
Sussex prior to their move to the United States it’s like uh they’ve completely changed their identity but then they also haven’t yeah and four years is a very long time and this appears to be yet another identity another Rebrand perhaps to try and get more commercial
Deals of course we’re not sure we do know that they’re SP Spotify deal was cut prematurely they were seen chatting to the Paramount boss on a red carpet a few months ago we know that they need money to fund their 24/7 security to keep their family safe they no longer
Have UK taxpayer funded uh police protection and they have a massive mansion in monito and if they want to keep up that lifestyle obviously that costs a lot of money and they’re not really being seen at the moment on the celebrity circuit they’re not being photographed at A-list celebrity parties
Or anything like that there’s no major although there’s been hints by Megan on red carpets in interview she’s done over the last few months there’s been no major announcement in terms of any big new commercial Endeavor uh so perhaps this is their way of trying to uh
Capitalize on their titles of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex but not necessarily Royal but of course the lines are very blurred yeah absolutely extraordinary shring is Royal to some extent they’re both Royal and not Royal all at the same time Cameron Walker thank you very much
For bringing us the very latest on that well they’d probably say you got to live your best life I like how you shake shook your shoulders you got to LIF your live your best life don’t imagine Prince Harry and Megan saying I I can absolutely imagine
Them doing that no you should you should do parties you should do weddings that’s all about feminism yeah no you can it’s it’s it’s an Immaculate impression well thank you very much coming up we’re going to be discussing quite a shocking story here Jewish theater goers were
Hounded out of a comedy show in SoHo in central London we’ll give the Details good afternoon these are your top stories from the GB Newsroom the labor leader says it was a necessary decision to withdraw support for Rochdale byelection candidate AAR Ali over comments he made about Israel Mr Ally apologized after he was recorded during a meeting suggesting that Israel
Had taken the October 7th Hamas assault as a pretext to invade Gaza he’ll still be listed as the labor candidate on the ballot paper as under electoral law it’s too late to replace him following Ali’s comments sir kir has insisted his party’s changed under his leadership well those comments uh were appalling
And that is why we took decisive action it is virtually unprecedented to withdraw support for a candidate in the way that I withdraw support for this candidate yesterday that’s what a change labor party is all about and of course any allegation will be fully investigated by the party but the
Important thing is the decisive action that’s being taken uh to make it absolutely clear that this is a change labor party thousands of jobs are at risk after the UK arm of the body shop enters Administration the retailer runs more than 200 shops across the country the
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Talk about care after combat so we are an organization a charity who work into the prison system working with military veterans who’ve somehow got involved with the justice system and re so there there’s quite a high population of of EX service men and women in our prisons why
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Guess for some people you know the old tip of alcohol is good uh a bit of fun uh over a weekend relax let your hair down but for some people alcohol is not always their best friend and I guess that plays a plays a part in some of
Your veterans that end up inside absolutely So speaking from my own experience a good 2third of the people I work with have some kind of mental health problem or mental health difficulty struggling to either adapt into civilian life or with some of the traumas they’ve experienced during service people might self-medicate with
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This Saturday night Showdown is your front row ticket to the clown show every Saturday only on GB news the people’s Channel Britain’s News Channel good afternoon Britain it’s 36 minutes p 2 and joining us here is the former labor Minister bill raml and the former editor of the Sunday Express and Senior partner at pagefield Martin townend uh now gentlemen I want to show you this Photograph that we’ve found this tweet from the now disowned labor
Candidate Azar Ali this was a tweet sent in 2015 where he shares a photograph of himself shaking hands with the then respect party MP George Galloway um Bill let’s start with you I’m just amazed that the labor party vetting process didn’t pick this up well I think there
Are questions for the lb party vetting process you know had that come out then I don’t think we would have selected him as a candidate um and you know in my view I choose my words carefully Galloway is scum and I would never shake his hand um however when you start
Trolling through people’s social media feeds you know I’ve shaken hands with countless thousands of people uh and who knows uh what people and you know your political opponents as well so taking it out of context I think we just need to be careful but it’s strange that he
Would wish to share it with his following if he was looking then to uh get on in the with a labor ticket but uh Martin is shaking the hand of George Galloway back in 2015 enough to get you uh off the labor I would have thought I
Would have thought so and and and again it does come down to that careful vetting thing I mean it’s open season on this guy now there’s all sorts of stuff going to come out over the next few days um and obviously this is just the beginning of it I think it’s a it’s
Turning into a major major problem for the labor party this this story I think um so I can see it rumbling on into the weekend frankly well we’ve got much more to cover in this segment so we’ll leave that there but again that was a picture that that candidate had shared from
Shaking hands with George G but it’s also to do with accusations about anti-Semitism over anti-Semitism in society at large because a theater in central London the Soho theater has apologized after Jewish audience members were made to feel unsafe and threatened after comedian Paul Curry said to pulled
Out a Palestinian flag and yielded get out a man get out at a man who didn’t want to do the same it’s a pretty bleak story that a theater in central London there is a strong Jewish community in London of course and people are genuinely feeling unsafe and targeted frankly
Bill this story made my blood boil um you know I believe in a two-state solution I believe in the rights of Palestinians but this extremist behavior on the fringes of society that says Palestinians totally right Israel totally wrong is a million miles away from the solutions that we need you know
If we’re going to get peace in the Middle East it’s going to involve comprom compromise it’s going to involve give and take it’s going to involve listening to each other and that kind of behavior attacking someone because they didn’t stand for the Palestinian flag is totally unacceptable the audience member
Claimed that the comedian told the man get get out of my show get the F out of here and then continue to swear apparently other members of the audience joined in shouting get out and free Palestine until the young man left and this is all because
Thisal this is Mob mentality I think it also I think it also kind of points to a wider a wider issue we have which is this kind of whole thing where if you don’t agree with me you’re wrong um you know this polarizing of opinion which we
See all over social media you know any flag any flag that he got got out right it everyone in the audience has to agree everyone has to applaud no this was sh really really shocking again an example of the way we we you know anti-Semitism is is has become a very dangerous and
And difficult issue but also kind of as I say speaking I think to the fact that you know and and comedians seem to seem to think this kind of thing is funny to somehow you know sort of make the audience feel embarrassed and then you
Know you’re not on my side you must be wrong if you don’t agree with my opinions you must be wrong we see a lot of comedians doing this somehow it has become a you know some sort of staple particularly I have to say of leftwing Comics that’s what they do essentially
What it says is you’re not welcome in my show if you support Israel in any shape or form or if you won’t stand and clap for the Palestinian flag I mean do we live in a free Society or not because sometimes it feels like there’s a lot of
Pressure to have certain views well I mean that’s certainly what was coming across here and you know what this cries out for me is we need to develop a culture of being able to disagree agreeably and this guy is a million miles away from uh that that kind of
Mindset and frankly he ought to be ashamed of himself it is extraordinary waving the flag of one side of a conflict saying everyone has to stand up and applaud that flag and then handing out someone who refused to do so stand standing against that sort of mob mentality should really be applauded
From where I’m sitting but uh but I’m just amazed that this was allowed to go on and that frankly this particular theater butched this act presumably not knowing what was in the ACT well the worrying thing is that this kind of behavior is seen as edgy this is kind of
Seen as edgy and fashionable and trendy that’s that’s my real worry about it as bill says it speaks to an inability to be able to debate sensibly to to be able to see someone else’s opinion that’s what it actually speaks to but it’s seen by many kind of so-call alternative
Comedians as being terribly edgy to do this kind of thing and actually it’s shocking it’s like the 1930s it’s like fascism you know whisper it but it is apparently this theater was built on the site of a synagogue is the most extraordinary and it goes so much further doesn’t it on campuses we’re
Hearing stories you know every week about Jewish students feeling well targeted or feeling unsafe or threatened and it’s difficult isn’t it because a lot of people will say oh well I’m only critical of Israel I’m not I’m not saying anything negative about the Jews but there is such a blurred line isn’t
There Bill there is and look I’m a former University Vice Chancellor and and you know when I was s about being able to disagree agreeably that’s what I gave a lecture on that within universities about the role of higher education to teach students how to be able to disagree agreeably and I think
That’s fundamentally important and it’s it’s it’s broader than higher education it’s within a society as a whole and I think we are sadly lacking that at the moment yeah are now we should say that we’ve reached out to Mr Curry for comments he has not yet replied but
Posting on X forly know as Twitter Soho theater itself has responded by saying this we’re sorry and saddened by an incident that took place at our venue at the end of a performance of Paul Curry shum on Saturday the 10th of February which has caused upset and hurt to
Members of the audience attending and others we take this very seriously and long looking into the detail of what has happened thoroughly as sensitively and quickly as we can it’s important to us that Soho theater is a welcoming and inclusive place for all well there we go
And we’ve also contacted the comedian in question Paul Curry for a comment but we’re yet to hear back well after the break we’ll be diving into to a little bit more on perhaps one of the Lesser known stories of the day of course we’ll be flipping
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Saturday only on GB news the people’s Channel Britain’s News Channel GB news breakfast every day from 6:00 a.m. lots of people very concerned about what’s happening in the Middle East Iran obviously denying it but the next move from the United States of our key allies will be absolutely key
Absolutely right and I think um there’s a lot of talk about where this could go whether the situation could be escalated but I think the the chatter um is heading in the right direction which is about deescalation so uh if there are going to be uh uh targeted um sanctions
Against Iran that’s already happen through expelling uh uh certain diplomats and and other and other measures there but uh you can do that without uh armed to armed combat uh at this stage but um I think the US will be weighing up all of its options um Anthony blinkin obviously gave a press
Conference in the United States yesterday to say that you know there will be a response from the US but it’ll be at their time and it’ll be uh in the in which they think is the most appropriate so um all eyes are now on the United States as to when it makes
That move yeah and it’s fascinating isn’t it how domestic politics play so much into International Politics the states they’ve got a presidential election this year uh we’ve got a budget coming up so all the noise both sides you’ve got Donald Trump saying you know go a bit more hawkish I suppose you
Could say that than President Biden and here we’ve got all the generals we’ve got the Secretary of State for defense coming out saying we need conscription we need more cash and but a lot of that is is you know part of the sort of national narratives rather than actually
Looking at what’s happening in Iran isn’t it it is I mean it plays into you know the the very uncertain times that we’re living and and you’re absolutely right you know there’ll be uh supporters of Donald Trump who um are clearly adversaries of uh Joe Biden to say we
Must act now it’s a demonstration of showing your strength that you know um uh opponents of Biden will say that the US looks weak if it doesn’t take action now against uh Iran who are clearly as we know funding um these uh at arms length organizations like Hezbollah in
Tan like the hoies who are carrying out the attacks in the Red Sea so Iran is responsible every Sunday from 11: join Michael Portillo there will be topical discussion look at the week before and the week to come so kick back and relax at 11:00 a.m. on Sundays on GB news with
Me Michael Portillo GB news the people’s Channel Britain’s News Channel Well it’s 2:47 and it is in fact shove Tuesday today and that means one thing of course pancakes have you had yours yet I have not I’m going to though big protein pancakes anyway yes sh Tuesday is a Christian celebration of course on the day preceding Ash Wednesday when
Rich food stuffs such as eggs milk and sugar have traditionally been used up before the fasting season of the 40 days of Lent well there you normal human word food stuff Stu uh let’s cross over to our Northwest of England reporter Sophie Reaper who joins us from a cafe in
Manchester and Sophie uh who have you got for us There good afternoon to you both joining me is olle who’s the founder of Black Milk here in Northern quarter of Manchester now Black Milk is typically a dessert shop of course it’s Pancake Day so they are going all out on pancakes you’ve been very busy today haven’t you
Ollie tell me about that so yeah we opened at 10: a.m. this morning we had we had our faithful guests all lined up in front of the cafe it lovely to see and lovely to welcome them in and wish them a happy Pancake Day I mean it’s
Still really rather busy now you can probably see over our shoulders the place is full there’s not a table spare and the queue is still partly out of the people waiting in the rain for these pancakes so that think that says quite a lot doesn’t it now an interesting fact
Emily you mentioned the uh the food stuffs that are used up ahead of Ash Wednesday eggs in the UK today it’s anticipated 52 million eggs will be cracked isn’t that the most outstanding number it’s fascinating it’s it’s well it’s Quite a feat for the farmers isn’t
It to say the least it is indeed of course and you know what this is really interesting because there is this debate on shr Tuesday or Pancake Day about the British crepe the traditional British pancake versus uh the kind of pancake that yourselves make here where do you
Stand on on that debate all yeah so like I love a crep at home I was inspired by the crep fans in France as a child we used to go and summer over there so that’s that’s my personal preference at home but my business partner Andy he was
Making uh Scotch pancakes from a very young age with his grandma so we had to put them on the menu and it’s Scot Scotch pancakes all all the way here absolutely and just quickly for our viewers now they were supposed to launch a new kind of pancake today weren’t you
So but that hasn’t ended up happening so to tell our viewers why yeah so I was developing um a lovely almond spread um baked qu tart inspired um pancake stack um using MLL cherries and our beautiful almond cream but we ended up actually selling out of the Almond cream before
Pancake Day so unfortunately for the customers and and ourselves we weren’t actually able to get it on the menu so no baked well T pancakes here at Black Milk today but they’re still flying off the shelves either way thank you so much for that Ollie clearly pancakes day is a
Big hit around 50% of Brits are going to take part in it today and no wonder because let’s be honest who doesn’t love a good pancake well sopher thank you very much for joining us there live from Manchester let’s turn that to our panel are you too one of the 50% you forgot
Yeah I think I forgot last year to do it today anyway but you had so much so many food stuffs at home that you could use Bill RL will you be making pancakes today uh my wife is making them at the moment for our two grandchildren and I
Will be joining them oh how lovely and have you got her a Valentine’s Day card bill not yet that’s tomorrow everyone this is if there’s anything that potentially is slightly more significant than Pancake Day it’s Valentine’s Day tomorrow yes it is yeah I got to get a
Card as well actually not at the petrol station no not the petrol station won getting the flowers there either hopefully well I’m afraid we’re going to have to cut this short because we do have some breaking news to bring uh the channel and that’s that three people
Have been found guilty at West W Minster magistrates Court of a terror offense after they displayed images of paragliders at a pro Palestine March in central London last year just a week after Hamas militants attacked Israel yes this is very interesting so these three women who were displaying images
Of paragliders at a pro Palestinian March last year just a week after Hamas militants attacked Israel they have been found guilty um which is very interesting indeed oh we’ve got Ray Addison here with us who is now outside the court Ray will was said yes well good afternoon to you both
This verdict being handed down by judge tan ikram he’s the deputy senior district judge and he said it was his conclusion after hearing uh the trial which was one day in length that the reasonably informed Observer would not have Associated the images with those of Freedom or Escape that had been the
Claim made by by the defense KC uh that the images actually represented in Palestinian culture um Freedom or um similar to like birds or balloons and being able to escape uh from what they described as uh Hamas being rather Gaza being an open prison now that was
Rejected uh by judge tan ikram he said that he was sure that the reasonable Observer would associate the image uh that was displayed by the defendants with Hamas he said therefore he found all of the defendants guilty of the uh section 13 uh offense under the
Terrorism act um but he did say that he wanted to be very clear that he found no evidence that any of the three uh defendants were supporters of Hamas now the prosecution then made a short statement where they submitted that they believed that the defendants had worn the images or displayed the images
Deliberately and they said possibly maliciously to have an impact on the Jewish Community it being just 7 days since that horrific terror attack uh in Israel now that was rejected by the judge by judge tan and uh he then went on to give uh further details uh of the
Case but yes this um this this case obviously come to a conclusion today W found guilty and sentencing uh to continue from you in the coming hours because what an extraordinary story that’s it from us and thank you to our panel for joining us as well sorry it’s
Been cut short but let’s go now to Martin dney who of course will be picking up on that story that breaking news of the paraglider arrests but Martin what else is on the show yeah exactly right justice At Last two-tier policing finally isn’t happening with the paragliders getting
Nicked for it in about time lot of people might say on the same note the labor party in crisis they Palestine problem coming back to haunt them and we’ll also be saying is British politics being is lamif the Rockdale byelection turning into a poisoned chalice plus is
Our army losing the war to work and now is golf racist last week it was the countryside this week golf is racist got all that coming up in the show 3 till six but first is your latest weather forecast a brighter Outlook with box solar sponsors of weather on GB
News hello I’m Alex beel here with your latest GB News weather forecast over the next few days the best chance of staying dry will be across the far north but for most there’s a fair bit of rain around we’ve already seen quite a bit of rain so far today that’s in association with
A weather system that is gradually making its way northeastwards and we’ll continue to do so as we go through the end of the afternoon and into the evening so stay pretty cloudy further outbreaks of rain across much of England and Wales and that rain will feed into Northern Ireland overnight as well
Meanwhile across Scotland apart from a few showers it is going to be largely dry and there will be some clear skies as a result we will see temperatures dropping so relatively harsh Frost here meanwhile elsewhere because of the Cloudy wet weather it’s actually going to be relatively mild to start tomorrow
Morning as we go through the day tomorrow though a fairly cloudy gray picture yet again further outbreaks of rain and these could be Heavy perhaps even persistent for a Time towards the South and more wet weather then feeding into parts of Scotland as we go through the
Day and some of this wet weather could bring some snow over Higher Ground holding onto some chillier air across the far north so temperatures a little bit