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family I’m Steven Dixon and thanks for joining us on GB news Britain’s News [Music] Channel hello there it’s 6 o00 and I’m Michelle jubber we’re still there everybody we’ve got F5 5 days to go till the election let’s have a look at the latest from the campaign Trail today not least it’s starma versus the Corbin EAS as the PGE has well and truly begun is it the right move or not also did you see reform UK they’ve now said that we need to charge employers and immigration tax if they insist on hiring foreign workers what do you think to that also labor have promised to take back our towns from Thugs and thieves let me ask you this sir is it even possible that anymore or has that ship well and truly sales also this calls to allow 18 to 30 year olds free movement across the EU and vice versa to live and work is that common sense or is it a betrayal of brexit you tell me also let me ask you do you think we need more social housing here in the [Music] UK I’ve got all that to come and more but first let’s cross live for the 6:00 news headlines [Music] thanks very much indeed Michelle and this is your 6:00 news let’s bring you some breaking news first of all you’ve been hearing in the last hour that Mark Logan who represented Bolton Northeast for the conservative party is reportedly we understand leaving the party he’s told media today the conservatives are now in his words unrecognizable and he’s urging people to support labor instead it’s the third defection by a tory MP to labor in just over a month that news just coming to us in the last 15 minutes or so more on that of course as we get it now also in the news today the family of an RAF pilot who died in a crash on Saturday say he lived life with an unwavering passion mark long who was 43 was killed when his Spitfire plane crashed into a field near RAF conningsby on Saturday in a statement his family paid tribute saying that his ability to connect to every one he met was infectious and he’ll be cherished and deeply missed election news now and the prime minister is warning that Labor’s Net Zero policies will hurt Britain’s economy touring a factory in buckinghamshire today Richi sunak acknowledged that recent years had been tough but he said Labor’s plan to achieve Net Zero was too costly I’ve been very clear that we need to get there in a different way to what have been proposed previously and that means we need to be more serious hard-headed and pragmatic about it because there are a couple of things that I want to prioritize I want to prioritize our country’s energy security that we’ve seen in the last couple of years what’s happened right when we’re held hostage by dictators like Putin we can’t have that happen so that’s why I’m supportive of energy coming out of the North Sea we’re going to need it for decades to come we better off getting it here at home good for our economy good for our jobs good for our energy security that’s something that the labor party opposes she unak well sakir starma is standing by wales’s first Minister Vaughn gething as Labor’s campaign arrived in Wales today sakir thanking Mr gethin for his leadership and saying he was looking forward to a new partnership with the first Minister if labor takes power sakir says he’s proud of Labor’s record in Wales and said Mr geing who’s facing a vote of no confidence next week is doing a very good job Labour’s Deputy leader says she doesn’t see any reason why Dian Abbott can’t stand as an MP with the party at the general election in July according to reports in the Guardian newspaper Angela Raina believes Miss Abbott hasn’t been treated fairly or appropriately the veteran labor MP had the whip restored this week after a long suspension She’s accused sakir starm of culling the party’s left wing sakir starma has said he wants the highest quality candidates and described her as being a trailblazer and the green party was out on the road today as well setting out its Vision to tackle the cost of living improve housing and treat Britain’s polluted waterways co-leader Carla Dena told an event in Bristol this afternoon that labor had backtracked on its green Investments and that the greens role in the new Parliament would be vital recent polls put the party at 6% and it’s hoping to elect four MPS at the general election businesses hiring for foreign workers should be subject to an employer immigration tax that’s according to the Reform Party their leader Richard Ty said today the new Levy would help end what he called a deadly addiction to cheap overseas labor joined by the party’s honory president Nigel farage they claimed that mass migration had driven down wages for British citizens I think for too many people work doesn’t pay and that’s what we’ve got to do we’ve got to overcome this addiction if you want to bring in people from overseas then there’s a price to that because this great country of ours this incredible Nation we’ve all paid for it over decades and decades so it’s not unreasonable to expect you to chip in a bit now a 9-year-old girl remains in a critical condition this afternoon after a shooting on a busy High Street in East London last night the child was out dining with her family inside a restaurant in Hackney when shots were fired from men outside believing to be riding a stolen motorbike they injured the girl as well as three other people one of those faces potentially lifechanging injuries and a primary school teacher has been jailed for life with a minimum term to serve of 20 years for killing her partner Fiona who’s 50 stabbed Nicholas Billingham and buried his body in their Garden the Old Bailey today heard she killed him In Cold Blood before then impersonating him on text messages to try to convince his family that he was safe and well that’s the news for the latest stories do you sign up to GB news alerts scan the QR code on your screen or go to GB news.com [Music] alerts thank you very much for that Polly I’m Michelle jub and I’m keeping you company till 7:00 tonight alongside me I’ve got my panel the former editor of the son Calin Mackenzie and a new face to this program we like that the former leader of the communications workers union Bill Hayes hello and welcome and also welcome back to you Kelvin McKenzie you know the drill as well don’t you it’s not just about these two in the studio it’s about you at home as well what’s on your mind tonight you can get in touch with me all the usual ways you can email gbvs GB news.com or of course you can go to the website GB news.com your You Can Talk Amongst yourselves or indeed directly to me there as many of you are already doing and of course you can tweet or X me whatever you’re doing tonight however you’re listening you are of course very very welcome and of course you’ve got the countdown haven’t you it’s 35 days to go we’re going to we’re going to hang on in there everyone we’re going to get through it together as I always say and don’t worry I’m sure you’ve got better things to do than follow the twists and turns of the campaign Trail and what do I always say don’t worry about it because we’ll follow it for you so let’s cross live then shall we uh to our political correspondent to get up to speed with what’s happened today Catherine forer is there a purge of the left going on that seems to be many people see what’s happening here so the divisions that saki starma has managed to paper over within the labor party for a long long time really emerging today elsewhere Rishi sunak the Prime Minister um talking at an event was quizzed by somebody whose mother had died during covid and he wasn’t able to say goodbye to her a different ult moment for him meanwhile SED Davey another day another stunt I think this one to top them all going down that water slide wearing not terribly much a picture that none of us can ever forget will never be able to unsee uh that image of Ed de zipping down that slot I mean how much more ridiculous can some of these stunts get as I’ve said we’ve got 35 days to go we’ve already uh seen them zipping down Hills on push bikes uh today we just seen the slip and slide we’ve seen people falling off paddle balls what we’re going to get to by the time we’re at 30 or days probably some kind of naked pole dancing I don’t know twister or something let’s hope not um look other news as well just been hearing in the bulletin as well we’ve had another defection uh Kelvin McKenzie from uh the labor party to the tourist this is the MP Mark luran who’s he I hear you quiet home uh well he was uh the MP for Bolton Northeast I have to say uh he’s not going to run on in the next election um which always makes me think well what’s the point in what you’re doing but I guess it’s to Galvanize support in his area for the labor party he says it’s about the change uh he didn’t like uh some of the approaches towards Gaza and all the rest of it what do you make to that well he’s a he’s clearly a chancer I mean he he only had a majority I think of 378 anyway so he was he was going to go the way of all fish in any event uh it’s it’s impossible to work out uh why would why that would be in his interest except in this respect this battle over Diane Abbot is a great is a great win for St is a great win for starma because I’m old enough to remember Michael foot I’m also young enough to remember Jeremy Corbin and the reason they went to the most enormous defeats is because they were of the left they were of Diane Abbot and others who are now being excluded from the labor party The Tourist should be very very worried about starma effectively despite claiming it’s all hands off it’s a labor NEC doing all this stuff because what it is is a signal to people that to voters that actually you don’t need to worry there aren’t any Michael foots there aren’t any corbins there aren’t any ding abits in our party they are they are ordinary technocratic kind of people and that by the way is a worry because the great thing do you agree with them purging the likes of Diane abber uh no I I I I’m a great look I I come on I come on GB News why because it’s one of the few places that would allow a speech of this variety to take place so I believe in free speech they should allow anybody on there why do I say that one because I believe in free speech but actually I also believe politically that actually what starma is doing is very clever and actually the tourists should be concerned about um this going on in this way manner it’s not just Dyan abber by the way there’s a few other people uh in the firing line at the moment and perhaps rumored to be even a few more as well there was a a potential hopeful candidate did you see this on the BBC last night let’s take a look and then we’ll discuss like how am I not allowed to talk about my experiences of islamophobia and the double standards I’ve seen and that we see with Dian abber for instance I I honestly I’m just so shocked right now to be treated this badly after being such an active member of the party so that was f as Shahed there so she was hoping to be the candidate for chingford um and we’ve got other people as well do you agree with the what many people are calling the purge happening in laba well in respect to Diane Abbott I think the test will be uh I think Tuesday today when the NC have to decide and lots of people are recognizing the contribution Diane’s made 37 years I think it is she’s been an MP first black woman first black woman to be elected to Parliament I see no reason why she shouldn’t be an MP and you know the lab party should be a broad church it’s not a sect and you know we always have the experience of people being parachuted in in all parties just towards the day of the election so that’s nothing new but I think you know Diane Abbott deserves to be a candidate she’s she’s had a the disciplinary process she went through so I think she’d be I think she’d continue to represent the people of a constituency very well and what you think about some of the strange going on to put it Marly theyve had k starma for example very recently saying that it was still a disciplinary process that was ongoing uh when actually it turns out it wasn’t at all she’d uh that had finished pretty much in December she’d done that online uh course that really wasn’t true so what do you think about the way it’s been handled well it hasn’t been handled well that’s that’s for sure but the test will be if Diane is on the ballot paper for the labor party you think she will be I hope she will be there see no reason why not she’s been through a disciplinary process that’s complete in every other respect she’s been a she don’t forget she was Shadow Home Secretary at one so she’s a consider she’s quite a substantial politician well one one of the one of the interesting issues was D out but was prepared to take the penalty on this which is a the suspension and then she had to sit an anti-semitic kind of uh teach in to try and teach her not to say things against the Jews now that lady from newsight she claims right that first of all she’s being penalized saying it’s people of color that are being thrown out but the other point is that the NEC the reason they they gave her the Biff is because she liked a tweet a tweet in which it contained an anti-semitic Trope right she now says oh I’m very sorry about that well she’s very sorry about that is that in fact the labor NC said really if you’ve got those views we don’t want you as our candidate and I think think that’s a good thing to you I mean I’m I’m not familiar with that case so I can’t really comment on it yeah and and there’s another one as well isn’t there Lloyd Russell uh Mo he basically he’s had some complaints made against him um dating back years ago he’s basically saying uh this is all kind of some kind of Ploy vexatious uh claims to try and prevent him standing as a candidate which he’s uh disputing the fairness of that as well so that’s what I mean this goes much broader Kia denies that and Kia says an independent process do you believe him I do I don’t see any reason why not I think the the way the test is is whether Diana will be a candidate you know I mean there’s no reason why she shouldn’t be a candidate and you know I I’ve I’ve been a labor party member onto labor leaders since the time of Jim calligan a million years ago and you know he’s he’s he’s not everyone’s cup of tea but I think he’s doing a good job and I think that at the moment with what’s happening with the Tory party I mean they’re just I’ve never seen any seen a party implode as much as this this party and so I think he should be confident in his people that we should be a broad church and I think there’s no reason why Diane can’t be the candidate following the ches the any SE yeah and I’ve got to say that candidate there that we’ve just been showing um the lady from newsight this is all about 14 tweets over a period of 10 years so that’s what they’re kind of pulling her up on and this Nur and you’re saying oh well if you’ve liked this tweet then good I mean come on we all use social media right true um and the way that we use social media is you know sometimes do we pay 100% attention to what we’re doing all the time I’ve lost count of the times I’ve got on my uh phone for example and I’ve got my little boy next to me chuing dinosaurs at me or whatever he’s done so I mean I’m not defending the the Tweet or the liking of this tweet but what I’m saying is this nuran that if you press like on a tweet that’s it career over get out do you think that’s a bit much uh well look I I personally do but the trouble is that if you start liking a anti-semitic Trope and you are an MP right that or you are a potential candidate you are over that is over we don’t want that in our country and if you start liking uh islamophobic uh uh tweets right you are done for so these people know what they’re doing that’s their job they are MPS they know they know don’t bother I mean I I understand the point and anti-Semitism islamophobia absolutely uh you know is uh is to be to be tackled and dealt with but I do wonder sometimes the sad life of the people who have to go through these tweets because I I agree with you I mean I mean I’m self very self-conscious now when you like or but sometimes you get tagged into something and you don’t know until a couple of hours later that somebody’s tagged you into something when you’re tagged into something does that mean you’re responsible for so it is a bit of a it seems to me a bit of a I I know think people have got to take actions particularly when you’re an MP but I do wonder sometimes I mean it’s pretty sad when someone’s got a troll troll through all the Tweet remember that lady oh someone went through your Tweet oh no no by all means go through my tweets right but I am not running I’m not running for public office would you be happy to be cancelled from uh whatever roles is that you’re involved in because of what you’ve tweeted uh yeah well if if if if somebody felt GB news or somebody like that or or somebody else felt I mean Sky News I I went on there a few a few months ago and I I I attacked the Qatari Ambassador for sending 500 million a year to hammers right at that boom Sky News threw threw me off look it’s just you either have your views or you don’t have your views she’s chosen to have her views she is running for public office it’s for the labor party to decide whether they want her in or not I think they’re being very clever if they look as though they’re clearing out the the stable well I think that is a powerful powerful message to voters keep them in office Kelvin you’re very quick on what shouldn’t what Beyond well famously you did didn’t check a headline did you I did I wrote the headline yeah well you wrote that headline and subsequently and I I paid the price for it that was a newspaper that just wasn’t just a tweet when you you I’m fine I’m I’m fine with that I’m fine with that I’ve never objected to it well I’m not you know I’m not with that headline I thought it was terrible uh but but the point being we all do things that you know are wrong and out of Step take the point about as you know no time for anti-Semitism no time for islamophobia um as to whether there’s a you know a purge I mean it sounds very dramatic but the test will be uh Diane I mean and she’s Gathering support by the day well let’s see what happens tell me what you think to this nuran and by the way I’m not defending what anyone did or didn’t like or whatever on Twitter that’s their business what I’m suggesting is and what I’m probing I guess and and putting to you guys is you know what other the Walk of Life where every single sentence that you’ve said or uh immersion that you’ve displayed or whatever follows you around at infin item and then you get kind of hosted by the bards of do you think that that is fair or is that just you know as it is when you use social media do you deserve to be cancelled from whatever it is uh that you want to do based on uh I don’t know a click that you did years ago tell me your thoughts all the usual ways after the break I want to talk to you about Law and Order the labor party have been speaking out about are they going to essentially reclaim the streets from the criminals do you reckon anyone can do that anymore or is the ship sail too far tell [Music] me GB news breakfast every day from 6: a.m. joint CEO at the UK sepsis trust Dr Ron Daniels very good to see you this morning why is it with sepsis we we sort of hear very little about it in daytoday life until there’s a either a big story or a big tragedy why is that is it common well it’s astonishing isn’t it we have a condition here that affects nearly a quarter of a million people across the UK each year and claims 48,000 lives and just for context breast cancer and not I’m not diminishing how horrible that can be claims 11,000 lives so sepsis is four times more prolific as a killer I think the reason we don’t hear about it is because it doesn’t really belong to any particular speciality of doctors it touches every aspect of Health Care and therefore there’s no professional group to be championing it which means it needs an advocacy organization like ours my understanding is that it’s when your own immune system starts to attack the tissues but by the time people realize that their temperature isn’t just flu or something they can often be in quite a perilous state it arises in people um of any age people with whether or not they’ve got underlying illness and it can arise as a consequence of any infection so it presents hugely differently so what do we do if you’re concerned something is devastatingly wrong there are six key symptoms to look for and they spell the word sepsis s for slurred speech or confusion e for extreme pain in the muscles or joints P for passing no urine no water in a day s for severe breathlessness I for it feels like I’m going to die and people really do 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Co with me Michelle jubber alongside me I’ve got the former editor of the sun Kelvin McKenzie and the former leader of the communications Workers Union Billy his uh lots of you guys getting in touch about those topics about The liba Purge so to speak but I’m also interested as well how long should you be held responsible for anything that you’ve tweeted is it forever or should there be a cut off or what getting touch and let me know but also something that caught my eye today at the labor party out and about speaking tough about how they are going to crack down on crime uh let’s just have a little listen shall we we would have 13,000 more neighborhood police and pcsos right across the country because people need to see that the Bobby on the Beat Again working in communities we will cost up to £400 million and we’d find that by a new program of police efficiency on contracts that’s based on the work of the independent police foundation well don’t forget of course it was Tony Blair that said that he was going to be tough on crime tough on the causes of crime and many people would um argue and it certainly feels doesn’t it that many of the crime statistics are out of control they’re going in the wrong direction Billy do you think that the labor party with their plans of 13,000 uh extra staff and all the rest of it is that the answer is that going to fix things well it’s going to help fix things I mean don’t forget tor’s 20,000 less police officers so more police officers more I’d like to see more Bobbies on the beat as opposed to police cars roaring about you know with their Sirens playing I think more people would be reassured more police on a beat or Ps you know just to get a feeling of safety and so I think that what a vet’s talking about is to be welcomed do you do you agree with what she said well I I’m always in favor of more police officers and I share Billy’s um concerns that we don’t see enough uh officers walking down the street I mean where I live and I I live in waybridge sari um I don’t think I have ever seen right in 20 years of living there ever seen two police officers or one police officer just walking up and down and I think the police would say it’s not good use of our of our man power our woman power the the real question comes down to another issue is although I’m massively in favor of more police officers they need to be funded right and my question then is where does the money come from and you come up with a kind of nebulous expression there from the shadow Homer secretary basically saying we’re going to crack down on this or we’re going to crack down on that all of which I’m very happy to happen but what I do expect to happen is that taxes will then rise to fund what what what are worries that people have and why why wouldn’t they just be honest and say you know running the NHS running the police force running various state things are going to cost more money and we’re going to put the money in rather than claiming we’re going to clamp down on some wealthy people who aren’t even going to be in the country anymore so um you know I I’m I I’ve just got a question mark about whether any of this is possible well some of these stats by the way there talks about 13,000 uh new officers um you got to look at this as well because about four 4,000 of those will be pcsos um there’ll be 3,000 new uh full police officers and then you’ve got your uh you know your specials like your part-time volunteers as well they’ll be leveraged in there so she reckons that she can save some of that money by so-called efficiencies I mean how we’ve even got any efficiencies left uh anywhere is absolutely Beyond me because if all of this excess cash was just floating around why is it not yet being resolved of course this comes on the day where you’ve seen that horrendous story where you’ve got a 9-year-old uh little girl in critical care she was injured she was having a dinner with her family in London um and this person just zipped up on a bike fired shots uh and caught the girl in the crossfire essentially and I mean you know you mentioned you’re from Liverpool so you will be familiar we’ve had a couple of cases in Liverpool Reese jour’s a little boy there Olivia PR cor B remember her the mom opened the door and she was caught and killed as well I get goosebumps whenever I think about those two cases and I mean how do you stop this stuff well I think we got to have a look at the drug policy in this country in terms of uh what it’s doing to the to our stets when I grew up in the 60s in Liverpool I lived in Crocs at the same place as the roonies and it was a great place to live and then thata come along and our estate becomes smack City and so there’s got to be a correlation to investment in public like for example youth clubs I don’t know what the figure is for a number of Youth clubs that have been closed so it’s not that’s not an excuse for the terrible things that happened over the last 24 hours but there’s definitely a correlation I when I grew up in the 60s uh our council state in in a in a walk up Council flat we thought it was the be it was great and then come the ACs Unemployment uh uh you know and and and all all that infus of of drugs and that’s definitely is definitely all part of it this is obviously something to do with it not saying that’s a tot solution but it’s definitely not an excuse but it’s but it’s definitely more police on the be more I think the the thing is rather than just focus on the numbers more visible presence I mean my area in Southwest London now it’s actually quite well pleased um but I think that’s what people want they don’t want to hear these Sirens blaring cuz nobody ever seems to know what happened at the end of the the police racing to a particular incident you don’t see reports of they had to race this incident because there was some such thing happened it just seems to be I think the it’s kind of um I don’t know it seems a I think people want more to see more visible presence you’ve got for example um about half of police stations have closed down since 2010 and as you’ve just been mentioning you cut about the Tes CAU about 20,000 then they’ve started to uh re hire uh lots of those offices as well and obviously uh the labor party statistics they also include some of those hires that have already been made by the Tories but this notion about youth clubs we hear this all the time and actually it’s uh part of the policy of labor party to have these new youth hubs does that wash with you that the reason that these kids are out and about doing stuff is because they can’t go play snooker in a chat you definitely want you definitely don’t want the kind of thugs that hang around in City centers making life making making life a nightmare but going down to that youth club that youth club will be shot shut in about 2.2 seconds and you probably will need police officers actually on the youth clubs in certain areas of our country in order to make it safe for ordinary people to go there now look I look I’m um as I point out on a number of occasions I’m somewhat older it’s good to see Billy here because at least that leavens the bread slightly but um that um the I I didn’t go to youth clubs right I didn’t go to youth club you kind say well you’re your example of kind of person we don’t want actually in a youth club but is there any example that it is youth clubs is it actually the parents of these of these children who are they’re not children they’re teenagers who aren’t doing anything about either trying to trying to control them and if they can’t control them can they call in the police and say these people are out of control should these children be taken away from them I’m just saying it is literally wrong to have any City Center where anybody feels concerned about going in there at night for fear that they may be assaulted or abused in some way and the clearly look if labor want to do something and experiment I’m absolutely ail for it but in all honesty I don’t believe that this is the outcome that the outcome will be what they want what you need is these kids actually take either taken away from their parents or something happens some there has been a breakdown between parental responsibility and these children I blame the parents completely um well one of the conversations that they were having is about uh reintroducing almost like an asber style um I was going to call it a sanction but the fact even calling it a sanction would be quite laughable because many of you will remember some of those asber kids and they got these asur uh like look at these two um they got these asur age 11 and 12 these brothers they almost wore it uh like a badge of honor it was almost pretty damn cool um to have an asbo or to have a tag or whatever um and I think with the Advent of social media now obviously that one the thing when those two kids was getting their asbos but when you’ve got social media now to actually have an asbo or to have a Kew or a tag or whatever I worry that again it will be more cool I think labor want to call them essentially like respect orders but is that going to work in the social media rage do you reckon Billy well I think having police in a community which is what we’ve experimented with in uh Southwest London Man uh makes a difference I think the other aspect of you know the the fear of nighttime is the impact on women I mean you’ve had some really horrible cases y uh adly one was under Co but of horrible cases of attacks on women and so more liting more visible presence of police uh you know it doesn’t have to be to the point where saturation but it certainly needs to be that you know this this kind of behavior is is not acceptable here and I think some in some areas just to finish this point I think in some areas the police have given up you know they say oh it’s not worth going in that particular area because it’s this that and the other so I think the focus on enlivening our city centers I think what people want is more contact with other people and to be safe in the in the in their communities and I think that’s all part of it everything now is a bit remote isn’t it you know you make that phone call and you realize that they’re exceptionally busy and they can’t take your call at the moment but you can go to our websit I think people just want to talk to other people both in their community and on on on their social on the telephones and stuff I’m going to start doing a regular section on this program I’ve decided as well because you see don’t you all the time these kind of Muk shots of people have you seen this person you saw that one uh in the the the watch shop the other day the weekend where the victim actually very sadly uh he uh killed him well killed himself I’ve got I can’t dress it up any any nicer way killed himself you got those mug shots of those Two Fellas that are wanted you can see them clear as dare one of the fellas a massive tattoo all the way around his neck and I think well people must know who these guys are so why aren’t they grassing the up um I saw like um a funeral of um this this uh what I would call a wrong basically he died and I saw the floral tributes to him and the floral tribut were like there was like um an AK-47 that was all done out in flowers there were these wraps of cocaine that were all done out in flowers it was all about what a leg where was it where was this where was the fun can’t remember I can’t remember I will I found it in the break and I’ll tell you exactly where it was but it was like they were glorifying this fella and I thought this is this is wrong this is like there’s something going on when you think fair enough it’s your loved one you loved him a dirt delt bat but to actually go to a Flores with a straight face and say can you do me wraps of Caine surrounded in flowers as a floral tribute to this fellow that’s died I mean why would you even that as a floral tribute if he was a florist anyway well that was in 2024 you go back a few years to uh one of the craz being one of the craz being buried and and literally people were lining the streets as the hearse as the hearse pulled by a pulled by a horse black horse was Tak him to his final resting place the guy was a vile killer I mean people people get caught up in the Robin Hood aspect of crime there’s nothing Robin Hood about it those those people who did that Jewelers killed that killed that young man as sure as if they put a bullet through his through through his heart it was shocking yeah that was an awful one a couple of things did make me feel quite happy though because it’s all well and good talking about when crimes are not solved but I have seen a couple of instances uh of people actually being brought to book have you seen these these ones have certainly caught my eye this fell uh look at him hang on I’ll show you what he did uh he went on to Facebook and he did this poem I mean rapper whatever you want to call it I’m chilling like a villain um I’m buzzing like a bee riding in a riding like a soldier police can’t catch me well they did catch you my friend and now you’re being banged up in prison and I absolutely love that thank you very much and did you see as well we covered the D and dash people remember those guys uh that were going into all different restaurants there was pictures of them absolutely everywhere well uh they ended up in prison as well good it’s fantastic when placing Works isn’t it ladies and gents I just wish we had a little bit more of it but tell me your thoughts our labor plans the right ones is it as simple as more bobbi’s on the beat you tell me and I’ll see you in [Music] two hello mixed Fortunes in our weather as we head through Friday best of the dry fine weather towards the North and the west but more Cloud across Eastern England with some showers and still feeling warm though in that Sunshine we look at the pressure p then you can see this area of high pressure it’s trying to build in across the UK so settling things down towards the North and the west but further east close to that area of low pressure more cloud and some rain here so through Thursday and evening and overnight we do hang on to more Cloud down the Eastern parts of England like I said with some further showery outbreaks of rain spreading their way southwards some quite brisk wind winds here once again further towards the North and the West though drier clearer and not only too cold overnight as we hang on to still that breeze so temperatures not dropping below 10 to 12 degrees in towns and cities as we start Friday morning then we get off a pretty fine start across parts of Wales and Southwest England some Cloud around to start the morning but also some sunshine but then we run into that thicker Cloud across Central and Eastern parts of England with some showery outbreaks of rain affecting lincolshire East Anglia Southeast England through the morning so quite a wet start to the day here but a fine picture across nor Island much of northern England and Scotland lots of sunshine to start the day just a few showers across the very far north and the west of Scotland and it’s more of the same really as we head through the rest of Friday always the thickest of the clouds across Central and Eastern parts of England with further shower outbreaks of rain spreading the way southwards particularly across East Anglia and the southeast of England so by the afternoon some pretty heavy showers possible across the southeast with them some Thunder possible here too but elsewhere though the further north and the West you go generally more in the West Sunshine slightly lighter winds as well so in that Sunshine fitting pleasantly warm we’re looking at highs of 17 to 20° there which is slightly above where we should be for this time of the year and there’s more of the same as we head into Saturday high pressure still dominating across most of 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point to have more police officers because they’re not given the correct tools to do the job um Peter says can I just be clear about youth clubs uh the wrong ons don’t go to youth clubs unless they want to rob the good kids that do go there uh Chris De says well I’m nearly 17 and I wasn’t allowed to attend any youth club because that’s where the troublemakers hung out and therefore she says I didn’t allow my sons to attend them either um let’s get stuck into then this Royal maale story uh shall we because everyone will know be familiar with the situation with the Royal Mail but uh you’ve got a check billionaire now that’s essentially got the go-ahead uh to uh take over this organization a 500y year uh organization steeped in history do you support this move no I mean it should be nationalized I mean one day it’s going to be brought back into public ownership it’s interesting you’re talking about Ed Davy it was Ed Davy as a post office Minister who who saw through the privatization Vince cable was the minister and I seen him sliding down the slide today and fallen off his waterboard yesterday there’s definitely uh a privatized story there about what he done to Royal Male because the chaos we see in Royal M okay is I mean really exactly Ian I mean but the serious point is that Ed Davy allowed this privatization to go through under um Vince cable uh it’s been a mess it’s been a disaster there been more Strife in Royal M since it’s been privatized it can’t have been working that well or else they W have privatized it in the first place well it was working that well actually it was giving money back to the government that you used to invest in schools it was a bit of a a you know privatization is a bit like flar isn’t it everyone wore them and no one wants to remember they wore them and now privatization we got the possibility of temp’s water getting nationalized by the government1 15 billion pound I think it’s going to cost and they’re still pumping sewage into the so privatization is is an idea of time has passed really and Royal Mail is a real example of a disaster that needs to be taken back into public ownership at some point in do you agre with that there’s two sides to the raw mail business there’s the profitable um uh packages side and cardboard boxes and kind of mini Amazon that does fine on the other side there is this ridiculous idea that we have to have um uh letters delivered to us six days a week now I am sure there might be somebody somewhere who wants a letter delivered to them a six days a week the truth about the matter is if we got the delivered one day a week that would be fine as far as I’m concerned and especially with those brown ones which cause me yeah no end no end of an issue so that that side of the business loses I think last year if I’m right 375 million quid I don’t see any future in letters It’s the end I do see deliveries coming from Amazon and the like Royal Mail and by the way my post people who deliver to me fantastic very nice people but they know that their future does not lie in letters so my question for you Billy would you be prepared to say well what as which side of Royal Male should actually be privatized are you saying neither side should be well in terms I’m I’m not in favor of privatization I forced at the time when had DAV was post office Minister together with my other colleagues in CW and we can see the evidence now you talk about six days a week well of course Amazon delivers six days a week up to quite late at night sometimes most people will experience but the other aspect of that is the connectedness I think what’s really happening in our society people don’t want to hear that you know we’re exceptionally busy at the time they want to talk to a human being and the group the people that they like to talk to is their postwoman or the post man and imagine because you say that your postal workers are great people you’d probably speak to them I do yeah and and you know and that little bit of connectedness you know for for for older people in particular but not just older people people who can’t get out the house you know that that is a part of the service that we would lose if we lost our six day week deliveries yeah but hold on a second because I mean uh we’ve got a great pery uh and he’s fabulous uh my mom’s py absolutely fabulous um wouldn’t want him to lose his job but we need to be realistic life moves on the days where people are writing each of letters and all the rest of it they are gone now the letter writing side of there the the letter personal service it’s loss making so why are you suggesting with all the economic restrictions we’ve got that what we now do is put our arms around a debt pit and hug it why would you want that for the public purse well that’s quite quite an interesting way of putting it all I think but the first thing we let have a look I mean I would say if I have a look at what the situation is in Royal since it’s been privatized it’s been a mess and despite when I was come on face facts you’re on about flares and stuff we write less letters than before we’ve got email we don’t communicate in that anymore it’s an archaic way yes there’s some bits and pieces but nowhere near like what it used to be and harking back to the days of uh public ownership or wanting rationalization it’s a false economy life’s moved on well the social mail as it was often called that’s people L rest because only have a a small part of the business the big part of the business is direct mail and and and that’s not an unimportant part of the business and so you’d have to look at the whole picture but the fact is Davey and uh and uh Vince cable made a massive error in privatizing raw mail there’s some things in our society that need to be publicly owned like the railways probably like the waterways uh the way things are at the moment honestly Billy talk about the railways I I’m old enough to remember when it w when it when it was nationalized and it was absolutely Dreadful I agree with you doesn’t seem to have got much better but it certainly wasn’t as bad as before well I’m going to leave these to reminisce about kly sandwiches on British Rail in the briak when I come back let’s talk social housing shall we do you think we need more of it in this country or [Music] not this is GB news Britain’s News Channel how does it work in your home then when you’re discussing politics especially uh with your young son Nigel well I mean the the we discussed politics rather than argue about it um both of us are political professionals we’ve been in the game a long time so we understand understand that um so we’re more keen on what is actually going on and how things are working out than clashing over opinions now Claire is a Tory Tory brexiteer I’m a labor remainer do you think relationships like your own are going to become less and less common I think they are and I think we can see that politics has become very divided it’s become very toxic and we’ve lost that art of debating I’m more than happy to speak to anybody on any subject to do with politics because I think it’s only healthy to listen to someone’s opinion you may not agree with it you may think that they’re ridiculous however I think it’s really important that you hear those views because if you only become encased in a bubble of your own opinion you’re never going to learn anything and I think politics needs that you need to be able to explore other the sides of an argument it also makes you better at arguing yeah and Nigel and I constantly disagree on various bits and pieces but you learn how to place your arguments so much better because you know what the other side are thinking now if we had that across the country and across the House of Commons we could have so much better debate and so many better different opinions coming through and it would be a lot healthier and polite debate which always strikes me about you two you 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a year there’s a big open letter it’s been signed by multiple organizations supporting this Kelvin do you support it um well as things stand every time you want to to build any kind of housing now you have to give up 35 to 40% of that land has to now go to social housing so it’s not as though social housing whether it’s under the tourist or under under labor is something which nobody wants to do what I am hostile to and I’m hostile to it for Council tenants right now is why they have such a huge sub if their income has in fact um gone up or is actually at a level where they could afford to pay a percentage of what uh private tenants pay so in London you’re in a two or three bedroom Council house you will pay around 600 a month 650 a month whereas the same flat for a private tenant is like 2 and a half th000 quid and the reason that everybody’s bailed out of becoming a landlord is because there’s no mortgage tax relief so I would restore that more private and I would say to people who live in Council Flats I’m afraid you have to pay more than a quarter 25% of the private uh of of what the private tenant has to pay it is ridiculous and quite wrong really Bill more houses I mean it’s it’s the issue of the time really isn’t it in terms of I mean danger is we can get nostalgic about the past but we as I said earlier we lived in a a council flat uh seven of us and it was fantastic you know and we had you know it was a great time and obviously it’s different times now but young people now can’t buy houses in London you know if they were earning an average wage and I I believe there’s even an app to tell you how far out of London you have to go to get somewhere to live so it’s definitely an issue housing uh and it needs to be tackled and yes you know I wouldn’t R out having a mixture of um tenancies different you know private public but we just need to build more Council houses we managed to do that after the second world war you know we phenomenal amount of houses were built admittedly there was a lot of Destruction but nonetheless we managed to do that why can’t we do it now I’ve only got about 30 seconds left but John of says no more social housing it drives laziness because more and more people will rely on welfare rather than working for a living we have to break that cycle every one of our family got a job and we lived in a council flat not even a house so that’s a bited in flat as well so you know I mean should there should there be an earnings limit once you earn x amount of money then you can’t be in social housing uh I remember who was that Union boss it was the guy un boss um the guy guy died who was that Bob Crow yes wer he well known as earning a good sum of cash and living in a csil and his M was working as well she was bringing a good good lump as well it’s an absolute disgrace well there you go um still lots of you uh getting in the crime story uh is the one that’s got you talking uh apparently you believe that there’s too much work going on in police officing um and that is one of the reasons that we’re not solving crime anymore police need to be tougher is what you say Christine you said bring bring back public stocks for kids not sure that that one is going to be in anyone’s Manifesto got to be honest with you there Christine anyway chaps thank you very much for your time thank you for your company at home don’t go anywhere cuz forage is up next I’ll see you tomorrow night night a bright Outlook with box solar sponsors of weather on GB news hello mixed Fortunes in our weather as we head through Friday best of the dry fine weather towards the North and the west but more Cloud across Eastern England with some showers and still feeling warm though in that Sunshine if we look at the pressure pattern then you can see this area of high pressure it’s trying to build in across the UK so settling things down towards the North and the west but further east close to that area of low pressure more cloud and some rain here here so through Thursday and evening and overnight we do hang on to more Cloud down the Eastern parts of England like I said with some further showery outbreaks of rain spreading their way southwards some quite brisk winds here once again further towards the North and the West though drier clearer and not only too cold overnight as we hang on to still that breeze so temperatures not dropping below 10 to 12 degrees in towns and cities as we start Friday morning then we get up a pretty fine start across parts of Wales and Southwest England some Cloud around to start the morning but also some sunshine but then we run into that thicker Cloud across Central and Eastern parts of England with some showy outbreaks of rain affecting Lincolnshire East Anglia Southeast England through the morning so quite a wet start to the day here but a fine picture across Northern Ireland much of northern England and Scotland lots of sunshine to start the day just a few showers across the very far north and the west of Scotland and it’s more of the same really as we head through the rest of Friday always the thickest of the clouds across Central and Eastern parts of England with further shower outbreaks of rain spreading the way southwards particularly across East Anglia and the southeast of England so by the afternoon some heavy showers possible across the southeast with them some Thunder possible here too but elsewhere though the further north and the West you go generally more in the West Sunshine slightly lighter winds as well so in that Sunshine fitting pleasantly warm we’re looking at highs of 17 to 20° there which is slightly above where we should be for this time of the year and it’s more of the same as we head into Saturday high pressure still dominating across most of the country still a few showers across the southeast but elsewhere largely dry Some Cloud around at times but that cloud will break to G some Spells Of Sunshine so stay largely settled as we head into Sunday into the start of next week with some sunshine temperatures Rising 23° there possible in the South looks like things are heating up boxed boilers sponsors of weather on GB [Music] news the latest GB news travel good evening I’m Johnny Ratner with your latest long cues if you’re heading north up the M90 heading away from Edinburgh approaching the Queens fairy Crossing Junction 1A a Lor’s broken down blocking off the left lane really slow as well on the M8 heading west Junction 10 the balanic turnoff or breakdowns blocking off a lane on the exit slip roads of course as you head towards Glasgow this is the m56 in ches is partly blocked eastbound from the m53 to the Chester services at the scene of an accident C and keys heading away from chest