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Extra, extra, read all

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about it now,

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oh baby. Extra, extra,

0:07

read all about it

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now. Good

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morning you, good morning it's Wednesday, July

0:13

3rd, 2024. I tell you what

0:16

folks, I tell you what, it's

0:21

been buckadooned, it has

0:23

been buckadooned out there

0:26

this morning. You're born and bred in

0:29

Glasgow and you've noticed the weather changes. No,

0:31

it seems to be getting heavier, sometimes

0:33

you get up in the morning and there's

0:35

buckadooned. Buckadooned, it's been like that this morning

0:37

in Salford, it's not just Glasgow,

0:39

I don't know what's going on, summer is

0:41

nowhere to be seen, I've had

0:44

to change clothes, I was

0:46

soaked, the puppies were soaked, it took me 20 minutes

0:48

to dry the two of them, particularly

0:50

the German Shepherd, massive big pain in

0:52

the arse, she is Bobby. But

0:55

anyway, shall we go to the front pages

0:58

of the dailies, it is the

1:00

paper's podcast, basic, that's

1:03

all it is, it's pretty basic. Before

1:06

I do though, what

1:08

did I have to tell you? Well nothing you

1:10

don't know already, the election is

1:13

tomorrow, there you are, so today is

1:15

the last day, you'll have to listen

1:17

to it really, right across the media,

1:19

coverage of it. Number of polls out

1:22

this morning and they continue

1:24

the polls to suggest it's going to

1:26

be a landslide victory for

1:28

the Labour Party and its leader Kirstarmer. Landslide,

1:31

one poll projecting the

1:33

Tories will win 64 seats, a

1:36

little bit better than recent polls in fact,

1:39

but that Labour will win over 450, I

1:42

mean wow, it doesn't matter,

1:45

but anyway, the Daily Telegraph, Johnson,

1:48

it's not too late to stop

1:50

Labour. What's this about Boris

1:53

Johnson? Well it is being reported widely

1:55

this morning that he made a surprise

1:57

appearance at a rally last night. and

2:00

told the audience it was not too late to

2:02

draw back from the brink and

2:04

stop Labour from forming the next government.

2:07

The paper adds the telegraph

2:10

that Johnson previously blamed Prime

2:12

Minister Rishi Sunak for aiding

2:14

his 2022 downfall by resigning

2:17

as Chancellor, but that

2:19

the two buried the hatchet to put

2:21

the Conservative Party first. Now I've been

2:23

looking into the remarks made by Boris

2:26

Johnson at the rally last night, and

2:29

he had nothing positive to say about

2:31

Rishi Sunak. In fact, he

2:33

had nothing to say about him at all

2:35

really. So

2:37

it was damning, you

2:39

know, but by the speech was

2:42

damning for Sunak

2:44

in terms of the fact that he

2:46

was omitted. He had nothing to say

2:48

about him really. It's hilarious. A number

2:50

of commentators this morning speculating as

2:52

to what Johnson was really trying to

2:55

achieve. He said he came

2:58

to the rally for one reason and one

3:00

reason only. We love our

3:02

country. All of this bollocks is populist

3:04

nonsense. And he warned of

3:06

a Labour majority, quote, pregnant with

3:08

horrors. And this was hours

3:10

after the latest poll suggested that

3:12

though the Tories might have narrowed the gap slightly,

3:15

Starmer is heading for a vast

3:17

majority in the Commons. The

3:19

polls suggesting the Tories will win 64

3:21

seats. So why did

3:23

Johnson come out? Because he didn't give any

3:26

ringing endorsement of Rishi Sunak. Just

3:28

came out to say basically get out and

3:30

vote because Labour is going

3:33

to win it, but let's, you know, prevent

3:35

this super majority. So that was the front

3:37

page of the Telegraph. He looked like a

3:39

white gollywog. I think

3:41

gollywog is has been banned from the

3:44

lexicon, has it? You're not supposed

3:46

to say the word gollywog anymore in any

3:48

context. I have no idea if

3:50

you're a young person listening to this gollywog

3:53

was a doll. It was

3:55

effectively a black doll and

3:57

it was eventually discontinued because of

3:59

its racist. overtones apparently. Anyway

4:02

I'm not of course being racist. I

4:05

look at Johnson and he looks like

4:07

somebody took a photograph. He looks like

4:09

a negative photograph of a gollywog. He's

4:11

just a disgrace isn't he in every

4:14

sense of the word Johnson. What

4:16

a scumbag you know but

4:18

they all are aren't they. Also

4:20

on the front page of the Telegraph this

4:23

made me laugh Ukraine told it is too

4:25

corrupt to join NATO. Yeah

4:30

the Times Johnson big

4:32

Labour win is pregnant

4:34

with horrors. I've just spoken about that.

4:36

That was the Times front

4:38

page. It is the Times front page today.

4:41

The Daily Mail Boris and

4:44

Rishi unite to stop Starmergeden.

4:47

You get it. You get the

4:49

fun. Starmergeden. But the Mail

4:51

is being disingenuous again. Johnson

4:53

had nothing to say about Sunak

4:56

whatsoever in this rally speech he

4:58

gave the surprise speech last night.

5:01

Daily Express another Conservative Party

5:03

supporting newspaper. Headline

5:05

is Rishi your vote counts

5:08

your voice counts please use

5:10

it wisely. The

5:12

Guardian backlash over anti-Semitic

5:15

Tory attack on

5:17

Starmer. This is a lot of old cobblers

5:19

as well this story. You might

5:21

you might be aware of it in a

5:24

television interview the other day Starmer

5:26

said that he would hope to

5:28

be able to finish up on a Friday at

5:31

6 p.m. in order to spend

5:33

a bit of time with his family. This

5:35

was seized upon by Conservative

5:37

Party candidates yesterday. They

5:40

took to the airwaves to say that

5:42

he was lazy and that he would

5:44

be asleep on his watch

5:46

and that the UK wouldn't be safe

5:48

if Starmer was clocking off early all

5:50

of that old jazz. But Starmer is married

5:52

to a Jewish woman you see. His

5:56

wife is from a Jewish family and

5:59

Jewish people

6:01

or leading Jewish commentators

6:04

are criticizing Sunak and the Conservative

6:06

Party for having a go at

6:08

starm or over his comments

6:11

about spending Fridays with his

6:13

family because Friday night is

6:15

very important in the in

6:18

the Jewish faith you see so some

6:20

of these Jewish commentators are saying that

6:22

the Tories their remarks

6:24

are insensitive and they have

6:27

anti-Semitic undertones know the

6:29

folk and don't have anti-Semitic undertones their

6:32

opportunistic remarks desperate

6:34

would be MPs desperate MPs from

6:36

the last government who are terrified

6:38

of losing their seats are grasping

6:40

at straws he said he'd be

6:43

clocking off to spend time

6:45

on a Friday with his family did

6:47

he well then the country isn't safe

6:49

on his watch nothing anti-Semitic about it

6:52

the Daily Mirror 14 years of

6:54

heart never stopped us

6:56

dreaming this is a play on

6:59

the lightning seeds and Skinner

7:01

and Bidele their famous song from 1996

7:04

three lines remember three lines

7:06

on a shirt jewels remain

7:09

still gleaming 30 years

7:11

of hurt never stopped us dreaming

7:14

what's that what's that if I

7:16

promise never to do that again

7:18

you might actually listen to the

7:20

next episode okay I promise

7:22

never to do that again 14 years

7:25

of hurt never stopped us dreaming that's the headline

7:28

the mirror is supporting the Conservative Party

7:31

and its photograph on

7:33

its front page is of Starmer

7:35

looking serious looking like he's ready

7:37

to accept the keys to number

7:40

10 Downing Street the I paper

7:42

this is an important one prisons

7:44

crisis for new government on day

7:47

one with cells full and

7:49

one in one out plan

7:52

yeah so let's assume Labour will form

7:54

the next government it will Starmer

7:57

has been according to the on paper he's been

7:59

on he has been frank

8:01

with the electorate saying that he's

8:03

not going to be able to

8:05

solve the prison overcrowding crisis in

8:09

short order. In short order he won't be

8:11

able to do it. He acknowledges that he

8:14

will have to carry on Sonnax Plan to

8:17

move forward with Sonnax Plan for

8:20

early release for some prisoners and

8:22

then to adopt a one-in-one-out system

8:25

thereafter. Okay. The

8:27

Daily Star, Kim Wilde, I'm

8:30

backing Binface. This is 80s

8:33

pop legend Kim Wilde, the daughter of

8:35

legendary Marty Wilde of course, great

8:38

entertainment family. She's

8:40

going to be voting for Count

8:43

Binface. Binface

8:45

is standing in Sonnax

8:47

constituency. That's the Richmond

8:49

North Allerton constituency. The

8:52

Star describes Binface as

8:54

the sanest politician

8:58

in Britain. Financial

9:00

Times then water

9:02

groups face lawsuits after

9:04

ruling on sewage release. So this is

9:06

a Supreme Court judgment that

9:09

will make it easier for

9:13

private landowners to sue the utilities

9:19

companies, the private companies

9:21

that control Britain's waterways.

9:24

That's fairly self-explanatory. The

9:26

legendary undertone singer Fergal Sharkey, and

9:29

he had plenty of success as

9:31

a solo singer, a good heart these days. It's

9:33

hard to find. I didn't sing

9:35

it, you didn't want it. I can

9:37

read the room. So yes,

9:40

we can eventually maybe

9:42

see some of these water company

9:44

buses go to prison for dumping

9:46

untreated sewage into our

9:49

waterways. The Metro

9:51

headlines then, Eunice spying on

9:54

students for police. I am coming back to

9:56

it. I've dug it out from

9:58

inside the Metro. those were

10:01

the front pages of the UK

10:03

Dailies today July 3rd

10:05

election Eve it

10:08

is election Eve dear listener are

10:10

you going out tomorrow are you are you and if

10:13

you are it's your own business and

10:15

you'll certainly find no judgment here and I

10:17

do mean that each to

10:19

their own I won't

10:21

be doing it it isn't because Rebecca

10:24

Long daylay is a

10:26

shoe in she is that's not

10:28

the reason it doesn't matter who you send to

10:31

Westminster is my opinion you might see it

10:33

differently here's one in the Telegraph

10:35

so we know that lockdowns were devastating for the

10:37

mental well-being of children we

10:40

know from various reports that

10:42

children aged four and five

10:45

are nowhere near where they should

10:47

be with their verbal

10:50

skills their language

10:52

skills and being able

10:54

to read the expressions of

10:56

other people reading body language to have

10:58

been exhaustive studies on

11:00

this lockdowns were terrible for young

11:03

children so here's one in the telegraphs

11:05

it might be positive headline

11:07

inside scouts waiting list tops 100,000 as

11:09

parents tried to help

11:13

lockdown children develop

11:15

self-esteem the waiting list

11:17

for the Scout Association is hit a record high

11:20

parents want to find ways to boost the

11:22

confidence of their kids who may have spent

11:24

up to a third of their

11:26

lives in lockdown measures yeah

11:29

that's right so

11:31

demand for membership of the

11:33

social and education organization soared

11:35

to 100,000 this year and

11:37

that's across seven and a half

11:39

thousand scout groups in the

11:41

UK there are just a little bit more

11:44

than seven and a half thousand scout

11:46

groups there are of course girl

11:48

guides groups as well and other groups so

11:51

the number of children waiting to join scouts previously rose

11:53

from 33,000 in 2011 to 60,000 in 2017 90,000

12:00

in 2022 and now it's over 100,000. The Telegraph

12:02

article says more than 145,000 adults

12:09

currently volunteer in the

12:11

Scout program which is up by

12:13

35,000 since 2014. That's interesting that.

12:20

Yes societies we're so dependent

12:22

on volunteers aren't we for scouting

12:25

obviously for the Scouts, for

12:27

the Girl Guides, for football, for

12:30

hockey, for rugby, cricket, all these

12:32

sports. It's the same back in

12:34

Ireland hugely dependent on volunteers.

12:37

Now Simon Carter is a spokesperson

12:39

for the Scouts. He said growing

12:41

interest from parents of four to

12:43

six year olds specifically is

12:46

fueling the backlogs. He said

12:48

children from this age category quote spent

12:50

a third of their life in lockdown.

12:53

Huge level of demand he said for

12:55

children wanting to join Squirrels. Now

12:57

Squirrels is the group for four to

13:00

six year olds. So is it a good thing? I

13:02

suppose it is a good thing isn't it? I

13:05

wonder if the Scouts and the Girl

13:07

Guides have policies around smartphones I wonder.

13:09

I wonder I don't know you

13:11

know a lot of parents like their children

13:14

to have a phone for safety reasons

13:16

but I wonder do the Scouts and

13:18

the Girl Guides and the Squirrels do

13:20

they say look no phones or at

13:22

least no using of phones

13:24

when you're in training

13:27

or in camp because they

13:29

go camping and orienteering and

13:31

all sorts of stuff don't they? I'm guessing they

13:34

probably use the phones for orienteering

13:36

so that's interesting. Good

13:38

get your children out doing

13:40

physical exercise working with

13:42

other children interacting with them the energy is

13:45

going to be great for them and it

13:47

might undo a lot of the horrors that

13:49

were inflicted upon children in the last few

13:51

years it might go some way to it

13:53

anyway. The Guardian. Welsh

13:55

government commits to making lying

13:58

in politics illegal. Oh,

14:03

I had to double check when I had a look at that. Welsh

14:06

government commits to making

14:09

lying in politics illegal.

14:14

I know that's what I thought. So

14:17

the Labour led Welsh government

14:19

has committed to introduce globally

14:21

pioneering legislation that

14:24

would in effect make lying

14:26

in politics there illegal. Now

14:28

this is in The Guardian and I promise you

14:30

I've read the article up

14:32

and down to find any

14:35

measures, right? Any

14:38

sanctions mentioned. Do they mention

14:40

any sanctions that might be

14:42

imposed on a politician,

14:44

an elected official for lying? I

14:46

can't find any. Any

14:49

so members of the Senate, which is the

14:51

Welsh parliament, described it as a

14:53

historic moment that would combat

14:55

the quote existential threat that

14:58

lying in politics poses to democracy.

15:00

This is not parody. Honest

15:02

to God, there's no sense of irony in

15:05

this article whatsoever. Politicians

15:08

have been lying to people

15:11

with profoundly negative consequences for

15:13

ordinary people since Moses wore

15:16

short trousers. Yes.

15:19

Yes. So there

15:21

was a passionate and dramatic debate in

15:23

Welsh parliament on Tuesday and

15:26

the government's council general Mick

15:28

Antony, he said the

15:31

legislation would be introduced before the

15:33

next Welsh elections in two years

15:35

time. He said the Welsh

15:37

government would bring forward legislation before 2026 for

15:41

the disqualification of members and candidates

15:43

found guilty of deliberate deception through

15:45

an independent judicial process. Now you

15:47

might say, Richard, you said there

15:50

was no mention of any sanctions,

15:52

but that's very vague, isn't it?

15:55

It's not as specific as it sounds

15:57

that the disqualification of members and candidates.

16:00

But you can't disqualify, it'll

16:02

be very difficult for any government,

16:05

for any speaker

16:08

of any House of Parliament

16:10

or any legal council attached

16:12

to any legislative body like

16:14

the Welsh Senate to just

16:16

determine if somebody has lied

16:18

and then to disqualify them.

16:20

I mean, in

16:24

that instance you'd have to demonstrate

16:26

100% certainty or with 100%

16:28

certainty that the remarks made

16:32

by the member or the candidate

16:35

were deliberately lies

16:38

that they didn't know or that

16:40

they knew they were being untruthful. Do you get what

16:42

I'm saying? So you say,

16:44

oh this guy said that we'll

16:46

stop the boats or this guy

16:49

said that Labour is going

16:51

to impose a £2,000 levy on every household.

16:54

Well that was a lie. There are no

16:56

such plans for Labour to do so, therefore

16:58

he's lied, he's deceiving the public and therefore

17:00

we can disqualify him or her. But you'd

17:03

have to be able to prove the person

17:05

knew they were being deceitful.

17:07

So it's a load of old bollocks this. Or

17:09

is it? That's the question

17:11

because look a bit deeper into it.

17:15

The plaid-kimru politician,

17:21

Adam Price, he's led calls for lying

17:24

by politicians to be outlawed and

17:26

he said we are now at the beginning

17:28

of a global movement. Love

17:31

when he mentioned globalism. He said

17:33

truth was at the heart of democracy but

17:36

there had been a collapse in trust in

17:38

politicians and they want to

17:40

give some examples. Politics

17:42

in this country has been darker said

17:44

Lee Waters, Labour, Wales. The public needs

17:47

to know they can trust what is

17:49

being said. Lying cannot be

17:51

the norm but who or what will be

17:53

the arbiter? There's no mention of that. That's

17:55

why I meant specifics

17:57

in terms of sanctions. They

18:00

said, Waitford, this move is the

18:02

beginning of a political reset, a

18:05

global movement, a global reset.

18:08

Voters want honesty and this means

18:10

Wales will become the first country

18:12

to insist that politicians are obliged

18:14

by law to tell the truth.

18:17

Right? Do you get what's happening here?

18:20

So somebody becomes an arbiter of what

18:22

is true and what isn't true. And

18:25

if you are saying what the arbiter

18:27

has declared to be untrue, you could

18:30

be kicked out of public office, kicked

18:32

out of public life. Do you see

18:34

how that could be stretched out even

18:37

further into society? You

18:39

see a ministry for truth to

18:41

be created. Somebody heading

18:44

up a body, an official

18:47

body, a sanctioned body, one

18:50

that is given some teeth and

18:52

it gets to determine what is

18:55

true and what is untrue. That

18:57

could have consequences then for people

19:00

having debates. So that could be, as

19:02

I said, you could broaden it out

19:04

away from politicians into general

19:07

society and you could

19:09

say, well, all right, then we

19:11

should apply the same logic. We

19:14

should apply the same rules to

19:16

people on social media, to

19:18

people in the independent media who might be making

19:20

statements that we don't like and say, well, those

19:22

are untrue. You

19:24

can't be saying these things. You

19:26

cannot be spreading around this information because

19:29

it has harmful consequences for society. Do

19:31

you get it? But if

19:33

the Welsh government wants to bring in

19:35

a ban on lying, well,

19:38

let's make it a retrospective one, says this

19:40

BBG. Let's make

19:42

it retrospective and let's get Mark Drakeford

19:45

and Vaughan Gething. Let's

19:47

get them in front of an

19:49

arbiter because those two loyed through

19:52

their fucking teeth throughout 2020

19:55

and 21 and they took

19:57

almost a sexual pleasure, both

19:59

of them. in announcing lockdown draconian lockdown

20:01

measures for Wales based on a pack

20:04

of lies about a pandemic. So let's

20:06

make it retrospective shall we and let's

20:08

do that across the board then. Let's

20:11

get Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and

20:13

David Cameron and all the rest of

20:15

them. Let's get them up before an

20:17

arbiter, an independent arbiter. But look it

20:20

sounds a bit crazy but when you

20:22

look a bit deeper into it it's

20:24

fairly sinister the implications for how it

20:26

could be broadened out. A

20:29

ministry of truth which

20:31

becomes which has the final say

20:34

on what is legitimate and what isn't

20:36

legitimate. What is right what is wrong

20:39

and therefore you cannot say what we

20:41

have decreed to be wrong because there

20:43

will be consequences and that is coming

20:45

in in society.

20:47

Here's a lovely story

20:49

in The Independent. Young

20:51

ethnic minority Britons planning

20:53

to quit UK. Why

20:56

do you say lovely Richie? Are you racist

20:59

now Richie? Is that what the church is telling us? No.

21:01

One in seven young black and

21:04

Asian Britons are making concrete plans

21:06

to leave the UK due to

21:08

government failings, racism

21:11

and economic worries a new study

21:13

suggests. A survey by

21:15

research consultancy Word on the

21:18

Curb found 15% of

21:20

18 to 34 year olds in this

21:22

group are actively exploring options

21:25

to immigrate while a further 51%

21:28

of those polled said they had

21:30

recently thought about moving abroad. They're

21:33

key reasons. 39% said

21:36

cost of living crisis.

21:38

28% dissatisfaction

21:40

with the government. 19% said racial

21:45

inequality. Oh please

21:48

Jesus Christ there

21:50

is no more equal society on

21:53

the planet than the UK. In

21:56

fact it isn't equal anymore. The

21:58

balance is firmly tipped now. over

22:00

to minority ethnic people. Minority

22:03

cultures now are dominating the

22:06

discourse in this country when it

22:08

comes to politics. They are over

22:10

represented in every fucking industry. And

22:12

by over represented I mean in

22:14

the key jobs. This is a

22:16

fact, if you don't believe me, Google it. Over

22:18

represented. What are these

22:21

young people reading? What garbage? What

22:23

utter fucking tosh this is. My

22:26

God. Racial inequality. Look

22:28

it up. Look up

22:30

banking. Look up finance. Look up

22:32

the police. Look up every institution

22:35

in this country. Look at the

22:37

key jobs. And look at how

22:39

minority ethnic people are over represented

22:42

as a percentage of the overall population.

22:45

There are more in these key roles than there

22:47

is a percentage of the overall population. Do you

22:49

get what I'm saying? It's

22:52

ridiculous. So then they

22:54

quoted a young woman called Aisha. Aisha

22:57

is 26 and she's

22:59

heading off to Dubai. She

23:01

said the Brexit and cost of

23:03

living crisis has led to her

23:05

decision to piss off. I

23:09

think that Brexit, this is a direct

23:11

quote, is one of the most vindictive

23:13

xenophobic things that our government has ever

23:16

done to young people, which denied us

23:18

the benefits of being in the European

23:20

Union and the opportunity to move freely

23:23

across the continent. She said

23:25

from there, everything has started getting worse in

23:27

the last year or so in terms of

23:29

young people's quality of life. I'd love to

23:31

show her the door. Here's

23:34

the door, love. Young people with

23:36

some young people and all of them, narcissism,

23:38

of course, and there are so many factors

23:41

feeding into why narcissism and me, me, me, me,

23:43

me, me, me, me, me, me, is

23:46

widespread amongst the young, you

23:48

know, but me, me, me, me, rent,

23:50

soaring rent and cost of living. And

23:52

I can't do this. Listen, love, old

23:54

people are freezing to fucking death in

23:57

their homes in the winter. because

24:00

of what's happened in recent years. I

24:03

heard a poor gentleman on the BBC

24:05

the other day genuine this was now.

24:07

They bumped into an old guy on

24:09

the street and he

24:11

was carrying a bag of shopping and

24:14

he became tearful. I

24:19

could become tearful thinking about it. And

24:21

he talked about how his state pension, because

24:24

he worked in manual labour, various

24:27

jobs all his life, he never had a

24:29

pension to pay into. So

24:31

he's dependent on the state pension which is

24:33

fuck all. Right he

24:35

paid national insurance his entire life he paid

24:37

taxes and he

24:39

said he can't afford now on

24:42

certain days he can't afford to buy

24:44

a packet of biscuits or

24:46

some tea cakes to have with his cup of tea

24:48

when he's watching the news in the evening. So

24:51

these young people me me me me me me me

24:54

me me there are people in

24:56

their 70s and 80s love Aisha.

24:58

Aisha? Aisha? There are

25:00

people in their 70s and 80s who are

25:02

being fucked in the arse by

25:05

their government so spare a thought for them. Me

25:07

me me me me me me me. I'm off to

25:10

Dubai well fuck off here's the door love. You

25:13

know racism there's no racism

25:15

in this country none. Well

25:17

there might be a little bit. I mean

25:19

I suppose if you look hard enough you'll

25:22

find a genuine racist which by my definition

25:24

is somebody who believes that

25:26

a person from another ethnic

25:28

background is morally and intellectually

25:30

inferior to them. That's

25:33

about my racism definition. If

25:35

you look at a black person or a

25:38

person from Asia or a person from I mean

25:40

I mean Asia

25:43

as in Pakistan Afghanistan

25:46

I mean India but then you go further

25:48

east China Japan if you look at somebody

25:51

from those parts of the world black people

25:53

African people and you think that

25:55

you are morally and intellectually

25:58

superior to them that they are. inferior

26:00

to you in some way, less

26:02

worthy. Well that is

26:05

kind of racism isn't it? But I've never

26:07

met too many people like that. I've

26:09

met people over the years who've said things that could

26:11

be construed as racism but

26:14

then on further examination it

26:16

was in the context of a heated row. I

26:19

said it myself I admitted it on the Richy Allen Show

26:21

some years ago much to the shock of

26:23

my listeners when I was 19 years old I

26:26

was in a fast food restaurant and

26:29

a young black kid in there was causing trouble. I

26:32

could take care of myself it got a bit physical

26:34

between him and one of the staff I

26:36

intervened to help throw him out

26:38

the front door, words were exchanged,

26:40

he said some things and I

26:42

called him a nigger. Yes

26:45

I did. I was 19 at

26:47

the time I'm not proud of it. Did it

26:49

make me racist? No it didn't. Some

26:52

months later I bumped into the kid

26:54

at a football match and

26:57

I apologized to him genuinely and

27:00

he laughed and he said well I was bang

27:02

out of order I was pissed up and blah

27:04

blah blah and I said to

27:06

him I want you to know even though we don't

27:08

know each other it's very important to

27:10

me that you understand why I use that word

27:13

it's because those are the words that

27:15

hurt the most and

27:17

when we argue in the

27:19

throes of passion and rage we

27:22

say things that we regret we do that

27:24

with people we love we do

27:26

it with strangers not often it's

27:29

a very rare thing the kid was magnanimous

27:31

enough to accept me apology and

27:33

years later when I worked on WLR

27:36

Femen Wardford I met him again and he

27:38

was working for a bank and

27:41

he was in the studio to be interviewed by

27:44

my presenter about I

27:47

think it was about the Irish

27:49

punt like everybody else

27:52

in Europe apart from the UK Ireland

27:54

agreed to join the single currency so

27:56

the punt was going to be axed and we

27:58

were going to be on the euro and he

28:00

was in as part of a panel

28:03

to discuss the implications of it. And

28:05

we talked and we chatted and we laughed about the

28:08

silliness of being young, young and

28:10

drunk and all of that. So there you

28:12

are. I don't think racism is a big thing.

28:15

Black people have other issues, have

28:17

other opinions on it. But I also talk

28:19

to a lot of black people who say no. No,

28:22

there is no institutional racism. So

28:24

anyway, look, there is my confession

28:26

again. I did talk about it on the show years ago.

28:29

Much to the shock of some of my black listeners.

28:31

Did you really say that? Yes, I did. Not

28:34

going to lie about it. I've never

28:36

said it since, nor would I. It

28:38

wouldn't occur to me to say it to anybody if

28:41

I was to be in an unlikely situation where

28:43

I was arguing with a black person. I'm a

28:45

mature person and I wouldn't stoop so low as

28:47

to result to name calling. Anyway,

28:50

here's one in the Times.

28:52

Trans advocate Harriet Harmon in

28:54

line to run Equality's watchdog.

29:00

This is in the Times now. It's not in a right

29:02

wing newspaper. Labour is considering

29:04

appointing Harriet Harmon as head

29:06

of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, a

29:09

pivotal role in the debate over

29:11

trans rights if Labour wins the

29:14

general election. Now

29:17

that position, the head of the

29:19

Equality and Human Rights Commission, is

29:22

currently held by Baroness Faulkner of

29:24

Margravine. Baroness

29:29

Faulkner of Margravine. To

29:32

be fair to Baroness Faulkner, she's

29:34

taken a pretty no-nonsense approach on

29:37

trans rights. She

29:39

has advised the government to provide new

29:41

legal protections for real women, biological

29:44

women in same-sex spaces. This

29:46

has led to speculation that

29:49

if Labour wins the election tomorrow, it

29:52

might supplant her,

29:54

it might get rid of her, and put

29:57

Harriet Harmon in there. Now

30:00

there's been no suggestion of this,

30:02

this is all speculation. Baroness

30:04

Faulkner's contract expires on November

30:06

30th, right? Two

30:09

Labour sources have told the Times

30:12

that Labour was considering appointing Harmon,

30:14

a former Labour MP who oversaw

30:17

the introduction of the Equality Act

30:19

2010 under

30:21

the last Labour government. However,

30:24

a third Labour force

30:26

said that Faulkner could still

30:28

be reappointed as there

30:30

were no specific concerns about

30:33

her suitability or her

30:35

performance. Now Harriet Harmon is

30:37

73, why might Labour put her in there?

30:40

Well she previously said that trans

30:42

women are women. She

30:44

said I stand behind the Gender

30:47

Recognition Act, this was in 2022. As

30:51

far as I'm concerned women are women

30:53

who are born women, but women are

30:55

also women who are trans women. Harriet

30:58

Harmon, Harriet Harmon is a

31:01

despicable character. We

31:03

should never ever forget who she

31:05

is. She

31:08

was exposed Harriet Harmon

31:11

when she was a bigwig, a

31:13

leading official on the National

31:16

Council for Civil Liberties back in

31:18

the 1970s. Her

31:21

organization supported the

31:23

infamous paedophile information

31:25

exchange. And on

31:28

her watch, right, with Patricia

31:30

Hewitt, by the way, who went

31:32

on to be Health Secretary, Harmon

31:34

went on to be Home Secretary.

31:37

So Harriet Harmon and Patricia Hewitt

31:39

and her husband, Jack Dromie, that's

31:41

Harriet Harmon's husband, they

31:44

gave affiliate status to

31:46

the paedophile information exchange

31:50

and were pretty close to it at

31:52

the time. This is

31:54

true now. This woman who

31:56

might become the woman,

31:59

if you believe this, the Times, right, who

32:01

might become the head of

32:03

the Equality and Human Rights Commission all

32:06

those years ago in the 1970s.

32:09

This moment, when she was a

32:11

leading official in the National Council

32:13

for Civil Liberties, horror and Labour's

32:15

Patricia Hewitt affiliated themselves

32:18

with the pedophile information

32:20

exchange. Patricia

32:22

Hewitt, Harmon's mate, even

32:25

described the pedophile information exchange

32:27

in glowing terms as a

32:30

campaigning slash counselling group for

32:32

adults attracted to children. That

32:34

is a direct quote. That

32:36

bitch went on to be

32:38

the health secretary under Tony

32:40

Blair. That monster,

32:42

Patricia Hewitt. Yes.

32:46

They knew at the time that the

32:48

pedophile information exchange was calling for the

32:50

age of consent to be lowered to,

32:52

wait for it, four.

32:55

No, I didn't say 14. Four. Full

32:59

stop. Full stop.

33:02

And while Harmon was at the National Council

33:04

for Civil Liberties and Patricia Hewitt, their

33:06

group lobbied for the age of sexual consent

33:09

to be caught to ten if

33:11

the child consented and understood

33:13

the nature of the act. I

33:15

am not making it up. So

33:18

they must have said these people to

33:20

the pedophile information exchange. Well, four is

33:22

a bit much. People won't buy that.

33:24

But let's lobby Parliament for the sexual

33:26

consent to be caught to ten only

33:29

if the child consented and understood the

33:32

nature of the act. And

33:34

that is the bastard. Harmon,

33:37

Harriet Harmon, she was the legal

33:39

officer for the for

33:41

this group, the NCCL, the

33:45

NCCL, the National Council for Civil

33:47

Liberties. She lobbied hard, this woman,

33:50

to water down laws around

33:53

child pornography. And

33:55

they might make her the equality's

33:58

watchdog. You know, anyway,

34:02

of anything else for you, in

34:04

the telegraph Robert F. Kennedy denies taking a

34:06

bite of a dead dog. He's

34:08

lying though. He's a politician so

34:11

he's lying. He's

34:13

been forced to deny that he took a bite out of

34:15

a dog carcass on a trip to Korea. He

34:18

reportedly posed with the barbecued remains of a

34:20

dog in a photo

34:22

taken in 2010, the same year he

34:24

had a tapeworm removed from his brain.

34:27

He said no, it's not true. I

34:29

ate a goat and the photograph wasn't

34:31

taken in Korea, it was taken in

34:34

South America. However, experts have looked

34:36

at the photograph and said he's lying. It

34:38

is a dog carcass. This is

34:40

all in Vanity Fair, which has gone on the

34:42

attack against Robert

34:45

F. Kennedy Jr. Gone

34:47

on the attack against him. Elsewhere

34:50

in the article he's accused in this

34:52

Vanity Fair hit piece of

34:54

sexually assaulting a 23-year-old babysitter

34:56

when he was a married

34:58

45-year-old father of four. Okay,

35:02

and finally for this morning in

35:04

the metro, universities accused of

35:06

spying on student protesters for

35:09

police. This is important. British

35:12

universities have been accused of

35:14

collaborating with police to monitor

35:16

students amid a wave of

35:18

pro-Palestine protests. From telling

35:21

one university the flying

35:23

of a Palestinian flag on campus

35:25

does not look well on

35:27

their establishment, to expressing

35:29

worries over the number of

35:31

foreign students admitted at another

35:34

university, police forces have had

35:36

a cosy relationship with university

35:38

administrators in recent months. This

35:40

is true. The

35:42

police have involved themselves so much

35:46

in protests at universities against

35:48

Israel's genocide of the Palestinians

35:51

that police officers

35:55

and sergeants and superintendents have contacted

35:57

universities to tell the police. them

35:59

that the flying of a Palestinian

36:01

flag doesn't look well. You

36:03

think you live in a democracy? Do you really?

36:06

Imagine the police contacting another university to

36:09

tell them that they're concerned about the

36:11

number of foreign students there. And

36:14

Liberty investigates and the Metro have

36:16

looked into this and they're

36:19

finding universities are

36:21

sharing protesters data with the

36:23

police despite being told not

36:26

to do so. A student

36:28

at the University of York was visited

36:30

at her home on

36:32

November 19th by police who

36:34

said they were referring her

36:37

to the counter terror program

36:39

Prevent because the student posted

36:41

on Twitter from the river

36:43

to the sea Palestine will

36:46

be free. And the

36:48

tweet was flagged up to the police by

36:50

the University of York itself. It's

36:53

amazing isn't it? Now

36:55

from the river to the sea Palestine will be free

36:57

dates back to the early 60s. Palestinian

37:00

activists use it as a freedom

37:02

call it means freedom for the

37:04

Palestinians between the Jordan River and

37:06

the Mediterranean Sea which is historically

37:08

of course old Palestine. Jewish

37:11

groups say it's anti-Semitic it isn't anti-Semitic of

37:13

course it isn't at all or

37:15

anything like it. So they spoke

37:17

to a student who was a former

37:19

Turkish journalist a woman called Tugba Egon.

37:22

She said the university claims they

37:24

support human rights yet they didn't

37:26

take any steps to protect my

37:28

rights. I am their

37:30

student and this is a solid attack on

37:32

my freedom of speech. She was the woman

37:35

who posted from the river to the sea.

37:38

The Metro and Liberty investigates

37:41

using freedom of information at requests

37:43

has seen email exchanges between the

37:45

police and universities

37:48

discussing pro-Palestinian protests.

37:51

It's amazing this isn't it? One

37:55

email shows the police contacting North contacting

37:58

a university sorry