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line? and should pride events be funded by the taxpayer? after the revelation that half £1 million was spent on pride events this year, plus your emails , send them in to gb views emails, send them in to gb views at gbnews.com. this show has a golden rule. we don't do boring. not on my watch. i just won't have it. let's get to work and we start with my big opinion . it we start with my big opinion. it was the glorious 12th yesterday. the start of the british grouse shooting season in grouse moors rang with the crack of shotguns as landed gentry leaned out of their butts to shoot these fast , nimble birds, restaurants rushed to serve the first delicious grouse of the season. a fine tradition, but now the metropolitan elite have hunting and shooting in their crosshairs . legislation is being passed. the wildlife management bill that could criminalise grouse shooting cosseted by metropolitan elites castigate shooting as inhumane and immoral

and green politicians say that grouse shooting is bad for the environment. this is absolute balderdash. grouse moors are carefully managed to provide habitat for the grouse, and it's also habitat for all kinds of rare flora and fauna such as curlew merlin, large heath butter , fly orchid and butter, fly orchid and butterflies and orchids. more than two thirds of england's grouse moors are designated as sites of special scientific interest burning. the heather to stimulate fresh growth for growth to eat, which is criticised as endangering wildlife and releasing carbon, actually prevents wildfires and promotes biodiversity . if it promotes biodiversity. if it wasn't for grouse shooting, then the grouse moors these oases of biodiversity wouldn't exist . the biodiversity wouldn't exist. the chattering classes in islington don't realise this, but the countryside is a business. land has to provide money and employment . if has to provide money and employment. if this moorland wasn't used for grouse shooting, it would be used for the next most lucrative use which in most cases is blanket coniferous forestry. this industrial forestry. this industrial

forestry is not indigenous and creates a monoculture where nothing thrives, but pine trees and midges . blanket forestry and midges. blanket forestry doesn't support the ecological diversity found in a grouse moor. it acidifies the soil and water courses upsetting the delicate balance of nature for miles around. it's the rural equivalent of an oil spill and grouse moors provide essential employment for some of the most depnved employment for some of the most deprived communities in britain. remote rural areas and former mining towns. remote rural areas and former mining towns . my father was a mining towns. my father was a gunsmith on the scottish grouse moors at leadhills, fixing the guns of the toffs, shooting the grouse , and my first job, aged grouse, and my first job, aged 14, was as a grouse. peter it's not as violent as it sounds. gross beaters aren't paid to rough the grouse a bit before rough up the grouse a bit before they're shot. no, i was one of they're shot. no, i was one of the men who walk in a line across moor waving a flag. across the moor waving a flag. and there's 14. after and there's me, age 14. after i'd my first grouse, i'd shot my first grouse, i hadnt i'd shot my first grouse, i hadn't for the way. hadn't paid for it, by the way. it was a freebie grouse beating. got and these men out got me and these other men out of us a hard of the house gave us a hard day's work and a bit of extra cash to top up our gyros as well as for beaters and

as seasonal work for beaters and loaders . skilled local loaders. skilled local local workers are employed all year round and local businesses such as and restaurants also as hotels and restaurants also benefit huge amounts of public money have been pumped into these deprived communities to offset the decline of farming and the end of coal mining. but grouse does a far grouse shooting does a far better of generate jobs and better job of generate jobs and wealth in these isolated areas than government handouts ever could do. but leftists see grouse shooting is inhumane . grouse shooting is inhumane. it's unnecessary suffering. it does, after all, revolve around blasting animals out of the sky. but compared to factory farmed animals such as chickens, which lead a short , unpleasant life in lead a short, unpleasant life in a concrete shed crammed up against other chickens pumped full of antibiotics before they're strapped by the feet to a conveyor belt of a machine that electrocutes them and boils them and plucks them. grouse lead an enviably pleasant and natural life grouse live as nature intended . on the moors nature intended. on the moors eating wild heather free to roam and nest wherever they please. some are then quickly killed and

eaten. humans have been killing animals to eat since the dawn of time, and as a shooter myself, there's nothing more respectful than killing your own food. instead of outsourcing it to a disinterested grunt in an abattoir. unless politicians are going to force us all to become vegan and live in bio sustainable tepees, they have no right to stop people shooting grouse . grouse. at all. right i'm here. i'm here. i always forget about that bit. oh my god. it's my. it's my daily exercise . anyway, anyway , what exercise. anyway, anyway, what do you think? do you agree? do you disagree with me? email gbviews@gbnews.com and i'll get to your emails after the break. reacting to my big opinion tonight and my brilliant panel of broadcaster and psychotherapy host lucy beresford, director for the common sense society. emma webb , and former labour mp

emma webb, and former labour mp simon danczuk. am i pronouncing that right? >> that's fine. >> that's fine. >> is that. yeah, i can do that. >> i've been called worse. >> i've been called worse. >> and i mean, would you make of it? are any of you hunters and shooters yourselves ? shooters yourselves? >> no, but i'm with you on it. i don't think we should be banning shooting in grouse at all. and i think it's the thin end of a wedge. and i'm worried that people campaigning people who are campaigning on these ultimately to these issues ultimately want to get become vegetarian or get us to become vegetarian or vegan. that's the end point. vegan. and that's the end point. and so it's the thin end of a wedge. what i would wedge. that's what i would argue. wedge. that's what i would arg yeah. mean, it's >> yeah. i mean, it's controlling people's lives and it's also it's also shutting down the economy that's down part of the economy that's self—sustain waning and, you know, part of the free market, which and leaving people dependent on government handouts. >> i feel very conflicted because i am a member of the rspb and i don't agree with murdering birds , but i'm also murdering birds, but i'm also a country girl. i grew up in the country girl. i grew up in the country and this is, as you say, a thriving economy that actually for a lot of the betas , it's not for a lot of the betas, it's not just a community. it's the way in which they earn their livelihoods for whatever is, in which they earn their li�*to ihoods for whatever is, in which they earn their

li�*toih months whatever is, in which they earn their li�*to ih months of1atever is, in which they earn their li�*to ih months of the ler is, in which they earn their li�*to ih months of the year. is, in which they earn their li�*to ih months of the year. and 4 to 5 months of the year. and if that away, not only if you took that away, not only would really decimate those would you really decimate those communities both economically, but also mentally, spiritually , but also mentally, spiritually, but also mentally, spiritually, but from a conservation point of view, actually the way in which those grouse moors are are processed and dealt with in different seasons, it has actually encouraging the biodiverse city. and you see that a lot in other continents in africa in particular, where the regeneration is allowed to happen naturally. this is the regeneration that is man made, but they're doing it with with great, you know, hundreds of years of knowledge about how to actually improve the land under their absolutely. their care. yeah, absolutely. the with the same actually happened with fox there's some fox hunting. so there's some evidence that evidence to suggest that actually under the current circumstances, the fox population is less healthy because got rid of because we got rid of traditional fox hunting. so i think the point about biodiversity is really important because you're talking about because if you're talking about outcomes talking, you outcomes and you're talking, you know, care about know, you actually care about animals you actually animals and you actually care about countryside about the countryside and you want it to flourish, you should care and care about biodiversity and seeing human beings as if we are

somehow now outside of that, i think is part of the problem. we are part of that ecosystem. there's wrong or immoral there's nothing wrong or immoral about birds, aside from about shooting birds, aside from the shooting, the fact that i love shooting, i've birds before, i've never shot birds before, but i'd quite like to go on a grouse if they don't get rid of it. yeah, think it. listening yeah, but i think that that's what's really important, that if you, as i do , love animals and , if you really love animals and you the countryside, you really love the countryside, you really love the countryside, you their you should want their populations thrive in of populations to thrive in all of their that biodiversity and real conservation. i think when you go and you speak to people, farmers in the countryside, they have a very , very different have a very, very different opinion on this to, like you were saying, the sort of metropolitan have metropolitan elite who have absolutely no idea how and clarkson's farm was a perfect example of this . and i think example of this. and i think that actually if people actually listen to what small farmers lives are actually like and paid attention to their understanding of protecting biodiversity , of protecting biodiversity, they'd take a very different approach. >> yeah. the custodians of the

land, we've actually got some comments from viewers . john says comments from viewers. john says the only grouse, you know, is the only grouse, you know, is the whisky that is racially stereotyping me because of my accent. but it is very true, gam says famous grouse is the best. i see a themed developing here. it's sunday night, settling down for a tipple, tim says. metropolitan should should get out more and i mean i think that's that's a great point and you know the grouse moors i've always found them absolutely beautiful great for on beautiful great for hiking on whereas blanket coniferous forestry you know , especially forestry you know, especially when it's felled it looks like a scene for the somme when all the trees are felled . great. trees are felled. great. >> but also you were mentioning curlew . so down where i come curlew. so down where i come from in sussex , there's a from in west sussex, there's a huge of curlews and huge shortage of curlews and that what we really that actually what we really need is to encourage need to do is to encourage areas where thrive and where they can thrive and improve their natural habitat . improve their natural habitat. so yeah, there would be an amazing sense in which you could migrate from grouse moors migrate them from grouse moors to of country. to other parts of the country. but if they're not it on but if they're not doing it on the moors , who is the grouse moors, who else is going saving curlew ? going to be saving the curlew?

>> i think i think >> yeah, and i think i think the migrate themselves because they, you the, the go out in the you know, the, the go out in the mudflats and eat the eat the stuff there well. but stuff there as well. but yeah i mean i've noticed that hunters and there are you know and shooters there are you know they look after the land so the animals they want to shoot can survive on there. yeah. >> the problem is there is this very thin layer of corporate hospitality where you've got people only shoot once every people who only shoot once every four years because they've been ianed four years because they've been invited some investment invited by some investment banken invited by some investment banker. and i speak a former banker. and i speak as a former investment i know investment banker, so i know whereof actually whereof i speak that actually these people, they do it because they think it's the thing to do and they they buy the kit and they they buy all the kit and they they buy all the kit and buy the gun and then and they buy the gun and then they only shoot once. and i think is to think that think the myth is to think that everybody in everybody who's involved in shooting that kind of shooting is that kind of individual. and that's just not the it's the same with >> but it's the same with anything you've >> but it's the same with any theg you've >> but it's the same with any the corporate you've >> but it's the same with any the corporate boxesyou've >> but it's the same with any the corporate boxes where got the corporate boxes where you probably you know, they're probably full of no interest of people who've got no interest in football. what's wrong with it? >> it's traditional. yeah, yeah. like an english pastime. so like it's an english pastime. so what's and why are we as a country more prone to getting rid of like that? rid of stuff like that?

>> you to france or >> when you go to france or spain, they keep these traditions donkeys they traditions for donkeys so they wouldn't it. they wouldn't have any of it. they wouldn't have any of it. they wouldn't any it. wouldn't have any of it. they wotbut't any it. wouldn't have any of it. they wotbut that's any it. wouldn't have any of it. they wotbut that's becauset. wouldn't have any of it. they wotbut that's because i think >> but that's because i think there's such disconnect there's such a disconnect now between town and the between in the town and the country you've got country that actually you've got a massive divide in this country where we have you've got children who grow up who don't know comes and know where milk comes from, and you fantastic like you have fantastic farms like the farm combined with a the city farm combined with a kind arrogance. the city farm combined with a kin�*i arrogance. the city farm combined with a kin�*i mean,gance. the city farm combined with a kin�*i mean, we're seeing we're >> i mean, we're seeing we're seeing people i you seeing people i mean, you mentioned know, the mentioned the, you know, the murdering of birds. i mean, murdering of the birds. i mean, i know. know sort i don't know. i know you're sort of but i think of embellishing it, but i think the birds die and they die a death. well, are you a vegetarian yourself? >> no, no, no, i'm not. actually. >> you're a vegetarian. so >> you're not a vegetarian. so you're outsource the you're happy to outsource the murder in a slaughterhouse? >> i there's technical >> i think there's a technical term but pescatarian, term for it, but pescatarian, somebody fishes . somebody who fishes. >> shall i describe it? but. >> shall i describe it? but. >> as a member. yeah. so i >> but as a member. yeah. so i remember rspb and it just remember the rspb and it just goes against, know, got goes against, you know, i've got my little bird feeder on the window the kind of thing. so window and the kind of thing. so i know, deeper i feel, you know, deeper affinity with but affinity with birds, but not with are happy be murdered. >> there's a, >> just there. there's a, there's nice comment here. there's a nice comment here. graham leo, you were an

graham jeez. leo, you were an ugly fortunately an honest viewer. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> fortunately, you grew into a handsome, handsome man. thank goodness you got out of scotland in i mean, he's got a in time. i mean, he's got a point. 14, i did point. when i was 14, i did somehow to look like somehow manage to look like nicholas lyndhurst with progeria. but but i mean, i think there this disconnect think there is this disconnect between between urban centres and you know, and like you say, you know, people know where milk and like you say, you know, peop comes know where milk and like you say, you know, peop comes from n where milk and like you say, you know, peop comes from and,3re milk and like you say, you know, peop comes from and, you nilk and like you say, you know, peop comes from and, you know, milk comes from and, you know, so people don't understand the chunks of flesh that they buy in the supermarket that come from an but it's the arrogance to >> but it's the arrogance to it's cities it's the people in the cities and in urban areas , particularly and in urban areas, particularly the liberal metropolitan elite. let featuring people in the countryside the people in let featuring people in the cou countryside the people in let featuring people in the cou countryside don'tpeople in let featuring people in the cou countryside don't love .e in the countryside don't love animals and love animals and don't love the environment actually don't environment and actually don't know when they have no know best when they have no experience whatsoever. so experience of it whatsoever. so they have no idea what they're talking they're talking about, but they're too arrogant listen. arrogant to actually listen. >> having in >> yeah, well, having lived in the countryside, i tell you the countryside, i can tell you that people animals that some people love animals a little much. anyway, little bit too much. anyway, coming next in the big story, coming up next in the big story, 509 migrants the channel 509 migrants crossed the channel and the same day six poor souls died trying to cross it. and the same day six poor souls died trying to cross it . and the died trying to cross it. and the bibby riddled with

bibby stockholm is riddled with poisoned useless are poisoned water. how useless are the government? will this ever end ? stay tuned. see you in a

don't see that whatsoever anymore. >> you're listening to gb news radio . radio. >> in tonight's big story, 509 migrants crossed the channel the same day that six people tragically died trying to make the same journey. and earlier in the same journey. and earlier in the week, the bibby stockholm migrant barge was found to be full of diseases. it seems like the whole is screwed. i'm the whole system is screwed. i'm joined by immigration lawyer ivan sampson to discuss our broken migration system. hi ivan. thanks for joining broken migration system. hi ivan. thanks forjoining us broken migration system. hi ivan. thanks for joining us this evening . evening. >> good evening. have the tories lost control and how do you think we could fix the system? >> i think look , people say >> i think look, people say there's a huge migration asylum problem, but if you look over the last 20 years, we've had a fluctuation on the number of people claiming asylum in 2001, when i was a young lawyer , we

when i was a young lawyer, we had 85,000 people in one year claiming asylum , significantly claiming asylum, significantly less than we have now. and there's a correlation between conflicts around the world and the number of people seeking asylum . so things will change. asylum. so things will change. ten years from now, we might have a totally different set of figures. with regard to your second part of the question is how do fix the system ? i how do we fix the system? i wonder if the home office wants to fix it. i wonder if because every policy that they've put forward has been in breach of either the refugee convention or the european convention on human rights, it's not rocket science policies must comply with the law. everything the government proposed does not comply with the law and i wonder if the government up to the election they've got this one single policy is we can fix the asylum system if they fix it before the election, what do they do then ? election, what do they do then? i mean, what else are they to going do to try and win the election? on what other policies? so i wonder how much

effort the government are putting in. look the low lying fruit is five countries where the grant rate is in the 90. why isn't the government releasing the blockage in the system by by quickly granting asylum to those us nationals from those five countries? >> but, ivan, i think it's because ivan, it's because we know that the system is being gamed. it's being it's being fixed. people are fiddling the system. they're being coached by by immigration lawyers, by ngos, by immigration lawyers, by ngos, by charities , and how to how to by charities, and how to how to claim asylum. so you're told to say you're a christian, for example. so you can't be sent back because you'll be persecuted. and i believe that's how the how the liverpool maternity bomber managed to stay in the uk. they're told to say that they're gay or they'll be tortured if the if they get sent back. tortured if the if they get sent back . so i tortured if the if they get sent back. so i mean we've tortured if the if they get sent back . so i mean we've we've seen back. so i mean we've we've seen the revelations over the past few weeks of how the asylum

system can can be can be fiddled and it seems unfair to blame the government for that system. maybe it's that system that needs to be changed. and, you know, the fact that we've got a high pass rate for the people who do claim really shows who do claim asylum really shows that the system is wrong rather than those are all deserving cases as well. >> i disagree with you because the government, when it refuses asylum application , as is the asylum application, as is the british courts, which allowed them afterwards. so it's actually judges who look at this evidence and judges who then allow the appeals. so and i think it's around 35 or 40% success rate on that . when success rate on that. when asylum application refused by the home office. so that's simply not true . so look, i mean simply not true. so look, i mean , you're seeing the courts , the , you're seeing the courts, the courts and the judges are making these decisions. >> they're making these decisions based on the law. and the law was set up with the best intention and with different circumstances. now that people have worked out how to fiddle that system they're coming

that system and they're coming across the channel in these boats and we you know, we can see from looking at them that we can see footage of them ripping up their passports so they can they claim to be whatever they can claim to be whatever age from whatever country age and from whatever country they can see that they want. we can see that they're they're primarily economic, economic migrants . economic, economic migrants. >> well, look , if we know that >> well, look, if we know that one of the problem is, is people pretending to be from other country , his, then we've got to country, his, then we've got to have processes and policies to weed them out. who else is going to do it? you let a government to do it? you let a government to come up with policies to do that. now, the government do that. >> the government has been trying to push through anything it can do to try and either dissuade people from from making the crossing . so setting up the the crossing. so setting up the bibby stockholm barge, so at least they're not being put in a four star hotel that looks amazing on the tiktok adverts that the people traffickers use to sell their expensive cross—channel journeys . and cross—channel journeys. and they're trying to push through they're trying to push through the rwanda plan , but they're

the rwanda plan, but they're stymied at every point by by lawyers , by by european courts , lawyers, by by european courts, by by uk courts as well. i mean, it just feels that the government is hamstrung . it's government is hamstrung. it's stuck between the law and a hard place where signed up to international treaties is that is our international treaty obligations. >> we cannot flout the law as a as a sophisticated society . we as a sophisticated society. we a society which upholds a law. so if you don't like the law, change the law , but don't blame change the law, but don't blame lawyers and judges for upholding the law , that that's simply not the law, that that's simply not right. no look, it's a global problem, needs a global solution . and the un needs to get involved. we need an addendum to the refugee convention to say what happens to asylum seekers once they claim asylum? who takes them? take turkey has 3 million asylum seekers . jordan million asylum seekers. jordan has 1.5 million. pakistan over a

million. we are 17th on the on the league of european countries on the number of asylum seekers we take. so we actually don't take enough. we because we i mean that's that's not that's not entirely fair because i mean, people should claim asylum in the first safe place that they can. >> and you know, i think somebody coming from from far afield from the middle east, the values the culture that they bnng values the culture that they bring with them might not might not mesh perfectly with with a western liberal democracy , the western liberal democracy, the attitudes to women, to homosexuals. and we've seen we've seen in the past the issues . this is this has caused issues. this is this has caused and with people people with ideologies violent mediaeval ideologies violent mediaeval ideologies that want to cause harm. for example , the liverpool harm. for example, the liverpool maternity hospital bomber that i mentioned earlier, he was claiming asylum in the uk. mentioned earlier, he was claiming asylum in the uk . so claiming asylum in the uk. so i mean, although turkey does take a lot more asylum seekers than

the than the uk, i'm sure we take a lot more. if they were from france, from spain, from from france, from spain, from from places that are nearby and culturally similar to well, look , the refugee convention, first of all, you don't have to seek asylum in the first country that you go to. >> that's the law. so if you want to comply with the law, then, you know , you mustn't then, you know, you mustn't raise these issues. if you want to flout the law and say , well, to flout the law and say, well, you know what, we're going to break refugee convention, you know what, we're going to breaiwe're'efugee convention, you know what, we're going to breaiwe're'efuggoing1vention, by then we're not going to abide by what and we're going to what it says and we're going to make them back from make them send them back from where that's where they came from. that's fine. do that. and while fine. you can do that. and while we were eu, we had we were in the eu, we had a treaty which allowed us to do that. the dublin convention. since we came out of the eu, we can no longer do that. if you can no longer do that. so if you want to just push back boats, which is what australia did under what's called operation sapphire , which is what the sapphire, which is what the government's blueprint is on, is they're copying the australians , which worked very well. >> effective . >> it's very effective. >> it's very effective. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. we can push the back, the french push the boats back, the french push them towards us, we push

them back towards us, we push them back towards us, we push them back. where does it them back. and where does it end? need to have treaties end? you need to have treaties with other countries and this is an international problem which needs an international solution. the eu are coming up with a new asylum plan. we should be part of that . of that. >> absolutely. no, i couldn't agree more. and ivan, thank you so much joining us this is so much forjoining us this is ivan sampson, immigration lawyer here. interesting here. and some very interesting points about we might have points about how we might have to change the to deal with to change the law to deal with this well, there's this issue. well, there's more still but the still to come. but first, the weather for that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers >> proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello there. i'm greg dewhurst and welcome to your latest gb news weather forecast. we've got rain coming up through the next 24 hours. could be heavy at times, but the good news is that it does start to turn drier by the middle of the week. low pressure in charge at the moment, moves out the moment, but that moves out the moment, but that moves out the way we head towards the way as we head towards wednesday. high pressure wednesday. and high pressure replaces it, settling our

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>> you're listening to gb news radio . radio. >> back with me now and joining me throughout the show are broadcaster and psychotherapist lucy beresford, the director for the common sense society. emma

webb, and former labour mp simon danczuk. anyway great to have you back and tony, tony blair's institute continued to advise and receive money from the government of saudi arabia even after the assassination of journalist jamal khashoggi in turkey. and that was widely assumed to be okayed by mohammed bin salman, the crown prince of saudi arabia. blair's institute has been working with the crown prince mohammed bin salman since 2017 on a vision to help boost the saudi state. when the prince approved the murder of khashoggi in 2018, blair considered cutting ties with the country and yet looked in his bank account and decided to remain engagedin account and decided to remain engaged in saudi arabia . i engaged in saudi arabia. i wonder why tony blair decided to keep in touch with the billionaire , a trillionaire oil billionaire, a trillionaire oil rich state of saudi arabia. i mean, what do you make of this? do you do you think tony blair. >> tony blair doing something dodgyin >> tony blair doing something dodgy in the middle east? never. >> tony blair doing something dofairnessie middle east? never. >> tony blair doing something dofairness ,e middle east? never. >> tony blair doing something dofairness , it'sddle east? never. >> tony blair doing something dofairness , it's not�* east? never. >> tony blair doing something dofairness , it's not the ;t? never. >> tony blair doing something dofairness , it's not the worstver. in fairness, it's not the worst thing he's done in the middle east. >> but but yeah, mean , the >> but but yeah, i mean, the tony like the tony blair institute, like the clinton institute , i mean, they

clinton institute, i mean, they take these vast sums and generate huge amounts of wealth. i mean, the sums we're talking about, some of the salaries at the blair institute are half £1 million. >> but the trouble is, he's not the only one. america and europe did $140 billion worth of trade with saudi arabia in 2022. and it was things like weapons. it was things like oil. it was things like weapons. it was things like oil . we've got was things like oil. we've got the pga golf tour is merging with the saudi arabia liv golf tournament. we've got very well known household names like cristiano ronaldo who are now playing there. it isn't just tony blair who's noticed it, that that is really where the centre of gravity is turning in terms of middle eastern influence. and to be fair, yes, the murder of jamal khashoggi was absolutely appalling and should never , should never have should never, should never have been allowed to happen at the same time as mbs as he's known , same time as mbs as he's known, is trying to shape or change the

sort of social structure of his country and make it more liberal. and i think he should be encouraged . we should be kind be encouraged. we should be kind of going in these countries. >> as a former labour mp, do you think it's better be sort of think it's better to be sort of involved the nasty people think it's better to be sort of invotryd the nasty people think it's better to be sort of invotry and the nasty people think it's better to be sort of invotry and try1e nasty people think it's better to be sort of invotry and try andasty people think it's better to be sort of invotry and try and steereople think it's better to be sort of invotry and try and steer them around? >> i agree with lucy. i think it's better to be inside the tent out rather than outside the tent, peeing in. and so i think blair would argue that it can have more influence by staying in contact with this particular regime . it's the murder is regime. it's the murder is absolutely awful . but but in absolutely awful. but but in terms of the money raised as well, a lot is then used by the institute, the tony blair institute , to do good work in institute, to do good work in africa. so it's not a it's not all going into tony blair's pockets stretch of the pockets by any stretch of the imagination. the work imagination. a lot of the work they do in in in rwanda, in sierra leone, all good work by the tony blair institute. >> and is it good work or is it because i'm always worried concerned when charities are doing work africa, there's doing work in africa, there's some nefarious intent. some sort of nefarious intent. i mean, i don't know. i just don't

trust i don't trust a man who's trying to do something worry. >> i'm worried about them taking tony advice. i think tony blair's advice. i think i mean, the purpose of the tony blair foundation and tony blair, obviously, unlike other prime ministers who just go on the speaking circuit, they settle down and they write a book and they a quiet life. he saw they live a quiet life. he saw it sort of track opaline it as the sort of track opaline for him to sort of spring himself off into, you know, it was a blair ites gone global. yeah. and that's basically what this organisation does . and so this organisation does. and so of course it has interests in countries all around the world, but that's not a bad thing if you and if you agree with i'm not saying it was perfect , but not saying it was perfect, but but he was one of the better prime ministers that we've had. >> come on. i mean several years. >> we've a devolution, we've an absolutely uncontrolled immigration. i mean, absolutely uncontrolled immigration . i mean, tony absolutely uncontrolled immigration. i mean, tony blair wasn't any means a perfect wasn't by any means a perfect prime minister. we have seen economic growth, but our country is more than an economy. >> but who is? but you still have to engage these have to engage with these countries, particularly countries, and particularly where sits

where saudi arabia sits geopolitically. and the way in which it's trying to reshape itself. and i still maintain that better for to actually that it's better for to actually be part of that journey, for that nation doing the doing, doing the thing that we can't say. agree that it's important say. i agree that it's important to continue to be involved to be to continue to be involved with these countries in the sense of maintaining a relationship with them diplomatically. but they're not an arm of the state. this is an organisation. yeah. and i think it's quite interesting how sort of two faced people are when it comes to progressive issues at home versus what they're willing to compromise when they go to less progressive states in the middle east, where we'll say, oh, how progressive they are, they allow women to drive. yeah, great. yeah yeah. >> anyway, you might have heard the story of andrew malkinson, the story of andrew malkinson, the man who spent 17 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted for rape. was only convicted for rape. it was only when dna evidence came to when new dna evidence came to light malkinson was found light that malkinson was found innocent. raised innocent. this is now raised obvious questions about the role that dna plays in solving crimes. there are tight laws and

restrictions around storing and collecting dna, but should we be moving towards a nationwide dna database to tackle crime, or would that be an ethical minefield ? i mean, what do you minefield? i mean, what do you make of that? because i'm concerned about the sort of civil liberties aspect of our dna being forcibly taken from us. >> us. >> there's real issues about greater manchester police in relation andrew malkinson relation to andrew malkinson isn't there, which still have to be answered for sure terms of be answered for sure in terms of dna, the european court of dna, it's the european court of human rights that has made it more difficult to hold on to dna. now they say it's it it restricts your privacy rights. so that's why we have a problem in that the police can't with can't contain or retain dna on as many people as they currently do . i think as many people as they currently do. i think you as many people as they currently do . i think you could do it more do. i think you could do it more gradually. i think you could collect it almost by stealth , collect it almost by stealth, but you couldn't create a database of 67 million all, you know , in a short timescale. know, in a short timescale. that'd be great. i don't really like the idea of collecting dna by stealth scraping.

>> somebody's just literally shoving something in your mouth. i'm just doing this for polling purposes . yeah, there are plenty purposes. yeah, there are plenty of companies is that people are volunteering their like people like 23 and me that are obviously creating worldwide databases. they can even have been issues where people have discovered that they, you know , discovered that they, you know, the sperm bank scandals, they discovered that they had hundreds of relatives all around the world that had been taken from one particular sperm bank. so there are companies that are amassing a lot of genetic information on. but i'm actually with the european court of human rights on this. i think that this is a violation of privacy. so it's one thing to collect dna in relation to a particular case in relation to a particular case in order to use it as evidence in order to use it as evidence in a court to convict or to dismiss evidence. it's another thing to almost treat the entire population as if they are potential criminals and keeping a database on everyone. i think thatis a database on everyone. i think that is a completely gross violation of people's privacy

and i wouldn't consent to it. yeah, absolutely . yeah, absolutely. >> i could not agree more. anyway, the cost of living . anyway, the cost of living. yesterday emerged the taxpayers , taxpayers paid half £1 million to sponsor pride events in the uk. i mean, is this good use of taxpayers money? >> no, no, no, i don't think so. >> i think it should be charitable and sponsorship that that funds things. that funds these things. >> yeah . and there's enough >> yeah. and there's enough corporate lining up to corporate sponsors lining up to sponsor pride events . sponsor pride events. >> yeah, absolutely. >> yeah, absolutely. >> coutts bank being one, having really rainbows really big banners of rainbows in their front lobby, but we're not sure if they'll be able to afford it next year. this is true. they could ask nigel true. well, they could ask nigel maybe few quid so maybe if he's got a few quid so they maybe if he's got a few quid so the he could loan him somewhere >> he could loan him somewhere else by then. >> the things that they >> some of the things that they spent this money on. so hounslow council, so council, labour run council, so spent 50 grand on a rainbow junction so that you can cross the road at an lgbt friendly way. stirling council spent money on glitter tattoos and

wolverhampton council has spent money on three kilometres of rainbow bunting, so this this blows my mind when people talk about money, when people talk about money, when people talk about austerity and how terrible things are under tory things are under the tory government somehow government, and yet somehow pubuc government, and yet somehow public servants have got money to everywhere on glitter to splash everywhere on glitter tattoos . in the grand scheme of tattoos. in the grand scheme of things, £500,000 is not much in terms of the budget in the pubuc terms of the budget in the public sector, but it's but it's our money that could be better spent on families that are homeless and have nowhere to go i >> -- >> yeah. and also, i mean, there's surely an issue with pride has sort of changed its meaning. i mean back, you know, 30 years ago when gay people were oppressed , it was were oppressed, it was a rallying call. it was provided visibility. now, you know, gay people aren't you know, that battle is kind of been been won largely. and now pride is sort of metastasised into celebrating kink. and also sexualising, you know, providing drag queen events for children on the

councils. yeah and also and also some, some gays and lesbians have been excluded from , from have been excluded from, from pride events. i mean in wales , pride events. i mean in wales, lesbians were actually booted off the pride march because trans activists objected to them being there. so, i mean, now that it's become this sort of politicised thing that's got away from from just being about lesbian and gay people, do you think it's time to for the state to stop funding it? >> i think it is more about charitable donations, but actually people really feel actually if people really feel that it's that strongly about it and it's another version , another charity another version, another charity that they want to support, then that they want to support, then that but if it's that should be fine. but if it's taxpayers money, then that's got to go on areas of the community could be hospitals could or it could be hospitals could or it could be hospitals could or it could be brightening up your maybe what they was thinking was instead of hanging baskets, which twee, maybe instead of hanging baskets, whishould twee, maybe instead of hanging baskets, whishould have twee, maybe instead of hanging baskets, whishould have rainbow maybe instead of hanging baskets, whishould have rainbow .naybe instead of hanging baskets, whishould have rainbow . no 3e instead of hanging baskets, whishould have rainbow . no zebra we should have rainbow. no zebra crossings or something. yeah >> i mean, we talk about what the what the money could be spent on the money could just not be taken out of our pockets. is that is that possibility? can is that is that possibility? can i just keep hold of that money

and spend it on some? >> now, it does make you think that that know, should that that you know, we should have to withhold our have the ability to withhold our tax they continue spend it tax if they continue to spend it on glitter tattoos on things like glitter tattoos and story hours for and drag queen story hours for children under the age of five, which is one of the things that one of these councils did. >> yeah . it's an >> yeah. and it's just an outrageous of public funds outrageous use of public funds and it just shows sort of and that it just shows sort of the mentality that they thought that this was acceptable . yeah, that this was acceptable. yeah, it's all right. you know, if you as individual want to be part as an individual want to be part of but in in the public of this. but in in the public sector, it's become a sort of mandatory thing. one of the things that they spent money on were badges for staff were pronoun badges for staff and presumably any person who said, i don't want to wear a pronoun badge would be dismissed and labelled bigot. oh and labelled as a bigot. oh yeah, be be hauled in yeah, there'd be be hauled up in front hr and yeah, get front of hr and yeah, get a non—crime incident recorded non—crime hate incident recorded on the record but but yeah. >> emma's not going to pay her tax because she doesn't agree with what government spends tax because she doesn't agree witii what government spends tax because she doesn't agree witii can't government spends tax because she doesn't agree witii can't waitjovernment spends tax because she doesn't agree witii can't wait to ernment spends tax because she doesn't agree witii can't wait to see nent spends tax because she doesn't agree witii can't wait to see how spends tax because she doesn't agree witii can't wait to see how that ds on. i can't wait to see how that goes. up next, my goes. anyway coming up next, my next is a conservationist next guest is a conservationist who rebuilds lions and tigers.

hopefully she'll bring one in. don't go anywhere . we might get don't go anywhere. we might get to see somebody eaten. see

bit of a john terry and sort of turn up and lift the trophy. >> you're listening to gb news radio . radio. >> my next guest is a conservation artist who works for the aspinall foundation , who for the aspinall foundation, who specialises in breeding and rewilding endangered species. but don't worry, it's nothing like tiger . but don't worry, it's nothing like tiger. king freya aspinall joins me now. it's great to great to have you in the studio. >> nice to see you. >> nice to see you. >> i was really hoping you were going to bring a lion in. >> yeah, sadly not. you're not allowed to bring one on the tube. no, not yet. >> you ever are you >> have you ever are you actually carry lion actually allowed to carry a lion around no. around with you? no. >> nor should i. that's not the point. we've got keep them as point. we've got to keep them as wild on. wild as possible. come on. >> oh, right. of course. because you're rewilding animals >> oh, right. of course. because y0|theyawilding animals >> oh, right. of course. because y0|theyawil> oh, right. of course. because y0|they awilythen released s so they can then be released into hopefully richmond into hopefully not like richmond park. they ? park. where are they? >> africa. >> back to africa. >> back to africa. >> to africa? >> back to africa? >> back to africa? >> right. >> back to africa? >> just right. >> back to africa? >> just on ght. >> back to africa? >> just on the. you just drive to africa drop them off or to africa and drop them off or do fly africa? right.

do you fly to africa? right. >> it depends. every >> it's. oh, it depends. every animal do get animal is different. do they get their well they their own seat? yeah. well they have their own crates, but so we have their own crates, but so we have two lions right now in africa and they went on a plane. but going to send our but we're going to send back our elephants two jumbo elephants and two jumbo planes. qatar africa. qatar airways, back to africa. >> do get. are >> so how do you get. what are the logistics getting an the logistics of getting an elephant a plane? elephant on a on a plane? >> it's difficult. mean, we >> it's so difficult. i mean, we have amazing team who's have such an amazing team who's doing all of this. but i mean, right now we're feeding the elephants in the crate so it gets used to coming in and then elephants in the crate so it getsday d to coming in and then elephants in the crate so it getsday we'll oming in and then elephants in the crate so it getsday we'll shutg in and then elephants in the crate so it getsday we'll shut it.n and then elephants in the crate so it getsday we'll shut it. butd then elephants in the crate so it getsday we'll shut it. but every| one day we'll shut it. but every animal is different with the gorillas. they just go in. we animal is different with the goriwe.. they just go in. we animal is different with the goriwe never just go in. we animal is different with the goriwe never try;t go in. we animal is different with the goriwe never try to |o in. we try. we never try to tranquillise the animal, hopefully. >> how how did the >> and how did you how did the hons >> and how did you how did the lions the elephants up lions and the elephants end up in care ? in your care? >> oh, okay. so this was something that i born into. something that i was born into. so lions , their mother so the lions, their mother died of uterus infection. so me and of a uterus infection. so me and my dad have to hand raise them . my dad have to hand raise them. they would have. they'll be dead if it wasn't. if we didn't do that and soon as that. and then as soon as they're old enough, we're going to try and them back to africa. >> right. and think we've got >> right. and i think we've got pictures on the screen now. these these two

these are these are the two lions, oh, lions, two lion cubs. oh, they're cute. not even a they're so cute. i'm not even a cat i'm cat person. i'm >> i'm allergic to cats. well how yeah, animals. how ironic. yeah, all animals. i'm allergic. >> i mean, for anybody watching, listening is that they listening on radio is that they are the cutest animals in the world. and here's are these gorillas . gorillas. >> those are two gorillas we see from slaughter. they saw their whole family get killed and we saved them. our team in the congo, we protect a million acres in gabon and congo . acres in gabon and congo. >> and were they being slaughtered by poachers? >> the poachers slaughtered their they were their whole family and they were taking them to as and taking them in to be as pets and we saved and now they're we saved them. and now they're living wild. living free in the wild. >> so do poachers. they >> and so do the poachers. they go gorillas to get the go after the gorillas to get the small ones as pets for zoos, small ones as pets and for zoos, as pets. >> mean, illegal wildlife >> i mean, the illegal wildlife trade biggest trade is the third biggest illegal the world. illegal trade in the world. bushmeat . i mean, bushmeat for gorillas. i mean, you name it, people eat the gorillas . gorillas. >> emma >> yes, they do. >> yes, they do. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> the gorillas. and also to send send baby ones send the send the baby ones around world to be exotic around the world to be exotic pets , some zoos will actually pets, some zoos will actually take animals from the wild. >> right. but you know, there's also ashtrays. they use their

hands as ashtrays. they're full of stools. yeah >> and is this of the >> and is this one of the biggest to endangered biggest threats to endangered species gorillas? species such as gorillas? >> i would say the >> i mean, i would say the biggest is poaching for sure. i mean, every animal is different, but now, think the but right now, i think the biggest animals is biggest threat for animals is that they're in captivity that they're stuck in captivity and sent back and they're not being sent back to yeah. and they're not being sent back to and yeah. and they're not being sent back to and howyeah. and they're not being sent back to and how do h. and they're not being sent back to and how do you sort of >> and how do you sort of rehabilitate and re acclimatise animals to living in the wild? because it must be nice for the animal fed by a bottle animal getting fed by a bottle and, you living a nice and, you know, living a nice life. and then all of sudden life. and then all of a sudden you're thrown into wild you're thrown back into the wild and, yeah, it's and, you know, yeah, it's a it's and, you know, yeah, it's a it's a long process. >> as i said, it's >> so as i said, it's a different process every different process for every animal. for example, with animal. but for example, with the gorillas , we have an island the gorillas, we have an island in congo , so we'll get them in the congo, so we'll get them use food to we'll feed them every single day and then slowly we'll reduce their food so they can on own. yeah, can forage on their own. yeah, they're like just on an island to acclimatise and get to to acclimatise and get used to the diet. then eventually, the diet. and then eventually, once they've settled in, then we'll them to wild. we'll release them to the wild. but still they're but they still have they're still their habitat still in their natural habitat on and are you ever tempted to >> and are you ever tempted to build coliseum build a little coliseum for those dress some those cubs and dress some

squirrels christians? those cubs and dress some squ no ls christians? those cubs and dress some squ no .; christians? >> no. >> no. >> so do you have to do you >> so but do you have to do you have to give the lions like live food to get them to it? food to get them used to it? just eating meat. food to get them used to it? justright? eating meat. food to get them used to it? justright? i eating meat. food to get them used to it? justright? i know.i meat. food to get them used to it? justright? i know. it's�*at. food to get them used to it? justright? i know. it's like >> right? i know. it's like really sweet. feel like really sweet. i feel like a proud mom. but is that is that meat already dead or. proud mom. but is that is that meat already dead or . yeah, it's meat already dead or. yeah, it's venison . venison beef. >> right? great. >> right? great. >> i know better than me. >> i know better than me. >> are you going to have to progress to the point where they are actually, you know, running around bringing something? around and bringing something? because guess what because i guess that's what they're to to they're they're going to have to hunt back in the hunt when they're back in the wild. yeah, 100. >> actually, of >> well, actually, a lot of people you know, people say that, you know, they won't hunt. they're won't be able to hunt. they're humanised. domesticated won't be able to hunt. they're hand nised. domesticated won't be able to hunt. they're hand we've domesticated won't be able to hunt. they're hand we've proven domesticated won't be able to hunt. they're hand we've proven domewrong d . and we've proven them wrong every the only every time. so we're the only people world that rewild every time. so we're the only prcheetah. world that rewild every time. so we're the only p> so that instinct never leaves them. in fact, that them. and in fact, we see that sometimes with don't know if sometimes with i don't know if you're aware siegfried

you're aware of siegfried and roy, vegas magicians, roy, the las vegas magicians, but were on stage. they but they were on stage. they had a these a stage show with these these white tigers and one of white siberian tigers and one of the tigers. they've done this show hundreds times. when the show hundreds of times. when the tigers just turned tigers one day just turned around at siegfried around and attacked at siegfried or i'm not which one. or roy, i'm not sure which one. >> a big fan of animal >> i'm not a big fan of animal shows. right. wouldn't be shows. right. so i wouldn't be watching shows. right. so i wouldn't be watchinit's good shows. right. so i wouldn't be watchin it's good way to >> but it's not a good way to rebuild them because there's no magicians in the wild. >> animal shows should be illegal. that should not be happening crazy. illegal. that should not be hapand ng crazy. illegal. that should not be hapand zoos. crazy. illegal. that should not be hapand zoos. how crazy. illegal. that should not be hapand zoos. how do izy. illegal. that should not be hapand zoos. how do you feel >> and zoos. how do you feel about zoos? >> not a fan. not a fan. about zoos? >> not a fan. not a fan . there's >> not a fan. not a fan. there's just a lot of rules and regulations. zoos are not following . and obviously we have following. and obviously we have our two sanctuaries here in the uk, but we're really trying to phase out of zoos and kind of lead the path for other people to follow . and zoos are not to follow. and zoos are not rewilding, they're animals, which a problem. which is a big problem. >> zoos do anything to >> and do zoos do anything to help conservation ? help conservation? >> no, i they they claim to >> no, i mean they they claim to be doing conservation work . but be doing conservation work. but i'll give you some facts here. i mean , 95% of what animals in mean, 95% of what animals in captivity aren't even critically endangered of the 850 mammal

species that are in captivity , species that are in captivity, only 45 are viable to go back to the wild. right. and of that, 45, only a like sorry, only a handful can go back. the rest are hybridised inbred . so if 95% are hybridised inbred. so if 95% of animals can go back to the wild , why are they in zoos? how wild, why are they in zoos? how is that conservation work? the other thing are spending other thing is zoos are spending millions of pounds, all millions millions of pounds, all zoos up to billions of pounds on putting the public first. they don't put the animals first, providing an entertainment experience, entertainment . experience, entertainment. >> thank you so much for >> freya, thank you so much for joining me tonight. been joining me tonight. you've been absolutely fantastic. i've learned about lions and learned things about lions and gorillas. anyway, gorillas. i never knew. anyway, join soon for the rest of the join us soon for the rest of the show . looks like things are show. looks like things are heating up . heating up. >> boxed boilers, proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. hello of weather on. gb news. hello there and greg dewhurst. >> and welcome to your latest gb news weather forecast . we've got news weather forecast. we've got rain coming up through the next 24 hours. could be heavy at times, but the good news is that

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the home of the papers with tomorrow's front pages from exactly 10:30 pm. sharp . so exactly 10:30 pm. sharp. so a busy hour to come. so put something cold and fizzy in the fridge or fire up the kettle and let's make a night of it. first, the headlines with karen armstrong . armstrong. >> very good evening to you from the gb newsroom . the government the gb newsroom. the government is facing renewed pressure to tackle migrant crossings in the channel after six people died when their sank yesterday when their vessel sank yesterday . 509 people crossed the english channelin . 509 people crossed the english channel in ten small boats on saturday, bringing the total for the year to more than 16,500. the office says stopping the home office says stopping the boats is one of their top priorities , as campaign groups priorities, as campaign groups have described, the deaths as appalling and preventable . the appalling and preventable. the victims of the worst single atrocity in northern ireland's history have been remembered dunng history have been remembered during a poignant memorial service for the families of the 29 people killed in the 1998

dissident republican bombing in omagh were amongst those who gathered in county tyrone ahead of the 25th anniversary. michael gallagher , whose son aiden was gallagher, whose son aiden was amongst those killed, described it as powerful testimony to community spirit and cohesion. 25 years after our small town was ripped apart. the anniversary is on tuesday . was ripped apart. the anniversary is on tuesday. no one has been criminally convicted of carrying out the attack . the search for victims attack. the search for victims of the wildfires in hawaii is continuing , but questions are continuing, but questions are being asked about the state's response. at least 93 people have died on the island of maui , but the state's governor says that will rise significantly as up to 1000 people remain unaccounted for. one local restaurant owner has questioned the speed of the response on social media. she said this we're 100 miles from the largest military in the world, 72 hours later, where is the navy , the later, where is the navy, the hospital ship, the helicopters , hospital ship, the helicopters, the natural disaster relief infrastructure that should have been here by now? pubs in

england and wales will be allowed to continue selling takeaway pints after the government decided to keep covid licencing rules they were due to expire in september. but it's understood the prime minister has to the industry has listened to the industry loud and clear. pubs have been struggling to recover from the pandemic because of rising energy prices . mark zuckerberg energy prices. mark zuckerberg has dismissed a potential cage fight with elon musk , claiming fight with elon musk, claiming the tesla founder isn't serious as the rival billionaires appeared to agree to a fight in june. when mr musk tweeted he was up for it. mark zuckerberg, who owns meta, which includes facebook and instagram. he also trains in mixed martial arts, replied , send me the location. replied, send me the location. the ceo of xe, formerly known as twitter, responded vegas octagon. but elon musk has since pulled back , citing injury pulled back, citing injury concerns and the long awaited british summer could make an appearance later this week with temperatures of up to 30 degrees. forecast however, a yellow rain warning is in place for northern england and wales

tomorrow and there are risks of flooding and disruption. but once that subsides , as once that subsides, as temperatures are due to soar , temperatures are due to soar, which could make the uk hotter than parts of california , this than parts of california, this is gb news. we'll have more in about an hour's time. but now it is back to . leo well, come to is back to. leo well, come to mark dolan tonight and let's have a look at some of your emails which have been coming in thick and fast, mostly about the grouse which is grouse shooting, which is turning quite turning out to be quite a controversial topic , richard controversial topic, richard says leo it is blasting birds out of the sky for fun, exclamation mark. >> it's a barbaric and knuckle dragging weekend hobby of the toffee nosed landed gentry who spend the weekdays fast asleep in the house of lords. i don't think everybody who goes grouse shooting necessarily a member shooting is necessarily a member of house of lords. some of the house of lords. some impassioned opinions there . impassioned opinions there. michael says the panel are talking . sorry, his talking rubbish. sorry, his words, mine . the estate's words, not mine. the estate's kill all the animals and birds

that could kill the grouse chicks. that's not necessarily that's not true. i mean, there are some raptors killed on grouse moors, but it's illegal andifs grouse moors, but it's illegal and it's rightly punished very strongly when it does happen . strongly when it does happen. anyway, still to come, we've got the with ann the newsmaker with ann widdecombe. getting widdecombe. we'll be getting into tories into whether the tories risk being as the nasty party being seen as the nasty party again . and at 10:30 pm. again. and at 10:30 pm. sharpish, we'll be getting tomorrow's papers hot off the press. plus we'll have tonight's headune press. plus we'll have tonight's headline heroes and back page zeroes. big stories, big guests and always big opinions . here is and always big opinions. here is my take . at ten, the latest word my take. at ten, the latest word for women arrived this week, a form at a hospital in london referred to women as patients of childbearing potential. i can't imagine how a woman handed this form would feel , but maybe form would feel, but maybe they're used to it by now. we've seen women steadily erased from nhs literature. they're referred to as people who have a cervix.

people assigned female at birth, patients of childbearing age people who know they are pregnant, anything basically, except the one term that everyone knows and understands. women in the nhs is reduced. women in the nhs is reduced. women to a set of biological components and functions. vaginal birth is now called frontal birth . a frontal birth frontal birth. a frontal birth sounds like something on a cruise ship. maternity services are now called perinatal services . perinatal sounds like services. perinatal sounds like something you'd get in nando's . something you'd get in nando's. and the vagina is now called the bonus hall. surely if any hall is a bonus hall, it's the bumhole. breast milk is now called milk from the chest. and breast feeding is called chest feeding. and don't escape feeding. and men don't escape either . instead feeding. and men don't escape either. instead father, feeding. and men don't escape either . instead father, they either. instead of father, they say second biological parent. all of this is so unnecessary , all of this is so unnecessary, it's done to avoid causing offence to trans men. that's people who are born female and then decide to identify as men. but they make up a tiny fraction of the population and why would the words woman or breast be offensive to them when it comes to care, men know

to health care, trans men know that have female anatomy that they have female anatomy and that words and they know that words like vagina relate them. vagina relate to them. i've never a single trans never heard of a single trans man that the word man complaining that the word breastfeeding them panic breastfeeding gives them a panic attack can't access nhs attack or they can't access nhs services of the word services because of the word mother. why are we up ending our entire dictionary to avoid causing imaginary offence to imaginary people? and what about the feelings of women who don't get to refer to get to be get to refer to don't get to be referred to as women anymore, but category used as but instead are category used as people childbearing people of childbearing potential? look, we should all try to be polite to people who identify as another and identify as another gender and use preferred pronouns. use their preferred pronouns. but about the people who but what about the people who actually are that gender? don't they referred to as they get to be referred to as women of carriers women instead of ovary carriers 7 women instead of ovary carriers ? and it's dangerous to use these kind looted euphemistic terms instead of words that everyone understands . some women everyone understands. some women haven't done a joint honours in medicine and gender studies and don't know what a person in ownership of a cervix means. don't know what a person in ownership of a cervix means . and ownership of a cervix means. and the nhs treats a lot of women who don't speak english as a first language, and women is a universally term .

universally recognised term. patients of childbearing potential . sounds like patients of childbearing potential. sounds like a 90s indie band . the gender indie band. the gender ideologists who run the nhs can stick these euphemisms for women right up their bonus hole . right up their bonus hole. anyway what do you think? do you agree? do you disagree? email into gbviews@gbnews.com and i'll get to your emails after the break. reacting to my take at ten are former labour mp simon danczuk , director for the common danczuk, director for the common sense society, emma webb and broad caster and psychotherapist lucy beresford. coming up, we've got the papers at 10:30 pm. sharp with full panel reaction . sharp with full panel reaction. but let's first talk to you about about these euphemisms that the nhs are using. >> well, i've worked clinically with individuals who either are transitioning or have transitioned , and they find transitioned, and they find these new terms really offensive because they feel that it others them that it it's something that's being introduced in order

for to highlight the fact that they're different , whereas the they're different, whereas the one thing they want to do is to blend in is to not feel different. they've spent their whole the wrong whole lives feeling in the wrong body feeling that they body or feeling that they haven't seen as who they haven't been seen as who they really are. and now they finally are. then they go into are. and then they go into a situation, a medical setting , situation, a medical setting, where actually the very people who give who they thought would give them understanding and insights are actually the people who are giving very strange giving them these very strange labels . labels. >> so these terms that we're being told are there to help trans people feel inclusive, included , it's actually included, it's actually alienating trans people and actually making them feel othered. i mean, that's that's if you want to use their own language . language. >> i mean, how much more othering can you get than reducing somebody their reducing somebody to their biologic parts dehumanising biologic parts and dehumanising them way so that they them in that way so that they even things like, you know, if we're if we if we try to apply their sort of like criticising everything and tearing it apart even the term bonus hole makes it sound like it's some kind of add on which they would say

makes men sort of normative. it's making men the model. and then there's the bonus hole, the additional thing, and also bonus hole. >> it sounds like a bail should go off in pound coin should go off in a pound coin should fall out. >> it's same same thing with >> it's the same same thing with saying second, second biological >> it's the same same thing with saying makesi, second biological >> it's the same same thing with saying makesi, ssound biological >> it's the same same thing with saying makesi, ssound like ogical >> it's the same same thing with saying makesi, ssound like it'sal parent makes it sound like it's the is the first. i don't the woman is the first. i don't actually believe this, but if you're just applying their own logic yeah. even logic to it. yeah. and then even to woman is a person to say that a woman is a person who has childbearing potential, there are lots of women who have gone through the menopause or for whatever reason, can't have children . for whatever reason, can't have children. imagine being woman children. imagine being a woman who children looking who can't have children looking at form that defines at a form that defines what a woman childbearing woman is by childbearing potential. you know that that's what it's referring to. you potential. you know that that's what iit; referring to. you potential. you know that that's what iit meansng to. you potential. you know that that's what iit means woman. u potential. you know that that's what iit means woman. but it's know, it means woman. but it's making feel less of a woman making you feel less of a woman because you can't have children when want to. the when you might want to. the whole thing is so insulting and dehumanising . and even though dehumanising. and even though you mentioned that sometimes men do get a bit of this, it's almost always women . they're almost always women. they're always going for basically deconstruct being women. >> it really calls into >> but it really calls into question the people who are

responsible for this. should they running public services. they be running public services. it's a very serious question, isn't it ? anybody who can get to isn't it? anybody who can get to this conclusion in an organisation who are setting a culture which is bizarre and to the vast majority of the people watching this program think is madness, should not be anywhere near delivering public services . so the view would be just get on with doing the day job we've got the nhs in quite a state and they're focusing on stuff like this . get on with treating this. get on with treating patients. that's the priority. nothing else , no culture wars, nothing else, no culture wars, just that . just that. >> what do you think is behind this? i we've seen this? i mean, we've seen diversity, inclusion diversity, equity and inclusion come into pretty all come into pretty much all organisations private be seen to be sector sensitive , but in fact be sector sensitive, but in fact the actual opposite is coming across because they come across as all categories as insensitive to all categories of people because it's offending the people who have either transitioned or are transition learning. >> and it certainly offends, as emma said, the very women who are perhaps availing themselves of these services, whatever the medical treatment might be. but

sometimes actually sometimes they're actually insensitively, highlighting things that might be, you know , things that might be, you know, not possible for some of those women . women. >> yeah. and simon, i mean , have >> yeah. and simon, i mean, have you seen many ructions in the labour party over this ? because labour party over this? because it seems there are elements in the labour party who are pulling in the direction of gender, ideology and other elements that are pulling back. >> yeah , real tensions >> yeah, real tensions within the party there. and keir the labour party there. and keir starmer has only just flip flopped on this, hasn't he? yeah, he was struggling to define woman was until define what a woman was until a few and now he's few weeks ago and now he's decided what one is and knows how to decide . describe one. how to decide. describe one. this is a desperate is to win the next general election, to run it past a few focus groups . run it past a few focus groups. >> before he worked out what women was, quite possibly because vote loser. >> yeah, that's the reality of it and was initially it. and what he was initially trying to do appeal trying to do is to appeal to a very small section of society in terms of these issues . it's not terms of these issues. it's not there's no votes to won be by appealing to this very small section . section. >> that's right. there was a brilliant poll in the mail on

sunday today, and identified sunday today, and it identified all the issues that people all the key issues that people are concerned about and gender and identity issues was second bottom with about 1.5% of people thinking that it's relevant with cost of living at 69. yeah. >> and why do you think the gender ideologies have have so much power and so much influence 7 much power and so much influence ? why do you think there are special advisers close to governments? do you think it's just you know, just the case that, you know, when get disinterested when people get disinterested in government allows people with quite esoteric interests to get closer and influence government? >> i think you're seeing it across of our different across all of our different institutions. we've seen institutions. so we've seen it with . yes, we've with the police. yes, we've seen it with public as we it with the public sector, as we were discussing , spending were just discussing, spending so money on pride month. so much money on pride month. it's across the public sector, but it's also across the private sector as well. and so i think a lot of it has to do with organisers. there are certain organisations that that lobby the public and private sector provide them with forms of accreditation. we saw it this week reported by gb news investigates that a b corp esg

and that was relating to the de—banking scandal. and we've seen with with the gender, gender stuff in corporations as a stonewall provide all this advice and it's basically to get the badge. >> it's like a protection racket, a mafia protection racket. >> that's the problem. there's a church of england, all of them signed this. people are signed up to this. people are mistaking noise for volume that actually there are a lot of noise here, a lot of noise around here, a lot of white around the topic. white noise around the topic. and think particularly and people think particularly maybe saying, oh , we maybe politicians saying, oh, we better attention, we better better pay attention, we better do it. but do something about it. but actually, no, people are really not by that . they just not bothered by that. they just want people to live and want other people to live and let live in the same way as that's you want for that's what you want for yourself and people are yourself. and people are tolerant and large. and tolerant by and large. yeah. and politicians are almost infantilizing us to imagine that we can't appreciate the beauty of the difference of people . and of the difference of people. and i think some of it is that it gives, it makes it makes them feel that they have a purpose. i think that we're living in a kind void meaning . and so kind of void of meaning. and so there some people find

there are some people who find who find purpose in promoting these things. there's almost a kind religious city to kind of like religious city to it. also probably in the it. and also probably in the workplace , maybe there are some workplace, maybe there are some people for whom it's as simple as it's just fun to spend money on glitter tattoos , whereas on glitter tattoos, whereas actually doing your job is in actually doing yourjob is in administration and bureaucracy is maybe a little bit less fun. so i think it's this kind of like gender shift that we have towards this managerial society. yeah, but at the same time, i think that there's a concerted effort on the part of a lot of people to and push this. people to try and push this. >> just briefly, of >> and just briefly, in terms of politicians, afraid , politicians, some are afraid, are being on the wrong are afraid of being on the wrong side that they side of history so that they might be seen as as at one time they would have been homophobic if they'd been opposed to, you know, to gay people getting rights and things . and so rights and things. and so there's this worry about being on the wrong side of history. and that's captured some and i think that's captured some people's attention in. and we've gone down a road that we're struggling to get back from. >> do you think there's >> i mean, do you think there's an in this an element of classism in this as it's almost an element of classism in this as a it's almost an element of classism in this

as a new it's almost an element of classism in this as a new language; almost an element of classism in this as a new language islmost an element of classism in this as a new language is being like a new language is being developed and unless you have the time and the energy and the resources to research all this and read the guardian and cover the cover every day and do the right university courses at the right university courses at the right university, then you're not going to know the correct terms which which change every every two weeks. and we see it with not just with gender, but with not just with gender, but with know , black with race, you know, black people to be referred to as people have to be referred to as bame and then bipoc and then global majority and yeah, i mean, it's almost to sort of exclude people who it's elitist and exclusive ironically. >> yeah . they are the very thing >> yeah. they are the very thing that they accuse everybody else of but it is this the language they use is a very closed system that you learn from doing things like gender studies at university. and a point university. and this is a point that about, you know, that you made about, you know, signing that if signing in the forms that if whether english is your second language this like language or not, this is like learning language. learning a whole other language. and people who are not and so people who are not universal city graduates who or who don't buy into that, who just speak plainly and with common sense, will find

themselves falling afoul of it just because they're not using the turns phrases that the right turns of phrases that are to really are not used to really communicate anything they to communicate anything they use to signal that you're part an signal that you're part of an in—group. you don't use in—group. and if you don't use that you're not that language, you're not part of and you'll of the in—group, and then you'll find possibly find yourself possibly de—banking out. >> yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> analysis. back >> good analysis. you go back to rochdale burnley, where i'm from, people look at blankly from, people look at you blankly and what is this and say, what is this conversation about? they have absolutely zero interest whatsoever. yeah so it's a small but very vocal minority of people on on twitter and in some other places that are creating a lot of noise and that steering a lot of noise and that steering a lot of noise and that steering a lot of very real government policy that's making its way through to the in the public sector and through to private companies as well through diversity , equity and inclusion. diversity, equity and inclusion. >> but in reality, it's just a tiny that tiny fraction of people who are who are rattling, who are jumping up and down and making lots of noise. >> but it's also the financial incentives. so fact you incentives. so the fact that you can accredited for can get accredited for in cooperating environmental, social and governance into your

whether it's public private whether it's public or private sector , in fact, that even the sector, in fact, that even the church england commissioners church of england commissioners who investments who handle the investments for the england are signed who handle the investments for theto england are signed who handle the investments for theto the england are signed who handle the investments for theto the un's ngland are signed who handle the investments for theto the un's principlese signed who handle the investments for theto the un's principles forjned up to the un's principles for responsible investment, which incorporates esg responsible. so no surprise that they are so keen on reaching net zero, because this is something that is obviously on their agenda. >> that you >> it's interesting that you mentioned because mentioned the church because when seems like a when a lot of this seems like a new religion with its new rules to be followed, but with to be to be followed, but with with actual with very little actual practical , with very little actual practical, real with very little actual practical , real practical with very little actual practical, real practical use . practical, real practical use. anyway, coming up, we've got the papers at 10:30 pm. sharp with a full panel reaction. next, a full panel reaction. but next, tonight's ann tonight's newsmaker is ann widdecombe. you in couple widdecombe. see you in a couple of

radio. >> welcome back to mark dolan tonight with me, leo kearse. let's have a couple of your emails . so stephen says, i go to emails. so stephen says, i go to the pride parade in birmingham, which is a morning early afternoon event, but like many gay people, i've long stopped going to the second part of the event where you have to buy a very expensive ticket to attend

all the concerts and bars, etcetera. a nonsense, no etcetera. so a no nonsense, no nonsense thing about pride there. moira says that she's very angry at all this nonsense by the nhs. how much of the nhs money is being wasted on these gender identity issues? quite right, quite right. moira. they need to focus on clearing the waiting lists. and you know, i've got massive support for, for the nhs and the people doing their doing their jobs and i wish they weren't getting distracted with gender ideology, nonsense . stella says that these nonsense. stella says that these terms are disgusting and insulting to women and lee says the quickest way to equality is to d label people. but it seems to d label people. but it seems to be all about labelling people these days, and you have to treat people, treat these people. this way and those people. this way and those people that way, which is the opposite of equality, quite right there. anyway, it's time now for the newsmaker in which a fearless commentator speaks out on big stories of the day. on the big stories of the day. and newsmaker is and tonight's newsmaker is former conservative minister ann widdecombe. now, it was reported today that senior conservative

lives are concerned that they will be once again branded the nasty party following the latest news on migrant crossings. nasty party following the latest news on migrant crossings . there news on migrant crossings. there is also a growing number of tory ministers apparently backing plans to quit the european convention on human rights . so convention on human rights. so are the conservatives just playing nasty with no regard for human rights? good evening and good to good to see you . thanks good to good to see you. thanks for joining us. >> good forjoining us. >> good evening and what do you make of this? >> i mean, the tories, really the nasty party now, of course, they're not. >> i mean, that that was a phrase used by the former and unlamented prime minister theresa may when the conservative were in opposition. and she thought that that was a way of currying favour with the tory party has never been the nasty party. but what it has always been is the divide party and those divisions are now really coming to the fore . there

really coming to the fore. there is a section of the party that is a section of the party that is in tune with public opinion which knows that people want the migrant crisis solved. and if that means coming out of echr, then so be it. if that is the answer to stopping the boats, then so be it. and there is nothing nasty. whatever over about trying to stop people entering a highly dangerous situation for no good reason other than the profit of the people who who are making money out of this. and people are drowning at the very best. they have a terrible journey. they come here. they are not immediately given british citizenship and given a job and all the rest of it. you know, the streets of london are not paved with gold now. there's nothing nasty about wanting to stop that . there's nothing nasty stop that. there's nothing nasty about wanting to stop the sheer pressure that all this is putting on school meals, on

transport, on health services. there's nothing nasty about that. but there has always been a section of the tory party that wants to be lib dem and they are the people that we are now heanng the people that we are now hearing from. so my message to the tory party is fine, by all means give up trying to solve the immigration problem by all means ditch any thought of coming out of echr and reform. uk will do it for all you mate. >> but don't you think i mean you talk about the people wanting the migrant crisis to be resolved , but some people , some resolved, but some people, some people disagree and when people like lee anderson, politicians like lee anderson, politicians like lee anderson come out and use quite, quite brutal language, this maybe got some some ugly connotations if you go back a few decades. i mean, i love lee anderson myself. i think he's blunt. he's tough talking. but i just think

language like they should f off back to france , it's going to back to france, it's going to turn people away and push people away. when you really want to bnng away. when you really want to bring people on board and support the efforts to solve the migrant crisis as well. >> actually, i disagree. i think that probably a large proportion of the population thought, thank heavens for that. when lee anderson said what they'd been thinking for a very long time now, i wouldn't have used the verb in question . as i said verb in question. as i said earlier on this week on gb news, i wouldn't have used that term. but the sentiment, which is france is a perfectly safe country . you know, they have country. you know, they have chosen to leave that safe country. they have chosen not to 6my country. they have chosen not to apply for asylum there , but to apply for asylum there, but to try to get illegally into this country . and then they have the country. and then they have the gall to complain about the fact that everything isn't to their satisfaction. well, i think it's quite right to say i would probably phrase it buzz off back to france and do you think this

this problem can be resolved without leaving the echr . it's without leaving the echr. it's difficult to see how you now . it difficult to see how you now. it is a fact that an awful lot of countries simply don't comply with rulings from the ec . and we with rulings from the ec. and we actually we britain have have a very, very , very good reputation very, very, very good reputation for abiding by rulings. we're one of the highest % of rulings one of the highest% of rulings are actually observed by britain. so you know, we could say , well, we're staying echr, say, well, we're staying echr, but we're not going to take a blind bit of notice of this. and if you want to complain about that, well, look at germany's record of complying with rulings. you know , look at some rulings. you know, look at some other countries records . well, other countries records. well, fine. you know, if it's good enough for them, it's good enough for them, it's good enough britain. don't enough for britain. we don't actually your we're actually like your ruling. we're not with it. now not going to comply with it. now thatis not going to comply with it. now that is another and it's that is another option. and it's less drastic than coming out altogether . altogether. >> well, is an option that >> well, that is an option that we could look at. i love the

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radio. >> it's 10:30 radio. >> it's10:30 p.m. so it's a time for a look at tomorrow morning's newspapers. hot off the press. let's have a look at those. actually before we have a look at those. let's just have a quick look at some of your emails. so kathy says, have i missed something? who on earth would take gender studies at university? okay maybe it wasn't worth going back to that, but thank you for sending that in. kathy anyway, got kathy anyway, we've got the independent with scandal of independent here with scandal of renters facing deadly renters left facing deadly hazards in homes, 1 in 8 families live with life threatening issues such as structural flaws and fire risks.

as landlords profiteer from unsafe housing. well, if we built more houses , there built more houses, there wouldn't be such an imbalance in the market and they wouldn't be able to profiteer the tent crash. the metro leads with tent crash. the metro leads with tent crash baby in miracle escape . crash baby in miracle escape. that was that horrifying crash at a campsite in wales. good to hear that. a baby escaped the i leads with surprise hike to inflation next month will boost state pension . good news for state pension. good news for people who get that i'm still a few years off. the daily mail has patients trying to escape labour welsh nhs apparently soaring numbers of patients from wales are seeking care in engush wales are seeking care in english hospitals to escape the longer waiting lists under the labour run welsh nhs. so devolution hasn't just been a disaster in scotland then the guardian leads with lower income pupils expected to be hit hardest by grade deflation . then hardest by grade deflation. then they also have a picture there of somebody clearing mines in the next donetsk area in

ukraine, and they say they're desperate for help in clearing mines. there are up to five mines. there are up to five mines per square metre , so mines per square metre, so fingers crossed they can fix that. and the land can become habitable again . the sun leads habitable again. the sun leads with kane, could play for germany. there's a bit of a caveat there . it's his son. if caveat there. it's his son. if harry kane son is born in munich , then of course he could play for germany. the daily express has some good news for a change. brexit boost bringing business back to britain. a lot of bees there like that and the daily star finally has we're mad for it. the summer saved brits to fry in 31 degrees. french fries . well, i like that. so somebody happy about hotter weather instead of seeing the planet is burning. that's nice to see. but yeah, let's go back to that that brexit britain brexit boost bringing business back to britain. so firms are benefiting from benefiting from brexit by bringing their business the

production of goods back into the uk. i don't know if it's the supply chains are just too complicated when they've got to have production the uk, have production outside the uk, but we've few good news but we've seen a few good news stories about brexit. we always knew that brexit was going to be an hit on the economy, an initial hit on the economy, but then long term it could reap dividends as we sort of enjoy a bit of singaporean freedom. i mean, this , this is some good mean, this, this is some good news, surely. >> emma yeah , i think, know, >> emma yeah, i think, you know, often people saying, well, often i get people saying, well, surely you think that the brexit vote mistake because we vote was a mistake because we haven't suddenly the haven't suddenly reached the sunlit uplands. well, people sunlit uplands. well, do people who to thwart brexit are who tried to thwart brexit are still people who are running still the people who are running the country? you know , there are the country? you know, there are still lot of in the house still a lot of them in the house of of commons. things of house of commons. things weren't turn around weren't going to turn around overnight. brexit was a vote in principle to get our sovereignty back. that was what it was about. whatever the about. so whatever the consequence is, if we screw it up, it's at least it's us who screwed it up rather than us handing power to handing our power over to another entity that can push us around . so i think, i mean any, around. so i think, i mean any, any good news like this, it's

nice to see something other than, you know, usually you see everything being blamed on brexit, if it's a very brexit, even if it's only a very tenuous link. and of course, because of the pandemic, it's sort of shrouding brexit. we don't know what could have happened if that hadn't have immediately followed. so obviously , this is this is obviously, this is this is wonderful news. and i think that the is increasingly becoming, the eu is increasingly becoming, as many of us predicted , had an as many of us predicted, had an unfriendly place for business, although i mean saying that it looks like the eu or many countries in the eu are actually drawing closer to the uk. >> i think in the immediate aftermath brexit was aftermath of brexit there was a there a need for the eu to there was a need for the eu to be seen as almost punishing britain dissuade britain for leaving to dissuade others as but others from leaving as well. but now know, that that's now that know, now that that's happened we've seen happened and now we've seen there's actually countries worse happened and now we've seen there britain ally countries worse happened and now we've seen therebritain on countries worse happened and now we've seen there britain on the ntries worse happened and now we've seen therebritain on the edgesworse happened and now we've seen therebritain on the edges ofrse than britain on the edges of europe invading europe, now people are a bit warmer to britain. >> yeah, i'd been a remainer in the referendum , but as soon as the referendum, but as soon as the referendum, but as soon as the decision result was taken and a majority of the country wanted to leave the eu, then i got fully behind it. you know,

that's, that's democracy. yeah, it good news. i think it it is good news. i think it shows a resilient britain actually is as a nation . i think actually is as a nation. i think we're, you know, especially this is talking about manufacturing, which always been very which we've always been very strong at some growth and stronger resilience in terms of manufacturing. i think we'll be most welcome in the uk. yeah fantastic. >> and the daily mail has patience trying to escape labour's welsh nhs. so apparently even the waiting lists are apparently really long in in england they're longer in wales. i mean, is this another example of devolution failing ? example of devolution failing? >> you know what i think you get commentators trying to guess what a labour government will be like . well, the short answer to like. well, the short answer to that is, look at devolution, whether andy burnham in whether it's andy burnham in greater manchester labour in wales , and there's some a number wales, and there's some a number of failures in terms of devolution and how labour in local government or these devolved levels are actually performing. you know, they wanted devolution in wales and

take responsibility for their own decisions and look at the consequences of that. so it does call into question labour's ability to govern. it says, and the really big figures, you know, it's 1 in 5 in wales are actually on a some of actually on a some form of waiting whereas it's and waiting list, whereas it's and i'm going to say only 13. >> but that's even still a shocking statistic. but1 in 5 shocking statistic. but 1 in 5 is pretty soul destroying. if you're the one waiting for your hip replacement or knee hip replacement or your knee operation. wonder they've operation. so no wonder they've been the, you know, the been crossing the, you know, the theoretical to into theoretical border to come into england. is the number england. this is the number of people seeking in people who are seeking care in engush people who are seeking care in english avoid the english hospitals to avoid the wait risen by 40% in the wait has risen by 40% in the last two years. wow. i mean, that's huge. and if you lived on the border of wales and you can easily cross into england, i mean, it shouldn't be that with health care, i keep saying over and over again that, you know, now we have a universal lack of health care. if we don't solve this problem. people this problem. there are people in can't get to this problem. there are people in a can't get to this problem. there are people in a dentist. can't get to this problem. there are people in a dentist. yeah can't get to this problem. there are people in a dentist. yeah and: get to this problem. there are people in a dentist. yeah and yet, to this problem. there are people in a dentist. yeah and yet, you see a dentist. yeah and yet, you know, resources seem to be a sort of postcode lottery . so sort of postcode lottery. so i think you're right. if anybody's

wondering what a labour government might look like, then you just have to look at this kind of mismanagement because if that's the whole country , that's the whole country, there's be nowhere to there's going to be nowhere to run mean , is that >> although i mean, is that completely fair? because, i mean, we look at devolved parliaments, to parliaments, they're subject to nowhere near the amount of scrutiny the westminster so scrutiny the westminster is. so i westminster, even though i think westminster, even though it seems like it doesn't, it does higher does operate at a higher standard . standard. >> scrutiny who, though? >> scrutiny from who, though? what kind difference do you what kind of difference do you get the opposition? get between the opposition? >> standing >> there's people standing across across the floor, you across the across the floor, you know, scrutiny , every piece of know, scrutiny, every piece of policy and holding people's feet to the fire or they're supposed to the fire or they're supposed to anyway. i mean, the way the country's going, i'm not sure it's happening. i mean, we can see the picture in the guardian there of somebody clearing mines in ukraine. i mean , it looks in ukraine. i mean, it looks like the ukrainian counter offensive is stalled . some offensive is stalled. some people have said that this is because as the west was too slow in delivering weaponry to the to ukraine. so russia had time to fortify and lay mines and tank

traps. so then you know, when ukraine did get the tanks, they couldn't just roll down and have that, you know, that that fast that, you know, that that fast that fast recapturing of land that fast recapturing of land that we saw in the north, there was a little worry that there was, in a way, too much ukraine fatigue, that actually the countries in west weren't as countries in the west weren't as galvanised and maybe well, we knew always going be knew it was always going to be quite game. quite a long game. >> if you're the country >> but if you're the country that's having to put out those munitions, ammunitions, then we would saying , what's the would be saying, what's the return on investment ? and return on investment? and zelenskyy in a way has been going on a big pr initiative around the world, whether it's america, saudi arabia, going to many of the european capitals to say, look, don't forget about us. yeah it was definitely 20, 20 two's news, but photos of what's happening in ukraine are few and far between on the front pages nowadays. it's no longer shocking , i think, as well. like shocking, i think, as well. like we the beginning , shocking, i think, as well. like we the beginning, i think we at the beginning, i think seeing for photographs like that in europe , if not for the first in europe, if not for the first time since the second world war,

but such graphic images like that, bringing back people's memories of that, whether it's memories of that, whether it's memories of that, whether it's memories of their own or memories of their own or memories of their grandparents and i think people became so desensitised to the constant round the clock footage that now we see these images and, you know, surprised know, not particularly surprised by them, possibly because we've become fatigued . but become fatigued. but it's interesting, article says interesting, this article says that most that ukraine is now the most heavily country on earth. heavily mined country on earth. >> i mean, the entirety >> yeah. i mean, the entirety of, you know, russia's military might or we used to assume it was it was might it turns out to not be as effective as as we once thought. but the once thought. but yeah, the amount munitions and cluster amount of munitions and cluster bombs and mines that they've laid in ukraine and anti—personnel traps, it's incredible. and they're obviously going to need, you know, assuming ukraine does liberate the land, they're going to need help for years to come. and clearing that. and we're also seeing on the independent the scandal of renters left facing deadly hazards in homes. i mean, is this just the natural result of the housing market and

the fact that there aren't enough homes? so landlords can basically operate how they want ? >> 7. >>i ? >> i think it 7_ >> i think it is 7— >> i think it is a ? >> i think it is a case of 7 >> i think it is a case of that there's a real shortage, isn't there? we aren't building anywhere near enough houses. there's about that. and anywhere near enough houses. there'of about that. and anywhere near enough houses. there'of these about that. and anywhere near enough houses. there'of these problems hat. and anywhere near enough houses. there'of these problems will and anywhere near enough houses. there'of these problems will also some of these problems will also occur the public in social occur in the public in social housing as well as this is talking the private rented talking about the private rented sector. but will apply sector. but it will just apply just much to the to social just as much to the to social landlords as well . housing landlords as well. housing associations, local authorities that have housing and the conditions in many houses, properties are really low. yeah. >> so we need more houses and fewer because the people fewer people because the people coming across the channel are not bringing a house with them anyway. the anyway. coming up, we have the times after the break. times newspaper after the break. plus tonight's headline, heroes and back page zeroes and want to know . send them into gb know yours. send them into gb views gbnews.com. in views gbnews.com. see you in a couple

welcome back to mark dolan tonight. with me tonight are simon danczuk, emma webb and lucy beresford. and we have the times now and they lead with shots fired in migrant clash before vessel sank. i mean , this before vessel sank. i mean, this is an incredible story. they say gunfire and clashes involving migrants desperate to get to britain broke out in dunkirk in the hours before a small boat sankin the hours before a small boat sank in the channel killing six people. witnesses said yesterday. so chaos spread through the camp on friday as migrants prepared to board boats laid on by smuggling gangs despite choppy water and high winds, which then proved deadly. i mean, it sounds from from reading this as though this precipitated the chaos, the gunfire at the camp precipitated them going into the going into them going into the going into the boats before they were ready. some of the boats were over overladen with with people. one of them was overburdened by by 65 overloaded by 65 people,

which you know then the in the rush to get across the channel sadly they might not have taken as much care and attention as they would have. >> it sounds like a panic that they just all of this chaos was happening and they headed to the waters despite the fact that it was too choppy for them to go. >> yeah, it also tells us we have to the criminal have to break the criminal people, smugglers, gangs, business because that's business model, because that's what's driving this. it involves firearms . what's driving this. it involves firearms. it's a significant part of criminal activity and credit to the government . the credit to the government. the rwandan policy, which i support , is about breaking the business model , , is about breaking the business model, making it less , is about breaking the business model , making it less attractive model, making it less attractive for people to come here is about breaking the business model, and if it means turning the boats back, then that's what needs to be done. and if that means leaving the european court of human rights, then that's what should done. there's should be done. and there's only there will be only one people to blame on this. it's those the blame on this. it's those on the left, politics blame on this. it's those on the left, been politics blame on this. it's those on the left, been denying s blame on this. it's those on the left, been denying this is an who've been denying this is an issue all along. yeah, we ultimately have to take the right action to deter what's

currently going on. people dying as well. >> yeah. i mean, it seems it seems disgusting people are seems disgusting that people are stymieing government's stymieing the government's efforts boats, efforts to stop these boats, boats crossing while people are dying and painting it as if it's the government who are the ones who immoral and who are being immoral and insensitive, they've insensitive, and they've they've now made this deal with the turkish, which will share intelligence and personnel and resources to try and get as close to the source as possible where the dinghies are coming from to try and sort of disrupt the supply chains, because there are a lot has to go in to all of the various stages before you've managed to smuggle the people to calais and all of the equipment in order to get them across the channel. >> so this is quite a sort of like complicated, sophisticated outfit they've got going outfit that they've got going on. i think now people are on. but i think now people are feeling so , so disheartened by feeling so, so disheartened by repeated government failures . i repeated government failures. i don't think, given the legal situation, given the activist lawyers who will do anything that they to can get people to

sort of game the system , i don't sort of game the system, i don't think there's much you can do unless you do something like. but the problem is that the human isn't actually human rights it isn't actually just what the british just about what the british government do because government can do because so much you know, people much of this you know, people are coming from tunisia and libya and they're going to italy, they're going to greece. there's a comment in this particular on front particular article on the front page of the times talking about how authorities seem how the french authorities seem to incredibly slow to be incredibly slow at rescuing who'd gone rescuing the people who'd gone into the leaving for into the chop, leaving them for the british, for the rnli to come along. but actually , we come along. but actually, we i don't really hear politicians being honest about the fact that this isn't just a british problem. this is a certainly a european problem, if not a global problem . and therefore global problem. and therefore there needs to be a coordinated response. >> well, let's so sorry, but if you look at labour's solution to this, they have a five point plan which makes no sense at all. do a new deal with france, give more money in international aid. i mean, that's not going to solve the problem. >> um, yeah, it probably handle that the nhs anyway , that worse than the nhs anyway, it's that worse than the nhs anyway, wsfime that worse than the nhs anyway, it's time now for headline

heroes and back page zeros. >> emma, who's your headline? >> emma, who's your headline? >> hero? he's a musician whose name oliver anthony, and some name is oliver anthony, and some people will have heard of him if they're twitter or they're on on twitter or any other social media. you can see a of there almost a picture of him there almost a magnificent a picture of him there almost a ma he's:ent a picture of him there almost a ma he's become an almost >> he's become an almost overnight sensation . overnight sensation. >> and a factory worker >> and he's a factory worker from virginia who has written and performed this song, rich men, rich men north of richmond. and is of best pieces and it is one of the best pieces of music that i've heard in a long time. this guy is absolutely phenomenal . it's real absolutely phenomenal. it's real music. it comes from the heart andifs music. it comes from the heart and it's connected with people . and it's connected with people. and he's this sensation. and he's become this sensation. he's reached the top of the itunes chart in the united states , and he is being labelled states, and he is being labelled by megxit means like the rolling stones magazine mean and the media establishment as being no surprise, right wing, presumably just because he is a blue collar worker from the wrong part of the country working class guy who's singing about working

class problems and the music elite in rolling stones magazine is trying to associate him with with the right wing saying that he's become the hero of right wing. >> i think now when we see the words right wing or far right extremist, we just assume it's probably off mumsnet, extremist, we just assume it's prolit'sy off mumsnet, extremist, we just assume it's prolit's bizarre off mumsnet, extremist, we just assume it's prolit's bizarre that off mumsnet, extremist, we just assume it's prolit's bizarre that onorking1et, but it's bizarre that a working class guy would be labelled in this way by the left. >> my is lee anderson mp >> my hero is lee anderson mp for saying it how it should be said. if you don't like said. really. if you don't like the barges, if illegal immigrants don't like the barge accommodation , then go back to accommodation, then go back to france, right? so he's vocalising a lot of people vocalising what a lot of people are thinking. >> and lucy, who's your headune? >> hero? it's lionesses. so >> hero? it's the lionesses. so we very tense match yesterday. >> oh, the football . >> oh, the football. >> oh, the football. >> not the women's clubs, not the aspinall rescue lions, although that would be beautiful as well . yeah. no, this is the as well. yeah. no, this is the women's football team. we're now through the semi—final , which through to the semi—final, which will on wednesday . will be played on wednesday. we're playing australia, which is the only team that has beaten us while we've been coached by

sanna us while we've been coached by sarina wiegman . so yeah, the sarina wiegman. so yeah, the omens are well, we've had some injuries and one of our key players is on a match suspension. so yeah, if we get through this, it's to going be absolutely phenomenal. okay, great. nominal >> emma, your back? >> emma, who's your back? >> emma, who's your back? >> how bad is it that >> page zero. how bad is it that i didn't know that we were even playing football? back . page playing football? my back. page zero are the eco zealots who slashed the tires of the anti ulez campaigners. so there was an anti ulez protest and eco protesters slashed their tires. well, someone slashed their tires, presumably in objection to that being against ulez b, that's going to lead to more emissions because they're going to replace the tires. emissions because they're going to the replace the tires. emissions because they're going to the who's lace the tires. emissions because they're going to the who's who's1e tires. emissions because they're going to the who's who's youras. emissions because they're going to the who's who's your back ? >> the who's who's your back? >> the who's who's your back? >> my the home office civil servants couldn't get the servants who couldn't get the bibby stockholm barge prepared in time and safe and ready for action. >> yeah, quite right. and lucy, robbie williams, singer who has decided that he wants to not grow old gracefully , but he's grow old gracefully, but he's going to submit to tweakments . going to submit to tweakments. >> now these are non—invasive of

sort of it's not plastic surgery. it's the things that you would do having sort of facial massages and things. but he wants to have a lift under the eyes. and i just i look at him and i think he's quite a handsome guy. anyway, just grow old gracefully . he you don't old gracefully. he you don't need to indulge in these things. >> don't look better with a, >> don't men look better with a, you know, a few, few grizzled you know, a few, a few grizzled wrinkles, in wrinkles, grizzled character in there and. yeah, but i guess it's always worth living up to his thank you very much. i'm 27. >> when you were 14. >> when you were 14. >> scotsman has ever lived but i mean robbie williams he said in his in his song i want to what did he say? i want to get old before i die. hope i'm old before i die. hope i'm old before i die. so maybe it's just living. >> living out that lucy yeah, well, don't indulge a sort well, just don't indulge a sort of i concerns of industry that i have concerns about more generally in terms of particularly young are particularly young girls who are influenced and see perfection on things like instagram and tiktok and , well, have and think, oh, well, i can have these little tweakments so you're worried that there's going other some 45 going to be some other some 45 year men out there are

year old men out there who are going to like, well, robbie year old men out there who are going to hasike, well, robbie year old men out there who are going to has had nell, robbie year old men out there who are going to has had this robbie year old men out there who are going to has had this done. e williams has had this done. >> same. would ever consider? >> no, i don't think would. >> no, i don't think i would. i'm grow the beard i'm just going to grow the beard bigger and bigger. i think look like singer. like the singer. >> don't might be >> i don't know. i might be tempted. might take another tempted. i might take another trip see trip to turkey. see what? see what they can straighten out and tweak. tweakments some tweak. get some tweakments some bags lifted under eyes. bags lifted under my eyes. anyway, you for watching. anyway, thank you for watching. mark dolan tonight with me. leo kyrees. if you want to see more of the headlines, we've looked at but at the front pages, but headliners is up next and they take dive into the take a deep dive into the newspapers with three comedians. so that's the next hour and it's repeated at five in the morning. but thank you so much for joining me filling in for mark dolan. it's been an absolute pleasure. i've been joined by emma webb , simon danczuk, lucy emma webb, simon danczuk, lucy beresford. good night . beresford. good night. >> the temperature's rising . >> the temperature's rising. boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. hello there weather on. gb news. hello there and greg dewhurst. >> and welcome to your latest gb

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gb news. >> very good evening to you . i'm >> very good evening to you. i'm aaron armstrong in the gb newsroom . the government is newsroom. the government is facing renewed criticism of its immigration strategy after six migrants when their vessel migrants died when their vessel sank off the french coast yesterday . 509 people crossed yesterday. 509 people crossed the english channel in ten small boats , bringing the total for boats, bringing the total for the year to more than 16,500. it is a further setback for the government's stop the boats pledge, which is one of prime minister rishi sunaks five key priorities . minister rishi sunaks five key priorities. campaign groups have described the deaths as appalling and preventable . appalling and preventable. relatives of those who died in the omagh bombing 25 years ago have held a special service to mark the anniversary. 29 people, including a pregnant woman with twins, died in the car bomb attack by the real ira . it was

attack by the real ira. it was the greatest single loss of life in the history of the troubles . in the history of the troubles. no one has been criminally convicted of carrying out the attack . the search for victims attack. the search for victims of the wildfires in hawaii is continuing , but questions are continuing, but questions are being asked about the state's response. at least 93 people have died on the island of maui, but up to 1000 more are unaccounted for. hawaii's emergency notification system and decision making are set to be reviewed after some residents questioned whether more could have been done to warn them about the fire. support centres have been set up across the island, providing respite and helping families reunite . helping families reunite. >> but a lot of families that were stuck and had to swim like i couldn't imagine my son swimming and my grandma swimming in the water. i think in my in my life, what i have imagined that we would have something like this, a catastrophe of an unequal dis aster our entire island is been devastated by this.

>> but none more so than the individuals who are still looking for loved ones or know that they've already lost their loved ones. >> takeaway pints can continue to be sold in pubs across england and wales. they were due to expire in september or the rules at least were. but the government's decided to keep its pandemic era licencing rules. the sun claims the prime minister, who doesn't drink, stepped in to extend the policy . the rule was introduced in 2020 to help struggling establishments stay afloat dunng establishments stay afloat during lockdown . the long during lockdown. the long awaited british summer could make a belated appearance later this week , with temperatures of this week, with temperatures of up to 30 degrees predicted . up to 30 degrees predicted. however, a yellow rain warning is in place for northern england and tomorrow , with risks and wales tomorrow, with risks of and disruption . ian of flooding and disruption. ian however, once the rain subsides, temperatures are expected to soan temperatures are expected to soar, making some parts of the uk hotter than california . this uk hotter than california. this is gb news. more on your radio,