00:58:23.880We've seen the farmers parking their tractors on Whitehall.
00:58:27.160We've seen people protesting about the fact that grooming gangs cover-up continues.
00:58:34.220I mean, Labour still haven't called a national inquiry into the grooming gangs.
00:58:39.380There seems to be evidence of complicity and corruption.
00:58:43.640We're seeing others around the country, small businesses, are increasingly frustrated with the sheer burden of regulation and taxation they're facing.
00:58:53.040But those forces, in my view, need to coalesce together, because what they are fighting is a very entitled, very powerful establishment that doesn't want its privileges taken away.
00:59:10.780It is the deep state, and it's a state within a state, because when the state gets very big, more and more people focus on how does that model survive.
00:59:23.360What's happened is power that used to lie in the hands of the prime minister and parliament have been outsourced to unelected bodies.
00:59:33.680So a classic example is the Bank of England. Prior to 1997, those decisions were made by Treasury ministers.
00:59:42.080They're now made by an unelected, unaccountable governor.
00:59:46.240Likewise, the Human Rights Act means that decisions aren't made by Parliament, they're made by the courts.
00:59:53.180The courts are not accountable anymore because Tony Blair abolished the power of the Lord Chancellor to appoint judges.
01:00:00.920So what you've created is a blob of people who are not accountable to anyone.
01:00:06.500So even if as an MP or a minister you want to change things, you pull the lever and you can't change things because there are unelected people who are making decisions independently, i.e. not accountable to anybody, who are effectively controlling those decisions.
01:00:23.400And I think that has to change. Otherwise there's just no mechanism between people voting and what a government actually does. And this is what we've seen. I mean, people voted for massive change in 2024. I would argue the same policies are effectively being pursued by this Labour government as were by the previous Conservative government because the same people are in charge.
01:00:47.600You can vote all you like, you're still getting the same people making the decision.
01:00:51.960Go back a hundred years or so, we didn't have that infrastructure.
01:00:55.720You've got to repeal all of the laws that created it.
01:00:59.380So the Climate Change Act, the Constitutional Reform Act, the Bank of England Act, the Human Rights Act,
01:01:06.100all of these laws need to be repealed.
01:01:08.580That will abolish the bodies who've been put in place to administer those laws.
01:01:13.260and you go back to a British Constitution, which, if you go right back, I mean, I'm not saying go right back to 1689 and the Bill of Rights,
01:01:23.280but the concept there were people in this country had freedom.
01:01:30.560We've become over-bureaucratized, over-micromanaged, and the system itself does need to be dismantled.
01:01:37.660I don't believe putting different people in will change it.
01:01:40.580You've got to change the overall system itself.
01:01:43.260So you have to have MPs who have the balls to take on the vested interests,
01:01:49.600the green NGOs, the Davos establishment.
01:01:53.740You've got to have people prepared to do that.
01:01:57.600Oh, every level of government, it's the same thing.
01:02:04.460There's always, well, I mean, we heard last week from our councillor in Amber in Gibbets, Alberta.
01:02:13.260that the CAO there pretty much runs the show.
01:02:16.180The chief administrative officer pretty much runs the show in that town.
01:02:20.540All of the town councillors take advice or even orders from the CAO.
01:02:25.660And then, of course, we've heard from Lisa Robinson in Pickering about the CAO there.