Zia Yusuf - I Make No Apologies For Trying To Save Britain
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In this episode of Triggetometry, I'm joined by the former chairman of Reform UK and founder of the Triggenometry Foundation, Niels Persson, to talk about the current immigration crisis in the UK and why the country needs to get its act together.
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you said that you were quitting reform because doing that job was not a good use of your time
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and then you came back two days later yeah and i regret the tweet on the current trajectory
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the country's on it's not a bad outcome it's a somewhat dystopian one number one we've got to
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secure the border and freeze net migration for i thought initially like two or three years i think
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it's going to be longer now we think there's north of 1.2 million people here illegally in this
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country we're going to deport all of them it is a national emergency you're going to drag 55 year
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olds who've been here since they were young young men and women out of their houses and send them
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back to a country that they don't even know yes if you are here illegally i think that does need to be
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done you're gonna have 350 to 400 reform mps are you guys actually going to be able to get along
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dear youssef welcome to trigonometry it's my pleasure to be here it's been a long time coming
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uh you were the chairman of reform you resigned uh came back very quickly uh we'll talk about that and
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all the other stuff there is to talk about reform uk which you're again back in but first who are
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you we often have you know people from the political world and it sort of feels like
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you know you only know their views but you don't know who they are so what's your story
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yeah so my story i'm a second generation immigrant my parents came to the uk from sri lanka in the early
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1980s my father had recently qualified as a doctor since then my mom qualified as a nurse between them
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they've done half a century service to the nhs in fact my dad has only ever done nhs work as a matter
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of principle um so they didn't you know i didn't come from money um but they gave me things which i'm
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very grateful for they gave me love and they worked really hard to give me a great education so
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i got a 50 scholarship to attend a school called hampton which is an independent church of england
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boys school and you know they i remember they were both working two jobs um and took out a second
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mortgage to be able to afford even that 50 reduced amount um and i was born in scotland in a little
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town called bells hill my little sister was born in truro in cornwall my elder brother went to six
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different primary schools because my dad had to go wherever the work was so it was a real
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uh you know somewhat archetypal immigrant story and this country you know as someone who's born here
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i've raised in southwest london in a little town called hampton and incredibly grateful for the
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opportunity set this country gave me um so i studied at the lsc i went to work in the city for a couple of
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american investment banks and then quit that after five years started a tech company sold that nine years
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later uh for quite a large amount of money to an american bank and was trying to work out what i
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was going to do next and nigel said he was coming back into british politics i remember when he
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originally said he wasn't i was pretty devastated and i've seen i spent a lot of time in america
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you know we obviously sold to an american company uh we had a lot of employees there so i've seen quite a
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lot of the world thankfully and the united kingdom remains in my view the best country in the world
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and i think it can be a powerful prosperous and poised country again but it's got to get its act
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together very quickly and one thing i've always been reasonably good at is spotting inflection
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points and trends you know in tech there's the law of the founder is very big right you you have
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um you know mark zuckerberg or elon masque or any of the bezos or any of these figures nigel is the
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ultimate political founder right he's singular i think in terms of his talent and we've all seen i mean
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you you um we were talking just before the cameras started rolling on one of your og uh viewers and
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fans right from when you first started and you know you've been talking a long time if you think
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about the world when you first started probably hence the name that the pendulum had swung the
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proverbial pendulum had swung so far to the left and anyone who's read history knows that that pendulum
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swings um and it had swung very far to the left nigel said he was coming back into british politics
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and i saw actually there was an opportunity for something spectacular and historic to happen and
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at that time if you remember june last year it feels a long long time ago it was a year ago
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you know reform had no mps it was polling at around 11 10 11 odd percent and was something of it was a
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pressure group basically to try to get the tories to be a bit more small c conservative and now
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obviously we are well i mean what nigel has done as leaders is remarkable um he's the favorite to be
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the next prime minister and i think you know for me one thing i've always been extremely passionate
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about is social mobility because i think i'm a reasonably good example of that and again any
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student of history knows that as soon as society loses social mobility it is very short-lived and i
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wrote an op-ed in the telegraph last june when i first got involved with reform and i said
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on the current trajectory the country is on it's not a bad outcome the uk is headed to
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it's a somewhat dystopian one i mean i i'm my family originally from sri lanka so no reasonable
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amount about sectarian politics and what that what that can do to a society um and i think we have a
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real binary outcome you know that mean which way uh western you know i think that really is the case
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right now and you know what reform stands for is really restoring a social contract which is
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hanging by a thread i mean it's not even fraying anymore i think it is hanging by a thread as i said
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my story is someone who is a second generation immigrant hugely grateful for the opportunity set
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this country has given uh me my family and also like to be honest really really um aware of the
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invaluable contribution immigrants have made to this country now that doesn't mean it's a country built
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by immigrants or even that diversities are strained that is nonsense and really counterproductive for
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people to be claiming that and deeply insulting frankly um to to to the many generations who built
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this country um but obviously immigrants have made a contribution to this country and i remember you
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did a video when you talked about immigration really being uh you know a quantitative point right
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it's something that you know a little bit is can be good um too much is very bad when my family
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came here in the early 1980s net migration was anywhere between 25 000 and 50 000 as you know
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that's been trending at like 800 000 to a million always revised up by the ons i mean ask yourselves
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why the ons has to revise up you know when it hit a million it was revised up from 800 000
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these are legal migrants right so they're literally going through turnstiles with passports if you were
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to ask any major corporation in the uk how many people are in their office at any given point they'll be
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able to tell you because they've got turnstiles so the only there's only one reason why the british
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government apparently can't tell you until way after the event is because they're consciously
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making a decision not to so i think there are many issues with the country at the moment i do think
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there is a path to i don't have kids yet i hope to have kids and i want this to be a country that they
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and their kids and their kids are super excited to live in and i still think we have an opportunity
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set for that which is why i work as a volunteer and have basically dedicated my life to this
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come back a little bit before we get stuck into all the politics uh to you you make two simultaneous
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points and i think it's the way a lot of people feel particularly people who love this country who
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are patriotic you say it's one it's the greatest place in the in the world and yet we are headed down
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this terrible path and we're close to disaster and the social contract is hanging by a thread so what
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are the things that make this country great that you see and what are the things that we're
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really ought to worry about as much as as you worry about them yeah so what makes the country great
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i think obviously this country invented english common law which still is the preponderant some
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notable exception sadly but is the preponderant uh legal system obviously um the people are amazing
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i mean when my mom tells me stories about how when they first arrived in the uk and you know they went
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from uh you know scotland and bells hill to to um darlington to truro and all over the country and
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just universally incredibly welcoming lovely warm-hearted um warmth of spirit and generous
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people frankly now i think taken advantage of um uh so that's the first point great dynamism great
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talent i mean this is the country that played a massive role obviously in uh ending world war ii i
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think about the enigma code and bletchley park and has had brilliant not only brave courageous people
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but just brilliant scientists um who have contributed so much to the world or you know i gave a speech at
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the rally in june last year just you know riffing through all the incredible things the jet engine
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and the television and the computer and the internet all british inventions and if you fast forward to
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today i mean this isn't some sort of harking back to a bygone era in an unhelpful way we still have in
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this country in an era of ai which i know a reasonable amount um about we still have a
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significant percentage of the talent density that exists in artificial intelligence and these people
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you know that sort of 99th percentile of intellectual capital in the country more than ever in our species
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history has the potential to deliver exponential incredible economic returns for the whole country
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it's not really is that where the problems are though because we are chasing those people out at a rapid rate
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oh i mean at a at a frightening rate yeah yeah i mean it's one reason why and we can talk about the
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social contract um generally but yeah you know people sadly the people many people who have the
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option to leave in fact a larger proportion who have the option and the ability to leave are leaving i'm
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sure you know people like that i know people like that but come back to bring it back to a positive
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so many of those people i'm telling you are leaving with a heavy heart and leaving one foot here
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and to the degree that they believe reform is arriving i mean these are all people they're not
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expecting it i don't believe people move to i think people move to dubai from the uk despite a lot of
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dubai you know i like going there on holiday but they go they don't go there because they're excited
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about going to dubai they might try and justify but it's largely because of the tax regime and because
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they feel frankly persecuted in the uk i mean one of the really interesting things for me and it's much
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safer over there as well a thousand percent that's such a good point because you know we're working on
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some policies at the moment around um you know tax and you know how do you make this place welcome
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but you're so right that's so important it's not just about the tax regime i mean if you look at
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california where the richest people in the world live um you know mark zuckerberg elon musk they don't
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live in dubai they don't live in monica right it's not exactly a low tax regime california but the but
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but they are celebrated there those wealth creators you know they're celebrated in this country they're
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being uh looked down upon and and and frankly made to feel very very unwelcome but you're so right
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about that you know in dubai you can you see exotic cars and people leave their keys in the ignition
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you know people leave their phone on a park bench to the good dubai has parks you know probably
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but leave on the budget and it's still there when you come back or somebody hands it in that law and
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order aspect i mean now when people take their phones out in london their whole they're grasping their
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phones and there's data to back up that human instinct the chances of a perpetrator of smartphone
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theft in london even being identified not arrested charged convicted just identified is sub one percent
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right so if you have a north of 99 probability of getting away with it you create an environment
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where everyone's terrified so no look these are these are really important point and we were talking
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just before the camera came on about difficult conversations now needing to be had about the
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social contract and i think there's the social contract around just to be real you know natives
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immigrants there's a specific conversation about that secondly there's younger young and old that's
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been going on for a long time and then there's also um rich and poor right um especially the people
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who work and are in you know working and struggling and one of the things you're going to hear reform
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talk a lot about is unapologetically nigel is going to go out and say we're on the side of people
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who set their alarm clocks in the morning and i spent a lot of time in run corn and hellsby you
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know trying to get sarah or some ump elected and we're knocking on doors and some of the council
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estates and run corn where people were working there and they would tell me to set our alarm we
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work really hard and it just feels like we're getting a much raw deal a much worse deal than
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people who are just living on benefits um and they have a much better lifestyle than us they have
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more time in some cases they have more money literally they have more money in some cases
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and then i talked to some people who work in the city who have really sizable household incomes you
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might think well not too much sympathy but the work the phrase they keep using is the same why do we
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bother you know even that well-paid couple in the city and i don't mind saying this i might not score
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lots of political points but you know a couple with a meaningful six-figure salary in the city is
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saying our relationship is fraying at the edges because we struggle to make time for each other we're both
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working you know 80 90 hour weeks we've got two kids even we can even without formidable incomes
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relatively speaking struggling to be able to send our kids to the school we want to go to and then
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they see dubai and they see singapore um and they just see the relentlessness of the way money is wasted
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um the relentlessness at which the welfare bill it just becomes easier and easier and easier to
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basically live off people who are the labor of people who are working really hard and so of course there
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are people who need benefits and you know all of that caveat right but this country is rapidly
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becoming addicted to it the friction level required now post-covid and this is largely a function of
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what boris did post-covid you see the numbers right um the the during covid a large proportion of the
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country got addicted to benefits and long-term welfare including young people i mean it's one thing for
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somebody who's 70 like my parents who by the way but still work um to be on benefits at 70 it's much
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more of a catastrophe for significant percentage a higher proportion than ever of our 18 to 30 year
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olds are on benefits a higher proportion than ever of our 18 to 30 year olds still live at home with
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their parents forget about buying a home and getting on the housing ladder just renting a home is now out
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of reach which is why as i said to the degree reform has the ability to turn the country around and we
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think it does it means really focusing on those points we have to create a social contract that works
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again between young and old um we have to get people back into work again raise the bar at which
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point people get benefits in the first place and again you know there are still thankfully a lot of
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people who work in this country more than enough to win a significant majority in the first past the
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post system um you know the point even about immigration is most people in this country just want
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fairness right they don't care about the color of your skin which god you pray to or whether you pray to
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what they take great exception to is and i talked about this on question time i call it bond villain
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levels of wickedness which is section 21 notices being handed out so these are forcible so basically
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saying to a tenant you have to move out by the landlord to british tenants in some cases veterans
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in one case i'm aware of somebody who's suffering ptsd as a result of the service they gave to this
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country turfed out therefore so that that landlord generally corporate landlords can benefit from a
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five to seven year tenancy agreement from circo five to seven years i mean i don't know if you rent but
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most people aren't offering up no one can compete with that and then 20 to 30 percent above market
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rates so basically free money to these people in an unholy alliance between circo for the most part
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and yvette cooper no say let's just put a pin in that sorry to interrupt people will hear the word
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circo and not know what that is what that represents what is circo so circo is a very very
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large company and look i'm using them in this particular example like my view is there's only
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so much anger you can direct a private company just doing what private markets would suggest they do
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we should direct our anger at the politicians at the politicians who create this environment but
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look circo is largely a government contractor right make huge amounts of revenue and profit
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and do all sorts of things so you might see circo you know you might see a man in a helmet and
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sort of stab proof vest taking money in and out of um of a building you might see them running
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i mean right now outrageously they're running army recruitment so the government is outsourced
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and this is part of a broader you know my new mandate is the biggest part of my job is this doge
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project and one of the things that we have seen quite clearly is this addiction to just outsourcing
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everything i mean if a country like the united kingdom is outsourcing can you remember what
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winston churchill would say if he found out a private company like circo was now running army
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recruitment for the united kingdom returning in his grave so that's what that company says they do
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they do all sorts of things um which also begs the question how can you be an expert in carrying
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money securely and army recruitment and i think it's actually only very recently they stopped being
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in in charge of our nuclear deterrent so i mean pretty crazy crazy stuff um all the while by the way
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so you might think okay they're outsourcing lots so they're reducing the size of the civil service no
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no no civil service costs ballooning 50 over you know recent years at record high costs and this is
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again when you go back to social contract i don't think i've seen no evidence from talking to ordinary
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people that british people have a problem with paying taxes they don't and all the polling actually
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shows if you ask me would you pay more tax to get waiting lists all the way they do it the problem is
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that's not what happens you see endless demands that um more taxes paid quote how many times have
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you heard politicians saying tough decisions need to be made and then you go back to the social contract
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and i said this on question time the other day british people throughout history have had no problem
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you know sacrificing for the greater good nor more than just paying tax laying down their lives
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including as civilians and what we're seeing now though is endless stream of people coming across
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the channel infinite money for that right no tough decisions need to be made there no tough decisions
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just infinite money um then you see can i just stop you there the news moves fast and it's not just
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listening to this not just in the uk but across the globe's here and they're going i don't understand
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why it is that we had a brexit referendum on 2016 in 2016 which was effectively a referendum to lower
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immigration we can dress it up any way we want but that's really what it was time and time again the
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british voter has asked yeah that immigration be lowered significantly time and time again a conservative
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government has said they're going to lower it and it just hasn't happened what is going on i think
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you're being overly generous to the conservatives they didn't say they were going to lower it and it went up
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they claimed in five consecutive manifestos that they were going to cut net migration to the tens of
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thousands and left office with that number in a million and a million i mean you struggle even if you're
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deliberately trying to do that to make that kind of thing happen and you know what what happened
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under boris johnson was there was a sense of you know we're going to quote take back control you'll be
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taking back control and just open the gates that's basically what they did and i think that's one
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reason why there is so much anger now i think justifiably directed at politicians of both parties
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right i mean i said you know labor are basically doing what the tories did just faster you might
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have seen that meme right that's it worked and it is true it's just objectively true almost everything
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that is appalling that labor are doing you just trace back you know chagos it was the tories who
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started five rounds of negotiations to hand over um the chagos let's take law and order something
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that's obviously i think a real focus for people listening to this program who will feel really
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unsafe and the reality is that if you keep asking why the primary problem there is prison spaces we
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don't have enough space in our prisons now you can debate about who's been put in those prisons
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different discussion valid to have but fundamentally we do not have anywhere enough incarceration space
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to house um violent criminals right and the tories over the 14 years they were in government grew the
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population by 6.5 million net new people do you know any new prison places they built for that
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411 now even if those people coming had the same propensity to commit crime which they don't they
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have a high but let's park that let's just say even if they're the same anyone who's looked at any
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social science right and cross culturally all over the world if you have a large population
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a small fraction of that sadly will be violently criminal and a small fraction of that cannot be
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rehabilitated just a reality so you have to have enough prison space similarly the nhs how many
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hospital beds did they build they left the country with meaningfully fewer hospital beds and that's a
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key reason why tens of thousands of people in this country wait more than three days in a&e
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and imagine god forbid having to go to a&e and waiting three days i mean again that's a third world
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statistic right if you heard about that you'd assume it's something on a on a charity fundraising
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video i know people from ukraine who came here as refugees needed medical treatment and went back
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to ukraine to get it because they couldn't wait i remember you saying that yeah yeah they went back
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to war zone to get medical treatment i mean look we're laughing the reality is it's diabolical right
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it's tragic we're laughing because it's dark humor yeah and it's why we're so exercised um by this and
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and i talk to people who have suffered from that i mean i remember actually um you know listening so
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i talked about some of my speech it was actually so to be fair this one i remember listening to a radio
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show um it was a man who called in who said his mother was in his in her 90s who had paid into the
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system their whole lives worked here went to a&e and didn't get seen for such an extraordinary
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amount of time and then passed away um and it's like it was unbelievably moving and how on earth
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is that happening when as i said asylum hotels hmos or infinite money i just tweeted out you know kent
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county council is paying for tv licenses for asylum seekers right now look should this country aspire
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to be a united kingdom that does do some foreign aid right that does have maybe an allocation of
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yes the current state of the united kingdom is so far beneath a place where you know where any of
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that should be even considered i mean another data point for you this country is actively as we speak
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sending meaningful foreign aid to turkey and vietnam two countries which were in which the average 15
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year old has a higher educational attainment in reading mathematics and science than 15 year olds in
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wales and again you can't i don't see how you can look british people in the eyes and and expect them
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to accept any of that and we're going to keep exposing this stuff um and we believe we do have
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a real solution and which is what because yeah let's be honest and people like to pretend this is about the
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political party in charge the reality of this is when you have a stagnating economy you're not going
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to be able to have the things that you want and isn't that really why this is all happening well
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so two things can be true at the same time right that you know the the pie is not growing and it
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needs to we'll talk about that but that's the gift of politicians make no mistake i mean this notion that
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this country couldn't be growing really fast it can and we'll talk about how that can happen but then
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it's also how is that pie being spent right and in terms of the social contract i sincerely believe
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even if labor said look we're eliminating foreign aid we've stopped the boat all this madness is
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stopping right um but and therefore we're going to need to ask you to make some sacrifice it totally
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it would be a totally different reaction taking the winter fuel allowance for british pensioners
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away to save 1.5 billion and then announcing climate capture initiatives in foreign countries for
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billions of pounds i mean it's like the it's like the square root of stupidity right and again
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to a great degree people have just felt there was no alternative you voted for the dark blue team
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you got the same thing you vote for labor you got the same thing just a bit faster what reform is
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doing is offering thus far people are buying into this and that's why we had the may the first
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results that we did historic set of local elections are seeing a viable alternative we've already we're
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now in control of 10 councils i've spent most of my time since may the first with those councils and
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you know the notion that there are immediate quick fixes for everything is for the birds but there are
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some quite quick fixes right so you know as i said immediately saying we're not going to spend money on
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these silly net zero projects um i mean i tweeted out yesterday let's take the nhs so net zero cost
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the taxpayer 12 billion pounds directly from governmental budgets you can literally go on the departmental
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website but the nhs has these insane rules so they are making their suppliers into the nhs which
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obviously huge line item um reach net zero by 2040 not even by 2050 which is already mad and was just
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concocted by you know a bunch of lunatic tory politicians without any proper debate um they're
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trying to get them to do it by 2040 and over the next few years if you're not buying into those
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demands that they make which are ridiculous um you won't even be eligible to bid for a contract and
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again you know we talked about this just before we came on air none of this labor cabinet have any
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experience of running anything meaningful making decisions what i call like systemic decisions
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where second and third order effects matter the consequences of the consequences yeah we're not
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far off labor just passing legislation that makes everyone a millionaire i think we're not far off
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that kind of mad no i'm serious that sort of mad well a lot of people will be looking forward to
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that yeah zia can i pick up on something else that you said because it's interesting you talked about
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immigration and the native population and you said you know people in this country don't care about
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your skin color don't care about background don't care about which god you pray to they're very
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welcoming they were with your family and i think that was all true but i think we'd have to be honest
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and i think you're uniquely placed to talk about this given your background is that there is a very
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quickly growing concern about what you described as sectarianism but really there is a fear yeah that
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as islam becomes a prominent force in society uh you start to see things that people are genuinely
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very concerned about uh a lot of people rightly or wrongly i don't i'm not convinced that it's the
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right link to make but link the grooming gangs to islam and we can talk about that but more broadly
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you see five mps now effectively elected on on on a gaza ticket in this country uh you see that
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sometimes they're able to force certain things to happen in parliament as we saw some time ago
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and more broadly i think you anyone sensible would recognize whether they agree with it or not that
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there's a rising sentiment of concern about islam across europe now including within many people within
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reform so is it still true that people don't care about which god you pray to because i think quite a
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lot of people are starting to so i think you're right in the sense that there is growing concern about
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that i think justifiably um and the way you've seen government responses to that even if they're
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well-intentioned you can debate that but they've not ameliorated the situation they're exasperating
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it right uh exacerbating it and um you know so so you know the first thing i'd say is that
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i was a vast majority of muslims in this country law-abiding peaceful people just going about their
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day-to-day lives care about all the same issues as everybody else cost of living the cost of rent etc
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one of the problems we've had is the sheer volume of number of people coming it's such a short period
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of time so let's distill one issue is assimilation right um and integration which is not just failing
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but i think has failed full stop in certain areas of the country um so so many people have come as i
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said you know when my parents came in the early 1980s and obviously my parents are moderate muslims
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um it was a very small number 25 to 50 000 per year you compare that to the 800 000 to a million
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so numbers do matter because they reduce the you know the propensity to to assimilate and integrate
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then you have the composition of the sort of people who are coming a the sort of countries
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they're coming from and then the the people from within those countries that are coming this is a
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country that is still in the privileged position in which people are risking their lives to come in
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now you can debate about who those people are and why they're doing that but there are still many
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people who do want to come here and just like a company that has you know people want to go and
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work for open ai or for google they get to pick and choose the very very very best and they have
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exacting standards this country under successive governments is literally the opposite right so you
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look at what's happening where it is genuinely easier for a convicted murderer to get into the uk
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than a nobel laureate in science right the convicted murderer just comes across in small boats and
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they'll be put up in a um at the taxpayers time whereas a nobel laureate has to fill out enormous
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amounts of bureaucracy and then still somewhat random so that's the first point and where that
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really manifests itself yes is in you know one of the interesting things and i you know if i talk to
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muslims in this country um and muslims in the uae or in countries in the middle east they say
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some of the things that people are able to get away with in this country as a result of two-tier
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policing for example and two-tier justice but let's talk about the two-tier police and one in
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particular um do no favors for muslims like what well look so it is on record that for example if
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there is a protest which involves largely muslims for example and they um they and let me really clear
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the right to protest is sacrosanct in this country you know muslims have as much right as anybody else
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obviously to protest right let's just caveat what i'm saying with that but if they're waving some
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flag that is an isis flag or you know some that the uh an emblem of a prescribed organization
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the directive given to the police is not to move in immediately and make that arrest but to watch it
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on cctv and then have a discussion or a debate and then go and move to it with it afterwards and that
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is ostensibly quite different to the way that other quote groups or communities um are policed
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now that breeds resentment right and anyone who knows anything about psychology or let's say child
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psychology and do you do you have kids i have kids yeah so one way for sure if you want to get a kid
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bullied in class what do you do get the teacher to give them obvious preferred um preferential treatment
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in front of the other kids puff like absolutely that will happen and so other people look at you
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know muslims even look at this and go no we don't want that we don't want that sort of two-tiered
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approach and again let's even give them the benefit of the doubt and say it's well intended and you can
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debate that you can really debate that um because i do think there are some dark forces on on the far
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left in this country that hate the country um but even if it was well intended it is having the
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opposite of effect and and if anyone wants to make the counter argument what i always say is well how
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do you think do you think it's some do you think people feel better about immigration in this country
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today than they did in the early 1980s on average obviously not only do they think it's worse um they
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think of it as orders of magnitude worse um so and and similarly if you talk to people in government
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in the uae they'll tell you some of this stuff would absolutely not be tolerated inside inside the uae so i
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think there's a great deal of naivety um it has meant that and look there's sort of let's call it
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the far right slash islamist sort of uh opposite ends of that gaussian distribution do exist they
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basically feed off each other in many ways i mean one experiment you can actually do if you're
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interested to actually did this you create two separate x accounts and you start liking different
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things you you start both ends of that distribution curve that kind of bell curve get
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vicariously traumatized through their social media feed with people of the opposite ends of that
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community and so there's a lot of people who are let's call it in the middle of that i don't mean
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centrist dad way i just mean taking the view that no i think discriminate you know having a view writ large
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about an entire religion or entire skin color whatever it is based on the actions of a tiny
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subsection is not appropriate and unhelpful and actually again british values i think but i don't
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think that's people's concern i think people's concern is to put it bluntly is that if um a as you say
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correctly as a society we are tolerating things that that even muslim countries won't tolerate yeah
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and if within the agreed the large body of most mostly peaceful moderate not mostly within the
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large body of moderate peaceful law-abiding muslims which are completely true are in this country
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is that islamist fringe that is tolerated by our society yeah then the more muslims you have
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the more of the fringes you're going to have and if you already have 40 000 jihadis on your terrorist
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watch list a lot of people are saying why would we so why why because i'm not saying you're wrong
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but explain why there's a causal related so why would having more muslims necessitate more fringe
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well if if you have uh if you buy a bunch of apples and you know that statistically one out of 100 is a
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red apple yeah and you don't want red apples you only want green apples ideally in your society yeah
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why would you want to buy more apples from that supplier well um i forget what so the red the
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red apples were the islamists yeah okay so yeah so they should have been green
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so okay so let's let's stick with your analogy so so firstly i think we've got to from a legislative
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standpoint which is all you can do if you're in politics right number one we've got to secure the
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border and freeze net migration for i thought initially like two or three years i think it's
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going to be longer now certainly by the time if reform when you know it's going to be several years
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away for a whole number of years right i think that does have to happen um so we have to stop the
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we have to halt that for a significant period of time um so that that's the numbers issue the second
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point is then is the competent composition and we always hear about point systems and stuff but we
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probably don't even have time to get into it but as you start to peel back the onion of just the sheer
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appalling incompetence maybe even malevolence of that boris johnson kind of regime
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um in terms of what was happening there basically if you lied about your qualifications nobody asked
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you for evidence and you got in so there were people coming here to be working care homes with
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no qualifications they just lied and to the degree people did have qualifications they set the bar so
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high into but not checking that they didn't feel like they would apply so in the end we got the worst
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it was not a good period um for the country now i do think if people are breaking the law
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and we obviously have laws around incitement and have laws around um prescribed terrorist
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organizations those people need to be arrested and they need to go to jail and to the degree by
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the way i mean this is the other thing reform will do we think there's north of 1.2 million people
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here illegally in this country we're going to deport all of them deport all of them i want to be really
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clear about that because you get all sorts of noise on social media our plan is to deport all of
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them and we'll direct every instrument of state to ensure that that happens are you really
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are you really because i've just come back from the u.s yeah president trump is struggling he's
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rowing back on a lot of the things because the optics of deporting people who've been in the
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country all of them someone's been here 30 years you're going to deport them so if they're legally
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yeah so so we can talk about the deportation thing um i think the deportation thing is important
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because it is a national emergency so if you look at again the social contract having such a large
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population um that is here without the right to be here um and then claiming asylum and in many
00:37:48.880
cases getting it so number one there's the social contract thing that is just deeply unfair both on
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the people who are already here and the legal migrants um the second point is you know you can
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always talk about edge cases and look trump is i think is different thing i don't think there's a
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good corollary to have because i think those protests are about a whole number of other things i think
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my point is something else you're gonna drag 55 year olds who've been here since they were young
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young men and women out of their houses and send them back to a country that they don't even know
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of law that's gonna be important um but yes i mean look to be direct about that yes if you are here
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illegally i think that does need to be done and british people expect it and i think there's popular
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support for that one of the massive issues we have in this country unlike the us actually i mean they have
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their own jurisdictional issues between states and um the executive branch but we not only have the
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echr but even leaving that is not going to be enough to stop the lawfare that keeps people in
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this country you also have all these un treaties the refugee treaty of 1951 so there's a even if you
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were drew from the echr for example and you'll see this when we publish our plan from a legislative
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standpoint there's a law that says you cannot in any way uh discriminate against somebody's asylum
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application just because they entered your country illegally and that dates back to 1951 when
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obviously the world was largely most people were you know clambering overboard as illegals they were
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still recovering from world war ii it's totally out of date and it means you have these ridiculous
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situations where you have a kenyan convicted rapist who's not allowed to be deported because
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he's an alcoholic apparently and he might have a tough time in kenya you have this insanity of his
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quote unquote rights being prioritized over women in this country whose rights should be not to have
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to live among such a person um we and when i say use every instrument of state you know people say
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oh where are you going to send them etc you know we are still sending foreign aid to countries that
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are refusing to even accept the people from their country who are languishing out in our jails and are
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illegal immigrants so the foreign office one of the one of the things that will happen is nigel will
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say to whoever is our foreign secretary it's your number one priority to secure bilateral return
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agreements right and there will be a carrot and a stick right will we pay some people to leave yes
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we will too right because to your point you know that that kind of enforcement aspect um is uh is is
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we'd like to minimize that but you have to enforce it and constantin if we don't do that sort of thing
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now i promise you the path the country is headed to will be far far worse yeah and look we we agree
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with you on that the issue is here as well is that we have had many people on this show many people
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concert former conservative ministers who will always make the point we have tried to do this
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but we have been blocked by the civil service they have put spanners in the works they have slowed
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things down they have made the process it's it's more subtle than people think it's not a downing of
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the tools but it's putting something a spanner in the works to make it seem interminably slow so that
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nothing gets done yeah how is reform going to challenge the behemoth that is the civil service
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in this country which is largely left-leaning so in business you have a concept of low agency and
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high agency people it's quite common parlance particularly in tech so the idea of it so a low
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agency person if you're if you're a ceo you're a manager you ask them to do something and you don't
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really hear anything and then three days later you go how did that go into oh i sent an email no one
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responded that's sort of a low low agency a high agency person you give that same instruction to
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and not only do they make it happen they negotiate some new contract to build a revenue line and a
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pnl and they're like building something incredible kind of on their own and and then a lot of people
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in the middle of that most of those people without even needing to name names um are very much on the
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low agency spectrum and i'm sorry the buck stops with the politicians so long as we're part of the
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echr which the tories are never going to be able to leave because the party's so split half the party
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are left wing half the party are more spiritually aligned with us um and as i said even that won't
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do the trick the only reason the echr the and the human rights act are cited by these judges um is
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because it's the lowest hanging fruit as soon as you take that out there's plenty of other fruit for
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them to pluck on in these international treaties so what we're going to do just to be really clear
00:43:47.400
about what we'll do we will disapply specific aspects in those treaties under uk law so even the
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most activist judge you know even the judiciary people say well zeer you've got these activist
00:43:59.400
judges okay let's assume every single judge is an activist it is incumbent on the politician to set
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laws that mean even the most activist judge can't screw the british people over the analogy when you
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hear about the british government losing lawsuits it's like playing a computer game against someone who
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gets to change the rules like that's a pretty cool feature to have so the buck has to stop with
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the politician not going to claim it's easy but we have got a few years we've got some brilliant
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people working on when nigel wins it's obviously our goal we need to have this is why i say we
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can't just have a majority of two or do some pact with some wet tories you're gonna have 350 to 400
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reform mps which i encourage you people listening is you've got to go out and vote for us because
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we need that working majority constitutionally you know you use the analogy of the united states
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the founding fathers were very particular about spreading power across the different branches
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even the whole doge thing the reason why elon got so for so frustrated was not because doge fails
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because congress basically decided to pass this massive bill and the founding fathers put the
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purse strings in the hands of congress the constitution of the united kingdom means and it's
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unwritten but the prime minister of the united kingdom flanked by 350 to 400 turquoise blooded reform
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mps who are on no uncertain terms about why they were elected with the right legislation we'll be able to
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move at great speed and this is the work that we got to do and i'm not claiming it's all done yet
00:45:20.920
this is the work that we're doing we've got some great people including some some actually some
00:45:25.320
formatory ministers who just want to help us in the background some people have had contact with the
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blob let's call it the blob right and yeah of course they're formidable of course they're powerful
00:45:33.720
but if we're not willing to take that on and say yes um not only we're going to take it on we're
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going to give him we we have to defeat them i i think that the idea that that is impossible i mean if you
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take the view it's impossible then what's what's the point everyone should just leave um it can be
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done it can be done with legislation you know i gave a speech you know a few months ago i gave a
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speech in which i said i was really looking forward to the first phone call nigel will make us prime
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minister number 10 downing street he'll pick up the phone to the first sea lord and instruct them
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that not a single so therefore the royal navy's majesty's royal navy will ensure they're not a single
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unauthorized vessel crossing the english channel will make it to our shores it'll be a humanitarian
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mission etc gotta beat it and somebody i know who's very senior in the navy said see i love that
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speech because what you realize is that all you have these mass all of these layers that just mean
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that even if the home secretary or the minister of defense gives an order you have like nine layers
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of bureaucracy and you only need one and i'm quoting him quote one little communist in there to
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interject and go and tweet something which is basically what happened on the toys that said
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this is again some law to see you know completely unaccountable to anybody to torpedo the whole thing
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metaphorically um i just said listen i i thought it was a great line in a speech but the fundamental
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point is that you have these layers of bureaucracy you have way too many of them the civil service is
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way way too big um and you have a massive deficiency in ministers who are willing to take
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accountability and ownership and be in the detail and be high agency enough to say no no no sorry who
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was that who just tweeted out that the british people are now we're going to prioritize some
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law that quote unquote law of the sea and i don't know who enforces this law or which military and the
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people who suffer as a result of all of this nonsense and the perpetuation of the status quo as the
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british people which is why i'm saying you know we talked about this just before the cameras started
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rolling the only way these situations can be resolved is by extremely competent high agency
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patriotic people basically going to battle in the political arena um and that's what reform are going
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to do right and look you let's just be clear about this i don't think people actually understand i'm
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going to use this word fucked this country is yeah we've been kicking the can down the road
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economically we're in the the astronomic levels of debt that we are in the economy is only being
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kept alive through mass immigration if we took that away we would actually see what a dire straight
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we're in the health service is on its knees cost of living the home the the crisis the property
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crisis homes crisis it's a message from the british tory exactly come and visit but you look at all of
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these things i mean and what effectively every government has done for the last 20 or so years
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is kick these proverbial cans down the road i mean if you get in that is one hell of a job and it's
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going to be you're going to have to go to war with a lot of people can you fight all those fronts at the
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same time we have no choice we have no choice and that's why as i said preparedness will be crucial
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labor came into power with like no plan and i will say this is something that's quite new to politics
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you know a lot of people say i can't believe labor in opposition for 14 years and they got in and they
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had no plans like no no no now i've been in politics i actually understand that's just the status quo right
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most people in politics and i've said this before are just most mps most westminster they're just power
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maximizing them for themselves over the next 48 hours that's literally all they care about right and
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frankly in a weird way i almost despise politicians a bit less because i realize that's what the system
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almost dictates you have to do do you see what i mean it's like if you if you're not doing that
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you almost just get unwound and chucked out so it's almost maladaptive but we have to fight against
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that right so we can go through each of each of those i mean you you named it i mean absolutely
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accurately national debt closing in on three trillion um economic growth and we were celebrating
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0.7 percent gdp growth still less than the population is growing um not because lots of
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british people having kids but we're getting poorer per head of population gdp per capita hasn't done
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anything in a long time uh real wages adjusted for inflation have basically not done anything for a long
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time so a lot of people feel poor all the time they because they are getting poorer um inequality is
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getting worse and we talk about that too um and yes you know immigration is basically a form of
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i call it human quantitative easing that's what it is right um and in the whole idea that we should
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be obsessed by gdp instead of gdp per capita it's like saying oh good news and bad news the bad news
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is your wages aren't going up but the good news is the payroll for the company is going up four percent
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that's not particularly interesting to you so how do we deal with all of these issues again so number
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one uh we have to shrink the size of the state in terms of all the bureaucracy and and just
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the blob and the bureaucracy have become a parasitic and strangulation on the dynamism of
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british and anything why we can't build any homes or why there's no nuclear in this country or why
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you know you want to get planning permission to just do some work to your house it takes forever
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um so that's the first point the second point is um we have to attract we have to make the country
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which is a great country for people who want to start a business scale a business run a business
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and be unapologetic about that we've got some policies that we're going to announce in in
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in the coming couple of weeks actually to try to restore that social contract where we're saying
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no look um yes we need to do we need to ensure working people in this country the bottom half of
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working earners um get a much better deal but the only way this country recovers actually economically
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is to welcome wealth creators in this country not to chase them away which obviously rachel reeds is
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doing but you shouldn't forget it was jeremy hunt and the tories who started this whole rhetoric about
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capital gains being quote unearned income and all of that stuff right um largely in many ways i think
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out of guilt is a rishi sunak's wife i genuinely from what i hear i think that was like a really
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meaningful um driver of their decisions around non-doms and it's like what a ridiculous what an insane
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way to make policy but you know when i said about power maximizing yourselves over 48 hours
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so that's that piece um i don't know if you touched on law and order but that's a massive issue
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as well knife crime i mean you've got sadiq khan instead of implementing stop and search which all
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the evidence in the world i bet all the money in my pockets if he did that properly it would
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pretty much eliminate knife knife crime in within the period of months not doing that instead he's
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offering free i've seen those stands where they offer like um stab response kits or something it's
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really dark he's offering these it's unbelievable so they have these stands where they sort of give you
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these kits a bit like you might have a first aid kit in a car um for if you get stabbed so this is
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the level of normalization now that that is happening um a lot of people claim oh but see look
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the statistics the crime statistics are going down well yeah because people don't even report crime
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most of the time that's so true why would you bother reporting your phone getting reported it's true
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people tell you i've looked i find my iphone i've gone to the person house who's nicked it i know it's
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inside and the police still won't do anything shoplifting is basically legal now below 200 pounds
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so we've got to do a whole number of things and that's what we're working we've got some great
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policy people we're continuing to build that team um and working with some smart think tanks as well
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to come in and have a you know how like trump did have you know we don't have executive orders in
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this country but he got quite a lot done quite quickly um if we have the legislation ready to go
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and we have a way to ensure that the lords doesn't hold things up i mean even the lords
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constitutionally the lords are not allowed to hold things up if it was in your manifesto
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and that's another thing we'll do very differently to for example labor you know we're going to be
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very clear about what our plans are and people will either vote for them or they won't but i
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don't think you have a choice if you want to enact a pretty transformative agenda and my god we're going
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to for all the reasons you just mentioned i mean talk about living beyond our means i mean sometimes
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we'll get criticized oh you're you're big state are you left wing or right wing all these tories
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talking to us about scolding us and finger wagging about small state fiscal conservatism and living
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within your means you don't know how these people have can say this stuff with a straight face they
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triple the national debt to three trillion you don't have to slate the tories on this we absolutely
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despise them okay but one of the things that people are going to be looking at you and going look
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you're very slick you're very sharp you talk a great game i'm looking at reform you've got about
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five mps at the moment you've had the scatter you've had the fallout with rupert lowe you've had when uh
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the tweet that you gave which basically offered you immediate resignation there'll be a lot of
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people sitting there going hang on a second they're at this stage of the game and they're already having
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fallouts and at each other's throats how are you possibly going to be able to tackle all the issues
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that we've put forward yeah when even at this stage it doesn't look like it's a particularly harmonious
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group yeah so i understand that perspective um you know i'd say alongside those things which are true
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um and objectively true and i accept we have also assembled the political party pretty much from
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scratch over the course of the last year we've launched 450 odd branches we i've gone from 14 odd
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percent in the polls a year ago to 31 32 in the polls nigel's now the bookmaker's favorite to be the pm
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we've got a membership now of closing on a quarter of a million i think probably already
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the largest membership in the country labour have now stopped even ever reporting on their
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membership numbers unlike us who got them real time and so look and then we have made the first
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which i think obviously were a spectacular set of results and we've gone from 10 councillors a year
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ago to north of 700 now so look we're not perfect no not going to claim that we're perfect we're proud of
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what we've achieved and you know what i will say i'll say a few things though and i don't mind saying this
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stuff like in order to do the things that you just talked about we do need to be united behind
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a strong leader just object i don't see what the counter argument is that and and the counter you
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know if you want to make the counter argument i would point you to what the six leaders the
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tory has had in like eight years while they were in power most of the you know i'd never met a tory
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minister before i'd come into politics now i've met a reasonable number and some of them are good
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people to be fair right and their hearts in the right place still low agency in most cases but
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their hearts in the right place and you know most of them it's like how could you be the prime
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minister of a country when everyone in your cabinet is not just wants your job but like wants your job
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ideally this week and is actively working on making that happen it's like being a platoon commander and
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finding out most of your troops are going to try and take you out on that on that own mission to do what
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you just like with tech companies the the most valuable companies in the world are founder led
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and i know you know jeff bezos isn't technically still the ceo but he still kind of is that is the
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figurehead and obviously elon is singular you have to be united behind a leader secondly to the degree
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that we've made errors and i include my own error in in that tweet totally accept that and own up to
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that correct them quickly well just so people know you said that you were quitting reform because
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doing that job was not a good use of your time and then you came back two days later
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yeah yeah and i i regret the tweet yeah 11 months of largely pretty much no day off i mean even off
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the elections and the only thing i say that is it just compromises your decision making yeah but is
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it is it just that those here because i imagine i'm just guessing here just spitballing you correct me
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if i'm wrong that you coming in with your business-minded high agency approach yeah into a relatively
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volunteer-based new political party might rub a few people up the wrong way it might feel like
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you're a bit direct you're a bit harsh you're kicking ass too much and not being gentle enough
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am i in the right book well look um i don't have you pissed a lot of people off by trying to get things
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done um so no i don't think that's true but i do think um so look number one i think the results speak
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for themselves and i certainly do not take um sole credit for at all i was a part of making that i'm not
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i'm not questioning the results i'm questioning you're right no no let me answer you are right
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though in the sense that generally people in business who've had successful business careers
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do not even last very long in politics let alone get much done right um i've always been reasonably
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pragmatic though that obviously in politics it is about you know it's obviously not about profits or
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anything like that but what i will say is i've always been a very results-oriented person i'm a
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practical person um and i do believe this is a time-limited mission to save the united kingdom
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and return it to being an amazing country and i make no apology for saying that there really
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shouldn't be anything that gets in the way of that and that means that yes reform uk is a very high
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performance organization um i think you know we've we've been outraged by the tories 10 to 1 over the
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last year their team is much bigger than us labor's obviously not only got a much larger team than us
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um but they've also got the whole apparatus of the government the volunteers have done so much to
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get this party to where it is let me really care about that millions of leaflets because we've
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literally got a portal they've they've purchased and distributed millions of leaflets throughout
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throughout the last year um they knock on doors so grateful um to them but i make no apology for
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the fact that you know we we had to be results on let's take even candidates i mean most people unless
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you've done frontline politics and you built this thing and you you actually understand how hard it
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is to field 1600 candidates from a standing start you know we talk about winning seeds so in may last
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year the party only uh only fielded candidates in 12 of the seats 12 right and they won three or
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something seats overall absolute number this year we stood in 99.8 percent more than any of the
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other parties the first time in over 100 years that's happened and then we won 42 of the seats
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with 32 of the vote share hence demonstrating first past the post the thing that was supposedly
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frankly has been a nemesis for nigel over the years um now is working in our favor we're really
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proud of that look am i perfect no um yeah have i made some decisions that in hindsight i wouldn't
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have made including that tweet for example of course um but but we're very you know we have
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assembled a political party largely from scratch we've got an amazing team we're going to compound
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and build on that now obviously david bull's the chairman we're going to have a deputy chairman coming
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in the team is broadening exactly as would happen in in any other startup but in the end it's about
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the british people and we fight you know i'm a volunteer i work seven days a week i'm still doing
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that i love what i do nigel gives up huge opportunity cost for him doing all sorts of other
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things pretty much the whole reform leadership team are actually quite kind of reluctant politicians
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if you see what i mean um unlike a lot of let's say even labor ministers that's the best job they're
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ever going to get frankly right um and so it's about the british people this is a time-limited
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mission you know to quote martin luther king jr it's the fierce urgency of now um and so we have
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to get those results if we didn't imagine we just stood in half the seats which would still have been a
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big improvement on last year game over right mission over tories recover maybe they beat
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labor next time and we get the same thing again net migration at a million the country's screwed
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well i guess see neither francis or i trying to like say you are a bad person or you've done bad
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things or you've made mistakes but the concern i think for a lot of people is some of them linked
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your brief resignation to the fact that you sarah pochin is it is that how you pronounce her name
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she made a statement about burkas and even though you support banning the burka nonetheless you were
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critical of that i guess what people are getting at is are you guys actually going to be able to get
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along enough to to achieve results that's what i think people are asking i don't think anyone is
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like oh these people are bad people it's more like are you going to be able to deliver results
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and you know you talk about a strong leader i personally agree with that view but a strong
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leader also has to be able to bring people along with them uh so are you are you are you actually
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going to be able to to keep some semblance of order and agreement with yeah so so look so yes um
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nigel is is a great magnet for talent i mean look i would say that you know so much people go nigel
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can't work with big characters i wouldn't say i'm a shrinking viola i wouldn't say lee anderson
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well you did leave after 11 months but then you know but i came back i came back very very quickly
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and in no small part because you know i received so many messages dms emails from people telling me
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how important the reform mission was and because of nigel it just reminded me how important nigel was
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not that it's a one-man band but he is obviously the singular politician of our lifetimes without whom
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i don't think would be obviously wouldn't be where we are and he's crucial we've got to make him the
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prime minister in terms of harmonious look all i can say and i appreciate you guys take my word from this
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but you're gonna you're gonna see it over the coming months i mean my relation with sarah is
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impeccable i speak to almost every day i was instrumental in selecting her she's a formidable
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woman exactly the kind of person that this country needs frankly i think in the highest offices of the
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land she's been a magistrate for two decades again doesn't need to be in in politics is doing this out
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of a real sense of duty making a lot of sacrifice to do it i worked as hard as most people to get her
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elected um and since then as i said spoken to almost every day and i'm i couldn't be more proud
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of of the work that she's doing i'm on the record in my views about the burqa so i'm gonna have a
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discussion about it i totally understand why um there are many arguments to the contrary about
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a ban and i've been favored probably of a ban of face coverings in general we come on to wine um
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but you know we got a great the vibe is fantastic if you had come to the press conference when we
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announced david ball anyone who's actually in that room you'll notice actually even the mainstream
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media didn't really have any stories about lots of uh discordance because it was just obviously not
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true i mean we're we we love working together um look of course we're gonna have some disagreements
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by the way we will have disagreements um but people will see and the proof will be in the pudding
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over the coming months and years um that we are a team you know the analogy i use i don't know if
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you're football fans but i always use i like the analogy of prime barcelona right so you know
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leonard messi obviously arguably the best player in the world and there was no prime barcelona without
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messi but and let's let's create the analogy of leonard messi and nigel i don't know how many times
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that analogy has been made but there was also no prime barcelona without xavi and iniesta and all
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of these other incredible players around him and the proof of that is when messi went to other clubs
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like psg they didn't win the champions league or really come anywhere close and i would use that
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analogy with reform so of course nigel is the brightest star in our galaxy of course he is
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he's going to outshine him because nigel farage i mean it's always going to be the case right um but
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but we have formidable people not just in our incredible mps richard and james and um and lee and
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sarah but also i can tell you as someone who is a pretty good you know i have an asymmetry of data on
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this the caliber of people who are coming forward wanting to help us from a policy perspective in
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the background in some cases for doge right now but also people who i think will put themselves
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forward to occupy cabinet positions and you know let's take people i mean we have this crazy situation
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i've always thought i spent a long time trying to diagnose the riddle of how does this country had
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so many clowns as cabinet ministers why is it that the average cabinet in our lifetimes
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has not just been not great but like a cadre of the most clownish incompetence you'd ever imagine
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the kind that you would never walk into a fortune 100 company and see these people it's how we how
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did we end up with matt hancock as our health secretary during the greatest health emergency
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since world war ii literally cost i think hundreds of thousands of lives right i don't mind saying that
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on the record um you have rachel reeves and ed miliband between them spending the majority of our 1.2
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trillion pound a year budget i put it you could spend a decade scouring this country and find
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two people less qualified that you would feel uh you know less at ease in terms of spending our
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money and i've not met enough comedians but but you just pop out to the london circuit you get a lot
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of you guys are comedians richard right and you've obviously become my case but on a serious point you
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guys have obviously become really important voices and a lot of people take you very seriously i don't
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want to embarrass you but take you very seriously as political voices in this country same in the us
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joe rogan i mean there's lots of people cases of this partly because comedians tell the comedians
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the only way they can be funny is by identifying truths right um so look i realized the reason is
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is because in order to become and this is why the only way i thought the country could be turned around
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is through a totally new vehicle like reform um it's because in order to become the leader of one of
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these legacy parties the only way to do it is to buy off the the the most senior mps and the ranking
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mps with the highest offices of the land and the people who get into those positions are not there
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it's almost like an anti-meritocracy right merit is the you know in many ways what happens is a highly
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um competent person what happens is a load of incompetent people coalesce together and get them
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out and that works so again what we're focused on is as i said one step at a time continuing to build
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our support saying things we believe to be true whether people you know and willing to you know
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nigel people talk about nigel they claim is a he's a populist you know someone who spends i probably
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spend more time with nigel than any other human over the last year and the interesting thing is never
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once i can tell you there's a decision been made based on a poll right that's something we don't look
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at polls we do but the decision is never made on that and the interesting thing with nigel is he's
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actually built his career and continues to build to to lead the party based on conviction around
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something he believes to be true and if the polls aren't there he'll go out and make the case to
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the british people whether it was brexit whether it was um immigration but you know he was talking
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you know that billboard with the word invasion on you're all the flack he got from that now this is
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you'd have to go some to claim i mean look at the darren jones controversy this week on question
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time so we're going to keep doing that it's not going to be easy it's a long way to go before the
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next general election but i think a people are so disconsolate and feel so betrayed by the two old
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parties but b i think we're doing a better and better job and we've got to keep doing this
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at demonstrating to people that we are a viable alternative so zia let's go back to the conversation
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about the burqa because to me it feels in some ways it's not just about that what we're actually
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talking about is liberal values because the liberal values that we hold in this country are
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you can do what you want say what you want as long as it doesn't affect me and that is your right as a
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british citizen yeah i'm going to be honest i not particularly comfortable with the banning of it
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because it infringes on those liberal values that i think make this country so
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yeah beautiful and precious very few countries uphold those values but on the other hand and this
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is where the balance of this comes in as we discussed earlier a lot of people feel that that
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is a visual representation yeah of a division a lack of integration a lack of the ability for people to
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connect with each other to hear each other to see each other and so i think everyone appreciates that
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we're kind of in this moment when we'd like to preserve our liberal society but frankly if you
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bring in lots and lots of people from cultures who are not liberal that becomes more challenging and
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that's where the conversations are i think it's a thousand percent i mean i almost don't need to
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say you just laid out the so what but you you we're just talking on a podcast you are actually
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planning to do something about it so what's what's the plan yeah so let me quickly firstly reform
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doesn't have the policy to ban it right now i'm just talking about my own personal view on this
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and the reason why it was so interesting what you both just said there is yeah this is totally a
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really difficult point it's a discussion that does need to be had i mean that's the first thing a lot
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of policies don't even want to talk about it um i think it is authentically a real trade-off
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situation between two really important liberal values right um so freedom of religion is a really
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important tenet of english common law and a really important british value undeniable um but one has to ask
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why um yeah and and talking about this isn't some far-right trope thing if i mean look france
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belgium bulgaria austria denmark yeah but also uzbekistan turkmenistan lots of muslim countries
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totally totally yeah obviously but i'm even talking about you know unless you believe belgium is some
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far-right um there are a lot of people in the british media establishment who are only convinced by
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the example of uzbekistan because they think france is evil and which it is but yeah so um sorry so
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uh well they do need to start stopping those boats from coming but um but you know what's
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interesting is that on the one hand yes freedom of religion is really really crucial i totally
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understand the slippery slope argument because you know one of the things again the founding fathers
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often talk about is when you're passing legislation you always have to consider this thomas payne
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who first said it whatever legislation you pass will one day be in the hands of quote unquote your
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enemy at some point god forbid a non-reform government might win and then how long before that same kind
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of once you infringe on that what about a star of david or crucifix you know all of these awful
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things could end up potentially so i understand that argument i really do secondly but on the flip side
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you know social interaction in in the public sphere and that's what we're talking about we're
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not talking about in the private privacy around home but in the public sphere in western liberal
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democracies is facial it is that's how you eye contact these are really really important things
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um and and and and you're right it is seen as something of a lightning rod and and sort of right
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in the middle of that storm of discussion around assimilation and which cultures are are um are
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compatible with this and again i think it's less of a religious point and more of a cultural point
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there are many muslim countries which don't encourage that don't encourage or indeed ban it in many cases
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um there is a security element to it and the notion that it isn't is this not true in tunisia i think it was
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2019 there was a bombing by somebody um who was wearing one so there's an element of that too
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i would say to the degree that i support the ban um it would be a ban on facial coverings in general
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right including you know i've seen antifa thugs threaten nigel threaten our supporters knock the
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tooth out one of nigel's security detail do you know how many people were arrested zero not a single
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i mean think about that one of nigel's security detail former special boat service veteran had one of
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his teeth knocked out by a mast on antifa thug no arrest um so i i do think that's important i don't
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you know i would never support a piece of legislation that sort of targets a specific religion again i
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think that's that's not they're not the right thing to do but i do think we have to start having these
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discussions constantly and if we don't start having these discussions i think with sam harris who said
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if reasonable people don't secure our borders unreasonable people will and whenever you think of
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sam harris i think that is true and i think that if if reasonable people don't start drawing some
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lines in the sand you have to listen to voters i keep saying this you know i went on so when i talked
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to some left-wing people who just sort of say universally this is a liberal values okay well you
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can keep saying that in your abstract philosophy class but if you don't listen to voters they will get
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angrier and angrier and angrier and i can't blame them and so again what reform is here to do is say
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again we're here to speak up for the people who feel like as you were pointing out earlier
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who feel like every time they vote to reduce immigration or support their borders not only
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did they get not get what they voted for they get the opposite of what they voted for and then
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insulted i mean darren jones on question time sort of telling the audience and telling the british
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people that the majority of the people coming across on small boats are women and children
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i tell you if someone's sitting next to him you don't know how they identify
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well the funny thing is the numbers are even by government statistics that's obviously wrong but
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we know that these people throw their passports away and just make stuff up you've seen i've seen
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i've seen sort of pictorial evidence as well of sort of clearly men in their fifth
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with ball who are balding and receding airlines are apparently under 16
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scarily i almost think that he in a weird way he almost believed it these people are utterly deluded
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my sense was not actually that he was sitting there deliberately attempting to miss he just
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doesn't have a clue and how you could not have a clue when we know for a fact you know we've been
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talking about it being a national security much and i've just been talking about this for
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for years right we now know that iranian men came across the channel and our security services
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foiled a terrorist attack right so it obviously is and you know people say oh it's relatively small
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numbers relative to legal number yes proportionally because the legal number is absolutely insane
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but also we know nothing about these people the majority of them are men the real number we
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think is is actually closer than 90 and in several periods it was actually even by government reporting
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numbers up at that level so look we've got to start listening um to voters and again i say this as
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a muslim to the degree that there is resentment building um against muslims in this country which it is
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i think um that doesn't mean that this country is full of people who hate muslims but i don't think it is
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but but but but that resentment is growing and the way you resolve that is not by continuing to
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pass you know blasphemy laws and make it i mean again so imagine you're a teacher and you said nobody's
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allowed to say anything mean to constantin over here i mean it'd be the worst thing you could possibly
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hear right um so look again we've got to have real conversations about this stuff yeah uh and
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speaking of um uh that one of the things that's obviously had a huge impact domestically even
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though it's happening in halfway across the world is the war in gaza yeah uh and now the israeli strikes
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on iran and the iranian response and so on what is the reform view of that conflict well the reform view
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is israel's a crucial ally has the right to defend itself hamas is a terrorist organization um the war
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would have ended very very quickly had they handed back the hostages um all of that it's obviously
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true um i think britain has a in listening to this labor government i think they have an overinflated
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sense of sadly britain's position and standing in the world i mean israel didn't even tell the british
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government about these uh about the attacks they were about you have to ask why that sort of thing is
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happening uh you know even the whole arms sales thing i'm a very practical person whatever your view is
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on that okay you can say we're going to restrict arms sales all that will happen is throw you think
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there aren't plenty of other countries queuing up to sell arms um to israel there's one of the few
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areas we still have some potentially some ability to influence and to the degree we want more influence
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over such things going back to the point about economic growth we need gdp per capita in this
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country growing three to four percent a year over a sustained period of time we need to reinvest in
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our military but also in a smart way i mean the way military spending is currently done is still for
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like wars that happened decades ago because of the powers of a lot of lobbyists so that's our
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view on that um now i don't mind saying that you just look at all the polling and the data on this um
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my personal view is that i think the way in which israel has prosecuted the war i think it leaves much
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to be desired in some look it's a really difficult one right because you know hamas are using um human
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shields obviously i think that uh and there's obviously a lot of proper propaganda but if you just
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look at the polling if you're a friend of israel's right as we are then you have to be able to say
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things like losing popular support amongst a large number for example british people is not in your
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interest um and so i think i think two things can be true at the same time and why why should we be
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friends of israel well i think one of the reasons is because it has continued it has historically um so
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number one that the concept of judeo-christian values i think is important i say this is a
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muslim it is um it absolutely is so that's the first point the second one is israel has and is an
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important strategic ally in a region which is very susceptible still to the scourge uh and kind of
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overwhelmed by islamist forces it is true right um and you know things can change in the middle east very
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very quickly um so so that that would be uh you know another reason it is the only democracy in
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the middle east and you know democracy as churchill said is far from perfect in fact the worst form of
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government except uh for all of the others um you know it's that it is a standard bearer in terms of
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how it treats its own citizens in terms of um women's rights and freedom of religion all of those
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things right so those are the reasons but again i i personally my personal view is that you know some
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some sort of carte blanche i think in order to be a friend of israel so i do worry that you know look at
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look at all the polling around younger generations with regards to israel it's like you know we can live
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in a i'm a big fan of having difficult conversations right and the way that as those pictures keep
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streaming in you know of just utter devastation inside civilian areas and again notwithstanding the
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argument that they're using human shield it's like it's difficult in those instances when you're
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looking at those images that are so preponderant and i get it that there's propaganda and some of
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it's fake but the sheer preponderance of it suggests not all of it is fake um and i think that one has to
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ask just as i would say the british military right um i think rsas are being persecuted for doing
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their jobs as a result of echr insanity but i would say you know you know if reform is in government
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and there was evidence that british personnel were acting improperly and illegally um and you know
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doing awful things then you have to ask yourselves why are you better and i think that is an important
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discussion to be had so again it's a nuanced discussion um we're great friends of israel and
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everything i've just said comes from a place where i want israel to have support amongst the british
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people see you it's been an absolute pleasure thank you very much for coming on the show final
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question is always the same what's the one thing we're not talking about that we really should be
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before see answers the last question at the end of the interview make sure you head on over to our
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substack where you will be able to see this i'm a reform member who is struggling to forgive the
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extreme actions taken against rupert lowe do you think you owe him an apology for going to the police
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how can we invigorate or reinvigorate a sense of national identity pride and and allegiance i think
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as the world changes it becomes more threatening we're going to need it i think it's uh ai and energy
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so uh as someone who's a tech entrepreneur these frontier ai models are already um so advanced that
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they are i think more powerful like powerful enough to displace a large large percentage of white
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collar jobs britain is a service industry all the models that are used in the uk at the moment are
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basically used from american companies i think the speed at which these things are improving there's
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obviously the chinese and the and the americans at some point it is logical that those countries will
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say no we're just going to keep the best models the most advanced ones for ourselves no one else gets to
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use them we don't really have any of these gp data centers where they put all these nvidia kind
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of basically the supercomputer clusters that cost a lot of money are built one of the reasons is we
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have insanely high energy costs the most expensive energy costs in the world um and to give you some
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context of how fast we are falling behind in this country as a result of madden milliband and boris and
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all these guys china is installing the equivalent of the entire fleet of energy capacity in the united
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right and and so ai are the new nuclear weapons right they are it is an absolute if we carry on
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the way we are for the next 15 to 20 years and this is why i keep saying like before me to win
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we will basically become i think a vassal state of the ccp under some sort of horrific eye of sore on ai
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capable and this is not i mean this is where we are headed what do you mean by that because there's
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a lot of people who don't know lord of the rings who are just like or yeah yeah well so so ai so
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so historically being an authoritarian regime was actually quite costly to like spy on everybody you
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know what everybody's saying like with ai it collapses the cost of authoritarianism right so you
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could have a camera up there that is able to know us by our faces exactly what we're saying you know
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those ai note takers that you go on zoom and you're like how the hell did it do right so ai massively
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reduces the cost basically collapses the marginal cost of authoritarianism um and if we don't have
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our own data centers with these gpus low energy prices to be able to power them will number one be
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totally open to cyber attacks um my view is it's obvious from what trump is doing that they're becoming
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more protectionist um and because britain is focused despite being less than one percent of global
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emissions and china producing 4.7 billion tons of coal last year mad and miliband's running around
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you know trying to make us basically a poor country by having all these high energy costs it means
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it is totally economically inept to try to open these dentist centers in the uk so we should be
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investing heavily in building up that capability a as a form of defense but also unlike nuclear weapons
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there is a positive use for these things um in order to deliver value for british people i think you
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would automate away a lot of the uh civil service i think you'd be really helpful in areas not not
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exclusively ai for the nhs but i mean my brother's a radiologist a consultant radiologist and already
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you know these large language models have surpassed like you know human radiologists at scale so
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that's something that i think is a not being talked about b has the prospect to totally change the face
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of society and politicians are i mean to say that they're asleep at the wheel would be being kind
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