 Okay, good morning all, a very welcome to my new setting at which I love and to all things Hartlepool. Now, this morning, I want to talk about something quite significant that's happening today on a national scale, but with relevance to a term here in Hartlepool and I'll explain where that relevance is today. What's happening is the first in person for two years speech by Boris Johnson to the Conservative Party Conference and we are a Hartlepool is now a conservative time up with a conservative MP. And I won't hold my breath for any analysis or criticism of Boris Johnson's speech from said MP because I'm sorry. A couple of things I want to say first of all, I'm looking for some volunteers in Scotland. If you're in Scotland, please give me a shout. We are planning to protest at the COP26 conference in Glasgow coming up from the 34th of October to the 6th of November. I'm sure a lot of people will have some protests there. We intend to be among those people. I know we have a lot of members in Scotland, so do give me a shout if you can help organise something there. Second thing is here in Hartlepool on the 12th of December, we will be holding a public meeting. And the purpose of the public meeting will be to encourage people in the town to stand for election. And once again, as I say every time, these things can be done all over the country. I'd encourage people members and activists around the country to do so, to hold meetings where you can and encourage local people to stand for election. It's never been more important that we stand for election. We can see, we know that labour and Tory little difference between them and our challenge to them has to be to reclaim our democracy and take it back for ourselves. And as I've said on, as I said I think on the last week's live stream here, don't let lack of confidence stop you doing this. We can overcome any issues you may have and in this public meeting on the 12th of December, I will address concerns that people may have. I will tell you how to stand for election, how to campaign. You are already, if you have integrity and if you really care about the people and your area, then you're already one up on many if not most of the people sitting in elected seats around this country. 12th of December in Hartlepool. That will be advertised. I'll be giving you more details on that as the time goes on. So let's have a little look then. This is from the Hartlepool Mail this morning. Let's have a little look at what the Prime Minister Boris Johnson intends to say in his speech to the Conservative Party Conference today. There's a lot in here. It's a lot to pick apart. And how do I put this politely? We are, we know that many politicians, if not most of them, and again I'll put it politely full of it. And this is no exception. So let's have a look. This says to say, it's from the Hartlepool Mail this morning, Boris Johnson will deliver a major speech to the Conservative Party Conference where he will defend his administration cutting universal credit and set out his levelling up agenda. Now the cutting of universal credit, I'll go into it in a little bit more detail, but this will affect 13,000 people in Hartlepool. Meanwhile, taxes are going to go up. So we're going to cut, I mean to be fair, it was already, the boost in universal credit was stated to be temporary. And to get people through the initial parts of lockdown and other sort of, but look, it's still going to have a hugely negative effect. Things are not going to just magically get better as lockdown ends. The businesses that have been destroyed by lockdown are still destroyed. There's been a shift in economic activity by people. For example, shopping online and many people will not go back to, many people had experienced or undertaken online shopping for the first time during the lockdown. And many people will not go back to high street shopping. So we've had a shift in economic activity anyway. So the idea that now that the furlough has ended, that the economy is magically going to go back to normal is folly. It's not going to happen. So people need that boost in universal credit still. Instead, what they're getting is increases. Costs are going up. The cost of fuel is going up. For example, cost of living is going up. And the jobs aren't there. And the Tory's magical solution to this is jobs. But you have to create those jobs. Let's see what he says about that. So the Prime Minister will declare that he has the guts to reshape the British economy and solve major domestic issues. He will defend his restrictions on foreign workers despite consumer and industry concerns as the press implying that there's an inherent issue with restrictions on foreign workers will actually, we need the jobs. He is expected to tell activists that the government is embarking now on the change of direction that has been long overdue in the UK economy. He will define his leveling up agenda, arguing that by boosting left behind parts of the country, it will ease pressure on the overheating southeast of England. Now I want to make a couple of points about this overheating southeast of England. I spent quite a bit of time in the southeast of England. And it is notable, hugely notable because I live up here in the northeast, but I spend quite a bit of time in the southeast work. Overheating is an understatement. The place is jam packed, jam packed. What does he mean by boosting left behind parts of the country to ease pressure on the overheating southeast of England? Does he mean bringing the rest of us closer to resembling the southeast? I hope not. Because I don't, the southeast, it's too busy, it's too chaotic, it's too filled with people, it's expensive. The rest of the country doesn't necessarily want to be overheated, too busy, jam packed, tense because of it and expensive. So I'm not sure that by levelling us up, that levelling the rest of the country up to being more like the southeast is necessarily what this country needs. There are too many people there. And of course in the southeast is the capital, London. And we know how jam packed that is. We know how expensive that is. We also know that the Labour Party which governs London, at least the mayoral office and many of its councils, not most of its councils, wants to make it even more jam packed, even more expensive. The standards, the quality of living cannot be high in a place that is so overcrowded and so expensive. So that rings a little alarm bell for me that he wants to level up the country to be more like the southeast. The southeast needs to be made less jam packed, less expensive for people and not the rest of the country more. He goes on to say, it goes on to say, the Prime Minister will also highlight adult social care which the Tories have promised to reform using money raised from the manifesto busting 1.25% rise in national insurance. So there's our taxes going up. Partly, as the government has been saying, to pay for the NHS. The NHS which pours millions, hundreds of millions of pounds down the drain every year while services go down. And if you thought the standard of the NHS was bad prior to COVID, try it now. It is effectively gone. And that's the truth. It is effectively gone. And you will now, someone told me recently that we're receiving physiotherapy via Zoom, physiotherapy via Zoom. That's insanity. And the bulk of what you will get from the NHS now is a Zoom call. If you're lucky, that's what we have. That's what we have. And our taxes are going up at a time when they ought to be going down, the follow ending, the economy limping back to its feet, a different economy limping back to its feet. We're having a rise in national insurance with no discussion or analysis of where the money is actually going when it's pumped in to the NHS. So under the heading of social care, this is what the Prime Minister will say, quote, after decades of drift and dither, this reforming government, this can do government that got Brexit done, is getting the vaccine rollout done and is going to get social care done. Now, Boris says, remember at the start I said politicians are full of it. Here's your prime example. Boris learned from the last general election when he said get Brexit done. This was his mantra. It was his slogan. He used it quite literally, and you can go back and look at some of the hostings and various things, events that the leaders held coming up to the general election and you will notice, I'm not exaggerating when I say this, every question that was asked, Boris Johnson replied with get Brexit done. He also won with a massive majority. So he knows this kind of rhetoric works. However, it was also at a time when the Brexit voting public were looking for Brexit. I'm not sure that that's going to necessarily transit the get it done mantra is necessarily going to translate into other areas for Boris Johnson. We shall see. However, the government that got Brexit done, he knows perfectly well that Brexit isn't done. There are issues like fishing, immigration, which have been kicked in to the long grass. But what matters is that the perception is that Brexit is done and that what was delivered was the Brexit that people voted for, but it isn't. But it's a mantra. It's a slogan. We'll see if it works. It goes on to say, we are dealing with the biggest underlying issues of our economy and society, the problems that no government has had the guts to tackle before. We are not going back to the same old broken model with low wages, low growth, low skills and low productivity. All of it enabled and assisted by uncontrolled immigration. This is incredible stuff. Incredible stuff and nowhere better does it demonstrate how full of it he is than on that very member. This is all quote sold directly from the speech he will deliver today. He goes on to say the answer is to control immigration . To allow people of talent to come to this country, but not to use immigration as an excuse for failure to invest in people in skills and in the equipment or machinery they need to do their jobs. This is incredible, unbelievable stuff from Boris Johnson now. The answer is to control immigration. Immigration has gone up since Brexit. Non-European immigration, which was always higher than European immigration, has gone up since Brexit. This is the immigration that governments, including Boris Johnson's government, have always had control over. They blamed it on the European Union. It wasn't the European Union. I'm no fan of the European Union, but mass migration from outside of Europe was never caused by the European Union. It was caused by the British government, including Boris Johnson's British government. But what's absolutely extraordinary about his claim that we need to control immigration is that record numbers of illegal immigrants are floating in to this country on a daily basis. Records being broken. We have a record set of 800 in a day. This week it will be a thousand in a day. The record of daily arrivals keeps being broken on Boris Johnson's watch. Now, presumably, the illegal immigrants coming here won't necessarily be taking jobs, although some certainly will, and you'll have a black market of illegal employment undercutting the lowest paid in the country, legitimately working in the country. So you'll have that black market, jobs black market with illegal immigrants doing work and undercutting and shoving down wages. But the social welfare bill that comes with record numbers of illegal immigrants being housed in hotels by Boris Johnson's government is being passed on to us with a 1.25 percentage point rise in national insurance. That's what you're paying for. He's lying, absolutely flat out lying. The answer is to control immigration. Yes, it is. But the idea that you're going to do that is a big fat lie, Boris Johnson, and you know it. You know it. It's theatre. Full of it. Absolutely full of it. He goes on to say there is no reason why the inhabitants of one part of the country should be geographically fated to be poorer than others, or why people should feel they have to move away from their loved ones or communities to reach their potential. I'm not entirely sure what he's talking about there, but it brings me back to the comments made on the south east. It is far less expensive to live, for example in Hartlepool than it is to live in Kent or London. But it's also quieter. And we're not jam-packed to the rafters like the south east is. If that's the answer, a lot of people don't want it. In fact, I'm pretty sure a lot of people in the south east would rather be in a less jam-packed, less expensive part of the country. And it is because of mass largely, partly, at best partly, I would say largely, because of mass immigration, that the south east is jam-packed and expensive. The very thing he says he's going to control but hasn't, and actually on his watch, record numbers are coming in. Incredible. Absolutely incredible stuff. So let me move on to the universal credit. Labour has criticised the Prime Minister's speech as it comes on the same day that the government will carry out its cut to the £20 per week universal credit uplift, which is brought in at the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Now, Labour criticising the Tories, give me a break. It would be exactly the same under Labour. Exactly the same. But that's what they do. That's all they do, really, is criticise each other. They're as bad as each other. They do all the same things. But they stand on different sides of the House of Commons shouting at each other. Well, the rest of us have to get on with living actual lives. They play out this theatre in The Mother of All Parliaments on theatre holidays. The Opposition Party plans to drive a van around the perimeter of conference, the Manchester Central during Mr Johnson's speech, displaying a poster urging ministers to cancel the cut to the household income of millions of people, as well as the fewer a surrounding the benefits reduction. The closing speech on Wednesday comes against the backdrop of a supply change crisis, a labour shortage that has seen military drivers drafted in to deliver petrol, as well as warnings of empty shelves in shops at Christmas and pigs called due to a lack of abattoir staff. So yes, we're getting this fear injection about Christmas, aren't we? So let's have a look at the universal credit issue in a little bit more detail. This is from the BBC. The £20 a week increase to you had a lot of money. £20 a week is a lot of money for a lot of people. And they'll miss it. And they'll miss it at a time when the economy is limping. £20 a week increase to universal credit brought in to support those on low incomes during the pandemic is now being withdrawn, as is of course follow. The government says that higher wages rather than taxpayer funded benefit rises will be the better option as the country emerges from COVID restrictions. Well, yes, in an ideal world, that's true. But higher wages from home. What are you going to give businesses so that they can pay these higher wages? A business is even particularly small and medium and even going to be employing, much less on higher wages. Yet many MPs want the universal credit boost to be permanent. In response to the pandemic, a temporary 20s bit background on a temporary £20 increase to universal credit was introduced. The scheme officially ends today, 6th of October. The standard allowance for a single person aged under 25 is going to fall back from £79 a week to £59 a week, a fall of 25%. Compare that to a couple where one of them is 25 for over and there are allowance drops from £137 a week to £117 a week, a fall of 15%. The withdrawal of the universal credit uplift is coinciding with increases in the cost of living. This is again from the BBC. That is probably the most significant point made in the article. The Bank of England has forecast that inflation will rise above 4% in the coming months. This pace is unlikely to be matched by wage growth in many sectors of the economy. Exactly, exactly. The Tories are again living in Cloud Cuckoo Land. I mean they're all rich anyway, aren't they? I mean the Chancellor of the Exchequer, isn't he married to a billionaire? Not a millionaire, a billionaire. These people do not live in the world that they dictate to and that they make decisions on. So their answer is higher wages, at a time when there are scarcely wages at all and when businesses are struggling. So we've got inflation of 4% and it won't be matched by higher wages in the economy, just won't be. So what you have is people ever, ever poorer. And then you have tax hikes as well. Council tax hikes will go up all over the country as well. And people are squeezed and squeezed and squeezed and getting poorer and poorer and poorer under the Tories watch. Where's the guts, Boris Johnson? It is all talk, controlled immigration, higher wages are the answer. It's all talk. It means nothing to people actually living lives in this country. It means nothing. And the reason it means nothing is because the Tories don't understand what it's like to live on £59 a week. Does anyone think that Boris Johnson or any of his front bench, they'd spend £50, they wouldn't actually have, of course, £59 in their pocket because I think somebody asked Rishi Sunak, the price of basements, know this stuff. They're rich. They've always been rich. The vast, vast majority of the Tory front bench is well off and always has been. It's just talk. They don't get it and they will never get it. Price rises are being driven, it says, by necessities such as gas and electricity. And guess what? The winter's coming and that's when we're going to need those things most. We're also seeing a rise in petrol and fuel prices, which will again drive people, will drive prices up because if companies fuel costs rise, they will pass that cost onto the consumer. So here in Hartlepool, 13,000 people, according to the mail this morning, will be affected by the universal credit £20 a week. I call it a cut, but it was always meant to be temporary. But given all that I've said, it will have a hugely negative impact on people. So here in Hartlepool, the Department for Work and Pensions figures showed that there were 13,408 people claiming the benefit universal credit in this town and that 67% of those were not in work, which means that 33% were. When you are in work and still having to claim benefit, that's something wrong with your economy, but that's another matter. They are among more than 5.1 million claimants across the UK who may now face a struggle to make ends meet according to anti-poverty campaigners. Despite months of campaigning, the uplift ended on October 6 today with claimants expected to receive final payments containing the uplift by October 13. So 5.8 million people across the UK, including above 13,000 here in Hartlepool, will now be going to a winter with gas and electric prices going up, fuel prices going up, which businesses will pass on to the consumer. That means food costs as well will go up. All the necessities of living are going up. Follow is removed. Small and medium businesses will no longer have that support. They will start to tighten their belts, which inevitably will mean job losses. It will not result in the flippant response from the Tory government that higher wages are the response to inflation. You can't have higher wages in an economy like this, where businesses are struggling to get back on their feet. And then we need to control immigration by a government that oversees record, record numbers of illegal immigrants. These politicians are full of it. It is all talk. They haven't got the first idea what it is actually like to live under the rules they decide in their plush officers in Westminster. £59 a week? Boris Johnson? Rishi Sionak? Give me a break. No idea. No clue. They'd spend that on a bottle of wine. This is who we're governed by. And if you come to my public meeting in Hartlepool on the 12th of December, I'll tell you exactly what we need to do about it. I said in Stanley last weekend that there is a great reset coming. There is, and it's not the great reset that the globalist politicians think. The great reset will be that people will rise up and take back their country. Final, just some local politics before I finish. At the latest Hartlepool Borough Council full council meeting, Conservative councillor Cameron Stuckel was named new deputy leader, while independent councillor Rob Cook was chosen as deputy mayor. It comes after Conservative councillor Mike Young announced his resignation from the two positions in August, following controversy of his role in talks about potential nuclear waste disposal in Hartlepool. He continues to represent rural west, I can never say that, rural west ward and is still a member of the Conservatives. Councilor Stuckel, chair of the neighbourhood services committee was selected by councillors by 17 votes to 12 to be the new deputy leader ahead of Labour's councillor Brenda Harrison with two abstentions. Okay, just a little bit of local political news there. Right, that's it for me for this morning. Thanks everyone for joining me. Do share this video. It will be on YouTube. I do share it. Once again, if you're in Scotland, please give me a shout. I need help organizing a few things in Scotland. On the 12th of December, put that date in your diary, public meeting here in Hartlepool. Thanks for joining me. I'll see you back at my live stream on Monday night at half past seven. We're going to do another hour long on Monday night. So please join me then. Thanks everyone. Take care of yourselves.