 Good evening all. You're all very welcome. Thank you very much for joining me Monday evening live stream. Been a busy week and another busy week coming up. First thing I want to tell you about is this weekend in Manchester. I'll be speaking at a rally in Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester from about one o'clock this weekend which is a rally for children to stop the abuse of children in all its various guises and there are many and one of them I'm going to talk about this evening. It's a it's a topic we've covered before but I want to I've had through the reason I'm going to have a look at it again this evening is that I'm working on a well I'm not working on that's I'm not I'm not going to give credit for this. I'm helping with a report forced adoption in the United Kingdom which I've been sent this week quite a substantial bit of work that I am making my way through. Ah Jamma has just said she's a speaker too. See you there. So making my way through this report I'm going to read a little bit of it to you this evening but what we want to do with this and not the author of this I'm not going to claim credit for what we want to do or what I want to help do with this is refine it to a easy to read summary and we want to get it to every member of the Houses of Parliament the Commons and the Lords. This is a hugely it's a shocking it's actually it's shocking it's shocking and we are the UK is almost unique in this regard. I will take you through the key parts of this report I would say if you can help us with this if you can help by donating for this it would really I'd really appreciate it but we want to get this to every member of the Houses of Parliament and then follow up with it and see why why why if they're not interested in this why aren't they interested anyway I'll take you through that in a few minutes a couple of bits of news we'll have a look at the latest on coronavirus as well a couple of bits of news I want to share with you and one of them is regarding the Batley and Spen parliamentary by-election this is a this is the seat that was held by Jo Cox until she was murdered in 2016 and following that in the it was won by Tracy Braben and she won that seat for Labour and she won it again in 2019 the last general election but with a much reduced majority it was down from 8,000 her majority was down from 8,961 to 3525 now the bit of news I want to show you is that Labour have selected Jo Cox's sister to stand in this parliamentary by-election and the parliamentary by-election had been triggered by the victory by Tracy Braben as the mayor of I knew she's a mayor of let me just get this make sure I get this right West Yorkshire's first regional mayor so Tracy Braben is now the regional mayor of West Yorkshire leaving her parliamentary seat up for a by-election Labour have selected Jo Cox's sister for this now they've apparently I'm reading various different bits and bobs they've apparently broken their own rules in selecting her for this seat her name is Kim Ledbetter she has not been a member of the Labour Party apparently until a couple of weeks ago breaking their own rules apparently what I read is that you have to be a member of the Labour Party for at least 12 months in order to stand for election that's not the case for her and what is there to say except what incredible incredible cynical exploitation by the Labour Party I think they are going to be in trouble with this I think it's going to backfire on them incredibly and they are going to pay by suspect the price of you losing yet another northern seat to the Tories just quickly have a quick look at the BBC's reporting on this so Jo Cox's sister has been chosen as the Labour candidate in the constituency the modded MP once represented Kim Ledbetter will contest a by-election for the Buckley and Span seat on a date yet to be confirmed during the selection meeting Ms Ledbetter told party member she was the candidate the Conservatives feared I'm a proud Yorkshire woman I've lived in Buckley and spent all my life I have a deep understanding of the area it's people and some of the challenges it faces I feel passionately about the strength there is in such a diverse constituency she has received the backing of the Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham who spoke about the importance of having strong northern voices now significantly this is the seat also you'll be familiar with Buckley we covered it in some detail in a recent live stream this is the place where the school where the school teacher is still in hiding some months after his initial sin of using cartoons of Mohammed still in hiding I'm hearing reports today and these are opinion reports but still that the government has essentially turned its back on this school teacher we know that the unions turned their back on him nobody really wanted to come to his defense we had Muslims outside the school a horrible situation a horrible situation and we know the history of Mohammed cartoons we know how many people have been murdered over Mohammed cartoons we know the censorship we know the fear and this is inside this constituency the interesting thing will be and I can predict it very very easily I think I don't think I'm going to be wrong about this I think neither Labour nor Tory candidate will have anything to say about this issue they certainly won't be condemning the censorship and the threats of violence and the implicit and explicit threats of violence that surround this issue and they will show they will show that neither of the two big parties in this country are interested in defending freedom of speech neither of them have the courage to tackle these issues and you just know that that's going to be the case so be interested to watch that to see what happens in that battle and spend by election um and I'll keep it up I'll keep it I keep an eye I'll keep an eye on it right a couple of other bits of news something that jumped out at me today from ITV news was that the Home Secretary Priti Patel has unveiled plans for a fully digital border within five years she has pledged wholesale reform of the UK's broken her words immigration system as she unveiled plans for a fully digital border within five years well have a question my first question to Priti Patel is who's fault is it that the UK's border or immigration system is broken who's fault is that exactly well the Tories have been in government since 2010 11 years plenty of time plenty of time to fix this broken immigration system all they've done is make it even more broken and yet here we have more of this stuff from the Tories talking the talk anyone would think that they've been sitting on the fringes for the last 10 years unable to do anything about it desperate to make change but unable to do anything they've been in government all that time this is more Tory Tory Tory Tory this is what they do they say they never do so in a keynote speech on Monday Ms Patel vowed to deliver a system that works for the law abiding majority and against those who seek to abuse our hospitality and generous the spirit give me a break the people she watches coming in to dover every day are abusing our hospitality and generous spirits i did like she did do a photo op the other day did you see that um where she was along with the police arresting someone i mean it's absolutely the most cynical photo op soundbite politics and again as i say anyone would think that had no power all this time the Tories blessed them they're desperately trying to solve this immigration issue and they just can't do it they're in government i've been courageous she said she launched the us style electronic travel authorization rich which requires visitors to the uk to obtain an electronic permit before traveling she said this would make the border more secure with automatic checks allowing the government to count people in and count people out of the country provide it would provide a far clearer picture of who is here and whether they should be adding and when and we will act when they are not oh god ETAs will be required by anyone without a visa or immigration status although they will not be needed by irish citizens with ministers promising the system will be operational by the end of 2025 and the problem is the problem is that this this is just another way of processing legal movement in and out of the country it'll do nothing about the exploitation of asylum and this fake refugee crisis that we have it is yeah again again it's it's the Tories introducing things that they shouldn't be shouldn't need to introduce because they've already had that they already have the laws to deal with this stuff absolutely infuriating um and another one that caught my eye today is the Black Lives Matter activist Sasha Johnson not intended target of drive-by shooting the leader or one of the leaders of Black Lives Matter um this Sasha Johnson and she's she was infamous for a screaming match that she had with Tommy Robinson and Luke Reid um many of you will have seen that i'm sure she has been shot and is uh in a serious condition in hospital etc she is fighting for her life after sustaining a gunshot wound to her head but was not the intended target her friend has said Sasha Johnson both a BLM activist and senior member of the political party taking the initiative party was injured in the early hours of Sunday in south London the political group said the mother of two had received numerous death threats because of her activism however a friend of the activist said she believed the incident was more related to rival gangs okay let's have a look at coronavirus before i get in to um to get on to the topic at hand this evening forced adoption in the UK and once again if you can help us to get this report to every member of parliament please please do i'll read you some key parts of it in a minute but let's have a look at coronavirus and see where we are on our evening update shops still seeing almost 30 fewer customers well there'll be a reason for that and that's that all the joy and spontaneity has been taken out of just about everything in life i've never been a big fan of shopping but it's even worse now only absurd cues and nonsense and they just people don't want the hassle so shoppers are only returning to high streets and shopping centers gradually with footfall is still 28 percent lower than pre-pandemic levels more than a month after all non-essential retail opened up retail analyst springboard said there was only a modest week on week increase after restaurants and pubs were allowed to serve indoors on 17th of May but there was a clear boost to footfall in shopping destinations after five o'clock when people flock to eat out or meet for a drink i have to say you do the places are places are not not just not the way they used to be not as follows they used to be but there is i've definitely people out eating and drinking which is nice number two patients asked to wait three years for a dentist appointment some patients in england have been asked to wait for up to three years for a dental appointment as the NHS struggles with a backlog of work from the pandemic wow there'll be no uh reduction in the taxes we have to pay across health watch england says rising numbers of people are struggling to access NHS dentistry and complaints have risen by a fifth at the start of this year practices were closed from march to june and have since run at limited capacity some practices stopped seeing NHS patients but the government said work is underway to tackle the backlog number three mid-air wedding dodges india's covert rules questions coming in thank you um yeah don't forget to to send me questions india's aviation authority has launched an investigation after a couple reportedly chartered a plane and held a mid-air wedding with more than 160 guests to dodge coronavirus restrictions video footage posted on social media appeared to show the couple and their guests packed into the hired jet okay number four half of appointments missed at glasgow vaccine hub as glasgow deals with one of the largest covid-19 outbreaks in scotland the bbc has landed about half of people with appointments at the city's mass vaccination centre at the weekend failed to turn up and movie fans flocking back to cinema i was one of them just last night um went to see taxi driver last night fantastic just amazing to be back in the cinema again cineworld the world's second biggest cinema chain has said it looks forward to a good recovery after more people than expected bought tickets on its reopening weekend um and i'll be back there again next weekend okay so i think about this doesn't seem to be much news on the front page about coronavirus today one thing i have seen over the last week or so is that the vaccines apparently do work on the indian variants um and the latest on let me just have a quick look at the latest on the indian variants there have been 5 641 cases in england 383 in scotland 62 in wales 15 in northern ireland um that's up from last week but still not massive not massive numbers uh and i to say i read you over the week that the vaccines do work on this okay forced adoption in the united kingdom a first thing i want to say is thank you to sharon not our sharon um the sharon the author of this report did you send this to me this week to have a read through have a look at and then we are going to uh come park make it as as compact as we can to get as many people as possible to read it it genuinely is shocking it really is shocking and you i it's i can think of little worse there must be little worse for parents than to have their children taken away from them by the state for no reason and the reasons given what they call here the crystal ball reason which is somehow may come to this child so we're going to take it somehow may come to all of us uh we don't we don't have a crystal ball do we it's always interesting to me as well how it's always white british children who are as almost always white children who are taken away from parents the poorest poor poor communities pure white communities are almost always at the receiving end of this um when there is if we're going to take children away on the premise that they may in some at some future time come to harm then surely if we have siblings of fgm victims or siblings of forced marriage victims that they would come under a should come under a much more um i should come under a microscope as well if not um instead so let's have a little read of some of the key parts of this report a forced adoption is the practice of removing children permanently from their parents and subsequent adoption of those children and this will be following intervention by the children services department of a local authority former british member of parliament john hemming is a long standing and vocal critic of the system and estimates that over a thousand of a thousand out of 1,360 adoptions carried out without parents consent in 2010 so in 2010 1,360 forced adoptions took place in this british this this member of parliament believes that around a thousand of those may have been undertaken wrongly the leading activist group aiming to bring change and give these families a voice is the forced adoption network uk they have supported many many families to ensure their family rights are not breached and provide a level of expert support to protect and keep families together with an alternative option of faster care so i went on to the forced adoption network to have a look at the the main points that they make so here are just six points from what they call what's the situation and under the heading of what's the situation they say councils are encouraged to take to take children from parents who have never committed a crime against children social workers recommend to family courts that parents care was unsatisfactory or negligent and we're considered by expert as experts by the judge and therefore more likely to believe than parents the family court judges nearly always rubber stamped the social workers conclusions and authorised removal of the children concerned the older ones to foster care babies to adoption this is they say punishment without crime councils were for the first time advised to take children at risk following crystal ball predictions of future harm this prediction by social workers and other quote unquote experts claiming that past behavior was sufficient indication of future risk of physical or emotional harm to justify removal of the children that's just to call that unjust and draconian is understatement of the century to to use past behavior and we're not even told what that past behavior would be but was was sufficient indication to remove children permanently from the parents I think is a scandalous injustice because parents are no longer allowed to be represented by unqualified friends applying for care orders only family court lawyers known as professional users it says they could do that and routinely they nearly always advise their clients not to fight social services the result was that only one in 400 care orders was refused family courts were declared private and therefore secret since parents whose children were taken lost the democratic right to protest publicly and were sent to prison if they revealed details of court proceed proceedings their free speech was denied now you might remember some time ago and I'll post this on my facebook page afterwards I did a wake up UK talk with the lady who wrote this report and Katie Jane who I believe will be speaking in Manchester on Saturday as well she had her child taken away and we spoke about this at some length and I will as I say posted on facebook but one of the things that repeatedly comes up is the secrecy of the hearings and the gagging orders placed on parents disalloying them from protesting against these decisions and this goes on to say with court approval children and care had their phones and laptops confiscated to isolate them from family and friends both they and their parents were gagged during contact visits unable to discuss the court case possibly coming home or anything any abuse happening in care if these rules were breached contact was stopped immediately so most of our children are now regularly given by the courts for adoption by strangers even when their parents are begging to keep them this applies especially to babies quote unquote snatched at birth because their mothers have undesirable partners or used to have undesirable partners or had childhood traumas or did not engage with professionals i.e social workers once babies are adopted mothers nearly always lose all contact for life never knowing if their children are alive or dead and this was the case with Katie Jane who i spoke to didn't know where her child was and you know this is people mothers who themselves have traumatic past who have been subjected to abuse who have a difficult past you know they start unheard of but nor is it a reason to assume that someone who's had a difficult past is automatically going to present a threat to their children that this seems to be the thinking so to go on with this report it gets it really does get shocking and i'd like really like to see it produced um for for public consumption it's not to say not all countries employ forced adoption practices the uk is in the minority forced adoption in large numbers make the uk almost unique in europe where such procedures are rare or in most eu countries non-existent the uk is the only place in the world where a steady stream of parents flee the country every year to avoid having their babies and young young children taken from them by the state for forced adoption social workers behaving like police take babies at birth from mothers not for anything they have done but for something someone with a crystal ball might think they might do in the future thousands of children each year are taken from parents by judges and social workers in secret family courts relatives and friends are routinely forbidden to enter the court accredited journalists can now attend but are forbidden to publish names of local authorities or parents and cannot publish any dialogue spoken in the court they rarely bother to come parents are jailed for contempt of court if they reveal details of family court proceedings or protest publicly identifying themselves free speech is suppressed as is the democratic right of peaceful protest family courts put gagging orders on difficult parents forbidding them discussing their cases with anyone except solicitors for 18 years after their babies have been taken they are also frequently forbidden by a court injunction under the threat of jail for putting any information about their children or themselves on facebook or online i have to say since i did that discussion on wake up uk and i didn't know about this beforehand i've had several people get in touch with me to tell me their stories these are people who have not connected to each other they don't know each other they come from various different parts of the country but since i made that video they have been contacting me with similar stories there's got to be some truth to all of this and that is what i think we should be finding out the report says a semi-official report exposed one of the margillus corners of our child protection system a study by professor jane ireland a forensic psychologist for the family justice council examined 126 psychological reports trawled at random from family for court documents now these psychological reports will be ones relied upon to remove children it was found that two-thirds of them were poor or very poor in quality 20% of their authors have no proper qualifications and no fewer than 90% of the authors were not practicing psychologists but appear appear to end their living wholly or partly from writing reports for social workers already one psychologist whose company was nearly half a million made nearly half a million pounds a year from such reports is under investigation by the general medical council these highly paid cracks alleged that nearly every parent they see has a personality disorder as alleged by the social workers concerned parents in the process of losing their children are obviously showing signs of distress during the process this is used against them law-abiding but sometimes imperfect parents are powerless to deny accusations of future risk by these so-called experts and then ought to then prevent their children being forced to be adopted by strangers to give it an idea of numbers this is cases at numbers of cases new cases started in the family courts from April to June 2020 56,867 so we're not talking about a small number here not suggesting all of those but these are cases started in the family courts according to this report what needs to change these are the recommendations that this report is making and again genuinely have had so many people write to me since I did that wake up UK stream on this with horror stories absolute horror stories on losing their children on how social workers behave towards them how they are basically helpless and they can't speak out about these things because they're under gag and orders it really is quite shocking and why is this why would this be happening in such large numbers who is who gains from doing this and as this report says it's always wise to follow the money and social workers or social services departments will often have targets to meet and targets of people numbers of children to put into care the industry is according to this a big moneymaker so let me read what it says here social workers will tell you that taking a baby at birth from a sane low abiding mother and giving it away to strangers is not a punishment as its child protection no mother is treated this way would agree so James Mumby when he was president of the family courts described the taking of a baby at birth from its mother as the worst possible thing that could happen to a mother there was widespread condemnation at Trump separating immigrant children from their families but in the UK away from the public gay social workers escorted by the police take terrified children from their mothers every day what drives social workers to prioritize taking children on such spurious grounds the practice it says follows the money half of the country's entire public spending on children going in is going into 73,000 children in care but this does but this is a lady Louise tickle which they're quoting 80% of children's homes and 40% of foster care facilitators have been privatized thus millions are spent on feeding an increasingly privatized and growing child protection industry over 2000 pounds per week for each child in institutional care about 450 for foster care basically it's about money and this goes into a long long detail about about how much money is spent targets that are set private companies running these services and making a lot of money out of it and essentially yes follow follow the money so let me just go back to what I started to look at which is what needs to change and these are the recommendations of this report it says number one no children should be taken into state care by social workers via family courts for risk of future harm social workers and judges predict the future based on past records and remove children based purely on future guesswork social workers should not be allowed to remove babies and young children on the pre-test text that there are risks of future emotional abuse considering the link between newborn baby and mother the snatching of babies at birth from saying a lot abiding mothers is callous and cruel two family courts require to employ criminal court standards of proof unless innocent unless guilty beyond reasonable doubt before branding parents as child abusers I think it's perfectly reasonable proposal we need a simple change and the law it says to stop children being taken from parents when no crime against them no no crime against them against the children by the parents has been committed and allegations of such crimes have been dismissed a policeman will arrest you for committing a crime but never because he or she thinks you might commit a crime next give it time family court should be replaced by criminal courts as it used to be operating to criminal standards of proof family court judges in secret courts not open to the public frequently brand parents as abusers or potential abusers instead of using the civil standard of proof which is a balance of probabilities instead of the criminal standard which is beyond reasonable doubt family court should either be replaced by criminal court at the very least be required to employ criminal standards of proof I would agree with that I think it's a really reasonable proposal free speech should be restored to parents allowing them the democratic right to protest publicly in the media and elsewhere revealing names when their children are taken free speech does not incite violence or endanger the security of the state libel and slander laws protect us sufficiently against these but well I'm ideally parents and children should be allowed to discuss their cases with the media or whoever they choose we should stop legally gagging parents involved with the family courts if parents protest online or in public they will currently be risk big jail for breaching the privacy of their babies I'm not I'm not sure I'm I think there might be a typo there however let's go on to the next one social workers should be there to support families are never allowed to appear against them in court now this is interesting as well we mentioned the cost of keeping children in care either in institutional care or in foster care why one of the messages throughout this report is very simply that that that money would be much better spent in supporting troubled families with the aim of keeping them together and in my day in family law that used to be I don't know whether that's change it's clearly the culture has radically changed because it used to be that the a priority and an aspiration was to keep families together it doesn't seem to be the case anymore but there is the argument and the message in a large part of this report is if we're going to pay out all this money shouldn't we be paying it to support families to try and keep them together rather than pulling them apart and destroying lives so next point social workers should be there to support families are never allowed to appear against them in court police should deal with all cases of cruelty or neglect we must stop social workers acting like police and leave crime detection to the police well it's interesting because to my mind the police are now behaving like social workers and if this report is accurate then it seems that the social workers are now acting like the police and the police are now acting like social workers I think we should just get back to our roles and yes I would love to see police detecting real crime I won't hold my breath though next one forced adoption should be banned all adoptions must be genuinely voluntary and at the very least indirect contact by phone or email between parents and children should be freely allowed after adoption at present children's names birth certificates and locations have changed so that all contact with birth parents is prevented until adopted children are at least 80 false birth certificates should never be issued well I would agree with that but I think that point is probably up for debate I do think I mean I do think there are parents who there's none of this is black and white so there will be parents who do pose a threat to children and I think in those cases the child is if adopted by a decent family and has a chance to have a decent life with a new family I think there's an argument this one is a debatable in fact I'd love to hear a debate on this actual point about whether or not forced adoption should be outright banned and what the contact should be between parents and children after adoption so really interesting debate all parents at next point all parents appearing in family court should be encouraged to speak in person and to call their children relatives friends and other professionals as witnesses I think that's perfectly reasonable social workers and their eyes pretend to have authority and then give bluffed give then bluff intimidated parents into following their orders in the UK only police and judges have general authority social workers backed by the family courts continually reject grandparents as alternative carers for trivial reasons such as believing in the parents innocence makes them a future risk okay I see what okay I see what this means now let me just try to cover that so if the grandparents believe the parents so their own children don't pose a risk to the children then the social workers for what I'm reading here will consider the grandparents a risk for not considering the parents a risk Robert Hall parents who have next point parents who have not been convicted of any series of fans against children should never be forbidden contact with their children by phone text or email courts dare to brand a parent as a child abuser because a judge believes it to be more likely than not and that's in quote marks instead of beyond reasonable doubt again that to me is perfect I think you know if we are if we have the standard of reasonable doubt and beyond reasonable doubt and criminal criminal law and we do and we should and the reason that we have such a high standard in criminal law is because the penalty is so severe if you are going to take someone's freedoms away if you are going to take a person out of their life lock them in an institution they will likely lose their job their harm they're likely to lose just about everything as well as their liberty and spend potentially years locked in a cage if you are going to impose that kind of punishment on someone you better be sure they're guilty and that's the reason that the standard of proof of in criminal law is so high beyond reasonable doubt I would argue that having your child taken away permanently is a severe enough consequence for us to apply the same standard of proof when final point that was actually an ultimate point when social workers and guardians assistant court that children do not wish to see one of both parents of parents should the parents should be allowed to at least one supervisor's contact at which the attitude of the children can verify the desire to see or not see such parents okay so basically put it to the test and finally in family court proceedings parents should have the right to call their children over the age of 10 as witnesses and should also be allowed to call their own experts to testify as to their mental state whenever they are accused of suffering from mental health problems it seems staggering to me as this report implies that that isn't the case that people are not able to bring their own experts in to dispute the the allegation the notion the implication that they are not mentally fit to care for children this is a really fascinating piece of work it's I've only really just sat down to start reading it some work needs to be done on it but again I have had and it's not a subject that I'm an expert on in any by any means but I have had since I did that you wake up your case dream lots of people contact me from various different parts of the country giving similar stories there's truth to it is is my view there's certainly got to be truth to it um because these people are not making you know they're not on making up the same stories um I will keep you informed about this but if you can help us to fund the costs of getting this to everybody in the house of the parliament we'd really appreciate it okay let me get on to some questions time has flown by again um what you take on Lee Williams the guy from the UK living in New Zealand who dared to make youtube videos not approved by the establishment in New Zealand where he's been suspended from his job um that's from Paul I'm not actually familiar with this particular individual though I am familiar with people in the UK um and I mentioned this in where I was in rural last week a supporter of ours who's lost her job and I'm going to help her to challenge this as best I can but much like the teacher in Batley that I mentioned at the beginning the unions don't want to know the reasons the unions don't want to know is because she is quote unquote anti-islam now it's absolutely incredible and extraordinary to me that it seems we are in a a country where being anti-islam means you don't you can't have a job how did we get here why are we not allowed to be anti-islam why are we not allowed to dislike Islam so this is happening across the board I was speaking to a friend and supporter the other evening at a get-together we had up here in the northeast and essentially the police are on a regular basis summoning his son um and this is not the only the only instance he's being summoned on a regular basis by the police to explain his opinions and whether or not his opinions have changed and each time it's have your opinions changed yet you know I kid you not this is what's happening in the UK the police are regularly questioning people about their opinions and whether or not their opinions have changed I also mentioned uh in the world that's a about a child a child in school who'd made a joke about a barefooted child uh something about we may as well be in Africa or something with them but this kid has been referred to prevent and will be tarnished with racists probably for the rest of us I mean this is not this came out of nowhere it's happened overnight and it certainly feels like that I I mean I have my own views on where we're going with this we're walking into a totalitarian state we're there when the police are summoning you to explain your opinions when you can be referred to an anti-extremism body for a joke a harmless as a child a child with a harmless joke can have their lives tarnished and this will follow any child who makes this joke a similar joke this will follow them probably for the rest of their lives they will be tarnished a racist and they will struggle for life they will be we have continued continued instances of people required by the state to explain their opinions I remember Damian Ryan the teacher that I helped in a tribunal just before lockdown and he was they wanted to give him an imam they wanted him to hook up with an imam so that the imam could explain to him the realities about the peaceful religion the usual so I mean this is absolutely incredible again he was asked by the police to explain his opinions to justify his opinions and when those opinions weren't what the police wanted them to be he was told that he needed to speak to an imam to correct his views about Islam it's it's hard it's really hard to put in towards how alarming this is and it is truly truly alarming this is not a free country we are not a free because the UK is not a free country and I don't think there are many western countries now that can call themselves free countries and by the sounds of this is a sound not familiar with this particular case and we have the same situation occurring in New Zealand we have it in Australia we have it in America we have it in Canada we have it all over Europe people are not permitted to object to government policies and those government policies are open border immigration and that open border immigration is bringing various different cultures and religions to western shores and into western countries we have these massive clashes cultural and values clashes which are causing immense harm to a lot of people we are not allowed to talk about those because criticism of that or even pointing out that is an impediment to the globalist aim of open borders this is totalitarianism and New Zealand clearly is going down exactly the same road Stu what's your take on the Belarusian journalist arrested after a military jet was used to force it to land um that politics and that sort of that side of the world is always so murky I actually just read this I was reading this article just before I came on I did a catch up with the news the latest news just before I start this so just to explain to everyone what this is a flight was due to it was on its way to Lithuania from Athens and was rerouted to Minsk and a journalist that was on board Roman Potasovic was arrested um this was a Ryanair flight Belarus says the flight to Vilnius was diverted because of a bomb threat from Palestinian militant group Hamas UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab caused the flight diversion a reckless and dangerous breach of international law France says flights by Belarusian carrier Belavia could be banned from EU airspace Russia calls western reaction shocking and hypocritical like I say often very oftentimes politics in that side of the world is so so murky that you never quite know what's going on um so in a nutshell we've had a flight diverted a journalist arrested the authorities there say they rerouted it because there was a bomb threat uh apparently by Hamas and breaking news on this is that in the last few moments a video has emerged in which opposition journalist this journalist is a staunch opponent of the government there uh in the last few moments a video has emerged in which opposition journalist Roman Potasovic apparently confesses to crimes he has been charged with by the Belarusian state in the video Potasovic says he's being treated well in jail and says reports of heart problems are false however as we reported earlier his former editor has said that according to his mother Roman is in hospital in critical condition Potasovic is being held in a detention center in Minsk according to Belarus's interior ministry an ardent opponent of Belarus's president Potasovic has was put on the country's list of individuals involved in terrorist activity for his role in mass protests last year the charge of causing mass unrest can be punished for up to 15 years in jail you know um the video has been shared on twitter apparently this so there's a video of this journalist who's only 26 years old saying that he is um being treated well uh and has and confessing to crimes apparent crimes what does this tell me it's about like I said it's more key over there it really is but what they the shadow the shadow of communism takes long to lift it really does and we are becoming more the west is becoming more like this part of the world um every day actually we have actually you know it's not dissimilar to what i've just been talking about people losing their jobs people being branded and unpersoned and deprived of a livelihood because of their opinions and because of protests against government policy it's not dissimilar to this i mean i'd be a little bit more extreme over there now i think it's going to get similar here um but the shadow of communism is a long one and it it doesn't disappear overnight so just let me read on a little bit more of this Belarus's longtime president Alexander Lukashenko is a central character in this rapidly escalating incident of international concern on Sunday state media and Belarus said President Lukashenko had personally given the order to divert the Ryanair flight to Minsk since winning a disputed presidential election last August Lukashenko 66 who has ruled the country since 1994 has cracked down on dissenting voices a former soviet state farm director Lukashenko was first elected president in 1994 a 1996 referendum gave him greatly increased powers at the expense of parliament but the latest his latest attempt at prolonging his role was met with mass street protests in august 2020 demanding he stepped down after an election that the opposition said was rigged over the years several opposition politicians who might have provided leadership have disappeared or been imprisoned insulting the president the president even ingest carries a prison sentence for his authoritarian style of rule Lukashenko is often referred to as Europe's last dictator again you know we it's the west may stand in judgment of all this but we are living in in a so in so-called democracies where we have hate speech laws we have political political policing we have people as i just mentioned losing their jobs losing their livelihoods for their political opinions the unions which are supposed to represent employees are not representing employees based upon their political opinions even a misjudgment and this is the bat i'm going back to the batley schoon here that was just a misjudgment this guy was not being islamophobic or anything of the kind it was just a misjudgment and a naive misjudgment in my guess and he's paid a heavy price and i don't think he's ever gone to get his life back um so we can stand in judgment of these countries all we like um and why we're not quite there yet we're also not beacons of liberty anymore in the west either and it's because of the kind of ideologues it's communist ideologues who are pushing the anti-freedom anti-democracy narrative in the west as well so yes the shadow of communism is a long one um and i would dispute actually who won the cold war at all i do really want to write a book about who won the cold war um if i maybe if there's a few hours added on to the day okay joe how do you feel about social media banning all anti-vaxxites and information even if it's provable again you know it's a similar thing joe um this is not a free society a free society is one with open debate and discussion and we have not had open debate and discussion about coronavirus or about vaccinations now there's when people are censored we need to know why i always want to know what someone has to say if that someone has been censored by the powerful and social media big social media youtube facebook twitter these are incredibly powerful organizations and when they silence someone when the powerful silence find out why find out what most people have to say but you have to understand we all have to understand that a free and democratic society is built upon the primary primary character characteristic of open and free debate we must everyone must be heard we must have a debate everyone should be able to give their opinions everyone should be able to offer up what evidence they have and then we will come to every we will come to our own conclusions free enough that's democracy that's what made the western world once once great the the death of the erosion of that open debate is what is dragging western the western world and western democracies down we are losing that open debate we are losing our democracies and we're looking more and more like the bellaroses of the world every single day it is um um it's tragic actually to see the loss of free and open debate in the west um i'm very saddening tragic and probably the primary indicator that we are no longer a democracy um we must you know you who who who gains from silencing critical voices of vaccination well big pharma companies gain from it um where are they putting their money well bill gates was putting his money puts a lot of his money into media so again much like with the social services here follow the money my strong suspicion is that big pharmaceutical companies are paying a lot of money to have these voices silenced and and that's what's happening they gain from it they gain from any critical voices being silent this is not it's tragic it's tragic it's it's the death knell of our democracy i do believe of course we can get it back um and we'll get it back but that's what it is uh this is from it's that mitch and they removed two children from me and my partner um um we split up i met someone else she felt pregnant and they said i could not live with them i've never been arrested i mean it's just obviously this is my minute minute amount of detail in this but what i'm getting time and time and time again from people is i've never even been arrested i've never i've never been violent i've never you know i what's going on and the treatment of people by social services is similar across the country from what i can hear um these people are breaking up families this is no minor matter they are breaking up families permanently they ought to be doing their best to keep them together in my view um obviously there are cases genuine cases where parents shouldn't be they do pose a threat to children but i fundamentally from this report i think at the very least we should be applying the criminal standard of proof of beyond reasonable doubt before taking children away from parents and the idea that a mother should have her baby taken away um in those early days is heartbreaking absolutely heartbreaking sometimes honestly sometimes i just don't recognize i don't recognize this country okay um we have run out of time last thing oh join me this week this wednesday morning 10 o'clock i'm going to do a facebook livestream and you may remember that i here in the are the local election that i stood in just recently the day before the election a group calling itself northeast against racism put out a leaflet about me in the area that i was standing in i am going to respond to that i'm going to put out my own leaflet in response um i'm also going to go through this leaflet in detail uh and talk a little bit about northeast against racism and against the people about the people who are behind these campaigns against people like myself um i would say to the but i think it was the board of deputies of british jews this week on twitter condemned tommy robinson um as far right he turned up to a pro israel rally and they condemned it and called him far right and they would never accept his bigoted views and they you know it just i would just say to that organization you are being fed lies and nonsense from the same extreme left that is standing with the so-called pro-palestinian protesters and when you know you know what those those protesters are all about you know what they're all about it's the same people it's the same left wing that is poisoning you against people like me and against tommy robinson and others and they're standing in solidarity with the jihad the hamas jihad against israel and against jew so i'd be very you know you need to open your eyes a little bit more to this situation and not trust the left wing and their character assassinations quite so easily as you do um saturday manchester one o'clock piccadilly gardens manchester please do be there what else have i got coming oh yes the thoughts tonight we're going to have i'm going to have a chat with mike speakman about some of the other aspects of the queen's speech particularly some of the matters related to post brexit uh economic issues and beyond so we have a much much um much more detailed discussion with mike thursday night on the queen's speech okay that's it for this evening thank you all very much for joining me if you can help us get this report to every member of the heads of the parliament please please do i will keep you updated on its progress and i want to thank sharon again for doing this incredible work it's it's an issue that has been brought home to me i i wasn't aware of the harrowing nature of this until i spoke with sharon and with katie j and i'm looking forward to seeing both of them on saturday in manchester um and i hope to see as many of you there as possible okay i said everyone thanks very much for watching see you on don't forget to check out my uh facebook stream on wednesday morning if you can't see it live at 10 o'clock do watch the recording um because i'll have a few things to say about these so-called anti-racism groups oh and just as a as another side of going to my first meeting um but a committee meeting tomorrow so i'll have a few announcements to make party wise after that um and some later campaigns so we're back we're back really really foot on the accelerator now we really are working very very hard and we've got a full our first face-to-face full committee meeting tomorrow and we'll have a few announcements and plans for the party in the coming year after tomorrow's meeting okay all right that really is it thanks very much everyone take care and i shall um i shall see you soon and i'll see as many of you as possible in manchester thanks very much take care bye thank you for watching if you agree with what you hear on four britain videos remember to like them share them and subscribe to our channel and why not follow us on social media as well the relevant links are below thank you