 Okay good morning all thanks very much for joining me I hope you're all doing well all things hardly pull this morning I want to start with this and I'll finish with it as well this is for this weekend and I'll be there with a megaphone I'll be at as many of these as I can in the coming weeks getting absolutely crucial that we stand up against this you can hear the government making sounds about trying to avoid another lockdown and frankly when I hear the government saying they're trying to avoid another lockdown it makes me think we're heading towards another lockdown something we cannot take we cannot take it the country was immensely damaged immensely damaged okay so if you're around it around county Durham or in the northeast please try and make it on saturday afternoon at one o'clock I know these protests have been going really well there was one in Newcastle last weekend of course Darlington the weekend before which I spoke at and thanks to everyone I met there it was a great weekend okay hardly pull I have been looking at the news this morning and it's genuinely sometimes in my politics is difficult business and one of the things that's difficult about it is how frustrating it is and how much you know when I spoke about this at my last Harley Pearl stream how much you know the power that people have to make change and you do have that people do have that power and it's really frustrating to watch politicians and unelected officials getting away with what they get away with here's an example from the Harley Pearl mail this morning headline Harley Pearl risks bankruptcy unless tough council tax is approved now I this town is already one of the most highly taxed in the whole of the UK in terms of council tax highest in the UK one of the highest in the UK the people here can scarcely afford the council tax are paying now much less tax rises but now this bullying this blackmail this we have to tax you more or else we risk becoming bankrupt all the people's fault of course is the people who'll have to pay people who can't afford to pay will have to pay more and this is going to be repeated all over the country believe me because the people who run the things who run the council it's the people who run the country the people who are in charge of this thing will not pay any price whatsoever the people who manage the money we already pay them will not suffer it is the payers those of us who pay taxes who will have to suffer and the people who mismanage our money will carry on as usual it tells us the article tells us a Harley Pearl borough council full meeting on Thursday will see councillors debate implement in a record a recommended 1.9 core council tax and a smaller three percent adult social care so 4.9 percent now officers reported last month the authority faces a cumulative deficit of 11.435 million although this the increases the tax increases would reduce this to 7.523 million let's be clear about something here the people who manage this council and councils all over the country have managed it to such an extent but it's a great job that it's 11.435 million in deficit so they're going to tax us more to reduce that deficit so you will not get an extra morsel of service from this extra council tax in fact expect services to be cut and continue to be cut to reduce the deficit run up by the people who run Harley Pearl council and again this is not exclusive to Harley Pearl this is happening all over the country and this is going to happen at a nationwide level as well the central government will do the same they're doing it with the NHS we're getting taxes it increases to pay for the NHS the same NHS that has been pouring money down the drain for decades your money and the government has done nothing about it no government labor or Tory none of them have done anything about the mismanagement in the NHS so we're going to see tax increases at a national level and council tax increases as well and in this case and I'm sure in many others merely to reduce deficits run up by the people who manage this money in the first place council are showing more independent union council leader stressed that the authority is continuing to lobby the government for more funding fair enough more funding I'm nothing no problem with that but what are you going to do with that more funding what is the government what does the government do with our money full stop it's not spending it on us we're seeing our services collapse we know what it's spending it on not spending it on us for an aid and an equivalence but he added it must still set a balanced budget quote we are focused on doing all we can to lobby the government to increase our revenue budget grant back to previous levels and also make necessary savings where feasible and that's an interesting comment also make necessary savings again no problem with lobbying the government for more money one thing I can assure them is that they won't be getting any assistance from their MP in this regard because their MP is a Tory and it's a Tory government and she's not going to speak out against a Tory government because she's a Tory but they're all this last time around but make necessary savings where feasible I go to refer you back to an article from November 2020 Hartlepool councillor blasts one million pound wage bill of top council officers at no point in these savings will aid reduction in the six figure salaries six figures that top executives are in no point will that be touched the struggling family they will be touched the six figure executives unelected who manage this stuff in the first place who got you into this mess in the first place they won't be touched in fact I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't get pay increases and I'm not even joking when I say that only one councillor in this whole thing it is the job of the councillors to speak for the people in the last that I certainly that I know of only one councillor councillor Tony Richardson spoke out about what he called the mega books received by unelected Hartlepool borough council managers over a million pound six figures many of them including the chief executive only one councillor and he I remember this I remember going to a Hartlepool council meeting so pre-covid when you used to be able to go and seeing Tony Richardson sitting by himself in the corner they may as well have put Don's hat on him sitting in the corner like a bad boy rejected by the rest of the councillors because he'd shared a tasteless joke on Facebook he's the only one however to my knowledge who has stood up and objected to the massive salaries being taken home by council executives you say this stuff you know this it's it's it blew in the face with this stuff blue in the face we are being mismanaged mismanaged and when things go wrong when people get us into a state of deficit the people who've got us into that state of deficit continue to pay themselves massive salaries and put the expense on to the people to reduce the deficit they caused does this seem fair to you in any way shape or form but that's what's happening it's happening in this council it's happening in councils all over the country and it's happening with the central government we have to end it we absolutely have to end it I think you know we talk about a great reset with with covert has come this great reset and the global politics the globalist politicians talking about a great reset and what they mean by great reset is taking away even more of our freedom even more of our power quashing democracy destroying our abilities and wait for this you know as the climate change thing continues more and more of our freedoms will be taken away we lose private ownership where you head of the world economic forum has talked about you alone nothing and you'll be happy more of this more and more of this that's what they mean by the great reset taking away the little bit of a voice you have I do believe a great reset is coming but it's not the one that the globalist politicians think the great reset will be when the people do and have had enough and when there's furlough scheme ends and unemployment skyrockets and then people are poor then we have a chance of a real great reset for more poor poorer I should say then we have a chance of a great reset but the politicians might not like the great reset that's actually coming their way and that is that the people will rise up and take back the power take back their power the end of labour and Tory dominance is coming that's the great reset that's the real great reset that's coming and the sooner the better another story I noticed this morning that I wanted to mention was a an MP Easington MP Greg Morris says that trains in the area in the northeast are more the worst in the country and if you've tried to use them you'll know that he's not really wrong here's more mismanagement the reason I'm mentioning this is to show you yet more mismanagement from government central and local we are spending billions on HS2 billions and this is will connect London with Birmingham and and a couple of cities in the north and make a little bit quicker yeah meanwhile train services within regions nothing nothing is done for them if you had if you're competent management of this country you would spend those billions improving the rail service that exists all over the country you could do it with that money but instead they're spending that money putting in a new train to make it a bit quicker to get from one from one or two cities around what is where where does this where is that where is the where is this where is it do you know why they're so blasé about throwing money around your money around because they're convinced that you're going to go out and vote for them again another story this morning is tourism tourism in Hartlepool has suffered greatly thanks to COVID and obviously this is having an enormous impact on the local economy if you go to the marina which is a beautiful part of the town it's this is you know we've just come out of the summer and yet often in the evenings by sunny evenings you go to the marina and it is empty there's no promotion of it not that I live in this town I keep my eyes open there's no promotion of it but more so they can't afford it people can't afford it people can't afford the parking and businesses are struggling because of rates I've been through this you know there's so much but it just this is what I talk about when I say that politics is difficult and part of it is the frustration you can see how simple things are to fix you can see it but it's not done it seems to be never ever done these simple simple things that could help this is this town has so much potential it's beautiful it's surrounded by beautiful beaches it's got a stunning marina one of the most beautiful marinas I've seen but the simple ideas and the real ideas and the things that will make this town fulfill its potential are simply not implemented it is incredibly and you know I'm convinced we're lacking we're lacking politicians who actually care and who want to make these simple changes because the system is so stale and they've been doing the same things over and over again for so long and making the same mistakes over and over again for so long and talking talk talk talk that's all that ever it seems to happen and when things go wrong the people who bear the burden of it are never the people who caused things to go wrong in the first place and say life isn't fair and it isn't but you don't just accept this we can't just accept this we can't I won't accept it and I'll be out next May knocking on doors saying again that I don't accept it and urging the voters of this town not to accept it an interesting other article that I saw this morning Hartlepool by-election candidate was unsuitable here's Labour Party conference a city of Durham CLP constituency Labour Party delegate Brenda Stevenson branded Dr Paul Williams who was defeated by conservative opponent Jill Mortimer in May unsuitable given his views on remaining in the European Union. Miss Stevenson said Mr Williams was imposed on the town and that the seat could have been saved if the Hartlepool CLP had been allowed to select a candidate she told the Brighton conference we need to re-establish the rights of CLP members to be fully involved in the process there is no evidence that involving CLP members in the choice of their own MP is a disaster whereas there is evidence that excluding them can be it was heartbreaking to watch for for us from the northeast to see what happened in Hartlepool I never want to see that happen again the CLP were excluded from the contest and the candidate was imposed who was plainly unsuitable for the area this is a really interesting article for a couple of reasons it demonstrates in so many ways the breakdown of the Labour Party and I welcome the breakdown of the Labour Party it is so deserved nothing could be more deserved than the demise of the Labour Party I think it is on its last legs I don't think it can recover from this and looking at its conference sort of confirms to me what I think about the modern Labour Party what this what this person is saying is that the candidate Paul Williams was placed into the Hartlepool by-election by the Central Labour Party and that Kirstamma etc and that the local Labour activists had no say in who the candidate should be now this is very indicative of a elite is emerging in the Labour Party or that has emerged in the Labour Party which thinks it knows best and the problem what you what the problem we have you have with this sort of central control is that it ignores and denies and in in doing that ridicules and insults its own activists because they know best and it mirrors the Labour Party's attitude towards the voter they know best if the voter doesn't like it if the voter doesn't agree then it goes without saying that the voter is wrong the voter is a racist and a bigot and you know the drill and with the European Union Labour could not have been clearer about that if you opposed the anti not just on democratic but anti-democratic nature of the European Union you're a racist and a bigot and you're wrong and Labour MPs across the Brexit voting heartlands had no shyness in telling their core vote that they were wrong that they were racist and we know what that we the word racist is thrown at you no matter what it's about it could be about it could be about it tea anything anything any topic ridiculous ridiculous you're a racist nobody wants to be called racist so that's why they call everyone a racist so they believed the central Labour Party believed and I wonder I wonder I'd like to see the speech from this lady here I wonder what kind of response she got from the audience with the central Labour Party in placing Paul Williams as the candidate in a strongly leave voting constituency like Hartlepool in imposing him they were once again telling the people of Hartlepool you were wrong what do you know anyway they're telling their own activists this by imposing pro-remain people into a leave seat that's the arrogance of them and that's why it's over for them it is over but it's a slow death because people have traditions people have a sort of hand-me-down tradition I was in hall last night similar thing there people have been voting for Labour for generations however that vote is dropping and that generational vote that Labour so relies upon will eventually fade away of that I have absolutely no doubt they show utter contempt for the people even for their own voters even for their own activists and I think that it's rather time that the same contempt was shown back to them and the Labour conference that is going on at the moment is farcical absolutely farcical you've got Kirstarmer whose opinions if he has one at all which actually I don't not sure he does it's if he does it's rare if he has an opinion at all it changes depending on who he's talking to and his their their farcical answers to things and and Starmer is now in trouble for before the conference even got started Starmer was in trouble for saying that it's wrong to suggest only women have a cervix so once again much like the leadership contest was dominated by the trans issue now you they their conference is also their first get-together conference post-covid is also been dominated by the trans issue and I remember speaking to a very lovely lady actually when I was campaigning last year on the doorstep that Labour is losing touch with the working classes because they are focusing on issues like this and she said but you know trans rights are human rights and human rights are important and a I agree human rights are the human rights act however is it is a joke that puts British people in danger and human rights do not mean that everybody gets to come and live in the UK let's be clear about that but that trans rights are human I agree with both of those statements I have caveats on them but I agree with both of those statements and there isn't anyone you know there's a Rosie Doffield at Labour MP who couldn't attend the conference for her own safety has not called for trans people to be harassed or discriminated against or in any way treated unjustly or unfairly or it's certainly not to be subjected to harassment or violence or any of these awful things what she is saying is that sex exists and sex is important and women particularly have won a lot of rights and fought for years for a lot of rights based upon their sex so once again Labour is preoccupied with issues that simply don't resonate with its voting core and if it does and if it does if they you know if this is considered important to its voting core many disagree entirely with the arrogant position that its leadership is taken in summary Labour has once again shown its true colors it doesn't give a damn about the working classes of this country and it doesn't give a damn about what they think and it will arrogantly impose its elitist out-of-touch view from the top everywhere including in previously strong Labour areas like Hartlepool. Final example uh or final article this morning new plans to tackle Hartlepool's homelessness problem despite post-pandemic fall uh council chiefs are drawing up new plans to tackle homelessness and support those sleeping rough in Hartlepool it's uh written a draft homelessness reduction and rough sleeping strategy 2021 to 24 it has gone before the authorities finance and policy committee for debate on what work is needed officers said key objectives will be to protect the most vulnerable through the prevention and relief of homelessness uh the work will also aim to ensure the most complex adults are supported and housing options in the borough increased. Councillor Amy Prince said this is such a complex area you're looking at domestic violence domestic abuse drugs alcohol etc and other things uh councilor Shane Moore said we've been really keen on aggressively delivering more council owned properties where the private sector fails we can offer a much better product and it is the landlord's pocket that's hit so it's almost it almost forces them to up their game you know it's basically saying the council and compete with private landlords um causing them to either reduce rents or increase conditions etc um well let's hope so let's hope something works uh these are complex issues and and there are a crime there is crime involved domestic violence domestic abuse drugs um certainly involve crime um though i'm not sure how effective policing is of those crimes you've got a starting point there a point i think that i'm making here is that we're going to there's going to be talk about this and this is what councillors and politicians are very good i may go talking not so much at achieving and what we need here is policing real policing and for money to be spent on the most those who need it most in our society i will have to mention that homelessness is likely we know we know we know it's going to happen we know we're going to get another massive influx of people and we also know that they will be at the top of the list for housing we know this so while i wish them well in helping homeless people i also know without hesitation that others will jump the queue for help i know this i know this because it's happening all over the country okay thanks as always i shall leave you with the details of the protest this saturday i will be there if you're in the area if you can make it please please do 1 p.m this saturday i shall see you there thanks everyone for watching please share i'll see you back at my live stream at eight o'clock on monday evening take care