 Okay, good morning all You're very welcome. Thanks very much for joining me. I hope you're well today. It's actually quite a nice day here in Hartley Poole sunny morning, so I think a Walk on the beach with the dogs fairly soon is required Before I get on to some Hartley Poole Excuse me, but Hartley Poole related news this morning. I want to have a quick look at some national news and what's Nominating the national headlines this morning From the BBC it's top story this morning Bring back rules amid rising cases arch NHS chiefs Let's have a look Some COVID restrictions must immediately be reintroduced if England is to avoid stumbling into a winter crisis Crisis health leaders have warned the NHS Confederation said a backup strategy or plan B, which includes mandatory face coverings in crowded and enclosed spaces should be implemented UK cases have been rising, but deaths are well below the winter peak Business secretary quasi-quartank said it was not time for plan B And urged greater uptake of booster jabs The lower hospitalization and death rate compared to January show that this virus This is a virus we're learning to live with he told BBC breakfast And he did not want to jeopardize hard-won gains of reopening the economy and returning to a more normal life I don't want to go back to a situation where we have lockdowns. He said I Don't want to inject inject any hint of complacency, but I do think so far our approach our approach is working. Okay booster jabs We knew this was coming There have been remember this we went from three weeks to flatten the curve To jabs second jobs Variant after variant after variant Lockdown open up lockdown open up local lockdowns. We're talking about these things again Now we have booster jabs and here's the thing for every booster jab more money for big drug companies More money for GPs administering these GPs are paid separately to administer COVID jabs and Importantly, and this isn't being mentioned Certainly not be mentioned in the press, but it's not been mentioned by many commentators either and That is that every single winter there is a crisis in the NHS everyone all you have to do is a simple Google search on I've googled a few different things NHS crisis just in just Google that Year after year after year after year. I've gone into this in some detail previously but year after year There is a crisis in the NHS every single winter now here's There are crisis in the NHS It's the worst at the moment that I've known it But the crisis is because it's so badly wrong We can't keep running away from this reality It is not being run properly, and I know this for a few reasons One because I walked in it for a long time But two because winter comes around every single year There's always a winter and yet somehow Every single winter the NHS Seems to be caught off guard Oh No, there's a winter again. How does this happen every year? There's a crisis If you look back you'll see 2016 the worst year in NHS history 2015 crisis in the NHS goes on and on and on Every single year the problems in the NHS are these it is run by Several layers of bureaucracy They are not medical people who run it the bureaucrats The money is never-ending Politicians just promise more money to the NHS. That's what they do So the money is never-ending. So when you have an endless supply of money You tend to be less careful with money It also encourages sadly self-interest And these layers and layers of management Will use that endless supply of public money your money To fatten their own bank accounts And that is exactly what they do It's also a political vehicle and it's being used for politics You'll have climate change advisors and diversity this and diversity that Massive salaries And then no money for certain treatments. That's how it's been run Endless supply of money will encourage laziness and self-interest No accountability For incompetence none if NHS management Waste millions of pounds of public money They're not fired for it They're given more public money So they can waste that as well. That's how it works Political parties No interest in talking about this none It's just let's give it more and more and more money. That's why the NHS is in crisis but we Instead of dealing with that the reality the true problem the true issue Instead Will threaten And the language of the business secretary here is threatening language. We don't want to go into lockdown again It's threatening us It's that ever-present danger Of destroying the economy destroying society destroying our daily lives that ever present danger that they exploit To try to get us to do what they want That's coming back now. We were masking all that stuff going to come back This it feels like It feels like this is never going to go away Is this pattern just going to repeat and repeat and repeat and a method Of control You have to do this or the NHS will be in crisis We have to control your everyday life or the NHS will be in crisis Meanwhile, it is they the very same people who are controlling us Who have caused the NHS to be in crisis And who won't deal with the real crisis in the NHS Instead, they'll use it to impose even greater control on the people That's what's really happening Okay, let me go to some local news similar and related mismanagement poverty Pledge for the headline this morning pledge for action to halt soul destroying and heartbreaking flood of poverty in Hartlepool Councillors have stressed talking to people impacted by poverty must be at the heart of an investigation into abuse into the issue Members of the Hartlepool borough council audit and governance committee are continuing with an investigation into child poverty in the town As part of their work program for the year At the latest meeting they received presentations on the topic from the joseph rantry foundation And thrive a t-side charity to help guide and inform their research. Okay so massive poverty problems in this town and a third Latest figures I can find a third of children in this town are living in poverty Now the local council is doing an investigation into poverty And once again as I say this all the time every week I'll say it again the all of these issues are repeatable and and happen in towns and cities all over the country This also happens in towns and cities all over the country There's a problem Huge problem significant problem of real problem poverty. That's a problem. It's a real problem We shouldn't have these levels of poverty In great britain, which simply shouldn't this country is still quite well off It's just that the money we have is misspent So we've got a real problem poverty the local government carries out an investigation and most likely it will produce a report Because that's what they do They investigate and produce a report That's the extent of the governance and this again repeated all over the country Actual steps actual brave moves to tackle that poverty Such as job creation lower taxation, etc Spending public money On children last week. I told you about how children's health services are being cut That's a misspending of money actual brave moves to tackle poverty Are not undertaken For the simple reason that they are brave you would need to be brave principled and really care to make some of the moves that need to be made to actually end or reduce this poverty so instead They'll carry out an investigation and produce a report That's what we do and by the way That's also what bureaucratic wasteful left-wing societies do They appoint committees and then they appoint a subcommittee and then they appoint another subcommittee And then they have a meeting and then they have a meeting about a meeting Then they have a meeting about a meeting about a meeting then they produce a report and then they produce a report about the report And all the while the poverty gets worse all the while the taxes go up cancel tax going up again This is what we're governed by And until we have people who actually give a dam This is what we will continue to be governed by You need courage to make decisions in the best interests of the people you represent. Those decisions won't always be easy. You will get flack for it, you will get criticism for it. That's part of leading. That's part of putting, of representation of the people. It's taking criticism, taking flack and making tough decisions in the interests of the people you represent. But we don't do that. We have meetings and produce reports and investigate and then produce another report. All of which, by the way, is costing money. Money that could be used to alleviate the poverty. This is common sense stuff. I sometimes wonder what ever happened to common sense. How can you be, how can you be so lacking in sense as to spend money trying to figure out how to save money? Why don't you just save the money? This happens in the health service as well. Management consultants, paying out six figures to external consultants to tell them how to do their job, paying out six figures to external consultants to tell them how to save money. And that's not a joke. That's genuinely what happens. Let's pay this person a lot of money so they can tell us how not to waste money. Incredible, incredible. And it just carries on and on and on and on. Here's a related story. Hartlepool councillors sick to the stomach over impending budget cuts. So here's another, here we go again. So on one hand, what are we going to do about the poverty? So we'll have an investigation. On the other, let's cut our budgets, increase taxes and try to reduce our deficit. So taxes are going, local taxes, council taxes are going up and there will be no, at the same time, services are being cut. So what is the increase in tax going to pay for? It's going to pay for a reduction in the deficits that this same council has built up. It's unbelievable. Literally unbelievable. Well, it would be unbelievable to people who had an ounce of common sense, which I'm not entirely sure is the case. Related article, Hartlepool gets nearly, give me a break, Hartlepool gets nearly one million pound from the government to help needy over winter. Council bosses are being given nearly one million to help households most in need with the cost of daily essentials. It's as part of a 500 million pound government scheme, the Household Support Fund announced earlier this month and designed to last throughout the winter. A third of kids in this town are living in poverty. A million pound, by the way. A million pound will pay for just about, actually it won't. It's over a million pound is how much it costs for the unelected chiefs that make all the decisions that have put the town into a deficit of 7.523 million. So we're getting a million pound. There's a deficit of seven million. The salaries of the unelected chiefs is over a million. And still nobody, we'll have to have an investigation into poverty. Let's investigate what's going on here. We know what's going on, just told you. You don't need to pay me to investigate. I could tell you this for free. You're wasting money, siphoning off money to put in your own pocket. Increasing taxes to pay off deficits that you ran up. That's what's wrong. There's your pub, no need for an investigation whatsoever. There you go, free. No reports, no meetings. I'm just sitting around wasting public money to figure out what's going wrong. I've just told you. You know why they do this, of course? Why they do this reports and investigation? To look like they're doing something. That's all it is. It's a theater, it's a state show. We have to look at all the poverty. Let's investigate. The investigation won't find, however, the truth, because the truth is they're the ones wasting the money. They're the ones causing these problems. So an actual investigation would reveal that they were the ones causing this problem. So instead, the investigation will show something else entirely. It'll blame someone else. If it's labor, they'll blame the toys. If it's labor and we've got surrounded circles, we go. That's how it works. It's quite simple. That is how it works. And as for this, £500 million government scheme to help people through. Give me a break. £500 million, really? And how many millions... How many... How much have you spent on illegal immigrants in the same time frame? £500 million is a pittance. From the national government. And you consider how much of that. Do I need to say, £14 billion in foreign aid? £500 million for the whole country to get them through the winter? Extremely difficult winter. £14 billion for someone else. £500 million for British. Great. Thanks. OK. Another story up this morning. Please, to improve women's safety by lighting up Hartlepool Railway Bridge. Councillors are calling for improved lighting under a bridge to help residents feel safer. This is another example of politicians, useless politicians doing nothing while desperately trying to look like they're doing something. There is a huge problem in the whole country with violence against women. And do you know why? Now, I'm not suggesting Hartlepool Council can do much about this. But do you know why there's such a huge problem with violence against women in this country? Because the police are ridiculously bad at dealing with these crimes. We've been covering up crimes against young girls, for example, for decades, because it wasn't politically correct to prosecute. Even when they are prosecuted, the judiciary is also ridiculously inept, complicit in this. Complicit. The judiciary will give a far smaller penalty for violence against women than it will for, I don't know, fraud, maybe, drug dealing. Much higher penalty for that than for violence against women. Politically incorrect offenses will often get you tougher punishment than violence against women. That's the problem. Again, I'm not charging for this, by the way. So the Home Office can carry out a million reports and spend public money investigating why there's such a big problem with violence against women. I can tell you right now you've basically licensed it. You may as well, I mean, with the way the grooming gang scandal unfolded, you may as well just tell these men they can do what they want. If you don't punish them, then that message is received loud and clear. The reason there's a problem is not lighting under bridges. I'm nothing against lighting under bridges. Put the lighting under the bridge. The problem is there is no law and order. There's no justice. A problem, and if you look at one of the most notorious cases recently, this policeman, Wayne Cousins who murdered Sarah Everard, he had red flags all over him. He should never have been in a police uniform, but he was. And the police covered up for him and let him get away with all sorts. And he went on to murder Sarah Everard. And then they learned how can this have happened? It happened because you let him get away with things over and over again. He's a microcosm of society. You let them get away, you let these predators and rapists get away with this over and over and over and over again. The message is received. They're carrying on. That's the reason for violence against women. That's the reason you have a problem there. Free. No need. Pretty Patel, no need. You're welcome, by the way. No need to spend millions of pounds of public money trying to figure this out. I've just told you. Okay. Back briefly to the NHS. There are there is a campaign going on at the moment which I have just joined on Facebook to build a 380 million pound super hospital in Hartlepool. I hope it goes ahead. I will be joining the campaign for that because there is no hospital. There's a hospital but it doesn't have an A&E. There's a need and there's a need for a new hospital in the northeast and Hartlepool is pretty much the only place in the northeast of its size without an A&E, for example. But some of the arguments made and they are good ones and again there's common sense here so Glenn Hughes of fighting for Hartlepool hospital said the hospital, Hartlepool sits on a lot of land is a newer building and easy transport to the A19. Why go to the length of buying another piece of land to build a hospital? It's the... Thank you Glenn, bless you for your common sense. Just bless you. Extend what you have rather than buying more land. Common sense. Okay another story Hartlepool's fire and rescue service commits to tackling modern slavery and human trafficking. What a utterly depressing headline. There's a new anti-slavery trafficking campaign for want of a better word being launched by the by Cleveland Fire Brigade. Alright, to finish I'm going to finish on something slightly less depressing and I won't be here next week and the reason I won't be here next week is I'm travelling to London on Tuesday and I will be travelling back from London on Wednesday morning so I won't be here for a live stream next week so that means that the next live stream will be the 3rd of November which is post-Halloween and in view of coming which I love, I've always loved Halloween I finished with this story the spooky Hartlepool pub where unusual events happen almost every week unexpected reflections and people hearing their name being called when there's nobody else around these are just some of the extraordinary events experienced by staff at a Hartlepool pub but despite it all sounding a bit spooky David Clarke, manager of the Duke of Cleveland in Church Walk has said the events have never been a bother David said the occurrences usually happen on an evening when staff are closing up the pub he said it's a weird place it's not a negative vibe it's a really nice atmosphere there's a big mirror in the hallway and once I looked in there and something caught my eye I saw the reflection of a pregnant lady stood on top of the stairs straight away I turned and looked at the stairs and no one was there, there was nobody in the room I didn't know how to feel I thought someone was pranking me he said when you are pulling up on a night sometimes you can see people in the window but there's actually nobody in the building by where something doesn't click with someone the Duke of Cleveland is that pub and there is on the 30th of October a paranormal investigator is doing a walk around the Duke of Cleveland I've had a look and apparently it's all sold out unfortunately but the Hartlepool Art Gallery is doing some painting and I'll read it to you so on the 29th of October the Hartlepool Art Gallery is running haunted houses session where people are encouraged to come along and draw and paint haunted houses in the area sounds great actually I'll be back in two weeks time 3rd of November have a look at yourselves until then and enjoy Halloween I will, I love Halloween and I know exactly what I'm going to be wearing when I answer my front door to trick-or-treaters alright thanks everyone take care see you in a couple of weeks time of course I'll be back with my Monday Night livestream if you happen to be watching this in London next Tuesday night London Branch I'll be there, Ed will be there please do come along if you can alright everyone thanks a lot take care see you soon