 Good evening everyone. I hope you're all doing well. I hope I'm broadcasting okay this evening. I hope there are no problems. I don't think there are but if there are I'm sure I'll find out fairly soon. The pubs are open this evening and I say that because I wonder how many are in it in the pubs this evening and if our number of viewers will be going down. So we've been we've been let back out. We're being let back out. We have our some of our freedom back in the UK today, some of our freedom. We are allowed to go out for a pint but outdoors only. Gradually and we're gradually we're still on course to go back to normal on the 21st of June. It's a date we've been given as we in order to go back to normal. Just a quick look at the the BBC on this for the first time in months pub gardens shops and hairdressers have reopened in England. I've got a hairdresser's appointment in the morning that I'm really looking forward to. Shoppers I would be putting the dogs into the groomers but actually got myself a shaver and I've been doing it. Not a bad job at it. Shoppers flocked to the high street with long queues seen outside some retailers other people took advantage of gyms and zoos reopening. Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged everyone to behave responsibly. Some pictures there people look to be enjoying themselves. Weather isn't great. It's sunny but cold so I think if there are people sitting outside pubs at the moment they'll probably be doing it in an overcoat. Just quite quickly on where we are celebration as pubs and shops reopen. Scotland's hospitality calls for faster reopening. The hospitality and tourism industry in Scotland has criticised restrictions that prevent venues from reopening. Scotland's lockdown is expected to ease further from the 26th of April with shops and gyms due to reopen and pubs and restaurants likely to be able to open until eight o'clock indoors with no alcohol permitted. More pupils returned to classrooms. All pupils in Northern Ireland have returned to school today with children years eight to eleven back in classrooms for the first time this year. The phase three opening of schools in Northern Ireland began in March before the Easter break. NHS COVID-19 app update blocked for breaking rules and update to England and Wales contact tracing app has been blocked for breaking the terms of an agreement with Apple and Google. The plan had been to ask users to upload logs of venue check-ins carried out by a poster barcode scans if they tested positive for the virus. Here's the the contentious bit going on as we reopen as we get back to some sort of normality. The contentious bit that still hasn't really been answered is the back coding and the vaccine passports and these various different issues that the debate around those is probably going to go on for a while yet. And customers share their post-lockdown haircuts. So we've got a bit of social media today with people showing their haircuts. I probably won't be doing that tomorrow. Okay, bit of news today. I want to talk about Prince Philip. We're going to spend a bit of time talking about Prince Philip this evening. Before I do, there's been another notable death today. Sadly, veteran politician and Liberal Democrat Pierre Baroness Shirley Williams has died at the age of 90. She was hailed as a liberal line and a true trailblazer by Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davie. Originally a Labour MP. She was part of the gang of four who quit the party to found the Social Democratic Party. She was a leading member of the 1970s Labour government and one of the first women cabinet ministers. She later went on to support the SDP's merger with the Liberal Party, which led to the creation of the Liberal Democrats in the 1980s. Her career in politics spanned more than 50 years after she first entered Parliament as a Labour MP for Hitchin in 1964. She retired from political life in 2016 after leading the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords. So Shirley Williams has died today. I'm not a massive fan of her politics, but I must say she was a bit of a mainstay on talk shows, particularly Question Time. I don't agree. I suspect that most of her politics, she was often pretty good on Question Time. One of the more interesting people to listen to. Okay, let's talk a bit about Prince Philip. I spent a lot of time today reading about him, and I've picked out what are my favourite articles that I've read about him today that I'd want to share with you this evening. Usual stuff, please, everyone. Let's see, questions come through to here, and I'll answer those in a short while. Let me just get them up. So I've picked favourite articles about Prince Philip that I will share with you. And one of them is his famous gaffes. The BBC have put together a list of his, what they call gaffes. What I call just old school speaking without self-censorship. That self-censorship we have today, where we're all so afraid of saying the wrong thing that we do not say anything at all. And this is what is, we're a little bit, it's just a little bit more dreary without him. I don't know if that's, if dreary is the right word. That generation of outspokenness, straight talking, not afraid to say the wrong thing every five minutes. That Britain that Prince Philip represented is the Britain, or at least partly the Britain that I and this party are fighting for. The sense of duty, the sense of patriotism, the stoicism, the humour, and the fearlessness in many ways that are so British that we ought to fight very hard to preserve them, and to bring them back, and to honour them, to make them popular again. Armed service, for example, service in the armed forces. Disgracefully, disgracefully. There are people in this country now who feel unsafe, and in fact I told not to wear their uniforms, even historic instances of serving military people, being insulted in the streets. That we've got to get rid of. We've got to make service, duty, patriotism, love of country, stoicism, sacrifice, fashionable again. But we've also got to get back to, and this to me is one of the things that I liked most about Prince Philip, was humour. And we've lost in so many ways our humour. And as the Britain that Prince Philip represented, and all of the things that I've just described, with his passing, you feel a sense that the Britain he represented is passing too. And to my mind, we mustn't let that happen. I'm just a word on campaigning. I know that, for example, that the big parties have, most of them, anti-monarchy, actually. And I'm sure a lot of the people criticising me, I didn't see it, but I was told, I was criticised on Facebook for campaigning. I'll tell you, my first question when I was told about this person was, or my first statement when I was told about this person, was I better than anti-monarchist? To my mind, first of all, just to be clear, the big parties have decided not to campaign for a period out of apparent respect for Prince Philip. The day he died, I was campaigning. And I was campaigning with a very patriotic leaflet that I was distributing, Union Jack, myself, in front of the Union Jack. And I had in my mind that I am working towards, and the candidates who stand for our party are working towards and are working to save and working to preserve the very Britain that he represented. I don't think for a moment that someone as no nonsense as Prince Philip would disagree with keeping calm and carrying on. And that's what we're doing. And we will continue to campaign for the preservation for the very country that he loved and that he served for his entire life. One of the saddest things about all of this for me is the Queen. And we have to remember, and by the way, once again, I know that Twitter is a sewer, an absolute sewer. The things being said on Twitter about the Queen and Prince Philip are just disgusting and appalling, and actually from some of the people that come in from, completely unsurprising. But there is a 94-year-old woman who has lost her life long, adult life, long companion, best friend, and it must be absolutely devastating for her. And genuinely, I'm such a fan of the Queen, and I have such affection for the Queen. And I think even anti-monarchists in this country actually respect at least the Queen. I think pretty much everyone, certainly the vast, vast, vast majority of us, again, even Republicans, have a level of affection for the Queen. I have an extremely high level of affection for the Queen. She must be devastated and it's intensely, intensely sad to think about how she must be suffering. Something else that it has brought to the forefront for me is the inevitability of the passing of the Queen herself. Now, I had a, I was chatting with a friend of mine about this last, over the weekend, and about the inevitable passing of the Queen. The way I described it, and the way I'll describe it now, is that Britain will dim. It will be dimmer. The lights will go down a bit in this country. And in fact, the lights will go down a bit all over the world. I'm not, honestly, not ready for a world without the Queen in it. The country will never, ever be the same without her. The world will never be the same without her. She has been a Queen since, for as long as most of us have been alive. She has been, and I've described her as this before, a needed, a welcome, but much, much needed, constant in a country changing rapidly in every other respect. The one thing that has always been there, the one person that has always been there is the Queen. We know, we know about her sense of humour, which I've always found, we know about her love of animals again, which I've always found really admirable about her. I've got a book, actually, The Witticisms of Queen Elizabeth II, and it's essentially jokes, a book of jokes that the Queen has made over the years in public or, well, obviously not entirely private, or they wouldn't have ended up in this book. But one thing that this sad death of Prince Philip has done is remind us that our monarch is now 94, and I genuinely, I don't think, and I'm not the only one who feels this way. I don't know if I'll be able to go to bed for it a couple of days. I honestly, so let's not dwell on that. Let's not dwell on that. And let's, I guess, appreciate her while we've still got her, and treasure her while we've still got her. And remember her, look who we are, to have her, because she truly has been and is the most wonderful dignified representative of this country all over the world. And she has not, you know, it hasn't always been easy. The Royal Family, in general, have come under quite a bit of attack recently, and on that, I will be, this week I'll be on Wake Up UK, and I'm going to do my stream there about the Royal Family and what has been happening to the Royal Family, whether or not the attacks on it by the media, some of them entirely unjustified, behaviours of some of the Royal Family which have caused great damage, Prince Andrew, for example, springs to mind. So I'll be covering where the Royal Family finds itself at the moment, and will it survive? How long will it survive for, if it does, will it survive the passing of the Queen? We know that there will be a great, great, great demand for a Republic with the passing of the Queen. So I'm going to talk about that on my Wake Up UK stream this Wednesday evening. Okay, so I told you I picked up my favourite article that I found about Prince Philip today, and I'll share these with you, particularly, particularly like this one. It's from the BBC. It's got some fantastic old black and white photographs. I will post these on Gab afterwards. I'll post the stream, and I'll post this alongside it. So Prince Philip, a turbulent childhood stocked by exile, mental illness, and death. Prince Philip is being remembered as the longest-serving consort in British history, who sacrificed a naval career to give steadfast support to his wife, but it is easy to forget he had endured an exceptionally turbulent childhood. He was abruptly separated from his parents and four elder sisters at the age of eight, and destined never again to live in the same home as his immediate family. In later years, while out and about on royal duties, he would gain a reputation for his quizzical, ragging, and, at times, startlingly blunt remarks. To friends, his emotional reserve was every bit as striking as his bluff, no-nonsense, exterior. His tendency to hide his feelings meant that even those who knew him well were occasionally taken aback by his boats of prickliness presumed to be legacies of an unsettled early life. Prince Philip was born in Corfu in 1921, eight years after the assassination of his grandfather, King George the First of Greece. He was the youngest child and only son of Prince Andrew of Greece, of Greece and Denmark, and Prince Alice of Battenburg, Princess Alice of Battenburg. He was little more than a year old when his father was sent into exile by an army court-martial following Greece's calamitous defeat in a war with Turkey. The family's subsequent flight across the Adriatic Sea to Italy aboard a British warship with the infant Philip sleeping in a converted orange crate was helped by King George the Fifth of the UK, Andrew's first cousin. The monarch's determination to rescue him owed much to his regret of having failed to save another first cousin, Sir Nicholas II, during the Russian Revolution five years earlier. Eventually, the family settled on the outskirts of Paris and St Claude in a garden cottage owned by Philip's aunt. Philip attended a small day school nearby, but in 1930 his world was again thrown apart when his mother, whom he had always adored, suffered a severe mental breakdown. There's some beautiful pictures of him as a child with his mother underneath with his father in the early 1920s. Alice, who was the daughter of Prince Louis of Battenburg, whose family name was Anglicised to Mount Batten during World War I, had been born profoundly deaf. She learned to lip-read in several different languages. Brave, energetic and determined not to let disability hold her back, she had served as a latter-day Florence nightingale during the Balkan wards of 1912 to 13, setting up and nursing in front-line hospitals. You get no pressure here of where he got his socialism from. Three decades later, during the wartime Nazi occupation of Greece, she hid Jews in her house in Athens, earning, like Oscar Schindler, Israel's award of righteous among the nations. In the years immediately after the family's flight from Greece, however, her behaviour had grown disturbingly strange. One doctor who saw her diagnosed her as a paranoid schizophrenic, who believed that she was the only woman on earth and married to Christ. Eventually, Alice's mother bowed to the advice of psychiatrist and agreed that her daughter should be committed to a secure sanatorium. So she arranged, while the family was staying for Easter, with Alice's uncle for a doctor to arrive one day while the children were out. He would forcibly sedate her, bundle her into a car and drive her off to a clinic near Lake Constance. The committal of Philip's mother marks the end of his family life, although he and his sisters would not have realised this when they arrived back at the palace that evening to find their mother gone. It's quite an incredible story. Moving on, we go on to tell us that he only saw his mother a handful more of times in his life, which is indeed very, very sad. But moving on, when an interviewer asked him what language he had spoken at home as a boy, his immediate and rather cross-retort was, what do you mean, at home? His apparent way of coping was to banish introspection and remain cheerful and purposeful. In the absence of his own father, various surrogates helped shape the young prince's increasingly forthright character. The headmaster of Chim school was a cheerful clergyman and staunch disciplinarian who taught use of cane to punish daytime fences and a son of cricket bat for those caught having pillow fights after lights out. Philip's forespeeding as a new boy prompted him to ask the headmaster's wife, do you like Mr Taylor? The experienced Mrs Taylor countered expertly, do you, Philip? She asked. No, answered the boy unequivocally. I do not. This is absolutely fascinating. It really is. I highly recommend you read it. I won't read through it all, but it is a great read and it's the photographs are stunning. We move on to the romance, the romance that developed in the 1930s. It was his uncle who arranged for Philip to entertain princesses Elizabeth and Margaret on the eve of war in 1939 during a royal visit to the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth. By this time Philip was a cadet there. It was on this occasion that princess Elizabeth famously fell in love with the handsome young prince and she never appears to have contemplated marrying anyone else. She was only 13 at the time however and it wasn't until several years later while on leave from active service and staying at Windsor for Christmas 1943 that Prince Philip five years or senior forced so showed signs of reciprocating her feelings. The romance began in earnest soon after the end of the war and it's generally assumed that he proposed to her while staying at Balmoral in the summer of 1946. King George VI was at first at first far from eager to give his consent, not least since several of his closest friends were vehemently opposed to Philip. They whispered darkly about his teutonic strain and suspected that his uncle Louis Mountbatten, a notorious intriguer, was proposing to use him as a Trojan horse to help bring the monarchy more in line with his own rather pink political outlook. Mountbatten had long been viewed by courtiers as unsound on account of his friendliness with Labour politicians. Not to mention Mountbatten's notoriously left-wing wife Edwina but the King's misgivings about the prospective match had far more to do with his reluctance to break up his close family unit us four as he called them himself the Queen Mother, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret. So soon after the war and to lose his beloved eldest daughter at such a young age for Prince Philip on the other hand the prospect of marriage to Princess Elizabeth offered the chance at long last for him to regain the family life that he had lost at the age of eight and again absolutely stunning photographs of himself and the Queen in their early days early in their marriage with a presumed to be Charles and Anne yes Charles and Anne 1951. One of his more telling thank you letters to Queen Elizabeth after staying with the royal family bore moving testimony to him how much he relished the and this is a quote the simple enjoyment of family pleasures and amusements and the feeling that I am welcome to share them haven't been deprived of these simple pleasures at such a young age he was understandably eager now to start a family of his own his raising of that family the royal family stands alongside his support for the Queen and modernizing influence on the monarchy as his most important legacies this is taken this is written by Philip Eads and he is the author of a book young Prince Philip his turbulent early life it really is a lovely read as I say the the photographs are fantastic I will post these on Gab along with the stream just some updates on what's in the news about Prince Philip tonight royal brothers pay tribute so the dukes of Cambridge and Sussex have paid tribute to their grandfather the Duke of Edinburgh in separate statements Prince William described him as an extraordinary man while Prince Harry said he was a man of service honor and great humor I think that's probably sums him up right there and very in a very Prince Harry esque went on to say he was a legend of banter I will miss my grandpa but I know he would want us to get on with the job again that's exactly what I thought the other day and I was I was criticized also by a lady I met while out campaigning and that's my answer to this you know he would want us to get on with the job this is this is not he was this was not the kind of person that he was and particularly particularly given what we are doing in fighting for our beloved Britain I think he would certainly want us to get on with the job and my perhaps my most my favourite British expression is keep calm and carry on it is so spectacularly British that that's that's exactly how I felt and still feel about campaigning Prince Philip died at Windsor Castle on Friday age 99 it comes as parliaments across the UK were recalled to remember the Duke my grandfather's century of life was defined by service to his country and Commonwealth to his wife and Queen and to our family Prince William said in a statement I feel lucky to have not just had his example to guide me but his enduring presence well into my own adult life both through good times and the hardest days I will always be grateful that my wife had so many years to get to know my grandfather and for the kindness he showed her I will never take for granted the special memories my children will always have of their great grandpa coming to collect them in his carriage and seeing for themselves his infectious sense of humor and adventure as well as his infectious sense of adventure as well as his mischievous sense of humor he added that he and his wife Catherine would continue to do what he would have wanted and will support the Queen in the years ahead playing tribute to his grandfather Prince Harry said he was authentically himself with a seriously sharp wit and could hold the attention of any room due to his charm and also because you never knew what he might say next he will be remembered as the longest reigning concert to the monarch a decorated serviceman a prince and a Duke but to me like many of you who have lost a loved one a grandparent over the pain of the past year he was my grandpa master of the barbecue legend of banter and cheeky right till the end it's quite heartwarming actually and it one final interesting article I found this evening Prince Philip now I know I'm going to pronounce this wrongly but I've got to pronounce it somehow Vanuatu tribes mourning the death of their god and this was too too interesting a headline to pass by and too interesting not to share with you as Britain's mourn the death of Prince Philip they are joined by a tribal community on the on a Pacific island half a world away for decades two villages on the vanu vanuation island of Tana have revered the Duke of Edinburgh as a godlike spiritual figure a formal period of mourning is now underway on Monday scores of tribes people gathered in a ceremony to remember Prince Philip the connection between the people of the island of Tana and the English people is very strong we are sending condolence messages to the royal family and the people of England said tribal leader chief Yapa according to Reuters news agency for the next few week villagers will periodically meet to conduct rites for the Duke who are seen as a recycled descendant of a very powerful spirit or god that lives on one of their mountains said anthropologist Mark or Kirk Hoffman who have studied the tribes since the 1970s they will likely conduct ritualistic dance the whole day procession a display memorabilia of Prince Philip while the men will drink kava a ceremonial drink made from the roots of the kava plant this will culminate in a significant gathering as a final act of mourning there will be a great deal of wealth on display which would mean yams and kava plants says journalist Dan Magari also pigs because they're a primary source of protein I would expect numerous pigs to be killed for the ceremonial event Monday's meeting saw a couple of hundred people gather under giant banyan trees according to Mr. Magari who is on Tana there were speeches remembering Prince Philip but also a discussion about a possible successor the BBC understands that a private message to Queen Elizabeth has been delivered to journalists who will convey it to Britain's British officials for half a century the Prince Philip movement thrived in the villages of Yaquel and Johanan at its height it had several thousand followers the numbers of thought are thought to have dwindled to a few hundred the villagers live a simple life in Tana's jungles much as their ancestors did wearing traditional dress is still common while money and modern technology are seldom used within their own community though they only live several kilometers from the nearest airport they just made an active choice to disavow the modern world it's not a physical distance it's a metaphysical distance they're just 3000 years away says Mr. Magari who frequently meets with the villagers the villagers centuries old custom or culture and way of life sees Tana as the origin of the world and aims to promote peace and this is where Prince Philip has played a central role over time the villagers have come to believe he is one of them the fulfillment of a prophecy of a tribesman who left the island in his original original spiritual form to find a powerful wife overseas says Mr. Hoffman real in the UK with the help of the queen he was trying to bring peace and respect for tradition to england and other parts of the world if he was successful he could then return to Tana the one thing preventing him was as they saw it white white people's stupidity jealousy greed and perpetual fighting well we used to we used to being called names at the moment I almost almost thought I'd get through an evening without any white hate but no with his mission to literally plant the seed of Tana custom at the heart of the Commonwealth and Empire the Duke was seen as a living embodiment of their culture this is absolutely fascinating it's a hero's journey a person who set off on a quest and literally wins the princess and the kingdom nobody is sure exactly how or why this movement began though there are various theories one idea according to Mr. Hoffman is that villagers may have seen his picture along with the queens on the walls of British colonial airposts a colony when it was still a British colony another interpretation is that it emerged as a reaction to colonial presence a way of reappropriating and taking back colonial power by associating themselves with someone who sits right at the right hand of the ruler of the Commonwealth absolutely absolutely fascinating right his so-called gaffes I've got to read these to you how can we how can we have a tribute to Prince Philip and that by the way is what this is this is my personal tribute to Prince Philip this again is compiled by the BBC Prince Philip is renowned for speaking his mind often explained as his attempt to lighten the mood and that outspoken nature has at times led to controversy with some of those remarks teetering on the edge of being offensive here are some of his most famous quips 1966 British women can't cook I'm not sure that's true 1969 what do you gargle with pebbles he said to Sir Tom Jones after a wild variety performance I'm guessing that's a reference to his growth boys 1981 everybody was saying we must have more leisure now they are complaining they are unemployed during the 1981 recession 1984 you are a woman aren't you in Kenya after accepting a small gift from a local woman 1986 if you this one's quite famous if you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty eyed this was to a group of British students in China 1988 it looks like a tarts bedroom on seeing plans for the Duke and Duchess of York's house at Sonninghill Park 1992 oh no I might catch some ghastly disease this is in Australia when asked to stroke a koala 1993 you can't have been here that long you haven't got a pot belly to a Britain he met in Hungary 1994 aren't most of you descended from pirates this is to a wealthy islander in the Cayman Islands 1995 I love this one how do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test he asked a Scottish driving instructor 1996 if a cricketer for instance suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket but which he could do very easily I mean are you going to ban cricket but and this is his response to calls to ban firearms after the Don Blaine shooting 1997 bloody silly fool referring to a Cambridge University car park attendant who did not recognize him 1999 deaf well if you are near there no wonder you're deaf this is speaking to a group of young deaf people in Cardiff who are standing near a steel band 1999 it looks as if it was put in by an Indian referring to an old-fashioned fuse box in a factory near Edinburgh 2001 you're too fat to be an astronaut this is to a 13 year old Andrew Adams who told Prince Philip he wanted to go into space in 2002 he asked Australian Aborigines still throwing spears 2002 also he said you look like a suicide bomber to a young policewoman wearing a bulletproof vest on Stonaway Isle of Lewis 2009 there's a lot of your family in tonight after looking at the name badge of businessman Atul Patel at a palace reception for British Indians 2009 well you didn't design your beard too well did you to designer Stephen George about his tiny goatee beard 2010 do you have a pair of knickers made out of this this is to Scottish Conservative leader Annabelle Goldie pointing while pointing to some tartan in Edinburgh 2010 do you walk in a strip club to 24 year old Barnstable Sea Cadet Elizabeth Randall when she told him she also walked in a night club 2012 I would get arrested if I unzipped that dress to 25 year old council walker Hannah Jackson who was wearing a dress with a zipline in the length of its front 2013 the Philippines must be half empty as you're all here running the NHS on meeting a Filipino nurse at Luton and Dunstable Hospital children go to school 2013 children go to school because their parents don't want them in the house this was to Malala Yousafzai who survived an assassination attempt and that's probably the most odd PC one that's probably the one um to Malala Yousafzai who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban and their campaigns for the right of girls to go to school 2017 you look starved he sent to a pensioner on the charter house arms house for elderly men Prince Philip best in peace okay I want to say a few words too before I take some questions I want to say a few words about our candidates now I know I have a list here thank you Sharon I do I know I have a list here of where for Britain is standing we have a few separate battles to fight in all this one of those battles has been fought and has been won we are a national party we are standing candidates all over the country in my own area here in Hartlepool we're standing for example the same number as the Liberal Democrats we are we have arrived as a national party we are a national party and I'm going to read you a list of the areas in which we are standing we live in a really really difficult time we do and you know everybody lives in their own difficult time but in many respects we're in a time where certainly from my lifetime it is hardest now than I've ever known it for people to speak to express an opinion to express their heartfelt views to want to preserve old traditions identities and for those of us who love Britain it's becoming ever harder to express to publicly show that love on Sunday we were out a campaign and I was told a story that I stuck in my head and it's genuinely horrifying a bit a child seeing Union Jack socks and saying those socks are racist and last week I spoke about a school in London where the children had campaigned to get the flag the Union Jack lowered and succeeded succeeded so it's a very difficult time and we're in a time of both censorship from outside and self-censorship and this is again but as I just at the start about Prince Philip he comes from an era before self-censorship we're in cancelled culture we're in a culture and a time when speaking up just to express your love of this country was something that would have been commonplace a generation ago is now so quickly and controversial that so many of us dare not say it and they dare not say it because we live in a country dominated by aggressive bullies who push people around who intimidate people who try to get them cancelled and by which I mean either de-platformed or take their livelihoods away I was actually just today I was watching a couple of bits on on YouTube I know and one of the videos I was watching was Piers Morgan and the attempts to get him sacked from Good Morning Britain because he wouldn't go along with the hundred genders thing and he said he identified as a two-spirit penguin making an absolutely profoundly important point but he had people on in the studio with him who had signed a petition to get him fired because he had expressed this that he wanted to identify as a two-spirited penguin that's where we are we're also in a time where the press are inarguably indisputably on the side of anti-britain and anti-british sentiment and quite I've seen it mentioned by others as well that since the death of Prince Philip that's people you know we've we've gotten sort of the BBC looking back with with in Melancholy and and it wasn't too wonderful like you give me you you work slagging off you know we have anti-british bias consistently from the BBC and they will smear and they will slander and they will defame and they will do it without a morsel of contemplation or thought for the damage they're doing both to democracy and to the individual they are smearing these are the times that we live in so in a council culture in a time of an extraordinarily biased press an extraordinarily dishonest press and an extraordinarily anti-british anti-patriotism press for people in that context to put their head above the parapet to put their names on ballot papers to put their photographs on campaign leaflets in the midst of a culture like that I mean it's a heroic thing to speak up against the tide it's heroic to swim against the tide anyway and in today's council culture and censorship society and society of lies those who speak the truth are heroes those who speak against the prevailing narrative of the mainstream press and mainstream politicians are heroes just speaking up is a heroic act to stand for election unashamedly on a unashamed pro-britain platform knowing knowing the context knowing the press and how it's going to behave is genuinely a level of heroic that should and I would say did and will again characterise this country itself it is the very very best of british to stand up proudly bravely face what you know you're going to face but to do it anyway that is an act of sheer sheer heroism and I want to thank everyone who is standing for our party and who is exactly exactly a demonstration and an example of what is great about this country in being that brave in being those people that we are that are standing just by doing it just by by by standing up on an unashamed unapologetic pro-britain platform as we are doing just by doing that we're giving a little bit of greatness back to britain and we're giving a little bit of britain back to britain just by standing so my absolute heartfelt thanks my just indescribable uh respect for everyone who is standing good luck do your best and we have won the first battle and that battle is the courage to stand and the reminder and the presentation of ourselves of our party as a truly national party we have done that and congratulations to everyone not just the candidates but to everyone who makes this party happen well done thank you and congratulations because we have done something remarkable here let me read out to you exactly where we are standing we're standing in leicester allardale basildon wiltshire the wirral darlington epping forest west minster sussex sin helens bolton heartley pool oxford nosley west sussex exeter darlington west sussex again uh these are different wards uh sandwell leicester again peter britt leads a couple more in west sussex hall essex newcastle upon tine london harkfordshire south end bradford we're in every region of the country and we're standing i mean i've read out for example essex we've got several people standing in different parts of essex same with west sussex seven across the midlands across the north we are covering every region in england and i just could not could not be prouder and i couldn't be more grateful now i said what we have won this battle and we have and i'm eternally grateful the next battle now is to do our best but to win the target seats that we can win i'm asked i've written to a few people today and i'm asking people to if you don't i'm not overly keen on saying where uh target seats are um but if you can i've written to a few people today for example around the country to ask them if they can come to heartly prude to help me campaign my own seat is a target seat and we must now give everything we've got to our target seats if i do if i am elected in may you have my solemn promise and i think you probably trust me on this one that i will take every single opportunity i can to stand up for the people to represent the voice of the people in this political game of chess that takes place inside the electoral elected chambers but i will of course do everything i can always to promote this party and to show people at every opportunity what this party stands for that we are not in this for ourselves we are in this for the people and we're in this for the country and that we are we are brave decent honorable people who love this country i will take every opportunity i can to do that and i'm like i said i think you probably trust me on that one congratulations to everyone for standing you are truly heroic and congratulations to everyone who is supporting the candidates congratulations to everyone involved in this party we're making our mark we're doing really really well and i i couldn't be more proud so thank you very much to you all now let's get our resources let's give everything we've got to win this next battle which is winning our target seats okay for 10 minutes left let's take a couple of questions if there's any reminders anyone wants me to give do send them through to me now uh should this question from stew hi stew should daris attend the funeral of prince phillip um yeah i'd assume so i i i do you know just actually just before i came on and i'd forgotten about this i'd forgotten about this but just before i came on i was reminded about it's 30 people at a funeral isn't it let me just quickly have a look at the here they are at the funeral plans so funeral preparations run away for prince phillip queen elisabeth the second's husband who died on friday uh the ceremonial royal funeral will be held at st george's chapel in the grounds of winsor castle uh the event will be televised okay let me uh he will is reported to have requested a funeral of minimal fuss and will not lie in state where members of the public would have been able to view his coffin instead he will lie at rest at the private chapel at winsor castle until the day of his funeral his coffin is draped in his personal flag his standard the flag represents elements of his life from his greek heritage to the to his british titles a wreath of flowers has been placed on the coffin um shows us the standard of prince phillip so what will happen on the day the duke will have a ceremonial funeral rather than a state funeral there is a subtle difference state funerals are usually reserved for monarchs although wartime prime minister winston churchill was given a state funeral the queen mother had a ceremonial funeral in 2002 as did diana princess of wales in 97 okay so coronavirus restrictions on crowds and numbers attending funerals mean the duke ceremonial funeral will be much lower key than if it happened in other times although the palace said this very much reflects the duke's wishes and it will still celebrate and reflect a life of service um i'm not getting to the number allowed it doesn't say anything here at least so far there's nothing here about numbers okay who will attend corroborate yes it does here we are coronavirus restrictions in england mean only 30 people socially distanced are allowed to attend funerals attendees are expected to wear masks in line with government advice the paul bearers and clergy are not included in the number of attendees i presume i'm not going to make the queen wear a mask i really really hope not that's for sure um under earlier arrangements for the days of the duke's death codenamed fourth bridge thousands of people would have been expected to gather in london and winza with some coming out to get a vantage point to watch the military procession so none of this is going to happen which is actually quite sad um i mean he's very he was he was very loved in the country and i think uh it's quite sad that that won't happen but yeah seems to be restricted to 30 people it says here that details of invited guests or family members are yet to be announced prince harry will attend what his wife megan who is pregnant will not make the trip from the us on medical advice the duke of sussex is living in the u.s with the duchess of sussex and has not returned to the uk since stepping down as a senior royal last year okay um question should should barris johnson go to the funeral well yes yes i would have thought so uh he is the prime minister of the united kingdom this is the senior member of the royal family um yes i i what's what's what what do you think i'm i'm actually quite i would i would have assumed he would go i mean if it if it's only 30 people and there would be close family members put out by barris johnson then perhaps not but i would expect the prime minister to be there yeah okay sick half u kip this is from james um hi jim how you doing um have u kip disappeared in heartley pool they seem to have almost disappeared in leeds with only one candidate this election the sdp have expanded greatly since last time u kip defectors well yeah i think that you i think u kip have disappeared um in heartley pool i know they're not standing in these elections i'm 90 i know they're not standing in the parliamentary by-election i'm 98 percent sure they're not standing in the local elections either someone if someone knows that quickly quickly dropped me a line um so yeah they have disappeared um largely i think they've disappeared in many parts of the country except perhaps wales they seem to to have a bit of a showing but they've definitely disappeared in heartley pool um and you say that it looks like um from what you say jim disappeared in leeds as well um can't be bad can't be bad for us okay so graham has just answered to say no u kip at all are standing in heartley pool um wow and now that's quite significant actually given that heartley pool was quite a strong leave town and um quite a no-nonsense sort of town um that you would i mean why do you think i love it so much um so it's a pro a pro britain pro leave no nonsense place like heartley pool you would expect that if u kip was feeling buoyed if it was feeling ambitious if it was feeling confident one place you would expect it to stand would be in heartley pool um but no not at all now that tells me that u kip is not feeling buoyed it's not feeling confident and it's not feeling ambitious i have no ill feeling towards u kip um certainly not so a lot of the people involved in u kip um but i'm pleased if i'm honest that they're not standing in heartley pool because we need you know those of us on the sort of patriotic side of things well i mean i've had up with this bluntly we'll we'll take their votes i guess is what i'm trying to say um but it's good that we'll take their votes because with the future and u kip as i've said i mean i genuinely have no ill feeling towards u kip but they self presented as a anti as an anti-eu party and that is how they are seen which is a matter of of i mean i understand that brexit isn't what we voted for and i don't you know it but we've we've got so many things to do in the interests of the country that we've got to start looking to the future now and u kip to me is part of the past and we need that support coming to us now to take us towards the future and a pro britain future do you know um the sdp i forget about them i i genuinely do forget about them um i know that they're quite members at least have been quite critical of me for you know the anti anti-islam thing and it is a little bit of a little small bit of wokeness but it isn't there right that's just not going to succeed i just don't think that this kind of well wokeness is the only word that springs to mind um it's a fear really and i think a lot of people on the right if just for the sake of conversation really to call it the right um fear us fear for britain and the fear is because we will say things about things that they and i'm sorry i'm convinced about this i think there's a lot of people on our side of politics who fear and dislike us because they wish they were as brave as us i genuinely do think that's the case and i think that going forward that that courage is going to be what is desperately needed that courage i think is what shapes our party and uh what we are doing it for is right there in the name of the party we're doing it for britain and there are millions millions in this country who still deeply love this country they need straight talking they need truth they need courage because it will take courage to win back the love of britain and win back our pride in the flag and in the other symbols of this country it's going to take courage to stand up for britain and that's what we have and that's what the country needs going forward and that's why i so believe in this party but it's very going to be very difficult for us it's this is not easy i think we're very very lucky and i wouldn't have it i wouldn't live any other life um but none of this is easy but nothing worthwhile is and we could always we could always start jumping on the woke wagon and perhaps get a little bit less grief for it but we'd be betraying everything including the people um the lonely isolated confused people of this country who know that they love the country and they know that two and two is four but they don't feel able to say so and they feel a bit lost and isolated that's who we're doing it for and these people need courage and the truth the truth particularly about islam actually is the kind of courage and it's the demonstration if you are brave enough to say the things that we say then you are the kind of brave that the country needs and that's why i still i so strongly strongly believe in us and that we have a big future ahead of us okay that's it everyone i've really enjoyed this evening i enjoyed talking about prince philip very much um and i do want to just before i finish repeat what i said to the candidates and to the party activists and to the party members you are doing an extraordinary thing we are doing incredibly well and our showing candidate showing across the country is extraordinary given the pressures we are under it's extraordinary full sock but it's ever more extraordinary given the pressures we are under and the opposition that we face and the lies um that are told about us would do you're incredible it's incredible it's incredible thank you all so so very much i'm so very proud okay that's it for me this evening i shall be back uh i am back on wednesday morning on facebook with my heartly pro live stream wednesday evening i'm on wake up uk with a discussion about the royal family and what's going on with the royal family thursday night we'll have a we'll be back i told you our thursday night streams are coming back but every two weeks and back to weekly after the elections and we'll be discussing the global persecution of christians on thursday night in the meantime look after yourselves um thank you thank you thank you once again and if i've contacted you about coming to highly pro to help me just give me a shout thanks everyone take care i shall see you um if i don't see you wednesday morning on facebook i'll see you back here next monday walk out everyone thank you see you soon thank you for watching if you agree with what you hear on four britain videos remember to like them share 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