Is being abused. The governments migration advisers say the visa attracted students to the uk and should remain , to the uk and should remain, adding the graduate visa route is not undermining the integrity and quality of the Higher Education system. The committees report says if it were scrapped, universities would lose income from International Student fees and have to cut courses. The have to cut courses. The government has said its considering the findings and would respond in due course. It introduced tougher rules for International Students this yean International Students this year, which it said aimed to help slash migration. The prime help slash migration. The Prime Minister is calling on shoppers to back british produce as he hosts the second farm to fork summit at downing street. Labour says the conservatives have dnven says the conservatives have driven farmers to breaking point and have pleaded a new deal and have pledged a new deal. Sorry, they say, will put money back into their pockets. But rishi sunak told members of the Food Industries that britain must reduce its reliance on fruit and vegetables from overseas. A home vegetables from overseas. A Home Office Minister says the good friday agreement should not be read so creatively as to cover migration issues. Its after a judge at Belfast High Court ruled that parts of the governments illegal migration act should not be applied in northern ireland. Responding to an urgent question from the dup, Tom Pursglove said the government intends to appeal against the courts judgement and would not be deterred from its rwanda plan. And the first its rwanda plan. And the First Official painted portrait of the king since his coronation has been unveiled at buckingham palace. The oil on canvas shows his majesty in the uniform of the welsh guards, of which he was made regimental colonel in 1975. The portrait , by british 1975. The portrait, by british artist jonathan yeo , was artist jonathan yeo, was commissioned in 2020 to celebrate the then prince of waless 50 years as a member of the drapers company. In 2022. In the drapers company. In 2022. In the new portrait, the king is depicted sword in hand with a butterfly landing on his shoulder. Butterfly landing on his shoulder. For butterfly landing on his shoulder. For the butterfly landing on his shoulder. For the latest stories, you can sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen. Or you can go to gb news. Com alerts. Now its go to gb news. Com alerts. Now wsfime go to gb news. Com alerts. Now its time for headliners. Its time for headliners. Thank you tatiana. Hello and welcome to headliners, your run through the next days news with three comedians. Im leo carson. Tonight im joined by paul cox , tonight im joined by paul cox, the peoples gammon and jonathan coogan, the peoples fish fingers. We dont know how he got that nickname. How are you both doing . Really . Well. Thank you. Really . Well. Thank you. How are you . Yeah, im good as well. Thank you. Ive adopted this new voice. Ive adopted this new voice. Yeah. Youve got a very husky. Sexy. Yes. Its for the rashes. They like it. Were on late at night. Were on late at night. I thought id talk to them like this from now on. Yeah. Something happened. Yeah. Something happened. Was there an accident . No, i stopped, i was on 60 a day. And then you stopped. I just stopped it straight away. It straight away. You sound like a smoker. Hamburgers. Not cigarettes. Not cigarettes. Okay, well, lets have a look at wednesdays front pages. The daily meal has Sex Education to be banned for under nines. And no more gender dogma for the telegraph. Has tories tell police bring back. Stop and police bring back. Stop and search the times leads with dont teach pupils about gender id schools told the guardian has us warns georgia not to side with russia against the west. I assume they mean the country georgia, not the state in america. The i news has new america. The i news has new weight loss jab gold rush offers obesity, hope to millions and finally the metro has uks record 3 million food parcels. And those were your front pages. And those were your front pages. And those were your front pages. And lets have a closer look at those front pages. Starting with wednesdays daily mail poll, Sex Education to be banned for under nines in blow to perverts and no more gin gender dogma. The blow, the blow to perverts thing isnt in there. It blows the public not to say anybody under nine shouldnt be having sex anyway. Its for good looking people only. Get lovely work. Kyrees education secretary Gillian Keegan will unveil proposals tomorrow for a total ban on the subject until the at least year five, year five, which, by the way, i think most of us got Sex Education about year six when we were kids. I dont know about keegan because hes 12, were kids. I dont know about keegan because hes12, yeah. Keegan because hes12, yeah. And shes also said to rule out the gender identity , gender the gender identity, gender identity is a contested subject that should not be taught in schools, which is really interesting because the tories all of a sudden seem to be trying to tory their way out of this mess. Yeah. And it feels particularly with Gillian Keegan. Yeah. Shes like, right, im in this job now for like five months. Yeah. Im going to tory the living daylights out of this. It really does feel like that across a lot of issues that the tories have had 14 years of being the labour party. Yeah, quite a left Wing Labour Party at that. And then theyve suddenly in their final , their suddenly in their final, their final sprint to the finish line, theyve decided to become tories and leave, you know, leave a tory country for, for labour. I think its too little, too late. Its like when your girlfriend dumps you, then you start doing the washing up for the first time in like ten years. Youre like, im a good quy years. Youre like, im a good guy. Im a good guy. But yeah, no, i think its, you know, i think theyve had their moment in the sun and now its, well break loose. Its interesting. Break loose. Its interesting. I mean, how how long if you, lets say it becomes policy, do labour just chuck it all out . Lets say it becomes policy, do labourjust chuck it all out . I labour just chuck it all out . I mean, what what would. Sorry, i know youve got to move on, but for me its really interesting because if this did come in, then what would be the reason for, overruling it. Exactly. And i think, you know, the fact that the cast report has come out that, you know, now, itll itll stay , so know, now, itll itll stay, so moving on. Whats in the front cover of the telegraph . Jonathan, the front cover of the telegraph. Tories told police telegraph. Tories told police bnng telegraph. Tories told police bring back. Stop and search. So this has obviously been a contentious issue. I think it was when theresa may. Oh, we need to. Oh, god. Sorry we need to go to paul because youre mike, isnt isnt working , apparently. Lets have working, apparently. Lets have a look. Lets have a look at the eye. Paul. Eye. Paul okay, ill pick up that story if you like. But lets go with if you like. But lets go with the eye for now. New weight loss jab. Gold rush offers obesity, hope for millions. So apparently there are 322 anti obesity drugs in Development Worldwide at the moment, and the new drugs in development include more convenient versions, including exist of incumbent weight loss drugs that are already available, but theyre going to be now in pill form or actually be now in pill form or actually be an injection of some kind. So i mean, i think the i think the obese people would probably rather a pill, especially if it was a big pill painted like a cake. Yeah just a couple of slices of it. Yeah. I mean, its interesting isnt it, because i this is a good thing in terms of, overcoming the obesity crisis, which is a huge drain on nhs resources. But does it encourage is it a bit like, the morning after pill . I mean, do you just eat as much as you possibly can and then just give yourself an injection in the morning . Morning . So you think it could be encouraging, actually , i mean, encouraging, actually, i mean, do you agree with paul that it could encourage, just a bad , bad could encourage, just a bad, bad behaviour and everybodys going to be just gorging on chicken wings, but, you know , if you do wings, but, you know, if you do that and then you can cancel it out, thats perfect. Isnt that the world we want to live in . And can i just say my microphone has not been working. But this was the funniest ive ever been. In the first session. You just have to imagine the brilliant, brilliant things i said. Yeah. Yeah. Superb stuff. Maybe we recreate them later on. Yeah, i believe you could reach those heady heights again. Jonathan, do you think so . Jonathan, do you think so . Yeah. And lets have a look at the metro. Jonathan, what at the metro. Jonathan, what have they got . Yeah. So this is a crazy, crazy story. This is proper, like wild action news and very tragic because a couple of people have died. But on the wall, the headline of the metro is uks record 3 million food parcels. But the story i believe were going to cover is the prison van ambush horror on motorway. So this is a story that happened in france early today, a i believe it was a convicted criminal high up in the drugs world, was essentially busted out of a moving van when he was being transported, and two of his guards were killed by heavily armed men. And this is this is something out of a, you know, like a crazy drug film. This is, not something you see every day. Well, we saw the footage in the news bulletin , just. And it the news bulletin, just. And it really was. It was like grand theft auto come to life. I mean, theft auto come to life. I mean, theyd sort of rammed this, this police van thats transporting this man, Mohammed Amara, one of the new style of french people and the, you know, hes from a gangin and the, you know, hes from a gang in marseille. Hes been convicted of burglary and also indicted on a kidnapping that led to somebody dying, and but as you say, apparently hes unked as you say, apparently hes linked to drugs because burglary on its own. I cant imagine, people, they were very keen to get him out. I mean, he was on an 18 month sentence for burglary. So all sentence for burglary. So all the things that hes accused of and being in charge of, he hasnt, you know, been convicted on those things. And 18 months, you know, maybe nine months to a yearin you know, maybe nine months to a year in prison. They were just very its interesting story in the sense that they could have just let him sit there for that yeah just let him sit there for that year. You know, he could have probably run. He could probably run the gang from prison. So itd be interesting to know why they wanted to get him out so quickly. Yeah, but tragic stuff, i was saying i was saying, i must admit, i was saying this. Theres always an element of this because if youre watching a film, youre excited by the break. You know, when it happens in real life, if someone is able to break out of prison, its quite something. Obviously, its very tragic and theres some, you know, one of the guys two deaths. Yeah. And one of the guys that died his his other half was five months pregnant as well. So i dont want to take anything away from that at all. And weve seen you know, previously theres the glamorisation of, you know, the brinks, the great train robbery and that that led to i dont think the person died, but they were certainly, severely injured for the rest of their life, you know, basically disabled for the rest of their life, i believe. Yeah, its a tragic stuff. Yeah, its a tragic stuff. At gb, we believe the only acceptable crime is white collar crime. Thats what we believe. No violence, no fraud. Mainly fraud. Yes, absolutely. Thats what we stand for. Anyway, lets. Now that your mics working, lets have a look at the telegraph. Jonathan. Oh, were going back to the telegraph. Absolutely. So the headune telegraph. Absolutely. So the headline here is tories tell police bring back stop and search. So as i was saying before, maybe falling on deaf ears or deaf mikes , the police ears or deaf mikes, the police have been advised to bring back this policy, which was criticised, especially ten years ago. There was a big campaign against it. I think its when theresa may was, what was she doing . She was homesick back then. And essentially, this is a policy where police will stop and search young men. And the problem is with it or the alleged problem with it, it was, mostly affecting, groups from sort of, african and caribbean descent, young men. And, basically it got called racist because they were being profiled. But at the same time, could you argue that if this, you know, knife crime, which was this was aiming to stop effects , this was aiming to stop effects, those young men from those groups, most, you know, theyre getting killed. Its a terrible thing. Does not make sense to thing. Does not make sense to try and prevent that in some kind of way. Or is this just profiling . I dont know, no, youre youre absolutely right. I mean, i worked as a criminal intelligence analyst, and we were taught i mean, i dont know if this is changed. It probably has with all the di focus. But we were taught that if theres an overrepresentation of, of perpetrators in a certain group, youre actually doing a disservice to that Demographic Group by ignoring it or sweeping it under the carpet or pretending it doesnt happen , pretending it doesnt happen, and when weve seen that, you know, the grooming gangs issues have been allowed to fester instead of being dealt with. And, you know, the problem got worse than if it had been. Yeah. And theyve made discrimination a dirty word. And its not really, i guess. Of course it is. When it comes to discriminating someone on the bafis discriminating someone on the basis of the colour of their skin. But when youre discriminating people on whether theyre innocent or guilty, you have to chuck everybody into the mix. So the whole point of policing is to be discriminatory. Yeah. And weve seen soaring knife crime. Weve seen some very high profile, events in london, over the last few years with machete fights, you know, in the streets of london, some of it almost looks like medieval jousting. Well, a guy with a chair. Yeah. Fighting over a female. Hes going to fight a lion. Hes going to fight a lion. Thats true. Then there must be some white skinned examples. But i cant think of any right now. But when you think of the grooming gangs, for instance. Now, they were they were they were positively discriminated against and that police were unable to manage that situation for fear of being racist. Now, i would much rather racist. Now, i would much rather the police were occasionally called racist. Called racist. Yeah, and of course the authorities were discriminating against the girls as well because they were working class. Yes. So you know, we so what discriminate. But you know, if it saves lives, it catches criminals. But at the same time as a as a youngish rebel, i wouldnt want the police to overreach and stop people unnecessarily just because they can. So in north london, as a white guy driving around in your bmw, youre going to be fine , mate. Dont you worry about it. Dont you worry about it. My girlfriend drives a bmw. Im not allowed to. Thats it. When do you learn how to Parallel Park anyway . Thats the front pages dealt with coming up. Weve got good news for rishi europe. Copying our rwanda plan and hamas coming to a Council Estate near you. Welcome back to headliners with me , leo carson. My panel. Paul me, leo carson. My panel. Paul cox and jonathan coogan. There cox and jonathan coogan. There they are, sitting there, all resplendent with their mics, working , kicking off this working, kicking off this section with the times. And apparently rishi might meet his migration pledge as he pledged to leave the country after losing the election. I dont think so. I dont think so. Rishi sunak has a fighting chance of meeting migration pledge, says watchdog. This is brian bell, who is the chairman of the Migration Advisory Committee , otherwise advisory committee, otherwise known as mac said the government ban on foreign students bringing family members with them to the uk was producing a much bigger fall than government expected. It could help reduce overall net migration to 200,000, maybe even down to 150,000, which is really interesting because back in june last year, we reported on the fact that there was a net migration of 672,000. Huge story, huge number. But whats interesting is the difference between 600 and 72,000 and the possible 150, 200,000 is about half a Million People. So this story suggests that students are bringing families to the tune of about half a Million People every year. Net. Theyve got some big families i they have. And i guess, look, its some unexpected good news for rishi sunak. By hook or by crook. He may see that number come down. Its also good for the country in many ways because irrespective of where ive said this a thousand times, particularly on here, irrespective of where theyre coming from and who they are, colour of skin, culture, religion, all that sort of things. If theres too many people here, our system fails. Yeah and you know, its only the its the most vulnerable that become impacted by that. And we see that all across society. Yeah. And i mean, jonathan i mean this this has been reported in the guardian very differently. They reported that theres no evidence at all. Theyre basically coming here and, you know, bringing, bringing families and stuff, which i dont know is a complete nonsense. Like everything in the guardian, i use the student visa scheme to go to canada for a yeah scheme to go to canada for a year. Everybody. Not everybody. Last year , people like me. Yeah, last year, people like me. Yeah, yeah. Mature student. Mature student. Well, i mean, any loophole that can be exploited will eventually get exploited. But eventually get exploited. But this really does seem to be, very high in the, you know, the number of people who have come over through these student visas and then started working, yeah. And then started working, yeah. I mean, the way this article is phrased, especially the headline, its, that, rishi sunak has a fighting chance. Ive noticed every headline about rishi is kind of posing him this underdog thats ready to kind of like, strike back because they know its over. Because brits love an underdog. They do maybe. They do maybe. They do maybe. Maybe not this one. I mean, hes a billionaire. Underdog is slightly different. But i mean, do you think we should maybe replace all our clunky, exploitable gameable visa and migration systems with visa auctions . Because these would be amazing. Then somebody wants to come here, they have to bid in an auction to get the visa. So the state gets money that we can then put into services. And it also ensures that you get the people who , are better class it people who, are better class it might discriminate against. But, what if you have like a genius doctor from like, mumbai who wants to come over and he doesnt have the money or she doesnt have the money or she doesnt if shes such a good doctor, why doesnt he just. Does the system exist . Does the system exist . Is this. Is this. Is this. And hes like, have you invented this system . No, no, this is i mean, i dont think so. Ive never heard of what . Ive never heard of what . Visa auctions. Yeah visa auctions. Yeah so you basically a visa goes to the highest bidder. Yeah. I. E. Drug cartels. We might you were saying outside, you said probably because Due Diligence on money. Yeah. Okay. Stuff like that. Yeah. Okay. Stuff like that. Yeah. Okay. Stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Essentially yeah. Essentially i yeah. Essentially i mean whats the point. The drug dealers come here anyway. We might as well charge them for it anyway. Moving on. Weve got the mail now and, you know, things arent going too well for britain when our Prime Minister gives us World War Two style advice in case we run out of food. Jonathan yeah. He now goes by, rishi the riveter. Yeah, we can do it. So rishi sunak urges brits that good impression i dont know. No moss from the it crowd. Ive never heard rishi sunak talk. A lot of people havent. A lot of people havent. No just behind politics. So rishi sunak urges brits to grow more apples and pears. Sounds more apples and pears. Sounds very wholesome, sounds like a cockney thing. It does. Yeah, yeah. It does. Yeah, yeah. It does. Yeah, yeah. Like grow some more stairs. Like grow some more stairs. Theres another way of allotment between floors. Another way of, say, manning up, isnt it . Yeah. Come on, mate, grow an apple and pear. Yeah, anyway, so rishi, has warned that overreliance on food imports could undermine the countrys security vie. So he warns that, sorry, a new Food Security index has found that the uk is too reliant on foreign imports , reliant on foreign imports, particularly in the case of fruit and vegetables, and only 55 of vegetables and 70 of fruit bought in this country is grown here. Well, i think a big part of that, because all the delicious fruit needs sun, and we dont really want to eat a banana. If you want to eat a delicious like go go berry or whatever its called. Yeah. You cant. Banana plantations have dundee. Yeah, yeah. Well, what do we grow . Strawberries, strawberries, turnips, strips. Yeah. Anybody want a nice slice of turnip i know. Well, i think the reason why this has become such an issue is because after the Russia Ukraine war, weve sort of seen that a lot of our Food Supplies can be put in jeopardy. So we just need to grow our own turnips. Yeah. And particularly if were going to continue with high levels of migration, its going to become more of an issue. The fact that we cant grow enough food here to sustain us unless they bring fruit and food very regularly. You need it food very regularly. You need it like several times a day. This is all about Food Sovereignty, and its kind of the uk versus team world, as lewis would put it in many ways. And in order for a supply chain like that to work, it relies on the world getting on. You know, everyone whos like this one world government business like klaus schwab and all those other evil dictators that they its all very well for them to say, if youre very wealthy and you sit at the top of the pyramid, things look easy when you look down. But theyre not. And we dont, you know, we dont get on with russia. Yeah. And they can stop the supply chain. What is remarkable is the supply chain of people, migrants seems to carry on regardless. So we fill their pockets for the bananas and peaches. Then we might we and peaches. Then we might we might have overcome the issue. Might have overcome the issue. Shorterm Food Sovereignty. Shorterm Food Sovereignty. Yeah, yeah, i kind of the other night, even nick dixon. Right. And hes never said anything nice to anyone term. He said that was a good comment. Im gonna im gonna im gonna claim Food Sovereignty when my girlfriend wants some of my chips. No. Absolutely not. Moving on. Weve got the express now. And will labour bring lots of palestinian terrorists to the uk and give them Council Houses . Well, theyve already trialled it in london. Giving a Council House to hamas chief pol. Yes. And he needed it as yes. And he needed it as well. Leo. Come on, lee anderson claims labour plans homes for hamas scheme. So this is responding to a social media post from labour mp sam terris, who called for family visa schemes to bring Palestinian Refugees to the to safety in the uk via safe and legal route. Now safe and legal route is such a buzzword, particularly for the left of politics. They love it, dont they . Yummy, yummy, safe and legal route. Now we know its very difficult to produce a safe and legal route anywhere in the world, but its not so much the world, but its not so much the route. Its the fact that, you know, some of these people exploiting this system, this safe and legal route, are going to be hamas terrorists, and theyre going to be coming to the uk. And, you know, as much as i want to help everybody around the world and give everybody a cuddle and, you know, give everybody all my tax money, like i also dont at all. And if we bring i mean, look what happened to lebanon. Lebanon was a majority christian country. It took in lots of Palestinian Refugees, descended into internecine warfare. And now its an absolute basket case. Look at jordan. Took in lots of Palestinian Refugees , lots of Palestinian Refugees, then jordan and egypt arent taking any more, are they . No so this this was a this was a while ago. Yeah. Sorry, but now but nowadays and they had had their own military and, you know, caused all sorts of problems for jordan. So now, you know, the middle Eastern Countries are like no way. But for some reason left wing people in this country are like, oh yes, please. That looks fantastic. Yeah. Yeah. Im sorry, i was just going to say its a matter of culture as well. So you rely on immigration needs integration. Yeah. Now i dont have some of the same issues as you do with it. Immigration in that sense. But i do have huge issues when it comes to integration. And there are other places in the world. So for instance, when you look at ukraine, russian war, ukrainians that are coming here have a cultural baseline aligned with europe, aligned with the way we are here in great britain. And the palestinians would be much culturally more at home in, in, in Northern Africa or the middle east somewhere. And people like egypt, as you were saying , another another saying, another another countries, qatar, for instance, theyre not opening their arms. So we are as well. And its always bleeding heart liberals on the left who say, come, come, come. But it doesnt solve any problems. Yeah. And israel, needs workers. Its issued lots of visas to indian workers to come and work in israel. I think if the, if it was safe to bring thousands, tens of thousands of palestinians into the uk, it would also be safe to bring them into israel. And there clearly, you know, not doing just to play devils advocate homes under the hamas. Hamas. Is that a chance. Yeah it is. Yeah im surprised im surprised he didnt go with that instead of homes for hamas. Yeah. Thats why the politician, not a comedian, homes under the hamas is that weve got the sun now and weve been told that the rwanda scheme is cruel, illegal and unworkable i well, 5mm well, now the rest of europe wants to copy it. Jonathan. Yes , indeed. Just remind me, yes, indeed. Just remind me, what story are we on . So this is number eight, eight, eight. Perfect. I knew that, so yeah. Perfect. I knew that, so yeah. So, the headline is boost for rishi is 19 eu countries demand the right to introduce rwanda style migration schemes. So a drive by European Union countries to replicate a rwanda style immigration scheme has sparked delight in downing street. So the heads of 19 Member States have demanded brussels bosses look at offshore processing to help them stem the flow of illegal arrivals. And sunak spokesman said vindication for the flagship rwanda plan. He says i suspect well continue to see some of them follow our lead. Then he did a big, smug smile. Apparently so, yeah. So smile. Apparently so, yeah. So it does seem like other countries are kind of, are following britains lead in this, its not so much about deportation, but its more about the actual processing to be done abroad. Yeah, but yeah, i mean, this scheme obviously has had its many, critics, but it does seem to be a deterrent at the moment, as weve seen with a kind of flock of, migrants going over to ireland. Yeah. Fearing deportation now. Yeah. Its a similar scheme worked very well in australia, although isuppose very well in australia, although i suppose theyve got, you know, theyve got different. Its kind of harder to sail to australia surrounded by massive sharks. Are you talking about when we send all the criminals over or. No no no no no no i thought serious. I was like, great joke. Well, its my joke. Thats what well, its my joke. Thats what you meant. Yeah. This is interesting because all the people who hate rwanda also about the of european flags in their twitter bio, theyll be on there. Therell be a blue sky. It creates a huge paradoxical issue for these people because theyve got to say , everywhere theyve got to say, everywhere in the world is wonderful, particularly africa. Yeah. And then at the same time, theyve also got to say you cant send them to africa. Its terrible. And theyve also got to say britains incredibly racist and is a horrible right wing government. And europe is this paragon of virtue. And now europe wants to be like, of course they caught the racism. Its only a massive issue for those who are divisive about their politics. If you take the issue and remove right and left from it, it is an issue that exists irrespective of which way you vote. This is a problem all across europe and the third, the third country, the third party idea is probably the best thing thats ever been tabled. Because ill tell you for why this safe , ill tell you for why this safe, safe route no one has ever been able to explain how that would work. Yeah, we know how rwanda would work. You get a plane, you stick them on it, you fly them there and they dont come back. There and they dont come back. Now, you might think thats cruel, but it works. It solves the problem. Safe and legal routes. Itsjust the problem. Safe and legal routes. Its just like a water slide straight into the country. Yeah. Come on in. What jobs are good. Were creating, creating an incentive when really we need to be, you know, stopping people gaming the system. Yeah, yeah , gaming the system. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, now thats it for part for this part. But were hosting a night with a headliners live , and you can headliners live, and you can join us for an evening of comedy with andrew doyle, simon evans, josh howie and me. For more information, scan the qr code on your screen right now or visit gbnews. Com then youll find more about it. Anyway, weve made it halfway. Join us in a moment. For welsh farmers beating bureaucrats , electric pulse bureaucrats, electric pulse weapons on the streets of london and harry and meghan deny that welcome back to headliners. Weve got the daily mail now, with ructions in the tory party over rainbow lanyards, grant shapps has come out to support them. Them. Jonathan. Yeah, well, grant shapps famously trained at le clown school , so he wanted clown school, so he wanted something to go with his suspenders. Thats what i heard. Did he. Yeah, yeah, with the jul , look, well let ofcom decide. So cabinet ties itself in knots over ban on rainbow lanyard. So a cabinet split has opened up on Civil Service rainbow lanyards as it emerges that guidance across government will not actually ban officials from wearing them, so esther mcvey , wearing them, so esther mcvey, who was appointed to rishi sunaks cabinet as a minister without portfolio , said recently without portfolio, said recently that staff will be disciplined for having any messaging on their lanyards because youre meant to be impartial. And, you know, thats a form of political activism in a visible way. But activism in a visible way. But grant shapps recently because, well, not because but because the actual guidance says theres no theres no mention of the lanyards, grant shapps has essentially said, i dont care what people, you know, express on their lanyards. He just cares that theyre doing the jobs that theyre meant to do, which is kind of my view. I think. But i mean, the rainbow, the pride flag is a political symbol. You know, if people were Walking Around the and some people are very offended by it, particularly a lot of gay people who feel that the, you know, the Rainbow Movement has been co opted by the tk part of the alphabet. And, and, you know, if alphabet. And, and, you know, if people were Walking Around the hospital with a, you know, a nazi flag or a nazi lanyard , nazi flag or a nazi lanyard, people would be upset. Although, of course, im not suggesting for a moment that nazis are as bad as gender ideologists. No, theyre not, and i think that was a good clarification for ofcom there, leo. But, its interesting, isnt it, because we seem to have forgotten, irrespective of all this naf, naf and trivia , weve forgotten naf and trivia, weve forgotten that Civil Servants are supposed to remain neutral, visibly neutral the whole time. Now, when theyre wandering around the corridors of these dark and dusty places, you could argue that a lanyard isnt going to affect anyone. However in this kind of bubble, we now exist within, and theres this Political Division everywhere , Political Division everywhere, and Civil Servants seem to be at the epicentre of changing policy that they dont like the blob , that they dont like the blob, that they dont like the blob, that them the blob. Exactly. The blob. And it has to be fairly senior Civil Servants because, you know, i was a lowly Civil Servant once and i didnt change anything. Trust me, i didnt have a i didnt have a barely had a lanyard there, never mind. Get to choose whats on it. Exactly. So i think its you know what . Ostensibly, i dont think anyone really cares what they wear on their lanyard. However, that we need to bring it back to Civil Servants. A kind of seen but not heard. Yeah, and it will but not heard. Yeah, and it will do them good. Yeah, it will do them the same way, you know. Police dancing at pride. Yeah, it will just do them good not to do it now, you know, do what you like on a saturday. Yeah. But dunng like on a saturday. Yeah. But during the week 9 to 5, just so its more of an optics thing or you think its an optics thing for me i just think itll help them. I dont know who cares what they believe in. Yeah. Dufing what they believe in. Yeah. During their but their job, theyre being paid to be Civil Servants and theyre supposed to serve everybody without fear or favour. Everybodys equal. So why would you wear a political symbol such as the pride flag that, you know, favours certain groups and also, you know, pushes an ideology thats thats harmful , to certain groups. And harmful, to certain groups. And its also seen as very offensive to, to certain groups. Or we go the other way and you have everything you believe on your lanyard and you have your you have your kinks and stuff or you have everything. I think what the nhs is currently trying to do is making everything out of pride flags. So you cant you wont even nofice so you cant you wont even notice the lanyard. The scrubs are because yeah, yeah , are because yeah, yeah, everything is a kaleidoscope of trans flags. Burning man weve got the independent now and dating app bumble made a little joke about celibacy. I assume everyone took it in good humour. Paul no. Bumble apologises for celebrating celibacy ads. We made a mistake. They say so. It said. You know full well a vow of celibacy is not the answer. Of celibacy is not the answer. It said this on one of its billboards. Now, although the Marketing Team had been aiming for it to be sort of a tongue in cheek provocation, it ultimately didnt land how they wanted. Now didnt land how they wanted. Now thats really important, because the large , vast majority of the large, vast majority of bumble users are si king sort of non celibacy related shenanigans i yeah, they are sick as soon as possible. As possible. Very quickly. Its length has got nothing to do with it. So im id imagine that they would cut to me for that. They just had to mate. I imagine that it was quite a small minority that made the complaint. Whos really getting upset about this . It was quite obviously tongue in cheek from a dating site. You know, i dont know much about these things, but im assuming that its all about hook up culture and, you know, so youre not going to be celibate if youre a part of the hook up culture. Exactly. Yeah. This is i mean, i dont i dont think its for just hooking up. Its also i met my wife. All right. Okay. Thats quite a long a quite a long hook up. But but yeah, the people seem to be stretching to get offended by this. So theyve heard from apparently asexual. The Asexual Community is offended by it because celibacy is a serious part of their identity , people whose identity, people whose reproductive rights are continuously restricted, are upset about it, because celibacy isnt a choice or a celibacy is a choice for them. And, yeah, a choice for them. And, yeah, yeah, for other people, they just want to be celibate, and they dont want it to be the butt of a joke. And its like, oh my god. Like, my oh my god. Like, my grant shapps joke in the previous hey, i wrote up like this is gold. He went to clowns. Literally. Chicken. Literally. Yeah like grant shapps is history. Like his, like weird websites selling, like, really weird weapons. Its been described as weapons. Its been described as pyramid esque, although i understand, you know, weve got are okay people. But yeah, if you look at the websites , i did you look at the websites, i did a, i did a video about it on my Youtube Channel and the very, very amusing alter ego, it was all it was all very funny to, i cant remember what he was selling or if he was selling like some sort of business courses, but i would fully believe that he went to clown school and then clown. Absolutely. Cambridge. I do wish that people wouldnt make perhaps their skin colour or their sexuality the main centre of their identity. Its been of their identity. Its been encouraged. Now there are you know, people my daughters age, 14, 15, their whole life theyve been told that these things are the most important things about you. Yeah. Theyre not. You can go about your sexual life without telling everybody which people used to do. And it was fantastic. And also people used to be judged on their character and their personality rather than what they identified as. Its ridiculous. Anyway, weve got the telegraph now with a victory for welsh farmers over kafkaesque metropolia bureaucrats. Jonathan, well, thank you for assuming that you think i know kafka is. Yeah, brilliant. Thank you. So kafka is. Yeah, brilliant. Thank you. So the Welsh Government forced to postpone eco scheme after farmers protest. So after farmers protest. So a scheme that would force farmers to dedicate 20 of their land to eco measures has been postponed by the Welsh Government after significant backlash. So there was basically this new policy that was being proposed and the welsh farmers did a big old protest against it, and now i think theyve put it back until 2026. So i think they bought themselves some time, but yeah, they were , expected to give they were, expected to give a fifth of their land to i think its rewilding and other eco, kind of things. Its rewilding and other eco, kind of things. But ive watched kind of things. But ive watched a couple of episodes of clarksons farm and from those ive seen, theres very slim margins in farming. Right i dont think you can just give away 20 of your land that easily, and not have it affect the bottom line and stuff, and its nice to, you know, get the bugs back and stuff. But yeah, and also, these rules that are decided around net zero or whatever it is around farming are, are just made up by faceless bureaucrat automatons sitting at desks. Automatons sitting at desks. These Civil Servants, you know, whichever way you look at this, its difficult to deny that. And most green policies, unfortunately for green, people who create policies are nice to have. And because they are just nice to haves, you have to create fear. Otherwise they create fear. Otherwise they otherwise they just stay nice to have some. By fear, i mean you have some. By fear, i mean you have to tell people that the world is burning to death and its all going to happen next week. And youve got, you know, a thumbnail coming out and talking about all sorts of different trivia because shes been told shes been feared into that, and now its her career. Shes got no choice. She i dont know what she could become now. She could possibly become an open mic comedian. She looks like most of them. But as funny as most of them, well, exactly. So they often put the cart before the horse. And thats exactly whats happening farming here. Now, this story does. Of course, thats terrible. If youre trying to plough a field with the cart before the horse. Yeah, its difficult, isnt it . Anywhere and now theyve got tractors, mate. But it doesnt. I dont know what its like in scotland. So to be fair to you, culturally, i dont know what your references are, but take it that to be fair, there is balance within this story. Yeah, because theyre saying, look, we werent we didnt think that wed wed employ this policy. Right now. I think they kind of would like to have done, but theyre saying, no, we need to make theyve got an opportunity and they need to do it at the right time. But of course, its never going to be a right time. If you say to a farmer, youve got 100 acres and we want to give 20 of those acres just to wild woodland, and you cant do anything with it just based on a, you know, a mad whim. That was arrogance to know whats better than the actual farmers for their farms. Yeah, the custodians of the land themselves is ridiculous. Well, hopefully now that the green partys got a narrow focus on supporting hamas, its going to get better. Anyway, weve got the independent now, and harry and meghans charity is in trouble. But they say the check is in the post as a comedian, ive heard that one before. Paul ive heard that one before. Paul, harry and meghans Archewell Charity delinquency row becomes blame game as sussex sources hit back. So we dont know what im talking about. Prince harry and Meghan Markle youve probably heard of them. Archewell foundation was found to be delinquent, which is a word that i dont normally use in this context. Thats my year eight school report. Exactly. Yeah. Because, state officials failed to process a check that was sent on time. Sources close to the couple have fired back now because the foundation have have made this minor error, and it feels like a minor error, and it feels like a minor error, and it feels like a minor error to me. See, they see the i reckon. I reckon they didnt have the money. Who uses checks . When was the last time . Well, this is a great point. Well, this is a great point. One weird gig above a pub in london who still uses. Yeah mine. Besserman, but, but thats why my moment. But the foundations are, you know, because theyve stopped. Theyve told them they cant spend any more money. So of course, accusations are flying around, andifs accusations are flying around, and its difficult to navigate yourself through what is anti harry and meghan. And theres plenty of reasons to be anti harry and meghan. Weve weve espoused lots of them here before. And what is just an before. And what is just an opportunity to have a dig. But it does seem very remiss to get caught on this very basic thing. Caught on this very basic thing. It would suggest that they didnt have the funds available, i cant 100, right . I cant imagine the archewell fund is absolutely flush. Yeah. Who whos whos donating whos donating to these these former royals. Not has gone down quite a lot, but theres only 200 they needed, right. For the i mean , needed, right. For the i mean, we could have bugged him that. Yeah. You know, you think its part of a fundraising drive . They just the people. They just the people. I reckon you get more press by going delinquent and then. Yeah, its very sad story. Yeah, its very sad story. Yeah, its very sad story. I find it very sad because theyre cosplaying their life, arent they . Theyre cosplaying to be royals when they dont want to be royals. Yeah theyre cosplaying to be charitable when really they dont want to be charitable. They just want to be in wherever they are, you know . And theyre not quite hasnt quite worked out for them. Yeah, quite worked out for them. Yeah, they theyre never gaining credibility. And without that credibility. And without that credibility they are sunk. Okay. Well weve just got the final section to go. Weve got hilarious footage of the dublin, new york portal and what to wear on holiday to avoid getting arrested. See welcome back to headliners. Weve got the mirror now with some drunk people trying to see the Northern Lights. Paul yeah. Pals fooled after following Northern Lights in inverted commas, only to discover the glow was a premier inn sign. What . A couple of plonkers two pals were left in stitches after capturing what they thought was a colourful. The colourful Northern Lights display in norwich, only to learn that it was a purple signage from nearby premier inn. This is one of the most norfolk things ive read in in a while. I mean, it is good to hear that electricity has made its way to norwich now, but at the same time this is ridiculous, isnt it . I mean completely, i almost cant believe its true. And i hope its not that it was on tiktok. Ihope its not that it was on tiktok. I hope that they hoaxed it. Because if this is real and ive not seen the footage, i tried to find the footage, but i havent seen it. If this is real, this is not good. I saw i saw photos and it looked it looked real because the light coming from this sign was really purple. It looked like the photos of the Northern Lights. Well, these guys were coming back from their pharmacology balls, so i think they were probably, you know, they were pharmacist up. I imagine some Northern Lights. Yeah, maybe. I mean , im a yeah, maybe. I mean, im a massive fan of the premier inn. I stay in them all the time. I i stay in them all the time. I like the premier inn, premier inn, i like you okay. You know what . You stay for just three hours at a time, though. Yeah. I mean, thats all i need, mate. Im more of a division one hotel. Weve got the telegraph now in peru has classified trans people as mentally ill. What nonsense. Im a trans woman and im absolutely fine. Paul youre absolutely not. Leo, peru. Officially classifies trans people as mentally ill. The Health Ministry said the decree was the only way perus pubuc decree was the only way perus Public Health services could guarantee full coverage of medical attention for Mental Health. Now, there are these spinning. This is. Oh this is a positive thing. Were making sure that trans people can get help. So look, if we take it on face value, people, weve discussed trans ideology until literally the trans cows come home on a regular basis, now , home on a regular basis, now, there are a lot of Mental Health issues surrounding this particular subject. So so it might be a very good way of making sure that the right services are getting to these people. However, peru seems to people. However, peru seems to have a bit of a sort of homophobic , transphobic culture. Homophobic, transphobic culture. And, very conservative. Yeah, very, very conservative. So and its kind of incendiary, isnt it . You know, for all, all we all the views we have about some of the ideology, none of us have an actual issue with trans people and we wouldnt call them mentally ill, but what we would, who we would call mentally ill quite often are the, the activists that, you know, that want to remove the genitals from young children. And it did. I mean, it used to be, classified as a Mental Illness and the i cant remember what the bible of, of psychological terms is, but, i mean , i guess terms is, but, i mean, i guess its about the approach that has the best outcome for the most people. So, you know, if you treat it as a mental, Mental Illness, is it going to result in a better outcome for, for people who identify as trans than, you know, treating, treating them as if they , you treating them as if they, you know, they are right . I mean, i guess you have to take every case on its own merit, you know, based everyone as an individual and kind of decide for them when they say mentally ill are they going are they essentially saying have gender dysphoria or they literally feel like, oh, no, theyre like in a kind of dismissive sense, because i guess that would be a difference. I mean, yeah, yeah, its not clear. And i dont know if somethings lost in translation, but they essentially have just classified all trans people as mentally ill. Okay, well do better. Okay, well do better. Peru. Peru. Peru. Weve got the metro now with a guide to workplace breezes. Jonathan yeah. The headline is want to make passive aggressive phrases more work appropriate. Hr expert reveals how i already hate this person. Okay, so apparently passive aggression isnt the best way to deal with this agreement. Were coming across. Or having a bad and across. Or having a bad and coming across with a bad attitude can stall your Career Development unless you work here, in which case you get your own show, which is fantastic. So its basically telling you to not be snarky. Thats thats all we do here. We just british. We but we dont have hr here. We but we dont have hr here. We but we dont have hr here. We do. Yeah. We put Hr Department nick gibb doesnt really worked is it. Yeah it does. Weve got fantastic each department. This is a massive i think ive got a few i think a few problems i need to write to them about. Yeah. Yeah. Have you been keeping a list. Have you been keeping a list. Yeah i know that was your leg. Almost jill pole. Yeah, but the thing is, metro have told us not to be passive aggressive yet. They got called out on twitter, then they just deleted their twitter account recently. So they are the kings of being, they are the most passive aggressive newspaper, well, lets squeeze this in. In the final minute, weve got the independent and a portal linking dubun independent and a portal linking dublin to new york. Is it to be turned off after people behaved in completely predictable ways . Of course they did. All the mischief thats led to the new york to dublin portal being switched off. Now, weve covered this a couple of times, so hopefully most of you are aware of what were talking about. But there have been twin sculptures fitted with cameras and large screens fitted in each of the two cities, new york and dublin. Last week. And the wholesome aim of building a bridge , for a of building a bridge, for a unhed of building a bridge, for a united planet. But instead , on united planet. But instead, on one case, one dubliner held up a photograph of september 11th, 2001, terror attack, i think it was. I think it was dublin to america, where, rather young lady with buxom breasts, i dont know how you describe them otherwise, but this time of day. But she was jiggling them about, and, paul in that voice and that husky voice. Yeah. Working out what time to leave the show. But the show is nearly over, so lets take another quick look at wednesdays front pages. The daily mail leads with Sex Education to be banned for under nines and no more gender dogma. But whos going to convince the children to be gender queer communists . The telegraph has tories tell police bring back, stop and search. The times has dont teach pupils about gender id schools told the guardian. Id schools told the guardian. Leads with us warns georgia not to side with russia against the west. And we did check they do mean the country georgia not the state in america. The i news has new weight loss job, gold rush offers obesity, hope for millions. You can be fat too and finally, the metro has uks record 3 million food parcels. And those were your front pages. And those were your front pages. And thats all we have time for. Thank you and good night. A brighter outlook with boxt solar , sponsors of weather on. Solar, sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Hi there. Welcome to the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. Low pressure remains close to the uk for the next 24 hours and beyond that means further showers at times, but its not going to be a complete washout. There will be some drier and sunnier interludes. Some places will avoid the showers for long penods avoid the showers for long periods of time. That low pressure is sitting to the southwest. Thats where well southwest. Thats where well continue to see showers feeding into cornwall and devon overnight, but otherwise drying up nicely across northern ireland, wales into the midlands, southern england staying largely dry in the far northeast of scotland. In between areas of cloud. Some outbreaks of rain but some drier interludes as well. Many places under the cloud staying at 12 to 13 celsius but cooler there as we begin the day for northern ireland, for southwest and west scotland, some decent sunny spells first thing, and actually for many places its a bright day. But there will be this zone of cloud and outbreaks of rain from east anglia into the east midlands, Northern England, the far south of scotland, keeping temperatures suppressed and some low cloud hugging the north sea coast of scotland and Northern England. Elsewhere, sunny spells and a few showers and its a similar theme as we begin thursday. This zone of cloud thursday. This zone of cloud edges north into parts of Northern England , southern Northern England, southern scotland and then eventually northern ireland. Either side of that, showers will develop the far north of scotland. The far south of england stays dry and sunny on thursday day. Friday. Further sunny. Spells and showers. Highs of 21 or 22. Looks like things are heating up. Boxt boilers sponsors of up. Boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. The Migration Advisory Committee. Tell the government that if the number of foreign students gets cut, some of our universities could collapse. But, hey, would that really matter . A big summit at downing street today on farming, where rishi sunak tells farmers we are on your side. But has that always been true of this government and have we now found a wonder drug that doesnt just deal with obesity, but actually could reduce Heart Disease as well . Well discuss all of that and how much we trust big pharma and how much we trust big pharma and much, much more after the news with tatiana sanchez. News with tatiana sanchez. Nigel, thank you very much. The top stories this evening. A major manhunt is underway in france after two Prison Guards were shot dead and three others seriously injured during an ambush on a prison convoy. Vehicles were rammed at toll booths on a motorway at anchorvale, in northwest of the country. Images on social media country. Images on social media showed at least two men in balaclavas carrying rifles near an suv that was in flames. Balaclavas carrying rifles near an suv that was in flames. The an suv that was in flames. The car appeared to have been rammed into the front of the prison van. Local media is naming the suspect as Mohammed Amara , whos suspect as Mohammed Amara, whos 30 and reportedly has ties to powerful gangs in the city of marseille in georgia. Huge numbers of riot police have broken up crowds of protesters who believe their nation is on a path to dictatorship. Demonstrators broke through the barriers outside the parliament building, where a controversial law has been passed. The foreign law has been passed. The foreign agents bill puts limits on on media and non governmental organisations, which receive at least a fifth of their funding from abroad. These are the scenes live from tbilisi, where crowds are still gathered outside after clashes with officers. Critics are calling it the russian law and think it will damage aspirations to join