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Thats as rules ensuring a minimum level of cover in hospitals could be extended to doctors and nurses. Consultants in england are striking for 48 hours today over pay. Junior hours today over pay. Junior doctors will join them tomorrow and theyll all be picketing until friday. The governments facing criticism for its decision to give Avanti West Coast a new long term contract. Coast a new long term contract. The department for transport has announced the train operator will continue to run services on the west coast main line for at least three years as that line runs from london to glasgow through birmingham, liverpool, manchester and edinburgh. And its despite the company having the second worst Performance Records in the country. And as records in the country. And as youve been hearing , the youve been hearing, the Financial Conduct Authority has concluded that theres no evidence that banks close the accounts of customers because of their political views. It their political views. It follows the closure of Nigel Farages account by coots, the gb news presenter revealed that internal memos at the bank deemed his views in consistent with its position as an inclusive organisation. The inclusive organisation. The telegraph says mr farage account wasnt included in the fcas report , with gb news across the report, with gb news across the uk on tv. In your car, on Digital Radio and now on your Smart Speaker by saying play gb news this is britains news. Channel well, it was the Financial Times. It was. Thats the very same paper that broke the story that coots had closed my account because of insufficient funds. Well, they were wrong about that , but the times got the leak of the Financial Conduct Authoritys and they put authoritys report and they put it today on their front page. Fca report finds no evidence of banks closing accounts for political leanings. Well, political leanings. Well, frankly, i didnt know really whether to laugh or to cry. And all of this ahead of the release at midday today of this full fca report, uk payment accounts, access and closures. Now, you would have thought, wouldnt you, that all they had to do was to read that vile 40 page document that coots prepared on me to realise my account had been closed because i did not augn been closed because i did not align with the value of the bank. Yet we learn later on that apparently only my case wasnt included, but aside from that, they discovered that nobody. No, absolutely nobody had had their accounts closed as a result of their views. Well, i could give you a list as long as your arm of people whove been debunked because of their political views and associations. Lets begin, of course, with the founder and organiser of leave dot eu arron banks and andy wigmore. Yes, banks and andy wigmore. Yes, banks and andy wigmore. Yes, banks had his business accounts closed and wigmore has had both his personal and business accounts closed. What about richard tice , now leader of richard tice, now leader of reform uk. 7 richard, richard tice, now leader of reform uk . Richard, who was an mep with the brexit party , has mep with the brexit party, has found himself rejected for loans because of pure political reasons , and that for his reasons, and that for his business, extraordinar chile. Kevin saunders , former boss of kevin saunders, former boss of border force over in calais. Hes had his account closed. He thinks because he appears regularly on gb news grant shapps cabinet minister had his and other family accounts closed. Toby and other family accounts closed. Toby young of the Free Speech Union de banking taken out of the payments system. Paypal and of course, the Reverend Richard fothergill, who objected to the lgbtq propaganda. He was getting from his building society. He only to have his society. He only to have his account closed. What we see today from the fca is a total whitewash. It is a complete and utter farce. But then i guess by asking people who are biased to examine whether there is bias is probably not going to get you much of a result. But whats annoying is this the fca is the most important regulator in this country. Why well, because Financial Services are not just the biggest employer, not just the biggest employer, not just the biggest employer, not just the biggest earner of invisible income from abroad. It is britains biggest industry. And it used to be the jewel in the crown. And many of us believe with brexit, this was the chance for our Financial Sector to really get back to where it ought to be as the leading Global Financial centre. But the fish can rot from the head down and frankly , my view is that the and frankly, my view is that the fca has now become utterly politicised, filled up with people who frankly have no experience of Financial Markets whatsoever. Oh, but theyre very good. Very good indeed at pushing the diversity and inclusion agenda onto our banks , onto our Insurance Companies and onto the whole industry. And onto the whole industry. Now, the response to all of this from Andrew Griffiths, the city minister today simply wasnt good enough. He reiterated that nobody should have their accounts closed for holding a perfectly legal view. Well, yes, but the treasury, the government has real power here and i think we need a complete clean out of these political appointees that are there within the fca. So are there within the fca. So lets start again with people that actually understand finance markets and that come into something and promise an absolute political neutrality. Im asking you , should we sack im asking you, should we sack the regulator or give me your views, make sure theyre clean, please go to farage at gbnews. Com. Well, joining me gb news. Com. Well, joining me down gbnews. Com. Well, joining me down the line is david davis, conservative member of parliament for house and price and howden in yorkshire. David, and howden in yorkshire. David, i was talking about the political ization of the fca and we could go on, i guess , and we could go on, i guess, and talk about the Civil Service just want to show you a couple of pictures of the people that now run the fca. Lets start with the ceo, nikhil rathee, and here he is. He is the ceo of the Financial Conduct Authority. And Financial Conduct Authority. And he and the executive director , he and the executive director, sheldon mills. These are the sheldon mills. These are the two. These are the two most prominent people that run the Financial Conduct Authority. Now ive checked a bit, david, into their backgrounds , but i think their backgrounds, but i think youve done a little bit more work on this than i have. And work on this than i have. And have we politicise used the Financial Market regulator. To well, ill start by saying, nigel, im feeling a bit left out. I was the only person in your list. Im quite jealous your list. Im quite jealous now. The the, the simple truth is , is that either the, the is, is that either the, the agency is too big or incompetent, careless or its doing something to thwart its friends and the establishment. If you talk about politicisation being here is a basically an exercise of the establishment protecting its own. I mean, mr rathee, nikhil rathi , i think if rathee, nikhil rathi, i think if i remember correctly, was private secretary to, uh, gordon brown. He then went on to, to do brown. He then went on to, to do some otherjobs brown. He then went on to, to do some other jobs inside the brown. He then went on to, to do some otherjobs inside the civil some other jobs inside the Civil Service. He then got a job in the london stock exchange. He the london stock exchange. He then came back into system these jobs rotate amongst people who are the london establishment. Are the london establishment. And what youre seeing is the outcome of that. What youre seeing is, oh, well, you know, these are our people. We cant we cant be too critical of them. I mean, it is inconceivable that any professional organisation , one professional organisation, one could look at the facts, the facts with respect to you, where arron banks, all these other people and say, well, theres nothing wrong here, you know, and they very, very carefully designed their terms. They said, designed their terms. They said, well, were only going to look from june 21 to 22, which sort of cuts you out. You know, were only going to look at people who are specifically be removed for their political views as stated by the banks themselves. Well, by the banks themselves. Well, whos going to do that . Its like asking a burglar. Exactly. Exactly. They say to the banks, they say to the banks, have you de banking anybody for political reasons . Banks say no. And reasons . The banks say no. And they say thats okay. Yeah. I mean, its barking mad, frankly. And these are you know, these are not people off the street. I mean, mr rathees paid over half a million a year. You know, his notional salary. I think is about 455. But you had to add the package up. Its over half a million. You know, hes you know, he ought to be able you know, he ought to be able you know, he ought to be able you know, frankly, my country solicitor ought to be able to answer this question. And hes not paid half a million a year. So, you know, these people ought to be on top of their job to be on top of theirjob and theyre and the fact that theyre not. And the fact that theyre not. And the fact that they have failed in this way and frankly are effectively frankly today are effectively admitting they failed. I mean, theyve oh, well, admitting they failed. I mean, the didnt oh, well, admitting they failed. I mean, the didnt do oh, well, admitting they failed. I mean, the didnt do this oh, well, admitting they failed. I mean, the didnt do this and h, well, admitting they failed. I mean, the didnt do this and h, didnt we didnt do this and we didnt do that. And weve got to come back sorry to late. If back to it. Sorry to late. If you and jury, you are the judge and jury, something this , when you Something Like this, when you come out with a conclusion , it come out with a conclusion, it should stand up. It should not be. Well, this is just our view along the way. Is time, david, to so is it time, david, to replace these people with new personnel and to get a regulator that the industry, the country and the world can respect . Well, yes, it is, because several reasons. I mean , this is several reasons. I mean, this is the latest of a series of failures by the fca and fca and its predecessor were used else in the 2008 crisis. They got the whole story wrong in the libor scandal. They basically convicted all the wrong people. And yet again, let off the bosses. I and yet again, let off the bosses. I mean, it was if you look at that scandal, it was the juniors who got sacked. Nobody who was senior knew about it, let alone went to prison. So all of all of the behaviour of the fca and by the way , theyve got fca and by the way, theyve got some quite expert people working for them, but in the lower ranks , with all the behaviour of the fca is that of an organisation who sees its function as propping up the financial establishment. And thats the opposite reason for what its there. So im afraid im a i think i think mr rac has simply his prospects, put it mildly , his prospects, put it mildly, are dim. David davis spoken as ever. Thank you. And i could have thank you. And i could have mentioned but sheldon mills, the executive director, of course, for many years, for many years, worked for stonewall and leads the diversity and inclusion agenda. The diversity and inclusion agenda. Now the diversity and inclusion agenda. Now im now the diversity and inclusion agenda. Now im now joined by agenda. Now im now joined by Royston Smith, member of parliament for southampton , parliament for southampton, itchen royston, just briefly remind us of whats happened to you, mark march april last year i was told that they didnt want to keep tsb, didnt want to keep me in their bank anymore, threw me in their bank anymore, threw me out. Went on for months and months and months. Couldnt get any responses from ceo, robin and months. Couldnt get any responseorfrom ceo, robin and months. Couldnt get any responseor even ceo, robin and months. Couldnt get any responseor even the zeo, robin and months. Couldnt get any responseor even the chairman| and months. Couldnt get any responseor even the chairman of bulloch or even the chairman of the board. Kept my money for the board. Kept my money for months and months months. Months and months and months. You were frozen, werent you . You were frozen, werent you . Frozen. And then i was frozen. And then finally theyve since finally they theyve now since i spoke last time, theyve spoke to you last time, theyve they cheque thats they sent me a cheque and thats all but i put in a all done now. But i put in a request that as did and most request that as you did and most of subject access, subject access anybody can do. Yep, yep. Yep, yep. Yep, yep. And theyve sent me. Its not its not, its not comprehensive. Theres things missing in it which im going to go to them and have and go back to them and have and said, you know, you can the said, you know, you can find the rest that havent sent rest of it that you havent sent already, that bundle already, but half of that bundle is media to where they have been following me in the media to see what ive been saying. Theyve got a bundle , which is mostly got a bundle, which is mostly the controversial stuff as opposed to the things i would say about how wonderful it is. Someones a levels of been good this year and things like i sold my house they put down that id sold it how much id sold it for, how much the profit was. Now that went into my personal account with lloyds had nothing to do tsb, theyve to do with tsb, so theyve been following financial personal following my financial personal finances. Been following finances. Theyve been following me in the media. They refuse to say why they threw me out of their bank. But why do they have a bundle me like that . If a big bundle on me like that . If it for political reasons . It wasnt for political reasons . And well, absolutely. And weve been on to tsb to say youd be back the programme and we got back on the programme and we got this statement. Tsb accounts are reviewed periodical basis reviewed on a periodical basis to ensure that we comply with our regulator we our regulator obligations. We do not comment on individual customer there. You are. Customer cases there. You are. Well, of course i can comment on the individual case because if they were just reviewing my account, my very modest earnings would all been in the register of members interests. Its the easiest thing they could possibly but if theyve possibly follow. But if theyve got oligarch drug runner got an oligarch or a drug runner with a £10 million house in london with no of knowing london with no way of knowing where from , how where that money comes from, how many they thrown many of those have they thrown out . How do out . Well, quite royston, how do you respond when you see the front page of the Financial Times today saying that no one has been debunked for political reasons . Give us your response. Give us your response. Well, its just farcical, isnt its as you said, what isnt it . Its as you said, what do phoned the bank up do they do . Phoned the bank up and anyone and say, have you kicked anyone out . Thanks very out . No, i havent. Thanks very much. On. Mean, much. Well move on. I mean, theyre supposed to be theyre supposed to looking supposed to be looking after us. Theyre supposed to be the regulator. Now, i know im an mp, enough and ugly mp, and im big enough and ugly enough myself. Enough to look after myself. However if they it to me, however if they do it to me, they it anyone else. They will do it to anyone else. And sure now, and im absolutely sure now, knowing that they had a file on you and theyve got a file on me, file on me, theyll have file on hundreds you know, hundreds of people. You know, most mps, most of the most of the mps, most of the outspoken i dont outspoken commentators. I dont know people like matthew le tissier, player tissier, former Football Player laurence like that. Tissier, former Football Player lauretheyve like that. Tissier, former Football Player lauretheyve all like that. Tissier, former Football Player lauretheyve all got like that. Tissier, former Football Player lauretheyve all got files that. I bet theyve all got files on them. Yeah. Initially know when i now, initially know when i broke story of had broke the story of what had happened people like happened to me and people like you came out as it were, as well, you know, i got a great response rishi response from jeremy hunt. Rishi sunak and Andrew Griffith in particular, minister. Particular, the city minister. Yeah. And it was he that said to the fca, look into this investing against this. Now were is more to come were told there is more to come and were just initial and these were just the initial findings. And these were just the initial findings. But andrew and these were just the initial findings. But Andrew Griffith findings. But Andrew Griffith and jeremy hunt have real power here. Yeah real power over the fca. Yeah. Today they havent fca. Yeah. Today they havent chosen to use it. So far and i dont think its the end. I dont think its the the end. I dont think its the end. Ive been speaking to people in government who are absolutely understand and acknowledge the situations that weve put in and how that weve been put in and how that might affect other people. In fact, some people dont want to ask got a ask their banks if theyve got a file them case they upset ask their banks if theyve got a file bank,am case they upset ask their banks if theyve got a file bank, and case they upset ask their banks if theyve got a file bank, and icase they upset ask their banks if theyve got a file bank, and i dont hey upset ask their banks if theyve got a file bank, and i dont thinkpset ask their banks if theyve got a file bank, and i dont think itet the bank, and i dont think it will. You know, thats for will. But, you know, thats for them. I dont think its them. But i dont think its oven them. But i dont think its over. And i think that Andrew Griffiths very helpful. Griffiths has been very helpful. Jeremy made jeremy hunt, you know, made a they being, being said jeremy hunt, you know, made a they not being, being said jeremy hunt, you know, made a they not de banking,aing said jeremy hunt, you know, made a they not de banking, but said jeremy hunt, you know, made a they not de banking, but noti he was not de banking, but not allowed say. He was not de banking, but not all |ts1 say. He was not de banking, but not all |ts1 aay. He was not de banking, but not all |ts1 a bit weak kneed its all a bit weak kneed today. Well, well perhaps, but i think the fca have not think that the fca have not finished yet. Think make finished yet. I think well make sure highlighting it and finished yet. I think well make sthink highlighting it and finished yet. I think well make sthink peopleiighlighting it and finished yet. I think well make sthink peopleiighlight cant and i think people like me can highlight government, highlight it. The government, because i have this big bundle from how they have from tsb showing how they have somebody sat in darkened room from tsb showing how they have ssome dy sat in darkened room from tsb showing how they have s some dy sat i person kened room from tsb showing how they have s some dy sat i person trawling m , some sinister person trawling through to whether through media to see whether ive anything that what ive said anything that what they like. Well youre a they dont like. Well youre a conservative, a brexiteer. Conservative, a brexiteer. Im not surprised at all. Think we should have expected it deserved that was deserved everything that was coming you. Thank you for coming to you. Thank you for coming to you. Thank you for coming finish this coming on. Lets finish this segment. Been pretty coming on. Lets finish this segment. Day been pretty coming on. Lets finish this segment. Day todaeren pretty coming on. Lets finish this segment. Day today. En pretty coming on. Lets finish this segment. Day today. Letsetty angry all day today. Lets finish it on a slightly lighter note. At about 5 00 on the telegraph website, the latest matt cartoon has gone up and i love it. Theres a dog with his arms crossed looking very, very cross and upset. And the owner is speaking to the neighbour and saying, this breed of dog hasnt been banned and but it has been bannedin been banned and but it has been banned in a moment, we head to paris, where, of course, sir keir starmer has been meeting president macron, our political edhon president macron, our Political Editor, Christopher Hope is there. Lets find out whats been going on there today. There. Lets find out whats been going on there today. Are been going on there today. Are we going to become an associate member again eu under member again of the eu under a Labour Government . And what are Labour Government . And what are these to do these gentlemen intend to do about in lampedusa . About the crisis in lampedusa . All of that in a couple of have as a country. Youre listening to gb news radio. Radio. Well some of your responses to my question , should we sack the my question, should we sack the regulator . One viewer says clear them all out. The fcas farcical all out. The fcas farcical judgement over this issue is just further proof that our establishment are packed with blairite. Metropolitan liberals. Blairite. Metropolitan liberals. Couldnt agree with you more. David says, embarrassing beyond belief. This will do untold damage to the citys reputation when the government needs to step in and clear out the pathetic woke incompetent members. David, im with you as well. And that was the point well. And that was the point i was making in my initial monologue. Is probably monologue. This is probably the most the most important regulator in the country. Its britains biggest country. Its britains biggest business. Now lets head to paris and talk to Christopher Hope news Political Editor hope gb news Political Editor whos there tracking. Sir whos been there tracking. Sir Keir Starmers progress with the french press. President macron , french press. President macron, chris hope, what has come out of these talks today in paris . Well well, theyve given each other presents. Nigel with keir starmer, gave president macron an arsenal shirt with macron on the back and 25, which is the number of times hes the 25th french president. In return, he got some cufflinks. So its more about how it looks really. And they got on well. Theres warm chat about the b word did come up , brexit chat about the b word did come up, brexit did chat about the b word did come up , brexit did come up. Chat about the b word did come up, brexit did come up. Nigel and not just britain, but further to that, i asked about did did small boats come up the issue of those unlawful crossings across the channel . No answer. Now keir starmer came here to france with quite strong words. He said that labour will improve our relationship with europe and make brexit work for britain, but further detail on that, we dont have. But it was that, we dont have. But it was interesting, i think that you did see mr starmer with sir keir starmer talking to the french president macron. He could be the pm this time next year. Yeah, im guessing , chris, yeah, im guessing, chris, that one of the reasons was that starmer will say that as Prime Minister , you know, he can talk minister, you know, he can talk to these people all and he can do a deal on the boats. I mean, isnt that what hes going to come back and say . Well, he said he wants to do a deal, doesnt he . With more return policy. But im not sure that the appetite for a full scale reneging of that agreement , nigel, is what the eu want. They are as bruised by the exit brexit drama as we were. What we do know is that the fisheries policy is up for grabs in 2025. The uk is meant to get back control of our waters from the eu. That will be a bargaining chip for the next government if its labour or the tories and getting a better deal maybe on on selling electric cars with batteries into mainland europe. So i think that will be in play. And of course as you, you and i well know, if you start trading off fish quotas again, that will cause absolute misery for lots of communities in britain. Weve been selling out well, weve been selling out the industry for almost the fishing industry for almost 50 afraid. Theyve 50 years. Im afraid. Theyve always bargaining chip always been this bargaining chip ever since day okay. So ever since day one. Okay. So really not much detail then of what has actually come out of these negotiation plans today. But Christopher Hope, a lot of talk about the possibility of us becoming an associate member , becoming an associate member, that talks emerged from from french and german quarters and quarters and of course, thats emerged in brussels, not here, not the talks between mr macron and sir keir starmer. I mean, how it looks. I was talking to a senior cabinet minister, shadow cabinet minister, shadow cabinet minister this week, and they said even if maybe a said that even if maybe a quarter of tory voters look at the images coming from paris onto the news tonight and they think, well, theres someone who i think could support the uk as messages on the world stage. We might give him a chance, but its job done for labour. I think thats theyre trying to show end of this show him at the end of this world dont using world tour. Dont forget using in with justin in canada with with Justin Trudeau in the hague , europol we trudeau in the hague, europol we are seeing an individual here whos trying to impress on gb news viewers and other people who may be sceptical about mr keir starmer that he give him a chance as pm. I guess in some ways hes having he is having success with that, isnt he . That, isnt he . Well, i think so. I mean , i well, i think so. I mean, i think, you know, he does, he seem confident and again, we dont know what was said in the meetings today. I back to the meetings today. I go back to the words that William Hague once said , and rightly so. I think said, and rightly so. I think that the uk needs one government, not two and one at a time. Please not not. I think president macron was aware of that. The meeting was facilitated by the elysee palace. But but i think they recognise is that with a state visit of the king and queen starting this time tomorrow where i am in paris, they cant afford to muddy no, no , afford to muddy waters. No, no, i get all of that. Yeah. As you say, he looks yeah. As you say, he looks confident on the world stage. Goodness knows what he might negotiate with. Macron and the eu as Prime Minister. Final thought, chris. I youre in thought, chris. I know youre in paris , but your ear is always paris, but your ear is always very close to the ground. What a farce. I believe this this fca judgement is. Judgement is. Well, ive been looking closely at this. It looks to me, nigel, you may not agree that theyre looking at very narrow time period, 2022 to 2023. That neatly means that your case is not concluded. I thought the not concluded. I thought the remarks from Andrew Griffiths , remarks from Andrew Griffiths, the city minister, who on this issue has been proved that he can reach across the political divide and support what you be going through as long as, along with many tories and brexiteers, he said today. Clearly there is more to be done to validate date the submissions by banks to and ensure that the fca have thoroughly followed up de banking perspectives. I think the key point here is have they, have they done a prima facia, prima facie look at it and moved on or have they deep dived into the issue . Because in your situation your mortgage is tied up . Its complicated , but up . Its complicated, but theres no question that your political were clearly an political views were clearly an issue for coutts bank. Royston smith, ive yeah. And Royston Smith, ive just had a studio and many, many others. Christopher hope, thank you. Back in london you. See you back in london tomorrow in a moment, im going tomorrow in a moment, im going to tell you how much it costs every day to put up people nearly all young men that cross the English Channel in small dinghies. Its the English Channel in small dinghies. Its eye watering dinghies. Its an eye watering amount. Ill tell you all of that just that in just youre listening to gb news radio. Now radio. Now if i was to tell you what the daily and the annual costs are for putting up these young men, well, 91 young men that cross the English Channel in those dinghies, people would say, oh, hes just making it up. Isnt he . So rather than me telling you, lets ask dr. Mike jones, director of jones, executive director of migration watch. Mike, how much migration watch. Mike, how much is it now costing us on a daily bafis is it now costing us on a daily basis . S to accommodate people basis . S to accommodate people in hotels , bars, private in hotels, bars, private apartments and all the different methods that we use. Its astonishing. Its 8 million a day. Million . 8 million . 8 million . Yes. Has increased from yes. This has increased from 6 increased by a 6 million. Its increased by a third since rishi sunak has come into office. Cost of into into office. The cost of the asylum system per annum is , the asylum system per annum is, as you know, close to 4 billion. Now and rising £4 billion a yeah now and rising £4 billion a year. And this is just the asylum system. Thats without asylum system. Thats without considering the costs of mass legal, economic migration on housing and infrastructure. So housing and infrastructure. So this is just the tip of the iceberg , but imposes a huge iceberg, but imposes a huge burden on the british taxpayer. Yeah. Do we talk enough about how much how much this costs, or do you think generally we theres kind of a reluctance theres a kind of a reluctance to about or will to talk about this or will labour start this maybe labour start to use this maybe as weapon . As a political weapon . We do talk about the costs, but does tend to be focussed but it does tend to be focussed more the asylum system. More on the asylum system. I think we should look more at the immigration system a whole, immigration system as a whole, but this very but obviously this is a very visual phenomenon. You have people in dinghies coming over, theyre being housed in hotels subsidised at the expense of the british taxpayer. And you know, british taxpayer. And you know, we have a cost of living crisis, a housing crisis. We have young a housing crisis. We have young people who cant get onto the property ladder, people paying half their income to live in mouldy shoe boxes. So we had a young guy , a young guy called young guy, a young guy called george, know what he was young guy, a young guy called ge 20,. Know what he was young guy, a young guy called ge 20, perhaps know what he was young guy, a young guy called ge 20, perhaps oan what he was young guy, a young guy called ge 20, perhaps on a what he was young guy, a young guy called ge 20, perhaps on a livet he was young guy, a young guy called ge 20, perhaps on a live showvas 19, 20, perhaps on a live show we did with a Live Audience last thursday up in essex. And he said, look, im a young person. I have to scrimp and and fight for and scrape and fight for everything. Yeah. And course, everything. Yeah. And of course, housing huge cost for housing had a huge cost for young , he and young people, he said. And i just it. Im fairness and just see it. Im fairness and people crossing the channel and being put up this. It is being put up like this. It is a very political issue and very live political issue and professor matthew keeps professor Matthew Goodwin keeps polling this and keeps saying westminster often doesnt want to debate this, but public to debate this, but the public does end in sight does. Is there any end in sight to this from a uk perspective . To this from a uk perspective . I mean, ultimately it comes down to the Supreme Court decision. The only game in which decision. The only game in which will be when close to christmas time and that is to going tell the government whether they can proceed with deportations to rwanda. Essentially, yes. Both rwanda. Essentially, yes. Both Political Parties are united and what needs to be done , you need what needs to be done, you need to destroy the people traffickers. Business model and the Labour Party Want some sort of Exchange Program with the eu , which is very counterproductive. Both the counterproductive. Both the conservative and Labour Party Want to attack the supply chains , but ultimately you need to make it economically irrational for people to enter this country and you need to attack the demand side. And as we saw with demand side. And as we saw with australia and the similar scheme that they had with Papua New Guinea and nauru , you need to guinea and nauru, you need to detain, you need to deport people who come here through irregular means. I dont think either party really have. I mean even if rwanda was to be proved legal, where are we talking about a few hundred people, arent we . Well, it does depend on a number. You need to deport a Critical Mass of people for the scheme to actually work because it needs to be a disincentive. It needs to be a disincentive. You know, if youre talking about small numbers, then its not going to work. It was unclear to me how many rwanda would take. Was 200 . Rwanda would take. Was it 200 . Was it definitely was it 2000 . It definitely wasnt that i do know. Wasnt 20,000. That i do know. And you know, we have to look to what the extra ordinary and whether you use the word invasion, everyone goes mad. But what can you call 200 boats . What can you call double the population of the island arriving in lampedusa over the course of the last weekend . I mean, presumably , if double the mean, presumably, if double the numbers thus far have come into italy, that came in for the whole of last year, some of those people finish up in calais, dunkirk , etcetera, dont calais, dunkirk, etcetera, dont they . Yes and its not just lampedusa. And its not just lampedusa. There are various gateways into europe, around greece and the spanish islands, even the balkans as but you know, ultimately the eu has tried to kick this into the long grass. They need to scale up frontex. They need to scale up frontex. They need to scale up frontex. They need to protect their borders. They need a Critical Mass of boats. Theyre to patrol their waterways. Their waterways. But that only works if you stop the boats from coming in. Yes, some evidence i mean, some evidence that the greeks have done push back and have said, no, youre not coming in. I didnt see much appetite from ursula von der leyen to actually do this. It would seem this is becoming across europe perhaps the most Divisive Political issue of the lot. It is the ironic thing. The eu actually has a bilateral deal with tunisia , which includes with tunisia, which includes a returns policy. So why arent they enacting it . But but it is very divisive because the eu has to make a decision. Very divisive because the eu has to make a decision. Is it a globalist organisation that wants to benefit human city as a whole, or is it a sort of continentalist Supranational Group that tries to benefit european citizens . And there are huge divisions there. Yeah, i saw the former president of germany saying, hey, weve got to put a number on this, enoughs enough. Weve on this, enoughs enough. Weve got hungary, poland saying no more. Weve even got the swedish democrats in Coalition Government in sweden saying no more. And it looks as though the south could be completely swamped. Swamped. Yes. And it could potentially yes. And it could potentially tear the European Union apart. I cant imagine the hungarians or the poles or even the french are very happy about this situation. And you know, its an existential crisis for the eu, essentially , and theyve got to essentially, and theyve got to make their mind up. Do they police their external borders or do they absorb these people and. Well, i warn them, mike, i warned them back in 2015 that if you allowed people just to set foot on soil , you allowed people just to set foot on soil, having crossed the mediterranean, if they could stay , i said many millions would stay, i said many millions would come. And last night on this come. And last night on this programme i was challenged. I was speaking to an italian journalist. What i said, well, if we go down this route, many millions more will come. She millions more will come. And she said, well, nigel, not millions. Well, did some homework today well, i did some homework today on that speech i gave on this since that speech i gave in the european. Parliament at in the european. Parliament at 4. 7, 1 Million People have claimed asylum somewhere in the European Union and it will be 4. 7 million more unless something is done. Mike, final thought. Heading up to our general election , its not that general election, its not that far away. Can we see clearly far away. Can we see clearly that this will be a big issue . That this will be a big issue . Yeah, i think the conservative party are hoping that the election becomes a referendum on the rwanda plan and i think the labour party have made a rod for their own back on this because if it does work, if the deterrent effect does actually take place. Keir does actually take place. Keir keir starmer has the option either to stick with his policy or backtrack and it was his first big policy announcement and it seemed within 72 hours he was having to contradict himself as to whether wed be part of the eu quota scheme for people coming in to lampedusa. It didnt go well for him, did it . No, didnt, because the no, it didnt, because the labour promised us a labour party promised us a returns policy. You know , a returns policy. You know, a bilateral agreement. Yeah, but this isnt a returns policy. Its an Exchange Programme. Its like the erasmus scheme. But for illegal economic migrants and you know, its just going to increase the pull factor. Yeah. How ironic that the yeah. How ironic that the conservatives , having failed so conservatives, having failed so completely thus far on the channel completely thus far on the channel, could find it to be an election . Perhaps not maybe not winning, but an election advantage issue. Mike jones, thank you for joining advantage issue. Mike jones, thank you forjoining us here in the studio on gb news. Is now the studio on gb news. Is now the what the farage moment is engush the what the farage moment is english cricket. I mean , its english cricket. I mean, its going so well, isnt it . Weve got the world cup coming up next month. We are the defending holders of that 50 over competition trophy. We would competition trophy. We would have beaten australia had it not been for the awful weather up at old trafford in manchester and generally generally , cricket, generally generally, cricket, mens cricket , generally generally, cricket, mens cricket, womens generally generally, cricket, mens cricket , womens cricket mens cricket, womens cricket is going pretty well in this country, but its not going well enough for the english and Wales Cricket board who have decided they will now spend £5 million that could have been spent elsewhere in Youth Development or whatever else it may be. No, no, no, it will be spent on diversity training because theyve discovered that we have a structural and institutional racism, sexism and class based discrimination , and it continues discrimination, and it continues to exist across the game and every professional cricketer will have to undergo this training, but nobody stands up and says, no, i dont want to do this. They will no doubt lose their contracts with their counties , their clubs or indeed counties, their clubs or indeed with england. And so nobody will say a word as the new tyranny is imposed and as people who are white, middle class cricketers are told what dreadful human beings they are, its quite extraordinary. In beings they are, its quite extraordinary. In a moment, a tale about a cyclist. Yes, a cyclist who. Had 36,000 quids cyclist who. Had 36,000 quids worth of bikes nicked and managed through his own investigative work to recover the whole lot. It did come at a bit of a cost, but hes got his bikes back and he did it without the help of the police. Are the lessons perhaps important lessons perhaps important lessons we can learn from damien groves in just a moment damien groves is a professional cyclist from stoke on trent, who suffered well, id call it a pretty deep misfortune, but he managed to rectify the situation. And its just nice occasionally to have an uplifting and positive story on gb news and elsewhere. And damien joins me in the studio now. Welcome to the programme. Yeah, so the story, as i understand it, is you had bicycles in your shed valued at 36 grand. Yeah. How the bloomin hell by cycle cost was it three bikes, four for four total. Its just the way it is now. Like with as with all sports, its grown bikes more expensive than ever. They range from £500 to £15,000. If youre depending on where youre at. Yeah, yeah, yeah , right. Yeah, right. Riley, i honestly had no idea they cost this much. So what happens, damien . You wake up one morning and theyre gone. Wake a phone yeah. Wake up to a phone call. We were actually away competing, woke to competing, so i woke up to a phone call to say theyd been stolen. And the thing stolen. And the usual thing police came went Forward Police came out, went forward from there. Not a lot happened. From there. Not a lot happened. Probably 3 or 4 weeks went by and i just couldnt let it go. So i hired a private investigator myself. Okay and not and to be honest, we didnt get a great deal of success there at first. As good as the guys at fort brave are and then somebody on instagram messaged me a link saying, i think ive seen your bikes for sale on this poush seen your bikes for sale on this polish website. So i gave this information to the police and my private investigator and the ri. Private investigator and the pi. Just acted much faster. And p. I. Just acted much faster. And but also at the same time, the police i was passed back and forth between staffordshire and Leicestershire Police because one said they couldnt act without the other. And all this sort of tape and eventually it amounted to they said that my evidence that the pi had given was the private investigator had given was circum stantial. So they closed the case and even though it was the pcos that were dealing with me, even they agreed it was blindingly obvious. So the police are out. Theyve done their bit as they see it, but you dont give up. No, no, no. And i met with. Me and my private investigator. Then had a chat about what next, if anything, and we just agreed that the last chance saloon was sort of confront this individual via like the channels of contact wed established and just say, give us the bikes back or were going to the police. Obviously sort of calling his bluff banking. He didnt know. And it came but the came good really. But the downside to that was the bikes were in poland. And so were already in poland. And so i was given choice. Then id was given this choice. Then id either to week for either got to wait a week for them back from poland or them to come back from poland or or pay for professionals to or pay for some professionals to collect them in poland. So i didnt want to let it fester and maybe let this guy think about how to get out of it. So i agreed to the guys in poland doing collection and then doing the collection and then had somebody in poland purchase the , see . So we think, the bikes, see . So we think, yeah, there was a bit of conversation with the seller. He obviously wasnt aware and the advert seemed to come down quickly oh no, quickly and he was like, oh no, this now. Felt that this sold now. So we felt that time was of the essence as well. So it was very much like act now, get them back. And then once theyd actually been handed backit once theyd actually been handed back it went, it was bizarre because all of a sudden its like, yes, ive got my bikes. They with somebody i trust. And they with somebody i trust. And then quickly it was like, then very quickly it was like, how get them home from how do we get them home from poland . It just it, poland . Yeah and it just it, yeah, its bizarre as it sounds, it was quick. Its the most efficient and cheapest to drive there. So we got some pictures there. So we got some pictures of all of this going on. I think im going to show on the screen. So in the end, the screen. And so in the end, they were transported back by van end, me and my van or in the end, me and my friend drove middle of friend drove to the middle of poland , signed some paperwork, poland, signed some paperwork, did collection and drove did a collection and drove straight no aggro , no straight back. No aggro, no difficulties, nothing whatsoever , because people they , because the people knew they were. Were stolen. People knew they the people that knew they were had handed them to my. Yeah, yeah. And i dont know, you wouldnt call them employees but the guys that id hired, i wonder how many people who suffer from a serious burglary. Yeah, actually get their goods back. I bet it has a percentage. I bet its not that many. What what did all of this cost you . Six . Well, 5000, 900 and somewhat pounds. Pretty much 6000. So £6,000 to get your bikes back. Yeah £6,000. £6,000. Were the bikes insured to. I thought were insured. But my Insurance Company werent going to honour that because they were they came to me via a sponsor and in the small print i didnt realise until this point that anything gifted via a sponsor insurer , gifted via a sponsor insurer, once companies deem as the sponsors responsibility to replace. But im guessing given the level of bike theft and the ease of bike theft and i dont know the answer to this. Yeah im guessing bike insurance for very high end bikes is going to be very expensive. Expensive. To go up massively its going to go up massively because its just massive because its just been a massive business this year. You know, we compete still and in every weekend more and more expense bikes go missing and paying for and people are left paying for bikes they dont own anymore. Insurance and and the insurance and the insurance premiums the insurance premiums go up. The insurance premiums go up. The ins|sometimes they pay out. Im sometimes they pay out. Im guessing. Sometimes they dont. Well, your stories ended well, but it still cost you a lot of money. Yeah yeah. Perhaps youre incredibly well off, damian. I youre incredibly well off, damian. I dont youre incredibly well off, damian. I dont know. Damian. I dont know. Not at all. Im a working class man. Its all on credit. This is all on the. This is all on the. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Lets just sort of think a little bit about the role of the police in this. You had good police in this. You had good intelligence that was stolen. Bikes were somewhere in the next county. Yeah, of leicestershire. Clearly, that was very good intelligence. Yeah and the intelligence. Yeah and the police didnt have the resources, didnt have the time , couldnt be bothered. Where do we sit with this . We sit with this . Um, i, i dont, i dont think its that they couldnt be bothered. I think that the person who was asked to issue a warrant at Leicester Police probably opened an email saw stolen mountain bikes matching fence panels and just said we havent got time for this and closed it. Didnt look at the finer details, didnt give it the time it deserved and just shut the case on me. And both pcos in staffs on me. And both pcos in staffs and leicester both agreed this was solid evidence that warranted an emergency warrant. Warranted an emergency warrant. How does that leave you feeling about the police . Damian frustrated, to say the least. Least. I really wasnt happy when i phoned my pco back and said like , you know, youre leaving me no choice. Other than i feel like going home. And to be blunt, i actually said to him, i feel like going home and putting me out in the oven over it. But you leave me no choice. I cant. Im going to have to do something myself, which was never going to be like other than what be anything like other than what i so you went poland . So you went to poland . So you went to poland . Yeah. You didnt know what you to confront . You you were going to confront . You might have into violent might have walked into a violent or dangerous situation. Or dangerous situation. I was confident that i wasnt. But yeah, the potential for that. But like i say, the company that i worked with thought brave. Id put my ultimate utmost trust in them and, and they were adamant that i was going into a safe situation to get get it back. Now that youve done all of this. Yeah gone to this effort and used you now some well done you for doing you written back doing it. Have you written back to say, look, if to the police to say, look, if i was to recover these bikes, was able to recover these bikes, why couldnt you . A lengthy ive had a lengthy conversation i forget his conversation with i forget his rank now, but with with a higher officer at staffs police. And he officer at staffs police. And he basically just said its red tape. The system doesnt allow for them, doesnt allow the officer on the ground to just be like, yep, thats solid, go and do this. They have to. Then present a case and jump through all these hoops before they got permission to act. I try on this i mean, i try on this program, damian, to be as pro police as i can because i think theyve got a rotten bloomin job. I dont agree with everything they do. I just wonder this they do. I just wonder in this case well be me that case it could well be me that they have so many thefts to deal with, many home thefts to with, so many home thefts to deal with bike thefts to deal with. Let alone, you know, whats happening with drugs, gangsin whats happening with drugs, gangs in stoke on trent or. Yeah violence or maybe theyre just overwhelmed. Overwhelmed. Yeah i think i think theyre overworked and underpaid, to be blunt. Do you really. Yeah. 100. Blunt. Do you really. Yeah. 100. Yeah my. My partner, she was a no business. Theres no theres frustration, but theres no bitterness. My bitterness and frustration is with the system that they have to adhere to. But that doesnt change the fact that they are like i say, my partner was a Police Officer until about 18 months ago. I can vouch for how overworked and underpaid she was firsthand. Yeah, well, she didnt stick it. So to say, in many so i have to say, in many ways, damian groves is an inspiring story. Would you recommend to other people who suffered serious theft hiring a private investigator . Suffered serious theft hiring a pri\yeah,vestigator . Suffered serious theft hiring a pri\yeah, 100. Gator . Suffered serious theft hiring a pri\yeah, 100. Iftor . Suffered serious theft hiring a pri\yeah, 100. If you. Yeah yeah, yeah, 100. If you. Yeah yeah, id do it all again. Well, youve done it once successfully. I hope you never successfully. I hope you never have to do it again. Yeah me too. Thank you for coming on too. But thank you for coming on and sharing the story. Great stuff. Well there we are. There is some good news out there. He managed to get 36 grands worth of bikes back and well done him. It couple of bob. Now it cost him a couple of bob. Now im joined by Jacob Rees Mogg. Jacob, i just you know, i woke up this morning to see the front page of the Financial Times and thought you must be having a laugh. Royston smith on laugh. We had Royston Smith on the , right . Yes. Earlier the program, right . Yes. Earlier on, conservative member of parliament. Very man of hampton. Very good man of hampton. Very good man of hampton. I mean , you know, when he got i mean, you know, when he got his access request back his subject access request back from , i mean, theyd from the tsb, i mean, theyd virtually been tracking him as if was a foreign spy. What if he was a foreign spy. What the fca said today , doesnt that the fca said today, doesnt that damage the reputation of our financial regulator . And bear in mind of the world, the fca leaked its opinion in favour of the chief executive of coutts before went. Before she went. Yes. The fca has been behind a lot of this woke agenda , been a lot of this woke agenda, been enforcing it on people. They are enforcing it on people. They are wokeness personified and then they come up with a nonsense report that conveniently says you were out of scope. So the most important, most high profile case of de banking for political reasons of a bank trying to shut down freedom of speech , the useless, incompetent speech, the useless, incompetent , failing fca doesnt have in scope, and it is current the organisation with the power to make banks behave properly if they do de banking people for political reasons. And i just dont think thats good enough. We need legislation that actually ensures that this is above some failed regulator and it matters. It matters. It matters the world stage it matters on the world stage as well. You know, Financial Markets, the city of london was once the jewel in crown. Once the jewel in the crown. Should we sack these politicised administrators of the fca . Should the fca just looks a laughing stock, im afraid andrew run very Andrew Bailey didnt run it very well in charge. It well when he was in charge. It didnt and what happened . Didnt work. And what happened . He promoted. So if youre an he got promoted. So if youre an incompetent running the you incompetent running the fca, you probably think youre in probably think youre next in line to come. Your salary goes through the roof rest of it. Roof and all the rest of it. Well, im smiling, ive been well, im smiling, but ive been pretty fuming about i understandably, absolutely understandably, its absolutely outrageous understandably, its absolutely outrage sos understandably, its absolutely outrageso stupid understandably, its absolutely outrage so stupid that understandably, its absolutely outrageso stupid that it will its so stupid that it will make people realise the report is worthless. Its crackers. Lets see what its crackers. Lets see what the weather is. Maybe thatll cheer us up a little bit. The is rising boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Hello again, im alex burkill and welcome to your latest gb news weather update brought to you by the met office. We do have some further wet and perhaps thundery weather on the way some strong winds to way with some strong winds to the a very tightly the isobars, a very tightly packed at the moment which just illustrates that it is so blustery , so windy the moment blustery, so windy at the moment and pressure arriving, and low pressure arriving, bringing further wet bringing some further wet weather to many parts as well as weather to many parts as well as we go through the end of today. And overnight, we are going to have some heavy of rain, have some heavy bursts of rain, particularly parts particularly across parts of scotland. A warning in scotland. There is a warning in force and some further scotland. There is a warning in force rainfall. Some further scotland. There is a warning in force rainfall. Partssome further scotland. There is a warning in force rainfall. Parts ofne further scotland. There is a warning in force rainfall. Parts of westerner heavy rainfall. Parts of western england and wales also are warning in force here. Temperatures well , it temperatures for many well, it is going to be a mild start on wednesday morning, may wednesday morning, though it may not of the not feel it because of the unsettled weather. A band of not feel it because of the unsethen weather. A band of not feel it because of the unsethen iseather. A band of not feel it because of the unsethen is going. A band of not feel it because of the unsethen is going tox band of not feel it because of the unsethen is going to pushi of not feel it because of the unsethen is going to push its rain then is going to push its way parts of way eastwards across parts of england and particular england and wales in particular with heavy bursts as we go with some heavy bursts as we go through the day. Reaching parts of south east into the of the south east into the afternoon, some skies afternoon, some brighter skies across parts of scotland and northern ireland, but also a feed of showers coming in. And some these could heavy and some of these could be heavy and thundery temperatures should just to highs of just about get to highs of around celsius in the around 20 celsius in the south east. But in the wind and the rain, its not going to feel as that. That rain will as warm as that. That rain will eventually as eventually clear through as we go wednesday night go through wednesday night into thursday. So a brighter start for places on thursday. But for many places on thursday. But again, are going to see again, we are going to see plenty of showers and also some heavy showery feeding into heavy showery rain feeding into western of scotland in western parts of scotland in particular with the risk of some thunder. Particular with the risk of some thunder. There will be some further unsettled weather through the end of week, but through the end of the week, but perhaps a bit drier to perhaps something a bit drier to start saturday. Temperatures rising, boxt the temperatures rising, boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Hello, good evening. Its me, Jacob Rees Mogg on state of the nation. Tonight what does Russell Brand tell us about our society and culture . Well, its not been found guilty, but the metropolitan police is currently considering the allegations made against him. But whether legal or not, its not the question. Or not, its not the question. Its clear his behaviour was indulged. Is this all a product of the 1960s when we abandoned our traditional absolute moral values . Thousands of jobs are at values . Thousands of jobs are at stake in the British Steel industry as the government invests £500 million in the port talbot steelworks. But what talbot steelworks. But what could be behind this threat to the industry . Surely it couldnt be yet another case of net zero regulation as debilitating domestic production. The domestic production. The Financial Conduct Authority has claimed in a new report that no politician, the fca , has claimed politician, the fca, has claimed in a report that no politician has been de banking because of his or her political beliefs in spite of all the evidence from nigel farage subject access request. But the report it conducted didnt even cover nigels case. And it seems this is nothing more than a whitewash. And the National Health service braces itself for what could be the worst strike yet. Doctors and consultants have taken the cruel decision to coordinate their disengagement of collective inaction. The nhs faces record waiting lists exacerbated by the hundreds of thousands of appointments cancelled by these terrible strikes. A state of the nation strikes. A state of the nation starts now , so