sponsored a bill led our other patron, henry smith mp, to end cages for laying hens called beatrice s bill and he spoke about this only last week at our event in the party conference before a room full of conservative mps and councillors and the deputy pm, dominic raab, and secretary of state, george eustice. so he has been a powerful voice for animal welfare for many years, well, for decades. animal welfare for many years, well, for decades- for decades. lorraine, i m so sorry to interruot. for decades. lorraine, i m so sorry to interrupt, but for decades. lorraine, i m so sorry to interrupt, but we for decades. lorraine, i m so sorry to interrupt, but we have - for decades. lorraine, i m so sorry to interrupt, but we have just - for decades. lorraine, i m so sorry to interrupt, but we have just run l to interrupt, but we have just run out of time. lorraine platt, the founding patron of the conservative animal welfare foundation. thank you. just going to take you to southend an
past week and decades before that for that matter. how good did it feel to watch president biden sign the house bill led by sheila jackson lee that made juneteenth a federal holiday now? well, it was amazing. and, rev, you often preach from the bible the first shall be last, and the last shall be first. this is the last federal holiday. the one before that, of course, was 40-plus years ago when martin luther king day was enacted as a federal holiday. it should have been first certainly in the instance of juneteenth, but things have a way of working themselves out. justice delayed has not been justice denied in this particular instance. and now we have to make sure that in much the same way that martin luther king s holiday, which i often celebrate with you at the house of justice, an amazing annual event, is used to
already seen that with the oil price reaching three highs recently. price reaching three highs recently- price reaching three highs recentl . ., ., , ., recently. your thoughts on financial recently. your thoughts on financial markets - recently. your thoughts on financial markets this i recently. your thoughts on i financial markets this week? we had that inflation number from the us last week, much higher than expected. what likely be like this week for financial markets? markets? certainly the inflation markets? certainly the inflation was markets? certainly the inflation was higher- markets? certainly the i inflation was higher than the economists were expecting but not higher than what the market was expecting. we saw the evaluation of bonds improved after that and that reflected the fact that the investor world was already expecting high inflation and if anything markets probablyjust gently raised this week, particularly led by some of the us technology stocks. bill led by
now calls a huge mistake. but what about the core accusation that the bill led to mass incarceration? well, as this graph shows incarceration had been going up since the 1970s, the biggest jump by far in state prisons thanks to mandatory drug minimums. when joe biden says the bill did not generate mass incarceration he s right in the narrow sense that only 10% of people incarcerated in america served time in federal prisons, but the total number of people in prison did increase overall, impacted a disproportionate number of people from non-white communities. look, donald trump deserves credit for helping push through criminal justice reformulate last year, but he was famously tough on crime in the 1990s, attending a meeting in support of bill clinton s bill and even called for the death penalty for the so-called central park five who were later to be found innocent. none of that stopped him in 2016 from running a super predator ad criticizing hillary clinton designed to decrease africa
we re just trying to get that pushed through. i ve heard you speak on this and passion nall about helping those who continue to live impacted by the toxins of those days following 9/11, firefighters, policemen and women. how will this bill help them? thank you for having me. i m passionate because people are sick and dying. i ve been to 181 funerals. the pain, the struggle. the fight is real. when this went into effect the conversations are now do i put gas in the car or do i put food on the table? do i keep a roof over my head or pay the utilities? this is real and this policy effect is devastating to the 9/11 community. this is a bipartisan bill led by senator gillibrand and gardner from colorado. congress has a sense of urgency. congress has a chance right now. i think congress and the senate need this more than anything to