This is breakfast on gb news. Like a nice ice cream on a lovely, hot afternoon , dont lovely, hot afternoon, dont you . Yeah. Your favourite. You . Yeah. Your favourite. Well, this list in the mail there. Every single thing on there. Every single thing on their end i adore. This brings back my entire childhood. Well, thats right. I mean a lot of ice creams have been around for a long time because they a very faithful they get a very faithful audience, apparently audience, dont they . Apparently number one in the top ten at the moment is i dont know, the moment is one i dont know, the screwball. Screwball. Well, screwball is well, the screwball is fantastic. A plastic cone fantastic. Its a plastic cone with bubble. The bottom. With a bubble. Go in the bottom. They a whip into it and then they put a whip into it and then its got either raspberry sauce or fluorescent blue or the fluorescent blue bubblegum or the fluorescent blue bubiaagum or the fluorescent blue bubia spoon. Fantastic. And a spoon. Fantastic. Bubble gums. Fluorescent blue bubble gums. Yeah. Lovely you presumably have to get from an ice cream to get that from an ice cream man, to get that from an ice cream ma yeah, from whippy. Yeah, from mr whippy. From the van. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. The uke yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. The like getting the one i used to like getting from van was an oyster. Oh from the van was an oyster. Oh yeah. That was, again, the yeah. And that was, again, the cnspy yeah. And that was, again, the crispy sort of oyster like shape opened up. Opened yeah. And opened up. Opened up . Yeah. And it a squadron of marshmallow it had a squadron of marshmallow in there. And then ice cream as well. Yeah. And all the, all the sauce, all the hundreds and thousands. All the, all all thousands. All the, all the, all the flakes of nut. And talking of hundreds yeah. And talking of hundreds and used to love and thousands i used to love one. Dont know whether see one. I dont know whether we see any called fab. Any more called fab. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Its, its know a lolly its, its you know a lolly on a stick its covered in on a stick but its covered in hundreds thousands because hundreds and thousands because when was in australia when i was in australia expecting baby number two, i had an crush them. I had an absolute crush on them. I had to eat, you know, several a day. In australia , yeah,. And in australia, yeah, theyre not, they werent called fabs, they were called gay times, gay times , gay times. Yeah. Yeah , yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I know the gay times. I know the gay times. I know the gay times. I dont know whether theyre called gay times anymore. Well but if youre, if you know australia actually if youre watching australia. Gday watching from australia. Gday and still get gay and yeah. Do you still get gay times. Hang on you do. Oh yeah. Yeah. Look its name has survived intact regardless or perhaps because of the possible connection to the homosexual in modern decades. So if it developed a cult following because of its name, whereas probably you expect it to be cancelled, yes. You would have expected that to have been rethought. You know, i dont know makes know, i dont know who makes them, whether was walls or them, whether it was walls or nestle somebody, but. Yeah, nestle or somebody, but. Yeah, but it was so funny because i was always going out buying was always going out and buying gay they were so gay times and they were so lovely that was nice. When lovely so that was nice. When fab still are. But the top ten fab still are. But the top ten list is screwball. Funny feet. List is screwball. Funny feet. Oh yeah, lovely feet, shapes i yes. Calippo shots which are useful arent they in the tube. Exactly orange made brilliant. Yeah. Perfect. Textbook. Yeah. Perfect. Textbook. Yeah. Perfect. Textbook. The myvi. Another favourite because thats the one. Thats ice thats ice cream on ice cream. Thats ice cream on the isnt it . Thats the inside, isnt it . Thats right. Bobbly. Right. Yeah knobbly bobbly. Which heard of before. Which i havent heard of before. So thats why you a fan. So thats why you be a fan. But the hundreds and but with the hundreds and thousands way to the hilt. Oh, right. I think. Oh, right. I think. Then theres a zoom, which was the rocket shape. Yeah, yeah, sparkles. Yeah yeah, yeah. Sparkles. Yeah presumably something sparkly. All over it. A pizzazz, which i dont know. Ive heard that one. And then solero shots. And then solero shots. Solero shots. Solero shots. Yeah, i would add to that list. All favourite was list. My all time favourite was the dracula. Remember the the count dracula. Remember the count black count dracula . It was black on the outside and a blood red the outside and had a blood red middle and had had count middle and it had had count dracula the label and we dracula on the label and we couldnt to get one of them. They still make those . No, probably not. When Ice Cream Van but when the Ice Cream Van came down, the road, what . That noise . Just the. The embodiment of childhood. Noise . Just the. The embodiment of get hildhood. Noise . Just the. The embodiment of get hil ofod. Noise . Just the. The embodiment of get hil of Ice Cream Van. Get rid of Ice Cream Van. Yeah. The heatwave is the joy of yeah, absolutely. Of it. Yeah, absolutely. You real sense of it gives you a real sense of nostalgia. And as was saying, nostalgia. And as i was saying, a lot these favourites go a lot of these favourites go back the because back right to the 70s because they were always established favourites that came out every year comes out gaytime year gaytime comes out gaytime hasnt fashion. Hasnt gone out of fashion. And let me know in australia how theyre selling the gaytime whether golden gaytime whether its a golden gaytime which nutty one. Which looks like a nutty one. Yeah, the, real, the yeah, but the, the real, the real proper gaytime was just covered hundreds covered in hundreds and thousands only top thousands. Only at the top i think. Oh and it had coconutty. Oh im getting nostalgic now. It does make you very nostalgic, doesnt of those doesnt it . Thinking of those childhood if you treated childhood treats. If you treated yourself to an ice cream yesterday or youre going to this afternoon, what was it . Let us know. Gb views at gbnews. Com. Let us know if you enjoyed some gaytime yesterday. Yeah okay. Now taxpayers are set to spend £5 million on a think tank to promote social justice and this has been condemned as shameful by a conservative peer. Yeah. Uk research and innovation a quango funded by your taxes announced a new Programme Responsible for diversifying the Research Community. Lord moylan has criticised the government for wasting public money to promote a left wing project. And i suppose you would think wouldnt you, is now the time to be spending millions on a think tank . Lets speak now to kevin tank . Lets speak now to Kevin Schofield , Political Editor at schofield, Political Editor at huffpost uk. Hello there, kevin. Its do you remember when was it George Osborne said he was going to have a bonfire of the quangos . Yes, thats right. And managed to an awful lot of money in to save an awful lot of money in doing so. So do you get this feeling that were going backwards going see backwards and were going to see more think that more of these . Think tanks that sort maybe we are a lot of sort of maybe we are a lot of hot air and not necessarily mean . Wish i had a pound for every time. Uh politician coming into government has pledged a bonfire of the quangos. Its a very easy thing to say, but i think they find it when they get into power that these bodies are actually quite useful in many ways. They can even set up their own quangos to pursue research into policies which they actually support. So its a very easy thing to say. I think, when youre on the campaign trail that youre going to cut waste because its easier than saying that youre going to put up taxes in order to free up extra funding. I mean, if you look at this one particular, the no. This one in particular, the no. £5 million sounds like a lot, but overall government but the overall government budget £i. 2 trillion. So its budget is £i. 2 trillion. So its a bit of a drop in the ocean. And as far as i can tell from the story , the work it will be the story, the work it will be carrying out i think is just to look at how government and policies and legislation is impacts on members of the public, which, you know, think its probably a good idea to have this type of Research Done in advance rather than on bad law being made, which then you have to change further down the line. You know , i think , kevin line. You know, i think, kevin and there are two things. First of all, when George Osborne, when the Coalition Government came in, in 2010, they promised a bonfire of the quangos. You remember 500 million quids worth of savings, half a billion. So yeah, £5 million in isolation may not be a lot when you add them all up. It really is a flipping lot. And secondly, none of them really achieved very much, do they . For example . There was one example . Well, there was one called the school food trust, set up inspired by the jamie oliver tv show into school dinners. Didnt change dinners. But that didnt change anything gangmasters anything. The Gangmasters Licencing Authority set up in woke of the Morecambe Bay disaster with the cockle because that also didnt achieve anything. A lot of these things are set up because it makes are set up because they it makes government like theyre government seem like theyre doing something but actually it achieves very little. And i guess question is the guess the second question is the timing. Can we afford to start timing. Can we afford to start spending millions and millions of pounds on these sink times at a time where were all struggling to pay our bills . No struggling to pay our bills . No youre right. And i do. Well remember George Osborne saying, remember other politicians saying in the in the past as well as, say, its a very easy pledge to make cause because you can say, well, look, we need money for this particular project or this particular project or this particular policy. We were not particular policy. We were not going to put your taxes up in order to pay for it, but well just get rid of these quangos over here. But what you find is a lot of times is, yeah, they do get rid of some quangos, but other quangos pop up to other quangos just pop up to replace them. And numerically , replace them. And numerically, at least, i mean a lot of this Research Goes on behind the scenes and people, you know, unless journalists write stories about them, then you dont actually know theyre actually know what theyre doing. Mean , Civil Servants, doing. I mean, Civil Servants, its part of their job is to keep an eye on this, on this type of thing and make sure that the is not being wasted. The money is not being wasted. I daresay theres a lot of quangos currently carrying out work that the government of. The government would prove of. Um, but you know, you just you do wonder whether now is the time, you know, when , as you time, you know, when, as you say, there is a cost of living crisis. The money could be better spent elsewhere. That being said, i will just go back to what i said earlier, that it is relatively speaking, a relatively small amount of money. I suppose when governments i suppose when governments set up these tanks, set up these think tanks, quangos , what were they quasi quangos, what were they quasi autonomous non Governmental Organisations , foundations, yeah. When governments set them up, isnt it . It possibly a very convenient way of just ticking a box and saying, all right, well were investigating this because weve got a team of people onto it. But i mean, this one has been described as its going to focus brexit and climate to focus on brexit and climate to change demonstrate how intersectional reality and multi layered exclusion impact britain and so on. I mean, i dont understand that. And ive read it several times does i mean , exactly. Doesnt it just mean, exactly. Doesnt it just end up as being jobs for the boys and quite well paid jobs for the boys and just a box ticking exercise as well . Potentially. But then if you look further down the story, it does say that the board of this quango, there are vacancies on the board and theres a suggestion that the government might want to ensure that the new Board Members are more in tune, shall we say, with the governments own particular agenda. So governments own particular agenda. So that may be something thatis agenda. So that may be something that is going to be addressed. And but as i say, yeah, quangos , there are a lot of them and people might baulk at the cost of them. They do actually by and large carry out quite an important function because it allows the Civil Servant to bnngin allows the Civil Servant to bring in experts in a particular area to carry out research that perhaps the Civil Service itself doesnt have the manpower or the expertise to carry out. So as i say, its um, i think to attack quangosin say, its um, i think to attack quangos in general would be a little bit unfair because as i said, there are quite a lot of them carry out good important work, which im sure the government would well approve of. But dont you think, though, that these things often set out to something which they to prove something which they want to give data on for, for want to give us data on for, for example , the government can example, the government can easily headlines about air easily make headlines about air quality impacting certain communities, which can then be used as a vehicle for taxation. An it can be used as a way of kind of getting us into an increased tax burden. So quangos do have a purpose. Yes. And they do have a purpose. Yes. And they generally arent good for the taxpayer. We got a different taxpayer. We got a different guessin taxpayer. We got a different guess in the box there. Indeed, i think weve got a slight problem there which well try and remedy. Im presuming thats roy liley. Oh, no, youve come back. Come back. Heres kev. Come back. Heres kev. Come back. Kevins come back. Kevins come back. Did you hear the question, kev . Did . Yes. Did . Yes. Yes. Yeah. So . So basically all us in some quangos, you know. Well , no know. Well, no doubt carry out work which on behalf of the of the government to back up research and to back up policies that the government wants to implement and whether or not a conservative government would want to use these types of quangos to as an excuse to increase taxes, i find that pretty doubtful, particularly at a time when, as we all know, the tax burden is at its highest its been in over since the Second World War. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Well, well leave it there before we lose you again by accident. Its nice to talk to you this morning. Thanks very much indeed. Yeah i dont know how have ever belonged how you have you ever belonged to a quango . Well, i involved in an well, i got involved in an advertising one once, and. And they to set out that they were trying to set out that there sexism in advertising, there was sexism in advertising, and wanted headline to and they wanted the headline to be too many scantily be there were too many scantily clad advertising. What clad women in advertising. What actually an was it the actually happened . An was it the most complaints was about an advert portrayed dad as advert which portrayed a dad as utterly useless at christmas because he ruined christmas day. Oh, i remember that it was for asda and the mother, the wife swept in and saved the day and there was a huge amount of complaints from housewives. He was saying dont be so mean to dads. Was saying dont be so mean to dads. So they they did a quango dads. So they they did a quango to prove something and the opposite came out. Be careful what you for. It is a what you wish for. It is a complete and utter waste of time and money. Who paid for the quango . Who . Em 5 really . Yeah, taxpayers. Because they. I wouldnt have minded advertisers minded that if the advertisers had. Had paid. Yeah. Yeah. For everybody on board that quango. But if the government is paying, quango. But if the government is paying, a different thing paying, thats a different thing isnt it . Because they this because they want this narrative to be out there that the world is, is damaging to, to women its portrayal women in terms of its portrayal of stereotypes and the of gender stereotypes and the rest it. Actually, no one rest of it. But actually, no one really noticed or cared the opposite the fact opposite came out. But the fact of matter is this cost money of the matter is this cost money and was an utter waste of and it was an utter waste of time, opinion. Time, in my opinion. And other thing, i would and the other thing, i would have thought that if you have thought that that if you set up quango, but you got mps set up a quango, but you got mps and mps have constituents and they on a friday they have surgeries on a friday and whatever, dont those mps already know members of government already what government already know what people something. People think of something. Well, you would you would hope spend a lot of hope that they spend a lot of time the members of time speaking to the members of the but in actual fact, the public. But in actual fact, we know often dont. So we know they often dont. So this way of saying this is their way of saying were people, were listening to the people, but sample size of people but its a sample size of people who may agree with them. And you but its a sample size of people who alwaysgree with them. And you but its a sample size of people who always set with them. And you but its a sample size of people who always set outh them. And you but its a sample size of people who always set out to hem. And you but its a sample size of people who always set out to and and you but its a sample size of people who always set out to and prove ou can always set out to and prove a headline by reverse engineering it. Yes, thats right. I could prove today that air quality was impacting people who from bame backgrounds quite easily because where do they live . Fly overs. They live near main roads typically, and therefore qed. Air pollution is ther