Nigeria and get up, have a drink, have a ciggie and try and get more drink. The Office Politics because it is on my side. Jobcentre i got, but i dont give a welcome to the full time job of living off the state benefits britain. Too many people are on the take, get back to work, have their form formed. The snps National Secretary of my intention to stand down as party leader , and now hes out party leader, and now hes out of work on my panel tonight is daily express columnist carol maloney, the darling of the left, Benjamin Butterworth, and political commentator suzanne evans. Oh yes. And what do you eat. 7 oh yes. And what do you eat. 7 this. Get ready, britain, here this. Get ready, britain, here we go. The bbc has been captured by black lives matter. Next. Black lives matter. Next. Good evening. Im ray addison in the gb newsroom. Our top in the gb newsroom. Our top stories. The snp is preparing for a leadership contest after the Scottish First minister announced his resignation in. Humza yousaf admitted he underestimated the level of upset that he would cause by cutting political ties with the greens. Hell now continue in his post until a replacement can be found. Clearly emotional, mr yousaf said hes quitting to help repair relationships across the political divide. No ella whelan certainly bear no grudge against anyone. Politics can be a brutal business. It takes its toll on your physical and Mental Health. Your family suffer alongside you. I am in absolute debt to my wonderful wife , my beautiful wonderful wife, my beautiful children and my wider family for putting up with me over the years. Im afraid you will be seeing a lot more of me, from now. How. Now. Well, the race to replace humza yousaf starts now. Former deputy first minister john swinney says hes considering it carefully. Ive got lots of things to think about and theres the whole question of my family and ihave whole question of my family and i have to make sure that i do the right thing by my family. They are precious to me. I have to do the right thing by my party and by my country. So theres lots to be thought about, and ill give all of that consideration in the days to come. The Northern Ireland secretary says the government is surprised by how quickly its rwanda plan appears to be working. Speaking at a british irish conference in london, Chris Heaton Harris said they hadnt expected the deterrent effect to begin before flights took off. It comes after the Irish Government said its seen an 80 increase in Asylum Seekers entering from Northern Ireland. They want to return them to the United Kingdom, but them to the United Kingdom, but the government says that will only be possible if we can send small boat migrants back to the eu. It was always going to be the case. We believed as a government that our rwanda policy would act as a deterrent for people coming to this country illegally. I think we are slightly surprised that its manifested itself so quickly after the act, became law, and we are now in the process of making sure that we are, gathering those individuals who could qualify for the first flight to be on that first flight. And finally, two men have appeared in court charged with murder after a torso was found in a nature reserve in salford. The 68 and 42 year olds spoke only to confirm their names and dates of birth. With the help of poush dates of birth. With the help of polish translators. Greater Manchester Police believes that human remains at three other locations belong to the same victim , a man in his 60s. The victim, a man in his 60s. The initial discovery was made by a member of the public at kersal dale wetlands. More than three weeks ago. For the latest stories , sign up to gb news stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news common. Back now to. Patrick. Common. Back now to. Patrick. Good evening. The bbc was captured by black lives matter. Some staff are card carrying Labour Party Members who think rishi sunak is a fascist and the tories are the devil. And it might not be a Great Workplace for jews. This is what leaked staff messages from inside the bbc appear to reveal. Weve got leaked messages from the bbcs global news staff messaging channel, where employees discuss Current Affairs amongst themselves. As the black lives themselves. As the black lives matter protests were taking place, the bbcs head of Digital Projects and delivery issued some direct actions to staff. They said its important for us to go beyond the optics of being an ally at this time. They went on if youre a Mental Health first aider, there are no specific resources to help guide you in assisting people impacted by racism or the Current Police brutality and black lives matter movement. This is a glaring omission and its problematic in itself. And when creating a presentation or creating a test article , please do not use article, please do not use articles with images and videos of violence against black people because its retraumatizing. Because its retraumatizing. Its really important we all educate ourselves at times like this. Its our responsibility to do so, especially if were white, reading anti racist texts and informing ourselves on Police Violence in the us are good places to start. In to order better understand the impact and structural challenges of racism. Yeah, and they went on. Yeah, and they went on. There are lots of good reading lists on the internet at the moment here. And here are some good examples id like to offer to organise and facilitate a book club for these texts, specifically. Specifically. I mean, they wanted staff to be re educated. Other comments be re educated. Other comments from bbc employees, all written since october 2023, described the conservatives as evil, rishi sunak as a fascist. They also engagedin sunak as a fascist. They also engaged in Conspiracy Theory chat about him calling off a general election for Fake National Security reasons. One staff member said the lib dems got into bed with the devil when nick clegg partnered with david cameron, another staff member reveals that they are a Labour Party Member and that they felt the bbc was racially attacking them for running a story about a black Football Player being pro palestine as a black person, im feeling bullied by the bbc. My employer, for being black. To clarify , im not saying that to clarify, im not saying that the bbc is bullying me for being black. Im just feeling that they are. I am a member of the labour party and there is a division of views on gaza. This is a new story, but a black guy posting his sympathy for other black people is not a story. Black people is not a story. One jewish employee appears to reveal that behind the scenes at the bbc, there is a heck of a lot of rabid pro palestine chat, which is hardly a shock considering the bbc were reluctant to call hamas terrorists. Why im saying this is that the bbc staff have a variety of experiences, and i would ask that perhaps on a topic that involves so much horrific death and destruction. Horrific death and destruction. Please be sensitive to fellow staff who are suffering right now. We are also persecuting minorities who watched our friends die in the most horrific ways. I wont repeat here, but we are suffering greatly. We are suffering greatly. Hyper woke, left leaning, Critical Race Theory engaging anti tory tosh there from bbc staff. Having said that, i bet staff. Having said that, i bet that didnt come as too much of a shock to you though, did it. 7 we reached out to the bbc for comments and a bbc spokesperson said we are aware of the content of a small number of posts on an internal messaging app and we are reviewing these. Thanks guys. Well, joining me tonight to discuss all of this is news reporter, the man who on earth is Steve Edginton. 7 steve, good to see you. Right . I is Steve Edginton . Steve, good to see you. Right . I mean, this is , i would argue, quite rampant is, i would argue, quite rampant bias right at the heart of the bbc. I mean, they were completely captured by blm. Completely captured by blm. Not only does it show rampant bias internally, and the views of staff may not be surprising to our viewers, actually, some of these comments are extremely out there. Theyre spreading conspiracy theories. Rishi sunak is going to cancel the election using a war scare with russia, but arguably theyre also anti semitic. The comments that you were referring to were defending the phrase from the river to the sea, which is widely seen as an anti semitic chant to destroy israel, and another bbc staffer said it was simplistic, simplistic to call hamas the baddies. When youre comparing them to israel. And i think when youve got a conflict in which one side are explicitly genocidal and murdering over a thousand jewish civilians last year on october 7th, calling them the baddies isnt isnt simplistic. Itsjust them the baddies isnt isnt simplistic. Its just true. Simplistic. Its just true. Oh, absolutely. And they said theyll do it again as well. Theyll do it again as well. Look, stephen, in your view, what does this actually mean in terms of actually affecting the bbcs output . Because these were members of the Current Affairs news team. Is that right . Its a theres a wide variety of staff who are involved in these chats. Not all of them were journalists. Some of them were journalists. Some of them were things Like Software engineers. And these people, some of which some of whom work behind the scenes on the bbc. But the interesting thing is, is that theyre trying to apply editorial pressure on journalists , on editors, on journalists, on editors, on producers to change the bbcs output by describing the bbcs output by describing the bbcs output as racist. And weve seen output as racist. And weve seen in other messages that are describing bbc news articles as transphobic, theyre clearly trying to apply pressure to their bosses, which is totally incorrect. And also, youve got to remember these messages are available to all bbc staff. All 5000 bbc staff can see this stuff , and the 5000 bbc staff can see this stuff, and the bbc 5000 bbc staff can see this stuff , and the bbc constantly stuff, and the bbc constantly calls for social Media Companies to moderate their content to moderate their content for disinformation and for spreading conspiracy theories. Yet when the bbc staff do it themselves on their own internal platforms, theyre allowed to do it without any moderation. And this suggests some people are saying that bbc editors actually condone this stuff. Why arent condone this stuff. Why arent the bbc getting involved . Why have the bbc taken three days to send us a comment for this story . This is the first. Weve done three stories on this. This is the first time and literally the last hour. Theyve sent us something about it. They clearly dont take it seriously whatsoever. Look, stephen, thank you very , very much. Thats Stephen Edgington there. Make sure that you follow him. Of course. And gb news for more articles like that, lets get the thoughts from our panel. Now, im joined this evening by daily express columnist carole malone. Ive got journalist and broadcaster Benjamin Butterworth and of course, political commentator suzanne evans. Carole, ill start with you on this concern stuff. I think, you know, captured by the blm movement , captured by the blm movement, for one, really. You know, ive worked in newsrooms now for, you know, 35, 36 years and yes , depending on 36 years and yes, depending on what government is in power, you would have you know, youre one or the other and you might not be working for a paper at the time that supports the government. However, you know, the rules about news are clear. You know you do not. You know you do not get emotional about it. You dont put your emotions into the story. You dont put your political biases into the story. You put truth into the story. You put truth into the story. You put fairness into the story. You put fairness into the story. You put fairness into the story. And if you cant, especially if youre the bbc, if you cant do that, the charter should be taken away. Its you know, the bbc would always insist their journalism is accurate. It can be accurate, but it doesnt mean its fair. And it doesnt mean its balanced. And what were seeing here is that a load of people have political views, and theyre putting those views into their reportage of the news, which is totally against all the rules. You know, ive said today has been a great day for britain, and were going to go on to talk about some bumper topics. You know, humza yousaf has gone, the eu is copying our rwanda plan. Weve told the irish to swivel over returning Illegal Immigrants. Its fantastic. But now benjamin has got even better because we can see beyond doubt that what everyone thought was going on the bbc is, oh, thats the end of the question. Okay , look, carol is right. Okay, look, carol is right. On the one hand, you know, when youre working in a newsroom, youre working in a newsroom, you have to see things objectively, even if youre working for an outlet that has a particular stance, because thats your responsibility as a journalist. But i really dont think this is a serious story at all. I mean, look, some of these people dont even work in news and Current Affairs, as the reporter just commented himself. And what you want in a newsroom is for people to bring different insights, different takes, and it doesnt mean that its an institutional problem with the bbc. We see it, we see it on their reportage every single day. We see that in weve seen it with gaza, weve seen it with hamas, weve seen it with with brexit, weve seen it with with brexit, weve seen it in during covid, with boris, with black lives. Bias is there. And can i, can i zone in on that because they said that they had to go beyond being an ally. And black lives matter have published a manifesto , which published a manifesto, which was, i would argue, overtly communist. Okay. And the bbc were just captured by it completely. Absolutely. They were. I mean, the classic one for me of that black lives matter protest was when the protesters had scared a horse to the point it bolted and knocked. A policewoman went into a traffic light. Seriously injured, and the bbc commented, oh, she fell off her horse like heck she did. These protesters actually forced that animal and had caused serious injury. Its the hypocrisy of this that gets me. These are people who set themselves up as objective fact checkers. They look at other peoples news stories and they complain about them, and they pull them apart and say theyre not factual. Yet here they are doing this absolutely extreme left wing bias. And what about other Staff Members who dont share those views . How would they feel you take on board a lot of what you said. By on board a lot of what you said. By the way, benjamin, youve got a valid point. Very generous. Somewhat, no, but some somewhere where i think maybe you would agree is there was a member of the Jewish Community who was posting there who felt that felt compelled to say, can you essentially, im paraphrasing, but can you consider the fact that jews died in the october the 7th attack . And that does imply that theres quite a lot of rabid pro palestine chat behind the scenes. Well, i mean, thatis behind the scenes. Well, i mean, that is something that should be an air issue in a newsroom, right . Somebody shouldnt feel uncomfortable based on that. I would actually as uncomfortable as it might sound, i would still say you have to take your personal experience out of judging the news. But look, i just think, you know, this is a handful of people in an organisation that employs its an organised nation that employs left wing people. The fact is, benjamin , as the fact is, benjamin, as somebody has somebody. Let me just finish. You look at the journalists at the top of the bbc. I think they do an exceptional job of being impartial. But if you would do if youre on the left and you are if you think theyre questioning their impartiality. Well, the director general tried to be a tory councillor and ran the tory party in hammersmith and fulham in the 90s. That doesnt sound very impartial. Im sorry, benjamin , as im sorry, benjamin, as someone whos considered to be on the right, you know, ive done umpteen interviews on the bbc. Its always me against two people on the left. The brexit debate. It was always me against all people. Yeah. Okay, so maybe its four people on, you know, youd go on question time and it would be id be the one sort of right wing voice and a wet tory. Maybe we have a state broadcaster now that is in no way representative of the state. We see that every day. We see we see that every day. We see that by the number of people who stopped buying the licence every yean stopped buying the licence every year, its 1. 5 to 1. 7 million every single year. And growing because youre not talking to the majority of people in this country. All right. Well, look, concerning stuff concerning and i suspect theres quite a lot more where that came from as well. I just wanted to bring you that at the start of the show, because im sure a regular gb news viewers and listeners will have had a day chock a block full of humza yousaf quitting, which we are going to be talking about and also as well the, eu rwanda plan and migration. Just thought id mix it up a little bit, but coming up is the rwanda plan working because the policy officially became law last thursday and despite no planes taking off yet, it already seems to be having a positive effect. Ill be getting the thoughts of the leader of reform uk richard tice. What does he have to say about the governments immigr