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can you imagine having to watch what you
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say when you're in a pub just in case
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somebody that works there takes offense
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now as ridiculous as that might sound
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this is something that employers are
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seriously going to have to worry about
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if this employment Rights bill goes
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through as it is and also while you're
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on my Channel about half of you don't
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for the telegraph it's closing time for
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free speech in British pubs so what is
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he talking about um Toby Young from Free
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Speech Union I'll link them below uh
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talks about um Clause 18 in the
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employment Rights bill and this is
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talking about whether or not people will
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take offence to something that people
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say in that employers will be required
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to make sure that their employees don't
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take any kind of offense from things
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that people say else that might amount
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to harassment um and absolutely true
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because if we take a quick look at the
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uh acast website here and discrimination
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at work discrimination can be if it's
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anything to do with a protected
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characteristic which would include
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anybody's age disability gender
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reassignment race religion sex sexual
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orientation Etc if they feel that they
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are in a workplace that is in any way
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humiliating or offensive or anything of
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that nature and that is a subjective uh
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feeling on their part and if that is as
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a result of what people say in a pub
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then the employer might be liable for
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that why might why might that be liable
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well because if we look at Clause 18 in
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the uh employment Rights bill it it
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amends or seeks to amend section 40 of
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the equality act section 40 of the
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equality Act is to do with um harassment
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in the workplace of course at the moment
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it just says that an employer must not
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harass their employees which sounds
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obvious but that's all it says at the
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moment if we move that aside what this
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seeks to do this employment Rights bill
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is insert into it the following Clauses
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one a an employer must not permit a
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third party to harass person B who's
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employed by a so the employer is
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expected to prevent all other people
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from harassing their employees in any
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way now in a pub that's going to make
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things difficult because if the employee
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of the pub owner in any way takes
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offense from what people in the pub say
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they might say that that's harassment
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and it's the employer's fault so it's
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the Pub's fault that they feel harassed
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by what people in the pub say rather
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than directing whatever complaint
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they've got at the person in the pub
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saying it under 1B for the purposes of
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1A um the employer permits this third
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party to harass the employee only if a
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the third party the the the pubg Harris
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is being in the course of their
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employment and B the employer has failed
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to take all reasonable steps to prevent
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this third party from doing so and in
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the third in in this section the third
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party means a person other than the
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employer or the employee so essentially
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anyone going to that Pub or not just the
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pub this obviously is not just talking
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about pubs this is talking about
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employees and employers if they fail to
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take what's referred to here as all
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reasonable steps to prevent this other
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third party from harassing their
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employees then they are liable now if we
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were to look at this in a balanced
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approach and say well of course an
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employee uh should feel safe in their
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environment and the employer should take
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reasonable steps to prevent them from
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being harassed and so on in most
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situations that's probably fine so for
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example you're running a shop and
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uh somebody comes in and they are
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harassing the employees you would expect
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the employeer to come down and say
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excuse me please don't harass our staff
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please get out and take steps to remove
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them and all reasonable steps might be
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calling the police it might be doing
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other things Banning the person from the
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store calling the police if they keep
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coming back to the store and so on and
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so forth but what if it is in the case
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of the pub as in the example by Toby
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Young here what if it is just people
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people regularly coming to the the pub
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and within earshot telling jokes having
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these conversations and that person
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feels somehow harassed because they just
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take offense from what is said because
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that's what's being talked about here
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they even talk about going so far as to
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have a list of banned words that will be
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displayed on walls um such as mothers
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breastfeeding woman and regulars might
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be asked to undergo unconscious bias
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training Toby Young says with these
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things that he's talking about you think
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I'm exaggerating but comedians are
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already required to sign behavioral
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agreements when appearing in student
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venues they have to promise not to joke
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about racism and sexism and classism
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aism ableism homophobia biphobia
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transphobia xenophobia islamophobia or
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religion once this new law is in place
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what landlord is going to risk a member
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of their staff being triggered by a
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politically incorrect gag um Jimmy car
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get your coat so this is absolutely
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taking the equality act uh to to the nth
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degree to say that anyone working in in
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this Pub if they feel harassed because
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they take offense from any of these
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words any of the comments any of the
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jokes told in a pub they might then say
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well they feel harassed because they are
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in earshot of people telling jokes to
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each other and the employer the pub
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owner is not doing anything about it is
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not taking the reasonable steps to tell
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these Pub goers telling jokes to leave
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the pub
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this just sounds absolutely ridiculous
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to me let me know what you think in the
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comment section below and just finally I
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will point you to this uh post here on X
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which I'll link below uh there is a
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template letter to write to your mp uh
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warning that Clause 18 is going to cause
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huge problems for businesses so you can
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grab a hold of that template if you wish
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and send it to your MP if you wish but
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moving on despite labor saying they are
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the voice for business and Labor's
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Business Partnership for growth is going
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to make business grow across the country
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not quite true because companies the
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house register has shrunk for the first
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time since 2012 now there's a few
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different reasons for this uh one of
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which is company's house has gone to uh
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clean up the register and such things
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for example they've got new powers to go
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through the register and dissolve
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companies that have failed to provide an
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appropriate registered office address
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and such things however experts and
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Consultants instead have pointed to the
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double hit with inflation and the tax
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Rises announced in the budget uh many of
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which are twofold or three-fold as well
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because of the hit to uh business
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premises National Insurance
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contributions for employers the lowering
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of the threshold Etc all of which going
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to cost these companies a lot more money
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so over 200,000 in fact 203 and a half
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thousand companies have officially
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closed in the last 3 months of 2024
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which is is a 24% more than 24% increase
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from the same period in 2023 and
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reported elsewhere this is on city.com
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more than 300,000 businesses are
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planning job Cuts uh because of Rachel
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Reeves budget and all of the costs
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incurred for businesses data reveals
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more than 300,000 businesses are
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expected to either lay off workers or in
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many cases uh just reduce hours and so
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on and according to research polls of
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the British Chambers of Commerce more
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than four out of five businesses have
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said that Labor's National Insurance
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hike is going to impact their firms and
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if all of that wasn't unpopular enough
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we now see headlines such as this one UK
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must consider conscription now to be
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ready for war with Russia according to
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ex Army Chiefs now we've heard things
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said by K stama just recently that hint
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that he might be looking towards war and
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things like that but that doesn't really
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seem to be very popular to me in fact I
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did a poll on it just a couple of days
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ago and uh let's see nearly 9,000 people
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voted on that I said Sky new said that
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there are no plans for conscription
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according to the minister they were
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interviewing but future decisions will
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respond to a new reality hinting that
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they might look towards conscription if
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a new reality suggests that they need to
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force you into fighting for the country
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now I don't want to be anti-patriotic
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here but not everybody wants the idea or
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likes the idea of fighting for the
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country country without any choice in
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doing so and it would seem that the poll
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agrees with me because out of nine
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nearly 9,000 people that voted
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95.5% said no they wouldn't allow their
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son or daughter to be conscripted to
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fight for this government now some
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people made the comments well you're not
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fighting for the government you're
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fighting for the country but I would say
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well at the same time it's the
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government that makes the decision as to
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which Wars we go into and whether or not
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if they were to look at conscription
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whether or not to uh enforce
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conscription and others made the
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comments well you can't allow your son
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or daughter or disallow your son or
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daughter if they are 18 obviously
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they're an adult they can make their own
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choice but really you should have some
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kind of influence even if it's an adult
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child legally perhaps not but you should
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have some kind of sway over whether your
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son or daughter is forced to go and
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fight for the country I think that we
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are probably we should really be long
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past conscription in this country
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forcing people to go fight I don't know
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that's just my thought and as a side
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thought here uh personal opinion alert I
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think that the downfall for Rishi sunak
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because just judging by the response on
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social media when he was hinting at the
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possibility of conscription or at least
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Cadets or something of that nature I
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think that was a turning point and I
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think people turned against him and I
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think that's one of the contributing
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factors that uh led to conservatives
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downfall during the election just my
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general feeling from what I saw and read
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on social media let me know what you
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think and whether you remember that
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whether that's triggered a memory for
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you what you think about that let me
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know what you think about conscription
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in general or anything that I've said in
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general if any of this has affected you
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in any way let me know in the comments
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and uh we can talk about it in future
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videos so let me know what you think
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about any of this I think it's all
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complete Madness the way that this is
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going to become law and people might
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just take offense and then blame their
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employer I think there's already a lot
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to blame employers for and I think this
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is going to make it even more difficult
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but in a pub really that's going to be
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incredibly difficult for employers to
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manage let me know what you think in the
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comments below do check out free speech
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really appreciate that and as always
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