UK Starmer coalition of the willing crumbles

00:26:56
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Sintesi

TLDRThe video analyzes the collapse of Kier Starmer's Coalition of the Willing, initially aimed at supporting Ukraine. Increasing opposition from European leaders and a lack of U.S. backing indicate a significant retreat. Politically, this move by Starmer may be an effort to align the UK back with the EU amid frustrations over Brexit. The discussion also covers Ursula von der Leyen's waning influence in the EU amid new leadership in Germany, as well as the challenges facing Starmer due to worsening economic conditions in the UK. Overall, the evolving political landscape suggests potential shifts in alliance and power dynamics in Europe.

Punti di forza

  • 🔻 The Coalition of the Willing is collapsing due to opposition from many European countries.
  • 🇮🇹 Italy's Prime Minister has explicitly rejected sending troops to Ukraine.
  • 🚫 Poland sees the coalition as a threat to its own military defense.
  • 🇺🇸 U.S. is not backing Starmer's plans for military action in Ukraine.
  • ✈️ New proposals like patrolling Ukrainian skies are met with skepticism.
  • 🧐 Criticism from British military about the feasibility of Starmer's ideas.
  • 💔 Economic decline in the UK is eroding Starmer's popularity.
  • ⚡ Reform and Brexit supporters pose a growing challenge to the establishment.
  • 🔄 Ursula von der Leyen is losing power and influence in the EU.
  • 🇩🇪 The new German leadership is likely to challenge von der Leyen's authority.

Linea temporale

  • 00:00:00 - 00:26:56

    The discussion focuses on Kier Starmer's Coalition of the Willing, which is now faltering as European nations, including Italy and Poland, withdraw support. Starmer's plan for peacekeeping in Ukraine is criticized for lacking realism and military backing, especially as the U.S. is not committed to providing the necessary guarantees.

Mappa mentale

Video Domande e Risposte

  • What is Kier Starmer's Coalition of the Willing?

    It was a proposed coalition of European nations supporting a peacekeeping mission in Ukraine, but it is losing support.

  • Which countries are opting out of the Coalition of the Willing?

    Countries like Italy, Spain, and Poland are declining to participate.

  • How are the UK and EU related in the context of Starmer's policies?

    Starmer's policies appear aimed at re-establishing ties with the EU post-Brexit.

  • What challenges is Ursula von der Leyen facing?

    Her influence is diminishing, facing criticism and lack of support from the US and internal factions within the EU.

  • What impact does the economic situation in the UK have on Starmer's popularity?

    Deteriorating economic conditions are causing a decline in support for Starmer.

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    all right Alexander let's talk about uh
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    Kier stammer and his Coalition of the
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    Willing which is now turning into the
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    Coalition of the volunteers I guess
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    because whatever countries want to
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    volunteer to join kir stammer on his uh
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    Ukraine Peacekeeper Adventures uh they
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    could they could go to the many meetings
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    that he's holding in London but it does
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    look like this Coalition of the Willing
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    which was the UK and France with a
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    little bit of of dead Mark sprinkled in
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    that this thing has collapsed what are
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    your thoughts I think it has collapsed
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    um I think it was always it always had
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    about it a quality of
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    unreality but um it's increasingly clear
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    that more and more European countries
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    are opting out of it U Maloney in Italy
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    has said no she says that this is whole
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    this whole thing is premature and even
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    illc conceived she's made it absolutely
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    clear that she's not sending Italian
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    troops to Ukraine under any
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    circumstances she's I think seeing the
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    polls in Italy and is getting the sense
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    of Italian public opinion and they're
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    dead against it as are members of her
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    own government I think Spain is coming
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    out against it too I think in Germany
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    there's no enthusiasm for this Poland is
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    adamantly opposed to it because they see
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    this as weakening Poland's own military
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    defense so I think that what we've seen
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    over the last couple of about last week
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    is that more and more European countries
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    the moment they began to understand that
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    stara was actually serious about this
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    they said enough's enough look this man
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    is out of his mind we are not going to
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    Ukraine we don't want to have anything
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    to do with this and uh they're pulling
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    out the other thing is the Americans
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    clearly are not behind this they're not
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    going to provide the back stop they're
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    not going to provide the guarantee that
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    starma was say was the essential
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    necessity for this and so that's all
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    ended the Russians of course have been
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    adamantly opposed all along and they are
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    maintaining their
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    opposition so a couple of days ago
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    starma came up with a new idea he said
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    well maybe we won't send troops to
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    Ukraine maybe we will actually Patrol
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    the Skies over Ukraine with our Air
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    Forces British and French fighter jets
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    and all of that uh which would have to
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    be based in Poland by the way just just
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    just saying um the Russians would
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    interpret that of course as an attempt
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    to create a no-fly zone which is is and
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    again um there is apparently um a shift
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    against this both by European countries
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    and most
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    importantly by Britain's own military
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    now there has been an excoriating
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    article about all of these ideas
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    appearing in the Daily Telegraph today
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    and it is clearly sourced from people
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    within the military in fact it says so
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    and you have one military oh these are
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    all anonymous because they're serving
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    Military Officers but one source after
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    another
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    basically saying this idea is
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    hairbrained we don't know what kind of
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    mission these uh troops would be sent to
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    do how this would work there's no possib
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    possibility of sorting out the logistics
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    we're talking about a 10 to 20 30,000
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    Man force the Russians have at least
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    700,000 men around Ukraine the Ukrainian
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    Army is already much bigger than hours
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    what are these people intended to do
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    what is the military logic and rationale
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    behind the mission so you can see that
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    the military the British military are
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    turning against it as well and there is
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    a particularly cruel passage in this
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    Daily Telegraph article and you have to
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    understand
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    now British irony if you like they're
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    saying that you know there a huge amount
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    of respect within the military for the
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    fact that star has given this idea so
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    much of his time that he's worked on it
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    so
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    hard but you know this really isn't
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    working when people say that he's given
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    a lot of his time and um that he's
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    worked very hard on it the military
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    people are basically saying to starma
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    mind your own
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    business yeah is uh is this about brexit
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    you floated out this possibility uh
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    couple of weeks ago that a lot of this
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    could be about some sort of a return to
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    the European Union uh not an official
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    Return of the UK to the European Union
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    but there is talk about the UK signing
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    Customs unions a customs Union deal with
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    uh with the EU and I do get the sense uh
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    reading many articles on stommer uh st's
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    plans for Ukraine that a lot of it is is
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    done in coordination with Ursula and the
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    other guy at the council what's his name
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    Goa the guy that took over for Michelle
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    and they are talking a lot about uh
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    coordinating their their defenses their
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    defense budget their defense
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    spending and it does feel like this
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    could be some sort of of a consolation
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    prize for stommer for the European Union
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    okay the United States they're they're
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    pulling away from us yes we were
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    defeated in Ukraine uh we were not able
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    to to send a peacekeeping mission to to
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    to Ukraine either but what we did
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    accomplish is we accomplished some sort
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    of reversal of brexit so now the UK and
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    the EU we're we're best buddies again uh
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    what are your thoughts on on that that
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    is exact that is exactly what it is
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    ultimately all about I mean obviously
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    there is um a personal issue about
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    Ukraine starm is fixated with Ukraine so
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    is much of the British political class
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    or to be more precise they're fixated
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    with Russia so I mean you know they want
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    to do all of this but ultimately the the
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    primary of genda the major focus is to
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    try to get Britain back into Europe and
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    they can't reverse brexit immediately
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    but they say to themselves if we can
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    establish some kind of new military
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    relationship with
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    um um the EU if we can start working
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    with Ula and a Costa and all of these
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    people if we can create some kind of
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    French British axis with macron who's
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    showing signs of being very very uh
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    worried about Ms and the things that the
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    Germans erupting then you know that
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    brings us back to Europe we can actually
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    participate at a security level in
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    discussions in Brussels we can have our
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    Representatives turning up again at the
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    European Council we might even have
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    starma himself coming to meetings of the
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    European Council the European Council
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    for those who people don't know is the
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    highest body of the European Union so he
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    would obviously be there supposedly only
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    to
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    discuss military and security policy but
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    it would be him coming back into the
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    door it would be reversing brexit by
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    stealth in a way so I I think think that
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    is absolutely the case and I think a lot
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    of it stems from this if you look at
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    British politics um it's not an exact
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    overlap but overall to a very great
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    extent those who supported remain tend
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    to be anti-russian pro- Ukraine and I
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    said I mean I mean you know about 90% of
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    them those who supported brexit
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    tend to be more skeptical about the
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    whole conflict now that isn't an
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    absolute iron rule because of course
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    you've got people like Boris Johnson who
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    was normally part of the brexit issue
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    and he is of course as we know a fervid
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    supporter of Ukraine but overall if
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    you're looking at the percentages that
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    is basically about right and a lot of
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    people in Britain the pr particularly
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    the political class who've always been
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    deeply upset and resentful about brexit
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    do indeed see this as um a doorway
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    towards starting to reverse brexit to
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    start getting Britain involved again in
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    European Affairs using security and
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    defense issues as the pathway to do it
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    yeah it makes sense in a way if you're
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    labor even if you're the the
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    conservative party if you're the
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    political establishment in uh in Britain
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    and you've you've got uh you've got
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    reform you've got farage uh they're
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    they're definitely uh eating away at
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    your uh your power base what you do is
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    is you draw a line in the sand and and
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    you basically tell the the people of the
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    UK where're The Establishment that's
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    going to protect you from Russia We're
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    The Establishment that's that's working
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    with our Partners in the European Union
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    where uh where the the proe pro-europe a
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    pro Collective West uh part of of UK
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    politics vote us join us or your other
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    alternative is is isolation via reform I
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    mean that that could be the kind of
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    message that that they're putting out
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    there that they want to they want to get
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    towards they want to move towards and in
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    a strange
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    way it makes it makes some sense
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    especially when you have a weak
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    candidate like when you have a lot of
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    weak candidates but but right now you
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    have stammer and so you have a guy that
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    doesn't have any Charisma that's that's
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    effectively just uh just a complete uh
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    uh political uh bore and a political
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    puppet but you give him this this
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    talking point this message that he can
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    throw out there you know the UK is is
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    with Europe the UK is with the EU the UK
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    is against Russia we're now the leaders
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    of the collective West we're going to
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    fight for our defense we're going to
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    trade with the European Union this is
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    the future of of the UK or choose
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    isolation with with farage reform I
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    don't know something along those lines
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    uh you find articles about that all over
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    the media now except of course they're
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    not saying
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    isolation they're saying go with farage
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    and accept subjugation by the Kremlin I
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    mean this is this is I mean they're much
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    they take
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    much further than this and that we have
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    to increase defense spending because the
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    Russians are at our gates I mean the the
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    rhetoric is just off the scale here
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    about this and that is why we must pull
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    uh our Resources with the Europeans we
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    can't count on the Americans anymore the
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    Americans are going away they're even
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    betraying us so
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    therefore unless we um want to be taken
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    over and ruled by Moscow we must make
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    common cause with our French and German
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    allies crank up the fense spending and
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    reintegrate with Europe with the new
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    defense and security structures that are
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    being created in Europe now I'm going to
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    say this for a couple of weeks um um
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    this actually did have some resonance um
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    you saw I mean starma had a brief upward
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    bump in his support after the Oval
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    Office meeting meeting between zalinski
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    and Trump the way it was represented in
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    Britain was the Trump and Vance bullied
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    ziny and you know we know that wasn't
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    the truth but that was how it was
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    represented uh starma supported zalinski
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    people felt sorry for zalinski and there
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    was an upward bump as a result in st's
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    popularity all of the indications are is
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    that that's now drifting away and uh
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    this narrative that you've set out which
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    is indeed the official establishment
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    narrative at the moment you know we must
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    reintegrate with Europe we are the
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    people who will defend you you can't
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    trust farage you can't trust reform we
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    must get back into the E with the
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    Europeans because the Russians are on at
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    our doorstep and the Americans are going
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    away it it's starting people are
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    starting to question this because
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    firstly the econom I omic situation in
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    Britain continues to deteriorate we had
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    a contraction in the
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    economy in January there is a steep
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    reduction in fiscal space as it's called
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    in other words the government is running
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    out of money just saying um the uh there
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    is talk that in the spring the
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    government might actually have to raise
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    taxes again something which in the
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    Chancellor's Autumn statement which you
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    remember we covered um she did raise
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    taxes but she said that there wouldn't
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    be any further increases in taxes it now
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    looks as if there will be and it will be
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    justified on the basis of the need to
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    increase defense spending so people
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    don't want to pay taxes um the
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    government has moved forward with very
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    severe
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    Cuts in dis in spending for disabled
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    people now this is you know a
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    significant part of the UK population
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    people have all kinds of disabilities
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    and they get funds for this some of them
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    I mean there are some cases which are
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    really very distressing to read about I
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    I'm I'm not going to get into the
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    details of this all I will say is that
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    taking this step has shocked
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    starbur labor party support ERS it's
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    unpopular with the labor parliamentary
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    party and a lot of the people who
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    previously had supported starma um
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    indeed had been passionately supportive
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    of starma are now um horrified by this
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    and they're starting to turn against him
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    and you could see this in the guardian
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    for example very very proarm newspaper
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    in Britain we know its
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    orientation they now published an
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    article an editorial saying that you
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    know um um basically that the labor
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    party is portraying its um core
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    constituency that it's not really a
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    labor party in any true sense anymore
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    making criticisms comments about the
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    labor party and what it's become which
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    are very similar to the ones that we've
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    made on that youan it was very strange
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    to read them in an editorial in the
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    guardian
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    so this brief bump in popularity is now
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    draining away and one senses that in
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    fact not only is it going to continue to
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    drain away but that there is actually an
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    incipient crisis developing so the labor
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    party continues is going to start to
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    lose support starmer is losing support
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    there are growing doubts about
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    him the conservatives are not picking up
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    support they are stuck at
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    22% in the opinion polls
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    which is I believe worse than what they
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    got in the election their leader their
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    new leader Cy badok I think universally
  • 00:16:40
    is acknowledged to have been a failure
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    she's completely failed to make any
  • 00:16:44
    political impact over the last couple of
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    weeks we've had a major attack on reform
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    and on
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    farage um over an internal dispute
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    within reform that doesn't seem to have
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    had any effect on reform's popularity
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    and it seems to be um over
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    anyway and perhaps more alarming still
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    um there now there's now been
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    confirmation that farage and Dominic
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    Cummings remember him he was the man who
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    used to be um Boris Johnson's Chief
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    advisor he was the man who ran the
  • 00:17:27
    official exit campaign in 2016 he was
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    the man who came up with the famous
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    slogan Take Back Control he's widely
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    considered to be the single most skilled
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    um campaign manager in
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    Britain anyway these two men faraj and
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    cummings who up to now have not got on
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    with each other they've been Rivals
  • 00:17:54
    anyway they've apparently had a very
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    productive and successful meeting so it
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    looks as if they are putting aside their
  • 00:18:02
    differences they're very different
  • 00:18:04
    people and there's some suggestions that
  • 00:18:06
    these two parts of the brexit movement
  • 00:18:09
    are coming together again so um you're
  • 00:18:13
    absolutely correct in what you said
  • 00:18:15
    about you know the plan that the
  • 00:18:19
    establishment has but it's not clear at
  • 00:18:23
    the moment that it's going to work at
  • 00:18:25
    least not in electoral terms um more
  • 00:18:28
    like ly on the contrary we're going to
  • 00:18:31
    see especially in a few weeks months
  • 00:18:34
    time especially if as I
  • 00:18:37
    expect we we start to see um electricity
  • 00:18:41
    and gas prices domestic prices in
  • 00:18:43
    Britain surge in the Autumn that there's
  • 00:18:46
    going to be increasing uh anger and
  • 00:18:49
    disaffection and people could start to
  • 00:18:51
    turn against this whole thing and uh we
  • 00:18:53
    could start to see reform um increase
  • 00:18:56
    its uh its vote um in the opinion polls
  • 00:19:01
    and start to pose an even stronger
  • 00:19:03
    challenge than it is already so that's
  • 00:19:06
    that's I think where we are with with
  • 00:19:08
    British politics at the moment uh can
  • 00:19:10
    you comment uh quickly on what's going
  • 00:19:13
    on in the European Union and with Ursula
  • 00:19:16
    there's an article in build which is
  • 00:19:17
    claiming that Ursula has has lost a lot
  • 00:19:20
    of her her power she's no longer the
  • 00:19:23
    queen of uh of Europe because the United
  • 00:19:26
    States they they have they want nothing
  • 00:19:28
    to do with with Ursula JD Vance when he
  • 00:19:31
    was at the AI Summit in Paris when
  • 00:19:33
    Ursula was ready to speak and give her
  • 00:19:35
    speech he uh he walked out of the room I
  • 00:19:38
    don't think there's been any high level
  • 00:19:40
    contact between the Trump Administration
  • 00:19:42
    and and dushi definitely has not been at
  • 00:19:45
    the White House or the Oval Office she
  • 00:19:46
    has not been invited to to meet with
  • 00:19:48
    Trump so I think that that says a lot um
  • 00:19:52
    there there is talk that uh the the
  • 00:19:55
    defense um the defense fund the defense
  • 00:19:58
    budget this 800 billion that Ursula is
  • 00:20:00
    trying to push through this is her way
  • 00:20:01
    of trying to reassert her uh her
  • 00:20:04
    dominance in in Europe by creating this
  • 00:20:06
    defense fund of course uh working with
  • 00:20:09
    the UK is another way for her to to show
  • 00:20:11
    that she still is a player on the world
  • 00:20:13
    stage much like stabber he's a player on
  • 00:20:15
    the world stage because he's he's
  • 00:20:17
    joining forces with the European Union
  • 00:20:19
    the other side of the coin is Ursula
  • 00:20:21
    needs to show that she's still uh a big
  • 00:20:23
    player in world affairs and geopolitics
  • 00:20:26
    by teaming up with uh the UK
  • 00:20:29
    but no doubt her uh Power has definitely
  • 00:20:32
    diminished because the Trump
  • 00:20:34
    Administration wants nothing to do with
  • 00:20:37
    her the United States is is not so
  • 00:20:39
    interested in Europe and uh that's where
  • 00:20:41
    a lot of uh her power came from the
  • 00:20:44
    Biden Administration their support for
  • 00:20:46
    for her and for the European Union of
  • 00:20:48
    course we have all her failures it's
  • 00:20:50
    been it's been five six years of uh of
  • 00:20:53
    failure when it comes toh to Ursula Vu
  • 00:20:56
    as uh the commissioner a gigantic huge
  • 00:21:00
    uh failures and project Ukraine the fact
  • 00:21:03
    that she's lost the war to Russia that's
  • 00:21:06
    going to be a big failure for for Ursula
  • 00:21:09
    never mind the fact that she's not in
  • 00:21:10
    any of the negotiations either anyway
  • 00:21:12
    your thoughts there and we'll wrap up
  • 00:21:13
    the video well in that's a very
  • 00:21:15
    interesting story and it's absolutely
  • 00:21:16
    true by the way I mean uh urela is now
  • 00:21:19
    coming under a serious Challenge and
  • 00:21:22
    it's absolutely the case that the Trump
  • 00:21:24
    Administration wants absolutely nothing
  • 00:21:26
    to do with her and is avoiding having
  • 00:21:28
    any contact with her I I I mean they're
  • 00:21:31
    making it fairly clear by the way that
  • 00:21:35
    they blame her for what they see as the
  • 00:21:37
    massive Democratic backsliding in
  • 00:21:40
    Romania just saying which uh remember uh
  • 00:21:44
    the Americans JD Vance himself brought
  • 00:21:47
    up so he's got personal issues with
  • 00:21:51
    urula and you're absolutely correct that
  • 00:21:54
    urula Rose to prominence because she had
  • 00:21:58
    the back King of the Biden people I mean
  • 00:22:00
    she was always he was there with Biden
  • 00:22:02
    all the time she got on incredibly Well
  • 00:22:04
    Blink and Sullivan and all of that so
  • 00:22:07
    suddenly she's looking very isolated I
  • 00:22:09
    mean she's no longer got the support
  • 00:22:11
    from the Americans that she wants it you
  • 00:22:14
    also starting to get hit pieces about
  • 00:22:16
    her by the way I mean I read one which
  • 00:22:19
    spoke about you know how she was isolate
  • 00:22:21
    she'd isolated herself that she only
  • 00:22:24
    works with a small group of very trusted
  • 00:22:27
    people basically for the Baltic states
  • 00:22:30
    and things of that kind um that she's a
  • 00:22:34
    poor manager what a
  • 00:22:36
    surprise corrup the corruption they're
  • 00:22:39
    talking a lot about the corruption the
  • 00:22:42
    CHS and all that the text messages yeah
  • 00:22:45
    yeah now you know all of this of course
  • 00:22:47
    uh is partly because the Americans are
  • 00:22:49
    turning against her but there is a much
  • 00:22:51
    much more powerful enemy much closer to
  • 00:22:54
    home and that is apparently Fredick mats
  • 00:22:58
    who is the new Chancellor or will soon
  • 00:23:01
    be the new chancellor of Germany now one
  • 00:23:03
    of the reasons Ursula became so
  • 00:23:06
    strong is because for the last three
  • 00:23:08
    years we've had a weak chaotic
  • 00:23:12
    government in Berlin Schultz was not a
  • 00:23:15
    strong Chancellor the Coalition he led
  • 00:23:17
    was very fractious he never had any real
  • 00:23:21
    control over urula in fact he did pretty
  • 00:23:23
    much whatever she wanted and um the
  • 00:23:27
    greens is Germany uh um Harbeck and
  • 00:23:31
    bebok uh were were political allies of
  • 00:23:34
    ursila in all her various projects now
  • 00:23:38
    we have a new government led by mats
  • 00:23:42
    it's a
  • 00:23:43
    coalition of the CDU CSU and the spbd
  • 00:23:47
    the greens are not part of this
  • 00:23:50
    Coalition
  • 00:23:52
    and even you know on that basis it would
  • 00:23:56
    be unsurprising if this new government
  • 00:23:59
    in Berlin um said look Germany's the
  • 00:24:04
    biggest country in the EU if anybody's
  • 00:24:07
    going to rule and run the EU it's going
  • 00:24:09
    to be us we've done that before I mean
  • 00:24:12
    that was what Merkel did that's what you
  • 00:24:15
    know we should be doing Berlin should be
  • 00:24:17
    the real capital of the EU not russels
  • 00:24:21
    so you know a stronger government in
  • 00:24:24
    Germany or at least a more coherent
  • 00:24:25
    government in Germany would probably
  • 00:24:28
    want to challenge urula anyway but there
  • 00:24:33
    is the added factor that apparently MZ
  • 00:24:37
    and Ursula hate each other that there is
  • 00:24:39
    a
  • 00:24:40
    longstanding PO political feud between
  • 00:24:44
    them because matz sees osula as a Ally
  • 00:24:50
    of his former Nemesis Angela Merkel and
  • 00:24:54
    um he doesn't like Merkel and he doesn't
  • 00:24:58
    like osula because he sees her as
  • 00:25:01
    associated with Merkel and apparently
  • 00:25:03
    mats is somebody who you know holds on
  • 00:25:06
    to his grudges now bear something in
  • 00:25:09
    mind bill ziton is a right-wing
  • 00:25:13
    conservative tabloid very very close
  • 00:25:16
    politically to the CDU so the fact that
  • 00:25:20
    they are saying that Ursula is losing
  • 00:25:23
    her power is
  • 00:25:25
    perhaps they're saying that because
  • 00:25:28
    somebody from um mount's office is
  • 00:25:32
    telling them
  • 00:25:34
    to they're not wrong no no that wrong
  • 00:25:38
    yeah no I mean she has been a
  • 00:25:40
    disastrous EU commission president the
  • 00:25:43
    worst the worst she has she has expanded
  • 00:25:46
    the power of the EU
  • 00:25:48
    Center to extraordinary degrees she is
  • 00:25:51
    chaotic and uh uh she's a chaotic and
  • 00:25:56
    corrupt and extremely bad manager and
  • 00:26:00
    administrator she has extremely
  • 00:26:02
    authoritarian Tendencies as we've seen
  • 00:26:04
    many times and undoubtedly those who
  • 00:26:09
    don't share her ideological fixations
  • 00:26:12
    are going to dislike her so it's
  • 00:26:17
    unsurprising that you know her enemies
  • 00:26:19
    are now Gathering Ms on the one hand the
  • 00:26:22
    Trump people on the other MZ and Trump
  • 00:26:25
    probably disagree about pretty much
  • 00:26:27
    everything
  • 00:26:28
    except their shared dislike of Ursula
  • 00:26:32
    fion yeah and completely obsessed with
  • 00:26:34
    Russia absolutely absolutely yeah all
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