money back they say, will put money back into their pockets. but rishi sunak told members of the food industries that britain must reduce its reliance on fruit and vegetables from overseas . a home vegetables from overseas. a home office minister says the good friday agreement should not be read so creatively as to cover migration issues. it's after a judge at belfast high court ruled that parts of the government's illegal migration act should not be applied in northern ireland. responding to an urgent question from the dup, tom pursglove said the government intends to appeal against the court's judgement and would not be deterred from its rwanda plan . and the first its rwanda plan. and the first official painted portrait of the king since his coronation has been unveiled at buckingham palace. the oil on canvas shows his majesty in the uniform of the welsh guards, of which he was made regimental colonel in 1975. the portrait , by british 1975. the portrait, by british artist jonathan yeo , was artist jonathan yeo, was commissioned in 2020 to celebrate the then prince of

wales's 50 years as a member of the drapers company. in 2022. in the drapers company. in 2022. in the new portrait, the king is depicted sword in hand with a butterfly landing on his shoulder . butterfly landing on his shoulder. for butterfly landing on his shoulder . for the butterfly landing on his shoulder. for the latest stories, you can sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen. or you can go to gb news .com/ alerts. now it's go to gb news .com/ alerts. now wsfime go to gb news .com/ alerts. now it's time for headliners . it's time for headliners. >> thank you tatiana. hello and welcome to headliners, your run through the next day's news with three comedians. i'm leo carson. tonight i'm joined by paul cox , tonight i'm joined by paul cox, the people's gammon and jonathan coogan, the people's fish fingers. we don't know how he got that nickname. how are you both doing? >> really? well. thank you. >> really? well. thank you. >> how are you? yeah, i'm good as well. thank you. >> i've adopted this new voice. >> i've adopted this new voice. >> yeah. you've got a very husky . sexy. yes. >> it's for the rashes. they

like it. >> we're on late at night. >> we're on late at night. >> i thought i'd talk to them like this from now on. >> yeah. something happened. >> yeah. something happened. >> was there an accident? no, i stopped, i was on 60 a day. and then you stopped. i just stopped it straight away . it straight away. >> you sound like a smoker. hamburgers. >> not cigarettes. >> not cigarettes. >> okay, well, let's have a look at wednesday's front pages. the daily meal has sex education to be banned for under nines. and no more gender dogma for the telegraph. has tories tell police bring back . stop and police bring back. stop and search the times leads with don't teach pupils about gender id schools told the guardian has us warns georgia not to side with russia against the west. i assume they mean the country georgia, not the state in america . the i news has new america. the i news has new weight loss jab gold rush offers obesity, hope to millions and finally the metro has uk's record 3 million food parcels. and those were your front pages . and those were your front pages.

and those were your front pages. and let's have a closer look at those front pages. starting with wednesday's daily mail poll, sex education to be banned for under nines in blow to perverts and no more gin gender dogma. >> the blow, the blow to perverts thing isn't in there. >> it blows the public not to say anybody under nine shouldn't be having sex anyway. it's for good looking people only. >> get lovely work. kyrees education secretary gillian keegan will unveil proposals tomorrow for a total ban on the subject until the at least year five, year five, which, by the way, i think most of us got sex education about year six when we were kids. i don't know about keegan because he's 12, were kids. i don't know about keegan because he's12, yeah . keegan because he's12, yeah. and she's also said to rule out the gender identity , gender the gender identity, gender identity is a contested subject that should not be taught in schools, which is really interesting because the tories all of a sudden seem to be trying to tory their way out of this mess. yeah. and it feels

particularly with gillian keegan. yeah. she's like, right, i'm in this job now for like five months. yeah. i'm going to tory the living daylights out of this. >> it really does feel like that across a lot of issues that the tories have had 14 years of being the labour party. yeah, quite a left wing labour party at that. and then they've suddenly in their final , their suddenly in their final, their final sprint to the finish line, they've decided to become tories and leave, you know, leave a tory country for, for labour. >> i think it's too little, too late. it's like when your girlfriend dumps you, then you start doing the washing up for the first time in like ten years. you're like, i'm a good quy- years. you're like, i'm a good guy. i'm a good guy. but yeah, no, i think it's, you know, i think they've had their moment in the sun and now it's, we'll break loose. it's interesting . break loose. it's interesting. >> i mean, how how long if you, let's say it becomes policy, do labour just chuck it all out? let's say it becomes policy, do labourjust chuck it all out? i labour just chuck it all out? i mean, what what would. sorry, i know you've got to move on, but for me it's really interesting because if this did come in, then what would be the reason for, overruling it. >> exactly. and i think, you know, the fact that the cast report has come out that, you know, now, it'll it'll stay , so know, now, it'll it'll stay, so moving on. what's in the front

cover of the telegraph? jonathan, the front cover of the telegraph . tories told police telegraph. tories told police bfing telegraph. tories told police bring back. stop and search. so this has obviously been a contentious issue. i think it was when theresa may. >> oh, we need to. oh, god. sorry we need to go to paul because you're mike, isn't isn't working , apparently. let's have working, apparently. let's have a look. let's have a look at the eye. paul. eye.paul >> okay, i'll pick up that story if you like . but let's go with if you like. but let's go with the eye for now. new weight loss jab. gold rush offers obesity, hope for millions. so apparently there are 322 anti—obesity drugs in development worldwide at the moment, and the new drugs in development include more convenient versions, including exist of incumbent weight loss drugs that are already available, but they're going to be now in pill form or actually be now in pill form or actually be an injection of some kind. so i mean, i think the i think the obese people would probably rather a pill, especially if it was a big pill painted like a cake. yeah just a couple of slices of it. yeah. i mean, it's interesting isn't it, because i

this is a good thing in terms of, overcoming the obesity crisis, which is a huge drain on nhs resources. but does it encourage is it a bit like, the morning after pill? i mean, do you just eat as much as you possibly can and then just give yourself an injection in the morning ? morning? >> so you think it could be encouraging, actually , i mean, encouraging, actually, i mean, do you agree with paul that it could encourage, just a bad , bad could encourage, just a bad, bad behaviour and everybody's going to be just gorging on chicken wings, but, you know , if you do wings, but, you know, if you do that and then you can cancel it out, that's perfect. >> isn't that the world we want to live in? and can i just say my microphone has not been working. but this was the funniest i've ever been. in the first session. you just have to imagine the brilliant, brilliant things i said. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> superb stuff. maybe we recreate them later on. >> yeah, i believe you could reach those heady heights again. >> jonathan, do you think so? >> jonathan, do you think so? >> yeah. and let's have a look at the metro . jonathan, what at the metro. jonathan, what have they got? >> yeah. so this is a crazy, crazy story. this is proper, like wild action news and very tragic because a couple of people have died. but on the wall, the headline of the metro is uk's record 3 million food

parcels. but the story i believe we're going to cover is the prison van ambush horror on motorway. so this is a story that happened in france early today, a i believe it was a convicted criminal high up in the drugs world, was essentially busted out of a moving van when he was being transported, and two of his guards were killed by heavily armed men. and this is this is something out of a, you know, like a crazy drug film. this is, not something you see every day. >> well, we saw the footage in the news bulletin , just. and it the news bulletin, just. and it really was. it was like grand theft auto come to life . i mean, theft auto come to life. i mean, they'd sort of rammed this, this police van that's transporting this man, mohammed amara, one of the new style of french people and the, you know, he's from a gangin and the, you know, he's from a gang in marseille. he's been convicted of burglary and also indicted on a kidnapping that led to somebody dying, and but as you say, apparently he's unked as you say, apparently he's linked to drugs because burglary on its own. i can't imagine, people, they were very keen to get him out. >> i mean, he was on an 18 month sentence for burglary . so all sentence for burglary. so all the things that he's accused of

and being in charge of, he hasn't, you know, been convicted on those things. and 18 months, you know, maybe nine months to a yearin you know, maybe nine months to a year in prison. they were just very it's interesting story in the sense that they could have just let him sit there for that yeah just let him sit there for that year. you know, he could have probably run. he could probably run the gang from prison. so it'd be interesting to know why they wanted to get him out so quickly. yeah, but tragic stuff, i was saying i was saying, i must admit, i was saying this. there's always an element of this because if you're watching a film, you're excited by the break. you know, when it happens in real life, if someone is able to break out of prison, it's quite something. obviously, it's very tragic and there's some, you know, one of the guys two deaths. yeah. and one of the guys that died his his other half was five months pregnant as well. so i don't want to take anything away from that at all. >> and we've seen you know, previously there's the glamorisation of, you know, the brinks, the great train robbery and that that led to i don't think the person died, but they were certainly, severely injured for the rest of their life, you know, basically disabled for the rest of their life, i believe. >> yeah, it's a tragic stuff.

>> yeah, it's a tragic stuff. >> at gb, we believe the only acceptable crime is white collar crime. that's what we believe. no violence, no fraud. mainly fraud. yes, absolutely. >> that's what we stand for. anyway, let's. now that your mic's working, let's have a look at the telegraph. jonathan. >> oh, we're going back to the telegraph. absolutely. so the headune telegraph. absolutely. so the headline here is tories tell police bring back stop and search. so as i was saying before, maybe falling on deaf ears or deaf mike's , the police ears or deaf mike's, the police have been advised to bring back this policy, which was criticised, especially ten years ago. there was a big campaign against it. i think it's when theresa may was, what was she doing? she was homesick back then. and essentially, this is a policy where police will stop and search young men. and the problem is with it or the alleged problem with it, it was, mostly affecting, groups from sort of, african and caribbean descent, young men. and, basically it got called racist because they were being profiled. but at the same time, could you argue that if this, you know, knife crime, which was this was aiming to stop effects , this was aiming to stop effects, those young men from those groups, most, you know, they're

getting killed. it's a terrible thing . does not make sense to thing. does not make sense to try and prevent that in some kind of way. or is this just profiling? i don't know, no, you're you're absolutely right. >> i mean, i worked as a criminal intelligence analyst, and we were taught i mean, i don't know if this is changed. it probably has with all the di focus. but we were taught that if there's an overrepresentation of, of perpetrators in a certain group, you're actually doing a disservice to that demographic group by ignoring it or sweeping it under the carpet or pretending it doesn't happen , pretending it doesn't happen, and when we've seen that, you know, the grooming gangs issues have been allowed to fester instead of being dealt with. and, you know, the problem got worse than if it had been. >> yeah. and they've made discrimination a dirty word. and it's not really, i guess. of course it is. when it comes to discriminating someone on the bafis discriminating someone on the basis of the colour of their skin. but when you're discriminating people on whether they're innocent or guilty, you have to chuck everybody into the mix. so the whole point of policing is to be discriminatory . yeah. >> and we've seen soaring knife crime. we've seen some very high profile, events in london, over

the last few years with machete fights, you know, in the streets of london, some of it almost looks like medieval jousting. >> well, a guy with a chair. yeah. fighting over a female. >> he's going to fight a lion . >> he's going to fight a lion. that's true. >> then there must be some white skinned examples. but i can't think of any right now. but when you think of the grooming gangs, for instance. now, they were they were they were positively discriminated against and that police were unable to manage that situation for fear of being racist . now, i would much rather racist. now, i would much rather the police were occasionally called racist . called racist. >> yeah, and of course the authorities were discriminating against the girls as well because they were working class. yes. >> so you know, we so what discriminate. but you know, if it saves lives, it catches criminals. >> but at the same time as a as a youngish rebel, i wouldn't want the police to overreach and stop people unnecessarily just because they can. >> so in north london, as a white guy driving around in your bmw, you're going to be fine , mate. >> don't you worry about it. >> don't you worry about it. >> my girlfriend drives a bmw. i'm not allowed to. >> that's it. when do you learn

how to parallel park anyway? that's the front pages dealt with coming up. we've got good news for rishi europe. copying our rwanda plan and hamas coming to a council estate near you.

welcome back to headliners with me , leo carson. my panel. paul me, leo carson. my panel. paul cox and jonathan coogan . there cox and jonathan coogan. there they are, sitting there, all resplendent with their mics,

working , kicking off this working, kicking off this section with the times. and apparently rishi might meet his migration pledge as he pledged to leave the country after losing the election. >> i don't think so. i don't think so. rishi sunak has a fighting chance of meeting migration pledge, says watchdog. this is brian bell, who is the chairman of the migration advisory committee , otherwise advisory committee, otherwise known as mac said the government ban on foreign students bringing family members with them to the uk was producing a much bigger fall than government expected. it could help reduce overall net migration to 200,000, maybe even down to 150,000, which is really interesting because back in june last year, we reported on the fact that there was a net migration of 672,000. huge story, huge number. but what's interesting is the difference between 600 and 72,000 and the possible 150, 200,000 is about half a million people. so this story suggests that students are bringing families to the tune of

about half a million people every year. net. >> they've got some big families i >> -- >> they have. and i guess, look, it's some unexpected good news for rishi sunak. by hook or by crook. he may see that number come down. it's also good for the country in many ways because irrespective of where i've said this a thousand times, particularly on here, irrespective of where they're coming from and who they are, colour of skin, culture, religion, all that sort of things. if there's too many people here, our system fails. yeah and you know, it's only the it's the most vulnerable that become impacted by that. and we see that all across society . yeah. >> and i mean, jonathan i mean this this has been reported in the guardian very differently. they reported that there's no evidence at all. they're basically coming here and, you know, bringing, bringing families and stuff, which i don't know is a complete nonsense. like everything in the guardian, i use the student visa scheme to go to canada for a yeah scheme to go to canada for a year. everybody. not everybody. last year , people like me. yeah, last year, people like me. yeah, yeah. >> mature student. >> mature student. >> well, i mean, any loophole that can be exploited will eventually get exploited . but

eventually get exploited. but this really does seem to be, very high in the, you know, the number of people who have come over through these student visas and then started working, yeah . and then started working, yeah. i mean, the way this article is phrased, especially the headline, it's, that, rishi sunak has a fighting chance. i've noticed every headline about rishi is kind of posing him this underdog that's ready to kind of like, strike back because they know it's over. >> because brits love an underdog. >> they do maybe . >> they do maybe. >> they do maybe. >> maybe not this one. i mean, he's a billionaire. underdog is slightly different. but i mean, do you think we should maybe replace all our clunky, exploitable gameable visa and migration systems with visa auctions? because these would be amazing. then somebody wants to come here, they have to bid in an auction to get the visa. so the state gets money that we can then put into services. and it also ensures that you get the people who , are better class it people who, are better class it might discriminate against. >> but, what if you have like a genius doctor from like, mumbai who wants to come over and he doesn't have the money or she

doesn't have the money or she doesn't if she's such a good doctor, why doesn't he just. >> does the system exist? >> does the system exist? >> is this . >> is this. >> is this. >> and he's like, have you invented this system? >> no, no, this is i mean, i don't think so. >> i've never heard of what? >> i've never heard of what? >> visa auctions. yeah >> visa auctions. yeah >> so you basically a visa goes to the highest bidder. yeah. i.e. drug cartels. >> we might you were saying outside, you said probably because due diligence on money. >> yeah. okay. stuff like that. >> yeah. okay. stuff like that. >> yeah. okay. stuff like that. >> yeah . >> yeah. >> yeah. essentially >> yeah. essentially i >> yeah. essentially i mean what's the point. the drug dealers come here anyway. we might as well charge them for it anyway. moving on. we've got the mail now and, you know, things aren't going too well for britain when our prime minister gives us world war two style advice in case we run out of food. jonathan yeah. >> he now goes by, rishi the riveter. yeah, we can do it. so rishi sunak urges brits that good impression i don't know. no moss from the it crowd. i've never heard rishi sunak talk. >> a lot of people haven't. >> a lot of people haven't. >> no just behind politics. so rishi sunak urges brits to grow more apples and pears . sounds more apples and pears. sounds very wholesome, sounds like a cockney thing. >> it does . yeah, yeah. >> it does. yeah, yeah. >> it does. yeah, yeah. >> like grow some more stairs.

>> like grow some more stairs. >> there's another way of allotment between floors. >> another way of, say, manning up, isn't it? yeah. >> come on, mate, grow an apple and pear. yeah, anyway, so rishi, has warned that overreliance on food imports could undermine the country's security vie. so he warns that, sorry, a new food security index has found that the uk is too reliant on foreign imports , reliant on foreign imports, particularly in the case of fruit and vegetables, and only 55% of vegetables and 70% of fruit bought in this country is grown here. well, i think a big part of that, because all the delicious fruit needs sun, and we don't really want to eat a banana. if you want to eat a delicious like go go berry or whatever it's called. yeah. you can't. >> banana plantations have dundee. yeah, yeah. >> well, what do we grow? strawberries, strawberries, turnips, strips. yeah. >> anybody want a nice slice of turnip i know. >> well, i think the reason why this has become such an issue is because after the russia ukraine war, we've sort of seen that a lot of our food supplies can be put in jeopardy. so we just need to grow our own turnips. >> yeah. and particularly if we're going to continue with high levels of migration, it's going to become more of an issue. the fact that we can't grow enough food here to sustain

us unless they bring fruit and food very regularly . you need it food very regularly. you need it like several times a day. >> this is all about food sovereignty, and it's kind of the uk versus team world, as lewis would put it in many ways. and in order for a supply chain like that to work, it relies on the world getting on. you know, everyone who's like this one world government business like klaus schwab and all those other evil dictators that they it's all very well for them to say, if you're very wealthy and you sit at the top of the pyramid, things look easy when you look down. but they're not. and we don't, you know, we don't get on with russia. yeah. and they can stop the supply chain. what is remarkable is the supply chain of people, migrants seems to carry on regardless. so we fill their pockets for the bananas and peaches . then we might we and peaches. then we might we might have overcome the issue . might have overcome the issue. >> shorterm food sovereignty. >> shorterm food sovereignty. >> yeah, yeah, i kind of the other night, even nick dixon. right. and he's never said anything nice to anyone term. he said that was a good comment. >> i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna claim food sovereignty when my girlfriend wants some of my chips. no. absolutely not.

moving on. >> we've got the express now. and will labour bring lots of palestinian terrorists to the uk and give them council houses? well, they've already trialled it in london. giving a council house to hamas chief pol. >> yes . and he needed it as >> yes. and he needed it as well. leo. come on, lee anderson claims labour plans homes for hamas scheme. so this is responding to a social media post from labour mp sam terris, who called for family visa schemes to bring palestinian refugees to the to safety in the uk via safe and legal route. now safe and legal route is such a buzzword, particularly for the left of politics. they love it, don't they? yummy, yummy, safe and legal route. now we know it's very difficult to produce a safe and legal route anywhere in the world, but it's not so much the world, but it's not so much the route. >> it's the fact that, you know, some of these people exploiting this system, this safe and legal route, are going to be hamas terrorists, and they're going to be coming to the uk. and, you know, as much as i want to help everybody around the world and give everybody a cuddle and, you know, give everybody all my tax money, like i also don't at all. and if we bring i mean, look

what happened to lebanon. lebanon was a majority christian country. it took in lots of palestinian refugees, descended into internecine warfare. and now it's an absolute basket case. look at jordan. took in lots of palestinian refugees , lots of palestinian refugees, then jordan and egypt aren't taking any more, are they? no >> so this this was a this was a while ago. >> yeah. sorry, but now but nowadays and they had had their own military and, you know, caused all sorts of problems for jordan. >> so now, you know, the middle eastern countries are like no way. but for some reason left wing people in this country are like, oh yes, please. that looks fantastic. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i'm sorry, i was just going to say it's a matter of culture as well. so you rely on immigration needs integration. yeah. now i don't have some of the same issues as you do with it. immigration in that sense. but i do have huge issues when it comes to integration. and there are other places in the world. so for instance, when you look at ukraine, russian war, ukrainians that are coming here have a cultural baseline aligned with europe, aligned with the way we are here in great britain

. and the palestinians would be much culturally more at home in, in, in northern africa or the middle east somewhere. and people like egypt, as you were saying , another another saying, another another countries, qatar, for instance, they're not opening their arms. so we are as well. and it's always bleeding heart liberals on the left who say, come, come, come. but it doesn't solve any problems. >> yeah. and israel, needs workers. it's issued lots of visas to indian workers to come and work in israel. i think if the, if it was safe to bring thousands, tens of thousands of palestinians into the uk, it would also be safe to bring them into israel. and there clearly, you know, not doing just to play devil's advocate homes under the hamas . hamas. >> is that a chance. yeah it is. yeah >> i'm surprised i'm surprised he didn't go with that instead of homes for hamas. >> yeah. that's why the politician, not a comedian, homes under the hamas is that we've got the sun now and we've been told that the rwanda scheme is cruel, illegal and unworkable i >> -- >> well, 5mm >> well, now the rest of europe wants to copy it. jonathan. >> yes , indeed. just remind me,

>> yes, indeed. just remind me, what story are we on? so this is number eight, eight, eight. perfect. i knew that, so yeah . perfect. i knew that, so yeah. so, the headline is boost for rishi is 19 eu countries demand the right to introduce rwanda style migration schemes. so a drive by european union countries to replicate a rwanda style immigration scheme has sparked delight in downing street. so the heads of 19 member states have demanded brussels bosses look at offshore processing to help them stem the flow of illegal arrivals. and sunak spokesman said vindication for the flagship rwanda plan. he says i suspect we'll continue to see some of them follow our lead. then he did a big, smug smile . apparently so, yeah. so smile. apparently so, yeah. so it does seem like other countries are kind of, are following britain's lead in this, it's not so much about deportation, but it's more about the actual processing to be done abroad. yeah, but yeah, i mean, this scheme obviously has had its many, critics, but it does seem to be a deterrent at the moment, as we've seen with a kind of flock of, migrants going over to ireland. yeah. fearing

deportation now. yeah. >> it's a similar scheme worked very well in australia, although isuppose very well in australia, although i suppose they've got, you know, they've got different. it's kind of harder to sail to australia surrounded by massive sharks. >> are you talking about when we send all the criminals over or. no no no no no no i thought serious. i was like, great joke. well, it's my joke . that's what well, it's my joke. that's what you meant. >> yeah. this is interesting because all the people who hate rwanda also about the of european flags in their twitter bio, they'll be on there. there'll be a blue sky. >> it creates a huge paradoxical issue for these people because they've got to say , everywhere they've got to say, everywhere in the world is wonderful, particularly africa. yeah. and then at the same time, they've also got to say you can't send them to africa. it's terrible. >> and they've also got to say britain's incredibly racist and is a horrible right wing government. and europe is this paragon of virtue. and now europe wants to be like, of course they caught the racism. >> it's only a massive issue for those who are divisive about their politics. if you take the

issue and remove right and left from it, it is an issue that exists irrespective of which way you vote. this is a problem all across europe and the third, the third country, the third party idea is probably the best thing that's ever been tabled. because i'll tell you for why this safe , i'll tell you for why this safe, safe route no one has ever been able to explain how that would work. yeah, we know how rwanda would work. you get a plane, you stick them on it, you fly them there and they don't come back . there and they don't come back. now, you might think that's cruel, but it works. it solves the problem. safe and legal routes. it'sjust the problem. safe and legal routes. it's just like a water slide straight into the country. yeah. come on in. what jobs are good. >> we're creating, creating an incentive when really we need to be, you know, stopping people gaming the system. yeah, yeah , gaming the system. yeah, yeah, absolutely, now that's it for part for this part. but we're hosting a night with a headliners live , and you can headliners live, and you can join us for an evening of comedy with andrew doyle, simon evans, josh howie and me. for more

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welcome back to headliners. we've got the daily mail now, with ructions in the tory party over rainbow lanyards, grant shapps has come out to support them . them. >> jonathan. yeah, well, grant shapps famously trained at le clown school , so he wanted clown school, so he wanted something to go with his suspenders. that's what i heard. did he. yeah, yeah, with the jul , look, we'll let ofcom decide. so cabinet ties itself in knots over ban on rainbow lanyard. so a cabinet split has opened up on civil service rainbow lanyards as it emerges that guidance across government will not actually ban officials from wearing them, so esther mcvey , wearing them, so esther mcvey, who was appointed to rishi sunak's cabinet as a minister without portfolio , said recently without portfolio, said recently that staff will be disciplined for having any messaging on their lanyards because you're meant to be impartial. and, you

know, that's a form of political activism in a visible way . but activism in a visible way. but grant shapps recently because, well, not because but because the actual guidance says there's no there's no mention of the lanyards, grant shapps has essentially said, i don't care what people, you know, express on their lanyards. he just cares that they're doing the jobs that they're meant to do, which is kind of my view. i think. >> but i mean, the rainbow, the pride flag is a political symbol. you know, if people were walking around the and some people are very offended by it, particularly a lot of gay people who feel that the, you know, the rainbow movement has been co—opted by the tk+ part of the alphabet . and, and, you know, if alphabet. and, and, you know, if people were walking around the hospital with a, you know, a nazi flag or a nazi lanyard , nazi flag or a nazi lanyard, people would be upset. although, of course, i'm not suggesting for a moment that nazis are as bad as gender ideologists. >> no, they're not, and i think that was a good clarification for ofcom there, leo. but, it's interesting, isn't it, because we seem to have forgotten, irrespective of all this naf, naf and trivia , we've forgotten naf and trivia, we've forgotten that civil servants are supposed to remain neutral, visibly

neutral the whole time. now, when they're wandering around the corridors of these dark and dusty places, you could argue that a lanyard isn't going to affect anyone. however in this kind of bubble, we now exist within, and there's this political division everywhere , political division everywhere, and civil servants seem to be at the epicentre of changing policy that they don't like the blob , that they don't like the blob, that they don't like the blob, that them the blob. exactly. the blob. and it has to be fairly senior civil servants because, you know, i was a lowly civil servant once and i didn't change anything. trust me, i didn't have a i didn't have a barely had a lanyard there, never mind. >> get to choose what's on it. exactly. >> so i think it's you know what? ostensibly, i don't think anyone really cares what they wear on their lanyard. however, that we need to bring it back to civil servants. a kind of seen but not heard . yeah, and it will but not heard. yeah, and it will do them good. yeah, it will do them the same way, you know. police dancing at pride. yeah, it will just do them good not to do it now, you know, do what you

like on a saturday. yeah. but dufing like on a saturday. yeah. but during the week 9 to 5, just so it's more of an optics thing or you think it's an optics thing for me i just think it'll help them. i don't know who cares what they believe in. yeah. dufing what they believe in. yeah. during their but their job, they're being paid to be civil servants and they're supposed to serve everybody without fear or favour. >> everybody's equal. so why would you wear a political symbol such as the pride flag that, you know, favours certain groups and also, you know, pushes an ideology that's that's harmful , to certain groups. and harmful, to certain groups. and it's also seen as very offensive to, to certain groups. >> or we go the other way and you have everything you believe on your lanyard and you have your you have your kinks and stuff or you have everything. >> i think what the nhs is currently trying to do is making everything out of pride flags. so you can't you won't even nofice so you can't you won't even notice the lanyard. the scrubs are because yeah, yeah , are because yeah, yeah, everything is a kaleidoscope of trans flags. burning man we've got the independent now and dating app bumble made a little joke about celibacy. i assume everyone took it in good humour.

paul no. bumble apologises for celebrating celibacy ads. we made a mistake. they say so. it said. you know full well a vow of celibacy is not the answer . of celibacy is not the answer. it said this on one of its billboards. now, although the marketing team had been aiming for it to be sort of a tongue in cheek provocation, it ultimately didn't land how they wanted . now didn't land how they wanted. now that's really important, because the large , vast majority of the large, vast majority of bumble users are si king sort of non celibacy related shenanigans i >> -- >> yeah, they are sick as soon as possible . as possible. >> very quickly. its length has got nothing to do with it. so i'm i'd imagine that they would cut to me for that. they just had to mate. i imagine that it was quite a small minority that made the complaint. who's really getting upset about this? it was quite obviously tongue in cheek from a dating site. you know, i don't know much about these things, but i'm assuming that it's all about hook up culture and, you know, so you're not

going to be celibate if you're a part of the hook up culture. exactly. >> yeah. this is i mean, i don't i don't think it's for just hooking up. it's also i met my wife. all right. okay. that's quite a long a quite a long hook up. but but yeah, the people seem to be stretching to get offended by this. so they've heard from apparently asexual. the asexual community is offended by it because celibacy is a serious part of their identity , people whose identity, people whose reproductive rights are continuously restricted, are upset about it, because celibacy isn't a choice or a celibacy is a choice for them . and, yeah, a choice for them. and, yeah, yeah, for other people, they just want to be celibate, and they don't want it to be the butt of a joke. and it's like, oh my god. like, my oh my god. like, my grant shapps joke in the previous hey, i wrote up like this is gold. he went to clowns. literally. chicken. literally. yeah like grant shapps is

history. >> like his, like weird websites selling, like, really weird weapons . it's been described as weapons. it's been described as pyramid esque, although i understand, you know, we've got are okay people. but yeah, if you look at the websites , i did you look at the websites, i did a, i did a video about it on my youtube channel and the very, very amusing alter ego, it was all it was all very funny to, i can't remember what he was selling or if he was selling like some sort of business courses, but i would fully believe that he went to clown school and then clown. >> absolutely. cambridge. i do wish that people wouldn't make perhaps their skin colour or their sexuality the main centre of their identity . it's been of their identity. it's been encouraged. now there are you know, people my daughter's age, 14, 15, their whole life they've been told that these things are the most important things about you. yeah. they're not. you can go about your sexual life without telling everybody which people used to do. >> and it was fantastic. and also people used to be judged on their character and their personality rather than what they identified as. it's ridiculous. anyway, we've got

the telegraph now with a victory for welsh farmers over kafkaesque metropolia bureaucrats. >> jonathan, well, thank you for assuming that you think i know kafka is. yeah, brilliant. thank you.so kafka is. yeah, brilliant. thank you. so the welsh government forced to postpone eco scheme after farmers protest . so after farmers protest. so a scheme that would force farmers to dedicate 20% of their land to eco measures has been postponed by the welsh government after significant backlash. so there was basically this new policy that was being proposed and the welsh farmers did a big old protest against it, and now i think they've put it back until 2026. so i think they bought themselves some time, but yeah, they were , expected to give they were, expected to give a fifth of their land to i think it's rewilding and other eco, kind of things. it's rewilding and other eco, kind of things . but i've watched kind of things. but i've watched a couple of episodes of clarkson's farm and from those i've seen, there's very slim margins in farming. right i don't think you can just give away 20% of your land that easily, and not have it affect the bottom line and stuff, and it's nice to, you know, get the bugs back and stuff. >> but yeah, and also, these

rules that are decided around net zero or whatever it is around farming are, are just made up by faceless bureaucrat automatons sitting at desks . automatons sitting at desks. >> these civil servants, you know, whichever way you look at this, it's difficult to deny that. and most green policies, unfortunately for green, people who create policies are nice to have. and because they are just nice to haves, you have to create fear . otherwise they create fear. otherwise they otherwise they just stay nice to have some. by fear, i mean you have some. by fear, i mean you have to tell people that the world is burning to death and it's all going to happen next week. and you've got, you know, a thumbnail coming out and talking about all sorts of different trivia because she's been told she's been feared into that, and now it's her career. she's got no choice. she i don't know what she could become now. she could possibly become an open mic comedian. she looks like most of them. >> but as funny as most of them, well, exactly. >> so they often put the cart before the horse. and that's exactly what's happening farming here. now, this story does. >> of course, that's terrible. if you're trying to plough a field with the cart before the

horse. >> yeah, it's difficult, isn't it? anywhere and now they've got tractors, mate. but it doesn't. i don't know what it's like in scotland. so to be fair to you, culturally, i don't know what your references are, but take it that to be fair, there is balance within this story. yeah, because they're saying, look, we weren't we didn't think that we'd we'd employ this policy. right now. i think they kind of would like to have done, but they're saying, no, we need to make they've got an opportunity and they need to do it at the right time. but of course, it's never going to be a right time. if you say to a farmer, you've got 100 acres and we want to give 20 of those acres just to wild woodland, and you can't do anything with it just based on a, you know, a mad whim. >> that was arrogance to know what's better than the actual farmers for their farms. >> yeah, the custodians of the land themselves is ridiculous. well, hopefully now that the green party's got a narrow focus on supporting hamas, it's going to get better. anyway, we've got the independent now, and harry and meghan's charity is in trouble. but they say the check is in the post as a comedian, i've heard that one before. paul i've heard that one before. paul, harry and meghan's archewell charity delinquency row becomes blame game as sussex

sources hit back. so we don't know what i'm talking about. prince harry and meghan markle you've probably heard of them. archewell foundation was found to be delinquent, which is a word that i don't normally use in this context. >> that's my year eight school report. >> exactly. yeah. because, state officials failed to process a check that was sent on time. sources close to the couple have fired back now because the foundation have have made this minor error, and it feels like a minor error, and it feels like a minor error, and it feels like a minor error to me. >> see, they see the i reckon. i reckon they didn't have the money. who uses checks? when was the last time? >> well, this is a great point. >> well, this is a great point. >> one weird gig above a pub in london who still uses. yeah mine. >> besserman, but, but that's why my moment. but the foundations are, you know, because they've stopped. they've told them they can't spend any more money. so of course, accusations are flying around, andifs accusations are flying around, and it's difficult to navigate yourself through what is anti harry and meghan. and there's plenty of reasons to be anti harry and meghan. we've we've espoused lots of them here before . and what is just an before. and what is just an opportunity to have a dig. but

it does seem very remiss to get caught on this very basic thing . caught on this very basic thing. it would suggest that they didn't have the funds available, i can't $100, right? i can't imagine the archewell fund is absolutely flush. yeah. who who's who's donating who's donating to these these former royals. >> not has gone down quite a lot, but there's only $200 they needed, right. for the i mean , needed, right. for the i mean, we could have bugged him that. yeah. you know, you think it's part of a fundraising drive? >> they just the people. >> they just the people. >> i reckon you get more press by going delinquent and then. >> yeah, it's very sad story . >> yeah, it's very sad story. >> yeah, it's very sad story. >> i find it very sad because they're cosplaying their life, aren't they? they're cosplaying to be royals when they don't want to be royals. yeah they're cosplaying to be charitable when really they don't want to be charitable. they just want to be in wherever they are, you know? and they're not quite hasn't quite worked out for them . yeah, quite worked out for them. yeah, they they're never gaining credibility. and without that credibility. and without that credibility they are sunk. >> okay. well we've just got the final section to go. we've got hilarious footage of the dublin,

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welcome back to headliners. we've got the mirror now with some drunk people trying to see the northern lights. paul yeah. >> pals fooled after following northern lights in inverted commas, only to discover the glow was a premier inn sign.

what? a couple of plonkers two pals were left in stitches after capturing what they thought was a colourful. the colourful northern lights display in norwich, only to learn that it was a purple signage from nearby premier inn. this is one of the most norfolk things i've read in in a while. i mean, it is good to hear that electricity has made its way to norwich now, but at the same time this is ridiculous, isn't it? i mean completely, i almost can't believe it's true. and i hope it's not that it was on tiktok. ihope it's not that it was on tiktok. i hope that they hoaxed it. because if this is real and i've not seen the footage, i tried to find the footage, but i haven't seen it. if this is real, this is not good. >> i saw i saw photos and it looked it looked real because the light coming from this sign was really purple. it looked like the photos of the northern lights. >> well, these guys were coming back from their pharmacology balls, so i think they were probably, you know, they were pharmacist up. i imagine some northern lights. >> yeah, maybe. i mean , i'm a >> yeah, maybe. i mean, i'm a massive fan of the premier inn. i stay in them all the time . i

i stay in them all the time. i like the premier inn, premier inn, i like you okay. >> you know what? you stay for just three hours at a time, though. yeah. >> i mean, that's all i need, mate. >> i'm more of a division one hotel. we've got the telegraph now in peru has classified trans people as mentally ill. what nonsense. i'm a trans woman and i'm absolutely fine. paul >> you're absolutely not. leo, peru. officially classifies trans people as mentally ill. the health ministry said the decree was the only way peru's pubuc decree was the only way peru's public health services could guarantee full coverage of medical attention for mental health. now, there are these spinning. >> this is. oh this is a positive thing. we're making sure that trans people can get help. >> so look, if we take it on face value, people, we've discussed trans ideology until literally the trans cows come home on a regular basis, now , home on a regular basis, now, there are a lot of mental health issues surrounding this particular subject. so so it might be a very good way of

making sure that the right services are getting to these people . however, peru seems to people. however, peru seems to have a bit of a sort of homophobic , transphobic culture. homophobic, transphobic culture. and, very conservative. yeah, very, very conservative. so and it's kind of incendiary, isn't it? you know, for all, all we all the views we have about some of the ideology, none of us have an actual issue with trans people and we wouldn't call them mentally ill, but what we would, who we would call mentally ill quite often are the, the activists that, you know, that want to remove the genitals from young children. and it did. >> i mean, it used to be, classified as a mental illness and the i can't remember what the bible of, of psychological terms is, but, i mean , i guess terms is, but, i mean, i guess it's about the approach that has the best outcome for the most people. so, you know, if you treat it as a mental, mental illness, is it going to result in a better outcome for, for people who identify as trans than, you know, treating, treating them as if they , you

treating them as if they, you know, they are right? >> i mean, i guess you have to take every case on its own merit, you know, based everyone as an individual and kind of decide for them when they say mentally ill are they going are they essentially saying have gender dysphoria or they literally feel like, oh, no, they're like in a kind of dismissive sense, because i guess that would be a difference. >> i mean, yeah, yeah, it's not clear. and i don't know if something's lost in translation, but they essentially have just classified all trans people as mentally ill. >> okay, well do better. >> okay, well do better. >> peru . >> peru. >> peru. >> we've got the metro now with a guide to workplace breezes. jonathan yeah. the headline is want to make passive aggressive phrases more work appropriate. hr expert reveals how i already hate this person. okay, so apparently passive aggression isn't the best way to deal with this agreement. we're coming across . or having a bad and across. or having a bad and coming across with a bad attitude can stall your career development unless you work here, in which case you get your own show, which is fantastic. so it's basically telling you to not be snarky. that's that's all we do here. we just british.

>> we but we don't have hr here. >> we but we don't have hr here. >> we but we don't have hr here. >> we do. yeah. we put hr department nick gibb doesn't really worked is it. yeah it does. we've got fantastic each department. >> this is a massive i think i've got a few i think a few problems i need to write to them about. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> have you been keeping a list. >> have you been keeping a list. >> yeah i know that was your leg. almost jill pole. >> yeah, but the thing is, metro have told us not to be passive aggressive yet. they got called out on twitter, then they just deleted their twitter account recently. so they are the kings of being, they are the most passive aggressive newspaper, well, let's squeeze this in. in the final minute, we've got the independent and a portal linking dubun independent and a portal linking dublin to new york. is it to be turned off after people behaved in completely predictable ways? >> of course they did. all the mischief that's led to the new york to dublin portal being switched off. now, we've covered this a couple of times, so hopefully most of you are aware of what we're talking about. but there have been twin sculptures fitted with cameras and large screens fitted in each of the two cities, new york and dublin. last week. and the wholesome aim of building a bridge , for a

of building a bridge, for a unhed of building a bridge, for a united planet. but instead , on united planet. but instead, on one case, one dubliner held up a photograph of september 11th, 2001, terror attack, i think it was. i think it was dublin to america, where, rather young lady with buxom breasts, i don't know how you describe them otherwise, but this time of day. but she was jiggling them about, and, paul in that voice and that husky voice. >> yeah. working out what time to leave the show. >> but the show is nearly over, so let's take another quick look at wednesday's front pages. the daily mail leads with sex education to be banned for under nines and no more gender dogma. but who's going to convince the children to be gender queer communists? the telegraph has tories tell police bring back, stop and search. the times has don't teach pupils about gender id schools told the guardian . id schools told the guardian. leads with us warns georgia not to side with russia against the west. and we did check they do mean the country georgia not the state in america. the i news has new weight loss job, gold rush

offers obesity, hope for millions. you can be fat too and finally, the metro has uk's record 3 million food parcels. and those were your front pages. and those were your front pages. and that's all we have time for. thank you and good night. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar , sponsors of weather on . solar, sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> hi there. welcome to the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. low pressure remains close to the uk for the next 24 hours and beyond that means further showers at times, but it's not going to be a complete washout. there will be some drier and sunnier interludes. some places will avoid the showers for long pefiods avoid the showers for long periods of time. that low pressure is sitting to the southwest . that's where we'll southwest. that's where we'll continue to see showers feeding into cornwall and devon overnight, but otherwise drying up nicely across northern ireland, wales into the midlands, southern england staying largely dry in the far northeast of scotland. in between areas of cloud. some outbreaks of rain but some drier

interludes as well. many places under the cloud staying at 12 to 13 celsius but cooler there as we begin the day for northern ireland, for southwest and west scotland, some decent sunny spells first thing, and actually for many places it's a bright day. but there will be this zone of cloud and outbreaks of rain from east anglia into the east midlands, northern england, the far south of scotland, keeping temperatures suppressed and some low cloud hugging the north sea coast of scotland and northern england. elsewhere, sunny spells and a few showers and it's a similar theme as we begin thursday . this zone of cloud thursday. this zone of cloud edges north into parts of northern england , southern northern england, southern scotland and then eventually northern ireland. either side of that, showers will develop the far north of scotland. the far south of england stays dry and sunny on thursday day. friday. further sunny. spells and showers. highs of 21 or 22. >> looks like things are heating up . boxt boilers sponsors of up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on

webster. very good morning to you. >> welcome on board. leading the program today a knife crime crisis. the tories tell police to bring back, stop and search new strict rules for schools. >> teachers are told they mustn't teach gender identity . mustn't teach gender identity. >> food bank use is at an all time high. official figures show a 94% increase in the last five years. >> charity check chaos for harry and meghan. their archewell foundation is labelled delinquent by american author charities. >> and as liverpool city council's considering fines for

badly behaved children,