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running late and I don't want to start

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to L please good evening to the

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candidates and good evening to the press

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as well thank you very much to everybody

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for turning up today I'm sure this is

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going to be one of many Bradford West

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hustings in the coming days weeks um and

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uh obviously today is your opportunity

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to ask your candidates the questions

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that you have in relation to the

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upcoming general elections and what

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they're going to do for you for your

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city for your

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community um for those who don't know me

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my name is Fatima Fatima Patel I'm the

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editor of the Asian Sunday newspaper a

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local Asian Sunday newspaper myself and

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R Latchman director of just West

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Yorkshire have uh together collaborated

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uh we're very grateful to all the

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candidates uh for being here

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today thank you Fatima it's brilliant

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see so many of you out here today uh I

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think when we first started uh asking

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people whether they wanted rord hustings

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there was yes maybe maybe not but I'm

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really pleased that we've had it because

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it shows that there is tremendous

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interest in what's happening in Bradford

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West and we think that democracy is

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something that people should be

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exercising on the basis of issues and

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that's what we're doing today we hope

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that this is an opportunity for you to

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put kind of what you think and you you

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what you thought about when you walked

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in aside and give all candidates

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actually an opportunity to express you

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know their views on certain issues I'm

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going to be very honest today there is a

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lot of emotional investment in terms of

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the outcome for Bradford West there has

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been a lot of press and media attention

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in terms of what's happening in Bradford

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West and I understand that different

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political parties have a lot invested in

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what is happening today and that is good

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because that means that you are invested

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in democracy

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but I also think it's important that

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what we do today is that we keep the

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emotion aside and we constructively

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constructively participate in the issues

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um now this is the note to our

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prospective parliamentary candidates of

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addressed the audience now I'll address

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the prospective parliamentary candidates

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we've asked each of the PPC to provide

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an opening statement of 3 minutes and

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I'll be timing this very strictly I'll

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give you 30 seconds before your 3

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minutes is you and then you will stop

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with that really I think we are almost

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kind of 10 minutes to six I'll start the

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proceedings for today I am going to ask

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uh the pbcs to uh give the three minute

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statement and what we will do is we'll

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go we'll start with Mr Harry boter Harry

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would you start off please thank

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chairman chairman ladies and

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gentlemen hello

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Alum I think a lot of you were thinking

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that who is this

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Harry uh and when I say to you that I am

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Brad fian you will say well

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how um so the next two or three minutes

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I want to tell you exactly who I am and

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where I came from I was I came to

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Bradford in 1967 as an 11y old with my

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father and I settled in corbury I

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educated ated myself uh here in Bradford

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went to Fairfax grammar school and uh in

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1973 I joined the Royal Navy so prior to

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joining the Royal Navy 1973 I was

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Muhammad boa and the Harry bit came

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having joined the Navy they all like to

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have a a nickname or something they

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tried the mo the Mong and everything

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else that went with it and then somebody

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said Harry and here I am so that's where

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Harry boa comes from

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uh my Journeys have taken me around the

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world and also I I was in the 1982

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Forkland War as well Sumer veteran of

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the Forkland War and the gulf

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Wars I've settled down south for the

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last 20

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years and

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uh been a member of United Kingdom

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independence party for the last two

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years which I have really really

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connected with it is

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uh a party that I

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wholeheartedly believe in and believe in

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the policies you will hear around me

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I've been around Bradford and the first

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thing I hear about ukip is the first

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what anybody says is racist and I would

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like to make it clear to everybody here

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if this party was the slightest bit

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racist I would not be a member of it so

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let's get this straight first there are

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there are there are racist you will you

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you you may laugh you may laugh let's me

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out me out um you you will find that

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there are more racist in the other

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parties but they are muffled racist

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right we have the odd one that puts his

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head up up the paret and says I'm racist

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and we said well thank you very much for

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letting us know off you go okay so we in

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in in relation to other party

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are the least racist of all okay so I

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want I want

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well well if you don't believe

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me you you you will 30

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seconds and I will now I

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will the next four weeks uh come and

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talk to me let's talk about it and let's

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clear this air and have a political

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party that means Britain for British

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people for us for our children that's

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that's me right and I'm going to fight

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for it for you for us in Bradford to

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achieve what we what our aim is which is

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you know good education and and and good

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health service here I would fight you

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three thank you thank

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you good evening

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everybody I was going to talk about our

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absentee MP but he's

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here I not remember collect your time

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Bradford deserves

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better I believe Bradford West needs a

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labor government and a labor MP let's be

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clear about a few things for Bradford

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West this government has been a complete

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disaster for the school kids in Bradford

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they have taken the money out where we

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needed it the most and spent it on free

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schools not only that it is also worth

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pointing out that labor did in fact put

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forward a motion for an alteration of

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schools funding so that we could Target

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the funds where we needed them the most

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but our absentee MP wasn't there to cast

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his vote on that one for Children and

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Families we need a labor government

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because we are committed to increasing

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Child Care from 15 to 25 hours capping

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class sizes for five six and seven year

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olds abolishing the prechool status

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Bradford deserves better we need a labor

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government for families because of a

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coalition every family is worse off by

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£1,100 we are committed to increasing

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the minimum wage over the next term of

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parliament to £8 freezing energy bills

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leave we need a labor government because

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the average weekly take-home pay in

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Bradford is approximately

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£360 in comparison to anywhere else

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where it's over £500 a week Bradford

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we have a coalition government which has

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failed miserably in reducing the deficit

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as promised I can tell you if this was a

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football match my three-year-old would

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hit the back of that net better than the

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coalition

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government the only terrible rord West

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has gone up in since the Coalition is

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table what we will do if we come into

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power the labor government will put 9

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billion through the leps through the

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through b leps to actually devolve what

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that 6 billion will actually come so we

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can make the decisions of where we need

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to invest it the most so nobody in

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London is telling us what we how we need

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to grow our community our businesses

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99% 99% of businesses are small

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businesses we will for every one

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corporation tax cut borans are offering

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17 small businesses will flourish that's

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where we need to put our invest in our

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communities to create growth over the

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last three years Bradford West has been

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badly served we have an absentee MP and

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for me the role of the MP in Bradford

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West is about being our voice in

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Parliament but he's never there as he's

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too busy earning Lords elsewh you three

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minutes around thank

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you she punctured her lung by God's

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grace she survived the doctors who

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treated her there did the best they

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could but the hospital in which she was

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treated told quite a different story

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there was no soap my parents who went

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there had to buy soap at this Hospital

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there was no drinking water they had to

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buy bottled water the sheets were dirty

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they hadn't been

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changed what was happening was a Health

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Service in a state of slow motion

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implosion because the Greek economy was

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in a state of slow motion implosion

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there are many parties that will tell

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you they are the guardians of the NHS

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but I will tell you the party that is

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the guardian of the NHS it is the party

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that is the guardian of the economy

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because without a strong economy be

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under no Illusions you have no

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worldclass Health Service you have no

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education system worthy of the name you

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have no social services now I think we

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have a positive story to tell on the

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economy over the past 5 years we've

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created more jobs in this country than

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in the rest of Europe put together here

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in Yorkshire more jobs than in all of

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France and contrary to naz's claim in

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Bradford unemployment has fallen by 30%

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in the past 12 months alone but it is

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undeniable that we are starting from a

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painfully low base unemployment in this

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city of Bradford West stands at almost

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three times the national average the

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number of business units as a proportion

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of the population is barely half the

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national average and worst of all the

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number of people eligible who are

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claiming working or child tax credits

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stands at 6.3 uh 63.5% of the population

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far above any other constituency in this

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country so it is quite clear to me that

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something is going very very wrong with

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local management somewhere now I want to

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talk about some of the positive things

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evening and indeed some of the things we

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are doing but finally before I close I

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do want to turn on to one other issue

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which is this point of community

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relations if I were elected in May 30

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seconds and I could make a positive

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contribution to trust respect and

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understanding between our communities I

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think I could look back on my life and

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say I had achieved something positive we

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have a problem with extremism and nobody

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can deny it but I can't help that

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feeling that at the root of it all is a

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sense of disenfranchisement and

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powerlessness this constant demonization

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in the Press casual racism L three

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minutes are up thank you and that I want

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to bring an end to it is something that

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I will focus on uh more than any other

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thank you very

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much well those personal attacks on you

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y y

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Wooh those uh those personal attacks on

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me Miss sh cannot possibly be true can

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they because on the 22nd of February at

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1

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p.m. you called us and asked us if you

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could be the respect candidate

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in and before you make a bigger fool of

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yourself I really advise you not to deny

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it 22nd of February was the day after

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you came bottom of the poll with just 13

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votes out of almost

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220 in the Bradford West labor party

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selection you are a big loser then and

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the kind of way that you have

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embarked upon this campaign has already

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ensured you're going to be a big loser

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against

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you

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have only a passing acquaintance with

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the truth you claimed and gullible

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journalists believed you that you were

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subject to a forced marriage at the age

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of

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15 but you were not

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15 you were 16 and a

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half I have your

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N I have your n in my pocket

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Mr Galloway told that story Mr Galloway

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can I have your forbearance please I am

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the chair please I will take this I was

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talking about N N I will take this N I

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will I will call an end to these

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proceedings Mr Galloway can we please

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stick to the issues because you've made

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your point you made those two issues can

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we now move on to issues you you allowed

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you

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allowed you allowed three personal

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attacks on me by my new labor opponent

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Mr Gallow I was going to come back that

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Gallow I was going to come back to that

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can I please ask emotions to just come

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down for a while and I think Mr Galloway

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will you continue please I will continue

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no one will ever stop me from

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speaking the issue is that my opponent

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is a liar she lied about me she lied

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about her age she slandered this

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community for her own selfish ends she

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played into every

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stereotype every stereotype 15 seconds

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before you finish well you are you sure

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have you given me injury time for your

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Interruption no no it is actually 31 now

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I'm giving you another 20 seconds can we

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please I need to keep time I have set

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politics a light in Bradford that's why

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the media are here we turned Bradford

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politics upside down we've shaken the

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complacency of Labor which is why they

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hate us so much they have betrayed the

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people here in Bradford and elsewhere in

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the country we are the real labor party

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and that's why they hate us

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I would like to remind all pbc's please

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that we are here to discuss issues there

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will be things that are personal that

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have come up as long as they pertain to

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Bradford West and that's why we're oppos

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the privatization and commercialization

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of schools colleges and universities we

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will scrap University tuition fees and

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bring back the EMA for 16 to 17

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years we believe the public trans sport

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should be run in the interest of

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passengers that reduce our carbon

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emissions and provide fairly fairly

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priced Services helping people to use

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their cars less providing more

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sustainable transport like cycling and

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walking many years of underinvestment in

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housing has resulted in a hous housing

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crisis that blights the lives of many we

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will invest in new social housing

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developments with zero carbon standard

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30 seconds and bring empty homes back

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into use to ensure everyone has access

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to ability to work play in communities

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the homes of families speaking

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140 thank you we have well beating

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beautiful country last sentence please

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and a growing vibrant young population

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under the things you want to ask the

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questions you want to ask rather than

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what I just want to say I will beg the

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chair's Indulgence to be a little person

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for a moment to just tell you who I am

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I'm a general practition who's lived and

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worked in BR West for the last 30 nearly

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31 years now and it's a privileged to to

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be able to stand as a parliamentary

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candidate in R West it has been a

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difficult few years there's absolutely

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no doubt about it we've had a very deep

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and difficult recession but at last

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things are starting to turn around

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employment is rising unemployment is

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falling uh people are starting to see

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the benefits uh households are starting

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to become better off and we want to

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continue uh that we want to continue we

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have a strong economy because as has

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been pointed out without a strong

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economy you don't want you can't do the

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things you want to do but it has to be

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in a fair Society you can't run a strong

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economy on the basis of the poorest

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suffering most and we want to have

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fairness we want to continue the work

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we've done with bringing people lower

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paid people out of tax so I'll stop at

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this point so we've got more time for

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questions thank you thank you very

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much n you approached the respect party

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to join them as a respect candidate

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Could you actually clarify if this was

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the

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case I will absolutely

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clarify could Mr Gallow also confirmed 5

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minutes after I left properties could he

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confirm that I actually said to the guy

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that I've actually just made a joke

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could he confirm that

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please could he please could he also

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confirm I don't want anyone I joked

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about it R please I've got a whole

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WhatsApp conversation to prove it I'm

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not talking to you I'm talking to the

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person down there could Mr Galloway also

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confirm whether or not in terms of my

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lies whether or not somebody after going

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through two weeks of

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evidence they when they went Somebody

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went to Pakistan did somebody pause as

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my father who died over 12 years ago to

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get my Nik from the office could he also

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confirm whether he has sight of the

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original one which I have left in my

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office which is

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the 25th of December

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1988 of course not because he doesn't

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have fight of it because it was my

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marriage not his okay Mr Galloway there

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are two points that Naz has raised that

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she said a it was a joke and secondly

447
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that you know uh Somebody went there

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pretending to be her father could you

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address those questions please and

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I no no no no hang on my dad I've got

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the if I will ask you to leave I will

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ask you to leave all right I have asked

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a question I we are having one panel

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discussion here you will get the

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opportunity in the last 15 minutes to

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put your uh hands up and ask a question

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so Mr Galloway will you please address

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those two issues

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please I think you can take that from n

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as an admission that she called us

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not once but twice to ask if she could

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be the respect candidate in Bradford

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East the day after she came bottom of

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the pole in the labor selection for

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Bradford West she may claim it was a

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joke she didn't say it was a joke and I

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warn her not to go further down the

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route of denial I haven't been in

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Pakistan for a very long time I did not

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myself procure this

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ncah but she's just told us she has an

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earlier nicah but she left it in her

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office well here I ask let her produce

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the ncah from her office because if she

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she's either the only man to do with

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Bradford West

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[Applause]

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what

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your do you both want to have a freefor

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all or are we going to be adults in this

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NZ you raised an issue hang on I will

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come to you I sort a clarification you

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will have the right to respond and after

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Nas has the right to respond we will go

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on to the debate proper I'm not taking

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any more questions because this is about

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Rood voters and the there are loads of

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issues that people want to address so

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with with respect R now you should have

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stopped Nasha when she began her

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personal attacks would you please answer

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the question thank you well I'm not sure

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what question there is for me to answer

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have you said enough no it n Nas asks

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what this has to do with Bradford West

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it has this to do with Bradford West

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there are enough Liars in the House of

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Commons already without electing another

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liar to the house of Comm that's the

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point thank you now I will give you the

501
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last right of reply and I expect us to

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actually observe decorum we are not

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going to be shouting and screaming at

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each other over the chair I will not

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allow it so a short response to what Mr

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Galloway just said unlike Mr Galloway I

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am not going to go down the route whilst

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I've got an election campaign to run AB

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sooning Mr Gallow I'm that after the

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election and I will be in that so as far

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as I'm concerned I am not I refute

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entirely but I have lied about the age

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we will now go to the debate proper and

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I'd like to start with uh the first

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question and the first question is from

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Amin Amin will you stand up please and

517
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ask your first question my question is

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all to all the panels has the dominance

519
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of BL or Clan politics led to the

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corruption of local democracy and if so

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how can I start with you

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Alan there's no surprise I think in

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people wanting to group together exactly

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what we saying it becomes about

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personalities and not about issues and

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it's very difficult when when the the uh

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decisions of support groupings are made

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on the basis of personalities and and so

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so it becomes difficult and my feeling

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as somebody looking from outside is that

531
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it does bring politics down

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uh the brother system I think

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having something that that should be

534
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left behind transported here to the UK

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having something that that should be

536
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left behind transported here to the UK I

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think it's a bad idea to to to use the

538
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system as it's been used let's bring

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politics back

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have brotherhoods but please start using

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it in a sense where it's true democracy

542
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and not the Democracy that we import if

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you like the campaign that is been

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running Bradford West will be inclusive

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of everybody regardless of race gender

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and ethnicity and it will bring about

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the real change that is needed in

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Bradford

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[Applause]

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West I think when barad uh first came

551
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came about in the the 1960s and70s when

552
00:25:32,159 --> 00:25:37,840
people first came to these Shores I can

553
00:25:34,360 --> 00:25:39,279
entirely understand why it existed

554
00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:41,640
people not speaking the language

555
00:25:39,279 --> 00:25:43,919
properly uh maybe not being able to read

556
00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:46,440
that well not knowing how to fill in

557
00:25:43,919 --> 00:25:50,240
forms and so on so forth to have people

558
00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:51,679
who were able to help in that sense uh

559
00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:53,840
was clearly something that was

560
00:25:51,679 --> 00:25:57,960
worthwhile and so this concept of the

561
00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:59,559
community leader is born my concern and

562
00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:00,480
I think it's borne out by some of the

563
00:25:59,559 --> 00:26:03,120
things that have happened in this

564
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:05,720
constituency in the past few weeks is

565
00:26:03,120 --> 00:26:09,480
that since that time it has

566
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:12,559
metamorphosed into a vast system of

567
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:14,039
patronage and often corrupt patronage

568
00:26:12,559 --> 00:26:16,760
and the only thing I would say in the

569
00:26:14,039 --> 00:26:20,520
terms of how we can get over this is

570
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:23,159
each person in this constituency now has

571
00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:25,919
one vote no matter how rich no matter

572
00:26:23,159 --> 00:26:29,039
how poor you have your own vote and the

573
00:26:25,919 --> 00:26:30,919
barager can only work if the stays

574
00:26:29,039 --> 00:26:33,440
together but if each of the little

575
00:26:30,919 --> 00:26:35,960
bricks that make up that block make up

576
00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:38,600
their own mind based on the issues as

577
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:40,799
they see them then the system is by

578
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:43,799
definition broken so I would urge all

579
00:26:40,799 --> 00:26:46,880
people to cast their vote on that basis

580
00:26:43,799 --> 00:26:49,240
based on who you think uh can most uh

581
00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:50,720
represent you and earn your trust and

582
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:53,799
not on the basis of what somebody else

583
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:53,799
has told you to do thank

584
00:26:54,720 --> 00:27:00,960
you all kinds of brotherhoods uh

585
00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:04,840
georgees a member of uh the toofs

586
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:07,080
Brotherhood the bulington uh Brotherhood

587
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:09,559
he's a member of the Henry Jackson

588
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:12,399
Society that's another kind of

589
00:27:09,559 --> 00:27:14,279
Brotherhood there are all kinds well I

590
00:27:12,399 --> 00:27:17,840
can assure you there's no liel in that

591
00:27:14,279 --> 00:27:19,919
he's open about that but uh he's hoping

592
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:21,840
not many people in Bradford West know

593
00:27:19,919 --> 00:27:24,320
who the Henry Jackson Society are but

594
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:27,000
they will George they will there are all

595
00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:30,559
kinds of brotherhoods Freemasons are a

596
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:32,919
Brotherhood uh the union of Catholic

597
00:27:30,559 --> 00:27:36,520
mothers is a Sisterhood there's no

598
00:27:32,919 --> 00:27:39,440
reason to single out the pakistanis the

599
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:41,200
kashmiris the Muslims for special

600
00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:44,919
program about having

601
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:45,880
brotherhoods however where that would be

602
00:27:44,919 --> 00:27:49,279
a

603
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:51,720
mistake is amply demonstrated by what

604
00:27:49,279 --> 00:27:55,279
happened here 3 years ago in the

605
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:59,840
byelection labor chose a candidate based

606
00:27:55,279 --> 00:28:03,159
on baradie politics and we gave them a

607
00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:07,039
bloody good hiding and that

608
00:28:03,159 --> 00:28:10,039
proves that proves that this problem

609
00:28:07,039 --> 00:28:13,039
does not exist to the same extent as

610
00:28:10,039 --> 00:28:16,200
some people claim that it does however

611
00:28:13,039 --> 00:28:19,600
if there's one place in the whole city

612
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:21,919
where brism continues to dominate it's

613
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:24,840
inside the Bradford labor party and

614
00:28:21,919 --> 00:28:27,480
that's the reason that Ed Miland should

615
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:31,480
come up here after the election close

616
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:34,279
down the for labor party and start it

617
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:36,600
again young teenagers have gone to Syria

618
00:28:34,279 --> 00:28:38,880
from dubury and today it's been claimed

619
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:41,399
that over 500 women and young girls are

620
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:44,279
joining Isis what would you do to

621
00:28:41,399 --> 00:28:45,760
prevent more young people going given

622
00:28:44,279 --> 00:28:49,360
that both prevents and the

623
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:52,200
counterterrorism policies have failed

624
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:55,000
George

625
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:57,559
thank which George me I'll call you Mr

626
00:28:55,000 --> 00:29:00,919
Galloway I'll call you George is that

627
00:28:57,559 --> 00:29:03,880
okay if you me to call you Mr Grant I

628
00:29:00,919 --> 00:29:06,360
will is Geor right I'm very happy with

629
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:09,080
Ida I'm very happy thank you

630
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:11,760
um just a quick WR of reply before we go

631
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:13,480
any further on that I no on prent please

632
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:17,440
right

633
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:20,840
so what is causing this uh issue I think

634
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:23,600
foreign policy certainly plays its part

635
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:25,840
and I think anyone who denies that is

636
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:28,240
foolish but I don't think that that is

637
00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:29,720
the whole story I don't know what anyone

638
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:32,200
says about me this is why I'm standing

639
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:35,320
in this constituency to try and improve

640
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:38,039
trust and respect between our

641
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:41,120
communities I think that if we can work

642
00:29:38,039 --> 00:29:43,000
towards uh greater trust uh between our

643
00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:44,960
communities and the police that will

644
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:47,480
certainly help in dealing with this

645
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:49,760
issue but most of all there has to be

646
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:51,720
greater trust amongst different

647
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:55,000
communities themselves be they white

648
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:57,679
black brown or any other color in spite

649
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:59,919
of the fact that our values on

650
00:29:57,679 --> 00:30:01,960
everything from our shared belief in the

651
00:29:59,919 --> 00:30:05,840
importance of family to the importance

652
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:09,200
of Education Enterprise Community itself

653
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:10,919
are fundamentally the same so that I

654
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:14,600
think is where we have to focus our

655
00:30:10,919 --> 00:30:16,880
efforts is in uh promoting greater uh

656
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:19,320
respect between different communities

657
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:21,159
and and and taking on uh the bigotry and

658
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:23,480
the racism that I think is making so

659
00:30:21,159 --> 00:30:25,840
many people so very angry if you look at

660
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:27,320
statistics of young people who go into

661
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,919
who are who leave a country they're not

662
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:30,000
people they are generally speaking

663
00:30:28,919 --> 00:30:31,399
they're not people who have been

664
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:33,440
conditioned over years and years these

665
00:30:31,399 --> 00:30:35,320
are people who have come into religion

666
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:37,279
either reverts converts whichever way

667
00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:39,039
you want to Dr it up and they have found

668
00:30:37,279 --> 00:30:41,120
an anchor because they are they are

669
00:30:39,039 --> 00:30:43,240
disillusioned so what what we need to be

670
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:44,919
addressing is the root cause of that we

671
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:47,440
need to be supporting our young people

672
00:30:44,919 --> 00:30:49,320
to keep them to to to get them involved

673
00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:51,679
in things whether that's unemployment

674
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:53,960
whether that's um the economic status

675
00:30:51,679 --> 00:30:56,720
that we're in or a sense of belonging

676
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:59,320
here British children British values

677
00:30:56,720 --> 00:31:01,679
which what our cultural values are

678
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:03,159
aligned to them there is you know having

679
00:31:01,679 --> 00:31:04,559
we have shared values and we need to

680
00:31:03,159 --> 00:31:06,639
focus in on

681
00:31:04,559 --> 00:31:09,519
them and absolutely in terms of the

682
00:31:06,639 --> 00:31:11,919
prevent agenda um it is an absolute

683
00:31:09,519 --> 00:31:14,880
toxic brand and we have committed to

684
00:31:11,919 --> 00:31:17,760
overhauling the the uh prevent agenda if

685
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:19,840
we were to come back into Power sorry

686
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:21,279
and N just as an earlier hustings that

687
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:22,799
you were at you know now I will come

688
00:31:21,279 --> 00:31:25,480
back to the others you did say that you

689
00:31:22,799 --> 00:31:28,679
actually support to prevent uh and had

690
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:32,679
been you know part some of the so are we

691
00:31:28,679 --> 00:31:34,799
detecting a change position gent I was

692
00:31:32,679 --> 00:31:36,200
very clear in that husting and there are

693
00:31:34,799 --> 00:31:39,080
people who are here who were at that

694
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:41,559
hostings that I delivered a project in

695
00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:44,480
2009 where I was a director for a

696
00:31:41,559 --> 00:31:45,960
leadership development program in 2009

697
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:48,039
and that colleagues amongst us who will

698
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:50,200
clarify this and and second me on this

699
00:31:48,039 --> 00:31:52,200
one it was the first time Muslim

700
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:55,080
communities were given targeted funding

701
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:56,760
and lots of organizations not just the

702
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:59,279
local government yor and humbo where I

703
00:31:56,760 --> 00:32:01,000
worked delivered projects that was CLG

704
00:31:59,279 --> 00:32:04,559
funded communities and local government

705
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:07,039
funding after 2009 prevent went down the

706
00:32:04,559 --> 00:32:09,720
wrong route it was absolutely the wrong

707
00:32:07,039 --> 00:32:11,559
route and I do not endorse prevent I am

708
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:13,279
very clear about that but I did deliver

709
00:32:11,559 --> 00:32:15,880
a project which was one on leadership

710
00:32:13,279 --> 00:32:18,159
development of senior Muslim women it

711
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:20,279
was not a community Grassroots

712
00:32:18,159 --> 00:32:22,039
Intervention which is what came in and

713
00:32:20,279 --> 00:32:24,120
then we started trying to get people to

714
00:32:22,039 --> 00:32:26,440
start policing communities that was

715
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:28,919
wrong thank

716
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:32,480
you Mr govern can I ask you to response

717
00:32:28,919 --> 00:32:35,320
to there we go again to the issue please

718
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:39,000
yeah there we go again the principal

719
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:42,480
reason for radicalization extremization

720
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:45,039
fantization was personified yesterday at

721
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:48,279
the top of the labor part's election

722
00:32:45,039 --> 00:32:50,039
campaign and his name was Tony Blair

723
00:32:48,279 --> 00:32:52,039
Tony Blair's

724
00:32:50,039 --> 00:32:57,080
Invasion and

725
00:32:52,039 --> 00:33:00,679
occupation of Iraq is the most fantastic

726
00:32:57,080 --> 00:33:05,000
recruiting agent for extremism that

727
00:33:00,679 --> 00:33:09,120
anyone could possibly have imagined the

728
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:12,399
reason Isis exist is because Labor's

729
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:15,880
Prime Minister Tony Blair and George W

730
00:33:12,399 --> 00:33:20,679
bush invaded and occupied and destroyed

731
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:24,279
Iraq the reason why Al-Qaeda and Isis

732
00:33:20,679 --> 00:33:27,840
are now on the outs of Damascus is

733
00:33:24,279 --> 00:33:31,799
because of Blair and Bush's Invasion and

734
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:35,559
destruction of Iraq and George Grant

735
00:33:31,799 --> 00:33:39,320
your prime minister wanted us to become

736
00:33:35,559 --> 00:33:41,559
the air force of al-Qaeda and Isis in

737
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:44,720
Syria and the House of Commons stopped

738
00:33:41,559 --> 00:33:47,279
them and one of the reasons why we did

739
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:50,639
was because of my speech in Parliament

740
00:33:47,279 --> 00:33:53,120
before the vote which won by 13 votes to

741
00:33:50,639 --> 00:33:56,200
stop David Cameron doing it you were in

742
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:59,080
Libya David Cameron and William ha

743
00:33:56,200 --> 00:34:02,559
bombed Libya to Smither Mar and now

744
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:05,360
Al-Qaeda are running Riot and every kind

745
00:34:02,559 --> 00:34:09,200
of extremist organization with its own

746
00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:11,919
militia its own Army has torn Libya to

747
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:14,839
Pieces so we don't need any lectures

748
00:34:11,919 --> 00:34:17,800
from the conservative party or the labor

749
00:34:14,839 --> 00:34:19,960
party on this subject I'll tell you what

750
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:23,000
I would do to stop

751
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:25,639
radicalization of British Muslims I'd

752
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:29,280
stop invading and occupying Muslim

753
00:34:25,639 --> 00:34:31,919
countries and I'd stop stoping

754
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:35,240
here at

755
00:34:31,919 --> 00:34:36,960
home the only point I wanted to make the

756
00:34:35,240 --> 00:34:38,879
only point I wanted to make is just to

757
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:40,800
be it's a little bit more complicated

758
00:34:38,879 --> 00:34:42,520
than just talk about disenfranchisement

759
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:44,119
one thing I noticed recently significant

760
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:46,599
number of the people have gone up to

761
00:34:44,119 --> 00:34:48,879
join Isis are medical students now I

762
00:34:46,599 --> 00:34:50,919
have to say medical students aren't that

763
00:34:48,879 --> 00:34:53,720
disenfranchised you NE who got the

764
00:34:50,919 --> 00:34:56,040
opportunity to go to a pretty well paid

765
00:34:53,720 --> 00:34:58,000
and pretty high status profession it's

766
00:34:56,040 --> 00:35:00,070
got to be a little bit more complicated

767
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:02,079
that

768
00:35:00,070 --> 00:35:05,480
[Applause]

769
00:35:02,079 --> 00:35:09,760
has yeah I find myself agreeing with

770
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:13,000
your we should not we should not be

771
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:15,240
rampaging around invading countries and

772
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:17,720
making situation was the green party is

773
00:35:15,240 --> 00:35:19,480
part of Peace it's about negotiation

774
00:35:17,720 --> 00:35:20,520
it's about getting communities to

775
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:22,160
understand each other whether they're in

776
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:24,200
Bradford West on the other side of the

777
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:25,720
world one thing that I'd like to

778
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:28,119
understand is why these young people

779
00:35:25,720 --> 00:35:30,359
feel it's necessary to border plan and

780
00:35:28,119 --> 00:35:32,320
take themselves to a war what are they

781
00:35:30,359 --> 00:35:34,000
hoping to change and we need to get to

782
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:36,000
the bottom of the people who are sending

783
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:38,119
out these messages that are making our

784
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:39,599
young people feel that the only choice

785
00:35:38,119 --> 00:35:42,400
they've got is to board a plane and

786
00:35:39,599 --> 00:35:44,119
cross a into a country illegally and as

787
00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:46,040
Alan says it's a very complicated

788
00:35:44,119 --> 00:35:47,800
situation medical students don't need to

789
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:49,720
do that kind of thing but I think we

790
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:51,760
need to be looking carefully as a mother

791
00:35:49,720 --> 00:35:53,000
I would be absolutely appalled to find

792
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:55,040
my children on the other side of the

793
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:59,640
world entering the war zone I'm sure lot

794
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:59,640
of you would um that's my thank you

795
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:05,920
sry hello

796
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:12,960
thanks first of all I like to take issue

797
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:16,480
with the word prevent itself

798
00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:19,040
and the people that is targeted

799
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:22,680
at uh it's a divisive

800
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:25,319
word and uh I I've never ever liked what

801
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:28,319
prevent is and what it's trying to do

802
00:36:25,319 --> 00:36:30,520
and I've often spoken with

803
00:36:28,319 --> 00:36:33,160
uh the police Commissioners with

804
00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:34,560
regarding this word and I it would have

805
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:38,280
been engaged would have been a lot

806
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:42,640
better as a word of choice if it was to

807
00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:44,880
have been used now if you adopt the ukit

808
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:47,960
policy of non intervention in Foreign

809
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:51,640
Wars right we would not need divisive

810
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:55,680
things like this to start with okay and

811
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:58,560
um it's it's it's one of the problems I

812
00:36:55,680 --> 00:37:01,440
think we have is education

813
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:04,240
and the division between the second

814
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:07,319
third and fourth generation and first

815
00:37:04,240 --> 00:37:09,480
generation is causing in my opinion it's

816
00:37:07,319 --> 00:37:12,079
my opinion is is the problem that we

817
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:15,839
need to address and uh if we can get

818
00:37:12,079 --> 00:37:18,079
that education Gap closed we

819
00:37:15,839 --> 00:37:20,440
will we will get rid of this

820
00:37:18,079 --> 00:37:22,359
divisiveness against the Muslims I think

821
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:24,440
we just get out of foreign countries

822
00:37:22,359 --> 00:37:26,920
Foreign Wars we don't need them we don't

823
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:28,560
need to especially in Muslim countries

824
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:31,359
it's always in Muslim countries we've

825
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:33,359
intervened let's stop it let's have

826
00:37:31,359 --> 00:37:36,800
non-interventionist uh policies and

827
00:37:33,359 --> 00:37:38,800
that's what we get uh advocating as well

828
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:40,280
thank you I'm going to take two very

829
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:42,760
quick responses from the audience is

830
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:45,319
there anybody who wants to come

831
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:48,000
back BR West

832
00:37:45,319 --> 00:37:49,920
constituent uh I was also part of the BR

833
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:51,599
West hostings

834
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:54,200
2012

835
00:37:51,599 --> 00:37:57,119
um prevent has failed we all know that

836
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:59,839
channel 7 project has failed and so our

837
00:37:57,119 --> 00:38:02,440
schedu project miniature projects of

838
00:37:59,839 --> 00:38:04,800
prevent they've all failed uh they

839
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:07,000
target Muslims stigmatized and

840
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:08,560
stereotypers within our community and

841
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:10,040
it's part of one of the questions that

842
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:11,920
I'd like to put to all the candidates is

843
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:14,280
that why is it difficult to ask

844
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:17,119
difficult questions such as prevent and

845
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:18,920
extremism it's not Muslims only it it

846
00:38:17,119 --> 00:38:21,200
happens in you know all all walks of

847
00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:22,599
life I might come back to that later

848
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:24,839
this was a very quick response is

849
00:38:22,599 --> 00:38:26,960
anybody else who wants to make a comment

850
00:38:24,839 --> 00:38:29,480
very quickly please how important is

851
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:31,560
integrity for a parliamentarian sorry

852
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:33,880
I'm not taking questions I asked

853
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:35,800
specifically around responses to prevent

854
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:39,119
so I'm going to move to the next

855
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:42,160
one okay uh the next question is from

856
00:38:39,119 --> 00:38:44,319
Sue Smith Beckley she

857
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:47,200
here yeah can you ask your question

858
00:38:44,319 --> 00:38:50,800
please and I'd like to ask the panel

859
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:53,200
about the spousal immigration rules uh

860
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:54,839
whereby a spouse is required to earn a

861
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:57,280
salary of

862
00:38:54,839 --> 00:39:01,119
18,600 in order to call their partner to

863
00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:03,480
the the UK um this has a significant

864
00:39:01,119 --> 00:39:05,400
impact on the people in Bradford who

865
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:07,680
find it very difficult to earn that kind

866
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:10,440
of wage and I'd like to ask the panel

867
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:14,440
how is that fair when it's so much

868
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:16,400
higher than the minimum UK wage well yes

869
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:18,319
I it goes to the question of Coalition

870
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:19,680
you don't get everything you want when

871
00:39:18,319 --> 00:39:22,280
you only got 50

872
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:24,400
MPS the obvious answer is no it's not

873
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:26,480
fair which is a nonsense that a city

874
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:29,599
like Bradford where the average wages

875
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:31,640
are lower it should be harder to bring

876
00:39:29,599 --> 00:39:33,079
your bring your spouse in than in London

877
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:34,960
where the average wages are higher I

878
00:39:33,079 --> 00:39:38,200
mean how how can that possibly be fair

879
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:41,400
so a crude line like a crude uh cut off

880
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:43,960
point like that is an ense it is unfair

881
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:46,359
remarkably unfair given that our economy

882
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:48,880
brings much lower wage levels than it

883
00:39:46,359 --> 00:39:51,079
would in the Southeast for instance so

884
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:52,839
yeah we're scruffing it it's gone would

885
00:39:51,079 --> 00:39:54,680
your there's a clear distinction between

886
00:39:52,839 --> 00:39:57,119
how your government treats those who are

887
00:39:54,680 --> 00:40:00,040
big investors and those who earn below

888
00:39:57,119 --> 00:40:02,960
the meting 1,600 threshold how would you

889
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:02,960
actually support this

890
00:40:03,079 --> 00:40:10,440
policy I think Prima f it does indeed

891
00:40:06,599 --> 00:40:13,160
seem uh quite unfair and I hope you'll

892
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:14,720
respect me for my honesty in saying that

893
00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:18,880
this is certainly something that if

894
00:40:14,720 --> 00:40:22,839
elected I would want to look at the only

895
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:26,160
thing I will say is clearly we have a

896
00:40:22,839 --> 00:40:29,800
serious issue whilst you have completely

897
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:32,760
unrestricted movement of people inside

898
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:35,880
Europe what that therefore means is that

899
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:38,240
for those outside Europe the rules are

900
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:40,160
disproportionately harsh in my view

901
00:40:38,240 --> 00:40:41,800
because we're so because we can't

902
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:44,040
control any of the movement inside the

903
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:45,319
European Union there is a

904
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:48,200
disproportionate harshness on those

905
00:40:45,319 --> 00:40:51,440
outside clearly this is something that

906
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:53,680
has to be looked at and

907
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:59,119
renegotiated um I don't want to start

908
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:59,119
sounding like Harry boter but um

909
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:03,599
but um I think there does need to be a

910
00:41:02,079 --> 00:41:05,400
renegotiation on this issue and I think

911
00:41:03,599 --> 00:41:09,520
there does need to be a referendum on

912
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:13,280
this issue it's as simple as that sounds

913
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:15,520
good on European I absolutely agree it's

914
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:17,520
absurd um to have 18,600 when your

915
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:19,480
minimum wage is just under 13,000 we are

916
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:22,760
committed to reviewing it and the labor

917
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:24,440
government um out of um we when it was

918
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:25,800
it was a Tories that bought in the ru

919
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:27,520
where an immigration officer could look

920
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:29,119
at your if a person wanted to come over

921
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:31,680
and it was just for economical purposes

922
00:41:29,119 --> 00:41:33,000
and economic purposes they could refuse

923
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:34,359
them on them grounds and it was a

924
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:36,079
government labor government that came in

925
00:41:34,359 --> 00:41:38,760
and abolished that and similarly we'll

926
00:41:36,079 --> 00:41:41,480
be looking at reviewing this as well

927
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:44,480
Harry your government sorry your party

928
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:46,200
your party has been very voal what a

929
00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:48,280
lovely fraan

930
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:51,720
slip what a

931
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:55,880
nightmare we live in Hope thank you yes

932
00:41:51,720 --> 00:41:59,240
yes no we don't I've got

933
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:59,240
a thank you

934
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:08,280
um I can understand why the

935
00:42:04,599 --> 00:42:09,880
18,600 came where it came from and what

936
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:12,400
what they tried to do which is to bring

937
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:14,680
a spouse over and they can support it

938
00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:19,000
and that's the kind of level that you'll

939
00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:22,119
need now I would work hard when elected

940
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:25,800
when elected in Bradford West to get

941
00:42:22,119 --> 00:42:28,280
this to get this ridiculous figure an

942
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:31,240
olded and abolished

943
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:34,480
um minimum wage should be the criteria

944
00:42:31,240 --> 00:42:37,960
at all levels and you get a policy on on

945
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:40,559
no uh income tax on minimum wage uh

946
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:43,760
should give 100% of that person that's

947
00:42:40,559 --> 00:42:46,079
earning in their pockets

948
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:47,599
now what I think they're trying to do

949
00:42:46,079 --> 00:42:49,800
was to say

950
00:42:47,599 --> 00:42:51,319
that look at the savings look at the

951
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:53,800
minimum wage and then look at what the

952
00:42:51,319 --> 00:42:55,160
person's savings are that the criteria

953
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:57,839
whether they can support this bouse or

954
00:42:55,160 --> 00:43:00,359
not right so the minimum wage should be

955
00:42:57,839 --> 00:43:01,839
the criteria for uh for bringing your

956
00:43:00,359 --> 00:43:04,800
spouse over and they can look at their

957
00:43:01,839 --> 00:43:06,040
savings as an additional thing to say

958
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:07,440
that whe they can support the spouse or

959
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:09,480
not that would be something I'd be

960
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:11,079
looking at rather than rather than the

961
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:15,640
188 and half th000 which is totally

962
00:43:11,079 --> 00:43:19,720
ridiculous Mr G have you ask na

963
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:21,520
faraj you know I something I hope you

964
00:43:19,720 --> 00:43:24,680
forg he would agree with me he will

965
00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:26,400
agree with me very much I very much

966
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:29,480
thought that he'll agree with you

967
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:32,160
there's something on natural Harry uh

968
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:34,520
about a man like you standing for ukip

969
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:36,280
it's like watching a bear dancing it's

970
00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:40,200
just not

971
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:42,440
natural and you see the Liberals uh

972
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:46,680
overly and George grant for the

973
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:49,040
conservatives covertly seek to fool you

974
00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:50,000
uh by saying that they' look at it

975
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:54,160
review

976
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:59,000
it it was them that introduced it it is

977
00:43:54,160 --> 00:44:02,640
a racist policy it doesn't apply to an

978
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:04,839
Italian or a Polish person who can bring

979
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:08,040
a wife or a husband to come and live

980
00:44:04,839 --> 00:44:11,040
here but someone from the subcontinent

981
00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:14,200
cannot choose a bride or groom of their

982
00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:18,359
own choosing unless they can demonstrate

983
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:21,480
on paper £18,600

984
00:44:18,359 --> 00:44:25,119
earnings now that is not just racial

985
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:27,920
discrimination it's class discrimination

986
00:44:25,119 --> 00:44:31,200
discriminating against poor people and

987
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:35,480
discriminating against Asian people it

988
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:38,000
is an Abomination and it's a disgrace

989
00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:40,440
that labor is committed only to

990
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:44,200
reviewing this why don't they commit

991
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:46,680
themselves to scrapping it I certainly

992
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:49,000
would so I wanted to ask you are you

993
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:52,040
happy with what you

994
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:54,240
heard I think it's nice to see that all

995
00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:56,119
the candidates are broadly in agreement

996
00:44:54,240 --> 00:44:58,040
that they will either review or scrap it

997
00:44:56,119 --> 00:45:00,880
although I would say to Mr Bo who

998
00:44:58,040 --> 00:45:02,920
mentioned taking into account savings

999
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:06,319
and the minimum wage it's very hard to

1000
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:06,319
save when you're on the minimum

1001
00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:15,200
wage I think I think you to missed the

1002
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:17,319
point that quick rard trying to miss the

1003
00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:19,520
point that what the the policies when it

1004
00:45:17,319 --> 00:45:22,559
was made uh this is what they're trying

1005
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:24,200
to design that uh but it it they've got

1006
00:45:22,559 --> 00:45:25,880
it wrong they've got it wrong like

1007
00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:27,960
everything else they get it wrong right

1008
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:30,960
so Nigel farage has got that wrong thank

1009
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:34,960
you n far hasn't made Nel farage has not

1010
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:37,119
made 18,600 it is on on my right hand

1011
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:39,480
side right we're only about a month away

1012
00:45:37,119 --> 00:45:41,520
from the U elections and we know

1013
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:44,359
everything about your personal life but

1014
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:46,599
I'd really love to hear about your

1015
00:45:44,359 --> 00:45:48,480
priorities and not only about your

1016
00:45:46,599 --> 00:45:50,680
priorities because uh it's not just

1017
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:53,040
Bradford West it's the whole of Bradford

1018
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:54,599
because it's all in the same boat really

1019
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:56,480
but in Bradford West I want to hear

1020
00:45:54,599 --> 00:46:00,520
about your priorities now I haven't

1021
00:45:56,480 --> 00:46:03,400
heard about that in the media um and not

1022
00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:06,599
just about your priorities but how you

1023
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:08,119
tend to tackle those now before you

1024
00:46:06,599 --> 00:46:09,880
answer that question can I say that if

1025
00:46:08,119 --> 00:46:13,040
you can stick to three priorities please

1026
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:13,040
all we might have an endless

1027
00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:19,319
list thank

1028
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:21,400
you uh my three priorities for first one

1029
00:46:19,319 --> 00:46:23,440
has to be education and the reason

1030
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:26,079
education is because we're second in the

1031
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:28,400
bottom and we have a long way to go long

1032
00:46:26,079 --> 00:46:30,440
way to get baled education standards up

1033
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:32,640
how I do that in terms of education is

1034
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:34,559
we have had Professor Wood's report

1035
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:38,119
which landed on the 17th of March that

1036
00:46:34,559 --> 00:46:40,839
was incorporated into into um a plan for

1037
00:46:38,119 --> 00:46:43,000
Bradford to deliver on in terms of so it

1038
00:46:40,839 --> 00:46:47,440
has priorities on how I would Implement

1039
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:49,839
that is scrutinized and B unlike our pre

1040
00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:51,760
our current MP who doesn't engage with

1041
00:46:49,839 --> 00:46:52,960
our leadership who does not who refuses

1042
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:55,800
to engage with the leadership on

1043
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:57,400
education because he feels that actually

1044
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:59,640
you're the part of a problem not

1045
00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:01,800
prepared to talk to you if we do not sit

1046
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:03,839
at the table if we do not actually

1047
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:05,760
engage in those discussions and hold

1048
00:47:03,839 --> 00:47:08,280
people to account we cannot shift the

1049
00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:10,119
status quo we are in Bradford Bradford

1050
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:11,880
Council has agreed to implement all

1051
00:47:10,119 --> 00:47:13,559
those recommendations and Professor

1052
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:15,640
Wood's recommendations came he was the

1053
00:47:13,559 --> 00:47:17,680
advisor the academic advisor to the the

1054
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:18,920
London challenge so we will be doing

1055
00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:21,559
that so there's a culture of

1056
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:23,200
accountability that has to be created

1057
00:47:21,559 --> 00:47:25,559
there has to be for me the second

1058
00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:27,760
priority has to be in terms of jobs if

1059
00:47:25,559 --> 00:47:30,000
we do not engage we have have 6 billion

1060
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:32,599
coming to the leps if we have that 6

1061
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:34,920
billion Devolution we have to again be

1062
00:47:32,599 --> 00:47:36,599
engaged in those discussions only then

1063
00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:38,839
can we prioritize where the money is

1064
00:47:36,599 --> 00:47:41,000
going to be going and we have to Target

1065
00:47:38,839 --> 00:47:42,520
small medium businesses because that's

1066
00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:45,000
where the real growth is that's where

1067
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:46,559
sustainability will come from if we we

1068
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:48,960
miss that we miss we miss the whole

1069
00:47:46,559 --> 00:47:51,800
generation again third so we've got

1070
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:53,559
education we've got unemployment a prips

1071
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:55,200
having people skill set skill set is

1072
00:47:53,559 --> 00:47:57,079
absolutely important we have lots of

1073
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:59,240
people in Bradford who are graduate who

1074
00:47:57,079 --> 00:48:00,640
don't have jobs so we've got the

1075
00:47:59,240 --> 00:48:02,960
university fees are going to come down

1076
00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:04,960
you've got 3,000 each so we've got less

1077
00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:06,839
debt and that less debt is not just

1078
00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:08,200
about students walking away with it but

1079
00:48:06,839 --> 00:48:10,680
actually when we at the end of it we

1080
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:12,079
have 261 billion in debt that the

1081
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:13,599
government will end up paying back so

1082
00:48:12,079 --> 00:48:15,599
why do that why not just knock the

1083
00:48:13,599 --> 00:48:18,119
tution fees down in the first instance

1084
00:48:15,599 --> 00:48:20,119
so being able to give young people the

1085
00:48:18,119 --> 00:48:22,119
opportunity to increase their skill set

1086
00:48:20,119 --> 00:48:24,319
those my three but I've got load more

1087
00:48:22,119 --> 00:48:25,920
anyway L can I just ask you I mean you

1088
00:48:24,319 --> 00:48:27,720
talked about education being important

1089
00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:29,440
but clearly you know know as far as the

1090
00:48:27,720 --> 00:48:31,680
local council is concerned labor is

1091
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:33,520
actually now in power it's the labor

1092
00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:36,839
leadership you know that has

1093
00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:38,599
responsibility forio and how is it that

1094
00:48:36,839 --> 00:48:41,599
you know we've had generation after

1095
00:48:38,599 --> 00:48:44,240
generation of poor performance so I I it

1096
00:48:41,599 --> 00:48:46,640
doesn't square square up let me square

1097
00:48:44,240 --> 00:48:49,440
that up for you the labor labor

1098
00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:52,200
leadership education came back under

1099
00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:53,960
labor leadership in 2011 not before that

1100
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:56,960
for 10 years it was handed out when it

1101
00:48:53,960 --> 00:49:00,359
was under a Tory Council to Circle so

1102
00:48:56,960 --> 00:49:02,200
that 10 years of failure that 10 years

1103
00:49:00,359 --> 00:49:04,760
of privatization through the back door

1104
00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:07,079
let's be clear is where we are at with

1105
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:09,280
education we do have pockets of good

1106
00:49:07,079 --> 00:49:11,119
practice we do we need to learn from

1107
00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:14,599
that pocket of good practice and improve

1108
00:49:11,119 --> 00:49:16,960
we have we are on target for 2017 and i'

1109
00:49:14,599 --> 00:49:19,920
I've openly said this publicly on the

1110
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:21,400
radio and to people it's not good enough

1111
00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:24,880
for me because my kids are in this

1112
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:26,400
education system yeah thank you so uh

1113
00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:27,920
I'd like to turn to you I mean one of

1114
00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:30,280
the things that's happened in Bradford

1115
00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:33,119
is that we've seen a mushrooming of free

1116
00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:35,240
schools we've seen acmy come up and what

1117
00:49:33,119 --> 00:49:37,520
that's done is taken away vital funding

1118
00:49:35,240 --> 00:49:39,040
from State sector in a place like

1119
00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:40,520
Bradford West you know when you've got

1120
00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:42,480
schools that are under the state sector

1121
00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:44,440
they're getting important monies being

1122
00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:46,000
taken away from them how would you

1123
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:48,599
justify a policy as somebody who's

1124
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:51,839
standing for a constituency like Radford

1125
00:49:48,599 --> 00:49:55,839
West well I think that the free school

1126
00:49:51,839 --> 00:49:58,680
agenda in this city has actually yielded

1127
00:49:55,839 --> 00:50:02,280
some genuinely positive dividends there

1128
00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:04,280
is now just one school in uh Secondary

1129
00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:07,960
School in Bradford West that has been

1130
00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:10,839
rated outstanding across all areas it

1131
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:14,799
was founded in 2012 it is Dixon's

1132
00:50:10,839 --> 00:50:17,839
Trinity Academy so it is clearly not the

1133
00:50:14,799 --> 00:50:20,720
case uh that this is uh something that

1134
00:50:17,839 --> 00:50:22,920
is proving detrimental to education that

1135
00:50:20,720 --> 00:50:24,880
being said I I I find it really

1136
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:28,000
extraordinary that we talk about this in

1137
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:31,640
a sort of Zero Sum way it is quite

1138
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:34,920
possible to have uh investment in State

1139
00:50:31,640 --> 00:50:37,200
education and also to allow parents and

1140
00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:40,240
governors who want to do so other groups

1141
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:42,520
to establish a school if they so choose

1142
00:50:40,240 --> 00:50:45,040
uh that is what is happening and I I see

1143
00:50:42,520 --> 00:50:46,319
no contradiction in that as I say um you

1144
00:50:45,040 --> 00:50:48,040
know there is another free school that I

1145
00:50:46,319 --> 00:50:49,839
visited recently called one in a million

1146
00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:52,119
it too is having some extraordinary

1147
00:50:49,839 --> 00:50:53,720
results does seem to be working in this

1148
00:50:52,119 --> 00:50:56,440
constituency there's a zero sum

1149
00:50:53,720 --> 00:50:58,200
education po that hasn't increased and

1150
00:50:56,440 --> 00:51:00,760
if a larger proportion of that actually

1151
00:50:58,200 --> 00:51:02,559
goes toies and goes to free schools and

1152
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:04,839
not State schools it follows that the

1153
00:51:02,559 --> 00:51:07,480
investment in state schools is far lower

1154
00:51:04,839 --> 00:51:09,319
than it is with fre schools andies which

1155
00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:12,359
is actually a pet project with Michael

1156
00:51:09,319 --> 00:51:14,359
go well they are all state schools they

1157
00:51:12,359 --> 00:51:16,599
are that none of they are not private

1158
00:51:14,359 --> 00:51:20,040
schools they're all state schools you

1159
00:51:16,599 --> 00:51:22,760
just have different categories of school

1160
00:51:20,040 --> 00:51:25,440
and this this system is starting to work

1161
00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:27,280
I think Bradford in educ education in

1162
00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:31,400
Bradford West has bumped along the

1163
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:33,640
bottom for a very very long time we are

1164
00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:35,799
seeing now improvements real

1165
00:51:33,640 --> 00:51:38,599
improvements in education in this city a

1166
00:51:35,799 --> 00:51:41,040
lot of them are coming through theseis

1167
00:51:38,599 --> 00:51:43,559
and why uh everyone is so Keen to

1168
00:51:41,040 --> 00:51:45,240
rubbish something that works it you know

1169
00:51:43,559 --> 00:51:47,119
is frankly Beyond me I think I'd like to

1170
00:51:45,240 --> 00:51:48,880
maintain if that same money did go to

1171
00:51:47,119 --> 00:51:51,240
the state sector then you know possibly

1172
00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:54,079
they might not be bumping around

1173
00:51:51,240 --> 00:51:56,359
everything money is solution to all the

1174
00:51:54,079 --> 00:51:59,200
world's ills right now we're not seeing

1175
00:51:56,359 --> 00:52:02,799
it improvements we're going down the

1176
00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:05,359
league when I arrived here 3 years ago

1177
00:52:02,799 --> 00:52:07,720
we were the fifth bottom of the league

1178
00:52:05,359 --> 00:52:10,160
now we're the second bottom of the

1179
00:52:07,720 --> 00:52:14,359
league and the Tories are going to cut

1180
00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:17,559
education spending by three billion in

1181
00:52:14,359 --> 00:52:21,799
the next 12 months if they get back you

1182
00:52:17,559 --> 00:52:24,359
can't cut education by3 billion and

1183
00:52:21,799 --> 00:52:27,319
expect better results you don't need to

1184
00:52:24,359 --> 00:52:29,640
be Einstein to work that out

1185
00:52:27,319 --> 00:52:32,319
but it's labor that are running the

1186
00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:36,240
schools in Bradford there's no point in

1187
00:52:32,319 --> 00:52:38,920
a labor candidate saying the education's

1188
00:52:36,240 --> 00:52:41,839
just not good enough here when it's hard

1189
00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:43,559
party that are running the schools now

1190
00:52:41,839 --> 00:52:46,400
when you're second bottom of the

1191
00:52:43,559 --> 00:52:49,799
football league the manager gets the

1192
00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:52,400
sack if he doesn't have the grace to

1193
00:52:49,799 --> 00:52:55,480
resign but they never get the sack in

1194
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:59,000
Bradford they never resign the schools

1195
00:52:55,480 --> 00:53:01,640
get worse and worse and the same people

1196
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:05,119
keep on running them and as for the 10

1197
00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:08,319
years of Ciro it was the labor

1198
00:53:05,119 --> 00:53:12,480
government the introduced Circle running

1199
00:53:08,319 --> 00:53:16,119
schools the government of Tony Blair and

1200
00:53:12,480 --> 00:53:20,960
golden brown so labor are trust up like

1201
00:53:16,119 --> 00:53:23,920
a turkey in this and I think nobody in

1202
00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:26,599
this hall or in this elector should be

1203
00:53:23,920 --> 00:53:29,400
in any doubt I mean she talks about the

1204
00:53:26,599 --> 00:53:31,520
the London challenge it was me that

1205
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:34,160
raised the London challenge when they

1206
00:53:31,520 --> 00:53:36,799
were telling us we didn't have a problem

1207
00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:39,640
I was demanding a London challenge now

1208
00:53:36,799 --> 00:53:42,280
it's wonderful to have converts let's

1209
00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:45,440
have a London challenge here in Bradford

1210
00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:47,960
Mr let hire the people who ran the

1211
00:53:45,440 --> 00:53:50,280
London challenge to run a Bradford

1212
00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:54,640
challenge I was the MP right now in

1213
00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:58,359
Tower hamlets they are 15th from the top

1214
00:53:54,640 --> 00:54:01,040
of the National League we are

1215
00:53:58,359 --> 00:54:04,240
152nd out of

1216
00:54:01,040 --> 00:54:06,920
154 if we can do it into to our hamlets

1217
00:54:04,240 --> 00:54:09,599
with the same demographic as we have

1218
00:54:06,920 --> 00:54:12,319
here in Bradford we can do it too Mr

1219
00:54:09,599 --> 00:54:14,280
gway I've heard you talking about the

1220
00:54:12,319 --> 00:54:15,839
braa challenge and you know you've made

1221
00:54:14,280 --> 00:54:18,440
it one of the key issues that you want

1222
00:54:15,839 --> 00:54:20,160
to engage in but what I haven't seen is

1223
00:54:18,440 --> 00:54:22,480
progress in terms of moving that agenda

1224
00:54:20,160 --> 00:54:24,839
forward and I also recall that you

1225
00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:27,040
raised this issue in Parliament and you

1226
00:54:24,839 --> 00:54:29,400
were invited by Mr Michael go to meet

1227
00:54:27,040 --> 00:54:31,640
with him to talk about you know how you

1228
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:34,680
might be able to work with him to try

1229
00:54:31,640 --> 00:54:36,440
and rectify the situation in Bradford so

1230
00:54:34,680 --> 00:54:38,000
could you kind of you know elate what

1231
00:54:36,440 --> 00:54:39,880
you have done in terms of the Bradford

1232
00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:41,520
challenge rather than saying that that's

1233
00:54:39,880 --> 00:54:44,520
something we need to have and did you

1234
00:54:41,520 --> 00:54:49,160
meet Mr Michael go I did indeed in his

1235
00:54:44,520 --> 00:54:51,720
very plush uh private office and I said

1236
00:54:49,160 --> 00:54:54,880
to him exactly what I said to you and

1237
00:54:51,720 --> 00:54:57,319
the audience the Bradford Schools are a

1238
00:54:54,880 --> 00:55:00,799
National Disgrace and the people that

1239
00:54:57,319 --> 00:55:04,480
are running them need to be sacked if

1240
00:55:00,799 --> 00:55:06,720
we're going to make any progress I had

1241
00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:09,920
three conversations with Michael go on

1242
00:55:06,720 --> 00:55:11,680
this subject when he was the education

1243
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:15,000
secretary but the problem is he's

1244
00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:18,359
ideologically bound as is George Grant

1245
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:22,119
to a model of free schools andies which

1246
00:55:18,359 --> 00:55:25,319
as you implied suck resources suck money

1247
00:55:22,119 --> 00:55:27,400
suck teachers out of the state system

1248
00:55:25,319 --> 00:55:30,839
where the vast majority majority of our

1249
00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:33,880
students still have to go now I don't

1250
00:55:30,839 --> 00:55:36,799
run the city hall I wish I did I don't

1251
00:55:33,880 --> 00:55:39,160
run the government I wish I did but I'm

1252
00:55:36,799 --> 00:55:41,640
very glad that labor in Bradford has at

1253
00:55:39,160 --> 00:55:43,920
least come round to accepting that there

1254
00:55:41,640 --> 00:55:45,520
is a problem they want to call it the

1255
00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:47,640
northern challenge I call it the

1256
00:55:45,520 --> 00:55:49,720
Bradford challenge I'll settle for a

1257
00:55:47,640 --> 00:55:51,200
Yorkshire challenge but let's do

1258
00:55:49,720 --> 00:55:55,630
something God's

1259
00:55:51,200 --> 00:55:58,000
sake could I ask you like

1260
00:55:55,630 --> 00:55:59,720
[Applause]

1261
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:01,839
I have two children who came through the

1262
00:55:59,720 --> 00:56:03,760
Bradford education system and they've

1263
00:56:01,839 --> 00:56:05,839
done pretty well there are pockets of

1264
00:56:03,760 --> 00:56:08,680
Excellence I don't think we should

1265
00:56:05,839 --> 00:56:13,520
blanket the whole city as having failing

1266
00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:17,160
schools we have young people who are not

1267
00:56:13,520 --> 00:56:19,640
getting an education that is 21st

1268
00:56:17,160 --> 00:56:20,599
century standard we need to understand

1269
00:56:19,640 --> 00:56:23,799
why that

1270
00:56:20,599 --> 00:56:26,599
is all children start similarly they

1271
00:56:23,799 --> 00:56:28,720
start you know as small people um and

1272
00:56:26,599 --> 00:56:31,039
they they have opportunities presented

1273
00:56:28,720 --> 00:56:33,000
to them throughout their lives we need

1274
00:56:31,039 --> 00:56:34,920
to start early we need to be looking at

1275
00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:36,760
preschool education we need to be

1276
00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:38,520
getting to understand how The Young

1277
00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:41,400
Person's mind works so that they can

1278
00:56:38,520 --> 00:56:44,160
develop to their their potential and as

1279
00:56:41,400 --> 00:56:47,000
mentioned things like um apprenticeships

1280
00:56:44,160 --> 00:56:49,400
um not everybody's academic we know this

1281
00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:52,520
in the in the Michael go world everybody

1282
00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:54,400
can be a a a PhD student that's not

1283
00:56:52,520 --> 00:56:56,039
possible um apprenticeships are

1284
00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:59,000
important for the kind of people who

1285
00:56:56,039 --> 00:57:00,559
have have practical skills um we do have

1286
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:02,640
apprenti apprenti ships in the city

1287
00:57:00,559 --> 00:57:04,680
they're not well publicized that is part

1288
00:57:02,640 --> 00:57:06,640
of the problem um we do have

1289
00:57:04,680 --> 00:57:09,599
opportunities for young people that

1290
00:57:06,640 --> 00:57:13,000
somehow the schools don't give adequate

1291
00:57:09,599 --> 00:57:15,119
career and you know lifetime advice with

1292
00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:17,359
a new labor government that forced Brad

1293
00:57:15,119 --> 00:57:20,200
for Council to take to Outsource

1294
00:57:17,359 --> 00:57:22,079
education to Ciro in response to the

1295
00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:24,000
failures of the labor Administration

1296
00:57:22,079 --> 00:57:26,319
have been running education in the Years

1297
00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:28,000
leading up to that however we are

1298
00:57:26,319 --> 00:57:29,319
actually talking about uh a

1299
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:30,880
parliamentary election talk about

1300
00:57:29,319 --> 00:57:32,280
national government and as has been

1301
00:57:30,880 --> 00:57:34,640
quite pointed out the main

1302
00:57:32,280 --> 00:57:37,079
responsibility for delivering education

1303
00:57:34,640 --> 00:57:39,160
is is down to the council George money

1304
00:57:37,079 --> 00:57:41,200
isn't everything but it's reallyy

1305
00:57:39,160 --> 00:57:43,000
important it's well known it is well

1306
00:57:41,200 --> 00:57:44,280
known obvious all the research shows

1307
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:46,079
that what really makes the difference

1308
00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:47,480
what really brings this quality of

1309
00:57:46,079 --> 00:57:49,079
Education up is the quality of the

1310
00:57:47,480 --> 00:57:50,839
leadership in the schools and what we

1311
00:57:49,079 --> 00:57:52,559
have to do most of all is to attract

1312
00:57:50,839 --> 00:57:54,880
good leaders good teachers good head

1313
00:57:52,559 --> 00:57:58,440
teachers into our schools but money is

1314
00:57:54,880 --> 00:57:59,920
important five years ago I said I was

1315
00:57:58,440 --> 00:58:02,359
asked what was my most important

1316
00:57:59,920 --> 00:58:04,480
priority for the election Li them policy

1317
00:58:02,359 --> 00:58:06,640
five years ago and I said it was a peup

1318
00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:08,720
premium it was a system which means that

1319
00:58:06,640 --> 00:58:10,160
actually places which are economically

1320
00:58:08,720 --> 00:58:12,400
deprived which have historically

1321
00:58:10,160 --> 00:58:14,599
suffered from lack of investment schools

1322
00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:16,720
in those areas where pupils are coming

1323
00:58:14,599 --> 00:58:19,039
from economically private backgrounds

1324
00:58:16,720 --> 00:58:21,280
would get more funding the pupil premium

1325
00:58:19,039 --> 00:58:23,160
has worked come through and as a result

1326
00:58:21,280 --> 00:58:25,559
to that schools in Bradford have got

1327
00:58:23,160 --> 00:58:27,880
more funding in line with the element of

1328
00:58:25,559 --> 00:58:30,359
deprivation the PS they dealing with

1329
00:58:27,880 --> 00:58:32,200
unfortunately it still hasn't helped yet

1330
00:58:30,359 --> 00:58:34,760
and that's more about the leadership so

1331
00:58:32,200 --> 00:58:37,400
it has to be done thank you next

1332
00:58:34,760 --> 00:58:40,720
question is from

1333
00:58:37,400 --> 00:58:41,920
NAD oh sorry Harry did I miss you sorry

1334
00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:45,520
you

1335
00:58:41,920 --> 00:58:47,880
please just keep reminding none of them

1336
00:58:45,520 --> 00:58:49,839
Celia has just mentioned that she has

1337
00:58:47,880 --> 00:58:53,280
two children going through the Bradford

1338
00:58:49,839 --> 00:58:56,640
education system and let me tell you

1339
00:58:53,280 --> 00:58:59,839
that I went through that br education

1340
00:58:56,640 --> 00:59:02,720
system as well from the age of 12 to the

1341
00:58:59,839 --> 00:59:08,280
age of 16 so four years of education

1342
00:59:02,720 --> 00:59:10,799
I've had in Bradford Schools from and

1343
00:59:08,280 --> 00:59:14,240
that four years of education in the 60s

1344
00:59:10,799 --> 00:59:17,280
and 70s has led me to sit here in front

1345
00:59:14,240 --> 00:59:18,359
of you right now standing for a member

1346
00:59:17,280 --> 00:59:21,799
of

1347
00:59:18,359 --> 00:59:26,240
parliament now that must have been some

1348
00:59:21,799 --> 00:59:28,680
education system okay where where so I

1349
00:59:26,240 --> 00:59:31,319
do we not look at you can

1350
00:59:28,680 --> 00:59:33,240
laugh the laughter says something that

1351
00:59:31,319 --> 00:59:36,119
there's no understanding going on but I

1352
00:59:33,240 --> 00:59:39,400
I do respect I do respect whatever you

1353
00:59:36,119 --> 00:59:41,520
find funny like George said things are

1354
00:59:39,400 --> 00:59:43,760
on the decline just going back to your

1355
00:59:41,520 --> 00:59:47,720
comments Elia about your two children

1356
00:59:43,760 --> 00:59:49,799
doing well in a certain school if um the

1357
00:59:47,720 --> 00:59:52,799
attainment and achievement levels are

1358
00:59:49,799 --> 00:59:54,920
let's say 30% of CH children um

1359
00:59:52,799 --> 00:59:57,039
attaining grade a to c I'm not

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00:59:54,920 --> 01:00:00,400
interested in that I'm interested in the

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00:59:57,039 --> 01:00:02,280
70% of the children that are failing and

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01:00:00,400 --> 01:00:04,480
that's what's happening in our schools

1363
01:00:02,280 --> 01:00:06,280
why is something not being done about it

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01:00:04,480 --> 01:00:08,559
something needs to be done about it and

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01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:10,880
soon and practical things need to be put

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01:00:08,559 --> 01:00:14,720
into place hi George

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01:00:10,880 --> 01:00:16,160
um your record as a parliamentarian in

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01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:18,640
the house of parliament is actually

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01:00:16,160 --> 01:00:20,760
quite poor I did some research and you

1370
01:00:18,640 --> 01:00:25,039
only attended four debates last year

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01:00:20,760 --> 01:00:27,319
well David Ward who actually um lobbies

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01:00:25,039 --> 01:00:30,359
on similar issues to you attended

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01:00:27,319 --> 01:00:32,359
42 you're also quite busy in terms of

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01:00:30,359 --> 01:00:34,280
developing international relations

1375
01:00:32,359 --> 01:00:37,079
including potentially and some might

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01:00:34,280 --> 01:00:39,039
even say developing a media career can I

1377
01:00:37,079 --> 01:00:40,440
just ask you looking back in eyesight

1378
01:00:39,039 --> 01:00:42,400
and actually reviewing your term in

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01:00:40,440 --> 01:00:44,440
office do you think Bradford

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01:00:42,400 --> 01:00:48,200
constituents deserve

1381
01:00:44,440 --> 01:00:51,920
better Bradford constituents CHS me and

1382
01:00:48,200 --> 01:00:53,960
they'll vote again on the 7th of May

1383
01:00:51,920 --> 01:00:58,359
unfortunately your research didn't quite

1384
01:00:53,960 --> 01:01:03,640
go far enough it's simply untrue that I

1385
01:00:58,359 --> 01:01:07,520
attended four debates I I spoke 12 times

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01:01:03,640 --> 01:01:12,400
in Parliament in the last week before we

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01:01:07,520 --> 01:01:17,039
broke up that's 12 1 2 12 times in the

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01:01:12,400 --> 01:01:19,559
final week uh on the uh London transport

1389
01:01:17,039 --> 01:01:22,319
bill on the issue of

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01:01:19,559 --> 01:01:25,160
privatization my speeches in Parliament

1391
01:01:22,319 --> 01:01:26,440
are watched all over the world so your

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01:01:25,160 --> 01:01:29,160
research was

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01:01:26,440 --> 01:01:33,400
may I suggest YouTube because if you go

1394
01:01:29,160 --> 01:01:35,720
to YouTube You'll see speeches by me in

1395
01:01:33,400 --> 01:01:38,480
Parliament that have been watched

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01:01:35,720 --> 01:01:42,720
hundreds of thousands in some cases

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01:01:38,480 --> 01:01:44,920
millions of times I'm not sure that the

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01:01:42,720 --> 01:01:48,720
that my labor opponent will ever be able

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01:01:44,920 --> 01:01:50,760
to say that I am one of the senior

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01:01:48,720 --> 01:01:53,119
parliamentarians in this country that's

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01:01:50,760 --> 01:01:56,880
why the media are here that's why all

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01:01:53,119 --> 01:01:59,920
these people are here that's why I

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01:01:56,880 --> 01:02:02,480
believe I'll be reelected on the 7th of

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01:01:59,920 --> 01:02:06,119
May because people want a

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01:02:02,480 --> 01:02:09,720
parliamentarian to represent them not a

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01:02:06,119 --> 01:02:11,720
community activist or a counselor or in

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01:02:09,720 --> 01:02:13,799
this case someone who's never been a

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01:02:11,720 --> 01:02:17,119
counselor or even tried to be a

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01:02:13,799 --> 01:02:19,920
counselor I think people want a person

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01:02:17,119 --> 01:02:24,520
with international relations they're

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01:02:19,920 --> 01:02:28,279
watching this contest from Manhattan to

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01:02:24,520 --> 01:02:32,000
Gaza from from

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01:02:28,279 --> 01:02:34,640
mpur to Baghdad they're watching the

1414
01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:39,440
result of this election all over the

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01:02:34,640 --> 01:02:42,440
world and you know it and you also know

1416
01:02:39,440 --> 01:02:47,279
who'll be dancing in the streets where I

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01:02:42,440 --> 01:02:52,559
to lose and who will not be so

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01:02:47,279 --> 01:02:56,359
I stand before you as someone who is

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01:02:52,559 --> 01:02:59,799
recognized as a parliamentarian

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01:02:56,359 --> 01:03:03,400
of note as an auditor and parliamentary

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01:02:59,799 --> 01:03:05,880
debater of note and I'm putting myself

1422
01:03:03,400 --> 01:03:08,839
at your disposal of course if you want

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01:03:05,880 --> 01:03:11,799
me to go of course I'll go and you'll be

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01:03:08,839 --> 01:03:15,039
left with her for the next 25 years I

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01:03:11,799 --> 01:03:16,559
don't think so you're you're going to be

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01:03:15,039 --> 01:03:17,610
left with Harry you're going to be left

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01:03:16,559 --> 01:03:19,920
with

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01:03:17,610 --> 01:03:23,400
[Applause]

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01:03:19,920 --> 01:03:26,480
Harry Mr Galloway if you effectively

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01:03:23,400 --> 01:03:30,559
have a busy press and media life

1431
01:03:26,480 --> 01:03:31,960
given the issues that Bradford West has

1432
01:03:30,559 --> 01:03:34,720
isn't it right that you ought to be

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01:03:31,960 --> 01:03:37,559
spending more time here in the

1434
01:03:34,720 --> 01:03:40,240
constituency advocating for the needs of

1435
01:03:37,559 --> 01:03:41,880
your constituents rather than you know

1436
01:03:40,240 --> 01:03:43,279
kind of jetting about the world I think

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01:03:41,880 --> 01:03:45,119
no I don't jet about the world that's

1438
01:03:43,279 --> 01:03:48,640
just not true I don't jet about the

1439
01:03:45,119 --> 01:03:51,799
world I'm on television from London

1440
01:03:48,640 --> 01:03:54,799
talking about politics about issues that

1441
01:03:51,799 --> 01:03:58,319
affect every person in this room that's

1442
01:03:54,799 --> 01:04:02,279
where my media career is secondly

1443
01:03:58,319 --> 01:04:05,640
secondly secondly if I mean I'm in

1444
01:04:02,279 --> 01:04:10,039
Parliament every single day what you're

1445
01:04:05,640 --> 01:04:13,400
referring to is voting I can't vote in

1446
01:04:10,039 --> 01:04:16,839
most votes because the choic is between

1447
01:04:13,400 --> 01:04:19,920
David Cameron's motion and Ed Milan's

1448
01:04:16,839 --> 01:04:23,000
Amendment and I seldom agree with either

1449
01:04:19,920 --> 01:04:26,440
David Cameron's motion or Ed Milan's

1450
01:04:23,000 --> 01:04:30,079
Amendment that's the reason why you

1451
01:04:26,440 --> 01:04:33,599
to make these false accusations uh this

1452
01:04:30,079 --> 01:04:35,440
evening now of course har is in

1453
01:04:33,599 --> 01:04:38,160
essential oils I don't know what George

1454
01:04:35,440 --> 01:04:40,680
is in there could be people with

1455
01:04:38,160 --> 01:04:43,559
business interests I have no business

1456
01:04:40,680 --> 01:04:46,799
interests my business is politics

1457
01:04:43,559 --> 01:04:49,559
political TV programs political radio

1458
01:04:46,799 --> 01:04:51,720
programs political books and political

1459
01:04:49,559 --> 01:04:53,960
journalism and I think most of you have

1460
01:04:51,720 --> 01:04:56,880
enjoyed them over the

1461
01:04:53,960 --> 01:04:58,680
years I'm going to take three very quick

1462
01:04:56,880 --> 01:05:00,799
comments to what you just heard George

1463
01:04:58,680 --> 01:05:03,160
say the guy in the blue in front here

1464
01:05:00,799 --> 01:05:05,720
you've been putting your hands up

1465
01:05:03,160 --> 01:05:09,599
George sorry that was uh louder than I

1466
01:05:05,720 --> 01:05:11,520
expected it to be hi George um if you

1467
01:05:09,599 --> 01:05:14,039
remember me I actually did your uh

1468
01:05:11,520 --> 01:05:15,400
campaign tune the last time you were

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01:05:14,039 --> 01:05:18,359
standing in

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01:05:15,400 --> 01:05:19,760
Bradford thank Youk you thank you the

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01:05:18,359 --> 01:05:21,680
person behind please and I'll come to

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01:05:19,760 --> 01:05:24,839
the other

1473
01:05:21,680 --> 01:05:27,039
two hello salam alaikum um my question

1474
01:05:24,839 --> 01:05:29,200
is on the topic of education no it's

1475
01:05:27,039 --> 01:05:31,200
it's a very specific your comment what

1476
01:05:29,200 --> 01:05:34,039
you know the answer George gave George

1477
01:05:31,200 --> 01:05:37,400
George Grant um given what you've heard

1478
01:05:34,039 --> 01:05:38,640
no what to George G okay George it was a

1479
01:05:37,400 --> 01:05:41,079
response to the question if you have

1480
01:05:38,640 --> 01:05:43,920
nothing to say face thank

1481
01:05:41,079 --> 01:05:47,039
you could I ask you

1482
01:05:43,920 --> 01:05:50,079
please that was good just for

1483
01:05:47,039 --> 01:05:54,480
everybody's information George Galloway

1484
01:05:50,079 --> 01:05:57,240
has attended over 140 weekly surgeries

1485
01:05:54,480 --> 01:06:00,799
helping over 4 th000 constituents since

1486
01:05:57,240 --> 01:06:00,799
2012 sorry and you

1487
01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:07,079
are sorry n KH and are you with the

1488
01:06:04,680 --> 01:06:10,039
party sorry are you with respect I'm

1489
01:06:07,079 --> 01:06:11,319
with respect yes can I finish Ratner

1490
01:06:10,039 --> 01:06:13,000
thank you no no no I didn't I didn't

1491
01:06:11,319 --> 01:06:14,760
stop you I just want to be very clear

1492
01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:17,960
okay because I did ask you to introduce

1493
01:06:14,760 --> 01:06:21,079
himself so very specific George's next

1494
01:06:17,960 --> 01:06:24,200
final years will be securing future for

1495
01:06:21,079 --> 01:06:28,319
the young city of Britain education

1496
01:06:24,200 --> 01:06:30,039
training and jobs proper jobs thank you

1497
01:06:28,319 --> 01:06:32,760
there's one person

1498
01:06:30,039 --> 01:06:35,839
there could you stand up please voted

1499
01:06:32,760 --> 01:06:37,480
for George Gallow in the last election I

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01:06:35,839 --> 01:06:40,480
campaigned for George Galloway in the

1501
01:06:37,480 --> 01:06:43,440
last election I'm not a member of

1502
01:06:40,480 --> 01:06:47,119
respect but I think he's being

1503
01:06:43,440 --> 01:06:50,880
criticized by a number of people because

1504
01:06:47,119 --> 01:06:52,000
he takes on board international issues

1505
01:06:50,880 --> 01:06:54,640
there

1506
01:06:52,000 --> 01:06:56,039
was in Victorian times there was the

1507
01:06:54,640 --> 01:06:58,359
expression a

1508
01:06:56,039 --> 01:07:00,599
Englander George Galloway is not a

1509
01:06:58,359 --> 01:07:02,520
little Englander he's concerned about

1510
01:07:00,599 --> 01:07:04,760
what's happening in Palestine he's

1511
01:07:02,520 --> 01:07:06,599
concerned about what's happening in Iraq

1512
01:07:04,760 --> 01:07:10,079
he concerned about what's happening in

1513
01:07:06,599 --> 01:07:12,799
Syria and Libya you cannot isolate those

1514
01:07:10,079 --> 01:07:16,640
things from what we need in Bradford

1515
01:07:12,799 --> 01:07:18,839
West as far as I I I observe uh the lady

1516
01:07:16,640 --> 01:07:21,520
mentioned all the different surgeries

1517
01:07:18,839 --> 01:07:25,200
you have you're a good MP and I'm going

1518
01:07:21,520 --> 01:07:25,200
to vote for you again

1519
01:07:35,200 --> 01:07:38,640
the point I'm going to keep it down to a

1520
01:07:37,000 --> 01:07:39,760
comment because it's we've been asked to

1521
01:07:38,640 --> 01:07:42,279
keep it down to

1522
01:07:39,760 --> 01:07:44,920
comments people voted for you and I vote

1523
01:07:42,279 --> 01:07:48,200
for you because you gave us a voice that

1524
01:07:44,920 --> 01:07:49,839
we thought we didn't have and you me you

1525
01:07:48,200 --> 01:07:52,559
talk about issues that do affectors and

1526
01:07:49,839 --> 01:07:54,640
we do care about Palestine Iraq all

1527
01:07:52,559 --> 01:07:56,359
those issues across the world the issue

1528
01:07:54,640 --> 01:07:58,680
is and I think most people on both sides

1529
01:07:56,359 --> 01:08:00,359
of the Isis would agree with me here it

1530
01:07:58,680 --> 01:08:03,000
feels as though and it seems as though

1531
01:08:00,359 --> 01:08:05,240
you don't talk about braford West enough

1532
01:08:03,000 --> 01:08:07,799
and you are a breath of rest in peace

1533
01:08:05,240 --> 01:08:09,599
and I think that's what Theo I'm a big

1534
01:08:07,799 --> 01:08:12,000
fan of yours I help been your US Senate

1535
01:08:09,599 --> 01:08:14,079
hearings especially but that seems to be

1536
01:08:12,000 --> 01:08:16,279
the biggest disappointment people seem

1537
01:08:14,079 --> 01:08:18,719
to have well thanks yeah thanks for

1538
01:08:16,279 --> 01:08:21,839
being a big fan of mine uh uh you'll

1539
01:08:18,719 --> 01:08:24,560
find it uh you you won't be surprised if

1540
01:08:21,839 --> 01:08:28,719
I find it a little hard to believe and

1541
01:08:24,560 --> 01:08:32,159
there's a clack who clack that kind of

1542
01:08:28,719 --> 01:08:34,880
talk I am in Bradford every single

1543
01:08:32,159 --> 01:08:37,080
weekend I have a surgery every Saturday

1544
01:08:34,880 --> 01:08:40,319
morning which starts at 11: in the

1545
01:08:37,080 --> 01:08:42,359
morning and goes on as long as it takes

1546
01:08:40,319 --> 01:08:46,080
I have tabled

1547
01:08:42,359 --> 01:08:48,719
250 motions in front of parliament the

1548
01:08:46,080 --> 01:08:50,679
great majority of them that's in 3 years

1549
01:08:48,719 --> 01:08:52,520
by the way that's more than any other MP

1550
01:08:50,679 --> 01:08:54,839
in the whole country by the way that's

1551
01:08:52,520 --> 01:08:57,440
more than all the Motions tabled by the

1552
01:08:54,839 --> 01:09:02,520
other Brad for them peace put together

1553
01:08:57,440 --> 01:09:05,560
by the way I have I have a record local

1554
01:09:02,520 --> 01:09:07,199
National and international and of course

1555
01:09:05,560 --> 01:09:09,679
I make the point

1556
01:09:07,199 --> 01:09:13,719
again clearly you're not going to

1557
01:09:09,679 --> 01:09:15,839
support me I promise you many thousands

1558
01:09:13,719 --> 01:09:18,600
are going to I'm going to win this

1559
01:09:15,839 --> 01:09:18,600
election

1560
01:09:19,159 --> 01:09:26,880
and the next question that we have is

1561
01:09:22,600 --> 01:09:29,560
from uh Mr amjed perz who's a

1562
01:09:26,880 --> 01:09:33,120
businessman can we

1563
01:09:29,560 --> 01:09:34,799
please oh dear good evening I would like

1564
01:09:33,120 --> 01:09:36,839
him to be able to ask the question

1565
01:09:34,799 --> 01:09:38,920
please because it is an important

1566
01:09:36,839 --> 01:09:40,839
question for Bradford Andre will you

1567
01:09:38,920 --> 01:09:44,319
please stand

1568
01:09:40,839 --> 01:09:47,120
up how will our candidates create an

1569
01:09:44,319 --> 01:09:49,839
ecosystem of Education Health and

1570
01:09:47,120 --> 01:09:52,920
Enterprise working through local

1571
01:09:49,839 --> 01:09:55,600
Regional National and international

1572
01:09:52,920 --> 01:09:58,320
institutions to ensure that every

1573
01:09:55,600 --> 01:10:00,960
citizen is empowered and hence less

1574
01:09:58,320 --> 01:10:03,679
dependent on the so-call effective

1575
01:10:00,960 --> 01:10:05,120
leaders thank you we have spoken a lot

1576
01:10:03,679 --> 01:10:07,199
about education so if you could just

1577
01:10:05,120 --> 01:10:09,000
leave education for now we will create

1578
01:10:07,199 --> 01:10:11,080
Regional Banks which will then devolve

1579
01:10:09,000 --> 01:10:13,920
the money and we will encourage lending

1580
01:10:11,080 --> 01:10:16,199
to small businesses I spoke to Italian

1581
01:10:13,920 --> 01:10:18,440
um um Cafe that's opposite the road

1582
01:10:16,199 --> 01:10:20,640
today at my office and he said to me he

1583
01:10:18,440 --> 01:10:22,640
couldn't even raise 10,000 even though

1584
01:10:20,640 --> 01:10:24,320
he's been in business for absolute years

1585
01:10:22,640 --> 01:10:26,840
now that's an absolute disgrace if we

1586
01:10:24,320 --> 01:10:29,400
want real growth we have to invest in

1587
01:10:26,840 --> 01:10:31,679
99% of the business Community which is a

1588
01:10:29,400 --> 01:10:34,199
small businesses in our

1589
01:10:31,679 --> 01:10:36,640
communities what I would do is actively

1590
01:10:34,199 --> 01:10:39,080
Lobby and scrutinize it's not good

1591
01:10:36,640 --> 01:10:41,440
enough just to have the policies it has

1592
01:10:39,080 --> 01:10:43,600
we have to hold people to account we

1593
01:10:41,440 --> 01:10:45,640
have to people who know me I have taken

1594
01:10:43,600 --> 01:10:48,199
on the regional government on issues I

1595
01:10:45,640 --> 01:10:50,520
am very very issue LED if we do not hold

1596
01:10:48,199 --> 01:10:53,080
people to account if we do not engage at

1597
01:10:50,520 --> 01:10:55,960
the table we will not get a slice of

1598
01:10:53,080 --> 01:10:58,440
back in if we have if we create a

1599
01:10:55,960 --> 01:11:01,120
creative toolkit for young people to get

1600
01:10:58,440 --> 01:11:02,719
engaged and skill them up we can then

1601
01:11:01,120 --> 01:11:04,800
have young people that Prosper when

1602
01:11:02,719 --> 01:11:07,199
young people Prosper with skill sets

1603
01:11:04,800 --> 01:11:09,840
families Prosper when families Prosper

1604
01:11:07,199 --> 01:11:11,480
communities Prosper only then we have

1605
01:11:09,840 --> 01:11:14,280
Economic Development which is actually

1606
01:11:11,480 --> 01:11:16,600
sustainable on a long-term basis so we

1607
01:11:14,280 --> 01:11:18,840
have to engage with regional structures

1608
01:11:16,600 --> 01:11:21,080
we have to be we have to shout louder I

1609
01:11:18,840 --> 01:11:22,360
agree with CIA totally Bradford has

1610
01:11:21,080 --> 01:11:24,719
being the little brother to the Big

1611
01:11:22,360 --> 01:11:27,440
Brother of leads not just Manchester and

1612
01:11:24,719 --> 01:11:29,960
other City and it's about time we fly

1613
01:11:27,440 --> 01:11:32,199
the flag higher not just in Parliament

1614
01:11:29,960 --> 01:11:35,120
but within Regional structures too

1615
01:11:32,199 --> 01:11:36,920
before I hand it over to Harry I think

1616
01:11:35,120 --> 01:11:39,080
uh Muhammad ibal has got a question

1617
01:11:36,920 --> 01:11:40,360
that's aligned to what amjed asked could

1618
01:11:39,080 --> 01:11:43,520
you ask your question and then I'll

1619
01:11:40,360 --> 01:11:46,159
invite uh Harry Bo to respond I'm

1620
01:11:43,520 --> 01:11:48,440
speechless at the moment so don't

1621
01:11:46,159 --> 01:11:49,960
ask I thought I was having a nightmare

1622
01:11:48,440 --> 01:11:52,360
yesterday when I saw Tony Blair

1623
01:11:49,960 --> 01:11:54,639
addressed the European question but it

1624
01:11:52,360 --> 01:11:56,719
is a question to do with Europe and um

1625
01:11:54,639 --> 01:12:00,719
It's s to Harry but I'd be interested in

1626
01:11:56,719 --> 01:12:03,560
other uh um participants view more than

1627
01:12:00,719 --> 01:12:06,560
350,000 jobs in Yorkshire depend upon

1628
01:12:03,560 --> 01:12:09,560
trade links with the European Union just

1629
01:12:06,560 --> 01:12:11,880
1% of Britain's Business Leaders support

1630
01:12:09,560 --> 01:12:14,679
withdrawal from the European Union

1631
01:12:11,880 --> 01:12:17,360
voting for ukip will be economic suicide

1632
01:12:14,679 --> 01:12:20,280
for bford businesses do you support

1633
01:12:17,360 --> 01:12:23,800
withdrawal from the EU easy question for

1634
01:12:20,280 --> 01:12:23,800
you easy

1635
01:12:25,320 --> 01:12:29,840
thank you I said I was speechless but

1636
01:12:27,400 --> 01:12:32,960
now he's he's he's he's give me my voice

1637
01:12:29,840 --> 01:12:37,480
back talking about the EU and the answer

1638
01:12:32,960 --> 01:12:41,199
is of course yes uh the recent Studies

1639
01:12:37,480 --> 01:12:46,040
have highlighted that we will prosper

1640
01:12:41,199 --> 01:12:48,440
out of the EU uh Nas has been saying

1641
01:12:46,040 --> 01:12:50,880
about funding not being made available

1642
01:12:48,440 --> 01:12:54,520
to people if we're the art of the EU

1643
01:12:50,880 --> 01:12:57,639
we're paying 66 million every single day

1644
01:12:54,520 --> 01:13:00,080
into the EU you we are paying a billion

1645
01:12:57,639 --> 01:13:03,199
pound per month to the foreign budget

1646
01:13:00,080 --> 01:13:05,840
and we have got people living rough

1647
01:13:03,199 --> 01:13:09,080
we've got businesses struggling we can't

1648
01:13:05,840 --> 01:13:11,719
invest in our own economy in locally and

1649
01:13:09,080 --> 01:13:13,679
and and nationally and we we seem to

1650
01:13:11,719 --> 01:13:14,920
borrow money they seem to borrow money

1651
01:13:13,679 --> 01:13:18,440
all

1652
01:13:14,920 --> 01:13:21,400
these left right red blue Etc they

1653
01:13:18,440 --> 01:13:23,960
borrow money to give away it's our money

1654
01:13:21,400 --> 01:13:25,120
it's our money that we forget that they

1655
01:13:23,960 --> 01:13:28,040
don't have them government doesn't

1656
01:13:25,120 --> 01:13:29,880
doesn't have any money it is all ours so

1657
01:13:28,040 --> 01:13:33,000
whatever they give away whatever they

1658
01:13:29,880 --> 01:13:35,440
make pledges abroad or with any other

1659
01:13:33,000 --> 01:13:37,280
Nation it is your money it is my money

1660
01:13:35,440 --> 01:13:40,560
that they giving away and we allow them

1661
01:13:37,280 --> 01:13:42,480
to do it and we are

1662
01:13:40,560 --> 01:13:43,760
struggling when are we going to stop

1663
01:13:42,480 --> 01:13:46,679
this when are we going to wake up and

1664
01:13:43,760 --> 01:13:48,440
say look stop let's invest in us first

1665
01:13:46,679 --> 01:13:50,239
let's invest our everything is

1666
01:13:48,440 --> 01:13:52,199
underpinned by

1667
01:13:50,239 --> 01:13:53,719
education whatever you do in life is

1668
01:13:52,199 --> 01:13:55,400
underpinned by education let's improve

1669
01:13:53,719 --> 01:13:57,840
our education systems let's plow

1670
01:13:55,400 --> 01:14:00,360
wherever we need to divert funds from

1671
01:13:57,840 --> 01:14:02,800
abroad into our education systems let's

1672
01:14:00,360 --> 01:14:06,239
bring back the models that work grammar

1673
01:14:02,800 --> 01:14:08,520
schools that worked then we can go into

1674
01:14:06,239 --> 01:14:11,600
our Enterprises because the people will

1675
01:14:08,520 --> 01:14:14,480
be skilled and given the the necessary

1676
01:14:11,600 --> 01:14:17,800
grounding to be entrepreneurial like I

1677
01:14:14,480 --> 01:14:19,800
am which I'm going to now design an oil

1678
01:14:17,800 --> 01:14:22,679
is called go

1679
01:14:19,800 --> 01:14:25,840
away I'm not going to allow that no Mr

1680
01:14:22,679 --> 01:14:28,960
har I will not allow talk about the

1681
01:14:25,840 --> 01:14:33,120
Enterprise but not using this to

1682
01:14:28,960 --> 01:14:37,800
advertise no I'm going to call stop

1683
01:14:33,120 --> 01:14:39,639
no no no no no no no no if you have a r

1684
01:14:37,800 --> 01:14:42,360
referendum today

1685
01:14:39,639 --> 01:14:44,719
77% the the nation wants to come out of

1686
01:14:42,360 --> 01:14:47,639
the EU and that's what will

1687
01:14:44,719 --> 01:14:49,880
happen that's

1688
01:14:47,639 --> 01:14:53,199
rubbish if you want to massage the

1689
01:14:49,880 --> 01:14:59,120
figures Harry's got a nice line in oils

1690
01:14:53,199 --> 01:15:02,360
that help you woo it's not even snake

1691
01:14:59,120 --> 01:15:06,920
oil it's too pathetic for that har this

1692
01:15:02,360 --> 01:15:09,760
is so painful man it's so so painful I

1693
01:15:06,920 --> 01:15:14,480
can make it back up

1694
01:15:09,760 --> 01:15:17,040
it's it's got the oil to make it less

1695
01:15:14,480 --> 01:15:18,760
painful Are you seriously putting

1696
01:15:17,040 --> 01:15:21,679
yourself in front of these people and

1697
01:15:18,760 --> 01:15:26,199
asking them to make you an MP yes they

1698
01:15:21,679 --> 01:15:28,719
will they will 77% of the people he says

1699
01:15:26,199 --> 01:15:31,400
want to withdraw from the EU yes now as

1700
01:15:28,719 --> 01:15:36,159
a massaged figure that's just about as

1701
01:15:31,400 --> 01:15:39,320
massaged as it can get 99% of the people

1702
01:15:36,159 --> 01:15:42,280
in this room think that it would be

1703
01:15:39,320 --> 01:15:44,760
absolutely insane to leave the the

1704
01:15:42,280 --> 01:15:47,960
European Union and how anybody can come

1705
01:15:44,760 --> 01:15:50,840
for election in West georia where

1706
01:15:47,960 --> 01:15:53,159
hundreds of thousands of jobs depend on

1707
01:15:50,840 --> 01:15:55,560
our trade with the European Union is

1708
01:15:53,159 --> 01:15:57,679
simply being the trade

1709
01:15:55,560 --> 01:16:00,679
as you know as the trade will still

1710
01:15:57,679 --> 01:16:03,520
remain as well as you know that very

1711
01:16:00,679 --> 01:16:04,960
well we will still be trading the point

1712
01:16:03,520 --> 01:16:06,239
is that you know we did take a straw

1713
01:16:04,960 --> 01:16:08,120
poll I know this might not be

1714
01:16:06,239 --> 01:16:09,920
representative of Bradford West but the

1715
01:16:08,120 --> 01:16:12,080
consensus here is that at least this

1716
01:16:09,920 --> 01:16:16,920
audience would prefer for us to stay in

1717
01:16:12,080 --> 01:16:20,440
the EU I'd now like to go to Mitch who

1718
01:16:16,920 --> 01:16:23,080
has a question um this is for Celia um

1719
01:16:20,440 --> 01:16:26,120
Hixon um the greens are the natural

1720
01:16:23,080 --> 01:16:30,600
alternative for uh the liberal Democrats

1721
01:16:26,120 --> 01:16:33,600
um you the greens are against the hs2

1722
01:16:30,600 --> 01:16:36,000
fracking and seemingly environmentalist

1723
01:16:33,600 --> 01:16:39,639
in nature U my

1724
01:16:36,000 --> 01:16:42,320
question um is the fact that the lib

1725
01:16:39,639 --> 01:16:45,320
Den's recent Manifesto priorities uh

1726
01:16:42,320 --> 01:16:48,560
they committed the party to five green

1727
01:16:45,320 --> 01:16:51,080
laws um if yellow is the new green why

1728
01:16:48,560 --> 01:16:53,199
should anyone vote green at all as your

1729
01:16:51,080 --> 01:16:55,000
party does not have a chance of being in

1730
01:16:53,199 --> 01:16:58,760
the government

1731
01:16:55,000 --> 01:17:01,360
points of the green party thank

1732
01:16:58,760 --> 01:17:05,080
you what is the point of the green party

1733
01:17:01,360 --> 01:17:05,080
well we have many different

1734
01:17:05,719 --> 01:17:11,280
Poli to live we're against it simply

1735
01:17:09,719 --> 01:17:13,080
because we don't think 20 minutes

1736
01:17:11,280 --> 01:17:17,440
Journey

1737
01:17:13,080 --> 01:17:17,440
time we should connecting

1738
01:17:18,239 --> 01:17:25,800
manchest thank you right I was looking

1739
01:17:21,639 --> 01:17:28,320
for to need to come up um L into a

1740
01:17:25,800 --> 01:17:32,639
secret we didn't win the

1741
01:17:28,320 --> 01:17:35,320
election last time we got 50 MPS and we

1742
01:17:32,639 --> 01:17:37,480
most doing getting about 75% of our

1743
01:17:35,320 --> 01:17:40,560
Manifesto including some very important

1744
01:17:37,480 --> 01:17:43,280
green measures that have taken place so

1745
01:17:40,560 --> 01:17:45,880
we didn't win the party policy remains

1746
01:17:43,280 --> 01:17:47,840
that we would like no tuition fees

1747
01:17:45,880 --> 01:17:51,239
however we didn't get the opportunity to

1748
01:17:47,840 --> 01:17:53,000
bring that forward what we did do in

1749
01:17:51,239 --> 01:17:55,080
negotiation we could have sat on our

1750
01:17:53,000 --> 01:17:58,760
hands and let the conservative policy on

1751
01:17:55,080 --> 01:18:02,000
institution things go through ask uh

1752
01:17:58,760 --> 01:18:05,280
that yes how how do you respond to

1753
01:18:02,000 --> 01:18:07,320
him as a student and just tell us uh

1754
01:18:05,280 --> 01:18:09,120
where where you go to university please

1755
01:18:07,320 --> 01:18:11,159
I I go to Le Becket University where I'm

1756
01:18:09,120 --> 01:18:13,840
studying uh international relations and

1757
01:18:11,159 --> 01:18:16,320
and peace studies um I think clearly

1758
01:18:13,840 --> 01:18:18,159
what the lib DS did and it shows what

1759
01:18:16,320 --> 01:18:19,679
they're doing now in this election that

1760
01:18:18,159 --> 01:18:22,639
they've been very quiet on these two

1761
01:18:19,679 --> 01:18:24,920
issues um particularly the issue of um

1762
01:18:22,639 --> 01:18:28,080
you know the fees um and of course the

1763
01:18:24,920 --> 01:18:29,400
issue of Detention of um of immigrants

1764
01:18:28,080 --> 01:18:32,120
those are the two issues that they ran

1765
01:18:29,400 --> 01:18:33,440
on um last elections and they sted up a

1766
01:18:32,120 --> 01:18:35,360
lot of excitement but they've been very

1767
01:18:33,440 --> 01:18:37,159
quiet on those issues uh this time

1768
01:18:35,360 --> 01:18:39,520
around and to me that demonstrates the

1769
01:18:37,159 --> 01:18:41,080
the the hypocrisy um you know of the

1770
01:18:39,520 --> 01:18:43,199
party that clearly they're just more

1771
01:18:41,080 --> 01:18:45,560
interested in the in you know in getting

1772
01:18:43,199 --> 01:18:47,159
votes and so therefore they will do what

1773
01:18:45,560 --> 01:18:49,120
it takes to win the elections and they

1774
01:18:47,159 --> 01:18:50,480
har want a quick response from you and

1775
01:18:49,120 --> 01:18:52,800
then I'd like to go to two other

1776
01:18:50,480 --> 01:18:55,760
questions I just uh I just wanted to

1777
01:18:52,800 --> 01:18:58,320
tell you what the UK policy on on tution

1778
01:18:55,760 --> 01:19:00,880
fees is that we will abolish all tution

1779
01:18:58,320 --> 01:19:03,639
fees on science technology engineering

1780
01:19:00,880 --> 01:19:05,600
mathematics and Medicine degrees okay so

1781
01:19:03,639 --> 01:19:08,159
we are creating a two-tier tertiary

1782
01:19:05,600 --> 01:19:10,280
education system that would be we're

1783
01:19:08,159 --> 01:19:12,840
starting at that point where the stem

1784
01:19:10,280 --> 01:19:14,880
subjects will be uh there be no tuition

1785
01:19:12,840 --> 01:19:16,920
fees for those okay I've got I'm going

1786
01:19:14,880 --> 01:19:21,520
to take two questions next one from an

1787
01:19:16,920 --> 01:19:24,719
Marie and Cath disabled people are

1788
01:19:21,520 --> 01:19:29,000
increasingly being required to contri

1789
01:19:24,719 --> 01:19:32,600
rute to the cost of disability services

1790
01:19:29,000 --> 01:19:35,840
and care that were once free they cannot

1791
01:19:32,600 --> 01:19:40,320
afford this and are being denied the

1792
01:19:35,840 --> 01:19:44,520
opportunity to participate fully in the

1793
01:19:40,320 --> 01:19:48,280
community what do you Andor your party

1794
01:19:44,520 --> 01:19:51,360
intend to do about this can I also ask C

1795
01:19:48,280 --> 01:19:54,800
to ask her question where is Kath I'd

1796
01:19:51,360 --> 01:19:57,679
just like to ask um what will your party

1797
01:19:54,800 --> 01:20:01,679
do to improve services for people with

1798
01:19:57,679 --> 01:20:05,440
mental dis mental health problems for

1799
01:20:01,679 --> 01:20:08,199
example mind estimated 100 people a day

1800
01:20:05,440 --> 01:20:09,800
with mental health problems are having

1801
01:20:08,199 --> 01:20:13,280
their benefits

1802
01:20:09,800 --> 01:20:17,719
sanctioned and many people in crisis are

1803
01:20:13,280 --> 01:20:21,639
unable to access impatient care in the

1804
01:20:17,719 --> 01:20:25,040
district where are aware of examples of

1805
01:20:21,639 --> 01:20:28,000
people being sent to hospitals in London

1806
01:20:25,040 --> 01:20:28,000
thank you for those two

1807
01:20:28,679 --> 01:20:37,360
questions I think for me uh this is one

1808
01:20:32,520 --> 01:20:41,040
of the most important issues uh that we

1809
01:20:37,360 --> 01:20:44,000
face I came into politics because I

1810
01:20:41,040 --> 01:20:46,280
believe in as I've said trying to

1811
01:20:44,000 --> 01:20:50,120
improve things for people I don't just

1812
01:20:46,280 --> 01:20:53,000
say that um for the better and that

1813
01:20:50,120 --> 01:20:56,199
includes uh the most vulnerable of whom

1814
01:20:53,000 --> 01:20:57,280
disabled people are clearly a large part

1815
01:20:56,199 --> 01:21:00,800
of

1816
01:20:57,280 --> 01:21:03,080
that the spare room subsidy bedroom tax

1817
01:21:00,800 --> 01:21:05,760
whatever you want to call it I mentioned

1818
01:21:03,080 --> 01:21:08,760
to you earlier uh this point about uh

1819
01:21:05,760 --> 01:21:11,719
MPS not just being uh followers of

1820
01:21:08,760 --> 01:21:14,760
government policy it is my view that

1821
01:21:11,719 --> 01:21:18,239
anyone on disabilities should not be

1822
01:21:14,760 --> 01:21:20,120
affected by that policy and I very much

1823
01:21:18,239 --> 01:21:21,960
support the amendment that was passing

1824
01:21:20,120 --> 01:21:25,159
through the House of Commons before it

1825
01:21:21,960 --> 01:21:28,280
was dissolved for the election uh to

1826
01:21:25,159 --> 01:21:31,320
make that uh into law I think one of the

1827
01:21:28,280 --> 01:21:33,840
other things uh that strikes me is

1828
01:21:31,320 --> 01:21:37,679
reforming the welfare system so that it

1829
01:21:33,840 --> 01:21:40,520
is less complex has to be a good thing

1830
01:21:37,679 --> 01:21:42,320
because the number of

1831
01:21:40,520 --> 01:21:44,280
complex you know when when you look at

1832
01:21:42,320 --> 01:21:46,360
it the number of different payments and

1833
01:21:44,280 --> 01:21:48,840
different schemes make it almost

1834
01:21:46,360 --> 01:21:51,280
impossible to properly for either an

1835
01:21:48,840 --> 01:21:54,280
assessor or for the person who is on

1836
01:21:51,280 --> 01:21:56,120
those uh uh benefits to be able to make

1837
01:21:54,280 --> 01:21:57,719
a proper judgment about what is and

1838
01:21:56,120 --> 01:22:00,159
isn't required so I think simplifying

1839
01:21:57,719 --> 01:22:02,080
the system um and continuing to invest

1840
01:22:00,159 --> 01:22:04,360
in those Services you know these are

1841
01:22:02,080 --> 01:22:07,560
things that I I fully a quick response

1842
01:22:04,360 --> 01:22:12,080
to the issues around mental health yeah

1843
01:22:07,560 --> 01:22:14,440
oh right sorry so I um have signed the

1844
01:22:12,080 --> 01:22:17,080
concordat of the mental health charity

1845
01:22:14,440 --> 01:22:19,639
mind I think one of the things um that

1846
01:22:17,080 --> 01:22:22,800
they are doing is trying to integrate

1847
01:22:19,639 --> 01:22:24,520
services and better integrate care and

1848
01:22:22,800 --> 01:22:25,960
this is definitely something that is aot

1849
01:22:24,520 --> 01:22:29,480
large part of the health reforms

1850
01:22:25,960 --> 01:22:31,840
generally with NHS England is to try and

1851
01:22:29,480 --> 01:22:33,320
improve integration of services so

1852
01:22:31,840 --> 01:22:34,600
people aren't falling through the cracks

1853
01:22:33,320 --> 01:22:36,280
I mean I know this is something I'm

1854
01:22:34,600 --> 01:22:38,040
afraid I really disagree with the Tories

1855
01:22:36,280 --> 01:22:39,880
on this one because the bedroom tax was

1856
01:22:38,040 --> 01:22:42,239
bought bought in under the Tories and

1857
01:22:39,880 --> 01:22:44,080
it's effected disable people the most

1858
01:22:42,239 --> 01:22:47,560
disproportionately so the first thing we

1859
01:22:44,080 --> 01:22:49,920
would do is you remove bedroom tax as a

1860
01:22:47,560 --> 01:22:52,719
former disability right happed what I

1861
01:22:49,920 --> 01:22:55,000
will say in addition to the ab abolition

1862
01:22:52,719 --> 01:22:57,600
of the bedroom tax what we are committed

1863
01:22:55,000 --> 01:23:00,520
to is developing the work that's already

1864
01:22:57,600 --> 01:23:02,920
undergoing improving the access to

1865
01:23:00,520 --> 01:23:05,360
services and improve and put funding

1866
01:23:02,920 --> 01:23:07,000
where it needs to be put so actually

1867
01:23:05,360 --> 01:23:08,800
going out there in the communities

1868
01:23:07,000 --> 01:23:10,760
rather than if you look at the concent

1869
01:23:08,800 --> 01:23:12,679
model what it does is it brings Comm

1870
01:23:10,760 --> 01:23:14,639
care into the community and it takes

1871
01:23:12,679 --> 01:23:16,800
away from getting people into lym field

1872
01:23:14,639 --> 01:23:19,120
mount for example and it brings care

1873
01:23:16,800 --> 01:23:21,480
closer to home in a more emergency way

1874
01:23:19,120 --> 01:23:23,480
in a more holistic way to respond to

1875
01:23:21,480 --> 01:23:26,880
people in crisis I think that's the way

1876
01:23:23,480 --> 01:23:30,199
forward and I actively support them we

1877
01:23:26,880 --> 01:23:33,800
know that they know it but they won't

1878
01:23:30,199 --> 01:23:36,840
tell you until after the election they

1879
01:23:33,800 --> 01:23:40,600
are witch hunting disabled people witch

1880
01:23:36,840 --> 01:23:44,480
hunting unemployed people witch hunting

1881
01:23:40,600 --> 01:23:47,639
minorities witch hunting anyone that can

1882
01:23:44,480 --> 01:23:51,199
divert attention from the real culprits

1883
01:23:47,639 --> 01:23:54,800
and the real problems in our country

1884
01:23:51,199 --> 01:23:58,040
atos needs to be scrapped the B bedroom

1885
01:23:54,800 --> 01:24:01,600
tax has to be scrapped it took labor

1886
01:23:58,040 --> 01:24:04,239
four years to come four and a half years

1887
01:24:01,600 --> 01:24:06,639
actually to come to a decision that they

1888
01:24:04,239 --> 01:24:09,840
were in favor of scrapping the bedroom

1889
01:24:06,639 --> 01:24:11,719
tax we were against it from the

1890
01:24:09,840 --> 01:24:16,280
beginning my last point I know you're

1891
01:24:11,719 --> 01:24:18,239
anxious R is this I I hurt my ankle

1892
01:24:16,280 --> 01:24:20,960
playing football in the back courts of

1893
01:24:18,239 --> 01:24:24,000
Lingham two weeks ago and I limped a

1894
01:24:20,960 --> 01:24:24,960
little as I came in to the meeting no

1895
01:24:24,000 --> 01:24:28,760
one

1896
01:24:24,960 --> 01:24:33,080
here would stigmatize me because of that

1897
01:24:28,760 --> 01:24:37,320
injury yet too many people stigmatize

1898
01:24:33,080 --> 01:24:37,320
those suffering from mental health

1899
01:24:39,119 --> 01:24:43,560
problems George I just wanted to ask you

1900
01:24:41,400 --> 01:24:46,960
one last question we know that there're

1901
01:24:43,560 --> 01:24:48,239
going to be 12 billion in welfare Cs and

1902
01:24:46,960 --> 01:24:50,280
the Tories have said that they're going

1903
01:24:48,239 --> 01:24:52,520
to be 12 billion don't you think we

1904
01:24:50,280 --> 01:24:55,159
deserve to know where those cuts are

1905
01:24:52,520 --> 01:24:56,760
going to fall before the elections and

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01:24:55,159 --> 01:24:59,880
not

1907
01:24:56,760 --> 01:25:02,280
after I think that parties need to be as

1908
01:24:59,880 --> 01:25:04,880
clear as possible uh where the cuts will

1909
01:25:02,280 --> 01:25:06,520
come from I can't say I am not the

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01:25:04,880 --> 01:25:08,760
government one thing I want to say

1911
01:25:06,520 --> 01:25:12,440
however which has become increasingly

1912
01:25:08,760 --> 01:25:16,920
clear as the evening has progressed is

1913
01:25:12,440 --> 01:25:21,199
how easy it is to wish for things I can

1914
01:25:16,920 --> 01:25:23,360
say now on this platform with no elected

1915
01:25:21,199 --> 01:25:28,440
power I want to see an end to World

1916
01:25:23,360 --> 01:25:31,719
poverty and it means nothing the reason

1917
01:25:28,440 --> 01:25:35,199
governments thank you the reason

1918
01:25:31,719 --> 01:25:36,960
governments the reason governments make

1919
01:25:35,199 --> 01:25:39,880
difficult decisions not all of which I

1920
01:25:36,960 --> 01:25:41,800
agree with is because we have a

1921
01:25:39,880 --> 01:25:45,080
situation in this country where we are

1922
01:25:41,800 --> 01:25:47,920
blowing a billion quid a week on the

1923
01:25:45,080 --> 01:25:50,000
debt interest what does that mean we're

1924
01:25:47,920 --> 01:25:52,119
spending more on the bloody interest

1925
01:25:50,000 --> 01:25:54,000
than on our entire departmental budget

1926
01:25:52,119 --> 01:25:55,000
gave us the debt of Defense who gave us

1927
01:25:54,000 --> 01:25:57,760
the debt

1928
01:25:55,000 --> 01:26:01,440
everyone we had the banks were lending

1929
01:25:57,760 --> 01:26:03,639
money like come back to you was spending

1930
01:26:01,440 --> 01:26:05,679
money like a drunken sailor on Shor Leaf

1931
01:26:03,639 --> 01:26:07,600
you had people taking out mortgages they

1932
01:26:05,679 --> 01:26:10,320
couldn't possibly afford so my point is

1933
01:26:07,600 --> 01:26:12,159
this in unbelievably constrained

1934
01:26:10,320 --> 01:26:14,080
economic circumstances there are

1935
01:26:12,159 --> 01:26:17,600
inevitably difficult decisions to be

1936
01:26:14,080 --> 01:26:19,560
made people have to make those difficult

1937
01:26:17,600 --> 01:26:21,639
decisions because they don't ever

1938
01:26:19,560 --> 01:26:23,840
actually have to take responsibility for

1939
01:26:21,639 --> 01:26:26,159
a single thing I just wanted to say that

1940
01:26:23,840 --> 01:26:28,400
the well of the richest people in the

1941
01:26:26,159 --> 01:26:31,920
country has doubled since

1942
01:26:28,400 --> 01:26:31,920
2010 we're not

1943
01:26:40,800 --> 01:26:47,400
gr I've just got one thing to say really

1944
01:26:43,679 --> 01:26:50,440
so me as a disabled person has to pay

1945
01:26:47,400 --> 01:26:53,239
for the The Misfortune of having Bankers

1946
01:26:50,440 --> 01:26:56,040
as we have of having politicians as we

1947
01:26:53,239 --> 01:26:59,719
had because of having others who made

1948
01:26:56,040 --> 01:27:02,679
decisions to take my money away cuz they

1949
01:26:59,719 --> 01:27:02,679
were the people who

1950
01:27:05,119 --> 01:27:10,760
knew the

1951
01:27:06,840 --> 01:27:10,760
gentleman and that'll be the last

1952
01:27:11,280 --> 01:27:16,960
comment on it it seems to me George that

1953
01:27:15,480 --> 01:27:20,320
you've got complete misunderstanding of

1954
01:27:16,960 --> 01:27:22,440
how all this works um you are aware

1955
01:27:20,320 --> 01:27:24,639
aren't you that the private Banks

1956
01:27:22,440 --> 01:27:26,960
actually lent this money to the

1957
01:27:24,639 --> 01:27:28,280
population the corporate sector public

1958
01:27:26,960 --> 01:27:29,400
sector and so do you want to stand up

1959
01:27:28,280 --> 01:27:32,280
because I think people want to hear what

1960
01:27:29,400 --> 01:27:33,600
you have to say I don't think sayou no I

1961
01:27:32,280 --> 01:27:35,080
think they'd like to know who you are

1962
01:27:33,600 --> 01:27:37,679
rather than a

1963
01:27:35,080 --> 01:27:41,040
dis for former counselor in the lab

1964
01:27:37,679 --> 01:27:44,400
party but not anymore

1965
01:27:41,040 --> 01:27:46,080
um do you know how the system I've got

1966
01:27:44,400 --> 01:27:47,880
question penil for later might not come

1967
01:27:46,080 --> 01:27:50,040
up no no we're finishing this is the

1968
01:27:47,880 --> 01:27:51,679
last comments so please do you really

1969
01:27:50,040 --> 01:27:53,440
know how the monitary system works do

1970
01:27:51,679 --> 01:27:56,239
you know why people are in bed cuz I

1971
01:27:53,440 --> 01:27:58,320
really would Tor perspective candidates

1972
01:27:56,239 --> 01:28:00,400
I'm worri about Tori MPS and I'm really

1973
01:27:58,320 --> 01:28:03,400
worried about George OS because he

1974
01:28:00,400 --> 01:28:03,400
simply does not

1975
01:28:05,600 --> 01:28:11,880
appear Alan can I invite you to give a

1976
01:28:08,800 --> 01:28:13,920
twom minute summary in terms of what you

1977
01:28:11,880 --> 01:28:16,159
want to tell the audience based on what

1978
01:28:13,920 --> 01:28:18,639
you've heard today could you go there

1979
01:28:16,159 --> 01:28:20,320
please I'm I'm in an general

1980
01:28:18,639 --> 01:28:21,960
practitioner I've been doing that for 30

1981
01:28:20,320 --> 01:28:24,400
years and to be honest if you put me on

1982
01:28:21,960 --> 01:28:25,840
a rack and may me choose between being a

1983
01:28:24,400 --> 01:28:28,480
GP and being a liberal Democrat

1984
01:28:25,840 --> 01:28:31,280
politician I go for to being a GP I want

1985
01:28:28,480 --> 01:28:33,880
to say this about the NHS because a lot

1986
01:28:31,280 --> 01:28:35,320
of people will tell you differ our NHS

1987
01:28:33,880 --> 01:28:37,760
is not

1988
01:28:35,320 --> 01:28:39,080
broken people will say it's broken it

1989
01:28:37,760 --> 01:28:41,880
has to be changed something has to be

1990
01:28:39,080 --> 01:28:44,239
done it is not broken it at least make

1991
01:28:41,880 --> 01:28:46,080
it stand where it is and not get any

1992
01:28:44,239 --> 01:28:48,159
words but there are people out there who

1993
01:28:46,080 --> 01:28:49,760
will tell you things have got to change

1994
01:28:48,159 --> 01:28:51,560
we've got to work differently we've got

1995
01:28:49,760 --> 01:28:54,639
to bring in privatization we've got to

1996
01:28:51,560 --> 01:28:56,960
use the market because the NHS is broken

1997
01:28:54,639 --> 01:28:58,159
I just like to say that um the things

1998
01:28:56,960 --> 01:29:00,719
that have come out of this evening for

1999
01:28:58,159 --> 01:29:04,199
me have been around leadership around

2000
01:29:00,719 --> 01:29:06,639
how we get Bradford West to be trumpeted

2001
01:29:04,199 --> 01:29:08,719
around in the north of England as a as a

2002
01:29:06,639 --> 01:29:12,119
place where people want to invest a

2003
01:29:08,719 --> 01:29:14,920
major priority in my byelection campaign

2004
01:29:12,119 --> 01:29:16,840
we won a landslide majority the audan

2005
01:29:14,920 --> 01:29:19,360
has been saved the government has

2006
01:29:16,840 --> 01:29:21,960
stumped up the money and soon it will be

2007
01:29:19,360 --> 01:29:25,800
another Jewel in Bradford's Crown no

2008
01:29:21,960 --> 01:29:28,679
sooner had I got here three years ago

2009
01:29:25,800 --> 01:29:31,719
but George Grant's government and your

2010
01:29:28,679 --> 01:29:34,000
government sir because both of you are

2011
01:29:31,719 --> 01:29:35,800
strange bed fellows no doubt but bed

2012
01:29:34,000 --> 01:29:38,159
fellows

2013
01:29:35,800 --> 01:29:41,040
nonetheless announced that you wanted to

2014
01:29:38,159 --> 01:29:45,000
close the national media Museum Bradford

2015
01:29:41,040 --> 01:29:47,560
only National Institution Ed VY the

2016
01:29:45,000 --> 01:29:50,119
culture minister of the conservative

2017
01:29:47,560 --> 01:29:53,679
government congratulated me from the

2018
01:29:50,119 --> 01:29:56,280
dispatch box for the campaign he said I

2019
01:29:53,679 --> 01:29:58,679
had LED which saved the national media

2020
01:29:56,280 --> 01:30:01,040
Museum five more years that's what I'm

2021
01:29:58,679 --> 01:30:01,040
asking

2022
01:30:08,679 --> 01:30:14,679
for you go thank you very much

2023
01:30:11,920 --> 01:30:17,679
indeed this has been an

2024
01:30:14,679 --> 01:30:17,679
extraordinary

2025
01:30:18,840 --> 01:30:27,119
evening in very many ways this is an

2026
01:30:23,080 --> 01:30:28,760
election where you need to have an MP

2027
01:30:27,119 --> 01:30:30,480
who will actually be able to do

2028
01:30:28,760 --> 01:30:33,760
something for and I will just say this

2029
01:30:30,480 --> 01:30:36,520
by way of conclusion empowerment is what

2030
01:30:33,760 --> 01:30:39,360
it's all about and that starts with

2031
01:30:36,520 --> 01:30:42,760
employment and jobs and the economy I

2032
01:30:39,360 --> 01:30:46,880
want us to just take a moment to be calm

2033
01:30:42,760 --> 01:30:50,280
and think look around Europe look around

2034
01:30:46,880 --> 01:30:53,199
the world and look here at what we have

2035
01:30:50,280 --> 01:30:56,639
achieved in the last 5 years I think

2036
01:30:53,199 --> 01:30:58,280
under the circumstances of extraordinary

2037
01:30:56,639 --> 01:31:00,560
financial diffic difficulty two minutes

2038
01:30:58,280 --> 01:31:04,239
it is a record to be proud of and I just

2039
01:31:00,560 --> 01:31:04,239
urge you to think again thank thank

2040
01:31:04,800 --> 01:31:08,920
[Applause]

2041
01:31:06,719 --> 01:31:11,880
you thank you ge You' covered a lot of

2042
01:31:08,920 --> 01:31:13,520
what I was going to say these the facts

2043
01:31:11,880 --> 01:31:15,159
would ask some questions and I'll

2044
01:31:13,520 --> 01:31:17,719
elaborate on that research because I did

2045
01:31:15,159 --> 01:31:21,239
go ahead and do some more research out

2046
01:31:17,719 --> 01:31:24,520
of 733 votes the only number of votes

2047
01:31:21,239 --> 01:31:27,040
that were cast were 82

2048
01:31:24,520 --> 01:31:29,239
the city NP did not vote on the

2049
01:31:27,040 --> 01:31:31,719
counterterrorism bill when there was a

2050
01:31:29,239 --> 01:31:34,840
1% increase of benefits being discussed

2051
01:31:31,719 --> 01:31:37,440
in Parliament Al MP was happy to be in

2052
01:31:34,840 --> 01:31:39,639
Sudan paid for by dictators talking

2053
01:31:37,440 --> 01:31:41,560
about human rights abuses but is not

2054
01:31:39,639 --> 01:31:44,040
prepared to sit with the council in

2055
01:31:41,560 --> 01:31:45,679
Bradford and talk about education Sudan

2056
01:31:44,040 --> 01:31:47,400
does not bring educational achievements

2057
01:31:45,679 --> 01:31:49,760
in Bradford not in Bradford West it

2058
01:31:47,400 --> 01:31:53,960
doesn't it does not bring jobs into

2059
01:31:49,760 --> 01:31:57,159
Bradford it does not bring

2060
01:31:53,960 --> 01:32:01,840
no wait this is not the

2061
01:31:57,159 --> 01:32:04,199
person this is this is we talking human

2062
01:32:01,840 --> 01:32:07,080
right but not talk about education in

2063
01:32:04,199 --> 01:32:10,119
back can we stick to the issu I thought

2064
01:32:07,080 --> 01:32:11,840
I have set out very clearly I this is

2065
01:32:10,119 --> 01:32:13,960
not personal personal ATT is about

2066
01:32:11,840 --> 01:32:15,960
talking about personal things this is

2067
01:32:13,960 --> 01:32:20,040
about what we elected a parliamentarian

2068
01:32:15,960 --> 01:32:23,440
to do and you me that is the only thing

2069
01:32:20,040 --> 01:32:25,400
that that theing of a parliamentarian I

2070
01:32:23,440 --> 01:32:27,520
don't want be that parliamentarian

2071
01:32:25,400 --> 01:32:29,239
you're not going to be a parliamentarian

2072
01:32:27,520 --> 01:32:31,639
that is here for the people of Bradford

2073
01:32:29,239 --> 01:32:34,400
West that brings jobs into Bradford West

2074
01:32:31,639 --> 01:32:36,719
that actually influences education in

2075
01:32:34,400 --> 01:32:39,040
Bradford West that's what I want to do I

2076
01:32:36,719 --> 01:32:40,880
don't want to be a

2077
01:32:39,040 --> 01:32:43,400
parliamentarian tell you I am a

2078
01:32:40,880 --> 01:32:45,920
community activist I have advocated for

2079
01:32:43,400 --> 01:32:49,320
people in Bradford West for Bradford

2080
01:32:45,920 --> 01:32:50,760
West and my challenge is rator when when

2081
01:32:49,320 --> 01:32:53,199
they are not elected will there be

2082
01:32:50,760 --> 01:32:55,960
around in Bradford West I will be here

2083
01:32:53,199 --> 01:32:58,480
I'm from the people for the people I

2084
01:32:55,960 --> 01:33:02,719
live here I will deliver here I will

2085
01:32:58,480 --> 01:33:02,719
deliver for the people of Bradford

2086
01:33:03,860 --> 01:33:09,479
[Applause]

2087
01:33:11,840 --> 01:33:16,960
West you have time to calm down

2088
01:33:18,040 --> 01:33:24,639
after we're we're so we're so used to

2089
01:33:22,239 --> 01:33:27,719
politics of division

2090
01:33:24,639 --> 01:33:30,440
uh and and deceit and deception as

2091
01:33:27,719 --> 01:33:34,719
you've seen here fighting with each

2092
01:33:30,440 --> 01:33:37,040
other the unity that's needed for our

2093
01:33:34,719 --> 01:33:39,480
people is not

2094
01:33:37,040 --> 01:33:43,320
there and you got

2095
01:33:39,480 --> 01:33:47,480
it I I certainly have you don't you

2096
01:33:43,320 --> 01:33:50,920
don't I I I I served in the forces I

2097
01:33:47,480 --> 01:33:56,360
fought for this country I'm

2098
01:33:50,920 --> 01:33:58,880
here H can I ask you to please respect

2099
01:33:56,360 --> 01:34:00,800
those who are speaking I don't want you

2100
01:33:58,880 --> 01:34:03,040
to be speaking from the side because

2101
01:34:00,800 --> 01:34:06,199
people are actually addressing the

2102
01:34:03,040 --> 01:34:08,400
voters all right all right thank you

2103
01:34:06,199 --> 01:34:10,040
thank you I will be asking you to leave

2104
01:34:08,400 --> 01:34:12,840
all right I've had enough of that can

2105
01:34:10,040 --> 01:34:14,719
you continue please

2106
01:34:12,840 --> 01:34:17,880
Harry

2107
01:34:14,719 --> 01:34:19,480
George uh should I say sorry Mr Gallow

2108
01:34:17,880 --> 01:34:21,760
because that's how chair likes to refer

2109
01:34:19,480 --> 01:34:24,840
so I can be friendship between the

2110
01:34:21,760 --> 01:34:27,560
Georges George earlier on on made a

2111
01:34:24,840 --> 01:34:31,520
statement saying that the Press is

2112
01:34:27,560 --> 01:34:34,840
here because when he won 3 years ago he

2113
01:34:31,520 --> 01:34:37,960
turned Bradford upside

2114
01:34:34,840 --> 01:34:40,320
down I am here to turn it the right way

2115
01:34:37,960 --> 01:34:40,320
around

2116
01:34:42,040 --> 01:34:48,199
again the right oh

2117
01:34:44,880 --> 01:34:48,199
yeah oh

2118
01:34:50,119 --> 01:34:58,239
yeah you should be a comedian mate

2119
01:34:53,880 --> 01:35:03,800
30 seconds what what Bradford needs is

2120
01:34:58,239 --> 01:35:03,800
is someone who's lived a life

2121
01:35:04,000 --> 01:35:11,000
amongst everyone in in the UK without

2122
01:35:07,760 --> 01:35:13,480
sounding um you know we what Bradford

2123
01:35:11,000 --> 01:35:16,280
needs is it's a unifying force not

2124
01:35:13,480 --> 01:35:19,320
somebody who's divided communities I

2125
01:35:16,280 --> 01:35:23,400
have lived amongst all everything my

2126
01:35:19,320 --> 01:35:24,800
children are uh mixed race and so I am a

2127
01:35:23,400 --> 01:35:28,679
very

2128
01:35:24,800 --> 01:35:30,719
qualified to to unite us vote for me

2129
01:35:28,679 --> 01:35:33,440
vote for Harry and let's have a new MP

2130
01:35:30,719 --> 01:35:36,480
under the purple

2131
01:35:33,440 --> 01:35:39,239
Banner thank you very much it just

2132
01:35:36,480 --> 01:35:42,320
leaves me now to say I know it's been a

2133
01:35:39,239 --> 01:35:44,920
fraud debate but this is democracy at

2134
01:35:42,320 --> 01:35:47,159
its very best and I think that you know

2135
01:35:44,920 --> 01:35:49,520
for those of you who have cooperated

2136
01:35:47,159 --> 01:35:52,560
thank you very much for those of you who

2137
01:35:49,520 --> 01:35:54,440
haven't you made it exciting certainly

2138
01:35:52,560 --> 01:35:56,760
but I would like to say is that on

2139
01:35:54,440 --> 01:35:58,560
behalf of Asian Sunday and just West

2140
01:35:56,760 --> 01:36:01,920
Yorkshire I'd like to thank you for

2141
01:35:58,560 --> 01:36:05,239
coming and I do urge all of you to vote

2142
01:36:01,920 --> 01:36:07,880
on the 7th of May because democracy is a

2143
01:36:05,239 --> 01:36:12,639
precious thing please use your vote

2144
01:36:07,880 --> 01:36:12,639
wisely and God Speak

2145
01:36:36,600 --> 01:36:40,040
nothing on the

2146
01:36:40,140 --> 01:36:43,209
[Music]

2147
01:37:07,199 --> 01:37:11,199
seriously blood

2148
01:37:23,679 --> 01:37:26,679
I