The Green Party activists and candidates said that made a a series of horrible anti-semitic comments, including describing Jews, and I quote, I hesitate to quote, but I will do it, calling them abominations on humanity. This was supposed to be a routine BBC interview, but it quickly turned into something far more explosive. Zia Ysef didn't just defend his party.
He went straight for the BBC itself, accusing it of bias, double standards, and selective outrage. Agre and they also claimed that the attacks, the arson attacks on the Jewish charity ambulance were a quote false flag. A Green Party Council candidate made that same claim.
The BBC has not even reported on that, Laura. And I think that's unbecoming of the BBC. From energy policy to data privacy and then suddenly a direct attack on how the media shapes political narratives in Britain.
So the real question is, was this a brutal exposure of media bias or a calculated political deflection? More power to them. What is totally unacceptable is walloping British hardworking British people with the highest energy cost in the world as a direct result of green levies on people's bills just so that virtue signaling politicians can get on private jets and go to Davos and compete over who can be Greta Tunberg's best friend.
That is the height of insanity. Watch closely because what's said here and what's ignored might surprise you. If you want unfiltered political analysis the mainstream won't touch, hit subscribe now and let's get into it.
So, welcome to the program. Now, Reform this week has launched a prize draw saying that Nigel Farage would pay a whole street's energy bills. But we had a look at how it worked.
You'd have to fill in your email address. You'd have to give all your personal data and say how you would vote. Isn't that just you going after people's data rather than trying to have a serious policy?
Well, Laura, if you're entering a competition, you do need to offer some details and no one is obliged to talk about how they voted. But the reason why we launched that competition is to draw attention to the fact that reform is calling on this Labor government to change course and actually reverse all of these awful energy policies the Tories put in place. So, let's talk about every place that people watching this program are going to come into contact with energy costs, right?
number one at the petrol pumps and the diesel pumps. So, we're talking about an emergency h havinging of VAT and reversing this abominable increase in fuel duty that's coming. And on your home energy bills, we're talking about abolishing VAT completely and removing all the green levies.
And can I just say, Laura, I couldn't believe my ears hearing Chem Baden talk about how she wants more drilling in the North Sea when it was the Tory party that slapped a 75% tax on it, abolishing the green levies that give us the most expensive energy costs in the world. It was a tourist who put those levies there in the first place. They are shameless arsonists offering to rebuild your home having spent 14 years burning it to the ground.
And we'll come to your policies in a second because people will want to know how you plan to pay for those promises. But firstly on this point about the competition that you're running. What are you going to do with people's data?
Because there are very strict rules for all political parties. If you fill in a form, hand in your data, hand over your date of birth and your address, what are you going to do with people's data? Well, I was a chairman of the party.
significant portion of the last couple of years. I personally oversaw our GDPR and data compliance and I'm very comfortable with our position on that. Are you are you putting to me that we're in breach of GDPR?
I'm not suggesting that at all. I'm asking you what you're going to do what you're going to do with it because you're giving people what sounds like a great offer and they have to go and fill in a form and give you some data. What you going to do with it?
Well, everything that reform would do with the data is in the terms and conditions which people have to opt in and specifically uh check a box to allow them to do. But let me reiterate, it's a competition which could be worth quite a lot of money. a whole street of energy costs.
And again, the whole reason we did that was to draw attention that we're going to save the policies I just mentioned are going to save £200 off the annual home energy bill of the average British household during the cost of living crisis and reduce petrol prices by 12p per liter and diesel prices by 14p a liter. How are you going to pay? Right, before we play this, pay attention to the framing of the question.
This starts as a data privacy issue, but watch how quickly it shifts. Also, notice the tone. this matters.
Pay for that then. So let's look at taking VAT off energy bills. That would be roughly we expect to cost about two and a half billion.
Where would the money for that come from? Yeah. So let's talk about that.
So this is more than covered by stop spending British taxpayer money on things that don't improve their lives. So we scrap the electric car subsidies. We would end the subsidies on heat pumps in your boiler.
And we would end the insane experiment that's currently going on 9 billion pounds over the course of this parliament. Labor is spending of British taxpayers money on carbon capture experiments. Cumulatively over the 5-year period that is 14 billion pounds Laura that more than covers all of the measures we're taking to reduce cost of living for Wouldn't then heat pumps which some people want to put into their houses in order to bring their bills down in the long term.
Electric cars which some people want to drive in order to live a more environmentally friendly life or maybe they just like the look of them. And both of those industries support jobs in this country. So wouldn't costs go up and jobs in green industries be under threat by those decisions?
First of all, this is a fallacy. China is currently flooding this country with cheap Chinese electric cars. Currently, those levies that British taxpayers money is being spent on are producing jobs and creating jobs in China and costing them in this country.
And yes, let's be completely frank. Um it is if somebody's watching this program and desperately wants a heat pump in their house, yeah, you're not going to get that subsidy under a reform government. for people watching this program who fill their petrol cars up and their diesel cars up and wse and fear opening their energy bills.
All of that would reverse underform work though in a green industry. Maybe you're involved in a wind farm, maybe you work for a renewables company. When you hear again and again reforms saying, "Oh, we would take the subsidies away from that.
" They might feel like the rug's going to be pulled under them. Laura, politics is about choices, right? Everyone understands that.
Firstly, the number of quote green jobs that have been created are dwarfed by the number of jobs lost as a result of the insane net zero policies and reform is not ideologically opposed to renewables. If wind farms make sense economically on their own right, great. If solar farms make sense in their own right, [music] um, and local residents are happy with it, more power to you.
What is totally unacceptable is walloping British hardworking British people with the highest energy cost in the world as a direct result of green levies on people's bills just so that virtue signaling politicians can get on private jets and go to Davos and compete over who can be Greta Tunberg's best friend. That is the height of insanity and that's what re reformed regime. Okay.
Well, I think we're going to be talking about energy for definitely the next few weeks if not the next few months given everything that's happened in the Middle East. Um I just want to mention the context of the elections coming. Um, reforms had a pretty turbulent week with some of its [music] candidates.
One of them branded the former first minister of Scotland, Hamza Ysef, an Islamist [music] Another candidate made offensive comments aimed at the Jewish community. Another was photographed doing a Nazi salute. Now, Nigel Far told us last year your vetting process would improve, it would be rigorous, that you would not have the same kind of problems that you had in the general election [music] with candidates.
That doesn't seem to have worked, does it? Well, look, firstly, obviously all of that's apparent and the party's taken action on that. But why does it look we Laura reform has vetted over 8,000 candidates over the last couple of years even if our success rate is 99.
9% a handful will slip through. I want to make a very important point actually on vetting and how these things are covered. Because yes, of course, it's reasonable to hold reform to account, but what consistently happens is the BBC pouncers on every single reform mishap and gives it vastly disproportionate coverage in your news cycles and completely ignores the far more voluminous misdemeanor and frankly egregious things that people from other parties say.
Let me give you a real example. Proportionately, Zia, you said proportionately reform has lost more counselors over this kind of thing happening than the other political. That's actually that is actually incorrect.
That's actually incorrect. Um right and I want to make an important point because it was just a couple of days ago that Green Party activists [music] and candidates said that made a a series of horrible anti-semitic comments including describing Jews and I quote I hesitate to quote but I will do it calling them abominations on humanity. Agre and they also claimed that the attacks the arson attacks on the Jewish charity ambulance were a quote false flag.
A Green Party Council candidate made that same claim. The BBC has not even reported on that, Laura, and I think that's unbecoming of the BBC. Dear, we must end it there, but thank you very much indeed for coming into this studio this morning.
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