Dead Ringers: Ep2. De-escalation and nuclear proliferation

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Speaker 8 The Donald is talking now.

Speaker 8 So, as Israel and Iran take us to the brink of World War III,

Speaker 8 I just want to make it very clear this would never have happened if Donald Trump was president.

Speaker 8 But I know what you're asking. Why haven't I personally killed the Ayatoll Bridge yet?

Speaker 8 He's the boss of Iran. Big country.
Bad country. Not a good country.
But I did some more digging into this Iran. Big place.
Not new.

Speaker 8 Used to be called Persia.

Speaker 9 Persia.

Speaker 8 They named it after a rug, I think. It's

Speaker 11 pretty sure.

Speaker 8 Anyway, it turns out these guys got some ideas, and they're not half bad. The way they handle protests, handle women.
Seriously, everyone's telling me we've got to destroy Iran, rebuild their values.

Speaker 8 But these guys already have my values.

Speaker 9 It's

Speaker 8 they got more of my values than my do.

Speaker 8 So maybe I'll join in the war after all to go get my values back.

Speaker 8 I may do it. I may not.

Speaker 12 Dead ringers.

Speaker 13 Welcome to Sunday with Laura Koonsberg. My guest this morning is the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves.

Speaker 13 Chancellor, before we discuss the current economic picture, can I ambush you with some questions about the situation between Israel and Iran?

Speaker 14 Certainly, Laura.

Speaker 14 We are calling for de-escalation. It's the opposite of escalation.

Speaker 13 Yet you're sending typhoon jets and air-to-air refuelers.

Speaker 14 Well, let me put it like this, Laura. In a shopping centre, there's the up-escalator,

Speaker 14 then there's the one that you go down. It's called the downscalator.

Speaker 14 And that's what we're calling for here: the downscalation of the situation.

Speaker 13 And yes.

Speaker 14 Think of a kettle, Laura. A kettle that's all scaled up.
What we're calling for is the descaling of the kettle.

Speaker 14 And we're only sending jets into the kettle in order to de-scale it.

Speaker 13 But the British government continually sells arms to Israel, which it's using to scale up tensions in the region.

Speaker 4 Not at all, Laura.

Speaker 14 Think of a fish.

Speaker 14 The arrangement of scales on a fish is called the scalation.

Speaker 14 And we're calling for the opposite of that.

Speaker 14 What we want to see, and what the Prime Minister has been clear about, and what he's calling for, and what the government's calling for, and what it wants to see, is very much the opposite of a fish.

Speaker 13 And just so we are clear, you're sending jets into the region to oppose the fish.

Speaker 10 Yes.

Speaker 13 And the fish is Iran.

Speaker 13 I'm de-escalating this interview.

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Speaker 19 Ross Kemp on gangs, isn't that from 20 years ago?

Speaker 17 Well, it turns out some things can go on for decades without anyone caring about them or knowing it's still going on, like grooming kids or this program.

Speaker 17 I've come to Rotherham, and first up, I wanted to know how the gang had managed to fly under the radar for so many years. How did this happen?

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Speaker 17 But how did these gangs operate for so long without anyone doing anything? Who turns a blind eye?

Speaker 19 Jess Phillips!

Speaker 13 Mr. Speaker, the word grooming is a racist dog whistle and anyone who thinks otherwise is endorsing the far right.

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Speaker 12 Oh, I see your wife has perked up.

Speaker 26 This week, leaders of the G7 countries have been meeting in Canada. Let's find out the latest from the BBC's political editor, Chris Mason.
Chris, what can you tell us?

Speaker 22 Well, that's a good question, Clive. And it's a question that's difficult to answer, as are all questions when put to me, as I tend to answer every question with another question,

Speaker 22 which begs the question, do we ever get nearer to the answers?

Speaker 22 Or do we?

Speaker 26 So you can't tell us anything about the G7 summit despite having been there this week?

Speaker 22 That's the question on everybody's lips here in Canada, Clive.

Speaker 26 Well, in other political news, Chris, there are reports that senior bosses here at the BBC are drawing up a plan to make news content more reform voter friendly.

Speaker 10 What can you tell us about that?

Speaker 22 What can I tell you about that?

Speaker 28 That is my question.

Speaker 22 And you'd like me to answer it?

Speaker 10 If at all possible?

Speaker 22 Well, as you know, Clive, for a century the BBC has had a reputation for always being totally and utterly impartial in a way that slightly favours the Tories.

Speaker 12 Well, at last, an answer without a question.

Speaker 22 The question is, though,

Speaker 22 is pandering to reform just one of those crazy ideas they have upstairs could it become a reality my question to you clive is what do you think well i think we shall continue to remain a bastion of impartiality chris mason there let's get the weather now with lee anderson thanks clive

Speaker 22 now all this lefty sunshine means it's easier for immigrants to get across the channel in their woke boats to invade the country and i for one am sick to bloody death of it.

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Speaker 13 One of the big questions this week, apart from why is Newsnight nowhere near as good as it used to be,

Speaker 13 is whether or not Iran does have nuclear weapons. Israel claims it does, and I'm joined now by their new chief investigator.

Speaker 29 Yep, hello there, Victoria. You know, it really is so great to be with you.

Speaker 13 Hang on a minute.

Speaker 29 Yep, that's right. It's me, Tony.
The Blair Witch Project.

Speaker 29 As in, which current international project shall I stick my oar into next?

Speaker 13 You're Israel's weapons investigator.

Speaker 17 Well, you know, it's not like I don't have experience.

Speaker 29 Honestly, the words weapons of mass destruction had barely left Benjamin Netanyahu's lips and Alastair Campbell and I were on the first flight to Tel Aviv.

Speaker 13 So you're saying you've seen proof that Iran does have nuclear weapons?

Speaker 12 Oh, yeah, you know, absolutely.

Speaker 3 Where are they?

Speaker 12 Well, well, aren't they, more like?

Speaker 28 They're all over the place, lying on the floor, falling off shelves.

Speaker 17 I think I even saw an Iranian man carrying one on the bus on the way to work.

Speaker 13 So you've actually been on the ground in Iran collecting intelligence?

Speaker 10 Of course not.

Speaker 29 I'm relying on unsubstantiated evidence as usual.

Speaker 25 Although I do have a reliable contact feeding me the information.

Speaker 9 Hey there, Tony Bear!

Speaker 20 I found some weapons of mass destruction over here in this Tupperware container.

Speaker 20 Tastes of hummus and carrot cake.

Speaker 13 Hey, that's my packed lunch.

Speaker 10 Oh, crap, whatever.

Speaker 4 Let's bomb her on.

Speaker 13 Tony Blair, thank you.

Speaker 29 Nod of head, hand gesture, shit-eating grin for old time's sake.

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Speaker 23 We're back now with James O'Brien.

Speaker 32 Okay, so we've established that Gary from Ryslip doesn't know what he's talking about.

Speaker 20 Shame it took him so long to work it out.

Speaker 29 Now here's Kerry with the weather.

Speaker 7 Thanks, James. Things are looking up because there's going to be a scorcher of a heat wave this week with temperatures reaching...

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Speaker 32 Oh, dear Kerry you said that things are looking up definitely your words Kerry those were your words things are looking up

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Speaker 12 Help me along here Kerry in what way does the absence of life-giving water falling from the heavens mean that things are and again these are your words, looking up.

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Speaker 7 Fine, whatever. I hope it rains.

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Speaker 20 I'm never happy, Kerry, and I'm going to tug at my beard some more to prove it.

Speaker 4 Right.

Speaker 7 Fine, do the bloody weather yourself.

Speaker 20 Kerry's gone away now to think about what she's just said and how she's been wrong about everything all those years, while I, James O'Brien, am 100% right 300% of the time.

Speaker 13 You're listening to today with Emma Barnett in the studio and Nick Robinson in the cupboard where I've tied him up and left him.

Speaker 13 Israel has said this week that Iran bombing its hospitals, infrastructure and innocent citizens, has crossed a red line.

Speaker 13 Sorry, that wasn't a missile. That was the world's irony meter exploding.

Speaker 6 This is today with Emma Barnett and Nick Robinson having escaped from the cupboard.

Speaker 6 With the Middle East plunged into conflict and the world teetering on the brink of World War III, who else will we be crossing to but the BBC's chief misery correspondent, Lise Dussette?

Speaker 13 It's wonderful to be with you, Nick, but I should point out I no longer work for the BBC.

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Speaker 13 No, no, Nick. In fact, I've landed a gig as the fifth horseman of the apocalypse.

Speaker 3 I'm sorry, the fifth horseman of the apocalypse?

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Speaker 13 The Foreign Secretary David Lamy is giving a press conference on the developing conflict between Iran and Israel.

Speaker 10 Good afternoon. Over the last few days, the conflict in the Middle East has intensified.

Speaker 36 So as the UK's Foreign Secretary...

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Speaker 10 I want to be clear.

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Speaker 22 It's bloody claptrap is what it is.

Speaker 7 Lee Anderson joins me.

Speaker 15 Mr.

Speaker 7 Anderson what's your issue with Ms. Metrowelli?

Speaker 22 It's diversity gone mad isn't it?

Speaker 7 Well not really. Blaise Metrowelly is extremely accomplished and experienced.

Speaker 22 Oh wake up and smell the oil of Ole Anita. She's only been promoted because she's a woman and everyone knows a woman can't possibly handle being the chief spy.

Speaker 22 Honestly, we'll all be speaking German within a week.

Speaker 7 That's completely inaccurate.

Speaker 22 I beg to differ, love. In fact, according to a survey, 100% of Brits think it should be a man.
What survey? My survey, this is.

Speaker 22 I went out of Spoonies last night and I popped into the gents for a tactical was and the bloke next to me were quite clear. It's just more of this lefty liberal wokery.

Speaker 22 As if a woman has the tactical brain necessary to stave off an attack from ISIS. Come on, love.

Speaker 7 Okay, this isn't a serious conversation.

Speaker 22 This couldn't be more serious, Anita. We're talking about putting a woman in charge of national security.
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Speaker 7 Anderson,

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Speaker 7 And on that unbelievably offensive note.

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Speaker 20 We're going to cross over live now to a press conference by the Leader of the Opposition,

Speaker 18 Kemmy Baknock.

Speaker 10 Yes,

Speaker 10 that's right.

Speaker 13 I will commence the speaking after I have groomed my woodpecker.

Speaker 13 This is not a euphemism. I am actually grooming a woodpecker because I am weird.

Speaker 13 Yes, that's right.

Speaker 10 Question.

Speaker 14 Beth Rigby, Sky News. Miss Spadenock, you have been campaigning on the grooming gang since you became Tory leader.
Are you pleased that your views are now widely shared across the political spectrum?

Speaker 13 No, I have no wish to hold hold mainstream opinions because I am a low-energy weirdo.

Speaker 13 Yes, that's right. I make my cat eat with a knife and fork.

Speaker 13 And I once filed a noise complaint against the moon.

Speaker 13 Next question.

Speaker 32 Robert Peston, ITV.

Speaker 27 Miss Baknock, if you don't wish to be in the mainstream, where do you see yourself?

Speaker 13 That's right, Robert. Yes, I don't want the man in the street to relate to me

Speaker 13 or my woodpecker at all. Which is why my policies are putting VAT on earwax and making rectangles illegal.

Speaker 13 I also use a sausage as a bookmark.

Speaker 13 This press conference has now concluded, so I will stand completely still and stare at my woodpecker until you have all left the room.

Speaker 36 Robert Petteston, again.

Speaker 28 We can all see that you don't actually have a woodpecker, Miss Badenock.

Speaker 20 It's just you doing the squawking noise.

Speaker 28 I think our viewers will want to know why.

Speaker 13 Because it's my woodpecker's day off.

Speaker 22 You're a weirdo.

Speaker 13 That's right, yes.

Speaker 3 No, no, no, be quiet.

Speaker 31 Big Niger speaking.

Speaker 9 I am here to talk to you today about the Casey report into grooming gangs and her recommendation that we should collect ethnicity data.

Speaker 9 And to that, I say, catch up, love, I've been collecting ethnicity data for years.

Speaker 25 I can tell you this: every time I see someone foreign-looking doing something foreign-seeming,

Speaker 3 I jot it down in my little book, Oh, Science.

Speaker 9 It's critical info. It all started down my local pub, the dog and goose stab.

Speaker 25 My motto down weatherspoons, well, it's simple.

Speaker 9 If they're more colourful than the carpet, they're going in the book.

Speaker 25 Then I thought, why just restrict it to that? Why not work out which ones take the longest at the cash machine?

Speaker 9 Which ones are wearing slippers outside?

Speaker 25 Which ones are ordering coronation chicken sandwiches? Tell you what, you can use the word coronation all you like, mate, but it's still got curry powder in it.

Speaker 25 And as for these accusations of racism, come on, I've said it once, I'll say it again. Data can't be racist.

Speaker 9 Right, so that's it from me.

Speaker 25 I'm off to put my feet up, pop the telly on, and keep a tab of how many commercials contain mixed-race relationships.

Speaker 9 Goodbye.

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Speaker 8 The government has said they are committed to pushing their reforms of the benefit system through Parliament, which means cuts to the personal independence payment.

Speaker 8 Liz Kendall, the work and pension secretary, joins me now. The truth is these cuts are going to impact a lot of disabled people, aren't they, Minister?

Speaker 7 Not at all. No, it's so important that we listen to disabled people.
And you know, Tom, I speak to disabled people all the time, and they're very clear.

Speaker 38 About what?

Speaker 7 About whatever it is they say when I speak to them. And

Speaker 7 I do speak to them all the time.

Speaker 8 Yes, I think our viewers would like to know who is it you're actually speaking to.

Speaker 7 Well for instance, today I spoke to a lovely young man man named Tim whose mobility severely impaired he walks with a crutch his limbs supported by an iron frame.

Speaker 4 Okay.

Speaker 7 Well now he's come off benefits. He's got a job delivering turkeys and only yesterday he wished me a Merry Christmas and added God bless us everyone

Speaker 8 Miss Kendall Are you talking about the fictional Dickens character Tiny Tim?

Speaker 7 I speak to all sorts of disabled people.

Speaker 7 Today I spoke to an incredibly impressive man, an expert in genetics who suffered a tragic accident and is paralyzed from the waist down, uses a wheelchair.

Speaker 4 I see.

Speaker 7 But he wants to come off benefits and get work. So he's opened a school for gifted youngsters and uses his telepathic powers to defeat evil villains who want to take over the world.

Speaker 8 That's clearly Professor Xavier from the X-Men.

Speaker 7 And last week I spoke to a wonderfully talented composer with physical facial disfigurement, but with reasonable adjustments and the right support he now works in an opera house that's a phantom of the opera

Speaker 7 that's offensive tom he may have a disability but he's not a ghost minister have you spoken to any actual disabled people no

Speaker 8 miss kendall thank you

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