People who are absolutely desperate its almost like asking people to be schizophrenia you know the two opposites and that is why that is why we need we dont need to believing we cant live in poverty to local authorities we have to have a almost a kind of minister of poverty a minister who looks after who runs of the poverty unit who runs the prevention unit and is in a in a way struggling to kind of balance all of this and bringing people into the fray rather than just leaving it to Kensington And Chelsea or westminster westminster its some of the poorest people this isnt Tower Hamlets this isnt you know this isnt you know sell sheffield its a mile and i should say labor councils. Do the same as the library. Unisa paul you missed municipal socialism is as guilty as municipal can. Services and in this area the most revolutionary idea arguably youve come up with and im surprised that you know whether you thought you were going to get it through the private members bill given the property
General election joining me now is the founder of the big issue crossbenchers lord bird who is proposing the creation of a new body to curb the excesses of capitalism on bird welcome back to going underground so whats governments response to your proposal for a poverty prevention unit well when i spoke to her previous to the election just before a few days before she announced it. She liked the idea of looking at this how you could make all departments passed through the prism of how does this relate to prevention she like the idea of it are made the point to save or making it the most units never really car use so theyre bureaucratic n. G. O. S here i mean that is one of those form filling in an order and we know damn well that every every government minister and their departments are told clearly a lot. You know chasing the greyhounds chasing the rabbit of their department and then you know in the slightest bit interested in working across party and across government so you really go
I mean that is quite a form filling in and all that and we know damn well that every every government minister and their departments are told clearly like you know chasing the greyhounds chasing the rabbit of their department and then you know in the slightest bit interested in working across party and across government so you really got to get these people and bang their Heads Together thats why you need a union but when you as a crossbenchers work in the as a lord byron as d. W. B. Under secretary states and employment is at an all time high in rejecting your proposal it sounded to me like in the house of lords so a poverty prevention unit at a time when weve never had it so good when it comes to employment. Well it seems to be the what do you make of a response as a as the government well i you know you know people have to make responses you then have to move on and and do what im carrying on with the concept of what im calling a Prevention Alliance which is across both houses acros
Is privatizing. All the civil coming up in todays going underground so the lives of hundreds of thousands of british children in tory britain are apparently under threat according to antipoverty charity the Trussell Trust as u. K. Children lose access to Free School Meals during the Summer Holidays years of blairite labor and tory austerity have been put into sharp relief in one of the richest countries in the world meanwhile record rises in homelessness have accompanied the transfer of wealth from social services to defacto taxpayer benefits for the city of london some believe that all it would have taken for engineer liberal leader Jeremy Corbyn to be Prime Minister of britain right now instead of theresa may propped up by a party linked to far right paramilitaries would have been of the lethal Grenfell Tower inferno had happened before and not after junes u. K. General election joining me now is the founder of the big issue crossbenchers lord bird who is proposing the creation of a
Before december 10th. A wild card in is another support ongs caltrans is still recrewing but the shims are being made, and could see the shims allowing the bridge to open earlier than december without saddle work being done. Stay tuned as the Toll Authority told us last week, as far as opening date goes, everything is wide open, anything is possible. Do expect shorter advance notice than hoped. Just four days left to reach a deal between bart and unions. Negotiations underway right now but if a contract knlt be hammered out workers could strike again as soon as monday. This morning a spokesperson says management was ready to burn midnight oil, excuse me, sorry. Two unions involved in these negotiations also said the same and it really depends on the mediator and whether or not he thinks progress is being made. They have not come out this morning so we have yet to get updates on the progress f any of the negotiations. The Budget Committee was spending bart of the morning and afternoon e