Well, it turns out that a candidate for the mid bedfordshire by election apparently strong links apparently has very strong links to greenpeace. The labour party is in a bit of a mess over net zero in the environment at the moment. Talking of the environment, chap has gone on environment, a chap has gone on Hunger Strike over the ulez charge, so well be checking in and making sure that everything is still okay with that is still indeed okay with that particular look, particular man. But hey look, this the real world effect, this is the real world effect, isnt it . That our eco pressure isnt it . That our eco pressure is piling onto ordinary citizens . Patrick christys on. Citizens . Patrick christys on. Gb news. Im going big on that shipping container story today. I went there this morning and to be honest with you, it was absolutely horrendous. Its the only word for it. Weve got british citizens , young single british citizens, young single mums as well, living in what they would describe and have described themselves as squalor. And it makes us realise, i think , that our priorities are think, that our priorities are all wrong. I will also be taking all wrong. I will also be taking a long, hard look at our Legal Profession today to see whether or not those immigration or not those crooked immigration lawyers be lawyers should actually be spending of their life spending the rest of their life behind bars. Gb views or cbnnews. Com. But right now its your headlines with. Ray your headlines with. Ray thanks, patrick. Good afternoon. 3 02. Our top story this hour, Suella Braverman says lawyers who game the british asylum system by lying are a stain on the Legal Profession. The home secretarys comments come as she chairs a round table of regulators and members of the governments new task force aimed at cracking down on rogue lawyers. As the daily mail lawyers. As the daily mail revealed the case of a law firm helping an undercover journalist helping an undercoverjournalist who was posing as an economic migrant to submit a false application in exchange for thousands of pounds. Now a new task force announced by the government will bring together regulatory bodies , law regulatory bodies, Law Enforcement other government enforcement and other Government Departments root out departments to root out so called dodgy law firms. The so called dodgy law firms. The elections watchdog was targeted by a cyber attack which allowed what it calls hot style actors to access peoples information. The cyber attackers were able to access copies of the electoral register with the name and address of anyone registered to vote between 2014 and 2022. The incident was first identified in october of last year, but the attackers first access the Commission Systems in august of 2021. Chief exec sean mcnally apologised to people whose information was hacked and says significant steps have since been taken to improve their it systems. Been taken to improve their it systems. Hundreds of brits are on an overnight ferry have been forced to dock in france after a reported Food Poisoning emergency on board a passenger on the pont avion ferry told gb news that dozens of ambulances were waiting on the quay side when the ferry pulled into brest this morning, saying theyd departed santander in spain at 6 00 last night. But passengers told gb news that they were stunned to see the boat urgently diverted. And Brittany Ferries diverted. And Brittany Ferries told us they dont yet know when the ship will be able to continue its journey on to plymouth , a haulage firm thats plymouth, a haulage firm thats part of one of the uks largest transport groups, says it may be forced to shut down its site in Northern Ireland due to brexit. Gb news has seen a letter sent by Morgan Mclernon to staff that blames the consequences of post brexit arrangements for possible redundancies. The possible redundancies. The Company Delivers to every major uk supermarket. The Business Community in Northern Ireland is still awaiting details about the Windsor Framework that was signed in february. John martin from the Road Haulage Association saying that hundreds ofjobs association saying that hundreds of jobs could be affected. Of jobs could be affected. If youre investing tens of millions of pounds in a business, you need clarity and surety and that hasnt been coming from government. I think the concern is if they tell us the concern is if they tell us the detail, everybody will realise that its not what the Prime Minister promised. Well, in the Morgan Mcclure group youre talking about hundreds of jobs, but theyre not the only company thats under pressure at the moment. A number of other Haulage Companies and manufacturing are Manufacturing Companies are already looking at the viability of businesses in northern of their businesses in Northern Ireland, a man who was stabbed in the arm near the British Museum had been waiting in the queue to enter. Police have arrested a male on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm. An american visitor described how she was about to join the queue at the museum when she was told to leave by police as the building was evacuated and the area cordoned off while the force attended the scene. Its not being treated as scene. Its not being treated as terror related and the museum has now reopened. There are half has now reopened. There are half as many bus services across the uk compared to 12. 5 years ago. Analysis by labour found that there were nearly 9000in the year to march compared to nearly 18,000in 2011. The West Midlands has been the hardest hit, with two thirds of routes cut. But two thirds of routes cut. But the government says labours criticism is actually misleading. As its invested £3. 5 billion into bus Services Since 2020. The mayor of the West Midlands has asked the council to ensure that a historic pub destroyed in a fire is rebuilt brick by brick. Historic pub destroyed in a fire is rebuilt brick by brick. Andy is rebuilt brick by brick. Andy street has written to south Staffordshire Council over the crooked house pub, which was destroyed by fire on saturday evening. The mayor says the 18th evening. The mayor says the 18th Century Building in himley holds real cultural and historical significance and the local authority should consider barring any change of use application for that site. Fire is being investigated by the police. And finally , people police. And finally, people lined the irish seafront to say their final goodbyes to Sinead Oconnor earlier. The 56 year oconnor earlier. The 56 year old grammy winning artist was found unresponsive when police were called to a home in South East London last month. The procession travelled along the bray seafront and passed her former home in montebello, where she lived for 15 years. A host of tributes flooded in upon news of tributes flooded in upon news of the singers death, including celebrities such as Russell Crowe , annie lennox and cindy crowe, annie lennox and cindy lauper. Crowe, annie lennox and cindy lauper. This is gb news across lauper. This is gb news across the uk on tv in your car, on Digital Radio and on your Smart Speaker by saying, play gb news. Now lets get straight back to. Patrick it is time for a full scale investigation into the role the Legal Profession is playing in our illegal immigration crisis. Ihave our illegal immigration crisis. I have more than a strong suspicion that politically motivated lawyers are frustrating us at every turn , frustrating us at every turn, either to make money or to cause as much of a nuisance as possible. So the conservative policies fail and they get a labour government. The latest madness is this fear of water. Rubbish. We are supposed to believe that people who paid people smugglers thousands of pounds to possibly put them in a boat initially across the mediterranean were then so traumatised by what they saw that they continued to pay money to people smugglers to help them travel across hundreds of miles of safe , bone dry of perfectly safe, bone dry land, then paid them more money again to get in a dinghy and sail across the busiest shipping lane in the world. I think that the public has a right to take these legal claims with a massive pinch of salt. Should we have a little look at some of the videos as well of people coming across those coming across on those small boats . I mean, that lot dont boats . I mean, that lot dont really traumatised by really look that traumatised by the water, do they . No, theres the water, do they . No, theres a couple of smiles. Indeed. There they dont really look like theyd be too uncomfortable on stable barge. I think its on a stable barge. I think its worth noting as well that one of the legal firms behind the last minute legal challenges is. Reporter in the mail as being london based duncan lewis, which apparently played a key role in challenging governments challenging the governments rwanda scheme. Now we rwanda asylum scheme. Now we have also seen an undercover sting operation where totally different solicitors , some of different solicitors, some of whom owned multi Million Pound property empires and sent their kids to eton, were taking cash in hand to fabricate claims to keep illegals in the country. I am convinced that some legal firms up and down the country are 100 at it when it comes to making bogus asylum claims and that needs to be investigated. That needs to be investigated. And if it is the truth, as i suspect it is, that the reality of the situation is that you can make a legal case for anybody at all that they have suffered some kind of trauma and that you can simply make that up and get away with it. Then this needs to be explained to the public in light of how traumatised everybody coming across the channel. Apparently is and how desperate they are for safe haven in the uk and only the uk. It they are for safe haven in the uk and only the uk. It is they are for safe haven in the uk and only the uk. It is also worth reminding ourselves of this story from over the weekend and the same people smugglers getting people into britain are also charging them around two and a half grand to get them out of britain. If theyve got in trouble with the law. So all of a sudden it turns out that they werent that traumatised by their journey. Werent that traumatised by theirjourney. They werent that traumatised by their journey. They arent really the victims of human trafficking. Actually trafficking. Theyre actually customers and countries customers of it. And countries other britain will do just other than britain will do just fine. Frankly there needs to be an investigation into whether or not certain crooked lawyers are essentially helping the human traffickers. Well, thats what traffickers. Well, thats what i think. As ever, i want to hear from you on this gb views on gbnews. Com. Ive got a heck of a lot on the immigration scandal today, including a report that i did earlier this morning from shipping containers in ealing, which i know is going to shock a lot of you. It certainly shocked me. But before that, we go live to portland to speak to our Homeland Security editor, mark white. Thank you very, white. Mark, thank you very, very first things first. Very much. First things first. Traumatise caused by this traumatise caused by water. This appears to be one of the latest excuses that he used why people cant get on these boats. Whats going on there . Going on there . Yeah, i mean, i think generally traumatised is certainly some of the reasons that are being put forward by the lawyers on behalf of these Asylum Seekers. As to the home office as a reason why they cant go on to this barge canal , learns about being put on a barge with hundreds of other people in very close proximity to each other is another disability issues, another other excuse thats being made to the home office. But its clear that lawyers and Campaign Groups have advised quite a number of these Asylum Seekers now just not to bother getting on the buses when they arrive at their hotel to pick them up, to take them to the bibby stockholm. And that worked very successfully for them yesterday with the vast majority of those, because remember, it was being briefed out that 50 people were due to arrive on the first day. In the end , 15 arrive and we know of at end, 15 arrive and we know of at least 20 who did not get on board the buses and the government inform of the home office have now sent out warning letters to those who didnt get on the buses, warning them that if they dont get on those buses and get to this barge by the end of today, then they risk losing the support that the home office gives them. In other words, the accommodation on that, the home office gives them quite where the home office would stand legally. I the home office would stand legally. I dont the home office would stand legally. I dont know, patrick, legally. I dont know, patrick, because it has a legal duty to ensure that Asylum Seekers are not destitute, that they are not made homeless. However, they may have a case to argue argue that they have offered accommodation in that accommodation. An offer in that accommodation. An offer has not been accepted. No , exactly. And that is no, exactly. And that is a really fascinating point because initial really it sounds quite tough, doesnt it, to paraphrase very much so. Lee anderson saying that you can get on the barge or you can politely return to france if you do decide not to france if you do decide not to get on this barge. From what i could gather, the government was saying at the minute, well, we might make you homeless , but we might make you homeless, but that then put the focus that would then put the focus onto the local authority who would then have to find housing for you, which doesnt really actually help because the local authority could then still house actually help because the local autiinity could then still house actually help because the local autiin a could then still house actually help because the local autiin a hoteli then still house actually help because the local autiin a hotel or1en still house actually help because the local autiin a hotel or taketill house actually help because the local autiin a hotel or take a l house actually help because the local autiin a hotel or take a flatuse you in a hotel or take a flat away from a young single mum, for but suella for example. But Suella Braverman in the last half hour or so, i believe has been held with a Task Force Meeting into the Legal Profession in this country. And that is, i think, an area where were going to see an area where were going to see a lot of contention in the coming months as yeah, i mean, weve heard for some time about concerns within government circles and amongst those supporters of the governments plans to stop the boats. They fear that its not just lawyers, but at charities. Human Rights Groups, in fact, right from the people smugglers themselves are all involved. Themselves are all involved. They believe to some extent in gaming the system or helping the Asylum Seekers game. The system from the advice that theyre given by the people smugglers on the best ways to get to northern france to throw away their identifying documents and to come up with back stories that again, its claimed is suggested or hammered home to them by by some of the charities. And human Rights Groups. And indeed aid lawyers. And weve had that sting by the mail that uncovered what was illegality on the face of what they have uncovered in trying to coach these Asylum Seekers into coming up. And in fact, in venting stories that are not true. So that is there a belief that this is whats happening, a wide scale sort of gaming of the asylum system, but proving it is a different matter. And of course, you would if you speak to the lawyers, if you speak to the human Rights Groups in the charities, they would say, far from gaming the system , what doing is , what they are doing is offering the best advice and help to people in a desperate situation to ensure that they stand the best chance of being able to claim asylum in this country. Yeah, absolutely. And mark, yeah, absolutely. And mark, just in terms of an update as to where we currently stand with the amount of people on the bibby stockholm barge, do we as of right now know if theres been that many more arrivals today at all . Well, we certainly think a few have come today , but you few have come today, but you might be able to see behind me that you cant see behind me because the cloud base has come right down. Its blowing a gale. Its been raining. Its just its been raining. Its just miserable down here and we cant see the barge. So we dont actually know how many people might have gone into the barge in the last few hours since the cloud base dropped. There was certainly a 4 or 5, i think, that went in this morning. But thats a fraction of who the home office were expecting in terms of the numbers to be on the barge because they are being frustrated by the interventions that are taking place by the lawyers and the human Rights Groups