Leave for the male menopause. You heard me right. So with almost 8 million brits languishing on a waiting list, has the countrys Health Service completely lost the plot . Completely lost the plot . Standing by to give their unfiltered views are my panel. Tonight Carol Mcgiffin. Suzanne evans and rebecca reid. In the evans and rebecca reid. In the clash is Kemi Badenoch right that britain is the best place in the world to be a black person . We will debate that with, among others , gb news with, among others, gb news superstar nana akua. Plus as shocking footage emerges of the have a go heroes intervening in an alleged shoplifting incident. Are the public right to step in . And does the rise of vigilantes reveal how powerless our police have become . Well, well speak have become . Well, well speak to former top cop harry miller , to former top cop harry miller, who lays down the law shortly. And also a first look at tomorrows newspaper front pages. And we will crown a new greatest briton and Union Jackass before the night is out. So buckle up for two hours of big opinion. Big debates and a splash of entertainment along the way. Lots to get through. But first, the news with polly middlehurst. Middlehurst. Mark, thank you and good evening to you. Well, the home secretary has warned of a future hurricane of mass migration into the uk in her speech to the Tory Party Conference in manchester today. Braverman said that as well as stopping illegal migration from coming to the uk , shell also make sure that legal migration is held at reasonable levels. Gb news presenter nigel farage criticised the speech , saying criticised the speech, saying the government was out of touch with ordinary voters. But ms braverman said the only way into the uk is via legal routes. Illegal migration act, which will come into force in the coming months, now means that the only route to asylum in the uk is a legal route. The act means that those arriving illegally will be detained and removed back to their home country if possible , or to a country if possible, or to a safe third country like rwanda. Well, the Prime Minister told gb news today hes the person to deliver change to britain. Rishi deliver change to britain. Rishi sunak defended his record on ilLegal Immigration, saying for the first time ever, the number of small boats crossing the engush of small boats crossing the English Channel from france was down by a fifth. He also reiterated his plan to halve inflation and accused the labour leader of being light on policy i youve got cost farmer who no one knows what he stands for. Flip flops left and right. The country can see through that. Thats not leadership. What im offering is different. I know people want change. Im the person to deliver it because were going to politics were going to do politics differently. Saw that on net differently. You saw that on net zero. That this week. Zero. Youll see that this week. Thats what you get from a conservative government and away from tory conference. From the Tory Party Conference. Minister, the former Prime Minister, bofis the former Prime Minister, boris was dismissive of boris johnson, was dismissive of disaster. The uk covid 19 inquiry has been hearing today on the bereaved families for Justice Group says there was a Leadership Void in the early days of the crisis and they went on to accuse mrjohnson of on to accuse mr johnson of cavalier public messaging just weeks before the first lockdown. The inquiry also heard that key whatsapp messages by the then Prime Minister are on recoverable. A 17 year old boy recoverable. A 17 year old boy who stabbed a 15 Year Old Girl to death in croydon last week will face a murder trial in the spring. The youth, who cant be identified due to his age, allegedly repeated he stabbed euanne allegedly repeated he stabbed elianne arade dam while she was on her way to school. The boy who knew the victim fled the scene but was arrested in south london just over an hour after the took. And lastly, the the attack took. And lastly, the prince and princess of wales were in cardiff today to meet members of the windrush generation. Prince william and kate greeting windrush veterans and their descendants during their visit marking the start of black history month, the met with organisations at the grange pavilion and Community Centre to hear about their contribution to the Welsh Community and the well known compare positive royal couple also joined in with a quick game of table tennis at the forum as well. Thats it on the forum as well. Thats it on tv , online dab radio and the tv, online dab radio and the tune in app. This is gb news. This is britains news channel. This is britains news channel. Well, this story raised my temperature tonight and gave me clammy hands. A trust within the nhs which claims, of course, that its a funding crisis. Is set to give male staff up to 12 months of paid leave if theyve got. Wait for it. Months of paid leave if theyve got. Wait for it. The male got. Wait for it. The male menopause. Local ambulance menopause. Local ambulance chiefs have reportedly been told to give consideration to men who experience the change. At this point in their lives. Managers at the trust have been told they should provide additional uniforms portable fans change shift patterns and give time off for sick leave for male Staff Members experiencing these problems. The justification for problems. The justification for this insanity is that men suffer menopause symptoms because of a drop in testosterone levels. Well theyve got some balls wasting taxpayers money like this. Yes, apparently when men reach their 50s, they get a whole host of symptoms, including erectile dysfunction and weight gain. No, sherlock. And weight gain. No, sherlock. You dont need a years paid leave or a special uniform. You need to give up the doughnuts and the pints of lager and go to the gym. The male menopause. Do the gym. The male menopause. Do me a favour. This story would be funny if it wasnt so serious. Funny if it wasnt so serious. The nhs has stressed that this is not a National Policy , but it is not a National Policy, but it reflects the culture of our Health Service now, which is separate covid from reality, steeped in gender ideology, which ignores the basic facts of human biology , which is a bit human biology, which is a bit worrying within a health system. Nhs leaflet is now talk about birthing humans as chest feeders and people who menstruate. Its and people who menstruate. Its a Health Service on its knees financially with a waiting list of almost 8 Million People employing an army of diversity officers , not a role that will officers, not a role that will cure your cancer hour or fix your back pain. The nhs has huge your back pain. The nhs has huge organised National Problems too. Far too many middle managers on six figure salaries. They pay too much for drugs. They pay too much for freelance workers and they pay too much for someone to install a light bulb. When a contractor does a job for the nhs. They add an extra zero. Who nhs. They add an extra zero. Who cares when its not your money . The philosophy and the values by which the service is now run is deeply flawed. Its a National SicknessService Seeking to hand out medication rather than prevent illness. More money than ever goes into the nhs and yet we are sicker than ever. We should be asking for our money back. Should be asking for our money back. Now i love the nurses and back. Now i love the nurses and the doctors. The system is the doctors. The system is flawed, but the individuals are world class. But the decision by consultants on six figure salaries to go on strike is another reputation blow to our Health Service and a demonstration of its failing culture. Now the nurses in particular deserve a pay rise. Particular deserve a pay rise. But for anyone in the Health Care Profession to withdraw , care profession to withdraw, their labour is, in my opinion , their labour is, in my opinion, an egregious betrayal of what they signed up for. People boast that the nhs is the largest employer in the world. Thats not a boast. That is proof of its wild inefficiency. I love its wild inefficiency. I love the nhs and i want it to prevail. But its got to shrink, be more efficient and focus on illness prevention rather than the management of disease. But of course theyre more worried about sweaty middle aged men getting hot at work with half a Million People going private in the last year alone. The nhs risks becoming like the bbc pay for by everyone, but only used by some. At which point it has a crisis of credibility and a crisis of credibility and a crisis of credibility and a crisis of authority. Its not helped by stories like this one. Grown men being paid for a year off for their so called male menopause, whatever that is. Menopause, whatever that is. Ill be honest. This story gave me a hot flush and swollen ankles as the nhs has lost the plot. Its enough to make you sick. And is itjust me or is it sick. And is it just me or is it quite hot in here . Okay lets get reaction from my top Superstar Panel tonight. Columnist and media personality Carol Mcgiffin, political commentator Suzanne Evans, and author and journalist rebecca reid. Carol, male menopause. Do reid. Carol, male menopause. Do me a favour. Me a favour. It just gets more ludicrous every day, doesnt it . I mean, you only have to look through one of the papers that you wouldnt normally read to see vacancies. Yeah. See how many vacancies. Yeah. How many vacancies there are for people for non jobs with huge salaries. It really is. Its pathetic. Its almost like forget about the patients. Its forget about the patients. Its got nothing to do with you. This is just a giant, horrible , is just a giant, horrible, monstrous building of bureaucracy. And i think that bureaucracy. And i think that the rot set in, especially with what you mentioned there, with changing a light bulb, cost like £1,000 or, you know , they pay £1,000 or, you know, they pay too much for stupid bits of equipment, £5 for a packet of paracetamol that you can get for £0. 50 at morrisons. 30 9 pm. Boots. There you go. Boots. There you go. Didnt realise you were such a fan. Well, were giving you headache. The supermarkets you might do, but i do think that that the rot set in there with the pfi obsession and the thing is quite a lot of the time the maintenance contracts are tied in with the loans for the buildings, arent they . So they dont have a choice but to pay that. And its like its crippling, but nobody in the nhs seems to care too much. The only other thing is, does it not dilute notion of the it not dilute the notion of the female menopause, which is a very real hormonal change . I think it trivialises it. I think this is an insult to women. Yeah, but you know what, mark . I mean , you know, not every i mean, you know, not every single woman has to make a big, big meal out of it. Do that. And i know that thats not a thing when it happens, when ive got all women on the panel, when it happens to you, you will change your happens to you, you will change you no, its happened to me. No, its happened to me. No, its happened to me. Ive had it. Well its happened me. Happened to me. To say, i was and i have to say, i was working so hard, i didnt notice it. So theres lots of stuff out there at the moment. Women about menopause being it menopause being awful. It doesnt be that. I doesnt have to be like that. I really didnt. Are you must but there are women. You must know, who go through hell. Know, women who go through hell. Ive and listeners know, women who go through hell. Ive went and listeners know, women who go through hell. Ive went through 1d listeners know, women who go through hell. Ive went through1d lisright. Who went through hell. Right. Yeah absolutely. Ive got friends who went through hot flushes friends who went through hot flux i ies friends who went through hot flusl think youre right. I think youre right. I think youre right. This idea of a male menopause, which, lets face it, is not something thats medically is not something thats me and ly can have 12 and yet they can have 12 months it is nonsense. And months off. It is nonsense. And it only happen, afraid it could only happen, im afraid thats what thats what marks 12 months. And also extra uniforms and fans and all the rest of it. This only happen, this could only happen, im afraid, public afraid, in a Public Sector organisation has just got organisation that has just got so bloated and so woke and so overfunded as opposed to being super efficient. This couldnt happen in a in a private business. They go bust within a month. They go bust within a month. I mean, what man wouldnt like 12 months off go like to take 12 months off to go and buy motorbike, have them and buy a motorbike, have them ride sports car or find ride their sports car or find a new mistress or whatever it might be. All is. All it is. All it is. I think midlife crisis. I think the midlife crisis. I think think midlife crisis think i think the midlife crisis thing point, thing is possibly a good point, but i think that if this the but i think that if this is the way that open up to way that we can open up to talking about the difficulties that experience in talking about the difficulties that 50s, experience in talking about the difficulties that 50s, ex may nce in talking about the difficulties that 50s, ex may be in talking about the difficulties that 50s, ex may be a in talking about the difficulties that 50s, ex may be a goodn their 50s, it may be a good thing because is a sort thing because it is a sort of mid 40s mid 50s is a very mid 40s to mid 50s is a very difficult time in terms of Mens Mental HealthMens Mental Health and mens behaviour. We behaviour. And i think we sometimes off the fact behaviour. And i think we somnweies off the fact behaviour. And i think we somnweies women the fact behaviour. And i think we somnweies women are fact behaviour. And i think we somnweies women are very good that we talk women are very good about each and about supporting each other and about supporting each other and about looking to our about sort of looking to our mental and we have much about sort of looking to our ment. Of and we have much about sort of looking to our ment. Of. Group have much about sort of looking to our ment. Of. Group system. Iuch about sort of looking to our ment. Of. Group system. Men more of a peer group system. Men dont have that amongst more of a peer group system. Men dontfriends have that amongst more of a peer group system. Men dontfriends ande that amongst more of a peer group system. Men dontfriends and itthat amongst more of a peer group system. Men dontfriends and it isntamongst more of a peer group system. Men dontfriends and it isnt asongst their friends and it isnt as medically recognised either. We all less likely to all know men are less likely to go doctor, less likely to go to the doctor, less likely to seek support. Seek Mental Health support. I think trying to think what theyre trying to do here say sometimes men really here is say sometimes men really lose this point and lose their way at this point and they supported they should be supported by their they should be supported by the indeed. But i think indeed. But but i think calling the menopause is an calling it the menopause is an insult to i mean, why insult to women. I mean, why have muscle in all have men got to muscle in on all of the female things . Now, you know, participating in know, men are participating in womens be womens sport. They want to be arrested i mean, arrested and go to i mean, i would if men would like to would say if men would like to do the parenting and do more of the parenting and domestic im very happy do more of the parenting and domnthat. Im very happy with that. If any want to come and if any men want to come and do washing im very do my washing up, im very comfortable that call it comfortable with that call it sort middle aged health sort of a middle aged health issues, but calling it a i think i think i honestly 12 months i think. Thats to be think. But thats got to be really rare, right . Get 12 months off you dont get 12 months off with well, actually, with menopause. Well, actually, we might need 3 or 4. We need we might need 3 or 4. Some private sector well, so some private sector employees, now, employees, employers now, for instance, i think channel 4 are very menopause very good about having menopause leave in the same way that you very good about having menopause leavtake the same way that you very good about having menopause leavtake menstrualvay that you very good about having menopause leavtake menstrual leave it you very good about having menopause leavtake menstrual leave ifyou can take menstrual leave if youre significant youre having really significant problems. The problems. But it should be the exception, and the exception, not the rule and the other thing i would do other thing i would say, why do we menstrual or we need menstrual leave or menopause we need menstrual leave or me why . Se why . Why . 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