Jo Coburn: *is this going to transform people's lives in these areas?*

Gary: well I mean if I take £15 off you and then give you £2.80 is that going to transform your life?

these guys found £2.8billion to give to local councils in the last 3 years they've given £700billion to the rich

*I know you made...* 250 times as much! listen is it levelling up if I give a poor person £2.80 &

I give a rich person £250? No...sorry £700! 250 times as much, listen this government has

resided over the largest and fastest ever increase in inequality in the history of the country and  

the most Orwellian thing you've ever heard;  they call that 'levelling up'

*what'd you say?*

okay let's talk about what I  learned from going on the BBC

okay for those of you who haven't seen it I  did my first live BBC appearance last week  

on Thursday 19th of Jan on politics live um if  you want to see it we'll put a link to the show  

in the description on BBC iPlayer um we'll also  put a link to like a reel of my highlights that  

someone's posts up on YouTube so if you want  you can check that out um first thing to say  

is that basically the reason that we've had  this opportunity to go on bigger shows like  

this is because of the growth of this channel  and all the other social media that we have so  

thank you to you for everyone who subscribed to this channel to all the other channels Twitter,  

Facebook, Instagram, TikTok... people who've shared  the videos who've encouraged other people to to  

watch and to get involved because it's that growth  that has enabled us to go on things like the BBC  

and to spread the message further so thank you  the second thing I want to talk about is basically  

what I learned from doing  the show because I think that  

from what I saw on that show it's made me  realize there are some ways that we could  

communicate in a way that is a bit more  aggressive a bit clearer and could really  

hold the government to account and get more  people to realize the importance of what we  

are doing which is trying to reduce wealth  inequality to prevent this economic collapse  

so when I went on the show what I really wanted  to do and this would be no surprise to people  

who've watched the channel from the beginning  is really highlight the enormous amount of  

money that has gone from the government to  the richest since the beginning of Covid  

that was the reason we started this channel  from the very from the very beginning of Covid

I realized that there would be an enormous transfer  of cash from the government to the rich that would  

lead to a big increase in government debt which  would mean we'd have things like austerity and a  

big increase in cash accumulation by the richest  leading to inflation and cost of living crisis  

we're seeing those things now something needs to  be done about it what always frustrates me is that  

every day on the news especially in the economic  news there tends to be a fixation whenever some  

small amount of money is changing hands that day  in the meantime this enormous amount of money that  

has gone to the rich is completely ignored so in  the clip you saw at the beginning of this video I  

was asked you know what do you think about the 2.8  billion pounds that the government is giving to  

fund local services this is after they have cut  local service funding by 15 billion pounds and  

transferred 700 billion pounds to the rich I  think it's really key to understand that this  

enormous amount of money that's gone to the  richest is at the very heart of our economic  

crisis I think it's also important to understand  that that amount of money is so much bigger  

than basically any individual problem we  have now even when the government needed  

to deal with the energy price crisis the  costing of that was about 40 or 50 billion  

pounds which is a lot in terms of government  funding but the amount that has gone from the  

government to the richest in the last three  years is 700 billion pounds enormously more so

what I want you to know is that this amount  of money that has gone to the rich is much  

much bigger than basically anything you hear on  the news so whenever you see whenever you hear  

any amount of money such as the £2.8 billion  going into local funding compare it to the  

£700 billion and realize it's not even nearly  enough to fix the massive increase inequality

second thing that I wanted to point out is  when I confronted the conservative minister  

who was on the show I said to her you know your government's given out 700 billion pounds  

did you do an analysis of who has the money  now? do you know where the money is now?  

and she had nothing to say and I realized when I asked her she didn't even know that she didn't know  

where that money had gone until I asked the  question you know and that is because nobody  

on the media is asking the question where is this  money who has this money now you know this is like  

this is like you know you came home and you  found your house has disappeared and you're  

worried about the fact that you dropped a tenner (£10)  on the floor this is an enormous amount of money  

the government has given away it would be £14,000 for EVERY single adult in the country  

if you don't have £14,000 more now than you  had at the beginning of Covid someone else has it  

and the government has no idea who has that  money now and I think I think that this could be 

a really profitable way for us to criticise the  government and also to spread the message  

because it is clearly totally indefensible that they  do not know who has that 700 billion pounds  

that's 14 000 pounds for every adult in the  country they've given it away and they do not know  

who has it and if you ask them where's the 700  billion pounds there's literally nothing that  

they can say because number one they have no  idea who has it. number two if they did know  

they would have to tell you it's all gone to the  richest people in the country and they don't want  

to tell you that and number three it's totally  indefensible that they don't know so I think  

this is you know people message me a lot  recently saying what can we do to help and  

I think the main thing that you can do is educate  yourself and spread the videos but if you want to  

more directly criticise an attack this is the  thing you can do you know you can call into LBC  

you can call into you can go on question time  you can go on you can post on your socials and  

you can say listen the government has given that  700 billion pounds since the beginning of Covid  

that is £14,000 pounds for every  single adult in the country  

if we took that money back we could fix these  problems who has the money now? you can just say  

to the conservative government 700 billion pounds  14 000 pounds per adult in the country who has it  

now and there is nothing they can say so I think  this is you know when you have a big campaign  

ultimately you do need to be able to boil it  down to very simple messages and very simple  

sound bites that can spread around and I think  this is a sound like that that could really have  

legs you know I think I've mentioned before in a  video I was in um I was in Parliament at a meeting  

of MPs trying to convince them you know about the  importance of this money & it was a conservative MP 

that stood up and said who has that 450 billion  pounds and that that is a line of mine from an  

earlier video when it was only 450 billion pounds  and that's coming back from a conservative MP  

I think what that shows is this is a message that  if enough people say it could really get resonance  

if we get enough people saying where's the 700  billion pounds where's the 700 billion pounds  

you know that can appeal to people on both the  left and the right because it's a clear attack  

that the government should know the government  should have an answer to that question they don't  

so I think if you want to do something now and  you have the time and you have the energy now  

get out there tell your friends tell your family post on your socials you know  

call into the phone in shows go onto question time you know go on to whatever it is  

whoever the guy Jeremy Vine that  does channel five in the mornings  

call in and say listen the government's given  that 700 billion pounds since the beginning of  

Covid who has that now because we need that the  NHS needs that ordinary families who can't pay  

their bills need that and it's sitting in the bank  accounts of the richest people in the country so  

what I realise I'm going on *BBC* is that  the government has a massive weakness here  

and we the ordinary people of  the country who are struggling  

um and people who should be criticising the  government in the media are not making the most  

of it so here's a fantastic opportunity to attack  the government and force them to give us an answer  

because if they look into it and actually  find out who has that 700 billion pounds  

they will find that it's sitting in the  bank accounts of the richest people in  

the country driving up the prices of the  things you need of the houses you need  

and making it increasingly impossible for  ordinary families just to live their lives  

so I think this is a great opportunity  and you know I've said in recent videos  

I'm really planning to challenge the government  in the longer term here but I know there are  

people that have the energy now to do  something now here is a real weakness  

attack them tell your friends tell your family  they're giving out 700 billion pounds and they  

don't even know who they've given it to they  do not even know who they've given it to  

um and what I'm going to do now we're going to film uh today a series of videos about the 

£700 *billion* to help you understand better what  it is, who has it and how it's been affecting the  

economy um I will keep you updated because that  number 700 billion because the government is now  

having to pay so much money to support ordinary  families who often can't take care of themselves  

because of this massive inflation caused by  that mass increase in cash by the government  

the government is churning up more and more money  which means they will go more and more into debt  

um so it will become 800 it'll become 900  eventually it'll become a trillion pounds  

I'll keep you updated with that and I'll  keep you educated about what it means  

um but it's a great opportunity you know use it  use it use it as a line post it on your Facebook  

where's the where's the 700 billion pounds how  do we get it back because that is enough money  

to solve this economic crisis and make  

make life livable for ordinary families and  instead all it is doing is making the richest  

people in the country unbelievably richer um so  yeah um we'll put the links in the description  

for the appearance on BBC if you haven't seen  it um check it out I hope you enjoy it thanks  

um you know the Channel's growing the voice  is growing and um hopefully eventually we  

can we can stop this economic disaster and  that's because of your support so thank you

at the moment these guys are profiting from a  

crisis that is going to keep our  economy in a slump for 50 years  

there's one other thing they can do with that mass  amount of income they can buy your mom's house