Hi, this is Chichu. Welcome to my channel. Now, I was asked if I could give my opinion, when I put out the introduction to the Q&A with Chichu in conversation with Chichu, I was asked, and before that actually, I was asked if I could give my opinion regarding the US elections, regarding Hillary and Trump, what my take on that situation is. So, I agreed to put together a video for this, and basically, this is my third take of this video. I've already done two previous ones, and there were long ones. I just went off on rants and rants, and just talked about a lot of things, connecting a lot of thoughts and stuff like this, but I went down, I went too far down the rabbit hole, because if I'm being asked about the choice between Hillary and Trump, the conversation has to start at another level. I can't really go down rabbit holes. So, I've decided to do this sort of third time, and this is the last one I'm going to do. Hopefully, it turns out okay. Otherwise, there's going to be a lot of edits in it. So, just a couple of heads up. As I mentioned in the intro video, to this triple set that I put out, talking about geophysics, giving some advice, and doing the politics. As I mentioned in your intro video to this, if you're following me for ASMR, if you're following me for comic books, for food, for math, for any other, if you're subscribed to my channel for any other reason, you probably want to skip this, because I'm probably going to wrestle some feathers, no matter, even though it's going to be a very condensed version of what I've already shot. Because I've tried to keep the politics to a minimum on my channel. I decided that from the beginning, because I did... I have been blogging politics and economics. I started writing about politics and economics back in, I think, 2006. And I put together a lot of articles regarding politics and economics. And one reason I did that was because just looking at the data, because I'm an analyst at heart, I like data, I like charts, I like graphs. And just looking at that stuff, building up to the mid-2000s, it was obvious where we're headed, right? So I basically had to write about politics in an almost, because when I was talking with people, it didn't seem like a lot of people, in my real life anyway, online, there were a lot of people that could see that wrote about what was coming in 2008, the economic collapse and sort of the takeover. Not that it wasn't taken over before, but the overtakeover of Wall Street in our governance, right? So I've written a lot about politics and economics before. And if you really want to know my thoughts, then I'm going to provide a link in the description of this video to the introductory article I put together on politics. And that was the last article I put together on politics because after putting everything together, I sort of figured out from myself to my satisfaction where we're headed for the next five, 10, 15 years or so. And I really wasn't interested in documenting any more of the carnage. So I put together an introductory video mentioning that this was going to be a strictly geopolitics article that I was going to put out. So I'll provide the link to that article. I'll give you more of what I think is going on. Okay, so I'm only going to hit on certain points in this video, and there's only going to be a handful. I'm not going to go down too deep into this because I've written a lot about this. I made some notes here from what I did previously. Now, two things, two of the most important things that we have to keep in mind regarding the US elections. The questions I've been getting is Hillary or Trump. And I can honestly tell you it's not about Hillary or Trump. They're irrelevant, right? Their handlers will control them, will tell them what they have to say and what needs to be done, okay? So it's not about Hillary or Trump. It's about you, right? If you're asking me about it, who I prefer if it's Hillary or Trump. My question to you would be is do you want the election to be based on fear or based on someone you like or love? Because I've looked at the data. The percent of the people that really like Trump and the percent of the people that really like Hillary is very low. The people that really like Trump are maybe anywhere between 15 to 20% of people that are supporting him. Same with Hillary. There aren't very many people that really like Hillary because with the internet, with sort of the free access to information and everything that's come out, you would have had to been blind to really like Hillary. No offense to anyone, of course, right? It just basically means you haven't really looked into who she is. And the same goes for Trump. People are voting for Trump. The mainstream media is portraying all of Trump's supporters as racist, xenophobic and all this jazz, right? Gun-wielding yahoos, right? But that's not the case. The majority of people that are supporting Trump what the mainstream media is portraying, right? And the majority of people supporting Hillary are not your lovey-dovey progressive people. The people who are supporting Hillary and Trump are supporting Hillary and Trump based on fear, right? And both of them are running on that, right? As far as numbers goes, I'll leave that up to you, but Clinton has a hard time filling a church. Trump is packing stadiums, right? So the polls are relevant as well. They're controlled, okay? And if you want to know how irrelevant the US elections are going to be and have been set to be from this election on, really, it started out in the past, but this one really set it in stone, is the US elections were already stolen, right? Like, from the DNC, top management of the DNC resigned because of this. It was fraud, scam, committed. So, you know, the Democratic and Republican conventions, who they're going to nominate to represent both parties, are basically the second-largest elections in the United States. So, for the DNC, Democratic National Convention, right? For the Democratic Party, the second-largest elections in the United States were tens of millions of people voted. That was fraudulent. That was a scam. That was stolen. And the thing was done about it, right? So, the US election hasn't been deemed irrelevant. It really doesn't make a difference. For the Republicans, at least, those are huge factions within them that try to prevent Trump from being nominated, but they failed. So, as far as the difference between the Republicans and the Democrats go, at least the Republicans didn't destroy their own. They didn't commit fraud. They tried, right? But it didn't happen. For the Democrats, it did, right? So, you know, we have to ask ourselves the choice between the two, really, do you want Democrat or Republican? I personally want neither. I think they're both scam artists. I think both Hillary and Trump are just the face that the puppet masters have put forward, right? Running on fear. So, that's my take on Hillary and Trump. As far as the US elections themselves is concerned, as I mentioned, it's already set, really, right? The Democratic nomination was a scam. It was fraudulent. It was the second largest election in the United States, right? So, if that's a scam, what makes people think that the federal election will not be a scam, right? Voting machine, electronic voting machines aside, right? Because that could easily be controlled. proprietary software from private companies. Wow. Incredible, right? So, there was already a scam there in Democratic elections and nominations. As far as how the election should be run, I personally, I agree with many other people that have come out that said elections on every level, on every, you know, maybe local, federal, state, whatever it may be around the world should have a little box at the bottom saying none of the above, right? No election has that, where you can go in there and say none of the above.  If that is what you choose. Then, you have no choice. There's only two ways you can protest the elections, really. One is not show up and the system regards you as not caring.  There should be a third option, which is none of the above in every election, right? That way, 100% more people will participate and 100% people will have more control over their lives, right? Because from the electorate, let's say 80% of the people went in there to vote and from that 80% decided to say none of the above then no one that was elected to office will have a mandate to do what it is their handlers want them to do, right? They would feel, they would fear instead of the elections, the parties instilling fear in the electorate, right? The citizens would be able to do that to whoever was elected which is the way it should be, right?  The only reason you would do that if you were going to vote for either one was because you're voting out of fear, right? So if you had to vote, right? Because you really don't have to vote let's assume from all eligible voters only 10% showed up to vote that would be the same as if everyone did it on mass that would be the same as saying none of the above, right? Because people are running with fear, right? That's one thing the two-party system is trying to do is trying to get people to go vote for them based on fear from the other person, right? So if you didn't feel that fear, right? If the majority of the people didn't feel that fear just imagine what would happen if only 10% of the population voted My take would be that the handlers of the people in office would not be able to do what it is that they wanted to They would fear repercussions As far as politics is concerned one thing we have to appreciate is that there is no such thing as politics by itself Politics and economics have to be spoken in the same breath, they're one system, right? So there is no such thing as just politics and there is no such thing as economics There's one thing called politics and economics It's like basically science where there is no such thing as space by itself and time by itself, there's only one thing called space-time Politics and economics work the same way So for us to be able to understand politics we have to understand economics What's happening right now is basically economics trumps politics which basically means that all political decisions are based on economic gains based on measures in economics such as GDP and growth and this and that which basically they're meaningless because economics is not a hard science People getting together and creating formulas based on some economic type of model and presenting that model and following that model and hopefully that model works out There's a lot of economic models that have collapsed over the years which one of them we're in the midst of right now So the present system that we're in right now the political system is governed by economics Economics is trumping politics Economics is up here, politics is way, way, way down It's becoming irrelevant And there's a word for this system and I didn't know there was a word for this system until I came across Chris Hedges' work where he was quoting, referring to Sheldon Wall and I believe his work and this system where economics trumps politics is called inverted totalitarianism Powerful word means a lot and that is exactly the type of system political system, economic politics system that we're in right now And if you want, there's a lot of examples of it where economics trumps politics and politics incorporates human rights and what's right and the environment what's good for the people and all of that jazz Economics, the only thing it looks at is gains monetary gains, profit, growth And if you want two examples of this one of them comes from Canada and there's plenty, but one of them comes from Canada where the previous government, the conservative Harper government actually came out and stated that all scientific funding from that moment on I believe this happened in 2012, 2013, something like this scientific funding was going to be based on economic gains which is insane which is absolutely absurd some of the greatest economic gains that we have had in our society some of the greatest benefits we have had in our society that has come through science has not been through scientific projects that were funded because they had economic gains they came to us because scientists were doing what scientists do they were thinking about systems coming out with hypotheses testing those hypotheses, seeing where they went some of the greatest scientific gains some of the greatest technologies in our society have come to us through accidents so when the Harper government the previous Canadian government, the conservatives came out and said they were only going to be funding scientific projects that had future economic gains that's one of the best examples of inverted totalitarianism they also said the same thing about their foreign policy basically they came out and said their foreign policy is going to be based on economics so that's one example from Canada another example would be one from the United States where the present Obama in 2016 they were asked why they were selling weapons to Saudi Arabia which is one of the most brutal dictatorships in the world human history really which is waging one of the most brutal wars ever in Yemen that is funding terrorists that is spreading extremism that is spreading extremism around the globe so the president of the United States was asked why they were doing this and the reply was because there's economic gains because the majority of the states in the United States have some kind of I believe all of them do actually because it's a military industrial complex really so they made sure that they have factories and interest in every state so they can control some of the discourse right? so when asked why the United States was supplying weapons billions of dollars of weapons to brutal dictatorship that is waging war on one of the poorest countries in the world and killing tens of thousands of people and displacing hundreds of thousands right? why the president administration, the foreign policy of the United States has been to help in refueling Saudi planes that they have sold to Saudi Arabia refueling them in the air so they can continue their bombing mission the reply was because it has economic gains right? so those are two examples of inverted totalitarianism that I just top of my head that come up recently there are many many others so to be able to understand politics, our political system we have to understand economics and our economic system is running in regards to our economic system it should be obvious by now that it's totally fixed it's a scam and the 2008 financial collapse I guess if you want to call it that I call it the biggest left in world history 2008 economic collapse should have proven that to everyone the following bailouts which weren't into the hundreds of billions of dollars they were into the trillions of dollars the bailouts were into trillions of dollars all of that should have shown to people that the economic system is rigged is rigged so money flows to the top and now at this point I really want to make is all the so called pundits the mainstream media when the economic collapse happened and years afterwards and even right now they keep on saying that no one could have predicted that happening and that's a fallacy, that's a false there were many people that warned about what was going to happen they predicted what was going to happen and the people that brought on this economic collapse knew what was coming they lobbied governments to pass laws to protect themselves from what was coming and one of the best examples of this that I have is the 2005 bankruptcy bill banks all street they basically lobbied government to pass a law to make it harder for citizens individuals to declare bankruptcy and the only reason they did that was because they knew that there was a serious economic shift that was about to come right look into it and if you want I'll give you another example, if you want to know how obvious the economic collapse what was happening was to people who actually looked at the data when I first started blogging I first started blogging I think the first thing I put out was 2005 and then I started really getting into politics, economics in 2006 and heavy into 2007 one of the articles my main articles that I updated a few times I started it off by pulling together some of the other pieces that I had written one of them was about the 2005 bankruptcy bill but I pulled together some of the pieces that I had written and the title of that piece was collapsing the economy in the build up to World War 3 11 11 of the most important economic events of the last 7 years I believe I put that out towards the end of 2006-2007 and then I did a couple more updates and called them collapsing the economy to build up to World War 3 10 of the most important economic events of the last 10 years and collapsing the economy to build up to World War 3 the last 11 years so if me behind the computer while I'm working full time doing other things can do the research to see the economic collapse coming two years before this before it actually hit I actually saw it coming before that but I really didn't get into presenting the information until 2006-2007 because it takes a while to put the stuff together if I can see that coming I can guarantee you Wall Street and Congress saw it coming they protected themselves left everyone else hung them out to dry really and they passed laws to make sure that they could bail themselves out and not you so we have to look at politics in terms of economics right now as far as a couple other things I want to touch on which would be if you're getting your main news from mainstream media you're going to be in the dark so for anyone still watching mainstream media mainstream news I'm assuming that's where the question has come my way regarding if it's Hillary or Trump and that's the reason I'm making this video you need to stop watching mainstream news and if you are going to watch it make sure you're only watching it when there is an analysis being done on it to help you see what's not being said to read between the lines and more and more people are doing this of course the majority of people are doing this I looked at this a few years ago when I was still writing politics political articles but I believe 2012, 2011 or something like this basically the viewership of mainstream media was getting older and older and older and older every year was getting older the last time I looked at it a few years ago I believe the average age of viewers for Fox news was around 50 years old it was insane unfortunately it's getting older and older and they're becoming irrelevant so where I mainly get my news is from individual, it's basically all online I don't have cable, I don't watch cable TV I watch shows especially comic book shows series but cable news, I only come across cable news and I sparingly just to see what's not being said and just to see what some of the excuses are that a little snippets here and there of why governments are justifying some of the things that they are doing and one place that the mainstream tries to dismiss actual facts, actual research is they try to dismiss people and concepts regarding conspiracies I guess so they use the word conspiracy theory to dismiss discussion to prevent discussion and that's something that people are wearing with a badge of honor now whenever I talk with someone, if they turn to me and conspiracy theory is just a word that was created by governments to dismiss argument, to dismiss facts so whenever I talk with people and they say you believe in conspiracies the simple fact that conspiracies exist people have been arrested, taken to trial convicted of committing conspiracies it's a fact, it's a word you believe in the sun, you believe in the moon it's weird so whenever someone comes to me and says you believe in conspiracies instantaneously I know that their information what they know or think they know has come from mainstream media so I try to lightly because they don't know very much they have programs to parrot, regurgitate things that they have no concept understanding of so anyone who uses the phrase sprouted by mainstream media politicians to dismiss most politicians to dismiss an argument has been programmed to obey obey authority which is a very dangerous thing so as far as acquiring information news knowing what's happening so you can make plans and this is the main reason that I'm making this video and replying to the comments, to the questions that come my way is because for us individuals for us to be able to plan to protect ourselves from what we're about to get hit by economically and politically we have to know how it came to be and who is responsible so if you really want to make sure you're successful if you want to make sure that your business runs properly if you have a job in the future your main source of information should not be mainstream news not by a long shot as far as one thing I do want to address as well when it comes to jobs and immigration and it's related to the economy and politics of course because there's one thing economics and politics was really related to inverted totalitarianism where economics is trumping politics one of the main focuses in the world where politicians are really pushing their agenda is to protect people's jobs and to prevent immigration, what not as far as jobs is concerned no politician is going to protect your job the only way you can protect your job is in the form of the technological advancements that we are doing and there's a lot of huge shift in technology that's happening right now so you have to be sort of not savvy but you have to understand how all the technological advancements that we're going through right now how they are going to affect you some of the places we've seen this is through print media right through broadcast media we're going to see this huge through automation we've seen it through optimization where productivity has gone up but people's wages have at best stayed stagnant and gone down when real terms is concerned productivity hasn't gone up because people are working 15 hours instead of 8 hours because people are working faster productivity has gone up because of technology and that in turn has stagnated wages right through technology to a certain degree right because we're living in a totalitarian states where profits for the corporation matter more than protection and lifestyle for the individual right so you have to be aware of the technological advancements that we're going through right now one of the main areas that we have to be really aware of is automation and that's coming and it should come because no one really wants to stand in the factory line nailing and hammering in a nail for this one product that they don't really they can't even afford to buy automation is not a bad thing how we deal with automation is important and that's where the politics comes in there's lots of theories out there regarding how we should proceed into the future I'm not advocating it one or the other I just think we should be aware of what the choices are as far as immigration is concerned refugees and what not that comes into politics and governed by economics and the main gist of it is this there are millions of refugees being created and tens of millions of refugees right now in the world the majority of them we in the west are responsible for the countries that have created that are the source of most of the refugees in the world are Afghanistan Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya Africa, huge portions of Africa all of those countries are countries that we have bond the smithereens so we are responsible for the huge influx of refugees into the western world and it goes beyond that what's happening right now with our economic system with our political system is the whole world is in large part being gentrified and it doesn't make a difference if you're in a poor nation or a rich nation the countries that we have bond destroyed they're creating, they're the source of a lot of refugees maybe from them or from their surrounding countries coming in declaring that they're refugees from a certain state because once we stabilize, once you totally destroy a nation all the countries surrounding that nation are also destabilized and refugees start being created there so the whole world from the countries that we've bond to rich countries are being gentrified New York is being gentrified, Vancouver has been completely gentrified and it's being gentrified because of economic policies because of money laundering and a lot of the hubs where real estates have prices of balloon are basically bubbles that have been created because money from other nations are being laundered through that system so in Vancouver there are people that are extremely well off millionaires are being gentrified out of their neighborhoods so the whole world is being gentrified so there's a whole shift happening right now of people moving and migrating which is something that our present crony capitalistic inverted totalitarian system brings about politics, monetary gain, profits Trump, everything so when politicians people come out and say point the finger towards refugees towards these people who are moving into their neighborhoods and gentrifying their neighborhood default doesn't come from them default comes from with the system and that's something we really have to grasp because as soon as we grasp that we can decide not to become gentrified and make a stand and hold on to our communities because that's where one of the solutions lies to everything that's happening which is localization cooperation, cooperatives to share not to take but to share and that sort of brings us to I want to leave this on a positive note where it comes to what some of the solutions are to our problems and for me I've sort of taken it down to education which is one of the reasons I'm creating all the math content that I'm creating because I believe everyone should be littered in the language of mathematics because once we're littered in the language of mathematics then we can understand economics and control politics have a sane politics of our societies so for me I've taken it down to the level of education because our education system in the west specifically that I know of in Canada and the United States is horrendous just to give you an example in British Columbia the math curriculum in British Columbia math 12 specifically in the last 10 years has been gutted 10 years ago they would teach 20-25% more content in math 12 than they do now they eliminated two main chapters from the math 12 curriculum just gone and they also got it some of the other chapters one of the most important chapters that was eliminated from the education system was statistics from grade 12 education so people are graduating from high school without understanding statistics without understanding graphs charts and if you don't understand graphs charts statistics data then you have no sane economics you have no idea how economics is functioning how economics is done and if you don't understand economics you have no sane politics so the best you can do is vote for either Trump or Hillary that is insane to change the system that we're governed under another way is to take things locally food locally shop locally prevent from multinational conglomers from opening a shop in your neighbourhoods stop shopping in multinational conglomers it could be difficult but it's worthwhile eating better food is one way you can do it growing your own food is one way you can do it because in the United States specifically the main reason the main culprit for people declaring bankruptcy and going into the abyss is because of health issues health problems that is really connected with the food we consume in large part in the environment that we live in if you consume better food your health will start to improve even by the smallest amount does it improve it that reduces the cost you have to bear to get healthy again food is connected to the pharma industry to the healthcare industry big pharma is just gouging destroying people's finances just taking all they can big pharma in large part the healthcare system is not geared towards healing people it's geared towards getting as much money out of people as they can which in large part means keeping them healthy enough so they can earn money to pay the bills they need to pay to buy the drugs they need to buy to keep them working as long as they can to make money so they can buy the drugs and so forth so you want to keep your customers dependent on you as long as you can there's a lot more really but I really don't want to go any deeper than this into the rabbit hole I've written a lot about it and this is most likely going to be the last politics I make if you're subscribed to my channel for the mathematics specifically because we live in this system which is sort of inverted totalitarian system where economics drops politics I'm going to approach politics through mathematics I will be creating a playlist explaining how our economic system works mainly talking about the indicators some of the formulas and it's really all ratios because that's what Wall Street is it's just talking about ratios PE, growth rate, GDP and all this jazz they're all just numbers that economists people use to decide where they want to park their money for money to beget money which is a weird thing which is where we are right now those who have had money sort of a concept of compounded interest and those who don't there's nowhere for them to go in this economic system right now that we have I hope that answers your question those of you who have been asking me if it's Hillary or Trump it's neither if I had to vote I would hope that there's a box at the end of the ballot that would say none of the above and if there isn't if you're really feeling inclined to go and vote I would say don't vote out of fear vote with love with respect and vote for the person that you like or love or respect the most and for me it's neither Hillary or Trump all you have to do is look at Trump's history and look at Hillary's history look at what we did to Libya just one more thing regarding politics as far as Libya is concerned there's a lot of NGOs and a lot of organizations a lot of companies and a lot of governments and a lot of war being waged in Africa and just to appreciate the hypocrisy involved and all that so-called help going to Africa we in the west France had a huge part to play in this and Hillary Clinton had a huge part to play in this and Canada had a part to play in this but we in the west the country with the highest standard of living in all of Africa which was Libya and that's seeing a lot because Africa if you look on a flat map it looks like the size of the United States but it's much bigger than that you could fit the United States, Germany, China, Italy and a whole bunch of other countries inside of all of Africa so we in the west took the country with the highest standard of living in all of Africa and we destroyed it annihilated it and it's smithering to a level right now where there's three governments competing with each other to run Libya one of them has recently asked the United States to bomb some of the other governments, two other governments and some of the other factions for them on their behalf and those governments in Libya they're not really governments they're puppets that have been still installed by whoever is controlling them so we took the country with the highest standard of living in all of Africa and we annihilated it and then we have the audacity to come in and say that we want to help Africa and if you want to know my take on what's happening in Africa because I think that's huge because the next scramble for resources and control is Africa Asia as well, Asia Minor and stuff like this in some parts of the Middle East but Africa is huge I took the time to put together a piece for Africa calling it the future of Africa looks bleak here is why it's like three or four part right up sort of summarizing what's happening in Africa up to at least I think 2012 or something 2013 that's when I stopped I believe writing about politics and you know that's where the political thing is and I'll link that up in the description of this video if you want to take a look at it and see what's coming for Africa and what has come to Africa and as far as voting goes if there's no box to say none of the above and if you're so inclined to go vote and if you're not voting out of fear if you're voting out of love like respect for me personally if I was going to go inside the voting booth for the US elections I would be voting for Jill Stein without a doubt because she is authentic she is sincere and she has the best interest of the individual of the mind and not the corporation that's it for now I hope this video doesn't rustle too many feathers I hope if you've been subscribed you continue to be subscribed because this is the last politics video I will be making the main focus of this channel of this site I'm going to be sharing things that I love not propagating fear and hate which is what our political system is turned into so the main discussion here will be comic books well, mathematics is a math centric channel that I've created and it will continue to be a math centric channel so mathematics, comic books, ASMR food, music and what are else random that I come across that I think I would love to share I hope this answers your questions if you wanted to know what my take was regarding Hillary or Trump okay that's sort of what my take is and if you want to know more dig a little deeper into what's coming, irrelevant of Hillary or Trump just look at the trade deals that our governments are involved in and take a look at the repercussions of those trade deals and once they go through what will happen to our lifestyles that's it for now, hopefully I'll see you guys in the next video


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The narcissist wants to ruin your Christmas. They might start an argument or disagreement with you a few days before Christmas or actually on Christmas Day. They will treat you with disrespect or as though you were beneath their consideration. Narcissists are self-absorbed. They are only focused on their own needs. They only care about what you can do for them or how the situation can work in their favour. They lack empathy. They don't care about what you want or how you feel. They want everything to revolve around them. They want to be the centre of attention. When people are focused on someone or something else they can't be the centre of attention. Which causes them to cause some kind of drama so that people will focus on them and give them the attention that they need. They don't care about how their desperate need for attention affects you. They will treat you with disrespect just so they can get some attention.  They don't care about what you want or how you feel. All they care about is what they want regardless of how it affects you. On Christmas Day people are usually focused on each other rather than being focused on the narcissist. This leaves the narcissist without any attention. The narcissist hates this feeling and they will do whatever it takes to get attention. Even if that involves causing arguments or disagreements treating people with disrespect they lack empathy so they don't care about who they hurt in the process of getting what they want. They don't care about who they hurt in the process of getting the attention that they need. The narcissist is never happy. They are never satisfied. But on Christmas they will often exaggerate their feelings of being angry or sad so that people will then attend to them. People will then try to do whatever they can to make them happy not realizing that the narcissist cannot be satisfied and they are just exaggerating these emotions so that people will attend to them and give them the attention that they are looking for. The narcissist will even try to make you believe that you are responsible for their anger or sadness. They will try to make you believe that you are the reason why they feel that way. They want you to do what they want when they want you to do it. They want you to feel on edge whenever they appear to be feeling upset. All they really care about is attention. And if they cannot get you to attend to them in a positive way they will try to get the attention in a negative way. They really care about whether it's positive or negative attention. Whichever one works whichever one gets some kind of action or response out of you narcissists are self-absorbed and lack empathy. They only care about their own feelings. They only care about what they want. And just because it's Christmas it doesn't mean that any of that is going to change. It doesn't mean that there's suddenly going to have any compassion for you. Narcissists are always going to be narcissists. You might see the false self the false kind, caring personality in the beginning but that's only designed to lure you into the situation or environment. That's only designed to secure you so that the games can begin. It isn't meant to do anything more than that. It is only designed to trick or deceive you to give you a mistaken impression to make you believe something that is not true for their personal gain and once the opportunity arises for them to exploit you for them to make full use of and derive benefit from you you won't even see the false self at that point because now they have already secured you within the situational environment and they are able to get whatever they want from you. Everything the Narcissist does is designed to get them what they want if you are going to be around Narcissist family members and friends over Christmas you cannot go no contact but you can go limited contact you can use the grey rock technique they want to get your attention they want to make you anxious or stressed out but instead of doing that instead of reacting emotionally just respond calmly with a smile observe without absorbing stay grounded in your own reality instead of getting sucked into theirs if you don't give them an emotional reaction they might leave you alone or they will try a different tactic if they can't get anything out of you negatively they might just try to impress you instead and while it might be over exaggerated it is certainly better than being treated with disrespect so avoid reacting to any disrespectful behaviour and instead give the Narcissist their moment to shine give them their opportunity to impress you it gives them the attention that they need and at the same time you get to avoid being disrespected you get to avoid any arguments or disagreements but do be cautious when the Narcissist gets bored of being in the spotlight the positive attention is no longer stimulating for them and then they may resort to negative behaviours to get more stimulating reactions from you Thank you for watching I hope this video resonated with you Please like, comment, share and subscribe Click the bell icon to receive notifications for my future videos If you like to donate my PayPal links in the video description Coaching and inquiries you can email me at Narcissistforcoaching at gmail.com Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon


Hello everybody. To defeat hunger, knowledge is key, and sharing it is vital. This year, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations invites you to the 2021 annual Agris meeting on Thursday, 1st of July. This focused half the event will outline how Agris promotes the knowledge sharing, which is essential for agricultural innovation and a sustainable transformation of global agriculture and food systems. In the meeting, you will learn of AO's role in promoting knowledge sharing to defeat hunger, good reasons to join Agris and how to contribute to it. Interpretation will be provided in the six official FAO languages, including Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. Please join us on the 1st of July. We are looking forward to meeting you virtually.


Dyna'r gweithio, trwy cymhreun genALD, iawn er mifuwys gydag cyfnodau iломau iMs yn ffysgwyntion wysgddur ildegaeth yr rhai boef. Rwy'n ei amgylchedd i'r eynig oedd i Llyfr CO1 i'r maen eu rhodaiddianne ar bwrdd yn niwr. Rwy'n ei amguedd yn ei sefydliad gynghysig i lwrwg i Llyfr Cyfrydyiau. Llewyn Ddiol Llyfr Cyfrannu injustice yng ngryffod ddaf i Llyfr Cymraennau o'r rhoi i Llyfr Gwyrdd i Llyfr manifesto 16 yng Nghymru. Mae cymdeinidol yn parlymyn ystod rwy'n gweithio'r ysgol yn ymddangos. Rydyn ni'n gweithio'r ysgol yng Nghymru, rydyn ni'n gweithio'r ysgol sy'n gweithio'r ysgol sy'n gweithio'r ysgol sy'n gweithio'r ysgol ymddangos. Douglas Ross knows it was in the chamber not this week or during one of the jobs that he has done so far, but if he was here in this chamber, he would have seen that we have a new transport team in place. So it is only right, of course, that I have asked that transport team to look at the detail of the drilling of the A9. It is also incredibly important for government in particular that, when we give information to this parliamentary chamber, that it's the most up-to-date and of course the most accurate information that we can provide. And today of all days of course the Conservatives should understand the value of accurate statements made to this Parliament. So I will ask of course and have already asked the new transport team to look at the issue of A9 dualling and of course update Parliament in due course in terms of safety because I always bring it back to that issue of safety which is so important when it comes to the dualling of the A9. We do have an on-going programme of road safety improvements so the fact that we are taking time in relation to the timetable of the A9 this summer doesn't preclude us, doesn't stop us from making those road safety improvements. For example in last year we spent approximately £100,000 to improve safety at three sites on the A9. We've also invested almost £400,000 to refurbish the average speed system between Dunblane and Inverness. Since January is part of £5 million of investment that we delivered by 24-25, we have delivered lining and signing improvements around Dunkeld. Additional signs that are being installed at key locations too and there are a number of other interventions that we have made. Of course I'll go back to what I said at the beginning in my response to Douglas Ross's first question that a single loss of life on our roads is not acceptable. That's why we have very ambitious targets in relation to reducing casualties and fatalities on our roads. The longer-term trend for road casualties in Scotland has been that downward trend. Since 2000 the number of people killed on our roads has decreased by 47 per cent, but I want us to go even further. That's why the dualling of the A9 is a priority for this Government and will continue to make progress on that priority. The First Minister is trying to say that change in the transport minister was the reason his Government took, as far as we are aware, an unprecedented step of withdrawing an announcement. The question was lodged at 3.47pm on Monday afternoon. It was just a little over 12 hours later that the new transport minister was in place. It was almost a week since the previous transport minister had resigned. Something happened from Monday afternoon when Jim Fairlie was asked, as a backbench SNP, to put in this question to get an announcement from the Scottish Government for it then to be withdrawn. The fact that we were going to have a new transport minister was known to the First Minister, to the Cabinet, to the entire Parliament. Why did it have to be withdrawn? What did the SNP want to tell this Parliament and Scotland about the A9 that it now sounds like the First Minister is not going to tell us until the autumn? Those are serious questions that need to be answered. We also heard this week from the Civil Engineering Contractors Association. They said that the civil engineering sector in Scotland has known for many years that the promise to the A9 by 2025 would not be met. They said that the SNP Run Transport Scotland is regarded by civil engineers as, and this is a quote from them, the worst client to work for in the UK. Does the First Minister have full confidence in his agency to dual the A9 from Perth to Inverness? Will he tell us what he plans to announce in Parliament this week that it now seems to be delayed for months? I have answered the question around the withdrawal of the GIQ, a new transport team in place. They are taking a look again at the timetable in relation to the A9 dualling. Of course, as I have said, it is so important that, when we are ready to announce to this Parliament an update on the A9, we will absolutely do that. We will ensure, of course, that what update we provide is accurate in terms of a statement made to this Parliament. I saw those criticisms from the Civil Engineering Contractors Association. I take those criticisms very seriously. I have asked Transport Scotland, who has already engaged with SICA before, to ensure that it continues to engage with the Civil Engineering Contractors Association, to consider, for example, what improvements can be made to our contract delivery, which is important, but also the procurement mechanisms that we have in place to maximise market interest in the new procurement. I think that there was a lot in there from SICA that we can reflect on, I would expect, and have told Transport Scotland that they should reflect on in terms of Transport Scotland's ability to deliver infrastructure projects. Can I just remind Douglas Ross, of course, that it is under this SNP Government that we have seen the delivery of the Queensfrey crossing, the Aberdeen western peripheral route, M8, M73 and M74 motorway improvement projects, and many other infrastructure projects, not just on roads but on rail as well. We have a proud track record of investing in capital infrastructure here in Scotland, improving roads and rail right across the country. That is the progress that I will look to ensure that we build upon. Douglas Ross, a proud track record that SNP politicians applaud has seen 11 miles of the A9 jewelld in a decade, despite a decade and a half ago saying it would be for the new jewelld. The First Minister is getting annoyed at having to repeat answers about this withdrawn question. He must have known he was about to appoint a new transport minister. I have said that it was Monday afternoon that his Government asked one of his back benchers to submit a question. Will he pledge now to publish all details between Government ministers, Transport Scotland and special advisers on what led to the decision that I think is unprecedented in this Parliament to withdraw that Government-initiated question? The fact is that the SNP has broken their promises to Julie A9 for 16 years, and there is still no end in sight with devastating consequences for so many families. People from Persia to the Highlands are scathing about this Government's record. They feel that they are being forgotten by SNP politicians at Holyrood. They say that failing to get this fixed is a dereliction of duty. Campaigners say that they fear that Julie A9 will now take to 2050. Is it really going to take another 30 years to fulfil a promise made by the SNP more than a decade and a half ago? I come back to my very first question.  It is not going to take to 2050 to Julie A9. As I said, we will give an update to Parliament as previous transport secretaries have said once that work is done over the course of the summer. One of the other challenges that we have with capital infrastructure projects is the increasing cost because of high inflationary costs, which the Conservatives should know well about, given that they have been the architects of the sky-high inflation that we have seen because of their economic mismanagement of the public finances. Of course, it is the Conservative UK Government that has repeatedly cut our capital budget over the years. That is why we have to make extremely difficult choices, but even among those difficult choices, let me once again reiterate the cast-iron guarantee that we have of dualling the A9, building upon the progress that we have already made. Douglas Ross and his party— First Minister, I have already asked if members could resist any temptation to contribute while members are putting questions or responding to them. I have already made it clear that we have a new transport team in place, and I have asked that new transport team to once again look at this issue. This is desperate stuff from Douglas Ross, who is trying to dodge, no doubt, deflect, of course, from the serious scandal that his party has engulfed with Boris Johnson, not just lying to the House of Commons but, of course, betraying the people of this country and of the UK when they, of course, could not visit a loved one, when they could not attend funerals of a loved one and they should not be shouting this down. When they could not attend the funeral of a loved one, Boris Johnson was breaking the rules and having parties in number 10, so that Douglas Ross can try to deflect, he can try to dodge, but, of course, nobody in this country will forget that Douglas Ross backed Boris Johnson to the very hilt, Presiding Officer. Earlier today, the Government released its new cancer strategy. Cancer remains Scotland's biggest killer and brings anxiety and misery to thousands of people across Scotland every year. Identifying and treating cancer quickly saves lives, but the 62-day treatment standard has not been met in over a decade, and today's 10-year strategy has given no indication of when it will be met and the action plan doesn't mention it at all. So can I ask the First Minister when the Government expects to meet the 62-day cancer treatment standard? Of course, the worst challenge is, as Anasaw was right to say, even pre-pandemic in relation to the 62-day target that we had, of course, been achieving the 31-day target with consistency. There are challenges because of the shock of the pandemic, which has, of course, further exacerbated both the 31-day target and the 62-day target. In relation to the actions that we are taking, the cancer strategy, is an important plan. It has, of course, been welcomed by many stakeholders, but I would say to Anasaw that he will understand the scale of the challenge that we are facing. We had to take, I think, probably arguably the most difficult decision that the Government had to make during the course of the pandemic, and that was to pause cancer screening for a number of months. We are working through that backlog, and what I would say to Anasaw, although we are not meeting, as he was right to say, the 62-day target, and the challenges still remain, although we are close to the 31-day target, not quite meeting it. We are seeing more patients in the last quarter than, for example, the quarter before, and we are seeing more and more people through both the 31-day pathway and also the 62-day pathway. However, there is a range of actions that we are taking because, of course, cancer and the recovery of those waiting times, the recovery of the NHS is of the highest priority to this Government. Anasaw, you are welcome. The First Minister did not actually answer the question about when they expect to meet the target, and I remind him that Covid did not start a decade ago, and that has been the level of time that they have not met the standard. Of course, we need a strategy, of course we need a plan, but we actually need the Government to deliver quality cancer care. Malcolm Graham is 76 and lives on Lewis.  He has been waiting anxiously to hear about when his treatment would start, but this week he received this letter. We regret to inform you that currently we do not have an appropriate oncologist able to see you to supervise your on-going treatment. We are in discussion with the other cancer centres in Scotland, but they also have a shortage of oncologists and, as yet, have not been able to offer any assistance. That does sadly mean that you are likely to experience some delay in disruption to your treatment until we can find a replacement. Delay and disruption—this is life and death for people across the country. There is a shortage of oncologists across Scotland when cancer remains Scotland's biggest killer. After 16 years of SNP government, why is there no oncologist available anywhere in Scotland to treat Mr Graham? I am, of course, happy to look at the detail of the case. I do not have all the detail of the case, but I am happy to look at it if Anna Sauer wishes to send those details across. What I would say is that there is a global shortage of oncologists. We have been working over the past 16 years to increase the number of oncologists here in Scotland. Since 2007, there has been an almost 100 per cent increase in consultant oncologists from 69.5 whole-term equivalents in September 2006 to 137.2 whole-term equivalents in the last statistics in December 2022. We have increased consultant radiologists by 60 per cent as well. We have increased consultant radiologists—in fact, we have a higher rate of consultant radiologists per head than in other parts of the UK. However, given the case that Anna Sauer has raised, given issues that have been raised around, for example, Tayside breast cancer service, we know that there is still work to do. That is why we set up—in fact, as Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care—a task force to look at what more we need to do to attract oncologists to our hospitals, to our cancer services here in Scotland. To the individual case that Anna Sauer raises, I am, of course, happy to look into the detail of that, but I want him to be assured that there has been action and will continue to be action to increase the number of consultant radiologists and, indeed, consultant oncologists working here in Scotland. I welcome that the First Minister will look at the case and I suggest that he does it urgently, but it should not take bringing individual cases to this Parliament for people to get life-saving cancer treatment right across the country. There is a shortage of oncologists across Scotland, and we have been raising the NHS workforce crisis for years. The strategy that he published today says that the workforce review will not conclude until 2026. People with cancer cannot afford to wait. The crisis is now. The 31-day standard is repeatedly missed. The 62-day standard is not met in over a decade, and staff shortages are putting people's lives at risk. The SNP has been in government for 16 years, and today it has published a 10-year plan. Why do some of the users think that people across Scotland have to wait 26 years to get adequate cancer care? I do not think that. Of course, pre-pandemic, we were consistently meeting the 31-day standard, although we have dipped just below the 95 per cent performance. I think that the latest performance was 94.1 per cent. That means that over 9 out of 10 people are, of course, being seen within that 31-day target. The median waiting time for treatment remains at five days in relation to that particular pathway. I do not believe that people should have to wait longer. I go back to the point that I made in response to Anna Sauer's very first question. That is that we are treating over 35 per cent more people in the 62-day pathway than was the case, for example, 10 years ago. We are seeing more and more people through those pathways. Of course, we are doing everything that we possibly can and I will continue to do everything that we possibly can to ensure that we improve the performance on both the 31-day and the 62-day pathway. We are also looking at how we can redesign our cancer services and what more we can do to add additional capacity. For example, we also have mobile MRI scanners, mobile CT scanners, which again are providing some additional capacity, often to hard to reach remote rural and island communities. I am entirely focused on the NHS recovery but the highest priority is on the recovery of our cancer services. To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's position is on the future and viability of rural schools. Rural schools play an important part in our communities, such as many western European countries. In particular, Scotland is facing a set of long-term population challenges. We know that that is particularly acute in some remote rural and island communities. That is why, in 2021, the Scottish Government published Scotland's first population strategy. In Scotland, there is a presumption against the closure of rural schools, where local authorities plan to close the rural school. They are required to undertake a thorough and lengthy consultation process. That includes demonstrating the educational benefit of the closure, considering the impact of the school closure on the local community and school travel arrangements in consulting the community on alternatives to closure. That process ensures that the impact of any decision is properly considered and options are explored. No school closure decision, of course, is ever and should ever be taken lightly. Last weekend, the Herald newspaper revealed that 40 mainly rural schools have been closed or mothballed in recent years. Colleagues across all parties in this Parliament have described those numbers as alarming and evidence of the blatant disregard that the Scottish National Party Government has for the rural and remote areas of Scotland. Families with young children in rural Scotland are being left high and dry by the SNP's neglect, and the SNP Government still has no plan for any of that. Now there are 15 more schools at risk of closure, including Blackness School in my constituency. Will the First Minister, like his predecessor, turn his back on rural Scotland, or will he take this opportunity to send a strong message of support for our rural schools? I do not agree at all with Stephen Kerr's characterisation, but let me take the issues in turn. First and foremost, those are decisions for local authorities to take. It is usually the Conservatives who are the first to complain if they perceive or believe that the Scottish Government is in any way interfering in local decision making. Let us allow and empower our local authorities to make the decisions in consultation with the local communities that they believe are right for them. It is the SNP that has brought in further additional protections for rural schools. Those include, for example, clearly demonstrating that local authorities have considered alternatives to closure and the assessment of the likely impact of the community impact on travel to school arrangements for local pupils. The local authority must set out educational benefits of the closure. If the proposal to close the schools rejected, the local authority cannot repeat the process for another five years. A whole host of protections have been brought in by the SNP. Depopulation is a serious issue, and that is why we have a range of actions that we are taking to address. In 2021, we published Scotland's first population strategy. The delivery of the strategy is overseen by a ministerial population task force, but what has not helped depopulation in remote rural island communities is a hard Brexit being imposed upon Scotland against our very well. That has been imposed by Stephen Kerr and his colleagues. Of course, that has not helped with European migration to Scotland, and if only Scotland had the powers to rejoin the European Union, perhaps we could reverse depopulation for good. Many rural communities are facing complex and long-term population challenges. Schools need pupils in order to be viable, and school roles rely on communities retaining or attracting families into their area. Many rural communities are dealing with a legacy of out-migration and depopulation, much of which predates the establishment of the Scottish Parliament. Can the First Minister set out what benefits the Scottish Government's rural visa pilot proposals could offer to schools in our rural communities? It is, frankly, quite depressing to listen to the UK Conservative Party. At times, I'm afraid, the UK Labour Party is competing a race to the bottom when it comes to the issue of migration. Let me state unequivocally that migration to this country has been good for Scotland. It has been good for years, for decades to this country, and we welcome migrants to Scotland. Our rural visa pilot proposal, described by the UK Government's own Migration Advisory Committee, was described as sensible and clear in both scale and deliverability. It would enable rural and remote communities to attract migrants in line with their distinct local needs, including bringing family members with them. That would offer an opportunity to bolster school communities in pilot areas, and pilot areas would also be enabled to address discreet local public sector workforce needs, for example, around teachers and further supporting communities to flourish. We continue to urge the UK Government, in the strongest possible terms, to engage with us and deliver the pilot scheme, or even better, to give us the powers over immigration so that we can do it ourselves. Question 4, John Mason. To ask the First Minister how the Scottish Government plans to mark clean air day. We want and have the ambition that Scotland has, the cleanest air in Europe. While there, of course, there is always room for improvement in clean air day as an opportunity to highlight the great progress that Scotland is making on improving air quality. For example, for the first time outside of recent lockdown periods, all monitoring sites in Scotland are meeting air quality objectives. This year, clean air day will see a variety of activity taking place from poster competitions for schools run by SEPA to local authorities running vehicle idling campaigns and businesses engaging with staff on eco-friendly commuting. The Scottish Government is supporting clean air day through funding environmental protection Scotland and global action plan to provide the resources to organisations delivering clean air day activity. John Mason. Thank you, First Minister for that answer. I wonder if he would join me in thanking Health Air Scotland Coalition for their work and share my enthusiasm for the LEZ in Glasgow and the help that it is giving for people with respiratory problems. Would he also congratulate Glasgow City Council on that? Will he share my concerns that the UK Government is potentially revoking the European Air Pollution Regulations under the amended retained EU law? I do. I would welcome the work of the coalition. I would also congratulate Glasgow for their work on the LEZ. I can hear Jackie Baillie opposing the LEZ. That was not, of course, Scottish Labour's position when they voted for the LEZ, neither at the local level nor, indeed, a national level. However, of course, we know that the Scottish Labour Party will oppose anything that the SNP brings forward just for the sake of it. LEZs are being introduced to improve air quality and support Scotland's wider emission reduction ambitions, as well as to protect Scotland's health. That is, of course, the point. That is at its heart a public health issue. That is why the likes of Asma and Lung UK Scotland have supported the introduction of the low emission zones. We are very concerned at the UK Government's decision to revoke the UK-wide national air pollution control programme provisions through the retained EU law bill, especially as they appear to have no plan in place to replace those crucial provisions. Scottish Government officials continue to engage with counterparts across the UK to try to resolve that. However, we will not hesitate to act to protect Scotland's devolved interests and the health of the people of Scotland. Very grateful. Reducing car travel is key to clean air, yet the Scottish Government cut bus funding by £37 million by ending the network support grant plus. Recently, my campaign has dismissed to reopen Coven Newton hill stations to slash traffic entering Aberdeen. When will the Scottish Government deliver a route map to the 20 per cent reduction in car kilometres and stop discouraging people from taking public transport? Of course, that was Covid funding that we gave to the sector, understandably so, to support them during the course of lockdown and the course of the pandemic. It was, of course, the UK Government that unilaterally withdrew Covid funding. I know, because I was, of course, the health secretary here in Scotland at the time when they took that decision to unilaterally withdraw any Covid funding. We have a good record in relation to helping not just the bus industry but investing in public transport. What does not help is that every time we look to bring forward a measure that helps to tackle the climate emergency, it is supposed to be time and time again by the Scottish Conservatives. To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's response is to reported concerns that its proposals to ban gas and other direct emission heating systems in new-build homes from next year could have a serious adverse impact on the housing sector. The new-build heat standard will apply to all new buildings with a warrant from next April. It means that new homes will be fitted with a climate-friendly heating system at the outset and so will be future-proofed against having to be retrofitted a few years later. The standard is just one part of Scotland's programme to meet our legal climate change targets, targets that, of course, every single party in this Parliament voted for. Lord Dibbon, a former Conservative Secretary of State, in his role as chair of the climate change committee, has highlighted that England will follow the same path a year later and has urged the UK Government to meet the same timescales as here in Scotland. There has been extensive consultation and extensive engagement with the industry since 2019 on the proposals, and we will continue, of course, to constructively work with them to overcome any remaining barriers to delivery. The Scottish Government's plans for zero carbon heating are shaping up to be another Scottish green-led mess. On new homes, the housing sector are warning that fewer homes will be built and prices will rise. On retrofitting, the industry has serious doubts that the supply chain can even produce the 1 million heat pumps that the Scottish Government has pledged to install by 2030. Even if it can, there are not enough people qualified to install them. The construction industry has told me that Scotland needs over 20,000 new engineers and tradespeople by 2028 to have even a hope of meeting that goal. Instead of thousands of new students in training, we have Patrick Harvie crowing about another world-leading target. Big targets are not a substitute for detailed plans, and it is obvious to everyone but the First Minister that his green ministers' contributions to net zero are mostly hot air. What is more important to the SNP, a green Scotland or the Scottish Greens? What is most important to the Scottish Government is making sure that we have a sustainable planet to hand on to our future generations to come. Let me respond to Brian Whittle on the response from the industry. He is wrong to categorise it as universal opposition. That is not the case. Let us see some of the reaction from some of those in the house building industry, the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations. SFHA is supportive of the need to improve the energy performance of new buildings and minimise the negative environmental impacts associated with heating our homes. Our members have already built high-quality homes that exceed the minimum standard of the building regulations. We are therefore supportive of plans to regulate all tenures through changes to building standards. Let us look at what Barrett Development's PLC has to say. Barrett Development's PLC supports the Scottish Government's efforts to meet its statutory climate change targets, and the new buildings should be sustainable and fit for the future. Tullock homes from our direction within the spring fuel group, we have already embraced the shift away from direct emission heating systems and have been delivering ASHP and other associated technologies in the group across the country for more than 15 years. We are supportive of the Scottish Government's principal intentions on new build heat standards and the net zero heating pathway. The trouble for the Scottish Conservatives is that they think that when it comes to the climate emergency, we can just wish it away. They have voted quite rightly so for those ambitious world-leading targets and then they oppose every single action that we bring forward to do something about it. The Tories oppose measures to reduce city centre traffic. They U-turn on glass recycling. They now oppose new heating standards, so the Scottish Conservatives should get off the fringes. They should join the consensus in this Parliament, in this country and take serious action that is required to tackle the climate emergency in this country. Willie Coffey I agree that many benefits of the new build heat standard will only be fully realised when the UK Government does what it has been promising to do for many years now and rebalances fuel prices to stop electric heating, which is over three times the price of gas from being penalised. I believe that the new build heat standards will deliver a range of benefits, as it stands. However, I agree on the importance of this particular issue. We have been urging the UK Government for some time to deliver on its commitment to publish proposals to rebalance fuel prices, which would make the running costs of zero emission heating systems lower than those of gas boilers. I am afraid that, time and time again, when it comes to serious action, when it comes to bold action, when it comes to radical action, all we see from the UK Government, I am afraid is inaction. There are several housing estates in my constituency in North East Fife in recent years that have had gas boilers installed on them, which I think is idiotic, especially when we are trying to deal with climate change. However, can the First Minister agree that to send his minister to discuss with the sector their concerns about the installation of gas boilers? I think that it is important that we use new technologies, such as air source heat pumps, to try to deal with the big challenge that we face. It might be hard, but we need to get on with it. I am absolutely happy to engage, and he is right that it will be hard. The action that we have to take in tackling the climate emergency is not easy. That is why you can take the path that the Conservatives choose to take, which is not taking that tough action, or we can take the action that I think is supported by, certainly by Willie Rennie and the mainstream and, indeed, most of this Parliament, which is taking that tough action. There are real challenges in relation to the ambitious targets that we have in relation to climate friendly heating systems. One of those issues, for example, is the skills that are needed to install those heating systems. Of course, a supply chain is required. Those are very serious issues that are well raised by Willie Rennie. We will engage with him and the sector, as we have already done, to ensure that we overcome those challenges 6. Christine Grahame I declare an interest as a member of the Scottish National Party Committee and convener of the cross-party group on animal welfare. To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's responses to reports that Scotland's leading animal welfare charity, the Scottish SPCA, is in financial crisis. The Scottish Government takes very seriously the issue of animal welfare, and I thank Christine Grahame for drawing this important matter to my attention and to Parliament's attention. Anybody would recognise that Christine Grahame has had a long-standing record in raising issues around animal welfare for many, many years in this Parliament and, indeed, outwith this Parliament. Sadly, I am afraid to say the often callous approach by the Conservative Government, which is failing to help people, failing to help communities and failing to help charities to cope with unacceptably high inflation levels, is all too pervasive. Chad is like the Scottish SPCA, which are in the front line of the impact of the cost of living crisis, are no exception. So I do share Christine Grahame's concerns. I have asked officials to liaise with the Scottish SPCA to provide support and to fully understand the issues that it faces. Christine Grahame I thank the First Minister for his answer. Companion animals in particular play a huge role in helping people's mental wellbeing, but inflation, as the First Minister's reference, has put huge pressures on the costs of providing them and heartbreak for those who find that they simply have not the resources to keep them. That puts more pressure on the Scottish SPCA and other animal welfare charities. At the same time, those charities have themselves to cope with inflation. For the Scottish SPCA, for example, it costs £56,000 a day to run 14 per cent up on last year. Will the First Minister, following the discussions that his officials are having with those charities, report back and let us see where those discussions have gone? I just heard, while I was giving my response to Christine Grahame's initial question, the Conservatives mumbling what has this got to do with the UK Government. If they haven't figured out what the cost of living crisis has got to do with the Conservative Government, I suspect that when it comes to the next general election they will find out in pretty brutal fashion. Nobody should have to give up a loved family pet. Keeping pets and people together is the best way to protect animal and human welfare. I would like to take this opportunity to highlight the work that is delivered by the Scottish SPCA's pet aid scheme. That initiative aims to support people and pets who are struggling by providing essential food supplies for animals through a network of food banks right across most of Scotland. Officials hold regular meetings with the Scottish SPCA to discuss current issues and provide support where appropriate, through policy advice, through sharing of wider communications. I will update Christine Grahame on the latest discussions that I have asked officials to have. I urge anyone struggling to care for their pet to call the animal helpline in strictest confidence, because there is help, advice and support available. Yesterday was World Blood Donor Day, and I am delighted to be hosting the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service in Parliament immediately after FMQs. I would like to ask the First Minister if he shares my view about this immense NHS service. I thank all those who give blood to save lives and encourage others to consider doing so. I absolutely agree with Russell Findlay. On that, I will come down to the photo call and try to do my bit to raise awareness of World Blood Donor Day. Of course, this Government has a really proud track record on extending and increasing the eligibility of those who can give blood something that I am personally proud of. We should all be proud of as a Parliament, as a country and anything that we can do collectively to raise awareness and promote awareness is exceptionally important. Most of us, I suspect, in this Parliament have given blood at some point or another. It is a good opportunity to remind ourselves that we should continue that very good habit indeed. Paul Sweeney The First Minister will be aware that I have been contacted, as he will have been as well, by constituents in Firefighters in Glasgow regarding the proposed cuts by the fire service to facilities in the city and provision. As well as the withdrawal of three fire engines, it is proposed that Polmody's station's dedicated rescue boat crew, which covers the river Clyde, will be removed and 15 positions will be lost from the station. So, rather than having dedicated 24-hour rescue boat crew cover for the river Clyde, there will only be one crew at Polmody to cover both the fire engine and the rescue boat simultaneously. 22 river rescues were carried out by the dedicated boat crew last year alone. Next week is drowning prevention week, so, in that spirit, will the First Minister commit to keeping the dedicated, life-saving Clyde rescue boat crew? I am happy to look at the issue that Paul Sweeney raises in more detail. Of course, many of the matters he raises are operational matters, but I am happy to look at the issues raised by Paul Sweeney. When it comes to the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, we have continued our commitment to support SFRS delivery and reform with a further uplift of £10 million in resource this financial year 2023-24. In recognition of the pay and, indeed, the inflationary pressures that I have already referenced, we have provided SFRS with additional budget cover of up to £4.4 million on top of the allocation. We do remain supportive of reform of our public services, and that includes the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service. In common with all public bodies in Scotland, it is right that SFRS does continue to review its operations, ensure that what it is doing is effective, delivering value for money and, of course, SFRS would ensure that it is doing that in collaboration in conjunction with communities, and, of course, safety is of the highest priority to the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service. I will look at the issue again in further details that Paul Sweeney has asked me to do. It is estimated that 90,000 fewer children will live in relative and absolute poverty this year as a result of Scottish Government policies. That is a significant achievement, given that the Scottish Government has limited powers and a fixed budget. First Minister, what further actions could the Scottish Government take to tackle child poverty if key welfare, tax and employment powers were held in this Parliament? Collette Stevenson makes an incredibly important point indeed, and I have mentioned on many occasions in this chamber that the defining mission of the Government that I lead will be on reducing poverty and child poverty, in particular building upon the excellent progress that was already made by my predecessor. That progress report that was published this week shows our focus on tackling child poverty is making a significant and tangible difference. As Shirley-Anne Somerville said earlier this week, it is like having one hand tied behind our back. There is only so much that the Scottish Government can do. We can take all the action that we possibly can and we will to pull people out of poverty. Frankly, we have a cruel Conservative Government at Westminster overseeing not just a hard Brexit, not just mishandling our economy, but regressive welfare cuts over years and years and years that have plunged people into poverty. If I just take one example, the Tories reversed the welfare reforms that they have already imposed since 2015. They would lift an estimated 70,000 people out of poverty, 30,000 children out of poverty. There is no doubt that our ambition to tackle child poverty is restricted, which is why we continue to argue for the full powers to tackle inequality to be in our hands as opposed to in the hands of a Conservative Westminster Government. Can the First Minister update the chamber on the Scottish Government's actions to campaign for the approval of emergency use of Azulox for Bracken control in Scotland? Will he commit to reversing the appalling decision to remove support for Bracken control through the agri-environment scheme? If reinstated will improve biodiversity, it will protect heather for pollination and it will protect walkers and workers against Lyme disease, which the ticks carry. As I said previously, we are willing to look at the issue, but we are following of course the agreed process, the process that has been followed for many many years. We have, of course, as a Scottish Government, provided a submission to the health and safety executive. I think that we are waiting for other Governments across the UK to do so similar. Of course, I will look at this issue, because it is an important issue that has been raised by many members right across the parliamentary chamber. We do know about the potential risk of uncontrolled Bracken. If there is an update from the health and safety executive, I will ensure that this Parliament is informed expeditiously. I lodged the final proposal for my safe access zones bill. I want to thank campaigners, those who contributed to the consultation and MSPs across the chamber for their support. Could I invite the First Minister to take this opportunity to reaffirm his support for the bill and encourage others to sign the final proposal this afternoon to show that this Parliament will not just stand up for reproductive rights, but will advance them and strengthen them? I agree with every single word of Gillian Mackay's question, and I am very happy to reaffirm my support. Women should be able to access abortions without judgement—it is simply not acceptable—for anyone to experience harassment, intimidation or unwanted influence as they access what is essential healthcare. I would not have been the only one who was moved from the—it was a video made by one of the doctors, Dr Greg Irwin, at the Glasgow facility, when he was talking about our own mothers, our own sisters and our own nieces trying to access healthcare in the face of that intimidation. I am delighted to see that Gillian Mackay has published the consultation analysis and the final bill proposing safe access zones. That represents the next stage in bringing forward this essential legislation. I congratulate her for the amount of work that she has put in to get to this point. She can be absolutly assured of the Scottish Government's commitment to giving her our full support, and I urge members across the chamber to back her proposals. In February this year, the Minister for Victims and Community Safety confirmed that the car wash sector was high-risk for labour exploitation. The minister also confirmed that 39 premises were attended by police across the country, and a number of offences were detected and persons safeguarded. In light of that, can the First Minister advise whether the Scottish Government would consider implementing a licensing scheme for a car wash in Scotland to ensure that practices such as human trafficking and modern slavery are prevented in this trade? I thank Faisal Trawdry for raising what is an incredibly important issue. I know that Faisal Trawdry is very close to his heart and that he has raised a number of occasions publicly to this Government. I am pleased to say that the vast majority of this Parliament shares our ambition to eradicate all this Parliament, to eradicate human trafficking. We will work right across the UK with other Governments where necessary, where some of those powers are reserved to do what we can to eradicate human trafficking. The very specific issue that Faisal Trawdry asked me in relation to looking at a licensing scheme, I will take the issue that he raises away. I will give it the due consideration that he asked me to do, and I will make sure that the appropriate minister writes back to him in due course. Thank you. That concludes First Minister's questions. The next item of business is a member's business debate in the name of Emma Harper. There will be a short suspension to allow those leaving the chamber and public gallery to do so. Thank you. Could I please ask those visitors in the public gallery who are leaving the chamber to please do so quickly and quietly, because in fact we are now going to resume our business. Thank you very much indeed. The next item of business is a member's business debate on motion 8, 7, 6, 5 in the name of Emma Harper on World Asma Day 2 May 2023. That debate will be concluded without any questions being put, and I would ask those members who would wish to speak in the debate to please press the request to speak buttons. I call on Emma Harper to open the debate around such a minute, please, Ms Harper. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I welcome the opportunity to lead this vitally important debate to recognise that World Asma Day took place on the 2 May 2023, and it had a theme this year of asthma care for all. I thank members from across the chamber, all parties in fact, who supported my motion allowing the debate to go ahead. I also thank Asma and Lung UK Scotland and its policy officer, Gareth Brown, for the briefing and for all they do to support those with asthma, and their families are included in that as well. In particular, as co-convener of the Lung Health Cross-Party Group, with my colleague Alexander Stewart MSP, I also thank all involved in the cross-party group. We have carried out a lot of work relating to asthma in the past, and the input from clinicians, asthma support groups and those living with asthma, like Asma and Lung UK ambassador Olivia Fulton, is absolutely invaluable. It is worth noting that Olivia, who thought that she could never participate in sport because she has quite severe asthma, is now playing wheelchair rugby and she is absolutely loving it. My motion indicates that World Asma Day is organised by the global initiative for us.


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