Hopefully in this movie, everybody just gets their act together, okay? So we're getting through all the X-Men movies so that way we can move further into the MCU universe. This is the spot where I plug the Patreon, yada, yada, yada. Let's go. It's- I know it is Fox. It is Fox movies. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da! R-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r You're so aggravating! Everyone in the world has to do that to that, right? Don't you? No, but it's Marvel too, so what? Yeah, they always throw the Marvel screen on the screen. Why'd y'all take it off Disney Plus then? Since the discovery of their existence, they have been regarded with fear, often hatred. Are mutants the next link in the evolutionary chain? Or simply a new species of humanity? There's some tough questions. They are been humanities defining attribute ask me this time neurons and synapses Neurons and synapses person outside Yeah, I'm getting a haircut. I promise. I gotta make some time. I'm getting one Circle of all you must not be enemies though passion may have strained It must not break the bonds of our affection Lincoln said that in his first inaugural address as our Abraham Look at George right there. Who's that Kennedy? Can't tell not this dude Who's that noise? That's Kennedy yet Excuse me, sir. Are you lost? Oh? He's a tail feels like that thing up in Sidious What do you do? There's a no possum in the building It's just dropping y'all This is stressful, man, you would think they'd have better weapons against these mutants right Aren't they prepared for this? Yes. Well, he can just dissolve And then they shoot.  They almost assassinated the president over that man. That was crazy.  You're not making your case very good.  Like what the heck? John snow Logan does kind of look like he can man the wall don't he can make a good steward You checked up Alkali Lake is that what that says? Yeah whoa What happened it got snowed over I don't know That was scary storm works at the museum now Jean got a haircut whoa, she's getting some premonitions or something she's like it dang that will be hard Jean it's not just Okay, she leaked herself up to that vein. This is a rebrand right just your telepathy a month ago You had to concentrate just to levitate a book. I keep feeling something terrible It's about to happen. I would never let anything happen to you. Have you guys seen Bobby enrolled?   Yeah?  Can I have a light? Sorry, I can't help you out pal. Why would you walk up to those dudes and ask them that though? I don't know Hey, that's real cute man in control fire. Yeah, he's got fire powers Bro, now they know he's involved. He could have denied that but he helped him in There a challenge back in the day of this like the mannequin challenge. Yeah They already like passed that one Look how scared he looks Charles the next time you feel like showing off I Think it's not the lead professor Man so everything's every time something bad happens Basically, he has to go in and take all the responsibility for it because he's the one putting himself out there to do good But he's the head of that school. Mm-hmm a lot of accountability Do you know how the government do is the registration act place every mutant in the country under arrest? I've been trying to track him using cerebro, but his movements are inexplicably erratic, but I know exact coordinates Just your authorization for special operation. Oh, here comes some military industrial complex senator, mr. President That's uh, he remember he's immune, right? Colonel William striker as I recall you were stunned supporter of the registration act senator But it seems your ideas on the mutant problem of change recently. Mm-hmm. So what are you? What was her name? Do you remember? Who's her the blue girl? That's her. Mystique. Mystique. That's mystique right there. No Yeah mystique turned into the senator In the last movie he sounds like a clicker In the Salem region of upstate, New York Interrogation of one of the mutant terrorists from the Liberty Island incident Eric Lencher. You have access to him We've developed the technology that built his plastic prison.  We don't know but it comes up out of the basketball court Wow that guy's like always a political figure the actor William You enter you detain you question The last thing we need to see is the body of a mutant kid on the six o'clock news That's sinister right there. This is you Rico my personal assistant What a handshake Eric Lencher's prison. I'd like to arrange a visit if possible It isn't a petting zoo senator Brecker. Do you really want to turn this into some kind of war?  Yeah hippie boy. This already is a wall. Wow You're right. It was mystique. I forgot you forgot that.  He's like what the heck? Yeah, she runs up. Yeah He's easily like 38 Oh, I always sized him up boyfriend So how do you guys Well, we're still working on that babysitter Nice to see you again Logan Hi Logan Logan's like a stud when he walks in any geez everyone comes walking down the stairs to see him. Good to meet you What in the world? I mean, she's a girl with a crush. She's a boyfriend. She's chill. Yeah storming our heading. That's jeans man The professor wants us to track down a mutant who attacked the president I could probably think of a few reasons to stick around Fine what you were looking for Logan Sassy They're so confusing Your bike needs gas Jokes still on you though, bro. He just gave the bike away again I know that whole situation is just a little awkward Yeah, because we don't know much about it. All right the once future king How long I mean, I don't like him either but dang Look, he's convulsing What is this? Whoa some serum You can go mr. Lancer Oh, he's doped up, huh So he's not about he's not about like Representing humans none of that. He just wants a cerebral machine and I don't trust him I think he's got a hidden agenda. Me too.  Yeah, he didn't even say like nice to see you He just put that on on his hand Why not just pull the claw out? Oh, it hurts, right? Bone I'll be like I feel like I'll get cancer with being in here These lights represent every living person on the planet the white lights are humans And these are the mutants Whoa There's quite a lot Through sweet bro. I'm connected to them And they to me I found the base at alkali lake. Isn't that such an invasion of privacy though? Yeah, but isn't it majestic as a broken line represents the path of the muter to attack the president I've been finding it difficult to get a lock on him finally stopped running I need you to read my mind again Didn't you just come back making demands? I'm afraid the results will be the same as before. We had a deal I have no doubt that you are amnesia your adamantium skeleton the claws are all somehow connected But sometimes the mind needs to discover things for itself Right if you force it too quick If you will be kind enough to watch over the children tonight Scott and I are going to visit an old friend Logan the babysitter He's like I just got back. I'm smoking in here The plane's tough Dang Jean just flying that thing So this movie really is political, huh? I didn't realize it was going to be so wrapped in politics There she is The actor's girl walk was so funny. Do you see it? Yeah Whoa Man, I bet the makeup and all the time it took to make that was crazy. Yeah, probably so This is all who's watching him Yeah, he's in some type of like piloting complex, isn't he a plastic prison. She's like, oh, what's this? Dang, we're really familiar with that, but they they have no idea Cerebro too. They're rebuilding it. Maybe to find all the mutants track them down for bad things, right?  So they have like a whole base Is that the actual lady? Where did she go? Is she in the ceiling? Oh, that's her Don't you have to get in with like your hand and all that top secret? He said mama mia. He said who is that? Nature laughs Boston Oh nature laughs last. That's like some pro mutant, right? I don't know Is it the whole idea that nature progresses in some mutants? Yeah, probably He's german He's a teleporter Must be why the professor trouble locking onto him.  It's the house Why is he german though? Got him All right, now cut his tell off Why because he tried to assassinate the president. I didn't mean to harm anyone. What's your name? I mean, even if he would have like succeeded in killing the president, you know how much turmoil that's going to cost in the country True, but I mean I get it enough time Nothing I was here. So he's not bad. I mean, I guess they're just taking his word for it Would you believe that he had amnesia don't really know him The same things on his neck that was on magnetos Yeah, maybe he didn't remember. Maybe they're controlled by someone. Maybe it's one of those like, uh What's it called like a randstad event or something like that where the government brain washes this mutant into killing the president Is they have an excuse to go to war or something? Oh, yeah, probably like a false flag Whoa How can you tell because you're awake All right How about you?  You got to get a break from the world sometime. That's his superpower. No, dude. I would be good with it I didn't have to sleep. I would love that Burr Yeah, that's a no. There should be some soda in the small cupboard In dp He's sitting there like why is your hair like that bro? Whoa, he made it go for him. He said excuse me Oh, man, you mind blowing in my stuff real quick He's the ice man. He's like boy Elsa you say? Yeah boy Elsa Sorry guys, I just really needed some spores. Oh, yeah, he goes and visits him I Right in a what is that like a plastic or a putsy-las. Wilger. That's so cool Have to rescue me the assassination attempt on the president. What do you know about it? Nothing Happen to you I've had frequent visits from williams striker his son jason Was once a student of yours wasn't he? Yeah, she is you know Hmm Unfortunately, I wasn't able to help him at least not in the way that his father wanted Who is striker um strikers that guy? How long the president? Right No, the striker's a mutant. You know his son is my parents think this is a prep school Oh, wow His parents don't even know he's a mutant so you and roe. That's so sad. Yeah It's just that it's not easy when you want to be closer to someone, but you can't I feel free to So he's scared that if Logan knows the truth about his origin, he'll go evil because he'll be so angry and bitter Really? You couldn't help it. No strikers that guy that comes and visits Man, they set him up Sorry, I'm freezing Is he getting carbon monoxide poisoning? Yeah, it seems like it There's no one there. Remember logan's the only one holding it down right now. Mm-hmm Who is this? United States military? Man, she's tough better go again. No one that walks through walls Hopefully she can walk through blow darts. They're infiltrating the school. They're taking it over So they're obviously under magnetos order in some type of way because that's what he was saying about the war just begun Maybe so it's not Necessarily the humans against the mutants necessarily it's also magneto against charles So the mutants are also in a civil war amongst themselves Yeah, because some of them want to be good and some of them are really radical about the cause Right, and I'm pretty sure that the Wolverine's never gonna get to be good because he's got like what four or five murder charges at this point What the metallic man, I wonder if he has a sharpen in them things He's ain't that stuff that shot away doesn't affect him because he can self-regenerate.  How can you trust him?  Let me put my calls up I guess I think that he knew him back like Xavier was taken in animals. Even animals as unique as you who are you? Don't you remember? Maybe he had one of those things on his neck, but it healed What's that dude? But Logan wants to know the truth Why doesn't that dude just build an ice wall around the dang school? He ain't that strong Go I'll be fine. I know he risks his damn legs getting below. No, that was close I'm driving Maybe next time He said I'm driving. Oh, they got the Mazda Rx. They clocked his car Oh as I clocked his car He always takes his scrap. He just took a blade and stuck it right in his ignition switch Yeah, pretty good cyclops Logan's drifting on there I don't know who that is, but he knows Logan. Well, he goes and visits Eric aka Magneto Maybe he created Logan to be like a mutant of war or something obviously. It's pretty good at it I don't like uncomfortable silences. What are you doing? I don't think that's the CD player Maybe put it on your eyes Maybe don't touch it in case it blows up Where are we going storm engineer in Boston? We'll head that way my parents live in Boston. Good Good, we'll drop you off at their house. Hey, that's the dude who said that his parents don't know he's a mutant. Oh, yeah Good good looking now. I forgot about that most of the mutants escaped through a series of tunnels that weren't in our schematics We have several in custody. How many sixer? What six? Oh, he nugs In that where the cerebro machine is Yeah, miss seco's in his files And found out that he wanted to make a second one. Remember William Shriker Yeah, I'm confused what his motives are though because he's in there talking to Magneto Probably did defeat them because he was asking Magneto about cerebro Well, yeah, but Magneto's not gonna give him information. Is he?  Yeah, turn it off Lou Man, she looks like the bar type. Don't you? How to grace Is damn good to meet you. That looks like mystique with that little jump suit Oh, it's a dress And he's not gonna see that in it. She's roofing my boy.  Don't you think that's the idea Velcro Bottoms up. Uh-oh. She's pulling the fruit of the looms off. Oh, yeah, that's her right in the butt. Hmm What is she injecting Is he turning them into a mutant? That's what they did in the first movie They just get off on taking people who don't like mutants and turn them into mutants. Oh, no It's kind of weird bro. Or maybe they're trying to build more soldiers for their army. Maybe rural inhibitor It keeps you out of here. What have you done with scott? I'm just giving them a little re-education. You know all about that They took him to the gulag But mutation is not a disease. Oh, that's his mode of his time. Remember his son was at a school He resented us He blamed us for his condition. So he would talk with our minds Projecting visions and scenarios into our brains My wife in the end. She took a power drill To her left temple. Oh my god Boy the image is out for someone who hates mutants You're certainly keep some strange company. Oh, oh, she gets started to fill her powers coming back or something Oh, so he's trying to control all the mutants You'll arrange the attack on the president You didn't even have to read my mind Nobody really knows how many even exist Or how to find them. Yeah, he does accept you. Yep, but for good reasons Allow me to introduce Mutant one four three the fluid secreted by his brain acts as a mind control Poor guy That's his son This is your son. What have you done? No, childs. My son is dead Just like the rest of you So what can he do? We're about to find out. He's dangerous apparently Did my man just walk in the house with boxers on I'm trying to find some clothes. She has on she is on pajamas, too. I'm burning It's a cell phone That's pretty cool Is he mad about a family? He looked jealous or something He's in my grandmother's I'd make that girl rub my shoulders every day boys Why so she could kill you won't hurt no because she can touch him as long as she touches the sweater She just blew out the ice I'm sorry That sucked man. What do you even do?  That's terrible Like she has the worst one yet But she basically can't like be loved as a human right? No, I'm working What the heck? Bobby, who is this guy? This is my professor This is professor Logan. Nice. That's all you can say really. He's just chugging beer. Don't worry about it. He parties with us There's something I need to tell you.  Laurian. Yeah, I was having a good day.  What could it be? Whoa Too much iron in your blood.   I don't know man. This dude might not be Gandalf no more We got us a magneto in the moment That was tough Yeah, I'm better than him. Look at him Craziest villain ever probably. Oh my gosh So, uh, we thought bobby was going to a school for the gifted Bobby is the gifted we know that this mutant problem is a little what mutant problem I mean, let's not pretend like there's not some type of problem. All right What exactly are you a professor of mr. Logan? Art bobby can do He said frappuccino mom Ruin and the dang coffee. What's that tea or coffee?  I don't think that was him, baby. He didn't look like him. Nobody's responding.  I'll keep trying I'd be like, can I please get some blue and green lights in here, please? All this orange. Whoa She looks so cool now with her Kate He said we were all the same the angelic symbols every sin No seven no his sins. Oh the seven daily ones You and miss gray are school teachers at a school for people like that say from what? Most people were afraid of me But I didn't hate them I pitted them because most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes True Didn't he try to assassinate the president? They're so beautiful by his own control Magneto. Yeah, because he put that thing on his neck. I knew that. Well, not magneto striker. Right exactly.  I knew that I totally forgot there was I didn't mean to say magneto I meant to say striker It's for me. Isn't it his cell phone? No one's left gene I'll be his whole life. Mom Boston with bobby drake's family Okay, we're on our way Well, they just run into the backyard like that because they're maybe trying to Oh snap. They ain't trying to hide it at all. Put your hands in the air. He can't he would be good Oh, he's all right. Okay. I said on the ground Once again, man, that'd be tough because you know, you have no idea what that mutant can do Right. We don't want to hurt. Come on. He'll heal heal He said no Oh my gosh He's the flamethrower Which is crazy. Is he just burning bobby's house? I know that that was first back. It was gonna go. I remember the day we came home and I was going down mutants was in there Hurt my front line up Like you're getting serious jail time Put him down Oh, so she took his powers. Thank gosh she did Nice Is that sermenine? Yeah, that's gotta be right. Yeah, it's gotta go.  He's saying goodbye to his family The problem is is the mutants have evolved into like a mutation But they haven't evolved past their like human instincts, right to do To do stuff like try to like assassinate people and stuff. So it's just so scary Is he standing? It's a dream, huh? Jason stop it Oh He's messing with them. You can come out the other students I don't know. Well, we'll have to find them, won't we? Will you cerebro? Who's this? They're using that psychic to somehow get this a rebrand. Yeah to get in his mind to show them where something is Or something. I've got two signals approaching Oh snap, there's some boys on them By the 2000 feet return with our escort to hands comic airport space. I'll be so stressed Five seconds. Yeah Yeah, the shots coming now They're gonna fire. Hang on. Oh my gosh. I would not want to be on that I would feel so nauseous Man she always comes in handy Storm's the weapon. What is she gonna do? Oh more electricity? Oh, let's go See that's scary dude like she can do that. Oh my gosh That's an amazing skill Those pilots right there tripping for even being in that.  Oh, here she goes. Oh, let's go. Oh, but they still took some impact Oh, that could have been so much worse. Yes Whoa Who's that? Rogue who's got the power? Him. He can do it. He can go Oh, there he goes Wow, that was fire.  Look at him. Magneto Oh my gosh He kind of saved him from impact Man, I don't know. He could have just let him hit the ground. He had a lot less problems Thank you. That's your welcome. I think In germ Is he helping him to get jaros back living person on the planet if he was to concentrate hard enough on a particular group He could kill us all how would striker even know where to find cerebro in the first place because I told him Why Mr. Striker has powerful methods of persuasion Oh with that neck thing. He's a military scientist. He spent his whole life trying to solve the mutant problem Why don't you ask wolverine? He's like, why? I don't know William striker the only other man I know who can manipulate adamantium Metal on your bones. Oh, so I was right basically the professor trusted you were smart Enough to discover this on your own He gives you more credit than I do The stinkers discovered plans of a base that strike has been operating out of for decades We know that's where he's building the second cerebro, but we don't know where this base is And I believe one of you Hello I was dropping no eaves. I promise I think he was in that place alakai like logan was right Striker said alkali lake That's the frozen place. There's nothing left. There's nothing left on the surface logan The base is on the ground.  I never thought about that. What the? And it's like four or five hours before I can get it off the ground. It's not what he meant. Just worried That's god I'm worried about you There was some display of power up there.  Oh, hey Girls flirt with the dangerous guy logan I don't take him home I don't know how I feel about that logan eyeballs might see you That's such a girl thing to do. Don't make me do this That's kind of cold gene But I don't know if you were like in a relationship. No, she is 100. She just said she loves sky Whoa, even their voice then why not stay in disguise all the time look like everyone else Because we shouldn't have to So he's really on mystique side. I don't know. I was goofing off. Who would have thought I guess we'll find out though. Oh, no, no, it's just because they're teamed up.  Yeah So technically, yeah, they're on each other's side. I guess uh-oh Coming up in the tent Scott's gonna turn into a bad guy now. I'm telling Scott not right now after the war He's like something about that hedgehog haircut. Oh We got played up So do that Who's that? Whoa.  She's intrusive Right there. That's what he wants. I want you to get out. Did she just shoot her shot? I don't know. She's just party bro Where's ours they're on order should arrive in a few years How about you're done with your hair? What in the world they're giggling like that about that Why Because he did it they were here You put her in that machine.  John what's your real name John? Hieromancer. Hieromancer Almost I can only manipulate the fire.  Yeah dark father figure ego stroked right He's like I support Magneto's lame. Yeah, because he's the worst one of them remember Why are we keeping the children here when I build a machine? I want to make sure that it's working Oh Some lab rats All right, this is a topographic map of the dam That's the entrance if we go in there strike a bit flood the spillway. Can you teleport inside? No, I have to be able to see where I'm going as a vice. I could wind up inside a wall. No, god. That's scary How about hunch you want me alive whoever goes into the dam needs to be able to operate the spillway mechanism Scratch it with your claws I'll take my chances But I won Mystique's going the true warrior. So there's someone coming down the spillway Dang, so he really is just gonna walk in like that. Wait That is not good That guy walked out with a machine Oh my gosh They never really got them strapped up, no they The one thing I know better than anyone is my own work seal the room shoot it Man this movie keeps tricking me. This is fine. I know It's cuz mystique she's so mysterious. She makes every like Thing confusing. She's so much better at depth to have so many people like this.  I really like her character a lot. Yeah, her character is pretty cool. This music Do a slide She did something like that in the first one everything's controlled from inside that room. That's why the doors are so thick Oh, really? Got some charges all the doors open She's good Does she free the kids though? How evil is she?   You can't help but help them especially if they're mutant with the different colored eyes I'll be honest though. Their base is kind of cruddy, bro. She didn't even look scared Yeah, because she's definitely not she didn't got done once A large portion of energy from the dam has been diverted to this chamber Cerebro Not without us children Kurt will you come with me? Yes, we're being held in the containment cell. We'll level down She's pregnant. We'll get the children and meet you at Cerebro. I'll try to find Scott and the professor He just took his head from it. Yeah, yeah, you got some revenge to attend to We're some questions like this is why I stick to Scott But if I'm Scott, I'm just not letting Logan and my girl go nowhere together You know what I'm saying like why I'm gonna be on the mission too So he uses his own son as a tool Not good I'm assuming that he made his son build all this Because he's like psychic on some level, you know, I don't know because I'm assuming this guy didn't build it Jesus don't do it. Charles All of the mutants everywhere That's right Every one of them Oh, yes Oh my gosh But he's a mutant. Yeah You don't want to stay and see the show. I guess he can't right What's gonna happen Kill anyone who approaches Dude, this is kind of intense bro. This is like the anticipation He said anyone who approaches even if it's him Because nothing's more important than this to him. He's so radical He's like a hitlerian figure for sure Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa She's gonna have to Fight her boyfriend Use that as an excuse. I just can't see you the same sky. I'm moving on to Logan Oh man, let's sit on there. I'll be scared two kids Wouldn't you imagine if you were a mutant you'd be more open to that though?  Not too crazy though. They all look like humans for the most part Yeah, why do some look so odd? Have they explained that yet? It's just a luck in the draw, I guess. I don't know. I guess it's like or maybe if someone's like experimented with you Now she's got to fight That medicine subsides eventually, right? Because he keeps having to inject him. Right, absolutely So I wonder if like a like fall damage will help. I don't know but she might have to fight for 12 rounds Hopefully she can beat him to the bill I hope your plan's coming to an end I would have looked up before I took my glasses off Like I just would have been like Oh She didn't say it back. No, she said it first not just now. Mm-hmm. This one Let's take your word for it. I just read the subtitles I'm trying. There are so many of them When I hear water, I just think it says senator for some reason you think what that senator because he turned into water Yeah, senator drip His plans That's where they made him at Have they did he set all that up for him or did he leave it up there this whole time? Or is he remembering because he's been here He's not the only person from here. So is that blue guy? Yeah, that's true.  He got straight tortured He said man, I put it in a fight The tricky thing about adamantium is that's the metal if you ever manage to process Raw liquid form you got to keep it that way Because once the metal cools It's indestructible. It's like vibranium. I used to think you're one of a kind Maybe it is the same metal, but in this university just call it something different. Maybe I was wrong He's like a camera.  Right.  Come on. Oh my god. Oh, man Oh What if that just helps her? I don't think so her eyes just went out.  Oh, yep.  Why would you hold that on your chest? They just don't study the opponent I'm coming in with nerf guns boys When he puts on this helmet, it's so crazy. He was so cool Like how more cinematically can he put on an helmet? That was a crazy transition Oh, we saw her changing and all these different people Is that doing that to all of them in the world? I think to every mutant. I think that's because of Charles Because he's being manipulated by that guy Jason He's about to throw him off How does it look from there Charles? Still fighting the good fight. It doesn't look like they're playing by your rules Maybe it's time to see this is where it gets complicated, right now Now Magneto is by the double cross How is he gonna put it back together?  He didn't change crazy. Didn't it? He's just leaving them in that monstay, babe. Goodbye Charles. They left him like that Dang the plan is them two are just gonna stay in there. There's been a change of plans. Are they thinking about humans?  He's like Loki. That's what I was thinking. I didn't want to tell Dang left jab Why did you do this to me? Oh, he he always says bub.  This is about to look crazy It's gonna flood water into the spillway in a few minutes from all beyond the water Come with me and I'll tell you everything you want to know.   I mean straight up Chained up boy We don't got time for you.  It's not targeting mutants anymore. Who is it targeting? Yeah, and they could just be like who cares? But they're not good be yeah This is insane. They have a weapon that can do that. That is crazy But who needs all the infinity stones?  No, his mind is connected to cerebro opening the door could kill him and everyone his mind is linked to Wait Kurt I need you to take me in store. Who is this guy? Who are you?  I did the Munich circus. I can't see Easy for you to say he's trying to tell you he can't see he's about to go through that wall and fall off the dang edge What about the girl that walked through walls? Can she do it? No, I'm there She can't do it. I think that they're using the religion as a way of saying that like We're very similar. That's so cute that she went with them too. Mm-hmm Oh, no the last line of defense Yeah, he's tricking you up Mr. Stryker Sunny we keep running into each other mark my words. It'll never happen. Yeah Is she about to freeze that dude out or something? I don't know. Oh, that's pyro, right? Oh my gosh, is the idea that he can't focus on the humans if he's so cold Maybe Save the day maybe Good job storm. Yeah. Good job She handled that cold literally Crossfade cold. Yeah, she was crossfading cold Not Scott Well, she knows her Scott is she don't give a hand bone about Scott does she? Jason join the squad Dang saved her life In his good job dude.  He might be a lost cause That would be stressful if he got wiped out by that though Trust me Man, they sealed it up Nope Oh my gosh, that's about to be I'm about to say there's no stopping that I was about to say how do they do that the dams are up should Oh Well, dude, how do you lose a heli remember magneto came? Oh, yeah I've completely forgot about that kind of like going on this week, right? What a faction Definitely not magneto. Good job. Well, he did come and he did change somebody to a plane.   You don't got time to go drop them off Who has the answers will worry Those people I'll take my chances with him Let's go Man, that's crazy. That's a really bad bad guy. We got out the way We got to get to washington Pyro Where the hell is he? Oh my gosh, I bet magneto has him. Yeah, he jumped ship. Yeah, you already know all magneto How to do is give him a compliment Remember he's looking at that family. He just wants to fit in. Yeah, he's just a lost kid, huh? The dance about to swallow them up Not if gene has anything there ain't baby. She can't do that Gene stop Girl stop Since she got a new haircut she got like new powers Be evolved why she looking all sad for I don't know.  Where's gene? She's outside scotland first Always in the movies. They have to like Be flying even though they're in control. They still got to go right now She does remind me of wander though Uh gene.  Yeah, well that she got right here. Yeah, true Maybe it's her mom Hey, maybe What if it's her and scott or wolverines kid? Which everyone she chooses in the next three movies Act no She's moses. She's a warrior. She didn't even care.  You're such a human wolverine Whoa No way no, she doesn't She lived in the plane. Oh, she's badass here And she's about to fix it probably maybe she would rather go down in that water than have to deal with like Liking two men like that Maybe that's easier for her. That was so sad, bro for real She's gone. She sacrificed everything for them She's an island. I don't believe it If if trials Xavier cries, then I know it's for real I don't know man. They got to kill off somebody eventually in this franchise Nope, not today That's not who I'd want to be hugging. Yeah, I know. Yeah I don't I'm not buying it. She's gonna she's there. You think she's alive.  I think like she can do something with that Today, I've been given an opportunity to shed light on recent occurrences from the attack that ended in this office Do we like this word annihilating? That's a strong word right Mr. President In this time of adversity We are being offered a moment a moment to recognize a growing threat within our own population Uh-oh storm Seems like it because they were headed to washington It must have been charles Professor Xavier It's the X-Men.  There's a guy who almost killed him We're mutants My name is Charles Xavier. These files were taken from the private officers of william striker How did you get this?  Maybe they're gonna take secrets from y'all I've never seen this information. I know then you also know. I don't respond well to threats. Mr. President This is not a threat. There are forces in this world both mutant and human alike who believe that a war is coming And they've been casualties Losses I still don't believe it. This is a moment A moment to repeat the mistakes of the past Or to work together. Yeah, but he's not allowed to just say that. We'll be watching Just in the middle of the speech Everyone's like, are you okay, bro? We're good here the files I don't know man. That kind of seemed like bullying the president didn't it? Human gene was a student She was always hesitant about her past Feeling that in some way She was left behind poor guy Yeah, he's really hurt any could we have done more to save her? She's strong. I bet she's still alive. I really believe it may have led us because she made a choice Yes, come on in. That's that guy that helped me escape Oh Listen, she did make a choice It was you That's so nice. He did that for him. That was nice Right now. I'm starting to feel like it was kind of real Send everything. Which one of you kids will I lose next? Have any of you read a book by an english novelist? The once and future king, you know that book. That's what Magneto was reading. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, angel mutation It is the key to our evolution It is how we have evolved from a single celled organism into the dominant species on the planet This process is slow Normally taking thousands and thousands of years But every few hundred millennia Evolution leaps forward Totally wasn't aliens Whoa, was that like a moth under the water? I don't know. Did you see that? I think it was gene Maybe what? What is this? All right guys, that was x-men's three Why are you calling them x-men's with the s? I don't know because I'm from I'm from the country, bro I'm sorry You ready? Yeah. All right guys. So that was x-men three Can you just do it? Okay guys, that was x-men two and It was a lot a lot happened in that it was very action packed There's a lot of interesting new mutants that we met Magneto had the sickest prison escape ever. That was I never would have imagined. That's how we got out Don't take your vitamins kids. Yeah Apparently magneto can manipulate you.  So how do you ask the one to go? You know into a civil war against their own right adding that that's adding that into It makes it even more of a hard dilemma. Right. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, because that that whole situation I I thought you were either a mutant because like your parents were or something radioactive Yeah, so no from birth you can just be a mutant if you're a male apparently you carry the gene So this is obviously a different like, you know, type of universe than marvel I saw a lot of parallels between uh, what's the ladies named gene and Wanda and marvel those two characters are eerily similar And you guys told us early on that she was actually a mutant when we were watching the marvel movies So that's really sick to me, man I can really understand now and see so i'm starting to understand what mutant powers are like prepared to like You know like marvel character powers They're kind of the same but kind of not right turns out wolverine was a felt experiment I guess some type of super soldier in a sense. He was a super soldier a soldier designed by a radical guy to Achieve something radical so in a sense like he's kind of like he had to have some Mutant power because they regenerates and like heals really fast So like the only way he could have ever been wolverine was by having that which is like he has to be a mutant Right, so he basically could regenerate and so they took him and that's why they expand on him I guess he's the only one who could survive something like that. Right. Absolutely. That's brilliant Yeah, really cool movie I you know, that's this one was a lot better than the first one guys So to me at least I don't know no no I think because the first one was more of origin it was kind of telling us like it was slow Right, and this one right here just gave us like this one was just it moved the story a lot Right So the politics are getting really complicated man because somehow another mutants and humans are gonna have to find a way to coexist There's always going to be humans that will not give mutants fair shakes and that's just going to be complicated There's going to be mutants who at the end of the day just want to place at the table also Yeah, but because of their powers don't never be accepted and then you have people like Charles Xavier Trying to bridge that gap man.  Yeah, he did kind of do that guys. That was low-key. I mean, I don't know about that Yeah, I mean when you start using intimidation tactics politically, that's called like Let's not get into all that, you know, that's just bad too But yeah, you just definitely shouldn't do that man, but they're being manipulated too by Magneto So I get that too and I understand he thinks for the greater purpose Yeah war blah blah, but at the end of the day man, you just don't know the future So you trying to save a work it ended up being what escalates it to be honest It's just very complicated man You know the only reason that I'm really kind of like sympathetic to the humans a lot Like I know the movie wants me to be really sympathetic to the mutants It's pretty obvious and like I am because I really like them They're great characters and I was very sympathetic to the superheroes in Marvel But guys in the Marvel series I was very very open about the fact that they're very dangerous not only were they very dangerous They're very destructive. Yes, especially when they didn't need to be so the Marvel characters are also very scary in that way And like I said, man, uh, would you want your kid in school and one of these kids has these abilities And they get in a bad mood one day at school and they blow up the cafeteria Right because they don't know how to control it. It's it's just like a lot That's just the reality of what this would actually look like but this movie is honestly really sick guys I'm really happy to be here. I'm glad that we're getting into this I'm glad to see storm. Um use her powers some more because if you want me to be honest We didn't really get to see much of storm in the first one. Yeah, that's one of the things It was really cool to see her use her powers and like just how powerful she really is It was cool to see gene. She was very powerful. I still don't believe she's dead I really don't I have a good indication of these things emotionally and that one just wasn't one for me I don't think she's dead. I just think she's with the fishes, man I don't unless she turned into that dang that uh, she's coming back. I don't care what anyone says I'm gonna find out my girl saw a giant 26 foot spaceship under the water and thought it was gene at the end of the movie She's on it. She's dead, baby. She's right in on it. She's dead. No, she's on it No, she's dead. All right. We'll find out on the third one because she's on it. That's my prediction, man I think she's dead But anyways, so Logan had a lot of character development in this one So he's really becoming part of the team now He was someone who was you know a rebel and you could see that in the last movie and not really caring You just wanting to know more about herself Right and at the end of the last movie he read he wrote off on a motorcycle that he stole Which is basically just symbolizing like How lonely like what a lonely statement to make about yourself, right? I'm gonna ride motorcycles by my lonesome I mean, you're just a very lonesome Motorcycles at that So that's what Logan was but he's becoming quite the teammate, which is great Ultimately, ma'am. We had us a love triangle. Your girl made a decision. She chose She chose she kind of didn't really choose only choose me I think in the end of the day, she said in the third one We'll find out who she chooses when she comes back mark my words write it down I'm really liking the story guys. I'm really digging it. Uh, if there's anything we're missing if Oh, I guess we talk about rogue rogue kind of like can kiss her boyfriend now. That's that serious She can kind of kiss her boyfriend and he doesn't like die as long as he don't stay on too long, man They better be pecking right. It seems like if they just peck they're good and right. Oh, this is you But she gets his but she gets his powers. So I don't know Yeah, they're just gonna have a lot of problems intimately, you know What was the what was your favorite scene in the whole thing though? Like what was the craziest because my night I have to say the prison escape that was just so Like if I had to pick like a ultimate villain moment, that was like a villain moment right there I think Halle Berry summoning tornadoes was pretty twisted. That was pretty twisted literally twisted I like that part. Uh, this movie was really cool. This is one of my favorite movies The best part of the movie hands down was Magneto taking the iron out the blood and escaping that cell I mean that has to be the hardest part of the movie, right? Because how do they think of that unless it was in a comic like that was insane Right, you know, I really like this movie. I actually had a pretty easy time Predicting what was gonna happen in this movie. I actually got a lot of my guesses right which most of the time I'm completely off base, but this is pretty well put together. Right. It was a good one It is definitely true I made a comment the other day that if a movie is well written Then I shouldn't be able to predict it right and the idea behind it was I'm not a very smart individual So if you can't write something that's going to trick me then it's probably not worth seeing But that was pretty predictable That was about as straightforward of a movie as you could get but minus gene you were very real man Gene's alive though. Very real. I'm just saying like some movies are just more predictable than the others Yeah, but this one was predicted in a very good way I really like I really like like you said how they portray like how they're portraying the humans Like how they're making the mutants and the humans kind of coincide with each other But also they're making the mutants very human too and that they are very and yes And you can see that right and that makes it so This is just such a dangerous thing like I feel like if I speak on one side I'm really upset that I didn't speak on the other So it's tough because I'm a human myself.  There's a lot of stuff like that in real life Like there's a lot of divisive things that we're not going to talk about on this very unified channel But in real life, there's like a lot of divisive things and this movie sort of taps into that And in a in a unique way because it's like, you know, kind of saying saying things in real life But it is portraying it in a whole different way. Absolutely. So really good movie man I get this one at 10 out of 10 I'm actually more excited to move through the x-men universe now that we completed this film because I loved it Yeah, that was a great one. I can't wait to go into three. I can't wait to see more I kind of want to know Logan's story of more like exactly 100% You know, I'm really interested by professor Xavier because that dude and I want to know his story too The fact that he can link into a device and kill everyone and just how powerful he is And he doesn't well it's intriguing because in the marvel universe like characters are powerful and stuff But this is like different right x-men has such a different feel than like marvel And it's very very well done very well done. I was wondering if these movies were gonna feel like some like knockoff marvel But these definitely and and my thing was in the two early 2000s. I was kind of like, uh, I don't know about that Like I feel like they'll be kind of corny in a way No, but I feel like they're corny, you know what I'm saying like 2000s movies. They're corny in their own way But that's why they're good. Oh, yeah Yeah, 100 right you guys can probably pick up on that as we were watching these movies I mean we could you could feel that we both sort of thought in a lot of ways they were corny I think the way that, um, the dude's glasses look, you know, like the the 2005 what is the Cyclops? I used to play for the st. Louis Cardinals with these little weird third base glasses on right You know what I'm saying like those are just so out of style now But it's so fun because it's almost like jumping into a time machine I love watching like the way old movies look the way they feel the transitions they use Yeah, it's I love the transitions they use in this and spider-man. Yeah, they're unique Like you don't see that anymore really unless it's like, you know, you just don't actually even like the way they choose to Like spend the screen time. It's just a lot different now You know so much of what movies used to be was just facial expressions and just people you guys get what I'm trying to say Man, it's a whole different feel now. Thank you guys so much for tuning in. It's been the october's Like subscribe turn on the notification bells because you guys might not know man But just because you are subscribed to the channel and we upload a video Doesn't mean you're gonna see it and it doesn't mean you're gonna know about it So plug patreon plug patreon yada yada yada. We really do try to give it our best over there guys We drop a lot of videos over there. Go look at our like playlist. What are they called collections? 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All right. Good afternoon, Sabre Traders. Welcome on back here this Tuesday, 11-1-22. How about that, November 1st? Shortly after 2.30 p.m. Eastern Time, welcome on back here for our afternoon meeting. Should be good to go across both ends here across the live trading room. Great to see Wendy and Grant and Michael just joining us back right now. And great to see all of you back on social media, Facebook Live, and YouTube. I'll tell you what, folks. I don't know if Housewood mentioned it from the end of the phase 3 class earlier this morning for those of you that were with him, our gold platinum diamond students. I don't know if he told you this or not, but he gave me the hot tag for this afternoon. Meaning that I'll be teaching the phase 3 stock course class at 3.05 Eastern Time. So you'll get to see me evaluate the live market, trade the live market with you folks. So I look forward to it with that in mind even more now than ever. I want to make this a really quick meeting. Make sure that you folks have enough time to prep and get ready. Make sure that I have enough time to prep and get ready. I've already been somewhat prepped so far, but you never know what could happen, at least over the next 30, 35 minutes even. So there's a couple of stocks right out the gate that I am a fan of, and we'll just start with those. Sun, S-O-N-N, it's on the screen here to begin. Hopefully it makes the big break over 2.50. Hopefully for me in class, and hopefully not right now. That would stink, but it's making the push-up looking really healthy. It ended up making a strong run from earlier this morning. Made a nice run from like 2 up towards 3. Clean dollar move. The pop-up to 3 was pretty quick. So for a while it lasted as it went over 2.50 to 2.60. It ended up making a really nice pop up towards that 3, but from there came back down and got really ugly. And then ended up just losing direction at the time. So nice rebound at least for right now on Sun. S-O-N-N, I'll put this on our main watch list at least to start. Checking on a couple of other trades that I was interested in. Just about 15, 20 minutes ago, at least. A-T-A-I, it was trying to inch back up right around like 2 o'clock. Up towards the 3.50 level, it looks like it fell off since lost a lot of momentum from the morning run it ended up having. So maybe I'll come back to this at the tail end. The A-T-A-I. Carvada, whenever students were following this heading into the early to mid-afternoon. It was active in pre-market and had a nice little pop after the open, but it got fuzzy, choppy around there. After holding just underneath 16, and from that point ended up making a lower highs, eventual new low, lower low a bit. But I mean just for right now, pretty flat here. So if it ends up making more of a pop during this meeting, then I'll come back to it definitely just give it a second or third look. But for right now, nothing really too special about the Carvada just yet. VIPS, VIPS was moving up pretty nicely at least 15, 20 minutes ago. Stock ended up having a nice push after the open and had dumped off similar move to Carvada. But it was moving up pretty nicely at least just before. Again though lost its momentum. It seems like the market's just still pretty flat and not breaking higher highs of anything. It's just seemingly holding underneath this 384 level on the spy. That was a price that we were following pretty much all throughout the day today. And we'll jump back to the spy actually at the end. Extremely interesting ended up just happening across the spy S&P 500 ETF. Just right before we started. I wrote it in the chat board just earlier. But what we'll do folks, so far we have Sun on our main list. Nothing else though otherwise. We'll go from top to bottom. Let's see what else we got. Anything else that ended up making a nice little move from the morning perhaps. I'll recap very briefly. I didn't even look at ABMD. I just assumed it was going to be a buyout for it to be a $378 ticker. Up 50%. There we go. That confirms that. Just move on. There is the pop on Sun. Without me. Broke over that 245-250. Nice move. If anyone jumped in any of our students, this is off to a really good start. Don't chase it. But 250 was the level that we were just watching a moment ago. MCVT. Not a whole lot happening there. We'll be pretty brief here folks just skimming through. Again, we got to make sure all of our students and myself are prepped up for our live trading class. Leader on today. You have our gold platinum diamond students. I know that Rich just posted the link a moment ago in the chat board there for you. I see PT. I've seen this pop up on the gainers then. I was hoping it had better direction here. Unfortunately it's gone nowhere. Really flat since the mid-to-late morning. Uber off earnings. It was a nice little day trade while it lasted. It ended up breaking lower lows later on. Broke trend line off the lows. Snap down pretty quick. Rebounded briefly. But again, right now for a $29.30 stock, there's just better opportunity. If it's not the same price, it'll be cheaper. Just realize folks, we got the Fed concluding tomorrow. We were talking about this in traders talk earlier today actually for any of us inside the live trading room. You folks had access to that, our live workshop earlier this morning. This panned out perfectly to our expectation. With the Fed meeting concluding tomorrow, I wasn't expecting anything within the market. At least after the mid-morning. After $10.30, things just fell really flat. It got ugly. Maybe we even see a break to the lows later on today if we're not going to really look to break higher. Break back above that $385 in the spine. Gold stock up. Grant up over 9% ego. Nice. Good day for gold mining is it? Oh, I just combined nugget and Jnug together. All right, NUGT, gold mining ETF. It's up a little bit percentage wise, but that ego trade had a nice move. All right, let's hop over to the loser's side right now. See if there's anything looking just as good. If not better, VRNS. Looks really flat, but if you zoom in, it's not going to be as bad as you think. Just recently ended up holding 18, dropped nearly a buck down to 1720, 1715-ish there. Now it's been funneling, so it's not as attractive of a trade, but just wanted to take a quick look on that. Got TTI, it's shortable, so I don't know how liquid or illiquid it could be, but nothing too special on this one either. We don't need to force anything out there on our watch list, folks. Again, day before Fed.  But with that in mind, we're not expecting a whole lot on either side of the field or moving really well in any direction. Would not be a good day for the side list. In American Airlines, you could say it's dropping off a little bit, potential short, but that's like watching the grass grow. Neo is as flat as it could be. Check out a couple of other side list trades over the last week or so, like GM, Shopify, none of these trades have gone anywhere for their price. That's all right, folks. We got sun on our watch list, but now at this point I feel kind of bad because we only have one. I like to have at least a little variety. If there's anything else that you see that looks good, type it in the chat board for any of our students, for any of us just joining us now on social media, Facebook Live or YouTube, go back to that Carvana there briefly, and I'll check out the spy because there was something like I'd said that was extremely interesting just a moment ago. So actually, let's jump to that as we potentially wait for any further stocks to make a move. All right. So looking at my volume bar, is anything that stands out? That's a rhetorical question to a degree, right? With that, we ended up seeing a huge spike of volume come in just before 230. I had to check book map for this. It was just over 570,000 shares. It was filled on the ask specifically at 384.91. At 384.91, that was the price of where we just had that transaction. I mean, we were watching 385 all day as a key level anyway, so that just complements 385. Unless if this could snap over this range here of resistance and flip it as support, I would not be thinking bullish for the close across the market. Again, there could always be just a stock like Sun that could make a big pop and continued move. So if there's a cheapy like a small cap or not to say lower float, but something smaller cap or say that may not be as affected by a little bit of a drop off within the market, that could be an opportunity. Got this MCVT from one of us inside the live trading room. This is not going. This is not it. This is not the move right now, folks. I mean, it's really... Oh, I got to change the order. I got to change this to the link there. MCVT. It's not looking great on the chart, that's for sure, and even worse on the order book. So yeah, that's what I was thinking there. All right, we'll pass on that. But sheesh, folks, we only got one stock to work with. Is that it?  Grants says Carvana at 1540 maybe. The word maybe just... We'll pass on it for right now. Maybe once class begins at 305 or shortly after. No, maybe my opinion will change. But there's nothing right now that is really appealing at all. HSC on the way up. There's a little direction on this thing. Tier size is not terrible actually. You know what, I guess this will make two, but you really had to force this out of me, right? So, you know, just... I'm not going to really focus on much else, if there's really something else making a stronger move. Carvana says meta on a tear, not cheap though. And yeah, nice direction at least dropping off. Showing some good weakness on the short or strength on the short weakness overall. You know what I mean. But yeah, I mean, that's a nice play for following.   Uber under 30 may continue to drop. Again, that's like the same word as maybe, right? And just, you know, it's a sideless stock for right now. If you did well on it earlier, I'm sure it's one that you'll be more inclined to follow. If you're already in the trade, I'm rooting on for you, Michael. All right, folks. So otherwise, I mean, hey, there's not much else. Unless if the markets make a really strong move here over the next 70 minutes or so or 50 minutes, however many, you know, just with that in mind, then we could follow a few trades then. But otherwise, like there's really not much to it. So this is where we need to be really diligent and just focused on scanning. Not to say right now, but just from this point. So, you know, perhaps we'll find a nice move just at 3 o'clock or 3.15 or at that infamous 3.30 program trading time, you know, in class in the phase three stock course. All right. Grant says, I'm glad that I am not teaching. I'll tell you what, I'll keep it entertaining for us at least if it's going to be a slow market. So you'll get to hear me rant and rave for 60 minutes if anything, folks. So I look forward to it. But for all of a sudden, inside the live trading room, I know that Rich will be on the mic from 3 to 4. If you have any questions, feel free to email me. Josh at C2Trading.com. We'll have the Traders Talk workshop up later on today. Mitch on YouTube rejoining us. Mitch, great to have you back. Asking a ZIM ZIM, not up the 5% we look for. It's getting there.  You know, if this was cheaper, I'd be more inclined. But, man, don't have a great need to really put this on our main list right now. Good direction. Not a bad call, Mitch. All right, folks. I think that'll do it, though. Otherwise, for all of a sudden, YouTube and Facebook Live seem to be said, though, to you folks. If you have any questions, feel more than free to send it over through email josh at C2Trading.com. I'll try to get back to you folks later on this evening, if not tomorrow morning. But if you're interested in joining our live trading room, just go right down to the link on the yellow banner below the stream just to get yourself started. Otherwise, for all of us inside the trading room, best of luck trading going into the market close. And I look forward to seeing all of our students at least in class in just a bit. Take care. Come a Cyber Group member today. Just click the link below and receive all these amazing products and a world of knowledge for just $9. Do it today.


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The next item of business is a statement by Angus Robertson on retained EU law. The cabinet secretary will take questions at the end of his statement and so there should be no interventions or interruptions. I call on Angus Robertson, cabinet secretary, up to 10 minutes, please. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. I wish to make a statement on the UK Government's so-called Brexit freedoms bill, which has a profound and, sadly, damaging impact on this Parliament and on Scotland as a whole. People of Scotland rejected Brexit by a margin of 24 per cent, and there was a majority for remaining in the EU in every single local authority area in Scotland. Nevertheless, in February this year, the UK Government published a document that is stalling what they called the benefits of Brexit. At the time, I noted to members of the Constitution, Europe and External Affairs Committee the profound absence of Brexit benefits for people and for businesses in Scotland. Indeed, the disbenefits were all too evident. Polling shows that 75 per cent of people in Scotland have a negative opinion about whether the UK has benefited from Brexit, and only 2 per cent believe that Boris Johnson has delivered a good deal. Five months on, and with the Brexit freedoms bill potentially imminent, we find ourselves in an even more desperate situation. We are in the midst of a cost-of-living crisis. The think tank UK in a changing Europe says that Brexit has led to a 6 per cent increase in food prices. The Centre for European Reform reports that the UK economy was 5 per cent, or £31 billion, smaller than comparator economies at the end of last year, primarily because of Brexit. Scotland's total trade with the EU was 16 per cent lower in 2021 than in 2019, with food exports down by £68 million. Now, with the UK in real danger of entering recession, and in the middle of the cost-of-living crisis, the Tory Government Westminster seems intent on provoking a trade war with the European Union by tearing up an international agreement that the Prime Minister himself hailed as a fantastic moment. Despite much searching by the UK Government's so-called Minister for Brexit opportunities, the only thing to have changed since February is that the disbenefits of Brexit are now more pronounced. Whilst Mr Rees-Mogg has been on his feet this afternoon in the House of Commons, hopefully providing the clarity that we have not yet received, the UK Government is declined to share the Brexit freedoms bill instructions with us, or provide any settled certainty of its policy intentions. Regardless, we should be under no illusions about the risk that this legislation presents to Scotland. We understand that the bill will end the supremacy of European law and repeal or reform regulations on business. The danger of a hard Brexit-inspired race to the bottom is now greater than ever. Beneath the froth of crown marking on pint glasses and the adoption of imperial weights and measures, the UK Government's intention to turn away from EU laws should trigger real concern for businesses, for members of this Parliament and all those who hold dear the standards that the EU has helped to embed in our society. Over 2,000 pieces of legislation, 2,000 pieces of legislation, carefully influenced, possibly even proposed by the UK Government as a member state over 50 years of EU membership, must be made to go through a legislative process or, according to media reports, will simply sunset and fall away from the statute book entirely. There is no understanding in Whitehall about how much of that legislation falls within devolved competence. I have had a look at Jacob Rees-Mogg's statement. He makes no mention whatsoever about the devolved consequences of his announcement. There is no desire to understand the consequent implications for devolved powers or legislation. Apparently those changes are to be done by 2026 or 2030. Dates whose sole rationale is that it makes good PR as an anniversary of the Brexit referendum or the end of the transition period, not driven by the magnitude or importance of the task, not driven by the availability of time in this Parliament or that of the Senate or Stormont or indeed of Westminster, and taking no account of the fact that there is no executive in place in Northern Ireland as a direct consequence of the hard Brexit that the UK Government has chosen to prosecute. Instead, yet again, the bill is driven by the same blind ideology that caused so much damage to Scotland in the first place. The truth of the matter is that the pace of this exercise threatens parliamentary scrutiny and parliamentary workloads. The UK Government is tilting at the windmills of EU standards when it would be better advised to cease undermining the Northern Ireland protocol, an action that blocks implementation of the trade and co-operation agreement and causes our continued exclusion, for example, from the Horizon Europe research programme. There is little to no appropriate consideration of the impact of this bill, intended or otherwise, of doing away with the regulations and case law that has driven the high standards across Europe and from which we benefit. The UK Government has said that it wants the Brexit freedoms bill to, and I quote, utilise regulatory freedoms by, I again quote, lightening their burden on UK business. Its main purpose appears to be to give the UK Government the freedom to abandon the legislation that has protected Scottish interests for almost 50 years. The bill will create uncertainty for business and threatens to fire the starting pistol in a race to the bottom in standards on food, the environment, animal and plant health, and workers' rights. That is a threat to devolution. Taken alongside the powers of the internal market act, devolved competencies will be disastrously exposed and undermined by the UK Government searching for an answer to the self-inflicted pain of Brexit. Our policy of aligning with EU standards will be at risk. The common frameworks process, which is designed to manage divergence and alignment, looks to be sidestepped or ignored completely. Sensible standards and regulations will only be kept if they are re-enacted through this parliament and then only temporarily protected if the internal market act is directed to undercut them. We do not yet know the exact implications for the legislative programme for this parliament, as we have not been provided with the necessary detail, but we do know that, if we want to maintain the legislation, we will have to find a great amount of government and a great amount of parliamentary time. When I met the minister for so-called Brexit opportunities, I was assured by him that the Sule convention would be respected. If that commitment is to be honoured, it would mark a departure from the UK Government's approach during the Brexit process when it has repeatedly legislated on devolved matters despite this parliament refusing its consent to do so. An approach that sunsets EU law, which would see legislation automatically fall if unamended by a fixed deadline, takes no account of our priorities or our interests in keeping aligned with EU legislation. It is unacceptable that the UK Government seems ready to unveil sweeping measures that could have profound consequences for Scotland with such little discussion or, indeed, respect for Parliament, the Scottish Government or, indeed, the people of Scotland. That makes a mockery of the UK Government's recent commitments to reset relationships with the devolved Governments. I said at the beginning that the minister of so-called Brexit opportunities has been searching for the benefits of Brexit since at least February. That has included the attempt to crowdsource ideas from the public via the media, presumably in the absence of suggestions from Whitehall departments. The disaster of Brexit is becoming ever more apparent and the attack on this Parliament by a UK Government that was comprehensively rejected by the people of Scotland is gathering pace. The question for all of us here is whether we are prepared to put up with this unfolding catastrophe that is being imposed against the wishes and interests of Scotland or whether we say enough is enough and forge a better future for everyone who lives here. Thank you. The cabinet secretary will now take questions on the issues raised in his statement. I intend to allow around 20 minutes for questions after which we will move on to the next item of business. It would be helpful if those members who wish to ask a question were to press the request-to-speak button now. I have sat through many ministerial statements, many full of details and statistics, many with policy announcements, many with something as an opposition MSP to get one's teeth in two, but I have never sat through a statement so thin, so devoid of detail, so empty of substance as this one. No new information has been imparted today. It is essentially one long complaint about Brexit, and that's it. There is no UK bill. It hasn't been published yet. The cabinet secretary has no idea what it contains. He does know that discussions between devolved Governments and Cabinet officials are ongoing, and it is at the discretion of devolved Governments to decide how they deal with retained EU law that is devolved. However, the Scottish Government might have waited for the UK Government to set out its position, publish legislation and then come to the chamber with the Scottish Government's response properly researched, argued and underpinned by the facts. Let me ask him this. He speculates that the bill will create uncertainty for business. Does he agree that what is really creating uncertainty for business and for people across Scotland is his Government's own blind ideology to use his phrase, their obsession with independence and another divisive polarising referendum? I disagree with much of what the Conservative spokesman has said on this issue, but I can agree with him on one thing. The sharing of information by the UK Government on a measure that will have a profound impact on this Parliament and how its ability to deal with business has been profound. I have had one meeting with Jacob Rees Mogg on this subject. He travelled all the way to Edinburgh, asked to meet me and could not be bothered to make the last 200 metres of the journey to come to Scottish Government office buildings to discuss what was being planned. He could not even tell me how many of the laws that he was planning to, as the media reported, sunset by some arbitrary deadline, will impact on the devolved settlement. In that respect, Donald Cameron is absolutely right. The amount of information that has been shared with the Scottish Government has been woeful. It follows an all-too-familiar pattern from the UK Government, little to no detail on proposed legislation beyond what could be gleaned from the media, broad assurances that devolution will be respected, with nothing on how that will be ensured, performative engagement rather than a genuine attempt to engage on policy substance, or a willingness to adjust proposals to reflect the Scottish Government's concerns. I would have thought that that should concern every member of this Parliament in all parties. It is disappointing that it is not to be found on the Conservative benches. I would remind all members who wish to ask a question to please check that they have pressed the request to speak button. I call Sarah Boyack. Can I also thank the cabinet secretary for advance notice of his statement? I am equally disappointed at the ideology behind Brexit and the thoughtlessness and dishonesty from the UK Government, the Tory Government on its impact on people in Scotland and right across the UK. We do need to protect the Seoul Convention and to protect our devolution settlement. There is an irony that we have two Governments promoting their ideologies and seeking to divert from their failures and the lack of support for our constituents who are experiencing a massive cost of living crisis. Scottish Labour supports aligning with our EU neighbours, protecting our labour, consumer and environmental standards, and enabling trade with our neighbours. Points we made in their recent debates on the continuity act and the internal market act. Cabinet secretary, as you have admitted, the statement is light on content. As you say, there will be hard work to ensure that we do everything we can to protect our constituents and businesses from the damage and uncertainty that is created by Brexit. I ask the cabinet secretary what he is doing now to identify how we use our Parliament's devolved powers to the max, to protect labour standards, incentivise our businesses to produce products that protect consumer rights, meet standards of health and safety and deliver the environmental standards that we need. Although it will involve a huge amount of work, as the constitution committee acknowledged, we need to monitor and track both at the EU level and now it appears at the UK level what is happening in terms of alignment with the EU. Those are the practical things that I would like to hear from the cabinet secretary in terms of his action plan. Can I thank Sair Barwick for her questions in the positive way in which he has put them this afternoon? I welcome the commitment from the Labour party to wish to seek to protect the Sule convention and to protect standards. I think that Sair Barwick is absolutely right that we look at all means at our disposal to be able to protect these safeguards. She will understand that, given the positive information that we have had from the UK Government, it is safe for the mention of the quantum of the legislation that is being envisaged at over 2,000. Let's say for sake of argument that this Parliament agrees that it will decline to give legislative consent for this UK Government measure. Unfortunately, our experience thus far in the Brexit context is that UK Governments override the Sule convention, in which case we will have to use a lot of parliamentary time to find out ways of being able to protect and maintain the safeguards that have existed through European Union legislation. We are right at the beginning of that process, but I say to Sair Barwick that she is absolutely right to highlight that this is the key challenge for all of us. We have been trying to find our way through, together with colleagues in the committee, about how we have been able to do that thus far in terms of remaining aligned with the European Union. This is of an order of magnitude far beyond that. There is a lot of work that is going to have to go into that, and I look forward to working across the chamber to make sure that we can use all the powers that are disposed of as a Parliament and as Government to make sure that we can retain the benefits that the safeguards that have been legislated for in a European Union context can be protected. I call Christine Grahame to follow by Sharon Dowie. The cabinet secretary refers in his statement on this bill impacting on devolved issues, but without any prior discussion. I quote from the UK Government to lighten the burden close quotes on businesses. Does the cabinet secretary share my concerns that this translates into undermining workers' rights and protections? Does employment law is not to devolved? How can the Parliament ensure that those remain protected? Christine Grahame is absolutely right to home in on the specifics of different aspects of European Union law that we have enjoyed and we value as a society. We have the European Union to thank for some of our most cherished employment rights, including basic fundamentals such as written terms and conditions and equal pay. Those rights are now at risk as a consequence of the UK Government's reckless drive to heap yet more misery on millions of working families across this country. Creating the conditions for our citizens to secure safe, fairly paid work is not red tape. It is an essential requirement of every responsible Government. Of course, we simply do not know at this stage what the UK Government intends to do with employment rights in the future, as it has not told us and clearly has not told the Conservative front bench in this Parliament either. However, we do know that the Minister for Brexit Opportunities, or I should always take the opportunity to say so-called Brexit opportunities, has said today that he may wish to retain only dozens of 2,400 laws it has identified. So there is, of course, a very real risk that protections for workers may be undermined by the powers provided to UK ministers through the Brexit freedoms bill. When it comes to gene editing, the SNP has shown that they are perfectly capable of diverging from the UK standard and potentially the future EU standard unnecessarily and unfairly punishing Scotland's farmers for no good reason, even their former chief scientific adviser agrees. Will the cabinet secretary agree that she should have a serious rethink of the situation and stop holding back Scotland's farmers? Presiding Officer, frankly, that has absolutely nothing to do with the statement that I have just given to Parliament, so I am sure that I would be rebuked for going down highways and byways that have nothing to do with this. Cabinet Secretary, I think that if you extract this kind of general point being made and respond to that and perhaps briefly that would be... Well, the general point is that the questions being asked has got absolutely nothing to do with the bill that has been proposed by the UK Government today. Well, I was up to the chair really to determine that, cabinet secretary, and I had felt that in broad brush something could be extracted, but I think that the cabinet secretary has responded to the member in the way that he considers appropriate. We will now call Ruth McGuire, who is joining us remotely, to be followed by Katie Clark. Thank you, Presiding Officer. Brexit freedoms, getting Brexit done, levelling up. Does the cabinet secretary feel the same frustrations as many of my constituents at the UK Government's list of empty post-Brexit slogans? Is the Scottish Government dismayed, as I am, by the potential damage that will be done by such heavy-handed keeping legislation despite its light title? The title given to this bill would be laughable if its potential impact were not so deadly serious. The only freedom and offer here is that of being worse off, more polluted, less safe as a consumer, customer or employee. While all this untold damage has been inflicted at breakneck speed, all to meet an artificial PR-driven deadline, this Parliament will have no freedom whatsoever to pass the measures that your constituents and mine actively want to see. Frustration and dismay are just two of the many words, some more colourful, I would use to describe our reaction. The negative impact of Brexit on Scotland and indeed the whole of the UK is clear. As is the Conservative Government's failure to work with all of the devolved institutions, can the cabinet secretary outline what he can do to ensure that legislation is brought before this Parliament on areas such as agricultural subsidies where it is clear that there is devolved responsibility as soon as possible? Can he outline what work is being done on how, for example, public procurement will be affected and what legislation this Parliament can enact? I thank Katie Clark for the positive way in which she has asked the question again. It mirrors the point that was made by her Labour front bench colleague. We are going to have to ascertain which among the UK Government's proposed list of 2,400, incidentally, apparently, has gone up by 700 in the course of the last week. Pieces of legislation that may impact or may not, depending on how the UK Government decides to treat the Sewell convention. I should say incidentally, if the UK Government wanted to take devolution seriously it could legislate and it could limit the scope of its legislation to England or to England and Wales only, in which case retained legislation could remain on the statute in Scotland. I give a commitment to her and any of her colleagues who have a close interest in particular policy areas that we can discuss over the months ahead what needs to be done to protect safeguards, the most appropriate way of doing it, to protect the Parliament's ability to better understand the proposals that are being made, whilst at the same time having a conscious understanding of the scale of the potential job at hand given the way in which the UK Government is planning to go forward with this measure. As the Scottish Government begins setting out the progressive, hopeful vision for a wealthier, happier, fairer Scotland in the European family of nations, the UK Government, instead, continues to drag the devolved countries through a regressive and damaging Brexit, epitomised by the disastrous proposal of the so-called Brexit freedoms bill. Does the cabinet secretary believe that now, more than ever, the people of Scotland must be given the democratic choice for which they have repeatedly voted for, a referendum on our independence and a decision on Scotland's future? Yes, and the one lesson that can be safely drawn from this episode is that, for as long as Scotland is misgoverned by Westminster, the UK Government will continue to inflict on the people of Scotland, the long-running psychodrama that is Brexit and its dire unfolding consequences. The real freedom that we need to be talking about is for the people of Scotland to be free to make their own choice about the future of their own country. This bill will merely serve to make it more obvious which choice the people of Scotland should and will make. Brexit is a disaster. The Tories are terrible at government, but none of that is new. Whilst it is always worth repeating in my mind, I am not sure that this statement of endless speculation moves us any further forward. I support the keeping pace powers, but the lack of co-operation reflects badly on both Governments. Both the Scottish and UK Governments are responsible for this terrible relationship. What steps is the cabinet secretary going to take to improve that relationship so that he does not have to make another speculative statement to this Parliament? First, let me identify the thing that we agree on—that is a good way to start. Willie Rennie said that he supported keeping pace powers, so I think that what he is trying to say is that he supports the Scottish Government's position on safeguarding European legislation and retaining pace with those. If that is what he meant, I welcome that. On the equivalence in his questioning of criticising the state of relations with the UK Government and the Scottish Government, I say to him that there is no equivalence in that. In this specific case, I have already informed Parliament and told him that when the Scottish Government tried to have a conversation with the UK Government and asked specific questions about it, the minister responsible was not even prepared to come and meet in person. Please do not, when being aware of the facts, please do not propagate a false equivalence. The Scottish Government has asked for the information and has not received the information. There is no point in shaking one's head. I am telling Parliament the facts. I asked the questions, I did not receive the answers. I asked to meet the minister in question, he was not prepared to do so. Those are the facts. If Willie Rennie takes them to heart, he will end the false equivalence that he speaks about so often in this chamber. I have four more members who wish to ask a question. In order to get all four in, I would appreciate short and succinct questions and answers. Retained EU law has been a buffer for Scotland against the damaging and far-reaching effects of a hard Tory Brexit. Now that the UK Government is seeking to sweep aside these safeguards, does the cabinet secretary believe that the Scottish Government's firm commitment to continuity within European law will be undermined and made more difficult by the obsessive Brexit's freedom bill? As members will be aware, this Parliament passed the continuity act with the express purpose of providing Scottish ministers the powers needed to ensure that Scotland can keep pace with future developments in EU law where appropriate. Those EU laws have set high standards, for example, for our environment and for air and water quality. They have upheld workers' rights and employment law. They have protected animal welfare, plant health and biosecurity. Those are far from trivial matters. They are the very substance that underpins what we recognise as important to our society and our environment. I very much hope that Parliament can work together across the parties to do everything that we need to do to safeguard those safeguards in our public life, in our national legislation and maintain the alignment that Scotland has had over the decades with the rest of the European Union in these important areas of life. Thank you. Jacob Rees-Mogg is so desperate to find a benefit of Brexit that is outsourced to search to the sun and the far right daily express. This is clearly intended to advance the Tory's decades-long campaign for British workers to have the weakest rights and protections in Europe. Does the cabinet secretary agree therefore that with little prospect of workers' rights being devolved to the Scottish Parliament within the UK, the only way to protect those rights is through independence in the European Union? Ross Greer, of course, is correct. Ultimately, the only safeguard that we have of being a part of the European Union's legislative framework is by being in the European Union, and that is exactly where Scotland shall be. That is exactly the choice that people should be able to have given that we live in a democracy. In the meantime, we need to do everything that we can in this Parliament to make sure that we do not have the rug pulled from underneath us by taking safeguards off the statute book but also acting in a way that will deluge this Parliament by having to find precious time to be able to legislate to retain the safeguards, something clearly that Conservative members don't take particularly seriously. Maurice Golden, to be followed by Willie Coffey. The cabinet secretary suggests a race to the bottom on the environment, but the opposite is true. The UK Government is going further than the EU on the environment, such as targeting a 68 per cent reduction in emissions by 2030 versus just 55 per cent for the EU or ending sales of petrol and diesel cars by 2030 versus 2035 for the EU. Does the cabinet secretary recognise the actions of the UK Government simply do not match his rhetoric? No, I don't, but perhaps we can find some common ground in this question. If it is the case that the member and his colleagues are happy to see EU standards as a minimum, then no doubt he and his colleagues will be happy to impress on the UK Government that they will respect the Sewell convention and respect the decision that is made in this Parliament in relation to legislative consent. If the UK Government then wants to go on and legislate for matters that are devolved—so not in terms of Scotland—take the praise for it, why don't we work in partnership on that as a challenge and make the UK Government proceed for England and let the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish Government work on the standards based on the safeguards of European legislation that we agree should be retained? I look forward to that. Excuse me, I get all those sedentary commentary. I call Willie Coffey, thank you. Thank you. In the lead-up to the European Union referendum, Brexit-year, Tories insisted they weren't seeking a race to the bottom on food, on environmental standards and on workers' rights, despite all the evidence to the contrary. Now we're seeing undeniable proof of our standards and rights being eroded with dodgy trade deals and the UK internal market undoing decades of progress within the European single market, which is ten times bigger. Does the cabinet secretary believe that the UK Briggs at Freedom's Bill, whenever it appears, will accelerate those politically motivated downward spiral in trade standards? I think that Willie Rennie has every reason to be concerned. We warned during the passage of the internal market act that it would open the door to lower standards across a range of areas where EU laws used to apply. We're already seeing this threat being played out in relation to trade deals and the threat of products entering the country that do not meet the EU's rules on say animal welfare or food standards. The internal market act means there's little we can do to stop these goods entering Scotland, whatever the views of this Parliament or the people of Scotland. Thank you, cabinet secretary. That concludes the statement. There will be a very short pause before we move on to the next item of business, to allow front bench teams to change positions should they wish.


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