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Well, as many of you know,

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the results of the recent
election were as follows:

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Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate

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won a landslide victory

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with 52 percent of the overall vote.

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Jill Stein, the Green candidate,

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came a distant second, with 19 percent.

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Donald J. Trump, the Republic candidate,

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was hot on her heels with 14 percent,

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and the remainder of the vote
were shared between abstainers

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and Gary Johnson,
the Libertarian candidate.

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Now, what parallel universe
do you suppose I live in?

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Well, I don't live in a parallel universe.

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I live in the world,
and that is how the world voted.

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So let me take you back
and explain what I mean by that.

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In June this year,

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I launched something
called the Global Vote.

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And the Global Vote
does exactly what it says on the tin.

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For the first time in history,

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it lets anybody, anywhere in the world,

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vote in the elections
of other people's countries.

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Now, why would you do that?

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What's the point?

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Well, let me show you what it looks like.

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You go to a website,

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rather a beautiful website,

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and then you select an election.

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Here's a bunch that we've already covered.

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We do about one a month, or thereabouts.

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So you can see Bulgaria,
the United States of America,

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Secretary-General of the United Nations,

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the Brexit referendum at the end there.

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You select the election
that you're interested in

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and you pick the candidates.

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These are the candidates
from the recent presidential election

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in the tiny island nation
of São Tomé and Príncipe,

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199,000 inhabitants,

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off the coast of West Africa.

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And then you can look at the brief summary
of each of those candidates

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which I dearly hope is very neutral,

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very informative and very succinct,

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and when you've found
the one you like, you vote.

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These were the candidates

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in the recent Icelandic
presidential election,

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and that's the way it goes.

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So why on Earth would you want to vote
in another country's election?

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Well, the reason
that you wouldn't want to do it,

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let me reassure you,

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is in order to interfere in the democratic
processes of another country.

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That's not the purpose at all.

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In fact, you can't,

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because usually what I do
is I release the results

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after the electorate in each
individual country has already voted,

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so there's no way that we could
interfere in that process.

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But more importantly,

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I'm not particularly interested

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in the domestic issues
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That's not what we're voting on.

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So what Donald J. Trump or Hillary Clinton
proposed to do for the Americans

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is frankly none of our business.

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That's something that only
the Americans can vote on.

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No, in the global vote,
you're only considering one aspect of it,

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which is what are those leaders
going to do for the rest of us?

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And that's so very important
because we live,

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as no doubt you're sick
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in a globalized, hyperconnected,
massively interdependent world

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where the political decisions
of people in other countries

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can and will have an impact on our lives

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no matter who we are,
no matter where we live.

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Like the wings of the butterfly

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beating on one side of the Pacific

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that can apparently create
a hurricane on the other side,

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so it is with the world
that we live in today

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and the world of politics.

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There is no longer a dividing line between
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Any country, no matter how small,

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even if it's São Tomé and Príncipe,

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could produce the next Nelson Mandela

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or the next Stalin.

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They could pollute the atmosphere
and the oceans, which belong to all of us,

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or they could be responsible
and they could help all of us.

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And yet, the system is so strange

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because the system hasn't caught up
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Only a small number of people
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even though their impact is gigantic

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and almost universal.

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What number was it?

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140 million Americans voted

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for the next president
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and yet, as all of us knows,
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somebody is going to hand over
the nuclear launch codes

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to Donald J. Trump.

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Now, if that isn't having
a potential impact on all of us,

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I don't know what is.

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Similarly, the election
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a small number of millions
of British people voted on that,

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but the outcome of the vote,
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would have had a significant impact

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on the lives of tens, hundreds of millions
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And yet, only a tiny number could vote.

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What kind of democracy is that?

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Huge decisions that affect all of us

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being decided by relatively
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And I don't know about you,

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but I don't think
that sounds very democratic.

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So I'm trying to clear it up.

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But as I say,

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we don't ask about domestic questions.

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In fact, I only ever ask two questions
of all of the candidates.

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I send them the same
two questions every single time.

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I say, one,

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if you get elected, what are you
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for the remainder of the seven billion
who live on this planet?

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Second question:

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what is your vision
for your country's future in the world?

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What role do you see it playing?

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Every candidate,
I send them those questions.

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They don't all answer. Don't get me wrong.

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I reckon if you're standing

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to become the next president
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you're probably pretty tied up
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so I'm not altogether surprised
that they don't all answer, but many do.

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More every time.

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And some of them do much more than answer.

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Some of them answer in the most
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you could imagine.

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I just want to say a word here
for Saviour Chishimba,

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who was one of the candidates

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in the recent Zambian
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His answers to those two questions
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on his view of Zambia's
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and in the international community.

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I posted it on the website
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Now, Saviour won the global vote,

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but he didn't win the Zambian election.

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So I found myself wondering,

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what am I going to do
with this extraordinary group of people?

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I've got some wonderful people here
who won the global vote.

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We always get it wrong, by the way.

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The one that we elect

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is never the person who's elected
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That may be partly because
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But I think it may also be a sign

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that the domestic electorate
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They're still thinking very inwardly.

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They're still asking themselves,
what's in it for me

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instead of what
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which is, what's in it for we?

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But there you go.

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So suggestions, please, not right now,

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but send me an email if you've got an idea

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about what we can do
with this amazing team of glorious losers.

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We've got Saviour Chishimba,
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We've got Halla Tómasdóttir,

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who was the runner up
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Many of you may have seen
her amazing talk at TEDWomen

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just a few weeks ago

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where she spoke about the need
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We've got Maria das Neves
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We've got Hillary Clinton.

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I don't know if she's available.

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We've got Jill Stein.

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And we covered also the election

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for the next Secretary-General
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We've got the ex-prime minister
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who would be a wonderful
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So I think maybe those people,

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the glorious loser's club,
could travel around the world

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wherever there's an election

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and remind people
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of thinking a little bit outwards

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and thinking of
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So what comes next for the global vote?

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Well, obviously,

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the Donald and Hillary show
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but there are some other
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In fact, they seem to be multiplying.

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There's something going on,
I'm sure you've noticed, in the world.

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And the next row of elections
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In just a few day's time

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we've got the rerun
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with the prospect of Norbert Hofer

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becoming what is commonly described

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as the first far-right head of state
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Next year we've got Germany,

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we've got France,

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we've got presidential elections in Iran

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and a dozen others.

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It doesn't get less important.

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It gets more and more important.

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Clearly, the global vote
is not a stand-alone project.

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It's not just there on its own.

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It has some background.

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It's part of a project
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which I called the Good Country.

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The idea of the Good Country
is basically very simple.

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It's my simple diagnosis
of what's wrong with the world

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and how we can fix it.

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What's wrong with the world
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Basically, we face
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of gigantic, existential
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climate change, human rights abuses,

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mass migration, terrorism,
economic chaos, weapons proliferation.

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All of these problems
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are by their very nature
globalized problems.

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No individual country has the capability
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And so very obviously

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we have to cooperate
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if we're going to solve these problems.

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It's so obvious, and yet we don't.

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We don't do it nearly often enough.

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Most of the time,
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as if they were warring, selfish tribes
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much as they have done
since the nation-state was invented

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hundreds of years ago.

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And this has got to change.

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This is not a change in political systems
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This is a change in culture.

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We, all of us, have to understand

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that thinking inwards is not the solution
to the world's problems.

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We have to learn how to cooperate
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and compete just a tiny bit less.

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Otherwise things
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and they're going to get much worse,
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This change will only happen

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if we ordinary people

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tell our politicians
that things have changed.

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We have to tell them
that the culture has changed.

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We have to tell them
that they've got a new mandate.

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The old mandate
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if you're in a position
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you're responsible for your own people
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and that's it.

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And if in order to do
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you screw over everybody else
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That's considered to be a bit macho.

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Today, I think everybody
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has got a dual mandate,

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which says if you're in a position
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you're responsible for your own people

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and for every single man, woman,
child and animal on the planet.

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You're responsible
for your own slice of territory

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and for every single square mile
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and the atmosphere above it,

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and if you don't like that responsibility,
you should not be in power.

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That for me is the rule of the modern age,

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and that's the message that we've got
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and show them that that's the way
things are done these days.

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Otherwise, we're all screwed.

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I don't have a problem, actually,

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with Donald Trump's credo
of America first.

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It seems to me that that's
a pretty banal statement

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of what politicians have always done
and probably should always do.

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Of course they're elected to represent
the interests of their own people.

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But what I find so boring
and so old-fashioned

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and so unimaginative
about his take on that

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is that America first
means everyone else last,

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that making America great again
means making everybody else small again,

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and it's just not true.

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In my job as a policy advisor
over the last 20 years or so,

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I've seen so many hundreds
of examples of policies

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that harmonize the international
and the domestic needs,

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and they make better policy.

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I'm not asking nations
to be altruistic or self-sacrificing.

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That would be ridiculous.

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No nation would ever do that.

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I'm asking them to wake up and understand
that we need a new form of governance,

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which is possible,

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and which harmonizes those two needs,

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those good for our own people
and those good for everybody else.

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Since the US election and since Brexit

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it's become more and more obvious to me

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that those old distinctions
of left wing and right wing

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no longer make sense.

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They really don't fit the pattern.

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What does seem to matter today

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is very simple,

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whether your view of the world is

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that you take comfort
from looking inwards and backwards,

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or whether, like me, you find hope
in looking forwards and outwards.

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That's the new politics.

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That's the new division that is
splitting the world right down the middle.

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Now, that may sound judgmental,
but it's not meant to be.

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I don't at all misunderstand

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why so many people find their comfort
in looking inwards and backwards.

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When times are difficult,
when you're short of money,

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when you're feeling
insecure and vulnerable,

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it's almost a natural
human tendency to turn inwards,

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to think of your own needs

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and to discard everybody else's,

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and perhaps to start to imagine
that the past was somehow better

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than the present or the future
could ever be.

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But I happen to believe
that that's a dead end.

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History shows us that it's a dead end.

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When people turn inwards
and turn backwards,

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human progress becomes reversed

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and things get worse for everybody
very quickly indeed.

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If you're like me

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and you believe in forwards and outwards,

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and you believe that the best thing
about humanity is its diversity,

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and the best thing about globalization

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is the way that it stirs up
that diversity, that cultural mixture

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to make something more creative,
more exciting, more productive

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than there's ever been before
in human history,

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then, my friends,
we've got a job on our hands,

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because the inwards and backwards brigade

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are uniting as never before,

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and that creed of inwards and backwards,

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that fear, that anxiety,

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playing on the simplest instincts,

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is sweeping across the world.

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Those of us who believe,

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as I believe, in forwards and outwards,

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we have to get ourselves organized,

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because time is running out
very, very quickly.

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Thank you.

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(Applause)