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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.28,0:00:01.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, as many of you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.84,0:00:04.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the results of the recent\Nelection were as follows:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.16,0:00:07.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.80,0:00:09.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,won a landslide victory
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.72,0:00:11.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with 52 percent of the overall vote.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.52,0:00:14.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jill Stein, the Green candidate,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.80,0:00:17.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,came a distant second, with 19 percent.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.08,0:00:20.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Donald J. Trump, the Republic candidate,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.56,0:00:22.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was hot on her heels with 14 percent,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.68,0:00:27.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the remainder of the vote\Nwere shared between abstainers
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.12,0:00:30.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Gary Johnson,\Nthe Libertarian candidate.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.36,0:00:39.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, what parallel universe\Ndo you suppose I live in?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.76,0:00:42.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I don't live in a parallel universe.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.80,0:00:45.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I live in the world,\Nand that is how the world voted.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.16,0:00:49.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So let me take you back\Nand explain what I mean by that.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.80,0:00:52.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In June this year,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.04,0:00:54.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I launched something\Ncalled the Global Vote.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.80,0:00:57.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the Global Vote\Ndoes exactly what it says on the tin.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.64,0:01:00.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the first time in history,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.32,0:01:03.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it lets anybody, anywhere in the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.08,0:01:06.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,vote in the elections\Nof other people's countries.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.04,0:01:08.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, why would you do that?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.12,0:01:10.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's the point?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.76,0:01:13.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, let me show you what it looks like.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.12,0:01:14.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You go to a website,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.80,0:01:17.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rather a beautiful website,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.84,0:01:20.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then you select an election.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.68,0:01:22.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's a bunch that we've already covered.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.96,0:01:27.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We do about one a month, or thereabouts.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.12,0:01:29.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you can see Bulgaria,\Nthe United States of America,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.96,0:01:32.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Secretary-General of the United Nations,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.48,0:01:35.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Brexit referendum at the end there.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.44,0:01:38.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You select the election\Nthat you're interested in
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.24,0:01:41.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you pick the candidates.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.52,0:01:44.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are the candidates\Nfrom the recent presidential election
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.48,0:01:47.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the tiny island nation\Nof São Tomé and Príncipe,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.60,0:01:49.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,199,000 inhabitants,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.00,0:01:51.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,off the coast of West Africa.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.52,0:01:57.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then you can look at the brief summary\Nof each of those candidates
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.04,0:01:59.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which I dearly hope is very neutral,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.56,0:02:02.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,very informative and very succinct,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.40,0:02:04.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when you've found\Nthe one you like, you vote.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.64,0:02:07.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These were the candidates
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.20,0:02:10.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the recent Icelandic\Npresidential election,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.08,0:02:11.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's the way it goes.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.92,0:02:17.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So why on Earth would you want to vote\Nin another country's election?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.72,0:02:21.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, the reason\Nthat you wouldn't want to do it,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.84,0:02:23.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let me reassure you,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.08,0:02:26.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is in order to interfere in the democratic\Nprocesses of another country.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.00,0:02:28.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's not the purpose at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.68,0:02:30.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, you can't,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.12,0:02:32.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because usually what I do\Nis I release the results
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.60,0:02:36.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after the electorate in each\Nindividual country has already voted,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.16,0:02:38.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so there's no way that we could\Ninterfere in that process.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.00,0:02:40.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But more importantly,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.40,0:02:41.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not particularly interested
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.00,0:02:44.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the domestic issues\Nof individual countries.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.28,0:02:45.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's not what we're voting on.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.68,0:02:50.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what Donald J. Trump or Hillary Clinton\Nproposed to do for the Americans
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.64,0:02:52.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is frankly none of our business.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.68,0:02:55.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's something that only\Nthe Americans can vote on.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.72,0:02:59.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, in the global vote,\Nyou're only considering one aspect of it,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.28,0:03:02.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is what are those leaders\Ngoing to do for the rest of us?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.48,0:03:06.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's so very important\Nbecause we live,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.16,0:03:08.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as no doubt you're sick\Nof hearing people tell you,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.60,0:03:12.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a globalized, hyperconnected,\Nmassively interdependent world
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.88,0:03:16.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where the political decisions\Nof people in other countries
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.64,0:03:18.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can and will have an impact on our lives
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.88,0:03:21.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no matter who we are,\Nno matter where we live.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.44,0:03:24.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like the wings of the butterfly
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.32,0:03:26.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beating on one side of the Pacific
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.64,0:03:30.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that can apparently create\Na hurricane on the other side,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.20,0:03:32.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so it is with the world\Nthat we live in today
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.88,0:03:34.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the world of politics.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.60,0:03:38.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no longer a dividing line between\Ndomestic and international affairs.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.92,0:03:42.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Any country, no matter how small,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.36,0:03:44.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even if it's São Tomé and Príncipe,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.44,0:03:46.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could produce the next Nelson Mandela
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.00,0:03:48.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the next Stalin.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.64,0:03:53.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They could pollute the atmosphere\Nand the oceans, which belong to all of us,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.64,0:03:56.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or they could be responsible\Nand they could help all of us.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.60,0:04:00.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet, the system is so strange
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.72,0:04:04.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the system hasn't caught up\Nwith this globalized reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.44,0:04:07.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only a small number of people\Nare allowed to vote for those leaders,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.68,0:04:09.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even though their impact is gigantic
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.76,0:04:10.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and almost universal.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.04,0:04:13.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What number was it?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.48,0:04:16.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,140 million Americans voted
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.04,0:04:18.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the next president\Nof the United States,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.32,0:04:21.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and yet, as all of us knows,\Nin a few weeks time,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.28,0:04:23.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,somebody is going to hand over\Nthe nuclear launch codes
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.92,0:04:25.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to Donald J. Trump.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.72,0:04:28.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, if that isn't having\Na potential impact on all of us,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.56,0:04:29.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know what is.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.52,0:04:36.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Similarly, the election\Nfor the referendum on the Brexit vote,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.20,0:04:40.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a small number of millions\Nof British people voted on that,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.64,0:04:43.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the outcome of the vote,\Nwhichever way it went,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.36,0:04:45.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would have had a significant impact
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.08,0:04:49.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the lives of tens, hundreds of millions\Nof people around the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.52,0:04:51.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet, only a tiny number could vote.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.96,0:04:53.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What kind of democracy is that?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.60,0:04:56.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Huge decisions that affect all of us
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.36,0:05:00.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being decided by relatively\Nvery small numbers of people.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.24,0:05:01.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I don't know about you,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.60,0:05:03.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I don't think\Nthat sounds very democratic.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.36,0:05:06.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I'm trying to clear it up.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.16,0:05:07.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as I say,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.64,0:05:09.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we don't ask about domestic questions.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.52,0:05:12.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, I only ever ask two questions\Nof all of the candidates.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.60,0:05:15.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I send them the same\Ntwo questions every single time.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.12,0:05:16.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I say, one,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.56,0:05:19.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you get elected, what are you\Ngoing to do for the rest of us,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.72,0:05:23.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the remainder of the seven billion\Nwho live on this planet?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.16,0:05:25.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Second question:
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.12,0:05:28.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what is your vision\Nfor your country's future in the world?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.36,0:05:29.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What role do you see it playing?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.56,0:05:32.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every candidate,\NI send them those questions.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.36,0:05:35.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don't all answer. Don't get me wrong.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.48,0:05:37.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I reckon if you're standing
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.28,0:05:39.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to become the next president\Nof the United States,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.68,0:05:42.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're probably pretty tied up\Nmost of the time,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.08,0:05:46.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I'm not altogether surprised\Nthat they don't all answer, but many do.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.16,0:05:47.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,More every time.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.68,0:05:49.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And some of them do much more than answer.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.76,0:05:52.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of them answer in the most\Nenthusiastic and most exciting way
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.92,0:05:54.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you could imagine.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.16,0:05:56.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just want to say a word here\Nfor Saviour Chishimba,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.68,0:05:58.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who was one of the candidates
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.12,0:06:00.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the recent Zambian\Npresidential election.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.40,0:06:04.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His answers to those two questions\Nwere basically an 18-page dissertation
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.96,0:06:08.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on his view of Zambia's\Npotential role in the world
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.64,0:06:10.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in the international community.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.68,0:06:13.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I posted it on the website\Nso anybody could read it.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.92,0:06:16.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, Saviour won the global vote,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.96,0:06:18.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but he didn't win the Zambian election.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.32,0:06:20.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I found myself wondering,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.72,0:06:23.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what am I going to do\Nwith this extraordinary group of people?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.68,0:06:26.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've got some wonderful people here\Nwho won the global vote.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.56,0:06:28.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We always get it wrong, by the way.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.28,0:06:29.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The one that we elect
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.52,0:06:32.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is never the person who's elected\Nby the domestic electorate.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.64,0:06:36.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That may be partly because\Nwe always seem to go for the woman.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.40,0:06:39.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I think it may also be a sign
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.56,0:06:43.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the domestic electorate\Nis still thinking very nationally.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.16,0:06:45.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're still thinking very inwardly.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.32,0:06:48.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're still asking themselves,\Nwhat's in it for me
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.84,0:06:50.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,instead of what\Nthey should be asking today,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.96,0:06:52.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is, what's in it for we?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.00,0:06:55.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there you go.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.24,0:06:57.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So suggestions, please, not right now,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.40,0:06:59.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but send me an email if you've got an idea
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.42,0:07:02.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about what we can do\Nwith this amazing team of glorious losers.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.80,0:07:06.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've got Saviour Chishimba,\Nwho I mentioned before.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.28,0:07:07.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've got Halla Tómasdóttir,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.68,0:07:10.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who was the runner up\Nin the Icelandic presidential election.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.60,0:07:13.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many of you may have seen\Nher amazing talk at TEDWomen
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.32,0:07:14.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just a few weeks ago
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.56,0:07:18.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where she spoke about the need\Nfor more women to get into politics.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.16,0:07:20.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've got Maria das Neves\Nfrom São Tomé and Príncipe.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.52,0:07:23.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've got Hillary Clinton.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.16,0:07:25.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know if she's available.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.24,0:07:26.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've got Jill Stein.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.48,0:07:30.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we covered also the election
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.36,0:07:32.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the next Secretary-General\Nof the United Nations.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.46,0:07:35.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've got the ex-prime minister\Nof New Zealand,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.68,0:07:37.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who would be a wonderful\Nmember of the team.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.80,0:07:39.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I think maybe those people,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.32,0:07:41.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the glorious loser's club,\Ncould travel around the world
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.00,0:07:43.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wherever there's an election
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.40,0:07:46.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and remind people\Nof the necessity in our modern age
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.80,0:07:48.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of thinking a little bit outwards
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.44,0:07:50.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and thinking of\Nthe international consequences.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.44,0:07:54.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what comes next for the global vote?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.36,0:07:56.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, obviously,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.16,0:08:00.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Donald and Hillary show\Nis a bit of a difficult one to follow,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.64,0:08:03.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but there are some other\Nreally important elections coming up.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.60,0:08:05.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, they seem to be multiplying.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.44,0:08:08.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's something going on,\NI'm sure you've noticed, in the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.60,0:08:11.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the next row of elections\Nare all critically important.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.28,0:08:14.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In just a few day's time
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.80,0:08:17.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we've got the rerun\Nof the Austrian presidential election,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.88,0:08:19.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the prospect of Norbert Hofer
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.68,0:08:21.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,becoming what is commonly described
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.68,0:08:25.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the first far-right head of state\Nin Europe since the Second World War.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.28,0:08:27.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Next year we've got Germany,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.72,0:08:28.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we've got France,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.96,0:08:31.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we've got presidential elections in Iran
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.12,0:08:32.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a dozen others.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.92,0:08:35.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't get less important.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.08,0:08:36.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It gets more and more important.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.40,0:08:42.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Clearly, the global vote\Nis not a stand-alone project.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.20,0:08:43.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not just there on its own.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.76,0:08:46.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has some background.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.04,0:08:50.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's part of a project\Nwhich I launched back in 2014,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.08,0:08:51.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which I called the Good Country.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.44,0:08:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The idea of the Good Country\Nis basically very simple.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.84,0:08:59.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's my simple diagnosis\Nof what's wrong with the world
Dialogue: 0,0:08:59.32,0:09:00.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how we can fix it.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.80,0:09:04.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's wrong with the world\NI've already hinted at.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.24,0:09:06.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Basically, we face\Nan enormous and growing number
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.00,0:09:10.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of gigantic, existential\Nglobal challenges:
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.20,0:09:12.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,climate change, human rights abuses,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.88,0:09:17.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mass migration, terrorism,\Neconomic chaos, weapons proliferation.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:18.08,0:09:21.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of these problems\Nwhich threaten to wipe us out
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.28,0:09:23.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are by their very nature\Nglobalized problems.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.44,0:09:27.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No individual country has the capability\Nof tackling them on its own.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.76,0:09:30.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so very obviously
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.52,0:09:34.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have to cooperate\Nand we have to collaborate as nations
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.16,0:09:36.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we're going to solve these problems.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:36.56,0:09:38.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's so obvious, and yet we don't.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.88,0:09:41.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't do it nearly often enough.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.64,0:09:46.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most of the time,\Ncountries still persist in behaving
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.24,0:09:50.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as if they were warring, selfish tribes\Nbattling against each other,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.92,0:09:53.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,much as they have done\Nsince the nation-state was invented
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.68,0:09:55.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hundreds of years ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.28,0:09:57.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this has got to change.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.44,0:10:00.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is not a change in political systems\Nor a change in ideology.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.80,0:10:02.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a change in culture.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.76,0:10:04.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We, all of us, have to understand
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.64,0:10:09.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that thinking inwards is not the solution\Nto the world's problems.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.68,0:10:13.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have to learn how to cooperate\Nand collaborate a great deal more
Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.68,0:10:16.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and compete just a tiny bit less.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:17.20,0:10:19.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Otherwise things\Nare going to carry on getting bad
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.60,0:10:22.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're going to get much worse,\Nmuch sooner than we anticipate.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.76,0:10:25.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This change will only happen
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.68,0:10:27.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we ordinary people
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.44,0:10:30.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tell our politicians\Nthat things have changed.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.28,0:10:32.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have to tell them\Nthat the culture has changed.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.84,0:10:35.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have to tell them\Nthat they've got a new mandate.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.44,0:10:38.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The old mandate\Nwas very simple and very single:
Dialogue: 0,0:10:38.36,0:10:40.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you're in a position\Nof power or authority,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.56,0:10:44.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're responsible for your own people\Nand your own tiny slice of territory,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:44.20,0:10:45.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's it.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.44,0:10:48.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if in order to do\Nthe best thing for your own people,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.16,0:10:51.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you screw over everybody else\Non the planet, that's even better.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.24,0:10:52.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's considered to be a bit macho.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.00,0:10:56.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, I think everybody\Nin a position of power and responsibility
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.40,0:10:58.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has got a dual mandate,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.04,0:11:01.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which says if you're in a position\Nof power and responsibility,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:01.04,0:11:02.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're responsible for your own people
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.92,0:11:06.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for every single man, woman,\Nchild and animal on the planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:07.28,0:11:09.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're responsible\Nfor your own slice of territory
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.68,0:11:13.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for every single square mile\Nof the Earth's surface
Dialogue: 0,0:11:13.40,0:11:14.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the atmosphere above it,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:14.80,0:11:18.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if you don't like that responsibility,\Nyou should not be in power.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:18.16,0:11:20.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That for me is the rule of the modern age,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.24,0:11:23.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's the message that we've got\Nto get across to our politicians,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.64,0:11:26.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and show them that that's the way\Nthings are done these days.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.96,0:11:28.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Otherwise, we're all screwed.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.04,0:11:31.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't have a problem, actually,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.68,0:11:34.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with Donald Trump's credo\Nof America first.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.64,0:11:37.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It seems to me that that's\Na pretty banal statement
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.08,0:11:40.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what politicians have always done\Nand probably should always do.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:40.28,0:11:43.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course they're elected to represent\Nthe interests of their own people.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:44.48,0:11:47.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what I find so boring\Nand so old-fashioned
Dialogue: 0,0:11:47.48,0:11:50.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so unimaginative\Nabout his take on that
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.24,0:11:52.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that America first\Nmeans everyone else last,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:54.28,0:11:58.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that making America great again\Nmeans making everybody else small again,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:58.48,0:11:59.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's just not true.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.64,0:12:03.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In my job as a policy advisor\Nover the last 20 years or so,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.56,0:12:07.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've seen so many hundreds\Nof examples of policies
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.20,0:12:10.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that harmonize the international\Nand the domestic needs,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:10.76,0:12:12.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they make better policy.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.76,0:12:16.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not asking nations\Nto be altruistic or self-sacrificing.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:16.36,0:12:17.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That would be ridiculous.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:17.72,0:12:19.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No nation would ever do that.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.84,0:12:23.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm asking them to wake up and understand\Nthat we need a new form of governance,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:23.68,0:12:24.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is possible,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.64,0:12:27.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and which harmonizes those two needs,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:27.48,0:12:30.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those good for our own people\Nand those good for everybody else.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:31.52,0:12:33.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Since the US election and since Brexit
Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.76,0:12:36.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's become more and more obvious to me
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.16,0:12:38.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that those old distinctions\Nof left wing and right wing
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.80,0:12:40.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no longer make sense.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:40.12,0:12:41.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They really don't fit the pattern.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.76,0:12:45.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What does seem to matter today
Dialogue: 0,0:12:45.08,0:12:46.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is very simple,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:46.72,0:12:48.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether your view of the world is
Dialogue: 0,0:12:48.92,0:12:52.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you take comfort\Nfrom looking inwards and backwards,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:52.64,0:12:57.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or whether, like me, you find hope\Nin looking forwards and outwards.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:58.24,0:12:59.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the new politics.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.76,0:13:03.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the new division that is\Nsplitting the world right down the middle.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:04.80,0:13:07.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, that may sound judgmental,\Nbut it's not meant to be.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:07.72,0:13:09.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't at all misunderstand
Dialogue: 0,0:13:09.68,0:13:13.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why so many people find their comfort\Nin looking inwards and backwards.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:14.56,0:13:17.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When times are difficult,\Nwhen you're short of money,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:17.08,0:13:19.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you're feeling\Ninsecure and vulnerable,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:19.20,0:13:21.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's almost a natural\Nhuman tendency to turn inwards,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:21.72,0:13:23.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to think of your own needs
Dialogue: 0,0:13:23.76,0:13:25.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to discard everybody else's,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:25.88,0:13:29.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and perhaps to start to imagine\Nthat the past was somehow better
Dialogue: 0,0:13:29.64,0:13:32.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than the present or the future\Ncould ever be.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:32.72,0:13:35.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I happen to believe\Nthat that's a dead end.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:35.20,0:13:37.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,History shows us that it's a dead end.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:37.48,0:13:39.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When people turn inwards\Nand turn backwards,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:39.64,0:13:41.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,human progress becomes reversed
Dialogue: 0,0:13:41.44,0:13:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and things get worse for everybody\Nvery quickly indeed.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:46.72,0:13:48.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you're like me
Dialogue: 0,0:13:48.16,0:13:50.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you believe in forwards and outwards,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:50.88,0:13:55.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you believe that the best thing\Nabout humanity is its diversity,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:55.60,0:13:58.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the best thing about globalization
Dialogue: 0,0:13:58.40,0:14:02.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the way that it stirs up\Nthat diversity, that cultural mixture
Dialogue: 0,0:14:02.72,0:14:05.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make something more creative,\Nmore exciting, more productive
Dialogue: 0,0:14:05.76,0:14:08.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than there's ever been before\Nin human history,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:08.72,0:14:11.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then, my friends,\Nwe've got a job on our hands,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:12.16,0:14:15.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the inwards and backwards brigade
Dialogue: 0,0:14:15.08,0:14:17.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are uniting as never before,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:17.64,0:14:19.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that creed of inwards and backwards,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:19.60,0:14:22.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that fear, that anxiety,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:23.04,0:14:24.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,playing on the simplest instincts,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:24.88,0:14:27.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is sweeping across the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:27.44,0:14:29.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those of us who believe,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:29.40,0:14:32.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as I believe, in forwards and outwards,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:32.16,0:14:34.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have to get ourselves organized,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:35.08,0:14:38.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because time is running out\Nvery, very quickly.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:40.24,0:14:41.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:41.48,0:14:42.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)