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Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.31,0:00:04.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, as many of you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.87,0:00:07.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the results of the recents\Nelection were as follows:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.22,0:00:10.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.86,0:00:12.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,won a landslide victory
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.78,0:00:14.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with 52 percent of the overall vote.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.58,0:00:17.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jill Stein, the Green candidate,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.86,0:00:20.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,came a distant second, with 19 percent.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.14,0:00:23.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Donald J. Trump, the Republic candidate,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.62,0:00:25.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was hot on her heels with 14 percent,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.74,0:00:30.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the remainder of the vote\Nwere shared between abstainers
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.18,0:00:33.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Gary Johnson,\Nthe Libertarian candidate.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.32,0:00:37.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.42,0:00:42.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, what parallel universe\Ndo you suppose I live in?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.82,0:00:45.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I don't live in a parallel universe.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.86,0:00:48.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I live in the world,\Nand that is how the world voted.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.22,0:00:52.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So let me take you back\Nand explain what I mean by that.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.86,0:00:55.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In June this year,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.10,0:00:57.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I launched something\Ncalled the Global Vote.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.86,0:01:00.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the Global Vote\Ndoes exactly what it says on the tin.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.70,0:01:03.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the first time in history,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.38,0:01:06.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it lets anybody, anywhere in the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.14,0:01:09.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,vote in the elections\Nof other people's countries.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.10,0:01:11.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, why would you do that?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.18,0:01:13.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's the point?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.82,0:01:16.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, let me show you what it looks like.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.18,0:01:17.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You go to a website,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.86,0:01:20.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rather a beautiful website,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.90,0:01:23.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then you select an election.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.74,0:01:25.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's a bunch that we've already covered.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.02,0:01:30.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We do about one a month, or thereabouts.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.18,0:01:32.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you can see Bulgaria,\Nthe United States of America,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.02,0:01:35.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Secretary-General of the United Nations,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.54,0:01:38.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Brexit referendum at the end there.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.50,0:01:41.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You select the election\Nthat you're interested in,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.30,0:01:44.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you pick the candidates.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.58,0:01:47.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are the candidates\Nfrom the recent presidential election
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.54,0:01:50.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the tiny island nation\Nof São Tomé and Príncipe,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.66,0:01:53.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,199,000 inhabitants,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.06,0:01:54.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,off the coast of West Africa.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.58,0:02:00.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then you can look at the brief summary\Nof each of those candidates
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.10,0:02:02.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which I dearly hope is very neutral,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.62,0:02:05.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,very informative and very succinct.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.46,0:02:07.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when you've found\Nthe one you like, you vote.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.70,0:02:10.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These were the candidates
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.26,0:02:13.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the recent Icelandic\Npresidential election,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.14,0:02:14.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's the way it goes.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.98,0:02:20.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So why on earth would you want to vote\Nin another country's election?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.78,0:02:24.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, the reason\Nthat you wouldn't want to do it,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.90,0:02:26.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let me reassure you,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.14,0:02:30.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is in order to interfere in the democratic\Nprocesses of another country.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.06,0:02:31.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's not the purpose at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.74,0:02:33.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, you can't,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.18,0:02:35.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because usually what I do\Nis I release the results
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.66,0:02:39.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after the electorate in each\Nindividual country has already voted,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.22,0:02:42.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so there's no way that we could\Ninterfere in that process.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.06,0:02:43.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But more importantly,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.46,0:02:45.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not particularly interested
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.06,0:02:47.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the domestic issues\Nof individual countries.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.34,0:02:48.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's not what we're voting on.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.74,0:02:53.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what Donald J. Trump or Hillary Clinton\Nproposed to do for the Americans
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.70,0:02:55.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is frankly none of our business.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.74,0:02:58.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's something that only\Nthe Americans can vote on.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.78,0:03:02.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, in the global vote,\Nyou're only considering one aspect of it,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.34,0:03:05.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is what are those leaders\Ngoing to do for the rest of us?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.54,0:03:09.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's so very important\Nbecause we live,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.22,0:03:11.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as no doubt you're sick\Nof hearing people tell you,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.66,0:03:15.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a globalized, hyperconnected,\Nmassively interdependent world
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.94,0:03:19.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where the political decisions\Nof people in other countries
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.70,0:03:21.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can and will have an impact on our lives
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.94,0:03:24.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no matter who we are,\Nno matter where we live.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.50,0:03:27.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like the wings of the butterfly
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.38,0:03:29.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beating on one side of the Pacific
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.70,0:03:33.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that can apparently create\Na hurricane on the other side,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.26,0:03:35.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so it is with the world\Nthat we live in today
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.94,0:03:37.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the world of politics.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.66,0:03:41.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no longer a dividing line between\Ndomestic and international affairs.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.98,0:03:45.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Any country, no matter how small,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.42,0:03:47.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even if it's São Tomé and Príncipe,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.50,0:03:50.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could produce the next Nelson Mandela
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.06,0:03:51.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the next Stalin.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.70,0:03:56.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They could pollute the atmosphere\Nand the oceans, which belong to all of us,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.70,0:03:59.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or they could be responsible\Nand they could help all of us.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.66,0:04:03.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet, the system is so strange
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.78,0:04:07.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the system hasn't caught up\Nwith this globalized reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.50,0:04:10.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only a small number of people\Nare allowed to vote for those leaders,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.74,0:04:12.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even though their impact is gigantic
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.82,0:04:14.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and almost universal.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.10,0:04:16.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What number was it?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.54,0:04:19.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,140 million Americans voted
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.10,0:04:21.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the next president\Nof the United States,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.38,0:04:24.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and yet, as all of us knows,\Nin a few weeks time,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.34,0:04:26.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,somebody is going to hand over\Nthe nuclear launch codes
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.98,0:04:28.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to Donald J. Trump.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.78,0:04:31.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, if that isn't having\Na potential impact on all of us,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.62,0:04:32.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know what is.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.58,0:04:39.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Similarly, the election\Nfor the referendum on the Brexit vote,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.26,0:04:43.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a small number of millions\Nof British people voted on that,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.70,0:04:46.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the outcome of the vote,\Nwhichever way it went,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.42,0:04:48.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would have had a significant impact
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.14,0:04:52.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the lives of tens, hundreds of millions\Nof people around the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.58,0:04:54.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet, only a tiny number could vote.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.02,0:04:56.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What kind of democracy is that?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.66,0:04:59.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Huge decisions that affect all of us
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.42,0:05:03.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being decided by relatively\Nvery small numbers of people.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.30,0:05:04.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I don't know about you,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.66,0:05:06.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I don't think\Nthat sounds very democratic.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.42,0:05:09.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I'm trying to clear it up.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.22,0:05:10.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as I say,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.70,0:05:12.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we don't ask about domestic questions.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.58,0:05:15.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, I only ever ask two questions\Nof all of the candidates.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.66,0:05:18.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I send them the same\Ntwo questions every single time.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.18,0:05:19.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I say, one,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.62,0:05:22.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you get elected, what are you\Ngoing to do for the rest of us,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.78,0:05:26.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the remainder of the seven billion\Nwho live on this planet?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.22,0:05:28.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Second question:
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.18,0:05:31.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is your vision\Nfor your country's future in the world?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.42,0:05:32.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What role do you see it playing?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.62,0:05:35.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every candidate,\NI send them those questions.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.42,0:05:38.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don't all answer. Don't get me wrong.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.54,0:05:40.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I reckon if you're standing
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.34,0:05:42.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to become the next president\Nof the United States,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.74,0:05:45.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're probably pretty tied up\Nmost of the time,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.14,0:05:49.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so I'm not altogether surprised\Nthat they don't all answer, but many do.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.22,0:05:50.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,More every time.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.74,0:05:52.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And some of them do much more than answer.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.82,0:05:55.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of them answer in the most\Nenthusiastic and most exciting way
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.98,0:05:57.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you could imagine.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.22,0:05:59.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just want to say a word here\Nfor Saviour Chishimba,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.74,0:06:01.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who was one of the candidates
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.18,0:06:03.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the recent Zambian\Npresidential election.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.46,0:06:07.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His answers to those two questions\Nwere basically an 18-page dissertation
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.02,0:06:11.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on his view of Zambia's\Npotential role in the world
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.70,0:06:13.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in the international community.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.74,0:06:16.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I posted it on the website\Nso anybody could read it.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.98,0:06:19.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, Saviour won the global vote,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.02,0:06:21.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but he didn't win the Zambian election.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.38,0:06:23.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I found myself wondering,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.78,0:06:26.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what am I going to do\Nwith this extraordinary group of people?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.74,0:06:29.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've got some wonderful people here\Nwho won the global vote.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.62,0:06:31.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We always get it wrong, by the way.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.34,0:06:32.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The one that we elect
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.58,0:06:35.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is never the person who's elected\Nby the domestic electorate.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.70,0:06:39.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That may be partly because\Nwe always seem to go for the woman.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.46,0:06:42.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I think it may also be a sign
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.62,0:06:46.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the domestic electorate\Nis still thinking very nationally.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.22,0:06:48.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're still thinking very inwardly.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.38,0:06:51.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're still asking themselves:\NWhat's in it for me? ...
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.90,0:06:53.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,instead of what\Nthey should be asking today,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.02,0:06:55.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is, what's in it for we?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.06,0:06:58.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there you go.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.30,0:07:00.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So suggestions, please, not right now,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.46,0:07:02.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but send me an email if you've got an idea
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.48,0:07:05.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about what we can do\Nwith this amazing team of glorious losers.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.76,0:07:06.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.86,0:07:09.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've got Saviour Chishimba,\Nwho I mentioned before.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.34,0:07:10.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've got Halla Tómasdóttir,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.74,0:07:13.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who was the runner up\Nin the Icelandic presidential election.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.66,0:07:16.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many of you may have seen\Nher amazing talk at TEDWomen
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.38,0:07:17.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just a few weeks ago
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.62,0:07:21.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where she spoke about the need\Nfor more women to get into politics.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.22,0:07:23.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've got Maria das Neves\Nfrom São Tomé and Príncipe.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.58,0:07:26.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've got Hillary Clinton.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.22,0:07:28.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know if she's available.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.30,0:07:29.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've got Jill Stein.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.54,0:07:33.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we covered also the election
Dialogue: 0,0:07:33.42,0:07:35.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the next Secretary-General\Nof the United Nations.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.52,0:07:38.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've got the ex-prime minister\Nof New Zealand,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.74,0:07:40.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who would be a wonderful\Nmember of the team.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.86,0:07:42.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I think maybe those people,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.38,0:07:45.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the glorious loser's club,\Ncould travel around the world
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.06,0:07:46.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wherever there's an election
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.46,0:07:49.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and remind people\Nof the necessity in our modern age
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.86,0:07:51.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of thinking a little bit outwards
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.50,0:07:53.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and thinking of\Nthe international consequences.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.50,0:07:57.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what comes next for the global vote?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.42,0:07:59.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, obviously,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.22,0:08:03.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Donald and Hillary show\Nis a bit of a difficult one to follow,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.70,0:08:06.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but there are some other\Nreally important elections coming up.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.66,0:08:08.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, they seem to be multiplying.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.50,0:08:11.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's something going on,\NI'm sure you've noticed, in the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.66,0:08:14.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the next row of elections\Nare all critically important.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.34,0:08:17.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In just a few day's time
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.86,0:08:20.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we've got the rerun\Nof the Austrian presidential election,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.94,0:08:22.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the prospect of Norbert Hofer
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.74,0:08:24.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,becoming what is commonly described
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.74,0:08:28.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the first far-right head of state\Nin Europe since the Second World War.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.34,0:08:30.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Next year we've got Germany,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.78,0:08:31.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we've got France,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.02,0:08:34.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we've got presidential elections in Iran
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.18,0:08:35.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a dozen others.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.98,0:08:38.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't get less important.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.14,0:08:39.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It gets more and more important.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.46,0:08:45.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Clearly, the global vote\Nis not a stand-alone project.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.26,0:08:46.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not just there on its own.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.82,0:08:49.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has some background.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.10,0:08:53.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's part of a project\Nwhich I launched back in 2014,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.14,0:08:54.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which I call the Good Country.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.50,0:08:58.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The idea of the Good Country\Nis basically very simple.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.90,0:09:02.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's my simple diagnosis\Nof what's wrong with the world
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.38,0:09:03.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how we can fix it.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.86,0:09:07.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's wrong with the world\NI've already hinted at.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.30,0:09:10.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Basically, we face\Nan enormous and growing number
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.06,0:09:13.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of gigantic, existential\Nglobal challenges:
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.26,0:09:15.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,climate change, human rights abuses,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.94,0:09:20.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mass migration, terrorism,\Neconomic chaos, weapons proliferation.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.14,0:09:24.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of these problems\Nwhich threaten to wipe us out
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.34,0:09:26.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are by their very nature\Nglobalized problems.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.50,0:09:30.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No individual country has the capability\Nof tackling them on its own.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.82,0:09:33.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so very obviously
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.58,0:09:37.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have to cooperate\Nand we have to collaborate as nations
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.22,0:09:39.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we're going to solve these problems.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.62,0:09:41.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's so obvious, and yet we don't.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.94,0:09:44.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't do it nearly often enough.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.70,0:09:49.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most of the time,\Ncountries still persist in behaving
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.30,0:09:53.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as if they were warring, selfish tribes\Nbattling against each other,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.98,0:09:56.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,much as they have done\Nsince the nation-state was invented
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.74,0:09:58.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hundreds of years ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.34,0:10:00.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this has got to change.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.50,0:10:03.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is not a change in political systems\Nor a change in ideology.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.86,0:10:05.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a change in culture.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.82,0:10:07.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We, all of us, have to understand
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.70,0:10:12.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that thinking inwards is not the solution\Nto the world's problems.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:12.74,0:10:16.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have to learn how to cooperate\Nand collaborate a great deal more
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.74,0:10:19.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and compete just a tiny bit less.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.26,0:10:22.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Otherwise things\Nare going to carry on getting bad
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.66,0:10:25.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they're going to get much worse,\Nmuch sooner than we anticipate.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.82,0:10:28.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This change will only happen
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.74,0:10:30.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we ordinary people
Dialogue: 0,0:10:30.50,0:10:33.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tell our politicians\Nthat things have changed.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.34,0:10:35.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have to tell them\Nthat the culture has changed.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.90,0:10:38.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have to tell them\Nthat they've got a new mandate.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:38.50,0:10:41.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The old mandate\Nwas very simple and very single:
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.42,0:10:43.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you're in a position\Nof power or authority,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.62,0:10:47.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're responsible for your own people\Nand your own tiny slice of territory,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.26,0:10:48.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's it.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.50,0:10:51.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if in order to do\Nthe best thing for your own people,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.22,0:10:54.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you screw over everybody else\Non the planet, that's even better.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.30,0:10:56.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's considered to be a bit macho.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.06,0:10:59.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, I think everybody\Nin a position of power and responsibility
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.46,0:11:01.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has got a dual mandate,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:01.10,0:11:04.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which says if you're in a position\Nof power and responsibility,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.10,0:11:05.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're responsible for your own people
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.98,0:11:09.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for every single man, woman,\Nchild and animal on the planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.34,0:11:12.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're responsible\Nfor your own slice of territory
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.74,0:11:16.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for every single square mile\Nof the earth's surface
Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.46,0:11:17.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the atmosphere above it.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.86,0:11:21.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you don't like that responsibility,\Nyou should not be in power.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.22,0:11:23.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That for me is the rule of the modern age,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.30,0:11:26.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's the message that we've got\Nto get across to our politicians,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.70,0:11:29.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and show them that that's the way\Nthings are done these days.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.02,0:11:31.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Otherwise, we're all screwed.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.10,0:11:34.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't have a problem, actually,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.74,0:11:37.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with Donald Trump's credo\Nof "America first."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.70,0:11:40.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It seems to me that that's\Na pretty banal statement
Dialogue: 0,0:11:40.14,0:11:43.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what politicians have always done\Nand probably should always do.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:43.34,0:11:46.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course they're elected to represent\Nthe interests of their own people.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:47.54,0:11:50.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what I find so boring\Nand so old-fashioned
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.54,0:11:53.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so unimaginative\Nabout his take on that
Dialogue: 0,0:11:53.30,0:11:55.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that America first\Nmeans everyone else last,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:57.34,0:12:01.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that making America great again\Nmeans making everybody else small again,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.54,0:12:02.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's just not true.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.70,0:12:06.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In my job as a policy advisor\Nover the last 20 years or so,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.62,0:12:10.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've seen so many hundreds\Nof examples of policies
Dialogue: 0,0:12:10.26,0:12:13.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that harmonize the international\Nand the domestic needs,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:13.82,0:12:15.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they make better policy.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:15.82,0:12:19.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not asking nations\Nto be altruistic or self-sacrificing.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.42,0:12:20.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That would be ridiculous.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:20.78,0:12:22.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No nation would ever do that.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:22.90,0:12:26.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm asking them to wake up and understand\Nthat we need a new form of governance,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:26.74,0:12:27.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is possible
Dialogue: 0,0:12:28.70,0:12:30.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and which harmonizes those two needs,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.54,0:12:33.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those good for our own people\Nand those good for everybody else.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:34.58,0:12:36.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Since the US election and since Brexit
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.82,0:12:39.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's become more and more obvious to me
Dialogue: 0,0:12:39.22,0:12:41.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that those old distinctions\Nof left wing and right wing
Dialogue: 0,0:12:41.86,0:12:43.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no longer make sense.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:43.18,0:12:44.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They really don't fit the pattern.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:45.82,0:12:48.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What does seem to matter today
Dialogue: 0,0:12:48.14,0:12:49.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is very simple,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:49.78,0:12:51.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether your view of the world is
Dialogue: 0,0:12:51.98,0:12:55.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you take comfort\Nfrom looking inwards and backwards,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:55.70,0:13:00.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or whether, like me, you find hope\Nin looking forwards and outwards.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:01.30,0:13:02.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the new politics.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:02.82,0:13:06.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the new division that is\Nsplitting the world right down the middle.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:07.86,0:13:10.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, that may sound judgmental,\Nbut it's not meant to be.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:10.78,0:13:12.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't at all misunderstand
Dialogue: 0,0:13:12.74,0:13:16.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why so many people find their comfort\Nin looking inwards and backwards.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:17.62,0:13:20.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When times are difficult,\Nwhen you're short of money,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:20.14,0:13:22.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you're feeling\Ninsecure and vulnerable,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:22.26,0:13:24.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's almost a natural\Nhuman tendency to turn inwards,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:24.78,0:13:26.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to think of your own needs
Dialogue: 0,0:13:26.82,0:13:28.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to discard everybody else's,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:28.94,0:13:32.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and perhaps to start to imagine\Nthat the past was somehow better
Dialogue: 0,0:13:32.70,0:13:35.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than the present or the future\Ncould ever be.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:35.78,0:13:38.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I happen to believe\Nthat that's a dead end.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:38.26,0:13:40.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,History shows us that it's a dead end.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:40.54,0:13:42.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When people turn inwards\Nand turn backwards,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:42.70,0:13:44.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,human progress becomes reversed
Dialogue: 0,0:13:44.50,0:13:48.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and things get worse for everybody\Nvery quickly indeed.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:49.78,0:13:51.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you're like me
Dialogue: 0,0:13:51.22,0:13:53.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you believe in forwards and outwards,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:53.94,0:13:58.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you believe that the best thing\Nabout humanity is its diversity,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:58.66,0:14:01.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the best thing about globalization
Dialogue: 0,0:14:01.46,0:14:05.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the way that it stirs up\Nthat diversity, that cultural mixture
Dialogue: 0,0:14:05.78,0:14:08.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make something more creative,\Nmore exciting, more productive
Dialogue: 0,0:14:08.82,0:14:11.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than there's ever been before\Nin human history,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:11.78,0:14:14.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then, my friends,\Nwe've got a job on our hands,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:15.22,0:14:18.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the inwards and backwards brigade
Dialogue: 0,0:14:18.14,0:14:20.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are uniting as never before,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:20.70,0:14:22.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that creed of inwards and backwards,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:22.66,0:14:25.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that fear, that anxiety,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:26.10,0:14:27.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,playing on the simplest instincts,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:27.94,0:14:30.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is sweeping across the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:30.50,0:14:32.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those of us who believe,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:32.46,0:14:35.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as I believe, in forwards and outwards,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:35.22,0:14:37.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have to get ourselves organized,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:38.14,0:14:41.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because time is running out\Nvery, very quickly.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:43.30,0:14:44.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:44.54,0:14:46.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)