1 00:00:02,479 --> 00:00:07,098 As many of you know, the results of the recent election were as follows: 2 00:00:07,158 --> 00:00:12,274 Hillary Clinton, Democratic Candidate went a lenght loud victory, 3 00:00:12,284 --> 00:00:14,561 with 52% of the overall vote. 4 00:00:14,571 --> 00:00:20,376 Jill Stein, the Green Candidate, came a distant second with 19%. 5 00:00:20,386 --> 00:00:25,182 Donald J. Trump, the Republican Candidate was caught up on our hills with 14%. 6 00:00:25,182 --> 00:00:31,013 And their major of the vote was shared between abstainers and Gary Jonhson, 7 00:00:31,053 --> 00:00:33,386 the Libertarian Candidate. 8 00:00:33,506 --> 00:00:38,594 (Astonishing silence and then laughters in the audience) 9 00:00:38,614 --> 00:00:42,212 What parallel Universe do you suppose I'm living ? 10 00:00:42,762 --> 00:00:46,698 I don't live in a parallel Universe, I live in the world. 11 00:00:46,728 --> 00:00:48,888 And that is outer world verdict. 12 00:00:49,738 --> 00:00:53,261 Let me take you back and explain what I wean by that. 13 00:00:53,291 --> 00:00:57,066 In June this year, I loaned something called: The Global Vote. 14 00:00:57,116 --> 00:01:01,081 And the Global Vote, does exactly what it says on the tin. 15 00:01:01,251 --> 00:01:05,672 For the first time in history, elects anybody, anywhere in the world 16 00:01:05,692 --> 00:01:09,315 vote in the elections of other people's countries. 17 00:01:09,515 --> 00:01:11,192 Why would you do that? 18 00:01:11,492 --> 00:01:12,893 What's the point? 19 00:01:12,943 --> 00:01:15,331 Let me show you what it looks like. 20 00:01:15,521 --> 00:01:23,510 You go to a website, rather beautiful website and then you select an election 21 00:01:23,510 --> 00:01:25,825 here's a bunch of what we've already covered, 22 00:01:26,245 --> 00:01:30,009 we do about it one a month or there about 23 00:01:30,079 --> 00:01:32,695 so you can see by gear the United States of America, 24 00:01:32,735 --> 00:01:35,036 Secretary General of the United Nations, 25 00:01:35,066 --> 00:01:38,443 the Brexit Referendum at the end head. 26 00:01:38,493 --> 00:01:43,776 You select the election that you're interested in and you pick the candidate. 27 00:01:43,776 --> 00:01:47,442 These are the candidates for the recent Presidential elections in the tiny 28 00:01:47,472 --> 00:01:52,691 Island Nation in São Tomé and Prìncipe, under 99 of thousand inhabitants, 29 00:01:52,721 --> 00:01:54,300 off the coast of West Africa. 30 00:01:54,330 --> 00:01:59,541 And then you can look at the brief summary of each of those candidates, 31 00:01:59,581 --> 00:02:04,473 which I dearly hope it's very neutral, very informative and very succinct. 32 00:02:04,533 --> 00:02:07,027 And when you find the one you like, you vote. 33 00:02:07,747 --> 00:02:12,506 These were the candidates in the recent Islandic Presidential election. 34 00:02:12,506 --> 00:02:14,805 And that's the way it goes. 35 00:02:16,185 --> 00:02:20,962 Why not would you do want to vote in another country's election? 36 00:02:22,182 --> 00:02:25,756 The reason you wouldn't want to do it, let me reassure you, 37 00:02:25,766 --> 00:02:29,478 is in order to interfere in the democratic process of another country. 38 00:02:29,498 --> 00:02:31,105 That's not the purpose at all. 39 00:02:31,135 --> 00:02:35,812 Infact, you can't because usually what I do is I release the results after 40 00:02:35,832 --> 00:02:38,907 the elector in each individual country has already voted, 41 00:02:38,927 --> 00:02:41,634 so there's not way that we can interfere in that process. 42 00:02:41,664 --> 00:02:44,710 But more importantly, I'm not particularly interested 43 00:02:44,730 --> 00:02:46,988 in the domestic issues of individual countries, 44 00:02:47,008 --> 00:02:48,779 that's not what we are voting on. 45 00:02:48,819 --> 00:02:53,250 What Donald J. Trump or Hillary Clinton propose to do for the Americans, 46 00:02:53,250 --> 00:02:55,082 it's frankly none of our business. 47 00:02:55,082 --> 00:02:58,594 That's something that only the Americans can vote on. 48 00:02:58,694 --> 00:03:01,844 Now, In the Global Vote you are considering only one aspect of it 49 00:03:01,874 --> 00:03:05,432 which is: "What of those leaders are going to do for the rest of us?" 50 00:03:05,802 --> 00:03:07,375 And that's so very important, 51 00:03:07,385 --> 00:03:11,147 because we live, as nonart of your seeking people tell you, 52 00:03:11,177 --> 00:03:15,696 in a globalized, hyperconnected, massively interdependent world, 53 00:03:15,726 --> 00:03:18,952 where the political decisions of people in other countries 54 00:03:18,952 --> 00:03:21,054 can unwill have an impact on our lives, 55 00:03:21,084 --> 00:03:24,847 no matter who we are, no matter where we live. 56 00:03:24,867 --> 00:03:29,026 Like the wings of the butterfly, beating on one side of the Pacific, 57 00:03:29,056 --> 00:03:32,925 that can apparently create a hurricane on the other side, 58 00:03:32,935 --> 00:03:35,116 so it is with the world we are living today. 59 00:03:35,356 --> 00:03:37,374 And the world of politics. 60 00:03:37,394 --> 00:03:41,823 There is no longer a dividing line between domestic and international effect. 61 00:03:42,393 --> 00:03:46,922 Any country, no matter how small, even if it's São Tomé and Prìncipe, 62 00:03:46,942 --> 00:03:51,086 could produce the next Nelson Mandela, or the next Stalin. 63 00:03:51,666 --> 00:03:55,797 They could pollute the atmosphere in the oceans which belong to all of us. 64 00:03:56,067 --> 00:03:59,545 Or they could be responsible and they can help all of us. 65 00:03:59,995 --> 00:04:04,650 And yet, the system is so strange because the system hasn't caught up 66 00:04:04,670 --> 00:04:07,092 with this globalized reality. 67 00:04:07,122 --> 00:04:10,368 Only a small number of people are allowed to vote for those leaders, 68 00:04:10,388 --> 00:04:14,185 even though their impact is gigantic and almost universal. 69 00:04:14,205 --> 00:04:19,410 What number was it? A hundred and forty million of Americans voted for the 70 00:04:19,430 --> 00:04:21,398 next President of The United States 71 00:04:21,408 --> 00:04:23,670 and yet, as all of us know, in a few weeks time, 72 00:04:23,670 --> 00:04:27,578 somebody is going handle over the Nuclear Launch Code to Donald J. Trump. 73 00:04:27,988 --> 00:04:31,070 Now if that isn't having a potential impact on all of us, 74 00:04:31,070 --> 00:04:32,600 I don't know what it is. 75 00:04:32,630 --> 00:04:39,226 Similarly the election for the Referendum on the Brexit Vote 76 00:04:39,496 --> 00:04:43,038 a small number of millions of British people voted on that 77 00:04:43,058 --> 00:04:45,664 but the outcome of the vote, which every way it went 78 00:04:45,684 --> 00:04:48,100 would define a significant impact 79 00:04:48,100 --> 00:04:52,015 on the lives of tens, hundreds of millions people around the world 80 00:04:52,045 --> 00:04:54,312 and that the only tiny number that could vote. 81 00:04:54,342 --> 00:04:59,260 What kind of democracy is that? Huge decisions that affects all of us, 82 00:04:59,280 --> 00:05:03,170 being decided by relatively very small numbers of people 83 00:05:03,210 --> 00:05:06,831 and I don't know about you, but I don't think that sounds very democratic. 84 00:05:06,841 --> 00:05:08,851 So I'm trying to clear it up. 85 00:05:08,861 --> 00:05:11,471 But as I say, we don't ask about domestic questions. 86 00:05:11,501 --> 00:05:14,852 Infact, I have only ever asked two questions of all of the candidates. 87 00:05:14,872 --> 00:05:17,400 I'm sending the same two questions every single time. 88 00:05:17,420 --> 00:05:21,803 I say: 1. If you got elected, what are you going to do for the rest of us, 89 00:05:21,843 --> 00:05:25,381 for the remainder of the 7 billion who live on this planet? 90 00:05:25,381 --> 00:05:31,002 Second question: What is your vision for your country's future in the world? 91 00:05:31,022 --> 00:05:33,462 What role do you see it playing? 92 00:05:33,482 --> 00:05:37,009 Every candidate, I send the most questions and all of that answers, 93 00:05:37,029 --> 00:05:40,493 don't get me wrong, I reckon if you're standing to become 94 00:05:40,513 --> 00:05:42,521 the next President of the United States, 95 00:05:42,531 --> 00:05:44,988 you' re probably pretty tied up most of the time, 96 00:05:44,988 --> 00:05:48,496 so I'm not altogether surprised that they don't answer us, but many do. 97 00:05:48,506 --> 00:05:52,127 More every time. And some of them do much more than answer. 98 00:05:52,147 --> 00:05:54,282 Some of them answer in the most enthusiastic 99 00:05:54,312 --> 00:05:56,382 and most exciting way you could imagine, 100 00:05:56,392 --> 00:05:58,954 I just wanna say a word of it with Saviour Chishimba, 101 00:05:58,974 --> 00:06:03,096 which was one of the Candidates in the recent Zambian Presidential election. 102 00:06:03,096 --> 00:06:07,191 His answers to those two questions were basically an 18 page dissertation 103 00:06:07,211 --> 00:06:11,214 on his view of Zambia's potential role in the world 104 00:06:11,234 --> 00:06:13,007 and in the International Community. 105 00:06:13,027 --> 00:06:15,614 I posted it on the website so anybody could read it. 106 00:06:15,644 --> 00:06:21,119 Now Saviour, won the global vote, but he didn't win the Zambian election. 107 00:06:21,129 --> 00:06:22,874 So I found myself wondering, 108 00:06:22,894 --> 00:06:25,914 what am I going to do with this extraordinary group of people, 109 00:06:25,914 --> 00:06:28,998 I brought some wonderful people here who want the global vote, 110 00:06:29,018 --> 00:06:30,976 we always are getting wrong, by the way. 111 00:06:31,006 --> 00:06:33,034 The one that we elect is never the person 112 00:06:33,044 --> 00:06:35,525 who's is elected by the domestic electorate 113 00:06:35,875 --> 00:06:38,871 - maybe Palin because we went to see to go for a women - 114 00:06:38,881 --> 00:06:43,656 but I think it may also be a sign that the domestic electors 115 00:06:43,666 --> 00:06:47,626 are still thinking very nationally, they're still thinking very inwardly, 116 00:06:47,626 --> 00:06:51,081 they're still asking themselves: "what's in it for me?" 117 00:06:51,081 --> 00:06:55,907 instead of what they should be asking today, which is: "what's in it for we?" 118 00:06:55,937 --> 00:07:00,912 But there you go, so suggestions please, not right now but send me an e-mail 119 00:07:00,942 --> 00:07:05,479 if you got an idea about we can do with this amazing team of glorious losers. 120 00:07:06,009 --> 00:07:08,911 We've got Saviour Chishimba who I mentioned before, 121 00:07:08,941 --> 00:07:11,031 we got up at Tómasdóttir who was running up 122 00:07:11,061 --> 00:07:14,452 in the Islandic Presidential elections, many of you may have seen her in 123 00:07:14,452 --> 00:07:17,166 an amazing talk at TED women just a few weeks ago, 124 00:07:17,186 --> 00:07:20,225 where she spoke by the need for more women to get into politics. 125 00:07:20,235 --> 00:07:23,398 We got Maria das Neves from São Tomé and Prìncipe. 126 00:07:23,418 --> 00:07:27,987 We got Hillary Clinton, I don't know if she's available. 127 00:07:28,007 --> 00:07:33,056 We got Jill Stein, and we covered also the election 128 00:07:33,056 --> 00:07:35,556 for the next General Secretary of the United Nations 129 00:07:35,576 --> 00:07:38,158 and we called the ex Prime Minister of New Zealand 130 00:07:38,178 --> 00:07:40,196 who'll be a wonderful member of the team. 131 00:07:40,196 --> 00:07:42,541 I think maybe those people, the glorious losers, 132 00:07:42,581 --> 00:07:45,767 would like to travel around the world, wherever there's an election, 133 00:07:45,807 --> 00:07:49,369 and remind people of the necessity in our modern age, 134 00:07:49,369 --> 00:07:51,125 of thinking a little bit outwards 135 00:07:51,125 --> 00:07:53,771 and thinking of the international consequences. 136 00:07:54,081 --> 00:07:56,883 What comes next to the global vote? 137 00:07:57,523 --> 00:08:02,713 Obviously the Donald and Hillary show is a bit of a difficult one to follow, 138 00:08:02,733 --> 00:08:05,969 but there's another really important election that's coming up. 139 00:08:05,979 --> 00:08:09,135 Infact they seemed to be multiplied, there's something going on, 140 00:08:09,135 --> 00:08:11,052 I'm sure you've noticed in the world 141 00:08:11,052 --> 00:08:14,694 and the next roll of elections are all critically important. 142 00:08:14,704 --> 00:08:20,186 And just a few days time we got the reveal of the Australian Presidential election 143 00:08:20,196 --> 00:08:24,580 with the prospect of nobody offer becoming commonly described 144 00:08:24,580 --> 00:08:28,111 as the fast far right outer station europe since the Second Worlds War. 145 00:08:28,491 --> 00:08:33,536 Next year we got Germany, we got France, we got Presidential election in Iran, 146 00:08:33,536 --> 00:08:35,487 and a dozen of others. 147 00:08:35,487 --> 00:08:39,749 It doesn't get less important. It gets more and more important. 148 00:08:39,749 --> 00:08:44,600 Clearly, the global vote is not a stand alone project. 149 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:46,752 It's not just there on its own. 150 00:08:46,752 --> 00:08:52,688 It has some background. It's part of the project which I've launched back in 2014 151 00:08:52,688 --> 00:08:54,467 which I called 'The Good Country.' 152 00:08:54,467 --> 00:08:57,448 The idea as a good country is basically very simple. 153 00:08:57,898 --> 00:09:02,175 It's my simple diagnosis of what it's wrong with the world 154 00:09:02,195 --> 00:09:04,108 and how we can fix it. 155 00:09:04,178 --> 00:09:06,839 What's wrong with the world I've already went into that. 156 00:09:06,869 --> 00:09:12,156 Basically we face an enourmous and growing number of gigantic 157 00:09:12,156 --> 00:09:15,388 existential global challenges: climate change, human rights abuses, 158 00:09:15,388 --> 00:09:20,271 mass migration, terrorism, economic chaos, weapons proliferation, 159 00:09:20,271 --> 00:09:23,296 all of these problems is threatened to wipe us out 160 00:09:23,296 --> 00:09:26,266 all by the very nature of globalized problems 161 00:09:26,266 --> 00:09:30,909 no individual country has the capability of tackling them on its own. 162 00:09:30,909 --> 00:09:36,048 And so very obviously, we have to cooperate and we have to collaborate 163 00:09:36,068 --> 00:09:38,445 as nations if we're going to solve these problems. 164 00:09:38,865 --> 00:09:40,574 It's so obvious. 165 00:09:40,584 --> 00:09:42,298 And yet we don't- 166 00:09:42,318 --> 00:09:44,924 We don't do it nearly after enough. 167 00:09:44,954 --> 00:09:48,571 Most of the time, countries still persists in behaving 168 00:09:48,591 --> 00:09:51,674 as they were worring selfish tribes. 169 00:09:51,694 --> 00:09:53,536 Battling against each other, 170 00:09:53,566 --> 00:09:57,365 much as they have done since the Nation State was invented hundred of years ago. 171 00:09:57,365 --> 00:10:02,137 And this is got to change. This is not a change in political systems 172 00:10:02,147 --> 00:10:05,001 or a change in ideology. This is a change in culture. 173 00:10:05,061 --> 00:10:07,817 We, all of us, have to understand, 174 00:10:07,837 --> 00:10:12,339 that thinking inwoods is not the solution to the world's problems 175 00:10:12,339 --> 00:10:16,346 we have to learn how to cooperate and collaborate a great deal more 176 00:10:16,346 --> 00:10:19,228 and compete just a tiny bit less. 177 00:10:19,438 --> 00:10:22,166 Otherwise things we are carrying on are getting bad, 178 00:10:22,176 --> 00:10:25,938 and are going to get much worse much sooner that we anticipate. 179 00:10:25,938 --> 00:10:31,753 This change will only happen if we, ordinary people, tell our politicians 180 00:10:31,753 --> 00:10:35,401 of things to change. We have to tell them that the culture is changed. 181 00:10:35,401 --> 00:10:38,331 We have to tell them they got a new mandate. 182 00:10:38,351 --> 00:10:40,679 The old mandate was very simple and very single. 183 00:10:40,699 --> 00:10:43,724 If you're in a position of power or authority you're responsible 184 00:10:43,734 --> 00:10:47,492 for your own people and your tiny slice of territory, and that's it. 185 00:10:47,502 --> 00:10:50,286 And if, in order to do the best thing for your own people, 186 00:10:50,286 --> 00:10:53,379 you screw over everybody else on the planet, that's even better, 187 00:10:53,379 --> 00:10:55,133 that's considered to be a big macho. 188 00:10:55,143 --> 00:10:58,596 Today, I think everybody in a position of power and responsibility 189 00:10:58,616 --> 00:11:00,325 has got a dual mandate, 190 00:11:00,345 --> 00:11:03,550 which says if you are in a position of power and responsibility, 191 00:11:03,560 --> 00:11:05,898 you're responsible for your own people and 192 00:11:05,898 --> 00:11:09,265 for every single man, woman, child and animal on the planet. 193 00:11:09,285 --> 00:11:12,727 You're responsible for your own slice of territory and 194 00:11:12,727 --> 00:11:17,181 for every single square of mile of the outer service and the atmosphere above it 195 00:11:17,201 --> 00:11:20,494 and if you don't like that responsibility, you should not be in power. 196 00:11:20,494 --> 00:11:22,611 That for me, is the rule of the modern age 197 00:11:22,611 --> 00:11:26,240 and that's the message that we're going to get across through our politicians 198 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:29,560 and show them that that's the way things are done these days 199 00:11:29,570 --> 00:11:31,672 otherwise, we're all screwed. 200 00:11:31,682 --> 00:11:37,024 I don't have a problem actually with Donald Trump's Credo of America first. 201 00:11:37,024 --> 00:11:40,621 It seems to me that this it's a pretty banale statement of what politicians 202 00:11:40,621 --> 00:11:42,821 have always done and probably should always do. 203 00:11:42,831 --> 00:11:46,344 Of course, they're elected to represent interests of their own people, 204 00:11:46,414 --> 00:11:49,805 but what I find so boring and so old-fashioned, 205 00:11:49,825 --> 00:11:53,180 and so unimaginative about his take on that, 206 00:11:53,180 --> 00:11:56,057 is that America first means everyone else last. 207 00:11:56,317 --> 00:12:00,850 The making America great again means making everybody else small again. 208 00:12:00,850 --> 00:12:02,385 And it's just not true. 209 00:12:02,405 --> 00:12:06,271 Images of all the policy advisor of the last twenty years or so, 210 00:12:06,281 --> 00:12:10,691 I've seen so many hundreds of examples of policies that harmonize 211 00:12:10,711 --> 00:12:13,464 the international and the domestic needs. 212 00:12:13,474 --> 00:12:17,552 And they make better policy. I'm not asking nations to be altruistic 213 00:12:17,552 --> 00:12:19,712 or self-sacrificing. That would be ridiculous! 214 00:12:19,732 --> 00:12:21,786 No nation would ever do that! 215 00:12:21,786 --> 00:12:26,661 I'm asking to wake up and understand that we need a new form of Government 216 00:12:26,661 --> 00:12:30,465 which is possible and which harmonize those two needs 217 00:12:30,465 --> 00:12:33,579 those good for our own people and those good for everybody else. 218 00:12:33,579 --> 00:12:36,564 Since the US elections and since Brexit, 219 00:12:36,564 --> 00:12:40,157 it's become more obvious to me that those old distinctions 220 00:12:40,157 --> 00:12:42,909 of left wing and right wing no longer make sense anymore, 221 00:12:42,909 --> 00:12:44,983 they really don't fit the pattern. 222 00:12:44,983 --> 00:12:51,373 What does seem to matter, today, is very simple, whatever your view of the world is 223 00:12:51,373 --> 00:12:54,866 if that you take comfort from looking inwoods and backwards 224 00:12:54,866 --> 00:13:00,268 or rather, like me, you find hope in looking forwards and outwards. 225 00:13:00,268 --> 00:13:04,688 That's the new politics. That's the new division that is splitting the world 226 00:13:04,688 --> 00:13:07,128 right down the middle. 227 00:13:07,138 --> 00:13:10,235 That may sound judgmental but it's not meant to be. 228 00:13:10,235 --> 00:13:13,967 I don't a tall misunderstanding why so many people 229 00:13:13,967 --> 00:13:16,810 find the comfort in looking inwoods and backwards. 230 00:13:16,820 --> 00:13:19,397 When times are difficult, when you are short of money, 231 00:13:19,417 --> 00:13:21,904 when you are feeling insecure and vulnerable, 232 00:13:21,904 --> 00:13:26,415 it's almost a natural human tendency to turn inwoods to think that your own needs 233 00:13:26,415 --> 00:13:28,426 and to discard everybody else's. 234 00:13:28,426 --> 00:13:33,564 And perhaps to start to imagine the past was somehow better than the present 235 00:13:33,564 --> 00:13:35,476 or the future could ever be. 236 00:13:35,486 --> 00:13:37,683 But I happen to believe that that's a dead end. 237 00:13:37,693 --> 00:13:39,737 History shows us that it's a dead end. 238 00:13:39,747 --> 00:13:44,376 When people turn inwoods and turn backwoods human progress becomes reverse 239 00:13:44,376 --> 00:13:48,248 and things get worse for everybody very quickly indeed. 240 00:13:48,468 --> 00:13:53,016 If you align me, and you believe in forwards and outwards 241 00:13:53,016 --> 00:13:57,942 and you believe that the best thing about humanity is its diversity, 242 00:13:57,942 --> 00:14:03,779 and the best thing about globalization is the way that it starts up that diversity, 243 00:14:03,779 --> 00:14:07,405 that culture will mix up, to make something more creative, more exciting, 244 00:14:07,415 --> 00:14:11,108 more productive as ever been before in human history, 245 00:14:11,128 --> 00:14:14,231 then, my friends, we've got a job in our hands 246 00:14:14,441 --> 00:14:20,216 because the inwoods and backwoods relegated are united as never before 247 00:14:20,216 --> 00:14:23,311 and that creed of inwoods and backwoods 248 00:14:23,311 --> 00:14:27,017 that fear, that anxiety plain on the simplest instincts 249 00:14:27,017 --> 00:14:30,030 is sweeping across the world. 250 00:14:30,030 --> 00:14:34,779 Those of us who believe, as I believe in forwards and outwards 251 00:14:34,779 --> 00:14:42,555 we have to get ourselves organized because time is running out very, very quickly. 252 00:14:42,555 --> 00:14:44,500 Thank you. 253 00:14:44,500 --> 00:14:46,851 (Applause)