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As many of you know, the results of
the recent election were as follows:

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Hillary Clinton, Democratic Candidate
went a lenght loud victory,

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with 52% of the overall vote.

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Jill Stein, the Green Candidate,
came a distant second with 19%.

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Donald J. Trump, the Republican Candidate
was caught up on our hills with 14%.

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And their major of the vote was shared
between abstainers and Gary Jonhson,

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the Libertarian Candidate.

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(Astonishing silence and then
laughters in the audience)

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What parallel Universe
do you suppose I'm living ?

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I don't live in a parallel
Universe, I live in the world.

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And that is outer world verdict.

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Let me take you back and
explain what I wean by that.

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In June this year, I loaned
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, elects
anybody, anywhere in the world

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vote in the elections of
other people's countries.

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Why would you do that?

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What's the point?

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Let me show you what it looks like.

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You go to a website, rather beautiful
website and then you select an election

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here's a bunch of what
we've already covered,

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we do about it one a month or there about

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so you can see by gear
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 head.

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You select the election that you're
interested in and you pick the candidate.

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These are the candidates for the recent
Presidential elections in the tiny

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Island Nation in São Tomé and Prìncipe,
under 99 of thousand 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 it's very neutral,
very informative and very succinct.

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And when you find the
one you like, you vote.

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These were the candidates in the
recent Islandic Presidential election.

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And that's the way it goes.

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Why not would you do want to vote
in another country's election?

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The reason you wouldn't want
to do it, let me reassure you,

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

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That's not the purpose at all.

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Infact, you can't because usually
what I do is I release the results after

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the elector in each individual
country has already voted,

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so there's not way that we
can interfere in that process.

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But more importantly, I'm
not particularly interested

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in the domestic issues
of individual countries,

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that's not what we are voting on.

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What Donald J. Trump or Hillary Clinton
propose to do for the Americans,

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it's frankly none of our business.

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

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Now, In the Global Vote you are
considering only one aspect of it

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which is: "What of those leaders
are going to do for the rest of us?"

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And that's so very important,

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because we live, as nonart of
your seeking people tell you,

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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 unwill 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,
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
we are living today.

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And the world of politics.

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There is no longer a dividing line between
domestic and international effect.

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Any country, no matter how small,
even if it's São Tomé and Prìncipe,

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could produce the next Nelson
Mandela, or the next Stalin.

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They could pollute the atmosphere in
the oceans which belong to all of us.

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Or they could be responsible
and they can help all of us.

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And yet, the system is so strange
because the system hasn't caught up

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with this globalized reality.

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Only a small number of people are
allowed to vote for those leaders,

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even though their impact is
gigantic and almost universal.

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What number was it? A hundred and
forty million of Americans voted for the

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next President of The United States

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and yet, as all of us know,
in a few weeks time,

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somebody is going handle over the
Nuclear Launch Code 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 it is.

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Similarly the election for the
Referendum on the Brexit Vote

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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,
which every way it went

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would define a significant impact

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on the lives of tens, hundreds of
millions people around the world

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and that the only tiny
number that could vote.

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What kind of democracy is that?
Huge decisions that affects all of us,

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being decided by relatively
very small numbers of people

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and I don't know about you, 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, we don't ask
about domestic questions.

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Infact, I have only ever asked two
questions of all of the candidates.

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I'm sending the same two
questions every single time.

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I say: 1. If you got elected, what are
you going to do for the rest of us,

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for the remainder of the 7
billion who live on this planet?

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Second question: 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 the most
questions and all of that answers,

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don't get me wrong, I reckon
if you're standing to become

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the next President of the United States,

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you' re probably pretty
tied up most of the time,

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so I'm not altogether surprised that
they don't answer us, but many do.

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More every time. And some of
them do much more than answer.

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Some of them answer
in the most enthusiastic

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and most exciting way you could imagine,

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I just wanna say a word of
it with Saviour Chishimba,

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which was one of the Candidates in the
recent Zambian Presidential election.

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His answers to those two questions
were basically an 18 page dissertation

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on his view of Zambia's
potential role in the world

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and in the International Community.

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I posted it on the website
so anybody could read it.

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Now Saviour, won the global vote,
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 brought some wonderful people
here who want the global vote,

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we always are getting wrong, by the way.

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The one that we elect is never the person

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who's is elected by the
domestic electorate

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- maybe Palin because we
went to see to go for a women -

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but I think it may also be a sign
that the domestic electors

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are still thinking very nationally,
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 they should be asking
today, which is: "what's in it for we?"

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But there you go, so suggestions please,
not right now but send me an e-mail

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if you got an idea about we can do with
this amazing team of glorious losers.

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We've got Saviour Chishimba
who I mentioned before,

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we got up at Tómasdóttir
who was running up

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in the Islandic Presidential elections,
many of you may have seen her in

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an amazing talk at TED women
just a few weeks ago,

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where she spoke by the need for
more women to get into politics.

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We got Maria das Neves
from São Tomé and Prìncipe.

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We got Hillary Clinton,
I don't know if she's available.

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We got Jill Stein, and we
covered also the election

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for the next General Secretary
of the United Nations

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and we called the ex
Prime Minister of New Zealand

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who'll be a wonderful member of the team.

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I think maybe those
people, the glorious losers,

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would like to travel around the
world, wherever there's an election,

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and remind people of the
necessity in our modern age,

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of thinking a little bit outwards

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and thinking of the
international consequences.

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What comes next to the global vote?

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Obviously the Donald and Hillary show
is a bit of a difficult one to follow,

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but there's another really important
election that's coming up.

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Infact they seemed to be multiplied,
there's something going on,

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I'm sure you've noticed in the world

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and the next roll of elections
are all critically important.

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And just a few days time we got the reveal
of the Australian Presidential election

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with the prospect of nobody offer
becoming commonly described

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as the fast far right outer station
europe since the Second Worlds War.

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Next year we got Germany, we got France,
we got Presidential election in Iran,

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and a dozen of others.

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It doesn't get less important.
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. It's part of the
project which I've launched back in 2014

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which I called 'The Good Country.'

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The idea as a good country
is basically very simple.

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It's my simple diagnosis of
what it'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
I've already went into that.

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Basically we face an enourmous
and growing number of gigantic

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existential global challenges: climate
change, human rights abuses,

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mass migration, terrorism, economic
chaos, weapons proliferation,

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all of these problems is
threatened to wipe us out

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all by the very nature
of globalized problems

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no individual country has the
capability of tackling them on its own.

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And so very obviously, we have to
cooperate and we have to collaborate

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as nations if we're going
to solve these problems.

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It's so obvious.

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And yet we don't-

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We don't do it nearly after enough.

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Most of the time, countries
still persists in behaving

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as they were worring selfish tribes.

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Battling against each other,

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much as they have done since the Nation
State was invented hundred of years ago.

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And this is got to change. This is
not a change in political systems

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or a change in ideology.
This is a change in culture.

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We, all of us, have to understand,

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that thinking inwoods is not the
solution to the world's problems

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we have to learn how to cooperate
and collaborate a great deal more

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and compete just a tiny bit less.

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Otherwise things we are
carrying on are getting bad,

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and are going to get much worse
much sooner that we anticipate.

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This change will only happen if we,
ordinary people, tell our politicians

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of things to change. We have to tell
them that the culture is changed.

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We have to tell them
they got a new mandate.

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The old mandate was
very simple and very single.

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If you're in a position of power
or authority you're responsible

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for your own people and your
tiny slice of territory, and that's it.

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And if, in order to do the best
thing for your own people,

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you screw over everybody else
on the planet, that's even better,

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that's considered to be a big macho.

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Today, I think everybody in a
position of power and responsibility

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has got a dual mandate,

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which says if you are in a position
of power and responsibility,

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you're responsible for your own people and

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

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You're responsible for your
own slice of territory and

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for every single square of mile of the
outer service 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're going
to get across through our politicians

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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 with
Donald Trump's Credo of America first.

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It seems to me that this it's a pretty
banale statement of what politicians

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have always done and
probably should always do.

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Of course, they're elected to represent
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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The making America great again means
making everybody else small again.

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And it's just not true.

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Images of all the policy advisor
of the last twenty years or so,

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I've seen so many hundreds of
examples of policies that harmonize

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the international and the domestic needs.

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And they make better policy. I'm
not asking nations to be altruistic

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or self-sacrificing. That
would be ridiculous!

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No nation would ever do that!

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

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which is possible and which
harmonize 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 elections and since Brexit,

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it's become more obvious to
me that those old distinctions

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of left wing and right wing
no longer make sense anymore,

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they really don't fit the pattern.

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What does seem to matter, today, is very
simple, whatever your view of the world is

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if that you take comfort from
looking inwoods and backwards

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

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That's the new politics. That's the new
division that is splitting the world

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right down the middle.

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That may sound judgmental
but it's not meant to be.

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I don't a tall misunderstanding
why so many people

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find the comfort in looking
inwoods and backwards.

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

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when you are feeling
insecure and vulnerable,

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it's almost a natural human tendency to
turn inwoods to think that your own needs

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and to discard everybody else's.

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And perhaps to start to imagine the past
was somehow better than the present

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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 inwoods and turn 
backwoods human progress becomes reverse

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and things get worse for
everybody very quickly indeed.

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If you align me, 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 is
the way that it starts up that diversity,

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that culture will mix up, to make
something more creative, more exciting,

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more productive as ever been
before in human history,

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

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because the inwoods and backwoods
relegated are united as never before

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and that creed of inwoods and backwoods

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that fear, that anxiety plain
on the simplest instincts

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is sweeping across the world.

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Those of us who believe, as
I believe in forwards and outwards

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we have to get ourselves organized because
time is running out very, very quickly.

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Thank you.

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