WEBVTT 00:00:02.479 --> 00:00:07.098 As many of you know, the results of the recent election were as follows: 00:00:07.158 --> 00:00:12.274 Hillary Clinton, Democratic Candidate went a lenghts loud victory, 00:00:12.284 --> 00:00:14.561 with 52% of the overall vote. 00:00:14.571 --> 00:00:20.376 Jill Stein, the Green Candidate, came a distant second with 19%. 00:00:20.386 --> 00:00:25.602 Donald J. Trump, the Republican Candidate was caught up on our hills with 14%. 00:00:25.602 --> 00:00:31.013 And their remainder of the vote was shared between abstainers and Gary Jonhson, 00:00:31.053 --> 00:00:33.386 the Libertarian Candidate. 00:00:33.506 --> 00:00:38.594 (Astonishing silence and then laughters in the audience) 00:00:38.614 --> 00:00:42.212 What parallel Universe do you suppose I'm living? 00:00:42.762 --> 00:00:46.698 I don't live in a parallel Universe, I live in the world. 00:00:46.728 --> 00:00:48.888 And that is outer world verdict. 00:00:49.738 --> 00:00:53.261 Let me take you back and explain what I mean by that. 00:00:53.291 --> 00:00:57.066 In June this year, I loaned something called 'The Global Vote.' 00:00:57.116 --> 00:01:01.081 And the Global Vote, does exactly what it says on the tin. 00:01:01.251 --> 00:01:05.672 For the first time in history, elects anybody, anywhere in the world 00:01:05.692 --> 00:01:09.315 vote in the elections of other people's countries. 00:01:09.515 --> 00:01:11.272 Why would you do that? 00:01:11.292 --> 00:01:12.893 What's the point? 00:01:12.923 --> 00:01:15.331 Let me show you what it looks like. 00:01:15.521 --> 00:01:23.510 You go to a website, rated beautiful website and then you select an election 00:01:23.510 --> 00:01:25.825 here's a bunch of what we've already covered, 00:01:26.245 --> 00:01:30.009 we do about it one a month or there about 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:32.695 so you can see by gallery the United States of America, 00:01:32.735 --> 00:01:35.036 Secretary General of the United Nations, 00:01:35.066 --> 00:01:38.443 the Brexit Referendum at the end head. 00:01:38.493 --> 00:01:43.776 You select the election that you're interested in and you pick the candidate. 00:01:43.776 --> 00:01:47.442 These are the candidates for the recent Presidential elections in the tiny 00:01:47.472 --> 00:01:52.691 Island Nation in São Tomé and Prìncipe, under 99 of thousand inhabitants, 00:01:52.721 --> 00:01:54.300 off the coast of West Africa. 00:01:54.330 --> 00:01:59.541 And then you can look at the brief summary of each of those candidates, 00:01:59.581 --> 00:02:04.473 which I dearly hope it's very neutral, very informative and very succinct. 00:02:04.533 --> 00:02:07.027 And when you find the one you like, you vote. 00:02:07.747 --> 00:02:12.506 These were the candidates in the recent Islandic Presidential election. 00:02:12.506 --> 00:02:14.805 And that's the way it goes. 00:02:16.185 --> 00:02:20.962 Why not would you do want to vote in another country's election? 00:02:22.182 --> 00:02:25.756 The reason you wouldn't want to do it, let me reassure you, 00:02:25.766 --> 00:02:29.478 is in order to interfere in the democratic process of another country. 00:02:29.498 --> 00:02:31.105 That's not the purpose at all. 00:02:31.135 --> 00:02:35.812 Infact you can't, because usually what I do is I release the results after 00:02:35.832 --> 00:02:38.907 the elector in each individual country has already voted, 00:02:38.927 --> 00:02:41.634 so there's not way that we can interfere in that process. 00:02:41.664 --> 00:02:44.710 But more importantly, I'm not particularly interested 00:02:44.730 --> 00:02:46.988 in the domestic issues of individual countries, 00:02:47.008 --> 00:02:48.779 that's not what we are voting on. 00:02:48.819 --> 00:02:53.250 What Donald J. Trump or Hillary Clinton propose to do for the Americans, 00:02:53.250 --> 00:02:55.082 it's frankly none of our business. 00:02:55.082 --> 00:02:58.594 That's something that only the Americans can vote on. 00:02:58.694 --> 00:03:01.844 Now, In the Global Vote you are only considering one aspect of it 00:03:01.874 --> 00:03:05.432 which is: "What of those leaders are going to do for the rest of us?" 00:03:05.802 --> 00:03:07.375 And that's so very important, 00:03:07.385 --> 00:03:11.147 because we live, as nonart of your seeker people tell you, 00:03:11.177 --> 00:03:15.696 in a globalized, hyperconnected, massively interdependent world, 00:03:15.726 --> 00:03:18.952 where the political decisions of people in other countries 00:03:18.952 --> 00:03:21.054 can unwill have an impact on our lives, 00:03:21.084 --> 00:03:24.847 no matter who we are, no matter where we live. 00:03:24.867 --> 00:03:29.026 Like the wings of the butterfly, beating on one side of the Pacific, 00:03:29.056 --> 00:03:32.925 that can apparently create a hurricane on the other side, 00:03:32.935 --> 00:03:35.116 so it is with the world we are living today. 00:03:35.356 --> 00:03:37.374 And the world of politics. 00:03:37.394 --> 00:03:41.823 There is no longer a dividing line between domestic and international effect. 00:03:42.393 --> 00:03:46.922 Any country, no matter how small, even if it's São Tomé and Prìncipe, 00:03:46.942 --> 00:03:51.086 could produce the next Nelson Mandela, or the next Stalin. 00:03:51.666 --> 00:03:55.797 They could pollute the atmosphere in the oceans which belong to all of us. 00:03:56.067 --> 00:03:59.545 Or they could be responsible and they can help all of us. 00:03:59.995 --> 00:04:04.650 And yet, the system is so strange because the system hasn't caught up 00:04:04.670 --> 00:04:07.092 with this globalized reality. 00:04:07.122 --> 00:04:10.368 Only a small number of people are allowed to vote for those leaders, 00:04:10.388 --> 00:04:14.185 even though their impact is gigantic and almost universal. 00:04:14.205 --> 00:04:19.410 What number was it? A hundred and forty million of Americans voted for the 00:04:19.430 --> 00:04:21.398 next President of The United States 00:04:21.408 --> 00:04:23.670 and yet, as all of us know, in a few weeks time, 00:04:23.670 --> 00:04:27.578 somebody is going handle over the Nuclear Launch Code to Donald J. Trump. 00:04:27.988 --> 00:04:31.070 Now if that isn't having a potential impact on all of us, 00:04:31.070 --> 00:04:32.600 I don't know what it is. 00:04:32.630 --> 00:04:39.226 Similarly the election for the Referendum on the Brexit Vote 00:04:39.496 --> 00:04:43.038 a small number of millions of British people voted on that 00:04:43.058 --> 00:04:45.664 but the outcome of the vote, which every way it went 00:04:45.684 --> 00:04:48.100 would define a significant impact 00:04:48.100 --> 00:04:52.015 on the lives of tens, hundreds of millions people around the world 00:04:52.045 --> 00:04:54.312 and that the only tiny number that could vote. 00:04:54.342 --> 00:04:59.260 What kind of democracy is that? Huge decisions that affects all of us, 00:04:59.280 --> 00:05:03.170 being decided by relatively very small numbers of people 00:05:03.210 --> 00:05:06.831 and I don't know about you, but I don't think that sounds very democratic. 00:05:06.841 --> 00:05:08.851 So I'm trying to clear it up. 00:05:08.861 --> 00:05:11.471 But as I say, we don't ask about domestic questions. 00:05:11.501 --> 00:05:14.852 Infact, I have only ever asked two questions of all of the candidates. 00:05:14.872 --> 00:05:17.400 I'm sending the same two questions every single time. 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, 00:05:21.843 --> 00:05:25.381 for the remainder of the 7 billion who live on this planet? 00:05:25.381 --> 00:05:31.002 Second question: What is your vision for your country's future in the world? 00:05:31.022 --> 00:05:33.462 What role do you see it playing? 00:05:33.482 --> 00:05:37.009 Every candidate, I send the most questions and all of that answers, 00:05:37.029 --> 00:05:40.493 don't get me wrong, I reckon if you're standing to become 00:05:40.513 --> 00:05:42.521 the next President of the United States, 00:05:42.531 --> 00:05:44.988 you' re probably pretty tied up most of the time, 00:05:44.988 --> 00:05:48.496 so I'm not altogether surprised that they don't answer us, but many do. 00:05:48.506 --> 00:05:52.127 More every time. And some of them do much more than answer. 00:05:52.147 --> 00:05:54.282 Some of them answer in the most enthusiastic 00:05:54.312 --> 00:05:56.382 and most exciting way you could imagine, 00:05:56.392 --> 00:05:58.954 I just wanna say a word of it for Saviour Chishimba, 00:05:58.974 --> 00:06:03.096 which was one of the Candidates in the recent Zambian Presidential election. 00:06:03.096 --> 00:06:07.191 His answers to those two questions were basically an 18 page dissertation 00:06:07.211 --> 00:06:11.214 on his view of Zambia's potential role in the world 00:06:11.234 --> 00:06:13.007 and in the International Community. 00:06:13.027 --> 00:06:15.614 I posted it on the website so anybody could read it. 00:06:15.644 --> 00:06:21.119 Now Saviour, won the global vote, but he didn't win the Zambian election. 00:06:21.129 --> 00:06:22.954 So I found myself wondering, 00:06:22.954 --> 00:06:25.914 what am I going to do with this extraordinary group of people, 00:06:25.914 --> 00:06:28.998 I brought some wonderful people here who want the global vote, 00:06:29.018 --> 00:06:30.976 we always are getting wrong, by the way. 00:06:31.006 --> 00:06:33.034 The one that we elect is never the person 00:06:33.044 --> 00:06:35.525 who is elected by the domestic electorate 00:06:35.875 --> 00:06:38.871 - maybe Palin because we went to see to go for a women - 00:06:38.881 --> 00:06:43.656 but I think it may also be a sign that the domestic electors 00:06:43.666 --> 00:06:47.626 are still thinking very nationally, they're still thinking very inwardly, 00:06:47.626 --> 00:06:51.081 they're still asking themselves: "what's in it for me?" 00:06:51.081 --> 00:06:55.907 instead of what they should be asking today, which is: "what's in it for we?" 00:06:55.937 --> 00:07:00.912 But there you go, so suggestions please, not right now but send me an e-mail 00:07:00.942 --> 00:07:05.479 if you got an idea about we can do with this amazing team of glorious losers. 00:07:06.009 --> 00:07:08.911 We've got Saviour Chishimba who I mentioned before, 00:07:08.941 --> 00:07:11.031 we got up at Tómasdóttir who was running up 00:07:11.061 --> 00:07:14.452 in the Islandic Presidential elections, many of you may have seen her in 00:07:14.452 --> 00:07:17.166 an amazing talk at TED women just a few weeks ago, 00:07:17.186 --> 00:07:20.225 where she spoke by the need for more women to get into politics. 00:07:20.235 --> 00:07:23.398 We got Maria das Neves from São Tomé and Prìncipe. 00:07:23.418 --> 00:07:27.987 We got Hillary Clinton, I don't know if she's available. 00:07:28.007 --> 00:07:33.056 We got Jill Stein, and we covered also the election 00:07:33.056 --> 00:07:35.556 for the next General Secretary of the United Nations 00:07:35.576 --> 00:07:38.158 and we called the ex Prime Minister of New Zealand 00:07:38.178 --> 00:07:40.196 who'll be a wonderful member of the team. 00:07:40.196 --> 00:07:42.541 I think maybe those people, the glorious losers, 00:07:42.581 --> 00:07:45.767 would like to travel around the world, wherever there's an election, 00:07:45.807 --> 00:07:49.369 and remind people of the necessity in our modern age, 00:07:49.369 --> 00:07:51.125 of thinking a little bit outwards 00:07:51.125 --> 00:07:53.771 and thinking of the international consequences. 00:07:54.081 --> 00:07:56.883 What comes next to the global vote? 00:07:57.523 --> 00:08:02.713 Obviously the Donald and Hillary show is a bit of a difficult one to follow, 00:08:02.733 --> 00:08:05.969 but there's another really important election that's coming up. 00:08:05.979 --> 00:08:09.135 Infact they seemed to be multiplied, there's something going on, 00:08:09.135 --> 00:08:11.052 I'm sure you've noticed in the world 00:08:11.052 --> 00:08:14.694 and the next roll of elections are all critically important. 00:08:14.704 --> 00:08:20.186 And just a few days time we got the reveal of the Australian Presidential election 00:08:20.196 --> 00:08:24.580 with the prospect of nobody offer becoming commonly described 00:08:24.580 --> 00:08:28.471 as the fast far right outer station europe since the Second Worlds War. 00:08:28.491 --> 00:08:33.536 Next year we got Germany, we got France, we got Presidential election in Iran, 00:08:33.536 --> 00:08:35.467 and a dozen of others. 00:08:35.487 --> 00:08:39.749 It doesn't get less important. It gets more and more important. 00:08:39.779 --> 00:08:44.580 Clearly, the global vote is not a stand alone project. 00:08:44.600 --> 00:08:46.732 It's not just there on its own. 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 00:08:52.688 --> 00:08:54.467 which I called 'The Good Country.' 00:08:54.467 --> 00:08:57.448 The idea as a good country is basically very simple. 00:08:57.898 --> 00:09:02.175 It's my simple diagnosis of what it's wrong with the world 00:09:02.195 --> 00:09:04.108 and how we can fix it. 00:09:04.128 --> 00:09:06.769 What's wrong with the world I've already went into that. 00:09:06.789 --> 00:09:10.796 Basically we face an enourmous and growing number of gigantic 00:09:10.796 --> 00:09:15.378 existential global challenges: climate change, human rights abuses, 00:09:15.388 --> 00:09:20.271 mass migration, terrorism, economic chaos, weapons proliferation, 00:09:20.271 --> 00:09:23.296 all of these problems is threatened to wipe us out 00:09:23.296 --> 00:09:26.266 all by the very nature of globalized problems 00:09:26.266 --> 00:09:30.909 no individual country has the capability of tackling them on its own. 00:09:30.909 --> 00:09:36.048 And so very obviously, we have to cooperate and we have to collaborate 00:09:36.068 --> 00:09:38.445 as nations if we're going to solve these problems. 00:09:38.865 --> 00:09:40.574 It's so obvious. 00:09:40.584 --> 00:09:42.298 And yet we don't- 00:09:42.318 --> 00:09:44.924 We don't do it nearly after enough. 00:09:44.954 --> 00:09:48.571 Most of the time countries still persist in behaving 00:09:48.591 --> 00:09:51.674 as they were worring selfish tribes. 00:09:51.694 --> 00:09:53.536 Battling against each other, 00:09:53.566 --> 00:09:57.365 much as they have done since the Nation State was invented hundred of years ago. 00:09:57.365 --> 00:10:02.137 And this is got to change. This is not a change in political systems 00:10:02.147 --> 00:10:05.001 or a change in ideology. This is a change in culture. 00:10:05.061 --> 00:10:07.817 We, all of us, have to understand, 00:10:07.837 --> 00:10:12.339 that thinking inwoods is not the solution to the world's problems 00:10:12.339 --> 00:10:16.346 we have to learn how to cooperate and collaborate a great deal more 00:10:16.346 --> 00:10:19.228 and compete just a tiny bit less. 00:10:19.438 --> 00:10:22.166 Otherwise things we are carrying on are getting bad, 00:10:22.176 --> 00:10:25.938 and are going to get much worse much sooner that we anticipate. 00:10:25.938 --> 00:10:31.753 This change will only happen if we, ordinary people, tell our politicians 00:10:31.753 --> 00:10:35.401 of things to change. We have to tell them that the culture is changed. 00:10:35.401 --> 00:10:38.331 We have to tell them they got a new mandate. 00:10:38.351 --> 00:10:40.669 The old mandate was very simple and very single. 00:10:40.669 --> 00:10:43.724 If you're in a position of power or authority you're responsible 00:10:43.734 --> 00:10:47.492 for your own people and your tiny slice of territory, and that's it. 00:10:47.502 --> 00:10:50.286 And if, in order to do the best thing for your own people, 00:10:50.286 --> 00:10:53.379 you screw over everybody else on the planet, that's even better, 00:10:53.379 --> 00:10:55.133 that's considered to be a big macho. 00:10:55.143 --> 00:10:58.766 Today, I think everybody in a position of power and responsibility 00:10:58.796 --> 00:11:00.325 has got a dual mandate, 00:11:00.345 --> 00:11:03.550 which says if you are in a position of power and responsibility, 00:11:03.560 --> 00:11:05.898 you're responsible for your own people and 00:11:05.898 --> 00:11:09.265 for every single man, woman, child and animal on the planet. 00:11:09.715 --> 00:11:12.727 You're responsible for your own slice of territory and 00:11:12.827 --> 00:11:17.181 for every single square of mile of the outer service and the atmosphere above it 00:11:17.201 --> 00:11:20.494 and if you don't like that responsibility, you should not be in power. 00:11:20.494 --> 00:11:22.611 That for me, is the rule of the modern age 00:11:22.611 --> 00:11:26.240 and that's the message that we're going to get across through our politicians 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:29.560 and show them that that's the way things are done these days 00:11:29.570 --> 00:11:31.672 otherwise, we're all screwed. 00:11:32.112 --> 00:11:37.024 I don't have a problem actually with Donald Trump's credo of America first. 00:11:37.024 --> 00:11:40.621 It seems to me that this it's a pretty banale statement of what politicians 00:11:40.621 --> 00:11:42.821 have always done and probably should always do. 00:11:42.891 --> 00:11:46.344 Of course, they're elected to represent interests of their own people, 00:11:46.494 --> 00:11:49.825 but what I find so boring and so old-fashioned, 00:11:49.835 --> 00:11:53.180 and so unimaginative about his take on that, 00:11:53.180 --> 00:11:56.057 is that America first means everyone else last. 00:11:56.317 --> 00:12:00.850 The making America great again means making everybody else small again. 00:12:00.850 --> 00:12:02.715 And it's just not true. 00:12:02.735 --> 00:12:06.271 Images of all the policy advisor of the last twenty years or so, 00:12:06.281 --> 00:12:10.691 I've seen so many hundreds of examples of policies that harmonize 00:12:10.711 --> 00:12:13.464 the international and the domestic needs. 00:12:13.474 --> 00:12:17.552 And they make better policy. I'm not asking nations to be altruistic 00:12:17.552 --> 00:12:19.982 or self-sacrificing. That would be ridiculous! 00:12:19.992 --> 00:12:21.896 No nation would ever do that. 00:12:21.906 --> 00:12:26.651 I'm asking to wake up and understand that we need a new form of Government 00:12:26.661 --> 00:12:30.465 which is possible and which harmonize those two needs 00:12:30.465 --> 00:12:33.579 those good for our own people and those good for everybody else. 00:12:33.579 --> 00:12:36.564 Since the US elections and since Brexit, 00:12:36.564 --> 00:12:40.157 it's become more obvious to me that those old distinctions 00:12:40.157 --> 00:12:42.909 of left wing and right wing no longer make sense anymore, 00:12:42.909 --> 00:12:44.983 they really don't fit the pattern. 00:12:44.983 --> 00:12:51.373 What does seem to matter, today, is very simple, whatever your view of the world 00:12:51.373 --> 00:12:54.866 is if that you take comfort from looking inwoods and backwards 00:12:54.866 --> 00:13:00.268 or rather, like me, you find hope in looking forwards and outwards. 00:13:00.268 --> 00:13:04.688 That's the new politics. That's the new division that is splitting the world 00:13:04.688 --> 00:13:07.128 right down the middle. 00:13:07.138 --> 00:13:10.235 That may sound judgmental but it's not meant to be. 00:13:10.235 --> 00:13:13.967 I don't a tall misunderstanding why so many people 00:13:13.967 --> 00:13:16.810 find the comfort in looking inwoods and backwards. 00:13:16.820 --> 00:13:19.397 When times are difficult, when you are short of money, 00:13:19.417 --> 00:13:21.904 when you are feeling insecure and vulnerable, 00:13:21.904 --> 00:13:26.415 it's almost a natural human tendency to turn inwoods to think of your own needs 00:13:26.415 --> 00:13:28.426 and to discard everybody else's. 00:13:28.426 --> 00:13:33.214 And perhaps to start to imagine that the past was somehow better than the present 00:13:33.234 --> 00:13:35.476 or the future could ever be. 00:13:35.486 --> 00:13:37.683 But I happen to believe that that's a dead end. 00:13:37.693 --> 00:13:40.037 History shows us that is a dead end. 00:13:40.047 --> 00:13:44.376 When people turn inwoods and turn backwoods human progress becomes reverse 00:13:44.376 --> 00:13:48.248 and things get worse for everybody very quickly indeed. 00:13:48.468 --> 00:13:53.016 If you align me, and you believe in forwards and outwards 00:13:53.016 --> 00:13:57.942 and you believe that the best thing about humanity is its diversity, 00:13:57.942 --> 00:14:03.779 and the best thing about globalization is the way that it starts up that diversity, 00:14:03.779 --> 00:14:07.525 that culture will mix up, to make something more creative, more exciting, 00:14:07.535 --> 00:14:11.108 more productive as ever been before in human history. 00:14:11.128 --> 00:14:14.231 Then, my friends, we've got a job in our hands 00:14:14.441 --> 00:14:20.216 because the inwoods and backwoods regained are uniting as never before 00:14:20.216 --> 00:14:22.251 and that creed of inwoods and backwoods 00:14:22.281 --> 00:14:27.017 that fear, that anxiety plained on the simplest instincts 00:14:27.017 --> 00:14:30.030 is sweeping across the world. 00:14:30.030 --> 00:14:34.779 Those of us who believe, as I believe in forwards and outwards 00:14:34.779 --> 00:14:42.555 we have to get ourselves organized because time is running out very, very quickly. 00:14:42.555 --> 00:14:44.500 Thank you. 00:14:44.500 --> 00:14:46.851 (Applause)