The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - May 15, 2026


Breakfast With Beau | Friday 15th May 2026


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Restore Britain's Lewis Brackpool joins me this morning to talk about his work with the party and how he got involved in the fight against the government. We also talk about how he became involved with Restore Britain and why he thinks it's a great idea.

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00:00:00.000 Good morning. You alright? I hope you are. I sincerely hope you are.
00:00:11.160 Many apologies for being ever so slightly late. It's two minutes past. Two minutes past
00:00:15.400 eight in the a.m. British summertime. Tardy. Tardy. Apologies. But we've got a guest this
00:00:21.200 morning via Zoom so we just had to check everything was okay. Which it is. It is now Friday isn't
00:00:27.780 it that friday feeling thank f it's friday the 15th of may in the year of our lord 2026
00:00:35.220 as always i'm joined by my producer little harry how are you this morning good sir
00:00:38.820 morning yeah more good good great great and who are you guys
00:00:45.940 come now you know who you are you're the glorious band the chosen few my band of brothers
00:00:50.500 and sisters without you isn't a thing thank you for joining me really sincerely
00:00:54.660 There's no way to express how sincerely I mean that
00:00:59.540 Without you it isn't anything, it really isn't
00:01:01.240 Okay, it's another sort of largely labour day
00:01:06.760 Burnham, Angela the Fridge Rayner 1.00
00:01:09.340 It's a queer starling, the whole nine yards 1.00
00:01:12.100 But I do have a guest 1.00
00:01:15.000 And I'm going to go through it with them
00:01:16.820 As always, that sort of thing
00:01:18.240 So we are privileged to be joined by none other
00:01:22.920 than Lewis the Beard Brackpool of Restore Britain fame.
00:01:27.120 How are you, sir?
00:01:29.400 I'm very well, thank you, Beau.
00:01:31.120 It's great to see you.
00:01:32.020 I think the last time we spoke,
00:01:34.000 I had a little too much to drink, I think,
00:01:36.300 because we were pre-celebrating the elections
00:01:39.500 up in Great Yarmouth.
00:01:40.680 So it's great to see you, man.
00:01:42.280 Yeah.
00:01:42.800 No, thanks for coming on.
00:01:43.660 Really, really appreciate your time.
00:01:45.200 And if anyone who doesn't know,
00:01:46.120 apart from just being like an online personality
00:01:50.260 in your own right,
00:01:50.860 you do actually work for Restore Britain.
00:01:52.600 so you're in the team and everything yes absolutely absolutely maybe let people know a
00:01:59.720 little bit about what you did before that with like your freedom of information requests and
00:02:03.940 all that sort of stuff how you got sort of involved in all this just in case there's
00:02:07.280 anyone out there any mad people out there that aren't aware of who you are okay yeah no problem
00:02:13.440 um so my name is lewis brackpool i've been doing journalism for about five years got into it
00:02:20.100 straight after the COVID madness because I felt like I was being lied to. So I went out with a
00:02:25.840 cameraman and a friend, sorry, a friend who was a cameraman and I went out with a microphone
00:02:31.060 and started asking people questions. That snowballed into something that I never thought
00:02:37.620 I'd ever predict. Worked for various organisations as a reporter and a journalist. Started, well,
00:02:44.420 found out a bit more about the Freedom of Information Act and how we could utilise it
00:02:48.880 against the government and started just annoying and pestering the government by using this
00:02:55.620 particular act and trying to acquire data from them to basically embarrass them and then once
00:03:02.120 Restore Britain was started up I got a phone call from a Mr Charlie Downs who's a friend of the show
00:03:10.280 and a very good friend of mine in real life and I got the call from Restore to ask to join to set
00:03:18.420 up the Restore's Investigations Unit and whistleblowing line to basically help with concerns
00:03:26.280 regarding that, whether it be within government or the wider public life.
00:03:31.260 And it is an absolute, and this is a bit of a cursed word, but I'm going to use it anyway,
00:03:36.100 it's an absolute privilege to be part of Restore Britain.
00:03:40.600 And we are really hitting the ground running.
00:03:43.000 And it's an exciting time in British politics.
00:03:46.380 Absolutely.
00:03:47.540 He was there from one of the very, very, very earliest members.
00:03:51.420 So amazing stuff.
00:03:52.960 Brilliant.
00:03:53.360 And the team seems to be growing all the time from what I gather.
00:03:55.460 When I was down there in Great Yarmouth,
00:03:56.720 there was quite a lot more people working for the party
00:03:59.500 than I thought there were.
00:04:00.460 So it's great.
00:04:01.200 It's all the trajectory, the momentum is all onwards and upwards.
00:04:05.860 It certainly is.
00:04:06.860 It certainly is.
00:04:07.480 I'm super excited to see where we go next.
00:04:10.760 So, yes.
00:04:12.340 Brilliant.
00:04:13.000 All right.
00:04:13.640 Let's just have you.
00:04:14.460 I believe you understand the format of the show.
00:04:16.520 might have seen breakfast before perhaps and so we uh we go through the papers and just talk all
00:04:23.240 about it and i'll get your takes and ask if you've got any uh tidbits from sort of inside the the
00:04:29.080 thinking of restore on various bits and bobs if you're allowed if it's not sort of a secret or
00:04:33.560 anything so um all right today is a day where it's all sort of uh still kia starma stuff so
00:04:40.120 if i uh if we go straight to harry can you bring up the papers there
00:04:46.520 on the script on our screen can you do that all right anyway
00:04:53.160 anyway can people see that the papers front page of the papers there you go there you go there it
00:05:01.580 is all right well little harry a bit flustered this morning uh pray for harry okay uh we'll
00:05:08.780 quickly whip through the uh some of the front pages get to the eye paper because it's got all
00:05:12.740 like the half a dozen main points that we could talk to but talk about the
00:05:16.340 Star Wars battle as Burnham handed route back to Westminster that's probably the
00:05:20.300 big one the Metro gross rivals okay all right all right the Sun burn to run baby
00:05:26.060 he was burned to run the Daily Telegraph Burnham launches bid for
00:05:32.400 number 10 did it do that Burnham Burnham makes move really
00:05:36.500 Keir Starmer's behind bars
00:05:37.820 The Guardian
00:05:39.480 Bid to topple
00:05:42.320 Bid to topple in a by-election
00:05:44.160 The star Crash and Burnham
00:05:46.300 Very clever, very, very clever
00:05:48.060 Alright, here we go
00:05:49.860 Streeting and Burnham start leadership battle
00:05:53.000 To force out Starmer
00:05:54.280 Okay, let's go through these a bit
00:05:56.080 In a bit more detail
00:05:57.220 Keir Starmer's Labour critics
00:05:59.780 Make their move
00:06:01.660 So that's one of the big things, the first thing
00:06:03.420 Streeting quits yesterday, right?
00:06:06.500 and we got his letter
00:06:08.120 I don't know if you read it
00:06:09.780 it was a bit
00:06:10.380 I didn't
00:06:11.280 it was a bit obsequious
00:06:12.540 and a bit like
00:06:13.100 thank you so much
00:06:14.060 for letting me serve
00:06:14.860 in your government
00:06:15.400 and
00:06:15.820 like the only thing
00:06:17.700 he really said
00:06:18.280 some papers described it
00:06:19.440 as like some sort of
00:06:20.180 blistering withering attack
00:06:21.600 it wasn't
00:06:22.300 it's cool
00:06:22.580 there's one bit where he goes
00:06:23.720 there's a bit of a power vacuum
00:06:25.100 at the top of
00:06:25.940 of cabinet
00:06:26.600 that's about it
00:06:27.860 and then at the end
00:06:29.580 again he's like
00:06:30.600 thank you so much
00:06:31.460 it's been the privilege
00:06:32.160 of my life to work with you
00:06:33.380 anyway
00:06:34.180 and we got
00:06:35.360 starmer's letter back okay like really passive aggressive weak letter stuff yeah oh it's been
00:06:41.360 great to work with you thank you for all your work you've done over the time anyway anyway all
00:06:46.740 right but he didn't launch a leadership bid street he quit but didn't launch a leadership
00:06:53.820 bid now whether that's because he didn't actually have the 81 mps to back him or whether there's
00:07:02.220 some sort of there's been some sort of grand strategy deal in the background all of Keir
00:07:07.620 Starmer's enemies clubbing together and deciding the one overarching strategy is to get Burnham in
00:07:13.040 I don't know but what do you think of that streeting and various other ministers Jess
00:07:17.300 Phillips quitting but not still a formal leadership bid not being triggered yet it is interesting I
00:07:24.680 know that uh quite recently Starmer gave I think a bit of a stern warning to his MPs saying you 0.99
00:07:31.560 know if you do quit uh you know you will let reform in uh and we don't want that x y and z
00:07:37.800 so it is fascinating to see sort of the iron bar being hammered from uh keir starmer from behind
00:07:45.580 the scenes it is quite fascinating but um no i i mean i mean we've had two governments in a row now
00:07:53.360 do this where they they put out these really weak wet lettuce letters out saying i'm resigning i've
00:08:01.280 had enough i'm sorry i can't handle it anymore it's been an absolute privilege to serve you
00:08:05.860 you know it happened under the boris government um with so many mps deciding to quit because of
00:08:12.380 the vaccine passports and now we're seeing something very very similar i don't know i think 0.99
00:08:18.500 in my view it would be terrible if we had a general election right now a snap election which
00:08:24.920 i don't think is going to happen from restore britain's point of view you mean from our position
00:08:29.560 yeah in my in my in my own personal view yes i think that would be a disaster um it wouldn't be
00:08:37.200 great uh but i don't i think keir starmer is too much of a narcissist to actually back down
00:08:43.760 um so i actually don't know what's going to happen um but i presume because of what keir
00:08:52.220 starmer's like in terms of the way that he's got the way that he's governing and the way his
00:08:58.760 personality is uh essentially robotic is i don't think he's going anywhere personally even though
00:09:05.880 that there has been a little bit of a revolt i don't know what your take is yeah no my feeling
00:09:10.780 at the moment is the the labor party all starmers starmer and the opposition starmer in the labor
00:09:21.040 party are gonna sort of let the burnham thing and that by election play out and then see where they
00:09:28.880 are there and even if he does if burnham doesn't win that then okay that's a different timeline if
00:09:35.440 he does then there's a leadership race which takes a while and anyway some people saying that all of
00:09:42.480 this might not come to a head until labour party conference which is in september yeah well as you
00:09:49.920 this moment in time on this morning i wouldn't be surprised if we are looking at that now
00:09:54.320 yeah absolutely and you know politics unfortunately is about 60 to 70 optics so they'll want to do it
00:10:03.520 they want to time it right if they want to do a kind of leadership bid i mean i mean we say this
00:10:09.640 every time be careful what you wish for you know obviously stalin is stalin starmer that was a bit
00:10:16.280 of a slip uh starmer was um was well starmer's awful obviously we know that i don't need to
00:10:24.120 go into detail about that we obviously don't like him and the way he governs obviously but you never
00:10:30.340 know what's around the corner if he's pushed aside and then a new leader is put in i mean
00:10:36.300 optically it's it would be awful to have angela rayner um as as the next leader uh you know i
00:10:45.760 I know that there's this big bid for Burnham,
00:10:48.440 but he needs to win a by-election first
00:10:50.340 if he's actually confirmed properly to stand.
00:10:53.440 I know he put out a tweet last night saying that he's,
00:10:56.720 I believe, looking to stand.
00:10:58.840 I think that's the last I've seen,
00:11:01.360 but I'm not sure if there's been any updates since.
00:11:04.040 Yeah, no, there's been a whole bunch.
00:11:05.380 So yesterday I reported on the Beau show, Breakfast with Beau,
00:11:09.120 I reported that a particular MP was going to stand down.
00:11:13.660 What was it? Afzal Khan.
00:11:15.760 only told you guys that because that's what the rumors were that's what the papers were saying
00:11:20.560 turns out it wasn't him it's another guy josh simons right okay so so josh simons um has actually
00:11:30.160 resigned he's actually fully done it already he did that last night there's like his letter is
00:11:36.020 published as well interestingly he explicitly said it was just to stand aside for burnham
00:11:40.440 I didn't think you was allowed to do that
00:11:42.820 But obviously you are 1.00
00:11:43.620 He's a real scumbag 1.00
00:11:46.900 He's a young guy 1.00
00:11:48.200 He's like a die hard
00:11:50.840 Die, die hard
00:11:51.760 Labour 1.00
00:11:52.260 Forever
00:11:55.720 He was thrown out of
00:11:58.020 He was in cabinet I believe
00:11:59.420 And he was thrown out because of a scandal to do with
00:12:01.640 That he was spying on journalists
00:12:04.680 And
00:12:06.560 Starmer had put him in charge
00:12:08.560 Of the ID card
00:12:10.760 Initiative 0.84
00:12:11.460 So that guy
00:12:14.340 That Josh Simons 1.00
00:12:15.580 What a scumbag 1.00
00:12:17.800 Again a perfect example 1.00
00:12:20.820 Of somebody I wouldn't want in
00:12:22.580 Power in parliament
00:12:23.800 Nowhere near it 0.96
00:12:25.260 Just like an amoral commie 0.98
00:12:27.780 Yeah
00:12:29.420 But he's stepped down now
00:12:31.140 Because he's a burning man
00:12:32.820 So he has actually stepped down
00:12:35.980 So that will trigger that by-election
00:12:37.480 Right
00:12:38.560 Okay, and that's in, what's it called in, what's it called?
00:12:43.000 Makefield.
00:12:44.800 Makefield, Makerfield.
00:12:46.120 Makefield.
00:12:46.840 Makerfield, yeah.
00:12:49.280 So, the next thing was, is Burnham going,
00:12:53.920 are the Labour Party going to select Burnham?
00:12:56.640 Because they're sort of in a sanctum of power,
00:13:00.080 the NEC, the National Executive Committee,
00:13:02.680 where there's only like eight, 10, 12 people in it,
00:13:05.480 like the most senior people in government.
00:13:08.560 With the Gorton and Denton thing, they blocked him almost unanimously, I think,
00:13:13.360 very close to unanimously.
00:13:15.560 Well, they've now come out this morning, insiders,
00:13:18.540 and said the NEC won't block Andy Burnham from that, which is interesting.
00:13:22.920 Very, very, very interesting.
00:13:24.560 I thought that would be a massive, massive hurdle,
00:13:26.520 a massive internal battle for Burnham or Burnham's camp.
00:13:30.880 It doesn't seem to have been.
00:13:31.820 I mean, what do you think of that?
00:13:32.820 What's changed since Gorton and Denton when they said,
00:13:35.180 no, no, he's best placed to be mayor.
00:13:36.980 we need all our best people as mayors but now no i mean what do you make of that i think time is
00:13:43.920 just running out for labor and i think they're just getting desperate um and i think when when
00:13:49.420 a power struggle happens within government when a when a government becomes unbelievably popular
00:13:54.900 the only way to kind of save it is to either bring in a new face that will try and galvanize
00:14:01.540 people and i think to pick burnham as the guy to do that i mean is laughable i mean didn't the guy
00:14:06.680 vote for the iraq war and uh wasn't there something to do with inquiries happening um that he's
00:14:14.220 allegedly shot down i'm not sure yeah he's embroiled in sort of pouring cold water on
00:14:20.780 sex gang inquiries in the past yeah i heard about that yeah um so not quite the it's either getting
00:14:29.440 a new fresh face in um to struggle with power or it's a war um you know it's it's an actual
00:14:37.560 it's a war that you that you you're put in and i mean a conflict no i don't mean a war within
00:14:44.420 power struggle i mean an actual war um to sort of galvanize people um and i think they're just
00:14:52.480 getting incredibly desperate and i think i think they you look at the results from labor i mean
00:14:58.880 the turnout on the local elections from you know various other places apart from great yarmouth
00:15:04.020 was pretty low but seeing labor lose nearly 1500 council seats in one swooping blow i mean that
00:15:13.320 must do a lot of damage to not only uh not only the party but of course bruising the ego if you
00:15:22.320 know if uh if kirsten actually reacts to something like that i mean you can't even tell
00:15:26.680 so we'll see
00:15:28.740 we'll see
00:15:29.480 really was bruising wasn't it
00:15:32.380 and like losing control in
00:15:34.820 Wales
00:15:35.400 breaking a political stranglehold
00:15:39.080 in Wales that they've had for a hundred years
00:15:40.780 yeah
00:15:41.840 from Keir to Keir
00:15:43.500 Keir Harley to Keir Starmer
00:15:46.640 I mean bookending it with a Keir
00:15:48.400 yeah the interesting thing is
00:15:51.020 well when you said a minute ago
00:15:52.900 that their great hope
00:15:54.980 the thing the person they hope will will draw them back back from the precipice uh will save
00:16:03.260 them from electoral annihilation is andy burnham that's laughable yeah yeah can i just make a
00:16:12.560 broader point here that people don't seem to be saying i haven't seen many people any real people
00:16:16.240 in the mainstream media sort of saying this but if you remember if you're old enough i might you
00:16:22.880 might just about be old enough it's when i was more like a teenager times um in the blair years
00:16:28.940 and the brown years a bit burnham was like barely b team like burnham wasn't he wasn't like some
00:16:38.800 he's quite popular within the labor party membership it wasn't massively popular in the
00:16:43.300 country or anything like i was like as soon as we've got burnham as leader we're going to win
00:16:47.080 the next general election no why are you thinking that where do you get that calculation from
00:16:50.540 He's just another low-T 1.00
00:16:53.540 Soyboy 1.00
00:16:54.340 Parlour in Pinko 0.89
00:16:56.260 He's nothing, he's a nothing man
00:16:58.040 You look back at the early Blair years
00:17:01.020 You look back at people
00:17:03.260 Like a lot of them
00:17:05.280 Jack Straw
00:17:06.320 Robin Cook
00:17:08.280 Someone like David Blunkett
00:17:11.080 They're all 1.00
00:17:13.460 Disgusting Fabian socialists 1.00
00:17:14.900 But they were formidable men 1.00
00:17:16.840 They were
00:17:18.600 they were formidable political operators right they weren't to be trifled with type politicians
00:17:25.840 yeah someone like Andy Burnham was bottom of the barrel then right they're like kick him out in the
00:17:32.540 end after 20 odd years whatever just to put him down into like the the minor leagues go and let
00:17:38.360 him be a mayor somewhere he's not like that's the sort of level he is where this calculation comes
00:17:43.380 from within Labour that like it's burn them or bust burn them will save us what I don't get it
00:17:49.400 do you no I don't get it I mean you can really test and see how much a party or an organization
00:17:57.600 within the party likes a particular politician by where they go next after a kind of an in
00:18:04.660 of a uh a premiership of some sort I mean what did Blair do as soon as he finished up here I mean
00:18:11.680 technically he carried on really he continued his legacy but through the tory party and everywhere
00:18:16.400 else but where were they put you know we even had communists lit actual communists being put
00:18:23.680 in places like the who um and you know various organizations here burnham burnham was like you
00:18:33.360 said just just give him a mayor role like somewhere random place like just give him a mayor role and
00:18:39.480 just you know keep him in the sidelines there and it's actually funny to see how much he is
00:18:46.580 respected which is not that much i mean i don't know yeah i i never said when it started coming
00:18:57.140 out what like not that long after starmer got into power really what within six months even
00:19:02.100 you sort of hear rumors of burnham you know i'm already i'm like but who cares the andy burnham
00:19:11.320 like the yeah yeah the bottom of tony the dregs of tony blair's barrel like the scrapings of the
00:19:17.980 bottom of the blairite era really that's run for leadership a number of times and never won it
00:19:23.260 because again he's like west streeting or he's like kiss time yourself comes across to me as a
00:19:31.240 weak a weak person physically yeah so politically morally there's like there's no he's not a fire
00:19:41.860 brand is he he's like the david brent of the labor party essentially again he's like he seems to me
00:19:49.900 quite so sort of effeminate even i don't know like well why they think in the labor party that
00:19:57.220 he's that like their magic bullet back to to get um for re-election no idea it really is like the
00:20:06.280 oh yeah well it just shows the dearth of talent in the labor party i suppose really right if
00:20:15.220 that's the best they can all agree or most of them agree apart from the far far far left of
00:20:20.500 the party they can all agree that burnham's the guy really right okay you got all right
00:20:25.580 Burnham.
00:20:25.960 Mental.
00:20:26.800 All right.
00:20:27.160 So this by-election is going to happen then?
00:20:30.760 Yeah.
00:20:31.600 It's not a safe Labour seat.
00:20:33.700 No, it's not.
00:20:34.720 The majority there, I think, is something like that Josh Simons,
00:20:38.920 5,000, 5,300 or something?
00:20:42.060 It's not razor thin, but that's not what you'd call
00:20:44.600 a particularly safe seat, is it?
00:20:46.900 No.
00:20:47.920 No, not at all.
00:20:48.760 And I think the polls are, well, obviously,
00:20:50.960 they would have shrunk for Labour anyway, but I think I saw,
00:20:53.540 i think what was it uh labor was polling at uh 24 percent i think i'm not sure if that's the
00:20:59.660 latest polls uh for how well in that area you mean in that in that area compared i think reformer
00:21:06.820 polling at around 50 um for that area which is massive i think that's what i saw i think last
00:21:13.760 night it's quite massive it's quite a big gap um it's quite fun to look at that's my that's the
00:21:22.560 funniest outcome for me that the nec let him do it he runs and just totally totally loses
00:21:29.040 everyone in the labor party that wanted him every single anti-kir person in the labor party that
00:21:36.540 opinion all their hopes on burnham that they're just all just like like what like what now like
00:21:44.340 that was that was our one strategy that was our guy yeah our guy is gone i did see that in the
00:21:50.940 local elections in that area it was just a full bald sweep for reform yeah now you know obviously
00:21:57.940 you i know you know the local elections and parliamentary elections are very very different
00:22:02.580 beasts they really are i mean one is a good indication of the other but but they're not
00:22:07.820 the same thing there's all different dynamics going on on a number of different levels however
00:22:12.100 Still
00:22:13.260 The whole place
00:22:15.600 Literally the whole place swept reform
00:22:18.260 By reform
00:22:19.220 So okay and it's not a safe seat
00:22:21.960 I mean to put it in some context
00:22:23.360 That Gaunton and Denton
00:22:24.800 That had
00:22:26.720 That was a much safer seat
00:22:28.440 The Labour majority there was more like 13,000
00:22:31.820 Labour came third in it
00:22:34.120 Yeah
00:22:35.260 So
00:22:36.000 So they're complete in other words
00:22:38.760 The Labour strategist here
00:22:41.360 or the Burnham camp strategists, are utterly, utterly relying,
00:22:45.460 really, really leaning on the fact that he's just so crazily popular
00:22:50.600 in Manchester that he's the king of the north, king of the north,
00:22:55.000 and that wherever he sits, he will, wherever he stands,
00:22:58.940 he'll just definitely win it.
00:23:00.500 I don't think that's a given, do you?
00:23:02.580 No, no, absolutely not.
00:23:04.340 And I saw the video.
00:23:05.900 I don't know if you saw it.
00:23:07.080 I think he was with Greater Manchester in a committee,
00:23:09.640 and he was just getting hounded by the general public i think some woman was literally standing
00:23:15.720 over pointing at him and just shouting as loud as she could to try and make her voice heard fair
00:23:22.160 play to her um mate he was getting ripped an absolute new one um and it's all on video
00:23:28.880 and it's just how can you even think that this guy is popular there i i just think it's another
00:23:35.320 case of you know internal factions believing within their bubble that they have a popular
00:23:40.500 candidate or they know the best interests for the British people it's one it's one of those
00:23:45.860 once again very out of touch to the point where it's almost it's almost sinister you know I mean
00:23:53.380 it's it's almost like how do you not see that the public really hate you at the moment like
00:23:59.800 really despise you and you it's just falling on such deaf ears i mean i mean it's the definition
00:24:07.500 of of careerist bubble uh so i don't know we will see but um yeah burnham losing catastrophically
00:24:17.140 uh is kind of what we want right that would be funny and of course he's got to resign from being
00:24:22.380 the mayor of manchester as well so that that will be uh there'll be another election for that
00:24:27.580 Be nice if Labour didn't win
00:24:30.520 That as well
00:24:31.300 If Reform or the Greens or whoever picked that up
00:24:34.580 As well, that would be nice
00:24:36.240 Actually, that leads me slightly onto something
00:24:38.360 You may or may not be able to tell me
00:24:40.040 So feel free to say, I just don't know
00:24:42.380 Or I can't tell you
00:24:43.360 Do you know if Restore
00:24:46.240 Have got any
00:24:47.960 Intentions of putting someone up there
00:24:50.080 In this by-election
00:24:52.000 Or even in the mayoral election
00:24:53.920 That there will be in Manchester
00:24:55.040 so um the party line at the moment is we haven't come to a formal decision yet so that's where
00:25:02.220 we're at at the moment in my own personal opinion that's separate um from the party line
00:25:08.380 and i'm putting that on record that this is my own personal opinion yep um i i think we should
00:25:16.840 watch and see who is going to stand for reform you know it could be a boris wave candidate
00:25:23.640 it could be a parachuted in someone from within their their party it could be Zia I highly doubt
00:25:31.760 it but it could be it could be anyone so I think in my personal opinion I think we should see who
00:25:38.300 is going to stand in that by election from reform and just play it by ear although you know I can
00:25:48.400 think of two people who would be fantastic you know for that particular by-election however
00:25:58.380 at the moment we haven't come to a formal decision I had a feeling that that question
00:26:05.480 was going to be asked so yeah I think it's it's a very exciting time I don't know if you saw the
00:26:12.780 betting odds as well i mean restore was third to win and we have and there's no there's been
00:26:19.100 no formal decision uh being made yet i think betting odds have put us third to win um which
00:26:25.980 is fascinating yeah i believe it's only five percent um but still for us to be prompted
00:26:33.440 on on on that i mean we're not even getting prompted on polls as you know um yet yet we're
00:26:41.460 managing to to deliver i mean great yarmouth from the great yarmouth uh first results and
00:26:48.000 campaigning there seven days in a row and watching the count and being there when they announced the
00:26:54.160 winners uh i mean i'm still on a high now and it was just fantastic i mean you saw when you came up
00:27:01.660 and uh we had a brief chat and i was going around on the doors and you briefly we briefly had an
00:27:06.960 interaction and obviously a friend nate um friend of the show nate who who joined some of the door
00:27:13.440 knocking as well uh to see what it was like um yeah i mean that was an overwhelming victory so
00:27:21.420 it is possible it is certainly possible um but just to reiterate yes the decision uh hasn't
00:27:30.440 been formally made yet fair enough no fair enough i see all sorts of people like even
00:27:35.540 semi woodhouse all sorts of people asking i mean i immediately ask myself the question oh i wonder
00:27:40.300 if they will or not um but yeah what's your view what's your view on it
00:27:45.140 if i could just call all the shots if i was rupert i probably i probably would i would put
00:27:53.300 someone there even if the polling looked like we wouldn't actually win it because it's i probably
00:28:00.680 would just because it's experience it it it puts the flag up saying we're prepared we we we are
00:28:10.200 prepared to to to gamble with the with the reputation we're not afraid of losing all those
00:28:16.360 various things that we're up for it we're a we're a we're a real party that's going to contest
00:28:22.680 anything and everything we can yeah that would be my feeling my opinion that would be my personal
00:28:28.280 opinion um and also i feel like i think it's fair to say that anywhere that is right leaning anywhere
00:28:38.660 that's like a a tory area or certainly a reform area that's where restore are likely to do best
00:28:45.260 you know it's strong like lib dem and the few remaining labor strongholds are maybe a lost
00:28:52.520 calls for restore or some constituencies in london that are just entirely for almost entirely foreign
00:28:59.560 tower hamlet's areas or whatever somewhere like west streetings seat in ilford north or whatever
00:29:04.680 yeah not so much but somewhere that's like um um like a disaffected disenchanted
00:29:12.360 part of manchester working class part of manchester where reform just cleared up i feel
00:29:17.160 like that's a really good place for restore to give it a go i feel like um yeah i feel just my
00:29:24.640 personal opinion again if i was at the helm i'd be like i'd sort of um want to to uh foster a
00:29:33.720 feeling of not being afraid yeah like yeah i hear you may well you may well come second or third or
00:29:40.300 fourth but okay so be it that's politics yeah but we're gonna throw our hat in the ring that was my
00:29:45.620 feeling but if you guys decide that it's still too early there's not enough time things like
00:29:51.080 that uh that's also i think without sounding like too much for sycophane i actually genuinely think
00:29:56.520 that's fair enough uh because restore is still so young isn't it let's not forget it's still
00:30:04.280 it's barely out of the crib really only a few months old formerly so i get it but anyway and
00:30:11.520 Look at what we've done and look at what we've done in the meantime, right?
00:30:15.260 I mean, it is just unbelievable.
00:30:17.640 I mean, we could have halved the votes from Great Yarmouth.
00:30:20.280 We could have halved each candidate's vote, the nine seats that we won,
00:30:25.120 and we would have still won.
00:30:26.700 The margin of success was remarkable, wasn't it?
00:30:28.860 I mean, in a local election, it really was.
00:30:30.760 And I'm not saying that to, you know, I'm being very biased here.
00:30:34.340 I'm trying not to be as biased.
00:30:36.800 But seriously, when you look at the number crunch, you look at the turnout.
00:30:40.580 I mean, the candidate I was campaigning with, Michael French, fantastic bloke, when we were out campaigning for him, he was he was a little bit wobbly.
00:30:51.100 He wasn't sure what would happen.
00:30:54.020 But then when the results came in and he got a forty nine point five percent turnout and I think it was over eighteen hundred votes for a local election, whereas I think reform had like eight hundred.
00:31:06.000 um i mean it was unbelievable genuinely unbelievable i i'm so so happy um but yes
00:31:14.180 you know regardless of what we decide to do obviously i back rupert's and the team's decision
00:31:20.040 if we do decide to do it um i'd be more than happy to door knock again that was really fun
00:31:25.940 canvassing is a lot of fun knocking on doors um and just trying to find out voting intention
00:31:32.300 i loved it i thought it was great go out with a team with a map and try and uh you know find
00:31:38.960 voter intentions from different closes i thought it was great you know we've really got to look at
00:31:44.020 um these tactics now um and really sort of home in on on the formula to win it winning great
00:31:53.000 yarmouth first and applying that nationwide now we've set the precedent now so yeah in my total
00:31:59.620 opinion i agree why not um i i i think personally my view we should um you know there's a lot of
00:32:07.980 people online talking about splitting the vote splitting the vote i'm so bored of that paradigm
00:32:14.240 i'm done with that nobody owes owns your vote nobody not a single party not even restore owns
00:32:21.460 your vote it's up to us it's up to the party in question to galvanize the public to prove
00:32:30.140 that we are the real deal and to say this is why we you should vote for us and the big reason is
00:32:37.880 that we will not stand careerist politicians and that we are outside of the establishment where
00:32:43.000 the rest of the parties have decided to cozy up to it including reform as we know
00:32:49.660 so yeah absolutely yeah i am done with that argument that argument is what kept is what kept
00:32:58.700 our politics a two-party thing conservative and labor for so many decades you can't split the
00:33:04.980 vote otherwise the other side again no that whole paradigm can go take a long walk off a short pier
00:33:10.940 not interested in any of that or you might split the reform vote don't care don't care yeah they're
00:33:16.300 as much a political enemy as the lib dems so i don't care yeah or you might look laboring well
00:33:22.880 that's politics yeah what what yeah we're gonna vote for what we want we're gonna vote for a party
00:33:28.480 that's patriotic and at least a bit nativist is that too much to ask no no no so i'm not and reform
00:33:36.620 are just uni party containment aren't they they really are just the two tories so i'm not interested
00:33:41.640 in hearing from them you're going to split the vote don't care yeah i don't get away from me with
00:33:48.140 that um okay so um one other thing i want to ask you why we're talking about restore and everything
00:33:54.620 and uh the local um i believe because we had uh harrison in the other day he was telling me that
00:34:01.500 he was doing a bit of um a bit of the vetting as well he talked to me a little bit about that
00:34:08.860 because obviously that's one of the biggest things isn't it you want to you want the right people
00:34:13.580 and um so how was that experience for you doing a whole bunch of of the vetting side of stuff
00:34:20.080 yeah obviously i don't want to diverge into too much detail of course naturally um but it's been
00:34:27.320 very very eye-opening it's been fascinating um we've had all sorts of people from all walks of
00:34:33.220 life uh come forward and want to be part uh of the movement i mean it's unbelievable the amount
00:34:39.620 of people that have applied uh to want to either become uh branch organizers or just to get
00:34:45.920 involved i mean you know our inbox is just continuous it just doesn't end um so it's it's
00:34:52.720 wonderful to see the galvanization and see the amount of people that are willing to not just
00:34:58.460 vote for us not just become members but actually want to get involved i mean i set up a branch
00:35:04.580 in horsham um where i am and i was expecting about 40 to 50 people to turn up and i think we got 120
00:35:14.800 turn up i didn't have enough chairs people were sitting on the floor to try and listen to um
00:35:22.100 you know, what we were talking about and trying to get people involved in volunteering.
00:35:28.720 And unbelievable. It's been wonderful. So on the vetting side, well, as we know, I think
00:35:37.500 looking at other parties, let's say, and how they are vetting their candidates is absolutely
00:35:44.420 atrocious absolutely atrocious so we're bearing in mind um you know trying to do as much as we can
00:35:52.540 uh to plug the holes essentially of of anyone trying to come in whether it be an infiltrator
00:35:58.960 whether it be uh someone with a a bit of a an interesting past let's say i mean didn't we have
00:36:06.360 a reform council that's just been elected that uh is leading a double life as a porn star i believe
00:36:12.600 is that correct did you read something on twitter briefly the other day on that yeah yeah yeah i
00:36:17.400 mean yeah we we want to avoid stuff like that really um so so i think it's been a fascinating
00:36:26.680 learning curve obviously you know you have to bear in mind we're not going to get everything correct
00:36:31.240 you know it's impossible it really is impossible uh to be 100 perfect and i understand um that
00:36:39.020 people are dismayed within British politics as am I this is the reason why I'm here is because
00:36:45.380 finally that there is a home and so you know we're not going to get it all right of course we're not
00:36:52.220 and there will be in the future who knows someone or you know whoever that will slip through the
00:36:58.700 cracks that's natural that that will happen it's just a case of how we deal with it and I'm very
00:37:06.220 confident in our team as well that have been helping out with not just the vetting but the
00:37:11.360 organization and the logistical skills behind the scenes um absolutely fantastic team um and we
00:37:18.600 really do work as a team to try and help each other and support each other um during this
00:37:23.740 process because it's tough and we're dealing with a lot of people a lot of people um so
00:37:30.960 you know we have our we have our um ear to the ground and our eyes watching uh making sure that
00:37:38.140 you know everything is going smoothly and we're just looking out for the right people um and who
00:37:45.000 has the correct skill set for each different role like a branch organizer um and yeah i think next
00:37:52.880 stop is candidates so that's going to be incredibly um interesting so we shall see
00:37:59.560 oh okay let's get back to the papers here and uh just quickly run through the couple other things
00:38:06.700 so uh we're told uh west street ing resigns as health secretary uh with devastating critique
00:38:12.480 of pm's performance not performance not really he said there was a bit of a vacuum at the top
00:38:16.820 it was actually really he was actually sort of pretty sycophantic towards him if anything
00:38:21.940 andy burnham sets his sights on becoming uk's next prime minister and mp uh as mp stands down
00:38:28.200 That's that Josh Simons
00:38:29.360 To offer him possible route
00:38:32.240 Back to Westminster
00:38:33.020 He will campaign on cost of living
00:38:35.080 Quote
00:38:35.420 Much bigger change is needed
00:38:37.240 At a national level
00:38:38.200 Quote
00:38:38.540 Okay
00:38:39.720 Okay Andy
00:38:41.160 If you say so
00:38:42.820 Yeah yeah yeah
00:38:43.380 Alright
00:38:43.680 You're more of a social
00:38:45.120 You're the more
00:38:46.160 Tax more spend more
00:38:47.820 Classic
00:38:48.520 That's all he is
00:38:49.760 There's nothing
00:38:50.340 As if he's Andy Burnham's economics
00:38:54.080 Are somehow
00:38:54.640 Brilliant
00:38:56.140 Burnham economics
00:38:58.060 yeah burn them on burn them on it i can't even say um okay reform stands in way of his commons 0.97
00:39:06.360 return yeah nigel nigel said you can't blame him of course he would right it's the obvious move 0.86
00:39:12.560 he said oh we're gonna throw the kitchen sink at this one then oh yeah yeah we'll try and uh
00:39:17.120 we'll try everything to to win that seat um we'll put it this way if we do decide to stand
00:39:23.020 whatever decision makes and if we do decide i'll tell you what i'm going up i'm going up to door
00:39:29.920 knock and i think we'll have a an army of patriots up there to help with the canvassing and to help
00:39:36.260 with the volunteering like great yarmouth so we'll probably throw the kitchen sink as well
00:39:40.820 you know if that is the decision yeah that'd be nice every vote that doesn't go to labor
00:39:47.220 love it yeah okay uh what have we got there uh rest of the cabinet must now decide how long they
00:39:55.720 stick with starma or whether they encourage timetable for a leadership contest i've never
00:40:00.480 bought this idea that starma's going to agree to a timetable for leaving like tony blair did it's
00:40:06.840 very very rare it's the only example i can really think of where that happened at all was tony
00:40:13.460 and that was because there was a very very specific pact with him and Gordon Brown I don't
00:40:18.900 know where they keep coming up with this get Keir Starmer to agree to a timetable to leave he won't do
00:40:24.200 that no of course not no of course not obviously there is a lot wrong um with our with our politics
00:40:31.220 um you know for example uh I think when you have when you have someone in say local elections uh
00:40:41.560 whether it be reform or whoever uh there's trouble within like minute things within politics that
00:40:50.200 need to be changed as we know uh you know rules standing around like you know you must stand
00:40:56.200 if someone like a big defection happens for example like call it call a little by-election
00:41:03.000 you know if if someone votes you in and you haven't gotten the consent from your voter base
00:41:10.600 your constituency uh in terms of you know who they decided to vote for there needs to be i think
00:41:17.220 there needs to be in my personal opinion some rules around that some changes but when it comes
00:41:21.500 to a timetable i mean i don't think that this government is ever going to agree it all uni
00:41:29.100 the whole uni party is not going to agree to a timetable of course not of course not they what
00:41:34.460 they want to cement their legacy even if they even if it is awful even if the legacy is awful
00:41:41.500 and they're just so tone deaf they can't even see it they want to cement that they want their arc
00:41:48.740 just as nigel wants his arc you know so none of them are going to agree to to such a thing
00:41:54.420 yeah yeah yeah as soon as you do of course your your sort of your political authority is
00:42:01.600 massively undermined people are like well i don't have to do or listen to anything you're saying
00:42:06.480 because on this date you're gone so you truly do turn yourself into like a zombie leader
00:42:13.560 a zombie cabinet or whatever um so i can't believe that and as we've already said i think on this
00:42:19.720 stream i've certainly said a bunch of times before i just don't think that's what star was like as a
00:42:24.040 man as a politician as a strategist for what it's worth is that no i'm in power now i will stay i
00:42:30.800 I think yesterday even I invoked Ceausescu or Mao or something.
00:42:35.160 No, I'm in power and I will stay in power
00:42:38.020 and the rest of the world can collapse and burn around me
00:42:41.140 before I just give it up.
00:42:43.520 I feel like that's what he's like.
00:42:45.860 Yeah.
00:42:46.600 Well, that's what I gauge.
00:42:47.920 That's what I'm gauging from Starmer.
00:42:50.000 So I think that's a good observation.
00:42:53.160 Okay, last couple of things here.
00:42:56.160 Streeting calls for, quote,
00:42:57.860 the best possible field of candidates
00:42:59.920 and battle of ideas not factions yeah all right bro all right yeah yeah if you say so bruh yeah
00:43:08.240 i feel like i feel like he either i feel like he either hasn't got those 81 mps or he's just
00:43:15.260 fallen in line with the the overarching strategy of its burn or bust yeah okay yeah and the last
00:43:24.420 Angela Rayner settles her £40,000 of unpaid stamp duty
00:43:27.580 after HMRC investigation.
00:43:29.720 What do you think of that it was on the morning
00:43:32.220 of the day of resignations, the very morning...
00:43:35.840 Funny that.
00:43:36.800 ...that she got cleared of any wrongdoing.
00:43:39.760 Took her a while, didn't it?
00:43:41.320 Yeah.
00:43:42.540 Yeah. 0.74
00:43:43.680 Like I said earlier, majority of politics is all optics.
00:43:48.120 So when there is...
00:43:49.540 It's optics and opportunity.
00:43:51.980 so when you find that there is a leadership bid miraculously all these scandals just suddenly
00:43:59.740 like disappear or they they disseminate or they get resolved so yeah funny timing that
00:44:08.180 i don't know very very convenient for ms rayner yeah yes okay indeed what have we got um just
00:44:17.480 quick whip through the rest of the headlines and so it begins labor's great pretenders oh yes
00:44:25.320 they're the great pretenders what a pack of losers look at this not an ounce of testosterone between
00:44:33.640 actually rain has got more tea than either of these two numpties actually uh the express pure 0.97
00:44:42.120 filth look the king really worried about anti-semitism really really really worried
00:44:46.200 about anti-semitism didn't say a peep about uh southport but all right didn't say a peep about
00:44:51.320 wayne broadcast but okay all right yeah worry about the jews and gold is green though yeah yeah
00:44:55.560 yeah yeah yeah all right so we had a poll we did a poll didn't we harry can you bring that up for me
00:45:03.800 um let's see what did we we asked you guys just over 1200 votes loads more ticking in
00:45:11.240 be 1300 in a moment uh we asked do you think andy burnham will win his by-election
00:45:18.280 no 63 say no 24 say 25 say maybe all they know is their gut says maybe and 12 say yes
00:45:32.280 so 63 again if you i say if it nearly every morning if you've got that on a national
00:45:37.320 referendum you'd claim complete
00:45:39.360 and that's a victory wouldn't you on that
00:45:40.780 yeah
00:45:42.060 5300 odd majority
00:45:45.240 that's not 0.52
00:45:46.360 they really got a hope that it's just his
00:45:49.220 whole king of the north shtick
00:45:50.920 that wins it for him that's their
00:45:52.940 that's a bit of a shaky
00:45:55.240 thing to hang everything
00:45:57.200 on isn't it alright
00:45:58.880 let's have a look at
00:46:00.400 a few more stories today
00:46:02.840 and then I'll let you go
00:46:05.200 so
00:46:06.820 they're on the bbc look uh it's stummy it's like i'm thinking like a turtle you know sometimes
00:46:12.660 when you see people and they put you in mind of a an animal one way or another you know like
00:46:18.420 jess phillips a horse obviously for example i'm getting like a turtle vibe off of andy burn
00:46:26.580 oh my god a claymation turtle okay is it because of the shape of his head is that why yeah
00:46:35.140 yeah just uh yeah um was there what there was one or two others uh that burnt it's multiple
00:46:42.980 burnham it's burnham or bust hashtag burnham or bust um so trump's in uh in china with winnie the
00:46:50.560 pooh and apparently they're getting on really well um yeah and and he's sort of trump sort of
00:46:58.440 talking to him all about iran trying to leverage stuff in iran there's one story in the mail i
00:47:03.560 thought was was uh of mild interest let me see if i can find it um oh no anyway it was about nigel
00:47:12.900 it was about nigel's five million pounds that's in the news cycle yesterday and today a bit and
00:47:19.340 that um he actually said that he bought a home a 1.4 million pound home with cash probably not
00:47:26.600 literally physical notes but in other words he just paid for it all up front in one go
00:47:31.640 1.4 million pound house after he received that 5 million pound gift um i mean have you been
00:47:38.560 keeping up with this story at all do you think there's anything there there because you know
00:47:42.480 just quickly say on one end of the spectrum it could be absolutely 100 completely legit he didn't
00:47:47.340 break any rules or regulations and this is nothing this is just his enemies trying one more gambit
00:47:52.880 to try and get him it could be that it's really nefarious and dodgy and corrupt and he will
00:47:58.880 actually lose a seat they'll recall him and they'll have left to have a by-election there and
00:48:02.860 he's disgraced what are you i really don't know we have to see what the investigation is what do
00:48:06.880 you think i haven't been keeping properly up to date with it if i'm totally honest because it's
00:48:14.540 just it's just one of those things is another bit of nigel noise you know in terms of not necessarily
00:48:21.240 like i i don't understand like i don't get what's going on with him i saw his tweet about um mr
00:48:28.840 habib um i did see that i don't know if you saw that oh yeah yeah we made a video on it about it
00:48:34.580 on state of politics yeah he um i know he's threatening or he has put in legal action um
00:48:42.200 you know because i think he's i think habib made some uh comments regarding i don't know if that
00:48:48.160 was in conjunction with this particular yeah yeah yeah real quick about that just real quick let
00:48:56.060 people know what you're talking about there so nigel got given this five million pound by this
00:48:59.940 millionaire um didn't declare it perhaps should have declared it that's what the actual inquiry
00:49:05.280 would be about need he have declared it or not anyway he's just given five million quid ben
00:49:09.800 habib the other day goes on the internet and uh says i'm just going to tell you a story now
00:49:18.220 and the powers the people like nigel and that harbourn guy they can sue me if they want but
00:49:25.200 this is the truth and then went on to allege that it was all stitch up going back years going back
00:49:32.120 to the boris years million pounds thrown around here and there backroom deals here or there
00:49:36.800 all sorts of sort of if they're untrue slanderous things if they're true devastating things for
00:49:44.380 nigel um so all sorts of allegations okay ben habib did that um and nigel did come out and
00:49:53.480 sweet right i'm starting legal action against you now ben because ben habib was like because people
00:49:58.760 do that all the time well not all the time but that's not a completely unheard of thing to
00:50:03.320 allege something and you know it's true and you say yeah take me to court i'm perfectly comfortable
00:50:09.880 confident in myself that you won't take me to court because i know i'm speaking the truth
00:50:14.120 and then when people don't take you to court it's sort of indicated on that but when they go
00:50:18.360 oh no i am taking you to court though that is a liar that is libelous slanderous or whatever
00:50:23.480 well Nigel did yeah Ben Habib played that card and Nigel's like no I'm gonna take you to court bro
00:50:28.160 so we'll see I guess it's just another one of those things just watch sit back with some popcorn
00:50:35.580 yeah I mean yeah I mean it's one of those situations in it we just have to sort of
00:50:42.940 wait and see what happens with that because I have no idea like I'm out I'm out of that like
00:50:49.060 you guys go and have your argument over there like yeah slowly back away from that one
00:50:55.360 yeah yeah literally like the homer simpson meme literally back into the bushes like okay we'll
00:51:01.280 just leave you to it like pretty bizarre um no i think my in my view i don't know too much about
00:51:08.960 this uh particular thing that's happening i did see under the same breath that nigel um said even
00:51:16.480 according to uh elon musk that he um i think he said something he claims that he was being given
00:51:24.000 money i'm not sure if this is this is you know word for word what he said so you know take this
00:51:30.380 with a pinch of salt but it said something like loosely about how musk tried giving him money to
00:51:37.920 tell him to like tell him to say certain things or you know policy or whatever and he said no
00:51:44.740 allegedly and then i saw musk tweeted underneath nigel saying you know this is this is just this
00:51:51.160 is a lie this is totally untrue and i think it was around the same line of question i think it
00:51:57.080 was for the sun it was always his name cole i forgot his name but they were i think he was
00:52:02.980 being questioned about this particular money um situation and then he was i think farage was doing
00:52:10.900 his showmanship thing where he would
00:52:12.940 say, well, I've been, I can't
00:52:14.940 be bought. Yeah, alright, bro.
00:52:18.200 Yeah, didn't you have
00:52:18.920 a cameo account where you were literally bought
00:52:20.740 for like 70 quid at a pop?
00:52:24.200 Yeah. I mean
00:52:24.880 talking about big chungus. 0.89
00:52:27.040 Yeah. Harry, bring 0.95
00:52:28.960 up this article real quick. Yeah, so this
00:52:30.880 is a bit of a thing with, a bit of a spat
00:52:32.840 with Nigel and Elon where
00:52:34.900 apparently Nigel had said
00:52:36.720 that Elon
00:52:38.820 offered him money
00:52:40.900 And that he, Nigel, turned it down
00:52:43.300 And Elon just came out and said
00:52:46.400 Flat up said, quote
00:52:48.600 Farage is lying
00:52:50.540 That's what
00:52:51.880 Uncle Elon said
00:52:54.520 He just called him a liar
00:52:56.560 That's not true
00:52:57.620 Then other people say
00:52:59.480 Some people say that Elon
00:53:02.240 Has offered or given money to restore
00:53:05.900 I don't believe that's true
00:53:07.560 I think he might have offered
00:53:08.440 He might have said something
00:53:09.360 Might have hinted at it
00:53:10.220 But
00:53:10.900 as far as i'm aware he hasn't actually ever given restore a penny as far as i understand i i don't
00:53:15.860 know i'm not the the bursar i'm not the treasurer of restore but i don't believe he has neither
00:53:22.900 right okay no i i have no idea i have no idea i couldn't tell you it's above my pay grade yeah
00:53:28.900 yeah all right fair enough okay well um we're getting towards the top of the hour and i've
00:53:34.820 still got to do on this day in history must run brands and super chats lewis thank you very very
00:53:38.820 much for joining me it's a pleasure as always hopefully we'll have you back at some point
00:53:43.620 before too long hopefully we'll get you in absolutely in the studio in swindon you'll
00:53:47.860 be on the podcast massive friend of the channel so um once again thanks very much for your time
00:53:53.300 and i hope you have a great day no keep up the hard work and uh hopefully yeah i'll see you in
00:54:01.860 person again very very soon brilliant thank you sir okay okay louis the beard brackpool there
00:54:10.740 i'm just calling him that that's the first time as well so i'm just i've just made that up
00:54:16.180 that's a great beard it's a luxuriant beard it's a sort of beard a boy would dream of
00:54:23.380 okay all right let's do on this day in history on this day down through the centuries
00:54:31.860 What happened? Harry, would you mind moving the thing ever so slightly to the left so I can, you know, I mean, yeah, a tiny bit more, actually, if you don't mind, just so I can see.
00:54:45.300 That's it. That's it. Thank you. Thank you. All right. So on the 15th of May, going through centuries, what happened?
00:54:50.240 of note okay on this day in 1252 pope innocent the fourth issues the papal ball of x add x to a
00:54:59.440 panda probably mispronouncing that uh which authorizes but also limits the torture of
00:55:05.300 heretics in the medieval inquisition uh yeah there you go sort of the the roman inquisition
00:55:13.480 nobody expects the spanish inquisition not many people expect the roman inquisition
00:55:19.360 But there you go
00:55:21.420 There's a lot that could be said about that
00:55:24.320 But whenever I have in the past
00:55:26.580 Once or twice
00:55:27.680 Talking about Galileo for example
00:55:29.580 Who wasn't actually tortured
00:55:30.920 He was only shown the implements of torture
00:55:33.560 Whenever I've talked about 1.00
00:55:35.700 Torture at the hands of Catholics 1.00
00:55:37.560 In the medieval period 1.00
00:55:38.700 I often get a load of Catholics in the comments 1.00
00:55:41.840 Going mad 1.00
00:55:42.460 Trying to rewrite history
00:55:44.640 Trying to say it never happened or whatever
00:55:46.300 I'll just move on then
00:55:49.660 Heaven forbid we offend some Catholics
00:55:53.280 Alright, on this day in 1615
00:55:56.240 German astronomer Johannes Kepler
00:55:58.920 One of my all-time favourites, Kepler
00:56:00.400 Discovers, I don't say discovers
00:56:02.960 Discovers the third of his three planetary laws
00:56:06.100 The harmonic law
00:56:07.260 Love Kepler
00:56:08.480 There's the original, the original, original
00:56:11.500 Carl Sagan Cosmos
00:56:13.580 1970s documentaries about space and science one of those episodes is almost in a big big chunk of
00:56:20.360 it most of it is dedicated to talking about the life and career and thought and mathematics of
00:56:25.360 kepler absolutely pivotal person kepler's up there with like newton or uh clerk maxwell or something
00:56:33.240 kepler absolutely pivotal person um in human advancement in human civilization
00:56:39.820 yeah the third and a fantastically interesting life as well um lived through the wars of religion
00:56:46.980 everything loads of stuff loads of things went down in his life other than just working out
00:56:52.000 how the universe operates the third planetary law if i recall i'm no scientist i'm no physicist
00:56:58.200 no mathematician but it's to do with working out how the time of an orbit how long it takes
00:57:04.000 a body to orbit there's like a very very very specific relationship between that and um
00:57:13.120 what like how how big the orbit is sounds quite it might sound a bit obvious to us now
00:57:18.240 imagine it's the early 17th century that was that was entirely new i mean they were still dealing
00:57:25.440 With Ptolemaic
00:57:26.760 Ideas about perfect solids
00:57:29.440 And stuff
00:57:30.900 About how there were nested
00:57:33.220 Perfect shapes in the cosmos
00:57:35.060 Crazy 0.97
00:57:37.300 Crazy medieval nonsense 0.99
00:57:38.540 Is that okay 0.82
00:57:40.960 The planetary laws
00:57:43.480 Of Kepler
00:57:45.120 Pivotal thing
00:57:46.600 In human civilization
00:57:49.040 On this day in 1841 0.97
00:57:51.020 First emigrant wagon trail
00:57:53.360 To reach California
00:57:54.440 Think about here now, California
00:57:56.600 Where he leaves Independence, Missouri
00:57:59.060 On a 1,730 mile journey
00:58:01.900 Over the higher Sierra Nevada mountain range
00:58:04.860 Yeah, again, do you remember yesterday?
00:58:06.160 I think it was yesterday, wasn't it?
00:58:07.200 They had a thing about
00:58:08.520 The Lewis and Clark expedition
00:58:11.100 In the age of Jefferson
00:58:13.340 What, 1804, 1806?
00:58:15.240 Something like that, wasn't it?
00:58:16.780 So look, it's still another 35 years after that
00:58:19.420 Before a true concerted effort
00:58:22.640 Even begins
00:58:24.800 For
00:58:26.360 Citizens of the United States 0.98
00:58:29.320 To settle California
00:58:30.880 1841
00:58:33.780 That's like
00:58:34.320 Only 25 years before the Civil War
00:58:37.760 I just always find it interesting
00:58:41.700 How late it is
00:58:43.580 That the United States
00:58:45.620 Moved right out to the West Coast
00:58:50.320 And people
00:58:51.980 Started living there in any big numbers
00:58:54.720 That's so late to me
00:58:56.160 You might think that process started 100 years before that
00:58:59.060 Or more
00:58:59.480 No
00:59:00.120 Okay
00:59:02.400 On this day in 1869
00:59:04.920 National Women's Suffrage Association forms in New York
00:59:09.160 Founded by Susan B. Anthony
00:59:10.840 Okay, I don't really care
00:59:11.740 On this day in 1940
00:59:13.620 Richard Maurice MacDonald
00:59:15.760 Opened the first McDonald's restaurant
00:59:18.660 In San Bernardino, California
00:59:20.860 i'm just calling california californie now
00:59:24.380 um yeah mcdonald's first ever mcdonald's 1940 interesting i love mcdonald's with me
00:59:33.660 i know it's i know it's processed slop highly processed i love a big mac though if i'm just
00:59:41.160 honest with myself big macs are lovely okay on this day in 1951 at&t becomes the first
00:59:49.440 US corporation to have a million stockholders after a young car salesman Brady Denton purchases
00:59:55.780 seven shares worth $1,078. You've got shares in AT&T. Nice. That gives you a measure of
01:00:06.500 it, doesn't it? In 1951 money, seven shares were already worth over a grand. It's quality
01:00:16.840 blue chip stock that is okay and on this day in 1988 the Soviet Union begins withdrawing its
01:00:23.760 115,000 troops from Afghanistan yeah I may well I want to do some content about the Soviet war
01:00:34.660 in Afghanistan at some point it's one of those things I've been interested in on and off over
01:00:39.560 the years exactly what happened and the the the u.s involvement there's a tom hanks movie once
01:00:47.520 wasn't there and the stinger missiles and and why why it was that the soviet union failed so
01:00:53.440 miserably in a purely military sense in afghanistan in the 70s and 80s it's an interesting
01:01:01.280 story of course 1988 it's after chernobyl you're getting right towards the end of the soviet union
01:01:07.940 now all right that's the end of the gorbachev times nearly only a few more years to go
01:01:14.420 well the fall of berlin was in 89 isn't it the soviet system formally collapsed in 1990 or is it
01:01:20.020 1991 so we're right near the end of the soviet experiment there interesting fascinating all
01:01:27.540 right should we do our rumble rants and super chats let's have a look at that stuff
01:01:33.220 all right so the we always do rumble rents first don't we it's fair few actually we've
01:01:40.660 got a fair few rumble rents and superchats so rumble rents oh global church history's
01:01:47.540 been pipped again i mean kudos to uh jetlag 89 the early bird catches the worm
01:01:56.420 but okay so anyone is watching the bow show for the first time
01:02:03.080 global church history always nearly always gets in first
01:02:06.800 there it is we got a contender got a pretender to the throne
01:02:12.800 and new all right jetlag89 says on this day in 1532 the english church the english church
01:02:22.780 submits to henry the eighth in passing the submission of the clergy the church surrenders
01:02:28.520 its right to make provincial laws independently of the crown yeah at the moment on epochs my
01:02:33.800 my history themed show behind the paywall on lotusseaters.com you can see to sign up for as
01:02:39.640 little as five pound a month bronze team membership at the moment over 260 episodes
01:02:44.740 all long form so a few hundred hours of me talking about history everything from gobekli tepi through
01:02:51.120 To the 1980
01:02:53.360 Iranian embassy siege
01:02:55.060 SAS Iranian embassy siege in London
01:02:56.640 And anything and everything in between
01:02:58.500 On there, you've got loads and loads of content about the monarchy
01:03:01.360 The English monarchy
01:03:02.680 Well, going back to
01:03:05.100 Roman Britain, all the way through
01:03:07.440 I've got stuff with that
01:03:08.960 Elizabeth Haverin about King Arthur
01:03:10.520 The mostly fictional King Arthur
01:03:12.320 The Arthurian legend, all the way through King Alfred
01:03:15.140 From Alfred all the way on
01:03:16.640 From Alfred
01:03:19.020 through to at the moment i'm on henry the eighth i just think last sunday was the end and the death
01:03:25.800 of natural causes of henry the seventh henry tudor henry the eighth's dad this sunday is
01:03:31.180 henry the eighth part one on bow day's epochs so i shall be talking i don't talk about it in this
01:03:38.940 one because i'm just setting it up talking about his early life and his early reign a little bit
01:03:42.040 of wolsey i'm going to do henry the eighth thing loads and loads and loads of detail be many many
01:03:45.860 parts so in probably a week or two maybe as much as a month i'll be getting to
01:03:52.660 the full break with rome
01:03:56.820 and when henry decides he's going to be the head of a church in england
01:04:03.620 and his demand that they submit to his will his regal will so yeah thanks for that jetlag thanks
01:04:11.700 to that we'll get to it soon on epochs in as much detail as i can muster almost
01:04:17.620 okay in at number two global church history you can't win more mate don't beat yourself up
01:04:24.820 you say today in 221 ad liu bay probably pronouncing that wrong uh was made emperor of the
01:04:31.540 hand beginning the three kingdoms period um he's one of the most famous ones isn't he one of the
01:04:35.780 Of the more famous ones
01:04:36.620 That one
01:04:38.380 He was
01:04:38.780 He was like
01:04:39.280 Did you say
01:04:40.240 He founded 0.99
01:04:41.000 The Han 1.00
01:04:41.420 Yeah 1.00
01:04:41.600 Made
01:04:41.860 Made the first emperor 0.99
01:04:43.320 Of the Han 0.79
01:04:43.780 Yeah he's one of 0.98
01:04:45.920 The more famous ones
01:04:46.500 He's considered
01:04:47.440 As I understand it
01:04:48.860 Chinese history 1.00
01:04:49.760 Isn't my 1.00
01:04:50.300 My real wheelhouse
01:04:51.920 I've got a long
01:04:54.060 Form piece of content
01:04:54.740 All about
01:04:55.100 The first emperor
01:04:56.040 Of China 0.90
01:04:56.620 But that's like 0.74
01:05:00.380 400 years
01:05:01.320 Before that
01:05:02.040 That's like
01:05:03.320 In the 200s BC
01:05:04.420 That one 0.99
01:05:05.060 Qin Shi Huang Di 0.96
01:05:08.420 If I pronounce that
01:05:10.740 Really terribly
01:05:13.800 Qin Shi Huang Di
01:05:17.580 But that's 400 years before this guy
01:05:21.360 And yet he is one of the more famous ones
01:05:23.500 He's known as like a really benevolent
01:05:26.420 Sort of kindly good warlord
01:05:29.120 He's a warlord
01:05:30.040 He became an emperor
01:05:32.140 Made himself an emperor
01:05:33.260 but he's thought of it's like some sort of paragon of rulership okay and then the other
01:05:41.600 thing you say because you usually give us two thanks church history global church history the
01:05:45.840 other one you say is what have you said and in 1501 on this day in 1501 miguel and gaspar
01:05:52.820 corta real sets out towards what they later named labrador so yeah they're like um that's just before
01:06:00.080 the age of Magellan isn't it they're Portuguese guys Labradors up Canada isn't it it's way up
01:06:06.560 up the top of Canada all that stuff they were both lost at sea and their father was an explorer as
01:06:12.800 well Miguel I can't remember what happened to one of them was just lost at sea as well just
01:06:19.520 disappeared one day into a squall or a fog never seen again interesting interesting okay next one
01:06:28.400 Skulldrazer
01:06:31.040 Skulldrazer just says first
01:06:33.440 You're third
01:06:36.700 You think you can beat 0.85
01:06:39.620 Global Church History and Jetlag
01:06:41.700 89 by coming in
01:06:43.700 At 3 minutes to 9
01:06:45.260 3 minutes to 8
01:06:46.340 Oh no
01:06:47.280 That's not good enough I'm afraid
01:06:49.540 Must try harder
01:06:51.320 I'm only mucking about
01:06:54.400 You sent another one in
01:06:55.600 Skulldrazer
01:06:56.380 I hope everyone is having a boatiful morning
01:06:59.660 Thank you
01:07:00.260 Thank you
01:07:01.880 Boatiful
01:07:04.280 Well it's beautiful isn't it's the same spelling
01:07:07.000 But he's put Bo in capitals
01:07:08.360 Yeah I hope everyone is having a great morning
01:07:11.560 Looking forward to the weekend ahead hopefully
01:07:13.200 Okay 14 Barber says
01:07:15.720 Morning Bo you alright?
01:07:17.100 Yeah I'm alright
01:07:17.560 Are you sir?
01:07:18.660 I hope so
01:07:19.100 You put
01:07:20.060 Lewis Brackpool is always
01:07:22.260 Is always an interesting segment
01:07:24.920 Restore are third in Makerfield
01:07:28.140 According to Ladbrokes
01:07:29.320 It's potentially
01:07:31.800 A very funny by-election
01:07:33.740 Yeah, it could be, couldn't it
01:07:35.180 Who knows, if Restore did want to stand somewhere there
01:07:38.240 They might not tell
01:07:39.540 But if they do and they try really hard
01:07:41.800 Who knows
01:07:44.060 Who knows
01:07:44.740 Could turn that into a win
01:07:47.700 Think positive
01:07:49.840 Alright, the next one
01:07:51.440 BoneappleTeaParty
01:07:53.260 says bow and lewis today question mark we are spoiled rotten this labor leadership dram
01:08:01.180 and probably drama you probably meant this labor later labor leadership drama is like
01:08:08.040 game of thrones but without a scintilla of testosterone yeah it's right it is like a bit
01:08:13.080 like that look there's not much testosterone is there flying around in that leadership contest
01:08:21.500 okay
01:08:23.500 the scripted
01:08:26.020 orc says have you considered
01:08:27.880 he's being allowed to run by Keir because
01:08:29.920 he knows he isn't going to win
01:08:32.040 what Andy Burnham yeah maybe I mean
01:08:33.660 yeah it may be
01:08:35.620 that's totally totally possible
01:08:37.540 Keir Starmer knows the numbers the
01:08:39.740 ultimate numbers and is confident
01:08:41.940 that he Keir Starmer will win
01:08:43.860 yeah
01:08:44.140 thing is if it comes down to
01:08:48.040 the membership
01:08:49.920 the Labour Party membership
01:08:51.900 after everything's shaken out
01:08:55.080 and there's only two remaining
01:08:56.500 and those two are
01:08:57.740 Burnham and Starmer
01:08:58.820 I think everyone is saying
01:09:01.280 that Burnham
01:09:02.200 Burnham wins that
01:09:03.820 like easily
01:09:04.700 I guess Keir Starmer
01:09:10.020 if what you're saying is true
01:09:11.340 which may well be true
01:09:12.100 that he expects he would just win
01:09:14.020 at a much earlier
01:09:14.840 point than that
01:09:16.220 he would get 50%
01:09:17.640 But before that stage
01:09:20.580 But who knows
01:09:21.840 Who knows
01:09:23.880 If anyone remembers when Ed Miliband
01:09:26.260 Beat his own brother
01:09:28.260 David Miliband to be leader
01:09:29.940 After Gordon Brown would it be
01:09:31.860 That must have been after Gordon Brown
01:09:33.440 Everyone
01:09:35.960 Everyone was saying
01:09:37.160 Well this is a lock for David Miliband
01:09:39.620 David Miliband is the heir apparent
01:09:42.040 All the numbers
01:09:43.420 Whatever you want to look at
01:09:44.200 The unions, the membership, the party itself
01:09:47.120 It's David, it's David Miliband, it's his, but we've got to go through this
01:09:50.660 We've got to cross the T's and dot the I's on this leadership contest
01:09:56.500 And we turned out Ed Miliband pipped him, his own little brother
01:10:02.880 Can you imagine their Christmas dinners these days?
01:10:08.520 Awkward
01:10:10.100 Just ended David Miliband's career basically
01:10:12.220 He was that close to being the leader of the opposition
01:10:15.520 And may well have been Prime Minister
01:10:17.820 Nope
01:10:18.500 Little brother nicked it off you
01:10:20.000 And then himself completely failed
01:10:21.980 Ed Miliband 0.84
01:10:25.140 What a freak 0.99
01:10:26.080 What a weirdo
01:10:27.580 Okay 0.97
01:10:28.100 Conscripted Orc says
01:10:29.420 Right now Restore
01:10:32.360 Have an inevitability about them
01:10:34.680 Unstoppable
01:10:37.580 Aim high vote low
01:10:39.840 Millions must go
01:10:40.480 It's going to happen 1.00
01:10:41.960 Remigration is inevitable 1.00
01:10:43.540 You say 1.00
01:10:46.600 If they run and don't win
01:10:50.040 Those optics will be lost
01:10:53.880 Not that I don't want them to
01:10:56.560 I'll see what you're saying
01:10:57.780 If they ran there and lost
01:10:59.740 This like
01:11:00.600 This veneer of undefeatability
01:11:03.060 Of being undefeated will vanish
01:11:05.460 Well yeah I mean that's true
01:11:06.520 If all that happens
01:11:08.300 It plays out like that
01:11:08.980 It's true
01:11:09.320 But
01:11:09.640 it's going to happen at some point anyway the store's going to stand somewhere
01:11:13.280 and lose at some point anyway can't be afraid of that right
01:11:17.420 it's like being a fighter or a race driver or something you can't be a
01:11:23.660 you can't be paralyzed by the fear of losing you're gonna lose at some point
01:11:27.360 right it's very very you can't win them all it's very very very rare that you get say a boxer
01:11:32.740 floyd mayweather or joe calzaghe you retire undefeated it's almost unheard of or in politics
01:11:39.180 Because it is unheard of
01:11:40.100 You're going to lose at some point
01:11:42.360 You can't let that hold you back, can you?
01:11:44.780 That's my feeling
01:11:45.380 My feeling
01:11:47.560 Okay, but you've got a point though
01:11:50.520 I know what you mean
01:11:51.060 I know what you mean
01:11:52.140 The optics of it aren't perfect
01:11:53.660 But
01:11:56.080 But that politics isn't perfect
01:12:00.000 It's really, really dirty and imperfect
01:12:02.060 By definition, pretty much all the time
01:12:05.340 That's the art of compromise, isn't it?
01:12:08.100 you've always got a compromise it's just an exercise in attempting something and often failing
01:12:16.680 over and over and over and over and over again get used to it not being perfect
01:12:21.980 okay the last rumble rant is from somebody called chaddy 304 i don't think i've seen their name
01:12:30.740 before chaddy 304 says um our first restore britain meeting tonight for wigan and leith
01:12:37.120 Wigan and Lee
01:12:38.320 Wigan and Lee
01:12:39.660 Nice
01:12:40.060 Brilliant
01:12:40.460 Best of luck to you
01:12:42.480 Makerfield
01:12:43.980 Is one of our constituencies
01:12:45.660 Lee
01:12:46.300 My constituency
01:12:47.120 Was Burnham's
01:12:48.120 Safe seat for years
01:12:49.380 We'll see you up here
01:12:50.740 Lewis
01:12:51.120 Oh great
01:12:52.000 Chaddy 304
01:12:53.200 Brilliant
01:12:53.640 On the front lines
01:12:54.920 In the trenches
01:12:56.380 Lovely
01:12:58.860 I wonder
01:12:59.780 I've got no special insight
01:13:01.380 I wonder what the
01:13:02.860 Leadership at Restore
01:13:04.340 Will do
01:13:04.960 Whether they'll
01:13:05.560 Want to do it or not
01:13:06.580 I, as I say, I kind of hope they do, but I'd understand if they don't, but all right, we'll
01:13:12.900 see, if they do, best of luck to you, Chaddy, genuinely best of luck, all right, we've got
01:13:19.540 some YouTube ones, YouTube ones, what have we got, a dozen or so, maybe a few more, let's
01:13:27.520 whip through them a bit, I'm on the podcast again today, so can't spend all morning on
01:13:33.360 them i'm on the podcast at 1pm which is summertime check it out okay like a bot says and coming in
01:13:47.460 at number one for the most based breakfast show is the real lbc lotus eaters breakfast club
01:13:54.420 hashtag the real lbc right here you're watching it
01:13:58.180 yeah and like a bot in at number one nice uh katora something called katora says good morning
01:14:11.580 bo harry and my fellow band of brand of brothers and sisters they've put ancestors in in brackets
01:14:17.960 I met yesterday at the first Restore Branch meeting
01:14:23.160 Best Among Us
01:14:25.040 Great, brilliant
01:14:25.880 Super
01:14:27.100 The ground game
01:14:28.240 The ground game for Restore Britain is real
01:14:31.820 All those naysayers and haters and defeatists
01:14:37.320 That said Restore Britain would never be anything other than a riotoid echo chamber on Twitter
01:14:42.460 You're profoundly mistaken
01:14:47.260 The ground game up and down the length and breadth of this country
01:14:52.260 Is something to behold
01:14:55.780 It's something remarkable
01:14:57.640 I've been involved in party politics on and off my whole adult life
01:15:01.120 I've never seen anything like it
01:15:03.560 Never seen anything like it
01:15:10.460 It's the difference between success at the ballot box and not
01:15:14.260 It is the difference
01:15:15.720 Tens of, over 100,000, 130,000 plus, is it?
01:15:20.200 Don't even know the last numbers of overall membership
01:15:22.560 A fair chunk of those people are prepared to actually turn up to things
01:15:27.780 And physically do stuff IRL
01:15:30.800 What more can you ask for?
01:15:33.740 Thank you, Kat Cora
01:15:36.860 Kat Cora, thank you for turning up to your branch meeting
01:15:40.780 And doing stuff and being there, making a difference
01:15:43.040 It's the difference
01:15:45.640 Can't buy it
01:15:48.360 People's time
01:15:49.820 It's the most valuable thing they've got
01:15:52.320 And they're prepared to give that
01:15:54.560 It makes my heart swell
01:16:00.740 If I was an Italian or a more emotional man
01:16:05.740 I might shed a tear right now
01:16:06.900 Enjoy
01:16:07.500 Enjoy
01:16:09.380 The ground game's real
01:16:13.240 It's real
01:16:14.040 We're going to take our country back
01:16:18.980 Great John
01:16:22.620 Great Johnny M
01:16:23.720 Great Johnny M says
01:16:26.800 Sell
01:16:29.000 Sell the entry start tune
01:16:31.480 As a ringtone
01:16:32.380 I'm not sure if we can
01:16:36.700 Harry
01:16:37.160 can we monetize that i don't know i'm joking i don't think so
01:16:41.360 are you saying stuff i can't hear oh no i don't think so no although one thing i will say heads
01:16:48.920 up to people we had some trouble with that i know people love that bit of music is a cool bit of
01:16:54.200 synthwave music isn't it but we've had trouble with it in the past a couple of times people
01:16:58.380 trying to copyright strike it and stuff unfairly so we got big harry who's a musician a genuinely
01:17:08.600 professional level musician genuinely to write another bit of pretty similar synth synth wave
01:17:17.080 music and we might we're probably gonna harry are we gonna switch to that is that a definite or no
01:17:24.660 yeah i'm hoping to do it in the next like week or so i just need to get it rendered
01:17:29.700 and i know a lot of you love that bit of music but we're gonna we're almost certainly gonna
01:17:34.980 change it out it's a very similar bit of music isn't it the harry what harry wrote and made oh
01:17:39.140 yeah yeah it's really really similar it's completely in the same vein um but then we
01:17:44.900 can't we won't have to suffer from like these repeated bad faith copyright attempts on it
01:17:51.060 which is just frustrating they are really really annoying some mornings we don't have it because
01:17:56.020 we're going through some cruddy copyright strike on it anyway that's enough about the music at the
01:18:01.220 beginning if you really like it try and record it for yourself or whatever now because we won't have
01:18:05.460 it forever heads up on that one okay people that go around copyright striking stuff on youtube 0.95
01:18:12.580 in bad faith what a scum move scumbag move all right brandon lucas says says uh is this the 0.91
01:18:23.540 the guy i played by gendry the guy off skins on that show how does it feel to have that weird kid 0.98
01:18:31.860 on skins play you i never watched skins i only watched a little bit of skin so i don't know 0.86
01:18:36.900 i watched i watched a bit of skins and thought it was retardedly bad 0.80
01:18:42.780 remember i was going out with a girl at the time and her and all her mates thought skins was 0.78
01:18:47.200 brilliant i remember watching it like what an episode or an episode and a half worth of it and 0.86
01:18:52.280 being like this is terribly written terribly acted like this is crap what this is terrible
01:18:59.620 why are you why do you like this what's good about this explain to me why so i never watch 0.60
01:19:05.180 skins i'm afraid so don't really know exactly what you're talking about there but thanks for
01:19:09.560 the super chat anyway brute life says hi lewis congrats to the team for the big win how far
01:19:18.180 along are a store to having a branch in every constituency thanks for all the hard work
01:19:22.880 thanks for the super chat i'm afraid i i couldn't i shouldn't have asked him that in real time i
01:19:27.500 wasn't i always read the super chats out at the end but um if and when he's back on i'll ask him
01:19:33.340 all those sorts of questions so thanks anyway shame i didn't i couldn't ask him that in real
01:19:38.200 time when he was on but again thank you brute life for the for the super chat okay we've still
01:19:44.460 got another half a dozen or more to get through kick you in the throat says that's their name 0.59
01:19:48.960 at kick you in the throat says um getting beard mogged over here oh yeah oh yeah it's a superior 0.76
01:19:55.280 beard i mean my beard's not insanely bad it's what a six out of ten beard is it i don't know 0.98
01:20:00.980 Is that being optimistic even
01:20:03.160 His is like a solid 9 out of 10
01:20:05.480 Solid 9 out of 10
01:20:08.680 What more could you ask for really
01:20:10.100 Yeah
01:20:12.280 Got totally beardmogged
01:20:14.780 Okay 0.97
01:20:17.700 The educated yobo
01:20:21.240 Says
01:20:22.620 I think Kier will stay until 2029
01:20:25.500 Got £10 on it
01:20:26.460 It might happen
01:20:27.920 It might happen at this stage
01:20:30.140 If you asked me on Tuesday
01:20:31.940 I would have said
01:20:32.520 No way
01:20:33.020 But at this stage
01:20:34.820 If they don't have
01:20:36.360 They don't hold a leadership contest
01:20:38.140 Until
01:20:38.680 July, August
01:20:41.220 So that Burnham can be in it
01:20:42.620 And then Keir Starmer wins that
01:20:44.500 Then yeah
01:20:46.080 Quite possibly
01:20:46.760 Then quite possibly
01:20:47.620 Like the way John Major
01:20:49.380 Beat Redwood
01:20:50.040 And just stayed on
01:20:50.740 Or the way Jeremy Corbyn
01:20:52.640 Jeremy Corbyn had a leadership contest
01:20:54.340 And won it
01:20:55.920 Didn't he
01:20:56.280 Whilst he was already leader
01:20:57.720 It's totally possible
01:21:00.040 Mr. Dickie Bingo
01:21:03.980 How are you this morning sir
01:21:05.080 Not Dinky Bingo
01:21:07.240 Mr. Dickie Bingo
01:21:08.200 Says
01:21:08.860 Obi-Wan Burnham
01:21:11.960 The only hope
01:21:12.960 Oh dear
01:21:13.840 Yeah
01:21:14.480 Why they think he's the guy
01:21:17.460 They're not
01:21:21.000 Their brain isn't
01:21:25.180 Andy Burnham 0.70
01:21:26.020 Andy Burnham
01:21:27.640 I was thinking
01:21:28.180 I was talking about this
01:21:28.880 just on telegram a couple of mates yesterday yesterday looking back at burnham in like the
01:21:34.560 labor years i remember in the labor years in sorry in the blair years he was like he's just he was a
01:21:43.480 nobody he wasn't taken particularly seriously he just wasn't he was it was just an also guy oh and
01:21:54.900 there's a few other people in blair's cabinet that you might have you might have heard their
01:21:59.520 name that's it you know that sort of level not one of the big beasts at all
01:22:05.680 like that guy that looks like he's wearing eyeliner that guy yeah that's it that's who he is
01:22:14.200 all he was but now he's supposed to be
01:22:17.700 this magic winning
01:22:21.220 behemoth of a political
01:22:24.300 titan
01:22:25.480 he can't lose
01:22:27.200 king of the north
01:22:28.600 get real
01:22:30.660 king of the north
01:22:32.220 yeah alright
01:22:33.020 ok 1.00
01:22:34.440 kick you in the throat again 1.00
01:22:37.100 says 1.00
01:22:37.680 anglosphere fun fact
01:22:40.500 semicolon
01:22:41.120 the tallest point in England
01:22:44.740 is Scarfell Pike
01:22:45.960 at 3,209 feet is it I thought there was another hill not much more than a hill is it I mean you
01:22:54.380 got many mountains in England there's Snowdon in Wales right and there's the Ben Ben Nevis in
01:22:59.460 Scotland but in England in England itself is it Scarfell Pike I thought there was a
01:23:04.780 another one anyway okay if you say it's Scarfell Pike fair enough 3,209 feet
01:23:10.100 people living in colorado scoffing derision at that three thousand that's barely more than a
01:23:19.300 hillock while a few hundred u.s towns and cities are sat above this elevation oh right yeah yeah
01:23:26.660 yeah yeah americans will laugh at such a thing
01:23:31.640 You haven't even got mountains
01:23:35.480 Where's your deserts and swamps bro
01:23:39.100 Where's your mountain ranges
01:23:40.680 Oh you haven't got any 0.99
01:23:41.660 And that's very unfortunate for you isn't it little Englanders 1.00
01:23:44.580 You haven't got any salt flats
01:23:49.260 You haven't got like any rolling giant prairies
01:23:53.380 Oh dear
01:23:54.960 How embarrassing for you
01:23:56.380 Yeah there's no mountains in England none
01:24:01.640 there's a few hills no deserts no tundras
01:24:10.040 no prairies all right
01:24:15.480 max robe says it says higher karate or brute is this one of those art simpson things
01:24:25.160 where i'm saying something embarrassing harry
01:24:27.880 i'm not sure that you just said high karate or brute i say it fast enough when i when it
01:24:38.560 appear that i'm saying something high karate and brute i don't know i don't get it got a
01:24:43.180 question mark on the end i don't get it i probably am just being silly okay sorry about that thanks
01:24:49.840 anyway wobbly arrow 84 funny name says restore slash reform can't win a mayor race in manchester
01:25:01.260 sadly i don't see why not uh i don't see why not i think the old paradigm that it's just a labor
01:25:09.480 lock don't buy it look at gaunton and denton a 13 000 majority in gaunton and denton
01:25:17.140 Labour came third
01:25:18.540 A long way off as well, a third
01:25:22.880 We're in a different world, we're in a different politics
01:25:26.560 Although the mayoral race is, yeah
01:25:31.320 I wouldn't say you're completely 100% mistaken and wrong
01:25:36.180 And I wouldn't say that
01:25:38.120 But I feel like what you're saying there
01:25:41.700 The sentiment of what you're saying there
01:25:42.800 Isn't as strong as it was
01:25:44.380 Definitely not as strong as it was, I'll say that
01:25:46.880 I'll say that
01:25:48.700 Will someone other than Labour
01:25:50.600 Win the mayoral ship
01:25:52.240 In Manchester
01:25:53.520 I don't know
01:25:55.720 I've seen what the bookies say
01:25:56.740 What the polls say
01:25:57.620 Labour probably still get it
01:25:59.120 Won't they
01:25:59.380 To be honest
01:25:59.840 I'll probably still get it
01:26:00.760 Whether it's an absolute gimme
01:26:03.320 I wouldn't say so
01:26:05.880 I wouldn't say so
01:26:07.480 A lot of people
01:26:09.500 Even in Manchester 1.00
01:26:10.540 The natives 1.00
01:26:11.500 The white working class
01:26:12.500 Feel unbelievably betrayed
01:26:16.320 By the fact that their country and city
01:26:19.240 Is flooded by 1.00
01:26:20.520 By foreign barbarians
01:26:22.820 And they're told that they're racists 0.93
01:26:25.260 And bigots for noticing it
01:26:26.700 I think that the depth
01:26:29.040 Of that
01:26:30.080 The feeling of the betrayal
01:26:31.780 Of that
01:26:32.840 Can't really be underestimated
01:26:37.100 I think, could be wrong
01:26:38.480 Could be wrong, you know
01:26:39.860 But we'll see
01:26:42.500 Okay, last two
01:26:44.540 Last two we've got here
01:26:47.220 King Philip 1861
01:26:50.040 Says
01:26:50.560 Was King George III thought of as a German
01:26:54.420 Being from the house of Hanover 1.00
01:26:56.220 I suspect that must have
01:26:58.180 Affected American animosity
01:27:00.000 Towards the crown
01:27:00.880 That's very very interesting
01:27:02.360 So George III was of course the grandson of
01:27:04.860 George I of Hanover
01:27:07.220 The elector of Hanover
01:27:08.380 So it's only like one
01:27:10.180 Two generations
01:27:11.900 Down
01:27:13.020 Jules III
01:27:15.260 Yeah I mean Jules I never learnt English properly
01:27:20.340 Or hardly at all
01:27:21.100 So yeah I mean he was thought of as German
01:27:26.100 In various ways
01:27:26.880 I still think of King Charles III in 2026 as a German
01:27:30.420 Half German
01:27:31.240 Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
01:27:32.980 The House of Hanover 0.95
01:27:37.700 What Americans 0.67
01:27:40.040 I guess you're talking about in the
01:27:43.020 the age of the war of independence what american colonists who became citizens of the united states
01:27:50.620 whether they thought of george iii as a german or not i don't know
01:27:55.180 there's not that much of that in the sources in the accounts it's not like some giant not that
01:28:01.180 i've seen not i'm aware of some giant long speech by someone like patrick henry or john adams
01:28:06.460 complaining about that the king is german they might mention it from time to time in fact they
01:28:09.660 did, but it's not like a massive thing, from what I've read. Thomas Jefferson constantly
01:28:15.940 mentioning that George III is German. No, not really. Interesting, that was an interesting
01:28:21.180 point. People did appreciate it and did think that, though. As I say, I still think of the
01:28:28.260 House of Windsor as German to this day, pretty much, kind of.
01:28:34.260 Only changed their name to Windsor during World War I, because Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
01:28:38.480 sounded too german or just is highly german okay and the last super chat from from wobbly arrow 0.97
01:28:49.040 again says too many wets libtards blair rights non-voters and students sad face
01:28:57.760 oh what like in manchester yeah you were the person that also said reform labor can't win 0.98
01:29:05.440 a mayoralship in manchester you say you just say there's too many wets libtards blair rights and 1.00
01:29:11.280 non-voters and students in manchester you may well be right you may well be right you could 1.00
01:29:14.960 possibly be right you know we shall see we shall see all right we've got one more um rumble rank
01:29:22.080 came in i might as well read it while we're here um and it's from reigning champion jetlag89
01:29:29.680 He says
01:29:30.900 He says
01:29:32.980 Happy Friday all boasters
01:29:34.820 Boasters
01:29:37.100 B-E-A-U
01:29:38.340 Boasters
01:29:39.340 I hope you all have a grand weekend
01:29:43.120 Are you Irish?
01:29:44.520 Irish people say grand, don't they?
01:29:46.740 Have a grand weekend
01:29:47.780 Bo, did your parents name you to manifest how you would appear in later life? 0.97
01:29:59.680 yeah you've also put in brackets they're no homo just for the record just for the record 0.81
01:30:06.380 i i put beard both you and lewis by the way get mogged
01:30:15.660 i guess that you meant out i out beard both you and lewis by the way get mogged well
01:30:21.160 fair enough i can believe it for me find it hard to believe you've got a better beard than lewis
01:30:29.060 That's difficult to believe
01:30:32.300 Thanks for the super chat though
01:30:36.140 Now my parents named me after Bo Brummel
01:30:39.520 And that was only a nickname
01:30:43.380 His real name was George
01:30:44.360 His real name was George Brummel
01:30:46.020 His name was only a nickname
01:30:48.160 He was called Bo
01:30:48.820 Don't give me that name
01:30:51.380 I like it, it's unique
01:30:54.860 Other than a little bit of bullying at primary school
01:30:57.260 Bo wears your arrow, that sort of thing
01:30:58.960 After that
01:30:59.900 Which was never actually really bad
01:31:01.140 Unique
01:31:03.540 It's better than being called
01:31:04.240 Like Chris or Dave
01:31:05.300 In my opinion
01:31:06.360 No criticism
01:31:07.940 Of all the Chris's
01:31:08.880 And Dave's out there
01:31:09.940 Which is not many people
01:31:12.780 Are called Bo
01:31:13.280 Although on Twitter
01:31:14.260 Before now
01:31:14.660 I've typed in
01:31:15.340 Bo on Twitter
01:31:17.700 Search
01:31:18.320 And see if there's
01:31:19.500 Anyone else called Bo Dade
01:31:20.880 You know
01:31:21.500 When you're bored
01:31:22.200 Or how many people
01:31:24.140 Are called Bo
01:31:24.700 There's quite a lot of people
01:31:25.860 Called Bo in the world
01:31:26.640 Nearly all Americans
01:31:27.900 it's quite a fair few of them a few of them have got massive accounts as well one guy that's in
01:31:33.560 some band i've never heard of but he's got hundreds and hundreds of thousands of followers
01:31:37.180 quite a lot of bows all right anyway that's enough about bow
01:31:39.520 that's the show it's now 34 minutes past nine in the am british summertime on friday the 15th of
01:31:48.040 may in the year of our lord 2026 you've been the glorious band the chosen few my band of brothers
01:31:52.480 thank you for watching this morning and all week without you it's not a thing i hope you enjoy the
01:31:57.580 rest of your day and indeed the coming weekend try make the best of the time if you can most
01:32:03.340 valuable thing you will ever have is your time end it wisely up a dm seize the day if you can
01:32:09.260 all right until monday morning then take care