Breakfast With Beau ｜ Monday 11th May 2026
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Summary
It's a Starmer day, and it's all about the Labour leader, Lord Keir Starmer. There's no sign that he's going to quit, and there's lots of speculation about what he's actually going to say in a speech he's due to deliver this morning.
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morning you're right it's monday monday monday thank you for joining me it has just ticked eight
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in the a.m british summertime on the 11th monday the 11th of may in the year of our lord 2026 as
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always i'm joined by my producer little harry howard this morning good sir morning yeah we're
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good it is embodied voice of the god like harry there you are the glorious band the chosen few
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A few moments ago, I trapped my finger in the door.
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Doesn't hurt all that much, but it is bleeding slightly.
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If you trap my finger in a door, do I not bleed?
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One morning I'll get hiccups like the whole show
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later leadership rival circle and golden boys of BAFTA red carpet it was the BAFTAs
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the BAFTAs yesterday very very minimal coverage on the bow show about that sort of nonsense
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okay but yeah just look at the websites look Starmer Starmer Starmer Starmer even more Starmer
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so okay you get it let's have a look at the front pages the fleet street the print media
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There's better ways to start your Monday morning
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No, there's no better way to start your Monday morning
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there was reports last night i think from gb news one or two other places saying that in that speech
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he's going to resign or set out a timetable for his resignation but now at least this morning from
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what i've seen an hour and a half two hours worth of reading this morning is saying that that's not
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what he's going to be in the speech he's going to say um i'll never quit sort of thing so we'll see
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It may or may not be his quitting speech this morning
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They set out what they mean to do over the next year
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He just reads out a speech that's been written for him
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Or we feel like we might have to go to the public again
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Well, I think Starmer's like that old school, old school red.
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You know, probably as a younger man, red Lenin.
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And the idea of clinging to power is everything.
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Never walk away on the game of politics before it throws you under a bus.
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I think that, I was saying that about Starmer before he was even Prime Minister.
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i think he would have to be removed okay it says there scores of mps including burnham
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burnham backers call on pm to set date to quit like it's tony blair and gordon brown
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in 2007 2006 2007 whatever it was it's a whole different thing all right a little bit about the
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baftas super quick so that remember that show adolescence that really subversive show was
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broadly broadly based on when a black boy stabbed a white girl they made broadly broadly based on
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that they made a tv trial but they race changed the black boy to be a white little white kid
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made it all about general male toxicity remember that and all the left guards and traitors and
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commies loved it and everyone normal thought it was sickening well it's done really well
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the baftas cleared up he's had a growth spurt that's the little lad in it
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i know uh graham is it uh what's his name stephen graham i know he's a tiny little
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scouser commie tiny little freak of a man but um he certainly had a growth spurt any of that lad
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all right that gives you a measure of the baftas doesn't it just um
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whatever's disgusting and woke and subversive
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you know like nearly all love is they they go for that they lap that up of course they do
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all right that's enough of that iran peace laureate on her prison ordeal okay all right
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let's get through to the eye paper because the blurb on that really gives us everything we need
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to know about the starma issue the mail quickly do the mail an utter globalist slop trying to
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wear the skin suit of something that isn't that but it is never be fooled by the mail
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even to this day leftists and labor types cling to the idea that the mail is right leaning that
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That the male is something other than globalist slop.
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It's completely on their side, as all the print media is, basically.
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With the exception, sometimes, of The Telegraph.
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It's not in Burnham or Rainer's interest at this moment
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He's going to lose his seat in the next general election
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Should they somehow become the leadership of the party
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They're absolutely further to the left than Starmer
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Or one of the unions that gets to vote on that sort of thing
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Do you think the country wants to go further to the left than Starmer?
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They've been travesting local elections because of that
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she's now saying we need our best talent in parliament meaning burnham loads of leftist
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things you know like the rich people are the problem trickle down economics is the problem
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we need like privatization private ownership of things is the problem
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just all leftoid crap she's an idiot she's a full-blown idiot doesn't know what she's talking
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about okay the story graph treating i'm ready to be pm are you now it seemed like a silly little
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boy larping as an mp never heard anything of real substance or vision from west treating never
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Klanski falsely claimed he worked at the Ministry of Defence.
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Turns out he didn't actually ever work for the Red Cross.
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Turns out he wasn't living exactly where he said he was
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To say anything that he thinks might be in his interest
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but even if you're not just claiming outright things that are just completely untrue not just
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like spinning the truth a bit not just like exaggerating something a bit or omitting
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something strategically are just a full-blown liar just completely false from top to bottom
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and then you want to be in the public eye where people are going to go through what you've said
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The Times, PM fights to save his skin after Rainer Ultimatum, okay, Ex Minister Rainer, demand shift to the left, his rival circle, Lucy Punch there, there you go, at the BAFTAs, Lucy Punch, okay, the iPaper, today or never, to save your job, Labour MPs tell Starmer, the blurb says, about the best you're going to get from Fleet Street,
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Keir Starmer needs to deliver the speech of his life this morning
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To seat off an attempt to kick him out of number 10
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So a classic example of putting party before country
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sam's calculation is if the party want burnham and rayner i.e the left of the party
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want them he'll try and steal their support by going further left himself
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even though it's not what the country want the country at large wants
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can point to the trouncing you got at the local election a few days ago actually we take this
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moment well let me finish reading the blurb then we'll look at the election results because they
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weren't all in on friday morning last time i spoke to you were they let's finish up the blurb here
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it says the race to replace pm has been thrown into disarray after little-known backbencher
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catherine west launched a leadership bid plunging the government into crisis she didn't she's that's
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that's not exactly what's happened she said she was going to launch a leadership race
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not a bid herself there's no question that she was wanting to be the leader but you need something
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like 20 of the parliamentary party to vote for that they've got something like just over 400
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mps was it 403 406 something like that 20 of those the magic number is 81
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I'm going to wait to see what your speech on Monday says first
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unless HMRC miraculously just finished their investigation
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and she's completely exonerated in the next few days.
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Yeah, so Rainer and Streeting set to be potential leadership race people
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with Andy Burnham desperate to return as an MP so that he can run.
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Starmer no longer enjoys the support of all the members of his cabinet
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it's a little bit of a pathetic last last ditch argument isn't it i'm really terrible sure but
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there's even more terrible options out there a great argument is it you're hoping it would be
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a positive optimistic here's why i'm the best here's why you should stay with me because of
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positive things no just it would be worse it could be even worse all right so let's have a look at
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the election results because on friday morning last time i spoke to you only about a fifth or
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quarter of them were in so they're all in now and boom there they are there it is so it's largely
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almost exactly the trend that we already saw on on friday morning but not quite so let's start
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down this end when we were looking at it friday morning the independents were down a little bit
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well they actually ended up up a little bit actually the thing that this portrays is that
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Might be long before there's like you know
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Will end up having to split down Sunni Shia
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Not much though I mean in the scheme of things that's not much
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no no doubt about that there's no point trying to pretend that's nothing it's not nothing
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but it's not gigantic though is it also let's be fair let's be honest it's not gigantic
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some thought some were saying because of the gaunton and denton by-election result
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and because uh zach polanski real name dovid paulden was doing okay in the polls until
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recently until a week or two ago um that the greens might you know storm to victory
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was just a staunch open border person gloating in parliament on camera in parliament gloating
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about getting loads of student student visas for foreign people that's who she really is i mean now
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she calculates it's best for her and her party to pretend to be really based
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so the toy party would love to see the conservative party
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I mean, they are the most important player now,
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That doesn't mean that a reformer actually control loads and loads of councils
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Whether they're able to, because of course they don't control government
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They don't control the Home Office or the Treasury
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and they can't ultimately dictate what, in the grandest sense,
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So maybe an analogy is they've got one hand on the rein of power
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We'll see how they do what they do, how based they actually behave.
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All right, it's not technically restored, it's Great Yarmouth first.
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Anyway, they did get a clean sweep of all nine.
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It's only a small corner of East Anglia, a small bit of Norfolk.
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For a party that's so new, it's actually quite a remarkable political achievement.
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Considering their margins of success were massive,
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100%, 200%, beating out the next person, nearly always reform,
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by loads, it's not close, in all nine, in all nine, not even close.
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I mean, it is Rupert's backyard, and he is sort of a beloved local MP,
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constituency MP, largely, in Great Yarmouth, I think that's fair to say.
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There you go, could that play out on a grander scale?
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We'll see next year, when there's more local elections.
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I'm sure Restore will be fielding loads more people at that point.
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If Starman doesn't call a general election before then
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That thing I mentioned it once or twice in passing haven't I
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mouse or rat, urine and or faeces, faeces, um, makes human sick, that some people died,
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actually died of it, anyway, that's in the news a bit, that some people have been evacuated
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from that death ship, or whatever, but, okay, move on from that, Starmer faces fight for
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his survival as threat of leadership challenge mounts, PM to deliver, quote, last chance,
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quote, speech, Rainer calls for switch to the left, broad descent in the world,
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labor ranks okay himco warns iran's iran could trigger rate rises as u.s voters sour on economy
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himco is a large um like investment firm okay not one of the biggest in the world but
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they've got a fair few trillion in assets under management they're not a tiny player
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um i believe over the weekend some employment news came out of the united states which wasn't
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too bad or it wasn't it wasn't quite as bad as expected
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let's have a look at the price of oil we do that on the show don't we
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on the low ceasers breakfast club hashtag the real lbc some of the headlines or some of the
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things are saying oil has spiked the price of oil has spiked again yeah not really a little bit
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it's hovering about the same isn't it west texas bang on 100 bucks a barrel right now
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Now, if anyone in the world, anyone in the world they can sort of promote for overexposure,
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It couldn't be more sort of bread and circuses could it
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While we're getting demographically replaced
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Industrial scale sexual assault against our native women
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Socialist government tanking our economy in real time
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Who's broken up with Vernon Kaye instantly
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The very, very first thing you use to describe her in any way
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the star oh the star goes for something completely different that's a slop maybe not entirely slop
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maybe it might cause the death of loads and loads of people at some point later in the year i doubt
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it but they say the big the big stadium in mexico city because there's the world cup this summer
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isn't it it's been jointly hosted by america and mexico and is it also canada definitely the united
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States and Mexico, hosting the World Cup, Football World Cup, or soccer, if you're an
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American, their massive stadium is a massive stadium, it's sort of subsiding or sinking
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in some way, World Cup Stadium shock, they sink it all over again, I think I must have
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mentioned at least once before, they love this pun or wordplay, in 1966 in the World
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cup final right at the end when england beat west germany 4-2 we're winning 3-2 right at the end of
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the game seconds left to go before the final whistle some fans started running on the pitch
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literally seconds to go and then um west ham player scores another goal making it 4-2
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the commentator goes they think it's all over the fans they think it's all over
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it is now okay they think it's all over and the star goes with they sink it's all over do you
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get it do you get the clever clever wordplay it's probably absolutely nothing isn't it but
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well if that stadium did collapse with tens of thousands of people in it or a portion of it
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that would be a absolute terrible disaster saying they're saying there's big
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Those are the headlines of the front pages of the papers
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do you think trump should start bombing iran again we haven't talked about much about iran
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we'll do that now then but we asked you do you think he should like he's actually the
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at this point let's not talk about whether he should have started the war
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at all but now we're here now we're at this point in history is it actually the right thing at this
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point now to start bombing them again very very split almost perfectly down the middle
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do you think trump should start bombing iran yes 49 no 51 with over 1100 votes cast so
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perfect almost perfectly split down the middle isn't it so should we talk a bit about that why
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we ask that question specifically what's going on with with uh with trump and iran we've got
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an article here here we go look trump calls iran response to u.s proposal to end war totally
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unacceptable so what it is there's been this ceasefire hasn't there except it's not even a
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ceasefire they've exchanged fire a bit between each other but at least on the american side
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and so there's been back and forth and with the Pakistanis being mediators the Americans had this
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is just an overview there's a lot more to all of it but just to give you an overview Americans had
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a one-page memorandum sort of I think a 14-point memorandum all the points they need Iran to agree
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to Iran spent a few days or over the weekend mulling that apparently and finally gave a
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response which i'm not sure is fully published but the americans have seen it trump and the
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state department everything have seen it and trump said no it's totally unacceptable
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because apparently what it said or what it did say the iranian response to america's 14 point
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memorandum was that no we still insist on having we iran still insist on having full sovereignty
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full control over the straits of homus you need to stop your blockade we need to be able to sell
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our oil like straight away immediately your embargoes on us need to be halted for at least
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30 days uh and and we don't give up our right to keep enriching uranium we're not just going to give
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up the stockpiles we've got even if they are buried under a mountain or whatever so may all
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the main points that the united states and more importantly perhaps israel are insisting on
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iran still just not budging over them so trump says it's totally unacceptable
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okay so we're at a bit of an impasse then aren't we we're a bit of an impasse
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the americans and the israelis have got their line in the sand
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the things they're insisting upon and iran just won't budge
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we're not going to what now so i mean what now i i don't know the poll is does reflect my feeling
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i don't know i don't know i mean from a purely if you were if there was no real human life at stake
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there was nothing really like you were just playing a strategy game right
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You would start bombing them again, wouldn't you?
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Like from a completely emotionless point of view
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The avenues of diplomacy seem to have been exhausted
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So, I mean, watching things like Fox News, for example,
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a lot of them have been saying all over the weekend,
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all right, well, you know, they're hawkish, aren't they?
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It's very interesting, it's over 1,200 votes now
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As far as the Americans and the Israelis are concerned
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I feel like he doesn't want to do that, does he?
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I feel like his natural inclination is to not do that
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But I feel like he has painted himself into a corner a bit on that
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People say, you know, he's not dealing with a particularly rational actor in Iran
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A more normal government would have realised they'd beat militarily
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And conceded a bunch of things to the United States by this point
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Because it's saying, like, Ticey Dicey, Dick Tice, moral, political coward, Richard Tice
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But not really, though, because the party, Reform, have suspended him
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Or investigated him, so, I mean, what do you want, ITV News?
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They're trying to dunk on Reform here, but they have suspended him, so what do you want?
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All right, I mean, I don't think, I don't want to speak for what was in Mr. Kibin's
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mind, but I suspect that's like just a really dark humour joke, I doubt he genuinely really
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wants to physically melt down Nigerians, in order to fill potholes, it's just really
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really spicy humour isn't it, I would have thought.
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Alright, shall we have a look at On This Day in History
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You like that section, I like doing that section
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Becomes the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire
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isn't best placed strategically to govern a giant empire
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Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul, it's all the same place.
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He moved loads of the elite, sort of induced,
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Bring loads of the jewels, bring loads of the great statues with them.
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A massive shift in the Roman world towards the east during the reign of Constantine the Great,
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or the latter part of the reign of Constantine the Great.
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Some great chapters in Gibbon, if you're interested in that.
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In the year 1189, on this day, the home of Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbosa and 100,000 Crusaders
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really important one of the most important players in in europe there only roman emperor just
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accidentally quote-unquote accidentally drowned all right on this day in 1751 pennsylvania hospital
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is founded in philadelphia by dr thomas bond and benjamin franklin don't know a great amount about
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that particular hospital but i have got all sorts of content about the founding fathers and benjamin
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Franklin Benjamin Franklin fascinating dude I'm a big fan of Benjamin Franklin not everything he
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ever seen ever said and did but very very very interesting person Benjamin Franklin
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fascinating if you're interested in the founding fathers and the war of independence and the United
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States of the late 18th century start with Benjamin Franklin if you're interested in the
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Elizabethan age start with the person of Elizabeth the first learn all about her and then you can
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build out around her i think for the american war of independence a good place to start is
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benjamin franklin learn all about him and his life and then start building around that that's
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my advice okay on this day in 1812 the british prime minister spencer percival is assassinated
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by john benningham in the lobby of the house of commons london it says ironically descendants of
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Both later stand for the same seat in Parliament at the same time,
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Okay, there's the only Prime Minister ever to be assassinated
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1812, you might think, oh, is this to do with Napoleon in some way?
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The 20 years, almost World War, to do with Napoleon,
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he owed the russians loads of money and got himself into debt and back in those days you
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go to prison for debt they had whole debtors jails you got in too much debt you would put in prison
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not a bad way of doing it actually those actually maybe not these prisons were pretty bad anyway
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he went to prison for something like five years because he got in so much debt
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That he decided he was going to murder the Prime Minister
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Sweeps across the American and Canadian prairies
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yeah not a bad thing surely the doctrine of mad mutually assured destruction is a bit mad
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some say it's prevented many conventional wars since then and they may well not be wrong well
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they're not wrong it's good that mad is good and bad isn't it it's you can make the argument both
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ways but nonetheless most countries agreed to not even ever really start a nuclear program
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it's insanely expensive anyway you need loads and loads and loads of raw materials all of your own
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because the big players probably won't let you do it won't sell you what you need so you need to be
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a massive country to begin with probably and very very rich so the vast majority of countries could
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Okay, I'm interested in the history of nuclear weapons
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India's population officially reaches 1 billion.
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All right, shall we have a look at the Rumble Ransom Super Chats?
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let me do this with my mic boom so I can see the left hand side of my screen
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where my rumble rants are, alright, we've got two, who's in at number one, come on
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of Bosho rumble rants, Global Church History, you've got to get up
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quite literally early in the morning to beat this guy, thanks buddy, I appreciate it
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world? Loads. For hours and hours and hours. You reckon it's there? Behind the paywall?
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You bet your sweet ass it's there. Yeah. So Edgar, St Edgar the Peaceful, what was he?
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God, off the top of my head now. He's the father of Ethel Red the Unready, isn't he?
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correct me if i'm wrong i think i think that's right i'm sure that's right
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so we're in like this almost the twilight of the anglo-saxon
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period now i mean it's got another 90 odd years
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it's towards the end of the anglo-saxon period the viking invasions started
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200 years before that right like the first raid on lindisfarne is in the 790s
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The King of Norway is now the King of England
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that's the end of that's the end of the anglo-saxon world so you might argue that the reign of edgar
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the peaceful and his queen elf gifu or f ethel with as you've put their classic anglo-saxon name
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um might be one of the last sort of quiet periods relatively quiet period
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of anglo-saxon rule throughout what the 960s 970s 980s
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all right and the other thing you've said there is and in 1502 christopher columbus embarked on
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his fourth and final voyage yeah there you go you said yeah i often like to mention that if ever
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christopher columbus comes up just to mention he did it more than once as soon as he did it pretty
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much as soon as he crossed the ocean blue people just realized oh it totally can be done as long
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you've got enough water and biscuit and enough balls you can just do that so people start doing
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it loads he himself did it four times okay all right interesting the only other rumble rant
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we've got this morning is from 14 barbara thank you sir he's a uh super fan appreciate it thank
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you morning sir you're all right i'm all right cheers hope you're doing well hope you had a good
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weekend. Have you read The Prince by Machiavelli? Yeah. Yeah. Got content on it. In conversation
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with one Mr. Carl Benjamin, got a long-form bit of content on it. Read it more than once.
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Listen to it on audiobook more than once. It's a must. You say, have I read it? If so,
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any good. I doubt that Starmer will quit, but I imagine some Labour MPs will join reform
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and make the government smaller so uh is it any good yes it's fascinating if that's your sort of
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thing i mean is what is 15th century italian a 15th century italian thing it's like dedicated
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to the medici but if you're interested in sort of well well politics grand the grand view of
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politics and power then yeah it's not the easiest thing to get into it's not as simple as reading a
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Dan Brown novel you've got to get your ear in you've got to get used to it and he references
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loads of things that he doesn't explain so if you're not familiar with 15th century Italian
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politics you might have to stop a fair bit and read up who's that you know what's that a reference
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to what does he mean when he's saying that there's a bit of that to it but perhaps if you get one
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where there's loads of footnotes and it will tell you what he's talking about um definitely worth a
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read definitely worth a read i would say some of the things he says are timeless absolutely timeless
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like don't allow yourself to be invaded by foreign people don't try and create a mercenary army of
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foreigners loads of things keep your eye on the prize power is all important yeah loads of things
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that absolutely ring true to this day and almost certainly always will whilst the human condition
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whilst humans are the way they are will remain true is it good yes it's good it's worth a read
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okay you say i doubt the starmer will quit yeah me too but i imagine some labor mps will join
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reform and make the government smaller labor mps joining reform one or two maybe
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the staunch starmer rats in cabinet won't be doing that will they but um yeah maybe a few
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YouTube superchats there's a few of these a dozen or so let's whip through them
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it's a comma there uh long time no see hope you had been well some good news if you don't talk
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about it if the one nation party won this is in australia isn't it one party nation uh one nation
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party won the by-election in in fairer australia that's our reform restore party oh good yeah i
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know that the one nation party is your equivalent of the right leaning right of center party yeah
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so they they won a by-election today i didn't see that well done we do have some aussie news
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don't we i don't use these tabs very much anymore but we've got sky news australia
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is this has this been re uh refreshed oh anyway
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anyway good if that's the case there was a by-election and the one nation party won it
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and put Big Bird from Sesame Street's legs on it
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how's that not funny there's no way that's not going to be funny to me
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okay thomas tyne says you know what would be great is if here in the u.s we could get people
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to vote for some new party instead of freaking red and blue forever and ever yeah yeah yeah
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that'd be great wouldn't it to break the two-party system in the united states would be great
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it's even more difficult there than it is here it's very very difficult here but it's even harder
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there because they've got it sewn up in all sorts of different ways occasionally the libertarian
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party have sort of just about a look in don't they you have to get to a certain level before
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you're even sort of allowed to take part in tv debates and all sorts of things aren't there
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there's sort of quite a high threshold but that would be great yeah when there's a two-party
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system and it's so sewn up like that it's almost like a one-party system isn't it it's basically
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a one-party system in all but name isn't it you might get a maverick like donald trump
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he still has to operate within that paradigm doesn't he so i couldn't agree with you more
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i would love to see the two-party system broken in the united states that would be great
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they will do everything in their power to prevent that shona again says uh there's a war in britain
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I mean, not exactly, but I guess I know what you're saying.
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Mr Gently Benevolent says, don't be so quick to rule it out, Bo.
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repurposing chemi and co to pothole filling would solve two issues at once
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oh spicy that's a spicy tamale this chap might be onto something
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i shan't comment unless the channel gets cheated
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but okay thanks for the super chat there's certain things you say oh why are you shying
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away from that you're afraid to say this or that well yeah because if you go too far you just get
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strikes and warnings and then yeeted and then it's nothing is it at that point then
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i always i always find fed posts are saying just keep saying more and more and more until you get
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yeeted and may be arrested well no thanks thanks no that's no criticism of you mr gently benevolent
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by the way you're a super fan but when people say oh you're scared of saying that you won't
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descriptions, I don't know what you're talking about there, sorry sir
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Do you know what he might be getting at I'm not quite sure what
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Historians after the fact give them those names
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in 2025 he dyed his beard green i did not see anyone with a green beard i must admit i'm sorry
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about that beardy weirdy rob he won a best beard competition more than one two time back to back
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the two time i didn't meet him i'm afraid all right okay that's the show it's now 10 past nine
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in the am my finger seems to stop bleeding on monday the 11th of may in the year of our law
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2026 thank you for watching without you it isn't a thing you've been the glorious band the chosen
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few my band of brothers and sisters try and make the best of the day ahead and i say every day but
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i'm going to keep doing it because it's really really important the most valuable thing you have
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by far is your time if you can use it as you see fit today try and do something valuable with it
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you will never have this day again you've got a finite number of days on this earth try and make
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account all right without being too preachy until tomorrow morning take care