The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Wednesday 6th May 2026

00:00:00.000 morning are you all right i hope you are sincerely hope you are right i don't wish

00:00:08.320 you tailed rocking around for the day head come on wake up wake up the day's half over

00:00:16.640 wakey wakey eggs and bakey okay it is eight in the a.m british summer time or what is it

00:00:21.520 wednesday now wednesday the 6th of may in the year of our lord 2026 as always i'm joined by

00:00:26.320 my patricia little harry how are you this morning good sir morning yeah i'm all good good good you're

00:00:31.600 the glorious band the chosen few my band of brothers and sisters the very best among us

00:00:36.000 without you it isn't a thing thank you for joining in thank you for being here what more could ask

00:00:40.160 more get involved in the chat and the poll we got a poll up have we yeah okay get involved in that

00:00:46.960 why not it's free should we stop faffing about should we just stop fannying about and get on with

00:00:54.480 Get on with what's in the news cycle this morning

00:00:57.140 What's the legacy corporate mainstream media

00:00:59.480 Hanging on about this morning

00:01:01.020 What's that evil cabal of Fleet Street editors

00:01:02.640 Trying to tell you is or isn't important

00:01:03.960 What are they lying to you about by omission if nothing else

00:01:07.260 In their little WhatsApp group

00:01:10.140 Their little boomer Facebook group 0.96

00:01:11.400 Don't talk about the Ukrainian rent boy arson crimes

00:01:15.180 Don't talk about who Epstein really was

00:01:21.780 And what he was doing and for what purpose

00:01:23.420 Yeah

00:01:24.260 Right, we've got

00:01:28.640 Borrowing costs hit 28 year higher

00:01:32.800 The bond market guilt

00:01:35.280 And come cry with me

00:01:39.620 A pun on come fly with me

00:01:44.240 You know that Frank Sinatra song

00:01:46.440 But there's so many flights being cut

00:01:48.840 That it might make you cry

00:01:50.560 Come cry with me, come fly with me

00:01:53.120 you get it you get it okay we start with the guardian oh god it's far too early for that

00:02:00.420 geez louise the guardian labor under pressure after uk borrowing hits 28 year higher

00:02:10.240 great we can't really afford to borrow much anyway i mean borrowing selling selling guilt-edged

00:02:19.440 Bonds, government bonds

00:02:20.880 There was a headline the other day wasn't there

00:02:29.220 Something about, something along the lines of

00:02:31.680 A Labour return to the

00:02:33.520 1970s

00:02:34.500 Which is referenced to in the 1970s

00:02:37.500 Britain was in a bit

00:02:39.520 Of a slump economically, well in

00:02:41.400 More ways than one, but certainly economically

00:02:43.240 Largely Labour governments all through the 70s

00:02:45.560 And they mismanaged the economy

00:02:47.260 To some degree, there was a

00:02:48.860 in fact there was an oil crisis in the early 70s as well

00:02:51.300 the OPEC sort of oil crisis

00:02:53.340 a very different one to this one

00:02:54.500 but anyway

00:02:55.360 the economy was in the doldrums

00:02:59.060 we even had power cuts and things

00:03:00.580 people like four day week and stuff

00:03:03.220 in the end

00:03:05.040 the Labour government had to go to

00:03:07.260 the International Monetary Fund

00:03:09.700 and borrow money

00:03:10.640 that's how bad

00:03:13.260 the public purse was

00:03:15.460 Are we going to have to

00:03:18.220 Is that something like that going to have to happen again

00:03:20.020 We're going to have to borrow

00:03:21.520 Billions and billions and billions

00:03:24.280 Just to

00:03:25.140 Try and stave off

00:03:27.500 Utter bankruptcy

00:03:29.340 Because we're spending so much on what

00:03:32.560 Foreign aid, internal welfare bills

00:03:35.180 The NHS 1.00

00:03:36.040 Stupid stuff 1.00

00:03:38.220 UK government bonds 1.00

00:03:43.600 Not that great

00:03:45.920 Loads of other world markets

00:03:50.740 Like giant hedge funds

00:03:51.800 Or whatever

00:03:52.160 Pension funds

00:03:52.740 They really want to stock up

00:03:54.420 On UK government bonds

00:03:55.660 Not particularly

00:03:58.020 Fear's long term bonds sell off

00:04:01.980 Could blow hole in Reeves' spending plans

00:04:03.980 Yeah 1.00

00:04:04.140 Her spending plans 0.97

00:04:05.840 Are insane 0.99

00:04:08.740 Just tons and tons more spending

00:04:10.260 We need to be

00:04:11.640 Cutting spending

00:04:12.880 massively as bad as that would be you know as much as that would be uh

00:04:20.580 you know that that's not pleasant in and of itself of course but that's the prudent thing to do that's

00:04:27.060 the right thing to do just like a normal person just like you or i if you live beyond your means

00:04:32.680 you just spend way more money than you make so much more that you have to get a credit card

00:04:37.840 you have to get a loan from a bank or a loan shark or whatever okay you max all of that out

00:04:43.960 then what then what you max out your overdraft you max out every single credit card anyone

00:04:52.500 would dare let you have get loans from the dodgest of places

00:04:57.420 but once you've exhausted all of that then what and you're still planning to spend more

00:05:04.060 What nonsense

00:05:07.280 What nonsense

00:05:08.160 Rachel Reeves 1.00

00:05:10.660 She doesn't

00:05:12.120 I don't think

00:05:12.740 I really don't think

00:05:13.660 She understands

00:05:14.520 Economics

00:05:15.540 Basically

00:05:15.980 Like really

00:05:18.220 Really really simple

00:05:19.160 101 stuff

00:05:20.040 Like the first month

00:05:22.160 Of doing an A level

00:05:23.120 In economics

00:05:23.960 That sort of level 0.98

00:05:25.520 She doesn't seem to 1.00

00:05:26.420 Well she's a socialist 0.53

00:05:28.000 She's a lefty 0.98

00:05:28.640 So of course she doesn't

00:05:29.700 It's almost like

00:05:32.040 They want to tank the economy

00:05:33.380 it really does feel like that

00:05:38.260 okay 0.98

00:05:40.540 there's Beyonce wearing some absurd dress 1.00

00:05:44.200 okay 0.58

00:05:44.940 absurd

00:05:46.880 not absurd

00:05:49.200 fast track hate crime cases

00:05:52.100 it's not a two tier system though

00:05:54.640 if you do some sort of hate crime

00:05:56.980 particularly against Jews

00:05:58.620 you get fast tracked straight through the courts

00:06:02.200 Not a two tier system though

00:06:04.760 Remember a few years ago

00:06:07.700 Maybe as much as ten years ago

00:06:08.900 People say Beyonce's like the most beautiful woman in the world

00:06:13.460 I never saw it myself

00:06:16.900 Never saw it

00:06:25.200 The Financial Times

00:06:26.800 Some nonsense story about

00:06:29.460 Russian music being played in an art gallery

00:06:31.780 all right long-term borrowing costs highest in decades as prolonged inflation looms great

00:06:37.860 we've already had prolonged inflation haven't we we've already had years and years and years of

00:06:43.380 relatively high if not sometimes very high inflation just gonna keep going

00:06:48.420 things are really really expensive what's my go-to thing for moaning about inflation cheese

00:06:53.620 go and buy a block of cheese in tesco or sainsbury's or something just gonna keep going

00:07:00.740 Toiletries are really expensive, right?

00:07:03.680 Go and buy some shower gel

00:07:04.920 A can of deodorant or something

00:07:06.600 Some toothpaste

00:07:07.160 How much?

00:07:08.660 How much do you want for that?

00:07:11.160 It's not funny

00:07:11.680 It's not funny

00:07:12.840 I'm laughing in a concerned, anxious laugh

00:07:16.120 Can't afford things

00:07:18.800 Middle Eastern crisis deepens

00:07:22.380 Guilt yields a top 1998 level

00:07:26.380 Elections add uncertainty

00:07:29.260 Reeves buffer at risk

00:07:30.780 There's no real buffer

00:07:31.600 The figures don't add up

00:07:34.540 Obviously not

00:07:35.160 Okay the telegraph

00:07:37.620 The daily

00:07:38.180 Daily torograph

00:07:39.800 Almost as left wing

00:07:41.220 As everything else

00:07:41.920 On Fleet Street

00:07:42.540 There's the Duchess Sophie 0.98

00:07:47.260 That's 0.75

00:07:47.900 Edward's

00:07:48.900 Wife 0.94

00:07:49.920 The oldest boy

00:07:52.780 Obviously King Charles

00:07:54.060 Andrew

00:07:55.600 Disgraced Andy

00:07:56.780 The next boy

00:07:57.760 And then there's another one

00:07:58.560 Little Eddie 1.00

00:07:59.340 That's his missus 1.00

00:08:01.760 She's talking some nonsense about something I've got no idea and don't care about

00:08:05.100 Okay, Starmer could cost us elections, says Welsh leader

00:08:08.820 So, things to say

00:08:09.720 It's not just a lot of the councils and the local elections in England

00:08:16.180 It's also for the devolved parliaments in Scotland and Wales as well, this election tomorrow

00:08:21.120 And as that headline says

00:08:26.380 The Labour leader in Wales

00:08:30.080 Fears they could get wiped out

00:08:33.240 Or largely wiped out

00:08:34.120 I think there's

00:08:34.680 I might be wrong

00:08:35.760 I think there's 60 seats

00:08:38.000 In that Welsh Parliament

00:08:40.340 I won't even attempt to say the name

00:08:42.500 Some countries don't like it

00:08:46.400 When you attempt their words

00:08:47.620 And mispronounce them

00:08:49.160 Have you ever gone to France

00:08:51.920 And tried to speak some French to a French person 1.00

00:08:54.200 And they're just like, don't, don't 0.60

00:08:55.840 Please, you're embarrassing yourself

00:08:57.120 You're embarrassing me and you

00:08:58.100 I can speak some English, let's just do that

00:09:00.760 Don't butcher our words, please

00:09:03.060 I think sometimes 1.00

00:09:06.140 Some Welsh people are a bit like that 1.00

00:09:07.640 So anyway, 60 odd seats

00:09:12.240 There

00:09:12.640 And maybe, controlled by Labour, isn't it?

00:09:17.340 And

00:09:17.540 And they may well get wiped out there

00:09:19.940 I mean, very may well

00:09:20.860 Plaid Cymru

00:09:23.660 I've pronounced that terribly, haven't I?

00:09:27.620 I shouldn't even have tried

00:09:28.500 The Greens and Reform may all do well

00:09:32.040 Everyone except for the Tories and Labour

00:09:35.140 That's what the polls across the board are showing

00:09:38.400 Labour getting absolutely annihilated

00:09:41.560 But also the Tories losing out

00:09:43.900 As a net overall

00:09:45.960 Final result

00:09:47.600 Now they might pick up some here

00:09:49.500 But they'll lose a few more overall

00:09:51.320 Labour massively getting trounced

00:09:54.460 And the Tories being

00:09:55.840 Weakened

00:09:57.420 Lib Dems probably somewhere in and around

00:10:00.540 About where they always were

00:10:01.560 And everyone else

00:10:03.680 Whether it's Independent, SMP

00:10:05.960 By Cymru

00:10:08.020 I shouldn't say it

00:10:09.140 I should get Voice of Wales

00:10:11.940 To tell me how to say it properly shouldn't I

00:10:13.840 And of course

00:10:16.380 Reform

00:10:17.560 Independence 0.96

00:10:19.780 And hopefully in Great Yarmouth 1.00

00:10:21.740 Great Yarmouth first

00:10:25.040 Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain

00:10:28.360 Thing, there

00:10:29.660 I think I should be going

00:10:33.820 I might even like

00:10:35.060 Do some sort of report

00:10:38.120 Not live

00:10:38.660 We'll take a camera

00:10:40.860 And a cameraman there

00:10:41.980 And maybe do a little filming

00:10:43.660 On the night

00:10:44.260 Tomorrow night

00:10:44.960 I'll still be back

00:10:45.940 For the bow show

00:10:46.420 On Friday morning

00:10:47.060 Don't you worry about that

00:10:48.540 I'm committed to you guys

00:10:49.640 I shall only ever miss

00:10:52.240 A bow show

00:10:52.820 If it's either

00:10:53.340 If it's either

00:10:54.720 Completely booked in

00:10:56.420 Long ahead of time

00:10:57.200 Because I've got

00:10:57.640 Sort of legally

00:10:58.540 Got to take holiday

00:10:59.380 Or if I'm badly ill

00:11:02.620 If I've had an accident

00:11:04.760 And break my leg

00:11:05.440 Or I'm just really

00:11:06.640 Really

00:11:07.080 Really genuinely

00:11:08.220 Bedridden with

00:11:09.440 Influenza

00:11:11.060 Or something

00:11:12.020 Otherwise

00:11:13.580 I shall be here, I shall turn up

00:11:15.360 So I'll come back from Great Yarmouth

00:11:18.080 Late night, Thursday night

00:11:19.600 To be here for Friday morning

00:11:20.940 That's my promise to you guys

00:11:23.520 Alright, so it looks like

00:11:26.440 Labour will get wiped out

00:11:28.160 Just across the board

00:11:29.020 In the councils in England

00:11:32.180 And in the devolved parliaments

00:11:33.840 In Scotland and Wales as well

00:11:35.060 Alright

00:11:35.500 Little story here

00:11:37.080 Civil servants 0.99

00:11:37.900 Fake office attendants

00:11:39.580 In work from home scandal

00:11:40.800 Yeah, you know people start to be able

00:11:42.440 to work from home a lot more during the COVID thing, then lots of people, particularly civil

00:11:47.180 servants, if reports are to be believed, a lot of them just kept doing that, or if not

00:11:54.620 did it more. Well, this article says that lots and lots of civil servants haven't set

00:11:59.180 foot in the office since then, since the COVID days, sort of refusing to or something. And

00:12:08.300 when by law they had to they'll just fake it and lie about it and say yeah yeah i've come in

00:12:13.780 cover for each other or something i don't know what i don't know how how would you fiddle that

00:12:18.300 i don't know but i mean lots of civil servants just don't bother going to the office ever now

00:12:23.740 great that's great

00:12:27.740 all right

00:12:30.840 brexit blocks mccann suspect extradition well only for a little while don't worry about it

00:12:38.300 It'll be indefinitely

00:12:39.500 Okay, here's a little story, a crazy story

00:12:46.660 Report, quote, racist toddlers to police, nurseries told

00:12:52.040 Sounds like a parody, doesn't it? Sounds like a bad joke

00:12:55.680 Sounds like a far, far right, or perhaps far left, fantasy, isn't it?

00:13:01.140 But no, it's in Wales

00:13:02.760 There's some guidance came down from the devolved Welsh government

00:13:07.120 Specifically to nurseries

00:13:09.380 Saying if you see or hear

00:13:12.080 Any toddler

00:13:12.880 Doing or saying anything racist

00:13:16.320 Call the police

00:13:17.160 So they can record a

00:13:19.740 Hate incident

00:13:20.980 Right

00:13:25.720 Right

00:13:28.840 That's the word

00:13:30.760 Don't try and teach them

00:13:32.520 Or talk to them

00:13:33.240 Or reason with them

00:13:34.760 Or anything like that

00:13:36.760 Just call the police

00:13:38.220 On a toddler

00:13:40.780 That's the sort of world leftists want

00:13:45.280 That's the sort of world anti-racists want

00:13:47.540 Isn't it? 0.79

00:13:52.980 What a disgusting sort of society that is 0.63

00:13:55.560 Thanks anti-racism 0.65

00:13:58.680 Brilliant

00:14:00.320 Okay, the mirror, pure slop 0.97

00:14:04.360 Something about Kylie Minogue, don't care 0.98

00:14:06.460 PM's election message

00:14:09.520 We're still the only ones on your side

00:14:12.020 Who believes that?

00:14:14.520 Really, who believes that?

00:14:20.380 Starmer and this Labour government

00:14:22.460 Is the only one on your side

00:14:26.280 Yeah

00:14:27.520 Absolute nonsense

00:14:31.140 Starmer says 0.98

00:14:32.140 We've boosted workers' rights

00:14:34.040 Reduced NHS waiting lists

00:14:36.000 Well

00:14:36.520 Boosted workers rights in like a socialist way

00:14:40.960 Reduced NHS weightiness

00:14:42.940 No I don't believe so

00:14:43.900 You'd have to measure that in a very very specific way

00:14:47.380 To try and spin that

00:14:48.300 Created 2000 new GPs

00:14:51.060 Is that even true

00:14:52.160 Stood up to Trump over Iran

00:14:54.360 I'll give you that

00:14:55.200 And we promise better is on the way

00:14:58.200 Oh don't worry about all the endless sleeves

00:15:02.160 Don't worry about that you made

00:15:03.220 abortion abortion legal up to the point of birth don't worry about you're trying to give away

00:15:08.200 foreign territories don't worry about you're demonizing all the troops don't worry about

00:15:12.140 you trying to bring in id cards one of the most dystopian things you could imagine and on and on

00:15:18.420 and on and on don't worry about the manderson thing don't worry about the endless u-turns

00:15:22.860 don't worry about you destroying the high street and taxing people into oblivion

00:15:27.020 Don't worry about you

00:15:31.260 You've done nothing about the small boats 1.00

00:15:33.480 Legal migration 1.00

00:15:35.360 Still being flooded by foreign people 1.00

00:15:37.860 Locking in our demographic decline 1.00

00:15:41.400 Making us a hated and marginalised minority

00:15:45.460 In our one and only ancestral homeland 0.75

00:15:46.960 No?

00:15:49.120 Oh

00:15:49.400 Oh, but you boosted workers' rights 0.98

00:15:52.480 Look, the mirror

00:15:59.020 You get it though, the mirror is standing for him

00:16:01.640 Really, isn't it? Look, they've put that on the front page

00:16:03.600 There's no editorial bit saying 1.00

00:16:05.460 What nonsense, what a loser, what an idiot, no one believes that 1.00

00:16:07.580 No, that's what 1.00

00:16:08.400 They're peddling that

00:16:10.600 The times, the venerable times

00:16:16.000 Something about Paul McCartney, don't care

00:16:17.840 Polanski's false claims about Red Cross role

00:16:21.660 During a deputy run 1.00

00:16:23.080 It's a slightly funny story

00:16:24.440 That Zach Polanski

00:16:26.860 Real name Dave Paulden

00:16:27.860 David Paulden

00:16:29.960 Apparently in the past

00:16:34.220 He had

00:16:36.220 Claimed that he

00:16:38.500 Worked for the Red Cross

00:16:40.900 That he was their spokesman

00:16:43.100 And he just wasn't

00:16:45.180 So just lying

00:16:47.060 Well apparently what it was

00:16:50.180 on a website or something

00:16:51.660 this was when he was running to be the

00:16:53.960 deputy leader of the Greens

00:16:55.320 a few years ago in 2022 around then

00:16:57.880 and he just said a number of times

00:16:59.980 I think on a website and in person he just said

00:17:02.100 like we

00:17:02.680 about the Red Cross we do such and such

00:17:06.060 we did such and such

00:17:06.920 or that he was actually their spokesman

00:17:09.920 or something and he just wasn't and the Red Cross

00:17:12.020 have said he was never our spokesman

00:17:13.720 but what he did do apparently

00:17:15.560 according to the article and other articles

00:17:17.960 um

00:17:19.200 you know other things about zach polanski um real name dave paulham um is that he did like appear

00:17:30.560 on stage with them something or other at some sort of events he was on stage with them more

00:17:36.740 than once even you know talking to obviously somehow he in some way of associated himself

00:17:44.620 with them to speak like we are doing something we think something or other he wasn't i mean it's a

00:17:51.880 little bit of a nitpicky thing whether he wasn't their spokesman at all formally he sort of suggested

00:17:58.960 he was a bit shady and dishonest but not i mean it's not completely insane it's not like saying

00:18:06.500 I'm an astronaut

00:18:07.160 when you're not

00:18:07.860 or something

00:18:08.220 but

00:18:08.500 okay

00:18:10.660 alright

00:18:11.020 new powers

00:18:14.900 to treat

00:18:15.340 Iran proxies

00:18:16.260 as foreign 0.74

00:18:16.740 spies

00:18:17.340 fine

00:18:19.020 let's do that

00:18:19.500 for all

00:18:19.980 countries

00:18:20.440 let's try

00:18:23.140 and rid 0.90

00:18:23.560 these islands

00:18:24.460 of 0.92

00:18:25.080 foreign

00:18:26.200 espionage

00:18:27.160 if we

00:18:28.040 can

00:18:28.340 across

00:18:32.580 the board

00:18:33.280 that would

00:18:35.140 be nice

00:18:35.580 wouldn't it

00:18:36.500 Criminals acting for Tehran face 14 years in jail 0.99

00:18:41.220 Nice, good 1.00

00:18:41.940 Got no problem with that

00:18:43.180 Now do everyone else

00:18:44.360 MI5, MI6, GCHQ

00:18:47.840 Can you do your job? 1.00

00:18:51.200 Can you try and rid us of Chinese influence? 0.99

00:19:00.480 Israeli influence? 0.66

00:19:02.580 No, just Tehran, is it? 1.00

00:19:04.120 Just the Iranians 0.96

00:19:04.980 oh but it's not a two-tier system sure sure 0.99

00:19:19.260 okay the sun same picture of beyonce there weird

00:19:26.760 as iran hit straight 13 000 flights axed for may that's domestic uk not just not just domestic

00:19:37.800 inwardly but flights from the uk to the rest of the world 13 000 of those axed for the month of

00:19:43.740 may holes chaos over fuel shortages holes holidays vacation vacation chaos over fuel shortages

00:19:53.200 come cry with me let's cry let's cry away oh blue eyes frank snarcher you gotta love it

00:20:01.580 you get it though come come fly with me and come cry with me they rhyme don't they

00:20:07.920 very clever the sun very very clever wordplay i got a team of wordsmiths working around the

00:20:15.560 clock on that one come cry with me okay the eye paper about the best you get out of fleets

00:20:22.220 Isn't it a little blurb on the front of the iPaper

00:20:23.880 Millions face flight cancellations

00:20:26.140 As jet fuel shortage deepens

00:20:28.300 And Iran's ceasefire falters

00:20:30.100 Well it's not a ceasefire 0.97

00:20:31.160 If they're blowing up stuff in the UAE 0.83

00:20:33.300 Then there isn't a ceasefire is it

00:20:35.620 Hexist came out yesterday I think

00:20:37.520 And just said there's still a ceasefire

00:20:39.300 That still holds, that's still a thing

00:20:41.520 But it's not though

00:20:43.400 Is it

00:20:44.000 Isn't Israel still doing loads of stuff in Lebanon

00:20:47.600 Isn't it 0.98

00:20:48.200 I mean

00:20:49.300 Oh but there's a ceasefire because Pete Hegseth says there is

00:20:52.960 Okay, yeah alright

00:20:54.360 Alright Pete

00:21:00.280 Britain set to be among countries hardest hit by jet fuel shortages this summer

00:21:07.520 With warnings that airlines will cut millions of seats on flights this month and next

00:21:12.480 We'll just go on holiday in Britain

00:21:15.140 Go on holiday to Norfolk or the Peak District or the Lake District

00:21:20.800 Or the Snowdonia region or the Scottish Highlands

00:21:24.640 Or anywhere on the South Coast

00:21:26.800 There's a million and one places in Britain which are absolutely beautiful

00:21:30.960 You don't have to spend your money abroad 1.00

00:21:34.520 And put it in the pockets of foreigners, do you? 0.89

00:21:37.300 You don't have to do that 0.62

00:21:38.620 13,000 flights have already been cancelled from May schedules

00:21:43.020 Quote, the longer the crisis goes on

00:21:45.620 The more cuts should be expected

00:21:47.420 Quote, warns aviation experts

00:21:49.460 War in the Middle East

00:21:51.460 Dangerously close to reigniting 0.80

00:21:53.540 It has reignited

00:21:54.580 Did it ever really stop exactly?

00:21:59.440 Not really, did it?

00:22:01.840 Okay, it's dangerously close to reigniting

00:22:03.640 What a weird way to characterise it

00:22:04.980 They're firing stuff at each other

00:22:06.400 Okay, dangerously close

00:22:07.720 After Iran launches barrage of drones and missiles

00:22:11.000 on the united arab emirates for a second day the contradiction about the double think the double

00:22:16.580 talk of that it's dangerously close to reigniting but there's been two days of barrage of drones and

00:22:23.700 missiles what are you talking about you think you're addressing a small child that can't

00:22:31.660 understand what words mean or what reality what reality is who are you kidding who do you think

00:22:38.420 You're kidding

00:22:38.740 Ceasefire remains enforced

00:22:41.440 Does it?

00:22:42.640 Despite clashes in the Straits of Hormuz

00:22:44.860 Says US

00:22:46.060 Yeah, it's weird isn't it? 0.79

00:22:48.720 How weird 0.97

00:22:49.220 A straight up liar 0.97

00:22:52.820 A straight up say 1.00

00:22:56.580 You know what your eyes are seeing

00:22:58.700 And your ears are hearing

00:22:59.700 Yeah, it's something else though

00:23:01.520 We admit that your eyes and your ears

00:23:03.540 Are experiencing what they're experiencing

00:23:05.040 But it's something else

00:23:08.420 It's a ceasefire

00:23:12.580 One particular opinion writer says

00:23:18.460 Ceasefire is on the brink

00:23:20.440 And may be out of Trump's control

00:23:22.420 Maybe

00:23:23.420 I mean

00:23:24.520 Trump is saying stuff like

00:23:28.040 Everything's

00:23:28.640 I think there's quite literally one of his quotes from yesterday

00:23:31.240 Perhaps the day before

00:23:32.780 He's saying

00:23:33.220 Everything's under control

00:23:34.460 Everything's going well 1.00

00:23:35.300 And we're close to getting a deal with Iran

00:23:37.120 relax everything's under control basically i mean that's a very i'm paraphrasing but it's 0.58

00:23:44.220 very very close to his exact words we've got it under control it's like well have you though

00:23:51.260 doesn't really look like it particularly

00:23:54.240 all right can't criticize trump otherwise you've got tds if you criticize trump at all you've got 0.51

00:24:03.520 tds if you back him up in any way you're a zio shill what can you do what can you do

00:24:13.280 it's like talking about ukraine and russia you say anything pro-putin 0.58

00:24:17.120 you're a kremlin shill you're being paid by the kremlin

00:24:21.840 right if you if you say anything kind about ukraine in any way you're just a zelensky shill

00:24:28.640 all right the independent here's a story about i mentioned i think i've mentioned it really

00:24:37.440 briefly yesterday and i only mentioned it briefly here there's this one cruise ship

00:24:40.400 it's currently anchored off of the cape verde islands i believe

00:24:43.680 and some sort of quite bad virus broken out there three people dead

00:24:47.680 and um you know it's like a it's like a plague ship now it's not the plague but

00:24:56.120 And it says they're airlifting some people off

00:25:00.660 Because it probably spread

00:25:04.500 Or has started to spread amongst loads of other people

00:25:06.640 That would be worrying

00:25:09.980 Even a ship that's relatively large like that

00:25:12.320 I mean it's not gigantic is it

00:25:13.500 But it's relatively large

00:25:14.480 You knew that there was a truly deadly virus

00:25:18.880 On board that ship

00:25:19.700 And you're not allowed off

00:25:21.060 You know it's quarantined

00:25:22.240 Effectively

00:25:24.440 No one wants you

00:25:25.640 off that ship you've just got to stay there for days and days and days maybe weeks on end just

00:25:31.640 largely sitting in your room hoping you don't get ill and if you do get ill you might actually die 0.64

00:25:36.960 it'd be terrifying wouldn't it be horrible okay ceasefire shattered as iran fires drones and

00:25:42.480 missiles at uae u.s insists middle east truce is holding the truce is holding even as united arab

00:25:51.480 emirate defenses come under attack for a second day and clashes resume in Straits of Hormuz

00:25:55.840 despite Trump's project freedom to protect ships. I saw someone in the chat yesterday saying why is

00:26:02.220 Bo saying that the UAE is coming under attack when it's when it's just it's just Iran attacking

00:26:09.740 US sites in the UAE. Why is Bo being disingenuous pretending he doesn't understand that?

00:26:16.780 Well because that's not exactly what's going on is it? Fair amount of these attacks are on

00:26:20.900 the actual uae's oil infrastructure they're not just u.s military sites some are so it's partly

00:26:27.820 true that's not the only thing that's going on there people in chat say the strangest things

00:26:33.860 yes the other day we had a poll saying about should iran do you think trump will wipe iran 0.79

00:26:39.920 off the map someone in the chat's like what a dumb poll what you even say it doesn't even make 0.78

00:26:44.780 sense where'd you get that from it's trump's words those were trump's words get a clue 0.95

00:26:49.400 all right i love you chat though 99% of you are great and brilliant saying funny things

00:26:58.180 all the funny things all right so project freedom it's on pause at the moment that's the part of

00:27:09.120 epic fury apac fury project freedom is the element of it to escort like the 2 000 odd

00:27:21.920 ships that are stuck in the persian gulf because after you go through the straits of hormuz then

00:27:27.240 that whole sea above that is the persian gulf and there's no way out of that there's no canal

00:27:32.220 that gets you to the med or anything so if you can't get out of the straits of hormuz you're

00:27:37.080 stuck there you're stuck there forever so there's like 2 000 odd ships some of them obviously

00:27:43.500 massive cargo ships and massive tankers and their crews added up is something like 20 000 people

00:27:49.640 mostly men 20 000 odd men sort of stuck there won't take all that long before it's like an

00:27:56.940 actual humanitarian humanitarian crisis thing the conditions on board some of those ships must

00:28:04.240 already be getting quite bad if not very bad but Trump's paused it a couple different angles you

00:28:14.320 could take on that whether you know the Iranians or anyone who's pro-Iranian would say would argue

00:28:19.680 that he's lost his nerve again lost his bottle he's not capable of keeping it open the US Navy

00:28:24.620 is not capable of keeping it open that's what they would say right the other end of the spectrum or

00:28:28.820 trump himself is saying it's to do with negotiations we're trying to get around a

00:28:35.180 table still perhaps with the pakistanis as mediators and strike a deal and we need to

00:28:39.420 pause this operation or project freedom because of that that's the reason and it's only for a

00:28:46.360 short time anyway so who knows exactly it's not quite the fog of war is it but it's just

00:28:53.300 there's things going on behind the scenes that we don't find out about

00:28:56.060 In real time straight away do we

00:28:58.580 So exactly why

00:29:00.300 Project Freedom has been paused

00:29:02.820 Just a bit of speculation

00:29:06.040 Not sure entirely

00:29:07.600 The Metro

00:29:08.180 Oh just ain't come on Harry

00:29:09.460 Oh

00:29:10.580 The Metro's disgusting 1.00

00:29:13.440 Traitorous globalist 1.00

00:29:14.860 Commie slop 1.00

00:29:16.480 The Metro 1.00

00:29:18.880 I think it's the worst

00:29:19.680 I think it's the worst

00:29:20.820 The Metro

00:29:23.320 The people behind the Metro

00:29:25.520 our 5th columnists

00:29:27.520 Want to look into their subversion MI5?

00:29:36.900 No?

00:29:37.620 No

00:29:37.920 No

00:29:39.920 After Martical

00:29:43.520 Fear over kill list plot

00:29:45.200 Oh, so this is a story about

00:29:46.900 Various people in the UK that are either

00:29:49.420 Iranian or just

00:29:50.400 Massive critics of the Iranian regime

00:29:53.240 That they've been targeted

00:29:55.160 The headline reads

00:29:56.800 A target on the backs of UK Iran critics 1.00

00:30:00.140 Do you think someone like

00:30:02.840 Maya Tusi 1.00

00:30:05.140 Maya let us know you're alright

00:30:09.940 Hashtag pray for Maya

00:30:12.080 They don't mention him

00:30:15.760 But there's other people that are just vocal

00:30:18.260 Iranian critics

00:30:19.660 And apparently their details

00:30:21.080 Somehow were like

00:30:22.320 Posted online

00:30:24.180 They were sort of doxed effectively

00:30:25.560 Doxing

00:30:26.900 So we'll see where that goes

00:30:32.340 But

00:30:32.660 Alright

00:30:35.620 The Express

00:30:37.640 Oh it's a good paper

00:30:39.280 The Express

00:30:41.320 Something about ice being terrible

00:30:46.320 In the United States

00:30:47.060 Don't care

00:30:47.600 Unremovable

00:30:49.520 Is the headline

00:30:50.700 And the Express

00:30:51.960 Unremovable

00:30:52.720 And there's a picture of 0.75

00:30:53.640 you know invaders barbaric invaders every single one of them by definition a criminal

00:31:01.040 it's against the law to just cross the channel like that 0.56

00:31:04.600 that they're unremovable i mean the sub headline thing says britain's broken asylum

00:31:13.220 system laid bare as figures reveal only 495 small boat arrivals from afghanistan eritrea

00:31:21.020 Iran and Iraq have been deported since 2018

00:31:24.720 Since 2018

00:31:28.240 Eight years ago, eight years worth

00:31:32.820 200 odd thousand people arrived on these small boats 1.00

00:31:36.760 Invaders, criminal invaders 1.00

00:31:38.640 And under 500 of them have been deported from those countries 0.80

00:31:46.760 Hardly any, basically hardly any at all

00:31:49.340 In fact some of them do extreme crimes

00:31:53.760 Get convicted of it and sentenced and convicted and sent to prison

00:31:57.500 Then after that are still not deported

00:31:59.960 In Bows Britain 0.97

00:32:05.980 We would repeal any legislation, any foreign treaty 1.00

00:32:13.080 Preventing us from deporting these people

00:32:15.560 And pass new Acts of Parliament, whatever was required

00:32:19.160 To just deport them 0.90

00:32:20.620 And if their countries of origins 1.00

00:32:24.980 Won't take them

00:32:25.900 Or have a full blown diplomatic

00:32:27.800 Spat with that country

00:32:30.080 Ultimately find an island

00:32:32.760 Like St Helena or something

00:32:33.920 And put them there 0.97

00:32:34.600 Until their countries of origin 1.00

00:32:37.100 Take them back 0.87

00:32:37.760 Something like that

00:32:38.880 Just simply not allow them

00:32:41.300 To be in the general population

00:32:42.740 Of this country

00:32:44.160 That's what I would do

00:32:48.280 Something along those lines

00:32:49.360 They'll get medieval about it

00:32:51.760 These are filth

00:32:53.620 These are criminal filth 0.89

00:32:55.380 Invading our country 0.99

00:32:58.700 In order to sponge off us 1.00

00:33:02.920 And commit insane crimes

00:33:05.300 Some of them

00:33:06.040 His name was Wayne Broadcast

00:33:11.960 How many?

00:33:14.660 How many rapes by these people 1.00

00:33:16.800 Is it going to take? 1.00

00:33:18.280 Before globalists accept it's a problem

00:33:21.400 It's an issue 1.00

00:33:22.000 There isn't an upper limit of number of rapes are there 1.00

00:33:24.580 For those types of people 1.00

00:33:26.440 Open borders people

00:33:28.100 Leftists

00:33:29.600 Traitors 1.00

00:33:31.480 You'll see a story that a boat migrant 1.00

00:33:35.500 Has committed a rape and just forget about it 1.00

00:33:37.640 Just well it happens 1.00

00:33:39.220 Native white people also do rapes don't they 1.00

00:33:41.280 No no no no 1.00

00:33:48.280 One day a real rain is going to come

00:33:50.740 Sweep them away 1.00

00:33:52.940 Back to their countries of origin 1.00

00:33:55.740 We've got to clear them out 1.00

00:33:57.400 Clear them out 0.54

00:33:59.400 Alright

00:34:03.280 Shall we have a look at our poll

00:34:05.280 What was our poll today?

00:34:07.640 Harry, you have to put it up on my screen

00:34:09.120 Make it so

00:34:09.720 Engage

00:34:11.760 Alright, we asked you guys this morning

00:34:13.520 Do you think Keir Starmer will call

00:34:17.160 a snap general election if the party tried to remove him interesting there's a story here

00:34:24.160 somewhere where nigel said that where is it was it there with me there we go on the express

00:34:37.500 farage says labor will be quote smashed to smithereens quote at the ballot box that is

00:34:44.920 And predicts early general election

00:34:47.500 I even saw one headline saying

00:34:49.240 Something from Keir Starmer

00:34:50.280 Not like he was at a lectern and gave a quote

00:34:53.340 But just people on the inside

00:34:54.620 That he's contemplating it

00:34:58.220 He might contemplate it

00:34:59.860 Anyway we asked you guys

00:35:01.580 Do you think he would 1.00

00:35:02.680 No the ayes have it 0.99

00:35:04.420 It's relatively close

00:35:06.040 Again we didn't give you a maybe option

00:35:07.700 So yes or no

00:35:09.760 55% of you say yes

00:35:12.760 Over 800 odd votes

00:35:15.200 Well over 800

00:35:15.940 55% of you say yes

00:35:17.820 45% say no

00:35:19.800 Yeah you know

00:35:22.240 My feeling was when people first

00:35:24.160 Started talking about this

00:35:25.700 My thought was just that

00:35:28.280 The whole time has been no

00:35:29.980 Starmer won't do that

00:35:31.820 He wouldn't do that

00:35:33.700 For a number of reasons

00:35:35.740 His psychology

00:35:38.460 And just political calculation

00:35:40.140 He won't do that

00:35:41.120 not the type of man to do that it would sort of be out of it would almost be out of spite

00:35:46.360 to his own party largely his own backbenchers to do that because labor surely would get

00:35:52.040 a general election if one was called soon it would just be like the the nuclear button

00:35:58.460 just be like the doomsday button for labor if he were to do that i just don't think he would do it

00:36:03.460 But in recent days, probably recent, just the last few days

00:36:09.340 It seems like an increasingly less insane likelihood to me

00:36:15.540 Maybe he would, he might

00:36:17.440 He's a funny dude, isn't he? He's a weird guy

00:36:22.940 And all his political acumen is like zero

00:36:26.560 His judgement is terrible, isn't it? 1.00

00:36:30.640 On almost everything, his judgement is stupidly bad 0.99

00:36:35.360 Just way, way, way off the mark 0.99

00:36:37.760 On almost everything he does and says and thinks, isn't it?

00:36:41.240 So maybe

00:36:41.680 And Nigel said that

00:36:44.920 And as I say, there was a headline somewhere else

00:36:47.480 Where it was saying, you know

00:36:49.420 Insiders say Keir Starmer's considering going on a general election

00:36:52.700 If there's a coup against him

00:36:53.900 I mean, who knows?

00:36:56.180 It's only sort of rumour, isn't it?

00:36:57.160 It's only sort of Westminster scuttlebutt

00:36:59.600 but who knows that does although although our poll there it sort of reflects my thinking

00:37:09.040 50 50 in my mind almost who knows right we don't really know what's going on in his mind

00:37:14.160 it would be his decision alone

00:37:18.480 who knows what's rattling around in his tiny mind

00:37:24.240 i need more time to prosecute most british soldiers

00:37:27.120 what all right all right shall we have a look at the website so should we have a look at the

00:37:36.800 price of oil a quick look at the price of oil what we got today west texas almost bang on a hundred

00:37:42.780 dollars rent what is that 108 106 it's too small for my eyeballs 106 or 108 so about a little bit

00:37:52.000 less than yesterday down from yesterday slightly but hovering around around there the last few

00:37:59.900 days isn't it now once again that psychological barrier of a hundred dollars a barrel and I

00:38:07.640 think above that is crazy expensive relatively expensive all right you get it let's move on

00:38:13.020 so we'll look at BBC is there a couple of stories on the BBC that were that were of slight interest

00:38:19.560 Oh, Kate returns to overseas visits

00:38:23.560 Let's see if we get a picture of Kate looking radiant

00:38:26.320 Catherine Middleton, the Princess of Wales 0.92

00:38:30.240 Oh, there she is 0.99

00:38:31.100 Radiant as always 0.92

00:38:33.120 Okay

00:38:36.200 Hate crime prosecutions of any type

00:38:41.980 Not just toddlers

00:38:42.840 Hate crime prosecutions will be fast-tracked

00:38:46.160 After anti-Semitic attacks

00:38:47.460 But there's not a two-tier system of justice

00:38:49.160 No, no, no, no

00:38:49.960 You'd have to be some sort of racist or bigot or something 0.86

00:38:55.800 Some small-minded little Englander to think such a thing 0.93

00:38:59.700 But you will be fast-tracked through the system

00:39:04.140 If you commit an anti-Semitic attack 0.95

00:39:06.000 You do something specifically aimed at native whites

00:39:14.840 In fact the political class and the mainstream media will probably completely ignore it

00:39:23.120 Like the murder of Wayne Broadhurst

00:39:26.220 More or less ignore it

00:39:27.680 If they don't entirely ignore it

00:39:29.860 Bury it as quickly as possible

00:39:31.240 Never mention it ever again

00:39:32.500 Right

00:39:35.060 Okay

00:39:37.300 That's what we're dealing with are we

00:39:45.480 look at the state of this remember a few months ago what was it last year 0.82

00:39:53.880 some crazy islamophiles decided to break into a factory that they thought was controlled by israel 0.95

00:40:03.720 building software and hardware military grade stuff for drones that may or may not end up 0.92

00:40:09.080 being used in gaza is that actually at the trial there's no evidence that that's what that factory

00:40:15.720 was doing it may or may not have done just in the trial it never came up whether it really

00:40:19.800 was doing that or not anyway these guys thought it was perhaps it was by the way i'm not saying

00:40:24.280 it wasn't i don't know all right they they got a van there was six of them in total

00:40:31.400 They got a van

00:40:33.640 Just drove it through the gates

00:40:36.140 At night of this factory

00:40:37.560 Smashing through the gates like it's a film

00:40:39.860 Stormed into the building

00:40:42.560 Wearing like red jumpsuits

00:40:44.200 Again like they think they're in a film

00:40:46.000 With sledgehammers

00:40:47.740 And just knew that security and or police

00:40:50.400 Would arrest them sooner rather than later

00:40:52.300 So in the few minutes they've got

00:40:53.500 Tried to just destroy as much as they could

00:40:55.760 With sledgehammers

00:40:56.880 They did like a million quids worth of damage 0.99

00:40:59.380 like crazy crazy leftists or islamophile or actual islamists maybe look at the state of it 1.00

00:41:09.520 look at this dead-eyed psycho look at this absolute moron is she is she clinically 1.00

00:41:16.100 is she visibly clinically retarded she might be i don't know 1.00

00:41:20.640 and one of them one of these girls one of these women was being when the police turned up 0.84

00:41:28.480 quite relatively quickly was being wrestled to the ground and trying to be restrained and put

00:41:33.040 in handcuffs or whatever by a female cop one of the other dudes one of the males

00:41:37.600 one of the males then decided to smash the female cop who's trying to arrest one of these 0.98

00:41:47.740 in the spine with a sledgehammer twice breaking her back breaking the cop's back

00:41:54.400 before he was almost immediately, seconds later,

00:41:58.680 wrestled to the ground by another cop, male cop.

00:42:03.560 Well, they've been convicted of criminal damage

00:42:06.620 and the man that hit the cop in the spine with a sledgehammer

00:42:11.400 was convicted of GBH, Grievous Bodleyheim.

00:42:20.120 Just look at the state of it.

00:42:21.920 It's what you would expect, isn't it? 0.93

00:42:27.160 Leftist psychos 0.97

00:42:28.400 Psychos

00:42:31.360 Again, throughout history, it's nearly always

00:42:36.320 Political violence usually, the vast majority of the time

00:42:40.120 Comes from the left

00:42:41.040 And if there's anything from the right, it's a reaction to that

00:42:44.280 The forces of reaction

00:42:46.700 It's been a cliche since the 19th century

00:42:49.240 of like a as i say a bomb throwing red because they think they're righteous don't they think

00:42:56.820 they're on the right side of history again at the end of their trial when they had a moment to

00:43:02.260 address the jury directly for like final moments asking for clemency or whatever or trying to

00:43:08.320 justify they just they said or most of them if not all of them said that we're really proud of

00:43:13.080 what we did we'd do it again sort of thing we may have saved some lives in gaza ultimately by what

00:43:20.240 we did that night so we're proud of it domestic terrorism effectively as far as i'm concerned

00:43:28.180 that's how i'd describe it criminal damage a bit more than just criminal damage isn't it i would

00:43:33.360 say politically motivated is far worse than just criminal damage isn't it i mean criminal damage

00:43:40.580 is something like spray painting graffiti on some on some garages

00:43:45.740 throwing a stone at a shop window and breaking it that's criminal damage

00:43:52.160 what they did is like much worse not just in terms of it was a million quids worth of damage but

00:43:59.580 their motivation for it i mean you go around doing that although palestine action by the way

00:44:06.240 palestine action which was which is now a completely banned organization was it palestine

00:44:10.880 action that also broke into an raf base was it rf bryars norton rf fairford it was one of those

00:44:18.720 and squatted loads of paint into the engine of a military refueling craft or something wasn't it

00:44:25.360 or was it an awax it was something that did loads and loads and loads of damage a military

00:44:30.400 installation an raf military installation it's a bit more than just criminal damage isn't it

00:44:36.560 something like that

00:44:39.760 palestine action oh get out of my country both sides of that conflict what are you doing in britain

00:44:52.400 why is that conflict

00:44:53.440 soiling our country gross all foreign conflicts that spill out into this country 0.88

00:45:03.840 but you might get muslim and christian nigerians fighting each other in the street with machetes 0.98

00:45:09.720 both sides go home

00:45:13.000 whatever it is you've got sri lanka's tamil sri lancans and anti-tamil sri lancans

00:45:22.960 Fighting each other

00:45:24.300 That's a bit old

00:45:24.860 That's a few years ago

00:45:25.480 But whatever it is 1.00

00:45:26.260 Indians and Pakistanis 1.00

00:45:28.200 Fighting each other in the streets 1.00

00:45:29.600 Ugh

00:45:31.860 Don't do that in your own countries

00:45:34.420 Sick of it

00:45:37.680 Absolutely sick of it

00:45:39.400 And on and on and on

00:45:40.640 Whatever you can imagine

00:45:41.640 All the conflicts

00:45:42.860 All the conflicts

00:45:43.640 Playing out here on our streets

00:45:46.980 Or whatever

00:45:47.380 Ugh

00:45:49.240 Please 0.99

00:45:53.680 Disgusting makes me sick to the pit of my stomach 0.99

00:45:59.920 Why are they here? 0.98

00:46:04.520 Alright

00:46:05.200 Oh remember these two jokers

00:46:07.440 These two geniuses 0.97

00:46:09.040 Remember these two chumps

00:46:10.360 Don't remember 0.94

00:46:12.580 At a Manchester airport

00:46:16.000 Allegedly one of them just headbutted someone

00:46:18.860 like in the terminal or whatever in the waiting area in a car park area or something

00:46:23.900 one of them just head-butted someone so the police got called the police go up to them

00:46:29.500 try and start putting them in handcuffs they just start fighting back one of them breaks the nose

00:46:37.120 of a female cop oh all right okay in the end the cops did i mean they're lucky not to have been

00:46:46.140 shot the cops at the uh at the airports there they've got like they've got like little heckler

00:46:50.860 and kosh nine millimeters haven't they in the end the cops do eventually wrestle them to the ground

00:46:58.380 or whatever there's a bit of footage where one's booting him in the head

00:47:05.420 yeah these are two sort of completely out of control psychos basically as well as i can tell

00:47:12.220 might just might be inbred 0.97

00:47:16.740 just going around headbiting people breaking the noses of cops

00:47:22.340 but they thought they were under attack there you go man accused of assaulting officer at

00:47:28.900 airport says he felt he and his brother were under attack you they were just trying to arrest you

00:47:34.320 but you were under attack so you had to fight back break their nose

00:47:42.220 what are they doing here clear them out millions must go

00:47:51.820 all right so I do tend to there's a couple of a couple of the stories I

00:47:55.880 thought were interesting there's one here I know it's Dan Hodges and then 0.99

00:48:01.680 Hodge it's gross idiot subversive but 0.99

00:48:07.500 Amazingly interesting article. 1.00

00:48:10.020 The secret Trojan horse plot to save Sir Keir Starmer.

00:48:15.120 Ministers have told me all about the new strategy.

00:48:17.900 And it's time.

00:48:19.800 And it's the PM's final chance to save himself.

00:48:22.480 Anyway.

00:48:23.560 I read the article this morning.

00:48:24.820 It's about Andy Burnham.

00:48:27.700 And his eyeliner.

00:48:29.780 Is he wearing eyeliner?

00:48:31.100 i think he might be wearing eyeliner um yeah how there's a couple of people a couple of sitting

00:48:42.340 labour mps up in the north uh that apparently are prepared to give up their seat which would

00:48:52.280 trigger a by-election burnham gets it but burnham's flipped the nec the governing body inside

00:48:59.520 the labour party that would let him stand he's flipped that he'll win the by-election

00:49:05.720 then he's in parliament then there's a there's a leadership election and then he wins that

00:49:10.300 it's all a crazy long shot though isn't it one is there any such thing as a labour safe seat at

00:49:17.820 the moment two has he really flipped the nec a lot of people saying no that's that's fantasy

00:49:23.240 and then the idea that if if he did become an mp and summer hasn't been ousted by that point

00:49:33.540 because all that process would take a while at least a month or two months at the very very

00:49:39.080 very least that's the fastest possible imaginable thing would he then definitely win a leadership

00:49:45.720 contest and then if he did all of that there's no guarantee that he would just make Labour win

00:49:53.600 at the next general election in 2029 if a snap one isn't called before that if Starmer doesn't

00:49:59.780 do the doomsday option and just do general election it's all a crazy long shot isn't it

00:50:05.520 to get Burnham to be leader of Labour and the Prime Minister and then win in 2029 it just seems

00:50:12.800 your cope to me there you go okay I was going to I was gonna check in with a

00:50:21.920 little bit of Zach Plansky real name Dave Pauldum but there's no real time I was

00:50:25.640 gonna check in with a story about Putin some Putin stuff the latest Putin

00:50:30.740 fantasy out of the State Department and the Foreign Office but he's gonna be

00:50:37.380 ousted by this guy, he's the Russian defence minister, what's his name, Sergei, what is

00:50:45.800 it, I can't remember his name, Sergei, something beginning with S, Shoigu, right yeah, Sergei

00:50:54.440 Shoigu, that guy, that Putin might be cooed out, I just don't see it, there's no real

00:51:06.020 detail in this article about how that would be or the or the the dynamic of it no real details about 0.65

00:51:13.720 it just saying it you know like all the stuff even years back putin's dying putin's gonna die

00:51:17.940 people haven't seen him in a while he's already dead it's just nonsense isn't it it's largely

00:51:21.420 absolute nonsense fed to the media by the intelligence services or something

00:51:28.760 the pliant legacy media that worked hand in glove with the intelligence services for some

00:51:35.880 reason. Putin's going to be cooed by this guy. I'd eat my hat. I'd eat my hat. All right, 0.58

00:51:49.080 shall we have a look on this day in history? Because it's already gone 10-2. Let's have

00:51:52.580 a quick look on this day in history. You like that section? I like doing that section.

00:51:56.880 Down through the centuries on this day, what happened of note? All right, on the 6th of

00:52:00.700 May. In the year 1527, Spanish and German Imperial troops sack Rome, ending the Renaissance. It

00:52:07.340 didn't really end the Renaissance, but okay. Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, is killed in the

00:52:12.700 assault, removing any restraint for the victorious soldiers. That's an interesting bit of history.

00:52:18.000 Very, very, very interesting bit of history that most people don't really know. Brits,

00:52:22.080 anyway, in the West. Brits and Americans, perhaps, don't really know much about. But

00:52:25.840 that's a pivotal moment in time that particular sack of Rome in 1527 what do you reckon Harry

00:52:35.840 what do you reckon the chances are on my history theme show epochs oh day's epochs behind the

00:52:43.720 paywall locatitis.com so it's five pound a month the Bronson membership what do you reckon the

00:52:47.820 chances are I've talked all about that in some detail before the chances are quite good

00:52:55.840 I can tell you the chances are very good

00:52:57.900 Because it is there

00:52:58.660 The Pope at the time was it

00:53:00.500 Clement VII

00:53:01.580 Is Giulio de' Medici

00:53:03.760 The second Medici Pope in quick succession

00:53:06.960 I did long form content all about the Medici's

00:53:11.020 All about them

00:53:13.980 So yeah

00:53:16.460 Pope Clement VII

00:53:18.380 Lots of people

00:53:21.460 Didn't like the way he did things

00:53:24.700 As chief pontiff

00:53:26.740 As Christ's vicar on earth 0.75

00:53:28.840 He was very corrupt 0.77

00:53:30.320 He was just very very corrupt 0.98

00:53:31.760 Selling of indulgences least of all

00:53:34.640 And we're in the age of Luther there aren't we

00:53:36.840 1527 1.00

00:53:37.860 So there's lots and lots of Germans

00:53:41.680 The Holy Roman Emperor

00:53:43.660 And with German armies 0.58

00:53:45.640 Who were 0.56

00:53:47.680 Lutheran or if not 0.72

00:53:50.040 Hardline, crazy hardline Lutheran 0.91

00:53:52.000 At least sympathetic to Protestantism 0.90

00:53:54.440 They didn't like the way 0.81

00:53:56.400 It was being done in Rome

00:53:58.460 So eventually they march on Rome

00:54:01.940 Luther himself by the way was aghast

00:54:03.920 Like I didn't want this, what have I done

00:54:05.440 What sort of Pandora's box have I opened up here

00:54:08.060 But yeah, the Holy Roman Emperor

00:54:10.320 And his German Imperial troops 0.95

00:54:11.640 Marched on Rome 0.51

00:54:12.540 Apparently he never meant to actually sack it

00:54:16.280 It was all just a threat

00:54:17.960 It was all just a sabre rattling

00:54:20.180 To make the Pope fall in line

00:54:22.140 And do what he wanted

00:54:22.960 but his men did just enter the city because it was largely undefended almost entirely undefended 0.80

00:54:27.580 and then murdered and raped for like six months or whatever straight

00:54:34.460 burnt rome down again i mean rome had already been sacked many many times since the first

00:54:41.240 sacking say the first you got brennus way back in antiquity but the first time imperial rome

00:54:49.060 Was sacked was in like the 5th century isn't it

00:54:50.640 Alaric, Alaric the Goth, the 5th century

00:54:52.740 So by the 16th century

00:54:54.260 Rome has been conquered and reconquered and sacked

00:54:56.560 Loads of times, loads and loads of times

00:54:59.040 This one

00:55:00.560 Was particularly bad, like the whole population

00:55:03.040 Of Rome fell off a cliff

00:55:04.580 Something like

00:55:07.040 60,000 people lived in Rome at that point

00:55:08.740 And after this there's only like 10,000 left

00:55:10.560 They cleared it out, burnt it down

00:55:12.940 Robbed it of any treasures it had

00:55:14.900 Largely

00:55:15.360 People that lived through it said

00:55:18.780 This was like an epoch-defining thing

00:55:21.320 It was like the world

00:55:24.460 Of the 16th century

00:55:26.100 Before that happened to Rome

00:55:27.520 And the world after it

00:55:29.000 You know, like 9-11, say

00:55:30.940 Something like that

00:55:32.640 We're in a different timeline now

00:55:36.000 Because of what just happened

00:55:37.460 Yet to this day, most people haven't even heard of it

00:55:42.080 I wouldn't say it ended the Renaissance

00:55:44.300 I wouldn't say that

00:55:45.160 Alright, anyway

00:55:47.040 On this day in 1626

00:55:48.500 Dutch colonist Peter Minuit

00:55:50.620 Organises the purchase of Manhattan Island 1.00

00:55:54.160 From Native Americans 1.00

00:55:55.340 For 60 guilders worth of goods 1.00

00:55:57.520 Very very little in other words

00:55:59.140 There you go 1.00

00:56:02.760 And then the English finally got it off the Dutch 1.00

00:56:05.080 Didn't we? 0.95

00:56:05.720 In a treaty

00:56:07.200 Not that long after in the scheme of things

00:56:10.520 I think I've got long film content

00:56:13.420 All about the English and Dutch wars

00:56:15.420 We had three 0.77

00:56:18.260 wars with the dutch in the 17th century i think i cover all of that in detail yep 0.99

00:56:25.880 it's there okay the eiffel tower opens on this day in 1889 the exposition universelle world fair

00:56:34.660 in paris opens with the recently completed eiffel tower serving as the entrance entrance arch

00:56:40.260 elevators in the tower are not yet ready so intrepid visitors have to climb the 1710 steps

00:56:47.020 To reach the top

00:56:47.820 I've been up there

00:56:50.420 I've said that before

00:56:51.640 It is a great view

00:56:53.440 You may as well

00:56:55.680 You can go there

00:56:56.820 Just stand there

00:56:58.340 And you have to queue up again

00:56:59.560 For another lift to there

00:57:00.540 And queue up again

00:57:01.360 For another lift to the very top

00:57:02.660 You may as well just go to that bit

00:57:04.980 Go on a day when it isn't swamped with tourists

00:57:10.620 If it's swamped with tourists

00:57:13.420 It will take you all day

00:57:14.840 If it's really hot, that's going to be uncomfortable

00:57:18.900 Alright, the Hindenburg disaster

00:57:21.320 Oh, the humanity

00:57:22.500 On this day, 1937

00:57:26.240 German airship the Hindenburg explodes in flames

00:57:29.240 At Lakehurst in New Jersey

00:57:31.580 Killing 35 of the 97 on board

00:57:33.880 And one on the ground

00:57:35.120 Yeah, a dirigible, an airship

00:57:37.720 Back in the 30s

00:57:40.160 They were filled with flammable gas

00:57:41.900 no one saw it coming that it's like a giant bomb really not exactly a bomb but

00:57:53.300 not a great idea to have an air airship filled with flammable gas

00:58:01.820 well i know now on this day in 1941 joseph starling becomes premier of the soviet union

00:58:07.680 replacing former minister molotov well obviously we're in world war ii and um being the premier

00:58:15.700 it's not the same as being like the de facto head of state even to this day in russia right

00:58:22.880 sometimes putin will swap titles with medvedev sometimes he's the prime minister sometimes he's

00:58:31.040 the president Putin is it's just a legal thing everyone knows that policy is set by him he's 0.60

00:58:38.240 the leader in fact I call it what you want to call it same with this of course it was Stalin

00:58:45.480 that was calling all the shots whether he's the premier or not and has been since the 20s he'd

00:58:51.780 already been in power for a long time by 1941 all right let's have a look at our rumble rants and

00:58:57.060 super chats let me just do this with my mic boom so i can see the left hand side of my screen

00:59:01.720 who's in at number one do you reckon every day basically every day got respect the grind

00:59:06.680 it's global church history of course it is cheers buddy you say you give us a couple more you nearly

00:59:13.800 always give us a couple more on this day in history factoids don't you thank you for that

00:59:18.060 what have we got today we got you say on this day in 92 ad the apostle john survived his sentence

00:59:24.100 To be boiled alive

00:59:25.460 Converting many 1.00

00:59:26.720 So he was exiled to Patmos

00:59:30.000 Instead

00:59:30.740 Yeah the Apostle John

00:59:33.140 John the Beloved

00:59:34.940 Jesus loved John the most

00:59:37.680 According to the Gospels

00:59:38.920 John the Theologian

00:59:42.160 Lived to be very old

00:59:44.640 The last surviving

00:59:45.500 Disciple

00:59:47.180 Apostle

00:59:48.400 Obviously wrote the book of John

00:59:50.520 And the book

00:59:52.900 according to legend was it legend the book of revelation after he was exiled to uh patmos

01:00:02.900 but yeah i mean you're supposed to believe the romans

01:00:07.540 tried to boil him alive in oil boiling oil and it just didn't work i mean it's just

01:00:12.340 another one of the miracles christian miracles that the romans

01:00:16.580 Wanted to execute him 0.97

01:00:20.300 With a giant cauldron of boiling oil 0.99

01:00:24.000 They dunked him in it in front of everyone

01:00:26.660 In front of the crowds of Rome

01:00:28.460 And he was unharmed 0.72

01:00:30.120 That's why I can't count myself as an actual practicing Christian

01:00:35.260 I don't believe in miracles

01:00:38.040 I don't believe them

01:00:38.840 It's not like the word and teachings of Christ

01:00:43.140 Haven't got some merit

01:00:46.580 I wouldn't say that

01:00:47.220 I can't count myself as a Christian

01:00:49.100 Because you're supposed to accept on faith

01:00:51.300 That that happened

01:00:53.620 I don't, I can't

01:00:55.240 If I search my soul, I can't

01:00:56.620 Don't ask me to have faith that that happened

01:00:58.640 I don't believe it

01:00:59.440 That Jesus walked up to a man

01:01:02.420 Who was born without eyeballs 0.95

01:01:03.600 And rubbed mud on his face

01:01:06.480 And now he's got eyeballs

01:01:07.680 Don't ask me to believe that

01:01:08.980 That Jesus willed an empty amphora

01:01:12.660 To suddenly be full of wine again

01:01:14.240 Don't ask me to believe that, I can't

01:01:16.580 I can't

01:01:17.340 But okay, alright

01:01:20.300 The Apostle John

01:01:22.100 You say, also on this day in 1659

01:01:25.960 Richard Cromwell was removed as Lord Protector

01:01:28.920 Yeah, Queen Dick

01:01:30.040 Richard Cromwell

01:01:33.220 So Oliver Cromwell dies

01:01:34.340 And everyone's like, wait, what do we do now?

01:01:37.440 Wait

01:01:37.660 It wasn't just immediately, oh we'll get Charles II back

01:01:40.940 And the restoration of the monarchy, no

01:01:42.180 For a while, the establishment, I suppose you could say

01:01:45.160 Was like, wait, what do we do?

01:01:46.580 Well, Oliver Cromwell has got a grown-up son, Richard.

01:01:50.700 You know, like a hereditary monarchy,

01:01:52.520 we could just make Richard Cromwell the new Lord Protector.

01:01:56.380 Let's do that.

01:01:57.140 And they did it briefly.

01:01:58.780 But he was super weak.

01:02:00.840 Well, in order to do that role,

01:02:02.020 you would have had to be in a force of nature,

01:02:03.920 like Oliver Cromwell.

01:02:05.600 And Dickie Cromwell just wasn't.

01:02:08.180 People called him Queen Dick.

01:02:10.960 Not King Richard, Queen Dick.

01:02:12.220 He was just...

01:02:13.780 He didn't really want to do it himself

01:02:15.740 and wasn't capable of doing it so that was a very there was a relatively short moment in time

01:02:20.480 the protectorate of richard cromwell in the end the army take over effectively general monk takes

01:02:26.920 over effect in in essence getting the monarchy back charles stewart charles ii

01:02:35.580 we're gonna have the monarchy back all right 14 barber says morning mate all right yeah i'm

01:02:44.840 all right how are you all good i hope you say i've been thinking a lot about our film industry

01:02:50.000 i'd like to see invested in especially under a restore government i'd like to see more beefy

01:02:55.400 british stories again that would be nice wouldn't it we made like war films about heroic stuff 0.95

01:03:00.280 we made films that didn't just make us all look weak and stupid and incompetent all the time and 0.61

01:03:08.820 the baddies and everything always yeah that'd be great wouldn't it i agree with that make films 0.84

01:03:14.200 about heroic things that englishmen did yeah absolutely agree why not could we have any sort

01:03:23.480 of media which isn't completely designed to subverse and destroy our will and morale do we

01:03:28.920 have that maybe fallen firebird says beneath the blue hair and the the kefir the dead eyes and

01:03:41.180 The piercings and tattoos

01:03:42.480 You can sometimes see the echo 1.00

01:03:44.680 Of a normal young English woman

01:03:46.200 Before she was corrupted by leftism

01:03:48.660 It's a crime

01:03:49.660 Yeah

01:03:49.960 Yeah leftist thought is brain rot

01:03:53.680 Isn't it?

01:03:54.500 It really is

01:03:55.320 Subversive and corrupting 0.97

01:03:58.260 And disgusting and backward 1.00

01:04:00.000 Revolting on every level 1.00

01:04:03.320 It appeals to weak minds

01:04:07.560 Weak characters

01:04:09.020 It appeals to those that have already got a chip on their shoulder

01:04:12.100 The politics of resentment 0.99

01:04:13.740 That you already feel like you're a complete loser 0.92

01:04:17.900 Well here's a set of ideologies 1.00

01:04:21.460 Tailor made for the loser 0.94

01:04:24.280 Leftism 0.99

01:04:26.500 It's a shame, real shame

01:04:29.380 Fortin Barber says

01:04:31.040 To be clear, I don't want government funding at all in the film industry

01:04:34.660 Just more funding while the store is in

01:04:36.920 Okay, fair enough

01:04:37.880 yeah not necessarily full government propaganda just

01:04:41.900 allow films to be made which aren't designed to destroy our morale okay now the youtube super

01:04:53.240 chats there's a fair few of them so try and whip through them a bit i've got lots of other

01:04:57.680 recordings i've got to do today so i can't be here till half past or anything all right

01:05:01.940 Erwin Romulus, good morning buddy

01:05:04.300 You said

01:05:06.280 Holidays in Britain are great

01:05:09.000 Iron Bridge Gorge is absolutely brilliant

01:05:11.100 Yeah, there's honestly

01:05:13.580 Hundreds and hundreds of amazing places to visit in Britain

01:05:17.100 Loads

01:05:19.940 Our countryside is very, very beautiful

01:05:23.140 Lots and lots of things to do and see

01:05:24.840 You don't have to go to Mallorca

01:05:28.280 You don't have to go to 0.80

01:05:31.680 Bloody Spain

01:05:33.860 Costa del Sol

01:05:37.100 You don't have to do that

01:05:38.220 AC1D Helm

01:05:43.000 Says

01:05:44.500 My missus would vote green 1.00

01:05:46.880 Love her 1.00

01:05:49.960 She's not a nutter

01:05:50.940 Just lefty

01:05:51.820 Slowly bringing her round

01:05:53.740 But it breaks my heart

01:05:54.720 She doesn't know how bad

01:05:56.020 How bad it is

01:05:58.280 Yeah, I mean, just try and show her

01:06:01.700 If you can, try and explain that

01:06:04.400 It's just not about environmentalism, the Greens

01:06:08.320 It's about extreme socialism 1.00

01:06:15.240 Open borders and Islamism 0.91

01:06:19.580 You say she's just a lefty 1.00

01:06:22.260 What kind of lefty? 1.00

01:06:23.680 You know

01:06:25.280 Just a wishy-washy

01:06:27.360 New Labour type lefty

01:06:28.540 Or

01:06:28.820 Full-blown

01:06:30.300 Red

01:06:31.520 I mean

01:06:34.500 It's just

01:06:35.240 It's not a good idea

01:06:36.420 I wish you the very best sir 0.99

01:06:39.740 In trying to convert her

01:06:41.000 You've got to 1.00

01:06:43.580 You've got to be careful

01:06:44.940 Haven't you

01:06:45.220 When you

01:06:45.520 When you try and change

01:06:46.540 Someone's mind

01:06:47.180 You can't force it

01:06:49.000 The best thing to do

01:06:50.600 Is just 1.00

01:06:51.020 Let the

01:06:52.140 Try and

01:06:52.700 Present them with facts

01:06:54.840 And let them come to their own conclusion

01:06:56.920 Don't try and force it down their throat too much

01:06:58.760 It's a difficult thing

01:07:00.620 To change someone's mind is a difficult thing

01:07:02.140 It really is

01:07:02.940 Depending on the person

01:07:06.280 Hopefully she comes round

01:07:08.080 I've got my fingers crossed for you buddy

01:07:09.340 I really have

01:07:11.240 Alright

01:07:11.800 LJMV says

01:07:13.120 Bo you magnificent man

01:07:14.660 Thank you

01:07:21.100 Thank you

01:07:22.700 You put

01:07:24.400 You should see

01:07:26.080 Zach P's face

01:07:27.500 In an interview

01:07:28.380 When he disagrees with someone

01:07:30.080 Or someone calls out his BS

01:07:31.880 He looks so vindictive and angry

01:07:34.120 Just noticed recently 0.98

01:07:35.720 Yeah he's a freak 1.00

01:07:36.680 He's a disgusting freak 1.00

01:07:38.900 Physically and intellectually 1.00

01:07:42.300 Pure pure 1.00

01:07:45.680 Disgusting freak 1.00

01:07:47.180 Handpicked subversive 1.00

01:07:50.040 Revolting

01:07:52.040 Filled with resentment and anger

01:07:55.320 Obviously so as well

01:07:57.460 At a glance

01:07:58.160 You're quite right LJMV

01:08:00.100 User 4491 says

01:08:02.320 Morning Bo, long time listener, first time caller

01:08:04.500 When Rupert becomes PM

01:08:06.660 I think we should move the capital back to Winchester

01:08:09.240 Any thoughts?

01:08:12.120 Not a terrible idea

01:08:13.560 I mean, in all seriousness

01:08:15.180 No, but I like the idea

01:08:17.560 I like the idea

01:08:18.340 Would be nice wouldn't it

01:08:22.040 We've had parliaments all over the place

01:08:25.160 In the past

01:08:26.140 The way it was

01:08:28.260 It wasn't always just 100% in Westminster

01:08:30.580 Like the King's in Bristol at the moment

01:08:33.920 So we'll call a parliament in Bristol

01:08:36.800 Or something

01:08:37.600 Yeah, Winchester's a lovely place

01:08:40.140 Yeah, try and get the

01:08:42.500 Try and drain the Westminster

01:08:45.320 Swamp in some way

01:08:48.240 If you physically move

01:08:49.520 The seat of government to somewhere else

01:08:51.640 it's not an insane idea i mean it won't happen but

01:08:54.660 on paper in theory i like the idea okay ljmv again says you should do a physiognomy section

01:09:04.480 yeah it rarely lies

01:09:07.120 it rarely lies

01:09:11.440 Thundercook

01:09:13.900 2

01:09:14.540 Thundercook

01:09:16.060 Yeah

01:09:16.320 2028

01:09:18.020 Says

01:09:18.600 Who do you think

01:09:21.080 Is winning

01:09:21.520 The Ukraine war 0.99

01:09:22.460 Well Russia 1.00

01:09:23.300 Has already won it 0.99

01:09:24.020 They won it

01:09:25.580 Like three years ago

01:09:26.560 Effectively

01:09:28.900 Their war

01:09:30.660 Goals were to 0.94

01:09:32.340 Occupy the Donbass region

01:09:34.020 They did that years ago

01:09:35.140 I'll get called 1.00

01:09:40.720 A Kremlin

01:09:41.120 in shill just for saying that but is that not the truth is that not the truth

01:09:46.300 irwin romula said instead of a new website for this day in history i vote you just formally

01:09:53.220 employ global church history yeah could do worse can't we could do worse he seems to know his

01:09:58.080 stuff a fair number of times he's out history bro'd me isn't he at least two or three times

01:10:03.420 he said something and i'm like i don't that's beyond me you've got you've got me there

01:10:06.640 You've done me there son

01:10:08.680 You've done me up like a kipper

01:10:11.440 I don't know what that is

01:10:12.880 I've never heard of that thing

01:10:13.880 But it's too obscure for me

01:10:15.320 He certainly knows his stuff doesn't he

01:10:17.220 There's no two ways about that

01:10:18.160 Okay and the last one for today

01:10:21.200 Unless another comes in in the next few seconds

01:10:23.100 Says from Tux034

01:10:26.760 Says 0.53

01:10:27.560 Have you

01:10:29.520 Have you looked up

01:10:30.880 Sigurdsday yet

01:10:32.320 Tom Rossell has some content on it

01:10:34.820 St George's for Sivnat

01:10:36.780 winking emoji 1.00

01:10:38.200 I haven't I'm afraid

01:10:41.080 but if Tom Rossell survived the jive

01:10:42.880 I'm honoured to call him a friend

01:10:46.560 if he's done some content on it

01:10:48.460 I'll look that up

01:10:50.460 but okay

01:10:52.800 yeah going back to what a

01:10:54.620 pre-Christian

01:10:56.360 thing is that

01:10:57.540 I don't know I'll have to look it up

01:11:00.180 thank you for pointing me

01:11:02.600 in the right direction

01:11:03.180 okay that's the show it's now 11 minutes past nine in the a.m british summertime on wednesday

01:11:07.340 the 6th of may in the year of our lord 2026 you've been the glorious band the chosen few my band of

01:11:12.040 brothers and sisters thank you for joining me without you it really isn't a thing try make

01:11:15.920 the best of the day ahead if you can type a dm seize the day if you've got time on your hands

01:11:22.860 to use as you wish today try and make it count try and do something valuable with it you'll never

01:11:27.400 get it again don't fit your array like it's nothing like it's of no value it's the most

01:11:32.440 valuable thing you ever have is your time all right i don't get too preachy about it until tomorrow

01:11:36.660 morning

01:12:02.440 We'll be right back.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - May 06, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Wednesday 6th May 2026

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