The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Wednesday 8th July 2026

00:00:00.000 Martin, comment ça va?

00:00:06.740 Moi, ça va très bien, c'est très, très bien.

00:00:13.400 Stop that.

00:00:14.960 I have no speaking French in this house. 0.99

00:00:18.520 Oh, you kiss your mouth. 0.75

00:00:21.960 All right, it's just gone.

00:00:23.980 Zero minutes past eight in the a.m. British summertime on Wednesday.

00:00:27.860 It's now Wednesday, isn't it?

00:00:28.660 The eighth.

00:00:29.160 It is Wednesday, isn't it?

00:00:30.000 so okay once or twice i've got that wrong right it is wednesday the 8th of july in the year of

00:00:34.000 our law 2026 you're the glorious band the chosen for you my band of brothers and sisters thank you

00:00:38.400 for joining me the very best people on earth getting involved in the chat consider you know

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00:00:46.080 don't i every single day um you know do the poll that's free why not do hit the like button that

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00:01:07.440 unless you're greg davies from hope not hate making his little dossier on me

00:01:12.240 well you're one of the reformed cards can't stop hate watching if you're not one of those do hit

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00:01:23.440 stuff i'm joined by my producers every day need every day little harry how are you this morning

00:01:27.200 good sir morning yeah i'm all good disembodied voice from the ether of the all-powerful producer

00:01:32.320 all right should we stop faffing about that there's no need for all that fannying about is

00:01:37.300 there let's just get straight on with it all right what's the legacy corporate mainstream 0.53

00:01:39.920 media banging on about this morning uh okay oh so it's an age day isn't it it's an age day

00:01:46.420 more or less wall to wall nigel and reform so i guess get into it a few things happen just

00:01:53.980 So also a bit of Harry, Prince Harry 0.63

00:01:55.600 A little bit of

00:01:57.600 A little bit of Marine Le Pen as well

00:02:00.420 It's not on the front pages of Fleet Street

00:02:01.960 But I'll get to it anyway

00:02:02.820 Hence my French thing this morning

00:02:06.000 Been reading all about French stuff

00:02:07.920 For like 36 hours now

00:02:09.420 So okay

00:02:11.780 I was on the main podcast yesterday

00:02:15.540 Wasn't I? If you watched that

00:02:16.660 Did a segment all about that

00:02:19.500 All about Marine Le Pen losing her appeal

00:02:21.740 That she won't stand for president 0.75

00:02:23.600 Only because she'd always said

00:02:26.080 If she was left with that electronic tag

00:02:28.260 She wouldn't do it

00:02:29.420 Because it wouldn't allow her to campaign properly

00:02:30.860 And she'd be under curfew

00:02:31.920 And it would be a humiliation

00:02:33.300 And she just wouldn't run 0.87

00:02:35.180 And that is what happened

00:02:36.520 She's left with that tag on

00:02:37.680 And she's going to run anyway

00:02:39.920 So my take yesterday afternoon

00:02:42.600 Is already wrong and out of date 0.97

00:02:43.880 She's mugged me off there 1.00

00:02:46.680 Made me look like a right T-bob 0.98

00:02:49.220 But no, we'll get into it 0.96

00:02:54.580 People expected her not to run

00:02:56.120 Okay, it's a Nigel day

00:02:57.080 It's mainly a Nigel day

00:02:57.960 Let's look at Fleet Street

00:02:58.780 Let's look at the front page of the paper

00:02:59.800 Let the people judge

00:03:01.720 Says Nigel

00:03:03.540 The people of Clacton

00:03:06.480 But they're not the ones who judge

00:03:08.740 It's the Parliamentary Standards Committee

00:03:11.080 That will need to judge

00:03:12.240 And Farage Gamble turns to farce

00:03:16.040 Says the papers

00:03:18.940 all right let's get into it then the tory graph the daily telegraph

00:03:22.460 harry humbled in court should we do this first get this one out of the way a bit first

00:03:26.380 prince harry we talked about it yesterday didn't we prince harry and i think six other defendants

00:03:31.600 including uh there was a simon hughes mp there was elton john or was it david furnish i think

00:03:38.020 maybe both but anyway the the john family elton john uh there was sadie frost wasn't there liz

00:03:45.340 Curly some loads of hope a few high-profile people are taking them the

00:03:50.100 associated news or the Daily Mail they're taking the Daily Mail to court

00:03:54.660 over allegedly infringing their privacy and getting information about them in

00:03:59.380 illegal ways hacking even and the judge came back yesterday finally after months

00:04:05.740 like the case began for months a month came back and just found entirely in the

00:04:11.380 male's favor harry and his cadre of co-defendants or co-litigants uh completely and utterly lost

00:04:20.100 on all counts there's like 90 odd counts and they lost every single one

00:04:27.540 and the court costs might be like in well are in millions millions and millions of pounds

00:04:34.900 okay this sort of banner it's not the headline is it but the banner says

00:04:39.060 There isn't a laundry in the cosmos big enough to wash all the dirty linen he has aired about his own family, Harry

00:04:46.560 For him to complain about his privacy being invaded takes not just the biscuit, but the whole tin

00:04:53.060 I mean, fair enough

00:04:59.120 In fact, let's have a quick look at the Daily Mail

00:05:02.100 The Mail itself, its front page

00:05:04.260 Let's quickly skip to the front page of the Mail itself 1.00

00:05:06.900 There you go, you can see Nige 1.00

00:05:07.980 No, it's almost across the pool 1.00

00:05:09.220 There we go, look, oh no, that's the Times

00:05:10.520 The Mail, okay, look

00:05:13.740 This was nothing less than a conspiracy to destroy the Daily Mail

00:05:19.500 Says the Daily Mail

00:05:20.400 But they're vindicated

00:05:22.740 I mean, they are

00:05:24.680 Harry said it was a whitewash

00:05:28.640 What do you say, complete and utter

00:05:30.060 Or complete and obvious whitewash, he said, after the trial

00:05:33.280 that's the thing about trials and elections is just it it is what it is like you have to accept

00:05:43.680 the result at that point even if you don't like it i mean you can moan about it of course of course

00:05:46.940 of course but it is what it is that's like sort of the final that's the it's the final reckoning

00:05:52.180 really so okay vindicated say the mail in a 46 day uh 46 day high court case costing over 50

00:06:00.420 million pounds seven claimants including prince harry baroness lawrence stephen lawrence's mum

00:06:05.940 somehow got ennobled and elton john accused the male of 57 counts of illegal information

00:06:12.900 gathering i read somewhere else it was more like in the in the 90s but anyway they're saying here

00:06:16.740 57 counts of illegal information gathering over 40 of our journalists defending themselves in the

00:06:22.100 witness box and yesterday in a landmark ruling one of britain's top judges rejected every single

00:06:27.460 allegation okay harry and his lot say uh it's a whitewash it's not fair it was a stitch up

00:06:37.620 and the the press the mail saying no this is a win for press the freedom of the press

00:06:45.220 you make up your own mind on that one um have a quick look at the uh at the mail website as well

00:06:58.780 so front and center on the website of course this is nothing less than a conspiracy to destroy the

00:07:04.440 day mail thankfully a judge had the good sense to reject it but the enemies of a free press won't

00:07:09.800 Go away

00:07:10.320 Conspiracy to destroy

00:07:14.000 The mail

00:07:14.580 One thing I'll say, because of course I haven't got a dog

00:07:17.820 In the fight

00:07:18.300 Well not exactly, not specifically in this case

00:07:20.800 It's a balancing act isn't it

00:07:23.160 It is

00:07:23.900 In a good and fair and free society

00:07:26.380 In all honesty, in all seriousness

00:07:27.980 It is a balancing act between

00:07:29.900 As far as the press go

00:07:32.720 Their right

00:07:35.120 To expression

00:07:36.280 And

00:07:38.260 People's privacy

00:07:40.960 When they do cross the line

00:07:42.180 Because they certainly have crossed the line over the years

00:07:44.260 Many, many, many, many, many, many, many times

00:07:46.780 When they really do

00:07:49.780 Hack people's phones

00:07:51.740 Or at least get access to their voicemails

00:07:54.820 And things like that

00:07:56.300 And hound them to some degree

00:07:59.760 And do all sorts of

00:08:02.700 Do all sorts of dodgy and nefarious things

00:08:04.840 okay all right well in this case in this case the the courts have decided

00:08:14.220 in favor of the press all right it's probably the second biggest story today what's the biggest

00:08:21.700 story it's nigel nigel farage who doesn't care about demographic replacement that's what he

00:08:27.340 said didn't he to stephen edgington stephen edgington flatly asked him do you care about

00:08:32.440 Democratic client and replacement

00:08:34.580 He said no

00:08:35.240 Ask if he was even a populist

00:08:41.620 No, I've never been a populist

00:08:42.660 Gloating about destroying anyone and everything

00:08:46.000 To the right of him, Nigel Farage

00:08:47.700 That Nigel Farage 1.00

00:08:48.460 If we alienate Islam, we lose 0.70

00:08:55.260 We lose 0.55

00:08:55.980 That Nigel Farage

00:08:56.980 Compromised, containment, hypno-toad 0.96

00:09:05.080 Globo homo, Nigel Farage

00:09:09.200 Who can't pack his party with enough foreign people, Nigel Farage

00:09:12.500 He says, his gamble turns to farce, says the Telegraph

00:09:16.400 So, okay, the story is

00:09:19.640 Shall we recap a bit for anyone who might be out of the loop a little bit

00:09:23.240 There's various thorns in his side

00:09:26.160 To do with money

00:09:29.340 The £5 million from Christopher Harbaugh

00:09:31.760 A bit of money from Nat Posh George

00:09:34.540 Various other bits of money here or there he's made

00:09:37.840 None of that is actually illegal

00:09:39.980 But the question is over whether

00:09:41.660 One, he declared it all correctly

00:09:44.480 As far as parliamentary procedure is concerned

00:09:46.960 And two, perhaps more importantly I think

00:09:49.180 Was there a quid pro quo?

00:09:54.560 People that give him money

00:09:55.780 do they expect something more than just a thank you from him

00:09:58.740 even though crystal harbour is like a isn't he even a billionaire even billionaires don't usually

00:10:07.300 give away five million quid gratis even if you are their friend they might have done they might

00:10:12.420 have done did harbourn expect something or do people do like a bullion company who gave 0.81

00:10:19.620 nigel loads of money did they expect something other than the work he did for them advertising

00:10:27.200 them they was there some sort of unwritten agreement that meant they would get something

00:10:37.740 more than just nigel's gratitude because if there is then that's corruption right and we don't know

00:10:45.540 might not be i've said all along haven't i i'm i'm prepared to give nigel the benefit of the

00:10:50.180 doubt up to a point up to a point but then it started getting a bit weird didn't it

00:10:55.540 in interviews when people are asking about like just it's getting all techy and eggy

00:11:00.740 aggy about it wasn't he he's like saying it's nothing to do with you uh well you are one of

00:11:08.500 the most high profile people you might be the prime minister so it's kind of something to do with us

00:11:12.900 it's nothing to do with you hmm about that and why are you being so weird about it

00:11:19.800 okay and then there was this uh i tried to play this clip yesterday but it didn't work did it but

00:11:26.720 um i think this was on monday maybe sunday night monday anyway he's just getting off a plane i

00:11:32.440 believe or is he at wimbledon oh looks anyway someone asked him well let's just watch this

00:11:37.740 clip let's just watch this clip and bear this in mind the questions might be not what Nigel wants

00:11:45.380 to hear or answer they are legit questions all right let's just watch this clip was it a mistake

00:11:51.320 not to declare the gifts from George Cottrell sir you tell your bosses you harassed my family anymore

00:11:57.140 and I'll take you with serious consequences that's what your organisation has done this morning go

00:12:02.060 away Nigel Farage's reaction to questions about the financial support he received from a convicted

00:12:07.420 criminal and didn't declare. So what's the story here? Well, the Sunday Times reports this man,

00:12:12.700 George Cottrell, paid for security and staff for Nigel Farage.

00:12:17.100 I'll take you with serious consequences. That's what your organisation has done this morning.

00:12:21.420 Go away. Was it a mistake not to declare the gift, sir?

00:12:25.020 Do you not hear me? You have broken all the rules, Leveson and everything else. Cut.

00:12:30.380 i wouldn't get up in someone's face like that i i would never unless i expected them to throw a

00:12:39.260 punch i wouldn't get up in someone's face like right up to their face telling them stuff like 0.93

00:12:45.520 that unless you want to be in a fight not that that journalist or nigel not that either of those 0.90

00:12:50.560 are actually going to throw a punch but that's pretty damn aggressive considering it's just 0.96

00:12:55.780 that journalist's job right i think why couldn't nigel be the old nigel like uh just 0.92

00:13:04.320 completely ignore it like the guy's not there that's classic isn't it all politicians do that 0.84

00:13:07.920 sort of thing just ignore it um or do the old yawn oh or just say oh there's nothing see i've

00:13:16.520 done nothing wrong without breaking stride what's that sky news well i've done nothing wrong yeah

00:13:22.060 but he does that he acts like that okay i've always said haven't i that this thing all his

00:13:27.620 finances stuff it's either a proper bad scandal and could be the end of him politically or it's

00:13:33.280 a complete nothing burger well it's now not a nothing burger can no longer claim to you know

00:13:41.000 to give him all the credit in the world you can't say it's a nothing burger anymore he

00:13:46.380 made sure of that because he came out yesterday about two o'clock yesterday did a speech was he

00:13:53.020 was he in milbank tower i think he's in milbank tower came out and did a little speech sort of

00:13:56.860 15 20 minutes long saying he resigns as mp of clacton but he's not he's not leaving reform

00:14:08.760 reform uk um he's not like leaving the country going off to america and going to make loads of

00:14:15.340 in america thing he's just resigning as an mp which will of course trigger a by-election there

00:14:22.620 which he then intends to stand in okay

00:14:32.060 now that's not completely completely unheard of it's quite rare but i mean didn't didn't um

00:14:38.700 didn't uh that davis uh tory mp do that a few years ago sometimes if it's something like that

00:14:45.340 if if you if an mp feels like their reputation is completely besmirched or something like that

00:14:52.940 or if they've lost the whip been thrown out of the party something it's rare but it does happen um

00:15:01.020 they'll call a by-election in order to go back to the people of their constituency

00:15:04.860 just to make sure sort of to make sure that they've still got their backing

00:15:08.780 and that they can claim that they're not sort of sitting like a cuckoo in the nest

00:15:13.180 in that seat when everyone wants them out and it's rare but it does happen um

00:15:20.860 okay so so nigel did that he pulled that gambit but

00:15:30.460 there's another problems with that it doesn't really for me and a lot of other people there's

00:15:36.140 some problems with that it doesn't answer the fundamental question like even if he does win

00:15:42.780 which he probably will almost certainly will this by-election and we'll get into why he sort of

00:15:47.740 definitely will in a moment or the other party's not standing we'll get to that um it doesn't

00:15:55.340 answer the fundamental question which is was there corruption was there a quid pro quo was

00:16:02.460 there anything nefarious about the money that doesn't answer that even if the the good people

00:16:08.620 of clacton return him to parliament that isn't answered is it nigel you can make the argument

00:16:18.560 nigel can and will of course make the argument that the people of clacton want me and that's it

00:16:24.560 that's the end of it there's a line under it there won't be a line under it no when this first

00:16:29.400 happened in a few minutes and hours after this first happened yesterday a lot of people even

00:16:34.460 Some people in the office were saying

00:16:36.040 That's smart

00:16:38.000 Nigel's played a blinder there

00:16:39.160 What a great piece of political theatre

00:16:41.380 Political manoeuvring

00:16:42.560 Is it?

00:16:44.120 Is it?

00:16:45.320 I don't think it is

00:16:46.280 I think it's sort of a massive blunder

00:16:48.240 If you've got nothing to hide, Nigel

00:16:50.480 If there's really, really, really nothing there

00:16:54.700 You're 100% clean of any wrongdoing on any level

00:16:58.200 Which is exactly what he claims

00:17:00.340 I've done nothing wrong

00:17:01.780 I've broken no law whatsoever

00:17:04.160 I've not broken the rules one tiny iota that's his line that's his angle if that's true just

00:17:08.800 let the parliamentary uh watchdog thing play out all you need do is wait for that what's all this

00:17:18.560 about exactly misdirection key jangling or something it's framing it as us the people

00:17:28.400 reform people collecting reform voters us versus the establishment it's your chance to put two

00:17:33.120 fingers up to the establishment is it you sure about that you sure about that you're the establishment

00:17:42.280 night in many many many ways in all sorts of ways anyway i don't really see the angle like

00:17:50.720 he thinks it'll all go away it'll do this really even if the other parties were to stand but he'd

00:17:55.280 win that seat and it'll all go away sky news the time the sunday times will stop just asking

00:17:59.680 questions about the harbour money no like like the parliamentary standards committee investigation

00:18:08.640 thing will just stop and go away no it won't that's not how that works i tweeted yesterday

00:18:13.860 fairly soon after this i said how does this by-election change the past i.e. whether there

00:18:20.140 was anything nefarious and corrupt to do with the monies he's received either that is corrupt or

00:18:26.880 not if there is something dodgy there or not how does this by-election change that it doesn't of

00:18:33.120 course it doesn't you think the shield of oh i went back to the people of clacton and they returned

00:18:41.040 me so that's it like that shield is enough forever for all time no that the parliamentary

00:18:46.960 investigation into him stopped like i saw people on twitter saying oh well if he gets re-elected

00:18:51.840 in klaxon then the parliamentary investigation just ends it's a blank slate he starts again no

00:18:59.120 that's not how that works it's not remotely how that works where'd you get that from

00:19:03.280 no sorry no uh this is simply wrong

00:19:11.520 oh all right there you go and it's a bit of a thing isn't it that whenever you uh whenever

00:19:20.320 a politician has to go up in front of the cameras and make a statement of, I've done

00:19:26.420 nothing wrong, even if it's completely and utterly true, you're already going down the

00:19:36.560 path of destruction. I think, for example, a slight parallel, ever so slight, ever so

00:19:43.880 slight parallel, with Richard Nixon to do with the Watergate scandal, which took ages

00:19:47.840 to play out the altercate scandal took like two years to play out something like that

00:19:52.320 or more was it even quite a while nixon would have to go on camera he went on camera like an

00:19:57.280 address to the nation three or four times five times even each time saying i've done nothing wrong

00:20:06.320 um and the more you have to say it even if it's true it wasn't exactly true in

00:20:12.400 in Nixon's case, but even if it's true, the more you have to say it, the judge is to have

00:20:18.640 to get up and say, get up there and say, I've done nothing wrong. The British people need

00:20:23.040 to know if Nigel Farage is a crook. Well, he's not a crook. Jesus Christ. Goddamn Disneyland. 0.69

00:20:38.220 So, okay, so Nige does that. 0.99

00:20:40.840 Nige plays this card.

00:20:44.040 I don't think it's a smart move, a good move. 1.00

00:20:46.660 I think it's odd.

00:20:48.400 It's an attempt at deflection and distraction.

00:20:52.140 All right.

00:20:54.780 All the other parties came out and said,

00:20:56.680 we're not even going to stand in it.

00:21:00.500 Oof.

00:21:01.700 Not exactly checkmate.

00:21:03.700 It's a chess game.

00:21:05.020 Not exactly mate, is it?

00:21:06.700 But it's quite a good move from the rest of the parties

00:21:12.980 Look, Labour and Tories will not fight contests triggered by a reform leader

00:21:17.420 Who is facing investigation over millions in cash gifts

00:21:21.200 Yeah, it's not just Labour and Tories

00:21:22.900 It's also the Lib Dems, the Greens and Restore

00:21:25.640 So all the parties of any consequence

00:21:30.400 All of them have said, we're not going to stand in this

00:21:36.700 I guess when the reform leadership and Niaj heard that in the hours after his speech, I wonder what they thought. They must have thought, uh, uh-oh, oops. This whole gambit is backfiring. Well, it's turning into farce, according to the Telegraph.

00:21:57.000 Like this thing, it's your chance, people of Cacton

00:22:03.520 To put two fingers up to the establishment

00:22:05.920 What establishment? None of them are standing against you

00:22:08.360 Well, Count Binface 0.93

00:22:09.460 It's Nigel versus Count Binface 0.99

00:22:12.600 Binface is the establishment unity party now 0.97

00:22:16.940 All hail Count Binface, by the way

00:22:21.520 First Lord Binface

00:22:22.420 When England is in its time of most perilous need 0.99

00:22:30.020 A once and future bin face will emerge

00:22:33.520 To save the people 0.85

00:22:34.840 Count bin face, let's go 0.80

00:22:40.820 Five more years

00:22:42.180 Alright

00:22:44.940 Alright, so all the parties

00:22:47.500 I mean, let me read a bit from an article

00:22:51.000 From the mail

00:22:52.740 It is Dan Hodges

00:22:54.200 Who is a lefty

00:22:55.460 Weirdo

00:22:56.860 And

00:22:57.900 Has loads and loads of takes

00:23:00.380 I profoundly disagree with

00:23:01.980 But nonetheless

00:23:03.360 Sometimes he does write things

00:23:04.920 That are just

00:23:05.440 Fair enough

00:23:07.180 Take it or leave it

00:23:10.100 He doesn't pull any punches

00:23:13.060 Old Hodges

00:23:15.020 Hodges

00:23:16.160 Says

00:23:16.980 This self-pitying

00:23:19.780 Evasive

00:23:20.300 and frankly boorish in Nigel Farage

00:23:22.380 was a pale shadow of the anti-establishment hero.

00:23:26.980 I might just read this because it's got a fair...

00:23:29.860 Interesting things he says.

00:23:32.140 Nigel Farage is angry, because that was one of the things he said.

00:23:34.660 He said, people have noticed I'm angry recently.

00:23:36.640 I am angry. I've never been more angry.

00:23:38.620 Yeah, because Sky News, was it?

00:23:40.980 Sky News came round to one of his houses.

00:23:43.240 It's known to be one of his houses.

00:23:44.940 But was it the one where he was seen banging the pots and pans for the NHS?

00:23:48.420 Was it that one? I don't know.

00:23:49.260 it's known to be one of his houses the apparently the reporter knocked on the door it's really early

00:23:53.640 in the morning actually quite inconvenient i think it's before 8 a.m someone knocked on the door

00:23:59.300 trying to find nigel for to doorstep him to ask him something but nigel wasn't there and his daughter

00:24:04.020 opened the door and that's made that's made nigel fantastically angry he's trying to say that

00:24:10.440 they're like putting his daughter's safety and security in peril and stuff i mean it's not ideal

00:24:19.080 it's not nice it's not but it's it's not something worthy of calling a by-election over uh in my

00:24:26.560 opinion it seems like he's blown that up a bit more like we saw that clip when he was at was

00:24:32.860 it an airport or was it wimbledon i don't know that clip where he gets right in the sky news

00:24:36.060 reporter's face you've you've put the leveson you've put my family in danger how dare you it's

00:24:41.260 like calm down they're trying to find you they weren't trying to won't try to dox your daughter

00:24:47.320 Nigel Farage is angry

00:24:52.680 You wouldn't like Nigel when he's angry

00:24:54.000 We know this because yesterday he went to great lengths to tell us

00:24:57.600 So yes, you can ask

00:24:59.580 Am I angry?

00:25:00.400 Well, I've never been angrier in my life

00:25:02.180 He raged in a recorded address to the nation

00:25:04.520 From his reformed bunker

00:25:06.880 The reason for his anger

00:25:12.260 A national newspaper had published a photo of a house

00:25:14.900 Owned by a family member

00:25:16.240 oh it was actually her house was it apologies if i got that wrong i thought it was one of his

00:25:20.140 houses i think he does own it and she she and her partner rent it oh i don't know it's not really

00:25:25.400 that important is it a house incidentally that farage himself had happily posed in front of for

00:25:30.560 photographs previously oh there you go and a broadcast journalist had knocked on the door

00:25:35.820 of a family member whilst apparently trying to inquire about his whereabouts he is also furious

00:25:40.120 at the fact that he was being asked questions about his personal finances making money is not

00:25:44.520 a crime he insisted furiously that's true isn't it that's true it is a bit pinko and lefty for

00:25:52.220 the media and other politicians like the greens or whatever to be all butthurt that anyone makes

00:25:57.460 any money ever yeah that is weird and gross and i'm just not wrong there okay the really big

00:26:02.380 question that i want to pose is do we want leaders that know how to make money do we want leaders

00:26:08.940 who have run businesses employed people and under and understand how the world works well

00:26:14.320 Yeah but that's not really what's the question here is it

00:26:16.260 It's about whether there was a quid pro quo

00:26:18.420 About that £5 million

00:26:19.240 To which the answers

00:26:23.280 From most reasonable people would be yes

00:26:25.440 But that's not the issue

00:26:27.040 Reforms leader keeps dodging

00:26:28.620 He isn't currently under investigation

00:26:30.460 By parliament's

00:26:31.480 He isn't currently under investigation

00:26:33.940 By parliament's sleeves watchdog

00:26:35.680 For making an honest living

00:26:36.740 He's under investigation for accepting a stagnant £5 million gift

00:26:39.880 From a mysterious

00:26:41.480 British tire sugar daddy

00:26:43.800 Not declaring it, then telling the voters that legitimate questions about what he himself boasted was a lottery win

00:26:50.660 Were none of their business

00:26:52.360 He's also facing separate questions over accepting staff security and a flat near Buckingham Palace

00:26:58.140 From an acquaintance called George Cottrell, a.k.a. PostGeorge

00:27:01.420 Who is a convicted fraudster and recently published a book titled How to Launder Money

00:27:06.720 Apparently at the Gaunton, one thing I read the other day

00:27:11.300 At the Gaunton and Denton by-election

00:27:14.120 You know, the one Matt Goodwin

00:27:16.040 Failed to win

00:27:17.520 Apparently on like the last day

00:27:19.180 Or on the day of polling

00:27:20.400 Nigel Farage left Gaunton and Denton

00:27:22.980 To go down to London

00:27:24.080 To be at the book opening

00:27:25.840 Or the book signing

00:27:26.720 Of How to Launder Money

00:27:29.140 By Post George

00:27:30.000 Weird

00:27:32.460 Okay, then he said

00:27:35.600 Nigel said

00:27:37.100 I have not broken the law

00:27:38.720 In any way at all

00:27:41.300 Okay, it's a worry that you have to come on TV and say that

00:27:45.160 If that's 100%, 100% true, just

00:27:48.700 Then it's fine, you know, tweet it out or something

00:27:53.220 But

00:27:54.660 Have to make a whole song and dance about

00:27:57.160 Farage furiously declared no

00:27:59.800 But some of his closest allies have

00:28:01.720 We know too that Nigel Farage is scared

00:28:05.460 Scared for his own safety

00:28:07.840 That's reasonable though, Dan Hodges

00:28:09.180 That's reasonable

00:28:09.760 That's fair enough

00:28:13.440 I'm never ever going to throw shade at Nigel

00:28:15.900 For that angle of it all

00:28:17.520 I am the most physically and verbally attacked

00:28:22.760 Public figure or politician of modern times

00:28:25.000 May well be true, yeah

00:28:25.900 If not the most, certainly one of the most, yeah

00:28:28.380 As a politician

00:28:31.920 I kind of despise Nigel

00:28:34.080 When he said that to Edgington about demographics

00:28:36.840 Despise him 1.00

00:28:39.760 He's going to capitulate to Islam because otherwise we lose. 1.00

00:28:43.720 I despise him politically. 1.00

00:28:46.000 Yeah, I don't want one hair on his head to be harmed.

00:28:51.480 Yeah, if he knows a billionaire who can give him £5 million to keep him safe.

00:28:54.660 Good. Genuinely good.

00:28:56.200 Good, good, good.

00:28:59.160 Alright.

00:29:02.240 This was why he needed millions of pounds for his personal security.

00:29:05.340 he used the example of an occasion when his car was surrounded and written off by a hostile mob 0.77

00:29:09.800 yeah yeah good nigel should be protected person his person should be inviolate

00:29:17.220 like a console or a pro console or a creator 0.81

00:29:24.060 or a tribune tribune of the people their person is sacrosanct

00:29:35.340 um though in the midst of his justifiable anger at his at this appalling incident i.e his car

00:29:42.140 being hounded out of a a restaurant or a pub or whatever it was and his car battered

00:29:47.820 yeah pooling instant he seems to have forgotten that this that two of his parliamentary colleagues

00:29:53.020 joe cox and david amis were murdered during the course of their public duties what do you mean

00:29:57.900 dan i doubt nigel frange did for he has forgotten that in fact of course he hasn't forgotten that

00:30:03.260 why are you throwing that in there classic dan hodges yeah

00:30:13.500 a little disingenuous bad faith little me thing to throw in there 0.54

00:30:18.700 nigel seems to forgotten about david amos and joe cox has he no he hasn't of course he hasn't you 0.83

00:30:22.780 know he hasn't dickhead and that in a nutshell was the problem with yesterday's piece of political

00:30:31.500 street theatre. Nigel Farage claimed his decision to give up his Clackton seat and call a by-election

00:30:36.760 in which he will stand was all about David fronting up to the establishment Goliath.

00:30:48.860 Nigel being David and the establishment being Goliath of course. And a fresh mandate would leave

00:30:53.460 him free to finish his populist revolution he insisted. Nigel isn't a populist he made it clear

00:30:58.380 he went to pains in fact to say there's nothing of the sort but all right dan hodges characterise

00:31:04.800 it as a populist revolution but it wasn't really about any of those things now we get into it

00:31:10.700 here's the sort of take that i agree with from hodges

00:31:14.100 nigel farage's statement was about one thing nigel farage

00:31:19.120 or to be more accurate someone will someone who currently calls himself nigel farage

00:31:27.040 Because the self-pitying, evasive and frankly boorish figure we saw yesterday

00:31:31.600 Was a pale shadow of the engaging, irreverent swashbuckler

00:31:36.140 Who has spent the past decade cutting a swathe through the British political elite

00:31:40.760 His speech could have very simply been boiled down to two words

00:31:50.000 Poor me

00:31:50.680 Everyone was out to get him

00:31:53.760 the parliamentary standards commissioner left-wing thugs the editor of the times

00:31:59.160 in Farage's eyes just about everyone in British politics is to blame for his political woes other

00:32:04.060 than him yes his tightly controlled and choreographed a media appearance will inevitably

00:32:10.780 garner rave reviews amongst his social media cheerleaders yeah I'm trying to spin it like

00:32:16.100 this isn't really terrible like this isn't now some sort of open wound like it's actually great

00:32:21.920 It's a brilliant piece of political theatre, an amazing move.

00:32:24.600 He's played a blinder.

00:32:26.060 Has he...

00:32:28.540 Or is it a big wound that he just opened up further?

00:32:33.580 It's got a load of grit in it.

00:32:39.760 Okay.

00:32:41.780 He will inevitably be re-elected in what is effectively the safest reform seat in the entire country,

00:32:47.560 Especially given the major parties will not be standing

00:32:50.740 And his only serious competition will be from the intergalactic space warrior

00:32:54.740 Count Binface, First Lord Binface 0.77

00:32:56.580 But his victory will be a meaningless one 0.73

00:33:00.680 Because it will not address any of his or Reform's basic structural problems

00:33:05.520 Yeah, it doesn't address the crux of the matter

00:33:08.640 Yeah, Dan Hodges is right

00:33:10.800 There 1.00

00:33:12.420 Through his infatuation with wealthy ex-lags 0.99

00:33:18.960 Ex-criminal people, that means, if you don't know 0.80

00:33:21.500 And shadowy foreign crypto-billionaires

00:33:23.760 Faraj now appears to be in politics primarily for himself

00:33:27.280 Rather than any of the causes he used to so boldly champion

00:33:30.460 His regurgitation of clichéd anti-press tropes

00:33:34.160 To try to deflect from legitimate scrutiny

00:33:36.760 Simply reinforces the impression that he has something to hide

00:33:39.540 You know, like I say, like Nixon

00:33:41.360 i'm not a crook how many times have to say that before it's like well you get it um and his

00:33:50.380 increasingly tired rhetoric and demeanor is rapidly rapidly propelling olukhemu badenok

00:33:56.560 into pole position as the standard bearer of the insurgent right we'll see about that

00:34:03.060 are you sure about that we'll see about that uh which is why farage's attempt to deflect from all

00:34:09.900 this by using the voters of Clacton as his human shield is doomed to fail. I don't know if it's

00:34:14.620 doomed to fail but yeah I wouldn't be surprised though if the the whole gambit backfires essentially

00:34:22.540 if and when we get to a second by-election.

00:34:27.340 The British people will look at the man taking his ego for a spin along the east coast,

00:34:32.060 compare it to the one who fought so tirelessly and tenaciously to free his country from the

00:34:36.380 the tentacles of Brussels and ask each other, who is this imposter? Nigel Farage is meant to be a

00:34:44.580 populist warrior. Again, he said he's not a populist. The embittered crybaby who hid behind

00:34:50.080 his podium and his advisors yesterday and raged at the world is anything but, to use a phrase he

00:34:56.200 and his supporters are very keen on, he has turned into British politics biggest snowflake

00:35:02.660 And the heat generated by his sleazy dealings and relationships

00:35:06.560 Is seeing him melt under the pressure

00:35:08.400 Great imagery, Dan Hodges

00:35:10.840 Great imagery, what a writer

00:35:13.780 The use of metaphor

00:35:18.420 Masterful

00:35:26.900 There was one way Reform's leader could have sought to transform his political fortune

00:35:32.160 i agree with what he's about to say here come clean

00:35:35.440 is the five million pound gift for security as initially claimed or something else as as he and

00:35:45.440 his allies implied in a series of car crash interviews last week what is the true nature

00:35:50.820 of his relationship with posh george cotrell what other undisclosed gifts gifts from mystery

00:35:56.940 benefactors are floating around yeah come clean the full hangout if nixon had done that when the

00:36:03.980 watergate scandal broke he's on his way back from china or russia or an airplane when it broke

00:36:10.060 nixon didn't order the plumbers to do that if he just come clean at that moment and just said oh

00:36:15.340 something dodgy has gone on here let's just completely find out what it is even if it's

00:36:19.980 embarrassing to me in the presidency he ultimately he wouldn't have had to have resigned a couple of

00:36:25.180 years later. He didn't do that, he just lied about it and continued to pretend he hadn't

00:36:34.000 done anything wrong on any level ever. Hodgie says, but Nigel didn't come clean. Instead

00:36:41.300 he's running away, running away from the scrutiny, running away from Parliament's sleaze watchdog

00:36:46.640 and hoping that amidst the circus of the upcoming by-election he'll be able to slip away into

00:36:51.920 The crowd, he won't, yeah he won't

00:36:54.040 Because the British people will be able

00:36:57.980 To spot him a mile off, well the media won't

00:36:59.920 Stop, the media won't stop

00:37:01.160 They know

00:37:04.080 What the real Nigel Farage looks like

00:37:05.900 They can easily see through a doppelganger

00:37:08.320 That stood before them yesterday

00:37:09.660 And they won't accept any cheap imitations

00:37:12.080 Alright, that's enough from Dan Hodge for one day

00:37:13.940 But there you go

00:37:15.760 That says a lot of the things I

00:37:17.520 Think

00:37:19.200 A fair few of the points

00:37:22.580 There

00:37:23.260 That was most of the show

00:37:28.840 We'll do a longer one today

00:37:30.760 Why not, slightly longer anyway

00:37:32.340 More than the last couple of days

00:37:33.600 Alright so that's Nigel's problems

00:37:36.180 That's where he is at the moment

00:37:37.180 All the other parties said

00:37:39.820 No you're, they said

00:37:41.280 Like the Greens said 0.85

00:37:42.880 He was a grifter

00:37:46.060 In fact

00:37:48.060 Let's have a look at

00:37:49.280 Let's have a look at the BBC

00:37:51.720 Because there's an article there

00:37:53.320 Let's read a little bit of this one

00:37:55.500 The response from all the other parties

00:37:58.680 Farage's rivals rule outstanding in Clacton by-election

00:38:02.340 It really does

00:38:03.920 Really does undercut Nigel's

00:38:06.080 Strategy

00:38:07.560 Of going back to the good people of Clacton

00:38:10.280 It really undercuts it

00:38:12.320 Like dramatically

00:38:13.220 Labour, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats

00:38:16.260 The Greens and Restore Britain

00:38:17.540 have all ruled out contesting the Clacton by-election

00:38:20.280 triggered by the resignation of Nigel Farage.

00:38:22.560 The Reform UK leader said that having announced his resignation,

00:38:26.780 he would refight the Essex seat in what he billed as

00:38:30.240 a people's versus the establishment by-election.

00:38:33.080 Facing increasing scrutiny over his finances

00:38:35.200 in a parliamentary investigation, Farage said,

00:38:37.420 the people of Clacton should be the judge of my actions.

00:38:42.540 Okay, to some extent, but...

00:38:45.420 Well, apparently, I don't know if this is absolutely true,

00:38:49.220 this is one thing I read yesterday,

00:38:50.840 that he was due over the next week or two

00:38:52.940 to be interviewed by the parliamentary investigations process.

00:38:59.060 That he would have to sit down with them,

00:39:00.820 probably get grilled by them a bit.

00:39:03.400 And that if he's not a sitting MP, he does avoid that.

00:39:10.100 Is all of this to avoid that?

00:39:12.500 I wouldn't have thought so

00:39:13.920 That is a bit

00:39:14.560 Far for me

00:39:15.660 But maybe

00:39:16.460 And

00:39:17.080 He won't avoid it

00:39:18.280 Indefinitely anyway

00:39:19.320 Assuming he does get re-elected

00:39:21.220 Which he probably will

00:39:21.840 Almost certainly will

00:39:22.620 Especially if no one

00:39:23.580 Stands against him 1.00

00:39:24.220 I doubt Count Binface 1.00

00:39:25.740 Go Count Binface 1.00

00:39:26.740 Will beat him 1.00

00:39:27.620 So

00:39:27.900 So

00:39:30.800 He'll still have to

00:39:32.400 Have that interview with them

00:39:33.800 At some point anyway

00:39:34.540 I don't remember when

00:39:37.480 The 9-11 commission

00:39:38.520 Wanted to sit down

00:39:39.280 With George Bush Jr

00:39:40.060 And he just put it off

00:39:41.900 And put it off

00:39:42.380 And put it off

00:39:42.960 And in the end

00:39:43.840 Would only sit down

00:39:44.980 With them

00:39:45.680 With Dick Cheney next to him

00:39:46.700 And I think maybe lawyers as well

00:39:47.940 Weird

00:39:49.460 Got nothing to hide

00:39:51.240 Just have a conversation with them

00:39:52.400 But no

00:39:52.760 Can't

00:39:53.040 No

00:39:53.260 Anyway

00:39:55.320 I'm not saying

00:39:56.500 Saying Nigel Farage's finances

00:39:58.860 Or anything like 9-11

00:39:59.940 But still

00:40:00.840 If you've got nothing to hide

00:40:04.100 There shouldn't be any sort of problem

00:40:05.480 But okay

00:40:06.280 Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper

00:40:09.040 Said the by-election quote

00:40:10.240 Shouldn't be happening

00:40:11.700 and accused Farage of throwing a political tantrum as a distraction.

00:40:17.180 It does feel a bit like that, actually, doesn't it?

00:40:20.920 I'm loathe to agree with Yvette Cooper and Mrs Ed Balls on anything,

00:40:24.500 but it does feel like that, doesn't it?

00:40:26.120 Nobody is going to get drawn into what is a political stunt by Nigel Farage

00:40:29.980 because he wants to duck and dive around the rules that apply to everyone,

00:40:33.620 she told the BBC Breakfast.

00:40:36.180 Farage on Tuesday said he had done nothing wrong in regards to his finances.

00:40:40.180 Conservative leader, Nigerian woman Olukemi Badenoch 1.00

00:40:43.640 Whose mum just came over to use our NHS, real scumbag move 1.00

00:40:46.660 Said her party would not participate in the fake election 1.00

00:40:50.900 She's calling it a fake election

00:40:52.200 Which Nigel Farage is causing to distract people from what is happening

00:40:56.340 The Liberal Democrats urged the government to block Farage's resignation

00:41:01.820 I'm not sure if they can

00:41:03.380 I'm not sure about that one

00:41:04.700 If he said it though, maybe it is possible

00:41:07.340 That doesn't seem right though either

00:41:09.660 Anyway, Ed Davey is not liberal, is he?

00:41:16.360 In the true sense of the word liberal

00:41:17.760 Many of the things he says and advocates for are completely illiberal, in my opinion 1.00

00:41:21.980 Like flooding our country with foreign people 1.00

00:41:26.080 To the point of demographic decline and destruction 1.00

00:41:28.780 What's liberal about that?

00:41:30.980 The Liberal Democrats urged the government to block Farage's resignation

00:41:33.940 Until the standards investigation had concluded

00:41:36.340 Arguing that his constituents needed

00:41:39.140 All the facts before they cast their votes

00:41:41.520 Bad argument, it's not a silly argument, is it?

00:41:47.620 We shouldn't be playing Mr Farage's game to escape justice

00:41:51.200 Party leader Sir Davy told BBC Radio 4's Today programme

00:41:55.640 Restore Britain, set up by MP Rupert Lowe

00:41:58.780 After he was suspended from reform

00:42:00.520 Er, suspended?

00:42:03.760 Said it would not stand in this election

00:42:05.880 But would do so if a second by-election was ultimately triggered

00:42:09.000 by the standards inquiry the Green Party of England and Wales initially said it would be a

00:42:13.560 decision for the local party later Green MP Hannah Spencer told BBC Newsnight local members had

00:42:19.660 decided not to field a candidate and I said they called him like a grifter I think somewhere I can't

00:42:24.660 remember if it was Zach Paulden sorry Zach Polanski real name Dave Paulden and I'm not sure if that was

00:42:32.440 a quote from David Paulden but he said someone called him a grifter and then it says comedian

00:42:38.580 John Harvey, who regularly runs in

00:42:40.600 by-elections under the pseudonym Count Binface

00:42:42.720 has confirmed he will run.

00:42:44.560 Oh, they doxed. They doxed Count Binface. 0.99

00:42:46.760 First long Binface. Go bin, go bin face. 0.97

00:42:50.060 He's not actually doxed.

00:42:50.680 Surely his name was already out there. It's not a true doxing.

00:42:52.720 But until I read that this morning, I didn't

00:42:54.620 know Count Binface's

00:42:56.420 real name. 0.98

00:42:58.680 And there you go. Okay.

00:43:02.680 So I say,

00:43:04.140 let's back 1.00

00:43:06.480 the Binface vote. 1.00

00:43:08.580 So it does make 1.00

00:43:13.040 It does make a bit of a farce

00:43:15.200 Doesn't it

00:43:15.920 Of Nigel's thing

00:43:19.140 I think

00:43:20.240 Alright shall we move on

00:43:23.320 We've spent ages on that

00:43:24.520 Although it's the main story of the day

00:43:27.500 By a long long long chalk

00:43:28.780 Burnham must raise taxes

00:43:31.820 By 120 billion

00:43:33.640 To avoid crisis

00:43:34.720 Was the OBR

00:43:36.140 Or cut spending

00:43:45.680 Or cut spending

00:43:46.740 The idea that you must never ever ever cut spending

00:43:51.660 You just raise taxes

00:43:53.400 That paradigm can't last forever can it

00:43:56.600 But if you increase taxes as well 1.00

00:43:59.500 Pakistan sets out demands 0.99

00:44:03.220 Before taking their rapist back 0.99

00:44:06.140 They're going to demand things of us

00:44:09.100 They said something like 1.00

00:44:10.640 We need to take seriously Pakistan's 0.97

00:44:13.000 The things that Pakistan care about 1.00

00:44:15.800 In the broadest sense 0.98

00:44:17.740 We need to take those things more seriously

00:44:19.380 Before they'll consider taking back their 0.99

00:44:21.480 Their rapist 1.00

00:44:22.660 Their prolific child rapist 1.00

00:44:25.880 The brass neck of it 1.00

00:44:28.680 Gross

00:44:30.480 The Express is a good paper

00:44:32.600 I can read Express now

00:44:34.240 Nigel Farage triggers

00:44:36.100 shock by election arrival parties won't field candidate let the people be the judges of my

00:44:42.100 actions okay the ir paper i won't read the blurb because it's everything we've gone through

00:44:48.080 everything of note more or less i won't read the blurb it's the same thing water will nigel

00:44:52.560 nearly today the financial times there you go nigel it's a fake election

00:44:56.980 bid to forestall funds inquiry vanity project dismissed that's a quote someone's called it

00:45:05.620 A vanity project

00:45:06.740 This by-election, not all of reform

00:45:10.380 Although all of reforming is a vanity project, of course

00:45:14.280 Trump threatens to pull troops out of Europe

00:45:17.900 Despite NATO weapons pledges

00:45:19.400 Because the big NATO thing is going on at the moment, isn't it?

00:45:22.340 And Trump says it's in Turkey, in Ankara

00:45:24.100 And Trump, of course, is like the big dog on the stage at NATO

00:45:30.540 Big dog wherever he goes, isn't it?

00:45:33.260 President of the United States

00:45:34.200 um particularly at nato just certainly and the other thing in the news cycle is he's

00:45:40.920 keep he's talking about greenland again not invading it or annexing it but buying it

00:45:45.720 so he's talking all about greenland again but this time you can just buy it from denmark

00:45:56.580 Trump and people at the State Department and Pentagon

00:46:06.960 They do consider Greenland sort of strategic importance

00:46:10.560 And they're probably, well they're not wrong really

00:46:14.160 Why does Denmark want Greenland so much?

00:46:20.720 I've heard lots and lots and lots of people

00:46:23.100 I say lots, like loads of people

00:46:25.980 massively exaggerating that for no good reason probably five or six people on twitter or people

00:46:32.440 that are subscribers to lotus eaters at least five or six maybe seven or eight actual danish people

00:46:40.900 say that greenland is like a millstone around their neck it's it's annoying to them it's a

00:46:47.520 difficult appendage to them they they haven't really got the money to endlessly do infrastructure

00:46:53.320 And things in Greenland

00:46:54.720 Greenland is just an annoying thing to them

00:46:57.120 Basically

00:46:57.640 Like something left over from centuries past

00:47:00.520 And as I say

00:47:01.420 It's some sort of millstone around their neck

00:47:03.340 So sell it to Trump then

00:47:08.180 Let him make the people of Greenland

00:47:15.200 Richer and safer

00:47:16.960 Denmark can't defend those waters

00:47:20.180 Cannot

00:47:20.740 Can it

00:47:23.320 hasn't got the money and the infrastructure and the military and the navy to do that

00:47:28.780 all right fraud is five million pound gift all right we've done it haven't we we've done all

00:47:33.640 that the metro oh the metro gross fraud is big uh bid uh buy election gamble okay the times

00:47:44.660 are venerable times there's harry losing his court case and tories and labors uh won't fight

00:47:50.960 the fake contest okay in the mirror mirror say because they they hate they've got the most

00:47:56.460 farage arrangement syndrome of anyone really haven't they the mirror a farage quit fiasco

00:48:02.720 they're calling it a fiasco desperate humiliation as main parties snub contest yeah a little bit

00:48:11.260 i wonder what the feeling was at reform high command when it came through that the parties

00:48:20.280 We're going to do that

00:48:21.040 Must have been a little bit of a sinking feeling

00:48:23.740 Unnecessary by-election will cost £200,000

00:48:27.040 I've heard more like quarter of a million

00:48:28.720 But whatever, in that ballpark

00:48:29.980 Farage says, oh well

00:48:32.240 I don't want the public purse to

00:48:34.340 To suffer, I'll pay for that

00:48:36.360 Personally, you can't do that

00:48:37.920 You can't do that

00:48:39.160 That's not how things work

00:48:40.720 Just a self-funded by-election

00:48:44.240 No, no, no, no

00:48:45.300 Absolutely can't work

00:48:48.640 PM's blast

00:48:50.980 He's up to his neck in sleaze 1.00

00:48:52.560 Yeah, even Sir Queer Starlin 1.00

00:48:54.360 He's got all sorts of sleaze things 0.99

00:48:57.380 Going on around him, hasn't he?

00:48:59.560 Like clothes, bills 1.00

00:49:00.600 To those Ukraine boys, whatever

00:49:02.420 All sorts of things, nonetheless

00:49:03.280 He was able to say that Farage is up to his neck in sleaze

00:49:06.360 That's the Prime Minister's words

00:49:11.240 The Mail, the Daily Mail

00:49:13.500 A wolf in sheep's clothing

00:49:15.580 Oh, we did this, didn't we?

00:49:17.500 They're obviously gloating about their win

00:49:19.760 Obviously

00:49:20.440 Against Harry in the courts

00:49:22.740 And the star

00:49:23.800 They go with Nigel and Harry

00:49:26.260 I told you it was a Nigel and Harry day

00:49:27.700 The sun, Harry

00:49:29.180 Harry caned

00:49:30.400 There's that football player isn't there

00:49:32.860 Harry caned

00:49:34.180 And to lose or get beaten is to be caned

00:49:37.360 Harry caned 0.65

00:49:39.140 You got it

00:49:42.200 It's also a euphemism for being high isn't it

00:49:47.500 It's Harry Caned

00:49:49.420 Alright, they're the front pages 0.99

00:49:53.740 They're the front pages

00:49:54.500 Shall we do our poll now?

00:49:56.460 Shall we have a look at our poll?

00:49:57.620 We'll do our poll at this point in the show, don't we?

00:49:59.800 It was already 10-2

00:50:00.420 Alright, what was our poll today?

00:50:02.360 Surely we asked you about Nigel, didn't we?

00:50:05.260 Oh yeah, okay, yeah

00:50:06.000 So we said

00:50:06.560 Over 1,100 votes

00:50:08.840 Getting up towards 1,200

00:50:10.060 Is Nigel Farage's by-election gamble a farce?

00:50:12.600 Oh, we just simply put it to you

00:50:13.940 What you think

00:50:15.540 and the eyes have it 81% of you say yes 19% of you say no

00:50:22.340 knocking up towards 1200 votes

00:50:25.780 or expand the chosen few you know what you're doing you know what you're talking about

00:50:30.340 it kind of is well i feel like the the response by all the other parties to not stand there

00:50:37.200 that's what makes it a farce right i mean it's already an odd strategy an odd gambit

00:50:44.640 slightly odd as i say doesn't address the crux of the matter but where all the parties are not

00:50:50.140 even going to stand here other than count bim face first of all bim face go bim face

00:50:53.200 uh that's what makes it a real sort of fast doesn't it okay all right there we go 0.55

00:51:03.900 should have a look at the price of oil oh because there's all sorts of stuff going down in iran and

00:51:09.740 the straits of hormuz as well in this news cycle for britain at least no one's really talking about

00:51:16.380 that but yeah apparently is uh over the last few days people seem to really really not care much

00:51:23.020 about iran now don't they anyway apparently iran fired on a few ships in the straits of hormuz

00:51:31.040 the united states fired all different things back into iran as many as 18 different targets

00:51:36.960 the news is saying don't shoot the messenger that's just what has been reported and then

00:51:41.460 iran shot back at u.s bases u.s assets in places like bahrain

00:51:45.300 the price of oil has gone up a little bit what west texas 72 knocking 73 dollars a barrel

00:51:57.780 rent crude 76 getting up to 77 dollars about 76 and a half dollars a barrel so again still lower

00:52:05.460 than when the war started in february but it's actually ticked up a bit on the back of the last

00:52:10.500 couple of days exchange of fire okay all right we actually covered uh uh most of the other really big

00:52:21.300 stories i wanted to talk about today uh as we were going along here oh uh other than just a few words

00:52:27.540 about marine le pen marine le pen um jordan bardella most affected because it was going to 0.78

00:52:39.060 be if she didn't run her deputy that 30 year old french man jordan bardella or jordan bardella

00:52:51.140 was going to run instead and almost certainly win well not almost certainly but kind of likely to 0.77

00:52:56.020 win odds on just about to win and become the next president of france but now le pen herself has

00:53:04.360 decided she is going to run even with a campaign at least with an ankle tag on he won't then so

00:53:13.100 he's most affected by della most affected okay at least he is slightly more um favorable in the

00:53:24.100 polls than her only slightly but rn national rally at the party um the polls say that if he

00:53:33.540 were to lead it into the presidential election he'd probably do slightly better but they'll

00:53:38.640 definitely get rn will definitely get to the second round of the presidential vote and then

00:53:42.840 it'll be oh it's a head-to-head isn't it probably with a socialist an actual socialist as well not

00:53:48.640 just sort of a lefty social democrat but an actual socialist probably as you see it's not

00:53:54.760 till may next year and then possibly i don't count my chickens well they're hatched but

00:54:02.620 possibly hopefully probably the odds are on that rn and marine le pen will win that and she will

00:54:09.580 become madame president will she not probably we'll see all right there we go that's the news

00:54:18.460 This is the news

00:54:20.020 Let's have a look at

00:54:23.200 On this day in history

00:54:23.980 Should we do that bit?

00:54:24.600 I quite like doing that bit

00:54:25.380 I don't mind doing that bit

00:54:26.180 You guys seem to like me doing that bit

00:54:27.940 The 8th of July

00:54:29.560 Down through the centuries

00:54:30.280 What happened of note

00:54:30.980 On the 8th of July

00:54:32.640 In the year 1099

00:54:33.760 The First Crusade

00:54:35.800 15,000 starving Christian soldiers

00:54:38.780 March in religious procession

00:54:40.900 Around Jerusalem

00:54:41.940 As its Muslim defenders look on 0.91

00:54:44.060 Do you reckon 0.94

00:54:46.540 Harry

00:54:49.900 do you reckon

00:54:53.040 that on my history theme show

00:54:55.480 which is behind the paywall

00:54:56.380 on otocities.com

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00:54:58.280 hundreds of hours of content

00:54:59.680 270 plus episodes

00:55:01.940 each one long form

00:55:03.040 body of work built up

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00:55:06.540 do you think there

00:55:08.320 I talk all about

00:55:10.000 the first crusade in detail

00:55:11.320 yeah

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00:55:16.280 Pronouncy of membership if you want to hear that

00:55:18.280 Do you want hundreds of hours

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00:55:22.060 Gobekli Tepe to

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00:55:24.900 Well it's there

00:55:27.180 £5 a month, good deal

00:55:28.880 A few hundred hours, alright, the first crusade

00:55:32.100 It was incredible

00:55:34.240 That they made it out of Antioch and got to 1.00

00:55:36.200 Jerusalem at all 0.53

00:55:36.960 Massively against the odds that they got into 0.69

00:55:40.060 Jerusalem and liberated 0.97

00:55:41.960 It from 1.00

00:55:43.220 The Muslims 1.00

00:55:44.900 But they did 1.00

00:55:46.220 The fact that the Franks 1.00

00:55:50.960 The Christians 0.99

00:55:52.740 Took Jerusalem in 1099 1.00

00:55:54.520 Is remarkable 1.00

00:55:57.380 Alright, that's the first crusade

00:56:00.580 On this day in 1497

00:56:02.580 Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama

00:56:04.620 Departs on his first voyage

00:56:06.020 And becomes the first European to reach India by sea

00:56:08.780 It's interesting, isn't it?

00:56:10.220 You might have thought people had achieved that

00:56:12.280 Before that point, but no

00:56:13.680 I see 1.00

00:56:14.680 First Europeans, of course, like the Arabs 1.00

00:56:21.300 In my long-form series all about Magellan 1.00

00:56:28.820 I actually talk for a while, a little bit about Vasco de Gama

00:56:32.400 I talk all about the whole Age of Exploration

00:56:34.280 So that's there if you're interested

00:56:36.740 On this day in 1777, independent Vermont introduces a new constitution prohibiting slavery

00:56:42.940 Vermont there

00:56:45.860 See how many decades went by

00:56:48.740 Before it came to the crunch

00:56:50.400 Of the 1860s

00:56:52.460 Nearly 100 years

00:56:54.760 80 years

00:56:56.340 Okay, on this day in 1800

00:56:58.100 Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse gives the first

00:57:00.600 Cowpox vaccination in the United States

00:57:03.020 To his son to prevent smallpox

00:57:04.720 Of course, Jenner had done it earlier

00:57:06.920 A few years earlier

00:57:07.760 Was it like 5 years? Not even 10 years earlier

00:57:11.320 Edward Jenner

00:57:13.040 Is that Jenner's Christian name, Edward?

00:57:16.120 Anyway, Jenner, Dr. Jenner had already done it

00:57:18.160 Already shown that it was a possibility

00:57:19.900 But on this website they're saying

00:57:21.600 This is the first American doctor to do it

00:57:23.720 Okay

00:57:24.000 Alright, on this day in 1853

00:57:27.460 Commodore Matthew Perry sells his frigate

00:57:29.820 The Sisequana

00:57:30.680 Didn't pronounce that correctly

00:57:32.560 The Sisequana

00:57:34.440 Into Tokyo Bay 0.84

00:57:36.500 Opening up Japan to western influence and trade 0.96

00:57:41.320 Harry 0.60

00:57:43.340 I've got a long-form piece of content

00:57:48.640 I mentioned it just the other day

00:57:49.500 I didn't know one of my many episodes

00:57:50.860 The Road to Pearl Harbor

00:57:52.740 Quite a long one as well

00:57:54.600 I think it's two hours

00:57:55.480 And I start it

00:57:59.260 Actually, I don't

00:58:00.100 I'll go back further

00:58:00.800 But I talk all about that incident

00:58:02.700 That's a really big incident 0.58

00:58:03.760 Where basically Japan was a closed society

00:58:07.880 Very, very closed

00:58:09.240 Not 100% 1.00

00:58:10.340 but sort of a hermit nation 0.99

00:58:12.460 they would only allow a very very small number of people

00:58:15.140 in and out of Japan

00:58:15.900 foreign people in and out of Japan

00:58:17.240 a very very small enclave of Dutch was it

00:58:20.740 or Portuguese

00:58:21.980 you can't just go to Japan 1.00

00:58:24.760 no one can 0.93

00:58:25.800 if you haven't got permission from them

00:58:27.480 the second you set foot on their beach 0.99

00:58:29.160 they'll kill you 0.99

00:58:29.840 if they don't want to trade with you 0.99

00:58:33.820 they're not going to trade with you

00:58:34.720 this is the mid 19th century

00:58:37.440 anyway in the end

00:58:40.180 the united states are like uh no japan is a massive market and a worry and a concern

00:58:47.140 so our modern ships still hold ships with cannon on them

00:58:52.760 uh we're just going to sail straight into tokyo bay because japan have only got like wooden junks

00:59:00.820 there's literally nothing they can do to stop us commodore matt perry not chandler from friends

00:59:09.280 not that matt perry i think they were related there's two matt perrys of note in history

00:59:15.940 chandler and commodore matthew perry of the mid-19th century um yeah america just and

00:59:24.020 and matt perry settled into tokyo bag saying you're trying you're trading with us now

00:59:27.420 yeah we are we are opening up your society now how do you like that what can you do about it

00:59:33.260 you can't do anything about it you cannot touch our ships effectively you send your entire navy 0.93

00:59:39.220 against us we'll just pick you off one by one by one like shooting ducks in a barrel no problem 0.99

00:59:44.500 so you're trading with us now right yeah good good it profoundly changed japanese society 0.96

00:59:52.180 as you can imagine it put a zap on their head and they're like oh

00:59:57.380 right we've got to join the modern world okay the fallout from that in all sorts of ways

01:00:04.740 leads to Pearl Harbor

01:00:08.080 almost 90 years later.

01:00:13.420 A very important turning point in history.

01:00:16.840 Matt Perry sailing into Tokyo Bay,

01:00:19.000 particularly for Japan, of course,

01:00:20.140 but in all of world history, really.

01:00:21.600 Okay, on this day, 1948,

01:00:24.760 was the 500th anniversary

01:00:26.460 of the Russian Orthodox Church,

01:00:28.760 and it's celebrated in Moscow.

01:00:31.160 Okay.

01:00:32.760 Okay.

01:00:33.160 Not much to say about that

01:00:35.260 Russian orthodoxy

01:00:36.440 Interesting to you if you're a Russian orthodox

01:00:40.340 Otherwise 1.00

01:00:40.700 Meh

01:00:42.260 Alright

01:00:43.460 On this day in 1949

01:00:45.240 South Africa's Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act

01:00:48.780 Commences

01:00:49.880 Prohibiting marriages 0.94

01:00:53.100 Or sexual relationships between white people 0.61

01:00:55.620 And people of other races 0.96

01:00:57.040 Yeah 0.96

01:00:57.720 Apartheid 0.95

01:00:59.960 But of course 0.96

01:01:01.300 Both sides

01:01:03.120 Are sort of

01:01:03.780 For example much later

01:01:07.320 In like the 70s and 80s

01:01:09.620 And 1990s

01:01:10.980 The other side did similar things

01:01:14.700 For example 0.99

01:01:15.760 Black people might find that one of their own

01:01:19.640 Was in a relationship with 1.00

01:01:21.340 An evil white 1.00

01:01:22.540 So they burn them alive in the street 1.00

01:01:25.420 Get a tyre 0.92

01:01:28.720 Yeah, tyre off a car

01:01:30.320 An empty one

01:01:33.200 No inner tube in it

01:01:34.180 Feel like the inside

01:01:36.240 Or put some petrol on the inside of the tyre

01:01:39.220 Put that tyre over someone's head

01:01:41.220 And shoulders and arms

01:01:42.060 So they're stuck in the tyre like that

01:01:43.760 And set fire to the petrol

01:01:45.720 In the middle of the street

01:01:46.740 And then just watch them burn

01:01:47.800 A necklace

01:01:51.200 That's their necklace

01:01:52.080 Sometimes just put the tyre just round their neck

01:01:53.960 As a necklace 0.98

01:01:55.020 And then watch them turn into a blackened lump 0.99

01:02:00.220 in the street 1.00

01:02:02.000 and dance around it.

01:02:09.040 Necklacing.

01:02:12.240 What did Nelson Mandela and Winnie Mandela

01:02:14.440 have to say about that?

01:02:16.220 Don't ask.

01:02:17.560 Don't ask, just put a statue of Nelson Mandela

01:02:20.780 up in Parliament Square.

01:02:27.480 For the record, Winnie Mandela said,

01:02:29.820 Was a proponent of necklacing

01:02:32.280 She said to her opponents 1.00

01:02:35.020 We'll give them necklaces 1.00

01:02:36.160 Meaning that

01:02:37.220 That tyre petrol thing

01:02:39.000 Burnt alive in the street

01:02:40.120 But they were the good guys

01:02:47.820 Were they?

01:02:48.500 The Mandelas 0.99

01:02:49.120 Were they? 0.99

01:02:50.160 Were they?

01:02:52.020 Hmm

01:02:52.500 Sure about that

01:02:54.940 I've got to stop doing that

01:02:55.680 Three times in one show

01:02:56.820 That's too much

01:02:57.440 That's too much

01:02:57.940 Okay

01:02:58.580 Let's do our Rumba Rants and Superchats

01:03:00.660 I missed Global Church History yesterday

01:03:02.680 Wasn't in yesterday, do you think you'll be in today?

01:03:04.680 Hope so

01:03:05.360 Feel bereft without my Global Church History

01:03:09.180 Double factoids of a morning

01:03:12.500 Yep he's there, in at number one

01:03:16.760 And new

01:03:18.280 Because he missed today, he's not still

01:03:20.380 He's new

01:03:21.180 The new

01:03:22.280 Alright, Global Church History says

01:03:25.400 Today in 19 AD

01:03:27.240 An earthquake struck many cities in Asia Minor

01:03:29.780 And formed the island of Atia

01:03:31.820 Or Thea

01:03:32.440 Near Delos

01:03:34.240 Okay interesting is that right at the end of like

01:03:37.400 The age of

01:03:37.980 Oh no that's in the age of Augustus isn't it

01:03:40.860 Yeah that'll be in the age of Augustus

01:03:43.240 Interesting yeah okay

01:03:46.920 That'll probably be documented in one of like

01:03:48.780 Strabo or something

01:03:49.920 Okay and on this day

01:03:52.980 In 452 AD

01:03:55.020 in the mid-fifth century, Pope Leo I, Leo the Great, met with Attila the Hun to convince

01:04:02.360 him not to attack the city. Not long-form content about that. It's a massive turning

01:04:09.360 point in history. The church ever since said that was like divinely inspired and God wanted

01:04:14.540 it that way. The reality was that probably, probably, Attila the Hun was only ever there

01:04:20.380 For money and plunder

01:04:21.260 But he didn't want to take Rome

01:04:24.140 And occupy it and stay there

01:04:25.980 And make that his capital going forward now

01:04:27.720 So the fact that the Pope came out

01:04:30.440 And said just have loads of our money

01:04:32.540 Attila the Hun

01:04:34.040 Whose army needed money

01:04:36.220 Really needed money at that point in his campaign

01:04:38.300 It was like okay done

01:04:40.320 But Rome

01:04:43.740 Avoided a sacking basically 0.96

01:04:46.360 Attila the Hun could have 0.66

01:04:47.720 Maybe, maybe not, could have sacked Rome 0.59

01:04:50.140 I mean, at that point in history, Rome was difficult to sack.

01:04:55.400 Although Alaric and the Goths had already done it, hadn't they, by that point?

01:05:00.340 But Rome was a particularly difficult, large and difficult prospect.

01:05:06.560 I mean, even Hannibal found it difficult. Hannibal never did, did he?

01:05:11.300 The Hannibal Barker of Carthage.

01:05:14.080 Anyway, the Pope gave Attila the Hun an offer he can't refuse.

01:05:19.720 I.e. loads and loads and loads of gold and silver

01:05:22.080 Until Hunt went on his way

01:05:24.920 Back up out of Central Italy

01:05:26.880 Back up out of Italy

01:05:28.220 There you go 0.58

01:05:31.540 Okay, thanks Global Church History

01:05:33.460 Appreciate that

01:05:34.360 Forteen Barber says

01:05:36.040 Morning mate, alright?

01:05:37.460 Yeah, I'm alright

01:05:37.960 You alright? 1.00

01:05:40.100 Come on, Saffa 1.00

01:05:40.640 You say 1.00

01:05:44.700 I know loads Fox and Bim face

01:05:48.460 i know loads is that a typo you've put i know loads fox and bin face don't have a lot of chance

01:05:55.960 in clacton fox what is lawrence fox gonna do something is that i don't know what you mean by

01:06:01.560 fox um don't have a chance in clacton but wouldn't it be funny if one of them

01:06:07.340 uh won over farage i'm still waiting for rupert on rogan too yeah i don't know when the rogan

01:06:14.140 thing comes out exactly i'm afraid i couldn't tell you on that um now i'm waiting for that

01:06:17.920 Everyone will watch that, won't they?

01:06:19.400 Well, not everyone in the world.

01:06:22.440 Everyone in the sphere will watch that, of course.

01:06:26.840 Yeah, Count Binface obviously won't win against Nigel.

01:06:29.520 He probably won't get more than a few hundred votes, but... 1.00

01:06:33.240 Go Binface. 1.00

01:06:35.840 The once and future Binface. 1.00

01:06:39.000 Okay, Local Mosque Futurism, that's what they're called there, says... 1.00

01:06:43.900 Good morning, Bo. Let me introduce myself.

01:06:45.780 i am the mortal nemesis of the diabolical mr global church history what what's going on here

01:06:53.500 and i will be usurping his throat thrown from this moment what the gauntlet has been thrown down 0.50

01:06:59.840 watch your back mr history whoa whoa stuff just got real

01:07:06.040 i would say this though mr futurism first name local middle name mosque last name futurism i

01:07:15.620 Wood says you've got to get up early in the morning to beat Global Church History

01:07:19.020 You've got to actually get up early

01:07:22.200 I mean, this morning, he's posted there at 6.47am 0.81

01:07:29.600 Unless you live to the west of us, you live in Germany, sorry, east 0.84

01:07:36.360 Further east than that 1.00

01:07:38.380 You're going to have to get up early

01:07:43.100 Wow, Global Church History, how do you feel about that?

01:07:45.180 He's thrown down the gauntlet

01:07:46.440 You there

01:07:46.840 You're going to have that

01:07:48.820 You're not going to have that are you

01:07:49.920 Fine

01:07:51.480 Fine

01:07:51.820 Fine

01:07:52.120 No

01:07:52.420 Why am I so in discord

01:07:54.280 Among the glorious band

01:07:55.140 The chosen few

01:07:55.580 My band of brothers

01:07:56.260 We're all brothers here

01:07:58.220 Come on

01:07:58.680 Come on

01:07:59.960 Let's love each other

01:08:01.220 Metaphorically

01:08:04.160 Okay

01:08:05.140 That's funny though

01:08:08.460 That's funny

01:08:09.220 Others have tried

01:08:11.860 For Global Church History's crown

01:08:13.580 Or is it a guy called

01:08:15.100 Jet lag wasn't it

01:08:16.400 Or

01:08:16.720 Something lag

01:08:18.400 Has tried 1.00

01:08:19.380 And even succeeded

01:08:20.520 Once or twice

01:08:21.200 In getting up earlier

01:08:22.780 Than global church history

01:08:23.640 But

01:08:23.880 Takes dedication

01:08:25.480 You've got to respect

01:08:27.820 The grind of global church history

01:08:29.380 Alright we shall see

01:08:33.280 We shall see 1.00

01:08:35.440 If local mosque futurism 0.99

01:08:37.480 Is able to fulfil 1.00

01:08:39.980 His

01:08:40.780 Claims 0.59

01:08:42.280 A claimant to the belt

01:08:45.100 okay okay uh fictages says saying are you sure about that three times in one show

01:08:55.100 is too much oh question mark is it too much you're asking are you sure about that

01:09:00.480 lovely

01:09:06.940 sure about that

01:09:10.420 alright that's the

01:09:12.160 that's the rumble rants

01:09:14.920 let's have a look at the YouTube super chats

01:09:16.760 let's have a look, oh Harry's already done it for me

01:09:18.880 thank you, anticipating me there

01:09:20.120 so god there's 20 or over a dozen

01:09:23.320 let's quickly, let's start reading them out then

01:09:25.160 Jim Howard 1900

01:09:28.760 Says Bo

01:09:29.640 If a restored government

01:09:31.120 Enacted the mass deportations

01:09:32.940 What do you think

01:09:33.940 Rent and sale prices

01:09:35.160 Of houses look like

01:09:36.300 In 10 years time

01:09:37.600 Yeah they'd be lower

01:09:38.880 Yeah

01:09:40.180 Because the demand

01:09:42.720 Wouldn't be

01:09:43.500 A breaking point

01:09:45.080 Yeah

01:09:46.980 House prices

01:09:47.860 In this country

01:09:48.680 Are insanely inflated

01:09:51.000 As are rent

01:09:51.660 Depending where you are

01:09:53.120 Depending where you are

01:09:53.860 Not across the board

01:09:54.820 100%

01:09:55.420 But largely

01:09:56.180 Largely

01:09:57.200 Completely inflated

01:09:58.580 to the point where younger people got no chance.

01:10:01.560 You go and look at some little two-bedroomed,

01:10:04.620 semi-detached.

01:10:06.400 They want like half a million quid.

01:10:11.540 Like a three-bedroomed house, 800 grand.

01:10:14.220 Nothing special, just in suburbia.

01:10:16.860 No massive big back garden or anything.

01:10:21.840 A three-up, two-down, semi-detached, 800 grand.

01:10:25.120 Really?

01:10:26.200 Really.

01:10:28.580 it's mad

01:10:30.580 so yeah the house prices hopefully and rents would come down

01:10:36.600 yeah all right

01:10:41.380 oh uh rumble rent just come in from 14 barbers saying we saw a

01:10:47.340 lots of fox said he was going to stand sorry for the typo all right lots of

01:10:53.920 Fox. Okay, right. He put loads Fox. He made lots of Fox. Lawrence Fox is going to stand, is he?

01:11:00.580 I thought he said he'd sort of, I thought he said he'd sort of joined, or was at least

01:11:05.900 affiliated himself to Restore. Have I got that wrong? He's not going to stand for Restore,

01:11:13.240 is he? So he just stands as an independent, maybe? That would be funny. I'm not lots of

01:11:20.060 Fox's biggest fan although I don't despise him or anything close to that but that would be funny 1.00

01:11:26.120 I'd get behind him just to screw with Nige okay Mr. Gently Benevolent says unacceptable amount 1.00

01:11:37.840 of foreign babble bow oh la la la buff it's funny once or twice I've said like what I said I've said 1.00

01:11:47.480 I think I said once

01:11:50.880 People on Twitter immediately say stop that

01:11:53.760 Stop all that nonsense, can't do that 1.00

01:11:55.400 We come here to get away from foreigners if anything 1.00

01:11:58.000 Okay, heard you loud and clear 1.00

01:12:01.920 Mr Gently Benevolent

01:12:02.940 Was it Mr Gently Benevolent

01:12:06.060 As well that yesterday morning I missed

01:12:07.920 A super chat right at the very very end of the stream

01:12:09.760 It came in once I was already starting to wind down

01:12:11.920 Was it you? I can't remember

01:12:13.660 But you said you enjoyed

01:12:15.740 a little bit of civ4 chat sidemeyer's civilization 4 chat i talked about sorry i missed that one but

01:12:21.740 if i've started my rundown monologue it's too late really to interrupt that so i think it was

01:12:29.100 you wasn't it anyway okay mr dickie bingo how are you sir met him in real life really nice chat

01:12:36.140 quite funny on twitter and all sorts he says french question mark exclamation mark i'd rather read

01:12:43.020 the guardian if we're not like liking the french i get it i get it one time ever won't do it again

01:12:53.500 or maybe once i'll leave it like a year or two might do it again probably won't do it again

01:12:58.620 don't worry about i understand we're english here english speakers okay verity gwir

01:13:06.380 Gweer, Verity Gweer, says, ideally, this five mil, five million quid, would be a payoff

01:13:16.440 for Farage to F himself up, lose Claxton so that reform would be unelectable.

01:13:24.620 An old gran can dream, smiley face. 0.70

01:13:27.420 it could lead to like it could lead to nigel the scandal just ballooning and ballooning and

01:13:36.080 ballooning as far as nigel and reform are concerned the best possible thing that's why i don't think

01:13:41.840 nigel's political acumen is very good at all made loads and loads and loads of really bad decisions

01:13:47.680 on the strategic level in my opinion like becoming as normie friendly radio 4 friendly as possible 1.00

01:13:54.140 Packing his own party with effectively foreign people

01:13:57.600 Or actually foreign people 0.82

01:13:59.020 And appealing to Islam 0.96

01:14:02.140 Not caring about demographic change 0.97

01:14:04.880 And this 0.99

01:14:09.160 Surely the best political move

01:14:15.660 Would be to do what he has always done

01:14:17.700 Which was laugh it off

01:14:18.720 Attempt to laugh it off

01:14:20.460 Yawn it away

01:14:21.800 Just wait for the

01:14:25.440 The Parliamentary Standards Committee

01:14:28.920 To come to its conclusions

01:14:29.960 Unless he knows

01:14:32.380 Unless

01:14:33.820 It makes more sense doesn't it

01:14:35.520 If Nigel knows

01:14:37.100 That their conclusions will be

01:14:39.400 There's something super dodgy here

01:14:41.360 It makes more sense if that's the case doesn't it

01:14:44.360 It actually does make sense but

01:14:46.040 Well at the moment he's insisting

01:14:48.500 Isn't he

01:14:49.120 Insisting he's done absolutely nothing wrong

01:14:51.800 so those two things don't really marry up do they now odd okay angelic detective 86 that's

01:15:01.480 her name says hey beau greetings from the good old us of a just wondering if you'll

01:15:06.680 get around to having that monocle we all voted on ah yes

01:15:15.160 somebody sent me a monocle in the post yeah i've got it

01:15:21.800 it's funny there's one issue with it though one small problem is that where my vision is almost

01:15:28.360 2020 when i put it in it's just blurred everything's blurred it doesn't like it doesn't actually

01:15:34.420 like work as uh like magnifying it doesn't work like that does it things like that don't work

01:15:42.100 like that it's not prescription and it's not even i think it's just for a show it's just for show

01:15:45.960 But maybe tomorrow or Friday or next week

01:15:49.800 At some point

01:15:50.600 I'll get it out and I'll show you

01:15:51.920 And I'll put it on

01:15:52.420 We'll have a laugh about it for a moment

01:15:53.960 But as for actually helping me read

01:15:56.480 Really small print across the room

01:15:58.540 No

01:16:00.440 But they say

01:16:02.640 And thank you to the person that sent me it as well

01:16:05.340 I can't remember who it was

01:16:06.600 Sorry I'll go back over my Twitter

01:16:08.100 Because you also added me in a tweet

01:16:09.420 I'll go back and I'll find out

01:16:11.080 And when I use it on the show one day

01:16:13.400 They use it when I put it on for a laugh

01:16:15.960 i'll give you a shout out thanks for that so yeah i have i do i am actually the proud owner of a

01:16:21.860 monocle now okay thank you angelic detective 86 for the super chat there next one principled

01:16:30.460 uncertainty said it's a suitably buffoonish end for this sketchy grifter

01:16:36.480 principle doesn't say probably no punches there um

01:16:41.980 He I guess

01:16:45.240 I guess there might be a slight type of

01:16:46.780 I guess he has no way out of this

01:16:48.680 He has no way out of this

01:16:50.140 Now can we finally get a serious person

01:16:53.520 Mr. Lowe

01:16:56.120 The Honourable Mr. Lowe MP

01:16:59.660 Member for Great Yarmouth

01:17:02.760 Okay

01:17:05.080 The Educated Yobo says

01:17:07.700 I bet when Nigel made his speech

01:17:09.900 About the people versus the establishment

01:17:11.380 he didn't expect to be playing the role of the establishment against bin face yes yeah exactly

01:17:17.440 that's a sort of quite astute move by the rest of the parties 0.91

01:17:23.920 just me quite astute of them to just flip the script on nigel like that oh it's you versus

01:17:29.660 the establishment is it no you're the establishment bin face is the david oh it's david and goliath

01:17:35.740 is it a your goliath by default will make bin face first of all bin face go bin face will make him

01:17:44.460 the uh the david in the david and goliath out of this thing yeah okay

01:17:53.740 thomas glover 92 says oh are you familiar with the marquis of anglesey and his heirs

01:18:01.100 i'm not sure if i am they have a massive estate in staffs uh staffordshire uh aptly named

01:18:08.780 bow desert or bow desert bow desert which ended in ruin oh i don't know about that

01:18:17.420 i don't know anything about that i'll google that that's interesting to me

01:18:22.380 the marquis of anglesey who had estates in staffs okay i'll check that out i'll check that out

01:18:28.860 before now i've done various couple of various jokes on twitter about surrounding the name bow

01:18:35.100 and those other people on twitter called bow things in the world that have got the word bow in it

01:18:39.520 occasionally i'll do that so that's interesting to me okay thanks mqss or mqss says

01:18:49.220 for your safety or whatever you want to spend it on oh the super chat money for your safety or

01:18:55.480 Whatever you want to spend it on, thank you

01:18:56.840 Perhaps for ice cream or hidden air conditioning units under the floor

01:19:00.660 Well thank you very much, that's very kind of you

01:19:02.340 It is well, we have a bit of another heat wave in Britain at the moment isn't it

01:19:05.440 I'm surprised, well when it's a more slower news day

01:19:08.400 Perhaps if tomorrow is a slightly more slow news day

01:19:10.460 They'll start talking all about the heat wave again

01:19:12.740 Last night was quite muggy in Britain wasn't it

01:19:15.180 Really quite close

01:19:16.140 Okay

01:19:18.240 Mike or Clem

01:19:22.320 Mike or Clem

01:19:23.720 Says

01:19:24.800 The rotation of Earth really makes my day

01:19:27.960 Huh

01:19:28.200 He's here all week people

01:19:29.860 Thank you for that

01:19:32.140 Appreciate it

01:19:32.960 Max Robe said

01:19:34.620 Greenland for the Frisians

01:19:36.840 What about the entirely indigenous peoples of Greenland 1.00

01:19:42.820 Nobody cares about them, do they? 1.00

01:19:46.680 Nearly always

01:19:47.580 Bottom of people's lists

01:19:49.300 You know

01:19:53.380 Denmark claim 0.98

01:19:55.540 That like it's theirs by right

01:19:57.540 There were indigenous peoples there before 0.99

01:19:59.740 Oh no actually

01:20:00.960 I've had this before

01:20:02.440 Did the Danes get there before 1.00

01:20:05.260 Like the Inuit people even 1.00

01:20:07.040 Is that right 1.00

01:20:08.120 I think that might be right

01:20:09.700 I'll save judgement on that one

01:20:11.360 Until I re-read up on that one

01:20:14.100 I think I said that before

01:20:16.240 The indigenous Inuit peoples

01:20:18.140 have been there before the danes and people said actually that's not true the danes were there

01:20:24.640 first i'm not sure i can't remember okay anyway you're only joking anyway greenland for the

01:20:29.600 frisians maybe you're not joking okay we've still got a half dozen or more to get through

01:20:35.740 principal dunserti said again says technically they cannot stop him from running over and over

01:20:41.440 Even if they endlessly suspend him

01:20:44.940 This could get very strange

01:20:48.620 Yeah, I thought that

01:20:50.460 I might be wrong

01:20:51.240 I'm not going to bet my reputation on it

01:20:52.980 But I thought

01:20:54.340 Where Ed Davey said the government should stop Nigel Farage

01:20:57.860 From triggering this by-election

01:20:58.780 I don't think they can

01:20:59.900 That was my impression

01:21:01.700 I might be wrong about that

01:21:03.220 Yeah, you say that

01:21:06.260 That they can't

01:21:08.940 Johnny can't force someone to be an MP if they don't want to

01:21:12.440 I say surely, maybe you can

01:21:13.800 I'm not sure

01:21:15.340 Interesting, interesting

01:21:17.060 Erwin Romulus said

01:21:19.100 Binface is launching his campaign at half past eight this evening in London

01:21:24.420 What a serious country we live in 0.93

01:21:26.980 Hashtag Britain Bins Nigel

01:21:29.260 Hashtag Bin for the win

01:21:30.560 Bin for the win, that's quite good

01:21:32.820 Bin for the win 1.00

01:21:34.820 The once and future Binface 1.00

01:21:38.780 First Lord Beanface 1.00

01:21:41.480 Okay

01:21:41.960 Erwin Romulus again says

01:21:43.640 Stand down

01:21:45.320 Got the wrong

01:21:45.820 Got the date wrong

01:21:47.280 The Great Leap Binwood

01:21:49.340 Begins tomorrow

01:21:50.260 The Great Leap Binwood

01:21:54.960 Begins tomorrow

01:21:56.380 At half past eight

01:21:57.120 In the evening

01:21:57.480 Not today

01:21:58.020 Okay

01:21:58.740 Send a correspondent down there

01:22:02.200 Send Big Harry down there

01:22:03.600 Try and get some Vox Pops

01:22:05.360 Okay

01:22:06.580 Emily Forrestore says

01:22:08.080 b any chance of uh being married to a german centrist he thinks i've gone fascist i'm sorry

01:22:16.880 any advice sorry b bow any advice on being married to a centrist a german centrist question mark

01:22:25.320 he thinks i've gone fascist i need him to wake up we're still in love but it's getting sad oh

01:22:32.000 Oh no, I'm sorry to hear that

01:22:34.660 Talk to him about demographic decline

01:22:40.220 Are you living in Britain? 0.92

01:22:42.260 I imagine you do 1.00

01:22:43.480 He's German 1.00

01:22:44.360 What about the endless waves of terrorism 1.00

01:22:49.040 And sex crime

01:22:50.540 And organised crime in Germany and Britain

01:22:52.420 Does he not aware of it?

01:22:54.380 Does he not care?

01:22:57.140 The demographic decline in Germany and Britain

01:22:59.800 Does he not care about that

01:23:02.500 It's just one of those centuries

01:23:05.260 It's all good

01:23:06.600 It's all the same as it was in 1985

01:23:08.800 No

01:23:10.700 How can they not

01:23:12.860 I don't know

01:23:14.040 When you talk to some people about this

01:23:15.640 And you'll argue with them

01:23:17.040 You'll paint them into a corner rhetorically

01:23:18.760 Where they can't deny it

01:23:19.940 Then you leave them

01:23:23.160 You come back in a day, a week, a month

01:23:24.700 And they're still holding all their old positions again

01:23:26.520 And it's like

01:23:26.980 You argue with someone about

01:23:31.260 Climate science

01:23:33.560 You talk to them all about how CO2

01:23:36.060 Is only 400 parts per million

01:23:37.400 And the man-made part of that is even less

01:23:38.900 And all that stuff

01:23:40.280 And they can't disagree

01:23:43.320 Because there's no way to disagree

01:23:45.020 Come back to them a week later

01:23:46.880 They're still talking about that the earth is going to be destroyed

01:23:49.020 We're going to destroy the earth

01:23:50.580 It's very difficult to change people's minds

01:23:56.740 It's very, very difficult

01:23:58.620 They have to feel like

01:24:01.380 They have to feel like they've come to the conclusion

01:24:05.380 You have to very, very gently coerce them towards the truth

01:24:11.040 You can't just browbeat

01:24:14.440 Very rarely can you browbeat someone into submission

01:24:16.800 And they change their mind on anything ever

01:24:18.900 It's very rare

01:24:19.880 It's difficult to change people's minds

01:24:21.880 It's a long process

01:24:26.440 very subtly gently coax them towards chip away at it delicately so i would say i

01:24:33.940 just to keep telling someone something you're wrong you're wrong i'm right it's this it's this

01:24:40.560 it's this that will very very rarely work it just causes resentment doesn't it

01:24:44.660 okay emily for restore so best of luck to you by the way if you're saying it's actually getting

01:24:52.120 sad sorry to hear that really i really am emily for restore again sorry same person said i've

01:24:58.280 shown him the stats he disagrees with the fix oh well what fix has he got then i'll throw that

01:25:04.840 back at him well okay if it's not re-migration what then integration let's talk all about that

01:25:10.600 that was always a fantasy that was always a joke that never worked hardly ever hardly ever

01:25:14.920 well one or two examples of it of course that hardly ever works so what's your fix bro

01:25:22.120 I'm waiting

01:25:26.400 Okay, Tatum2733 says

01:25:30.400 When we win, we'll play Total War Rome for days

01:25:33.720 That's what winning looks like

01:25:35.760 You're free to grill and play Rome Total War

01:25:39.840 Without being replaced in your one and only ancestral homeland

01:25:43.380 And your women are safe to walk the streets at night 0.92

01:25:45.000 That's what winning looks like 1.00

01:25:46.780 James Lee Pevenhole

01:25:51.100 doesn't say anything and just gives a generous amount in super chat thank you very much

01:25:55.260 appreciate that i appreciate that uh the same person though then does another one

01:26:00.220 and has said something they've said beau dessert beau desert beau dessert was taken by william

01:26:06.580 padgett first baron padgett that in that that will be in the civil war right his daughter married sir

01:26:12.760 Henry Lee, one of my crowd,

01:26:15.480 Anne's tomb is in Aylesbury Church.

01:26:20.900 William Padgett, is that the Civil War times, isn't it?

01:26:25.100 Oliver Cromwell, Charles I times, is it?

01:26:29.060 Okay, thanks for that, interesting.

01:26:30.400 And the last one here today,

01:26:34.000 Lance Llewellyn.

01:26:35.940 Lance Llewellyn says,

01:26:38.160 Coming headlines, Nigel's cash goes in the trash.

01:26:42.760 Nigel's ace meets bin face, Farage in the garage, love them, love them, Nigel's ace meets bin face, that's quite good, what was the one earlier out there, someone did a hashtag, bin for the win, that's quite good, hashtag bin for the win, there's a number, I'm sure there will just be loads of them all over Twitter, won't there?

01:27:12.760 I can't be in faith.

01:27:14.360 All right, that's the show.

01:27:16.320 That's the show.

01:27:17.400 Thank you for joining me, as always.

01:27:20.300 You're the glorious band, the chosen few, my band of brothers and sisters.

01:27:23.460 Thank you for joining me without you.

01:27:24.600 It isn't a thing.

01:27:25.800 Really appreciate it.

01:27:27.340 Try and make the best of the day ahead, if you can.

01:27:29.960 I know it's not always easy when you've got commitments.

01:27:34.400 But if you are able to use your time however you see fit, try and make it count.

01:27:38.240 Try and do something valuable with it.

01:27:39.680 I've only got a finite number of days on this earth.

01:27:41.260 All right, I'm not going to get too preachy about it.

01:27:42.760 Until tomorrow morning

01:27:44.020 Take care

01:28:12.760 We'll be right back.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - July 08, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Wednesday 8th July 2026

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