Everyone is Downstream of Restore Britain
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Summary
In this episode of Political Chats, Dan and Carl talk about how the Blairite paradigm is crumbling, and how we need to go back to the old ways of doing things, like voting, and civil war, to make democracy work again.
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Hi folks, welcome to another one of Carl and Dan's Political Chats.
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Still no name for this series, but I'm happy with just Political Chats.
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Today we're going to be talking about how the Blairite paradigm itself is quaking.
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It has become apparent that actually there are things outside of that paradigm,
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and those things are popular and are taking over,
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and so frankly, they're coming out on the attack, but it's not working.
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Yes, I mean, it's tough. We really do need to name this.
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The thing is, when you name something, you put it in a box, and I don't want to put it in a box.
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It's like the old demon thing. If it knows your name, it can control you.
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Yeah, no, well, I mean, what I've been thinking about lately is that...
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Well, actually, Rupert put out a tweet, and it was,
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I'm now giving the country a democratic route out.
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And I've been pondering that. I mean, a lot of people picked up on it.
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The thing that I've been thinking about is, well, look,
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this country has only really ever had two ways of settling the issue of who rules.
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One of which is, do what I say, or I'm going to kill you.
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Now, what happened in the 1800s is we basically civilised civil war,
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and we decided to use a proxy, we decided to use democracy,
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and it's ballots instead of bullets, but it's basically the same thing.
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And that makes a lot of sense because it's a lot cheaper to do democracy
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than it is to do civil war, and you don't push people into that situation.
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It's also more bearable for the people themselves.
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And it stretches the time period because, you know,
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And you always think, okay, well, I can come back from this.
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And so that kind of system is stable because even if you don't win,
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there's always the hope the next generation will.
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And what politicians starting in the late 90s decided to do is they decided to cheat on democracy.
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They're going to use the institutions and law and demographic change
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to demographically skew the country so that their side never loses.
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And that takes away the core premise of making democracy work, which is the idea that it's reversible.
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Because you can afford to lose an election, but you can't afford to lose your country.
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And in doing this, in getting to the point of, and they're also rolling back on the other underlying metric,
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which is moving from democracy to, okay, now it's not do what I say or I kill you.
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Now it's do what I say or jail you or censor you or, you know, debank you or whatever it is.
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But Rupert Lowe at this point, and I've been thinking this more and more and I'm more convinced of it,
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it is the only way to stop politics from becoming, from crossing that existential threshold.
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And putting people in the point of, well, if I don't act now, I lose everything forever
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because the political process will not offer me any reversibility.
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It's going to have a permanent majority and a permanent minority.
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And the people for who they don't have anywhere else to go,
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being a permanent minority is not something that you can accept.
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And it's not like we can expect clemency from the system either.
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If the system had shown itself to be even-handed,
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maybe this wouldn't be such a desperate situation to be in.
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Is it going to get better when we're in the minority?
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So, the Blairite paradigm that is doing this to us can feel the change in the air.
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And it initially was, they have the completely stereotypical,
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well, first they ignore you, then they laugh at you.
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Well, we're currently in the, they're laughing at us phase, right?
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It took a few, it took a week for them to actually decide,
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yeah, we're going to start writing hit pieces again.
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It feels a lot like that meme where they're laughing on the mask,
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But here's an interview in Spiked Magazine of all places with Matt Goodwin,
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where this is their, Tom Slater's editorial position,
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saying that Restore Britain is heading down an exclusionist road.
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its entire ecosystem is filled with the wrong kinds of people
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People who are criticizing reform from the right
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and inexperienced ideologues who don't really have any grip on political reality.
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You could just call us a basket of deplorables as AA points.
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What he's basically described there is the people
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who've been quite deliberately shut out of the political process.
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Then you've got the mainstream Tory opinion from Tim Stanley.
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Now this, I don't think this was the original title on the article.
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It was about how young men shouldn't go to Restore.
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It has become a magnet for angry young men with very short hair.
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You're a skinhead if you join Rupert Lowe and Restore.
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Everyone I know who supports Restore actually has a lovely head of hair,
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Why are they pleading with us if we're derisory?
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He says, even if Restore somehow gains support for the next election,
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a campaign of tactical voting to elect a very left-wing coalition instead.
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and you do recognize that we have electoral pull.
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But also, notice this, you're going to split the right-wing vote.
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Was it Nigel Farage who got kicked out of reform, or was it you?
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Richard Tice, we don't want anything to do with that lot.
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They're explicitly stated they don't want anything.
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And in my case, it was because I advocated a policy
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And therefore, that was what made me inexcusable.
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But I refute this idea that reform and restore are on the right.
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There's the yes, please, to civil war as soon as possible,
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It's Liberal Democrats, it's Labour, it's Tory, and it's reform.
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because they've picked a side, and that side is Pakistan.
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All those guys in the middle who try to split the difference,
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they haven't picked a side, and they're thinking,
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okay, we can get this grand coalition of Jews, Muslims, natives,
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and they're all going to play nice together and restore.
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They have picked a side, a bit like the Greens,
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The right is entirely united behind Rupert Lowe.
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And also, it's the single largest constituency.
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you can see the Tory graph are bargaining in their position.
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The spectator, again, well, no, not again, sorry,
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The spectator asking, what, how many right-wing parties do we really need?
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So, yes, finally, we have the right-wing party.
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And this guy, this is what I mean about Blairism, right?
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It's Blairism that really is what we are, we're calling the centre as if it's an independent
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But no, it's, are you in favour of the Blairite system?
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He says, look, as a right-wing voter, I quite like Farage Habib, Lowe and Bainlock.
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They've all impressed me and they've also tested the strength of my patience.
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The problem was and is the wet end of the Conservative Party.
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It's like, no, the problem is the system and it is facilitated by the wet end of the Conservative
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So, whilst the system allows the wet end to even exist, well, they're downstream of the
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And we've just had the perfect case point of that, which is the Mandelson thing.
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This whole centrist network works on a group of people who all know each other and all
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And the system understood that Mandelson had those Epstein links before appointing him
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And it was judged that his ability to network and influence people within the system ranked
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higher than a potential upset that might come later.
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And everyone, I mean, this is why Jenrick sent his speech to George Osborne to say, what
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George Osborne was part of Cameron's Blairite revolt inside the Conservative Party.
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And it was him or Mandelson to be the ambassador to America.
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You have to have been on that yacht party with that billionaire.
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Both parties are captured and Farage is a part of it as well.
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And so this, like you've got Anne Woodacombe here saying, oh, I've weighed up his manifesto.
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As we see here, this is the Jenrick sending the speech to George Osborne.
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But what was significant about Jenrick's speech, right?
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What was significant about it is he said, nope, we're going to keep the OBR and we're going
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So, monetary policy and all the things that flow from it, which is everything social that
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the government wants to do, is trapped on the Blairite plantation.
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We are not going to interfere with the structure of the state.
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We are not going to be abolishing the quangocracy.
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We are not going to be reining in the Bank of England under ministerial control, keeping
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We will not be undoing anything Tony Blair did.
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And just to close that loop, so Jenrick, who's in Reform, sends it to Osborne, who was a lifelong
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Tory, who does a podcast with Ed Balls, who's in Labour.
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You know, and literally, like, who's best mates with Alistair Campbell, and who does a podcast
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And the great thing about it is you can see who's on that and who's not.
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I mean, like you said about the Greens, to their credit, they're not Blairites.
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You need to have an enemy and a villain, right?
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Anyway, so you've got these, like, reformed boomerisms that are coming back to haunt them.
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And it's just one of those things where, like I said, you can see who is in it and who
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You've got, on the right there, Rupert Lowe saying, look, I think in seasons.
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I think what I'm going to hand down to future generations because of what I inherited.
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And then on the other side, you've got on the left, you've got Richard
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Tice going, well, I'll be long gone, so what difference does the demographics of the country
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The Blairites are happy to burn up the future and the inheritance of the country in order
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And those people on the right, outside of that, are the people who say, no, this is not
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And I'm always sure to make the distinction between the two types of boomers, the hard R
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But if you're a boomer, don't ever say, it doesn't matter because I'll be gone by then.
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Many of them, of course, have children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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Well, annoyingly, some of the ones with children say it as well.
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Doesn't care about what happens to his kids and anyone else's.
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Anyway, so reform trying to signal, no, no, no.
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We'll watch a little bit of this because this is, it's interesting how he's copying right-wing
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Try to control non-EU migration if you have no control over EU migration.
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No more immigration until we sort out the mess of who's here.
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Calais and these areas are acting as a funnel for large-scale illegal immigration into Britain.
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We need to send out the message to the world that illegal immigration into Britain won't
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Whether they're legal or illegal, you think there are too many, right?
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And we want to control our own borders and decide...
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It's not that Nigel Farage hasn't associated himself with right-wing talking points.
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He absolutely has, and so they can cherry-pick a series of things from across the years with
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Nigel saying immigration is too far, and he has.
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I mean, it's like that film Inversion, where he's getting more based as you go back in
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I mean, he asked Enoch Powell to endorse him back when he was in the 90s.
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But the problem is that Nigel has is you can just cherry-pick from the other side then.
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When he decides, oh no, actually, I'm a weak libtard Blairite, right?
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In the last 20 years, the white British population has declined from 87% to 74%.
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Unless we are able to provide a proper democratic antidote to this, then I fear that we will
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see a rise of a really worrying, dangerous form of extreme right ethno-nationalism.
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I'm not going to start drawing ethnic lines on what being English is.
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Otherwise, we'd be back to DNA tests on whether you're Anglo-Saxon.
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It's about how you feel, and it's about what your priorities are.
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Israel is now in an existential fight for its very future.
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Anyway, well, that carries on, but as you can see...
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Very quickly, how does he mesh his view on trans women, which is you can't just decide
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to be a woman, with his view on an English, which is you can just feel that you're English
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I have no idea, and I've never heard him explain himself on that.
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But the point that I'm making here is that you can just cherry-pick from both sides of
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the aisle with Nigel Farage, because he is the right flank of the Blairite paradigm, right?
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What he's saying there is, yes, no, I am worried about things that right-wingers are worried
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about, but I am also committed to staying within the Blairite consensus, and so I can
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never draw a hard distinction between them and us.
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And the sticker on that side says, vote for Reform UK.
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The sticker on that side says, vote for the Labour Party, and the sticker in the middle
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He said so much on both sides, because he's weak.
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And it's not just him either, it's the people he's brought in.
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So you had Lania Cunningham on GB News the other day, saying that Restore are a neo-Nazi
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But that's rather ironic, because, of course, James O'Brien called her a neo-Nazi back in
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November last year, literally like three months ago.
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Everybody just calling everybody else Nazi all the time.
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Now we get to be called Nazis by somebody wearing a turquoise rosa.
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Well, in fact, that was exactly why she was being called a Nazi, because, of course...
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Yeah, no, no, for basically admitting that ethnic heritage is a real thing, obviously.
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And this was one of the reasons that James O'Brien was calling her a Nazi, because she
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was like, well, I'm not ethnically British, as she says here.
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It is that you have to be an Egyptian of Egyptian heritage, which you can trace back to
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She doesn't go on TV and call Egypt neo-Nazi all day long.
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In fact, countries all around the world have policies like that.
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The entire old world is based on just sanguineous, which is the right of the blood.
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Whereas the countries in the new world are based on the right of the soil, as in, were
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And that's because the new world was populated from the old world, and they need an incorporative
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I mean, if I had my way, we would have the Egyptian policy.
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I probably wouldn't even go back as far as 1914.
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We abolished the right of the soil in, I think it was 1980, which is why Kemi Badenock is
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It was just after she got her anchor status, we abolished it.
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I mean, I'd be happy with, you know, you can trace your heritage back to before the year
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But the point is, you can see how this is kind of a sliding, rolling rock that goes
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Oh, James O'Brien calls you a Nazi, you call us Nazis, and, you know, there's no one to
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our right, so we're not going to call anyone Nazis.
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But the point is, it's just a word that's being used to say, you're not in our club.
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And the thing is, she got a lot of pushback on this, and she decided, no, I'm going to
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She's double down on the thing, and you can see Peter Barnes here, he's a good lad.
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And he was just like, well, I mean, to be honest with you, you are kind of wrong about
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He's just like, he knows she's talking absolute BS, and he wasn't standing for it.
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But anyway, this is interesting that GB News walked this back, because, of course, she was
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on their show, she didn't walk it back, but they were like, yeah, no, we understand that
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On Tuesday on Jubes & Co., one of our panellists claimed a spokesperson for Restore Britain said
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in a recent interview that if you are not white and Christian, then you are not deemed to be
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To clarify, the spokesperson actually said that Britishness relates to ancestry and the
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Restore Britain has said that its immigration policy has been mischaracterised.
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They strongly object to the comparisons made by the panellists to neo-Nazism and said
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wanting an immigration system that serves the British people is in no way neo-Nazi.
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I mean, obviously, but the point is, good on GB News, honestly, for coming out and making
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So, he sent them a message on Twitter saying, right, you'll be hearing from my lawyers.
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Because, I mean, like, Restore Britain are being censored on TikTok, for example, for being,
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It's just like, no, they're currently with the, what's the body that, yeah, no, no, the political
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The one that you register a political party with.
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They're currently with them, going through the motions.
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Like, this is not a hateful and violent organisation.
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This is, in fact, designed to prevent hateful and violent organisations.
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Anyway, but the point is, this kind of rhetoric has consequences.
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And, in fact, this is what Farage was warning about in his speech.
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We saw a bit of it earlier, with him saying, we will see a really worrying rise in a dangerous
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But this, and we'll watch this, we saw a bit of it earlier, but we'll watch this, because
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this is amazing, because he is just admitting to being the containment end of the right wing
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Unless we are able to provide a proper democratic antidote to this, then I fear that we will
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see a rise of a really worrying, dangerous form of extreme right ethno-nationalism.
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And I think we're beginning, over the last couple of weeks, already, to see some specimens
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Nobody, nobody, over the last quarter of a century has done more to defeat the genuine, intolerant,
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We did it with the British National Party, and we'll do it with whoever else follows.
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But it's important we get a grip on this, because there is no issue, other than legal
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and illegal immigration, that has broken the bond of trust between the voters and those
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Yes, the illegal immigration is an issue, but it's the millions of legal immigration.
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It's not that the British have lost their major cities, the British have lost their capital
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So if that had been done in a lawful, organised, organic way...
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If it had better PR, and the British people had somehow been persuaded to be on board with
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this kind of demographic replacement, it would have been fine.
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I mean, I've mentioned before, I had dinner with him maybe 20 years ago or something like
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And most of what he talked about, apart from the bit where various offers were made by
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the Tory party in between him and backroom dealings and stuff like that.
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The main thing he wanted to talk about was that his lifelong mission was to prevent the
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I mean, 20 years ago, he would bang on in private about that.
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I mean, I'm not worried about British Mussolini.
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Well, and quite clearly, Rupert Lowe is not a Mussolini figure.
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Rupert Lowe is a farmer who's noticed that young men are getting screwed over and wants
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to help them out so that we don't get into a worse situation.
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Rupert Lowe is much more similar to a 19th century war leader of the British Empire.
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Well, he's just standard British aristocracy that gave this country the best rule it had
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That died in their droves in the fields of Flanders and whatever in 1917.
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So, talking about a British Mussolini, is that, OK, well, that's great, but there's not
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Thank God we've got a 19th century aristocrat left over.
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I'm here to save the Blairite paradigm from its own excesses.
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Yeah, you're right, he's not talking to us, he's talking to the Blairites.
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He's like, look, he's appealing to the media, he's appealing to Labour, he sounds like, you
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know, the Tories and Starmer, he's saying, no, I'm here to save you from yourselves trying
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You're meant to do that more subtly, you're meant to make sure that they didn't object,
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but look, the bond of trust is gone, so you've messed up in the project I agree with
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And so here we are at the tail end of Blairism, with Farage and his party calling everyone
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Nazis and being proud of his role as the final boss of containment.
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And Farage has a real problem, as you can see here.
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Five out of the eight current reform MPs were Conservative MPs under Boris Johnson, and some
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You have manoeuvred yourself into a position where you cannot authentically make that argument
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because you've just declared, I am the containment, and therefore.
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That is a proper bodying from the community notes there.
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I did a stream the other day saying nativism is inevitable, because I just think it's inevitable
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that, as you said, and we've talked about many times on this particular show, the centre
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is in collapse, and the right and the left are actually on the rise.
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Now, you know, whether you agree with the left or the right is irrelevant.
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Nativism on the right is coming up, and insane communism on the left is also coming up.
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I mean, that centre has been there for a long time.
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But the right and the left flanks, they're crystallising now.
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And this is the last stage before the democratic option is off the table.
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All political activity ultimately deals in the management of power.
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And this is why Carl von Clausewitz was like, well, war is just politics by other means.
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Like, there's still the political ideas and decisions that are being settled with the war.
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The problem is they forgot the purpose that democracy was serving.
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And it morphed from this, we do this so we don't have to do the other thing.
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I don't want to be mean to mums or anything, but I bet every dad has noticed this.
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She'd be pleading with the kids to do something, and the kids are not having it.
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And you walk in as a dad, and you're like, you're doing it, and they do it.
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Because there is, it's not that I beat my kids.
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It's just they don't want to find out what happens when they refuse whatever it is.
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And our government has been, has shifted from, and they're trying to get back to, you know,
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I talked earlier about the, it used to be do what I say or I kill you under the king model.
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They're trying to get back to that, but doing it in the most feminine hodler management way possible
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without the understanding of the credible force that's required to do that.
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And this, this is a fundamental problem is that obviously at this point, everyone knows that,
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you know what, I'm, I'm just going to go for it.
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And this is why Nigel Farage is coming out and look at his face.
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You know, I'm here to prevent any genuine nativism in the British political system.
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But like I said, we're breaking containment, right?
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Obviously, Duncan Ballantyne the other day came out and retweeted Steve Laws.
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It's like, yeah, okay, I think, I think this is going outside of containment here.
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But then, I mean, first of all, well, well done, Duncan Ballantyne for starting at Laws.
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No, he didn't, he didn't get, most of us went through a libertarian phase.
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So it's just like, you know, I'm, I'm a lot more moderate than some of the people.
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But no, Duncan Ballantyne, he starts with Steve Laws.
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If I'd gone back five years and said, by the way, John Cleese is going to be retweeting millennial woes in 2026.
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And millennial woes was tweeting a David Attenborough quote.
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It's very easy, as we all know, to be very tolerant of minorities until they become majorities and you find yourself a minority.
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It's easy to say, oh, yes, these lovely people.
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I love the way they wear such interesting costumes.
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That's fine until someday you find they're actually telling you what to do.
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And they've actually taken over the town council.
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And what you thought was your home isn't, which is, of course, what has happened to us.
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So John Cleese being like, well, that's not controversial.
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Yeah, but you just, you just knew to shut up about that for basically the last 30 years.
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Well, John Cleese has come out very favorably and restores it for a store.
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So what I like about this as well, you've seen the 4chan text, which is, you know,
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and in fact, here it is, it's literally below, right?
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He was a progressive liberal degenerate comedian in the 1960s,
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uber white, uber polite Briton that could take the piss out of the people
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he saw as uptight and repressed while enjoying the clean, safe streets
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and quite little hamlets of their same uptight, repressed, polite to a fault,
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The best part was that those same conservative British Anglos
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were generally pretty humorous about themselves.
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So when you made fun of them, they laughed along with you and shook your head,
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said, ha ha, you know, Margie, he's got a point.
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It was heaven on earth for him to be a popular counterculture icon
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beloved by conservatives and liberals alike for being hilarious,
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but also enjoy the benefits of a strong, stable, homogenous culture.
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Now he's an old man staring at the desolate wasteland where London is majority
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The hamlets and villages are economic dead zones.
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Every week there's a new group you're not allowed to make fun of.
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No one has a sense of humor anymore, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
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John Cleese was like, yeah, this old sort of Victorian aristocracy,
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the stuffy thing, I'm going to mock this, mock this, mock this, collapses.
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Rupert Lowe comes out and says, no, I'm bringing that back.
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Yeah, he saw something that he hasn't seen since his youth
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And he's been defending Christianity in his Twitter time as well recently.
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I mean, this was the guy who made a film mocking Jesus for 198 minutes.
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But the point is, like, you thought, oh, well, we can just, you know,
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it's the 60s, we can just make fun of the systems around us
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and invalidate their moral legitimacy in the minds of the public.
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actually those structures, those moral social structures
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And as soon as Rupert Lowe comes back and says,
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I'm going to restore these, you're just like, yes, that's my guy.
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It's like even John Cleese is on the Lowe train.
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Anyway, Nigel is a blood and soil nationalist, though.
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look, this is an emotional moment for the Chagosians.
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He can define what a Chagosian is because they are people who occupy a land,
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they have a lineage there, and that's theirs and not someone else's,
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So let's just run this back a little bit to when he was comparing himself
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to one of those switch-style TVs from the 1960s,
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and he's saying he's been consistent at all times.
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He has explained not so long ago that the definition of English is
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if you have lived in England for more than five years.
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You're Welsh if you've lived in Wales for more than five years.
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Well, yes, but my point is the vast majority of the Chagosians
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And most of them have been living there for more than five years.
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So how does it work one way but not the other way?
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But that's the point I'm trying to highlight here,
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which is this barrier between the right side of the Blairite paradigm
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and a truly nativist force isn't going to sustain itself
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because at this point it's too clear that there are people here
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They haven't integrated them into married.
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but everyone of our age remembers that in any village in England,
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you would have found like a Chinese shop, right?
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There was like one Chinese family or one Indian takeaway family.
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And, you know, on a Friday night you've had a long week.
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You get a Chinese, you get an Indian, whatever it is.
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So, like, the village was 99%, you know, English.
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But there was, you know, the odd occasional foreign family
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and everyone was just like, that's totally fine.
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They're actually contributing something to the community.
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I like having a Chinese on a Friday night, right?
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No, they're coming over and getting a new BMW every three years
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And you see some of the incredible cars they have parked out back.
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they've got triple the linear frontage of premium German auto out there,
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which is probably worth as much as the shop when you add them all up.
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Anyway, so I put up this post just saying, look,
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I don't think we should use the term ethno-nationalist.
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And we shouldn't let the people who are opposed to us
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Because fundamentally, it's a liberal fiction, right?
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Ethnos and natio are just Greek and Latin words that mean the same thing, right?
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Ethno-nationalist, and they mean the ethnos, the people, right?
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And so ethno-nationalism is just nationalism, right?
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Yes, I suppose it's a way to have more than one nationalism, isn't it?
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It's just the same word in a different language.
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Well, the civic nationalists wanted a way to say,
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but as long as the structures of government don't change,
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Whereas we didn't need a word of ethno-nationalism before that.
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It only exists because civic nationalists came along.
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by liberals to open up a space between the nation,
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the political traditions, the cultural traditions.
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I'm, you know, I'm personally not a nationalist
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but if you're going to, if you're a nationalist,
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But I mean, I personally am just a traditional Englishman,
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As in, I'm for our group, but not the only group.
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nativism's core claim is that our country is for us first,
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and we have a right to maintain our demographic security in it.
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Whereas, the way that the left and Blairite types
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are using ethno-nationalism is essentially Hitlerism, right?
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I'm not going to be called a Nazi for that, right?
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And what you're doing with the term ethno-nationalism
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is trying to peel off our own traditions from us
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the Blairites own those, that's British values, right?
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That's peeled off from the British people.
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You're saying, is there any other kind of nationalism?
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And so I'm just going to call myself a nativist.
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it may be considered lowbrow, but I don't care.
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is that the country is for the native people
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I'd probably say something like native sovereignty.
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is the sovereignty debate has already been had and won.
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I mean, you can characterize it however you like after that.
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Well, I think what you're driving at ultimately
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to fighting about do the natives have a right
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and you've extracted it into a set of doctrines,
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to say, well, we have it in this colour or this flavour
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I'm not interested in eating at that buffet at all.
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part of the reward for serving the British Empire,
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suddenly find that it's an outshoot of Pakistan.
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300,000 Brits are retired in Spain or something,
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rather than talking about the bundles of relations