The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Influencer Occupied Government

00:00:00.000 hi folks welcome to another one of our political chats i'm joined by dan today we're going to be

00:00:03.640 talking about andy burnham and his influence of politics that are occupying our government

00:00:08.660 honestly i i mean we've talked about burnham's cabinet previously but it's like

00:00:13.640 the least inspiring dregs of the blairite era combined with a bunch of low iq northerners

00:00:21.360 angela rayner is the housing secretary and you know that this comes from her desire to just put

00:00:26.140 northerners in little two-bedroom terraced houses because that's the platonic ideal of a northerner

00:00:31.300 yeah well i mean to be fair if you're andy burnham and you have to select from all of

00:00:35.240 the talents available in the labor party i mean do you necessarily think you could do better but no

00:00:40.420 no i mean maybe not maybe that's a good point um but that he is right when he says oh this is the

00:00:49.100 last chance that labor have and i think he's correct about that and by god i think he's going

00:00:54.660 to fail uh anyway so he's been bringing on a bunch of uh the lefties in the labor party

00:01:00.120 because he's not necessarily an ideological leftist but he's kind of like that kind of

00:01:04.520 uh soft leftist the natural labor voting person he's their kind of leftist right he doesn't

00:01:13.040 understand entrepreneurialism as far as he's concerned money comes from the government right

00:01:17.040 that's where money comes from that's how that's that's how things are done because that's how

00:01:21.400 Well, Andy Burnham's entire career has been done.

00:01:24.320 But also, that's what, you know, things were done in previous areas.

00:01:27.260 It's like, okay, we need state, like, mission-critical state industries,

00:01:31.500 like, you know, coal mining or steel mining or steel production

00:01:34.980 or things like this.

00:01:36.180 It's like, yeah, okay, these are giant industries that have to be

00:01:39.380 in some way overseen by the state,

00:01:41.700 even if they're not directly owned by the state,

00:01:43.420 because these are critical for national security.

00:01:46.220 So you definitely get the impression, listening to almost all Labour MPs,

00:01:50.220 MPs that any money that isn't in the government is wasted money. If it's in the private sector,

00:01:55.720 if it's in personal wealth, whatever it is, if it's not in the government, it's wasted

00:02:00.620 money. And their mission is essentially to get as much as it is possible to flow through

00:02:05.340 the government and then out to the things where, in their minds, it's now productive.

00:02:09.640 So they can put northerners in little terraced houses.

00:02:12.120 Yes.

00:02:12.520 This is genuinely the dream of the Labour government. One day everyone in the entire

00:02:17.580 country will live in a little terrorist house like my grandfather used to it's like i actually 0.97

00:02:21.660 don't want that i'm from the southwest we don't live in little terrorist houses thank you very 0.66

00:02:25.380 much i mean i don't necessarily mind that all his attention is on the north because if the

00:02:29.920 government's attention is not on me i quite like that yeah but it is because as you said uh like

00:02:35.960 i actually think it's worse than they think it's wasted i think they think it's being stolen right

00:02:41.560 i i think they think all of the money in the country is actually theirs yes and so if they

00:02:47.080 don't have access to it then it's kind of illegitimate that you have access to it yes what

00:02:50.760 do they call they call it um they call it selfishness when you keep your own money yes i don't 0.99

00:02:57.840 want to pay very high taxes well aren't you selfish yes yeah what a bastard i am like for 0.98

00:03:02.820 working hard and earning this money and not just willingly giving it up to the government and god 1.00

00:03:07.020 forbid you die and you leave your children something i mean that's the worst kind of

00:03:10.860 selfishness you know what i think andy burnham has he's been saying a lot of things but not

00:03:15.260 necessarily doing a lot of things and a 10% death tax was actually something he'd floated the other

00:03:20.420 day I forgot to add it in so by the way he also wants a 10% so he needs to be really careful here

00:03:25.860 because this is something that the big mistake that Starmer made and I'd be shocked if you don't

00:03:32.720 have the number of millionaires in the UK going down in the deck somewhere I do but one of the

00:03:37.040 big mistakes that Starmer made with um oh I've forgotten her name Becky from accounts oh yeah

00:03:42.100 is before their first budget is they speculated on basically every possible tax rise to see how

00:03:50.580 it went down and they did that for it must have been six to nine months where they were just

00:03:56.320 speculating oh we could tax this we could tax that and then they got to the budget and basically

00:04:01.020 everybody had already changed their behavior or their residency status as is the case with

00:04:06.940 millionaires so that when the budget hit they weren't going to be impacted by this and then

00:04:11.480 it turned out the budget was actually compared to what we thought it was going to be relatively mild

00:04:16.840 but all of the damage had been done by that so burnham really wants to be careful that he doesn't

00:04:22.540 do a repeat of that because as as you will show us later the effect is horrific yes i mean there

00:04:28.960 have been lots of things that have been floated as you say and i haven't included all of them like

00:04:32.520 they did they did float the idea of an exit tax uh very briefly it's just like like just i've heard

00:04:38.880 it been mentioned right you know in in in the conversation whether whether i mean i'm sure

00:04:43.700 nothing comes of it you know because i mean there are there are there are certain realms even the 0.95

00:04:48.500 most soft retarded you don't need to have much of a net worth if you just hear them talking about 0.98

00:04:54.460 exit taxes you have to go before the budget yeah anyway so they've been bringing on a load of 0.97

00:04:58.920 lefties as you'd expect and these comms advisors that andy burnham has has have invented four new

00:05:05.580 themes to sell his message britain believing in itself again britain better off room to breathe

00:05:11.240 and power to communities okay none of those uh in any way useful right well the first ones make it

00:05:20.160 make britain great again i mean that's kind of what the store does but okay britain better off

00:05:27.140 by taxing us more presumably room to breathe but not in one of these boxy little houses yeah

00:05:33.700 Yeah, but remember £2 bus fare cap,

00:05:37.380 even though it's a £3 bus fare cap at the moment.

00:05:40.000 If I was paying 20 quid for a bus, I'd be like, yeah, okay, maybe.

00:05:43.060 But it's not exactly a lot.

00:05:45.540 So is this the problem?

00:05:47.000 And then power to communities,

00:05:47.940 which I'm sure that we're going to get loads of power devolved

00:05:50.780 in the Southwest.

00:05:51.440 I mean, I'd love a Wessex parliament, actually.

00:05:54.580 That would actually be lovely, 1.00

00:05:55.880 because then we could secede from the UK, possibly raise them.

00:05:59.160 Well, if Scotland and Wales could have one, 0.65

00:06:00.580 why can't Wessex and Northumbria and Mercia?

00:06:03.700 yeah yeah why can't the septarchy be reborn uh anyway so there are there are some substantive

00:06:10.100 things that he's said he's going to do or not do the first one is he's not going to change stamp

00:06:14.220 duty this year okay so for example stamp duty for anyone doesn't know is the it's every right

00:06:23.920 listen every time i describe what you're paying taxes for it's going to sound like it's just a

00:06:29.320 mafia shakedown right but i swear to god just unless you're british and you're used to it

00:06:34.060 yeah yeah yeah but to anyone who doesn't have this every time you buy a house after your first house

00:06:39.660 the government just wants uh a huge cut of it so it can you know in the tens of thousands of pounds

00:06:45.800 just because you have the temerity to want to buy a house the government put stamps and and it

00:06:50.520 started off at literally the price of a stamp yeah because the government had to register that

00:06:55.340 okay somebody now owns this house as a method of securing security um property rights but but

00:07:01.520 then they realized oh hang on maybe we can move it up and up and up and it's got to the point where

00:07:05.600 yeah and and one of the big effects of this is that it heavily heavily disincentivized people 0.83

00:07:14.060 moving house in this country so what you'll get is you'll get boomers who are living in a six 0.71

00:07:18.180 bedroom house all the kids moved out possibly one of them's died um but you have this little 0.99

00:07:23.600 old lady living by herself in a massive house because if she moves to a bungalow she's going 0.98

00:07:28.680 to pay all of this stamp duty so it's actually cheap it's like okay well i'm going to spend 20

00:07:32.860 grand moving to well i'll just stay where i am and just run out the clock on a massive house

00:07:37.880 so you don't get that circulation of people living in housing which is appropriate and so it's weird

00:07:42.980 that you know younger people can't buy half decent houses to raise families in because everything's

00:07:47.360 locked up because the government's like no you have to pay me 50 grand if you want to move house

00:07:51.020 yeah and again it's just a scam it's just like business rates apparently another thing i forgot

00:07:55.460 to include in this actually is he said he's gonna reduce uh business rates on uh pubs and it's like

00:08:00.840 okay but what about all the other businesses they get business rates again they're just the local

00:08:05.340 government the local council uh saying right okay you you want to have a business we're just gonna

00:08:09.600 have to give us some money like in again thousands of pounds each month just for existing as a

00:08:15.200 business is you don't get anything for it they just take it from you it's it's and business mates

00:08:19.940 they make a huge difference so there's there's a there's a precinct near where i live a kind of

00:08:24.800 um 70s brutalist square block thing and it's always full every shop is full and i've always

00:08:30.720 wondered why that was and i found out a couple of years that it's exempt from business rates

00:08:33.700 it's exempt from business rates because apparently the condition of this thing has not been maintained

00:08:37.640 and therefore they can't charge business rates oh really it's absolutely rammed and then you look

00:08:42.260 around at other places and there's empty shops all over the place so it makes a huge difference

00:08:46.640 to businesses and people wonder why is it all vape shops and turkish barbers because they don't

00:08:50.800 pay business rates why don't they pay business rates because they're illegitimate businesses

00:08:53.980 yep and they just dissolve they just dissolve and then reconstitute a brand new business in

00:08:58.500 exactly the same property with exactly the same equipment and this just carries on but cousin 37

00:09:03.880 is now listed as opposed to cousin 36 exactly yeah yeah uh so it's massive just rip off britain

00:09:11.240 is a true statement uh anyway so he wants young people to get into technical training uh he's been

00:09:18.260 saying this quite a lot actually you know can a can an ai build a train well i mean one day it will

00:09:23.480 like yeah there's a weird sort of lack of vision here yes in a couple of years time ais will be

00:09:29.920 building trains yeah it's almost certainly yeah without a doubt uh but he wants young people to 0.96

00:09:35.200 do manual labor jobs and don't get me wrong i'm you know i'm in favor of it cramming everyone into

00:09:40.280 universities has not actually improved anything it's not improved the quality of university

00:09:44.260 education it's not improved the desirability of a degree oh no it's it's massively weakened it

00:09:50.280 absolutely now a degree doesn't really mean anything it doesn't actually mean you're a

00:09:53.800 smart intelligent well done you've got a degree of in nutrition pottery from the university of

00:09:59.180 little hampton it's like okay right so what you know uh so actually this is actually a good thing

00:10:06.560 But he's complaining because, of course,

00:10:08.080 you hold too many young people out of work.

00:10:09.880 Well, why are so many young people out of work?

00:10:11.820 I could go into this a lot.

00:10:13.360 Go ahead. Give us a summary.

00:10:15.680 Well, OK, so, I mean, many ways to approach this.

00:10:20.240 But, I mean, one, let's start with incentives.

00:10:23.100 You're a young person and you're earning a minimum wage job

00:10:27.280 because minimum wage has gone up and up.

00:10:29.560 That is not the slight that it used to be, actually.

00:10:32.040 Being a young person and getting a minimum wage job

00:10:34.260 is actually fairly good by itself,

00:10:35.740 because if you're 18, they're going to pay you the same as a 25-year-old.

00:10:40.440 So why wouldn't you pick somebody who's got work experience

00:10:43.100 as opposed to an 18-year-old?

00:10:44.800 It used to be.

00:10:45.400 18-year-olds were cheaper, and then they moved you up the pavement.

00:10:47.480 So, okay, fine.

00:10:47.920 I remember when I was 18, I used to live in New King,

00:10:51.780 and I would clean nightclubs or work in nightclubs

00:10:55.400 for like £3 an hour.

00:10:57.240 Don't get me wrong, it wasn't a lot of money,

00:10:58.280 but then I lived with my parents, right?

00:11:00.100 So I actually always had money because I didn't have to pay rent,

00:11:02.640 I didn't have to pay bills, I didn't have to pay food even.

00:11:05.060 And so I worked while I was at college and then university,

00:11:09.120 and I always had money because I was able to get –

00:11:12.540 because this was before minimum wage came in.

00:11:14.440 Yeah, because the way that the left thinks minimum wage works 0.54

00:11:19.440 is it raises everybody's salary to the minimum wage.

00:11:22.440 Well, no, what it actually does is it draws a line and says,

00:11:25.000 if your labour is worth less to your employer than this amount,

00:11:27.580 it's illegal to give you a job.

00:11:28.940 What it does is narrow the jobs available.

00:11:30.900 Yeah, it just makes it illegal to have a job if your labour isn't worth that. 0.96

00:11:34.400 so for that nightclub it was worth employing a young person to do something like that

00:11:38.660 at that rate whereas if you if they forced you them to pay you more it wouldn't have been worth

00:11:42.960 it so um so incentive wise if you're a young person on a minimum wage job um it's something

00:11:49.520 like um oh a thousand i have looked at the numbers like a thousand three hundred a month something

00:11:56.100 like that if you're a young person who can claim anxiety well now it's 1,900 per month so you're

00:12:05.420 substantially better off by going to your doctors and it's not difficult I could go on YouTube now

00:12:10.740 and I could find a whole bunch of influencers explaining to me how to go to the doctors and

00:12:15.640 claim that I got anxiety in a way that they wouldn't be able to disprove and then you get

00:12:20.740 an instant 50% pay bump if you're a young person so the incentives are all wrong but okay let's

00:12:25.280 say you even wanted to work well now like i said it's it's more attractive to employ somebody over

00:12:30.700 25 but also you've got a whole bunch of foreigners who are coming in who and actually if if you're 1.00

00:12:37.600 going to pay anyone below minimum wage you pay them because they're actually running a scam 0.98

00:12:41.660 because half of them don't have the um approval to work they're sharing their identity with six

00:12:46.440 other people all of them would be illegals yeah i mean i'll stop there but i could talk for a lot

00:12:52.120 about why employment in this country is screwed up.

00:12:54.240 The labour market is weighted against native young people, 0.86

00:12:57.820 and that's why, since 2020,

00:13:01.020 only 11,000 young people have been employed in the UK.

00:13:05.800 No way.

00:13:06.580 Apparently. 0.97

00:13:07.580 The number of non-EU under-25s on UK payrolls

00:13:10.160 increased by 290,000 since January 2020,

00:13:13.600 compared to 11,000 extra young UK nationals.

00:13:18.020 So the increase is 290,000 foreigners on top of whatever existed. 0.92

00:13:21.300 Good God. 0.96

00:13:23.140 It's an unbelievable betrayal.

00:13:25.840 Like, if I were a young person in this country,

00:13:27.820 I'd be feeling revolutionary.

00:13:30.360 How dare you do that?

00:13:32.480 I mean, I knew it was bad, but when you lay it out like that.

00:13:36.040 So now there are something along the lines of a million young needs

00:13:39.920 in this country.

00:13:41.620 And everyone's like, oh, they're lazy.

00:13:42.800 No, they're not lazy.

00:13:43.520 They can't get a job. 1.00

00:13:44.600 You literally replace them with foreigners. 1.00

00:13:46.340 Yeah, I think it is a bit of column A and a bit of column B. 1.00

00:13:49.680 i mean it's sure i'm i'm not thrilled with the work ethic of gen z either but yeah in their 0.96

00:13:54.500 defense this is a pretty tough market to have to go into well yeah i mean the incentives are one

00:14:01.980 thing if if you can get an instant 50 pay bump by going to the doctors and pretending and then

00:14:06.680 you get to sit home and watch video play video games and you earn more i mean that is attractive

00:14:10.980 it's ridiculous but let's say we took it all away well then you'd have to do something about them 1.00

00:14:16.000 competing with people who are coming over from north africa who are willing to work below minimum 0.98

00:14:21.540 wage because there's actually six of them with the same name yeah you'd have to deport millions

00:14:24.920 of people um anyway so he's he's ruled out a general election uh what a shocker yeah not a

00:14:32.300 great shock i've got 166 majority and even if i even if the burn and bounce holds i'll have like

00:14:38.680 20 we'll get into the burn and bounce at the end because it's not as impressive as you might think

00:14:44.080 Although they are trying to...

00:14:45.580 Papers are bigging it up.

00:14:47.020 They are trying to massage the figures to make it look like there is.

00:14:49.620 Again, another example of the polls leading.

00:14:52.280 But the idea of compulsory voting has been floated,

00:14:55.880 which I think is actually a great idea, right?

00:14:59.820 As in, you find people who don't cast a ballot.

00:15:03.100 Well, I know why Labour like it,

00:15:04.940 because if you were to draw the Venn diagram

00:15:07.580 of low-information voters and Labour voters,

00:15:11.040 there's quite a lot of overlap.

00:15:12.640 but why do you like it because 40 of this country doesn't vote because they don't feel this there's

00:15:18.860 a point to it and so okay so that's a huge constituency of people who are disaffected

00:15:23.660 with the system who are not labor voters who would be forced back into politics be forced to engage

00:15:30.920 and moreover actually i think that politics intruding on people's lives in this kind of

00:15:35.320 direct way is kind of important at this point right because a lot of people are just checked

00:15:39.580 down the large trying to avoid politics no no no no no no everything wrong that's happening in your

00:15:43.700 life yes the origin point of that is a political decision made by a government so so to be fair

00:15:48.740 labor tinker regularly with the franchise yes and every time they do it blows up in their face so

00:15:54.560 so we're going to give parliaments to scotland well it created the s well it didn't create the

00:15:58.980 smp but it gave them a platform yes it it gave them i mean i i remember going to parliament when

00:16:04.100 i was um must have been like 19 or something and sitting down and chatting with an smp guy and a

00:16:08.640 plaid comrade die and and the reason those two were hanging out together is because there's like

00:16:12.560 literally a handful of them and look at look at wales now yes there are no labor no i think it

00:16:18.880 was zero labor in the welsh assembly yes like they're completely wiped out by reform play yeah

00:16:24.260 i mean they're massive now and and the other one of course is is votes for 16s and then the green

00:16:29.300 party basically get a massive surge i mean i know they've retreated a little bit now in the in the

00:16:32.940 but it's still with young people the greens are well ahead but i i accept the argument that every

00:16:38.120 time Labour does this it blows up like Elmer Fudd's shotgun and so forcing 40 percent of people who

00:16:43.920 are just not interested in in engaging with politics you know who look at the political

00:16:48.500 and say there's nothing there for me for going to them go no no no you've got to pick something

00:16:53.400 yeah like well and we will arrest you if you don't go yeah yeah we will fine you and ultimately

00:16:57.880 arrest you if you don't pick something um bringing them in making them even more resentful

00:17:03.600 that they can't even get away from politics now Andy Burnham is going to come to your house and

00:17:07.440 make you vote okay well who's the furthest right i can vote who do you hate the most you know like

00:17:11.800 all i'm saying is i could see this blowing up in their faces and actually a sizable constituency of

00:17:17.900 really resentful people who don't who don't like the way the country is going but don't feel that

00:17:22.500 there's anything they can vote for to get out of it may be forced to vote for something yeah i mean

00:17:26.900 there will also be a lot of people who just don't think about it at all yeah true and and labor are

00:17:33.320 hoping to get them yeah but i don't think they're going to i think i i like we've said before

00:17:39.040 everything else will just blow up in the faces but it's either that or proportional representation

00:17:42.260 i mean they labor have a large majority and they've got to find a way to win the next election

00:17:46.740 and appealing to the voters on the basis of their policies and personalities is not going to swing

00:17:53.120 it so it needs to be some sort of tinkering yeah i mean we can go back to about brexit

00:17:57.800 Oh, no, sorry.

00:17:58.520 That was a different thing.

00:18:00.480 So, yeah, we've got the same migrant problem as other.

00:18:05.900 And so Andy Burnham did finally address it.

00:18:08.700 He did finally come out and say something about the migrants.

00:18:11.920 He said, quote, the work on that continues. 1.00

00:18:16.520 Right.

00:18:18.600 So maybe we're going to give the French another 100 million? 1.00

00:18:21.560 They did fire at Chris Philp the other day, so maybe we should. 1.00

00:18:25.440 Right. 1.00

00:18:25.600 i did like that but the french i don't think it's worth paying the french 100 million to

00:18:33.860 to fire at chris robs because they're clearly not conservative mps yes but but they're clearly not

00:18:39.120 doing anything to stop migrants coming over no matter how much money we give no in fact that

00:18:42.840 was what chris philip was doing which is why they shot oh i see right okay see uh they are obviously

00:18:47.660 that continues i mean apparently quote there's no work changing the work being carried out by

00:18:52.200 Shibana Mahmood

00:18:52.780 in her department 0.96

00:18:53.260 but the thing is

00:18:53.880 I mean it's got

00:18:54.820 it's got as bad

00:18:55.740 as it ever has

00:18:56.580 a mega dinghy

00:18:57.720 the other day

00:18:58.180 carried a record

00:18:59.160 of 165 migrants

00:19:01.060 to the UK 1.00

00:19:01.480 what's a mega dinghy

00:19:02.460 yeah exactly

00:19:02.940 what's a mega dinghy

00:19:03.740 what's a gargantuan dinghy

00:19:05.240 you can see there

00:19:06.480 well that's the border

00:19:07.480 security

00:19:08.440 yeah that's them

00:19:08.920 capturing it

00:19:09.760 the dinghy

00:19:10.560 oh that thing

00:19:11.100 yeah yeah

00:19:11.640 you can fit 165 people

00:19:13.400 onto that

00:19:13.920 yep

00:19:14.280 in one day

00:19:16.380 in fact in one dinghy

00:19:17.580 there are a thousand

00:19:19.000 illegals a week

00:19:19.740 coming over at the moment

00:19:20.640 because the weather's

00:19:21.200 quite good

00:19:22.200 um basically boat trip yeah the the only defense that britain has is poseidon god of the sea at

00:19:27.720 this point and for some reason he's decided that no we're going to have nice weather for now and

00:19:31.640 a nice nice sea um so yeah we've we've got the the same problem you know and so these these people

00:19:37.220 being just uh jammed into towns now they're into local towns yes uh and of course as you can see 0.78

00:19:43.400 they're all uh young men fleeing war yep well done labor migrant rapes massively up yeah young

00:19:49.800 people with employment massively down millionaires massively down yeah i mean we are in that uh 0.85

00:19:55.700 period of um this is kind of just an insane insane number of sexual assaults of a female age 13 or

00:20:03.480 over rape of a female age 16 or right yeah so you notice that's gone from about 8 000 in 2006

00:20:10.520 to 40 plus thousand in 2022 the thing is that these are actually not the latest statistics

00:20:16.720 So it's 76,000 a year now.

00:20:18.960 Okay, so quadrupling of rape of children.

00:20:22.540 Nearly 10 times. 0.95

00:20:24.940 Nearly 10 times.

00:20:28.220 So, you know, good thing they're being placed in towns around the country.

00:20:36.380 And, of course, as you covered the other day,

00:20:38.540 economic collapse is just mathematically certain at this point.

00:20:42.080 This is a great segment, by the way.

00:20:43.620 People should go watch it.

00:20:44.380 because there's just no getting out of this.

00:20:47.600 We're now in a position where people pay fewer income tax

00:20:52.020 than they take in benefits.

00:20:53.880 There is now a lower birth rate than there is a death rate.

00:20:57.760 It is just inevitable that whatever is happening to the system

00:21:01.320 is just locked in now.

00:21:02.060 Yeah, I mean, you can see with the state is spending the money.

00:21:05.220 You can see demographics, and you've got a 20-year lead

00:21:07.640 on demographics of people coming into the workforce.

00:21:09.580 it Britain will collapse unless it fundamentally changes the liberal post-war settlement which is

00:21:17.460 basically cradle to grave welfare and that's not going to change which is why as we mentioned

00:21:24.380 earlier um the millionaires and billionaires are just leaving numbers are staggering on this have

00:21:30.320 you got the numbers I do have the numbers yeah there were a million millionaires uh back in the

00:21:37.220 day uh i think it was and now oh no yeah yeah there were a million back in 2021 a million

00:21:43.020 millionaires it's a lot of money and now there are 442 000 millionaires in 2025 so a 60 drop

00:21:49.980 in the number of rich people in the country and the rich people whether you want to you know

00:21:55.020 praise zach polanski or what's his name he just quit gary's economics yeah you complain about

00:22:00.560 more they like but they pay them the largest portion of tax yeah well one they pay almost

00:22:06.160 all of the tax yeah um and secondly actually in in this day and age a million is not a staggering

00:22:12.280 amount of money it's not it's not you i mean you could if i'm just having a house in london will

00:22:16.460 get you there yeah i mean technically by assets i'm a millionaire but i don't have a million

00:22:21.820 in the bank no no but you haven't fled yet so no not yet there's still work to be done for the

00:22:28.020 government yeah but that's the point like i don't feel like a rich man right no i'm doing fine

00:22:34.340 you know i'm happy but like i'm not you're not driving well you don't drive anything but if you

00:22:38.860 were driving you would not be driving a lamborghini it's like the the 1970s idea of a millionaire

00:22:43.680 it's just yeah that's what a billionaire is now yes so that's that's that's the sort of way things

00:22:50.720 have gone uh anyway so everything's terrible right there's nothing substantive on the horizon

00:22:56.740 god only knows what the budget's going to look like later on this year i mean just whatever

00:23:02.100 whatever you it's just gonna be your taxes going up right whatever happens your taxes are going up

00:23:06.940 because they've got things to pay for and fewer people are around to pay for those things well

00:23:12.280 and i think is i mean andy burnham over these these past uh this past week when he's been in

00:23:17.140 i mean he's been giving away money now to be fair to him it is relatively small change each time he

00:23:23.760 makes a promise but several times a day he comes out there and it's like a billion for this a

00:23:27.160 billion for that the problem is if you keep spending billions here and there before long

00:23:31.940 you're talking real money yeah and it is starting to add up and if this carries on until the next

00:23:37.260 budget it's not like we've got like a gargantuan surplus of money just sloshing around in the

00:23:42.260 coffers oh no no we're running a deficit with the bond market right now we're running it yeah

00:23:46.300 we're running a deficit on everything everything so any anyway anyway uh the bbc have been really

00:23:52.880 getting into the hard-hitting journalism on it though and this is just emblematic of the weirdly

00:23:58.400 soft landing that andy burnham has been getting yeah uh what what's happening to his dog axel

00:24:03.260 well he's going to be staying in manchester because he wouldn't get on with larry the cat

00:24:06.620 the aesthetics of this is so much better though i mean there he is he's smiling wearing normal

00:24:11.000 clothes holding a puppy over a beautiful vista i mean i i appreciate he inherits all of the same

00:24:17.900 problems but you compare that to to starmer yeah you would never you mean first of all you nobody's

00:24:23.980 ever seen him smile you know maybe one or two he smiles he looks like he's about to punch you

00:24:29.140 yeah or it's a bit hannibal lecter you know it's maybe one or two ukrainian young models have seen

00:24:35.140 him smile but most of us have never seen him smile so i mean just just just on the aesthetics i mean

00:24:40.660 it is it is looking better i mean just just on the point of while we're on starmer i mean i should

00:24:45.280 have said this at the time when he was still in office but that was a man who had basically only

00:24:49.140 two poles to his politics one was the support of southern lawyers human rights lawyers and the

00:24:55.020 second was the unwavering support of every abrahamic religion that was not christianity

00:25:01.480 correct but on the plus side starmer someone was at least serious about the system itself

00:25:09.680 right yes well you know obviously he was an inveterate enemy of ours but at least he was a

00:25:14.780 serious guy doing serious things if you want to support us through these trying times you can go

00:25:21.300 and get islander6 from shop.loses.com link will be in the description it's of course an amazing

00:25:25.380 magazine and the best way to help us pay the taxes the government's going to demand

00:25:30.440 help us survive this unbelievable government like oh god everyone thought everyone thought

00:25:38.420 star was bad unfortunately the left are really good at supporting their creatives and right not

00:25:43.900 so much but i mean you do get a really good collectible magazine it's incredible yeah yeah

00:25:48.800 like dr luke gilford's uh article in it is brilliant and i'm about to do a video

00:25:53.180 on will tanner's magnificent one on irania because it sent me down you're going to love it

00:25:57.980 it sent me down a rabbit hole you are not going to believe uh i'm not going to spoil it irania

00:26:03.060 just in case you don't know is the whites only town in south africa there's a lot

00:26:08.360 a lot oh i'm looking for yeah and it will have read that one yet i must read that one it's really

00:26:13.100 good it's sent me down an amazing rabbit hole so starmer whether you liked him or not i mean he

00:26:18.240 was obviously an inveterate enemy of the british people but he was at least a serious guy doing

00:26:22.880 serious things yes this is a clownish administration being given a completely free ride by the

00:26:29.780 westminster media or the fleet street media it's actually kind of crazy how soft they're being on

00:26:34.820 him but it i i said this at the beginning right uh way before way before like uh andy burnham even

00:26:40.580 got in andy burnham is not going to be hated in the same way keir starmer is right because andy

00:26:45.480 burnham no no no listen right people will be disappointed with him people will be unhappy

00:26:49.920 with him but starmer was hated because he codes as an enemy right because he literally looks like

00:26:55.660 the terminator because he's got black dead shark-like eyes and he comes out and says no i'm

00:27:00.320 going to ruin you because i hate you because you're a brit right andy burnham doesn't do that i mean

00:27:04.420 he hasn't been tested yet no no no i'm not there will be a andy burnham will fail he will fail 0.98

00:27:10.040 right the difference with starmer the difference is starmer is is it was so like you say it was

00:27:16.000 unflinching it was shark like it was very obvious that he hates you with burnham he's trying to

00:27:22.980 pretend that he's a likable guy and he can even hold a puppy i'm sure he is a likable guy when

00:27:28.240 it flips with him all of that current image that is working for him will suddenly flip into

00:27:33.760 insincerity so i don't think it's impossible that he's as hated or i i don't think he's going to be

00:27:40.200 hated right i think people will be disappointed with him i think people will be even if they're

00:27:45.300 not like i think they'll be broadly sympathetic but just see him as a clownish figure right to

00:27:50.440 be fair okay so i don't think people hated rishi sunak no they just forgot to talk about him yes

00:27:57.060 He just became, even when he was Prime Minister at the end,

00:27:59.740 everybody kind of forgot about him.

00:28:01.520 Everyone felt kind of sorry for him when he was out in the rain,

00:28:03.640 which was obviously the point of him going out into the rain

00:28:05.320 with that umbrella.

00:28:06.140 But maybe you're right.

00:28:07.900 Maybe that is the fate of Burnham.

00:28:09.680 It's not that he becomes hated.

00:28:11.320 He just becomes an irrelevance, and we forget about him,

00:28:14.480 and the last six months he's discussing.

00:28:16.460 I don't even think he'll be forgetting about him.

00:28:17.980 I think there'll be a general kind of sympathy,

00:28:20.720 but just to view him as kind of like,

00:28:23.180 well, he's obviously not the man that's needed, right?

00:28:26.060 the arrow is calling for a particular kind of man,

00:28:28.720 and it's obviously not Andy Burnham.

00:28:30.460 And especially as Andy Burnham seems to be living out

00:28:32.380 a kind of fantasy throughout this, it's really weird.

00:28:35.840 So he opened number 10 in the north

00:28:38.340 in a place called Heron House.

00:28:41.400 Whitehall's civil servants have been offered relocation packages.

00:28:44.640 I'm sure they're quite generous to encourage them to move.

00:28:47.540 And he's working there officially.

00:28:49.680 I'm sure that won't impact your career in the slightest

00:28:52.380 if you suddenly pack off several hundred miles.

00:28:54.800 Yeah.

00:28:55.580 But why does Andy Burnham get a work from home office?

00:29:00.400 Why does he get that?

00:29:01.980 And look, if Farage comes in,

00:29:05.980 assuming Farage doesn't blow himself up any further than he already is,

00:29:09.720 can he have a number 10 in Clacton?

00:29:12.280 Because Manchester is two and a half hours away by train.

00:29:16.140 Can he undo?

00:29:17.840 But Clacton is two hours and five minutes away by train.

00:29:20.220 So you can make an argument that Clacton gets a number 10 as well.

00:29:23.240 well yeah yeah that's that's true not that he ever goes to clacton but yeah number 10 in western

00:29:28.120 supermare yeah it's two hours away you know uh but the the the point is like burnham his

00:29:35.260 administration is just fetishizing manchester at this point is fetishizing the north and it's

00:29:41.080 really quite embarrassing to watch because obviously i'm not from the north so i'm just

00:29:44.560 looking at this like okay this is this is a man having a midlife crisis harking back to

00:29:52.340 all that was good in life his 20s when he was involved in manchester era student politics

00:29:59.160 and oh yeah absolutely and this this whole thing is a kind of like fantasy wish list that he's

00:30:06.020 going down and he's trying really hard to sell it to the public right for example look at all

00:30:11.480 these social media uh appointments that he wants to make in number 10 north uh do we qualify well

00:30:19.400 yeah exactly what could we get uh well not too 68 grand a year that's the video lead you'd have

00:30:26.060 to be bloody good but um right i mean yeah it's not not bad but um but they've obviously got a

00:30:33.960 strategy in mind which is become social media influencers okay and that's well if i will get

00:30:39.560 back to them being social media why why does that need to be a government role why don't you just

00:30:44.800 go to people who already have platforms and just appear on their shows why why doesn't why don't

00:30:51.320 you like why why not just produce very boring looking videos where you just state your thing

00:30:56.700 and then let the media say this is what the prime minister has said yeah but i mean have a press

00:31:01.780 conference basically but why can't but yeah but why could i i i don't know the left half that well

00:31:07.380 that isn't establishment i know the establishment left and i know that i know the radical left i

00:31:11.460 I don't know if there is a soft left on YouTube.

00:31:13.980 So Novara Media is not it.

00:31:16.500 There is a soft left on YouTube.

00:31:18.200 Okay, but why can't you just send a minister

00:31:20.580 to appear on Novara Media the way that you used to

00:31:23.640 with Newsnight?

00:31:24.560 Yeah.

00:31:24.840 Why do you need to employ these people?

00:31:27.020 What's the guy's name?

00:31:28.240 There are a bunch of them,

00:31:29.220 and they're very, like, soft-handed, doughy men.

00:31:32.780 Yeah, I would have guessed.

00:31:34.400 So, yeah, yeah.

00:31:35.680 People who are definitely confined by their politics

00:31:37.860 from biology.

00:31:38.740 i'm not even i can't remember the guy's name now aren't we all with my testosterone levels how

00:31:47.660 could i be anything other than a base nationalist anyway the point is this is clearly the plan right

00:31:53.140 now let's talk about the plan for a minute before we get into the social media of it

00:31:57.100 because in a way we have to kind of commend the northerners for their their animal cunning right

00:32:05.560 They planned to take over the Labour government and they succeeded

00:32:09.320 in quite spectacular fashion, actually.

00:32:12.700 So you remember that back in April,

00:32:15.300 Angela Rayner was holding secret meetings with Andy Burnham

00:32:18.040 because Starmer was struggling a bit and they were like,

00:32:21.140 yeah, okay, all right.

00:32:23.360 What a clash of intellect that must have been.

00:32:25.300 Well, a meeting of the minds, but whether you like it or not,

00:32:30.180 their plan was incredibly successful, right?

00:32:34.520 Was it?

00:32:35.080 Yeah, it was, because they planned this out.

00:32:37.260 So on the 11th of May, that's where the floor two of Heron House,

00:32:41.660 which is number 10 north, was leased.

00:32:44.780 Well, Josh Simons resigned as the MP for Makefield three days after that,

00:32:49.240 so they knew what they were doing.

00:32:51.140 They had this all in hand and all in mind.

00:32:54.100 They're like, right, okay, what we're going to do

00:32:55.620 is we're going to find a constituency that has never not voted Labour.

00:32:59.400 Oh, there just happens to be a 97% white British Labour voting constituency.

00:33:03.760 right here in manchester they've always voted labor they're exactly the greens can't snake us 0.91

00:33:09.500 on this yes nigel farage is beatable in this area yes and so what we'll do is we'll get number 10

00:33:14.760 north ready we'll get that they've obviously spent ages because i mean like the um where is the

00:33:19.720 yeah like this whole thing when we get to the images of it it's all kitted out it's all been

00:33:26.520 done all in advance right so they've obviously planned all of this yes and they're like right

00:33:31.340 Okay, so Josh is on board.

00:33:32.840 He's going to resign.

00:33:33.800 I'm going to stand as the MP.

00:33:35.340 We've spoken to the NEC.

00:33:36.900 Unlike last time where Starmer blocked me,

00:33:39.480 we've got it so they're not going to block me from doing it.

00:33:41.480 So Starmer's control of the NEC is weakened.

00:33:43.600 I'm going to get in there.

00:33:44.660 Then I'm going to come heroically down to Downing Street,

00:33:47.640 like Lenin returning to Russia, and it's all over. 0.86

00:33:50.300 I will admit there's definitely a plan.

00:33:54.240 The only thing I would quibble on is how much of a masterful plan it is

00:33:58.620 because the key element in the plan

00:34:00.880 is that the most hated man in Britain

00:34:03.220 continues to be hated

00:34:05.080 and eventually gets turfed out.

00:34:07.820 I mean, it's not...

00:34:08.280 Yeah, but he did have an iron...

00:34:09.820 It's not exactly Game of Thrones, is it?

00:34:11.320 Well, it kind of is, though,

00:34:12.360 because he did have an iron grip over the Labour Party.

00:34:15.140 And Addy Burnham gave them all permission

00:34:16.380 to essentially revolt from Keir Starmer

00:34:18.420 and force Keir Starmer out.

00:34:20.920 So this was a fairly complex plan

00:34:24.100 that they put into operation,

00:34:26.060 and they did manage to pull it off,

00:34:27.900 actually smoothly and without any interruptions i'll give you i'll give you a medium weight plan

00:34:34.500 for that no it's quite good like it was quite a good plan and you know catapulted burnham straight

00:34:39.500 into the premiership yes and defeated all of their enemies in the labor party like you've got to give

00:34:45.300 them credit where it's due they they they planned it in advance they pulled it off flawlessly and

00:34:50.740 now they have like this they're they are living the dream at the moment and you can very much

00:34:55.520 very much see this because like you've got them uh basically this is what their social

00:35:00.700 media influencer team is doing uh videos like this

00:35:04.380 hi andy um could you show me around your number 10 north office come on then come in

00:35:13.540 it's great it's lovely very happy with it can you show me some of the things you got new folder

00:35:19.620 Showing off the stationary

00:35:22.920 Look at that

00:35:24.320 Gold disc of the Queen is dead

00:35:26.500 I need to return that to Johnny Marr actually

00:35:28.920 Great cartoon

00:35:31.720 Andy Burnham gets his hat trick

00:35:33.120 Against Liverpool

00:35:34.340 Brit Awards in Manchester

00:35:37.000 And then over there

00:35:41.440 On the other wall

00:35:42.380 Now that is something I treasure

00:35:45.340 Somebody

00:35:46.780 Andy what are you watching

00:35:49.560 Hang on.

00:35:50.260 You don't need to see that.

00:35:52.240 Okay, I think we'd better leave now.

00:35:54.200 All right, sorry.

00:35:54.800 Cheers.

00:35:55.420 I'll see you soon.

00:35:55.940 See you soon.

00:35:58.980 I mean, I'm getting...

00:36:01.900 Yeah.

00:36:07.040 So I'm getting a really strong vibe,

00:36:09.380 but I don't want to say it,

00:36:10.480 just in case you're leading

00:36:11.760 where I think you're leading.

00:36:12.880 Is it David Brent in the office?

00:36:14.040 Yes, it's David Brent in the office, yes.

00:36:15.820 Mad.

00:36:16.840 Mad how much that... 0.78

00:36:18.300 It's just like him.

00:36:21.240 It's actually...

00:36:22.480 You're not the first to notice this, obviously.

00:36:25.500 Here's a little combination of clips people put together.

00:36:28.400 We've got a new folder.

00:36:33.120 See that?

00:36:34.280 Okay, I think we'd better leave now.

00:36:37.500 If that's it, can you leave now, please?

00:36:39.460 In Makerfield.

00:36:40.820 Oral.

00:36:42.000 Winstanley.

00:36:42.820 Hindley.

00:36:43.960 Plattebury.

00:36:44.560 Redding.

00:36:45.180 Aldershot.

00:36:45.760 Bracknell.

00:36:46.680 You know, I've got a Didcut.

00:36:47.740 Yateley. Well, there was obviously a decision taken by the PLP. It wasn't by me. I wasn't the

00:36:54.480 Parliamentary Labour Party. This is someone else's decision. I didn't want to do this.

00:36:59.080 To our members of Parliament. And obviously, I then responded. The board of directors come to me

00:37:05.580 and they go, oh, David, you're the best man for the job. You've got to take the job and we won't

00:37:09.980 take no for an answer. Genuinely remarkable. Genuinely remarkable. And the thing is, well,

00:37:17.340 the camera work was even like the cam work in the office so it's just like okay okay we've got

00:37:23.740 the david brent social media influencer administration now i mean just kind of

00:37:32.160 embarrassing but what are you gonna do um normal commentary will follow shortly after i've composed

00:37:38.680 myself but that is i do but the whole thing is so okay even down to the narrative as well because

00:37:46.220 like i said he he claimed that he had nothing to do with the other for a kiss now it's like no you

00:37:49.540 planned it out yeah you had a cunning plan it actually worked and now you get to be prime

00:37:54.720 minister david brent uh what what i'm so on the nose as well it's crazy how much it lines up like

00:38:02.660 none of them obviously watch the office i guess that's a southern thing uh anyway so yeah i bet

00:38:09.020 they all watch in the thick of it though maybe and and yeah you'll start getting yeah somebody

00:38:14.840 should start doing in the thick of it comparisons as well yeah maybe but anyway lots of people

00:38:19.800 noticed my god he's just like david which isn't necessarily a negative thing but anyway

00:38:26.720 so they decided to lean into it

00:38:44.840 that's the american office oh okay i wonder why i didn't recognize it yeah you think they could

00:38:54.120 have got the british version couldn't you you would but okay amazing then recreating the office

00:39:00.140 just caps off an excellent week of comms it's like is is this an excellent week of comms though

00:39:05.140 right is this an excellent week of comms like he he's been putting out these just loads of social

00:39:09.980 media videos. Tell me what he's actually saying here. We can't kick this can down the road any

00:39:16.200 longer. Last week I said we needed a different kind of politics. Problem solving, not point

00:39:21.620 scoring. Nowhere is that more urgent than social care. For decades governments have kicked this

00:39:27.020 issue down the road because they've seen it as too risky, too difficult and too complicated.

00:39:31.620 Now politicians will always have different views but I'm serious about fixing this issue and to

00:39:36.760 do that we have to find common ground and listen to others to find a way forward.

00:39:41.080 It's time to draw a line under people playing politics when the human cost of that means

00:39:45.800 carers struggling, families paying the price and our NHS buckling under the strain.

00:39:51.240 This comes down to a choice. We can carry on passing the problem to the next generation 0.99

00:39:56.360 or we can face it head on and work together to build a care system that gives people dignity,

00:40:02.040 security and the support they deserve this is about bringing back hope that we can finally fix

00:40:07.560 the difficult issues that have been ignored for too long and making britain believe again that's

00:40:12.900 why i'm making this choice and i'm prepared to put everything i've got behind it what choice

00:40:18.660 yeah like what's he actually doing here so i suspect the issue that he might be driving at

00:40:24.740 and and i've got to guess yeah what the actual message of this video i think i think i can guess

00:40:30.640 because, I mean, having been through this

00:40:33.460 with an elderly relative,

00:40:34.400 there is a real issue here.

00:40:35.780 Is that once your elderly relative gets poorly enough,

00:40:39.720 the NHS will say they have to be in a care home.

00:40:43.220 Yes.

00:40:44.140 And that care, or nursing home,

00:40:45.680 and that nursing home is going to charge you

00:40:47.740 three grand a week sometimes,

00:40:50.360 an enormous amount of money,

00:40:52.360 and you don't have the option of leaving them at home.

00:40:54.780 The NHS says, we will put them in here

00:40:56.920 and we will send you the bill.

00:40:58.220 so that is that is a real problem i assume but we don't know that that's the problem he's talking

00:41:04.340 about because he was not specific about that at all i'm putting it together with context of other

00:41:09.560 things that mps have been talking about sure and i agree is that we're broke and we can't afford

00:41:14.500 the existing stuff that we've got so but this is the point isn't it this is why he gives no

00:41:18.700 substantive detail right it's just yeah because if he if he mentioned anything specific people

00:41:23.780 would be like right and it would move bond yields immediately yeah but we we can't do these things

00:41:27.980 andy and therefore you've just got to say well i've got a bunch of good vibes here i've got some

00:41:32.220 good will i'd like to put some good will forward it's like okay i mean you're so vague that i have

00:41:37.840 to divine what i think you're talking and he's also promised another what is it between 13 and

00:41:42.420 18 billion to defense that hasn't been funded from anywhere but he's also increasing bloody

00:41:47.460 foreign aid budget and just like we haven't got any bloody money where is the money coming from

00:41:52.600 And his answer is going to be taxes, but as you've already pointed out,

00:41:56.440 the people who are paying the taxes are leaving.

00:41:59.600 Anyway, it's just a non-stop influencer politics.

00:42:02.280 Here's five things I've done in my first week.

00:42:05.780 As if he's a reply to an email from Elon Musk.

00:42:08.540 This is what I got done this week.

00:42:09.900 Here's five things I've done in my first week as Prime Minister.

00:42:13.880 On Monday, I launched a new national drive to end rough sleeping.

00:42:18.240 On Tuesday, I announced a tax cut on energy bills.

00:42:21.840 Wednesday, a £2 cap on bus fares across England.

00:42:26.080 On Thursday, a 20% cut on business rates

00:42:29.160 for thousands of pubs, clubs and music venues.

00:42:31.800 And on Friday, I opened Number 10 North,

00:42:35.260 which is going to drive...

00:42:36.600 Just a wish list.

00:42:38.240 OK, well, every one of those is, I announced something.

00:42:41.040 And that reminds me of the Margaret Thatcher quote,

00:42:43.260 that too many politicians...

00:42:44.980 What was it she said? 1.00

00:42:46.060 Too many politicians give a speech

00:42:48.020 and think they've achieved something.

00:42:49.680 Yes, he's just giving a wish list.

00:42:51.660 Okay, but all of those things are going to incur debts, Andy.

00:42:54.840 Yes.

00:42:55.220 All of those things are going to incur debt.

00:42:56.740 Where are you going to get the money to pay for those things from?

00:42:59.320 And the answer is you don't know.

00:43:01.480 You don't know.

00:43:02.460 Because he's tapped out.

00:43:03.840 They're on the other side of the Laffer curve.

00:43:05.420 Yeah.

00:43:05.680 Every time they raise taxes at this point,

00:43:07.840 they collect less revenue because people are like,

00:43:10.380 yeah, sod this, I'm going.

00:43:11.400 Yes.

00:43:11.720 Or I'm going to do less hours.

00:43:13.620 I'm going to do three days a week instead of five.

00:43:16.100 It's like your car is stuck in a giant muddy hole,

00:43:20.660 and you're like okay i'm just gonna really rev it this time i'm just gonna slam the accelerator

00:43:25.980 down and that no no no the the more you do that the more mud gets gummed up in the works right

00:43:30.760 if anything you'd have to go very very slowly to creep out of it no you're just going full

00:43:35.260 pedal to the floor and this is just going to get you more stuck in the problem that you're in

00:43:40.340 right yeah it's exactly like you know you would just get no more people are going to go fewer

00:43:44.660 fewer revenues are going to be collected by the treasury the problem will get worse and it's okay

00:43:49.660 But they're just a bunch of social media influencers

00:43:52.160 with their wish list.

00:43:54.200 So why is AI a cabinet job?

00:43:57.320 I don't care.

00:43:58.820 What is this presentation?

00:44:02.500 Sorry, guys, we're here making TikTok videos.

00:44:05.460 That's really important.

00:44:06.880 We have to explain to Zoomers on TikTok about AI.

00:44:10.120 They don't need to know.

00:44:12.100 And also, just on a trivial point,

00:44:14.060 but we make lots of videos.

00:44:15.300 We don't feel the need to begin ours

00:44:16.820 by throwing ourselves into a chair

00:44:18.380 to create a bit of faux energy.

00:44:20.660 Yeah, it's embarrassing.

00:44:22.320 Anyway, speaking of faux energy,

00:44:24.060 again, very David Brent.

00:44:25.800 I know I'm miserable now

00:44:28.740 in my life.

00:44:34.000 Why do I give valuable time?

00:44:37.840 Aren't you the Prime Minister?

00:44:40.340 He wants to be careful here

00:44:42.460 because if this tips over into proper power,

00:44:44.860 if the David Brent thing sticks,

00:44:48.380 is that real yes i'm not gonna i'm not gonna play with the music because i don't want copyright

00:44:53.500 strike yes this is him djing this this david brent thing is really gonna stick yeah that

00:45:00.760 could really stick because this it seems to be a genuinely good description of like what he's

00:45:06.140 actually like like dude are you not the prime minister do you understand that we're in the

00:45:10.520 middle of a rape epidemic do you understand that like a million young people can't get jobs do

00:45:14.180 understand but he's just landed his dream dream job so he's really happy north guys yeah we put

00:45:19.640 northerners in little terrorist houses do you not understand i've been dreaming this my whole life

00:45:24.120 i'm sorry that you're cooped up in a little house unless you're a young person in which case you 0.99

00:45:28.000 can't afford to even get a little house and i'm sorry that your daughter's just been raped by a 0.99

00:45:31.740 channel migrant but i've just got my dream good job and you have to appreciate how happy i am 1.00

00:45:37.060 yeah yeah that's exactly it and they're all like this they're all like and he's a it's just another

00:45:42.500 one just surely that one's not real no these are all real like this is the david brent administration

00:45:51.260 that we've finally arrived at and it's just like okay great absolutely great and they're all like

00:45:55.960 this like they're all bloody like this again it keeps going it just keeps going like i'm not

00:46:00.380 going to keep playing because i don't get copyright struck yeah but but all of them are like this all 1.00

00:46:04.640 of these bloody politicians doing these stupid fucking dances like what is happening to british 0.99

00:46:12.560 politics so what what do you think you're doing i mean i didn't mind so much when aoc did it all 1.00

00:46:18.800 those years ago because at least he was an eight and a half at the time but it's it's completely

00:46:22.460 different when it's um i mean british politics is is showbiz for ugly people very clearly and

00:46:30.040 i mean this is i mean i okay i've come around to your way of thinking now

00:46:37.160 andy burnham is not going to be hated he's going to be mocked yeah like he's and

00:46:41.560 in in britain there is a general sense of despair yeah everyone is looking at the the country around

00:46:52.320 them and i speak to like friends family members like taxi drivers just normal normal people yes

00:46:58.280 like people who are not like involved in politics and that's what i look at the state of this you 1.00

00:47:02.460 look at the state of the high street yeah look what are these people doing why are these foreigners 1.00

00:47:05.860 here you know there's too many foreigners around these days you know things like that and and these 1.00

00:47:10.200 goons are ignoring all of these problems and doing their little dance because like you say they've

00:47:14.280 landed their dream job and it's like hey guys we can be a social media influencer and just announce

00:47:18.260 things i'm for all these good things look at all these good things and then we can go dancing and

00:47:23.060 we can have number 10 in the north and this is just an i mean he might he might get away with

00:47:28.420 this for the first week but as as the problems start piling up as they realize they haven't got

00:47:33.760 any money that we're being squeezed everywhere that the bond yields are going up that people's 0.94

00:47:38.060 daughters are being raped by channel migrants people are losing their jobs people are being 1.00

00:47:41.320 stabbed in the neck when they walk down the street if they keep up this energy this frivolity i mean 1.00

00:47:50.940 I mean, David Brent is the best way of describing this farce. 0.97

00:47:55.520 If they keep up this farce...

00:47:57.100 Yeah.

00:47:58.020 They don't understand that actually people are really struggling.

00:48:02.820 They'll say it, but their attitude does not show it at all.

00:48:08.240 The revealed behaviours that they do is just like,

00:48:11.020 okay, no, you are enjoying this too much.

00:48:12.900 They have got a massive dopamine hit going on at the moment.

00:48:15.780 Absolutely.

00:48:16.740 I mean, this is another, oh, let's rank pub snacks.

00:48:20.400 This is important.

00:48:20.860 It's what's come out of that bag, I hope.

00:48:23.240 Oh, great.

00:48:24.420 Andy Burnham blind ranks pub snacks.

00:48:26.680 It's like, dude.

00:48:28.740 Just, just.

00:48:30.760 Yeah.

00:48:31.820 Okay.

00:48:32.780 Could you do something about the $137 billion

00:48:35.640 that we're spending on interest payments, maybe,

00:48:37.400 when you finish ranking the pub snacks?

00:48:39.380 Can you do something about the billion pounds a month

00:48:41.260 we spend on Boris waivers claiming benefits?

00:48:43.380 Yeah, or the super dinghies, a thousand people a day arriving.

00:48:45.820 I mean, could you address any of this?

00:48:47.720 The economy is mathematically guaranteed to collapse

00:48:50.880 because the birth rate is below the death rate, Andy.

00:48:53.940 Got any thoughts?

00:48:54.940 Yeah, and the entire welfare system is built on the assumption 0.99

00:48:58.480 that there will always be more young people than old people. 0.53

00:49:02.180 Yes, and yeah, just any thoughts. 0.97

00:49:05.540 But no, but I mean, you can see who this is appealing to, right?

00:49:08.620 Lewis Goodall from The News Agents, 0.82

00:49:11.260 so the most libtard, centrist libtard outlet you can imagine. 0.60

00:49:16.900 oh it'd be so easy for this to be cringe and yet it's not yeah it is but at least we can see who 0.58

00:49:21.980 this is aimed at right but it is it is frivolous and there are serious issues and and there will 0.98

00:49:27.460 in a few weeks time there will be a horrific migrant attack or some other damn thing will 0.73

00:49:32.560 happen or events will happen russia could be anything i mean you know russian ships have 0.96

00:49:38.500 been in the bloody english channel yes deliberately trying to intimidate and and as soon as events

00:49:44.260 start happening people will look at well compare it to russia they look at like the seriousness of

00:49:50.680 putin and sergey lavrov and then they look at this and they think well hang on a minute i might

00:49:55.020 not like those other guys but they actually look like they're serious they look like they can do

00:49:59.480 the job because what will happen right is that angela rayner will go on like good morning britain

00:50:04.000 and she was on there the other day right and the the they will sit there and say well we will try 0.84

00:50:09.640 i can't do the northern accent but we were trying to do the best we can but we're basically retarded 0.69

00:50:13.380 so can you really blame us right that's basically the argument they're going to have to make and

00:50:17.420 they will make yeah so well this is sincere yeah exactly we sincerely tried to do nice things but 0.52

00:50:22.060 we're retarded we couldn't have been expected to know that this was going to destroy the economy

00:50:25.660 we couldn't have been expected to know that you know we can't do anything you know we can't fight 0.97

00:50:29.300 russia we can't do anything like they will act as if they are somehow not responsible for this so

00:50:34.960 this is a very common theme in politics i've seen it my whole life which is whenever there's a change

00:50:39.740 regime and then it doesn't have to be government it can just be leading in fact in fact just change

00:50:44.880 with them and leaders do this more than anything is they try desperately to overcompensate for

00:50:49.700 whatever the flaw of the previous was so you saw this with i mean with um boris johnson taking over

00:50:57.120 from theresa may she was very dour and serious and so boris really played into this other thing

00:51:03.520 and it's happening here as well so keir starmer was seen as very bureaucratic shark like

00:51:09.680 um unemotional soulless um you know a psychic blank and he's overcompensating going the other

00:51:17.000 way i miss kia starmer because of it now i miss kia starmer i mean again for what like as much 0.97

00:51:22.480 as he may have hated us and i hated him like at least he was serious like these people are clowns

00:51:28.480 when there's actually a terrible tragedy yeah and people loads of people have died and the 1.00

00:51:33.740 country is on a knife edge because like you know a muslim has blown something up or stabbed a bunch 0.99

00:51:37.460 and there were riots yeah they're gonna be like well how is how is this energy going to deal with 0.99

00:51:41.920 a riot exactly and and they're gonna and all they're gonna do is go well you know we we have 0.97

00:51:46.200 the best of intentions like yeah okay but you are still clowns and you can't fix any of these 0.90

00:51:50.640 problems but on i mean this is a great post right we need to talk about a deeper problem in british 0.92

00:51:56.260 politics first it was ed davy pratt falling off kayak there was polanski dancing on stage with

00:52:00.460 the rainbow mafia oh yeah i didn't even get him gay dancing with the uh the leather clad guys 0.64

00:52:04.560 he's done it again 0.89

00:52:05.640 Moth and Ali

00:52:06.260 no he did it the other day

00:52:07.220 Moth and Ali

00:52:08.220 was absent

00:52:08.900 for some reason

00:52:09.400 Hannah Spencer

00:52:10.320 the CBB's plumber

00:52:11.300 and now the Prime Minister

00:52:12.120 trying to audition

00:52:13.020 for the next series

00:52:13.580 in the office

00:52:14.100 MPs are being murdered

00:52:15.660 yeah

00:52:16.000 Anne Woodcombe 1.00

00:52:16.980 was bludgeoned to death 1.00

00:52:17.880 21 times in the head

00:52:18.940 with a hammer

00:52:19.540 by what we assume

00:52:21.080 is some leftist

00:52:22.120 the other day

00:52:22.940 well who was

00:52:23.660 instigated by

00:52:25.120 you know

00:52:26.480 amongst other people

00:52:27.360 hope not hate

00:52:28.200 who are now

00:52:29.140 the

00:52:29.800 chief of staff

00:52:31.640 yeah they're now

00:52:32.060 in the government

00:52:32.660 in Andy Burnham's

00:52:33.620 cabinet

00:52:34.180 yeah so the economy is on the brink of collapse rape statistics are exploding people feel poorer

00:52:38.880 and less safe and the leaders of left-wing parties are behaving like teenage social media

00:52:42.280 influencer wannabes what is happening what explains this infantilization of left-wing

00:52:46.960 politics so spectacularly detached from the reality millions of britons are facing 0.97

00:52:50.720 these people are clowns they treat everything like a performance rather than a responsibility 0.82

00:52:54.780 deeply unserious low iq people why are so many people rewarding this with their votes 0.97

00:52:59.740 great question if you're left wing i mean what where do you have to go apart from starmer level

00:53:07.000 bureaucraticness starlin level something which probably wouldn't work with our constitution

00:53:13.220 anyway so it's a bit different but but star but starmer moved in i mean he got the nickname

00:53:18.240 queer starlin for a reason i mean he was trying to move in that direction or deeply unserious

00:53:23.540 um student politics i mean i'm not sure where else that you can go on the left in this country

00:53:30.160 i don't know i mean this isn't even student politics right student politics is very ideological

00:53:34.660 what this is is like northern wish fulfillment politics so oh if we could just camp the bus

00:53:40.480 fares if we could just put northerners in little two up two downs if we could just do this if we

00:53:44.900 just have a number 10 north then everything would be great it's like no it's not going to be great 0.98

00:53:48.840 it's going to be shit and everything's getting worse as we know um anyway the question is is 0.75

00:53:55.520 the influencer marketing working and yeah kind of actually um people prefer andy burnham to 0.96

00:54:01.900 basically anyone else when put up in a direct competition so okay like i said he's not going

00:54:09.140 to be hated he will be thought of as a clown or a prat though yeah because like he's he's he's

00:54:16.780 taking out a lot of credit at the moment with the british public and that will be called in right 0.65

00:54:22.660 at some point i mean i mean it's not the subject for today but at some point we must come back to

00:54:28.360 the epic failure of of nigel farage and not just nigel farage but well interestingly i we're going

00:54:35.800 to go on to the polls now okay but just to be clear i told everyone he wouldn't be hated like

00:54:40.200 starmer because the reason starmer was hated is because he seemed to have mal intentions towards 0.98

00:54:45.580 you he seemed to personally dislike you Andy Burnham yes we seen as a as a moron as a David 0.87

00:54:50.880 Brent style clown yes but he he doesn't seem to be a hateful person so I don't know if Andy Burnham 0.92

00:54:56.200 hates me yet I know that he loves I know either I know that he loves the north but I haven't seen

00:55:01.220 him show the other side of the coin yet but no the interest before we move on the interesting

00:55:04.840 thing I'll point about this is look I mean I know that this is person personal ratings not party

00:55:13.440 ratings and party ratings show something different as i'm sure you're about to come on to

00:55:17.380 but look at who has the highest personal rating it's the labor leader and it's the conservative

00:55:22.340 leader yeah that's because they get conservative versus labor back again because they get the

00:55:27.860 they get the best press yeah like kemi baynock has been getting nothing but good press recently

00:55:31.680 andy burnham has been getting nothing but good press recently the the media are well aware at

00:55:36.480 this point but actually oh no it was good for us when it was labor and conservative and actually

00:55:41.120 Look at, it's in the list there, Burnham versus Badenock, 38% versus 26%.

00:55:48.580 That is traditional mainstream politics.

00:55:53.420 If their parties won the same rating as them personally,

00:55:58.060 then Greens and reform would just be a sideshow.

00:56:01.860 Yeah, yeah.

00:56:03.020 And the fact that they're not is the issue, right?

00:56:07.320 so uh the the polls have changed basically in the way that is to be expected reform have dipped to

00:56:14.340 their lowest point for a long time now in fact let me get the two years it's been a long time

00:56:20.260 since right so 23 so previously they were at 23 percent back in there we go uh december 2024

00:56:30.580 four right so that that i mean when you look at it you can see the direct trajectory downwards

00:56:37.160 for nigel farage the uh the shine has very clearly come off and that's not a government

00:56:41.480 in waiting i mean one self-inflicted wound after another i and i mean i might do a segment about

00:56:46.520 this when i'm next on the podcast i think tomorrow uh well um yeah from my perspective

00:56:52.000 tomorrow anyway but um people have been sort of grumping on the right about uh the standard

00:56:58.460 thing restore why don't you just all bundle into reform why don't they kicked us out well yeah

00:57:03.360 exactly but he literally said get away from us yes right wingers yeah we we were excommunicated

00:57:09.220 we didn't leave yeah i mean that that's what's going on but yeah i mean farage has epic i mean

00:57:14.840 he should he should be in the high 30s i mean even with the burn and bounce he should maybe be

00:57:18.440 dipping into the low 30s yeah because but some sort of burn and bounce is inevitable i mean

00:57:22.800 he's mishandled this he never talks about the economy he doesn't talk strongly enough about

00:57:28.360 immigration like we know half the country just wants the immigrants to go home yeah like you

00:57:32.860 gov polling shows and if you gov polling shows it you know like you can guarantee that's not some

00:57:37.500 sort of right-wing agenda being but increasingly people are thinking well what but i mean what is

00:57:42.600 the point of reform i mean yeah but they so the policy wise they're the same as the conservatives

00:57:48.320 now so there is there is a few changes here from a few weeks back right or people say so um the

00:57:54.520 Greens were on 18% and they've gone straight down to 12% 0.55

00:57:56.720 and Labour are obviously sucking up those people.

00:57:59.200 But they've only gone up to 21%.

00:58:01.540 So this is a point I've made on a whole bunch of these previous shows,

00:58:05.120 is that Labour were losing support to both the right and the left.

00:58:10.720 And I always said the best thing to do is to win back the support of the left

00:58:14.500 because it's easier for them to do.

00:58:16.840 So, I mean, that appears what they've done.

00:58:18.740 So most of the narrowing of the gap,

00:58:20.200 and I think there have been some polls that actually put Labour ahead,

00:58:22.560 it makes perfect sense to me that you you you do this soft left shift you shore up your your um

00:58:29.780 your left wing flank and i mean all you need to do is worst case scenario even if you can't shift

00:58:36.040 the revolution that's coming away from reform if you can at least be the official opposition

00:58:43.820 you're still in the game yeah you're still important i mean just to go back you know

00:58:50.440 Before the general election, Keir Starmer, which is Labour, was at 45%.

00:58:55.000 And that changed dramatically going into the election.

00:58:58.880 And then Southport happened not long afterwards,

00:59:01.800 and Keir Starmer just absolutely tanked down to 16%.

00:59:04.360 So go back to before the election, just a bit.

00:59:06.780 Okay, so, yeah, about there.

00:59:09.000 Is there any reason why Farad should not be at 45%, Labour at 23%,

00:59:13.980 and the Tories at 12%?

00:59:15.980 Not really.

00:59:16.280 If he had played it better, and by playing it better,

00:59:20.700 I just mean not self-sabotage regularly.

00:59:24.420 Yeah, Farage, at this point, right, when he got to here,

00:59:29.100 he should have just gone full spectrum.

00:59:31.120 He should have got everyone who's disaffected everything,

00:59:35.060 in every sphere, right? 1.00

00:59:37.020 Yes, we will deport them. 0.66

00:59:38.120 Yes, we will deport the families of the ruling gangs, the lot.

00:59:40.680 You go out to the farmers.

00:59:41.620 No, no, we're going to have farming subsidies.

00:59:43.540 we're going to get rid of any uh like penalties that you have on your land yes your land is your

00:59:48.840 land you you farm it as you best can to make money blah blah blah so full spectrum on the farmers

00:59:53.160 you have full spectrum on you know other businesses no no what we're gonna do is we're

00:59:56.740 gonna abolish business rates or council or corporate tax or something like that or you 0.98

00:59:59.860 get full spectrum on that get full spectrum on immigration but like yeah young people you can't 1.00

01:00:03.300 get a job because of all these foreigners they're going home they're going home my message to you 1.00

01:00:07.540 is they're going home you're getting a job you have a future but instead was all laid out for 1.00

01:00:12.380 as well it was it was all there all of these giant constituencies right there pete who's concerned

01:00:17.480 about this who's concerned about that who's just give a message for each one the what what's reform's

01:00:22.440 economic message i have no idea i don't actually i have no idea yeah like i cover this stuff

01:00:28.220 yeah like i cover this stuff every day and i don't know what nigel fries wants to do to actually fix

01:00:33.960 the economy like come out with something really solid like abolish business rates abolish stamp

01:00:38.180 duty abolish whatever like the conservatives said they were going to abolish stamp duty

01:00:41.700 like they can we be not coming out and said that's okay well that's something you know i mean in fact

01:00:46.380 let's have a look at the conservatives here so you'll notice the conservatives haven't really

01:00:49.860 improved very much they've gone from 17 to 19 percent but they haven't lost either they haven't

01:00:54.460 lost they've they've you know can we be not has held the line yes you know okay great that's that's

01:00:59.980 great not very useful and actually as we've seen from the lord ashcroft polling the conservatives

01:01:05.480 are the ones if you're still a conservative voter you are the least likely to flip to reform yes

01:01:11.960 even labor people because all of the conservative voters who went to reform have gone yes right

01:01:15.840 but the problem with that is that if you're a conservative voter in here and now you're only

01:01:20.760 around for another 20 years right the conservatives do not reproduce themselves in young people no

01:01:27.120 no young person like very very few young people want to be conservatives uh in fact restore

01:01:32.960 britain beats the conservatives and reform with among young people oh yeah right so because and

01:01:37.540 especially during the mums and dads years the but also we're speaking to the future that young

01:01:42.540 people are having no no we need to fix this country for you so the the conservative vote

01:01:47.000 is on a on a clock and everyone knows it yeah labor have not had the massive bounce that everyone

01:01:53.240 was hoping for like you were on 45 just two years ago yeah i mean they're not tied up with age

01:01:57.760 demographics they're tied up with geography and and also um and public sector yeah public sector

01:02:04.600 they're they're losing the immigrants to the greens but the greens uh have had a nice dip

01:02:07.860 there though i mean exactly like the problem with zach polanski is that his biggest recruiter was

01:02:13.280 kia starmer well he kia starmer hated the left in his own i mean kia starmer came into the

01:02:19.660 labor party and immediately started purging the left and he thought that meant i mean look at the

01:02:24.780 look at the trajectory of the two things they cross yes because because skier starmer thought

01:02:29.860 that by purging his left that would mean that they disappeared yeah and instead they just created

01:02:34.860 their well they didn't create their own party but they they took on a party and they and and they 0.98

01:02:39.460 basically you know tore his ass out which is exactly the same mistake that nigel france exactly 0.73

01:02:44.480 oh if i just purge these people they disappear no they just go somewhere else but the bizarre 0.98

01:02:48.660 thing is he did it after starmer had redemonstrated the mistake yeah you can see it in the in the

01:02:55.820 polling but yes i was like when is a huge mistake i've made when was rupert kicked out uh uh it was

01:03:02.120 kicked out um was it beginning of 20 was it i think it was mid well somewhere in 2025 i think

01:03:09.600 okay but um but the point is it was after the greens had started their upwards trajectory so

01:03:16.580 maybe it might have been before to be honest yeah i mean it was 10 as opposed to 4 before the

01:03:21.840 election but the point is it is is that british politics regularly demonstrates that if you get

01:03:28.080 rid of people you don't literally i mean it's not you don't literally get rid of them with the

01:03:32.880 bullets they go somewhere else yeah they go somewhere else and that's exactly what we're

01:03:36.380 seeing with burnham bringing those greens back in yeah but the thing is this this isn't a huge

01:03:41.180 percentage of the electorate right there are probably about 12 of the electorate who are like

01:03:46.120 Radical progressives, right?

01:03:47.780 And so the Labour Party are arguing over that 12%.

01:03:50.800 But that 12% has proven itself to be utterly incompatible

01:03:55.360 with anything that isn't a radical progressive.

01:03:58.280 Yeah, but for a long time, they were mostly in the Labour Party.

01:04:00.920 Yeah.

01:04:01.380 Jeremy Corbyn was a Labour MP under Tony Blair, for example.

01:04:04.220 And they just sucked it up as part of the coalition back here.

01:04:07.700 Keir Starmer destroyed the coalition,

01:04:09.200 and Andy Burnham was trying to put it back together.

01:04:11.000 But I don't know if he can do it.

01:04:12.720 So there have been other polls just to give you some outliers.

01:04:16.120 More in Common have come out with this poll.

01:04:19.100 Labour on 28, Reform on 24.

01:04:21.480 So that breaks Nigel Farage's,

01:04:23.140 we've been ahead of more than 200 polls consecutively.

01:04:26.120 Not anymore.

01:04:27.320 Now, More in Common are not great, actually.

01:04:30.360 YouGov are far more accurate as pollsters

01:04:32.340 than More in Common.

01:04:34.000 But they are, I think, trying to lead with this.

01:04:36.980 Because Luke Trill, who's the director of More in Common,

01:04:39.380 he's always on Sky News.

01:04:40.440 He's the kind of court pollster for them.

01:04:44.120 um and so i think this is about leading the polls basically um and if you were to map this out onto

01:04:51.520 the country it's still not good for anyone i mean labor get 325 allegedly which technically is a

01:04:58.560 government i think no in fact so under the last poll which is actually quite tight goes to show

01:05:04.460 the electoral system the first part of the post system still heavily rewards the incumbent parties

01:05:09.180 Because, I mean, it was Labour then reform quite close behind,

01:05:15.300 but in this reform, a third.

01:05:17.480 Yeah.

01:05:18.600 Not great for reform.

01:05:20.500 This is, you know, Nigel Farage is well past this high watermark.

01:05:24.260 Right.

01:05:25.180 And then you have a YouGov.

01:05:26.120 What an epic series of mistakes Farage has made.

01:05:30.220 But then you've got the YouGov poll, which, again,

01:05:32.200 YouGov, the most accurate pollster in the country,

01:05:35.860 whether you like him or not.

01:05:36.580 Never.

01:05:36.680 cool um and yeah it's all it's all very level you know reform labor and the conservatives

01:05:42.500 just okay i mean and and that would have to be actually it would be an open question as to

01:05:50.100 whether it's a reform conservative pact but the conservatives have ruled out going into a

01:05:55.640 coalition government with reform yeah and actually the left the left would find it easier to form a

01:06:01.040 i think they'd walk it back well a few interesting things like the greens on 13 probably wouldn't get

01:06:07.380 the number of seats that they would be predicted for because the greens and labor are basically

01:06:12.900 arguing over the same constituencies you know reform and labor and reform the conservatives

01:06:18.360 there's a lot more sort of spread there like nigel's arguing with conservatives and with labor

01:06:23.660 so there are a lot you know there are a lot of constituencies he could conceivably win

01:06:27.320 yeah at least possibly um whereas the greens and labor are very you know very much sort of

01:06:33.160 venn diagram have seen these same areas i mean from a sheer you know best for the country over

01:06:39.040 the long term not the short term but over the long term i don't hate this outcome actually

01:06:43.120 because this would shake up politics a hell of a lot which it shows there's all to play for

01:06:47.540 what one thing i like about this is the lib dems on minus three there that's their lowest rating

01:06:51.920 for a long time because of course what answer to what question the lib dem is the answer

01:06:58.320 yeah and i like the fact that they're restored not getting bundled in other anymore

01:07:03.440 no they can't they can't do that after after makerfield yeah um so yeah it's like

01:07:09.560 basically um there hasn't been a massive annie burnham bump there's and i i think that his grace

01:07:17.780 period is coming to an end very quickly uh he's going to find that he's he's taken out a lot of

01:07:22.580 credit that the bill is going to be paid on that could do on if he just does it for a few more

01:07:26.360 weeks we'll get tired but almost certainly an event will happen not even just the event like

01:07:30.880 at some point like i mean he's he's making a lot of promises uh economically at the moment

01:07:36.880 it worries i'm going to do this and do that but at some point the bill will come to you right

01:07:41.080 and then we'll go into the budget and then everyone will be like well hang on a second

01:07:45.300 and and that's if he doesn't make the same mistake that star moon reese made which is to scare

01:07:51.420 everybody out of the country before the budget yeah and then the tax revenues will come in oh

01:07:55.860 even more millionaires have left yeah have even less money we have to borrow even more money

01:08:00.140 we're even more in hock to the bond markets andy because the tactic that star moon reese are doing

01:08:04.960 was announce every insane possible tax rise so that when they delivered their budget the headlines

01:08:11.180 were actually quite good and even people like me were sitting down doing my brokonomics saying

01:08:14.640 oh it's not as bad as i thought actually so i made it sound like it's gonna be ridiculous

01:08:18.300 but that but everybody changes their behavior before the budget and if if he does that again

01:08:23.900 i mean there's there's only so well i mean 60 reduction in millionaires i mean that's one

01:08:28.840 but the amount of people that will cut their hours and do this retire early all this kind of stuff

01:08:34.520 but what are we not talking about we're not talking about getting foreigners off benefits

01:08:38.620 we're not talking about stopping sending money overseas even even nigel farage isn't yeah which

01:08:43.980 is which is why what's the point of him like the jodrell bank is uh one of our um big impressive

01:08:50.700 telescopes cost three million pounds a year three million and it's going to be shut down

01:08:56.700 right because we can't afford to keep it open well and that will provide one maybe two new

01:09:02.620 immigrant hotels that's probably like 20 minutes on the nhs but it's just such a small amount of

01:09:08.160 money in the grand scheme of things three million pounds yeah no no we're gonna let that go so

01:09:12.140 That's, again, one of the pillars of UK science is just shutting down.

01:09:16.060 We don't need to know about the galaxy, the stars.

01:09:18.640 We don't need scientific advancements.

01:09:20.420 When has Britain ever been known for scientific advancements?

01:09:22.180 There's no hope or marvel left in the country.

01:09:24.360 It's just how can we tax people more to put more people on welfare? 1.00

01:09:27.920 We are a retirement home and benefits source for foreigners and old people.

01:09:33.480 That's what we are. 0.58

01:09:34.860 And that's what, you know, when we've got every single old northerner

01:09:38.400 in a little two-up, two-down terraced house,

01:09:40.240 then the country will be perfect or something i don't know but like it's ridiculous right the 1.00

01:09:44.660 country is dying and it's being smothered i mean even immigrant children's getting fed up and 1.00

01:09:49.280 leaving if you if you listen to um youtube or or or people on that side who are in second or 0.98

01:09:56.080 third generation immigrants they all want to go to dubai yeah they've they've had it with this place

01:10:00.580 so what's the point yeah and if if the immigrant kids who have the entire system rigged in their

01:10:06.700 favor a feeling like that i mean what are the native kids doing i mean they're leaving too

01:10:11.420 well they're going to australia actually there's there's a huge exodus but anyway anyway i guess

01:10:15.380 we'll leave it there but the point being um nothing nothing good is going to happen all of

01:10:22.420 these ridiculous promises that andy burnham is making are just gonna he's gonna have to walk

01:10:26.040 them all back he's going to be a profound disappointment and and kind of a figure of fun 0.92

01:10:29.800 so uh anyway we'll leave that there

01:10:31.680 Thank you.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - July 30, 2026

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