The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - PCLE1315-FULL-MP3

00:00:00.000 Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 11th of December 2025, almost Christmas.

00:00:05.920 I hope you've done your shopping. I've still got something to do. I'm stressed.

00:00:10.240 Just a self-report before we get started.

00:00:12.600 So this is podcast 1315 and I'm joined by Firas, Callum Barker, very pleased to have you.

00:00:20.320 Thanks for being back.

00:00:21.540 And Harry as well.

00:00:23.120 Goodbye.

00:00:24.980 He's out of focus as well, so.

00:00:27.280 Probably for the best.

00:00:27.860 Everyone focus on Harry and he'll get clearer.

00:00:29.660 Probably for the best. Please don't look at me.

00:00:31.540 Make him blurrier.

00:00:32.580 Don't. 0.86

00:00:33.260 I'm hideous.

00:00:36.420 And we do have an announcement.

00:00:38.720 There is a rather cheery roundtable about the grooming gang transcripts at three o'clock today.

00:00:45.000 So that's half an hour after the live podcast is over.

00:00:48.040 And so if you want to hear about that, I hear it's going to be quite dark, but very revealing.

00:00:54.200 Also, Harry's got a mug here with a sticker.

00:00:57.020 All I want for Christmas is re-migration. 1.00

00:00:59.760 Good message.

00:01:00.600 I agree or two.

00:01:01.100 Snap.

00:01:02.900 So, I forgot what we're talking about.

00:01:06.240 Ah, yes.

00:01:07.140 I'm going to be talking about Britain's horrifying problem with Afghan immigration. 1.00

00:01:12.580 Thanks, Robert.

00:01:13.320 Then someone is going to be talking about whether Britain can fight back.

00:01:17.040 Is that you, Firas?

00:01:17.880 Yep.

00:01:18.060 And then I think, Harry, you're talking about whether the truth is hidden from you.

00:01:23.240 A horrifying institutional corruption.

00:01:26.620 Lovely, cheery podcast today.

00:01:29.180 I'm just going to let Samson adjust.

00:01:30.660 This is why we've got Callum on for comic relief.

00:01:33.360 And we'll giggle some smiles and Zelensky impressions.

00:01:36.160 So, right in the mood up.

00:01:37.880 We've not got Jack on for his Trump impressions.

00:01:41.000 Dynamic doesn't really work, man, if there's only one of us, isn't it?

00:01:43.420 Josh can do like a, what was it, a young Salazar impression for you to bounce off of it.

00:01:50.140 I'm a dictator of Portugal.

00:01:51.720 Exactly, yeah.

00:01:52.760 I do look a bit like him.

00:01:53.760 You can do an impression of Salazar.

00:01:54.360 I don't actually do an impression.

00:01:55.800 Okay.

00:01:56.460 He just looks a bit like him.

00:01:57.800 Fair enough.

00:01:58.360 Have you ever tried?

00:01:59.540 I haven't.

00:02:00.040 I don't know what he sounds like.

00:02:01.240 Portuguese, I imagine.

00:02:02.700 Yeah, to be fair, I live around lots of Portuguese people, so I picked up a little bit of how they speak.

00:02:07.380 It's weird.

00:02:08.160 Portuguese is like... 0.91

00:02:09.060 Meow, meow, meow, meow.

00:02:09.780 Portuguese is sort of like Spanish, but with like a Slavic, almost sounding twinge.

00:02:14.440 It's strange.

00:02:15.360 I got Portuguese lessons in a Portuguese police station once.

00:02:18.340 That sounds like you've been told off.

00:02:19.900 No, it was very friendly.

00:02:21.980 Oh, right.

00:02:23.760 They brought you in.

00:02:24.660 It's just like, we'll teach you.

00:02:25.620 We got nothing to do.

00:02:27.280 Since we decriminalized all drugs, you know, we got nothing to do.

00:02:30.100 Put our feet up.

00:02:30.740 It was on my honeymoon.

00:02:32.000 It was quite wild.

00:02:32.980 You were having a good time.

00:02:34.060 I was having a great time.

00:02:35.400 They took our car.

00:02:36.520 That's the long and short of it.

00:02:38.240 Well, should we get on with the pocket?

00:02:40.540 Let's do that.

00:02:41.380 Let's do that.

00:02:41.820 Story time.

00:02:42.060 It sounds fun, though.

00:02:43.060 It'd be more fun to just share anecdotes, wouldn't it?

00:02:45.540 It would, actually.

00:02:46.420 Can we just...

00:02:46.940 You're definitely more cheerful than what we've got.

00:02:48.700 Yes.

00:02:49.660 Well, I'm going to, to borrow an American phrase, rip the Band-Aid off and get on with it.

00:02:54.320 So, Britain has a horrifying problem, and that horrifying problem comes from a specific country,

00:03:01.420 and that country is Afghanistan.

00:03:03.840 And may you cast your minds back to 2021, I believe it was, September of 2021.

00:03:11.740 Robert Jenrick was celebrating welcoming Afghans to our shores, of course, famous for being anti-immigration. 0.93

00:03:20.100 The based Robert Jenrick, how could he do this?

00:03:23.420 Of course, he is a conservative politician, so that's how.

00:03:28.020 So, Robert Jenrick, keep his name in mind as we're going through these things, because, of course, he welcomed many of the people to our shores.

00:03:36.400 Of course, many other Afghans have come here, either legally, other than the project that Jenrick oversaw, as well as illegally. 0.76

00:03:44.420 I think they're a significant portion of the small boat arrivals in the channel, and so there's a vast spectrum of ways that they've arrived here.

00:03:53.440 So, it's not just Jenrick, but he played a significant part in bringing some of them here.

00:03:58.260 So, in the past 48 hours, and the reason I'm talking about this at all, there was four different cases of Afghans committing horrific sexual crimes against minors. 0.73

00:04:10.500 And, unfortunately, I'm going to go over them, but this is just to highlight the extent of the problem.

00:04:16.660 It's not necessarily to rub people's noses in the horrific crimes, but it is important to know about these sorts of things, because it is unpleasant.

00:04:24.020 I don't like even looking at these sorts of things, but we do have to if we want to stop them.

00:04:28.740 And here's one from the Manchester Evening News.

00:04:32.180 He's Afghan National accused of sexually assaulting, I can't say that for YouTube, two girls, 14, in Greater Manchester, and they named them as well.

00:04:41.300 The attacks happened in Bolton, apparently.

00:04:44.780 So, Sultani Bakatash, and there was another one here somewhere.

00:04:51.460 I always like to mention at least one of their names, not that it really makes a difference.

00:04:55.420 But there's another one as well that makes it even worse, is here.

00:05:02.460 The Afghan National accused of sexually assaulting two girls was allowed to stay in the UK with his family.

00:05:08.260 And this is this previous person here.

00:05:12.320 So, why this is even a thing at all? 0.91

00:05:17.280 You know, even a left-wing, it's just like, OK, you came here, you sexually assaulted some children, maybe you shouldn't be here.

00:05:25.920 But no, apparently, that's not how this country works.

00:05:29.300 And we're just going to keep them for some reason, even though, you know, if you invited someone into your home and they did something,

00:05:36.720 you wouldn't then say, OK, you can stay here.

00:05:40.940 And of course, your country is the extension of your home, and yet, here they are, still here.

00:05:46.280 Of course, this is a policy failure from the government, that they're here in the first place,

00:05:50.360 as well as not getting rid of them when they do things like this.

00:05:53.600 And then there's also this from Leamington Spa, which is, if you're not familiar, a quaint little town in Warwickshire.

00:06:00.560 I stayed there for a couple of weeks, actually, and it was very nice and very pleasant.

00:06:04.960 Everyone was very friendly, except these two people, apparently, who hid in some bushes

00:06:09.680 and dragged a 15-year-old girl away before sexually assaulting her.

00:06:16.280 Which is just horrifying.

00:06:19.180 And one of the worst things about the actual case of this is that the lawyer representing the two Afghans 1.00

00:06:28.100 said that if this video goes out to the public, there will be riots.

00:06:31.540 And therefore, the video that the girl took, this video here, from the CCTV, is not the one that she took on her own personal phone.

00:06:42.780 That is not the same one.

00:06:44.660 And so there are lots of people trying to push to say, well, why don't we see it?

00:06:47.820 What are you hiding from us?

00:06:49.680 Because, of course, one of the things that is important about seeing these sorts of things is not necessarily that it's a spectacle,

00:06:56.480 but that we need to understand the horrors that face people, particularly parents, right?

00:07:01.860 They're probably going to be willing.

00:07:03.660 I'm not a parent myself, but obviously do intend to be one.

00:07:06.020 But a good parent should be willing to watch these horrors so they're best prepared to deal with the realities of the world.

00:07:14.640 And by shielding people away from it or not showing it to people, all it does is obfuscate the reality.

00:07:20.980 And I think that, of course, there is a strong political incentive to do this as well.

00:07:24.720 Yes.

00:07:24.940 People don't understand Afghan culture.

00:07:32.700 The Pew Surveys did a study on attitudes of Muslims towards Sharia law and so on and so forth.

00:07:38.760 At the low end, Tunisia and Jordan came in with 40% supporting Sharia law, including beheadings and stonings and things like that.

00:07:48.780 In Afghanistan and Pakistan, it was in the high 90s.

00:07:51.500 It was either in the low 90s or high 90s, but it was definitely in the 90s.

00:07:58.000 And this was done in 2013 after 12 years of the war on terror and eliminating radicals and so on and so forth.

00:08:05.720 And this was still their attitude.

00:08:07.660 To make it worse, in Afghanistan, it's considered absolutely hilarious if one of your mates knows your mother's first name, her given name,

00:08:17.580 because it automatically implies that she's been promiscuous with you.

00:08:22.160 So this is the mindset that you're dealing with.

00:08:25.000 These are the people that are there.

00:08:26.460 And women are veiled there for their own protection from other men. 0.69

00:08:31.960 And their perception is that, yep, if she's not covered properly, she's fair game. 0.99

00:08:36.460 And so when Jenrick says we're going to welcome X number of people, well, 90% of those have that attitude.

00:08:45.280 It's absolutely insane to hide that from the public and to not discuss it and to not let people have some kind of understanding of how different that culture is from anywhere else. 0.64

00:09:00.260 For the rest of the Middle East, the Afghans and the Pakistanis are considered by conservative Muslims to be absolutely mad.

00:09:07.800 Like, I know that the Arab world in particular looks down upon those countries as being basically backward.

00:09:15.740 So the level of racism in the Arab world towards these countries is quite spectacular.

00:09:23.560 And they base it on their own experience having dealt with them as foreign laborers. 0.99

00:09:28.820 So to say that, okay, let's just bring in a few tens of thousands and sprinkle them around the country for flavor is a deeply destructive policy.

00:09:40.500 And when you consider that a lot of these people and senior officials were familiar with what was going on during the war on terror.

00:09:47.280 Yeah, Afghanistan is no mystery to people.

00:09:49.180 Exactly.

00:09:49.500 We spent 20 years there, didn't we?

00:09:51.540 Exactly.

00:09:52.060 And so if you're a competent politician, you should be well acquainted with Afghanistan, our role in it, and also the nature of the culture that we had to deal with.

00:10:03.500 Exactly.

00:10:04.640 So that's what makes it so much more insulting for somebody like Generic to say, well, I was proud of my role in bringing in the Afghans.

00:10:12.120 Really?

00:10:12.520 Did you ask them these kinds of questions?

00:10:14.060 Did you vet them?

00:10:15.380 And if not, why do you bring them?

00:10:18.080 Yeah, it's madness.

00:10:18.940 Also, on the point of seeing it, seeing the footage of it happening up close and personal, as horrifying as it is, and as horrifying as the actual thought of it is, it has a much more raw emotional reaction than seeing something like this footage from afar, which takes all of the emotion out of it.

00:10:39.120 Yeah.

00:10:39.260 That's why they don't want you to see it. It's the difference between seeing it as kind of a neutral documentary observer versus being put in the shoes of the woman as it's happening, seeing the facial expressions that they would pull, the enjoyment that they're getting out of it.

00:10:56.620 It paints a much clearer picture in your mind of who these people are.

00:11:01.360 And it's the same as with language censorship as well.

00:11:05.380 The words that you use form the thoughts in your mind and they dictate the thoughts that you put in your mind.

00:11:12.200 It's the same with the visuals.

00:11:13.320 If you see these people as savage animals in this situation, that is going to paint a much clearer picture of who they are than this ever would.

00:11:25.000 It's one of the reasons that visual propaganda has always been so effective.

00:11:29.560 George Floyd in 2020, nobody would have cared if it was just a CCTV silent footage from afar.

00:11:36.620 It was the fact that it was an up-close personal visual footage of it being filmed on people's phones where you could hear him, you could see his facial expressions, you could see the disinterest of Derek Chauvin.

00:11:48.820 That's what drew such a massive emotional response from people.

00:11:53.700 And it's the same reason they try and hide things like what happened at the Bataclan in 2015 as well.

00:11:58.980 They don't want people to see what happened.

00:12:01.260 They don't want people to know what happened because it's horrifying as well.

00:12:04.560 That is one of the most grotesque things that has ever happened on European soil. 0.61

00:12:08.600 But if you understand that and you see that, it's not just logically knowing.

00:12:12.480 Like, you can see this and you go, I logically, rationally understand that this has happened.

00:12:16.780 It hits you in the gut.

00:12:18.500 And that's what they don't want.

00:12:20.120 Sick, doesn't it?

00:12:21.320 I'm not surprised one bit that they're trying to suppress and hide this video because given over the past months,

00:12:27.880 we've had so many protests outside these asylum hotels and HMOs and so on and so forth.

00:12:33.780 of, you know, I don't think they can stand it anymore.

00:12:36.440 They can't stomach anymore, you know, lash back, hit back just from the British people. 0.99

00:12:41.380 It's like, no, we don't want this kicking off over Christmas.

00:12:44.320 Don't get that video out.

00:12:45.520 And it's...

00:12:46.300 Christmas isn't supposed to be the protest period.

00:12:49.000 That's supposed to be summer, early autumn, and they won't end.

00:12:52.360 Yeah.

00:12:52.560 They're not prepared for it at this time of year.

00:12:54.900 What I suspect the videos will show you is a very comprehensive lack of mercy and compassion on their part

00:13:04.200 that makes them look like absolute animals.

00:13:07.880 What I suspect it will show you is that they genuinely don't care about the pain that they're inflicting.

00:13:13.640 They don't care about the fear that they're inflicting.

00:13:15.880 They probably enjoy it.

00:13:16.700 That's what you would see as well.

00:13:17.900 They probably relish it because it gives them power, and they probably fantasized about it,

00:13:22.720 and so they're, you know, sort of affirmed in the righteousness of what they're doing.

00:13:28.320 And then you see that side of their humanity, and you think, this is diabolical.

00:13:34.700 They have to go.

00:13:36.320 That's why they're saying that it'll start a riot, because that's probably what it will show.

00:13:42.940 I don't doubt it as well.

00:13:44.380 And I have seen comparable sorts of clips, and I think, you know, having done this job a while,

00:13:50.000 I imagine you two might be able to sympathize with me here.

00:13:53.860 You sort of build up a mental model of what these sorts of things are like.

00:13:57.700 Like, I haven't seen this video, but I sort of have an intuitive sense of it,

00:14:01.360 because similar things like this, unfortunately, have happened.

00:14:04.520 And there are videos of them, and they're some of the most harrowing things I've ever seen in my life.

00:14:10.640 And you're never really going to forget that.

00:14:12.960 And so when I read about these sorts of things, that's what comes to mind.

00:14:16.640 And unfortunately, you know, once you've done this enough, you can imagine what's happened.

00:14:21.780 And it's things that should haunt you, and that's why they're suppressing it, of course.

00:14:29.420 And there's another one as well.

00:14:31.320 Oh, no, wait, no.

00:14:31.940 This is the fact that one of the people that did this in Leamington Spa, sorry,

00:14:36.920 charted his journey across Europe, posting on TikTok, clad in designer gear and a gold watch before arriving,

00:14:43.820 and then he went on to do this sort of thing.

00:14:46.060 So obviously not an asylum seeker.

00:14:49.880 Obviously, you know, not in need.

00:14:51.820 You have to be absolutely desperate to come in on the illegal boats, not be wearing designer clothing and having a gold watch and showing it off all on TikTok.

00:15:03.740 I mean, I've seen these people in person, and many of them have better smartphones than I had, and, you know, nice watches and designer clothes.

00:15:12.800 And it's just like, you know, if I saw a white person wearing that sort of thing, I'd think, okay, that, you know, they might be on like a council estate or something. 0.93

00:15:20.280 But they're doing pretty well for themselves to be able to afford that.

00:15:22.980 Yes.

00:15:23.080 And so the fact that they're so-called asylum seekers is absurd.

00:15:28.180 Yes.

00:15:28.900 Have you seen any of these videos that they post?

00:15:31.380 I remember from the bell, you can see them, and they post them.

00:15:34.260 You look on their Snapchats, and it's like they're a travel influencer or something.

00:15:37.640 They're listing the countries they've visited, the cities, and they're getting these silly pictures, landmarks.

00:15:43.740 It's like they're on holiday.

00:15:44.920 It's a load of fun.

00:15:46.500 You travel across Europe, do a tour.

00:15:48.420 It's a rape and loot holiday. 0.99

00:15:49.380 Yeah, pretty much, and it's the equivalent of barbarians going on a raiding party, raping and pillaging. 0.98

00:15:56.980 Except they've got iPhones.

00:15:58.320 Except they've got iPhones documenting it.

00:16:00.180 And we're letting them in rather than fighting them.

00:16:02.300 Exactly.

00:16:03.420 Exactly.

00:16:04.040 And we pay them when we leave as well.

00:16:06.060 We do pay the Dane guild, yeah.

00:16:09.540 But that's not even all.

00:16:11.900 Here's another one.

00:16:13.080 These, of course, all within a 48-hour span.

00:16:16.240 Four charged after a teenager, sexually assaulted in Bristol.

00:16:21.080 So this includes some people that cannot be named.

00:16:27.000 But Salman Habikail, an Afghan national.

00:16:32.160 Awal Ahmadzai, 18.

00:16:36.260 And then a 16- and a 20-year-old that can't have their details released for legal reasons, for whatever reason.

00:16:41.500 And I can understand the 16-year-old, because, you know, they're under 18, but the 20-year-old, I don't understand exactly what reason that is.

00:16:48.880 The fact that you'd sort of show up and find a bunch of like-minded people who are willing to go on a jolly rape with you.

00:16:58.060 I mean, that tells you everything that there is to know about this culture.

00:17:01.060 Well, of course.

00:17:01.960 Like, if an English person went up to another Englishman.

00:17:05.600 In Ibiza, for example. 0.99

00:17:07.300 And, oh, hold on, let's sort of, you know, grab some chick and rape her. 1.00

00:17:11.940 They'll get beaten up immediately. 1.00

00:17:13.380 Exactly.

00:17:14.280 And handed in to the police.

00:17:15.560 Whereas here, it's sort of, oh, that's a bonding exercise.

00:17:19.980 And it shows you how depraved the culture is. 0.53

00:17:21.940 I mean, you have to be absolutely insane to think that knowing somebody's mother's name is something to mock.

00:17:29.500 Like, what kind of culture is that?

00:17:32.000 And why would you bring it anywhere near anyone else?

00:17:35.740 And also, it's a country where we occupied it for 20 years.

00:17:40.480 Do you really think it's a good idea to then bring those people here?

00:17:43.520 Do you think perhaps maybe there's going to be a certain degree of hostility towards us?

00:17:48.000 Of course there will be.

00:17:49.040 You know, if someone occupied Britain for 20 years, you know, migrants perhaps. 1.00

00:17:54.660 It's understandable that there's hostility towards them.

00:17:57.580 Yep.

00:17:57.760 Right?

00:17:58.020 It makes perfect sense.

00:17:59.540 I mean, I know we'll cover it later.

00:18:01.340 But reading through the trial transcripts of the grooming gangs, particularly the one from Oxford in 2013.

00:18:09.020 I'm not proud to say this, but honestly, it did make this, like, tiny little neocon generate in the back of my mind.

00:18:16.020 Saying, like, hey, maybe we should just go to war with all these countries just because of how horrifying that stuff is.

00:18:23.820 Now, I do understand it.

00:18:27.060 And then the final one, which didn't get as much press as the others, was this one, I think, in Nottingham.

00:18:32.300 So, this was a deviant targeting young boys in Nottingham.

00:18:37.840 He was on a park bench showing them pornography.

00:18:40.920 And I think the children were as young as nine years old.

00:18:43.300 Yeah.

00:18:43.680 Two nine-year-olds.

00:18:44.640 And apparently, they were sexually assaulted as well.

00:18:50.340 So, this was just in a park in the middle of the day.

00:18:53.400 This was also Afghan, yeah?

00:18:54.600 I believe so, yes.

00:18:55.520 But they were boys, too.

00:18:57.320 Well, you know what that means.

00:18:58.640 Yeah.

00:18:58.780 This Afghan was presumably one of the ones that we were supporting when we were over there.

00:19:02.900 Because that was the famous thing, the footage from the documentary, that the ones that we were supporting would abuse the boys.

00:19:08.660 The ones that we were fighting would abuse the girls. 1.00

00:19:11.100 Yeah.

00:19:11.280 And just to pivot to some data on this sort of thing, to show that it is a civilizational thing, if you've not already been convinced.

00:19:20.780 So, this is data from Germany.

00:19:23.420 So, while 163 German citizens are suspected of crimes per 100,000 individuals, so per capita, for Syrians and Afghans, it's 1,740 and 1,722.

00:19:35.360 Which means that Syrians are 10.7 times overrepresented relative to the German population, and Afghans 10.6 times overrepresented, which is obviously absolutely massive.

00:19:47.160 So, I knew somebody who worked, tried to sort of dissuade them from doing this, but who worked in welcoming Syrian refugees into Germany in the Merkel era.

00:19:57.580 And then, eventually, this person came to realize that when they asked for halal meat and got it, they understood that this is a weak culture that they can do anything to. 0.94

00:20:09.080 And once they were given halal meat, everything broke down.

00:20:14.140 And they kept on making more and more demands and becoming more and more ungrateful.

00:20:19.020 Because they see your kindness as your weakness.

00:20:23.600 And that's how it's treated, really.

00:20:24.920 And that's how it's treated.

00:20:25.620 In their home countries, they may not do the same kinds of crimes, because a mob would show up to their houses and burn them, with their families inside.

00:20:35.820 Here, they just go to jail, as opposed to being killed.

00:20:39.560 They don't feel that this is enough of a deterrent.

00:20:43.220 Absolutely.

00:20:43.660 People don't realize that our punishments are catered towards a civilized European people, and not people from this part of the world who simply see these sorts of things as laughable in terms of punishment.

00:20:58.320 Exactly.

00:20:59.480 And, sorry, were you going to say something, Callum?

00:21:02.120 No.

00:21:02.540 Okay.

00:21:02.740 So, here from the Women's Safety Initiative, they're sharing this.

00:21:08.000 In Germany, Afghans and Africans are proportionally 40% and 70% more involved in gang sexual assaults than Germans. 0.71

00:21:14.900 And look at that. 0.97

00:21:15.420 Even Africa, which has the sexual assault capital of the world in the Congo, is outdone by the Afghans here. 1.00

00:21:22.800 And that wasn't actually 40% and 70%, that was 40 times and 70 times.

00:21:30.500 Sorry, I misread it.

00:21:31.640 No, no, just to emphasize what that means, is if you're in Germany, and you pass by an Afghan, he is 70 times more likely to try to do something to you than an average German person. 0.97

00:21:44.980 Absolutely.

00:21:45.920 And, of course, the Danish data as well, some of the most comprehensive data.

00:21:49.760 This is violent crime.

00:21:51.860 You can see that Afghanistan is still up there as one of the top countries.

00:21:57.060 I know it's a little bit difficult to see with a small text, but I'll zoom in a little bit.

00:22:00.480 So, you can see here Afghanistan pretty close to Syria, but you've got basically lots of other Islamic countries as well as a few African ones sprinkled in.

00:22:12.380 But it's unsurprising that they're up there, right?

00:22:14.400 And you're starting to get a picture of, okay, these people are massively disproportionately likely to be violent rapists, basically.

00:22:24.280 And, of course, this isn't just true of Germany, it's true of Britain as well.

00:22:29.380 According to the Telegraph, foreigners account for one in seven sexual offences in terms of convictions last year, and this came from August of 25.

00:22:39.240 So, it's worth saying that the conviction rate compared to the attack rate is abysmally low.

00:22:45.980 It is indeed, but even so, that's still a staggering over-representation, isn't it?

00:22:52.260 Yes.

00:22:52.940 And there's also this as well.

00:22:56.520 This is from Restore Britain.

00:22:58.580 Sexual offences, it's a little bit zoomed in, so if we could zoom that out a little bit, Samson.

00:23:03.300 Thank you.

00:23:04.880 There we go.

00:23:05.420 We can see British all the way down at the bottom here, even the French are outdoing us. 1.00

00:23:09.220 But all the way at the top, look at the difference.

00:23:11.500 Afghanistan, number one, for sexual offences in London compared to the British down here. 1.00

00:23:17.700 A tiny little proportion, and this is, of course, per capita as well.

00:23:22.680 There's a massive disparity, and obviously, it's because they are different.

00:23:28.540 They're not compatible with British culture. 0.97

00:23:31.480 Here's another one.

00:23:32.360 Arrest rates in the UK.

00:23:33.920 Afghans only beat out by Albanians who are... 1.00

00:23:37.140 That'll be drugs offences, I assume.

00:23:38.520 It's going to be drug offences and gang-related.

00:23:40.960 Afghans, of course, they're not necessarily as heavily involved with gangs as Albanians, who are sort of synonymous with it now, aren't they?

00:23:49.900 Yeah.

00:23:50.040 So they're sort of our criminal underworld at this rate.

00:23:54.520 And it's got to the point now where the Labour Party is saying things like, we must identify and address any links between ethnicity, religion and culture, and child sexual assault.

00:24:05.020 You can read what it says.

00:24:06.360 YouTube won't like it if I say it.

00:24:08.660 Which is an interesting rhetorical shift, because they wouldn't say this sort of thing.

00:24:14.020 And in fact, many of their own voters were calling them racist and far-right and things like that, and fascist even, for some reason.

00:24:20.060 The whip says, apparently, the party's looking into it.

00:24:24.100 Really?

00:24:24.400 Despite the fact that, apparently, as well, all of the Labour inquiry plans into it have also set out to determine if there is a link between all of these things.

00:24:35.560 Which means it's actually part...

00:24:36.860 Like so many things, it's completely schizophrenic.

00:24:38.960 It's part of party policy and party campaigns and initiatives.

00:24:42.520 But if you actually go onto a platform like GB News and say it, then you may get an internal investigation against you.

00:24:50.200 No, there's lots of double standards involved in these sorts of things.

00:24:53.060 And it's just created to...

00:24:55.520 It's created to disincentivise people pointing out the problems, isn't it?

00:24:59.160 That's the whole point that exists.

00:25:00.320 But there is a solution.

00:25:03.860 Iran drove out 1.5 million Afghans.

00:25:08.260 They branded some spies for Israel, which is an interesting justification for it. 1.00

00:25:13.320 Also kind of amusing.

00:25:15.540 But the point is that their daily returns peaked at about 50,000 people.

00:25:19.540 And of course, it's probably easier to return them from Iran, because Iran is closer to Afghanistan. 0.92

00:25:24.100 However, you know, with Britain being a more advanced economy, I think we could probably achieve 50,000 people a month.

00:25:33.520 It could be done.

00:25:34.620 It could even exceed that.

00:25:36.320 Yeah.

00:25:37.380 And then you can even look at places like Pakistan, who moved to expel 1.7 million Afghans from Pakistan.

00:25:46.220 So when people say, oh, you're being racist, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:25:49.060 Well, it's already being done by Iranians, by Pakistanis, and, you know, they're pretty close in terms of geography.

00:25:58.320 So to say that obviously there's a certain degree of conflict between the groups, that's why they're getting rid of them.

00:26:03.580 But even so, that rhetoric doesn't really work here.

00:26:07.020 The conflict between their cultures internally and their culture and Western culture is so much smaller, you know?

00:26:16.780 Of course. There's a lot more compatibility there.

00:26:19.300 And even in those countries, it doesn't work.

00:26:23.360 So the idea that it will work in the West, because what, I don't understand.

00:26:28.360 No, it makes no sense, does it?

00:26:29.980 No.

00:26:30.360 But I wanted to end on a positive note that Carl pointed out, that YouGov recently found out that 45% of people support remigration already in the campaign as it barely even got started.

00:26:40.460 I think that as these sorts of crimes continue to go on and there's no solution in sight, everything seems to be a half measure, this is going to become a vast majority of the population, if not already.

00:26:52.660 Because, of course, YouGov is running questionable ways and they can ask questions in a way that biases the result.

00:27:00.100 I think that if a different institution were to do it, I think it would be in a majority, and I think some have already found that.

00:27:06.360 However, even YouGov polling, I think, will start to suggest that people will support this in a majority.

00:27:12.600 And it is inevitable, isn't it?

00:27:14.740 It is going to happen.

00:27:16.400 The way things are going, they can't continue as they are.

00:27:18.500 The question is how and with how much violence.

00:27:20.920 Like, in my mind, it's pretty clear that this is happening.

00:27:24.340 But the question is, what are the mechanics and can it be done without an extreme amount of violence?

00:27:33.080 Well, we'll have to see, won't we?

00:27:34.600 I think that the earlier you do it, the more peaceful it will be.

00:27:39.960 And so there's a strong incentive to get it over with as quickly as possible, both to protect the British people and to preserve law and order.

00:27:47.260 Yes, exactly.

00:27:48.620 We'll have to see what happens.

00:27:51.200 Well, that was a cheerful segment.

00:27:53.200 You're welcome.

00:27:54.240 They're only going to get sunnier from here.

00:27:56.340 Downward spiral.

00:27:57.400 I have to read one of those comments.

00:28:00.080 Realpolitik, my show, has gotten so successful that we've managed to get Zelensky in the studio.

00:28:05.420 I don't want to hear the end of it.

00:28:06.720 We're all proud of you to be aroused.

00:28:09.420 Yay.

00:28:10.960 I did see my mum pop up as well.

00:28:13.420 Luke says, g'day.

00:28:16.360 Hope everyone's okay.

00:28:17.540 Not the Callum that I was hoping for.

00:28:19.200 Oh, that's rude.

00:28:20.600 It's still good to see you.

00:28:23.420 He's like, oh, you know, it's all right. 1.00

00:28:25.400 Yeah, it's like, this guy's scum. 1.00

00:28:26.700 We don't want him. 1.00

00:28:28.140 He wasn't the one I wanted.

00:28:29.480 I'm glad you're here.

00:28:30.220 I mean, he's in Syria at the moment, so thoughts and prayers.

00:28:34.980 Let's hope the prodigal son returns eventually.

00:28:37.500 He's probably going to have a bomb vest on him or something.

00:28:40.000 Who knows? 0.94

00:28:40.900 Let's hope he returns unraped.

00:28:43.040 He's not looking like this.

00:28:44.460 No, true.

00:28:45.780 Luke again says, why do I feel like we're going to get another knife girl like from Scotland, 1.00

00:28:50.160 but this time they're going to be proactive when they see an Afghan person?

00:28:52.780 And I'd be surprised if that happened.

00:28:56.880 Also, I think that the circumstances of that original Scottish girl were a bit more dubious

00:29:01.940 than people were making out.

00:29:04.460 Luke says, I feel like the reason why they can't bring this up and talk about this issue

00:29:08.940 is because they have to admit the fault that liberalism has failed

00:29:12.960 and they can't bring themselves to admit these problems.

00:29:16.600 I'm not worried if they don't fix the problems the peaceful way.

00:29:20.280 You'll only get people who will end this with this.

00:29:22.500 I can't read that.

00:29:24.540 There was some references to Al-Andalus and also to the Crusades and such.

00:29:30.880 Please, like I say, like I always say, folks, we all have our little Fed poster,

00:29:35.740 but we keep him in here.

00:29:36.900 Just like I try and shut out my little neocon when I read through these transcripts, man.

00:29:42.380 And also, the Engage few, that's a tiny little Henry Kissinger manifest.

00:29:46.180 Like the angel and devil on your shoulder.

00:29:49.480 I mean, I appreciate the fiery sentiment, but I'm not going to read a Fed post, I'm afraid.

00:29:54.620 But thank you for the $2.

00:29:56.060 On one shoulder, I have a Noam Chomsky.

00:29:58.240 On the other shoulder, I have a Henry Kissinger.

00:30:00.300 And they're both just awful.

00:30:05.040 Right.

00:30:06.900 So, again, with a bad news theme here, a British paratrooper was killed in Ukraine,

00:30:16.140 unfortunately.

00:30:17.680 And the government is saying that Lance Corporal George Hooley was far away from the front line

00:30:25.920 and that he was accidentally killed while training Ukrainians on some kind of new defensive capability.

00:30:32.720 The first point that I want to make is that I don't think that I believe them.

00:30:37.480 Because my understanding is that he was in a special forces support group,

00:30:42.420 meaning that he would have been close to the front line,

00:30:47.740 supporting another special forces element,

00:30:50.580 and probably ended up getting tragically killed that way.

00:30:55.040 But the government is very keen to say that, no, no, no, he was just sort of training and providing support and these kinds of things.

00:31:02.840 Because I don't honestly trust them that it was an accident.

00:31:08.280 I don't fully believe that.

00:31:09.820 And this is important because on this question hinges how involved is Britain in the Ukrainian war.

00:31:17.340 The mood from the public and from high officials has been a bit jingoistic, shall we say.

00:31:29.720 And the head of the army said last year that Britain must be ready to fight a war in three years

00:31:35.220 and that it should be doubling the army's fighting power by 2027 and tripling it by 2030.

00:31:45.220 I mean, it's a weird thing to say in a way because the military should be ready to fight full stop,

00:31:50.880 not in three years' time.

00:31:52.880 That's an admission of weakness in a sense.

00:31:55.040 And of course, I also think that our standing military is woefully small.

00:32:00.120 And if we didn't have this needless government spending in lots of other areas of the economy,

00:32:06.560 I think it would have been much better spent on our military and giving us hard power around the world,

00:32:12.060 which actually is a good return on investment in many cases.

00:32:15.460 Exactly.

00:32:15.840 There have been a number of news reports that have basically outright said that we have very weak defensive capabilities

00:32:21.620 or offensive capabilities right now put into the public space.

00:32:25.640 And then we do things like we shut down our steel as well.

00:32:29.180 all of which is basically blaring out this huge siren to any enemy countries that may be looking,

00:32:35.960 going, like, we're weak.

00:32:37.480 Yes.

00:32:37.960 And it's a very strange thing to be broadcasting that to the world.

00:32:42.160 We've not learned our lessons from World War I and II that if you import a large degree of things,

00:32:47.620 then you're easy to blockade.

00:32:49.320 Exactly.

00:32:49.760 And that's not been fixed in the slightest.

00:32:52.280 Yes.

00:32:52.520 If anything, it's got worse.

00:32:53.860 First World War by blockading Germany's food.

00:32:56.140 And when you hear about these stories, you have to sort of remember that the way that the army is planning,

00:33:03.200 at least according to the head of the army last year,

00:33:06.600 they might be, they think they might be fighting China or Russia or Iran,

00:33:12.600 which he calls an axis of upheaval,

00:33:16.520 which is a new one, I have to admit.

00:33:18.700 Better than, um, better than the, uh, is it, is it, was it Reagan or Bush?

00:33:23.220 Axis of evil was Bush.

00:33:24.600 It was Bush.

00:33:25.160 Bush Jr.

00:33:25.760 Axis of evil.

00:33:26.420 Yes.

00:33:27.380 Uh, he was also the first man I ever heard say that Islam was a religion of peace.

00:33:31.520 And having grown up in the Middle East,

00:33:32.800 you'd think I'd have heard this a lot of time if it was true.

00:33:35.400 But, uh, anyway.

00:33:36.800 They're really just obsessed with keeping the word axis in there.

00:33:40.080 Yeah, because they want, they want the World War II Hitler comparison to be in your head.

00:33:45.080 Yeah, we just want to kind of emphasize that they're the bad guys.

00:33:48.300 And, yes, exactly.

00:33:49.200 You know, you're not meant to be on my side.

00:33:51.240 But they've been going on, you know,

00:33:53.700 about how Britain needs to be ready to fight a war potentially with Russia,

00:33:57.620 even as Trump is saying that there should be a peace plan for Ukraine.

00:34:02.100 And even as the national security strategy of the United States,

00:34:05.780 which I covered in this week's Realpolitik,

00:34:08.380 was all about the necessity of ending the war with Russia.

00:34:12.220 So they're sort of emphasizing that we need to end the war with Russia.

00:34:15.340 The Americans are saying it.

00:34:16.480 And the reaction from Britain is, no, we have to be ready for war with Russia.

00:34:21.300 But the reality is that this condition of Britain's armed forces is atrocious.

00:34:26.280 During the time in 2023 and 2024, where the Hothi were blockading the Red Sea, 1.00

00:34:34.200 Britain struggled to send either of the two aircraft carriers into the area

00:34:39.540 and instead had to rely on typhoon flights going 3,000 miles to attack the Hothi.

00:34:48.360 And in the end, one of the aircraft carriers was deployed.

00:34:52.100 But it took a pretty long time.

00:34:53.700 And it was pretty obvious that Britain's carriers,

00:34:57.040 the main means of power projection that the country has, can't really function.

00:35:02.160 To the extent that sending either of them to a training exercise couldn't be done.

00:35:09.280 A training exercise.

00:35:11.140 They did eventually manage to send one of them.

00:35:14.260 But it was obviously a humiliation.

00:35:17.160 And they can't get the propellers working,

00:35:19.180 which is, you know, not the most complicated part, as far as I can tell.

00:35:23.380 I'm not a technologist.

00:35:24.540 I'm not an expert on these things.

00:35:26.440 But it seems to be one of the less difficult parts of building a vessel.

00:35:31.560 I mean, you would hope the British would be good with ships.

00:35:34.600 You'd think so.

00:35:36.120 You'd think so.

00:35:37.740 But the reality is that these things that cost 3.7 billion each

00:35:42.940 couldn't function.

00:35:46.840 They had to pull out of exercises.

00:35:48.340 The problem isn't even our technological understanding or how we've constructed them.

00:35:53.360 The problem is we mothball everything when it's not in use.

00:35:57.720 And just don't fund our military enough for it to be functional.

00:36:01.300 We try and cut costs on the military.

00:36:03.760 But it's one of those things where if you cut costs in it, you will pay the price.

00:36:07.460 No matter what.

00:36:08.540 Because it's something that you should constantly be seeking to expand your power and influence

00:36:14.300 and capability with, the U.S. does understand this, which is why they've got hard and soft

00:36:19.280 power, as well as obviously being one of the largest and most successful countries.

00:36:24.220 So they've got the ability to back up what they say because they've got the rifles and

00:36:29.360 the ships and the missiles.

00:36:30.840 Exactly.

00:36:31.200 And in case you think that it's just the aircraft carriers, it's considerably worse

00:36:37.640 because the way that some of the new destroyers were designed, they didn't have any land attack

00:36:43.500 capability.

00:36:45.040 So these things were sent to help with intercepting the drones and the missiles that the Hothis 1.00

00:36:51.200 were firing.

00:36:52.420 But they couldn't retaliate against the source of fire, which seems like a pretty basic thing

00:36:58.600 that you want to keep in mind, because the assumption was that the aircraft carriers would

00:37:02.920 do the ground attack bit and that the destroyers would just be there to defend the aircraft

00:37:09.900 carriers.

00:37:10.520 Is this not another consequence of us having our budget cut whereby, you know, if you can't

00:37:16.400 afford to have a functional military, at least have defensive capabilities?

00:37:19.520 Well, you'd assume that.

00:37:21.100 But then the carriers cost three and a half billion pounds.

00:37:25.000 And even then, when they deploy, they can't deploy with a full air wing.

00:37:29.400 So they're supposed to be able to carry 40 aircraft and then, you know, maybe 24.

00:37:35.860 And then it turns out, no, just 16, which is maybe enough against the Hothi. 1.00

00:37:41.520 But if you're fighting against Iran, it's not, let alone if you're fighting against China.

00:37:45.560 So the capability has been so degraded that it's just becoming a major embarrassment.

00:37:54.480 So the ships can't attack land targets.

00:37:58.220 The ships, the destroyers can't attack land targets.

00:38:01.420 And the aircraft carrier that is meant to attack land targets can't be deployed. 0.96

00:38:05.060 So it's a shitshow. 0.82

00:38:08.720 And then you look at the state of the submarine fleet. 0.98

00:38:13.360 And here you have Rear Admiral Philip Matthias, who used to run the nuclear bit in the Ministry

00:38:22.240 of Defense, the director of nuclear policy at the MOD, and who led the review into Trident,

00:38:29.780 whether or not Trident was working and could deliver.

00:38:31.740 So he knows what he's talking about.

00:38:34.480 And he says Britain is no longer capable of running a nuclear submarine program after

00:38:40.440 catastrophic failure has pushed it to the brink.

00:38:44.940 So this is somebody deeply in the know.

00:38:49.600 And he's saying that the situation is absolutely atrocious.

00:38:53.440 And he's saying that Britain should pull out of AUKUS.

00:38:56.100 AUKUS is an Australia-UK-US alliance to build submarines in partnership between the three

00:39:06.480 countries to deter China.

00:39:08.580 And he's saying this can't be done anymore.

00:39:11.340 And he's saying that the length of deployment on submarines has become too long that it is

00:39:15.720 no longer sustainable because there aren't enough of them and there aren't enough crews

00:39:20.440 and there isn't enough training.

00:39:21.460 So this is what things look like in terms of the power projection and in terms of the nuclear

00:39:27.760 deterrence.

00:39:29.060 And it's pretty atrocious.

00:39:31.660 Then you look at the land bit.

00:39:34.820 And I want to talk a little bit about the Army's new infantry fighting vehicle.

00:39:39.740 Now, infantry fighting vehicles, they do what the name says.

00:39:43.600 It's where you place infantry and you send them in order to fight.

00:39:46.920 It's part of having mechanized infantry.

00:39:51.060 And the Army has no idea what it's going to do with these things because the tracked version

00:39:56.780 of these vehicles, Ares and Athena, don't have a clear doctrine as to how they're going

00:40:02.180 to be used.

00:40:03.760 The Challenger 2 is out of date.

00:40:08.060 14 out of 200 were sent to Ukraine.

00:40:10.500 And they performed quite badly, all things considered, because they're not ready for

00:40:16.060 this kind of new warfare.

00:40:18.380 And the existing infantry fighting vehicle, Warrior, is going to be out of service soon.

00:40:24.600 There's a bunch of other versions of them, like different things.

00:40:27.760 But the newest one, which is meant to cost 10 billion pounds to build 500 of them, isn't

00:40:36.240 really working.

00:40:36.820 And this is eight years late.

00:40:41.580 And the ones that are being delivered have pretty terrible quality issues.

00:40:47.400 This is a pretty good account, military banter.

00:40:52.320 And he's been covering this in detail.

00:40:55.660 And what's been happening is that soldiers who are receiving these new infantry fighting

00:40:59.440 vehicles from General Dynamics are so pissed off at the state of the items that are being

00:41:07.180 delivered to them that they've started leaking information about the poor quality.

00:41:12.040 And I just want to show you this briefly.

00:41:15.180 I'm not a technical guy, so I don't fully understand this.

00:41:17.980 But I know you shouldn't have this kind of loose wiring.

00:41:25.740 I know these things shouldn't be shaking when they're bolted on an armored infantry fighting

00:41:32.520 vehicle.

00:41:33.640 Look at the number of bolts there.

00:41:35.240 And it still sort of snaps off just like it's nothing.

00:41:37.980 This is going into the exhaust bit.

00:41:47.200 Everything in the vehicle shakes to the extent that 31 soldiers were injured just because of

00:41:58.080 being in the vehicle as it was being tested out.

00:42:01.120 Do you know what that reminded me of?

00:42:03.040 Those videos that you see of builders and construction experts going to new build houses across the UK

00:42:10.120 and seeing the absolute cowboy job that has been done on them.

00:42:14.760 Just going around the bathroom.

00:42:16.380 Oh, none of these tiles are sealed properly.

00:42:18.600 The sealant across the edges isn't done right.

00:42:21.100 The hinges on the doors aren't fitted properly, so it'll warp.

00:42:24.780 It's the same philosophy governing both, isn't it? 1.00

00:42:26.840 They know some idiot's going to buy it, and in this case the idiot is the British government. 1.00

00:42:32.800 So as long as it looks like a tank, or an infantry fighting vehicle, then they're going to buy it. 1.00

00:42:40.180 And then it's only going to be later that we're going to realise, oh, these are rubbish. 0.95

00:42:43.940 We shouldn't be relying on cowboys for our military defence. 0.99

00:42:47.520 I mean, come on.

00:42:48.140 That analogy kind of reminds me of the videos in China where they're smashing apart the buildings

00:42:52.460 and the concrete's falling off.

00:42:53.720 I was hoping we haven't outsourced our military industry to China as well,

00:42:57.480 although by the video that might be a good thing, you know?

00:43:00.160 Yep.

00:43:00.820 So here's what people are sort of reporting.

00:43:04.020 I think his name is Alfie Usher, and I've reached out to him.

00:43:08.260 They're coming off the production line with around 150 faults each.

00:43:12.220 They can't meet the tests that General Dynamics itself set up.

00:43:20.360 Then they have to get in the civil servants in the Department of Defence to get them to sign a concession

00:43:27.780 so that vehicles with these numbers of faults are allowed into the army anyway.

00:43:33.580 The ex-army guys are sort of being abused and being made to sort of defend whatever General Dynamics wants.

00:43:45.880 And the management can't meet the targets that it sets itself in any shape or form.

00:43:51.640 And the soldiers that are there to do the testing are made to work 16-hour shifts or made to work weekends

00:43:58.060 because they can't say no to orders.

00:44:00.380 It's not like civilian employees.

00:44:02.940 And it seems like a pretty fat trough, and everybody's feeding off of it,

00:44:08.060 including people who were in the military who then get paid by this military contractor

00:44:11.660 in order to sign it off.

00:44:13.740 The boots on the ground and the taxpayer that are losing out, and everyone else wins.

00:44:18.060 Pretty much. Pretty much.

00:44:20.280 And these reports keep on coming in.

00:44:24.400 They're removing data for inspections, which seems a bit crazy.

00:44:29.380 They're trying to blame the users for getting injured in the vehicle,

00:44:33.180 saying that they are not wearing the seatbelts properly or are not sitting properly.

00:44:38.660 I'm sorry, when you think about this vehicle sort of going through European planes,

00:44:44.700 bumping up and down in farmland,

00:44:46.820 do you think everybody's going to be sitting properly while they're waiting for drones to kill them?

00:44:52.040 And some of it gets pretty bad because they don't seem to have figured out the camouflage for the vehicles.

00:44:57.720 So they can't put camouflage nets on them so that they can't be seen by the eye.

00:45:02.260 And they haven't figured out how to place thermal covers on them so that they can't be seen by infrared drones.

00:45:11.600 These are basic engineering things that should have been figured out before they even, you know,

00:45:15.800 while it was in concept, let alone after they built it.

00:45:19.420 So they're using things from other kinds of vehicles that the military has

00:45:24.380 and trying to cut them to size and stick them together to make this thing work.

00:45:29.400 And then you ask yourself, well, is this how war is going to be fought in the drone age?

00:45:35.740 And the answer is clearly no.

00:45:39.080 And so the whole thing with reports coming in from inspectors and so on,

00:45:46.100 they're saying that 150 faults might be an understatement. 0.90

00:45:50.500 And people who are involved are saying, I hope it gets canceled because it's bloody useless.

00:45:54.000 But this is going to cost 10 billion pounds.

00:45:58.320 The worst part is, is that these same people who are responsible for this project were awarded mega project of the year.

00:46:09.380 So incompetence at this level is getting rewarded and the taxpayer is getting screwed and the army isn't getting what it needs

00:46:21.900 to the extent that soldiers are being injured because of the vehicle before getting into battle. 0.97

00:46:27.680 I'm glad to know that the Oscars aren't the only useless, corrupt, inconsequential award show out there. 1.00

00:46:35.800 Apparently even the military defense contractor award shows are just as shit. 1.00

00:46:40.980 Yes. 0.99

00:46:41.660 I was just going to say that one of the things that I have learned, you know,

00:46:46.180 learning about the military and the political side of it,

00:46:48.600 is that when you listen to the soldiers, they rarely complain about kit that's good.

00:46:54.040 Yeah.

00:46:54.460 And they only really complain if it's bad.

00:46:57.000 Like I remember many soldiers complaining about, was it the L-80?

00:47:01.700 Right.

00:47:02.460 The assault rifle.

00:47:03.260 Assault rifle, yeah.

00:47:04.200 It being very heavy and a bit unreliable.

00:47:06.680 And then they replaced it eventually after a long time.

00:47:10.000 But they weren't complaining unduly because they'd used American issue assault rifles and they were better.

00:47:16.460 Well, the problem is the mindset because the British tried to build a Rolls Royce descendant to combat

00:47:22.220 when you just need a Toyota.

00:47:25.340 And so they tried to add everything on it without understanding that the nature of warfare has fundamentally changed.

00:47:32.460 And it's all about attritable assets that are cheap and easily replaceable.

00:47:40.680 So the Ajax is supposed to do everything, but the result is that it can't do anything.

00:47:46.980 Whereas a Toyota is just supposed to get you over difficult terrain, and that's exactly what it does.

00:47:52.240 And if you're at the age of drones, you're not going to be able to armor the vehicle enough.

00:48:00.580 You need lightness, and you need proper defenses for the soldiers, and you need invisibility.

00:48:07.640 But this is supposed to be a recon vehicle, and it can't even get proper camouflage.

00:48:13.720 How do you do recon without decent camouflage?

00:48:16.660 I don't fully understand the...

00:48:18.640 Like, how did that happen?

00:48:20.940 How did that happen?

00:48:22.940 How...

00:48:23.420 And so you see the establishment is finally beginning to wrestle with this.

00:48:29.840 And this came out from Frank Gardner, who's an ex-army guy, works for the BBC.

00:48:36.900 Obviously a regime guy, but okay, fine.

00:48:41.300 I think the regime, when it's talking about war capabilities, has to be honest with itself.

00:48:47.260 So at the very least...

00:48:48.100 Well, clearly they haven't been when it comes to everything.

00:48:50.780 Well, yeah, but...

00:48:51.380 When it comes to submarines, and when it comes to nuclear submarines, and aircraft carriers, and all that stuff.

00:48:58.360 Well, hopefully this guy can be a bit more honest about it.

00:49:02.200 He's beginning, but he's only covering a small part of the problem.

00:49:06.200 So he's going on about how, yes, there is this change in warfare, and it requires just volume.

00:49:14.620 And in it, he attacks Russian equipment as being substandard, and Russian soldiers as being terrible and poorly fed.

00:49:21.360 In a front line that's several thousand miles long, everybody's poorly fed.

00:49:25.940 So fine.

00:49:27.140 Okay.

00:49:28.360 Badly trained.

00:49:29.920 Well, they're winning.

00:49:30.940 Okay.

00:49:31.760 But let's get past that.

00:49:34.400 And the criticism of the Russian army.

00:49:36.780 But what they're saying here, what he's quoting in this article, is that the Russians are producing,

00:49:41.260 every month, 150 tanks, 550 infantry fighting vehicles, 120 high-end drones, the Lancet drones, and 50 artillery pieces.

00:49:53.140 The entire span of the Ajax project produces 589 infantry fighting vehicles over several years.

00:50:04.660 If the lessons of the past two world wars are anything to go by, the main thing you need to learn is industrial capacity wins you wars, right?

00:50:12.640 Exactly.

00:50:12.760 That's why America did so well, is that it was an industrial powerhouse and produced just massive-scale military equipment.

00:50:20.780 And the Germans were constantly of the view that American tanks were inferior to the Panzers and to the Tigers and to all of the upgrades in between.

00:50:31.360 But there was just so many of them that they won anyway.

00:50:36.320 Well, it was the same with the T-34.

00:50:40.080 With the Eastern Front and the Soviet tanks.

00:50:42.680 Yes.

00:50:42.960 The Germans destroyed countless of them, and they captured a few, and they looked over and said,

00:50:48.480 well, this may all be like cutting-edge technology, but it's really badly put together.

00:50:52.700 This wouldn't last very long.

00:50:54.060 Yes.

00:50:54.300 But as many as they destroyed, they just sent more and more and more because productive capabilities were such that they could do.

00:51:00.700 Well, quantity has equality on its own, doesn't it?

00:51:03.200 Yes, as nice Mr. Stalin said.

00:51:05.240 I mean, it doesn't really paint a good picture for us if we're struggling to produce even like...

00:51:09.300 I'm going to get a bit closer to the mic.

00:51:10.520 Sorry.

00:51:10.940 If we're struggling to produce like basic infantry fighting vehicles, and you know, as you mentioned, the massive numbers that Russia's producing.

00:51:18.320 Yep.

00:51:18.780 And ours are coming out with hundreds of floors.

00:51:21.160 Our men getting injured, not even by the enemy, but ourselves.

00:51:23.940 Yes.

00:51:24.680 It's a bit of a...

00:51:25.700 It's a terrible condition to be in.

00:51:27.480 Like, we're trying to build bespoke, except we can't even do that very well now.

00:51:31.920 Yep.

00:51:32.180 We can't even screw things in properly.

00:51:33.860 It's all loose.

00:51:34.600 It's terrible.

00:51:35.280 And here's what Roussi is saying.

00:51:36.980 Roussi is the Royal United Services Institute, which is almost the think tank of the government.

00:51:43.600 It's where a lot of policy is formulated, and it's where the government gets its official views.

00:51:49.100 So they've had some pretty terrible views in the past, but at least here they're realistic.

00:51:53.920 And they say there remains little evidence that the UK has a plan to fight a war lasting more than a few weeks.

00:52:02.920 Medical capacity is limited.

00:52:05.520 Reserve regeneration pipelines are slow.

00:52:07.920 So the British plan for mass casualty outcomes appears to be based on not taking casualties.

00:52:15.140 Amazing.

00:52:15.580 And then the gentleman says this could be considered an optimistic planning assumption.

00:52:19.740 That's putting it lightly.

00:52:23.760 Yes, exactly.

00:52:24.360 So what's the...

00:52:25.920 Hold on.

00:52:27.200 There's something I want to get to here.

00:52:29.540 And then the same gentleman says that to fight a long war you need proper backup.

00:52:34.180 It demands a second and even third echelon, personnel, platforms, and logistics chains that can absorb losses and continue the fight.

00:52:42.700 But this depth is absent from current British force design.

00:52:46.320 So he mentions that you need logistics chains, implicitly industrial chains as well, to support them, like on which they would be built.

00:52:54.460 But they're absent.

00:52:55.820 And every industry in this country is collapsing because of high energy prices and taxation to death.

00:53:00.040 So the belligerence against Russia at a time when soldiers are actually dying, fighting for Ukraine, seems a little bit disconnected from the reality.

00:53:14.720 So what I was going to ask, is there just some kind of assumption going on that there would be a grand scale American bailout in the case of any larger scale war breaking out?

00:53:25.260 Because that's the only explanation that I can think for such haphazard planning.

00:53:29.520 Yes, that's the assumption.

00:53:32.340 But the American new national security strategy is all about reducing commitments in Europe.

00:53:38.280 Now, Congress just passed the Defense Authorization Act, which requires the Americans to keep not less than almost 80,000 soldiers in Europe for more than 45 days.

00:53:53.040 So they can't go below 80,000 for more than 45 days is the new thing.

00:53:57.660 But I don't know whether or not the president is going to actually implement the letter of it.

00:54:02.640 And the strategy is that, no, no, no, we need to get out.

00:54:06.320 And we need to let the Europeans defend themselves.

00:54:08.620 And that's what Trump has been saying for years now.

00:54:10.300 And that's what he's been saying for years now.

00:54:11.880 And that's increasingly the mood in America.

00:54:14.360 So it's not just Trump.

00:54:15.160 It's the public mood that says, OK, you guys are not doing your bit.

00:54:19.860 And in the long term, this is best for both America and Europe as well.

00:54:23.500 100%.

00:54:23.940 Yeah.

00:54:24.340 100%.

00:54:24.940 But we're just not ready.

00:54:26.700 No.

00:54:26.840 But the issue is that when the government is faced with this reality, they go on the defensive and say, well, we're spending 5 billion pounds to upgrade this and that.

00:54:36.580 Where you're spending maybe 10 billion on Ajax or 5 billion on Ajax and you're getting 600 vehicles over five or six years, eight years late after 15 years of design when the Russians are producing 500 vehicles in a month.

00:54:52.500 So there's a complete dissociation between what they're saying, what they're doing, and reality.

00:55:02.600 There is no connection between the three.

00:55:06.080 And they seem to think that this is good enough.

00:55:10.100 At least a big part of the problem, and I have to mention this, is the way that the culture and the armed services has changed. 0.98

00:55:17.280 So the RAF was complaining that pilots trying to, or people trying to become pilots, are useless white men.

00:55:29.320 And wokeness and environmentalism and managerialism and all of this BS has completely infected the armed forces, which is why you see them behaving the way they do about Ajax. 0.96

00:55:39.980 They're trying to find a bureaucratic solution.

00:55:42.020 Now this guy is saying that they're trying to find who is leaking information to him so that they can punish him.

00:55:49.520 But they are completely out of contact with the fact that if these vehicles are used in their current state, you might as well give them to Russia because they'll do more damage to Russia that way than if you try to use them against the Russian military.

00:56:02.940 And the complete culture of it has just been destroyed.

00:56:11.440 And you get these bureaucrats trying to run an army when armies aren't run that way. 0.98

00:56:17.880 And it's all about diversity and gender roles and integrating women in the armed services and trans this and DEI that.

00:56:24.460 And that's what you get.

00:56:27.020 That might be a new strategy given that increasingly young men of this country are not going to want to fight for what this country is.

00:56:35.500 So they're thinking maybe we can get the new people in to fight for the country.

00:56:39.120 But they don't want to either.

00:56:40.560 No.

00:56:40.800 Because this is their country.

00:56:41.820 I've always interpreted this as this sort of thing.

00:56:44.300 It's not necessarily just purely trying to expand this ideology to all aspects of society.

00:56:49.280 It's also that the military is sort of a stronghold and still is to this day of young white men who are patriotic about their country will fight and die for it.

00:57:00.960 And basically, when you're looking at that as a left winger or a sort of neoliberal bureaucrat, that's antithetical to your ideology.

00:57:09.140 And them having hard power is scary to them.

00:57:12.740 So the Saudis never wanted a strong military because they were concerned that it would lead a coup against them.

00:57:20.240 The royal family was afraid that they'd lead a coup against them.

00:57:24.540 So instead, they ended up sponsoring militias reporting to the different princes.

00:57:30.180 And it's the same mindset here that sees the military as a threat. 0.84

00:57:33.780 Because you know that the grunts who are joining the armed services are definitely not going to be happy with more Afghans, with more rapes, with more lunacy, with more transgenderism, with all of that, with all of the regime religion, essentially. 1.00

00:57:49.260 Some of the most right-wing people I've ever spoken to, the most patriotic, dyed-in-the-wool people, have been in the armed forces. 0.93

00:57:57.420 Exactly.

00:57:58.140 Exactly.

00:57:58.780 That's what they're there for.

00:58:00.360 They're there for the violently patriotic.

00:58:04.120 That's what they're there for.

00:58:05.040 And it's desirable.

00:58:05.820 It makes them better at fighting.

00:58:07.200 And it makes them better people.

00:58:10.940 I'm not at their level, you know.

00:58:12.600 I mean, it's the same when I've been, for the show that Samson and I do about, are doing about Japan.

00:58:20.180 I've been reading up about Japanese history leading up to the Second World War.

00:58:23.380 And it's just kind of funny how in the 1920s and 30s, what happens is you get the ultra-nationalistic army.

00:58:30.100 Just any time the emperor wants to set up a new government, the government don't do what the army wants.

00:58:35.620 They're not in the army's pocket.

00:58:37.160 The army's really unhappy with how their own family members are being mistreated at home because they were living under really bad conditions for the sake of rice farming, etc.

00:58:46.240 And it would just be the emperor sets up the government, army coups the government, kills the prime minister.

00:58:51.300 Emperor sets up a new government, says, don't you go killing my prime minister again.

00:58:55.700 Army goes, okay.

00:58:57.080 The next day, they coup the government and kill the prime minister.

00:58:59.540 It just happens over and over and over again until you do get to the situation in the late 1930s when it's basically the emperor's figurehead to a military state.

00:59:09.500 Yep.

00:59:09.780 So that's always a worry with these kind of corrupt regimes.

00:59:13.100 Yeah, absolutely.

00:59:15.080 Anyway, that's my segment.

00:59:18.900 All right.

00:59:20.320 Sorry.

00:59:21.180 There's rumble rants and such we can go through.

00:59:24.120 Danny, is it fair to say the UK is likely to rely on the US for production?

00:59:28.500 And we will just be a launch pad and punch bag.

00:59:31.580 Shout out to Timu Zelensky.

00:59:34.520 Basically saying, are we going to be used in the same way that we were in the Second World War?

00:59:38.840 Again, if Trump's got his way, I don't know if they'd necessarily want to be involved in it.

00:59:44.380 Sigil Stone, don't worry, Firas. 0.78

00:59:45.760 I'm sure all the new Ukadians that have been imported will form a mighty force that will bring diversity to Russia and China.

00:59:53.840 Russia, already a very diverse country, actually.

00:59:57.480 Like, very.

00:59:58.980 Sigil Stone, I think I found General Dynamics' problem.

01:00:01.940 The CEO is a woman.

01:00:03.360 Oof.

01:00:03.920 Big oof. 0.93

01:00:05.300 To secure pieces to prepare for war, quote, Metallica.

01:00:08.020 Yeah, that's a James Hetfield original.

01:00:10.820 Firas discovered the neocons were Trotskyist.

01:00:13.720 Fact I can't unsee.

01:00:15.760 There's a few good books on that as well.

01:00:18.000 I bet a few public...

01:00:20.080 No, we're not going there.

01:00:21.100 Yep, yep.

01:00:22.120 Thank you.

01:00:22.380 Oh, and Cranky Texan has sent in $10.

01:00:24.400 Thank you very much.

01:00:24.980 The Cold War never ended.

01:00:26.400 One side just shifted its operations center from the Soviet Union to China.

01:00:30.540 Our side, the Anglo-American Empire is hitting limits.

01:00:33.400 Can it even be considered Anglo-American anymore?

01:00:39.320 Can it even be considered American is my next question, but that's a different conversation.

01:00:43.560 Yeah.

01:00:44.720 Anyway, we'll go on to my segment then.

01:00:47.420 I don't need the box.

01:00:48.940 What do you think I am?

01:00:49.740 Weak?

01:00:50.260 My wrist works.

01:00:51.440 I can...

01:00:52.240 It's lots of practice, does it?

01:00:53.540 The mouse works.

01:00:54.180 Oh, you know it, baby.

01:00:55.820 Three days away from home.

01:00:59.640 What a way to start your segment, Harry.

01:01:01.820 That's not going on YouTube.

01:01:03.400 That is not going on...

01:01:05.340 That was a joke.

01:01:08.180 That was a joke.

01:01:08.480 Sure it was.

01:01:12.200 All those nights in Bristol.

01:01:15.640 Again, joking, joking.

01:01:17.700 It's a joke.

01:01:18.340 Don't clip that.

01:01:19.040 It's clipped.

01:01:20.320 See it right now.

01:01:21.260 Anyway, so institutional corruption is something that we're constantly having to fight against

01:01:26.920 when we talk about all of the horrible atrocities that are committed against our people.

01:01:32.340 Every single day, increasingly every single year with the greater importing of more and more 1.00

01:01:37.500 people that we see and many British people leaving the country along with that, meaning

01:01:43.380 the demographics are even more rapidly shifting every single year.

01:01:48.060 And it's interesting to look into it because you need to consider how much the institutional

01:01:55.460 corruption is purely as a result of ideology, that being that discussions of race, ethnicity

01:02:02.080 when it comes to issues like the grooming gangs don't want to be discussed because it makes

01:02:06.500 people's feelings hurt, feelings hurt, it goes against their ideology, or how much there

01:02:10.820 is actual institutional involvement in these.

01:02:14.480 And this is something that we have to see over and over again with social care workers

01:02:18.680 and the failings of them, failings of the police institutions as well, which is what this

01:02:23.860 whole thing that Labour have set up with the inquiry that has not, as far as I'm aware,

01:02:28.880 yet started properly because of all of the setbacks that they've had.

01:02:31.700 That was something that they were supposed to be looking into, but it's becoming increasingly

01:02:36.100 difficult to ignore all of that.

01:02:39.120 It has been difficult to ignore all of it for a long time.

01:02:41.800 And that's why, as Josh mentioned in his segment, you have the people like this Labour

01:02:47.040 MP, Mike Tapp, getting in trouble with his own party for saying that we need to identify

01:02:51.540 and address any links between ethnicity, religion and culture, and child sexual assault.

01:02:57.600 We won't turn away from this.

01:02:58.640 The victims come first. 0.70

01:03:00.460 Whatever you think of him being a Labour MP, that is the right approach to take for this

01:03:04.520 because these things are all connected and they cannot be ignored, how they play into

01:03:09.300 one another.

01:03:10.160 Of course, in response to that, he was told off.

01:03:13.000 There have been a number of Labour MPs complaining about his remarks on race. 0.97

01:03:17.820 The pig, whoever wrote this article for the news statements... 0.99

01:03:21.560 The piggy? 0.98

01:03:22.000 Yeah, the piggy, appropriate for a communist rag, has already seen one formal complaint from a

01:03:28.000 Labour MP to their whip, asking whether the government's official position is now that 0.98

01:03:32.220 BAME citizens or residents of the UK might have a high predisposition to be child sexual 1.00

01:03:38.220 assaulters. 0.98

01:03:39.260 Well, certainly judging by the statistics that we've seen...

01:03:42.140 They read data.

01:03:43.820 Massively so.

01:03:44.820 Other MPs have expressed unease about the post to the whip's office.

01:03:48.560 There were also ructions about Tapp's post in the Black PLP WhatsApp group on Wednesday

01:03:53.340 morning.

01:03:53.720 Why is there such a thing?

01:03:55.760 One MP was told by a whip that the matter was being discussed on Wednesday, but it's

01:03:59.400 not yet clear what the outcome will be.

01:04:01.420 Worth emphasising that investigating any link between ethnicity or religion and grooming

01:04:06.540 gangs is part of the terms of reference for the National Grooming Gang's inquiry and

01:04:11.100 was recommended by Baroness Casey in her audit of group-based child sexual exploitation.

01:04:16.900 And this was further reaffirmed back in September by Shibana Mahmood herself.

01:04:21.480 So it's interesting the kind of schizophrenic contradictions that are going on here, that

01:04:26.700 it's actually part of the government policy, it's part of what the government is aiming

01:04:30.100 to investigate with this inquiry, which is already stalling and has a lot of questions

01:04:35.260 about it, and then how they react to somebody simply restating those aims.

01:04:41.540 Their actual positions.

01:04:42.620 Yes.

01:04:43.340 It's the same as when Beau was kicked out of reform for saying, okay, we want to deport

01:04:48.240 all these criminals, here's how we would deport all of these criminals, and reform found that

01:04:53.220 very offensive.

01:04:54.140 They took that personally.

01:04:55.620 Very strange.

01:04:56.620 It's like they don't have any intention of actually following through, or didn't at the

01:05:00.340 time.

01:05:00.640 You can say that they may have changed their positions since then.

01:05:03.780 And again, the institutional aspect of it, because one of the things that's really slowed

01:05:09.020 down the inquiry, was the involvement of police officers and social care workers on the board

01:05:15.560 of those looking into it, and a lot of complaints from some of the victims, some of the survivors

01:05:20.560 who were also involved in it, who left, by saying that, well, these people are going to have

01:05:25.080 incentives to protect anybody that they may know, or maybe just the institution as a whole

01:05:32.300 who may have been involved in it.

01:05:33.940 Did you see the news that came out recently, that since people have been looking into the

01:05:38.740 Met police, they found that at least one officer was directly involved in the grooming

01:05:44.380 gangs?

01:05:44.900 Yeah, that's literally what I was looking into here.

01:05:47.140 Now, that ties into this, which is a new LBC, I know LBC, but they've done an investigation

01:05:53.360 where they found that the Met, brushed under the carpet, claims that an officer ran a grooming

01:06:00.440 gang that sexually abused girls in care, and that was according to this investigation,

01:06:05.140 also supposedly involved the activities of at least one MP and one judge, according to

01:06:11.540 one of the survivors who spoke to LBC about this.

01:06:14.960 And that means that not only is it the on-the-ground police force, because this was a custody officer,

01:06:20.180 so somebody directly involved in taking care of survivors and victims and people who are

01:06:26.240 outside of their own family's care. Not only somebody like that, but also the people who

01:06:31.320 are making policy and the people who are passing judgments in these cases was directly involved

01:06:36.880 in it.

01:06:37.340 Now, I do want to point out a few things about this investigation that kind of got my ears,

01:06:43.940 like, prickled my ears a little bit, which is that in this investigation they, and you

01:06:48.560 would expect this from LBC, they refused to name when they mentioned things like the Rotherham

01:06:53.300 grooming gangs, the Rochdale grooming gangs, the Bradford grooming gangs. They mentioned

01:06:58.720 that they were hid by the institutions and they were covered up for a long time. They

01:07:03.540 refused to name the reasons why that is. They just mentioned it as though it was just like

01:07:08.300 something that they did for reasons of pure corruption, without mentioning the racial aspect

01:07:13.560 of it. And in fact, the whole thing is kind of strangely deracialized, which may be something

01:07:20.760 that some of these more mainstream platforms are aiming to do now. They're going to start

01:07:24.980 to try and acknowledge that grooming gangs are a thing, that they've been operating for

01:07:28.960 a long time, but they're going to try to perhaps deracialize it.

01:07:33.380 I think there's already rhetoric in existence at the minute. Whenever you bring up the grooming

01:07:36.740 gangs, there'll be a picture of one in, like, Scotland where it's white people and like,

01:07:41.360 well, people of all colours take part in grooming gangs. And it's like, well, no, not only is

01:07:46.640 it disproportionately a certain section of the population, but also, yeah, and also our

01:07:52.920 homegrown people are our problem, whereas the people we've let in the country... 1.00

01:07:56.840 We don't need to import more of this.

01:07:58.720 No, exactly.

01:07:59.740 So, and that's something that we'll be discussing for our premium subscribers on the round table

01:08:04.280 that we'll be doing after this. We'll go into more detail on that. But as well, the officer

01:08:09.060 that they're investigating, you only get a very brief glimpse of him near the end of it,

01:08:14.120 but he does appear to be white. So, again, this is one of those questions where you can

01:08:19.780 say that maybe there's a racial aspect for people like this gentleman, PC Ditter, who

01:08:25.620 was arrested back in 2019 for alleged involvement in a grooming gang and child sexual exploitation.

01:08:33.420 He was working for West Yorkshire Police, so you can be assured that that probably would

01:08:37.040 have been around Rotherham. Ironically, he'd been trotted out a number of times in the mainstream

01:08:41.860 media as an advocate for racial diversity and racial integration and cohesion within

01:08:48.140 multicultural areas and within the police. He was the guy that they brought out to say,

01:08:52.680 look, they care just as much about the community as you do. That was a case that has now been

01:08:58.060 dropped. But you could say that if there were failures with the West Yorkshire Police, that

01:09:03.520 was because, one, he was involved, allegedly, and two, he had a racial incentive to do so,

01:09:10.240 or a religious incentive to do so. This one, whoopsie daisy, might have just been the fact

01:09:17.060 that, you know, this guy was just directly involved. There are corrupt people within these

01:09:22.760 institutions who are just sick, sick creeps and individuals who want to hide this in a 0.97

01:09:29.380 kind of Jeffrey Epstein manner, in that they're all involved in it, so it helps them to keep 0.96

01:09:35.240 it out of the public eye. Can I say something ever so quickly about this? Yeah, of course. I'm just

01:09:38.860 going to put my tinfoil hat on, which I very rarely wear, but in this instance, I find the

01:09:44.400 absence of grooming gangs and the discussion around grooming gangs in London for such a long

01:09:49.460 time very curious. And the fact that you mentioned a judge and an MP being involved makes me think

01:09:53.920 that perhaps there's a much stronger political incentive to keep those under wraps than perhaps

01:09:58.800 the other parts of the country, which is why it's taken so long. That's the thing that's explained

01:10:03.180 in the documentary, in that you hear about it all in the North, and the phenomenon seems to only

01:10:08.220 really be discussed in the North. Obviously, we have transcripts from the one that happened in

01:10:12.320 Oxford, but that's kind of an outlier. Mainly, it's considered, like, in Yorkshire and Greater Manchester,

01:10:19.320 whereas he speaks to some specialists on the subjects, and he says, no, this is widespread

01:10:24.280 in London as well. It just, for whatever reason, and I think we can see some of the reasons

01:10:30.060 here, does not get the same eyes on it. Wasn't the Oxford Ring trafficking girls to London?

01:10:35.840 Around Slough. Right. People, I believe they were trafficking them around the country, parts

01:10:41.500 of the country around Oxford, and then also people from communities in Slough, Bradford,

01:10:47.560 Rochdale, all of those places would travel to the areas around Oxford to abuse the 0.89

01:10:54.260 girls that these people were trafficking. So, they say in here, yep, they've got the involvement 0.76

01:10:59.460 here. The Met launched a criminal investigation at the time. This man left the force in 2012

01:11:04.620 whilst under investigation, which should not have been allowed. He had to get it written

01:11:10.120 off for him by a superior officer that he was allowed to leave the force at the time, which

01:11:16.380 again suggests even greater institutional involvement. But there was also the victim, the survivor,

01:11:23.680 who said that the officer had abused her multiple times as a child and shared her with other,

01:11:28.880 quote, important men at a hotel in Park Lane in central London.

01:11:34.040 LBC understands the other men included an MP and a judge. LBC can reveal the officer was

01:11:40.780 allowed to retire as a custody sergeant while under investigation. In 2012, officers under criminal

01:11:46.240 investigation could only retire with permission from a senior officer. They also spoke to a former

01:11:51.580 detective about the case whose identity they're protecting. He said, quote,

01:11:57.180 this lady had been arrested recently and when she got into the custody area, she was shocked to see 1.00

01:12:01.080 who the custody officer was. This lady had been in care as a child and they used to run away 1.00

01:12:05.800 from care and come into London. That same officer used to pick her up with other girls sometimes,

01:12:11.280 take them to an address in London where he and several other powerful men would sexually abuse

01:12:16.020 them. She said one of them was a judge. I then phoned the on-call detective chief inspector,

01:12:21.560 told him the story, told him that I recognized who it was because of the way he is and that this

01:12:27.300 woman is definitely telling the truth and it needs to be looked at. So he's calling just for an 0.74

01:12:30.700 investigation on the basis of these allegations and he said, no problem, leave it with me. I'll look

01:12:35.920 into it. I naively thought it was being looked at. Then within a month, I was told that he retired.

01:12:41.500 At that point, you could not retire if you had an outstanding complaint against you. You couldn't

01:12:46.180 resign or you could not retire. So I thought it was just brushed under the carpet and that nothing

01:12:50.560 had been done. There's no way he should have been allowed to retire. And being asked directly by the

01:12:55.440 interviewer here, he says, was this a cover-up? Yes. Yes. By definition. Clearly a cover-up.

01:13:01.340 They tried to get in contact with this officer and he said no comment when they went to his address.

01:13:07.780 But then they sent a letter to him detailing all of the allegations and testimonies that they

01:13:12.460 gathered as part of this. And the officer replied and said he was investigated. Clearly not. He just

01:13:18.300 retired while the complaint investigation was outstanding and cleared of the allegations

01:13:22.880 and denies the new claims. I believe LBC tried to look into whether there was any records

01:13:27.960 of this investigation clearing him. No, wasn't. In a statement, he said, I categorically deny the

01:13:35.660 allegations. They also say here, there are also questions as to why the officer was not

01:13:39.780 investigated as part of a major review by the Met looking into allegations of sexual and domestic

01:13:44.600 abuse by officers between the period of 2012 and 2022. And that was part of the larger investigation

01:13:49.700 that came off the back of the murder of Sarah Everard by Wayne Cousins. So all of this is very

01:13:55.600 strange and suggests a high level of institutional involvement and corruption, not only by this officer,

01:14:03.400 but as stated there, also by MPs, by judges, by senior officers. Whether or not that they were

01:14:10.900 directly involved in the abuse of girls, they at least knew enough and cared little enough about

01:14:17.460 the abuse going on to protect this officer. That's what it comes across as here. We do not know his

01:14:24.260 identity. That has been kept off of the record, of course, because this is allegations and testimonies.

01:14:29.360 But it does suggest that there is a reason why we do not hear much about any of this happening

01:14:34.980 within London, despite the huge population of foreigners and criminals and other people who 1.00

01:14:41.700 you would expect to engage in this behavior. It's likely because the higher powers are directly

01:14:47.540 involved in it. It's pretty awful.

01:14:50.460 I was to put on my own tinfoil hat. I'd go a little bit further. I'd say that this is a threat to the

01:14:58.540 grooming gang investigation, saying that there are other abuses that we can expose if you expose this.

01:15:06.460 I mean, potentially. But that's what's going on in London right now.

01:15:10.120 No, no. I just thought it was absolutely wicked, to be honest. Wicked, not in a positive connotation,

01:15:16.360 of course. But just horrible that this has been so clearly covered up and there's been no regard for

01:15:22.440 our women and that she'd come to the police with this issue and it's been like, oh, I'm going to look

01:15:29.640 into it. And he clearly hasn't.

01:15:31.780 And it's the same story that we hear each time as well, that these are vulnerable girls in the care system.

01:15:39.740 The assumption is, well, they're disconnected from their family or their family doesn't care about them.

01:15:44.480 There's no one to protect them. They are easy meat. And that's not just something that we see with the

01:15:49.260 foreign grooming gangs. Apparently, it's even with the abusers within the system itself.

01:15:53.360 And it's horrifying to think that these girls and their lives are so carelessly thrown aside for the

01:15:59.280 sake of indulging in evil.

01:16:02.020 If the care system is that bad, first, it has to be fixed. And second, there has to be an answer to why

01:16:10.700 that many girls end up in care. Why are families breaking down? Why is society falling apart? 0.98

01:16:16.840 Why are they being put into these vulnerable positions in the first place?

01:16:19.500 To the extent that families aren't taking care of their young girls. That is also part of the problem.

01:16:26.800 Is there too much gambling? Is there too much drugs? Is there too much drinking?

01:16:30.280 Should some of these things be better regulated to make sure that families don't fall apart in this

01:16:36.660 way? Is divorce too easy in a way that leads to just girls not being cared for because their parents 1.00

01:16:43.420 are off pursuing other partners rather than remaining in a family home?

01:16:50.740 Is there something within the culture that's promoted to these people that encourages them to engage in

01:16:55.520 these behaviors?

01:16:56.100 Exactly. Is promiscuity being presented as something that is good or liberating?

01:17:02.260 Yes.

01:17:03.060 Clearly it is.

01:17:04.060 So all of these things that are broken in Western culture because of the loss of Christian family

01:17:14.240 values are contributing to it. And then you have this bunch of animal-like predators who are running

01:17:23.200 around exploiting the actual victims of family breakdown and of the loss of social cohesion

01:17:30.640 who are young girls. And it has to be looked at from both ends. What should be done to strengthen

01:17:37.960 families? What kind of belief systems does a society need to have strong families? And why are

01:17:45.240 there animals roaming the streets?

01:17:48.680 I think that's absolutely true. I was about to say it is largely a cultural issue and I'm glad you

01:17:53.240 covered that bit at the end. But the matter of fact is these men are still here. It doesn't matter

01:17:57.800 whether these girls were in care or not. If they weren't, they'd probably just end up grabbing someone like we 1.00

01:18:03.000 saw at the start of the podcast in the other set of segments. You know, there's still these men who would go

01:18:09.080 around abusing young women. And that's an issue.

01:18:13.480 And these are the kinds of men who would do it regardless of the girl's family. I mean, they're just sort of

01:18:18.200 picking up a random 15 year old from the street. In Oxford, there was a story a couple of weeks ago.

01:18:24.920 It turns out that some girl was going from one place to another and he just grabs her and rapes her.

01:18:31.800 And so the animals being on the street are 70 percent of the problem, 80 percent of the problem.

01:18:39.800 But there is that other percentage of the family breakdown.

01:18:42.360 Yeah, there's the there's the family breakdown. There's the criminal elements. And to get back to

01:18:46.280 the criminal elements in this report, and then I'm going to finish the segment for time and also

01:18:50.840 because there was there was more, but it doesn't really matter. And it's not as connected to this in

01:18:55.400 the report in the investigation when they're speaking to the specialist who's telling them about how

01:18:59.960 this is definitely something that happens and is widespread across London and it's not reported on.

01:19:05.480 He also talks about how the care homes themselves, one of the reasons for it being so widespread

01:19:11.080 in these care homes is that the industry having been privatized means that many criminal gangs just

01:19:18.040 outright buy these places up and use them to filter these girls through. So it might be that the criminal

01:19:24.600 gang will buy them and then they'll get a raft of girls through. Perhaps all of them are seen as easy 0.99

01:19:29.400 targets or perhaps simply the most vulnerable ones will be picked out from them and then abused,

01:19:35.800 maybe given drugs, given alcohol, because if these are criminal gangs, they'll have access to all of

01:19:40.120 these vices as well. And then potentially and there needs to be much more investigation done into this.

01:19:46.280 This is the tip of the iceberg. Perhaps then they're trafficked as well. And given the kind of nature of

01:19:52.040 gangs that we're talking about, it may not only be domestic trafficking, it could be international

01:19:56.440 trafficking in the same kind that we see across Eastern Europe as well. So this is only the tip

01:20:02.360 of the iceberg. There is a reason outside of just the ideological multicultural reasons why this is

01:20:09.480 kept from us. It also goes into the institutions as well with some very sick and corrupt people in charge 0.96

01:20:17.000 of these women's safety. Blimey. All right. Nice fun one to end on there. 0.96

01:20:22.920 It was. It's important stuff, though. Do we have any video comments, Samson, or should I just go to

01:20:27.720 the written comments? Let's go through a few of these while he's getting some of the video comments.

01:20:32.040 I'll write the ones for my rumble. I can't see them here.

01:20:35.240 With what you say, I see nationalism rising in Britain and the more that they say that this is

01:20:39.400 Fed posting, it only causes it to grow in strength, look over the parties in Europe like those in

01:20:45.160 Germany and Sweden. I'd also say in Australia as well, there's a very, very strong nationalist movement

01:20:50.680 in Australia. It's not strictly Europe, but it's a European-British country. Also, with the ones 0.96

01:20:55.720 from Scotland, didn't they get tried and arrested really quickly, unlike the kerfuffle we've seen

01:20:59.960 with every other non-white grooming gang? I don't know about the ones in Scotland, to be honest. 0.69

01:21:04.040 I think they did. Yeah, they did. The Romanian gang. 1.00

01:21:07.960 Yeah, it turns out that they were two Roma who ended up being arrested for these kinds of things.

01:21:12.680 What a surprise. Some say the bread and circuses will prevent any action, but forget that the bread

01:21:17.400 has mold and the circus is boring. Yeah. Yes. Yeah, let's watch some of these video comments.

01:21:21.800 And to the deus vault comments, yes, we agree, but we are on social media.

01:21:28.680 A spokesman said, this is the one thing we didn't want to happen.

01:21:35.400 Elon, what are you doing? Did you see the video that came out from his ex-AI conference?

01:21:40.920 I did, yeah. And it's like, at least 50% Indians.

01:21:45.800 More than that, even, I would say. Probably more than that. And it's like, you can't keep

01:21:50.200 pretending to be a nationalist whilst also promoting this. Somewhere amongst that crowd

01:21:57.320 was the face of Inevitable West. He was there, somewhere. Shockingly, the only white man in the crowd. 0.58

01:22:05.000 Ultimate twist.

01:22:07.080 I can't find many details about Sarah Johnson, which may be for the best. I recommend buying

01:22:11.960 this book if you want to discover the absolute worst way to write. This is not an analysis so much

01:22:17.160 as a fervent call for revolution that browbeats the reader with repetition of its core claims.

01:22:22.200 Wealth is unequally distributed, big business has too much power in politics, and multiple other

01:22:26.920 injustices, all seemingly correct but claimed without evidence, that can only be corrected by a communist 0.54

01:22:33.400 uprising. Yes, that is the clarion call of this book.

01:22:38.440 So you're telling me a woman wrote a book where all the arguments are just scolding? I can't believe 0.99

01:22:44.120 that. Yeah, come on.

01:22:45.560 But on a slightly more serious note, the conservative position was always mistrustful of too big business.

01:22:51.640 Of business being too big.

01:22:53.480 Even free marketeers, the general idea is that competition keeps business small because

01:22:59.240 business grows too large and it's bad for the economy and for itself.

01:23:03.240 Exactly.

01:23:03.560 Yes, absolutely.

01:23:04.920 So to read some written comments, Ed Miliband harnessing Enoch's spinning grave.

01:23:10.680 Still enjoying that name.

01:23:12.360 Royal Leamington Spa is not so pleasant now because it's proximity to Coventry.

01:23:16.200 I went there quite often while at university.

01:23:18.040 It's a lovely area, but some very unsavory people there now.

01:23:21.160 I was accosted by homeless people each time I went without fail.

01:23:23.960 The last time I was there, to be fair, was about eight, maybe even nine years ago.

01:23:28.760 Now I've lost track. It seems recent, but it probably wasn't.

01:23:33.720 I'm getting on in years.

01:23:35.240 Russian Garbage Human says, he's quoting,

01:23:38.840 did you ask them these questions? 0.76

01:23:41.480 What's the point?

01:23:42.360 Firas, an Afghan migrant has won an asylum case to stay in Britain after answering,

01:23:46.840 I don't know, more than 150 times during a home office interview.

01:23:50.280 I just saw that.

01:23:51.480 Is that real?

01:23:52.680 I see he's got a link.

01:23:54.200 That's real.

01:23:55.160 That's real.

01:23:55.880 It was on the Telegraph.

01:23:58.760 They might as well literally do the thing of the home office interview,

01:24:02.280 is them just saying, give me orange, me eat, give.

01:24:04.840 Give me orange, me eat orange, give, give.

01:24:07.320 And they go, well, rubber stamp you straight through, brother.

01:24:11.240 Also that Simpsons meme where it's like, are you about to commit a crime?

01:24:13.960 And it's the policeman.

01:24:15.160 It's just got like a tick box.

01:24:16.680 It is that laughable, isn't it?

01:24:20.680 And one more from my segment.

01:24:22.840 Justin Phillips says, be careful.

01:24:24.440 I'm publishing German government statistics can get you arrested.

01:24:27.240 I'm sure the German government will have a word with

01:24:31.640 Keir Starmer, I'm going to say.

01:24:33.640 But you've used some more colorful language there to get you extradited.

01:24:37.160 I don't think the Germans are going to come for me.

01:24:38.680 Well, one thing I had that I didn't really mention in the segment for time

01:24:43.000 was that in Germany, a Turkish guy stabbed his wife to death.

01:24:47.640 And after publishing his nationality being Turkish in the media,

01:24:52.120 the city's integration officer condemned the publishing of the nationality.

01:24:56.920 And the thing is, this was in upper Bavaria.

01:24:59.480 And that state has just passed a law meaning that they're actually,

01:25:02.360 and this is kind of an improvement, they are going to publish the nationality

01:25:06.520 of the criminals, the people perpetuating crime, no matter their passport.

01:25:13.080 So even if they've got a German passport, they're going to start to actually say,

01:25:16.760 well, this person is originally Turkish, this person is Syrian, yada, yada, yada.

01:25:20.520 But it's weird, again, the schizophrenic contradictions going on.

01:25:24.440 They still have an integration officer saying, no, that's very naughty, go straight to jail.

01:25:30.600 When we win, I'm going to make it compulsory for them to take ancestry DNA tests 1.00

01:25:34.760 and just bring it up. 0.99

01:25:36.440 Just like, here's the exact recipe of this scumbag. 1.00

01:25:39.640 Here you go. 1.00

01:25:40.440 All British criminals confirmed to be Irish after that.

01:25:44.600 I wonder if there's an integration officer anywhere.

01:25:46.760 I want the opposite.

01:25:47.560 It's somebody who hides the truth from you.

01:25:49.320 You want a disintegration officer, don't you?

01:25:51.080 No, I want to be...

01:25:51.720 That sounds amazingly sci-fi. 0.86

01:25:53.800 I want these people gone.

01:25:55.160 I'm sure there's a disintegration officer on the death star.

01:25:59.560 Disintegration officer, yeah.

01:26:04.040 I'm going to go through your comments.

01:26:06.200 Yeah, sure.

01:26:09.640 Sophie Liv says, I'm glad all of this imported labor to build our houses and military equipment

01:26:14.360 are delivering top-tier service.

01:26:16.840 Yes.

01:26:18.520 Michael says, back in the 80s, I was always impressed by the skill and ability of British forces I worked with.

01:26:24.280 As I've said before, the thing that made Britain impressive was that they were

01:26:27.800 highly effective militarily on a shoestring budget.

01:26:31.800 Yeah, that now it's spending too much and not getting enough results.

01:26:36.040 It's the same thing that made us win the war for the sea.

01:26:39.640 The Spanish went for firepower, the French went for hull strength, and we went for good trained men. 0.54

01:26:44.920 And it turns out good trained men wins every time.

01:26:47.480 We've still got that same philosophy.

01:26:48.760 We just don't have the money to...

01:26:50.360 The training isn't as good as it used to be.

01:26:52.200 That too, yeah.

01:26:53.160 I think the fact they're trying to replace them with no straight white men is going to kind of

01:26:58.440 cut that down a bit as well.

01:26:59.480 From what I've heard, it's not working though.

01:27:01.240 They're still getting straight white men. 0.63

01:27:03.080 Binary Surfer says, the MOD abandoned buildability studies, how you can actually get something from

01:27:11.400 a drawing concept to plans and engineering diagram, all the way back in the 2010s.

01:27:17.000 This is catastrophic in infrastructure projects, same applies here.

01:27:21.240 It's why Hinkley Sea partly is running at 300% plus of original budget.

01:27:27.880 Yep.

01:27:28.440 Fair enough.

01:27:30.360 Lord Inquisitor Hector Rex says, there's a game called War Thunder.

01:27:35.400 That's a military game.

01:27:36.440 Are we suddenly sponsored by a War Thunder?

01:27:39.000 Are we going to get the advertisement just pop up right now?

01:27:41.720 Bang.

01:27:41.960 If you want to sponsor me, please do.

01:27:43.320 Tell the game developers the specs of the tanks aren't correct and get ignored.

01:27:48.680 They proceed to leak the official designs to prove them wrong.

01:27:52.840 It happens consistently.

01:27:54.360 Yeah.

01:27:54.760 If you want military secrets, the War Thunder forums are genuinely the best place to go,

01:27:59.240 but don't do anything with them because that's bad.

01:28:01.880 That's incredible.

01:28:02.920 That suggests, that implies that the War Thunder players doing that are insiders,

01:28:08.200 who already have access to all of this.

01:28:10.200 Yep.

01:28:10.600 Which kind of makes me want to explore that game.

01:28:12.520 I haven't been gaming, but you know.

01:28:14.120 The only people more autistic than train autists is tank autists. 0.99

01:28:19.560 This is true.

01:28:20.280 England has bred an amazing variety of autisms over the years. 1.00

01:28:24.360 It's beautiful.

01:28:24.760 Yeah.

01:28:25.160 Yeah.

01:28:25.880 Samson's looking at us over the screen.

01:28:27.720 Dirty Belter, great name, says the term grooming gang is itself obfuscation. 0.99

01:28:37.640 Yes.

01:28:38.280 Even when we can discuss this, they hide who was involved and downplay the seriousness

01:28:43.080 of the crime.

01:28:44.040 To know the true name of a thing is to hold power over its language as a perceptive tool. 0.97

01:28:48.920 That's why they will not let you utter the phrase Islamic rape gangs. 1.00

01:28:52.520 That's also part of it, but also just like sex slavery is what most of these girls end 1.00

01:28:57.640 up being forced into.

01:28:59.000 Yes.

01:28:59.400 As we mentioned with the case of Oxford that we'll look at a bit more in the next round

01:29:03.880 table, you know, these girls were used as slaves so that the people who owned them could 0.98

01:29:10.440 profit off of them.

01:29:11.480 It was horrible.

01:29:12.440 It is horrible.

01:29:13.000 It's like just the term grooming doesn't really emphasize how horrible and how much damage

01:29:17.320 it is, you know?

01:29:17.880 I mean, I mean grooming only really describes the initial stages of when they are folding

01:29:23.240 these girls into their criminal enterprises. 1.00

01:29:25.240 And after that is when it becomes rape gangs, sex slavery, human trafficking, just a criminal 0.90

01:29:32.200 enterprise.

01:29:32.840 It is unfortunate that YouTube sort of forces you to have to use a euphemism to discuss these

01:29:37.880 things because-

01:29:38.600 And it's deliberate.

01:29:40.360 Yes.

01:29:40.600 Yeah.

01:29:41.000 Control the words that you use, you control the thoughts.

01:29:43.400 Omar Awad, nobody is watching the Watchmen, but everyone can see that nobody is watching

01:29:47.960 the Watchmen.

01:29:48.520 People are already beginning to form their own Watchmen.

01:29:50.840 It won't be much longer until trust in the system collapses entirely.

01:29:54.120 I think as generations begin to melt away and the older generations who are a much larger 0.62

01:30:00.600 portion of the population end up passing away and the younger generations realize that

01:30:06.840 they are rapidly becoming a minority in their own countries.

01:30:10.280 I mean, the trust is almost already gone.

01:30:13.480 But once those people who are older, who still have that ingrained trust in them start

01:30:18.760 to pass away, it's going to become clearer and clearer.

01:30:20.920 Yep.

01:30:21.320 Just free of the floor.

01:30:22.360 So, one honorable mention before we go.

01:30:25.800 North FC Zuma asks, Harry, when is your next episode of Journey to the East with Samson,

01:30:30.440 also Samson, more 40k?

01:30:32.360 Well, we were thinking about doing it this month, but given that we're doing a follow-up

01:30:36.680 to the Silent Hill thing, we're going to do a part two on that looking at the second

01:30:40.200 half of the series and some of the more recent stuff, and there is a new film, a sequel film,

01:30:45.000 coming out in January. We thought we would postpone it just a little bit until January

01:30:50.600 so that we can add a review of that in and look at it more as a whole.

01:30:55.240 Okay. Well, thank you very much, Callum, for coming in.

01:30:57.720 Thanks for having me.

01:30:58.360 And sorry to the audience, to depressing you all, and you know, have a nice weekend

01:31:03.640 and everything. Try and cheer up.

01:31:05.240 It's only Thursday.

01:31:06.360 I know, but I'm not going to be here on Friday, so I'm wishing them a weekend in advance.

01:31:10.040 Does it just feel like a Friday?

01:31:11.480 Yeah, tomorrow I'm spending the day reading at home, it's going to be nice.

01:31:14.440 That sounds lovely.

01:31:15.320 But anyway, bye.

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