The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Lifting of the Veil

00:00:00.060 Hi folks, welcome to another one of our political chats. I'm joined by Dan, and today we're going to be talking about the strange but revelatory position that British politics is kind of shifting into.

00:00:09.760 Because previously I've said that essentially the tectonic plates of British politics are shifting, and we're seeing it basically everywhere.

00:00:16.760 And this is actually a really interesting time period in what is to come.

00:00:22.920 Because there's something about the old world that's dying, and something about the new world that's being born.

00:00:27.340 now i don't know whether that's good or bad just to be clear well the old world dying is definitely

00:00:32.780 good yeah but the new world might not be any better yes better the devil it could be way worse

00:00:37.800 well sure how but it could be sure but yeah but these things you never know in advance right yeah

00:00:44.040 it can't possibly be worse and then you know millions dead in mouths great famines right my

00:00:48.360 experience politics over my lifetime is things can always get worse so yeah i shouldn't be too

00:00:53.200 hopeful exactly so anyway let's let's just begin with the polling because the polling is quite

00:00:58.140 interesting this is uh you gov poll which is very very recent which shows reform and labor

00:01:03.800 neck and neck on 23 percent the conservators on 20 i mean this has been pretty much unchanged

00:01:09.160 about three weeks now it's been it's been a while uh yeah nothing nothing has shifted but this has

00:01:15.700 um it's kind of like uh falling through a series of floors and then you hit a floor you think

00:01:22.840 right i'm going to stay there but you can hear it creaking yes because something is going to change

00:01:26.580 about this right um if we can actually click on oh it's a completely unstable position i mean it's

00:01:31.160 we've got a two-party political system with five parties in it so yeah yeah and so here here is the

00:01:36.900 polling of the time and as you can see burnham comes in and he gets this bounce and reform have

00:01:43.880 gone down so on the average of the polls it's 24 22 so the yougov poll is pretty much smack in the

00:01:48.340 middle it has them the conservative slightly over but that's fine um i kind of noticed though that

00:01:54.120 everyone seems to be ticking down a bit isn't that interesting the average of the polls everyone's

00:01:59.520 like yeah go down okay fine so we're in we're in this position where again there feels like

00:02:06.340 there's something of a log jam we're waiting for it to to burst and help us get out um restore

00:02:12.440 are doing fairly well four percent on average which is a fair start for a young party and uh

00:02:18.820 we recently had a more in common poll that put us at six percent which yeah i mean the difference

00:02:22.420 with this poll being that they actually prompted for restore yeah whereas most of them so when you

00:02:26.740 see that average of on the previous screen of three that's because they don't prompt but as

00:02:30.440 soon as you do prompt it's worth an extra six points and look my key takeaway from this is

00:02:35.580 look now you've got labor and reform sort of about the same level because one of them is basically

00:02:39.700 giving free money to lots of people

00:02:41.660 and supporting the public sector

00:02:43.620 and the other one proposes

00:02:45.840 to do something about some of these problems

00:02:47.600 whether they will or not is a different question

00:02:48.980 but

00:02:50.320 Farage was offered a deal

00:02:53.700 he was offered a deal

00:02:55.180 now six

00:02:56.240 if Rupert came out and said look we've done a deal

00:02:59.680 we're going to compete in just these ten

00:03:01.620 constituencies whatever it is

00:03:03.100 if you live in them please vote for us

00:03:05.440 but otherwise please vote for reform

00:03:07.540 and Farage did likewise

00:03:09.680 for those 10 constituencies.

00:03:11.920 If you were to add 6% onto that,

00:03:14.020 that's 29%.

00:03:14.860 He's Prime Minister.

00:03:17.140 It's a lot closer than it is at 23%.

00:03:18.920 In a five, six-way split like this,

00:03:21.520 29% would do it.

00:03:22.840 Probably.

00:03:23.280 Without making Prime Minister.

00:03:24.240 And he was offered that on a plate

00:03:25.660 and all he had to do

00:03:26.920 was basically eat a modest amount of humble pie.

00:03:31.060 Actually, they both would have been

00:03:32.140 because they both fell out with each other.

00:03:33.780 They did.

00:03:34.380 Yeah, they'd both have to eat a bit of humble pie.

00:03:36.140 um and um hard to imagine either one of them doing it frankly yeah but rupert did offer yeah he did

00:03:42.620 and um yeah and reform would basically have to commit to do the things that their voters think

00:03:48.980 they're going to do anyway and they couldn't do it and and he was offered the prime ministership

00:03:53.920 and he turned it down and now he's in this situation with a with a changed labor leader

00:03:57.100 yeah nigel france clearly thought i don't need these people and it turns out you do what i find

00:04:02.560 interesting as well is that Labour is once again becoming the party of the left right after the

00:04:06.240 expulsion of Keir Starmer we'll be talking about Keir Starmer's resignation shortly Labour once

00:04:12.560 again became party of the left and so the Greens have been on their downswing for a while because

00:04:17.460 Labour have absorbed three or four percent something like that so one of the things that

00:04:22.340 you and I do which I suspect most people watching this don't do is is watch the left-wing podcasts

00:04:27.100 oh yeah and um they were getting very excited about a year ago six months ago yeah because

00:04:33.120 i mean it looked like i mean the greens at one point overtook labor well i mean at the point

00:04:37.140 you got there they'd just been coming up on quite a strong trajectory and and and lots of the left

00:04:41.480 wing podcasts talk about oh maybe the greens are going to be the official opposition you know maybe

00:04:44.900 they could win in a couple of elections but no these people are naturally just left wingers and

00:04:49.280 left wings will just gravitate to the strongest left wing platform and also they they want to be

00:04:54.680 in labor they want labor to be the party of the left and so it has been but well left-wing politics

00:04:59.760 is all about the state gives me stuff yes so that that's why they naturally gravitate to whoever

00:05:05.780 was most likely to give them stuff and you know labor got the lead and so therefore you know if

00:05:10.080 you're if you're unwashed you go to the labor party they do but also um labor have a um

00:05:17.140 a pedigree in this that they are because i mean remember andy burnham's makefield campaign was

00:05:24.360 very much a restore labor campaign it was highly traditionalist it was deeply deeply traditional

00:05:29.980 and i mean his his basic argument was i'm going to make the labor party for us again so it's a

00:05:37.080 very sort of you know politically nativist message that he was putting across it wasn't any radical

00:05:41.480 nonsense it was actually incredibly conservative by this and by for us we mean not net taxpayers 0.97

00:05:47.600 yeah yeah we mean for the sort of soft-headed left because they're retarded yes um anyway so 0.96

00:05:54.620 the the left is quite split i mean i don't know if i even consider the lib dems to be on the left 0.99

00:05:59.660 it's not that i don't it's not that i think they're right wing it's i think the lib dems

00:06:04.120 are basically a special interest group for well-to-do parts of rural britain well the

00:06:08.960 lib dems is basically a party for people who think that reality doesn't have to apply to them

00:06:12.360 as we saw in Pittington we're not going to talk about that today but uh but yeah you see reality

00:06:17.760 creeping up on them and suddenly the liberal democrat refugees welcome credentials go straight

00:06:22.720 out the window so this this is why I tend not to include the liberal democrats on the left because

00:06:26.540 I don't think they are left-wing per se I think they are I like to virtue signal to my neighbors

00:06:33.300 right that's what the Lib Dems mean it means I'm doing well enough to be able to ignore politics

00:06:38.200 yes and okay great good for you but uh you know that's not necessarily a left-wing voting bloc

00:06:45.360 yes it's a form of abstaining that you actually do in the ballot box it actually is yeah which

00:06:50.180 is normally what the conservatives are anyway um so the most important issues are pretty

00:06:55.100 straightforward immigration and the economy the economy is terrible obviously but the immigration

00:07:01.020 is worse and of course these things i mean it's amazing isn't it that that labor are as strong as 0.99

00:07:07.100 they are in the polls, and they can't

00:07:09.220 talk about the top two issues. They can't talk

00:07:11.120 about economy. They can't talk about

00:07:12.980 immigration. They do talk about 1.00

00:07:15.200 aspects of the economy, like your

00:07:17.140 bus fares.

00:07:19.960 They talk about

00:07:21.260 how to make the deficit even

00:07:23.160 wider. I mean, we've got interest

00:07:24.720 rates creeping up on like 6%.

00:07:27.340 I'm laughing, but the new budget is going to

00:07:29.120 be abominable. Next

00:07:31.140 month is going to be awful.

00:07:33.080 Did you see, what was the name?

00:07:35.260 Healy? John Healy.

00:07:37.100 yeah yeah he came out and said look it's worse than we realize it's like no that's exactly what

00:07:40.940 rachel reeves said we know it's worse than you realize because literally you've been in power

00:07:45.460 for two years now but in john healy's case he was in the cabinet he was he was defense secretary

00:07:50.400 yes so it's not like did he not talk to rachel reeves did they have no conversations but the

00:07:54.900 point is it's not a surprise that the country's finances are foobard i think you don't you don't

00:08:00.000 even need to have a one-to-one conversation with rachel reeves to know that the uk finances are

00:08:04.500 heading towards collapse all you need is two things a basic grasp of economics and a calculator

00:08:10.380 and i'm pretty sure they have calculators they're also in the labor party yes so anyway the point

00:08:15.920 being immigration is now 49 the most important issue for almost half of the country is immigration

00:08:22.880 right this is the one issue they can't actually talk about properly they can talk about oh we're 0.85

00:08:28.080 trying to stop the boats look at the hell you are yeah yeah but okay even then it doesn't matter 1.00

00:08:33.340 you could stop every single boat and our town centers will still be flooded with immigrants 0.96

00:08:36.680 like no one will notice that you've stopped the boats because these people didn't come on the 0.69

00:08:40.320 boats and yet labor can say nothing about it right um defense which is becoming more of a salient

00:08:47.340 concern as the world becomes more uncertain is something that for immigration they have decided

00:08:53.280 they're going to cut they're going to cut defense spending for welfare payments and it's okay that

00:08:59.020 is just incredible uh welfare is a salient issue for one in five people and of course the nhs will

00:09:05.740 always have its adherence so the point is the country's got problems really big problems and

00:09:12.160 they're really solvable problems just not by a labor government it's not like any of these are

00:09:19.280 intractable yes which of these are they strong on i mean like health and welfare but if we define

00:09:25.780 strong as spending more on it but they haven't got the income to pay for anything yeah exactly i

00:09:31.320 mean all of these are completely solvable problems just they're outside of labor's wheelhouse anyway

00:09:36.220 so let's talk about reforms millions because the other day the reform party received not one but

00:09:43.260 two promises of donations for the tune of 36 million pounds each that was a good day for them

00:09:49.980 yeah two 36 million pound buses turned up i mean what were the odds this is crazy right and i want

00:09:57.600 to put it into context for people just how crazy it is so so far in the year of our lord 2026

00:10:03.860 all of the political parties prior to this announcement it's going to be less than this

00:10:09.200 isn't it it's probably not 41 million all of the political parties all of them put together right

00:10:15.620 reform so far this year have been the highest grossing party at nearly 15 million then the

00:10:21.480 conservatives at 10 million then labor at nearly 8 million right if we go back to 2025 just so you

00:10:27.260 can see full year yeah full year it was the conservatives at 21 million reform on 19 million

00:10:34.160 labor at 9 million lib dems 8 million so it's interesting how despite being the government now

00:10:39.120 Labour are still unable to raise, well, I mean, half of what reform the Tories were getting.

00:10:45.240 In the year of 2024, I don't know where exactly I have to click to get this now,

00:10:50.340 although I've already, oh, there we are.

00:10:51.920 In the year of 2024, an election year, the entire raise of every single political party in our political system was 97 million.

00:11:01.940 So that's like the high watermark, nearly 100 million.

00:11:05.520 yes and reform have been promised almost like three quarters of that yes in one year you're

00:11:14.260 giving this context so any american viewers watching who think what they've got 76 million

00:11:18.560 is that it yeah exactly yeah our politics is cheaper the point is it's it's more than everyone

00:11:24.480 else combined by a generous generous degree well yeah it's almost double yes everyone else has

00:11:30.640 raised i mean it probably is and to be clear i don't care if you've got money and you want to

00:11:33.720 give it to a political party and fine whatever do that yeah i mean why shouldn't you be able to do

00:11:38.760 it absolutely if it's your money you can do with it what you want what what well i mean just a

00:11:43.460 quick aside what the hell are they supposed to do for money if people can't donate money to them

00:11:48.100 well they were well a lot of people on the left would say there should be state funding of 0.95

00:11:53.700 political parties so that's a good idea taxes should go to fund the islamic that's that's a 0.93

00:11:59.320 brilliant white men party yeah because you're going to get the opposite party 10 times over 0.96

00:12:06.020 because there are way more patriots than there are muslims in britain right so yeah i mean i again i

00:12:13.060 don't like if they were like yeah we'll do it by i don't know party membership you get under 10

00:12:17.780 pounds worth of funding every year for each person they'll probably do it on actual election results

00:12:23.700 or something like that oh that wouldn't be fair though would it you know they would have to well

00:12:28.160 it's an incumbent baking in system yeah well there's a reason i don't think they're going to

00:12:32.220 do it right because it it because they i think they'll be looking at it through the lens of

00:12:37.700 well who has the most members and it should be per member that you get money and then the

00:12:42.240 labor party be like great that's us right um yeah i mean they would certainly like that because if

00:12:48.960 it's anything like um postal votes you'll have one flat in in camden which has got 300 people

00:12:57.120 in it all members of labor well which is true but remember like the it's not that the left won't

00:13:03.260 join political parties they absolutely will under jeremy corbyn labor had 500 000 and when you

00:13:08.180 compare this to like what it was like in the beginning of the 20th century where each of

00:13:11.300 these parties had millions of members um people are quite checked out of politics but that i i

00:13:17.800 think that labor would want to do it on the number of members because they would look at that and go 0.99

00:13:21.720 right that's the most money coming to us then right i mean that that's dangerous with zoomers 1.00

00:13:25.320 around because with the internet around well yeah because because a lot of them will mean this i 0.96

00:13:29.960 mean some zoomer will say okay i'm starting the nazi party then and millions of zoomers will think

00:13:34.960 that's funny i'm gonna join that hundred thousand of them join the nazi party and then the british 0.76

00:13:39.200 state has to fund it exactly so basically those people who are like well i don't know we must

00:13:44.140 have alternative funding methods well cope seethe and you don't understand the pandora's box you're

00:13:49.300 opening yeah you know you who knows who knows how big the count bin face party ends up getting

00:13:53.840 right what if what if a hundred thousand of count bin faces fans join his party and now you've got

00:13:59.360 to pay count bin face a million and a half every year or whatever it is you know like that you

00:14:03.780 don't know the the can of worms are opening um anyway so let's yeah go on to uh the the donations

00:14:10.240 so the first was from ben delo a crypto entrepreneur and the co-founder of bitmex trading

00:14:15.720 platform who gave him 36 million from his crypto profits uh in uh september 2026 uh to prepare for

00:14:23.680 the 2029 election uh he was previously convicted in the united states in 2022 for anti-money

00:14:29.780 laundering program failures before receiving a presidential pardon so quite similar to george

00:14:34.760 i don't know the details in that case but the biden regime was basically going after every

00:14:41.960 crypto firm with anything they could come up with yeah so i don't know if that's legit money

00:14:46.260 laundering or i'm not saying it is the thing is when this information gets to the general public

00:14:52.140 that won't matter oh yeah that that distinction will be lost yeah it'll just it'll just be okay

00:14:55.780 another crook is funding you then exactly same with george cottrell i don't know what the actual

00:15:00.740 particular circumstances of his gambling platform were but it won't matter when it gets the public

00:15:06.000 not when it's compressed down to a headline or or sky news covering it which will be which will

00:15:10.040 be framed in the most uh to make faraj look as grubby and as slimy as possible yeah uh and then

00:15:16.540 christopher harbourn who remember gave him the five million personal gift that he failed to declare

00:15:20.660 which provoked the clacton by-election for nudge or resigning um he's said well i'm going to give

00:15:26.800 him 36 million as well and apparently according to a source in reform more donations to the party

00:15:34.080 are coming it's like right do you need more donations can you refuse donations well i mean

00:15:42.160 they got they got two tendencies pulling into opposite directions i mean yes they do need to

00:15:45.760 build out party apparatus they need uh regional organizers they need um support mechanisms that

00:15:52.360 goes in i mean ideally any professionals yeah if ideally they could get back to the point say the

00:15:57.800 conservatives were in in the 80s which is every constituency has a paid party agent who organizes

00:16:03.900 the campaign for the candidate, gets in touch with all the local supporters, and you leaflet

00:16:11.280 it, and you do everything from there. But that's quite expensive to do these days, and

00:16:15.100 that's why a lot of the big parties, they don't have constituency agents anymore. With

00:16:20.100 this type of money, you could do it. So it solves a very real organisational challenge

00:16:25.080 of reform, while creating this perception problem, which is now pretty much entrenched

00:16:31.900 as farage is never well farage could be bought i'll simplify it down to that oh you know what

00:16:38.020 i forgot to get it up for this but i actually went and checked nigel farage's cameo the other day

00:16:41.660 he's actually turned it off you can't now request a video from nigel farage oh no which he must be

00:16:49.180 gutted about because that was 16 grand a month he was making out of that yeah well i'm sure

00:16:52.660 i'm sure charles haywood wanted him to wish big chungas i wanted to commission one for this

00:16:58.740 yes recording but i couldn't do oh okay

00:17:00.600 anyway um so this this is a concern for the powers that be

00:17:08.080 uh labor have been taking this really really badly right really badly um angela rayner as

00:17:14.600 you can see there is like well we're going to strengthen the rules to ensure that democracy

00:17:18.820 is for the people and not people with billions of pounds able to buy their way in it's like but

00:17:22.800 they're british citizens they haven't broken any rules this is just normal rules i know it's

00:17:28.960 people online were pointing out well i mean you get millions and millions of pounds in donations

00:17:34.680 from charities refugee councils the unions like the you have even people who run hedge funds are

00:17:42.500 given the labor millions of donations they have a massive amount of wealth that comes in it's just

00:17:50.560 that there is more wealth outside of it that they don't receive well and a lot from unions of course

00:17:55.420 yeah absolutely so if so a billionaire individual is bad but a a you know billion pound union

00:18:02.320 that's not a problem okay apparently it's completely fine but you can see that the the

00:18:07.740 the fear and panic they think right okay we now have to change the rules the rules were there

00:18:14.000 well and retrospectively of course oh yeah yeah absolutely that's exactly what's going to happen

00:18:18.660 is absolutely going to be retrospective um as uh the bbc have pointed out um they're going to uh

00:18:25.160 try and make it uh backdated that they'll put in a hundred thousand pound cap to political to party

00:18:31.680 donations from british expats backdated to the 25th of march oh i wonder if that was written with

00:18:38.360 anyone in mind well exactly it's just okay so this is basically cheating right yes if halfway we sit

00:18:44.240 down and have a game of chess and then halfway i'm like well actually i'm allowed to move my

00:18:48.160 thing in certain ways and you're not allowed

00:18:50.180 to move yours in certain ways and therefore

00:18:51.840 I'd be like okay well I can change

00:18:54.160 where my bishop was from seven moves ago 0.59

00:18:56.000 exactly yeah oh I needed to be a square across

00:18:58.000 actually yeah too bad you weren't

00:19:00.480 and so it's

00:19:01.780 obviously just cheating from the

00:19:04.040 Labour Party because they

00:19:06.000 are afraid that Nigel Farage

00:19:07.980 will have a much more powerful party

00:19:09.680 if reform win the first thing they should do is pass

00:19:12.040 a bill saying that you can't take money

00:19:13.940 from trade unions and backdate

00:19:16.200 it 100 years

00:19:16.980 and just say to labour okay now you've got to pay back tens and tens of millions from the year 1904

00:19:24.300 yeah i mean it would just implode their party obviously um anyway the uh the trade union boss

00:19:31.140 paul noack has said the donations to reform are quote a crisis for our democracy well he's just

00:19:37.480 complaining that they've been outbid yeah the trade unions won't be able to be the king makers

00:19:42.260 anymore yes and well of course that's a crisis for our democracy for him because it's his power

00:19:49.620 that's being that's waning well when he says our democracy he doesn't mean our as in all of us in

00:19:55.660 england he means our as in me and my friends for our democracy yeah the democracy we purchase

00:20:01.820 yes is in crisis because the democracy they're going to purchase is way more like it's completely

00:20:08.980 disproportionate anyway this is gonna be debated in the lords sadiq khan has been made a lord today

00:20:14.040 by the way uh so he has taken his seat in the house of lords sadiq khan yes is he still he's

00:20:20.360 still mayor man uh london though isn't he yeah i think so oh he's just okay he's just kissed armoured 0.91

00:20:24.500 so i'll make him a lord as well just because screw you he also he played he paid that um 0.96

00:20:31.660 was it christopher worm old is it uh that the civil servant oh yeah that guy yeah he paid him 0.97

00:20:37.260 860 000 pounds as a sort of golden goodbye as a golden parachute of some sort it's like that was

00:20:43.920 his golden parachute yeah phil starmer paid him 860 000 i mean if you work being forced to resign

00:20:50.420 if you work for one of these four mentioned head funds i can understand you getting an 800 000

00:20:55.840 pound payout out he's a civil servant i mean this is an important job a civil servant what why is

00:21:00.760 civil servants getting best part of a million quid for being fired great question great didn't

00:21:06.860 realize we did that i mean okay fine that's another thing to yeah well this is the point

00:21:11.520 isn't it they're complaining well this private money is being paid to nigel farage with as far

00:21:17.920 says no strings attached and to be honest with you probably not any strings attached they probably

00:21:22.240 want nigel farage to do what nigel farage is saying he's going to do all right and they're

00:21:27.260 complaining oh well i mean people are buying our democracy just just sack another 95 um civil

00:21:33.740 servants give them all um 800 000 pounds and get them to donate it to the labor party you can have

00:21:39.280 72 million as well yeah but this is the thing it it's not like they don't receive and their

00:21:44.280 their clients don't receive huge amounts of money it's just they're annoyed when someone else

00:21:49.360 receives it and so angela rayner i mean look at this quote nigel farage's sugar daddies made their 0.96

00:21:54.740 money in crypto but there is nothing cryptic about the motors yeah they're going to kill you all

00:21:58.940 says angela rayner they're gonna they're gonna send i don't know what tesla robots down working

00:22:03.820 class streets in manchester and start gunning people down what are you saying angela like she

00:22:09.740 actually in the speech she goes on say yeah they're gonna take away all the workers rights

00:22:12.740 you're gonna end up with nothing you're gonna be literally like slaves it's like angela like i

00:22:17.240 realize this is this feels to you like an existential crisis it's like oh my god other

00:22:22.520 people might be able to actually have money and work in politics we need to stop that it just

00:22:28.040 looks so bad when they come out and go right okay we need to change all the rules retrospectively

00:22:32.480 because we weren't prepared for them having support how dare they i mean it's clearly i

00:22:38.040 mean it's very obviously it's just a threat to them yes and they need to ban it and then they

00:22:42.720 need to find a justification for what they're doing and the danger is when you send angela

00:22:48.600 rainer up to be the one who has to think on her feet and rationalize that out it comes across as

00:22:54.340 very obviously okay yeah we're just we're just trying to hurt our political opponents by making

00:22:58.180 illegal something that's always been legal yes that is exactly what it is exactly and again

00:23:04.760 they're acting as if they're going to be in charge forever and at some point they won't get a right

00:23:10.400 wing government that remembers all of the things that they did and all the precedents that they

00:23:14.540 took if you can start retroactively changing the rules about how our democracy works unilaterally

00:23:21.500 on your loveless victory from 2024

00:23:26.160 where you've already sacked out one prime minister

00:23:28.800 and put in a guy who won one constituency

00:23:31.200 that has always voted for Labour.

00:23:33.780 Trust us, we are going to remember it

00:23:35.800 when we finally win the next election, right?

00:23:38.560 And they've given us a huge bunch

00:23:40.260 of very useful precedents like that.

00:23:42.700 I mean, we can apparently change the franchise

00:23:45.160 whenever we want.

00:23:46.060 We can take away citizenship whenever we like.

00:23:48.640 So, I mean, thank you, Labour.

00:23:50.340 Thank you, Keir Starmer.

00:23:51.200 thank you shibana mahoud thank you angela rayner we're going to basically make it so your political

00:23:55.400 party is impossible no more trade unions as you said you know this is actually an undemocratic

00:24:00.440 interference in the democratic process sorry they can only donate as individuals that's you could 1.00

00:24:06.400 literally make that a law you could make anything a law so just be aware of what you morons are doing 0.98

00:24:12.040 anyway the the takes though are just terrible right the attacks from labor on on the reform 0.98

00:24:18.140 party just anyone really on this have been really terrible i mean you've got angela rayner being

00:24:22.560 like yeah there's nothing cryptic about their movies they're gonna grind you all into a fine

00:24:25.660 paste and then you've got like this from the labor press outlet farage knew putin was using

00:24:32.920 crypto to evade war sanctions but invested in it anyway cryptocurrency well that doesn't make any

00:24:38.600 sense no it doesn't make any bloody sense but crypto russia farage no no no retards farage 0.74

00:24:44.980 knew that putin was enjoying the same sun that he lives under ban the sun farage was sunbathing 0.74

00:24:52.160 while putin was sunbathing you know it literally is like crypto isn't like a political

00:24:57.680 i don't know i like this is the most nonsense there's nothing here there's just nothing here

00:25:04.840 like yeah the farage also drives a car putin drives you could do that with any other currency

00:25:11.100 you could say literally garage knew that drug dealers are selling smack in pound sterling at

00:25:17.940 the same time as he uses pound sterling taking five million pounds donation from christopher 0.92

00:25:23.700 harbour or they bought gold or something like this is literally much ridiculous unhinged takes

00:25:30.560 that they're having but it's an emotional reaction searching for an explanation exactly that's

00:25:35.020 exactly it's an emotional reaction searching for an explanation so yeah as i said they of course

00:25:39.640 want to make it illegal uh farage understands that at the moment it might be legal but it's

00:25:44.460 going to be made retrospectively illegal which i don't even i didn't even know you could do that

00:25:48.840 frankly i thought that there were rules about laws that couldn't be retrospective but again

00:25:53.640 well no parliament is sovereign can do anything but sure but okay it's extremely rare to do

00:25:59.840 retrospective stuff because it's a horrible precedent if you start if you start making

00:26:03.620 that part of our political culture you can do stuff retrospectively you i mean you might as

00:26:07.680 anyone who gives a visa to an immigrant retrospectively a crime is it exactly it will

00:26:14.400 be when we win i mean rupert lowe has actually said that he will uh do that retrospectively as

00:26:18.900 well so okay fine fine we're you know all bets are off right there's a there is a mortal struggle

00:26:24.620 for the nature of our country's political future and past right that's what we're looking at because

00:26:30.280 in in previous eras we didn't have this kind of thing go on because we had a kind of gentleman's

00:26:36.060 agreement in our politics is that we weren't going to try and ruin each other we understood

00:26:39.480 we all had to live in the same country together the the government would refer to the opposition

00:26:44.240 as the loyal opposition his majesty's loyal opposition right it was understood that this

00:26:49.440 country was for all of us and actually the other fellow has a legitimate claim and so do you and

00:26:55.880 therefore you have to negotiate it out yeah that's not what labor are doing now no that's not what

00:27:00.200 they're doing i mean the whole way that politics democracies work is that you need losers consent

00:27:04.700 and loser's consent only applies if the winner isn't vindictive and spiteful yeah but it seems

00:27:10.540 like we're just doing away with all of that now and like you say labor just assumes they're going 1.00

00:27:14.000 to stay in office forever yeah labor are just too stupid to understand the norms that they're 1.00

00:27:19.100 violating right they're just too dumb because they're literally run by people like annie burnham 1.00

00:27:23.960 and angela rayner they are not very bright people and everyone knows it david lammy the deputy prime 0.98

00:27:29.740 minister hasn't had an intervention here and said listen actually that's a very bad idea because of

00:27:34.440 xyz that happened in 1920 or whatever and you'd think david lemme would be the deep thinker to

00:27:39.120 arrive at that sort of point yeah exactly anyway so as i said earlier right nigel farage took the

00:27:44.540 five million and from this point onwards there's been a kind of stench of corruption around farage

00:27:50.780 now i don't think he's actually done anything wrong no well none of this bothers me in the

00:27:55.260 slightest no but nevertheless as you said correctly when i started making distinctions

00:28:00.500 about you know one of these investors and okay was it really okay none of that is going to go

00:28:05.340 through to the public level it's just going to be oh look reform are taking money again from 0.73

00:28:10.240 foreigners again nigel's like it's not just foreigners either nigel's always been quite

00:28:15.040 money grubbing right he's like rupert lowe had a dinner with him years ago where he said well 0.93

00:28:19.880 you've made your money i need to make mine you know things like that it's evident that nigel

00:28:23.700 farage expects to be a multi-millionaire boomer at the end of this it's like okay well now you are

00:28:29.280 and you're paying the price for it right um of course nigel didn't declare this and that's what

00:28:34.120 caused him to resign for clactin triggering the clactin by-election which he obviously won but

00:28:38.440 there's probably going to be another clactin by-election that he'll have to win which he

00:28:41.540 doubtless will but um and then you had the verbatim sting that we uh covered uh recently

00:28:48.720 um where he was apparently on board with taking money from an american millionaire or billionaire

00:28:55.240 that was funneled through his son who had lived in britain for whatever the request yeah so again

00:29:00.040 legally but but faraj he can't do the thing which which we just did which is he should just sit

00:29:05.180 there and say yeah what's the problem well what do you get you do the trump thing the trump thing

00:29:10.380 when he was questioned on his taxes he said yeah that makes me smart yeah everyone does it yeah

00:29:14.900 but he can't do that because faraj concedes to the left-wing frame yeah he thinks in liberal terms

00:29:22.620 which is okay yes there is something a bit grubby about money but he can't help himself but he also 0.51

00:29:27.020 wants their approval that's the thing exactly the approval of the libtard journalist yes and so it 0.72

00:29:32.760 comes across as just slimy and deceptive yes so i mean god knows what this is doing to his 0.92

00:29:38.040 bloody approval well it's got to be hammering well we'll talk about it a minute because it's

00:29:42.260 not going great but i mean this this was the worst kind of sense oh yeah well i wasn't listening to

00:29:46.940 the donor as we were talking and having oysters so okay like yeah i don't believe you for a start

00:29:54.380 obviously you were listening and the the thing you would have it would have been better if you'd say

00:29:58.580 is well they all do this yeah it would have been way better trumpian style so they come back with

00:30:04.020 strength instead he came back with weakness and said yeah i i don't really pay attention i haven't

00:30:09.040 got a mastery of detail i don't listen to my briefings uh oh and by the way i should be prime

00:30:14.220 minister yeah he's just making it worse because he like you say he wants the approval of the lefties

00:30:19.340 yes uh and so yeah let's let's get to his political favorability ratings i mean this is uh

00:30:24.820 andy burnham he's actually in the positive at the moment rare for a politician yeah but that's

00:30:30.400 because andy burnham has studiously been avoiding any leadership yes right andy burnham is governing

00:30:36.820 as if he's still the mayor of manchester right he's come out and said oh i'm going to cap your

00:30:40.920 bus fares i'm going to make sure your grocery bills don't get too expensive okay that's all

00:30:45.840 nice stuff yes but that's really not speaking to the issue are you going to go down to piddington

00:30:50.780 and speak to those people yep are you going to explain to them why your government is going to

00:30:54.260 put a thousand five hundred rapists in their in their town no you're not you're going to avoid it

00:30:58.940 you're going to avoid anything that might be difficult he's just going to make videos of him

00:31:02.540 eating pork scratchings and playing the guitar with all these david brent moments that he do

00:31:06.460 and the thing is he hasn't been seriously tested yet he hasn't yet had and we know it's coming in

00:31:10.800 a week or a month or whatever it is the next massacre the next massacre is going to happen

00:31:16.220 he's been challenged the budget is coming and he's going to be challenged oh yeah he really is at the

00:31:21.280 moment avoiding anything but the budget will be one of those things where are you going to go

00:31:25.400 you've got to answer i would certainly not bet any money on him remaining favorable

00:31:29.340 no i i wouldn't and uh anyway getting down to nigel farage that's a bit of a gap that's not

00:31:35.000 good that's really not good i mean back in uh april 2025 yes is favorable peaked at 32 percent

00:31:42.680 i think it was yeah there we go august 2025 32 percent i know my old man eyes are going but is

00:31:48.500 that is a 69 to 24 yeah it is yeah and now it's uh less than a quarter of people favorable and

00:31:56.160 uh well two-thirds more than unfavorable there's not a lot of daylight left to squeeze out of the

00:32:03.920 rich public so this is why i'm wondering if these donations aren't something of a poison chalice

00:32:10.420 because okay let's say you've got a huge amount of money to now spend on national infrastructure

00:32:16.640 but if the press can constantly poison the minds of everyone by saying well look

00:32:20.640 he's a money grubber and he's all look at he's grubby he stinks of corruption he's constantly

00:32:26.460 trying to take far and he can't explain himself after the event a bit like angela rena and he

00:32:29.960 can't give him yeah can't give him give a good accounting of himself afterwards well i don't

00:32:34.900 know if the money is going to make things better for you because i mean remember the conservatives

00:32:38.860 and labor were raising tens of millions of pounds and everyone hated them like there's this fiction

00:32:44.420 in politics this this strange fiction that enough money makes means you can make yourself popular

00:32:51.180 what didn't work for bloomberg did it when he was uh running was and the logic is just

00:32:55.880 fundamentally different in the u.s because they would look at donations like this and just

00:32:59.460 no one would batter an eyelid yeah but proportionally speaking yeah there's even if you

00:33:05.840 even even if the democrats got six billion donation tomorrow yeah but proportionally

00:33:11.940 speaking there's just no evidence for it right it seems that money follows popularity yeah that's

00:33:17.120 that's what happened like back here how much were reforming let's go back for the three years

00:33:21.980 right back here how much were reform raising here like how much were they getting there

00:33:26.300 no it's the after the popularity then he gets the 36 million when they're on the downswing

00:33:32.320 money doesn't precede the popularity and yet for some reason our political class are convinced 0.99

00:33:38.360 that it does it's like no idiots you know actually doing the things you say you're going to do 0.99

00:33:42.920 is what actually makes you popular and well bear in mind we live in a country that thinks it can 0.99

00:33:48.940 fix the nhs by just throwing another billion at it and after that has happened okay it wasn't that

00:33:54.880 billion it was the next billion and we just we've just done that for 30 years well yeah

00:33:58.060 but the point that i'm making is there's i don't actually see any evidence that money makes someone

00:34:03.180 popular you know having access to a huge amount of money actually makes you popular actually being

00:34:07.640 popular is what makes you popular as in being the kind of person people like makes you popular i

00:34:12.920 mean how much did andy burnham actually campaign on in makefield probably not that much yeah how

00:34:17.840 much he actually campaigned on generally probably not that much all all things considered i mean it

00:34:22.180 helps that he was pretty much backed by all the mainstream media sure it does but you you can't

00:34:26.460 just buy that out right they will have their own opinions um just as a quick thing as well quick

00:34:33.080 side there's a really funny attempt at a hit piece on rupert lowe because they were like oh well we're

00:34:38.060 getting money in politics and so the sunday times are like well an event in mayfair rupert lowe

00:34:43.080 says he rejected a donation from elon musk but he did deliberate okay what's the story here then

00:34:48.280 can i take that money and someone said no you can't take that money so i said okay i won't

00:34:52.620 take that money he thought about it yeah and it is a little must we're talking about i mean if

00:34:57.080 if it had been he was he was offered a deal by satan and he thought carefully before rejecting

00:35:02.900 it that's one thing but it's no it's it's it's elon musk the most successful man in the world i

00:35:07.260 mean yeah again this is one of those attacks that left-wing journalists think that's all you need

00:35:14.000 to say yeah but again for us we just okay but even but even if i don't know why even if you're

00:35:19.740 the most left wing of left wingers you didn't take the money yeah so what your what's your

00:35:25.000 argument here like i kind of want to know why he didn't take the money should well presume because

00:35:29.500 it was a foreign donation you know that that was made legal in like 2023 or something by the

00:35:33.860 conservatives i would i would have liked to have seen it yeah uh anyway right so let's let's go on

00:35:37.700 to the Holborn and St Pancras election right so Keir Starmer decided he would resign his seat of

00:35:44.300 Holborn and St Pancras that's this area here so this uh this is roughly that area there right 0.55

00:35:52.160 now as you can see this is proper inner London this is you know yeah black cab territory yeah

00:35:58.640 yeah it is absolutely it's right next to the city of London there right but as you can see at most

00:36:03.560 it's about a third english and at worst it's about 25 so if we roughly estimate that combined

00:36:11.460 the average is about 30 english i think that's a fair guess or at least it was in 2020 so basically

00:36:18.000 it's flipped if you're white british and you live in holborn it's it's basically backwards from the

00:36:22.320 rest of the country yes you're the minority here yeah to be fair most of the people you see in

00:36:27.920 holborn won't aren't necessarily the people that live there because because it's so central london

00:36:32.160 a lot of people work um we'll go to a theater show there a whole bunch of these things and so

00:36:37.080 a lot of the people you see on the street aren't actually residents of holborn itself but yeah of

00:36:41.300 the ones that do it's the ones that are most of them are non-british yeah uh in fact we've got

00:36:46.240 a significant bangladeshi community that um it goes up to uh quite large numbers 18 to 18 percent

00:36:53.960 in sort of the northern areas god knows how a bangladeshi can afford a flat in holborn that's

00:36:59.560 because i assume there's like 70 of them living in the syria flat social housing oh because remember

00:37:04.860 half of london's social housing is occupied by people who are born overseas and then the rest

00:37:10.920 of it is not going to be occupied by like you know white british anglo-saxons who got off 0.92

00:37:14.460 the ship with hengis and horser those would be a bunch of other minorities right so like there's

00:37:19.500 going to be plenty of social housing so anyway there's a significant because if you wear a tie 0.82

00:37:25.140 to work for some reason it's perfectly fine to commute for an hour but if you're if you're doing

00:37:29.800 a public sector job you have to be living next door to it for some reason yeah there's also a

00:37:34.400 significant uh chinese community there for some reason uh but what there isn't a significant

00:37:39.320 community of indians very very few only a few percentage and pakistanis right oh really okay

00:37:47.000 pay attention to that because this will become relevant later uh some more granular i'll let

00:37:52.340 you know so it's more granular information it goes all goes all the way

00:37:55.780 to Kentish town actually let's have a quick yeah so so this sort of area up

00:38:01.220 here right yeah there we go so okay let's let's just get back on there yeah

00:38:05.840 so yeah very few Indians no Pakistanis fair amount Chinese down there and

00:38:12.740 fair amount of Bangladesh he's up there you also have some Africans by the way

00:38:18.020 just so you know oh thank goodness yeah we didn't have enough 13 11 7 you know there's like there's

00:38:25.440 a fair number of and these are not caribbeans because remember the caribbeans and the africans

00:38:30.760 tend not to associate with one another one percent caribbean 10 african the the funniest racism i've

00:38:39.120 ever seen in london it's always between the africans and the caribbeans they don't like the 0.71

00:38:42.460 caribbean no i've seen it get lively more than more than one occasion yeah and it's you can tell

00:38:49.000 by the accents um anyway so yeah so there's no indians no pakistanis no caribbeans either of

00:38:55.700 note uh there are a surprising number of bangladeshs chinese and africans so it's right it's the modern

00:39:01.440 uh migration right it's not it's not um should we say historic migration it's not a wind rush

00:39:07.840 or anything like that it's not the pakistanis and indians who fled idiyameen or anything like that

00:39:14.700 it's the last 10 years worth of essential nhs workers exactly care home workers and yeah exactly

00:39:20.560 very very recent so anyway we've got uh some more granular detail here um so i'm gonna just get up a

00:39:27.460 few other things so we've got uh where is it country of birth is a useful one and then we've

00:39:33.540 got ethnic group here so we'll get ethnic group uh national identity and why not religion as well

00:39:39.160 um i mean we can get proficiency in english too why not screw it let's do it um so anyway if i can

00:39:45.460 get it to scroll back up which for some reason is not right so obviously it's a constituency so

00:39:51.160 you've got about 100 000 people in it look at 44.8 percent of them maybe 45 percent of them

00:39:56.460 born outside the uk it's exactly as you thought it it doesn't mean that of the proportion that

00:40:02.020 were born in the uk that doesn't mean that they're english though no it absolutely doesn't we've

00:40:06.060 already seen that that's about you can still be bangladeshian born in the uk sure but we know that

00:40:10.760 the english population is about 30 yeah so we've already checked that right so but 55 born in the

00:40:17.100 constituency okay well great you know that's that's brilliant it's a proper colony of globalism 0.74

00:40:23.280 right so and then when it comes to the ethnic group no notice how it just has the flat white

00:40:29.680 there right that's why i got the other one up previously so you can see that actually uh 30

00:40:35.060 might be english but 25 are europeans this will become important later as well so put a note in

00:40:42.680 this okay depending this as you can say about 10 are black of some form they're africans because

00:40:48.140 they're not the caribbeans and uh 21 are asian in some form they are bangladeshies because the

00:40:54.900 indians and the pakistanis are basically not there so at least we know right uh when it comes

00:40:59.680 to religion a lot of them are atheists a lot of christians uh 20 muslim and if we can if i can get

00:41:05.980 this to go down even further um only 78 of them uh have their main language as english and uh

00:41:12.780 apparently 12 of them can speak english very well well that's encouraging i guess interesting i'm

00:41:18.580 sure that that's uh i'm kind of misreading that i'm sure that's 12 in addition to the 78

00:41:24.700 percent perhaps i don't know but anyway so the point is as you can see it's a very diversified

00:41:29.860 constituency yes but it is literally a constituency of globalism right it is europeans it is africans

00:41:36.660 it is bangladeshis it is chinese and then you've got 30 percent white british as in the english

00:41:42.340 who for some reason clone on there right now that that makes um campaigning here a very interesting

00:41:48.160 thing right as in what constituencies are you appealing to and why well well yeah yeah you're

00:41:56.440 getting several versions of your leaflet aren't you you absolutely are but you're gonna need quite

00:42:01.440 a few versions yeah so labor have decided we're gonna run a somali immigrant she was born in

00:42:09.140 somalia she came to camden when she was about four years old as a refugee and she's grown up there

00:42:14.960 obviously and now she's like yeah and so i should be the mp of camden it's like you know what labor

00:42:20.120 why not i mean i mean why stop there i mean as soon as she wins they should make her leader and

00:42:25.920 then both both of the main parties can have a leader who who is a is a first generation african

00:42:32.040 immigrant i mean that's really what we need that would be the cherry on the cake that would honestly

00:42:35.760 yeah again if we're talking about the the lifting of veils and the revelation

00:42:40.660 what our system is actually for why not yep why not i genuinely want the british public to have 0.74

00:42:46.980 somalia i think somalia sudanese uh and a nigerian immigrant like here take your pick

00:42:54.100 these people are going to be governing the country now like this is what the system is trying to

00:42:58.380 accomplish we have got to get to the point where the entire selection of people that you can vote

00:43:04.140 from nobody in 1950s britain could pronounce the names yes and they had literally no ancestry prior

00:43:10.580 to that yes uh anyway that's the labor candidate and this is fascinating because i mean not only

00:43:16.200 is kia starmer getting great replaced but it's like because it comes for us all kia exactly 0.50

00:43:22.180 we've all been there bro um but again she is a literal first generation refugee immigrant right

00:43:30.700 yes so okay that's that's well she's actually a refugee as well she's a refugee oh she didn't 0.59

00:43:35.180 even bother to do the kemi badenock thing which is to no no no okay she's a refugee from the

00:43:39.540 sudanese civil war i think it was i mean we'll watch or sudanese is my home

00:43:44.440 when i was a child my family came here as refugees fleeing the war in somalia

00:43:50.620 oh there we go there's a war in somalia right so she's a somalian refugee so brilliant why not

00:43:56.480 that's that's labor's candidate right um and burnham is going to be using this as a test run

00:44:01.760 as to whether it's called a general election an early general election it's like well um

00:44:06.520 call me cynical but i'm not sure this is terribly representative of the country

00:44:12.500 well maybe it'll be representative of the country after a few more years of immigration

00:44:20.120 maybe it will but i don't know i'm just not convinced but the source in labor said if we

00:44:27.520 can beat polanski in a by-election it will show that labor is in good shape to fight a general

00:44:30.660 election i mean it does look like quite a good labor for a quite good constituency for the green

00:44:37.060 party yeah if they wouldn't if they weren't plummeting in the polls post burnham well it's

00:44:42.300 interesting isn't it right because actually the green party is a party of ethnic grievance

00:44:48.240 and i'm not sure they're actually choosing the right ethnicities to target

00:44:53.120 so anyway let's count binface uh has an announcement

00:44:57.000 flip a coin

00:45:00.180 it's got to be

00:45:02.360 well

00:45:02.680 I think I already know

00:45:03.720 the answer

00:45:04.040 because I checked

00:45:04.940 the list

00:45:05.520 and he didn't make

00:45:06.180 the list

00:45:06.540 in the final list

00:45:07.400 he's not running

00:45:07.960 not running

00:45:09.000 he doesn't want to

00:45:09.600 split the left wing vote

00:45:10.420 it's not a proper election 1.00

00:45:12.200 if Count Binface 1.00

00:45:13.500 isn't running 1.00

00:45:14.080 I mean that's basically

00:45:15.060 a you know

00:45:16.220 inherited part

00:45:17.200 of our constitutional

00:45:18.040 settlements

00:45:18.680 but isn't that

00:45:19.160 again a wonderful

00:45:20.620 revelation 0.99

00:45:21.760 that Binface is showing us 0.97

00:45:23.340 when it's an obvious 1.00

00:45:24.780 left wing victory

00:45:25.700 yes

00:45:26.160 i'm not going to get involved yes i don't want to split the vote i don't want them saying oh

00:45:30.220 that three percent that count binface got that would have been the difference between reform

00:45:34.180 and labor winning like he's literally standing down because this is a safe left-wing seat

00:45:41.980 okay i don't know much about the guy under the bin but i mean presumably he's an upper middle class

00:45:48.420 went to a private school he went to oxford or cambridge account work for the bbc yeah yeah

00:45:54.360 know he's exactly exactly as you think he is yep um precisely what he is and so he like led by

00:46:01.960 donkeys had nothing to say about keir starmer yeah right keir starmer is currently you know

00:46:06.460 is currently tanking the economy ruining the labor party's reputation and prospects in the future

00:46:11.080 and led by donkeys is like look at look at liz truss here's a lettuce it's like yeah it's this

00:46:15.940 is all count bin face yeah if only we could have bond yields as low as we had them under the peak

00:46:19.940 of liz truss oh that would be quite favorable compared to where we are now yeah no one cares

00:46:24.420 yeah no one cares nothing about andy burnham or kirsten almost crashing the economy nothing

00:46:28.920 right because this this is all you know he is just one of their little puppets and so he is

00:46:34.660 an establishment candidate and shows it again uh then you have zach polanski who has put himself

00:46:39.840 forward as the candidate of holborn and pancras some pancras uh would you like to watch his uh

00:46:46.460 Political Party Pitch.

00:47:03.980 The problem is, when you get old and you can't read or hear something,

00:47:10.940 it takes you a while to figure out whether the problem's you or...

00:47:15.200 No, that was a party political broadcast from the Green Party entirely in Urdu.

00:47:20.640 I mean, that was fascinating.

00:47:22.420 I've never heard somebody with a very English accent doing Urdu before.

00:47:27.500 And obviously, because that's not Urdu accent. 0.69

00:47:29.680 I know that much. 0.92

00:47:30.580 I'm guessing it's not. 1.00

00:47:31.460 So I'd imagine that's extraordinarily clunky if you are Urdu. 1.00

00:47:35.380 But hang on, didn't you just spend the last eight slides pointing out that there's no Urdu speakers? 1.00

00:47:42.360 Yeah, I did.

00:47:43.480 That's exactly what I pointed out.

00:47:45.200 because the pakistanis and indians speak urdu bangladeshis speak bengali yeah that was a bit 0.86

00:47:52.540 of a tin-eared move wasn't it zach apparently this is not going to learn he needs bangladeshi

00:47:58.160 he needs to have done it in bengali bengali as as bangladeshi people are saying well i can't tell

00:48:03.720 you how many south asians in london are discussing this speaking urdu to a population predominantly

00:48:07.740 bangladeshi talking to people who have degrees like they're five years old and condescending

00:48:12.040 messaging like desis have no intellect to do policy i don't know what desi is but i imagine

00:48:17.480 it must refer to some people from bangladesh but the point is everything is you can imagine the

00:48:22.380 bangladesh is of the type of people who who i mean you might not be able to tell the difference

00:48:27.120 between an indian a pakistani and a bangladeshi but i can guarantee each of those oh yeah tell

00:48:32.420 the difference and they're like the japanese koreans and chinese yeah you know they're like

00:48:36.000 you know not at all well i i just happen to know that in if you call an indian a bangladeshi they

00:48:42.240 get very upset i don't doubt yeah i mean if i called you a frenchman you'd get upset well i

00:48:47.000 mean speaking of frenchman here's his next one it's in french je m'appelle zach polanski

00:48:52.520 et je me présente pour devenir le prochain député de albanne et c'est pancras cette année

00:48:59.360 So my French is actually good enough

00:49:28.340 to get the gist of what he's saying hello my name is zach palancy i'm running for the british

00:49:32.940 parliament in uh in holborn and st pancrest i'm for the green party please vote for me i apologize

00:49:38.660 for my pronunciation of french words okay that's what he's saying there right fact it is i mean i

00:49:45.740 don't speak french because i don't but i did french at school like everyone else and so i did french

00:49:49.860 at school but i just didn't pay any attention i didn't either subject i literally got an e in

00:49:53.980 french like the lowest possible grade i didn't even turn up for my french exam because i hated

00:49:58.000 the concept of being made to learn french so severely but it doesn't sound like natural french

00:50:02.220 to me well no it's not it's i mean but that's fine right but the point is okay i guess he's

00:50:08.260 going to have a better grasp of the language that the french speak it did sound less clunky than the

00:50:13.880 urdu no no no it isn't it isn't he can map up french people speak the french language oh we've

00:50:19.640 got to do a video in french yes obviously he doesn't know anything about bangladeshi people

00:50:23.180 oh they speak urdu right so we'll do a video in urdu right yes but so i'm guessing that the 25

00:50:29.800 percent european immigrants are french right now because people forget well maybe it's just lumped

00:50:35.060 them all in together london is like this something like the fourth biggest french city right there

00:50:39.860 are hundreds of thousands of french oh yeah when i lived in london they very nearly built a um a

00:50:45.560 french school a mosque no well they probably would have done since i moved out but there was

00:50:52.180 an old rec ground near where i lived and they very almost built a french school because there's just

00:50:56.120 so many french people in london yeah um a lot of the east end is full of french people i went there

00:51:01.540 a few years back and it was just people speaking french all around me i was like where have the

00:51:05.180 cockneys gone they have been ethnically replaced but with the french yeah but anyway so i guess

00:51:11.560 we can assume that the 25 are french speakers which um great i'm sure they're going to be

00:51:17.680 based you can't you can't judge that just from his video because i mean he got the other 30 yeah

00:51:23.440 but i'm giving him the credit here of assuming he can hear the french and saying oh no i know

00:51:28.240 that's french but he hears some weird squiggly language from the audience and it's just like

00:51:33.380 oh urdu yeah urdu i don't know right we'll just take a stab in the dark but the point is i haven't

00:51:39.740 heard a campaign video from him in english yet has he made one not to my knowledge right i mean

00:51:45.200 he may have published one well it'd be a bit of a waste of time wouldn't it i mean there's so few

00:51:48.500 english votes available they're not his constituency right yes they're not his constituency he knows

00:51:53.780 he's he's not going for the the native votes yeah like a they're only 30 i'm not gonna you know i'm

00:51:59.660 not gonna try and persuade them yes i'm not gonna address them in english i'm gonna address the

00:52:03.800 foreigners in their native language compare and contrast that with farage's strategy which is

00:52:07.840 you know he had a whole load of british patriots voting for him and he specifically went out of 0.98

00:52:12.240 his way to say look i don't want anything to do with that lot i don't want anything to do with 0.87

00:52:16.460 you please in his face that was tice's comment but yeah oh okay i mean nigel stood by it yes 0.97

00:52:22.300 but it's like yeah you english patriots get away from me you're disgusting and then every time he 0.97

00:52:27.080 has a is a by-election he chases the seek vote yeah so incredibly hard and it is it's like you

00:52:33.680 get like two to three hundred seeks per constituency i mean we'll remember in gorton

00:52:38.980 and denton that got them five percent of the non-native really well done yeah uh but anyway

00:52:44.220 so zach polanski is clearly pitching his uh tent in i'm here for the colonists i'm i'm here for

00:52:51.780 the foreigners because this is a mostly foreign seat and therefore i've got 70 of the seat to go

00:52:57.540 for can i get enough of the french colonists can i get enough of the bangladeshi colonists i mean i

00:53:03.820 guess we're going to get one in an african language shortly i don't know which african

00:53:08.100 language is going to choose there are a lot of languages in africa and maybe i'm working on my

00:53:13.240 african my my my pigeon anyway oh yeah so i could do that one for him and then uh presumably in

00:53:18.700 mandarin or cantonese i don't know where the chinese people i don't i really doubt he could

00:53:23.900 pull that off but i assume that that's what he's going to do but this this again is an interesting

00:53:28.280 thing because okay the green party has a lot of uh muslims voting for them and they have a lot of

00:53:39.020 african caribbeans voting for them but that's not in that constituency now i'm not saying that he

00:53:47.000 won't get the minority vote he might well get the minority vote right but actually the chinese and

00:53:53.740 the africans are a lot more socially conservative than the green party is yes right now the

00:54:00.940 bangladeshis too are more socially now the bangladeshis might have the sort of like well

00:54:04.520 you're just going to give me free money i'll take it and i'm sure the other ones will do that as

00:54:07.680 well but all i'm saying is after the fact we could be looking at this and saying right so you actually

00:54:14.440 gave your we're just going to give you the free money pitch to communities that actually don't

00:54:20.820 respond well to that i mean i don't know and like i said don't call this a prediction i mean if if i

00:54:25.560 was living in shanghai and i and they allowed me to vote for some crazy and some politician turned

00:54:30.780 up speaking french well if the message was we're just going to give foreigners lots of money and

00:54:38.060 we're also going to do degeneracy i would be like okay well fine i'll take the money but my kids i 0.88

00:54:44.600 tell them yeah you're not doing any of that degeneracy stuff that's for the chinese exactly 0.88

00:54:48.980 like the birmingham muslim fathers yes who managed to get ingest in birmingham yardley 0.99

00:54:54.200 who got all the woke curriculum just cancelled so they were like yeah we'll take your money but

00:54:59.560 you're not you're not transing our children yeah um it'd be exactly the same but the point is i

00:55:04.420 like and like i said i don't know how this is going to shake out i'm not making a prediction

00:55:07.900 but it could be that actually labor pip him at the post for one running an actual african

00:55:15.040 and two actually not being like the sort of seedy green party where it's just we're just

00:55:22.580 going to give you largesse like i don't know if he's chosen the wrong communities there right

00:55:26.280 so there's a bit of a gamble for zach polanski so of course it'll be egg on his face if he doesn't

00:55:29.760 get elected because he's he's he's a political superstar on the left if he fails to get elected

00:55:34.660 i mean he's been like nigel farage tried to get elected in south than it seven times and he failed

00:55:38.660 blah blah well you're on that trajectory now so uh so basically you better hope you win it i mean

00:55:44.120 like i said i don't know he might well win it who knows right but it was keir starmer's seat it was

00:55:48.520 a labor seat it might be that he can't uh actually uh overthrow him uh restore britain uh i mean i

00:55:56.040 know it was starmer's seat but polanski really wanted to be fighting that seat when starmer was

00:56:02.200 leader yes if star was if starmer had a different constituency and this came up i'd put zach as

00:56:07.960 pretty strong for it yeah but with burnham and versus uh a refugee a more pure form of replacement

00:56:17.480 if you're an african why wouldn't you want to vote for the african woman yes if you're just any kind

00:56:22.520 of foreigner why wouldn't you want why would you want to vote for zach polanski you know like

00:56:27.640 it's not clear that you would not just vote for the foreigner if you were like no we're talking 0.80

00:56:32.200 talking about shared lump and proletariat interests here well why would i trust this

00:56:37.360 zach polanski guy but anyway restore britain's uh position is if you're a foreigner residing in

00:56:42.160 holborn and st pancras but can only understand urdu uh the government of restore britain will

00:56:45.960 deport you from the country translate it from urdu uh funny but uh actually did it in urdu

00:56:51.460 yeah that's why the translation isn't brilliant but uh yeah that's the sort of political campaigning

00:56:59.060 i like it's won me over uh anyway george galloway will be standing for the workers party uh don't

00:57:05.340 underestimate george galloway he is very good at corralling the muslim vote and channeling it to

00:57:10.380 his own ends and he's won a lot of times he's won like there's three or four by elections

00:57:16.220 on that principle i mean small fact check not a lot of people who work vote for the workers

00:57:22.000 party yeah there's a there's a deep irony in it yes uh but yeah so exactly exactly uh george

00:57:28.960 galloway is a ferocious campaigner he knows what to do and he's won multiple times on these

00:57:34.500 campaigns so the the immigrant vote is actually going to be uh heavily coveted and split between

00:57:41.700 these three factions and what a wonderful position we're in with our capital city

00:57:47.860 yeah yeah it's yeah it's brilliant it's communists fighting over their share of the spoils of

00:57:54.900 foreigners yeah so that's the three main parties who are fighting for foreigners sorry no i should

00:57:59.280 remember there's a fourth main party fighting for the spoils of foreigners uh which is of course

00:58:04.360 reform they're running former met police commander pete newham so i mean he looks like a great

00:58:09.500 candidate to be honest in any other location in the country well apart from being met senior

00:58:17.280 met police so presumably he's woke well maybe he's the one senior police officer that isn't woke but

00:58:23.340 maybe right but the but the point is to the from to the perception of the country this will be

00:58:29.980 considered right-wing right i suppose but he says look i'm i mean the police are trashing their

00:58:36.060 reputation at quite a pace these days that's true but i mean you know former like but it's it's it

00:58:41.400 was a respected institution yes he looks like a respectable guy so yeah who knows right maybe

00:58:47.580 you haven't updated your worldview on the police since the 1985 then yeah great which many people

00:58:52.700 haven't yes um anyway so he is running on a law and order platform which you know i'm sure he'll

00:58:58.800 do quite well frankly and then restore britain are running a lawyer who has lived in london for

00:59:03.860 10 years now there's a bit of controversy about uh this chap um his name's tyler johnson why is

00:59:10.460 because uh where is it there was um where is it i saw that snake posting

00:59:18.880 okay there was a there was a serpent called rahim kasan who was posting oh he works for a chinese

00:59:24.920 firm it's like okay well we do have we have capital markets yes we allow chinese firms

00:59:32.580 to run him we're basically working indirectly for a californian firm yeah so apparently this

00:59:40.100 um makes him a bad person now i don't know i i don't i haven't had enough time to look into his

00:59:46.380 background um well it's just i mean it's a bit of a silly argument because i mean so if he worked

00:59:53.680 for mcdonald's he would be accused of being working for an american firm if he worked for

00:59:57.420 um you know one of the fashion brands he'd be working for a french or italian yeah i mean 0.71

01:00:02.180 i i worked in a job okay yes but is he has job yeah is he funding secrets to the ccp 0.73

01:00:09.820 like boris nearly sold on our network technology infrastructure to the chinese he was on the cusp 0.82

01:00:16.840 of it having um that was becoming the name of the bloody chinese company now do all of our telecom 0.99

01:00:22.040 infrastructure a waui that's it waui yeah and it's like okay but he's just a lawyer for a chinese 0.72

01:00:28.100 company i mean don't get me wrong you know it could be that you know when we discover more 0.99

01:00:33.160 about his backstory all this terrible stuff comes out but working for a chinese there are going to 0.99

01:00:37.720 be loads probably millions of people in this country who work for various chinese firms

01:00:41.980 because we don't have any companies of our own anymore yes so okay i don't think that's maybe

01:00:46.540 he changed his name from zing ping and he's had a bit of surgery or something and he's yeah now

01:00:51.640 like i said it might be that there's something terrible about this guy that i'm just not aware

01:00:56.200 of but on the face of it okay lawyer with job who cleans up well for his photo yes not a terrible

01:01:04.540 candidate now isn't wearing a burka the thrust isn't speaking urdu yes now yeah exactly he's

01:01:12.200 not speaking urdu uh weirdly enough though zach polanski was following in enoch powell's footsteps

01:01:17.920 because the last politician to actually make a campaign pitch in urdu white was enoch powell

01:01:24.220 because enoch powell spoke nine languages yes um anyway so uh the the thrust of restore britain's

01:01:30.280 campaign is going to be to demonstrate the replacement to demonstrate the mass demographic

01:01:38.700 displacement of white british people from their own capital and uh as he says london must be 0.84

01:01:44.620 restored now i think it's understood that we can't win this one right so i'll be with the 0.50

01:01:51.300 demographics that you show me that that would be a bit of a challenge for a restore it would

01:01:55.580 yes it would be incredible but i mean even if they got i don't think reform can win it just

01:01:59.820 to be clear even if even if they got 60 of the english vote i mean you're still not winning it

01:02:05.220 yeah no you're still like on what 20 um so yeah i like i don't think reform can win it i don't

01:02:12.420 think uh restore can win it and i think that this is just going to be used as a platform

01:02:17.740 to demonstrate whatever about our issues the issues are yeah exactly these are the other

01:02:22.680 parties just for anyone who's wondering uh you do have a conservative there but i doubt they're

01:02:26.880 going very far there's a lib dem there which is bloody optimistic the only thing that concerns

01:02:32.340 concerns me about the restored candidate is i just want to check that he's no relation to boris with

01:02:36.780 that surname uh well yeah as i said yeah anything could come out about his background because that

01:02:41.840 would worry me this was only announced like literally yesterday or the day before i haven't

01:02:45.260 had any time to look into it um but uh obviously there's the usual sort of uh clowns at the bottom 0.92

01:02:51.620 monster raving loony party climate party rejoining you the communist league you know it's the usual 0.97

01:02:57.780 actual clowns weirdly missing a lot of left-wing options there you're spoiled for choice if you're 0.95

01:03:03.340 left wing tom darwood you mean tom harwood i'm sure that's not a spelling mistake anyway so

01:03:12.020 concurrent to all of this the celts have a master plan oh yeah master plan is to break up the union

01:03:17.260 right sold see you bye so we've we've got the revelation that the so far we've got the labor

01:03:24.660 party have no solutions to any of the problems and when they see other people advancing in

01:03:33.000 politics their then their movers will just change the rules unilaterally and backdate them um we can

01:03:39.320 also see in Keir Starmer's seat that the the political landscape doesn't care about the British

01:03:46.960 people right they will no no what do you mean run a run a British person in Holborn and St Pancras 0.60

01:03:52.640 that would be mad right we're gonna we're gonna run a Somali refugee and Zach Polanski will

01:03:57.560 campaign in every language other than English yes right and now the next thing is oh we'll just have 0.51

01:04:03.960 a coalition of the celtic nationalists to try and break up the european uh to break up the

01:04:10.820 united kingdom not for sovereignty not for independence because we belong in the european

01:04:15.800 union oh that's that's not quite the same as my definition of independence no i don't like being

01:04:23.780 under the heel of westminster i want to be under the heel of brussels why i mean i mean as a bit

01:04:30.620 of a nationalist myself i mean i can't exactly criticize them for being nationalist but

01:04:34.460 but that that is nationalism it's just yeah but they're not nationalists in any other way either

01:04:39.680 right obviously and everyone knows this i mean you had uh this this it's just anti-english isn't it

01:04:45.200 it literally is right uh here's here's some statements from their uh first ministers um

01:04:51.320 it's up to the people of wales to decide their own future well define a welshman for me

01:04:55.120 like tell me who are the people of wales that literally whoever just happens to be stood on

01:05:00.580 that soil at the moment yeah right um the prime minister has accepted the referendum should take

01:05:05.380 place when there is majority support for independence in scotland there's never been

01:05:09.040 majority support for independence we have actually had a referendum we've literally had the referendum

01:05:13.620 and we've got all the polling they still poll about it well i think the current polling is about

01:05:17.020 44 in support so it's not nothing but it's not nothing but yeah yeah and uh our common cause

01:05:22.740 here is the understanding that western minister does not and will never serve our people well

01:05:26.000 who the hell are your people like you're you're all woke parties yeah i mean they're importing

01:05:30.880 as many africans and bangladesh i suppose it is a bit a bit of the odd one out with the um 0.85

01:05:35.940 the shin fain one is that um i mean she probably wants to be in europe as well but that's as a

01:05:41.160 product of a united ireland yes but either way so i mean this is this is an old catholic tension

01:05:46.940 that's been rife in northern ireland and has caused a bit of a bit of hoo-ha over recent

01:05:50.800 decades the point is it's woke um sort of irish nationalism in northern ireland woke scottish

01:05:57.660 nationalism in scotland and woke welsh nationalism in wales yeah and they're literally you know like

01:06:02.380 yeah okay we we're gonna we're gonna leave the united kingdom let's assume that happens for a

01:06:06.820 minute yeah well what do they do they're gonna crank up immigration because they're gonna be

01:06:10.780 like well we need it's not the sort of nationalism that goes to the bloodline of the scottish

01:06:15.440 irish welsh people it's not that kind of nationalism god forbid no it's just anti-english yeah and so

01:06:22.800 this weirdly couldn't have come at a worse time right because as as you pointed out like scott 0.99

01:06:27.520 scottish nationalism is actually a bit of a low point at the moment uh because people like yeah

01:06:33.540 actually maybe scottish independence isn't a brilliant idea so 56 against 44 in favor but it

01:06:40.180 gets even worse in wales where you've got like it's 26 percent like yeah maybe we should have

01:06:47.340 an independent wales 54 percent like are you mental you can make an argument for scotland

01:06:52.060 going independent it's a bad argument but you can make it and they've got oil and gas i mean actually

01:06:57.080 i mean well that'll be that'll be heavily wrangled there'll be a lot of arguments well okay let's

01:07:03.100 let's just say you use the smp's definition right yeah the scotland under their definition gets

01:07:08.760 about 80 percent of the revenues from oil and gas and and so you're talking about three and a half

01:07:13.740 billion yeah okay brilliant um scottish scottish public spending is 98 billion yeah so it doesn't

01:07:20.580 even touch the sides actually their food and drink exports are a bigger part of the economy

01:07:24.620 we'll get we'll get to that in a minute if that's all right i've got a lot here right

01:07:28.400 so anyway not a great time because people are generally like no that's not a great idea yes

01:07:34.180 is that okay when it's it's proper i mean i i come into it at the right point but it's mad for

01:07:39.400 it's not that i don't want to stop them from going because i'm a wessex nationalist and i want to get

01:07:46.000 rid of um east anglia and northumbria and and the cornish they can go i just want wessex so i'm not

01:07:52.660 gonna i'm not gonna counter signal them too much but it is mad yes as a wessex man i totally 0.97

01:07:56.780 appreciate it but anyway you get every absolute shit heel who hates britain coming out in favor 0.95

01:08:05.560 right congressman randy fine right and from the river to the sea scotland wales island would be 0.54

01:08:12.980 free it's like oh my god like and i saw loads of argentinians posting about this as well like

01:08:19.440 because basically i was kind of on your position right i'm like well you know if i'm going to be

01:08:24.820 a nationalist for anywhere i'm an english nationalist and then i have to get specific

01:08:28.000 i'm a wessex nationalist yes so i don't mind an independent england i actually there's there's a

01:08:34.580 part of me and me and calum used to discuss this years ago yeah there's a part of me that thinks

01:08:38.080 that sounds really appealing i mean i'm not going to push for it but if i wake up one day and england

01:08:44.540 is independent i'll be like all right yeah i mean literally if you know i get a new passport through

01:08:48.960 the post that says kingdom of england yes that sounds awesome that sounds really great to me

01:08:54.700 anyway yes you know that sounds probably medieval yes and i don't think they've really thought

01:08:59.780 about what does what does this do to english nationalism as a political philosophy for a

01:09:05.040 start you might want to define what english is well i mean i think we're going to self-define

01:09:09.300 on that yes but also it's going to be right okay so you you the the british identity is used to

01:09:16.720 suppress english nationalism right it's used to suppress english identity and we saw that in the

01:09:21.340 census where literally half of english people who self-identify as english disappeared from the

01:09:26.820 census because they put british first and then they put the concurrent english scottish welsh

01:09:32.980 irish blah blah underneath it and so obviously a lot of english people about half things people

01:09:37.220 on british obviously and just left it at that right it's not that obviously they stopped being

01:09:41.800 english it's that they just filled in the census in a particular way now if you take that off of

01:09:46.880 the census and the the the flagging campaign as well was one of those things where it's like

01:09:52.060 english flags are going up the british flag they can make an international flag because it

01:09:56.260 definitely is an international flag scotland wales england northern ireland right that is

01:10:02.100 not an ethnically particular flag to one nation state one group it's an amalgamation of at least

01:10:08.940 four nations yes and that means you could just add further nations so it kind of in a way makes

01:10:16.040 sense for the imperial project to have you know these indians are british because they were part

01:10:20.660 of britain i see where you're going right that's not the case with the england flag and they know

01:10:24.980 it which is why they hate the england flag which is why they hated the campaign of flagging and

01:10:28.460 when it was when it went viral and you saw like and at the tommy robinson rallies we see all the

01:10:32.700 england flags and kirsten was like well that that million man tommy robinson march scared the

01:10:37.360 bejesus out of me so because what they're seeing is resurgent ethnic nationalism and what they do

01:10:44.580 if they break up britain is remove the civic nationalism from the conversation you can't have 0.95

01:10:51.320 a united british identity now because the the ridiculous internationalist civ nats celts

01:10:58.520 destroyed the union so now all you get is hardcore ethnic english nationalism and that'll be the 0.99

01:11:05.240 future if they are so stupid to go down this road you're really selling it to me carl i know i know 0.99

01:11:10.480 right i know and the only thing that puts me on the other side of that argument is how much 1.00

01:11:16.940 people who hate us are enjoying it how much they like the idea because obviously what they're

01:11:22.740 seeing is a weakened britain on the on the world stage now i'm the last person who's like oh yeah

01:11:28.860 we're doing so great britain so powerful blood blood we're not right we're in a really dire

01:11:32.740 position at the moment it's humiliating where we are at the moment but if they see it getting worse

01:11:37.720 for us then i'm i'm like well okay maybe that's not great now like i said i can make a positive

01:11:45.680 argument for it because i think there are virtues to if the union were to end but because actually

01:11:53.480 yes well for us for for us yeah yes yeah because yeah for us we've been carrying these kelts for a

01:11:58.160 long time uh but for them if you know all of our enemies are like oh yeah we want that to happen

01:12:03.140 right okay you know because what what it it comes in the heels of the dismemberment of britain in 0.64

01:12:09.640 chagos in the falklands we've got the argentinians and the israelis pushing for that we've got you

01:12:15.680 know american democrats i think he's i'm sure he's democrat i think he's no he's he's a republican

01:12:22.840 oh man these yeah he's um yeah he he's one of apex top guys i think he's floridian as well

01:12:31.500 of course yeah but and so you've got all of these people like yeah we want the dismemberment of

01:12:35.720 britain i that that makes me okay maybe we don't want to give them that right as much of a pain in

01:12:43.020 the rear as the current settlement is so as odd as it is for me to find myself in like that meme

01:12:49.340 of pulling the rope and i'm looking around this randy fine there and there's an argentinian there

01:12:54.300 yeah i'm on the wrong side of the rope yeah but there are quite a lot of benefits to england if 0.53

01:13:01.000 it if it were to i mean this is a point you've made many times that great britain is a colonial

01:13:07.380 empire that has been shrunk to its hub yes and we are still being rude by our colonial overlords

01:13:12.960 but they've got no colonies left to to rule over and so they're ruling over us as if we are

01:13:19.460 18th century indian villages that need to be brought to hill correct that's exactly what

01:13:25.940 they're doing i think um anyway so as we said there are actually major advantages to england

01:13:32.340 if it were to be forced into independence i mean for example we we subsidize the the celtic nations

01:13:39.700 right by a huge amount of money yes and like the idea that scotland can have free health care and

01:13:44.500 free education without english money is ridiculous and the thing is the snp like that what was the 0.55

01:13:50.200 Ian Blackstone, Blackmore, the big, fat Scottish MP. 0.90

01:13:55.640 No, it doesn't narrow it down.

01:13:56.880 The SNP MP.

01:13:59.100 I remember a few years ago seeing...

01:14:00.520 Not Alex Salmon.

01:14:01.740 No, no, no, he was the leader.

01:14:03.220 No, he's Ian something.

01:14:04.400 I can't remember his name.

01:14:05.280 But he was there in Parliament.

01:14:08.120 Literally, I heard him saying,

01:14:09.740 well, Scotland's paying for England, blah, blah, blah, blah.

01:14:12.660 It's bloody not.

01:14:14.000 No, it's absolutely not.

01:14:16.100 Right, it's absolutely not. 0.98

01:14:17.580 so the idea that scottish like way of life is going to improve when england stops sucking the

01:14:23.620 life out of scotland is nonsense right and what's funny well should i give you quickly quickly give

01:14:28.040 you state standing spending per head yeah in england it's 13 grand yeah and wales it's 15

01:14:34.140 grand per head in scotland it's it's actually also 15 grand per head and then northern ireland

01:14:39.560 is 18 grand per head so they're all getting more money spent on them per head than england is yes

01:14:47.140 They're all running massive deficits.

01:14:49.060 I mean, Scotland could make a flimsy argument

01:14:52.780 that if they became independent

01:14:54.620 and they massively ramped up North Sea Oil,

01:14:57.120 and it would have to be a massive ramp up.

01:14:59.140 You think the woke SNP are going to ramp up North Sea Oil?

01:15:01.360 And by massively ramp up,

01:15:02.840 I mean they would need to be earning

01:15:04.240 10 times as much from North Sea Oil

01:15:06.900 as they currently do.

01:15:07.920 Sure, but they've currently got 0.55

01:15:09.080 a climate change party in charge.

01:15:12.420 They're never going to do it.

01:15:13.500 It'd be like Ed Miliband.

01:15:15.160 You can't have...

01:15:16.360 if scotland goes independence it needs to drill like there is no tomorrow because otherwise it

01:15:21.380 doesn't have an economy and and for wales it's completely mental because everything they all

01:15:26.600 what private industry they do have all goes to england yes well they don't really have much

01:15:31.680 private industry no wales wales is mostly a service economy to england's infrastructure

01:15:37.320 yes so i think that's something like anybody who uses any government service it's probably

01:15:43.880 ringing through to wales yeah um so i saw this post going around right and as you can see it's

01:15:49.160 in spanish from uh this uh this chap now again everyone is thrilled at the idea because of

01:15:57.400 course for the last 300 years everyone has been under the thumb of the british empire

01:16:02.740 like we beat the living daylights out of basically everyone like there is no one we didn't beat in

01:16:09.600 war right i think there's like seven countries we didn't invade because we missed them because

01:16:14.680 we were busy that graphic is overblown but the point is the spanish is it spanish the french

01:16:21.020 the germans like oh yeah the argentinians like all of all of them are like great britain's going

01:16:27.760 to break up so yeah because you couldn't do it right we're going to tear ourselves apart internally 0.97

01:16:32.300 because you couldn't do it because every time we had a war we smashed your faces in right but

01:16:37.220 anyway this this spanish chap great points here right with the independence of scotland wales

01:16:41.900 and the unification of ireland london he means england yeah loses 12 million inhabitants 50

01:16:47.580 of its territory 450 billion in gdp strategic natural resources blah blah blah blah it's like

01:16:52.840 well hang on a second let's let's put that in percentages that's 17 of the population

01:16:59.200 that's not that much and they're all celts and they're they're a net fiscal drain right 450

01:17:06.400 billion in gdp that's in dollars that's 10 of the gdp yeah more a lot more than 10 of the spending

01:17:15.000 exactly right how does the spending work out yeah like do like are in dollars we're 4.26 trillion

01:17:22.560 dollars and i don't know off the top of my head but it's a lot more than that but they're only

01:17:26.160 450 billion in gdp oh my god you are making the case martin the winds of a new air blowing it's

01:17:35.160 like yeah to screw the celts over like so i'm not i'm not saying i'm for it because obviously

01:17:41.860 the restore britain position is of course we want a united great britain right yeah totally

01:17:46.880 understandable totally in favor of it obviously but you are making the case that you're not

01:17:53.300 actually losing that much you're gonna save yourselves a lot of money the only thing i'd

01:17:56.360 point out is i mean before britain conquered the world england conquered wales and scotland

01:18:04.760 yes well if we were to go back to just england we can just start the clock running again and we

01:18:09.620 can just give give them their independence give them the debt and then and then a week later

01:18:15.840 conquer them and then we just start the british empire again and we just stretch out across the

01:18:19.960 world but this is this is you know i mean for example ireland is an independent country because

01:18:27.660 we let it be independent oh yeah it has seven and a half thousand soldiers that's their entire army

01:18:33.140 now the british army isn't exactly in great shape with like 80 000 soldiers but the point is ireland

01:18:38.880 is not an independent country because it keeps its own independence it's an independent country

01:18:44.000 because as things stand geopolitically everyone consents to ireland being independent it's like

01:18:49.920 lichtenstein you know it's like like you know um not switzerland probably the point is if if we had

01:18:56.420 rulers like we had in the 8th century last time we started this project who thought like that

01:19:02.480 yeah island wouldn't be independent for very long and no which is why it wasn't independent under

01:19:06.320 the normans and yes you know the the tudors and various other you know uh so the same for wales

01:19:14.000 and scotland obviously like the and things back if you go about 500 years the demographics were

01:19:18.880 not so stacked against the celts either um again they're only 17 of the country well that means

01:19:25.920 that 83 of the country is english yes well at least you know living in england um

01:19:32.480 Obviously, it's not, you know, it's probably about 50% of the country. 1.00

01:19:36.200 I should be clear for any Celts watching, I don't dislike you guys. 1.00

01:19:39.620 You're much better than the other four. 1.00

01:19:41.220 My mum's Welsh, you know. 1.00

01:19:42.560 I've got nothing against the Celts. 1.00

01:19:44.300 Yes.

01:19:46.620 It's just that a lot of your brethren tend to vote for insanely left-wing parties,

01:19:52.140 and it's difficult to make that point too strong

01:19:54.860 because lots of Englishmen vote for insane left-wing parties.

01:19:58.100 But it's even more a problem there.

01:20:01.320 there's something far more right-wing about english identitarianism than there is about

01:20:06.720 celtic identitarianism yes and a belligerent and angry english nation that is suddenly

01:20:12.980 unshackled well that's the bit i like yeah it'd be great for us you know i mean england is going

01:20:18.880 to benefit um because i mean to your to your point about nigel farage definitely wins the

01:20:25.060 next election well yes oh yeah oh yeah i mean i've run the numbers on this i don't know i can

01:20:30.340 point to several elections post

01:20:31.860 the war that would

01:20:34.380 have delivered a conservative, not every time

01:20:36.140 so if England is just England

01:20:38.380 it doesn't mean there's going to be a

01:20:40.320 right wing government forever

01:20:41.460 but it makes it 40% more likely

01:20:44.160 that was basically the numbers I came to

01:20:45.960 I mean the Labour Party is a Welsh invention

01:20:47.660 it's not an English party 1.00

01:20:50.180 so it's one of those things

01:20:52.400 where it's like okay

01:20:53.120 you don't understand, England is

01:20:56.400 the right wing part of Britain

01:20:57.880 you know it's that's the that's the the right-wing part of the country really um yes and

01:21:04.560 you wouldn't guarantee right-wing governments but much much more likely yeah but also there's

01:21:11.960 something about putting the notion of england back into people's minds that yes suddenly i mean

01:21:18.800 the british flag disappears from all the buildings and there's the saint george's flag yes that's

01:21:23.320 that's the right like sorry i would love it you know my english flag i would love that to be the

01:21:30.060 case yes and my god we're gonna have a much more um england focused foreign policy for once so so

01:21:37.900 how do i can you even imagine such a thing oh i mean if you even talk in those terms you you

01:21:42.660 considered outside you're far right yeah this is literally what the far right is yes you know

01:21:47.580 overnight you get a far right country springing up in the northwest of england

01:21:52.940 europe from people who used to win everything i think i'm gonna have to check that tweet again

01:21:58.400 and retweet it because i because you really sold this to me they're selling it to me like

01:22:03.320 i like i said i i i grew the store britain position obviously we don't want to break

01:22:08.160 up the united kingdom obviously if our enemies are grass chomping at the bit for it i don't you

01:22:12.960 know we don't want that but if it happened it's not the end of the world for england this is why

01:22:20.700 it's good that you've got somebody like Rupert

01:22:22.260 leading Restored Britain and not somebody like me

01:22:24.240 because Rupert is taking the correct...

01:22:26.940 Mature position.

01:22:27.760 Mature, yeah, statesmanly type role

01:22:30.140 and I'm just like, well...

01:22:32.500 Yeah, I know.

01:22:33.240 There's a part of me that...

01:22:35.060 I talked with Callum about this years ago.

01:22:37.620 Yeah.

01:22:38.100 I mean, Kingdom of England sounds amazing.

01:22:39.980 Yes.

01:22:42.580 Anyway, way better than UK.

01:22:45.320 You know what I mean?

01:22:45.940 You know, like it feels regal and medieval

01:22:50.220 and, like, there's something in it for us.

01:22:54.480 Was your imagine having a government that was...

01:22:57.640 An English government?

01:22:58.960 Well, that was trying to do the right thing for the English people.

01:23:01.320 But you had to have no choice.

01:23:02.300 Its only constituency is England.

01:23:04.380 How is this serving England when you do these things?

01:23:07.180 Yeah.

01:23:07.800 You can make a...

01:23:08.500 I don't know.

01:23:08.940 It just feels like it's got a lot more mimetic power in our favour in it.

01:23:13.080 And I think they'd hate it as well.

01:23:14.860 Well, good luck Celtic nationalists then.

01:23:17.860 Yeah. 0.96

01:23:18.160 Yeah, well, like I said, I'm not in favor of the breakup, obviously, but what does this show us, right?

01:23:23.500 Well, it shows us that actually, you're relying on us, right?

01:23:29.700 Oh, yeah.

01:23:30.120 You know, we know you're relying on us, and that's fine.

01:23:34.160 I was happy with the settlement, but the devolved parliaments, if they can all come together in a coalition and say,

01:23:41.360 oh yeah well what we want is to break up the union well it turns out that tony blair didn't

01:23:47.140 just create those you know spheres of labor influence forever actually the devolved parliaments

01:23:52.980 were as we all predicted before they came in just hotbeds of separatism i mean just a bit

01:23:59.620 just a bit on the mechanism of those northern ireland is the only one that actually has a

01:24:04.360 mechanism already in place for a referendum on independence and i can't remember what the

01:24:09.760 criteria but it's something like if there's a um enough showing in favor of independence that an

01:24:16.940 independence referendum has to be called and then they can go back to ireland or something like

01:24:20.720 that um there is no such mechanism for scotland and wales they've got to ask west yeah the high

01:24:26.500 the supreme court or the high court whichever one has already confirmed that neither of these um

01:24:31.900 devolved parliaments has the ability to call a referendum it has to come from westminster

01:24:35.820 and we've already had one for scotland not so long ago and it was it was turned down so

01:24:40.740 i mean i would say grant them but but i mean but i mean wales isn't going to be mad enough to do

01:24:46.380 this because everything oh yeah their economy is largely um uk civil service jobs that are based

01:24:54.820 in wales because they're cheap and what private industry they do have almost all of it sells

01:24:59.240 either within way or within wales but actually the majority of it sells to england so if you

01:25:04.540 join the eu then there's going to be a custom wall between you and all your customers which means

01:25:09.480 you're either going to have to pay significantly sharper cost to get through the custom wall or

01:25:15.120 you're going to need to find a way to get everything that is that you sell to the continent

01:25:20.280 of europe and i mean a lot of its services as well local services yeah absolutely and a lot of

01:25:26.080 government services yeah like the nhs services and things like this but the point is the welsh

01:25:30.260 are not so foolish as to think well this is a good idea obviously not but the the point being is all

01:25:36.240 it proves is yes the devolved parliaments were a bad idea yeah it's just why are we funding 0.94

01:25:41.560 separatists with taxpayer money as politicians in these devolved parliaments or at least give

01:25:46.540 wessex his own parliament sure but that'll become a hotbed of separatism too because i'll be needing

01:25:51.360 it but the point is no we get rid of the devolved parliaments right this is again

01:25:56.480 one of these things that's a great revealing for us is this was just a bad idea from the start

01:26:02.680 it's just a waste of money it hasn't improved things in scotland wales or northern ireland

01:26:06.440 maybe northern ireland there was some extra complications there are but scotland and wales

01:26:10.920 in particular hasn't improved anything yes it was just ideological nonsense from the blair years

01:26:14.900 and it's proven itself to not be worthwhile and just like everything else that blair did then

01:26:20.160 well exactly it's proven itself to be a bad idea so anyway it as i said at the beginning

01:26:25.220 this is a very interesting time in british politics i don't think anything's going to come

01:26:29.700 of this by the way there's just no reason for westminster to want to countenance this so i

01:26:34.520 don't think anything's going to happen but um again it's it's what this all reveals to us that

01:26:39.360 i think is the most interesting bit well the fragmentation yeah the fact that the current

01:26:43.800 system the current paradigm is reaching its own limits i mean the consistent thread that we've

01:26:49.700 seen through all of this is it's just bonds are breaking people aren't holding together anymore

01:26:55.940 i mean the the left is fracturing massively even the right is fractured i mean we started off with

01:27:01.160 that opinion poll that shows that if if um nigel farage has accepted rupert's deal he'd be on course

01:27:06.800 of being prime minister right now but he couldn't do it i mean everything is just fracturing across

01:27:10.640 the board because nobody believes nobody has a shared set of common values nobody believes there

01:27:17.560 is a settlement that works for everybody we just become a fractured nation yeah but the the point

01:27:23.280 being that there's a new world that's trying to be born it's just no one knows what that's going

01:27:26.700 to look like and i mean i get better the devil you know if i were those bloody people because

01:27:33.160 if you're benefiting from the current system yeah why do you keep stirring this pot because you're 0.63

01:27:37.920 doing pretty well out of it you i'm pretty sure you're not going to do well out of whatever comes

01:27:41.940 next yeah i mean just as a quick last thing imagine what when it's only england polled the

01:27:48.080 concern about immigration is going to look like right because i mean you know okay you're living

01:27:52.900 in scotland you've got hardly any immigrants you're living in wales you've got hardly any

01:27:55.320 immigrants living in northern ireland okay maybe you've got concerns about immigration but when

01:27:58.720 it's just england northern ireland solved that problem a different way they did but when it's 0.99

01:28:03.000 just england that's polled we're the one holding all the bloody immigrants it's you know right-wing 0.97

01:28:08.560 parties are going to go up because of the lack of celtic support so it's just okay just saying 0.99

01:28:15.160 you know like be careful what you wish for

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - September 17, 2026

The Lifting of the Veil

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