The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1006
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Summary
The Lotus Eaters are back, and this time we're talking about corruption, and who's more corrupt than the rest of the world: the USA, or is it Germany? Or is there something about human nature whereby we've just got a better way of putting it?
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Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 23rd of September 2024 and today
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your hosts are Stelios and Dan wearing a tie. Yes I've found a tie. I don't ever want to keep
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doing this sort of thing but I've got it on for now. Thank your lucky stars he told me this is
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the first time you've won a tie in how many years now? Fifteen years. So this is a very special day
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if you're tuning in live you're very fortunate. So today we're talking about how corruption is
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basically legal, Stelios is talking about how Germany is redeeming itself and Dan is presumably
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telling a sort of running a sweepstake on who's going to kill Trump. The five teams that are out
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to kill Trump we will discuss them all. Okay and I have plenty of announcements to make. First one
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is only submit a video comment once per day please. Someone submitted five in one day that's
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very naughty you should feel very ashamed of yourself. Not really but just please stick to
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that because it makes our editors lives a lot easier. We will obviously play the ones that we
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deem fit. And Islander yes this is still for sale. It's actually had its first batch printed and so
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it's on the way. Time is running out if you haven't ordered one yet. And so make sure to get there
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before we stop printing them. And also we do have a job opportunity. What is it again? That one.
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Production administrator. I don't really know what this is but oh dear and I'm screwing up the thing.
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But here's the page. Here are your responsibilities and skills. You can pause it and read them and if you
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meet those criteria you can apply and work in Swindon and work with us lovely people which is
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a punishment in and of itself. But it is also paid which is a bonus. High is optional. Yes you don't
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necessarily have to wear a tie. And yes I also needed to pull up the stream because I've not got
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the live chat open and I want to see what people are saying. Sorry. People are saying Dan looks very
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good. Dan looks great. Yeah tell us what you think of Dan's tie. Dan looking 10 years
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younger. Comments are good. I can't actually see the live chat for whatever reason so that's
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unfortunate. Anyway I'm just going to get on with it and stop dragging my heels. They're good but I
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like that they're giving some good seritorial advice because I also asked people on Twitter
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this weekend about our fashion sense and our poll is going to follow at some point in the year.
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Stalios is busy stirring. So corruption. We all know it goes on in pretty much every country on
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earth. Here is a map of the corruption perception because of course we can't measure corruption
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because if we can measure corruption there would be no corruption and so we have to measure
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perception. It's not the sort of thing you report is it? No. Just like I've been this corrupt
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this year. You just file it in your taxes. But what do you notice about this map? India
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isn't bright red enough. Yes. It is definitely more corrupt than that. But who are the least
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corrupt countries and how are they aligned politically? Well it's Greenland isn't it so.
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Well not Greenland. Right. As in which countries are yellow and less corrupt rather than red and
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angry? If you're listening this is obviously a bit difficult to follow. Well the non-corrupt
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ones are basically the Anglosphere and France and Germany and oh and the Nordics. The Nordics as
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well. So basically the people who have made corruption sort of official policy. You've
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presaged what I was going to say. I'm glad you agree. Yes. Funnily enough the people who assess
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corruption are largely based in this global alliance and mysteriously enough they've found
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their own countries on their own side less corrupt while as the bad guys the rest of the world
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are corrupt. So you can see here Australia, New Zealand not corrupt. Everywhere else pretty
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much other than say North America and Western Europe and Scandinavia are corrupt. Why is this?
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Have we magically figured out something about human nature whereby we've just mitigated greed?
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Or is it perhaps that our institutions as they are currently have been set up in such a way as to
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legalise corruption for want of a better way of putting it? And we're going to be looking at some
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examples from recent British politics to show you exactly how corruption can manifest. But I'll tell
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you what is not corrupt. The Lotus Eaters merch store. And what you should be doing is getting
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yourself a copy of Islander magazine while it's still in print. That's only going to go for another
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couple of weeks. So make the most of it while you still can. Very good magazine. Lots of good
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people in it. Particularly good person in it is me. But there are also lots of good writers like
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that Carl Benjamin. You might have heard of him. Raw Reg Nationalist. Dave Green, the distributor.
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Stefan Molyneux. Morgoth's Review. Dr. Nima Parvini, whoever that is. Obviously I know who these
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people are. But also we have a line of merch. You can get yourself a mug. You can get some t-shirts.
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Harry loves this t-shirt here in particular. He's already dibs to the office copy of the Islander
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heavy metal shirt. But also I like this one. It reminds me of sort of your outdoor wear. That's
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what I'm going to be going for. For some reason it makes me think of GTA Vice City.
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It's the sort of 80s style logo, isn't it? But anyway, you may remember in the UK, and
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believe me, I'm making this more of a general thing. It's not just UK specific. So if you
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are from abroad, don't worry. I'm going to make it interesting for you as well. Boris Johnson
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got a lot of flack for revamping number 11 Downing Street with lots of money, including
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a £7,000 rug and an expensive trolley. And the really famous thing was he used £840
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a roll gold wallpaper. And this is, of course, 11 Downing Street. It's not actually his property.
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And he used taxpayers' money and, I believe, some donations as well. To do this, this is,
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of course, number 11 Downing Street, number 10 being the home of, you know, where the Prime
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Minister is in their workday. So this is government property. The Prime Minister gets to stay in
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number 11, but it's not actually their property, you know, once they leave office. And this was a
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big scandal. And you may remember the Labour Party going on and on and on and on. And I'm not
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defending the Tories. Obviously, they're corrupt as well. But they made a big fuss about this. And
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then a lot of fuss was made about the fact now the Labour Party are in charge. People looked at what
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people were giving them. And it turns out that the cabinet, you know, the people in charge have
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received more than £800,000 in donations and freebies, which sounds great. If you want to send
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us about £800,000 worth of freebies, I'm more than happy. As long as I don't have to, you know,
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say or do anything, I will take free stuff. Sounds a good deal. And this is only just in two and a half
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months. Yes, it's well, this is I think, at the start of 2024. Okay, so that's still good.
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Labour cabinet, that's cabinet in general. Labour cabinet, as in when they were out of
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power, that's also including them. So it's just in the year 2024. The people who are in cabinet
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received that much in donations. Good job. We're perfectly clear here. So normally, and this is
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from the body of the Telegraph here, so I'm not making this up. MPs are supposed to declare
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gifts and donations to the parliamentary authorities within 28 days of receiving them.
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They are supposed to inform officials of any, and this is a quote, any interest which someone
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might reasonably consider to influence their actions or words as an MP, which seems like a lot
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of donations, really. Gifts are classified as a benefit with a value over £300 provided at a
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concessionary rate or free of charge, which can include event tickets and gifted clothes and
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jewellery. So that's a very important distinction. And so, I mean, there is a simple way of getting
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around this stuff, which is you just don't accept anything. And when I was in finance, most of the
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people, I would say like 99% of my colleagues did exactly that. They just simply wouldn't accept
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anything at all to avoid even the, I mean, I was the 1%. I just, I just like give me, give me
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everything. I was like up for the dinners, the lunches, like the free gear, whatever. But, but most
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people, you can avoid this quite easily just by refusing anything. That's right. Yeah. How can you
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refuse an egg faberge or the pink panther or something? You just can't. Yeah. Well, it's like a Hunter
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Biden got given a giant diamond once by, I think as a Chinese businessman. That's a very interesting
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bribe, isn't it? Just pulling out a huge diamond. Here you are. To put it to a, to a dancer's belly
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button or something, I guess. That's very Hunter, yeah. So there has been a league table. This is
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since December 2019, but I've done my own league table starting 2024 as well. So I'm going to leave
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this on screen while I read my league table, but this is, it looks like Sky News based on the
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format, but this has been doing the rounds and basically... That's a lot of money. But Keir Starmer
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has, has been donated to the most since 2019, according to this, followed by Rishi Sunak,
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then Liz Truss, Rachel Reeves as well, Rebecca Long-Bailey. Lots of top names up there. Unsurprising
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that these people are being targeted because they're the biggest names, aren't they? They're not going to
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donate to nobodies because the idea is that they're donating stuff with an expectation
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of something in return. I mean, if it was, I mean, the word donate implies that it's just
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something that you give, but how come you've got like three prime ministers right at the top of the
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list? It's almost as if the people doing the donating thought that they might get something
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in exchange. I've heard other people, now I wouldn't allege this personally, saying that these
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are bribes, that these people are being paid off to do things for private interest groups with money
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to spare, with the expectation that they'll get something in return or at least favourable
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treatment. But I would never allege that. But talking of, you know, morally upstanding
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people, let's start with David Lammy, who is currently the Foreign Secretary and obviously
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a very smart gentleman. £150,000 in donations since the start of 2024. So that includes
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£40,440 from Labour Together, which is a think tank for the provision of research and writing
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services. So for the privilege of David Lammy writing some stuff for you, he gets donated
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more than the average UK salary. He also got donated £2,500 worth of tickets to see Tottenham
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Hotspur, which is a football team, soccer if you are the wrong side of the Atlantic, in a hospitality
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box. And following him, because he's number one for 2024 donations, of course being Foreign
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Secretary, people feel particularly generous towards a Foreign Secretary, for whatever reason
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that might be. I would never allege that it was for special treatment for specific countries,
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that would be a terrible thing to allege. But Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary, has received
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£117,000. This includes Taylor Swift concert tickets at Wembley, valued at £1,160,000, and
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that's four tickets. And that was gifted to him by the Football Association, for whatever
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reason. Don't know what they've got to do with the Health Secretary, but there we go.
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He's also received £48,000 in four instalments from the OPD group, which is controlled by Peter
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Isn't there some sort of Football League reform going through at the moment?
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It might well be the case, but that would potentially suggest that there may be an incentive for
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them to do this. In fact, they were one of the groups that donated the most. Funny that
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there's legislation in the works to affect their industry, isn't it?
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Why can't politicians, you know like racing drivers, they just sew a little badge on for
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who sponsors them. Can't we have politicians do that?
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Well, yeah, there's not enough space on their lapels to do that, I don't think.
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But also, West Streeting accepted £13,000 towards staffing costs. What a generous donation
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that is. I wish someone would do that for us. From Kevin Craig, who later stood to become
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a Labour MP in Suffolk Coastal, and actually it turned out that he was forced to stand down
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after he bet on his own constituency's outcome in the general election, being the Conservatives.
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So he bet against himself. And following this, Streeting did return his donation at least.
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I don't actually mind that though, because that's just like hedging. That seems sensible to me.
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I've got the wrong person on the panel here, haven't I? He's hedging his bets. Angela Rayner
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has received £104,000. That's not right. £104,000, sorry. Including £2,230,000 for clothing from
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ME plus EM, whatever that is, but it's apparently a British luxury fashion brand. As you can tell,
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I don't know my women's clothing. Keir Starmer has apparently, since 2000, yeah, depending on where
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you look at it, £107,000. And so I've got a long list here for Keir Starmer because I thought it was
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the most interesting. So Crownhawk Properties gave him accommodation for four people, £4,500.
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Swansea City FC gave him five tickets with hospitality valued at £800. Kane International UK Services
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Limited gave him two tickets with hospitality to Chelsea versus Arsenal. Teescraft Engineering
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Limited gave him four tickets with hospitality for Newcastle versus Arsenal, valued at £1,000.
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You get the idea. Lots of football match tickets, but also this carries on for quite some time.
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There's multiple different football clubs donating him tickets for some reason. Also, Lord Waheed Ali,
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this is the big one that's been in the news recently because he was made a Lord by Tony Blair,
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and he's mysteriously been donating lots of money in clothing to both Keir Starmer and his wife,
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valued at £16,200. That's interesting, isn't it? I think over £2,000 was donated just in pairs of
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glasses for Keir Starmer. So he's clearly in need of some very special glasses for himself. I'm sure all
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the reading he's doing is getting good use out of that. But yes, lots and lots of football association
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and Premier League stuff, like four tickets with hospitality, all of that sort of stuff. But also
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Rachel Reeves as well, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, accepted gifts worth £7,500 of clothes
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since 2024. Steve Reid, the Environment Secretary, accepted two tickets to see Kylie Minogue and her
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performance at Hyde Park. And Pat McFadden, who's a senior MP, and his wife, accepted Bruce Springsteen
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concert tickets. Another person who's accepted them is Darren Jones. He's an MP, apparently. Here he is,
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Do you accept those tickets now in the light of what has happened?
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My declarations, you'll see, I don't think I've accepted very much at all. I did take my children
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to see Taylor Swift, which was more for them than it was for me.
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But do you think that all of you now need to think twice about accepting things that perhaps
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other people would love to do, but simply can't afford?
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I think everybody has to make consideration about what they can and can't do with the time
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But it's especially funny when someone from the left says this.
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I know. It's like, well, have you thought about not being poor?
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Well, basically what he's saying. So here is Bridget Philipson, who is Secretary of State
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for Education and Minister for Women and Equality. So what a position, the fact that exists.
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I mean, yeah, even the salaries should be considered the donation here.
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I'll be honest, it was a hard one to turn down. I appreciate there was big demand for the tickets.
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One of my children, you know, was keen to go along. It's hard to say no if you're offered
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tickets in no circumstance, but it was declared. I've been clear about that. But I do recognise
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that, you know, I'm in a fortunate position to be able to receive it.
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It was a bump in the road from the sound of a child being thrown under a bus, wasn't
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Yeah. It's actually a mother that is telling us that it's, my children are basically owning
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me. And anything my children are telling me, I'll do.
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And I love the way that the eyes drop down at the end. It's the classic sort of tell where
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she knows that she's done something wrong, you know, can't maintain the act of it's all
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Yeah, but the children would say, would just look down on her.
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It's an unfortunate screenshot, isn't it? She looks very surprised.
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No, she looks like that all the time, actually.
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It's like a Punch and Judy show. Anyway, the Lord Ali stuff has been in the news quite a lot,
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and they've been in denial mode. And Mike Graham here of Talk is saying that she was spotted
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since the election with him two weeks ago in the House of Lords, and she denies seeing him
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in Downing Street or Parliament. And she herself was seen, you know, only two weeks ago.
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Her declaration must be fun. Have you looked it up?
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I've tried to find it, but all I was able to find is a small percentage of it in clothes,
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Oh, it probably goes a long way beyond that, doesn't it? Like two weeks in Ibiza,
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500 grams of cack and, I don't know, two bottles of Jack Daniels.
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Also, there's lots of conversations about her story, about her knowledge of all of this,
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saying, don't forget that Keir Starmer's deputy, Angela Rayne, wasn't in Durham with him
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at the pre-planned beer and curry supper party, organised by party officials either,
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until that was exposed as a lie and that she had been there, as her own diary and Keir Starmer's revealed.
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So, yes, people are also trying to cover it up, it seems, or at least that's what people are saying.
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So, Keir Starmer has bravely said that he'll stop accepting clothes as a donation.
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I imagine he's probably received enough money to buy his own at this point.
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Yeah. In all of his homes, he's run out of space for clothes.
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He's saying he accepts gold bars and positions in NGOs.
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I will throw up a quick note that people do send us donations quite a lot.
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In fact, I've got one myself here this morning.
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One of my viewers sent me a book and we got another lovely viewer,
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was it Luna something, who sends us chocolates and stuff like that.
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The problem is, though, is we don't get to set tax rates.
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So there probably is quite a quality difference there.
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Well, normally the things that we get given tend not to be trying to bias what we're doing.
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It's just like a thank you, which is very nice of you, by the way.
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You know, you're very mean in the comments sometimes, but I know you're nice deep down.
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So anyway, here's a meme that I thought was good.
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The first meeting of Labour's National Executive Committee after Starmer announced the clothing donation ban.
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That's not actually the Labour National Executive Committee meeting, by the way.
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For those who are listening, Josh is showing us a room of naked men having a board meeting.
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So there has been some backlash within the Labour Party itself.
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I've been sickened by the revelations of donations.
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It grates against the values of the Labour Party created to fight for the needs of others, not the self.
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Meanwhile, pensioners are having their winter fuel payments taken and risking cold.
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Because, of course, the Labour Party conference is going on at the minute.
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And this is the thing that's in the news more than anything else.
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Was she at a Taylor Swift concert while she was posting this?
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Also, Diane Abbott is on a redemption arc here, saying she's basically criticising the general election victory was only possible under Keir's leadership.
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And I think, actually, that's a silly thing anyway, because it was only possible because the Tories tanked their own popularity.
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A child could have led the Labour Party and they would have actually probably done better.
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She says, it's changed it into an organisation whose leaders are in the pockets of millionaires.
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And that's his own MP saying that about the Prime Minister.
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Although Diane Abbott, of course, the left-wing faction, still bitter about Jeremy Corbyn being axed by the more Blairite Keir Starmer.
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So, there's also Harriet Harman, who was former deputy leader at one point of the Labour Party, says that he should stop trying to justify it because he basically said, yeah, of course I get donations.
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I had more respect for him than him coming out and issuing a false apology.
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But it's still bad, because it's still morally questionable, to say the least.
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So, this has had a significant impact, as well as, obviously, the riots and all the other terrible things that Keir Starmer's been doing.
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He's now less popular than Rishi Sunak, which I find hilarious because he's only been in office for a couple of months.
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He's already less popular than the least popular Prime Minister.
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Half of voters think Labour has done a poor job so far.
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And three and five think Labour will lose the next election already.
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And apparently, more than half of respondents do not believe Keir Starmer will lead the party into the next election either.
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If we just leave them to do their own thing, it turns out they're so stupid that they will just sabotage themselves, apparently.
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So, I wanted to quickly go over some other avenues of corruption to wrap up.
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So, obviously, there are just rewarding people with gifts and monetary donations.
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So, a good example is Zaya Youssef donating £200,000 to reform.
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And then he replaced the voting base favourite Ben Habib as party chairman following this.
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It's also worth mentioning as well, members of the House of Lords have donated £50 million to parties who then appointed them to the House of Lords.
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I mean, if I wanted to become a peer, how much would I have to donate?
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I suppose we can run an experiment and you can donate lots of money to, I don't know, the Labour Party.
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But this has also been vindicated by Transparency International.
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Two different organisations have had similar figures.
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They suggested it was slightly more than £50 million, £53.4 million, I believe that reads.
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And, yes, it's also worth mentioning as well that you can be given a lucrative job once you're outside of office.
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So, Nick Clegg, our former Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the Lib Dems back in the day, left Downing Street and got a job for Meta, where he's arguably more powerful than ever and gets significantly more money because he's the President of Global Affairs, whatever that means.
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So, yes, lucrative jobs as well as speaking fees.
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So, Tony Blair's a good example for that, known to get upwards of £200,000 per speech.
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He got given £2,000, £3,000, £7,000 in a single speech for telecommunications conferences in 2015.
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And also, of course, campaign donations whereby they can be rewarded with lucrative government contracts and favourable treatment in any new legislation.
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Reminds me of that Premier League thing you were talking about.
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So, I would like to point out to people, in the United States, there was a case where Microsoft was getting hammered by antitrust laws, which are like anti-monopoly laws, right?
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And all of a sudden, they started donating to political parties.
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And rather than simply stopping targeting them with antitrust laws, they actually invited them in to rewrite them.
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I'm sorry, I don't believe for a minute any of this stuff is above board.
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Obviously, corruption is just legalised in a lot of the Western world.
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It's human nature, of some humans anyway, to be greedy.
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And I think that that is a sort of inevitability when institutions have as much power as they do.
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You increase the bloat, you increase the capability of individuals to pursue their own selfish, greedy needs.
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Before we go on to the next story, can I just quickly point out that, Rue the Day, I see you in the chat.
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Yeah, this is one of my arguments against there being lots of government in the first place,
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is that there's more avenues to rip off the public, right?
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And I think that corruption is an inevitability of a bloated state.
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Corruption was basically so endemic that it was part of the system, because the system was everything.
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So, if Starmer is getting free glasses, why does he continue to choose pairs that make him look special needs?
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Here's a bribe for you fine fellas to read out my comment.
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Lotus Eaters play verses in Left 4 Dead 2 when.
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If we just call it somehow different, it's going to cease to exist.
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Like with men and women, as they're trying to...
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Right, so this weekend there were elections in Germany in the state of Brandenburg.
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For those of you who are listening from the radio, I'm showing a map of Germany divided into states
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It's like a little donut that surrounds Berlin, yeah.
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Right, so here the AFD came second by a narrow margin.
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And also we have the new rise of the BSW, which is a new migration-sceptic leftist party,
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which will be talked about a lot, because it was founded this January,
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and the major question to be asking is whether migration-sceptic left-wing parties
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are just an invention to halt migration-sceptic right-wing parties.
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So, we saw in Saxony, Anhalt, and Thuringia that they helped split the left-wing vote,
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I don't think the left-wing vote share had been that low in recent years because of this new party,
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They definitely have done so in Brandenburg as well.
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I'm just going to show you considerations from both sides,
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because this is going to be a question to be asked not just for Germany,
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but in any other Western country that has the issue with mass migration.
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So, here we see that the AFD came first in Thuringia,
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second in Saxony, and now second in Brandenburg.
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We have coffee mugs, t-shirts, other t-shirts coming in all sizes,
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And here I hear that there's a colleague of mine who has written a poem
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that is particularly going to stir up sentiment.
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Well, we've proved that all of these people are real people, at least.
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They're not the weird lizard people from They Live.
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because they have some data that shows also what happens
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So, here we can see the SPD, which is the Social Democrat Party.
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It had won 25 seats and 26.2% of the votes five years ago.
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Now, we are talking about the AFD here that also had a major win.
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They won more than 5.7% more in comparison to the previous election.
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Interestingly, here we have the new BSW migration skeptic left-wing party
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It's a new party that was founded this January.
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Are they more pro-remigration than AFD, this new party?
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We don't know that much yet, but they're a migration skeptic.
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Yeah, it's difficult to say, because they're only founded in January.
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I don't know how dedicated they really are to that.
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I just think if they've got 14 seats from nothing,
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they must be putting out a message which is resonating.
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And you will see here also that we have zero seats sort of won here,
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They had 10.8% of the vote, and they fell by close to 7%.
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And there is, I think it's called the 5% hurdle in Germany.
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Parties need at least 5% to enter the state parliament.
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The left also, Die Linke, was completely demolished.
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and the BSW was allegedly born out of a split with Die Linke.
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It also got less than 5% and also got zero seats.
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And the CDU, which is, I think, the Christian Democrat Union,
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who is particularly prone to adopt the message of the AFD,
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We see here, we have here from Ralph Schollhammer,
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were overwhelmingly pro-AFD and migration skeptic.
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So five years ago, they had 25% support in the age group
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I spent a bit of time in Germany in the early 2000s,
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And, of course, they actually got their green government,
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And it led to the de-industrialisation of Germany
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and the impoverishment of basically all of them.
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I wouldn't be surprised if Germans are now going in their back garden
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and just burning barrels of crude oil just out of spite.
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But, I mean, the Greens have just completely destroyed Germany.
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that actually the country's falling apart on them.
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it seems that Germany is completely turning its back
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They now get a lot of their energy from German,
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There's a massive rise in popularity for the AFD.
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So it's more than double in the 16-24 age group.
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because I think there is plenty to discuss here.
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but it looks like German women are quite sensible.
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and their core message is pro-national sovereignty
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Obviously more heavily weighted towards the AFD.
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And one difference is that there is a higher percentage
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It's 40% of migration sceptic women, let's say.
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is represented in voting for the AFD and the BSW...
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It certainly would be more so for the AFD than the BSW
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because, however, there are options in the German election.
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They don't necessarily need to vote tactically per se
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So I think that votes are slightly more representative
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of actual ideological similarity in a German system
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But, I mean, that seems to be taking hold in Germany
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that is right now currently more than 70 years old
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Well, yes, because young people support it more.
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And the idea is that you become more conservative
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Also, 40% of pensioners supported the governing party.
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Infinity Africans and then you can have a pension.
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next year there are federal elections in Germany.
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So, this is a left-wing anti-immigration party?
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well on the subject of p diddy much as i like the idea of perverts rapists and nonces being sent to prison to enjoy both full dance cards and full orifices
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does anyone find it odd that the diddler has been doing this for years in a career field known for this sort of activity
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is this a warning shot to others who might try to leave the leftist plantation
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keep in mind that lbj the president not the mexican blowjob famously said i'll have those voting democrat for the next 100 years
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well i think it's interesting that p diddy used the same method that jeffrey epstein used in recording his blackmail victims and we've not seen any of the clips from epstein i'm very very very interested to see if any of the footage from the p diddy stuff is going to be exposed
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because i get the impression that p diddy's a lower rung of the ladder than epstein was
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in this pedophile ring that seems to be connected because there are overlapping uh people in both
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i'm just looking up that mexican blowjob that you referred to because i've not heard of that before
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all right guys listen to these cameras this is my digital camera
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i got this for that reason and also because it doesn't require any electricity to function in its film
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and the reason i got that is because i wanted to hunt skinwalkers
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and as we know paranormal things tend to drain batteries this doesn't require it
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well i look forward to your video comment when you've got
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uh a horrible monstrous skinwalker just like here
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it takes it's like a creature or a monster that takes the form of things i think so anyway
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but they yeah it's a type of harmful creature in navajo culture that can change into possess or
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disguise themselves as animals there you go it's not the same thing as a harmful witch
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well that's a crime in america isn't it a jaywalker
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um i think they're monsters so there's no legislation on them i'm afraid
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um cycle for prayers congress election keck level info
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tomorrow for the uk going to be on what are the odds episode on people
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there are lots of sentence fragments there but i get the gist of what you're saying
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um if the democrats get the house reps they have already
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um have a plan to disqualify trump and prevent him from taking office
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you know getting the presidency is only one part of it right
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otherwise you're not going to be able to do very much
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right we got some comments there are some general ones
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um nicholas valentine says was that a citizenship ceremony today
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for my missus she's really pleased and proud to be a british citizen no joke
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one of the oaths she has to make mentions upholding freedom of speech and
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there was more but those two really stood out to me as tutu kia starlin
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not only has the audacity to in uh inhibit these same rights um we are
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apparently meant to protect but is doing so while shamelessly and openly lining
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treason used to get the rope but now it gets a golden handshake
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stewart beresford you can read this one stelios
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stelios looks the best well dressed waiting for the check
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thank you david but maybe we shouldn't read that one
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so for the corruption kevin fox says if you think kia and labor's popularity has dropped now
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wait until the budget and watch it plummet to the seventh ring of hell
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um sophie live says this is just the government going we investigated ourselves and found no corruption isn't it
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and when they do find corruption conveniently it's from their political enemies that is actually calling them out for their corruption
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basically what your segment showed is that in those countries the current ruling elite is aligned with the media
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uh yeah there are many today so lancelot says that's perfect irony right there the french keeping the lights on in germany
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uh maria manzi says german greens have since the night 1980s been the founding of the description melons
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green on the outside red on the inside i was posed yes because they're just so leftist just
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they hate society i was posted in the military to berlin for two and a bit uh years
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two and a yeah two and a bit years in the early 80s where i saw this firsthand
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yeah it's so it's just they're just communists i think
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i might go back to some of the comments here um because i did skip over a fair few so the wigan
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survivalist says as someone who works in financial services i can confirm with dan that we cannot
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accept gifts under any circumstance which is true i mean i did but don't say that and faux pas says
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vip suites at football games or other events may provide a convenient place to coordinate further favors
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under the cover of a leisurely outing hence why the nature of the event might not matter at all
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yeah keir starmer is really into his football otherwise isn't he and uh do you want to read some of your
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assassination comments yes uh bleach demon says the attempts on trump are like trying to spark a lighter
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inside a room full of petrol more than just singed eyebrows will result yeah i don't know i don't know
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i mean they managed to get away with stealing an election last time when people turned up to protest
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they just threw them all in jail and the right just accepted it so i i honestly don't know what
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would happen if they did assassinate trump i think they might actually get away with it i don't know
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well i think it'll be one of those ones just like there'll be if it does happen there'll be a guy
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who's a lone wolf and uh we we have no idea i will investigate and sort of just bury it and you know
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investigated ourselves and found ourselves innocent yeah well you know how the investigations go i mean we
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still don't know anything about that kid from the first one do we apart from the fact that he was
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the only 17 year old in the world to not have a social media account or to ever post it online
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what do we know about the um i'll go about the las vegas shooting i mean all of these there are plenty
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of questions to be asked about yes they they all just sort of disappear um rb says have you uh all seen
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anything about the apparent chemical gas attack at the trump rally over the weekend people near the stage
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had symptoms such as temporary blindness difficulty breathing and skin irritation no i hadn't i hadn't
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heard about that no i was uh unplugged from the news over the weekend is because i mean there are
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methods of assassination where you can sort of give binary compounds to people um over two exposures
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that only kill you if you've been if you've been exposed twice so you couldn't yeah here we go
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suspected chemical attack leaves trump supporters with mysterious eye injuries it's not impossible
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that that was stage one of a multi-stage toxin so that they can only get people who were present at
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both the first and the second event whenever the second event is and the second event could be him
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um you know handshaking a guy with a with a compound on his hand or you know being handed a folder
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things you only need to look at what was done to try and kill castro i mean exploding cigars and
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all sorts of things and they didn't have a fraction of the options they got these days oh yeah i mean
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if if you're an intelligence agency trying to kill someone you're sport for choice aren't you there
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are so many different ways that they can kill someone and make it look like natural causes and
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trump being quite an old man yeah you know it's they could say well what if he suddenly had a heart
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attack and if they really need to shoot down his plane yeah there's lots of ways they can go after
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him um rb says have you all seen anything about the apparent oh that was the yeah there was a
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hector x says the donald deadpool has started um az desert razz says uh why would the would-be
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assassin cross the southern border because it's easy yes fair enough george happ says um assassination
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team a that sounds pretty official with three letter agencies are arresting people for having lego sets
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well they did didn't they um but they can't or more accurately don't want to stop organized
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assassinations uh trump should rely on private security yeah that's the thing it's like i think
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eric prince of blackwater has offered to provide the security i'm not quite sure why he wouldn't i
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mean i think he's probably got a first-rate security team himself um but i hope he's making full use of
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it i think he should just bolster his ranks even if it's ever so briefly in the run-up to the election
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with donations you can afford the cost of that i mean having to do it yourself is pr in and of
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itself and worth the the value purely based on the pr if it also means he actually makes it to the
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election then even better because of course he's saying look at what the the state is doing to me
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i'm having to pay for my own security to stay safe that would be excellent pr and i'm surprised he
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hasn't done i mean i'd imagine there's advantages to having the secret services there because presumably
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they get access to the other the private that's true yeah they're legally allowed to do certain
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things that private security might not i think yeah that's my understanding of it anyway i've not
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looked into in great detail but there is a uh uh rumble thing to to end on uh that one is uh for
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your segment i believe if if they do manage to pew pew trump i think it will be peak demoralization
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followed by a new charade a new character who will be far more intense than trump similar to caesar
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showing up after others you know sulla presumably yeah yeah i mean that that could be it i mean
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trump is actually quite moderate yeah there could be a lot more fire and brimstone the millennial
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version of trump will not be anywhere near as constrained as trump is that's true and what a
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point to end the podcast on but uh thank you very much for watching and uh make sure to tune in same