The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

00:00:00.000 hello and welcome to podcast of the lotus eaters episode 1007 007 if you don't get the one 24th

00:00:16.280 of september i'm joined by carl hello and nobody else it's just us today cozy yes good chat in

00:00:23.660 shoe i'm sure we we won't tell you what we're just talking about because it's quite bizarre

00:00:27.220 no it's just that i haven't properly fleshed out the thesis yet that's well i'm not even

00:00:32.960 semi-convinced at this stage trust me it'll it'll make sense when it's done all right okay fine we

00:00:37.220 will we look forward to that anyway today we are going to be discussing um how labor are going to

00:00:42.060 bring joy to this country by removing everything that we take joy in um we're gonna we're gonna

00:00:47.520 discuss um what the fbi crime stats tell us and i'm sure you'll find that it's going to be a big

00:00:53.900 surprise especially the twist that i put on it um and we're also going to be asking if david

00:00:58.580 beckham is a good father or not um i don't know anything about that segment so we we will see the

00:01:04.840 arguments um things to promote um and we will do this continuously because it's not out for much

00:01:10.400 longer islander uh edition two now last time we did one of these as soon as we stopped taking orders

00:01:16.380 loads of you then got in touch and said um can i place an order as too late no no you can't so you

00:01:22.320 either you either order it now definitely this week maybe one more week but you got you got a

00:01:26.640 good week and if you don't do it you will be cast into ignominity forever um and also uh what else

00:01:32.960 we've got going on um oh yes the first batch has been printed so uh those of you who've got your

00:01:38.660 orders in admirably early will be getting it soon and you can then start fomoing everyone right with

00:01:44.460 that first england i'm going to tell you something you didn't know the labor party are about to screw

00:01:54.080 you out of as much money as they can i had every single way right you had guests had you wow um

00:02:00.920 but before we get on to that i thought we'd start with labor's expense well not expenses gifts scandal

00:02:07.240 uh free gear cure is what people are calling him now and what i like about starmer is he does

00:02:12.800 actually have a name that lends itself to rhyme and poetry and alliteration right so there are lots

00:02:18.900 of these names two-tier care free gear care there was another one as well i can't remember off the top

00:02:22.860 of my head what it was um oh starmer granny harmer uh and like so there are there are lots of lots of

00:02:29.200 these names that uh people are making up about care and what you can tell when someone is genuinely hated

00:02:34.540 when people start organically making up these kinds of names right generally they don't do it there's

00:02:39.760 nothing for like tony blair nothing for cordon brown you know there's nothing nothing for 0.66

00:02:44.540 boris johnson or liz truss or david cameron but but with maggie you did have maggie maggie milk snatcher

00:02:51.280 yeah thatcher milk snatcher yeah because she was genuinely hated by a significant segment of the 0.99

00:02:56.140 population so starmer's arrived at that kind of position where he's genuinely hated despised by a

00:03:03.800 significant section of the population okay well i mean maybe if you weren't such an evil anti-british

00:03:08.960 robot that wouldn't be such a problem but let's begin with their the the gifts and freebies scandal

00:03:13.920 because uh the telegraph have counted it up and this is in nine months they've managed to rack up

00:03:18.920 800 000 pounds in donations and freebies and this is to the politicians personally this isn't to the

00:03:24.360 party this is to those politicians i've got to say i do find it at least a little bit admirable

00:03:29.400 that they're not even tony blair it's a bit admirable isn't it well no tony blair he at least

00:03:35.480 tried to do the whiter than white thing and the ethical foreign policy he he pretended that he

00:03:40.920 was doing everything right and he was embarrassed when there was scandal come out with these guys

00:03:45.540 they just don't care oh it's better than they just don't care we'll we'll get to it it's better than

00:03:50.880 that they're proud of this they're proud of it so uh david lammy has received the most if you can

00:03:57.260 believe it since the beginning 2024 he's accepted more than 150 000 pounds worth of donations freebies and

00:04:04.560 gifts uh this included two and a half thousand pounds worth of tickets to see tottenham hotspur

00:04:09.020 with use of the hospitality box i mean like 150 grand is like four times three times average wage

00:04:17.960 in this country yeah and he's racked it up in nine months which is just i mean it's impressive

00:04:23.240 it's double an mp salary more or less absolutely it's an impressive commitment to corruption that's

00:04:28.340 the thing i i mean i knew it was going to be the case but it's genuinely impressive uh the largest

00:04:32.800 sum donated to him was from labor together a star right think tank which donated 40 000 pounds

00:04:38.040 for the quote provision of research and writing services oh yeah david lammy famous researcher

00:04:43.800 and writer like come on come on which basically means money that he can then use to employ his

00:04:49.700 family members and get a kick back home oh yeah who knows what he does with that i mean i i don't know

00:04:54.340 what any of the labor parties spend any money on just seem to get everything free uh there were other

00:04:59.220 labor labor cabinet ministers have received 750 000 pound donations and another 90 000 pound in

00:05:05.620 gifts uh lammy is followed by west streeting who received 117 000 pounds in donations and gifts

00:05:11.740 among them four tickets and hospitality sees taylor swift at wembley costing over a grand and this is a

00:05:17.820 weirdly recurring theme they're all like yeah of course we accepted the free taylor swift

00:05:22.160 concert tickets i was like why you're on a hundred you're on 100k a year just buy it yes you can

00:05:28.180 afford it yes but uh the health secretary's biggest donation was valued at 48 000 in four

00:05:33.500 installments from opd group limited a company controlled by peter and a recruitment mogul and

00:05:38.800 one of labor's biggest donors angela rayner got 104 000 in gifts and donations uh two two and a half

00:05:45.920 thousand or 2.2 000 for clothing from a luxury british fashion brand and of course starmer got

00:05:51.240 16k in clothes for his wife in one donation and things like this yes so um the labor party are

00:05:57.440 kind of swimming in uh money and hospitality at the moment which is lovely for them yeah while

00:06:03.860 everyone else is struggling again i i am quite impressed by the way they just don't care about

00:06:10.580 any of the things that used to matter in politics yeah they don't they don't propriety is what they

00:06:15.440 don't yes that's it so bridget phillipson who's the uh secretary of state for edge and for education

00:06:20.560 and minister for women inequalities uh was just like yeah no i mean it's perfectly normal like

00:06:26.360 uh your uh declarations show that you received 14 000 pounds from the labor donor lord ali last year

00:06:33.360 what for exactly yeah so i received that money from waheed ali who's a long-standing labor peer

00:06:38.440 it was used to fund two events uh all of which was declared properly and thoroughly that's why that

00:06:44.160 information is in the public domain the first event uh was ahead of my birthday so i was turning 40

00:06:49.040 i thought it was a good opportunity to get people together in a professional context so it was

00:06:53.060 journalists uh trade unionists education people mps and shadow cabinet so clients right i got the

00:07:00.060 journalists i got the trade unionists and i got fellow mps and cabinet members and all that so it

00:07:04.300 was it was a big loving we got 14 grand for a massive birthday party for me and the closest clients of the

00:07:10.380 labor party remember when keir starmer was in 10 downing street he was like the country has been

00:07:14.240 putting back in service of you and who is it it's a bunch of journalists and staffers and clients

00:07:18.460 it's like the more i realize it all politics really does just come down to the friend-enemy

00:07:23.240 distinction that was it does for labor yeah that was good because it was a collection of her friends

00:07:28.340 people protesting about children being murdered they're bad enemies because they're enemies and

00:07:33.040 it is it is as simple as that criminals well they're lifelong labor voters now yeah as one of the

00:07:37.720 criminals who was let out early said um but we'll carry on a little bit because watch her face 1.00

00:07:42.180 the second event was an event that i held also again for lobby journalists for people in the

00:07:47.660 education world as part of a reception that's no no she looks like she can't can't stop herself 0.98

00:07:53.260 from smiling she's desperately trying not to laugh in your face right but what was this one this one

00:07:59.100 was for more journalists and teachers all right the other labor client groups yeah you know so it's

00:08:03.200 like okay great you were just holding parties and obviously trevor phillips is just like well

00:08:07.360 if this were the conservatives you'd be going mental yeah and she's like haha maybe but it's not 0.98

00:08:13.040 you know that's basically the essence of what you're saying that's you know it was in a work

00:08:18.660 context you know that's a very nice thing but if a tory had done that two years ago i know exactly

00:08:27.400 what you'd be saying to me this morning they should pay for their own birthday parties look this was in a

00:08:33.080 work context i didn't even invite my own hey you said the same thing yeah i didn't even my own family

00:08:38.160 didn't come to that it was in a work context i celebrated my actual 40th birthday with my family

00:08:44.000 we went for a pizza i celebrated with my kids you're so cheap oh well i know we had 14 000 for a massive

00:08:51.020 work day because that was paper something else but for myself well we're going to peter yeah you know

00:08:54.620 unbelievable but uh anyways no contrition no like oh yeah it does look bad i don't know if you're

00:09:00.840 playing more but if this is the interview i've seen she justifies it later by saying yeah but i

00:09:04.860 declared it all yes they think oh well i just told you that i've received all these gifts but let's

00:09:10.300 moving on so uh you know she uh took taylor swift tickets okay is that a work context look

00:09:18.460 i'll be honest it was a hard one to turn down i appreciate there was big demand for the tickets it

00:09:24.480 was a privilege to be there one of my children you know was a keen to go along it's hard to say no if

00:09:30.980 you're offered tickets in no circumstance but it was declared um i've been clear about that but i do

00:09:36.520 recognize that you know i'm in a fortunate position to be able to receive it i i'm just higher in the

00:09:42.960 hierarchy than you are don't you understand no apology no retraction no yeah good point it does look a 0.70

00:09:48.820 bit bad if you know we're imposing what is essentially austerity 2.0 on the country and

00:09:53.740 taking loads of freebies but my daughter really wanted to see taylor swift it's like well then you

00:09:57.520 could have bought the tickets yes you know they are for sale it's like no i just accept i kind of

00:10:01.820 want to make an ai version of this i just don't have the experience of interviewing starlin and it was

00:10:05.460 like well yeah i i did genocide the kulaks but i did declare it yeah exactly it was actually they did 0.68

00:10:12.700 everything that could hide it yeah but uh anyway again there's another labor mp who's like yeah no

00:10:18.640 i i took taylor swift tickets you accept those tickets now in the light of what has happened

00:10:23.100 my declarations you'll see i don't think i've accepted very much at all i did take my children

00:10:29.960 to see taylor swift um which is more for them than it was for me but do you think that all of you now

00:10:35.000 need to think twice about accepting things that perhaps other people would love to do but but

00:10:39.860 simply can't afford i think everybody has to make consideration about what they can and can't do

00:10:45.120 with the time they have available with their family no contrition no admittance of wrongdoing

00:10:51.320 it's like no we're just more important than you right we're not the party of equality we're not the

00:10:56.160 party of all of this nonsense plebeian like you know fairness or rule of law or any any of the other

00:11:02.020 things that labor parties in the past might have said no we get the free taylor swift tickets we

00:11:06.840 declare them so you know we get them and screw you it's in charge simple as yeah it's it's literally 0.61

00:11:13.580 like that and uh and of course there are more free tickets and again they're just i mean literally i'm

00:11:21.800 not going to play it just because time but the the summary of all of this is just we're politicians

00:11:26.120 of course we expect people to butter us up with handouts why do you think we got into this business

00:11:30.640 in the first place yes that's the the the through line right and then they've got this particular

00:11:36.200 one from the labor party conference which is just which is going on at the moment i haven't seen this

00:11:39.320 oh this is just incredible i'm really proud of people who want to contribute not just their time

00:11:45.480 and volunteering but their money to our politics it is a noble pursuit just like giving to charity

00:11:50.840 and we don't recognize that enough the alternative is we ask taxpayers to fund our politics i think

00:11:56.360 they'd rather their taxes went into the nhs and our schools or stayed in their own pockets so into

00:12:00.900 a taylor swift concert a noble court i'm sure keir will shake it off but let me say nick i'm absolutely

00:12:06.880 delighted in the bbc's newfound conviction that no one should be paid more than the prime minister

00:12:11.460 that they shouldn't give or receive hospitality and we'll judge the performance on the social media

00:12:15.660 oh that is so brazen i'm really proud of people who give us money you're it you're just funding

00:12:21.940 our politics it's basically charity like again the the total arrogance of the labor party at the

00:12:29.100 moment but also really below the line when he was saying i'm really proud of people for giving us

00:12:33.440 money yeah and that's money that's not had to come from the taxpayer the implication clearly is is

00:12:38.560 if they weren't getting all of these freebies we would be rinsing you yes we'd be taking even more

00:12:42.960 from the taxpayers yeah this is this is the only reason we haven't tripled our salaries it's

00:12:48.780 incredible isn't it and i love it it's a noble pursuit yes to slush money into the labor party

00:12:54.800 and give us free taylor swift tickets i mean 30 years ago for something like this you would have

00:12:59.700 resigned in shame and then 15 years ago you might not have resigned but you would have at least had

00:13:05.360 the shame in fact two years ago you would have had the shame now there's no shame at all think about

00:13:10.040 when boris johnson accepted like 50 grand to get 10 downing street oh yeah wallpaper and stuff yeah

00:13:16.180 it's like okay that's really petty i don't really care about it but everyone was at least like you

00:13:20.880 know oh that was bad and they had the decency to look a bit hangdog about it yeah like yeah okay

00:13:26.720 fair enough we got us on this one but no we're proud this is a noble pursuit give us more free taylor swift

00:13:32.860 tickets give us more free more free football tickets unreal it's just unreal it might just be

00:13:38.880 the unfortunate point you've paused it there but he looks like he's about to glass him for asking this

00:13:42.580 question oh yeah well i mean you could see his response in the whole thing he looks like he's

00:13:46.300 combative no i'm allowed to take these because i'm part of the government and that's how this works

00:13:51.380 now i mean when asked of course that only washes with a quarter of the public two-thirds of the public

00:13:57.520 are like no they shouldn't be taking free tickets and gifts why were you even asking me this but uh

00:14:02.200 so they've very much misread the mood of the public on this one which i think goes to show that they are

00:14:08.140 becoming far more isolated and of course uh this i love this so much because this is the arrogance of

00:14:17.280 them and actually this is one of the things i spoke about in my latest islander article which is

00:14:22.080 exclusively in islander so you can't read this anywhere else but i'll read you a very quick quote

00:14:26.940 because i think this really summarizes it right the point of consensus around which the mainstream

00:14:32.220 coalesces is growing smaller and more isolated by the day until it resembles a modern day ship of

00:14:37.500 fools adrift on a turbulent ocean of grievance its occupants desperately cling to the mast and through

00:14:43.600 rictus grins tell one another that the consensus holds and everything will be fine despite the signs

00:14:48.500 which indicate an imminent capsizing in in the end all that's left them is to cry racism one last time

00:14:54.580 as the stormy depths swallow them up you wrote that i wrote that quite good at this writing thing

00:14:59.740 i appreciate that i'm the best article i've written so far i spent i spent a lot of time on that um go

00:15:05.860 and get it now because it's only gonna be available for another week or so and it won't be reprinted

00:15:09.840 no matter how much you ask so you know don't miss out um but eventually eventually kirsten was like you

00:15:18.140 know what despite the fact that only a quarter of the public are fine with this again the labor

00:15:22.640 hardliners are fine with this because of course our party this is part of them it's part of the

00:15:27.600 hierarchy yep despite the fact that everyone else is like either i don't know or i disapprove

00:15:31.920 it took them about a week to be like yeah okay all right all right we won't accept any more we

00:15:36.900 promise gov it's like yeah they're not going to they're not going to reimburse the uh the money

00:15:40.500 that's already taken of course not well they were donating to a noble pursuit remember um but uh yeah

00:15:46.360 so uh kirsten armor angela rayner and rachel reeves uh so they won't take any more uh donations for

00:15:52.420 clothing after the route people are struggling sorry this is what lisa nandy said people are

00:15:57.800 really struggling in this country and we don't want people to believe that we are living very

00:16:01.040 different lives from them we don't want people to believe it it's not that it's not true we just

00:16:07.500 don't want you believing it yes very interesting uh and so let's go on to how they're going to

00:16:13.040 absolutely screw you because your life is about to get markedly worse and theirs isn't so you 0.63

00:16:18.200 remember that kirsten armor a month ago was like look things are going to get worse before they get

00:16:22.520 better it's like oh we know we're well aware we've got the labor government in charge of course i'm not

00:16:26.500 sure that's accurate i think things are going to get worse before they get worse yeah well i mean

00:16:30.180 well i mean that's just a truism anyway we don't know when they might get better you know maybe in a

00:16:35.860 thousand years after we've recovered from the damage labor have done to the country things will end up

00:16:40.840 getting better but um yeah obviously this is going to be the case sorry i've got a bug going around

00:16:47.660 that everyone's had and uh it's very annoying so um of course rachel reeves has been going on about

00:16:53.160 the 22 billion pound black hole in the public finances which labor are going to fill by fleecing

00:16:59.900 you absolutely facing you because of course we're not going down the road of austerity right this is

00:17:05.560 what they uh this is what lbc have uh informed us which of course is true the government will not be

00:17:10.560 spending less so uh keir starmer and rachel reeves explain this look we're just going to do this

00:17:15.340 and in fact explicitly we're going to increase government spending so we've got 22 billion pound

00:17:22.620 hole in the finances the public finances so rachel reeves the chancellor of the exchequer is going to 0.92

00:17:28.780 increase public spending so but how is that going to be paid for rachel and you know how they push out 1.00

00:17:36.400 ideas to see what the pushback is going to be one of the ideas that i've seen that rachel reeves is 1.00

00:17:41.620 pushing out is changing the fiscal rules so that they can spend more basically so they can ramp up

00:17:46.760 more debt yeah well it's undoubtedly what's going to happen yeah because they as they say no return

00:17:53.180 to austerity now austerity means a reduction in the amount of public spending on services oh no actually

00:18:00.580 actually it doesn't oh go on right because the famous era of tory austerity in 2009 or did it not

00:18:06.940 reduce it no and and i and actually i had this i had this argument with the tory minister that i knew

00:18:12.200 because i said to him um you realize where there isn't actually any austerity all that's happening

00:18:17.000 is the planned increases are going to be slightly lower okay but i said your spending is and he didn't

00:18:22.620 believe me and we actually had to go over to the treasury and get a copy of the budget and i showed him

00:18:27.400 look your department spending is going up and he didn't realize it okay austerity is supposed to

00:18:34.060 mean thank you for the correction that the public spending on services and benefits is reduced yeah

00:18:41.460 that's not going to happen and you know rachel reeves is not lying she's not pulling the wool over 1.00

00:18:45.560 your eyes here no no we're not going to cut public services we're going to increase government spending

00:18:49.160 yes get used to it right so again she the way she frames it the public understands the need for

00:18:55.280 sacrifices to stable the stabilize the economy so i know that you think we're going to have to make

00:19:00.220 sacrifices again labor not making any sacrifices well the i mean the doctors just got 22 didn't they

00:19:06.340 or something yeah they the nurses have just rejected a five percent increase as well yeah but i mean

00:19:10.280 i mean fair enough i mean if the doctors got 22 why would you accept five well you wouldn't would you

00:19:16.920 yeah using your bargaining position i mean surely there's something else that we can take away from

00:19:21.180 the pensioners because they don't vote labor sorry there is in fact oh right okay we'll get to in 0.71

00:19:26.680 a minute uh the concept of joy uh is what we're going to take away from the pensioners um she says 0.95

00:19:32.860 quote there won't be a return to austerity there'll be real terms increases to government spending in

00:19:37.380 this parliament they just say it they just say it it's like no no we're gonna we're gonna increase

00:19:41.320 the amount of money the government spends which of course means you're gonna have to pay for it

00:19:45.080 because the government doesn't have a term money so it's just like right i mean they're just

00:19:47.880 about to say this this in previous eras would be unthinkable right yes previous eras you would

00:19:52.920 never be like yeah so we're going to just increase the amount of money the government spends because

00:19:55.680 that's good it's like no that's evil actually i mean literally well especially in this context

00:20:01.720 it's not even the amount of money that we're going to pay because it's all going to be done through

00:20:05.200 debt so it's going to be the amount of money that our kids and grandkids pay yes but it is also

00:20:09.340 going to be a tax increase for you in the october budget so well you and that yes we all get screwed

00:20:14.060 yeah every generation yes it's great and you know what's interesting i've recently been reading

00:20:18.360 thomas payne uh the most wrong man about democracy ever to have written um but like 70 of the things

00:20:25.760 that he writes is whining about governments taxing people which is totally fair and on that i can't

00:20:30.880 find any fault so yeah we're getting screwed for taxes so yep that's true then in 1790 wasn't he a

00:20:36.920 proto-liberal or something yeah he was yeah he was a republican revolutionary okay but he was still

00:20:42.180 a lot of his argument hinged on the fact that the government in his time was taxing people way too

00:20:47.360 much so you don't even know i mean i can't even imagine what he'd say about the government now

00:20:51.680 yeah but the tax rate back then was like five percent or something uh yeah all right slippery

00:20:58.520 slope there was a stamp tax on a duty on imports from india and stuff like that you know yeah yeah

00:21:04.500 it's slippery slope like if they saw the taxes we have to pay now yeah they'd be like my god you

00:21:08.920 know uh i won't even go any further on that but um but anyway yeah so there's real term increases in

00:21:14.900 government spending oh god thank god so uh how are they going to make up this money well they're not

00:21:20.940 going to be deporting the illegals which apparently are costing us 14 billion a year uh they're not 0.99

00:21:25.920 going to be ending any foreign aid which uh this is costing us 4.3 billion a year in foreign aid

00:21:31.500 which is wonderful according to the uh the 22 23 budget uh we're going to be sending 3 billion a

00:21:38.260 year to ukraine for as long as it takes and we're not going to be cracking down on health tourism

00:21:43.140 it's 180 million a year i mean it's small small no way it's that low oh it's way more yeah it's

00:21:49.940 going to be way more but this is just the what is recorded right right so it's just what they the

00:21:56.180 government themselves recognize uh the 180 million is actually um a very low ball i've seen other

00:22:02.340 figures where it's 300 million a year so so i used to live in central london near one of the hospitals

00:22:07.740 and i would regularly see um indian families turn up yeah with their elderly relatives with their

00:22:12.900 suitcases still in hand with the tags on them and go straight into the hospital 100 it's going to be a

00:22:18.880 lot higher than this but this is just what the government recognizes they're not going to crack down on

00:22:21.780 that they're not going to crack down on foreigners living in social houses and i think this is just 0.97

00:22:26.100 like amazing right so on the right hand side there you've got social housing and privately rented and

00:22:31.740 as you can see the dark blue is social housing so 30 of sub-saharan africans are in social housing

00:22:38.140 30 of the africans in this country are being paid to live here by the taxpayer nearly 20 of pakistanis 0.98

00:22:45.500 like 17 of all foreign bonds why is any foreign born why why 14 of eu people

00:22:51.760 allowed to live in social housing why is any foreign person in social why am i paying for 1.00

00:22:57.220 them to live in our country it's crazy this is costing us billions of course nothing will happen

00:23:03.660 around that instead what's coming is tax hikes right so uh obviously the budget will be out in

00:23:09.000 october but we know the sort of things they're going to talk about in it and they're going to do in it

00:23:12.960 so one of the things you'll notice there uh they will not increase national insurance income tax or vat

00:23:18.300 okay but there are lots of other things they can do first thing being inheritance tax so inheritance 0.93

00:23:24.400 tax at the moment is 40 on the value of an estate above 325 000 pounds when someone dies now 325 000

00:23:30.820 is not very much in the era of massively inflated house prices no in fact that's that's slightly below

00:23:38.080 average house prices 100 if if you if you bought a house in the last 20 years you are absolutely going

00:23:43.880 to be falling into this yes right so when your parents die and they sell their house 40 of that

00:23:48.940 is going to the especially boomers because they all live in mansions that they bought for 200 pounds 0.99

00:23:52.560 in 1961 yep uh that the government is going to absolutely uh increase tax on that they could also

00:23:59.940 reduce the number of years allowed before when giving away assets before someone dies before the

00:24:04.740 inheritance tax keep kicks in as well i think it's at the moment seven years yeah uh so they could be

00:24:09.360 like yeah it's two years now whatever so that's the uh capital gains tax is the next one so this is

00:24:15.500 the profit imposed on the sale of capital assets including second homes shares business assets and

00:24:20.500 most personal possessions worth six thousand pounds or more apart from cars uh so and that's a really

00:24:25.820 bad tax because what it does is it makes sure that capital stays in really inefficient places and so

00:24:30.020 it removes the innovation that happens in an economy yes it makes your economy far less dynamic and

00:24:35.860 static because of course if i sell this thing then i'm going to lose money on it because the

00:24:39.900 government has got their hands in my pockets it's like brilliant excellent what what we need is a much

00:24:44.720 more uh much more calcified economy yes less money is flowing around everything is static so there's

00:24:51.200 less opportunities to earn money absolutely the next thing is council tax uh and i really hate this

00:24:57.740 because council tax uh is set in bans based on 1991 valuation of homes and a chief economist uh for the

00:25:05.360 the labor party has been like well i mean you know we could uh do sensible structural reform and quote

00:25:10.200 raise extra money at the same time it's like great more money coming out and 80 of the council tax in

00:25:15.140 swindon for example is redistributive so it's money the council takes from you to provide services to

00:25:22.640 various people it will be bed and breakfasts for single moms not just that it's uh you know and immigrants 1.00

00:25:28.300 yeah but it's it's you know uh you know poor billy uh has a site deficiency so you gotta pay for his

00:25:34.420 specs and stuff like that you know we're putting you know a disabled ramp on the thing but so but

00:25:39.440 that's 80 percent of your council tax yes 80 percent of it uh the next thing they're going to do is

00:25:44.360 business rates labor are understood to be consulting on charging business rates which are on most non-domestic

00:25:49.900 properties with relief including for some small businesses retail hospitality and leisure but that's great

00:25:54.780 let's penalize business for making money uh is that a good or bad thing for an economy dan well

00:26:02.240 funnily enough near me there's actually uh an old 70s um shopping block and it is rammed every shop is

00:26:09.440 full is really vibrant and i can never figure out why until i want one day i discovered that because

00:26:14.580 it's so dilapidated they can't charge business rates oh really so no business rates the most vibrant

00:26:19.720 bit of my local area yeah well there's there's something about not having to give loads of your

00:26:24.740 money to the government that makes a business work haven't figured out what that is yet yes uh stamp

00:26:29.820 duty is the final thing uh stamp duty is the amount you pay on the cost of a property of 250 000 pounds

00:26:35.480 uh when you're buying and selling uh and as sky point out it discourages people from moving home and

00:26:42.640 it's part of the reason that older people are not moving out of expensive larger properties that's good

00:26:46.100 we just again make well and also they're going after the car i don't know if you've got this in

00:26:49.900 there but they're talking about 15p per mile road charge yeah well we'll get to that in fact now

00:26:53.700 uh yeah so another thing they're like okay well this is a bit of a problem because

00:26:57.220 as more drivers switch to electric vehicles which currently do not pay car taxes uh revenue uh made

00:27:03.280 from the added tax on petrol and diesel will fall which is a problem and therefore they're like yeah so

00:27:08.400 we're just going to pay you for the mileage you know we're going to rinse you for the mileage

00:27:12.220 pay you so um the average amount of mileage a person in the uk does is gonna be a thousand

00:27:17.560 pounds nearly so this this if this comes in this will cost me 20 pounds a day to come here 15p per

00:27:23.580 mile yeah unbelievable 20 pounds a day yeah to go to work so so they're hitting on both sides one 0.93

00:27:29.380 they're saying okay if you move house we're going to dramatically increase your capital gains and we're

00:27:34.660 going to increase your uh stamp duty um so you can't really move okay so what happens if i get a job

00:27:41.080 somewhere else can i drive there no you can't we're gonna we're gonna penalize that as well so

00:27:45.160 what do they want us to do just like work in the local shop or something i mean what they they expect

00:27:49.780 you to do exactly as you're doing now but just to pay them more money well yes that's what they

00:27:54.260 say they but notice who's being targeted it's just the hard-working tax-paying middle income

00:28:00.600 england that is just going to get squeezed you know they're not going to take benefits away from

00:28:05.320 people who are too lazy to work or you know people who've come abroad not gonna take any of that away 0.99

00:28:09.280 they're not going to stop giving away foreign money they're just going to make sure you have

00:28:12.620 less of your money that's the only that's no just squeeze that pie even more and so it was rather

00:28:18.500 ironic when kirsten was like yeah we're going to bring joy back to people's lives now at two o'clock

00:28:22.460 today he's giving this speech which i guess we'll call the joy speech i'm looking forward to watching

00:28:27.360 it because i really can't imagine what he's going to say that's going to make things any better

00:28:32.140 we're going to lock up all the far right well yeah but that's that's not good is it that's probably

00:28:37.980 the only thing that brings him any joy but what i love about this oh no kirsten feels that it's his

00:28:43.000 job to bring back joy to people's lives kirk just leave us alone yeah just leave us the hell alone 0.75

00:28:48.420 my god man right and of course part of the mission to bring back joy was stopping people from smoking

00:28:53.780 outside of clubs and of course shrinking pints uh but i mean so there was a study uh found by uh

00:29:04.840 advisory uh academics to the labor party uh that if the beer consumption dropped by 10 percent when

00:29:11.200 they uh you can't shrink a pint of course a pint is in your measurement but if they sold them in

00:29:16.680 smaller amounts and uh speaking on bbc2 politics live the former culture secretary said offering

00:29:22.980 people what looks like a pint feels like a pint but isn't a pint so the entire conception of this is

00:29:28.160 based on deception right it's about conning you into thinking you're getting a pint but you're not

00:29:32.300 getting a pint but it means you end up drinking less and getting healthier right so this isn't

00:29:37.640 about anything other than making sure we save the nhs money because the nhs costs us a huge amount

00:29:43.660 of money because the black hole no it's not even that it's just that if they if say let's say they

00:29:47.940 take it down by a third well that just means i'll just order three in the space of time that i would

00:29:52.960 normally order two this study and then i'll pay more duty this well you will absolutely well but this

00:29:57.860 study has found you will drink 10 percent less and that means uh 10 percent fewer liver cancers or

00:30:02.600 something like that on the nhs because that that's what this is all about it's about saving the nhs

00:30:06.900 money right yes and uh well the thing is when you socialize medicine you therefore have to you then

00:30:12.820 therefore have to start socializing the behavior that leads to anything that might go into that

00:30:17.120 socialized system so they end up having to run your life yes you do which is why the pubs are going

00:30:22.120 to be forced to close early labor think because hang on a second if you can stay up till like 11

00:30:26.820 o'clock or something drinking well if you if you'd left at nine that's two hours of liver failure that

00:30:33.200 you're saving the nhs yeah i don't know about it is what what's going to happen is people go home and

00:30:38.560 drink and they drink more because it's significantly cheaper at home quite possibly um but uh health

00:30:44.240 minister andrew gwinn said the government is considering tightening up the hours of operation

00:30:48.040 as if i mean if you're in somewhere like london good luck finding a pub that's open

00:30:51.880 past nine o'clock just good luck finding it but you can't go drinking it's not a drinking city

00:30:56.620 right but that just means that this is going to be everywhere else so the london stand and why do

00:31:01.560 they think it is their their i mean i okay i know why they're doing it because because of the

00:31:07.100 socialized health care and then the need to raid the revenue all the kind of thing you know this is

00:31:10.860 not the government's job we'll get to that in a minute all right it's actually sorry this is going

00:31:15.520 on a bit but there's so much here right so uh realizing that this was deeply unpopular

00:31:21.580 cabinet office minister pat mcfadden was like uh no no we're not we're not we're not gonna make

00:31:27.700 you turn out seven o'clock in the evening or something don't don't be stupid i don't think 0.78

00:31:32.140 there's any plan to shut pubs early the pub is a great part of british life which is why 50 of

00:31:37.100 them close every year yeah the trend uh and do you know what's interesting no no it's 50 a month

00:31:44.120 oh sorry yeah no good point 50 a month i apologize that was correct uh yes 50 a month which is a huge

00:31:50.920 number there are 39 000 in the uk so we have got a lot i think that rate has slowed down i remember

00:31:57.120 the rate well the rate was massively higher during covid of course it was because the government

00:32:01.540 literally locked you in your houses and prevented you from going but the point is after covid it's

00:32:06.260 still going down so there's still a decline um and one thing i found that was interesting

00:32:11.660 is that uh once the taxes and costs of the beer that you drink have been deducted pubs make an

00:32:18.860 average of 12p profit on each pint wow that is staggeringly low isn't it i mean i did know that

00:32:26.200 they make most of their money from food and the rest of it but i didn't realize it was quite that

00:32:30.420 it's because the taxes on beer is unbelievably high wow at the moment uh so yeah staggering

00:32:35.940 complete mismanagement complete decline uh but this i think was particularly revealing from lisa nandy

00:32:42.600 right where she explains labour's vision for what government should be what does austerity mean to

00:32:49.080 you because a lot of people will be looking at the spending plans and in particular the cuts for

00:32:53.340 unprotected apartments saying well if it looks like austerity and smells like austerity it is austerity

00:32:57.780 isn't it but in 2010 george osborne put for and david cameron put forward an argument that they

00:33:03.040 believed that the state had grown out of proportion to britain they believed it was crowding out the

00:33:08.180 market and they wanted to see the state pull back rachel reeves is making a very different argument 1.00

00:33:13.640 today she's saying to the country that we believe in active government walking alongside communities

00:33:20.040 and businesses in every part of what is our economy what is austerity well there we go right active

00:33:26.100 government in every part of britain walking alongside as if there's no coercive nature to government

00:33:32.880 or something it's very depressing living in a country which is ruled by people right in the

00:33:37.580 middle of the iq bell curve also by women right yes like this is a very sort of you know oppressively 1.00

00:33:44.520 mothering yeah yeah very much the entire country is being long housed yes but it's like the oppressive

00:33:50.120 mother has come in and they're like no we need to be there for everything you do all the time no

00:33:56.180 exceptions no area outside of our gaze that's the philosophy that rachel reeves is putting forward

00:34:02.100 according to lisa nandy but what does she know you know and what i found really funny about this is

00:34:07.240 again just a very last thing at the labour conference again look at who we're talking to

00:34:11.800 a school mom type right it's always the same kind of person like a roald dahl character it is indeed

00:34:17.700 sounded like you were suggesting that labour could potentially be out of office within five years

00:34:22.220 well i think they get one shot people aren't going to wait for 10 years if they can't get some

00:34:27.240 movement in this parliament i think we might end up with people voting with their feet and that would

00:34:31.760 be a problem because labour has got good intent there's no doubt about that i'm meeting with

00:34:36.820 secretary of states i'm meeting with care um all the time and they have got good intent the problem

00:34:41.880 is that these choices around the fiscal rules are totally and utterly wrong we've so she goes on but

00:34:49.120 as you can see even the unions are like man getting a second term yeah you know they've they've

00:34:54.660 burned up any goodwill they might have had and that's quite easy to do because so few people

00:34:58.780 voted late i mean they won because so few people turned out so all you need a relatively small

00:35:04.420 proportion of the people who don't bother to vote last time to turn out and it could swing wildly at

00:35:09.120 the next election 100 and i think they're well aware of it and i think they're well aware of how

00:35:13.300 unpopular they are yes and yet the devouring mothers of the labour party i know we want to be we've 0.98

00:35:20.460 got good intent it's like okay but you're tyrannical and evil and you're making everyone

00:35:25.660 poorer you're remiserating the entire country you're ruining everything i don't care how good 0.99

00:35:29.380 your intents are stop screwing us and we'll leave it there right so let's have a chat about the fbi

00:35:36.120 crime statistics which i will try to do very carefully and sensibly so if you're if you're watching on the

00:35:42.960 big red censorship platform hopefully you get to see all of this but don't be terribly surprised if

00:35:50.180 you have to come over to lotus seeds.com to watch the whole thing but i will try and do it sensibly

00:35:54.560 right so thanks very much to um uh cremiere oh where's my where's my mouse thing right um

00:36:01.720 this chap it's cremiere uh this is well i i found out about it via carl who uh found out about it right

00:36:09.120 by this chap so um but he he links through to the sort of the main statistics now before i come on to

00:36:15.020 tell you the uh utterly surprising things that you might find in the fbi crime stats i'm just going to

00:36:19.920 very quickly mention uh the islander magazine uh second edition has come out if you want to get

00:36:25.460 it uh you've got a week maybe a little bit more but you've got a week in order to order your copy so

00:36:30.380 uh don't delay on that right so fbi crime stats let's see if this thing works no does your does your

00:36:39.180 mouse work can i have a mouse well but pass the sound pass the sound so i haven't got it turned

00:36:46.720 on oh that that's that's probably why right so overall crime stats now there's a whole bunch of

00:36:52.120 stuff in here let's just go let's start with a bit of homicide shall we because oh yeah uh it gives

00:36:57.500 the same sort of thing so it gives it gives various breakdown by age i think i'll give you a graph on

00:37:02.040 that instead because that's a little bit easier uh we've got the breakdown by sex where i had um some

00:37:07.320 mobs of it how do we turn off this dark mode business because i can't see anything hang on

00:37:12.460 people are just turning there we go right there we go so there's the uh the the breakdown by sex

00:37:18.240 they give us a breakdown by race oh do they um which is is a lot more balanced than these fbi crime

00:37:25.400 stats normally look um between the the the the big breakdown between the black and the white crime 0.95

00:37:30.920 although then you notice that there is an ethnicity tab and what they've done is they've included

00:37:36.100 hispanic into white so i then had to manually pull that back out again in order to get to

00:37:43.860 um something a bit more useful even if hispanics are packaged into the white statistic here yes i

00:37:52.600 can't help but notice that would be about what 80 of the united states hispanic and white well 0.96

00:37:58.120 interesting patterns emerge when you um when you do the per capita thing yes yes so if you're

00:38:06.760 leftist watching this you have no idea what i'm talking about at this point but we will um we will

00:38:11.880 try and cover it so right first interesting thing about the the uh rate because you know they can

00:38:18.340 dally around the numbers a bit from bits but the but the one thing you can normally rely on at least

00:38:22.620 a bit is the trend uh where is the trend going so this is interesting so the red line that you see

00:38:28.660 um going down this ski slope here is robberies so pleasingly um that has been going down quite nicely

00:38:35.280 so just the thing on this i wonder if that dovetails with the legalization of petty theft

00:38:41.240 from oh yes it might do yeah because it's like why would we rob a personal street when we just smash

00:38:46.000 and grab like well you can you don't even need to smash and grab you just need to wander into the

00:38:50.540 well yeah casually load up a trolley and then push it out and they're not allowed to stop you

00:38:54.680 yeah so yes so rob robberies have been going down quite significantly um the old homicides and

00:39:01.980 aggravated assaults um look at that spike over the covid era yeah that's weird isn't it why did it

00:39:09.640 go up so much during covid yeah because i mean i would i didn't i didn't look at this but i'd expect

00:39:16.300 things like burglaries to be down because people are home most of the time it's it's a little bit

00:39:20.500 harder to get away with it but something about that period really wound people up to the point

00:39:25.660 where they were aggravatedly assaulting oh or killing each other being locked in houses all

00:39:30.440 day every day with one another yes i mean there wasn't there a brief period when they're all

00:39:35.160 encouraged to go so you have to stay in your house which wound everybody up but then they gave

00:39:39.160 them a reason that they could go out that wasn't going to spread the virus uh they may have done but

00:39:43.760 this this may well be about domestic assaults basically no i'm thinking of blm that was it oh yeah

00:39:49.420 yes so they're allowed to go out for that and rampage through the streets we're assuming this is

00:39:54.980 yes strangers attacking so it might not be oh well are you let me let me go back to the previous one

00:40:01.060 they do have that breakdown so okay right so um oh here we go relationship to the offender

00:40:09.080 oh wow unknown's quite high yeah unknown is high okay um acquaintances is is is the next highest

00:40:16.280 categories then stranger right so actually friend girlfriend wife they're actually all very very low

00:40:21.980 uh yes 53 000 just strangers yes and sometimes people are killed um by their um their father their

00:40:32.480 girlfriend um there they're they're all you know that's that's probably about 10 000 in total yes

00:40:39.240 it's it's very much the long end of the tail of the data yeah yeah very much um but but yes most of

00:40:45.140 these do go in the unknown in fact that's the big problem with this data is that is that a lot get

00:40:49.940 shoved into the unknown category um but i did some thinking about that but i i will come back to my

00:40:56.620 thinking on that right so yeah massive spike in violence and homicide over the um the lockdown

00:41:02.260 period um somewhat alleviated by being allowed outside to do the blm rioting and burning and

00:41:07.380 stuff like that so i thought that was interesting um age i think i think there were 90 plus why is

00:41:17.240 there a spike on 90 plus ah the blue line is victim so no it's not it's offenders

00:41:22.940 oh yeah

00:41:26.620 oh that's right when people get to about 100 they're just like you know i've had enough

00:41:32.680 it's interesting i just got strapped and i assumed it was the other way around but you're right yeah

00:41:37.880 people people get to 90 and they're like okay i've had it next time next time there's some eco

00:41:44.240 protesters blocking my way i'm just gonna i'm just gonna uh well whatever it is how are 90

00:41:48.980 year olds committing so much homicide yeah it's interesting it's 100 years old and you're just

00:41:54.060 like i'm going out and it's significantly higher than i mean i suppose it's 90 plus so i mean between

00:42:00.820 80 and 89 it's quite low because it's only nine years whereas 90 plus could do it be anything up to

00:42:05.700 150 or something oh yeah so i suppose that's one it's not a very good excuse i i mean honestly it's

00:42:11.800 remarkable they're capable of it yeah i mean it's kind of low-key impressive to be maybe there's a

00:42:17.600 problem with the data that's translated here yeah that can't be correct maybe an extra zero has been

00:42:22.360 added on let's let's go maybe the guy who put the chart together because it was that creme you

00:42:26.620 like skype at the top maybe he mixed around offenders and victims let's look at the actual data

00:42:31.260 because uh where is the age here we go it's the first tab yeah that can't be correct

00:42:37.760 so fender age show more is it show more

00:42:44.040 yeah 71 right he must have included an extra zero on there by accident or something yeah 90 plus 90 plus

00:42:53.240 yeah there's not a yeah i think i think i think he's got that mixed around the other way or

00:42:59.180 something but anyway apart apart from apart from that one uh anomaly not terribly surprisingly young

00:43:05.600 men yes and i'm assuming that most of these offenders are men but it shows there's a real

00:43:09.800 sweet spot for crime yeah um there's basically mid 20s yeah in your 20s you get a little bit

00:43:15.700 murdery uh from the looks of this right um and and that that's consistent with the rest of the data

00:43:21.060 we'll look at in a minute it's basically young men doing the the dying and the killing

00:43:24.920 um which is interesting i was initially thrown off by this because you've got this category here 10 to

00:43:31.220 19 and i assumed it was continuous and i thought bloody hell the 10 year olds are doing a lot of

00:43:35.940 killing that that that was good but actually no they're just lumping everybody from 10 to 19

00:43:40.580 on this data point um 18 year old gangsters yeah it's it's going to be 18 year olds isn't it like 17

00:43:47.720 18 and 18 year olds but that's quite high but this by here i can't help but think

00:43:51.740 if we had a society that didn't villainize men to the extent it does that didn't make it as easy as

00:44:02.440 it is for women to um make the main provider the state as opposed to a husband and basically you had 1.00

00:44:09.060 more fathers in the house that's what i'm driving at i can't help but think that this because it's very

00:44:13.940 much skewed to young men yes so it's men who are finding out what they are in life yes what their

00:44:19.800 nature is and it's these young men that are doing all the murdering if you had fathers in the home i

00:44:26.060 can't help but think this would be significantly reduced yeah i think so and and the other factor

00:44:31.580 of course is um schools as well schools have moved from a model of um masculine led sort of masculine

00:44:43.120 authority to the women sort of led them i'm at the point where i think a segregated education is

00:44:48.860 probably a good thing yes yes i think there should be boy schools run by men yes schools run by women

00:44:55.060 and i think you get better outcomes yeah yeah and i think i think that's true because i remember reading

00:44:59.580 a psychological something something um years ago and it was basically saying that um part of the reason

00:45:05.220 for um higher crime rates amongst men young men who are raised by their mothers is because you find 0.81

00:45:14.540 the same instruction coming from a mother emasculating whereas you wouldn't from a man so if your mother 0.69

00:45:20.140 is telling you to do something it's a it's a bit emasculating if you were like a 17 year old or 18

00:45:24.900 year old but if it's your father telling it you just accept it i think there's also areas of life

00:45:29.140 which women aren't very well versed in to be honest and i think interpersonal violence between young

00:45:34.020 men is one of those things uh and so the yeah but i mean they have to learn it themselves that but

00:45:40.700 there's also something in the way that men give authority as well that is different i mean i've

00:45:45.100 noticed this when i've got two girls so it's a fraction of the problem it would be i'm sure if i had 0.98

00:45:48.840 boys but like when when they're fighting amongst between themselves if it's the mother who's looking

00:45:53.800 after them she and and something happens she say okay well tell me what happened okay what did you

00:45:58.800 do and what it and what it promotes is this um victimization thing oh she did that to me she 1.00

00:46:04.080 did that to me and then and then i'm such a victim stuff like that whereas when i'm looking after them

00:46:07.740 i just say look i don't care who did what i want you to stop it it stops now it stops right and when

00:46:13.860 i'm looking after them there was and they're not too bad to be fair but there's there's just so much

00:46:18.340 less squabbling when i'm yeah i've noticed something similar and the my oldest son's nine

00:46:25.120 and already my wife is complaining to me that he's just not doing as she tells him yeah and so i have

00:46:30.460 to go in and like you know big and angry like you do if your mother says it you can take it as if it's

00:46:35.520 come from my mouth some because i'm going to come in yes punish you if you don't so get on with it and 1.00

00:46:40.300 you know i see him like okay yeah fair enough and i don't want to have to use the dad voice but

00:46:45.140 something works but it works and sometimes you have to use it yeah and women just don't have a 1.00

00:46:49.700 dad voice they don't have the depth of the chest or whatever is required it's just a sad fact of life

00:46:55.540 yeah and i don't know quite how bad it is in schools but i mean we we we know a number of former teachers

00:47:00.300 in our orbit you know people like our one for example and you know speaking i don't know how

00:47:05.040 much about he's spoken this online but i know he's spoken about it to me is that you just can't use

00:47:10.960 the masculine energy in school everything gets long now so he's not allowed to just tell them

00:47:16.400 to pack it in yeah he basically had to let them get away with it and just watch insufferable isn't it

00:47:22.080 yeah so so that's the big factor on age right what what have i got next oh yes i might start to get a

00:47:29.240 little teeny tiny bit controversial here but i'll try not to so um this is um homicides uh by by sex

00:47:36.860 um and as you can see there um uh men uh are doing a lot more of of the killing they're also

00:47:43.220 doing a lot more of the dying uh but they're doing a lot more of the killing now in this one we've

00:47:47.920 got unknown and non-specified i'm not sure this is gonna this is gonna sound like a weird question

00:47:53.780 yeah how are there more offenders than victims um because two people can kill one person presumably

00:47:59.900 oh right okay all right could be that i don't know i didn't check right now anyway so i took

00:48:07.360 these numbers and and this this i get into there's a lot more when we get to the uh the race question

00:48:13.680 but okay sex so here we are murders um so i stripped out all the unknowns and the non-specified

00:48:19.520 and uh when you do that the offenders for murder 88 percent and the um what was that 14

00:48:26.220 yeah maybe maybe i left in a legacy because of the unknown or something like that but anyway

00:48:31.360 so the offender race is quite clearly male and then i thought and don't get upset please because

00:48:37.960 i'm not saying this i'm just saying that some people say this some people class abortion as

00:48:44.240 murder some people do yeah so i added that back in right um when you do that

00:48:49.800 that changes the numbers somewhat does it so before it was 88 percent male it drops to 10

00:48:58.560 percent male so i added in back the um oh no that oh that's rapes down here that's i added back in 1.00

00:49:05.020 the million um abortions um and when you add back in the million abortions a year uh murders are now 0.90

00:49:12.680 93 percent female so just to be um very formal about this yes abortion is not legally murder no

00:49:20.780 i'm not saying it is uh and so um i think the the from from a very formal perspective the first

00:49:28.840 statistics are the quote-unquote correct oh absolutely absolutely i'm just noting that some

00:49:34.380 people would say that and if if that is your those wrong people would say that well if that is your

00:49:40.100 perspective than than women are doing 93 of the murders which uh which turns it around uh quite 1.00

00:49:47.860 a bit where do you where do you stand on abortion if that's not too much right because as a young man

00:49:53.480 i used to be pro was it pro choice because i believed all the stuff which about they're just

00:49:58.860 a clump of cells and it doesn't matter and stuff like that and then when in fact i've got i put the

00:50:04.040 photo up that that's my first child 18 weeks not a clump of cells it's not a nose and that's just a

00:50:11.800 still image um and you don't see it very well you don't see you don't see the arms and legs but

00:50:16.540 they're absolutely there you see his toes at the bottom there uh yeah i mean you know i mean the legs

00:50:21.040 are a bit curled up but yeah it's it's it is a properly proportioned body and you can see the hand

00:50:26.120 clenching and unclenching you can see the legs stretching every now and again and the toes wiggling

00:50:31.400 and you could see the head turning i mean it and that was 18 weeks now i was i went into that scan

00:50:39.100 expecting it to be just a blob yeah no it's a person and it was a person so uh my i then moved

00:50:48.540 to being pro life after having my first just a quick one my wife got these 3d scans done all right 1.00

00:50:56.340 she was pregnant and uh and so you get like a genuine like a it's almost like a photograph

00:51:01.580 of their little baby face oh and it's adorable she's got some on the walls and stuff you know

00:51:06.900 and it's like yeah this this is not you know they're not it's not yeah it's it's not what they

00:51:11.460 are saying it really it really it's a person quite early really is a person even even at just 18 weeks

00:51:16.180 and the thing is well i mean you probably remember your wife telling you how the baby's acting when it's

00:51:21.080 inside her yeah the personality is already there yes like my middle son kicked a lot more than the

00:51:25.820 others and i tell you what it shows now he's a real teller yeah well and you know it's slight

00:51:30.880 detail but that's how i went from being pro choice to being pro-life i've moved on since then i now

00:51:36.400 think i because i've developed my thinking i now think that abortion should be um banned in red voting

00:51:43.660 areas and mandatory in blue voting areas so i know locally the uh yes current policy yes right

00:51:50.980 anyway slight detour aside so um yeah so so the the murder uh by sex changes quite significantly when

00:51:57.520 you add back in abortion right what about rapes because that that should be fairly unambiguous

00:52:01.720 shouldn't it so um rape victims right okay that's interesting because perpetrators surely i mean

00:52:08.480 english law british law doesn't recognize that a woman can rape a man 0.99

00:52:12.320 penetrative yeah i mean to be fair most of those are probably going to be men raping men

00:52:18.240 true yeah so i don't is there not going to be a i can't see the bottom of the table is there a

00:52:23.900 female perpetrator oh we we would have to go to the let's go back to the

00:52:28.880 data the original data because like i don't i'm reasonably sure the british law doesn't recognize that

00:52:36.500 yeah so is it crime all violent crime just rape uh scroll down to sex let me see so it's still 19 000

00:52:51.300 females okay so so yeah presumably u.s law does allow right okay for females to rape males in fact i think 0.99

00:52:59.860 i think it it can be a thing in this country if it is somebody whose care you are in so for example

00:53:06.600 if a teacher has consensual sex with a underage student that's automatically rape right and if a 1.00

00:53:12.540 female prison guard has sex with a male prisoner that's also automatically rapes i think uk law 1.00

00:53:17.380 allows that right okay i'd have to double check me fact check me on that in the comments yes but

00:53:22.620 anyway going back to my data um on rape um so is overwhelmingly female victims but what i then did 0.93

00:53:31.040 was i added back in prison rapes ah and that changes the picture because there were about 1.2 million and

00:53:39.220 these are estimates because you have to take what's going on i'm moving so i can see it uh

00:53:45.240 right okay that's including prison so when they actually keep prison rapes separate from normal rape 1.00

00:53:51.520 yeah so the fbi statistics only include crimes that happen outside a prison if you include crimes

00:53:57.400 that happen inside a prison um then it turns out that america is probably the only country in the

00:54:03.320 world where male rapes outnumber female rapes jesus um quite significantly as well 70 of the rapes

00:54:09.640 are victims are male in the u.s when you add that back in so uh yes that that that was interesting is

00:54:15.640 this should be should be okay right i will now go to uh and i'm gonna try even more to keep this

00:54:25.040 non-spicy um homicide rates by by race right yes treading carefully here um so that's what the fbi

00:54:33.740 statistics will tell you that um yes it's that's the sort of breakdown between black and white so 57

00:54:40.100 uh from the black community and 39 from the white community yes um of course this doesn't take into

00:54:47.820 account population size no um and the other interesting thing let's go back to the let's go

00:54:53.920 back to the the data set um okay i want to go to homicide and then i want to go to have i got homicide

00:55:03.040 work there we go homicide now i want to go to race that that's the breakdown although interestingly

00:55:14.080 within white uh they've decided to include hispanics so you then have to do another calculation to add

00:55:20.920 them back in or or to split them out right so this is my starting table here um

00:55:29.480 and if you look at just the fbi stats as presented you've got this large amount of unknown which i

00:55:38.060 will come back to then i looked at okay the offend how many of that group per offender so basically you

00:55:45.500 would need to scoop up aliens would need to come down and scoop up 8 000 random whites to find one 1.00

00:55:51.780 murderer right but they only need to scoop out 1 000 um african-americans apparently to find a 0.96

00:55:57.740 murderer and then you can look at the comparative rate and basically it's 8.1 to 1 so it's eight

00:56:03.460 times more likely so i understand why you would do that yes but i know there are people on the

00:56:09.980 internet who do not understand why you do that and they would say yes but the one number is bigger than

00:56:15.720 the other number i think and you know what okay i yes well one one thing that intelligent people

00:56:23.340 have trouble with is modeling the mindset of a thick person yes right so okay let's let's go down

00:56:28.320 to that okay so looking at this then if we go to offend a race uh which number is bigger than the

00:56:34.220 other number right so we we don't even need to worry about per capita now yes now we just accept that

00:56:41.120 one community has 50 percent higher than the other community on pure numbers just the the raw amount

00:56:48.720 well on on the fbi numbers as presented it gets worse of course it does right so then what i did

00:56:54.100 is i added uh no i split out the latinos because you can work backwards from the data to do that

00:57:00.340 so now we've got um the the african-american rate is the same the white rate um comes down uh fairly

00:57:09.460 fairly markedly and you've now got this new category of uh hispanic and latino right so um when you do that

00:57:17.240 using again white as the baseline right um hispanics are 60 percent more likely

00:57:24.560 and uh blacks are 840 percent more likely right so that isn't good however then i decided okay let's

00:57:33.660 go a little bit further with these numbers because you know we're having fun with the spreadsheet here

00:57:36.960 um because you know the overall population and you know the propensity to murder you can extract

00:57:45.200 from the unknowns and the non-specified you could break them down into yes you can you can i mean

00:57:50.460 and it and this data could be wrong it could be that every single black and hispanic murderer gets

00:57:57.300 caught whereas uh just half of the well not half yeah more than half of the white murderers get away

00:58:04.180 with it yeah but it's not very likely is it it's more likely that the unsolved murders are in the

00:58:09.200 same proportions of s so i then added that back in um so there we go we've lost the unknowns and the

00:58:16.520 none specified to generate a more likely uh murder rate which is um speaks for itself it does um for

00:58:28.800 those who are listening these hypothetical aliens would now need to scoop up only 747

00:58:34.880 um random african americans to find somebody who'd committed a murder in that one particular year

00:58:42.100 yeah in 2023 or whatever it was yeah um and you'd have to scoop up 8 000 uh whites to find somebody 0.97

00:58:49.500 who'd committed a murder in that particular year in fact if if i had more time i probably would have

00:58:53.980 then extrapolated this as to what is the probability of having committed a murder by group by the time you

00:59:00.760 turn 40 or something yeah yeah and i i just know that those numbers are going to be quite

00:59:05.780 quite stunning maybe somebody's already done that and they can make us in the comments you can see

00:59:09.700 that when asked the black community why they don't want to abolish the police right yes well i mean and 0.90

00:59:16.100 and it's it's not quite a one for one ratio but normally the offenders also match the race of the

00:59:23.440 victims so it's it i mean it's very much a problem for them interracial violence is actually quite a

00:59:28.480 small percentage of the actual violence that happens yes most of it is in communities and

00:59:32.580 neighbors is mostly mostly interracial now when you do that these fbi crime statistics are suggesting

00:59:37.800 for every murder that a per capita white person commits um you get almost twice as many from the

00:59:43.720 hispanic and latino community and 11 times as many uh from the black and african-american community

00:59:51.220 which obviously close shows that there is institutional racism or something or maybe

00:59:57.340 there's point more youth clubs are needed or something i i i forget the precise argument so

01:00:03.560 anyway i think i i think i navigated that uh very deftly and we can probably get away putting that on

01:00:09.620 youtube so if if we're still here uh thank you very much okay let's uh let's move on to talk about

01:00:17.080 something that's really petty go on it's not in any way timely but they really bothered me right

01:00:21.960 it really bothered me i don't know why it bothered me it must be because i'm a dad

01:00:24.980 it really bothered me and also i found myself growing very fond of david beckham uh i'm not a football

01:00:30.780 guy i didn't care about his never had an opinion one way or the other exactly i'd never thought about

01:00:34.480 right yeah but it was when he was queuing for the queen's funeral and he spent 13 hours in the

01:00:39.080 queue with everyone else oh yes he's not not a labor politician didn't get free tickets like

01:00:43.620 philip schofield and holly willoughby yeah because a lot of them a lot of them skipped the line didn't

01:00:47.220 they did well we're important people we gotta skip the line yes no david beckham was there in his

01:00:51.680 flat cap and his his waterproofs just standing in the rain like everyone else and i was like okay

01:00:56.180 that's really noble i really appreciate that um and so when this this came across my my timeline

01:01:02.400 i was like what and i ended up looking into this and it really bothered me but before we begin

01:01:06.360 go and get the uh second issue of islander it'll only be on sale for about a week perhaps two i'm not

01:01:10.860 entirely sure but two at most two at most and when it's gone it's gone we will not be reprinting it

01:01:16.100 any of them because value comes from scarcity that's what makes the that's what makes the

01:01:21.580 right wing great that's what makes the left wing terrible so the scarcity and the boundaries and the

01:01:26.820 privilege of having anything um so this is actually a bit of an old story for david beckham as well

01:01:34.740 because david beckham has publicly been very affectionate to his own children now you might think

01:01:39.080 right why is that newsworthy well that's just normal isn't it you would think so right but

01:01:43.480 there are obviously lots of people for whom this is not normal and those people are wrong right so

01:01:47.760 this this is not the first time this has happened but this happened back in june and like i said it's

01:01:52.980 only just occurred to me so his daughter's 12 he's 49 you know and he's giving her just cuddles nothing

01:01:58.940 inappropriate about these cuddles just you know his hands it's all totally normal and he's just like a

01:02:04.380 beaming dad obviously you know really loves his kids you know totally normal and happy and everything

01:02:11.000 like that right so they go to some uh into miami playing st louis and fort lauderdale okay great you

01:02:18.540 know totally fine seems okay fine not in any way controversial if anything he just seems like a

01:02:24.900 really considering who he is how rich he is how famous he is he seems like just a regular london lad

01:02:31.340 you know an old school sort of english lad so what's the issue well the issue wow it's

01:02:37.340 cringeworthy totally inappropriate say totally inappropriate yeah cringeworthy who's saying that

01:02:45.180 well bunch of lefties yes and um women whose dads didn't hug them enough i think is the answer

01:02:51.740 um there are lots of people of course who are on the side of it who are like yeah no that's that's

01:02:57.460 adorable that's lovely and i just wanted to become one of those people on that side right

01:03:00.660 um one user wrote beckham needs to realize his daughter is growing fast he cannot hug her the

01:03:06.220 same way he did when she was five cringeworthy pictures she looks about 18 totally inappropriate

01:03:11.180 well even if she was 18 right even if she was 18 that's not an inappropriate picture what's wrong

01:03:17.380 with that no that's still it's this is odd i mean the first thing that happens when i get home

01:03:24.920 is is the kids come up and give me a hug yes it's just normal in fact in fact and in fact when i when

01:03:30.600 i leave for work in the morning as well they're getting changed for school and they come down and

01:03:34.660 they both give me a hug and then i'll go out the door and i go it's just it's just normal it's just

01:03:38.100 what you do but i think uh they their issue is that david beckham is just so public about it right

01:03:43.840 it's one of those things where and i'm i'm guessing i don't know anything about these users who are

01:03:47.560 saying this i'm guessing their dads didn't give them as many hugs they would have liked uh okay

01:03:52.020 yeah so you've you've definitely women making these comments bit resentful that uh this young lady is 1.00

01:04:01.120 getting the best start in life and like both her parents are apparently very affectionate with all

01:04:06.280 their kids and it's like no that's normal and wholesome and i mean i don't yeah for people who

01:04:11.220 aren't left wingers but maybe if you're left winger you've got daddy issues and quite possibly

01:04:15.580 and uh yeah exactly and then it would be creepy for hugging his daughter and it's like okay

01:04:22.940 jordana shell thing yeah yeah it's yeah exactly you know like again people who obviously didn't get

01:04:31.080 hugged by their own dads but i mean okay it's one thing being the embarrassing dad right because

01:04:34.920 there is there is an argument on that side okay she's 12 she's nearly 13 she's becoming a young

01:04:39.520 woman he's being an embarrassing dad by just you know showing a lot of love to her in public

01:04:44.020 i can understand from the 12 year old girl's perspective she might be like dad come on all

01:04:48.980 my friends are watching or something but i mean she didn't seem to be no i wasn't getting that read

01:04:53.120 from it no i wasn't at all but okay i can totally understand it but creepy oh right okay so now we're

01:04:59.020 gonna we're gonna add a sexualized dimension to this because that's what that means right they have to 1.00

01:05:04.540 destroy everything exactly no he's totally open he's just happy giving his you know the you know one of

01:05:11.600 his pride and joy a big hug there's nothing creepy about that there's no undertones to this

01:05:15.840 yeah this is all completely above board and and totally normal and totally wholesome and i just

01:05:21.080 found it really insufferable that people were calling us spiteful mutants aren't they they're just

01:05:26.220 i just i just want to i just want to make you know i'm not going to say it but i just want to put it in

01:05:31.740 the back of your mind that maybe your dad's a predator that's what i'm doing here i'm just putting it in

01:05:37.200 the back of your mind it's like no no that's totally inappropriate it's totally wrong there's

01:05:41.240 no reason to think it and by god david beckham do not make this segment age poorly right i don't want

01:05:48.100 it like in a year's time or something for this to come out you better you better make sure this ages

01:05:53.020 well david right the thing is i'm i'm sure it will i i don't get any of that vibe from him at all i

01:05:59.820 mean it's it's not like he works for the bbc or something well exactly yeah yeah he's not bbc

01:06:04.200 center um and there was you know loads of these going around so it's this this particular one the

01:06:09.200 secret life of mum this blog right so they're talking about how people react into it and stuff

01:06:13.780 like that and what i found really interesting i mean you know like i said there are loads of

01:06:17.720 pictures of him giving hugs it's totally normal but read more at the bottom how a parent's affection

01:06:22.400 shapes their child's happiness for life oh yeah okay well let's have a look uh so they're like oh

01:06:27.840 warmth and affection expressed by parents provides lifelong positive outcomes for the kids

01:06:31.640 oh so it's not creepy he's not being weird he's actually giving her the best start in life

01:06:37.740 by being affectionate well it looks like they wrote an article based on data but when it came to their

01:06:42.540 visceral reaction it was yes we have a problem exactly um they they do say in particular a

01:06:48.620 mother's affection but obviously affection from both parents uh researchers at duke university

01:06:52.620 followed nearly 500 babies from birth until age 30 they tested the theory that the quality of their

01:06:58.100 interactions with their mother or primary caregiver would impact their health and happiness

01:07:01.080 adults and the results oh drum roll contain your surprise uh the babies who got lots of affection

01:07:08.080 did best in life yeah they had significantly lower levels of emotional distress most the most notably

01:07:15.720 impacted their levels of anxiety the more childhood affection they received the less likely they

01:07:20.440 were to have high levels of anxiety as adults so they grew up to be well adjusted um ed

01:07:24.680 dutton did an interesting video on this lately he was talking about how you know you know in

01:07:29.460 universities if if a group sets up that is non-left aligned yes you get all the you get all the lefties

01:07:36.180 normally women but not exclusively but normally women saying this makes them feel unsafe for you

01:07:41.280 know a conservative speaker has come to the campus or something like that that makes them feel unsafe

01:07:46.060 and he was breaking down why is it that they feel unsafe and i can't remember the full argument but it

01:07:52.000 was something along the lines of because they were treated badly in childhood and because they never

01:07:58.140 they could never understand how to win parental improvement because it was so all over the place

01:08:03.160 like behaviors could sometimes be punished or rewarded or they they never got this balanced level of this

01:08:11.720 sort of safety whereas if you if you have a well-adjusted child or well-adjusted parents they know what the baseline

01:08:17.860 is so that when they go out into the world it takes genuine um genuine danger to trigger okay this is

01:08:26.920 off the baseline but if you've got a kid who just doesn't have a baseline because they never never

01:08:31.380 developed one basically everything makes them afraid and that's why they're saying okay this makes

01:08:36.300 me feel unsafe because you know a conservative speaker has come to my university campus or something

01:08:41.040 i don't know what this means i mean assuming they're they're making the argument in good faith

01:08:45.720 which is unlikely yeah well they think they do anyway yeah yeah assuming they're making good faith

01:08:50.380 um what one thing that has become profoundly apparent to me that it's it's simply regularity

01:08:56.540 that children most need i think uh so this is the point of structure order and consistency

01:09:01.780 so they know where they stand that's just the whole mission of the parent is to make sure your child

01:09:08.360 has a stable life that they understand that tomorrow will be predictably like today which was

01:09:14.020 predictably like yesterday well that's that's why for a young child the word no is so important

01:09:18.380 because if they learn the rules of the house that means that from a quite a young age they can have

01:09:23.260 the run of the house yeah because the the parent knows that they know what no means they know what

01:09:29.420 the boundaries are and then you're quite happy to let them run around yeah but if they're if they

01:09:34.520 don't understand no and they're constantly going for things that they shouldn't be going for getting

01:09:38.760 into dangerous situations they have to be either monitored or basically shut in one room or something

01:09:44.300 like that so so no is really valuable for a young child no 100 but um again according to just the

01:09:51.860 literature uh listed in this uh high affection shown to parents uh to children by their parents

01:09:57.380 causes higher self-esteem improved academic performance better parent child communication

01:10:01.420 fewer psychological behavioral problems and they go on to point out the importance of hugs

01:10:05.620 hugging and physical displays of affection are incredibly important for the healthy development

01:10:09.480 of child especially for babies in fact hugging makes your child smarter a study done on babies in an

01:10:15.160 orphanage found that just 20 minutes of hugging a day improve their performance on brain development

01:10:19.480 tests also of course it helps you bond with your child and improve improves their physical and

01:10:25.520 mental well-being because it releases oxytocin which is an important hormone for these things i'm not a scientist

01:10:31.380 i don't know i'm going to take the word for it but the point being the people who are like wow i mean

01:10:35.880 david beckham giving her hugs is creepy it's like nope it's totally wholesome it's 100 good for her

01:10:40.780 and this is why she looks happy and totally at ease with her dad giving her just a wholesome and that

01:10:47.200 whole thing about her being 12 when that's only two years older than my eldest daughter i have no 1.00

01:10:51.460 intention of stopping hugging my daughter when she's you know 18 or 26 or 30 or 40 i mean it's just

01:10:58.600 no no reason you should either you know it's it's this sort of demented way of making men seem creepy

01:11:07.580 or predatory even when like you like honestly i i'm a pretty good judge of body language beckham is

01:11:16.260 just being a normal dad in this you can just tell by his facial expression this is totally normal he's

01:11:21.700 he's doing the right thing and he knows it i mean a couple of times i've i've picked up on some long

01:11:27.260 leftist screed on twitter and i've started reading through it and i've just replied daddy issues

01:11:32.820 yeah and the reaction and the reaction of the person who i said that to is enough to convince

01:11:38.660 me that i was bang on the money so you do have daddy issues yeah right okay um anyway so yeah not not

01:11:44.220 i'll say about this and this wasn't like a a world-breaking segment or anything but um it just

01:11:48.760 really bothered me because you're right to raise it it's because these people they just have to corrupt

01:11:54.180 everything that's right it's about corruption yes that's exactly right because this very wholesome

01:11:59.160 relationship they've obviously got and they're trying to insert intentionality into it like you

01:12:05.140 say it's corrupting it and it's obviously not appropriate it's obviously not there well that's

01:12:09.780 the thing when you first showed the story it's like okay where are we going with this exactly

01:12:13.580 because it wouldn't have occurred to me but to them they see it from the outset because they're

01:12:18.040 spiteful mutants it's hard to disagree uh anyway we'll leave that there i actually forgot to read

01:12:23.800 the rumble soup chat so i'll go through them now right yes uh because i totally forgot them um

01:12:29.560 so uh torgo says carl does great colonel sanders cosplay listen right i'm reclaiming the white suits

01:12:35.340 there's no reason we need to hand this off to some chicken merchant in america okay we we can have

01:12:42.380 nice light colored suits to make us not look dull and boring and depressing that's how i feel i've got a

01:12:48.560 white suit only break it out really hot days binary says uh is there any politician left in either

01:12:54.000 political party that doesn't need measuring for a new hemp collar uh no uh bald eagle says seems like

01:13:00.020 labor is taking to the victor go the spoils a little too literally they're stealing as much as possible

01:13:04.820 before they collapse everything yeah aron mcintyre's got a good um phrase this this we're in the looting

01:13:09.020 the treasury phase oh yeah of the empire and uh i completely agree i mean yeah because well take the

01:13:14.660 us what have they got they've got like whatever it's 36 trillion of debt everybody knows that they

01:13:19.840 are not going to pay it back and they know that we know that they're not going to pay it back so

01:13:24.840 if it's going down anyway it's just a question of filling your boots while you still can so i

01:13:30.580 absolutely he's right yeah uh that's a random name says but your honor i reported my corruption so

01:13:35.940 it's perfectly legal uh the more time goes on the more i realize politicians are just prostitutes in 1.00

01:13:40.580 suits utterly shameless uh lot russian says the nonchalant blasé way in which they are dealing 0.77

01:13:46.960 with this scandal makes me think that this is a 40 chess move to receive future donations via

01:13:51.620 funnels that don't have to be declared public yeah there is that isn't it it's like look we declared

01:13:56.540 it it's like okay yeah you know that doesn't make it right or good it's like but the conservatives did

01:14:02.200 it it's like yeah and you were going on about them hammer and tongs when they were doing it

01:14:05.920 it's all friend enemy yeah binary says as i've said before we should create a system where every

01:14:12.700 mp receives 100k salary and stays in the halls of residence in london but it's subject to no

01:14:17.580 appeal death penalty for taking up any more uh well 100k seems a little low for that to be honest

01:14:21.700 um it doesn't singapore pay them like a million dollars a year and they're just not allowed to

01:14:26.100 earn any outside money i probably want a few fewer of them but yeah sure i'm not terribly opposed to

01:14:33.300 i don't want to pay 650 million for it but if we if we could chop it down by half

01:14:37.420 at least maybe have a hundred of them pay them a million each i know i'm thinking it's just

01:14:44.600 right okay we need some sort of proportionally inverse government spending versus mp salary

01:14:49.740 yes lower you get government spending the proportionally higher your salary becomes

01:14:55.120 oh yeah just introduce it at a certain point and then just say okay every for the percentage that

01:15:00.380 the government spending goes up from today your salary goes down and for the percentage

01:15:04.520 of the government spending goes down your salary goes up like whatever percentage of gdp it is

01:15:08.780 like you know you can get get oh no no don't do on ggp because they just import millions of

01:15:13.060 well well yeah whatever it is but like whatever metric but you know as the size of the economy

01:15:19.080 grows whatever legitimately yes the the lower you get the spending the higher your wages go so then

01:15:24.560 having selfish people in government would actually make sense they would actually hundred

01:15:28.420 profitable yes the incentives that's the issue uh oph uk says labor is asking brits to sacrifice

01:15:34.020 grandma for the economy because otherwise they can't fund importing the third world perfectly 1.00

01:15:37.940 illustrates what starmer and zilk think of you yeah they they literally just see you as a cash cow

01:15:43.000 okay we're just gonna squeeze you we're gonna shut your pubs we're gonna starve granny and freeze 1.00

01:15:47.560 granny we're going to just keep taking your money and we don't care how miserable or poor this makes 0.94

01:15:54.340 you it's like right well they don't even it doesn't even occur to them i don't think yeah

01:15:58.080 like i mean we're here to be taxed so why wouldn't they tax us yeah same as the millionaires and

01:16:03.520 multi-millionaires and billionaires so no we'll just crank up the taxes like yeah but they they will go

01:16:07.860 we know they'll go we know you won't get the money you're expecting you know so not just the

01:16:13.400 strength they'll spend it first and then they'll put other taxes in to make up for the yeah fixing 0.60

01:16:18.300 government spending requires some very successful peaceful political party uh pray uh a very not peaceful

01:16:23.940 solution or money that disables governments from debasing taxpayers well uh caleb says uh ah

01:16:29.560 lotus eaters my favorite pre-gym rage-based fuel for legal reasons this is a joke labor well look all 0.99

01:16:34.920 all i'm doing is reporting on what the labor party have done so yes if that's enraging you i don't blame

01:16:41.480 you uh sean says just thought mainstream media if you can astound them with if you cannot astound

01:16:46.560 them with brilliance baffling them bs uh should be their motto as a annex says kamala harris and

01:16:51.400 kia starmer are focused on joy oh yeah that's nothing i i love how kia starmer's just like right

01:16:55.820 i'm just gonna steal kamala harris's new tagline so it's right kia no one thinks you're the bringer

01:17:00.960 of joy right you don't cackle like a mad woman you know that no one's ever associated with joy with

01:17:06.700 kia starmer you know i can understand the association with kamala harris because she's 0.98

01:17:10.060 always laughing she doesn't know what she's just i was much more like the bloke who would

01:17:13.020 dissect you without showing a flicker of emotion without using anesthetic yes in a leather coat in a

01:17:19.160 basement yeah but the fact is the fact you know they've had to steal yet another thing

01:17:24.340 yeah um freddie says remember our 90 year olds have guns no there's a mistake in the data

01:17:28.560 uh the the 90 year olds are like well time's time's ticking uh russian says why more murderers and

01:17:36.820 victims well carl have you seen the compilations of the diversity attacks uh whites asians and jews

01:17:41.280 nearly always in packs good point uh if i can't pronounce forensic criminologist just in australia

01:17:47.540 most men in prison come from broken homes and have been sexually abused as children yeah that's

01:17:51.120 another point yeah um yeah yeah and threadnaught says i don't think any of them have ever met their

01:17:56.560 dads pure envy yes uh by the islander magazine it is finger-licking good that is completely true

01:18:01.920 says colonel benjamin again we're reclaiming this from the americans they don't have to have it all 0.88

01:18:06.380 um and carl is right consistency is really important in childhood as are firm boundaries

01:18:10.700 right should we watch a video yes

01:18:15.460 an empire that fielded horatio nelson and lord wellington can be forgiven for backbenching him

01:18:26.100 but edward james corbett is nonetheless a jewel in the crown he personally killed the most prolific

01:18:35.100 man-eating leopard and man-eating tiger ever known to have existed you should do an epox on him

01:18:43.000 i actually don't know who he is but it sounds like he was a brit in india i was distracted by the dog

01:18:49.940 yeah the dog's adorable but um there are some great stories of um imperial india where like i i listened

01:18:58.040 to a video the other night about this giant elephant a particularly big elephant that for some reason

01:19:03.360 decided it just hated humans and so it went on this rampage just destroying villages and in the

01:19:08.680 middle of the night it would loom out of the darkness because the villages made of bamboo

01:19:12.000 yeah it would just rampage through them and just level entirely and just stamp people to death not a

01:19:16.860 lot you can do about that well it killed hundreds of people like you know the the the local like

01:19:22.260 native indian police would have pistols but it wouldn't do anything to a bloody elephant and so it 0.94

01:19:26.900 required some big game hunter with a giant gun and they eventually tracked it down and shot it but

01:19:31.720 even then they you know they shot it and it ran off they had to hunt it down but it's like this this

01:19:36.120 for some reason this elephant was furious of people and would just kill indiscriminately just as many

01:19:42.500 people as possible there was one this one time where there were a bunch of um laborers who were

01:19:46.460 collecting bamboo i think uh just sleeping on a riverbank because they've been working all day

01:19:50.320 and the elephant comes along and they wake up and they see that oh jesus christ and so they split up

01:19:54.340 and a bunch of them dive into these really thick bushes and the elephant can't get to them

01:19:58.000 so it goes back traces back its own steps and finds this other guy who dived into a different

01:20:02.260 bush but it could get him grab that and just start smashing death on the floor it's like

01:20:05.360 jesus christ you know what has happened to this elephant but um but yeah so some traumas there are

01:20:11.580 yeah you know some uh british uh you know big game hunter who had to take that out

01:20:16.020 just some fascinating stories from the empire yeah must be right what's this one

01:20:20.820 feel better

01:20:28.320 well that was awesome yeah is there another one

01:20:33.820 castle review vilnius city castle was built in early 1400s on a sandy hill after the city pulled

01:20:43.900 up all the trees that held it together the hill started sliding for some reason now it's been

01:20:49.580 enriched by this painting by some frenchman i give it a three specifically due to this painting

01:20:55.740 because i hate it with all of my heart

01:20:57.580 it's not terrible i can think of worse things yeah it could be worse i suppose but it doesn't

01:21:05.560 add much it's fine without that trees are really important for soil consistency

01:21:10.560 thank you very much ru uproot the uh trees and like they act as a kind of lattice inside it

01:21:16.900 i watched a video about it another one it's kind of funny you bring up the idea of the fbi arresting

01:21:24.400 the cia agent um we've long had the theory in the united states that many times when you read about

01:21:31.660 the fbi breaking up a white supremacist plot or dealing with the american nazis or the ku klux klan

01:21:39.060 we're often surprised how many confidential informants and how many agents have infiltrated

01:21:44.960 these organizations at this point i think the fbi practically runs these organizations

01:21:50.540 wasn't the case of gretchen whitmer kidnapping plot where we're running it literally yeah they were

01:21:57.640 literally running it and trying to essentially trap some poor schmuck yeah himself basically 0.98

01:22:02.220 dragooning them into it yeah so yeah that's not not oh is that all of them right to the uh yeah to the

01:22:10.340 comments we go grant says carl needs a rocking chair a cigar and a wraparound deck in alabama

01:22:14.540 well apart from the heat in the southern united states uh the rest of it sounds amazing yes

01:22:20.480 definitely an esteemership yeah uh wigan survivalist says funny brokonomics idea for dan

01:22:26.020 do a breakdown of what an all-female economy and workforce would look like

01:22:29.160 and clary's a book without men a world without men uh book would be a great place so that that idea

01:22:34.820 has occurred to me yeah um it's a female-run economy look like yeah but i i might get in 0.91

01:22:41.160 trouble because i i i think basically you'd end up in the stone age well that's camille paleo's opinion

01:22:48.440 right yeah because there was there was a really interesting i mean there's two factors on this

01:22:53.780 one is i can't remember which country it's either greenland or iceland or something like that they have

01:22:58.060 a day every year where the women go on strike and they refuse to do any work oh yeah and it makes 0.92

01:23:04.400 no difference whatsoever i bet there's an economic boost power's still on train still run the post

01:23:09.120 still gets delivered it's exactly the same and the other example would be this um um survival video

01:23:15.400 where they place men's teams and women's teams on an island and let them build something and by the

01:23:20.660 end of it the men have got basically women are still sleeping on the dirt getting bitten by insects

01:23:25.080 yeah i i think i've i think i've seen that and it's like why don't you build a little thing to

01:23:31.580 raise yourself above the sand so the ticks don't bite you yeah but they didn't even they didn't get

01:23:35.340 that far yeah yeah um uh henry says uh the only way keir starmer is going to bring joy is when he's

01:23:41.160 dumped out of power cromwell banned celebrating christmas and i bet he'd be more popular than starmer

01:23:45.560 right now um i'm not sure cromwell did actually ban christmas i heard that wasn't true oh i haven't

01:23:51.080 looked into it uh i thought that was the thing but let's assume that he did

01:23:54.920 just because it's funny yes uh yeah cromwell would be more popular than starmer even though

01:23:59.480 cromwell was an insane puritan uh jimbo says to be a keir might be the most devastating nickname

01:24:06.760 for a leader yes well things you're thinking pints again it's like we're gonna have it two thirds

01:24:13.140 of a pint it's like just piss off man yes roman observer says labor finally arrived at the left 0.56

01:24:19.300 endpoint the plebeians should just stop making a fuss remember equality is important but some animals 0.92

01:24:23.600 are more equal than others which i i just can't believe how brazen they are they're just so brazen

01:24:31.660 yeah they just don't care no arizona again it's all about hierarchy to them where the government

01:24:36.440 uh go yes it's fine we're the good guys yeah uh donations to pay for clothes buy your own darn

01:24:43.520 clothes like the rest of us says arizona desert rat totally uh henry says so we've got free gear

01:24:49.600 and now renowned plagiarist racial racial thieves oh that's good yeah yeah uh you there's a lot more

01:24:57.080 but i'm i'm gonna skip over it for time uh mr flibble says the government i hate them they have

01:25:02.440 no shame whatsoever and idiots are defending this because it was declared uh what i love is the sort 0.78

01:25:07.980 of narrow increasingly narrowing circle again while i swim in here of people who will defend the

01:25:12.940 government the james o'brien types we just look i i tweeted the other day because he's on lbc he's like

01:25:18.920 he's got a really red face and it's just like look you look like you're in the führer bunker

01:25:23.800 right yes like you're just like how can how can we you know defend labor from this like why do you

01:25:29.400 have to i mean i don't particularly care because he's an obnoxious lefty but there's something going

01:25:34.420 wrong with that man oh yeah he's he's just totally out of it but it like he looks like he's about to

01:25:40.400 explode he looks very angry all the time it's like but you're you've got the labor government you

01:25:44.900 wanted why aren't you and yet he's angrier now because he has to defend all of the malfeasance

01:25:50.620 he has to defend it it's like why don't you just not defend it like you could just let it go you

01:25:56.520 know but uh but he doesn't william says the best part about labor's corruption scandal is they are

01:26:02.080 working with a small number of wealthy business owners who want their businesses to be nationalized

01:26:05.860 so they can get an extremely cushy job in government where they cannot easily be fired

01:26:09.760 two good examples of these people include dale vince an investor in green energy and the load

01:26:14.960 the owner of ecotricity and i forget the other guy the ceo of octopus energy yeah he's pretty

01:26:20.680 bloody woke as well the ceo of octopus energy i remember covering him a few years ago um the entire

01:26:25.960 labor government at this point is keynesian economics on steroids yeah but it's interesting

01:26:29.920 though i want a massive payout and then i'm going to get a cushy government job forever

01:26:33.340 and this somehow is social justice yep yeah sounds right yeah kevin says uh they're not going to

01:26:41.900 accept how many any more personal donations or they're not going to report the donations with how

01:26:46.920 they've behaved lately i think the latter is more likely yeah i mean i just don't think that they're

01:26:51.560 going to stop taking donations i just don't think they've got it in them hector rex on on the fbi

01:26:57.680 says dan some of the major cities in the u.s stopped reporting their crime stats to the fbi because

01:27:02.140 it's no longer required so the data is artificially lowered ah that yeah i was i meant to bring that

01:27:07.400 up but that is because if if you if you miss out just i think it's two or three of the top cities

01:27:12.240 it would move the numbers significantly that is interesting um rb says i imagine making face face

01:27:18.140 masks uh only mean strain but required to go out might have something to do with enabling robberies

01:27:22.780 yeah i mean robberies are actually down but violent assaults are up so i i do genuinely think it's

01:27:27.120 because they can steal from the shops yeah if we make it legal then it doesn't matter

01:27:31.100 um the spike for offenders of unknown age which sounds more like illegal migrants than knife

01:27:38.340 wielding retirees that could be it um michael de bris says how many 90 year olds uh how are 90

01:27:43.720 years committing so many assaults world war ii veterans are more willing to smack some punk in

01:27:47.740 the head for getting frisky no it was just wrong yes well yeah yes i'm glad i double checked it

01:27:52.540 um josh the the reform candidates says you're absolutely right carl about segregated schools

01:28:00.980 i went to a boy's secondary school we started out with a headmaster halfway through we got a head

01:28:04.700 mistress instead the school notably declined after that this is despite the fact it is a jewish school

01:28:10.280 the headmaster wasn't jewish the head mistress was he was still massively more respected than her

01:28:16.400 yeah yeah young men respond to oh yeah men yeah yeah uh omar says there are too many parallels

01:28:23.300 between therapy and schooling and how they're geared towards servicing women but treating men and

01:28:28.340 boys like malfunctioning women i think you're onto something with segregated schooling if only because 1.00

01:28:32.740 men and women can never truly understand each other's perspective that's a good point the the 1.00

01:28:37.580 schools have got a therapeutic aspect which is not good because what they used to have is a kind of

01:28:42.980 cathartic aspect where young men would deal with their problems with each other and eventually

01:28:47.640 the the emotions would get purged through either like a fight or something like yeah and you just

01:28:51.980 work it out yeah and it was just it was over you know but the therapeutic aspect is sent you to live

01:28:56.280 with the contradiction forever which of course just makes it worse when i'd fight at school and it

01:29:01.460 was just done and dusted and then but if it was if we were being longhouse back then i would have to

01:29:06.200 then go to some struggle session yeah the last fight i got into was when i was 13 uh i just

01:29:12.960 haven't had to do that much fighting it was with this kid called gavin and i just remember he had

01:29:16.460 really bad teeth and i was unlocking the bite the the lock of my bike and he came up and kicked me in

01:29:21.280 the leg right it didn't really hurt but i was so angry that he the temerity i might have been 14

01:29:27.400 but we we had these stone table tennis tables and basically i had him like i was choking him over

01:29:32.940 one of these and the thing is after that we never had an argument again because we used to bicker

01:29:39.180 all the time in schools i don't remember ever what but he he you know i i and it was him him

01:29:44.820 pissing me off as well i didn't really care about him but after that we just completely dropped it

01:29:48.740 and we didn't have a right and all the men listening going to be like yeah that's what happens and all

01:29:52.500 the women are going to be like what yeah it's like why wouldn't he be resentful so i don't know 0.74

01:29:56.340 it's just not work like that it's just not yeah what like again i do think there's this cathartic

01:30:01.460 element that is just being lost yeah but anyway do you want to do a couple from yours we got

01:30:07.040 them george says the thing about the female journos uh who are feminist journos who tried

01:30:11.600 to demonize david beckham so they hate the family unit and especially hate seeing men happy yep these

01:30:15.880 articles of pure spite that's the thing exactly look at the picture hate seeing men happy that's

01:30:19.500 and a woman is the core of a female girl is the cause of it you know and there's nothing weird or

01:30:25.120 corrupt about it it's so totally normal wholesome and he's he's clearly doing very well in his life and

01:30:30.980 doing the right thing and it's also quite admirable that because he married that victoria

01:30:34.960 beckham yes victoria spice or whatever yeah whatever her name was but normally these celebrity 1.00

01:30:40.220 couples are completely dysfunctional but these two seem just fine well they've been married for like

01:30:44.260 30 years or something yeah so it's been a long for them yeah yeah oh absolutely yeah very good for

01:30:49.540 them uh but yeah he says these articles of pure spite totally agree and charlie says something very

01:30:53.400 similar this whole controversy is very telling i again this happened in june this isn't breaking news or

01:30:57.740 anything um but these pictures are only cringing inappropriate somebody's never come from a stable and loving

01:31:01.720 family and yeah you are right like for them being in their position that they've had a stable loving and

01:31:06.860 affectionate family it tells you a lot and what's interesting is they're both working class people

01:31:12.420 oh yeah so maybe that's a factor yeah maybe that is a factor you know they both made it big

01:31:18.060 you know got married had a bunch of kids and they're still together and look happy but they presumably

01:31:22.760 grew up in functional households themselves and they knew what that was and so despite the fame just

01:31:27.240 you know got on with what they knew but what but you know they're not like being like weird americans

01:31:32.120 about it yeah like a lot of the americans have a weird dysfunctional rich americans yes dysfunctional

01:31:37.080 family lives and this is this is another reason why i like the maga folks because they're just normal

01:31:40.600 people and you know awesome right i think i think we might have run out of time yeah so uh thank you

01:31:48.300 very much remember to buy irelander and see you all tomorrow cheerio chaps

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1007

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