The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1049

00:00:00.000 Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Seaters for the 25th of November 2024. I am

00:00:14.900 joined by Carl and Dan. Hello. And today we're going to be discussing will the Labour Party

00:00:20.220 government collapse soon? We're going to be discussing the Labour Party and Keir Starmer's

00:00:25.380 links to BlackRock. Oh, everyone's links to BlackRock. Everyone loves BlackRock. They're

00:00:30.320 really popular. It's funny that, isn't it? It's almost like having lots of money makes

00:00:33.380 you popular. I'm sure it's that. And Dan's going to be talking about why you don't want

00:00:39.260 to drink tap water in America. Yes. It'll make you stupid. Or eat the food. Or eat the

00:00:43.840 food. Yes. Or brush your teeth. Or go for a walk. No, I think brushing your teeth is fine.

00:00:48.740 I think. As long as it's the right kind of toothpaste. Yes. Maybe. Yes. But I don't think we have

00:00:54.100 any announcements. So I suppose I may as well just go straight into it for once. So there

00:00:59.600 is a petition to call a general election. And this petition has only been going for a short

00:01:05.380 while. And it's already yesterday. It was yesterday. Yes. And at the time of recording, it's over

00:01:12.980 two million. And it's been taking up quite a bit. When I looked at it this morning, 22 minutes

00:01:18.800 past 10. It was at 1,965,780. So it's gone up a considerable amount since then, because

00:01:27.660 at the time of recording, it's one minute past one. That is quite a few signatures. And

00:01:33.720 I think that this is going to tick up. I don't think it's going to, you know, necessarily

00:01:38.060 break records. I don't know. I mean, who knows? I mean, this is just entirely possible.

00:01:42.380 But nobody really wants any kind of petition with two million signatures against their

00:01:47.820 name under any circumstances. It's just never a good sign. You know, if two million people

00:01:52.960 feel motivated enough to sign a petition, which isn't a great amount of effort, but it is some

00:01:57.120 efforts, well, then you're doing something wrong. Right. And actually, you did a video recently,

00:02:03.240 Carl, on our new channel. If my stream deck will allow me to have a look at it. Here we

00:02:09.320 are. Yes. Nice portrait of Keir Starmer there. Well, I mean, it's just an accurate photo.

00:02:15.220 Mm-hmm. But he's pretty much at war, Keir Starmer, with everyone, isn't he? As you've

00:02:22.000 rightfully said here. And since he's been in office, he's picked fights with lots of people.

00:02:26.980 Pensioners, farmers. Who hasn't picked fights with? VAT runners against the middle class,

00:02:32.220 calling the working class far right because of their opposition to the Southport stabbings.

00:02:37.320 Then you've got, like, Jeremy Clarkson, Donald Trump, Elon Musk. Like, the list just keeps

00:02:44.400 going on and on and on. And so it's like, okay, Keir, that's, I mean, he's going to be

00:02:49.280 picking a fight with local councils next. He wants to centralise councils into essentially

00:02:53.500 vast, mega conglomerates. So it's one every 500,000 people.

00:02:58.280 Well, it makes it easier to cram more foreigners in, which is the one group that he hasn't attacked,

00:03:02.280 which is quite interesting. Well, they're one of the few client groups that he actually

00:03:05.780 is keeping. But, like, that's, so the local council will become more remote from the average

00:03:10.640 person. So it's a direct attack on the shires themselves. And so it's like, okay, what are

00:03:15.460 you not at war with? You know, the farmers, like everyone.

00:03:17.920 He even said he would raise university fees, which is hilarious because the one people he

00:03:24.360 could have relied on were university students. Yes. And he may have alienated his base a little

00:03:30.680 bit further soon enough as well. He doesn't seem to think he needs a base. No. There's

00:03:35.340 no one on Stalin's side at this point. But also, he just doesn't think. I mean, remember

00:03:38.720 that he admits that he never dreams. Yes. You know, he's just come out and said he doesn't

00:03:43.700 have a favourite Christmas movie. I mean, yeah, the man just simply has no personality, thoughts

00:03:48.900 or feelings whatsoever. I mean, he did say he didn't have a favourite movie, book

00:03:52.200 or poem. But, like, I mean, that was ages ago. But say, oh, yeah, I also don't have

00:03:56.900 a favourite Christmas movie. Like, yes, the answer is obviously Home Alone. No, it's

00:04:01.180 Gremlins. Yes, I agree. Gremlins is my favourite. A lot of people will say Die Hard as well.

00:04:06.580 Close second. But the point is, everyone's got a favourite Christmas movie, apart from a

00:04:11.620 literal NPC who happens to find himself in charge of the country. So one thing I did find

00:04:17.900 interesting is where the signatories have come from. And a lot of these are... So the

00:04:25.040 more pink it is, the more people densely... The denser the signatures. Yes. And so it's

00:04:32.160 a lot up north here. And in the countryside is the... Basically, the areas that haven't signed

00:04:38.720 it very much are London. The diverse areas. Birmingham, maybe. Lutheran. Yeah. Manchester.

00:04:45.860 Yes. But pretty much everywhere else. It's the diverse areas where the client groups are

00:04:51.900 that aren't signing in. This is literally a communist revolution that we're living through.

00:04:55.360 And I bet if you were to overlay this on a Brexit map, it'd look basically identical.

00:04:59.660 Because what Brexit was essentially an English revolution against globalism. And this appears

00:05:03.860 to also be an English protest against globalism. And if you look at places like around Essex

00:05:11.540 here, places that vote reform a fair amount, these are some of the highest percentage of

00:05:17.780 supporters. But surprisingly... The areas of signing this petition. But most places are between

00:05:24.460 four and five. Some are at three percent of the entire electorate signing this petition.

00:05:32.140 That's a huge amount.

00:05:33.140 But I think it might well average out at around four percent. Which, for a petition started yesterday,

00:05:41.580 is pretty good.

00:05:44.140 Yeah. If that's in six months time, you'd be like, well, that was significant. No, it was yesterday.

00:05:49.180 Yeah. Four percent of the electorate. Yeah. In one day. Apparently, you only... No, I'm not

00:05:56.220 going to carry on saying what I was going to say. I mean, broadly, if two million people are

00:05:58.860 willing to drop whatever they're doing to tell you that they hate you, it probably means something.

00:06:03.260 Because this isn't like a pollster coming up and saying, do you like Keir Starmer? No.

00:06:05.740 And then carry on with your day. No, no, no. Hang on. I'm going to sort this petition out. I hate Keir Starmer.

00:06:10.060 Dear Car Starmer, FU. Yeah, basically.

00:06:12.060 You've got to fill out a form, and everyone in Britain hates that, so...

00:06:15.500 I mean, you've got to give your address. That's true, yeah.

00:06:17.500 And it's also worth mentioning as well that Sky News had some opinion polling which actually put

00:06:25.900 Nigel Farage above Keir Starmer at the minute. Well, I'm not surprised. Like, Nigel Farage is

00:06:31.500 hated by about half the country because woke propaganda, but he's loved by about a third of

00:06:37.180 the country or 28 percent of the country, but they're like his hardcore fan base. Keir Starmer

00:06:43.260 doesn't have a hardcore fan base. It's difficult to be enthusiastic for what is

00:06:47.340 the equivalent of, you know, a legalistic process. That's all he is. Yeah. In a sense,

00:06:54.060 isn't he? Yeah. No thoughts or feelings, just... The regional manager for Globalism Inc.

00:06:59.500 Exactly. He did get a shout out from all those violent prisoners that were released. That's

00:07:04.060 true, yeah. They thanked him by name. Prisoners love him. Prisoners and foreigners love his name.

00:07:08.780 Criminals. So that's 23 percent of the country, right. Also, he picked a fight with Elon Musk,

00:07:13.340 um, and now Elon Musk is more popular than Keir Starmer in Britain. Doesn't take much. Um,

00:07:19.900 I think five points lower than Elon Musk now. Okay. And think of all the leftists that must hate

00:07:26.860 Elon Musk in Britain as well. So he must be doing something wrong there. And, um, it's also worth

00:07:34.300 mentioning as well, the person that started the petition, um, if he wanted to dismiss this as

00:07:39.020 political point scoring, this was started by the owner of a pub who would obviously have a good

00:07:45.420 reason to be angry at him. And I'm going to read from this article directly. It says,

00:07:50.220 he said his fury was sparked in particular by Rachel Reeves's budget, which despite promising

00:07:54.300 one pence off of a pint will actually hike booze costs for pub punters, thanks to the rise minimum

00:08:00.140 wage and hikes to national insurance, which everyone knew, you know, the one penny up,

00:08:05.740 up, you know, the one penny off of the pint was just insulting. It was salt in the wound.

00:08:10.300 Total smoke screen.

00:08:11.100 Yeah, exactly.

00:08:11.660 It's nonsense.

00:08:13.100 Because the prices would go up anyway.

00:08:14.700 Yeah.

00:08:15.180 And there's also, this also has the backdrop of some of the farming tax scandals. So

00:08:22.220 there was this story, BBC verify used labor activists to back government's claim on farm inheritance tax.

00:08:27.500 And it keeps getting worse, this farmer's story. I saw the other day that we're raising whatever

00:08:35.500 it is, 500 million from it, and they've just pledged most of that money to Ukrainian farmers.

00:08:40.460 Yep.

00:08:42.300 Yeah, British farmers forget about it.

00:08:44.860 Foreign farmers are great.

00:08:46.140 There's a 22 billion budget black hole. Okay, what are you going to do? We're going to assign 22

00:08:50.540 billion for carbon capture. What's happening, man?

00:08:54.300 Yeah, they're spending more of our money abroad than ever. So it's worth mentioning that the claim

00:08:58.860 he backed particularly was that only about 500 estates a year would be affected. And then

00:09:04.700 the Country Land and Business Association claimed that actually it would be around 70,000 farms,

00:09:10.620 which is a bit of a disparity. I'm not sure if any of you are good at maths.

00:09:14.380 Well, even if it isn't 100% right now, I mean, remember when income tax was brought in,

00:09:18.780 it affected like 2% of the population. Now it affects everybody. So inflation will get you to the

00:09:23.820 point where everybody is paying it.

00:09:25.340 But also, this is just a lie. I mean, I saw, like, have I got news for you? Ian Hislop was

00:09:30.700 just blatantly lying. You say, oh, it's only gonna be 3 million or more. No, it's 1 million,

00:09:34.700 it says in the budget. And the average farm in the UK is worth about 3 million. So about two

00:09:40.380 thirds of farms are going to be affected by this, according to their own numbers. And there may be

00:09:45.260 some sort of arcane legalistic way of like navigating through it. But I'm sure the average farmer doesn't

00:09:49.900 know what that is. And I'm sure they know that the average farmer doesn't.

00:09:52.780 Well, the farm's only worth that much because the price of the land has shot up, which they

00:09:55.820 never asked for. Oh, yeah.

00:09:57.260 Yeah, but it would also be like, you know, the Labour Party puts you in the middle of

00:10:02.460 the Coliseum filled with lions and they say, well, you know, you've got a chance of getting out of it.

00:10:06.860 Yeah, technically.

00:10:09.580 It's still immoral to put people in that situation in the first place.

00:10:13.260 And it's worth mentioning as well that the BBC, their verify unit, which, you know,

00:10:21.180 is a questionably morally questionable thing in the first place.

00:10:25.260 They just keep lying. They lied about me, they lied about this, they lied about a bunch of other stuff.

00:10:29.420 So they silently deleted the statement from this guy because they realised that...

00:10:35.820 It's not true.

00:10:36.620 Yeah, exactly.

00:10:37.500 I wonder if the BBC's truth department has a higher percentage of lies than the BBC as a whole.

00:10:44.060 It wouldn't surprise me.

00:10:45.500 That would be a very interesting thing to calculate.

00:10:47.740 Yeah.

00:10:48.300 It's almost like the incentive structure in the organisation itself isn't necessarily

00:10:52.540 perfect for trying to be truthful.

00:10:54.780 Yes. Perhaps it's propaganda, not...

00:10:56.540 Well, they also just put a known lion in charge of it.

00:10:58.620 And the funny thing is...

00:10:59.740 The woman in charge of it lied on her CV to get her job.

00:11:02.620 So, like, it's just... I'm not even joking, it's just crazy.

00:11:05.740 The funny thing is, as well, the BBC went out of their way to carry water for Starmer,

00:11:09.660 and then he threw them under the bus unintentionally by agreeing with Jeremy Clarkson.

00:11:16.460 Oh.

00:11:16.700 So, you know, Jeremy Clarkson at the farmers' protest said the BBC are basically just repeating...

00:11:22.540 Government's own line, yeah.

00:11:23.580 Exactly.

00:11:24.700 Well, Starmer then said that the BBC was backing him over the inheritance tax raid on the farmers,

00:11:30.700 which is the one thing you wouldn't want to say if the impartial BBC, you know,

00:11:35.980 what you want to do is have this mask of, well, they're a neutral organisation, and they're supporting me.

00:11:40.660 They're holding us to account.

00:11:41.380 Exactly.

00:11:42.900 So, yes.

00:11:43.800 I mean, Victoria Derbyshire was literally just parroting the government's line back at Clarkson.

00:11:47.860 Yeah, exactly.

00:11:48.520 It's just embarrassing.

00:11:49.240 No wonder people like us are growing, and they're losing, whatever it is, 100,000 TV licence payers every quarter.

00:11:58.580 But I think that this isn't going to win him any favours with the people who are going out of their way to carry water for him,

00:12:04.020 because lots of journalists will be paying attention to the fact that the BBC went out of their way to basically promote propaganda for him,

00:12:12.280 and then he unintentionally went out of his way to expose them by just openly saying,

00:12:19.340 they're supporting me, which he shouldn't have done, because it was stupid.

00:12:23.740 But now the guy who originally made the claim to support Labour has U-turned as well.

00:12:29.800 He has posted this, and he said, actually, I was wrong.

00:12:34.260 I have changed my mind, and I have discovered that I can do maths now.

00:12:37.600 And he says, new data on farms and inheritance tax, a third of farm estates over 1.5 million aren't farmers,

00:12:43.320 but wealthy people avoiding inheritance tax.

00:12:45.800 But he also says, the budget hits farmers too hard and tax avoiders too lightly, it needs to change.

00:12:51.640 So he's still attacking them from a left-wing paradigm there.

00:12:57.380 He's attacking them from the left.

00:12:58.740 But still, it's not looking good for them when this guy who was supposedly a cheerleader for them has now turned on them as well.

00:13:05.660 And we're going to see probably a lot more of this going forward,

00:13:09.000 because things you would want to see if a government were to step down because of their unpopularity,

00:13:14.180 you would want to see institutions like the civil service or perhaps the intelligence agencies turning against them,

00:13:20.120 journalists like this guy, and perhaps I'm thinking of people like Liz Truss,

00:13:27.700 the money men, people in, say, the Bank of England, but economic pressures.

00:13:32.540 So you want to see all of these sorts of people turning against them, and that's when a...

00:13:38.060 The position becomes untenable.

00:13:39.500 Yes, when there's a coup.

00:13:41.980 But he posted this in the Tax Policy Association, a very long thing,

00:13:46.480 basically breaking down how their plan isn't very good.

00:13:50.620 And it's also worth mentioning as well, there is another petition ticking ahead as well,

00:13:54.940 specific to farming, which is at 86,000 so far,

00:14:00.820 almost at the 100,000 where it has to be debated in Parliament.

00:14:05.400 And so moving on to the economy, it's not looking good for them either.

00:14:09.500 There seems to be movements towards the money men stabbing Labour in the back.

00:14:15.080 The Liverpool economy is going to be roaring, though.

00:14:16.800 I know, yes.

00:14:18.140 So tax rises will make it harder to hire, says the Confederation of British Industry,

00:14:23.800 which, you know, you would want to be on your side.

00:14:27.440 And what they've said is also being confirmed by many company bosses,

00:14:32.580 saying that it's putting them off hiring,

00:14:35.160 which is obviously not good for the economy, obviously.

00:14:38.420 It's not good for workers, is it?

00:14:39.780 No, it's not good for the population either.

00:14:41.660 And also they're saying it's going to hit growth as well,

00:14:45.740 which is going to prevent businesses from growing.

00:14:48.640 Ah, it just sounds like far-right propaganda from the CBI boss.

00:14:52.700 Hmm, yeah.

00:14:54.240 Typical far-righter.

00:14:56.140 But do you know what Keir Starmer's doing?

00:14:57.960 He's throwing out a little bit of red meat for the gammons.

00:15:01.140 He's pledged to crack down on people who are gaming the system for benefits,

00:15:07.360 which doesn't make him popular with his own base as well,

00:15:09.920 because they're going to see that for what it is,

00:15:12.140 is you're throwing out red meat for the gammons.

00:15:15.700 That's just, I just, it's so, like,

00:15:20.360 the thing is, he's not doing it because it's the right thing to do, right?

00:15:22.860 People shouldn't be gaming the benefit system.

00:15:24.780 He's doing it because, look, no, we need to ship that money overseas.

00:15:27.900 Crane needs that money.

00:15:29.380 You know, foreign farmers need that money.

00:15:31.340 I mean, the NHS needs to pay for foreign people to come and use the NHS.

00:15:35.340 That's why we're doing it.

00:15:37.100 Like, he's not doing it because it's the right thing to do.

00:15:39.160 I mean, people on benefits, it was core heartland.

00:15:44.900 Yeah.

00:15:45.280 He's going after them as well.

00:15:47.240 Yeah, he's just out to alienate everyone.

00:15:50.120 We need to pay for foreigners to live in hotels,

00:15:51.980 so therefore, you know, you're going to have to go without your benefits.

00:15:55.180 Mm-hmm.

00:15:56.800 I mean, I don't support either.

00:15:58.120 I'd like to throw it out there.

00:15:59.360 Sure, but still, if we're going to have benefits,

00:16:02.340 I'd rather it be for British people rather than non-British people.

00:16:06.320 Those are the days.

00:16:06.940 Begrudgingly.

00:16:07.500 Yeah.

00:16:07.860 And you know I mentioned the intelligence agencies.

00:16:10.520 So, obviously, current intelligence agency people cannot comment,

00:16:14.400 and so normally former staff are sort of bellwether for people's attitudes within the intel sphere.

00:16:21.560 And normally these people are a lot more important than people give them credit for.

00:16:24.540 And I think that what Keir Starmer would not want would be someone of prominence coming out,

00:16:32.520 say someone who was formerly a head of one of their organizations coming out

00:16:36.800 and basically calling out their entire means of governing.

00:16:40.400 And I think that a lot of this goes on because past a certain point,

00:16:46.380 the Labour Party becomes a liability to the pursuit of the organization's self-interest,

00:16:50.760 and therefore they turn on it.

00:16:52.240 Sure.

00:16:52.660 And that's normally what happens if they feel like, you know, better cut our losses.

00:16:57.020 Well, that's what's happened.

00:16:59.480 And so this is the former head of MI6, Richard Dearlove.

00:17:06.220 He said of Ed Miliband, the energy secretary,

00:17:09.720 instead of using our own resources, we're following a crazy plan under Ed Miliband.

00:17:13.680 We need independence, which I actually agree with.

00:17:16.740 Yeah, obviously.

00:17:17.520 But, like, yeah, Ed Miliband's bonkers.

00:17:19.980 He's gone mad, and he's convinced that if we can get to net zero by 2030,

00:17:24.960 the world will be saved.

00:17:27.960 So you are insane, Ed.

00:17:29.760 Yeah.

00:17:30.580 And then he says of David Lammy, the foreign secretary,

00:17:34.280 Lammy has too much baggage.

00:17:36.100 He'll be involved in the special relationship, but not in any meaningful way.

00:17:39.900 Well, he called Trump a Nazi for eight years.

00:17:42.960 Exactly.

00:17:44.020 And then on cuts to defence, he said defence should be at the very top of the government's agenda,

00:17:47.680 even above the NHS, but it isn't.

00:17:50.260 Well, in the midst of Keir Starmer stoking a war with Russia.

00:17:53.960 Exactly.

00:17:54.280 Incredible.

00:17:54.960 And then finally, he says that Keir Starmer is not taking domestic issues seriously.

00:18:00.180 Might be something to do with the fact he's shipping all of this money abroad

00:18:02.900 instead of, you know, dealing with things at home.

00:18:05.840 And he says directly here,

00:18:07.520 Starmer is jumping on and off planes when there are serious issues at home.

00:18:11.400 It's ridiculous.

00:18:12.740 Those are some pretty strong words from the former head of MI6.

00:18:16.340 Yeah, but, you know, Starmer's not really a national politician, is he?

00:18:20.620 No.

00:18:21.680 That is very true.

00:18:22.820 So, this poses the question, then, will a general election happen anytime soon?

00:18:29.180 And I think that all of Starmer's actions have indicated that he will ignore this and we'll play a clip of him pretty much saying so.

00:18:41.500 Yes.

00:18:41.760 However, these sorts of things are not useless.

00:18:45.120 And I'd like to play a short clip of Ben Habib on GB News, speaking about what happens, because I think he's taking the view of the petition is important, but putting economic pressure on the Labour Party will be the sort of straw that breaks the camel's back.

00:19:03.980 And I think that all of these sorts of things will add up slowly.

00:19:07.260 Lots of people will turn on them and they'll find that they have no friends left.

00:19:10.340 And then there'll be a comparable thing to that of Liz Truss, where the institutions just turn on them and then they can't do anything and they're forced to step down.

00:19:17.960 Yeah, just before you do, because this was the most irritating midwit response to this petition that I saw all of last night.

00:19:25.420 It was loads of people coming out and saying, oh, he's not going to call an election just because you put up a petition.

00:19:30.480 He's like, yeah, obviously.

00:19:31.640 So it's not going to have the first order effect, but there were secondary and tertiary effects that will flow from this delegitimisation.

00:19:36.920 It makes him have to focus more on the response that his policies are having against simply rolling them out.

00:19:44.020 So, yeah, it is a very important petition.

00:19:47.040 But yes, to all the midwits out there, and even worse, if you're in the comments, no, it's not going to call a bloody general election on the basis of it.

00:19:53.600 No, but the point is to put pressure on him.

00:19:55.900 So when he's in the Starmer bunker, all he's seeing, all of the inputs that they get are negative, negative, negative, negative.

00:20:01.980 Oh, there's a protest here.

00:20:03.080 Oh, there's a petition here.

00:20:04.020 Oh, the finances are going down the tube.

00:20:06.300 Negative, negative, negative.

00:20:07.120 Put pressure on them.

00:20:08.540 So they're in their little Führer bunker and hopefully it collapses.

00:20:12.000 Yes.

00:20:12.280 That's what we're asking for.

00:20:13.640 That's what the point is.

00:20:14.980 So here's what Habib said, which I thought was quite good.

00:20:18.000 He calls it stability.

00:20:20.360 Ben Habib.

00:20:21.040 Well, I don't think this petition will result in a general election, even if it got, I mean, if it got to 9.7 million people voting in favor of another election, that's the same number of votes that Labour got.

00:20:32.120 So that would be interesting.

00:20:33.140 But I think there's every, people say to me, Ben, there's no chance of this government giving up its huge majority, no matter what happens between now and 2029.

00:20:44.520 And I don't agree.

00:20:46.580 I think that there are pressures that can come to bear that could force this government back to the electorate.

00:20:53.920 And the most obvious one is a collapse in the economy.

00:20:57.780 And I think some of the measures taken by Rachel Reeves already are not playing out the way she expected them to play out.

00:21:05.460 Sterling, I don't know if people are watching, but Sterling is down 7% against the dollar in the last three months.

00:21:11.280 That's a very significant move in Sterling.

00:21:13.780 And that's not a general strengthening of the dollar.

00:21:16.140 That is Sterling weakening on its own.

00:21:18.300 That is basically people saying they don't want to buy British products.

00:21:22.880 They don't want to buy British debt, British investments.

00:21:25.360 And a crucial component of this government being able to finance itself is foreigners buying British bonds.

00:21:32.280 And they don't need to buy British bonds.

00:21:36.540 You know, most people as investors have to have some exposure to U.S. Treasuries because the dollar is the currency of the world.

00:21:44.140 But Sterling isn't.

00:21:45.440 It's not the reserve currency of the world.

00:21:47.060 So people don't have to buy our bonds.

00:21:48.900 And there's a very, very real possibility that she's got her numbers wrong, that she will need to borrow more money than she says she's going to have to borrow, that growth will go through the floor.

00:21:59.800 It will be in a recession.

00:22:00.880 In fact, all the indicators are that we're heading into a recession.

00:22:04.420 Unemployment will rise.

00:22:05.940 And even if they put up interest rates, they won't be able to get people to buy British government bonds.

00:22:10.520 Then you have the United Kingdom going off to the IMF, cap in hand, saying, please, can we have a bailout?

00:22:17.380 And that would be a disaster for any government.

00:22:20.360 And I think that you can then force a general election on a government if they absolutely collapse the economy.

00:22:26.520 What do we think about that?

00:22:28.120 Because I think it's a pretty compelling argument by that point, isn't it?

00:22:32.740 And I think that that's the direction that the economy is going in.

00:22:35.880 Every metric I've seen has suggested...

00:22:37.740 But it was already the case after the budget bond yields went up.

00:22:41.260 So, effectively, the price of the underlying bond went down, meaning that they need to issue more of them, meaning that their debt costs have gone up.

00:22:48.420 So, in that process, it was already playing out.

00:22:52.060 So, it's just a matter of time, really.

00:22:53.820 It is definitely possible that the political position in the Labour Party becomes so untenable.

00:23:00.000 Like I said, the institutions don't want to or can't respond.

00:23:03.940 There's absolutely no public support.

00:23:06.540 That Keir Starmer will end up essentially being isolated.

00:23:09.200 Again, in his little Fuhrer bunker with his little inner circle, as the world around them has just changed so significantly that they can't maintain their position.

00:23:18.200 So, Keir Starmer can be block-headed about it all he wants, but things happen whether he likes it or not.

00:23:23.920 That is very true.

00:23:24.900 And I think that...

00:23:25.720 To sort of summarize what I think, I don't think the petition is going to be directly the thing that might...

00:23:31.260 No, it's just a straw on the camel's back.

00:23:32.520 It is, yeah, and it's adding more and more pressure, and lots of these institutions now are seemingly turning on him in significant ways.

00:23:41.340 You know, you're seeing intelligence agencies, you're seeing economic measures, you're seeing some journalists that have had their noses put out.

00:23:47.960 But moreover, he's got to think of the future of his own party, because, okay, let's assume that somehow he manages to ride this out for five years.

00:23:57.000 What does the Labour Party's prospects look like after five years of just revulsive governance, right?

00:24:04.600 Where the economy's been destroyed, people have just not been listened to, and there have been, you know, multiple gargantuan protests, multiple gargantuan petitions.

00:24:12.640 People are just, no, I'm done with the Labour Party, I hate Keir Starmer, I'm done with them.

00:24:16.160 What do they look like?

00:24:17.060 Well, they look like worse than the Conservative Party.

00:24:18.840 Oh, annihilation of the Labour Party is on the cards.

00:24:20.700 Yes.

00:24:21.340 It is a viable thing.

00:24:22.580 Yeah, because at the end of the day, he will essentially, eventually, have to come back to the electorate.

00:24:27.360 It's like, okay, well, look what...

00:24:28.860 Well, and things like this are good, because what it does is it erodes political capital, and there will be things that they want...

00:24:34.160 So there are things that they can do, they can easily twiddle the dials they've got in front of them.

00:24:37.700 There are other things they want to do, but they require buy-in from other parties

00:24:41.180 in order to get the more radical elements of the agenda across.

00:24:44.020 And if they lack the political capital being eroded by something like this, they are unable to get that buy-in,

00:24:49.100 and therefore the set of options in front of them are constrained.

00:24:52.360 So it's a good...

00:24:53.520 Of course, they do have a sizable majority as well, so there is potential for...

00:24:58.700 Yeah, but if you need to reach out to other groups, you know, who knows who they might be.

00:25:04.320 It might be the bond market, it might be the lords.

00:25:06.480 I mean, it could be a huge number of organisations they need to reach out to.

00:25:10.060 National business investors.

00:25:10.540 Exactly.

00:25:11.260 Yeah.

00:25:11.860 And they can't get the buy-in because they lack that political capital.

00:25:15.540 And other members of reform are basically pointing this out, that signing the petition may not force an election,

00:25:21.880 but it will definitely send a message, which I think is the most reasonable point out of all of this.

00:25:27.360 And Kirsten was like, I can hear a message.

00:25:29.460 Maybe I should listen to it.

00:25:31.080 And let's hear what he had to say, shall we?

00:25:35.520 It activated the Starmer programme.

00:25:38.500 Because I think there's a petition that's currently on the line of 1.9 people who want the election to go again.

00:25:45.320 It's over 2 million.

00:25:45.580 Is it 2 million now?

00:25:46.740 It's now just over 2 million.

00:25:48.100 Do you feel the pressure?

00:25:49.340 Look, I remind myself that very many people didn't vote Labour at the last election.

00:25:53.860 Yeah.

00:25:54.140 I don't...

00:25:54.800 I'm not surprised that many of them want a rerun.

00:25:59.000 That isn't how our system works.

00:26:01.060 There will be plenty of people who didn't want us in in the first place.

00:26:03.760 So, what I focus is on is the decisions that I have to make every day.

00:26:10.180 But surely you want us, the public, to trust you, to like you, to think he's the man for the job, he's doing what he needs to do.

00:26:19.720 No, he doesn't.

00:26:20.300 Your approval rating is lower than Nigel Farage's right now, which, even saying it to the Prime Minister of the country I live in,

00:26:26.560 that I pay tax in, to say your approval rate is lower than Nigel Farage, that's disappointing.

00:26:31.380 Whoever, you know, whoever I support.

00:26:33.760 The thing is, if you make your mind up, as I have done, that we're going to do the difficult things first,

00:26:39.720 then I think it's inevitable that people do feel they're difficult decisions.

00:26:44.600 I mean, I understand that.

00:26:47.460 God, he's so soulless.

00:26:49.240 Yeah.

00:26:50.140 But the expression on his face is so weird.

00:26:53.540 Like, he was having genuine trouble computing that he had intransigent opposition of his own making after only five months in government.

00:27:03.180 Mm-hmm.

00:27:04.340 But he just didn't seem to understand.

00:27:07.160 His unwillingness to be pragmatic, I think, will be one of the things that sows the seeds of his destruction.

00:27:13.020 And he doesn't seem to understand that he doesn't have a mandate for the radical changes that he's imposing on us.

00:27:17.140 He doesn't have a mandate for this.

00:27:18.180 He got fewer votes than Jeremy Corbyn did.

00:27:20.280 Yeah.

00:27:20.700 And that was a resounding defeat.

00:27:22.380 It's just that everyone else was just more unpopular.

00:27:25.820 Yeah.

00:27:26.680 And, like, he got 20% of the potential electorate.

00:27:30.420 He wasn't the most loved.

00:27:31.520 He was the least hated at the time.

00:27:33.780 I don't even know if he was the least hated.

00:27:35.380 I think it was the conflict between Farage and the Conservatives that screwed him.

00:27:38.660 That's true.

00:27:39.120 Because they basically took a third of the Conservatives.

00:27:40.540 Split the vote, yeah.

00:27:41.600 Well, plus they probably got half of that vote just because people voted Labour last time and they voted Labour the time before that.

00:27:48.080 And it's just ingrained behaviour for a lot of people.

00:27:49.700 Yeah, absolutely.

00:27:50.120 So, yes, I don't think that there's going to be, you know, an end to it, but it seems like there is some sort of something in the works here to remove the Labour Party.

00:28:04.580 It does seem to be possible and it seems that it's becoming more and more likely.

00:28:09.920 However, how long they'll cling on to power, we don't know yet.

00:28:13.840 Who knows what we'll be in a year's time.

00:28:15.860 Binary Surf says,

00:28:16.780 Yeah, but I really do think there comes a time where literally everyone around them is like,

00:28:36.540 here, you've just got to go.

00:28:37.780 You know, this is what happened to Truss.

00:28:39.440 You know, you've just got to go.

00:28:40.700 And eventually they have to kind of just suck it up and resign.

00:28:45.360 Anyway.

00:28:46.780 Everyone loves BlackRock, don't they?

00:28:49.820 No.

00:28:50.360 BlackRock, that mom and pop business.

00:28:53.280 Yeah.

00:28:53.740 Did good, made big and are now making the world a better place.

00:28:58.960 That's what everyone thinks about BlackRock, isn't it?

00:29:01.820 I know because I went and watched Dan's Brokonomics on BlackRock.

00:29:06.080 And that's a fair summary of how you characterise them, isn't it?

00:29:10.280 I think so.

00:29:11.620 Very short version.

00:29:13.060 They're an institutional pension fund manager.

00:29:14.900 The firm's own assets are relatively small, but they directly control $10 trillion and they indirectly control another $20 trillion through their Aladdin software, which basically helps other financial firms pick stocks.

00:29:27.560 So they're massively influential.

00:29:29.200 And one quick more thing I would note on these is basically every time something goes materially wrong in the economy, such as in 2008, the US government calling these guys to say, how can they fix it?

00:29:41.560 And they go away and have a think and come up with a way that fixes it, in inverted commas, but also makes them richer.

00:29:47.940 And then the government just does that.

00:29:50.020 So they are powerful and influential as a firm.

00:29:53.660 So it's not exactly great news if they start taking over your country then.

00:29:58.280 Oh no, that would be bad.

00:29:59.260 That would be bad, would it?

00:30:00.140 Yes.

00:30:00.420 That's interesting.

00:30:01.200 Well, I've got some bad news for everyone then.

00:30:02.700 Right.

00:30:03.040 Go and sign up, support us, watch Dan's BlackRock Deep Dive for better and more detailed information that I'm going to give you.

00:30:10.000 Because I'm going to talk about just simply BlackRock's relationships, because everyone loves everyone in this.

00:30:16.620 And this is lovely.

00:30:17.480 So, I mean, you remember that Starmer loves Zelensky, right?

00:30:20.260 I mean, he looks like literally he's about to kiss him there.

00:30:22.360 For the first time ever, Starmer's grimmest, cracked face breaks a smile.

00:30:27.460 My God.

00:30:28.100 It looks sinister to see him smiling.

00:30:30.160 I'm sort of unnerved.

00:30:31.080 It does look sinister to see him smiling.

00:30:33.220 And look how tightly he's pulling in Zelensky's hand.

00:30:35.760 It's like, no, touch me, Zelensky.

00:30:37.180 I love you.

00:30:37.760 My support for you is ironclad.

00:30:41.120 Nothing will break us apart.

00:30:42.940 And Zelensky kind of looks like he's backing away, doesn't he?

00:30:45.280 Oh, God.

00:30:46.080 Starmer looks like he's pulling him in so he can rub his hand over his belly.

00:30:49.400 But Zelensky looks like, oh, God, this guy likes me a bit too much.

00:30:53.220 Yes.

00:30:53.920 But Zelensky has turned into an avatar of, quote, our freedom, our democracy, and our values.

00:31:01.700 What?

00:31:02.900 This guy was a comedian on Ukrainian TV.

00:31:05.520 Somehow became a billionaire himself.

00:31:07.760 And then got elected on the back of being, playing a president of Ukraine on TV.

00:31:14.040 I don't really...

00:31:15.320 I mean, he kind of still is doing that.

00:31:17.520 Yeah, exactly.

00:31:18.220 It's completely true.

00:31:19.080 But I don't really see Ukraine as a bastion of our freedom, our democracy, and our values.

00:31:25.140 But Keir Starmer does, which makes me wonder what the our in that actually refers to.

00:31:29.980 Well, but before the war, people pointed out that Ukraine was the most corrupt country in Europe, even more so than Russia, which was second.

00:31:36.880 The BBC would point that out.

00:31:38.260 They would write articles about it.

00:31:39.340 The Guardian would point that out.

00:31:40.640 Now, of course, they don't.

00:31:41.780 And so Keir Starmer, because he loves Zelensky so much, and he's so overwhelmed with him, he's like, yeah, we'll give three billion pounds a year to Zelensky for as long as he takes.

00:31:50.120 He really likes touching him, doesn't he?

00:31:51.720 He loves touching Zelensky.

00:31:53.960 It's really...

00:31:54.780 Like, again, one of the few people...

00:31:57.560 Like, Zelensky looks uncomfortable with how much Starmer likes him.

00:32:01.280 But the point is, there's no amount of money that Starmer won't give to Zelensky.

00:32:04.400 No, three billion a year for as long as it takes, and I don't care.

00:32:07.840 So, so far, we've given them 12 billion, according to the Guardian.

00:32:11.940 It's like, okay, great.

00:32:13.600 Great.

00:32:14.060 Since February 2022.

00:32:15.560 And Starmer then went to NATO and was like, NATO allies, we need to give them more money.

00:32:20.620 It's like, God, do you just love Zelensky that much?

00:32:23.380 And that's actually a genuine smile as well, because you can always tell when somebody's faking a smile, because the face just doesn't respond in the same way to a fake smile as a real one.

00:32:32.620 Yeah, the eyes don't crinkle.

00:32:33.620 Yeah, exactly.

00:32:34.460 That's the first real smile I've ever seen from this man.

00:32:38.140 It's unbelievably creepy.

00:32:40.300 Anyway, so Zelensky loves BlackRock.

00:32:43.740 This is from, as you can see, the Ukrainian official website from the presidency.

00:32:48.260 They tell us that the president of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, again, Vladimir, Vladimir, it's so weird,

00:32:55.020 held a video conference meeting with Larry Fink, one of the world's leading investment managers at BlackRock,

00:33:00.180 and in accordance with preliminary agreements struck earlier this year between the head of state and Larry Fink,

00:33:04.720 the BlackRock team has been working for several months on a project to advise the Ukrainian government on how to structure the country's reconstruction funds.

00:33:12.620 They smell money.

00:33:13.380 They do.

00:33:14.880 During the conversation, it was emphasized that certain BlackRock leaders plan to visit Ukraine in the new year.

00:33:19.200 Well, you've got to see what your new province looks like, right?

00:33:21.660 And the president thanked Larry Fink for the work of the professional team that BlackRock has allocated to advise on the restructuring and construction projects.

00:33:28.880 So that's very interesting.

00:33:30.120 So Zelensky loves, so Starmer loves Zelensky, Zelensky loves BlackRock, and BlackRock just love Ukraine.

00:33:36.120 Again, this is from BlackRock's own website.

00:33:38.000 This is amazing.

00:33:38.800 I would argue that this is the real reason that lots of Western countries are supporting Ukraine.

00:33:44.600 Oh, you think?

00:33:45.260 Well, money.

00:33:46.320 Yes.

00:33:46.780 Too cynical.

00:33:47.340 I think they just really like each other.

00:33:49.420 I think they're just best buddies.

00:33:50.620 They're all pals.

00:33:52.280 BlackRock is, they tell us, and the Ministry of Ukraine have signed a memorandum of understanding,

00:33:57.520 whereby BlackRock will provide advisory support for the design of the investment framework,

00:34:01.940 and this will create opportunities for both public and private investors to participate in the future reconstruction and recovery of the Ukrainian economy.

00:34:08.820 So we're going to start buying things, and we're going to slowly but surely own your country.

00:34:13.900 So there's also a very perverse incentive being set up here.

00:34:17.220 Oh, really?

00:34:17.520 And a president in that there's an incentive to start wars and then profit off of the destruction, isn't there?

00:34:24.060 No kidding.

00:34:24.560 If only there were like, I don't know, a left-wing movement in the West.

00:34:27.520 That cared about that.

00:34:28.760 Mm.

00:34:29.180 Something like that.

00:34:30.100 It's funny, isn't it?

00:34:31.060 Yes.

00:34:31.860 You remember those charts that show around the time of Occupy Wall Street?

00:34:36.720 About 2010.

00:34:37.900 Yeah.

00:34:38.180 Yeah.

00:34:38.620 Oh, now it's racism.

00:34:40.140 And I also remember how the left used to complain about, well, the West and our companies doing that with Iraq and Afghanistan.

00:34:47.060 But never mind.

00:34:47.960 Anyway, so what's interesting, though, is that Ukraine actually has a law.

00:34:52.680 You can't read this because it's in Ukrainian, but I use Google Translate.

00:34:56.080 And in this, it says, the following may acquire ownership of agricultural land plots.

00:35:02.200 A, citizens of Ukraine.

00:35:04.100 B, legal entities of Ukraine.

00:35:05.680 C, territorial communities.

00:35:08.160 So that, you'd think, would put BlackRock out of business there.

00:35:11.340 They've got no options.

00:35:12.620 But D is the state.

00:35:15.200 Oh, okay.

00:35:16.280 Right.

00:35:16.880 So.

00:35:17.320 That went so well for them in the 30s.

00:35:19.500 Yeah.

00:35:20.060 Yeah.

00:35:20.400 I mean, yeah.

00:35:21.280 Brilliant.

00:35:21.700 But the point is, BlackRock can give Zelensky as much money as they want.

00:35:27.380 And as the president, Zelensky can buy all of these things and just have it flow through him.

00:35:33.680 So people are saying, well, no, BlackRock can't just directly buy the agricultural land.

00:35:36.880 It's like, do they need to, is the question.

00:35:39.920 But anyway, do you know who else loves BlackRock?

00:35:42.420 Go on.

00:35:43.580 Starmer, obviously.

00:35:45.080 For some reason, he tweeted this out the other day.

00:35:47.620 Now, this didn't have to happen.

00:35:49.460 He could have had a meeting with BlackRock, like, on the down low, right?

00:35:53.600 He could have just had the meeting with BlackRock.

00:35:55.740 Only a few, like, journos would have known.

00:35:57.540 And the regime journos wouldn't have made a big fuss about it.

00:36:00.060 But for some reason, Keir Starmer tweeted out, quote,

00:36:02.640 I'm determined to deliver growth, create wealth, and put more money in people's pockets.

00:36:07.380 So what's that got to do with BlackRock?

00:36:08.220 Larry thinks pockets.

00:36:09.500 Yeah.

00:36:09.780 He doesn't specify which people.

00:36:11.820 Exactly.

00:36:12.580 Exactly.

00:36:13.080 The people he sat around the table with.

00:36:14.760 Yes.

00:36:15.020 This can only be achieved by working in partnership with leading businesses like BlackRock,

00:36:19.460 Is BlackRock just a business?

00:36:22.160 I'm not sure.

00:36:22.740 Does BlackRock have a business?

00:36:24.960 Like, I don't know.

00:36:25.840 It's certainly not a charitable organization that turned up to this dinner because they weren't getting paid.

00:36:32.780 But BlackRock is going to help them capitalize on the UK's position as a world-leading hub for investment.

00:36:38.700 I mean, okay.

00:36:41.840 That's like describing...

00:36:42.800 We're going to have a lot of farmland that's freshly on the market.

00:36:46.020 You know, when there's...

00:36:47.280 We don't have laws like Ukraine that prevents foreigners from owning them.

00:36:49.340 Well, one interesting theory that I've seen put forward by Blackhorse, one of the guys I follow on Twitter,

00:36:54.440 is he's saying, well, maybe the reason Starmer is doing this is because BlackRock was promised all that Ukrainian land,

00:37:03.500 and because the war isn't going the way they want it to go, BlackRock is now in the negative column for the promises.

00:37:10.540 And so Starmer's like, okay, well, I'll engineer it so that you can end up with British farmland instead, so you're made good.

00:37:16.020 Well, I've got no reason to think that's the case, although I wouldn't rule it.

00:37:20.020 Well, it's the most psychopathic outcome, so therefore it's possible.

00:37:22.980 Yeah, but I think the issue is BlackRock can't directly own land in Ukraine because of the Ukrainian laws.

00:37:29.140 But why not just go through Zelensky in the reconstruction projects that will just...

00:37:34.680 Okay, we don't own it, but we're liable for a contract that says, okay, now BlackRock gets like 20% of the profits or something like that,

00:37:41.060 or whatever it is.

00:37:42.020 So they don't need to own it to be able to extract tons of wealth from it.

00:37:45.460 Well, and also, I mean, it may be that the states want BlackRock involved in farming because farming is very diverse.

00:37:54.440 It's got, well, diverse as in lots of different people doing it, not as in, you know, the modern...

00:38:00.220 A normal definition of the word diverse.

00:38:01.660 But if you've got big firms going up and buying all the little firms,

00:38:07.020 then it's a lot easier to deal with BlackRock than it is to deal with 10,000 individual farms.

00:38:10.940 And also, BlackRock have a history of going in and putting in, like, the DEI policies and all the rest of it.

00:38:16.560 Although apparently they're rolling that back.

00:38:18.440 Think himself apparently did say...

00:38:20.140 They have somewhat, they've realised some pushback,

00:38:22.600 but the fact is that was their mindset to put it in in the first place,

00:38:25.520 so they will happily wheel in whatever the next thing is.

00:38:28.100 Well, I mean, I guess it's just convenient for BlackRock that there'll be tens of thousands of new farms on the market.

00:38:33.520 Indeed.

00:38:33.740 But anyway, so Keir Starmer loves BlackRock.

00:38:38.120 So who does BlackRock love?

00:38:39.860 Well, the answer is Keir Starmer.

00:38:42.260 They think he's great.

00:38:44.720 Larry Fink, last year, came over to Britain, met with Keir Starmer,

00:38:48.220 and was like, oh, I love Keir Starmer.

00:38:50.040 He's brilliant.

00:38:52.380 Which I just, again, how can you have a conversation with Keir Starmer?

00:38:56.500 I'll come away with that opinion.

00:38:58.200 Larry Fink said,

00:38:59.080 I was in the UK and I spent time with both parties, the Conservatives and the Labour Party.

00:39:02.400 This is literally a duopoly here.

00:39:05.540 I mean, it's just so open.

00:39:07.060 I love it.

00:39:07.960 At least we get to know what exactly is happening.

00:39:10.900 And I'm extremely pleased to see how the Labour Party in the UK went from being an extremist party with a Marxist leader to Keir Starmer.

00:39:18.300 That didn't age well, did it?

00:39:19.600 So little automatons.

00:39:21.000 Yeah, but the idea that Keir Starmer isn't a Marxist extremist is hilarious as well.

00:39:25.680 Because that's literally what his student life was.

00:39:27.340 You need to look at his case history, yeah.

00:39:29.380 Yeah, he doesn't appear to have changed in any way, shape or form.

00:39:31.900 So it's just, you know, they're a very moderate party.

00:39:34.540 It's like, yeah, that's why everyone hates them.

00:39:35.860 Because they're so moderate.

00:39:37.180 That's why people think Keir Starmer is literally the worst politician in Britain.

00:39:40.520 Because he's just so moderate.

00:39:42.460 Well, and of course, Starmer is Trilateral Commission.

00:39:44.760 Yeah.

00:39:45.120 Which is one of these organisations that believes in one world government.

00:39:49.040 Yes.

00:39:49.700 Now, I'm...

00:39:50.700 Starmer loves Davos and hates Westminster.

00:39:52.100 Yes.

00:39:52.500 And I don't know if Larry Fink is a member of the Trilateral Commission, but I'd be very surprised if he wasn't.

00:39:57.900 I'm sure he's got nothing to do with it.

00:39:59.100 So it seems possible that going to all of these, you know, dinners, which we are told...

00:40:04.460 Oh, no, they're not into the one world government stuff anymore.

00:40:06.780 They're just going for dinner because, you know, they like the food.

00:40:09.540 It seems that actually Starmer did get something out of going to these dinners and Hobnall being with the Blackrock types.

00:40:16.180 Yeah.

00:40:16.660 Well, again, they all love him.

00:40:17.860 He loves them.

00:40:18.400 Again, it's just a big, big circle of friends, you see.

00:40:21.580 They're just buddies.

00:40:23.640 So he hopes that Keir Starmer gets elected in 2023.

00:40:27.720 And there is no question in my mind that I've never seen more fear and more distrust.

00:40:32.180 Fear is pervasive now.

00:40:33.860 And the question is, who do I listen to?

00:40:35.600 And so he's complaining about the institutional discreditation, the fact that people don't believe in our democracy anymore.

00:40:42.420 And he thinks that with Keir Starmer in charge, people have firm confidence in the way that the country is being run.

00:40:48.900 Again, things that age really badly.

00:40:51.840 But the point is they're longtime friends, right?

00:40:53.840 So Open Democracy had some emails from Blackrock and the Labour Party leaked to them, which is fascinating.

00:41:01.240 So at 5 p.m. on Monday the 8th of July, a managing director investment called Jonathan Reynolds from Blackrock emailed Rachel Reeves.

00:41:13.560 Was it Rachel Reeves?

00:41:14.240 Who's the secretary of state then?

00:41:16.000 Oh, right.

00:41:17.260 Oh, sorry.

00:41:18.240 Sandra Boss, right?

00:41:20.720 So they said, it's a pleasure to address you like this after all these years.

00:41:26.040 It's just fascinating.

00:41:27.100 And I'll spoil you the details.

00:41:31.040 This goes on for a little while, actually.

00:41:32.240 But it's a very, very pally, friendly, oh, thank God, finally I get to call you, you know, secretary of whatever.

00:41:38.520 And it's like, great.

00:41:39.540 And so, okay, great.

00:41:41.200 So the Labour Party loved Blackrock.

00:41:42.800 Blackrock loved the Labour Party.

00:41:45.120 Keir Starmer loves Zelensky.

00:41:46.620 Zelensky loves Blackrock.

00:41:48.220 And who did Blackrock also love?

00:41:49.660 That's right, Ukraine.

00:41:50.780 Because Blackrock are part of the 15 billion finance to rebuild Ukraine.

00:41:55.960 Blackrock themselves are putting in not 15 billion, but a percentage of that.

00:42:03.560 And what is hoping to be raised, the World Bank and various others are hoping to raise 500 billion in total for the reconstruction of Ukraine.

00:42:14.540 And Blackrock will be directly involved in advising how this is all done.

00:42:18.160 Well, just a quick point on basic finance, but let's say you've got X amount of billions to invest in a country to rebuild it.

00:42:25.280 Well, if you're going to rebuild it, you know, you're first going to have to acquire it in the state that it's in.

00:42:31.520 If it is a bombed out wreck, it's a lot cheaper than if that particular area of the city wasn't touched.

00:42:37.960 So if you're looking to make a financial investment, you would actually want to see as much of it demolished as possible so that you can see that your 15 billion goes a hell of a lot further with bombed out wrecks than it would intact buildings.

00:42:51.440 Well, that is entirely true.

00:42:55.180 But the priority areas for the fund will be the key sectors of agriculture, manufacturing, infrastructure and energy.

00:43:02.240 So the things that make Ukraine run as a country will be bought and paid for by this fund by of which Blackrock is going to be a significant chunk.

00:43:11.740 And so that's just a total coincidence that they're all buddy-buddy.

00:43:16.940 They've got this lovely little circle jerk and they're all investing in one another and everyone's just happy and they're just trying to make the world a better place.

00:43:27.360 I don't know about you, but I feel reassured.

00:43:29.880 Dragon Lady Chris says, Kiv showed up on my GeoGuessr game last night.

00:43:35.440 Considering what it looks like, I'm like, nah, go ahead and nuke it.

00:43:38.460 I actually haven't seen what the street of it looks like, so I couldn't tell you.

00:43:42.400 But anyway, we'll leave that there.

00:43:45.120 Right.

00:43:46.220 Yes, let's talk about how the left is freaking out yet again, this time over fluoride.

00:43:52.740 Because that's being taken away from them like seed oil.

00:43:56.100 Things are upsetting.

00:43:57.160 Why don't we play this?

00:43:58.440 Let's start off with upset libs, shall we?

00:44:01.220 The bug men are freaking out.

00:44:03.080 Definitely did not expect to be asking you about fluoride and water two days before the election.

00:44:06.380 I was a little shocked that one of their closing arguments for Donald Trump was take the fluoride out of water.

00:44:11.860 He's going to have a big role in health care, a very big role.

00:44:14.240 He knows it better than anybody.

00:44:15.940 We haven't talked about this at all in the last 700 days, but suddenly the thing that's been normal in this country for 80 years, it's like, we're going to get rid of that on day one.

00:44:24.240 In the tweet last night, on January 20th, the Trump White House will advise all U.S. water systems to remove fluoride from public water.

00:44:30.320 He also linked to a site that features outlandish health claims, conspiracy theories like HIV-like viruses are in vaccines, and widely debunked medical claims.

00:44:40.020 This is a tweet from you.

00:44:41.980 Fluoride is an industrial waste associated with arthritis, bone fractures, bone cancer, IQ loss, neurodevelopmental disorders, and thyroid disease.

00:44:48.440 Of course, fluoride is in water, has been known to keep your teeth healthy, prevent cavities.

00:44:53.680 It is safe.

00:44:54.480 It's not toxic.

00:44:55.060 There are some rocks to be thrown, frankly, at RFK Jr.

00:44:57.440 Some of it actually is just straight-up dangerous.

00:45:00.360 23.5 million people thought it was pretty great.

00:45:02.780 The news media hated it.

00:45:04.960 Yeah, so as you can gather, they're not too happy.

00:45:09.020 There's loads more clips like that I could have played.

00:45:11.220 I've actually found videos of people chugging down entire glasses of seed oils.

00:45:17.400 Yes.

00:45:17.840 Because the right is trying to take it away from them.

00:45:20.040 Amazing.

00:45:20.360 I found numerous accounts saying, oh my god, how are we going to add fluoride back into our water once they take it out?

00:45:27.540 I'm happy for the left to continue drinking fluoridated water, and seed oils for that matter, if they want to.

00:45:33.880 I believe in freedom, so please continue doing that.

00:45:36.580 I love the trade-off there.

00:45:37.560 They say, well, you know, it's going to give you bone density problems, and it's going to lower your IQ, but your teeth will be fine.

00:45:43.600 So, oh, great.

00:45:44.500 Yes.

00:45:45.280 Well, actually, I think Josh is on the right track.

00:45:47.320 I like the idea of individualized democracy, whereas if you want to vote for zero taxes, then you get, personally, zero taxes.

00:45:55.740 And if you want to vote for massive amounts of chlorine and boosters and all the rest of it, then you should get that.

00:46:00.760 I quite like that idea.

00:46:02.440 Right.

00:46:03.720 Oh, and now we've got, I tell you what, to balance that, why don't I give you what the man actually is?

00:46:07.840 We won't play all of this, but we play a bit of it so you get the idea.

00:46:10.640 And it was put in water to stop tooth decay.

00:46:14.440 Yes.

00:46:14.780 But now it's recognized that most of our mouthwashes and toothpastes have fluoride in them, and you don't need fluoride in the water.

00:46:19.480 And it's a very inefficient way of preventing tooth decay because you're getting it in people's blood, and that's how it's exposing the teeth.

00:46:25.340 And as it turns out, fluoride is very, very dangerous.

00:46:28.120 It causes IQ loss.

00:46:28.920 Because we know, you know, they haven't done a lot of studies that they should have done, but there are extensive studies that show if you put fluoride in water at double the rate that EPA now allows, that is in all of our water systems that use it in this country, that it causes dramatic IQ loss in children, and particularly in unborn fetuses.

00:46:45.140 It also causes bone cancer, and we had an explosion of bone cancer beginning in the 1940s.

00:46:49.060 It causes arthritis, and it causes the deterioration of bones, of bone fractures, and it causes thyroid injuries.

00:46:58.460 It also calcifies the pineal gland of the human brain, which is the part of our brain that actually creates our spiritual feelings.

00:47:06.680 And so it's something, yeah.

00:47:09.820 I can't stop it, but there we go.

00:47:12.000 There we go.

00:47:12.820 So, you know, that is basically what has got people, well, the left, particularly upset by this.

00:47:18.540 But my calcified pineal gland.

00:47:20.660 Yes.

00:47:21.220 I don't want to have spiritual feelings.

00:47:23.320 I might start thinking that my life has been sinful.

00:47:26.860 Apparently now, if you stop drinking tap water, you will now start believing God.

00:47:30.740 So 2024 is a wild time.

00:47:33.400 So I don't know about that, but, I mean, maybe it's true.

00:47:36.200 I mean, spiritual feelings have been prevalent in the human race for a long time, so it must come from some part of brain physiology, or perhaps God.

00:47:43.880 I mean, I'm not going to pick a side on that one.

00:47:45.940 Yeah, sure, sure, but surely our feeling towards God is within us.

00:47:49.900 Yes.

00:47:50.140 God is real, but, like, you know, if that is the pineal gland, I don't know, and we're essentially switching that off using technological means.

00:48:00.000 Yes.

00:48:00.380 I'm already sold on this.

00:48:01.820 I only drink filtered water, and I only use toothpaste that doesn't have fluoride in it.

00:48:07.200 Do you believe in God?

00:48:08.920 Not yet.

00:48:10.220 Well, there you go.

00:48:10.820 Using too much.

00:48:12.220 I've had too much tap water, yeah.

00:48:14.280 That's what it was.

00:48:14.880 Yeah, it's quite positive.

00:48:16.180 To steel man the other side of this, the argument for putting it in the water is because, like RFK says, it gets into your blood, and that's how it gets into your teeth,

00:48:26.760 as while they're growing, it's kind of inlaid in the teeth rather than being brushed over the top of them.

00:48:32.440 And therefore, it's just a much denser saturation of fluoride in your teeth, especially as you're growing.

00:48:40.100 That would be the argument.

00:48:41.740 Can't I just brush my teeth, though?

00:48:43.300 Well, the counter-argument would be brush your teeth and stop shoving sugar down your throat on a constant basis.

00:48:48.960 Good argument.

00:48:49.320 Yes, which is the other way to go.

00:48:53.200 So, anyway, this all resulted in...

00:48:55.000 Oh, hang on.

00:48:55.980 This all resulted in...

00:48:57.700 No, I've gone too far.

00:48:58.900 Yes, this article from AP, which I will give you the cliff notes of it, but basically, it's fluoride is going to make you stupid.

00:49:07.420 According to the U.S. CDC, additional levels of fluoride to drinking water has long been considered the greatest public health achievement of the last century.

00:49:17.660 Well, I suppose there was also another one about four years ago that we can't really talk about on YouTube that was considered to be the greatest achievement ever in medicine.

00:49:24.440 But, yes, so it's either that or, you know, putting fluoride in the tap water.

00:49:28.980 The long-awaited report summarises studies conducted in Canada, China, India, Iran, Pakistan, and Mexico, concluding that drinking water containing more than 1.5 milligrams of fluoride per litre is consistently associated with lower IQs in kids.

00:49:46.400 Two to five, I think, is the range, isn't it? Drop in IQ?

00:49:51.080 Yes.

00:49:51.820 The report did not try to quantify exactly how many IQs might be lost at different levels of fluoride exposure,

00:49:57.220 but some of the studies reviewed in the report suggest the IQ was two to five points lower in children who had had higher exposure.

00:50:04.780 Exactly right.

00:50:06.040 Isn't any amount of loss on IQ a bad thing?

00:50:09.760 Tragedy, yeah.

00:50:10.900 Especially if we've got many to begin with, which is the case for lots of people.

00:50:13.580 I feel like one thing that many people in the United States could benefit from is more IQ points, to be honest.

00:50:20.600 Oh, it would make everything in the world better?

00:50:23.300 It would, yeah.

00:50:23.840 If you look at IQ and map it against anything, it's like a way of tracking civilisation, right?

00:50:33.540 There is one map of the world, and every map of the world, no matter what subject you are looking at, follows this map.

00:50:42.660 Green, red.

00:50:45.320 Well, funny you mention that map, because...

00:50:47.320 There we go, the map of the world.

00:50:48.880 I wanted to put this into context, people, because, you know, what is actually a 5% IQ drop?

00:50:57.060 So, let's start with...

00:50:58.900 Oh, God, this is fiddly.

00:51:00.100 Right, here we go.

00:51:00.980 So, United Kingdom, average IQ, 99, apparently.

00:51:05.460 So...

00:51:05.660 On the Lynn Becker one, yes.

00:51:08.280 Yes, so we need to find something which is five points lower.

00:51:12.100 That Italy feels...

00:51:13.360 Yeah, there we go.

00:51:14.600 Italy is five points lower.

00:51:16.640 So, this is serious, ladies and gentlemen.

00:51:18.700 It is the equivalent of exchanging the IQ of an Englishman for the IQ of an Italian.

00:51:23.280 You might end up with slightly firmer pasta, but you end up, you know, wildly waving your

00:51:28.440 arms around when you talk and honking your car horn unnecessarily all the time.

00:51:32.380 That's the sort of...

00:51:33.200 That's the sort of level of seriousness that we're talking about on this stuff.

00:51:37.980 All right.

00:51:39.660 Oh, back to the article.

00:51:40.560 So, separately, the EPA has maintained a long-standing requirement that water systems cannot have

00:51:46.740 more than four milligrams of fluoride per litre to prevent skeletal fluorosis, a potentially

00:51:53.320 crippling disorder which causes weakened bones, stiffness, and pain.

00:51:58.780 I'll just brush my teeth twice a day.

00:52:00.320 That's all I'll do.

00:52:01.020 I don't need the rest of it.

00:52:02.240 I'll just brush my teeth.

00:52:02.780 Don't eat the tube.

00:52:03.820 Just brush your teeth.

00:52:04.700 Just spit it out afterwards.

00:52:06.040 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:52:07.520 You don't even need to do that.

00:52:09.700 Don't you?

00:52:10.560 No, I've not done it for years and my teeth are fine.

00:52:13.840 Well, you don't use toothpaste?

00:52:15.380 Well, I use non-fluoridated toothpaste.

00:52:18.260 And I don't drink tap water that we put fluoride in.

00:52:21.340 You don't need to do either and, believe it or not, your teeth don't fall out.

00:52:25.440 See?

00:52:25.900 Real teeth.

00:52:27.480 Hmm.

00:52:27.600 But more and more studies have increasingly pointed to a different problem, suggesting

00:52:33.440 a link between higher level of fluoride and brain development.

00:52:36.920 Researchers wondered about the impact on developing foetuses and very young children who might ingest

00:52:41.480 water with baby formula.

00:52:43.160 Studies in animals show fluoride could impact neurochemical cell function in the brain regions

00:52:48.300 responsible for learning, memory, executive function, and behavior.

00:52:53.840 Which, most of those things encompass the majority of the aspects of consciousness we

00:53:01.340 suspect are implicated in the conscious experience.

00:53:04.240 Being self-aware?

00:53:04.980 A significant part of it, yeah.

00:53:08.000 Right.

00:53:08.760 Well, and also, the US has significant problems with its new arrivals on the matters of learning,

00:53:14.780 memory, executive function, and behavior.

00:53:17.160 So you don't really want to make it any worse than it already is.

00:53:21.260 That's very true.

00:53:22.120 And it's a very damaging thing to damage.

00:53:24.880 That's what your plan is, doesn't it, Rick?

00:53:26.480 Well, yes.

00:53:28.180 How much tap water does Nancy Pelosi drink?

00:53:31.920 Probably none.

00:53:32.900 Well, considering how sloshed she is the entire time, I would say a very low amount.

00:53:36.860 Probably very little.

00:53:38.180 Yes.

00:53:38.820 She doesn't have much space for it after the amount of child's blood she drinks to stay

00:53:42.680 forever young.

00:53:44.080 That's an allegation.

00:53:46.060 It's not true.

00:53:47.560 It is fake news, but it feels spiritually correct.

00:53:50.280 So who is going to save the US?

00:53:52.540 It's going to be a Florida man, obviously.

00:53:54.880 So I quite like this guy, actually.

00:53:56.660 He was very sensible during the thing that happened four years ago.

00:54:00.280 Oh, I remember him, yeah.

00:54:01.160 Yes.

00:54:01.800 He was good on that.

00:54:04.600 So he's basically sort of come out and said...

00:54:07.400 RFK's right.

00:54:08.720 Yeah, well, basically, yes.

00:54:10.220 You can strengthen teeth without consuming a neurotoxin.

00:54:13.320 Yeah, maybe there is a way.

00:54:14.680 Well, that's a good point, really.

00:54:15.640 Science can find a way.

00:54:16.680 Yes.

00:54:17.200 Yeah.

00:54:17.820 Health advice, do not consume a neurotoxin.

00:54:20.780 There are these things called cows, and they produce milk.

00:54:23.100 And if you drink lots of that when you're growing up, you have strong teeth.

00:54:25.840 Brilliant.

00:54:26.400 I had a glass of milk with my dinner every day until I was a grown man, and I've never

00:54:34.040 had any problems with my teeth, ever.

00:54:36.260 Bill Gates hates cows, because they're destroying the earth.

00:54:40.360 Well, how can cows do that?

00:54:42.060 I've never seen them starting wars.

00:54:44.180 It's a scientific expert, Greta Thunberg.

00:54:46.040 I do like milk.

00:54:48.240 Milk is good.

00:54:48.700 I normally blend a couple of bananas and a handful of strawberries into it these days,

00:54:52.300 but yes, otherwise good.

00:54:55.000 Right, so anyway, so Florida Man, Surgeon General.

00:54:58.360 I've always wondered, is it...

00:54:59.360 I think it's supposed to be Surgeon's General.

00:55:01.800 Correct me in the comments if you know, but I think it's supposed to be Surgeon's General.

00:55:04.860 Anyway, so he is coming out and issuing that guidance in the link there, which you can

00:55:10.580 find here, which I shall summarise for you thusly.

00:55:14.800 Basically, it starts off by saying that you do find fluoride naturally in groundwater,

00:55:20.460 rainwater, soil, plants and foods, blah, blah, blah.

00:55:23.160 Historically used in drinking water to prevent tooth decay, but alternative sources like toothpaste

00:55:27.800 and dental treatments are widely available.

00:55:31.220 Also, possibly, you can stop cramming sugar down your throat.

00:55:34.580 It is also worth mentioning as well, finding trace amounts of something is very different.

00:55:38.420 There's always a background amount of radiation, but you wouldn't then go to the elephant's

00:55:43.700 foot in Chernobyl and think, oh, I'll be fine.

00:55:46.520 Yes, yes, fair point.

00:55:48.960 He points out that several countries, including Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, have discontinued

00:55:55.380 fluoride use.

00:55:56.560 He lists a whole bunch of studies, one in Mexico City, 2017, one in Canada, 2019.

00:56:03.060 Canadians are guinea pigs for this.

00:56:05.480 Well, apparently they don't do it as much.

00:56:07.240 Oh, right.

00:56:07.740 I've got a map coming up.

00:56:09.600 Canada in 23 again, Los Angeles 24 and an NTP report in 24.

00:56:15.740 He also highlights there are other issues with fluoride, as well as the ones we've already

00:56:20.620 talked about.

00:56:21.200 Sleep apnea, thyroid problems, penile gland accumulation, or we mentioned that one, premature periods

00:56:27.480 in young women, and skeletal fluorosis, which I have no idea what it is, but it does sound

00:56:33.060 bad.

00:56:35.380 Alternative dental health measures he proposes, eat better.

00:56:41.440 That's a good one.

00:56:42.560 Yes.

00:56:44.560 Lay off the slop.

00:56:48.580 Americans do have a lot of sugar.

00:56:49.880 Oh, yeah.

00:56:50.700 You saw RFK's video the other day.

00:56:52.480 It was like, you know, the things we put into our body innocently are bad, and it's like,

00:56:56.700 it's just the most disgusting looking processed food you've ever seen.

00:56:59.540 I understand Americans put sugar in their bread.

00:57:02.080 Yes.

00:57:02.300 Like, all of their bread is basically just low-key brioche.

00:57:05.200 Yeah.

00:57:06.020 But it's also, like, you know, just a weird collection of other chemicals.

00:57:11.120 And he's like, look, all these chemicals, and what do the Canadians have?

00:57:13.960 They have, like, blueberry extract or something.

00:57:17.660 Yes.

00:57:17.900 So it's literally just like, you know, they literally take something out of blueberries

00:57:20.880 rather than a bunch of synthetically created chemicals and all that.

00:57:23.660 Yes.

00:57:23.920 It's like, American food is just total poison.

00:57:26.700 To be very clear, Americans watching this, we are pro-American, we're pro-half of you,

00:57:30.860 we're pro-the-red Americans anyway.

00:57:33.160 We like you guys.

00:57:34.540 The Native Americans.

00:57:35.420 I want you to stop poisoning yourselves.

00:57:36.780 Yes.

00:57:38.120 You're just fat and you eat bad, so don't do that.

00:57:40.960 Like, every time I go to America, I have to essentially go on to a starvation diet,

00:57:44.360 or else I just start ballooning.

00:57:45.860 I don't know what is going on with the food, but it's definitely the food.

00:57:48.440 Oh, there is something up with American food.

00:57:50.980 And by the way, we're not exactly entirely innocent here, just to be clear.

00:57:55.280 Oh, yeah.

00:57:55.920 It's why we know the dangers.

00:57:57.820 Yes.

00:57:58.700 Yes, it has been getting worse.

00:57:59.580 But this is a typical sort of response under the Surgeon General's thing.

00:58:05.320 It's like, oh, provide your bloody evidence.

00:58:07.500 Yeah, but the evidence is there.

00:58:09.120 Well, yes.

00:58:09.680 There are studies that show this.

00:58:10.740 Loads of people have come back.

00:58:11.960 I've read them, yeah.

00:58:12.640 And every time somebody comes back to a study, he just posts this.

00:58:16.320 Correlation is not causation.

00:58:17.900 It's like...

00:58:18.480 This isn't a get-out-of-jail-free card, right?

00:58:20.640 Yes.

00:58:20.800 So what they're saying here is there is the potential for a logical disconnect between something and something else, even if they appear to happen at the same time.

00:58:31.320 But that doesn't mean that there is a disconnect.

00:58:34.700 There's the potential for a disconnect.

00:58:36.460 Yes.

00:58:36.660 So it's entirely possible that if you have a neurotoxin and you are putting it in your drinking water, you drink the neurotoxin, that there will be a causal effect on your brain.

00:58:49.700 Yes.

00:58:49.960 And if it was something completely harmless, like, you know, hummus or something, and there was a correlation, you'd be like, hey, there's no causal link because it's not a neurotoxin.

00:58:58.520 Yes.

00:58:58.860 But a neurotoxin may well affect you.

00:59:01.160 Yes.

00:59:01.700 And the nub of his argument, I mean, I could have picked many here.

00:59:05.280 Terrible argument.

00:59:06.680 Each person making a claim adopts a burden.

00:59:08.840 I'm asking for an evidence of the claim.

00:59:10.600 Adding fluoride to water increases the risk of neuropsychiatric diseases in children reduces their IQ.

00:59:17.500 Pointing to another claim could be a fallacious.

00:59:19.020 I've got a couple of things to add here, actually.

00:59:22.800 First and foremost, not all of the research is looking at correlations for a start, and so that sort of debunks that side of things.

00:59:32.100 And also, surely the people proposing the intervention, the burden is on them, right?

00:59:38.000 Yes.

00:59:38.740 So if I came up with this thing and I said it cures cancer, and then everyone's just like, well, where's your evidence?

00:59:46.180 I'd say, well, you need to give me evidence that it doesn't cure cancer.

00:59:49.400 Prove it doesn't, yeah.

00:59:50.320 Then everyone would laugh at me, and rightfully so, because it would be a silly thing to propose.

00:59:55.320 But that's what's going on here.

00:59:56.500 But what he's asking for is like, okay, well, show me the exact mechanism of how it does it.

01:00:00.760 It's like, I don't need to.

01:00:01.880 I don't need to show you the exact mechanism.

01:00:04.080 If putting fluoride in reliably reduces IQ out, and we can show this on repeated testing, which appears to be the case, even if I don't know the mechanism, and so therefore, like, you can set up and say, show me the exact mechanism of how, like, you know, light insects with the brain or something.

01:00:19.940 And even if I can't do that, that doesn't mean I don't see through my eyes.

01:00:22.340 Because I still know that I see through my eyes.

01:00:24.540 So if you're consistently getting the same thing out, okay, I don't know the exact mechanism, but that's definitely happening.

01:00:29.660 So stop arguing this way, because it's not a rebuttal.

01:00:32.900 So for me, this points to a big breakdown in difference between how left-wingers and right-wingers tend to see the world.

01:00:39.020 So the right-wingers are more likely to look at the world as it is today and say, we are doing all of these things.

01:00:44.100 How can we justify doing each of these things from first principles?

01:00:47.600 Take me back, and why should we do this?

01:00:49.740 Whereas left-wingers start from the position of, this is what we are already doing, and in order to deviate from what we are currently doing, you need to provide ironclad evidence that's moving in a different direction.

01:01:00.840 Because they assume that everything that their ilk have done over the last 30 years has been a good thing.

01:01:07.080 Yes.

01:01:07.280 Well, they're almost innately conservative with a small c, because it's their world order that they're preserving, aren't they?

01:01:15.340 And so they want you to provide the evidence to change it, because they're defending the thing that's putting the fluoride in the water in the first place.

01:01:23.320 The problem with this as well is this kind of scientism thinking, where it's like, look, I need a level of certainty that it's just an unreasonable thing to request.

01:01:31.380 If I can't be 100% certain about something, 99% certainty is not good enough.

01:01:36.500 And it's like, well, sorry, that's good enough for me.

01:01:38.200 Yes.

01:01:38.500 Especially when it comes to putting a neural...

01:01:39.920 Well, that thinking is very evidence in the thing that happened four years ago.

01:01:43.640 Yeah.

01:01:43.800 Well, the funny thing is that most of, say, medicine operates to a 99% degree of certainty.

01:01:50.420 So whether they like it or not, that's the world they live in.

01:01:52.960 And, you know, I've done an inordinate amount of philosophy of science and all of this sort of stuff to death, and I think that it's a good idea to remove fluoride.

01:02:01.820 But this guy's trading on the 1% uncertainty, saying, see, I can't be certain about that.

01:02:07.300 It's like, okay, I don't care if you're certain about that.

01:02:08.740 You know, I agree with RFK.

01:02:10.400 Yes, if I can't justify it from first principles, we're not doing it.

01:02:13.700 Well, you asked for a map.

01:02:15.220 There you go.

01:02:15.760 There's a map.

01:02:17.640 Grey is where it's done.

01:02:20.000 So apparently in the UK, it's like less than 20% of our water is fluorinated.

01:02:24.440 I think the average is 30%, but it's mostly up north, and, you know, we don't get it here, and lots of other places don't get it as well.

01:02:32.520 Oh, right.

01:02:33.020 Okay.

01:02:33.640 So I've actually got the list of places it's been banned.

01:02:36.160 And Israel, Japan, China, Russia, Austria, Denmark, Switzerland, Neverland, Luxembourg, Ireland, Norway, Scotland.

01:02:42.840 Far-right countries.

01:02:44.200 Throwback countries.

01:02:45.640 India, Hungary, Germany, France, Finland, Belgium, and Czech Republic.

01:02:50.200 Yeah.

01:02:51.140 Absolute throwbacks.

01:02:52.060 They don't know anything.

01:02:53.120 Yes.

01:02:53.340 They don't care about progress.

01:02:55.000 What?

01:02:55.320 Why?

01:02:55.580 I'm a human right to have a fluoridated pineal glass.

01:02:58.420 Yes.

01:02:59.100 Now, a lot of you are thinking, what would Dan do?

01:03:02.260 Which is the right thing to be thinking.

01:03:03.920 What Dan does is water disters.

01:03:06.720 These things are bloody brilliant.

01:03:08.520 So basically what it is, it's like a little kettle thing at the bottom and a little fridge thing at the top.

01:03:13.380 And it evaporates the water up.

01:03:15.700 The water gets to the top, gets chilled, and then turns back into water and dribbles into a pot.

01:03:21.980 This isn't a sponsored segment.

01:03:23.600 No, it's not.

01:03:24.380 I just picked this one at random.

01:03:25.960 But honestly, get yourself a water distiller.

01:03:28.040 These things are absolutely brilliant.

01:03:29.260 Once you have used one of these, you will never, ever go back to tap water.

01:03:34.000 You realise how much tap water tastes of stuff once you start drinking filtered water, don't you?

01:03:39.100 Yes.

01:03:39.380 I'm trying to take calcium out of my tap water.

01:03:40.620 Yeah.

01:03:42.200 But I mean, this will get rid of everything and just leave your water.

01:03:44.760 What about the light scale?

01:03:45.820 I'd pay good money for that.

01:03:47.780 You get your daily dose of heavy metals from just running the tap for a little bit.

01:03:52.900 Yeah.

01:03:53.260 One of the things you'll realise when you start using a water distiller, and they're fairly cheap, you know, it's well worth doing,

01:03:59.400 is you realise that water that comes out of the tap is purified just enough to look pure.

01:04:06.260 Yeah, to not kill you.

01:04:07.060 And what you can do with this is you can sort of run it halfway until half of the pure water is extracted.

01:04:13.300 So any, the amount of pollutants in the water is doubled per volume, and then just stop it and take a look at the water.

01:04:20.520 And it looks revolting.

01:04:22.140 And if you do that, if you do that again, halve it again, it looks like slurry.

01:04:26.760 It looks brown.

01:04:27.760 And all of that you would have been drinking, you just would have had it diluted enough that you wouldn't have noticed that you were drinking it.

01:04:35.140 Apparently the biggest pollutant in tap water is toilet paper and period pads that get filtered into the water, survive the filtration process that tap water companies use,

01:04:50.460 and then it supplies back to you.

01:04:52.580 So in theory, that could be used toilet paper.

01:04:55.880 Well, it's got to be.

01:04:56.640 Well, unless your neighbour's in the habit of stuffing unused toilet paper down the sewers, where it's then filtered and turned back to you.

01:05:04.860 Glad I'm already doing this, then.

01:05:05.680 You might get one of those.

01:05:07.140 Yes.

01:05:07.900 You don't want to drink toilet paper?

01:05:09.580 Highly recommend it.

01:05:10.860 They are well worth getting.

01:05:12.180 And we'll just recap on some sort of American health gems throughout the years.

01:05:19.380 See where you stand on each of these.

01:05:22.300 They told Americans to avoid steak.

01:05:26.480 Do the opposite.

01:05:28.160 Well, hang on, hang on.

01:05:28.940 Okay.

01:05:29.500 In America, maybe because of all the growth hormones or something like that?

01:05:33.280 Well...

01:05:33.820 You get to eat tasty meat and get free steroids.

01:05:37.860 Yeah, and become avoided.

01:05:39.280 They said avoid the sun.

01:05:40.680 They said eat seed oils.

01:05:43.180 Hang on, why would we avoid the sun?

01:05:45.440 Oh.

01:05:45.720 In cancer, I guess.

01:05:46.280 Yes.

01:05:47.340 Vampirism.

01:05:47.880 Eat seed oils, avoid eggs, limit salt, avoid butter, drink fluoride, lower your cholesterol.

01:05:56.340 Now, on all of those, I would suggest if you do the opposite, you'll be better off.

01:06:00.160 Yeah.

01:06:01.180 Yes.

01:06:01.540 Get out in the sun, don't eat the seed oil.

01:06:03.320 I found this, which was fantastic.

01:06:05.980 This is very interesting.

01:06:07.640 So I think this is...

01:06:09.320 We don't get this here.

01:06:10.500 I think this is an EU thing.

01:06:12.560 But they've just...

01:06:13.500 Oh, it's Germany.

01:06:14.260 There we go.

01:06:14.820 It's got a German web address on it.

01:06:17.080 But they've started putting health scores on food.

01:06:22.380 Wagyu gets a D.

01:06:25.260 Fruit Loops get a B.

01:06:26.880 Something tells me that...

01:06:29.520 It is worth mentioning as well that if you're to eat one food group, meat is the one that

01:06:35.980 you can eat where you don't get nutrient deficiencies, all of the other ones.

01:06:40.520 Oh, we've always told I could only eat one thing forever for the rest of my life.

01:06:43.660 It would be steak, instantly.

01:06:45.360 It wouldn't even be difficult, would it?

01:06:46.900 No.

01:06:48.460 No.

01:06:48.780 So, tis a bit silly, all that sort of stuff.

01:06:51.980 Right.

01:06:52.500 Final link.

01:06:54.060 Because I do think there is something going on with American food that desperately needs

01:06:58.640 to be looked at, and hopefully RFK will.

01:07:00.500 This guy is pointing out that there are 10,000 chemicals that are added to American food,

01:07:06.340 less than 5% of which are legal in other countries.

01:07:11.360 I mean, I would have questions, at the very least, if you're not an American.

01:07:15.960 I mean, I have questions not as an American.

01:07:18.000 Why are you doing this?

01:07:19.140 Well, the thing I've seen many times is if you get an American breakfast cereal, and

01:07:22.700 then you get the counterpart from another country, and look at the ingredients.

01:07:26.920 You see the extra block.

01:07:27.740 Yeah, and their ingredients, this is about three times longer, and it's all full of weird

01:07:31.400 chemical stuff.

01:07:33.040 So, anyway, I hope RFK can sort that out, and make America healthy again.

01:07:41.360 Okay, we've got some rumble rants there.

01:07:44.420 Yeah, yeah.

01:07:44.860 Sayoran says, it seems the left is just unhappy that RFK Jr. wants to turn the frogs straight

01:07:48.980 again.

01:07:51.080 Bald Eagle says, I'd be careful about making fun of Italians.

01:07:53.400 They elected a leader who isn't destroying their country.

01:07:55.780 The Englishman did.

01:07:56.600 Maybe the IQ droppers need in the UK the correct course.

01:07:59.040 Honestly, right, there's a fair point to be made there.

01:08:01.720 So, you know, we might be on the wrong side of the, in the middle of the bell curve here.

01:08:06.180 Well, I think our IQ is, our average is literally 100, which is, like, optimal midwit territory,

01:08:13.820 because it is, by definition, 100 is the midwit standard.

01:08:17.280 Well, yeah, I mean, we designed it so the average person would be 100, but, like, you know,

01:08:21.920 like, the 95 IQ grug Italians just, like, you know, far and a bad.

01:08:26.420 Oh, I don't take that point too seriously.

01:08:28.080 It was just too funny not to make fun of all the Italians.

01:08:33.600 Connor Smug Mug says, oh, no, the food that gives me tooth rot will no longer be supplemented

01:08:38.680 by fluoride that dumbs me down.

01:08:40.140 How can RFK Jr. do this to me?

01:08:42.020 Like, that's genuinely the bug manager, just like, no, I have to be able to consume my slop

01:08:49.520 and be literally made into a retard ward of the state.

01:08:53.060 Yes.

01:08:54.300 Dragon Lady Chris says, quote, skeletal fluorosis is a serious condition resulting from the chronic

01:08:58.960 ingestion of large amounts of fluoride over many years during periods of bone modelling growth.

01:09:03.180 The x-ray pics are creepy.

01:09:04.640 God, that sounds terrible.

01:09:06.200 Bobo Dad says, for Carl and Josh's segments, the labour lion will consume the farmers and use

01:09:11.260 that to feed BlackRock.

01:09:13.020 Ukraine land will be turned into solar farms, cause energy and food scarcity for profit.

01:09:17.700 This is literally, have you seen the Fallout TV series?

01:09:22.020 Yeah.

01:09:22.440 This is literally the premise that the capitalists were like, yeah, we'll blow up the world because

01:09:26.200 we'll make loads of money.

01:09:27.640 It's like, right.

01:09:28.540 That's, you know, that's literally where we're...

01:09:30.360 It's not the first thing I'd go to as an investment opportunity, yeah.

01:09:34.200 It's ridiculous, but it was made under the premise that Fallout was an anti-capitalist game,

01:09:38.940 and it's not true.

01:09:39.680 So, the creator of Fallout was like, no.

01:09:42.480 Well, they made the game to make money, so I don't think it was that anti-capitalist.

01:09:46.600 Like, that's the critique of Fallout is not of capitalism.

01:09:49.940 Matt says, distilled water will leach minerals out of your body.

01:09:52.300 You should add minerals back after filtering via distillation.

01:09:55.020 See, you're trying to steal the precious slop that I get in my tap water.

01:09:58.700 I'm not happy about that.

01:09:59.580 Lead is good for you.

01:10:01.660 Not just the string says, fact check, true.

01:10:03.340 I use a distiller and a remainder from tap water at the end goes brown.

01:10:06.620 Don't forget, your skin absorbs soluble in water quite quickly, too.

01:10:09.400 Mm-hmm.

01:10:11.100 Perfect.

01:10:12.480 Right, go to the video comments.

01:10:14.200 Building a strawberry bed.

01:10:22.960 Here it is before.

01:10:24.500 Junkie.

01:10:25.860 Spread your spent grain right out on the grass.

01:10:29.160 Lay down your cardboard.

01:10:30.840 Build your bed of old boards and sticks.

01:10:33.360 Fill that sucker up with straw.

01:10:35.320 Add your spent grain.

01:10:36.680 Put on some dirt and compost.

01:10:38.680 And add your strawberries.

01:10:41.940 There it is.

01:10:42.680 Your bed is ready.

01:10:44.320 Spread some chips all over the orchard.

01:10:46.520 And here it is after.

01:10:48.660 And then harvest it.

01:10:48.880 I've just figured out why they're called strawberries now.

01:10:52.620 I tried growing strawberries in the garden and they didn't come out anywhere as new, as good as hers.

01:10:57.860 But then I didn't do all of those extra steps.

01:11:00.100 Did you add the straw?

01:11:01.740 Yeah, that is actually quite helpful.

01:11:02.720 You found knowledge that strawberries are called strawberries because you grow them with straw.

01:11:07.540 Good God.

01:11:08.280 I don't know if we can call that knowledge.

01:11:09.380 I think that's an assumption.

01:11:11.200 You don't know.

01:11:11.900 That correlation does not look good.

01:11:14.160 Where's the 1% proof?

01:11:16.660 Yeah, correlation.

01:11:18.120 That is quite clever, though, isn't it?

01:11:22.020 So here's a thought experiment.

01:11:23.600 Keir Starmer ran for office being a dreamless socialist cyborg, then released foreign criminals to make room in the jails for domestic Brits who complained about the foreign criminals.

01:11:34.860 Now he's liquidating the Kulaks through a plan of government grave robbing that also sells the land off to foreign banking interests.

01:11:45.520 As the thought experiment, what could he do now to become even less popular?

01:11:51.000 Shoot puppies?

01:11:52.000 Yeah, no.

01:11:52.500 Drown children?

01:11:53.420 No, no.

01:11:53.920 Something like mandatory euthanization of puppies or something like that.

01:11:57.960 You know, like dog shelters or something like that.

01:12:00.500 It's like, we're just going to euthanize all the pets in the animal shelters.

01:12:03.540 Basically what the Turks are doing, where they're having that dog genocide, where they're killing those dogs.

01:12:08.220 But I mean, they're at least getting rid of pests, right?

01:12:10.840 Feral dogs, yeah.

01:12:11.960 But like, you know, if Keir Starmer was like, we're shutting down all the pet shelters and we're going to euthanize all the puppies or something, maybe that would be...

01:12:18.600 Sorry, your kitten is eating too much food, it's bad for the environment, we're going to come around and kill it.

01:12:23.500 And it genuinely wouldn't surprise me if he did that.

01:12:25.380 Yeah.

01:12:25.920 We're going to get to that position.

01:12:28.060 I own a Jaguar and had resigned myself to never buying another, not because I'm angry at their brand,

01:12:33.000 but because they're going electric only.

01:12:35.260 One hour pass!

01:12:37.000 However, I've witnessed some poor takes about the rebranding this weekend, particularly by Paul Chato and Dr. Parvini.

01:12:43.520 Companies do not mess around with their brands.

01:12:45.760 This was never going to be a joke.

01:12:47.860 I work at a company that committed brand suicide in 2013.

01:12:51.600 The advert is bad enough, but what will kill Jaguar is the messaging and the good but unsuitable products they will release.

01:12:57.780 Yeah, I agree.

01:12:59.640 I don't think...

01:13:00.240 I actually just recorded another video on the Jaguar thing for the new channel and they're totally doubling down on it.

01:13:08.560 They think this is the future and it's because they had their advertising director receiving an award earlier this year

01:13:16.660 and he begins with the...

01:13:18.560 I can't even do the sort of like, you know, the...

01:13:20.780 I can't do the...

01:13:22.060 You know, the high-pitched, squeaky Californian voice that gay Californian men have,

01:13:27.220 where it's not...

01:13:27.720 You know, the Adam's apples haven't descended away, right?

01:13:30.340 So they've got a very constrained, like, feminine voice box,

01:13:33.220 which begins in that tone of voice and then he starts going on about diversity and inclusion and stuff like this.

01:13:36.860 It's like, right, okay.

01:13:37.700 There we go.

01:13:38.700 Toastly captured.

01:13:39.600 Institutionally captured by wokeism.

01:13:40.800 And I completely agree with the chap there.

01:13:43.100 This isn't a joke or a flip.

01:13:45.780 This is a sincere true belief.

01:13:47.280 And the...

01:13:47.800 Yes.

01:13:48.540 Was it Raw Dong Lover or whatever the guy's name is?

01:13:51.780 Literally, that's his name.

01:13:52.620 Dr. Parvini.

01:13:53.420 Raw Dong Lover.

01:13:54.620 That's his name.

01:13:55.340 Dr. Parvini's problem is that he seems to think that the other side is smart and they do stupid things for smart reasons.

01:14:01.160 Yeah, that's...

01:14:01.800 But they're not.

01:14:02.720 They're just...

01:14:02.920 Yeah, no.

01:14:03.220 A lot of them are genuinely captured by a true belief.

01:14:05.140 And he just came out and goes, no, you're all biggots.

01:14:06.780 And it's like, okay, brilliant.

01:14:07.980 I know.

01:14:08.840 You know, but I'm still buying your car.

01:14:10.800 You know?

01:14:13.060 It is.

01:14:14.820 Message for Carl and Josh.

01:14:16.400 I wondered if you guys had a reading list on some of your favourite books in philosophy and psychology we could look at.

01:14:22.980 Yes, Aristotle.

01:14:25.480 So, I've read a lot in decision making, particularly.

01:14:29.840 I think one of the best sort of entry points is Thinking Fast and Slow because it's also written for a lay audience.

01:14:37.980 And you go from there, really.

01:14:39.640 And I think it's also important, although I don't agree with the authors, to read the book Nudge as well because that's the book that kick-started the nudge theory revolution that is being used by governments to influence people.

01:14:53.160 And I think both of those are very important.

01:14:55.600 First of which, for understanding your own mind.

01:14:58.140 The second of which, understanding how the government is using behavioural psychology to manipulate you.

01:15:03.000 Basically, just go for Aristotle's ethics.

01:15:05.040 And just read it and read it again, read it again, internalise it and realise you are, at best, an incontinent man.

01:15:14.220 No, probably a continent man at best.

01:15:15.960 But you need to become a virtuous man.

01:15:17.360 And I'm not a virtuous man, by Aristotle's standards.

01:15:19.800 I enjoy eating slop and doing no work.

01:15:22.820 Aristotle's like, no, but I do, I don't eat the slop and I do the work, I just don't like it.

01:15:29.260 And Aristotle's like, no, that's not, that's not virtuous.

01:15:31.560 A virtuous man likes doing the virtuous things.

01:15:34.040 So he gets up to do the virtuous things.

01:15:36.140 And I force myself to do the virtuous things.

01:15:38.740 He said, so the vicious man does bad and likes doing bad.

01:15:41.580 The incontinent man does bad but doesn't want to do bad.

01:15:44.420 The continent man does good but doesn't really want to.

01:15:46.640 He likes to do the vicious things.

01:15:48.460 And the virtuous man is the man who does good and likes to do it.

01:15:52.360 So he will do good no matter what.

01:15:53.920 And I'm not quite there.

01:15:55.700 But anyway, but the point is, Aristotle had a human life.

01:15:58.260 How popular this petition has been, people are saying that the signatures are coming in from abroad.

01:16:03.060 Let's test that in real time, shall we?

01:16:04.600 We'll just grab the data and take a little look at it.

01:16:06.920 Call for general election.

01:16:08.220 Lots of foreign countries.

01:16:09.280 Must be scary.

01:16:10.300 Let's do some sums.

01:16:11.320 We'll add up all the ones that aren't in GB and the ones that are.

01:16:15.140 Ooh, big number.

01:16:16.020 Must be scary.

01:16:17.020 We'll just plot that in a pie chart, shall we?

01:16:19.240 Oh, yeah.

01:16:19.820 Doesn't look too bad, really, does it?

01:16:21.820 Yeah.

01:16:22.360 Yeah, right.

01:16:23.540 Shockingly, 99% of the people who need to sign a signature that places them in the UK are from the UK.

01:16:31.240 Cheers for doing the maths.

01:16:32.460 It's not inconceivable that less than 1% of the population might be abroad and see it and respond to it.

01:16:38.300 Exactly.

01:16:38.780 There's absolutely no reason they can't be expats.

01:16:41.080 I mean, one of those, I think I saw Afghanistan there, so that could be Miles.

01:16:45.360 It could literally be Callum.

01:16:46.560 It could be, yeah.

01:16:47.300 It could be Callum as well.

01:16:48.160 I can hate the slave government.

01:16:49.080 So, I hear there's a bunch of English farmers who are very upset about a tyrannical government imposing superfluous taxes on them.

01:17:01.700 I'm just saying, the playbook for this already exists.

01:17:08.240 You gotta throw the tea in the harbour.

01:17:09.920 I mean, they do have a point.

01:17:13.560 I'm getting this a lot from Americans at the moment, being like, well, come on, tick-tock, tick-tock.

01:17:17.600 I'm like, yeah, I know.

01:17:19.240 I know that, like, it is morally correct.

01:17:25.640 I also like tea.

01:17:27.000 I don't want to throw it in the harbour.

01:17:28.620 Yeah, but it's symbolic.

01:17:30.180 Although I do agree with the point, yes.

01:17:31.840 I just want to presage a bunch of completely contradictory and controversial tie takes in the chat and from the comments.

01:17:43.920 I was hoping we were going to get to those.

01:17:45.500 Yeah, well, we are.

01:17:46.800 So, Alex says, seeing you in a tie is weird, and I can't match my tie colour.

01:17:51.260 And he says I should ask my wife.

01:17:53.140 So, I picked my tie colour to annoy my wife.

01:17:56.600 And he thinks it's weird that you're in a tie.

01:17:59.620 Well, I'll tell you how that happened.

01:18:01.940 The last time I was on with you, Carl, I received a berating for not wearing a tie.

01:18:06.800 So, I thought, right, it's on.

01:18:08.920 Yes.

01:18:09.160 If you want to bet me a tie, I will match your tie, and I will raise you a double Windsor knot.

01:18:15.080 It's a silk blend pinstripe suit handmade on German street with my initials DJT embroidered on the inside.

01:18:26.360 Where is it?

01:18:27.120 Where is it?

01:18:27.580 I'm going to break it out.

01:18:28.780 The bloody...

01:18:29.180 Oh, I've lost it now, though.

01:18:31.000 Here we go.

01:18:32.120 There we go.

01:18:32.620 Just finish it off as well.

01:18:34.840 There we go.

01:18:36.180 Right.

01:18:39.480 That's definitely one-upped me.

01:18:41.240 That's the standard we're going to now.

01:18:43.200 Well, I shall let you up it on the next appearance.

01:18:45.780 I'll see what I can do.

01:18:46.640 Right.

01:18:46.920 I do actually have a new suit, so maybe...

01:18:48.280 Right.

01:18:48.560 Very good.

01:18:51.920 But Chad Moss says, Dan, why did you let Carl dress you like Nick Clegg?

01:18:54.900 As if I had anything to do with the way he dressed.

01:18:57.660 Yes.

01:18:58.320 Anne says, I'm most impressed with your sartorial choices today, Dan.

01:19:02.060 You look sharp.

01:19:02.980 Kudos to your stylist, Carl.

01:19:04.560 Well, my wife probably doesn't like the colour combination, but that's why I chose it.

01:19:08.560 Notice how no one mentioned what I'm wearing today, which is the ultimate show of etiquette.

01:19:13.940 Have you got a double Windsor as well?

01:19:15.520 No, I don't, because I'm wearing a v-neck jumper anyway.

01:19:19.940 But the problem with a double Windsor is you end up with hardly anything left on the other

01:19:23.200 side, so it takes up a lot more tie to tie.

01:19:27.340 The key to appropriate dress is that no one feels the need to mention it.

01:19:31.300 Yeah, that is true.

01:19:32.660 That is.

01:19:34.020 Economic Zone 17 says, two-tier care, out this year.

01:19:37.860 Yeah, I don't think he's going to be out by Christmas, but I was thinking, in a year's

01:19:41.480 time, if things are this bad for him now, I mean, they've got to be pretty bad.

01:19:46.600 I also don't want them to leave too quickly.

01:19:48.700 I want them to be loathed to a degree that is sufficient to destroy them.

01:19:53.080 One of my main concerns about the Conservative Party is that they can slink back in and somewhat

01:19:57.160 redeem themselves, whereas I want them utterly...

01:19:59.200 So this is like 1906 or something like that, where basically the Liberal Party, was it?

01:20:03.760 No, the Tories were hated and so were the Liberals, but the Liberals got in.

01:20:08.460 They were even more hated and then they were destroyed at the following election and the

01:20:12.260 Liberals were placed with Labour.

01:20:13.820 So, unfortunately, the Tories might survive, but Labour might destroy themselves through

01:20:18.040 this process.

01:20:19.300 Especially if they do the thing that Karl was suggesting earlier, which is just drag it

01:20:23.260 out for the full five years and being utterly hated every single day of it.

01:20:26.740 That is the most likely thing that leads to them being annihilated, which would be good.

01:20:31.260 I have a funny feeling that one of the parties is going to be destroyed and not both.

01:20:36.760 And obviously I want both, but I don't personally see it happening.

01:20:40.780 No, no.

01:20:41.040 I think that the Conservative parties took a massive whack at the last election.

01:20:47.500 Maybe they're going to be like, OK, maybe we need to start doing something Conservative.

01:20:50.760 But I think the Labour Party are just far too ideological and full of absolute midwits to

01:20:56.020 understand how hated they are.

01:20:58.200 They've got some programming and they're going to go with it.

01:21:01.240 And I think that Keir Starmer could be the ruination of their party.

01:21:04.120 Fingers crossed.

01:21:04.960 I think the Conservatives are a bit more pragmatic.

01:21:07.980 Yeah, yeah.

01:21:08.660 No, no, that's exactly it.

01:21:10.060 Henry points out the petition currently has more signatures than the Green Party got votes,

01:21:13.900 which is hilarious.

01:21:15.240 Once it's past 3.5 million, it's cleared the Lib Dems.

01:21:18.680 4 million to go past reform.

01:21:20.760 Yeah, no, that's true.

01:21:22.120 But as he points out, Starmer doesn't give a monkey's about public opinion.

01:21:25.700 Well, the thing is, Starmer, as he said in that thing, well, we're just doing the hard

01:21:29.500 things.

01:21:30.440 Starmer views himself as fixing the Blairite project for the international order, right?

01:21:35.260 So that can continue indefinitely into the future.

01:21:37.920 And so Starmer is prepared to take the flack.

01:21:39.860 Yeah, OK, you all hate me.

01:21:41.140 But, you know, how is globalism going to survive without me is basically his pitch, which is

01:21:45.880 interesting because I hate him.

01:21:47.000 But it will slow him down.

01:21:47.840 For example, he could go to the Open Society George Soros' thing and say, look, I want

01:21:52.020 to put in place a 20-year plan with you.

01:21:53.940 And they'll look at him and say, well, yeah, but you don't have 20 years.

01:21:56.720 So it does have virtue showing that he has this shelf life to him.

01:22:02.480 Yeah, I'm sure he's going to fail upwards to some advisory position or whatever.

01:22:06.300 North FC Zuma says, the issue is if Starmer does call a general election anytime soon, will

01:22:12.020 he have enough time to turn people fully against the Labour Party?

01:22:15.260 We saw how retarded the electorate is and the fact that the Tories are still in second

01:22:18.100 place in most polls.

01:22:19.080 Well, that's really a failure of Farage, right?

01:22:21.600 Farage should have been stamping on the beaten corpse of the Conservative Party repeatedly.

01:22:27.400 He's flanking them to the left at the minute and it's insufferable.

01:22:30.280 So bizarre.

01:22:30.980 Yeah, it'd be quite bad, actually, for them to have a general election soon.

01:22:35.300 So, funnily enough, if Keir Starmer did listen to the petition, it'd actually probably be

01:22:39.520 better for them in the long run, maybe.

01:22:41.500 But Farage, for some reason, has wasted this flight five months doing nothing.

01:22:45.980 And he should be viciously campaigning against the Tories.

01:22:48.700 Just everywhere.

01:22:49.720 These guys are awful.

01:22:50.600 There are so many open goals.

01:22:51.760 They've elected an African to now lead them.

01:22:53.700 Are you really on board with this?

01:22:55.440 Yes.

01:22:58.040 I mean, the Tories just can't help themselves.

01:23:00.280 I mean, where do they go from here?

01:23:01.880 I don't know.

01:23:02.120 I mean, do they just pick somebody who's never been to the UK, but is open to relocating

01:23:05.480 if they win the general election?

01:23:06.660 Yeah, maybe a transgender Eskimo or something.

01:23:08.420 Yes.

01:23:09.160 Like, yeah, never even seen an electric light or something.

01:23:13.560 And it's like, yeah, now we've made them.

01:23:14.800 Look how progressive we are.

01:23:15.860 I feel like the Eskimos would be all right, wouldn't they?

01:23:18.100 Better than what we've got now.

01:23:19.220 We're willing to try.

01:23:20.060 Basically hunting and gatherers.

01:23:21.380 Maybe.

01:23:21.720 I mean, they're not going to be vegan, are they?

01:23:25.700 That's true, yeah.

01:23:27.500 So, could be worse.

01:23:29.580 John the Trumpeter was a DEI hire.

01:23:31.840 Do you know who John the Trumpeter was?

01:23:33.260 Wasn't he a king's...

01:23:35.620 Henry VIII in his court.

01:23:37.120 He had one trumpeter who was a moor who had been captured and brought over and was put

01:23:43.420 in his court as a kind of, you know, a strange oddity.

01:23:47.520 Yes.

01:23:47.720 It's like, oh, look, there's an African trumpeter in Henry VIII's court.

01:23:51.660 Isn't that interesting?

01:23:52.280 Anyway, well, he's being called a DEI hire, which basically is true, but he's kind of

01:23:58.100 like the novelty, right?

01:23:59.060 Because royal courts, you want novelty, so people are the reason to come and visit your

01:24:02.620 court.

01:24:03.180 And John the Trumpeter is one of those things.

01:24:05.380 Anyway, he says,

01:24:06.980 Keir Starmer will hold on to power until the very last.

01:24:09.100 He won't give up voluntarily.

01:24:10.380 He'll be forced out kicking and screaming.

01:24:12.320 Yeah, no, I agree.

01:24:13.400 I agree.

01:24:13.820 He's definitely a zealot for the globalist cause, and he's not going to give this up

01:24:18.120 willingly.

01:24:18.980 Yeah.

01:24:19.200 So, you know, but like we said, that actually might end up being a really good thing.

01:24:23.920 He's also Blackrock's top guy, and let's be honest, do you need the British electorate

01:24:27.660 if you've got Blackrock?

01:24:28.860 The answer is no.

01:24:29.820 Well, I mean, if you want to not destroy your own political party, yes.

01:24:34.280 But I feel like Blackrock, in many ways, are more important in Keir Starmer's mind than

01:24:39.800 Britain.

01:24:40.580 Well, for him personally, they will be.

01:24:41.980 Yeah.

01:24:42.360 Because there's only so far you can go with the British electorate, but if you get in

01:24:45.280 their good books, you're set for life.

01:24:47.140 Yeah.

01:24:47.360 Exactly.

01:24:47.720 You know, they've got a higher value than most countries, don't they?

01:24:52.420 He'll probably end up being like the regional manager of all of Europe at this point.

01:24:56.680 Furious Dan says, I'd be willing to bet that even Donald Trump is more popular in Britain

01:25:00.140 than Keir Starmer is.

01:25:01.820 Possibly, much like how he's more popular than Justin Trudeau in Canada.

01:25:05.160 Entirely possible.

01:25:07.720 Carl's underground cache of irradiated Frey Bentos.

01:25:10.740 Just a quick pause here, right?

01:25:12.200 So on Friday, on Thursday, the Frey Bentos has arrived.

01:25:15.380 On Friday, right, I get back, and my wife brings the kids back from school.

01:25:20.680 I tell my older son, oh, do you know what we've got for dinner tonight?

01:25:22.940 He's like, what?

01:25:23.820 I'm like, pies.

01:25:24.460 He's like, yes.

01:25:25.440 I was like, okay, that was a better response than I was expecting.

01:25:27.680 So I put the pies in, cooked them.

01:25:28.860 They came out really nice, right?

01:25:31.320 Put it on his plate.

01:25:31.960 He is, they're scoffing it.

01:25:33.220 He's absolutely loving it.

01:25:34.140 Are they particularly good, the Frey Bentos?

01:25:36.780 The Frey Bentos, yeah, they're good.

01:25:38.000 They're really good.

01:25:38.540 And they're just full of fat, basically.

01:25:41.060 But fat and pastry, with meat in, but can't go wrong, right?

01:25:45.520 It does sound good, yes.

01:25:46.860 No, no, they really are pretty good, because they're like three quid a pie, right?

01:25:50.040 I want a pie now.

01:25:50.940 Yeah, well, this is what we've got for dinner tonight.

01:25:52.800 Because literally, no, no, he's going through it, and he's like...

01:25:54.860 Have you ordered a crate?

01:25:55.760 No, no, well, I got like nine of them.

01:25:57.460 But my son's just like, oh, these are really good.

01:25:59.980 Can we have it again tomorrow?

01:26:01.140 I was like, no, next week.

01:26:02.560 He's like, what, Monday?

01:26:03.640 I'm like, I guess we can have it Monday.

01:26:05.900 That's technically next week.

01:26:07.160 You got me there, son.

01:26:08.400 So we've got pies again for today.

01:26:10.560 Oh, very good.

01:26:11.260 I want RFK to put out a statement about Frey Bentos pies.

01:26:15.380 Frey Bentos is probably all right.

01:26:16.400 There's probably not that much seed oil in them.

01:26:18.840 I don't know.

01:26:19.980 I suppose because they're canned.

01:26:21.620 Yeah, they're just fat.

01:26:23.560 Yeah, there's probably not that much in there.

01:26:25.800 I think the canning process means you don't have to put as many preservatives in.

01:26:29.340 I've got those off my head.

01:26:30.720 Yeah, look it up, Dan.

01:26:31.780 Yeah.

01:26:32.380 But he says, remember how in 2010, James Biden, Joe's brother,

01:26:36.400 mysteriously got a 1.5 billion contract to rebuild housing in Iraq.

01:26:40.540 Yeah, yeah.

01:26:41.320 I don't remember that, actually, but that's weird.

01:26:43.520 So weird.

01:26:44.680 George says, it's still surreal to me that Keir openly admits he works with subverters at BlackRock.

01:26:48.940 Maybe he thinks that the normies don't know who they are, which is possible.

01:26:51.540 No, no, no.

01:26:51.940 The thing is, I think the normies are aware of these.

01:26:54.240 Like, you know, JP Morgan, BlackRock, you know, various, these sort of ethereal investment funds,

01:27:01.920 they've been radicalized by boomer slot posts on Facebook, right?

01:27:05.400 Where they say, oh, that's in the bad category.

01:27:08.120 So they don't know anything about BlackRock.

01:27:09.800 They don't know anything about, like, you know, what they do.

01:27:11.900 But they know negative, bad.

01:27:14.080 Would Nigel Farage like them?

01:27:15.600 No, probably not.

01:27:16.880 Would a Bond villain's company have the name BlackRock?

01:27:20.140 Yes.

01:27:20.520 So I have found the ingredients for a fray bent or steak and kidney pie.

01:27:25.660 I won't read all the ingredients, but there's quite a lot, but I'll pick some out.

01:27:29.580 Palm oil, rapeseed oil, flavoured yeast extract, xanthian gum, sugar, colour, emulsifier, mono, diggy...

01:27:44.120 I don't know what these things are, but that's what I'm a taste kid.

01:27:46.360 Yes, but he's got two seed oils in there.

01:27:50.660 Great, now RFK's going to kick my door door.

01:27:52.600 Yes.

01:27:52.940 To be fair, the yeast is why the pie rises.

01:27:55.960 Yeah, you can have yeast in it.

01:27:57.480 So that's not too bad.

01:27:58.020 Well, fair enough.

01:27:58.780 Right, okay, fine, you can have the yeast.

01:28:01.020 I can have the yeast, but I'm not allowed the seed oil.

01:28:03.260 Yes.

01:28:04.060 Just Say No to Bugs says,

01:28:05.500 I did see someone float the idea that BlackRock won't be getting the volume of land

01:28:09.420 they were hoping for with Ukraine and Trump in play,

01:28:11.460 so they've turned to an equally decrepit nation in the hope they can steal their land instead.

01:28:14.860 That's us. Possibly.

01:28:17.960 Again, I don't think they'll need to steal the land in Ukraine.

01:28:20.440 What they'll do, the state will use the money that BlackRock gives them to essentially buy it,

01:28:25.320 and then they will pay BlackRock whatever interest they have to pay on their repayments, whatever.

01:28:35.820 So, Thane Scott, he says,

01:28:37.020 Yeah, I mean, you could have just flipped back with, yeah, just like Roe versus Wade, right?

01:28:55.720 You know, it's like, yeah, it was normal that everywhere had to allow people to kill babies.

01:29:00.240 Okay?

01:29:01.000 Well, just because we've been doing it for a long time doesn't mean it's a good thing.

01:29:05.320 George says,

01:29:06.120 It's almost like the government-controlled MSM wants people to be dumber so that they are more easily manipulated.

01:29:11.040 Even if we assume fluoride is harmless,

01:29:13.180 I still prefer for people to have personal responsibility of brushing their teeth

01:29:16.480 than the nanny state applying some bulk solution.

01:29:19.180 Yeah, that's a great point.

01:29:20.540 Even if this was, you know, something totally, totally innocent

01:29:25.120 and that did exactly what they expected it to do,

01:29:28.220 does it mean that they ought to do it?

01:29:30.080 And the answer is no, you should be taking care of yourself.

01:29:32.020 Will Campbell makes a good point there,

01:29:34.040 talking about the American versus international food.

01:29:37.040 He says that he's experienced the same thing.

01:29:39.540 He spent some time abroad in Germany

01:29:42.660 and ended up losing, what was it, 13 and a half kilos in 13...

01:29:48.340 That's a lot.

01:29:49.020 That can't be right.

01:29:51.280 Over 13 and a half kilos in 30 days.

01:29:54.980 No.

01:29:56.100 That's a lot.

01:29:56.960 He must be thinking of pounds, not kilos.

01:29:59.240 Possibly, but the point is, whenever I go to America, man, I just balloon.

01:30:01.960 It's awful.

01:30:02.720 Yeah.

01:30:04.860 Anne says,

01:30:05.720 In the US, there are many options for food.

01:30:07.220 While a lot of it is garbage, it is possible to buy good bread,

01:30:10.080 sand sugar, and eat butter.

01:30:11.540 You won't be buying food from Big Food when you do so.

01:30:14.220 Big Food is more scared of RFK Jr. than Big Pharma.

01:30:16.780 Yeah, I know.

01:30:17.600 I love the fact that RFK is going to be put in charge of this.

01:30:20.340 This is so good.

01:30:21.220 He's the perfect person for it, isn't he?

01:30:22.660 He's amazing for it.

01:30:24.380 And, like, the great thing, he's got a real aura of credibility

01:30:29.320 when he's talking about these things as well.

01:30:31.300 So they're just like, oh, no, he's a crazy conspiracy theorist.

01:30:33.340 It's like, yeah, but nobody really...

01:30:34.260 I mean, he is, but he doesn't sound like a crazy conspiracy theorist.

01:30:37.840 And I think that he's actually the biggest department in the US as well.

01:30:41.380 Probably.

01:30:41.960 Because it's got so many agencies under it,

01:30:45.880 when you add them all up, it's bigger than the intelligence services.

01:30:50.440 Kieran says, we're over time, but Kieran says,

01:30:52.840 you guys just don't understand the chemicals or where all the flavour is.

01:30:55.620 I'd expect no less from those who eat non-seasoned boiled beef.

01:30:58.540 We roast our beef and put salt on it.

01:31:00.880 That's literally all you need for the beef to taste good.

01:31:03.160 And then spoon the fat back over the top of the beef while we're cooking it.

01:31:06.020 Or put the fat directly into the gravy.

01:31:07.640 Making me hungry.

01:31:08.760 But the point is, your taste buds are run through if you can't enjoy your beef.

01:31:12.740 Yes.

01:31:13.440 Or on that culinary note, it's time to end the show.

01:31:16.900 Thank you very much for watching,

01:31:18.440 and make sure to tune in same time tomorrow, 1 o'clock, and goodbye.

01:31:22.100 Cheerio, chaps.

01:31:22.720 Cheerio, chaps.

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - November 25, 2024

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1049

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