The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1057

00:00:00.000 hello and welcome to the podcast of the lotus eases episode 1057 on the 5th of december 2024

00:00:17.360 hope you're all doing well i'm your host harry joined today by josh you're right there josh

00:00:24.640 oh thank you there's not another josh hiding behind you there's not although if you could 1.00

00:00:28.480 find a better josh that would be much appreciated i've been trying to find a better josh for many

00:00:31.760 years and also beau all right how you doing otherwise known as ragnar lothbrook at the

00:00:36.900 moment and we also behind the desk have a very special guest today that is mickey mouse do you

00:00:41.460 want to say hello mickey hello everyone i hope you all had fun with that today we're going to be

00:00:48.800 talking about the kenyan killdozer demolishing haiti is this like an international relief effort we've

00:00:55.000 just sent in a man with a bulldozer to bulldoze the whole country well as it's about to be

00:00:59.320 christmas i wanted to have a nice sort of positive segment and i think the destruction of haiti is

00:01:04.340 something we can all get behind it's basically a giant landfill i can't think of any complaints

00:01:08.920 we're also going to be talking about the collapse of the french government which will i think we'll

00:01:12.580 figure out which collapse this is because it's happened quite a few times and then i'll also talk

00:01:17.480 about how everybody hates kemi anything else we'd like to announce before we start gentlemen

00:01:21.320 have a nice day yes all right then so let's get on with it okay everyone knows that haiti is not 1.00

00:01:29.240 the best place to live really i think that's fair to say and particularly since 2021 they've been very

00:01:35.180 unstable um not that they were great before and we'll look at that um but in 2021 president um juvenil

00:01:42.380 moise i think was assassinated i think that's how you say his name not like he's going to correct me

00:01:46.520 he's dead um and they've had a rotation of temporary rulers one of them went to the un and drank from

00:01:52.220 the water jug it was brilliant um but what has happened is that armed gangs have sought to fill

00:01:57.000 the power vacuum and supposedly they've seized up to 85 percent of the capital porto prince already so

00:02:03.600 it's not looking good and let's remind ourselves of what haiti is like here is uh february of 2017 so

00:02:11.960 even before the government collapsed they were eating dirt and you can even go all the way back

00:02:17.060 to i think this was 2008 um where rising prices um or prices fall and they're eating mud or something

00:02:25.380 or other who cares what's the price of mud these days i don't know it grows in the ground i mean well

00:02:31.260 it doesn't grow and this suggests that you might actually be able to go to haiti and sell mud to a 0.99

00:02:35.840 nation value you know that stuff you walk on that dirt well in haiti it's worth something first the

00:02:42.440 haitians then we get the eskimos that's right sell the mice uh see what you're up to it's got to be

00:02:49.520 dire straits to be eating mud i know that in the siege of leningrad or in mal's great famine mal's

00:02:55.840 great leap forward which resulted in a terrible famine um yeah there's certain types of quote-unquote

00:03:02.300 mud that you can eat but of course it's it's a horrible thing yeah no it's still i'm being a bit

00:03:06.600 facetious here no i think what they do is they mix it with butter and maybe one or two other things

00:03:12.200 maybe sprinkle a little bit of salt in there if you want to be fancy with it the thing is it is still

00:03:16.360 terrible for you you know you still die slightly less quickly of of starvation apparently when you're

00:03:22.880 starving to death it's painful it really hurts it's actually a painful thing you don't just get a bit

00:03:28.560 weak and then get drowsy and then full unconscious and die i know it's really really really slow and

00:03:33.240 apparently painful to the point where you'll put anything in your stomach things that you know you

00:03:37.280 can't digest just to stop the pain to try and that's what they're doing it for is to take away

00:03:41.920 the pain from the hunger it's terrible it's a terrible thing so you you see conditions like this

00:03:47.140 in haiti of the streets and this is just you know open sewage flowing through the streets lots of

00:03:52.680 rubbish it's not exactly uh a modern paradise we can say that and while i was doing research for

00:03:59.580 this segment this is a bit of an aside um i noticed that there's a phenomenon of carrying around sticks

00:04:04.340 like guns and you actually pointed me to this photo harry um and at first i did think this was

00:04:11.040 a rifle and i looked at it and i was like hang on a minute that's a stick yeah you kind of glaze over

00:04:15.580 the image the first time and assume oh he's probably holding an ak and then you look and you go wait a

00:04:19.560 second he's literally just at least he's practicing good trigger discipline he's got his finger off of

00:04:24.520 the trigger there as well what's the you two what's the point of that what is actually happening why

00:04:28.920 would anyone do that well obviously there's a photographer right in front of him do you reckon

00:04:32.960 he was posing for the camera who knows or does he just walk around like that in the hopes that nobody

00:04:38.220 notices but my point in showing this as well is just the conditions of haiti aren't the best and

00:04:45.780 there's another stick here there's a lady holding more of a log really than a stick nice yeah she 1.00

00:04:51.420 looks friendly doesn't she and also there was a marginal case here he was sort of just holding a

00:04:55.840 stick but um but it was just a weird thing i observed i have to have to show the world um but

00:05:02.100 they do have actual guns and lots of gangs holding them um if i wonder if i can scroll down a bit yeah

00:05:08.100 there's um ak's and if you could zoom out a little bit samson um we can see that they've got more

00:05:15.000 modern rifles as well and there is a significant gang problem and these gangs are armed so the the

00:05:21.020 sticks are slightly misleading but i think that the gangs probably hoover up most of the guns because

00:05:26.140 um they look in pretty good nick as far as i'm aware maybe i'm gonna get called out and just like

00:05:31.080 no they're not um you know i'm not the biggest we're english yeah exactly you can't expect us to

00:05:36.080 know these things i've shot more guns than most englishmen to be fair so there is that i mean you

00:05:40.640 only need to shoot one gun for that many i've shot shot every variety not every single gun in

00:05:48.100 existence well you have been on holiday where you get to shoot guns and i've shot them here but 0.74

00:05:52.660 anyway you may be familiar with general barbecue um i'm not no you don't know general barbecue

00:06:01.640 no what rock do you live under you'll be surprised you'll be surprised to learn that's not his

00:06:07.240 christian name because you guess how he got it he wasn't christened barbecue no okay that would be a

00:06:12.720 hell of a christen his real name is jimmy cherizier i think um but he's called general barbecue and he is

00:06:19.540 um alleged to be the most powerful man in haiti now and he is a gang leader um and a very violent one

00:06:27.680 it seems but um that was march of 2024 and he also said that he would take part in talks if invited

00:06:36.940 um but warns that foreign forces will be treated as invaders and this is called foreshadowing

00:06:43.400 so there have been some new developments as well this is somewhat old news this is march of 2024

00:06:50.640 but um child recruitment in haitian gangs is apparently at 70 percent um amid rising violence

00:06:58.780 and poverty this is unicef talking about this and apparently half of um the country's armed gang

00:07:06.560 members are now children so we're getting some proper central african behavior here and not only

00:07:13.340 that but the children who aren't in gangs are also being displaced and with 21 000 haitians being

00:07:18.340 displaced in just two weeks i think there are only 12 million people in the country as well

00:07:22.940 so that's a pretty high percentage well i don't know i think that it's just the places where the

00:07:28.840 gang violence is going on you just can't stay there can you okay so yeah so there's lots of

00:07:33.840 shootings and there's not a mass movement of people across to the dominican republic or anything

00:07:37.920 well it's not necessarily the dominican republic they're going because they built a big wall

00:07:42.600 um it's other places although no walls do work oh okay a friend of mine recently went on holiday

00:07:49.100 to the dominican republic and said he had a lovely time but there is still quite a lot of crime that

00:07:53.640 goes on there and that it is mainly committed by haitians i'm not surprised so general barbecue in

00:08:00.720 his strategic genius um recently um carried out a raid and that resulted in 28 of his gang members

00:08:09.460 getting shot and uh do you know what genius strategic move he did before carrying out this

00:08:15.260 surprise raid he announced it he announced it on social media my enemies don't have twitter

00:08:22.500 i don't think he posted it on twitter tick tock then i don't know yeah sorry why only general

00:08:28.840 barbecue as well why not make himself field marshal barbecue

00:08:31.540 admiral barbecue yeah hi admiral admiral of the fleet barbecue does he i bet he's a great party

00:08:41.180 though i'm guessing he immolates people burns people is that why he's called barbecue you are about to

00:08:46.880 explain the origins of his name i've not actually looked into it well i mean i'm only guessing that

00:08:51.820 yeah he probably has cooked and eaten people or at least cooked them i've heard it mickey mouse is

00:08:58.400 confirming yes um but but it could also be that he he is a mean host you know he's very good

00:09:05.600 uh cooking up a barbecue and he's gained a reputation who knows just don't ask what the

00:09:10.180 meat is that's true so going back to october of 2023 um the united nations um voted in favor of an

00:09:19.060 initiative which a kenyan-led security force would keep the country as stable as possible on behalf of

00:09:24.940 the un and kenya sent over 400 um police officers and as of recently a further 600 so a thousand

00:09:32.200 kenyan police officers to haiti which isn't a big country in the first place to help the

00:09:38.080 domestic forces uh police the streets because obviously it's not going too well and uh now i'm

00:09:46.180 gonna have to go on a little aside and talk about the killdozer because of course that's what you all 0.96

00:09:51.380 want to hear about isn't it really you're all here for the killdozer i know thank you the opening music

00:09:56.440 that's true yeah but we've got some killdozer action oh we've got some killdozer action

00:10:01.220 so just to give you a quick rundown um the person you need to know in the killdozer story is marvin

00:10:08.000 hemeyer who owned a muffler shop in granby colorado and his troubles began when a concrete factory was

00:10:15.320 approved next to his business which blocked off access to his muffler shop as well as cutting off

00:10:21.380 the sewage services and he opposed the construction and appealed the building and wanted new access

00:10:27.920 roads to get to his shop but unfortunately the local authorities ignored all of his efforts

00:10:33.220 and then he basically said well if that's what you're going to do over the course of 18 months he

00:10:38.960 transformed a bulldozer into an armored vehicle with steel reinforced concrete and bulletproof glass

00:10:44.580 and placed external cameras on the outside of what has now been known as the killdozer

00:10:50.500 um to be able to see outside of his basically a tank man you know like a sort of uh ad hoc tank

00:11:00.180 and then on the 4th of june 2004 he used the killdozer to demolish 13 buildings linked to those who had

00:11:06.700 harmed him including the concrete factory and the city council building and the swat teams tried to

00:11:13.320 intervene but um the the killdozer couldn't be stopped and uh the rampage only ended when his

00:11:20.660 vehicle got stuck in the foundation of a basement and it couldn't move out of there and then

00:11:26.460 eventually he took his own life while he was stuck in the killdozer apparently it's very hot in there

00:11:31.180 as well i believe and no other lives were lost in the incident i think he'd sealed himself in there

00:11:35.700 because it was he knew going in this was the last thing he was ever going to do and his final words

00:11:43.120 were sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things which is quite a a good last word but here's

00:11:51.580 a little clip of it look there you can see it in action demolishing a building other than himself i

00:11:58.300 like that there were no fatalities it's like terminator 2 when he's under orders not to

00:12:03.080 actually kill anyone no i don't approve of killing people no right yeah controversial i know but what

00:12:11.000 a moderate you are i know for a complete amateur job well it wasn't that much obviously knew welding

00:12:16.920 very well um to create something like that with external cameras and things

00:12:22.120 it was really impressive and i mean it looks quite cool as well look at all the steam coming

00:12:28.400 off of it as well but this is obviously entered into the public consciousness people refer to him

00:12:34.020 as the last american folk hero that's other people definitely not me i would i would never advocate

00:12:40.500 for this sort of action it reminds me somewhat of that man who uh hijacked a plane um that had been

00:12:47.740 left unattended from an airport no one was in it and then spent two hours flying it around and doing

00:12:54.400 loop-de-loops in it oh yeah speaking to the air traffic control explaining i think if i remember the

00:12:59.920 story correctly that he had applied for these sorts of jobs and positions uh before but been denied them

00:13:05.840 over and over again probably off of the basis of dei hiring practices what it was a long time ago

00:13:12.020 harry but dei has been in place a long time in america and then decided to fly himself into the

00:13:18.800 ground and take his own life that way it reminds me deliberate yeah okay yeah the account thank you

00:13:25.340 has got a video on that as well actually okay well you can see that lots of people vary um this this is

00:13:30.680 obviously a variation of the gadsden flag and there's another one here um don't make me do unreasonable

00:13:36.040 things and people share this as well as memes like this one trump makes killdozer secretary of

00:13:40.900 housing and urban development this is of course a bit of commentary on the fact that lots of trump

00:13:45.280 appointees are out to destroy the department they've been appointed head of um and fair enough good thing

00:13:52.860 really and there's even in development a game that is being produced that samson told me about

00:13:58.980 uh this morning that i didn't know but apparently quarter four of 2025 mark it on your calendars

00:14:04.280 um but anyway enough of this setup onto the kenyan killdozer because that's why we're all here right 1.00

00:14:11.360 so the kenyan police launched a surprise attack on barbecue and what they did was they took their very

00:14:19.700 own killdozer to his headquarters and their killdozer has a flamethrower mounted on the front

00:14:27.500 which is pretty cool so here's the only video i've been able to find online of it

00:14:32.820 oh

00:14:34.120 it actually looks similar in design

00:14:38.740 it does a bit

00:14:39.620 it does look like a bulldozer if it's got the thing there

00:14:42.880 if it ain't broke don't fix it right

00:14:45.260 you can hear the gunshots in the background

00:14:52.460 um there's another vehicle here that it's being filmed from but this is supposedly general barbecue's

00:14:57.860 headquarters

00:14:58.460 so these are anti-barbecue forces

00:15:01.120 they are yeah

00:15:01.860 with flamethrowers on their way to cook general barbecue

00:15:04.560 the barbecue has become the barbecue

00:15:09.320 i've seen pictures on the inside of the original one

00:15:14.060 and um yeah it doesn't look very nice

00:15:17.660 i wouldn't want to be inside it

00:15:19.700 they didn't weld these guys in did they

00:15:22.380 i don't think so

00:15:23.440 i think they've got them out again

00:15:25.160 oh okay

00:15:25.940 to be fair i don't think american SWAT teams are equivalent to haitian gang members

00:15:31.400 not quite yet

00:15:32.500 give it a few more years of DEI

00:15:34.860 there you go

00:15:35.740 there you go

00:15:36.800 um

00:15:37.200 so

00:15:38.080 there are lots of uh articles here talking about them demolishing his gang headquarters

00:15:43.700 but the one thing that they wanted to happen

00:15:46.540 didn't because he escaped the ambush

00:15:50.060 uh he managed to escape the killdozer

00:15:52.520 i don't know how because it was so subtle

00:15:54.900 um but he's still on the large still grilling to this day

00:16:00.020 haiti's like an open air video game

00:16:02.760 there's constant chaos

00:16:05.160 people are battling in the streets

00:16:06.520 you literally have a big boss bad guy called general barbecue

00:16:10.180 and at the end of the level he manages to get away after you've stormed his base

00:16:14.140 are we sure this isn't like far cry haiti 1.00

00:16:16.660 yeah they're missing a trick really

00:16:19.080 they could just cover the real life stories that come out of haiti

00:16:22.720 get Wycliffe Jean over there that's what i say 0.99

00:16:25.520 he'll sort everything out

00:16:26.440 who's that again that name rings a bell

00:16:28.800 the recording artist Wycliffe Jean

00:16:30.600 he's also like half haitian or something

00:16:33.620 he was in fujis wasn't he he was in the fujis

00:16:35.880 okay

00:16:36.620 he's done some songs

00:16:38.040 maybe quite a few years ago now

00:16:39.620 he ran for president of haiti years ago or tried to

00:16:42.920 and didn't win or he's blocked from being able to do it but

00:16:46.080 i say he could sort everything out

00:16:48.320 he could sort everything

00:16:48.920 they need some kind of ruler at the minute 0.99

00:16:50.540 well he's he's what like some kind of rapper and singer

00:16:54.020 maybe they can go over get him to sing some soulful music to them

00:16:56.940 calm everyone down

00:16:57.840 or maybe switch to some disco

00:17:00.140 get everyone dancing

00:17:01.120 so um the associated press and many others have been reporting

00:17:06.040 um that this was sort of the last hurrah in the current efforts

00:17:11.020 the kenyan-led efforts to capture barbecue or kill barbecue 0.88

00:17:15.040 and restore order to haiti

00:17:17.080 and they're sort of not sure what to do now

00:17:19.940 i'm going to read a little bit from this

00:17:21.420 the government is anemic

00:17:22.540 the un-backed mission that supports haiti's understaffed police department

00:17:26.460 lacks funding and personnel

00:17:27.540 and gangs now control 85 percent of the capital

00:17:30.140 then on wednesday another blow

00:17:32.100 doctors without borders announced it was suspending critical care in porto prince

00:17:35.540 as it accused police of targeting its staff and patients

00:17:38.320 so that's another um complex aspect to the narrative

00:17:43.420 including threats of rape and death

00:17:45.700 um it's the first time the aid group has stopped working with new patients

00:17:49.820 since it began operating in haiti more than 30 years ago

00:17:53.360 so it might get even worse in haiti than it already was as well

00:17:58.820 and in fact it's got so bad that the un has evacuated its staff from haiti

00:18:03.540 um as of late november

00:18:06.060 because the gang's control is basically almost total

00:18:09.700 so general barbecue is sort of on the way to becoming the de facto ruler of haiti

00:18:15.440 just by military might alone

00:18:18.840 well might is a strong word

00:18:20.500 i mean as long as they don't try and invade the dominican republic or anything

00:18:25.840 i would be surprised if that was

00:18:28.120 i don't really care all that much about the well-being of a load of haiti 1.00

00:18:33.080 is that is that horrible of me to say

00:18:35.320 well i would rather them live in a more civilized way

00:18:39.020 than that's not gonna happen

00:18:40.340 not unless we send the french back to haiti 1.00

00:18:43.300 to well minister

00:18:44.400 i don't think they've got necessarily the uh

00:18:47.880 oh my political will

00:18:49.760 because macron has claimed it was the haitians who killed haiti

00:18:52.840 and do you know what else he said

00:18:54.760 i mean that's true 1.00

00:18:55.360 he also called haitians complete morons 1.00

00:18:58.280 which is uh 1.00

00:19:00.400 every so often macron comes out with something that makes me go like

00:19:03.480 i want to like you for this

00:19:05.500 but you're emmanuel macron so i can't

00:19:07.880 and he's not wrong

00:19:10.860 the average iq in haiti is 67

00:19:13.440 and jeremy kaufman breaks down

00:19:16.040 with an iq of 67 or below

00:19:17.440 the average haitian or over half the country

00:19:19.380 would be considered too disabled to be eligible for the death penalty in the united states

00:19:23.360 someone at this level will struggle to understand cause and effect of basic things

00:19:26.900 as well as participate in american society at all

00:19:29.260 even filling out forms will be hard

00:19:31.380 and even one standard deviation up from 67

00:19:34.420 that's an iq of 82

00:19:36.300 around one in six haitians are intelligent enough to qualify as this 1.00

00:19:39.820 that is enough to be a below average janitor

00:19:42.560 so not even a good janitor

00:19:44.180 a quite bad one

00:19:45.920 and he said this is the level of intelligence of poor urban areas in america

00:19:49.720 and uh that is again a bit of foreshadowing

00:19:52.940 that's why they needed to be dropped into ohio

00:19:54.940 because of course

00:19:56.060 many americans will be concerned about the

00:19:59.000 sort of civilizational level in haiti

00:20:02.480 because of course

00:20:03.600 there are things like this

00:20:05.880 so the biden administration obviously when they were

00:20:08.500 still doing things

00:20:10.260 ran an advertising campaign

00:20:12.120 in haiti on how to leave haiti and come to the united states

00:20:15.260 and apparently 600 000 listeners

00:20:17.560 listened per broadcast

00:20:19.200 and they have a population of around 12 million

00:20:21.920 that's massive

00:20:23.860 an iq of 67 is disastrous

00:20:26.400 if people think about what you just said there

00:20:29.200 that you're unable to understand cause and effect

00:20:31.280 so without any exaggeration that is sort of the level of a beast or something

00:20:38.340 if you're if you're 67 then you probably won't be able to read or write

00:20:42.660 can't really take instruction

00:20:44.440 i know the u.s army have a minimum iq

00:20:46.780 because if you can't take instruction

00:20:48.440 you're no good to anyone

00:20:50.360 and if you're illiterate as well 0.82

00:20:53.040 if you can't understand cause and effect

00:20:55.440 what is that

00:20:57.420 what are you supposed to do with that

00:20:59.940 you can't really do a lot

00:21:01.800 it's it's one of those situations where

00:21:04.420 i don't i don't see any way out really

00:21:08.360 other than sort of walling it up

00:21:10.420 and waiting to see what happens

00:21:12.420 there's a load of film cameras in there

00:21:14.400 that's true yeah

00:21:15.460 you turn it into a game show

00:21:16.640 raise some money

00:21:17.540 raise some money

00:21:19.140 put it towards supplies at least

00:21:20.760 i don't know

00:21:21.940 what air dropping more guns for them

00:21:23.820 a bit like uh

00:21:25.060 one of those battle royale video games

00:21:27.560 you know that the supplies drop from the sky

00:21:29.660 even a sheepdog can understand cause and effect right

00:21:32.240 to a certain extent

00:21:33.980 to a certain extent

00:21:34.620 but um

00:21:36.920 of course in the u.s

00:21:38.880 you have

00:21:40.040 lots of haitian migration

00:21:41.860 um

00:21:43.200 there's apparently

00:21:44.340 one

00:21:45.200 just over one million haitian immigrants

00:21:47.840 living in the u.s

00:21:49.020 and apparently

00:21:50.500 um

00:21:51.620 three quarters of a million of them came in just

00:21:53.960 2022

00:21:54.620 so it could be that there are even more than that

00:21:57.180 after the last

00:21:57.980 uh

00:21:58.340 this was a 2023

00:21:59.260 american community survey

00:22:01.240 and so

00:22:02.420 we know how many of them came across in 2024

00:22:05.660 because there were all those haitians in ohio 0.51

00:22:07.960 weren't they

00:22:08.540 they're eating the cats

00:22:09.740 they're eating the dogs

00:22:10.500 that that one

00:22:11.200 uh

00:22:11.920 that trump was famous for saying

00:22:13.360 and so

00:22:14.380 there is obviously a very human cost to this

00:22:18.140 that is

00:22:18.580 bore by the surrounding countries that they emigrate to

00:22:22.000 and so

00:22:22.900 although

00:22:23.680 um

00:22:24.960 i don't agree that they should be allowed into these countries in the first place 1.00

00:22:28.480 because of you know

00:22:29.560 they're not going to do any good

00:22:31.820 i think there's also a point of concern that if haiti fails and there's just waves upon waves of

00:22:37.860 haitians

00:22:38.660 coming into your country 1.00

00:22:40.100 that is a very real threat isn't it

00:22:42.220 and um

00:22:43.780 haitian migration proclamation

00:22:45.540 it's not good to anybody

00:22:47.240 what's funny

00:22:50.020 nothing actually

00:22:51.580 okay

00:22:51.960 um

00:22:52.500 and the final thing i wanted to end on is that now there is a critical mass of haitians in america

00:22:57.080 they're now trying to install themselves into the foundation myth of the united states

00:23:01.540 itself

00:23:02.540 and uh

00:23:03.820 this is a haitian here

00:23:06.600 uh saying

00:23:07.720 senator jd vance is wrong

00:23:09.300 he's now uh

00:23:10.460 actually

00:23:10.900 vice president elect

00:23:12.840 jd vance

00:23:13.760 um

00:23:14.140 haitians aren't a drag on this country 0.99

00:23:15.780 we have been building america from the very beginning

00:23:18.200 so there were haitians apparently

00:23:20.700 in

00:23:22.060 you know

00:23:22.800 native american tribes

00:23:24.240 or maybe they were there on the mayflower

00:23:26.940 pont de sable

00:23:28.040 sable whatever

00:23:29.380 the haitian founder of chicago

00:23:31.280 bo 0.95

00:23:31.960 is there

00:23:33.140 can i get a fact check on that please

00:23:34.760 did a haitian found chicago

00:23:38.080 that's also a weird claim to fame

00:23:39.960 considering chicago is

00:23:41.480 one of the crime capitals of the united states

00:23:44.460 well only parts of chicago

00:23:46.760 that's true

00:23:47.800 you'll never guess which

00:23:48.780 is it the ghettos by any chance 0.78

00:23:50.740 bang on the money there

00:23:52.900 yeah

00:23:54.320 well

00:23:54.760 google says it's true

00:23:56.020 so it must be true

00:23:56.920 um

00:23:57.500 and we are part of this nation's progress

00:24:00.420 he says

00:24:00.900 and my family's story is just one thread in that tapestry

00:24:04.020 but my point being here

00:24:05.960 that

00:24:06.620 haiti is bad 0.94

00:24:09.200 and you don't want it coming to your neighbourhood

00:24:11.040 we've got some

00:24:15.660 comments here

00:24:16.800 let's have a look see

00:24:18.460 um

00:24:20.240 i demand a christmas version of the intro and outro music

00:24:23.700 um

00:24:24.680 that's not a bad idea

00:24:25.680 next week

00:24:26.580 samson says next week

00:24:28.920 bo glad to see you're feeling better

00:24:30.520 thank you

00:24:31.180 that was dragon lady chris 0.85

00:24:32.600 it's gonna be on on monday but

00:24:34.060 it was under the weather

00:24:35.680 of course yeah

00:24:36.280 what's this

00:24:36.980 jean baptiste pont de sable

00:24:38.740 recognises the first permanent non-native settler

00:24:42.840 founder

00:24:43.300 of what would later become

00:24:44.420 founder

00:24:44.800 chicago

00:24:45.500 and is recognised as the city's founder

00:24:48.080 source

00:24:49.020 some book from 2005

00:24:51.360 so bs then

00:24:53.160 it sounds like bs to me

00:24:55.480 so uh

00:24:57.080 davy verse says

00:24:57.960 mr barbecue the third

00:24:59.600 was found to have cooked a victim

00:25:00.860 and ate a piece of them

00:25:01.820 to intimidate a rival

00:25:02.940 um

00:25:03.720 fought to um

00:25:04.960 did this one more occasion

00:25:07.600 only on one recorded case

00:25:09.480 so you know

00:25:10.580 you eat one person

00:25:12.060 and

00:25:12.860 it follows you around

00:25:14.200 wherever you go

00:25:15.000 you cannibalise another human being 0.69

00:25:16.580 one time

00:25:17.420 and it never leaves

00:25:20.040 come on

00:25:20.500 they don't say gang leader

00:25:21.600 you know barbecue do they

00:25:23.360 they call me general barbecue

00:25:24.760 because i ate someone

00:25:25.740 to be fair

00:25:26.980 if i eat somebody

00:25:27.900 does that come with the general title

00:25:29.360 do i automatically get qualified as a general

00:25:32.160 that's how we recruit generals in britain

00:25:34.680 we only hire cannibals 1.00

00:25:35.880 you have to eat the other people 0.98

00:25:37.440 applying for general

00:25:38.600 that's how you harness their power

00:25:40.080 i don't mind cannibalising people

00:25:42.020 as long as i've got a decent barbecue sauce to go with it

00:25:44.280 that's

00:25:45.700 that's

00:25:46.380 that's my line in the sand

00:25:47.700 i get some reggae reggae sauce

00:25:49.580 nice centrist position there

00:25:51.340 you and the papua new guineans

00:25:53.640 you're both moderates

00:25:54.420 both wets

00:25:55.180 clearly

00:25:55.680 boba bad says

00:25:56.760 general barbecue announced on his fortnite server

00:25:58.840 that his flash mob would do

00:26:00.180 the gritty on government forces

00:26:02.100 but was handily repelled

00:26:03.280 by twerking

00:26:04.040 fanos and goku

00:26:05.200 and a new character

00:26:06.540 killdozer

00:26:07.400 i might actually

00:26:09.080 play fortnite

00:26:10.060 if they add

00:26:10.840 killdozer in

00:26:11.640 playable character

00:26:13.020 and a question for bo

00:26:14.600 if you're

00:26:15.460 stuck in haiti

00:26:16.660 which would you choose

00:26:18.180 between

00:26:18.460 two big knives

00:26:19.380 with chains

00:26:20.040 a big axe

00:26:21.140 you can throw

00:26:21.840 or a massive sword

00:26:22.980 red tattoos

00:26:24.000 are mandatory

00:26:24.540 of course

00:26:25.200 gotta go with a sword

00:26:27.520 really

00:26:28.140 can you not get a gun

00:26:30.120 yeah

00:26:31.120 why is gun not a choice there

00:26:32.820 ideally a belt fed m60

00:26:34.460 with endless ammo

00:26:35.300 and a bipod

00:26:37.400 but i'll take the sword

00:26:38.620 best i can do

00:26:39.520 is a stick

00:26:40.180 oh

00:26:40.600 is it in the shape

00:26:42.260 the vague shape

00:26:43.120 of a rifle though

00:26:43.860 it will be

00:26:44.820 okay

00:26:45.100 okay you might be able

00:26:46.000 to scare some off

00:26:46.660 i like the specifiers

00:26:47.800 you can throw the axe

00:26:49.180 you can't throw any

00:26:50.180 of this

00:26:50.400 sword's not throwable

00:26:51.520 but the axe

00:26:52.040 you can throw it

00:26:53.500 they come with

00:26:54.220 throwing permission

00:26:54.940 at which point

00:26:55.660 you've not got a weapon 0.99

00:26:56.700 and you're screwed 0.99

00:26:57.520 yeah 0.99

00:26:57.800 so yeah

00:26:58.800 that's

00:26:59.200 that's third

00:26:59.860 that's my third choice

00:27:00.800 is the throwing axe

00:27:01.660 the throwing hatchet

00:27:03.160 no a sword

00:27:04.140 a decent sword

00:27:04.900 like a decent

00:27:06.360 sort of samurai sword

00:27:07.300 or something

00:27:07.720 that's a formidable

00:27:08.600 formidable weapon

00:27:09.420 i would say

00:27:10.820 i'd just get claymore

00:27:12.200 i'm glad we're

00:27:13.580 we're settling

00:27:14.180 the important questions

00:27:15.660 no no no

00:27:16.260 yeah

00:27:17.040 yeah but you're

00:27:19.160 big enough to actually

00:27:19.800 will declare

00:27:20.240 that'd be awesome though

00:27:21.240 you remember those

00:27:21.920 scenes from game of

00:27:22.640 thrones where like

00:27:23.320 the mountains

00:27:23.920 cleaving people

00:27:25.360 straight in half

00:27:26.300 do that except

00:27:27.620 it's a gang of like

00:27:28.480 four or five

00:27:29.100 haitians coming at 0.98

00:27:30.100 me all in one

00:27:30.840 swipe

00:27:31.140 that'd be awesome

00:27:32.540 literally clearing

00:27:33.560 swathes through the

00:27:34.740 crowd

00:27:35.060 anyway what were you

00:27:37.340 talking about with

00:27:37.940 france

00:27:38.280 oh yeah can i get

00:27:39.080 the the mouse then

00:27:40.820 please

00:27:41.240 of course you can

00:27:42.540 that wasn't far

00:27:44.680 enough

00:27:44.960 there you go

00:27:45.680 what did i do there

00:27:46.660 you opened a new

00:27:47.360 tab

00:27:47.740 samson

00:27:48.520 sort me out

00:27:49.060 beau's gonna figure

00:27:50.000 out his segment

00:27:50.660 here and now

00:27:51.420 he's gonna start

00:27:52.200 googling

00:27:52.760 okay so

00:27:54.220 france has fallen

00:27:57.160 again

00:27:58.460 what time is this

00:28:00.560 now

00:28:00.760 it hasn't yeah

00:28:01.240 for like the

00:28:01.740 umpteenth time

00:28:02.540 no it hasn't fallen

00:28:03.420 but their government

00:28:03.980 has collapsed

00:28:04.780 um so i thought we

00:28:06.460 could talk about that

00:28:07.160 because it's um you

00:28:08.140 know not the biggest

00:28:08.840 of deals ever but

00:28:09.880 it's worth it's worth

00:28:11.020 mentioning at least

00:28:11.840 just double checking

00:28:12.500 this was the

00:28:13.620 coalition government

00:28:14.740 that formed

00:28:15.500 explicitly to keep

00:28:16.940 le pen out right

00:28:17.880 because it was a

00:28:18.440 coalition of liberals

00:28:19.640 and communists to

00:28:21.100 make sure that they

00:28:21.740 didn't get as much

00:28:22.720 representation as they

00:28:23.640 needed so it's gonna

00:28:24.780 save that point

00:28:25.400 towards the end but

00:28:26.140 it is the crux no

00:28:26.820 it's fine it is the

00:28:27.500 crux of it so let's

00:28:28.180 just say that now the

00:28:28.820 only reason why the

00:28:30.240 government was so

00:28:31.020 doddery in the first

00:28:32.400 place why it was so

00:28:33.160 easy for it to

00:28:34.220 collapse at all is

00:28:35.480 because it is a

00:28:36.380 government built on

00:28:37.300 foundations of sand

00:28:39.240 basically isn't it i

00:28:40.100 mean there's no

00:28:41.020 majority of any

00:28:42.020 given faction or

00:28:42.980 party in their lower

00:28:44.340 house their assembly

00:28:45.220 so france has both a

00:28:46.840 prime minister and a

00:28:47.640 president doesn't it

00:28:48.540 and so barnier was the

00:28:50.400 prime minister yeah

00:28:51.480 yeah yeah so let's

00:28:52.360 make that on is the

00:28:53.280 the president so let's

00:28:54.500 make that clear right

00:28:55.220 away because uh in

00:28:57.200 britain and in america

00:28:58.200 we've got a different

00:28:58.820 system obviously there

00:29:00.300 their president is the

00:29:01.920 head of government and

00:29:03.220 the head of state here

00:29:04.840 our prime minister is the

00:29:06.020 head of government and

00:29:06.780 it's the king that's

00:29:07.460 head of state in france

00:29:08.760 their president macron

00:29:09.900 is the head of state

00:29:11.160 not the head of

00:29:11.740 government so in other

00:29:13.300 words the whole point

00:29:13.900 of saying all of that

00:29:14.680 is that their prime

00:29:15.920 minister michelle

00:29:17.300 barnier and his

00:29:18.920 government collapsed

00:29:19.560 but that doesn't

00:29:20.140 affect macron well not

00:29:21.480 directly macron is not

00:29:23.020 going to be isn't

00:29:24.100 ousted as president

00:29:25.000 head of state or

00:29:25.700 anything like that it

00:29:26.920 does make his

00:29:27.460 political position more

00:29:29.520 tenuous than it already

00:29:30.380 was but it this

00:29:32.040 doesn't mean that

00:29:32.940 macron is going to go

00:29:34.400 necessarily in the

00:29:35.700 immediate future but

00:29:37.060 we'll talk about what

00:29:37.740 repercussions it will

00:29:38.500 have for his

00:29:39.220 career anyway so

00:29:41.500 bernier if anyone

00:29:42.160 remembers our

00:29:44.040 american audience

00:29:44.660 might not probably

00:29:45.520 wouldn't but brits

00:29:46.860 might that he was the

00:29:47.880 lead one of the lead

00:29:49.280 eu

00:29:49.900 negotiators when we

00:29:52.900 had brexit so he is

00:29:54.800 sort of an arch

00:29:55.640 pro-european type

00:29:57.760 no wonder macron

00:29:59.960 chose him to be his

00:30:00.940 prime minister

00:30:01.400 so the story is that

00:30:04.560 what happened is he

00:30:05.720 was doing a budget

00:30:07.280 and it was just

00:30:08.560 extremely unpopular

00:30:09.620 by everyone else

00:30:10.900 there's three main

00:30:11.640 factions in france

00:30:12.580 in the french

00:30:13.340 assembly there's

00:30:14.840 sort of the pro

00:30:15.360 macronist

00:30:16.020 centrists

00:30:17.300 sort of left of

00:30:18.500 centre centrist

00:30:19.340 types

00:30:19.780 there's sort of the

00:30:21.220 more left wing 0.74

00:30:22.240 what's that called

00:30:25.300 that is the new

00:30:27.160 popular front

00:30:27.920 and then there's

00:30:29.560 le pen's

00:30:30.780 sort of right

00:30:31.700 leaning

00:30:32.060 sort of semi

00:30:32.800 right leaning

00:30:33.360 but of course the

00:30:34.000 mainstream media always

00:30:34.740 call them far right

00:30:35.700 well it's confusing as

00:30:36.640 well because all of the

00:30:38.260 parties in france are

00:30:39.560 economically left wing

00:30:40.760 there's no there's no

00:30:42.820 economically right wing

00:30:44.300 party in france that

00:30:45.460 it just varies on the

00:30:47.080 social

00:30:47.400 dimension

00:30:47.800 dimension

00:30:49.020 can't even speak

00:30:50.300 le pen and national

00:30:51.520 rally are not

00:30:52.080 particularly all that

00:30:53.540 right wing

00:30:54.080 yeah they're not

00:30:55.480 they're not

00:30:55.820 they're certainly not

00:30:56.600 far right

00:30:57.420 they're certainly not

00:30:58.180 far right

00:30:58.620 that isn't

00:30:59.300 well by the old

00:31:01.180 school use of the

00:31:02.260 definition far right

00:31:03.380 they're not

00:31:03.820 but of course the

00:31:05.320 mainstream media always

00:31:06.480 say that don't they

00:31:07.420 always

00:31:07.760 nonetheless the left

00:31:09.680 and the right

00:31:11.340 the new popular front

00:31:12.140 and national rally

00:31:12.820 both sort of were

00:31:13.820 against

00:31:14.820 macron's sort of

00:31:17.860 left with centrism

00:31:18.760 and that's what

00:31:20.300 barnier sort of

00:31:21.080 represents just trying

00:31:22.320 to carry on

00:31:23.240 whilst france falls

00:31:25.060 off a cliff in all

00:31:25.860 sorts of ways

00:31:26.500 um macron and

00:31:28.900 someone like barnier

00:31:29.820 just want to just

00:31:30.900 keep going with that

00:31:31.840 um and they've had

00:31:33.580 enough of it

00:31:34.080 uh so he released a

00:31:36.180 budget where he was

00:31:37.040 trying to actually

00:31:37.820 from what i gather

00:31:38.560 anyway trying to do

00:31:39.940 something mildly

00:31:41.140 prudent he was trying

00:31:41.900 to reduce the french 1.00

00:31:42.800 deficit national deficit

00:31:44.000 to the tune of 50

00:31:45.520 odd billion pounds

00:31:47.660 god knows what

00:31:48.660 that would be in

00:31:48.960 euros but um so

00:31:49.840 he's actually trying

00:31:50.380 to do something

00:31:51.040 mildly conservative

00:31:52.860 with a small c

00:31:53.720 fiscally speaking

00:31:55.360 um but neither side

00:31:57.540 was particularly

00:31:58.020 happy with that

00:31:58.860 um and so when

00:32:00.920 it became clear

00:32:01.760 that he wasn't

00:32:02.240 going to be able

00:32:02.600 to sort of get it

00:32:03.340 through even the

00:32:04.760 lower their lower

00:32:05.460 house the assembly

00:32:06.080 um he just sort of

00:32:08.160 used emergency

00:32:09.620 powers quote unquote

00:32:10.660 emergency powers

00:32:11.920 measures to to

00:32:13.360 force it through

00:32:14.080 so it hadn't been

00:32:15.780 voted on and agreed

00:32:16.780 by the assembly

00:32:17.460 and so that was

00:32:19.340 sort of that was

00:32:20.440 the final straw for

00:32:21.660 a lot of the people

00:32:22.240 in the assembly

00:32:23.260 and so they had a

00:32:24.720 vote of no confidence

00:32:25.460 against him and his

00:32:26.780 government they needed

00:32:28.040 288 votes and got

00:32:29.840 331 so in the scheme

00:32:32.100 things not even that

00:32:32.780 close they got it

00:32:33.340 quite easily

00:32:33.820 and so he is obliged

00:32:36.780 to resign which he's

00:32:38.340 done uh he'll still

00:32:40.420 be caretaker prime

00:32:41.180 minister for fair few

00:32:42.700 weeks now commentators

00:32:43.840 are saying while

00:32:45.140 macron picked someone

00:32:45.960 new um but you

00:32:48.480 know this hasn't

00:32:49.280 happened in france

00:32:49.920 this is it's fairly

00:32:50.900 rare thing this to

00:32:51.840 happen in western

00:32:53.360 countries in france

00:32:55.260 certainly um hasn't

00:32:57.260 happened since the

00:32:57.840 60s it's 60 odd

00:32:59.700 years since something

00:33:00.380 like this last

00:33:00.920 happened it's quite

00:33:02.240 some time in politics

00:33:03.140 isn't it yeah yeah

00:33:04.420 yeah it is quite

00:33:05.640 embarrassing obviously

00:33:07.160 it's quite embarrassing

00:33:07.880 isn't it when you have

00:33:08.500 to resign i mean he's

00:33:09.540 french to start off

00:33:10.380 with which is bad

00:33:11.000 enough yeah well i

00:33:12.580 think also i am going

00:33:14.160 to revel in his

00:33:15.360 humiliation because of

00:33:17.100 his role as the

00:33:18.280 negotiator for the eu

00:33:20.220 in brexit and what i

00:33:22.640 can remember at least

00:33:23.640 he was a bit of a

00:33:24.680 stick in the mud yeah

00:33:26.720 he was he was a 1.00

00:33:27.820 complete dick yeah he's 1.00

00:33:29.620 no friend of ours he's 1.00

00:33:30.620 no friend of ours

00:33:31.460 absolutely no he would

00:33:33.300 have done anything or

00:33:34.240 everything to undermine

00:33:35.160 our ability to leave

00:33:37.100 the eu and did so his

00:33:40.620 term as prime minister

00:33:41.780 was only three months

00:33:42.760 long so again an

00:33:43.760 embarrassment for him

00:33:45.900 and macron yeah a

00:33:48.760 bit of a fail um okay

00:33:52.840 so le pen uh said that

00:33:55.020 it was quote the only

00:33:56.100 dignified solution to

00:33:57.440 have a vote of no

00:33:58.220 confidence in him um

00:34:00.180 she said that the budget

00:34:01.040 uh was toxic for the

00:34:02.480 french and there's

00:34:04.920 simply quote no other

00:34:05.880 solution to this so

00:34:09.700 another point to make

00:34:11.680 about france is that the

00:34:13.120 last election they had

00:34:14.000 the one we mentioned

00:34:14.680 where it was a stitch

00:34:15.660 up really bit bit of a

00:34:17.200 stitch i mean a legal

00:34:18.000 one but still stitch up

00:34:19.360 yeah they stayed in in

00:34:20.380 the bounds but what they

00:34:21.280 did was sort of uh it

00:34:24.320 seemed sort of in a

00:34:25.540 moral sense cheating but

00:34:27.480 even though it was

00:34:28.480 acceptable within the

00:34:29.500 rules of french

00:34:30.200 democracy they

00:34:31.460 basically colluded with

00:34:33.380 one another to uh kick

00:34:36.740 out uh le pen's national

00:34:38.840 rally from any

00:34:40.280 constituency they had a

00:34:41.420 chance of winning by

00:34:43.420 selectively removing

00:34:44.920 candidates well this is

00:34:46.500 the point of a lot of

00:34:47.760 european uh democratic

00:34:49.940 politics in the first

00:34:50.900 place right it's the

00:34:51.800 whole idea of the

00:34:52.700 cordon sanitaire just

00:34:54.220 keep the far keep the

00:34:55.520 far right out keep keep

00:34:57.220 hitler 2.0 which is

00:34:58.520 obviously le pen marine

00:35:00.320 le pen was gonna you know

00:35:01.420 send them back and do 0.98

00:35:02.740 all of those evil nazi 0.87

00:35:03.900 things that's the whole

00:35:04.720 point of it even if even

00:35:05.980 if it would just be like

00:35:06.720 a baby step maybe in the

00:35:08.640 direction that you think

00:35:09.760 could lead to auschwitz

00:35:10.840 too stop it but the

00:35:12.560 thing is we'll lie with

00:35:13.640 ally with communists over

00:35:15.460 and over and over again

00:35:16.320 well they push this right

00:35:17.740 right thing all the time

00:35:19.460 and they call people far

00:35:21.160 more extreme than they

00:35:22.040 actually are to make this

00:35:23.960 is my personal theory to

00:35:25.700 make the the people who

00:35:26.900 would otherwise support

00:35:27.920 them think that they're

00:35:28.680 going to be more radical

00:35:29.360 than they actually are

00:35:30.240 and i think actually a

00:35:32.640 lot of these politicians

00:35:33.720 in europe these so-called

00:35:35.580 far-right politicians are

00:35:37.180 actually not far-right at

00:35:38.440 all and in many ways are

00:35:39.680 sometimes actively left

00:35:41.180 wing like people were

00:35:42.920 saying georgia maloney is

00:35:44.780 fascist and extremely far 0.95

00:35:46.460 right and she's still 1.00

00:35:47.560 increasing immigration

00:35:48.520 still not done anything

00:35:49.820 about it well there's

00:35:51.380 there's two purposes for

00:35:52.560 that sort of thing i think

00:35:53.380 one yeah it's to push some

00:35:54.600 people away and i think

00:35:55.620 it's also to try and trick

00:35:57.180 people into a form of

00:35:58.440 containment because people

00:35:59.440 are so sick of how

00:36:00.460 european politics have

00:36:01.520 been going for so long

00:36:02.620 that they if you tell

00:36:04.100 someone that oh you can

00:36:05.000 vote for a radical they

00:36:06.180 go thank god i want

00:36:07.660 radical solutions to the

00:36:08.960 problems that we've got

00:36:09.780 and they vote for them and

00:36:11.160 they get the same

00:36:12.780 neoliberalism as usual

00:36:14.140 so in the last election it

00:36:17.540 was uh macron called it as

00:36:19.320 a snap election uh hoping to

00:36:21.660 sort of undermine or

00:36:22.500 undercut uh le pen and

00:36:24.300 national rally and yeah even

00:36:25.760 note was legal um yeah

00:36:27.920 there was all sorts of

00:36:28.900 leftist coalition shenanigans

00:36:32.280 going on to sort of keep

00:36:33.560 them out anyway the net

00:36:34.580 result of all of that was

00:36:35.700 as i say there's no

00:36:36.500 majority of any single

00:36:37.660 party or faction in the

00:36:38.640 assembly which means that

00:36:40.740 um they they will be some

00:36:43.800 sort of a stalemate in

00:36:44.980 their legislature until the

00:36:47.120 next day and at the first

00:36:48.580 possible opportunity legally

00:36:50.080 under the french

00:36:50.780 constitution isn't until

00:36:52.040 summer next year sort of

00:36:53.560 july is the first possible

00:36:54.780 time they could have so in

00:36:56.700 other words the whole time

00:36:57.980 between now and then will

00:36:58.760 probably be a bit of a bit 0.98

00:37:00.420 of a shit show for for the 1.00

00:37:02.180 french government macron will 1.00

00:37:03.060 pick someone else and he'll

00:37:04.760 be as as weak as can be he'll 0.64

00:37:06.560 be like a barnier type figure 0.87

00:37:07.960 try and do things won't be

00:37:09.320 able to if he tries to force

00:37:12.300 anything through you probably

00:37:13.520 will probably face another vote

00:37:16.040 vote no confidence to the

00:37:17.480 tune of 330 or people ousting him

00:37:20.160 so it's just going to be um uh

00:37:22.880 sort of a holding pattern and

00:37:25.140 stagnation for french government

00:37:26.620 until summer next year if uh if

00:37:31.020 another election is called at

00:37:32.300 that earliest possible

00:37:33.460 opportunity which doesn't

00:37:34.700 necessarily have to be

00:37:35.660 macron could just hold on for

00:37:38.560 longer if he wanted to if he's

00:37:40.080 happy to watch his country just

00:37:42.180 burn and disintegrate and

00:37:43.500 implode which it seems he is

00:37:45.100 because that's what he's been

00:37:46.000 doing ever since he ever got into

00:37:47.220 power um what's also worth

00:37:49.700 pointing out that when he called

00:37:50.800 that snap election he was

00:37:51.920 actually quite unpopular in the

00:37:54.040 polls and everyone was saying

00:37:55.220 at the time what is he doing

00:37:56.860 why is he doing this so

00:37:57.800 obviously he knew in advance

00:37:59.440 that he'd arranged this

00:38:01.020 agreement with the the far left

00:38:03.340 to keep the the pen out who

00:38:06.340 actually you know got the most

00:38:08.860 in the popular vote as well

00:38:10.420 yeah despite coming third in the

00:38:11.860 election in terms of seats i think

00:38:13.780 i think it was something that was

00:38:14.880 arranged because they had a few

00:38:15.800 rounds of voting and after the

00:38:17.720 first round i think it became

00:38:18.980 very very clear that le pen was

00:38:20.920 going to get through and so they

00:38:22.720 tactically took certain seats

00:38:24.800 where the leftist vote would have

00:38:27.140 been split between the centrists and

00:38:28.580 the communists and then tactically

00:38:30.460 removed some candidates to try and

00:38:33.020 force them out so the leftist vote

00:38:34.400 could be more concentrated

00:38:35.580 that is exactly how it went down

00:38:38.020 yeah and it's just again nothing

00:38:39.960 actually illegal or

00:38:41.500 unconstitutional but scummy but

00:38:44.200 scummy and highlights the fact that

00:38:46.380 there are just those types of

00:38:47.640 loopholes to be taken advantage of

00:38:50.120 it's classic democracy really isn't

00:38:52.180 all right yeah and just like in

00:38:54.920 germany anything or anything will be

00:38:58.180 done to keep the afd out any sort of

00:39:02.000 weird coalition to prevent afd from

00:39:05.020 gaining power at all costs just like

00:39:07.480 they tried to do with gert wilders in

00:39:09.200 in holland well yeah it's funny that

00:39:12.100 because in germany obviously they're

00:39:14.060 trying to ban the afd and with 0.98

00:39:16.040 wilders they only agreed to the

00:39:18.120 coalition if he wasn't their prime

00:39:21.080 minister so they've actually got

00:39:23.100 someone who wasn't a politician as

00:39:25.180 prime minister to to make the

00:39:26.780 coalition work 0.93

00:39:27.780 by dick shoof that's his name 0.96

00:39:31.280 pardon that's his name and you know 0.99

00:39:34.160 one more time dick shoof okay all 0.99

00:39:36.700 right okay and you know the same would 0.96

00:39:38.840 happen here if reform got if there was

00:39:40.840 no clear leader and reform as wet as

00:39:43.060 they are um if they got were able to

00:39:45.820 be in a position to try and form some

00:39:47.440 sort of coalition government with

00:39:48.600 one of the other parties they would

00:39:50.800 just refuse to and form any sort of

00:39:53.560 coalition no matter how nonsensical it

00:39:55.940 was politically ideologically to just

00:39:58.260 keep the far right out of power even

00:40:02.860 though they're not the far right i

00:40:03.780 reckon they might go into coalition with

00:40:05.240 the tories maybe well there's so many

00:40:07.960 there's so many ex-tories looking to

00:40:10.000 respect to them already aren't they

00:40:11.520 basically just like a an extracurricular

00:40:13.720 club for conservatives isn't it at this

00:40:16.000 point the reform but it's like the

00:40:17.080 naughty step for them it is yeah you've

00:40:19.560 been naughty sit on the naughty step okay 0.84

00:40:21.800 sit with nigel all right um so barnier 0.99

00:40:27.680 himself said he basically said look i'm

00:40:29.880 not i haven't done this out of spite or

00:40:32.020 anything we france actually needs this

00:40:33.880 budget like come on he's quoted as

00:40:36.760 saying we have reached a moment of

00:40:38.420 truth of responsibility we need to look

00:40:40.600 at the realities of our debt i did not

00:40:42.600 present almost exclusively difficult

00:40:44.120 measures because i wanted to

00:40:45.720 that's a fair point actually isn't it

00:40:48.980 can't really fault it for saying that

00:40:50.700 yeah yeah it's not doing it out of spite

00:40:53.140 i'll give him some credit that he's

00:40:56.440 trying to do what he thought was the

00:40:57.880 right thing i suppose i mean i have some

00:40:59.480 recommendations personally but there's

00:41:01.420 going to be a lot of unemployed

00:41:02.320 bureaucrats and so macron apparently is

00:41:05.940 going to address the issue this evening

00:41:07.960 i believe he was on some sort of state

00:41:09.820 visit to saudi arabia he was on his way

00:41:11.540 back because his government has fallen

00:41:13.420 um and so the next probably last thing

00:41:17.540 to talk about mention is what does this

00:41:19.200 mean for macron himself well it is sort

00:41:22.180 of politically damaging of course not only

00:41:25.460 does it mean that whatever government he

00:41:27.060 puts together next will almost certainly

00:41:28.860 be extremely weak it is sort of it's

00:41:32.360 sort of a death knell isn't it it does

00:41:33.700 sort of the bell is tolling for the end

00:41:38.880 of his political career right i agree

00:41:41.440 macron has proven to be a bit of a

00:41:43.780 cockroach though hasn't he yeah he's

00:41:46.760 weathered a lot he seems to always manage

00:41:50.080 to scrape through somehow so yeah people

00:41:53.300 saying obviously the questions come

00:41:54.920 thinking fast don't they mr macron mr

00:41:56.520 macron what does this mean for are you

00:41:58.260 going to resign you know trying to put

00:41:59.800 people like the pen and even the far

00:42:01.620 left in france trying to put pressure on

00:42:03.280 him to just resign this is so embarrassing

00:42:05.000 surely you should resign do the right

00:42:06.660 thing but he's just saying no of course

00:42:08.980 no no way of course not he's the type of

00:42:11.180 politician like most politicians really

00:42:12.660 will never give up on the game until it

00:42:14.960 gives up on him right would never resign

00:42:17.140 unless he absolutely had to um he said it

00:42:20.740 was sort of what did he call it make

00:42:21.920 believe politics that he's going to resign

00:42:24.280 or that there will be a new french president

00:42:27.140 in the next few days or weeks i like to

00:42:29.340 think of it as being forced to resign is

00:42:32.720 humiliating and if you're egocentric enough

00:42:36.920 to assume the highest office in your

00:42:38.960 country then you're probably going to avoid

00:42:42.220 that as much as possible even if it makes

00:42:43.900 you hated it's better than admitting defeat

00:42:46.840 and i think that's the psychology that often

00:42:48.620 plays on the individual's mind but of course

00:42:51.460 it's never just up to them and whether they

00:42:53.780 want to do it or not there are lots of

00:42:55.320 forces that determine whether you stay in

00:42:57.280 the position i mean having to resign

00:42:59.500 purely out of political humiliation

00:43:01.680 is quite rare i mean in america for example

00:43:05.540 only richard this only ever happened to

00:43:07.060 richard nixon he was probably he was

00:43:09.600 almost certainly going to get impeached

00:43:11.280 and then probably have to face a trial so

00:43:14.440 instead of that he resigned he's like he's

00:43:16.340 the only one you know you take someone

00:43:18.200 like tony blair he sort of resigned but it

00:43:20.460 wasn't the same thing it wasn't out of

00:43:22.060 political humiliation as such it was because

00:43:24.300 he'd had all sorts of deal there was some

00:43:26.180 sort of he should have moved aside even

00:43:27.320 earlier really for for gordon brown and um so

00:43:30.480 just to be so humiliated in a political

00:43:33.260 sense that you have to resign is rare and i

00:43:37.160 think most politicians would rather just 0.95

00:43:38.940 crawl on as a lame duck just crawl on with 0.87

00:43:42.080 the really really weak government and just 0.98

00:43:43.700 play out your time rather than that that's

00:43:45.580 sort of the worst it could be to have to

00:43:47.600 do that i imagine there must be a bit of a

00:43:49.120 sunk cost fallacy of well i've come this

00:43:50.960 far so you know how much more worse can it

00:43:53.740 get france is already burning down and

00:43:56.320 imploding and ruined in all sorts of

00:43:58.620 senses so what's another six months matter

00:44:01.520 i'm really france ended in what 1789 would

00:44:05.060 you say it's been it's been all downhill

00:44:07.620 since there also on nixon wasn't it just

00:44:11.460 watergate that forced him to resign so

00:44:14.060 because he made a he made a big mistake

00:44:15.920 there you forced to resign in all the

00:44:17.600 scandal of spying on people's phone calls

00:44:20.120 he should have just passed the patriot

00:44:21.300 act actually actually it's legal for me

00:44:24.140 to do that now it's fine for me to do

00:44:26.100 that you can't do that anymore you don't

00:44:27.920 get people resigning for spying on people

00:44:29.680 anymore it's just like yes i'm spying on

00:44:31.320 you do you have anything to hide why are

00:44:33.060 you concerned about it they sort of gaslight

00:44:34.800 you it's like yes i'm watching you always

00:44:37.480 well it wasn't just the watergate

00:44:39.480 personally actually it wasn't just the

00:44:40.920 watergate break-in if anyone's interested

00:44:42.720 there's a multiple part series on the

00:44:44.980 youtube channel history bro who's that

00:44:46.780 which is an it's just an excellent history

00:44:48.540 channel yes this is an independent review

00:44:51.380 this is not affiliated with anyone on this

00:44:53.540 panel no but there is a multiple part series

00:44:55.820 on there all about watergate and it's not

00:44:57.060 actually really the break-in because it

00:44:58.780 seems like nixon didn't directly all day

00:45:00.360 it's that he lied about it it's that he

00:45:02.160 said he had nothing to do with it didn't

00:45:04.060 know anything about it so he didn't set the

00:45:06.340 fbi to try and call off the cia or all

00:45:08.660 those things and those things were shown

00:45:10.220 to be liars that he had lied to the

00:45:12.800 public on camera multiple multiple times

00:45:15.600 so really that was really you really

00:45:17.400 should have just admitted it and then

00:45:18.720 made it law that he was able to do that

00:45:20.600 yeah yeah

00:45:22.140 america's um okay in uh lemond uh leading

00:45:27.360 french newspaper uh someone who's very

00:45:29.320 close to the national rally leadership an

00:45:31.640 advisor to them said of he's talking

00:45:34.840 about uh barney a but also basically

00:45:37.440 talk about macron's time in power um that

00:45:40.820 he's quote a fallen republican monarch

00:45:43.180 advancing with his shirt open and a rope

00:45:45.780 around his neck up to the next dissolution

00:45:47.920 of parliament i.e up to the next election

00:45:49.540 um that yeah macron is now just he's just

00:45:53.460 waiting it's just a stay of execution this

00:45:55.380 really politically speaking um and so he's

00:45:58.360 done right he will almost certainly lose his

00:46:02.420 position at the next election whether it's in

00:46:04.580 july next year or whenever it is because

00:46:06.400 he's already incredibly popular and this

00:46:08.420 is just another straw on the already

00:46:10.380 broken camel's back really of course being

00:46:12.780 sarcastic there he's very very unpopular

00:46:14.840 isn't he i mean he's been he's been there

00:46:17.860 for quite some while now hasn't he quite a

00:46:19.740 few years now um yeah he's gonna it's gonna

00:46:23.100 need to move aside let someone else do it

00:46:24.740 was it 2015 he got in i can't remember the

00:46:27.700 exact date that sounds about right that

00:46:29.780 feels right is it yeah um so maybe how well

00:46:33.320 france has been going since so maybe next

00:46:35.900 summer will be marine le pen's time maybe

00:46:39.980 we'll see we'll see she can let us down

00:46:42.780 2017 apparently oh okay all right a few

00:46:45.900 years off a lot of bad innings for a french

00:46:49.080 president you know it's obviously no de gaulle

00:46:51.320 but um still got his head on his shoulders

00:46:53.260 that's a start it's embarrassing that over the

00:46:56.520 past few days there's been all of these

00:46:58.040 headlines about us south korean coup

00:47:00.680 macron french government collapse and it's

00:47:03.600 all just so disappointing when you start to

00:47:06.540 look at the reality of this isn't it

00:47:08.080 just all a bit boring everything seems to

00:47:10.460 collapse and reassembles itself as

00:47:12.180 neoliberalism again south korea has the

00:47:14.760 most low testosterone failed coup i've ever

00:47:17.700 seen in my life milled about didn't they

00:47:19.840 yeah they got pushed back by middle-aged

00:47:21.540 bureaucrats and france is just like oh 0.98

00:47:23.980 okay no economic reforms here switch a

00:47:27.680 switch a few people around sorted

00:47:29.300 okay so a few comments then uh dragon lady 1.00

00:47:35.160 chris says just annex france now bring

00:47:38.220 back henry ii's dream even the british

00:47:40.640 government has to be better than what the

00:47:42.340 french have now that's probably actually

00:47:44.580 true to be honest are you saying

00:47:46.640 something remotely positive about the

00:47:48.940 british government it doesn't have to be

00:47:51.340 either or they can both be equally abysmal no

00:47:54.140 i think it was still better i mean the

00:47:56.880 second stream though that's funny the

00:47:58.260 argevin empire will bring back the king

00:48:01.060 of make the king the king of england and

00:48:03.540 france will make france great again yeah

00:48:06.760 as was ordained by god so that's a random

00:48:09.660 name says in 2016 i was called a nazi by

00:48:12.620 my dysgenic french classmates for being 0.74

00:48:15.160 openly pro-trump they were pro-macron and 0.87

00:48:18.020 hated white people despite being white also

00:48:20.680 previous questionable but if you're pro-macron 0.93

00:48:24.880 then yeah you obviously hate yourself don't

00:48:26.680 you also the previous comment was a god of

00:48:30.220 war reference oh the the red tattoos and

00:48:32.940 the weapons right okay the knives on the

00:48:35.940 chains okay i've not played god of war i'm

00:48:37.820 afraid it's good yeah the first three are

00:48:40.080 great the fourth one was hyped up praised

00:48:45.240 critically not as good i don't really game

00:48:48.020 much i'm afraid a bit too old haven't got a

00:48:51.220 good enough computer been playing stalker 2

00:48:54.400 quite a lot started playing silent hill 2

00:48:56.560 recently ps2 emulation thank you very

00:48:58.860 much yeah the last game i was really into

00:49:00.760 was san andreas on the ps2 that's got to be

00:49:03.780 what 20 years ago yeah yeah 20 years ago

00:49:07.320 2004 that is a good one though it's a good

00:49:09.960 one i've got a dusty xbox 360 somewhere my

00:49:12.960 older sister let me play san andreas when i

00:49:14.880 was about eight years old listen foul

00:49:18.000 language i didn't know you had an older

00:49:20.120 sister half sister okay she's uh 17 years

00:49:23.240 older than me and that was that was one of

00:49:25.460 the you don't tell dad i let you do this

00:49:27.440 all right

00:49:27.880 um neo unrealis says in 1968 president

00:49:33.060 linton johnson didn't resign but the

00:49:35.460 vietnam war was so unpopular that he did

00:49:37.560 not run for re-election knowing he'd be

00:49:39.880 blown out yeah yeah so again he didn't

00:49:42.300 resign but chose not to run again uh that in

00:49:47.100 fact that's the reason why dick nixon got

00:49:48.620 in 0.86

00:49:48.860 um yeah dick nixon he won him he did win in a 0.99

00:49:54.800 massive blowout 0.92

00:49:55.640 yeah yeah yeah lbj was extremely unpopular

00:49:59.340 and uh what's that dog breath the third

00:50:02.880 interesting name i had i have long thought

00:50:06.300 that we should have we should have let the

00:50:08.220 germans keep france in 1945

00:50:09.840 everything else in the post world order

00:50:13.160 war order the exact same but germany you

00:50:15.980 know what there you go all right poland we

00:50:18.720 got you but france you can't have any real

00:50:21.640 country of your own but we'll let you rule 0.96

00:50:23.760 france yeah yeah well you've got you've got

00:50:25.960 a lot of leftover prussians that we're

00:50:27.780 kicking out to make way for west poland so 0.66

00:50:30.000 just put them in france we're gonna split

00:50:31.920 your country up between the soviets the

00:50:33.960 americans and the british but your

00:50:35.500 government in exile can rule from paris how

00:50:37.980 about that there you go quite funny that

00:50:41.100 would be great anyway so uh there's been

00:50:44.620 some startling developments in uh british

00:50:47.260 rhetoric recently political rhetoric that

00:50:50.340 being that keir starmer has decided that

00:50:52.260 he's a nasty far-right populist of the

00:50:54.640 kind that he would have arrested and put 0.98

00:50:56.040 in prison

00:50:56.440 just a few months watching our podcast i

00:50:58.720 think because he's coming out with all

00:51:00.020 of our talking certainly his advisors

00:51:02.240 seem to have and it does not help that

00:51:04.680 the tories hello yes hello keir starmer's

00:51:07.320 advisors please tell him to release those

00:51:09.380 people from prison if you're watching

00:51:10.940 right now um the other thing is that

00:51:13.700 obviously the tories voted in as their

00:51:15.760 leader kemi badenok on the basis that

00:51:18.880 she was qualified in the same way that

00:51:20.800 kamala harris was qualified for vp in 0.98

00:51:22.880 2020 that she was black tick woman tick 1.00

00:51:27.340 anything else that she did anything else 0.97

00:51:29.640 that she said any of her beliefs don't 0.64

00:51:31.580 matter she was a black woman that was 1.00

00:51:33.560 enough of the tories the problem was 0.54

00:51:35.240 that was a huge mistake that was a no

00:51:39.260 way massive mistake because right at the

00:51:42.340 time that they do that keir starmer

00:51:44.300 decides that he is a far-right populist

00:51:46.100 that he's going to send them all back and

00:51:48.020 that he is now um just a british

00:51:50.280 nationalist he would have been very

00:51:51.900 good friends with um uh griffiths back in 0.95

00:51:54.680 the day nick griffiths uh griffin

00:51:56.920 whatever his name is who cares um and

00:51:59.940 you can see this from some of the

00:52:01.060 rhetoric he's come out with recently

00:52:02.260 like just this morning he made a speech

00:52:03.940 where he said that the tories deliberately

00:52:06.040 opened britain's borders to cover up the

00:52:08.360 extent of their economic stagnation

00:52:11.480 which is absolutely true again i hate

00:52:14.100 labor i hate keir starmer i think he's 0.57

00:52:16.340 evil as i've made very clear in some of

00:52:17.940 the segments that i've done recently

00:52:18.980 problem is the tories made it so easy

00:52:21.320 for him to do all of this there was 14

00:52:23.460 years of utter ruin and chaos in this

00:52:26.180 country where they promised this we got

00:52:28.660 that they promised lower migration we got

00:52:30.360 higher migration they promised brexit they

00:52:32.360 get brexit through then we get untold

00:52:35.060 numbers of migration that we'd never

00:52:37.300 experienced before in this country after

00:52:39.060 we'd also been already been having record

00:52:40.980 breaking migration for decades we

00:52:43.480 switched europeans for sub-saharan

00:52:46.640 africans indians and middle easterners

00:52:49.600 pakistanis as well throw that in there

00:52:51.940 because of course importing lots of indians 0.58

00:52:53.900 and pakistanis simultaneously

00:52:55.680 populations that are obviously known to

00:52:58.480 get along very well elite human capital you

00:53:00.640 might say yes yeah so we didn't make any

00:53:04.700 improvements there so the tories presented

00:53:07.360 keir starmer with an open goal and the

00:53:09.760 problem with kemi is that she was one of 1.00

00:53:12.000 the people pushing for all of that

00:53:14.820 specifically in 2018 and starmer and the

00:53:18.460 labor party have been going at her for it 1.00

00:53:20.940 so most interestingly labor party's

00:53:23.920 official twitter account released this

00:53:26.140 attack ad just yesterday

00:53:28.040 we got this wrong

00:53:29.820 mistakes were made

00:53:32.640 in particular i'd like to thank the home

00:53:35.900 secretary for removing the annual limits

00:53:37.680 on work visas and also on international

00:53:39.820 students both of which i lobbied for

00:53:41.520 reading

00:53:42.240 reading off her phone reading

00:53:44.680 so yeah back in 2018 kemi badenoff was

00:53:49.780 saying

00:53:50.060 great job you've removed a lot of these

00:53:53.240 limitations on certain visas for work

00:53:55.360 visas and for international students

00:53:57.360 mainly so that she could help get in a

00:53:59.120 load of nigerians because spoiler alert 0.99

00:54:01.240 she is nigerian

00:54:02.240 and presented tories sorry labor with a

00:54:05.780 massive open goal here

00:54:06.740 because there's footage of her doing it

00:54:08.780 and praising the people that did it and

00:54:10.940 she even said that she was a lobbyist

00:54:12.960 for it

00:54:13.800 and then in the most recent pmqs from

00:54:15.980 yesterday

00:54:16.420 sorry the most recent pmqs would be

00:54:18.400 today but yesterday

00:54:19.620 keir starmer hit her again for it

00:54:22.160 mark contrast

00:54:23.260 to behavior in the last 14 years

00:54:26.360 and she talks about immigration

00:54:29.260 record levels of immigration under the

00:54:32.000 previous government

00:54:32.700 nearly a million

00:54:33.860 and she was the cheerleader 1.00

00:54:36.260 she was the one urging on

00:54:37.800 the removal of the caps for work visas

00:54:40.940 she was thanking the previous home

00:54:42.620 secretary for the work was done

00:54:44.220 she championed it she advocated it

00:54:46.200 record numbers of immigration

00:54:47.940 it sounds like keir starmer's going to

00:54:50.600 defect to reform soon isn't it

00:54:52.740 yeah keir starmer's has got his homeland

00:54:54.320 card coming in the post right now

00:54:56.460 it's it is odd to see though isn't it

00:54:59.040 it really is

00:54:59.700 that that shift in the overton window

00:55:02.040 that it's simply i mean not that long

00:55:04.340 ago you just would not have seen a

00:55:06.720 statement from the dispatch box like

00:55:09.400 that the idea that it's a given that

00:55:11.880 it's an unspoken given that giant

00:55:14.140 migration is negative or bad not that 1.00

00:55:17.380 long ago a few years two years ago or

00:55:18.980 something or a year ago that would

00:55:21.020 not have happened and now you know the

00:55:22.840 the the unspoken thing there is that

00:55:25.280 that's certainly bad

00:55:26.540 you don't even have to define it as

00:55:28.680 being bad it's just like obviously it's

00:55:30.300 bad

00:55:30.600 well he basically opened pandora's box

00:55:32.720 the other last week when he made that

00:55:34.400 speech saying that it was an open

00:55:35.680 borders experiment

00:55:36.720 where he went yeah all of the things

00:55:39.040 that we were arresting people for a

00:55:40.520 few months ago all the people that

00:55:41.720 all the populists have been

00:55:43.200 complaining about it's true we admit

00:55:45.740 it i'm in government now i've got

00:55:47.540 access to all of the records i know

00:55:49.660 who did it and they did it on purpose

00:55:51.640 so everything that people have been

00:55:54.020 complaining about is completely true

00:55:55.540 also the unspoken bit is that keir

00:55:58.260 starmer was also very much in favor of

00:56:01.420 that for a long time and through his

00:56:03.080 legal career check my keir starmer's

00:56:05.320 evil history segment for it he made

00:56:07.660 sure to try and keep actual terrorists

00:56:10.120 who'd gotten into this country in this

00:56:12.340 country so keir starmer is not

00:56:14.460 innocent of all of this keir starmer is

00:56:16.440 just as guilty as everybody else if not

00:56:18.620 more so because he wrote the playbook

00:56:20.740 for human rights lawyers on how to keep

00:56:22.700 these people in this country he also

00:56:24.320 was part of a landmark 2003 case that

00:56:26.540 made sure that asylum seekers could claim

00:56:28.480 benefits in asylum whenever they want if

00:56:31.360 they got into the country they didn't 1.00

00:56:32.600 have to claim for it immediately as soon

00:56:35.740 as they got in here as soon as it was

00:56:36.980 reasonable they can just wait whenever

00:56:38.520 it's completely disingenuous that now

00:56:40.820 he's worried now he cares about us having

00:56:43.480 been flooded by by by strangers there's

00:56:47.600 definitely the machinations of Tony Blair

00:56:50.840 possibly going on in the background

00:56:52.560 advising this but it serves two very good

00:56:55.400 purposes which is one it completely

00:56:58.160 undercuts the Tories because they can't

00:57:01.580 make these arguments anymore when they

00:57:03.380 have a literal immigrant in charge of 0.99

00:57:05.980 them well the Tories will might even try

00:57:09.000 and flank Labour to the left if keir

00:57:11.040 starmer is positioning what they're best

00:57:12.540 at the right past them is what they're

00:57:14.700 best at you're being mean now you're the

00:57:16.920 mean party here and the second thing is

00:57:19.780 it also undercuts reform yeah it hit other

00:57:23.320 than some people like was highlighted

00:57:25.000 yesterday with Connor's segment like

00:57:27.000 Rupert Lowe keir starmer's rhetoric

00:57:29.800 essentially has been to the right of

00:57:31.800 both of his main opposition parties since

00:57:34.620 he started doing this and it's what

00:57:36.240 Blair used to do yeah made him such a

00:57:38.800 good political animal and of course

00:57:40.800 sorry sorry just I was just gonna say

00:57:43.020 although I know starmer and Blair's

00:57:45.360 relationship is strange to the point of

00:57:47.660 perhaps no contact because they've

00:57:49.720 directly and publicly sent out potshots at

00:57:53.420 each other I imagine this could be

00:57:55.980 something that's happened organically

00:57:57.700 in starmer's camp himself I was I also

00:58:00.220 wouldn't be shocked if maybe he has

00:58:02.000 gone back to Blair and been like listen

00:58:03.660 my poll numbers are at record lows I

00:58:06.600 might be the most unpopular prime

00:58:08.300 minister ever after only a few months I

00:58:11.000 do need your help comes crawling back

00:58:12.920 yeah they all go crawling back to turn

00:58:14.680 as I say but of course I don't believe

00:58:18.540 any of it whatever no matter how strong

00:58:22.400 the rhetoric is from starmer until I

00:58:26.040 actually see the streets and towns of

00:58:28.940 this country have less foreigners that

00:58:33.260 obviously come straight over then till I

00:58:37.100 see that I don't believe any of it I

00:58:38.940 don't believe any of it he could he could

00:58:40.480 stand at the dispatch box or go on news

00:58:43.780 night or whatever and talk an extremely

00:58:46.500 tough game way way stronger he could

00:58:49.220 say I promise to deport millions of

00:58:51.160 people until any of it happens I don't

00:58:54.340 believe it simply don't believe it well

00:58:56.340 they've been trying to highlight some of

00:58:57.920 the improvements since their government

00:59:00.100 came in like the 20% reduction on net

00:59:02.240 migration since last year which hate to 0.91

00:59:04.840 give them the credit for it probably is

00:59:06.160 more to do with the sort of home office

00:59:07.660 changes that were made under the Tories

00:59:09.080 earlier this year they also wanted to

00:59:11.180 highlight oh we've sent 10,000 people

00:59:12.940 back dropping the ocean yeah it is a

00:59:15.580 drop in the ocean and one of the ways

00:59:17.900 that they're going to be clearing the

00:59:18.940 asylum backlog is also going to be

00:59:21.200 absolutely fast tracking it we've

00:59:22.880 covered how the home office itself the

00:59:24.960 asylum decision makers system the

00:59:27.740 office-based quota system that it set

00:59:30.220 up incentivizes them to just rubber

00:59:32.040 stamp them straight through and the

00:59:34.340 asylum seekers know this the refugees

00:59:36.440 the illegals they know this so they 0.85

00:59:38.360 know how to game the system either way

00:59:40.300 is made it very very easy even a few

00:59:42.300 weeks ago people were talking about how

00:59:44.000 Kemi Badenoch is not going to be the

00:59:45.940 leader that the Tories hope that she is

00:59:47.480 and that was very obvious let's see

00:59:49.440 some of the second-order effects or the

00:59:51.200 direct effects of her lobbying for less

00:59:54.400 restrictions on student visas for

00:59:56.540 instance so this was a BBC report that

00:59:58.440 came out on Monday sorry Tuesday

01:00:01.340 talking about universities enrolling

01:00:03.560 foreign students with poor English BBC 0.99

01:00:05.740 and BBC investigation fans so I'll just

01:00:08.560 go through some of the info here so it's

01:00:10.260 talking about a woman called Yasmin who

01:00:12.520 came that's not her real name who came 0.98

01:00:14.100 from Iran to study for a master's

01:00:15.700 degree at a university in the UK but

01:00:17.960 she was shocked to find many of her

01:00:19.340 students had limited English and only

01:00:21.240 one or two was British that's what we

01:00:23.100 want in our prestigious universities how

01:00:25.200 is it possible to continue this

01:00:26.600 coursework without understanding a

01:00:28.000 British accent or English properly was a 0.61

01:00:30.620 question she asked most students the

01:00:32.940 report this investigation found paid

01:00:35.540 other people to do their coursework and

01:00:37.960 some would pay people to register their

01:00:39.960 attendance at lectures for them could

01:00:43.260 you be any more dishonest my experience

01:00:45.780 most of the foreign students who

01:00:49.300 didn't speak English were Chinese and it 0.99

01:00:52.340 was an basically an open secret some my

01:00:54.900 bath right you see lots of Chinese 1.00

01:00:56.740 students hanging around bath yeah and I

01:00:58.920 mean for my course as well it was one of

01:01:02.020 the best in the world and so you've got

01:01:04.320 to wonder hang on a minute how did they

01:01:05.580 qualify to get into this very

01:01:08.520 competitive course very difficult to get

01:01:10.200 into and they don't even speak the

01:01:13.200 language that the course is taught in

01:01:14.800 and then I realized oh right everyone

01:01:16.960 knows and it's just a money-making

01:01:18.960 operation and they basically give them a

01:01:21.600 passing grade and send them home and 0.90

01:01:23.920 one of the lecturers just stated

01:01:25.480 explicitly like listen I know how this

01:01:28.540 works you know as long as you're here

01:01:31.080 and you're competing for the top grades

01:01:33.280 that's that's the important thing you

01:01:34.460 know the university's got to pay its way

01:01:35.860 something along those lines as foreign

01:01:37.760 students their fees are like what three

01:01:39.960 times twice three well about thirty

01:01:41.860 thousand pounds right so the uni just

01:01:44.260 see one year dollar signs in their eyes

01:01:46.420 just bring over foreign people because 1.00

01:01:48.080 we'll raise them for money it says here

01:01:50.180 explicitly fees for overseas students

01:01:52.340 studying England have no upper limit so

01:01:55.040 you can charge as much as they're

01:01:56.520 willing to pay says postgraduate fees

01:01:58.280 are not capped so a master's degree at an

01:01:59.960 elite university could cost 50 grand

01:02:02.540 it doesn't even need to end there but

01:02:04.820 that might be where they've just said

01:02:05.900 it for right now do you know how much I

01:02:07.720 paid as a domestic student who also you

01:02:11.820 know had good grades that bumped it down

01:02:14.460 for me four and a half grand I paid for my

01:02:17.760 postgrad yeah for a year so that's that's

01:02:20.220 not much actually he's making a lot more

01:02:22.360 money from these people Joe Grady from

01:02:24.820 the UCU which represents 120,000 lecturers

01:02:27.640 and university staff says it's an open

01:02:29.560 secret just like you were saying but from

01:02:31.180 one of your lecturers that students who

01:02:33.280 lack English skills find ways to come to

01:02:35.380 the UK to study about seven out of ten

01:02:38.080 students studying on master's courses in

01:02:39.920 England are now from overseas seven in

01:02:43.180 ten far higher than on other types of

01:02:45.960 higher education course and Yasmin it says

01:02:50.200 paid 16,000 pounds for her course on

01:02:53.960 international finance at a university in

01:02:57.140 southern England she later found out that

01:02:59.800 of the 100 students on most of her modules

01:03:02.300 maybe 80 or 90 of them bought assignments

01:03:05.820 from so-called essay mills based overseas

01:03:09.020 you even have them recruiting in Britain

01:03:11.340 I've seen a few of them where it's just

01:03:13.420 like it was it was sort of like it was

01:03:17.180 advertised as an article writing business

01:03:20.460 and then I did some digging on the business

01:03:23.020 and looked it up this is before I came to

01:03:26.080 apply to work for here and yeah it turns

01:03:29.520 out it was trying to write essays for

01:03:32.000 university students and that's why they're

01:03:33.660 being all coy about it is that you're

01:03:35.880 basically writing it for the students and

01:03:39.340 you're the amount you get paid also is

01:03:41.420 contingent on the grade they get as well

01:03:43.400 and these people are supposedly you know

01:03:45.420 they'll be going on to careers presumably

01:03:47.800 in these kinds of fields in China yeah in

01:03:50.740 in China or maybe they'll stay over here

01:03:52.920 if they've taken a medical course and

01:03:55.000 you're supposed to believe that they're

01:03:56.480 qualified now well there's the idea of

01:03:58.440 chain migration that once they've been

01:03:59.820 here a few years you're just allowed to

01:04:02.160 say well I'll bring loads of my family

01:04:05.260 over here as well I looked at the data

01:04:06.880 for this and I think it was 65% go back

01:04:11.260 home and then something like 30% off the

01:04:15.100 top of my head I think it was something

01:04:16.440 like that now is I think it might have been

01:04:18.340 33% or something in that order of

01:04:20.120 magnitude have a short term visa and the

01:04:22.700 remaining 75 of that 30 initial 35%

01:04:27.240 actually stay on a long-term basis so

01:04:30.100 there seems to be a significant number of

01:04:32.900 them there's there's new information from

01:04:34.720 the migration observatory that shows that

01:04:36.960 that's going up but carry just that chain

01:04:40.240 of things so you come over here from a

01:04:43.320 foreign country and then you don't even

01:04:46.820 necessarily attend you can pay someone

01:04:51.380 else or somehow just fiddle it so that

01:04:53.600 someone do your assignment and then and

01:04:55.320 then the actual work itself doing the

01:04:57.180 essays and things you pay someone else

01:04:59.360 so you probably just get AI to do it now

01:05:01.000 right probably go on AI oh yeah write me a

01:05:03.480 decent article a decent essay about XYZ and

01:05:07.420 say like what that's that's highlighted in

01:05:09.600 this article as well apparently the AI is

01:05:11.680 so good that it can defeat current

01:05:13.840 anti-plagiarism software as well so you

01:05:16.260 can just get it past all of the

01:05:17.480 safeguards because there are no

01:05:18.720 safeguards the only safeguard that would

01:05:20.460 matter is that the lecturers know that

01:05:22.660 they do this but the lecturers are also

01:05:24.820 incentivized because the university's like

01:05:26.420 we're making loads of money off these

01:05:27.720 people and they're probably lefties as

01:05:29.340 well because it's also worth mentioning

01:05:32.020 as well that some of these plagiarism

01:05:33.400 softwares have false positive because I

01:05:35.260 remember they had software even when I

01:05:36.880 was there many years back because I was

01:05:39.900 writing a paper that was quite

01:05:41.480 neurosciencey and jargony there are lots

01:05:44.220 of turns of phrase that are pretty

01:05:45.560 stock and so it actually flagged it up

01:05:48.020 as being like 40% plagiarized even

01:05:50.560 though I'm just like I'm just using the

01:05:52.000 language of my discipline I did write

01:05:54.560 this you can copy and paste any section

01:05:56.800 and you won't find anything like that

01:05:58.720 likely story Josh it was for AI when I

01:06:02.600 was at undergrad so just could there was

01:06:04.260 no well there was no AI then either but

01:06:06.780 but my lecturer said oh right actually

01:06:09.260 that's pretty common to get that level

01:06:11.080 of percentage when you start worrying

01:06:14.540 it's like 70% plus but then that also

01:06:17.520 begs the question of couldn't you use an

01:06:19.040 AI and just rewrite and fiddle some bits

01:06:20.960 around either way it's actually illegal

01:06:23.780 to do any of that it says here it's a

01:06:26.380 criminal offense to complete work for a

01:06:28.780 student which they pass off as their own

01:06:30.240 Yasmin the center of this article said

01:06:33.280 said that she told her tutor what was

01:06:35.200 happening and he did nothing so again

01:06:37.720 the safe the only safeguard that

01:06:39.940 seemingly shouldn't be able to be

01:06:41.860 bypassed because it's you know a human

01:06:43.680 being doesn't care okay okay shrug your

01:06:46.480 shoulders a Russell Group University

01:06:48.300 professor who taught at several

01:06:50.200 universities and wanted to remain

01:06:51.580 anonymous for this article said that

01:06:53.680 he told the BBC that 70% of his

01:06:56.680 students at master's degree level over

01:06:59.220 the past five years did not have

01:07:01.020 sufficient English to be on the course

01:07:03.660 they couldn't speak English well

01:07:05.120 enough to be on the course they're on

01:07:06.460 the course anyway professors told us

01:07:08.200 that he had to adapt his teaching

01:07:09.700 technique I bet and so students even

01:07:12.360 use translation apps in class but the

01:07:15.600 universities are making huge amounts

01:07:17.460 of money off it so who cares thank you

01:07:21.140 Kemi thank you very much for that one

01:07:22.780 some other information that just came

01:07:24.600 out most popular boys name in England

01:07:26.840 and Wales can you guess what it's

01:07:28.120 gonna be Mohammed yeah how many years 0.99

01:07:32.500 in a row is that now I wonder it might

01:07:34.460 have been that way in certain cities but

01:07:36.780 across the whole of England and Wales

01:07:38.480 the ONS shows here that is actually

01:07:42.880 gone up so it was probably two or three

01:07:45.820 but you can see here it's gone up so

01:07:48.280 it's only just as of last year hit the

01:07:51.100 top spot are we proud gentlemen this is

01:07:54.260 what Alfred fought for that we bought

01:07:57.440 but we bought back fought back the

01:07:59.140 Vikings created a global empire beat

01:08:03.420 the Germans Mohammed or to be fair 0.99

01:08:06.520 they're not particularly creative in

01:08:08.200 the Islamic world with their men's 1.00

01:08:09.720 names they've got basically Mohammed

01:08:11.120 Abdul and a few others and that's

01:08:13.740 about it all Muslim men supposed to be 0.84

01:08:16.640 called Mohammed whether it's your 0.83

01:08:17.660 middle could be your middle name one of

01:08:19.860 your names should be Mohammed I think

01:08:22.180 or boy either way it is still an

01:08:26.120 alarming yeah it shouldn't be in the

01:08:28.520 top hundred let alone number one it

01:08:30.580 just shows that there is a mass of

01:08:32.840 Islamic foreign men in this country 0.55

01:08:35.320 who should not be here deportation is a 0.98

01:08:37.360 lot easier when you just go M well

01:08:41.840 there we go yeah got a good list M you

01:08:45.660 there they all are got them and then

01:08:48.660 there's also the figures that have come

01:08:49.960 out from the ONS again well actually it

01:08:52.920 was Rupert Lowe who found some of this

01:08:54.800 Callum posted of course his his graphs

01:08:57.140 because Callum loves his graphs 2022 to

01:08:59.460 23 1,218,000 new foreigners allowed in

01:09:03.580 almost half a million immediately sign

01:09:06.120 on to Universal Credit 41 percent of

01:09:08.700 them thank you Kemi thank you very much

01:09:13.360 and then again one of the problems with

01:09:16.120 all of these figures that we have is

01:09:18.100 even the figures that are released to

01:09:19.760 the public are questionable and

01:09:22.840 constantly being revised so recently as

01:09:25.400 part of that 10,000 people who were

01:09:27.220 deported so-called deported which was

01:09:29.780 all part of the headlines because of

01:09:31.180 course Labour wants to take a hard

01:09:32.800 stance against migration you use the

01:09:34.400 deport word everybody knows okay we're

01:09:36.940 hard line against this right weren't

01:09:39.880 really deported so apparently 600 UK

01:09:43.960 Brazilians had been deported earlier on

01:09:46.960 in this week back to Brazil Brazil

01:09:50.200 themselves actually say no it was part

01:09:52.540 of a voluntary scheme they deported

01:09:55.380 themselves yeah so they chose to deport

01:09:57.420 it so maybe Labour is not actually going as

01:10:00.320 hard line as they would like you to think

01:10:02.420 it's also not the Brazilians that are

01:10:03.880 causing lots of problems either yes that's

01:10:06.980 that's true but still they should go back

01:10:09.660 and then you get the information that

01:10:12.340 came out recently the migration

01:10:15.780 observatory pointing out that the data

01:10:18.260 is constantly being revised upwards so

01:10:21.720 in 2023 we saw that it had been revised

01:10:23.940 from about 700 and something thousand to

01:10:27.120 906 thousand which meant that Labour

01:10:29.560 could brag that they'd reduced it by 20%

01:10:31.700 when they released their figures for this

01:10:33.480 year of 728 thousand but also the year

01:10:37.060 it now believes that net migration in

01:10:41.000 calendar year 2022 which was originally

01:10:43.780 published as being 606 thousand still

01:10:46.740 far too much was in fact 872 thousand

01:10:50.960 that is a massive order of magnitude off

01:10:53.340 yeah so can we trust the figures that

01:10:55.600 have been released this year 728 thousand

01:10:58.440 net still far too much even if they want

01:11:00.660 to brag about it being a reduction can we

01:11:04.340 trust that five years from now two years

01:11:06.800 from now next year they're not going to

01:11:08.100 say actually it was over a million

01:11:09.240 actually it was this however much and

01:11:12.960 it's it's ridiculous they are hiding all

01:11:15.300 of this from you they say it results from

01:11:17.180 the ONS receiving more complete travel

01:11:19.580 data and adding tens of thousands of

01:11:21.280 Ukrainians who had been missed in the

01:11:23.760 data due to an error you can just well

01:11:26.680 just an error can miss the data and mean

01:11:29.080 that all of a sudden oh sorry we just

01:11:30.500 found a little over 200,000 extra people

01:11:33.200 in the country doesn't feel you full of

01:11:35.320 confidence does it bottom line is regardless

01:11:37.820 of the number they give you is is my town

01:11:41.980 or city center flooded with foreign people

01:11:44.940 that don't speak English and apparently

01:11:46.700 aren't doing any work and are a menace

01:11:49.380 well yeah it is they are yeah and just do

01:11:53.240 it just to finish off as well they point

01:11:54.940 out here as well emigration also did rise

01:11:57.240 driven by more international students

01:11:58.900 leaving the UK however international students

01:12:02.660 have also at the same time become more

01:12:05.180 likely to remain in the UK after their

01:12:06.960 studies referring back to what you were

01:12:08.940 talking about and are still departing at

01:12:11.500 lower rates than in the past in the year

01:12:13.580 ending June 2024 the UK granted 198,000

01:12:18.380 graduate visas to former international

01:12:20.280 students an increased share of students

01:12:22.220 have also been switching into long-term work

01:12:24.140 visas that offer a path to permanent status

01:12:27.340 that's why I don't particularly buy the

01:12:30.140 argument that if we just stop the

01:12:32.360 bleeding just stop all new people coming

01:12:34.020 in they'll be fine because in a few years

01:12:35.980 most of them will leave I don't but I

01:12:37.320 don't think so no if you didn't have to

01:12:39.840 why would you go back to Bangladesh or

01:12:43.080 Pakistan if you didn't have to well 1.00

01:12:45.060 yeah it's obviously still better here yeah

01:12:47.120 of course

01:12:47.500 it's easy for you to just sign up for

01:12:50.800 benefits and then even if do who knows

01:12:52.740 what on the black market even if we cut off

01:12:54.580 their benefits it's still better here still

01:12:57.220 way way better so there's only one

01:13:00.520 solution is that we're gonna have to

01:13:01.760 nationalize Deliveroo

01:13:02.860 change the hiring status either way

01:13:08.320 there you go so thanks for all that

01:13:10.080 Tories thanks for all that labor thanks

01:13:12.000 for all that Kemi Starmer I don't trust

01:13:15.140 you as far as I can throw you now we're

01:13:17.620 off of YouTube I think that what needs to

01:13:22.000 happen is that we need to not only

01:13:24.420 deport these people but take their 0.98

01:13:25.940 assets to pay for the money they've

01:13:27.440 taken out of the system otherwise it's

01:13:28.980 just a legal raid on the British people 0.95

01:13:32.220 yeah you know there's the argument of

01:13:34.560 we'll pay people to leave absolutely

01:13:36.740 not yeah my take my view on that is no

01:13:39.320 way well they'll pay for that they'll pay

01:13:41.800 us back for their deportation not only

01:13:44.160 will they have to pay for the privilege

01:13:45.640 of being deported we'll take their 1.00

01:13:47.780 possessions if they've taken money out of

01:13:49.460 our system so that you know they've at

01:13:52.260 least covered the cost of what they've

01:13:54.100 done and if they're a foreign criminal 0.62

01:13:55.760 I'm happy to take all of it I don't care

01:13:57.660 another thing that really grinds my gears

01:14:00.060 is you see everywhere in Britain is

01:14:03.000 adverts for money transfer send money

01:14:06.720 home send money back to Nigeria or

01:14:09.240 Bangladesh or whatever this was their

01:14:11.400 home I thought I thought they're just as

01:14:14.100 British as the rest of us so surely this

01:14:15.720 is their homeland now right it's like that 0.93

01:14:19.160 it's like that bloody what's her name 1.00

01:14:21.020 that ream woman who last year was post 1.00

01:14:24.060 got really upset because she posted that

01:14:25.840 she was in Morocco was like so nice to

01:14:27.700 be back in the homeland oh but I thought

01:14:29.600 you were British I thought this was a 1.00

01:14:32.160 wee thing that whenever you're here it's

01:14:34.200 wee wee wee but then all of a sudden you

01:14:35.840 go over back to Morocco and that's home 1.00

01:14:38.240 and it feels so nice to be home well why

01:14:40.060 don't you stay there yeah well didn't she 0.99

01:14:42.500 despicable scumbag obviously she posted as 1.00

01:14:45.500 well that was it without immigration 1.00

01:14:50.060 Britain would be nothing or something

01:14:51.800 like that and then I posted loads of

01:14:53.380 pictures of all of the beautiful

01:14:54.720 buildings in the lovely countryside that

01:14:56.620 we had long before there was any

01:14:58.140 immigration at all to be fair she's 0.99

01:14:59.700 right if it weren't for those Saxons and 1.00

01:15:01.900 Jutes and all sorts coming over then we

01:15:05.140 would be nothing maybe we'd still be

01:15:07.180 something Celts I'm I'm a Celt thank you

01:15:10.780 very much exactly I think you've got

01:15:12.500 mostly Celt in you weirdo I'm 89% English 0.50

01:15:16.520 thank you very much which still is very

01:15:18.220 Celtic exactly it's way after anyway

01:15:20.880 Britain in the 16th early 17th century

01:15:23.400 was no big shakes by the 18th century we

01:15:26.420 dominated the world so it's not even

01:15:29.620 really it's not like the Jutes and the

01:15:31.800 Angles and the Saxons that's like well 0.98

01:15:33.640 over a thousand years before that it's

01:15:35.220 there it's there descendants actually

01:15:39.220 British English people that I'm just

01:15:41.520 making the joke if they hadn't come

01:15:43.400 over we wouldn't have descended from

01:15:44.620 them in the first place actually Harry

01:15:46.020 it was it was all those you can get

01:15:47.980 your fedoras afterwards all right it was all the

01:15:50.380 Moroccans in the 18th century which

01:15:52.140 transformed the British Navy into a

01:15:53.720 world-beating yeah yeah that's all those

01:15:55.660 Moroccan industrialists that's what it

01:15:57.600 was yeah I've got some yeah there's some

01:16:00.500 rumble rants here so we should go

01:16:01.780 through them before video comments

01:16:02.960 that's a random name it's the same thing

01:16:04.880 here in Quebec lots of foreign students

01:16:06.800 who speak no French or English when I was

01:16:08.960 in uni you would know if assault subcontinental

01:16:11.420 had been in the bathroom because of the

01:16:13.100 giant turd on the floor if any

01:16:15.980 Stelios were here I'd love that yeah

01:16:17.540 probably actually true dragon lady 0.99

01:16:19.520 Chris I edited a paper for a friend of

01:16:21.560 mine just fixing spelling and grammar and

01:16:23.000 the like the instructor gave it a C because

01:16:25.100 quote it's too good she was sure he had

01:16:29.000 plagiarized it but couldn't prove it 0.99

01:16:31.580 that's the sort of crap I would I would 0.99

01:16:34.880 go nuclear on that's that's I would take 1.00

01:16:38.340 them to tribunal and stuff over that

01:16:40.040 well I mean honestly from my own time in

01:16:42.920 university I hated most of the lecturers

01:16:46.540 anyway because it was so easy especially

01:16:49.880 for the girls to brown nose the lecturers

01:16:52.520 right especially when it came to that final

01:16:54.600 year you see all of the girls brown 0.86

01:16:57.660 nosing all of the lecturers getting all of

01:16:59.420 the support for their projects and you'd

01:17:01.400 just get left in the lurch so I

01:17:03.120 immediately just learned basically oh

01:17:04.520 this is how politics works is it I

01:17:07.060 noticed that in my master's course

01:17:08.480 even like you would get the girls

01:17:10.600 saying so what would you argue in this

01:17:12.700 essay just trying to figure out because

01:17:14.680 they'll be marking it what argument

01:17:16.320 they're favorable towards so you slimy 0.99

01:17:18.860 bitch it's a story as old as I blame 1.00

01:17:21.180 the lecturers why like it's a story as 0.99

01:17:22.560 old as time isn't it university

01:17:23.780 lecturers get lecturers more like yeah

01:17:27.080 lecturers trying to get some action off

01:17:29.940 the undergrads or the younger good

01:17:31.400 looking postgrads yeah yeah of course

01:17:34.180 and I also remember just the most bs

01:17:36.920 petty thing so obviously I did like a

01:17:38.460 media degree and you study different

01:17:40.240 types of acting and the differences

01:17:42.180 between them are incredibly minute and

01:17:44.280 you have to be very specific in how you

01:17:46.640 mark them out so I was talking about

01:17:48.380 one thing in an essay and said oh well

01:17:50.140 this is this particular kind of acting

01:17:52.280 and then the lecturer replies and when he

01:17:54.700 when he marked like actually no no it was

01:17:56.700 this incredibly well related and

01:17:58.860 basically indistinguishable type of

01:18:01.180 acting but it's that instead so you've

01:18:03.000 got this wrong so I'm going to mark you

01:18:04.220 down for it

01:18:04.940 oh yeah good yeah if a lecturer doesn't

01:18:08.640 like it yeah because it's mainly at their

01:18:10.600 discretion what mark they give you

01:18:11.880 roughly if it's a humanities based thing

01:18:13.420 because I did humanities I did

01:18:14.320 classics right ancient history it's

01:18:16.360 almost entirely at their discretion

01:18:17.560 whether they want to be nice to you

01:18:19.600 when it comes to marking or not yeah

01:18:21.520 terrible terrible really yeah also they

01:18:23.960 they all got a bit of a feel for me and

01:18:26.040 within a few months of my first year

01:18:28.080 because I realized very very early on

01:18:30.200 into my first year I'm not learning

01:18:31.640 anything that I don't already know

01:18:33.340 because I you know worked for a few

01:18:35.360 years and when you work in a call

01:18:36.780 center you end up getting a lot of

01:18:38.120 free time so I just google stuff and I

01:18:41.580 knew a lot of media trivia and also

01:18:44.500 just meet how a lot of media works and

01:18:46.540 media analysis from that so I'd be the

01:18:48.500 guy answering all the questions right in

01:18:50.880 the lectures when they would put

01:18:51.940 questions out to anybody and they just

01:18:53.260 got sick of me they got sick of me

01:18:55.500 already knowing the answer to

01:18:56.800 everything so they just decided they

01:18:58.480 didn't like me from that point onwards

01:18:59.900 sorry you're too good a student you 0.73

01:19:02.340 know too much so we're gonna punish you 0.98

01:19:03.860 for it thanks dickheads well in my 0.97

01:19:06.760 master's dissertation I did a form of

01:19:09.720 statistical analysis of binary data and

01:19:13.360 the person marking it's just like I've

01:19:14.880 never seen this before and you seem to

01:19:17.380 know what you're talking about so I'll

01:19:18.540 just mark it as if it's correct oh I

01:19:21.280 mean I'll take it it was correct

01:19:22.900 because I was incredibly pedantic about

01:19:27.860 how I went about my data analysis and

01:19:31.340 was very thorough and did pay attention

01:19:33.140 a lot of that stuff but but still the

01:19:35.620 principle is that they just sort of took

01:19:37.160 me at my word that I was right so it's

01:19:40.380 like well it kind of feels like you know

01:19:41.940 your stuff so I'm just gonna say you're

01:19:43.300 right which doesn't feel like a bit

01:19:45.560 marking carrying on Ryan Hinnigan says in

01:19:49.680 the Arabic tradition your middle name is

01:19:51.540 your father's first name regardless of

01:19:53.280 gender makes tracking paternal lineage 0.71

01:19:54.980 very easy good to know occupant 42 if

01:19:58.320 they can call voluntary re-migration

01:20:00.440 deported can't we just deport them and 0.99

01:20:02.180 call it emigration good question yeah I

01:20:05.900 mean it's all about media perception

01:20:07.500 right perception management so look

01:20:09.380 repatriation I think that's better he's 1.00

01:20:11.300 sending them back to their home you know

01:20:12.980 deported might sound a little bit scary

01:20:15.420 repatriation they're just going home 0.94

01:20:17.360 there you go going home get lots of

01:20:20.340 along not here anyway let's go on to the

01:20:23.200 video comments in the summer I like to

01:20:27.440 touch the floors in the summer I like to

01:20:35.480 watch the bees in the summer I collect

01:20:41.440 berries and fruits in summer the garden

01:20:46.960 is green when winter comes and dream

01:20:52.120 about spring

01:20:53.600 that's very nice

01:20:58.440 any more sounds then

01:21:01.280 we were told that we were going to meet

01:21:06.780 with the home office and circo nobody

01:21:09.820 showed at all

01:21:11.040 we watched this one the other day

01:21:12.880 but this government infinitely worse and

01:21:15.460 I don't think they care about us you can't

01:21:17.700 avoid talking about this without it becoming

01:21:20.880 a political discussion it's not just a

01:21:23.880 community thing this is across the

01:21:26.060 country and there are more and more

01:21:28.120 people like us and more hotels so when

01:21:32.000 we've seen that one already I hadn't seen

01:21:38.300 it that was altringham the altringham

01:21:40.480 community recently one of the hotels has

01:21:43.020 been appropriated by the home office for

01:21:44.820 migrants coming in and the hotel is 0.53

01:21:46.320 directly opposite a primary school and

01:21:48.620 there are two other schools within

01:21:50.200 walking distance with only a few minutes

01:21:52.120 so people are annoyed it's also where that

01:21:53.940 information was coming out about oh

01:21:55.900 they're not getting they're coming in

01:21:57.620 here and getting NHS and the people at

01:21:59.580 the community meeting were like no

01:22:01.860 no they're not going to get the NHS

01:22:02.920 they're basically going to get private

01:22:04.000 health care instead so everybody there

01:22:06.900 is furious and Rupert Lowe found

01:22:09.900 through speaking to the home office

01:22:11.460 that the home office's way of going

01:22:14.120 about it is they just don't tell

01:22:15.440 communities when they're about to do

01:22:16.640 that sort of thing got it that softly

01:22:19.300 spoken well-meaning chap who's a Nazi 0.98

01:22:21.540 got it oh yeah I'm glad that you can

01:22:24.100 cut straight through the BS all right

01:22:26.240 next one I never married mainly because

01:22:29.400 despite being attracted to women I find

01:22:31.400 their minds utterly impenetrable the

01:22:33.660 reaction to the new snow white had me

01:22:35.500 thinking of the superior but lesser

01:22:37.140 told tale of the sleeping beauty I've

01:22:39.680 never come across this analysis but I

01:22:41.240 think that perhaps it's a tale that

01:22:42.560 describes women who are mollycoddled by 0.98

01:22:44.220 their parents and start their lives out

01:22:45.900 in a sleeping state unawake to the world

01:22:48.240 and often throwing up a shield of thorns

01:22:49.980 around them through which the prince must

01:22:51.500 battle to hopefully reveal the princess

01:22:53.120 within increasingly however there tends

01:22:55.600 to be a hysterical cat woman 0.99

01:22:57.080 that was actually very good analysis

01:23:00.520 there I like that I've not seen that

01:23:02.740 analysis of sleeping beauty either

01:23:04.260 the new snow white dwarves look like 1.00

01:23:06.400 nightmare fuel I don't know they're

01:23:08.800 horrifying yeah they're weird looking

01:23:10.180 really weird I should have just got

01:23:11.940 crazy looking Peter Dinklage to play

01:23:14.100 all seven of them that's what he would

01:23:16.020 have preferred right he's like I'm the

01:23:17.180 only dwarf in Hollywood

01:23:18.780 dwarf mafia

01:23:21.380 that's what I mean he is slightly taller

01:23:25.780 than most of them as well so he'd tower

01:23:28.480 over Warwick Davis

01:23:29.480 Warwick Davis would be his court jester

01:23:32.240 it's a dwarf hierarchy

01:23:34.700 there almost certainly is let's go on

01:23:37.660 with the written comments

01:23:38.900 destiny's love of sausage says at this

01:23:41.940 point Haiti is just reminding me of that 1.00

01:23:44.160 just one giant Far Cry game I can't

01:23:46.080 wait for Lord Miles to lead an

01:23:47.140 uprising against general barbecue

01:23:48.600 Baron von Warhawk says Haiti needs 0.99

01:23:51.140 to ban tactical assault sticks they

01:23:52.800 need common sense stick laws to keep

01:23:54.480 them out of guys like barbecue and

01:23:57.740 Lord Nerevar says amazing that even

01:23:59.480 Kenyans are capable of better

01:24:00.700 architectural design than the Haitians 1.00

01:24:02.440 I mean the trail behind that thing is

01:24:04.700 better than the rest of Port-au-Prince

01:24:06.500 right that's true yeah and finally

01:24:10.700 Ward Wooty Tai says Harry was

01:24:13.880 referencing referring to Richard

01:24:16.200 Russell aka the Sky King who stole a

01:24:18.820 civilian airliner flew it around for a

01:24:20.680 while and then crashed it into a

01:24:21.860 mountain it's been widely reported

01:24:24.000 that when the air traffic controller

01:24:25.440 said that Alaska Airlines would

01:24:27.800 probably give him a job if he

01:24:29.300 successfully landed the plane

01:24:30.520 Russell said something like yeah

01:24:31.800 right I'm a white guy yeah see see I

01:24:34.940 thought so I thought so thank you for

01:24:36.820 clearing a lot of that up by the way

01:24:38.220 it's a very interesting but very very

01:24:40.960 sad story because as far as I'm aware

01:24:42.880 he was actually really really good at

01:24:44.660 flying it as well again he was you

01:24:46.720 know doing loop-de-loops and all sorts

01:24:48.200 of tricks although he did crash and he

01:24:50.220 did it on purpose did he did he though

01:24:53.000 yeah he was that what he said he did a

01:24:55.080 big like sad send-off to the airline

01:24:57.460 controllers oh really yeah he said you

01:24:59.860 know like it's something like it's it's

01:25:02.200 time for me to bring it down now and

01:25:03.700 then he crashed it on purpose it's a

01:25:06.540 it's a very sad story but everything

01:25:08.700 before he killed himself was kind of

01:25:10.720 cool

01:25:10.980 you can say that about Nirvana no you

01:25:15.320 can't oh that's going to be in the

01:25:16.660 out of context isn't it you want to go

01:25:18.240 through the

01:25:18.660 um okay Cole's underground cache of

01:25:22.160 irradiated Frey Bentos

01:25:23.500 brilliant

01:25:25.200 that's a great name

01:25:26.800 um with this amount of chaos disgusting

01:25:29.380 quote-unquote food unhygienic streets and

01:25:32.300 having to speak French it was only a

01:25:33.900 matter of time before their country

01:25:35.060 fell apart hang on am I talking about

01:25:36.780 France or Haiti 0.98

01:25:37.580 choice really he's here all week

01:25:41.180 people yeah that's the the legacy of

01:25:43.260 the French there Macron was actually

01:25:44.640 wrong

01:25:45.080 they adopted French culture it was

01:25:49.040 France all along 0.99

01:25:50.120 Matt D says I looked at BBC news for

01:25:53.560 the first time in ages to read about

01:25:54.900 France

01:25:55.300 they're not even pretending anymore

01:25:57.180 they just talk about the left and

01:25:59.040 the far right in the same sentence it's

01:26:00.900 just shameful

01:26:01.380 yeah yeah far right it's honestly

01:26:04.060 anything that is remotely right of

01:26:06.620 sort of centre left is the far right

01:26:08.860 that really is exactly what it is now

01:26:10.360 isn't it

01:26:10.780 well many people that are getting called

01:26:12.820 far right would have been leftists in

01:26:15.720 about I don't know 30 years ago

01:26:17.800 yeah

01:26:18.380 they're 90s liberals mostly yeah it's 0.98

01:26:21.220 ridiculous like Farage's for example 0.98

01:26:22.960 if you look at Marine Le Pen compared to 0.99

01:26:25.120 her own father she's well to the left of

01:26:27.800 him

01:26:28.040 yeah right yeah

01:26:29.480 like as Le Pen actually did say some

01:26:31.440 pretty controversial stuff

01:26:33.920 which one

01:26:34.480 well her dad

01:26:36.280 um

01:26:38.480 Geordie Swordsman says uh time to take

01:26:41.120 Gascony whilst the frogs are

01:26:43.280 distracted boys we can do a cheeky

01:26:45.320 chevalier as a lads weekend

01:26:46.860 yeah

01:26:47.920 sounds like fun

01:26:48.760 yeah it does sound like a good time

01:26:49.900 get the longbows out lads

01:26:50.960 Lord Nerovar says to be fair France

01:26:54.900 should be used

01:26:55.680 should be used to falling by now

01:26:57.420 it's pretty much a non-stop trend

01:26:59.160 since 1789

01:27:00.140 yep

01:27:00.960 that France must totally collapse

01:27:02.880 every couple of years

01:27:03.780 one of these days we should move on

01:27:05.860 in an exit

01:27:06.460 or at least restore the Bourbon

01:27:08.460 thoughts

01:27:09.180 um

01:27:10.280 yeah they'll probably be better off as a

01:27:12.680 a monarchy

01:27:13.540 and it would

01:27:14.420 it would annoy

01:27:15.600 your average French person

01:27:17.560 to have a monarchy forced on them

01:27:19.240 so that's worth it

01:27:20.300 in and of itself

01:27:21.000 just to annoy your average Frenchman 1.00

01:27:23.120 our monarchy

01:27:23.740 even though you know

01:27:24.480 I'm not a big fan of Charles

01:27:25.600 it'd be even more insulting to them

01:27:27.500 someone said earlier didn't they

01:27:28.720 bring back

01:27:29.160 Ken with the second stream

01:27:30.100 the

01:27:30.380 the

01:27:30.600 the

01:27:30.880 the

01:27:31.240 the

01:27:31.280 empire

01:27:31.580 yeah

01:27:32.580 rule France as a monarchy

01:27:34.280 from

01:27:35.040 Buckingham Palace

01:27:36.620 just to annoy French people 1.00

01:27:39.000 that'd be great

01:27:40.020 I love that idea

01:27:41.080 um

01:27:42.440 Geordie Salsman again says

01:27:43.460 uh

01:27:44.160 my best friend's going to be having fun

01:27:45.780 um

01:27:46.800 when he visits

01:27:48.320 uh

01:27:49.100 with

01:27:49.360 with very lefty French in-laws

01:27:51.440 for Christmas

01:27:51.940 he'll be desperately

01:27:52.980 suppressing the urge

01:27:54.680 uh

01:27:55.720 to not drop the

01:27:56.560 I'm breast friends

01:27:57.580 with some more

01:27:58.220 fanboy

01:27:58.780 conversational hand

01:28:00.040 hand grenade

01:28:00.620 into the middle of

01:28:01.560 the Le Pen

01:28:02.080 Satan or Lucifer discussion

01:28:03.660 take it away Harry

01:28:07.720 do you want to go with mine

01:28:08.560 alright

01:28:08.900 alpha of the betas

01:28:10.060 Starmer's open borders

01:28:11.600 bad speech

01:28:12.260 smacks of desperation

01:28:13.140 desperation for a

01:28:14.360 historically unpopular

01:28:15.540 government

01:28:15.940 is a pivot and a

01:28:17.040 distraction

01:28:17.440 actions speak loud in the

01:28:18.840 words and we will never

01:28:19.580 see action

01:28:20.060 it's obviously cynical red

01:28:21.580 meat for the plebs 1.00

01:28:22.520 I won't believe it

01:28:23.720 until Keir Starmer starts 0.98

01:28:25.420 physically punching people 0.98

01:28:26.940 in the face 1.00

01:28:27.880 saying you need to go back

01:28:28.980 until he

01:28:29.660 personally

01:28:30.720 deports

01:28:31.360 Kemi Badenoch

01:28:32.140 himself

01:28:32.660 by hand

01:28:33.460 he needs to go

01:28:34.880 full John Prescott

01:28:35.900 and

01:28:36.240 you know

01:28:37.340 make contact

01:28:38.260 with the electorate

01:28:39.440 he's actually got her

01:28:40.280 in plastic cuffs

01:28:41.060 and leading her

01:28:41.820 personally by the shoulder

01:28:42.840 onto an aeroplane

01:28:43.760 to Nigeria

01:28:44.300 yeah

01:28:44.620 as a big press shoot

01:28:45.820 right

01:28:46.160 with his armband

01:28:50.260 no I'm joking

01:28:50.840 tech heresy

01:28:52.780 regarding labour

01:28:53.840 and immigration

01:28:54.320 Starmer can hammer her 0.96

01:28:55.420 over and over

01:28:56.180 about the numbers

01:28:56.800 and her support

01:28:57.400 but it's

01:28:57.720 labour activists

01:28:58.560 in every department

01:28:59.360 that are making it

01:29:00.000 impossible to actually

01:29:00.740 cut off the tap

01:29:01.760 or deport people

01:29:02.720 even criminals

01:29:03.620 yeah

01:29:03.840 it's a rhetorical

01:29:05.180 ploy for PR

01:29:06.400 Frey Bentos

01:29:07.820 for every Haitian 0.95

01:29:08.640 that'd be a waste 0.91

01:29:09.580 of Frey Bentos

01:29:10.340 this sudden flip

01:29:11.320 on immigration

01:29:11.900 supports my theory

01:29:12.960 that Richard Spencer

01:29:13.900 and Keir Starmer

01:29:14.980 are in fact

01:29:16.140 the same person

01:29:17.560 do you reckon

01:29:18.440 Richard Spencer

01:29:19.760 they do look very similar

01:29:21.120 do you reckon

01:29:21.460 Richard Spencer

01:29:22.020 is where he's just

01:29:22.520 put some temporary

01:29:23.180 hair dye on

01:29:24.000 makeup to make

01:29:25.160 himself look less old

01:29:26.180 nose peg

01:29:26.480 makes him talk like that

01:29:28.540 yeah yeah

01:29:29.700 there you go

01:29:30.160 it's like Keir Starmer

01:29:30.640 talks isn't it

01:29:31.220 like he's got a peg

01:29:31.860 on his nose

01:29:32.480 Korax

01:29:34.440 Harry

01:29:34.740 when you were talking

01:29:35.540 about Starmer

01:29:36.240 sending them back

01:29:36.820 you sounded like

01:29:37.380 you meant he would

01:29:38.000 try and send

01:29:38.540 Kemi back 0.72

01:29:39.080 maybe he will

01:29:39.800 maybe he will

01:29:41.120 and I've just

01:29:41.640 gone away from that

01:29:42.240 for a moment

01:29:42.620 it would be a novel

01:29:43.920 method of cheating

01:29:44.740 but I wouldn't put it

01:29:45.660 past him

01:29:46.300 and Peter Harvey

01:29:48.240 when it all started

01:29:48.960 the British universities

01:29:49.740 was seen as the

01:29:50.380 creme de la creme

01:29:51.100 with such news

01:29:51.920 you wonder

01:29:52.300 if anyone

01:29:53.080 will ever want to

01:29:54.100 willingly hire someone

01:29:54.940 from a British university

01:29:55.920 in a foreign country

01:29:57.520 well maybe they will

01:29:58.880 because they'll all

01:29:59.660 have fake degrees

01:30:00.500 from British universities

01:30:01.480 so it'll all be part

01:30:02.560 of a big racket

01:30:03.320 I think in many ways

01:30:04.520 actually it's a positive

01:30:05.740 thing unintentionally

01:30:07.000 in that there's a lot

01:30:08.880 of credentialism going on

01:30:10.480 and there's still

01:30:11.340 some of it to some degree

01:30:12.480 see what I did there

01:30:13.520 but I think it's going

01:30:16.140 to come to a situation

01:30:17.060 whereby people are

01:30:17.800 actually judged based

01:30:18.780 on their actual merits

01:30:20.060 rather than what

01:30:20.920 their piece of paper says

01:30:22.120 which I think is a

01:30:22.980 better statement

01:30:23.460 accidental reintroduction

01:30:24.740 of meritocracy

01:30:25.500 yes

01:30:26.060 maybe

01:30:26.740 and before we finish

01:30:28.100 they've got one more

01:30:28.980 rumble rant come through

01:30:29.860 Boba Bad says

01:30:31.080 in Kemi Badenoch's

01:30:32.060 bold article in BBC Pigeon

01:30:33.840 she excoriated Keir's

01:30:35.680 government and promised

01:30:36.580 strong solidarity

01:30:37.480 with Haitians

01:30:38.320 which fell flat due to

01:30:39.600 the illiteracy of that

01:30:40.780 group

01:30:41.040 breaking news from

01:30:42.880 the Lotus Eaters

01:30:43.520 right there

01:30:43.960 and with that

01:30:45.200 that's all we've got

01:30:45.860 time for

01:30:46.400 so thank you very much

01:30:47.420 for tuning in today

01:30:48.200 we'll be back again

01:30:48.920 tomorrow

01:30:49.340 till then

01:30:50.060 take care

01:30:51.140 that's all folks

01:30:52.600 you

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - December 05, 2024

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1057

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