The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1066

00:00:00.000 Hello and welcome to the podcast of The Lotus Eaters, episode 1066. What an important number

00:00:04.540 for English patriots. On the 18th of December 2024, I'm your host Connor, joined by Carl and

00:00:10.180 Harry, and we are discussing the increasing calls for deportations in the UK and Germany,

00:00:15.120 Labour's never-ending plan for democracy, and why the Millennials are supporting the 0.96

00:00:18.900 United Healthcare CEO shooting. That's going to be a bit of a mix. I've seen quite a few.

00:00:25.300 We'll go through it. Okay, excellent. Before we start, we've got two announcements. First

00:00:29.940 of all, Carl, we've got the little statues. Yeah, so two lovely people called Ava and Sarah

00:00:35.580 have made the presenters these little statues of us, represented in different ways. The

00:00:41.720 other ones are in the office, I guess. But thanks very much. It was a really, really sweet

00:00:45.580 thing to receive, and we'll really appreciate them. Yeah, Harry's looked uncannily like him.

00:00:49.200 It was a weightlifting Victorian gentleman. I'll take it. I'll take it. I was only missing

00:00:53.560 the top hat. I got Roman console, which, okay, great. Thanks. There you go. I got Ken

00:00:57.620 in the mink coat with a headband, which... Perfect. Apt. Everyone was quite happy with

00:01:01.520 them, basically. Thank you very much. They're very sweet. Yes, thank you very much. And

00:01:04.420 if you do want to send us things, we have a PO box that you can find on the website,

00:01:07.640 spread the Christmas cheer. Speaking of Christmas cheer, my show is going to be at three o'clock

00:01:11.760 and it's not going to be very cheerful. I'm going to start probably a three-part series.

00:01:15.200 Speaking of Christmas cheer, we don't have any. Yeah. If you subscribe to the website,

00:01:19.040 you'll get important things like this, which is, I'm going to do a three-part series

00:01:22.120 in the Tavistock Clinic because reading through a lot of the documents, court cases, work by

00:01:28.280 Hannah Barnes, and various stats over detransitioning that we had well in advance of the cast review,

00:01:34.800 which means nobody supporting this had any excuse, there's some really harrowing stuff

00:01:38.220 in there. Like the fact that someone that used to work at the Tavistock Clinic also used

00:01:41.680 to work at children's homes in Rotherham. Yeah. Not going to be a fun one, but it is going

00:01:46.700 to be an important and interesting one. And speaking of things that aren't particularly

00:01:49.460 fun, but important and interesting. So we've got an epidemic of migrant crime in Britain. 1.00

00:01:53.360 This will be absolutely news to nobody who watches this show frequently, but I thought

00:01:57.660 I'd document some of the recent cases because it's important to be mindful of what we're

00:02:02.980 subjected to because every single one of these crimes is a consequence of government policy

00:02:07.260 because these people don't need to be here. And speaking of people that are inflicting

00:02:10.220 on us, Keir Starmer tweeted out about this, or at least the person who controls that robot's

00:02:14.340 Twitter account, absolutely tragic news. Nobody should have to face any violence at

00:02:18.620 work and certainly not something as shocking as this. My thoughts are with the victim's

00:02:22.420 family, friends and colleagues at this time. And he links to a Sky News article about an

00:02:26.140 Elizabeth Line worker who died after a serious assault at Ilford Station in East London.

00:02:31.880 Sorry, can I just make a point? I genuinely despise these kinds of statements in retrospect of

00:02:38.340 something terrible that's happened, right? Absolutely tragic news. Nobody should have to face

00:02:43.200 any violent at work. How could violence at work do this?

00:02:46.200 My thoughts are with the victim's family. So he's begun with a moral proposition. This

00:02:52.640 is how things ought to be. There's no reason. No one should face violence at their work.

00:02:57.900 And I'm really sorry about it. Now, on with the rest of the day, it's like, well, you're

00:03:02.100 the Prime Minister, right? You are the person who is able to legislate against this. And what

00:03:07.900 you're doing with this statement is saying, I'm never going to do anything about this. I'm not

00:03:11.620 interested in going any further. I've made my moral proclamation. You see Sadiq Khan tweeting

00:03:15.680 in much the same way. Very often, it's like, well, no one should have to do that. And anyway,

00:03:20.280 it's like, okay, but you are the government. You are the people in charge. Why not do something?

00:03:24.600 If you genuinely held this to be a core moral principle that you were deeply concerned about,

00:03:30.120 you have the power to do something and you're not. You're literally saying, I've accepted that

00:03:35.760 that's happened. I don't think that's right. And then we're moving on. It's like, okay,

00:03:38.680 it's pathetic. You may as well have said nothing. By failing to act, you're making it part of the 0.99

00:03:45.000 white noise of managed decline. You're also permissive of it. That's the problem. It's not

00:03:49.640 just it becomes a background noise. It's openly permissive, even though you have stated yourself

00:03:55.200 in opposition to it. Obviously, you're not really, because words mean nothing, but actions actually

00:03:59.620 mean something. You could act and you're not. Especially in this example, he could act, because

00:04:05.780 the very article that Keir Starmer links to, which can be seen here with Sky News, if you

00:04:10.720 scroll down, I think it's about paragraph 17 and 18 of a 20-paragraph article.

00:04:16.220 I love how deeply they bury these things.

00:04:18.300 Yeah, you find about the identity of the perpetrator. So the man killed was Jorge Ortega,

00:04:24.040 a 61-year-old who worked as a customer experience assistant for MTREL, who run the Elizabeth line.

00:04:29.480 He was attacked at Ilford Station and was taken to hospital with serious head injuries,

00:04:32.960 but later died. Again, condolences to his family. In paragraph 17 and 18,

00:04:39.080 Ayodeli Jamgarbi, Jambardi, of Kingston Road, Ilford.

00:04:45.620 Ah, yes. Local Ilford man.

00:04:48.260 Ilford man, was arrested and charged with Section 18 of GBH, that's grievous bodily harm,

00:04:53.500 and possession of a prohibited offensive weapon in a private place at Highbury Corner Magistrate's

00:04:57.100 Court. This was on Friday, so this would have been the 6th of December, and remanded to appear

00:05:02.220 at Inner London Crown Court. Now, the reason Keir Starmer didn't put that in his tweet is because

00:05:07.920 he would then be implicated to do something about it, because the perpetrator did not need to be in

00:05:12.340 the country. So, curious admission there. I also overheard, this was on ITV News, on a bulletin on

00:05:19.560 the same evening, just in the kitchen as my family were making dinner, and they read out the identity

00:05:25.660 of the poor victim, the deceased man. Again, just skip right over the perpetrator. Nope, no need to

00:05:31.440 pay attention to whether or not this crime ever needed to happen in the first place. And the

00:05:35.200 reason is, it's because there's more. There's a pattern. I know noticing those is racist these

00:05:38.680 days, but there's now a man, another man, student, killed a woman on Dorset Beach to see what it was

00:05:45.940 like. What? Criminology student, Nasen Sadi, got a wonderful sketch of this high-skilled migrant

00:05:54.000 here. He had many questions. One teacher asked him if he was planning a murder. He told the trial.

00:06:01.740 The student said he tried to stab a woman to death on Dorset Beach because he wanted to know what it

00:06:06.620 would be like to take a life, and how it would feel to make a woman feel afraid. As he plotted the

00:06:10.820 attack, Sadi asked his lecturers questions about how police attract suspects. One teacher asked him

00:06:16.540 if he was planning to commit a murder, because he'd asked so many, according to Winchester Crown Court,

00:06:20.500 after the police arrested him at his home in Purley in South London. Ah yes, Purley Man. For the murder

00:06:25.100 of a sports coach called Amy Gray, age 34, and the attempted murder of her friend Leanne Miles on a

00:06:30.300 beach in Bournemouth, they found he had a collection of knives and an axe. Sadi told police he was

00:06:34.540 fascinated by true crime and had been in Bournemouth at the time of the attacks, but denied any

00:06:38.300 involvement. He pleaded not guilty to murder and attempted murder. Interesting how he didn't try

00:06:43.460 to attack someone who looked like him. Interesting how he decided, no, I can be incredibly cavalier

00:06:48.800 with the lives of English women, rather than Arabic women or wherever he comes from. It's very 0.90

00:06:55.300 interesting how he didn't choose someone in close proximity to him, someone from his own

00:06:59.940 community. He was like, no, I care about those people, but whose lives don't I care about? Right,

00:07:04.440 okay, well, I'll just find out what it's like to murder someone by murdering one of them. 1.00

00:07:09.600 Similar with the Somali sexual assaulter that you covered, was it yesterday? 1.00

00:07:15.680 Oh, the chap who raped a woman to death on a bench, yeah. 1.00

00:07:20.780 Yeah, I'm seeing a pattern here. Again, none of these people needed to be here. Speaking

00:07:26.260 of people who don't need to be here, Bibby Stockholm. Turns out it's battery farming rapists. 1.00

00:07:31.200 Oh, good.

00:07:31.840 Yeah, very good. So, Ardnan Ahmed is alleged to have attacked a woman at an address in

00:07:37.160 Portland, Dorset on the 21st of August. At the time of the alleged offence, the 36-year-old

00:07:41.500 was a resident of Bibby Stockholm, which housed asylum seekers at Portland Port. A summons

00:07:46.120 were sent to the barge on the 2nd of November, instructing Ahmed to appear at Weymouth Magistrates

00:07:50.620 Court on Wednesday to answer the criminal charge. However, almost predictably, this foreign 1.00

00:07:56.660 criminal, who broke into the country, just failed to show up. So they asked him politely.

00:08:02.020 On the honour system, and he didn't acknowledge it.

00:08:05.060 Weird that, how these career criminals just don't comply with the polite requests of the

00:08:10.320 judicial system. So this led to a warrant for his arrest being issued. But the problem

00:08:15.920 is, magistrates said that they don't know where he is or how to contact him.

00:08:20.380 Why would they? I mean, he's been given unfettered access to our country.

00:08:24.260 Yeah.

00:08:24.640 We don't know who he is. These people are unvetted. We don't know what kind of crimes

00:08:28.020 they've committed. And we're like, yeah, okay, so, you know, I'm sure he won't cause

00:08:31.080 any trouble amongst the native population. Why are we doing this?

00:08:34.960 Natalie Evans, the court clerk, said,

00:08:36.520 Mr. Ahmed is not here. He was on conditional bail to be here. We don't know where he is now

00:08:40.600 that Bibby Stockholm has been vacated. He was charged by the police and given conditional

00:08:44.000 bail on the 2nd of November, he was meant to be here at 10am. And Ian Hogan, the presiding

00:08:48.760 magistrate, said, we don't know where he is. And Miss Evans just went, no. He's not

00:08:52.640 the only one that's disappeared as well. Second asylum seeker charged with sexual assault

00:08:56.340 failed to turn up to court. Moffat Conufilia, 47, who is accused of assaulting woman on Weymouth

00:09:02.640 Beach, is now living in a hostel for asylum seekers in Coventry, 180 miles away. A summons

00:09:07.500 was sent to him on the 31st of October to attend Weymouth magistrate's court to answer

00:09:11.100 for the allegation. The court heard he notified the authorities to say he does not drive and

00:09:14.640 has no money and was struggling to attend. So you sexually assault a woman, you're charged,

00:09:19.900 you're told to turn up to court, and you say, but the taxpayer hasn't paid for my taxi

00:09:23.860 because I can't drive. Therefore, sorry, mate, can't make it to the sentencing.

00:09:29.220 He was then invited to apply to change the venue of the court or to appear via video link,

00:09:34.180 so to just zoom in to his own sexual assault trial. But he didn't respond. He just chose not

00:09:38.920 to. Because they're allowed to do that. Apparently. Not even the only resident on

00:09:43.460 the Bibby Stockholm, it turns out. There's still no update on the whereabouts of two other

00:09:47.040 former Bibby Stockholm residents who have gone missing and convicted of criminal offences.

00:09:51.060 So that's Kenson Knoll was convicted of drug and violent offences. He claimed to have fled

00:09:55.180 to England to escape drug trafficking gangs in Trinidad and Tobago and then just carried

00:09:59.620 on the family business. In July, he pled guilty to charges of possessing cannabis that

00:10:03.640 he took on the barge itself and then assaulted a police officer who tried to arrest him.

00:10:06.660 So did he owe them money or something? Possibly. We don't know.

00:10:10.600 Yeah, exactly. We don't know. And we can't know because he's vanished.

00:10:13.580 Yes.

00:10:15.140 The 29-year-old went on the run before he could be sentenced and was later picked up by police

00:10:18.360 after an arrest warrant was issued for him. He was sentenced to a community service order

00:10:21.680 but disappeared again after having failed to turn up for the unpaid work on August 3rd and

00:10:25.740 September 11th. Why is he not detained in a place that he can't escape from? Because

00:10:29.560 you know that he keeps trying to escape. Why do you just let them out?

00:10:31.820 Deported. Just deported. That too. There's also Ahmed Huffer, again, good British name,

00:10:37.140 convicted of theft and assault in February but who failed to appear in court for his

00:10:41.020 sentencing. Huffer stole a £60 jacket from TK Maxx in Weymouth and then assaulted two

00:10:45.940 security guards who chased him. A warrant for his arrest was issued by magistrates in Weymouth

00:10:49.780 but ten months later still not been located by the police.

00:10:53.320 Weirdly, the most remarkable thing about that is that the security guards tried to prevent

00:10:56.480 him from stealing. They're usually instructed not to do that because of a threat to their

00:11:00.500 own life. Yeah, because I read an article yesterday about some woman in Costa in London 0.69

00:11:06.460 was there and a homeless guy just comes in, grabs all the sandwiches and walks out and

00:11:10.240 she asks the staff, well, are you not going to do anything? And they're like, no, we've

00:11:13.080 been told not to. Especially because shoplifting below, I think it's £250 or thereabouts?

00:11:17.980 Something like that, yeah. The Conservatives essentially legalised it.

00:11:20.420 Thank you, Theresa May, for de facto decriminalising that one. Incredible.

00:11:23.640 Speaking of people that are assaulted at migrant accommodation, we have an update to the trial

00:11:29.320 of Rhiannon Sky White. For those who don't know, Deng Cholmijek, who claims to be 18,

00:11:36.960 we don't actually know because we take their word for it, is charged with the murder of

00:11:41.100 Rhiannon Sky White. X-rays teeth. That would be good, but I don't think you're allowed to 0.78

00:11:45.140 do that now. Oh, really? Oh, okay. I think it's a violation of their human rights.

00:11:48.980 Jesus Christ. I know. She was stabbed at Bescott Stadium station in Warsaw in the West

00:11:54.780 Midlands. Miss White died in hospital, surrounded by her family, three days after being attacked

00:11:58.840 on the evening of the 24th of October. Apparently she intervened over a fight over a packet of

00:12:02.960 biscuits, and so he stalked her to a train station. Cholmijek was expected to enter his pleas during

00:12:08.780 an appearance at Wolverhampton Crown Court via video link from HMP Manchester today, but

00:12:13.380 he refused to attend the hearing. I don't understand how this is an option.

00:12:18.360 Yeah. Charlie Crinnan, defending the South Sudanese national, said the teenager had refused to speak

00:12:23.460 to him through an interpreter before the hearing because he did not know who he was. Oh, sorry,

00:12:27.940 he's just refusing to do it. Can't do it, mate. That's it. Guess the justice system just stops.

00:12:32.600 That's fine. We police by consent in this country. Even if you're a Sudanese alleged murderer. 1.00

00:12:38.020 The prosecution said the trial, which could happen in April, would be expected to last between

00:12:41.420 five and seven days. The next hearing was on the 13th of December, which was last Friday.

00:12:46.240 And we have another update. They said the trial is going to take twice as long because he doesn't

00:12:50.640 speak English. So we're paying, by the way, for all of the interpreter's fees that we spend millions

00:12:58.380 on every single year for foreign criminals who break into the country and then murder English girls.

00:13:05.160 Speaking through a Sudanese Arabic interpreter, he's bilingual, wonderful. He was asked how he pleaded

00:13:10.760 to possession of an offensive weapon charge and he said, it wasn't me. The shaggy defence. 0.97

00:13:15.960 Asked again to enter the standard response of not guilty, he said, I did not do anything.

00:13:19.380 I did not do that. So he's literally too stupid to understand what's being asked of him as well. 1.00

00:13:24.260 Excellent. Amjad Malik, Mr. Majek's barrister, 1.00

00:13:29.580 shock, suggested the trial could double the prosecution's estimate of five days. Given the

00:13:33.820 language requirements and his general demeanour, it may take longer. Mr. Majek claims to be 18,

00:13:37.920 but curiously there's no documentation. We're such a joke. Yep. He also refused to appear in

00:13:45.180 front of a screen for the plea hearing before Judge Michael Chambers, KC, last month. Now this

00:13:49.400 isn't uncommon. Rupert Lowe has been doing lots of work on this and he's putting in a request to the

00:13:56.540 Home Office to say what the policy is for age verification of migrants. And incredibly, he says,

00:14:02.460 the Home Office applies the policy of, quote, the benefit of the doubt. Oh, incredible.

00:14:05.940 Where often the illegal migrants' word is taken as the truth of their supposed age. In 2024, 0.99

00:14:11.600 in quarter two, there were 1,461 disputes resolved on the claimed age of asylum seekers.

00:14:17.400 Of 1,461 resolved claims, 757 were found to be over 18.

00:14:23.960 Can you imagine what they think of us? 0.99

00:14:27.040 They think we're morons. 1.00

00:14:28.440 Yeah. They must think we are so stupid. 1.00

00:14:30.920 Yes. I mean, this is just like the chap who stabbed, was it Thomas Roberts? Or the one, 1.00

00:14:39.240 the Afghan asylum seeker who, it turned out, had shot someone in Serbia and then pretended to be a 0.97

00:14:44.820 child, got placed in a school suspended for chasing students around with a knife.

00:14:49.280 How many other instances have been happening, I wonder?

00:14:52.780 Now there's more in actually Lowe's constituency, it turns out. He's written to Yvette Cooper,

00:14:57.100 the Home Secretary, a legal migrant in Great Yarmouth, who has 17 prior convictions and still 0.95

00:15:03.500 hasn't been deported. And as Lowe says, he should be immediately removed from our country

00:15:07.660 and never allowed back. Now, I think it's under the 2007 Borders Act that says that any foreign

00:15:15.220 criminal who has a sentence longer than 12 months can be automatically deported. So there's no excuse

00:15:20.080 not to. For just some reason, these people need to be in our country for, I don't know,

00:15:26.320 GDP purposes or something. That'd be weird. He also found out some more data. This is to do with

00:15:33.120 the illegal migrant. This is where he's tweeting deportations, deportations, and even more deportations.

00:15:37.520 This is a simple answer for foreign criminals. 1.00

00:15:39.700 Good for Rupert Lowe.

00:15:40.880 Yes, he seems to be driving reforms.

00:15:42.720 Absolutely superb.

00:15:43.640 This is exactly what we need to have normalised in the discourse in this country. There are a bunch

00:15:48.740 of foreign men who are massively prone to criminality, and we don't know anything about their backstories,

00:15:54.740 and they apparently keep lying and not respecting the system. No, go. They can go.

00:16:01.060 So he's got some numbers on just how many there are. So the Ministry of Justice estimated that from

00:16:06.160 April 2021 to March 2022, 140 foreign re-offenders with 10 or more re-offenses were released from

00:16:12.900 custody or given a court order. In all caps, every single one should be deported. I mean, very strong,

00:16:17.680 so 10 or more re-offenses. How do you even offend that much?

00:16:22.680 You get to the fifth offence, and you're like, I don't think these people are going to do anything

00:16:25.560 about this. It's like a cost of loyalty card. You get your 11th offence free.

00:16:29.880 So Rupert just thought, okay, I'm going to make use of my parliamentary questioning,

00:16:34.080 and so I'm going to ask the Home Office, why don't we do an inquiry? Because, of course,

00:16:37.360 Jess Phillips has just been appointed Home Office Minister. She's very concerned about the safety of

00:16:42.100 women and girls. So Rupert has said, I've asked the Home Office to conduct an independent review

00:16:47.680 pact of crimes committed against women and girls in the UK by illegal migrants. Because we know 1.00

00:16:51.580 that they were arrested at 35% higher rates than the native population. We know from Finland,

00:16:58.240 Denmark, Sweden, that they commit about 2.5 times the rate of crimes than indigenous Europeans. 0.82

00:17:06.060 So it would be very good to have the data published on this. The Home Office replied and just said no.

00:17:11.480 Really?

00:17:11.720 The Home Office denied Rupert's request to publish data on illegal migrant crime.

00:17:16.240 They claim the public doesn't want them to commission dozens of entirely new statistical

00:17:20.040 analyses simply to answer questions in Parliament.

00:17:22.260 Well, I'm a member of the public and I do.

00:17:24.480 Yeah. Weird this. What purpose is the Home Office if not to inform the public via their elected

00:17:31.140 representatives of what's going on in the country?

00:17:33.800 Well, I think Rupert's correct. This is a cover-up and I think it's because

00:17:36.700 the Home Office is essentially an institutional method of facilitating the mass immigration

00:17:43.380 into Britain of foreign peoples from around the world. That's literally their job. 0.91

00:17:47.140 And to gaslight you into accepting it via the Raikou unit and the 700-strong Home Office

00:17:52.480 Islamic network, which has regained operations under the Labour government as of September.

00:17:56.860 Because they were suspended, I think it was in March, by Oliver Dowden, under suspicions

00:18:01.080 of them supporting Hamas.

00:18:02.320 No kidding.

00:18:02.680 Yeah, and then just kicked into overdrive again. Conveniently.

00:18:06.460 If I was in charge, I'd liquidate the Home Office.

00:18:08.500 Yep. I'd have a department for deportations and that's about it.

00:18:11.640 Yes. He's also said this rather strong statement, which I quite like. Again, just pushing the

00:18:17.400 needle in the Overton window.

00:18:18.680 Imagine how quickly a properly run country would deport foreign criminals. Yet in broken 0.99

00:18:21.820 Britain, we were ridiculously arguing about the ethics of doing so. Honestly speaking,

00:18:25.100 I don't care about their right to a family life or whatever other nonsense. They sacrifice

00:18:28.980 that when they raped, murdered or assaulted a British citizen. If it were up to me, this lot 0.99

00:18:32.340 would be out of the country before any poisonous left-wing lawyers have a chance to go to bat 0.96

00:18:36.060 for them. I don't want them in British prisons, learning yoga or how to lay bricks. I don't

00:18:39.860 want them... I don't care about their rehabilitation. It's not our problem. Send them back to wherever

00:18:42.840 they came from. They can rot in some African prison or wherever else. 1.00

00:18:45.740 Oh, captain, my captain. Let's hear... I like where this is going. 0.75

00:18:49.400 Agreements can be reached for these countries. We'll take our prisoners back. They can have 0.99

00:18:52.520 theirs. I suspect it may be a one-sided exchange. Britain is a soft touch. We need to get

00:18:56.380 real and put the safety of British people above the human rights of foreign offenders. 1.00

00:18:59.020 A mass deportation scheme for these criminals is required. Superb.

00:19:03.140 So we're on the timeline. Yeah. We are here. Farage tells Edgington, it's not my ambition

00:19:09.940 and it's not possible. I call for mass deportations at the reform conference. Lowe starts asking

00:19:16.800 parliamentary questions, gets stonewalled by the Home Office, finds out about the rates

00:19:20.600 of foreign re-offenders, and is now their most popular MP by saying mass deportations.

00:19:25.700 Things are getting better. At least. Very good. However, they're not being sent to an African 1.00

00:19:31.460 prison. What's being prosecuted instead in Britain? And then we'll go over to Germany.

00:19:35.460 Oh, they're probably getting foot rubs.

00:19:36.800 So a former boxer has been sentenced for racially aggravated posts. Let's hear them.

00:19:43.120 So, Derek Hegey made, quote, grossly offensive comments in two YouTube videos between the

00:19:48.920 2nd and the 8th of August, so at the height of the Southport riots and protests. He had

00:19:53.540 been due to stand trial on the charge under the Malicious Communications Act, but instead

00:19:56.840 pleaded guilty, probably on the advice of his court-appointed lawyer, to sending communications

00:20:01.660 of an offensive nature. The court heard that, in videos relating to Muslims, Hegey made comments

00:20:05.960 including, 1.00

00:20:06.380 young white girls are being raped by these grooming gangs. 1.00

00:20:09.540 That's factually true. 0.99

00:20:11.280 That's literally true according to Operation Stovewood at the Home Office.

00:20:14.500 Well, what... who are we convicting when these finally get through the courts, if that's

00:20:20.160 not the case?

00:20:22.600 Curious that, isn't it? So, if you state the truth on social media, you will go to prison.

00:20:26.500 But the problem is you're pleading guilty.

00:20:28.300 Yes.

00:20:29.020 Don't be guilty.

00:20:30.000 Force them to go through the process.

00:20:32.080 Yes, you shouldn't be pleading guilty. But, the fact that they're even drawing them up

00:20:34.860 on charges in the first place, shows, again, the animus of our institutions against the

00:20:38.980 native population who don't want their children abused, meanwhile letting out 140 foreign offenders 0.95

00:20:44.360 last year with 10 or more convictions.

00:20:47.000 Apparently, this YouTube video where he was stating the obvious, and what we've reported

00:20:51.120 on this channel before, was, quote,

00:20:52.920 done for the purpose of causing distress or anxiety, to grooming gangs.

00:20:58.020 Oh, no.

00:20:58.920 Yeah, there we go. 1.00

00:20:59.960 A child rapist. 0.99

00:21:01.060 When he was interviewed, the defendant had sought to portray himself as a journalist 0.99

00:21:03.840 and maintained that the online posts were justified.

00:21:07.720 So, all of Charlie Peter's work for GB News, reports in the Times, stuff we've covered

00:21:12.960 on this show is apparently now a criminal offence in our country.

00:21:16.960 But abusing women?

00:21:18.620 No, you don't even have to show up to your court hearing.

00:21:20.380 Can I take a guess at the kind of accent he has?

00:21:23.480 Working class? 0.90

00:21:24.400 Yeah, exactly.

00:21:25.120 If you're speaking with a sufficiently low-class accent, then yes, that's a crime. 1.00

00:21:29.700 Yes.

00:21:30.400 And finally, if you speak with a German accent, it turns out as well that you're also going

00:21:34.460 to be criminalised.

00:21:35.200 So, there's an update to this story, the Mannheim stabbing.

00:21:38.900 So, the chap who was attacked by a spiked, say here, former refugee from Afghanistan. 1.00

00:21:47.600 Magic how you stop becoming a refugee when you commit crimes. 1.00

00:21:50.000 It's almost like breaking into the country should have been the first crime that disqualified 1.00

00:21:52.700 you from being a refugee, but there we go.

00:21:54.480 Well, are you sure he wasn't given, like, settled status or something?

00:21:59.360 Because it's entirely possible they gave him settled status.

00:22:01.740 Possibly, yeah.

00:22:02.900 Probably, I would say.

00:22:03.940 Yeah, you're right.

00:22:04.680 But he targeted and attacked a chap called Michael Sturzenberger and six others during

00:22:10.180 a rally organised by Sturzenberger's campaign group Pax Europa in Mannheim.

00:22:15.100 The incident left that policeman there, who was stabbed in the neck, dead, and Sturzenberger

00:22:19.280 severely injured, and he needed several operations on his face and knee.

00:22:22.140 So, he must have been very surprised when the German government decided to fine him for

00:22:26.900 statements he made at a rally in Hamburg in 2020 regarding criticisms of Islam.

00:22:32.780 Last month, the court upheld the original verdict after he'd appealed it and reduced his sentence

00:22:36.920 to a fine of €3,600.

00:22:39.760 So, you are going to have to pay thousands of euros for criticising, pre-emptively, truthfully 0.88

00:22:43.860 as it turns out, your Islamist stabbers. 0.76

00:22:47.440 And then there's a woman in Germany as well.

00:22:49.040 We'll keep an eye on this trial, hopefully.

00:22:51.460 A US woman who lives in Germany who was attacked by an Eritrean migrant at a train station.

00:22:59.960 And this was in Rhineland, Palatinate.

00:23:03.140 And he grabbed her rear end. 1.00

00:23:05.500 And there was an argument where a scuffle ensued.

00:23:08.480 She drew out a folding knife in order to get him to back away. 0.85

00:23:13.180 And he grabbed her arm.

00:23:15.320 And as she tried to free herself, she stabbed him.

00:23:17.680 And it went straight in the heart during the same movement.

00:23:21.080 Apparently, the public prosecutor's office does not believe the stabbing was justified

00:23:23.980 by self-defence.

00:23:25.220 The spokesperson for the prosecutor's office told the tabloid Bild.

00:23:28.380 So, the German state is going after this woman for defending herself against an Eritrean 0.58

00:23:32.920 possible rapist. 0.99

00:23:35.080 Attempted rapist. 0.99

00:23:36.900 Yes.

00:23:37.620 So, if you notice the problem, you name the perpetrators, or you even attempt to defend

00:23:42.640 yourself from them, you will go to prison. 0.90

00:23:45.440 Meanwhile, they will let out, or not even mandate they show up to the trial, serial foreign 1.00

00:23:51.160 offenders who are being housed at your expense.

00:23:55.440 Got some rumble rants.

00:23:56.540 Sorry for that one.

00:23:57.200 That was a jolly one.

00:23:58.460 I know.

00:23:58.800 You were literally dead silent.

00:23:59.980 Hey, your face.

00:24:01.660 That's the quietest I've ever seen you in three years of knowing you.

00:24:04.940 I can feel the anti-racism rising, Harry.

00:24:08.640 Peter says, I can, yeah.

00:24:11.640 Peter says, if you take away someone's human right to live, then you should yourself lose

00:24:16.920 that right.

00:24:17.340 First degree murderers can't at the moment.

00:24:18.700 Well, we used to execute murderers for exactly that reason.

00:24:22.000 If you take someone's life, well, this is the scales of justice being balanced.

00:24:25.700 Civilisational self-defence.

00:24:26.700 And even John Locke wrote about that.

00:24:29.260 It just makes sense.

00:24:30.760 John Locke was quite aggressive on the right to self-defence, actually.

00:24:33.400 It's one of those points where, actually, yeah, no, he's got a point here, guys.

00:24:37.800 I'm not going to deny that. 0.99

00:24:38.540 If someone tries to mug you, you're entitled to kill them, according to John Locke. 0.99

00:24:42.060 Based. 0.98

00:24:42.480 And banning atheism.

00:24:43.480 I agree.

00:24:43.860 Yeah, well, there's a couple of things that he did get right.

00:24:46.280 Dragon Lady Chris says, just to make sure I'm getting things straight here, Native Brit 1.00

00:24:50.180 makes angry social media posts, gets two years in jail, migrant commits assault, doesn't 0.75

00:24:53.960 show up for court, and it's no big deal.

00:24:55.520 It's not even angry.

00:24:56.200 It was just factual reporting.

00:24:57.440 Yeah.

00:24:58.060 Yeah.

00:24:58.500 It's worse than you think.

00:25:00.360 But yes, it's exactly like that.

00:25:02.100 Sorry, have you not read A Theory of Justice?

00:25:03.860 It's all in there, mate.

00:25:05.700 John Rawls wrote all this down.

00:25:07.900 I love that joke for me.

00:25:08.840 It's so good.

00:25:09.260 Yeah.

00:25:09.660 It's all in here, mate.

00:25:10.860 The thing is, I'm actually reading Rawls at the moment, and it kind of is.

00:25:13.900 Is it really?

00:25:14.700 Kind of, yeah.

00:25:16.480 We'll do a book club on it at some point, if you want.

00:25:18.260 I'm sure you and Stelios, because I've seen Stelios reading that massive tome as well,

00:25:23.260 because it really is just this thick.

00:25:25.340 Thankfully, only about the first quarter of it covers his proper, like, the...

00:25:29.020 What's the rest of it, then?

00:25:30.360 Him essentially kind of...

00:25:31.980 Coping?

00:25:32.500 Yeah, kind of coping his evening.

00:25:33.800 Look, I know you're all going to object to a bunch of things.

00:25:35.500 Anyway, let's carry on.

00:25:36.180 Oh, all right, okay.

00:25:37.300 Speaking of things that everybody will object to, we all love democracy, right?

00:25:41.240 You love democracy, don't you?

00:25:42.520 More than anything else.

00:25:43.500 Yeah, Carl got the right answer.

00:25:44.460 More than the lives of my own children.

00:25:45.600 But I am an extremist, according to the Home Office.

00:25:47.420 I mean, how many foreign wars would you be willing to fund for the sake of foreign democracies?

00:25:53.000 Well, okay, so...

00:25:53.800 Not that this has anything to do with foreign democracies, this has everything to do with

00:25:56.980 our democracy, and the fact that it will be never-ending.

00:26:01.380 So, the one argument in favour of democracy that is good is, at least, it is a mechanism through

00:26:09.800 which we can non-violently remove politicians we don't like, right?

00:26:14.000 That is actually a good argument in favour of democracy.

00:26:15.820 That's a great argument.

00:26:16.940 But, in practicality...

00:26:19.180 Hang on.

00:26:19.520 However, you are right.

00:26:25.180 We have now been saddled with Keir Starmer for the next five years, with basically near-dictatorial

00:26:30.520 powers when nobody wanted it.

00:26:31.940 And you can be damn sure that they're going to use those powers, because there has been

00:26:35.640 a recent announcement that Labour has a plan for change to deliver the biggest transfer

00:26:41.900 of power out of Westminster to England's regions for a century.

00:26:45.180 Now, that sounds great, right?

00:26:46.900 That does sound quite good, actually.

00:26:48.340 Decentralising government, right?

00:26:49.740 Okay, so...

00:26:50.660 That's a great way of selling it to people.

00:26:53.000 People don't like centralised governments.

00:26:55.060 I mean, realistically, Britain is one of the most centralised governments in all of Europe,

00:26:59.800 and has been probably the most for over a thousand years.

00:27:03.680 For nearly...

00:27:05.080 Well, for at least about 700 years.

00:27:07.620 Yeah, for a very, very long time.

00:27:09.780 But how will this actually play out?

00:27:11.580 Sorry, Connor?

00:27:12.420 Well, I was going to say, if they're going to sell us on this idea, do they have to choose

00:27:15.060 the most vacant, blank expression photo of Angela Rayner, who...

00:27:19.240 That's the only photo.

00:27:21.220 Angela Rayner arrives in the lauded halls of English constitutional reformers, you know,

00:27:27.780 alongside the Magna Carta.

00:27:31.600 You joke.

00:27:32.180 The barons of...

00:27:32.900 You joke.

00:27:33.300 This is a massive change to Britain's constitution that's going to be made right, and in the

00:27:39.300 history books, it will have her face and her name plastered all over it, alongside with

00:27:46.800 Keir Starmer.

00:27:48.160 So, what does this mean?

00:27:49.220 It's a...

00:27:49.820 The government has done a devolution white paper that was published on Monday, and Rayner

00:27:57.000 described it as ensuring regional powers are no longer agreed, um, the whim of a minister

00:28:04.080 in Whitehall.

00:28:05.180 It comes after ministers warned that they would be prepared to step in if plans to build more

00:28:09.580 prisons, wind turbines, and homes met opposition at a local level.

00:28:14.180 Right.

00:28:14.760 So, it's about polishing.

00:28:16.180 These two things seem like they're polar opposites of one another, wouldn't you say?

00:28:21.620 Ms. Rayner's Ministry of Housing, Communities, and Local Government said,

00:28:25.000 Labour's devolution policy will allow regional leaders to guide development projects across

00:28:29.840 areas' housing, transport, and skills.

00:28:31.960 England's regions will be centre stage in the government's mission to grow the economy

00:28:35.940 and build 1.5 million homes, she is expected...

00:28:39.420 She did say it in her speech, proposals to create so-called strategic authorities across

00:28:45.060 England, bringing together councils in areas where people live and work will be among the

00:28:49.800 measures outlined.

00:28:51.140 The ministry said this would help to avoid duplication and give our cities and regions a bigger voice.

00:28:56.580 So, the plan is, essentially, in Britain, we have a patchwork of local government, where

00:29:02.420 there are small designated areas which are councils, and you can get different varieties of councils,

00:29:08.360 but generally they're all supposed to represent the local people and represent the local needs

00:29:13.220 and desires and what they want doing in that local area.

00:29:17.100 What this is going to do is abolish all of the smaller councils and reform them into much

00:29:23.440 larger mega-councils over a larger area.

00:29:27.260 So, for instance, if I just skip to the end right here, this is already going to be taking

00:29:31.600 place in Lancashire, where it's got 15 councils, right?

00:29:36.140 But what they're planning on doing is abolishing them and replacing them with just about three

00:29:42.180 or four local authorities, whilst also creating, at the same time, a Lancashire mayor who has

00:29:49.100 top-down power over all of these regional authorities.

00:29:52.400 So, in a supposed apparent, they say, effort to devolve the powers and decentralise government,

00:30:01.240 this is a massive centralisation of government.

00:30:04.080 Along with this, and I'll get into this in a few minutes, it will also create a number of

00:30:08.440 other larger regional councils that have overarching power over all of these other ones, to create

00:30:14.820 a sort of feedback loop of never-ending democracy, where you're constantly voting for this council

00:30:21.560 and this council and this council and this council and these councils are constantly voting for

00:30:25.400 one another and they're constantly exchanging things.

00:30:27.760 So, basically, the never-ending conversation of democracy, where nothing gets done except

00:30:33.260 at the diktat, presumably, of these mayors who are going to be Labour stooges.

00:30:39.640 But also, the very nature of it, okay, I'm actually quite in favour of, you know, local councils

00:30:44.920 being responsible for local affairs and responsive to local people, that's actually quite a good

00:30:49.060 idea. And if that's democracy, okay, that's fine, I'm all in favour of it. But what they're

00:30:54.080 doing here is essentially abstracting into the managerial frame. So, essentially, they're

00:30:59.480 removing those traditional institutions and instantiating these new, broader, more distant

00:31:06.600 bureaucratic things that are going to deal with problems on the ground. So, essentially,

00:31:10.840 you're exactly right. This is just going to be a massive expansion of the bureaucratic

00:31:15.220 nature of the state.

00:31:16.240 Well, the way they're going to do this as well by turning them into fiefdoms is, in creating

00:31:20.240 mayors, you're creating personality figureheads who have a vested interest, because they're

00:31:25.580 associated as a personality with the party, to do the party's bidding so that they can

00:31:29.800 retain their seat and keep their job. Because if participation in local elections is very

00:31:34.220 low, participation in mayoral elections is slightly higher, particularly if you're a

00:31:37.740 polarising figure, like a Sadiq Khan type. And so, they are going to have a lot of loyalty

00:31:43.200 to what the party wants them to do, so that they get funding for their next re-election

00:31:47.800 campaign. So, if the party wants, as Angela Rayner has already said, Operation Scatter,

00:31:52.360 where she's going to replicate the ugly cities of Milton Keynes all over the Greenbelt... 1.00

00:31:56.660 Well, let's not forget that they've taken away the regulations that mean that new housing

00:31:59.900 has to be beautiful.

00:32:01.080 Exactly, and...

00:32:01.840 Yeah, why did they do that?

00:32:02.840 You know why they did that.

00:32:04.300 And also, they're changing the definition of Greenbelt land to ensure that you can build

00:32:08.000 over the countryside to battery farm foreign nationals, because... 0.52

00:32:10.780 Well, the way that they're selling it is that these new local authorities will have

00:32:14.600 to reconsider some of these areas of Greenbelt land that they have.

00:32:19.720 Yeah.

00:32:19.980 So, the London School of Economics is thrilled about this, I assume.

00:32:23.040 Yes, because five in seven of these new homes is going to new foreign nationals that will 0.90

00:32:27.520 be imported over the same period of house building. All of this is just to create, like,

00:32:33.000 mini desk spots, mini regional desk spots that are answerable to the Labour Party, so that

00:32:37.240 local councils can't block massive housing developments to airdrop foreign nationals into 0.85

00:32:42.180 your area.

00:32:42.780 Yeah, that's exactly it, because I know people on local councils, and this is one of the things

00:32:47.960 they do all the time. Because, of course, the locals don't want, actually, a massive

00:32:52.100 tenement full of weird foreigners running around the countryside. 1.00

00:32:55.240 Well, if I jump to the actual devolution white paper, which is published on the government

00:32:59.300 website, it is all about the 1.5 million homes.

00:33:03.320 They literally say this word for word.

00:33:04.800 Yeah. Mayors, they say, are integral to delivering the 1.5 million homes committed to in this parliament.

00:33:12.340 Therefore, we will support these new powers, where all areas, with or without a strategic

00:33:17.480 authority, will have to produce a spatial development strategy, which will be adopted with support

00:33:22.500 from a majority of constituent members. This policy change means that more homes will get

00:33:27.780 built. Mayors will also be given new development management powers, similar to those exercised

00:33:33.560 by the Mayor of London. This will include the ability to call in planning applications

00:33:37.600 of strategic importance. In conjunction with these powers, mayors will be able to charge

00:33:42.520 developers a mayoral levy to ensure that new developments come with the necessary associated

00:33:46.980 infrastructure, etc., etc., so just like in Greater London with the Elizabeth line.

00:33:52.460 To enable mayors to deliver on their plans, we will forge a stronger partnership between

00:33:56.080 Homes England and established mayoral strategic authorities, increasing Homes England's

00:34:00.740 accountability to mayors. So it sounds like these mayors are going to have, in their areas,

00:34:05.140 a hell of a lot of power. And you brought up an interesting point, Connor, which was about

00:34:08.900 the actual low turnout of local elections already as it is. If you all of a sudden have all of

00:34:14.160 these new different regional places which you have to start voting for on a yearly basis,

00:34:20.360 shall we? Well, potentially. Potentially, yeah. Right. How much lower is local council elections

00:34:27.020 going to turn out be? People don't care now. Yeah. If it's more of a constant process, the actual

00:34:32.920 idea of this never-ending democracy is not that politicians are held more accountable, it's that

00:34:37.800 voters become more apathetic. Yeah, weary. Yes, because they don't want to involve themselves in

00:34:42.900 the process, especially when they begin to see that the process doesn't actually have much of an

00:34:47.520 effect on what they get out of the other end of it. They're trying to anaesthetise you to manage

00:34:51.360 decline. And if you want to talk about the more decentralised areas as well, so they say in here,

00:34:58.420 new forums such as the Council of Nations and Regions, chaired by the Prime Minister and the

00:35:03.520 Mayoral Council, chaired by the Deputy Prime Minister, will change the ability to do particular

00:35:09.740 things. Mayors will have a statutory duty to produce local growth plans which will hardwire their

00:35:14.880 local growth priorities into the way the UK government works. So infinity migrants to make 1.00

00:35:20.400 sure that you've always got that line going up. And also, these new councils being chaired by the

00:35:26.120 Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister does not sound particularly decentralised to me.

00:35:31.340 Yeah, not very independent if the government is literally going to sit on the board and give them

00:35:35.260 the orders. Yes. But back to some of the other stuff, you mentioned about how diffuse this whole

00:35:42.620 thing will be. People have already started to worry about the fact that people will be living up to

00:35:47.080 about 50 miles from their town hall under these new plans. They say here, critics warn the Prime

00:35:55.480 Minister's devolution revolution could lead to mega councils and take the powers away from local

00:36:00.240 communities. Districts have already been abolished in North Yorkshire, meaning that residents in Selby

00:36:05.760 have to travel almost 50 miles to the county's headquarters in North Allerton. Now, if this is

00:36:11.520 sounding familiar to any of the viewers right now, that's because I've basically covered this before

00:36:18.220 with this document that was released back in late 2022, A New Britain Renewing Our Democracy and

00:36:25.180 Rebuilding Our Economy. Now, this was a policy document that was supervised and written, I believe,

00:36:29.980 by Gordon Brown. And it was essentially a way to completely upend the unwritten constitution of the

00:36:37.520 UK and put in all of these new areas that can be made into Labour strongholds to make sure that

00:36:44.140 Blair's revolution can later never be changed. It also instantiates a constitutional right to the NHS

00:36:50.640 and a constitutional right to apply for welfare if you are just on the soil, regardless of citizenship.

00:36:55.800 Can we also take a moment to appreciate just how representative this image is of the bureaucratic

00:37:02.980 managerial mindset? It is a series of lines and nodes. There is nothing natural about this. It is the country

00:37:14.840 with everything important drained out of it so that the manager can literally, this is how the spreadsheet

00:37:20.820 would look. Right, okay, well, I need to know what these, it's just the managerial perspective.

00:37:25.560 It's like it's got slight heat map dots underneath it as well. So we will allocate resources according

00:37:31.440 to the heat map. You might as well just run governments through an AI. It also looks like

00:37:36.260 Shelob has captured the entire country. It does. But like, there's nothing natural or normal or 0.96

00:37:41.740 traditional. This is a literally, like you say, an AI map of like the important nodes for the

00:37:47.800 bureaucratic managers. That's all this is. That's their worldview perfectly encapsulated here.

00:37:53.980 Oh, absolutely. And when I say that they want to make sure that this is put in place so that it

00:37:58.560 can never be changed in the future, well, they're making sure of that because they're already starting

00:38:04.040 to delay local elections in preparation for these changes. So as part of her white paper,

00:38:11.800 every area governed by two-tier county and district councils will be asked to submit plans for mergers

00:38:17.060 to create larger unitary authorities with about 500,000 people in each. Ministers say such a change will

00:38:22.460 help empower authorities, but it's also likely to mean elections in some areas will have to be

00:38:27.780 delayed. Jim McMahon, the local government minister, said on Monday that the government may look at

00:38:33.740 postponing some elections till next year, but added, it won't be for longer than a couple of months a

00:38:39.120 year, which means indeterminate amount of time until it's already irreversible.

00:38:44.040 Well, that's because these local government elections are referenda on Keir Starmer's very

00:38:49.500 unpopular prime ministership. So if Labour are defeated in local elections and mayoral elections

00:38:54.740 across the country, it sends a very strong message that their policies are unpopular. So they also

00:38:58.540 don't want the bad PR. Well, also, just to point out as well, this New Britain document that they're

00:39:03.800 basing all of this off was not in their manifesto, was not a promise at the election.

00:39:10.000 They didn't, yeah, they didn't exactly spend a lot of time rhetorically arguing for it, did they?

00:39:14.120 No, this was not mentioned. This is nothing that anybody voted for. So they, if you want to talk

00:39:18.340 about, excuse me, democracy, they do not have a democratic mandate to do such a thing. Although,

00:39:24.940 to be fair, I will say this has also been done under the Tories because they also did it in Cumbria,

00:39:30.620 Somerset and North Yorkshire, who all delayed their 2021 elections by a year as they went through

00:39:36.120 similar reorganisation. Now, again, it's a bit complicated to envision. So happily, I was actually

00:39:42.000 pointed towards this video, which obviously does not have many views. I'm not familiar with the

00:39:49.200 gentleman who made it, but it was a pretty good video and had a bit where he goes through the

00:39:54.480 different layout of government in the UK up until now. So this was before Blair, where you, the voter,

00:40:03.280 vote for your local council, and you, the voter, vote for, you know, MPs, and it gives power to the

00:40:09.620 government who give bills to the lords who have any ability to veto if they want. After Blair's

00:40:16.920 revolution, what happened was more like this, where they don't have it as hereditary, the rest are

00:40:23.040 appointed to the ruling party. So what's it going to look like under this, under the New Britain

00:40:28.100 document? Well, it's going to actually just look like this. Okay, so you, the voter, yeah, you vote

00:40:34.760 for your local MPs, but then you also vote for your metro mayors, your local council, also potentially

00:40:39.760 trade unions will be involved directly in this. And then obviously, if you're in the devolved

00:40:45.280 assemblies like Wales and Scotland and Northern Ireland, you also vote for those. They all have to 0.95

00:40:50.120 speak to the Council of England, who then report to the Council of the UK. They report to the Council of

00:40:54.840 the Nations and the Regions, and they have a back and forth with the Assembly of the Nations and Regions.

00:40:59.740 So what this gentleman shire strike describes this as is a setting up of a number of different Soviets.

00:41:05.160 Well, this is the EU-ization of Britain. It's stakeholder governance. Yeah, but this is very, this very

00:41:11.980 similar to the weird and insanely convoluted governance structure of the European Union, right?

00:41:19.020 It's, you know, various things. And so the average person has just no idea how it works. And that's

00:41:25.420 by design. And because I'll be honest, looking at this, looking at this diagram, I'm just looking at

00:41:30.440 going, how on earth is this going to work? What will, what's the point of the Council of the UK and

00:41:35.380 the Council of England, if they both have to report to these people, and they have to report to the

00:41:39.300 Assembly of the Regions and Nations, who are in direct communication with the government back and

00:41:43.480 forth? What's going to be the relationship between all of them? He also points out as well,

00:41:48.000 there are other parts of it where they have the new rights in the New Britain document,

00:41:54.500 which include health. Every person entitled to health care in the UK, not citizens, not 0.51

00:42:00.920 people born in this country, not even people who were given a piece of paper, just every

00:42:06.100 person will receive it free at the point of need where they are in any part of the UK.

00:42:11.140 No person shall be denied emergency treatment education. Every child shall be entitled to

00:42:15.200 free and primary, free primary and secondary education, wherever they are in any part of

00:42:19.600 the UK, which is one of the reasons they're attacking the public schools. Poverty. So that

00:42:25.800 no child, family or elderly citizen need live in poverty, every person legitimately present in

00:42:31.580 the UK shall be entitled to social assistance in relation to periods of unemployment, disability or

00:42:37.420 old age in accordance with the relevant laws. No person shall be left destitute. So being poor

00:42:44.700 will be illegal. Nick Timothy, Conservative MP, actually put a question. That's just a funny way to frame it.

00:42:52.540 Being poor will be illegal. Except not in a cool despotic way. In a really lame communist way, where everybody's just going to be poor. So nobody can technically be poor.

00:43:03.420 Yeah, exactly. The government will make itself essentially in violation of the law if it doesn't provide them with money. 1.00

00:43:09.100 Well, they're going to. So Nick Timothy put in a letter to the Home Office because he disputed Yvette Cooper's

00:43:14.700 numbers on the asylum system, saying it's going to save billions. And it turns out it's going to cost an

00:43:18.540 extra 17-odd trillion a year. Sorry, billion a year.

00:43:21.900 I was going to say trillion. Sorry. We haven't got any money, bro. 17 billion a year. The reason is they're

00:43:27.580 going to move the asylum budget to the welfare budget because every single legal migrant is going 1.00

00:43:31.340 to be able to claim the full spectrum of welfare benefits as soon as they arrive, which has the

00:43:35.580 convenient excuse of hiding the costs of asylum in the welfare budget. They don't need to differentiate

00:43:40.220 because it looks bad. I've covered this on Tomlinson Talks before and this document as well.

00:43:44.220 Yeah. And of course, it also says that every person shall be entitled to decent accommodation,

00:43:48.620 that being housing, which 1.5 million homes, but in the same amount of time that we're expected to

00:43:53.820 build those 1.5 million, we'll have 2.5 million new arrivals in the country. As you mentioned,

00:43:59.180 five in seven of these new homes will be going to these new arrivals in the country. So it's a moot 0.99

00:44:03.980 point and it's completely unmanageable, completely chaotic, but that doesn't matter. That doesn't

00:44:09.020 matter because this is an insane cultural and governmental revolution of how the country works.

00:44:15.500 Just the thing on this, what are they trying to achieve here? What are they actually trying to

00:44:20.540 do? And this genuinely is the most extreme expression of the Rousseauian form of liberalism,

00:44:26.300 where the government recreates the state of nature as Rousseau has envisioned it. As in Rousseau was like,

00:44:31.820 oh no, nature provides man with everything he needs. He's always got somewhere to sleep,

00:44:36.300 he's always got food, he's always got everything that he wants. And when you exchange your natural

00:44:42.140 rights for civil rights, well then it becomes the government's job to provide everything that

00:44:47.420 nature purportedly provided to pre-social man. And so that's exactly what we're seeing here.

00:44:51.900 These are all of the things that Rousseau would have us do through the state. And it's just, okay,

00:44:57.660 great. We're finally moving into the sort of final phase of liberalism, where the government is

00:45:02.060 literally the thing that provides everything to the country. Yes. But if we remember,

00:45:07.900 some are more equal than others. That's true. And if you are a client group of the government,

00:45:13.420 you still get yours. Or if you are a group that helps fund the government, for instance,

00:45:19.020 you still get yours because union chiefs are already starting to draw up the industrial strategy

00:45:25.740 for labor. Oh yeah. Have they been thinking a lot about the relationship to the means of production,

00:45:30.380 have they? Maybe. Maybe not. I think they've mainly just been thinking about how much they can

00:45:34.380 make from all this. Yeah, doubtless. Yeah. So that's the never-ending democracy. It is

00:45:38.860 currently rolling forwards in motion. We've got the devolution plans moving forward nicely.

00:45:43.580 And so next we just need, you know, housing to be made a human right and poverty to be outlawed.

00:45:49.900 Well, I mean, they literally are saying that. Yeah. Well, it'll be interesting how they outlaw poverty.

00:45:54.540 Yeah. I look forward to seeing how they manage that. Well, you've got to remember that nature

00:45:59.100 provides fruit just from the trees and, you know, fish in the rivers. If we live in the Garden of

00:46:03.580 Eden, you don't need to go away. That's literally what they're thinking. What they're going to do is

00:46:08.140 abolish relative poverty by making us all poor. Well, yeah. I mean, you know, destitute is a

00:46:14.140 relative term. On a global scale, aren't we all super rich? Uh, yeah. Thank God. I'm just as rich

00:46:21.100 as Nancy Pelosi. Um, Glee says, uh, so our glorious general secretary, Kier Stalin, is breaking the 0.51

00:46:27.660 country into autonomous Soviet republics. Um, no, I think, I think it's much more like Europeanization

00:46:33.020 of Britain, right? This is, this is what the French revolutionaries were trying to do to France, 0.70

00:46:36.620 where they literally broke it up into equal numbered, uh, like autonomous. Yeah. The fact that they've

00:46:42.380 specified it has to be 500,000 people per one of these, it feels very arbitrary. It feels like

00:46:48.220 it's just like, oh, this feels rational. No, no, but that's exactly what it is. This is just

00:46:52.540 the French revolution being applied finally to the United Kingdom through the Labour Party,

00:46:57.420 because they're literally brainers who have just been programmed to do this. Uh, Ryan says,

00:47:01.260 I've never seriously considered Peter Hitchens advice about leaving the UK, but with each passing

00:47:04.860 day, it feels increasingly tempting. The direction this country is heading makes it hard to stay.

00:47:08.940 Um, well, the thing is, uh, I don't want to give it up to them. Uh, I'm not happy about that,

00:47:13.900 so I'm not going to. I don't know how bad it gets. Anyway, moving on. So, for the past 30 or so years,

00:47:24.620 probably 40 really, it's been evident that there has been an increasing growth of what I'm just going

00:47:30.060 to call the corporatocracy, which is giga side, international mega businesses in which you are a,

00:47:39.260 just a functional cog in a machine. And everyone knows that this is the part of life where the,

00:47:46.300 the rat race that you were essentially trying to escape. And when I was young, when I was in my, 0.92

00:47:50.700 you know, late teens, early twenties, you've got many, many films representing this. And it was evident to

00:47:55.980 the Gen Xers that actually the future was looking boring, really spiritually devoid, 0.94

00:48:04.140 really uninspiring. And it wasn't going to be somewhere you really wanted to be, but it made

00:48:09.660 you comfortable as Edward Norton's character in Fight Club, uh, lamented. He would have to go and

00:48:15.820 do a job he hated every day. And then he'd sit on his fancy, um, furniture and watch rubbish TV until

00:48:23.260 he just did it again the next day. And this, this is a basic theme for many of the really big and

00:48:28.380 influential cultural touchstones of my generation. And there was a kind of despondency in it, a kind

00:48:34.460 of despair. And that's why you wanted to join the Fight Club. That's why you went to eat gruel in

00:48:39.980 Zion with Morpheus, right? So, okay, that sucks on a physical level. There's hardship, but at least 0.98

00:48:46.380 there's spiritual fulfillment. You know why you're doing this thing.

00:48:49.580 Well, it provides a struggle, which is something that the modern world tries desperately to prevent

00:48:56.220 from people having. It makes, it wants to make people as comfortable as possible. The problem

00:49:01.020 is that if you're as comfortable as possible, you may as well be dead.

00:49:04.860 Well, that's the lament of Blade Runner, isn't it? It's that the androids were made to be 0.96

00:49:10.460 heavy labor simulacra of human beings. And the human beings in living in a corporate

00:49:15.180 dystopia have lost their humanity. But the androids are attempting to do some sort of 1.00

00:49:20.460 existential revolution to ensure that they get longer lifespans and they can see

00:49:25.660 incredibly beautiful feats like starships on fire and entire galaxies and be remembered.

00:49:30.620 And it's that the cruelty is that the human beings have been rendered

00:49:35.020 these agents of the state to hunt down these few people with the last spark of human divinity in them.

00:49:40.380 And that's why Decker tries to leave it. It's about leaving the corporate dystopia.

00:49:44.460 Yeah. And so the the the Gen X position is, well,

00:49:49.980 we're going to have no meaning in our lives. And so we're gonna have to try and find meaning in some way.

00:49:55.340 But at least we will be able to work, make some money, buy a house, get married, do whatever.

00:50:04.940 The future was boring, but it wasn't bleak. And the dystopia was kind of abstract.

00:50:11.740 It's like, yeah, OK, it's going to be, you know, I'm going to be in the mouse utopia.

00:50:16.060 And that's going to be kind of depressing. But it's not a crushing sense of failure,

00:50:21.500 inevitability and a black hole in which nothing will ever come out of.

00:50:26.540 The prospect of retirement was in reach after you'd done your 40 years in the rat race.

00:50:30.140 Exactly. It's not that there was nothing that you could gain out of this. This system could,

00:50:36.380 you could make it pay off for you. It was just going to be insanely depressing to do it.

00:50:40.780 Right. But you could look and go, OK, I have a plan. It's going to take 40 years, but I have a plan.

00:50:45.420 And fine. And the millennials didn't take that approach to corporations.

00:50:50.940 They were, they, they didn't like the kind of resignation and inevitability that the Gen Xers took 1.00

00:50:58.540 towards corporations and decided, no, what we're going to do is essentially grab hold of these

00:51:03.180 corporations and make them moral. Because the Gen Xers never felt that corporations could be used in 1.00

00:51:08.380 a moral way. Which just, which just meant make them gay race communists. 0.99

00:51:11.820 Yes, that's exactly what it meant. Right. And that's why all of these corporations, 0.98

00:51:15.980 as soon as millennials started entering the workforce and making demands on that, well, 0.96

00:51:19.180 yeah, I mean, of course we can agree to gay race communism because frankly, 1.00

00:51:22.380 it's not going to attack our bottom line. But of course, as soon as it starts attacking

00:51:25.900 the bottom line, then actually we're not going to listen to that so much.

00:51:29.900 But then you've got the Zoomers, especially the younger Zoomers. I think the older Zoomers 1.00

00:51:35.420 aren't doing too badly, but the younger Zoomers, I think, are looking at the world. They've 1.00

00:51:39.180 just finished university. They look at the world and go, okay, why am I here? What prospects do I

00:51:45.500 have? And I think this is one of the issues that underpins Luigi Mangione's

00:51:55.820 Italian assassination of Brian Thompson. Because in them, I think there is a kind of symbolic

00:52:02.940 representation of the past and the future coming into conflict. And it's not like they haven't

00:52:10.780 seen this coming, right? So as you may not know, because this has only been really reported in

00:52:16.940 left-wing media, UnitedHealth aren't exactly a very nice company. They provide a huge amount of

00:52:23.980 healthcare in the United States, and of course there's a private corporation. And ProPublica got

00:52:28.700 leaked documents that outline the company's strategic playbook for withholding treatment

00:52:33.420 to, in this case, autistic children, because it's going to save them money.

00:52:37.580 Hang on. So, look, I'm very suspicious of this, just because the narrative is often that every

00:52:43.340 single health insurance company should take on all the claims, no matter the...

00:52:47.820 I'm not, I'm not.

00:52:48.860 I know you're not, but then as for the kids with autism claim, again, massive sympathy

00:52:53.740 needs to the family that actually have it. I have seen recently, in places like Minnesota,

00:52:58.700 with a large Somali community, them exploiting the, my child has autism, ADHD, etc., claims, 0.99

00:53:05.900 in order to get more state assistance and health insurance stuff.

00:53:10.140 The problem with this is that in the leaked document, UnitedHealth accept the legitimacy of

00:53:16.460 the complaints. So they say, yep, there's a real problem with these kids, they do need medical

00:53:21.580 treatment for their autism. And when we say autism, we mean someone who is not very socially adept.

00:53:27.100 They give examples of children who literally can't speak, and who are, like, just wildly out of

00:53:33.340 control and actually need medication to just bring their behavior into line with what is normal.

00:53:38.220 So, it's, I agree with you that there are massive problems with exploitation.

00:53:43.820 But in this case, it seems that they are also, you do have, like, the exploitative thing, but you

00:53:50.460 also have the Gordon Gekko types who are like, look, we're losing money on this, and we need to

00:53:55.020 make sure that we keep our profits up. And that is a genuine concern and problem that the system is

00:54:00.700 simply not set up to deal with well, right? This is something, I mean, for example, in the case of

00:54:05.740 autism, in fact. In the past two decades, autism has increased from one in 150 children to one in 36.

00:54:13.180 And so UnitedHealth are pursuing market-specific action plans to limit access to this treatment

00:54:20.700 because it's just going to cost them too much money.

00:54:22.540 I think they've also seen the direction that state regulation was going in. This might change

00:54:27.900 into the Trump administration, but especially after the Obamacare individual mandate, which

00:54:31.580 penalized you if you didn't want to use the state-allocated healthcare options. Yeah.

00:54:35.740 They're seeing the state is swallowing this up and regulating it and growing, so they're thinking,

00:54:39.900 oh, it's okay, the government will just take care of that, so we don't need to snap that up.

00:54:42.860 Yes, indeed. And one of the things that the sort of politically aware Zoomers are thinking are, 0.96

00:54:49.660 well, okay, I may not know the details of all of that. I may not know how all of this all connects

00:54:56.220 together with all the other things. But I do see that this company makes 22 billion dollars a year

00:55:00.940 in net profits. And then they're essentially squeezing the people who do need, and again,

00:55:09.500 they admit that they need these medications, and squeezing them to withhold it as much as possible,

00:55:16.220 so the corporation looks like a giant evil vampiric entity.

00:55:22.700 And this is why Brian Thompson was worried about his company's negative image.

00:55:28.300 Before he was shot in 2024, Brian Thompson had an early warning for his colleagues. The company has

00:55:36.300 a public relations problem. Yeah, no kidding. Because you look like a giant evil vampiric corporation. 0.61

00:55:43.740 Average Americans didn't understand the massive insurance company's role in the nation's health

00:55:47.100 system, he argued. Again, that's true. They don't understand, but they see you're making 22 billion

00:55:51.820 pounds and dollars in profit. He argued in internal discussions with fellow executives that the steps

00:55:57.740 it had taken to limit out-of-pocket costs for life-saving drugs. And instead, United Healthcare

00:56:03.260 and its parent group had faced investigations and congressional probes simmering consumer anger

00:56:07.900 over challenges, and it was making billions by denying healthcare to the ill and elderly.

00:56:12.700 Quote, he understood the public was frustrated with what they perceived the company's actions to be,

00:56:17.420 according to one of the people who spoke with Thompson. He was actively articulating a vision

00:56:21.500 that helped better educate and help people better understand what the company was doing.

00:56:27.500 The problem is, it's a difficult sell if someone you know has a genuine condition and is being denied

00:56:36.220 treatment by this company. Again, this company might well have disreputable actions, but

00:56:41.340 the framing of this does annoy me. When it said, they're making billions by denying healthcare

00:56:47.660 from the elderly and vulnerable. No, they're not. They don't start with a giant pot of gold and then

00:56:54.060 accumulate more gold just because they're not giving treatment. By giving treatment, they're making

00:56:58.380 the money. So they're being selective. Remember, people pay health insurance, so the pot of gold is

00:57:04.460 there and that's meant to be used to provide treatment for someone when they need it.

00:57:10.620 So the incentive for the health companies and the insurance companies is to refuse to pay out when

00:57:16.140 it's needed in order to retain as much of that as possible. I think that they're refusing to cover

00:57:22.460 people when they apply for the pre-existing condition, not refusing to cover an issue that

00:57:28.780 arises once they've already got the insurance. It's not one or the other.

00:57:31.580 Well, it is. So if you got into a motorcycle accident, for example, that's not a pre-existing

00:57:37.980 condition. But a child with autism, if you're trying to get healthcare coverage, they wouldn't

00:57:42.540 apply that because that's at the application stage. But the thing is, there are going to be

00:57:48.300 millions of different claims for various different reasons, various different circumstances. And what

00:57:53.820 they're trying to do is just generally overall lower. So some things will go through, some things

00:57:58.300 won't. But the general sort of contraction of the availability of the care is caused by the

00:58:05.340 perverse incentive of the fact that they want to make billions in profits for shareholders. And that

00:58:11.340 actually does mean that people are denied the medical coverage that they need, the medical care

00:58:16.700 that they need. And so there's a genuine understanding, and I think it's not irrational, that,

00:58:22.460 well, we're kind of at war with the healthcare providers, right? They are essentially in some

00:58:27.980 way disincentivized from actually helping us when, and Luigi Mangione himself was injured and needed

00:58:37.740 healthcare, right? He needed these things. And so he is someone who is directly affected by these things.

00:58:42.300 Not that I'm trying to in any way justify what he's done or anything like that. Of course, do not commit

00:58:46.940 murder. I shouldn't have to say that. But the point is, there are perverse incentives in privatized

00:58:52.700 healthcare. And I'm not saying, like Kyle Kalinsky style, oh, well, then we just need an NHS and

00:58:57.900 everything. No, no, there are massive perverse incentives in state-controlled healthcare as well.

00:59:03.260 It's something that we just don't have a solution for. And I'm not saying I have a solution for it.

00:59:07.340 What I'm saying is the reality on the ground is there are people who are suffering, and there are,

00:59:12.300 they perceive fat cats who are profiting from their suffering. And this, whether you agree with

00:59:18.540 them or not, is their perception. And also, if you're a, I mean, it's not like Mangione was an

00:59:25.900 ill-educated dunce or something like that. He was a highly educated tech guy. So he knew he was a smart

00:59:32.060 guy. And these are the perceptions that the young people coming out of the universities now are looking

00:59:37.420 at the world around him going, right. So I'm, I'm going to have a very difficult time to get into

00:59:41.820 that position. I'm going to suffer and I'm going to spend a lot of time in the grind on the way.

00:59:46.140 And I can see the fat cat right there, essentially tyrannizing me through this,

00:59:52.300 the use of the system through the corporatocracy. And so it doesn't even matter whether you agree

00:59:57.580 with that or not. That's basically what they think. And I don't think it's an irrational

01:00:03.260 perception either. Right. And I think that's why Brian Thompson was like, look,

01:00:07.420 I am actually a bit worried about the way this is going. And so when polled, a recent poll from

01:00:14.220 Emerson College Polls found that four in 10 people between 18 and 29 basically thought that was fine,

01:00:22.140 because they find themselves at the bottom of a system that doesn't seem to be intent on helping

01:00:27.980 them. And it seems to, in fact, see intent on preventing them gaining access to things that

01:00:34.860 other countries purportedly say are universal for everyone in those countries. 0.97

01:00:41.100 And therefore think, well, this guy was essentially an oppressor and it's fine to shoot him. Now, 0.94

01:00:47.660 like I said, I don't agree. Shouldn't kill anyone. But the point is when nearly half of a cohort

01:00:53.900 in a country is like, yeah, no, that's, that's totally fine. And in fact, I support it and I've

01:00:57.500 been cheering it on. That's a real civilizational problem. That's the system having a massive issue

01:01:03.740 and not doing as people think it should do. So yeah, 40, 41% of people thought it was somewhat,

01:01:08.860 or just completely acceptable. Shoot the CEO in Manhattan when he was wandering around. 0.97

01:01:14.860 23% of those in their thirties thought it should be acceptable. And only 13% of those in their 0.98

01:01:19.580 forties found it acceptable. So the millennials, a third of them were nearly like, well,

01:01:26.140 that's what they get. And that's, that's just a cohort that's getting bigger where it's like, look,

01:01:30.940 we can see that there is wealth and access pooling unjustly at one side or at the top. And this is

01:01:38.540 making the lives of the people on the bottom worse. Well, that's why you get the increased cohort there. 1.00

01:01:43.580 The point I think that underpins it really is that the corporate structure of America is not

01:01:50.620 upholding any kind of noblesse oblige, right? The, the, the CEOs of these companies should be making

01:01:57.820 examples out of particular problem cases and saying, yeah, no, I'm a multimillionaire CEO.

01:02:03.580 That person has, you know, got some terrible congenital illness and for some reason they can't get it

01:02:09.100 treated. I'm going to, as a, as a really nice big show of good faith, I'm going to pay $500,000 or

01:02:15.420 whatever. I'm going to get those, that person fixed. Big philanthropic ventures. Exactly. There's no

01:02:20.860 philanthropy from these people. And so there's a massive moral disconnect. They don't feel like

01:02:26.860 they're part of the same civilization. In fact, they feel exploited and suppressed. And as if this

01:02:31.420 is never going to get any better. And that's why you get someone like this guy just shooting one in

01:02:35.900 the street and then nearly half a zoom is going, yay, brilliant. Love it. We'll see more of it.

01:02:41.180 And it's like, that's, that's a crazy problem to have. And it's not getting any better. As you can

01:02:46.700 see by like, you know, I mean, what, what are the sort of generation alpha is going to be like when

01:02:50.140 they have it even worse, the prospects of that generation, even worse than the prospects of the 0.73

01:02:54.780 zoomers. I mean, it's going to be more than half. They're like, yeah, I just start shooting CEOs. We don't 1.00

01:02:58.380 care because we hate them because we have nothing. We will never get a house. We will never have a

01:03:03.660 family. We'll never have any of the things they have. And they have it all. And we don't care.

01:03:08.220 Unfortunately, the left have a point when it comes to inequality. It matters whether it's

01:03:13.900 fair or not. Like when the mechanically, the inequality, the creation of the inequality

01:03:19.420 was fair or not, isn't really the problem or the concern of people of his age. They don't care.

01:03:24.860 They've got to the point where it's like, okay, well, there's no future for me.

01:03:28.620 So I may as well do crazy things. Was it Bernie Goetz, if I remember the name correctly, the guy

01:03:34.700 who became a vigilante in New York City when crime reached a peak and it inspired the inspired

01:03:43.740 Death Wish and Joker. Well, I remember there was a vigilante in New York who shot a few criminals

01:03:51.580 and public opinion was overwhelmingly on his side.

01:03:54.460 Oh, this was the subway shooting, wasn't it?

01:03:57.180 I'm not fooling about that. That doesn't surprise me.

01:03:59.020 This sounds like similar conditions where perceived social conditions deteriorate to the extent of

01:04:05.740 where people will turn to vigilante figures if they don't think that the state is acting in their

01:04:09.740 best interest.

01:04:10.300 Yes. And that's precisely what has happened here. So the BBC are like, oh, well, this is a bit of a

01:04:17.100 concern, isn't it? Lots of people are pro-Mangioni. Lots of them. And I mean, obviously, 0.99

01:04:24.060 a small number of people turn out in public, but lots of people on social media and when

01:04:28.780 polled are actually like, yeah, no, this guy's a hero. He, they view him as a kind of Robin Hood

01:04:34.300 figure rather than someone who has just murdered a person in cold blood. And what I'm saying is when

01:04:41.340 the system starts producing this, the system has entered into a kind of either, well, it's one of

01:04:47.420 two ways, actually. It either enters into a death spiral or it clamps down and becomes

01:04:52.140 very, very tyrannical.

01:04:53.260 Did you see, what was it, Peter Thiel on Piers Morgan, I think it was, being asked about it

01:04:59.100 and struggling to give an answer when Piers asked him, how do you feel about this? What

01:05:05.180 do you think about the people who think it's acceptable to shoot multi-million,

01:05:09.580 multi-billionaire CEOs in public? And he just had no answer for it.

01:05:14.940 What could he answer, given his position?

01:05:17.420 He genuinely seemed frightened by the question.

01:05:19.900 Yeah, and I think a lot of them are frightened. This is, we'll get to that in a minute actually,

01:05:23.820 right? So basically, like, the public have responded really poorly to his arrest and to

01:05:31.020 everyone. I mean, the police department that arrested him started getting death threats.

01:05:35.180 Like, the McDonald's workers who turned him in started getting death threats. Like,

01:05:41.100 the, Etsy has been flooded with pro-Mangioni apparel, whereas Amazon are constantly pulling

01:05:47.900 these things from their site. They're like, no, we can't have you glorifying a murderer,

01:05:53.420 especially, like, directly in the wake of the murder. We can't have that.

01:05:57.660 And this is a major problem. There is a huge public upswell of sympathy for him for this reason.

01:06:04.780 I'm not even getting to the women who are just, you know. 1.00

01:06:06.700 Well, there was, but not just that, there was a woman in Florida who I believe has been arrested

01:06:10.060 because she, he, Luigi carved a message on the three bullets and she relayed the same

01:06:17.660 message that were on the bullets to her own healthcare provider.

01:06:20.700 Right. So this is, this is another thing. So I'm not going through individual cases of people who

01:06:27.420 have been struggling with this company in particular because of problems that they have. And it seems that

01:06:33.500 Luigi had exactly this problem, uh, problems they had and their reactions to it. I mean,

01:06:39.100 there's a, a one, Jen Coffey, who's mentioned in this article, who's been fighting to get UHC to 0.81

01:06:43.740 cover her medical bills for whatever reason. And she was like, well, I think it's terrible.

01:06:47.500 I condemn violence, but I'm not shocked

01:06:51.740 because who wants to be trapped in a years long legal wrangle of getting whatever problem you've got

01:06:57.260 solved with this medical company has got every incentive to just have their paid lawyers to just

01:07:03.420 tie you up as long as possible. Right. Who wants that? That's not good. It doesn't help anything.

01:07:08.140 And so what people are saying is, look, this has been coming for a while. This system is not serving

01:07:12.220 the people who are at the bottom of it. And the young people who are at the bottom feel there's no

01:07:15.820 world ahead other than to be a suffering cog in the machine of the corporatocracy while other people

01:07:22.460 benefit. And why would you want that? What that's, that's a terrible social contract to, to be putting

01:07:29.340 in front of someone and saying, right, okay, so you're going to be paying for Brian Thompson's new

01:07:33.100 yachts while you suffer. And that's how it is forever. So get used to it. So you're predicting,

01:07:39.820 unfortunately, a large number of Nicholas 30 arms. I'm not predicting anything. I'm, I'm trying to give

01:07:45.980 a warning and say, yes, this, this is going to get worse. If things don't change. Yes. Exactly. Unless

01:07:52.700 something structural changes and just, again, with the Peter Thiel, what's your answer to this? Nothing.

01:07:58.620 Of course nothing. What can he say? He's essentially got to say, well, I need to start being more

01:08:03.980 charitable. I need something. I think in Thiel's case, he's on side. Yeah, I like Thiel. Yes. But he is

01:08:12.940 part of a cohort that will be targeted no matter his personal philanthropic ventures. Exactly. On

01:08:17.020 a personal level, I like Thiel, but like he's a part, he's, he's benefiting from the system that

01:08:21.660 is causing these problems. And so, okay. Anyway, Mangione is getting a terrorism charge. And the

01:08:27.180 thing is, that's probably not inappropriate. Yeah. Like this is a political killing that's designed to

01:08:33.340 cause political change. Um, so anyway, the corporatocracy is of course going to come down

01:08:39.500 as hard on him as they can. Um, but a failure to understand why this has happened means that

01:08:45.180 it's going to persist and get worse. And Reuters in this point out, look, Americans pay more for

01:08:50.060 healthcare than any other country with spending on insurance premiums and out-of-pocket payments,

01:08:53.660 blah, blah, uh, being the highest in the world. Now, Americans make the most money in the world.

01:08:59.100 So you would expect healthcare to, um, you know, reflect that they're spending on healthcare

01:09:03.740 is more than everyone else because it makes so much money. But the thing is,

01:09:06.380 there comes to a point where it just doesn't seem to matter how much money you put into healthcare.

01:09:10.860 So, uh, I saw a chart the other day, in fact, where it showed the amount of money put into

01:09:15.740 healthcare correlated with life expectancy. And after a certain point, there's just no life

01:09:20.380 expectancy increase. Um, and so it looks, it looks to people who are looking at this,

01:09:25.980 like actually this is a form of extraction rather than healthcare.

01:09:29.180 Particularly when they're not looking after the health of Americans, they're merely responding to

01:09:33.820 the arising of ailments, which often come from their diets and the like, which has been introduced

01:09:39.660 because of state lobbying by other large pharmaceutical and agricultural bodies.

01:09:43.580 And so, like I said, I'm completely against any kind of arbitrary extrajudicial murders, obviously.

01:09:51.980 This is not getting any better though. And Mangione, the harder they come down on him,

01:09:57.500 and they should come down hard on him, but that's going to have a consequence of making him

01:10:01.500 into the folk hero that they probably shouldn't be trying to create, right? Obviously they have

01:10:07.180 to come down on him on this, but, um, but this is not going to make him less popular with the

01:10:12.860 people who are incredibly resentful against the system itself. And I thought it might be worth,

01:10:17.420 uh, just pointing out that they know that the danger is coming, right? Like this is from November.

01:10:24.060 This is from before the shooting in Business Insider. And you can see that CEOs are worried about

01:10:28.860 security. They're clamoring for bodyguards as the world feels more dangerous. So, uh, one,

01:10:34.940 one, uh, security expert they asked, they said, well, we've got wars going on, elections, protests,

01:10:39.420 social challenges, immigration challenges. Uh, it all creates the need for additional security. So

01:10:44.460 it could be that the outcome of this is essentially the cyberpunk dystopia where the, the giant

01:10:50.620 corporations have got to essentially employ a kind of private army to protect themselves from the

01:10:55.980 public, from the underclass. There's an interesting point here as well, related to other political

01:11:02.060 movements. This, this chap speaking to Business Insider says to the FT, the business is linked

01:11:06.620 to Israel and the defense and energy industries are most likely to hire extra security for their staff

01:11:10.780 because of the salience of the pro-Palestine protests. So. Absolutely. And

01:11:16.140 Mangione and Thompson are going to provide a direct incentives for CEOs to require, I mean, if you're

01:11:22.780 a billionaire, well, okay, I'm just going to triple, quadruple my security detail. I'm just going to

01:11:27.340 have loads of armed guards around me at all times because why wouldn't I spend the money on that? And

01:11:33.100 so now I'm entrenching in my position. But not only that, the idea that I have an obligation to the

01:11:39.020 public, no, I'm rendering the public as a danger, right? I don't have an obligation to them. They're the

01:11:43.660 threat to me that I have to prevent. And so now you've got an even wider and deeper rift between the

01:11:49.180 people at the top society and the people at the bottom, which is not exactly going to mollify the

01:11:53.100 concerns of the people at the bottom. You know, what you're going to come out and say is, well, look, I'm

01:11:56.460 going to do everything I can to make sure that poor people are happy and healthy and prosperous. But

01:12:01.340 also, I need all these armed guards to protect me from you evil ports. It's like, sorry, the actions

01:12:05.660 don't fit the words. There's, it's going to become an irreconcilable rift. But if you work in security,

01:12:11.180 as it pointed out there, it might be some good money. Oh yeah, this golden era for personal security.

01:12:15.820 Uh, and of course, since the shooting, uh, everyone is like, oh God, we're going to need

01:12:21.020 security. So they know they've been worried about this for some time. Brian Thompson himself was

01:12:26.380 warning, look, our PR is pretty poor. We can either stop being evil or we can start making people like

01:12:31.980 us. Um, I mean, they could harmonize, but they know they absolutely know. And so, uh, Amazon, uh,

01:12:40.860 every, did you say that they could harmonize? We could be evil and make people like us.

01:12:44.940 No, no, no, no. We could be, stop being evil and then people would like us. Oh, okay. So,

01:12:48.780 you know, I misheard you. Yeah. You're like a spokesperson for the Republican party in the

01:12:53.900 Simpsons. Yeah. But, um, but anyway, you know, Amazon, various other companies, they all know,

01:13:00.140 oh God, okay, this is going to get difficult. Right. Cause I mean, is it beyond the realms of possibility

01:13:04.220 that disgruntled Amazon employee who was sick of being monitored by like, you know, the AI that's

01:13:10.220 watching every second of his movements down to like the 10 second block is, is he, who knows,

01:13:16.540 who knows what's going to happen, right? Like Michael Douglas and falling down. Exactly. Right.

01:13:20.220 And this is something Dan covered on the, uh, Lotus Eases video because 10 years ago, there was an,

01:13:24.620 uh, an article about, um, by, by a tech billionaire. It's like, look, the pitchforks are coming.

01:13:30.060 Like people aren't going to live like this forever. Um, and this is essentially, we're waiting for the

01:13:35.820 generation to be, uh, whichever generation it is that is just so despondent at the future that 0.80

01:13:42.460 they're just like, well, I would rather go to jail or face these crimes and take revenge on these

01:13:47.580 people than carry on like this forever. Right. Where my generation, it wasn't that bad. So we were

01:13:52.620 like, okay, we'll just drudge through it. Okay. The millennials had a kind of cope. Oh, we'll make

01:13:56.460 the, we'll make corporations good, bro. We'll make them moral. And gens that are like, okay, 0.99

01:14:01.100 no, you've, you tried. That doesn't work. You know, I can't do what you did. You tried making

01:14:05.020 them good. That didn't work. And so now what? It turns out putting the pride flag every pride

01:14:09.260 month on the Twitter account. Didn't fix it. Didn't do it. Sorry, millennials. We know you tried. 1.00

01:14:14.220 Yeah. Yeah. It was a noble attempt. And honestly, in a way it is kind of noble. It's like, look,

01:14:18.860 we're going to try and make them good. It's like, okay, but you're evil, but whatever. Naughty

01:14:22.300 Dog can make as many ugly female characters as they want. It doesn't make the games any better. 1.00

01:14:27.100 I know. But the, the, the point being that there has to be some kind of structural institutional

01:14:32.860 change or else we are genuinely heading for the cyberpunk dystopia. So while Samson loads

01:14:38.380 up the video comments, we've got a couple of rumble rants. Yeah. BoBoDad says, the new model will be

01:14:42.540 proven true that nature and the city will provide. After all, I found a pack of Sour Patch kids next to 1.00

01:14:47.740 a dead crackhead in the subway. Okay. Jackpot. Yeah. Common loot. Jack says, uh, UK based,

01:14:53.980 I got screwed by Lloyd's over their self admitting mistake over payments to mortgage,

01:14:57.420 ended with two payments missed, added debt, credit score, the response here,

01:15:00.380 have a hundred pound. Uh, and the ombudsman agreed. Yes. This is the point. This is the point.

01:15:05.180 If the corporations are not going to be actually helping people, then they're not really like

01:15:10.380 the, this, the system itself has to serve us. It's not even, they're not helping people.

01:15:16.460 It's that just through sheer incompetence in this case, they got it wrong and they have no

01:15:21.500 accountability or responsibility to their customers who are the people they're supposed

01:15:25.740 to be providing a service to. And they're hoping that you won't bother chasing it up

01:15:29.020 because of the lost labor it costs you actually isn't going to be properly compensated. And so

01:15:32.940 this, and I hate to say this, but Marxist theory of alienation, well, we're watching it playing out,

01:15:38.460 actually. You know, people feeling, feeling very essentially dispossessed from anything that they

01:15:43.820 do in their lives. Yeah. That's going to make them, uh, not happy and think, you know,

01:15:48.140 maybe a different system would be better. You know, I'm going to, I'm going to read through

01:15:51.500 all the Carlisle that I've had, that I have, cause I'm almost certain that Marx stole that

01:15:55.100 from Carlisle. I'm pretty sure he did. Yeah. And you need to start attributing it to right-wing

01:15:58.700 thinkers. We, we should, but the, it's, you know, commonly known Marxist theory of alienation.

01:16:02.860 Um, but the, the point being like, you know, from different angles, you can arrive on the same

01:16:07.100 point because that's a true point. You know, it is true that people should probably actually

01:16:11.660 like what they do and like where they live and like the life that they have. I'm just thinking

01:16:14.780 we should probably quote more Carlisle than Marx. That's true. Anyway, press play.

01:16:21.980 Absolutely useless. My wife's business will be gone in April, which means 50 parents will 0.99

01:16:27.660 have to find childcare because she cannot afford to pay them. That's six people unemployed. And 1.00

01:16:33.820 that's going to be across the whole of the nursery, um, system. It is the most moronic thing that has 0.99

01:16:40.060 been done. It's going to be more dangerous to this country than COVID or any of the wars. 0.98

01:16:44.460 That we've had. She can't run a credit card. She certainly can't run a country's economy. 1.00

01:16:51.420 Yeah. Well, inflation's gone up this month and the economy shrunk by, what was it? Point one,

01:16:56.700 point two. So yeah, it's going, going great so far. What is that poster? Sorry. Like the,

01:17:01.260 the shark of the American shark being like, Oh, well, come and join us. And then the EU shoal of

01:17:07.660 sheep as if the EU is prospering as if the EU is doing brilliantly, which out of these two,

01:17:13.420 like political organizations is doing well. The Americans. Exactly. The Americans are doing

01:17:18.060 great. Can it not just be that we do well? Yeah, I know. Can we not be an enormous whale in the

01:17:24.380 background? The 51st state, unfortunately. At least they're rich. Yeah. But we're not. I know.

01:17:31.260 Why can't we be rich because of Keir Starmer trying to make us into the EU? Well, here we go.

01:17:47.260 The dog is adorable. That was very cute. Love a cavalier in Charles. Oh, here we go.

01:18:08.860 Base tier list. Connor Tomlinson, AKA Colin Thompson, got an early start trying to influence policy.

01:18:15.260 However, he quickly found that politicians don't care about policy just being elected again in order

01:18:20.140 to embezzle and be bribed. However, he has had far more success by simply ousting their corruption

01:18:25.180 instead. Who even knew what Raikou was before Connor? When he has time, he and Harry do great

01:18:30.700 when discussing comics. Connor goes in C tier. Oh, that felt like it was going a bit higher than C tier.

01:18:38.220 Yeah, I know. I was quite shocked. What's the flower? Why is there a flower there? Samson.

01:18:42.220 Daisy. Oh. Oh, okay. What? Why does he even know how based Daisy's supposed to be?

01:18:51.820 Ah, right. Okay. Oh, okay. So what? He just put her down there as a punishment. 0.98

01:18:56.220 Okay. Fair play.

01:19:01.180 Oh, excellent. Is that all it is? Okay, we've got a couple more rumble rants while we go to the

01:19:05.660 written comments on the site. I'll just let you take over that one.

01:19:08.300 The engage view says, and if the Lord wants to take me, I'm here for the taking because

01:19:12.780 hell's probably better than trying to get by. I actually don't know what that's from.

01:19:17.340 I don't know what song that's from. Basic Bass Ape says, I'm so glad Carl picked up on the

01:19:22.140 should never happen line. It feels disgusting because the use of the word should involves

01:19:25.980 theoretical language rather than certain and knowing language. The person is refusing to

01:19:30.860 acknowledge the fact that it happened and instead is responding to a theoretical reality where it

01:19:34.220 theoretically happened very descriptive and gross. Yeah, I really despise that kind of,

01:19:39.900 and it seems like Cobb-Earth's, oh, this should never happen. Okay. You've given yourself a moral

01:19:44.860 injunction. Follow through on it. You know, it's like, if I say, Harry, thanks for lending me that tenner.

01:19:50.460 I should pay you that back sometime and then walk out. You'd be like, well, no, no, hang on.

01:19:55.180 Hang on. You know, like, he's drawing from real life. At least when you take him to court,

01:20:01.420 you're securing the knowledge that he will show up, ah, he didn't because he can't speak English.

01:20:04.860 Well, yeah, that's a good point. Excuse me. Excuse me, my brother, my brother.

01:20:08.380 All because I only have one suit. But that's the point, isn't it? Like, if someone's like, oh yeah,

01:20:12.860 I should really do that. And then they don't. You're just like, okay, well then don't say that you

01:20:17.980 should because you obviously don't believe it, you liar. Um, Omar says, Starmer isn't expressing 0.93

01:20:22.380 or regret giving condolences. He's just following the how-to prime minister manual. Yeah, and this

01:20:26.380 is why it just seemed very much like Steak Khan, because he does this all the time. No one should

01:20:30.460 be blown up in an Islamist terror attack. Just, just, just gonna point out, by the way,

01:20:34.220 in response to Connor, I'm, I'm more English than either of you, so. Good point.

01:20:37.820 I actually haven't had a test, so I don't know. Well, you're Irish and you're African. 1.00

01:20:41.260 Well, I'm, I'm quarter African. Which is enough, I suppose.

01:20:45.900 Carl's our diversity hire. I'm about 90% English. Hang on.

01:20:49.260 And one tiny percent Slav, according to how they updated my results recently. 0.75

01:20:53.980 Slav. Oh no. Slav. Oh no. 1.00

01:20:56.700 If we were a black-owned business, does that mean we can get like, extra loans from the government?

01:20:59.980 Can I apply? Have a look. Find me a link, I'll apply from the government.

01:21:03.260 There you go. They're taking my money anyway, I may as well take some back.

01:21:05.820 Garland Goblin says, shame we can't take the government to court for failing their duty of

01:21:11.420 care obligations to the public, their negligent border security. No, I don't think we can.

01:21:17.020 James says, I feel like if Rupert Lowe wasn't an MP, Farage may have removed him from the party.

01:21:21.100 No, he wouldn't. Good. Okay, well that's good.

01:21:23.180 Because Farage is getting a lot of flack online from the right, a lot, and a lot of it is deserved,

01:21:29.100 to be honest. Yeah. But I don't, I think that Farage, the way I perceive it is that he's just

01:21:35.180 trying to be a sensible political navigator rather than...

01:21:39.180 He's being overly cautious. They're doing the, what I said to you earlier about the

01:21:42.620 Ming vase strategy, trying to carry the vase across the finish line, but there is a reason

01:21:46.860 why he's letting Lowe do this and then amplifying Lowe's tweets after the fact.

01:21:50.620 Yeah, because I mean, I've been following Farage for years, and he'd go back 10 years ago,

01:21:54.860 he'd be saying some quite hardline stuff, and it's like, okay, and that's why I ended up liking him

01:21:58.860 in the first place. So it's like, okay.

01:22:00.540 Okay. Well, on Sky News with Trevor Phillips, he was citing the Henry Jackson polling that said

01:22:04.300 the majority of Muslims are not fit to be in the country. And then he's since retreated from it 0.99

01:22:08.700 because, unfortunately, he feels like he needs to be a little bit softer and more...

01:22:13.340 Mainstream centre-right.

01:22:14.700 More accommodating, yeah.

01:22:15.580 He used to say that his political hero is Xenon Powell.

01:22:18.980 They are hearing these criticisms.

01:22:21.020 So it's, you know, it's like, okay, come on now. We want a based right-wing party. Stop being so cautious.

01:22:26.780 I just want to point it out as well. Chat's saying that, officially, Carl, you have the pass.

01:22:31.040 Oh.

01:22:31.960 You can borrow my life.

01:22:32.660 Yeah, okay, that's great, but like...

01:22:35.620 Try arguing that with the powers that be.

01:22:37.560 Harry getting a sleeve for Christmas says...

01:22:43.880 What?

01:22:45.060 Am I?

01:22:47.040 Amazing.

01:22:49.080 Best present.

01:22:51.500 Actually, that's a lot of effort.

01:22:53.140 Yeah, I know.

01:22:53.640 That's a hell of a lot of effort.

01:22:55.280 Yeah.

01:22:55.840 But on the plus side, now he gets Cultivate a Southern accent.

01:23:00.140 It'll fit my facial.

01:23:01.220 Yeah, yeah.

01:23:01.960 Fit your jacket.

01:23:03.100 I'll grow the little soul patch.

01:23:04.460 All of this policy through devolution is trying to do is allow the government to escape accountability through post-bureaucracy and bickering at the local level, making the plebs fight amongst themselves while ignoring their masters. 0.99

01:23:14.620 Absolutely terrible.

01:23:15.460 That's definitely going to be one effect of it, but there's also the abstracting away from normal people's view of local politics to create the kind of bureaucratic EU style somewhere else run by someone else for something for the government's own benefit.

01:23:31.760 That's what the eventual effect of it is going to be.

01:23:33.520 It hides the agenda and the banality of procedures.

01:23:35.920 Yeah, yeah.

01:23:36.340 And it's literally going to become like the EU, where it's like, something has happened, who's made the decision?

01:23:42.040 Well, some nameless, faceless bureaucrat.

01:23:44.040 It's like the film Brazil, where the entire apparatus exists to pass forms around, where there's actually no accountability in any one given person.

01:23:51.200 And the people who are actually making the decisions will not be the elected.

01:23:54.140 Remember in that how the entire situation in that film is set off because a fly falls into one of the photocopiers or one of the printers?

01:24:02.420 I haven't seen it, actually.

01:24:03.140 Have you not?

01:24:03.760 It's really good.

01:24:04.540 It's your sort of film.

01:24:05.520 You would like it.

01:24:06.540 Same director as Twelve Monkeys.

01:24:07.720 Right, okay.

01:24:08.100 Yeah, Terry Gilliam.

01:24:09.840 The entire situation is set off because a fly falls into a printer that causes a printing error that gets the wrong person killed.

01:24:17.520 And the main character of the film, he starts off having to give a receipt of apology or a refund.

01:24:24.300 Because when you get executed by the state, they charge you for it.

01:24:28.180 They give you a receipt for it.

01:24:29.940 Well, I'm not going to pay it.

01:24:31.100 Now what?

01:24:32.060 I haven't seen it, but I will.

01:24:33.320 Too bad.

01:24:33.720 You should watch it.

01:24:34.360 It's great.

01:24:36.380 Carl's masterfully minimal use of Nuln Oil, that's a more accurate name, says,

01:24:41.020 It makes so much sense when you remember that Soviet translates to council.

01:24:44.400 Yes.

01:24:44.680 That's a great point, actually.

01:24:47.360 The placement of workers' councils to dominate peasant areas is exactly what Lenin did after taking power.

01:24:51.560 And this is why, what was it, Gorbachev or someone else?

01:24:55.080 Who's like, wow, you're setting up the Soviet Union in Europe now, are you? 0.90

01:24:58.700 When he came to his critique of the EU.

01:25:00.520 Ah.

01:25:01.540 Because, literally, it's like, yeah, we've just got loads of councils that deal with councils that are all passing, you know, bureaucrats passing notes to each other.

01:25:08.600 Nothing's happening, and no one knows who's in control of it.

01:25:11.740 So this is like one of my friends, her Ukrainian dad, who grew up in the Soviet Union.

01:25:18.180 When he came over here, he told me once that, you know, he was asked, oh, why did you come to escape communism and socialism?

01:25:25.480 And he was like, have you seen your school system?

01:25:27.940 It already is here.

01:25:28.980 Because this is after the comprehensives have been set up.

01:25:34.520 Someone online says, in a Palpatine voice, I love democracy.

01:25:38.260 I can't do voices.

01:25:39.280 Stay tuned for after Christmas if you like Emperor Palpatine.

01:25:42.000 Just saying.

01:25:42.480 I don't know, I'm not going to ask because I don't know, but anyway.

01:25:46.880 What's Lad's Hour in the year?

01:25:48.620 Greg says, I work in a doctor's office and I confirm the UnitedHealthcare does arbitrarily deny coverage for well-established but costly treatments, forcing us to jump through hoops to get claims paid.

01:25:57.680 We just had a patient die recently because we had to pause treatment because one of these denials.

01:26:02.220 Not only has the patient died, but our practice is out tens of thousands of dollars for the cost of the materials we've already used.

01:26:09.300 Align me.

01:26:09.900 That's just awful.

01:26:10.940 Yeah.

01:26:11.140 Well, that's the thing.

01:26:11.640 That's what I was trying to put across.

01:26:13.560 The people who are in arms, essentially, against these corporations, they're not being irrational.

01:26:20.560 They're not just leftist ideologues.

01:26:22.780 There are lots of people who have been mistreated by them.

01:26:26.520 And the right should understand and take ownership of that.

01:26:29.320 It's like, no, no, we're for the fair treatment of good people.

01:26:32.460 So this isn't it.

01:26:34.820 On the right, are we for the corporatocracy?

01:26:36.860 I don't think we are.

01:26:37.600 Yeah, whenever I speak to people who aren't familiar with my own political views, they always just assume that I'm some kind of corporatist Tory.

01:26:45.400 Yes, exactly.

01:26:46.100 Because that's what the centre-right has been for so long, and that's what they've presented themselves.

01:26:50.240 Are you not a Thatcherite?

01:26:51.540 Aaron Bastani nearly fainted when I said I was an anti-capitalist.

01:26:54.480 Yeah, I'm not a capitalist.

01:26:56.120 But anyway, the point being, we should be quite bold about saying this.

01:27:00.100 I'm not saying that corporations can't exist.

01:27:03.940 What I'm saying is we should have some...

01:27:06.100 I can hear Josh rushing to the studio right now.

01:27:09.700 He can rush.

01:27:11.840 The point being, there is a problem, and it does need to be dealt with.

01:27:15.160 Matthew says,

01:27:16.020 Political parties that want limited government need to do a better job of explaining how the administrative state and their regulations are responsible for most of the things they hear about companies.

01:27:24.900 Yes, but it's a complex thing that most people don't really have a solid grounding in theory to understand.

01:27:30.600 So, like, the...

01:27:33.580 I mean, Harry's segment, in fact, is a perfect example where it's like, you know, you've got this really complicated diagram, and it seems that the person who made the diagram doesn't really understand it.

01:27:42.560 Harry doesn't really understand it.

01:27:44.040 Just like you.

01:27:44.560 The whole point of the process is to make sure that you do not understand it.

01:27:47.960 And oftentimes, if you speak to the people who exist within it, they don't really understand it either.

01:27:54.200 Because if you're voting for local elections, oftentimes those people will not be, like, careerist politicians in the same way that your MP might end up being, or somebody in Whitehall or the government.

01:28:06.100 So, they get in, and they're like, wait, how does this work?

01:28:08.920 And then they just...

01:28:09.460 I'm not joking.

01:28:10.300 This is exactly what happened when I went to visit the UKIP MEPs in the European Parliament, right?

01:28:14.600 When I was a member of UKIP.

01:28:16.600 It's not that they weren't doing their job or anything.

01:28:18.760 It's just the system is so Byzantine on purpose that even, like, you know, their professional aides, they don't know exactly how these things work.

01:28:27.300 And so they're like, well, I think it's going to go there.

01:28:28.980 I think that'll happen.

01:28:29.900 But we'll wait and find out, basically.

01:28:31.740 It's like, surely the system should have some predictability built into it, you know, especially if there's so many bloody emails and bits of paper that we're passing around.

01:28:40.300 But, yeah, no, it wasn't a criticism saying you don't understand it.

01:28:43.220 No, no, no, I know.

01:28:44.080 I don't.

01:28:44.660 That's the point.

01:28:45.420 I said, I was looking at it going, like, no, I don't think anybody is going to understand how it works, and the government will just be able to do whatever they want.

01:28:53.220 Yes.

01:28:53.400 Because if you complain about it, the government will say, well, in that case, very Brazil or maybe even Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,

01:29:00.360 you need to fill out form B143, and then you need to route it through this department, who will cross-check it, countersign it, then send it back to you,

01:29:10.000 and then you need to take it to this department, and you'll need to go through all these bureaucratic processes,

01:29:14.220 and all the while, the government will just fast-track everything that they want to do through.

01:29:18.040 Oh, and by the way, if you complain about it, you're on a home office extremist watch list under the cabinet office.

01:29:23.200 It's a brilliant way of avoiding accountability.

01:29:24.820 Well, you can't hold me accountable if you don't know what I've done or how you're supposed to even do it.

01:29:28.960 But, anyway, I think we're out of time, though.

01:29:30.720 Yes, we are.

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - December 18, 2024

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1066

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