The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1085
Episode Stats
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1 hour and 32 minutes
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184.6758
Summary
The Lotus Eaters are joined by Bo and Parry to discuss the Nashville shooting and the growing problem of illegal immigrants in the UK. They also discuss Trump's latest confrontation with Vladimir Putin, Ruda Cabana and the Southport shooter.
Transcript
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Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters episode 1085. I'm your host Parry, joined today by Bo.
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We were supposed to be having Josh on as well, but he's not feeling particularly great right now.
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So it's just a two-man show right now, although to be fair, we are the best presenters anyway.
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The most based. Broadly recognised as the most based.
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Well, I'm not one to toot my own horn, but yes. Yes, clearly.
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And today we're going to be talking about the insane numbers of illegal immigrants in London and across the rest of the country.
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Trump's confrontations with Putin, which I'm interested to learn about.
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And I don't want to make light of the story, because it is tragic, a young girl died.
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But the Nashville shooter that happened yesterday, Solomon Henderson, looking into what happened there,
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and the absolutely absurd, ideologically confused manifesto that he released,
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while just recognising that maybe teenagers and children shouldn't have access to the internet.
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Maybe they shouldn't. That's my takeaway from the story, because this man was insane and terminally online.
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We also should remind everybody that it is Common Sense Crusade at 3pm later today.
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So if you're a subscriber to the website, tune in for that to see what Calvin is going to be talking about.
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Well, just most people are aware that there's the sentencing of that Southport guy.
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No, we're not talking about it today. It's going on as we speak.
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We have been watching a little bit of it on the news as it's been going on.
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We've seen that Ruda Cabana has been shouting and heckling.
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I just want to let our audience know we're not ignoring it.
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It's happening as we speak. So tomorrow, perhaps.
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Yes, we'll probably cover that tomorrow, because it looks like he's doing everything that he can to try and slow down the process
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or get a reset time for it by just causing a nuisance of himself.
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But, you know, hopefully they throw him away and lock away the key.
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What I would like to have done to him is probably illegal for me to say.
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And can you believe it? They're talking about illegal immigration again.
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I know. It's exactly what you tune into the podcast to listen to.
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It's a bunch of British blokes whining about how the country is going to pop,
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mainly because of legal and illegal immigration.
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Let's never forget that legal immigration is the source of the largest number of people coming to this country
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who should have no right to come here in the first place.
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They can't assimilate. They will not integrate.
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They cause chaos. They cause violence. They cause crime.
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But, yes, illegal immigration is also a massive problem with this country,
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particularly in regards to this latest study that has come out that's been publicised by The Telegraph,
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which has revealed that up to 1 in 12 immigrants, 1 in 12 people in London, is an illegal immigrant.
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And then, as you just said, the illegal immigrant side is just the half of it, or not even close to the half of it.
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So, in actual fact, as bad as that sounds, the real situation is way, way, way worse.
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You can go around whole parts of London and not see a single white face,
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and then loads of other parts where there's one or two.
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And the majority of those people got in legally.
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That doesn't make it right that the capital city of England should be somewhere that is minority English.
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It just goes back to that thing John Cleese said quite a while ago that it's not an English city anymore,
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I mean, it's one of the better things that he's said, because he suffers from terminal TDS
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So, we can at least, you know, give him a little round of applause for that.
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But according to this study, sorry, a previously confidential report that the Telegraph managed to get their hands on,
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London is home to as many as 585,000 illegal migrants, which is equivalent to 1 in 12 of the city's population.
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Now, what they got this from was a study commissioned by Thames Water,
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and the Telegraph managed to get hold of it through a freedom of information style law for the environment.
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So, they put in some request using that law, and were able to get a hold of this.
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I have seen some people trying to poo-poo this study by saying,
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well, you can't trust Thames Water, they're not a government agency.
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I would argue you can trust them far more than you can a government agency
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to be able to accurately try to estimate these things,
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because Thames Water, unlike most government services, actually provides a service.
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And they need to have practical figures by which they can determine,
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okay, how much water are we going to need to supply to the city?
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And to do that, they might need to have an estimate of how many people are in the city.
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They compare that against records of who's in the city,
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and they see, oh, well, actually, according to this, what we've got,
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So, the lowest amount of illegal migrants there may be in London is 390,355,
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and the highest of their estimates is 585,000, as stated.
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Although, again, that might still be underselling it.
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Yes, of people who got into the country illegally,
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have not been detained, not been sent back home,
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causing problems in the local communities by changing them irrevocably,
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and similarly going into, who knows, the black market, the illegal...
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They might be delivering your takeaway this weekend.
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Or just simply part of some sort of organised crime, one way or another.
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Yeah, and part of the horror of the whole thing is that
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London is supposed to be a city that can be a home to people,
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and it's just been turned into a city of global vagrants and welfare recipients.
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There's this thing that the population that was already there
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If it happened to non-white cultures, they'd call it an ethnic cleansing.
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But I guess it doesn't count because they're English
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and they did bad things in the past, supposedly, like civilisation.
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Some sort of bloodless or near-bloodless ethnic cleansing.
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But the point you made, I thought, was really interesting.
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You can actually trust the numbers given out by Thames Water more than you can in the Home Office.
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Yeah, I would trust what Tesco says, for example.
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So this was something that was circulating within Thames Water,
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we need to know how many people we're servicing.
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But the Home Office didn't really collect this data for a very, very long time of how many illegal immigrants there are in the country.
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They do collect data on how many illegal boat crossings there are,
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But they only started doing that in, what, 2018 anyway?
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Because the government services have political reasons,
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to cover up these figures, hide these figures, even if they do know them.
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And even then, I've heard word from inside of the civil service anyway,
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that most of the time they don't keep track of these and don't know.
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Well, to be fair, part of the nature of it is that you'll never have a perfect figure.
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is that they're off the grid in all sorts of ways.
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Yeah, I trust Thames Water or Sainsbury's or Tesco's,
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Their estimates will actually be something approaching accurate.
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It's similar to when you've had companies look into the amount of phone contracts there are in the country
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and maybe the amount of sewage that's being produced by the country as well.
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These kind of outside-of-the-government metrics that people have used
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have been able to estimate that there is a huge number of people in this country
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who shouldn't be, even outside of what government figures we do get
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regarding how many people cross over on the boats.
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Because it's not just the people crossing over on the boats,
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it's people overstaying their visas and people getting into the country in other ways as well.
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Because you hear stories about where, say, a lorry driver will get pulled over
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and he'll have just a mass of people in the back of the lorry as well,
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So most of what we hear about the boats, again, is just a drop in the water.
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Lots of people come over on flights from India or wherever really, Nigeria,
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and they haven't got a visa or any sort of paperwork.
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And just like all the other cases, they're just not deported for whatever reason.
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Loads and loads of people, apparently like Heathrow and Gatwick,
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just have that sort of stuff going on all the time.
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It carries on to saying here that when other areas outside of London
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covered by Thames water are included, such as Henley, Guildford, Reading, Swindon,
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hello there, and Newbury, the range for the number of illegal migrants
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And that's just in that greater London area down in the south, the southeast.
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A Thames water spokesman has said regarding this,
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water companies have a regulatory obligation to undertake a water balance,
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which includes understanding how much water our customers use on a per person basis
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and how it's distributed across our supply area.
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Analysis to estimate hidden and transient populations
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is carried out by an independent firm of consultants
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who draw from publicly available sources, including census surveys
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Thames water played no part in the writing of the report,
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and the conclusions drawn are those of an independent firm
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that this was an independent firm working on behalf of Thames water
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who were doing it for business and regulatory reasons.
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There was no reason to assume that this would be some kind of political manoeuvre by them,
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weren't intending to release these figures in the first place.
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Yeah, pretty much, from everything that I can tell here.
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estimating the number of illegal migrants in the UK.
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And as I said, only since 2018 has it produced figures
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on the number of illegal channel migrants reaching the UK.
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However, there have been unofficial estimates by insiders over the years.
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In 2019, David Wood, a former Director General of Immigration Enforcement,
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said illegal immigration was probably running at around 150,000 a year.
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or people who cross from legal into an illegal status.
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that between 150,000 to 250,000 foreign nationals
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fail to return to their home country each year.
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owing to visa overstays, illegal arrivals, and failed asylum seekers.
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You've come here, you've gone through the process,
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bugger off, no, you don't get the right to stay here.
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We're not going to put you on a boat and take you home,
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70,000 there, just again, just a giant, giant number.
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means that the problem would sort of solve itself.
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You have to thoroughly incentivise them to go home
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Some do go home, of course, of their own volition,
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that's not as much as the legal migration numbers
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The living standards that a lot of them have here,
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that I don't think will pose overall much of a threat
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he served his time he served his time okay um but