The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - January 31, 2025


The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1091


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 37 minutes

Words per Minute

162.59322

Word Count

15,822

Sentence Count

770

Misogynist Sentences

9

Hate Speech Sentences

113


Summary

The Lotus Eaters are back, and this week, we're talking about how Sweden has become a war zone, and whether the far-right AFD should be banned. We're also joined by Bo and Stelios, and we reminisce about the 5-year anniversary of the Brexit vote, and what might happen in the future.


Transcript

00:00:00.160 Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 31st of January 2025.
00:00:06.180 Where has that month gone? I can't believe how quickly it's already gone, to be honest.
00:00:11.360 When you get middle-aged, whole year, you can say that about whole years.
00:00:14.780 Especially January and February are the worst months of the whole year.
00:00:19.060 You want them to go by quickly.
00:00:20.300 That's true. I'm not going to complain because it's been very cold and rainy in Britain.
00:00:24.040 So I'm glad to see the back of it.
00:00:26.160 And obviously I am joined by Stelios, the Stelios, and Bo, the Bohawk, the ballistic missile.
00:00:36.680 I haven't done that in ages, but I can't come up with any new ones.
00:00:39.860 Onan the Brobarian?
00:00:42.380 That one will do, yeah.
00:00:43.520 That's not mine. It's truly cringe to come up with your own nicknames, right?
00:00:47.640 Someone on Twitter said that and I liked it.
00:00:51.020 And today we're going to be discussing how Sweden is basically a war zone.
00:00:54.660 Whether the AFD should be banned.
00:00:57.220 I'm imagining you're probably going to say no.
00:00:59.620 I'm going to say no, but I'm going to show all the debate.
00:01:03.000 And we're going to do good journalistic work saying the arguments for and against.
00:01:07.900 Okay.
00:01:08.780 And Bo is going to reminisce about five years of the post-Brexit world.
00:01:15.200 The five-year anniversary of Brexit.
00:01:17.600 And we're going to talk about it and what went down and what might happen in the future.
00:01:22.320 Because it does leave a lot to be desired the way it was done, doesn't it?
00:01:27.480 Yeah.
00:01:27.680 But I'm not going to get into the commentary now.
00:01:29.500 It's also worth mentioning as well, we do have an announcement that we have the gold Zoom call.
00:01:34.420 I think it is a panel of yours truly.
00:01:37.000 So that's the usual time of 3 o'clock, I believe, until about 3 p.m. our time until 4.30.
00:01:47.440 So an hour and a half.
00:01:48.540 If you want to talk to us, if you have questions for us, I think I'm also going to ask you what would you like to see from Trump.
00:01:55.620 And I'm going to potentially turn that into a bit of a segment at some point.
00:02:00.960 Our sort of wish list for what needs to be done.
00:02:04.080 So we can sort of mark how well he's doing relative to that.
00:02:08.580 Although he's already doing a great job.
00:02:10.240 But anyway, enough.
00:02:11.740 I've been going on for far too long.
00:02:13.380 Enough talk.
00:02:14.380 Yes.
00:02:14.840 You want news, don't you?
00:02:16.060 That's what you're here for.
00:02:16.980 You don't need blathering.
00:02:19.500 So Sweden has more or less become a war zone.
00:02:22.860 And I couldn't believe some of the things I was reading when I was researching this.
00:02:26.640 Like, I was actually speechless.
00:02:28.680 Which, considering I've been doing this for quite some time now, takes a lot.
00:02:33.040 And I didn't realise just how bad it was.
00:02:36.400 And I think the best epitomisation of this is this headline here.
00:02:39.700 More than one explosion a day in Sweden as gang violence spirals out of control.
00:02:45.120 And the byline is,
00:02:46.360 Sweden is facing an unprecedented wave of gang-related bombings with 32 explosions in 28 days,
00:02:53.320 prompting the government to consider lowering the criminal age to 14 as violence escalates
00:02:59.040 and criminals increasingly use financial extortion and digital recruitment to expand their operations.
00:03:04.200 So basically, loads of foreign criminal gangs have moved into Sweden.
00:03:09.240 No bonus marks for guessing their background because I think we all know.
00:03:14.200 It is the usual suspects.
00:03:16.720 Who likes doing this sort of thing?
00:03:18.540 Well, I think we know, don't we?
00:03:20.760 So, it's also the fact that they're using young teenagers, basically, as part of it.
00:03:26.780 Which is why Sweden's going after them.
00:03:29.120 And they're hiring people from abroad in a sort of marketplace of online criminality.
00:03:34.960 And there are, like, sort of set rates if you want to kill someone.
00:03:39.120 Apparently, it varies depending on which city in Sweden you're in.
00:03:44.700 It's €50,000 for one, €80,000 for another.
00:03:48.380 But they've sort of got a menu for crime because criminality has got so extensive.
00:03:54.500 And, of course, Sweden used to be one of the safest countries on planet Earth.
00:03:59.560 And so, this U-turn is not that the native Swedes have just decided, you know, what, you know, we're sick of peace and quiet.
00:04:05.780 We want crime.
00:04:07.200 No, it is not the natives, of course.
00:04:09.960 And Stockholm alone has witnessed 21 explosions in the past month, which is insane to me that a major European city can experience that level of what amounts to, basically, gangland terrorism.
00:04:26.680 This is a situation of emergency.
00:04:28.600 There was yesterday a post that listed the bombings that have taken place in January in Sweden.
00:04:35.520 And it literally reads like a band's tour schedule.
00:04:39.960 Literally, it's just insane.
00:04:43.120 Every single day.
00:04:44.380 Yeah, it's 30 bombings and it's the 31st of January.
00:04:48.900 I know, yeah.
00:04:49.640 Very tenacious, aren't they?
00:04:51.520 So, the Swedish Prime Minister has called the bombing crisis domestic terrorism, which I think is reasonable.
00:04:58.300 I think if someone's bombing, you know, every day, over, you know, twice a day sometimes, then I think that's fair to say.
00:05:06.940 And police have arrested 50 individuals in 25 different cases, including bomb makers, the perpetrators themselves planting the bombs, and the gang leaders operating from abroad, of course.
00:05:18.520 And apparently, the nature of these bombings has changed.
00:05:23.540 So, originally, it was about territorial disputes between various ethnic gangs.
00:05:29.200 And now, they're more being used as a retaliative measure to target businesses that refuse to be extorted.
00:05:36.180 So, it's deliberately...
00:05:36.800 Like a mafia.
00:05:37.420 Yeah, exactly.
00:05:37.960 And it seems to be that they're saying, you know, it's like extorting protection money, isn't it, really?
00:05:44.040 Like all mafias do.
00:05:46.320 In Sweden, of all places, like you said, it used to be one of the most homogenous, peaceful places in the world.
00:05:54.380 Mm-hmm.
00:05:56.420 I remember...
00:05:56.960 Terrible, terrible...
00:05:58.240 It's a tragedy, isn't it, that this has been imposed upon the Swedish people, because they don't deserve this.
00:06:05.040 Obviously, yeah.
00:06:06.260 And you can look at things like this as well.
00:06:09.520 Hand grenade attacks have more than doubled in 2024, and they're already quite high.
00:06:14.560 They're already insanely high.
00:06:15.940 Yeah, exactly.
00:06:16.640 What other country suffers from spates of grenade attacks?
00:06:21.880 Apparently, by mid-October, there had been 22 recorded grenade attacks, up from nine in 2023.
00:06:28.240 Which is nine too many, and certainly 22 too many.
00:06:33.300 And even in, you know, Britain, which is quite multicultural these days, we're not getting this level of things going, are we?
00:06:42.280 Of course, Sweden's a little bit further along than we are.
00:06:45.100 But even so, this is just...
00:06:47.460 I couldn't believe the actual scale of it.
00:06:49.860 It's worth mentioning as well that Sweden's got a population of 10.5 million, officially at least.
00:06:55.840 And so, these numbers might not seem high to you if you're American, and you live in a very big country.
00:07:04.200 But in Europe, in a small European country, you know, this is a similar population to that of the City of London.
00:07:11.940 And so, it would be unprecedented if, say, the City of London had seen a bombing every day.
00:07:18.760 The question is, why has this happened?
00:07:23.420 Because I'm not aware of any kind of vote of the Swedish to just open up the borders and just voluntarily put up with crime and mafias of the sort.
00:07:35.940 No, exactly.
00:07:36.720 So, it's also worth mentioning, three out of four murderers in Sweden are committed by migrants.
00:07:42.000 So, there's a hint at the picture of who's doing what here.
00:07:47.880 And, I mean, I don't know whether that remaining one quarter is people who've been there for multiple generations.
00:07:54.480 I didn't necessarily look into the specifics of it.
00:07:59.420 The issue, again, is the per capita.
00:08:01.400 Well, apparently, gun murders per capita in Stockholm are 30 times that of London.
00:08:06.860 And it goes on in London quite frequently, doesn't it, Beau?
00:08:09.960 Sorry, I'm asking you not because you're a gun criminal, but because you're familiar with the City of London compared to me.
00:08:16.060 Yeah.
00:08:16.640 I mean, Sweden, on the map geographically, is reasonably big.
00:08:20.700 But a lot of it is sort of, how to say it, not tundra exactly, but a lot of it isn't, it's not urbanised.
00:08:26.880 So, they've got a few cities, right, a few big cities.
00:08:30.400 It's very weighted towards the south.
00:08:31.720 And a few towns.
00:08:32.280 So, basically, they've been flooded with unbelievably violent criminals.
00:08:40.280 Some of the worst criminals in Europe, by the looks of it, and by the sounds of it.
00:08:45.560 I wonder why Sweden, of all places, because it's like, I don't think these things happen as badly, anyway,
00:08:52.800 in Norway or Denmark or Finland or Estonia, but specifically Sweden.
00:08:59.300 I wonder why exactly.
00:09:01.300 Well, I have some data to reveal that, but sorry, Steli.
00:09:04.300 No, no, before you say this data, I want to say that if anyone told me about this about a month ago,
00:09:10.340 I would say, no, this doesn't happen in Sweden.
00:09:14.260 But maybe there are so many other stuff that we haven't yet heard about, Scandinavia and other countries.
00:09:21.440 It could be that.
00:09:23.100 It's possible, yeah.
00:09:23.940 Although, some of the other countries, like the Danes, are pretty good on mass migration
00:09:29.440 in that they don't have much of it and they collect comprehensive data.
00:09:33.120 I'm willing to make a guess and say that it has to do a lot with welfarism.
00:09:38.060 I think that the Swedes are very generous in what they offer to foreigners
00:09:41.660 and also the kinds of people that have migrated to Sweden.
00:09:45.460 Let me give you a bit of a clue.
00:09:48.980 A man who burned the Koran was shot dead in his flat in Sweden recently.
00:09:53.100 He was actually going through court because of what he did.
00:09:56.840 And I think he was originally, well, I imagine he's still considered one, an Iraqi.
00:10:03.480 So it's interesting that presumably a former Muslim is there burning a Koran
00:10:09.720 and he doesn't even get through his court trial for doing so, which is also ridiculous.
00:10:15.460 Let it be said.
00:10:17.700 Before someone kills him.
00:10:20.320 In his own flat.
00:10:21.440 Yeah.
00:10:22.620 Shot dead overnight, apparently.
00:10:26.760 Unbelievable.
00:10:27.860 But yeah, this was just yesterday.
00:10:30.840 I didn't have to look far.
00:10:33.660 All of these things have happened in the past month.
00:10:37.400 So it's just going to show how extensive it is.
00:10:41.300 And yeah, it's talking about...
00:10:43.480 Isn't Sweden supposed to be socialist paradise?
00:10:46.540 Apparently so.
00:10:47.340 Apparently socialists just really like grenade attacks for some reason and killing people.
00:10:52.480 Well, that's true.
00:10:54.840 So also the person may be linked to a foreign power, Reuters is saying, for some reason.
00:11:00.120 So let's have a look at some of the data, shall we?
00:11:01.640 Here is Peter Sweden, aptly named as he is Swedish.
00:11:04.340 62,000 people are now involved in criminal gangs in Sweden.
00:11:09.080 Remember the population, 10.5 million.
00:11:11.120 We have almost 60 no-go zones.
00:11:13.860 There were 149 bombings last year.
00:11:16.420 We have one of the highest sexual assault rates in the world.
00:11:20.140 And he's saying that socialist policies destroyed Sweden, basically.
00:11:24.480 His home country.
00:11:25.740 And I can't disagree with that, really.
00:11:27.720 It seems pretty fair that both the combination of open borders and welfare is just a recipe for disaster here.
00:11:33.840 And we're seeing the consequences here.
00:11:35.880 You pay people to not work and also not assimilate.
00:11:41.300 Exactly.
00:11:41.680 And here I am, rather immodestly, showing one of my own tweets, but it illustrates an important point.
00:11:48.360 If you look at gun crime deaths as a per capita rate, Sweden is lodged between Albania and Bosnia.
00:11:57.240 And what is significant about Albania and Bosnia?
00:12:00.580 Well, they are the two Muslim-majority countries in Europe.
00:12:04.740 And so the fact that Sweden's in between them is a little bit prophetic.
00:12:07.780 It tells you something about the kind of people that might have migrated there.
00:12:10.840 And, in fact, we know that a lot of these people are from Islamic countries.
00:12:15.420 And if we go to some other data, here we are.
00:12:22.940 We can see relative.
00:12:25.020 The blue line is those of a Swedish background, as the data labels it.
00:12:31.520 And the sort of pinkish-y color is difficult to tell because the screen glare here is the first-generation immigrant.
00:12:38.980 And then the green is the second-generation.
00:12:42.080 And as we can see, deadly violence and robbery relative to the natives, massively over-represented.
00:12:50.560 But also the second-generations lead the way by a pretty decent margin.
00:12:55.220 You know, crimes against life and health, the first-generation, and crimes against liberty and peace.
00:13:02.420 I don't even know what that means.
00:13:04.640 Sexual crimes, the first-generations are over-represented.
00:13:07.500 Which, these sorts of things mirror the nature of crime all across Europe, really.
00:13:12.320 We can see certain crimes where the first-generation are more likely to commit it than the second-generation.
00:13:20.440 But also some of the worst ones, like deadly violence, for example.
00:13:25.100 It's the second-generation of immigrant that's doing it.
00:13:29.000 And so the problem isn't simply just the people who were born abroad and moved here.
00:13:32.680 It's also their children.
00:13:34.420 And even more so, in some cases, their children.
00:13:37.100 Think about, say, the Southport killer.
00:13:40.600 He was second-generation, and look what he did.
00:13:44.120 And so it's very obvious to me that the problem isn't so much just, oh, it's assimilation.
00:13:50.620 Because, no, actually, the more time people spend there, the worse they get.
00:13:54.400 Not better, relative to the native population.
00:13:57.600 And it's something that the native population shouldn't have to put up with.
00:14:00.960 And here is some more stuff here.
00:14:06.120 This is some Swedish data.
00:14:09.340 So this is, I think, the backgrounds.
00:14:12.740 So North African and African other are massively overrepresented.
00:14:19.140 Central Asia and West Asia.
00:14:21.980 So some of the more Muslim countries, Pakistanis perhaps.
00:14:26.660 And then we can see here, like, US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
00:14:30.800 is basically on parity with those of Swedish background.
00:14:34.880 And Nordics, except Sweden, only slightly overrepresented, but not by the same degree
00:14:40.880 as countries outside of Europe.
00:14:44.660 Countries outside of Europe are just massively overrepresented, except for maybe South Asia
00:14:49.960 and, you know, East Asia as well is actually underrepresented, which mirrors entirely what
00:14:56.720 we've been saying for years.
00:14:58.620 Chinese or Koreans or Japanese.
00:15:00.480 Yeah, exactly.
00:15:01.040 What's interesting is that the Swedes themselves are not very criminal.
00:15:06.580 No.
00:15:07.000 The native Swedes.
00:15:08.940 As we know from the era before they opened their borders.
00:15:12.980 Exactly.
00:15:13.280 Very, very peaceful country.
00:15:14.140 It's not that the Swedes themselves have changed.
00:15:17.640 It's the nature of who is Swedish.
00:15:20.300 An entirely imported crime wave.
00:15:23.560 Yeah, it was entirely preventable.
00:15:24.980 The very worst types of crime.
00:15:26.080 Yeah, it is the worst types of crime.
00:15:27.600 And it's something that's entirely preventable and was politically imposed upon them,
00:15:32.240 much the same as lots of other European countries.
00:15:34.520 If we go back to the addition and the conjunction between open borders and welfarism, you see
00:15:41.140 how this all is a respite for disaster because it says essentially let their borders be open
00:15:48.540 and let us just give too much money as social provisions and let us just increase spending
00:15:55.700 for social provisions.
00:15:56.880 And this actually has a hidden layer of evil behind it because it literally lends to the narrative of
00:16:05.000 all this is an issue of insufficient money given to people who perpetrate such crime.
00:16:13.080 Because if you have a welfarist background, a very leftist, welfarist mindset,
00:16:17.900 and you think that all crime comes from lack of economic prospects,
00:16:22.000 then the only way to react to this is by saying, well, let us just flatten out economic inequalities.
00:16:31.000 Let us tax the Swedish more in order to give more money to these people so crime diminishes.
00:16:37.560 And of course, that will make the problem worse, won't it?
00:16:39.620 And we can look at things like Danish data and the Danes keep very good records of the nationality
00:16:46.480 of origin and crime conviction rates here.
00:16:49.700 And you can see that lots of countries like Kuwait, Somalia, Lebanon, Tunisia, Jordan, Uganda, Iraq,
00:16:57.960 Morocco, Algeria, Ethiopia, Syria, Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Turkey, Kenya, Ghana,
00:17:03.820 all overrepresented for some reason Myanmar is up there.
00:17:07.560 I didn't realise they'd get many people from there.
00:17:09.680 But Pakistan, Tanzania.
00:17:11.100 So basically it is Africa and the Islamic world that are massively overrepresented.
00:17:17.140 And then you start getting to European countries down here in the light blue.
00:17:21.880 And there's such a clear distinction between the two here, aren't there?
00:17:26.820 That, you know, you're not getting...
00:17:29.120 Yeah, you'd say that also for Europe, the Danish are a bit rambunctious.
00:17:35.040 It's funny, I've seen this stuff before and I'm always surprised, it's surprising to me
00:17:42.980 that Kuwait, because Kuwait's number one there, Kuwait's tiny.
00:17:46.620 But that's because of the per capita aspect of it, isn't it?
00:17:49.020 Like, you wouldn't, you could have one violent...
00:17:51.780 So there's one crazy Kuwaiti gang.
00:17:53.860 And that'll bump it right up.
00:17:55.000 And then, of course, there's lots of data here from Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy and Sweden
00:18:05.220 that the migrants are a net fiscal drain.
00:18:09.580 So I think Sweden is this last one here.
00:18:13.040 So you can see...
00:18:13.780 But non-EU, it was saying.
00:18:15.120 Yes, so we've got the natives here in dark blue that contribute the most and take the least.
00:18:21.840 Then intra-EU, slightly less so.
00:18:25.080 And then extra-EU, you can see that the amount that they actually contribute to the economy
00:18:30.400 doesn't outweigh the amount they take from it in later life.
00:18:35.320 So they're not net contributors at all, actually.
00:18:37.860 And you can see that very clearly here, that this part of the graph under the line
00:18:43.820 is much more significant than the part over it.
00:18:47.380 It's not even close.
00:18:48.860 In fact, it's almost two to one, just from eyeballing it.
00:18:52.460 And it may well be that they take twice as much as they provide.
00:18:56.220 And so, yes, Sweden has imported foreign criminals
00:19:00.220 who basically tyrannise and terrorise the native population.
00:19:06.240 And they're paying for it in the same way that many other European countries are as well.
00:19:11.420 And here is precisely what is going to happen
00:19:14.940 if you add DEI, inequality of opportunity, and all these things.
00:19:18.640 Again, it's going to lead towards a narrative that says,
00:19:22.060 let us give even more material provisions.
00:19:24.700 Well, what would happen would be all of the peaks would lower
00:19:27.780 and everyone would be worse off, wouldn't they?
00:19:31.320 That's how it would work.
00:19:32.680 So I'm going to quickly fire through what is actually being done.
00:19:34.920 And I'm just going to say what's happening ever so quickly
00:19:37.980 and then summarise what needs to be done further.
00:19:41.880 So in September of 23, they introduced new rules for labour migrants.
00:19:47.060 Basically, work permits will only be made available to those labour migrants in Sweden
00:19:51.320 who earn a salary of at least 80% of the Swedish median salary.
00:19:55.240 That was to mitigate some of the financial damage that it's doing.
00:19:58.500 And then in October of 23, they made it harder for non-European migrants to claim benefits.
00:20:06.560 And then in August of 24, they were discussing paying Swedish passport holders that are foreign-born
00:20:13.200 the equivalent of 1,000 US dollars to leave Sweden,
00:20:17.360 basically paying a sort of Dane geld to get rid of the foreign gangs.
00:20:21.920 But of course, if you've got an illegal, they can just keep on coming back
00:20:25.600 and rinsing you of that grand each time.
00:20:27.860 Although, I still think it would be better than doing nothing,
00:20:32.580 even though I think the idea of paying foreign people that are extorting you money to leave is weak.
00:20:38.000 And you shouldn't have to resort to that.
00:20:40.360 It's got to be the Bukele solution.
00:20:43.640 Imprison them, yeah.
00:20:44.600 You just round up everyone involved, known to be involved,
00:20:48.380 and you put them in a maximum security prison for a long, long, long time.
00:20:52.620 Well, if they're not native, get rid of them.
00:20:54.760 Yeah, and or deport them.
00:20:57.160 Yeah, at the end, either before or at the end of their sentence, they're deported.
00:21:01.580 Just not allowed in the general population anymore.
00:21:05.000 Well, they're obviously not safe, aren't they?
00:21:06.380 It's not allowed among normal civilised humans.
00:21:09.200 Mm-hmm.
00:21:10.640 God's sake.
00:21:11.940 And here's another one.
00:21:13.400 This was from August of 24 as well.
00:21:15.920 Basically, they introduced a law which would force public sector workers
00:21:18.900 to report undocumented migrants, basically.
00:21:22.160 And, of course, this is the Guardian saying it's utterly inhumane
00:21:26.260 to report people illegally in your country if you're a public official,
00:21:31.020 which is obviously ridiculous.
00:21:33.600 Do they have any article now saying how inhumane the bombings are?
00:21:38.880 No.
00:21:39.600 Funnily enough, they don't.
00:21:40.640 Oh, the humanity of those victims, that doesn't matter.
00:21:43.260 Yeah.
00:21:44.160 Some people are more human than others.
00:21:46.380 So here in October, they were having tougher rules.
00:21:50.560 They actually talked about introducing DNA testing
00:21:53.720 to see if someone was part of a family before reunifying them.
00:21:57.680 I personally think that who cares?
00:22:00.480 If you've come to the country, if anything, you should be removed.
00:22:02.920 If you want to join your family, you can all go back home.
00:22:05.660 You don't all have to move here, do you?
00:22:07.780 You don't have a right to another person's country
00:22:10.620 to bring your whole family across.
00:22:12.320 That's never, ever been something that has existed until recently,
00:22:16.840 which is ridiculous as well, of course.
00:22:19.600 And they are actually getting a bit more serious
00:22:21.800 about addressing these problems
00:22:22.960 because they're pretty obvious now, aren't they?
00:22:25.020 And there was this story,
00:22:27.340 which people leaving Sweden will exceed immigrants in 2024,
00:22:31.140 but it wasn't quite true.
00:22:33.740 Here's another one.
00:22:34.720 This was European Conservative reporting the same thing.
00:22:37.140 It went around, but actually,
00:22:38.820 if you read a Swedish language thing,
00:22:41.000 which is translated here,
00:22:42.580 it was just that the tax agency had a backlog
00:22:45.400 of things it was processing
00:22:46.660 and then processed loads of them at once,
00:22:48.940 which made it look like there was net immigration.
00:22:51.140 So it was just an administration thing
00:22:54.240 rather than a net emigration.
00:22:57.660 And there is this, though,
00:23:01.480 as of the 30th of January, yesterday,
00:23:03.820 a record number of foreigners
00:23:05.200 are leaving Sweden to move to Germany.
00:23:07.160 And what does that say about the foreigners?
00:23:09.880 Well, what it says is
00:23:11.000 that they're going to a country
00:23:12.260 with more lucrative welfare.
00:23:14.040 It's not so much that Sweden
00:23:17.540 stopped being appealing to them,
00:23:19.240 it's just that they can get a better gig elsewhere,
00:23:21.220 which suggests, to my mind,
00:23:23.160 that they're only there to rinse
00:23:24.300 the native Swedes off their money
00:23:25.560 and then they're going to leave,
00:23:27.040 which is obvious.
00:23:28.220 They are transigent.
00:23:29.500 Exactly, yeah.
00:23:30.580 Yeah, whatever's the best deal for them,
00:23:32.580 the actual physically where you live,
00:23:35.500 doesn't matter that much.
00:23:39.140 They've got no roots to the land.
00:23:42.040 Well, of course they don't,
00:23:43.040 because they're from abroad.
00:23:43.800 And this is one of the measures
00:23:46.960 that is being taken
00:23:49.340 to potentially address the concerns,
00:23:50.880 because they've got full prisons
00:23:52.820 and they don't know what to do
00:23:54.560 with all of the people
00:23:55.260 that they need to send to prison.
00:23:56.540 And they're actually looking
00:23:57.480 at sending inmates abroad
00:23:58.720 as their prisons are full
00:24:00.060 in this crime wave.
00:24:01.940 And another thing
00:24:03.020 that they were looking at doing
00:24:04.060 was fast-tracking a new law
00:24:06.980 to tackle these bombings
00:24:08.420 by allowing the police, basically,
00:24:11.940 to wiretap people under the age of 15,
00:24:15.120 because previously, obviously,
00:24:16.960 there were ethical concerns.
00:24:18.080 But because these foreign criminal gangs
00:24:20.300 are using teenagers and young people,
00:24:22.820 it gives them a certain level
00:24:24.600 of protection within the law.
00:24:26.120 And so you have to change the law
00:24:27.320 to actually tackle these people
00:24:28.940 because they're using the fact
00:24:30.080 that they're young
00:24:30.740 to get around the law
00:24:32.320 and not get punished.
00:24:33.660 So these, within quotation marks,
00:24:36.280 humane policies have led
00:24:38.100 to the state contemplating
00:24:39.700 wiretapping teenagers.
00:24:41.440 Yes.
00:24:42.780 So just an extra layer
00:24:44.520 of scumbag behaviour
00:24:46.400 is that they use children loads for this.
00:24:49.060 So that was what you led with
00:24:49.960 right at the top,
00:24:50.600 which I wasn't aware of
00:24:51.520 about the extremely young age
00:24:54.180 of the people involved.
00:24:55.320 So, yeah, just an extra layer
00:24:57.260 of filth
00:24:59.140 that these people are engaged in.
00:25:01.620 Like, this is one of those things
00:25:02.840 that I think is just undeniably
00:25:05.840 a completely negative picture
00:25:08.720 of immigration.
00:25:09.500 The Swedes have gained
00:25:10.700 nothing but negatives
00:25:11.880 from this so-called deal.
00:25:14.940 And, I mean,
00:25:15.260 you look at other statistics as well,
00:25:17.600 like, was it four or five Italian women
00:25:21.400 get raped every day
00:25:22.660 by a foreigner?
00:25:24.800 You know, the rates of crime in France.
00:25:27.180 It's clearly a scourge on Europe.
00:25:30.300 We were much better off
00:25:31.500 before mass migration.
00:25:32.740 And it's entirely obvious
00:25:35.000 to anyone that has
00:25:36.200 a rudimentary look
00:25:37.060 at the data
00:25:37.760 about what's going on,
00:25:39.480 about how it's impacting
00:25:41.160 the native population.
00:25:42.840 And at least Sweden's
00:25:44.840 trying to do stuff
00:25:45.940 to fix it.
00:25:47.600 And I think they're going to be
00:25:48.300 one of the countries
00:25:49.220 because they're so badly
00:25:50.400 affected by it.
00:25:51.460 It's going to be leading the way
00:25:53.020 in pushing back against this.
00:25:54.740 And hopefully,
00:25:55.900 they're going to get to a point
00:25:57.480 where they actually address
00:25:58.720 the real solution to this,
00:26:00.240 which is mass deportations.
00:26:02.020 I don't see any other scenario
00:26:04.100 working better than that.
00:26:07.280 Surely, in Sweden's case,
00:26:09.760 re-migration is inevitable.
00:26:11.740 Oh, yes.
00:26:12.360 I know that's one of the...
00:26:13.420 It's re-migration or be conquered.
00:26:15.360 Yeah.
00:26:16.420 Those are the options.
00:26:17.660 And I know which one
00:26:18.320 I would pick as a Swede.
00:26:19.800 I know some people say,
00:26:21.260 when I say things like this,
00:26:23.400 various people in the
00:26:24.520 dissident right say things like this.
00:26:27.180 I wrote an article, didn't I,
00:26:28.220 saying re-migration is inevitable.
00:26:30.240 I'm not the first one
00:26:31.520 in the world to have said it,
00:26:32.400 but...
00:26:33.180 Some people say
00:26:36.160 that that's just cope.
00:26:38.040 That's never going to happen.
00:26:39.480 You're a far-right fantasist,
00:26:41.120 whatever.
00:26:41.900 People actually don't want that.
00:26:43.520 Da-da-da-da-da.
00:26:44.400 But it's obviously
00:26:45.040 what needs to be done.
00:26:46.260 Yeah, but it's...
00:26:46.760 But it actually...
00:26:47.520 I honestly think that is true.
00:26:49.240 It must be inevitable.
00:26:50.620 It's not even like
00:26:51.200 a rhetorical device.
00:26:52.300 Right.
00:26:52.580 It's just...
00:26:53.620 If our country
00:26:55.720 is to continue existing,
00:26:57.140 you know,
00:26:57.360 I say that for all
00:26:58.280 European countries,
00:26:58.940 if our nations in Europe
00:27:00.040 are to continue existing,
00:27:01.340 we need to send people home
00:27:03.100 because we can't coexist.
00:27:05.440 For Sweden,
00:27:05.940 it's simply a bit further
00:27:07.160 down the road,
00:27:08.020 is all.
00:27:08.960 Yeah, exactly.
00:27:09.700 That's all it is.
00:27:10.880 Like, there's a very...
00:27:11.640 Smaller petri dish,
00:27:12.600 so it's more obvious,
00:27:13.300 more quickly.
00:27:13.980 You can even sort of
00:27:15.000 put countries on a hierarchy.
00:27:16.980 So Japan's just started
00:27:18.280 getting mass migration.
00:27:19.640 Right.
00:27:19.820 And you can see them
00:27:21.380 going through
00:27:22.380 exactly the same motions
00:27:23.660 that all the European countries have.
00:27:25.640 Almost, you know,
00:27:26.740 note for note.
00:27:27.860 So it's almost like
00:27:28.820 a textbook,
00:27:29.460 a playbook.
00:27:30.180 A pattern.
00:27:30.820 A pattern, exactly,
00:27:32.240 that it operates under.
00:27:33.300 But yes,
00:27:33.980 if you live in Sweden,
00:27:35.080 I honestly hope you stay safe.
00:27:37.840 Yeah.
00:27:38.240 And I hope your government
00:27:39.920 can actually do something.
00:27:41.140 And if they do,
00:27:42.320 you're going to be
00:27:43.940 helping Europe
00:27:44.720 because you're going to be
00:27:45.400 setting a president
00:27:46.200 to show that actually
00:27:48.440 you can get these things
00:27:49.660 under control.
00:27:50.560 And I really hope
00:27:51.560 that it does work.
00:27:56.100 Okay, we've got a few
00:27:57.000 rumble chats.
00:27:58.080 Here you are, Stelios.
00:27:59.240 Thank you.
00:28:01.060 So,
00:28:01.900 Habsification says
00:28:02.680 a 25-year-old woman
00:28:03.640 in North Wales
00:28:04.220 was found guilty
00:28:05.000 and is being charged
00:28:05.960 in the UK's
00:28:06.740 first ever
00:28:07.240 cyber-farting case.
00:28:09.220 Welcome to
00:28:09.880 woke North Korea.
00:28:11.100 I need to look into that.
00:28:12.120 How cyber-farting?
00:28:13.580 What is cyber-farting?
00:28:15.320 What is that?
00:28:16.600 Do I want that
00:28:17.400 on my search history?
00:28:18.340 I don't think so.
00:28:20.000 I'm going to do it anyway
00:28:20.820 just for you.
00:28:22.380 Neo Unrealist says
00:28:23.300 it's almost as if
00:28:24.060 there was a reason
00:28:24.600 why European Christendom
00:28:25.820 fought for centuries
00:28:26.560 to keep Muslims out.
00:28:27.860 The Reconquista,
00:28:28.940 Siege of Vienna,
00:28:29.740 Battle of Lepanto,
00:28:31.540 Ottomans in the Balkans,
00:28:32.840 stopping was folly.
00:28:34.280 I agree.
00:28:35.480 The Engaged Few says
00:28:36.460 Sweden should try
00:28:37.300 a more effective incentive.
00:28:39.500 Walk the immigrants.
00:28:43.740 Oh, blimey.
00:28:44.980 Can I read that?
00:28:46.520 Basically say
00:28:47.640 you can either leave
00:28:50.700 or bad things happen.
00:28:52.580 Thanks for the Fed post.
00:28:55.600 Sayoran says
00:28:56.560 I remember in like 2018
00:28:58.240 when Tim Paul interviewed
00:28:59.400 a Swede about the no-go zones
00:29:00.820 and had to black out
00:29:02.220 the person's face
00:29:03.020 and disguise their voice
00:29:03.980 when the Liberal government
00:29:04.980 was still in power.
00:29:06.100 That's true.
00:29:06.640 And then he also says
00:29:09.540 Stelios looks
00:29:10.380 simultaneously
00:29:10.980 25 and 50 years old
00:29:12.840 with those glasses on.
00:29:15.180 I'm working on
00:29:16.240 my various disguises.
00:29:17.880 As I said,
00:29:19.560 every podcast appearance
00:29:21.240 is different.
00:29:22.320 I'm reinventing my image.
00:29:24.560 This is the Stelios today
00:29:26.160 by the way.
00:29:26.780 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:29:27.380 When he takes them off,
00:29:28.560 when he takes the glasses off,
00:29:29.620 he's just Stelios.
00:29:30.320 I tried the hobo Stelios,
00:29:32.440 but it didn't work.
00:29:34.260 I didn't like it.
00:29:35.280 We had it on Lads Hour
00:29:36.320 last week.
00:29:36.920 I said,
00:29:37.200 just put a shark
00:29:38.420 on my face.
00:29:41.640 Right.
00:29:41.960 Okay, so I'm going to follow
00:29:44.380 a rigid structure
00:29:45.900 in this one
00:29:46.540 because I have several things
00:29:48.060 I want to say
00:29:48.860 and there are going to be
00:29:51.020 elections in Germany
00:29:51.980 on the 23rd of February
00:29:53.500 and everyone now
00:29:55.600 is really anxious
00:29:57.240 to see what is going to happen
00:29:58.520 and there are debates
00:30:00.460 as to whether the AFD
00:30:01.580 should be banned.
00:30:02.620 They are ongoing
00:30:03.320 and now they have been reignited.
00:30:05.500 Now, let me give you
00:30:06.680 short context
00:30:07.640 about what happened
00:30:08.340 these days.
00:30:09.380 Two days ago,
00:30:10.520 the CDU
00:30:11.080 passed a proposal
00:30:13.900 that was voted
00:30:15.240 by 348
00:30:17.000 members of
00:30:18.000 the German parliament
00:30:19.320 and it won
00:30:21.020 and it passed
00:30:22.200 with the help
00:30:22.800 of AFD members.
00:30:25.200 So that was the first,
00:30:27.340 let's say,
00:30:28.200 teaming up
00:30:28.840 of a mainstream party
00:30:30.700 and the AFD
00:30:31.620 which broke the taboo.
00:30:33.440 Was that party,
00:30:33.820 was it the Christian Democrats?
00:30:34.900 Yes, yes.
00:30:35.620 Are they the biggest party
00:30:36.720 as well, is that right?
00:30:37.340 They are, yes.
00:30:38.340 And Merkel's party, right?
00:30:39.980 Right, so that broke
00:30:42.260 the taboo
00:30:42.780 that no mainstream party
00:30:44.340 was going to ever collaborate
00:30:45.900 with the AFD
00:30:46.760 that they call
00:30:47.380 the firewall.
00:30:49.180 Right, so a lot of people,
00:30:50.820 Angela Merkel is one of them,
00:30:52.480 went out and said
00:30:53.260 this is shameful,
00:30:54.860 no one should collaborate
00:30:56.360 with the AFD
00:30:57.240 and lots of people
00:30:59.680 went out,
00:31:00.420 lots of leftists
00:31:01.280 went out to protest.
00:31:02.720 Here we have
00:31:03.360 people outside
00:31:05.220 the CDU
00:31:06.340 offices
00:31:07.740 that were evacuated
00:31:09.900 and
00:31:11.100 Naomi
00:31:12.020 is asking,
00:31:13.760 you know,
00:31:13.980 who is funding them
00:31:14.960 and basically
00:31:15.900 says that NGOs
00:31:17.000 paid by
00:31:17.720 taxpayer money.
00:31:20.160 That's what happens
00:31:20.880 in a lot of other countries,
00:31:21.920 isn't it?
00:31:22.300 So it wouldn't surprise me.
00:31:23.480 Exactly,
00:31:23.920 and you had a lot,
00:31:24.840 you had essentially
00:31:25.960 a far leftist mob
00:31:27.320 that went out
00:31:28.160 the CDU headquarters
00:31:29.600 and actually led
00:31:31.240 to them being evacuated
00:31:32.580 because they protested,
00:31:34.620 you know,
00:31:34.780 some far leftists.
00:31:36.560 If that were the other way round,
00:31:38.180 say the AFD
00:31:39.020 went to another party's
00:31:40.380 headquarters
00:31:40.980 and protested,
00:31:41.920 they'd be like,
00:31:42.360 that's an act
00:31:42.820 of domestic terrorism.
00:31:44.260 And this is exactly
00:31:45.000 what happens
00:31:46.840 with the constant
00:31:48.660 bombardment
00:31:49.520 of public discussion
00:31:51.140 with the notion
00:31:51.800 of the far right
00:31:52.560 and the smearing
00:31:53.560 because any person
00:31:55.200 who has an actually
00:31:57.140 right-wing
00:31:58.320 or center-right-wing
00:31:59.660 perspective
00:32:00.920 gets constantly
00:32:02.540 bombarded
00:32:03.120 with accusations
00:32:03.880 of being far right
00:32:04.940 and actually
00:32:05.820 they can't talk.
00:32:07.780 It's much more difficult
00:32:09.040 for the public
00:32:09.800 to listen to what
00:32:10.620 they have to say
00:32:11.660 because they constantly
00:32:12.600 have to answer
00:32:13.240 to smears,
00:32:13.940 but no one is
00:32:14.740 pointing attention
00:32:15.520 to the far left
00:32:16.480 and how undemocratic
00:32:17.800 they are
00:32:18.340 and how much
00:32:19.260 of a constitutional risk
00:32:20.560 they represent.
00:32:22.180 Right,
00:32:22.360 so the vote
00:32:23.920 will be held
00:32:25.000 in Parliament today
00:32:25.860 and whether to start
00:32:26.680 a process
00:32:27.240 to try to ban
00:32:28.020 the AFD party.
00:32:29.760 113 MPs
00:32:30.900 are saying
00:32:31.680 that the AFD
00:32:32.500 is unconstitutional.
00:32:34.380 It should be declared
00:32:35.320 unconstitutional
00:32:36.200 by the federal court
00:32:38.300 and if banned
00:32:40.240 the party
00:32:40.660 will lose
00:32:41.320 all the seats
00:32:42.000 and all assemblies
00:32:42.820 and assets
00:32:43.380 would be confiscated.
00:32:44.720 Now,
00:32:45.000 we will go back
00:32:46.100 towards the end
00:32:47.080 to Article 21
00:32:48.040 of the German
00:32:49.340 Constitution
00:32:50.200 that says
00:32:51.040 essentially
00:32:51.540 that if
00:32:52.260 a party
00:32:53.140 is consistently
00:32:55.400 showing
00:32:56.480 signs
00:32:57.700 that it is
00:32:58.420 going to be
00:32:59.080 unconstitutional
00:32:59.980 and disrespectful
00:33:00.860 of the
00:33:01.760 democratic order
00:33:03.440 of Germany,
00:33:04.260 it can be banned.
00:33:06.680 Parties have been
00:33:07.640 banned before,
00:33:08.400 even after World War II.
00:33:09.740 We had two bans
00:33:10.500 I think in the 50s,
00:33:11.760 a communist group
00:33:12.580 and another group
00:33:13.260 that was supposed
00:33:14.880 to be a continuation
00:33:15.840 of the Austrian
00:33:16.880 Painters Party.
00:33:17.620 So,
00:33:19.480 could I say
00:33:20.200 something?
00:33:20.580 Yes,
00:33:20.600 quite quickly.
00:33:21.480 So,
00:33:22.320 those MPs
00:33:24.200 I think are
00:33:24.600 well aware,
00:33:26.020 I don't think
00:33:26.820 you can exist
00:33:27.420 in Germany
00:33:27.900 without knowing
00:33:28.680 both
00:33:29.580 previous German
00:33:31.600 administration's
00:33:32.520 policies
00:33:32.940 and the AFD's
00:33:34.140 policies
00:33:34.500 and I'm pretty sure
00:33:35.860 that they know
00:33:36.600 full well
00:33:37.820 that they're
00:33:39.100 very different
00:33:39.820 and painting them
00:33:41.580 as the same
00:33:42.400 is silly
00:33:42.940 because I think
00:33:43.680 the AFD
00:33:44.400 is quite a liberal
00:33:45.260 party
00:33:45.820 it's quite
00:33:47.580 constitutionalist
00:33:48.700 it wants
00:33:49.180 separation of powers
00:33:50.120 it wants to
00:33:50.540 limit the state
00:33:51.460 and things like that
00:33:52.500 it's liberal
00:33:52.900 in a more
00:33:53.300 classical sense
00:33:54.080 isn't it?
00:33:54.720 And I think
00:33:55.040 that that's fair
00:33:55.580 to say
00:33:56.060 and I think
00:33:56.780 that what
00:33:57.080 they're doing
00:33:57.660 they're well aware
00:33:59.700 that there is
00:34:00.240 this very clear
00:34:01.400 distinction
00:34:01.920 and yet they're
00:34:03.140 pushing ahead
00:34:03.620 with it anyway
00:34:04.120 and I think
00:34:04.540 it's cynical
00:34:05.520 politics
00:34:06.140 more than
00:34:06.640 an actual
00:34:07.260 legitimate
00:34:07.740 concern.
00:34:09.120 We will get
00:34:09.940 there
00:34:10.280 and talk
00:34:11.080 about their
00:34:11.500 manifesto
00:34:12.100 which is
00:34:12.660 as you said
00:34:13.540 very
00:34:13.980 I would say
00:34:14.580 classically liberal.
00:34:15.820 It's classical
00:34:17.480 liberalism
00:34:18.000 basically
00:34:18.320 it's not
00:34:19.580 something weird
00:34:20.200 especially in
00:34:21.460 economics
00:34:21.880 it's for
00:34:22.520 deregulation
00:34:23.420 against
00:34:24.120 bureaucracy
00:34:24.680 and
00:34:26.000 everyone knows
00:34:27.220 that those
00:34:27.680 the Austrian
00:34:28.580 painter's policies
00:34:29.420 he loved
00:34:29.980 liberalism
00:34:30.520 for some reason
00:34:31.260 right
00:34:31.840 so I will
00:34:32.700 mention
00:34:33.460 why the people
00:34:34.300 who want to ban it
00:34:35.140 want to ban it
00:34:35.780 and the reasons
00:34:36.320 they cite
00:34:36.820 but also the
00:34:37.880 arguments to the
00:34:39.000 opposite side
00:34:39.560 now
00:34:40.100 remember the
00:34:41.160 number 113
00:34:42.480 three months ago
00:34:44.300 this is
00:34:45.280 again
00:34:46.540 113
00:34:47.880 members of
00:34:48.500 parliament
00:34:48.920 signed
00:34:50.240 a document
00:34:52.880 that says
00:34:53.460 that the
00:34:53.840 AFD should
00:34:54.900 be banned
00:34:55.300 so it's
00:34:56.020 nothing new
00:34:56.760 exactly
00:34:57.180 it didn't
00:34:57.580 happen
00:34:58.040 yesterday
00:34:58.900 or two
00:34:59.280 days ago
00:34:59.680 for the
00:35:00.000 first time
00:35:00.500 there are
00:35:01.460 lots of
00:35:02.060 MPs who
00:35:02.580 think that
00:35:02.960 the AFD
00:35:03.760 should be
00:35:04.180 banned
00:35:04.440 and
00:35:05.100 it looks
00:35:06.280 like there
00:35:06.700 are 113
00:35:07.520 here
00:35:08.020 and
00:35:09.120 it's a bit
00:35:09.620 of a failure
00:35:10.080 of a political
00:35:10.620 system
00:35:11.060 that you can
00:35:11.760 vote to ban
00:35:12.800 your political
00:35:13.480 opposition
00:35:14.140 I think that
00:35:15.880 you shouldn't
00:35:16.480 have that
00:35:17.060 in a political
00:35:17.580 system
00:35:18.080 at all
00:35:18.860 well it's
00:35:19.440 very democratic
00:35:20.380 let's say
00:35:20.960 it's very
00:35:22.160 the people
00:35:22.660 vote for a party
00:35:23.500 you decide
00:35:24.100 that they're
00:35:24.480 too naughty
00:35:25.140 and they ban
00:35:25.920 there's been a
00:35:26.380 movement in
00:35:26.940 Germany since
00:35:27.680 day one
00:35:28.280 that's gunning
00:35:29.320 for AFD's
00:35:30.580 prescription
00:35:31.840 and destruction
00:35:32.540 yes
00:35:33.220 it's certainly
00:35:33.960 not new
00:35:34.560 yes
00:35:35.360 so I want
00:35:36.500 to present
00:35:37.540 the whole
00:35:38.160 discussion
00:35:38.740 and arguments
00:35:39.700 for and
00:35:40.160 against the
00:35:40.620 ban
00:35:40.840 and also
00:35:41.520 use my
00:35:42.440 arguments
00:35:42.820 towards the
00:35:43.780 end
00:35:44.000 but I
00:35:44.600 really want
00:35:45.240 to show
00:35:46.160 people
00:35:46.540 the concerns
00:35:47.520 and also
00:35:48.260 the replies
00:35:49.580 right
00:35:50.440 so
00:35:51.020 what happens
00:35:52.660 is that
00:35:53.180 I won't say
00:35:53.820 that there are
00:35:54.200 two sides
00:35:54.700 on the debate
00:35:55.780 some people
00:35:56.680 say it's
00:35:57.160 the legal
00:35:58.280 and the
00:35:58.660 political
00:35:59.020 I think
00:35:59.500 that's a
00:35:59.820 completely
00:36:00.180 wrong way
00:36:01.100 to carve
00:36:01.520 up the
00:36:02.040 discussion
00:36:03.620 I would
00:36:04.320 say it's
00:36:04.680 the
00:36:05.040 intelligence
00:36:05.860 agency
00:36:06.580 side of
00:36:07.140 things
00:36:07.500 and the
00:36:08.960 political
00:36:09.320 side of
00:36:09.800 things
00:36:10.060 and I
00:36:11.620 will say
00:36:12.120 I don't
00:36:13.840 have any
00:36:14.560 let's say
00:36:15.280 intelligence
00:36:16.320 access to
00:36:17.080 intelligence
00:36:17.500 agency
00:36:18.020 I simply
00:36:19.000 don't know
00:36:19.560 and I
00:36:19.940 don't have
00:36:20.460 any
00:36:20.860 I don't
00:36:22.820 have
00:36:23.020 what
00:36:23.400 you're doing
00:36:23.980 yourself a
00:36:24.380 disservice
00:36:24.820 there
00:36:25.080 Stelios
00:36:25.440 you don't
00:36:25.840 have any
00:36:26.140 intelligence
00:36:26.620 I think
00:36:27.340 you're a
00:36:27.880 bit better
00:36:28.200 off than
00:36:28.500 that
00:36:28.740 you know
00:36:30.800 what I
00:36:31.100 mean
00:36:31.280 Josh
00:36:31.580 right
00:36:32.620 so there
00:36:33.760 have been
00:36:34.420 several
00:36:34.800 arguments
00:36:35.360 as to
00:36:36.840 why the
00:36:37.280 AFD
00:36:37.620 should be
00:36:38.020 banned
00:36:38.200 the people
00:36:38.600 who say
00:36:39.040 that it
00:36:39.340 should be
00:36:39.700 banned
00:36:39.980 are
00:36:40.580 routinely
00:36:41.120 saying
00:36:41.660 that
00:36:42.160 first of
00:36:43.080 all
00:36:43.300 some
00:36:44.140 of
00:36:44.400 its
00:36:44.600 members
00:36:45.120 like
00:36:45.680 Bjorn
00:36:46.000 Hockey
00:36:46.340 have
00:36:46.840 had
00:36:47.700 have been
00:36:48.720 fined
00:36:49.740 for using
00:36:50.260 slogans
00:36:50.860 that led
00:36:51.700 that make
00:36:52.600 connotations
00:36:53.300 of you know
00:36:54.540 mid-century
00:36:55.180 movement
00:36:55.720 wasn't it
00:36:56.480 like
00:36:56.840 something like
00:36:58.140 for Germany
00:36:58.800 all for
00:36:59.480 Germany
00:36:59.880 yeah
00:37:00.220 that was
00:37:01.440 mainly it
00:37:02.100 all for
00:37:02.540 Germany
00:37:02.880 and also
00:37:03.680 they say
00:37:04.140 that he
00:37:04.560 uses
00:37:05.040 hawkish
00:37:05.480 language
00:37:05.960 he's the
00:37:07.160 leader of
00:37:07.600 the AFD
00:37:07.980 in
00:37:08.220 Thuringia
00:37:08.700 and
00:37:09.160 Thuringia
00:37:09.620 is the
00:37:10.800 state
00:37:12.320 where the
00:37:12.820 AFD
00:37:13.080 came first
00:37:13.700 in the
00:37:14.160 federal
00:37:14.980 state
00:37:15.360 elections
00:37:15.840 so that's
00:37:16.620 number one
00:37:17.180 number two
00:37:18.200 is that
00:37:18.860 they say
00:37:19.740 that
00:37:19.960 there was
00:37:20.900 an event
00:37:21.920 in the
00:37:22.260 Thuringia
00:37:22.720 parliament
00:37:23.360 where in
00:37:24.360 the first
00:37:24.700 session
00:37:25.120 the leader
00:37:26.360 of the
00:37:27.100 parliament
00:37:27.680 who was
00:37:28.360 a member
00:37:28.660 of the
00:37:28.960 AFD
00:37:29.420 was accused
00:37:30.520 of not
00:37:31.100 following
00:37:31.540 the
00:37:32.580 procedure
00:37:33.180 and the
00:37:33.780 law
00:37:34.640 and everyone
00:37:35.840 made a fuss
00:37:36.560 as to how
00:37:37.080 this is
00:37:37.620 actually
00:37:38.020 unconstitutional
00:37:38.860 and also
00:37:39.860 there are
00:37:40.700 there is
00:37:41.380 a court
00:37:41.840 ruling
00:37:42.280 in
00:37:42.560 Münster
00:37:42.960 on May
00:37:44.260 13
00:37:44.740 2024
00:37:45.440 which is
00:37:46.440 a
00:37:46.920 higher
00:37:48.320 administrative
00:37:48.980 court
00:37:49.580 in Germany
00:37:50.200 that ruled
00:37:50.900 that the
00:37:51.560 AFD party
00:37:52.680 could be
00:37:53.360 classified
00:37:53.880 as a
00:37:54.480 suspected
00:37:55.120 extremist
00:37:56.460 organization
00:37:57.160 and the
00:37:57.960 court upheld
00:37:58.700 a 2022
00:37:59.600 lower court
00:38:00.580 ruling
00:38:01.000 allowing
00:38:01.340 Germany's
00:38:01.940 domestic
00:38:02.780 intelligence
00:38:03.540 agency
00:38:04.080 the
00:38:04.300 BFV
00:38:05.060 to continue
00:38:06.080 surveilling
00:38:06.680 the
00:38:06.940 AFD
00:38:07.420 the judges
00:38:07.940 found
00:38:08.300 sufficient
00:38:08.800 evidence
00:38:09.340 that the
00:38:10.080 AFD
00:38:10.520 pursues
00:38:11.000 goals
00:38:11.340 that
00:38:11.560 undermine
00:38:12.000 human
00:38:12.480 dignity
00:38:12.920 and
00:38:13.140 democracy
00:38:13.640 particularly
00:38:14.520 targeting
00:38:15.200 German
00:38:15.600 citizens
00:38:16.200 with a
00:38:16.620 migration
00:38:17.060 background
00:38:18.380 right
00:38:19.360 and they
00:38:19.860 constantly
00:38:20.520 say this
00:38:20.960 and one
00:38:21.420 of the
00:38:21.680 reasons
00:38:21.960 that they
00:38:22.320 say this
00:38:22.880 is
00:38:23.360 the
00:38:23.800 appeal
00:38:24.460 to
00:38:24.700 re-migration
00:38:25.380 in the
00:38:25.860 AFD
00:38:26.200 manifesto
00:38:27.280 because
00:38:27.700 they're
00:38:27.900 saying
00:38:28.600 that
00:38:28.980 wanting
00:38:30.000 to
00:38:31.340 re-migrate
00:38:32.200 people
00:38:32.820 especially
00:38:33.720 of a
00:38:34.100 migrant
00:38:34.420 background
00:38:35.100 is
00:38:36.080 against
00:38:36.960 their
00:38:37.140 dignity
00:38:37.560 and
00:38:37.900 against
00:38:38.300 humanity
00:38:38.820 and
00:38:39.180 it's
00:38:39.480 considered
00:38:40.340 to be
00:38:40.660 extremist
00:38:41.140 I would
00:38:41.840 turn it
00:38:42.100 the other
00:38:42.280 way around
00:38:42.720 that imposing
00:38:43.720 third world
00:38:44.880 migration
00:38:45.480 upon a
00:38:46.120 civilized
00:38:46.500 country
00:38:46.940 is one
00:38:47.760 of the
00:38:47.920 most
00:38:48.100 inhumane
00:38:48.700 things
00:38:49.040 ever to
00:38:49.460 be done
00:38:49.760 in human
00:38:50.100 history
00:38:50.500 and
00:38:51.240 that
00:38:51.580 people
00:38:52.460 basically
00:38:53.580 surveilling
00:38:54.360 and trying
00:38:54.980 to
00:38:55.460 present a
00:38:56.500 classical
00:38:56.840 liberal
00:38:57.260 party
00:38:57.740 as
00:38:58.000 extremist
00:38:58.840 are
00:38:59.780 traitors
00:39:00.980 to
00:39:01.140 their
00:39:01.300 own
00:39:01.460 country
00:39:01.860 I was
00:39:03.580 going to
00:39:03.820 say
00:39:04.060 yeah
00:39:04.320 just
00:39:04.620 all
00:39:04.880 that
00:39:05.140 it's
00:39:05.460 just
00:39:05.640 no
00:39:05.840 anyone
00:39:06.140 that
00:39:06.440 advocates
00:39:06.960 for
00:39:07.180 that
00:39:07.460 trying to
00:39:08.000 ban
00:39:08.160 the
00:39:08.280 AFD
00:39:08.620 on the
00:39:09.000 grounds
00:39:09.340 that
00:39:09.680 they're
00:39:11.180 sort of
00:39:12.220 inhuman
00:39:12.800 in some
00:39:13.300 sense
00:39:13.620 for wanting
00:39:14.100 their
00:39:14.460 own
00:39:15.240 country
00:39:15.620 for being
00:39:16.240 a
00:39:16.440 nativist
00:39:17.000 for having
00:39:17.560 nativist
00:39:18.100 sentiments
00:39:18.580 that they're
00:39:19.700 simply
00:39:20.160 fifth columnist
00:39:21.060 enemies of
00:39:22.060 the state
00:39:22.400 enemies of
00:39:22.800 the people
00:39:23.180 simple as
00:39:24.400 that
00:39:24.600 I mean
00:39:25.240 I see this
00:39:26.380 constantly
00:39:26.780 this is a
00:39:27.520 theme we see
00:39:28.320 a lot of
00:39:29.100 the people
00:39:29.660 who are
00:39:29.980 pro-globalist
00:39:30.720 they're actually
00:39:31.300 standing for
00:39:32.020 foreign
00:39:32.440 nationalisms
00:39:33.200 especially
00:39:35.040 non-european
00:39:35.840 ones
00:39:36.140 by standing
00:39:36.980 against
00:39:37.600 domestic
00:39:38.300 nationalism
00:39:39.020 you're
00:39:40.280 favouring
00:39:41.800 foreign
00:39:42.140 nationalism
00:39:42.600 aren't you
00:39:43.080 essentially
00:39:43.760 and let
00:39:45.280 us say
00:39:45.620 that by
00:39:46.160 again because
00:39:47.160 we're talking
00:39:47.620 about Germany
00:39:48.220 when we're
00:39:49.200 talking about
00:39:50.580 nationalism
00:39:51.120 we don't
00:39:51.800 mean
00:39:52.020 nationalism
00:39:52.880 of that
00:39:53.760 kind
00:39:54.140 of the
00:39:55.140 mid-century
00:39:55.760 it's basically
00:39:56.520 patriotism
00:39:57.540 wanting your
00:39:58.420 country to
00:39:58.980 have its
00:39:59.700 own distinct
00:40:00.380 national
00:40:01.220 identity
00:40:01.740 I think
00:40:02.440 that's fair
00:40:03.280 to say
00:40:03.660 wanting
00:40:04.180 your way
00:40:05.120 of life
00:40:05.640 and the
00:40:06.360 continuation
00:40:06.740 of your
00:40:07.260 people
00:40:07.600 yeah
00:40:08.060 right
00:40:08.860 so
00:40:09.320 interestingly
00:40:10.700 speaking
00:40:11.280 the people
00:40:11.940 who are
00:40:12.340 saying this
00:40:12.980 are using
00:40:14.080 the
00:40:14.780 justification
00:40:16.000 that
00:40:17.460 the AFD
00:40:18.460 constitutes a
00:40:19.400 threat to
00:40:19.960 democracy
00:40:20.500 now
00:40:21.360 let me just
00:40:22.460 say this
00:40:23.240 how many
00:40:24.640 people have
00:40:25.520 you seen
00:40:26.160 protesting
00:40:27.360 how many
00:40:28.140 globalists
00:40:29.260 or pro-EU
00:40:30.680 people
00:40:31.140 have you seen
00:40:32.080 protesting
00:40:32.620 against Thierry
00:40:33.480 Breton
00:40:33.880 who is the
00:40:34.600 former European
00:40:35.520 commissioner
00:40:36.060 who said
00:40:36.600 that the EU
00:40:37.260 has mechanisms
00:40:38.540 to nullify
00:40:39.800 potential election
00:40:41.180 victory of the
00:40:41.960 AFD
00:40:42.320 he said
00:40:43.000 we did it in
00:40:43.760 Romania
00:40:44.100 and we will
00:40:44.800 obviously do it
00:40:45.560 in Germany
00:40:45.940 if necessary
00:40:46.620 those are the
00:40:47.600 words of a
00:40:47.960 tyrant
00:40:48.320 if you
00:40:49.900 if you
00:40:50.660 willingly
00:40:51.060 overthrow
00:40:51.740 election
00:40:52.160 results
00:40:52.480 you don't
00:40:52.880 like
00:40:53.220 then
00:40:53.800 you can't
00:40:54.660 be claiming
00:40:55.220 that you're
00:40:55.940 doing it
00:40:56.220 to protect
00:40:56.640 democracy
00:40:57.160 can you
00:40:57.660 yes
00:40:57.920 and from
00:40:58.600 an outsider's
00:40:59.340 perspective
00:40:59.740 because I'm
00:41:00.300 not German
00:41:00.680 and I don't
00:41:01.180 live in
00:41:01.480 Germany
00:41:01.820 when I see
00:41:02.760 two people
00:41:03.520 and I see
00:41:04.100 one person
00:41:04.920 gloating
00:41:06.020 and being
00:41:06.500 very happy
00:41:07.360 about how
00:41:07.900 undemocratic
00:41:08.620 he is
00:41:09.420 and how
00:41:09.720 tyrannical
00:41:10.240 he is
00:41:10.760 and
00:41:11.540 people who
00:41:12.820 are actually
00:41:13.600 his friends
00:41:14.840 are saying
00:41:15.960 that they want
00:41:16.460 to ban
00:41:16.920 another party
00:41:17.880 that expresses
00:41:18.780 more than
00:41:19.600 one out of
00:41:20.060 five Germans
00:41:20.700 for the sake
00:41:21.500 of protecting
00:41:22.080 democracy
00:41:22.740 yeah my red
00:41:23.900 alert goes off
00:41:24.700 yeah it's sort
00:41:25.540 of like
00:41:26.080 you know
00:41:27.720 Chancellor Palpatine
00:41:29.600 before he became
00:41:30.240 the emperor
00:41:30.680 saying that
00:41:31.580 the attack on my
00:41:32.440 life has left
00:41:33.320 me scarred
00:41:33.920 we need emergency
00:41:34.700 powers to crush
00:41:35.760 our enemies
00:41:36.580 sorry to lower
00:41:37.760 the tone
00:41:38.180 but still
00:41:39.120 it's that level
00:41:40.580 of evil
00:41:41.420 it's like
00:41:42.120 I have institutional
00:41:43.320 backing and power
00:41:44.300 and I'm going to
00:41:45.180 use it to crush
00:41:45.780 my enemies
00:41:46.300 under the auspices
00:41:47.160 of protecting
00:41:47.980 the citizenry
00:41:49.560 and this actually
00:41:51.240 shows that
00:41:51.920 there is an actual
00:41:53.200 deficit of democracy
00:41:55.680 in the EU
00:41:56.280 and a lot of the
00:41:57.240 parties that are
00:41:58.160 essentially following
00:41:59.560 the EU line
00:42:00.680 it's not a democracy
00:42:02.540 it's a managed
00:42:03.340 oligarchy
00:42:04.000 that tries to
00:42:05.680 silence
00:42:06.120 the opposition
00:42:07.280 opposition
00:42:08.740 to its main
00:42:09.740 agenda
00:42:10.080 the agenda
00:42:10.860 is multiculturalism
00:42:12.560 that this
00:42:13.100 disintegrates
00:42:14.300 social cohesion
00:42:15.080 and there is
00:42:16.180 just a kind
00:42:17.580 of oscillation
00:42:18.440 between you
00:42:18.920 whether you
00:42:19.540 want it faster
00:42:20.200 or not
00:42:20.640 but that's
00:42:21.400 the main
00:42:21.760 agenda
00:42:22.120 and in a
00:42:23.580 the supposed
00:42:25.020 merit of democracy
00:42:26.960 is that you can
00:42:27.640 actually get a lot
00:42:28.700 of people
00:42:29.160 to change course
00:42:30.400 not just
00:42:31.120 people to
00:42:31.920 debate whether
00:42:32.620 they want to
00:42:33.580 move fast
00:42:34.640 or slowly
00:42:35.300 towards destruction
00:42:36.160 I think it all
00:42:37.420 comes back to
00:42:38.520 what Aristotle
00:42:39.860 said about
00:42:40.500 tyrants
00:42:41.000 preferring
00:42:41.660 foreign people
00:42:42.560 as subjects
00:42:44.040 because it
00:42:44.560 allows them
00:42:45.240 greater freedom
00:42:46.100 to be tyrants
00:42:47.500 and I think
00:42:48.120 that the same
00:42:49.100 thing is going
00:42:49.660 on here
00:42:50.180 with the AFD
00:42:51.140 and within
00:42:51.900 the EU
00:42:52.520 that it's
00:42:53.960 in the self
00:42:54.820 interest of
00:42:55.780 people within
00:42:56.420 these organisations
00:42:57.300 by the sort
00:42:58.300 of perverse
00:42:58.760 way in which
00:42:59.240 they've been
00:42:59.580 set up
00:43:00.060 it incentivises
00:43:01.180 them flooding
00:43:02.420 these countries
00:43:03.020 with migrants
00:43:03.760 because it
00:43:04.580 then enables
00:43:05.720 greater power
00:43:06.540 and influence
00:43:07.140 to the
00:43:07.740 bureaucrats
00:43:08.380 who are
00:43:08.700 running things
00:43:09.360 right so
00:43:11.520 not everyone
00:43:12.040 agrees some
00:43:12.780 politicians say
00:43:13.600 that it
00:43:13.940 shouldn't be
00:43:14.380 banned
00:43:14.700 and they
00:43:16.240 don't necessarily
00:43:17.020 agree with
00:43:17.920 the AFD
00:43:18.300 but they
00:43:18.720 think that
00:43:19.200 it shouldn't
00:43:19.540 be banned
00:43:19.880 that the
00:43:20.180 move has
00:43:21.200 more risks
00:43:22.520 and costs
00:43:23.720 than benefits
00:43:24.620 and here we
00:43:25.540 have Chancellor
00:43:26.140 Olaf Scholz
00:43:27.060 by the SPD
00:43:28.000 who is now
00:43:29.000 the Chancellor
00:43:29.480 of Germany
00:43:30.080 saying that
00:43:31.180 basically that
00:43:32.020 there is
00:43:32.960 no sufficient
00:43:33.880 evidence
00:43:34.500 for the
00:43:35.580 the AFD
00:43:36.440 to be banned
00:43:36.960 well
00:43:39.040 credit to
00:43:40.040 them
00:43:40.260 yes
00:43:40.920 there is
00:43:41.600 no sufficient
00:43:42.240 evidence
00:43:42.600 so
00:43:43.020 you would
00:43:45.140 expect
00:43:45.620 that if
00:43:46.700 there was
00:43:47.260 sufficient
00:43:47.720 evidence
00:43:48.340 that they
00:43:49.380 would have
00:43:49.700 already banned
00:43:50.360 it
00:43:50.580 I mean
00:43:51.340 if they dug
00:43:52.000 around
00:43:52.560 you know
00:43:54.380 in one of
00:43:54.900 the senior
00:43:55.280 AFD
00:43:55.920 leaders files
00:43:58.140 and they
00:43:58.500 find plans
00:43:59.440 to carry out
00:43:59.920 a Reichstag
00:44:00.480 fire
00:44:00.880 then maybe
00:44:01.920 they would
00:44:02.460 have a bit
00:44:02.780 of a cause
00:44:03.580 for concern
00:44:04.160 but I don't
00:44:04.860 think they're
00:44:05.180 going to
00:44:05.340 find any
00:44:05.740 of that
00:44:05.980 because
00:44:06.340 as far
00:44:07.060 as I'm
00:44:07.280 aware
00:44:07.480 the AFD
00:44:08.120 have been
00:44:08.380 operating
00:44:08.860 in the
00:44:09.440 confines
00:44:09.880 of German
00:44:10.280 democracy
00:44:10.800 in much
00:44:12.040 the same
00:44:12.420 way as
00:44:13.060 any other
00:44:13.420 party
00:44:13.860 they've not
00:44:14.420 been breaking
00:44:14.980 those rules
00:44:15.540 so there's
00:44:15.920 no reason
00:44:16.460 to presume
00:44:17.120 that they're
00:44:17.580 undemocratic
00:44:18.220 at all
00:44:18.780 well I spoke
00:44:19.900 I did an
00:44:20.520 interview
00:44:20.860 on Lotus
00:44:21.740 Seaters
00:44:22.040 with Peter
00:44:23.340 Boehringer
00:44:23.840 when was it
00:44:24.920 like a year
00:44:25.360 ago or
00:44:25.700 something
00:44:25.920 in that
00:44:26.360 ballpark
00:44:26.740 I think he's
00:44:28.240 one of many
00:44:28.920 vice chairmen
00:44:30.280 I think that
00:44:30.680 was his
00:44:31.040 anyway
00:44:31.440 relatively
00:44:32.000 senior
00:44:32.460 I think
00:44:32.800 reasonably
00:44:33.260 senior
00:44:33.600 person
00:44:34.020 in
00:44:34.200 AFD
00:44:34.540 and he
00:44:36.060 was
00:44:36.360 very
00:44:37.560 very
00:44:37.980 very
00:44:38.400 reasonable
00:44:39.000 and I
00:44:39.540 don't mean
00:44:39.840 this as a
00:44:40.220 criticism
00:44:40.540 but it
00:44:40.740 was kind
00:44:41.000 of
00:44:41.080 milk
00:44:41.280 toast
00:44:41.640 like I
00:44:42.420 was too
00:44:42.780 based
00:44:43.040 for him
00:44:43.300 I was
00:44:43.580 saying
00:44:43.740 stuff
00:44:44.000 where
00:44:44.120 he
00:44:44.220 was
00:44:44.340 like
00:44:44.580 a bit
00:44:45.560 wide
00:44:45.840 eyed
00:44:46.200 like
00:44:47.580 you know
00:44:47.980 I was
00:44:48.680 asking him
00:44:49.080 things about
00:44:49.480 the nature
00:44:49.840 of US
00:44:50.220 NATO bases
00:44:51.160 in Germany
00:44:51.620 the nature
00:44:52.040 of the
00:44:52.440 well there
00:44:53.220 was one
00:44:53.460 question I
00:44:53.860 asked him
00:44:54.080 about the
00:44:54.680 pipeline
00:44:56.060 the Nord Stream
00:44:56.720 pipeline
00:44:57.160 and he
00:44:58.380 just
00:44:58.780 ummed and
00:44:59.380 ahed and
00:44:59.760 didn't really
00:45:00.140 answer
00:45:00.600 and I
00:45:01.400 don't mean
00:45:01.660 to throw
00:45:01.880 him under
00:45:02.120 the bus
00:45:02.460 here
00:45:02.760 but then
00:45:03.560 afterwards
00:45:03.860 said
00:45:04.020 can you
00:45:04.340 not put
00:45:04.680 that out
00:45:05.020 we just
00:45:05.540 as AFD
00:45:06.380 people
00:45:06.620 we have
00:45:07.080 to be
00:45:07.380 whiter
00:45:07.680 than white
00:45:08.140 we can't
00:45:09.120 have
00:45:09.460 anything
00:45:10.240 to do
00:45:10.820 with
00:45:11.220 people
00:45:11.820 accusing us
00:45:12.440 of being
00:45:12.760 conspiracy
00:45:13.260 theorists
00:45:13.740 we can't
00:45:14.300 have
00:45:14.440 anything
00:45:14.700 even the
00:45:15.180 hint
00:45:15.560 that we're
00:45:16.320 being
00:45:16.740 too
00:45:17.420 right
00:45:17.760 wing
00:45:18.060 everything
00:45:19.080 has to
00:45:19.520 be
00:45:19.920 super
00:45:20.620 super
00:45:20.860 constitutional
00:45:21.500 super
00:45:21.980 super
00:45:22.220 within
00:45:22.480 the
00:45:22.720 lines
00:45:23.260 they're
00:45:24.440 whiter
00:45:25.860 than white
00:45:26.440 they have
00:45:27.420 to be
00:45:27.820 they absolutely
00:45:28.520 have to be
00:45:28.920 because if
00:45:29.560 they cross
00:45:29.980 the line
00:45:30.320 anywhere in
00:45:31.820 a tiny
00:45:32.320 tiny amount
00:45:33.000 they'll get
00:45:33.660 jumped on
00:45:34.160 and they'll
00:45:34.420 be called
00:45:34.740 unconstitutional
00:45:35.440 and they'll
00:45:35.720 get banned
00:45:36.080 so it's
00:45:37.140 their business
00:45:38.000 they're in
00:45:39.120 the business
00:45:39.780 of staying
00:45:40.940 within
00:45:41.860 playing the
00:45:43.080 long game
00:45:43.500 yeah
00:45:43.960 yes
00:45:44.600 and so
00:45:45.780 it's mad
00:45:49.120 because this
00:45:49.680 if they do
00:45:50.180 ban them
00:45:50.760 it will only
00:45:51.780 be a
00:45:52.240 stay of
00:45:52.820 execution
00:45:53.400 so to
00:45:54.280 speak
00:45:54.560 metaphorically
00:45:55.180 speaking
00:45:55.480 for the
00:45:57.160 right wing
00:45:57.940 or right
00:45:58.380 leaning
00:45:59.160 movement
00:45:59.640 in Germany
00:46:00.240 Germany
00:46:01.240 like most
00:46:01.840 countries
00:46:02.160 in Europe
00:46:02.460 now
00:46:02.680 most of
00:46:03.040 the western
00:46:03.460 countries
00:46:03.980 are a
00:46:04.700 pressure cooker
00:46:05.320 in Britain
00:46:06.700 we saw it
00:46:07.320 with the
00:46:07.680 Southport
00:46:08.140 riots
00:46:08.580 for example
00:46:09.220 in Sweden
00:46:11.180 what's going
00:46:11.680 on in France
00:46:12.280 all over the
00:46:12.740 place
00:46:12.940 Germany is
00:46:13.940 of course
00:46:14.260 one of
00:46:14.540 those
00:46:14.680 it's a
00:46:14.980 pressure
00:46:15.300 cooker
00:46:15.640 and if
00:46:16.780 they don't
00:46:17.240 the establishment
00:46:17.900 the lefties
00:46:18.660 whatever it
00:46:19.140 is
00:46:19.420 the fifth
00:46:19.860 columnists
00:46:20.500 don't allow
00:46:22.600 some of that
00:46:23.900 pressure out
00:46:24.500 by allowing
00:46:25.160 AFD to
00:46:25.800 exist
00:46:26.260 then that
00:46:27.420 pressure
00:46:27.700 cooker is
00:46:28.140 going to
00:46:28.480 keep rumbling
00:46:29.060 away
00:46:29.540 it's going to
00:46:31.140 keep rumbling
00:46:31.720 away
00:46:32.040 it's really
00:46:32.700 really short
00:46:33.220 sighted
00:46:33.780 of the
00:46:34.200 lefties
00:46:34.700 in Germany
00:46:36.200 to try and
00:46:37.380 outright prescribe
00:46:38.540 AFD
00:46:39.020 it's crazy
00:46:39.940 because the
00:46:41.020 people that
00:46:41.520 support them
00:46:42.040 are not
00:46:42.280 going anywhere
00:46:42.880 if you ban
00:46:43.400 AFD
00:46:43.720 they're not
00:46:43.960 going to
00:46:44.140 disappear
00:46:44.500 they'll become
00:46:45.680 more bitter
00:46:47.120 if anything
00:46:47.680 well this is
00:46:48.740 the thing
00:46:49.300 isn't it
00:46:49.640 that if you
00:46:50.100 push people
00:46:50.680 underground
00:46:51.200 you only make
00:46:52.260 them more
00:46:52.600 embittered
00:46:53.180 towards you
00:46:53.760 and you
00:46:54.100 prove their
00:46:54.540 point
00:46:54.840 yeah
00:46:55.580 and actually
00:46:56.260 it proves
00:46:57.000 also our
00:46:57.800 point that
00:46:58.640 politics
00:46:59.420 in Europe
00:47:00.580 right now
00:47:01.200 is mostly
00:47:01.760 the micromanaging
00:47:02.700 of decline
00:47:03.380 because even
00:47:04.280 that if
00:47:04.880 they try to
00:47:06.180 ban the
00:47:06.940 AFD
00:47:07.480 without trying
00:47:08.560 to understand
00:47:09.240 the reasons
00:47:10.260 that people
00:47:11.600 support it
00:47:12.400 and try to
00:47:13.020 address their
00:47:13.640 concerns
00:47:14.160 they're actually
00:47:15.080 dealing with
00:47:15.980 a symptom
00:47:17.120 and not its
00:47:18.040 cause
00:47:18.300 and right
00:47:19.740 now
00:47:20.060 I don't see
00:47:21.320 how you can
00:47:21.760 just ban
00:47:22.340 a party
00:47:23.280 that expresses
00:47:24.160 more than
00:47:24.720 one out of
00:47:25.240 five people
00:47:26.140 and this is
00:47:26.860 a conservative
00:47:27.540 estimation
00:47:28.620 by the
00:47:29.220 Politpro
00:47:29.960 that shows
00:47:31.140 that the
00:47:31.600 AFD
00:47:32.040 right now
00:47:32.520 gets
00:47:33.240 20.8%
00:47:35.420 of
00:47:36.100 the votes
00:47:37.600 I've seen
00:47:38.480 some others
00:47:38.980 that say
00:47:39.480 23
00:47:40.000 so one in
00:47:41.540 five
00:47:41.840 one in
00:47:42.200 four
00:47:42.400 more than
00:47:42.900 one in
00:47:43.280 their whole
00:47:45.000 political
00:47:45.480 voice is
00:47:46.860 just shut
00:47:47.460 down
00:47:47.680 it's the
00:47:48.040 second largest
00:47:48.780 party
00:47:49.040 that would
00:47:49.200 be crazy
00:47:49.760 look at
00:47:50.200 the US
00:47:50.700 and what
00:47:51.000 they tried
00:47:51.320 to do
00:47:51.580 to get
00:47:51.880 Trump
00:47:52.200 off of
00:47:52.540 the ballot
00:47:52.900 and try
00:47:53.340 and imprison
00:47:53.780 him
00:47:54.080 and interfere
00:47:54.800 with his
00:47:55.420 presidential
00:47:55.880 campaign
00:47:56.520 blow his
00:47:56.960 head off
00:47:57.360 on camera
00:47:57.860 yeah
00:47:58.100 exactly
00:47:58.520 and he
00:47:59.700 represented
00:48:00.220 what 50%
00:48:01.180 you know
00:48:02.280 those who
00:48:04.300 voted
00:48:04.660 the majority
00:48:05.820 yeah
00:48:06.420 right
00:48:06.860 and so
00:48:07.540 it seems
00:48:09.440 like the
00:48:09.920 globalist
00:48:10.380 faction
00:48:10.720 is willing
00:48:11.220 to go
00:48:11.700 a lot
00:48:12.300 further
00:48:12.760 even if
00:48:13.340 you know
00:48:13.660 the AFD
00:48:14.340 held a
00:48:15.140 majority
00:48:15.620 in the
00:48:17.020 unlikely event
00:48:17.960 that happens
00:48:18.500 they're still
00:48:19.720 going to go
00:48:20.240 after them
00:48:20.800 but also
00:48:21.380 this raises
00:48:22.080 the question
00:48:22.520 of whether
00:48:22.960 it is
00:48:23.640 actually
00:48:24.020 the opposite
00:48:24.640 and it's
00:48:25.540 the people
00:48:26.580 who call
00:48:27.040 for the
00:48:27.800 AFD
00:48:28.260 to be banned
00:48:28.820 who are
00:48:29.100 the constitutional
00:48:29.980 risk here
00:48:31.060 the risk
00:48:32.000 to democracy
00:48:32.680 because
00:48:33.140 exact
00:48:33.560 opposite
00:48:34.000 yeah
00:48:34.280 because
00:48:34.660 by
00:48:35.280 literally
00:48:36.420 pushing
00:48:37.220 forward
00:48:37.620 their
00:48:38.000 policies
00:48:38.520 and these
00:48:39.000 policies
00:48:39.400 have actually
00:48:40.120 made
00:48:40.480 Germany
00:48:41.100 a lot
00:48:41.520 worse
00:48:41.920 poorer
00:48:42.840 it had
00:48:43.700 they have
00:48:44.840 contributed
00:48:45.340 to diminished
00:48:46.120 economic
00:48:46.600 prospects
00:48:47.160 to a
00:48:48.460 surge
00:48:48.760 in crime
00:48:49.260 if
00:48:49.960 they
00:48:51.160 ban the
00:48:52.500 party that
00:48:53.020 speaks about
00:48:53.700 them
00:48:53.980 and actually
00:48:55.260 tries to
00:48:56.140 say
00:48:56.540 we live
00:48:57.820 in 2025
00:48:58.600 we need
00:48:59.720 to take
00:49:00.020 the world
00:49:00.360 at face
00:49:01.060 value
00:49:01.420 and move
00:49:02.360 within the
00:49:03.100 world
00:49:03.340 as we
00:49:03.840 find it
00:49:04.500 not as
00:49:05.120 we would
00:49:05.460 like to
00:49:06.560 think
00:49:06.780 that it
00:49:07.080 is
00:49:07.340 with my
00:49:08.520 analogy
00:49:08.820 of a
00:49:09.060 pressure
00:49:09.280 cooker
00:49:09.640 there is
00:49:10.260 a little
00:49:10.720 bit of
00:49:11.300 pressure
00:49:12.580 being
00:49:12.900 released
00:49:13.340 and they
00:49:14.600 would just
00:49:14.960 turn even
00:49:15.560 that off
00:49:16.160 even that
00:49:16.840 off
00:49:17.040 because
00:49:17.440 they would
00:49:17.980 communicate
00:49:18.720 they would
00:49:19.180 signal
00:49:19.680 that they
00:49:20.580 don't want
00:49:21.380 to address
00:49:22.000 the concerns
00:49:22.640 of the people
00:49:23.240 who go to
00:49:24.260 vote for
00:49:24.660 the AFD
00:49:25.100 and they're
00:49:25.780 more than
00:49:26.280 one out of
00:49:26.740 five
00:49:27.020 so it's
00:49:27.520 like taking
00:49:28.200 one out
00:49:28.600 of five
00:49:28.980 people
00:49:29.360 and saying
00:49:30.760 well I'm
00:49:31.140 not going
00:49:31.420 to listen
00:49:31.760 to you
00:49:32.200 and I
00:49:32.820 don't care
00:49:33.240 about you
00:49:33.620 you don't
00:49:34.060 have a
00:49:34.360 voice
00:49:34.660 you mentioned
00:49:35.640 managed
00:49:36.020 decline
00:49:36.360 earlier
00:49:36.680 you're lucky
00:49:38.660 if you're
00:49:39.020 getting managed
00:49:39.480 decline
00:49:39.860 it's more
00:49:41.160 like just
00:49:41.720 allowing
00:49:42.340 a narco
00:49:44.140 tyranny
00:49:44.520 or something
00:49:45.080 you're lucky
00:49:48.020 if you get
00:49:48.440 managed
00:49:48.760 decline
00:49:49.140 right
00:49:52.540 so
00:49:53.100 we see
00:49:54.320 here
00:49:54.640 that
00:49:55.100 Alice
00:49:55.980 vital
00:49:56.340 is
00:49:57.380 the
00:49:57.820 most
00:49:58.120 popular
00:49:58.500 candidate
00:49:58.920 for
00:49:59.300 chancellor
00:49:59.800 according
00:50:00.500 to
00:50:00.740 some
00:50:00.960 polls
00:50:01.280 they
00:50:02.080 have
00:50:02.340 been
00:50:02.560 first
00:50:02.920 in the
00:50:03.300 state
00:50:03.540 elections
00:50:04.020 of
00:50:04.320 Thuringia
00:50:05.040 second
00:50:05.780 in
00:50:06.120 Saxony
00:50:06.600 and
00:50:07.020 also
00:50:07.640 in
00:50:07.940 Brandenburg
00:50:08.600 and they
00:50:09.400 seem to be
00:50:09.900 the second
00:50:10.280 largest
00:50:10.600 party
00:50:10.940 yeah
00:50:11.680 they've been
00:50:12.240 doing very
00:50:12.660 well
00:50:12.960 haven't
00:50:13.220 they
00:50:13.460 electorally
00:50:14.500 and of
00:50:15.300 course
00:50:15.460 Brandenburg
00:50:15.960 is quite
00:50:16.260 significant
00:50:16.720 as well
00:50:17.200 considering
00:50:18.100 where it
00:50:18.520 is
00:50:18.680 and its
00:50:18.940 significance
00:50:19.400 in the
00:50:20.860 country
00:50:21.240 exactly
00:50:21.800 so I'll
00:50:22.240 show you
00:50:22.620 article
00:50:22.940 21
00:50:23.620 it says
00:50:24.740 here about
00:50:25.360 political
00:50:25.720 parties
00:50:26.320 close to
00:50:27.080 parties
00:50:27.500 that by
00:50:28.000 reason of
00:50:28.560 their aims
00:50:29.100 or the
00:50:29.460 behavior
00:50:29.860 of their
00:50:30.640 adherents
00:50:31.200 seek to
00:50:31.700 undermine
00:50:32.040 or abolish
00:50:32.820 the free
00:50:33.560 democratic
00:50:34.060 basic
00:50:34.480 order
00:50:34.840 or to
00:50:35.340 endanger
00:50:35.860 the
00:50:36.540 existence
00:50:36.920 of the
00:50:37.340 federal
00:50:37.640 republic
00:50:38.160 of
00:50:38.460 Germany
00:50:38.760 shall
00:50:39.080 be
00:50:39.240 unconstitutional
00:50:39.980 right
00:50:41.000 so
00:50:41.300 I'm not
00:50:42.780 gonna lie
00:50:43.140 I don't
00:50:43.620 like the
00:50:44.120 I don't
00:50:44.820 like some
00:50:45.380 of the
00:50:46.080 things that
00:50:47.040 have been
00:50:48.660 said
00:50:49.340 and some
00:50:49.740 of the
00:50:50.000 slogans
00:50:50.420 I find
00:50:50.720 them
00:50:50.900 ridiculous
00:50:51.680 I'll be
00:50:52.860 very frank
00:50:53.420 you don't
00:50:54.540 need to
00:50:54.800 do this
00:50:55.760 and especially
00:50:56.280 if you
00:50:57.200 are in
00:50:57.760 a group
00:50:58.160 you don't
00:50:59.540 need to
00:50:59.880 make it
00:51:00.840 more difficult
00:51:01.740 for the
00:51:03.480 members of
00:51:04.400 your group
00:51:04.780 but what
00:51:05.560 I see
00:51:05.980 here is
00:51:06.420 that I
00:51:07.180 see a
00:51:07.520 whole
00:51:07.800 establishment
00:51:08.460 that signals
00:51:09.840 I don't
00:51:10.860 care about
00:51:11.320 the will
00:51:11.660 of the
00:51:11.900 people
00:51:12.160 I don't
00:51:12.960 care about
00:51:13.400 democracy
00:51:13.940 I don't
00:51:15.080 recognize
00:51:15.780 your right
00:51:16.300 to have
00:51:16.620 a voice
00:51:17.100 if your
00:51:17.700 voice
00:51:18.120 is
00:51:18.860 contrary
00:51:19.720 to the
00:51:20.920 small
00:51:21.200 choice
00:51:21.520 I'm giving
00:51:21.960 you
00:51:22.260 which is
00:51:22.740 managed
00:51:23.440 decline
00:51:23.960 or
00:51:24.380 really
00:51:24.820 fast
00:51:25.140 managed
00:51:25.460 decline
00:51:25.840 I think
00:51:27.480 what we're
00:51:27.860 seeing
00:51:28.260 quite
00:51:29.380 nakedly
00:51:30.100 is
00:51:30.740 how a
00:51:31.580 lot of
00:51:31.920 politics
00:51:32.320 functions
00:51:32.780 in the
00:51:33.040 modern
00:51:33.220 day
00:51:33.540 that
00:51:34.120 it's
00:51:34.520 party
00:51:35.000 politics
00:51:35.580 above
00:51:35.900 all
00:51:36.200 it's
00:51:36.480 my
00:51:36.880 you know
00:51:37.820 my
00:51:38.300 group
00:51:38.560 against
00:51:38.900 yours
00:51:39.340 whatever
00:51:39.740 the
00:51:40.000 cost
00:51:40.400 this
00:51:41.300 will
00:51:41.560 lead
00:51:41.900 to
00:51:42.040 if
00:51:42.320 they
00:51:42.500 ban
00:51:42.760 it
00:51:42.940 it
00:51:43.140 will
00:51:43.320 lead
00:51:43.560 to
00:51:43.740 widespread
00:51:44.280 delegitimization
00:51:45.400 of
00:51:45.900 institutions
00:51:46.700 it
00:51:47.000 would
00:51:47.140 lead
00:51:47.400 to
00:51:47.560 widespread
00:51:47.880 delegitimization
00:51:48.840 of
00:51:49.120 democracy
00:51:49.600 and also
00:51:50.640 of the
00:51:51.580 federal
00:51:51.860 court
00:51:52.280 I would
00:51:52.860 put
00:51:53.060 sanctions
00:51:53.500 on
00:51:53.780 Germany
00:51:54.080 if I
00:51:54.480 were
00:51:54.660 you know
00:51:55.040 if I
00:51:55.760 were the
00:51:56.000 prime minister
00:51:56.460 of Britain
00:51:56.980 I think
00:51:58.020 it would be
00:51:58.460 legitimate
00:51:58.880 to say
00:51:59.360 hang on a minute
00:51:59.880 you've just
00:52:00.440 got rid of
00:52:01.480 the second
00:52:01.860 most popular
00:52:02.360 party in
00:52:02.900 your country
00:52:03.440 how can you
00:52:04.760 be a
00:52:05.220 democratic
00:52:05.600 country
00:52:06.020 anymore
00:52:06.340 you can't
00:52:07.080 it's
00:52:09.180 it's just
00:52:09.440 incredibly
00:52:09.900 authoritarian
00:52:10.380 it
00:52:11.440 shows
00:52:11.780 that
00:52:11.940 they
00:52:12.080 have
00:52:12.260 zero
00:52:12.500 arguments
00:52:12.940 left
00:52:13.340 and
00:52:13.800 what
00:52:14.240 they
00:52:14.440 want
00:52:14.720 to
00:52:14.920 do
00:52:15.640 is
00:52:15.880 to
00:52:16.120 basically
00:52:17.020 talk
00:52:18.460 about
00:52:19.480 they
00:52:20.600 want
00:52:20.900 to
00:52:21.040 prevent
00:52:21.320 people
00:52:21.660 from
00:52:21.920 talking
00:52:22.280 about
00:52:22.620 the
00:52:22.860 consequences
00:52:23.440 of
00:52:24.080 the
00:52:24.260 policies
00:52:24.700 of
00:52:25.180 the
00:52:25.780 globalist
00:52:26.260 parties
00:52:26.600 it's
00:52:29.040 not
00:52:29.160 going to
00:52:29.660 work
00:52:29.920 cheery
00:52:34.240 you've got
00:52:35.640 a bunch
00:52:35.900 of
00:52:36.020 chats
00:52:36.260 here
00:52:36.540 would you
00:52:38.680 like to
00:52:38.960 read them
00:52:39.220 or shall
00:52:39.500 I
00:52:39.740 yeah
00:52:40.880 okay
00:52:41.160 so
00:52:41.460 the
00:52:41.640 engaged
00:52:42.020 few
00:52:42.360 German
00:52:43.200 commies
00:52:43.660 are trying
00:52:44.120 to
00:52:44.340 outlaw
00:52:44.820 AFD
00:52:45.440 and the
00:52:45.740 CDU
00:52:46.120 disenfranchising
00:52:47.180 around 50%
00:52:48.100 of Germans
00:52:48.720 they're getting
00:52:49.840 so desperate
00:52:50.460 that they
00:52:50.840 keep
00:52:51.160 letting
00:52:51.860 the
00:52:52.140 mosques
00:52:52.540 slip
00:52:53.340 yep
00:52:54.140 the
00:52:55.440 binary
00:52:55.740 surfer
00:52:56.200 the
00:52:56.420 AFD
00:52:56.780 being
00:52:57.020 banned
00:52:57.360 it's
00:52:57.620 a good
00:52:57.880 job
00:52:58.180 that
00:52:58.360 nothing
00:52:58.620 really
00:52:58.980 bad
00:52:59.280 ever
00:52:59.540 happened
00:52:59.940 by
00:53:00.260 peeing
00:53:02.960 too many
00:53:03.320 ordinary
00:53:03.640 Germans
00:53:04.020 off
00:53:04.280 right
00:53:04.540 yep
00:53:05.060 right
00:53:06.840 I see
00:53:07.340 what you're
00:53:07.680 referencing
00:53:08.120 do you
00:53:09.840 think
00:53:10.040 this is
00:53:10.420 comparable
00:53:10.860 to the
00:53:11.360 banning
00:53:11.680 of
00:53:11.860 golden
00:53:12.240 dawn
00:53:12.540 in
00:53:12.740 Greece
00:53:12.940 I
00:53:14.000 don't
00:53:14.440 think
00:53:14.680 it
00:53:14.800 is
00:53:14.980 because
00:53:15.220 I
00:53:15.520 think
00:53:15.740 that
00:53:15.960 the
00:53:16.140 golden
00:53:16.460 dawn
00:53:17.060 was
00:53:17.460 banned
00:53:18.100 as a
00:53:18.900 criminal
00:53:19.200 organisation
00:53:20.060 well
00:53:21.440 I know
00:53:22.220 that when
00:53:22.560 I went
00:53:22.820 to
00:53:23.020 Athens
00:53:23.360 sorry to
00:53:23.760 speak
00:53:24.020 for you
00:53:24.760 as a
00:53:25.320 Greek
00:53:25.560 but
00:53:25.780 when I
00:53:26.240 went
00:53:26.360 to
00:53:26.480 Athens
00:53:26.800 I
00:53:27.080 saw
00:53:27.300 loads
00:53:27.600 of
00:53:27.820 golden
00:53:28.160 dawn
00:53:28.460 graffiti
00:53:29.020 on the
00:53:29.400 streets
00:53:29.620 it
00:53:29.780 doesn't
00:53:30.000 feel
00:53:30.200 like
00:53:30.360 a
00:53:30.460 political
00:53:33.320 lots
00:53:33.600 of
00:53:33.760 the
00:53:33.960 conflicts
00:53:34.560 in the
00:53:34.960 street
00:53:35.280 weren't
00:53:35.600 they
00:53:35.840 with
00:53:36.320 the
00:53:36.680 anarchist
00:53:37.320 groups
00:53:37.760 and
00:53:37.840 communists
00:53:38.380 and so
00:53:39.380 it was
00:53:39.660 more of a
00:53:40.120 point of
00:53:40.480 public
00:53:40.760 order
00:53:41.080 as I
00:53:41.340 understand
00:53:41.600 it
00:53:41.920 this is
00:53:42.580 unfortunately
00:53:43.160 really
00:53:43.840 widespread
00:53:44.980 in
00:53:45.360 Greece
00:53:45.620 especially
00:53:46.820 you have
00:53:47.420 anyway
00:53:47.780 just
00:53:48.140 and also
00:53:48.880 that
00:53:49.200 they
00:53:49.540 I would
00:53:49.960 say
00:53:50.160 that
00:53:50.320 they
00:53:50.460 had
00:53:50.660 a
00:53:50.920 very
00:53:51.280 different
00:53:51.920 manifesto
00:53:52.840 that's
00:53:54.760 safe
00:53:54.980 to say
00:53:55.340 yeah
00:53:55.580 right
00:53:56.800 and
00:53:57.220 engaged
00:53:57.840 few
00:53:58.140 the
00:53:58.320 German
00:53:58.600 leftists
00:53:59.300 try to
00:54:00.020 silence
00:54:00.500 AFD
00:54:01.040 need to
00:54:01.600 remember
00:54:01.960 something
00:54:02.380 important
00:54:02.840 when men
00:54:03.760 ran out
00:54:04.300 of words
00:54:04.740 they
00:54:04.960 reach
00:54:05.280 for
00:54:05.480 swords
00:54:05.880 that's
00:54:06.760 true
00:54:07.040 we have
00:54:08.660 a good
00:54:09.100 Greek
00:54:09.560 saying
00:54:09.900 that
00:54:10.180 what
00:54:10.460 lies
00:54:10.860 outside
00:54:12.100 the
00:54:12.360 domain
00:54:12.680 of
00:54:12.880 reason
00:54:13.240 is
00:54:14.160 under
00:54:14.360 the
00:54:14.560 domain
00:54:14.860 of
00:54:15.040 the
00:54:15.220 stick
00:54:15.560 that
00:54:19.340 if you
00:54:20.360 didn't tell me
00:54:20.860 that was
00:54:21.140 Greek
00:54:21.460 that would
00:54:21.840 be my
00:54:22.140 first guess
00:54:22.840 of where
00:54:23.340 it came
00:54:23.700 from
00:54:23.960 I don't
00:54:24.520 know
00:54:24.680 what
00:54:24.900 I think
00:54:25.420 it's
00:54:25.560 the
00:54:25.620 emphasis
00:54:25.840 on
00:54:26.080 reason
00:54:26.380 with
00:54:26.660 some
00:54:26.880 people
00:54:27.240 but
00:54:27.880 with
00:54:28.080 some
00:54:28.300 others
00:54:28.620 you
00:54:28.980 just
00:54:29.300 can't
00:54:30.060 I'm
00:54:31.700 sure
00:54:31.900 that's
00:54:32.180 exactly
00:54:32.680 how
00:54:32.960 they
00:54:33.120 said
00:54:33.300 it
00:54:33.400 originally
00:54:33.780 can
00:54:36.020 someone
00:54:36.260 with a
00:54:36.560 mouse
00:54:36.760 scroll
00:54:37.120 down
00:54:37.480 on
00:54:37.720 the
00:54:37.920 document
00:54:38.500 so I
00:54:38.860 can see
00:54:39.380 my notes
00:54:41.020 and things
00:54:41.640 all
00:54:46.020 right
00:54:46.200 so
00:54:46.840 so
00:54:49.120 it's
00:54:49.580 been
00:54:49.860 five
00:54:50.280 years
00:54:50.720 since
00:54:51.060 Britain
00:54:51.380 left
00:54:51.800 the
00:54:52.320 EU
00:54:52.760 or
00:54:53.900 was
00:54:54.840 supposed
00:54:55.160 to
00:54:55.380 have
00:54:55.520 done
00:54:55.760 so I
00:54:57.800 do
00:54:57.920 quite
00:54:58.140 like
00:54:58.340 the
00:54:58.520 theme
00:54:58.880 of
00:54:59.520 this
00:55:00.700 thing
00:55:01.400 happened
00:55:01.760 on
00:55:01.920 this
00:55:02.060 day
00:55:02.200 in
00:55:02.300 history
00:55:02.620 I'm
00:55:03.940 quite
00:55:04.100 liking
00:55:04.440 that
00:55:04.680 it's
00:55:04.920 quite
00:55:05.100 a
00:55:05.260 rich
00:55:05.440 vein
00:55:05.840 of
00:55:06.160 inspiration
00:55:06.600 for
00:55:06.900 me
00:55:07.120 on
00:55:07.820 this
00:55:07.980 podcast
00:55:08.240 because
00:55:08.760 it
00:55:09.400 gives
00:55:10.440 you a
00:55:10.660 reason
00:55:10.820 to look
00:55:11.400 back
00:55:11.640 at
00:55:12.420 things
00:55:12.720 and it
00:55:13.100 kind
00:55:13.540 of
00:55:13.640 depends
00:55:13.980 when
00:55:14.220 you
00:55:14.340 measure
00:55:14.600 it
00:55:14.880 whether
00:55:16.020 it
00:55:16.160 was
00:55:16.240 the
00:55:16.360 day
00:55:16.620 the
00:55:17.120 parliament
00:55:17.520 voted
00:55:17.960 on
00:55:18.180 it
00:55:18.340 or
00:55:18.480 whether
00:55:18.660 it
00:55:18.780 was
00:55:18.860 the
00:55:18.980 day
00:55:19.260 the
00:55:19.880 thing
00:55:20.080 was
00:55:20.240 actually
00:55:20.640 finally
00:55:21.260 ratified
00:55:21.840 or
00:55:22.020 the
00:55:22.120 day
00:55:22.300 the
00:55:22.480 EU
00:55:22.780 recognised
00:55:23.280 it
00:55:23.420 or
00:55:23.500 whatever
00:55:23.720 but
00:55:23.900 anyway
00:55:24.100 more or
00:55:24.800 less
00:55:24.940 it's
00:55:25.120 five
00:55:25.380 years
00:55:25.760 since
00:55:26.040 then
00:55:26.320 and
00:55:27.780 there's
00:55:28.220 still
00:55:28.420 many
00:55:28.800 many
00:55:29.300 questions
00:55:29.720 to be
00:55:30.120 asked
00:55:30.420 so I
00:55:30.780 thought
00:55:30.940 first
00:55:31.240 of
00:55:31.380 all
00:55:31.560 we
00:55:32.020 could
00:55:32.120 just
00:55:32.280 do
00:55:32.600 a
00:55:32.700 bit
00:55:32.800 of
00:55:32.880 recap
00:55:33.180 for
00:55:33.380 anyone
00:55:33.600 who's
00:55:33.860 very
00:55:34.140 young
00:55:34.520 watching
00:55:35.540 this
00:55:35.760 who might
00:55:36.040 not
00:55:36.160 remember
00:55:36.460 anyone
00:55:36.780 from
00:55:37.260 another
00:55:37.880 country
00:55:38.280 who might
00:55:38.580 not
00:55:38.700 have paid
00:55:38.980 particular
00:55:39.500 attention
00:55:39.860 to it
00:55:40.340 we can
00:55:41.060 just
00:55:41.220 look back
00:55:41.640 at it
00:55:41.900 and
00:55:42.280 also
00:55:42.960 look
00:55:43.440 forward
00:55:43.840 to what
00:55:44.420 we might
00:55:44.940 be in store
00:55:45.500 for going
00:55:45.900 forward
00:55:46.300 so first
00:55:48.120 of all
00:55:48.380 then
00:55:48.660 the
00:55:51.580 pro
00:55:52.900 remain
00:55:53.740 people
00:55:54.340 side
00:55:54.840 of the
00:55:55.060 narrative
00:55:55.360 always
00:55:56.360 try to
00:55:56.720 say
00:55:56.920 that it's
00:55:57.280 just
00:55:57.620 small
00:55:58.240 minded
00:55:58.580 small
00:55:58.980 Englander
00:55:59.820 bigotry
00:56:00.900 all that
00:56:01.860 sort of
00:56:02.180 thing
00:56:02.380 that was
00:56:02.720 the only
00:56:02.960 reason
00:56:03.340 why you
00:56:03.840 would want
00:56:04.160 to leave
00:56:04.620 it's because
00:56:05.420 you're
00:56:05.740 stupid
00:56:06.440 or you're
00:56:07.280 bad
00:56:07.700 in some
00:56:08.600 way
00:56:09.100 racist
00:56:10.100 yeah of course
00:56:10.800 of course
00:56:11.320 racist
00:56:11.800 you just
00:56:13.320 can't
00:56:13.580 stomach
00:56:14.080 being near
00:56:14.980 a Polish
00:56:15.400 person
00:56:15.900 or something
00:56:17.320 completely
00:56:18.140 opposite
00:56:18.380 things
00:56:18.660 no it
00:56:19.380 was about
00:56:19.820 sovereignty
00:56:20.760 of course
00:56:22.160 it was about
00:56:22.700 sovereignty
00:56:23.160 where is
00:56:24.340 the where
00:56:24.820 does the
00:56:25.240 cockpit of
00:56:25.720 power lie
00:56:26.320 is it in
00:56:27.540 Westminster
00:56:28.020 or is it
00:56:29.180 in places
00:56:30.760 like Strasbourg
00:56:31.640 and
00:56:32.480 Brussels
00:56:33.680 or wherever
00:56:35.160 wherever the
00:56:35.700 various buildings
00:56:36.440 are
00:56:36.820 so one of the
00:56:39.420 main things
00:56:39.820 whenever I
00:56:40.440 spoke to
00:56:41.380 people that
00:56:42.180 don't
00:56:42.620 necessarily
00:56:43.000 know anything
00:56:43.480 about these
00:56:44.440 matters
00:56:44.840 which are
00:56:45.420 usually
00:56:45.740 remainers
00:56:46.860 a barbecue
00:56:48.260 or a dinner
00:56:48.700 party
00:56:48.980 or something
00:56:49.320 first thing
00:56:50.240 I always
00:56:50.600 go to
00:56:50.940 my first
00:56:51.340 port of
00:56:51.660 call
00:56:51.780 is just
00:56:52.100 to mention
00:56:52.660 the European
00:56:54.260 Court of
00:56:54.680 Justice
00:56:55.060 the ECJ
00:56:55.740 to say
00:56:57.380 so
00:56:57.660 the
00:56:58.480 judges
00:57:00.360 there
00:57:00.980 we don't
00:57:01.600 get to
00:57:01.980 pick them
00:57:02.500 the British
00:57:02.740 people
00:57:03.080 don't have
00:57:03.500 any say
00:57:03.960 and what
00:57:05.680 they decide
00:57:06.400 their precedents
00:57:07.120 they set
00:57:07.420 the things
00:57:07.760 they decide
00:57:08.200 upon
00:57:08.500 superseded
00:57:09.800 our laws
00:57:10.440 in all
00:57:10.740 sorts of
00:57:11.020 ways
00:57:11.280 they would
00:57:12.140 sit above
00:57:12.840 the laws
00:57:13.740 of parliament
00:57:14.120 so right
00:57:14.660 there
00:57:14.980 in a very
00:57:15.900 big way
00:57:16.680 in a very
00:57:17.000 real sense
00:57:17.740 we'd sacrifice
00:57:18.960 sovereignty
00:57:19.640 you know
00:57:21.420 they would
00:57:21.840 decide what
00:57:22.700 we can or
00:57:23.400 can't do
00:57:24.120 we'd have
00:57:25.040 no input
00:57:25.780 into who
00:57:26.620 those people
00:57:27.060 were
00:57:27.200 there's a
00:57:27.700 picture of
00:57:28.180 the ECJ
00:57:28.780 the outside
00:57:29.240 of the
00:57:29.480 building
00:57:29.800 looks very
00:57:31.800 dystopian
00:57:32.340 very fitting
00:57:32.920 yeah
00:57:33.860 if you
00:57:40.300 can't
00:57:40.680 think of
00:57:42.000 why
00:57:42.500 losing
00:57:43.740 your
00:57:43.960 sovereignty
00:57:44.260 might be
00:57:44.640 bad
00:57:44.960 say
00:57:46.060 that
00:57:46.560 Germany
00:57:47.700 or France
00:57:48.640 had a
00:57:49.140 particular
00:57:49.880 interest
00:57:51.080 say they
00:57:51.640 wanted to
00:57:52.520 penalise
00:57:53.800 a specific
00:57:54.460 British
00:57:54.960 industry
00:57:55.440 that's
00:57:55.720 competitive
00:57:56.100 with theirs
00:57:56.800 then they
00:57:57.800 could use
00:57:58.300 the courts
00:57:58.840 as a
00:57:59.280 tool
00:57:59.620 to
00:58:00.140 punish
00:58:00.620 Britain
00:58:02.360 and favour
00:58:03.000 themselves
00:58:03.580 and so
00:58:04.420 with all
00:58:05.740 courts
00:58:06.200 if you
00:58:07.920 can
00:58:08.400 manipulate
00:58:09.640 how it's
00:58:10.560 presented
00:58:10.920 and those
00:58:11.700 sorts of
00:58:11.960 things
00:58:12.120 you can
00:58:12.580 use it
00:58:13.960 as a
00:58:14.360 tool
00:58:14.720 to
00:58:15.520 advance
00:58:16.100 your own
00:58:16.540 interests
00:58:17.040 at the
00:58:17.420 expense
00:58:17.800 of
00:58:18.080 other
00:58:18.460 people
00:58:18.820 and when
00:58:19.280 you're
00:58:19.600 in a
00:58:20.920 legal
00:58:21.260 system
00:58:21.800 bound
00:58:22.680 together
00:58:23.240 that's
00:58:24.180 going to
00:58:24.380 cause
00:58:24.600 massive
00:58:25.200 problems
00:58:25.920 and they
00:58:27.340 absolutely
00:58:27.900 did do
00:58:28.360 that
00:58:28.580 almost
00:58:29.780 from the
00:58:30.260 beginning
00:58:30.520 to a
00:58:31.220 massive
00:58:31.460 extent
00:58:31.900 some
00:58:33.640 people
00:58:33.960 might argue
00:58:34.440 this is
00:58:34.860 a bit
00:58:35.060 low
00:58:35.260 resolution
00:58:35.720 and not
00:58:36.060 entirely
00:58:36.360 fair
00:58:36.580 but still
00:58:36.880 there's
00:58:37.080 a strong
00:58:37.480 argument
00:58:37.800 to be
00:58:38.020 made
00:58:38.280 that as
00:58:38.780 far as
00:58:38.980 the
00:58:39.100 French
00:58:39.320 are
00:58:39.440 concerned
00:58:39.660 the whole
00:58:39.940 thing
00:58:40.100 is a
00:58:40.320 project
00:58:40.660 in keeping
00:58:41.360 their
00:58:41.560 agriculture
00:58:42.020 going
00:58:42.400 the common
00:58:43.820 agricultural
00:58:44.340 policy
00:58:44.900 to make
00:58:45.540 sure
00:58:45.680 French
00:58:46.020 farmers
00:58:46.360 don't go
00:58:46.860 completely
00:58:47.280 bust
00:58:47.640 yeah
00:58:49.220 we got
00:58:49.440 screwed
00:58:49.720 over
00:58:50.080 we got
00:58:50.640 screwed
00:58:50.900 over
00:58:51.160 by the
00:58:51.920 European
00:58:52.320 project
00:58:52.940 endlessly
00:58:53.940 and it
00:58:55.060 wouldn't be
00:58:55.820 as bad
00:58:56.480 if we
00:58:56.800 had a
00:58:57.120 strong
00:58:57.400 seat
00:58:57.700 at the
00:58:57.920 table
00:58:58.240 and our
00:58:59.440 voices
00:58:59.740 were heard
00:59:00.280 and what
00:59:00.540 we wanted
00:59:01.240 was high
00:59:02.820 up on
00:59:03.120 the agenda
00:59:03.340 but it
00:59:03.560 wasn't
00:59:04.000 if anyone
00:59:04.880 remembers
00:59:05.420 one of the
00:59:05.860 last time
00:59:06.300 David Cameron
00:59:07.080 because Cameron
00:59:07.900 was Prime
00:59:08.240 Minister
00:59:08.400 at the time
00:59:08.720 one of the
00:59:09.300 last times
00:59:09.680 he went
00:59:10.100 to one
00:59:10.560 of the
00:59:10.740 big EU
00:59:11.160 summits
00:59:11.600 he gave
00:59:12.280 them a
00:59:12.680 few
00:59:12.840 ultimatums
00:59:13.420 saying
00:59:13.660 look
00:59:13.940 if you
00:59:15.140 don't
00:59:15.400 concede
00:59:15.780 X Y
00:59:16.260 Z
00:59:16.400 and do
00:59:16.960 various
00:59:17.560 things
00:59:17.880 and we
00:59:18.100 want a
00:59:18.400 rebate
00:59:18.780 and the
00:59:19.240 British
00:59:19.400 people
00:59:19.660 want these
00:59:20.080 things
00:59:20.580 then
00:59:21.480 we're
00:59:22.140 going to
00:59:22.360 have to
00:59:22.660 I'm going
00:59:22.940 to have
00:59:23.180 I'm on
00:59:23.560 under
00:59:24.100 enough
00:59:24.360 political
00:59:24.740 pressure
00:59:25.040 that I'll
00:59:25.340 have to
00:59:25.540 have a
00:59:25.760 referendum
00:59:26.140 about
00:59:26.640 our
00:59:27.400 membership
00:59:28.500 and
00:59:29.440 effectively
00:59:30.300 the EU
00:59:31.600 just said
00:59:32.660 pipe down
00:59:33.180 Dave
00:59:33.520 go away
00:59:34.520 we're not
00:59:34.820 even listening
00:59:35.420 just
00:59:35.940 it's the
00:59:39.480 German and
00:59:39.900 the French
00:59:40.240 project
00:59:40.620 and you're
00:59:41.360 on board
00:59:41.760 and that's
00:59:42.120 the end
00:59:42.240 of the
00:59:42.420 story
00:59:42.720 so
00:59:43.060 pipe down
00:59:43.760 well
00:59:45.500 we got
00:59:48.000 what would
00:59:48.240 happen
00:59:48.460 because if
00:59:48.760 anyone else
00:59:49.260 remembers
00:59:49.560 when David
00:59:50.280 Cameron was
00:59:50.860 in power
00:59:51.940 he gave
00:59:52.940 the country
00:59:53.520 a referendum
00:59:54.040 about PR
00:59:55.960 proportional
00:59:56.420 representation
00:59:56.880 which Clegg
00:59:57.840 and the Lib Dems
00:59:58.520 wanted
00:59:58.820 everyone that's
01:00:00.000 not really
01:00:00.500 Tory wants
01:00:02.320 so he had
01:00:04.120 that referendum
01:00:04.720 forced it through
01:00:05.300 super quick
01:00:05.780 before anyone
01:00:06.220 could
01:00:06.460 before Lib Dems
01:00:07.220 could really
01:00:07.500 mobilise
01:00:08.100 and won
01:00:09.060 that referendum
01:00:09.720 most people
01:00:10.560 didn't even
01:00:10.920 know it was
01:00:11.220 happening
01:00:11.560 also
01:00:12.240 it was
01:00:12.980 it was
01:00:13.640 one where
01:00:14.280 the Lib Dems
01:00:15.620 wanted AV
01:00:16.300 plus
01:00:16.720 and so
01:00:17.180 they put
01:00:17.600 in AV
01:00:18.600 so
01:00:19.640 it was
01:00:20.260 similar
01:00:20.580 but not
01:00:21.020 quite what
01:00:21.480 they wanted
01:00:21.940 and so
01:00:22.920 they were
01:00:23.200 sort of
01:00:23.420 a little bit
01:00:23.880 dispassionate
01:00:24.480 about it
01:00:24.860 themselves
01:00:25.260 I think
01:00:26.020 that's
01:00:26.220 probably
01:00:26.480 deliberate
01:00:26.960 yeah
01:00:27.520 oh yeah
01:00:27.820 so at
01:00:28.920 the time
01:00:29.240 David Cameron
01:00:29.860 as far as
01:00:30.280 he
01:00:30.600 calculated
01:00:31.620 so there
01:00:32.260 were sort
01:00:32.520 of three
01:00:33.020 big
01:00:33.440 things
01:00:34.060 that
01:00:34.500 three
01:00:35.460 big
01:00:36.020 topics
01:00:37.020 which
01:00:38.020 threatened
01:00:38.940 to fracture
01:00:40.120 the Tory
01:00:40.580 party
01:00:40.960 and had
01:00:42.160 been a thorn
01:00:42.740 in the side
01:00:43.320 of the Tories
01:00:44.580 or could
01:00:44.880 potentially be
01:00:45.400 a thorn
01:00:45.640 in the side
01:00:45.980 of his
01:00:46.240 governments
01:00:46.600 going forward
01:00:47.140 the PR
01:00:48.040 thing
01:00:48.400 because he
01:00:48.780 was in
01:00:48.940 a coalition
01:00:49.280 government
01:00:49.580 with the
01:00:49.900 Lib Dems
01:00:50.340 Scotland
01:00:51.040 because
01:00:52.640 the Scottish
01:00:54.460 nationalists
01:00:55.120 had become
01:00:56.320 a thing
01:00:56.600 by that
01:00:56.900 point
01:00:57.200 and it
01:00:57.860 was their
01:00:58.140 whole
01:00:58.540 point of
01:00:59.900 being
01:01:00.300 was to
01:01:01.000 have a
01:01:01.260 referendum
01:01:01.600 on that
01:01:02.140 so he
01:01:02.680 calculated
01:01:03.400 well if I
01:01:03.900 give them
01:01:04.200 the referendum
01:01:04.760 the numbers
01:01:05.900 look like
01:01:06.580 the polls
01:01:07.160 look like
01:01:07.440 we'll probably
01:01:07.860 win
01:01:08.220 and then I
01:01:08.820 can shut
01:01:09.240 them down
01:01:09.680 I can
01:01:09.960 close that
01:01:10.360 bag
01:01:10.700 and say
01:01:11.180 you're getting
01:01:11.640 your once
01:01:12.000 in a generation
01:01:12.480 chance
01:01:13.040 hopefully we'll
01:01:14.280 win
01:01:14.460 and then I
01:01:15.420 sort of win
01:01:16.060 that
01:01:16.440 that whole
01:01:17.300 sphere of
01:01:17.920 politics
01:01:18.280 I win it
01:01:18.860 and I can
01:01:19.380 put it
01:01:19.680 in the bin
01:01:20.120 so he did
01:01:21.140 that
01:01:21.340 everyone remembers
01:01:22.080 the Scottish
01:01:22.440 referendum
01:01:22.860 we had
01:01:23.580 and he won
01:01:23.940 that
01:01:24.040 so he had
01:01:24.420 two big
01:01:25.020 referendums
01:01:25.680 sort of
01:01:26.560 putting everything
01:01:27.020 on the line
01:01:27.520 gambling
01:01:27.980 politically
01:01:28.540 big time
01:01:29.060 and so he
01:01:30.220 thought
01:01:30.440 ah well
01:01:30.840 the other one
01:01:31.480 the thing
01:01:31.760 that's been
01:01:32.060 a thorn in
01:01:32.720 the side
01:01:33.240 of the Tory
01:01:34.120 party
01:01:34.520 since the
01:01:35.320 70s
01:01:35.860 is the
01:01:36.640 question of
01:01:37.120 Europe
01:01:38.820 I've thrown
01:01:39.360 the dice
01:01:39.760 twice
01:01:40.080 big time
01:01:40.640 and won
01:01:41.040 do the
01:01:42.600 third one
01:01:43.200 and I
01:01:44.520 could be
01:01:45.060 Prime Minister
01:01:45.440 for 20
01:01:45.880 years or
01:01:46.200 something
01:01:46.520 because he
01:01:48.360 thought
01:01:48.700 in fact most
01:01:49.680 pollsters
01:01:50.120 most people
01:01:50.640 thought that
01:01:51.280 Romain would
01:01:51.800 win
01:01:52.060 he gives us
01:01:53.220 a referendum
01:01:53.760 and loses
01:01:55.920 and his
01:01:56.480 government collapses
01:01:57.200 and he has to
01:01:57.640 resign as
01:01:58.100 Prime Minister
01:01:58.820 and we're
01:01:59.180 crying shame
01:02:00.040 that
01:02:00.260 personally
01:02:01.720 for Dave
01:02:03.020 but
01:02:04.460 so
01:02:05.420 since then
01:02:06.900 of course
01:02:07.180 we've been
01:02:08.520 in a sort
01:02:09.060 of a new
01:02:09.620 world
01:02:09.800 because a lot
01:02:10.200 of the
01:02:10.660 whole world
01:02:11.040 didn't really
01:02:11.520 see that
01:02:11.920 coming
01:02:12.260 right
01:02:13.020 oh there's
01:02:13.640 the inside
01:02:14.240 of the
01:02:14.660 go back
01:02:14.980 one
01:02:15.160 there's
01:02:15.620 the inside
01:02:16.040 of the
01:02:16.280 ECJ
01:02:16.800 just a
01:02:18.040 supranational
01:02:18.600 body
01:02:19.040 sitting above
01:02:20.300 Westminster
01:02:21.420 telling us
01:02:22.400 what we can
01:02:22.900 and can't
01:02:23.220 do
01:02:23.460 can and can't
01:02:24.220 say
01:02:24.500 can and can't
01:02:25.320 sell
01:02:25.640 to whom
01:02:26.400 the Remain
01:02:29.500 party
01:02:30.040 the Remain
01:02:30.720 side
01:02:31.300 are again
01:02:32.860 sort of
01:02:33.240 enemies
01:02:33.720 they're enemies
01:02:34.820 any Britain
01:02:35.940 that wants
01:02:36.580 less sovereignty
01:02:37.500 or anything
01:02:38.040 other than
01:02:38.500 more or less
01:02:38.940 complete sovereignty
01:02:40.360 for Parliament
01:02:41.620 it's like
01:02:43.620 well what are
01:02:44.240 you
01:02:44.360 you've got to
01:02:45.280 be classed
01:02:45.780 as some
01:02:46.000 kind of
01:02:46.280 enemy
01:02:46.680 quizling
01:02:47.460 yeah
01:02:48.180 some sort
01:02:49.240 of fifth
01:02:49.480 columnist
01:02:49.800 yeah there's
01:02:50.680 a picture
01:02:51.420 of some
01:02:52.120 of the
01:02:52.280 people
01:02:52.580 that
01:02:53.380 attempted
01:02:54.080 to rule
01:02:54.940 us and
01:02:55.260 dominate us
01:02:55.960 in effect
01:02:57.220 got nice
01:02:59.000 napkins on
01:02:59.880 if anyone
01:03:00.740 remembers
01:03:01.140 a bit of
01:03:02.020 the hysteria
01:03:03.340 that went
01:03:03.660 with it
01:03:03.940 do you
01:03:04.120 remember
01:03:04.320 that Steve
01:03:05.060 Bray chap
01:03:05.780 Mr Brexit
01:03:07.360 anyone who
01:03:07.940 doesn't know
01:03:08.520 or doesn't
01:03:09.040 remember
01:03:09.360 this guy
01:03:10.080 basically stood
01:03:11.120 outside Parliament
01:03:11.860 or in Parliament
01:03:12.420 Square
01:03:12.680 every single
01:03:13.220 day
01:03:13.500 I think it
01:03:13.980 was more
01:03:14.240 or less
01:03:14.480 practically
01:03:15.200 every single
01:03:15.760 day
01:03:16.060 for like a
01:03:16.740 few years
01:03:17.200 on end
01:03:17.520 that's right
01:03:17.960 yeah
01:03:18.240 just like
01:03:19.260 that
01:03:19.580 with a
01:03:20.760 loudspeaker
01:03:21.320 just heckling
01:03:22.740 anyone
01:03:23.660 in earshot
01:03:25.040 in Parliament
01:03:25.940 Square
01:03:26.400 about Brexit
01:03:28.680 like Brexit
01:03:29.300 must not happen
01:03:30.100 by the way
01:03:30.760 it looks like
01:03:32.200 his hat
01:03:32.540 says top
01:03:33.100 Brexit
01:03:33.580 so he's
01:03:34.100 like the
01:03:34.360 biggest fan
01:03:34.980 of Brexit
01:03:35.460 he'll just
01:03:35.940 be screaming
01:03:36.500 stop Brexit
01:03:37.620 like almost
01:03:39.480 all day
01:03:39.880 every day
01:03:40.280 and he'd
01:03:40.620 get in
01:03:40.900 little
01:03:41.140 altercations
01:03:41.760 I don't
01:03:42.080 think there
01:03:42.320 was any
01:03:42.520 real
01:03:42.780 there was
01:03:43.240 no real
01:03:43.520 violence
01:03:43.920 no real
01:03:44.300 fisticuffs
01:03:44.700 that's a bit
01:03:45.300 that was probably
01:03:46.760 about as
01:03:47.480 aggressive as
01:03:48.060 anything got
01:03:48.620 because he
01:03:49.660 was also
01:03:50.260 a bit of
01:03:50.940 a joke
01:03:51.360 there's
01:03:52.000 I think
01:03:52.320 there's
01:03:52.440 one
01:03:52.560 Titus
01:03:54.180 expression
01:03:54.640 there does
01:03:55.060 sort of
01:03:55.300 say
01:03:55.480 oh look
01:03:55.780 he's a
01:03:56.160 loony
01:03:56.520 this guy's
01:03:57.780 a loony
01:03:58.400 but I only
01:04:00.340 mention
01:04:00.860 Bray
01:04:01.500 as a
01:04:03.600 symptom of
01:04:04.120 how the
01:04:05.020 the Remains
01:04:06.380 side were
01:04:07.260 sort of
01:04:08.020 kind of
01:04:08.680 hysterical
01:04:09.380 with it
01:04:10.400 they still
01:04:10.960 go on about
01:04:11.480 it to this
01:04:11.960 day
01:04:12.220 all the time
01:04:13.480 I see people
01:04:14.300 with like
01:04:15.400 rejoin the
01:04:16.360 EU
01:04:16.720 in their
01:04:17.520 actual name
01:04:18.240 on Twitter
01:04:18.880 and James
01:04:20.600 O'Brien
01:04:21.100 still talks
01:04:21.700 about rejoining
01:04:22.280 the EU
01:04:22.680 all the time
01:04:23.420 you know
01:04:23.860 the progressives
01:04:25.740 and the left
01:04:26.560 absolutely hate
01:04:27.940 the fact
01:04:28.520 we left
01:04:29.080 that we
01:04:30.020 clawed back
01:04:30.600 a bit
01:04:31.100 of our
01:04:31.420 sovereignty
01:04:31.780 yeah
01:04:32.080 they despise
01:04:32.640 it
01:04:32.780 yeah
01:04:32.940 because
01:04:33.420 they're
01:04:33.620 enemies
01:04:33.980 they're
01:04:34.300 enemies
01:04:34.540 so
01:04:35.740 there's
01:04:37.840 there was
01:04:38.840 well
01:04:39.380 so
01:04:39.800 here's the
01:04:40.680 next thing
01:04:41.100 then
01:04:41.280 did we
01:04:42.020 really
01:04:42.440 leave
01:04:42.940 not
01:04:44.540 really
01:04:44.960 did we
01:04:45.340 really
01:04:45.640 leave
01:04:45.980 well
01:04:46.280 so
01:04:46.520 it's
01:04:46.780 a grey
01:04:47.080 area
01:04:47.460 it wasn't
01:04:49.000 100%
01:04:49.840 clean cut
01:04:50.460 divorce
01:04:50.960 in every
01:04:51.560 respect
01:04:52.000 because
01:04:53.300 there's
01:04:53.920 another
01:04:54.240 thing
01:04:54.600 the
01:04:55.040 ECHR
01:04:56.080 European
01:04:56.680 Court
01:04:57.060 of Human
01:04:57.660 Rights
01:04:58.100 that's
01:04:58.760 their
01:04:58.940 building
01:04:59.340 that looks
01:05:00.260 like it
01:05:00.700 should be
01:05:01.200 in Strasbourg
01:05:01.780 aerospace
01:05:02.520 yeah
01:05:03.440 yeah
01:05:04.680 an aerospace
01:05:05.420 so we
01:05:06.120 famously
01:05:06.720 everyone
01:05:07.180 probably
01:05:07.460 most people
01:05:07.840 watching this
01:05:08.180 will know
01:05:08.440 we didn't
01:05:08.900 leave that
01:05:09.420 no
01:05:10.080 which
01:05:10.560 is still
01:05:11.560 a thorn
01:05:11.860 in our
01:05:12.160 side
01:05:12.460 yeah
01:05:13.640 so we'll
01:05:14.720 try and deport
01:05:15.340 like foreign
01:05:16.920 criminals
01:05:17.540 and they'll say
01:05:18.140 you can't do
01:05:18.600 that on human
01:05:19.140 rights
01:05:19.560 grounds
01:05:20.500 you're not
01:05:21.220 allowed
01:05:21.720 you're not
01:05:22.680 allowed
01:05:23.220 just look
01:05:24.920 at
01:05:25.100 Switzerland
01:05:25.680 surrounded
01:05:26.980 by the
01:05:27.500 EU
01:05:27.820 basically
01:05:28.320 just
01:05:28.820 thriving
01:05:29.400 yeah
01:05:30.360 they're deporting
01:05:31.160 lots of
01:05:31.500 people
01:05:31.740 aren't they
01:05:32.020 that's the
01:05:32.340 inside of
01:05:32.940 the ECHR
01:05:33.600 very distrustful
01:05:38.000 a bunch of
01:05:38.440 completely
01:05:38.880 unelected
01:05:39.960 bureaucrats
01:05:40.560 and lawyers
01:05:41.020 telling us
01:05:41.800 what we
01:05:42.140 can or
01:05:42.460 can't do
01:05:42.880 and not
01:05:44.420 only that
01:05:44.860 but it's
01:05:45.440 quite obviously
01:05:46.080 detrimental
01:05:48.040 to us
01:05:48.700 the decisions
01:05:49.480 they make
01:05:49.900 no you
01:05:50.440 must keep
01:05:51.140 you must
01:05:52.000 allow
01:05:52.440 and then
01:05:52.900 keep
01:05:53.340 like
01:05:54.740 rapists
01:05:55.560 and murderers
01:05:56.280 and things
01:05:56.580 in your
01:05:56.800 country
01:05:57.120 it's worth
01:05:57.620 mentioning as
01:05:58.140 well that
01:05:58.660 other European
01:05:59.800 countries are
01:06:00.540 competitors to
01:06:01.400 Britain
01:06:01.700 right
01:06:02.080 and so it's
01:06:02.820 not like they
01:06:03.220 they necessarily
01:06:04.160 have our best
01:06:05.200 interests at heart
01:06:06.000 at least
01:06:06.640 at least in
01:06:07.680 many instances
01:06:08.500 of course if
01:06:09.140 you're like
01:06:09.500 if you're
01:06:10.100 trading with one
01:06:10.660 another which
01:06:11.120 we do with
01:06:11.560 many European
01:06:12.060 countries
01:06:12.640 there is some
01:06:13.960 sort of you
01:06:14.540 know rising
01:06:14.940 tide lifts or
01:06:15.640 boats but at
01:06:16.380 the same time
01:06:17.100 you want
01:06:17.980 comparative advantage
01:06:19.020 don't you
01:06:19.840 and that's
01:06:20.360 what this
01:06:21.300 provides it
01:06:22.140 gives them a
01:06:22.660 vehicle to
01:06:23.200 jockey for
01:06:23.980 advantage
01:06:24.800 sorry Staius
01:06:25.420 no and just
01:06:26.180 look at the
01:06:26.660 insanity of it
01:06:27.520 and the risks
01:06:28.460 they're willing
01:06:29.660 to take with
01:06:30.240 their population
01:06:30.900 with the people
01:06:32.280 in the name of
01:06:33.640 justice and
01:06:34.480 righteousness
01:06:34.900 because when
01:06:36.620 you have let's
01:06:37.320 say someone like
01:06:38.000 a rapist and
01:06:39.160 they go into
01:06:39.800 prison and then
01:06:40.520 they get out
01:06:41.700 of prison and
01:06:42.660 they don't deport
01:06:43.500 him on the
01:06:44.160 grounds that
01:06:44.900 there is a
01:06:46.460 risk there is a
01:06:47.340 high chance that
01:06:48.040 this person is
01:06:48.880 going to be
01:06:49.460 maltreated in
01:06:51.740 their country of
01:06:52.780 origin yeah so
01:06:54.160 okay let's say
01:06:55.560 that this is the
01:06:56.200 case are you
01:06:56.700 willing to risk
01:06:57.480 this person
01:06:58.180 re-offending against
01:06:59.220 the native people
01:07:00.240 you're not so
01:07:01.260 righteous it puts
01:07:02.200 the rights of
01:07:02.680 criminals above
01:07:03.280 those of the
01:07:03.820 native population
01:07:04.600 doesn't it in a
01:07:05.260 very explicit and
01:07:06.380 clear way and of
01:07:07.580 course I would
01:07:08.180 argue that them
01:07:09.380 risking mistreatment
01:07:11.540 in their home
01:07:12.100 country is you
01:07:14.160 know less than
01:07:15.720 they deserve in
01:07:16.500 many cases
01:07:17.120 actually I mean
01:07:18.180 yeah the more
01:07:19.600 criminal you are
01:07:20.520 the more you
01:07:21.200 risk mistreatment
01:07:22.060 that's how it
01:07:22.960 should go yeah
01:07:23.820 exactly this
01:07:24.680 cabal of liberals
01:07:27.620 and commies so
01:07:29.100 you must accept
01:07:30.120 endless Syrians
01:07:31.600 into your country
01:07:32.580 and let them do
01:07:33.380 what they will and
01:07:34.100 then you can't get
01:07:34.620 rid of them yeah
01:07:35.480 okay yeah okay
01:07:36.780 yeah and as you
01:07:37.780 say whenever like
01:07:39.460 on who's the
01:07:42.240 James O'Brien
01:07:42.780 show LBC
01:07:43.400 something like
01:07:44.320 that or the
01:07:44.760 Guardian will
01:07:46.060 endlessly talk
01:07:46.760 about rejoining
01:07:47.760 the EU or a
01:07:48.700 reset with them
01:07:49.540 or closer ties
01:07:50.420 with them or
01:07:50.980 just trying to
01:07:51.680 undo it the
01:07:52.660 small amount of
01:07:53.260 sovereignty we
01:07:53.780 have clawed back
01:07:54.600 try and reverse
01:07:55.640 that in some way
01:07:56.300 yeah whenever
01:07:56.880 there's any sort
01:07:57.500 of discussion
01:07:57.860 about the state
01:07:58.780 of our economy
01:07:59.380 it's cause of
01:08:00.140 Brexit no of
01:08:02.220 course not but
01:08:02.800 I was going to
01:08:03.100 make a broader
01:08:03.780 point that you
01:08:04.340 build on what
01:08:05.240 you're saying
01:08:05.600 there Stella
01:08:05.900 because I know
01:08:08.520 a fair bit about
01:08:09.060 the history of it
01:08:09.780 all and I would
01:08:11.880 say I think it's
01:08:12.560 fair people might
01:08:13.080 argue with this
01:08:13.860 view this take
01:08:15.440 on it but I'd
01:08:16.360 argue that the
01:08:17.060 modern EU the
01:08:18.600 various layers of
01:08:19.440 it were born out
01:08:21.420 of the post-war
01:08:22.920 era of trying to
01:08:26.580 make sure that
01:08:27.240 West Germany and
01:08:28.840 France or a
01:08:31.640 united Germany
01:08:32.580 whenever that might
01:08:33.200 have been because
01:08:34.560 of course that
01:08:34.900 didn't happen to
01:08:35.380 the Berlin Wall
01:08:35.880 came down in
01:08:36.340 89 but basically
01:08:37.820 Germany and
01:08:38.500 France should be
01:08:40.100 locked linked
01:08:41.220 together so that
01:08:42.180 they can never go
01:08:42.700 to war with
01:08:43.140 each other again
01:08:43.720 that ancient
01:08:45.280 feud between
01:08:46.260 the French and
01:08:48.300 the Germans
01:08:48.800 I saw Samson
01:08:51.200 pumping his
01:08:51.680 fists there
01:08:52.260 with his fingers
01:08:53.280 crossed
01:08:53.660 lots of hands
01:08:54.300 moving there
01:08:55.120 Samson wants
01:08:57.440 war
01:08:57.720 so the European
01:08:59.000 project and the
01:09:00.240 EU as it exists
01:09:01.000 today as I see
01:09:02.360 as a lot of
01:09:02.800 people see it
01:09:03.380 is essentially a
01:09:04.420 French and
01:09:04.820 German project
01:09:05.640 all the other
01:09:06.960 countries are
01:09:07.760 along for the
01:09:09.180 ride
01:09:09.480 now the real
01:09:11.320 reality is that
01:09:12.080 the most important
01:09:12.700 countries in
01:09:13.180 Europe are
01:09:13.740 France, Germany
01:09:14.420 and Britain
01:09:14.940 in terms of
01:09:16.100 economy, in
01:09:17.120 terms of
01:09:17.380 population, in
01:09:18.280 terms of
01:09:18.580 influence, in
01:09:19.700 terms of
01:09:20.080 military and
01:09:20.920 stuff so
01:09:21.420 we just got
01:09:23.520 sort of tagged
01:09:24.580 into it, tagged
01:09:25.480 along after we
01:09:26.340 came late to
01:09:26.860 the party in
01:09:27.460 the 70s.
01:09:27.660 Well wasn't it
01:09:28.020 in 1973 we
01:09:29.460 voted to join
01:09:30.260 the European
01:09:31.180 Economic Union
01:09:33.000 basically and the
01:09:33.640 idea was that
01:09:34.560 we're joining
01:09:35.440 in the auspices
01:09:37.520 of economic
01:09:38.340 cooperation, it
01:09:39.340 was like a
01:09:39.720 trade bloc
01:09:40.460 thing and that
01:09:41.320 was put to
01:09:41.740 referendum and
01:09:42.380 we voted for
01:09:43.020 it because you
01:09:43.480 know it's just
01:09:43.800 like do we want
01:09:44.320 to trade with
01:09:44.740 Europe or not,
01:09:45.600 well sure, and
01:09:47.520 then it became
01:09:48.020 something that
01:09:48.500 wasn't originally
01:09:50.040 right?
01:09:50.740 Yeah exactly,
01:09:51.240 yeah exactly.
01:09:52.040 The thing we
01:09:52.640 decided to go
01:09:54.060 for in the
01:09:54.700 70s is not
01:09:55.820 what we, that
01:09:57.340 exists today or
01:09:58.260 existed in
01:09:58.860 2014 or
01:10:00.720 whenever it
01:10:01.560 was the actual
01:10:02.060 referendum was.
01:10:03.240 Yeah and
01:10:03.500 there's many
01:10:03.800 layers, it is a
01:10:04.380 bit complicated
01:10:04.980 actually, there's
01:10:05.500 sort of the
01:10:05.880 Schengen zone,
01:10:06.960 there's the
01:10:07.100 actual European
01:10:07.760 Parliament, there's
01:10:08.600 the Commission,
01:10:09.160 there's the
01:10:09.360 various law
01:10:10.140 courts, there's
01:10:11.180 the currency,
01:10:12.000 there's various
01:10:12.440 layers to it,
01:10:13.360 the onion of
01:10:15.480 European bureaucracy.
01:10:16.820 And European
01:10:17.460 deception.
01:10:18.200 Yeah the onion
01:10:18.920 of European
01:10:19.380 deception.
01:10:20.860 And so we
01:10:21.820 weren't able or
01:10:22.500 didn't, perhaps
01:10:23.440 deliberately, able
01:10:24.680 to extract
01:10:25.240 ourselves wholesale
01:10:26.460 entirely, we
01:10:28.100 just weren't.
01:10:28.480 And now if
01:10:29.620 you want to
01:10:30.480 Samson, fairly
01:10:32.080 quickly just click
01:10:33.180 through a load of
01:10:33.840 links I've got
01:10:34.340 there, all sorts
01:10:34.960 of, all sorts
01:10:36.760 of headlines all
01:10:38.160 over the place,
01:10:38.660 going back a few
01:10:39.660 months some of
01:10:40.200 these, just the
01:10:41.980 end of, or since
01:10:42.760 the lefties knew
01:10:44.080 Labour was going
01:10:44.780 to get in, they
01:10:45.760 sort of ratchet up
01:10:46.480 their rhetoric about
01:10:47.300 let's rejoin or
01:10:48.360 they use words like
01:10:49.460 reset or closer
01:10:51.560 tyres with, or
01:10:53.300 there's all sorts
01:10:53.880 of...
01:10:54.180 Reset, that has a
01:10:55.720 strange implication
01:10:56.880 doesn't it?
01:10:57.580 We need to reset
01:10:58.380 our relationship.
01:10:59.180 The tide is
01:11:01.260 shifting, Lord
01:11:02.200 Kinnock, who
01:11:03.760 couldn't be more
01:11:05.140 pro-Europe type
01:11:06.100 person.
01:11:07.600 Anyway, they all
01:11:08.520 came out of the
01:11:09.060 woodwork when they
01:11:10.780 knew Starmer was
01:11:12.340 almost certainly
01:11:13.000 going to be PM.
01:11:13.800 The way in which
01:11:14.680 we talk about it
01:11:15.600 is some of the
01:11:17.420 language sort of
01:11:18.160 loses the nuance
01:11:18.940 here.
01:11:19.300 It's not that the
01:11:19.960 people who voted
01:11:20.620 Brexit are like
01:11:21.420 anti-Europe and
01:11:22.400 how we hate the
01:11:23.840 Continentals.
01:11:25.160 It's not, it
01:11:25.860 wasn't about that.
01:11:27.000 It was more that
01:11:27.800 we wanted our
01:11:28.740 own self-determination.
01:11:30.720 Like a lot of
01:11:31.320 people I spoke to
01:11:32.200 from outside of
01:11:33.360 Britain, I've
01:11:35.040 spoke to loads of
01:11:35.740 people that are
01:11:36.500 European from
01:11:37.560 pretty much every
01:11:38.320 country in Europe
01:11:39.240 and most of them
01:11:40.380 took it as, oh
01:11:41.760 you don't like us,
01:11:42.620 okay.
01:11:43.740 And they sort of
01:11:44.500 felt, it was sort
01:11:45.240 of like you've
01:11:46.020 rejected their
01:11:46.740 advances or
01:11:47.480 something.
01:11:48.180 Like they felt a
01:11:49.020 little bit spurned,
01:11:50.100 just like you don't
01:11:50.580 want to be a part
01:11:51.060 of us anymore.
01:11:51.900 But it's just like
01:11:52.400 no, we've already
01:11:53.560 been in an abusive
01:11:54.380 relationship with you
01:11:55.300 for 30 years.
01:11:56.160 We're trying to
01:11:57.600 dump you.
01:11:58.140 Look what you
01:11:58.620 made me do.
01:11:59.220 Yeah, I explained
01:12:02.840 to them that it's
01:12:03.600 not, it's not that
01:12:04.300 we just don't like
01:12:05.500 you, it's that the
01:12:06.640 things that the EU
01:12:07.900 is doing to us
01:12:08.880 are unfair.
01:12:10.320 And that even
01:12:12.280 now we're further
01:12:13.020 on, I feel like we
01:12:14.800 haven't actually
01:12:15.500 capitalised on the
01:12:16.760 advantages that
01:12:17.840 Brexit could have
01:12:19.080 given us.
01:12:19.760 I can testify for
01:12:20.760 you, Josh.
01:12:21.380 Thank you, Stalios.
01:12:22.440 I knew you could.
01:12:23.060 I mean, I was
01:12:24.440 just going to add
01:12:26.140 that because of
01:12:28.800 how sneaky those
01:12:29.980 EU bureaucrats
01:12:30.860 are, they sort of
01:12:31.800 enmeshed us in a
01:12:32.860 web of, not lies
01:12:36.120 necessarily, but just
01:12:37.520 there are so many
01:12:38.480 tripwires and
01:12:39.540 difficult things to
01:12:40.260 go through that we
01:12:41.400 end up getting EU
01:12:42.740 policies whether we
01:12:44.500 want them or not.
01:12:45.580 Like, for example,
01:12:47.100 the most prominent
01:12:47.960 example in Britain at
01:12:49.080 the minute is those
01:12:49.960 bottle caps that
01:12:51.140 attach to the bottle,
01:12:52.680 that's EU regulations
01:12:55.040 that have added that
01:12:55.720 and now it's in
01:12:56.380 Britain because, of
01:12:57.700 course, most bottle
01:12:58.320 manufacturers are
01:13:00.040 like, well, I'm not
01:13:00.620 going to have a
01:13:01.140 British-specific
01:13:02.060 machine to make
01:13:03.820 the bottles.
01:13:04.820 And so what we've
01:13:05.480 got is EU
01:13:06.580 regulation by default
01:13:08.060 because it's
01:13:09.560 easier to adhere
01:13:11.540 to Europe as a
01:13:12.860 block.
01:13:13.720 But they're sort of
01:13:15.860 leaning on that
01:13:16.740 deliberately to
01:13:17.680 penalise us and be
01:13:18.800 like, well, you're
01:13:19.340 not going to see any
01:13:20.060 gains from your
01:13:21.100 independence.
01:13:22.680 Because we're going
01:13:23.820 to get in the way
01:13:24.640 and spite you.
01:13:25.360 Because, of course,
01:13:26.240 the EU functions as
01:13:28.060 a bit of a power
01:13:30.440 block.
01:13:30.920 And if Britain
01:13:32.020 manages to wrestle
01:13:33.200 its way away and
01:13:33.900 does better, then it
01:13:35.600 threatens the entire
01:13:36.440 EU project.
01:13:37.320 And so they have to
01:13:38.340 crush us to survive.
01:13:39.920 And there's a very
01:13:40.720 clear incentive and
01:13:41.640 they've been trying to
01:13:42.540 do it ever since we
01:13:43.480 voted to leave.
01:13:44.240 There is a communicative
01:13:46.440 aspect of it, especially
01:13:48.320 regarding the
01:13:49.060 mainstream media that
01:13:49.980 I see every time I
01:13:51.160 speak with people on
01:13:52.360 the continent.
01:13:53.680 And there is a
01:13:54.840 deliberate effort to
01:13:56.080 present everything as
01:13:57.400 a close catastrophe.
01:14:01.960 So I'll just give you
01:14:03.540 a funny example.
01:14:04.640 When was the first
01:14:06.200 COVID lockdown?
01:14:07.480 lockdown, there
01:14:08.880 were a lot of
01:14:09.780 mainstream media in
01:14:11.740 continental Europe
01:14:14.180 that were saying
01:14:14.880 basically that there
01:14:15.980 are going to be
01:14:16.480 endless food shortages
01:14:17.780 in England because
01:14:20.680 of Brexit.
01:14:22.220 And people were
01:14:23.100 calling me and
01:14:23.820 telling me, just go
01:14:24.760 and pick rations and
01:14:25.900 just for the lockdown
01:14:27.300 just have stuff
01:14:28.480 bypassed.
01:14:29.480 And I went in and
01:14:31.180 said, the only thing
01:14:32.080 there's a shortage of
01:14:32.980 is beer.
01:14:34.880 There was an actual
01:14:35.940 shortage of beer in
01:14:38.040 the supermarket.
01:14:39.280 That's how you know
01:14:39.860 you're in Britain,
01:14:40.540 yeah.
01:14:41.620 I mean, the European
01:14:42.360 Union, I do see, is an
01:14:43.700 extension of French and
01:14:45.560 German power, but
01:14:46.500 mainly German.
01:14:48.180 They dominate it
01:14:49.300 politically and
01:14:50.200 economically in all
01:14:50.940 sorts of ways.
01:14:51.540 I mean, look how
01:14:52.220 Germany effectively
01:14:53.520 treated Greece when
01:14:55.800 they had their
01:14:56.840 economic problems a
01:14:58.280 few years ago.
01:14:59.480 they just put Greece
01:15:00.620 into hock to
01:15:01.760 Germany financially
01:15:03.680 in a massive way.
01:15:06.160 They treated Greece
01:15:07.200 not like they were a
01:15:09.280 sovereign body of
01:15:10.160 people.
01:15:10.820 They treated them
01:15:11.440 like they were a
01:15:12.300 sort of their charge,
01:15:13.720 like a little brother
01:15:14.560 or worse than that.
01:15:15.880 There's an element
01:15:16.560 that disliked little
01:15:17.420 brother.
01:15:17.960 There's an element,
01:15:18.620 but I have a very
01:15:19.660 controversial view
01:15:21.260 in Greece that the
01:15:23.220 Greek crisis, I
01:15:23.980 think, was 100%
01:15:25.660 our issue, our
01:15:27.120 fault.
01:15:28.180 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:15:28.940 It's just 100% our
01:15:31.040 fault.
01:15:32.200 And a lot of the,
01:15:34.960 yeah, anyway, just
01:15:36.000 that's for another
01:15:36.980 time.
01:15:37.340 But there was an
01:15:38.680 element of that, but
01:15:39.720 I think that it was
01:15:40.760 vastly exaggerated.
01:15:42.140 Essentially, Germany,
01:15:42.980 because I think the
01:15:43.560 German banks hold the
01:15:45.540 purse strings and
01:15:46.740 they're like, we'll
01:15:47.180 bail you out, we'll
01:15:48.020 bail you out, but you
01:15:49.700 will owe us for
01:15:50.940 decades, centuries or
01:15:52.440 whatever it is, silly,
01:15:53.460 silly amount of debt
01:15:55.140 incurred.
01:15:55.940 Yeah, but they,
01:15:56.780 yeah, that's
01:15:57.960 we'll keep you on a
01:15:58.640 tight leash.
01:15:59.920 We'll bail you out,
01:16:01.160 but you will belong to
01:16:02.580 us in an indirect
01:16:03.940 sense.
01:16:04.800 I think the irony of
01:16:06.540 it was that they gave
01:16:07.520 us some of the
01:16:08.160 better terms than the
01:16:10.220 other, but let's.
01:16:11.240 But anyway, yeah, I
01:16:11.960 mean, we could do a
01:16:12.720 whole bit of content
01:16:13.980 about what happened
01:16:14.680 there.
01:16:15.280 We could talk about it
01:16:16.080 in detail.
01:16:16.540 But anyway, yeah, just
01:16:17.920 to say, I was going to,
01:16:19.240 it's Clive Lewis there
01:16:20.020 at the front there,
01:16:21.420 says all you need to
01:16:22.600 know about the
01:16:23.200 Remainer camp.
01:16:24.440 If you remember what,
01:16:25.300 how Berco behaved and
01:16:26.460 how the Labour behaved
01:16:28.060 during the Theresa May
01:16:29.620 and Boris years of
01:16:30.740 trying to get it
01:16:31.320 through.
01:16:31.900 And anyway, we didn't
01:16:32.700 even properly leave
01:16:33.740 anyway.
01:16:36.120 If you remember, if
01:16:37.100 anyone remembers
01:16:37.600 Change UK.
01:16:39.020 Of course, yeah.
01:16:39.900 With the likes of
01:16:40.600 Luciana Berger, Anne
01:16:42.440 Kofi, Mike Gapes,
01:16:44.720 Chris Leslie, Gavin
01:16:46.240 Shuka, Angela
01:16:47.160 Smith, Chaka
01:16:48.180 Amuna, anyone
01:16:48.740 remember Chaka
01:16:49.360 Amuna?
01:16:50.020 Where is he these
01:16:50.680 days?
01:16:51.340 Nowhere.
01:16:52.780 Some political giants
01:16:54.180 you've listed off
01:16:54.920 there, Beau.
01:16:55.580 You know, big names
01:16:56.560 to this day.
01:16:58.320 The political behemoth
01:16:59.840 that is Luciana
01:17:00.820 Berger.
01:17:02.120 What's she doing
01:17:02.840 now?
01:17:03.280 Who cares?
01:17:03.840 Nothing.
01:17:04.360 No one.
01:17:04.780 No one cares.
01:17:05.920 Yeah, they were
01:17:06.460 just so wrong.
01:17:07.080 Anna Soubry.
01:17:10.000 I've just noticed.
01:17:10.860 The name is like a
01:17:12.120 byword for a
01:17:13.000 political failure,
01:17:14.060 right?
01:17:14.160 And that's me.
01:17:14.720 It's true, yeah.
01:17:15.120 Who didn't even
01:17:15.600 make it to a general
01:17:16.300 election before getting
01:17:17.340 deselected.
01:17:19.220 Even I appoint and
01:17:21.020 laugh at Anna Soubry's
01:17:22.280 political career, yeah.
01:17:23.260 Hysterica, laugh.
01:17:24.680 Oh yeah, I did an article
01:17:27.720 there about how Bercow
01:17:29.640 behaved.
01:17:30.480 Hilarious from there.
01:17:31.120 It was absolutely absurd
01:17:33.720 how he behaved as
01:17:34.760 speaker during that
01:17:36.140 period.
01:17:37.660 And he later went on
01:17:39.080 quite shortly after he
01:17:40.820 was sort of thrown out
01:17:42.020 effectively.
01:17:43.140 He was shown to have
01:17:44.060 actually broken some
01:17:45.540 rules and misbehaved
01:17:47.120 sort of formally.
01:17:48.340 It was sort of all
01:17:49.040 investigated and all the
01:17:50.780 it went on record as
01:17:52.140 that the conclusions was
01:17:54.420 that he was a bully and
01:17:55.340 a liar.
01:17:55.840 I think that's what it
01:17:56.520 was.
01:17:56.740 I think I say in the
01:17:58.460 article I can say this
01:17:59.400 without fear of litigation
01:18:01.800 or anything because it's
01:18:02.840 sort of an established
01:18:03.520 fact.
01:18:04.420 Yeah, there you go.
01:18:05.000 It's a serial bully.
01:18:07.660 That was one of the
01:18:08.100 things.
01:18:08.300 Sorry, go ahead.
01:18:08.880 The conclusion of our
01:18:09.680 investigations find you a
01:18:10.920 bully and a liar.
01:18:11.980 Yeah.
01:18:12.840 Yeah.
01:18:13.200 What a funny conclusion.
01:18:15.340 True though.
01:18:15.800 So anyway, just to finish
01:18:17.480 up then and say going
01:18:19.380 forward, what might
01:18:20.580 happen?
01:18:21.620 I hope, I think and I
01:18:24.240 hope Keir Starmer is not
01:18:25.300 going to just actually
01:18:25.980 fully rejoin the EU the
01:18:28.580 way it used to be.
01:18:31.340 But they are certainly
01:18:32.680 making noises and moves
01:18:34.080 to quote unquote reset
01:18:36.060 or to have closer
01:18:38.720 ties with the European
01:18:42.340 Union in all sorts of
01:18:43.820 ways and that's just
01:18:46.460 not what the majority
01:18:47.940 of the people wanted in
01:18:48.900 this country.
01:18:49.420 It's just not what we've
01:18:50.060 wanted.
01:18:50.620 And least of all, I
01:18:51.480 haven't even talked about
01:18:52.420 the migration side of
01:18:54.140 it.
01:18:54.740 One of the big things
01:18:55.500 why we wanted to get
01:18:56.180 rid of the EUs because
01:18:56.920 like the ECJ, they were
01:19:00.280 telling us you basically
01:19:01.600 must have open borders
01:19:02.620 from other member states
01:19:03.740 like Poland or
01:19:04.580 whatever.
01:19:05.320 You must allow almost
01:19:07.020 an endless stream of
01:19:07.880 them.
01:19:08.040 And we're like, well, we
01:19:08.460 don't want that.
01:19:09.000 We don't want that.
01:19:09.580 In fact, we'll rework our
01:19:11.420 entire body politic in
01:19:13.460 order so that that
01:19:14.160 can't happen.
01:19:14.980 And what did the
01:19:15.440 Tories do?
01:19:15.900 Just go, okay, well,
01:19:16.560 we'll get them from
01:19:17.160 Nigeria or Bangladesh
01:19:18.200 or India then.
01:19:20.080 700, 800,000 a year
01:19:21.380 from the subcontinent
01:19:23.060 then.
01:19:24.000 Not entirely that
01:19:24.900 number is all from
01:19:25.560 the subcontinent.
01:19:26.140 But I mean, last year
01:19:26.760 it was like quarter of
01:19:27.400 a million Indians, right?
01:19:28.460 Just last year.
01:19:29.120 Yep.
01:19:30.100 So that seems
01:19:32.780 calculated, seems
01:19:33.440 deliberate.
01:19:34.680 Again, exactly not
01:19:36.240 what we wanted.
01:19:37.620 Sometimes I speak to
01:19:38.620 Americans on different
01:19:40.540 streams I'm on and
01:19:41.360 things and they say,
01:19:42.080 you did this, you
01:19:43.260 did that.
01:19:43.760 You allowed your
01:19:44.460 country to be flooded
01:19:45.460 by...
01:19:45.800 No, we didn't.
01:19:47.240 No one wanted this.
01:19:48.240 We've been saying it
01:19:48.800 for decades.
01:19:49.220 We've been saying it
01:19:49.620 since the 60s.
01:19:51.020 No, we don't want to
01:19:52.060 be flooded by foreign
01:19:52.960 people.
01:19:53.420 Is that all right?
01:19:54.260 We don't want some.
01:19:55.040 We're not complete
01:19:55.720 insane bigots who
01:19:57.820 can't stand to see a
01:19:58.880 foreign face.
01:19:59.780 But we just don't
01:20:00.600 want to be replaced by
01:20:01.620 them.
01:20:01.840 We don't want to be
01:20:02.320 absolutely flooded by
01:20:03.560 them.
01:20:04.540 So no, we didn't.
01:20:05.640 It was done by a
01:20:07.000 cabal against our
01:20:08.100 will that promised
01:20:10.460 they wouldn't.
01:20:12.100 So what's going to
01:20:12.780 happen in the future?
01:20:13.820 Well, hopefully
01:20:15.140 Starmer doesn't take
01:20:16.640 us straight entirely
01:20:17.580 back in and then
01:20:18.900 hopefully we'll get a
01:20:20.540 government.
01:20:21.840 The best we can hope
01:20:22.620 for really is reform,
01:20:23.500 isn't it?
01:20:24.260 Realistically.
01:20:25.340 I mean, in the polls,
01:20:26.180 I saw recently the
01:20:27.100 reform even edged out
01:20:28.360 Labour in the polls.
01:20:29.200 Number one, yeah.
01:20:29.840 Number one.
01:20:31.060 So it's not, it's far
01:20:32.120 from crazy to think
01:20:34.020 that Nige could be
01:20:35.720 p.m. in 29 or
01:20:37.920 whenever it will be.
01:20:38.980 It's not completely
01:20:39.540 crazy.
01:20:40.860 So the best we can
01:20:41.820 hope for realistically
01:20:42.600 would be that.
01:20:44.820 Hopefully you can put
01:20:45.680 Prince Rupert, Rupert
01:20:49.240 Lowe over at the
01:20:50.120 home office and he
01:20:51.180 can start kicking some
01:20:52.040 ass and taking names.
01:20:53.380 That'd be nice.
01:20:54.640 And then maybe we can
01:20:55.540 leave like the ECHR
01:20:57.360 or maybe we can have a
01:20:59.380 new department for
01:21:00.400 remigration or whatever
01:21:02.260 and hopefully we can cut
01:21:03.700 all the last apron
01:21:04.760 strings from the EU
01:21:06.300 and let the French
01:21:07.360 and the Germans get
01:21:08.040 on with it.
01:21:08.720 And one last point I
01:21:09.380 would make is that
01:21:10.060 Le Pen, I believe,
01:21:11.800 it's her policy that
01:21:12.760 she wants to leave the
01:21:14.280 EU.
01:21:14.740 I think the AFD do.
01:21:16.180 Certainly there's a
01:21:16.740 faction of them that
01:21:17.800 say they do.
01:21:18.780 If France or Germany
01:21:20.060 quit the EU, the
01:21:22.020 whole project is
01:21:23.220 either at best
01:21:25.200 extremely shaky
01:21:26.440 or it's just done.
01:21:28.020 If France or Germany,
01:21:28.780 particularly Germany,
01:21:29.440 if Germany leaves,
01:21:30.200 it's like you're just
01:21:31.120 left with some rump.
01:21:31.920 It's just France like
01:21:32.800 trying to still
01:21:34.240 control Greece
01:21:35.800 and Spain
01:21:36.500 and Belgium.
01:21:38.400 It's still good,
01:21:39.220 it's still good.
01:21:40.000 They still can't
01:21:40.680 control themselves
01:21:41.700 either.
01:21:42.400 If France or Germany
01:21:43.380 leave, I would
01:21:44.080 suspect the whole
01:21:44.860 thing would change
01:21:46.700 profoundly.
01:21:48.060 It wouldn't just be
01:21:48.500 wounded.
01:21:49.120 When we left the EU,
01:21:50.000 it was wounded in a
01:21:50.940 way.
01:21:51.820 It wouldn't be that.
01:21:52.620 It would be the whole
01:21:53.340 thing is in question
01:21:54.180 now.
01:21:54.540 So anyway, looking back
01:21:55.820 over five years,
01:21:56.720 what's happened,
01:21:57.400 not enough, in my
01:21:58.840 opinion, in most
01:21:59.340 people's opinion,
01:22:00.500 in reformed people,
01:22:01.400 Brexit Party
01:22:02.720 leave people's
01:22:04.360 opinion.
01:22:05.120 We didn't really
01:22:05.880 properly leave.
01:22:06.500 I mean, UKIP is
01:22:07.080 still around,
01:22:08.560 and that's exactly
01:22:09.580 what they say.
01:22:10.120 People say,
01:22:10.460 why do you need
01:22:10.860 UKIP anymore?
01:22:11.460 Why does UKIP
01:22:11.960 even exist anymore?
01:22:13.180 UK independence.
01:22:13.700 We've got independence.
01:22:14.420 It's all over.
01:22:15.240 Well, it's not,
01:22:15.700 though, is it?
01:22:17.140 If you talk to
01:22:18.100 Nick Tenconi,
01:22:18.820 the leader of UKIP,
01:22:19.840 he would say,
01:22:20.220 well, we haven't
01:22:20.720 left, though.
01:22:22.380 And he's right,
01:22:22.960 in my opinion.
01:22:23.780 So, we've still
01:22:26.340 got to go through
01:22:27.020 a few more years
01:22:28.400 of Chairman
01:22:31.120 Starmer,
01:22:32.580 and then hopefully,
01:22:34.660 fingers crossed,
01:22:35.300 we'll get at least
01:22:36.360 a reasonable
01:22:37.680 government that
01:22:38.380 can try and put
01:22:40.840 an end to the
01:22:42.660 whole sordid
01:22:43.660 business.
01:22:46.780 Okay.
01:22:48.000 I think we'll do
01:22:48.520 the video comments
01:22:49.140 and then we'll do
01:22:49.540 the rumble chats,
01:22:50.200 if that's all right,
01:22:50.780 Samson.
01:22:51.040 But I do want
01:22:53.540 the collectivism
01:22:54.300 which is the
01:22:55.140 spirit of Britain.
01:22:56.400 I want the sort
01:22:57.180 of collectivism
01:22:57.800 where we all
01:22:58.320 understand that,
01:22:59.520 you know,
01:22:59.820 you take your turns
01:23:00.600 being served at the
01:23:01.360 bar,
01:23:01.900 or you queue when
01:23:02.600 you go to the
01:23:02.960 post office.
01:23:03.420 The Chinese and
01:23:04.120 Japanese are
01:23:05.020 collectivist because
01:23:06.020 it's a cultural
01:23:06.980 thing,
01:23:07.420 it's sort of
01:23:07.880 inculcated in them,
01:23:09.080 even though they've
01:23:09.540 got very different
01:23:10.140 political systems,
01:23:11.600 and, you know,
01:23:12.360 Germanic types,
01:23:13.320 Northern Europeans
01:23:14.080 are some of the
01:23:15.020 most individualistic
01:23:16.120 because it's sort
01:23:17.180 of in our,
01:23:19.040 so ingrained in our
01:23:20.040 culture,
01:23:20.420 it's almost in our
01:23:20.980 DNA,
01:23:21.420 and it could well
01:23:21.840 be actually.
01:23:25.740 Well,
01:23:26.440 it's nice to be
01:23:26.960 vindicated,
01:23:27.540 thank you very much.
01:23:29.200 Yeah,
01:23:29.720 I think that people
01:23:30.700 quite often
01:23:31.480 misunderstand what it
01:23:33.280 means to be an
01:23:33.840 individualist or a
01:23:34.960 collectivist,
01:23:35.600 like people
01:23:36.080 characterize it as
01:23:37.440 either you're like a
01:23:39.740 human embodiment of
01:23:40.960 a bee as the
01:23:42.200 collectivist,
01:23:43.600 or, you know,
01:23:45.300 a hyper-individualist,
01:23:46.700 hyper-individualist
01:23:48.240 is like Robinson
01:23:49.060 and Crusoe or
01:23:50.460 a hikakomori in
01:23:51.800 Japan where they
01:23:52.440 just don't leave
01:23:52.980 their bedroom and
01:23:53.640 live on their own.
01:23:54.560 These are not the
01:23:55.380 polls.
01:23:55.840 I think what it
01:23:56.300 actually means in a
01:23:57.600 psychological dimension,
01:23:58.900 and this is the
01:23:59.700 correct way to
01:24:00.300 understand it rather
01:24:01.120 than the political
01:24:01.580 one, so it's
01:24:02.360 actually based on
01:24:03.020 evidence,
01:24:04.020 really passive-aggressive,
01:24:05.680 I'm sorry,
01:24:06.340 is that people who are
01:24:08.340 collectivist see being
01:24:10.740 dependent on others
01:24:11.960 as being less
01:24:14.440 shameful, and it's
01:24:16.020 all about
01:24:16.500 dependence and
01:24:18.140 independence and
01:24:19.060 agency, and I
01:24:20.580 think that that's
01:24:22.160 how it operates at a
01:24:23.040 psychological level,
01:24:24.100 and I think that's
01:24:24.600 the most interesting
01:24:25.400 way of looking at
01:24:26.220 it.
01:24:28.560 On the subject of
01:24:30.320 corner stores
01:24:31.780 playing classical
01:24:33.040 music that drive
01:24:34.280 away the milling
01:24:35.200 glasses, I find
01:24:36.580 myself thinking
01:24:37.420 about the movie
01:24:38.600 Princess and the
01:24:39.580 Gobblers, based
01:24:40.440 off of the 1870s,
01:24:41.880 novel, and how
01:24:43.220 they also defeat
01:24:44.340 the Goblins, who
01:24:45.240 are degenerates, by
01:24:46.400 singing a wholesome
01:24:47.800 sermon, choir-type
01:24:49.820 songs, which
01:24:51.640 apparently drives
01:24:52.540 them away like a
01:24:53.260 cross to Romanians.
01:24:55.060 The original
01:24:55.620 author, George
01:24:56.700 MacDonald, was
01:24:57.520 actually a Scottish
01:24:58.380 minister, apparently,
01:24:59.580 and actually was
01:25:00.560 quite a prolific
01:25:01.440 writer.
01:25:05.360 That guy does not
01:25:06.480 look Scottish at
01:25:07.240 all, does he?
01:25:08.560 He looks Russian.
01:25:09.700 bit of the
01:25:11.700 Rasputin look.
01:25:12.580 He does, doesn't
01:25:13.120 he?
01:25:13.820 No, that's true.
01:25:14.920 I think that if you
01:25:17.840 show something good to
01:25:19.100 someone bad, they do
01:25:20.280 recoil, and it's
01:25:21.580 always a good measure
01:25:22.520 of character to find
01:25:23.500 out what people like.
01:25:24.540 Throw them holy
01:25:25.160 water and see how
01:25:26.040 they react.
01:25:27.380 Or start fizzing and
01:25:28.540 melting.
01:25:29.560 When people actively
01:25:30.560 dislike wholesome
01:25:31.560 things, it's like,
01:25:32.900 what's wrong with you?
01:25:34.760 That's a window into
01:25:35.460 your soul.
01:25:36.040 If someone doesn't
01:25:37.060 like animals or
01:25:38.200 pets, I'm just
01:25:39.120 like, you're a
01:25:40.360 psychopath, aren't
01:25:41.160 you?
01:25:43.120 I know it was a
01:25:43.820 while ago now, but
01:25:44.480 watching the non-car
01:25:45.200 people political class
01:25:46.080 talk about the
01:25:46.540 Jaguar thing, y'all
01:25:47.540 left out half a
01:25:48.240 story.
01:25:48.700 Earlier this year,
01:25:49.460 the Jaguar CEO
01:25:50.260 announced that they
01:25:50.820 were tripling down
01:25:51.540 an all-electric
01:25:52.140 lineup.
01:25:52.580 He also said they
01:25:53.080 were trying to
01:25:53.520 move Jaguar up to
01:25:54.560 compete with Rolls
01:25:55.220 Royce and Bentley,
01:25:55.960 and that quote
01:25:56.360 traditional Jaguar
01:25:57.200 buyers, like me,
01:25:58.020 would be left
01:25:58.380 behind in the name
01:25:59.140 of progress.
01:25:59.880 The pink horror
01:26:00.580 they unveiled was
01:26:01.400 really them trying
01:26:02.080 to ingratiate
01:26:02.700 themselves with the
01:26:03.400 upper crust of
01:26:04.120 Rolls Royce
01:26:04.660 owners.
01:26:04.980 Of course, what
01:26:05.200 made Jaguar work
01:26:06.020 was a fantastic
01:26:06.820 engine made of
01:26:07.500 the best suspension
01:26:08.160 design around in
01:26:08.920 a classically styled
01:26:09.740 body for a
01:26:10.360 suspiciously low
01:26:11.040 price, the
01:26:11.720 opposite of what
01:26:12.320 they're doing now.
01:26:13.180 You're the last
01:26:13.860 of a proud line,
01:26:14.760 buddy.
01:26:15.520 Sorry.
01:26:17.400 We were just
01:26:18.100 talking about
01:26:18.640 Jags earlier today,
01:26:19.740 weren't we, in
01:26:20.300 the office?
01:26:21.040 That's a really
01:26:21.600 nice, I don't
01:26:22.240 know whether that
01:26:22.620 was 70s or 80s
01:26:23.880 Jag, I don't like
01:26:24.540 the yellow, but
01:26:25.620 a lovely, other
01:26:27.060 than the colour,
01:26:27.780 lovely car, that,
01:26:28.840 an old analogue,
01:26:30.080 proper heavy, old
01:26:30.980 school, well-built
01:26:31.800 Jag.
01:26:33.300 The Prime Minister's
01:26:34.120 always used to
01:26:35.020 drive around in
01:26:35.740 armoured Jags,
01:26:36.580 didn't they?
01:26:36.840 I don't think they
01:26:37.220 do anymore.
01:26:37.820 Is it like a
01:26:38.780 Prime Ministerial
01:26:39.500 Land Rover or
01:26:40.220 something they've
01:26:40.520 got now?
01:26:40.820 But for years,
01:26:41.940 all throughout my
01:26:42.720 childhood, when it
01:26:43.300 was Thatcher and
01:26:44.180 Major and Blair,
01:26:45.340 they would always
01:26:46.000 come out of
01:26:46.340 Number 10 and
01:26:46.720 get in a Jag,
01:26:47.460 an old sort of
01:26:48.000 80s Jag.
01:26:49.380 The decline's
01:26:50.120 going to be when
01:26:50.640 they get a
01:26:51.140 Prius.
01:26:51.800 A special, I
01:26:54.160 believe, armoured
01:26:55.040 Jag.
01:26:56.220 And I've
01:26:57.140 always thought
01:26:57.500 to myself, if
01:26:57.960 money was no
01:26:58.440 option, if I
01:26:59.000 was Bill Gates
01:26:59.460 rich, I would
01:27:01.100 want one of
01:27:01.640 those ex-Prime
01:27:02.520 Ministerial armour
01:27:03.580 plated Jaguars.
01:27:04.540 Yeah, I want
01:27:04.940 one of those and
01:27:05.640 I also want a
01:27:06.300 button that I
01:27:07.400 can press, a big
01:27:07.960 red button, I
01:27:08.660 press it and it
01:27:09.460 fires rockets out
01:27:10.360 like James Bond.
01:27:11.640 Yeah, the front
01:27:12.060 headlights go down
01:27:12.820 and they're little
01:27:13.140 rockets.
01:27:14.420 Or a minigun pops
01:27:15.600 up from the roof.
01:27:17.300 Yes, please.
01:27:17.980 California has
01:27:20.480 the most massive
01:27:21.280 tree in the
01:27:21.920 world.
01:27:22.600 This giant
01:27:23.120 sequoia redwood
01:27:24.080 is 84 meters
01:27:25.320 high and 31
01:27:26.380 meters in diameter
01:27:27.520 at ground level.
01:27:28.820 Named the
01:27:29.160 General Sherman
01:27:29.780 Tree, it is
01:27:30.660 estimated to be
01:27:31.420 about 2,200
01:27:32.640 years old.
01:27:33.960 Deep lore time,
01:27:34.820 a communist
01:27:35.280 group settled
01:27:35.880 in the area in
01:27:36.600 1886 and cursed
01:27:38.180 the tree with
01:27:38.700 the name Karl
01:27:39.920 Marx.
01:27:40.860 In time, the
01:27:41.500 communists had
01:27:42.100 their land taken
01:27:42.880 by the government
01:27:43.520 for a national
01:27:44.160 park and they
01:27:44.960 were eventually
01:27:45.480 jailed.
01:27:46.140 So much irony,
01:27:47.000 only 30 seconds.
01:27:47.980 Wow, 2,200.
01:27:52.000 So like when it
01:27:53.000 was first germinated
01:27:54.540 or whatever, when
01:27:55.520 it was first started
01:27:56.580 to grow, it was
01:27:57.260 still the Roman
01:27:58.660 Republic.
01:27:59.440 It was still, Gaius
01:28:01.220 Gracchus hadn't even
01:28:01.960 been born.
01:28:03.140 Caesar hadn't been
01:28:03.940 born.
01:28:04.640 Yeah, nowhere near.
01:28:05.400 Caesar wouldn't be
01:28:06.180 born for another
01:28:06.700 hundred years.
01:28:08.080 It's mad, isn't it?
01:28:09.020 Just to mention
01:28:09.540 real quick, I've
01:28:10.380 been to Northern
01:28:11.160 California in the
01:28:11.980 giant redwoods.
01:28:13.360 I don't think I
01:28:14.240 didn't visit that
01:28:15.300 tree.
01:28:15.740 There's another one
01:28:16.240 where there's an
01:28:16.580 actual road through
01:28:17.380 it.
01:28:17.520 Have you seen that
01:28:17.900 one?
01:28:18.060 I've seen that
01:28:18.520 one, yeah.
01:28:18.900 Incredible,
01:28:19.280 incredible thing.
01:28:19.920 But I did see a
01:28:20.620 few giant redwoods
01:28:21.540 when I was there
01:28:22.160 in Northern
01:28:23.100 California and
01:28:23.680 they are remarkable
01:28:24.400 because we've got
01:28:24.920 nothing like it in
01:28:25.840 Britain or all of
01:28:26.360 Europe really.
01:28:27.460 Those giant sequoias,
01:28:28.700 giant redwoods.
01:28:29.400 You can see why
01:28:30.120 pre-Christian people
01:28:31.160 saw trees as
01:28:32.500 sacred, can't you?
01:28:33.460 Looking at giant
01:28:34.260 trees like that,
01:28:34.860 that sort of exaggerates
01:28:37.800 it to a point where
01:28:38.460 everyone can see it.
01:28:39.460 Swaby, literally
01:28:41.120 they thought,
01:28:41.900 this is an ancient
01:28:42.460 German tribe,
01:28:43.360 they thought there
01:28:44.260 was this particular
01:28:44.820 giant oak and they
01:28:47.900 thought that was sort
01:28:48.520 of the centre of the
01:28:49.160 world.
01:28:49.540 You know, in Islam and
01:28:52.340 Judaism, there's like a
01:28:53.480 certain place that they
01:28:54.380 think is sort of the
01:28:55.000 navel of the world,
01:28:56.200 which is in Jerusalem.
01:28:58.640 So for some of the
01:28:59.340 Germans, it was a tree.
01:29:00.980 I respect that.
01:29:01.340 An ancient oak.
01:29:02.560 Makes more sense than
01:29:03.620 a black stone in
01:29:04.940 Mecca, doesn't it?
01:29:06.000 I think we have an
01:29:07.040 olive tree that is
01:29:08.320 3.5 thousand years.
01:29:10.340 Wow.
01:29:11.020 Yeah, olive trees can
01:29:11.900 grow really old,
01:29:12.660 aren't they?
01:29:12.900 It's still alive.
01:29:13.600 Yeah, yeah.
01:29:14.660 Wow.
01:29:15.720 There's some like
01:29:16.200 Methuselah trees.
01:29:17.200 I think one of the
01:29:17.660 oldest things is a
01:29:19.400 tree.
01:29:20.340 It's again, thousands
01:29:21.180 of years old.
01:29:21.860 Remarkable.
01:29:25.020 I've lived in the
01:29:25.820 southwest for about
01:29:26.560 23 years.
01:29:27.600 I'm just laughing in a
01:29:28.460 good way.
01:29:29.280 Thinking about like
01:29:30.160 Glastonbury High
01:29:31.060 Street and the
01:29:31.660 Goddard's Festivals
01:29:32.640 and Neolithic
01:29:33.880 Altars and, you
01:29:36.280 know, they've got a
01:29:36.900 weird and interesting
01:29:37.700 kind of metaphysical
01:29:39.180 bookshop there and
01:29:40.920 just generally
01:29:41.860 countryside living in
01:29:43.900 England and I think
01:29:45.920 it's something that we
01:29:46.600 take for granted.
01:29:47.460 I mean, I love it.
01:29:48.220 I don't want to move.
01:29:49.080 I don't want to go
01:29:49.520 anywhere else.
01:29:50.740 I love countryside
01:29:51.440 living.
01:29:52.280 How weird, wacky and
01:29:53.380 wonderful it is.
01:29:55.880 Well, that's what I
01:29:57.000 grew up with and it's
01:29:57.680 what I want to return
01:29:58.940 to and I have my
01:29:59.880 escape plan from
01:30:00.680 Swindon and it will
01:30:01.800 happen soon.
01:30:04.100 It's going to turn
01:30:04.880 into a film, Escape
01:30:05.680 from Swindon.
01:30:06.780 Yeah, the countryside I
01:30:07.880 feel like is England at
01:30:09.120 its best and whenever
01:30:09.960 people come to Britain
01:30:11.140 for tourism, I say,
01:30:12.460 you know, you can go to
01:30:13.580 London, go to the
01:30:14.300 museums and the art
01:30:15.080 galleries, but if you
01:30:16.480 want to see the spirit of
01:30:17.440 England, go to the
01:30:18.140 countryside and you see
01:30:20.240 what it's all about
01:30:20.960 there.
01:30:21.180 you know, I grew up and
01:30:23.480 spent all my life more
01:30:24.840 or less nearly in the
01:30:26.580 southeast, the greater
01:30:27.840 London area, suburban
01:30:28.820 Essex and East London
01:30:30.800 and London and of course
01:30:32.520 Swindon is a bit of a
01:30:34.020 dive, but a bit, but rural
01:30:38.100 Wiltshire is lovely.
01:30:40.240 You go outside of
01:30:41.100 Swindon town, you go into
01:30:42.540 the countryside, like not
01:30:43.980 far, like two miles from
01:30:45.600 here, five miles from here
01:30:46.560 and it's some of the
01:30:48.260 most remarkable,
01:30:49.600 beautiful countryside in
01:30:51.520 the world, I think.
01:30:53.220 I agree.
01:30:53.500 Also the Cotswolds.
01:30:54.260 It's up there with the
01:30:54.940 Scottish Highlands or
01:30:55.840 Cumbria, the Lake
01:30:56.560 District, the Peak
01:30:57.140 District, rural Wiltshire
01:30:59.200 is absolutely lovely.
01:31:00.620 Dartmoor National Park is
01:31:01.540 my favourite place on
01:31:02.800 that.
01:31:03.400 Yeah, Cornwall, you get
01:31:05.460 subtropical climates in
01:31:06.960 Cornwall.
01:31:08.100 Anyway.
01:31:12.580 You're all utterly
01:31:14.220 incompetent.
01:31:16.560 You do not have a clue.
01:31:22.400 I could run things
01:31:24.380 better, even whilst I
01:31:28.440 poop.
01:31:34.440 So does that.
01:31:38.720 Who is that on the
01:31:39.660 wall there?
01:31:40.240 Is that who I think it
01:31:41.900 is on the wall of
01:31:42.620 Donald Trump's toilet?
01:31:43.580 Is it?
01:31:44.980 Stormy Daniels, is it?
01:31:46.560 I don't know.
01:31:47.720 I'd probably say some
01:31:48.240 blonde woman.
01:31:48.680 That would be funnier.
01:31:49.540 Some blonde woman.
01:31:50.900 I think it's Sydney
01:31:51.600 Sweeney.
01:31:52.260 I've got two good
01:31:53.740 reasons to believe it.
01:31:54.860 I don't think the
01:31:55.840 toilet roll would be the
01:31:57.720 one Trump would use.
01:31:58.800 Oh, here we go.
01:31:59.780 That's true, yeah.
01:32:00.920 American flag, a bit
01:32:02.060 disrespectful.
01:32:02.440 Oh, four.
01:32:14.660 I mean five.
01:32:15.800 I mean fire.
01:32:21.960 It's still surreal to me
01:32:23.100 that I went on a podcast
01:32:24.520 with Graham Linehan, the
01:32:25.660 creator of that show.
01:32:26.800 Got to pinch myself doing
01:32:29.320 this job sometimes.
01:32:31.900 Right, we've got a bunch
01:32:33.360 of rumble chats.
01:32:33.900 Are we okay to go on for
01:32:34.820 a little bit more,
01:32:35.300 Samson?
01:32:37.860 Okay, no worries.
01:32:39.960 So where's the mouse?
01:32:41.980 I can't see.
01:32:42.760 I'm going to go top to
01:32:43.440 bottom here.
01:32:44.620 Dragon Lady Chris says,
01:32:45.560 hang on there guys.
01:32:46.740 If we can survive for four
01:32:49.100 years of Biden, you can do
01:32:50.260 five years of Starmer.
01:32:51.300 I don't know.
01:32:54.620 Bold Eagle says, so
01:32:56.880 Canada and Greenland are
01:32:57.820 going to become the 51st
01:32:59.080 and 52nd states in the
01:33:00.320 US.
01:33:01.240 Do you want to make the
01:33:02.000 UK the 53rd?
01:33:03.680 We'd let you do your own
01:33:04.780 thing, but you can't
01:33:06.560 violate the Constitution.
01:33:07.980 I think the Constitution
01:33:08.660 would be the most
01:33:09.420 welcome part of it, to be
01:33:10.440 honest.
01:33:12.740 Bystander Syndrome says,
01:33:14.080 we get EU regulations by
01:33:15.680 default.
01:33:17.260 Then be your own nation,
01:33:19.300 assert your sovereignty.
01:33:20.100 If these companies, NGOs
01:33:21.420 want to F with you
01:33:22.540 indirectly, cut and
01:33:23.880 replace them with your
01:33:24.760 own product.
01:33:26.300 That's what we want to
01:33:27.260 do.
01:33:28.020 I mean, you've got it in
01:33:28.940 one pretty much.
01:33:29.640 Yeah, I entirely agree
01:33:31.080 with that.
01:33:33.140 Fleet Lord Atvar says,
01:33:35.120 if you've not heard
01:33:37.120 Lieutenant Colonel Tulsi
01:33:38.220 Gabbard opening statements
01:33:39.380 in her DNI confirmation
01:33:41.080 hearing, priceless.
01:33:42.320 Tell Carl he likely
01:33:43.500 appreciates it.
01:33:44.900 Ten minutes long, and
01:33:46.340 then he sends a link.
01:33:47.580 I'm sure we will cover
01:33:48.700 that.
01:33:48.900 Probably sometime soon.
01:33:51.400 I think Carl wanted,
01:33:53.300 yeah, we will.
01:33:53.960 We almost certainly will,
01:33:54.920 yeah.
01:33:56.260 And then Habsification
01:33:57.980 says, Boris screwed over
01:33:59.100 our fisheries and Starmer
01:34:00.060 is screwing our farmers
01:34:01.040 over.
01:34:02.620 Our politicians hate our
01:34:03.860 own native food production.
01:34:05.100 That is true.
01:34:05.960 They want to sell the land
01:34:06.680 to Blackrock, that's why.
01:34:08.160 And then the engaged few,
01:34:09.340 the final one, the German
01:34:10.440 leftists are trying to
01:34:11.240 silence AFD need to remember
01:34:12.500 something important.
01:34:13.420 When men run out of words,
01:34:14.640 they reach for, oh, we've
01:34:15.360 read that one.
01:34:15.820 But that's also just as
01:34:17.940 true as I read it the
01:34:18.640 first time.
01:34:19.780 Right.
01:34:20.160 I think a couple of
01:34:21.740 comments, there's some
01:34:22.640 general ones here, and
01:34:23.520 then we'll do one from
01:34:24.380 each segment.
01:34:25.240 Sorry we went on a bit
01:34:26.340 long, but we've overran
01:34:28.020 to compensate.
01:34:29.200 So, Ewan Baker says,
01:34:30.760 The Stelios is showing
01:34:31.820 us his Greek Austin
01:34:33.500 Powers look.
01:34:34.320 Oh, behave.
01:34:34.980 Basic Based Ape says,
01:34:38.380 I googled cyber farting
01:34:39.780 for you so you don't
01:34:40.540 have to, Josh.
01:34:41.240 It's true.
01:34:41.800 A woman was arrested for
01:34:42.820 sending disturbing videos
01:34:44.120 of her farting to her
01:34:45.700 boyfriend's ex, causing
01:34:47.960 alarm and distress.
01:34:49.200 We used to be a real
01:34:49.880 country.
01:34:51.120 I didn't realise this was
01:34:52.140 a way of harassing
01:34:53.140 people.
01:34:53.640 I've just discovered
01:34:54.580 something new.
01:34:56.340 Got my weekend plan
01:34:57.540 sorted.
01:34:58.640 So, my comment for my
01:35:00.520 segment.
01:35:01.180 A library of cyber
01:35:03.560 farts, ready to, for
01:35:05.320 it.
01:35:05.640 Here are my greatest
01:35:06.540 hits.
01:35:08.000 Omar Awad says,
01:35:09.400 The Lib, we're off
01:35:10.800 YouTube now, The Lib
01:35:12.080 Shit has no fury of
01:35:13.220 mind for the savage.
01:35:14.660 It is the suicidal
01:35:15.920 arrogance they assume
01:35:16.960 the foreigner won't
01:35:17.720 kill the gold-laying
01:35:18.900 goose to maximise
01:35:19.880 immediate benefit over
01:35:21.000 sustained gratification.
01:35:22.880 Very well put.
01:35:23.960 I very much agree.
01:35:25.460 Apache Sideburns, I'm
01:35:26.860 once again asking for
01:35:28.020 Onion of Deception
01:35:29.100 merch.
01:35:30.600 It's happening.
01:35:31.860 All right.
01:35:32.380 Is it really?
01:35:32.840 I think so.
01:35:33.640 Really?
01:35:35.520 I don't know.
01:35:36.840 But I've heard it.
01:35:37.720 I've heard that it is
01:35:38.740 happening.
01:35:39.800 Email Pete.
01:35:40.880 It's happening and
01:35:41.560 that's a good thing.
01:35:42.520 Yeah.
01:35:44.220 Alpha of the beaters,
01:35:45.700 banning AFD is
01:35:46.880 democratic like two
01:35:48.260 foxes and a chicken
01:35:49.360 voting on what's for
01:35:50.540 dinner.
01:35:51.100 That's true.
01:35:52.060 Final comment, Bo,
01:35:53.300 from your segment.
01:35:54.280 Would you go ahead?
01:35:55.280 Sure.
01:35:56.140 Lord Nerevar says,
01:35:57.780 Aside from the
01:35:58.320 lockdowns, perhaps the
01:35:59.080 most impressive scam the
01:36:00.120 Conservatives ever
01:36:00.860 pulled was Brexit.
01:36:02.000 We're not independent
01:36:03.260 from the EU any more
01:36:04.440 than Puerto Rico is
01:36:06.300 independent from the
01:36:07.100 US and the weather is
01:36:08.800 far shittier here.
01:36:10.420 That's true.
01:36:11.220 If you could deport me to
01:36:12.520 Puerto Rico, I would
01:36:13.900 much appreciate it.
01:36:15.200 There's only one that's
01:36:16.160 going to be the 51st
01:36:17.080 state of America.
01:36:17.940 It'll be Puerto Rico.
01:36:19.940 That's true, yeah.
01:36:20.780 Puerto Rico's 51, Mexico's
01:36:23.200 52, Greenland's 53, Canada's
01:36:26.460 54, we're 55.
01:36:27.940 I once referred to
01:36:28.800 Puerto Rico accidentally
01:36:30.300 as the 51st state on this
01:36:33.580 podcast and then loads of
01:36:35.580 people were correcting me
01:36:36.640 and then only a handful of
01:36:38.380 people said, actually,
01:36:39.340 that's kind of based.
01:36:40.160 Thank you very much.
01:36:42.140 And I did notice someone's
01:36:43.920 name, Josh Furn playing the
01:36:45.380 piano with his balls.
01:36:47.240 I'm not quite that
01:36:48.220 talented.
01:36:49.240 I can only play it just
01:36:50.420 about with my fingers.
01:36:51.760 But anyway, it's time to
01:36:53.080 end the show.
01:36:54.060 Join us in about 23
01:36:56.120 minutes for the three.
01:36:58.280 Yeah.
01:36:58.840 For the gold tier Zoom.
01:37:00.300 I believe it'll be us
01:37:01.520 three.
01:37:02.280 So if you want to ask us
01:37:03.280 questions or say what you
01:37:04.440 want to see Trump do, I'm
01:37:06.140 going to be writing those
01:37:06.900 down in notes to present
01:37:08.240 a segment.
01:37:09.160 And if you just have any
01:37:10.140 questions for us and
01:37:11.640 thank you very much for
01:37:12.500 watching.
01:37:12.980 Have a lovely weekend and
01:37:14.360 make sure to tune in same
01:37:15.560 time on Monday.
01:37:17.340 Thank you for watching and
01:37:18.400 goodbye.