The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1116

00:00:00.000 Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters, episode 1116 for the 7th of March

00:00:15.040 2025. I'm your host Connor, joined by Harry. Hello. And Luca Johnson's back with us. Hello.

00:00:19.980 Very good to see you, sir. Today we're going to be discussing whether or not Britain is

00:00:23.240 an occupied nation, spoiler alert, yes, how hope not hate are going broke, because they've

00:00:27.580 always been woke, and the fall of the House of Windsor. Seems that King Charles is looking

00:00:32.660 a bit more like a Quilliam these days. I'm going to speculate whether or not he's converted,

00:00:36.720 basically. As it's Friday, ladies and gentlemen, at three o'clock, this is what I've come back

00:00:42.700 for, we have Lad's Hour. And to my absolute delight, we're discussing the Star Wars prequels.

00:00:49.060 I've been looking forward to this. This is where the fun begins. Right, exactly. It's

00:00:52.340 going to be a cacophony of memes. Expect a lot of that. Yes. And contentious debates, because

00:00:56.880 I've got some real hot takes. And it's going to be us three Zoomers defending the quality

00:01:01.120 of the prequels, as well as defending the glory of our galactic empire. Quite, exactly.

00:01:06.080 Your new empire. Sorry, that was the last one for this podcast. We're going to be fighting

00:01:11.040 the spiritual boomers. I don't believe you for a second there. Not remotely. So if you

00:01:15.680 are subscribed to lowseats.com and you help us keep the lights on, you can go over and watch

00:01:19.420 that live or on repeat if you're listening to this later on. But without further ado, what

00:01:24.620 about today's stories? It's no exaggeration to say that Britain is an occupied nation.

00:01:29.760 You'd get that impression if you look around the aesthetics of the UK, spelled Y-O-O-K-A-Y,

00:01:37.320 especially in what all of our politicians and state heads are calling the holy month of

00:01:42.840 Ramadan. You'd be forgiven if you thought this was a Christian country, because they're certainly

00:01:46.820 not treating it this way. But if you'd like to rediscover your Christian roots, you can read

00:01:51.560 my essay in this latest edition of Islander. And this is one of the physical products that

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00:02:17.320 that out. It's selling like hotcakes. We may have to print some more. Distribution is going much

00:02:21.600 better than issue two as well. People have already got their copies. Including in the States,

00:02:25.800 I believe. I think, I don't know if they've got them in hand in the States, but I know that the

00:02:30.340 distributor has got it over to the States to be delivered from there. And that's half the battle.

00:02:35.660 Yes, very much so. If you're in Australia, we don't know when you'll be getting that.

00:02:40.060 Hopefully you can read it upside down. Anyway, as we crack on with the fall of our great country,

00:02:44.740 I thought we'd go through, and some of this was mentioned yesterday on the podcast that

00:02:48.560 you were on, Harry, but I thought we'd go through the figureheads that are complicit

00:02:52.140 in the transformation of Britain into a caliphate who are currently leading the government. And

00:02:56.580 we'll begin with this wonderful clip of Muslims observing Ramadan in Windsor Castle.

00:03:14.740 All right, that's enough of that.

00:03:22.400 I was the one crying.

00:03:25.460 Yeah, so that's in Windsor Palace. We are completely ideologically conquered.

00:03:32.460 Now, if you're wondering how this happened, I mean, first of all, I did see this rather

00:03:36.140 amusing tweet. We can't possibly let Putin invade Europe, say the same people that allowed this

00:03:41.060 to happen. If you're wondering who's running these events, we have some details from the

00:03:46.120 BBC, this amazing atmosphere at the Windsor Castle iftar event. Someone phoned Kunle Drukh

00:03:51.740 for the UK Twitter account. This says,

00:03:54.440 On Sunday, the past Sunday, more than 350 people gathered in St. George's Hall in Windsor

00:03:59.080 Castle to break their Ramadan fast. Simon Maples, the visitor operations director at Windsor

00:04:03.720 Castle, quizzling, said the king had been championing religious diversity and encouraging

00:04:08.480 interfaith conversation for many years, something you'll be talking about later, Luca. The free

00:04:12.960 event attended by all, I presume, though it looks conspicuously, well, capital D diverse,

00:04:21.300 but not very diverse in terms of multiple people attending, but there you go. The free event

00:04:25.880 was organised by a London-based charity, Ramadan Tent Project. Ramadan Tent Project, for those

00:04:31.600 who don't know, have got lots of partners. This is their trustee page, but if you scroll down

00:04:36.020 to where they've been operating, there's a very interesting list of people that have

00:04:40.500 hosted them. As you're just scrolling, I can tell I have so much in common with these people.

00:04:44.500 Mmm, quite, yeah. They feel that we're really strengthening the country at our expense.

00:04:48.840 So, some of their partners include the Royal Albert Hall, the British Library, Westminster Abbey,

00:04:53.320 Bradford. Bradford. Just the city of Bradford, because of course.

00:04:57.320 The cousin marriage capital of the UK. The Victoria and Albert Museum, Shakespeare's Globe,

00:05:02.520 because I'm sure he'd be happy to see that happening. The FA.

00:05:05.320 I don't know if you've seen the rubbish that they're putting on there these days, so...

00:05:07.320 And they do non-binary. They do incredibly diverse. Joan of Arc.

00:05:11.800 Joan of Arc, Shakespeare and... Yeah, I'm sure Shakespeare would have been delighted if you

00:05:16.680 were to transport him. The Mayor of London, of course, and Bradford and Coventry Cathedral.

00:05:23.000 The cathedral? The cathedrals. Oh, okay.

00:05:25.480 Oh, and Camden Council. Camden Council, by the way, adopted the Islamophobia definition,

00:05:29.080 and they said that to characterise Muslims as sex groomers should be illegal.

00:05:33.000 And Cambridge Central Mosque, because that's what Cambridge was missing.

00:05:35.960 Well, there were other parts of Cambridge as well. Like, the university itself was partnering

00:05:39.480 with it. We've now got Saudi Arabian or UAE ambassadors and members that have said,

00:05:46.120 oh, there's basically like a thing stationed at Cambridge, which is essentially an Islamist

00:05:50.600 training camp that you guys just haven't banned. We've banned it in our country, in the UAE,

00:05:53.560 because we know exactly what types of Muslim Brotherhood guys are running that.

00:05:56.440 You idiots let it operate. They were like, not on our watch.

00:05:59.160 Well, the Conservative government were told in 2015, hey, ban the Muslim Brotherhood.

00:06:02.280 And guess what? They didn't ban the Muslim Brotherhood. Wonder why.

00:06:05.640 Speaking of Parliament betraying us, there was an Iftar in Parliament as well.

00:06:10.680 Yeah, that's the main members of our government. For those who don't know some of these figures,

00:06:16.040 I mean, obviously, Keir Starmer's up front, grinning as his country is sold down the river.

00:06:20.280 This is the Justice Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, who we'll be talking about in a moment.

00:06:25.240 This is Sarah Owen MP, a sort of obscure figure, but we're going to talk about her in a second,

00:06:31.480 who has been sort of nexus of all of this for the last how many years?

00:06:36.440 And she's quite the quiet power broke in the background.

00:06:38.840 And of course, Wes Streeting here, the former Stonewall activist who is now the health secretary

00:06:44.280 and eyeing up Keir Starmer's shoulder blades to plunge a knife into it eventually.

00:06:48.120 Brutus-in-waiting, Wes Streeting, who is also an interesting figure,

00:06:51.560 despite being a gay man and self-professed Christian in this thread.

00:06:55.640 A bit wobbly. He's a key figure in the Islamisation of the UK.

00:07:00.200 So let's start with Sarah Owen, because she's just a Muslim activist.

00:07:03.720 This breaks in Arab news. Love getting my headlines from here.

00:07:07.960 She wants to criminalise the possession of an image of a woman, if she usually wears a headscarf,

00:07:13.720 so a hijab, niqab, burqa, without wearing it on your phone. And she compares it to possessing child porn.

00:07:23.480 Yeah. So if you have an image of a woman without her hijab on, on your phone,

00:07:29.080 you will be treated as if you have child porn. Which I presume means that you won't actually

00:07:32.920 spend any time in prison, given how lenient the sentences are for people like Hugh Edwards,

00:07:36.840 who have Class A material. A suspended sentence. But that's not what she's going for, really.

00:07:40.600 No. No.

00:07:41.480 So what she's saying is that she wants it to be worse than owning child pornography.

00:07:48.520 Yes. And given the sentencing guidelines, which we'll mention in a second,

00:07:51.400 the kinds of people that will be prosecuted for this, and actually see jail time for it,

00:07:55.320 will also be ethnically and religiously two-tier. This is a report from the Women and Equalities

00:08:00.840 Committee. Abolish. And it says,

00:08:03.160 Abuse can also include material that is considered culturally intimate for the victim,

00:08:07.000 such as a Muslim woman being pictured without her hijab. Non-consensual intimate image abuse,

00:08:11.800 which is, this is what's being classified as, is a deeply personal crime that can have

00:08:15.240 life-changing and life-threatening consequences. This ensures non-consensual intimate images

00:08:19.800 receive the same legal treatment as child sexual abuse material. If you think I'm exaggerating,

00:08:24.680 or if you think she's exaggerating in her presentation of the bill, we have it here. And it says,

00:08:29.480 While the Online Safety Act defines an intimate state as engaging in a sexual act, nudity,

00:08:39.960 or toileting, non-consensual image abuse can also include material that is considered culturally

00:08:44.600 intimate for the victim, such as a Muslim woman being pictured without her hijab. Ofcom's current

00:08:49.000 enforcement powers are too slow and not designed to help individuals get NCII images on non-compliant

00:08:55.720 websites taken down. In such circumstances, access to those sites should be blocked. For

00:09:00.440 internet infrastructure providers to take this threat seriously and block access to websites

00:09:04.280 that refuse to comply, NCII should be brought in line with child sexual abuse material. So,

00:09:09.240 let's put it this way. If Elon Musk refuses to enforce this law, she is saying that X should be

00:09:14.920 shut down as if it had child porn on it. Yeah, so we've got just a blasphemy law governing our social

00:09:22.360 media companies here in the UK. JD Vance was obviously right and Keir Starmer lied to his face.

00:09:28.520 Now, I can't help but notice this just happened a couple of weeks after this.

00:09:33.400 So, the police retook a mugshot because an ISIS terrorist was unhappy that it was taken

00:09:40.680 without her wearing a niqab. I mean, the original mugshot is here, just so we can show her face,

00:09:45.400 by the way, because one, that's not been brought into law yet, two, she's a terrorist,

00:09:49.000 you should know what she looks like, she's an awful human being. The police decided on the advice of

00:09:55.240 her KC, her human rights lawyer barrister, this caused her considerable distress, so we're concerned

00:10:00.280 about the distress of the terrorist, and they decided to do a mugshot with her dressed like a ninja.

00:10:05.560 Has Cunley got this one yet? Because this is very UK. This is very, very UK. Get on it.

00:10:11.720 Uh, some details here. Have you seen this woman?

00:10:17.400 I've seen a couple dozen of her down the road, actually. I'm pretty sure I had about eight of

00:10:20.760 her on a chessboard once. So this is Farishta Jami, she's 36, she was found guilty of terrorism

00:10:26.440 offences for planning to fly to Afghanistan to join Islamic State. She's a mother of four,

00:10:30.840 and she planned for her children to become martyrs for Islamic State, and was described in court as an

00:10:35.160 observant Muslim. This is something that Palestinians do, by the way, so they, what they do is they have

00:10:38.440 at least two sons. They have one for the family, one for the cause. So they raise one of them to be

00:10:43.320 suicide bombers. This is, this is the culture that we're importing from Muslim countries.

00:10:46.840 How do you reckon they pick? Do you reckon it's like eeny, meeny, miny, moe, do they have to go

00:10:50.280 through a series of challenges, or is it just look of the draw?

00:10:52.840 It's like the pull straws, pull detonators.

00:10:55.800 Bullpins!

00:10:56.360 Yeah, it's, it's like the magpie, Ryan, like one for sorrow, two for explosions, etc.

00:11:02.040 So, this is Michelle Healy, KC, she was prosecuting. She told the court that Jameen made plans to take

00:11:07.480 her family to Afghanistan to join Islamic State. She saved £1,200, probably in social housing funds,

00:11:13.400 to fund the flights, and also shared extremist material on social media. Very concerned about

00:11:17.880 cracking down on photos of this woman without her hijab on social media, not so much about Islamic

00:11:22.760 State propaganda, Sarah Owen. Westminster's police originally released this image, here, just to go back

00:11:29.640 to it, showing her full face and hair, but then the second photo that showed her in a niqab after

00:11:35.000 Matthew Brooke, her barrister, told Leicester Crown Court that she had experienced considerable

00:11:39.320 distress because of the photograph showing her full face. Reports of the verdicts yesterday used an

00:11:43.800 image of my client released by the police in which her head wasn't covered. The police are going to

00:11:47.320 release a different image. We request that that is used instead.

00:11:50.600 Don't care, didn't ask, plus you're a terrorist.

00:11:53.160 Sorry, she's got a nose piercing. It looks like she's got a nose piercing.

00:11:57.240 Lol.

00:11:58.280 Did she have to take the niqab off for the nose piercing?

00:12:02.760 If your face is covered 95% of the time, what's the point in having a nose piercing?

00:12:06.840 Don't ask questions.

00:12:07.560 That's the most confusing part about all of this apparently. Maybe, maybe, and this is just a

00:12:12.200 suggestion, right? This is just, uh, maybe she didn't want her face out there and said,

00:12:18.040 oh no, I'm so distressed. Oh, quick, get me with my niqab on.

00:12:21.960 Are you implying that a terrorist might gain the system and lie so that her face is not out there?

00:12:28.680 Well, that depends. Is it illegal for me to suggest that?

00:12:32.920 I don't think so. She's been convicted.

00:12:34.200 Oh, all right. Okay, then. Yeah, that's exactly what I'm saying. It's so difficult to tell in this.

00:12:38.040 Yeah, it really is. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:12:39.800 But meanwhile, you've got led by donkeys, hope not hate. Like, this is fine.

00:12:43.480 The problem is the people with the problem with this.

00:12:45.720 Yes, exactly. Well, it's funny you mentioned hope not hate, actually, because, uh, who is Sarah Owen?

00:12:51.400 Sarah Owen was the vice chair of hope not hate's parliamentary group.

00:12:55.720 Ah, it's all coming together.

00:12:57.560 Yeah, quite. So, she did this. She registered on the 14th of September, 2020,

00:13:03.000 and then this ended on the 31st of July, 2023. What do you notice about that date?

00:13:09.640 What happened late July?

00:13:12.280 What, 2020? Oh, sorry. 2024, I'm thinking.

00:13:17.320 I was going to say 2024 is the year that you might be thinking of.

00:13:20.120 Yeah, I am thinking of that. No, that's fine.

00:13:21.640 The reason I'm thinking of that is because in August 2024, she did this.

00:13:26.520 12th of August 2024, midst of the riots, the MP for Luton North invited hope not hate to parliament.

00:13:33.880 Now, the reason this is archived is because she's now deleted this. Big surprise.

00:13:39.320 How curious. Perhaps it had something to do with Nick Lowell, the head of hope not hate,

00:13:42.200 repeatedly inciting violence during the summer riots, having never been held accountable for this.

00:13:47.880 Now, hope not hate, as we'll be discussing soon, are dying in the doldrums since the cancellation of

00:13:51.880 USAID, but they're getting in-kind contributions by a government willing to do their bidding,

00:13:56.520 with an Islamophobia blasphemy council. Yet again, occupied nation, particularly by Islamic

00:14:02.760 activists in government institutions. And this is a blasphemy council set up

00:14:07.320 under the Department for Communities Leveling Up and Housing by Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner,

00:14:12.840 you know, the same woman that had a struggle session in a mosque right before the election,

00:14:16.040 saying, please, I'll make a ceasefire in Gaza my top priority.

00:14:19.480 Because that matters to northern constituents, doesn't it?

00:14:22.120 This was originally going to use the all-party parliamentary group on British Muslims definition,

00:14:26.040 which is, and I quote, Islamophobia is rooted in racism, and is a type of racism that targets

00:14:30.360 expressions of Muslimness, or perceived Muslimness. Now, it's purposefully self-referential.

00:14:35.400 Sunni Muslimness? Shia Muslimness? Just general Muslimness?

00:14:39.000 Just Musliminess-ness. Platonic Muslimness, yes. It's the same sort of thing as, you know,

00:14:43.400 a trans woman is a woman who identifies as a woman, or Fraser Nelson's definition of the English.

00:14:48.760 It's purposefully self-referential just to catch all us critics in a broad enough net

00:14:54.040 and ensnare us. What's interesting is it was written originally by Wes Streeting and Hope Not Hate.

00:14:58.920 So, you would expect them to have used this definition. The problem is the Parliamentary

00:15:02.840 Undersecretary for Faith said it kind of violates the Equality Act, so we're not going to use this.

00:15:08.520 Instead, we're just going to, rather than abandon the attempt to criminalize Islamic blasphemy,

00:15:12.440 we're just going to create a new definition that can get you persecuted for it instead.

00:15:16.440 One of the members of this council was a chap called Kari Asim, as I've mentioned on this

00:15:20.120 podcast before. He's a senior imam at a mosque in Leeds, and he's the trustee of Hope Not Hate's

00:15:25.080 charitable organization. So, even if they're losing money, they're deeply embedding themselves

00:15:29.560 into the Labour government. Now, let's look at who will enforce this definition. This is Justice

00:15:34.120 Secretary Shabana Mahmood, who is at the Iftar in Parliament, and she's tweeted out,

00:15:38.440 there will never be a two-tier sentencing approach under the Labour government. Why would she feel

00:15:42.520 the need to tweet this out? Because I was told by Raikou, the Home Office's propaganda department,

00:15:48.120 that two-tier policing is a conspiracy theory. I was told by the same thing, by the way, by Sara Khan,

00:15:53.000 who, sister who used to lead Raikou, in a report with Hope Not Hate last December,

00:15:57.160 that she issued saying it's a conspiracy theory. Why would she possibly need to say this?

00:16:01.080 Well, I mean, for one, let's be accurate, this is two-tier sentencing. It's completely different.

00:16:07.400 And that's because there were new sentencing guidelines recommending that people of religious

00:16:10.760 and ethnic minorities, just get off easy. Just get it off easy. And women as well.

00:16:15.960 Yeah, there's, it's written in here somewhere.

00:16:19.240 Uh, if you keep going, I think it's here.

00:16:21.160 Here we go.

00:16:21.720 There you are.

00:16:22.440 One or more of the following may apply to the offender.

00:16:25.800 So, if you're female, if you're from an ethnic minority, cultural minority,

00:16:29.880 Transgender.

00:16:30.840 Or a faith minority community. So if you're black, trans, or Muslim, or a woman,

00:16:36.520 you might have a reduced sentence. Cultural minority as well.

00:16:40.680 A cultural minority. So if I, if I start calling myself pagan,

00:16:45.800 like, like, I worship Woden and I go out to the woods on the weekends to conduct rituals,

00:16:50.280 that's a cultural minority.

00:16:51.560 No, you'll be put in the state of hate report, I'm afraid.

00:16:54.440 It's remarkable as well, isn't it, though, about cultural minority. It's like, well,

00:16:58.200 if you're such a cultural minority, why do you have such cultural dominance?

00:17:02.440 You have such legal, social, and cultural power, despite being, what, six, seven,

00:17:08.280 eight percent of the population? Something like that.

00:17:10.920 Yeah, it's funny how, uh, said oppressed minorities have the entire legal system,

00:17:16.440 the weapons of the state, and the funds of the taxpayer, reconfigured around meeting their

00:17:21.160 sectarian needs. Almost like the majority of this country are being put under the boot heel

00:17:27.400 of the state for their benefit. So Shabana Mahmood denounced this, even though she's been funding

00:17:33.240 the sentencing council set up as another quango under the Tory government, of course.

00:17:37.000 Her, one of her assistants was sitting in on the meeting and raised zero objections,

00:17:40.760 and she's saying she won't adopt this, but I think that she actually doesn't want to adopt this,

00:17:43.960 because, um, this is just saying quite a part out loud. It's aroused so much ire that they can't

00:17:49.400 defend it. However, it is funny because one of her colleagues in the Labour frontbench

00:17:53.720 actually recommended this. It turns out this comes from the Lammy report.

00:17:57.160 This entire thing comes from David Lammy's report. Yeah.

00:18:00.440 So the council went ahead with the changes, quote,

00:18:02.680 despite being told by magistrates during a consultation on the reforms of the guidance

00:18:06.040 was biased and conflicts with equality in sentencing,

00:18:08.920 because the council said the changes were influenced by several sources of research,

00:18:11.800 including the 2017 David Lammy report. The review found widespread racial discrimination

00:18:16.600 in the justice system. They've been finding that for decades, and apparently the more you keep

00:18:21.800 finding it, the less anything is done about it to fix it, even though they keep changing

00:18:26.520 all of the rules so that minorities can just get away with things. I'm just going to go off the

00:18:31.160 comments in, I think it was 2010, by noted racist David Lammy that says that it's mainly black

00:18:36.600 boys doing all the stabbings on this because they don't have dads. I think that would be behind the

00:18:41.080 discrepancies in sentencing. That's not true. They're not black boys. They're just boys and men.

00:18:45.480 Yes, yes. Just men. Men from no particular place or origin. I believe the actual term is drill

00:18:50.760 wrappers. Andrew Tate fans. In the review, Lammy said sentencing decisions needed greater scrutiny

00:18:56.360 and judges must be equipped with more information about the offender's background. He recommended

00:18:59.720 greater use of pre-sentence reports, which is the measure that the community sentence rather than

00:19:04.280 the custodial sentence that's being recommended for black trans Muslims, which are drawn up by

00:19:10.040 the probation service to provide judges with information about the character and circumstances

00:19:13.320 of the offender. So basically, all Labour's work is coming to fruition over years of working for hope,

00:19:17.480 not hate, or publishing race-grifting reports that say that we should have anti-racist policing

00:19:22.600 systems. Read Racist Against White People. And they're saying they're not doing it exactly while it's all

00:19:29.080 happening. This is very unpopular. It's the reason they run from this. So YouGov did some polling

00:19:32.840 about this, and the magical 72% came out against. It's been a while since I've seen the 72% actually.

00:19:38.840 Yeah, I know. It was only in the pandemic. But this time, I think it's, well, probably

00:19:44.760 on the side of legitimate, because most sane-thinking people think, yeah, I don't think if someone's

00:19:50.520 black but they stab, I don't know, untold numbers of children, they shouldn't go to prison. That would

00:19:54.840 be weird to do that, wouldn't it? Yeah, I don't think that's a good idea. But it doesn't really

00:19:58.920 matter what public opinion is, because it turns out that we have a state broadcaster as well that's

00:20:02.120 really interested in propagandizing us using our own taxpayer money. The BBC are doing a

00:20:06.760 migrant series this week. This is about Swindon. Absolute post-apocalyptic hellhole that Carl has

00:20:14.200 stationed this particular studio in. And this is just them interviewing migrants living in Swindon.

00:20:19.480 Here's an Indian woman. Here's a man who's trying to bring his wife over from Kenya, I think it is.

00:20:25.080 No. And here's a Latvian woman. I'm sure these people are probably, you know,

00:20:29.720 they could be perfectly nice. Latvian women can stay. I thought you might say that. Oh,

00:20:34.200 you've gone for the Berlusconi approach to immigration. Yeah, the Berlusconi approach,

00:20:38.120 all right. This is the Ali G immigration policy. Well, she said,

00:20:42.280 Swindon is quite multicultural and convenient. We're just blessed to have so much countryside

00:20:46.040 around. We were joking off air that we need to start convincing lots of the migrants that the

00:20:50.440 English countryside is populated with gins and only a sufficient level of English people with stone

00:20:55.560 churches will keep them at bay. I'm beginning to be in favor of reintroducing the wolves to the

00:21:01.240 English countryside. Purely, purely for the sake of rewilding, we need to return to the roots of

00:21:07.640 our ancestors, et cetera, et cetera. Yes. Well, here's another article in the series. How migrant

00:21:12.760 workers are saving the NHS from crisis. Now, again, remember, if you're paying your TV license fee,

00:21:18.040 which if you don't watch live TV, you don't need to do, you're paying for this. You're paying for

00:21:23.160 your gaslighting. And it is gaslighting because there's some facts I don't mention here. I'm just

00:21:26.200 going to rattle them off. 95% of visas every single year goes to migrants who are net tax

00:21:31.080 detriments, according to the Center for Policy Studies. We're all known for Carl Williams on that

00:21:34.520 data. Only 3% of annual immigrants are doctors and nurses. Bear in mind, we cap the number of medical

00:21:39.960 school places in the UK for UK applicants because we don't want to devalue the profession.

00:21:44.040 Bringing in lots of foreign doctors with lower quality training who commit, according to far-right

00:21:49.960 RAG, The Guardian, mass industrial-scale qualifications fraud and commit more medical malpractice.

00:21:55.640 An entire division of interpreters on hand.

00:21:58.200 Yeah. Funnily enough, that's not devaluing the profession, but too many overqualified white

00:22:02.680 British doctors devaluing the profession. Oh, and by the way, as for health and social care,

00:22:06.920 Zimbabwean health and social care workers were outnumbered by dependents 10 to 1, Nigerians

00:22:12.200 4 to 1, and Garnayans are comfy 2 to 1. And by the way, all of those health and social care workers

00:22:17.400 are, of course, on taxpayer cash, so they're still draining more than they're ever putting in.

00:22:23.480 So which group were outnumbered by their dependents 10 to 1?

00:22:27.640 Zimbabweans. Zimbabweans.

00:22:29.320 It was so much better when it was Rhodesia.

00:22:31.560 Anyway, point being, none of that's mentioned here, and Aylmer, who's a fantastic anon that you

00:22:36.760 should be following on Twitter, one of the best British anons, many people are saying,

00:22:40.840 has documented this series, and it turns out that only one of them, one of the articles,

00:22:46.040 might be charitably characterised as critical of migration. The rest of them are just all puff

00:22:53.400 pieces saying why you should have infinity immigrants.

00:22:55.720 I'll do an interview. If they want a variety of perspectives, I'll go on. Go on, bring me on, BBC.

00:23:02.440 You won't be able to print half of it, but it will be very, very amusing.

00:23:05.880 You can have the police standing by for the end of the interview, it's alright.

00:23:09.800 Point being, this is all being done to us by the police, by the most unpopular government in

00:23:14.120 British history, by the taxpayer-funded state broadcaster. It's all being imposed on us top

00:23:19.640 down despite 9 in 10 constituencies wanting to reduce migration, and that's when they were

00:23:24.360 underestimating net migration by a factor of 10. They thought it was 70,000 rather than at least

00:23:28.600 700,000 to nearly a million net a year. And we are being ideologically captured by Islamic

00:23:35.480 activists in all of our top institutions. As of yet, there's no party that either has the

00:23:40.760 plan to do anything about it, nor a viable path to power in order to do something about it. So I

00:23:46.440 suggest, given the crown is in the gutter and covered in muck, someone picks it up real quick.

00:23:50.360 Right, we've got some rumble rants. Hopefully it cheers up for the next one, but, uh, Dragon

00:23:55.640 Lady Chris. For $2, I'm in the States. I ordered Islander 3 last Friday, and according to the

00:23:59.640 package tracker, it should be arriving on Monday. Excellent. Well done. Glad to hear us.

00:24:04.040 Uh, Neo Unrealist. Iftar at Windsor, eh? Did His Majesty the King, Defender of the Faith,

00:24:08.760 host a public Ash Wednesday celebration marking the start of Lent? Did the King of Saudi Arabia

00:24:12.760 hold such an event at his palace? I wouldn't hold one's breath. And Ram Shakalotta, is this the thin

00:24:17.640 end of a women not wearing full face coverings as indecent exposure wedge? Could be in certain areas.

00:24:24.600 I don't think it's going to be state policy yet, but I don't think Suella Braveman or

00:24:29.240 J.D. Vance were exaggerating when they joked that the UK could become a caliphate.

00:24:34.280 Anyway, take it away, Harry.

00:24:35.400 All right, so Hope Not Hate are not looking good right now. I know that they never look good,

00:24:41.160 but their finances aren't looking good at the moment, according to a recent report from Guido

00:24:46.120 Fawkes, which I'll go into in just a few minutes. First though, we've got Islander 3, which is a

00:24:51.640 beautiful new edition of our Islander magazine series. It's limited edition, absolutely spectacular.

00:24:59.560 It's brilliant. So if you can support us, which you should be able to, because what else are you

00:25:04.120 doing with your money? Then you should go onto the website and spend £14.99 to get it sent to you,

00:25:10.280 which will not have any issues this time because the distributors are doing a much better job

00:25:15.080 already. We promise. We promise it's all going all right. So the first thing, before I talk about

00:25:19.640 the financial woes that they seem to be finding themselves in, is that the Hope Not Hate,

00:25:24.360 State of Hate report came out this year. Now we normally kind of look forward to these, but

00:25:30.200 increasingly they've been getting worse and worse year on year.

00:25:34.200 It's like the Oscars then. I mean, the Oscars have always been terrible,

00:25:37.320 let's be perfectly honest. Like if you scroll down to some of the pages in here, some of them,

00:25:41.880 when you actually get down past where they do a roundup of the year's events where they're like,

00:25:46.760 oh, mainly focusing on reform. Has reform been reformed because they let us bully them into

00:25:52.440 deselecting a load of candidates? Seems to be the main thrust of it. But when you get down to the

00:25:56.840 actual descriptions of the organisations and groups in here... I love that Matt Goodwin got like four

00:26:02.200 pages. Oh yeah, yeah. There's us. Have I gone past? Keep going up, keep going up, keep going. Here we go!

00:26:08.440 There we are. Most of this is just copied and pasted from the last year's report, which itself

00:26:14.680 was copied and pasted from the year before that. Like if you just look here, right, Carl is still

00:26:20.120 just a misogynistic influencer. He's so much more than that these days. But the actual reports that

00:26:26.840 they put out outside of this, if you go on their website like the one that was done on, you for

00:26:32.360 instance, following the Liz Truss interview, is far more acidic than anything that they put in here

00:26:38.680 regarding us. Although... Even that was weak. Yeah, even that was quite weak. But even though

00:26:43.320 I have made my first appearance, gentlemen, I am now part of the based club and I was included in

00:26:49.880 this paragraph here which was talking about the range of different contributors across the platform

00:26:54.840 saying, including Bo Dade, a reform candidate, sacked after Hope Not Hate, exposed his article

00:27:00.200 calling for the deportation of a foreign plague, and Harry Robinson, who's called for the raising of

00:27:04.840 a white racial consciousness in Britain. Connor Tomlinson, who has said the Great Replacement

00:27:09.480 conspiracy theory is quote unquote real, see previous segment, interviewed the former prime minister

00:27:16.840 Liz Truss on the website last year. And speaking of the Great Replacement being definitely not real,

00:27:23.240 there was a recent article from the Centre for Migration Control which they published the findings of

00:27:27.640 on Twitter, saying that one third of the population of this country will be first or second generation

00:27:32.040 migrant by 2035, ten years from now. So, quick thing, for YouTube, those two words that were just

00:27:37.400 bleeped, Harry said, the big swap, synonyms for that. Ah yes, the big swap. Number two, if you read

00:27:43.800 Renaud Camus' essay on the big swap, he's literally just speaking to a synagogue full of Jews saying,

00:27:50.760 don't vote for liberal immigration policy, because you will soar off the branch you're sitting on.

00:27:54.920 I've not read the big swap, is that what it actually is?

00:27:58.600 They're quoting my segment where I'm explaining that. I didn't know.

00:28:02.280 He spoke to a Parisian Jewish forum as a gay former Marxist saying, don't import Islamic

00:28:07.560 anti-Semitism. That's the entire purpose of the Great Replacement.

00:28:11.400 That's so funny to me because I read an article from everybody's favourite insane leftist outlet,

00:28:18.840 The Forward, the other day, that was talking about how the AFD making gains in Germany was the return of

00:28:24.520 the big evil moustache man. And it ends with saying that liberal Jews need to continue to vote for

00:28:30.520 basically open borders, multicultural projects. And I'm like, this is bad. This is bad for you.

00:28:36.840 These people hate you. Why can these liberals not get that through their head? It's just ridiculous.

00:28:42.760 This is why you've got like the likes of Yoram Hazoni and Paul Moreland and Eric Kaufman coming out and

00:28:47.560 saying, yeah, that's, that's a really bad idea. You shouldn't do that. Because even if you're not,

00:28:52.120 if you, if you're religious Jew like Hazoni, or if you're not like Kaufman, uh, importing loads of people

00:28:58.360 from the third world who believe that on judgment day, the rocks and trees will come alive to kill you,

00:29:02.360 they're not going to make that distinction. It does seem quite a short-sighted, no matter their ideological

00:29:07.240 beliefs, if they're liberals or not, it does seem somewhat short-sighted. You can't have a liberal society

00:29:12.040 if you've imported a load of people who murder you. Yeah, that was Camus' entire point.

00:29:16.840 I think it's a strong point. It's, it's a point that Constantine Kissins made.

00:29:21.000 Like, so it's completely innocuous. And so, I mean, hey, if you guys want that to be the outcome,

00:29:26.840 that's on you, I guess. So that's something to look forward to in the next 10 years. But just going

00:29:31.080 back to this as well, I don't know the exact page, but if you, if in the earlier sections,

00:29:35.880 when they're talking about the activities that they've been up to earlier on in the year,

00:29:39.880 there's a few points where they basically talk about how they went into particular council areas

00:29:45.320 and particular constituencies, found the kinds of, found the representatives who had been putting

00:29:52.920 themselves forwards as candidates for councils and for MP positions. And they found the ones who

00:29:59.160 represented the best interests of them and then just smeared them as being far right and made sure

00:30:04.600 that Labour MPs got in instead. Oh, there was the expose that Jack Hadfield did, yes,

00:30:11.720 of Simon Danchuk in Rotherham, wasn't it? Oh, I've never heard of that one, actually.

00:30:15.240 They worked with the local Labour Party to attack Simon Danchuk and, again, faced no repercussions for

00:30:21.160 this essentially in-kind campaign contribution. Yeah, well, the funny thing about Hope Not Hate,

00:30:25.560 for our American viewers who may not be as familiar with them, is that they are supposed to be

00:30:29.640 a non-governmental organisation. But they seem to have a lot of ties to the government,

00:30:35.960 particularly the Labour government now, and as we'll get on later on in the article,

00:30:40.040 seem to be able to procure false passports with no legal repercussions and use those

00:30:45.800 false passports to travel internationally, which means that they're either in touch with

00:30:50.040 incredibly high-quality forgerers... Which is a crime.

00:30:53.480 Which is a crime. Which I've reported to the Met Police and they've weirdly had no follow-up,

00:30:57.320 and at one point they said that my crime report didn't exist.

00:30:59.560 Interesting. Or they worked with the government to procure these passports.

00:31:07.720 Are you going to mention the likelihood of the latter in a bit?

00:31:12.440 Well, I'm going to refer entirely to your comment that you left on Twitter.

00:31:16.760 We'll leave to that then.

00:31:17.720 Yeah. But the good news is that their new reports for the donations that they've been receiving,

00:31:24.680 interestingly, right after USAID gets cut, is that they are not looking good financially.

00:31:31.320 So they took in just £417,000 in donations and legacies in their most recent year of reporting,

00:31:38.280 which was down from £715,000 the year before, and over £1 million the year before that.

00:31:45.320 And as a result, they're having to resort to, instead of offering full contracts for people,

00:31:50.520 excuse me, they're offering short fixed-term contracts, as little as four months in some

00:31:56.680 occasions. The group was hiring an event administrator to start this month on a four-month fixed-term

00:32:01.000 contract. Since November, they've also advertised for a researcher, content officer and local

00:32:05.000 campaigns organiser, all of which were fixed term.

00:32:07.960 So we must point out that this coincides with the cuts of USAID, but this is for the previous financial

00:32:14.120 year. So it may be that they're just ramping down operations because they're so ingratiated with

00:32:18.600 the government that they don't need to do public-facing campaigns anymore. However,

00:32:23.240 next year's financial returns will be fascinating after the cuts to USAID, and the Colour Revolution

00:32:29.080 slush fund has dried up.

00:32:31.000 You're absolutely right to point that out, so thank you very much for that. So now that it's looking like

00:32:35.960 even before USAID has been cut, they were winding down operations. Let's go over some of the

00:32:43.320 totally not election interference that they'd been up to for a very long time, particularly over the

00:32:49.720 past year leading up to the summer elections in Britain. So first of all, they targeted us directly.

00:32:56.280 We've had a number of articles written about us over the past year.

00:33:00.200 Conor got his one over Liz Trust.

00:33:02.920 It was very good.

00:33:03.480 Which also meant, it's more about me.

00:33:05.320 It was more about me.

00:33:05.880 It was more about me.

00:33:06.840 You are in fact the office liability.

00:33:08.360 Than anything else. Oh, cheers, mate.

00:33:09.960 It's all right. Love you too.

00:33:11.240 Thanks for that one. And this was one where they were talking about Bo when he was still a member

00:33:16.200 of Reform. Obviously, they deselected him because of this, because Richard Tice decided that the

00:33:21.560 best way to select for candidates was to see, who do my enemies hate? I'll get rid of them.

00:33:27.400 Well, as Wayne Towler has said, they did formally, in UKIP in 2014, use hope not hate to vet their

00:33:36.280 candidates before. So I think they misplaced a severe amount of misguided trust in this communist

00:33:42.200 front group. They are communists, by the way. Matthew Collins, former member of the National

00:33:45.160 Front, 2013 got up at a hope not hate event and said, comrades, hope not hate, you are our Red Army

00:33:50.680 before a USSR symbol. Red Army, by the way, raped and murdered their way across post-war Germany.

00:33:56.440 By the way, it should be noted, you know, Dan Hodges of the Mail has been going on a complete

00:34:00.280 meltdown. Same individual. Yeah, he was hope not hate's point of contact for UKIP in 2014.

00:34:07.000 Oh, brilliant. That makes a lot of sense. Amazing, amazing. And he writes for the Mail on Sunday,

00:34:11.800 doesn't he? That noted conservative publication. So what they did was hope not hate can reveal

00:34:17.960 and reveal that grand unveiling, breaking news. We read an article.

00:34:22.360 Bose article. Yeah, Bose article. Anyone could read at any time. Well, sadly now, of course,

00:34:27.320 it's archived because they took it down. But at the time, it was a policy roadmap, which they describe

00:34:33.000 as extreme for reforms policies regarding repatriation of people who shouldn't be in this country, which

00:34:40.040 was just one of their policies. Obviously, they've got the net zero policy that they're going for now.

00:34:44.520 But even if they were to go with a net zero, if you're going to be sending illegal criminals back

00:34:49.000 who might have brought their families over, people who've overstayed visas, they might all have their

00:34:53.160 families. I think it's particularly fair for Beau to point out that it's going to be messy, as he did

00:34:59.480 in the article. Families crying and shrieking and being violent and destructive when they are being

00:35:03.240 detained, also presumably being highlighted by the BBC propaganda.

00:35:06.520 Well, this is no different every time that they, you know, put the minority in the most charitable light,

00:35:12.040 the most sympathetic light to playing your heartstrings, the violin, the slow piano music's there in the

00:35:16.680 background. They do this all the time. When Beau said in the article, he said,

00:35:21.400 hundreds of thousands, potentially millions of people must be returned home. We know that in 2017,

00:35:26.440 there were at least 1.2 million illegal visa overstays. And that was before the Boris wave. So yeah,

00:35:31.080 it's going to be millions of illegal criminals that need to be sent home. And Beau's not relishing in this.

00:35:34.920 In the article, he says, this is just one more unfortunate horror which leftists and globalists

00:35:39.720 and traitors have forced upon us. It was actually a very, very reasonable article in terms of,

00:35:45.000 okay, practically speaking, if we enact these policies, what's it going to look like? Apparently,

00:35:51.720 hope not hate, of course, because they would, said that was too much. Reform then went, oh no,

00:35:56.760 we can't have people writing about how we'll carry out our own policies out.

00:36:00.680 So this is the problem, right? Taking hope not hate at their word, which people are doing

00:36:04.840 increasingly less than the last year. And I think actually my chapter trust broke the camels back

00:36:08.440 on that regard. And then the riots that immediately ensued where they made up stories about acid attacks

00:36:13.880 and the other scandals. Nick Lowell's going out of his way to stoke tensions. Yeah. Well,

00:36:19.000 the problem with this is if you take hope not hate as a barometer for what is and isn't extreme,

00:36:23.560 they're playing Mott and Bailey because what they actually think is extreme is having borders at all,

00:36:27.320 drawing distinctions between cultures at all. They're an extreme communist organization.

00:36:30.760 Yeah, they are a front group for open borders Marxism. And so if you take their standard on

00:36:35.800 anything on what is and isn't extreme, you're already doing their bidding. So just cut them

00:36:40.040 off entirely. And if it does prove to be true that in fact, if we find out next year that they were

00:36:45.480 funded by USAID, then that means how long is the the deep state of America being slowly and they'll

00:36:52.600 have their own... Neddling in UK politics. Yeah, to break us, to break any sense of cohesion,

00:36:58.440 national identity, to erode us. That will be interesting. To rot us like a thousand cuts.

00:37:02.760 We already know that at least in 2019, I think the mayor of London's office gave for,

00:37:08.360 I don't know the exact reasons, gave money to hope not hate. Home office under the conservative

00:37:12.520 government, under Michael Gove, were giving hundreds of thousands and allowing hope not hate to come in

00:37:16.200 and brief, er, home office civil servants on the state of extremism in the UK. I think they gave him

00:37:21.640 £425,000, cumulatively. Hmm. Interesting. That, definitely just another NGO though. Non-government

00:37:30.840 affiliate. They just happen to be an NGO with an entire government apparatus attached to them.

00:37:35.400 Yeah. To carry out their will. With a number of former members that are now part of the

00:37:39.400 the Labour Party as MPs. An explicit parliamentary working group.

00:37:44.040 Yes. They, er, they did this a few more times and then bragged about it on social media. They

00:37:51.240 took little clips of Richard Tice kind of squirming on radio interviews saying this, oh,

00:37:56.520 we'll take more care in the future to avoid getting embarrassing candidates seated. So thank you very

00:38:02.120 much Richard Tice for immediately cooking. And then right before this, he'd posted out saying that,

00:38:07.560 oh, this was a superb article by Douglas Murray talking about the sinister tactics of hope not

00:38:13.480 hate. Then why were you listening to them, Richard? It's really frustrating because one,

00:38:17.320 reform should just take Douglas Murray's line on basically everything. Because if Douglas Murray

00:38:20.440 sounds stronger than you, you're losing, right? Douglas Murray occupies a place of prestige with even

00:38:26.280 like wet Tories. So if he's making it permissible, just run to catch up. And Douglas is way out ahead

00:38:31.400 of reform, not, not Rupert Lowe, on migration policy at the moment. And he's where the public is. And

00:38:36.200 secondly, in this article, Douglas said, hope not hate contacted him because he's a prominent figure

00:38:41.640 and said, look, we're going to put you in our state of hate report. But if you do this, this,

00:38:45.480 and this for us, we won't feature you. And so he just published it because they tried to use

00:38:49.560 mafia intimidation tactics. So Richard knows that what they're doing is mafia intimidation tactics

00:38:55.000 against reform to see reform capsize. They're not trying to make-

00:38:58.200 On behalf of Labour as well.

00:39:00.040 Yeah, on behalf of even more extreme forces than Labour, but Labour as an official party

00:39:04.200 force. Yeah. And it's just, they're not trying to make your candidates better. They're trying

00:39:07.880 to see you felt. They would rather see you dead than victorious. So just don't listen to them ever.

00:39:11.480 Yeah. And on the Labour connection, again, there was this controversy where some of their activists

00:39:16.520 were found just actively campaigning for Labour candidates. Again, if you're claiming to be

00:39:21.960 some kind of bipartisan, anti-extremist organisation who doesn't have a horse in the race at all,

00:39:28.280 then you might do better to not have most of your activists be just outright Labour partisans.

00:39:35.080 So that was interesting.

00:39:36.120 Oh, this was the one I did mention. Yeah, it was Rochdale, not Rotherham.

00:39:38.600 Yeah, yeah, Rochdale. I think that's why I was a little bit confused when you mentioned.

00:39:42.120 They also have gone after Substack, probably, probably the most principled of all of the non-

00:39:50.600 like all of the free speech platforms because I've never heard of anybody being de-platformed

00:39:55.400 off of Substack.

00:39:56.120 Them and Rumble.

00:39:56.680 Yeah, them and Rumble.

00:39:58.360 Yes. I've never heard of anybody being de-platformed off of them, but because of the fact that people

00:40:03.320 like Aporia magazine, who are literally just autistic centrist nerds who like talking about biology,

00:40:10.920 and Ed Dutton, who is also...

00:40:15.240 He suffers many things.

00:40:16.840 Um, but they talk about subjects that hope not hate don't like, like the differences between

00:40:22.520 human populations. You know, Ed Dutton has his own spin on that. Aporia basically do it in a very

00:40:27.880 value-neutral way. Too much. Too much because they are hack partisans who do not want people to be

00:40:34.840 able to research particular interests and particular subjects, and so they have to go after an entire

00:40:40.280 platform.

00:40:41.000 Well, let's just say, for sake of argument, that these are the most hard, biological essential

00:40:47.560 racists ever to exist. They're not, okay? But let's just say they are, right? What is hope not

00:40:52.520 hate proposing in the opposite? Again, we always have to say compared to what? Hope not hate is

00:40:55.960 saying you have to abolish the ability to distinguish between people's families, relationship types.

00:41:01.640 You can't have value judgments about cousin marriage.

00:41:03.400 The abolition of pattern recognition.

00:41:05.160 Yeah, you can't have value judgments about cultural difference. Everyone is just one big

00:41:09.240 grey goo, which is actually what Ramon Camus was complaining about is the ideology of

00:41:13.960 the big swap. Everyone's just a fungible, interchangeable economic unit that is just

00:41:18.120 separated by geographic happenstance. So that is the most extreme view, completely ahistorical

00:41:24.360 anachronistic view, to say that every human being is indistinguishable and fundamentally

00:41:29.800 identical, and so you can just drab and drop them anywhere to make sure your spreadsheet balances.

00:41:33.960 Again, hope not hate, demented extremists, so don't listen to them on is and isn't an extreme.

00:41:37.960 It goes against their extreme leftist progressive world view, and therefore Substack has to

00:41:43.160 compromise its principles. Thankfully they didn't. Unlike some, Substack did not cook to hope not

00:41:48.920 hate publishing meany words about them, even though-

00:41:51.960 I'm going to have to start using it more then.

00:41:53.560 Well, it's a really great platform. Honestly, there's so much good stuff on there.

00:41:58.360 Even though, at the same time, due to a hope not hate investigation, one of the big funders

00:42:03.800 of an organisation called the Human Diversity Foundation, which includes people from Aporia,

00:42:09.240 included- well, they said that it included Ed Dutton, but Ed Dutton went out of his way to say,

00:42:13.800 I'm not receiving money in conjunction with this organisation. So these people, again,

00:42:18.920 most of the people looking into this, they are not hateful extremists, they are not radicals,

00:42:24.520 they are nerds. They are big nerds who just like this one particular area of special-

00:42:31.960 specialty for them. So they were being funded by a Seattle businessman called Andrew Conru,

00:42:38.120 who'd given them more than one million dollars, and because of this report, their investigations,

00:42:43.880 he decided to pull away from them and pull their funding. So they have gone out of their way to actively,

00:42:49.480 negatively affect people's ability to receive funding for specialist areas of research,

00:42:54.760 which is completely anti-scientific.

00:42:57.160 So I do know there was one fellow involved in that, because I covered this on my show when that

00:43:02.760 heinous documentary came out and related to that past-

00:43:05.960 Well, this one.

00:43:06.920 Yeah, that complete damp squib. There was one chap writing for one of these publications who had said

00:43:13.960 some questionable things about the age of consent, but that wasn't their core complaint.

00:43:17.960 That's obviously terrible. That's not related to human biodiversity research though.

00:43:23.960 No, he was- I think he was one of the ones writing for it,

00:43:26.680 but that wasn't what Hope Not Hate were complaining about. This is the point.

00:43:30.120 Well, they wouldn't.

00:43:33.080 I can neither comment on that at all. But, point being, they weren't complaining about anything that was,

00:43:39.560 let's say, properly morally objectionable. They were saying that some people have a different

00:43:44.520 theory on the foundations of cultural difference to them. And look-

00:43:48.520 They're not entirely into the environmental theory of human-

00:43:51.640 They're not blanks latest. Yeah.

00:43:52.840 That's fine. And I'm, look, I haven't read Aporia, I don't think,

00:43:56.440 ever, because I hadn't heard about them before this. I don't know what they believe beyond that

00:44:00.520 one dodgy guy. I've read them quite, I've read quite a few of their articles on Substack.

00:44:05.560 Again, they're just nerds. They're not political extremists. They are dead centrists. You know,

00:44:11.400 the way that there are some of those accounts on Twitter, like Io, that talk about differences

00:44:15.800 in crime statistics, for instance. But outside of that one area of specialist research,

00:44:20.280 he's a complete damp squib centrist.

00:44:22.040 Isn't Io a woman?

00:44:24.360 Is it?

00:44:24.760 Yeah, I think it is, yeah.

00:44:26.280 Okay, autistic women are included in this as well, shockingly enough.

00:44:30.440 But outside of that, they're not political extremists. They're basically saying,

00:44:35.800 we need to take the facts of reality, which we are trying to scientifically investigate,

00:44:41.960 acknowledge them as reality, and use them to formulate political policy that benefits

00:44:46.840 everybody. They're not saying, well, if these people commit more crimes, then we just expel

00:44:51.640 them from our country, or we use eugenics to get rid of them altogether. They're saying,

00:44:56.120 well, we can try to use policy to improve their circumstances as well, in a way that benefits

00:45:01.800 everybody.

00:45:02.200 That should be a non-negotiable thing, except hope not hate are demented communists, so

00:45:06.680 they'll never buy into that.

00:45:07.880 Yeah, the other thing they did was the undercover exposing the far-right documentary, which,

00:45:13.080 at the time, we were all kind of excited for.

00:45:14.680 The bravest documentary.

00:45:15.720 It was pathetic LARPing.

00:45:17.160 I was so excited for this when it was coming out, because I thought,

00:45:21.000 oh my god, am I going to get mentioned in there? Who are they going to go over?

00:45:23.880 I know I saw raw-reg nationalist and BAP and people like that all going, like,

00:45:27.720 fingers crossed I'm in there somewhere. And no, what was it? Well, Josh did a big thread on it.

00:45:33.000 Most of it was, there was a little bit about the, um, the activist infiltrating the, uh,

00:45:41.000 Human Diversity Foundation conference, and that took up three minutes. A lot of it was on Tommy

00:45:47.800 Robinson, so it felt really kind of 2012 in that way.

00:45:51.240 Yes. And the rest of it was about Nick Lowell's being afraid of getting a suntan.

00:45:55.160 Oh yeah, he was hiding in a tent like a vampire.

00:45:57.240 Yeah, he was afraid because he's half Mauritian that if he got a suntan on holiday one time,

00:46:01.560 that he would go back and get beaten up for being too dark.

00:46:04.040 Don't worry, Nick. None of us would have been able to tell. We all just think you look like Penfold

00:46:07.720 from Danger Mouse.

00:46:09.160 Yeah. Yeah.

00:46:11.560 God, odious little toad.

00:46:12.760 It was very strange. And again, in relation to the activist who went out and conducted

00:46:17.480 the journalistic research on this place, it was...

00:46:21.560 Mr. Harry Shuckman.

00:46:22.440 Mr. Harry Shuckman. Yes, who had this passport. Would you, you see, as your, as your, uh,

00:46:27.960 tweet and your area of expertise here, given that you went over it, do you want to just

00:46:31.400 explain a little bit of the controversy?

00:46:32.840 Mr. Harry Shuckman posed as one Christopher Charles Morton to the subjects of the documentary. Now,

00:46:39.400 these subjects were not actually under investigation for anything criminal, as far as I know. This

00:46:43.240 includes, um, Ed Dutton, and also, uh, Simone and Malcolm Collins, and, and various people in

00:46:49.720 the pro-natal movement, they were a subsequent article.

00:46:51.240 Mr. People conducting research and activism for movements that Hope Not Hate don't like.

00:46:55.640 Mr. Yes, and so, this is technically illegal. You, under the Official Documents Act of 2010,

00:47:01.960 you can't manufacture and masquerade around using an official government document.

00:47:06.840 So, either they procured a pretty convincing fake, because I've seen the non-redacted

00:47:11.560 blurred out version, I only blurred it out in case there were some details that crossed

00:47:14.440 over someone's real identity. Either they procured a convincing fake from a criminal

00:47:18.520 enterprise, and so they're funding organised crime, or they had help from the state with this,

00:47:23.000 which is why they have evaded any investigation as the criminal nature of this. And what suggests

00:47:27.400 this might be the case is that, um, Harry Shuckman's dad worked for the

00:47:31.720 BBC and had intelligence contacts when he was sort of a 10-year editor there. They were

00:47:35.400 embroiled in some big scandal, because an intelligence source had said that some company

00:47:40.360 had the same name as another company that was owning a diamond mine in Afghanistan,

00:47:44.840 it was linked to terrorism, they got, they got sued for defamation at one point, if I remember

00:47:48.840 correctly. And then his grandad was a, uh, Russian-speaking, I think it was Polish immigrant,

00:47:55.320 uh, who fled the Holocaust, obviously tragic, who was then involved in MI6.

00:48:01.160 And Shuckman, um, studied, what was it, uh, terrorism studies at an MA, I think it was University of

00:48:08.120 Manchester, and I think he also went to Cambridge. So, if anyone glows like a worm,

00:48:13.400 it's Harry Shuckman over here. So, curious how he got a hold of this.

00:48:17.480 Yeah, that's a very interesting chain of coincidences, and then he manages to get his

00:48:21.640 hands on a passport that he legally shouldn't have been able to get hold of.

00:48:25.560 And also, if he did have government involvement, why were the government giving him this, or

00:48:30.840 intelligence agencies giving him this, when they weren't investigating any people that were

00:48:35.640 subject to a criminal investigation? It was just an ideologically motivated hit piece

00:48:39.560 that was fed out through Channel 4 and The Guardian.

00:48:41.080 Well, I mean, he works for Hope Not Hate, so we can say for certain that he does have

00:48:44.360 government affiliations, at the very least, because, uh, we have the information given that, uh,

00:48:49.880 the government whip, Anna Turley, is a director and member of its board of trustees,

00:48:54.760 Labour MP Sarah Owen, vice chairman of the group's parliamentary group,

00:48:58.920 another of the campaigning organizations directors, is a prominent Labour MP and TUC communications

00:49:05.000 director, Antonia Bantz, and the chairman of its trustee board is the newly elected

00:49:09.320 Labour MP, Gurinder Singh Josen.

00:49:11.640 And also, they helped craft the Islamophobia definition, co-written by Health Secretary Wes

00:49:15.960 Streeting, that Angela Rayner is currently reconfiguring to implement into British law.

00:49:21.640 So, altogether, as much as I'm happy that they are not getting anywhere near as many

00:49:25.880 donations as they used to, it seems that their job has already been done, because they've

00:49:30.360 already gone out of their way to smear Labour's political opponents, smear anybody who's against

00:49:35.720 far-left political extremism as being some kind of return of the mid-century Germans,

00:49:40.840 and managed to embed a number of its members deep within the government.

00:49:45.080 So, that's, that's, uh, I know that I thought this might be a fun segment, but no,

00:49:48.840 I was lying.

00:49:50.840 Just like Hope Not Hate.

00:49:52.360 Yeah, there you go.

00:49:53.400 Excellent.

00:49:54.360 Let's move on.

00:49:54.920 We've got, we've got some rumble rants before Luca kicks off,

00:49:57.160 I'll just pass you the tech in the meantime.

00:49:58.840 Oh, thank you.

00:49:59.320 J.M. Denton for $20, most revolts in history have been for less, just saying.

00:50:03.320 Uh, Neo and Realists for $2, congratulations on your first mention in an NGO report, Harry.

00:50:07.560 Keep up the good work, and you'll get a splashy feature dedicated to you specifically.

00:50:10.440 I'm just, I'm just saying, Calvin Robinson got a full-page spread,

00:50:13.320 they chose the wrong Robinson, they'd have far more on me.

00:50:17.160 Well, you're, you're, you're third, you're third on the list beneath Tommy.

00:50:20.120 That's, that's, that's true, but just because I've never thrown a Roman in public doesn't

00:50:24.280 mean there's plenty that they could go over, go after me for.

00:50:26.680 I like the stipulation of in public.

00:50:30.040 Well, we all get up to it a little bit in private, don't we?

00:50:32.200 That's a joke, that is a joke.

00:50:34.040 Hey, if you said that at a Tory party conference, it would have a completely different valence.

00:50:37.320 Um, hapsification for $1.

00:50:39.800 Since Connor is leaving, what will happen to Comics Corner guys?

00:50:42.120 It's not the same without Harry and Connor, specifically for Berserk Part 2.

00:50:45.720 Um, so I don't know what's happening there, actually.

00:50:49.000 Um, I don't know if you'd want to make returns every so often.

00:50:52.120 At the moment, um, the plan is that maybe I'll get, I was thinking about maybe getting Samson on,

00:50:59.080 and maybe focusing a little bit more on Japanese manga.

00:51:02.920 Jumping in my grave and I haven't even left yet!

00:51:05.080 I know, right, I know, we've been steaming behind your back.

00:51:08.040 Listen, you were never gonna watch Neon Genesis Evangelion,

00:51:11.080 and I don't blame you because it's a very, very difficult series.

00:51:14.680 And so, if I can get somebody else to, to come on.

00:51:18.280 Also, uh, what's, what's her name?

00:51:20.120 Uh, Elizabeth Heverin?

00:51:22.120 What's her face?

00:51:23.560 She, she wants, she wants, she wants to come on and cover Attack on Titan with me.

00:51:28.200 So, maybe.

00:51:29.400 Right, um, I won't say anything.

00:51:32.280 Uh, also, also, also, I, I will say it would have been, it would have been more regular,

00:51:38.680 and I will get heat for this, but Carl was not that big of a fan.

00:51:41.720 So we had to, we had to restrict ourselves to-

00:51:43.800 Yeah, that was something that we had to do.

00:51:44.200 But most once a month, and obviously we had sort of editing, um, restrictions,

00:51:49.080 because Jack was really busy as well.

00:51:50.600 So we would have, we would have actually done more, but.

00:51:53.240 Yeah, it, it, it's, it's kind of like, uh, could have been, should have been at this point, isn't it?

00:51:58.280 Oh, well.

00:51:59.160 We'll, we'll see if we can work something out.

00:52:00.760 Who knows?

00:52:01.160 Yeah, I'm sure, I'm sure you'll be able to come back and make appearances, uh,

00:52:04.280 when you, whenever you can, really.

00:52:05.880 Luca.

00:52:07.000 Right, okay.

00:52:07.720 Well, gentlemen, it's time to engage ourselves in the spot of treason.

00:52:11.640 So, turn the cameras off, Samson, mute the mics quickly.

00:52:19.400 So I can only apologise profusely if by Sunday all three of us are locked up in the Tower of London

00:52:24.840 like the good old days.

00:52:25.800 However, I shall be tactful and try and manoeuvre this, uh, uh, well enough.

00:52:31.400 However, before I do, I shall point out that you can still buy the third issue of Islander magazine.

00:52:37.880 I've had a look in it.

00:52:38.680 I've just got my own copy now from the office, and Rory has really outdone himself this time.

00:52:43.880 Fantastic, neo-medievalist.

00:52:45.880 That's my one.

00:52:46.440 You know, aesthetics, it's fantastic.

00:52:48.120 Yep, Conor's written an article for it.

00:52:49.800 I've done my third article on my Marshalls of Middle-earth series.

00:52:53.400 Islander issue three.

00:52:55.080 And, uh, the most, uh, and the best thing about this is it's a physical asset.

00:53:00.840 And so if you can buy this for £14.99, it's going to have an appreciating return, and one

00:53:06.120 day your grandchild will look at you and say, Grandfather, what are those?

00:53:09.800 And you'll point to your amazing collection of Islander magazines that are now worth thousands

00:53:14.920 and thousands of pounds, and you'll say you were there.

00:53:17.400 You have the foresight to go and buy Islander issue three, so go do it.

00:53:22.680 You've got what you beat on advertising, Harry.

00:53:24.200 You need to help your game.

00:53:24.920 No, no, that's all right.

00:53:25.960 I'm a little bit low energy in my segment.

00:53:28.920 I'm sorry.

00:53:29.240 Last time I just morally shamed them, so I thought I need to try a different approach.

00:53:33.480 Listen, I go with the financial incentive.

00:53:35.640 I call them poor.

00:53:36.520 You go with the moral incentive.

00:53:37.960 You call them sinners.

00:53:38.920 If you don't buy Islander, Luca will follow you around and throw excrement at you in the

00:53:42.600 street.

00:53:43.960 Continue.

00:53:44.360 With gloves on.

00:53:46.680 Right, okay.

00:53:47.320 So yes, we're going to talk a little bit about the royal family, and particularly I want to,

00:53:52.040 I don't just want to focus on Charles, because even though Charles has been in the news a lot

00:53:57.560 recently because, you know, of his, obviously all of the stuff that you covered in the previous

00:54:03.000 segment about the Iftar and Ramadan in Windsor Castle, I'd like to explore the Windsors more

00:54:11.480 broadly and their legacy over how they've impacted Britain.

00:54:16.840 Well, we're living in their legacy, aren't we?

00:54:19.160 We are living in their legacy, and this is what I want to examine.

00:54:22.520 So if we could just play, do I just click?

00:54:25.320 No, no, no.

00:54:25.960 It's going to have to be the-

00:54:27.080 Oh, sure.

00:54:28.120 No need for the volume, just something we can play in the background.

00:54:30.840 But I do think that, in particular, you know, with the Queen's funeral, that was a really

00:54:38.360 important moment, actually, in British history.

00:54:41.000 And I actually have a lot of positive things to say about it, because when you look at the

00:54:47.400 ceremony here for the funeral, the magic of England just comes back to life.

00:54:53.800 You know, all of a sudden, the pageantry, the discipline, the show, this is one of those

00:54:59.640 things that once, one time a day, you know, we were admired the world over for.

00:55:05.480 And I feel like on some level, partly because of the longevity of the Queen's reign, in large

00:55:12.840 part, in fact, I feel like when she did die, whether people liked her or loved her or didn't

00:55:18.120 like her, they felt that something had changed, something was missing, something had been lost.

00:55:23.720 There was sort of a, we'd lost an anchor to old Britain in some way there.

00:55:30.600 And I do actually think that on a personal level, she seems like she was a very charming,

00:55:37.000 very warm, very conscious, you know, person who tried to do what she thought was good.

00:55:44.600 However, I do think there needs to be now, a few years out, a reassessment of her and her legacy,

00:55:56.280 and the wider legacy of the Windsors. So if I could, do I just click?

00:56:00.120 It's all right.

00:56:00.680 Oh, thanks. If we could go over to the next, oh yeah.

00:56:05.160 It's okay.

00:56:05.880 Yeah. If you tell me which other design, thank you.

00:56:09.400 So one thing I did just want to comment on here was actually, it sounds a bit silly,

00:56:14.520 but The Crown by Netflix, because actually, even though it was, it's obviously basically

00:56:20.520 historical fiction, none of the conversations actually happened. It's not real history.

00:56:25.880 It's a fictional history.

00:56:27.320 Are you telling me they were actors?

00:56:30.440 However, did you know?

00:56:31.320 However, I did want to just comment on the fact that, regardless of how true a depiction

00:56:40.120 it was of real history, this had international viewing. This was viewed by millions and millions

00:56:47.560 of people. And, you know, even when I was in Japan, right, a few years ago, I had Japanese

00:56:54.120 people saying, oh, the queen, the queen, we watched The Crown, right? You know, it was something

00:56:59.640 Tia booze.

00:57:00.600 Right. Tia booze. Yeah. So there was something there that I suppose what I'm trying to say

00:57:07.720 about this is that the British monarchy still holds a place of fascination throughout the world.

00:57:15.480 There is something magical about monarchy in and of itself. When you're in the playground as a child,

00:57:22.120 you want to be a king or a queen or a prince. No one says, oh, I'm pretending to be a senator.

00:57:27.720 Right. You know, when's the last time a child ever said that in the school playground? No,

00:57:32.840 there is a magic, there's a mythos to monarchy that is actually, there's a deep magic to monarchy itself.

00:57:40.680 It's the Evolian concept of imminent transcendence, the idea that the king can at once be a tether to

00:57:48.360 the earthly and the heavenly. He can embody the sort of transcendent values of the religion of

00:57:53.160 his tribe, of his people, and give them a guiding star to what they should aspire to, while also

00:57:58.280 being directly accountable because he has that concern about lineage to the people to his kingdom.

00:58:04.680 And also, it's more likely that he's going to be fashioned for statecraft if he's brought

00:58:09.800 up in the shadow of his father, knowing the role that he's going to inherit, than the revolving door,

00:58:15.160 well, increasingly less revolving door, of permanent politicians over in the states who are only

00:58:20.200 interested in their own empowerment and enrichment.

00:58:22.360 I think also it's the most natural expression of the leadership principle. Everybody wants to feel as

00:58:27.480 though they are the chosen leader, right? But you don't imagine yourself in a kind of heroic fashion,

00:58:34.280 becoming that chosen leader through simply charming enough people to get them to put your name on a

00:58:40.200 ballot. You imagine capturing their love and adoration through heroic feats of bravery and strength,

00:58:46.840 through overcoming challenges, not through going through some kind of bureaucratic principle,

00:58:52.120 a bureaucratic process. And so there's the romance to it as well, which is completely lost when

00:59:00.200 bureaucracy and the liberal democratic systems that we live under are as unromantic as possible,

00:59:07.400 on purpose, I would argue, to add as part of the disenchantment of the magic of life.

00:59:11.960 Of course. Now, one thing I also want to mention in terms of, because unlike, say, I'm not dunking on

00:59:18.280 them, but say, unlike monarchies in Scandinavia, right, our British monarchy also has a second

00:59:25.560 responsibility, which is to the Commonwealth, right? The Commonwealth, you know, the post-imperial

00:59:32.760 group of nations that are supposed to be bound together with some sense of fealty and loyalty,

00:59:39.320 and we respect the best interest of this voluntary association. However, that is all, you know,

00:59:47.240 on some level, there is something to be said for the fact that a lot of our post-colonial colonies

00:59:55.880 don't have rageful vendettas against us all the time, like, say, that the French ones do,

01:00:02.920 like in Algeria. However, I really want, if we could go to the next link, take, for example,

01:00:09.800 first of all in Britain, how ethnic minority Britons are remembering Queen Elizabeth II. It says,

01:00:17.480 over the course of Queen Elizabeth's reign, Britain's population grew by nearly a third,

01:00:22.840 from roughly 50 million in 1950 to 67 million today. An increase spurred, at least in part,

01:00:31.560 by increased immigration. At least in part. In part is doing

01:00:35.400 a lot of, by that they mean basically all. The birth rates were falling past the initial

01:00:40.440 baby boom to lower than replacement levels. Yes, but it was only in part. Yes, only in part.

01:00:45.560 Now we've got more deaths than births, an aging population, and an increase in population 1%

01:00:50.440 every year driven solely by migration. Yes. No, entirely dishonest. But as it says,

01:00:55.320 as of last year, people borne out, this article is from a few years ago, so I'll skip over that,

01:00:59.880 but it says, while Queen Elizabeth's passing presented a rare moment of national unity for

01:01:04.520 many Britons, for the country's ethnic minority communities, it also invited an opportunity,

01:01:10.200 reflection, and reckoning over the Queen's legacy, Britain's colonial history, and what the monarchy

01:01:16.040 represents to them. Just 38% of non-white UK citizens wanted the country to remain a monarchy.

01:01:25.320 According to a May poll, compared to 68% of all Britons surveyed. Well, it's because it,

01:01:31.880 by lineage, excludes them, unless someone is married into the monarchy. Yes. So,

01:01:37.720 in electoral politics, you can gerrymander the demographics, and then gerrymander democracy,

01:01:42.280 to then elect politicians, which agitate on behalf of your sectarian concerns, and manufacture

01:01:47.640 consent to bring in more of your ethnic or religious in-group in. See Priti Patel. It's very,

01:01:54.600 very hard for that to happen, unless you ideologically capture the monarchy, which seems to be happening.

01:01:59.240 Well, yes. For that same process to play out. Exactly so, exactly so. And this comes to the

01:02:03.720 wider point about Charles in particular, because you're appealing to people who fundamentally are

01:02:10.360 not your natural constituents, you're not, they're not your natural supporters, and most of them would

01:02:16.040 not be affected by the deep magic of England if the monarchy were to disappear tomorrow, right? And so

01:02:22.040 this is a fundamental point. But if we could just go to the next one. This is something as well,

01:02:27.800 because I wanted to pick on, because I talked about the Commonwealth and other countries,

01:02:32.680 but the Anglosphere, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, these are former colonies as well. These

01:02:38.760 are our, you know, former allies. It says the Queen's complicated relation with multiracial Australia.

01:02:44.840 And this is one of the things that it talks about as well. The, obviously the demographic

01:02:49.720 shifts that have been happening have been happening throughout white majority, you know,

01:02:55.160 populations throughout the Commonwealth as well. And so if defending the Commonwealth means replacing

01:03:03.560 Australians, the Anglo-Australians in their own land that they have cultivated, they've cultivated the

01:03:09.960 harsh climate, they've settled, they've, you know, all of those things. Made it prosperous.

01:03:13.800 And now, you know, just others are coming in and reaping the benefits of that, but also saying...

01:03:18.840 Now they've managed to do it without diversity is... Right, right. And so now all of a sudden

01:03:25.160 you've got that thing where, you know, like after October 7th, Australians suddenly have to deal with

01:03:32.680 radical Islamists in Sydney saying, you know, kill all the Jews. Now, obviously, well,

01:03:38.040 I don't think that's anything the Australians wanted to live amongst.

01:03:42.200 I don't think even the Australian Aborigines knew what a Jew was.

01:03:45.560 Right.

01:03:46.040 They'd never encountered them.

01:03:48.280 So it's, it's so, it's so not indigenous to Australia that the pre-Australian Aboriginals

01:03:54.600 would have no concept of it.

01:03:55.720 I need to go back in time and view with my own eyes the first time a Jew and an Aboriginal

01:04:02.120 ever encountered one another. I need to see that.

01:04:05.080 Just like, this is so not native to Australia.

01:04:08.120 No, exactly.

01:04:08.600 It's so concentrated in the sliver of history.

01:04:11.400 It's absurd.

01:04:12.040 Right.

01:04:12.520 Same with, same with the suspected Islamist, we have to say suspected because I think he was

01:04:16.440 under the age of 18, who ran up and stabbed the bishop, the Coptic Christian bishop.

01:04:22.120 Like, that's completely alien to Australia.

01:04:25.480 We've become anaesthetized to it over in Britain because of the growing Muslim population,

01:04:29.080 but that never happened in Australia to the last couple of years.

01:04:31.880 Mm-hmm.

01:04:32.760 It's happened remarkably fast.

01:04:35.800 So if I could ask for the, the next one.

01:04:38.520 So, look, on some level, it's one of those things where he seems like a very kind, doddering

01:04:47.800 old man, right?

01:04:48.920 Who in any other time, you wouldn't have that much, you know, it's like, oh, look at this

01:04:53.800 wonderful architecture I've built in Poundbury and everything.

01:04:56.840 And, you know, oh, aren't these awful, brutalist buildings terrible?

01:05:00.360 And I'm a king who's-

01:05:01.720 The times we live in do not call for a doddering old man.

01:05:04.600 Exactly.

01:05:05.320 And this is my wider point.

01:05:06.900 This is my wider point.

01:05:08.160 Also, if you just go to the next one, it's like, oh, right, you've built up that wonderful

01:05:11.800 town, have you?

01:05:12.400 Well, the model town of Poundbury has rats everywhere and families are living plagued.

01:05:19.000 So.

01:05:19.940 Also, look, Poundbury, fine.

01:05:22.560 You know, if you want to improve the architecture of British towns and cities, I'm with you.

01:05:25.520 Yes.

01:05:26.080 But it feels a little bit like an English nature reserve.

01:05:29.400 Like, if you've been chased out of your cities, which it's not the cities- yeah, sure, city

01:05:33.960 architecture is not that great for human flourishing, but it's not the cities themselves that create

01:05:37.920 unlivable conditions.

01:05:38.860 It's the people in the cities who bring a foreign culture that make the city resemble

01:05:44.120 the third world country that they came from.

01:05:46.240 If you chase all those people out of- if you chase the ancestors of the people that built

01:05:49.600 the city up and suitable to maintaining it out of the cities and into these small enclaves,

01:05:54.680 it just feels like you're trying to keep an endangered species alive.

01:05:58.280 What you're going to end up with is you're going to end up with a level of segregation

01:06:01.920 like Irania in South Africa, where the English have their own little separate enclaves that

01:06:07.700 are functioning so much better than all of the rest of the country, and they're just

01:06:11.500 going to show straight back up on the front door, knocking, saying, let us in.

01:06:15.500 Yes.

01:06:15.980 Some sympathetic doddering fool is going to let them in.

01:06:19.060 They're going to put their feet up on the table and say, Gibbs.

01:06:22.200 Gibbs.

01:06:22.800 And then the whole thing will collapse again.

01:06:24.800 Of course.

01:06:25.500 Of course.

01:06:26.600 But also, it's- so, really, the wider point, though, is that Charles isn't the guy.

01:06:32.660 He's not the guy.

01:06:33.800 But also, I don't want-

01:06:35.000 He's not capable of being the guy.

01:06:36.600 He's got us, you've been most affected.

01:06:37.680 But also, it's one of those things that, fundamentally, we have to acknowledge-

01:06:44.460 Sorry, I saw-

01:06:45.320 I saw a sneaky Vance in the corner of the Daily Mail page.

01:06:50.240 Sorry.

01:06:51.200 I just saw it, yeah.

01:06:55.100 That's my favourite one.

01:06:57.620 Sorry.

01:06:59.240 Drawing it back.

01:07:00.500 Everywhere I look, I see him.

01:07:03.220 Drawing it back.

01:07:04.920 I, um, it's in my brain now.

01:07:06.960 There's, um, so, but fundamentally, we have to acknowledge the fact that the trajectory

01:07:13.700 that Charles is on is not in any way a fundamental departure from that of the late Queen herself.

01:07:21.460 When I remember Liz Truss giving the speech, you know, after the news came of the Queen's

01:07:27.460 passing, and Liz Truss said in a speech that the Queen was the rock on what, in which, on

01:07:34.060 top of which modern Britain was built, and this is very, very true, but that modern Britain

01:07:39.000 is a multicultural Britain.

01:07:41.300 Elizabeth II, and now Charles After, represent bringing the Commonwealth to Britain, so that

01:07:47.680 Britain is the last holdout of the British Empire itself.

01:07:51.940 Being administrated by our former imperial community.

01:07:54.120 Exactly this.

01:07:55.200 Exactly this.

01:07:56.620 And so, fundamentally...

01:07:58.060 Ooh, sorry, but the symbology, then, of the Queen having her last meeting with Liz,

01:08:03.900 Liz then being cooed out by Rishi Sunak?

01:08:06.360 Oh, yeah.

01:08:06.940 That takes on an innate transcendence of its own.

01:08:10.440 Yeah, the portents, don't lie, people.

01:08:12.660 If we could go to the next one, I just have favourite, you know, favourite sourpuss Peter

01:08:20.320 Hitchens here.

01:08:21.180 This is a fantastic look.

01:08:22.520 His Majesty King Charles, so politically correct that he sometimes resembles a walking bottle

01:08:27.760 of hand sanitiser, is said to have pressed for this emollient, dripping change of name

01:08:34.000 from HMS Agincourt to HMS Achilles, and the Starmer government, always in the market for

01:08:40.180 a national climb-down, has agreed.

01:08:42.260 So, look, on some level, this is just surface-level culture war slop, right?

01:08:47.920 Like, it's...

01:08:48.880 They changed the name of the ship.

01:08:50.460 However, the reason I wanted to draw on it is because, actually, the fact that this was

01:08:55.340 Charles' express wish...

01:08:57.840 Sorry, isn't Henry V, who was the great warrior Agincourt, supposed to be your ancestor?

01:09:05.120 Aren't you spitting on the achievements of your own personal ancestors here?

01:09:10.900 Hey, listen, is Charles the beneficiary of a great lineage of kings, or is he just another

01:09:16.820 individual like you or me?

01:09:21.480 I can't help but feel that that's the way that he's looking at things.

01:09:25.460 He's absorbed the, uh, kind of liberal ideology in that way.

01:09:29.400 It does very much feel like the continued Blairite strip mining of everything that is distinct

01:09:34.740 and excellent about Britain in order to unilaterally disarm the population against complaining about

01:09:39.780 the changes that none of us want.

01:09:41.760 But also, it's like, oh, we need to change the name HMS Agincourt because it might upset

01:09:50.500 the French.

01:09:51.140 That's a British pastime.

01:09:52.040 It's one of our favourite pastimes.

01:09:53.420 Like, I get jittery if I go five minutes without upsetting the French, you know, I go through

01:09:58.780 withdrawal symptoms.

01:10:00.320 So, we must continue, uh, if I could ask...

01:10:03.460 I'm going to commit some treason here and say, I do not mind the French.

01:10:09.200 I don't mind them.

01:10:10.800 But it's what Eric Zemore said to Carl when we were walking through Whitechapel.

01:10:15.080 He said, in times like these, we old enemies become the oldest of friends.

01:10:18.960 This is true.

01:10:19.720 This is true.

01:10:20.420 You're facing a more existential threat.

01:10:21.580 Yes.

01:10:22.020 And, you know, I think of France like a little brother.

01:10:25.680 Yeah, very little.

01:10:26.300 A very annoying.

01:10:27.240 Minutively little.

01:10:27.760 Yeah, annoying, weedy, greasy little brother.

01:10:30.920 But still a member of the family.

01:10:32.620 Still a member of the family.

01:10:33.980 Into a bit of a scrap every now and again.

01:10:35.600 Speaking of which, I hope this was like Charles refereeing of a bare-knuckle boxing match

01:10:40.720 between these two.

01:10:41.660 The imam versus the rabbi.

01:10:43.340 Israel-Palestine.

01:10:44.120 Duke it out.

01:10:45.560 Right, but that's exactly the point.

01:10:46.800 Face me one-on-one in honourable combat.

01:10:49.700 Broke a pool cue.

01:10:50.680 But this is a problem, right?

01:10:54.840 It seems that Charles seems to have to...

01:10:58.060 Like Ethan Klein?

01:10:59.140 ...multiculturalism and diversity is...

01:11:00.600 Ethan Klein's Palestinian cousin.

01:11:03.920 It's gone from Jewish to Greek to Palestinian.

01:11:08.080 But it just seems remarkable to me that Charles can't go a single speech without talking about

01:11:15.480 how brilliant diversity has been for Britain, yet he seems to have to spend a remarkable

01:11:20.720 amount of his time trying to get the minorities to talk to one another to make sure that they

01:11:26.920 don't harm one another.

01:11:28.120 Well, he did also praise Starmer's militant response to the largely, I would say, largely

01:11:34.760 peaceful protests following Southport.

01:11:37.120 So he seems to rejoice in the cracking down on members of his own population who complain

01:11:42.660 about this diversification.

01:11:44.140 Yes.

01:11:44.240 And, you know, conditions in prison which lead to the deaths of men like Peter Lynch.

01:11:47.900 Yes.

01:11:48.120 So, this really rubbed me up the wrong way, when they were just packing sweets ready

01:11:57.420 for Ramadan.

01:11:58.660 Sorry.

01:11:59.660 I just want to make it clear.

01:12:01.580 The happiest I've seen him in ages.

01:12:03.240 Right.

01:12:03.700 Yeah.

01:12:03.920 Look at the glee.

01:12:04.620 Look at the glee.

01:12:05.460 Oh, yeah.

01:12:06.040 Isn't it great?

01:12:06.700 Yeah.

01:12:07.340 But I just want to make the point, right?

01:12:10.200 That when Edward VIII was the abdication crisis just before World War II, when he was told,

01:12:16.500 no, you can't become the king because you can't have a wife who is a three-time American

01:12:23.280 divorcee.

01:12:24.400 The problem with that, obviously, being that she was American.

01:12:28.460 You know, that was less egregious than this.

01:12:30.640 Well, of course.

01:12:31.520 That was less egregious.

01:12:32.440 Divorce is not a problem for the Anglicans.

01:12:34.120 Yes.

01:12:35.460 I'm just thinking Richard the Lionheart is looming over Charles' shoulder like a force

01:12:39.640 ghost, shaking his head, disproving life.

01:12:43.440 Absolutely.

01:12:44.300 Absolutely.

01:12:44.700 And so, if we go to once more, yes, obviously, you covered this in the previous segment.

01:12:50.500 I do actually have.

01:12:51.400 It says,

01:12:52.020 Guests who attended the event started with a self-guided tour of the State Department

01:12:56.640 before dining in the famed, oh, sorry, St. George's Hall.

01:13:00.260 Is that in English or?

01:13:02.920 It's a genuine question.

01:13:03.980 Yeah.

01:13:04.420 Well, one attendee told the BBC, I've never been to Windsor Castle before.

01:13:10.660 That speaks for itself.

01:13:12.000 So, this is an awesome experience.

01:13:15.520 The first time to be here and to do it in an Islamic way.

01:13:20.220 It's possessed by djins.

01:13:22.160 Don't come back.

01:13:23.500 It's just...

01:13:25.140 Apoplectic beyond words.

01:13:29.060 Right.

01:13:29.920 However, there's nothing to worry about, boys, because I can understand that this segment

01:13:34.440 has been a bit stressful for you.

01:13:36.480 You know, it's irritating to see our monarch so committed to his oldest, noblest subjects

01:13:42.860 before there was empire.

01:13:44.400 They're the Ottomans.

01:13:45.440 Right.

01:13:45.920 Before...

01:13:46.380 Before the...

01:13:49.340 Genuinely, before there was empire, before any of that, before Elizabeth I, you know,

01:13:54.720 and there was just England, there was us.

01:13:57.220 There was the ancient kingdoms of the British Isles.

01:14:00.160 And, you know, we were...

01:14:01.740 And so, to be spat on in this way, so disrespectfully, so callously, so abrasively, fundamentally,

01:14:09.880 it shouldn't be able to stand.

01:14:11.500 And I know this frustrates you, but fortunately, if we could have the next one, it's fine because

01:14:16.380 we're going to go die for Ukraine soon.

01:14:18.280 If it weren't...

01:14:20.280 Genuinely, if it weren't for Trump tilting his head ever so slightly, like, this would

01:14:26.240 be the preface to us dying in a ditch in Kyiv.

01:14:29.800 Yes.

01:14:31.600 I just...

01:14:32.440 Yeah.

01:14:33.840 I appreciate all of Jarvan's writing, I really do, and I think he's correct about the memetic

01:14:38.640 power of monarchy, and I think that Trump is embodying that now.

01:14:42.080 But the idea that any of Britain's royal family, maybe, maybe Will and Kate's kids, we'll

01:14:48.600 see, are going to ride to Britain's rescue, it's for the birds.

01:14:52.940 Well, this is what I was saying.

01:14:53.660 What he's talking about is more the executive use of power.

01:14:56.900 He does keep humorously fantasizing about Charles proroguing Parliament and dismissing

01:15:02.340 everyone.

01:15:02.860 Oh, Curtis.

01:15:04.000 We all like a daydream every so often, but, oh, get off it.

01:15:09.040 But, fortunately, what you were just saying, actually, about the next...

01:15:12.080 Because, if you just go to the last one, it's my final one.

01:15:16.060 William and Kate aren't coming to save us.

01:15:18.340 This was an event at Waterloo Station that William and Kate attended, where they unveiled

01:15:23.480 this Windrush monument.

01:15:25.340 It's not our bloody Mayflower.

01:15:27.360 We existed before Windrush showed up.

01:15:29.420 Yes, but...

01:15:30.540 For over a thousand years before Windrush.

01:15:32.940 Yes, but, you know, so William and Kate will continue to perpetuate.

01:15:36.580 Now, unless we're going to suggest that Prince George is going to be the Baron Trump of

01:15:43.800 England, right?

01:15:45.100 As some sort of Caesar figure...

01:15:46.780 Who's the youngest one?

01:15:47.860 I forget.

01:15:49.240 William's son.

01:15:50.300 Yeah, the third one.

01:15:51.800 Oh, is it Louis?

01:15:53.200 It might be, yeah.

01:15:53.920 The one that's covering his ears during everything.

01:15:55.960 Yeah.

01:15:56.240 It'll be him.

01:15:57.040 It'll be him.

01:15:57.720 It'll be him.

01:15:58.700 But just some final thoughts on all of this, which I did say to Harry before we went on,

01:16:04.000 which is just that, look, in an ideal world, I would like the institution of monarchy to

01:16:11.140 continue.

01:16:11.620 I have more sentimental attachment to monarchism over republicanism.

01:16:17.260 However, if it comes between the moral choice of which one is best served in order to save

01:16:23.800 England and the integrity of these islands and the people on it, then I don't feel like we

01:16:31.180 can have the luxury of choosing.

01:16:33.980 However, having said that, I'm not going to get Cromwellian about it and suggest that

01:16:41.420 we must become a republic because that's how we're going to save England.

01:16:45.180 Because fundamentally, the fact is, the French are a republic and they're dealing with the

01:16:50.900 exact same problems that we're dealing with here.

01:16:53.240 I don't think it's a symptom of the unique parochial constitutional settlement of a European

01:17:00.180 country.

01:17:01.140 It's the wider zeitgeist of what we're suffering through in the late 20th, early 21st century.

01:17:07.360 However, I fundamentally believe that after everything that I've been through, that I've

01:17:13.320 put today, that the House of Windsor itself does not deserve to continue because of what they've

01:17:22.300 put us through, right?

01:17:23.620 It should be, if we are to continue the monarchy, it needs to be a clean slate.

01:17:27.740 We need to, in fact, we can do a Hanoverian thing.

01:17:30.460 We can find the 52nd closest in line and we can get them over from Germany again if we

01:17:36.020 have to.

01:17:36.440 As long as we don't do a William of Orange because there are certain clauses in there that

01:17:40.980 exclude Catholics.

01:17:41.760 I'm not inviting the Dutch back over, don't worry.

01:17:44.900 Well, honestly, this is what I was actually going to say at this point that you might

01:17:47.760 be saying, honestly, at this point, I don't even care if the monarchs are Catholic.

01:17:53.060 You know, I don't care if we have to get the Jacobites back.

01:17:56.400 You know, it's just...

01:17:57.060 Henry VIII was a great big mistake, I agree.

01:17:58.760 Right.

01:17:59.220 It's just because fundamentally, I feel like...

01:18:01.700 Has anybody been tracing the lineage of the original Anglo-Saxon kings?

01:18:05.740 There is a guy, I think, living in Australia who's a Catholic who has a plausible claim

01:18:10.480 to the throne before they split off.

01:18:12.960 Well, before the Normans.

01:18:14.500 No, no, no.

01:18:15.000 Before the split.

01:18:16.460 I want a descendant of a pre-Norman king.

01:18:19.240 That'll get us back on track.

01:18:20.560 Honestly, I genuinely think that you could grab a random working class chap from Sheffield,

01:18:27.260 make him king, and he'd have better intuitions than Charles.

01:18:30.120 There's probably a chip shop owner in Hastings that's, like, directly related to Harold

01:18:33.440 Hardrada.

01:18:33.800 So, we're just going to get him out, then.

01:18:35.280 Yeah.

01:18:35.800 Exactly.

01:18:36.420 Clear him out, get him out.

01:18:37.800 Simple out, signed away.

01:18:39.400 Yeah.

01:18:39.900 So, right.

01:18:40.820 There we go.

01:18:41.400 Those are my thoughts on the House of Windsor.

01:18:43.940 Excellent.

01:18:44.480 Right.

01:18:44.700 Have we got any video comments, Samson?

01:18:46.880 We do.

01:18:47.580 Samson is loading them up.

01:18:48.920 We skipped them yesterday, so I'd imagine we might have a few.

01:18:51.120 No, we've only got four.

01:18:53.340 Okay, that's still all right.

01:18:54.780 We...

01:18:55.180 You lucky few.

01:18:56.380 Go for it.

01:19:00.760 Today, we're going to be shooting at 1,000 yards.

01:19:04.720 First, we're going to add 36 and a half minutes for elevation, and a further 7 minutes for wind.

01:19:12.840 It's a bit overcast today, so we're going to increase the amount of light that comes in through the foresight and the rear sight.

01:19:21.200 And now we're ready.

01:19:30.120 Interesting.

01:19:35.460 What's that?

01:19:35.900 Old bolt-action sniper rifle?

01:19:37.460 Oh, excellent.

01:19:38.220 That's cool.

01:19:38.900 That's really good.

01:19:39.780 On to the next one.

01:19:40.400 Hello, everyone.

01:19:44.020 I wanted to show you guys this lake that I like to visit.

01:19:46.860 I kind of wish I'd come here when I was completely frozen, but I still think it looks really cool.

01:19:51.620 I also wanted to say that I was very sad that Connor's going to be leaving the Lotus Eaters,

01:19:56.320 but I do want to wish you all the very best for your future endeavors.

01:20:00.160 You're going to do great.

01:20:01.600 And hope that you come on the Lotus Eaters often as a guest so it'll be like you never left.

01:20:06.880 Thanks a lot for everything, and take care.

01:20:08.820 Thank you very much, Jen Harvey.

01:20:11.160 Beautiful-looking lake.

01:20:11.920 Looks like the postmark, actually.

01:20:15.120 Returns are wholly dependent on...

01:20:17.240 This is what our king should look like.

01:20:19.460 Yeah, returns are wholly dependent on schedule and where I am in the world,

01:20:23.480 because I'm probably going to be flitting back and forth to the US occasionally as well.

01:20:27.900 But anyway, on to the next one.

01:20:29.580 You know, I would be lying if I said I never considered starting a Christian group focused around building power armor.

01:20:35.040 But for now, I'll stick with developing my video game to spread the word,

01:20:39.660 and it's a good excuse to build a simulator cockpit for the game to get practice making things people-friendly.

01:20:44.580 So you're building robots and making a video game at the same time.

01:20:54.260 Very impressive.

01:20:55.040 Yeah, that's great.

01:20:56.140 Does anyone remember Bamazuki?

01:20:58.840 From CBBC?

01:20:59.900 No.

01:21:00.140 No.

01:21:00.580 The little CGI robot creature things that would fight.

01:21:04.600 I did not watch CBBC.

01:21:05.460 Samson's nodding.

01:21:06.360 Yeah, I was going to say...

01:21:07.140 Samson knows.

01:21:07.680 Similar mechanics to actually playing from the first person, the Bamazuki.

01:21:11.000 The weird thing about Bamazuki, go and look it up on YouTube,

01:21:13.780 is because they've got a bunch of kids cheering their little CGI animated thing on,

01:21:17.260 and as a kid, you were like, yeah, it's so cool.

01:21:18.940 And now watching it, you realize, oh, those kids have been brought onto the show and were struck to cheer at nothing.

01:21:23.720 Because there's no hologram.

01:21:25.500 Yeah, they can't see anything.

01:21:27.020 Exactly, so imagine making your Bamazuki and getting brought along as a kid,

01:21:30.840 and you're like, oh my god, I get to...

01:21:32.060 Oh, I've got to stand here and just go, yay!

01:21:34.080 I always wanted to edit it out.

01:21:35.140 Robot Wars as a kid.

01:21:36.680 Well, my dad, he's quite good with electronics, but he didn't want to make one with me.

01:21:42.040 I remember Jungle Run.

01:21:43.800 Oh, yeah, Jungle Run.

01:21:45.080 I remember as a child watching that and thinking when they got trapped in the cave at the end

01:21:49.520 and they didn't make it out, they actually had to wait a week or two weeks.

01:21:53.200 And Raven.

01:21:54.140 Yeah, Raven!

01:21:54.620 When you die in Way of the Warrior, you get vaporized.

01:21:57.540 Yeah, I don't want to evaporate.

01:22:00.200 Did the parents sign off on this?

01:22:02.940 And trapped as well, you literally just get stuck.

01:22:04.940 It's like an equivalent to the Islamic parenthood that you said about,

01:22:08.460 you have one kid to keep and one kid to throw into one of these shows.

01:22:11.700 One kid for the Way of the Warrior.

01:22:14.560 Anyway, continue.

01:22:15.420 California Flower Friday.

01:22:19.200 Darlingtonia californica is a carnivorous native.

01:22:22.460 It's called the cobra lily due to its shape.

01:22:25.100 It has a mustache-like appendage that has sweet nectar.

01:22:28.640 Bugs go inside the plant, and it has translucent windows at the top,

01:22:32.940 which confuse stupid bugs who try to fly towards the light, tire,

01:22:37.160 and fall into the digestive fluids inside the hollow stalk.

01:22:40.480 I want to grow these, but finding them is hard,

01:22:43.220 and seeds take three years to grow, and it's really tough to grow.

01:22:47.340 Interesting.

01:22:48.160 It looks like the similar plant they based that one rampage creature on for PS2.

01:22:52.460 Yeah, I kind of love evil plants.

01:22:55.000 Crazy.

01:22:55.480 That's great.

01:22:56.440 That's cool.

01:22:57.780 Wonderful.

01:22:58.460 On to the written comments.

01:22:59.680 Great to see Luca back in action, in the studio, says Russian Garbage Human.

01:23:04.300 Thanks, sir.

01:23:04.860 Lord Kevcroft.

01:23:05.700 Connor, all the best of luck heading forward with whatever life may bring your way.

01:23:08.640 Good, sir.

01:23:09.260 I'm not disappearing.

01:23:10.780 I'll just, you know, you'll hear from him more announcements soon.

01:23:13.460 It's fortunate Harry's also on, as I'd like to thank you both for Comics Corner

01:23:15.980 and relighting the collector in me.

01:23:18.400 It shall be missed.

01:23:19.580 Yeah.

01:23:20.020 Yeah.

01:23:20.240 We enjoyed it very much.

01:23:21.140 Glad we could inspire that in you.

01:23:22.620 And happy to see Luca on again,

01:23:24.920 as he's shown willingness to come in often after next week,

01:23:27.520 where we see him every Wednesday.

01:23:28.700 You still live up north.

01:23:30.520 They're still domesticating their first northerner.

01:23:34.440 I'd say you're already a little bit more civilized.

01:23:38.160 And Marco Cat also issues some praise for Comics Corner.

01:23:41.240 We've got a lot of issues in the archive and, you know,

01:23:44.880 didn't always get as viewed as some of the other content.

01:23:47.020 So do go back and give them a rewatch.

01:23:48.360 They were fun.

01:23:49.160 Yeah.

01:23:49.500 And there's some really great stuff in there.

01:23:51.200 You managed to get your multi-part entire history of comic book series out.

01:23:55.300 Yeah, that was a proper labor of love.

01:23:56.880 You subjected me to Berserk.

01:23:58.700 Um, it's not related to it.

01:24:00.480 You enjoyed plenty of Berserk.

01:24:01.880 I enjoyed elements of Berserk.

01:24:03.040 No, but nobody enjoys Eclipse, all right?

01:24:05.820 That's supposed-

01:24:06.460 Even-

01:24:06.820 Even Miura hated writing and drawing Eclipse,

01:24:10.420 but it had to be done for the story.

01:24:11.820 The John G.E. 2 episode was great.

01:24:13.160 Oh, yeah.

01:24:13.480 It's not Comics Corner, but one of my proudest bits of content is still the Life is Strange

01:24:18.320 episode, and loads of people just enjoy that.

01:24:20.680 So, thanks, man.

01:24:21.840 It was really weird to see you out of a suit on that, to be honest with you.

01:24:26.500 Yeah, I know.

01:24:27.040 No, I did feel about 10 years old.

01:24:28.780 Yeah.

01:24:29.040 It was really weird.

01:24:31.080 On the first segment, Thomas Howell is saying that we are basically apartheid Britain.

01:24:35.600 I mean, if you've got explicitly racial, balkanized standards of sentencing, yeah.

01:24:41.480 We're literally, literally an apartheid system.

01:24:43.480 We are being treated as the hated minorities, though.

01:24:46.320 Connor running naked through the streets of Swindon.

01:24:49.500 Thanks.

01:24:50.200 Is that what you're planning on doing?

01:24:51.960 Hello, Lotus E. Is that out of context?

01:24:54.580 I'm free!

01:24:55.300 After the farewell dinner, you go, ha ha!

01:24:59.860 If the police were to arrest someone for possessing an image of a Muslim woman without her hijab,

01:25:03.560 there would be admitting that you can assume someone's gender through their appearance,

01:25:06.760 which, according to their own guidance, is transphobic.

01:25:09.640 Like, the contradictions do not matter to them.

01:25:12.060 It's ideological conquest that is the end goal.

01:25:15.280 And the definition of minority for these people is well-defined as,

01:25:18.180 what is a woman for these people?

01:25:19.920 For example, I am sure the Baptist religion is a minority religion,

01:25:22.600 using the real definition, which means a small number of people identify as members of the Baptist religion,

01:25:26.300 but I am sure that religion doesn't get any special treatment.

01:25:28.280 I think the same would be the same of the Jewish religion.

01:25:30.360 I think, yeah, there's less than 200,000 Jews in the country?

01:25:33.940 Yeah, I think most of them are in London.

01:25:37.180 Yes.

01:25:37.660 North London, mainly.

01:25:38.720 Yeah.

01:25:38.920 I don't know how many Baptists are in the country.

01:25:40.820 It's really rare to see them outside of the big cities.

01:25:42.940 You go to Manchester and you see some, like, Orthodox walking about sometimes.

01:25:47.640 Mainly in airports as well.

01:25:48.520 I was at my local Morrison's the other week,

01:25:52.760 and there was just, like, at the self-checkout, a rabbi doing his shopping,

01:25:57.480 and I've never seen that in my hometown ever.

01:26:01.500 It was like seeing a rare animal.

01:26:03.260 It was like a rare NPC in California.

01:26:04.980 I was like, what?

01:26:05.640 What's going on here?

01:26:06.800 And then I was at the pub later on that same day.

01:26:09.400 Guy, I won't name him because I don't want to dox anyone,

01:26:13.160 but really, really lovely guy ended up recognizing me from the podcast

01:26:17.960 and buying me and my mate a few drinks throughout the rest of the night.

01:26:21.380 He said that he was from, like, an Orthodox Jewish background or something.

01:26:25.220 So you do meet them about the place, but it's really rare outside of the big cities.

01:26:30.060 Has he ever met an Aborigine?

01:26:31.400 Next time I run into him, that's going to be the first question I ask.

01:26:36.860 Don't buy them a drink, whatever you do.

01:26:39.240 One more from Carl Dancing in the Whirlwind of the Left's Destruction.

01:26:47.320 I can't help feel the English identity debacle was a deliberate attempt

01:26:50.060 to separate English away from the Scottish and Welsh to unite against the establishment.

01:26:53.540 While people have been looking inwards and sideways, we are not looking up.

01:26:56.400 I don't think it's that calculated.

01:26:58.260 I just think Fraser Nelson is a moron.

01:27:01.400 Yeah, yeah.

01:27:03.280 His end game is to, yes, liquidate all identities to disarm you,

01:27:08.000 but he's not trying to increase, like, Celtic ethnic sectarianism.

01:27:11.700 It's just that his revealed preference is to only hire people of ethnic Scottish ancestry

01:27:15.720 over at The Spectator, to the point of where it's an in-joke.

01:27:18.040 Hasn't he also tweeted about complaining about how he's been trying to convince his own children

01:27:23.060 to see themselves as cosmopolitan, liberal, anywhere people,

01:27:27.620 and they're like, no, no, we're Scottish.

01:27:29.720 We're Scottish and, where's his wife from?

01:27:33.460 Not Sweden, it's, like, Scandinavia.

01:27:35.600 Not Scandinavia.

01:27:36.320 Lithuania or something like that.

01:27:37.940 Yeah.

01:27:38.600 We're Scottish Baltic types.

01:27:40.560 Yeah, so they've seen themselves as...

01:27:42.140 They're ethnic essentialists.

01:27:44.320 And he said, it's funny, because all the other kids in their class are second-generation migrants,

01:27:48.460 and they think the same way.

01:27:49.420 It's like, yeah, Fraser, you're the weird one here.

01:27:51.780 Yeah, I think the only thing that that man has in his head is an imaginary graph

01:27:55.940 where the line is just going up and up and up and up constantly,

01:27:59.200 and that's all he can think about.

01:28:01.020 That's his daydream.

01:28:02.380 Comments for your segment, sir.

01:28:03.280 Yeah, Geordie Swordsman, the high point of awards season.

01:28:05.980 It's the annual Far Right Awards.

01:28:08.460 Yes, and maybe one day, Luca, you can get your own place.

01:28:11.920 To be fair, though...

01:28:12.600 I have a dream.

01:28:13.620 I only got a mention.

01:28:14.840 Connor, you were mentioned in the same paragraph as me.

01:28:16.620 I don't know if...

01:28:17.160 You probably popped up elsewhere in there.

01:28:19.240 No, I was only that one.

01:28:20.580 Oh, so we only got the one mention.

01:28:22.120 Liz only got the one mention as well in relation to that.

01:28:24.300 I'm actually thinking that I might get coaching tips from Bo

01:28:27.740 to see if he can, like, train me up.

01:28:30.340 Bo was mentioned three or four times, mainly regarding reform.

01:28:34.100 Matt Goodwin got, like, three pages

01:28:35.500 because Nick Lowell's feels personally spurred

01:28:38.080 by the fact that he's doing better.

01:28:39.380 Where's my full-page spread, all right?

01:28:42.000 Next year, you'll get Most Improved Player.

01:28:45.700 And Luca will get an honourable mention.

01:28:48.180 Oh, thank you.

01:28:48.820 George Happ, hope not hate, may be a subversive communist organisation,

01:28:51.820 but at least they exposed how weak and effective reform are.

01:28:54.600 Tice has no place to make any statements about them

01:28:56.360 after throwing his candidates under the bus.

01:28:58.340 Reform is not a monolith, I will say.

01:28:59.760 I was going to say, hopefully from what you're saying,

01:29:01.760 reform are reforming themselves inside

01:29:04.880 to be able to tackle problems.

01:29:06.380 There are very good people within reform.

01:29:08.500 They just need to pick the direction.

01:29:09.920 Some, I assume, are good people.

01:29:11.960 Yes.

01:29:12.540 Lord Nerevar, it's crazy how gutting USAID

01:29:14.820 was the equivalent of throwing the ring into Mount Doom

01:29:16.880 for so many leftist institutions.

01:29:18.940 Makes one wonder how many rings are still left to throw

01:29:20.820 into said Spicy Hill.

01:29:21.820 I think that, yeah, you are right.

01:29:23.780 It's crazy that, like, all of international globalist leftism

01:29:27.340 seems to have been the American deep state.

01:29:30.460 That was...

01:29:31.160 Well, we've still got a deep state of our own,

01:29:33.300 so it'll be very interesting when, you know,

01:29:35.540 in a couple of years, hopefully someone competent wins

01:29:37.940 and starts raking all the muck out of Whitehall 2.

01:29:40.320 Yeah.

01:29:41.440 Anyway, do you want to go through yours?

01:29:42.780 Oh, sure.

01:29:43.280 It was a missed opportunity for Luca

01:29:44.820 to open the segment with It's Treason then.

01:29:46.840 Oh, yes!

01:29:48.060 No, I promised you there'd be no more Star Wars memes,

01:29:51.440 so I have to...

01:29:52.580 You have to do it.

01:29:53.120 Save them for half an hour.

01:29:54.340 However, Jolly, I am going to kick myself for the rest of the day,

01:29:57.300 so thank you for that.

01:29:58.440 We can only hope that King Arthur rises up once again

01:30:01.700 with the undead shapers agreeing that, yes,

01:30:04.560 the once and future king.

01:30:06.260 Let's hope that the future King William

01:30:08.120 takes after his great-grandfather rather than his father.

01:30:11.320 Eh, just get the guy related to Cheddar Manor's monarch.

01:30:17.980 And with that suggestion, we will be back.

01:30:21.160 You just knock on his door, hand him a crown.

01:30:23.700 There you go, mate.

01:30:24.760 There you go.

01:30:25.080 And then you go off to the pool.

01:30:26.100 Yeah, quite right.

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01:30:36.160 Luca, thank you very much for coming in.

01:30:37.440 Oh, thank you very much.

01:30:38.540 Harry, pleasure as always, mate.

01:30:39.780 Thank you.

01:30:40.040 We will be back on Monday.

01:30:41.680 I will be back on Wednesday for my last show.

01:30:44.400 So be sure to catch both of those.

01:30:45.660 Until then, have a good weekend, everyone.

01:30:46.760 Take care and goodbye.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - March 07, 2025

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1116

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