The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1118
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1 hour and 31 minutes
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Summary
The Lotus Eaters are joined by Lewis and Beau this week as they discuss the latest in the story of the Birmingham rape scandal, the rise of the far-right and the fall of the centre-left. They also take a look at the rise and fall of Fraj Fadlak and the potential role of the Muslim community in the current political climate.
Transcript
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Hello and welcome to Podcast of the Lotus Eaters, episode 1118 on this, the Tuesday the 11th of
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March 2025. Today I am joined by two superb beards with great minds attached. I've got
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Beau and Lewis. Thank you, hello. So yes, we've got an interesting one today. We're going to let
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rip on Fraj, because I think we have to. We're going to talk about the plight of Birmingham
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Bins. We'll find out more about that one. And a bit of a callback to the COVID era. Indeed.
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Which I'm looking forward to as well. So that would be good. Let's start with the Nigel
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Farage stuff, shall we? Right, in this episode, let's start off by not recapping what happened,
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because basically Kyle did that yesterday, and he did all the links, and anyone who's
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been following the story sort of is up to speed on it. Instead, I'm just going to give
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us a very quick reminder of who these two men are involved in the stories. Samson, do
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you want to play a little bit of this from Rupert Lowe?
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The mass rape of young working class white girls by mainly Pakistani men on an industrial
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scale. That is a rotting stain on our country's history. I do not say this lightly, but it makes
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me a shame to be British. We failed those girls, and heads must roll. I want deportations,
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not just for the rapists, but also the family members who are aware of their heinous crimes.
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If that results in tens of thousands of deportations, then that is what must happen.
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So that goes on, but you get the gist of what the man Lowe is about. Let's compare that.
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Just quickly say. Some people say, oh, that's really based, or that's really sort of, or that's
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right wing, or reactionary and stuff. It's complete common sense.
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Yeah, that's just applying the law. That's all that is.
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30 years ago, that would be mainstream centre-left. Labour, maybe. You never know.
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Absolutely nothing wrong with anything you said there.
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No, absolutely. Let's see if we can detect any problems with what the party leader says.
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We have a Muslim population in Britain growing by about 75% every 10 years.
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If we politically alienate the whole of Islam, we will lose. We'll lose.
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Goodness knows what kind of a terrible state we're going to be in.
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And we need a leader of men who stand up and make the difficult arguments.
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No, I don't want a nightmare future of sectarianism and balkanisation.
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The interesting thing is, though, Bo, is we knew about this for months.
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In fact, we knew for a long time that there's a problem with Raj.
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We just, we have a very much, a very English polite way of thinking that things will change
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How many times does he have to betray the base of whatever party he's in?
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Morgoth did a good video about this the other day.
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How many times does he get himself put on a pedestal and then betray the base?
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I mean, there's two aspects to this, isn't there?
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So the Morgoth point is that Farage has ended more right-wing careers than, you know,
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left-wing pressure groups and communists ever have.
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You know, he's been working his way through the right-wing movement,
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picking up people of talent, bringing them on board,
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waiting until they're just at the point where they've got a real voice of their own
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What is that, if not gatekeeping and containment?
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I genuinely don't know if this is a pathology or an actual containment operation.
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But the thing is, it doesn't matter because the outcome is the same either way.
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well, it's someone whispering in his ear, saying, giving him advice on all these things.
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We've all talked about whether that plays a massive role.
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And a lot of people that are going on all the mainstream platforms, talk TV, GB News, all of these guys,
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people that were close with him or, you know, have worked with him are saying all the same thing.
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You know, people have tried to say about democratization of the party, whether that is on the cards and it's been promised over and over again.
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So I used to look at this guy, you know, perhaps even not that long ago.
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And yeah, I know there was stuff in the background with characters who, you know, mysteriously exited the stage left, all that kind of thing.
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But basically, I would look at him and think, OK, there's a I was fairly charmed by the man.
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You know, he's a good right wing voice and he's saying sensible stuff and he's a bit weak here and there and doesn't quite compute.
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Now I just look at the man and I just see a snake who is basically hollowing out the right.
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He's systematically setting fire to every right wing cause and personality so that he can be the king of the ashes.
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At least it's not six months out from the next general election.
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No, I mean, he's explicitly said a number of times, openly gloated about destroying the real right.
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I mean, I see him as some sort of final boss for the real right.
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It's like this giant toad just squatting on the fringes of the right.
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Giant Farage bot squatting on the fringes of the right.
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He has for years been killing anything an inch to the right of him.
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But by the same token, he's also been moving left that whole time.
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So as we saw now, his position now is that basically we need to appease Islam until Islam takes over.
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Anyone wants a Britain or England to exist in a few decades' time.
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If that's the policy, I'd rather go full accelerationist and bring the civil war about now, you know,
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How many examples are there throughout history of big Islamic populations coming,
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eventually setting up their own political parties, all voting en masse for it and taking over?
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And once a country becomes an Islamic country, it's always the same thing happens.
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And that's the same thing that's happening in Syria right now.
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I mean, it is so good that this didn't happen just a few months before the election
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because we realise now that, you know, any support that we lent to reform and Farage
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was basically following a mirage in the desert.
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And we've still got people travelling with us who are saying,
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no, no, I'm so thirsty, I'm so desperate, I want to keep going towards the mirage.
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And it's like, no, no, if you keep going in that direction, you're taking yourself further and further away.
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Any energy invested in reform at this point, I realise, is just wasted energy.
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Because he is either consciously or unconsciously a containment effort.
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I'd like to say as well, obviously, I'm coming at this from another angle as well.
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Man is very valuable, as we know, extremely valuable.
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That's why idol worship throughout history is extremely frowned upon in all sorts.
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So, we have to remind ourselves that, you know, people, mankind is extremely valuable.
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And we can see with Farage how valuable he is, not to give him credit,
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because what he's been doing is just totally outrageous.
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Both times, it was very rude to me, personally.
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So, I got to meet him, shook his hand, and I said...
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The first thing I said was, oh, it's lovely to meet you.
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really admire what you've done with, you know, Brexit and everything.
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I mean, I have people come up to me on the street,
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but I went down the pub with him and had dinner with him,
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I mean, one thing I have heard said is that the plane crash changed him.
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That maybe he's got some sort of PSD after that or something.
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But then, to be fair, this behavior of destroying rivals was going on...
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Sorry, the second time was during this campaign of reform and met him in Clacton.
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And I thought, oh, I'll try and get like a question at least.
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I wanted to actually confront him about his comments about Tony Blair,
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about, you know, whether he's rolled back on that comments.
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The video's still up of him, you know, exclaiming that.
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because he was attacked several times during his campaign.
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And I said, you know, how are you mentally coping with that?
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that somebody's mentioned in the comments about,
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because he's the right sort of hatchet man for him.
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You know, he can do the internal hatchet stuff.
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I mean, just because Nigel was strong on Brexit,
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and immediately sold it to a Sri Lankan called Mohammed.
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what it is that, you know, the way that Lowe behaves.
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that they needed to report Rupert Lowe to the police.
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she decided to make up all these vexious complaints,
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And that's what he's been reported to the police for.
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I mean, this is a beautifully well-written letter
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In fact, it reminded me in terms of well-written letters
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I joke about that he found the crown in the gutter
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they just basically flipped on it it's like uh and
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officers joined whitehall and army in spying on
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covid lockdown critics including david davis and
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very few mps that were actually saying something
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which was such a shame uh he only went so far and
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speaking out against the lockdowns but even him
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think of who and he wasn't even mainstream media
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journalist in the country who was against it from
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beginning to end and didn't get vaccinated yeah
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military personnel and attack of freedom of speech
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yeah it was a very very strange time um yeah talk
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about authoritarian state yeah they curtailed our
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liberties yeah yeah it's no exaggeration to say it
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was a type of house arrest yeah a type of house
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arrest i mean there's no precedent for that i was
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saying this at the time even during the black death the great
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pestilence the great dying of 1348 to 149 49 the the the black
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death uh there was no sort of um in in small pockets there
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was sort of a self-imposed kind of lockdown but the state
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never mandated that you're not allowed out of your home
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even then yep so yeah authoritarian and of course the the the state did not
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have the power to enforce it so that's why they propagandize people
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so much so because they turned all the idiot normies into enforcers
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deputize the karen class yeah exactly and and that that was that was the
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of any of this stuff so every time i went to the shops i'd have some
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karen at me and you know sometimes i'd argue with them sometimes i'd just look
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at them and just see their their vacant glassy eyes
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and just realize that this person does not have the mental fire power to engage
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so i'm just going to make sheep noises as i barge past and
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basically ignore them yeah that's what i ended up doing just ignoring it
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just ignoring you yeah yeah some karen moaning that you're not wearing a mask
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in tesco's or something the worst one were the people who had
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a little bit of power yes because they loved oh yeah because
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they loved it it was just like it was like what you would read out of
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soviet russia or you know reading solzhenitsyn they say they got straight on
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and people noticed that like you know people that
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were very critics at the time and you post about that and then more stories
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came out of people doing exactly the same this this behavioral nudge and we
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know about the nudge units that were set up over that time oh i say set up
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they were already there but they were hyper like focused uh on
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very very early on that made me realize something
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um one so james melville posts uh one of the most disingenuous aspects of the
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government's covid messaging was the manipulation of statistics in particular
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deaths for any reason within 28 days of a positive test so remember they were
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doing the ticker with the death rates um and then they had it in the small print
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as you can see there deaths for any reason within 28 days of a positive test the
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most absurd example that i remember from this is a guy in florida had a had a
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off his motorbike yes i read i read about that and he and he went in the
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statistics yes so it's it's insane so you should you
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could get a positive test and then be eaten by a shark and you would go down as a
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code yes yeah and i remember i sat with that when we're not friends now but
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unfortunately because of that and because of the move into journalism and
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politics because of all of this this is what you know pushed me into the sphere
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that's what radicalized me and and i remember sitting at their house
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and we were watching the news watching the ticker just before
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boris johnson announced the lockdowns where we were seeing
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all the numbers rise and rise and rise and then i saw the the print
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and i went hang on a minute so how do we know which one was a
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covid death and which one wasn't and i remember saying that
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to my friends they didn't even it didn't register
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they were like oh they didn't want it to it would have bounced off and i'm sitting
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there pulling my hair out going well that's wrong then
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so what is the real this this is something i spotted in the first couple of
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weeks and this was when i first started tweeting is i because i i didn't have a
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presence at all until the until this started right and one of the first things
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i sort of tweeted out is because right at the beginning of
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of this whole thing because they obviously knew it was a
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coming right in the first few days of this thing starting to be a thing they
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changed the way that coroners do their death reporting
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so that basically they didn't even need to see the patient they could just ring up
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if there's like a death in a nursing home they could just ring up somebody at the
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nursing home and said and have a quick chat down the phone and then
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mark it down as covid without even seeing the patient and so i pointed out
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that actually the only thing that you can possibly trust on these statistics
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is not the covid reporting but the entire death rate the total death rate
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because that's the only number they can't fix and so i then started reporting on
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that from time to time what has the entire death rate done
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and it was basically normal in fact if anything it was um those two years
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slightly below average in terms of total death rate
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um we remember as well a lot of people pundits um whether it be well media
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personalities journalists uh hosts of shows uh said some things that were pretty
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bizarre during that time very emotionally fueled
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um which that's down to of course the um the nudge units pushing and pushing and
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well if we could just play this one um uh just with the sound on if that's okay
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that's enabled all these players to mince around on football pitches for 12 billion pounds a week
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and angela we either allow this or we end up holding people down and and jabbing them by force
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so there was some out of pocket stuff like that um which did not sit well with a lot of people
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um and it was just it was sad really it was really sad and disappointing to see a lot of people
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uh i'm obviously no fan of jeremy vine uh obviously but um mildly well as you said at the beginning i
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remember nana akuno on gb news making that argument just explicitly i think she was doing just a bit to
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camera saying yeah do that yeah i might have seen that some can't find the clip for love the money now
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right it's been yeety i can't find it anyway but i remember it it's in my memory banks
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saying yeah people should be forced to we need to save the old people
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what does this guy say so can we play this one as well this is still up
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well it's monday the 4th of january the first normal working day of the year i've just listened
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minutes ago to boris johnson's statement to the nation and we are going back into a full lockdown
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in england parliament will debate this and vote on it on wednesday the labour party support it so
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there's no question it's going to happen and indeed scotland wales and northern ireland very
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much in the same place listen carefully to what boris johnson had to say the schools will be closed
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until the mid-february half term by which time he said if all goes well and there's a following wind
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people over 70 and those that are vulnerable will have received the vaccine but he said
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it takes three weeks for that to really kick in so he hopes the schools can go back shortly
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after that date effectively what he's saying is that we're locked down until early march if things go
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well now one of the arguments for this is of course the soaring number of people testing positive but
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perhaps what really worries him is there are 40 percent more people in hospital as covid cases
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right now than there were back at the peak of this it's quite a long one it's about nine minutes let's
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let's just pause it here just and just read the the caption that he put but you can find this video
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he still is still up it says i do not agree with tony blair on much but he has led the debate on
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vaccinations well put him in charge of the vaccination program and let's have a government of all the
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talents to end this unmitigated disaster well there won't be any talent from the right because
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he's destroyed all their careers so um it just completely buying into the narrative that
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you know the the lockdowns were legit in any possible way remember him with his pots and pans
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can't wait for the vaccine and pots and pans banging in solidarity with the flooded hospitals that weren't
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flooded all just nonsense i i'm just i was just so gutted really to see a lot of people
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uh from all sides just uh completely just lose their minds with it um and just saying things
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that were so out of pocket i mean tony blair as the vaccinations what what it what it showed me
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is that actually most people who npcs they don't have minds they just have tvs right
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um and there's obviously the effect of lockdown later on uh children's speech delays increased
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following lockdowns we're still struggling with that i think i believe that's to do with the mask
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wearing as well uh so not just the separation uh because socially when you you know the mind of a
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child is like a sponge and they have to absorb information in order to learn obviously um and if
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they don't have social interaction with with people uh that can really affect them mentally uh along
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with there's articles as well to do with speech delayed in speech um or like this one but it's all
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to do with the mask wearing because you can't see what what another person is saying and you know how
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it's articulated you have to look at facial features when you when people speak to each other
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if he was in year 10 or 11 or doing your two years of a levels during those two years
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that screwed you that would have screwed you right yeah if i was in year 11 going on to my
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first year of uh sixth form all right well so like my whole end of school early further education
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is completely ruined pretty much i remember hearing about a young police officer who got called to to a
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job in a pub and was completely floundered because they'd never been in a pub before because their
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university period overlapped covid and they'd never been in a pub bizarre and not just lockdown but i
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remember when this came out a teenage boys more at risk from vaccines than covid young males isn't done
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yet this was huge when this came out um young males are six times more likely to suffer from heart
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problems after being jabbed than be hospitalized study finds uh so in in order that the government could
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dole out contracts to its friends and test its psychological operations a whole bunch of teenage
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boys got killed and more more will be coming because there's more heart problems out there that are just
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below the level that people aren't picking up on it's a sad i'm sorry i know it's blackpilling it's
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really and it makes me a bit emotional actually because i it's just because it's it's kids as well
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and it's it's a different well they say the um the outcome of a system is is the point of it
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covid was about killing kids at the moment they're trying to get us into the ukraine war to kill kids
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um people accept the idea that the state can put you under house arrest at the drop of a hat and
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you've got no recourse against it and the cherry on top of the cake is you know there's the there's the
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investigation into the into it all right oh that's you know that oh what the the inquiry inquiry
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and from what i've seen there's nothing it's a complete whitewash the inquiry is about why didn't
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you do lockdown sooner and harder and longer that's the angle of it yeah because we are running low on
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yes some of the comments yes absolutely um what have we got here uh a quiet voice um says i remember
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being denied my right to worship whilst weed and liquor stores were deemed essential i remember
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being denied access to my uh parishioners uh parishioners um to to comfort them whilst they
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were dying yep uh a lot of churches decided to close as well pubs and parks and churches closed but
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the border wide open yeah sure yellow one okay it is thanks to you guys i started my path of learning
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i learned the wonderful uh wonderful history sorry i don't know where ever wonder wonderful history we
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have thanks for the light in the darkness that was logan 17 pine as well um uh let's have a look
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we read out a few more do you reckon yeah yeah do a couple more um oh we've read that's a random name
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out um about the manager at the gym during during the pandemic uh or plandemic uh we had to register
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every vax customer and refuse uh the pure bloods i remember remember that uh i registered every single
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customer vax or not in the system um i'm unvaxxed um what else we got uh hearing that that's a random
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name again here in quebec the government was very open about marginalizing uh people who are unvaccinated
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or pure bloods um that was the nickname when it that people gave uh the pm went on tv calling us um
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recalcitrance recalcitrance i've never heard of that word forgive me it's a new word of the day
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uh our top female tv personality saying we should be arrested for being unvaxxed yep yeah um just
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do just do a couple of last ones cranky texan says this is um this oh the only person who died
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was covid wasn't recorded as a covid death it was george floyd yep um and and that's a random name says
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uh reminded that we have evil putin to thank for ending the pandemic yes that's also very true
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yep oh yes because the narrative shift yeah and it all pivoted on a day and then it was all over
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okay okay right um well uh we've we're out of time so um any video comments we will pick up in
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in tomorrow's episode um ladies and gentlemen thank you very much admire the beers on display and uh