The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1124
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Summary
In this episode of Lotsus Eaters, we talk about civil servants being useless and not knowing what their job is, how to do it, or why they're even alive, and how to spot a fake conservative.
Transcript
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hello and welcome to the podcast lotus eaters episode 1124 i'm your host harry joined today
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by josh hello and a very very sleepy dan i'm not sleepy i'm just sick he might fall asleep
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he might nod off during the i'll be i'll be right i'm powering through i've got my lucas aid and
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i've had a limb sip if anything it'll be our failure to keep him entertained if he falls
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asleep so that's our mission if you are still conscious by the end of this podcast we've had
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a good one yes i don't know i feel like i should try and put him to sleep now i think that it does
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sound a bit date rapey when you put it like that okay fine what if you put in his drink harry why
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is it fizzing anyway uh so today we're going to be talking about civil servants being useless and not
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knowing what their job is how to do it or why they're even alive i question that often uh we're
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also going to be talking about fake conservatives and how to spot them i get to whinge about someone
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i find annoying yes you're not going to get sued for that one are you no because i'm going to be
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fair he's going to be fair but firm all right i'm always firm we know that's your name and uh also
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we're going to be talking about how european culture is actually worth saving that's going to be that is
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my opinion and it is correct excellent and uh with that let's just get straight into it shall we folks
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nicely done harry buy it buy this look it's still intact it's good build quality it's pretty damn sturdy
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if you ask me you could express delivery you're going to throw it at you you could try and tear it
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you could ah you could nibble at it you could gnaw it on the corners if you're so multiple if you're
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disgusting like carl does with books that you lend him where he'll start picking his teeth with them
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but you wouldn't do that would you because you're a civilized and well-mannered human being if you're
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not get out we don't want you in the audience but if you are a well-mannered human being then buy it
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on the website or i'll cry anyway you don't want to make harry cry it's really some of them do some of
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them do but anyway so uh let's take another let's take another look at the next installment of
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everything is miserable everything is terrible and no one knows what they're doing otherwise known as
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duk and a reminder to everybody that last week i did this segment on screen right now about britain's
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skilled kebab visas where we found out that skilled worker visas were being just handed out to many many
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hundreds of people uh because they were being sponsored by kebab houses and up to 83 businesses
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with halal in their name and one butcher just by himself one butcher sponsored 918 visas which also
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meant that if you've got a skilled worker visa you can bring your family with you as dependents
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he's a he's got a big family lots of cousins lots and lots of cousins as the turks are known to have
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and so that that was terrible enough right that was one of those things where it's like oh god the
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country is falling apart everything's miserable why do i even still live here why do i allow myself
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to open my eyes in the morning again still asking that question you are making quite a good case as to
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why not why you're going to give us a bit of an uplift in a minute no no so it turns out it turns out
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after that uh that shock of all shocks surprise surprise uh the home office don't actually know
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how these work that's sort of their job isn't it to know how things work that's that's the only reason
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that there is a civil service is that their their entire raison d'etre is that they know how the
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government works because they specialize or at the very least they know how the specialist subject of
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their department works that's what i mean yeah yeah like if you're in the home office you would
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expect to know how a skilled visa works so is it any surprise that people can just get sponsored by
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anybody a butcher who has 918 separate other butchers in their family that desperately need to
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come over here and fill up the gaps in halal butchering that we have such an urgent market need
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for dan does this sound like reasonable economics well i'm not cutting across the conclusion of your
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segment but it goes back to the whole the purpose of a system is what it does so i'm not really
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surprised that the home office doesn't understand what's going on because i mean the purpose of this
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system is to get as many islamics into the country as possible rubber stamp them as fast as possible
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yeah there's also the you could say that there's a lot of a lot of this kind of motion going on at the
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home office and 24 7 do you remember there was there was a bit where they tried to blame the
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immigration on putin as if he was sending kgb officers into the home office to stamp visas all
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day long make that again i did you you were doing it first yeah mine was a much stronger i was i was
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just going to say that the idea that they're just incompetent like you you go to a doctor and then
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you mention oh my lungs been hurting and they're like you're what lungs i've never heard of these
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before have you tried breathing more they wouldn't even get to that point they don't even understand
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how they work so yeah so so let's let's dig a little bit deeper into this because this was a
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national this was a financial times article and it's taken from this report by the national audit
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office who say that the home office cannot say what the immigration mechanism of skilled worker visas is
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is contributing to the economy this is like a yes minster skit isn't it it's like our civil servants
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were trained to know these sorts of things don't actually know it even though that's well and remember
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the whole reason we had the boris wave in the first place according to dominic cummings was
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a quote that he he cited as being one of boris's which was um open the floodgates i want the ft to
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like me so so does that right when you were reading the ft did you discover that they do in fact now
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like boris johnson and therefore importing three million extra people above the well i believe the
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people they should be liking is the migration advisory committee given that on that trigonometry
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interview that boris johnson just did he actually just blamed everything on them despite the fact
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that as prime minister he could have just overruled whatever they suggested to him whenever he wanted
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yes whenever he wanted little 80 seat majority he could have done any damn thing he pleased
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and it turns out what he wanted was to flood the country with foreigners oh right so he got exactly
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what he wanted although if you actually knew anything about boris johnson's previously stated positions
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before becoming prime minister that's not a surprise yeah he's been pretty open about it the whole
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time he wanted an illegal immigrant amnesty and probably mayor of london wasn't it yeah probably
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still as well mayor of london and was talking about it at the same time as brexit as well
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so he probably still does anyway so uh so what this has found is that the uk government officials do
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not fully understand how the main route for workers to come to britain is being used or what it's
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contributing to the economy the home office did not conduct an impact assessment before widening the
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skilled worker visa route to include entry-level care jobs in 2022 and that was in uh included in
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the report that the national audit office did it's also worth mentioning as well a lot of these entry
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level care jobs they're taking jobs from teenage girls basically yes and then normally who would
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have been doing that and then abusing the people that yeah well there are lots of cases a scandal
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that's ongoing seen lots of videos of um africans being very cruel to our elderly which
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is really infuriating so that's how it shows up in where i am because well i mean it's a reasonably
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nice area and it you know it doesn't have an awful lot of the diversity but where i do see every time
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you see a special person or an old person being walked around the park they're always flanked by a
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by an african of some description yeah it's the same in my area as well again lovely little tudor town
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nobody until about maybe five years ago was particularly diverse except for an indian corner shop that was in
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the town then all of a sudden yep africans parading about all of the old people whenever they're going
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to the local shop that's how they get in that's how they get in and the home office they did they
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didn't figure out what would happen before they allowed that in the first place so good one there
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hang on a minute wasn't the issue that we used to have lots of care workers and then boris fired
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40 000 of them or something because they wouldn't have the you know what in the arm
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i don't know if that has any connection to this stan but but there's stands a reason
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there's there's been a certain vacancy of a certain number of people that happen to be of a certain
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demographic that we share yes that were more likely to have that position and subsequently were fired for
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he created 40 000 vacancies of an unskilled job that could then be filled conveniently by his
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bobby's wave yes i mean in fact my my missus at the time during the uh during all of these events
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was working in a care job and she quit because she didn't want that either yes because she had
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some worries about i don't know if i should say blood clots which may or may not reasonable which
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may or may not have anything to do with the other thing that we are referring to yes so the decision
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was one of the key factors driving a surge in net immigration to the uk with health and care
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accounting for 158 300 of 509 100 applications for skilled worker visas in 2023 high take up of
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that route which opened in 2020 when brexit ended free movement within the uk thank you again boris
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great job you did get brexit done didn't you good job has helped businesses recruit and boosted
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tax revenues according to the financial times boosted tax revenues if you say so if you say so
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it has also led to more people staying permanently in the uk more workers bringing family and more
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than 5 000 people who came on skilled worker visas applying for asylum in 2024 so you came on a skilled
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worker visa but also you're a refugee you need asylum i'm a skilled refugee that's basically what
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they're saying there this is my daily dose of depression that's very strange also okay as well if
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you boost tax revenues that's fantastic but then they bring all of their dependents with them
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who inevitably become a massive burden on the system and then most of the money that they may
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or may not make will not go back into the local economy because as we know from this over nine
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billion pounds leaves the british economy each year due to remittances migrants sending it back home
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because this is not their home this is a economic zone that they work in and leech money off of us
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most countries that aren't lame actually have very strong limits on that very thing if they have any
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migration to their country at all yes we're lame we are yeah we're very lame but going back to the
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article uh so they also point out that nor did the home office which leads government immigration policy
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fully assess the consequences for different sectors before tightening the rules again spring 2024
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introducing a ban on care workers bringing family and higher salary thresholds for other skilled workers
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now obviously i would say that uh tightening the rules is always a good thing but the fact that
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before doing the change in 2022 and now doing the change in 2024 they didn't actually look into
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how any of this would work and what the consequences would be suggests to me that the home office is um
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a department run by headless chickens who have no idea what they're ever doing and just do things
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because they probably feel that they have to that's a great sign i mean given that you have just
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clearly articulated what the impact has been of all of this and you're able to do it off the top of
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your head maybe they did do an impact assessment and then they looked at it and thought yeah probably
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better best bluff it that we just haven't done one and they binned it and that would be some kind of
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offense to hide that from an audit office though wouldn't it uh if that if that was the truth and
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that's just speculation on your part there uh but i mean neither one of them is good though is it
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no either they've no idea what they're doing and just do things for the sake of it or they do know
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what they're doing and they know that it's bad for the country and they do it anyway i think it's
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that one i think it can be both it could be both yes uh here's here's another fun part the white
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hall department does not fully understand blah blah uh adding that it failed to monitor what happened
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to people when their visas expired well they go on benefits illegally illegally and they claim asylum
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but it's good to know that they're really very very astute in their workings here as well as
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confirming the attention to cut overall immigration government ministers have pledged to ensure high
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tech sectors seen as crucial to economic growth will be able to recruit skilled workers from overseas
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since the rules were tightened last year applications for skilled worker visas have already
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halved totaling just 252 700 in 2024 that's still about 252 700 too many by my accounting but oh well
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the rule changes are not the only reason the number of skilled workers has fallen so sharply since 2023
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home office is also scrutinizing applications more closely revoking the license to sponsor visas of
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almost 1500 employers in 2024 and rejecting a fifth of applications of applications by contrast in 2021
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it approved 99 so it really was just the rubber stamping method i would like to add as well that by
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getting people on even if they are actually high skilled people that are going to fill a vacancy that
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contributes to the the economy these very rare immigrants even those are taking jobs from people that
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are natives right in that ordinarily in normal times they would train pressing ways they would train
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someone up they might even sponsor their education domestically to get a skilled worker if there is
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a deficit it makes a company reinvest in the country that they're based in which is what you want that's
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the ideal scenario where they're reinvesting in the the human capital if you will of your country but this
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is just completely outsourcing it and meaning that you have a terminally unemployed nation and uh
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speaking of the terminally unemployed would it surprise you if there are more than 1 million
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foreigners claiming benefits which is a households with at least one foreign national claimant receiving
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more than 7.5 billion pounds in universal credit in the year 2023 no it would surprise me if it was
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any less than that in fact i think 1 million is optimistic isn't there 23.3 million non-ethnic brits
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in the uk so that's what one in 23 at least that we know of it's higher it's going to be higher well
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here's here's a bit of a fall a fun one so in terms of overall numbers of 200 nationalities who are
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claiming benefits poland accounted for the largest number of pure claimants at 89 000 but if you to if
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you take it and make it per capita if you take the data narrow it down to per capita you can find which
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populations are most likely to be claiming benefits and notice anything about all of these
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yes sandy slovakia is a bit of an odd one out slovakia is the odd man out but the rest of them
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all seem to be sub-saharan north african middle eastern it's the the cause of all of our problems
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in fact immigration wise anyway in fact in the congo well actually if you are congolese in britain
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it's basically a coin flip to see if you're on benefits or not because 445 out of 1000 of them
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is on benefits let's also point out the fact that the congo is the the sexual assault capital of the
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world and also uh much enrichment to be taken from this place it's also consistently one of the
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lowest places on earth for quality of education afghanistan is not known for any kind of like
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problem with um violence against women is it no no no nor is iraq syria somalia yeah iran sometimes
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right i mean to be fair there are manchester canal street that um should be worried about
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the iranians i mean now there are actually some legitimate syrian refugees because now that the
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west has backed the takeover there and it succeeded they're just and they're murdering christians
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on mass so actually that's probably the only but i bet none of those are the christian syrians well but
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this these figures will have been from well before yeah yeah well before that i think at latest these
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figures would be from 2023 so that's that's that's good to know how does our government respond how do
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we how do we uh deal with stuff like this well you know we don't get actual solutions although to be
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fair i will say keir starmer deciding to cut back on massive amounts of bureaucracy slash benefits by
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billions of pounds each year would have been nice if the tories had done that starmer is the best
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party leader in british politics at the minute at least out of the people that are in parliament
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i mean yes you're right and that's bad in terms yes that's terrible that's not saying that he's a
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good person we still remember the southport protests we still remember the response to that
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we still know there's winter fuel tax allowance and we also know everything to do with the farmers
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but in terms of actually doing that thing that tories always say that they did
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which was cut back on the state cut back on excess bureaucracy and regulation benefit claimants
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and everything else because he is a blairite and the state is inherently blairite he can just get
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away with anything they will bow to him and do what he wants and so if he says hold up this country's
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about to explode and we need white boys to die in our wars if we're going to go into ukraine
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okay we will do some things that make us look popular for a little bit but we're still getting
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plenty of propaganda about all of this enrichment that we're getting around here people who are
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not contributing to the economy actively taking away from the economy sending our money away into
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other economies and then enriching us further with their cultural presence you start to get
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more things more and more things like this a netflix series adolescence not watched it not planning
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on it they say you should watch it harry because the rest of us don't want to somebody needs to i
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don't want to dan you can watch harry did read those james o'brien books so i still need to do part
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three of that because i did read that book i've just not got around to recording that yet because i
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don't feel like depressing you and carl but i quite enjoy them they're they're wonderful this is the this
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is the most miserable darkest one so you'll probably enjoy it i enjoy that yeah yeah but this is a great
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example of a thing you were just talking about is is they're now gearing up for you know getting the
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white boys to die in their wars again despite the fact they've spent whatever it is 20 30 plus years
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absolutely shitting on the white boys at every possible opportunity and clearly netflix haven't
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got the memo because they're producing another example of yes the london knife crime academic epidemic
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epidemic is that your new is that your sort of pasty it's done by lots of scholars and academics isn't it
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no i think the london knife crime academy's cousin isn't it that's your new pseudonym uh so yeah
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they say that they want their show which is about knife crime young white boy killing some uh killing
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one of his classmates a girl due to the influence of toxic masculinity and misogynist and oh they're
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making Andrew Tate yeah Andrew Tate Andrew Tate has been explicitly named king of the incels
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king of the incels yeah that's what he's most known for right so so does just was it drill rap
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music come up at all i i would doubt i doubt mizzy is going to be making a special guest appearance in
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this so they want it to be shown in parliament so it causes discussion and makes change basically
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like everything else that they want to do they want it to be a signal to censor the internet more and
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more and more because that's all we like doing in this country so uh what they've said is that it was
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stephen graham this chap here who's appeared in a lot of stuff and writer jack thorne are the co-creators
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and co-writers of this show and they say it follows the miller family lives blown apart when a 13 year
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old boy is arrested for killing a female classmate jamie the character has been polluted by ideas that
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he's heard online that make sense to him that have a logic that's attractive to him that answer the
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questions as to his loneliness and isolation that lead him to make very bad choices we have to
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understand the things he's been consuming and that means specific especially looking at the internet
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the manosphere and incel culture hello steven so did jamie watch one of your segments harry he must
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have done he must have done or one of connor's uh graham said that he was inspired to make the show
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after seeing two separate reports of boys stabbing girls to death would you like to see what one of
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those reports was i think i know which one it is yeah so uh there's this article from my london which
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actually gives details of one of the incidents that inspired here roiden that's uh
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horrific murder of a croydon school girl and uh he cited the tragic death of school girl elian andam
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almost sounds like mandem who was uh killed by hassan sentamu after she got off a bus outside the wit gift
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center on her way to old palace of john wit gift school in croydon on september 27th 2023 now hassan
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hassan looks exactly like pasty little jamie here no oh right oh okay oh that's a shock isn't it no
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when there is a stabbing in london if i were a betting man yes he is of the demographic to be
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fair most likely to watch andrew tate so that's perhaps there is some truth to it uh so sentamu has
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recently been found guilty of her murder in january and was sentenced to a minimum of 23 years in
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prison at the old bailey just this thursday passed so here's the murderer the guy who killed another
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foreigner so this is just an example of foreign violence being imported into croydon for some
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reason to whose benefit who knows the home office certainly don't know 18 year old man stabbing a 13
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year old 15 15 i was 15 sorry and it was back in um 2023 so he may have been 16 so refresh my memory
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harry i've got that picture in my mind yep yep what does the netflix version of that look it looks like
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this it's amazing how when when they're basing it on a black person mysteriously that person becomes
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white but when it's a white person that's done something significant and noteworthy they become black
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it's a it's a i need a word for this netflixing whatever it is race casting yeah yeah and it's
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what you're describing there is similar to a time to kill as well the samuel l jackson film where
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uh the black man's daughter it was years before i realized that they'd swap that as well is uh is
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raped and murdered by a couple of white boys and then when you look into the incident that actually
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inspired it well actually it was a direct opposite yeah it was the direct opposite of that and it's a
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horrifying story but for some reason you've got to race swap them for um purely socio-economic
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reasons black people can't do anything wrong is why which is why the home office has to let as
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many congolese in as possible so that they can enrich our culture with their um bladed articles and rapes
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yes anyway that's my segment and hopefully yours won't be quite so depressing i'll go through some
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rumble rants now the engaged few who would have thought harry was such a ramones fan somebody put
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something in my drink reference engaged few again are there any of the skilled worker visas being used
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to bring in vape shop cashiers probably it's a very difficult job very skilled is you really do need
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a lot of skill years to do that ramshackle otter had depression two years ago had a phone appointment
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doctor kept asking me if i felt tearful i was crying i kept saying yes eventually she spelled it
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out no tearful cheerful oh where would we be without them where would we be without let's go on to your
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segment chuck i'm just don't kill us i'm just reeling from the it's like i go to the doctor
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with depression are you cheerful no that's the opposite while you're weeping while you're crying
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your eyes out as well good god okay well i'm going to be talking about a fake conservative and just the
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one because they get on my nerves a lot and i've seen them a lot and they get banded around and get
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them do the media circus and i find it really irritating and it's just one example of how people can use
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things like the culture war and things that are legitimate concerns to the native population
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and piggyback on it to make a career for themselves um but in an entirely unrelated note we have a
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magazine um it is very good it is a very good magazine and uh if you want to be in the exclusive
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club of islander magazine owners i believe i was told there's only a thousand copies left and so
00:25:32.580
we're almost sold out so actually you need to kind of hurry up but do you want to be a loser do you
00:25:39.620
want to wake up at the end of the week and realize you've not got islander look at how beautiful it is
00:25:44.180
it's a beautiful magazine and um yes rory's done a great job with the graphics and also there's merch
00:25:49.940
on the website as well if you want to get yourself a t-shirt or a mug if you're not into reading
00:25:54.180
and um like josh yeah i don't like reading who cares who cares about words eh the written word
00:25:59.780
yourself a mug but if you care about words this is your best way to spend your money but anyway with
00:26:05.140
that out of the way uh wow stop looking at the merch store i'm done now okay all right sorry um
00:26:13.220
yes so the lady i'm talking about is this one this lady here and here she is talking to jacob
00:26:19.380
um on gb news gb news love inviting her on and she's often referred to as britain's strictest head
00:26:27.140
teacher and this isn't a self-appointed title this was the title of i think it was a 2022 itv series
00:26:34.500
which looked at her school that she was ahead of and we're going to be looking at all of the
00:26:38.420
different things that she's done in her school and some of some of it's good some of it's bad i
00:26:42.820
don't know if i'd be proud of that just being strict by itself i was about to thing i want exactly
00:26:48.580
the best head teacher and strictness can actually be counterproductive to encouraging students to
00:26:54.020
learn i was going to say exactly that great minds harry yeah there we go but yes she gets invited
00:26:59.620
onto lots of things and we're going to um eventually get to some of them but i wanted to
00:27:05.380
you know go to her profile here britain's strictest head mistress she calls herself that but i think
00:27:10.820
that's just a good marketing term if you want to appear in the media it gives the media a reason
00:27:15.460
to talk to you um of michaela school which we're going to be talking about as well small c conservative
00:27:20.820
values here we go that's how she gets a foot in the door truth race and personal responsibility
00:27:27.540
i mean i'm okay with the truth and personal responsibility part what does race mean in
00:27:31.540
isolation like that i don't know it seems unusual but you will see it's his own sentence which one
00:27:37.940
um yeah that's a very good uh snapshot of her school because it's in london i believe so it's
00:27:45.220
going to be very mixed and diverse it is yes it's it's like uh it's useful then it is we'll be talking
00:27:51.620
about this don't worry so we need to go to her early life um because she was born in auckland new
00:28:00.260
zealand um she is the the daughter of frank burblesingh an indo-guyanese man and his wife
00:28:08.340
and her mother is from jamaica she mostly grew up in toronto and canada and spent periods in nigeria
00:28:15.540
and france and then eventually studied in oxford um and then i and she also was a member of the
00:28:22.020
socialist workers party which is interesting who's living marxism by i'm curious now have a look who wrote
00:28:28.500
this uh the just the journal revolutionary communist party yeah so she has no claim to
00:28:35.860
being british either culturally or ethnically because obviously she's not spent much time here
00:28:42.660
she has no heritage here um most of her life in canada here are pictures of the school you can see
00:28:48.260
that it is a very new school it is one of the uk with a y schools isn't it it's very diverse so i'm
00:28:54.980
going to read a little bit for about this school because you start to get a picture of this person
00:28:58.900
who's being invited on the the right-wing media circuit um sure the braverman was the first chair
00:29:05.780
of governors there yes interesting that that she was there when it was founded and also um michael gove
00:29:12.900
um this is from wikipedia i think it's uh down the bottom here the school has been described as a
00:29:17.780
beneficiary of former uk education secretary michael gove's support both financially and bureaucratically
00:29:24.180
and also uh in september of 2019 um the school was cited by education secretary gavin williamson
00:29:31.700
remember conservative government at this point another conservative in the same party as the
00:29:36.020
other two and as a as an example of a free school in a tough area that achieved excellent results so my
00:29:42.420
pet theory is that this school is given as much support as humanly possible because all of these senior
00:29:48.660
conservative politicians have skin in the game if the school does badly it reflects badly on their
00:29:54.660
education policy on their um competence as you know also officials it's a blueprint for the future
00:30:02.900
it is exactly that it's a rough area in a diverse part of london don't read between the lines in that
00:30:09.380
statement um and they're getting good results and of course there is the fact that if you've got a
00:30:17.140
very specific school with a very specific ethos maybe it selects for the kind of people that are
00:30:23.060
going to do well it could not it could necessarily be you know you get a good grammar school with a
00:30:28.260
high entry requirement you get a higher standard of of student that's more enthusiastic to be there
00:30:32.980
in the first place it's just it's possible that's all i'm saying but i want to point out just how
00:30:37.940
dystopian this is and this all has a purpose i'm not just um having a go at the school and some of
00:30:42.900
it i do approve of i do approve of them trying very hard to give them a good education and also
00:30:48.500
trying to not let them get away and be slack with bad behavior that stuff is great so i want to be a
00:30:54.820
bit nuanced i'm not just having a go but i'm going to read from this the school emphasizes discipline
00:31:00.980
and has a traditional style of teaching that's fine there is a zero tolerance policy regarding poor
00:31:05.860
behavior that's good fine a boot camp week at the start of the year teaches the new year seven pupils
00:31:10.980
the rules and consequences of breaking them perfectly fine there is a strict uniform code
00:31:15.860
and no group work well this sounds good to me so far this sounds okay but then it starts going a
00:31:20.980
little bit work has positives and negatives sometimes normally it was just me doing all
00:31:25.060
the work so i didn't get in trouble and then other people flying on my coat i was thinking i was
00:31:28.740
thinking well it can help with group decision making and teamwork but then again you are right
00:31:33.540
most of the time it would be like oh i guess i'll do everything then and then it says children sit in
00:31:38.420
rows and learn by rote and walk in single file between classrooms so now it's starting to sound
00:31:44.740
a bit like a prison sounds a bit chinese it does doesn't it a bit singaporean perhaps um staff at
00:31:51.940
the school tend to reject most of the accepted wisdoms of the 21st century um fair enough
00:31:57.460
that bit yeah um the only problem is the they've rejected the wrong ones pupils must be silent in
00:32:03.620
school corridors and are forbidden to gather in groups larger than four this sounds like some sort
00:32:08.340
of curfew or like a prison yard this you're basically preventing the children so is it just
00:32:14.100
having a childhood groups larger than four in the corridors or on all of the school grounds
00:32:20.180
forbidden to gather in groups of larger than four i guess i suppose in general it doesn't specify
00:32:25.860
in school corridors there so just in general sorry you're not allowed more than four friends at a
00:32:30.180
time we've got a group of five well they're gonna have to stand on their own you're gonna have to
00:32:35.300
single that one out you know the one they've got to be two meters away school policies have been
00:32:40.180
described as neo-strict because it combines the use of punishments with rewards merit points are
00:32:44.580
given for good behavior and achievement that's fine i suppose we had merit points in my school yeah same
00:32:49.220
here and then it carries on to look the lunchtime one is the one that i'm most offended by
00:32:54.500
lunchtime consists of a pescatarian meal and it's it doesn't serve beef or pork oh i wonder why
00:33:02.340
because of indians and muslims and uh remember this this is someone who's supposedly going out of a
00:33:08.500
way to enforce british values on them this this obviously british why not at least some chicken
00:33:13.540
then i know yeah it has to be fish apparently chickens off the table well look at the next people
00:33:18.580
pupils to sit at a table of six well just a minute ago it was four i know yeah well they're allowed an
00:33:23.860
extra two people one of them is a teacher or guest though so it's actually five and take responsibility
00:33:29.300
for serving each other they lay the table together one pours water another brings in and serves the food
00:33:35.220
so it's basically courting them to be like waiters and waitresses this this feels like surf class it does
00:33:43.220
another serves i don't know i think on balance i'm still on board i mean there's certainly worse
00:33:49.220
things but it just seems a little bit arbitrary yeah it feels arbitrary it feels strange and the
00:33:54.900
englishman in me just yes just just looks at this and says let on on as long as they're not breaking
00:34:01.780
the rules let the children play how they want at break time this is exactly the sentiment i was going
00:34:06.420
to get at is that it's very un-english in england this this school is in london that's true
00:34:11.140
it is i suppose even given the breakup of the population there you have mentioned singapore i
00:34:17.860
can imagine where you're going to be taking this next i believe that we might have been taking some
00:34:22.420
lessons from singapore's for former premier yes how did you know um in the document right there oh well
00:34:29.540
don't read my notes cheat um teacher um to clear the table following the meal i wonder how they decide
00:34:37.460
those two that's a rough you know end of the stick teachers eat with their students and the tables
00:34:41.780
discuss what the children have learned that day or a topic of the day such as the most inspirational
00:34:46.340
person they've learned about in their history classes they don't have any opportunity to actually
00:34:50.420
be children and have fun and talk to each other they've always got adult supervision at all times
00:34:55.860
after eating the people spend five minutes thanking someone followed by two claps from the rest of the
00:35:03.300
school this is like 1984 for dinner ladies what age becoming increasingly soviet what happens to the
00:35:11.620
first people to stop clapping they don't get pudding what age group does this go up to in this school
00:35:18.260
18 it's a secondary school yeah right because there's got to be at least some 16 and 17 year
00:35:23.300
olds are watching zoom a historian and if they wasn't around at dinner time to discuss the most
00:35:27.940
inspirational historical figure they've been learning about so children who's your favorite
00:35:35.060
philosopher no you don't answer don't answer that oh dear yeah i've got a question about liebenstrand
00:35:45.300
it also says children are not allowed to bring food or drink to school which includes snacks and
00:35:49.620
chewing gum chewing gum i can understand children make a mess with chewing gum but they're not allowed to
00:35:54.340
bring their own food or drink so you bring a bottle of water with you you're not allowed that the school
00:36:00.100
has to provide everything for you you must be subservient to the school so you're not allowed to bring
00:36:05.140
your own food or drink but so that means that explicitly unless you are eligible for free school meals
00:36:12.180
the school is making profit off of you by charging you for food well they're not two pound 50 that was how
00:36:19.060
much i paid almost 17 years ago when i was in school so it's obviously subsidized i don't care
00:36:25.060
what i did was bring in a sandwich i mostly did that too a sandwich a packet of crisps and a drink of
00:36:34.420
some kind maybe a chocolate bar maybe a chocolate bar if i i didn't have the same lunch yes you're not
00:36:39.380
making the case for me also have the kid who would come in with a backpack full of pepsi uh who would sell it off
00:36:45.060
as always and that's always on yeah the first merchant i've got i've got to say on back because
00:36:50.980
that was an entrepreneurial spirit one of them would be dealing smack out of their backpack if
00:36:55.860
you let them bring their own food in you there'd be it would be little baggies coming out this isn't
00:36:59.780
scotland smack is not food all i'm saying is josh is you've not made the case i i'm i'm still on balance
00:37:07.300
pro this school well you'll change your mind right okay what would you want your own daughters going
00:37:12.820
there well yeah but i don't live in i live in england not london no fair so i saw this uh this
00:37:20.340
is from lee kuan yu of singapore we have to lock up people without trial whether they are communists
00:37:26.260
whether they are language chauvinists whether they are religious extremists if you don't do that the
00:37:29.860
country would be in ruins why did he take such a strict line well it was because there were three
00:37:35.300
competing ethnicities in singapore and he had to be strict you all hated each other yes that why singapore
00:37:41.860
went like that yes yeah i didn't know that literally because it was multi-ethnic and lee kuan
00:37:47.380
only one way to solve this and this person here rightly points out as europe diversifies its police
00:37:52.500
state will grow and and part of the reason i think that this school has been so successful is it's
00:37:57.540
ruling over a tower of babble basically isn't it uh of a thousand cultures with an iron fist and that's
00:38:05.140
why whereas the english sensibility and why i was sort of reflexively disgusted as was harry is that
00:38:12.020
it's not english it's not an english way of doing things it's it's not part of our but it's but it's
00:38:17.140
not in england it's in london and you know people yes but it's it's that it's being used as a model to
00:38:22.500
say this is great get this everywhere that's why oh no no this doesn't need to come to surrey or
00:38:28.340
hampshire for example i will i will also say if there's one thing i wouldn't want michael gov near
00:38:32.980
as a school but that's either here nor there you've heard those rumors too have you i think we all have
00:38:38.180
and uh i was talking to cunley dropper about this actually by the way i don't mean that don't sue me
00:38:42.580
i don't mean it and uh he's saying by the way josh since singapore is actually less diverse than the uk
00:38:49.860
it could actually afford to be less strict about these things and hold more of the anglers well
00:38:54.900
you get the idea right but he's basically saying that now singapore is actually more mono-ethnic than
00:38:59.620
the uk they can afford to be less strict famously strict singapore than we are which is interesting
00:39:06.660
isn't it so this strictness is actually just the the new form of ruling your minority kingdom it's a
00:39:14.980
pilot study why do you think all the senior tories are involved it's because it's a means
00:39:19.700
of um figuring out how you're going to govern your new um disunited rabble i suppose multi-ethnic
00:39:26.660
state yeah and then i saw this and this is her on spiked for multiculturalism to work we all need
00:39:35.300
to make sacrifices no we don't well i guess in that case i don't want multiculturalism to work
00:39:39.860
because i never wanted it here in the first place i don't wholeheartedly agree why should we englishmen
00:39:44.580
sacrifice our own liberties that we fought for for centuries just for the sake of some bat
00:39:50.580
shit insane experiment that's never worked anywhere it's been tried if someone bought the port if
00:39:56.180
someone came into my house and i said would it be all right if you took your shoes off and they said no
00:40:00.660
i i want to keep my shoes on i'd be like well okay i want you out of my house then it's as simple as that
00:40:05.860
if you don't respect the rules of the house you leave you get kicked out that's that's the way it
00:40:11.220
works the world over in our homes uh used to be our country as well that is the norm that is normal
00:40:18.340
that is the default human experience and the expectation that we should have to make sacrifices
00:40:25.140
is the aberration and a moral abomination at my school we don't eat meat or allow muslim children
00:40:31.140
to pray separately we need to share in the overall british experience the reason not a british experience
00:40:36.100
what's british about any of that none um the the reason she doesn't allow muslim children to pray
00:40:42.420
separately is because it's not inclusive so it's not there's no no baseness to it it's not like we're
00:40:48.340
not having any of that nonsense in here uh it's it's more well if you go off and pray separately that
00:40:54.900
makes you divided from the rest of the school and that will be bad because everything has to be
00:40:59.700
about keeping these disparate groups together wait the entire way in which the school is structured
00:41:05.620
is they don't let the ginger kids in on the muslim prayers do they they better not that'd be like
00:41:09.700
that'd be like honey to a fly that would oh no well if that's if there's any kids white enough to be
00:41:14.980
ginger in school but loads of the muslim parents tried to sue the school and i think were defeated in
00:41:19.220
the end um because of it uh but this uh was picked up on by kundi drukpa and this was i thought quite
00:41:28.260
excellent because i'd actually included some of these pictures uh in my segment before i spotted
00:41:33.860
it spot that british values hand yeah just all of the things that we've had to sacrifice like we've
00:41:41.940
got the multi-faith prayer room obviously for muslims look at it yeah um the school uniform i don't have
00:41:47.060
any gripes with the fact you've got to make them eat vegetables is annoying uh humanity close just
00:41:52.180
renaming streets the cctv state all of the authoritarianism the police officer waiting to
00:41:58.660
uh to throw john stewart mill in your face it's all in here sonny but yeah it's it's all nonsense
00:42:06.580
isn't it we shouldn't have to make sacrifices and the fact that people like jacob rees mogg who you'd
00:42:12.580
think would have a little bit more of a spirited defense of englishness no no he said many times he
00:42:19.380
doesn't care about demographic change in this country that's true and i believe him but you'd
00:42:24.740
at least think a man who embodies the platonic ideal of a an aristocrat would at least have something
00:42:29.620
but no apparently not and she also um oh no this comes from this article i've gone on long enough so
00:42:38.420
i'm not going to read from this but it is basically even worse in the article than it is in the um byline
00:42:44.420
that they used to advertise it um it says our position at school is that for multiculturalism
00:42:49.940
to work we all need to make various sacrifices we have christians muslims hindus buddhists jehovah's
00:42:54.900
witnesses we've got kids from a whole variety of different backgrounds black and white and in order
00:42:59.540
for all of us to get along we can't say that we want uh what we want goes we have one group or have
00:43:05.300
one group dominate i can't read for some reason apparently i didn't go to this school uh what we
00:43:09.940
need to do is share in the overall british experience well the overall british experience
00:43:14.420
is being ethnically british not being any of those religions other than christian well those poor white
00:43:19.940
kids aren't getting a british experience are they're not they're in the land of their ancestors in what's
00:43:24.660
supposed to be its capital city and they're getting whatever this is some multi-culti nonsense
00:43:30.740
and uh unsurprisingly all right calm down there mike graham i'm gonna be on talk tv in no time
00:43:38.980
one day uh she wrote this article um yes two days ago now actually um in defense of ofsted's hamid patel
00:43:47.700
this is the guy this is not um a cia most wanted list this is um i believe he's ofsted chair now ofsted
00:43:57.220
chair and she does make out an important point that the position of ofsted chair is in reality
00:44:02.420
a largely ceremonial role which makes it all the more interesting that as a symbol for such a
00:44:07.140
ceremonial role that they would choose this man yeah and i think that she's complaining about all
00:44:11.780
of the people uh complaining about his appointment but what it suggests is that islam just has another
00:44:18.180
foothold to further impose itself on people who are either indifferent to it or actively oppose it
00:44:25.060
seen him before wasn't he in the opening scene of team america world police i think so yeah so
00:44:29.700
what's this line that you've got highlighted here just as i have prohibited prayer in my secular school
00:44:34.580
hamid patel has upheld the traditions of his islamic schools encouraging girls to wear the hijab
00:44:41.140
yes where is where is the the britishness yeah in any of this where's the he's encouraging
00:44:48.340
women to wear hijabs that must make him british must make him conservative yeah this is not ironically
00:44:56.100
conservatives will adopt that line within a few years well they are spineless cowards so this isn't
00:45:01.460
in the interest of the native british people in any sense of the word and it's even being picked up in
00:45:06.580
america here they are talking about uh meet the strictest headmistress in britain here they are
00:45:11.940
writing a puff piece about it blah blah blah almost chaston williams uh here she is on lbc uh talking
00:45:19.060
to nick ferrari um who actually opposed some of the things she was saying you can't say the bus was late
00:45:24.900
that's why i'm like what if the bus was late well you've i guess it's four lashings for me and uh here's
00:45:33.620
peter bogosian known uh accused liberal we need more educators like her and uh and there are loads
00:45:44.260
of people replying leftists mainly saying this is the crux of all conservatives they believe you should
00:45:49.940
be held responsible at all times for things completely out of your control which is not
00:45:55.140
representative of conservatives at all they think that being conservative just means being mean and
00:46:00.020
strict because that's how she presents it but that's not true at all as we can see we are more
00:46:04.580
conservative than she is and we well other than maybe dan mostly disagree with the means that well
00:46:10.580
i wouldn't want to send my kids here but then i don't live in london not yet but imagine you did
00:46:16.260
live in london imagine london is a gigantic festering well i did live in london for 20 years and as soon
00:46:22.900
as i had kids i was like right i'm not raising them here again but it's a tumor and the cancer will spread
00:46:30.420
yes it is yes but you can also go too far in the other direction and the guardian was whinging
00:46:36.500
about her as well saying the dogma of britain's strictest headmist upon as old as time gentle
00:46:41.860
parenting produces happier kids so there's that picture does look very relaxing yeah that does
00:46:47.380
look like you could get your if you could get your baby to do that you've done something right
00:46:52.580
problem here is but gentle parenting it's like it's okay you're just getting a little bit angry you'll get
00:46:59.540
it out of your system once you smashed up our bookcase is that that's what i imagine when i
00:47:03.620
hear gentle parenting and also is the aim to produce happier kids or is it to produce healthier kids
00:47:09.700
because you know eating your vegetables rather than eating a tub of ice cream
00:47:14.260
uh would make a child less happy but it is the right thing to do right yes and uh it goes too far in
00:47:20.980
the opposite direction and so i just wanted to draw attention to this because not only does it show some of
00:47:25.700
the tools in the toolkit of the elites that they're going to use on their new uh multicultural
00:47:33.140
dominion i suppose but also the kinds of people who are spreading these ideas and they get the
00:47:40.020
rounds in the media despite the fact that were people to be more knowledgeable about their actual
00:47:45.860
beliefs and what they're pushing for there's no way anyone would remotely consider them right-wing
00:47:51.140
or conservative in any sense of the word okay we've got two rumble rants would you like to read them
00:47:59.140
sure the engaged few living marxism is if anything lives for very long under marxism
00:48:06.420
and the engaged few again they're not describing a school you're describing the c-e-c-o-t prison in
00:48:12.900
el salvador it does sound a bit simple doesn't it so in this segment i've got a very simple uh goal i'm
00:48:21.460
going to try and make the case that europe is actually worth saving that it has achieved some quite
00:48:27.700
remarkable things that's a pretty easy case to make well yeah i don't think it's going to be enormously
00:48:32.740
challenging but i'm going to give it a go all the same it's nice to have some remoralization this
00:48:37.060
this was this was put in my head because we don't often we tend to do fairly black pilly segments all
00:48:41.860
the time um and i saw a clip on the on the interweb last night that was was so inspiring
00:48:48.020
um that i thought i had to build something around it so um basically the setup here and then our then
00:48:53.540
i'll follow on the rest of my argument is a chance encounter in uh the uh rome airport for whatever
00:49:00.660
reason the rome airport has a piano just sort of lying around so if you're any good at the piano you can
00:49:05.700
you can rock up and and play a bit for people passing by and on this occasion um a couple of
00:49:10.660
young girls um had their violins with them as passing by um and and and a rather sort of beautiful
00:49:16.580
encounter happened and this is the sort of interaction which is the product of many centuries of european
00:49:22.660
culture and it's a bit of a long clip but it's so enjoyable i thought it was i thought it was worth
00:49:27.620
playing in full so a little bit of background here that girl she looks a bit asian um partially i mean
00:49:34.660
the other one doesn't so much and the mother looks looks i don't know i don't know it doesn't
00:49:38.660
matter whether it's slightly asian or not the points of music is the important point the point
00:49:42.660
is i mean the the piece of music they're going to play is uh vivaldi winter uh from the four seasons
00:49:48.180
so written around um 1720 and of course the four seasons they they they are supposed to engender
00:49:56.420
a feeling of that season so this one is going to be the winter movement so you get this sort of fast
00:50:01.540
pacey choppy violin bits which are supposed to uh represent you know sharp changing winds um
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sudden dynamic shifts um unpredictable winds what's that fighting cold yes exactly all that kind of
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stuff and descending violin runs to to give you the effect of gushing winds but but just look at this
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and look at and just think about the the centuries of european culture that culminated in in a chance
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encounter like this play play this for us jack you want to play with me okay like both of you okay sure
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You almost listened to the whole bloody thing then.
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That is very, very impressive of those two young girls.
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I have been trying to learn that piece on guitar for a little while.
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Playing the violin as well is a very difficult instrument to play
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because it's not like guitar like you or I might play
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which makes it a lot harder when you've got to learn something.
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And for girls as young as 11 and 8, that's amazing.
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I mean, the fact that you've got airplanes taking off in the first place.
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You've got the craftsmanship of the piano, the piece of music itself.
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Dedication to perfection that allows young children
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to get to that level of technical mastery as well.
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many things that have worked in order to bring this together.
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And it got me thinking, look, there's a lot more to European culture.
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I will have to sadly say that I always feel when I see videos like that
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Someone's going to be saying it in the audience
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No, that doesn't take away from how impressive it is.
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I won't be able to come anywhere close to doing justice
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But, you know, here's a thread looking at marble sculptures.
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So that image you're seeing there of the hand in the net,
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That is the culmination of a lifetime of experience there, isn't it?
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is that you can dedicate yourself to your craft
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for the entirety of your life and become a master.
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Well, I mean, often these masters could be in their 20s
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They've been training since they were quite young.
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would not necessarily be making money from this.
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This is what is possible once you get rid of child labour laws.
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where you can see how the skin creases underneath his hand.
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but I can imagine that that's not easy in the...
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because, of course, all of this sculpture was...
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If you like the illusion of transparency in marble,
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So he's unable to order a copy of The Islander,