The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1174
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Summary
In this episode of the lotus eaters, Dan and Nate discuss the departure of Tory leader Keegan Badenok, the election of a new Tory Prime Minister, and the future of the Conservative Party. We also talk about the Tory leader's recent interview with Sky News' Domonic cummings and whether or not he is actually a Tory.
Transcript
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hello and welcome to the podcast of the lotus eaters it's number 1174 remarkably um it is
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wednesday the 28th of may 2025 and i'm joined by nate aka mr hate reviews how are you sir i'm good
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how are you yeah not too bad not too shabby some wednesday weather's quite nice out isn't it it's
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quite nice here in the west of england it's not too bad or british summer yeah and hopefully we
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might be joined by steven wolf a bit later um he's running a tiny bit late unfortunately life gets in
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the way sometimes right okay so need to mention the trivium straight off the bat at the top of the
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support all right so the first topic for today um i just thought we could talk a little bit about
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the tories and reform and um dominic cummings so recently on sky news dominic cummings did um
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uh an interview with them where he talked about various things and he's sort of an insider
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i wouldn't know exactly the degree to which he's plugged in i would have thought not as much as he
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used to be when he was at number 10 but you can only imagine still massively in the know yeah i'd
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imagine he's in that he's in the orbit isn't he oh god yeah that's sort of great deal that he would
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know but yeah certainly not not to the rate that he did previously i know some people have had
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criticisms of him but i quite like him um i think whenever he speaks nearly always it's interesting
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yeah no i i like i like what he has to say i think you're right pretty much everything he does say is
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interesting whether you agree with it or disagree it's always interesting and he's one of those
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individuals that doesn't really mince his words which i appreciate you know where you stand with
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someone like that um he's in the political orbit but he's not remotely uh sort of giving the vibes
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of a politician with their wishy-washy nonsense like he's just straight down the line so whether
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you like or dislike what he's saying at least you know he's probably telling the truth basically on
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the inside if not actually part of the establishment itself which is nice yeah no i don't i wouldn't say
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i don't agree with every take i've ever heard from him far from it but it's interesting yeah right um
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so okay he did an interview with uh with sky news where he said a bunch of things which i thought was
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sort of uh worth going over i suppose one of the main ones was that he predicted kemi will be gone
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either relatively soon or by may next year he said news at one kemi badenok won't last
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no breaking breaking news you heard it here first guys kemi badenok isn't massively popular
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yeah um gerian immigrant yeah um so one of the things he said um quite and this is a quote um
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there's already people who are organizing to get rid of her and i think that that will work if it
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doesn't work this year it will definitely happen after next may maybe that's the local elections
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next may is that what yeah i presume that's what that is he said she's a goner so there's going to
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be a big transition there um now as we said he's not necessarily like god he doesn't know he can't
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predict the future but he knows better than nearly everyone nearly everyone 99.99 percent of everyone
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else yeah he will know so so that's interesting to see such a strong statement she is a goner sort of
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thing yeah i mean look i i would i would agree she's she is gone she's an idiot she's no she's a
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charisma vacuum right she speaks everyone leaves quite literally right she did that live stream with
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like less than 300 people watching did she what was that conservatives when was that i can't remember i
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can't remember exactly people in the chat i'm sure will be furiously typing it down below but they did
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a live stream there's like 300 people watching which is absurd for the conservatives yeah so it's not
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you know she is going to go obviously the conservatives need to try and save the husk
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of a political party that they are but that last statement there's gonna be a big transition it's
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like transition to what yeah they're already wet scum but they're going to get worse i can't see them
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actually becoming right wing they're not going to become what they need to be so they're not going
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to transition to it in into anything the transition handing over power maybe to someone else yeah
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they're generic cool i mean he's not that great he says the right stuff but he didn't do the right
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stuff they don't have anyone in the party that has the balls or the political acumen to be anything
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special yeah it's a big transition to what yeah right well that was one of the other points he made
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he said that maybe they're beyond saving sort of with the best will in the world yeah 100%
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beyond saving i don't think there's anyone that would vote for them anyone no done they're i mean
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obviously they're there are still diehards yeah card carrying died in the wall 100% that would never
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not vote horry yeah but they'll be dead in 10 years and then that party will be dead the time of the
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conservatives is over yeah everything crossed zero seats yeah the time for them's over they they've
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it's the same with the movie industry right when a property wastes or a studio wastes goodwill with
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the audience it's exactly the same thing with a political party you have goodwill people have good
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will you know for a political party but if you waste it you squander it you spit in the voters faces time
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and time again and the british people yeah they move slow but when their minds changed their mind has
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changed and we've seen that now i think they're done they're gone i don't think they can be saved
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yeah i mean coming to use the imagery of a an event horizon a black hole that obviously you know
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like the event horizon the point of no return yeah that that might actually be in there like they're
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already beyond that that they're sort of terminally wounded well let's listen to a couple of minutes
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of him talk about it uh you see a scenario where farage could be prime minister oh yeah yeah a lot of echo
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on that attention because the old system is just so completely broken okay like it's broken enough
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that that that could easily happen um if he does what i'm suggesting and actually and it's set out
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a path for how the reform is going to change how reform is going to bring in people how it's
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structurally going to alter what it's going to build how it's going to do policy how it's going to recruit
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mps etc etc if he does that then there'll be a huge surge of interest and support in into the whole
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whole thing is that what you said to him yeah obviously yeah when i when i yeah yeah um i mean
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it's not anything particularly secret is what i've said to everyone for years what i tried to do in
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number 10 right it's like bringing bringing these people and try and change how the thing works yeah
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so if he does that then it will it will be super popular and it will be effective and the old
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parties won't know how to cope with it if he doesn't can i just ask you did he seem like he
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was kind of listening yeah i mean yeah yeah okay reform has been a one-man band it's been nigel and
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iphone has they can win 50 100 150 with reformers nigel and iphone but they can't okay
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he goes on to say the model of professionalism here um he goes on to say actually some of the
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things we that we've been saying for ages for months okay he says a couple of things that are
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exactly the same that i've seen carl make videos about the nigel needs uh um a group a team around
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him i mean again dominic talks about it being a um nigel and an iphone a one-man team right okay
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what you really need is a 10-man team you say look this this person's going to be my foreign secretary
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this person's going to be my home secretary uh and you know a real sort of genuine believable
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credible government in waiting yeah we don't have any of that but we've been saying that for ages and
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ages i'm not saying mr cummings has directly stolen our tapes or anything but um he he is now saying
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it on the mainstream sky news uh it's sort it's kind of obvious isn't it to everyone looking on now
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that wish reform even the tiniest amount of goodwill isn't this uh what got rupert lowe stabbed in the
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back uh yeah pretty much it was that yeah yeah uh well well among other things yeah well yeah of course
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yeah i mean look that's obvious you know it can't be the cult of farage it has to be something deeper
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than that right it has to be there's nothing there without a team you know like look at what
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labor's got again just rank imbeciles in power you've got rachel from accounts the economist that
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is just destroying the economy right you you need people that you know the the british
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public can buy into and go oh yeah that person will that that person will save the economy that
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person you know ex-army or whatever that person's the you know defense secretary great excellent these
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are the people that we want right not just oh there's the leader yeah no absolutely i mean even
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if you've got an organization that's like six people big whoever's at the top needs to be able
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to delegate a bunch of stuff yeah i mean if you've got an organization that's about the size
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of lotus eaters or 20 25 in that ballpark then yeah still so if you're running a government
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yeah you not only need to be able to delegate loads of stuff but you need stars in their own right
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and it's not great that any of the stars under the leader should necessarily outshine him i get that
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in fact it used to be the case in the past i'm thinking of um the governments leading up to world
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war one where sort of the foreign secretary would be a brighter star than the prime minister himself
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so it used to happen yeah yeah um but now you want sort of a constellation of stars around you as
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well um so i don't i don't see the issue unless you're a massive egotistical douche i don't see the
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issue with people that are more talented than you in different roles below the leader a leader's role
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is not to be the best of the best that's not what a leader is a leader's role when you're leading a
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group of people is the ability to lead people you have to be the best at leading people nurturing talent
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fostering growth within those people's um scopes you know that they're good at that's what a leader is
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you have to be the best at leading people not the best at everything that's not what a leader is
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right so i don't see the issue with that i i think it's yeah i don't know that that's the thinking of
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a popularity contest which is not what politics should be although unfortunately it is no i
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absolutely agree i absolutely agree it always struck me as odd when i was old enough to sort of
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realize this i don't know in my late teens or something but quite often government ministers heads
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of departments um secretaries of state aren't often in in our time anyway uh they're often aren't
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experts in that field like you've got a health secretary who doesn't know anything about health
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or administration they they just they used to share a flat with the prime minister when they're in their
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20s and so now they're yeah they rode on their coattails to become an mp and now they're secretary of
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state for something it's like really that guy well really but yeah no i mean that it's absurd and i think
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it's even more absurd when you view our sort of societal paradigm at the moment which is you know
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the the era of the expert trust the experts trust the science and you have people that are the most
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unqualified in positions to lead those departments you're like well that what it's bizarre like it's
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truly bizarre you know it shouldn't be the case anyway but it's even weirder when you look at how
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you know trust the science trust the experts it's the world who doesn't make any sense this is a
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contradiction right here and it's so obvious when they shuffle them around this guy was uh like uh
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education secretary and now he's the foreign secretary like the next day it's like really
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yeah so so they weren't they weren't doing anything i think that's actually what it reveals is that they
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don't do anything yeah right that that's what it that's what it signals to me is that these
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these ministers are being paid for to do nothing literally to do to do nothing which makes sense
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because that's why you've got you know such issues with any political party because of whitehall
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the civil servants they they do everything i also find it very telling when an entirely new government
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comes in not just a not just a minister but an entirely new government will come in and they
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don't change anything about the civil service its structure or the individuals the permanent secretaries
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they don't they make no effort whatsoever to i'd fire them all do that i'd fire them all i'd come
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in and go you're all fired literally you're all fired i did wise men together i didn't there should
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be no permanent secretaries there should be none like why what were you being paid to do like no this
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is disgraceful no i i'd re i'd i'd demolish the whitehall buildings i would as a sign that i am
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you know uh grand pharaoh of the uk of england i'd just demolish it just bulldoze it some of the i
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would lead it i'd be on that i'd be on that jcb first one that's some of our most historic buildings
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well all right i'm not talking about i'm talking about yeah no no but if i came in certainly the
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cabinet secretary i want my guy in there yeah no i want my guy i want a partisan of me and my
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government and my policies not just the last guy you don't want to say his quote really he might or
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might not i mean it's like potluck whether he might or might not have the same politics as you
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yeah and that nonsense that civil servants are completely neutral obviously they're not
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obviously they are not yeah obviously you see if we can play a bit more of this whether it's going
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to work we're in an overall general election and have a plan for government and have a serious team
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able to take over now downing street and govern and control whitehall with one man and an iphone
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can farage stand up in 2028 on a platform and say look at the 10 people on this stage with me
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this is going to be my shadow chancellor this is going to be my photo secretary
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man for man woman for woman these 10 people are obviously better both than the current fast in the
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cabinet and the current fast in the tory body look at me look at these people
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if you imagine that they go through a transition and they could do that
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then british politics is going to be in a completely different state
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yeah and what about a pact with the tories maybe would that work do you think
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all depends how the cards fall i mean um kemi can't do it obviously but she'll be gone
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um when he says where the cards fall he means at the next general election how many seats you
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actually win i think it's funny just quickly say a couple words about uh this constant talk of a
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pact um kemi's ruled it out i mean quite quite logically saying no they talk openly about destroying us
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yeah yeah that's sort of one that's their raison d'etre that's their reason for being or in some ways
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so i can't i'm it's off the table for me and whenever nigel or tice or whoever is asked about
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it um obviously nigel has flip-flopped in the past over various things like the the brexit party and
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stuff but um they're pretty strong they're pretty hard lying on no yeah if the tory people whether
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they're actual mps or just activists or members you can join us but we're not just going to join you
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yeah um be in coalition and be the junior partner in a government with you we're not doing that so
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i know i get why the mainstream media and even commentators like us would like to talk about it
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it's a little bit of content speculate on it but both sides are pretty clearly it seems to me
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yeah yeah genuinely might be proved wrong uh ruling that out and yet what dominic cummings just said
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there it depends how the cards fall i mean imagine at the next general election um the tories get
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maybe 100 let's just say i'm making these numbers up of course your speculation but say they get 100
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seats and um and reform get 100 150 seats so they both get 120 odd each something like that
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and in order to keep labor out they could form a coalition that would be the only way to keep
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labor out then suddenly sort of the real politic thing pragmatism kicks in yeah and um despite what
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you said and what you really even think and feel it's like well no we're presented with this situation
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now where it's either we form a coalition a pact or we just let starma go for another five years
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i mean i don't know if faraj's ego would handle that i understand he flip-flops on stuff but this
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is a man with a planet-sized ego so i don't know whether whether he'd be able to uh stomach that
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as long as he was the face maybe i guess i agree the leader the prime minister yeah i mean
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probably insist on that yeah i i agree with you that that would be the the smart thing to do is
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like yeah if you're presented with that scenario be malleable to her but does it strike you as that
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sort of man no no the thing is in britain we're not used to coalition governments very much i mean
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there was the cameron clegg one yeah that's the only one in my living memory yeah that was like
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everyone was like what yeah bizarre after that general election there was a few days where they
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there was um behind the scenes tinkering and people asked me because even back then i already had my
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masters in politics various people asked me what's going to happen and i said whatever happens it won't
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be a conservative lib dem coalition because that just makes no sense whatsoever and i'll egg all over
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my face so i said that to a few people yeah and when it happened i was like whoa okay wow all right
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big big proclamation from you there yeah yeah completely wrong completely wrong but when in
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reality when it played out um obviously the lib dems were not just the junior partner but the
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absolutely junior partner i mean they were they were shat on bottom of the run the whole time so
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there's different power dynamics within correlations because other countries in the world
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united states don't really do it but lots of other countries in the world particularly european
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countries um it's more like the norm yeah it's pretty common it's really common i think that's a
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byproduct of um how their voting system works though isn't it really yeah proportional representation
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yeah it enables that as a almost a necessity really otherwise you just you won't get anything
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done at all and that's the downfall of things like that is that partnerships have to be made
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and harder political policies have to be put to rest and that's why i guess europe's not really
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done anything and you've still got stabby mcstab faces running around yeah it goes on here now
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to talk about kemi but also it's quite possible that the tories have just kind of crossed the
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event horizon and actually are not aren't salvageable like everyone sort of assumes that
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because they've always been around then like somehow there must be at least one last chance for them to
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turn things around but it's possible that that chance is actually in their in their past and doesn't
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exist i mean yeah you can't keep a point yeah no 100 i i think i hope that's true i mean i i think
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that they're done i think that they're done i think the again it's that goodwill you've squandered
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the goodwill and apathy is fully saying people people don't care what they've even got to say
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people aren't interested in whatever they've got anymore but you can't
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you you you can't do the exact opposite of what you've promised the electorate
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for over a decade and and expect people not to go yeah we've had enough of you now actually yeah so
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yeah how many times can you return to an abusive partner before you say enough is enough yeah yeah
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exactly and you can't be if you're in that situation you can't be told you've got to wake up
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yourself but when people wake up they're done and the british public have woken up that's what i
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think i think so i i hope so hashtag zero seats yeah i would love to see the tory party um completely
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annihilated full time and not be a thing yeah um there is this idea that they have been around for
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centuries doesn't matter yeah don't care don't care about that literally doesn't matter yeah yeah
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that that's that's that's an imbecile's way of thinking is that just because something is an
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institution it must therefore always be no no no that kind of ego is what dooms you to fail
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100 well it is isn't it you are a self-fulfilling prophecy if you think that you're constantly going
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to be around no no not at all because then you rest on your laurels and you don't question you're
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not introspective and that's what they've done as a party they've just done the status quo at all
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times just thinking that they can coast nah you're gone and history is littered with examples i was
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thinking of maybe the ancient assyrian culture or a robot ancient roman paganism yeah yeah it's been
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around for centuries yeah it's steeped in sort of unbelievable tradition yeah and it died in the
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end and it's gone now because that's the way of things yeah that's the way it had to be um yeah
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nothing institutions anyway like that uh are not the world reality doesn't owe them exactly uh endless
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life yeah um there's one another little clip i thought we'd quickly play play here where we're
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talking he's talking about boris he just started completely lying about everything and rewriting
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history and then a lot of the media just kind of went along with it that was bad but then also like
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in on area after area um the way in which he just started doing the exact opposite of what we said
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we were going to do uh was bad very bad um and so yeah me and a few other people said okay like
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as you asked before about questions of responsibility like we got this put this guy in there uh with the
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2019 election we told people we were going to do a whole bunch of things he's now doing the opposite
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okay we should get rid of him he got rid of him yeah got rid of him and i think that was
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uh all to the good when someone if when an elephant goes rogue then there's not much else you can do
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you have to you have to remove them an elephant goes rogue yeah um i mean it's pretty matter of fact
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about it yeah uh i mean because then there was the obviously if everyone remembers the debacle
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of liz truss and then we end up with rishi yeah brilliant amazing good times brilliant um but yeah
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i suppose um it is what it is it's all happened now but i personally because there's been some
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rumblings of boris coming back um the economist says bring back boris uh because i suppose the
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calculation is the thinking is is that badenoch's just so unpopular what did you call a personality
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vacuum or charisma vacuum yeah no one no one likes her yeah other than the virtue signalers
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in in the party yeah the people that voted her in yeah no one or people who thought that their
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career would be advanced if she became leader other than those people no one likes her in the
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amongst the general public no one no one's loving badenoch like praying for the day when finally
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she can enter number 10 and lead us into a new politics and a new country and a new nation and
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all that stuff no no she's not inspirational in any possible way um so but i think boris himself
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had come out has come out and said um he's not going to come back or he's not seriously think about
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or maybe it was mooted in his by his team um and the reception wasn't all that positive so it's
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been put on the back the political will boris come back he's a winner he's a winning formula like
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you know like like blair it's like he he's the the winning machine yeah um because people can't see
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the you know the millions of ethnics that are just randomly here now thanks to him yeah no
00:25:17.740
yeah definitely yeah people are gonna just vote for that again no no people are done well i consider him
00:25:24.140
uh a traitor and uh some sort of fifth columnist and uh scumbag a douchebag hate his guts absolutely
00:25:33.400
hate his guts um yeah the boris wave uh the ukraine thing yeah lockdowns yeah lockdowns that annoyed me
00:25:42.260
so much it annoyed me so much you're gonna remove everyone's human rights whilst important people and
00:25:47.840
telling us you can't deport them because of human rights go away you scumbag yeah like even your own
00:25:56.080
internal logic is broken on that you are disgusting oh it's just well i'm under house arrest now am i
00:26:04.420
boris yeah thanks oh really yeah oh and it's a home office directives telling me i'm effectively
00:26:11.700
under house arrest now on the strength of a liar yeah thanks really dude good times mate screw you
00:26:18.080
um but yeah here are the telegraph saying that a lot of the tory mps actually don't wanting back
00:26:23.560
good oh yeah if he's a is an elephant gone rogue
00:26:26.820
uh oh yeah so what if it's generic i mean here scroll it's a very long tweet here but at some point
00:26:34.360
he says um oh look look i believe that demographics is destiny
00:26:39.320
yeah he says the right spicy tamale he says the right stuff but he didn't do the right yeah right
00:26:46.320
this is the issue that i've got i i like all of his rhetoric right you can't look at this and disagree
00:26:52.680
with it i mean i i don't i don't even know what he's saying but the vast majority of child benefits
00:26:57.660
but yeah but the vast majority of his stuff i go yeah that makes sense yeah that makes sense
00:27:01.640
but you've not done anything and this is the issue with all of the conservatives anyone that's in
00:27:06.100
there who has said anything has always just done the complete bloody opposite yeah so it is in the
00:27:12.380
conservative party's dna yeah nobody trusts them anymore like yeah jenric does make some of the
00:27:19.500
right noises for me but um i don't trust him to actually do anything that's why i've said it before
00:27:24.040
i think last week i said i don't buy this stuff that you hear from people like preety patel or
00:27:29.900
suella brevman or james cleverly or whoever or liz truss or rishi or boris or jenric or anyone
00:27:37.400
that they would do this or that talk is cheap actions speak louder and you did nothing you did
00:27:44.580
the opposite they had their chance to be a real government and they blew it yeah they blew it
00:27:50.360
yeah they blew it so um no i don't i don't trust them i don't want them i want them to die and go
00:27:56.880
away their receipts yeah hashtag zero seat so okay that was just about the time limit for that one
00:28:02.780
um all right a couple of super chats i got what do you like my de niro it was good yeah it was good
00:28:07.500
was that what it was your cop plan de niro and cop plan
00:28:09.860
uh okay for for two dollars the engaged few says i'm persuaded that faraj's greatest flaw
00:28:17.160
is that he never listens he waits to speak yeah i've in the broadest sense he's a follower
00:28:23.660
a huge follower yeah he was like oh i've been talking about this turkish but mate we've been
00:28:28.200
we've been talking about turkish barbers as a front for years you didn't blow the lid on this mate
00:28:33.380
like rewriting of history what on earth i feel like he waits for the conversation to change the
00:28:41.920
overton window to move and then he moves with it to match it or or indeed not or not or not at the
00:28:48.740
moment and i want a dude that is comfortable in his own skin constantly being outside the overton
00:28:55.540
window absolutely and being unapologetic about it that's not really what you get out from niage is it
00:29:00.580
no afraid you need someone with strength of conviction right anyone that's going to fix what's
00:29:04.800
happened has to have balls you have to stand behind what is right whether it's the wrong thing to say
00:29:12.180
it's the right thing to say deemed wrong by the general you know woke society but you have to stand
00:29:20.000
behind it because it's the right thing to do and it's the right thing to say and if you're a follower
00:29:23.840
you're never going to do that and therefore you're never going to fix what needs to be fixed
00:29:28.340
right no absolutely um ryan rumbles 1993 says hi bo could you ask nate next time he's on open bar
00:29:35.600
i've sometimes been on open bar uh could you ask him to ask the drinker when he's coming on le thanks
00:29:41.740
i actually i haven't replied to him i think i'm going on there tonight oh yeah i don't know i didn't
00:29:47.000
reply he invited me on i need a reply um but yes i will ask him yeah i'll ask him okay cool i mean i
00:29:54.200
tweeted at him um the other day he didn't respond and even kyle i think retweeted it and added him
00:29:59.680
and he didn't reply i think i think it's because um although he's reasonably based no i don't think
00:30:08.340
yeah yeah i don't think he wants to dive into politics well he's changed which is fair enough
00:30:12.420
if he doesn't want to do that he doesn't it's fine yeah no judgment here yeah well he's also
00:30:16.220
changed his uh approach to reviewing to be a little bit more uh not hollywood friendly but
00:30:23.380
a little bit more acceptable hence now he's getting the gigs on uh what's it like piers
00:30:30.200
morgan and sense or talk tv or whatever i don't even know what it is but i don't want to i love the
00:30:35.140
guy i don't want to torpedo his career in any way he comes on here and i'm screeching about
00:30:39.200
re-migrate them all yeah yeah and he's yeah i don't want to do that to him if he's not comfortable
00:32:20.340
All right, so I thought we would talk about the Met Police legalising car theft, right?
00:32:33.260
I know, yeah, yeah, sort of comical, I think, sort of comical, but they...
00:32:42.560
So this is a bit of a moan from a personal gripe, to be honest.
00:32:50.080
So this is a therapy session for me, all right?
00:32:52.460
My car was actually stolen in central London, yeah.
00:32:57.540
But it also enabled me to look at the figures, right?
00:33:01.180
Which goes on from one of your segments the other day, just the utter state of the police,
00:33:07.760
So I want to start off with a question, what is the point of London?
00:33:12.440
What is the actual point of London now, genuinely?
00:33:16.100
That's actually interesting, because I was on a train going up to London, I had to go
00:33:20.240
up and do some interviews, and we ended up talking, it says, with London declining, the
00:33:26.680
I mean, I was talking to some of my big investment bankers and hedge funds and private, the business
00:33:31.600
is slipping out, capital is going, the FTSE is going.
00:33:39.520
And they're trying to say, oh, it's all about entertainment, it's a cultural centre.
00:33:44.500
And I said, well, what culture have we got out there?
00:33:50.220
Yeah, I have every culture in the world except ours, but what about our lovely buildings?
00:33:56.740
There were no Londoners, no people, the buildings still remain.
00:34:00.860
Does it fall to me to play any sort of defence on behalf of the South East?
00:34:03.900
Oh, God, no, no, no, no, let's absolutely destroy.
00:34:16.340
Of course, there's like the city of London and the city of Westminster, and it's much more than just sort of the suburbs that have been colonised by foreigners.
00:34:26.080
I mean, let's not demolish Westminster Abbey unnecessarily, right?
00:34:29.860
No, I don't get the builders in and say, let's steal.
00:34:34.460
Like they did with one of the largest cathedrals in Winchester.
00:34:37.560
They just knocked it down and people stole the bricks and put them in their own houses of build around the walls as they did around the 14th century or 12th century.
00:34:45.640
Yeah, I don't mind going up to Westminster with a lorry load of lads going, come on, I fancy that in my back garden.
00:34:53.700
We'll pull down the roof of Westminster Hall and make a shed out of it.
00:34:58.960
Yeah, but there will be people who want to pull the statues down.
00:35:01.920
Well, I mean, I will be the arbiter of pain with respect to London.
00:35:09.120
It's an ethnic, multicultural hellhole currently, and it's only getting worse and worse and worse and worse.
00:35:16.920
I posit it serves absolutely no purpose aside from economic leaching by an imported parasitic class.
00:35:27.480
That's why we have remittance signs everywhere on the tube, in every single train station.
00:35:33.900
And it's remittances, remittances, remittances.
00:35:37.900
Failing that, you've got the welfare drain from individuals that are just sat there on my dime and theft in broad daylight.
00:35:48.980
So we're obviously going to look at grand theft auto.
00:35:52.900
But we've known for a while there's phone thefts going on constantly.
00:36:07.540
As I said, I put out an ex recently where I was just going into the M&S in Paddington Station.
00:36:16.380
Paddington Station is one of the kind of wealthiest stations where people go off to Oxford and Bristol.
00:36:21.460
And in there, there were several scrotes, clearly looking ready to nick everything.
00:36:27.020
But unfortunately, a guard had spotted them as he was trying to carry drinks out, which were non-alcoholic.
00:36:37.240
There's a bit of violence going on outside of that.
00:36:39.960
And that wasn't the first time I'd seen it recently.
00:36:43.920
People walking away, they're going, oh, let's step back.
00:36:48.580
I would say there's a number of things going on.
00:36:58.240
But, you know, there's the British Museum, the Natural History Museum, the Tate Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, National Gallery.
00:37:07.260
There are also endlessly amazing and good things, though.
00:37:17.360
If that could be swept away, cleared out, then maybe we could go back to something that is good.
00:37:25.200
And I like the phrase, the administrative leeching class, you know, the ones who sit there and the civil servants who make a lot of money, pensions that they don't have to contribute to, which I find a complete anathema.
00:37:38.680
Why is it because I'm a civil servant, I do not have to contribute into a pension and it's all taken out of tax when I retire.
00:37:45.900
So I retire as a permanent secretary on a six-figure pension and the taxpayers of today have to pay for it because there's no contribution by you into it at all.
00:37:55.460
I mean, that's one of the first things I would remove.
00:38:06.240
I mean, everything I've stated here is all demographics, right?
00:38:19.040
But as the nation's capital, it should be the shining beacon in every single facet.
00:38:27.400
Every single facet should be the shining example for every other part of the UK to follow.
00:38:34.540
And perhaps where it's one of the worst is crime.
00:38:46.000
Met Police failed to solve 90% of London car deaths.
00:38:54.200
I mean, they may as well not be there for that.
00:38:55.660
There are just about a million CCTV cameras in London.
00:39:05.620
And you can't solve, what, any more than 10% of car deaths.
00:39:14.580
But yeah, actually, to be fair, that's quite illogical.
00:39:17.700
When you've got so many cameras, they know where are your cars.
00:39:20.260
You've got APNR to be able to check you if they're going to fine you.
00:39:25.080
We'll fine you because you're a diesel gas, we'll fine you because you've got more than
00:39:30.400
two miles an hour in a protective three mile an hour zone because some council like Lambeth
00:39:38.780
And yet they can't, with the same fine in cameras, find where your car has gone.
00:39:42.960
Yeah, they can do you for congestion charge, but if someone steals it, oh, don't know.
00:39:50.340
So this is the thing, this is a will situation, right?
00:39:54.240
It's not that there's no way to do it, there's no will to do it.
00:40:06.400
Well, so some of you may know if you're familiar with my channel and things like that, I'm
00:40:13.580
Mr. H Reviews, check it out, like and subscribe.
00:40:17.600
So I'm doing a master's degree, so I've got to go to London, unfortunately, every other
00:40:21.700
weekend for a period of like six years to do this bloody degree.
00:40:26.520
And it's a relatively nice area, it's not, you know, it's all right, it's not, you know,
00:40:35.420
So central, relatively nice, it's not bad by any stretch of the imagination.
00:40:40.800
Anyway, I go in, I park up at 8.30 in the morning, I go into my university, and I come
00:40:49.260
out about half four in the afternoon, this is on a Sunday, and I come out and I walk down
00:40:56.800
the street where my car was, and I've parked right outside of a gym as well, just because
00:41:05.740
It's just a residential street, just like a broad daylight street.
00:41:23.500
Did I, did I park, because I've got to wake up at 5am to drive into London somewhere, did
00:41:29.960
Anyway, obviously, I deduce that my car's literally just been stolen.
00:41:37.300
Yeah, it was a, for those that know anything about cars, it was a Lexus LC 500.
00:41:50.260
But that is important, because it's not a 500 pound banger.
00:41:54.860
And so I call the police, call the line, and they go, right, yep, got all the details.
00:42:10.300
Is anyone going to, no one wants to come down and speak to me?
00:42:12.640
They don't want me to come and have a look at the location?
00:42:24.800
And so I then contact the insurer, do all of that side of things.
00:42:32.460
And it's probably the most condescending email ever.
00:42:35.800
So it just says, well, we understand the, you know, the effects of crime can be devastating.
00:42:39.600
It can be difficult, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:42:41.620
We're still not going to do anything about it, of course.
00:42:43.980
So after they said, after you got off the phone to them, you would have hoped there'll
00:42:46.660
be people then traveling through some CCTV and doing something.
00:42:52.960
So I can't exactly find out where it is in this email, but basically they pinpoint.
00:43:02.100
Um, they, they effectively say we've handed on over, handed your case over to the telephone
00:43:11.740
Well, they're going to try and call the car up.
00:43:15.140
That is legitimately a thing that the Met Police have.
00:43:31.640
I get this email saying it's obviously just a stock email with your crime reference number
00:43:37.060
Anyway, the very next day, the very next day at 9am, I get a phone call and the phone
00:43:45.140
call is, hi, we just need to confirm some details.
00:43:56.720
Um, so I go through all the standard privacy, you know, use your name, where, you know, what
00:44:06.220
And then the guy, the guy goes, um, was there any glass at the scene?
00:44:28.940
So you're asking me whether there was any glass there.
00:44:32.480
Anyway, immediately he then goes, that's all we need from you.
00:44:40.740
Anyway, two minutes later, get off the phone and I get an email saying, we're sorry to
00:44:47.720
An investigator from the Metropolitan Police has looked carefully at your case.
00:44:56.080
And, uh, we're sorry to say that the, with the evidence and the leads available, it's
00:45:00.020
unlikely that we will be able to identify those responsible.
00:45:05.240
You, you assigned it to a telephone investigation unit.
00:45:08.040
That their investigation was phoning me up to ask if there was any glass at the scene
00:45:16.680
So when will you have, you know, articles like this saying, well, we've, we, we don't
00:45:26.320
The, the institution is, is, is in a way it's aligned in a way to not do those things.
00:45:42.280
So you, you could say, do you need me to go to the gym and ask them whether there was
00:45:47.940
any CCTV cameras pointing at the car at the time?
00:45:51.480
What about the AP and all camera that was on above, above where I was parked?
00:46:03.060
So everyone that wonders why your insurance is going up and up and up and up.
00:46:06.660
It's because the police can't do, are they to do their job?
00:46:11.040
And this is most egregious when you have, and, and, and look, look, people love to go,
00:46:19.420
It's a directional manpower issue because you direct the police to arrest on average 33 people
00:46:35.160
I'm getting a little bit heated now, but it was my dream car, right?
00:46:41.140
The insurance payout was the market value now, not when I bought it.
00:46:48.360
And then it was even 10 grand less than the market value right now.
00:46:52.880
So, and I've got no, I've got no comeback on that.
00:46:56.020
But the police just go, well, whatever, who cares?
00:46:59.420
This is the degradation of society all around you.
00:47:01.740
And they've even put it to, this is, you know, the London mayoral assembly, isn't it?
00:47:07.280
And the answer that they give basically is like, well, how can you improve this?
00:47:13.280
What work is taking place to improve the outcome for those who have their car stolen in London?
00:47:19.540
This was in May and June 22, but I'm sure it's bloody the same, if not worse.
00:47:26.520
The Met Police, the Met Police Service takes vehicle crime seriously and ensures every
00:47:43.540
Absolutely, literally, legally, the bare minimum.
00:47:47.280
And you mentioned about CCTV, like there might have been CCTV out beside this particular gym.
00:47:51.980
Now, if you drive a car from SE1, in any direction, it will be on dozens, maybe hundreds of cameras.
00:47:58.120
If you wanted to find the car, any car, so it's not just me.
00:48:03.180
So obviously this is my personal therapy session, but this could happen to anyone at any point
00:48:08.780
If you wanted to find the car, you could find the car.
00:48:12.920
It's the fact that they do not want to find the car.
00:48:15.560
And then I ask you, what's the point of the million CCTV cameras?
00:48:23.100
That's just to monitor us and make sure that we do as we're told, is to be able to make
00:48:26.840
sure that if anyone escapes a tweet, we'd be able to track them down to their house.
00:48:34.380
This is all about control that Blair put in for us.
00:48:37.100
If you'd have turned around and said, listen, I have six guns in the back of that car.
00:48:46.340
Or there was a sticker that says, I don't like Islam on the car.
00:48:52.980
I had a copy of David Irving's book on Dresden.
00:48:56.560
Suddenly, suddenly there's a team of cops working around the cops.
00:49:00.540
That's the story they're working around the cops.
00:49:01.960
You better find that car because the nuclear bomb that I plan to explode outside Parliament
00:49:07.580
Oh, and by the way, MI5, listen, that's called a joke, something that you do not yet understand
00:49:13.720
apart from your lives, which are a general joke.
00:49:23.460
That really was, I'm not just blowing smoke up your ass.
00:49:28.060
I know what it's like to have, my little story is I lived in Clapham, Clapham Common,
00:49:48.120
It was a big base, two seats that really comfortably got the girl on the back of that, which helped
00:49:51.900
me a lot when I was doing, you know, was able to just drive, you know.
00:49:55.100
It was one of those things you did in the early days of being a young, healthy man, to be
00:50:01.000
But what is the point in London I could have gone on that point?
00:50:04.720
Anyway, I come in, and I literally had been to like Tesco, Sainsbury's, and like two carrier
00:50:09.620
bags that you put an eye around, and their arms are going down there, and a little bit
00:50:13.720
So I'd have pulled over in those days, you'd get done for it.
00:50:16.540
I literally pulled in onto my pavement into the little square area that I was lucky I
00:50:25.260
Got off the bike with the two bags, took, the key was out, wasn't even in, went down,
00:50:31.220
opened the door of mine, went straight through into the house, put the bags out, turned around,
00:50:37.340
Scroats, who had been living, and I've subsequently found out, living in the block of flats opposite,
00:50:42.300
had literally watched me and run down and come out.
00:50:45.500
When I got the police trying to chase it, no, they couldn't find it.
00:50:52.460
Someone had managed to hand it back, and it was brought back to me in pieces.
00:51:01.080
And I contacted the Aprilia people, and they rebuilt it and put it back together for me.
00:51:09.160
But the cost, like you said, sure as wouldn't pay out properly for it, had to repay for it
00:51:13.780
to be rebuilt myself, because they wanted to scrap it, and they wouldn't have given me
00:51:20.780
And again, the police not interested in about it, so deal with the insurers.
00:51:25.100
Crimes with real victims, because I mean, we could go on about this all day, every day.
00:51:38.460
Violence on the streets, legalized unless you're, you know, a march opposing, you know,
00:51:48.540
Just out of interest, one of my dream bikes would be an Aprilia race bike replica, an Aprilia
00:52:01.660
As long as it's not embarrassing, like bright yellow or bright green, I don't mind too much.
00:52:06.580
I've seen one in chrome or sort of silver, brushed chrome.
00:52:09.260
Let's go to your LGBT side and go for a pink, you know, rainbow, rainbow, rainbow.
00:52:15.260
If you had it rainbow, they'd find it if it ever got nicked.
00:52:17.580
Imagine that, a race bike replica, but you get it in rainbow.
00:52:29.840
That's what happens when you have a 12-year-old daughter.
00:52:33.400
And he sits there, can't get rid of the images.
00:52:43.560
The new version of London is going to produce a new Indian version of Sweeney Todd,
00:52:56.900
Does anyone believe that the king, as the head of the church,
00:52:59.920
would actually defend the church, or the nation for that matter, from a Muslim invasion?
00:53:07.360
And did you see the Manchester Cathedral turned into a mosque?
00:53:17.140
The chapel in Windsor Castle, they had Ede or something or other there.
00:53:23.900
Because he considers himself the defender of faiths.
00:53:31.420
Someone kindly sent me an email not too long ago saying,
00:53:34.060
Would you do a thing all about Queen Elizabeth and how brilliant she was?
00:53:40.060
No, I've said it before, Elizabeth the Silent, Elizabeth the Absent.
00:53:49.560
Imagine Britain back in 1952 or 54, whenever her coronation was,
00:53:54.480
to the year she died, the difference in Britain.
00:54:02.480
And King Charles III is much worse, if anything.
00:54:08.040
A speech going into Canada saying they're living in a lovely democracy.
00:54:11.900
Seriously, a democracy in which farmers and truck drivers are arrested,
00:54:21.340
And that's one reason why I think so many of us will not fight for this country
00:54:26.620
if they tried to take us on a war against Russia or China, to be honest.
00:54:31.460
Egan17pine, I might not pronounce that right, I've said...
00:54:43.700
I look into the sky and see a new star growing ever bigger as the old ways die.
00:54:49.040
Something big is coming as the right grows stronger.
00:54:55.480
Maybe that's an Elon Musk, a rocket coming down.
00:55:08.020
Police were liar rats up a drainpipe when I was...
00:55:11.760
Like rats up a drainpipe when I was caught doing 26 miles per hour in London, though.
00:55:26.340
Mr. H-Reviews, aka the Hellraiser guy from Hellraiser on YouTube, was cool.
00:55:39.700
because we're living in a hell right now, so...
00:55:43.700
Officer Mohamed and Inspector Mohamed investigated carefully
00:55:46.100
and found their brother cousin did not steal your car,
00:56:01.240
reckless police will be sentenced to five days in the stocks,
00:56:29.300
It's at the cornerstone of sort of the fabric of society,
00:56:33.320
that the rule of law is respected and enforced,
00:58:21.060
when we look at those illegally coming into countries,
00:58:28.720
we want to see them separated from their families.
00:58:39.120
because, and I'm going to try and show you today,
00:59:16.020
And I begin by just looking at some of the big numbers.
00:59:54.180
is to show that around the globe at the moment,