The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1202
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Summary
Join the Lotus Eaters as they discuss the latest immigration developments across Europe, including Poland's border controls, the pro-Growling Gang protests in Britain, and Angela Merkel's new border controls between Germany and Lithuania, as well as the ongoing pro-Palestine protests in the UK.
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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the podcast, the Lotus Eaters, for Monday
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the 7th of July, 2025. I know it's Monday and it's not like we've got any good news
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because nothing good ever happens in this country, but I'm joined by Luca and Stephen
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and we're still going to make the best of a bad situation.
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But honestly, I'm being a bit unfair there because honestly, I think what's happening
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But obviously, what's happening here isn't. Anyway, today we're going to be talking about
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the immigration wars that are racking Europe at the moment. Britain now has pro-grooming
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gang protests, which... No, don't pretend this wasn't inevitable.
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The community is as the community is and they know what they were doing. And we're going
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to be talking about the darkness that is spreading across the British state with regards to the
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pro-Palestine protests. Because as much as I don't like these people, where we're going
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with this is just completely wrong. Anyway, without further ado, let's crack on.
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Immigration wars, definitely. Not physically, you know, countries invading us to give us more
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immigrants by the country, but allowing their citizens to come in has now reached to a level
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where internally, the European Union is actually beginning to fracture on the ideas of immigration.
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And I think that we're seeing a big division over the last few years politically, but now
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I think nationally. And the announcement today, this morning, I think it was early in the morning,
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as you can see here from the Visegrad breaking 50 minutes ago, but that was obviously when I put
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it up, was actually really, really surprising in some ways that Poland has done this.
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But actually not surprising in so many others. But what they have done is they've decided that
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they're going to introduce border controls between Germany and Lithuania, which is literally
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I was going to say, what happened to the sacred Schengen?
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This is one of the four pillars of the European Union, wasn't it?
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Free movement of people, capital, goods and services, or something like that.
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That's right. And that free movement of Labour is beginning to become an issue.
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Because some in... I'll come to it at a moment.
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If only some plucky Brexiteers had warned them all those years ago, Stephen.
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If only someone told them, by the way, that's not tenable.
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I could have to pull out one of my videos from the European Parliament and say,
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this will not work, racist. No, this will not work.
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So it's really quite shocking. And this comes obviously on the board of lots of other things
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that are happening. What I found fascinating about this is, as I was reading through some
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of these, you've got here from Visigrad, they talk about the army will be sent to the borders.
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Before we go on, I just want to make it clear, that's not a picture of it in process, right?
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I mean, don't get me wrong, I can appreciate the Poles coming out into the streets and cheering
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for it, but I'm pretty sure that's just a military parade.
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I did actually wonder whether at the beginning this was actually the Poles beginning to get
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onto the borders of Germany and say, it's our turn now.
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The entirety of Europe just looking like a risk board.
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So I think this is a good news story, actually, to be honest, because it's really bringing
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the issue of immigration up into the elites that they can't hide.
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DW News, the Germans are saying it will impose temporary checks with Germany and Lithuania,
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Tusk says the measure is aimed at reducing irregular migrant crossings.
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So if Angela Merkel unilaterally allows millions and millions of foreigners to settle in Germany,
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and you have the Schengen's, I mean, we said exactly this, word for word back in the day.
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It was so obvious this was going to be a problem, and now we've got to this.
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Germany had a massive Turkish problem already, a huge, huge Turkish problem, which caused enormous
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amounts of criminality in certain parts of the country that they can't even get control
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And then suddenly you've thrown a whole load of Turks and Kurds, sorry, Syrians and Kurds
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And that created, like, lots of divisions between the two of them.
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And now you've got them trying to move across the border, particularly the Africans, apparently.
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And I came down here, someone put in there, it's because you're smuggling migrants like
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some petty criminals that you are, in fact, are Nord Stream.
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Because there's a lot of allegations going on in Poland that Germany, since it closed its
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borders, and I'll come to that, is allowing all those migrants who have come into Germany
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Does that remind you of something happening in France to Britain across the channel?
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Again, like, Germany took on, in a really zealous way, the sort of most high-minded liberal values,
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and they're realising, actually, it'd be bad to just shuffle these off to other people.
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I mean, do you remember they were demanding that everyone else take their fair share of
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Sorry, my fair share of Merkel's illegals is zero.
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I don't want any of these people, so why aren't they here?
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We have to take illegals because of German guilt.
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No, I'm thinking I'm going back to that time, because I remember when we were, this was all
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happening in 2014 and 15, and just millions were literally flowing in, and Merkel, what
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I termed at the time Merkel's monumental madness, is to allow millions of Syrians to come in
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And then we find out they weren't all Syrians by any way.
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You know, they came from Africa, they came from Bangladesh, they're coming in from India.
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But they were mostly fighting age men, so there's that upside.
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And then you discover later on that, like, Bertelsmann, the woman who was running Bertelsmann's
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chain, was the best friend, you know, of Merkel.
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She was saying it's a great idea to bring them in, because German industry needs all of
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We need young men, because we've got a population decline.
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Yeah, so all those thousands of doctors, scientists, mass engineers that have all been trained highly
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in Syria's mass manufacturing industries who understood about BMW cars.
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Yeah, but the thing that annoys me most about this, right, is if you were Syria, and you were
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You know, if you're like, you know, Algeria or Morocco or, you know, wherever, you'd be
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like, oh no, we need to keep all of these people in the country, because we need them, otherwise
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Except the economies of these places didn't collapse.
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Because actually what they're doing is offloading their criminals on us, and they knew it.
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Obviously, there was always some that, you know, at the top end of the tree.
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But if you've got 5% of 29 million, it's not really a big enough amount to make an
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improvement in our GDP, because that's the amount of people that have come into Europe
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And I kind of think, okay, Poland's stopped it.
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Germans are turning around and saying it's not a good idea.
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And the measures are aimed to, according to World War II, did you know?
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I actually just had to glance through this at a while, because some of the pictures are
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It's to stop the transfer of illegal immigrants.
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And I sent out some messages to former European MEPs from Germany to see if they can provide
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Also, Peter in Scandinavia is turning around and saying that Poland's stopping the asylum
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But I haven't seen anything evidentially to prove that.
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But it does try and go to show that Poland's stepping up.
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And I know that I was going to do a story on Poland this week, because Poland has really
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got into a way where they're now turning on the Ukrainians in a big way.
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Not only in the election, but you've seen peoples pulling down the Ukrainian flags.
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They're complaining in areas to stop Ukrainians taking work, because Ukrainians are pushing
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And there was a mass story of this over the last few weeks that has just really been impacting
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And these have come out in the election of the president.
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And that was between the left wing and the right wing president.
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In the same way that Germany reacted to AFD, I think this is a reaction to the president being
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So, but then again, why are the Germans complaining when they did the same in September of last
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Well, they're complaining because the illegals are causing trouble in Germany and they want
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So rather than working as the United Europe that they always said they dreamt of banishing
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them from the continent itself, we're just going to pass them around to our neighbors.
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I'll screw my best player at the moment who's got the best GDP because it's better than us
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But I looked at this and I thought this was September.
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They had, oh, just the casual little bit of terrorism killing the German people at events
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It's the same effect we're having here with Starmer and Farage.
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And this is why you get the Island of Strangers speech that Starmer then walked back on.
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When someone's saying, oh my God, Farage is dragging Starmer to the left.
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No, we can't possibly remove Halal because there's just too many here coming in.
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No, we're not going to control the borders in the same way by getting rid...
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So, you know, Farage might be happy to be in Germany at the moment.
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So, I remember at the time, Germany's now criticising Poland,
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but the neighbours criticised German move to extend the border.
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At the time, I think it was the Polish minister, Donald Tusk,
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For anyone who's not aware, Donald Tusk is a sort of ancient creature
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Wasn't he president of the, not the commission, but the parliament?
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He was president of the parliament and also at one stage president
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of the conservatives, the equivalent of the conservative movement
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But what I just found is, look, this is September
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with Donald Tusk denouncing Germany's extension to temporary controls
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So, this goes to show all the kind of crass, you know, teamwork
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But along that, you know, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg,
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So, you can see that the reality of what they've chosen to do
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So, it's like, yeah, we're going to have to go to the right
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And they're just not beginning to pick up where the next stage,
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You know, when you allow the doors to open in the same way,
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if you're anything to follow history, you know,
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we allowed millions of people to move around Europe
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and we had a population explosion in the 1300s in the UK
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that led to masses of people moving into cities.
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But at the time, it wiped out also cows, sheep,
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and then they allowed the borders to open from the east,
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overran them, and just destroyed them all again.
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So, history at different stages has showed what happens
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And I think you said we can go in next on that.
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how Germany's borders closes jeopardize the Schengen area.
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The Schengen area is unworkable liberal dream nonsense.
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Didn't Keir Starmer just capitulate on the Schengen area
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which no one's going to pick out at the moment,
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from literally just channeling them down there?
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I actually think that it's such an artificial project
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that actually would strengthen the European Union.
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And they thought that would help them issue bonds.
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I've got enough multiculturalism of my own.
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one complaining about another when they do it.
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And now they're complaining where they're doing it.
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then other people start getting it in their mind,
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one of those immutable pillars of the European Union
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And we've got Hungary on a different level altogether.
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How many countries are left in the Schengen area?
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I actually had the legislation from the European Union
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And if I find it, I'll put it back up on there.
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And actually everything the right has been saying